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Yukon MP Ryan Leef announces $944,000 in federal funding for research on the effects of melting permafrost on the territory’s highways and buildings on Wednesday.

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The research will examine the permafrost at a number of highway sites around the Yukon, and monit was a busy week in Whitehorse tor changes over time. for Yukon MP Ryan Leef.

The goal is to gather enough The territory’s representative data to help Highways and Public in Ottawa held a string of press Works build roads and buildings conferences in the city to announce that are more resistant to perma$7.4 million in funding for two lo- frost melting as the planet warms. cal initiatives.

Dixon said some construction The federal and territorial in the territory is already being governments are teaming up for a informed by work on permafrost $1.3-million study looking at the happening at the college’s Cold effects of climate change on melting Climate Innovation Centre. permafrost in the territory.

“The best example I can give Ottawa is splitting the money – is in Mayo, where folks from the $600,000 to study permafrost and research centre have identified sites its impacts on the Yukon’s roads that are likely to be affected by and highways and $344,000 to help melting permafrost, and have then understand hydrological impacts used that to help make decisions of climate change on the Dempster about where they build and how Highway. The territory will make they build,” Dixon said. up the difference.

Last week in Ottawa, Leef took “These two projects will help us a shot at both opposition parties better understand and better plan for what he called a “coalition on a the construction of future infracarbon tax.” structure projects. It will help us “Our government is putting job understand the unique challenges creation and economic growth first, that we face in a northern environ- while the Liberals have now decided ment,” Leef said, adding that main- to join the NDP in its carbon tax taining the Yukon’s transportation plan. Their new alliance opposes infrastructure as the permafrost un- energy infrastructure before it has der it melts is an important step to undergone independent scientific bolstering the territory’s economy. review,” he said.

“Permafrost underlies more than On Wednesday he said the 50 per cent of the Yukon’s terrain,” federal government takes reducing said Yukon Environment Minister climate change seriously as well, Currie Dixon. and pointed to the $500,000 con“When something affects tribution from earlier this year to a permafrost, it also includes what’s feasibility study of biomass energy built above it. In recent years we generation in Haines Junction as an have witnessed some dramatic efexample of government initiatives fects of melting permafrost along to reduce Canada’s greenhouse gas our highways and at our airports,” emissions.

Dixon said.

“We’re always looking at alternaThe territory will work with tive energy solutions. We’re dealing a number of partners including in funding with community-based the federal government, Laval solutions to community-based University, University of Monchallenges. treal, University of Alaska, the U.S. The government is also looking Federal Highways Administration at sector-by-sector efficiency reand Yukon College’s Cold Climate views to find ways of reducing our greenhouse gas outputs, Leef said.

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“We know that the transportation industry is one of the biggest emitters of GHG emissions. We’re putting in regulations to make that a cleaner and more effective industry,” Leef said.

Asked if there was a contradiction between carbon-heavy resource extraction in a place like Eagle Plain while also studying the affects of melting permafrost in the very same area, Leef maintained we can deal with both issues simultaneously.

“It’s about finding balance.

To say that one has to come at the jeopardy of the other is not the case. Our country is rich in resources, and we need to find a way to access that. Wealth below the ground doesn’t necessarily equate to wealth above the ground.

“What we need to do as a government at multiple levels is find a way to access those resources in a responsible way,” Leef said.

The permafrost press conference was Leef ’s second of the day. He held one earlier Wednesday morning to announce $6.4 million in upgrades to the Whitehorse airport.

“It’s essentially to improve the safety for the airplanes docking and to maintain the high quality of runway services at the airport,” Leef said.

The money will go to replacing the airport’s runway apron panels, making it safer for planes docking at the airport, and will help preserve the airport’s international status.

“Maintaining the international designation for us is crucial, and these kinds of continued investments are really important, especially for tourism in the Yukon,” Leef said.

Much of the work will go to local contractors, he said, a significant boon in what has so far been a slow construction year.

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Justice ministers meet in Whitehorse Jesse Winter News Reporter

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ederal Justice Minister Peter MacKay joined his provincial and territorial counterparts in Whitehorse this week for meetings to discuss a wide range of justice and public safety issues facing Canadians.

The major focus of the meetings was creating more safeguards and services for victims of crime, MacKay said.

