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hristopher Cornell has been found guilty of eight charges, including two counts of attempted murder.

The Yukon Supreme Court jury reached its verdict last night at approximately 7:30 p.m. after about six hours of deliberating.

The 31-year-old Yukon man was convicted of the attempted murder of Haines Junction RCMP Cpl. Kim MacKellar and deputy conservation officer Shane Oakley in September 2011.

He is scheduled to be in court later this month to set a date for sentencing.

On the stand during his monthlong trial, Cornell insisted it wasn’t him in the dark SUV that sped away from the police car driven by MacKellar, with Oakley in the passengers’ seat.

The jury heard a bullet was fired out of the back of that vehicle, injuring MacKellar.

The veteran officer and detachment commander in Haines Junction required surgery and still has metal fragments in his eye and shoulder.

The jury also concluded Cornell was one of the two people who broken into Madley’s General Store, attempting to steal a safe and assaulting the custodian, Frank Parent, with bear spray.

He was also convicted of discharging a rifle with the intent to prevent his arrest, discharging a firearm into a police vehicle, aggravated assault of a police officer and using a firearm to commit an offence.

Cornell was quiet in court. After each guilty verdict was read, all 12 people on the jury stood to confirm they agreed.

The jurors were not told that the woman co-accused in the crimes had already pleaded guilty before Cornell’s trial even began hearing testimony.

Jessica Johnson, 23, was originally going to be sitting alongside her fiance facing the same charges.

But on the day their trial was scheduled to begin last month, she appeared in court to plead guilty to

four of the lesser charges she was facing.

A judge ruled that those guilty pleas were covered under a publication ban until Cornell’s trial was complete. Johnson will next appear in court Nov. 18.

Outside the courtroom last night, Cornell’s lawyer, David Tarnow, said he believes his client when he says he was not in the vehicle that night and did not break into the general store.

“I’m extremely disappointed with the verdict, obviously. It’s unfortunate that they didn’t follow what I had to say, but that’s the way it goes.”

Cornell has 30 days after he is sentenced to appeal.

On the stand, he told the jury that on the night the police car was shot at, he was not in the Chevy Blazer being chased.

He testified he left Johnson in that vehicle with a drug dealer known only as “Rider” so she could get more heroin.

Neither MacKellar, Oakley nor Parent was able to identify Cornell either at the store or in the vehicle.

His lawyer spent much of the trial questioning the police handling of the case, particularly whether a rifle bullet was actually found in Cornell’s pocket when he was arrested.

“I thought he at least raised the reasonable doubt with what he had to say to the jury,” Tarnow said. “Unfortunately they decided it differently and you have to respect their decision. They worked very hard.”

Prosecutors Keith Parkkari and Christiana Lavidas tried the case.

“All eight counts were put to the jury and it’s up to the jury to deliberate on them and the jury made their decision,” Parkkari said last night.

Johnson’s pleas were not the only thing kept from the jury during the trial.

Twice, Cornell’s lawyer attempted to have a mistrial declared and the proceedings begun from scratch.

The first attempt came after jury selection.

During that process of choosing the people to hear the case, one potential juror mentioned that her

brother had arrested the defendant in the past.

Tarnow argued that, even though the woman was not selected, that was prejudicial for the jurors to hear.

Parkkari countered that it was not fatal to moving forward.

Justice Leigh Gower agreed that a mistrial was not needed. He said the information was not so prejudicial that the jury could not ignore it if they were properly instructed.

The second mistrial application came at the end of the trial, after Cornell had given his testimony.

During cross examination, it was revealed Cornell has a tattoo that reads: Fuck the Police.

Parkkari was questioning Cornell on his feelings towards police.

While Cornell insisted he had nothing against officers, Parkkari suggested a more accurate sentiment would be “fuck the police.”

“Why, because I have a tattoo that says ‘Fuck the Police’?” Cornell replied.

“Well, do you?” the lawyer replied.

“Yes,” Cornell said.

Some jurors gasped.

The jury was asked to leave and Tarnow argued this line of questioning was only chosen as an attempted to “assassinate” Cornell’s character.

He called it a “thinly veiled attempt and improper attack” on the part of the Crown to suggest that Cornell is the type of person who would shoot at the police.

Parkkari insisted he was taken aback by Cornell’s response, even though he knew about the existence of the tattoo.

Parkkari told the judge he was trying to get a response out of Cornell, but did not expect that answer.

After taking the night to consider his decision, Gower called the situation “very close.” He said that the justice system is based on a presumption of jurors having strength and the ability to follow his instructions.

In the end, the judge told the jury they must disregard the evidence of Cornell’s tattoo entirely, but he did not declare a mistrial.

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early two weeks ago, Joe Jack’s right leg was crushed by his ATV. X-rays would later show he’d broken two major bones.

As he lay on the ground among the rocks and dirt near Haeckel Hill, he realized no one knew to go look for him.

Now safely in a hospital bed at Whitehorse General Hospital, Jack, 62, can tell the story of spending two cold nights outdoors trying to find a way out before crawling the final 500 metres, bloody and broken, to a road.

He insists the story is not about him.

“It’s the story of Billy Jack,” he said this week. “It’s not the story about me.”

Billy Jack is Joe’s father. He died in 2004.

As Jack struggled to find his way to safety, his father was with him every step of the way, he said, providing guidance to his son when things got particularly rough.

“I’m just a guy who was saved by his dad.”

The story began nearly two weeks ago, on Monday, when Jack decided to use his ATV to explore trails in an area he’d never been before.

A business administration student at Yukon College, he wasn’t planning on staying long. He had a quiz coming up.

But as the evening wound down the fog rolled in. Jack said he could tell it wouldn’t be safe to travel.

As a man who has spent most of his life in the outdoors, he said he is always prepared for the worst.

His emergency kit included a sleeping bag, saws, a winch, a charger and a lot of warm clothes. These items would help save his life.

Jack planned on spending the night and making it back to Porter Creek when the fog lifted in the morning.

Tuesday morning he woke up to find he wasn’t on any trail. At some point he had lost his way in the fog.

Jack said he first decided to walk a route to the right path.

“I walked it. I walked down through the boulders and picked my path then came back up and proceeded down slowly (on the ATV).”

He estimates he was about a kilometre and a half from a trail.

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“I just told Creator, ‘It’s up to you now, I did all that I could,’” said Joe Jack when recalling his ATV accident.

Jack said his ATV began to slip backwards on what he now believes was a patch of black ice.

“It was an act of God that I have never experienced before. My vehicle is sliding backwards and my tires are going forwards and I’m thinking what the heck is going on here?” he said.

Jack panicked and jumped off.

“As soon as I jumped off it rolled back and it caught me,” he said.

The ATV crushed his leg.

Screaming and crying, Jack rolled backwards along with the machine.

On a scale of one to 10, he describes his pain as “definitely a 10 and more.”

That was the first time he called out to his father.

Billy Jack died in 2004, but promised to look after his family, Joe Jack said.

“He came back in a dream to one of the grandchildren and said, ‘Tell the family I’ll be around and I’ll be watching over you guys, so don’t worry about it.’”

Lying on his back with a broken leg, Joe Jack said he thought of his father.

“I said, ‘OK, where are you, I need you now.’”

In about five seconds, the pain went from a 10 to about a three, Jack said.

With his pain under control, Jack used the handsaw to splint his leg.

When he slipped, he estimates he was about two kilometres as the crow flies north of the turbines at the tree line.

Uneven terrain made the walking distance much further.

Using the winch, he was able to get the ATV back on its wheels and pulled up the slope.

He eventually made it back to nearly the spot where he started the day.

He estimates he spent about 11 hours in an area with a 30foot radius “I thought, ‘Thank you (Dad), now can you please help me find my way out? Let me find the trail,’” he said.

Back on his ATV, Jack said he travelled about 40 or 45 feet before realizing the embankment he was on was too steep.

He tried to back down, but the ATV rolled a second time.

“The second time it rolled, I just didn’t give a damn because what’s the use anymore?”

Jack said he wasn’t injured, but he was again left with a flipped ATV. It was 9:30 at night by then.

The stars were out and it was getting cold.

Jack decided to cut off his bloody pants, bundle himself up for warmth and spend a second night sleeping outside.

He said his father helped him realize that if he was going to get out of there alive, he was going to have to do it himself.

“When Dad was there he said, ‘No one knows you’re here, and they’re not going to look for you. So you have to do it yourself.’”

Wednesday morning Jack woke up and – based on advice from his father – was able to use the winch again to get the ATV back on its wheels, he said.

He spent hours that day trying different paths to get to a road.

At about 2:30 p.m. he left his machine and all his survival equipment and began to crawl.

It would be about two and a half hours before he would reach the road up to Haeckel Hill and another two hours before anyone would find him.

“I just told Creator, ‘It’s up to you now, I did all that I could.’”

A nurse from Whitehorse General Hospital found him on the side of the road.

“She decided to bring her kids up for one last look at the windmill before the season closes,” he said.

The nurse and her family drove Jack to the hospital. He now has a rod and multiple screws in his leg.

At the hospital, doctors were concerned about infection.

“They said, ‘I don’t know about your leg, you’ve spent 30 hours crawling around in the mud,’” he said.

But so far the leg is doing well.

In a hospital bed, Jack said he’s had time to reflect on what happened – and how much worse it could have been.

Like every major moment in life, he believes there is a lesson to be found in what happened to him.

It was the directions from his father and the desire to see his family again that kept him searching for a way out.

“The message is that when we pass over we’re not really gone yet. We still have a job to do. Our job is to look after our loved ones.”

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Istvanne Berko filed documents in the Supreme Court of Yukon last week.

She claims that on May 21, 2013, the bus driver, identified only as John Doe, was driving along Copper Road at or near Industrial Road: “he was carrying several passengers, including the plaintiff,” the lawsuit says.

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All new drivers start out as casual employees, working only when needed, until they can prove their skill, she said.

As for maintenance, Malo said the city employs two mechanics to care for the 10 city buses.

Each driver is also required to do an inspection before they start work.

In her lawsuit Berko says she required hospitalization and is still being treated. She says she also suffered a loss of quality of life and a loss of earning capabilities.

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The city has not filed a statement of defence in the case.

City transit manager Cheri Malo said she couldn’t comment on the specifics of the case before the court.

She said potential new drivers are trained both in a classroom and on the road.

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According to Health Canada’s best practices document for methadone, keeping patients on he Whitehorse Correctional methadone should be the goal Centre is denying some inof treatment, not getting them mates their prescription drugs. off of it.

As of March 2012, the jail “Rather than emphasizing no longer had staff qualified to abstinence from all drugs – inadminister methadone. cluding eventual tapering from Because of this, anyone methadone – as the primary on methadone when they are goal of treatment, methadone admitted is being taken off of maintenance programs should it and put into a medical detox focus instead on maintaining program. clients/patients on methadone Dr. Rao Tadepalli, president for as long as they continue to of the Yukon Medical Associabenefit from treatment,” the tion, called the practice “inhudocument states. mane.”

Patricia Bacon, executive diSome of the symptoms of rector of Blood Ties Four Direcwithdrawal include high heart tions Centre, said forcing people rate, restlessness, pacing like a off of methadone will create a caged animal, excessive sweatrevolving door of people in and ing, vomiting, increasing rage, out of jail. confusion, anxiety, dehydra“They’re going to get out of tion, self-harm behaviour, and jail, and they’re going to probdecreased appetite, he said. ably run across the things that Justice Minister Mike Nixon had triggered their addictions to said the medical detox program begin with, and then, what are is an appropriate alternative to they going to do? You’re setting methadone treatment. them up for a very good likeliThe detox involves taking hood that they’re going to want patients through withdrawal to acquire the opiate drug again. under medical supervision, and And then they may engage in some drugs can be administered acquisition crime to get the to ease the symptoms. money to get the drug, and then “Dr. Tadepalli is free to when you commit crimes, you provide his thoughts on this, wind up in jail.” but we’re running a correctional She also called the practice of centre up there,” said Nixon. forcing people off methadone “We use a detox model that is “inhumane.” humane.”

“If somebody was HIV posiMethadone is typically used tive, and they became incarcerto treat individuals who are ated, we would give them their addicted to opiates like heroin meds. If they’re on methadone, and morphine, but it can also be why aren’t we giving them their used to treat chronic pain. meds? It is the same. It’s their Under the right dosage, it medication. We are denying does not produce a narcotic ef- them access to their medicafect, but allows the individual to tion.”

A number of reports preavoid symptoms of withdrawal pared for the Correctional from opiate drugs, according Service of Canada indicate to a research report prepared that inmates on methadone do by the Correctional Service of better than those with opiate Canada.

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Since the methadone program has been cancelled, an average of three individuals per year have arrived at the correctional centre already on methadone, wrote Cable in an email.

“Of these clients, the institutional physician reported that all of the cases she has seen are poly-substance abusers and therefore are not following the program as they should.

In short, the inmates in the jail, as a rule, are not compliant individuals in adhering to the (methadone) program and Ian Stewart/Yukon News therefore from a risk perspective Inmates who come to the Whitehorse Correctional Centre on are not suitable for continuing methadone treatment will be forced off of it, because no one in a methadone program.”

Yukon’s methadone program at the centre is qualified to administer the drug. is administered out of the River addictions but not on methabut if that were to occur, the jail Valley Medical Clinic in Whitehorse. done, especially if treatment would support that treatment.

Doctors and nurses require and counselling is continued Yukon had a methadone prospecial training and accredifollowing release. gram between 2008 and 2012, tation to participate in the Methadone is available in said Dan Cable, spokesperson program. federal prisons across the coun- for Justice.

None of the medical profestry, both to people coming in on Only five individuals used sionals involved responded to the treatment and those wishing the program during that time, requests for comment. to start after being admitted. he said.

There were approximately 32 According to a 2011 report The decision to switch to a prepared for the Canadian Exmedical detox model was made patients in 2011, according to the Canadian Executive Council ecutive Council for Addictions, in consultation with medion Addictions report. almost all of the provinces will cal staff at the institution, said “Methadone treatment administer methadone when Minister Nixon. works,” said Bacon with inmates come in on the treatNow, the institution does not Blood Ties.

“We have a good ment. have staff qualified to adminmethadone program. It’s not The only exception is Queister methadone, he said. And perfect, but overall we have a bec, and in that case the report there are other complications good methadone program, we does not specify if the treatment and safety concerns, said Nixon. have people who are using the would or would not be contin“It’s a health and safety issue methadone program and it’s ued. on the floor, where the inmates saving their lives. And it’s makA spokesperson for Ontario’s are living. It becomes a curing a difference, not just keeping ministry of correctional services rency, it puts a lot of pressure them alive, but it’s making a this week told the News that under the other inmates to difference in terms of the qualtreatment decisions are bebring the methadone back onto ity of that life and what it means tween doctors and patients, and the floor and use it for other for them having a life where methadone is treated like any purposes rather than the detox.” they have stability. They’re not other medication.

Methadone is taken orally in constantly worrying about A spokesperson for the solution, like a drink of water. where their next fix is going to N.W.T. Department of Justice This can be done under supervi- come from.” said that it has never had an sion, but the fear is that someContact Jacqueline Ronson at inmate come in on methadone, one could later attempt to vomit jronson@yukon-news.com

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The councils and the department will take that feedback and use it, in consultation with Whitehorse Bishop Gary Gordon, to craft a final policy governing school supports and safeguards for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered and queer students at Whitehorse Catholic schools.

But despite Gordon’s role in the policy work and invitations from parents and the department, he wasn’t at the meeting Thursday night.

“You all know many of us wanted the bishop here tonight to answer our questions about a policy that, ostensibly, he alone wants implemented at our publicly-funded Catholic schools,” said Tjitske van der Eide, a parent with children at Vanier Catholic Secondary.

“The bishop doesn’t seem to think that this document is important enough to defend and justify here tonight. Or does that show his arrogance?” she asked.

Deputy Education Minister Valerie Royle said that while she encouraged the bishop to attend, she can’t force him to.

“We try to work co-operatively with the bishop and we do, but we don’t mandate the bishop and his actions or whether he wants to come to a public meeting or not,” Royle said.

Gordon did not immediately return the News’ request for comment.

The current draft policy was posted to the Catholic schools’ websites last month, with a letter from the councils asking for public feedback. Parents and parishioners were asked to either submit their concerns in writing, through a dedicated website or in person at last night’s meeting. The deadline for comments is Oct. 11.

The new document, once finalized, will serve as a replacement for a former policy that called homosexuality a “disorder” and an “intrinsic moral evil” – words that echo the church’s official views on the matter.

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Vanier school council president Paul Flaherty, centre, and other school councillors listen as Tjitske van der Eide speaks at a public meeting with all three Catholic school councils Thursday night at Holy Family Elementary School. in the old policy is gone, although the new document still cites the same church documents that describe homosexual acts as sinful – the Catechism of the Catholic Church and a 1986 letter from the Church to its bishops are both listed as footnotes on the new policy.

Once the feedback is collected, the department, the bishop and the school councils will meet to discuss how to strike a balance that works for everyone, Royle said.

But Royle would not say who will have the ultimate final say over the policy.

“I really hope we don’t end up having to pull a final say on a policy. I think that we want to strike a balance that will work for everyone and keep kids safe and feeling included at the school,” she said.

Last night’s meeting wasn’t about debate or discussion, but rather an opportunity for the school community to voice its opinion, explained Vanier school council president Paul Flaherty as the meeting began.

Those opinions varied widely.

Many parents spoke out against the current policy, echoing van der Eide’s comments, calling it “an example of homophobia in the name of religion,”

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Sandra Orban, another parent unhappy with the document, pointed out that while Vanier has bucked the overall enrolment trends in Whitehorse for most of the past decade, attracting many passionate students, in the past two years the numbers have slipped dramatically.

In Sept. 2012, the overall urban high school enrolment decreased by seven, but 40 students left Vanier alone. This spring, the overall enrolment increased by 23, but Vanier lost another 24 students.

“The real question isn’t about the details of this policy. The real question is about the Yukon public paying for such a policy to exist in a public school. It doesn’t matter what the policy says. It just shouldn’t be there.

There should be just one policy for the schools,” Orban said.

Brian Kitchen, a policy analyst who has had three children go through Vanier, said that while removing the offending language from the original document is an improvement, keeping it entrenched in the footnotes means nothing has actually changed.

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Judy Douglas spoke about her fear that teaching or counselling homosexual behavior is dangerous.

“It talks a lot about honour and dignity and respect for people with same-sex attraction, which I believe in.… However, it is very unbalanced because it doesn’t talk about the sin of it. It’s unclean. There’s too much honour and dignity and not enough of the sin factor,” Douglas said.

“If you read the account of Sodom and Gomorrah in Genesis, whole cities were wiped out because they were involved in homosexual behaviour.

I don’t want anything like that to happen to our city. I love our city,” she said.

Brent Harper, who went to the old Christ the King high school, said the policy doesn’t go far enough. He encouraged codes of behaviour barring physical contact in schools.

He also said that Whitehorse has enough supports for gay students without introducing more of them at a Catholic school.

“The policy is vague. It is geared to one group and uses bullying to defend them. Whitehorse has great educational resources for people who want same-sex education. You have Blood Ties, you have the Boys and Girls Club. You have other organizations. It’s available there and it’s free.”

Contact Jesse Winter at jessew@yukon-news.com

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The 70-year-old footbridge across the Pelly River in Ross River has been closed since August 2012.

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been on some pretty sketchylooking bridges in the past.”

The government has since he Ross River footbridge removed the stairs up to the has deteriorated beyond bridge and boarded up the repair and needs to be demol- walkway with sheets of plyished. wood.

The Yukon government The loss of that access has sprang into action earlier this affected the community, said week when an engineering Hoferichter. consultant found the bridge to “A lot of people have stories be on the point of collapse. about it, and how it has afIf it were to fall, the bridge fected their lives. could damage the nearby ferry “It’s big news over here.” across the Pelly River.

The bridge was constructed Ferry service was cancelled by the U.S. Army in 1944 to Sunday. It resumed Tuesday carry an oil pipeline over the under restricted conditions river. and a limited schedule.

It was never intended as The footbridge had been a permanent structure, and closed since August 2012. The never intended as a pedestrian government erected a sign bridge. warning people not to cross, “It was completed rapidly,” and put a chain across the said Jerry Lum, the engineer walkway. hired to assess the condition of But that wasn’t enough to the bridge.

“It was not dedeter many. signed with any of the details Megan Hoferichter, a that we would need today. For teacher who is new to the instance, a lot of the fastencommunity, walked across the ers were not galvanized.

It was bridge a couple of weeks ago strictly built to carry an oil with a friend.

She had been waiting for the pipeline across the river.

“I do not think the U.S. ferry, but became impatient, Army had intended the bridge she said. to be used as a pedestrian “You could see that it was bridge for 70 years. Unfortutilted, slanted down, as you nately we don’t have any drawwere walking across it. It ings or records of the bridge, was swaying a little bit. You and we have no idea what the could tell that it wasn’t safe. design criteria was.”

We probably shouldn’t have Although the bridge has walked over it.” undergone a series of repairs She saw the sign saying the bridge was closed, and climbed in the last several years, it has exceeded its usable life, said over the chain anyway, she Lum. said.

The most disturbing is the “It didn’t say, ‘You’re forcondition of the head beam on bidden,’ or something,” said the north tower, which supHoferichter.

“I’ve been on worse bridges ports the cables that hold up before. It probably wasn’t the the bridge. smartest thing to do, but I’ve The head beam is tilting News Reporter

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12 degrees under the weight of the cables, up from four degrees in 2009.

There are cracks right through the metal webbing of the beam.

It is on the point of collapse, said Lum. “A high wind could bring all this to an end,” said Mike Johnson, deputy minister of highways and public works.

“And probably even worse would be a wet snow.”

The priority for the government is first ensuring the safety of people needing to cross the river, and then figuring out how to safely demolish the bridge, said Jennifer Macgillivray with Community Services.

The government has not yet decided whether the structure will be replaced, she said.

Before the ferry comes out for the winter on October 10, the government has to get about 20 vehicles, 27 horses and 50 people back across the river.

Many of them may still be in the dark about the disruption in service.

No members of the public are allowed to cross on the ferry. Community Services is shuttling people across on a boat.

When the ferry comes out, the community will lose access to the north side until freezeup.

“The community of Dawson faces a similar situation this time of year, and I think that there just needs to be some preparations made in order for those people to not use the bridge,” said Macgillivray.

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e’re late to weigh into the Blurred Lines controversy because our conclusions seemed obvious. The dispute started with a campaign launched by a concerned Whitehorse woman who wants CKRW to stop playing a song she finds offensive. Such is her right, and it’s hard to see why some residents think that the sort of clothes she wears has any bearing on the merits of her arguments.

The radio station, meanwhile, is well within its rights to reject her plea. CKRW’s producers have obviously concluded that many of its listeners prefer to hear the song.

If you disagree with them, turn the dial.

Yet there remains the small matter of what the song is about.

Seeing as a considerable number of people – including representatives of the territory’s women’s groups – seem to be labouring under the delusion that Blurred Lines is a song that condones or encourages rape, we feel compelled to note that this view is not actually supported by the song’s lyrics.

Critics have described the song as “rapey” because of singer Robin Thicke’s repetition of the phrase, “I know you want it” – a line that rapists have been known to utter.

But, as Slate’s Jennifer Lai has best explained, that’s certainly not what the song is about.

“Someone who says ‘I know

you want it’ is probably overly cocky and presumptuous as hell by assuming you/she wants ‘it,’” she writes, “but nothing about ‘I know you want it’ is saying ‘I know you want it, and I’m going to force you to have it’ or ‘I had sex with you and you didn’t consent, but I know you wanted it.’ Yes, ‘I know you want it’ could be said by a rapist – but so could ‘Do you want to go to a movie tonight?’

“If you want more proof that the repetitive ‘I know you want it’ chorus isn’t creepy, let’s do a closer reading of the other lyrics. The end of the chorus goes: ‘The way you grab me/ must wanna get nasty/ go ahead, get at me.’ The last part, ‘go ahead, get at me’ very clearly kills any ‘rapey’ vibe. In fact, he’s putting the ball in her court by telling her to make the move and not the other way around.”

So what do the song’s blurred lines refer to? Lai offers several suggestions, but concludes it’s probably about “getting mixed signals from a lady who you think might be interested in doing the deed – then letting her know exactly where you stand so she can make the next move – if she wants.”

Blurred Lines is no ode to feminism, make no mistake. The singer’s overture “just let me liberate you” is bound to raise the response from some women that

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they’ll liberate themselves, thanks much. And its explicit descriptions of rough sex will probably shock or upset some listeners – provided they’re able to actually comprehend the dirtiest bits, as they’re spoken at high speed. But this is all unexceptional by the standards of much of today’s popular music – especially hip-hop and R&B, the genres to which the song belongs.

Some critics insist that even if the song is not about rape, it’s still dangerous, in that rapists could hear the lyrics and assume it validates their twisted world views. But imagine if we took this reasoning seriously.

Another of today’s hit songs describes a high school student go-

ing on a school shooting spree. We can also agree such mass shootings are horrific – so we suppose that means CKRW had better drop Pumped Up Kicks by Foster the People from its playlist to start.

And consider older hits. Sting, you may recall, sang a famous number from the point of view of a stalker. We can all agree we don’t want to encourage stalkers, so the station had better drop Every Breath You Take from its list, too.

We could go on, but you get the idea. Artists often sing about the world in cryptic, indirect ways, and adopt personas that do not necessarily reflect their actual views.

Artists are also sometimes simply crass. If we successfully boycotted

every song open to misinterpretation, there would likely be a lot of dead air on the dial.

None of this is meant to explain away the alarming number of sexual assault that the territory sees, which is treble the national average. The territory’s women’s groups have good reason to continue to stress the importance of being clear about sexual consent – clearly, it’s an issue.

But it seems silly to go bonkers over the decision of CKRW to air a song when its lyrics are plainly being misinterpreted. Exaggerated claims only erode one’s credibility – why not save the outrage for something more worthwhile?

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Oh, Canada! a foreign imperial war, it would offend “actual history and respect for our fallen” to include

by AL POPE daughters. Kay fails to mention the 3,141 Canadian women who served as nurses in that particular bloodbath, or the 46 who died in the line of duty.

Kay’s colleague Jonathan Kay – I have no idea if the two are related – stays with the military angle while taking the opposing view that “all our sons” is uthor Margaret Atwood an offence to the women who caused some big ripples in serve in the armed forces today.

Canada’s little pond this week He refers in particular to those when she joined a campaign women who have fought in Afto return our national anthem ghanistan, pointing out that the to an earlier, gender-neutral mother of Nichola Goddard, version. the first Canadian woman to be For those of you, and you killed while fighting, is involved are legion, who don’t know the in the campaign to restore the words, the current official veranthem. sion of the song makes referTo change the national anence to “all our sons,” replacing them is a laudable goal, but the “all of us” in the anthem’s current campaign falls short, previous, though not original, neglecting as it does the fact edition. that, in addition to excluding You need search no farther girls and women and celethan the National Post to find brating one god to the excluarguments on both sides of this sion of all others, Oh Canada conflict. Barbara Kay takes the distinguishes itself by being an position that, since all our sons uncommonly bad song. An atwere inserted into the song in tempt to render a French song 1914 when Canada was sending into English without actually them to die by the thousands in translating the words, it’s an

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appalling piece of team-writing, poorly penned in the first place and badly damaged by revisions. The lyrics are gibberish, the music a dirge.

Consider the line in contention: “Oh Canada, our home and native land, true patriot love in all our sons command.”

The original line was “true patriot love thou dost in us command,” a clear statement of love for one’s country, if somewhat marred by the 19thcentury fashion for biblical language. The 1914 revision turns the song into an entreaty to the country to command the loyalty of its sons, though oddly enough the loyalty required of them was to another country altogether.

And what of those of us for whom Canada is our home, our country of citizenship, but not our native land? If we weren’t born here, should we pretend we were, or mumble through that part, like the atheists in the next row singing “Mwum mwum our land, glorious and free”?

Barbara Kay believes Oh Canada’s greatest moment came when it helped to inspire 600,000 young men to march

off to a pointless shambles, to wager their lives against the lives of young German men over a family quarrel between royal cousins. Sixty-seven thousand Canadian men died in the Great War, 150,000 were wounded, and few indeed returned unscathed. It’s very clear why we commemorate that; less clear is why we would choose to celebrate it.

Though a century old, the English version of Oh Canada didn’t become our official anthem until 1980, prior to which we had to borrow Britain’s, giving rise to the question, why bother to replace one rotten song with another? Is there, indeed, a national anthem that doesn’t make the listener grind valuable enamel away at every hearing?

Take a look at The Star Spangled Banner. True, it has a stirringly bombastic tune, which is more than Oh Canada can claim, but oh say, can you figure out what it’s supposed to mean? Or consider God Save the King/Queen, a 13th-century polemic against the Scots that doesn’t even get to retain its name when the gender of the monarch changes.

La Marseillaise, the national anthem of France, celebrates the Reign of Terror, and asserts that only impure blood floods the country’s gutters. Deutschland Uber Alles, with elegant Germanic simplicity, makes the point all the others struggle toward: we (insert country name) are “above all, above everything in the world.” Perhaps if we all stopped telling each other this the world might eventually evolve into a less frightening place.

Today, the best reason for Canada to have a national anthem is that we would look stupid at hockey games if the Americans got up and sang their own jingoistic rubbish and we didn’t have a response.

So why not ditch the song we once employed to whip a generation of young men into a meaningless mass sacrifice, and write a new one? Something that celebrates equality, diversity, peace, independence, and, oh what the hell, hockey.

Hockey’s what it’s for, after all.

Al Pope won the Canadian Community Newspaper Award for best columnist in 2013. He also won the Ma Murray Award for Best Columnist in B.C./Yukon in 2010 and 2002.

The boy who stood up to Syrian injustice by NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF

MAFRAQ, Jordan s in the fairy tale, in Syria it was the children who pointed out that the emperor had no clothes.

Syria’s civil war began in March 2011 with demands for freedom from schoolchildren in the provincial town of Dara’a – kids like Muhammad, a skinny seventh-grader. He still hasn’t recovered from the torture he endured, and he and his parents asked that his last name not be published.

Muhammad, now part of the growing Syrian refugee diaspora in Jordan, still weighs less than 100 pounds and looks like a shy middle-schooler. It’s hard to imagine him confronting a playground bully, let alone the nation’s tyrant.

Maybe the story of these children’s courage can help build spine in world leaders, who for two and a half years have largely averted their eyes from the humanitarian catastrophe that is Syria. The agreement on chemical weapons may be a genuine step forward, but it does not seem particularly relevant to Syrians suffering from more banal methods of mass murder.

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first group of child activists, who scrawled anti-government graffiti on a wall in Dara’a. The government, with knee-jerk brutality, arrested and tortured them.

That’s when other citizens, Muhammad included, poured out on the streets to demand the students’ release.

The authorities opened fire on some protesters and arrested others, including Muhammad. Police officers beat the boy, then just 11 years old, with rubber hoses; he says that even when the soles of his feet were whipped, he didn’t divulge the names of activist schoolmates.

After four days, Muhammad’s father, Adnan, paid a $1,000 bribe to get the boy freed. The father and mother say that they warned the boy not to protest because his activities could get his father fired from his job.

Muhammad defied his parents and marked his 12th birthday by continuing to protest. At one demonstration, police detained him and clubbed him with the butt of a rifle until his knee was shattered.

A doctor, Dr. Kathem Abazeid, treated Muhammad and others injured by security forces. The secret police later executed Abazeid for treating protesters, the family says.

Muhammad also faced a more mundane challenge: How could he take his seventh-grade final exams without getting arrested when he showed up for them? His school principal sympathized and arranged for Muhammad to take the exams secretly; the principal was later executed as

well, the family says.

By now, Muhammad’s parents were so repulsed by the government’s brutality that they shifted positions. “At this point, we started siding with our son,” Adnan says.

When the security forces couldn’t find Muhammad to arrest him, according to the family, they punished his parents by burning down the family home, with all their possessions inside. They also detained Adnan, who says interrogators suspended him for nine days by his wrists, broke his arm and several ribs, and tortured him with electric shocks.

What kept Adnan from revealing his son’s location were thoughts of another boy detained in Dara’a: Hamza Ali al-Khateeb, 13. When Hamza’s body was returned to his parents, it had burn marks and smashed kneecaps, and it had been sexually mutilated.

So despite unbearable pain, Adnan gave up nothing; a father’s love prevailed over unbearable torture. When he was released after six weeks, the family fled to Jordan.

The International Rescue Committee has been helping Muhammad and his family. The family has medical records documenting the abuse, and both Adnan and Muhammad still suffer from their injuries.

These days, Muhammad is one of 1 million Syrian child refugees abroad, according to the United Nations.

Like most of them, he doesn’t attend school. Children like him, uneducated and unskilled, will constitute a Syrian

lost generation.

Neda Radwan, a psychologist for the International Rescue Committee, counsels the refugees and sees constant signs of survivor torment.

“I’ve tried art therapy with the children,” she said. “They refuse to draw anything but dead bodies.”

She showed me some of the drawings. They brim with bombs and blood, windows into the minds of children overwhelmed by violence.

I fear we’re heading down an unspeakable path: A war in Syria that may continue for years and claim hundreds of thousands of lives, the risk of the collapse of King Abdullah’s government in Jordan and growing spillover of violence in Lebanon and Iraq.

There are no simple fixes to the Syrian tragedy, but there are steps we can take that might help. We can bolster moderate rebel groups with weapons, training and intelligence. Like many Syrians, I favour missile strikes on President Bashar Assad’s air force to reduce his capacity to bomb civilians, although few Americans agree with me. Certainly we can push much harder for humanitarian access to aid needy Syrians. We can also do more to educate refugee children like Muhammad.

Above all, let’s not just shrug and move on. If a scrawny seventh-grader can stand up to a despot, so can we.

Nicholas D. Kristof writes about international affairs for the New York Times.

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These transactions were under the watch of you and the other board of directors who are responsible for the conduct of this corporation.

If such conspicuous amounts of overspending occurs in this one area, what about the multimillions of dollars Yukon Energy has spent on all the studies and plans for alternative energy, for which not one concept has nor will likely ever come to fruition.

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Dixon talks development in Fort Mac Economic Development Minister Currie Dixon was in Fort McMurray last week with northern development ministers from across the country.

Yukon led one of the priority projects for the meetings, on information and communications technology development.

“We have put a bit of an emphasis lately on the development of information and communication technology infrastructure, so … we did a report on the variety of issues, challenges and opportunities related to telecommunications development in the North. We agreed to work towards setting a standard of both infrastructure quality, affordability, and capacity,” he said.

Dixon also got the opportunity to tour the oilsands of northern Alberta.

“The size and scale of the oilsands is certainly overwhelming. But it’s important to remember that those projects are not only an economic generator for Alberta and western Canada, they’re very much a driver of the development of our economy in Canada as a whole.

“What I was particularly impressed with was the size and scale of the reclamation projects that have been undergone. You don’t often see that side of the picture when you see it in the media. … In some cases you see areas that used to be full-scale tailings ponds that have been fully reclaimed into early-stage boreal forest.”

The ministers also flew to northern Saskatchewan to tour a uranium mine.

“We went underground and learned a little bit about how uranium is mined, and a little bit about the role of the mine in the spectrum of nuclear energy,” said Dixon. “So it was very fascinating for me, as the world increases its demand for energy, and is increasingly requiring that energy to be carbon-free, or as low-carbon as possible. Nuclear obviously is a very attractive option on that front.”

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But he is hopeful that the money position on uranium mining in the will come.

Yukon, he said.

“I’m feeling pretty good about it.

Next year’s forum will be hosted The feasibility study was based on a by the Yukon, in Whitehorse. gold price of $1,325, and at that the “This forum was particularly project had very nice economics. The helpful because, I think, we in the current gold price is about $1,325. territories often think of the North There are very few shovel-ready proas ending down at the 60th parallel,” jects in first-class jurisdictions in the said Dixon. “We go to forums like this world. The money will come.” and realize that the provincial norths The company also has to work out have so much in common with us.” a deal with Yukon Energy on how the (Jacqueline Ronson) mine will be powered.

“We do have a letter of intent with Eagle mine ready to be dug, them already. We’re working very needs investment capital closely with them and will come up with a solution that is the most beneVictoria Gold Corp. needs to find ficial to the Yukon and Victoria.”

The solution will likely be a $400 million if major earthworks are to go ahead on schedule next spring. combination of energy generated on site and grid power, said McConnell.

The company just received its (Jacqueline Ronson) quartz mining licence for the Eagle gold mine last week.

