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reation spending or if we added $200,000 to bylaw services, or kept the fire hall as it is,” Curtis hitehorse residents are said. likely looking at a tax inBut the consultation is not crease for 2014, but exactly what enough, according to the Whitesize may depend on their feedhorse Chamber of Commerce. back at a public consultation on “We had asked for about four Thursday. to five weeks notice. This one was Whitehorse Mayor Dan Curtis about a week. So it was difficult said the city is hoping to keep the for people to clear their slates,” increase at the rate of inflation, or said chamber president Rick Karp. about 1.5 per cent.

“We applaud the city for actu“It’s going to take some tightally doing a consultation. This is ening of the belt; maybe some something that the Whitehorse service reductions and some rev- chamber has been pushing for for enue generation,” Curtis said. quite a while now,” Karp said.

The city is holding a public The biggest problem is that the consultation on Thursday evening city hasn’t released a draft budget from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. at the or any year-to-date financial inWestmark Hotel. It’s a chance formation, so it’s nearly impossifor the city to explain how much ble for business owners to provide money it has, where its increased an informed opinion, Karp said. costs are coming from, and to get “When you go to the city’s feedback on how citizens want website, and you look at the their taxes collected and spent, budget for 2014, there’s no budget Curtis said. there. What’s there is a questionThe city is also putting naire, and an explanation that we together a website that allows want you to come out and give people to tinker with the city’s feedback,” Karp said. numbers themselves, and see how The city has run budget surthat would affect various user fees pluses since 2008, Karp said, and and taxes. that makes him doubtful that a “It’s not an Excel spreadsheet, tax increase is necessary. but it’s a program that would “If the difference between give people an idea and an unrevenue and expense turns into derstanding how much of a tax a negative, a loss, then of course reduction there would be if we there will be all sorts of discustook, say, $300,000 out of recsion about OK, what are we going News Reporter

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to do. That sort of would justify a tax increase, but we don’t have that and we don’t know,” he said.

“We’re saying, ‘Lets look at where you are. What was your 2013 budget, and let’s look at a year-to-date comparatively and see where you are? How can we comment on a budgetary process if we don’t have a proposed budget, if we don’t know what your year-to-date numbers look like?”

Karp asked.

To Curtis, that request seems odd; he said it was Karp who suggested not releasing a draft budget in the first place.

“The Whitehorse chamber were the ones who suggested that they didn’t want a draft budget to come forward because it would look like we’ve already made conclusions as to where and how much was going to be spent,” Curtis said.

“His suggestion is quite contraire to his last comment … I’m not quite sure where he’s coming from, but we’ve certainly taken a lead from the chamber in saying that they would support a tax increase no more than the rate of inflation, which we’re striving for. To suggest that there should be zero increase, well, inflation is more than zero,” the mayor said.

The City of Whitehorse could pay up to $15,000 to find out if government grant money was spent effectively on Mount Sima.

On Monday, city council approved a motion to hire an independent auditor to gauge the performance of government spending on the troubled ski hill, going back about three years.

“We’re going back about two or three years just to see some of the larger grants that have been provided,” said Mayor Dan Curtis. “It would include the Build Canada fund, for instance. There has been about $3 million put through the City of Whitehorse through the federal government or through the territorial government over the last couple of years.”

The city has also given Sima between $30,000 and

$40,000 over the last 19 years, said Curtis. But he wants to see whether all public money was spent well or not.

The contract will be awarded only to a successful bidder that hasn’t had any previous dealings with either the former Great Northern Ski Society, which ran the hill until this year, or with the city, Curtis said.

If the bids come back below $15,000, the administration will immediately award to the lowest successful bidder. If the bids come back higher, it will have to go back to council for another decision.

“We’d like to get it done, not only for moving forward with Mount Sima, but for other organizations that might be looking at using this model. This will help them along and avoid the pitfalls that perhaps have been made and look at the good things that have happened,” Curtis said.

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Legal aid funding ‘yet another Band-Aid’ Ashley Joannou News Reporter

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ukon Legal Aid has suspended some of the services it offers to those who can’t afford to otherwise hire a lawyer.

When one of the small group’s lawyers left at the end of September, executive director Nils Clarke says he didn’t feel comfortable filling the vacancy until the Yukon government stepped up with more cash to fund his office.

As a result, legal aid’s poverty law assistance – which includes representation in disputes over employment insurance, social assistance benefits, landlord and tenant matters and refugee cases – has not been accepting new clients since the beginning of the month.

On Tuesday afternoon, the government announced it will be providing legal aid with an additional $200,000 in one-time funding.

Clarke says that will allow him to go to his board of directors and recommend that the vacant position be filled.

A new lawyer will likely not be in place until the new year, meaning there may still be a gap in services. Situations will be looked at on a case-by-case basis, he said.

The long-time lawyer said he was appreciative of the announcement but called the one-time funding “yet another Band-Aid” for the larger problem in the territory – an underfunded legal aid system.

“This does not address the issue of appropriate core funding.

This addresses the issues of us, for this year, being able to keep the lights on,” he said.

In an interview yesterday, Justice Minister Mike Nixon said he was not aware legal aid had suspended some services.

Aside from the money, Nixon has ordered a budgetary review of legal aid. Officials are to report back to him before the end of the year with recommendations regarding funding.

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This extra $400,000 is not about being greedy, he says. It’s about fairness.

“If they don’t start to recognize the imbalance or the lack of responsibility the territorial government has taken for their portion of the funding, then at some point hard decisions have to be made with respect to the funding of legal aid,” Clarke said. He called that “completely unnecessary, given the fact that the current justice system in the Yukon is extremely well-funded.”

The 2013-2014 territorial budget lists the total budget for the Department of Justice as approximately $65 million.

The equivalent of 7.5 lawyers work for legal aid. Clarke says he is the only executive director in the country who also takes on cases of his own.

The office generally has between 475 and 525 files open at any given time.

Ian Stewart/Yukon News A lawyer dealing with only Legal Aid executive director Nils Clarke said his office was forced to suspend some services criminal matters will usually this month due to insufficient funding. have between 60 and 80 open files, while a purely civil lawyer for legal aid is something Clarke other northern territories. government’s contribution was will have around 40 cases and has been advocating for years.

According to the most recent 45 per cent. someone with a mixed practice This is the third year the numbers from the Canadian In the N.W.T. the territorial will have from 50 to 60, he said. government has stepped in with Centre for Justice Statistics government paid 81 per cent of Clarke didn’t have specific a one-time increase to make ends (CCJS) report, the total amount the bills that year. In Nunavut numbers for how many people meet. of money spent on legal aid in that number is 78 per cent. were seen by the poverty law lawLegal aid was provided with the Northwest Territories for the There is no more core money yer, but he said the services were an extra $180,000 in the 20102011/2012 year was about $5.3 coming from Ottawa, Clarke used steadily.

11 year to cover high-cost cases million. In Nunavut it was $8.3 said. Legal aid across the country According to the CCJS statisbefore the courts. A year later million. That year in the Yukon is coming to the end of year two tics, in 2011/2012 Yukon’s legal the government gave another legal aid cost $1.9 million. of a five-year funding freeze, he aid had 1,390 approved applica$235,000 in one-time funding to Legal aid across Canada is said. tions and only 51 refusals. That cover more cases. funded through a combination “It all falls to the territory is the highest among the three “There’s a bit of a pattern of federal money and cash from right now. And the territory has territories. developing here, so let’s get to the respective provincial and ter- been able to, with all due respect, His program is being “starved” the core of it. Let’s look into the ritorial governments. abdicate its responsibility for the in the face of an “an objecdetails. I’ll have the department According to the most recent last 13 years.” tively fat justice system” on the work with the society and from Yukon budget, $864,000 of legal When Clarke first spoke to other side, he said. That includes there we’ll see what information aid’s $1.618 million core funding the News on Friday, before the multiple government lawyers, a there is,” Nixon said. comes from the federal governannouncement was made, he said fully funded Public Prosecution The current way of budgeting ment. That works out to about he would like to see the territoService office and other layers of makes it difficult to run services, 53 per cent of funding from rial government increase its core help within the justice system, Clarke said, and is a “constant federal dollars, leaving about 47 contribution to legal aid from funded by both the territorial stress that we face.” per cent from the territory. about $700,000 a year to $1.1 and federal governments.

Without the $200,000 influx With the extra $200,000, the million.

“There has to be some fairness of cash, the legal aid core budget territory’s contribution jumps to He called on the government or the teeter totter is sitting on for 2013-2014 is listed at apabout 52 per cent per cent. to then link that guaranteed one side and there’s no prospect proximately $1.6 million.

According to the CCJS report money to a 2.75 per cent “escala- of it even creaking up,” he said.

That is significantly less than numbers provided by Clarke, in tor” used by other departments Contact Ashley Joannou at the budget of legal aid in the two 2011-2012 the Yukon territorial ashleyj@yukon-news.com for increases every year.

Caribou hunting banned on Dempster Highway Ashley Joannou

The ban was put in place because both the small Hart River caribou herd and the Fortymile nvironment Yukon has caribou herd are in the area, issued an emergency ban but none of the larger Porcuon all hunting of all caribou pine caribou herd. in areas around the Dempster When dealing with just the Highway.

Porcupine and Hart caribou, a The ban covers nine game ban would not likely be needed management zones surroundif the larger Porcupine herd – ing the highway. It runs until about 169,000 animals – was July 31, 2014. mixing with the Hart in the This is the first time in area, Campbell said. decades that the rare Fortymile There is no hunting of the caribou herd has made an apFortymile herd – about 52,000 pearance this far into the Yukon animals – in Yukon as part of from Alaska, Environment a recovery plan created by the Yukon spokesperson Nancy Alaska and Yukon governments.

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This emergency closure applies to all Yukon resident and non-resident hunters.

The Fortymile herd was originally huge. In the 1920s there were stories of animals being seen in Whitehorse and Fairbanks, Campbell said.

According to a report done by the Tr’ondek Hwech’in First Nation, the herd declined from an estimated high of 568,000 animals in 1920 to a low of 5,000 in 1976.

When the herd first moved back across the border from Alaska into the Yukon in 2002 it was “big news,” Campbell said.

Until now, they were mostly found in the Dawson area.

Campbell said it’s not uncommon for caribou to move around. “There’s good eating apparently,” she said of the area around the highway.

The caribou hunting ban applies to GMS 2-16, 2-23, 2-24, 2-25, 2-27, 2-28, 2-29, 2-39, and 2-51, which includes the Dempster Highway from Dempster Corner to the Ogilvie River bridge (km 0 to km 195).

The ban covers all hunters except members of the Tr’ondek Hwech’in and Nacho Nyak Dun First Nations.

Those governments are responsible for deciding on their own if they want to implement bans, Campbell said.

The Porcupine Caribou herd has split into two groups this season.

One group is near Arctic Village in Alaska while the other is spread out from Old Crow to the Miner River area in the Ogilvie Mountains.

If the smaller herds move on or the Porcupine caribou come to the area, the government may consider reversing the ban, Campbell said.

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Judge challenges Truth in Sentencing Act Ashley Joannou News Reporter

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Yukon judge has ruled that the federal government’s Truth in Sentencing Act violates a man’s rights under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

In a 62-page decision made public last week, judge Karen Ruddy was deciding how much credit Yukoner David Chambers should receive for the time he spent behind bars prior to being sentenced for break and enter, assault and uttering threats.

The Truth in Sentencing Act was passed in late 2009 and came into force on February 22, 2010.

Its major impact was to limit the amount of credit a judge can give a person for time spent in

custody.

In the Yukon, like many other jurisdictions, it is common for offenders to receive as much as a day and a half credit for every day spent in pre-trial custody.

The question in this case comes when a person has been rearrested after already being released before sentencing.

In those cases, the act says a person should not get any extra credit for that time in jail, only a 1:1 ratio.

The Crown argued that the new rules should be applied to Chambers, leaving the 31-yearold member of the Champagne and Aishihik First Nations with about four months left to serve in his sentence.

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of systemic discrimination which has led to the overrepresentation of aboriginal offenders in the Canadian criminal justice system and in Canadian jails, would consider that the impugned portion of the provision operates in a fundamentally unfair manner with respect to aboriginal individuals, such as Mr. Chambers,” she said.

“It will undeniably lead to lengthier sentences for aboriginal offenders, and this is not only contrary to the express direction of the Supreme Court of Canada in Gladue and Ipeelee, but also contrary to the principles of fundamental justice.”

Chambers was released with credit for time served. He will be on probation for 12 months.

Contact Ashley Joannou at ashleyj@yukon-news.com

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They’re excited and happy to be Under the proposed schedule for involved in the process now, and de- the Canada Job Grant roll-out, over fine what those training needs are.” four years that funding would be Provincial and territorial leaders cut to $200,000. across the country have denounced An additional $300,000 would the program as proposed, saying pay for the job grants themselves. it will detract from successful job The idea behind the program is training initiatives for underserved that the federal government, territopeople. rial government and an employer Here in the Yukon, federal labour would each contribute up to $5,000 for the training of an employee or Fri, Oct. 4 thru potential employee for an available Thurs, Oct 10 job.

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“If there was consultation, it wasn’t with anyone here as far as I know. I would like to meet a person who was consulted.”

The Yukon already has a successful business training fund paid for by the federal and territorial governments and employers, said Karp.

“It’s very active. We have to meet almost every two weeks, we have to call the committee together, because we’re getting a lot of applications from business.”

And the Canada Job Grant would not pay for travel expenses, which can be a big cost for training in the Yukon, he said.

Leef said that Karp’s criticism of the program demonstrates a failure to acknowledge the full suite of job training programs that the federal government has brought to the territory.

That includes expanding community college campuses and investing in a mobile mine training simulator so that people do not have to travel, said Leef.

The existing business training program has some issues in terms of timing and access, and the Canada Job Grant is designed to be as flexible as possible, he said.

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“The Supreme Court of Canada has, in powerful language, spoken at length about the experience of aboriginal persons in Canada; how that history has negatively impacted on them resulting in a gross overrepresentation of aboriginal offenders in the criminal justice system and in Canadian jails; and of the obligation of all judges to consider the systemic or background factors which may have brought an aboriginal offender before the courts,” she said.

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defence, ruling that portion of the law “has a grossly disproportionate impact on aboriginal offenders and is overbroad in its reach” and therefore violated the charter.

In making her decision to give Chambers the most credit possible for his time in custody, Ruddy pointed to other court decisions that take into account a person’s aboriginal history.

“In my view, penal legislation that disallows any consideration of an individual’s aboriginal status is constitutionally flawed, offends the principles of fundamental justice, and can only be considered to have a grossly disproportionate impact on aboriginal offenders,” she said.

Ruddy pointed to two major cases in recent years, R. v. Gladue

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ukon MLA Ryan Leef has announced that he will support a federal inquiry into missing and murdered aboriginal women and girls.

He has heard “loud and clear” from Yukoners that this is something that they want, said Leef. People have told him that inquiry would give closure, answers and hopefully solutions, he said.

“I’ve committed to Yukoners that if the call for an inquest reaches the floor of the House of Commons that I will indeed vote for that, regardless of who tables it in the House.”

Premiers of Canada’s 13 provinces and territories have all joined together to ask for a federal inquiry into missing and murdered aboriginal women and girls.

But Prime Minister Stephen Harper has, so far, rejected the call.

When Harper visited the Yukon in August, he dodged a reporter’s question on if he would support an inquiry.

“It’s our strong belief that there has been a lot of study of this particular issue, and we have taken a number of steps to deal with this,” Harper said.

He added that the focus should be on protecting all Canadians.

“We think that what is important is that we look for ways of taking action, not just for missing and murdered aboriginal women but more broadly. It’s about securing safe streets and communities,” he said.

While Leef is prepared to go against party leadership on this issue, this does not signal a rift between him and the party or the prime minister, he said.

“The reality is, I’m not defying leadership, I’m standing up for Yukon constituents.”

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against party lines is no act of defiance, he said.

Leef agrees with the prime minister that there are many concrete actions that the government is already taking on this issue, he said.

He criticized the NDP Opposition for failing to support these initiatives.

“I’d certainly be calling on the Opposition to join the government on a lot of the substantive and concrete measures that we’ve already taken to eliminate and reduce violence, to improve the social conditions for First Nation women and girls,” said Leef.

He mentioned specifically the Family Homes on Reserves and Matrimonial Interests or Rights Act. “That body of legislation provided First Nation women the same property rights as any other woman in Canada when they are divorced. Before that, they had no right of claim to property they were

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living on when a divorce occurred.”

The act received royal assent in June, but has not yet come into force.

“We were able to get that piece of legislation through, despite the Opposition not supporting it, which is absolutely alarming, to me, that they wouldn’t have supported that body of legislation,” said Leef.

Some First Nation groups have raised concerns with the legislation, arguing that it steps on their sovereignty over their jurisdictions and fails to guarantee the resources necessary to administer the law.

It has no effect in the Yukon, since there are no reserves in this territory.

Leef also mentioned $182,000 in federal money directed at engaging Yukon men and boys to end violence against women and girls, and various other investments in

education, housing and training.

“It’s the social conditions that are contributing the greatest to the higher level of risk that aboriginal women and girls are facing,” said Leef.

Leef also agrees with Harper that inquiries are often unfocused and sometimes fail to provide real solutions, he said.

He is therefore calling on provinces, territories and First Nations to agree to contribute financial and human resources to any inquiry on missing and murdered aboriginal women.

That would ensure that the inquiry has a sharp focus, stays on track, and acknowledges regional differences, said Leef.

Contact Jacqueline Ronson at jronson@yukon-news.com

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COMMENTARY The Canada Job Grant only benefits big corporations Linda Leon

be split three ways between the provinces and territories, Open letter to MP Ryan Leef: the federal government and ast month Canada’s teremployers. ritorial and provincial Since small and mediumpremiers met to discuss the sized businesses cannot afford Canada Job Grant, which the these training costs, the only federal government wants to employers to benefit from launch with their co-operthis program would be large ation. The premiers are not corporations, many of them happy. foreign owned and most of The new program is prothem in the resource extracposed as a replacement for tion business. Is this another the labour market agreeindirect subsidy to the fossil ment, which was designed fuel industry? to “increase labour market The provinces and territorparticipation of groups that ies would see $300 million of are under-represented in the $500 million, once dediCanada’s labour force and to cated to the labour market enhance the employability agreement, clawed back. and skills of the labour.”

They are also being asked It was a bilateral agreeto contribute an additional ment with up to $500 million $300 million to support the in transfer-payment support new program. This does not from the federal government. include the costs of adminIt was a way to devolve labour istering this program, which management to the provinces the provinces and territories and territories and to increase would be asked to undertake. the number of skilled workers As Rick Karp from the Whitein Canada. On the whole it horse Chamber of Commerce worked, in large part because has pointed out, this fund it could be tailored to the won’t cover the costs of travel unique needs of each jurisdic- and housing that are necestion. sary for trainees from remote The purpose of the Cancommunities. ada Job Grant is “to ensure Where are the study groups that skills training funds are or pilot programs that supbeing used to help Canadians port the Conservative governobtain the qualifications they ment’s claim that this will need to get jobs in highbring jobs and prosperity to demand fields.” With this Canadians? Are there docugrant, the cost of training, up mented programs of similar to $15,000 per trainee, would design in other countries?

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The federal government didn’t even bother to consult with the premiers about this program. The Conservative government was so confident that the premiers would sign off on the Canada Job Grant that it sent out advertisements as though it was a done deal. The prime-time ads are estimated to cost “hundreds of thousands” according to the National Post. Citizens complained to Advertising Standards Canada about the ads because they did not supply relevant information. The advertisements were pulled before they could be listed on the council’s online “ad complaints report” as being in breach of Canadian Code of Advertising Standards.

Ryan, as well as the television advertisements, there were two Ten Percenters with the same misinformation on them. Your member’s expenses will be open to public scrutiny for this year and, since I am still collecting Ten Percenters, it will be very easy to figure out exactly how much of our money you spent on misleading advertisements.

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ally averse to helping those on the bottom of the economic totem pole? Are large industries seen as the only constituency that counts? Is it because they don’t receive political currency from the labour market agreement while they could claim all of the credit from the Canada Job Grant?

If they insist on going down this my-way-or-thehighway road without consulting with the provinces and territories or listening to education and labour experts, the Conservative government may find themselves in the uncomfortable position of taking all of the blame.

Now that the premiers have refused to co-operate, the federal government is approaching the industrial sector hoping that the Canada Job Grant could work in a

bilateral way. I haven’t heard that there is much enthusiasm there, either.

Perhaps if Mr. Harper had held a real job before he became a politician he would have understood, as a result of hands-on experience, the wisdom of, “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.”

The labour market agreement provided funding that helped train unskilled workers in the Yukon.

