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less,” Fendrick said.

After Fendrick’s presentation, the public was invited to give their he City of Whitehorse needs to thoughts on where the city should decide how to spend a roughly cut spending or look for increased $65-million budget, and to get a bet- revenue. ter idea where to spend and where to One idea was to start metering cut, it asked the public for input. water usage, and charging accordAbout 30 people showed for a ingly. Right now homeowners pay a public budget consultation on Thurs- flat rate no matter how much water day night at the Westmark Hotel to they use. If water were metered, it was give their ideas about how the city suggested, that could allow the city to should spend taxpayers’ dollars. make money on high users and give The city’s director of corporate conservative users a break. services, Robert Fendrick, went That’s one idea that’s already being through the basics of the budgeting considered, Fendrick said. The city process, explaining that the city’s hopes to do a study on water meterlargest cost increase this year is in ing, but that project isn’t currently salaries and regulatory changes. being funded.

“We don’t run on cigarettes and The other major concern voiced bananas,” he said, explaining that by many at the meeting was the increases in the consumer price index impact that raising taxes will have on and inflation are where the public the poor and the elderly. feels the pinch, but the city gets hit “At the end of the day, the average with things like the increasing cost of household is paying double in taxes water-quality testing. what they were 10 years ago,” said Bill “We do have some tough decisions Barnie. ahead of us,” he said.

“Now, most households can The city plans to table the budget handle that, and most households in two parts, one for capital and one benefit from the increased services for operations and maintenance. from the city.

“They do inform each other. If “My concern is for people on fixed you buy a new truck, there will be a incomes, in particular seniors who cost to operate it,” Fendrick said. are trying to stay in their own homes.

The city gets about half of its bud- The seniors homeowner grant hasn’t get from taxes. The average property moved one cent. It’s still $50. Will the tax payment last year was $1,651. city consider reviewing that so that This year, the city is considering a tax people on fixed incomes can stay in increase on par with inflation, which their homes?” Barnie asked. is about 1.5 per cent.

Fendrick said the city will resur“If you live in a mansion, you’ll rect a little-used program that allows obviously pay more than that. If you seniors to offset their taxes against live in a small apartment, you’ll pay the value of their house if they have News Reporter

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Phillip Fitzgerald, the chair of the Whitehorse Chamber of Commerce, said that along with increasing revenue, the city should be looking at cutting spending.

“From a business perspective, we are concerned about costs. The amount of money that the city has paid on salaries and wages in the last five years has gone up 35 per cent or $7 million.

“The amount spent on goods and services went from $10.5 to $20 million. What we’re concerned about is not next year, but five years from now, 10 years from now. When do we stop?” he asked.

Fitzgerald asked that when the city tables its budgets, they present both capital and operations and maintenance together.

“We’re talking about one budget.

Having it in two different places and two different times makes it very difficult to give feedback.”

Other speakers took issue with the amount of money spent on parks and recreation, especially the reduced rates that city employees pay to use the Canada Games Centre.

“Maybe you should start pulling more of your own weight,” said one woman.

Fitzgerald made the suggestion that the city could sell properties like the games centre, then lease them back from private companies to cut costs.

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Seeking death with dignity “Of course, everyone wants a full life but no one talks about dying comfortably and the way that should or eight days, Misbah Elalami happen. We haven’t pushed the had to watch his father, Adham, end-of-life talk as we should do with starve to death in a Mississauga everyone,” he said. hospital bed.

According to the Royal Society Doctors had exhausted every posof Canada, some assisted deaths are sible option to save his life, including happening in Canada already, with a partial lobotomy and numerous blind eyes turned to the matter and other surgeries, some of which may little clear conversation. very well have been futile. Misbah “Assisted dying presently goes lives in Whitehorse and flew home on in various medical contexts in so he and his family could make the Canada,” the 2011 report states. awful choice between continuing life Tadepalli insisted that such acsupport in a hopeless situation or tions would be illegal, and said he allowing his dad to die a “peaceful, had never heard of any doctor doing natural” death. such a thing.

But Misbah says there was nothBut we should still try to have the ing natural or peaceful about it. Deconversations about the end of life, ciding to end his father’s life support he said. was a death sentence, but the way he People need to accept that died was needlessly slow and cruel, sometimes extending life at all costs he says. is worse than allowing for a comfort“It was a horrific eight days. I was Jesse Winter/Yukon News able death, Tadepalli said. And the there watching his chest go up and Misbah Elalami’s father suffered for eight days after his life support was turned off. longer someone is kept artificially down, watching him get up once He says legal euthanasia could have allowed his father more dignity in death. alive, the worse their eventual death in a while from his morphine gaze and holding his hand. I heard the deciding who can access it, Tadepalli can become.

The B.C. Civil Liberties Associaously been dismissed for violating But doctors can’t make those gurgling and I saw that he had tears suggested. the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. tion, which helped the families of decisions themselves. They have to near constantly running down his Instead, he proposes a kind of Taylor and Carter fight the court Several plaintiffs, including ALS come from the family, in the form of face,” Misbah said. care and concern board, with a battle, said on Thursday it will ask patient Gloria Taylor who died advanced-care directives.

“You’re allowing this guy to die in unaided in 2012 and the children the Canadian Supreme Court to hear lawyer to represent the interests of The problems that the Elalami’s his bed, but you’re saying it’s illegal the patient and where doctors and an appeal. of Kay Carter, who travelled to faced are the same ones that far too to hasten it along.”

In the meantime, Misbah said he health-care providers would only Switzerland to seek doctor-assisted many Canadian families run into, Five months ago, Adham suffered suicide in 2010, launched the court provide medical advice. wants to see the Yukon follow QueTadepalli said. a seizure that put him in the hospital. challenge in 2011 seeking the right “Playing God is not in the hands bec’s lead. That province tabled its “We need to be having conversaHe was diagnosed with stage-four of doctors. It’s in the hands of for Canadians to choose how to end own right-to-die legislation earlier glioblastoma, a brain cancer that their lives in cases of terminal illness. this year, and is gearing up for a fight society. We need a much more broad tions about what your treatment options are, and whether families meant certain, if eventual, death. approach beyond just a doctor saywith the federal government over That’s exactly what Misbah understand them. For some people, While he was sick, his dad got ing, ‘That’s it, you’re done.’ But that who has the jurisdiction to govern wanted for his father. life at all costs is what they want, and some of the most incredible health requires a conversation that we as “He was a really good guy. He was someone’s final days. that’s fine, but for others we need to care he could have imagined, said a medical community are not anyBut Canadians aren’t ready to a funny guy. He never complained. have more palliative options availMisbah. The system did everything have a meaningful discussion about where close to having,” he said.

He was an honest guy with a lot of able,” he said. it could, but in the end the best thing integrity. He was a really good man Rather than discuss whether euthanasia, said Dr. Rao Tadepalli, doctors can legally kill someone in for his dad was something that isn’t the president of the Yukon Medical and, I think, really undeserving of That’s one lesson that Misbah terminal pain, Tadepalli said it would learned the hard way. legal in Canada. those last 10 days. There was just no Association. be far more useful to look at ways of Both euthanasia (where a doctor need for it,” Misbah said.

“You’re talking about hastening “I still carry the guilt because it preventing awful, drawn-out deaths was too late to really ask him directly death. That needs a bit of societal administers a lethal dose of drugs) “Even serial killers in the States in the first place. and physician-assisted suicide get better end-of-life treatment. They maturity that we do not have right at the end. Everyone needs to fill out “Where we are missing the buck is their advanced-care directives. Get now. We’re at least 10 or 20 years (where the doctor provides the drugs tranquilize them and then they put that we are interfering with the natu- your wishes down on paper,” Misbah away from that,” he said. them out. Here, it’s barbarism on a but the patient administers them), Eventually, assisted suicide should ral process of death. It’s not talked weird scale. Why would you do that are banned in this country. On said. about – the simple concept that we’re to someone? What does eight days in become a part of the palliative care Thursday, the B.C. Court of Appeal Contact Jesse Winter at all going to die,” Tadepalli said. a morphine coma buy you?” he asked tool kit, but it shouldn’t be doctors upheld that ban, after it had previjessew@yukon-news.com

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Condo case back in court Ashley Joannou

sider new plans.

The developer now wants to build an 18-unit structure he latest in the long-standinstead of the 24-unit building ing saga of the Falcon Ridge they originally planned for along apartment project made its way with five separate homes, lawyer back to the Supreme Court of Daniel Bennett said.

Yukon this week.

The developer claims to have The developer is asking the consent from the owners of 44 court for permission to finish of the 88 homes in Falcon Ridge. constructing a smaller version of Four of those units are owned the apartment building that was by Little and 11 are still owned halted last winter. by the numbered company, the In January, Justice Ron Veale court heard. ruled the developer had not Some of the owners chose to obtained the proper consent spend the day in the courtroom needed to build. gallery. A few took the chance to He ordered the construction speak directly to Veale. to stop and nothing new be built Rick Karp was one of the first without the consent of all the people to buy a condo in Falcon unit owners.

Ridge back in 2005.

Back in Veale’s courtroom He urged the judge to allow this week, the developer, a num- the building to move forward. bered company run by Brian He said it is important for the Little, asked the judge to conlitigation to end so that money News Reporter

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can be spent on other things.

Karp insists that when he purchased his unit he was aware that an apartment building on the land in question was a possibility.

Others had strong feelings about tearing down the skeleton of the unfinished building.

Fabian Glyka told the court he had a choice of lots when he bought his home a few years ago.

Had he known that there was going to be an apartment building across from his home he may have built somewhere else, he said.

He told Veale no one ever told him about an apartment building.

Grant Zazula told the court he has felt intentionally confused and deceived by the developer.

He expressed concerns about

what will happen to property values if the building is completed.

The area already struggles with parking and an apartment building would increase traffic, he said.

Zazula said he doesn’t trust the developer to look out for his best interests, and he believes the building should be taken down.

The board’s lawyer, Jim Tucker, said there is no application to have the building torn down.

That piece of property belongs to the developer and is theirs to do with as they wish – as long as they follow the rules, he said.

The only time the board may step in is if the unfinished property becomes unsafe. That may mean seeking a court order to take it down, he said.

He questioned whether the consents the developer claims to have gathered were done in accordance with the territory’s regulations.

After listening to a full day of arguments between the two sides, Veale asked for input on his authority in the matter.

If he does not agree with the developer’s plan, Veale asked whether he would have the legal ability to order some other form of housing be built on that particular plot of land.

Both lawyers agreed that is a possibility.

This is not the end of the case.

Today, both sides will argue over claims by the board that it’s owed about $2 million from the developer in fees and interest.

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First Nation told to pro-rate assistance cheques Jesse Winter

rent or half the food,’” Vullings said.

“How would you like to be a he Liard First Nation says landlord and you’re renting to it is being told by Aborigi- someone on income assistance, nal Affairs to pro-rate backand that person says, ‘Well, I logged assistance cheques to its was late so they only gave me citizens. three weeks rent?’ That shit The First Nation’s director ain’t gonna fly,” Vullings said. of finance, Frank Vullings, said Right now, the First Nation’s the federal government is instaff is still dealing with backsisting that cheques be reduced logged assistance enrolment because they weren’t handed from September. A private out on the first of the month, contractor has been hired on a something that has never hap- temporary basis by the federal pened before. government to handle intakes “This is new. This is somefor October. thing that you guys are pullH. G. Smith and Associing out of your hats as we go ates also runs programming along. You’re saying, ‘Pro-rate for First Nations in B.C. and them so they only get half the Alberta, including the Morley News Reporter

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We had expressed for several years our challenges with the social assistance program. If Canada had said, ‘You know, why don’t you go talk to this H.G. Smith guy and do that process,’ we probably would have jumped at it a long time ago,” Vullings said.

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Some members of his staff are trained social workers, and others have acquired their skills through extensive onthe-job experience, he said.

Smith’s workers will be paid the same administration fee rates that the First Nation’s own staff received until that

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Paving contractor sues city Castle Rock Industrial is suing the City of Whitehorse for $8.3 million plus interest over a paving contract that it says was handled unfairly.

The company’s statement of claim, filed in Yukon Supreme Court of Oct. 3, alleges that the city rejected Castle Rock’s bid on an asphalt overlay project for a slew of streets and roads around Whitehorse.

The tender package required that bidders submit resumes for the supervisory staff they planned to use for the project, outlining their experience with similar projects.

Castle Rock bid $824,228.50 for the job. A second contractor bid $867,084.50. The second contractor was awarded the bid.

The city told Castle Rock its bid had been rejected because it hadn’t included resumes, but Castle Rock claims it filled out the appropriate forms with the information required.

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Thomas said his team examined government records, including the Lost Graves of Pioneer Cemetery book in their research.

After getting a better sense of the historical uses of the site, including a proposed but laterabandoned expansion of the cemetery itself, the team started digging.

“We hired a backhoe. We dug two-by-three metre test trenches where the hits were. We were digging down slowly to see if we could see the outline of a hole that had been filled in. Once we were convinced there had been no hole, we went down about six inches at a time down to eight feet,” he said.

“In every case it turned out to be an old rotten log. What we found was completely undisturbed ground at the sites of the GPR hits,” Thomas said.

The City of Whitehorse transferred ownership of the land in question last month to the territory to allow construction of the detox centre.

With the site clear of burials, plans for the new detox centre will proceed, said Pat Living, a spokeswoman for the Department of Health and Social Services.

government handed responsibility for the program back to Aboriginal Affairs in September.

The First Nation said $146,000 a year to run a $2 million program isn’t enough, and it faced a backlog of hundreds of needy social assistance clients who hadn’t received their cheques.

On Tuesday morning, the News sought comment from Aboriginal Affairs, asking the government to comment on the situation. By press time on Friday morning, the department still had not responded to our questions.

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Many college students still waiting for grants Ashley Joannou News Reporter

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he Department of Education has its employees working overtime to process student financial aid applications.

So far officials have been able to handle all the paperwork sent in up to Sept. 9.

The wait time for new applications is about four to six weeks.

“Its been busier in the late portion of the application season than it has been in previous years, I think that’s fair to say,” department spokesperson Chris Madden said yesterday.

In slow times, applications can be processed in one to two weeks “Our peak processing times tend to be from about mid-July to the end of October. Applications submitted during the peak period usually take several weeks to process,” Madden said.

It is difficult to say exactly how many applications are left to be looked at, he said.

The department only keeps track of the number of applications that have already been processed, not the amount waiting to be handled.

Madden estimates there are at least 200 people waiting to hear back. Many of those will have more than one application for different sources of funding.

So far, 1,088 applications have been processed. In 2012 a total of 1,555 applications were processed.

In 2011 that number was 1,415.

Pauline Chambers, a practical nursing student, has had to rely on support from family and friends to pay the bills while she waits to hear about her applications.

“If I did not have that group of people I would be quitting school to find a job,” she said.

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Pauline Chambers, a student at Yukon College, is relying on family and friends for support until her financial aid comes through. A large number of late applications for post-secondary funding created a backlog in the system.

The Yukon College student applied for the Student Training Loan and the Canada Student Grant.

The training loan, if she’s approved, will net her 400 a month and the Canada student grant will be good for $5,000.

This year she sent her application in on Sept. 13. Last year she sent the same documents in a week earlier, she said.

“Last year I had heard back within two weeks with my confirmed funding.”

About two weeks ago, when Chambers hadn’t heard back regarding this year, she called for an update.

“They called back and said it would be another three weeks before they got to my application because they were still processing August applications.”

Chambers said she has spoken to other students who are in the same position.

“I spoke to one student who lives 45 minutes out of town and if she

didn’t have someone willing to help her pay for gas she would also not be in school.”

According to the Department of Education’s most recent annual report, the government spent nearly $6 million on Yukon Grants, Student Training Allowance, Canada Student Loans and Canada Student Grants.

Madden said students can begin applying for financial assistance for September classes in May. The sooner students apply, the sooner they will hear back, he said.

“We do encourage everybody to start applying as early as possible to ensure we can process their application in time.”

Chambers said she is gathering signatures from other students on an open letter to Education Minister Elaine Taylor explaining her concerns.

“I guess that it takes time,” she said. “But it’s not OK for them to take this long.”

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Kotylak would later tell police his friend did not slow down when he asked him to. he Yukon’s Court of Appeal Kotylak was hanging out of his has ruled a $1,500 fine for side of the ATV when it flipped a Marsh Lake man convicted of over, pinning him under it, Yukon impaired driving causing bodily judge Michael Cozens said in his harm was unfit. original decision.

He will instead serve four “Mr. Lommerse and his friends months in jail. lifted the ATV off of Mr. Kotylak, Petrus Mackenzie Lommerse who stood up and said he was was sentenced in territorial court OK. However, Mr. Kotylak began earlier this year after pleading to complain of pain,” the judge guilty to one count of impaired said. driving causing bodily harm.

Kotylak had broken a rib and, Along with the fine, the thenmore seriously, had punctured 22-year-old was prohibited from his lower intestine. He required driving for 15 months, placed on surgery for this puncture and was 18 months probation and ordered in the hospital for six days. to do 120 hours of community Police found Lommerse’s service. blood alcohol content was at least According to court documents, 0.15, records say, nearly twice the Lommerse was doing donuts in legal limit. an ATV outside the community In making his decision to fine centre in Marsh Lake on July 21, Lommerse, Cozens found he was 2012 at around 1:30 a.m. genuinely remorseful.

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risks than driving an automobile on a public road. Mr. Lommerse was unlikely to injure members of the general public, for example.

“On the other hand, the ATV was an inherently unstable vehicle with limited protection for its occupants. Further, the nature of the driving – which was intended to provide thrills for the vehicle occupants – made impaired driving particularly risky. I do not see that the need for a sentence directed at general deterrence is in any way mitigated by the nature of the activity involved.”

Sentences for impaired driving causing bodily harm in Yukon usually start at four months.

The maximum sentence under the criminal code is 14 years in prison.

Lommerse’s new four-month sentence will not include a probation order. But the driving ban remains in place.

accepted full responsibility.

Kotylak spoke at the original sentencing hearing in defence of his friend. He said Lommerse was with him at the hospital the night of the accident, and visited him every day.

Kotylak told the court he considers the accident to have been at least equally his fault. He said both men learned from the accident.

The Crown appealed the sentence, arguing that a fine was not appropriate in this case.

The Court of Appeal agreed. In a decision released this week, Justice Harvey Groberman disagreed with Cozens.

“In my view, the judge understated the risks inherent in Mr. Lommerse’s decision to drive while impaired, and consequently understated the level of moral culpability involved,” Groberman said on behalf of the panel of three justices.

“It is true that driving an ATV in a parking lot entails different

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BRIEFS Nelson Johnny claimed Parhelion Medical Services Inc. had discriminated against him because of his race. The hearing was scheduled to last this entire week.

But when the 10 a.m. start time rolled around Monday, in a meeting room at the Gold Rush Inn, Johnny was nowhere to be found.

The hearing was adjourned

dismissed, Harrington told reporters this was the first time something like this has happened in the Yukon.

She said lawyers had to look at similar cases in other jurisdictions for guidance on what to do if a complainant is not present.

Harrington said she could not provide any specific details as to what Johnny was alleging since the hearing did not go forward.

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for the morning but when he still had arrived by 1 p.m., his claim was dismissed.

Colleen Harrington, the acting director for the Yukon Human Rights Commission, told the panel she had done her best to track Johnny down.

Without a complainant, the commission had no evidence to present, she said.

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Atlin campground plan draws criticism Jacqueline Ronson News Reporter

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ome people are unhappy with a Yukon government proposal to build a new campground on Atlin Lake.

A parcel of land has been set aside between the Atlin Road and the eastern shore of Atlin Lake, just north of the B.C. border.

About 40 people attended a public consultation in Whitehorse Wednesday evening to learn more about the plans.

Yukon has not seen a new campground in 25 years.

On weekends in the summer, finding a spot within two hours of Whitehorse can be a challenge, said Eric Schroff, director of Yukon Parks.

“We hear a lot of comments about, ‘I went to Wolf Creek, went to Marsh Lake, went to Kusawa, and finally found a spot in Twin Lakes.’

That’s a lot of wandering around to find a spot.”

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The land parcel has a few neighbours, including Camp Yukon, some private residences, active trap lines and an active placer mining claim.

It falls within the traditional territory of the Carcross/Tagish First Nation and the Taku River Tlingit First Nation.

Several people spoke about safety concerns related to having a public campground directly adjacent to a camp for children.

There will be a buffer of a few hundred metres between the campground and the camp, said Schroff, who led the discussion.

But that didn’t satisfy some, who mentioned that existing trails as well as the shoreline will provide easy access between the two areas.

Critics said that people intent on mischief will not be dissuaded by “no trespassing” signs, and the camp’s infrastructure and equipment could be put at risk.

One person who spoke out of concern for Camp Yukon suggested

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that campers might have their friends bring alcohol and drugs into the campground, and bring it from there into the camp.

Concern was also expressed for the fish stocks in Atlin Lake.

The government has committed to study the fishery and implement regulations as required, Parks staff said.

Don Toews spoke on behalf of the Carcross Tagish Renewable Resource Council.

From more than 40 years of fisheries management experience, he knows that lake trout are very sensitive to increased fishing pressure, he said.

“Managing lake trout from a fisheries manager’s perspective is the hardest thing there is,” said Toews.

“We really haven’t got the tool to do it. Because lake trout, they grow very, very slowly, they mature at a late age.”

Lake trout that are 25 or 30 years old are the norm in the Yukon, he said.

“In reality, access is the only management tool that we have. And access can be pretty subtle. In the Yukon, whether a lake is accessible at one end or at both ends makes a huge difference in terms of the pressure on the lake trout populations.”

Even whether or not the access road is paved can have a huge effect, he said.

John Ward, spokesperson for the Taku River Tlingit, attended the meeting.

The Atlin-based First Nation has spoken out against the campground because the Yukon government has failed to deal with its unsettled land claim.

The B.C. First Nation’s traditional territory crosses the boundary into the Yukon.

“Let’s get on with our treaty process and bring certainty to the whole area,” said Ward.

Until governments sit down and reach an agreement on land claims, development projects in the

traditional territory should not be considered, he said.

“Supreme courts have been saying consistently and across Canada that these constitutional matters are well upstream from all of these matters, and they’ve got to be dealt with.”

So far, the Yukon government has shown little appetite to resolve those outstanding issues, said Ward.

But the First Nation is ready, he said.

Parks officials also hosted public meetings in Carcross on Tuesday and in Atlin on Thursday.

The campground project is currently under review by the Yukon Environmental and Socio-Economic Assessment Board.

Detailed information about the project is available on the YESAB website. The board will accept comments through October 18.

The government’s plan is for construction to begin early next year, and for the campground to open in 2015.

Contact Jacqueline Ronson at jronson@yukon-news.com

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Leef offers less than meets the eye I

t’s hard to not be cynical about MP Ryan Leef’s public disagreement with Prime Minister Stephen Harper over the matter of whether there should be a national inquiry into the matter of missing and murdered aboriginal women. Is this anything more than a bit of carefully staged political theatre, designed to address the perception that Leef is a spineless toady of his boss?

We don’t know, although we suspect the answer to be a negative.

But let’s give Leef some credit: it’s refreshing to hear him speak about a matter of public interest in a way that drifts from the party line. It would be nice to hear him do more of it, although anyone familiar with how tightly the Conservative Party controls the messaging of its MPs will understand that’s extremely unlikely to happen.

Let’s also give Leef credit for this: it’s an issue worth talking about. He did, however, give undeserving credit to Premier Darrell Pasloski for showing leadership on the matter of calling for this national inquest. In fact, Pasloski was among the last premiers in Canada to issue such a statement, and only did so after being prodded by the Opposition here.

Instead, the real credit is due to the Native Women’s Association of

Canada, which says it has documented over 600 cases of missing and murdered aboriginal women between 2005 and 2010. A petition by the association prompted the premiers to throw their support behind the request. According to the organization, First Nation women are five times more likely than other Canadians to be killed by violence.

Cases of missing First Nation women are also far more likely to go unresolved. This is a matter that could certainly be on the minds of more Canadians.

Let’s also be clear on this point: it’s unlikely that Leef’s outburst will move the matter any closer towards any resolution.

He hasn’t actually called on Harper to do anything. Instead, he’s demanded that premiers and First Nation chiefs help foot the bill for a national inquiry. Given that these parties are, in all likelihood, not actually listening to Leef, that’s probably where the matter will continue to lie.

Also note that Leef has not actually said he thinks a national inquiry is a good idea. He’s merely acknowledged one would be popular with his constituents.

This is perhaps not as gormless as it appears. Leef gives a nod to

Harper’s own reservations that such exercises are often costly waste of time. Better to act than talk, Harper says, and it’s hard to disagree with that sentiment, at least.

However, the Conservatives’ actions appear to be limited to what fits into their “tough on crime” schtick. Measures include boosting victim services and launching violence prevention programs aimed at young aboriginal women. It’s unclear to us whether this programming has made any impact in the Yukon.

The government has also passed

a bill that would give divorced on-reserve aboriginal women more property rights. As the territory has no reserve, this doesn’t affect the Yukon.

Everyone can agree that the disproportionate amount of violence that First Nation women face is intolerable. Unfortunately, the contributing factors to this violence are fiendishly difficult to resolve. Lingering trauma incurred at residential schools continues to pass from one generation to the next and addictions are widespread in many First Nation communities.

In short, much of the violence that First Nation women face is yet another expression of broader community dysfunction, and addressing such deep-seated problems probably requires a fuller accounting of the social-development side of the ledger than the Conservatives are willing to consider. It’s also, of course, a bigger problem than the federal government alone can solve – but Ottawa’s frosty relationship with many First Nation governments doesn’t make it any easier to create a co-ordinated effort to make headway.

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Can you see me?

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Wednesday night at the Salvation Army is not unlike many other nights.

The kitchen staff is busy preparing dinner; folks are watching TV. I set up my camera and light in a small room beside the kitchen and walk out to the eating area.

I am hoping to find someone who would like to take part in the Poverty and Homelessness Action calendar for this year. I am not sure at all that anyone is interested and I feel quite intimidated. Who am I to ask people to tell their story through a photo – a moment in time that may or may not tell the reality of their life?

I approach Richard, someone who has been very open and honest with his thoughts of life in Yukon, a life lived in myriad complexities.

Richard is easy to speak with, and I trust him to tell me if I am stepping over boundaries.

He is sitting with a friend who has just moved up from Vancouver, new to town and needing support. She is braiding the hair of her friend, Irene.

Irene quietly says she would like to have her photo taken for the calendar. We chat nervously about small things while I start shooting.

We talk about the theme for this year’s calendar: Can You See Me? I feel awkward trying to articulate what I mean by that, but it is immediately clear that she knows only too well. Irene’s stark definition says it best: “Mostly we are invisible; at times we are too visible.”

Irene is soft-spoken, with deepset dark eyes. She is captivating, and someone I would like to get to know better. I understand that I can never truly see what it means to feel invisible, but Irene continues: “There are times, I go out front (of the shelter) and I see people go by in their cars and either stare, and I know they are judging me, or they look away. I Publisher

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“Does it matter to you what they are thinking?” I ask, immediately feeling ashamed. “Yes,” responds Irene quietly, “it matters.” Her eyes tell me how painfully this is so.

It is not out of desire that people live on the streets, as so many in our society tend to believe. Poverty and homelessness are a consequence of complex circumstances. It is rare that someone lives in poverty and is homeless for just one reason, and it is often a series of circumstances that puts them there.

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levels continue to stigmatize and marginalize by the very act of not “seeing.”

Hours have gone by and many have sat in front of the camera, both staff and patrons, in the small room beside the kitchen. I have had a glimpse into their lives, and I feel grateful for the time they have spent with me.

I have met a theatre student, a skilled outdoorsman, a woman who once modeled in Malaysia – people with depth, courage and determination.

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I am asked to leave so that arrangements for sleeping can be made. The tables are moved away in the eating area to create more space for sleeping mats.

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the solutions. We know how to move from crisis responses, such as shelters and food banks, to safe, affordable housing with appropriate resources.

We have studies, reports and well-developed plans that can be quickly brought into action. We just need to take that first step.

The Yukon is proud of its rich history; let’s put the end to poverty and homelessness here as well.

Don’t let the complexities of poverty and homelessness dissuade you from seeing, because the answers to ending it are really quite simple.

Choose to see, you won’t regret it. Poverty and Homelessness Action Week takes place from Wednesday, Oct. 16 to Wednesday, Oct. 23, and there are many ways to get involved.

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Tracey Wallace is a volunteer with the Yukon Anti-Poverty Coalition.

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INSIGHT It will come up Climate change deniers are not shy, nor are they tormented by doubts. The International

by AL POPE Panel on Climate Change may be 95 per cent certain that humanity is on a collision course with anthropogenic climate change, but deniers are 100 per cent sure that it’s all a hoax designed to cow the masses and rake in a fortune selling solar panels to the deluded.

Somewhere, they know, on fter Nordicity has spent a some grassy knoll, a secret week on the op-ed page team of greenwashing pseudoof the Yukon News, it appears scientists concocts fake studies on the paper’s website, where which, through the machinareaders are offered the opportions of a giant conspiracy, tunity to comment. Yukoners pass the rigours of scientific are a busy lot, and it’s not every peer-review and become one week that anyone troubles to with the mass delusion. The respond. Much depends on the rest of us, those who rely on topic. the word of climate scientists Local issues tend to inspire for our information on the more replies, as do certain subject, are lefties, fools, and key subjects. Chickens, cats, sheep. and proportional representaComments are often peption usually strike a spark, pered with links to websites and breasts, religion, and where we can discover the real marijuana seldom miss, while science. The London tabloid columns about politics often The Daily Mail is presented as receive several “recommends” a source of the real dope on but very seldom any actual the myth of global warming, as response. There is only one is the web-based Canada Free subject guaranteed a reaction, Press, whose masthead motto and that is global warming. is “Because without America

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there is no Free World.” So far, no offers of links to peerreviewed scientific journals where I might become properly enlightened on the great climate change hoax.

I don’t mean to suggest that the web page is overwhelmed by these responses: I get one, two, maybe four or five at best.

It’s not as though deniers are desperate for a place to air their views. For those who wish to refute the Great Hoax, there are a host of hosts for their opinions.

In the world of climate change denial, Nordicity is small cheese, but my numbers may be about to go up, because this week there’s one fewer high profile venue in which to expose the conspiracy: Paul Thornton, letters page editor of the LA Times, has revealed that he no longer accepts letters claiming that anthropogenic climate change does not exist.

The statement was, in fact, an aside in a piece about the Tea Party’s shut-down of the U.S. government. Mr. Thornton was explaining that he will not publish letters alleging that Congress exempted itself from

the health care law, because the allegation is false, and the paper does not print letters which present untruths. He offered as an example letters “that say there’s no sign humans have caused climate change.”

This is a most unfortunate policy. One of the keys to a good newspaper is a lively letters section, and there is nothing like an obsession with the facts to take the wind out of a good argument. Having a fact checker on the letters page is like putting a soccer referee in charge of a hockey game. By the second period, he’s redcarded all the tough guys out of the game, and the stands are rapidly emptying.

If a newspaper doesn’t get your blood boiling at least once in a thorough reading, you’ve missed an important part of the experience. What’s a Saturday morning behind the paper if you don’t get it shaking in outrage at some point?

And while you can always take exception to the view expressed in a column or an editorial there’s nothing that quite gets the caffeine pumping like a total departure from the

known facts.

Another experience your newspaper should provide is a good laugh, and again, there’s nothing like an unrestrained letters section or comments page. And since one of the best gags going is somebody failing to see what’s staring them in the face, the LA Times is doing its readers a great disservice by blacking out the climate change deniers and other factchangers.

So please, if you believe that climate change is a religion, that Al Gore made it all up so he could get rich trading carbon credits, or that the Daily Mail is a better source of accurate science than the journal Nature, don’t hold back. Our readers need you to complete the newspaper experience. Give us both barrels, every time the subject of global warming comes up. And there will be no shortage of opportunity. With the glaciers melting and the waters rising, rest assured, it will come up.

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

A way of life is ending. Thank goodness by NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF

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magine having to pick just one of your children to save, while leaving the others to face death.

One of my most searing experiences as a reporter occurred in Cambodia, where I met a woman whose daughter had just died of malaria and who was left caring for seven children and grandchildren.

The woman, Nhem Yen, showed me her one anti-malaria bed net and told me how every evening she agonized over which children to squeeze under it – and which ones to leave out and expose to malarial mosquitoes.

That’s the kind of excruciating question that extreme poverty forces on families.

For thousands of generations, a vast majority of humans have lived brief, illiterate lives marked by disease, disability and the loss of children. As recently as 1980, a slight majority of the world’s people lived in extreme poverty, defined as surviving on less than $1.25 in today’s money.

Yet in a time of depressing news worldwide, about dysfunction and crisis from Syria to America’s own Congress, here’s one area of spectacular progress.

The share of the world’s people living in extreme poverty has been reduced from one in two in 1980 to one in five today, according to the World Bank. Now the aim is to reduce that to almost zero by 2030.

There will still be poverty, of course, just as there is far too much poverty lingering in America. But the extreme hanging-by-your-fingernails subsistence in a thatch-roof hut, your children uneducated and dying – that will go from typical to essentially nonexistent just in the course of my adult life.

Here’s something even more important than congressional name-calling or the debt limit: New approaches are saving millions of children’s lives each year. In 1990, more than 12 million children died before the age of five. Now that figure is down close to 6 million. Bill Gates, whose foundation with his wife, Melinda, pioneers the vaccines and medicines saving these lives, tells me that in his lifetime the number will drop below 1 million.

Illiteracy is retreating and technology is spreading. More people worldwide now have cellphones than toilets.

Timeout for a skeptical question that is both callous and common: When additional kids survive in poor

countries, does that really matter? Isn’t the result just a population explosion leading to famine or war, and more deaths?

That’s a frequent objection, but it’s wrong. When child mortality drops and families know that their children will survive, they are more likely to have fewer babies – and to invest more in them.

There’s a well-known path from declining child deaths to declining births, which is why Bangladesh is now down to an average of 2.2 births per woman.

Ancient diseases are on the way out.

Guinea worm and polio are likely to be eradicated in the coming years. Malaria has been brought under control in many countries, and a vaccine may reduce its toll even further.

AIDS is also receding. Last year in southern Africa, I interviewed coffinmakers who told me grumpily that their businesses were in recession because AIDS is no longer killing large numbers of people.

The drop in mortality understates the gains, because diseases don’t just kill people but also leave them disabled or unproductive, wrecking the economy.