Ottawa takes over Watson “It’s probably the biggest milestone in the last four years of permitLake social assistance ting,” said John McConnell, president and CEO. The federal government has arBut with gold prices down, investranged for a new Income Assistance ment money isn’t easy to come by. service provider in Watson Lake to “We’re looking at lots of alternatake care of handing out social assisttives,” said McConnell. “There is ance cheques. certainly money available, but we Last month, the Liard First Najust have to make sure it’s at the right tion announced that it was giving price, that it’s the best deal for our responsibility for the program back shareholders.

“We’re looking at everything from to the federal government because of inadequate administrative funding. bank debt to different types of debt, The Department of Aboriginal it could be convertible debt, we could Affairs and Northern Development bring in a partner. But certainly in current markets issuing equity isn’t a Canada announced on Thursday that it will have staff in Watson Lake on real option.” an emergency basis to make sure that The company hopes to have qualified First Nation clients get the financing in place by the end of the money they need. year, he said.

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Harper loses fifth caucus member, this time over election spending Jennifer Ditchburn

in the past, I entirely reject these allegations and look forward to the opportunity to OTTAWA defend myself in court,” Del rime Minister Stephen Mastro wrote, adding that he Harper lost his fifth caucus continues to fully support the member of the year to scandal, government. after his former right-hand Since March, four othman in the House of Commons ers have left the Conservative was charged Thursday with caucus – Senators Mike Duffy, improper election spending.

Patrick Brazeau and Pamela The Commissioner of CanWallin over improper housing ada Elections laid four charges and travel claims, and cabinet against Ontario MP Dean Del minister Peter Penashue over Mastro under the Canada Elec- ineligible campaign expenses. tions Act. Shortly afterward, the Del Mastro and his former prime minister’s office said he official agent, Richard McCa“was no longer a member of rthy, each face three Canada the Conservative caucus.”

Elections Act charges in conDel Mastro issued a statenection with a $21,000 perment saying he was stepping sonal cheque Del Mastro wrote down from caucus until the to a political consultant shortly matter is resolved. before the 2008 campaign.

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Del Mastro is also charged with exceeding the political contribution limit of $1,000 when he wrote a $21,000 personal cheque that allegedly went to his own campaign. The funds were paid to an Ottawabased consultant who later did campaign work, but only $1,575 was ultimately claimed on the campaign return.

A conviction under the act can carry fines of between $2,000 and $5,000, a sentence of up to five years in prison, or both. The charges have not yet been proven in court.

Just last week, Del Mastro was shifted to the economic development portfolio in his duties as a parliamentary secretary.

Earlier this year, Del Mastro lashed out at Elections Canada by saying they had conducted their investigation with “malice and contempt,” and alleged that the agency never discussed their allegations with him before they appeared in the media.

He has said the $21,000 cheque to Holinshed Research was for services made outside of the campaign period.

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Dean Del Mastro, MP for Peterborough, Ontario, has left the Conservative caucus after being charged with four counts of violating the Canada Elections Act in connection with his 2008 campaign expenses.

sion, refused to take questions about the charges. But they are sure to come as a blow to a Conservative government still reeling from the fallout over disallowed expense claims made by senators Duffy, Wallin and Brazeau, all of them former members of the Tory caucus.

Penashue was forced to leave his cabinet post and run in a byelection in 2013 after it was revealed his campaign had received ineligible expenses that were subsequently repaid.

He lost his seat to Liberal rival Yvonne Jones.

“In our electoral system, it is fundamentally important the spending and contribution

limits enacted by Parliament be respected,” Commissioner of Canada Elections Yves Cote said in a statement.

“It is also essential that the reports and information provided to Elections Canada be accurate and truthful.”

NDP House leader Nathan Cullen praised Elections Canada for its “excellent job” in pursuing the case.

“This is an incredibly serious and bad day for the Conservative Party of Canada, yet an important day for Canadian democracy in the defence of Canadian’s ability to vote freely and fairly in our elections,” Cullen said.

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All professions need mandatory training on residential schools: Commissioner Chinta Puxley Canadian Press

WINNIPEG he chairman of Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission says all professions should have to undergo mandatory training about residential schools as the country tries to undo some of the deep-seeded trauma inflicted by the policy to “take the Indian out of the child.”

Justice Murray Sinclair told a suicide prevention conference in Winnipeg on Wednesday that judges are legally required to learn about residential schools and the same should be mandatory for anyone working with aboriginal people.

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Medical professionals in particular need to understand the legacy of residential schools, he said.

“This requirement should be imposed upon all of those who are treating aboriginal people,” Sinclair said. “Every medical doctor and every nurse being trained at a training program at a hospital or university in this country should be required to take a course in the residential school experience.”

Sinclair pointed to a Winnipeg hospital where an aboriginal man in a wheelchair died during a 34hour wait in the emergency waiting room. The Health Sciences Centre

in Winnipeg serves not only urban aboriginals, but all those from northern Manitoba who are sent for medical treatment, Sinclair said.

“All of those aboriginal patients are being sent to professionals who have not been trained in cultural competence,” he said. “That’s contributed to hesitation on the part of the aboriginal community to seek medical advice when they feel they are not going to be treated properly.

That exacerbates the problems that they face.”

About 150,000 First Nations, Inuit and Metis children were taken from their families and forced to attend the government schools over much of the last century. The last school, outside Regina, closed in 1996.

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Man gets record fine for smuggling narwhal tusks The Canadian Press

ST. STEPHEN, N.B. nvironment Canada says a New Brunswick man has received a record fine under a law that protects wild animals and plants after about 250 narwhal ivory tusks were exported into Canada from the United States.

The federal department says Gregory Logan of Woodmans Point was convicted on seven counts for offences under the Wild Animal and Plant Protection and Regulation of International and Interprovincial Trade Act. It says Logan was fined $385,000 and given an eightmonth conditional sentence to be served in the community, including four months of house arrest, during his appearance in provincial court on Tuesday in St. Stephen.

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Logan is also prohibited from possessing or purchasing marine mammal products for 10 years, and he must forfeit items used to smuggle the tusks, which includes a truck and trailer seized during Environment Canada’s investigation.

Environment Canada says only Inuit may harvest narwhal in Canada because it is a source of food and income in northern communities.

The agency says its 2-1/2 year investigation in the case, code-named Operation Longtooth, began in April 2009 when it received information from an agency in the U.S. about the illegal purchase of narwhal tusks that originated in Canada.

of a landmark compensation deal between the federal government, the Crown and residential school survivors. Sinclair and his commissioners have visited hundreds of communities and have heard graphic details of trauma, including rampant sexual and physical abuse.

Of the 80,000 people who have made claims under the compensation deal, Sinclair said half say they sustained injuries of one form or another. Survivors suffer from depression, thoughts of suicide, substance abuse and an inability to show affection, he said. Those who live with survivors suffer as well, Sinclair said.

“Trauma feeds on trauma.

Once there is a cycle that’s started of suicides or crime or physical violence, it begins to feed upon itself and passes from generation to

generation,” Sinclair said. “Residential schools are probably the most significant historical trauma that aboriginal people in this country have experienced.”

The commission has nine months left in its mandate but Sinclair said it may require an extension. The commission has had difficulty obtaining documents in Library and Archives Canada, despite a court order requiring all archival records be turned over, he said.

Bureaucratic and “systemic” delays may mean the commission will have a hard time meeting its deadline of July 1, 2014, Sinclair said.

“We’ve raised that with the parties and we’ll have a discussion with them soon once we know when the documents can start to flow,” he said.

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Report from UN finds world not prepared to support growing elderly population Kristen Gelineau

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Truong Tien Thao, who runs a small tea shop on the sidewalk he world is aging so fast that near his home in Hanoi, Vietnam, most countries are not prepared is 65 and acutely aware that he, like to support their swelling numbers of millions of others, is plunging into elderly people, according to a global old age without a safety net. He study by the United Nations and an wishes he could retire, but he and his elder rights group.

61-year-old wife depend on the $50 The report ranks the social and a month they earn from the tea shop. economic well-being of elders in 91 And so every day, Thao rises early countries, with Sweden coming out to open the stall at 6 a.m. and works on top and Afghanistan at the botuntil 2 p.m., when his wife takes over tom. It reflects what advocates for the until closing. old have been warning, with increas“People at my age should have a ing urgency, for years: Nations are rest, but I still have to work to make simply not working quickly enough our ends meet,” he says, while waitto cope with a population greying ing for customers at the shop, which faster than ever before. By the year sells green tea, cigarettes and chewing 2050, for the first time in history, se- gum. “My wife and I have no penniors over the age of 60 will outnum- sion, no health insurance. I’m scared Associated Press

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Thao’s story reflects a key point in the report, which was released early to The Associated Press: Aging is an issue across the world. Perhaps surprisingly, the report shows that the fastest aging countries are developing ones, such as Jordan, Laos, Mongolia, Nicaragua and Vietnam, where the number of older people will more than triple by 2050. All ranked in the bottom half of the index.

The Global AgeWatch Index (www.globalagewatch.org) was created by elder advocacy group HelpAge International and the U.N. Population Fund in part to address a lack of international data on the extent and impact of global aging. The index, released on the U.N.’s International Day of Older Persons, compiles data from the U.N., World Health Organization, World Bank and other global agencies, and analyzes income, health, education, employment and age-friendly environment in each country.

The index was welcomed by elder rights advocates, who have long complained that a lack of data has thwarted their attempts to raise the issue on government agendas.

“Unless you measure something, it doesn’t really exist in the minds of decision-makers,” said John Beard, Director of Ageing and Life Course for the World Health Organization.

“One of the challenges for population aging is that we don’t even collect the data, let alone start to analyze it. … For example, we’ve been talking about how people are living longer, but I can’t tell you people are living longer and sicker, or longer in good health.”

The report fits into an increasingly complex picture of aging and what it means to the world. On the one hand, the fact that people are living longer is a testament to advances in health care and nutrition, and

advocates emphasize that the elderly should be seen not as a burden but as a resource. On the other, many countries still lack a basic social protection floor that provides income, health care and housing for their senior citizens.

Afghanistan, for example, offers no pension to those not in the government. Life expectancy is 59 years for men and 61 for women, compared to a global average of 68 for men and 72 for women, according to U.N. data.

That leaves Abdul Wasay struggling to survive. At 75, the former cook and blacksmith spends most of his day trying to sell toothbrushes and toothpaste on a busy street corner in Kabul’s main market. The job nets him just $6 a day – barely enough to support his wife. He can only afford to buy meat twice a month; the family relies mainly on potatoes and curried vegetables.

“It’s difficult because my knees are weak and I can’t really stand for a long time,” he says. “But what can I do? It’s even harder in winter, but I can’t afford treatment.”

Although government hospitals are free, Wasay complains that they provide little treatment and hardly any medicine. He wants to stop working in three years, but is not sure his children can support him.

He says many older people cannot find work because they are not strong enough to do day labour, and some resort to begging.

“You have to keep working no matter how old you are – no one is rich enough to stop,” he says. “Life is very difficult.”

Many governments have resisted tackling the issue partly because it is viewed as hugely complicated, negative and costly – which is not necessarily true, says Silvia Stefanoni, chief executive of HelpAge International. Japan and Germany, she says, have among the highest proportions of elders in the world, but also boast

steady economies.

“There’s no evidence that an aging population is a population that is economically damaged,” she says.

Prosperity in itself does not guarantee protection for the old. The world’s rising economic powers – the so-called BRICS nations of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa – rank lower in the index than some poorer countries such as Uruguay and Panama.

However, the report found, wealthy nations are in general better prepared for aging than poorer ones.

Sweden, where the pension system is now 100 years old, makes the top of the list because of its social support, education and health coverage, followed by Norway, Germany, the Netherlands and Canada. The United States comes in eighth.

Sweden’s health system earns praise from Marianne Blomberg, an 80-year-old Stockholm resident.

“The health care system, for me, has worked extraordinarily well,” she says. “I suffer from atrial fibrillation and from the minute I call emergency until I am discharged, it is absolutely amazing. I can’t complain about anything – even the food is good.”

Still, even in an elder-friendly country like Sweden, aging is not without its challenges. The Swedish government has suggested people continue working beyond 65, a prospect Blomberg cautiously welcomes but warns should not be a requirement. Blomberg also criticized the nation’s finance minister, Anders Borg, for cutting taxes sharply for working Swedes but only marginally for retirees.

“I go to lectures and museums and the theatre and those kinds of things, but I probably have to stop that soon because it gets terribly expensive,” she says. “If you want to be active like me, it is hard. But to sit home and stare at the walls doesn’t cost anything.”

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‘Climate refugee’ from Kiribati fighting to stay in New Zealand

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WELLINGTON, New Zealand man from one of the lowestlying countries on Earth is trying to convince New Zealand judges that he’s a refugee – suffering not from persecution, but from climate change.

The 37-year-old and his wife left his remote atoll in the Pacific country of Kiribati six years ago for higher ground and better prospects in New Zealand, where their three children were born.

Immigration authorities have twice rejected his argument that rising sea levels make it too dangerous for him and his family to return to Kiribati.

So on Oct. 16, the man’s lawyer, Michael Kidd, plans to argue the case before New Zealand’s High Court. Kidd, who specializes in human rights cases, told The Associated Press he will appeal the case all the way to the country’s Supreme Court if necessary.

Legal experts consider the man’s case a long shot, but it will nevertheless be closely watched, and might have implications for tens of millions of residents in low-lying islands around the world. Kiribati, an impoverished string of 33 coral atolls about halfway between Hawaii and Australia, has about 103,000 people and has been identified by scientists as among the nations most vulnerable to climate change.

In a transcript of the immigration case obtained by The AP, the Kiribati man describes extreme high tides known as king tides that he says have started to regularly breach Kiribati’s defences – killing crops, flooding homes and sickening residents. New Zealand immigration laws prevent The AP from naming him.

The man said that around 1998, king tides began regularly breaching the sea walls around his village, which was overcrowded and had no sewerage system. He said the fouled drinking water

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would make people vomit, and that there was no higher ground that would allow villagers to escape the knee-deep water.

He said returning to the island would endanger the lives of his two youngest children.

“There’s no future for us when we go back to Kiribati,” he told the tribunal, according to the transcript. “Especially for my children. There’s nothing for us there.”

The man’s lawyer said the family is currently living and working on a New Zealand farm.

Last week, an international panel of climate scientists issued a report saying that it was “extremely likely” that human activity was causing global warming, and predicted that oceans could rise by as much as one metre by the end of the century. If that were to happen, much of Kiribati would simply disappear.

Though that is a dire prospect, New Zealand’s Immigration and Protection Tribunal has said it is not one that is addressed by laws dealing with refugees.

In a decision recently made public, tribunal member Bruce Burson said the legal concept of a refugee is someone who is being persecuted, which requires human interaction. He said the tribunal rejected the man’s claim because nobody is persecuting him.

The tribunal found there was no evidence that the environmental conditions on Kiribati were so bad that the man and his family would face imminent danger should they return. Burson said the man’s claim was also rejected because the family’s predicament was no different than that faced by the wider population of Kiribati.

In his court appeal, Kidd said the fact that many people face the same threat is no grounds to dismiss a claim. He also argued that his client did suffer an indirect form of human persecution because climate change is believed to be caused by the pollution

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humans generate. He said his client also would face the threat of a climate-induced breakdown in law and order should he return.

Bill Hodge, a constitutional law expert and associate professor at the University of Auckland, said he applauded Kidd’s “ingenious arguments” but didn’t think they would succeed because his client hasn’t been singled out and victimized due to something like his gender, race or political persuasion.

But Hodge added that even if the Kiribati man loses, his case might make a good argument for expanding the definition of what constitutes a refugee. He said he expected there would be increasing pressure on nations like New Zealand and Australia to help provide new homes for Pacific Islanders threatened by rising seas.

Tidal gauges indicate the world’s oceans have been rising at an annual rate of 3.2 millimetres since 1970. Many scientists expect that rate to accelerate and for climate change to trigger more intense storms, which may pose an even more pressing threat to many of the world’s low-lying islands.

Kiribati’s government is pursuing its own strategies. It has paid a deposit for 2,428 hectares in nearby Fiji, which Kiribati President Anote Tong has said will provide food security and a possible refuge for future generations. The nation has also been talking with a Japanese firm about the possibility of constructing a floating island, which would cost billions of dollars.

Rimon Rimon, a Kiribati government spokesman who said his opinions on the matter were his own, said he thought the man in New Zealand was taking the wrong approach. He said the government is working hard to train people in skills like nursing, carpentry and automotive repairs so that if they do leave Kiribati, they can be productive in their adoptive countries.

“Kiribati may be doomed by climate change in the near future,” he said. “But just claiming refugee status due to climate change is the easy way out.”

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American oilsands opponents turn their attention to B.C. pipeline proposals

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An oil tanker at the mouth of Vancouver Harbour. Oilsands opponents, who have been fighting the Keystone XL pipeline project in the United States, are turning their sights on two pipeline proposals in British Columbia.

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VANCOUVER ilsands opponents who have used their public relations muscle to fight the Keystone XL pipeline that would flow from Canada into the United States are turning their sights on two pipeline proposals in British Columbia.

Although neither the Trans Mountain nor the Northern Gateway projects cross the border on land, the American arm of the conservation group Forest Ethics said the pipelines will result in an additional 700-plus tankers traversing the waters off the Pacific coast.

“From pipelines to tankers to crude-by-rail, we’re facing an onslaught of new oil proposals, many of them toxic oilsands oil, that would turn the Pacific Northwest into a giant shipping lane for oil, gas and for coal,” spokesman Matt Krogh said at a news conference Tuesday in Seattle.

“This is a cross-border question.

It has cross-border impacts.”

Forest Ethics and others have fought a high-profile, celebritypopulated campaign against the proposed Keystone XL pipeline in the United States, stalling for several years the project that would deliver oilsands bitumen from northern Alberta to refineries on the U.S. Gulf Coast.

A final decision from President Barack Obama on Keystone is expected in the coming months, Krogh said, and attention is turning toward the impact that oil shipments to the B.C. coast will have, including tankers and an increase in oil-by-rail from Canada.

“You’re seeing the first steps in an international wall being created that’s actually going to stop

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tarsands export,” Krogh said.

Canadian conservation groups, including Forest Ethics in this country, have long been battling the B.C. pipeline projects.

The campaign south of the border was launched with a website tarsandssos.org, featuring real-time tracking of all tankers in and out of Kinder Morgan’s tanker terminal in Burnaby – the terminus of its Trans Mountain pipeline from Alberta.

On Tuesday, the website showed the Liberian-flagged Aqualiberty and the U.S.-flagged Sea Reliance moored in Burrard Inlet.

The Northern Gateway pipeline proposed by Calgary-based Enbridge would deliver 525,000 barrels of petroleum a day to a tanker terminal in Kitimat, on the north coast of B.C. Kinder Morgan’s proposed expansion of its existing Trans Mountain line would increase its capacity from 300,000 barrels a day to 890,000.

A Kinder Morgan official said that Canada and the United States have a shared interest in the safe transport of oil through the Salish Sea. “As we are developing our application to the National Energy Board, we have been meeting with Canadian and U.S. agencies involved in the marine safety regime and are committed to continue discussions on both sides of the border,” Mike Davies, senior director of marine development for the project, said in an email response to a request for an interview.

A federal panel weighing the Northern Gateway terminal will issue its report to the federal cabinet by the end of the year, and Kinder Morgan is expected – after much discussion of its expansion plans – to officially file an application for

the Trans Mountain line later this year.

Federal government officials were in British Columbia last week to meet with First Nations groups that have staunchly opposed Northern Gateway, and Enbridge officials met over the summer with leaders from more than a dozen communities along the pipeline route.

The company is on a veritable charm offensive as the clock ticks down on the panel report, releasing a new series of newspaper, radio, television and online ads that promise “a better pipeline.”

In a conference call with investors on Tuesday, Vern Yu, Enbridge’s senior vice-president of business and market development said the company expects a decision from the federal cabinet by mid-2014 – and they expect it to be a decision that will be challenged by project opponents.

“We expect that there would be some appeals to that decision and that would take us into early 2015 and at that point we would be able to start construction, which would allow for somewhere around a 2018 in-service date,” Yu said.

“Obviously that is a lightening rod project where we are actively working on building more support in B.C. for the project.”

CEO Al Monaco said Enbridge has done well engaging communities affected by Northern Gateway, but broader issues around oilsands development and general skepticism over energy projects have become bigger and bigger factors in the public debate.

Monaco said he remains confident Northern Gateway will be built because it’s “so important to Canada.”

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Romania’s spy agency monitors protests at Canadian mine The mine, run by the Canadian company Gabriel Resources, is sitting on an estimated 314 tonnes of gold BUCHAREST, Romania and 1,500 tonnes of silver. It would omania’s domestic spy agency be the biggest gold mine in Europe. has been monitoring developProponents have been trying to ments involving a planned Canadiget permits for 14 years but so far an-owned gold mine for years, its no date has been set for it to begin chief acknowledged Monday, saying operating. that some demonstrations against The disclosure by Maior was surthe project have been manipulated prising because it was reminiscent of by people he called “eco-anarchists.” Romania’s dreaded Securitate secret Spy chief George Maior’s compolice, which once used an estimated ments before a parliamentary 760,000 informers from all walks of committee came after the head of life.

Romania’s foreign intelligence Maior said his agency had sent agency said last week that it had been 500 memos to decision-making monitoring foreigners who allegauthorities from 1999 to 2013 about edly paid Romanians to agitate for the planned gold mine, which has and against the massive gold mine sparked large street protests in recent project in northwest Romania. weeks. He insisted the agency’s Associated Press

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actions were legal and were taken because the mine in Rosia Montana is “a problem of national security.”

On Sunday, however, President Traian Basescu said the protests opposing the mine were genuine while rallies in support of the mine in Transylvania were “fabricated.”

The mine has been widely criticized.

Environmentalists complain that it would use cyanide in the extraction process and say four mountains must be razed to build it. Financial critics say Romania stands to earn too little from the project, while some locals say the gold, which has been mined there since Roman times, would be depleted within 20 years.

Supporters argue the mine

would bring vital foreign investment and jobs to a deprived area. Prime Minister Victor Ponta says Romania has a duty to benefit from its natural resources.

Last week, Teodor Melescanu, chief of Romania’s foreign intelligence, said his agency had sent dozens of memos to officials about foreigners or foreign publications who were paid to support or oppose the controversial project.

He also said a foreign government had a slanted view of the project – an apparent reference to neighbouring Hungary, which opposes the mine due to the planned use of cyanide.

He did not reveal any names or details.

Basescu, formerly a strong supporter of the mine, recently declared

he was adopting a neutral position.

He accused Ponta, who now appears to favour the mine after initially opposing it, of accepting money to promote it. Ponta has denied that allegation.

The Rosia Montana gold project has reported resources of 17.1 million ounces of gold and 81.1 million ounces of silver.

It is held by Rosia Montana Gold Corp., a Romanian company in which Gabriel owns an 81 per cent stake.

Gabriel shares have improved since hitting a low of 41 cents on Sept. 9 amid reports that debate on the project would be blocked.

Shares in the company were up two cents at 86 cents in trading Monday on the Toronto Stock Exchange.

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ony’s concept for the new QX100 is among the most brilliant in its history.

Unfortunately, the good idea ended with the concept. By the time the poor QX100 reached the production line, it never really had a chance.

Oh, wait – you want to know what it is?

It’s the answer to a long-simmering problem. Digital cameras take excellent photos but aren’t good at transmitting them. Cellphones are great at sending pictures – but aren’t very good at taking them.

Sony’s masterstroke: Why not create a weird new half-a-camera that contains exactly the components that a cellphone camera lacks?

It could have a lens that really zooms. It could contain serious, professional “glass” – a Zeiss f/1.8 lens, with the quality, multiple glass elements and light-passing capacity that cellphones wouldn’t have in their wildest dreams. It could have manual controls, optical image stabilization and a tripod mount.

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Megapixels, on the other hand, aren’t a very big deal. Even so, Sony’s semicamera could offer 18 or 20 megapixels – enough for even giant prints – compared with the 5 or 8 megapixels on your phone.

So that’s what the QX100 ($500) is. There’s a half-priced junior version, too. More on that in a minute.

The QX100 is the craziest-looking camera you’ve ever seen. Even on close inspection, you’d swear that it was just a lens. Not a whole camera – just a lens, like maybe one from somebody’s SLR camera. It’s a black cylinder, 2.2 inches long, 2.5 inches across.

Somehow, into that space, Sony has crammed most of a camera.

There’s a 3X telescoping zoom, with a zoom lever. There’s a real shutter button, a battery, stereo microphones and a memory-card slot.

There is not, however, a screen, because your phone already has a huge, really great one. So between this lens thing and your phone, you have all the elements of a top-notch photographic machine.

The QX can snap onto a plate bearing rubber-lined grippers.

They’re spring-loaded so that they can firmly grip your phone. That’s right: You can actually attach a $500, semiprofessional zoom lens to your cellphone and take some truly excellent pictures.

To communicate with your phone, you install the clunkily named app, PlayMemories Mobile.

If you have an Android phone, and it came with an NFC (near-field communication) chip, you now just tap your phone against the QX100.

That gesture “pairs” them and opens the app, ready for shooting.

If you have an iPhone or a nonNFC Android phone, things get trickier. You’re supposed to connect your phone to the private Wi-Fi hot spot generated by the QX itself –

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Sony’s new QX100 camera connects wirelessly to a cellphone, features manual controls, optical image stabilization, a tripod mount and a Zeiss f/1.8 lens. which, in this case, has nothing to do with the Internet.

Once you have everything set up, the phone’s screen acts as the lens’s viewfinder. Using touch controls on your phone, you can zoom in and out; take a picture by remote control; and adjust the exposure, automatic and program modes, plus aperture priority mode, manual focus and white-balance options. It all works, although the camera takes part of a second to respond to your phone taps; you should not expect pinpoint timing with your zooming or shuttering.

The QX100 is based on the best pocket camera ever made, the Sony RX100 Mark II ($750). (The Mark II is the successor to the previous best pocket camera ever made, the RX100; the Mark II offers a tilting screen, Wi-Fi transmission to your phone and even better lowlight photos.)

In other words, the QX’s pictures are truly terrific.

Each photo’s full-resolution self is stored on the lens’ memory card. A 2-megapixel, more easily uploaded

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and stored version is transmitted into your phone. (Sony reasons that sending the full 20-megapixel versions would swamp your phone’s storage, although you can change the app’s settings to do just that.)

The QX also records movies. They don’t get sent to your phone; they stay on the lens’ memory card. You can transfer them to your computer using the USB cable, which you also use to recharge the lens’ 200-shot battery.

All of this works identically on the 18-megapixel QX10, the less expensive sibling. It costs half as much; it’s about half as long and much lighter; and it zooms 10X instead of 3X. But the QX10 doesn’t offer anything like the photographic excellence of the QX100. Its sensor is no bigger than the ones on standard pocket cameras. Its lens isn’t Zeiss glass, and it’s no f/1.8. And it offers no manual controls at all except exposure compensation.

And now, the bad news. As it turns out, the QX cameras’ execution just doesn’t live up to the ingenious idea behind them. Some of the problems: * The camera requires a

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cellphone-style memory card, a microSD card (not included), which is about the size of a fingernail clipping. * Neither “camera” has a flash.

And no, you can’t use your phone’s flash to compensate. (I guess you could put it into flashlight mode.) * The sensor and lens of the QX100 are the same as what’s in the RX100 Mark II, but it’s otherwise missing a lot of that camera’s features. The QX100 lacks a burst mode, shutter-priority mode, selftimer mode, Illustration mode and the amazing Sweep Panorama. And, of course, a hot shoe for accessories. * Both cameras take only JPEG photos. They can’t capture RAW files, beloved by professional photographers for their editability, as the RX100 can. * Neither camera captures full 1080 hi-def video, as the RX100 does. They have somewhat lower resolution, although still better than 720p. * The writing in the app is laughably bad. For example, when you first open PlayMemories on an iPhone, the app says, “Search the shooting device from the network setting of the terminal and set it.” What?

Come on, Sony. Haven’t we outgrown the decade(s) of making ourselves the butt of poorly translated Japanese manual jokes? * The PlayMemories app doesn’t let you review pictures you’ve just taken. You have to switch into your camera’s Photos app for that. * In iOS 7, the iPhone app is balky, freezy and unreliable. * Connecting an iPhone or nonNFC Android phone to the QX’s private hot spot requires a complex password, which comes printed on the inside of the QX’s battery-compartment cover.

But listen: Let’s not mope. Let’s celebrate the spirit of that spectacular central idea, the master engineers who brought it to life and even the executives who greenlighted this crazy, offbeat product. Let’s hope that spirit survives long enough for us to see a QX 2.0 next year.

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Canadian company making Google Glass devices for athletes Michael Oliveira Canadian Press

TORONTO ancouver-based Recon Instruments doesn’t consider Google Glass to be a direct competitor to its high-tech eyewear, but the company doesn’t mind the comparisons.

While Recon believes it produces a very different type of computer-equipped glasses – which are targeted at sports enthusiasts rather than the mass market – it’s happy to be mentioned in the same breath as the tech giant.

And the added attention Google is bringing to the wearable technology market is a major bonus, says CEO Dan Eisenhardt.

“They’re doing us a huge favour by pushing the category and really showing people the value of heads-up information,” he says.

“Hopefully it will help also get that momentum going … and further down the road you’ll probably see more and more people feeling comfortable using it for different things in their everyday lives.”

Since 2010, the company has been releasing so-called “headsup display” products that give skiers and snowboarders a high-tech way to fly down mountains. The latest device, the MOD Live, attaches to a pair of ski goggles and uses a small LCD screen to display information including GPS data, speed, altitude and temperature.

Users can also wirelessly link the device to their smartphone to see text messages and caller ID for incoming phone calls, and play music.

“Nobody had ever seen a consumer headset like it, it was something you had just heard of in the military but to actually bring it in an affordable price point into the mass consumer space in sports was completely new,” Eisenhardt says.

Now, the company is talking up a new product called Jet, a pair of sunglasses with similar technology designed for cyclists, runners and triathletes. And the tech world is taking notice.

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Last week, Intel announced it was investing $4 million in Recon to help “accelerate product development, marketing and global sales.” Recon was also promised access to “expertise in manufacturing, operations and technology.”

“We’re taking a step away from the snow business and into a completely different category in many ways. We’re (marketing) it for cycling and triathlon, of course running as well, but you could imagine all kinds of applications where you’re wearing sunglasses and you’re outdoors doing an activity and you can get data that you need for that moment in time,” says Eisenhardt, adding that golf, hunting and sailing offer opportunities for expansion.

But he’s keen to stay focused on just a few markets for now and allow the wearables trend to mature.

“It’s hard to argue against the fact that instant information is valuable, if you can bring information closer to people’s attention more conveniently … that’s a fantastic value proposition, that is worth a lot. The question is what does it take to get there,” says Eisenhardt, noting that physical design is a critically important component.

“Deep down we’re all vain, if we put something on our faces or on our bodies we want it to make us look better, not worse, so we need to solve that equation where the technology is helping you but you’re also compromising on your appearance. And you’re maybe also compromising on your social interactions.

“It has to be really small, almost like a piece of jewelry, and out of sight.”

Recon is allowing software developers to write their own thirdparty apps for the Jet sunglasses, which Eisenhardt hints could allow for turn-by-turn directions and social media connectivity.

Recon is targeting March 2014 to start shipping out the Jet.

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IPCC report shows action on climate change is critical fuels and cutting down forests – and that it’s getting worse and poses

by DAVID a serious threat to humanity. It contains hints of optimism, though, SUZUKI and shows addressing the problem creates opportunities.

The IPCC was set up in 1988 by the World Meteorological Organization and UN Environment Programme at the request of member governments. For the recent study, hundreds of scientists he Intergovernmental Panel on and experts worldwide combed Climate Change just released through the latest peer-reviewed the first of four chapters of its scientific literature and other relFifth Assessment Report. It shows evant materials to assess “the state scientists are more certain now than of scientific, technical and socioin 2007 when the Fourth Assesseconomic knowledge on climate ment was released that humans change, its causes, potential impacts are largely responsible for global and response strategies.” warming – mainly by burning fossil Scientists are cautious. That’s

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When they say something is “extremely likely” or 95 per cent certain – as the latest report does regarding human contributions to climate change – that’s as close to certainty as science usually gets.

Evidence for climate change itself is “unequivocal.”

According to the latest installment, which cites 9,200 scientific publications in 2,200 pages, “It is extremely likely that human activities caused more than half of the observed increase in global average surface temperature from 1951 to 2010.” It also concludes oceans have warmed, snow and ice have diminished, sea levels have risen and extreme weather events have become more common.

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An increase in global average temperatures greater than 2 C above pre-industrial levels would result in further melting of glaciers and Arctic ice, continued rising sea levels, more frequent and extreme weather events, difficulties for global agriculture and changes in plant and animal life, including extinctions. The report says we’ll likely exceed that threshold this century unless we choose to act.

This means a strong, concerted global effort to combat climate change is necessary to protect the health of our economies, communities, children and future. That will cost us, but far less than doing nothing. Although governments of almost 200 countries agreed global average temperature increases must be kept below 2 C to avoid catastrophic warming, we are on track for the “worst case scenario” outlined by the first assessment report in 1990. Research indicates it’s possible to limit warming below that threshold if far-reaching action is taken. We can’t let skeptics sidetrack us with distortions and cherry-picking aimed at creating the illusion the science is still not in.

The reasons to act go beyond averting the worst impacts of climate change. Fossil fuels are an incredibly valuable resource that can be used for making everything from medical supplies to computer keyboards. Wastefully burning them

to propel solo drivers in cars and SUVs will ensure we run out sooner rather than later.

Working with other nations to meet science-based targets to cut global warming pollution and create clean, renewable energy solutions would allow us to use our remaining fossil fuel reserves more wisely and create lasting jobs and economic opportunities. That’s why the David Suzuki Foundation is working with the Trottier Energy Futures Project to identify cleanenergy opportunities for Canada.

Shifting to cleaner energy sources would also reduce pollution and the environmental damage that comes with extracting coal, oil and gas. That would improve the health of people, communities and ecosystems, and reduce both health-care costs and dollars spent replacing services nature already provides with expensive infrastructure.

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The first chapter examines the current science of climate change, the second will look at impacts and the third will consider strategies to deal with the problem. A report synthesizing the three chapters will be released in 2014. We must take it seriously.

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Miners’ aqueduct still etched in Interior hills named James Davidson, leaders of the company decided to build a water-moving system

by Ned from the upper Chatanika River Rozell to Fairbanks.

The execution of the project from 1924 to 1926 probably swayed the bulk of the Fairbanks population to stay here, wrote Catherine Williams and Sarah McGowan in their research document The ike a bright yellow conDavidson Ditch, which they tour line painted above the produced for Northern Land Steese Highway, the Davidson Use Research, Inc. By 1926, the Ditch now reveals itself by the “FE Company” employed about flagging autumn birches and 80 per cent of the people in poplars that clog its path.

Fairbanks. Many of the 1,372 The 145-kilometre system of on the payroll worked on the canal, pipeline and tunnel beDavidson Ditch. comes harder to see with each James Davidson, who saw the passing day, but the engineering potential for and designed the triumph once helped prevent aqueduct, was a rarity among Fairbanks from ghosting out. gold-rushers who climbed The 1920s-era aqueduct provided the water needed to float Chilkoot Pass and descended into the Yukon in 1898. When dredges the size of apartment complexes and power hydraulic he arrived in the far north he already had 25 years of engingiants that firehosed water at eering and mining experience.

Tanana River valley hillsides, After moving to Nome on July stripping them to bedrock.

4, 1899, Davidson soon created In the early 1900s, migrants a map of the Nome Peninsula, from the Klondike Gold Rush discovered a spring still used were splashing through every for drinking water there, and creek around Fairbanks. By designed what became known 1920, those men had panned much of the near-surface gold, as the Miocene Ditch to move large volumes of water. and many were looking to After accomplishing so much move on to the next action. in Nome, Davidson traveled That’s when a college-educated Alaska looking for mining opstampeder saw a way to mine portunities. When he visited the low-grade deposits with the Fairbanks district, which massive machines and more in the early 1920s was becomefficiency. ing less remote because of The United States Smeltan Alaska Railroad extension ing and Refining Company, from Seward, Davidson saw the a Maine corporation with potential for a longer version of headquarters in Boston, operated the Fairbanks Exploration Nome’s 87-kilometre Miocene Ditch. He convinced FE ComCompany, which was devoted pany executives to invest milto removing gold from the lions in 134 kilometres of open streams of the Tanana Valley.