The territorial government has spoken out against the Canada Job Grant. The Whitehorse Chamber of Commerce agrees that this is a bad deal for Yukon. Will you speak out against the Canada Job Grant?

May you walk on the high road.

Linda Leon is a Whitehorse freelance writer.

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Billion-dollar bets mere $430 million in construction and working capital for its proposed Yukon mine. It would

by Keith take roughly 90 Victoria Golds to Halliday equal the economic footprint of just the Petronas project. Given the much lower profit margin a typical mine has compared to a gas well, the tax revenues from the Petronas project are probably much more than 90 times bigger than what a mine like Victoria Gold’s would generate. ast week I wrote about how These billion-dollar investnorthern B.C.’s fracking industry had garnered global at- ments, assuming they actually happen, will change the ecotention. This week the news got nomic map of our region. It even bigger, and turned into a used to be that our part of North regional story involving Alaska.

America was in the upper left of Malaysia’s prime minister a map with Toronto and New announced that Petronas, the government-owned energy com- York at the centre. Now Asia is pany, will invest an eye-popping at the centre of the map, and $36 billion to move B.C. natural natural gas trade routes converge there from around the periphgas to Asia. Meanwhile, Alaska’s ery of the Pacific Ocean: Kenai, big three oil companies and pipeline company Trans-Canada Kitimat, Oregon, Latin America and Australia. announced that the Kenai PenLike it or not, and many don’t, insula was the leading contender liquefied natural gas looks like for a gas export terminal for a new Alaskan gas pipeline system it will be the central part of the economic story in our part of that could cost anywhere from the world for the next few dec$45 billion to $65 billion. ades. Alberta has a long-standing On top of these announcegas industry too, and even the ments, China’s CNOOC and N.W.T. hopes to get in on the acother North American energy tion with its Canol shale gas play. companies have announced several other multi-billion-dollar N.W.T. politicians were recently in North Dakota marvelling at natural gas projects in B.C. the opportunities and excesses To put this in perspective, that state’s fracking boom have Victoria Gold is looking for a

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There is strong opposition to natural gas production in the Yukon. Anti-fracking groups have dominated the headlines.

The Yukon Party government, keen as it appears to be to mine the Peel watershed, even took gas exploration in the Whitehorse trough off the table last year.

Unresolved land claim issues in southeastern Yukon also limit the potential in that potentially gas-rich region, just across the border from the now worldfamous gas fields of Fort Nelson.

The regional natural gas mega-trend has big implications for the Yukon, even if we don’t end up with a natural gas industry of our own. This is because, although the tax revenues from gas mostly stay where it is produced and transported, the economic impacts and climate impacts travel across borders.

Consider a future where we have a gas industry similar in scale to Fort McMurray spread out from Kitimat to Fort Nelson, and another in Alaska. Businesses will be attracted to invest in nearby regions rather than the Yukon. Workers will be getting offered higher pay and better benefits to work in the gas sector.

All of this will put upward pressure on costs here in the Yukon.

Even if our mining industry is in the doldrums in a few years,

it will still cost us top dollar to build new schools or renovate our houses. This is because we’ll be competing with booming regions for businesses and labour.

Some businesses and workers based in the Yukon will be able to travel to the boom regions, which will be good for them, but the rest of the Yukon population may not share in the benefits.

The incremental tax revenue to the Yukon government may be more than outweighed by the higher prices it ends up paying for infrastructure and construction.

Climate change also crosses borders. All those wells, flare stacks, pipeline compressors, LNG tankers and Asian power plants will be pumping carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.

Even if the Yukon says no to fracking and a big natural gas industry, global warming will affect us as much as it does everyone else. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s most recent report says it is extremely likely that humans have been the primary cause of warming observed since 1950, and that increases in global surface temperatures are likely to exceed 1.5 C this century in most scenarios. There are also scenarios where temperatures go much higher. The effects would be very serious.

Future generations may wonder whether responding to recent climate change science by building an enormous natural gas industry in northwestern North America was a good idea.

Nonetheless, elected governments in our region are charging ahead with natural gas. The recently elected B.C. government has appointed a special minister for natural gas development. Premier Alison Redford of Alberta is headed for China soon to discuss petrochemical business opportunities. N.W.T. ministers, as noted above, are touring North Dakota’s energy industry.

Even the left of the Alaskan political spectrum is pro-gas.

Here’s what Senator Mark Begich, a Democrat who is up for re-election in 2014, had to say recently: a “liquefaction plant and export terminal will be a multi-billion investment and huge shot in the arm to both Alaska’s economy and confidence in our state’s energy future… a gas line from Prudhoe Bay to the Kenai Peninsula can meet Alaska’s in-state energy needs while supplying the energy-thirsty countries of the Asia Pacific.”

Keith Halliday is a Yukon economist and author of the MacBride Museum’s Aurore of the Yukon series of historical children’s adventure novels.

You can follow him on Twitter @hallidaykeith

Missing and murdered aboriginal women deserve an inquest Ryan Leef

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here has been a lot of discussion around the call for an inquiry into the serious and troubling issue of murdered and missing aboriginal women in Canada.

In the Yukon, this was cemented by Premier Darrell Pasloski passing a unanimous motion in the Yukon legislature calling for a national inquiry. This decision was born from the premiers’ meeting on July 24 of this year at Niagara-on-theLake where our country’s 13 provincial and territorial leaders called on the federal government to have such an inquiry.

At that time, Prime Minister Stephen Harper stated that he remains skeptical of commissions of inquiry generally – not to say they never work, or never produce good recommendations, but his experience has been they almost always run over time, over budget, and often the recommendations prove to be of limited utility.

The federal government has taken concrete and measurable action that deals, head on, with many of the conditions that contribute to the alarming rates of murdered and missing aboriginal women.

We have been studying several different venues and have provided funding for multi-year studies within various branches of our government.

Funding elements within the justice system have been provided to increase the efficacy of both prevention programs as well as investigative techniques delivered by organizations and police services.

In the House of Commons we supported a unanimous motion calling for a parliamentary committee on murdered and missing aboriginal women: a report is due in 2014. This committee is continuing its in-depth study, and parliamentary committees have a much higher impact on legislation necessary to address Canadian issues.

While the opposition has been calling for an inquest, it is important to note that an inquest alone is not the solution in and of itself, and to stop short with merely a call for action is not a genuine effort to address the issue. The opposition has failed to support our government’s very real efforts to improve the lives of aboriginal women. Our introduction of real matrimonial property rights legislation; budget measures to support groups and organizations that focus on violence

prevention; literacy investments; affordable housing funding like the $110 million for Nunavut and $600 million Canada-wide in Budget 2013; education and job-specific training initiatives; all of which are designed to improve social conditions providing opportunities that help reduce the risks currently faced by aboriginal women and girls.

Inquests can provide some challenges, and in the worst cases they fail to honour the victims and the families seeking closure, answers, and solutions. To that end, I believe that a meaningful and complete inquest requires the participation both in human resources and financial terms from the provinces, territories, and the First Nation governments.

Many of the social conditions that enhance the risk and account for the disproportionate percentage of aboriginal women that go missing, are murdered, and suffer desperately low solution rates fall within the jurisdictional control of the provinces. From social services, to housing, to municipal and provincial

police forces, education and health care delivery, an inquest that does not have a solid partnership and participation of the provincial and territorial premiers and First Nation governments will only disappoint and frustrate those we seek to serve – those who deserve answers, solutions and closure.

As a former member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and as an investigator with Yukon’s Safer Communities and Neighborhoods Unit, I have seen firsthand the path that leads an individual to increased risk and the impact of violence on individuals, families, communities, and our territory.

I do understand why Yukoners are seeking such an inquest, and it is my job as their representative to carry their message forward. So, I have joined the voice of Yukon citizens asking for a national inquest on missing and murdered aboriginal women.

I also believe, that done properly, an inquest will serve to complement the already outstanding efforts our government is making to provide opportunity, hope, healing and prosperity to all First Nation communities in Canada.

Ryan Leef is Yukon’s member of Parliament.

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Talking prisons and human rights Jesse Winter News Reporter

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hen it comes to prisons and aboriginal women, the numbers are startling.

Over the past decade, the number of incarcerated aboriginal women has jumped by more than 90 per cent, according to a Public Safety Department report last year.

Overwhelmingly, Canadian First Nations women are more likely to be jailed, often for simply trying to survive in dangerous environments, said Kim Pate, the executive director of Elizabeth Fry societies in Canada.

“Often in violent situations, women can’t engage in hand-tohand combat, so they end up picking up something that is later labeled as a weapon,” Pate said.

The practice is known as countercharging, and sometimes happens when there is a domestic assault where both attacker and victim are injured. The attacker will say “she hit me first,” or accuse his victim of inciting the attack, and both parties end up charged with a crime.

It’s particularly a problem in the Yukon, where the rate of sexual assault is three times the national average. Aboriginal women are also three times more likely to be the victims of violence than non-aboriginal women. In those cases, self-defence can often lead to counter-charges.

“The record is pretty abysmal in terms of police response,” said Elizabeth Sheehy, an expert who studies how the justice system handles battered women who are charged with killing their abusive partners.

“Aboriginal women are really on their own when it comes to violence.

They have a higher rate of being assaulted because of the dysfunctional communities that have been created (by colonial history),” she said.

It’s a problem that’s reaching epidemic proportions across the

country, and it’s getting worse, especially in the North where there is a lack of support and treatment services, Pate said.

“In Whitehorse itself, there have been a couple of cases where women were jailed because of mental health issues when there weren’t any resources in the community,” Pate said.

“I’ve spoken to police officers who said, ‘The last place I wanted to take her was to jail, but no hospital would take her.’”

Pate and Sheehy joined human rights philosopher (and former Yukoner) Lisa Guenther in Whitehorse over the weekend for a public forum discussing the issues affecting aboriginal women in the justice system. The three women also gave presentations at Yukon College on Monday.

Sheehy’s work has focussed on 91 women across Canada who were charged with murder after killing abusive spouses.

Forty-one percent of the women whose cases she studied were aboriginal.

“Overwhelmingly, aboriginal women are more likely to plead guilty to manslaughter instead of going to trial,” Sheehy said, “even though if they do make it to trial, they are far more likely to successfully argue self-defence and be acquitted.”

Sheehy said there are many contributing factors including a lack of adequate legal support, but colonial history, residential schools and the often-dysfunctional communities those issues have left behind certainly play a part as well.

“Why do so many of them find themselves in those positions of kill or be killed? Aboriginal women are acutely endangered. It has set aboriginal women up as targets of male violence,” she said.

“Basically historically they were

non-citizens. They were dispossessed of their access to land, their access to family ties. There are many legal interventions that created aboriginal women as non-citizens and almost non-persons,” she said.

Guenther’s work takes a more philosophic approach, examining issues like incarceration and its effect on both prisoners and the communities they are removed from.

Much of her recent work focuses on solitary confinement.

“Solitary confinement treats people as if they are separable from the world, as if you could just pluck them from the world and other people, put them in a cement box and expect them to become accountable for their actions. It makes people mentally ill, and undermines their capacity to make sense of themselves and perceive the world,” Guenther said.

That can have devastating, and often counter-productive, results when applied to marginalized prison populations like aboriginal women.

Guenther has spent years studying prison populations in the U.S., where young black men are disproportionately targeted and incarcerated. The number of AfricanAmerican youth being arrested in the States as part of the decadeslong war on drugs is becoming an increasingly contentious issue south of the border.

“But it’s actually worse for indigenous Canadians here,” Guenther said.

Canada’s First Nations make up a little over four per cent of the total Canadian population, but constitute more than 20 per cent of Canadians behind bars, according to Statistics Canada. One in three Canadian women sentenced to federal prison is aboriginal.

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“I would have cleaned OTTAWA things up if I had stayed, but uebec’s electoral watchsince I left I handed it over to dog says that illegal the police. At the time, it was a financing of Quebec’s now de- bit strange to go to the police funct ADQ may have occurred about that, but now I think – and the time frame overlaps I was right to do it because with Tory Senator Leo Housa- today we know what was going kos’s time as chief fundraiser on wasn’t pretty.” for the provincial party.

Housakos responded by reMeanwhile, the former iterating he did not participate leader of the ADQ, Gilles Tail- nor did he have any knowledge lon, told The Canadian Press of wrongdoing while he was on Tuesday he gave a deposithe chairman of the ADQ’s tion to Quebec police in 2009 fundraising arm from 2002 to outlining his concerns that the 2008. He said nobody in any party had been taking in illegal position of authority, includdonations in previous years. ing the Quebec provincial “In 2009, we were calling for police, has ever contacted him an inquiry into the construcfor questioning. tion industry, and to clean “I can tell you that all the up political financing. (Party fundraising we did followed insiders) came back and said the law, from A to Z, with no to me, be careful what you’re exception” he said in an intersaying Gilles, because these view Tuesday. things are going on in your The comments come a day after construction boss Lino own house,” said Taillon, who Canadian Press

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Zambito told CBC News that Housakos had asked him to make a donation of nearly $30,000 to the ADQ in 2008.

At the time, Housakos was also Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s appointee on the board of Via Rail.

Zambito said the money was collected by asking friends and staff at his firm to write cheques and then reimbursing them. Such a system of “borrowed names” has been described in detail at the Charbonneau inquiry into contract corruption in Quebec.

Zambito expressed his suspicion that the senator knew how the money was raised, saying, “They all knew the system. No one’s going to make me believe they didn’t know what was happening.”

Housakos said he did not have any knowledge the donors were later being reimbursed.

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“What was my participation in illegal activities? I took an envelope full of cheques?”

Former ADQ president Mario Dumont had a similar comment Tuesday, saying it would have been impossible for parties to prevent or check for such schemes.

“The truth is that you have a cheque in your hands, it comes from a citizen, it’s legal. You deposit it, it clears the bank and it’s a perfectly legal donation,” Dumont told Montreal’s 98.5 radio station.

“The next week, the person who made the contribution is reimbursed by their boss. The contribution becomes illegal and the political party never knew.”

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chief electoral officer says the office has taken interest in cases where it is clear that a party has received significant amounts of “sectoral financing,” or money that comes from a single type of business – law, engineering or construction firms, for example.

“What we’ve established is that the ADQ has effectively received $800,000 in sectoral financing, and a part of that might be illegal,” said spokesman Denis Dion, referring to a time frame of 2006 to 2011.

“It’s possible we are investigating, but we can’t confirm that.”

Over the months at the Charbonneau inquiry, different witnesses have raised their contributions to the ADQ. The former president of Genius Conseil said he gave to all political parties in a bid to curry favour, using the same system of borrowed names for contributions as Zambito described. Quebec’s elections office calculated the amount Genius gave to the ADQ as $28,700 between 1996 and 2010.

Engineering firm BPR is another example of a business that gave generously to the ADQ. Former president Pierre Lavallee testified before the Charbonneau commission that all political parties, including the ADQ, had solicited tens of thousands of dollars from his firm.

BPR gave $42,420 to the ADQ between 2006 and 2008.

The following year, Lavallee hired the newly named Senator Housakos to work at the company.

Lavallee said all the donations from the company were made legally by staff members.

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BPR executives were among the engineering consulting firms that bought tickets en masse to a Conservative fundraiser featuring Harper in May 2009. Housakos was one of the key organizers.

The fundraiser helped the Laurier Ste-Marie Conservative riding association rake in $288,823, or five times more funds than Harper’s riding association of Calgary Southwest that year.

“The fact that eight people in an office contribute to a political party doesn’t mean that the employer reimbursed those employees, but it gives you a hint,” said Dion of Quebec’s elections office.

“When we see that, it makes us want to go have a look, and maybe eventually lead to an investigation.”

Housakos describes the ADQ as being a “minnow” among Quebec political parties with minimal support from the construction industry over the years. The party has since been folded into the Coalition Avenir Quebec.

“Except for a basically six or seven month period, we were piss poor running on fumes,” Housakos said.

“In 2005, 2006, 2007, we were raising $100,000 a year, and I can tell you how we were raising that money, penny by penny, dollar by dollar.”

Other former associates of Housakos are facing charges in connection with contract fraud in Quebec.

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Accurso told La Presse newspaper in a rare interview a year ago that he has never stolen anything from anyone, and is proud of the company he built.

Housakos has publicly called Accurso a great businessman.

A telephone conversation purporting to be between Accurso and Housakos was mysteriously posted to YouTube during the 2011 federal election in which the two discuss meeting a developer at Accurso’s office.

Dumont and Housakos met up by chance with Accurso during a trip to Hawaii and the three families shared meals together, according to Dumont.

Another construction boss, Paolo Catania, was arrested and faces charges of fraud and conspiracy in connection with the sale of a plot of land for condo development in Montreal. The Charbonneau Commission released information last year that showed Catania and Housakos met at an exclusive Montreal club for lunch in April 2008.

Another person who Housakos met at the club for breakfast, Bernard Trepanier, is also facing charges in connection with the same land deal. He’s been dubbed “Mr. Three Per Cent” by the Quebec media for allegedly collecting kickbacks for Montreal’s ruling party, an allegation he has denied at the

inquiry.

Accurso and Trepanier have both complained that the public testimony at the Charbonneau commission is impairing their chances at a fair trial.

The senator’s name has come up twice at the Charbonneau commission, but he had never been accused of any wrongdoing nor have the inquiry’s lawyers explained why they brought him up.

Housakos has said he feels he is being declared guilty by association, when he could have had no knowledge that such figures would have been engaged in alleged illegal activity.

“Do I know them? Yes. Had I interacted with some of them, had I solicited for political contributions some of them? Absolutely,” Housakos said.

“But to insinuate that these individuals, some of them who are accused of serious crimes, are colleagues of mine again is another attempt to attach me and accuse me and make me guilty by association where it’s not warranted.”

Jason MacDonald, a spokesman for the prime minister’s office, offered a terse response to questions about Housakos and the ADQ. “Senator Housakos has denied these allegations. Questions should be directed to his office.”

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bitterly left his post after only three weeks.

“I would have cleaned OTTAWA things up if I had stayed, but uebec’s electoral watchsince I left I handed it over to dog says that illegal the police. At the time, it was a financing of Quebec’s now de- bit strange to go to the police funct ADQ may have occurred about that, but now I think – and the time frame overlaps I was right to do it because with Tory Senator Leo Housa- today we know what was going kos’s time as chief fundraiser on wasn’t pretty.” for the provincial party.

Housakos responded by reMeanwhile, the former iterating he did not participate leader of the ADQ, Gilles Tail- nor did he have any knowledge lon, told The Canadian Press of wrongdoing while he was on Tuesday he gave a deposithe chairman of the ADQ’s tion to Quebec police in 2009 fundraising arm from 2002 to outlining his concerns that the 2008. He said nobody in any party had been taking in illegal position of authority, includdonations in previous years. ing the Quebec provincial “In 2009, we were calling for police, has ever contacted him an inquiry into the construcfor questioning. tion industry, and to clean “I can tell you that all the up political financing. (Party fundraising we did followed insiders) came back and said the law, from A to Z, with no to me, be careful what you’re exception” he said in an intersaying Gilles, because these view Tuesday. things are going on in your The comments come a day after construction boss Lino own house,” said Taillon, who Canadian Press

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Zambito told CBC News that Housakos had asked him to make a donation of nearly $30,000 to the ADQ in 2008.

At the time, Housakos was also Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s appointee on the board of Via Rail.

Zambito said the money was collected by asking friends and staff at his firm to write cheques and then reimbursing them. Such a system of “borrowed names” has been described in detail at the Charbonneau inquiry into contract corruption in Quebec.

Zambito expressed his suspicion that the senator knew how the money was raised, saying, “They all knew the system. No one’s going to make me believe they didn’t know what was happening.”

Housakos said he did not have any knowledge the donors were later being reimbursed.

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“What was my participation in illegal activities? I took an envelope full of cheques?”

Former ADQ president Mario Dumont had a similar comment Tuesday, saying it would have been impossible for parties to prevent or check for such schemes.

“The truth is that you have a cheque in your hands, it comes from a citizen, it’s legal. You deposit it, it clears the bank and it’s a perfectly legal donation,” Dumont told Montreal’s 98.5 radio station.

“The next week, the person who made the contribution is reimbursed by their boss. The contribution becomes illegal and the political party never knew.”

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chief electoral officer says the office has taken interest in cases where it is clear that a party has received significant amounts of “sectoral financing,” or money that comes from a single type of business – law, engineering or construction firms, for example.

“What we’ve established is that the ADQ has effectively received $800,000 in sectoral financing, and a part of that might be illegal,” said spokesman Denis Dion, referring to a time frame of 2006 to 2011.

“It’s possible we are investigating, but we can’t confirm that.”

Over the months at the Charbonneau inquiry, different witnesses have raised their contributions to the ADQ. The former president of Genius Conseil said he gave to all political parties in a bid to curry favour, using the same system of borrowed names for contributions as Zambito described. Quebec’s elections office calculated the amount Genius gave to the ADQ as $28,700 between 1996 and 2010.