Poor people used to go blind routinely from disease or were unable to work for want of reading glasses. Now they are much less likely to go blind, and far more likely to get glasses.

These achievements aren’t just the

result of work by Western donors or aid groups. Some of the biggest gains resulted from economic growth in China and India. When the poor are able to get jobs, they forge their own path out of poverty.

Rajiv Shah, the administrator of the U.S. aid agency, says he is optimistic that extreme poverty will be eliminated by 2030 but notes that increasingly the focus will have to be on lagging countries like Congo. Aid groups are everywhere in countries like Rwanda or Malawi that are easy to work in, but scarce in eastern Congo or the Nuba Mountains of Sudan where the needs are desperate but working conditions can be dangerous and primitive.

Despite the gains, a Pew poll early this year found that the budget area that Americans most wanted to cut was “aid to the world’s needy.” Perhaps one reason is that aid groups and journalists alike are so focused on problems that we leave the public mistakenly believing that the war on poverty and disease is being lost.

So let’s acknowledge that there’s plenty of work remaining – and that cycles of poverty in America must be a top priority at home – yet also celebrate a triumph for humanity. The world of extreme poverty and disease that characterized life for most people throughout history may now finally be on its way out.

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

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ing different audiences, have some very similar elements. Both have very explicit sex scenes in every single episode, and both television For the last month, I have been baffled. I am not confused over the shows portray violence at a level controversy and scandal surround- that in itself becomes a form of pornography. ing the single Blurred Lines, with So why are we surprised that it’s overly provocative music video the music industry is following and controversial lyrics. that same path? It seems to me that Nor am I confused as to how people, for the most part, seem to a sweet little girl like Miley Cyrus be a little too loudly proclaiming could go from having the reputatheir surprise at the way things tion of Hannah Montana to the wrecking-ball reputation she sports have progressed. As for myself, that nowadays. No, What really mystifies 11-year-old me knew then what was and disturbs me is how people seem coming.

A wise woman once told me to be shocked and even surprised that there is no greater curse than that these things are happening. to see the problem at hand, but not The first time I heard of Much be smart enough to fix it. I think Music, I was 11. I had been raised in the problem is that North Amera fairly sheltered home, not entirely ican society has become lax in its removed, but far away enough that moral standards, and opulent in I was unfamiliar with artists such its desires.

Unfortunately, I do not as Britney Spears and Madonna. I have a solution.

Hopefully somewill never forget the first Britney one smarter than I am will be able music video I saw. It was Toxic to solve this before too long.

Until (remember her provocative flight then, I am keeping the now aptly attendant outfit?), and I thought it named “boob tube” turned off. was very shocking to see that level of sexuality on TV. Now, of course, Telek Rogan she is considered tame by television Whitehorse standards.

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As we understood the Jean C. Barber Lodge in Vancouver was well used by Yukoners, we put forward a proposal to replace the lodge’s leaking freezer. Our members were delighted to respond. Arrangements were made with Trail Appliances in Vancouver to deliver and remove old fridge, with no cost for removal service.

The common room freezer was promptly replaced. Ice packs and ingredients for patients’ liquid diets were once again secure. The lodge staff was relieved and delighted.

When we presented the donation plaque, we were offered a tour.

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Spying allegations could cast cloud over Brazil Canada business relationship Craig Wong Canadian Press

OTTAWA llegations Canadian spies targeted Brazil’s Mines and Energy Ministry could cast a cloud over tens of billions of annual trade and investment between the two countries.

Brazil President Dilma Rousseff recently cancelled a scheduled state visit to the United States over similar allegations, Maxwell Cameron, a political science professor at the University of British Columbia, said Monday.

“She is now demanding an explanation from the Canadian government,” he said.

“I think we’re in hot water here and this is a major setback for the whole policy with respect to Latin America that this government has been pursuing.”

The report on Brazil’s Globo television on Sunday night said the metadata of phone calls and emails from and to the Brazilian ministry were targeted by the Communications Security Establishment Canada.

The Canadian government has declined to comment. But the Brazilian president said Monday it appeared to be an act of industrial espionage and summoned the Canadian ambassador to explain.

Foreign direct investment by Brazil in Canada totalled $15.8 billion last year, while Canadian direct investment in Brazil was $9.8 billion.

Canadian exports to Brazil amounted to nearly $2.6 billion, while imports from Brazil were nearly $4 billion.

That trade relationship remains strong, Raul Papaleo, president of the Brazil-Canada Chamber of Commerce, said Monday.

“The diplomats in service here, they’re saying to the Brazilian government that Canada is one of the best, if not the best place to have bilateral business,” Papaleo said.

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However, Cameron suggested the allegations, based on documents leaked by former U.S. National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden, will make it more difficult for Canada to improve its relationship.

He said the countries fought a long running battle between Bombardier and Embraer over subsidies for the South American regional jet builder.

“The effort to put behind us commercial competition and establish firmer and broader relationships with Brazil are drastically set back by these revelations,” Cameron said.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper visited Brazil in August 2011 when he announced an air transport agreement as well as a Canada-Brazil CEO forum, co-chaired by Scotiabank chief executive Rick Waugh and Vale chief executive Murilo Ferreira.

Canada’s history of investment in Brazil dates back more than a century.

What would become Brascan, and then Brookfield Asset Management, first invested in a tramway system in Sao Paulo in 1899 before it became a major player in power generation and utilities in the South American country.

But in recent years, more Brazilian reals have headed north than Canadian loonies flying south.

The largest investment by a Brazilian company in Canada was the purchase of Inco by Vale in 2006 that helped make it one of the world’s largest nickel producers.

The deal for the Canadian miner was one of the biggest takeovers of a Canadian corporate household name and prompted much hand wringing about foreign ownership.

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NUSA DUA, Indonesia rime Minister Stephen Harper has used the platform of one international leaders’ summit to fire a torpedo into the hull of another.

Harper stepped to the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation gathering on this idyllic Indonesian tourist island Monday to formally confirm he’ll boycott next month’s Commonwealth summit in Sri Lanka.

Perhaps more significantly, Harper threatened that Canada could cut the purse strings to the 64-year-old Commonwealth organization due to ongoing human rights abuses by the host Sri Lankan government.

The prime minister cited everything from the impeachment of a chief justice to allegations of extra judicial killings and disappearances and the jailing of political opponents and journalists.

“In the past two years we have not only seen no improvement in these areas, in almost all of these areas we’ve seen a considerable rolling back, a considerable worsening of the situation,” Harper said in a brief availability at the APEC summit site.

“Based on that, I have made a decision I will not attend the Commonwealth leaders’ summit this fall.”

Harper said he made the move with “somewhat of a heavy heart,” but he has been threatening the boycott since the last Commonwealth leaders’ meeting in Australia in 2011, so it comes as little surprise.

But his frank displeasure with entire organization, and sabre rattling over funding, raises the stakes.

Canada contributes about $20 million annually to various Commonwealth initiatives, including $5 million to the secretariat that runs the organization, making Canada the second largest financial contributor.

The grouping of 54 countries formerly under British rule is facing an existential crisis in a global community crowded with international clubs – including those like the Pacific Rim leaders’ summit here that are

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Prime Minister Stephen Harper leaves Bali, Indonesia on Wednesday. explicitly focused on trade and commerce.

Canada could skip a year at APEC – U.S. President Barack Obama was forced by Washington’s budget crisis to miss the Bali summit and sent Secretary of State John Kerry in his stead – with barely a notice.

But any extended Canadian absence or cash withdrawal from the Commonwealth could be fatal to the tottering enterprise. Sri Lanka holds the chair for the next two years.

“Obviously we will examine our engagement and our financing of the Commonwealth, which is quite considerable, to make sure that we are wisely using taxpayer dollars and reflecting Canadian values,” Harper said.

“But this is a decision the Commonwealth has made and the Commonwealth will have to live with it.”

Paul Dewar, the NDP foreign affairs critic, said while his party supports the idea of a Commonwealth boycott, it’s not in favour of linking funding to the move.

“It’s a false and disingenuous connection between the merits of an individual member state and those of the broader institution,” Dewar said in an email.

“If they wanted to send a stronger message they could have moved to remove Sri Lanka from the Commonwealth until there are concrete improvements on human rights.”

Harper held bilateral meetings Monday on the sidelines of the APEC summit with the prime ministers of

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Harper’s office said the Commonwealth decision was not discussed – however New Zealand Prime Minister John Key later told reporters he did in fact raise the matter with Harper.

“Definitely, yes, I’m going,” Key said of Sri Lanka.

Australia’s Tony Abbott also told reporters he will attend.

“You do not make new friends by rubbishing your old friends or abandoning your old friends,” said the Australian.

While noting every country makes its own calls on such matters, Key said that “if we decided you were going to have to meet New Zealand standards to attend a meeting, there’d be lots of countries we wouldn’t go to.”

“I just don’t know that’s really going to help New Zealand.”

Key even credited Chinese President Xi Jinping for selling the virtues of engaging all countries here at the APEC summit.

“It was one of the points the Chinese president actually made, I think it was yesterday or today, but basically engagement increases understanding and actually leads to change over time,” said the New Zealand prime minister.

So Harper remains the only leader to boycott the Colombo conference, and won’t even send a cabinet-level representative. Parliamentary secretary Deepak Obhrai will represent Canada at the mid-November summit.

It is not the first time the Harper government has taken its ball and gone home on the international front.

The prime minister snubbed China for four years after coming to office, citing human rights concerns, and Canada refused to participate in a United Nations disarmament conference because North Korea was the chair.

Last year, the government shuttered its embassy in Tehran to the dismay of many international observers, who argued a middle power like Canada can only exert influence through engagement.

The Sri Lankan government in Colombo repeatedly has accused Canada of playing domestic politics on its back.

Canada is the world’s largest home of expatriate Tamils, the Sri Lankan minority from which sprung a civil war that lasted decades before ending in a bloody climax in 2009.

Canada’s Tamils are a tightly knit community focused in the Greater Toronto Area, making them a small but politically potent constituency courted by both the federal Liberal and Conservative parties.

While few Canadians could probably cite a single initiative of the Commonwealth grouping or its purpose, those few who care are heavily vested.

“The feedback we’ve had from Canadians has been absolutely overwhelming,” said Harper, “that they would not expect the prime minister of Canada to attend such an summit.”

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National Defence wants more Canadian soldiers trained in race car skills, tricks Dean Beeby

The instructor will engage soldiers in the art of “high speed obstacle avoidance,” among OTTAWA other techniques, in the equivahat armoured tank in your lent of a Subaru Impreza STI or rear-view mirror may be similar 300-horsepower vehicles about to pop a wheelie. in year-round weather condiThe Canadian military plans tions. The cars provided must be to train more of its soldiers in front-wheel and all-wheel drive. rally sport driving, to help them The notice says “high speed” chase bad guys. is defined as more than 60 kilo“Canadian Forces personnel metres an hour. are required to operate both Maximum cost for the twomilitary and civilian vehicles year contract is $100,000, and in a variety of environments in trainers need to have at least $2 Canada and abroad,” says a notice posted this week, calling for million of insurance for each at least five top instructors from accident.

The tender also stipulates the the private sector. instructors need to be affiliated “Risks include not just hazwith the Canadian Associaardous road and traffic condition of Rallysport or with Rally tions, but local criminal and America, the national bodies insurgent elements as well.” that run championships in the National Defence wants to high-speed sport. They must rent a training facility with a also have raced at least once minimum four-kilometre track in the last year in sanctioned with gravel, dirt and paved secevents. tions, featuring blind corners, A spokesperson for the Cacrests, tight turns, ditches and nadian Forces was not available logs. Some training will also be conducted at military bases. for comment Tuesday. But last Canadian Press

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No development dollars for abortions after war rape, child marriage: minister Lina Dib and Jennifer Ditchburn

said none of the those dollars would go toward abortion services Canadian Press because there were enough other worthy initiatives to support.

OTTAWA “We’ve been clear in Muskoka, he Harper government will so you can think the same logic not fund overseas projects will apply here,” Paradis said, after that enable war rape victims and a meeting of the Canadian Netchild brides to obtain abortions, work on Maternal, Newborn and International Development Min- Child Health. ister Christian Paradis said Oct. 4.

“There are plenty of measures The Conservative position on that can be taken and Muskoka the matter was unclear last week demonstrated that and we’ll folafter it backed initiatives at the low it in a consistent way with United Nations to tackle sexual Muskoka.” violence and forced marriages.

That’s a change from comBut Paradis said government ments made by the president of policy will follow the same logic the Canadian International Deas that outlined when Canada velopment Agency in 2010. While announced $3 billion for maternal Canada has never directly funded and child health at the 2010 G8 abortions, Margaret Biggs told a summit in Muskoka. At the time, committee that the agency would continue to fund aid groups who Prime Minister Stephen Harper

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CIDA was folded into the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade earlier this year.

The Liberals and NDP denounced Paradis’ comments. NDP Leader Tom Mulcair noted that rape has become a strategy of war, particularly in parts of Africa.

“Women who are victims of criminal sexual violence in those countries have a right to get care and help, including a safe abortion,” Mulcair said.

“We find it simply unacceptable that Stephen Harper is sending out his ministers to stake out that type of ideological position instead of helping victims who need and deserve our help.”

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“Minister Paradis is wrong,” Duncan said. “The victims of sexual violence need the support of countries like Canada. Period.”

Abortion continues to be a topic of debate in the House of Commons, coming up periodically as Conservative MPs bring forward private member’s bills on the issue. An annual pro-life rally on Parliament Hill draws thousands of participants.

Harper, for his part, has repeatedly said he does not want to re-open the divisive debate.

Matthew Wojciechowski, spokesman for Campaign Life Coalition, applauded the government for standing by the position it took on the G8 funding. He said the aid focus should be on studying and preventing the causes of violence.

“On this whole situation dealing with war rape and child marriage, which are evil and horrible situations, I really believe the … pro-abortion groups, especially at the UN, are totally hijacking this issue and making it about pushing forward the reproductive rights and their abortion agenda,” Wojciechowski said.

An upcoming report to the UN Security Council from Secretary General Ban-Ki moon is expected

to recommend access to abortion services for pregnancies resulting from rape during conflict, according to the Global Justice Center in New York.

Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird delivered a speech to the United Nations last week calling for more action on child and forced marriages. He also publicly backed a British initiative condemning sexual violence during conflict.

Ottawa pledged $5 million in the spring to help victims of such sexual violence. So far, nearly $1 million has gone to a family hotline in Afghanistan which refers victims to legal, medical and psychological help.

Paradis said further details on how Canada will address both issues will be announced in due course.

The British government explicitly said earlier this year that its development budget can be used to provide abortion care where allowed by national laws.

“In conflict situations, where denying an abortion in accordance with national law would threaten the mother’s life or cause unbearable suffering, international humanitarian law principles may justify performing an abortion,” reads the statement by the U.K. Department for International Development.

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Putin says Russia will expand its Arctic presence Vladimir Isachenkov

da, Denmark and Norway have all been trying to assert jurisdiction over parts of the Arctic, which is believed to hold up to a quarter of the planet’s undiscovered oil and gas.

With shrinking polar ice opening up new opportunities for exploration, Russia, Canada and Denmark have said they will file claims with the United Nations that the Lomonosov Ridge, an

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MOSCOW resident Vladimir Putin pledged Thursday that Russia will expand its presence in the Arctic, adding that work is underway to restore a major Soviet-era military base there.

Speaking at a meeting with activists of the main Kremlin party, United Russia, Putin said the Arctic region is essential for Russia’s economic and security interests.

Putin said the Russian military has been restoring a Soviet-era military base on the New Siberian Islands that was shut down after the Soviet collapse. He added that the facility is key for protecting shipping routes that link Europe with the Pacific region across the Arctic Ocean.

Last month, a Russian navy squadron led by the flagship of Russia’s Northern Fleet, nuclearpowered cruiser Peter the Great, visited the archipelago, which occupies a strategic position on the Arctic shipping route.

Putin said that the military has already re-established a

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undersea 1,200-mile (2,000-kilometre) mountain range crossing the polar region, is an extension of their respective territories.

Russia first submitted its claim to the United Nations in 2001, but it was sent back for lack of evidence and Moscow said it would resubmit the claim after collecting more scientific data.

In 2007 Russia staked a symbolic claim to the Arctic seabed

by dropping a canister containing the Russian flag on the ocean floor from a small submarine at the North Pole.

In a signal that it won’t tolerate any attempts to put obstacles in the way of its plans to tap into Arctic resources, Russia has filed piracy charges against the 30-member crew of a Greenpeace ship who protested at a Russian oil platform in the Arctic.

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President Vladimir Putin.

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He angrily dismissed suggestions that the Arctic should be placed under the jurisdiction of the international community.

“The Arctic is an unalienable part of the Russian Federation that has been under our sovereignty for a few centuries,” Putin said. “And it will be so for the time to come.”

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A look at the bruising basics behind the struggle over the shutdown Calvin Woodward

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WASHINGTON Opponents of President Barack hese are complicated times in Obama’s health care overhaul the affairs of Washington and came up with the catchy nickname the U.S., with death stars everywhere “Obamacare” and it spread to the and all of them a struggle to compoint that even Obama uses the prehend. The partial government term sometimes. The difference is in shutdown, the debt limit squeeze how people say it. Republicans tend just around the corner, sequestrato spit it out. Obama says Republition, how they fit with the health cans will stop calling it “Obamacare care law, how they don’t – it just ‘’when it becomes really popular. goes on.

On the other side of this, there’s So we’ve cooked up some quesbeen a strong trend in Washington tions about this grim galaxy and in recent decades of giving backslaptaken a stab at answers: ping names to laws. Even laws have Q: Which is better, “Obamacare” spin now in their titles. It’s like namor the Affordable Care Act? ing your baby Precious.

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fighting to kill “Obamacare” because it’s already The Law. They are really worked up about that.

A: Well. It’s Congress’ job to make new laws. New laws almost always change existing laws. Nothing is cast in stone – see above on the No Child law. Democrats tried to change The Law giving tax cuts to the rich, a pledge in John Kerry’s 2004 presidential campaign.

On the other hand, people had many chances to stop the health care law before it sank roots They could have defeated Obama in 2008 when he was proposing it, or elected him with a Republican Congress to stand in its way. Instead they put DemoLuis M. Alvarez/AP Photo crats in control of the House and A President Obama toy peers from Teri McClain’s rain Senate as well as the White House. gear during a rally to end the government shutdown In 2010, after the overhaul survived on Thursday on Capitol Hill in Washington. a brutal legislative struggle, people He called it the Social Security Act. roughy has done much better in the could have elected a GOP Congress, a prime chance to nip “ObamacIn those apparently more serious seafood marketplace since its name are” in the bud. But they only gave and less pandering times, perish the was changed from slimehead.

Republicans the House. thought of a No Child Left Behind ––– After the Supreme Court with a Act. Q: Why are you calling it slim conservative majority upheld A nice title is no guarantee of Obama’s law? Congress passed it. the heart of the law, people could results. Many people in both parties A: Transcendent legislation have defeated Obama last year or at want to leave No Child Left Behind comes to be associated with the least given the Senate to the GOP. A behind because they feel it’s leaving president who proposed the idea children behind. and fought tooth and nail for it. The big part of Republican campaigns was a vow to roll back “Obamacare.”

The full name of Obama’s law is health care law is Obama’s just as But people went with Obama and the Patient Protection and Affordthe big tax cuts of the last decade a Democratic Senate again. They able Care Act. Indeed, patients have were the Bush tax cuts, the Great new protections against losing their Society laws were Lyndon Johnson’s again elected a divided government, and is it ever. insurance. But the many questions and New Deal laws forever belong So, you asked for it, American about how affordable insurance to FDR. people! and medical care will turn out to be ––– ––– aren’t put to rest by a law’s reassurQ: The blogs I read, the politiQ: What’s this got to do with the ing name. cians and commentators I listen shutdown?

There’s no doubt dressed-up lato and the comics I watch say it’s bels help sell things, though. Orange outrageous for the Republicans to be A: Changes to the health care law

Canadian Review of the 2002 Yukon River Salmon Agreement 10 Years Post-Implementation In 2002, Canada and the United States formally implemented the Yukon River Salmon Agreement under the umbrella of the Pacific Salmon Treaty. The Agreement was negotiated to guide the management and harvest sharing of Canadian-origin Chinook and chum salmon stocks inhabiting the Yukon River.

Canadian users, stakeholders and governments with an interest in the management of Yukon River salmon are invited to attend an engagement session to discuss the performance of the Yukon River Salmon Agreement.

Date: Time: Location:

Thursday October 24, 2013 09:00 to 16:30 High Country Inn Ballroom, Whitehorse, Yukon

The objective of the engagement session will be for Fisheries and Oceans Canada to receive input, advice and recommendations regarding the overall effectiveness of and experience with the Agreement since 2002.

Participants are encouraged to review the Yukon River Salmon Agreement in advance of the session. The Yukon River Agreement forms Chapter 8 of the Pacific Salmon Treaty (located at www.psc.org/pubs/treaty/treaty.pdf).

For those that would prefer to send in comments via email directly to “your voice in salmon management”, the Yukon Salmon Sub-Committee, please send them to salmon@yssc.ca.

were the price set by Republicans, who control the House, of ending the budget impasse and reopening government. They’ve backed away somewhat on that, now calling for talks with Obama on the health overhaul and deficit reduction as a condition for ending the shutdown.

Obama says solve the impasse now, talk later.

The health care law is on a separate money stream so it goes ahead despite the budget deadlock.

––– Q: New insurance markets set up by the law opened for business last week. Why were some politicians in both parties happy with the rollout?

A: Republicans were happy because it was a mess and they could barely hold back from saying, I told you so. Millions went unserved because of website hang-ups. Rep. Trey Radel of Florida said a 14-yearold could build a better website “in an afternoon in his basement.” This, they suggested, is what government health care looks like. See? (It’s actually private coverage sold through government-established gateways with government subsidies for many people.)

Democrats were happy because the chaotic debut suggested huge public interest in the markets. Like a new iPhone going on sale – chaotic maybe but, wow. Shiny.

Time will tell if the snags are more from an incompetent system or a public hungry to sign up.

People have six months to do so in the first round of enrolment There’s no question public interest was intense. But people were window shopping, not necessarily buying, and with all the problems, they couldn’t see through the glass.

––– Q: Democrats like national parks and medical research as much as Republicans do, if not more. Why won’t they go along with Republicans who say let’s restore money for those things and more?

A: Leverage, for one reason. They lose it if only the most popular parts of government return to operation, and vital parts that are below the radar don’t. No one is clamouring for IRS tax audits to resume, as much as the government needs to stay on top of tax revenue. As it is, the majority of the government never closed, dampening the visible impact of the partial shutdown. Sequestration, the budget diet imposed on the government in the spring, also has been playing out largely invisibly. Apart from leverage, Democrats say it’s not right to cherry pick federal operations and the thing to do is get the government wholly back in business.

Based on what happened in the shutdown 17 years ago, Democrats think voters will blame Republicans for the shutdown. That’s got to figure into their reluctance to bend right now. In an Associated PressGfK survey out Wednesday, 62 per cent mainly blamed Republicans for the shutdown. About half said Obama or the Democrats in Congress bear much responsibility.

Still, lawmakers and Obama acted piecemeal to keep military salaries on track, the Pentagon is bringing back its civilian workers and pressure may grow to do more of that if Republican unity, already strained, doesn’t crack first.

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Friday, October 11, 2013 tourists and howling tourist-related businesses are a visible sign of the deadlock’s impact on people. But it gets worse. Desperately ill patients who can’t be cured with conventional treatment can’t gain admission to clinical trials at the National Institutes of Health, their last best hope. People already in the trials are getting care.

––– Q: My eyes glaze over when I hear about debt default and the like.

Make me care.

A: Politicians oversimplify things when they talk about the debt limit as if it’s a household credit card.

Governments don’t operate like people who have jobs, grocery bills, car loans and homes to pay for. People don’t have to keep bridges from falling apart or field an army. Yet leaders can’t resist boiling everything down to family finances.

Well we can’t either. Try missing a mortgage payment and see what

happens.

The government hit its debt limit in May and has been using various accounting moves not available to the average person to keep paying interest on its debt and look after other bills. Those manoeuvres will be all played out on or about Oct. 17, says the government. Some Republicans accuse the administration of exaggerating the damage that will happen to the economy if the government doesn’t get more borrowing authority in time. But you can almost hear the nervous gulp when they make that case. It would be unprecedented for the country to default on its debt.

A Treasury Department report lists these consequences: “Credit markets could freeze, the value of the dollar could plummet, U.S. interest rates could skyrocket, the negative spillovers could reverberate around the world.” A default “has the potential to be catastrophic.”

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FALL PROTECTION - $175.00+GST Tues, Oct 22, 830am-430pm #10454 Wed, Oct 30, 830am-430pm #10461 Gravity really pulls people down. Learn how to fight it by understanding how to work with fall protection equipment in this intensive, 1 day course. Gain exposure to multiple protection systems and regulations as you explore how to inspect and properly care for specialized equipment designed to keep you safe!

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WHMIS (WORKPLACE HAZARDOUS MATERIALS INFORMATION SYSTEM) $80.00+GST Thurs, Oct 24, 130pm-500pm #10457 Tues, Oct 29, 130pm-500pm #10460 Don’t know what to do with that nasty chemical spill? Take this course to stay up-to-date with WHMIS training requirements and protect yourself against controlled products and hazardous materials at work. Ensure you know how to properly read and understand labels, identifiers, and material safety and data sheets as you explore the responsibilities of suppliers, importers, distributors, employees and employers. Successfully complete the course and earn a WHMIS certificate.

H2S ALIVE (ENFORM) - $175.00+GST Mon, Oct 21, 830am-430pm #10453 Fri, Nov 1, 830am-430pm #10463 If you are a worker in the oil and gas industry who could be exposed to hydrogen sulfide gas (H2S or “sour gas”), you are required to take this course.

Understand the physical properties and health hazards of H2S and discover the rescue and protection techniques that can be the difference between life and death. You will be expected to be able to perform rescue breathing and to operate a self-contained breathing device and detector tube device as you prepare to write the exam which can earn you an industry-standard training certificate from

To register, contact Yukon College Admissions at 668-8710 or 1-800-661-0504 www.yukoncollege.yk.ca

TDG (TRANSPORTATION OF DANGEROUS GOODS) - $80.00+GST Thurs, Oct 24, 830am-100pm #10456 Tues, Oct 29, 830am-100pm #10459 Legislation requires all people involved with transporting dangerous goods to learn the skills and principles taught in this course. Protect yourself and the public by learning how to avoid dangerous accidents and understanding your responsibilities as a shipper/handler. Earn a TDG certificate (clear language edition) in the process.

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RIGGING & HOISTING $350.00+GST Oct 8-11: Tues+Thurs (900-300); Wed (1230-300); Fri (900-1230) #10555 Oct 25-Oct 28: Fri+Mon 630pm-930pm; Sat+Sun 900am-400pm #10458 Bring your steel-toed boots to this 18hour course that will give you a hardcore introduction to heavy lifting. Learn how to lift with cranes, hoists and wire rope while exploring different types of rope, their uses and proper storage. Build your understanding of hand signals and various knots, bends and hitches as you come up to speed on WCB regulations so you can be safe and efficient at work. Steel-toed boots required.

FIRST AID Before a professional responder arrives at the scene, ensure that you have the skill set to help someone in need. From industry standard Emergency Medical Responder (Advanced First Aid) to Standard First Aid, Yukon College will have the Red Cross First Aid courses you need. (OFA Out of Jurisdiction equivalency packages also available.) For more information and a schedule of our fall 2012 First Aid courses, please visit www. yukoncollege.yk.ca/ce or call 668.5200 to have a copy emailed to you.

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A look at the bruising basics behind the struggle over the shutdown Calvin Woodward

able Care Act as the way to go in health care.

They are, of course, the same.

WASHINGTON Opponents of President Barack hese are complicated times in Obama’s health care overhaul the affairs of Washington and came up with the catchy nickname the U.S., with death stars everywhere “Obamacare” and it spread to the and all of them a struggle to compoint that even Obama uses the prehend. The partial government term sometimes. The difference is in shutdown, the debt limit squeeze how people say it. Republicans tend just around the corner, sequestrato spit it out. Obama says Republition, how they fit with the health cans will stop calling it “Obamacare care law, how they don’t – it just ‘’when it becomes really popular. goes on.

On the other side of this, there’s So we’ve cooked up some quesbeen a strong trend in Washington tions about this grim galaxy and in recent decades of giving backslaptaken a stab at answers: ping names to laws. Even laws have Q: Which is better, “Obamacare” spin now in their titles. It’s like namor the Affordable Care Act? ing your baby Precious.

A: When late-night comedian When Franklin Roosevelt set up Jimmy Kimmel asked people this public pensions in 1935, he didn’t question, they thought they could call it the Happy Retirees Act or the choose between the two, and they Justice for Deserving Seniors Act or opted for the nice-sounding Afford- the Golden Years Contentment Act. Associated Press

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fighting to kill “Obamacare” because it’s already The Law. They are really worked up about that.

A: Well. It’s Congress’ job to make new laws. New laws almost always change existing laws. Nothing is cast in stone – see above on the No Child law. Democrats tried to change The Law giving tax cuts to the rich, a pledge in John Kerry’s 2004 presidential campaign.

On the other hand, people had many chances to stop the health care law before it sank roots They could have defeated Obama in 2008 when he was proposing it, or elected him with a Republican Congress to stand in its way. Instead they put DemoLuis M. Alvarez/AP Photo crats in control of the House and A President Obama toy peers from Teri McClain’s rain Senate as well as the White House. gear during a rally to end the government shutdown In 2010, after the overhaul survived on Thursday on Capitol Hill in Washington. a brutal legislative struggle, people He called it the Social Security Act. roughy has done much better in the could have elected a GOP Congress, a prime chance to nip “ObamacIn those apparently more serious seafood marketplace since its name are” in the bud. But they only gave and less pandering times, perish the was changed from slimehead.

Republicans the House. thought of a No Child Left Behind ––– After the Supreme Court with a Act. Q: Why are you calling it slim conservative majority upheld A nice title is no guarantee of Obama’s law? Congress passed it. the heart of the law, people could results. Many people in both parties A: Transcendent legislation have defeated Obama last year or at want to leave No Child Left Behind comes to be associated with the least given the Senate to the GOP. A behind because they feel it’s leaving president who proposed the idea children behind. and fought tooth and nail for it. The big part of Republican campaigns was a vow to roll back “Obamacare.”

The full name of Obama’s law is health care law is Obama’s just as But people went with Obama and the Patient Protection and Affordthe big tax cuts of the last decade a Democratic Senate again. They able Care Act. Indeed, patients have were the Bush tax cuts, the Great new protections against losing their Society laws were Lyndon Johnson’s again elected a divided government, and is it ever. insurance. But the many questions and New Deal laws forever belong So, you asked for it, American about how affordable insurance to FDR. people! and medical care will turn out to be ––– ––– aren’t put to rest by a law’s reassurQ: The blogs I read, the politiQ: What’s this got to do with the ing name. cians and commentators I listen shutdown?

There’s no doubt dressed-up lato and the comics I watch say it’s bels help sell things, though. Orange outrageous for the Republicans to be A: Changes to the health care law

Canadian Review of the 2002 Yukon River Salmon Agreement 10 Years Post-Implementation In 2002, Canada and the United States formally implemented the Yukon River Salmon Agreement under the umbrella of the Pacific Salmon Treaty. The Agreement was negotiated to guide the management and harvest sharing of Canadian-origin Chinook and chum salmon stocks inhabiting the Yukon River.

Canadian users, stakeholders and governments with an interest in the management of Yukon River salmon are invited to attend an engagement session to discuss the performance of the Yukon River Salmon Agreement.

Date: Time: Location:

Thursday October 24, 2013 09:00 to 16:30 High Country Inn Ballroom, Whitehorse, Yukon

The objective of the engagement session will be for Fisheries and Oceans Canada to receive input, advice and recommendations regarding the overall effectiveness of and experience with the Agreement since 2002.

Participants are encouraged to review the Yukon River Salmon Agreement in advance of the session. The Yukon River Agreement forms Chapter 8 of the Pacific Salmon Treaty (located at www.psc.org/pubs/treaty/treaty.pdf).

For those that would prefer to send in comments via email directly to “your voice in salmon management”, the Yukon Salmon Sub-Committee, please send them to salmon@yssc.ca.

were the price set by Republicans, who control the House, of ending the budget impasse and reopening government. They’ve backed away somewhat on that, now calling for talks with Obama on the health overhaul and deficit reduction as a condition for ending the shutdown.

Obama says solve the impasse now, talk later.

The health care law is on a separate money stream so it goes ahead despite the budget deadlock.

––– Q: New insurance markets set up by the law opened for business last week. Why were some politicians in both parties happy with the rollout?

A: Republicans were happy because it was a mess and they could barely hold back from saying, I told you so. Millions went unserved because of website hang-ups. Rep. Trey Radel of Florida said a 14-yearold could build a better website “in an afternoon in his basement.” This, they suggested, is what government health care looks like. See? (It’s actually private coverage sold through government-established gateways with government subsidies for many people.)

Democrats were happy because the chaotic debut suggested huge public interest in the markets. Like a new iPhone going on sale – chaotic maybe but, wow. Shiny.

Time will tell if the snags are more from an incompetent system or a public hungry to sign up.

People have six months to do so in the first round of enrolment There’s no question public interest was intense. But people were window shopping, not necessarily buying, and with all the problems, they couldn’t see through the glass.

––– Q: Democrats like national parks and medical research as much as Republicans do, if not more. Why won’t they go along with Republicans who say let’s restore money for those things and more?

A: Leverage, for one reason. They lose it if only the most popular parts of government return to operation, and vital parts that are below the radar don’t. No one is clamouring for IRS tax audits to resume, as much as the government needs to stay on top of tax revenue. As it is, the majority of the government never closed, dampening the visible impact of the partial shutdown. Sequestration, the budget diet imposed on the government in the spring, also has been playing out largely invisibly. Apart from leverage, Democrats say it’s not right to cherry pick federal operations and the thing to do is get the government wholly back in business.

Based on what happened in the shutdown 17 years ago, Democrats think voters will blame Republicans for the shutdown. That’s got to figure into their reluctance to bend right now. In an Associated PressGfK survey out Wednesday, 62 per cent mainly blamed Republicans for the shutdown. About half said Obama or the Democrats in Congress bear much responsibility.