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of pipeline to shortcut narrow valleys and a tunnel through a hillside almost one mile long.

To dig the canal-like portions of the ditch, workers used power shovels, three fueled by diesel and three by steam. Officials with the Alaska Engineering Commission brought the steam shovels to Alaska after others had used them to dig the Panama Canal. Men with shovels did much of the work, including the leveling of the ditch.

When the Davidson Ditch was complete in 1928, just after James Davidson died at 75, the system moved water using no fossil fuel. Gravity carried the water slowly to gates where miners could release it on demand. Water from the project powered hydraulic giants with enough pressure to strip the landscape 61 metres away from where miners pointed the nozzles.

“Only by moving millions of cubic yards of the muck overlying gold-bearing gravels … could the low-grade placer gold deposits be mined profitably,” Williams and McGowan wrote.

The FE Company used and maintained the aqueduct until the early 1950s. By the mid1960s, no more FE Company dredges were working, but a businessman named Arnold Hanson found a new use for the Davidson Ditch. He built a power plant and started the Chatanika Power Company in 1959. Hanson provided electricity to the Golden Valley Electric Association until the same rains that flooded Fairbanks in August 1967 wrecked the ditch’s containment dam.

Craig McCaa, Bureau of Land Management.

A water pipeline near U.S. Creek that makes up part of the Davidson Ditch, a 145-kilometre aqueduct from the upper Chatanika River to near Fairbanks. Workers finished the project in the late 1920s. It lasted until the late 1960s, when a flood damaged the containment dam.

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Juno-nominated Basia Bulat’s third album, Tall Tall Shadow, informed by loss Nick Patch

It Can’t Be You, I was just playing the triangle and singing, whatever came out was the song. It happened TORONTO really quickly. It wasn’t like, ‘hey, let’s asia Bulat still has a hard time explore this.’ It was literally what was talking about her recent loss of a in my heart at the time of writing.” loved one, which is perhaps part of And the resultant record – Tall why she chose to sing about it.

Tall Shadow, in stores this week – is So it was that the Juno-nomappropriately intimate and devastatinated singer/songwriter found ing as one would expect, but also herself grief-stricken and reeling just fairly hopeful. two months before she was set to Perhaps that reflects what Bulat record the follow-up to her standout says was a liberating recording sophomore record Heart of My Own. experience working with producers She’d already crafted an album’s Tim Kingsbury and Mark Lawson, worth of new material, but given the the former a member of Arcade Fire sad recent developments she was en- and the latter a Grammy-winning during, she tossed aside what she’d engineer on that Montreal band’s written and started again.

2010 smash The Suburbs. Past colAnd she found the music just laborator Howard Bilerman, another poured out of her.

Arcade Fire associate, also contrib“I wanted to restart and ... really uted. not hold myself back in the singing But even as her network of and the writing, and just see what co-conspirators broadened, Bulat might come out,” the Toronto-based seemed to put ever more of herself singer said in a recent interview. “It into her music. Aside from her pliwasn’t really, ‘now I’m going to write able, honey-coated voice, she’s long about this and now I’m going to set herself apart with her mastery of a variety of instruments, and on Tall write about that’ – it was more of a Tall Shadow she capably employs an freeform approach to writing.

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think never as directly as this time around,” she said. “I think I didn’t really try to hide what was going on in the way that I might have in the past. And I think that’s another element of taking a risk, I guess.”

Many of the tracks feature some degree of unobtrusive electronics in the mix – another change – but it doesn’t fundamentally alter the nature of Bulat’s delicate folk-pop.

And for a record with such sombre roots – not to mention gorgeously doleful artwork that references Nico’s Chelsea Girls – much of the music is surprisingly sprightly.

Wires, an “extremely poppy” song about starting over, is kept aloft by Chris Young/The Canadian Press a pounding drum beat (provided Basia Bulat is photographed in Toronto as she promotes her

by Bulat’s brother, Bobby), Promise new album Tall Tall Shadow.

Not to Think About Love is a cheeky, handclappy anthem of self-empowsynthesizer, pianoette, organ, autoshe continues, “is just we tried so erment inspired in part by Bulat’s many different arrangements, but it fondness for girl groups and the harp, charango and wurlitzer. always came back to the same thing: album-opening title track is a wind“I played more of the instruwhat is the best way to tell the story ing drive lit by luminous keys. ments this time around on this in song?” record, and that was in part a That song, Tall Tall Shadow, Those stories, meanwhile, are her was the last Bulat wrote for the conscious decision,” she says. “Just to see, can I push myself? How much of most personal yet. She acknowledges album and its lyrics are ambitiously that the songs are informed by the intended to incorporate elements of this can I do? aforementioned loss – about which, the rest of the album’s songs.

“The thing with instruments,” she chooses to say only: “I lost someAnd given its friction between body very close to me” – but rarely positive and negative forces, it also does she succumb to simple anguish, tidily encapsulates the complex sounding at times determined to mood Bulat sought to capture with overcome the pain. her third album.

She is, however, unguarded in a “The words ‘Tall Tall Shadow’ – a way she hasn’t been before, opening shadow only exists with light, right?” herself up to a new vulnerability.

Bulat says. “So you need both. And “I’ve always taken from my they’re both there in every song on the record.” own life and my own stories, but I

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Christopher Plummer dramatizes boxer’s legal battle Lynn Elber The Associated Press

LOS ANGELES Christopher Plummer may be frozen in some filmgoers’ memories as the noble-browed patriarch who made stern parenting and antiNazism sexy in The Sound of Music.

But Plummer and his career aren’t mired in the past. Slipping easily from one disparate recent role to another, he’s created Leo Tolstoy in The Last Station, the haunted magnate in The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo and a man experiencing a late-in-life gay awakening in Beginners, which earned him an Oscar last year at age 82.

That made him the oldest acting honoree ever, and he’s not stopping.

He plays a U.S. Supreme Court justice in HBO’s Muhammad Ali’s Greatest Fight, debuting Saturday (5 p.m.

PDT), a history-textured film that puts the boxer’s quest to be recognized as a conscientious objector against Vietnam War service and the high court in the ring.

“I don’t think retirement exists in our profession,” said Plummer, looking every bit the star in elegant slacks and jacket, his white hair perfectly groomed. “If you retire, something’s gone very wrong with your career is my theory. Also, why would you want to retire? It’s fun to be in this weird, old, ancient, ancient profession.”

The Canadian-born Plummer heads the HBO film as John Harlan II, who was among the justices who decided in 1971 whether Ali’s conviction for refusing to be drafted because of his Muslim-based objections should be upheld or overturned.

The dynamic Ali is represented by the legend himself through news clips woven effectively into the drama. But the emphasis is on the camaraderie and give-and-take among the justices, including Frank Langella as Chief Justice Warren Burger and Danny

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Glover as Thurgood Marshall, the sole black justice.

Stephen Frears, an Oscar nominee for The Queen, directed, and the script is by Shawn Slovo (A World Apart). The film is based on the book of the same name by Howard Bingham and Max Wallace, with additional research by Slovo.

The British-born Frears and Slovo, a native of South Africa, had to become familiar with details of the Ali case. But the United States’ social and political churn of the period certainly was known to them.

“I don’t think anybody of our generation could not have been engaged by what was happening in America,” Slovo said. “It was always something that felt real and immediate to me.”

The story resonated with Plummer because of Ali’s anti-war stance – “As he says, ‘Why should I fight them (the Vietnamese)? No one over there has called me (the N-word),”’ Plummer said, quoting Ali – and Harlan’s intellectual metamorphosis.

His law clerk, a composite character played by Benjamin Walker (Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter and Broadway’s Inherit the Wind), persuades him to take a second look at the case after it appears settled.

“One man, because he listened to somebody else, was intelligent and vulnerable enough to change his beliefs. That’s hugely dramatic to me,” Plummer said.

The cast members, mostly stagetrained actors including Fritz Weaver as Justice Hugo Black, were a joy, Plummer said: “We did feel like a club, the old boys’ club.”

He smiles delightedly at the mention of a scene in which the august justices gather to watch sex films as part of their determination of what constitutes pornography.

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Also a boon was the chance to work with Frears. He compared him to another famed filmmaker, John Huston, who directed Plummer, Sean Connery and Michael Caine in 1975’s The Man Who Would Be King.

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Public review of Environment Act changes The Government of Yukon seeks public comment on seven proposed changes to modernize the Environment Act. These changes meet the needs of and support an effective environmental protection regime for the territory.

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Hunt for Red October author Tom Clancy has died at age 66 Hillel Italie Associated Press

NEW YORK om Clancy, whose high-tech, Cold War thrillers such as The Hunt for Red October and Patriot Games made him the most widely read and influential military novelist of his time, has died. He was 66.

Penguin Group (USA) announced that Clancy had died Tuesday in Baltimore. The publisher did not provide a cause of death.

Tall and thin, with round, sunken eyes that were often hidden by sunglasses, Clancy had said his dream had been simply to publish a book, hopefully a good one, so that he would be in the Library of Congress catalogue. His dreams were

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answered many times over.

His novels were dependable bestsellers, with his publisher estimating that worldwide sales top 100 million copies. Several, including The Hunt for Red October, Patriot Games and Clear and Present Danger, were later made into blockbuster movies, with another based on his desk-jockey CIA hero, Jack Ryan, set for release on Christmas. Alec Baldwin, Ben Affleck and Harrison Ford were among the actors who played Ryan on screen. The upcoming movie stars Chris Pine, Keira Knightly and Kevin Costner, with Kenneth Branagh directing.

A political conservative who once referred to Ronald Reagan as “my president,” Clancy broke through commercially during a tense period

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Tom Clancy, the bestselling author

of the Cold War, and with the help of Reagan himself. In 1982, he began working on The Hunt For Red October, basing it on a real incident in November 1975 with a Soviet missile frigate called the Storozhevoy.

He sold the manuscript to the first publisher he tried, the Naval Institute Press, which had never bought original fiction.

In real life, the ship didn’t defect, but in Clancy’s book, published in 1984, the defection was a success.

Someone thought enough of the book to give it to President Reagan as a Christmas gift. The president quipped at a dinner that he was losing sleep because he couldn’t put the book down – a statement Clancy later said helped put him on the New York Times bestseller list.

Clancy was admired in the military community, and appeared – though he often denied it – to have the kind of access that enabled him to intricately describe anything from surveillance to the operations of a submarine. He often played off – and sometimes anticipated – world events, as in the pre-9-11 paranoid thriller Debt of Honor, in which a jumbo jet destroys the U.S. Capitol during a joint meeting of Congress.

Earning million-dollar advances for his novels, he also wrote nonfiction works on the military and even ventured into video games, including the bestselling Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon: Future Soldier, Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell: Conviction and Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell: Double Agent. His recent Jack Ryan novels were collaborations with Mark Greaney, including Threat Vector and a release scheduled for December, Command Authority.

As of midday Wednesday, Command Authority ranked No. 40 on Amazon.com’s bestseller list.

Born in Baltimore on April 12, 1947 to a mailman and his wife, Clancy entered Loyola College as a physics major, but switched to English as a sophomore. He later said that he wasn’t smart enough for the rigours of science, although he clearly mastered it well enough in his fiction.

Clancy stayed close to home. He resided in rural Calvert County, Md., and in 1993 he joined a group of investors led by Baltimore attorney Peter Angelos who bought the Baltimore Orioles from businessman Eli Jacobs. Clancy also attempted to bring a NFL team to Baltimore in 1993, but he later dropped out.

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Def Leppard talks about cancer, live concert film Viva!

Hysteria and plans for new music

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LOS ANGELES ocking with Def Leppard between bouts of chemotherapy proved healing for guitarist Vivian Campbell.

The 51-year-old musician relied on his bandmates and the thrill of performing to help him through a diagnosis of Hodgkins lymphoma (he started treatment in April). The band hit the road this summer for a monthlong tour that wrapped in July.

“We’ve actually been able to work through it,” said Campbell.

“We did the shows in Europe while I was doing chemo ... and mentally that was a big part of my recovery.”

“I’m glad I had the opportunity to work through it instead of stay at home and feel sorry for myself,” he added.

After more than 30 years together, Def Leppard isn’t slowing down for cancer – or anything else.

Def Leppard’s Viva! Hysteria Concert was filmed during a Las Vegas residency earlier this year, it shows the quintet doing something unprecedented: performing the 1987 mega-hit album, Hysteria, live from start to finish.

“It was fun, actually, and a totally different way of doing it,” said guitarist Phil Collen. “It was a different dynamic doing the album in full, and it was much more theatrical.”

Part of the theatrics came in the form of Ded Flatbird. Singer Joe Elliott suggested the band open for itself during its firstever Vegas residency, but do it as a fake cover band.

“We would actually go out and pretend to be Ded Flatbird, who were supposedly the great-

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Spiritual WiSdom on Dreams

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British rock group Def Leppard from left, Phil Collen, Rick Allen and Vivian Campbell in Los Angeles.

est Def Leppard cover band in the world,” said Campbell. “Joe gave us all aliases. We became different characters, and as the shows progressed, we kind of developed those personalities a little bit more, and that was a fun part of the show...

“Then, of course, the curtain reveal and it’s Def Leppard doing Hysteria.”

Ded Flatbird performed nightly during the nine-show engagement, playing obscure material from the early days of Def Leppard and other tracks apart from the Hysteria album.

Ded Flatbird’s performances are included in the double CD and DVD set, Viva! Hysteria, out on Oct. 22.

“We were so convincing that a lot of people didn’t actually realize it was us,” said drummer Rick Allen. “We actually got booed by a few people.”

“Because we went out and found another one-armed drummer!” Campbell quipped.

(Allen lost his left arm in a car accident a year after the release of the band’s breakthrough album, 1983’s Pyromania.)

Next up for Def Leppard?

New music.

The fivesome, which also includes bass player Rick Savage, plan to meet in Dublin in the new year to start writing.

“A whole Def Leppard album would probably take a bit long,” Collen said. “So we’re probably going to do an EP or something, get that out, then perhaps the year after, release an album.”

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Migration museum shows how one hop onto a boat to America could change lives Raf Casert

Fuentes stepped aboard the Westernland II ship in Antwerp with her family on April 20, 1934, it was the ANTWERP, Belgium biggest leap she would ever take. n today’s world of cruise ship “It made it possible for me to be travel, it is easy to forget how alive – very simple answer. Otherlife-changing boarding a steamer wise we would have been killed,” once was. the Jewish feminist leader said, When young Sonia Pressman recalling her family’s flight from Associated Press

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Pressman Fuentes was back at the original docks of this huge North Sea port for Friday’s ceremonial opening of the Red Star Line migration museum, which shows how millions of Europeans steamed across the ocean toward the United States and other parts of the Americas over the past two centuries.

It charts the migrations of everyone who travelled on the shipping line, from composer Irving Berlin to scientist Albert Einstein to Israeli politician Golda Meir. It is the story of countless people escaping poverty, seeking adventure, avoiding persecution or dodging certain death.

“What we are trying to achieve with the museum is to bring back all the stories of lives that were changed here,” said museum project co-ordinator Luc Verheyen.

Over two million passengers sailed from Europe to America between 1873 and 1934 on the Red Star Line. Antwerp was popular because it already was a massive port and it had a well-established Jewish community.

In 1893, a five-year-old Israel Isidore Baline was among the emigres, part of a family fleeing increasing anti-Semitic violence in Russia. Baline became Irving Berlin after the family entered the United States and settled in New York’s Lower East side. His classics like God Bless America and White Christmas made him famous in his new country and around the world.

Now, one of Berlin’s pianos

stands in the museum, on extended loan from the family. His daughter and two granddaughters were on hand for the opening.

“Coming to this museum is like completing a circle. To think my father left from this building, and here we are in it!” his daughter Linda Emmet said.

“It wasn’t an easy voyage,” she added. “The man in the upper bunk dropped his penknife onto my father’s forehead. It left a scar for the rest of his life.”

No lasting damage was done to Berlin. A few decades later, his fame became such that the Red Star Line’s SS Belgenland was playing a Berlin foxtrot for its first and second class passengers.

Nobel Prize winner Einstein was another famous passenger.

When he was on the Belgenland II in 1933, he learned that the Nazis had confiscated his possessions so he decided not return to Berlin.

Instead, he used Red Star Line stationery to declare his resignation from the Prussian Academy for the Sciences.

The museum highlights the eternal struggle of migration, a lesson as true today as it was decades ago.

“We tend to forget how hard it is to emigrate,” said Caroline EmmetBourgois, Berlin’s granddaughter.

“You are leaving behind your identity. You are going into the unknown. You are trying to give a future to your children and you are willing to lose what you already have to start anew.”

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LIFE Down and out in Robert Service Campground

Top Row: Terrance Clark shows off his temporary tattoo work and its inspiration, traditional Chilkat designs, in a book he calls his “carving bible” at the Robert Service Campground over the summer. Clark works on a traditional paddle while sitting around a campfire, centre and right.

Story and photography

by Jesse Winter

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errance Clark’s setup was elaborate.

A tall ship’s worth of sail-sized tarps surrounded and protected his site.

Hung impossibly high over his spacious four-person tent and covered with a riot of graffiti, they billowed in the wind with a Jolly Roger’s implicit challenge.

His picnic table served as a kitchen counter, stacked with cups and bowls, spatulas and whisks.

The other long-term campers on neighbouring sites at the Robert Service Campground this summer had equally impressive homes. Pots and pans hung in neat rows on pegboards nailed to trees.

Firewood was stacked carefully beneath roughshod tables and benches fashioned from the same material.

But Clark’s site had one key difference.

Next to his kitchenwares were collections of chisels, knives, brushes, markers and spray cans.

Clark is a talented First Nation artist whose craft blends traditional Chilkat artwork with modern graffiti and street style. He spent the summer living at the campground with a collection of other long-term campers, about half of them – like him – on social assistance.

The campground is one place where people struggling with low or nonexistent income end up living over the summer. Government social assistance programs pay out a living allowance of $881 a month. The campground charges social assistance clients $850 a month, in contrast to the $540 per month that nonassistance campers have to pay.

Over the summer, the number of social assistance clients at the campground varied between five and 12. With October winds blowing and winter around the corner, many of those clients will be forced to search elsewhere for shelter and about a dozen will end up moving into motels, according to the Department of Health and Social Services.

But while the weather was warm, a small community of campers did its best to keep things on an even keel. Brought together by circumstance, they would cook and eat together, and keep an eye on each other.

Clark did the Sundog Carving Studio’s hollow canoe-carving program in 2009.

He also studied at the Freda Diesing School of Northwest Coast Art, and has

honed his skills to perfection.

One mask that he’s been working at on and off for a couple of years will fetch more than $2,500 when it’s finished. An RCMP officer in town who knows Clark offered to buy it when it’s done.

He does a lot of his work at the campground, sitting next to his or his neighbours’ campfires, patiently sanding or sketching or carving life into his work.

The scent of woodsmoke mingles with roasting hot dogs, as the campers traded stories, laughter and drinks.

But like other long-term campers, Clark also has his demons.

“I don’t know what any girl would want with me. I’m an alcoholic who lives in a campground,” he says.

His struggles with booze make holding

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“One time I was with some buddies and I sold a $1,400 Swiss chisel set on the street for $200 because we were desperate to get drunk.”

Bottom row: Clark’s nine-year-old son Kobe and his mother, Josie, visit him in the campground, far left and centre. His tarps are covered with his graffiti work, which often lends traditional First Nations techniques with modern street and graffiti art.

down a full-time job difficult. At its worst, it sometimes undermines his artwork.

“One time I was with some buddies and I sold a $1,400 Swiss chisel set on the street for $200 because we were desperate to get drunk,” he said.

But there is more to Clark than his art and his booze. He has a nine-year-old son, Kobe, whom he adores. Kobe sometimes comes to visit Clark in the campground, and they practise graffiti work together on Clark’s sprawling tarps.

“He’s younger than some of my tags around town,” Clark says, smiling.

Clark also volunteers at Blood Ties Four Directions, sometimes making sandwiches. Other times he builds drug kits for crack addicts. Like clean needles for

IV users, the kits are distributed through the organization’s outreach van as a harm reduction measure.

Volunteering is one way for Clark to reduce his community service hours, which were ordered after he got arrested for spraying graffiti along the Millennium Trail.

“We got three cans of spray paint, a whole bunch of booze and we just went nuts.”

Volunteering has been a surprising and enlightening experience for him, he says.

“It’s kind of a crazy place to be. You learn so much about drugs and shit. Like how they include a piece of plastic tube with the crack kits so users don’t burn their lips on the pipes and spread hep. C

and stuff from sharing the pipes,” he said.

He’s trying his best to turn things around, he says.

Like most communities, the campground wasn’t without its frictions.

Sometimes tempers would flare, especially as more beer cans were emptied.

It wasn’t uncommon for parties to get carried away. Shouting and raucous laughter echoed through the trees on most weekend evenings. Occasionally the RCMP would end up getting involved.

Towards the end of the summer, Clark had a falling out with another camper and decided to leave.

In a rage, he tore down his elaborate tarps and tents and burned them. He packed up his belongings and left. He

bounced around the city for a few weeks after leaving the campground, eventually moving back into his mother’s apartment, where he sleeps on a thin mattress on the floor.

He doesn’t like it, he says, but the stability helped him land a job in the kitchen at a local hotel restaurant.

He’d rather be in his own place, somewhere with the campground’s freedom and independence, but his mom’s apartment is a roof over his head and a place to wash his hotel work clothes, so he says he’ll stick it out until he can find something better or maybe save up enough to rent a place of his own.

Contact Jesse Winter at jessew@yukon-news.com

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LIFE Down and out in Robert Service Campground

Top Row: Terrance Clark shows off his temporary tattoo work and its inspiration, traditional Chilkat designs, in a book he calls his “carving bible” at the Robert Service Campground over the summer. Clark works on a traditional paddle while sitting around a campfire, centre and right.

Story and photography

by Jesse Winter

T

errance Clark’s setup was elaborate.

A tall ship’s worth of sail-sized tarps surrounded and protected his site.

Hung impossibly high over his spacious four-person tent and covered with a riot of graffiti, they billowed in the wind with a Jolly Roger’s implicit challenge.

His picnic table served as a kitchen counter, stacked with cups and bowls, spatulas and whisks.

The other long-term campers on neighbouring sites at the Robert Service Campground this summer had equally impressive homes. Pots and pans hung in neat rows on pegboards nailed to trees.

Firewood was stacked carefully beneath roughshod tables and benches fashioned from the same material.

But Clark’s site had one key difference.

Next to his kitchenwares were collections of chisels, knives, brushes, markers and spray cans.

Clark is a talented First Nation artist whose craft blends traditional Chilkat artwork with modern graffiti and street style. He spent the summer living at the campground with a collection of other long-term campers, about half of them – like him – on social assistance.

The campground is one place where people struggling with low or nonexistent income end up living over the summer. Government social assistance programs pay out a living allowance of $881 a month. The campground charges social assistance clients $850 a month, in contrast to the $540 per month that nonassistance campers have to pay.

Over the summer, the number of social assistance clients at the campground varied between five and 12. With October winds blowing and winter around the corner, many of those clients will be forced to search elsewhere for shelter and about a dozen will end up moving into motels, according to the Department of Health and Social Services.

But while the weather was warm, a small community of campers did its best to keep things on an even keel. Brought together by circumstance, they would cook and eat together, and keep an eye on each other.

Clark did the Sundog Carving Studio’s hollow canoe-carving program in 2009.

He also studied at the Freda Diesing School of Northwest Coast Art, and has

honed his skills to perfection.

One mask that he’s been working at on and off for a couple of years will fetch more than $2,500 when it’s finished. An RCMP officer in town who knows Clark offered to buy it when it’s done.

He does a lot of his work at the campground, sitting next to his or his neighbours’ campfires, patiently sanding or sketching or carving life into his work.

The scent of woodsmoke mingles with roasting hot dogs, as the campers traded stories, laughter and drinks.

But like other long-term campers, Clark also has his demons.

“I don’t know what any girl would want with me. I’m an alcoholic who lives in a campground,” he says.

His struggles with booze make holding

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“One time I was with some buddies and I sold a $1,400 Swiss chisel set on the street for $200 because we were desperate to get drunk.”

Bottom row: Clark’s nine-year-old son Kobe and his mother, Josie, visit him in the campground, far left and centre. His tarps are covered with his graffiti work, which often lends traditional First Nations techniques with modern street and graffiti art.

down a full-time job difficult. At its worst, it sometimes undermines his artwork.

“One time I was with some buddies and I sold a $1,400 Swiss chisel set on the street for $200 because we were desperate to get drunk,” he said.

But there is more to Clark than his art and his booze. He has a nine-year-old son, Kobe, whom he adores. Kobe sometimes comes to visit Clark in the campground, and they practise graffiti work together on Clark’s sprawling tarps.

“He’s younger than some of my tags around town,” Clark says, smiling.

Clark also volunteers at Blood Ties Four Directions, sometimes making sandwiches. Other times he builds drug kits for crack addicts. Like clean needles for

IV users, the kits are distributed through the organization’s outreach van as a harm reduction measure.

Volunteering is one way for Clark to reduce his community service hours, which were ordered after he got arrested for spraying graffiti along the Millennium Trail.

“We got three cans of spray paint, a whole bunch of booze and we just went nuts.”

Volunteering has been a surprising and enlightening experience for him, he says.

“It’s kind of a crazy place to be. You learn so much about drugs and shit. Like how they include a piece of plastic tube with the crack kits so users don’t burn their lips on the pipes and spread hep. C

and stuff from sharing the pipes,” he said.

He’s trying his best to turn things around, he says.

Like most communities, the campground wasn’t without its frictions.

Sometimes tempers would flare, especially as more beer cans were emptied.

It wasn’t uncommon for parties to get carried away. Shouting and raucous laughter echoed through the trees on most weekend evenings. Occasionally the RCMP would end up getting involved.

Towards the end of the summer, Clark had a falling out with another camper and decided to leave.

In a rage, he tore down his elaborate tarps and tents and burned them. He packed up his belongings and left. He

bounced around the city for a few weeks after leaving the campground, eventually moving back into his mother’s apartment, where he sleeps on a thin mattress on the floor.

He doesn’t like it, he says, but the stability helped him land a job in the kitchen at a local hotel restaurant.

He’d rather be in his own place, somewhere with the campground’s freedom and independence, but his mom’s apartment is a roof over his head and a place to wash his hotel work clothes, so he says he’ll stick it out until he can find something better or maybe save up enough to rent a place of his own.

Contact Jesse Winter at jessew@yukon-news.com

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Extreme coupon clippers say even average shoppers can save big at supermarkets David Friend

The world of “extreme couponing,” as participants call it, is a noholds-barred pursuit of savings that TORONTO has earned itself a weekly TV series here wasn’t a defining moment and countless obsessive Internet when Aimee Geroux knew she followers who strive to maximize was a frugal shopper, but the day an their savings at the checkout by spotangry customer whipped a pair of ting the best sales and by hoarding new shoes at her was a pretty good coupons. sign.

Entering the world of extreme The woman was fed up with wait- couponing was almost a last resort ing in line while Geroux racked up for Geroux, but over the past three savings using her coupons. A pair of years it has become a lifestyle. It airborne sneakers and a few explebegan when the Hamilton, Ont., resitives later and the potential battle dent moved to Toronto and got a big had been defused and Geroux walked reality check when her monthly rent away with her purchases and savings was far higher than she expected and in tact. daycare costs soared past her budget.

“I’ve got a pretty thick skin, nothShe had to start saving fast.

“I was extreme from the first time ing really fazes me,” she said.

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This year, both Metro and Food Basics changed their policies to include coupons printed from computers.

Geroux also recommends stocking up when there’s a big sale, which is I shopped,” said Geroux, who runs paying the correct price at the check- one of the most popular habits of frugal shoppers. To maximize those a blog called Extreme Couponing out, and if they aren’t paying more savings even further, hold off on Mom, an extensive database of the than the stickered price, the item is using coupons until the items are latest discounts. free to a maximum of $10. marked down, which for many prod“I walked into the store and got It’s surprising how often food $300 of stuff for like 20 bucks.” products are priced wrong on shelves. ucts happens once a month.

If you prefer to operate in stealth, For the average Canadian, walking When Oberg went shopping last week a few smartphone apps are available into a store with a binder of clippings she noticed that all but one kind of in Canada that don’t require you to and a clearcut strategy isn’t practiQuaker instant oatmeal was on sale. cal, but diehards say there are several She carried the cinnamon-flavoured carry physical coupons. Checkout 51 tactics that can be incorporated into box to a price scanner to confirm her (available for Apple’s iPhone and Android devices) lets shoppers submit anyone’s shopping list. suspicions. a photo of their weekly supermarket Price matching is one of the easiThe Quaker box was on sale, but receipt and receive cash credits that est ways to reduce grocery bills, and wasn’t marked properly. So, Oberg will be paid out through personalized fellow saver Kristine Oberg says it’s took a picture of the price on her cheques. the basis for how she slashes expenses phone, paid for the item at the cash, “It’s good for people who don’t at the supermarket. Every weekend and notified the customer service want to be embarrassed by coupons,” she scans local flyers to highlight desk. items that are on sale at other retailShe was issued a full refund for the said Geroux.

While saving all of this extra ers. oatmeal, saving more than $3.

“You take the flyer from that store, On a lucky day, shoppers can save money certainly helps your pocketbook, it’s important to create a plan bring it to your local store and get even more on mispriced items, said for what you’ll do with the cash, said the same item for the (lower) price,” Geroux.

Sue Neal, regional director of Invesshe said.

“I could walk out of there with A price match is quick and easy 10 or 15 free bottles of shampoo and tors Group.

She recommends placing the because the cashier will use the flyer conditioner because they didn’t price money in a fund. as a reference to generate a discount it correctly,” she said.

“Now you can really see the savon the spot.

“A lot of people are so busy … ings you’re making,” Neal said. “It One of the best kept secrets of the they aren’t paying attention at the retail industry is the Scanning Code register. I turn that little display right could actually get you more excited about using the coupons.” of Practice, a voluntary standard used towards me so I can watch the scanGeroux chooses to spend the by most major retailers in Canada. ner.” money she saves on other items.

The goal is to ensure consumers are Internet coupons are also finally “I’m not cheap – I have Coach bags, and I like nice things,” she said.

“But I would rather have money to buy my kids Nike shoes and name brands, rather than spending all Time to get your septic pumped the money I earn on things that are either flushed down the toilet or in How long has it been since your last pump-out? our bellies.”

Septics should be pumped every 1 to 2 years.

Vacations are more Oberg’s style, and she’s using the money she’s saved to fly to Los Angeles this fall with her husband where they will attend a role-playing video game conference.

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With winter on the way, some TLC for your home will keep all safe and healthy Helen Branswell Canadian Press

TORONTO eaves are turning, temperatures are dipping. As they warn on the novels-turned-TV cult favourite, Game of Thrones: Winter is coming.

For homeowners or home dwellers, that means there are chores that need doing to ensure a safe and healthy home for the months to come.

From the basement to the attic, here are some things that need tending to in the weeks ahead: The furnace: You can’t through a winter without one in our part of the world – or at least a heating stove of some sort. But the beast in the basement needs regular care and maintenance to run efficiently and safely.

“It should be done once a year, particularly in the winter when the furnace will be running. You don’t want to have any problems with carbon monoxide,” says Wolf Saxler, manager of healthy environments for Toronto Public Health.

Filters should be replaced as frequently as the unit’s manufacturer instructs, he says.

“Put a date on it so you know when it was last changed and just replace it. It helps with allergens and dust moving around the house. And it helps with the efficiency of the furnace.”

Raynald Marchand of the Canada Safety Council says if there’s a humidifier system attached to the furnace, it’s a good idea to give it a good cleaning. Bacteria can accumulate in the units, especially the older drum types, he says.

The wood stove or wood-burning fireplace: If you heat with a wood stove or enjoy a blazing hearth on cold winter nights, it’s important to make sure your chimney is checked out and cleaned regularly, Marchand says. Creosote buildup in a chimney

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Leaves are turning, temperatures are dipping. can trigger a fire.

“If you’re using it at Christmas and then you don’t use it again, then it can probably go a few years. But if you’re using it reasonably ... you probably should have it cleaned every year or two. It depends on usage,” he suggests.

Check for radon: A radioactive gas emitted from the soil, radon is the second leading cause of lung cancer, after smoking. It’s responsible for about 16 per cent of lung cancer cases in this country.

All homes have some radon, but in some the undetectable gas can build up to dangerous levels. Concentrations vary depending on where you live and the type of soil on which your house is built.

There are measures you can take to reduce the amount of radon in your house if it reaches dangerous levels.

But the only way to know how much radon is in your home is to test.

Health Canada recommends homeowners test their homes. You take readings over several months and the best time to start is in the fall and winter, when windows are closed.

You can find plenty of information about radon and radon testing on Health Canada’s website at http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/ewh-semt/ pubs/radiation/radon–brochure/

index-eng.php.

Space heaters: If you use a space heater to take the chill out of a drafty room, it’s a good idea to check out the state of the unit before plugging it in for the season, Marchand says.

Space heaters should be plugged directly into a wall socket, not into an extension cord that can heat up because of the amount of power the units draw, he notes. “They take a lot of electricity so you’ve got to make sure you don’t overload the circuit.”

Marchand also suggests space heaters should be located away from flammable items when in use.

Carbon monoxide detectors: Hopefully if you’ve kept your furnace in good nick, carbon monoxide shouldn’t be a problem. Still, experts recommend having carbon monoxide detectors to alert you in case there is a build up of the odourless gas, which can kill.

Like real estate, with CO detectors the important thing is location, location, location. A unit in the basement, near the furnace, isn’t going to be of much help if you are losing consciousness two storeys up.

“With carbon monoxide, if the levels do go up it’s not noticeable. You’ll tend to drift off into sleep. You need the alarm to wake you,” Saxler says.

“Make sure you have one in the bedrooms…. If one goes off in the basement, you won’t hear it.”

Smoke detectors: If yours aren’t hard wired, ensuring that the batteries in your smoke detectors are still functioning could save your family in the event of a fire.

The best idea, experts say, is not to wait till the device starts that annoying beeping that signals the batteries are about to die. They suggest people replace batteries in smoke and carbon monoxide detectors pre-emptively twice a year, when clocks are put forward and turned back in conjunction with the start and end of daylight savings time.

Saxler says it’s also worth eyeing the equipment to see if it is past its best-before date.

“They’re usually good for maybe 10 years from the date of manufacturing,” he says.

“It’s like anything: Equipment wears out, they get plugged with dust, things like that. They generally recommend that you change them every 10 years.”

The gutters: If your eaves troughs need clearing of fallen leaves, that’s going to involve climbing a ladder.

And this time of year, ladder falls are a common cause of emergency room visits, data collected a few years ago by the Canadian Institute for Health

Information suggests.

It found that between gutter cleaning and Christmas light installations, November is a peak time for ladder fall accidents. Most of the accidents happened at individual homes and most involved middle-aged men.

Marchand says you might want to think about getting a professional to clear out the gutters on your house.

But if you decide to brave the climb, be careful.

“Ladder safety is important. The ladder should be attached at the top and you should have somebody at the bottom,” he says.

What’s New? October 7 Regular Council Meeting City Council will meet at 5:30pm to discuss the following: Proclamation – Poverty & Homelessness Action Week; Public Input – Conditional Use Application – 3 Glacier Road; Economic Development – Contribution Agreement; Lease Agreement – Pioneer Hotel 2; City Manager Recruitment; Notice of Motion – Mt. Sima; Various Bylaw Readings.

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Environmental Grant Deadline Oct. 15 Eligible applicants may be non-profits, community groups, and businesses in Whitehorse. Eligible projects contribute to the Strategic Sustainability Plan and can address environmental education; waste reduction; preservation or enhancement of land, air, water or wildlife; technological innovation; and leadership. $10,000 is available at this intake. Funds may cover 50% of the total project cost, or up to 100% for projects under $500.

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Budget 2014 Open House Event Citizens are invited to provide input and ideas at the following open house event: Thursday October 10 from 5:30 to 7:30 pm at the Westmark Whitehorse This Open House will give citizens an opportunity to participate early in the budget process. Citizens can also provide input in an online questionnaire or through a written submission.

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Experimental surgery for unusual form of infertility produces a baby boy

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NEW YORK 30-year-old infertile woman gave birth after surgeons removed her ovaries and re-implanted tissue they treated in a lab, researchers report.