Engineering firm BPR is another example of a business that gave generously to the ADQ. Former president Pierre Lavallee testified before the Charbonneau commission that all political parties, including the ADQ, had solicited tens of thousands of dollars from his firm.

BPR gave $42,420 to the ADQ between 2006 and 2008.

The following year, Lavallee hired the newly named Senator Housakos to work at the company.

Lavallee said all the donations from the company were made legally by staff members.

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admitted to participating in a kickback scheme on municipal contracts in Montreal and resigned from his post.

BPR executives were among the engineering consulting firms that bought tickets en masse to a Conservative fundraiser featuring Harper in May 2009. Housakos was one of the key organizers.

The fundraiser helped the Laurier Ste-Marie Conservative riding association rake in $288,823, or five times more funds than Harper’s riding association of Calgary Southwest that year.

“The fact that eight people in an office contribute to a political party doesn’t mean that the employer reimbursed those employees, but it gives you a hint,” said Dion of Quebec’s elections office.

“When we see that, it makes us want to go have a look, and maybe eventually lead to an investigation.”

Housakos describes the ADQ as being a “minnow” among Quebec political parties with minimal support from the construction industry over the years. The party has since been folded into the Coalition Avenir Quebec.

“Except for a basically six or seven month period, we were piss poor running on fumes,” Housakos said.

“In 2005, 2006, 2007, we were raising $100,000 a year, and I can tell you how we were raising that money, penny by penny, dollar by dollar.”

Other former associates of Housakos are facing charges in connection with contract fraud in Quebec.

Former construction boss Tony Accurso faces fraud, breach of trust and corruption charges by Quebec’s anti-corruption squad, a range of federal charges in connection with

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Accurso told La Presse newspaper in a rare interview a year ago that he has never stolen anything from anyone, and is proud of the company he built.

Housakos has publicly called Accurso a great businessman.

A telephone conversation purporting to be between Accurso and Housakos was mysteriously posted to YouTube during the 2011 federal election in which the two discuss meeting a developer at Accurso’s office.

Dumont and Housakos met up by chance with Accurso during a trip to Hawaii and the three families shared meals together, according to Dumont.

Another construction boss, Paolo Catania, was arrested and faces charges of fraud and conspiracy in connection with the sale of a plot of land for condo development in Montreal. The Charbonneau Commission released information last year that showed Catania and Housakos met at an exclusive Montreal club for lunch in April 2008.

Another person who Housakos met at the club for breakfast, Bernard Trepanier, is also facing charges in connection with the same land deal. He’s been dubbed “Mr. Three Per Cent” by the Quebec media for allegedly collecting kickbacks for Montreal’s ruling party, an allegation he has denied at the

inquiry.

Accurso and Trepanier have both complained that the public testimony at the Charbonneau commission is impairing their chances at a fair trial.

The senator’s name has come up twice at the Charbonneau commission, but he had never been accused of any wrongdoing nor have the inquiry’s lawyers explained why they brought him up.

Housakos has said he feels he is being declared guilty by association, when he could have had no knowledge that such figures would have been engaged in alleged illegal activity.

“Do I know them? Yes. Had I interacted with some of them, had I solicited for political contributions some of them? Absolutely,” Housakos said.

“But to insinuate that these individuals, some of them who are accused of serious crimes, are colleagues of mine again is another attempt to attach me and accuse me and make me guilty by association where it’s not warranted.”

Jason MacDonald, a spokesman for the prime minister’s office, offered a terse response to questions about Housakos and the ADQ. “Senator Housakos has denied these allegations. Questions should be directed to his office.”

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Saskatchewan reserve providing boots, bus rides to help get people working ‘We try to eliminate all the obstacles they face in order for them to work all the time, full-time jobs.’

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placement program began in August 2012.

Chief Wayne Semaganis CUT KNIFE, Sask. said the program started with oots and bus rides have two people who were hired helped a Saskatchewan to gather resumes from band First Nation cut the number of members and match their its members on welfare by 33 skills with jobs in the surper cent in one year. rounding communities.

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hard hats – if they need transportation,” Semaganis said in an interview with The Canadian Press.

“We try to eliminate all the obstacles they face in order for them to work all the time, fulltime jobs.”

The chief said it cost the band $7,000 to buy steel-toe boots for the latest group of 70 members who got new jobs in Lloydminster, “but we did it because they needed them.” A person living on welfare can’t afford the boots themselves, he said.

The band also runs two buses and two shuttles to get workers to their jobs.

Semaganis said the benefits

far outweigh the cost.

“If we spend $30,000, $40,000 hiring two people to put 100 and some people to work, that’s worth it,” he said.

Band members have been employed recently at the Husky Upgrader and at the exhibition grounds as well as in the energy, agriculture and hotel industries.

When Semaganis became chief about four years ago, he said more than 400 people were receiving social assistance, about half the people living on the reserve. That doesn’t count band members living off reserve.

He’s happy the number is going down.

“It makes me feel good because I know we’re providing solutions instead of finding excuses as to why we can’t do anything,” said Semaganis.

The chief said there has also been a positive change in the attitude of people on the reserve.

“You don’t really notice it right at the beginning when you’re starting out on things,” he said.

“But you’ll see it further down the road when children have more pride, their parents are working, they have more access to better clothing, the ability to enjoy life more because they can get more.”

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In quest to scuttle Obama’s health care overhaul, GOP gets unintended result David Espo Associated Press

WASHINGTON epublicans insisted they wanted to shut down the US’s three-year-old health care overhaul, not the government. They got the opposite, and now struggle to convince the public that responsibility for partial closure of the federal establishment lies with President Barack Obama and the Democrats.

There’s ample evidence otherwise, beginning with Speaker John Boehner’s refusal to permit the House to vote on Senate-passed legislation devoted solely to reopening the government.

In the days leading to the impasse, Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas said he would do “everything and anything possible to defund Obamacare,” including a filibuster against legislation to prevent a partial closure of the federal government.

In the House, Rep. Jack Kingston told reporters his Georgia constituents would rather have a shutdown than Obamacare, and Rep. Tim Huelskamp added recently that in his Kansas district, “If you say government is going to shut down, they say, ‘OK, which part can we shut down?”’

Ironically, Republican leaders urged the rank and file not to link a defunding of Obamacare to federal spending for fear the unavoidable outcome would be a shutdown that would harm the party politically.

Yet Boehner, who survived a conservative-led attempt on his tenure in January, and Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell, who faces a primary challenge from a Tea Party-backed rival in Kentucky, were unable to prevail.

Instead, they were steamrolled by Cruz, his allies in Congress and Heritage Action, Club for Growth, the Tea Party Express and other groups that have used the issue to raise funds.

The strategy in effect, Republicans negotiated exclusively with themselves in the days leading to the shutdown as they sought the demise of “Obamacare.”

First, they passed legislation demanding the health care law be defunded in exchange for a bill providing essential government

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funding.

When the Senate rejected that, they scaled back.

Instead, they sought a one-year delay in the law, combined with the permanent repeal of a tax on medical devices and creation of new barriers to contraceptive coverage for women purchasing insurance.

That, too, was torpedoed in the Senate.

The next GOP demand was for a one-year delay in the requirement for individuals to purchase coverage, along with a provision that would oblige the president, vicepresident and members of Congress and their aides to purchase insurance under the same system as the rest of the country without receiving the customary employer contribution from the government, for which they work. The principal impact of that is to raise the cost of insurance dramatically for thousands of congressional aides and political appointees of the administration.

That, too, fell in the Senate.

There have been ideological retrenchments, as well.

Despite their long-held positions against government mandates, House Republicans agreed beginning last week to leave in effect requirements in the health care law they have refused to embrace in the past. Among them is a requirement for insurers to cover individuals with pre-existing conditions and another to allow children up to age 26 to remain on their parents’ plans.

All are politically popular, although rarely mentioned by Republican lawmakers who say the country clamours for a total repeal of the law.

Despite pledging in the 2010 campaign to “repeal and replace” the law known as Obamacare, Republicans have yet to offer a comprehensive alternative. Efforts to create one have been hampered by opposition from conservatives to some of the mandates they tacitly agreed last week to leave in effect.

Conceding as much, Rep. Trent Franks, R-Ariz., said that as a conservative, he had often found during Obama’s presidency that his choice was “between something bad or (something) horrible.”

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Rick Hohensee of Washington holds a Fire Congress sign near the House steps on Capitol Hill in Washington in the second week of the partial government shutdown.

Republican unity, so valuable in pushing to reduce spending in the past three years, shows signs of fraying.

Even before the shutdown began, some moderates said it was time to shift the fight against Obamacare to another arena and allow the government to remain open. A handful of conservatives, backed by outside groups, rebelled when GOP demands for changes in the law were scaled back.

“I feel like we’re retreating,” said Rep. Phil Gingrey, R-Ga., while the conservative group Heritage Action said it opposed the last in a series of GOP manoeuvres because it fell short of “fully defunding the president’s failed law.”

Restlessness grows.

In the Senate, Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn., says routinely, “We’re in a box canyon,” and Sen. John McCain of Arizona observed, “We can’t win” when it comes to using a federal spending measure to squeeze out concessions on health care.

Ironically, Obama and Senate Democratic leaders have said repeatedly in recent days they are willing to negotiate changes in the health care law – on another day and another bill.

Even Democrats privately concede that a tax on medical devices isn’t likely to survive long, given that 79 members of the Senate backed its repeal on a nonbinding test vote last spring.

What survives is the expansion of the health care law that was passed in 2010, the opportunity for uninsured Americans to obtain private insurance at a cost oftentimes subsidized by the government.

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N.W.T. politicians tour southern fracking sites for taste of what North may expect Lauren Krugel

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The potential jobs created by developing the Canol shale formaeaders from the Northwest Ter- tion in the Central Mackenzie ritories are touring the boomValley would be welcome in a ing Bakken region of Saskatchewan region plagued by high unemployand North Dakota to get a taste of ment. But there are challenges well, what might be in store if the terri- such as a higher cost of living and tory’s own shale oil play takes off. increased pressure on government David Ramsay, the minister in services. charge of resource development Government officials in North in the territory, said Thursday that Dakota and Saskatchewan had the economic impact has been ap- some advice for the Northwest parent, from the brand new trucks Territories. driving around Estevan, Sask., to “The main thing they’ve said the homes, roads, hotels and offices to us over and over again is just under construction south of the prepare yourself, get ready. The Canadian Press

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more upfront work you can do, the better off you’ll be,” Ramsay said in an interview from Williston, N.D. “They’re saying if they could do it all over again, they’d plan better and that’s what we’re trying to do.”

Joining Ramsay on the tour were representatives from the towns of Normal Wells, Tulita and Fort Good Hope, as well as the MLA for the Sahtu region, where the Canol is located 2.5 kilometres underground.

The delegation viewed a hydraulic fracturing operation in action. That method – which would be used in the Canol – involves

drilling long horizontal wells deep underground and cracking the rock with a mixture of high-pressure water, sand and chemicals.

Ramsay, whose portfolios include industry, tourism investment and transportation, said he’s confident that hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, can be done safely in the Central Mackenzie Valley, although drilling into permafrost would pose a challenge that operators in the Bakken don’t have to deal with.

“A big part of this is to let people back in the Northwest Territories know that we’re talking to other jurisdictions that have

experience with hydraulic fracturing and it’s not an issue and it shouldn’t be an issue for us,” he said.

“It can be done in a safe manner. That’s the message that we really need to deliver.”

Development of the Canol is in its very early stages, with the first horizontal wells set to be drilled this winter.

Companies such as Imperial Oil, Royal Dutch Shell Shell, ConocoPhillips, MGM Energy and Husky have already committed to spend a combined $630 million on drilling.

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Lone Pine president Tim Granger says the $250-million suit is to recover expenses and expected returns after Quebec slapped a moratorium on the controversial hydraulic fracturing process for oil and gas exploration underneath the St. Lawrence in 2011.

The moratorium is scheduled to be reviewed next year, but Granger says he has doubts the new Parti Quebecois government will lift it. He says his company would drop the suit if it did.

Council of Canadians trade campaigner Stuart Trew says Quebec was perfectly within its rights to ban fracking under a major waterway, but investor protection clauses in trade deals leave governments vulnerable to having to compensate firms

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‘Poop’ pills successful at treating C. difficile but not ready for mass production Helen Branswell Canadian Press

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orget the enema bag and the tube that snakes down the throat to the intestines. The future of treatment for persistent C. difficile infections may come in pill form.

A Calgary doctor who has been treating difficult-to-cure C. difficile for years with fecal transplants is reporting he has created what are in essence poop pills – and they do the trick.

Infectious diseases expert Dr. Tom Louie, a pioneer in the use of fecal transplants for C. difficile in Canada, has treated 27 patients with his handmade pills, and all 27 were cleared of their infections.

“They came in for lunch on an empty stomach … and took 24 to 30 pills on average,” Louie, said of the regimen, which he described to fellow scientists recently at the IDWeek conference in San Francisco.

IDWeek is an annual meeting of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America, the HIV Medicine Association and the U.S. Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society.

Louie teaches at the University of Calgary. In a telephone interview, he said he saw no side effects, and the regime was surprisingly well tolerated by patients. “Nobody’s thrown up. And nobody’s complained of belly pain.”

Other physicians who treat recurrent Clostridium difficile with fecal transplants called the development good progress towards a day when there may be ready-to-use pills that can re-establish the bacterial balance for people suffering from the debilitating infection.

But they – and Louie himself – suggested this work is more a case of proving treatment in pill form can work than an immediate pivot point for the way fecal transplants for C. difficile will be administered.

That’s because the pills currently used by Louie can’t be mass produced and given to anyone who wants to try a fecal transplant for recurrent C. diff infection. Each

But from my experience, almost everybody goes along with the NG tube or the enema because they’re past the icky phase, the patients,” said Silverman.

“The patients, by the time they have multiple recurrences of diarrhea, are willing to do anything to make this not happen again.”

Silverman said Louie’s pill treatment would be a “nice additional option” but he doesn’t anticipate all practitioners will move away from the nasogastric tube or reverse enema delivery any time soon.

“Because not everybody’s going to have the ability to set up to start manufacturing capsules on site. And it’s got to be on site, because the donor’s on site. And it’s got to be done fresh. So it can’t be mass produced and shipped all over, at least at this point,” he said.

But Allen-Vercoe sees this as a step towards a more final answer – a bacterial cocktail that could be Jeff McIntosh/The Canadian Press produced, stored and administered Dr. Thomas Louie, an infectious disease specialist at the University of Calgary, in a consistent and timely way. holds a container of stool pills in triple-coated gel capsules in his lab.

Louie said he is working with collaborators in Britain to try to patient is administered his or her that. It’s not the sort of thing that transferred into the gastro-intestinal own set of pills, containing bacteria you can just do in your garage, you system of the patient, either using a determine which bacteria are key to from the stools of a healthy relative know, or even in a clinical microbi- reverse colonoscopy approach – the re-establishing a healthy balance in in most cases. ology lab,” she said. enema bag – or down into the stom- the gut, with the aim of moving to a pill treatment that wouldn’t have to To make his capsules, Louie took C. difficile infections can occur ach and intestine via a nasogastric be tailor-made for each patient. stool from donors and processed the when people who are on antibiot(NG) tube inserted in a nostril.

“We’ve already talked about the material down to just the bacteria ics ingest spores of the bacterium.

The idea is that the fecal matewithin the stool. From between 150 Because the antibiotics disrupt the rial from a healthy person, which is idea that eventually we’re going to end up looking at an artificial prep and 200 grams of stool he got two person’s normal gut flora – various rich with normal gut bacteria, will with components,” he said. to three teaspoons of concentrate bacteria that normally live harmoni- re-establish balance in the colon of But Dr. Christine Lee of St. which he said had the consistency of ously in a person’s gastro-intestinal the C. diff sufferer. And in many river mud or clay, and that, diluted, tract – C. difficile bacteria can cases it does. Doctors who perform Joseph’s Hospital in Hamilton said was piped into capsules. Each pill flourish and cause persistent and the procedure report very high cure this delivery method still needs to be more rigorously tested. was encased in three layers of gelatin lifestyle-limiting diarrhea. rates.

Lee, who has done scores of capsules, to ensure they could While most people who develop But some physicians and hospisurvive the trip through the highly C. difficile will be cured by strong tals have been squeamish about do- fecal transplants, said the capsule acidic stomach. antibiotics, some fail treatment ing the procedure, said Dr. Michael treatment will need to be the subject of a randomized controlled trial “The downside of this whole repeatedly. It’s people like that who Silverman, of Lakeridge Health, a study is that it is a bespoke proare at their wit’s end when they hospital in Oshawa, Ont., who does (RCT) – the gold standard of clinical studies. cess that you have to prepare it for turn to Louie or a select number of fecal transplants.

“Because you don’t know (if each individual,” explained Emma other infectious diseases specialists He says contrary to what one something really works) until you Allen-Vercoe, a microbiologist at the in Canada and elsewhere who have might expect, patients themselves do the formal RCT,” Lee said.

University of Guelph who has been been using fecal transplants to cure are well beyond “the ick factor” by “Any observational study,” – working on developing a ready-tothe infection. the time they come to him. Weeks which is the type Louie performed use treatment called Repoopulate.

They take stool from a healthy or longer spent tethered to a toilet – “it just looks great until you do an “I think the thing is that if you’re person – screened to ensure he or have that effect, he suggested.

RCT,” she said. “But if it really pans going to take poop and process it she is free of diseases like HIV – “There will be some patients out that the pill form is effective into capsules, you need to have a and mix it with saline to create a who will find the other things too then that would be fantastic.” specific lab that is geared up to do slurry. The fecal material is then icky and will be willing to do this.

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ARTS Fleshing out the fossil record Ian Stewart News Reporter

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ulius Csotonyi is a time traveller.

With his scientific mind and artist’s eye, he produces a vision of the prehistoric world, a time before humanity.

“My whole mission is to show things we cannot see for ourselves,” said Csotonyi. His preferred destination: the age of dinosaurs.

During a presentation at the Yukon Beringia Centre last week, Csotonyi explained the job of paleoartist is to take the scientific data produced by paleontologists and bring it to life.

The Edmonton-based artist has created images for Science Magazine, National Geographic and Scholastic publishing, and large-scale murals for the Royal Tyrrell Museum, the Royal Ontario Museum and the Houston Museum of Natural Science, among others.

As scientific illustration, Csotonyi’s images must be rooted in hard fact. That means anatomy, behaviour patterns, environment and plant life, even lighting conditions, are extrapolated from evidence in the fossil record and ecological history.

A fossil of a mummified dinosaur found in 2007 was invaluable for understanding skin textures and soft Paleo-artist Julius Csotonyi brings scientific discoveries to a mass audience through tissue construction, and the contents his illustrations of dinosaurs and other prehistoric life. of the gut gave valuable insight into

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Pannoniasaurus in an aquatic environment.

the diet, and flora, of the beast’s world. Before that, clues were extrapolated only from fossilized bones.

“This is the golden age of dinosaur research,” said Csotonyi. “I’m fortunate that I’ve been brought into the loop in new discoveries.”

Working closely with scientists and museums for the bulk of his work means Csotonyi needs to be flexible for late-breaking discoveries, which happen often.

With that in mind, Csotonyi has embraced digital painting in programs like Photoshop. A digital piece, built with different layers, allows the artist to make changes as new evidence emerges, instead of starting from scratch. Not a bad tool when it takes days to build up a piece, some

more than 45 metres long and three metres tall.

One feathered dino illustration was nearly complete when new evidence in sub-cellular structures in the feathers indicated specific colouration. His red anchiornis ended up being dark grey with white and cinnamon on the tail and a red crest on its head. “I’m connected to the frontier of science in this area, and it’s very exiting for me.”

With no formal art education, it’s been an unexpected career path for Csotonyi, who was trained as a scientist. He earned his PhD studying the micro-life forms living in extreme environments, like salt springs or hydrothermal vents at the bottom of the ocean. This work honed his eye for detail, he said.

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This digital painting of a Brachylophosurus won Csotonyi the Lanzendorf Prize from the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology.

Since childhood, he always liked to draw dinosaurs. “I thought the artwork would be a hobby.” By 2005, paleo art started taking up more and more of his time, slowing down his PhD research.

Once he finished his schooling, his art career took off. He said that as the amount of research grows, the amount of work for paleo artists grows, and public interest grows, in an upward spiral. “The field has

exploded,” he said.

His specialized niche keeps him busy: “I rarely find time to play around with it,” he said, but he’s happy for the work. “I try not to turn down anything – but that’s because I forego sleep.”

An image of high Arctic camels of the Pliocene period was recently published in Ice Age Old Crow, a Yukon government publication.

Csotonyi hopes to collaborate with

Yukon paleontologist Grant Zazula for future projects.