Still, lawmakers and Obama acted piecemeal to keep military salaries on track, the Pentagon is bringing back its civilian workers and pressure may grow to do more of that if Republican unity, already strained, doesn’t crack first.

Closed parks, disappointed

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Friday, October 11, 2013 tourists and howling tourist-related businesses are a visible sign of the deadlock’s impact on people. But it gets worse. Desperately ill patients who can’t be cured with conventional treatment can’t gain admission to clinical trials at the National Institutes of Health, their last best hope. People already in the trials are getting care.

––– Q: My eyes glaze over when I hear about debt default and the like.

Make me care.

A: Politicians oversimplify things when they talk about the debt limit as if it’s a household credit card.

Governments don’t operate like people who have jobs, grocery bills, car loans and homes to pay for. People don’t have to keep bridges from falling apart or field an army. Yet leaders can’t resist boiling everything down to family finances.

Well we can’t either. Try missing a mortgage payment and see what

happens.

The government hit its debt limit in May and has been using various accounting moves not available to the average person to keep paying interest on its debt and look after other bills. Those manoeuvres will be all played out on or about Oct. 17, says the government. Some Republicans accuse the administration of exaggerating the damage that will happen to the economy if the government doesn’t get more borrowing authority in time. But you can almost hear the nervous gulp when they make that case. It would be unprecedented for the country to default on its debt.

A Treasury Department report lists these consequences: “Credit markets could freeze, the value of the dollar could plummet, U.S. interest rates could skyrocket, the negative spillovers could reverberate around the world.” A default “has the potential to be catastrophic.”

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Resource Industry Safety Training courses are offered in October, February, and April at Yukon College CONFINED SPACE AWARENESS $175.00+GST Wed, Oct 23, 830am-430pm #10455 Thurs, Oct 31, 830am-430pm #10462 Every year, confined space results in numerous injuries and fatalities. Learn how to maintain productivity, reduce injuries and save lives by recognizing confined space and the hazards involved with it. If you’re an industrial worker called upon to work around confined spaces, you can ensure you know the rules and rationale behind safe confined space operations by taking this course.

Steel-toed boots required.

ENFORM. Please visit www.enform.ca for more information.

FALL PROTECTION - $175.00+GST Tues, Oct 22, 830am-430pm #10454 Wed, Oct 30, 830am-430pm #10461 Gravity really pulls people down. Learn how to fight it by understanding how to work with fall protection equipment in this intensive, 1 day course. Gain exposure to multiple protection systems and regulations as you explore how to inspect and properly care for specialized equipment designed to keep you safe!

Steel-toed boots required.

WHMIS (WORKPLACE HAZARDOUS MATERIALS INFORMATION SYSTEM) $80.00+GST Thurs, Oct 24, 130pm-500pm #10457 Tues, Oct 29, 130pm-500pm #10460 Don’t know what to do with that nasty chemical spill? Take this course to stay up-to-date with WHMIS training requirements and protect yourself against controlled products and hazardous materials at work. Ensure you know how to properly read and understand labels, identifiers, and material safety and data sheets as you explore the responsibilities of suppliers, importers, distributors, employees and employers. Successfully complete the course and earn a WHMIS certificate.

H2S ALIVE (ENFORM) - $175.00+GST Mon, Oct 21, 830am-430pm #10453 Fri, Nov 1, 830am-430pm #10463 If you are a worker in the oil and gas industry who could be exposed to hydrogen sulfide gas (H2S or “sour gas”), you are required to take this course.

Understand the physical properties and health hazards of H2S and discover the rescue and protection techniques that can be the difference between life and death. You will be expected to be able to perform rescue breathing and to operate a self-contained breathing device and detector tube device as you prepare to write the exam which can earn you an industry-standard training certificate from

To register, contact Yukon College Admissions at 668-8710 or 1-800-661-0504 www.yukoncollege.yk.ca

TDG (TRANSPORTATION OF DANGEROUS GOODS) - $80.00+GST Thurs, Oct 24, 830am-100pm #10456 Tues, Oct 29, 830am-100pm #10459 Legislation requires all people involved with transporting dangerous goods to learn the skills and principles taught in this course. Protect yourself and the public by learning how to avoid dangerous accidents and understanding your responsibilities as a shipper/handler. Earn a TDG certificate (clear language edition) in the process.

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maintenance, handling and operations.

Successful completion of exam required for certification. Bring your steel-toed boots. Please visit www.enform.ca for more information.

RIGGING & HOISTING $350.00+GST Oct 8-11: Tues+Thurs (900-300); Wed (1230-300); Fri (900-1230) #10555 Oct 25-Oct 28: Fri+Mon 630pm-930pm; Sat+Sun 900am-400pm #10458 Bring your steel-toed boots to this 18hour course that will give you a hardcore introduction to heavy lifting. Learn how to lift with cranes, hoists and wire rope while exploring different types of rope, their uses and proper storage. Build your understanding of hand signals and various knots, bends and hitches as you come up to speed on WCB regulations so you can be safe and efficient at work. Steel-toed boots required.

FIRST AID Before a professional responder arrives at the scene, ensure that you have the skill set to help someone in need. From industry standard Emergency Medical Responder (Advanced First Aid) to Standard First Aid, Yukon College will have the Red Cross First Aid courses you need. (OFA Out of Jurisdiction equivalency packages also available.) For more information and a schedule of our fall 2012 First Aid courses, please visit www. yukoncollege.yk.ca/ce or call 668.5200 to have a copy emailed to you.

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U.S. agents shut down website dealing illegal drugs Tom Hays

a community forum below where one person commented, “Quality is superb.”

NEW YORK The website protected users hidden website operated with an encryption technique by a San Francisco man called “onion routing,” which using an alias from The Prinis designed to make it “practicess Bride became a vast black cally impossible to physically market bazaar that brokered locate the computers hosting more than $1 billion in trans- or accessing websites on the actions for illegal drugs and network,” court papers said. services, according to court Federal authorities shut papers made public last week the site down and arrested in New York. its alleged mastermind, Ross Users of the website, Silk William Ulbricht, on last week Road, could anonymously while he was using a combrowse through nearly 13,000 puter at a public library in listings under categories like San Francisco, where he was “Cannibus,” ‘’Psychedelliving. A criminal complaint ics“ and ‘’Stimulants“ before said Ulbricht “has controlled making purchases using the and overseen all aspects of Silk electronic currency Bitcoin.

Road.”

One listing for heroin The defendant announced promised buyers “all rock, no in a website forum in 2012 powder, vacuum sealed and that to avoid confusion he stealth shipping,” and had needed to change his Silk Associated Press

A

Road username, court papers said. He wrote, “drum roll please … my new name is: Dread Pirate Roberts,” an apparent reference to a swashbuckling character in The Princess Bride, the 1987 comedy film based on a novel of the same name.

Ulbricht, 29, made an initial appearance in a San Francisco court on Wednesday, authorities said. The name of his attorney wasn’t immediately available.

The court papers cite a LinkedIn profile that says Ulbricht graduated from the University of Texas with a physics degree and also attended graduate school in Pennsylvania. It says he has focused on “creating economic simulation” designed to “give people a firsthand experience of what it would be like to live

in a world without the systematic use of force.”

Along with drugs, the website offered various illegal services, including one vendor who offered to hack into Facebook, Twitter and other social networking accounts and an-

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Lindsay volunteers on the Pemberton Land Use Committee and is working to keep mining and water use “safe and sustainable”. Attending Yukon College, Skyla looks to a future of helping people after graduating from Practical Nursing. Paul is taking his passion on working on his own vehicles and turning it into a career in as a Heavy Equipment Technician. As an active first nation dancer, hunter and fisherman, and former Victoria Gold employee, Michelle feels that “mining sustains our way of life” and is on her way to becoming a Conservation Officer.

Kaylie-Anne and Dalyce are studying Graphic Design and Environmental Sciences outside of Yukon, but hope to come back once finished and enjoy everything that it has to offer.

This unique group have all made an effort to make their communities and the world a better place. Victoria Gold is proud to be a part of helping them fulfill their future goals.

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Skyla Vance $500 1st year Health, Education and Human Services Access Pathways Program

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

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

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

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

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

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

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call for performers We once again are calling upon the community to assist us in seeking performers for the 2014 Skookum Jim Folklore Show, which will be held on Saturday, February 1st, 2014 at the Yukon Arts Center. Deadline for applications will be 4:30 pm, Friday, November 8th, 2013.

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

If you require further information, please contact (867) 633-7691 or email at sjfcrecreation@northwestel.net.

Sponsored by: Canadian Heritage, The National Child Benefit, Yukon Community Services and Recreation, Arts Operating Fund

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A light bulb is replaced on Second Avenue in Whitehorse last week.

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Families ‘scarred’ from financial crisis hold tight to cash Bernard Condon Associated Press

NEW YORK hey speak different languages, live in countries rich and poor, face horrible job markets and healthy ones. When it comes to money, though, they act as one: They’re holding tight to their cash, driven more by a fear of losing what they have than a desire to add to it.

Five years after U.S. investment bank Lehman Brothers collapsed, triggering a global financial crisis and shattering confidence worldwide, families in countries as varied as the United States, Japan, the United Kingdom and Germany remain hunkered down, too spooked and distrustful to take chances with their money.

An Associated Press analysis of households in the 10 biggest economies shows that families continue to spend cautiously and have pulled hundreds of billions of dollars out of stocks, cut borrowing for the first time in decades and poured money into savings and bonds that offer puny interest payments, often too low to keep up with inflation.

“It doesn’t take very much to destroy confidence, but it takes an awful lot to build it back,” says Ian Bright, senior economist at ING, a global bank based in Amsterdam. “The attitude toward risk is permanently reset.”

A flight to safety on such a global scale is unprecedented since the end of the Second World War. The implications are huge: Shunning debt and spending less can be good for one family’s finances. When hundreds of millions do it together, it can starve the global economy.

Some of the retrenchment is not surprising: High unemployment in many countries means fewer people with pay-cheques to spend. But even people with good jobs and little fear of losing them remain cautious.

“Lehman changed everything,” says Arne Holzhausen, a senior economist at global insurer Allianz, based in Munich. “It’s safety, safety, safety.”

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Jose Luis Magana/AP Photo

International Monetary Fund Managing Director Christine Lagarde, right, speaks during the World Bank/IMF Annual Meetings in Washington. Lagarde said the global economy is in a slow and unbalanced recovery.

The AP analyzed data showing what consumers did with their money in the five years before the Great Recession began in December 2007 and in the five years that followed, through the end of 2012. The focus was on the world’s 10 biggest economies – the U.S., China, Japan, Germany, France, the U.K., Brazil, Russia, Italy and India – which have half the world’s population and 65 per cent of global gross domestic product.

Key findings: – RETREAT FROM STOCKS: A desire for safety drove people to dump stocks, even as prices rocketed from crisis lows in early 2009. Investors in the top 10 countries pulled $1.1 trillion from stock mutual funds in the five years after the crisis, or 10 per cent of their holdings at the start of that period, according to Lip-

per Inc., which tracks funds.

They put more even money into bond mutual funds – $1.3 trillion – even as interest payments on bonds plunged to record lows.

– SHUNNING DEBT: In the five years before the crisis, household debt in the 10 countries jumped 34 per cent, according to Credit Suisse. Then the financial crisis hit, and people slammed the brakes on borrowing. Debt per adult in the 10 countries fell one per cent in the 4 1/2 years after 2007. Economists say debt hasn’t fallen in sync like that since the end of the Second World War. People chose to shed debt even as lenders slashed rates on loans to record lows. In normal times, that would have triggered an avalanche of borrowing.

– HOARDING CASH: Looking for safety for their money,

households in the six biggest developed economies added $3.3 trillion, or 15 per cent, to their cash holdings in the five years after the crisis, slightly more than they did in the five years before, according to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.

The growth of cash is remarkable because millions more were unemployed, wages grew slowly and people diverted billions to pay down their debts.

– SPENDING SLUMP: To cut debt and save more, people have reined in their spending. Adjusting for inflation, global consumer spending rose 1.6 per cent a year during the five years after the crisis, according to PricewaterhouseCoopers, an accounting and consulting firm. That was about half the growth rate before the crisis and only slightly more than

the annual growth in population during those years.

Consumer spending is critically important because it accounts for more than 60 per cent of GDP. – DEVELOPING WORLD NOT HELPING ENOUGH: When the financial crisis hit, the major developed countries looked to the developing world to take over in powering global growth.

The four big developing countries – Brazil, Russia, India and China – recovered quickly from the crisis. But the potential of the BRIC countries, as they are known, was overrated. Although they have 80 per cent of the people, they accounted for only 22 per cent of consumer spending in the 10 biggest countries last year, according to Haver Analytics, a research firm. This year, their economies are stumbling.

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will eventually shake their fears, of course, and loosen the hold on their money. But few economists expect them to snap back to their old ways.

One reason is that the boom years that preceded the financial crisis were fueled by families taking on enormous debt, experts now realize, not by healthy wage gains. No one expects a repeat of those excesses.

More importantly, economists cite psychological “scarring,” a fear of losing money that grips people during a period of collapsing jobs, incomes and wealth, then doesn’t let go, even when better times return. Think of Americans who suffered through the Great Depression and stayed frugal for decades.

Although not on a level with the Depression, some economists think the psychological blow of the financial crisis was severe enough that households won’t increase their borrowing and spending to what would be considered normal levels for another five years or longer.

To better understand why people remain so cautious five years after the crisis, AP interviewed consumers around the world. A look at what they’re thinking – and doing – with their money: ––– Rick Stonecipher of Muncie, Ind., doesn’t like stocks anymore, for the same reason that millions of investors have turned against them – the stock market crash that began in October 2008 and didn’t end until the following March.

“My brokers said they were really safe, but they weren’t,” says Stonecipher, 59, a substitute school teacher.

Americans sold the most in the five years after the crisis – $521 billion, or nine per cent of their mutual fund holdings, according to Lipper. But investors in other countries sold a larger share of their holdings: Germans dumped 13 per cent; Italians and French, more than 16 per cent each.

The French are “not very oriented to risk,” says Cyril Blesson, an economist at Pair Conseil, an investment consultancy in Paris.

“Now, it’s even worse.”

It’s gotten worse in China, Russia and the U.K., too.

Fu Lili, 31, a psychologist in Fu Xin, a city in northeastern China, says she made 20,000 yuan ($3,267) buying and selling stocks before the crisis, more than 10 times her monthly salary then.

But she won’t touch them now, because she’s too scared.

In Moscow, Yuri Shcherbanin, 32, a manager for an oil company, says the crash proved stocks were dangerous and he should content himself with money in the bank.

In London, Pavlina Samson, 39, owner of a jewelry and clothes shop, says stocks are too “risky.”

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Holzhausen, the Allianz economist, says the crisis taught people not to trust others with their money. “People want to get as much distance as possible from the financial system,” he says.

The crisis also taught them about the dangers of debt.

After the crisis hit, Jerry and Madeleine Bosco of Tujunga, Calif., found themselves facing $30,000 in credit card bills with no easy way to pay the debt off.

So they sold stocks, threw most of their cards in the trash, and stopped eating out and taking vacations.

Today, most of the debt is gone, but the lusher life of the boom years is a distant memory.

“We had credit cards and we didn’t worry about a thing,” says Madeleine, 55.

In the U.S., debt per adult soared 54 per cent in the five years before the crisis. Then it plunged, down 12 per cent in 4 1/2 years, although most of that resulted from people defaulting on loans. In the U.K., debt per adult fell a modest two per cent, but it had jumped 59 per cent before the crisis.

Even Japanese and Germans, who weren’t big borrowers in the years before the crisis, cut debt – four per cent and one per cent, respectively.

“We don’t want to take out a loan,” says Maria Schoenberg, 45, of Frankfurt, Germany, explaining why she and her husband, a rheumatologist, decided to rent after a recent move instead of borrowing to buy. “We’re terrified of doing that.”

Such attitudes are rife when it has rarely been cheaper to borrow around the world.

“A whole new generation of adults has come of age in a time of diminished expectations,” says Mark Vitner, a senior economist at Wells Fargo, the fourth-largest U.S. bank. “They’re not likely to take on debt like those before them.”

Or spend as much.

After adjusting for inflation, Americans increased their spending in the five years after the crisis at one-quarter the rate before the crisis, according to PricewaterhouseCoopers. French spending barely budged. In the U.K., spending dropped. The British spent three per cent less last year than they did five years earlier, in 2007.

High unemployment has played a role. But economists say the financial crisis, and the government debt crisis that started in Europe a year later, has spooked even people who can afford to splurge to cut back.

Arnaud Reze, 36, owns a home in Nantes, France, has piled up money in savings accounts and stocks, and has a government job that guarantees 75 per cent of his pay in retirement. But he fears the pension guarantee won’t be kept. So he’s stopped buying coffee at cafes and cut back on lunches with colleagues and saved in numerous other ways. “Little stupid things that I would buy left and right ... I don’t buy anymore,” he says.

Even the rich are spending cautiously.

Five years ago, Mike Cockrell, chief financial officer at Sanderson Farms, a large U.S. poultry producer in Laurel, Miss., had just paid off a mortgage and was looking forward to the extra spending money. Then Lehman collapsed, and he decided to save it instead.

“I watched the news of the stock market going down 100, 200 points a day, and I was glad I had cash,” he says, recalling the

steep drops in the Dow Jones industrial average then. “That strategy will not change.”

The wealthiest one per cent of U.S. households are saving 30 per cent of their take-home pay, triple what they were saving in 2008, according to a July report from American Express Publishing and Harrison Group, a research firm.

After years of saving more and shedding debt, the good news is that many people have repaired their personal finances.

Americans have slashed their credit card debt to 2002 levels.

In the U.K., personal bank loans, not including mortgages, are no larger than they were in 1999. In addition, home prices in some countries are rising.

So more people have the capacity to borrow, spend and invest more. But will they?

Sahoko Tanabe of Tokyo, 63, lost money in Japan’s stock market crash more than two decades ago, but she’s buying again.

“Abenomics,” a mix of fiscal and

monetary stimulus named for Japan’s new prime minister, has ignited Japanese stocks, and she doesn’t want to miss out. “You’re bound to fail if you have a pessimistic attitude,” she says.

But for every Tanabe, there seem to be more people like Madeleine Bosco, the Californian who ditched many of her credit cards. “All of a sudden you look at all these things you’re buying that you don’t need,” she says.

Attitudes like Bosco’s will make for a better economy eventually – safer and more stable – but won’t trigger the jobs and wage gains that are needed to make economies healthy now.

“The further you get away from the carnage in ‘08-’09, the memories fade,” says Stephen Roach, former chief economist at investment bank Morgan Stanley, who now teaches at Yale. “But does it return to the leverage and consumer demand we had in the past and make things hunky dory? The answer is no.”

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Families ‘scarred’ from financial crisis hold tight to cash Bernard Condon Associated Press

NEW YORK hey speak different languages, live in countries rich and poor, face horrible job markets and healthy ones. When it comes to money, though, they act as one: They’re holding tight to their cash, driven more by a fear of losing what they have than a desire to add to it.

Five years after U.S. investment bank Lehman Brothers collapsed, triggering a global financial crisis and shattering confidence worldwide, families in countries as varied as the United States, Japan, the United Kingdom and Germany remain hunkered down, too spooked and distrustful to take chances with their money.

An Associated Press analysis of households in the 10 biggest economies shows that families continue to spend cautiously and have pulled hundreds of billions of dollars out of stocks, cut borrowing for the first time in decades and poured money into savings and bonds that offer puny interest payments, often too low to keep up with inflation.

“It doesn’t take very much to destroy confidence, but it takes an awful lot to build it back,” says Ian Bright, senior economist at ING, a global bank based in Amsterdam. “The attitude toward risk is permanently reset.”

A flight to safety on such a global scale is unprecedented since the end of the Second World War. The implications are huge: Shunning debt and spending less can be good for one family’s finances. When hundreds of millions do it together, it can starve the global economy.

Some of the retrenchment is not surprising: High unemployment in many countries means fewer people with pay-cheques to spend. But even people with good jobs and little fear of losing them remain cautious.

“Lehman changed everything,” says Arne Holzhausen, a senior economist at global insurer Allianz, based in Munich. “It’s safety, safety, safety.”

T

Jose Luis Magana/AP Photo

International Monetary Fund Managing Director Christine Lagarde, right, speaks during the World Bank/IMF Annual Meetings in Washington. Lagarde said the global economy is in a slow and unbalanced recovery.

The AP analyzed data showing what consumers did with their money in the five years before the Great Recession began in December 2007 and in the five years that followed, through the end of 2012. The focus was on the world’s 10 biggest economies – the U.S., China, Japan, Germany, France, the U.K., Brazil, Russia, Italy and India – which have half the world’s population and 65 per cent of global gross domestic product.

Key findings: – RETREAT FROM STOCKS: A desire for safety drove people to dump stocks, even as prices rocketed from crisis lows in early 2009. Investors in the top 10 countries pulled $1.1 trillion from stock mutual funds in the five years after the crisis, or 10 per cent of their holdings at the start of that period, according to Lip-

per Inc., which tracks funds.

They put more even money into bond mutual funds – $1.3 trillion – even as interest payments on bonds plunged to record lows.

– SHUNNING DEBT: In the five years before the crisis, household debt in the 10 countries jumped 34 per cent, according to Credit Suisse. Then the financial crisis hit, and people slammed the brakes on borrowing. Debt per adult in the 10 countries fell one per cent in the 4 1/2 years after 2007. Economists say debt hasn’t fallen in sync like that since the end of the Second World War. People chose to shed debt even as lenders slashed rates on loans to record lows. In normal times, that would have triggered an avalanche of borrowing.

– HOARDING CASH: Looking for safety for their money,

households in the six biggest developed economies added $3.3 trillion, or 15 per cent, to their cash holdings in the five years after the crisis, slightly more than they did in the five years before, according to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.

The growth of cash is remarkable because millions more were unemployed, wages grew slowly and people diverted billions to pay down their debts.

– SPENDING SLUMP: To cut debt and save more, people have reined in their spending. Adjusting for inflation, global consumer spending rose 1.6 per cent a year during the five years after the crisis, according to PricewaterhouseCoopers, an accounting and consulting firm. That was about half the growth rate before the crisis and only slightly more than

the annual growth in population during those years.

Consumer spending is critically important because it accounts for more than 60 per cent of GDP. – DEVELOPING WORLD NOT HELPING ENOUGH: When the financial crisis hit, the major developed countries looked to the developing world to take over in powering global growth.

The four big developing countries – Brazil, Russia, India and China – recovered quickly from the crisis. But the potential of the BRIC countries, as they are known, was overrated. Although they have 80 per cent of the people, they accounted for only 22 per cent of consumer spending in the 10 biggest countries last year, according to Haver Analytics, a research firm. This year, their economies are stumbling.

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will eventually shake their fears, of course, and loosen the hold on their money. But few economists expect them to snap back to their old ways.

One reason is that the boom years that preceded the financial crisis were fueled by families taking on enormous debt, experts now realize, not by healthy wage gains. No one expects a repeat of those excesses.

More importantly, economists cite psychological “scarring,” a fear of losing money that grips people during a period of collapsing jobs, incomes and wealth, then doesn’t let go, even when better times return. Think of Americans who suffered through the Great Depression and stayed frugal for decades.

Although not on a level with the Depression, some economists think the psychological blow of the financial crisis was severe enough that households won’t increase their borrowing and spending to what would be considered normal levels for another five years or longer.

To better understand why people remain so cautious five years after the crisis, AP interviewed consumers around the world. A look at what they’re thinking – and doing – with their money: ––– Rick Stonecipher of Muncie, Ind., doesn’t like stocks anymore, for the same reason that millions of investors have turned against them – the stock market crash that began in October 2008 and didn’t end until the following March.

“My brokers said they were really safe, but they weren’t,” says Stonecipher, 59, a substitute school teacher.

Americans sold the most in the five years after the crisis – $521 billion, or nine per cent of their mutual fund holdings, according to Lipper. But investors in other countries sold a larger share of their holdings: Germans dumped 13 per cent; Italians and French, more than 16 per cent each.

The French are “not very oriented to risk,” says Cyril Blesson, an economist at Pair Conseil, an investment consultancy in Paris.

“Now, it’s even worse.”

It’s gotten worse in China, Russia and the U.K., too.

Fu Lili, 31, a psychologist in Fu Xin, a city in northeastern China, says she made 20,000 yuan ($3,267) buying and selling stocks before the crisis, more than 10 times her monthly salary then.

But she won’t touch them now, because she’s too scared.

In Moscow, Yuri Shcherbanin, 32, a manager for an oil company, says the crash proved stocks were dangerous and he should content himself with money in the bank.

In London, Pavlina Samson, 39, owner of a jewelry and clothes shop, says stocks are too “risky.”

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Holzhausen, the Allianz economist, says the crisis taught people not to trust others with their money. “People want to get as much distance as possible from the financial system,” he says.

The crisis also taught them about the dangers of debt.

After the crisis hit, Jerry and Madeleine Bosco of Tujunga, Calif., found themselves facing $30,000 in credit card bills with no easy way to pay the debt off.

So they sold stocks, threw most of their cards in the trash, and stopped eating out and taking vacations.

Today, most of the debt is gone, but the lusher life of the boom years is a distant memory.

“We had credit cards and we didn’t worry about a thing,” says Madeleine, 55.

In the U.S., debt per adult soared 54 per cent in the five years before the crisis. Then it plunged, down 12 per cent in 4 1/2 years, although most of that resulted from people defaulting on loans. In the U.K., debt per adult fell a modest two per cent, but it had jumped 59 per cent before the crisis.

Even Japanese and Germans, who weren’t big borrowers in the years before the crisis, cut debt – four per cent and one per cent, respectively.

“We don’t want to take out a loan,” says Maria Schoenberg, 45, of Frankfurt, Germany, explaining why she and her husband, a rheumatologist, decided to rent after a recent move instead of borrowing to buy. “We’re terrified of doing that.”

Such attitudes are rife when it has rarely been cheaper to borrow around the world.

“A whole new generation of adults has come of age in a time of diminished expectations,” says Mark Vitner, a senior economist at Wells Fargo, the fourth-largest U.S. bank. “They’re not likely to take on debt like those before them.”

Or spend as much.

After adjusting for inflation, Americans increased their spending in the five years after the crisis at one-quarter the rate before the crisis, according to PricewaterhouseCoopers. French spending barely budged. In the U.K., spending dropped. The British spent three per cent less last year than they did five years earlier, in 2007.

High unemployment has played a role. But economists say the financial crisis, and the government debt crisis that started in Europe a year later, has spooked even people who can afford to splurge to cut back.

Arnaud Reze, 36, owns a home in Nantes, France, has piled up money in savings accounts and stocks, and has a government job that guarantees 75 per cent of his pay in retirement. But he fears the pension guarantee won’t be kept. So he’s stopped buying coffee at cafes and cut back on lunches with colleagues and saved in numerous other ways. “Little stupid things that I would buy left and right ... I don’t buy anymore,” he says.

Even the rich are spending cautiously.

Five years ago, Mike Cockrell, chief financial officer at Sanderson Farms, a large U.S. poultry producer in Laurel, Miss., had just paid off a mortgage and was looking forward to the extra spending money. Then Lehman collapsed, and he decided to save it instead.

“I watched the news of the stock market going down 100, 200 points a day, and I was glad I had cash,” he says, recalling the

steep drops in the Dow Jones industrial average then. “That strategy will not change.”

The wealthiest one per cent of U.S. households are saving 30 per cent of their take-home pay, triple what they were saving in 2008, according to a July report from American Express Publishing and Harrison Group, a research firm.

After years of saving more and shedding debt, the good news is that many people have repaired their personal finances.

Americans have slashed their credit card debt to 2002 levels.

In the U.K., personal bank loans, not including mortgages, are no larger than they were in 1999. In addition, home prices in some countries are rising.

So more people have the capacity to borrow, spend and invest more. But will they?

Sahoko Tanabe of Tokyo, 63, lost money in Japan’s stock market crash more than two decades ago, but she’s buying again.

“Abenomics,” a mix of fiscal and

monetary stimulus named for Japan’s new prime minister, has ignited Japanese stocks, and she doesn’t want to miss out. “You’re bound to fail if you have a pessimistic attitude,” she says.

But for every Tanabe, there seem to be more people like Madeleine Bosco, the Californian who ditched many of her credit cards. “All of a sudden you look at all these things you’re buying that you don’t need,” she says.

Attitudes like Bosco’s will make for a better economy eventually – safer and more stable – but won’t trigger the jobs and wage gains that are needed to make economies healthy now.

“The further you get away from the carnage in ‘08-’09, the memories fade,” says Stephen Roach, former chief economist at investment bank Morgan Stanley, who now teaches at Yale. “But does it return to the leverage and consumer demand we had in the past and make things hunky dory? The answer is no.”

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Legislation to protect Chile’s glaciers and water supplies worries mining industry Luis Andres Henao Associated Press

SANTIAGO, Chile ust how to define a glacier is at the heart of a Chilean congressional battle that could determine the future of mining in the world’s largest copper-producing country.

The revival of legislation to ban mining in glacial areas is spawning debate among miners, farmers and environmentalists about how to protect both vital water supplies and Chile’s mining industry. If the bill passes, mining experts fear it could shutter multibillion-dollar mining projects and slow investment.

The key will be in the fine print of whether the final bill defines glaciers as including frozen areas around them, too, and whether the protections would apply retroactively to mines already operating next to glaciers.

“If it passes as a law with tough conditions, it could harm not only the operation of current projects but also future projects,” said Juan Carlos Guajardo, head of the Chilean mining think-tank CESCO. “Depending on the conditions, the scenarios would make mining activity very difficult in high mountain areas.”

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tops where glaciers have melted away from the surface. The Argentine National Glacier Institute, which had a heavy hand in drafting Argentina’s law, pushed the definition because it’s believed most glacial water actually comes from such reserves.

The Argentine law remains largely unenforced, but mining has still to develop in a big way there.

In Chile, however, such a move could have a much bigger impact on the world’s copper and gold supplies.

For now, the bill doesn’t include protections on peri-glacial or permafrost areas and is far less punitive than Argentina’s law, but it could be amended to broaden the definition of glaciers. No matter what, it would be Chile’s first law specifically protecting glaciers.

Mining offers Chile’s poor their best shot at a middle-class life, especially in the rugged desert areas in the north, where most mines are.

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The country has some of Latin America’s most stable ground rules for mining. But the narrow nation that stretches 2,650 miles (4,270 kilometres) along the Pacific also has the largest number of glaciers, from icy southern Patagonia to its most

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A broader definition could severely hamper the Chilean industry’s hopes to mine gold and copper from places where icy masses have retreated on the surface, exposing rich ore veins that share mountaintops with other forms of glacier water.

Already, environmentalists have demanded tougher protections for nearby populations and natural resources, and mining projects have faced costly delays.

Jorge Daniel Taillant, director of the Center for Human Rights and the Environment, called glaciers a vulnerable resource that’s in jeopardy because of mining.

Taillant tracks environmental compliance by mining companies and has focused on the impact of dozens of mining projects in Argentina and in Chile on glaciers.

“A broad definition of glaciers in the law helps capture the large variety of glaciers that exist in the Andes,” Taillant said. “Protecting only the most well-known uncovered white glaciers is not enough. Melting glaciers are one of the telltale signs of climate change, and as such we need laws to protect climate-vulnerable glaciers.”

If passed, the bill could halt mining operations such as Barrick’s $8 billion Pascua-Lama or state mining company Codelco’s $6.8 billion Andina 244 expansion project, which

are both surrounded by glaciers and permafrost areas. To move forward, the projects would need further environmental safeguards to ensure they’re not hurting ice.

The resurfacing of the bill comes at a time when the Andina project is being widely questioned. Codelco wants to turn Andina into its star mine to produce more than 600,000 metric tonnes of copper a year, up from 250,000 now.

Codelco said in a statement it believes the glacier bill is not needed because Chile has developed norms to protect glaciers since the legislation was first discussed in 2006.

“Depending on how this glacier law turns out, it could be very complicated. In reality, this project might not even be able to be developed because we’re near glaciers,” said Juan Carlos Jofre, sustainability chief for the Andina 244 project.

Environmentalists say the impact on nearby glaciers would be devastating, particularly for subsurface rock glaciers with colossal amounts of ice.

Before the Argentine law passed, analysts warned that it would mean an end to Pascua-Lama, the world’s highest-altitude mine, which straddles the Chile-Argentina border.

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violations of its environmental permit, requiring it to build infrastructure to prevent water pollution as it mines for gold and silver.

Critics say construction at Pascua-Lama has spread dust on the nearby Toro 1, Toro 2 and Esperanza glaciers, hastening their retreat by capturing heat on their surfaces.

Meltwater from those glaciers feeds the Estrecho river, which supplies water to the Diaguita indigenous community living downstream.

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Conservationists say dozens of mining projects are in glacier areas and they have filed international complaints, pointing mining company shareholders to potential troubles for large-scale mineral investments.

Chile’s Congress is expected to take on the glacier protection bill by mid-October. If debate drags, the measure’s ultimate fate may depend on Michelle Bachelet, a former president who is heavily favoured to win election and take office again

next year. She has taken no stand on this bill and failed to back a similar measure in her first term, though she did take steps to protect glaciers.

“Any change that means that projects have to be evaluated would affect them significantly. It would mean a whole new legal framework on glaciers,” said Winston Alburquenque, a professor of natural resources law at the Catholic University. “Clearly there’s a change – there’s a greater environmental awareness and respect for natural resources.”

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Legislation to protect Chile’s glaciers and water supplies worries mining industry Luis Andres Henao Associated Press

SANTIAGO, Chile ust how to define a glacier is at the heart of a Chilean congressional battle that could determine the future of mining in the world’s largest copper-producing country.

The revival of legislation to ban mining in glacial areas is spawning debate among miners, farmers and environmentalists about how to protect both vital water supplies and Chile’s mining industry. If the bill passes, mining experts fear it could shutter multibillion-dollar mining projects and slow investment.

The key will be in the fine print of whether the final bill defines glaciers as including frozen areas around them, too, and whether the protections would apply retroactively to mines already operating next to glaciers.

“If it passes as a law with tough conditions, it could harm not only the operation of current projects but also future projects,” said Juan Carlos Guajardo, head of the Chilean mining think-tank CESCO. “Depending on the conditions, the scenarios would make mining activity very difficult in high mountain areas.”

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A tour boat passes the Spegazzini Glacier in Argentina. The Chilean congress is debating protection for glaciers, which could determine the future of copper production. protecting Chile’s water as reason enough to implement the wider definition.