The experimental technique was only tried in a small group of Japanese women with a specific kind of infertility problem, but scientists hope it can also help women in their early 40s who have trouble getting pregnant because of their age.

The new mother gave birth to a son in Tokyo last December, and she and the child continue to be healthy, said Dr. Kazuhiro Kawamura of the St. Marianna University School of Medicine in Kawasaki, Japan. He and others describe the technique in a report published online Monday by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

The mother, who was not identified, had been diagnosed with primary ovarian insufficiency, an uncommon form of infertility sometimes called premature menopause. It appears in about one per cent of women of childbearing age. The cause of most cases is unknown, but the outcome is that the ovary has trouble producing eggs.

That leaves women with only a five per cent to 10 per cent chance of having a baby unless they get treated. The standard treatment is using donor eggs.

After the experimental procedure, Kawamura and colleagues were able to recover eggs from five of their 27 patients. One woman went on to have a miscarriage, one did not get pregnant, and two more have not yet attempted pregnancy, Kawamura said in an email.

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the approach, saying he has had success by using drugs rather than surgery to treat the condition. He also disagreed with the researchers’ explanation for why their treatment worked.

Some other experts said treatment with drugs often does not work.

The new results, experts cautioned, must be viewed as preliminary.

“It shows a lot of promise (but) I don’t think it’s even close to being ready” for routine use, said Dr. Mark Sauer of the Columbia University Medical Center in New York.

Dr. Amber Cooper of Washington University in St. Louis called the technique “very much an experimental method.”

The reported efficiency is very low, and the possible health risk to babies born from the method is unknown, said David Albertini of the University of Kansas Medical Center.

“One success does not mean we have a treatment.... Stay tuned,” he said.

He and others were also skeptical of the researcher’s suggestion that the procedure would help women between ages 40 and 45. Eggs from women of that age often show genetic abnormalities, many of which would prevent a live birth, said Dr. Marcelle Cedars of the University of California, San Francisco Medical Center. Stimulating egg production wouldn’t overcome that problem, she said.

Kawamura released a photo of himself holding the newborn shortly after he delivered him. He said the mother hopes to have another child with one of the frozen embryos in storage from her treatment.

The approach differs from what has been done to preserve fertility in some cancer patients, who had normal ovarian tissue removed and stored while they underwent cancer treatments, and then put back. The new work involved ovaries that were failing to function normally.

In the ovary, eggs mature in structures called follicles. For women with the condition the new study targeted, the follicles are either missing or failing to produce eggs. The experimental treatment was designed to stimulate dormant follicles.

First, the women’s ovaries were removed and cut into strips, which were frozen. Later the strips were thawed and cut into tiny cubes, a step intended to stimulate maturation of the follicles. Then the cubes were treated with drugs to stimulate further development of the follicles.

Cubes were then transplanted just under the surface of the women’s fallopian tubes.

Within six months, eight women showed signs of follicle maturation, and five of them produced eggs for fertilization in the lab with their husbands’ sperm. The fertilized eggs were grown into early embryos, which were frozen for preservation.

In the three attempts at pregnancy, one or two embryos were implanted in the women.

The researchers found that half the 27 patients had no follicles at all, which meant the treatment could not help them, said Aaron Hsueh of Stanford University, senior author of the study. He also said researchers hope to find a way to stimulate follicles without removing the ovaries. .

Dr. Sherman Silber of the Infertility Center of St. Louis criticized

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Libraries are at the centre of Canadian communities, providing a public space for people to meet, learn, connect and grow. From coast to coast to coast, libraries co-ordinate access to information and resources.

They are places of endless opportunity and provide all Canadians with equitable access to library resources.

Yukon public libraries will also celebrate Yukon Library Week (Sunday, October 20 to Sunday, October 27) to recognize the important contributions that public libraries make to the Yukon community.

During October, visit your local library and see what it has to offer.

Canadian Library Month is presented by Yukon public libraries and the Canadian Library Association.

For more information visit www. cla.ca.

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programs that will be offered during Canadian Library Month and Yukon Library Week at Whitehorse Public Library:

Family time

Come to Whitehorse Public Library and enjoy stories, music and a craft on Friday, October 11 from 10:30 – 11:15 a.m. in the meeting room. This free program is for children ages three to six. Free registration is necessary and space is limited.

For more information or to register please call 667- 5239.

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Baby Time will be offered at Whitehorse Public Library on Wednesdays from 10:30 – 11:15 a.m. starting Wednesday, October 9 until Wednesday November 27 (eight sessions). This fun program full of stories and music is for children six to 24 months of age and their caregiver(s). Free registration is

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Submissions may be faxed to (867) 668-4460, or dropped off at the Center.

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necessary. To register or for more information please call Whitehorse Public Library at 667-5239. For story times in Yukon Community Libraries, please call your local library.

Fine-free week Yukon Library Week is fine free at all Yukon Public Libraries. That means that no overdue charges will be applied to overdue library materials that are returned from Sunday, October 20 to Sunday, October 27.

Library week draw Enter a free draw in person at any participating Yukon public library and have a chance to win great prizes during this special week (Sunday, October 20 to Sunday, October 27).

Writers’ Roundtable The next Writer’s Roundtable will take place in the library meeting room on Tuesday, October 29 at 7:30 p.m. This event is an informal information session for Yukon writers (and aspiring writers). It is a great opportunity to share writing interests and accomplishments, connect with other writers and hear about upcoming events.

Thanksgiving closure All Yukon public libraries will be CLOSED for Thanksgiving, Monday, October 14.

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Scientists help politicians avoid Far-North free-for-all Part 1 of 2 Erling Friis-Baastad t appears that no news day is complete without some mention of drastic changes in the circumpolar world. The summer ice pack is retreating further north. Warmer weather is causing major changes in the makeup of plant and animal populations. Ecosystem changes are presenting new challenges, while opportunities for resource extraction and transportation are opening up as melting ice leaves seascapes and waterways exposed.

Northerners face an uncertain future, at once threatening and promising. Realizing this, eight countries with land and sea floor in the Arctic, plus a number of indigenous groups, formed the Arctic Council in 1996. As Yukon zoologist and Arctic researcher Don Reid of the Wildlife Conservation Society says, one of the goals of the council is “to avoid a free-for-all: everybody going up there and doing whatever they will.”

At the political level, those members and other participants realized that they needed technical scientific information on a great many topics in order to create effective policies and co-operatively manage activity in the North, says Reid. They established a variety of technical bodies that report to the Arctic Council, one of which is called Conservation of Arctic Flora and Fauna: CAFF. “The politicians wanted to know, ‘What is the current status of Arctic biodiversity and what is affecting it mostly?’” says Reid. CAFF’s response was to launch a number of initiatives, including the Arctic Biodiversity Assessment. This whopping document comes in at over 1,000 pages and is not yet quite complete, says Reid.

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Its myriad chapters include data on taxonomic groups – birds, insects, amphibians, fishes and so forth – as well as on such topics as invasive species, genetics and ecosystems. A little more than two years ago, Reid was invited to help lead the chapter on Arctic mammals, which included the input of contributing authors from around the world.

First, the researchers had to settle on parameters of time and space.

How far back would they – or could they – go to answer questions about distribution and abundance? “We’re being fairly broad with that because we brought quite a bit of traditional ecological knowledge into the writing of the report,” Reid says.

“Scientific knowledge goes back about 50 years. Rarely do we have data going back more than that.

It’s not a very long time period and that, of course, presents problems in documenting real changes. Nevertheless, there have been substantial ones happening.”

Researchers had to settle on what they would include in the Arctic.

The tree line formed a boundary, at least on land. The oceans were a bit more difficult to define. The Bering Sea was included, as was the Sea of Okhotsk. The demarcation included Iceland at its southern boundary, northern Siberia and much of northern Eurasia. “In the Yukon our definition of treeline was the crest of the Brooks Range, into the British Mountains and down the Richardson Mountains. Everything flowing out to the Arctic Ocean down the north

Before looking at today’s populations and distribution of Arctic animals, it’s informative to look back to the Pleistocene, and its refugia, – large unglaciated regions where animals could find food – in order to catch a glimpse of where they came from.

“The refugia of the last glaciation, the last ice age, have been hugely influential in the present distribution of where Arctic mammals are around the globe,” says Reid.

The Beringian refugia was especially vast and had a huge influence Don Reid photo on present populations. “It extended The collared lemming is a not only into what we know as northtrue Arctic mammal, living west Yukon and through Alaska, but only on tundra north of the even across much of northern Siberia treeline. and into the Ural Mountains,” he side of the continental slope would be says. “If you look at the distribution of Arctic mammals right now, that included in the Arctic.” is the geography where the greatest Finally, what constitutes a true diversity is by far.”

Arctic mammal? Reid and his colSignificantly, thanks in large leagues did a broad sweep of any mammals ever documented to occur part to wide stretches of water, like Hudson Bay and Dease Strait, many in the Arctic. Some only showed up mammals haven’t been able to move there by accident, or at most very far across the Arctic from the refugia rarely. Many more appeared both in which they spent the ice age. in the Arctic and south into the “When you look at birds and insects boreal. “Relatively few mammals, and fishes, this pattern all breaks being warm-blooded, have actually down. They are much more mobile managed to call the Arctic home and much more able to deal with exclusively,” he says. These include water.” the Arctic fox, Arctic hare and Peary But, says Reid, the ultimate focus caribou, most notably.

Other northern mammals such as Arctic ground squirrels, gray wolves (which are often white in the Arctic), brown lemmings, tundra voles and wolverines, inhabit the boreal forest regions as well as the Arctic.

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of the mammal chapter is on more recent history, on what’s happening now. Surprisingly “few things have changed in terms of distribution and abundance that can be directly attributed to climate change,” at least as far as the Arctic itself is concerned.

Most well-documented changes were brought about by human activity, especially harvest and translocation of animals. The destruction of whale populations by a rapacious international fleet of hunters is well known. Less often considered are the initiatives by which fur bearers like mink or meat animals like muskoxen were transplanted for economic reasons.

“When it comes to climate change,” says Reid, “the place where there are definite patterns of change happening with mammals is right in the interface of the northern boreal forest with the low Arctic tundra, and ocean areas losing their summer ice for the first time.”

Those changes will be the subject of the next Your Yukon.

This column is co-ordinated by the Yukon Research Centre at Yukon College with major financial support from Environment Yukon and Yukon College. The articles are archived at http://www.yukoncollege.yk.ca/research/publications/newsletters_articles

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by Gina Spadafori and Marty Becker

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hen I started writing about pets for a living almost three decades ago, I had one middle-aged dog and one young one. When I sat down to write this article, my final “Pet Connection,” I again have one middleaged dog and one young one (as well as three cats, one horse, two goats, two ducks and 23 chickens, but who’s counting?). In the years between that first column and this one, I’ve held many pets in my arms at our veterinarian’s for the final good-bye, most of them dogs.

Even though I know the signs of aging pets mean the hardest part of sharing a life with them is inching ever closer, I never regret having an old dog around. To me, an older dog is one of the most beautiful of life’s many gifts to us. It doesn’t matter what time has done to the animal’s actual appearance – an older dog looks special to me, and always will.

I know I’m not alone in this feeling, but I sometimes realize that I am in the minority when it comes to leveraging the strategies – often simple and relatively inexpensive – that can make an older dog feel years younger. This time can be a special one for both of you, but it’s up to you to make the most of it.

The place to start is with your

veterinarian. With my senior pets, I go to twice-yearly comprehensive wellness exams, which include not only a complete physical and dental examination, but also diagnostic tests to see what’s going on “under the hood.”

With my last three dogs, those diagnostics paid off by revealing health issues that weren’t yet showing, including cancer and renal failure. In all three cases, diagnosing, addressing and treating the conditions early allowed me to enjoy extra time with all three of these dogs.

But even when tests reveal nothing abnormal, I’ve been able to take my veterinarian’s advice based on those twice-yearly visits to improve the lives of my senior dogs. My veterinarian has been able to suggest dietary changes and nutritional supplements, for example, that eased the pain of arthritis. I’ve always worked in partnership with my veterinarian, and that’s never more helpful than when managing an aging pet.

Once I have a pet’s medical needs addressed, I look at changes to make at home. These include: • Beds. Think soft. Think cushioned. Think low. Think heated.

Your dog will thank you for all of these comforts, especially in cold weather.

• Clothes. Older dogs, like older people, have a more difficult time maintaining their body temperature. This problem is even more pronounced in slender, short-coated breeds like the greyhound or whippet. So check out the sweater selection at your local pet-supply store.

• Ramps and steps. If your dogs are allowed on the couch and the bed, consider buying or building steps to help the dog who can no longer make it in one jump. A permanent ramp going down the back-porch step or a slide-out one

to help your dog into the car will also be appreciated.

The most important thing you can do for an older dog? Keep him moving, every day (avoid “weekend warrior” syndrome), and keep his weight at or just below normal. For my dog Heather, I added a life preserver so she could continue to swim almost daily in the river near our home, providing her with low-impact exercise that wasn’t overwhelming.

In the 30 years since I started helping others help their pets, nothing makes me happier than thinking about how many wonderful pets I’ve known – and not just my own, of course. You can’t make time slow down, and you can’t change the too-short life span of the animals we adore.

But you can make the most of the time your pet has, and you should always try. Start by talking to your veterinarian, today.

Gina Spadafori has retired from the Pet Connection team.

Kim Campbell Thornton, an award-winning writer and the author of many pet-care books, has taken over as Dr. Marty Becker’s writing partner for Pet Connection.

ing a disability only makes things more difficult for people who have real disabilities and real service dogs. Why doesn’t someone do something about this? – I.P., via email A: Service dogs seem like they’re everywhere, including airports, restaurants and hotels, among other traditionally undogly places. And during peak travel seasons – summer, and the approaching holidays – we see more dogs in these places simply because there are more people patronizing them.

The increase in the number of service dogs says a lot about what these animals can do. No longer do they belong almost exclusively to the blind, the deaf and people who need wheelchairs to get around. Today’s service dogs also assist those with diabetes, epilepsy and PTSD, among other not-so-obvious disabilities. This, too, undoubtedly makes their presence seem more pervasive.

Yet, it’s true that the expanding definition of service dogs makes room for abuse – “fakes,” as you put it. And it’s also true that people can and do flout the law by exploiting a loophole that prohibits establishments from requiring either proof of disability or official service dog Q&A credentials.

Is there a problem The problem is that closing with ‘service’ dogs? this loophole, as you suggest, would currently cause more Q: Last month, I flew on a difficulties for the disabled than plane in the same row as a dog it would fix. So until we can all who sat on her owner’s lap the agree on an inexpensive, accessentire way. When the flight atible method of credentialing sertendant told her to put the dog vice animals, I recommend that in his bag under the seat in front we refrain from passing judgof her, the owner claimed the dog ment on these animals and the was a service animal and had the people they may well be serving. right to sit on her lap.

Their roles could be exactly as Although I can’t be sure, I claimed, and these owners need suspect he was a fake service dog. their help, not our distraction. – I’ve been hearing a lot about this Dr. Patty Khuly, DrPattyKhuly. trend lately, and it seems like fak- com

THE BUZZ Ford asks dog lovers to let pets ‘ride inside’ The image of a dog in the back of a pickup is as much an American icon as a small-town parade on the Fourth of July. But the Ford Motor Co. has teamed with the American Humane Association to convince people to protect their pets by ending the dangerous ride. The “Dogs Ride Inside” campaign warns that putting pets in the back isn’t all that safe, and notes that extendedcab pickups leave plenty of room inside for Rover, ideally riding in a safety harness.

• The Walk In Sync harness is the invention of a Colorado dog trainer looking to improve on other no-pull harnesses. The harness clips in the front to prevent pulling, and the higher cut of the harness prevents the rubbing noted by earlier front-clip harnesses.

Information and ordering information is at dogwalkinsync.com.

– The Wall Street Journal reports that the boom in so-called “backyard chickens” has led to a shortage of veterinary options when the birds are sick. That’s because most veterinarians who specialize in poultry health work in the food industry, where the answer to a sick chicken is not treatment, but removal from the flock and a swift death. The WSJ reports the situation has led to do-it-yourself doctoring for those who see their birds not as meat, but as pets. – Dr. Marty Becker and Gina Spadafori Pet Connection is produced by a team of pet care experts headed by Good Morning America and The Dr. Oz Show veterinarian Dr. Marty Becker and award-winning journalist Kim Campbell Thornton. The two are affiliated with Vetstreet.com and also are the authors of many best-selling pet care books. Dr. Becker can also be found at Facebook.com/DrMartyBecker or on Twitter at DrMartyBecker.

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In the former project, over the course of several years, working with the likes of Joe and Victor Henry, Robin and Yvonne Burian, Eleanor Millard, Russ Kingman and actor Eddie Albert, Dick assembled the evidence that confirmed that a small log cabin on the Left Fork of Henderson Creek was indeed the place the future author lived while prospecting, unsuccessfully, in the winter of 1897/98.

The cabin was eventually disassembled and moved to the Stewart River by the Burians, where they reassembled the original logs with new ones cut for the purpose, to Michael Gates/Yukon News form two cabins: one to be shipped to Oakland, the other to be installed Dick North on duty at the in Dawson City.

Jack London Museum in For years, North sought evidence Dawson City in August 2007.

North created the exhibit and about the Mad Trapper, and in his book Trackdown, was the first of greeted visitors to the museveral people to propose the true seum for nearly 25 years. identity of the man known as Albert his most interesting book, while the Johnson. His theory, and those of autobiographical Sailor on Snowothers, have since been disproven by shoes was his last.

DNA testing.

North earned his place in the Dick North became an instituHistory Hunters’ Hall of Fame for tion in Dawson City in the 1980s two specific projects: the search for, and 1990s, when he held court in the authentication and salvage of Jack Jack London Museum, which was London’s cabin, and his dogged de- constructed adjacent to the restored termination to uncover the identity half-cabin. In later years, when age of the Mad Trapper, Albert Johnson. prevented him from fulfilling his duties at the cabin, Dawne Mitchell succeeded him as curator of the display.

Yet, when I once saw him in Dawson, then in his late 70s, he was strapping on his skates in the hockey arena for a little lunchtime exercise. In recent years, I occasionag ally bumped into him at the Java e.

Connection, where he and his wife Mo d e r n . P r e t t y.

Andre would go for coffee.

A few years ago, at a Commissioner’s Tea in Dawson City, the peripatetic author finally received his Canadian citizenship and chose the Yukon as his final home.

Not one to call attention to himself, North was recognized widely for his contribution to northern literature. He received a service award from the Klondike Visitors Association for his work at the Jack London Museum. In 2003, he received the Commissioner’s Award for Public 2068 - 2nd Avenue (2nd & Hawkins Street) Service “for his contribution to the OPEN: MON - Sat, 10-6; SuN 11-4 | 667.2015 Yukon’s history and the economic life of the City of Dawson.”

In October of 2007, he was honoured by then-Governor General, Michaëlle Jean, with his appointment as a member of the Order of Canada, which recognized “a lifetime of distinguished service in or to a particular community, group with Every or field of activity.”

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He has also been honoured by the EntEr to win community of Dawson City, which a $50 Gift certificate named a street after him in the Dome subdivision.

Most of all, he is remembered for the body of Yukon literature that he S leaves behind, and in the hearts and on SElEctEd itEm memories of the many people who knew him.

Richard “Dick” Parsons North, C.M., B.A., April 19, 1929 - September 23, 2013

degrees at George Washington University in D.C., and at the University of California Berkeley. Dick North could have had a career on Wall Street, but as he said in his own words, the New York City Library became his favourite hang-out as he devoured magazines, books and newspaper articles from the turn of the century.

He was hired by the Las Vegas Review Journal on the basis of a couple of articles he wrote for the Territorial Enterprise of Virginia City. This in turn led to his transfer to another member of the same newspaper chain, the Daily Alaska Empire in Juneau. He also worked for the Yukon News. The rest, as we say, is history.

Over the following decades, he wrote his classic stories of the manhunt for Albert Johnson in The Mad Trapper of Rat River, and its sequel, Trackdown. His book The Lost Patrol was the account of a party of Mounties and their guides who perished trying to make a winter patrol from Fort McPherson, Northwest Territories, to Dawson City.

These books were followed by Arctic Exodus, the chronicle of a great reindeer drive across Alaska to the Mackenzie Delta in 1929.

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by Michael Gates When I was writing that book, n September 23, the Yukon about the early prospecting in the lost its renowned author, Dick Yukon, I found a short story by North. He was 84 years old.

London titled Men of the Fortymile, In 1897, a 21-year-old sailor from which renders in his vivid prose Oakland found his muse, not as a an actual event I had found in the gold miner, but in the stories of the historical record. Excited about this old time miners, related around the discovery, I rushed down to talk to stoves of their primitive little log Dick about it. This was the tip of the cabins. His name was Jack London. iceberg, he assured me, and he was London took the stories of the right. All the time that he was in the North away with him, retold them in North, London kept his ears open his own words and became famous, and listened to the stories told by the but he never returned to the Yukon. veteran prospectors who wintered at More than a half century later, the mouth of the Stewart River with Dick North also came to the Yukon, him. and like London, he too thrived on In his book Sailor on Snowshoes, the people and stories of the North. North relates many other London But, unlike that other great writer, he stories and their origins in true stayed in the Yukon where he made events that occurred in the Yukon his home – and reputation – for the and Alaska. The Yukon inspired next 50 years.

London’s career, and in the same I knew Dick North from the years way, it inspired North’s.

I spent working in Dawson City. At Dick North was born in New that time, he was already the curator Jersey, but in a mobile pattern that of the Jack London Museum, which he followed for most of his career, is in a part of Dawson I like to refer moved to Long Island, West Virginia to as “Authors’ Row.” and New Hampshire while growHe encouraged me when I was ing up. After serving in Italy during writing my first book, even introthe Second World War, he earned

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Fall brings change. As we see the snowline creep down the mountains around Whitehorse, we know that all too soon the white of winter will fill the Yukon River valley. While we wait, we wring enjoyment out of the last warmth of the golden days of our ever-so-brief fall.

Social change doesn’t come in so predictable a manner as the round of seasons. It does come none the less. Over the course of my life, I have witnessed amazing global changes: the civil rights revolution, the fall of the Berlin Wall, the remarkable emancipation from gender barriers, the awakening of an environmental consciousness and on and on.

However, I have also come to understand that moves towards goals such as equality, justice, and environmental sustainability demand sacrifice and commitment.

As Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. stated, “Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability but comes through continuous struggle.”

Three years ago this fall, Bill C-300, the Responsible Mining Act, was narrowly defeated. This proposed legislation would have required extractive companies operating in developing countries

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Change rolls in through struggle to comply with certain international human rights and environmental standards widely accepted by industry as best practices. Tailored on the consensus recommendations of the Roundtables Advisory Group, which included representatives from the extractive industry and government as well as civil society, it sought to rehabilitate the industry’s global reputation by promoting ethical corporate conduct. Yukon’s then member of Parliament, Larry Bagnell, took a principled stand in support of this bill.

This issue has not gone away.

Conflicts around the world this past year involving Canadian mining corporations highlight that fact. Three Roman Catholic bishops – Pedro Barreto, Archbishop of Huancayo, Peru; Jose Bantolo, Bishop of Masbate, the Philippines; and Nicolas Djomo Lola, Bishop of Tshumbe, the Democratic Republic of the Congo – came to Canada last week to address the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops annual meeting on this specific concern.

These bishops helped launch the A Voice for Justice campaign of the Canadian Catholic Organization for Development and Peace as well. This educational campaign calls on the Government of Canada to establish an independent ombudsman for the Canadian extractive sector, which can investigate complaints brought by communities overseas where these companies operate.

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against a backdrop of an initiative by Whitehorse, Saturday, Oct. 5 at 7:30 Wednesday, Oct. 16 on his organizathe Pontifical Council for Justice and p.m. at Vanier Catholic Secondary, tion’s support of the Mayan Qeqchi Peace, which is headed by Cardinal 16 Duke Street. His talk will focus victims of repression seeking to Peter Turkson, a miner’s son from on the need for social, ethical and hold Hudbay Minerals of Canada western Ghana. He convened a Day environmental stewardship and reresponsible for the violence suffered of Reflection on September 7 on sponsibility on the part of extractive by their Guatemalan community. environmental and social questions industry leaders and explain why the A reminder that the All Schools relevant to the mining industry.

Church in the Philippines is taking a Food Drive in support of the According to a Vatican news restrong stand against current mining Whitehorse Food Bank will be held lease, leading executives from some practices and advocating for change. on Wednesday, Oct. 9. Please be of the world’s most important min- All are welcome. Coffee and potluck generous. ing companies participated, such as dessert will follow. For more inforMichael Dougherty is co-chair of the African Rainbow Minerals, Anglo mation contact Michael at 633-6579. social justice committee of Sacred American, Baker Hughes, BHP BilGrahame Russell of Rights Action Heart Cathedral of Whitehorse. liton, China Minmetals Corp., Curis will speak at the Old Firehall on Contact pazypan@yukon.net.

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Wednesday Bible Study 7:30 p.m.

Pastor L.e. harrison 633-4089

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Regular Monthly Service: 1st and 3rd Sundays of the Month 11:00 AM • All are welcome.

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

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Northern Institute of Social Justice Training Programs Core Competencies for FASD — Awareness to Understanding Completion of this course is required for entry into further training in the

Friday, October 4, 2013

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“Accommodating for the Challenges of FASD” series October 28, 2013 CRN: 10578 Yukon College — Room: C1440

9:00 am to 4:00 pm $80+gst More Info : Call FAssY @ 393-4948

This training is co-developed and delivered in partnership with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Society Yukon (FASSY).

Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training (ASIST) AsIst provides practical help for caregivers seeking to prevent the immediate risk of suicide.

November 13-14, 2013 8:30 am to 5:00 pm CRN: 10579 $400+gst Yukon College — Room: t1023 More Info: Call Angela @ 668.8854 Registration: Please call Admissions at 668-8710 and quote the Course Registration For more information on the Northern Institute of Social Justice and courses offered: Visit our website: http://www.yukoncollege.yk.ca/programs/info/nisj Call: (867) 456.8589 Email: nisj@yukoncollege.yk.ca

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MISS

MANNERS

DEAR MISS MANNERS: I just received a sharp rebuke from a co-worker for sending him a personal email (following up on a prior conversation) at 5:45 in the morning. His reply stated only that “this exchange should not occur before 7 a.m.”

I was taken aback by the tone of his reply. I have never exchanged emails with him outside of business hours before. Presumably, his smartphone alerts him of incoming email and my message disturbed his sleep.

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General MeetinG

October 19, 2013 9 a.m.– 5 p.m. at FnnnD Gov’t House – Multi room

Snacks and lunch provided.

If you require a ride please call 996-2265 extension 135 or 332-1244 during regular working hours.

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Forestry Open House

Tuesday, October 22, 2013 Haines Junction, St. Elias Convention Centre Seeking views on

Timber Harvest Planning • Information about Wood Supply Fuel Abatement • Wood Allocation

Agenda

3 - 6 p.m. Open House/Presentations/Discussion 6 - 7 p.m. Dinner (provided) 7 - 8:30 p.m. Presentations/Discussion Hosted by Forest Management Branch/CAFN/ARRC For further information contact: Lauren Waters FMB (867)456-6178 or 332-1049 Roger Brown CAFN (867) 456-6883 Susan Smith ARRC (867) 634-2524

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I hadn’t anticipated this — I may be old-fashioned, but I still think of email as a desktop activity. Should I apologize for this apparent intrusion?

GENTLE READER: It used to be that surprise, late-night house calls were understood to be limited to those who could expect to be welcomed with open arms. Exceptions were made for emergencies, warrants and comic figures in Shakespeare plays.

But nocturnal knocks on the door and emails are not the same thing.

You did not expect your co-worker instantly to act upon — or even to see — the early-morning email, any more than you would have expected an immediate response to a posted letter.

That the mail came early and set the dog barking, which in turn woke up the baby, who toddled down the stairs to the kitchen, terrifying grandma, who spilled her coffee, is not your responsibility.

That said, the best answer to your co-worker is to apologize and gently say that you were having the same problem until you discovered that it was possible to mute the sound announcing new emails on your phone.

DEAR MISS MANNERS: Is it necessary to bring the hostess of a potluck family dinner a hostess gift?

Or is my contribution (as per her request), which is often more food than the hostess herself prepares, a hostess gift enough?

GENTLE READER: Hostess?

What hostess?

Miss Manners has trouble thinking of someone who orders catered food from you as a hostess. And while you should not expect to be tipped if you also partook of these meals, the optional courtesy of another contribution is unnecessary.

DEAR MISS MANNERS: Due to health problems such as migraines, I am sometimes forced to cancel doctor appointments at the last minute.

When this happens, should I give a brief apology over the phone, send a written apology, or assume that the health professionals go on with their day relatively unaffected by my absence?

GENTLE READER: While it is reasonable to assume that doctors are familiar with — and perhaps even sympathetic to — the effects of illness, Miss Manners can assure you that they do not go on with the day unaffected by your absence.

They have been hit hard by the growing societal disregard for the commitment implicit in scheduling an appointment. Most medical offices now call beforehand to remind patients to show up. And an increasing number are registering their displeasure with absenteeism by charging fees for last-minute cancellations.

You do not want to be confused with patients who offer an invented illness to cover a less defensible reason (“I really don’t feel like traipsing all the way downtown today”). A handwritten note of apology will reassure your doctor that you value her time. She is the last person you want suspecting you of feigning illness.

Friday, October 4, 2013

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SPORTS AND

RECREATION

Miss Yukon a runner-up at national pageant

Ian Stewart/Yukon News

Jennifer Perrin was the runner-up in the Miss Canada Charity pageant last month in Toronto. Yukon had four contestants compete at the national event.

Tom Patrick

AIDS Walk for Life and lent time to Spinal Cord Injury Ontario.

“I did lots and lots of things in ukon now has a princess and Whitehorse, but since I’ve been her name is Jennifer Perrin. here (in Ontario), I’ve been trying The Whitehorse native was the to do as much as possible,” said runner-up – a.k.a. “first princess” Perrin.

– at the Miss Canada Charity The final stage of the contest pageant last month in Toronto. was a question-and-answer seg“It was very surreal,” said ment with a panel of judges before Perrin. “All five of us were on a final question on stage during stage, and then they announced the last night of the pageant. the fourth runner-up, the third “One of my questions was, runner-up, the second runner-up. ‘Why do you deserve to be Miss “It was really exciting and I Canada Charity?’” said Perrin. “I was really overwhelmed at first. It said, as Miss Canada Charity, I definitely took some time to sink have larger aspirations than just in. When we had our contract having a title for myself. I want to signing, it became more real.” inspire others, not just nationally Perrin was one of five contest- in Canada, but internationally, ants selected from across Canada and have the chance to represent to vie for the Miss Canada Charity Canada and show everyone what title during the Miss Canada an amazing, dedicated country we Globe National Pageants. are.”

The five contestants secured inAs the runner-up in her vites based on the impact each has category, Perrin, 23, has secured had on their community through the opportunity to represent all charity work. of Canada at an international They continued to do charity pageant. Where and when has yet work in the Toronto region and to be determined. ran 50/50 draws and auctions “In addition to continuing my during the pageant. Perrin, who charity work and making appearwas Miss Yukon at last year’s Miss ances, and continuing to find Canada Petite Globe pageant, future delegates for next year, I have to represent Canada at an participated in the Scotiabank News Reporter

Y

international pageant as well,” said Perrin, who has taken part in Whitehorse’s MS Walk, the Run for Mom, the AIDS Walk for Life in Whitehorse, and has done volunteer work for Ovarian Cancer Canada.

“I’m really excited … I know I have to stay on top of things because it’s definitely not over yet.”

Helping others seems to be in Perrin’s blood. She is currently attending Ontario’s St. Lawrence College in the pre-health program with the aspiration of becoming a nurse.

“My dad is a nurse and my mom is a lab tech, so I’ve always been exposed to the health-care field,” said Perrin. “I love helping people. So it’s definitely something I hope to continue with.”

Yukon was well represented at the Miss Canada Globe pageants thanks to Perrin. As the territory’s Miss Canada Petite contestant last year, Perrin was responsible for recruiting others to participate in this year’s pageants.

Through her recruitment efforts Perrin found Whitehorse’s Alissa Budzinski, who went for Miss Teen Canada Globe, and Dawson City’s Alix Causer-McBurney and Cheyenne Sheila Rear,

who were in for Miss Canada Globe.

“It was really fun. It was super challenging because there were late nights and long days – sometimes we wouldn’t get off until two in the morning,” said Budzinski. “But it was a really good experience and put me to the test.”

Budzinski, who was officially named Miss Teen Yukon while in Toronto, plans to attend the Miss Teen Charity Canada pageant next year.

In fact, Yukon was so well represented, the territory had more contestants than Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Quebec, or Manitoba. The four Yukoners were the only ones from the territories.

“I think people there were surprised and it was nice to have (Yukon) well represented,” said Perrin. “It definitely gave another point of view. When you have so many people from Ontario, they’re used to the same thing.

When it came to the talents and international costumes, it switched it up a bit.

“They didn’t make top-10, but they did awesome,” she added. “I got to see their talents, which were fantastic, and I got to see their

preliminaries and their national costumes, and it was great.”

As a Dawsonite, Causer-McBurney selected a gold-rush era ball gown as her regional costume.

Budzinski displayed her sourdough spirit with a “snowshoe shuffler” costume inspired by the Rendezvous celebrations.

Rear recited the Robert Service poem The Spell of the Yukon for her talent. Causer-McBurney showed her “adaptability” by performing tasks associated with gold mining, such as operating an excavator.

Budzinski, who attends Vanier Catholic Secondary School, recited the entire periodic table of elements in numeric order.

“I had given the judges a list of all of them in order so they could make sure I was doing them in order, which put extra pressure on,” said Budzinski. “But I was able to do it.”

Perrin was runner-up to Jeneane Guerrero of the Greater Toronto Area and placed ahead of Andreanne Roy of New Brunswick.

Contact Tom Patrick at tomp@yukon-news.com

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Mustangs expand rosters, install checking program Tom Patrick News Reporter

M

ore hockey players will be in Whitehorse red and black this season. They will be better equipped to take and deliver hits as well, thanks to changes within the Whitehorse Mustangs rep hockey program.

The Whitehorse Minor Hockey Association has introduced two significant adjustments to the Mustangs program for this season, which begins this week.

Mustangs ‘A’ teams will now carry 20 players on the roster, up from 15.

Mustangs teams will also begin participation in bimonthly “instructional scrimmages” to introduce contact play to skaters from atom up to midget.

“The expectation is that it will be intense,” said association president Carl Burgess. “We’re calling it an instructional scrimmage because in atom we’re introducing players to physical play with an emphasis on the learning aspect, rather than the physicality of it.”

The instructional scrimmages should improve the competitiveness of the midget and bantam teams when they travel to tournaments, but it’s also about safety. (At the end of last season, Hockey Canada banned bodychecking at the peewee level.)

“One thing you worry about these days, at all levels of hockey, is not just giving hits, but how to take a hit, how to avoid being hit, and the trouble areas where you have to protect yourself,” said Clint Mylymok, the new head coach for the Whitehorse Minor Hockey Association. “These offer coaches the opportunity to teach kids, if you’re going into the corner full-speed, don’t be afraid to slow down or take a peak to see where

Tom Patrick/Yukon News

Bantam A Mustangs’ Riley Smoler celebrates a goal against Castle Rock during in the Recreation league final on March 31.

The Mustangs organization has expanded the rosters for this season. your check is coming from.”

Mustang teams that play contact hockey (including the Peewee A Mustangs last season) have long been plagued by poor performances in opening games at Outside tourna-

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ments. Without access to contact play in Whitehorse, and then travelling to face teams that play contact regularly, Mustangs often take a game or two to adjust.

“We’ve been looking for years

for something to do to address that first-game issue that we seem to have every time we travel,” said Bantam A Mustangs head coach Martin Lawrie.

“I think if we can expose the kids (to contact play) through the season, we

can definitely address some of that.”

Though the Peewee A Mustangs will no longer participate in contact games when outside of the territory, it’s not too early to prepare the players for when they graduate to bantam, said head coach Kirk Gale.

“I think it’s good. At some point they’re going to be playing contact hockey,” said Gale. “With the new (Hockey Canada) ruling there will be no contact peewee hockey across the nation, so when kids get into bantam, they should be ready because it will be a rude awaking if they don’t (prepare).”

The expansion of A team rosters carries numerous benefits. In addition to the obvious fact that coaches will have more players to draw from and will less often be shorthanded when travelling, more players can gain high-level play experience.