His work has appeared on coins from the Canadian Mint, and his first collection, The Paleo Art of Julius Csotonyi, will be published next year

by Titan Books.

More of Csotonyi’s work can be seen at his website, www.csotonyi. com Contact Ian Stewart at istewart@yukon-news.com

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Up Rat River without a paddle Jesse Winter News Reporter

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ixty-three days on the water, six lost paddles, one busted laptop, two waterlogged cameras, 40,000 photos and more than 100 hours of video footage.

Paddle for the North’s filming expedition in the Peel watershed is done, and team member Gabe Rivest says the six friends learned a number of important lessons on the trip.

Always tie down your paddles and canoes when you make camp, for instance.

The adventure was nearly cut short when, in early July on the Rat River, a massive flood almost stole all the team’s gear.

“We’d paddled for nine hours the day before. The whole nine hours it was pouring,” Rivest said.

“I mean torrential rain, like nothing I’ve ever seen in the Yukon. It was like being in South America or something, but it was cold. By the time we got there we were all freezing.”

When the team of six stopped to make camp that night, they were exhausted.

They rushed through setting up camp, wolfed down a freezedried dinner, and went straight to bed.

“When Simon (Lucas, the team’s web designer and photographer) got up to take a leak at 8:30 the next morning, only five and a half hours later, the river was two metres higher,” Rivest said.

“We had lost five of our nine paddles. That became a bit of an issue. Luckily all the boats were tied down really well, but we did everything so quick the night before, it could have been a lot worse than paddles,” he said.

A sat-phone call to the RCMP netted them replacement paddles a day later, but the experience still shook the team, he said.

Earlier this summer, Rivest and five friends – Simon Lucas, Scott Sinton, Matt Holmes, Alexandre Deschenes and Michah Rauguth – set out to paddle the Hart, Peel, Rat, Yukon, Porcupine and Bell rivers, and to document the whole trip.

When the project started, Rivest said it was about giving Canadians an intimate look at a beautifully wild space that might not stay that way forever.

The Yukon government’s plans to open the Peel watershed to potential road construction and eventual mining is one of the most hotly contested issues in the territory, and Rivest wanted to give an impartial, neutral view of the place.

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Simon Lucas and Alexandre Deschenes paddle a remote northern river during their two-month journey on the Peel, Rat, Bell, Porcupine and Hart rivers. The group is working on a feature-length documentary film about the trip.

leave super late in the morning.

“You’d have to climb up a cliff, wait for the others to pass by, shoot it, and then hike back down,” he said.

If it hadn’t been for this summer’s incredibly good weather, Rivest said he isn’t sure how they could have pulled off the project. The rain on the Rat was the only time things looked really dicey.

Even with all the sunshine, the team still sacrificed one laptop and two DSLRs to the wilderness. They also had to fashion a spare paddle by hand from a white spruce log.

“It actually turned out great.

Some of the guys used it for hours,” Rivest said.

The trip ended in early September, but the work to produce the film is just beginning. Rivest said the team is expecting to take a full year to edit and produce a featureSubmitted photo/Yukon News length documentary about the Gabriel Rivest, right, takes a photo of himself and the trip’s canoes rigged for sailing. trip.

In the mean time, they’re At least, that’s how it started. horse told me, ‘Oh, we need the ing. hoping to get a teaser trailer The trip was also physiceconomy and go back home.

But there’s another lesson released in the next few weeks, This isn’t your home.’ Well, the ally demanding, he said. Two the team learned in their two to help keep people engaged months of paddling is hard at months on the rivers: You have Peel is no more your home if with the project. you’re not going to live with the the best of times, but doing it to listen to the people who As challenging as the trip with heaps of camera and video was, Rivest said he would be consequences,” he said. actually live there. equipment made things even It was an emotional jour“We wanted to start neutral happy to keep doing this kind more complicated. and see what people would say ney as well as a challenging of documentary work in the “We’d have to wake up and one, Rivest said. Listening to along the way. We talked to so future. break camp and get ready to people from Fort McPherson many people who live there, “I would definitely like to do go, and then stop and think, or Old Crow tell stories to the and definitely don’t want the this kind of work again. It was team about how their lives will ‘OK, we need to get a shot right an amazing experience.”

Peel watershed to change,” he change if industry comes to the now.’ We’d have to wait even said.

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Author hopes to preserve memory of Canada’s vanishing jobs Lacrosse

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TORONTO hen John DeMont was completing his book about vanishing traditional jobs in this country – think lighthouse keeper or milkman – he found A Good Day’s Work had become much more than just a discourse on how some Canadians bring home the bacon.

“It sort of morphed into this book about Canada, using the disappearing work as a jumping-off point to talk about different aspects of Canada and the different things that are going,” says the Halifax-based journalist and author.

“Not just work,” he says, but “the iconic Canada – close-knit communities and small towns and everybody knowing everybody and being interested in a positive way.”

A Good Day’s Work: In Pursuit of a Disappearing Canada (Doubleday Canada) seems a natural followup to his previous book, 2009’s Coal Black Heart: The Story of Coal and the Lives it Ruled, a history of coal mining in Nova Scotia and the toll that disasters in the deeps took on colliers and their families.

Ancestors on both sides of his family were part of that history – one grandfather went down into the pit at age 11 to mine the black gold – but DeMont’s father eschewed what had been the family business to work above-ground as a stockbroker.

And as the author writes in the prologue of A Good Day’s Work, growing up as a child in Halifax was an idyllic time for him – and for the country as a whole.

His reference year – 1967, when he was 11 – sees Canada celebrating its 100th birthday, with millions drawn from around the world to Expo 67 in Montreal, the Canadian economy at its post-war peak and the Toronto Maple Leafs winning their last Stanley Cup. It was also a time when the milkman still delivered cows’ bounty to many homeowners’ doors, beef came from family-owned and family-worked farms, and parents and kids – and hormone-fuelled teens – piled into the station wagon on a summer’s night to take in a drive-in movie.

It is that world that DeMont evokes in A Good Day’s Work, or rather what is left of it, as he tracks down Canadians still engaged in time-honoured work, the kind of jobs that built this country but are perhaps soon to be but a memory.

While natural resources jobs – forestry and fishing, for example – might have seemed an obvious fit, DeMont chose to go beyond “guys in the woods” and look into a broad range of skills among people in different parts of the country.

“I wanted jobs that in themselves were interesting, interesting enough that you could write about them, build a chapter around them,” the 57-year-old explains during a recent visit to Toronto, one stop on a crosscountry, multi-city book tour.

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John Demont is the author of A Good Day’s Work: In Pursuit of a Disappearing Canada. rancher really – takes him to Alberta, where long-held family acreages supporting herds of beef cattle are fast giving way to vast tracts owned by anonymous agribusiness conglomerates.

Marj Veno along with second husband Murray McArthur own more than 5,000 hectares of prime prairie grassland, raising 600 head of Angus cattle for breeding and beef.

And although Veno’s daughter and son-in-law have chosen to stay in the beef business on a nearby ranch, the 50-something cowgirl who saddles up her horse at first light for a day checking the herds and mending fences is among the relatively few survivors of what is more and more considered a dying breed.

“She’s hoping she can pass it on,” DeMont says of the ranch, located in an area that has seen 40 neighbouring families sell off their farms in the last 30-plus years.

“But it just gets harder and harder. Who wants to work those staggering hours? Ninety-nine per cent of kids today want to go play hockey or Grand Theft Auto down in the basement.”

A Good Day’s Work also profiles other disappearing vocations, among them a blacksmith, a travelling salesman and engineers on Via Rail’s flagship train “the Canadian,” which takes awe-struck passengers from Toronto to the lakes and forests of northern Ontario, across the prairies

and through the Rockies to Canada’s Pacific terminus, Vancouver.

As such jobs fade into history, it will not be just such workers’ skills that will be lost, but also the sense of connectivity and community that they represent, DeMont laments.

Take Bill Bennett, the secondgeneration milkman who still delivers a few litres of one per cent to DeMont’s house twice a week and occasionally shows up at the door to chat.

For the author, Bennett speaks to continuity, the way business was once conducted, when all kinds of products were delivered to consumers’ homes.

“Now for a lot of people, you can drive through, get your coffee, get your food, you can bank,” he says.

All manner of goods – even groceries – can be purchased online, doing away with verbal exchanges between customers and sales clerks.

Home milk delivery is already a service of the past for most Canadians, particularly those dwelling in large cities, and it’s likely to go the way of the dodo in the not too distant future.

DeMont hopes his book is one means of making sure these jobs and those who perform them are not forgotten.

“I think it’s good for people and hopefully future generations to know that these people walked the Earth,” he says. “Because there will come a time when they don’t.”

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Dollar store delicacies in newly released cookbook Sidhartha Banerjee Canadian Press

MONTREAL Montreal man who spent three years consuming meals consisting mainly of staples found at the local dollar store has parlayed his culinary journey into a cheap-eats cookbook.

But as Jonathan Lemieux tells it, the exercise wasn’t a wild attempt to lose weight or partake in a dieting fad – it was driven by necessity.

The cookbook, Survivre avec une poignee de change, translates loosely to “Surviving With a Handful of Change,” and chronicles his time as a student trying to make do with limited funds.

Lemieux, now 30, had gone back to school at the time to do a second university degree in fine arts. With a bit of money from working and a budget based on loans and bursaries, he found himself on a very strict food budget.

“I decided it was too expensive for me to go to the grocery store, it was almost a luxury,” Lemieux said in a recent interview.

He worked with a monthly food budget of between $75 and $115 – or roughly $20 to $25 a week. Armed with basic cooking skills, he was trying to figure out how to stay fed. A trip to the local dollar store triggered an idea.

“One day I was shopping at Dollarama for pens and pencils and I’d forgotten they sell food, so I started to buy all my food there,” Lemieux said.

He estimates that 90 per cent of what he ate was bought at the store. He would supplement those foods on occasion with discounted, and nearly expired, meats and vegetables from the grocery store. Lemieux said he tried to clip coupons when he could or go to the open-air market to pick up fresh foods in season.

“But most of the time I’d end up at Dollarama,” Lemieux said.

Instead of eggs and milk, he used plenty of mayonnaise, soup base and oil. Dollar-store bread was a staple as were chick peas – lots and lots of chick peas.

Some of his favourite recipes include a version of seafood paella using canned mussels and oysters and with beef jerky replacing chorzio sausage.

“It was probably much more fattening but it was still good,” assures Lemieux.

He made a shepherd’s pie using tinned beef, canned corn and a box of mashed potatoes.

Another favourite was a beet soup, which he said was much like Polish borscht. There was also a pickle soup, “which sounds disgusting, but it’s actually pretty good,” he added.

Lemieux even found a way to come up with desserts, which he qualified as a luxury while

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Jonathan Lemieux, author of Survivre avec une poignee de change (Surviving on a Handfull of Change.)

on budget. His favourite was mustard cookies, which include mustard and lots of sugar. “I like them, they’re pretty good, and I still make them actually.”

The Montreal-area native kept his dietary habits from his family. He said he never told them because it was important to him to take care of himself without seeking handouts.

“I think they knew I was struggling with money but they didn’t know it was to that extent,” Lemieux said.

“I saw my mother and I gave her the book (recently) and she said to me ‘I had no idea you ate like this.’”

Lemieux no longer does.

After completing his second degree, he’s been working steadily since 2011. But he still had the recipes he’d tried over the years scribbled out on paper. Of those, more than 90 made it into the book. Lemieux stands by the recipes – including a lot of soups, pastas and salads.

The book was a bit of an accident – joking around with a teacher about his eating habits led to the idea of publishing a book for friends. But then the publisher expressed interest.

It’s not the first time the socalled dollar-store diet has been attempted and experts often say consumption of that much processed food can be problematic in the short term and long term.

Genevieve Nadeau, a dietitian who oversaw a local newspaper reporter’s own one-week Dollarama diet this summer, said the premise of the Metro newspaper’s report was to see if the journalist could meet standard nutritional requirements by eating dollarstore food.

Assessing a food diary, she found way too much salt in such a diet, which is common when eating canned items. Lots of canned meats are high in fat, while canned vegetables are heavy in salt and have little protein.

So Nadeau was alarmed to hear about a three-year diet and couldn’t imagine it was much fun eating such bland food.

She said there are other options: planning, checking for grocery store specials and buying local. Also, going frozen over canned for vegetables is better. If meat and fish are too expensive, then opt for items like tofu, eggs, and beans.

“Honestly, I’d love to see a blood sample from this individual,” said Nadeau, who has never met Lemieux. “I wonder if this person would be able to maintain basic nutritional requirements, because if one is mildly active, it takes vitamins, minerals and, without fresh products, I don’t see how you can get what you need.”

Amazingly enough, according to Lemieux, he didn’t have any major health issues during the three years.

“I was focused on surviving,” he said. “A lot of people talk to me about it now but I was never sick, I never felt bad, I never went to the hospital.”

Lemieux said he rationalized that eating the dollar-store food was probably better than eating cheap junk food.

“Maybe my levels of sodium and cholesterol went through the roof, I don’t know,” Lemieux said.

“But I’m sure making meals … even with those ingredients, was perhaps a little bit better.”

The book was released at the end of September in French.

Lemieux says it’s too early to say if the book will have an English translation, but he’d welcome one.

Meanwhile, he will spend the next two months living in New York City for professional reasons. He says he might pay the local dollar store a visit to check out what is available, but more out of curiosity. His budget will be roughly $30 a day while living the U.S. “I might go there just to see,” he joked. “But I think I will be fine.”

– Jonathan Lemieux’s Survivre avec une poignee de change, by Transcontinental, is available in bookstores and for purchase online for $19.95.

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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.

The proposed changes reduce risk to human health and the environment, advance sustainable development and/or improve consistency with Yukon’s current legislative practices. You can provide comments online or by email, fax or mail. The deadline for comments is October 14, 2013.

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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

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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.

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?

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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.

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Crusaders, Rams claim first wins of Super Volley season Tom Patrick News Reporter

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here was some added pressure for teams to perform well in the Super Volley season openers last Thursday at Vanier Catholic Secondary School.

The bleachers were almost full as the Vanier Crusaders and the F.H. Collins Warriors took the court in senior girls high school volleyball.

Vanier fans would not be disappointed. The Crusaders came back from down two sets to one to defeat the Warriors 25-20, 2325, 19-25, 25-23, 15-13.

“The first set was good, but then we went a bit downhill,” said Crusaders co-head coach Jenna Tait. “It was a close match, but we’d be happy if it went the other way. The girls fought hard and we were very happy with the result.”

The Crusaders were just two points from defeat in the fourth and fifth set. Down 23-21, the Crusaders won four straight, capped with a kill from Youranty Pourier to take the fourth set.

Tied 13-13 in the fifth set, Crusaders’ Mel Moya dug a wellplaced serve and found a hole on the Warriors’ side of the court.

Vanier then took the match on a missed spike from the Warriors.

“I think the girls played pretty well,” said Warriors assistant coach Adam Robinson. “They really improved their net play, which we’ve been prasticing.

“They did a good job with their hits – they played smart front-row. It was really nice to see.”

Unfortunately for the Crusaders, momentum didn’t carry over to the following night.

Hosting the defending Yukon champion Porter Creek Rams, the Crusaders fell 25-13, 25-13, 22-25, 25-23 on Friday.

The Crusaders, who were missing three starting players on Friday including co-captain Kate Power, were twice penalized for falling out of rotation.

“Tonight’s game the girls started a little slower,” said Crusaders co-head coach Roz Tait on Friday. “We had a new rotation, we had a different setter to start off, so the girls might have been a bit flustered. So it took a little longer to warm up. Once they got more comfortable with each other and had more fun, things looked up.”

The Rams came into the game like a finely tuned machine, jumping out to a 7-1 lead with some fireball serves from Hannah Milner in the opening set. Milner later delivered three straight unreturned serves to win

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Top: Vanier Crusaders’ Tara Kehoe digs the ball during her team’s loss to the Porter Creek Rams in Super Volley action at Vanier Catholic Secondary on Friday. The Crusaders defeated the F.H. Collins Warrior the previous night in the season opener.

Left: Porter Creek Ram Teah Dickson misses a spike from the Crusaders.

the set.

The Rams snagged the second set on a back-row kill from captain Daria Jordan for set-point

and a kill from Alex Schultz.

“She’s a natural leader,” said Rams coach Amy Palamar of her captain. “The girls look to her

for guidance and she’s a great allaround player, and I know I can count on her out there.”

Milner was again threading

needles from the service line in the fourth set, helping her team go on a six-point run with her serve to go up 21-16. The Rams took the set and match on a missed kill by Vanier.

“I thought it was excellent,” said Palamar. “Everyone played well. I got to play everybody and we played a great game. There were poor moments, but no one played poorly.”

Super Volley will continue October 17 and 18 as the Porter Creek Rams take over the hosting duties. The Crusaders will visit on the 17th and the Warriors on the 18th.

Contact Tom Patrick at tomp@yukon-news.com

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Vanier senior boys split home openers Tom Patrick

track, said head coach Shaun McLoughlin.

“The biggest thing in the sets long week of school, practice we won was communication,” and back-to-back games said McLoughlin. “A lot of the didn’t prevent the Vanier Crusadguys on the team – not all of ers senior boys from ending it on them – are laid-back, quiet guys. a positive note.

And we have a lot of Grade 11s The Crusaders dropped their on the team who didn’t get as Super Volley season opener but much playing time last year. So bounced back the following I think the biggest transition for night to claim their first win. this team is stepping out of that The Crusaders lost 25-21, quiet, laid-back personality and 25-11, 24-26, 25-23 to the F.H. communicating on the court, Collins Warriors on Thursday talking the whole time, and before topping the Porter Creek bringing up that intensity.

Rams 25-19, 25-17, 20-25, 26-24 “We start getting in trouble on Friday at Vanier Catholic when they are quiet and aren’t Secondary. talking, calling for the ball.”

“They’ve had a tough week The F.H. Collins team has a of volleyball – I’ve really thrown bit more high-level play under them into it here,” said Crusaders their belt this season than their head coach Jeremy Staveley. “It’s Whitehorse competition. been pretty much full-on this The Warriors competed at week. the UBC Senior Boys Volleyball “They found a way to win Invitational at the University of there and they did play well. It’s British Columbia in Vancouver always tough to play in these the weekend before last, prior back-to-back games, with a week to the start of the Super Volley of practice and a week of school. season.

But they pushed through and I The team placed 19th out of thought they did well.”

40 teams at the tournament for After cruising through the first the same result as last year. They two sets, the Crusaders seemed placed third out of five in their to let off the gas in the third and pool with teams from the Vanfourth as the Rams started to Tom Patrick/Yukon News couver area. show some life.

Vanier Crusaders’ Ethan Robinson, top, attempts to make a save during his team’s four-set “The reason I like taking kids The Rams jumped out to a win over the Porter Creek Rams in Super Volley on Friday at Vanier Catholic Secondary. down to that tournament is it 10-3 lead in the third and took gives them more experience the set on a crafty tip from Kyle with the other team.” probably be a little more consist- against teams that play at a more Yukon champion Crusaders.

Lowes, one of just two returning ent, until then there’ll probably Tied 23-23 in the fourth, the “I’m a little disappointed with competitive level,” said Mcplayers on this year’s team. be a lot of inconsistent play on Crusaders claimed victory on a how they started, but I like the Loughlin. “In the Yukon it’s not Porter Creek then overcame a our part,” added Bilodeau. “They as competitive up here. So you’re way that they ended,” said Rams kill from Stephen Wohlfarth for 10-3 deficit in the fourth – a large definitely have the skill to put playing against teams that aren’t head coach Derick Bilodeau. “It match point and an unreturned part due to a string of kills from together some exciting matches as intense and aren’t as polished was good to end on a positive serve from Ethan Robinson for power Tanner Borsa – and came in the season.” game-wise. You get lots of pracnote where we were forcing some the win. to within two points of forcing The Crusaders, who are playtice, but not much game play. a fifth set against the defending of the play and actually playing “Later in the season we’ll ing with just three returning “Down there you play against players from last year’s champion teams that are used to playing team, were held to one set on high-pressure matches in tournaThursday against F.H. Collins. ments, in league games.”

The Warriors must be loquaContact Tom Patrick at cious on the court to stay on tomp@yukon-news.com News Reporter

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Nathan MacKinnon all smiles about NHL rookie experience, says life is awesome Neil Davidson

come in here and be himself and play.”

“We’re extremely happy with TORONTO our decision (to draft him),” eenager Nathan MacKinadded Roy. “He’s been outnon is clearly enjoying his standing in the first two games, NHL rookie season ride. despite the fact that he had an The 18-year-old centre from injury in training camp. We’re Cole Harbour, N.S., was all very excited and we love what smiles Tuesday as the media de- we have seen so far of him.” scended on his stall in the boxAway from the rink, MacKsized visitors’ dressing room at innon lives with veteran Air Canada Centre.