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In Chile, however, such a move could have a much bigger impact on the world’s copper and gold supplies.

For now, the bill doesn’t include protections on peri-glacial or permafrost areas and is far less punitive than Argentina’s law, but it could be amended to broaden the definition of glaciers. No matter what, it would be Chile’s first law specifically protecting glaciers.

Mining offers Chile’s poor their best shot at a middle-class life, especially in the rugged desert areas in the north, where most mines are.

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A broader definition could severely hamper the Chilean industry’s hopes to mine gold and copper from places where icy masses have retreated on the surface, exposing rich ore veins that share mountaintops with other forms of glacier water.

Already, environmentalists have demanded tougher protections for nearby populations and natural resources, and mining projects have faced costly delays.

Jorge Daniel Taillant, director of the Center for Human Rights and the Environment, called glaciers a vulnerable resource that’s in jeopardy because of mining.

Taillant tracks environmental compliance by mining companies and has focused on the impact of dozens of mining projects in Argentina and in Chile on glaciers.

“A broad definition of glaciers in the law helps capture the large variety of glaciers that exist in the Andes,” Taillant said. “Protecting only the most well-known uncovered white glaciers is not enough. Melting glaciers are one of the telltale signs of climate change, and as such we need laws to protect climate-vulnerable glaciers.”

If passed, the bill could halt mining operations such as Barrick’s $8 billion Pascua-Lama or state mining company Codelco’s $6.8 billion Andina 244 expansion project, which

are both surrounded by glaciers and permafrost areas. To move forward, the projects would need further environmental safeguards to ensure they’re not hurting ice.

The resurfacing of the bill comes at a time when the Andina project is being widely questioned. Codelco wants to turn Andina into its star mine to produce more than 600,000 metric tonnes of copper a year, up from 250,000 now.

Codelco said in a statement it believes the glacier bill is not needed because Chile has developed norms to protect glaciers since the legislation was first discussed in 2006.

“Depending on how this glacier law turns out, it could be very complicated. In reality, this project might not even be able to be developed because we’re near glaciers,” said Juan Carlos Jofre, sustainability chief for the Andina 244 project.

Environmentalists say the impact on nearby glaciers would be devastating, particularly for subsurface rock glaciers with colossal amounts of ice.

Before the Argentine law passed, analysts warned that it would mean an end to Pascua-Lama, the world’s highest-altitude mine, which straddles the Chile-Argentina border.

While mining has continued there, Barrick’s project has been temporarily suspended in Chile after the company was cited for “very serious”

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violations of its environmental permit, requiring it to build infrastructure to prevent water pollution as it mines for gold and silver.

Critics say construction at Pascua-Lama has spread dust on the nearby Toro 1, Toro 2 and Esperanza glaciers, hastening their retreat by capturing heat on their surfaces.

Meltwater from those glaciers feeds the Estrecho river, which supplies water to the Diaguita indigenous community living downstream.

Barrick has said it will work “to address environmental and other

regulatory requirements” on the Pascua side of the project in Chile.

Conservationists say dozens of mining projects are in glacier areas and they have filed international complaints, pointing mining company shareholders to potential troubles for large-scale mineral investments.

Chile’s Congress is expected to take on the glacier protection bill by mid-October. If debate drags, the measure’s ultimate fate may depend on Michelle Bachelet, a former president who is heavily favoured to win election and take office again

next year. She has taken no stand on this bill and failed to back a similar measure in her first term, though she did take steps to protect glaciers.

“Any change that means that projects have to be evaluated would affect them significantly. It would mean a whole new legal framework on glaciers,” said Winston Alburquenque, a professor of natural resources law at the Catholic University. “Clearly there’s a change – there’s a greater environmental awareness and respect for natural resources.”

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BlackBerry says it will shut down its office in Halifax in January Canadian Press HALIFAX ech giant BlackBerry has announced the closure of its offices in the Halifax area, eliminating more than 350 jobs.

The company based in Waterloo, Ont., issued a brief statement Thursday saying its offices would be shut down as of Jan. 10. Most of these employees work as technical support representatives.

BlackBerry said about 35 employees in Halifax will be offered jobs, but they will have to work from their homes.

The company previously announced plans to cut its global workforce as it struggled to deal with a shrinking market share and disappointing sales of its BlackBerry 10.

The location in the Halifax suburb of Bedford opened in September 2008.

“We know that our employees in the Halifax area have worked hard on behalf of our

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company and we are grateful for their commitment and contributions,” the company said in a statement.

“This is difficult news for them and for the Halifax community. However, these changes are necessary in order to refocus our business to drive the company towards profitability and success in a maturing and more competitive mobile industry.”

A spokesperson declined further comment when contacted by phone.

The company was lured to Nova Scotia in 2005 by a previous Progressive Conservative government.

The province offered $19 million in subsidies, including $14 million in payroll rebates and $5 million for training and recruitment. The company was told it had to create 1,200 jobs over five years to get the full rebate.

BlackBerry drew almost $11 million from the payroll rebate

program over a six-year period ending in February 2012, Nova Scotia Business Inc. has said.

In February, the provincial government announced the company could get up to $10 million over five years if it kept at least 400 jobs in Nova Scotia at an average salary of at least $60,000 a year. The money was supposed to help create a so-called centre of excellence to promote the BlackBerry 10.

The company said Thursday it would repay a $2-million contribution from the Nova Scotia government Premier Darrell Dexter has said without government financial help, the company could have moved the work elsewhere, draining jobs from the province. In return for the infusion of public cash, the company also committed to spend $4 million annually on the centre of excellence, which was to support the new platform by offering training and research.

The provincial government has refused to release figures on the number of jobs created by BlackBerry.

The company had already announced 300 people were being laid off at its head office this week as part of its broader cost-cutting plan. The firm began handing out the notices on Monday, though the cuts have been ongoing across its global operations for several weeks.

BlackBerry plans to eliminate 4,500 jobs over the coming months. Once the job cuts are complete, BlackBerry will have cut more than 7,000 employees since 2011, a steep decline from a total staff that once neared 20,000.

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We can’t trust NorthwesTel tool for keeping track of how much Internet data we use.

by Andrew The problem is, it’s difficult to use, it’s undependable, and Robulack it’s prone to failure.

So none of us should be surprised that just last month this crude data monitoring and alert system that NorthwesTel duct-taped together a few years back inexplicably broke. verybody has at least one For an undetermined “NorthwesTel Sucks” story. period of time in September, A couple of weeks back we all we were all left in the dark as got a new one. we approached and exceeded As any customer so unthe data limits on our Internet fortunate as to be incarceraccounts. ated in NorthwesTel’s service The data use monitoring structure knows, it’s a contool is an absolutely essential stant struggle to live within service that all of us depend the prison of painfully low on.

And NorthwesTel failed to data caps that the company keep it running.

What’s more, provides. it failed even to let us know it Even NorthwesTel’s most was broken. expensive Internet package When this tool breaks, we offers a data limit so low that it’s nearly impossible to avoid all risk being slammed with exceeding it in this age of Net- massive overuse penalties.

And during that downtime, flix, YouTube and Steam.

NorthwesTel was free to apply And if you do go over? Oh penalty fees against our Interboy, you could mortgage a net accounts with prejudice. small house with the fiscal The company doesn’t seem punishment NorthwesTel will to care, though. inflict.

Or maybe that’s the whole To help us avoid being beaten down with those over- point, because those penalties are payable directly to Northuse penalties, the company wesTel. provides us with an ad hoc

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The breakdown in NorthwesTel’s Internet data measuring tool is just the latest, and cruelest, example of this company’s inability to deliver a quality Internet service to northerners.

When a tool as essential as this is broken, and neither explanation, nor discount, nor – at bare minimum – an apology is offered, it demonstrates how little regard NorthwesTel has for its customers.

Over the years the company has implored us, encouraged us, very nearly even begged us to keep track of our data use with its online tool.

Then, when it all of a sudden stops working, it tells us we should never have even depended on it in the first place.

Last month on CBC Radio, while sharing the company’s lame excuses for the tool’s breakdown, NorthwesTel spokesperson Eric Clement stated plainly that we shouldn’t even rely on the tool.

Talk about a bipolar marketing disorder.

So which is it, NorthwesTel? Do we trust you, or don’t we?

I think it’s clear: we don’t.

Or more to the point, we can’t.

After all, if this company is unable even keep a simple thing like a data measuring tool operational, how can we be certain that it’s vigilant in actually measuring the data itself?

What’s more, how do we

know the company is not topping things up – either accidentally or intentionally – by five per cent or 10 per cent or 20 per cent every month and skimming a bit more into its revenue stream through overuse penalties?

We don’t know.

In fact, there’s no way to verify anything NorthwesTel does with data.

There’s no system in place that can provide us assurance that NorthwesTel’s data measurement methods are sound, accurate or truthful.

There’s no public regulation or legislation in place to govern or verify how NorthwesTel goes about this aspect of its business.

There’s no third party we can go to and ask for an audit on the way NorthwesTel measures and bills for data.

The company owns this massive closed system, end to end. It is responsible for delivering the data, measuring it, and billing for it.

And the company does it all behind closed doors, without any public accountability whatsoever.

So when any portion of the system breaks down, the company clearly feels it doesn’t have to offer an explanation or an apology to anyone, much less its so-called “customers.”

So I’m going to throw down the glove: NorthwesTel, prove that we can trust you.

Prove that the services

you’re delivering are what we’ve been led to believe we’re receiving.

Prove to us that the exorbitant prices you’re charging us for Internet data are justified.

Prove to us that the way you’re measuring that data is accurate and verifiable.

Prove to us that we can actually depend on you for being truthful in your over-use penalty practices.

Prove to us that the overuse penalties we’re paying are worth it.

As it stands, very few of us believe that you’re being truthful in the way you deliver, measure, and bill for data.

Other regions of the world have these things called a market and competition to prove value in services. But we’re not so fortunate in the North.

Instead, we have the equivalent of a public utility operating as a closed monopoly.

And it’s free to construct an artifice of value as it sees fit, truthful or not.

Our trust is gone, NorthwesTel. We no longer see value in the services you provide. We just see a big stick that is used to beat us down.

Time to turn that stick into a handshake, NorthwesTel. Prove we can trust you.

Andrew Robulack is an award-winning entrepreneur, writer and consultant specializing in using technology and the Internet to communicate.

Read his blog at www.geeklife.ca.

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Narrowed neck veins found in people with and without MS Sheryl Ubelacker

only one in each group was found to have CCSVI as defined by Zamboni.

TORONTO “And this was a big surprise long-awaited Canadian study to all of us,” said Dr. Anthony has found that narrowed neck Traboulsee, medical director of veins are as common in healthy the UBC Hospital MS Clinic, who people as those with multiple scle- headed the study. “We were rerosis, sounding what’s being called ally expecting to find many more the “death knell” of the theory people with this feature.” that blocked blood vessels may What they did find, however, cause the debilitating neurological was that at least two-thirds in each disease. group – so both those with MS The study, published Tuesday in and those without MS – had a 50 The Lancet, is the latest to quesper cent or greater narrowing in a tion the validity of a controversial jugular or other neck vein. theory put forth in 2009 by Dr. Among 79 subjects with MS, Paolo Zamboni that MS is related 74 per cent had neck vein narrowto narrowed neck veins, which pre- ing, while the same was true for 66 vent blood from properly draining per cent of 55 unaffected siblings from the brain. and 70 per cent of the 43 healthy The Italian vascular surgeon volunteers. named the condition “chronic “So there weren’t really any cerebrospinal venous insufficiency,” significant differences between the or CCSVI. He suggested iron dethree groups,” said Traboulsee, notposits from backed-up blood cause ing that the study was done with the lesions in the brain that are catheter venography, considered the hallmarks of MS. The disease the gold standard for radiologists causes inflammation that destroys to view the inside of veins – and the myelin sheath around nerves, the one Zamboni used, along with leading to widespread disability. ultrasound imaging.

Zamboni said patients treated “So using the best method availwith a procedure to open up their able, we were unable to confirm neck veins – called balloon venoDr. Zamboni’s theory that MS is plasty – saw a significant reduction caused by CCSVI,” he said. “And in symptoms. our conclusion is that the narrowNews of Zamboni’s “liberaing of the neck veins is common tion therapy,” generated through and a normal finding in most traditional and social media, sent people. thousands of MS patients from “We recognize that for many Canada and elsewhere to private people with MS, this will be a great clinics around the world, where disappointment. Many people they spent thousands of dollars were hoping that this was really a each for the unproven treatment. breakthrough in terms of knowlIn the Lancet study, researchers edge of MS.” at the universities of British CoIn an accompanying commenlumbia and Saskatchewan found tary, Dr. Friedemann Paul of NeuCCSVI was a rare phenomenon: roCure Clinical Research Center in out of 177 MS patients, unaffected Berlin and radiologist Mike Wattjes siblings and healthy volunteers, of the MS Center Amsterdam Canadian Press

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said the Canadian study “sounds a death knell for the hypothesis of chronic cerebrospinal venous insufficiency as a disease entity.”

“Chronic cerebrospinal venous insufficiency is not highly prevalent in multiple sclerosis,” they write. “The disorder is neither specific to the disease nor does it have a causative role.”

Paul and Wattjes also said the findings should put an end to discussions about whether millions of dollars spent on researching CCSVI in relation to MS has been a waste of valuable time and intellectual energy.

The study should be viewed as “the definitive conclusion to this discussion ... now it is absolutely clear that no reason exists to allocate any further resources to chronic cerebrospinal venous insufficiency research, be they financial or intellectual.”

However, the MS Society of Canada, which primarily funded the $450,000 study, said in a statement that it “remains committed to funding research that will answer the questions of those who live with the disease.”

And Traboulsee said a federally supported clinical trial of the socalled liberation therapy is going ahead as planned.

The cross-Canada study will enrol 100 MS patients with evidence of narrowed veins to receive either the venoplasty treatment – in which a tiny balloon is fed into the neck veins to widen them – or a sham treatment. Neither patients nor the doctors who assess them will know which treatment they received.

Researchers will follow patients for two years to assess whether they experience sustained improvement in symptoms and whether tests,

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such as MRI brain imaging, show evidence of a reduction or halt in the progression of lesions.

Traboulsee said it is critical that researchers determine whether many of the MS patients who have sought the treatment – including at least an estimated 3,000 Canadians – truly had improvement or experienced a placebo effect, as some critics of the procedure contend.

“People might want to discount this as a placebo effect,” he said. “I think that’s being a bit patronizing to people and we need to do the proper research to fully address if there is any treatment benefit. And if we determine treatment benefit, then we have to figure out why.”

Yet Traboulsee admits he has struggled with the issue, given that Zamboni’s theoretical basis for the therapy appears after many studies to have no validity. “If the original theory is now faulty, why continue down this pathway?”

“Sometimes these things can become separated, and what we’ve found is that although CCSVI as defined by Zamboni doesn’t really exist … we still have the situation where thousands of Canadians have gone abroad and have had a treatment … (and many have) reported significant improvement.”

Other underlying theories in medicine have been proven wrong but have still led to benefit for

patients, he said. “I think it justifies going forward.

“But I’ll be honest – I don’t fully understand how they’re feeling better,” admitted Traboulsee, suggesting that opening up veins may set off a process in the nerves or cause the release of substances that reduce symptoms like fatigue and brain fog.

A spokeswoman for the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, which has earmarked $6 million for the clinical trial, said the study will continue “because we still need to determine the safety of venous angioplasty and better evidence on patient outcomes.”

So far, seven MS patients have been randomized to receive either the treatment or the sham procedure. All 100 patients should be recruited by next summer and preliminary results should be ready by fall 2015, Traboulsee said.

His message to MS patients is the same as it’s been from the beginning: “Please do not rush out and spend your hard-earned money, mortgage your house, (spend) your life savings to get this procedure done out of country at private clinics.

“Research is the way to answer this,” he said. “We’re doing the research. We’re doing it as rapidly as possible. We will have answers to these questions, but hang tight.”

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Antibiotics useless for most sore throats but prescription rates remain high Lindsey Tanner

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Dr. Reid Blackwelder, president of the American Academy of Family Physicians, said part of the problem is old prescribing habits that didn’t change when evidence emerged showing most sore throats and bronchitis are caused by viruses; antibiotics only treat infections caused by bacteria, not colds, flu and other illness from viruses. Illnesses antibiotics can treat include bacterial pneumonia, most urinary infections, some types of eye and ear infections, and some types of food poisoning.

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The research was being presented Thursday at an infectious diseases meeting in San Francisco.

One analysis found that antibiotics were prescribed at 60 per cent of primary-care and emergency room visits for sore throats in 2010, a rate that didn’t budge over 10 years but was down from about 70 per cent in the 1990s. That study was also published online Thursday in JAMA Internal Medicine.

In an editorial, Dr. Rita Redberg, the journal’s editor, noted that only about 10 per cent of sore throats are caused by strep bacteria – which antibiotics can treat.

The second analysis found antibiotics were prescribed at 73 per cent of all visits for bronchitis in 2010, a rate that didn’t change from 1996. Only rare cases of bronchitis are caused by bacteria.

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Leaving hospital against advice could prove painful

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get a drug fix. data that was published in the Canadian Medical Association Some people report needing Journal in late August found to go home to take care of a TORONTO that self discharge from hospi- family member or a pet. In othnew report suggests that tals was associated with higher er cases, an income cheque may people who check themrates of readmission and of be due and the person needs to selves out of hospitals against death. deposit it in time to cover their the advice of their doctors are Dr. Stephen Hwang, who rent and avoid eviction. likely to make a return trip in specializes in inner city mediAnd in a number of cases, the near future. cine at St. Michael’s Hospital people simply say the reason The report says people who in downtown Toronto, suggests they are leaving hospital early is discharged themselves were the problem is a complex one. none of the doctor’s business. more than twice as likely to be “It’s a reminder that this is “Hospitals are not jails and readmitted to a hospital within an important problem and we they’re not obliged to give us a month, and three times as should be developing problems the reason that they disagree likely to visit an emergency to it,” Hwang says of the study. with us and want to leave,” room within a week, when While close to half of the Hwang says. compared to people who leave people who discharged themHe suggests that rather than when their doctor says they are selves from hospitals had a trying to dissuade a patient documented mental health ready to go. from a path they are deterdisorder or a substance abuse And three out of five of the mined to take, doctors should people who self discharged and problem, more than half did try to organize some support not. then came back to an emerfor the patient. They could “It is important to realize gency room for help ended up that all kinds of people do leave ask if it’s OK to notify a family being readmitted to hospital. member of the patient’s plans against medical advice. Young The findings are part of a and health needs, or contact his and old, men and women. national study from the Caor her family doctor to discuss Sometimes people of higher innadian Institute for Health ongoing care. come as well as those of lower Information.

“We should proactively try incomes,” he says.

It is based on an analysis of to put in place that safety net The reasons why people igdata from all provinces except rather than in a moment of irnore the advice of their doctors Quebec. ritation with the patient who is are also varied, says Hwang.

It shows that 1.3 per cent of not listening to what we’re tellSome say they are leaving all discharges from Canadian because they feel better. Others ing them to do say ‘Well, OK, acute inpatient care hospitals with a substance abuse problem out you go. My responsibilities in 2011-12 and nearly one per may leave to be able to drink or are absolved,”’ Hwang says. cent of discharges from emergency departments in Alberta and Ontario were made against medical advice.

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Marigold Santos offers Dawson supernatural surprises ‘Filipino folklore and 1980s pop culture inform the artist’s unsettling dreamscapes’ Elaine Corden Special to the News

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t can be a little spooky in Dawson at this time of year – half the town’s bustling summer population has vanished for the winter, the leaves are off the trees, and the comforting presence of a blanket of snow on the ground is still weeks away. Add in the town’s reputation as a haven for gold-rush era ghosts and the spectre of Halloween, and you’ve got a perfect setting for a horror movie.

It’s no wonder then, that Marigold Santos so enjoyed her recent visit to Dodge to launch an exhibition of her work, on display at the ODD Gallery.

The Montreal-based artist has a penchant for spooky, sometimes unsettling imagery that’s perfect for a town that celebrates human-toe cocktails, morbid poets, and myriad gruesome ghost stories. In fact, the works that comprise unearthly, uprising – an exhibit Santos created specifically for the ODD Gallery – seem to be made of the same ingredients that go into any good “strangethings-done” tale: the natural and supernatural world, landscape, nostalgia, and mythmaking.

Featuring four large-scale, mixed-media canvases (Santos calls them “drawings,” though they read largely as immaculately detailed paintings), unearthly, uprising appears at first to be a macabre collection of work. There is revenant, featuring a head-and-shoulders portrait of an asuang, a vampire/witch figure from Filipino folklore, and hoax, in which

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Marigold Santos’s work is on display at the ODD Gallery in Dawson City.

disembodied hands float in a murky ether, appearing to sign secret codes to the viewer.

Similarly eerie and beautiful are flight, depicting kites either ascending or descending (the artist and the work won’t comment on which), and liminal, a landscape-meets-dreamscape set in what appears to be the Badlands of Alberta.

While both visually satisfying and unsettling on first glance, the works become much richer when informed

by Santos’s intent. Born in the Philippines, Santos came to Canada with her family in the late-1980s, an experience she says informs all of her work – she recalls being blown away by the pervasive nature of North

American pop culture upon arrival, something she says changed her life. Like many new Canadians, Santos quickly became an omnivorous consumer of all things pop, and the television, movies, books, and commercials of the late ‘80s and early ‘90s became touchstones for a new identity.

“I’m interested in how landscape, both physical and social, shapes memory and our sense of self,” says Santos.

“The creation of our identities as a process of negotiation and hybridization.”

As she grew older, Santos returned to her roots – exploring Filipino folklore and traditions through her art, first as an undergrad at the University of

Calgary, and then as an MFA student at Concordia.

The asuang – a shape-shifting vampiric creature that can divide itself then make itself whole again – provided a potent metaphor for Santos’s own experiences as a new Canadian.

Santos has revisited this figure in numerous exhibitions, and in revenant it appears shrouded in lace and floral clothes.

“I draw a lot on memories of my childhood when I’m creating,” says Santos. “Sometimes I don’t event know until I’m done. Like with revenant, I was like, ‘That floral fabric is

familiar…. Oh, I think it’s from the couch we had when I was growing up.’”

Given that Santos draws so much on her early childhood experiences, it’s not surprising to learn that one of her first pop culture loves was horror movies – an affinity that remains today.

“I remember I couldn’t believe how accessible it all was,” she recalls, adding that the macabre nature of some Filipino versions of Catholic rituals may have inured her to gory cinema. “My parents didn’t have a problem with it, I was allowed to watch whatever I wanted, really.”

She was thrilled then, when a trip to the Yukon not only provided confirmation of her “romantic” ideas of the North, but also contact with an audience of kindred spirits.

“I loved my time in Dawson,” Santos enthuses. “The opening night went really well, with close to 50 people in attendance, and I was so glad to be able to meet so many artists in the community. Artists ranging from budding SOVA students, musicians, filmmakers, and various writers. It was also such a pleasure to have an artist talk to such an engaged crowd … I was able to share, compare, and exchange stories of childhood games, and my most favourite, ghost stories.... Lots of those in Dawson, a city that is otherworldly in its own right.”

Unearthly, uprising is at the ODD Gallery until Nov. 1.

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Elusive British graffiti artist hits streets of New York City Beth J. Harpaz

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Another of Banksy’s New York City efforts bears the words “This is my New York accent” spray-painted in classic graffiti-style handwriting with “...normally I write like this,” in neat print underneath.

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NEW YORK raffiti by the secretive British artist Banksy is turning up on the streets of New York City – and all over social media.

Banksy announced on his website that he is undertaking “an artists residency on the streets of New York” this month.

He’s posting pictures of his work on the website and fans are plastering the images all over Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Though he’s not providing exact locations, those who spot the graffiti are spreading the word online to aid other fans in the treasure hunt.

Jennifer Hawkins, who runs a public relations agency in Chelsea, posted pictures on Facebook after finding “a Banksy sighting right out my office backdoor,” on 24th Street between Sixth and Seventh avenues.

Spray-painted on a building wall already defaced by illegible scrawls, the graffiti shows a black silhouette of a dog lifting his leg on a fire hydrant, with the words “You complete me” in a cartoon bubble.

“My favourite part of the whole thing is having the little groupies standing out there,” Hawkins said, referring to the small crowds of fans taking pictures.

The Daily Telegraph, a British outlet, has created an online map to track the images. The Museum of Modern Art posted links on its Twitter feed with a “Banksy watch” tag.

At least one of the works is gone already, altered by other graffiti artists and then whitewashed. The picture, done on a wall in Chinatown, showed a barefoot boy with a cap standing

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Graffiti by British artist Banksy in New York. Banksy graffiti is turning up on the streets of the city and all over social media.

on another boy’s back, pointing at a sign that says, “Graffiti is a crime.”

Banksy is calling the New York City effort “Better Out Than In,” a reference to a quote by impressionist Paul Cezanne, “All pictures painted inside, in the studio, will never be as good as those done outside.”

His website includes a tollfree number and an online “Click here to listen” button with commentary on each image that spoofs the pre-recorded cellphone tours commonly offered at museum exhibits. The commentary mispronounces his name as Ban-sky and is read against a soundtrack of cheesy elevator music.

One line from the phone tour says: “You’re looking at a type of picture called graffiti, from the Latin graffito, which means graffiti with an O.” The commentary goes on to say, “Let us pause for a moment to consider the deeper meaning of this work. OK, that’s long enough,” later adding, “What exactly is the artist trying to say here? ... Perhaps it is a

postmodern comment on how the signifiers of objects have become as real as the object themselves. Are you kidding me?

Who writes this stuff? Anyway, you decide.”

Banksy – who refuses to give his real name – began his career in the British city of Bristol spray-painting local buildings.

His works now fetch thousands of dollars around the world, but many of his street paintings have been defaced, destroyed or removed.

His website for the New York project has posted images every day of the month so far. He captioned three pictures posted Friday as “Random graffiti given a Broadway makeover (an ongoing series).”

The pictures showed the words “The Musical,” stamped in a stenciled script beneath existing scrawls, so that they read, “Dirty Underwear, The Musical,” “Occupy! The Musical” and “Playground Mob, The Musical.”

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Alice Munro wins Nobel Prize for literature Linda Shearman

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At 80, jazz legend Wayne Shorter relishes the challenge of performing ‘without a net’ Charles J. Gans The Associated Press

NEW YORK t age 80, Wayne Shorter isn’t ready to rest on his reputation as one of the greatest composers in jazz history. Instead, whenever he performs the saxophonist can’t resist the urge to “de-compose” his works and create something anew.

“Jazz to me is something that doesn’t have to sound like jazz,” said Shorter, speaking by telephone from his home in the Hollywood Hills.

“The word ‘jazz’ means I dare you. I dare you to go beyond what you are.

You have to go beyond your comfort zone, to break out of the box. ...

You’re talking about not just music, you’re talking about life.”

Shorter, who celebrated his birthday with several concerts in August, is still going strong. He was a quadruple winner in this year’s Downbeat magazine critics poll, topping the categories for Jazz Artist, Jazz Album, Jazz Group and Soprano Saxophone. Earlier this year, he was awarded the UNESCO Medal of the Five Continents during International Jazz Day celebrations in Istanbul, Turkey, and last month the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz honoured him with its Lifetime Achievement Award.

“You could say that he’s at the peak of his game because he’s so full of creative vitality and potential at the age of 80, but how could anybody know Wayne Shorter’s peak,” said pianist Herbie Hancock, Shorter’s long-time friend, musical collaborator and fellow Buddhist.

Hancock turned up to play duets with Shorter at birthday celebrations at the Newport Jazz Festival and Hollywood Bowl.

“I get the feeling that many people feel that when they reach a certain age they just want to pull away from things and rest,” Hancock said, “but the great joy of living is that there is no age where one needs to turn off the creative juices and

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Wayne is showing that.”

Hancock said he first played with Shorter in 1961 on trumpeter Donald Byrd’s album Free Form. Three years later they members of Miles Davis’ groundbreaking second classic quintet with bassist Ron Carter and drummer Tony Williams.

Davis encouraged his musicians to bring in their compositions to record, but Shorter’s were the only ones the trumpeter didn’t change in the studio, Hancock said. These included such tunes as E.S.P., Nefertiti and Footprints that became modern jazz standards.

Hancock said he was equally amazed by Shorter’s skills as a saxophonist and improviser.

“When Wayne plays either the tenor or soprano, you don’t hear the tenor and the soprano, you hear Wayne,” Hancock said.

Shorter said he’s never believed in “maintaining a tradition for the tradition’s sake,” which is why his compositions embrace multiple styles – bebop, modal, jazz-rock fusion, film music, classical, and free improvisation. He also eschews the “illusionary” pursuit of financial gratification – choosing to release records on his own timetable.

Earlier this year, Shorter released his first new album in eight years, Without a Net. It marked his return after 43 years to the Blue Note label, where from 1964-70 he recorded a series of albums, including Night Dreamer, Juju, and Speak No Evil, with complex but beautifully lyrical tunes that established his reputation as a jazz composer.

The CD – whose title was inspired by an observation the late actress Vonetta McGee made after hearing his band perform at Yoshi’s club in San Francisco – mostly consists of live performances from the 2011 European tour of his quartet with bassist John Patitucci, drummer Brian Blade and pianist Danilo Perez.

Shorter said for him “no piece of music is ever finished.” On the CD,

Excellence.

Innovation.

Responsibility.

Stewardship.

Claude Paris/AP Photo

Jazz saxophonist Wayne Shorter performing at the 5 Continents Jazz Festival, in Marseille, southern France in July. Shorter is going strong at 80.

the quartet completely reimagines Orbits, originally recorded by Davis’ quintet in 1966 for the Miles Smiles album, and Plaza Real, from the 1983 album Procession by Weather Report, his landmark jazz-rock fusion band. Shorter, an avid cinema buff, also offers an extended other worldly version of the obscure movie theme, Flying Down to Rio, from the 1933 film that first paired Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers.

The CD includes six new Shorter compositions, most notably the 23-minute tone poem Pegasus.

Shorter, who studied composition at NYU, is getting more opportunities to write large-form pieces that combine improvisations with written music played by classical orchestras. Earlier this year, he performed with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra – with a recording to be released next year – and premiered

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stage with “my favourite musician on Planet Earth,” but also a learning experience. Shorter encouraged her to rewrite her vocal part for subsequent performances of Gaia.

“For me that feels really liberating and kind of scary because we get attached to the work we do,” said Spalding, who covered Shorter’s Endangered Species on her Grammywinning CD Radio Music Society. ’It stretched me in directions that I’ve never thought I would go.“ With his quartet, Shorter insists on performing without rehearsals or a set list so there’s nothing inhibiting spontaneous composition.

He calls the first segment of each performance Zero Gravity – also the title of an upcoming documentary about his life – where the musicians “try not to be attached to something that keeps us handcuffed and anchored.”

Bassist Patitucci said the quartet is “the only long-standing group absolutely dedicated to playing his music” that Shorter’s ever had and has become like a close-knit family after playing together since 2000.

“At this age of 80, it’s a joyful time,” Shorter said. “If there’s an obstacle I’m glad. The bigger the obstacle the bigger the benefit because you need resistance like an airplane needs resistance to take off.”

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LIFE

Lessons in cancer and kindness

Ian Stewart/Yukon News

Oncology nurse Kristy MacLeod works with patient Erika Biondelli at Whitehorse General Hospital’s chemotherapy suite on Monday. MacLeod has been nominated for a Canadian Oncology Nurse of the Year award.

Jacqueline Ronson News Reporter

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Yukon nurse has been nominated for the Canadian Association of Nurses in Oncology’s nurse of the year award.

Kristy MacLeod runs the chemotherapy centre at Whitehorse General Hospital.

Just being there makes a huge difference to people suffering from cancer.

There have been times in the recent past where no chemotherapy treatment was available in the Yukon, because there was no nurse to deliver it.

Instead, patients would have to leave the territory for treatment, typically every two or three weeks.

MacLeod used to see some of those patients in her previous job at the B.C. Cancer Agency in Vancouver.

“We kept having this plethora of patients come through from Whitehorse,” said MacLeod. “I’d always be asking them, ‘What’s Whitehorse like? What’s it like up there?’ That’s when they started to tell me, ‘Oh, there’s no nurse available, so we’ve all had to fly out to have treatment done.’ That kind of got my thought process started on the whole concept of coming

up here.”

MacLeod moved to Whitehorse in December of last year on a sixmonth contract.

Within two months, she had signed on for an additional six months.

Now, she hopes to take on the position permanently.

MacLeod works out of Karen’s Room, a dedicated space for chemotherapy treatment at the hospital, which opened in 2003.

The project to create the space was led by Jack Kobayashi in memory of his wife, Karen Wiederkehr.

Before that, people would have to sit in emergency or short-stay beds to receive treatment, said MacLeod.

“It just wasn’t the most therapeutic place for chemo to be given.”

Karen’s Room is set up like a living room, with couches, a television, a small kitchen and large recliner chairs for medical treatment.

A single treatment can last up to eight hours, so it’s important for people to feel at home, said MacLeod.

Each patient has their own quilt, which they pick out when they are first diagnosed.

The quilts are donated by the

Haines Junction Quilt Club and Quilters Without Borders, said MacLeod.

A patient’s quilt will wait for them on one of the treatment chairs when they come in for an appointment.

When they graduate from treatment, MacLeod holds a party for them, complete with silly hats and cake, and the quilt is gifted to them.

The walls are decorated with donated art.

“Most of this room is completely donated,” said MacLeod.

It’s that spirit of kindness and generosity that makes her want to stay in the Yukon, she said.

Many may think a job working with cancer patients would be depressing, but MacLeod doesn’t see it that way.

“I find more hope and more inspiration from working with my patients going through chemotherapy than I have in all of my nursing career, working in any other area.”

Because she sees patients for such an extended period of time, a special bond develops between them, she said.

It was one of her patients who nominated her for the award.

“That’s a very Yukon thing, for

your patients to nominate you. In so many other places, there’s not a lot of recognition or acknowledgement of a lot of the work that people do. Everyone kind of goes about their own lives. Whereas here, everyone is so caring and thoughtful of one another, that it just doesn’t surprise me that one of my patients would be that kind.”

MacLeod has worked with 64 patients since January, she said.

Some have graduated, some continue to receive treatment and some have passed on, she said.

MacLeod does much more than deliver chemotherapy.