“One example is the Increasing Offenders Accountability for Victims Act. This legislation doubled the federal victims surcharge, with the dual goal of making offenders more accountable to victims and supporting provincial and territorial victims’ services by funds that are raised by the surcharge,” MacKay said.

The government will soon be bringing forward legislation that criminalizes the nonconsensual sharing of photos online as a way to prevent cyber-bullying, as well as a victims bill of rights, he said.

MacKay was in Whitehorse in September for roundtable discussions with victims of crime and local advocacy groups to help develop the bill of rights.

Fetal alcohol spectrum disorder was another big topic at the meeting.

“FASD is certainly an issue that’s near and dear to my heart,” said Yukon Justice Minister Mike Nixon.

“This is something the Department of Justice has been working on since 2010. We’re currently undergoing an FASD prevalence study in the territory,” Nixon said.

Nixon called the study a Yukon-led initiative that will help define just how many

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Federal Justice Minister Peter MacKay speaks to the media during a meeting of provincial and territorial justice ministers at the Kwanlin Dun Cultural Centre in Whitehorse on Thursday.

Yukoners in the criminal justice system are struggling with FASD. “It’s something that has a disproportionate impact on aboriginal communities, especially in the territories,” MacKay said.

“We recognize very clearly the urgency, and that’s why this study comes at the perfect time, quite frankly. There hasn’t been a lot of study, and this will allow us to culminate and make a specific action plan.”

The Yukon branch of the

Canadian Bar Association had hoped the meeting would produce a new commitment from MacKay and Nixon to adopt changes to the criminal code, or at least consider the recommendations of a bar association resolution on FASD. That resolution called for a legal definition of FASD to be included in the criminal code, giving judges the power to order assessments in cases where the accused may have the disorder, and allowing FASD to be considered a mitigating factor in sentences.

When the resolution was brought forward last summer, MacKay committed to act on the recommendations.

But if there was talk about the recommendations at the ministers’ meetings, they didn’t discuss it at Thursday’s press conference.

“We were hoping that our minister of justice would bring it home for us. We were counting on him,” said Heather MacFadgen, the president of the Yukon branch of the CBA. MacFadgen wasn’t at the

press conference, and said she hopes a commitment might still be forthcoming.

“I will be very disappointed if we don’t see any concrete action coming from these high level meetings. We don’t have to wait for the stats to know we have a problem,” she said.

“If the system assumes you don’t have this problem, and treats you that way, what are we doing? We’re criminalizing the disability,” she said.

Contact Jesse Winter at jessew@yukon-news.com

ATV laws are a good start, say regulation advocates Jacqueline Ronson News Reporter

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dvocates for the regulation of off-road vehicles say that recently tabled legislative amendments to the Territorial Lands (Yukon) Act are a good first step.

“For people who have been working at this quite hard for going on four years, and talking about it for longer, it feels like something has happened, which is a positive thing,” said Ken Taylor with the Trails Only Yukon Association.

There are three aspects of the legislation that the group is pleased with, said Vern Peters, also with the association.

They are happy with the definition of off-road vehicle, which covers just about anything that can travel over the land in non-winter months, he said.

And they are happy that the amendments will allow for areas in need of special protection to be identified, said Peters.

The law also allows for enforcement personnel to be identified, which is a good thing, he said.

But the association would like to change the language so that hiring enforcers is a “must” and not a “may,” said Peters.

“Good enforcement makes for a good act.”

The group would also like to see mandatory licensing and registration, to make enforcement easier.

“You have to identify these vehicles,” said Peters. “A lot of the enforcement in other jurisdictions is actually initiated by concerned citizens who are out in the wilderness. And if these things are licensed and registered, then it’s very easy to identify. You know, take a picture and then get back to law enforcement personnel.”

Exactly how these new rules will work in practice has yet to be determined.

The government will consult on specific regulations after the legislation has passed, said

Resources Minister Scott Kent in an interview last week.

Peters and Taylor said they hope the regulations will create proactive mechanisms for protecting sensitive areas.

“Are the departments going to go out and actually identify areas where there are concerns and address those concerns, or are they just going to wait and then react when somebody complains?” asked Taylor.

“That’s really an essential component if this is going to be strong legislation.”

The amendments were debated in the legislature Tuesday.