“It does two things,” said Burgess.

“It allows us to carry more players and develop more players. And 20

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is not a big deal for a team to carry.

It also allows for when the first-, second- or third-line guys can’t make it to tournaments, whether due to vacation, illness or whatever, we’ll have other guys ready to feather in and expose more players to competitive hockey.”

“Carrying an additional three forwards and two defencemen doesn’t add any stress to practice,” said Lawrie. “Quite often it makes your practice more competitive – you’re able to do a few more things.

“Obviously it gives a few more kids the Mustangs experience – rep hockey experience – which is a good thing.”

For Barry Blisner, head coach of the Midget A Mustangs, the expanded roster will be a tool he can use to keep his players motivated. Since the team won’t travel with a fourth line, Blisner wants his players to work to stay on the lines that are travelling to tournaments.

“The way I’m running it for our team is I told the guys I don’t really look at it as having alternate players, or guys that are extras … If one guy is the number 11 forward and we think he’s playing well, he can move up at any time,” said Blisner. “We’re running it more like a junior team or university level where there are four lines – you can’t dress four lines, generally speaking – one game we have these nine forwards, the next game we have three new ones in and three other ones out.”

The Mustangs organization and Whitehorse Minor Hockey Association have undergone other changes over the off-season.

All of the aforementioned coaches have advanced up through the age divisions with Gale going from atom to peewee, Lawrie from peewee to bantam and Blisner from bantam to midget, taking over for last year’s coach Kerrie Pettitt.

Mylymok is currently filling the position of head coach of the Atom Mustangs. His position as head coach of the Whitehorse association is a new one just introduced.

“It’s a head coach-co-ordinator position where my job is to come in and work with coaches and the players as well, to develop coaches, develop players, show how to run practices, how to evaluate players, things to look for throughout the year,” said Mylymok. “The key for me is to evaluate coaches from month to month, having a rapport with them, with travelling (teams) and the house league as well.”

At the helm of the Female Mustangs team, which is starting its third season with the rep organization, is Louis Bouchard.

“The team is looking good, looking fast,” said Bouchard. “In past years we’ve had to start at basics, with a couple players who weren’t strong skaters. This year we don’t have that, so we’re way ahead.

“What we are lacking are thirdyear midgets. We’ve always had that core group of older girls who have been with the program for so long.”

The Female Mustangs team, which consists of nine bantam-, six midgetand two peewee-aged players, is a midget-level team that will play in the bantam division of the rec house league in Whitehorse.

The Female Mustangs is not the only team from the club with a roster filled with young players.

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Friday, October 4, 2013 The Midget A Mustangs have just two returning players from last season’s team, and a total of 10 players at the first-year midget age.

“We have a very young team. We have a lot of the bantams that were with us last year, which is good, but a lot of the older midgets are out playing in other places,” said Blisner.

“On the other hand it gives the other kids a chance to see what they’ve got at this level.”

The Bantam A Mustangs, which placed fourth at the B.C. Hockey Championships in March for the best finish for Whitehorse, has four returning players from last season’s team.

“We’re very young, we’re very inexperienced – we have a lot of first-year hockey players, we have a handful of first-year Mustangs … I think we’re going to take our knocks early this year,” said Lawrie. “But this team has a lot of potential. I fully expect that we are going to be a very competitive club in the New Year.”

The Whitehorse association has made some other changes for this season. A new midget division has been added the rec league with three teams registered. (The Midget A Mustangs will continue to play in the

adult rec league.)

“We’re probably going to invite juvenile guys in,” said Burgess. “Those are the guys who aren’t old enough for adult but are still overage to be on a midget team.”

The association is adding more games for Friday and Saturday evenings at Takhini Arena to offer additional opportunities for spectators to take in local hockey action.

Whitehorse Minor is also organizing a new tournament called the Whitehorse International Atom/ Squirt Hockey Tournament scheduled for November 8-10. The association is currently in talks with Alaskan, B.C. and Albertan clubs.

“With Air North as our partner, they sort of sweetened the deal on tickets when they’re associated with Whitehorse Minor, so we might see teams coming in from the south,” said Burgess. “We’re trying to get the word out down south that if you’re within reach of one of the centres Air North flies to, Whitehorse is as cost effective, if not more cost effective, than driving eight hours to a hockey tournament, as some teams do.”

Contact Tom Patrick at tomp@yukon-news.com

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Mustangs expand rosters, install checking program Tom Patrick News Reporter

M

ore hockey players will be in Whitehorse red and black this season. They will be better equipped to take and deliver hits as well, thanks to changes within the Whitehorse Mustangs rep hockey program.

The Whitehorse Minor Hockey Association has introduced two significant adjustments to the Mustangs program for this season, which begins this week.

Mustangs ‘A’ teams will now carry 20 players on the roster, up from 15.

Mustangs teams will also begin participation in bimonthly “instructional scrimmages” to introduce contact play to skaters from atom up to midget.

“The expectation is that it will be intense,” said association president Carl Burgess. “We’re calling it an instructional scrimmage because in atom we’re introducing players to physical play with an emphasis on the learning aspect, rather than the physicality of it.”

The instructional scrimmages should improve the competitiveness of the midget and bantam teams when they travel to tournaments, but it’s also about safety. (At the end of last season, Hockey Canada banned bodychecking at the peewee level.)

“One thing you worry about these days, at all levels of hockey, is not just giving hits, but how to take a hit, how to avoid being hit, and the trouble areas where you have to protect yourself,” said Clint Mylymok, the new head coach for the Whitehorse Minor Hockey Association. “These offer coaches the opportunity to teach kids, if you’re going into the corner full-speed, don’t be afraid to slow down or take a peak to see where

Tom Patrick/Yukon News

Bantam A Mustangs’ Riley Smoler celebrates a goal against Castle Rock during in the Recreation league final on March 31.

The Mustangs organization has expanded the rosters for this season. your check is coming from.”

Mustang teams that play contact hockey (including the Peewee A Mustangs last season) have long been plagued by poor performances in opening games at Outside tourna-

A Continuing Professional Development Event Presented by the

Association of Professional Engineers of Yukon

Mentorship: a matter

and

of

organizational

Personal

Success

With Presenter, Stefan Voswinkel Date: Tuesday November 5th, 2013 *Space is limited! Register by October 29th!

ments. Without access to contact play in Whitehorse, and then travelling to face teams that play contact regularly, Mustangs often take a game or two to adjust.

“We’ve been looking for years

for something to do to address that first-game issue that we seem to have every time we travel,” said Bantam A Mustangs head coach Martin Lawrie.

“I think if we can expose the kids (to contact play) through the season, we

can definitely address some of that.”

Though the Peewee A Mustangs will no longer participate in contact games when outside of the territory, it’s not too early to prepare the players for when they graduate to bantam, said head coach Kirk Gale.

“I think it’s good. At some point they’re going to be playing contact hockey,” said Gale. “With the new (Hockey Canada) ruling there will be no contact peewee hockey across the nation, so when kids get into bantam, they should be ready because it will be a rude awaking if they don’t (prepare).”

The expansion of A team rosters carries numerous benefits. In addition to the obvious fact that coaches will have more players to draw from and will less often be shorthanded when travelling, more players can gain high-level play experience.

“It does two things,” said Burgess.

“It allows us to carry more players and develop more players. And 20

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All APEY members and anyone with an interest in career development and organizational succession.

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is not a big deal for a team to carry.

It also allows for when the first-, second- or third-line guys can’t make it to tournaments, whether due to vacation, illness or whatever, we’ll have other guys ready to feather in and expose more players to competitive hockey.”

“Carrying an additional three forwards and two defencemen doesn’t add any stress to practice,” said Lawrie. “Quite often it makes your practice more competitive – you’re able to do a few more things.

“Obviously it gives a few more kids the Mustangs experience – rep hockey experience – which is a good thing.”

For Barry Blisner, head coach of the Midget A Mustangs, the expanded roster will be a tool he can use to keep his players motivated. Since the team won’t travel with a fourth line, Blisner wants his players to work to stay on the lines that are travelling to tournaments.

“The way I’m running it for our team is I told the guys I don’t really look at it as having alternate players, or guys that are extras … If one guy is the number 11 forward and we think he’s playing well, he can move up at any time,” said Blisner. “We’re running it more like a junior team or university level where there are four lines – you can’t dress four lines, generally speaking – one game we have these nine forwards, the next game we have three new ones in and three other ones out.”

The Mustangs organization and Whitehorse Minor Hockey Association have undergone other changes over the off-season.

All of the aforementioned coaches have advanced up through the age divisions with Gale going from atom to peewee, Lawrie from peewee to bantam and Blisner from bantam to midget, taking over for last year’s coach Kerrie Pettitt.

Mylymok is currently filling the position of head coach of the Atom Mustangs. His position as head coach of the Whitehorse association is a new one just introduced.

“It’s a head coach-co-ordinator position where my job is to come in and work with coaches and the players as well, to develop coaches, develop players, show how to run practices, how to evaluate players, things to look for throughout the year,” said Mylymok. “The key for me is to evaluate coaches from month to month, having a rapport with them, with travelling (teams) and the house league as well.”

At the helm of the Female Mustangs team, which is starting its third season with the rep organization, is Louis Bouchard.

“The team is looking good, looking fast,” said Bouchard. “In past years we’ve had to start at basics, with a couple players who weren’t strong skaters. This year we don’t have that, so we’re way ahead.

“What we are lacking are thirdyear midgets. We’ve always had that core group of older girls who have been with the program for so long.”

The Female Mustangs team, which consists of nine bantam-, six midgetand two peewee-aged players, is a midget-level team that will play in the bantam division of the rec house league in Whitehorse.

The Female Mustangs is not the only team from the club with a roster filled with young players.

47

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Friday, October 4, 2013 The Midget A Mustangs have just two returning players from last season’s team, and a total of 10 players at the first-year midget age.

“We have a very young team. We have a lot of the bantams that were with us last year, which is good, but a lot of the older midgets are out playing in other places,” said Blisner.

“On the other hand it gives the other kids a chance to see what they’ve got at this level.”

The Bantam A Mustangs, which placed fourth at the B.C. Hockey Championships in March for the best finish for Whitehorse, has four returning players from last season’s team.

“We’re very young, we’re very inexperienced – we have a lot of first-year hockey players, we have a handful of first-year Mustangs … I think we’re going to take our knocks early this year,” said Lawrie. “But this team has a lot of potential. I fully expect that we are going to be a very competitive club in the New Year.”

The Whitehorse association has made some other changes for this season. A new midget division has been added the rec league with three teams registered. (The Midget A Mustangs will continue to play in the

adult rec league.)

“We’re probably going to invite juvenile guys in,” said Burgess. “Those are the guys who aren’t old enough for adult but are still overage to be on a midget team.”

The association is adding more games for Friday and Saturday evenings at Takhini Arena to offer additional opportunities for spectators to take in local hockey action.

Whitehorse Minor is also organizing a new tournament called the Whitehorse International Atom/ Squirt Hockey Tournament scheduled for November 8-10. The association is currently in talks with Alaskan, B.C. and Albertan clubs.

“With Air North as our partner, they sort of sweetened the deal on tickets when they’re associated with Whitehorse Minor, so we might see teams coming in from the south,” said Burgess. “We’re trying to get the word out down south that if you’re within reach of one of the centres Air North flies to, Whitehorse is as cost effective, if not more cost effective, than driving eight hours to a hockey tournament, as some teams do.”

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Answers to Friday’s New York Times Crossword puzzle.

By The Mepham Group

Level: Moderate

By The Mepham Group Level: 1

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Complete the grid so each row, column and 3-by-3 box (in bold borders) contains every digit 1 to 9. For strategies on how to solve Sudoku, visit www.sudoku.org.uk.

Solution to Wednesday’s puzzle

Solution to Wednesday’s puzzle

© 2013 The Mepham Group. Distributed by Tribune Media Services. All rights reserved.

No digit can be repeated in a solution, so a 4 can only produce 1 and 3, never 2 and 2. Solution published tomorrow.

7/18/13

7/18/13

To solve Kakuro, you must enter a number between 1 and 9 in the empty squares. The clues are the numbers in the white circles that give the sum of the solution numbers: above the line are across clues and below the line are down clues.

Thus, a clue of 3 will produce a solution of 2 and 1 and a 5 will produce 4 and 1, or 2 and 3, but, of course, which squares they go in will depend on the solution of a clue in the other direction.

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DEAR MARGO

BOUND AND GAGGED

Dear Margo: I’ve dated my fiance for the past year and a half. She is 27, and I am 35. When I asked her to marry me, we were in her favorite restaurant. She didn’t say yes right away because she said there was a secret she had to tell me to make sure that I still wanted to marry her.

The secret was that she’d been in the adult entertainment business. I figured maybe she stripped while in college. She told me that was not it. We went back to her place, and she explained that she’d made some movies. She pulled out a tape and played it for me. I was totally shocked; my beautiful girlfriend was not what she appeared to be.

We’ve made love many times, and I could not believe what I was seeing.

She is a transsexual. I got up and turned it off so hard I almost knocked the TV over. My girlfriend was crying and through her tears tried to explain that she loves me and only did it for the money to pay for the reassignment surgery. I could not believe what I was hearing.

I screamed at her and called her all kinds of names, which was totally out of character for me. I left and have not talked to her for the past two weeks. She’s called several times and left email messages to get together and talk. I am still in love with her. I miss her. But I feel I have been lied to and deceived. Can we have a future together? — Surprised and Deceived Dear Sur: Oh, my. Talk about sex, lies and videotape. My thoughts about this are perhaps counterintuitive, but here they are. No one would deny that there was lying and deceit. I am sympathetic, however, because I am sure this person had planned to tell you. Then things accelerated, and a good guess is that she just put it off. And note that she did not accept your proposal without ‘fessing up.

If you can get over the deception part, you might have a future. I think this because you say you still love and miss your romantic friend of a year and a half. It is so hard to find intellectual and sexual compatibility — which you had apparently found. The key would be counseling to determine what the real issues are for you and whether you can overcome the misrepresentation and the baggage of her history. — Margo, introspectively

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1-BDRM CABIN on Annie Lake Rd. Electricity, no running water but water/showers nearby, wood heat, pets negotiable. Available Oct 15th. $650/mon + DD. 334-8271 PORTER CREEK, 2 bdrms w/own bathrm, living rm, shared kitchen. Incls internet, TV, Bell satellite, $550/mon & $575/mon. N/P. Nov 1. 334-4113 AVAILABLE OCT 1st, 2-bdrm bsmnt suite, Granger area. Newly renovated, seperate entrance. Kitchen & laundry. $1700/mon includes utilities & backup baseboard heating.

Refs & damage deposit reqʼd. 334-9788 or kennyjdliu@hotmail.com MOBILE FOR rent on shared private property. 3 bdrms, 2 baths. Looking for 1-2 people max, no parties, no smoking, no pets. $1,400/mon. 633-2498 1-BDRM APT downtown, $900/mon+elec, no pets, no smoking inside the unit. Refs & dd reqʼd. Avai Oct 1. 334-9087

NICELY FURNISHED room for rent. Incl small fridge, sat TV, laundry & kitchen privileges, close to bus stop, refs&dd reqʼd, $750/mon, avai imme, smoking permitted in designated areas. 335-2231 after 6pm ROOM FOR rent downtown, new condo within walking distance of all amenities, modern facilities. $750/mon inclʼs utils & internet & dd. 335-2417 3-BDRM, 2-BATH home in Copper Ridge.

Has large office, double car garage & lots of parking for RV, boat, motorhome etc. $1,700+utils or $2,000 all inclusive. Kristi 335-3428 2-BDRM CABIN, wood heat, elec, internet, phone, no running water, 1/2 hr from town, n/s, n/p, refs reqʼd, $800/mon+utils, avai Nov 1. 660-5545 3-BDRM, 1-1/2 bath in triplex, Riverdale, $1,700/mon. Kristi 335-3428 SMALL ROOM in Northland, smoking home.

668-4776 between 4pm-7pm 1-BDRM ABOVE ground bsmt suite, Porter Creek, $900/mon inclʼs heat & power. W&D, n/s, 1 small dog OK, avai Nov 1. 633-4136 RIVERDALE 3-BDRM main floor suite. N/S, N/P, 1yr lease. $1,500/mon + utils + sec deposit. Refs reqʼd. 667-2452 SMALL 1-BDRM suite in Porter Creek. On bus route, close to shopping. Refs & DD reqʼd, $900/mon + hydro. 333-9400 3-BDRM, 2-BATH upper level of house in Copper Ridge. Shared laundry. N/P N/S, $1,700/mon + elec.

Email: carolinetran22@hotmail.ca 335-6410 lv msg AVAILABLE NOV 1st, Riverdale 4-bdrm, 2-bath house, laundry, carport, DD reqʼd, N/S, N/P, no parties, $2,000/mon + heat & utils. 335-5976 HOUSEMATE WANTED in Riverdale, friendly, responsible, NS. Furnished room, internet, laundry, by bus stop. Refs req'd.

Sorry, already have cat/dog. Avail Nov 1. pics avail, $600/mon + $400 DD. 456-7490 INTERESTED IN living on an acreage not far from town in your own moveable unit or cabin on skids? N/S, responsible person.

333-0744 3-BDRM HOUSE, Pine Ridge area, 1.5 acres, 1,100 sq ft. Available immed, $1,800/mon. 335-3253

Approx. 1650 sq ft

1140 sq.ft.

Corner of 4th & Olgilvie

4198 Fourth Avenue

For more details call: 403-861-4748

of high-end rental space available immediately.

Independent HVAC system, elevator accessible, excellent soundproofing, move-in ready.

Please call Kevin at 334-6575 for more information.

HOUSE TO sublet from Nov/13 to April/14, incls all but internet, downtown, $1,500/mon.

334-1252 1-BDRM, FURNISHED apt with office space, incls heat, elec & basic cable, N/S, no parties, $1,000/mon. 335-7223 2-BDRM HOUSE on Hotsprings Rd available Nov 1, oil heat, power, water delivery, $1,000/mon + utilities. 633-6178 3-BDRM, 1-BATH duplex in Riverdale, convenient location, private fenced backyard, sun deck. N/P, N/S. Long term only $1,400/mon + util. Avail Nov 1. 456-7397 2-BDRM, 2-BATH mobile home in Mary Lake, N/S, N/P. Refs & DD reqʼd. Utils inclʼd.

Responsible tenant, $1,500/mon. 335-3738 PORTER CREEK 1 & 2-bdrm apt. 2-bdrm trailer, N/S, no parties. Available immed.

633-2046 COZY WOLF Creek part furnished 1-bed apt available Nov 1. Private w/own laundry. N/S, n/p, no dogs. $975/mth plus utilities. Suitable for one mature, responsible tenant. Ref & dd required. 668-3335 RIVERDALE, LEGAL, 1-bdrm basement suite, good natural light. $1,000/mon incls heat, electricity, shared laundry. N/P, N/S, no parties. Refs & DD reqʼd. 335-8817 CABIN 25 min S of downtown Whitehorse.

2-rm, 400ft, wood heat, privacy, trails & river access, N/S, pet ok. $590 + elec, Nov.1.

Refs req. 668-2703 3-BDRM, 1-BATH Takhini duplex Nov 1, $1,475/mon + oil & elec. N/S, pet ok. Laundry in full basement. Large yard, not fenced, no garage. Refs req. 668-2703 3-BDRM DUPLEX in Riverdale. Available Nov 1, 1.5 baths, washer, dryer, fridge & stove. Heat inclʼd, N/S. Refs reqʼd. 334-4431 1-BDRM BASEMENT suite dt, close to HIgh Country Inn, responsible tenant, bright & clean, heat inclʼd, $900/mon. 334-5448 MODERN 1-BDRM downtown condo, Availa b l e i m m e d i a t e l y .

Stove/fridge/washer/dryer/microwave/storage area/plug in parking. 1 year lease. References please. $1,300/mon + utils.

336-4888.

ROOMMATE WANTED. You get 1 bdrm + a spare room. Shared bath & kitchen. Must be compatible with current tenant. Heat & elec inclʼd. Avail Nov 1, $800/mon. April 335-9375 ONE BEDROOM apartment in downtown Whitehorse. Rent $850+ Electricity. References and damage deposit required. Call 334-9087 to view. Available immediately.

ROOMMATE WANTED, available immed or NOv 1, 1 bdrm for single person downtown, $600/mon + DD. 334-1252

ONE-BDRM ONE-BATH apt. in quiet neighbourhood of Granger. Close to bus- stop, grocery store. Heat, parking spot with plug-in, outdoor storage, own laundry included. Utilities not included. $1100/mos.

335-1173

2-BDRM HOME in downtown, $1,450/mon + $1.450 last month + heat. Rick 668-2998 or 336-0125

1-BDRM MODERN house on private acreage, Robinson subdivision, 25 mins from downtown, $750/mon. 668-2769 lv msg

for rent for rent

Beautifully finished office space is available in the Taku Building at 309 Main Street.

This historic building is the first L.E.E.D. certified green building in Yukon. It features state of the art heat and ventilation, LAN rooms, elevator, bike storage, shower, accessibility and more.

IMMEDIATE OCCUPANCY. Country residential 3-bdrm garden suite. Large fenced yard for dogs. Smokers OK. Primary heat wood; propane backup. Greenhouse; wood shed. On water delivery. $1600/mon.

633-5499.

TAGISH, 3 bdrm, 1-1/2 bath house on 1 acre, lg liv, din, kit, laundry, fenced yd, propane furn, 2 wood stoves, septic, water del, all amenities, school bus to Carcross. $800/mon+utils+dd. N/S in house, pets OK. 633-6060

Approx. 270 sq ft

of high-end rental space with fantastic view available immediately.

Elevator accessible, excellent soundproofing, large windows, lots of natural light.

Please call Kevin at 334-6575 for more information.

Horwood’s Mall Main Street at First Avenue Office Spaces Available

Unit 120: Main Floor Retail Space 530 SQ FT Unit 9: Second Floor Office Space 250 SQ FT

Call 334-5553

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HoUSe HUNTerS

HOUSE HUNTERS

Friday, October 4, 2013 Wanted to Rent HOUSESITTER AVAILABLE Mature, responsible person Call Suat at 668-6871

Real Estate

Copper ridge

11 Grizzly Circle

2 bed, 2 bath, big corner lot, fully landscaped, fenced yard. garage and partially finished basement. Priced to sell below it’s appraised value.

$364,900

Call realtor Mike racz ®

333-6410

HOUSE HUNTERS

USE 4 PM N HO M to OPEt 28 & 29 • 10 A ent n, Sep Sat & Su or by Appointm

2-BDRM CABIN, Tagish, Sidney Str, Lot 12, blue siding. Electric ready to hook up. Gd location, 5 minutes to bridge for fishing. Serious Inquiries only. Tony 780-926-1966

WATERFRONT PRimE RESidENcE plus Additional Two-bedroom Guest House

OPEN HOUSE Sat Oct 5, 1-3pm, 81-100 Lewes Blvd. 3 bdrms, 1.5 baths. Newly renoʼd, efficient oil monitor, huge deck, close to schools, buses & shopping. 668-6081

2 detached double garages plus an attached double garage

106 Judas creek drive $775,000.00

business opportunity

WATSON LAKE split level home. 2 acres, private well, 3 bdrms, 2 full baths, custom kitchen, attached heated workshop, garage & outbuildings, cement patio. Appraised at $250,000, asking $199,000. 867-536-7757 HAINES JUNCTION 2-storey house. Contemporary design, open concept on cul-de-sac, 10+ acres, Fire-smarted around house, lots of trees left, view of St. Elias Mtns, 1350 sq. ft. Rod 634-2240 FSBO-$219,000, 3-BDRM, 1.5 bath condo in Riverdale. Close to bus route, schools, grocery store, Grey Mtn, Yukon River, & many lakes. Walking distance to downtown. Viewing (867) 335-7083 NEW 2-BDRM upscale mobile home for only $124,000. 334-6094

5-bedroom certified green!

867-660-4106 for appointment & directions

A Better Built Home... in Less Time B&B for Sale in Watson Lake

the Victory - 2021 sq. ft.

EXCEPTIONAL DUPLEX FOR SALE: 2A HAyES PLACE, QUIET GRANGER NEIGHBOURHOOD

Over 2,100 sq. ft. of living space w/attached single garage. Upstairs: 3 bdrms, large living room, kitchen & a main 3-pce bathroom; master bdrm has 2-pce ensuite bath. Kitchen: Beautiful tile detailing & rear deck for BBQing.

Downstairs: Family room, laundry & in-law suite (1 bdrm, 1 bath, living/kitchen, separate parking & entrance).

Beautifully landscaped corner lot, fenced back yard. Construction: 1993, Heat: Electric and Oil, Bath: 2.5, Bed: 4 possibly 5, Crawl Space - 5’, quiet street, Possession: Immediate

333,000.00

$

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outside of Watson Lake by the ski hill and airport.

It is an income property and has a partially furnished 3 bedroom Bed and Breakfast set up and ready on the upstairs floor. The main house has a renovated kitchen and new flooring in most of the house. 2 bedrooms, a bathroom, and the laundry room on the main floor.

Finished full basement. Wood boiler heats the house with an oil back up. There is a greenhouse, small garage and one storage building. Wrap around driveway.

Price reduced to $269,000 for quick sale

brand new moduline in benchmark

Your Yukon Dream Home!

Tel: 867-667-6376 Email: horses@exploreyukon.com

HOUSE HUNTERS E HOUS PM OPENer 21st • 2:00 to 4:00 b m te ep S Saturday,

$154,900 BRaNd NEw

clivemdrummond@gmail.com

10 Carlisle Place Whitehorse

867-332-6074

SIGN # 703005

23 Lorne Rd. in McCrae

SIGN # 703063

$515,000

780-632-2506 www.propertysold.ca

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667-7681 or cell 334-4994

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2-bedroom upscale mobile home.

124,000

$ Reduced to For Quick Sale

#303 - 27 Azure Road Whitehorse

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SIGN # 143590

$499,000

10 minutes from down town Mile 906 Alaska Hwy.

867-334-4174

867-393-3401

MT. SIMA 4-BEDROOM ON 3 ACRES!

brand new porter creek 3-bdrm condo

Call 334-6094 for more information.

INCOME PROPERTY - MARY LAKE - 2 HOUSES 1 LOW PRICE 2012 SUPER EFFICIENT MANUFACTERED HOME. 2X8 CONSTRUCTION FOR R-28 WALLS R-50 ROOF

COMPLETELY RENOVATED AND APPROVED 3 BED, 1 BATH LEGAL “GARDEN SUITE” RENTED @ $1600 /M

Great property with two residences. Can live in the one and pay for your mortgage with the other. Two individual residences on one property. Garden Suite - approved and fully fenced with a dog-run. Three bedrooms; one bath; and attached garage.

Newly painted. New cabinets and countertop. Approved wood stove and propane heat. Main Residence - NEW - WONDERFUL - with three bedrooms and two baths.

Open concept kitchen/dining. Master Bedroom has a great walk-in wardrobe(4'6x9').

Ensuite bathroom is amazing, also with a walk-in wardrobe. Super insulated. Manufactured 27x64 - 8" walls. Fenced. Propane heat. 2000 Gallon holding tank with alarm. Alarm will come on at 500 Gallons remaining. Septic field for Garden Suite.

FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT UPNORTH REALTY SALES LTD. ANGIE RICHARDSON 867-667-7000 3 Bonanza Pl Whitehorse, Yukon

$599,000.00

2.8 ACRES IN MARY LAKE BACKS ONTO GREEN BELT

OPEN HOUSE SAT. OCT 5 1:30PM - 3:00PM 9 IRIS PACE

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SIGN # 703066

$599,000 17 Kettle Lake Place Whitehorse

867-334-4994 Amazing Home Priced To Sell Immediately!

Private Sale By Owners Extremely Motivated To Sell!

Over $10,000 Worth Of Furniture And Appliances Included In Sale!

129 FINCH CRESCENT

369,000

$

A MUST SEE!

Call 334-4224 or 667-7704 to arrange a viewing.

Let’s negotiate your new home today!

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SIGN # 143601

$289,500 42 - 25 Wann Road Whitehorse

867-633-4709 This 1900 square foot bi-level home is on prime, much sought-after greenbelt. Fully renovated 3-bedroom, 2-bathroom. Country-style kitchen, dining room, 2 bedrooms and living room on the main level. Lower level has another bedroom, huge open area ideal for studio or fourth bedroom, laundry tucked away behind closet doors, another bathroom, storage room and an incredible entertainment room – with custom shelving, gorgeous cherry floors, and wired surround sound in the walls. Durable laminate throughout with carpets in bedrooms. Back entrance off the main level has dog door built-in, and opens onto a huge recently built and finished deck. New low-maintenance landscaping and fully fenced backyard is specifically designed with large dogs in mind! Long driveway, Auto Tent, new shed and ample storage accompany this property.

Additional parking in front, close to schools, school bus pick up right out the door, 30 second walk to bus route, great parks within minutes. Cost effective propane heat with new propane tanks, and Energy Star appliances ensure lower electricity bills. Vivint security system for entire home will save you money on insurance plus detect fire, smoke and carbon monoxide! Furniture includes Shaw satellite, dining room table and chairs, two leather couches, chaise lounge, sofa, bookshelves, patio furniture and stone deck fire pit.

5 ATLIN lake view town lots. Prime location, top of Discovery Ave & 3rd St. 1 double lot incls old log house, $165,000 takes all.

Email: mjbhome14@live.co.uk or John 250-676-9597 ATLIN, 16'X20'LOG Cabin on 2' pony wall on compacted gravel pad. 50' x 100' Town lot. Overgrown firelanes on 2 sides. 100amp, 2 phone lines, Outhouse-no running water. $50,000. gacrawford@hughes.net 3-BDRM 2-BATH house on large treed lot, full bsmnt suite, will sell completely furnished or unfurnished. 49 Redwood St. 633-6553 SOOKE, BC. Mobile home. Lovely adult park. Sunny and bright w/flowers in March and a place to go year round! Get out of the snow without leaving Canada! $129,000!

456-7140 TRAILER FOR sale. 3 bdrms, new furnace, large deck, storage shed, 4 appliances, 102 Benchmark Trailer Park, $35,000. 335-3071

action realty realtor

Help Wanted EXPERIENCED BOOKKEEPER required for fast-growing accounting services company.

Experience using Sage 50 (Simply Accounting) required.

Must have ability to work with minimal supervision and deal directly with clients.

Email resumes: admin@accurateyt.ca Journeyman Automotive Technician required for domestic light truck repair shop.

Must have diesel experience.

For more info and to schedule an interview Call Adam at: 334-6378 Family Day Home in Cowley Creek seeking level 1 childcare worker 2 days per week (flexible on days).

References, Police check, 1st Aid/CPR, medical & TB testing required.

Perfect for stay at home mom, as there is potential to bring a child along.

FDH closed Christmas holidays and Spring Break.

Start date DECEMBER 2, 2013 Please call Mary @ 668-3348 WANT to work as a part-time tour guide?

Do you speak Spanish? We are a local tour company looking for Spanish-speaking tour guides for this winter. Call 667-2209

®

®

A Professional at Your Side

Looking for experienced housekeepers/front desk persons to work.

Please apply with resume to Bonny, Stratford Motel, 401 Jarvis Street.

No phone calls, please.

867.334.1111 vivianetessier@remax.net

Miscellaneous for Sale

667-2514 ®

RE/MAX Action REAlty • WhitEhoRsE yukon Each Office Independently Owned & Operated

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BETTER BID NORTH AUCTIONS Foreclosure, bankruptcy De-junking, down-sizing Estate sales.

Specializing in estate clean-up & buy-outs.

The best way to deal with your concerns.

Free, no obligation consultation.

333-0717

MEADE SCHMIDT-CASSEGRAIN 8" Telescope. Too many accessories to list. Asking $1250 obo. Contact 867-335-7154 YOUTH WINTER jackets, Lands End, girls sz 10-12, $30. Loki, sz 10/12 patagonia, xl, $35. 311B Hanson Str MODEL CARS & trucks, 1/24th -1/25th scale. Most are new/sealed, many to choose from $10-$20 each & up. 667-6717.

LADIES "COWBOY Threads" western style vest. New, never worn, with tags. Small. $25.

667-6717.

COLLECTORʼS ITEM, extra large Bowie knife, engraved blade. $150. Serious inquiries only. 668-2011 MILLER ECONO Tig with gun, remote and electrode holder, hardly used, $1350 obo.

Mike 335-1888 OSBORNE WOOD-BURNING fireplace insert in gd cond, $350. 633-6238 aft 6pm NEST HERO Classic Educational VHS videos. 11 complete with activity books for each. Hard to find! $50 for the set. 667-6717.

NEW WALL tent + bag. 10x12 with aluminum frame $1300. 12x14 with frame $1500.

Top quality marine grade canvas. Canadian Made. 335-1713 HONDA GENERATOR EB 2200X, like new.

633-6553

NortherN VisioN DeVelopmeNt operates four year-rouND full-serVice yukoN hotels

(www.yukonhotels.com) • Best Western Gold Rush Inn • Coast High Country Inn & Yukon Convention Centre • The Edgewater Hotel • The Downtown Hotel, Dawson City We are accepting resumes for current and anticipated future openings for the following positions, both full-time and part-time/casual: • line cook and kitchen helper (chef@nvdlp.com) • food & Beverage servers (fbdirector@yukonhotels.com) • front Desk / Night audit (reservations@yukonhotels.com) • housekeeping / Janitorial (madelyn@yukonhotels.com) Please forward you resume to the appropriate email address above or drop-off in person at any of our hotel front desks.

MENʼS SEIKO quartz watch w/gold nuggets on face, as new, $700. Menʼs gold wedding ring w/3 diamonds. Appraised @ $875. Offers. 332-6565 FRANKLIN MINT collectable plates in orig box w/papers. Assortment of antique glassware collection, 8 sets of salt & pepper shakers. 667-2844 9000 WATT generator Work Force, $700 obo. 660-5922 FENCE POSTS. 4 Bundles of 8 ft x 5-6” treated blunt fence posts. 60/bundle. $2200.

Call 335-2648 SILVER FLAT framed mirror, 37.5x26”, $40.

Totem food smoker, $50. Vintage milk can, painted silver, $40. 667-2844 3 TON chain hoist, new. 633-6553

REDUCED PRICE - MONTH OF OCTOBER ONLY 5 Lupin Place • $699,900 • www.5Lupin.com

invites applications on behalf of the TESLIN TLINGIT JUSTICE COUNCIL for the position of

Peacemakers

This position is appointed by the Teslin Tlingit Justice Council (s. 8 of the Teslin Tlingit Council Peacemaker Court& Justice Act) Teslin Tlingit Peacemakers will provide an invaluable service to the community and represent an important element to public confidence in the administration of justice as represented within and provided by the Peacemaker Court.

Teslin Tlingit Peacemakers will handle both Stage I: Years 1-4 court matters (conflict resolution and mediation) and Stage II: Years 5+ matters (adjudication of Teslin Tlingit Laws and other federal and/or territorial laws based upon agreement with Teslin Tlingit Council). The Peacemakers may have senior administrative duties in relation to the operation of Peacemaker Court.