She acts as a case manager, coordinating with oncology specialists in Vancouver, Calgary and Edmonton and guiding patients through treatment.

Patients often drop in for counselling, or to check in about side effects from the chemotherapy, she said.

She basically runs the chemotherapy clinic alone, although a second nurse at the hospital is available to fill in on occasion, she said.

MacLeod was born and raised in Vancouver. She spent the first four years of her nursing career at the Vancouver General Hospital, where she specialized in surgical

oncology.

“I always thought I was a city person,” she said.

But after that, she spent several years in the Australian outback working to prevent and treat infectious disease in aboriginal communities.

That experience got her interested in working in Canada’s North, she said.

She had always been interested in the Yukon, said MacLeod.

Twelve nurses from across Canada have been nominated for the nurse of the year award.

The winner will be announced at the Canadian Association of Nurses in Oncology’s annual meeting on October 22 in Vancouver.

MacLeod will go down for the conference, she said.

“I can’t say enough about how honoured I am that I was even mentioned in this. I don’t think I’m in the same league as these other people who have been nominated for things. I really want to stress the fact that I recognize that this kindness and the effort that it took for someone to go through this process of nominating, to me is such a Yukon trait, it’s such a Whitehorse trait.”

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As babies pioneer research into benefits of gene mapping, ethical questions abound Lauran Neergaard Associated Press

WASHINGTON ittle Amelia Sloan is a pioneer: Shortly after her birth, scientists took drops of the healthy baby’s blood to map her genetic code.

Amelia is part of a large research project outside the nation’s capital that is decoding the DNA of hundreds of infants. New parents in a few other cities soon can start signing up for smaller studies to explore if what’s called genome sequencing – fully mapping someone’s genes to look for health risks – should become a part of newborn care.

It’s full of ethical challenges.

Should parents be told only about childhood threats? Or would they also want to learn if their babies carried a key gene for, say, breast cancer after they’re grown? Could knowing about future risks alter how a family treats an otherwise healthy youngster? And how accurate is this technology – could it raise too many false alarms?

This is the newest frontier in the genetic revolution: how early to peek into someone’s DNA, and how to make use of this health forecast without causing needless worry.

“This was something that was looming over the horizon,” said Dr. Alan Guttmacher, a pediatrician and geneticist at the National Institutes of Health. Last month, NIH announced a $25 million, five-year pilot project in four cities – Boston, San Francisco, Chapel Hill, N.C., and Kansas City, Mo. – to start answering some of the questions before the technology is widely offered for babies.

Today, the 4 million U.S. babies born annually have a heel pricked in the hospital, providing a spot of blood to be tested for signs of at least 30 rare diseases. This newborn screening catches several thousand affected babies each year in time for early treatment to prevent death,

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brain damage or other disabilities.

It’s considered one of the nation’s most successful public health programs.

A complete genetic blueprint would go well beyond what that newborn blood spot currently tells doctors and parents – allowing a search for potentially hundreds of other conditions, some that arise in childhood and some later, some preventable and some not.

“If I truly believed that knowing one’s genome was going to be transformative to medicine over the next decade or more, then wouldn’t I want to start generating that information around the time of birth?” asked Dr. John Niederhuber, former director of the National Cancer Institute who now oversees one of the largest baby-sequencing research projects to date.

At Niederhuber’s Inova Translational Medicine Institute in Falls Church, Va., researchers are mapping the genomes of newborns, along with their parents and other relatives for comparison. The long-term goal of the privately funded study is to uncover genetic patterns that predict complex health problems, from prematurity to developmental disorders.

But the experimental tests will turn up some gene mutations already well-known to cause serious ailments, and participating parents must choose upfront whether to be told. They don’t get a full report card of their baby’s genes. Only ones that cause treatable or preventable conditions – so-called medically actionable findings – are revealed, to the family’s doctor. That means in addition to pediatric diseases, parents also could learn whether a baby carries a particular breast-cancer-causing gene, information useful once she reaches young adulthood.

Nurse Holly Sloan was eager to enrol daughter Amelia, although she thought hard about how she’d handle any bad news.

Molly Riley/AP Photo

Holly Sloan with her baby Amelia in Warrenton, Virginia.

Amelia’s family enrolled in a study decoding the DNA of babies, exploring whether gene-mapping should become a part of newborn care.

“If it was something that we could hopefully prevent through diet or exercise or some kind of lifestyle change, we could start with that as early as possible,” said Sloan, of Warrenton, Va. “I guess I’m just the type of person, I would rather know and address it.” Five months after Amelia’s birth, she hasn’t gotten any worrisome results.

Until now, genome sequencing has been used mostly in research involving curious adults or to help diagnose children or families plagued by mysterious illnesses.

But many specialists say it’s almost inevitable that DNA mapping eventually will be used for healthy young children, too, maybe as an addition to traditional newborn screening for at least some tots. It takes a few drops of blood or a cheek swab. And while it’s still too costly for routine use, the price is dropping rapidly. Whole genome sequencing is expected to soon come down to $1,000, what it now costs for a more targeted “exome” sequencing that maps only certain genes and may be enough.

The NIH decided this was a window of opportunity to explore

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different ways this technology might be used. One of the four teams – at Children’s Mercy Hospital in Kansas City – will test rapid gene-mapping to speed diagnosis of sick babies in intensive care.

Another will look for narrow sets of genes important in childhood, such as those involved with immune disorders not detected by today’s newborn screening or that alter how a child processes medication. “It’s not going to be some sort of fishing expedition throughout the genome,” said Dr. Robert Nussbaum of the University of California, San Francisco.

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The two other projects – at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston and the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill – will go a step further by enrolling healthy infants as they explore what kind of information parents want about their babies’ future.

“We aren’t even sure that genome-scale sequencing in newborns is really a good idea,” cautioned UNC lead researcher Dr. Jonathan Berg in a recent Facebook chat to alert the community about the study. Rather than a one-time mapping, it’s possible that “we will use targeted sequencing at certain times in a person’s life, when that specific information will actually be medically useful.”

For those pioneering babies whose DNA is being mapped already, researchers are “trying to figure out what is legal, versus ethical, versus good medicine” in revealing results, said Joe Vockley, Inova Translational Medicine Institute’s chief science officer.

Mom and Dad may be told something their child, once grown, wishes hadn’t been revealed. Other findings may be withheld now that would be good to know years later, as new treatments are developed.

“This is a living, breathing problem,” Vockley said, “not a static decision that’s made, and it lasts for all time.”

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Wildfire hits close to home for scientist

by Ned Rozell

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hile pounding nails on a roof extension for his shed this summer, Scott Rupp heard a roar that almost scared him off the roof. Three planes with bellies full of fire retardant swooped low, then banked over the mountain behind his home.

“I looked up and saw this big smoke cloud,” said the part-time farmer and leader of an organization devoted to studying climate change. “That was my first sense that this was something that was going to personally affect me.”

“This” was one of the largest wildfires in Alaska during the hot summer of 2013. It came close enough to Rupp’s homestead that he felt smoky heat on his face, a sensation that will now be on his mind every time he tweaks a computer model that simulates future fire scenarios in Alaska.

Rupp, 46, leads two lives in his home of interior Alaska. By day, he heads the Scenarios Network for Alaska & Arctic Planning, a group of about 20 scientists and staff who try to predict the future of Alaska climate so people can prepare.

After work, he drives 30 miles to his 320-acre parcel off Chena Hot Springs Road. There, he hugs his wife and two daughters, along

with a few dozen dogs, “too many” goats, chickens, and, soon, two 500-pound hogs.

He wants to make Flat Mountain Farm a place that sustains itself and other Alaskans. He’d prefer to spend most of his time there, but he needs money for goat feed. And he’s such a smart guy that others at the University of Alaska Fairbanks chose the former forestry professor to lead SNAP. Part of his job is to decide which high-power computer models best simulate Alaska and predict what it will be like in 5, 10 and 100 years. A large component of those models is the occurrence of wildfires, a phenomenon that has fascinated him since his boyhood in Pennsylvania.

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The next day at work, he checked websites that showed the activity and growth of a fire that started on military land south of his home. If it had occurred in the Lower 48, the Stuart Creek fire would have eaten most of a county before stalling at a large river,

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session that day, he marvelled at single trees exploding in flames across the river. From his Internet log-ins, he saw that a Type 1 fire crew was now in the area.

“It was pretty serious,” he said.

Before long, Rupp was alone with his goats and a half dozen dogs. Citing crazy winds and the fire’s advance, officials had called an evacuation notice. Kerry and the girls went to a friend’s house closer to Fairbanks.

Rupp had time to think about his decision not to leave, one he made after assuring himself that at most he would lose a barn or another outbuilding and that he, Photo by Scott Rupp. the goats and the dogs could find The Stuart Creek wildfire plume as seen from Scott Rupp’s refuge in a half-acre garden patch yard on a midsummer day. if the fire came near. After working with the firefighters as part of his Tanana Valley State Fairgrounds, poised to devour more. job, he suspected they could hold As he drove home that night, he the evacuation point for animal the line when the time came. couldn’t help staring at the majestic owners along Chena Hot Springs “These guys are the best in the Road. cauliflower column that filled his world at what they do,” Rupp said.

With the fire rolling toward the “I figured if anybody could have windshield view. That day, winds Chena River and the paved road to made a stand at the river, it was fanned the fire to almost double the hot springs resort just beyond its acres consumed. When Rupp them.” it, Rupp returned home the next motored down his long driveway, Soon, bathed in acrid orange day to find firefighters in his yard. he pulled up to his home, greeted smoke, he felt the radiative warmth They seemed pleased that Scott his family, and went to the end of of the fire on his cheeks. He could a cleared field where he had a great and Kerry had cleared well around no longer see the mountain oneview of the plumes erupting from a their buildings and lived in an open half mile behind his house and fire front about ten miles away and hardwood forest. ghostly birch leaves fell from the The fire stalled for a few days, closing. sky, exploding to ash when they hit but on July 4 the firefighters were He admits he then became a the ground. Rupp said he remained back on the Rupps’ property, setman obsessed, a “geeky scientist confident until the goats, as tame ting up hoses and sprinklers on that found the entire event fascinas household pets, began acting up. their roofs. ating and spending way too much “You could tell they were on “That was a little bit unsettling,” edge, out of their normal sorts.” time observing things . . . instead Rupp said. “But I still had a hard of worrying about prepping our He then wondered if he would time doing anything but going property.” be able to execute of his plan of down to the end of the field and His wife Kerry did not underluring the goats to the garden with stand why Scott was standing in the taking pictures. Those plumes were a bowl of oats should he see the grass taking photographs instead of really impressive.” firefighters backing into his yard.

By the end of his fire-watching herding the goats for a ride to the Luckily, he never found out if the freaked goats would follow him. The fire stalled at the river.

More humid weather came in and wind, the “wild card” in the fire game, became calm. Rupp’s family returned home. Chena Hot Springs Road remained open the rest of the season. The autumn rains finally arrived. And Rupp might never look at his job the same way.

“A lot of scientists don’t even get to step on the landscape they’re modeling,” he said. “I found the whole experience to be enlightenNorth Klondike Hwy Residents ing and interesting.”

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Though the fire messed up his 6:00 to 8:00 PM summer hay planting and other Saturday, October 19 work on the farm, Rupp doesn’t seem to mind. And, he points out, 10:00 AM to Noon when the boreal forest burns like that, it can’t go up in the same fashIf you have questions about the project please contact Yesh Sharma ion for a long time. or Brian Power at 633-7000.

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E-cigarettes could hook new generation on nicotine, medical journal warns Helen Branswell

from a distance resembles smoke.

Some of the cartridges are filled with flavoured liquids, TORONTO for example cherry or menthol. leading Canadian medical Others contain nicotine, though journal is raising concerns those are not meant to be sold in that electronic cigarettes could Canada. hook a new generation into nicoUnder Canadian law, it is tine addiction. illegal to sell e-cigarettes with With fruit-flavoured products nicotine. Still, vials of nicotine for and movie star endorsements, e-cigarettes can be purchased in e-cigarettes could lure youth who the U.S. or ordered over the Interwouldn’t otherwise smoke into net. Canadian border authorities a nicotine habit, an editorial in will seize shipments of nicotine this week’s issue of the Canadian vials for e-cigarettes – when they Medical Association Journal sugspot them. gests.

One of Stanbrook’s major The editorial was written concerns is that increasing use

by Dr. Matthew Stanbrook, a of e-cigarettes could undermine Toronto-based respirologist and the tool he credits most for havan editor at the journal. ing driven down smoking rates He said it may be tempting for in Canada – the restrictions on society to embrace e-cigarettes smoking in workplaces, in restaubased on the assumption that rants and bars and many other they help some people to quit public settings. These policies smoking. But he warned that have made it harder for smokers some people use e-cigarettes to to smoke, and have turned public get a nicotine hit where they are perception against the habit. not allowed to smoke and con“It was to make it more and tinue to smoke regular cigarettes more inconvenient to continue as well. their addiction so that they were “It isn’t as obviously a good finally motivated to quit, as the thing as those trying to sell these overwhelming majority of smokare trying to make it appear to ers want to do anyway but can’t,” be,” Stanbrook said in an intersaid Stanbrook, who practises at view.

Toronto Western Hospital.

“You would think: ‘Well, here’s “So anything that reverses that a cigarette that doesn’t have all the most effective tool we’ve ever bad stuff. How could that be bad?’ invented is of concern.”

But you have to think beyond an Stanbrook acknowledged that e-cigarette versus a regular cigae-cigarettes probably do help rette and think about how this is some people quit smoking. But going to change the behaviour of he worries that – unlike nicotine smokers. And that’s the concern.” patches or gum – the devices have Electronic cigarettes are small a cool quotient that could appeal cigarette-shaped canisters that are to youth and spur them to start used to simulate the sensation of consuming nicotine. smoking. Batteries in the canis“The gum isn’t cool for youth ters heat up fluid-filled cartridges to use in clubs. No one’s going to that then give off a vapour, which make that sexy. No one’s going Canadian Press

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It is essential that governments senior policy analyst for the Caon sexy and trendy. But here’s introduce new legislation without nadian Cancer Society. something that looks to a casual observer exactly like smoking, can be made trendy, can be expanded to people who never smoked.

That’s where the concern comes in.”

The editorial comes as the Time to get your septic pumped Canadian Cancer Society calls How long has it been since your last pump-out? on federal and provincial govSeptics should be pumped every 1 to 2 years. ernments to ban all flavoured tobacco products.

Data from the national Youth Smoking Survey, released Monday, showed that more than half of high school students in Canada Vaccuum who used tobacco products in the • Free Estimates • Seniors Discount previous 30 days reported having Call the Septic Professionals used flavoured tobacco products.

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Despite Fukushima, scientists say eating West Coast fish is safe effects on marine food webs far away from Japan. Trace amounts of radioisotopes from the Fukushima

by DAVID plant were found, although the best SUZUKI available science puts them at levels below those naturally occurring in the environment around us.

Natural, or background radiation, is found in many sources, including food items, medical treatments and air travel.

The most comprehensive health ollowing Japan’s devastating assessment, by the World Health 2011 earthquake and tsunami, Organization, concludes radiofear spread about risks of leaked active particles that make their way radiation from the Fukushima to North America’s waters will have Daiichi nuclear power plant – for the health of those living in or near a limited effect on human health, with concentrations predicted to be Fukushima or involved in cleanup below WHO safety levels. efforts, and for the planet and the More reports are in the works. potential impacts on our complex The UN agency charged with marine food web. assessing global levels and conShunichi Tanaka, head of Japan’s Nuclear Regulation Authority, told sequences of ionizing radiation will present its findings to the UN reporters radioactive water has General Assembly this month. This likely been leaking into the Pacific Ocean since the disaster hit. It’s the is where we may find answers about largest single contribution of radio- the amount of radioactive material released, how it was dispersed and nuclides to the marine environany repercussions for the environment ever observed, according to one report. With 300 tonnes of con- ment and food sources.

The ocean is vast and dynamic taminated water pouring into the with many complexities we don’t sea every day, Japan’s government fully understand. It appears two finally acknowledged the urgency currents off Japan’s coast – the of the situation in September.

Kuroshio Current and Kurushio Social media is now abuzz with Extension – diluted radioactive people swearing off fish from the material to below WHO safety Pacific Ocean. Given the lack of levels within the first four months information around containment efforts, some may find this reason- of the disaster. Eddies and giant whirlpools, some tens of kilometres able. But preliminary research wide, continue the dilution and will shows fish caught off Canada’s direct radioactive particles to coastPacific Coast are safe to eat. al areas for at least two decades.

It will take about three years Fish from the water near the from the time of the incident for crippled plant are not faring so the radiation plume to reach the well. High levels of cesium-134, West Coast, which would be early a radioactive isotope that decays next year. Recent testing of migrarapidly, were found in fish samples tory fish, including tissue samples there. Radiation levels in the sea collected from Pacific bluefin tuna caught off the California coast, asaround Japan have been holding sessed radiation levels and potential steady and not falling as expected,

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At least 42 fish species from the immediate area are considered unsafe for consumption, and fisheries there remain closed.

New concerns continue to arise.

While the initial leak contained cesium isotopes, water flowing into the ocean from the plant now appears to be higher in strontium-90, a radioactive substance that is absorbed differently. While cesium tends to go in and out of the body quickly, strontium heads for the bones.

A huge accumulation of radioactive water at the plant must be dealt with immediately.

Determining the full effects of years of exposure to lower levels of radioactive contamination leaking into the ocean will take time and require continued monitoring and assessment. While Health Canada monitors radionuclide levels in food sold in Canada, and one of its studies incorporates samples from Vancouver, we need to remain vigilant and demand timely monitoring results.

Any amount of leaked radiation is harmful to the planet and the health of all species, including humans. A major release of radioactivity, such as that from Fukushima, is a huge concern, with unknowns remaining around longterm health risks such as cancers.

That doesn’t mean it’s unsafe to eat all fish caught on the Pacific West Coast. I’m taking a precautionary approach: fish will stay part of my diet, as long as they’re caught locally and sustainably, and will remain so until new research gives me pause to reconsider.

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Tick tactics, for home and away Pet

found in every state, including Alaska and Hawaii. Ticks used to be active from spring through fall, but warmer winters mean that some species are staying active as late as February, depending on where they are located.

That’s bad news, since ticks are major carriers of diseases that affect both humans and dogs and cats. Most of us are

by Gina Spadafori familiar with Lyme disease, but and Marty Becker ticks also transmit Rocky Mountain spotted fever, ehrlichiosis, Kim Campbell Thornton babesiosis and Cytauxzoon felis, Universal Uclick which infects cats. The ticks that primarily transmit these debilin the span of less than a week, tating and sometimes deadly I found two ticks on my dog diseases are the black-legged tick Harper, a Cavalier King Charles (Ixodes scapularis), the Lone spaniel. In 25 years of dog own- Star tick (Amblyomma ameriership, that was a first. We live in canum) and the American dog Southern California, so ticks are tick (Dermacentor variabilis). a fact of life, but Harper doesn’t Protect yourself and your pets typically go into areas where from tick-borne diseases with ticks are found. We don’t have a the following measures: yard, and she’s not allowed on • Provide all your pets with local hiking trails. I can only sur- lifetime parasite control. “We almise that the ticks hitched a ride ways say to treat every pet every on me – ick! – after a hike and month all year long,” Dr. Little made their way onto Harper. says. Dogs and cats don’t spread Tick populations are increas- tick-borne diseases directly ing. And there aren’t just more to their owners, but they can of them; they’re being found in acquire diseases from ticks as more places than in the past, says well as bring ticks into the home veterinary parasitologist Dr. Su- or yard. And just because your san E. Little of Oklahoma State dog or cat stays mainly indoors University. Milder winters; more or lives in a certain geographic white-tailed deer, which carry region doesn’t mean he’s not at the tiny arachnids; and increasrisk. ing development in formerly • Ask your veterinarian which rural areas are among the factors ticks and tick-borne diseases are in the ticks’ spread. common in your area and which Like me, you might never product is best for protecting have had to worry about ticks your animals. The information before, but now is a good time to may have changed since you last talk to your veterinarian about learned about ticks. their prevalence in your area.

• Apply tick-prevention prodMany tick species have moved ucts on a regular schedule. It’s out of their original habitats, no longer effective to try to time carried away by migratory birds, parasite control to start in spring coyotes and deer. One or more and stop after the second killing species of ticks can now be frost.

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• Check your dog or cat for ticks anytime he has been outdoors. Keep a tick-removal device on hand and know how to use it.

• Make your yard less welcoming to ticks by removing leaf litter, mowing the lawn frequently, keeping landscaping free of tall grass and brush, and fencing your yard to prevent incursions by deer and other animals that carry ticks. A three-foot swathe of wood chips or gravel between your lawn and wooded areas won’t keep ticks away, but it does serve as a visual reminder that you are entering the tick zone.

• Use insect repellent on yourself and wear protective clothing.

• After a hike or other outdoor excursion to tick-friendly wooded areas with tall grass, give yourself a cursory examination for the little bloodsuckers, so you don’t drive them home to your pets.

Q&A Born shy: how to help fearful cats Q: When my son and his wife came to visit recently, our cat took one look when they walked in the door, ran upstairs and disappeared under our bed.

She wouldn’t come out all day, and she’s not eating much. I’m worried that the stress of having guests in the house, combined with her lack of appetite, will trigger a bout of pancreatitis, which she’s had before. Is there anything I can do to help her be more comfortable when we have visitors? – via Facebook A: It’s normal for cats to react this way to unfamiliar people and situations. The flight response is a survival behaviour that protects them from potentially dangerous situations or

individuals.

The bad news is that there’s no way to train or socialize your cat to be friendly toward strangers. Cats who react fearfully to strangers carry the trait in their genes. What’s interesting is that it’s the father who has the most influence over kitten personalities, even though they spend most of their time with their mother.

If your cat had met and been handled by many different people before she was six weeks old, the socialization could have helped her to be less fearful of strangers or new or unusual objects, but it won’t help now.

The best thing you can do for your cat is to set up a safe place where she can feel secure. This can be your bedroom, an office or some other comfortable area where no one will disturb her.

Stock it with food, water, a litter box (well away from the food and water) and maybe a favourite toy.

Your cat may never be a social butterfly, but it’s possible that if the same people visit frequently, she will one day be confident enough to let them catch a glimpse of her. – Kim Campbell Thornton Do you have a pet question?

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THE BUZZ Big cat research has gone to a dog Jaguar biologists in Costa Rica have a canine research assistant:

a German shorthaired pointer named Google. Nicknamed “the ultimate search engine,” his job is to find jaguar scat – aka feces.

The scat provides the biologists with DNA that allows them to identify individual animals and learn more about their movements, diet and genetic diversity. Like his namesake, Google increases researchers’ finds by severalfold, says Dr. Howard Quigley, executive director of jaguar programs for Panthera, a wild cat conservation program.

What does Google get out of it?

Play time with his favourite red ball.

• A new USDA rule set down last month limits the sale of animals online by redefining the term “retail pet store” to mean a place of business or residence that a buyer must physically enter to observe the animals for sale prior to purchase. Internetbased breeders and other businesses that sell animals sight unseen must now be licensed and inspected by the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service.

Breeders with four or fewer breeding females are exempt from licensing and inspection requirements, as are breeders of working dogs and animal rescue groups, pounds, shelters and humane societies.

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Turtle-hatching season fascinates tourists on Mexico’s Baja Peninsula Dene Moore

next five months over-hydrated tourists won’t be the only things crawling along the sandy beaches of the Pacific LOS CABOS, Mexico and the Sea of Cortez. ar from the bikini-lined beaches Five species of sea turtle nest on and booze-fuelled bars of Cabo the peninsula, some crossing the San Lucas, I lie elbow deep on the ocean from as far away as Japan to resand of some remote Mexican dunes turn to their breeding grounds: Olive waiting for the sun to near the Ridley, green, loggerhead, leatherback horizon, a growing nursery of baby and hawksbill turtles. turtles squirming beside me.

There are only seven species of It’s September, the hottest and sea turtles total, and six of them are most humid month of the year on considered endangered, the most the tip of the Baja Peninsula, and endangered being leatherbacks, the while it may be enough to melt this prehistoric behemoths that can weigh pasty white Canadian, it’s perfect more than 450 kilograms. These are weather for my little companions. relatively tiny Olive Ridleys squirmAugust is the start of turtle hatch- ing in my hand. ing season on the Baja, and for the Beside me, Paula Dyke, of St. John’s, NL, has hit the mother lode of turtles in her nest, in the end piling novelty key holders about 60 into a penned enclosure to be safely shepherded across the dunes 207 Main street to the oceanfront. tel: 633-4842 Like me, Dyke had no idea what to expect from the turtle conservation Canadian Press

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In the penned nursery, turtle eggs collected by biologists earlier in the year had been reburied, each in a nest ringed with netting to keep the hatchlings from making a solo escape. Nearby, the marine biologist crew lives in a trailer for the duration to keep an eye out for poachers or predators.

Dyke and the others in our small, off-season group were shown how to dig down into hatching nests and gently help the turtles into the fading light of day.

“When I pulled the first turtle out of the nest and brushed the sand of its shell, I thought nothing about the evening would top that. I was wrong. Apparently, my nest was like the mother lode – over the next 20-30 minutes I dug handfuls of turtles out of the sand,” she said.

“It was crazy. I felt like a proud parent looking at my babies.”

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Baby turtles are shown on a conservation tour near Cabo San Lucas, Mexico. Turtle-hatching season continues to fascinate tourists on Mexico’s Baja Peninsula.

The group, directed by biologists, then took the turtles from the nursery close to the water line, where they were put on the sand to make their way – under watch – to the ocean.

“The waves on that coast are huge, and as soon as the turtles got wet it was as if some primal instinct kicked them into overdrive and they started racing toward the ocean, fearless and ready for whatever was in front of them,” Dyke said.

“It was peaceful and humbling, standing there, watching those tiny little turtles rush forward into the vastness of the Pacific. Definitely one of those moments of a lifetime.”

The odds of survival are one in a thousand for every egg laid, but those odds are improving thanks in part to conservation efforts that began more than a decade ago with local fishermen.

The dangers at sea include accidental capture and entanglement

in fishing gear, ocean pollution and predators. On land, turtles have lost much of their nesting and feeding habitat to development, they face more pollution and they are hunted for food, coveted in several cultures as an exotic or medicinal product.

Sea turtles spend their lives in the ocean, with the exception of females that come ashore to lay eggs every two to five years.

The tour companies offering turtle tours say the industry provides an alternative to fishing, and support conservation. They also raise awareness both among locals and tourists.

Today, fishermen in the region take measures to avoid bycatch and most hotels take steps to protect or have biologists relocate turtle nests until they hatch.

Few of the turtles we released will live long enough to return, but they now have at least four more fans on their side.

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Avian squawker becomes sound track in South Africa Christopher Torchia

data since 2007, has become more common.

JOHANNESBURG, South In Johannesburg, Africa the bird feasts in lush est, charming oddity or just lawns and breeds in background noise, the hadeda towering trees that ibis is a feathered phenomenon in replaced indigenous suburban South Africa. grasslands in a city Sometimes it swipes dog food described as a manmeant for pets, splatters parked cars made forest. This is and driveways with droppings and only one slice of a city yanks residents from sleep with jar- and society marred by ring squawks at first light. economic inequality.

Denis Farrell/AP Photo It is not an endangered species Two decades after the Hadeda ibis birds sit on a Johannesburg and its feathers are a drab grey or end of white minorrooftop. Pest, charming oddity or just brown, so it’s not on a bird-lover ity rule, many areas bucket list. But the bird now has previously designated background noise, the hadeda ibis is a feathered phenomenon in suburban a small niche in popular culture. for blacks only remain poor, crowded South Africa.

Some lodges and restaurants carry its name, a website offers a ringtone and lacking in adequate services, unlike tree-lined share their green spaces with the download of its cry and a pair of suburbs where sprinklers keep grass bird.

South African musicians produced Affluent residents in South Africa fresh, even during dry spells. a song called: “Harry the hungry A hadeda nickname is “la-di-da,” tend to live in fenced areas, some of hadeda.” which are sprawling “eco-estates” a poke at what some view as the The name hadeda is said to be hoity-toity airs of suburbanites who that draw bird and other species to onomatopoeic, an imitation of its raucous cry. Some call it a “flying vuvuzela,” recalling the din of the plastic horn used by stadium fans during the World Cup soccer tournament in South Africa in 2010.

Found in sub-Saharan Africa, the hadeda ibis is a somewhat unruly cousin of the African Sacred Ibis, which was revered in ancient Egypt.

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Fortunately, this is not a scenario from The Birds, the Alfred Hitchcock movie in which birds attack humans. The hadeda prefers to probe and pluck worms and crickets from soft earth with its scythe-like beak. Its vaguely prehistoric features are reminiscent of the illustrations of Edward Gorey, author of The Osbick Bird and other quirky tales.

Some ornithologists credit the Consider serving on one of the following hadeda’s dietary preferences with boards and committees: curbing the population of the “Parktown Prawn,” a king cricket Carcross Housing Advisory Board – named after a Johannesburg suburb Deadline: October 15, 2013 that can creep or leap into homes at night, horrifying residents. The Faro Housing Advisory Board – hadeda, in turn, has few natural Deadline: October 15, 2013 predators in cities, facing instead the Ross River Housing Advisory Board – lesser peril of flying into windows or getting hit by a car, said Ernst Retief, Deadline: October 15, 2013 a regional conservation manager for Capability & Consent Board – BirdLife South Africa, a conservaDeadline: October 25, 2013 tion group.

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FreeMe gets its share of hadedas in distress, some of which suffer during winter months when the ground is hard and food is scarce.

The hadeda ibis can’t measure up to the stately blue crane, the national bird of South Africa, or the Secretary bird, whose raised-wing image adorns the country’s coat of arms. But it inspires humour. One blogger posted a tongue-in-cheek recipe for a hadeda meal that ends:

“Continue with the (cooking) process until the cast iron pot becomes tender, then throw away the hadeda and eat the pot.”

Urban legend says a hadeda makes its grating call because it is terrified of flying.

Altwegg, the associate professor, said he once found a hadeda with a broken wing in his garden. It stayed there in its twilight years, eating dog food and fending off smaller birds that tried to pilfer from its bowl. The injured hadeda never flew again.

“It almost never made any sound,” Altwegg said.

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Cad Wilson – and Such A Nice Girl, Too Gates Collection - New York

HISTORY

Cad Wilson’s spicy stage act was tremendously popular with the miners, who pelted the stage with nuggets when she sang their favourite songs.

She made no bones about separating the miners from their earnings.

HUNTER

by Michael Gates

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he Klondike attracted entertainers in abundance during the gold rush. Some of them went on to remarkably successful screen and stage careers. Perhaps the most successful stage artist at the time, though, and the most mysterious today, is the remarkable Cad Wilson.

Wilson had been a regular feature in venues across America.

She was in San Francisco at the Orpheum as early as 1893, doing the Congo, grotesque dances and an inebriation act. A year later, she was billed as the feature act at the Vienna Buffet in Los Angeles.

In 1895 she was gyrating with “a profusion of filmy skirts” at the Auditorium in San Francisco, and billed as a comedienne at the Trocadero in New York in 1896. In late December of 1897, she performed in Victoria, B.C., according to a local newspaper, as the Craze of Greater New York, “engaged at enormous salary.”

Wilson arrived in Dawson City from Chicago in September of 1898 with her agent, Robert Blei, and departed less than a year later, after his theatre burned down and he was bankrupted. During that time, she was the queen of the stage in the Klondike, and a master at separating miners from their gold.

She was said to be no beauty, didn’t have much of a figure, and her voice was nothing to write home about. Yet the brown-eyed redhead had a stage presence that was hypnotic, and her wardrobe was the most elaborate to be seen on any stage in town. She was soon the best paid act in Dawson City.

Men would compete with each other to bestow her with the biggest gold nugget from their claims. They went mad when she sang, and when she started into “There’ll be a Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight,” they pelted the stage with nuggets. She would dash about the stage laughing gleefully as she picked them up.

When she concluded her act, a little boy would come out onto the stage with a broom and a dust pan to sweep up the remaining golden debris. It was said that if she didn’t clean up $500 a night, she left the stage in a pout.

All would shower her with nuggets, gold watches and jewellery during her performance, which was a risqué repertoire with an affectation of innocence. Her most popular song, “Such a Nice Girl, Too,” which was composed by Arthur Seldon in 1892, became her anthem: She told me that she was a ‘Miss’ And scarcely had turned 20, She said she never cared to wed Tho’ offers she had plenty.

Last week they took her up to court, She said, ‘Judge be forgiving.’

He answered, ‘Yes, if you can

prove You’ve not three husbands living.’

Such a nice girl too, Such a real nice girl; So affable and full of animation.

All who know her must admit, She’s a lady every bit!

Yes a lady with a spotless reputation.

She made no secret of the fact she wanted to separate the miners from their money. Before she came onto the stage, Eddie Dolan, the stage manager of the Tivoli Theatre, would read a letter he claimed came from her mother. In it, she admonished Cad “to be sure and be a good girl and pick nice clean friends.”

Dolan would look out at the crowd and shout, “I leave it to you, fellers, if she don’t pick ’em clean!”

One admirer paid for a bathtub to be filled with wine. It is not

known if she let him scrub her back, or if he even saw her in her expensive ablutions.

One Eldorado king is said to have lavished his attention upon her to the tune of $75,000, but she wasn’t choosey.

A man known only as “The Sawdust King,” who made his living changing the sawdust on the barroom floors, had an uncharacteristic streak of good luck, winning $1,800. That was enough to propel him into Cad Wilson’s arms, temporarily, where “she had one arm around his neck and caressingly stroked his unkempt hair. Each was sipping wine from the other’s glass.”

A few hours later, he was thrown unceremoniously out of the Tivoli, still wanting to spend his remaining $60 on more booze.

She may have been a hit with the gentlemen, but the more refined sector of the fairer sex didn’t see her the same way. She scandalized the respectable ladies of Dawson with her performance at an Elks Club fundraiser in October of 1898. “Her audacity called out applause in the rear of the hall, but the ladies in the front hung their heads and their escorts wished they had never brought them,” said one newspaper the next day. In these Victorian times,

exposing even the slightest hint of ankle beneath a lady’s dress was a considered a scandalous act.

August 18, 1899, Cad Wilson left the Klondike, headed for San Francisco and Chicago. She took with her a sizeable bankroll (newspapers varied widely in the amount they reported), her jewellery and other baubles, as well as a nugget-encrusted waistband given to her by the miners on Eldorado Creek. It was so large that she could wrap it around her waist one and a half times. She placed this gaudy adornment on display in San Francisco after leaving the Klondike.