NDP MLA Jim Tredger said that the law is not full enough to ensure that it will deliver

on promises of environmental protection.

“This act is incomplete.

What is the vision? How will this unfold? How will we address the differences? In many ways, this goes back to square one. It doesn’t show leadership and it doesn’t show stewardship. Without accompanying legislation, it makes it very difficult for myself as a legislator to decide: will it be effective or not?”

He also mentioned that First Nation governments should be involved in developing the regulations, not just being consulted on them after they are written.

Contact Jacqueline Ronson at jronson@yukon-news.com

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NorthwesTel invests $43.7M in 2013 Jacqueline Ronson

Soon, there will be 4G cell service at the Dawson airport, too, announced NorthwesTel presiorthwesTel says it is on track dent Paul Flaherty at an event to deliver $43.7 million in Thursday. service upgrades across the North And before the end of the year, this year.

Internet speeds will go up to 100 By the end of the year, the megabits per second in Whitecompany will have brought 4G horse. wireless to 22 new communities.

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But of those, 26 are contingent on finding $700,000 in grants.

Without that money, there would be no business case to go into those communities, said Flaherty.

The money would most likely come from government, and the company is working on securing the funds, he said.

But soon the modernization plan commitments related to wireless upgrades will be in Bell Canada’s hands.

NorthwesTel announced last month that Bell will take over all wireless services, including Latitude Wireless here in the Yukon.

Latitude customers will be transferred to Bell some time in the new year, said Flaherty.

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all the commitments made by NorthwesTel in the modernization plan, said Flaherty.

“We’ll hold them to account and make sure they do it.”

The modernization plan is currently under review by the Canadian Radio-television Telecommunications Commission, which is expected to issue a decision before the end of the year.

But Flaherty said the company is not expecting any major changes.

“They aren’t necessarily in a position to force us to do upgrades. Particularly because if you look at the wireless services, wireless services aren’t regulated. So it would be really unusual for them to mandate that we do things in the wireless space.”

NorthwesTel is not waiting for

the CRTC’s blessing to implement these upgrades, and that’s why they have done so much already this year, he said.

But if the CRTC’s ruling does, for some reason, make it harder for the company to turn a profit, it could kick some of the investments down the road, said Flaherty.

“At the end of the day, you need revenues to help support the capital. So if for some reason the revenues were diminished significantly because of a decision that they might make, that might cause us to slow things down. Obviously it hasn’t slowed this year. We committed to $43.7 million and we’re going to deliver on that.”

Contact Jacqueline Ronson at jronson@yukon-news.com

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Now Yukon Energy says it can rework the plans so that the facilities fit on 0.9 hectares of Crown land that it intends to time – neither of which would purchase.

Air North will begin regular be sustainable on their own. “It A small piece of White Pass flights to Yellowknife and Ottawa allows us to service Ottawa and land will still be needed, but in early 2014. make it viable, and it allows us to only for vehicle access and utility The new twice-weekly route service Yellowknife and make it crossing. will leave Whitehorse in the viable,” he said.

Talks are still in the works to morning, make the 1.5 hour The new route is slated to secure access to that land, said flight to Yellowknife, then touch launch in the first quarter of Patterson. down for roughly 45 minutes 2014. Air North expects it to creYukon Energy submitted before going on to the nation’s ate 10 new Yukon-based jobs. amendments to its proposal to capital.

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Allan Moore, Air North’s But the board wants to see a director of commercial developfully updated project proposal ment and government relations, Gas generator plans held up before it continues the review sees the new route as the most process, according to a letter sent efficient way to serve YukonYukon Energy’s plan to burn to Yukon Energy. ers’ needs. It provides a link to liquefied natural gas in White“The table of concordance a neighbouring northern city horse has hit a minor snag. you provided is not only very and the airline’s first link to a The Yukon Environmental difficult to navigate; it is also inmajor eastern city at the same and Socio-economic Assessaccurate in a number of places,” ment Board has halted its review the letter states. ursd Fri, Nov 15 to until Yukon Energy produces a “These inaccuracies result Thurs, Nov 21 proposal that reflects its updated in an incomplete proposal and plans for the project. will likely lead to confusion and Whitehorse Yukon Cinema Whi8thorse 304 Wood Street Ph: 668-6644 Originally, the plan would misunderstandings on the part have had the facilities spill onto of the public and interested land near the Whitehorse Dam persons.” owned by the White Pass & YESAB sent the proposal, (PG) Nightly in 3D at 6:50 & 9:20 PM Yukon Route Railway. A section which had been open to public Sat & Sun Matinees in 3D at 12:50 PM & in 2D of the tracks would have had to comment, back to the adequacy at 3:20 PM be removed. review stage.