Highlights • Park Like & Private • Over 200K in Recent Renovations • 3200 sq ft

• Fully Landscaped

• 5BR / 4.5BTH

• In-Law Suite

• Over 3 Acres

• Amazing Views & Sun

• Sub-dividable Lot

• Mary Lake Subdivison

c 867.335.4868 o 867.667.2514 ext. 27 e chris@chrismeger.ca 49B Waterfront Place Whitehorse, Yukon Y1A 6V1

www.chrismeger.ca

A Peacemaker must have: • Knowledge and understanding of Ha Kus Teyea (Tlingit Way), Teslin Tlingit Council structure and operations including: 9 Teslin Tlingit Final Agreement and Implementation Plan 9 Self Government Agreement and Implementation Plan 9 Teslin Tlingit Constitution 9 Administration of Justice Agreement and Implementation Plan 9 Teslin Tlingit Council Peacemaker Court and Justice Council Act 9 Teslin Tlingit Council Laws, Regulations and Policies 9 Teslin Tlingit Council Strategic Framework • Knowledge and understanding of the principles of judicial independence, impartiality and fairness within the Peacemaker Court operations, principles of natural justice and rules of evidence • Knowledge and understanding of Yukon Court processes and Court Registry Services • Capacity to exercise sound judgment based upon common sense and Ha Kus Teyea • Ability to communicate effectively, clearly and concisely orally and in writing • Excellent analytical skills Education & Experience • Successful completion of BC Justice Institute Professional Certification which includes but is not exclusive to: conflict resolution, mediation, how to conduct a fair and impartial hearing, conflict of interest rules, dealing with victim/offender dynamics, victim psychology • Experience in the administration of justice and/or restorative justice services beneficial • Demonstrated experience as a team leader and/or managerial experience • Experience in a legal and/or court proceedings • Experience in dealing with a wide variety of professionals, and officials from other levels of governments, Territorial Courts, Clan Leaders, Elders and TTC Citizens For more information please call Georgina Sydney, Justice Implementation Coordinator at 867.390.2532 ext 400 To apply, please submit a cover letter and resume to Teslin Tlingit Justice Council c/o: Justice Implementation Coordinator Teslin Tlingit Council Box 133 Teslin, Yukon Y0A 1B0 Email: georgina.sydney@ttc-teslin.com

Closing Date: Wednesday, October 9th, 2013 **no later than 4pm**

EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY www.ttc-teslin.com

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Friday, October 4, 2013 VARIOUS CAMERAS & film projector w/screen, 1920s to 1970s. 667-2844 lv msg KODAK CAROUSEL slide projector model 760H, with 8 trays, $50. 668-2802 HOUSEPLANTS, SPIDER plants, grape ivy 4ʼ long, lipstick vine 4ʼ long, $5-$30/ 660-4321 COMMERCIAL PROPANE QUEST 48” griddle. $600. 333-0943

Champagne and Aishihik First Nations

JOB OPPORTUNITY – SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

Collections Officer\Exhibit Designer Regular Full Time Salary: $56,657.17 - $66,280.88 Location: Haines Junction Reporting to the Director of Language, Culture & Heritage, the Collections Officer\Exhibit Designer is responsible for the care of CAFN’s Heritage Collection, including overseeing the development, maintenance, preservation, research, collection, cataloging, storage and shipping of artwork, artifacts, specimens and cultural objects.

Planning, organizing and participating in the design of exhibit displays and special projects of the Da Ku Cultural Centre; utilizing design techniques to produce desired visual effect and educational messages.

ORTHODONTIC OFFICE Clinical Assistant & Reception Staff needed for Orthodontic office

Fulltime/Part-time.

Certification or experience helpful but not necessary.

Please email your resume to astrelzow@telus.net or call our Vancouver office at 604-738-8448.

Application deadline: 4:30 p.m. on October 15, 2013 Send Applications and/or resumes to: Human Resource Assistant Champagne & Aishihik First Nations Fax: (867) 634-2108 | Ph: (867) 634-4244 | Email: jgraham@cafn.ca

Wanted a …

Designer / Installer Full-time & Part-time

Email resumes to Jennifer MacCleary: coolconcepts@live.ca or drop by in person: 102-166 Titanium Way, Whitehorse YT

Chief Administration Officer

WAGE:

Dependent upon experience, knowledge and suitability

STATUS:

Permanent Full-Time Position in Atlin British Columbia

CLOSING DATE:

Thursday, October 10, 2013 4:00 PM

JOB SUMMARY Reporting to the Chief Administration Officer, the Manager, Health and Social Services is responsible for planning, organizing, assessing and controlling the programs to create opportunities and support for Taku River Tlingit citizens; MAIN DUTIES 1.

Responsible for preparing, managing and controlling Social and Health budgets.

2.

Obtaining resources to deliver programs by developing and submitting proposals to appropriate funding agencies. Carry out and maintain obligations set out in the agreements of approved proposals.

3.

Managing the provision of social assistance (SA), child welfare services and adult care services.

4.

Working closely with Spokesperson/Clan Directors Council, Elders and Citizens on all activities in the Social and Health programs; keeping them informed of changes in the process of Aboriginal Health programs as they occur.

5.

Responsible for the Human Resources Management of the Department.

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE Completion of Grade 12 with post-secondary management courses, and courses in Social Services and Health, experience working with First Nations and/or a combination of education, training and experience working in a management position.

CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT • Class 5 drivers license • Criminal Record Check • Willingness to travel APPLICATION PROCESS To obtain a more detailed job description or to submit a resume and covering letter, please contact: Mel Orecklin, Chief Administration Officer (250) 651-7930 Fax: (250) 651-7909 Email: cao@TRTFN.com We thank all those who apply but only those who are being considered will be contacted.

PRINTS ALL framed, with glass and signed by artists: Jim Robb, Moon Over The KLondyke and Caribou Crossing. Robert Bateman, End of Season Griizzley. 633-6553

TAYLOR SOFT ICE CREAM machine $5,595 Char broiler $650 Pizza warmer $450 867-862-7111 TELESCOPIC ALUMINUM plank ladder, nw, $65. 335-8964 ELECTRIC STEAMER Tobi upright/portable for steaming clothing, curtains, etc. $20.

667-6966 CDʼS 3 for $5. bread maker. 393-2600 or 335-7052 MOROCCAN CARPETS, $320-$420. 335-8964

authentic,

WANTED: 2ND hand rear tine garden rotor tiller in gd cond. 633-4135 or 456-3802 ALPINETEK MENS 10 boot, leather upper, rubber bottom, w/thinsulate, brand new. $10.

633-3114 lv msg HOBBY TRUCK/CAR kits, not opened (lace trim - R/R tracks, accessories). Free small toilet & sink. 667-7144 ICEFIELDS WINTERBOOT, mens 8 [sorel type like], like new $10. Sugi low winter boot mens 7, w/thinsulate, removeable liners, used but gd cond, $5. 633-3114 lv msg

Manager of the Health and Social Services Department SUPERVISOR:

WINDOOR RECYCLER We buy and sell, new/used windows, doors and other hardware building supplies.

We now carry brand new exterior doors prehung, windows, etc.

333-0717

2 WATER pumps: Briggs and Stratton 21/2 inch and Honda 11/2 inch. 633-6553

You must be able to work independently We are a sign shop looking for a Graphic Designer/ installer. Previous experience is an asset.

Taku River Tlingit First Nation

TESTING SLUICE custom built 8 ft but breaks down to put in a chopper, comes with Honda Pump and venturie hose, all new.

633-6553

FORCED AIR propane heater 30,000 BTU, like new. 633-6553

An Eligibility List will be established from this posting.

Underfills will be considered.

PATIO-GRADE SLATE flagstones, 80-90 stones, covers approx 110 sq ft. Must be picked up. Asking $1860 for all. 668-1850

CATERPILLER LEATHER boot [looks like a workboot but no steel], mens 10 wide, very gd cond, $10. 633-3114 lv msg BAMBOO BLINDS. 72x60 $15, 36x72 $10.

View at 311B Hanson

Be part of one of Canada’s most dynamic environmental and socioeconomic assessment processes and work with an energetic, progressive organization. We are committed to the well-being of our employees and encourage their personal and professional development.

LANDS END womens down, full length coat, sz med, $150. 555-0600 SIX INCH jiffy ice auger, hand powered, $25.

333-9084

We are an impartial, effective and efficient organization that provides assistance to all involved in the assessment process.

TEXTBOOKS FOR Yukon College Math 050. Half Price! Intermediate Algebra 11th edition $95, companion Student's Solutions Manual $27.50. Call 667-4583.

Manager, Designated Office Teslin Designated Office

HOT WHEELS cases of 72 brand new cars.

One all GM, one all Mopar, and one First Edition. $150 each. 667-6717.

Full-time term position (one year)

Located in Teslin, this position reports to the Executive Director and is responsible for managing the daily operations of the designated office. This position conducts and leads environmental and socio-economic assessment of projects within the designated area to identify environmental and socio-economic impacts while incorporating traditional knowledge of First Nations and local knowledge into assessments. This includes identifying project effects and mitigation measures for adverse effects, determining the significance of any residual effects and developing recommendations.

The annual salary range for this position is $79,268 - $91,641 based on 75 hours biweekly.

If you feel you have the qualifications and desire to meet the challenges of this position please forward a cover letter and resume outlining how your experience and qualifications relate directly to the position.

A job description is available at the YESAB Head Office, Suite 200 – 309 Strickland Street, Whitehorse, the Teslin Designated Office at 8 McLeary Street, Teslin, or on our website at www.yesab.ca.

Please submit applications to: Finance and Administration Manager, YESAB Suite 200 – 309 Strickland Street, Whitehorse, YT Y1A 2J9 Ph: 867.668.6420 Fax: 867.668.6425 or email to yesab@yesab.ca Toll free: 1.866.322.4040 Resumes must be received by October 20, 2013.

COLEMAN LIQUID gas 2 burner camp stove, burns white gas camping fuel. $30.

333-9084 THREE OUTSIDE metal doors w/jams/hardware. 2.8 x 6.8 door w/20 x 64 glass insert.

3.0 x 6.8 door w/1/2 moon glass. Full Metal door 2.8 x 6.8 . $400 obo. 333-9953 POULAN 14 inch model P3314 chainsaw, low hours on this saw. $60. 333-9084 VANGUARD ENDEAVOR ed 8x42 binoculars, camo, like new, $350. 335-9510 CLARK 5-SPD bench mounted drill press, new in box, $180 obo. 332-7879 BOOK ON Colt single actions from Patersons to Peacemakers, mint cond. 668-2011 “WEE PEGGY” New Zealand spinning wheel in immaculate cond, $150. 633-2493 12” SLIDING Dual Compound Mitre Saw, model 8390 (King). True -cut twin laser blade system, brand new cond, inclʼs Benchmark universal power tool stand (new), $375 obo.

667-2040 TOYO STOVE, Laser 60AT, $2,000. Tank, $1,300. Propane stove, $400. Tom 667-2075 200 GAL home heating fuel tank, Tidy Tank, new last fall, c/w fill kit. $2,000 new, asking $1,000 firm. 668-2866 or 333-9958 CHILTON TRUCK & van repair manual, 1982-1988.668-2011 FARM RAISED PORK AVAILABLE. Sold by whole pig or half. $4 per pound.

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Friday, October 4, 2013 SMALL CERAMIC Christmas Tree with twinkle lights, $25. 668-5882

E M P L OY M E N T O P P O RT U N I T Y

ASSORTED VINYL siding accessories & heating/venting materials (left over from building a new home). Best offer. 334-9903

Yukon News Classified/Order Entry 25-30 hours per week

STEGER MUKLUKS, Yukon Jack style. Men Sz 12 wide New in box, never worn. Save the shipping to Yukon, $200. 334-5110

The award winning

METAL DOME garage 16 x 20. Currently standing, will be taken down for transport, c/w man door & garage door, $5,000 firm.

334-4134

has an exciting opportunity for a

SPILSBURY TINDALL SBX 11 2-way radio with aerial, exc shape, $600. 332-6565 K&E BRUNTEN compass with case. Offers.

332-6565 NEW 2013 GE 50 gallon liquid propane water heater, 36,000 BTUs, recovers @ GPM, 6 yr warranty. Does not work for the heating system we are installing, $600 firm.

333-0744 DEEP FRYER, commercial use. Propane Frymaster by Garland, $400 obo. 335-0629 aft 5pm NEW 2500 gal Fibreglass septic tank, $2,500. rickaley@yahoo.ca or 867-851-6451 2 WOODS 5 Star Arctic sleeping bags. New, never used, rated -50. Retail price $749/ea.

Asking $600/ea or $1,100/both. Daryl 634-2321 eves @ 7pm

COUNSELLOR (Term)

Department: Health Closing: Oct. 7, 2013 Salary - Level 6: $66,107 - $79,329 per annum To view full details on all opportunities, visit www.kwanlindun.com/employment

classified/order entry clerk

Seeking a

F/T Customer Service Representitive You are a mature person who is looking for a long term position with an established company that has a competitive wage and benefits package. You also enjoy giving a high level of customer service to people looking for fine gifts and jewellery.

The successful candidate will be responsible for booking and servicing classified orders along with order entry duties and clerical responsibilities.

This person must be a team player with exceptional customer service skills, solid English grammar, have attention to detail and the ability to work in a fast paced environment. Black Press is an internationally recognized newspaperpublishing group with more than 190 publications in B.C, Yukon, Alberta, Washington State, Hawaii, California and Ohio.

Please apply in person with resume to

Murdoch’s, 207 Main Street

Interested candidates please submit resumes to wordads@yukon-news.com, attention Operations Manager, or forward to Yukon News, 211 Wood Street Whitehorse, Yukon YIA 2E4.

3 FREE-STANDING display cabinets, custom built, sold oak on pedestal bases, 7ʼx3ʼ, 5ʼx3ʼ, 3ʼx3ʼ, 38” high. Previously @ Northend Gallery & Lapis, $1,500 obo. 633-3476 INSULATED CHIMNEY, 12ft x7in id, 1inch insulated $100 obo 668-3508 HOTSY 220V hot water pressure washer, $2,800. 336-0995 WOOD BURNING stove. 667-6770 SEVEN INUIT and Haida Stone and Argillite carvings. One piece is an Argillite carved pendant by Denny Dixon. $500 for all. Call Jack at 336-1990 INVERSION BALANCING back board stretcher, relives disks & pinched nerves, $200 obo. 2 hanging lights, 5 bulb, nickel finish, $100 obo. Diesel generator, air cooled, 4 stroke, $1,200 obo. 667-7107

À LA RECHERCHE D’UN EMPLOI?

MOSQUITO MAGNET, the good version that sucks them into a basket, c/w some spare accessories. Used 2 summers, works well.

Paid $4--, asking $75. Moving south.

668-3243 HOTSY 110V hot water pressure washer, $1,800. 336-0995

Des professionnels engagés Conseils en développement de carrière Création, amélioration et traduction de CV Simulation d’entrevue

LPG TANK for automotive use. Manchester 29 gallon. Still has propane in it, $50.

668-3243 VINTAGE KEEPER wine cooler, with bullet-proof glass doors, holds 500 bottles, $1,000. 334-3238 1 CORD of nice dry spruce firewood in Riverdale. You pick up only. $225. 336-1990 FIRST EDITION Jack London book “Smoke Bellow” excellent condition. Collection of stories of the Klondike. $375 firm. Call Jack at 336-1990 FREE MOOSE bones and some scrap meat available - suitable for dogs. 456-7490

4 days a week Mon-Thurs 7am 3pm

We are looking for an enthusiastic mature individual with an appreciation for punctuality, quality baking, cleanliness and a healthy lifestyle. Please bring your resume explaining why you are interested in helping us.

EXQUISITELY CARVED Haida pipe... very old, in mint condition. $750. Call Jack at 336-1990 INTERTHERM FURNACE, c/w chimney.

667-6770

Gluten free/raw - cook/baker

Des services personnalisés et des ressources utiles.

Éducation

Direction de l’enseignement postsecondaire

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

Now HiriNg The Real Canadian Superstore in Whitehorse, YT has immediate opportunities for talented part-time colleagues who are passionate about providing an exceptional shopping experience for customers and delighting them every step of the way! We are currently recruiting for:

• Joe Apparel Clerks • Front End-Cashiers, Courtesy Clerks • Optical Clerks We offer our colleagues progressive careers, comprehensive training, flexibility and a benefits package. Interested applicants please apply online at www.loblaw.ca or in person at the Real Canadian Superstore. No phone calls please.

Chief Administrative Officer

Village of Haines Junction

The Village of Haines Junction invites applications for consideration for the position of CAO. Reporting to Mayor and Council, the position is responsible for the overall administration functions of the municipal departments, as per the Yukon Municipal Act and the policies and bylaws of the Village.

The ideal candidate should have a minimum of five years’ experience in municipal senior management and should have: • • • • •

Proven track record in municipal operations Excellent communications and interpersonal skills Growth and infrastructure renewal experience Grant development and budget preparation Certificate in local government or relevant post-secondary education

The pay range for this position is $81,510 - $103,740 per annum and includes an attractive benefits package.

The closing date for applications will be 5:00 p.m., Friday, October 11, 2013.

Please address resumes and cover letter to: Acting Mayor / CAO Michael Crawshay Village of Haines Junction Box 5339 Haines Junction, Yukon Y0B 1L0 Ph.: (867)634-7100 Fax: (867)634-2008 Email: vhj@yknet.ca The Village of Haines Junction thanks everyone for their interest, however only those selected for an interview will be contacted.

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FIRST EDITION A.C. Harris book “Alaska and the Klondike Gold Fields” excellent condition with fold out 1989 map. Mining in the Klondike. $350 firm. Call Jack at 336-1990 ORIGINAL WATERCOLOUR painting of the SS Klondike in it's last year of operation.

Original Frame. Painted in 1955 by BL Greene in Whitehorse. $475 firm. Call Jack at 336-1990 4 PLATE-GLASS shelves, 12” deep by 8ʼ long, 8 plate-glass shelves, 10” deep by 8ʼ long. They come with brackets for slotted wallboard, all for $350 obo. 633-3476 ALASKA-YUKON PACIFIC Exposition plate. Seattle 1909. $45. 1898 Tlingit cedar bark encased ink bottle. $65. Beautiful carved Haida Sheephorn ladle circa 1900-1930. perfect condition. $400. Call Jack at 336-1990 FREE TO charity group or individual an abundant yarn stash. Incls wool & synthetic yarn for all types of projects. Great for craft group. 633-6687

Electrical Appliances KENMORE DRYER, front loader, works great, $300. Also nw pump out of Kenmore washer, $40. 332-7797

CONVECTION OVEN, professional HD, ideal for restaurant, Turbo Chef model #HHB, $1,500 obo. Don 335-0629 aft 5pm

KENMORE PORTABLE dishwasher, exc cond, $150. 633-4772

WASHER & dryer, $200 obo. 393-2600 or 335-7052 KENMORE WASHER and Dryer, cannot deliver, asking $400. Info: 332-1967 8 CU ft HD deep freeze. New this year, used only this summer. Has a few scratches on the exterior as we just moved with it. New $300 asking $150. 667-6651 HOT POINT range, gd working cond. $100.

Call 633 3705

Yukon Region (based in Whitehorse or Dawson City) Regular Part-time (18.75 hours per week) At the Canadian Cancer Society, we undertake our fundraising activities for one reason—to raise critical funds to fulfill our mission of eradicating cancer and improving the quality of life for people with cancer and their families.

A talented people and project manager, you will coordinate our fundraising and community engagement efforts within Whitehorse and Dawson City, including annual giving efforts. Acting as spokesperson, you'll transform stakeholder relationships into strong, productive partnerships. And you'll be recruiter and rallying force for the committees and teams of volunteers, donors and cancer survivors behind every successful Relay for Life and Daffodil campaign you oversee.

You have 1 – 3 years' experience in revenue development along with an excellent knowledge of the revenue development landscape. Your project and event management skills as well as your coaching, mentoring, presentation and problem-solving abilities also come highly rated.

For more information about this opportunity and to apply online by October 16, 2013, please visit cancer.ca/bc. Alternatively, you can submit your cover letter and résumé in one document to resumes@bc.cancer.ca.

cancer.ca

Taku River Tlingit First Nation Manager - Capital, Housing and Public Works

WAGE: Dependent upon experience, knowledge and suitability STATUS: Permanent Full-Time Position in Atlin British Columbia CLOSING DATE: Thursday, October 10, 2013 4:00 PM

JOB SUMMARY Reporting to the Chief Administration Officer, the Manager of the Capital, Housing and Public Works Department is responsible for:

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SEARS BEST refrigerator, $200. 633-2580 eves SHARP 900 watt nuker, w/revoling glass plate, clean, works well, has manual, $10.

633-3114 lv msg

Coordinator, Revenue Development

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EUREKA VICTORY upright vac w/light,11 amps, new belt, bag. Has cleaning tools, manual, air filter. Has floor height selector. Is clean, works well. $25. 633-3114 lv msg

PANNINI SANDWICH maker by Pane Bella, model USA 24-6, ideal for commercial use, $350 obo. Don 335-0629 aft 5pm

Join our team to help us deter, defeat and defy cancer.

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Providing the full range of project management services for Taku River Tlingit First Nation (TRTFN) capital projects; Developing and implementing procedures to ensure that the maintenance and repair of housing, community building and the water and sewage systems are efficient and effective; Forecasting and implementing budget control and managing human resources; and Working with the Housing Committee in developing and implementing Housing Program objectives and policies.

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE Completion of Grade XII, and a postsecondary diploma or degree in a related discipline; or a combination of education and training with at least five years’ experience in a related field. Experience working with First Nations.

CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT • Class 5 drivers license • Criminal Record Check • Willingness to travel APPLICATION PROCESS To obtain a more detailed job description or to submit a resume and covering letter, please contact: Mel Orecklin, Chief Administration Officer (250) 651-7930 Fax: (250) 651-7909 Email: cao@TRTFN.com We thank all those who apply but only those who are being considered will be contacted.

FREE! MICROWAVE, 32” television. Both in gd working order. 633-2751 WASHER & dryer, $300 obo. 456-2406 FREE INGLIS dryer, extra large capacity.

456-7852 GE DRYER, 1 yr old. Offers. 633-5938 PROPANE STOVE, 20", 4 burners, oven & broiler drawer, works well. Compact, ideal for cottage/camp use, $120. 667-6951 eves

TWO TVʼS, older models, various size.

393-2600 or 335-7052

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

50” SONY LCD TV. gd cond, needs bulb . $500 obo. 334-6103

PIANO LESSONS Being offered in my studio with European Conservatory Experience 1-RCM exams 2-Music festivals 3-Christmas concert 4-Lessons designed especially for adults Teacher with lots of patience Call Dusica 668-6970

Computers & Accessories CORNER COMPUTER desk, $80. 667-2844 lv msg LINKSYS WIRELESS G Router (in box) and 2 Adapters (1 new in box). Exc shape. $50. 667-6717 PS3: 2 remotes, Blueray, HDMI cable, 15 games: Red Dead Redemption, Blazing Angels 2, Battlefield 3, GoldenEye, Call of Duty Black Ops, Heroes Over Europe, Grand Theft Auto 4, etc. 335-8483 DELL OPTIPLEX745 computer w/Windows XP, 4GB RAM, 150GB hard drive, large monitor, w/Canon MP560 4-in-1 printer & laser fax machine, $275. 660-4443

FREE FRIDGE, 28”x65” high. 456-7852

DELL DESKTOP computer. Just nuked and paved. WinXP, MSOffice, 19” LCD monitor, speakers, $100. 332-1680 lv msg

WASHER & dryer set, gd working order, $100. 334-2902

EPSON PRINTER. FREE, works great, has installation CD. l 633-6687

STACKABLE WASHER & dryer, microwave, stove, portable dishwasher, 50 gal hot water tank. 667-6770

VARIOUS COMPUTER accessories. Free.

Incls keyboards, speakers, d-links card & CD cases. 633-6687

TVs & Stereos

Musical Instruments

Paying cash for good quality modern electronics.

G&R Pawnbrokers 1612-D Centennial St. 393-2274 BUY • SELL • LOANS

We will buy your musical instrument or lend you money against it.

G&R Pawnbrokers 1612-D Centennial St. 393-2274 BUY • SELL • LOANS

BELL EXPRESSVU 60 cm dish, qty 2, new, $20 each. 667-8726

FENDER ELECTRIC guitar w/hardshell case & amp, exc cond, $600 obo. 334-6103

12 STRING guitar $275. 668-2968 YAMAHA ELECTRIC guitar and practice amp .C/W tuner, soft shell case, cord and strap. $130. 333-9084 WILLIS UPRIGHT piano (Montreal) 3ʼx2ʼx5ʼ, never goes out of tune, a little beauty, $500.

633-2493 PIANO & matching storage bench. Beautifully ornamented upright, rich brown/ reddish tints, tuned & appraised locally. Must sell before first snow, $1,800. 668-5701

Firewood FIREWOOD FOR SALE 20-cord orders Big or small tree length Logging truck loads $150/cord Delivered to Whitehorse Call Clayton: 335-0894 HURLBURT ENTERPRISES $250 per cord We have wood. You-cut available.

Discount for larger quantities.

PROMPT Scheduled Delivery Visa, M/C, Check, Cash Dev Hurlburt 335-5192 • 335-5193

Duke’s Firewood Standing dry Beetle Killed Spruce

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

ORDER NOW 456-7432

taKing orderS for fall deliverieS

This government’s bureaucratic overkill (3 public consultations to harvest dead trees) and the incompetency of the Forestry Management Board to administer the Forest Resources Act to issue an extension to a present permit (that I had applied for November, 2012 to give me a supply until freeze-up) pushes the price of firewood up. The price is so high, many Yukoners are choosing to burn fossil fuels instead.

FIREWOOD $250 per cord Cut to length 4-cord load 667-6185

For every 4.7 cords of carbon-neutral wood burned, the equivalent fossil-fuel sourced heat adds 5.4 tonnes of CO2 to the atmosphere. YTG could reduce its carbon footprint by 50,000 tonnes per year by using the 100,000 m3 of dead trees for its energy needs from the Haines Junction area. History has proven time and again the area will burn up in wildfires. Harvesting these trees may save Haines Junction from burning up with the 350,000 hectares of dead trees.

DIMOK TIMBER 6 cord or 22 cord loads of firewood logs.

Call 634-2311

Wood Prices are: $240/cord for a 6-cord load $260/cord for multiples of 2 cords • Cut your own at $95/cord 20-cord truckload logs $155/cord

caSh and deBit accepted

334-8122

FIREWOOD 4 SALE Dry standing spruce cut to length.

Delivered within City Limits $250/Cord or $130/ Half Cord Call Stu @ 633-5041 CHAINSAW, 351 Husky 16” bar, 2 extra chains, not used since last service. $200 firm. 334-5408

INSTANT

CASH FOR GOLD Bring in Gold…

Leave with CASH! Open 7 Days A Week WHiteHorSe Money MArt 2190 Second Avenue (867) 668-6930

DONʼS FIREWOOD Prompt daily deliveries Commercially harvested beetle kill Social Services & Kwanlin Dun Price as of October 1st: $265 per cord 393-4397

BRAZILIAN MAUSER in 8mm Mauser, handmade hardwood stock, bedded and floated, recent refinish of whole rifle, inexpensive scope already mounted, $350, PAL req'd. 667-2276 RARE 30-30 Winchester model 1894, , manufactured 1906, octagonal nickel-steel barrel excellent condition. 633-6553 CANADIAN FIREARMS safety course. Presented by Whitehorse Rifle and Pistol Club.

Oct 5 & 6. Info: 334-1688 or 667-6728 PENTAX PF 80ED Spotting Scope with SMC 8-24mm Zoom, nw cond. $950 obo.

334-9551 NIKON FIELDSCOPE ED82 with 38X Zoom and FSA 1 and 2 and FSB 6 attachments for digiscoping. Nikon Fieldcase. Like New. $1150 obo. 334-9551 SAVAGE MARC 2, 22 caliber rifle w/ammo, bolt action w/clip, exc cond, FAC reqʼd. $200 obo. 334-1514 RUGER MINI 14 $875 Mint Condition .

Remington 870 12. gauge $550 New. Lee Enfield 4MK1 303. Vg. $300. Contact 867-335-7154 TURKISH MAUSER, .308 in working cond, must have valid PAL. $225 firm. 335-2182 SAVAGE, 25C, P series, .22 barrel on top, 20 gauge under, vg cond, great grouse gun, $300. 667-2607 HUNTING RIFLE, Ruger, M77, 270 Win, Leupold scope, M8x4, must have firearms licence, $550. 334-1326 ZEISS CONQUEST 3-9x40 riflescope, rapid z 600 reticle. exc. conditon. $475 335-8925 SKULL CLEANING European mounts using Dismasted beetles From a mouse to a moose Very reasonable rates 335-2034 HUNTING TREE stand. 2-5ʼ lengths + 3ʼ high hunterʼs seat. Made of metal, $40.

633-3113

Wanted WANTED: AUTO tow dolly for small car.

Pivot point(s) & surge brakes preferred.

667-2356 LOOKING FOR some solid wood interior doors (used or new), in any shape. Will pay reasonable price and will pick up! 393-2041 WANTED: USED 32” flatscreem TV for $300. 668-4190 rm #23 WANTED: A small heating pad for the bed, in exc cond. 456-7059.

LOOKING FOR a Yamaha Phazar or Mtn Lite, btwn years 1987-1998. For parts.

667-6525 LOOKING FOR freezer space to store a frozen moose for a couple months, or a deep freeze for sale. 335-9925 LOOKING FOR a ride share from Skagway to Whitehorse or Atlin for the 25th or 27th October. Contact: flo-flo-56@hotmail.fr WANTED: LIGHT blue and/or black marble-look self adhesive tiles that used to be sold at Home Hardware. Have extras?

668-5188 WANTED: MAPS & books on Route 66 in USA. Virginia 633-3388 WANTED: “TORCH-ON” roofing material for 200 sq ft or more. Will pay. 333-0744 WANTED: RED wigglers for a classroom compost project. Kevin 667-7684 WANTED: LARGER size snowblower app.

30'' wide in working condition to keep my long driveway open. 667-7877

1-866-269-2783 • 9039 Quartz Rd. • Fraserway.com

1987 TOYOTA truck, 22R, standard, 2WD, $1,000. Richard. 821-4924

1983 TOYOTO Celica Supra, exc running cond. C/w box of spare parts. Asking $6,000 obo. 334-9823

2004 SIERRA 3500 dually crew cab, loaded, 4x4, diesel. Mech records. Nw tires, 211,000 kms. $22,000. 668-4663

1986 FLAT deck Chevy, exc cond. Great wood truck. $3600 obo. 334-6103

1981 CHEVY Malibu 2dr, has v8 swap.

Newer transmission, rad, alternator, starter, and battery. New 245/60/15 on blk wheels.

Gd heat and stereo. $2500 obo. Txt or call 867-334-8454

2003 CHEV extended cab, short box, 4WD, Durmax deisel, most options. 211,000 kms. $11,000 obo. 399-3014

1985 CHEVY Camaro, 120,000 kms, summer/winter tires, nw parts & paint, $3800 obo. Needs to be gone. 335-3333

Certified

1985 CLASSIC Chevy Citation II, restored with low miles. New paint, spare set of winter tires. Collector car, $2,350 obo. 335-2312 or 668-3243

used vehicles

Guns & Bows

LEE ENFIELD No 1 Mk 3, 303 British, 10 rd mag, sporterized wood, very good bore, military sights, steel scope rings mounted, $300, or $360 with decent 3-9x40mm scope mounted. PAL req'd. 667-2276

We Sell Trucks!

1987 FORD Ranger XLT std 2WD, 2 gas tanks, gray w/white canopy, engine runs well & fires quick, front passenger side is damaged due to a minor accident, rear passenger tire has a slow leak, $500. 335-1404

Cars

FIREWOOD: $170.00 per cord 20 ft. logs 5 cord loads.

Small delivery charge.

867-668-6564 Leave message

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

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online at

www.drivingforce.ca

2013 DODGE Dart, rand new, raffle prize.

Nice car, just don't need a car. Make us an offer. Email rjmoore56@northwestel.net or more info, 867-634-2720.

2012 DODGE Challenger SRT8, 1700kms, as new. rickaley@yahoo.ca or 867-851-6451 aft 9pm

1978 MERCEDES 280SLC sport, rare, coupe, rare 4-spd, 6 cyl in line, 151,000kms.

Any reasonable offer. Located in Whse.

Email mslc280@gmail.com or 604-522-3405 BEAUTIFUL IN/OUT red 2007 WV Jetta City, 2.0 4 cylinders with only 35,000 kms.

Manual transmission. $ 13,000 obo. Call eves to see. 633-6768

Trucks

2007 CHEV Impala LS, 4-dr, V6 auto, w/remote start, summer & ice tires, 160,000kms, blue, runs great, $6,900. 334-6685 2007 D O D G E Caliber, like new, 126,000kms, stnd. c/w extra tires, tow pkg, stereo system, garage door opener. $10,000 but open to offers. 867-456-4112 or 867-333-0236 2007 HONDA Civic, great on gas. $12,500 with 2 sets tires/rims, remote start, manual 5-spd. Clear windshield, new battery, maintenance records, detailed. 77,000 kms.

335-2648 2007 TOYOTA Sienna limited AWD 7 passenger minivan, only 72,000 kms, power sliding doors / rear hatch, sunroof, every option available....$19,800. 333-9020 2006 PONTIAC Solstice convertible sports car. A modern classic. 65,000 km, 2.4 4 cyl 177hp; 5 spd stnd. Immaculate. Great sound, great heater. $19,500. 633-5470.

2006 PONTIAC Wave, comand start, CD, bluetooth, near mint, only 82,000 kms. Exc on gas, 5 spd manual. Super clean. Dealer maintained. $5800. 456-9531 2006 SATURN Ion Quad Coupe, under 180 000 kms, well maintained. Winter tires only used few months. Upgraded HID headlights, great on fuel, super reliable car. $5000 OBO Call 250-734-3390 2005 MAZDA 6, 4 door, 4 cyl, auto, 160,000kms, loaded, $8,500 obo. 334-1115 2002 CHRYSLER Concorde LX sedan, 2.7L V6 automatic, all options, inclʼg leather in spotless cond, in top running cond, glass in perfect cond, 117,000 kms, $4,200.

335-3868 2002 MUSTANG, 80,000kms, 4.6L 5 speed, winter special. 633-2740 2002 NISSAN Sentra GXE, 4dr, 1.8l, 154,000kms, summer & winter tires, insured & safety inspected, $3,000 obo. 332-1939 2002 SUBARU Impreza WRX, 179,000 kms. $5000 obo. White, roof rack, extra muffler.

Priced to sell as it requires some work.

660-5505 2000 J E E P Cherokee 4X4. Well maintained,new brakes, seals, battery, belts, hoses. Interior, exterior in gd cond. Electric locks and windows. 379,000 kms. $3200 o b o .

6 3 3 - 3 7 3 8 . christinestephen7@hotmail.com.

1999 ACURA, 3.2, 4-dr sedan, exc cond, sun-roof, leather, 170,000 kms. $6800.

667-7370 1997 FORD, 9 passenger van, exc cond.

Clean inside. $21,000. 365,000 kms.

335-5500 1996 HONDA Civic CX 5-spd, new pads, tire, battery, approx. 180,000kms, $2,500 obo. Dave or Gus 393-4796 1995 FORD Taurus, auto, air, nw battery, 205,000 kms. Runs well. Clean & well maintained. $1500 obo. 633-2125 1994 PLYMOUTH Voyager, nw Michelin tires, nw brakes & struts & many other nw parts. Was asking $3400 now $3000 because of crack on windshield. Very reliable.

668-4885 or 1-250-321-4884 1993 EAGLE Talon Awd Turbo, standard, New radiator, stereo, thermostat, and battery Newer tires, $2000 obo. 336-0909 1992 CROWN Vic LX 100,000kms, old guy car hardly driven always kept indoors never winter driven almost like new cond, $2,800 obo. 335-2387 1990 EI50 immaculate interior by North American Coach. Exterior 9/10. 332-2246 1990 TOYOTA Camry, 5-spd standard.

668-2253 1989 CHRYSLER Daytona, PW, PL, 2-dr hatchback, $1200 obo. Needs to be gone.

335-3333 1984 MAZDA 626, new motor, tires, windshield, stereo, vg shape, $1,500. 821-4924

SALES • BODY SHOP • PARTS • SERVICE 1994 Chrysler LeBaron Convertible red............................................ $1,500 2005 Honda Pilot EX black ...........................................................................$13,900 2005 Chev Cavalier 4 dr, black, auto.......................................................$4,500 2006 Ford Crown Victoria V8 .......................................................................$4,995 2010 Kia Soul 4 door, auto, silver ............................................................$14,900 1999 FORD F150 S/C white.............................................................................. $2,595 IN-HOUSE FINANCING AVAILABLE!

2008 Toyota Corolla SE 4 door, auto white

10,550

$

2013 Hyundai Accent

NEW!

4-Wheel Drive 6 Speed, White

2012 Nissan Versa SV

4-Door Hatchback Grey, Low Kms

14,900

$

2012 Dodge Ram 1500 Quad 4x4 SLT Hemi Silver 24k

$

31,595

*VeHicLeS may not be exactLy aS SHoWn

OPEN 7 DAYS A WEEK In-House Financing Available

For Quick Approval call: 668-5559 #4 Fraser Road, McCrae, Whitehorse, YT Y1A 5S8

2003 FORD Explorer SportTrac, 4x4, 4-door, heated leather seats, sunroof, c/w 4 winter tires, p/u box cover & extension rack, $7,500. 667-6951 eves

1979 DODGE Power Wagon 200, PuRam, Clubcab, 4x4, V8, 6.3l, Automatic, 93,000Km, Black, Adventurer SE, tires like new, 2 Spares, 8ft Box, BC Plates. $ 2200. email: heidiwirth@gmail.com, message: 250-483-1276.