Arriving in Portland, she and three others took a box in the Fredericksburg Music Hall, from where Cad sang along with the performers. She was finally induced to join them on stage, where, adorned with her famous gold nugget belt, she performed “Just a Little Lingerie.” During the

song, she raised her skirt “much higher than necessary” to expose a diamond encrusted garter on her left thigh. For an hour, amidst repeated encores, she belted out one catchy song after another.

She performed in San Francisco the fall of 1899, but was in Nome the following year, featured at the Standard Theatre. Cad Wilson disappears from the record after that until she is named, along with 10 other women, in the divorce case concerning businessman John A. Clover in San Francisco in 1908.

One thing is abundantly clear: that Cad Wilson was the most popular performer ever to have set foot on a stage in Dawson City – and probably its most notorious good-time girl.

Michael Gates is a Yukon historian and sometimes adventurer based in Whitehorse. His latest book, Dalton’s Gold Rush Trail, is now available in Yukon stores. You can contact him at msgates@northwestel.net

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Friday, October 11, 2013

A light for seeing the unseen

by MICHAEL DOUGHERTY

JUST

SOCIETY T

he long dusty road had no number. For all intents the small communities strung out along it had no names. A packed, recycled school bus carried people and their produce down it every day, though. It brought me to a village the locals called La Garrucha.

This community of 50 or 60 families sat on the edge of the Lacandona rainforest at the southern end of Mexico, bordering on Guatemala. The forest still provided the materials for most homes in La Garrucha 16 years ago.

Most families found shelter beneath palm-thatched roofs held up by sturdy posts, with tightly aligned smaller poles providing siding to single rooms that served as eating, living and sleeping spaces. A few metal-roofed homes with milled boards enclosing them had begun to appear back then.

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A few could rent a small tractor and plow.

Something set the people of La Garrucha apart. They had organized. Along with other communities spread out through the southern and eastern sides of the Mexican state of Chiapas, they refused to be invisible. In 1994, Zapatista communities rose up against the centuries of exploitation and marginalization. They demanded that their basic human rights be respected.

World media briefly shone a light on their cause. This protective glare quickly faded, and as it did their vulnerability to the powers that be returned with increased force. The military drove the people from La Garrucha in 1996.

After much suffering, they returned and sought to rebuild their lives. I came to the village as an international peace observer under the auspices of the Human Rights Centre Bartolome de las Casas the next year at the invitation of village leaders. They understood that a foreign witness living among them would lessen their risk of being attacked. A little light would again shine on them. The issues did not go away. My son Liam participated in same program but in two different communities three years ago. Light continues to be needed.

Professor Lisa Guenther from Vanderbilt University reminded

the audience at the Beringia Centre last Sunday that human rights without institutional protection becomes empty very quickly.

Those who need their protection most then have the least access to them. The poor, the shunned and the forgotten become, in the words of Hannah Arendt, the great political and social thinker, deprived of “a right to have rights.”

Pushed into darkened corners of our collective consciousness, the unseen among us can be excluded to the degree that they are literally dead to the world. Professor Guenther defined this phenomenon social death. Who have we cast out of our world?

Martin Heidegger, the German philosopher, stated, “Everyone is the other and no one is himself.”

We cannot isolate others without their very isolation ultimately having an impact on us. The hundreds of our school children who participated in the annual All Schools Food Drive this past week in support of the Whitehorse Food Bank shone the light of empathy and concern on the hungry in our midst. Who among the forgotten can we hold in our hearts this Thanksgiving weekend?

This coming week the Yukon Anti-Poverty Coalition’s yearly Poverty and Homelessness Action Week program will continue efforts to strengthen our commitment to the marginalized in our community. A presentation of the

documentary Gold Fever, which examines the impact of Canadian mining on Mayan people in Guatemala, will take place at the Old Fire Hall on Wednesday at 7 p.m.

And on Friday, a fundraiser for Morgan Weinberg’s Little Footprints, Big Steps work in Haiti will be held at the Westmark from 5 to 8 p.m.

Michael Dougherty is co-chair of the social justice committee of Sacred Heart Cathedral of Whitehorse. Contact pazypan@yukon.net.

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Sunday, Oct. 13 – Twentyeighth Sunday in Ordinary Time.

A suggested reading is Luke 17:1119.

Monday, Oct. 14 – Navaratri Dusserha, the nine-day Hindu festival of the divine mother which honours Durga, wife of Shiva, seeks her blessings, and recalls Lord Rama’s victory over evil, ends.

Tuesday, Oct. 15 – Eid al-Adha, the three day Islamic Festival of Sacrifice, begins.

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ukon will be represented in women’s university hockey, college hockey and in the Junior Women’s Hockey League this season.

Whitehorse’s Angela Burke is playing for the University of Lethbridge Pronghorns, Whitehorse’s Tamara Greek is hitting the ice for the Richmond Pacific Steelers, and Marsh Lake’s Jocelyn Wynnyk and Dawson City’s Lynsey Keaton are set to play for the SAIT Trojans.

Unlike the other three, who are all first-year rookies, Burke is a veteran of her team. The 21-year-old left-winger is beginning her fourth year with the Pronghorns.

“I feel like there’s been a lot of growth, not only individually, but in our team,” said Burke. “We have a really strong core group of girls and we’ve really developed with each other through the years.”

The Pronghorns hosted a preseason tournament last month and won six-straight games to win it. They opened the regular season with two games against University of British Columbia, last year’s Canadian Interuniversity Sport (CIS) western conference champs, this past weekend.

The Pronghorns lost 5-4 in a shootout Friday and won 3-2 on Saturday. Burke finished the twogame series plus-2 with an assist.

Since Burke has been on the team, the Pronghorns’ best finish was in the 2011-12 season, making the first round of the CIS playoffs.

Lethbridge was eliminated by the University of Calgary Dinos, which included Canadian Olympic goldmedalist Hayley Wickenheiser “This year she’s not playing on UFC, so I feel like the league is a lot tighter,” said Burke. “There’s no obvious powerhouse this year, so it’s actually really exciting.

“We have a really good feeling about this season and we hope we can make CIS playoffs and make it to nationals. That would be an amazing experience, just to be playing at that national level.”

Burke, who is majoring in psychology, plans to play with the team during her fifth and final year at Lethbridge next season.

“I’m eligible to play CIS for five years and I’d like to play out my hockey career as long as I can,” said Burke.

“My role on the team keeps increasing every year, on and off the ice,” she added. “I was named fittest player on the team this year, which is pretty huge seeing that I come back to the Yukon every summer.

“I have been training under (Whitehorse coach) Jake Jirousek with All Out Hockey. I’ve been training with him since Grade 12, so obviously he’s been a huge

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University of Lethbridge Pronghorns winger Angela Burke prepares for a faceoff during a game against University of British Columbia over the weekend. Burke is one of four Yukon women playing on teams outside the territory this season.

influence and has really helped me develop, even in post-secondary.

He’s down here in Lethbridge this year and continues to be a huge supporter, coming to my games.”

Greek is “living the dream” in the JWHL. The 17-year-old is playing defence for the Richmond Pacific Steelers while in her last year of high school in Vancouver. Playing for the Steelers is already opening doors, she said.

“I think it was a huge step for me in the right direction,” said Greek.

“This is opening a lot of opportunities for university – I’m in contact

with quite a few. I’m really glad I came here this year.”

Just four games into the regular season, Greek has already travelled to Vermont and Boston with the team. The Steelers lost their season opener but won their last three and are currently tied for second in the league.

Greek was spotted by the Steelers while playing at the 2013 Female U18 B.C. Cup and the Banff Hockey Academy Bears last season.

She was the only Yukoner invited to the 2013 Female U18 B.C. Cup. Last season the Banff Bears won the Alberta Junior Female Hockey

League with an astonishing 29-1-0 record. Greek was seventh in points for the league’s southern division with 20 assists, 14 goals, for 34 points in total.

Right-winger Keaton and goaltender Wynnyk will be working to improve on a dismal finish by the SAIT Trojans last season.

The Trojans from Southern Alberta Institute of Technology – or SAIT Polytechnic – in Calgary placed last in the Alberta Colleges Athletic Conference league last season.

“I absolutely love it,” said Wynnyk. “There’s something about the team and the atmosphere that’s

really good. The fact that you’re playing with girls who are at your level and can challenge you as well is really good. And the program is set up really well.

“I like everything about it. I’m really glad I came to Calgary. I had a few offers, from like Ontario, or to go play in the States, but Calgary is like a bigger version of Whitehorse it seems. It still has that small town feel.”

The two 18-year-olds are in their first year at SAIT. Keaton is studying welding and Wynnyk plumbing.

The Trojans are currently 4-4 with one more preseason game before the start of the regular season.

Two of those losses came against Burke’s Pronghorns from the higher level CIS league. The Pronghorns won 8-0 and 5-1.

“That was a bad weekend,” said Keaton.

Wynnyk is one of three goalies on the team. She’s in the running for the starting-goalie spot, she said.

“Talking to the coaches they said they’d like me to be the starter for the season, but I have to really prove myself, that I can handle it,” said Wynnyk.

Wynnyk was on the Pacific Steelers last season and played midget female for the Prince George Cougars the year before that.

Keaton has played at numerous National Aboriginal Hockey Championships for B.C. and last year for a new pan-northern squad called Team North.

“It’s been really fun,” said Keaton of playing for the Trojans. “It’s been really different compared to the (Whitehorse rep team) Mustangs that I played on.

“It’s more intense … you have to try harder.”

All four Yukon women are alumni of the Whitehorse Mustangs rep hockey program. They have also represented the territory at major Games.

All but Burke played on the Yukon women’s hockey team at the 2011 Canada Winter Games in Halifax and Yukon’s bronzewinning junior female team at the 2012 Arctic Winter Games. (Burke did play at the 2007 Canada Winter Games.)

All but Keaton played on Yukon’s silver-winning junior female team at the 2010 Arctic Winter Games in Grande Prairie, Alta.

Greek and Keaton both hope to play for Yukon at the 2014 Arctic Games in Fairbanks, Alaska.

Wynnyk is unsure if she’ll be able to make it.

“I would love to, but schooling wise, I won’t be able to because of my schedule – I won’t be able to take that much time away,” said Wynnyk. “There’s still a little possibility, but it’s not looking too good.”

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Yukon Strikers get on the board at club championships

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Yukon Strikers’ Alice Frost-Hanberg, left, tries to keep Nova Scotia Halifax County United’s Alex Doane from moving up the field.

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he Yukon Strikers have bounce.

After both Strikers teams suffered blowouts in their opening matches at the 2013 National Club Championships this week, both teams bounced back and showed their pluck in the follow-ups Thursday at the University of Lethbridge in Alberta.

Two Yukon Strikers soccer teams – one boys, one girls – are going for the U14 Cup.

Both Yukon squads had close matches on Thursday.

“Today, game experience is what it really came down to,” said boys coach John MacPhail.

“We don’t often get in those positions where we’re playing tournaments at 2-2 and don’t know how to deal with it.”

The Strikers’ boys team lost 4-2 to the Eastern Eagles SC from P.E.I. on Thursday after ending the first half tied 2-2.

Yukon striker Morgan Ramsay and centre-mid RJ Smallwood each found the back of the net.

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The Strikers hit a crossbar and a post in the second half.

“They scored in what we thought was an off-side, but I guess the refs said it wasn’t,” said MacPhail of P.E.I.’s gamewinner.

Yukon’s boys squad lost 18-0 to Alberta’s Foothills club on Wednesday.

“We put it behind us,” said MacPhail. “We have one of those every time we come to one of these, when we meet the powerhouses. You just get through them and wait for the next game.

“The big four seem to clobber everybody else.”

The Strikers girls need to be faster out the gate, said coach Tony Gaw. “We just have to look at

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Yukon Strikers’ Katharina Wirth kicks the ball up the field in front of Nova Scotia Halifax County United’s Claire MacDougall during the U14 National Cub Championships Wednesday morning in Lethbridge, Alta.

getting faster starts,” said Gaw. “We aren’t necessarily overmatched. Because of our lack of competition – in Whitehorse we don’t get to play games – it’s really hard to get the girls fired up.

“We’re trying to get off to a good start.”

Yukon lost 13-0 to open the championship against secondseed Nova Scotia on Wednesday.

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“Today they played a lot better. The second half was 1-1,” said Gaw. “The second half we played really well – they got one and we got one. We have to look at it as a positive.”

Scoring for Yukon was striker Tyra Jones, assisted by midfielder Jewel Davies.

Both Strikers teams have Friday off, but will return to the pitch for matches on Saturday. At press time the Strikers’ opponents for Saturday were not yet determined.

“The girls are having a great time,” said Gaw. “It’s a little rainy today, but the weather has been really warm with very little wind, which is surprising for Lethbridge. We couldn’t ask for any better weather, truthfully.”

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Whitehorse Mustangs see rise in co-ed rosters Tom Patrick News Reporter

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t’s not uncommon for female players to be selected for the Whitehorse Mustangs “boys” teams, but this season it’s a little different.

There are four female players on rosters for the Whitehorse rep club’s ‘A’ teams this season, including the atom, peewee and midget teams.

Though females players have made Mustangs A squads in the past, this season marks the first time three A squads each have one or more, and the most overall in recent history.

On the A team rosters are Linsey Eby with the midgets, Maddie Nicholson with the peewees, plus Piper Fordham and Olivia Blisner with the atoms.

“I was pretty happy to make the team,” said Eby. “I honestly didn’t think I would.

“The boys are a lot quicker with pass-ups and are a lot more fluent with their stick handling. I’m not used to the faster-moving game.”

Eby, 17, is no stranger to wearing a Mustangs jersey. She played for the Female Mustangs – the rep club’s only all-female team – the last two seasons. She also played for the Northern Avalanche female rep team before the Avalanche joined the Mustangs program.

Eby, who is playing defence, is the first female player on the Midget A Mustangs since goalie Crystal Stewart in 2004.

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Eby decided to go for the midget team rather than the Female Mustangs to get more icetime and more tournament play, she said.

“It’s more ice-time,” said Eby. “All the girls are awesome, but you feel more of a mentor than a team player with them.

“There’s more ice-time and more games.”

“She decided to come out and she did quite well, so she made the defence core,” said Midget A Mustangs head coach Barry Blisner.

“It’s a big jump for her, but I think she’s up for it.”

Both Nicholson and Olivia are “AP” or associated players on their respective teams. This season Mustang teams have increased A team rosters from 15 to 20 players. The additional five AP players practice with the team and can fill in for players who are unable to travel to tournaments.

Nicholson, who plays rightwing, is an AP for the Peewee A Mustangs, but is also playing for the Female Mustangs.

“She’s on the peewee team, but she’s not in the top 15 that will be going to tournaments. But if someone gets hurt or for some other reason we need her to fill in, she’s available to do that,” said Peewee A Mustangs head coach Kirk Gale.

“She’s a strong girl and she’s getting better every year,” he added.

has her older brother (Jack) who has played for the Mustangs for a number of years and we always have a rink in the back (yard).”

Fordham, who is a winger like Olivia, is not an AP player on the atoms. She is already showing her grit, said Atom Mustangs coach Clint Mylymok, the new head coach for the Whitehorse Minor Hockey Association.

“She’s very competitive and not afraid to get involved either,” said Mylymok. “She has some pretty decent skill … She’s taller than a lot of the boys on the team and she fits right in.

“She’s a gamer too on the bench. We had our first game the other night and she’s blocking shots, she’s physically engaging, she’s not scared out there at all.”

Eby will have an important deTom Patrick/Yukon News cision to make in December. Next Mustangs defenceman Linsey Eby skates up-ice during her year’s Arctic Winter Games and team’s season opener on Saturday. Eby is one of four females the B.C. Hockey Championships playing on ‘A’ teams in the Mustangs program, excluding the are taking place the same week in Female Mustangs.

March. She will have to choose be“There are just a few things she Olivia has gone through timbit, tween playing for the Mustangs in B.C. or for Yukon’s junior female needs to work on in her game. novice and tykes on co-ed teams, team at the Arctics in Fairbanks. so playing with boys is nothing “She’s a good hockey player.

She is undecided at this point, new to her.

She’s dedicated, she’s working on she said.

“I’ve played with them my her game and right now she’s with Eby played on Yukon’s silverwhole life, so it’s no different the girls team.” winning female team at the 2010 Being named as an AP did little really,” said the 10-year-old.

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ears of play on the unforgiving Mountain View Golf Course in Whitehorse put Jeff Wiggins in good stead at the 2013 PGA of B.C. Club Pro Championship last week.

Wiggins, who is the club pro and director for Mountain View, wasn’t intimidated by the challenging Shaughnessy Golf and Country Club in Vancouver.

Wiggins, 36, was finding fairways en route to placing third at the championships.

“I told Global (Television) too when they asked me what I attribute this good play to … I said, ‘I come from Whitehorse and it’s a fantastic golf course, but it’s a tight, difficult golf course, that I very much respect. But when I come down here to a place like Shaughnessy, that most golf professionals think is really, really tight and really, really tough, it’s not so much for me. I’m used to that.’

“I don’t stand on a tee and look at a narrow fairway and say, ‘Uh oh. I can’t go left or right, I have to hit this straight.’ I say, ‘This reminds me of Hole 3 at Mountain View.’”

Despite rainy, wet conditions, Wiggins carded a 72 and a 74 to end with even par on the Par 73 course and his best finish at the championship.

He finished three strokes behind winner Scott Rodgers of Meadow Gardens Golf Club in Pitt Meadows and two strokes behind second place’s Cory Betz of Eaglecrest Golf Course in Qualicum Beach.

“I came out a little tentative on the front nine on the second round,” said Wiggins. “I didn’t want to get too aggressive on the front nine (and) all of a sudden hit a four over and be out of the mix.

“But I was a little bit too patient, though … If I could have gone back and done it over, I would have gotten a little more aggressive early in the round.”

“It was good. I played well,” he added. “I had no expectations going in because I didn’t play any events this year. So when I went down there I had an open mind.”

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Mountain View pro Jeff Wiggins tees off at the 2012 Skookum Asphalt Charity Pro-Am in Whitehorse. Wiggins placed third at the PGA of B.C. Club Pro Championship last week in Vancouver.

times, most recently in 2005 and 2011.

“You can’t not enjoy Shaughnessy, it’s a tough golf course,” said Wiggins. “You start to see the holes they play in the Canadian Open and go, ‘Wow, now I know why this is a tough hole.’ Or, ‘Now I know why it’s important to hit it over here or over there, when you watch the PGA Tour guys.’ Because if you don’t hit it over there, you’re done … there’s no way to get it close.”

With the third place finish, Wiggins earned a spot at the Club Professional Championship of Canada next month in Port St. Lucie, Florida.

In 2011, while becoming the first club pro to represent the Yukon at the national championship event, Wiggins tied for 20th.

Last year he finished tied for 62nd out of 93 pros.

Vanier CatholiC SeCondary

will be holding their

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IntervIewS on thursday, October 17th, 4:00 to 8:00 PM and Friday, October 18th, 8:30 aM to 12:00 PM

(No classes for students on Friday, October 1)

Book Appointments StartinG thUrSday, oCtoBer 10th.

Online: visit vanier.schoolappointments.com

By Phone: Call 667-5901 Teacher names are required to book appointments.

“Last year was the Wanamaker course and it was a little more challenging. If you look at the winner, he was minus-two,” said Wiggins. “This year it’s back on the Ryder course – not that the Ryder course is easier at all. It just fits me extremely well. The course is a little more undulating and the greens are a little faster in my opinion. It’s got some real tough short-game shots when you miss a green. So you have to be a creative short-game guru to get the upand-down, and that just fits well with my game.”

Wiggins, who is originally from Saskatoon, has been with Mountain View for six seasons. He was named Golf Professional of the Year by the Professional Golfers’ Association of British Columbia last November.

He is going to Arizona to relax a little after another busy season in Whitehorse and to begin training for the club pro national.

“I’m going to set the bar high this year and say top-10,” said Wiggins. “I think winning it would be unrealistic, but a top-10 is realistic.

“For me, it’s another opportunity to get more publicity for the Yukon, show people what we’re doing up here, talk about things we do up here and how things are up here.

“It still surprises people when we tell people about the conditions we have up here and the facility we have.”

Contact Tom Patrick at tomp@yukon-news.com

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By The Mepham Group

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Complete the grid so each row, column and 3-by-3 box (in bold borders) contains every digit 1 to 9. For strategies on how to solve Sudoku, visit www.sudoku.org.uk.

Solution to Friday’s puzzle

Solution to Friday’s puzzle

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

No digit can be repeated in a solution, so a 4 can only produce 1 and 3, never 2 and 2. Solution published tomorrow.

7/20/13

7/20/13

To solve Kakuro, you must enter a number between 1 and 9 in the empty squares. The clues are the numbers in the white circles that give the sum of the solution numbers: above the line are across clues and below the line are down clues.

Thus, a clue of 3 will produce a solution of 2 and 1 and a 5 will produce 4 and 1, or 2 and 3, but, of course, which squares they go in will depend on the solution of a clue in the other direction.

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DEAR MARGO

BOUND AND GAGGED

Dear Margo: I am a teenager and have a problem with my parents. My mom is 44, and my dad is 50. Recently, they’ve started going out and basically partying all the time.

My mom says she has raised kids for 30 years and she is done doing it. (There are six kids, and I’m not the youngest.)

I feel like I am raising two teenagers. When I try to talk to them about it, they say, “Oh, you are just like your sister. You don’t want us to have any fun. And besides, we never got to be teenagers.”

They have a 15- and a 13-year-old at home, so I don’t think they are done raising kids — and if they are, I’m ready to move out. I have a place to go, and I was just wondering how I can get them to realize they aren’t kids. — Too Young for All This Dear Too: It sounds as though you have better sense than your folks do. This situation is somewhere between sad and goofy. Tired your parents may be, but they need to get real (and act like parents).

Try to get a neutral party into this situation — someone like the counselor at school, your family doctor or your pastor, if you are churchgoers. Your parents need a voice other than yours to “remind” them of their responsibilities.

It should be enough that you are telling them this, but apparently, it is not. Your moving out should be a last resort, but the mention of that might clear their heads. If your family can afford it, perhaps they should hire someone to oversee the younger ones, because they don’t seem to want to.

I hope you, or someone, succeeds in getting through to them. — Margo, responsibly

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668-4129 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 DOWNTOWN OFFICE SPACE •Shared space with Cambio Consulting •Access to boardroom, coffee bar •See Kijiji ad ID 466620854 and Borealist 335-3499

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!

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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 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

501B OGILVIE. 2-bdrm basement, kitchen & bath, N/S, N/P, no parties, incls heat & elec, $1,200/mon + $900 DD. 334-3735 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

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

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

AVAILABLE IMMED, 2-bdrm bsmnt suite, Granger area. Newly renovated, separate entrance. Kitchen & laundry. $1700/mon includes utilities & backup baseboard heating.

Refs & damage deposit reqʼd. 334-9788 or kennyjdliu@hotmail.com

AVAILABLE CONDO in Riverdale, 3-bdrms, 1.5-baths, plug-in parking, fenced backyard.

Close to schools, groceries & trails, N/P, N/S, $1,450/mon + util. DD and refs reqʼd.

335-8617 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 PORTER CREEK, 2 rooms w/own bathrm, living rm, shared kitchen. Incls internet, 46” TV, Bell satellite, $550/mon & $575/mon.

N/P. Nov 1. 334-4113 RIVERDALE 3-BDRM main floor suite. N/S, N/P, 1yr lease. $1,500/mon + utils + sec deposit. Refs reqʼd. 667-2452

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 2-BDRM SUITE in riverdale, available Nov 1, N/S, N/P. Refs reqʼd, $1,675/mon. 334-3878 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 3-BDRM, 2-BATH upper level of house in Copper Ridge. Shared laundry. N/P N/S, $1,700/mon + elec.

Email: carolinetran22@hotmail.ca 335-6410 lv msg AVAILABLE NOV 1st, Riverdale 4-bdrm, 2-bath house, laundry, carport, DD reqʼd, N/S, N/P, no parties, $2,000/mon + heat & utils. 335-5976 SMALL 1-BDRM suite in Porter Creek. On bus route, close to shopping. Refs & DD reqʼd, $900/mon + hydro. 333-9400 1-BDRM, FURNISHED apt with office space, incls heat, elec & basic cable, N/S, no parties, $1,000/mon. 335-7223

Beautifully finished office space is available in the Taku Building at 309 Main Street.

Call 867-333-0144

Available Now Newly renovated OFFICE SPACE & RETAIL SPACE Close to Library & City Hall A short walk to Main Street Phone 633-6396

ESCAPE WINTER to beautiful Gabriola Island! Private 2-bdrm guesthouse, self-contained, fully furnished, 20 minute ferry from Nanaimo. Winter special, $600/week. www.thegardenbed.ca, 250-247-7457

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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

Horwood’s Mall Main Street at First Avenue Office Spaces Available

1140 sq.ft.

Corner of 4th & Olgilvie

2 - Second Floor units available.

250 & 350 sq. ft

4198 Fourth Avenue

Call 334-5553

For more details call: 403-861-4748

ROOMMATE WANTED, available immed or NOv 1, 1 bdrm for single person downtown, $600/mon + DD. 334-1252 BACHELOR SUITE downtown, $750, 1st and last, utilities included, laundry on site, references, available Nov 1. 668-6033 INTERESTED IN living on an acreage not far from town in your own moveable unit or cabin on skids? N/S, responsible person.

333-0744 3-BDRM HOUSE, Pine Ridge area, 1.5 acres, 1,100 sq ft. Available immed, $1,800/mon. 335-3253 HOUSE TO sublet from Nov/13 to April/14, incls all but internet, downtown, $1,500/mon.

334-1252 2-BDRM HOME in downtown, $1,450/mon + $1.450 last month + heat. Rick 668-2998 or 336-0125 1-BDRM MODERN house on private acreage, Robinson subdivision, 25 mins from downtown, $750/mon. 668-2769 lv msg 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 1-BDRM BASEMENT suite dt, close to HIgh Country Inn, responsible tenant, bright & clean, heat inclʼd, $900/mon. 334-5448 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 PORTER CREEK 1 & 2-bdrm apt. 2-bdrm trailer, N/S, no parties. Available immed.

633-2046 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 3-BDRM DUPLEX in Riverdale. Available Nov 1, 1.5 baths, washer, dryer, fridge & stove. Heat inclʼd, N/S. Refs reqʼd. 334-4431 DOWNTOWN 1-BDRM suite, sep entrance, laundry & heat incl, n/s, n/p, $1,050/mon.

334-6510 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 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 2 BEDROOM FULLY FURNISHED CABIN, 30 minutes from Whitehorse, Army Beach, c/w water, electricity, wood, oil, electric heat.

Available Nov. 1st - Apr. 30, 2014. $900/ month + utilities. 334-2716

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 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 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.

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 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 ONE BEDROOM apartment in downtown Whitehorse. Rent $850+ Electricity. References and damage deposit required. Call 334-9087 to view. Available immediately.

2-BDRM HOUSE on Hotsprings Rd available Nov 1, oil heat, power, water delivery, $1,000/mon + utilities. 633-6178 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 COPPER RIDGE 1-bdrm N/S, N/P, walkout basement suite, Refs & DD reqʼd, $1,000/mon + utils 393-3823 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 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 2/3-BDRM TOP floor of house on Annie Lake Rd. Well, wood heat, storage, pet friendly, incls utils, $1,450/mon. 334-8271 ROOM IN Riverdale, incls utils, internet & cable, N/P, $600/mon. Rick 332-6030 D/T BRIGHT and spacious, 2-bdrm, main floor home, shared laundry, $1275/mon plus heat and electric, avail Nov 1, n/p 393-3005

for rent for rent Approx. 1650 sq ft

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.

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AVAILABLE NOV 1st- 4 BDRM Copper Ridge Duplex ,2 full baths, rec-room, 5 appliances, large yard, deck. $1700/mth plus oil & electric. N/S N/P reference & deposit required. Call 334-2145.

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 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

COPPER RIDGE 1-bdrm, private kitchen, bathroom, living room. Shared w/d. Incls heat/electricity, $800 + DD, N/S, N/P. Available now. 336-0627 3-BDRM, 2-BATH bright & clean located in Copper Ridge, N/P, N/S, no partying, $1,700/mon + utils available October 15.

333-6410 lv msg 1/2 DUPLEX, 2-bdrm, wood heat & oil heat backup, $1300/mon, 1st and last, kids and pets welcome, n/s. 334-1816 ROOM AVAILABLE in 3-bdrm townhouse in Riverdale, $600/mon incls heat, electricity, w/d & BBQ. Refs & DD reqʼd. 335-8617

Friday, October 11, 2013

DAWSON CITY, executive 3-storey house, 1 block from Commissionerʼs residence and nearly as big. 3,800 sq ft, 4-bdrms, huge living area, separate apt., 2-car garage, large yard. 867-993-6109

ROOMMATE NEEDED in d/t house, prefer female, prefer clean, mature, responsible person, references required, asking $630 including heat, kitchen, cable, laundry facilities. n/s, n/p. 668-5185 days or 667-7840 eves, weekends.

2-BDRM HOUSE in Riverdale. Available Nov 1/13-July 31/14. Cute home w/big backyard, hardwood floors, easy walk to downtown.

Refs reqʼd, N/S, $1,300/mon + utils. Call or text 647-471-2027

NOV 1, clean furnished bedroom, $700/mon includes utilities, Hot Springs Rd., n/p - must like dogs. DD & references required, reliable person preferred. 633-2119

3-BDRM HOUSE downtown, laundry, 2 baths, $650/mon + half utils. Walking distance to shopping . N/P, N/S inside.

778-868-9563

ROOM FOR rent, looking for a friendly, clean roommate in Mountainview area, close to the Yukon College and bus stop, $700/mos includes utilities. 456-2680, 332-1678 leave message.

House Hunters 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.

HoUSe HUNTerS

HOUSE HUNTERS

Home Inspections

BRaNd NEw

2-bedroom upscale mobile home.

124,000

$ Reduced to For Quick Sale

Call 334-6094 for more information.

A Better Built Home... in Less Time

Good information ensures a smooth transaction.

No SurpriSeS = peace of MiNd

• Pre-Sale or Purchase visual inspections of structure and systems • Commercial Maintenance Inventory Inspections • W.E.T.T. Inspections of Wood and Pellet burning stoves / fireplaces

Copper ridge

11 Grizzly Circle

Your Local Authorized Dealer

2 bed, 2 bath, big corner lot, fully landscaped, fenced yard. garage and partially finished basement. Priced to sell below it’s appraised value.

$364,900

Call realtor Mike racz ®

333-6410

HOUSE HUNTERS

LOVELY MAIN floor 2 bdrm suite in Porter Creek, new appliances, laundry, carport, large deck & yard, quiet couple preferred, ns, $1600/mo. + u & dep. Francine 334-2747.

ROOM, FULLY furnished if needed.

Semi-private bathroom. Easy access to laundry room. Parking. Must be okay with small dog and cat. $750/month. Call 334-4134.

Wanted to Rent HOUSESITTER AVAILABLE Mature, responsible person Call Suat at 668-6871 HOUSE-SITTER AND pet care openings for November and part of January. Mature, reliable adult with references. Linda, 867-399-3063 or 667-3003

www.InsIteHomeInspectIons.ca

teslin 4-bedroom lakeside

Real Estate

KevinNeufeld@hotmail.com

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

Property Guys.com™

SIGN # 700376

$375,500 View plans at: www.nelson-homes.com

NEWER 1200 sq ft shop/studio/office in Marwell. $1500/mos .Lots of natural light, in-slab heat with Veisman boiler. Bathroom and small kitchen. See kijiji AD ID 510028138 or call 668-3408

MID-30S PROFESSIONAL female looking for bright shared accommodation or 1-bdrm apt south of town, Wolf Creek/Mary Lake/Cowley Creek. Furnished or not, flexible w/pets, male or female. 333 9604

Call Kevin Neufeld, Inspector at

867-667-7674 • 867-334-8106

the Victory - 2021 sq. ft.

• Nelson Homes’ famous panelized • Option to be your own system ensures your home will builder or manage the go up quickly and efficiently. construction. Building guide provided.

• Finest quality Canadian kiln-dried lumber.

• Choose a beautiful, proven plan or we will custom design • Delivered to your site within 6 - 8 weeks of order date.

2-BDRM TRAILER, P.C., $1350/mos, plus heat and hydro, 1st and last and references required. 334-8381

2-BEDROOM FULLY FURNISHED CABIN, 30 minutes from Whitehorse, Army Beach.

Cabin c/w water, electricity, wood, oil and electric heat. Nov. 1st - Apr. 30, 2014. $900.00/ month + utilities. 334-2716

InSite Buying or Selling?

2 BDRM basement suite, Wolf Creek, private entrance, designated parking, laundry room, $1100/mos. 333-0005

17 Jackson Avenue, TESLIN

Tel: 867-667-6376 Email: horses@exploreyukon.com

867-633-4778

Your Yukon Dream Home!

RARE COUNTRY RESIDENTIAL

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

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

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

Mobile & Modular Homes Serving Yukon, NWT & Alaska

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$499,000

10 minutes from down town Mile 906 Alaska Hwy.

23 Lorne Rd. in McCrae

clivemdrummond@gmail.com

SIGN # 703075

$678,000 11 Canyon Cresent Whitehorse

867-393-3401

867-333-0262

brand new porter creek 3-bdrm condo

certified green, 4-bdrm & den

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 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 TESLIN LAKE, 4-bdrm, 2-bath newer 1800 sq ft home w/detached garage. Nicely landscaped. More info available on property guys.com. Price reduced $375,000.

633-4778

Help Wanted

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$289,500

$515,000

867-633-4709

867-332-6074

42 - 25 Wann Road Whitehorse

10 Carlisle Place Whitehorse

DOWNTOWN RESTAURANT Seeking Cooks, Kitchen Helpers & Servers Spanish speaking an asset Competitive wages Please send info to: patronamexfood@gmail.com 668-7372 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.