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NDP needs to check facts: Graham Jacqueline Ronson News Reporter

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ealth Minister Doug Graham is frustrated with questions from NDP Opposition MLAs when they don’t have their facts straight, he says.

The issue came up last week when MLA Jan Stick asked the government what it is doing to improve outdated pharmacy legislation.

The next day, Graham said that Stick had made statements that were “blatantly inaccurate and in some cases completely false.”

He did not, either when the questions were first asked or at that time, explain which statements he believed to be untrue or attempt to correct the record.

In an interview, Graham said that there were three inaccurate statements in Stick’s line of questioning.

Stick said that Yukon is the only jurisdiction where physicians are allowed to own a portion of a pharmacy.

Graham said this is incorrect.

In at least six jurisdictions, physicians are allowed to operate pharmacies under certain conditions, usually in rural settings, he said.

Stick got that information from a March 2013 briefing note prepared either for the deputy minister of Health or Graham himself (the document contains conflicting information).

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Health Minister Doug Graham says he won’t answer questions if the Opposition NDP can’t get its facts straight.

any checking on her own.”

Stick was also wrong when she said that Yukon physicians are entitled to pharmacy licences, said Graham. In fact, while they may apply for a licence, it is not a given, he said.

And Stick accused the government of supporting the outdated legislation, which Graham said is factually incorrect, given that the government has been working on updating it for years, and

in fact amended the act more than once in recent years.

He didn’t correct Stick at the time because wanted to make sure he had his facts straight first, he said.

The NDP says it does make best efforts to check the facts in their questions, but they have been shut out from access to government officials.

“In rare occasions, a minister will put us in contact with an official to address a con-

stituent’s specific issue,” said Francois Picard, the NDP’s chief of staff, in an email.

“When it comes to policy or legislation, though, opposition parties are directed to deal with issues at a ministerial level and officials are directed not to speak with us directly.”

In the legislature this week, Graham again said that factual inaccuracies were slipping into questions from the NDP. “In the preamble to the

question, I know the member opposite had at least two errors in facts, so I’m not interested in responding to the question when it’s preceded by non-factual – in my opinion – information,” he said in response to a question from MLA Lois Moorcroft.

He did not point out what the inaccuracies were, or attempt to correct the record.

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city plan to sell two lots on Ogilvie Street in downtown Whitehorse sparked some unexpected questioning of the city’s bylaw process on Tuesday night.

The plan would see the sale of two lots near the clay cliffs. The city purchased these lots and other nearby land at market rates in the 1970s, amid concerns that the land could one day be buried by a mud slide.

Now, with new engineering reports showing that the lots are not actually in danger, the city wants to sell some of them.

But former local resident Patricia Ellis doesn’t want to see that happen.

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one of the ones asked to move out of the area in the ‘70s. When they sold their home, they were told that the city would permanently ban construction in the expropriated zone. She wants the city to put the planned sale on hold until all former residents can be contacted to voice their opinion.

And she’s not alone in her concern. Sally Wright, a representative of the Escarpment Parks Society, spoke at council on Tuesday, expressing her frustration that the city would plan to sell land that local residents thought would be permanently protected green space.

The society views the land as “a park in waiting,” she said, and was in the process of drafting their own plans for the area, which would include community garden space or a dirt jump park for local mountain bikers.

The city doesn’t need to hold

a public input session to approve the sale of the land. In his report to council, Coun. Mike Gladish put forward a motion to move the planned sale into the bylaw process.

That’s not good enough, Wright said. She wants more time for the community to have its say. Coun.

John Streicker agreed, asking for a delay in approving the motion until the community could be consulted.

“If we pass this motion, some residents will believe that by passing this motion we are on an inevitable path. Let’s just put the pause button on and that way the public won’t feel like we’re predetermined about what’s going to happen,” Streicker said.