Jean-Sebastien Giguere. The The Colorado rookie took 36-year-old goalie is married the time to pull on an Avato a Halifax native and there is lanche cap and then enthused a family atmosphere with six-, about life in the big league. four-, and one-year-old sons in Asked what has surprised the house. him about the NHL, he replied: “It’s still early,” centre Matt “I guess how good they treat us Duchene said of MacKinnon. here.

“He’s still making the transi“It’s awesome. I’m loving tion. It takes a while. It takes a every second of it. The travelcouple of years, I think. But he’s ling with the team, the way that had a good start. We’re all pullthey treat the players is pretty ing for him, for sure.” special. Obviously a little difThe Avs are 2-0-0 to begin a ferent than junior but I can’t season for the first time since complain about that either, it’s 2009-10 and only the third time been great.” since 1995.

MacKinnon’s parents flew It’s the first meeting between out for the Toronto game.

Colorado and Toronto (3-0-0) The Avs are taking care not since October 2011. to pile on the pressure on the Roy was the other centre of top overall pick in the 2013 attention Tuesday. draft. MacKinnon, who has The former star goalie and three assists in two games, is rookie NHL coach has already playing on the third line with made headlines for an outburst Jamie McGinn and P.A. Parenbehind the bench directed teau. at his Anaheim counterpart “It’s the perfect fit for him,” Bruce Boudreau. He was fined said head coach Patrick Roy. US$10,000 for his glass-rattling action, prompted by a concern “He doesn’t have to come here that a Ducks player had gone and be the saviour. He can Canadian Press

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“I felt like a kid again,” Duchene said, recalling the moment. “I felt like I was watching him fight (Mike) Vernon back in the day. It was pretty funny.”

Roy preferred to talk about the game ahead rather than his outburst, but his players spoke warmly about his passion.

“He wants the best for his players, no doubt about it,” said winger Alex Tanguay. “We saw what happened with Nathan in the first game, the intensity and things like that. He wants us to succeed.

“I think the quality he has above all is he wants to win. He was like that as a player and he’s certainly like that as a coach.”

Added MacKinnon: “He’s a players’ coach but the same time he’s all business when he’s at the rink.

“He’s a very good man as well, treats everybody very well.

Everybody wants to play for him, I think that’s huge. ... We all love him here and he’s doing a great job.”

Duchene described the players’ relationship with Roy as “more of a partnership.”

“It’s hard to describe. It’s just more of a winning feeling.

We all feel like it’s within our control where before we didn’t really know what was going on sometimes, just in terms of stuff in the (dressing) room.”

Roy also used the word partner, saying he is there to help players achieve their goal.

“Our relationship right now is fantastic and everybody seems to be enjoying themselves. There’s a lot of energy on our team. We just want to bring it on the ice and see how far we

can go.”

Some Avs players seemed taken back by the media horde that descended upon their locker-room.

“The circus is here,” said centre John Mitchell as he tried to figure out how to get past the reporters to his stall.

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Midget Mustangs open season with last-minute win Tom Patrick

“Any time you win, it’s great, but against a team like that is nice,” said Mustangs head ith an early-season road coach Barry Blisner. “Certainly trip slated for this week- it gives them a little bit of conend, the Midget A Mustangs fidence before we leave.” needed a confidence builder in Nine Mustangs players their first game of the season. left the ice with one or more They got it. points in the game, a good The Whitehorse rep team sign for a team that has just overcame a 2-0 deficit to detwo returning players from last feat the Yukon Brewing Lead season.

Dawgs in both teams’ season In addition to the gameopener in the Whitehorse Rec winner, Paun-Burnett had Hockey League A division two assists. Teammate Chance at Canada Games Centre on Goodman also had two assists Saturday. and a goal while Tyson Hope The Mustangs won the game had the reverse with two goals 7-6 on a power play goal from and an assist.

Braeden Paun-Burnett, asMustangs’ Spencer Lessard sisted by Nick Dobush, with 54 amassed three assists. Jack seconds left on the clock.

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Porter Creek Secondary School

will be holDiNg

THREE-WAY CONFERENCES (Student-Parent-Teacher)

Wed., Oct. 16th 5:00 to 8:00 PM

AND

Thur., Oct. 17th

5:00 PM to 8:00 PM

(School Closed Day - Friday, Oct. 18) Online appointments can be booked any time after October 7th, by going to the school website at www.yesnet.yk.ca/schools/pcss/ or call the school office at 667-8044.

Please have a list of the teachers you want to see available when you call to book an appointment.

Tom Patrick/Yukon News

Top: Midget A Mustangs goalie Josh Tetlichi prepares to make a save as teammate Kaleb Millwater looks on during the team’s season opener against Yukon Brewing in the Whitehorse Rec Hockey League on Saturday. The Mustangs won 7-6 with a goal in the final minute. Right: Yukon Brewing’s Kirk Gale, left, keeps Mustangs’ Braeden Paun-Burnett at bay.

Yukon Brewing net twice and Dobush had a goal and assist.

“Normally we don’t dress four lines, but we said we might as well get everyone in the game to see, and it worked out pretty well,” said Barry.

“Yukon Brewing has two or three top-end guys in the league. So we told them before there are a couple guys out here that are way better than anyone we’re going to see this year.

“It was a good test. They got up a couple on us right off the bat, but we battled back.”

The Mustangs, who will play

in a tournament in Richmond, B.C. this weekend, also survived a two-man advantage for Yukon Brewing spanning more than a minute-and-a-half late in the game at 6-6. Mustangs goalie Josh Tetlichi made some key saves but was later taken out of the game with a leg injury resulting from a hard shot from Brewing’s Kirk Gale that caught Tetlichi just above the knee.

Mustangs’ Devon Troke filled in between the pipes for the final eight minutes of the

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game and kept the net sealed.

“Considering we haven’t been able to work on special teams that much … I thought we did a pretty good job,” said Barry.

Rob Warner led the way for the brew team with a goal and three assists while teammate Jeff Pike had one of each.

Teammates Frank Aucoin, Ryan Martin and Derek Klassen each had a goal.

“It was a good game. Those kids worked really hard, stayed on us and didn’t get down when they were behind and kept coming back,” said Yukon Brewing’s Mike Cozens, who is starting his 19th season with the team. “They’re a good team to play against …

“We’re not used to playing on the ATCO ice surface – it’s a little bigger – and the speed these kids have is pretty noticeable on the big ice surface.”

Yukon Brewing went on to defeat the Southpaw Rednex 10-7 on Sunday. The Southpaw Rednex defeated the Mustangs 6-3 on Monday.

Contact Tom Patrick at tomp@yukon-news.com

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ANNIE'S

COMICS

MAILBOX

ADAM

Dear Annie: I am 15 and the oldest of four boys. During one of many fights between my parents, my mom left the house with my brothers and me, and we spent the night at a shelter.

Our grandparents told our father that we have no values because we went with our mom. They say we are old enough to know better. This makes us feel guilty about the fights. Now my grandparents refuse to see us even for our birthdays, because they say we are not loyal to the family and don’t deserve them.

Annie, we are losing our family and our grandparents all at once. Our school guidance counselor tells us it’s not our fault, but we feel like outcasts. We are no longer invited to any family events with our cousins. We feel abandoned. — Scared in Massachusetts Dear Scared: Your grandparents don’t know how to fix the situation with your parents, so they take their frustrations out on you. You are an easy target and can’t fight back. Shame on them.

If you have other family members who are not part of this manipulative blackmail, please get closer to them. Otherwise, “family” can mean many things — including good friends, teachers, neighbors and others who take an interest in your life and are good influences. Lean on them. And continue to talk to your guidance counselor, who obviously understands the problem and can help.

Dear Annie: I am a working professional woman in my 50s.

For some reason, my dentist, a man in his 30s, calls me “dear.”

The first time he did this, I was mortified and didn’t know how to respond to such a condescending remark. I like my dentist.

He’s otherwise a competent professional. How do I respond in an appropriate way to this inappropriate manner of addressing me? — Need To Know in Saskatoon Dear Saskatoon: Let’s give him the benefit of the doubt and assume he addresses all of his patients as “dear,” regardless of age or gender. He probably has no idea that anyone finds it offensive. You need to speak up. The next time he does this, simply say, “I’d prefer that you call me ‘Miss Smith,’” or however you want him to address you. You may need to do this more than once, but we assure you, he’ll eventually get the message.

DILBERT

Kakuro

Sudoku

By The Mepham Group

Level: Tough

By The Mepham Group Level: 1

2

3

4

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 Thursday’s puzzle

Solution to Thursday’s puzzle

No digit can be repeated in a solution, so a 4 can only produce 1 and 3, never 2 and 2. Solution published tomorrow. © 2013 The Mepham Group. Distributed by Tribune Media Services. All rights reserved.

7/19/13

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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.

© 2013 The Mepham Group. Distributed by Tribune Media Services. All rights reserved.

Wednesday, October 9, 2013

COMICS THE OTHER COAST

BOUND AND GAGGED

BREWSTER ROCKET

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RUBES速

by Leigh Rubin

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Kids Korner Younger kids can enjoy Uncle Art’s Funland, while older ones can test their knowledge with Shortcuts.

This edition of Shortcuts is sponsored by John Kerry-bou.

This cartoon needs to chill out.

I do a lot of running, but not for any political office.

undras are treeless ecosystems that are found around the Arctic, the Antarctic and on high plains near the tops of mountains.

Tundras are among the coldest, driest, windiest, harshest and most fragile environments found on our planet.

The permafrost in some parts of the tundra extends more than 500 m (1,640 ft.) into the ground.

Can you help this musk ox reach his friends?

Most of the plants that live in the tundra, such as dwarf shrubs, grasses, sedges, mosses and lichens, grow very low to the ground in order to survive the powerful arctic wind.

Trees do not grow in the tundra because their roots cannot penetrate the frozen permafrost.

During the summer, the average temperature in the tundra is less than 10°C (50° F.). During the winter, the average temperature is about -28°C (-18° F.).

The tundra is usually covered with a layer of ice and snow. During the short summer, the tundra explodes in color with the rapid growth of millions of Nearly 20 percent of the land tiny wildflowers. on our planet is tundra.

The tundra gets very little rain or snow.

The climate in some tundra areas is drier than it is in many deserts.

Can you find the hidden words?

Search carefully because some words are backward or diagonal.

REINDEER ARCTIC OWL CARIBOU THAW BOB TUNDRA SNOW RISE SUMMER HARE FOX WINTER MUSK SUN FROZEN COLD ICE www.shortcutscomic.com

Common animals found in the arctic tundra include caribou (reindeer), arctic foxes, arctic hares, lemmings, musk oxen and snowy owls.

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Knock, knock.

Who's there?

Lichen.

Lichen, who?

I’m likin' the fact that you are about to open the door.

Most The ground of the tundras on beneath the tundra our planet are located consists of frozen soil north of the Arctic called “permafrost.” Most Circle. of the permafrost remains What do you frozen throughout the year, say to scare a reindeer? but small plants are able Cari-BOO! to grow in the top few centimeters that thaw during the summer.

What do you get when you cross a poet with the tundra?

Robert Frost.

Why did the tundra lose the singing contest?

It was a little flat.

At the height of summer, the sun never sets on the arctic tundra. During the height of winter, the sun doesn’t rise at all for several days.

For more information on the tundra, check out these books: “A Walk in the Tundra" by Rebecca L. Johnson (Carolrhoda Books) or “Tundra” by Donna Walsh Shepherd (Franklin Watts).

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© Jeff Harris 2013

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Open to kids up to age 12. Entries for this week’s contests must be received by 12 pm next Monday in order to appear in next week’s paper. If your entry arrives late (which may happen with out-of-town entries), it will be judged along with the contestants from the following week. Please limit entries to ONE PER CHILD PER WEEK. The contests are divided into three age groups: Up to five years, Six to eight years, Nine to twelve years. Drawings for the drawing contest must be on a separate piece of paper and reproducible on a photocopier to win. (Black and white drawings on white paper are easier to reproduce.)

Winners will receive their prizes by mail so be sure to include your complete address! Please note that only winning entries will be returned. Winners receive Gift Certificates for the “Dollar Store with More”.

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867-821-4443 ARE YOU New to Whitehorse? Pick up a free Welcome to Whitehorse package at The Smith House, 3128-3rd Ave. Information on transit, recreation programs, waste collection & diversion. 668-8629 SKYLINE APTS: 2-bdrm apartments, Riverdale. Parking & laundry facilities. 667-6958 $575, $775, $900, ROOMS. BACHELORS. 1-BDRMS. Clean, bright, furnished, all utilities incl, laundry facilities. Close to college & downtown. Bus stop, security doors. Live-in manager. 667-4576 or Email: barracksapt@hotmail.com HOBAH APARTMENTS: Clean, spacious, walking distance downtown, security entrance, laundry room, plug-ins, rent includes heat & hot water, no pets. References required. 668-2005 1-BDRM WALK-OUT bsmt suite in Porter Creek, w/private bath, kitchen, & laundry, n/s, avai Dec 1-April 30, $900/mon.

335-1230 LARGE 12X24 furnished room in Porter Creek, private entrance. Available immed, $750/mon + DD. 668-7213 1-BDRM APT in Porter Creek. heat and electric inclʼd, $1,200/mon. 633-2901 or 334-1051 for more info or to view.

3-BDRM GRANGER condo, available immediately, N/S, N/P, refs reqʼd. $1,650/mon + utils. 335-8640 RIVERDALE: FURNISHED room, N/S, N/P, no drinking, clean, quiet home, serious inquiries only, $600/mon. 667-2452 ROOM IN 3-bdrm house in Valleyview. One minute walk to CGC, $600 all included, outdoor friendly, reliable person. 333-9514

HAINES, ASLASKA! Swan View Rental Cabins Right on the lake!

50 kms north of Haines, Alaska. www.tourhaines.com/lodging Ask about our special rates for Yukoners.

(907)766-3576 ROOM IN Takhini duplex available now for single in quiet living space, large window, furnished, N/S, N/P, no partying, close to bus, college, CGC, trails, $600/mon.

668-4129

Office Space fOr LeaSe Above Starbucks on Main Street.

344 Sq. Ft. • $25 per sq.ft./Gross • Avail. June 1st Additional 344 sq.ft. • Avail. Oct. 1st

Sandor@yukon.net 501B OGILVIE. 2-bdrm basement, kitchen & bath, N/S, N/P, no parties, incls heat & elec, $1,200/mon + $900 DD. 334-3735 COPPER RIDGE, 1 or 2 bdrm, basement, bright, separate entrance, shared laundry.

Nw hardwd floors. N/S, N/P, 1 min to bus, available September, $1,300/mon includes utilites TV incl. 334-7872 1-BDRM NEW apt in Riverdale, avail immed, N/S, N/P,no parties, includes heat, hot water, lights responsible tenant only, $1,200/mon. 668-5558 2-BDRM NEW apt in Riverdale, avail immed, N/S, N/P, no parties, includes heat, hot water, lights, responsible tenant only please, $1,550/mon. 668-5558 DOWNTOWN OFFICE SPACE •Shared space with Cambio Consulting •Access to boardroom, coffee bar •See Kijiji ad ID 466620854 and Borealist 335-3499 MARSH LAKE, Avail immediately,newly renovated 3-bdrm, 2-bath log house on private acre. washer & dryer.

N/S, $1,300/mon + elec & DD. (250) 864-4499 BRIGHT 1-BDRM suite, Porter Creek. Full bath, in suite laundry, attached greenhouse, on bus route, Oct 1. $840/mth + utilities, non-smokers only. suites@auroramusic.ca or 604-595-4895 Available Now Newly renovated OFFICE SPACE & RETAIL SPACE Close to Library & City Hall A short walk to Main Street Phone 633-6396 SMALL ROOM in Northland, smoking home.

668-4776 between 4pm-7pm

FOR LEASE

Call 867-333-0144

2500 sq ft bldg on Strickland at 2nd, suitable for retail or office.

Well maintained.

Asking $18.72/sq.ft. triple net (approx. $3,900/mon) for long term lease.

Incls 6 parking spaces.

334-5464 1200 SQ ft newer shop/studio for lease in Marwell, available October 1. $15/sq ft.

Check out Kijiji Whitehorse Ad ID 510028138 for more details. Or 668-3408 DOWNTOWN OFFICE for rent Main floor sunny office with hardwood floors, ensuite and storage closets.

280 square feet $750/mon includes electricity 456-8004 AVAILABLE NOV 1st - 1/2 Duplex. Takhini East, close to Yukon College, CGC, downtown, outdoor trails, private driveway, ensuite laundry $1300/mon + utilities. N/S N/P, no parties,. Mature person(s) preferred.

336-0444 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 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 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 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 3-BDRM, 1-1/2 bath in triplex, Riverdale, $1,700/mon. Kristi 335-3428 ROOM FOR rent downtown, new condo within walking distance of all amenities, modern facilities. $750/mon inclʼs utils & internet & dd. 335-2417 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 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

RIVERDALE 3-BDRM main floor suite. N/S, N/P, 1yr lease. $1,500/mon + utils + sec deposit. Refs reqʼd. 667-2452 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 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 SMALL 1-BDRM suite in Porter Creek. On bus route, close to shopping. Refs & DD reqʼd, $900/mon + hydro. 333-9400 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 ROOMMATE WANTED, available immed or NOv 1, 1 bdrm for single person downtown, $600/mon + DD. 334-1252 2-BDRM HOME in downtown, $1,450/mon + $1.450 last month + heat. Rick 668-2998 or 336-0125 1-BDRM, FURNISHED apt with office space, incls heat, elec & basic cable, N/S, no parties, $1,000/mon. 335-7223 HOUSE TO sublet from Nov/13 to April/14, incls all but internet, downtown, $1,500/mon.

334-1252 3-BDRM HOUSE, Pine Ridge area, 1.5 acres, 1,100 sq ft. Available immed, $1,800/mon. 335-3253 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, 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 3-BDRM DUPLEX in Riverdale. Available Nov 1, 1.5 baths, washer, dryer, fridge & stove. Heat inclʼd, N/S. Refs reqʼd. 334-4431 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 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 ONE BEDROOM apartment in downtown Whitehorse. Rent $850+ Electricity. References and damage deposit required. Call 334-9087 to view. Available immediately.

COUNTRY LIVING 20 minutes south of Whitehorse. Individual studio suite with common areas, also one bedroom apt. n/s. For more info call 456 - 2135 after 8pm 2-BDRM HOUSE on Hotsprings Rd available Nov 1, oil heat, power, water delivery, $1,000/mon + utilities. 633-6178

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.

RENDEZVOUS PLAZA on Lewes Blvd, Riverdale Lots of parking 4,000 sq ft (previously child care centre) 1,100 sq ft (previously flower shop, studio) 7,000 sq ft (previously Frazerʼs) Call 667-7370

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.

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.

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 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 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 1-BDRM BASEMENT suite dt, close to HIgh Country Inn, responsible tenant, bright & clean, heat inclʼd, $900/mon. 334-5448 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 1-BDRM MODERN house on private acreage, Robinson subdivision, 25 mins from downtown, $750/mon. 668-2769 lv msg PORTER CREEK 1 & 2-bdrm apt. 2-bdrm trailer, N/S, no parties. Available immed.

633-2046 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 LARGE 1-BDRM apt available, 129 Copper Rd. Approx. 1500 sq ft, utils inclʼd, $1,500/mon. Email: totalfire@northwestel.net or call Brenda or Michelle 667-2614 OFFICE SPACE AVAILABLE For Rent Location: 129 Copper Road.

Approx. 850 sq ft. $500 per month includes utilities.

Call 667-2614 ask for Brenda or Michelle or Email: totalfire@northwestel.net AVAILABLE NOV 1st 3-bdrm trailer in Lobird. Oil furnace & wood stove, N/P, N/S. Refs & DD reqʼd, $1,350/mon + utils.

393-3823 BEAUTIFUL NEW 1-bdrm apt in Takhini North. Full appliances, sound proofed, lots of storage, Eco Friendly, hardwood floors, tiled bathrm, $975/mon. 334-4541 1-BDRM APT available, 129 Copper Rd, approx. 700 sq ft, utils inclʼd, $1,000/mon.

E-mail: totalfire@northwestel.net or call Brenda or Michelle 667-2614 COPPER RIDGE 1-bdrm N/S, N/P, walkout basement suite, Refs & DD reqʼd, $1,000/mon + utils 393-3823 2-BDRM SUITE in riverdale, available Nov 1, N/S, N/P. Refs reqʼd, $1,675/mon. 334-3878 ROOM IN Hillcrest duplex, N/S, N/P because we already have some. No drinking or drugs.