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Friday, October 11, 2013 HOUSEPLANTS, SPIDER plants, grape ivy 4ʼ long, lipstick vine 4ʼ long, $5-$30/ 660-4321 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

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

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

TAYLOR SOFT ICE CREAM machine $5,595 Char broiler $650 Pizza warmer $450 867-862-7111

ASSORTED VINYL siding accessories & heating/venting materials (left over from building a new home). Best offer. 334-9903 SMALL CERAMIC Christmas Tree with twinkle lights, $25. 668-5882

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 NEW 2500 gal Fibreglass septic tank, $2,500. rickaley@yahoo.ca or 867-851-6451 WOOD BURNING stove. 667-6770

Leadership OppOrtunity

Champagne and Aishihik First Nations

JOB OPPORTUNITY – SEPTEMBER 30, 2013 Heavy Duty Equipment Mechanic/Welder

Collections Officer\Exhibit Designer

Permanent Full Time

Location: Haines Junction

40 hours per week – 10 hours per day; Sunday to Saturday 0700 to 0700.

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.

This is a Salary Range 12 position ($32.09 to $37.76 per hour).

Apply to careers@ whitehorse.ca by 11:59pm October 20. For details, please visit our website.

www.whitehorse.ca Miscellaneous for Sale BETTER BID NORTH AUCTIONS Foreclosure, bankruptcy De-junking, down-sizing Estate sales.

Specializing in estate clean-up & buy-outs.

The best way to deal with your concerns.

Free, no obligation consultation.

333-0717 We will pay CASH for anything of value Tools, electronics, gold & jewelry, cameras, furniture, antiques, artwork, chainsaws, camping & outdoor gear, hunting & fishing supplies, vehicles & ATVs. G&R Pawnbrokers 1612-D Centennial St. 393-2274 BUY • SELL • LOANS

Regular Full Time Salary: $56,657.17 - $66,280.88

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

Coordinator of Regulatory Programs This is an exciting and transformational time for self-regulation in nursing The Yukon Registered Nurses Association (YRNA) is the regulatory body and professional association for registered nurses in the Yukon. YRNA is responsible for establishing and promoting standards of practice for registered nurses, for regulating nursing practice and for advancing professional excellence in the interest of the public. YRNA advocates for nursing and health policies and practices which support safe and ethical care and promotes healthy public policy.

STATEMENT OF QUALIFICATIONS • A good understanding of legislative and regulatory issues • Knowledge of nursing and health policy • A demonstrated ability in leadership, communication, interpersonal and critical thinking skills • An ability to manage competing priorities • Considerable independent judgment and decision-making skills • Ability to understand broad policy implications, yet ensure attention to detail • Experience working with governing bodies and committees • Administrative experience is desirable • Minimum of five years nursing practice • Practicing registration with YRNA For more information, please contact the YRNA office.

Please note this position is half-time.

Please address your résumé to Joy Peacock, RN, MSc, Executive Director of YRNA. Applications may be submitted in person, by mail, email or fax and will be accepted until noon, 28 October 2013.

Yukon Registered Nurses Association 204 – 4133 – 4th Avenue Whitehorse, YT Y1A 1H8 Phone: 867-667-4062 Fax: 867-668-5123 Email: exec.director@yrna.ca Website: www.yrna.ca

LAKE LABERGE Lions Christmas cakes & cookies have arrived. Get yours now while supplies last. Ann at 633-5493

Be part of one of Canada’s most dynamic environmental and socioeconomic assessment processes and work with an energetic, progressive organization. We are committed to the well-being of our employees and encourage their personal and professional development.

Wolverine Mine

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

Mike 335-1888

We are an impartial, effective and efficient organization that provides assistance to all involved in the assessment process.

Equipment Operators

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

Manager, Designated Office Teslin Designated Office Full-time term position (one year)

Located in Teslin, this position reports to the Executive Director and is responsible for managing the daily operations of the designated office. This position conducts and leads environmental and socio-economic assessment of projects within the designated area to identify environmental and socio-economic impacts while incorporating traditional knowledge of First Nations and local knowledge into assessments. This includes identifying project effects and mitigation measures for adverse effects, determining the significance of any residual effects and developing recommendations.

SILVER FLAT framed mirror, 37.5x26”, $40.

Totem food smoker, $50. Vintage milk can, painted silver, $40. 667-2844

The annual salary range for this position is $79,268 - $91,641 based on 75 hours biweekly.

VARIOUS CAMERAS & film projector w/screen, 1920s to 1970s. 667-2844 lv msg

If you feel you have the qualifications and desire to meet the challenges of this position please forward a cover letter and resume outlining how your experience and qualifications relate directly to the position.

5 HP Sears Craftsman tiller. Front tine, 18”, chain driven, $300 obo. 335-7455 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 2 WATER pumps: Briggs and Stratton 21/2 inch and Honda 11/2 inch. 633-6553 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 FORCED AIR propane heater 30,000 BTU, like new. 633-6553

A job description is available at the YESAB Head Office, Suite 200 – 309 Strickland Street, Whitehorse, the Teslin Designated Office at 8 McLeary Street, Teslin, or on our website at www.yesab.ca.

Please submit applications to: Finance and Administration Manager, YESAB Suite 200 – 309 Strickland Street, Whitehorse, YT Y1A 2J9 Ph: 867.668.6420 Fax: 867.668.6425 or email to yesab@yesab.ca Toll free: 1.866.322.4040 Resumes must be received by October 20, 2013.

Career Opportunities

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 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.

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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 DEEP FRYER, commercial use. Propane Frymaster by Garland, $400 obo. 335-0629 aft 5pm EXQUISITELY CARVED Haida pipe... very old, in mint condition. $750. Call Jack at 336-1990

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 INTERTHERM FURNACE, c/w chimney.

667-6770

Friday, October 11, 2013

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 110V hot water pressure washer, $1,800. 336-0995 INSULATED CHIMNEY, 12ft x7in id, 1inch insulated $100 obo 668-3508 KICK SLED, $350 obo. 633-4018

FREE MOOSE bones and some scrap meat available - suitable for dogs. 456-7490 HOTSY 220V hot water pressure washer, $2,800. 336-0995

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

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

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

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

Porter Creek Super A has the following positions available:

Full-time Bakery Clerk

No experience necessary.Wage negotiable and includes flight benefits and a great benefit package.

Part-time Grocery/Bakery/Produce Clerks Must be available for nights/weekends.

Please drop of resume with references in person to the manager. No phone calls please.

Selkirk First Nation

P.O. Box 40, Pelly Crossing, YT Y0B 1P0 Phone: 867-537-3060 Fax: 867-537-3075

EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES

Finance Manager Job Summary Reporting to the Director of Finance, the Finance Manager is responsible for the management of the day to day monitoring and internal auditing functions of all accounting operations, functions, records and transactions relating to all Selkirk First Nation Departments and Programs.

Qualifications • Accounting or Finance Diploma or successful completion of a minimum four years Post-Secondary education in Accounting.

Equivalencies may be accepted at the recommendation of the Director of Finance.

• Knowledge of accounting principles and practices in relationship to internal auditing, annual external auditing, financial reporting and financial controls.

• Must be willing to enroll in the CAFM program.

• Knowledge of QuickBooks will be considered an asset.

Closing Date: November 5, 2013 For additional information please contact John Igbokwe provide your resume and cover letter in confidence to: John Igbokwe by Email: financedirector@selkirkfn.com

Yukon News Classified/Order Entry 25-30 hours per week The award winning has an exciting opportunity for a

classified/order entry clerk 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.

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.

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

Legislation and Policy Analyst Regular Full Time ı TKC wage scale Level 8 Reporting to the Executive Administrator, you will develop Ta’an Kwäch’än Council’s legal and regulatory framework and work closely with the Chief and Deputy Chief and management committee developing and implementing legislation and policy including drafting, reviewing, amending, disseminating and implementing laws, regulations, policies and other regulatory measures as required.

Closing date: Tuesday, October 21, 2013 To access the job description please contact pkimbley@taan.ca or www.taan.ca and then go to the employment tab.

The TKC Preferential Hiring policy will apply.

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

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

The Marsh Lake Community Society (MLCS) is looking for a dynamic and organized Recreation Programmer.

MARSH LAKE JOB OPPORTUNITY

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 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 FIRST EDITION Jack London book “Smoke Bellow” excellent condition. Collection of stories of the Klondike. $375 firm. Call Jack at 336-1990 1 CORD of nice dry spruce firewood in Riverdale. You pick up only. $225. 336-1990 LPG TANK for automotive use. Manchester 29 gallon. Still has propane in it, $50.

668-3243 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 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 VINTAGE KEEPER wine cooler, with bullet-proof glass doors, holds 500 bottles, $1,000. 334-3238 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 SHEET SET for queen size bed. 1 flat, 1 deep-pocket fitted, 2 pillow cases. Sage colour fleece. New, $20. 668-2877 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 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 441 MONITOR heater with fuel tank, $200.

633-3648 aft 6pm or lv msg NIGHT VISION monoculars, $300. Great deal. Like new in case w/instruction booklet.

Nightfall 2X24 / 4X50 unit. 333-9549 or 514-266-1737 IC-V82 VHF transceiver, brand new, $225.

New in box, never used, $225 obo. 333-9549 or 514-266-1737 SKI-DOO & motorbike helmet, $150. Brand: Zox, DOT certified, black & grey, sz XL. Nidecker snowboard 160 with bindings, $80.

Needs a good wax. 333-9549 or 514-266-1737 DOUBLE GLAZE windows, 4' X 8' living room picture window, $100. 4' x 6' dining room window w/2' opener, $75. 668-4575 NEW LAST fall, 200 gal home heating fuel tank made by Tidy tank with double bottom, c/w fill kit, new - $2000, $1000 firm.

668-2866 or 334-9958 ELECTRICAL GENERATOR, sets up to 3,000 watts and smaller. 668-2332

RECREATION PROGRAMMER

8-PLACE STAINLESS steel flatware set, in case, asking $30. 668-5537

is responsible for the development, planning, implementation and promotion of community activities, programs and events for residents of all ages. The Recreation Programmer will also provide a welcome environment for visitors of the Community Centre.

DOWN DUVET, double, Northern feather, $30.

633-4152

The 20-hour per week position requires evening and weekend work.

WHIRLPOOL DEHUMIDIFIER, 25 pint, $50.

660-4425

The ideal candidate is a team player who is personable, organized, able to perform a variety of tasks, able to prioritize and has strong time management skills.

DEVILBISS INDUSTRIAL horizontal compressor, 80 gal tank, 3-phase, 10 hp motor.

Good running cond, $600 obo. 667-6315 for more info

Post-secondary education and a minimum of 2 years experience in the field of recreation or community programming preferred.

Marsh Lake residents strongly encouraged to apply.

TRAP LINE for lease, Tagish area, further info call 867-399-3001

Deadline: Wednesday, October 23rd, 2013 5:00 p.m.

COFFEE 633-4152

MAKER, electric drip, $10.

Electrical Appliances

To request a detailed job description and to apply, please contact: Wendy Morrison, Manager Marsh Lake Community Society Box 2241 Marsh Lake, YT, Y0B 1Y2 Tel: 867-660-4999 Email: managermarshlake@gmail.com

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

Marsh Lake CoMMunity soCiety (MLCs) is a registered non-profit organization that works to buiLd a heaLthy, vibrant and aCtive CoMMunity in Marsh Lake.

CONVECTION OVEN, professional HD, ideal for restaurant, Turbo Chef model #HHB, $1,500 obo. Don 335-0629 aft 5pm

the CoMMunity of Marsh Lake is situated in the beautifuL southern Lakes, has approx.

619 residents and is known for its strong sense of CoMMunity and voLunteerisM.

PANNINI SANDWICH maker by Pane Bella, model USA 24-6, ideal for commercial use, $350 obo. Don 335-0629 aft 5pm GE DRYER, 1 yr old. Offers. 633-5938

SEARS BEST refrigerator, $200. 633-2580 eves

BOSCH FRONT loading washer and dryer.

Good shape. $200 o.b.o. 332-7174

STACKABLE WASHER & dryer, microwave, stove, portable dishwasher, 50 gal hot water tank. 667-6770

HOTPOINT DRYER, gd working cond, $50.

668-4575

PROPANE STOVE, 20", 4 burners, oven & broiler drawer, works well. Compact, ideal for cottage/camp use, $120. 667-6951 eves

FRIGIDAIRE DEEP freezer, very clean, dividers and 2 baskets included. 4ʼ x 34.5” x 27.5”, $300 firm. 633-3982

WASHER & dryer set, gd working order, $100. 334-2902 FREE INGLIS dryer, extra large capacity.

456-7852 FREE FRIDGE, 28”x65” high. 456-7852 52” DEEPFREEZE. 821-3591

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TVs & Stereos PHILLIPS DVD, VCR combo player w/manual & remote, $40, Satelite rec, General instrument, Star Choice navigo, $20.

633-4152

Paying cash for good quality modern electronics.

G&R Pawnbrokers 1612-D Centennial St. 393-2274 BUY • SELL • LOANS INTERNET RADIO (CD, USB, WiFi, PC), player micro hi-fi system, perfect cond, remote & 2 speakers inclʼd, everything works, great deal, $75. 333-9549 or 514-266-1737

À LA RECHERCHE D’UN EMPLOI?

Computers & Accessories CORNER COMPUTER desk, $80. 667-2844 lv msg

Des professionnels engagés Conseils en développement de carrière Création, amélioration et traduction de CV Simulation d’entrevue

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

Des services personnalisés et des ressources utiles.

Éducation

Direction de l’enseignement postsecondaire

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

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.

Wolverine Mine Career Opportunities

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

Make Wolverine Mine your next career choice!

Responsibilities 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 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 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.

The Geldart Group

Executive Search & Leadership Consulting

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.

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F/T Customer Service Representitive You are a mature person who is looking for a long term position with an established company that has a competitive wage and benefits package. You also enjoy giving a high level of customer service to people looking for fine gifts and jewellery.

Please apply in person with resume to

Murdoch’s, 207 Main Street

DELL DESKTOP computer. Just nuked and paved. WinXP, MSOffice, 19” LCD monitor, speakers, $100. 332-1680 lv msg VARIOUS COMPUTER accessories. Free.

Incls keyboards, speakers, d-links card & CD cases. 633-6687 EPSON PRINTER. FREE, works great, has installation CD. l 633-6687 XBOX 360 with controllers and a couple games with the bigger hard drive. Lots of room left, $120 obo. 334-8287 PSP 3000, great cond, c/w charger, case, memory card, lots of games, movies & tv shows, $120 obo. 334-8287

MONEY MART is NOW HIRING

BranCH ManaGer WE OFFER: ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓

Permanent, full-time position Highly competitive compensation Group insurance benefit coverage Generous bonus and incentive programs Fully paid, intensive on-the-job training Performance-based salary increases Flexible schedules Discounts on products and services Casual and relaxed work environment

apply in person 2190 Second Avenue (downtown Whitehorse) or email your resume to taunya.hirschl@moneymartdr.com or fax to (867) 668-6976

pay d ay l o a n s | C H e q u e C a s H i n G | C u r r e n C y e x C H a n G e | e a s y ta x B i l l p ay M e n t s | w e s t e r n u n i o n | t i ta n i u M C a r d s | M o n e y M a r t. C a

www.yukoncollege.yk.ca

Employment Opportunity

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

Blended Learning Instructor

Teaching & Learning Centre Ayamdigut (Whitehorse) Campus Permanent Position from: November 4, 2013 Salary: $42,732 to $50,867 per annum (based on 45.0 hours bi-weekly) Initial Review Date: October 21, 2013 Competition No.: 13.132 This position is responsible for instruction in and, maintaining relevance and enhancement of programs and courses for technology-based and technologyenhanced course delivery. Working in a Cross Divisional/ Departmental capacity, this position provides instructional design and delivery of TLC provided courses on instructional skills and course/curriculum design for teaching with educational technologies and distributed learning delivery methods.

Applicants should have an undergraduate degree in a related field (i.e., Education) combined with: teaching experience in an adult learning environment, current experience with distance learning methodologies, strategies and technologies as it applies to curriculum design, and strong computer and research skills.

Consideration may be given to those with an appropriate blend of education and teaching experience.

Go to: http://yukoncollege.yk.ca/about/employment for more information on all job competitions. Quoting the competition number, please submit your resume and cover letter to: Yukon College, Human Resources Services, Box 2799, 500 College Drive, Whitehorse, Yukon, Y1A 5K4 Fax: 867-668-8896 Email: hr@yukoncollege.yk.ca

2013-2014 winter’s Coming!

Friday, October 11, 2013

X-BOX 360 w.2 control and 32 games, $100.

333-9060.

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 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 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

Do you have your

FirewooD? $280/cord delivered.

Rounds cut to stove length.

Prompt, timely Deliveries.

Emergency Orders.

667-7674 or 334-8106 FIREWOOD $250 per cord Cut to length 4-cord load 667-6185 FIREWOOD: $170.00 per cord 20 ft. logs 5 cord loads.

Small delivery charge.

867-668-6564 Leave message 10 cords 3ʼ furnace wood, $1,350 picked up.

16” firewood delivered in Haines Jct, $160/cord “The Tree Huggers Woodchopper” “Earth first, weʼll FireSmart the other planets later” 336-4976 DONʼS FIREWOOD Prompt daily deliveries Commercially harvested beetle kill Social Services & Kwanlin Dun Price as of October 1st: $265 per cord 393-4397 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

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 SAVAGE, 25C, P series, .22 barrel on top, 20 gauge under, vg cond, great grouse gun, $300. 667-2607 HUNTING RIFLE, Ruger, M77, 270 Win, Leupold scope, M8x4, must have firearms licence, $550. 334-1326 ZEISS CONQUEST 3-9x40 riflescope, rapid z 600 reticle. exc. conditon. $475 335-8925 SKULL CLEANING European mounts using Dismasted beetles From a mouse to a moose Very reasonable rates 335-2034 HUNTING TREE stand. 2-5ʼ lengths + 3ʼ high hunterʼs seat. Made of metal, $40.

633-3113 REMINGTON 700, 308 heavy barrel rifle, B&L Elite 4000 scope, tactical stock, $1,100 obo. 668-2773 CO-EY BOLT action .22, $75, bear protection Rem - wingmaster, 12-guage with sights, pistol grip and fold-over stock, $350, RCBS jr reloading press and RCBS powder measure, $100 for pair. 334-7465 REMINGTON MODEL 10 pump action shotgun 12 gauge, $150. 334-3800 NEW UNFIRED CZ 550 in 375 H&H Kevlor stock, $1200, trades considered, Coey model 75 .22 cal, bolt action rifle, $125, Stevens 12 guage bolt action shotgun, $175.

334-7465

BELGIAN B R O W N I N G Bar - 7mm Remm.mag. with sights, scope rings, ammo and dies, $600, trades considered, Ruger 77 with custom 22- 250 AI barrel, brass dies, ammo, $775, trades considered. 334-7465 CZ 452 Scout, .22 cal, bolt action, 16” barrel, in excell cond, $400, trades considered, Mauser 98 bolt action 12 guage shotgun, $125. 334-7465 H AND R Sportster break action 22 lr 4x Bushnell scope, great cond, $190. 334-7664

Wanted LOOKING FOR a ride share from Skagway to Whitehorse or Atlin for the 25th or 27th October. Contact: flo-flo-56@hotmail.fr WANTED: LIGHT blue and/or black marble-look self adhesive tiles that used to be sold at Home Hardware. Have extras?

668-5188 WANTED: “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: LARGER size snowblower app.

30'' wide in working condition to keep my long driveway open. 667-7877 WANTED: RED wigglers for a classroom compost project. Kevin 667-7684 WANTED: USED PWF pressure treated wood 2x6 or 2x8 or 2x10, 8ʼ or longer. 668-5207 WANTED: SNOWPLOW for a ATC 3-wheel Honda 200 ES. 633-2241 or 335-0252 WANTED: COPY of Glacial Erraticsʼ first CD or info about where to reach Kim Barlow.

668-4348 WANTED: WOOD cook stove. 668-4885 MECHANIC NEEDED to fix my clutch, 1991 Jeep Cherokee, simple job. 667-0422 WANTED: DVDS, TV series "Frasier".

456-4459

Cars

Certified

2000 SUBARU Forester, all-wheel drive, c/w roof-rack and cargo box, $4000 obo 334-1252

CLASSIC 1979 Cadillac Coupe De ville, V8,Auto Trans ,Sun Roof and much more, priced to sell, Call 668-1477

1999 PONTIAC Grande Pris, immaculate cond, brand new winter tires, c/w mechanical inspection. $3000. 867-334-1374

Trucks

We Sell Trucks!

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 1997 PONTIAC grand am, 146,000 km. passed safety inspection. $900 obo, quick sale. Call in the evenings. 667 2973 1996 PONTIAC Bonneville v6/3.8 L, all brakes done, whole tune-up, needs the reverse shift to be fixed. $500 or best offer.

660-4425 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

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

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 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.

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 2003 HONDA CRV, 224,800 kms, 4WD, automatic, fully loaded, Well maintained, recent brake and suspension work, new tires, new battery. See Kijiji. $6,200 obo. Need a bigger vehicle, 335-7184.

Better Bid North Auction Vehicle Sales.

1987 Pontiac Tempest car $1,850.

2002 Pontiac Sunfire $2,750.

1997 Pontiac Grand Am $2,450.

1989 GMC 4x4 wood truck $995.

1987 Nissan Super Cab $1,800.

333-0717

E M P L OY M E N T O P P O RT U N I T Y TUTOR (Part-Time Term to Dec 31, 2013)

Department: Education Closing: Oct. 22, 2013 Salary: $25-$30/hour, depending on experience

To view full details on all opportunities, visit www.kwanlindun.com/employment

used vehicles

www.yukoncollege.yk.ca

online at

www.drivingforce.ca

2012 DODGE Challenger SRT8, 1700kms, as new. rickaley@yahoo.ca or 867-851-6451 aft 9pm 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 2005 MAZDA 6, 4 door, 4 cyl, auto, 160,000kms, loaded, $8,500 obo. 334-1115 2004 TOYOTA Echo, good cond, very clean, $3500. 660-4870 2002 CHRYSLER Concorde LX sedan, 2.7L V6 automatic, all options, inclʼg leather in spotless cond, in top running cond, glass in perfect cond, 117,000 kms, $4,200.

335-3868 2002 MUSTANG, 80,000kms, 4.6L 5 speed, winter special. 633-2740 2001 CHEVY Malibu, 160,000 km, new wheel bearings , brakes done, power seats power windows.$2500, call in the evenings.

667-2973 2001 HONDA Prelude, black, loaded, leather, new battery, timing belt, rear brakes, regular maintenance, 147,000kms, well maintained, no accidents, all original, no modifications, $8,500 obo. 336-4402 2000 AUTOMATIC Ford Taurus wagon, 4-door, 8 seats, 175,000 kms, great cond, 5-disc, cd player, tape deck, ac and heating system works perfectly, c/w command start, $4000 obo. 333-9549 2000 CHRYSLER Intrepid ES, 2.7L, V6, auto, fully loaded. New battery & front struts.

Just needs alternator, $2,100 obo. 335-2196

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Employment Opportunity

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

Administrative Assistant

Centre for Northern Innovation in Mining (CNIM) School of Trades, Technology & Mining Ayamdigut (Whitehorse) Campus Permanent Position Salary: $51,537 to $61,359 per annum (Based on 75.0 hours bi-weekly) Competition No.:13.135 Initial Review Date: October 25, 2013

Yukon College’s newly established Centre for Northern Innovation in Mining is looking for an energetic, cooperative individual to join our dynamic team of trades faculty and staff. You will be supporting the day-to-day administration of the centre by providing administrative support for its governing council, staff, students and clients.

The ideal applicant will have certification in office or business administration or related post-secondary education with considerable experience working in administrative positions and administering a broad range of programs which require excellent writing, problem solving and multi-tasking skills.

Applicants must have experience taking minutes, advanced computer and bookkeeping skills combined with excellent customer service in a multicultural environment.

Candidates with an acceptable combination of experience and education may also be considered.

Go to: http://yukoncollege.yk.ca/about/employment for more information If you are interested, please send your resume to: Human Resource Services Yukon College, Box 2799 Whitehorse, Yukon, Y1A 5K4 Fax #: (867) 668-8896 e-mail: hr@yukoncollege.yk.ca Go to: http://yukoncollege.yk.ca/about/employment for more information on all job competitions. Quoting the competition number, please submit your resume and cover letter to: Yukon College, Human Resources Services, Box 2799, 500 College Drive, Whitehorse, Yukon,Y1A 5K4 Fax: 867-668-8896 Email: hr@yukoncollege.yk.ca

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

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

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

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

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

2009 DODGE Journey R/T. Fully loaded, AWD, remote start, heated leather seats, c/w set of winter tires, 65,000 kms, exc cond, $18,500 obo. 336-2289

Duke’s Firewood Standing dry Beetle Killed Spruce taKing orderS for fall deliverieS

This government’s bureaucratic overkill (3 public consultations to harvest dead trees) and the incompetency of the Forestry Management Board to administer the Forest Resources Act to issue an extension to a present permit (that I had applied for November, 2012 to give me a supply until freeze-up) pushes the price of firewood up. The price is so high, many Yukoners are choosing to burn fossil fuels instead.

For every 4.7 cords of carbon-neutral wood burned, the equivalent fossil-fuel sourced heat adds 5.4 tonnes of CO2 to the atmosphere. YTG could reduce its carbon footprint by 50,000 tonnes per year by using the 100,000 m3 of dead trees for its energy needs from the Haines Junction area. History has proven time and again the area will burn up in wildfires. Harvesting these trees may save Haines Junction from burning up with the 350,000 hectares of dead trees.

Wood Prices are: $240/cord for a 6-cord load $260/cord for multiples of 2 cords • Cut your own at $95/cord 20-cord truckload logs $155/cord

caSh and deBit accepted

334-8122

Joignez une équipe dynamique L’Association franco-yukonnaise (AFY) est à la recherche

d’un adjoint ou d’une adjointe à l’administration Sous la supervision de la direction générale, le ou la titulaire du poste est responsable, notamment d’assurer différentes tâches administratives et l’accueil du public.

Description des tâches

Profil

• Appuyer la direction générale dans différentes tâches administratives.

• Diplôme collégial en administration, secrétariat ou équivalence.

• Assurer le remplacement de la réception du Centre de la francophonie.

• Accueillir les clients et clientes des services Emploi, Formation et Immigration et leur offrir un soutien technique.

• Fournir des renseignements sur les services.

• Expérience pertinente reliée à l’emploi.

• Expérience en service à la clientèle.

• Excellente maîtrise du français et très bonne connaissance de l’anglais (oral et écrit).

• Entregent et polyvalence.

• Minutie et rigueur.

• Excellent sens de l’organisation.

• Tenir à jour les dossiers clients, l’affichage et les inscriptions aux cours.

• Excellente capacité d’adaptation.

• Rédiger des lettres et comptesrendus.

• Excellente capacité à communiquer et à travailler en équipe.

• Excellente capacité à gérer plusieurs tâches à la fois.

• Coordonner la logistique des • Connaissance des cours et des réunions. logiciels MS Office.

Une description de tâches détaillée, incluant un profil des compétences, est disponible sur demande.

Début de l’emploi : 2 décembre 2013.

Ce poste est à temps plein à raison de 30 à 37,5 heures par semaine.

Salaire : Selon l’échelle salariale en vigueur.

Lieu de travail : Whitehorse, capitale du Yukon, Canada.

Nous remercions toutes les personnes qui soumettront leur candidature.

Nous communiquerons seulement avec les personnes retenues pour une entrevue.

Nous offrons des chances d’emploi égales à tous et toutes.

Faites parvenir, par courriel, votre curriculum vitae accompagné d’une lettre de présentation rédigée en français avant 17 h - PST le mardi 29 octobre, à ressourceshumaines@afy.yk.ca ASSOCIATION FRANCO-YUKONNAISE Porte-parole officiel et leader du développement de la communauté francoyukonnaise depuis 1982. L’AFY offre un large éventail de ressources et de services en français : activités sociales et culturelles, formation, services d’aide à l’emploi et de planification de carrière, appui au développement écono-mique et touristique, accès Internet gratuit, location de films et prêt de livres, cours de langues, etc. www.afy.yk.ca

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SALES • BODY SHOP • PARTS • SERVICE 1994 Chrysler LeBaron Convertible red............................................ $1,500 2005 Honda Pilot EX black ...........................................................................$13,900 2005 Chev Cavalier 4 dr, black, auto.......................................................$4,500 2006 Ford Crown Victoria V8 ....................................................................... $4,995 2010 Kia Soul 4 door, auto, silver ............................................................$14,900 $ SOLD! 1999 FORD F150 S/C white..............................................................................

2,595 IN-HOUSE FINANCING AVAILABLE!

2006 FORD Ranger 4.0L V6, 4x4, extʼd cab, standard trans. Bed mat, front & rear receiver hitch, 105,000kms, $9,200 obo.

668-4836 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

2008 Toyota Corolla SE 4 door, auto white

10,550

$

2013 Hyundai Accent

2007 DODGE Ram 1500, V8 Hemi, no accidents, auto, 95,000kms, p/windows & seats, 4 dr, a/c, canopy, dark blue, $14,500.

334-4798

2005 NISSAN Frontier, extʼd cab, 4WD, automatic, 159,000kms, new windshield, newer tires, brakes, wheel-bearings, serviced regularly, $8,500. 667-2607

NEW!

4-Wheel Drive 6 Speed, White

2004 SIERRA 3500 dually crew cab, loaded, 4x4, diesel. Mech records. Nw tires, 211,000 kms. $22,000. 668-4663

2012 Nissan Versa SV $

2004 TOYOTA Tacoma extra cab 4x4, 3400cc, v6, auto trans, new timing belt, receiver hitch, 92,000 miles, $12,000 obo.

633-2181

2012 Dodge Ram 1500 Quad 4x4 SLT Hemi

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

16,500

$

4-Door Hatchback Grey, Low Kms

14,900

SOLD!

Silver 24k

$

31,595

*VeHicLeS may not be exactLy aS SHoWn

OPEN 7 DAYS A WEEK In-House Financing Available

For Quick Approval call: 668-5559 #4 Fraser Road, McCrae, Whitehorse, YT Y1A 5S8

2012 NISSAN XTerra, Trail, green colour, trailer pkg, hatch tent, Bluetooth. Pd $41,000 a year ago, Reduced $31,900. 336-0375 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 2004 CADILLAC Escalade SUV AWD, 6 passenger, heated leather seats, sun roof, very nice cond, $14,900. 660-4220

2002 F250 ext cab long box lariat, 5.4 gas, new factory Ford transmission, 230,000kms, fully loaded with leather, $8,600 obo.

668-5882 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 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 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 1980 FORD Bronco, $500 obo. 660-5922

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

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

84 F-350 4x4 crew cab 4 spd manual, gas, long box w/wood side panels. Good work truck, $1,800. 334-773

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

633-2740

2000 GMC extended cab 1/2 ton, 2-wheel drive, new front end, new fuel pump, mechanically sound, $6500. 334-1374 1999 CHEV Suburban LT 4x4, 7 passenger, heated leather seats, vg cond, $5,900.

660-4220 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 1998 FORD F-150, reg cab, 2-wheel drive, v-6, 5-speed, $3500. 633-6213 1997 CHEV 3500 tow-truck, 2-wheel drive, Century 411 wrecker, 3500 lb wheel lift, new tires, batteries, new diesel engine, $10,000.

334-3497 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 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

1987 F250 diesel, 4x4 5spd manual. Reg cab, long box. Great work truck, $2,000.

334-7373 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 1987 T O Y O T A 4x4 p/u, standard, 197,000kms, belly bars/chains & wired for camper, canopy, $2,000. 668-4613 1987 TOYOTA truck, 22R, standard, 2WD, $1,000. Richard. 821-4924 1986 2.8 Chevy Blazer 2-wd. Runs well $1200. 867-399-3001

DOWNTOWN

The Deli Extra Foods Fourth Avenue Petro Gold Rush Inn Cashplan Klondike Inn Mac’s Fireweed Books Ricky’s Restaurant Riverside Grocery Riverview Hotel Shoppers on Main Shoppers Qwanlin Mall Superstore Superstore Gas Bar Tags Well-Read Books Westmark Whitehorse Yukon Inn Yukon News Yukon Tire Edgewater Hotel

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

668-7503 lv msg

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

The Yukon News is available at these wonderful stores in Whitehorse:

HILLCREST

Friday, October 11, 2013

AND …

Kopper King Hi-Country RV Park McCrae Petro Takhini Gas Yukon College Bookstore

The Yukon news is also available aT no charge in all Yukon communiTies and aTlin, b.c.

“YOUR COMMUNITY CONNECTION” WEDNESDAY • FRIDAY

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 FORD F-150 truck. Regular cab 4x2, 5-speed manual trans. 4.2 V-6 engine, good on gas. 163,225 km. New battery in March.

C/w matching canopy and factory box liner. $5,500 333-9084.

Auto Parts & Accessories TRUCK CANOPIES - in stock * new Dodge long/short box * new GM long/short box * new Ford long/short box Hi-Rise & Cab Hi - several in stock View at centennialmotors.com 393-8100 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 SET OF Ride-Rite Firestone air bags off a 1999 GMC Sierra, $200 obo. 334-6776 WINTER TIRES (no rims) LT235/75-R15 Arctic Claw brand. Designed for SUVs, small trucks & cross-overs. $1,000 new from Kal Tire in Whitehorse, asking $600. (778) 350-5071 1993 SUBARU Loyale, runs, but only good for parts. Extra Parts inclʼd such as radiator, alternator, water pump, etc. $450 obo.

668-1040 100ʼ OF 3/4” towing cable with loops on ends. Offers. 332-6565 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 255 70/R18 tires and rims, Goodyear Fortera Tripletread, ideal winters for new Toyota Tundras, 1 year used, $650, 332-1463.

AUTO TRANS & trans case for mid 80s -90s jeep $500. Ford C-4 trans $300. Chev metric auto trans $300 obo. 668-3508 LADDER JACKS, $25. Boat rack for Toyota long-box, $120. 667-2521 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 GENTLY USED winter tires. Nokian Hakkapeliitta Q 155/80 13. $50 each OBO. 633-6462.

14” TRAILER tires & white spoke rims. 1 new, 2 in vg cond, $150. 633-2740 SET OF 4 Michelin X-ICE winter tires with lots of tread left. Size 205/55R16, $200 obo.

633-4508 GOOD SERVICEABLE winter tires on rims, 185/70R14, 5 bolt, from an older Camry, 215/70R15, 5 bolt Plymouth Grand Voyageur Minivan. 456-4492 WANTED 235/75R15 5 bolt for older Suburban. 456-4492 4-17” TIRES, exc shape, $100/ea. 633-4018 WANTED: TRANSMISSION for 96 Dodge 4x4 Daytona. 634-3861 4 TOYOTA Observe GSI-5 studless snow- tires 225/60 R16 , on genuine Toyota Rims. Were on 2007 Seinna Van .Paid $1200 for tires, rims. Used one winter. Excellent tread left. $750 obo 332-7174 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.