Coun. Dave Stockdale, on the other hand, worried about the message being sent by not approving Gladish’s motion.

“If you don’t proceed with this,

it kind of gives the residents, not a false hope, but maybe a sense that we’re not going to do it, and that sends the wrong message as well,” he said.

Mayor Dan Curtis said he feels the current bylaw process needs to be followed, but he made a concession. He agreed to hold a special mayor’s meeting to allow the community to voice its concerns before the bylaw goes to first reading.

“If council wishes to postpone, amend or defeat these bylaws, they can after it’s been presented at first reading,” Curtis said.

“It’s important to keep the process moving. We’re just keeping it in the process. It’s not percolating.

It’s not even warm. It’s just there,” he said.

The meeting is scheduled for Wednesday, Nov. 20 at city hall.

Contact Jesse Winter at jessew@yukon-news.com

Geoscience forum launches amid mining uncertainty

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as a result of the ongoing expansion at Capstone’s Minto mine.

The Yukon’s two other producing he Yukon Chamber of Mines hardrock mines have both seen will host its 41st annual Yusetbacks: Bellekeno has shut down kon Geoscience Forum and Trade for the winter, while Wolverine Show this weekend and early next mine cut 100 jobs this summer. week. The event comes at the end But according to Mines Minof a tough few months for the ter- ister Scott Kent, there is reason ritory’s mining industry. for optimism. “We’ve got a good Exploration spending for the strong mineral endowment and 2013 field season is estimated at good exploration potential,” he $45 million, well down from its said. He added that many explo2011 peak of over $300 million. ration projects are still ongoing, Mine development spending albeit on a smaller scale than the clocked in at $56 million, mainly territory saw a couple of years ago, and that there are a handful of strong possible mines in EMBROIDERED JACKETS the development and permitting stages, including MacTung and 207 Main Street Eagle Gold.

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healthy mining sector along the continuum from early stage exploration programs right through to the producing mines. That’s something that I think is important and will help us weather this storm as we go through a few of the headwinds that we’re facing now.”

He also pointed out that the placer mining sector was one bright spot this year: More than 50,000 ounces of placer gold was mined in the territory this year, an amount worth roughly $56 million and a slight increase from 2012.

The territory’s miners, Kent said, are accustomed to the ups and downs of their industry.

“They’re a hardy bunch, for sure, and they’re an optimistic bunch and they do have that intestinal fortitude to see through some of these down times and look forward to rebounds in the markets.”

He added that “regulatory certainty” would be key to the

mining sector’s future growth, and his focus as minister would be on ironing out some regulatory issues in the coming months.

That includes changes to the Quartz Mining Act as a result of a Yukon Court of Appeal decision regarding the government’s duty to consult with the Ross River Dena Council.

The geoscience forum begins on Saturday and continues until the end of day Wednesday.

It includes a daily trade show, a range of technical talks, and several receptions. Sunday is Family Day, with free admission and interactive, educational activities on offer, including the chance to try out the Yukon College mining simulator.

Minister Kent and others will be on hand. “I’m going to take in as much of the forum as I possibly can,” he said. The event takes place at the Yukon Convention Centre and Coast High Country Inn.

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PC boys, Vanier girls advance to Super Volley finals Tom Patrick

22-25, 15-13 over the Warriors.

“We were so excited and so ready to play,” said Crusaders cohere was some deja vu and captain and Player of the Game something new during the Sydney Young. “We wanted to win.”

Super Volley semifinals at Vanier The Warriors, who went winCatholic Secondary School on less in Super Volley this season, Thursday. have now lost in five sets to the In a repeat of last week, the Crusaders three out of four times Vanier Crusaders senior girls this season. Tied 13-13 in the fifth, almost dropped a two-set lead but a missed Warrior serve gave the held on for the win in a five-set Crusaders match point before match against the F.H. Collins Vanier’s Brittany Au served up an Warriors. ace to win it.

In the senior boys semi, the Por“Brittany did really good ter Creek Rams logged their first stepping up and being setter and Super Volley win of the season, Chanel (Newell) did really good downing the Crusaders 25-14, 25- getting thrown around in different 20, 25-19. positions,” said Young. “I think we The Rams were looking like a all did really good.” brand new team right from the Serves were a big part of the get-go. They came out with some Crusaders win. Vanier’s Chloe very aggressive play and were Turner-Davis put in six consecuraking in the kills against the detive unreturned serves to take a fending Yukon champs.