DD reqʼd, incls utils, $625/mon. 334-5032 2/3-BDRM TOP floor of house on Annie Lake Rd. Well, wood heat, storage, pet friendly, incls utils, $1,450/mon. 334-8271 DOWNTOWN 1-BDRM suite, sep entrance, laundry & heat incl, n/s, n/p, $1,050/mon.

334-6510 MAIN ST 2-bdrm, 1-bath apt w/appliances on greenbelt. Available Nov 1. Refs & DD reqʼd, $1,700/mon + utils. + 1st.

Email:nsevergreenoffice@gmail.com 667-7462 ROOM IN Riverdale, incls utils, internet & cable, N/P, $600/mon. Rick 332-6030

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3-BDRM HOUSE w/lrg rec rm, 2 baths, Copper Ridge avail Nov 1. On grnblt, incls appl, fenced back yard, deck & shed. N/S. Refs reqʼd, $1,700/mon + utils. topazcrescent@hotmail.com

BACHELOR SUITE downtown, $750, 1st and last, utilities included, laundry on site, references, available Nov 1. 668-6033

Wanted to Rent

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.

HOUSESITTER AVAILABLE Mature, responsible person Call Suat at 668-6871

HoUSe HUNTerS

Real Estate 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 NEW PRICE. Country residential in town, 11 Canyon Cres, 2.72 acres, 3150 sqft living space + 700 sqft garage. 5 bdrms, 3 baths.

Motivated to sell, $678,000. 333-0262 or 333-0262

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.

3-BDRM 2-BATH house on large treed lot, full bsmnt suite, will sell completely furnished or unfurnished. 49 Redwood St. 633-6553

$364,900

TRAILER FOR sale. 3 bdrms, new furnace, large deck, storage shed, 4 appliances, 102 Benchmark Trailer Park, $35,000. 335-3071

HOUSE HUNTERS

12X68 MOBILE home, 2 bdrms, 1 bath, all new flooring, counter tops, washer, dryer, stove, new fridge, wood & oil heat, new fuel tank. Move in ready. Pad rent, $375/mon.

668-4070

Call realtor Mike racz ®

333-6410

8-BDRM, 28 acre, 20 minutes from Whitehorse, country residential, home or business. divided into 2 full suites plus 5-room B&B. View at Property Guys.com, ID # 143483.

456-2135 after 8pm.

200 PAWNEE Circle, 3-bdrm, 2-bath, 1733 sf, corner lot, cul-de-sac, roof 2013, R45 insulation 2010, heat/air 2009. Ceramic tile & laminate wood floors. Fireplace, wet bar, vaulted ceiling, $130,000. 324-5513

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

$

VIEW AT PROPERTyGUyS.COM | ID# 143233 Ryan – 867-335-1598 OR Kate – kolynyk@hotmail.com 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!

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.

1856 SQFT ranch home in Marsh Lake. Private, quiet area, 5 minute walk to park & beach. Close to Community Centre, firehall & marina. 3 bdrms, 1 bath. 660-5855 2-BDRM, 1-BATH mobile home in TTC, refurbished in 2007, fenced yard, backs onto greenbelt, extremely quite neighbours. $125,000 firm. 780-257-2928

Help Wanted 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 Looking for experienced housekeepers/front desk persons to work.

Please apply with resume to Bonny, Stratford Motel, 401 Jarvis Street.

No phone calls, please.

Miscellaneous for Sale MILLER ECONO Tig with gun, remote and electrode holder, hardly used, $1350 obo.

Mike 335-1888

Wednesday, October 9, 2013 BETTER BID NORTH AUCTIONS Foreclosure, bankruptcy De-junking, down-sizing Estate sales.

Specializing in estate clean-up & buy-outs.

The best way to deal with your concerns.

Free, no obligation consultation.

333-0717 We will pay CASH for anything of value Tools, electronics, gold & jewelry, cameras, furniture, antiques, artwork, chainsaws, camping & outdoor gear, hunting & fishing supplies, vehicles & ATVs. G&R Pawnbrokers 1612-D Centennial St. 393-2274 BUY • SELL • LOANS OSBORNE WOOD-BURNING fireplace insert in gd cond, $350. 633-6238 aft 6pm HONDA GENERATOR EB 2200X, like new.

633-6553 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 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 SILVER FLAT framed mirror, 37.5x26”, $40.

Totem food smoker, $50. Vintage milk can, painted silver, $40. 667-2844 SLATE flagstones, available in design bundles for special projects such as stepping stone walk ways. Prices according to bundle, eg $180 for bundle of 9. 668-1850 HOUSEPLANTS, SPIDER plants, grape ivy 4ʼ long, lipstick vine 4ʼ long, $5-$30/ 660-4321 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 3 TON chain hoist, new. 633-6553 2 WATER pumps: Briggs and Stratton 21/2 inch and Honda 11/2 inch. 633-6553 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 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 FORCED AIR propane heater 30,000 BTU, like new. 633-6553 TAYLOR SOFT ICE CREAM machine $5,595 Char broiler $650 Pizza warmer $450 867-862-7111 VANGUARD ENDEAVOR ed 8x42 binoculars, camo, like new, $350. 335-9510 “WEE PEGGY” New Zealand spinning wheel in immaculate cond, $150. 633-2493 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

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 CLARK 5-SPD bench mounted drill press, new in box, $180 obo. 332-7879 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 SMALL CERAMIC Christmas Tree with twinkle lights, $25. 668-5882 ASSORTED VINYL siding accessories & heating/venting materials (left over from building a new home). Best offer. 334-9903 STEGER MUKLUKS, Yukon Jack style. Men Sz 12 wide New in box, never worn. Save the shipping to Yukon, $200. 334-5110 K&E BRUNTEN compass with case. Offers.

332-6565 DEEP FRYER, commercial use. Propane Frymaster by Garland, $400 obo. 335-0629 aft 5pm 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 NEW 2500 gal Fibreglass septic tank, $2,500. rickaley@yahoo.ca or 867-851-6451 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 SPILSBURY TINDALL SBX 11 2-way radio with aerial, exc shape, $600. 332-6565 EXQUISITELY CARVED Haida pipe... very old, in mint condition. $750. Call Jack at 336-1990 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 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 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 INSULATED CHIMNEY, 12ft x7in id, 1inch insulated $100 obo 668-3508 HOTSY 110V hot water pressure washer, $1,800. 336-0995 1 CORD of nice dry spruce firewood in Riverdale. You pick up only. $225. 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 HOTSY 220V hot water pressure washer, $2,800. 336-0995 WOOD BURNING stove. 667-6770 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 INTERTHERM FURNACE, c/w chimney.

667-6770

Ta’an Kwäch’än Council 117 Industrial Road Whitehorse, Yukon Y1A 2T8 Telephone: 867.668.3613 Facsimile: 867.667.4295

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.

E M P LOY M E N T O P P O R T U N I T Y

Office Manager

Regular Full-Time TKC wage scale 7 In this position you will play an integral role by providing a wide range of office management responsibilities. You will manage staff and oversee all major administrative responsibilities including centralized filing; maintaining information lists and ensuring administrative records are up-to-date and TKC reception services follow correct political protocols. You will also provide assistance in the coordination of TKC major events and meetings. Ideally you will have postsecondary education in business / office administration and increasing progressive responsibilities in office management, and/or equivalent combination.

To access the job description go to our website at: www.taan.ca and then our Employment tab.

Closing date: Wednesday, October 23, 2013 The TKC Preferential Hiring policy will apply which gives qualified TKC Citizens first preference.

Please forward a cover letter and résumé to Pkimbley@taan.ca

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 FREE MOOSE bones and some scrap meat available - suitable for dogs. 456-7490 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

PSP 3000, great cond, c/w charger, case, memory card, lots of games, movies & tv shows, $120 obo. 334-8287 XBOX 360 with controllers and a couple games with the bigger hard drive. Lots of room left, $120 obo. 334-8287 VARIOUS COMPUTER accessories. Free.

Incls keyboards, speakers, d-links card & CD cases. 633-6687

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

Musical Instruments We will buy your musical instrument or lend you money against it.

G&R Pawnbrokers 1612-D Centennial St. 393-2274 BUY • SELL • LOANS

Seeking a

F/T Customer Service Representitive

FIRST EDITION Jack London book “Smoke Bellow” excellent condition. Collection of stories of the Klondike. $375 firm. Call Jack at 336-1990

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.

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

Please apply in person with resume to

Murdoch’s, 207 Main Street

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

Yukon News Classified/Order Entry 25-30 hours per week

BOWMAN BOLTS. 1 box of 300 pieces. 6” long x 3/8 NC grade 5. (57 pounds). 6 boxes total, $50/ea obo. 668-5207

The award winning

SHEET SET for queen size bed. 1 flat, 1 deep-pocket fitted, 2 pillow cases. Sage colour fleece. New, $20. 668-2877

has an exciting opportunity for a

KICK SLED, $350 obo. 633-4018

classified/order entry clerk

MASTER CRAFT variable speeds wood lathe, Phillips deep fryer, $25, Conair remote control foot spa, $35, alovara plants, $2 each. 456-2633 BLUE 4” square cushion for hip-replacement patient, new - $100, asking $60 obo.

633-6213

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.

441 MONITOR heater with fuel tank, $200.

633-3648 aft 6pm or lv msg

Electrical Appliances KENMORE DRYER, front loader, works great, $300. Also nw pump out of Kenmore washer, $40. 332-7797

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.

CONVECTION OVEN, professional HD, ideal for restaurant, Turbo Chef model #HHB, $1,500 obo. Don 335-0629 aft 5pm PANNINI SANDWICH maker by Pane Bella, model USA 24-6, ideal for commercial use, $350 obo. Don 335-0629 aft 5pm

FREE! MICROWAVE, 32” television. Both in gd working order. 633-2751 KENMORE PORTABLE dishwasher, exc cond, $150. 633-4772 PROPANE STOVE, 20", 4 burners, oven & broiler drawer, works well. Compact, ideal for cottage/camp use, $120. 667-6951 eves WASHER & dryer set, gd working order, $100. 334-2902 GE DRYER, 1 yr old. Offers. 633-5938 FREE FRIDGE, 28”x65” high. 456-7852 FREE INGLIS dryer, extra large capacity.

456-7852 STACKABLE WASHER & dryer, microwave, stove, portable dishwasher, 50 gal hot water tank. 667-6770 52” DEEPFREEZE. 821-3591

TVs & Stereos Paying cash for good quality modern electronics.

G&R Pawnbrokers 1612-D Centennial St. 393-2274 BUY • SELL • LOANS BELL EXPRESSVU 60 cm dish, qty 2, new, $20 each. 667-8726

Computers & Accessories CORNER COMPUTER desk, $80. 667-2844 lv msg 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 DELL DESKTOP computer. Just nuked and paved. WinXP, MSOffice, 19” LCD monitor, speakers, $100. 332-1680 lv msg EPSON PRINTER. FREE, works great, has installation CD. l 633-6687 X-BOX 360 w.2 control and 32 games, $100.

333-9060.

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.

An Eligibility List will be established from this posting.

Underfills will be considered.

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

ACTIVE IN YOUR COMMUNITY Are you looking for volunteer opportunities?

Please check www.volunteeryukon.ca to find more volunteer opportunities.

2013 Education, Career and Volunteer Expo

SEARS BEST refrigerator, $200. 633-2580 eves

WASHER & dryer, $300 obo. 456-2406

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Chief Administrative Officer

Are you mulling over job market ideas?

Interested in furthering your education?

Looking for volunteer work experience?

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.

Find out about opportunities that will build the skills and knowledge you need to land in the career that you want! Come meet educational institutions, employers, and non-profit organizations who can inform you about your future prospects and plans!

Yukon College Gym October 10 • 10:30 am to 5:00pm No entrance fee Take the bus! Available hourly from downtown to the College.

For the list of exhibitors: http://www.volunteeryukon.ca For more information, please contact: Volunteer Bénévoles Yukon, executivedirector@volunteeryukon.ca, 456-4304 (NGOs) YuWIN, executivedirector@yuwin.ca, 393-3874 (Businesses) Yukon College, abowen@yukoncollege.yk.ca, 456-8587 (education partners/ Government departments) We would like to thank our sponsors: We would like to thank our sponsors: GPRC: https://www.gprc.ab.ca/ (Diamond sponsor), Northwestel:http://www.nwtel.ca/ and Association francoyukonnaise:http://www.afy.yk.ca/ (Gold sponsors) and University of Lethbridge: http://www.uleth.ca/ (Bronze Sponsor) You work for a non-profit organization and you would like to add your volunteer opportunities? Please click on http://www.volunteeryukon.ca/.

MONDAY • WEDNESDAY • FRIDAY

Community Services

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PIANO TUNING & REPAIR by certified piano technician Call Barry Kitchen @ 633-5191 email:bfkitchen@hotmail.com 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 CHILDʼS QUARTER size McMahon violin, exc cond, c/w book. Paid $525 new, Make an offer. 668-2750 WILLIS UPRIGHT piano (Montreal) 3ʼx2ʼx5ʼ, never goes out of tune, a little beauty, $500.

633-2493

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 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 FIREWOOD $250 per cord Cut to length 4-cord load 667-6185

PIANO & matching storage bench. Beautifully ornamented upright, rich brown/ reddish tints, tuned & appraised locally. Must sell before first snow, $1,800. 668-5701 VICTOR VICTORIA - antique serial # VX3 A, 1918 model, 4-doors upright, red mahogany, attic cond. $200 obo. 660-4806

Firewood FIREWOOD FOR SALE 20-cord orders Big or small tree length Logging truck loads $150/cord Delivered to Whitehorse Call Clayton: 335-0894 DIMOK TIMBER 6 cord or 22 cord loads of firewood logs.

Call 634-2311

FIREWOOD 4 SALE Dry standing spruce cut to length.

Delivered within City Limits $250/Cord or $130/ Half Cord Call Stu @ 633-5041 DONʼS FIREWOOD Prompt daily deliveries Commercially harvested beetle kill Social Services & Kwanlin Dun Price as of October 1st: $265 per cord 393-4397 FIREWOOD: $170.00 per cord 20 ft. logs 5 cord loads.

Small delivery charge.

867-668-6564 Leave message

Guns & Bows Case cutlery, high quality hand-crafted pocket and hunting knives available at G&R Pawnbrokers 1612-D Centennial St. 393-2274 BUY • SELL • LOANS RARE 30-30 Winchester model 1894, , manufactured 1906, octagonal nickel-steel barrel excellent condition. 633-6553 FOUND: SCOPED rifle in case on Aishihik Road. 633-5526

Site Buyer/Warehouseperson

2005 MAZDA 6, 4 door, 4 cyl, auto, 160,000kms, loaded, $8,500 obo. 334-1115

WANTED: LARGER size snowblower app.

30'' wide in working condition to keep my long driveway open. 667-7877

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

WANTED: USED PWF pressure treated wood 2x6 or 2x8 or 2x10, 8ʼ or longer. 668-5207 WANTED: COPY of Glacial Erraticsʼ first CD or info about where to reach Kim Barlow.

668-4348 WANTED: SNOWPLOW for a ATC 3-wheel Honda 200 ES. 633-2241 or 335-0252 WANTED: WOOD cook stove. 668-4885

Cars

SAVAGE, 25C, P series, .22 barrel on top, 20 gauge under, vg cond, great grouse gun, $300. 667-2607

Certified

used vehicles

HUNTING RIFLE, Ruger, M77, 270 Win, Leupold scope, M8x4, must have firearms licence, $550. 334-1326

REMINGTON 700, 308 heavy barrel rifle, B&L Elite 4000 scope, tactical stock, $1,100 obo. 668-2773

Wanted

WANTED: “TORCH-ON” roofing material for 200 sq ft or more. Will pay. 333-0744 WANTED: MAPS & books on Route 66 in USA. Virginia 633-3388 WANTED: LIGHT blue and/or black marble-look self adhesive tiles that used to be sold at Home Hardware. Have extras?

668-5188

online at

www.drivingforce.ca

2012 DODGE Challenger SRT8, 1700kms, as new. rickaley@yahoo.ca or 867-851-6451 aft 9pm 2007 CHEV Impala LS, 4-dr, V6 auto, w/remote start, summer & ice tires, 160,000kms, blue, runs great, $6,900. 334-6685 2007 PONTIAC G5 Sedan. Well maintained, keyless entry, p/windows, cruise, a/c, c/w 18” Primax wheels/ low profile tires & set of winter tires on rims (1 season), 95,050kms, $7,500. 668-7709 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 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 CHEV Impala, 110,000 kms, v-6 auto, remote entry, runs good, looks good, burgundy, $5000. 668-2014

Requirements • Recognized post-secondary training in Materials Management/ Purchasing and at least 3 years of progressively responsible warehousing and purchasing experience; or, an equivalent combination of education and experience • Demonstrated experience with computerized materials management systems; 4Site preferred • Experience maintaining an inventory control system • Demonstrated record of safety leadership • Excellent written and verbal communication skills • Ability to work independently in an efficient manner • Able to work a rotational work schedule of 2 weeks in x 2 weeks out • Consent to a pre-employment medical examination which includes a drug & alcohol screening

2000 CHRYSLER Intrepid ES, 2.7L, V6, auto, fully loaded. New battery & front struts.

Just needs alternator, $2,100 obo. 335-2196 1999 PONTIAC Grande Pris, immaculate cond, brand new winter tires, c/w mechanical inspection. $3000. 867-334-1374

1996 HONDA Civic CX 5-spd, new pads, tire, battery, approx. 180,000kms, $2,500 obo. Dave or Gus 393-4796 1993 EAGLE Talon Awd Turbo, standard, New radiator, stereo, thermostat, and battery Newer tires, $2000 obo. 336-0909 1992 BUICK Regal, Grande sport, 4-dr, sunroof, good reliable car. $1250. obo.

335-5046 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 TOYOTA Camry, 5-spd standard.

668-2253 1986 TOYOTA Camry, 205,477kms, owner, $450. 668-2857

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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 1984 MAZDA 626, new motor, tires, windshield, stereo, vg shape, $1,500. 821-4924 CLASSIC 1979 Cadillac Coupe De ville, V8,Auto Trans ,Sun Roof and much more, priced to sell, Call 668-1477

We Sell Trucks!

Make Wolverine Mine your next career choice!

Reporting to the Warehouse Supervisor, the Buyer/Warehouseperson performs a key role in the effective operation of the mine-site warehousing function. More specific responsibilities include: • Perform on-site purchasing, including processing of purchase requisitions, pricing, and issuing of purchase orders • Ensure purchase orders have the necessary and proper supporting documentation.

• Prepare purchasing, shipping, and inventory reports • Carry out the receiving function, as necessary, including assisting with loading/unloading freight trucks and completing bills of lading and associated paperwork for inbound and outbound shipment • Maintain a tidy and efficient lay-down area • Assist with annual inventories and cycle counts • Assist warehouse people with counter duties as required • Demonstrate effective safety leadership with all site personnel to help promote and maintain a positive safety culture

2001 CHEVY Malibu, 160,000 km, new wheel bearings , brakes done, power seats power windows.$2500, call in the evenings.

667-2973

Trucks

Yukon Zinc Corporation is seeking a qualified and committed Buyer/Warehouseperson at its Wolverine Mine in the southeast Yukon Territory.

Responsibilities

2002 NISSAN Sentra GXE, 4dr, 1.8l, 154,000kms, summer & winter tires, insured & safety inspected, $3,000 obo. 332-1939

1997 PONTIAC grand am, 146,000 km. passed safety inspection. $900 obo, quick sale. Call in the evenings. 667 2973

SKULL CLEANING European mounts using Dismasted beetles From a mouse to a moose Very reasonable rates 335-2034 ZEISS CONQUEST 3-9x40 riflescope, rapid z 600 reticle. exc. conditon. $475 335-8925

2002 MUSTANG, 80,000kms, 4.6L 5 speed, winter special. 633-2740

1997 DODGE Caravan, 7 passenger, removable seats, 3.3L engine, Bluetooth media player, roof rack. 247,000 kms, exc cond, $2,200 obo. 668-3814

HUNTING TREE stand. 2-5ʼ lengths + 3ʼ high hunterʼs seat. Made of metal, $40.

633-3113

LOOKING FOR a ride share from Skagway to Whitehorse or Atlin for the 25th or 27th October. Contact: flo-flo-56@hotmail.fr

Career Opportunities

WANTED: RED wigglers for a classroom compost project. Kevin 667-7684

TURKISH MAUSER, .308 in working cond, must have valid PAL. $225 firm. 335-2182

WANTED: AUTO tow dolly for small car.

Pivot point(s) & surge brakes preferred.

667-2356

Wolverine Mine

Wednesday, October 9, 2013

Wolverine Mine Career Opportunities

Equipment Operators Yukon Zinc Corp has an immediate need for experienced Equipment Operators at its Wolverine Mine in the southeast Yukon Territory.