TRUCK CANOPY, white high rise, 80”L x 60” wide x 28” high, lots of windows, $300 obo. 660-4806 SEMI-RETIRED LICENSED mechanic looking for work. Gas - diesel. Have own shop. Willing to do mobile work.

456-9608 4 WINTER tires, 1 rim, Goodyear Nordic, 1-yr old, P215/65R15, $200, 4 winter tires, 1-yr old, 175/65 R14, $100, 660-4425 2 BRIDGESTONE mud and snow tires w/about 60-70% tread left, load rating of E, 245/75R16, $100/both. 456-7354 BED BAR(ROLL-BAR) for 1988 Toyota 4x4 long-box, $100. 667-2521 TAILGATE FOR 98/99 Ford Truck, white, $150 obo, older style headache rack, $80 obo. 456-7354

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 KITTEN FOR sale, female, calico, born August 1, 2013 $50.00 667-7448

Motorcycles & Snowmobiles 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

Fast, hassle-free

cheque cashing

no holds... instant cash!

Open 7 Days A Week Whitehorse Money Mart 2190 second avenue (867) 668-6930

TAITʼS CUSTOM TRAILER SALES 2-3-4- place snowmobile & ATV trailers Drive on Drive off 3500 lb axles

by Trailtech - SWS & Featherlight CALL ANYTIME: 334-2194 www/taittrailers.com RONʼS SMALL ENGINE SERVICES Repairs to Snowmobiles, Chainsaws, Lawnmowers, ATVʼs, Small industrial equipment.

Light welding repairs available 633-6161 lv msg 2009 SUMMIT 800, 1,700 miles, has a ceramic coated can, otherwise bone stock. Gd shape, $7,000 obo. (867)333-0484 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 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

Heavy Equipment

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 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 POWER TILTING aluminum sled deck, fits long box p/u truck, $1,500. 333-0117 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 TUNDRA II skidoo, has reverse, needs windshield, asking $2000. 867-536-7610 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 YAMAHA VENTURE 2007 500cc 2-stroke, back & front adjustable hand warmer/ adjustable back rest, revers / elect start 1600 km, c/w small skimmer, registered with license bureau. $4500 o.b.o 667-4236, 335-7450 1983 DOUBLE track skidoo, like new cond and ready to work. Also one ski-boose to tow behind double track. 668-2332 OLD CROW-TYPE toboggan/skimmer, hickory w/Teflon bottom and runners, 14ʼ x 21” wide, canvas cargo bag. $600. more info 332-1680 leave message.

Aircraft

NEW & USED EQUIPMENT For Sale Come see MACPHERSON RENTALS @ 117 Copper Rd or call 633-4426 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 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 225 A twin cylinder 17H.P. Kohler powered ARC welder/power plant, c/w HD steel 4 wheeled trailer with hitch, $2,000 obo or sell on 2 wheeled cart for $1,500 obo.

867-633-6502

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

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

SPEED BOAT w/350HP Chev & jet pump, Fibreglass hull, $5,000, c/w trailer. rickaley@yahoo.ca 867-851-6451 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 40 HP Yamaha o/b motor, new cond, with spare prop, $3500. 867-536-7610

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 UTILITY TRAILER made from the back of a truck box, $700 obo. 668-1040 2013 GOOSENECK trailer, Big Tex, 25ʼ, deck on the neck, beavertail w/ramps, 2-10,000lb axle dually, equipment hauler, $12,500. 393-6550

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 2007 DESERT Fox toy hauler, 24ʼ, double pane windows & insulation, winter/4 season trailer. Sleeps 6-8, ensuite, electric bunk, alarm, haul your toys in style & comfort.

393-4700

7ʼ UTILITY trailer, 1500 lb towing capacity, hitch, lights and spare tire. $700 firm.

633-3982 50ʼ LONG x 10ʼ or 11ʼ wide x 10ʼ high skid, shack on steel skids, very movable.

668-2332 1972 WESTFALIA camper van, rare model, very clean, no damage, $7000 obo.

334-1252

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

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

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

633-6019 FRiDaY, octoBeR 11

2013

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 1999 CLASS B 20' Vanguard camper van, vg cond, runs great, everything works, $12,500. 334-9903

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

8ʼ CAMPER, propane fridge & stove in working cond, $700 obo. 334-9144

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

Gently Used

Atv’s:

30FT LONG tandem axle gooseneck flat deck trailer, ready to work and 12,000lb electric winch as new to pull stuff on trailer 668-2332

1984 FORD motorhome, 20ʼ, vg shape, low miles, gd tires, everything works, $5,000 obo. 821-4924

Help control the pet overpopulation problem

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

Inventory

2009 Yamaha Big Bear 250 ..........................................................$3,499 2009 Yamaha Wolverine 450 .......................................................$4,999 2011 Yamaha Bruin 350 ...............................................................$5,499

snowmobiles:

2006 Yamaha Venture Tf 2up 2900km ........................................$3,999 2007 Yamaha Apex Gt 121" .........................................................$5,999 2007 Yamaha Vk Professional Widetrack ..................................$5,499 2008 Yamaha Phazer Mtx 144" Timbersled Suspension ..........$6,499 2009 Yamaha Phazer Rtx 121" ....................................................$5,499 2009 Yamaha Nytro Rtx Se 121" Sno X Edition 1275km ...........$7,999 2010 Yamaha Nytro Xtx 144" .......................................................$6,999 2010 Yamaha Nytro Mtx 162" 180hp Turbo 1800km ..................$8,999 2012 Yamaha Nytro Xtx 144" Speed Racer Edition ...................$9,999 2012 Yamaha Nytro Mtx 162" 270hp Turbo ..............................$15,999

YUKON

YAMAHA

(867) 668-2101 or 1-800-661-0430

1 KM south of Robert Service Way, Alaska Highway, Whitehorse, Y.T.

$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 • Robson subdivision male Bernesemountain dog black, wearing yellow collar contact Dane @667-7827.

(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 • 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

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!

AVAilABlE foR AdoPtion in foStER HoMES doGS • 6 yr old, neutered male, Husky/ GSDx, black and tan (Nitro)

CAtS

• 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)

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

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• 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:

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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.

MENTAL HEALTH Caregivers Support Group meets the third Thursday of every month, 7-9 pm, #4 Hospital Rd, main floor resource room, in Whitehorse. 667-8346.

HOSPICE YUKON: Free, confidential services offering compassionate support to those facing advanced illness, death and bereavement. Visit our lending library @ 409 Jarvis M-F 11:30-3, 667-7429 www.hospiceyukon.net A CARE Affair! Fri, Oct 18, Westmark Hotel, 5:00pm-8:00pm. Goods & Services Auction, Live music, Food, Comedy. Fundraiser for Little Footprints Big Steps work in Haiti. Info: 334-3928 or karenwienberg@gmail.com SALSA YUKONʼS Latin Dance classes are every Friday @ Leaping Feats Dance Studio, 38 Lewes Blvd. 7:30pm Beginner. 8:45pm Intermediate. For info 335-0909 salsayukon@gmail.com

HULLANDʼS HAUNTS & Holly Craft Fair, Oct 26, 10am-3pm @ Jack Hulland Elementary School, Porter Crk. To book your table call 667-8496

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.

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

FIDDLEHEADS AGM November 6 @ 6pm, Selkirk Elementary School.

Friday, October 11, 2013

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!

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

HEADSTONES • KITCHENS • BUILDING STONE • AND MORE...

sid@sidrock.com

Bill Bowie William Bruce Bowie was born on June 3rd, 1944, to Irene and George Bowie in Vancouver. As a young man he worked for the BC Forestry Service and after a summer posting in Atlin, BC, he and his wife Lynne moved to Dawson City in 1971 and started their family.

It did not take long for Bill to get involved in Dawson City. He volunteered as a firefighter, and served on Dawson’s Town Council for many years. He sat on the boards of the Klondike Visitor’s Association and Dawson City Chamber of Commerce, and helped out with events such as the Gold Show, The Yukon Quest, and Discovery Days.

In 1975 he and his friend started logging with the intention of building their own homes. They soon had a long list of customers and found themselves in business. Arctic Inland Resources has since grown and Bill’s products can be seen throughout the Yukon, as well as in Alaska, northern BC, and NWT. Over the last 15 years he was able to update his sawmill and increase his selective logging, which gave him more reasons to go out walking in the forests that he loved. He helped to start up a large-scale heating system in Dawson City fueled by locally harvested wood chips, and he had a vision of helping other communities become more self-reliant as well. You can see his work throughout Dawson when you walk around town. Less visible memories he has left with us are other ways he continued to contribute to the communities; such as his time serving on the board of the Yukon Foundation, and helping to organize relief for the Village of Eagle after their devastating flood of 2009.

Bill and Helen were married in 2000. They enjoyed visiting their grandchildren and spending time in their beautiful home. Together they gardened, traveled, and played many card games. Throughout his life, he approached the day with a cheerful attitude and could often be heard saying “Let’s go do something stupid.”

Bill passed away peacefully on August 24, 2013. He will be missed by his many friends and by his loving family.

Bill’s family would like to give a heartfelt thank you to everyone for their love and support. Your kind words, the memories you shared, and the assistance given for Bill’s Celebration of Life, all means so much to us.

Donations in his memory may be made to the Yukon Foundation.

A scholarship will be established in his name.

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

THE NEXT Multiple Sclerosis Association meeting is October 20 at 10:30am at Copper Ridge Place in the Multipurpose Room.

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.

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

YUKONEVENTS DAILY Digest for Events, Activities and Classes. www.facebook.com/YukonEvents

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

COMMUNITY BARN Dance, Saturday, Oct 19, 7:30pm, Lorne Mountain Community Centre: Master fiddler & dance caller Gordon Stobbe, Annie Avery & the Fiddleheads Barndance Band. 667-7083

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

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 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.

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

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

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

Stewart C. Blackjack

COFFEE HOUSE! Sat. Nov 2. Featuring: Dan Halen + Chic Callas + the Open Stage!

Help set up 6pm, 7pm Open stage sign-up, 730pm show! $5 United Church Bsmt, 6th+Main, 633-4255 WHITEHORSE S T R I N G Ensemble AGM 8pm Thursday, November 14. (Following the weekly practice) Hellaby Hall at Christ Church Cathedral, 4th Ave & Elliott St. (Across from RCMP). Everyone welcome.

667-4630 ART CONTEST. The Rotary Music Festival invites Yukon youth aged 5 to 18 to create an artwork for its program cover. Check the rules at www.rmfestival.ca. Deadline: January 15, 2014.

NEW YORK jazz duo. Alto sax & piano. Sun, Oct 27, 7:30 pm cabaret. Arts Centre.

Tix yukontickets.com. YAC Box Office, Arts Underground or door.

SNOWBOARD YUKON AGM, Thurs Nov 14, 7pm at Sport Yukon WHITEHORSE MINOR Soccer AGM, Saturday, October 26th, 1:00 pm, Boardroom, Sport Yukon. New members welcome!

Player numbers are strong, volunteer numbers not so much! Please come and help. Information 667-2445 WILDERNESS TOURISM Workshop. Business Interest? Expand opportunities? Nov. 16-17, 8:30-5:00. Vista Outdoor Learning Centre. $25. Prereg. by Nov. 8 at www.tc.gov.yk.ca/tourism. Space limited.

More info rjantzen@shaw.ca YUKON HOME Education Society AGM, Friday October 25, 3 - 5 pm, Family Literacy Centre at the Canada Games Centre. Anyone interested in homeschooling is welcome.

More info: Jody 660-5347

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

He was a brother, son, uncle and friend.

He will be sadly missed by all family and friends.

Funeral Service

LATIN DANCE classes are every Friday night. Latin Fiesta October 19th at Antoinette's restaurant. 335-0909 or salsayukon@gmail.com for info

FAMILY FUN Nights, October 25 & November 22, 6-8pm. Yukon College gym, drop-in tennis. All welcome. Free. 393-2621

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

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.

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

SACRED CHORAL Music Concert with Besig and Price ,7pm Saturday October 19 at Whitehorse United. Admission by donation.

All are welcome!

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Custom-cut Stone Products

YUKON ARTIST Relief Fund is holding annual General meeting at 7:00pm on Wednesday, October 23rd in Art Underground Studio.

IRIS FOLDED Christmas Card Classes every Thursday In October, 7-9:30pm. Contact Shannon @ 633-3883

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

13 Denver roaD in McCrae • 668-6639

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.

Services 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)

David Harold Acker March 10, 1944 – October 3, 2013

Dave passed away peacefully in Carmacks, YT with his best friend by his side.

Dave will be sadly missed by his friends, family and puppies.

A celebration of Dave’s life will be held in the Summer of 2014.

BUSY BEAVERS Painting, Pruning Hauling, Snow Shovelling and General Labour Call Francois & Katherine 456-4755

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 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

EXPERIENCED CARPENTER OFFERING: - Siding - Roofing - Framing and Renovations Free estimates and competitive rates.

Call Adam 334-3416 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

NEED UNDERGROUND WIRE?

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 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

CERAMIC TILE INSTALLATION Licensed, insured, WCB certified Small or big contracting Specialize in new or tiled bathroom renovation Phone David: 333-0772 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 ELECTRICIAN FOR all your jobs Large or small Licensed Electrician Call MACK N MACK ELECTRIC for a competitive quote!

867-332-7879 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

SUBARU GURU Fix•Buy•Sell Used Subarus 30 year Journeyman Mechanic Towing available Mario 333-4585

Do you neeD storage?

3 reasons why you should call

1 2 3

Excellent friendly customer service 24-7.

Located only 3 mins from downtown.

Easy 24 hour access.

Call 334-3216

info@titaniumstorage.ca

ARMOUR-ALL DETAILING Reliable, Professional Service 633-6855 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 TOMBSTONE CONTRACTING Loader and dump truck services Driveways, parking lots, concrete driveways, sidewalks and pads.

Fork lift, lifting boom Snow haul and removal Free quotes Call 334 2142 CITYLIGHT RENOS Flooring, tiling, custom closets Painting & trim, kitchens & bathrooms Fences & gates Landscaping & gardening Quality work at reasonable rates Free estimates Sean 867-332-1659 citylightrenos@gmail.com Residential Snow Removal Competitive Rates 633-6855 Armour Lawn Care, Design & Snow Removal Reliable, Professional Service

DRUG PROBLEM?

BOBCAT AND BACKHOE SERVICES in Whitehorse, Marsh Lake, Tagish area Call Andreas 660-4813

456-4567

& 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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N e l lab Avai

TOPSOIL Call Dirtball

668-2963

CUSTOM To make your ideas a reality.

Anonymous

Ironwork

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>

ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS MEETINGS

railings, gates and much more

www.ironworkyukon.com call mike morrow at 335-1888

LOW COST MINI STORAGE n n n

Now 2 locations: Porter Creek & Kulan.

Onsite & offsite steel containers available for rent or sale.

Now an authorized UhaUl dealership for trucks, trailers, dollies & Uboxes.

Phone 633-2594 Fax 633-3915

Yukon Communities & Atlin, B.C.

Beaver Creek

Friday - 1:30 p.m.

Health Centre

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

Library Friday - 1:30 p.m.

Health Centre

Commercial & Residential

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.

TCM MAID SERVICE Reliable, Thorough & Professional Reasonable Rates References available 335-4421or 393-3868

Haines Junction

LOG CABINS: Professional Scribe Fit log buildings at affordable rates.

Contact: PF Watson, Box 40187, Whitehorse, YT, Y1A 6M9 668-3632

Old Crow

Friday - 1:30 p.m.

Health Centre

OFFICE LOCATED BESIDE KLONDIKE WELDING, 15 MacDONALD RD., PORTER CREEK, info@lowcostministorage.ca

60 Below Snow Management

Y.T.

Destruction Bay

LUIS RENOVATIONS Over 20 yearsʼ experience.

Specializing in home renovation.

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

335-1269

Marsh Lake Transfer Station

Narcotics

HOUSECLEANER AVAILABLE Fast and thorough No criminal record 30-year Yukon resident $30/hr 335-0009

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

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Snow Removal (867) 336-3570

Y.T.

For all your snow removal needs. No jobs too small.

Faro

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

Health Centre

Friday - 1:30 p.m.

Health Centre

Y.T.

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

Health Centre

AL-ANON MEETINGS

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

Health Centre

Pelly Crossing

Friday - 1:30 p.m.

Health Centre

contact 667-7142

Y.T.

Ross River

Has your

Tagish

life been

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

Health Centre

Y.T. Monday 7:30pm Lightwalkers Group Bishop’s Cabin, end of road along California Beach

Telegraph Creek

B.C.

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

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 )

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BLUE HILL MASONRY • Cultured Stone • Ceramic Tile • Brick Andre Jobin 633-2286

Public tender Snow Removal and winteR GRoundS maintenance Yukon Hospital corporation

Yukon Hospital Corporation is inviting tenders for Snow Removal and Winter Grounds Maintenance for the dawson city community Hospital campus for the 2013-2014 season.

Tender packages are available from the Facility Management Office, Whitehorse General Hospital 5 Hospital Rd. Whitehorse, Yukon or Dawson City Maintenance and Engineering, 346B Turner Street, Dawson City. Sealed tenders to be received prior to 3 p.m.

October 22, 2013.

Technical questions may be directed to Arthur Lotz Whitehorse at (867) 393-8768 or Jeff Joyce Dawson City (867) 993-2909.

The lowest or any tender is not necessarily accepted.

yukon hospital corporation

public Tender Variable reTenTion Timber HarVesTing

KLASSIC HANDYMAN SERVICES “HOME RENOVATION SPECIALIST” “SPECIALIZING IN BATHROOMS” Start to Finish • FLOORING • TILE • CARPENTRY • PAINTING • FENCING • DECKS “ONE CALL DOES IT ALL!!

DON: 334-2699 don.brook@hotmail.com

Public tender Snow Removal and winteR GRoundS maintenance Yukon Hospital corporation

Yukon Hospital Corporation is inviting tenders for Snow Removal and Winter Grounds Maintenance for the watson lake community Hospital campus for the 2013-2014 season.

Tender packages are available from the Facility Management Office, Whitehorse General Hospital 5 Hospital Rd. Whitehorse, Yukon or Facility Administrator Office, 817 Ravenhill Drive, Watson Lake. Sealed tenders to be received prior to 3 p.m. October 22, 2013.

Technical questions may be directed to Arthur Lotz Whitehorse at (867) 393-8768 or Carol Chiasson (867) 536-5252.

The lowest or any tender is not necessarily accepted.

yukon hospital corporation

PUBLIC TENDER

SNOW CLEARING Sidewalks, Driveways, Commercial, Residential Call Francis at Speedy Sparkle 668-6481 or cell 334-8480 ZEN SALON & SPA Menʼs, Ladies, Childrenʼs Hairstyling & Esthetics on the corner of 4th and Strickland 667-7936 Open 8am-7pm - 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

Public tender Snow Removal and winteR GRoundS maintenance Yukon Hospital corporation

Yukon Hospital Corporation is inviting tenders for Snow Removal and Winter Grounds Maintenance for the whitehorse General Hospital campus for the 2013-2014 season.

Tender packages are available from the Facility Management Office, Whitehorse General Hospital 5 Hospital Rd. Whitehorse, Yukon. Sealed tenders to be received prior to 3 p.m. October 22, 2013.

Technical questions may be directed to Arthur Lotz at (867) 393-8768.

The lowest or any tender is not necessarily accepted.

yukon hospital corporation

project description: This tender is research orientated and involves using variable retention harvesting in three blocks in the Lewes Marsh area, south of Whitehorse. Harvesting will occur during the winter of 2013/14 in six of nine treatment units (for a total harvest of 18 ha.) to determine if there is a long-term relationship between variable retention harvesting systems and abundance of terrestrial forage lichens.

Submissions clearly marked with the above project title, will be received up to and including 4:00 pm local time, october 24, 2013, at Contract Services, (867) 667-5385.

Documents may be obtained from Contract Services, Department of Highways and Public Works, Second Floor 9010 Quartz Road, P.O. Box 2703, Whitehorse, Yukon, Y1A 2C6.

Technical questions may be directed to david swinson at (867) 456-6101.

Site visit scheduled for Wednesday, October 16th at 9am.

Submissions will be evaluated in accordance with the criteria indicated in the documents.

The highest ranked or lowest priced submission is not necessarily accepted.

Visit our web site www.gov.yk.ca/tenders

Project Description: Fuelwood salvage opportunity in the Quill Creek area (Auriol Road). There is approximately 130 m3 of timber that was harvested 3 years ago and decked on 3 separate landings. The highest bidder will be required to pay the full amount of the bid price prior to being issued a Forest Resource Permit.

Submissions clearly marked with the above project title, will be received up to and including 4:00 PM local time, October 17, 2013, at Contract Services, (867) 667-5385.

Documents may be obtained from Contract Services, Department of Highways and Public Works, Second Floor 9010 Quartz Road, P.O. Box 2703, Whitehorse, Yukon, Y1A 2C6.

Technical questions may be directed to Lauren Waters at (867) 456-6178.

Submissions will be evaluated in accordance with the criteria indicated in the documents.

The highest ranked or lowest priced submission is not necessarily accepted.

Visit our web site www.gov.yk.ca/tenders

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

Energy, Mines & Resources

Energy, Mines & Resources

Highways and Public Works

FUELWOOD SALVAGE OPPORTUNITY DECKED TIMBER

PUBLIC TENDER DESIGN AND INSTALLATION OF PUBLIC ADDRESS SYSTEMS FOR GHUCH TLA COMMUNITY SCHOOL - BLDG.#1134, CARCROSS, YUKON 2013/2014

Friday, October 11, 2013 Lost & Found 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.

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

Sports Equipment

LOST: BLACKBERRY phone with blue protector & dinosaur sticker on the back. Lost somewhere downtown. Naomi 335-5920

CERTIFIED TECH SHOP

FOUND - on South Access, large black Pit-bull cross male, has collar, no tags.

334-4995

Heat moulded skates Skate sharpening Downhill, X-ski and Snowboard repairs and maintenance Bike maintenance and repairs Fast, thorough service

LOST: CANON camera in Walmart, Sept 16.

Would like to have the memory card returned. Mail to Box 10007, Whitehorse, Yukon, Y1A 7A1 FOUND; CHILDʼS bicycle on Lewes Blvd.

Identify by calling. 668-4026

Business Opportunities FOR SALE THE WEENIE WAGON Seasonal business Call now for details, Set up for spring 2014 Ph 867-334-4338

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The Hougen Centre, Whitehorse, Yukon

in the Hougen Centre, 305 Main St. 668-6848

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 FREE STANDING basketball net with adjustable height basket. Free, if you take away.

633 6711 FOLDING 393-3753

WEIGHT bench, $60 obo.

YORK & Wider weights with steel bars.

667-2844 lv msg 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 MENʼS SIZE 12 Techno Pro snowboard boots, new, still in box, paid $160, asking $120 obo 456-4766

Kitchen or Restaurant for Lease Town and Mountain Hotel 401 Main Street Apply to Kayle Tel: 668-7644 Fax: 668-5822 Email: info@townmountain.com

Notification of Harvesting Licence Applications Pursuant to Section 18 of the Forest Resources Act, Forest Management Branch notifies the public of applications made for the commercial harvesting of forest resources.

Current applications for harvesting licences are available for comment for a minimum of 30 days at www.forestry.gov.yk.ca or through the Client Services and Inspections Office in your community.

Commercial harvesting of forest resources occurs in accordance with an approved Timber Harvest Plan that has undergone public review. These plans are available online. For more information, email forestry@gov.yk.ca or phone 1-800-661-0408 ext. 3999.

Livestock QUALITY YUKON MEAT Dev & Louise Hurlburt Grain-finished Hereford beef Domestic wild boar Order now for full delivery Payment plan available Samples on request 668-7218 335-5192 HORSE HAVEN HAY RANCH Dev & Louise Hurlburt Irrigated Timothy/Brome mix Small square & round bales Discounts for field pick up or delivery Straw bales also for sale 335-5192 • 668-7218 HAY FOR SALE Dry bales kept under a shelter. $12/bale astra@northwestel.net 633-4496 FRESH CUT 1,000 lb+ hay bales Field delivered $100 each 633-3388 PORK MEAT For Sale Sold by the half or cut & wrapped All animals are raised naturally No hormones/antibiotics YUKON VALLEY FARM 335-4431 Organic Hay from Dawson Creek Timothy, Brome, Alfalfa mix 17 ton load of rounds Delivered 46 bales for $7480 or $160 per bale (740 lbs.)

633-6603 FARM RAISED pork available.

Sold by whole pig or half. $4 per pound.

332-8996

HORSE BOARDING $130/month Pasture & hay Large or small groups Tagish area 867-399-7010 ROASTING CHICKENS for sale.

Raised free range and all natural.

Call 867-537-3458 or email: mccabecreekfarm@hotmail.com REGISTERED AQHA 2 yr old gelding. He already stands at 15.2HH. He loads, trims & is UTD on everything. He is calm & a pleasure to look at & work with, $2,200. 456-7720 CIRCLE J, tandem axle, two -horse bumper pull slant-load horse trailer, all aluminum, very light and easy to pull, excellent shape.

Has dressing/tack room. very nice. $6500 or best. 633-6502 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 LOCAL ORGANIC VEGETABLES Rivendell Farm Km 6.5 Hot Springs Rd www.rivendellfarm.ca 633-6178

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 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.

BETTER BID NORTH

Auctions/Appraisals

has been commissioned by YTG Department of Motor Vehicles to sell

by Sealed Bids the following:

2001 DoDge 4x4 PickuP.................... Lift kit, showing approx. 200,000km 1996 ForD 4x4 exPlorer .............................. showing approx. 222,000km 1999 NissaN PathFiNDer ................................showing approx. 264, 000km 1990 JeeP ............................................................... showing approx. 173,000km Vehicle can be viewed at Better Bid North Auction yard, #24 Labarge Road, Kulan Industrial area. Sealed Bid forms available from 9:00am-6:00pm daily.

Bids will be accepted until Saturday, October 19th, 6:00pm Contact Paul Heynen, auctioneer at 333-0717 for viewing vehicles.

REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS

REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS

Proposals are invited from interested individuals or firms for the development of a Marketing Strategy.

Proposals are invited from interested individuals or firms for the supply of Cold Beverage Vending Machines at the Canada Games Centre.

Proposals will be accepted before 4pm PST on Friday November 1, 2013 and may be picked up from the office of the Manager Financial Services, City Hall, 2121 Second Avenue, Whitehorse, YT after 12:00 noon PST on Tuesday October 15, 2013.

Inquiries to the Manager Strategic Communications & Customer Service, Monday to Friday, between 8:30am - 3pm at 867-3351186.

www.whitehorse.ca

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Proposals will be accepted before 4pm PST on Thursday October 31, 2013 and may be picked up from the office of the Manager Financial Services, City Hall, 2121 Second Avenue, Whitehorse, YT after 12:00 noon PST on Tuesday October 15, 2013.

Inquiries to the Manager Recreation & Facility Services at 867-668-8331 between 8am & 4pm Monday to Friday.

www.whitehorse.ca

VINTAGE FORMICA kitchen table w/leaf extention. 667-2844

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

CAST IRON wood stove, old style, heats very well, great cond, Model #42985, dimensions: 25”x25”x2ʼ high, $400. 333-9549 or 514-266-1737

Personals

LARGE OFFICE desk and matching credenza plus two large filing cabinets.

633-6553

BLACK LEATHER reclining love seat & chair, $900. Full rising chaise footrests.

Oversized, plush padded seating. Brand new. 456-4269 or 667-4850 PATIO FURNITURE: 2 sturdy metal chairs w/ cushions, umbrella and round glass/metal table (42" diameter), $50. call 633-2362

DRUG PROBLEM? Narcotics Anonymous meetings Wed. 7pm-8pm #2 - 407 Ogilvie St. BYTE Office

SECTIONAL COUCH. 667-6770 LARGE YUKON Burl coffee table, totally unique, excell christmas gift, $200, brass and glass tea trolley server cart, $40.

660-4806 REAL WOOD chairs, need new upholstery, $5 ea, side tables, $25 ea. 393-2275 BED FRAME with 2 mattresses, ivory, asking $250, coffee table with 2 matching side tables, metal frame with glass tops, $120 for set, 2 Ikea lamps, $10 ea. 393-2275 BEAUTIFUL DARK cherry wood 11-piece dining set. Must be seen to be appreciated. $1800 obo. Tom 633-5766

Announcements

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

OFFICE CHAIR, adjustable arms & seat, $100. Maple wooden rocking chair, $50 obo.

667-7107

5118 5TH Ave, corner of 5th & Steele, downtown. Saturday & Sunday, October 12 & 13.

10:30m - 1pm, no early birds please.Moving out sale.

SAT OCT 12, 129 Hillcrest Dr., Hillcrest, 8;30 - noon, moving out sale, household, clothes, tools, toys

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

QUEEN SIZE bed w/box spring & metal frame, in gd cond. Free to a good home.

633 6711

CHRIST CHURCH Cathedral, 4th & Elliott St, downtown. Saturday Oct 12, 9-noon. Biannual Giant Garage sale. This will be a multi-family affair.

Whitehorse Duplicate

Bridge Club October 2, 2013

1. Bruce Beaton Lynn Daffe

FRI. 7pm-8:30pm 4071 - 4th Ave Many Rivers Office 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

2. Mark Davey Chris Bookless

3. Lorraine Hoyt Noreen McGowan

IF JAMES could please contact 668-5111 or cell 333-4394 concerning items purchased at garage sale , Sat Oct 5, 5118 - 5th Ave.

REqUEST fOR PROPOSAlS

PubLIc TENDER

PUBLIC TENDER

WATER DELIVERY, ROSS RIVER

HAINES JUNCTION YUKON VEGETATION INTERPRETATION & MAPPING

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 Laura Vanderkley at 393-7125.

Submissions will be evaluated in accordance with the criteria indicated in the documents.

The highest ranked or lowest priced submission is not necessarily accepted.

The Yukon Business Incentive Policy will apply to this project.

Visit our web site www.gov.yk.ca/tenders

Project Description: This tender is intended to procure water delivery services for the community of Ross River.

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 Dwayne Muckosky at 867-456-6191.

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

Project Description: To create a vegetation inventory for 1.473 million ha in the Haines Junction region and provide information in spatial digital format.

Submissions clearly marked with the above project title, will be received up to and including 4:00 PM local time, November 12, 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 Kirk Price at (867) 633-7914.

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

Community Services

Energy, Mines and Resources

FIRE ALARM YUKON VISITOR INFORMATION CENTRE BLDG.#1364 WHITEHORSE, YUKON 2013/2014

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

PM10-030

Applicant/Licensee Demandeur/Titulaire

Water Source Location Point d’eau/Lieu

Assignment from Frank Hawker to 16406 Yukon Inc

Lindow and Bear Creeks

Any person may submit comments or recommendations, in writing, by the deadline for notice.

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

Type of Undertaking Type d’entreprise

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

Placer Mining

October 22, 2013

Toute personne peut soumettre ses commentaires Heidiou ses recommandations à l’Office avant la date limite indiquée sur le présent avis.

Pour voir les demandes, consultez le registre en ligne WATERLINE au http://www.yukonwaterboard.ca ou rendez-vous au bureau de l’Office des eaux du Yukon. Pour de plus amples renseignements, veuillez communiquer avec le secrétariat de l’Office au 867-456-3980.

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TRUCK SALE Virtually all mileage is “low wear” highway mileage

Most vacation rentals are for 2 people... so the back cab seats are virtually unused

All our trucks have been regularly and professionally maintained

Absolutely no previous industrial use

None of our trucks have ever been driven “off road”

All our trucks are 1-ton 4x4 Gas and Diesel

THE MOST GENTLY USED TRUCKS More trucks in the North! arriving daily! *Truck Model Abbreviations: CC = Crew Cab / LB = Long Box / SB = Short Box / QC = Quad Cab

Yr.

Make

Model

2011 2011 2012 2012 2012 2012 2012 2012 2012

FORD FORD FORD FORD FORD FORD FORD FORD FORD

XLT F-350 LARIAT F-350 XLT F-350 XLT F-350 XLT F-350 XLT F-350 LARIAT F-350 LARIAT F-350 LARIAT F-350

Type 4x4 Gas 4x4 Diesel 4x4 Gas 4x4 Diesel 4x4 Diesel 4x4 Diesel 4x4 Diesel 4x4 Diesel 4x4 Diesel

Stk. # Mileage *CC / LB *CC / LB *CC / LB *CC / LB *CC / LB *CC / LB *CC / LB *CC / LB *CC / LB

31866 31910 33819 33846 33834 33844 33879 33892 33883

73,642 kms.

61,066 kms.

42,928 kms.

50,479 kms.

50,655 kms.

41,595 kms.

46,583 kms.

50,591 kms.

54,906 kms.

MORE trucks arriving daily.

our l l a w e i V e n i l n o y r o invent AT

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Features_________________________ 6.2L V8-G, 3.73e locking diff., 6-speed auto, 6-way driver side pwr seat, camper package.

6.7L V8-D, power heated/air conditioned seats, sync system, step gate, camper package.

6.2L V8-G, 40/20/40 cloth seats w/ pwr driverside, 6-spd auto, security grp,12.5k trailer hitch.

6.7L V8-D, 6-spd auto, security grp, reverse sensing, 6-way driver side pwr seat, rapid cab heat.

6.7L V8-D, 6-way pwr seat, sat radio, electronic shift on the fly, 11,50 GVWR package, rear defog.

6.7 V8-D, 6-spd auto, 3.55 rear end, shift on the fly 4x4, camper package, step gate, rapid cab heat.

6.7 V8-D, camper package, 3.55 rear end, sat radio, step gate, rapid cab heat, sync system.

Leather 40/20/40 power seats, sat radio, 3.55 e locking rear diff, 6 spd, camper package, step gate.

6.7 V8-D, Prefered equipment package, sat radio, 3.55e locking diff., step gate, two tone paint.

Closed Thanksgiving long weekend!

9039 Quartz Road (across the road from Kal-Tire)

Mon Mon -- Fri Fri 8:30 8:30 -- 5:00 5:00 // Sat Sat 9:00 9:00 -- 4:00 4:00 // Closed Closed Sundays Sundays

Toll Free: 1-866-269-2783