21-15 lead in the second set.

Leading the charge was Rams “We definitely need to work power Tanner Borsa, who was on serve-receive,” said Warriors named his team’s Player of the captain Quynh Nguyen. “I think Game. that’s the biggest weakness of our “We had a lot of good defence team right now. on our side, we picked up a couple “I feel we swing really well, we guys and we just put our play communicate really well, we work together – set the ball, hit the ball well as a team, it’s just the minor well, cleaned up on mistakes on mistakes that cause us to lose.” our side and ended up getting the Crusaders will now play the ‘W’” said Borsa.

Porter Creek Rams – a team that Not only were the Rams winless is undefeated in Super Volley, won in Super Volley heading into the the Dawson Invitational and is the semi, they lost in straight sets to defending Yukon champs – tonight both the Crusaders and Warriors in the Super Volley final. The Rams in their previous matches. defeated the Crusaders in the final With the win the Rams will play of the Dawson Invitational three the Warriors in Friday’s final. The weeks ago.

Warriors are undefeated in Super “We need to keep it together, Volley and captured the Dawson keep our nerves under check and Invitational title last month. just try our best, come together “We definitely have to continue as a team and work together,” said this play,” said Borsa. “F.H. (ColYoung. lins) is a high quality team and The Super Volley final will take we’re just going to have to play place tonight at Vanier Catholic some good defence and string Secondary. The senior girls final together our plays, like we did begins at 6 p.m. and will be foltoday.” lowed by the senior boys.

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Porter Creek Rams power Tanner Borsa slams the ball through the hands of Vanier Crusaders’ Josh Ford during the Super Volley semifinal at Vanier Catholic Secondary on Thursday. The Rams won in straight sets.

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COMMENTARY The money trap actual deflation in the troubled economies of southern Europe.

by Paul And deflation has nasty Krugman economic side effects, especially in countries already burdened by high debt.

So it’s a source of hen Greece hit the skids great concern that almost four years ago, European inflation has some analysts (myself includstarted dropping far ed) thought that we might be below target; over the seeing the beginning of the past year, consumer end for the euro, Europe’s prices rose only 0.7 per common currency. cent, while “core” prices Others were more optithat exclude volatile mistic, believing that tough food and energy costs love – temporary aid tied to rose only 0.8 per cent. reform – would soon produce Something had to be done, recovery. Both camps were and last week the ECB cut wrong. What we actually got interest rates. As policy deciwas a rolling crisis that never sions go, this had the distincseems to reach any kind of tion of being both obviously resolution. Every time Europe appropriate and obviously inseems ready to go over the adequate: Europe’s economy edge, policymakers find a way clearly needs a boost, but the to avoid complete disaster.

ECB’s action will surely make, But every time there are hints at best, a marginal difference. of true recovery, something Still, it was a move in the right else goes wrong. direction.

And here we go again. Not Yet the move was hugely long ago, European officials controversial, both inside were declaring that the Conand outside the ECB. And the tinent had turned the corner, controversy took an ominous that market confidence was form, at least for anyone who returning and growth was remembers Europe’s terrible resuming. But now there’s a history. For arguments over new source of concern, as the European monetary policy specter of deflation looms aren’t just a battle of ideas; over much of Europe. And the increasingly, they sound like a debate over how to respond is battle of nations, too. turning seriously ugly.

For example, who voted Some background: The against the rate cut? Both European Central Bank, or German members of the ECB ECB, Europe’s equivalent of board, joined by the leaders the Federal Reserve, is supof the Dutch and Austrian posed to keep inflation close central banks. Who, outside to two per cent. Why not the ECB, was harshest in zero? Several reasons, but the criticizing the action? Germost important point right man economists, who made now is that an overall Euroa point not just of attacking pean inflation rate too close the substance of the bank’s to zero would translate into

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action but of emphasizing the nationality of Mario Draghi, the bank’s president, who is Italian. The influential German economist Hans-Werner Sinn declared that Draghi was just trying to give Italy access to low-interest loans.

The chief economist of the newsweekly WirtschaftsWoche called the rate cut a “diktat from a new Banca d’Italia, based in Frankfurt.”