2003 FORD Ranger, 200,000kms, 1 cyl blown, gd set of winter tires, $1,000.

334-6092

1979 FORD F250 4x4, body rust, engine needs rebuild, trans & all 4x4 parts, in gd cond, offers. 332-6565

2003 HONDA CRV, 224,800 kms, 4WD, automatic, fully loaded, Well maintained, recent brake and suspension work, new tires, new battery. See Kijiji. $6,200 obo. Need a bigger vehicle, 335-7184.

Better Bid North Auction Vehicle Sales.

1987 Pontiac Tempest car $1,850.

2002 Pontiac Sunfire $2,750.

1997 Pontiac Grand Am $2,450.

1989 GMC 4x4 wood truck $995.

1987 Nissan Super Cab $1,800.

333-0717

2003 TOYOTA Tacoma. V6 engine, stnd transmission, 161,000 kms, well maintained.

Spray in box liner, matching canopy, winter tires (1 season), tow hitch. $14,000 obo.

333-0346 2001 CHEV Jimmy, leather, On Star, auto lock, 200,000 kms, 4.0L. 335-4387 2001 CHRYSLER Town & Country van, 155,000kms, fully loaded, leather. No dogs or smoking, command start, new tires, $4,750 obo. 633-4025 2001 DODGE Dakota Sport RT, 5.9L, runs exc, auto, new tires, very fast, low kms, rare, $7,200. 633-2740 2001 NISSAN Pathfinder, $5,500 obo, black, 130,000kms, V6, 4x4, remote start, c/c, p/w&l, cage in rear, tinted rear windows.

Runs well, could use some work, body damage, new battery. 334-6250 2001 NISSAN Xterra. Lightly used for past 2 years. Runs fabulously in winter w/absolutely no issues. This SUV runs and handles like a dream! 195,000kms, $5,895 obo. 633-4501 2000 CHEVY Astro van, 2wd, 4.3L, very gd cond,166,000 kms. Runs very well. $5000/obo. 633-3371 2000 DODGE DAKOTA Sport Club Cab, V-8, 4x4. Exc cond. 105,000 kms. 8,500 obo.

668-7503 lv msg 2000 DODGE Ram 1500 4x4, 318 (5.2) V8 magnum, auto, 222,000kms. 4x4 not engaging, but runs & drives great, doesn't use oil, lots of new parts, $2,500 obo. Mark 334-7335 1999 CHEV Suburban LT 4x4, 7 passenger, heated leather seats, vg cond, $5,900.

660-4220 1999 CHEVY Tracker, 4wd, 184K, hard and soft top, BC plates (in Atlin). $3,250 obo. email gacrawford@hughes.net

2012 D O D G E Ram 1500 ST, only 23,000kms. Quad cab 4.7L V8 4WD. Silver, in great shape with brand new summer & winter tires, $25,900. 335-1173

1998 AWD Chev Astro van in running cond, needs new battery. $1000 takes it. (867) 634-2422 or yukonjackyt@yahoo.ca

2010 4X4 F150, 5.4L, 52,000kms, 2" leveling kit, magnaflow dual exhaust, aftermarket wheels, tow package, boxliner, heated leather, beautiful truck in mint cond, $32,500 obo. 334-3350

1998 FORD Ranger p/u club cab, gd running cond, but needs a battery, spotless interior, new windshield, std, 2WD, 180,800kms, must sell before winter. Make an offer.

668-3579

2010 DODGE Ram 1500, SLT, silver, quad cab, 4x4, 5.7 V8 Hemi, 3.92 diffs. RamBox Cargo MNGMT System only 13,248kms. Extra features, this one has it all, showroom cond. $33,500. 393-3123

1997 CHEVY Blazer, black, 4x4, 4.3l, V6, auto, 348,000kms, alum wheels +2 spare rims, runs well, $1,500 obo. 633-2575

2008 FORD F250 SD 4x4 Crew Cab. 155kms. Well Maintained. 13,000lb winch.

Great tires. Wood Boxliner. New exhaust manifolds installed. Inspection report available. $13,000 obo. 335-1713 2008 FORD F450 SD 4WD king ranch, $32,000. 334-1326 2008 GMC 2500 HD Duramax diesel. 4WD. Fully loaded, gd tires, headache rack, dry box. $18,000 obo or trades considered.

399-3014

2004 CADILLAC Escalade SUV AWD, 6 passenger, heated leather seats, sun roof, very nice cond, $14,900. 660-4220

TIRES! TIRES! TIRES! Seasonal Changeover Lots of good used tires–15”,16”,17”,18”,19” and 20”–lots to choose from. $25 to $150 a tire. $25 to mount and balance per tire.

Call Art 334-4608 TONNO COVER, fits Toyota Tacoma., pd $1200, asking $450. 667-6966 NEW 2007-2013 GMC Pickup Grille with GMC Emblem, in box. $150. 667-6717 ARCTIC CLAW winter tires Xsi studded tires 245/70R16 M&S, less than 2 monthsʼ use.

Set of 4, $200. 667-4859 PLASTIC TRUCKBOX liner, will fit any Chevy 6'6" box, in exc cond, $80. 667-4859 4 G O O D Y E A R Nordic winter tires P205/75R14 w/rims (5-hole), used on Buick for 2 seasons, $275. 667-8726 TRUCK BOX, black for full sized truck, 70” in length, $55. 660-4321 FOUR WINGUARD studded winter tires on winter rims, w/wheel covers, less than 6 monthʼs use. 205/60R16, $350. 668-2214 SET OF Ride-Rite Firestone air bags off a 1999 GMC Sierra, $200 obo. 334-6776 FOUR 235/75R15 Goodyear Wrangler on 5 bolt F150 Sport rims w/caps. $400. 334-5408 2005 GMC, exc cond, 4x4, 364 Vortech, $12,000 obo. 250,000 kms. 334-6103 FOUR ALUMINUM rims, Ford Taurus, 205/65 R15, never damaged. Gd for winter rims. $60. 633-4810 FOUR GOODYEAR Wrangler tires, 17”, steel, gd tread. $25 ea. 667-7144 ROOF RACK, made in California, exc cond, $200 obo. 334-6103

HEAVY DUTY receiver hitch that specifically will fit a 2011 Chev/GMC 3/4 or 1-Ton Longbox. Gd shape. C/w bolts. ($800 new), $200.

667-6717.

1996 FORD Ranger XLT super cab 4x4, V6, auto, air, cruise, tilt, Am/Fm, CD, 143,400 miles, $3,900. 660-4220

CHROME RIMS and tires. 305/35/24 will fit GM Chev 6 bolt 1/2 ton, Suburban, Tahoe, Yukon, Escalade. Also Toyota truck and 4 runner and import 6X139.7 bolt pattern $2100 obo. 333-9551

1995 GMC, exc running cond, nw transmission, 280,000 kms, $4500 obo. 334-6103

2005 NISSAN Frontier, extʼd cab, 4WD, automatic, 159,000kms, new windshield, newer tires, brakes, wheel-bearings, serviced regularly, $8,500. 667-2607

Hi-Rise & Cab Hi - several in stock View at centennialmotors.com 393-8100

1997 PLYMOUTH Voyager van, 3l, new windshield, fuel pump, battery, replaced bucket seat, gd rubber, no rust. Gus or Dave 393-4796

2008 JEEP Patriot North Edition. Black w/ alloy rims. 75,000 kms. $14500 obo. Exc cond w/great fuel economy. 335-7154

2002 FORD F150, burgundy, 4x4, 4.8l Triton V8, 230,000kms, $5,000 obo. 334-3937

TRUCK CANOPIES - in stock * new Dodge long/short box * new GM long/short box * new Ford long/short box

REAR HITCH for 1/14" Toyota hitch. Fits Toyota Sienna, plus many other vehicles. $50 obo. 668-7361

1995 F350 Crew Cab with canopy, trailer hitch and brake controller. $4,000. Phone 335-5789.

2005 CHEVY Trail Blazer, 226,000kms, seats 8, back seats fold down to seat 5, c/w 4 new winter ties & full size spare on rim, $8,000 obo. 336-0360 or 336-6855

Auto Parts & Accessories

1997 F-150 XLT 4.6l V8 4X4, auto, blue, engine runs well but is making some noise, the body is in great shape, all season tires, command start, winter care package, box liner, $5,500 obo. 335-1404

2008 HONDA Ridgeline LX, 83,000kms.

Great condition. 18,500 obo. 334-9551

2007 TOYOTA Highlander AWD SUV, command start, extra set winter tires, towing pkg, approx 128,000 kms, $16,000. 332-4143

1980 FORD Bronco, needs new trans, $500 obo, 660-5922

1994 CHEV Silverado 2500 ext cab, 2WD, long box, auto, 6.5l diesel, 282,000kms, $5,500. 667-7649 1992 CHEV Silverado 4x4, extʼd cab, $1,600. 334-1252 1992 FORD Wheelchair Astrovan, $2,000 obo. 332-2246 1990 TOYOTA Hiace, 4-wheel drive, 4 cylinder diesel engine, automatic transmission, excellent fuel consumption, 8-passengers, middle seats swivel, only 128,000 kms, offers. 333-9020 87 F-250 4x4 diesel, 5 spd. $2000. 334-7373 84 F350 crew cab 4x4 gas. Safety passed last year, hardly driven since. $1800.

334-7373

SET OF 4 Toyo M/T LT265/70R 17 truck tires, $1,300 obo. 332-7879 BF GOODRICH tire, LT225/75R16, studded, pd $1,050, used 1 winter, $400 firm. Gus or Dave 393-4796 FORD 4X4 5-spd tranny & transfer case, $300. 334-3822 4 EXCELLENT winter tires, used only 1 season, 185x15”, $200. 332-7545 WINTER TIRES (no rims) LT235/75-R15 Arctic Claw brand. Designed for SUVs, small trucks & cross-overs. $1,000 new from Kal Tire in Whitehorse, asking $600. (778) 350-5071 1993 SUBARU Loyale, runs, but only good for parts. Extra Parts inclʼd such as radiator, alternator, water pump, etc. $450 obo.

668-1040 100ʼ OF 3/4” towing cable with loops on ends. Offers. 332-6565

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2004 5.9 Cummins diesel with A/T & transfer case, this unit came out of 2500 4x4 Dodge, $5,300. 668-5906 or 668-1281

255 70/R18 tires and rims, Goodyear Fortera Tripletread, ideal winters for new Toyota Tundras, 1 year used, $650, 332-1463.

TO GIVE away, 2 Pointer Husky Cross sled dogs (no puppies), their dog houses optional. Call (no texts) 335-2675

2010 ARCTIC Cat MudPro 650, plow, winch, 400 miles, gd shape, $6,200 obo, make an offer. Mark 334-7335

FORD V6 4L drop in, complete, $350.

633-2740

LADDER JACKS, $25. Boat rack for Toyota long-box, $120. 667-2521

2008 GIO 250cc 4-stroke dirt bike, runs well, $750 obo. 334-6776

ROLL BAR for small truck, $60. New 215/75/14, $30. 1-265/75/16 $60.

3-235/85/16 $40/ea. 3-class 3 hitches $40/ea. Assorted sets of tire chains.

668-3508

BRAND NEW 155/80r13 all season tires bought and used for a week, now car is sold.

Just want them gone, paid $200, selling $80 obo 336-2052

CHOCOLATE POINT six wk old Siamese kitten, litter trained & weaned. Great behavior. $100. 633-2837

AUTO TRANS & trans case for mid 80s -90s jeep $500. Ford C-4 trans $300. Chev metric auto trans $300 obo. 668-3508 GENTLY USED winter tires. Nokian Hakkapeliitta Q 155/80 13. $50 each OBO. 633-6462.

14” TRAILER tires & white spoke rims. 1 new, 2 in vg cond, $150. 633-2740

Pets PETMATE DOG crate, 3ʼLx2ʼWx2ʼ3”H, wire mesh, $40. 667-4589

Please join us in a Celebration of life Saturday, OctOber 5th, 2013 2:00pm at the haineS JunctiOn cOnventiOn centre.

THE YUKON Kennel Club is excited to announce our new course line up!

We have a new Certified Training Director!

Puppy Pre-School.

October 9 – 26, 2013: Tuesdays and Saturdays Leash manners, Nutrition, Grooming and MORE! Pre-Register for Puppy Kindergarten and Novice Obedience starting in January 2014!

Please contact Wendi @ 633-4952 www.Facebook.com/YukonKennelClub PROVEN WORLD champion 6-dog sprint team for lease for the racing season to the right person. They are being trained and will be ready to go for the season.

867-633-6502

Motorcycles & Snowmobiles

~Everyone Welcome~

David Christopher

Forever loved and missed by family and friends.

FOUND: FRIDAY Sept. 20 on Hamilton Blvd extension: small female dog mixed breed, imaculate manners, appears well cared for, 1-2 yrs old. Black head to tip, honey brown mask, white paws/chest.

334-4329

Boyle MarCh 7, 1960 ~ august 30th, 2013

TAITʼS CUSTOM TRAILER SALES 2-3-4- place snowmobile & ATV trailers Drive on Drive off 3500 lb axles

by Trailtech - SWS & Featherlight CALL ANYTIME: 334-2194 www/taittrailers.com RONʼS SMALL ENGINE SERVICES Repairs to Snowmobiles, Chainsaws, Lawnmowers, ATVʼs, Small industrial equipment.

Light welding repairs available 633-6161 lv msg 2009 SUMMIT 800, 1,700 miles, has a ceramic coated can, otherwise bone stock. Gd shape, $7,000 obo. (867)333-0484

Isa LeSueur

Boucher

2000 ARCTIC Cat Bear Cat 440 Snowmobile. Only 120kms on New Engine. New Skis and Track. Includes cover & new adult helmet. $3999. Call 335-2648 GRIZZLY 125 quad with a broken engine, housing for parts or for sled dog training.

Asking $500. Call (no texts please) 335-2675 2011 SKIDOO backcountry 800etec, 4,100kms, new engine at 3,100kms after recall, new clutch & belt, c/w 2 seatup, hitch, high windshield, $9,500. 993-3648 2003 MOUNTAIN Cat 900, 2.5”x151" track, c/w a spare track, needs clogs, chaincase sprockets & chain, $1,100 firm. 334-6776 1999 SUMMIT X670, exc shape, no leaks, runs great, like new 2"x136" track, $2,000 firm. 334-6776 2006 CRF Honda 70F, $1,500 obo. 2004 CRF Honda 80F, $1,350 obo. Both bikes are in gd cond. 633-6027 2004 MXZ Renegade 800HO. 4,520 miles, 100 miles on rebuilt motor. Reverse, dirt bike handlebars w/riser, hand warmers.

136"x1.75 track, c/w repair manual & stock pipe. $3,500 obo. 335-0305 2007 M8, rebuilt motor from the crank up, 153x2.25, C&A skis, high-rise seat, $5,500 obo. Mark 334-7335 2011 OUTLANDER Car Am 800, less than 500 kms, $9,000 rickaley@yahoo.ca or 851-6451 aft 9pm 2008 YAMAHA Venture, 2up, loaded, low kms, $5,000. rickaley@yahoo.ca or 867-851-6451 aft 9pm 1992 POLARIS MKS 440 liquid cool, motor & undercarriage in exc cond, $1,600.

334-1252 2 SETS of wheels & tires, one set fits 09 Polaris RZR, the other set fits 2012 Polaris Ranger XP, both sets are new, never used.

334-2902

Marine PROFESSIONAL BOAT REPAIR Fiberglass Supplies Marine Accessories FAR NORTH FIBERGLASS 49D MacDonald Rd Whitehorse, Yukon 393-2467 15HP 4 stroke o/b, very little use, as nw cond. $2,200. 335-1019 16ʼ MISTY River, custom built aluminum counsel, c/o 40HP Suzuki, w/controls, $10,500 obo. 334-6103 SPEED BOAT w/350HP Chev & jet pump, Fibreglass hull, $5,000, c/w trailer. rickaley@yahoo.ca 867-851-6451 aft 9pm

Heavy Equipment

Isa LeSueur Boucher, 69, a resident of Grizzly Valley, Yukon Territory for 18 years, passed away on September 25, 2013 from pancreatic cancer.

Isa was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to Dr. Merrill and Doris (Johnson) Bush on February 17, 1944. She was educated in Quaker schools in Philadelphia, then attended Methodist University at Ohio Wesleyan University in Delaware, Ohio, graduating in 1966 with a B.A. with Honors in Zoology. She also began studying the violincello at age 5, and was a member of the Philadelphia Youth Orchestra.

Isa moved to Canada in 1966, gaining a Masters of Science degree from the Institute of Parasitology at McGill University in Montreal. From there she was hired as lab demonstrator and lecturer by the Western College of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Saskatchewan, in Saskatoon. She also played as Principal Cellist with the Saskatoon Symphony Orchestra and taught private cello students. During her time in Saskatoon Isa gained her Canadian citizenship.

Also during this time Isa found what she would say was her lifelong passion. She had a chance encounter with some sled dogs that were completely different in structure and mentality than the show dogs she was accustomed to seeing, these dogs turned out to be the Seppala Strain of Siberian Husky. The Seppalas had been bred apart from show bloodlines for about 40 years, but their uniqueness was underappreciated in the late 60s and the bloodline was about to be lost. She was introduced to Jeff Bragg, who was the only breeder at the time trying to preserve the pure strain Seppalas, and in 1973 they moved together to a farm on a quarter section of Saskatchewan prairie.

In the next two years their Markovo Kennels would produce 5 Seppala strain litters.

In 1975 Isa lost her job, and Isa and Jeff were keen for an adventure. They divided their kennel of Seppalas into 3 breeding colonies and found enthusiasts to buy them all (thus, hopefully, ensuring the survival of the strain), sold her Saskatchewan

property, and left Canada planning to spend the winter in Mississippi, and the following spring and summer backpacking in Europe - but the European adventure lasted nearly 20 years.

After a year of backpacking Isa and Jeff crewed on yachts in the Mediterranean, and when they got to Gibraltar they bought a wooden tuna fishing boat of 20T displacement and lived aboard there for 7 years. Isa developed breast cancer, and after several months in London, England receiving treatment, she and Jeff left Gibraltar and moved to Andorra before settling on a small farm they bought in Catalunya, Spain where they raised olives, almonds, walnuts, grapes. and livestock.

Isa then got back into sled dogs, and was one of two women racing dogsleds with the Catalan Winter Sports Federation. On a trip to the United States to acquire sled dogs for her team from Harris Dunplap’s Zero Kennels, she learned that the Seppala Strain was once again endangered; and with that news Isa and Jeff began a second “rescue” of the Seppala Strain dogs.

In 1992 Isa and Jeff decided to return to Canada, and bought a parcel of unserviced bush in Grizzly Valley, Yukon Territory, from which to mount their second Seppala rescue project. This time they gained acceptance of their dogs as an evolving breed, separate and distinct from the Siberian Husky, by Agriculture Canada, and called the new breed Seppala Siberian Sled Dog. Isa’s breed stewardship continued until 2008, a run of over 35 years.

In 2007 Isa took a new life partner, Jack R. Murray, formerly of Cape Elizabeth and New Sharon, Maine (USA); they lived in Grizzly Valley, Yukon Territory, until October 2011 and in that time she worked for the Yukon News and the Mae Bachur Animal Shelter. At the end of 2011 Isa and Jack moved to a mini-farm in Cloverdale, New Brunswick, where she raised goats, rabbits, and chickens, and made many friends. Isa is survived by her husband, Jack.

NEW & USED EQUIPMENT For Sale Come see MACPHERSON RENTALS @ 117 Copper Rd or call 633-4426 NEW PORTABLE sawmill. Manufactured in Yukon. Cuts logs 2ʼ diameter, 20ʼ long. $4,850 obo.

Check it out on www.pro-cut.com 334-6094 KOMATSU WA350 wheel loader bucket & grapple, $20,000. rickaley@yahoo.ca or 867-851-6451 aft 9pm

STORM HIGH PRESSURE WASHER 3500psi/gas engine.

New price $7,700 sell for $3,500.

1998 Peterbuilt highway tractor.

Ready to work $14,900.

Estate Sale.

333-0717 18FT FLAT deck trailer equipment/wood hauler. 12,500 lb. GVW. Electric brakes, loading ramps, stake board sides. Holds 4 cords of cut wood. Exc shape. $5800.

334-7635.

9-20ʼ SEA Cans. Upgrading. Various conditions. Some leakers, some in good condition.

Prices range from $1,800 up to $3,000.

Cans can be delivered in city limits for $150 charge. 333-0717 1998 PETERBILT HIGHWAY tractor, ready to work, $14,900. 1989 Freightliner parting out at $6,900. 30ʼ Jeep trailer $7,900. Estate sale. Sell all for $25,000 package deal.

333-0717 1979 KENWORTH W900 gravel truck. 400 Big Cam 2, 15 spd, 44 diff, $5,700. 668-5906 or 668-1281

Aircraft 17H.P. KOHLER powered Hobart 225 amp welder/generator. Mounted on four wheeled steel wagon. $2000 obo. 867-633-6502 UNMANNED LONG range aerial aircraft for filming or photography. Limited by your imagination only. Call us for any project where a regular sized aircraft is needed.

633-6502

Campers & Trailers NEW OR USED TRAILERS For Sale or Rent MACPHERSON RENTALS 117 Copper Road 633-4426 TAITʼS TRAILERS www.taittrailers.com taits@northwestel.net Quality new and used Horse * Cargo * Equipment trailers For sale or rent Call Anytime 334-2194 Southern prices delivered to the Yukon 2005 OPEN Road, 5th wheel trailer, 36 ft, many upgrades, three slides, king bed, lots of room, price reduced again, $22,000 obo.

633-4796.

1984 FORD motorhome, 20ʼ, vg shape, low miles, gd tires, everything works, $5,000 obo. 821-4924 2005 20ʼ enclosed cargo trailer, side & barn doors, roof vent, side window, wired 110, fluorescent lights, 16” tires, $7,800 obo. Gary 335-9596 or 334-6449 HUNTERʼS SPECIAL. 1992 F250 4X4 ext cab. Low mileage, manual trans, new tires, older 10ʼ camper. $5,000. 633-2580 2007 DESSERT Fox Toyhauler trailer, 24ʼ, Arctic Fox brand, dbl pane windows, 4 season/insulation, sleeps 8, ensuite master, electric bunk bed, solar panels, alarm system. 393 4700 2010 JAYCO 29' BHS trailer, sleeps up to 9, CD/DVD/I POD JK.SND.SYS., electric patio awning, micro wave, outside BBQ, & more, used less than 14 days, like new, $25,500.

393-3123 2012 FOREST River 8.5ʼx16ʼ cargo trailer, tandem axle, rear ramp door, plywood lining, 6 tie downs, roof vent, dome light, $7,500.

660-4220

13 Denver roaD in McCrae • 668-6639

Custom-cut Stone Products

HEADSTONES • KITCHENS • BUILDING STONE • AND MORE...

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1993 CHEVY camper van, 199,000 kms, auto V8 5.7 engine, air cond, windows, engine runs like new. Nw transmision and water pump.A lot of storage. Camping equipments. $3,500obo. Txt 604-698-8281 1993 INTERNATIONAL bus, 72 passengers, clean, inspected. 668-2958 2012 COACHMAN Freedom Express 29QBS. Quad bunks in back. Queen up front. Power everything. Flat screen tv. Great shape. Asking $21,000. Call or text.

334-6344.

2000 MOTORHOME Chev 2500, 177 Km, well maintained. Gd fuel consumption. Gotta see it! $15,000. 393-2868 or 668-4058. $ 2005 NORTHERN Lite camper, 5 star, 9ʼ6” classic, 855kg, north/south beds, bathroom, hot water tank, vg cond, $16,000. 667-7649 1999 CLASS B 20' Vanguard camper van, vg cond, runs great, everything works, $12,500. 334-9903 UTILITY TRAILER made from the back of a truck box, $700 obo. 668-1040 2013 GOOSENECK trailer, Big Tex, 25ʼ, deck on the neck, beavertail w/ramps, 2-10,000lb axle dually, equipment hauler, $12,500. 393-6550

Coming Events ATLIN GUEST HOUSE Deluxe Lakeview Suites Sauna, Hot Tub, BBQ, Internet, Satellite TV Kayak Rentals In House Art Gallery 1-800-651-8882 Email: atlinart@yahoo.ca www.atlinguesthouse.com ATLIN - GLACIER VIEW CABINS “your quiet get away” Cozy self contained log cabins canoes, kayaks for rent Fax/Phone 250-651-7691 e-mail sidkatours@ atlin.net www.glacierviewcabins.ca THE ALZHEIMER/DEMENTIA Family Caregiver Support Group meets monthly. Group for family/friends caring for someone w/dementia. Cathy 633-7337 or Joanne 668-7713 YRTA (YUKON Retired Teachers) Breakfast Tues. Oct 8th, 9:30 am at Ricky's at The Ramada. Guests welcome! Info: 667-2644 WHITEHORSE G E N E R A L Hospital Women's Auxiliary monthly meeting, Mon. Oct 7th, 7:30 pm at WGH. New members welcome! Info: Barb @ 667-2087 AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL Action Circle.

Letter writing to protect and promote human rights worldwide. Tuesday, Oct 22 at Whitehorse United Church (upstairs) 7-9pm. www.amnesty.ca Info call 667-2389

WHITEHORSE STRING Ensemble new season at the Hellaby Hall, 4th at Elliott.

Every Thursday 6:30pm. New members welcome! Info: Pam 667-4630 HULLANDʼS HAUNTS & Holly Craft Fair, Oct 26, 10am-3pm @ Jack Hulland Elementary School, Porter Crk. To book your table call 667-8496 MENTAL HEALTH Caregivers Support Group meets the third Thursday of every month, 7-9 pm, #4 Hospital Rd, main floor resource room, in Whitehorse. 667-8346.

HOSPICE YUKON: Free, confidential services offering compassionate support to those facing advanced illness, death and bereavement. Visit our lending library @ 409 Jarvis M-F 11:30-3, 667-7429 www.hospiceyukon.net JACKRABBIT AND Bunny registration with take place Sat, Oct 5th, 10:00am-noon at Mt. McIntyre Recreation Centre - downstairs in The Chalet A CARE Affair! Fri, Oct 18, Westmark Hotel, 5:00pm-8:00pm. Goods & Services Auction, Live music, Food, Comedy. Fundraiser for Little Footprints Big Steps work in Haiti. Info: 334-3928 or karenwienberg@gmail.com SALSA YUKONʼS Latin Dance classes are every Friday @ Leaping Feats Dance Studio, 38 Lewes Blvd. 7:30pm Beginner. 8:45pm Intermediate. For info 335-0909 salsayukon@gmail.com YUKONERS CONCERNED About Oil/Gas Exploration/Development will be holding a public meeting on the consequences of fracking in Ross River on Oct. 3/13, starting at 7:00 pm in the Hope Centre QUEER YUKON: upcoming social events for the LGBT community. www.queeryukon.com.

NAKWAYE KU Childcare Society AGM, Fri, Oct 18, 6pm at Yukon College. 668-8860

GOT ACHES? GOT PAINS? NuGrowth Therapeutics will be in Watson Lake Sept. 27-Oct. 7, offering manual soft tissue and cold laser therapies.

Appts./Info.: 250-567-8878 Cash, Visa, Mastercard WHEELCHAIR CURLING! Wednesday afternoons at Mount Mac with residents of Macaulay Lodge. Phone Lisa or Ellen at 393-7111.

MACAULAY LODGE is looking for volunteers to help us with our community walks on Friday mornings. Phone Lisa or Ellen at 393-7111.

TAI CHI Yukon is offering two beginner courses on Tuesday and Wed evenings at Elijah Smith School.

Check www.taichi-yukon.ca, write info@taichi-yukon.ca or call Helene at 668-3814 MT. LORNE Volunteer Fire Department open house/AGM Thur, Oct 10th, 7 pm at firehall on Robinson Subdivision Rd. New volunteers and board members always welcome. Info Judy 668-2849.

MACAULAY LODGE is looking for volunteers interested in visiting with our residents or helping out with recreational programs.

Phone Lisa or Ellen at 393-7111.

COME SING those old favorite hymns! Sunday Oct 6 7pm at Whitehorse United Church.

We take requests. 667-8929.

A CHRISTMAS Bazaar at the Gold Rush Inn Saturday, November 2, 10-4. For crafters/home businesses. For info Jean 667-6772 (or Shelly 667-7629 after 6pm) YUKONERS CONCERNED About Oil/Gas Exploration/Development will be holding a public meeting on the consequences of fracking in Faro on Oct 3, 2013, starting at 7 pm in the Sportsman Lounge.

The Family of Kevin Sumner would like to express their appreciation to the E.M.S. staff, the R.C.M.P., the Coroner and her staff and Heritage North Funeral Home for their caring and compassionate services.

We would also like to thank everyone for their kindness and generosity with special thoughts to all the friends and co-workers for their love and support at this difficult time.

The Sumner Family

MeMorial Service for

Debra Loeks

COFFEE HOUSE! Sat, Oct 5. Featuring: Second Cousins + the Open Stage! Help set up 6pm, 7pm Open stage sign-up, 7:30pm show! $5 United Church Bsmt, 6th & Main.

633-4255

Whitehorse United church

MULTICULTURAL CENTRE of the Yukon Free Driver's Licence Exam Preparation Course for ESL Learners. 5 Saturday classes 9am-noon begin October 19. Call 667-4733 to register.

A 1960'S F.H. Collins High School Reunion is being organized by former graduating members of the school. The planned date is the weekend of July 11, 2015 in Whitehorse.

Info: http://fhcollins60sreunion.com

SENIORS! ELDERS! Learn about your legal rights. Drop in 11-3:300, Old Fire Hall, Tues, Oct 1. International Day of Older Persons.

Free lunch. Yukon Public Legal Education Association 393-2044 WHOLE CHILD Program Annual General Meeting: Whitehorse Elementary School 4181 Fourth Ave, Mon, Nov 18, 2013, 7pm.

Everyone Welcome, especially Whole Child Program families! 456-3871 GREAT NORTHERN Ski Society would like to notify all its members that the AGM for the society will occur on Oct 16, 2013, 7pm, Sport Yukon Boardroom, #1 4061-4th Ave, Whitehorse, Yukon.

BISHOP JOSE Salmorin Bantolo from the Diocese of Masbate in the Philippines will speak on environmental responsibility Sat, Oct 5, 7:30pm, Vanier Catholic Secondary School 16 Duke St, Riverdale. A coffee & potluck dessert reception will follow. Information 633-6579 THE SEARCH is on again! We are looking for our 2014 Miss and Teen Yukon candidates to represent us at Miss Canada 2014!

Please email your submissions to misscanadascout@hotmail.com ! Now is your chance!

LEUKEMIA & Lymphoma Society is hosting a fun & exciting fundraising evening at the Roadhouse on Friday, October 4th, 4pm.

Lots of fun prizes, silent auction, door prizes.

YUKON AFRICAN Caribbean Association (YACA) AGM Thursday, October 31st, 6pm-8pm at Whitehorse Public Library. Contact 335-8510

GOLD FEVER award winning film. Presented by Amnesty International Whitehorse Action Circle, Old Fire Hall, Wednesday, October 16. Doors open at 6:30pm, film at 7:00pm. Entry by donation. www.goldfevermovie.com FAMILY STORY Time Fri Oct 11 (one time only) 10:30-11:15 am, Whitehorse Public Library. Free registration necessary. Space limited. For children ages 3-6, accompanied by an adult. Info: 667-5239 FUNDRAISER LEUKEMIA and Lymphoma Society, October 8th at Earlʼs, 4:00 join us after work for good food, great door prizes!

Thank you for your support !

STORYTIME: AGES: 6 - 24 months & caregiver(s), Wed Oct 9 - Wed Nov 27, 10:30 a.m. Whitehorse Library. Free registration necessary. Space is limited. 667-5239 WHITEHORSE WOOFERS Dog Club is holding its AGM Thursday, October17/13, 6:45pm at the Canada Games Centre. Call 633-4822 for info.

MAIN STREET Society Annual General Meeting to take place Tuesday November 5th at noon at the T.C. Richards Building.

TAKHINI SCHOOL COUNCIL is holding its Regular Council Meeting on October 15, 2013 at 7:00 PM in the school library. Everyone is welcome.

LADIES AUXILIARY, R.C. Legion, Yukon Inn, Christmas Craft Fair, Nov. 2nd Saturday, 9 AM - 3 PM. First Nations and Yukon -made arts and crafts. Bake table , raffles. info 633-4583

Sumner Born August 15, 1962 ~ gone from us September 23, 2013

Thank You

YUKON SUPPORT Group for Women who have had a diagnosis of breast cancer meets the first Monday of each month at Copper Ridge Place from 7:00-9:00 pm. Next meeting October 7th. yukonsupport@hotmail.com

YUKON BROOMBALL AGM meeting October 5 @ 1pm, Sports Yukon. All welcome.

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September 3, 1962 - July 10, 2013

3:00 monday, October 7

Kevin left his beloved family and friends suddenly, before we got a chance to say goodbye.

Kevin was an active person with many passions. He was an actor, a musician, a carpenter, an electrician, a project manager, a golfer, a curler, a fisherman, a husband, a father, and soon to be grandfather. He was also a hard worker and was deeply involved in his community.

Because Kevin’s loves were so varied, his life touched a lot of others’ lives. This is why he will be so missed by so many.

Kevin leaves behind his wife Nora, his son Robert (Christine), his parents Ed and Elaine, his brother Garth (Debbie), his niece Megan, nephew Michael, his sister-in-law Natalie, nephews Scott, Alex and Nathan, his grandfather Lannie Sumner and grandmother Edna Dobie.

Mira, and Jennifer (Rod) and their children Emma and Dillon, his sister-in-law Patricia Daws (Chuck), and her daughters Ivan (Zena) and Carrie. His sister-in-law Roberta, her son Daniel (Sarah), their daughter Layla and her son Odin, and daughters Rachael and Lindsey (Cameron), and Kevin’s many aunts and uncles across Canada.

Kevin was pre-deceased by his younger brother David Sumner, grandmother Anna Sumner, grandfather John Dobie, and his unlce Donald Sumner, his mother-in-law Florence Daws, his brother-in-law David Daws and his nephew Christopher Bushnell.

We are all a little less without him in our lives.

Kevin also leaves behind his brother-in-law Laurence ( Elizabeth), Laurence’s daughters Katie ( Mike) and their children Brendan and

Planned Power outage notices ALL CUSTOMERS: on North Klondike Highway (MAYO ROAD) from the corner up to & including Grizzly Valley Subdivision & ALL CUSTOMERS: on the ALASKA HIGHWAY NORTH past Crestview up to & Including Takhini River Subdivision.

When: THURSDAYAFTERNOON OCTOBER 10, 2013 Time: 1:00PM to 5:00pm Why: This outage is required to accommodate upgrades to electrical equipment For further information go to www.yukonelectrical.com or call 633-7000 Yukon electrical thanks all our customers for their cooperation during these outages as we work to continue to provide you a safe, reliable, and affordable electrical system.

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FREE CHILDREN'S art activities! Kids Kreate runs at the Yukon Arts Centre one Sunday per month through April. Activities relate to current exhibitions. For more information, contact Jessica Vellenga, 393-7109.

CELEBRATE INTERNATIONAL Day of the Girl! Free screening of the documentary Girl Rising presented by the Victoria Faulkner Womenʼs Centre, sponsored by Womenʼs Directorate. Thursday, Oct 10, 7pm.

667-2693 THE PAN-TERRITORIAL Air Cadet Committee of the Air Cadet League of Canada AGM, Sat, Oct 19, 10 am PDT, 309 Lambert. All are invited to attend. Info Ken - 456-7297.

YUKON INDIAN Hockey Association Annual General Meeting, Sunday, October 20th, 2013, 3:00 to 5;00pm, Canada Games Centre, Boardroom .For more info:(867) 456-7294.Email: yihahockey@gmail.com

PORTER CREEK SECONDARY is holding its Regular Council Meeting on October 9, 2013 at 6:30 PM in the school library. Everyone is welcome

Services BLUE HILL MASONRY • Cultured Stone • Ceramic Tile • Brick Andre Jobin 633-2286 MC RENOVATION Construction & Renovations Laminated floor, siding, decks, tiles Kitchen, Bathroom, Doors, Windows Framing, Board, Drywall, Painting Drop Ceiling, Fences No job too small Free estimates Michael 336-0468 yt.mcr@hotmail.com

BUSY BEAVERS Painting, Pruning Hauling, Snow Shovelling and General Labour Call Francois & Katherine 456-4755

456-4567 NEED UNDERGROUND WIRE?