Make Wolverine Mine your next career choice!

Requirements Reporting to the Equipment Operations Supervisor, Equipment Operators are responsible for completing work based on Company guidelines for safety, environmental compliance, and general work practices/procedures. More specific requirements include: • Demonstrated ability to safely and effectively operate a bobcat, rock truck, small backhoe, small and large excavators, large frontend loaders (eg. 966), bulldozers • Demonstrated ability to safely and effectively operate a grader will be an asset • Perform minor repairs and maintenance on equipment being operated • Demonstrate effective safety leadership for other equipment operators and members of the Site Services team • Consent to a pre-employment medical examination which includes a drug & alcohol screening

Wolverine is a “dry camp”, fly-in/fly-out underground mine operation. The mine site is located midway between Ross River and Watson Lake on the Robert Campbell Highway and is approximately 280 km by air northeast of Whitehorse.

Wolverine is a “dry camp”, fly-in/fly-out underground mine operation.

The minesite is located midway between Ross River and Watson Lake on the Robert Campbell Highway and is approximately 280 km by air northeast of Whitehorse.

Interested and qualified candidates should send their resume via the Current Careers option on our website at www.yukonzinc.com, or by fax, toll-free, at (866) 887-7517. We thank all applicants for their interest; however, we are only able to contact those who have been shortlisted.

Interested and qualified candidates should send their resume via the Current Careers option on our website at www.yukonzinc.com, or by fax, toll-free, at (866) 887-7517. We thank all applicants for their interest; however, we are only able to contact those who have been shortlisted.

1-866-269-2783 • 9039 Quartz Rd. • Fraserway.com

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 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 2008 FORD F150 4x4 quad cab, 5.4L, PS, PL, PW, cruise, tow pkg w/brake controller, back-up camera, K&N filter,k 3 pc tonneaul, w 18” tires, 120,000 kms. $17,500 obo.

660-4806 2008 FORD F450 SD 4WD king ranch, $32,000. 334-1326 2008 JEEP Patriot North Edition. Black w/ alloy rims. 75,000 kms. $14500 obo. Exc cond w/great fuel economy. 335-7154 2007 TOYOTA Highlander AWD SUV, command start, extra set winter tires, towing pkg, approx 128,000 kms, $16,000. 332-4143 2006 FORD Ranger 4.0L V6, 4x4, extʼd cab, standard trans. Bed mat, front & rear receiver hitch, 105,000kms, $9,200 obo.

668-4836 2006 JEEP Grand Cherokee Laredo, 3.7 V6, 4x4, in good shape, runs excellent, p/windows, locks & seat. Rood rack, alloy wheels with summer & winter tires. Recent safety, 192,000kms, $6,900 obo. 668-2262 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 2005 NISSAN Frontier, extʼd cab, 4WD, automatic, 159,000kms, new windshield, newer tires, brakes, wheel-bearings, serviced regularly, $8,500. 667-2607 2004 CADILLAC Escalade SUV AWD, 6 passenger, heated leather seats, sun roof, very nice cond, $14,900. 660-4220 2002 FORD F150, burgundy, 4x4, 4.8l Triton V8, 230,000kms, $5,000 obo. 334-3937

2004 SIERRA 3500 dually crew cab, loaded, 4x4, diesel. Mech records. Nw tires, 211,000 kms. $22,000. 668-4663 2004 TOYOTA Tacoma extra cab 4x4, 3400cc, v6, auto trans, new timing belt, receiver hitch, 92,000 miles, $12,000 obo.

633-2181 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 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.

2002 MAZDA B2200 p/u, c/w canopy, studded winter tires 150,000 km, great running cond, timing chain replaced ($1800 in parts & labour), $5,500 obo. 334-8287 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

1988 DODGE Ram, full size van, V6, 5 speed standard, gd glass all around, was safety inspected 1.5 yrs ago, $800 obo.

456-7490

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

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

1993 SUBARU Loyale, runs, but only good for parts. Extra Parts inclʼd such as radiator, alternator, water pump, etc. $450 obo.

668-1040

1987 TOYOTA truck, 22R, standard, 2WD, $1,000. Richard. 821-4924

100ʼ OF 3/4” towing cable with loops on ends. Offers. 332-6565

1984 DODGE 3/4 ton, 4x4, newer 318 2bbl, new clutch, 4-speed, new windshield, ideal wood truck, first $1000. 456-9608

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

1980 FORD Bronco, $500 obo. 660-5922 1980 FORD Bronco, needs new trans, $500 obo, 660-5922 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.

1979 FORD F250 4x4, body rust, engine needs rebuild, trans & all 4x4 parts, in gd cond, offers. 332-6565 1950 DODGE p/u, candy apple red, has 289 Ford V8, 4x4, drive train, gas guzzling piece of junk, totally unreliable. Needs lots of money/work. In Dawson, $10,000 firm.

867-993-5164 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

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

WANTED 235/75R15 5 bolt for older Suburban. 456-4492

Hi-Rise & Cab Hi - several in stock View at centennialmotors.com 393-8100

WANTED: TRANSMISSION for 96 Dodge 4x4 Daytona. 634-3861

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

SEMI-RETIRED LICENSED mechanic looking for work. Gas - diesel. Have own shop. Willing to do mobile work.

456-9608

1998 FORD F-150, reg cab, 2-wheel drive, v-6, 5-speed, $3500. 633-6213

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 SET OF Ride-Rite Firestone air bags off a 1999 GMC Sierra, $200 obo. 334-6776

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

4 EXCELLENT winter tires, used only 1 season, 185x15”, $200. 332-7545

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

FORD 4X4 5-spd tranny & transfer case, $300. 334-3822

1997 PLYMOUTH Voyager van, 3l, new windshield, fuel pump, battery, replaced bucket seat, gd rubber, no rust. Gus or Dave 393-4796 1996 FORD Ranger XLT super cab 4x4, V6, auto, air, cruise, tilt, Am/Fm, CD, 143,400 miles, $3,900. 660-4220 1996 NISSAN Quest, minivan, V6, auto, p/mirrors, seats, windows, sunroof, CD-changer, winter/summer tires, block heater, 255,000kms, new brakes, runs well, $2,500. 633-6389 1995 F350 Crew Cab, great cond, $2,200.

335-5789 1995 FORD Explorer, XLT, all options, everything works, 201,000 kms, $1000.

633-6421 1995 FORD F250 4x4, 5.8 liter, 5-speed, new windshield, batteries, clutch, tires, shocks replaced in April. 3 - 35 Lewes Blvd.

456-3608 1994 CHEV Silverado 2500 ext cab, 2WD, long box, auto, 6.5l diesel, 282,000kms, $5,500. 667-7649 1994 E350 7.3 litre diesel shuttle bus, 170,000 km, one ton, has diesel coolant heater, no seats, use as work truck, shelving throughout. $3500. 335-5046 1992 CHEV Silverado 4x4, extʼd cab, $1,600. 334-1252 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

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 AUTO TRANS & trans case for mid 80s -90s jeep $500. Ford C-4 trans $300. Chev metric auto trans $300 obo. 668-3508

SET OF 4 Michelin X-ICE winter tires with lots of tread left. Size 205/55R16, $200 obo.

633-4508

4-17” TIRES, exc shape, $100/ea. 633-4018

TRUCK CANOPY, white high rise, 80”L x 60” wide x 28” high, lots of windows, $300 obo. 660-4806 SMALL CAR winter tires on freshly painted steel rims, Nokian Hakkapeliitta RSi 175/65 R14 82R. From Toyota Echo, will fit other makes. $240. 335-7475.

Pets PETMATE DOG crate, 3ʼLx2ʼWx2ʼ3”H, wire mesh, $40. 667-4589 TO GIVE away, 2 Pointer Husky Cross sled dogs (no puppies), their dog houses optional. Call (no texts) 335-2675 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 BEAR DOG puppies. 334-5573 lv msg

Motorcycles & Snowmobiles 2009 SUMMIT 800, 1,700 miles, has a ceramic coated can, otherwise bone stock. Gd shape, $7,000 obo. (867)333-0484

Pet of the Week!

B

usy

I’m Busy.

I’m fresh out of isolation and ready for some attention!

I’m a bit of a diva but what can I say, I just want to be the center of everything!

have your pets spayed or neutered.

FoR iNFoRmatioN call

633-6019

Dog Wash Fundraiser 3rd Saturday of each month. Next Date:

Saturday, October 19th at The Feed Store Pet Junction 10:00am - 2:00pm

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

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

PLASTIC TRUCKBOX liner, will fit any Chevy 6'6" box, in exc cond, $80. 667-4859

Help control the pet overpopulation problem

14” TRAILER tires & white spoke rims. 1 new, 2 in vg cond, $150. 633-2740

GOOD SERVICEABLE winter tires on rims, 185/70R14, 5 bolt, from an older Camry, 215/70R15, 5 bolt Plymouth Grand Voyageur Minivan. 456-4492

1998 AWD Chev Astro van in running cond, needs new battery. $1000 takes it. (867) 634-2422 or yukonjackyt@yahoo.ca

2013

255 70/R18 tires and rims, Goodyear Fortera Tripletread, ideal winters for new Toyota Tundras, 1 year used, $650, 332-1463.

TRUCK CANOPIES - in stock * new Dodge long/short box * new GM long/short box * new Ford long/short box

ARCTIC CLAW winter tires Xsi studded tires 245/70R16 M&S, less than 2 monthsʼ use.

Set of 4, $200. 667-4859

weDNeSDay, octoBeR 9

FORD V6 4L drop in, complete, $350.

633-2740

2000 DODGE Caravan, 209,000kms, extra set of winter tires, command start, engine in great condition, some rust on the body, $3,000. 334-3308

1999 DODGE Ram diesel 3/4 ton extʼd cab short box, c/w canopy, gd tires, moose bumper. Needs fuel pump, 160,000kms, $5,000. 456-7840 or 335-0495

Hours of operation for tHe sHelter: Tues - Fri: 12:00pm-7:00pm • Sat 10:00am-6:00pm CloSed Sundays & Mondays

633-6019

GENTLY USED winter tires. Nokian Hakkapeliitta Q 155/80 13. $50 each OBO. 633-6462.

Auto Parts & Accessories

1999 CHEV Suburban LT 4x4, 7 passenger, heated leather seats, vg cond, $5,900.

660-4220

Pet Report

LADDER JACKS, $25. Boat rack for Toyota long-box, $120. 667-2521

2000 DODGE DAKOTA Sport Club Cab, V-8, 4x4. Exc cond. 105,000 kms. 8,500 obo.

668-7503 lv msg

2000 GMC extended cab 1/2 ton, 2-wheel drive, new front end, new fuel pump, mechanically sound, $6500. 334-1374

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$10 advance tickets available at the Mae Bachur Animal shelter or $15 at the door.

Costumes prizes photo Booth 9-11pm

Proceeds go to the Mae Bachur Animal Shelter

lost/found lost

found

• Robson subdivision male Bernesemountain dog black, wearing yellow collar contact Dane @6677827. (26/09/13) • takhini east vimy place, cream with white feet siamese cat, no collar female spayed, contact Katie @ 456-7890.(02/10/13).

• Found out at mccrae a black and grey dog with boxer type face has a collar but no tags contact lori @ 633-3218.(05/10/13)

RunninG At lARGE...If you have lost a pet, remember to check with City Bylaw: 668-8382

AVAilABlE foR Adoption in fostER HoMEs doGs

CAts

• 6 yr old, neutered male, Husky/GSDx, black and tan (Nitro) • 11 mos old, spayed female, RetrieverX, tan (Jewel)

• None available at this time. Please check back.

At tHE sHEltER doGs • 5 yr old female, lab/Pit Bull X (Gaia) • 3yr old, neutered male, akita, grey, white (a.J.) • 2 yr old, neutered male, husky/GSDx, black and tan (Spaz) • 1 yr old, neutered male, Husky, black and white (copper) • 1.5yr old, neutered male, labX, tan and white (Homer) • 2 yr old, neutered male, Bear Dog, black (Danny)

• 1 yr old, neutered male, labX, black ( tuck) CAts • 6yr old, maine coonX, neutered male, grey and white (tinker) • 11mos, DSH, white and black, neutered male (max) • 1.5yr old, DSH, grey and white, neutered male (Sappy) • 3 yr old, spayed female, DSH, tabby ( Busy) • 2 yr old, neutered male, RagdollX, choc point ( Bruno)

spECiAl • Homes needed for retired sled dogs. they would make excellent pets. contact Sandra at 668-3647

633-6019 126 Tlingit Street

www.humanesocietyyukon.ca

if your lost animal has been inadvertently left off the pet report or for more info on any of these animals, call 633-6019 or stop by 126 tlingit street.

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

You can also check out our award winning website at:

www.Humanesocietyyukon.ca

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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 1995 HARLEY-DAVIDSON Dyna, custom wide-glide, headlight, paint,(aqua Marine) back fender and grips tank/fender airbrushed, murals wort-hog, extra chrome, 25,000kms,Til Oct 21, $6000. If doesnʼt sell original price applies, $8000. 390-2773 2010 ARCTIC Cat MudPro 650, plow, winch, 400 miles, gd shape, $6,200 obo, make an offer. Mark 334-7335 2008 GIO 250cc 4-stroke dirt bike, runs well, $750 obo. 334-6776 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 1999 SUMMIT X670, exc shape, no leaks, runs great, like new 2"x136" track, $2,000 firm. 334-6776 2003 MOUNTAIN Cat 900, 2.5”x151" track, c/w a spare track, needs clogs, chaincase sprockets & chain, $1,100 firm. 334-6776 2007 M8, rebuilt motor from the crank up, 153x2.25, C&A skis, high-rise seat, $5,500 obo. Mark 334-7335

2006 CRF Honda 70F, $1,500 obo. 2004 CRF Honda 80F, $1,350 obo. Both bikes are in gd cond. 633-6027 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 2011 OUTLANDER Car Am 800, less than 500 kms, $9,000 rickaley@yahoo.ca or 851-6451 aft 9pm

LUND SSV boat, 16ʼ, deep hull, high transom, 30 hp Yamaha oil injected 2 stroke long shaft. Nice trailer w/new tires, rims & bearing buddies. $5,500 obo. 633-4322

Heavy Equipment NEW & USED EQUIPMENT For Sale Come see MACPHERSON RENTALS @ 117 Copper Rd or call 633-4426

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

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

1992 POLARIS Indy Star Lite GT, 250 cc, long track, cargo rack, hitch, heated grips, ski skins. Full tune up, new belt and carbides. Mint cond, $1,900 obo. 633-4322

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

1992 ARCTIC Cat 340 snowmobile, needs fuel tank, $150 obo. 668-2773 1998 YAMAHA 600 Venture Triple,trail machine, lots of power, electric & pull start, $3,200 obo. 633-4018 2005 700 Arctic Cat m7, excell cond, asking $4500, 2003 Skidoo Summit 800, good working cond, asking $3500, 1992 Skidoo Formula Plus MX, good working cond, asking $2000, 633-2602 TUNDRA II skidoo, has reverse, needs windshield, asking $2000. 867-536-7610

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

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

SPEED BOAT w/350HP Chev & jet pump, Fibreglass hull, $5,000, c/w trailer. rickaley@yahoo.ca 867-851-6451 aft 9pm

POWER TILTING aluminum sled deck, fits long box p/u truck, $1,500. 333-0117

40 HP Yamaha o/b motor, new cond, with spare prop, $3500. 867-536-7610

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 KOMATSU WA350 wheel loader bucket & grapple, $20,000. rickaley@yahoo.ca or 867-851-6451 aft 9pm 1979 KENWORTH W900 gravel truck. 400 Big Cam 2, 15 spd, 44 diff, $5,700. 668-5906 or 668-1281 225 AMP welder/powerplant. 17 hp Kohler engine mounted on a steel wagon with 4 wheels & a hitch, $2,000 obo. 333-9790 HITACHI 450LC for long term rent or for hire, c/w 84" clean-up bucket & 40" digging bucket. Presently located in Dawson.

604-218-6862

Wednesday, October 9, 2013 Aircraft 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 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 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 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 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 2005 NORTHERN Lite camper, 5 star, 9ʼ6” classic, 855kg, north/south beds, bathroom, hot water tank, vg cond, $16,000. 667-7649

U.S. CUStomS & Border ProteCtion (retired) Port direCtor

Boyd C. Worley, Jr. His big heart of gold just wore out.

September 11, 1940 - September 27, 2013 Happiness is in the giving. that part of a good man’s life, His little known acts of kindness and love.

Thank you to our Canadian friends for the kind words of appreciation for his 35 years of courteous and helpful service at the Skagway Port-of-Entry. His absolute favorite remark was, “Even my dog was happy when he saw the Skagway Border Station because he knew you were going to give him a biscuit”.

Cards to mrs. Jean Worley & Family, P.o. Box 296, Skagway, Alaska 99840 donations to Skagway School Student Activities, P.o. Box 497, Skagway, Alaska 99840

UTILITY TRAILER made from the back of a truck box, $700 obo. 668-1040 1999 CLASS B 20' Vanguard camper van, vg cond, runs great, everything works, $12,500. 334-9903 2013 GOOSENECK trailer, Big Tex, 25ʼ, deck on the neck, beavertail w/ramps, 2-10,000lb axle dually, equipment hauler, $12,500. 393-6550 1988 GMC Motorhome 21', runs well, sound structure & frame. Fridge, stove, furnace.

Functional bathrm w/toilet & shower. Queen size alcove bed. No leaks, needs TLC, $2,250 or trade. 668-5511 8ʼ CAMPER, propane fridge & stove in working cond, $700 obo. 334-9144 45ʼ VAN trailer, made into a home, 4-piece bathrm, kitchen, livingrm, one bdrm, generator, inverter, water system in water cube van.

All for $18,500. OBO 335-5046

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 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 MULTICULTURAL CENTRE of the Yukon Free Citizenship Exam Preparation Course for ESL Learners. 5 Saturday classes 9am-noon begin October 19. Call 667-4733 to register.

YUKON GUILD of Needlearts meet next Thurs, Oct 10th, 7-9 pm at the Whitehorse Public Library. This monthʼs project Blackwork. Info: Doris 633-4026 HULLANDʼS HAUNTS & Holly Craft Fair, Oct 26, 10am-3pm @ Jack Hulland Elementary School, Porter Crk. To book your table call 667-8496 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 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.

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 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 NAKWAYE KU Childcare Society AGM, Fri, Oct 18, 6pm at Yukon College. 668-8860 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.

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) 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.

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 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 YUKON AFRICAN Caribbean Association (YACA) AGM Thursday, October 31st, 6pm-8pm at Whitehorse Public Library. Contact 335-8510

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!

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

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 STORYTIME: AGES: 6 - 24 months & caregiver(s) until Wed Nov 27, 10:30 a.m. Whitehorse Library. Free registration necessary.

Space is limited. 667-5239

Ellis

James There is a special Angel in Heaven that is part of me.

It is not where I wanted him but where God wanted him to be.

He was here but just a moment Like a night time shooting star.

And though he is in Heaven he isn’t very far.

A golden heart stop beating, hard working hands now rest.

God broke our hearts to prove to us He only takes the best.

He touched the hearts of many like only an Angel can do.

So I send this message to the Heaven up above Please take care of my Angel and send him all my love.

Feb. 10, 1939 Oct. 10, 2012

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

TINY HOUSE Workshop hosted by Leaf House Small Space Design and Build. Learn how to build and design your own tiny house!

10am to 4pm, October 19th and 20th.

Saturday, Oct. 12, 2013

Carmacks Recreation Center at 11 am (everyone welcome) Burial to follow at Twin Lakes (close friends & immediate family only) Potlatch at 4pm at the Recreation Center (everyone welcome)

Aleda (Lee) Marie Kinsey

passed away peacefully at Copper Ridge Place in Whitehorse on Thursday, October 3, 2013 at the age of 84.

She was born in Collingwood Township, Grey County, Ontario on July 16, 1929 and was the youngest daughter of the late John McAteer and Isobel (nee Wilson) McAteer. Lee moved to the Yukon in 1982 after visiting family and falling in love with its unspoiled beauty. She was a gifted person to whom nothing seemed impossible. She just went out there and did it. She was an experienced outdoorswoman, who’s favourite pastimes were fishing and hunting. She was a world traveler, a passionate animal lover and a committed community volunteer. She was a very active member of the Royal Canadian Legion.

Lee was predeceased by her beloved husband Mervyn Kinsey in March 1981.

Special thanks to Dr. Tadepalli and the nursing staff at the special care unit at Copper Ridge Place, and Whitehorse General Hospital.

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

SKI SWAP and Winter gear sale October 26, 9am-noon, Mt McIntyre Rec Centre. Winter Fair downstairs 9am-noon. Information & displays to get ready for winter. Info: 668-4477

He was a brother, son, uncle and friend.

He will be sadly missed by all family and friends.