Friday, October 4, 2013 BACKHAULS, WHITEHORSE to Alberta.

Vehicles, Furniture, Personal effects etc.

Daily departures, safe secure dependable transportation at affordable rates. Please call Pacific Northwest Freight Systems @ 667-2050

TCM MAID SERVICE Reliable, Thorough & Professional Reasonable Rates References available 335-4421or 393-3868

Full Dimensional Rough Lumber Cabin Logs Staking Posts & Timbers ARCTIC INLAND BUILDING PRODUCTS Serving the Yukon for 30 years Whitehorse 668-5991 Dawson 867-993-5240

SUBARU GURU Fix•Buy•Sell Used Subarus 30 year Journeyman Mechanic Towing available Mario 333-4585

LOG CABINS: Professional Scribe Fit log buildings at affordable rates.

Contact: PF Watson, Box 40187, Whitehorse, YT, Y1A 6M9 668-3632 - INSULATION Upgrade your insulation & reduce your heating bills

DRUG PROBLEM?

Energy North Construction Inc. (1994) for all your insulation & coating needs Cellulose & polyurethane spray foam Free estimate: 667-7414

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MEETINGS:

Wednesdays 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm #2 - 407 Ogilvie St. <BYTE> Fridays 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm 4071 - 4th Ave. <Many Rivers>

Do you neeD storage?

3 reasons why you should call

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Excellent friendly customer service 24-7.

Located only 3 mins from downtown.

Easy 24 hour access.

Call 334-3216

info@titaniumstorage.ca

Marsh Lake Transfer Station

& Recycling Depot SUMMER HOURS NOW IN EFFECT until NOVEMBER 1, 2013 FRI/SAT/SUN: 10:00 am to 6:00 pm • MON/TUES: 6:30 am to 2:30 pm • CLOSED WED/THURS The recycling depot accepts recyclable tin, glass, plastics and paper products.

Bring in your refundable beverage containers for a refund.

Attention miners

Murdoch’s Gem Shop is now accepting mining gold for melt.

Convenient Main Street Whitehorse drop-off location.

Fast settlement - within 24 hours after receipt of goods by the refiner.

Payment by direct deposit or cheque. Any lot size - small or large.

CAll Troy AT

867-667-7403 for details.

CUSTOM To make your ideas a reality.

Ironwork railings, gates and much more

www.ironworkyukon.com call mike morrow at 335-1888

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668-2963

HOUSECLEANER AVAILABLE Fast and thorough No criminal record 30-year Yukon resident $30/hr 335-0009 CERAMIC TILE INSTALLATION Licensed, insured, WCB certified Small or big contracting Specialize in new or tiled bathroom renovation Phone David: 333-0772 ZEN SALON & SPA Menʼs, Ladies, Childrenʼs Hairstyling & Esthetics on the corner of 4th and Strickland 667-7936 Open 8am-7pm LUIS RENOVATIONS Over 20 yearsʼ experience.

Specializing in home renovation.

Drywall, painting, ceilings, counter tops, flooring, decks, patios.

335-1269 NORTHRIDGE BOBCAT SERVICES • Snow Plowing • Site Prep & Backfills • Driveways • Post Hole Augering • Light Land Clearing • General Bobcat Work Fast, Friendly Service 867-335-1106 LOG CABINS & LOG HOMES Quality custom craftsmanship Using only standing dead local timber For free estimate & consultation contact: Eldorado Log Builders Inc. phone: 867.393.2452 website: www.ykloghomes.com S.V.P. CARPENTRY Journey Woman Carpenter Interior/Exterior Finishing/Framing Small & Medium Jobs “Make it work and look good.”

Call Susana (867) 335-5957 susanavalerap@live.com ANGYʼS MASSAGE Mobile Service.

Therapeutic Massage & Reflexology.

Angelica Ramirez Licensed Massage Therapist.

867-335-3592 or 867-668-7724 angysmassage@hotmail.com 200-26 Azure Rd Whitehorse YT, Y1A 6E1 TOMBSTONE CONTRACTING Loader and dump truck services Driveways, parking lots, concrete driveways, sidewalks and pads.

Fork lift, lifting boom Snow haul and removal Free quotes Call 334 2142 CITYLIGHT RENOS Flooring, tiling, custom closets Painting & trim, kitchens & bathrooms Fences & gates Landscaping & gardening Quality work at reasonable rates Free estimates Sean 867-332-1659 citylightrenos@gmail.com WHITE TORNADO CLEANING SERVICES Construction final initial cleans Final and Initial cleanings Construction Sites/Buildings Private homes Offices Good for Contractors Professional Reasonable Rates Bonded “All work Guaranteed” 667-2988 or 334-0514 KLASSIC HANDYMAN SERVICES “HOME RENOVATION SPECIALIST” “SPECIALIZING IN BATHROOMS” Start to Finish • FLOORING • TILE • CARPENTRY • PAINTING • FENCING • DECKS “ONE CALL DOES IT ALL!!

DON: 334-2699 don.brook@hotmail.com

Advertising It’s good for you.

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SMALL ELECTRICAL JOBS Light fixtures & lamp repairs Painting in and out Basic plumbing Window washing, Yard clean-up.

Small furniture repairs 393-2275 or 1-604-989-5110

SNOW CLEARING Sidewalks, Driveways, Commercial, Residential Call Francis at Speedy Sparkle 668-6481 or cell 334-8480 SHARPENING SERVICES. For all your sharpening needs - quality sharpening, fair price & good service.

At corner of 6th & Strickland.

667-2988 PASCAL PAINTING CONTRACTOR PASCAL AND REGINE Residential - Commercial Ceilings, Walls Textures, Floors Spray work Excellent quality workmanship Free estimates pascalreginepainting@northwestel.net 633-6368 BOBCAT AND BACKHOE SERVICES in Whitehorse, Marsh Lake, Tagish area Call Andreas 660-4813 THOMAS FINE CARPENTRY • construction • renovation • finishing • cabinets • tiling • flooring • repairs • specialty woodwork • custom kitchens 867-633-3878 or cell 867-332-5531 thomasfinecarpentry@northwestel.net TITAN DRYWALL Taping & Textured Ceilings 27 years experience Residential or Commercial No job too small Call Dave 336-3865 ELECTRICIAN FOR all your jobs Large or small Licensed Electrician Call MACK N MACK ELECTRIC for a competitive quote!

867-332-7879 PLUMBING & HEATING SERVICES Available in Whitehorse & Communities Rough-in, service, maintenance & repair Residential & Commercial 16 years experience Excellent workmanship $75/hr 867-334-5161

HOUSE CLEANING Services offered: 2 reliable & hard working cleaners Do floors, bathrooms, dusting, and any extra cleaning you want done!

456-4888 EXPERIENCED CARPENTER OFFERING: - Siding - Roofing - Framing and Renovations Free estimates and competitive rates.

Call Adam 334-3416

Lost & Found FOUND: WATCH, near Mount Lorne Community Centre. Identify to claim @ 667-4603 FOUND: FRIDAY Sept. 20 on Hamilton Blvd extension: small female dog mixed breed, imaculate manners, appears well cared for, 1-2 yrs old. Black head to tip, honey brown mask, white paws/chest.

334-4329 FOUND AT Wolf Creek Campground Sept 12, brown/grey & white small teddy bear, campsite by the creek. 633-3332 LOST: 16G black ipod nano w/touch screen, lost on Copper Ridge trail Sept 23rd.

668-6058 LOST - Men's gold wedding band. Likely at the Canada Games Centre, Saturday, Sept 29. Please contact James at 393.7062.

Business Opportunities DISTRIBUTOR REQUIRED for beautiful costume jewelry, hand-painted oil paintings, LED signs & chef supplies.

Open your own Classic Designs store or add our products to your business.

778-233-4842 www.ourclassicdesigns.com

Kitchen or Restaurant for Lease Town and Mountain Hotel 401 Main Street Apply to Kayle Tel: 668-7644 Fax: 668-5822 Email: info@townmountain.com

Notification of Timber Harvest Plan for Review The following Timber Harvest Plan is available for public review and comment through the Yukon Forest Management Branch.

Timber Harvest Plan

Geographic Location (District)

Deadline for Comments

Mackintosh East

Kluane District, Haines Junction

November 15, 2013

To view this plan and submit comments, or for a complete list of Timber Harvest Plans currently open for public review, please visit www.forestry.gov.yk.ca or phone 1-800-661-0408 ext. 3999.

PUBLIc TENDER ELEVATOR UPGRADE ERIK NIELSEN WHITEHORSE INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT - BLDG.#1380 WHITEHORSE YUKON

public Tender VAriAble renTenTiOn HArVeSTinG & cAribOu licHen reSeArcH

Submissions clearly marked with the above project title, will be received up to and including 4:00 PM local time, October 16, 2013, at Contract Services, (867) 667-5385.

Documents may be obtained from Contract Services, Department of Highways and Public Works, Second Floor 9010 Quartz Road, P.O. Box 2703, Whitehorse, Yukon, Y1A 2C6.

Technical questions may be directed to Rob Kelly at (867) 667-8980.

Site Visit October 10, 2013 at 1:00 p.m.

Submissions will be evaluated in accordance with the criteria indicated in the documents.

The highest ranked or lowest priced submission is not necessarily accepted.

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

The Yukon Business Incentive Policy will apply to this project.

Bidders are advised to review documents to determine Certificate of Recognition (COR) requirements for this project.

Visit our web site www.gov.yk.ca/tenders

project description: This tender is research orientated and involves using variable retention harvesting in three blocks in the Lewes Marsh area, south of Whitehorse. Harvesting will occur during the winter of 2013/14 in six of nine treatment units (for a total harvest of 18 ha.) to determine if there is a long-term relationship between variable retention harvesting systems and abundance of terrestrial forage lichens.

Submissions clearly marked with the above project title, will be received up to and including 4:00 pM local time, October 24, 2013, at Contract Services, (867) 667-5385.

Documents may be obtained from Contract Services, Department of Highways and Public Works, Second Floor 9010 Quartz Road, P.O. Box 2703, Whitehorse, Yukon, Y1A 2C6.

Technical questions may be directed to david Swinson at (867) 456-6101.

Site visit scheduled for Wednesday, October 16th at 9am.

Submissions will be evaluated in accordance with the criteria indicated in the documents.

The highest ranked or lowest priced submission is not necessarily accepted.

Visit our web site www.gov.yk.ca/tenders

Highways and Public Works

Energy, Mines & Resources

Attention New Commercial Firewood Cutters Applications are being accepted starting September 3, 2013 for a limited number of Tier 1 commercial harvesting opportunities as identified in the Haines Junction Wood Allocation Strategy.

Applications will be considered in order of receipt.

Current opportunities are designed to support new entrants to the commercial firewood business in the Haines Junction Area. Applicants may be offered up to 200 m3 (88 cords) depending on the operator’s capability to cut and remove wood.

All activity is limited to frozen-ground conditions.

Starting September 3, 2013 information packages are available from: Client Services and Inspections KM 918 Alaska Highway Whitehorse

Client Services and Inspections KM 246 Haines Road Haines Junction

For more information email Catherine.Welsh@gov.yk.ca or phone 456-3852 or 1-800-661-0408 ex. 3999 or visit www.emr.gov.yk.ca/forestry/

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Heat moulded skates Skate sharpening Downhill, X-ski and Snowboard repairs and maintenance Bike maintenance and repairs Fast, thorough service

Champagne and Aishihik First Nations

REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS DESIGN-CONCEPT PLAN FOR CHAMPAGNE AND AISHIHIK FIRST NATIONS TAKHINI RIVER SUBDIVISION COMMUNITY CENTRE

The Hougen Centre, Whitehorse, Yukon

in the Hougen Centre, 305 Main St. 668-6848

WEIDER HOME gym, provides exercise for the entire body, nw cond. Complete w/exercise program. Trimline treadmill, walk-run-climb, etc. Used very sparingly.

Take the two at a bargain price. 668-5786

PROPOSAL BIDS will be received at the Haines Junction office of Champagne and Aishihik First Nations located at 1 Allen Place, Haines Junction, Yukon or by mail at Box 5310, Haines Junction, Yukon Y0B 1L0 until 4:00 PM local time on Thursday, October 24th, 2013.

WEIGHT BENCH. 668-2253

Tenders must be submitted in a sealed opaque envelope clearly marked: “DESIGNCONCEPT PLAN FOR CHAMPAGNE AND AISHIHIK FIRST NATIONS TAKHINI RIVER SUBDIVISION COMMUNITY CENTRE” in accordance with the instructions in the tender documents.

COMPLETELY ASSEMBLED Tempo 615 E Elliptical exercise machine in exc shape, $250 obo. 633-6855

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BICYCLE RACK - Rear hitch mount. Holds up to 4 bicycles. Fits 2" hitch (comes w/adapter to fit a 1 1/4" hitch). Stealth brand.

Pd over $250, asking $100obo. 668-7361 HOCKEY TABLE by CarromSports, plastic dome w/scoreboard+sound, 58"long x 46"H x 34"W, lg players, made in USA, like new. $125. 633-3114 lv msg A COMPLETELY assembled Tempo 615 E Eliptical exercise machine in exc shape. Asking $250 obo. See pictures on Kijji. Call 633-6855 if interested.

KINETIC ROAD machine, 2010, bike trainer, used 3x, exc cond, inclʼs hub + 26x1.75 skin & DVD, $200. 633-4772 FREE STANDING basketball net with adjustable height basket. Free, if you take away.

633 6711 FOLDING 393-3753

WEIGHT bench, $60 obo.

YORK & Wider weights with steel bars.

667-2844 lv msg

Request foR PRoPosal

in Village of Mayo Municipal offices, community centre and curling lounge and other electrical work as identified this project consists of: • Supplying and installing electric ceiling fans and conduits throughout the Village Offices and Community Centre/Curling Lounge areas, installation of on - off switches, and connection of all fans to the electrical panel.

• Approx. areas of rooms to assist with sizing and numbers of fans needed: • 5 offices each 45 cu m; Council Chambers 190 cu m; Hall way 100 cu m; Recreation Hall 2,600 cu m; Curling Lounge 800 cu m.

• Supplying and wiring in a baseboard heater in the Zamboni storage room at the Mayo Hockey Arena, and supplying and installing an indicator light for the Zamboni Storage Room to warn Village Staff of heater failure, when the room temperature drops below a certain set point.

• Zamboni Room is approx. 65 cu m.

• Minor electrical system upgrades to ensure that breaker does not get tripped when heating or cooling fans get turned on in the offices; The successful contractor must have a valid Village of Mayo or Inter-municipal Business licence.

The successful contractor must supply all labour, material, equipment, freight, room and board, Liability Insurance in the amount of $2,000.000 and WCB coverage to complete this project.

Interested Individuals/Contractors are advised to visit the work areas to familiarize themselves with the project prior to providing a bid. this project must be completed on or before december 13, 2013.

Written proposals are to be submitted in a sealed envelope to the Village of Mayo office, Box 160, Mayo, yukon, y0B 1M0, by thursday, october 10, 2013 at 4 pm.

The successful contractor will be informed on October 17, 2013.

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WeB site DesigN seRViCes Yukon Energy Corporation is inviting proposals for Engineering, Procurement, and Construction services for development of a Whitehorse LNG storage and vaporization facility. The facility will consist of truck off-loading facilities, gas storage tanks, send-out pumps, vaporization equipment, vapor handling systems and all auxiliary systems needed to provide natural gas to two modular natural gas gen-sets. The construction work is scheduled for the 2014 building season, with a planned completion date of October 31, 2014.

Sealed proposals, clearly marked “RFP# 2013-032 EPC Contract: Offload, Storage, and Send-out Facility” will be received up to 4:00:00 p.m. Yukon time, October 28, 2013, at Yukon Energy’s corporate offices, #2 Miles Canyon Road, Box 5920, Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada Y1A 6S7 or via e-mail.

To obtain a Request for Proposal package contact Matthew Sills at 867-393-5335 or at matthew.sills@yec.yk.ca.

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GIRLS SKATES. Mens skates CCM. 393-2600 or 335-7052

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DART BOARDS, mounted on wooden frames, ideal for rec room or bar, $100. Don 335-0629 aft 5pm

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PRO QUALITY Goalie Gear - 36+2 Reebok p3 leg pads and matching Vaughn trapper and blocker. Sell as set $900. Great condition. Other goalie gear also available.

334-9280.

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Submissions clearly marked with the above project title, will be received up to and including 4:00 PM local time, October 08, 2013, at Contract Services, (867) 667-5385.

Documents may be obtained from Contract Services, Department of Highways and Public Works, Second Floor 9010 Quartz Road, P.O. Box 2703, Whitehorse, Yukon, Y1A 2C6. Technical questions may be directed to Glenn Lemoine at (867) 667-8458.

Site Visit: 9:00 a.m.

September 24, 2013 Submissions will be evaluated in accordance with the criteria indicated in the documents.

The highest ranked or lowest priced submission is not necessarily accepted.

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

The Yukon Business Incentive Policy will apply to this project.

Bidders are advised to review documents to determine Certificate of Recognition (COR) requirements for this project.

Visit our web site www.gov.yk.ca/tenders

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SNOW REMOVAL VARIOUS LOCATIONS WHITEHORSE YUKON 2013/2015

CONCEPT 2 indoor power rowing machine.

Pacemaster Pro Plus treadmill. Both puchased @ Waterstone, recently serviced.

Selling for 1/2 price. $2100. 668-2214

MOTOR BIKE helmet for child 7-11 year old. $10. 667-6966 EXERCISE 335-7052

PUbLIC TENdER

TEMPO 610T Treadmill. Used lightly for 6 months, exc shape. Nice & simple. $250.

667-6717.

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FOR SALE THE WEENIE WAGON Seasonal business Call now for details, Set up for spring 2014 Ph 867-334-4338

Friday, October 4, 2013

for the Village of Mayo

The Village of Mayo is inviting written proposals from interested web designers/developers to re-develop the Village of Mayo website located at www.yukonweb.com/community/mayo.

The selected web designer/developer will utilize the content already in place and create an effective navigation system, and allow for the editorial content of each page to be manipulated using an easy to use content management system. We will also require an updated look/graphics design utilizing the Village of Mayo logo, and photos of Mayo and the Silver Trail area.

The Village of Mayo will work with the successful candidate on a proposed site map with headings, content and content flow.

Please provide at least one Yukon reference of relevance to this project.

The project completion date is January 31, 2014.

Interested individuals/contractors are asked to contact Margrit Wozniak, Chief Administrative Officer, Village of Mayo for the terms of reference for this project.

Tel: 867-996-4300; email: caomayo@northwestel.net Written proposals must be submitted to the Chief administrative officer no later than 4:00 p.m. yukon standard time, october 10, 2013 at the Village office in an envelope plainly marked “Village of Mayo website development”. the successful contractor will be informed on october 17, 2013.

The lowest or any proposal is not necessarily accepted.

For more information or clarification please contact Margrit Wozniak, Chief Administrative Officer, Village of Mayo, at 867-996-4300, or caomayo@ northwestel.net.

Yukon HaY

High Quality, No Rain.

Square or round bales all in the barn. Feed analysis and deliveries available.

QUALITY YUKON MEAT Dev & Louise Hurlburt Grain-finished Hereford beef Domestic wild boar Order now for full delivery Payment plan available Samples on request 668-7218 335-5192 HORSE HAVEN HAY RANCH Dev & Louise Hurlburt Irrigated Timothy/Brome mix Small square & round bales Discounts for field pick up or delivery Straw bales also for sale 335-5192 • 668-7218 HAY FOR SALE Dry bales kept under a shelter. $12/bale astra@northwestel.net 633-4496 FRESH CUT 1,000 lb+ hay bales Field delivered $100 each 633-3388 PORK MEAT For Sale Sold by the half or cut & wrapped All animals are raised naturally No hormones/antibiotics YUKON VALLEY FARM 335-4431 Organic Hay from Dawson Creek Timothy, Brome, Alfalfa mix 17 ton load of rounds Delivered 46 bales for $7480 or $160 per bale (740 lbs.)

633-6603

PUBLIc TEnDER SUPPLY OF TWO MOBILE WATER SUPPLY FIRE APPARATUS Project Description: Supply Fire Fighting Equipment - trucks.

Submissions clearly marked with the above project title, will be received up to and including 4:00 PM local time, October 24, 2013, at Contract Services, (867) 667-5385.

Documents may be obtained from Contract Services, Department of Highways and Public Works, Second Floor 9010 Quartz Road, P.O. Box 2703, Whitehorse, Yukon, Y1A 2C6.

Technical questions may be directed to David Knight at (867) 667-3114.

Submissions will be evaluated in accordance with the criteria indicated in the documents.

The highest ranked or lowest priced submission is not necessarily accepted.

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

Visit our web site www.gov.yk.ca/tenders

Highways and Public Works

HORSE BOARDING $130/month Pasture & hay Large or small groups Tagish area 867-399-7010 ROASTING CHICKENS for sale.

Raised free range and all natural.

Call 867-537-3458 or email: mccabecreekfarm@hotmail.com TWO LG gelding pack horses. One four yr old green broke pinto mare. $1200 per horse obo. 867-390-2235. Can view in Teslin REGISTERED AQHA 2 yr old gelding. He already stands at 15.2HH. He loads, trims & is UTD on everything. He is calm & a pleasure to look at & work with, $2,200. 456-7720 CIRCLE J, tandem axle, two -horse bumper pull slant-load horse trailer, all aluminum, very light and easy to pull, excellent shape.

Has dressing/tack room. very nice. $6500 or best. 633-6502 LOCAL ORGANIC VEGETABLES Rivendell Farm Km 6.5 Hot Springs Rd www.rivendellfarm.ca 633-6178 LAYER PULLETS. 25 Red Rock Cross 20-week old ready to lay pullets. Raised on organic feed and never had antibiotics etc.

25$ for 1-4, $20 5 and up. 456-2062

Baby & Child Items CHILDRENʼS CLOTHING in excellent condition, given freely the first & third Saturday monthly at the Church of the Nazarene, 2111 Centennial. 633-4903 EVENFLO HAPPY CAMPER child's playpen w/storage/travel bag, gd cond, $25. Lightweight & compact stroller, gd cond, $10.

667-8726 NOT-FOR-PROFIT DAYCARE seeks full-time employee for break relief position.

Must love children. Level 3 or will train. We offer benefits and a paid mental health day per month. 667-7012.

Childcare BUBBLEʼS PRESCHOOL 18 months to 12 years This program is opening September 1st Donʼt miss this opportunity to enroll your child. Great program.

Great location - Mahʼs Point We offer Quality Care 334-6552

Furniture 2 DINING chairs, brownish lacquer, seats w/leather look cushions, reg height chairs, brand new, $50 ea. 633-3114 lv msg.

MATCHING SOFA & chair. 668-2253

PUBLIC TENDER DESIGN AND INSTALLATION OF PUBLIC ADDRESS SYSTEMS FOR GHUCH TLA COMMUNITY SCHOOL - BLDG.#1134, CARCROSS, YUKON 2013/2014 Submissions clearly marked with the above project title, will be received up to and including 4:00 PM local time, October 17, 2013, at Contract Services, (867) 667-5385.

Documents may be obtained from Contract Services, Department of Highways and Public Works, Second Floor 9010 Quartz Road, P.O. Box 2703, Whitehorse, Yukon, Y1A 2C6.

Technical questions may be directed to Tim Ekholm at 456-6816.

Site Visit October 8, 2013 at 3:00 p.m.

Submissions will be evaluated in accordance with the criteria indicated in the documents.

The highest ranked or lowest priced submission is not necessarily accepted.

Visit our web site www.gov.yk.ca/tenders

Highways and Public Works

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Friday, October 4, 2013 LEATHER OFFICE chair, $15. Kitchen table w/leaf extension, $75. 2 lg matching vintage storage cabinets. Wood/glass coffee table, 53x23”. 5-shelf book cases, $150/both or $75/ea, Rocking chair, $75. 667-2844 COUNTRY HOUSE elegant, dark espresso parsonʼs storage bench with beige/light tan microsuede seating, new, $325. 667-8726 COUNTRY HOUSE 2-level coffee table (19"hx54"lx30"w), $300. Matching 3-level end table (28"hx28"lx20"w), $225. $475 for both. 667-8726 LARGE OFFICE desk and matching credenza plus two large filing cabinets.

633-6553 TWO BOXSPRINGS, queen sz. 393-2600 or 335-7052 GLASS KITCHEN table w/3 chairs. Side table. 393-2600 or 335-7052 CANWOOD PINE twin bed w/firm foam, high quality mattress. 456-8004 ANTIQUE WOODEN child desk w/built-in height adjustable seat, unique, $140. Green 50”x42” chalkboard in wooden frame, detachable legs, $10. 668-2968 GLIDER CHAIR w/ottoman, wood, blue upholstery, nw $300 asking $100. 3-shelf bookcase, 42”Hx31”Wx11”D, light color, $30.

668-2968 MIRROR [FOR dresser], lacquer, 38"H x 41.5"W, w/, mounting supports, brand new, $25. 633-3114 lv msg MIRROR IN maple frame, 34x48, $150. Maple swivel rocker $30. Antique high back chairs (4), hemp seats, $160. View at 311B Hanson Styr SEALY BED, gd cond, worth $1600 asking $500 obo. 334-6103 ROUND COFFEE table, reddish brown lacquer, 40"W x 17.5"tall, glass 32.5"W, brand new, $50. 633-3114 lv msg.

2 RED 3-seater leather couches, $400 ea, no tears, gd cond. Small antique china cabinet, bookcase. 332-4232 2 SINGLE mattresses & wood bedsteads, $100 obo each. Only avai until Oct 6.

633-2493 WOOD ENTERTAINMENT centre, 4ʼhx2ʼd, glass doors, brass fittings, rolltop cover, free.

633-2493 SOLID WOOD 8-drawer desk, nice antique look, $50. 633-2493 QUEEN SIZE bed w/box spring & metal frame, in gd cond. Free to a good home.

633 6711 BLACK LEATHER reclining love seat & chair, $900. Full rising chaise footrests.

Oversized, plush padded seating. Brand new. 456-4269 or 667-4850

PubLIC TeNDeR CARCROSS FLOOD MITIGATION Project Description: Re-profiling of Waterfront Drive in Carcross, Yukon.

Submissions clearly marked with the above project title, will be received up to and including 4:00 PM local time, October 08, 2013, at Contract Services, (867) 667-5385.

Documents may be obtained from Contract Services, Department of Highways and Public Works, Second Floor 9010 Quartz Road, P.O. Box 2703, Whitehorse, Yukon, Y1A 2C6.

Technical questions may be directed to Kyle Rolling at (867) 667-3553.

Submissions will be evaluated in accordance with the criteria indicated in the documents.

The highest ranked or lowest priced submission is not necessarily accepted.

The Yukon Business Incentive Policy will apply to this project.

Bidders are advised to review documents to determine Certificate of Recognition (COR) requirements for this project.

Visit our web site www.gov.yk.ca/tenders

Community Services

SECTIONAL COUCH. 667-6770 VINTAGE FORMICA kitchen table w/leaf extention. 667-2844 PATIO FURNITURE: 2 sturdy metal chairs w/ cushions, umbrella and round glass/metal table (42" diameter), $50. call 633-2362 OFFICE CHAIR, adjustable arms & seat, $100. Maple wooden rocking chair, $50 obo.

667-7107

Personals DRUG PROBLEM? Narcotics Anonymous meetings Wed. 7pm-8pm #2 - 407 Ogilvie St. BYTE Office FRI. 7pm-8:30pm 4071 - 4th Ave Many Rivers Office CITIZENS ON PATROL. Do you have concerns in your neighborhood & community?

Be part of the solution! Volunteer valuable time to the C.O.P.S. program. With your eyes & ears we can help stomp out crime.

Info: RCMP 867-667-5555 HEPATITIS C or HIV Positive? Counseling, support, advocacy, nursing & naturopathic services available free of charge at Blood Ties Four Directions Centre. 633-2437 or 1-877-333-2437. All calls confidential THE FAIR Exchange Rate for the Week of September 30, 2013 is $0.95 CDN for One U.S. Dollar.

NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND CLAIMANTS in the matter of the estate of

Darren James Clethero

all claims against the estate of Darren James Clethero, late of the City of Whitehorse, in the Yukon territory who died on or about the 19th day of august 2013, must be made by statutory declaration with the personal representative noted below on or before the 21st day of october, 2013 after which date the estate will be distributed having regard only to the claims of which the estate trustee then shall have notice.

Louise Clethero, executrix c/o 102-205 hawkins street Whitehorse, Yukon Y1a 1X3 attention: Kyle J. Carruthers DateD at Whitehorse Yukon, this 25th day

of september, 2013.

PUbLIC TENdER TO SUPPLY MULTIFUNCTION PRINTERS TO GOVERNMENT OF YUKON Submissions clearly marked with the above project title, will be received up to and including 4:00 PM local time, October 24, 2013, at Contract Services, (867) 667-5385.

Documents may be obtained from Contract Services, Department of Highways and Public Works, Second Floor 9010 Quartz Road, P.O. Box 2703, Whitehorse, Yukon, Y1A 2C6. Technical questions may be directed to Jenny Richards at (867) 393-6387.

Submissions will be evaluated in accordance with the criteria indicated in the documents.

The highest ranked or lowest priced submission is not necessarily accepted.

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

Visit our web site www.gov.yk.ca/tenders

Highways and Public Works

ARE YOU MÉTIS? Are you registered?

Would you like to be involved?

There is a Yukon Metis Nation that needs your support Contact 668-6845

Announcements

Whitehorse Duplicate

Bridge Club October 2, 2013

1. Bruce Beaton Lynn Daffe

2. Mark Davey Chris Bookless

3. Lorraine Hoyt Noreen McGowan

Notice to Creditors in the matter of the estate of BarBara JoaN StuddS, Deceased, of Whitehorse, in the Yukon territory, who died on: JuNe 28, 2013

all persons having claims against the above mentioned Estate are requested to file a claim, supported by statutory Declaration, with Bill Klassen, on or before november 2, 2013, after which date the said estate will be distributed, having reference only to claims which have been so filed. all persons indebted to the estate are requested to make immediate payment to: executer Bill Klassen Box 20183 Whitehorse, Yt Y1a 7a2 867-633-2443

PUBLIC TENDER FUELWOOD SALVAGE OPPORTUNITY DECKED TIMBER Project Description: Fuelwood salvage opportunity in the Quill Creek area (Auriol Road). There is approximately 130 m3 of timber that was harvested 3 years ago and decked on 3 separate landings. The highest bidder will be required to pay the full amount of the bid price prior to being issued a Forest Resource Permit.

Submissions clearly marked with the above project title, will be received up to and including 4:00 PM local time, October 17, 2013, at Contract Services, (867) 667-5385.

Documents may be obtained from Contract Services, Department of Highways and Public Works, Second Floor 9010 Quartz Road, P.O. Box 2703, Whitehorse, Yukon, Y1A 2C6.

Technical questions may be directed to Lauren Waters at (867) 456-6178.

Submissions will be evaluated in accordance with the criteria indicated in the documents.

The highest ranked or lowest priced submission is not necessarily accepted.

Visit our web site www.gov.yk.ca/tenders

Energy, Mines & Resources

GarageS SALE

Friday, october 4 Porter creek

M 8 REDWOOD St, Porter Creek. Friday, October 4, 6-8pm & Saturday, October 5, 10am-2pm. Moving sale. HH items + more.

Saturday, october 5 alaSka hwy

M BETHANY CHURCH, 91806 AlAskA HigHwAY, Saturday Oct 5, 9am - 3pm.

INDOORS. Biggest one of the year. Front Line Youth’s annual garage sale & Filipino BBQ. Name your price everything must go. coPPer ridge M 17 FiNCH CREs, Copper Ridge. Saturday, October 5, 9am-2pm. Weather permitting. carcroSS corner

M CARCROss CORNER. Saturday, October 5, 9am-noon. HH, automotive & camping. creStview M 602 kATHlEEN Rd, Crestview. Saturday, October 5, 10am-3pm. Yukon Granny Booties. downtown

M 5118 - 5TH AvE., corner of 5th and Steele. Downtown. Sat and Sun Oct 5 & 6.

Everything must go. Start time 10:30am no early birds please. mary lake M 95 FiREwEEd, Mary Lake. Saturday, October 5, 10am-2pm. Tools, tents, DVDs. mcintyre

M 14 HANNA CREs, McIntyre Subdivision.

Saturday, October 5, 11am-5pm. Serving hotdogs with chili.

Porter creek

M 8 REdwOOd sT, Porter Creek. Friday, October 4, 6-8pm & Saturday, October 5, 10am-2pm. Moving sale. HH items + more. riverdale M 47 TEsliN Rd, Riverdale. Saturday, October 5, 9am-1pm. Vegetables, fresh, local & organic. 667-2808 M 15 HYlANd CREs, Riverdale. Saturday, October 5, 9-noon. Loads of kids stuff, clothes, delightful things, books, beads takhini

M 43 RHiNE wAY, Takhini. Saturday, October 5, 8:30am-noon. Arctic Edge Skating Club is hosting a fundraising garage sale.

Children’s items, small bake table, books.

M 16 ARNHEM Rd, Takhini N. Saturday, October 5, 8am-noon. Moving out sale. HH items, kitchen app, tools.

Sunday, october 6 downtown

M 5118 - 5TH AvE., corner of 5th and Steele. Downtown. Sat and Sun Oct 5 & 6.

Everything must go. Start time 10:30am no early birds please.

ongoing

M 2111 CENTENNiAl sT, Porter Creek. Free clothing at the Church of the Nazarene, the first & third Saturday of each month from 10am to noon. Mostly for children, some adult clothing as well. 633-4903

rEmEmbEr....

WHEN placing your Garage Sale Ad through The Yukon News Website TO INCLUDE: • ADDRESS • AREA • DATE(S) • TIME OF YOUR GARAGE SALE 30 words or less FREE! Classifieds/Reception wordads@yukon-news.com or 667-6285

Deadline: Wednesday @ 3pm

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Friday, October 4, 2013

TRUCK SALE Virtually all mileage is “low wear” highway mileage

Most vacation rentals are for 2 people... so the back cab seats are virtually unused

All our trucks have been regularly and professionally maintained

Absolutely no previous industrial use

None of our trucks have ever been driven “off road”

All our trucks are 1-ton 4x4 Gas and Diesel

THE MOST GENTLY USED TRUCKS in the North! *Truck Model Abbreviations: CC = Crew Cab / LB = Long Box / SB = Short Box / QC = Quad Cab

Yr.

Make

Model

2011 2011 2012 2012 2012 2012 2012 2012 2012

FORD FORD FORD FORD FORD FORD FORD FORD FORD

XLT F-350 LARIAT F-350 XLT F-350 XLT F-350 XLT F-350 XLT F-350 LARIAT F-350 LARIAT F-350 LARIAT F-350

Type 4x4 Gas 4x4 Diesel 4x4 Gas 4x4 Diesel 4x4 Diesel 4x4 Diesel 4x4 Diesel 4x4 Diesel 4x4 Diesel

Stk. # Mileage *CC / LB *CC / LB *CC / LB *CC / LB *CC / LB *CC / LB *CC / LB *CC / LB *CC / LB

31866 31910 33819 33846 33834 33844 33879 33892 33883

73,642 kms.

61,066 kms.

42,928 kms.

50,479 kms.

50,655 kms.

41,595 kms.

46,583 kms.

50,591 kms.

54,906 kms.

Features_________________________ 6.2L V8-G, 3.73e locking diff., 6-speed auto, 6-way driver side pwr seat, camper package.

6.7L V8-D, power heated/air conditioned seats, sync system, step gate, camper package.

6.2L V8-G, 40/20/40 cloth seats w/ pwr driverside, 6-spd auto, security grp,12.5k trailer hitch.

6.7L V8-D, 6-spd auto, security grp, reverse sensing, 6-way driver side pwr seat, rapid cab heat.

6.7L V8-D, 6-way pwr seat, sat radio, electronic shift on the fly, 11,50 GVWR package, rear defog.

6.7 V8-D, 6-spd auto, 3.55 rear end, shift on the fly 4x4, camper package, step gate, rapid cab heat.

6.7 V8-D, camper package, 3.55 rear end, sat radio, step gate, rapid cab heat, sync system.

Leather 40/20/40 power seats, sat radio, 3.55 e locking rear diff, 6 spd, camper package, step gate.

6.7 V8-D, Prefered equipment package, sat radio, 3.55e locking diff., step gate, two tone paint.

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