The family would like to thank everyone for their support and kindness in our time of need.

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

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.

Passed away peacefully on Oct. 3, 2013 Born Feb. 24, 1966

The Valley Chapel, PO Box 556, Thornbury, ON N0H 2P0 (519 599 2718). www.fergusonfuneralhomes.ca

PORTER CREEK SECONDARY is holding its Regular Council Meeting on October 9, 2013 at 6:30 PM in the school library. Everyone is welcome.

MAIN STREET Society Annual General Meeting to take place Tuesday November 5th at noon at the T.C. Richards Building.

Stewart C. Blackjack

If so desired, donations to the Alzheimer Society of Canada or a charity of your choice may be made through the Ferguson Funeral Home

WHITEHORSE WOOFERS Dog Club is holding its AGM Thursday, October17/13, 6:45pm at the Canada Games Centre. Call 633-4822 for info.

TAKHINI SCHOOL COUNCIL is holding its Regular Council Meeting on October 15, 2013 at 7:00 PM in the school library. Everyone is welcome.

Love your wife Lucy and family.

Funeral Service

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She is remembered as the much loved mom of Whitehorse residents Steven Kinsey and Anne Kinsey-Jansen (Tonny Jansen), grandmother of Andrew Jansen of Edmonton and best friend of Frank Saligo of Teslin. She is survived by one sister, Donelda Baroli of Reno, Nevada.

She will be the fondly remembered aunt of several nieces and nephews.

Family will receive friends at the Ferguson Funeral Home, The Valley Chapel, in Thornbury, Ontario on Saturday, October 12th from noon until 1:30 p.m. A time of special remembrances and tributes celebrating Lee’s life will be shared at 1:30. A reception will follow at the Fellowship Hall of the Thornbury Church.

A private family interment will take place at Thornbury Clarksburg Union Cemetary on Tuesday, October 15.

THE FRIENDS of the Gallery AGM will be held Wednesday, November 13th, 7-8pm in the Yukon Arts Centre Green Room. New & current members welcome. Refreshments provided.

OA SPEAKER Marathon. Come & listen to OA members share their experience of recovery. Everyone welcome! Sunday October 20th – 10 to 1 pm. 4071- 4th Avenue, Whitehorse. oayukon@gmail.com IRIS FOLDED Christmas Card Classes every Thursday In October, 7-9:30pm. Contact Shannon @ 633-3883 PINE TREE Quilters invite you to attend a Quilters Tea Friday October 11, 7-9pm, United Church (corner Main & 6th). Come view this year's work. Door prizes & refreshments.

LETʼS PLAY! Trivia Night Fundraiser for Gwaandak Theatre, Oct.18, Kwanlin Dun Cultural Centre. 7pm. Guest Artists, Appetizers from Antoinetteʼs & Chances to win Air North tickets.

Info: info@gwaandaktheatre.com. 393-2676 ADULT BIATHLON: The most fun you can have on skis. Beginners welcome. Season begins with Introductory courses Oct 16 and 23rd. Come on out! For more Info, cowleycreek@hotmail.com FAMILY FUN Nights, October 25 & November 22, 6-8pm. Yukon College gym, drop-in tennis. All welcome. Free. 393-2621 FRANCOPHONE FILM Festival - drama, documentary, comedy, shorts films. Opening Oct 18, Yukon Arts Centre. Oct 19-20 at the Old Fire Hall. French with English subtitles for some films. www.afy.yk.ca FIDDLEHEADS AGM November 6 @ 6pm, Selkirk Elementary School.

TAGISH OKTOBERFEST! Oct. 12, 5-9pm, Tagish Community Centre. Bavarian food, Yukon Brewery drinks & live music, 7-9 pm. $5 entrance fee & door prizes. Food & drinks sold separately.

TAGISH PANCAKE Breakfast Oct 20, 9:30am-12pm, Tagish Community Centre. $8/adult, $3/child. Everyone is welcome to attend.

KIDZSWAPMEET, YUKON'S largest indoor garage sale for kids' stuff, Saturday October 19, Whitehorse Elementary School Gym, 9:30am-12:30pm. Fundraiser for Whitehorse Elementary. Tables available $20. www.kidzswapmeet.ca YUKON ARTIST Relief Fund is holding annual General meeting at 7:00pm on Wednesday, October 23rd in Art Underground Studio.

HAS CHRIST returned? Who is the Divine Physician for this day? Find out Oct. 11 (Fri.) @ 7:30 pm Call 633-5411 for directions.

NOMINATIONS FOR the Yukon Commissionerʼs volunteer public service and bravery awards are due October 31st. For more information Email: commissioner@gov.yk.ca

KLUANE QUILTER'S Guild, AGM, Monday, November 4th following the Pine Tree Meeting. Members welcome.

LATIN DANCE classes are every Friday night. Latin Fiesta October 19th at Antoinette's restaurant. 335-0909 or salsayukon@gmail.com for info THE NEXT Multiple Sclerosis Association meeting is October 20 at 10:30am at Copper Ridge Place in the Multipurpose Room.

CRAFT FAIR & Flea Market at Marsh Lake Community Centre, Sat Oct 19th 11am-4pm.

Vendors tables $15. To book tables call 660-4999

Services - INSULATION Upgrade your insulation & reduce your heating bills Energy North Construction Inc. (1994) for all your insulation & coating needs Cellulose & polyurethane spray foam Free estimate: 667-7414 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 BACKHAULS, WHITEHORSE to Alberta.

Vehicles, Furniture, Personal effects etc.

Daily departures, safe secure dependable transportation at affordable rates. Please call Pacific Northwest Freight Systems @ 667-2050 SHARPENING SERVICES. For all your sharpening needs - quality sharpening, fair price & good service.

At corner of 6th & Strickland.

667-2988 MC RENOVATION Construction & Renovations Laminated floor, siding, decks, tiles Kitchen, Bathroom, Doors, Windows Framing, Board, Drywall, Painting Drop Ceiling, Fences No job too small Free estimates Michael 336-0468 yt.mcr@hotmail.com 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 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 NORTHRIDGE BOBCAT SERVICES • Snow Plowing • Site Prep & Backfills • Driveways • Post Hole Augering • Light Land Clearing • General Bobcat Work Fast, Friendly Service 867-335-1106 BLUE HILL MASONRY • Cultured Stone • Ceramic Tile • Brick Andre Jobin 633-2286

BUSY BEAVERS Painting, Pruning Hauling, Snow Shovelling and General Labour Call Francois & Katherine 456-4755 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 IBEX BOBCAT SERVICES “Country Residential Snow Plowing” •Post hole augering •Light landscaping •Preps & Backfills Honest & Prompt Service Amy Iles Call 667-4981 or 334-6369 HOUSECLEANER AVAILABLE Fast and thorough No criminal record 30-year Yukon resident $30/hr 335-0009 TCM MAID SERVICE Reliable, Thorough & Professional Reasonable Rates References available 335-4421or 393-3868 LOG CABINS: Professional Scribe Fit log buildings at affordable rates.

Contact: PF Watson, Box 40187, Whitehorse, YT, Y1A 6M9 668-3632 PASCAL PAINTING CONTRACTOR PASCAL AND REGINE Residential - Commercial Ceilings, Walls Textures, Floors Spray work Excellent quality workmanship Free estimates pascalreginepainting@northwestel.net 633-6368 LUIS RENOVATIONS Over 20 yearsʼ experience.

Specializing in home renovation.

Drywall, painting, ceilings, counter tops, flooring, decks, patios.

335-1269 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 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

ow!

N e l lab Avai

TOPSOIL Call Dirtball

668-2963 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.

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meetings

mondays 7:30 p.m.

4071 4th avenue oayukon@gmail.com • www.oa.org

ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS MEETINGS Yukon Communities & Atlin, B.C.

Beaver Creek Y.T. Friday - 1:30 p.m.

Health Centre

Carcross Y.T. Wednesday - 7:30 p.m.

Library Friday - 1:30 p.m.

Health Centre Carmacks Y.T. Friday - 1:30 p.m.

Health Centre

Dawson City Y.T.

Thursday - 8:00 p.m.

New Beginners Group Richard Martin Chapel Friday - 1:30 p.m.

Health Centre Saturday 7:00 p.m.

Community Support Centre 1233 2nd Ave.

Destruction Bay Y.T. Friday - 1:30 p.m.

Health Centre

Faro Y.T. Friday - 1:30 p.m.

Health Centre Haines Junction Y.T. Friday - 1:30 p.m.

Health Centre

Mayo Y.T.

Friday - 1:30 p.m.

Health Centre

Old Crow Y.T. Friday - 1:30 p.m.

Health Centre

Pelly Crossing Y.T. Friday - 1:30 p.m.

Health Centre

Ross River Y.T.

“SPECIALIZING IN BATHROOMS” Start to Finish • FLOORING • TILE • CARPENTRY • PAINTING • FENCING • DECKS “ONE CALL DOES IT ALL!!

DON: 334-2699 don.brook@hotmail.com EXPERIENCED CARPENTER OFFERING: - Siding - Roofing - Framing and Renovations Free estimates and competitive rates.

Call Adam 334-3416

ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS MEETINGS in Whitehorse

MONDAY: 12 noon Joy of Living (OM, NS) Maryhouse, 504 Cook St. 8:00 pm New Beginnings Group (OM,NS) Maryhouse, 504 Cook St. TUESDAY: 12 noon Joy of Living (OM, NS) Maryhouse, 504 Cook St. 7:00 pm Juste Pour Aujourd’hui 4141B - 4th Avenue.

8:00 pm Ugly Duckling Group (CM, NS) Maryhouse, 504 Cook St. WEDNESDAY: 12 noon Joy of Living (OM, NS) Maryhouse, 504 Cook St..

8:00 pm Porter Crk Step Meeting (CM) Our Lady of Victory, 1607 Birch St. 8:00 pm No Puffin (CM,NS) Big Book Study Maryhouse, 504 Cook St. THURSDAY: 12 noon Joy of Living (OM, NS) Grapevine Discussion Maryhouse, 504 Cook St. 6:00 pm Young People’s Meeting BYTE Office, 2-407 Ogilvie Street 7:30 pm Polar Group (OM) Seventh Day Adventist Church 1609 Birch Street (Porter Creek) FRIDAY: 12 noon Joy of Living (OM, NS) Big Book Discussion Maryhouse, 504 Cook St. 1:30 pm #4 Hospital Rd. (Resource Room) 9:00 pm Whitehorse Group (CM, NS) Maryhouse, 504 Cook St. SATURDAY: 1:00 pm Sunshine Group (OM, NS) DETOX Building, 6118-6th Ave. 2:30 pm Women’s Meeting (OM) Whitehorse General Hospital (room across from Emergency) 7:00 pm Hospital Boardroom (OM, NS) SUNDAY: 1:00 pm Sunshine Group (OM, NS) DETOX Building, 6118-6th Ave. 7:00 pm Marble Group Hospital Boardroom (OM, NS)

NS - No Smoking OM - open mixed, includes anyone CM - closed mixed, includes anyone with a desire to stop drinking

www.aa.org

bcyukonaa.org

AA 867-668-5878 24 HRS A DAY

Tuesday - 8:00 p.m.

Soaring Eagles Sewing Centre

Teslin Y.T. Wednesday - 7:00pm Wellness Centre #4 McLeary Friday - 1:30p.m.

Health Centre Watson Lake Y.T. Friday - 1:30 p.m.

Health Centre

CERAMIC TILE INSTALLATION Licensed, insured, WCB certified Small or big contracting Specialize in new or tiled bathroom renovation Phone David: 333-0772 PLUMBING & HEATING SERVICES Available in Whitehorse & Communities Rough-in, service, maintenance & repair Residential & Commercial 16 years experience Excellent workmanship $75/hr 867-334-5161 TITAN DRYWALL Taping & Textured Ceilings 27 years experience Residential or Commercial No job too small Call Dave 336-3865 SUBARU GURU Fix•Buy•Sell Used Subarus 30 year Journeyman Mechanic Towing available Mario 333-4585 ELECTRICIAN FOR all your jobs Large or small Licensed Electrician Call MACK N MACK ELECTRIC for a competitive quote!

867-332-7879 SNOW CLEARING Sidewalks, Driveways, Commercial, Residential Call Francis at Speedy Sparkle 668-6481 or cell 334-8480 Residential Snow Removal Competitive Rates 633-6855 Armour Lawn Care, Design & Snow Removal Reliable, Professional Service

Narcotics

Anonymous

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>

MEETINGS contact 667-7142

Tagish Y.T.

Telegraph Creek B.C.

BOBCAT AND BACKHOE SERVICES in Whitehorse, Marsh Lake, Tagish area Call Andreas 660-4813

AL-ANON

Friday - 1:30 p.m.

Health Centre

Monday 7:30pm Lightwalkers Group Bishop’s Cabin, end of road along California Beach

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

DRUG PROBLEM?

do you have a problem with food?

KLASSIC HANDYMAN SERVICES “HOME RENOVATION SPECIALIST”

Has your life been affected by someone’s drinking ???

WEDNESDAY 12:00 noon Hellaby Hall, 4th & Elliott

FRIDAY

7:00 pm Lutheran Church Basement Beginners Mtg ( 4th & Strickland ) 8:00 pm Lutheran Church Basment Regular Mtg ( 4th & Strickland )

Wednesday, October 9, 2013 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 ZEN SALON & SPA Menʼs, Ladies, Childrenʼs Hairstyling & Esthetics on the corner of 4th and Strickland 667-7936 Open 8am-7pm ARMOUR-ALL DETAILING Reliable, Professional Service 633-6855

YORK & Wider weights with steel bars.

667-2844 lv msg MOUNTAIN HARDWEAR Ghost -40 down Goretex sleeping bag. Size long. Used 4 nights, $800. 668-4634 DIRT JUMPER Bike, selling doberman pinscher with titanium parts in great running condition, frame is handmade in Canada out of chromoly, $1,000 obo. 334-8287 RECUMBENT EXERCISE bicycle, $75, like new. 660-4806

Livestock

Lost & Found

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

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.

LOST: BLACKBERRY phone with blue protector & dinosaur sticker on the back. Lost somewhere downtown. Naomi 335-5920

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

LOST: CANON camera in Walmart, Sept 16.

Would like to have the memory card returned. Mail to Box 10007, Whitehorse, Yukon, Y1A 7A1 FOUND - on South Access, large black Pit-bull cross male, has collar, no tags.

334-4995

FRESH CUT 1,000 lb+ hay bales Field delivered $100 each 633-3388

Business Opportunities

PORK MEAT For Sale Sold by the half or cut & wrapped All animals are raised naturally No hormones/antibiotics YUKON VALLEY FARM 335-4431

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 FOR SALE THE WEENIE WAGON Seasonal business Call now for details, Set up for spring 2014 Ph 867-334-4338

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

Looking for New Business / Clients?

ROASTING CHICKENS for sale.

Raised free range and all natural.

Call 867-537-3458 or email: mccabecreekfarm@hotmail.com HORSE BOARDING $130/month Pasture & hay Large or small groups Tagish area 867-399-7010

Advertise in The Yukon News Classifieds!

Take Advantage of our 6 month Deal...

Advertise for 5 Months and

Get 1 MONTH OF FREE ADVERTISING Book Your Ad Today!

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 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

T: 667-6285 • F: 668-3755 E: wordads@yukon-news.com

Sports Equipment DART BOARDS, mounted on wooden frames, ideal for rec room or bar, $100. Don 335-0629 aft 5pm COMPLETELY ASSEMBLED Tempo 615 E Elliptical exercise machine in exc shape, $250 obo. 633-6855 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.

LOCAL ORGANIC VEGETABLES Rivendell Farm Km 6.5 Hot Springs Rd www.rivendellfarm.ca 633-6178 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

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

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

FARM RAISED pork available.

Sold by whole pig or half. $4 per pound.

332-8996 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.

Furniture 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 2-level coffee table (19"hx54"lx30"w), $300. Matching 3-level end table (28"hx28"lx20"w), $225. $475 for both. 667-8726

BLACK LEATHER reclining love seat & chair, $900. Full rising chaise footrests.

Oversized, plush padded seating. Brand new. 456-4269 or 667-4850 VINTAGE FORMICA kitchen table w/leaf extention. 667-2844 SECTIONAL COUCH. 667-6770 OFFICE CHAIR, adjustable arms & seat, $100. Maple wooden rocking chair, $50 obo.

667-7107 PATIO FURNITURE: 2 sturdy metal chairs w/ cushions, umbrella and round glass/metal table (42" diameter), $50. call 633-2362 LARGE YUKON Burl coffee table, totally unique, excell christmas gift, $200, brass and glass tea trolley server cart, $40.

660-4806

COUNTRY HOUSE elegant, dark espresso parsonʼs storage bench with beige/light tan microsuede seating, new, $325. 667-8726 LARGE OFFICE desk and matching credenza plus two large filing cabinets.

633-6553 SOLID WOOD 8-drawer desk, nice antique look, $50. 633-2493 2 RED 3-seater leather couches, $400 ea, no tears, gd cond. Small antique china cabinet, bookcase. 332-4232 WOOD ENTERTAINMENT centre, 4ʼhx2ʼd, glass doors, brass fittings, rolltop cover, free.

633-2493 2 SINGLE mattresses & wood bedsteads, $100 obo each. Only avai until Oct 6.

633-2493 QUEEN SIZE bed w/box spring & metal frame, in gd cond. Free to a good home.

633 6711

TENDER NOTICE CONSTRUCTION OF THREE (3) STORAGE LOCKER BUILDINGS RIVERDALE AFFORDABLE HOUSING COMPLEX – 60 SELKIRK WHITEHORSE, YUKON 2013 Sealed tenders, plainly marked “with the above project title” will be received up to 2:00 p.m. local time, Wednesday, October 16, 2013, at Yukon Housing Corporation, 410 Jarvis Street, Whitehorse, Yukon Y1A 2H5.

Tender documents may be obtained from Yukon Housing Corporation Office, 410 Jarvis Street, Whitehorse, Yukon Y1A 2H5, phone (867) 667-5759.

For technical questions you may call the project manager, Mike O’Connor at (867) 667-8114. For questions regarding the bidding requirements, you may call the contract administrator, Sharon McCreadie at (867) 667-5796.

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Personals DRUG PROBLEM? Narcotics Anonymous meetings Wed. 7pm-8pm #2 - 407 Ogilvie St. BYTE Office FRI. 7pm-8:30pm 4071 - 4th Ave Many Rivers Office ARE YOU MÉTIS? Are you registered?

Would you like to be involved?

There is a Yukon Metis Nation that needs your support Contact 668-6845

PUBLIc TENDER ELEVATOR UPGRADE ERIK NIELSEN WHITEHORSE INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT - BLDG.#1380 WHITEHORSE YUKON

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

Garage Sales IF JAMES could please contact 668-5111 or cell 333-4394 concerning items purchased at garage sale , Sat Oct 5, 5118 - 5th Ave.

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REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS REQUEST FOR QUALIFICATIONS FOR FARO MINE COMPLEX PHYSICAL INVENTORY

PUbLIC TENdER TO SUPPLY MULTIFUNCTION PRINTER 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 30, 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

REquEST FOR PROPOSALS PROPERTY APPRAISAL OF ERIK NIELSEN WHITEHORSE INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT Project Description: A contract to appraise the leased lands, building space and other licensed activities at Erik Nielsen Whitehorse International Airport.

Submissions clearly marked with the above project title, will be received up to and including 4:00 PM local time, October 31, 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 Bruce Binder at (867) 634-2442.

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 Highways and Public Works

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: Government of Yukon is seeking interest and qualifications from prospective companies to provide physical inventory services for selected areas of the Faro Mine Complex.

Submissions clearly marked with the above project title, will be received up to and including 4:00 PM local time, November 06, 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 Monique Raitchey at (867) 633-7966.

This RFQ is Stage I which will serve to prequalify a short list of Respondents which will be invited to take part in Stage II-Request for Proposals.

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

Submissions clearly marked with the above project title, will be received up to and including 4:00 PM local time, November 05, 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 Green, PEng at (867) 456-5570.

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

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

Energy, Mines & Resources

Highways and Public Works

Highways and Public Works

REqUEST FOR PROPOSAlS REMOTE SENSING SUPPORT FOR GEOMATICS YUKON

PUBLIC TENDER DESIGN AND INSTALLATION OF PUBLIC ADDRESS SYSTEMS FOR GHUCH TLA COMMUNITY SCHOOL - BLDG.#1134, CARCROSS, YUKON 2013/2014

The lowest or any tender is not necessarily accepted.

Yukon Housing Corporation now has all public tenders listed on our website at www.housing.yk.ca/tenders

TGIF for Haiti

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Friday, October 18 Westmark Hotel | 5:00 to 8:00 $20 includes hors d’oeurves, live music, auctions, comedy

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