Such insinuations are grossly unfair to Draghi, whose efforts to contain the euro crisis have been little short of heroic. I’d go so far as to say that the euro probably would have collapsed in 2011 or 2012 without his leadership. But never mind the personalities. What’s scary here is the way this is turning into the Teutons versus the Latins, with the euro – which was supposed to bring Europe together – pulling it apart instead.

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earned money. But there’s also a real issue here. Germans just hate inflation, but if the ECB succeeds in getting average European inflation back up to around two per cent, it will push inflation in Germany – which is booming even as other European nations suffer Depression-like levels of unemployment – substantially higher than that, maybe to three per cent or more.

This may sound bad, but it’s how the euro is supposed to work. In fact, it’s the way it has to work. If you’re going to share a currency with other countries, sometimes you’re going to have above-average inflation. In the years before the global financial crisis, Germany had low inflation

while countries like Spain had relatively high inflation. Now the rules of the game require that the roles be reversed, and the question is whether Germany is prepared to accept those rules. And the answer to that question isn’t clear.

The truly sad thing is that, as I said, the euro was supposed to bring Europe together, in ways both substantive and symbolic. It was supposed to encourage closer economic ties, even as it fostered a sense of shared identity. What we’re getting instead, however, is a climate of anger and disdain on the part of both creditors and debtors. And the end is still nowhere in sight.

Nobel-winner Paul Krugman writes about economic affairs for the New York Times.

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The buck stops way before here case, I’m going to ask for the manager and the employee to be dismissed. We cannot tolerate

by AL POPE this. I want people to show up to work and do their job.”

Here is the basis of Ford’s popularity, the thing that makes him click with the voters: when it comes to slacker employees and civic waste, he is vigilant, unwavering, and unforgiving.

He has a mandate and a duty to protect the people of Toronto ast month, Toronto City from black eyes and embarrassCouncillor Giorgio Mammoliti circulated a fuzzy photo- ment, and to make sure that every penny of the city’s payroll graph he claimed was taken by is well spent. a member of his staff, appearHaving built his politing to show a city employee at ical career on the rock of other a North York recreation centre people’s accountability, the with his head down on his desk, mayor now faces the disturbing as though taking a nap. Mamfact that, once in a while, sauce moliti and Mayor Rob Ford are for the goose is sauce for the close allies in the fight to privagander. When confronted with tize city services, and the counthe existence of a video apparcillor quickly put the picture to ently showing him breaking work for the cause, sending out the law by smoking crack, Ford a press release tagged, “Wake up bravely stepped up and lied. “I and get to work ‘Or Parks and do not use crack cocaine,” said Rec staff to be laid off next’.” the crack-smoking mayor, “nor Ford was swift to jump on the am I an addict of crack cocaine. bandwagon. Without waiting As for a video, I cannot comfor further evidence he declared ment on a video that I have the incident “an embarrassment never seen, or does not exist.” and a black eye” for Toronto, That’s the kind of leadership and proclaimed, “If this is the Ford has demonstrated through-

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out his term in office, leading by example, putting his mendacity where his mouth is. After he cleaned out the overpaid slackers in the garbage department, the mayor went on to demonstrate his personal commitment to his job by showing up for work most days, often before noon, and sometimes visibly sober.

When the existence of the crack-smoking video could no longer be denied, Mayor Ford forthrightly changed his position to reflect the new facts.

He could not defend himself because “it’s before the courts,” but despite the “allegations” against him he planned to “go back and return my phone calls and be out doing what the people elected me to do and that’s save taxpayers money and run the great government that we’ve been running the last three years.”

Now that it’s impossible for the mayor to deny that he smoked crack, hung out with gangsters, and made some very indiscreet remarks on video, he has taken the high road once again, coming clean with the facts as a responsible politician should. Yes, he has smoked

crack, but only when “extremely, extremely inebriated.” No he’s not a drug addict, nor an alcoholic.

Like the mayor, his friends and supporters are committed to accountability in office. Just as a recreation centre employee who was seen in an unclear photograph with his head apparently down on his desk should be summarily fired along with his supervisor, so a mayor who gets extremely, extremely drunk, poses for pictures with known criminals, and lies about his illegal drug use should take a little time off, and maybe get some help.

Canada’s tough-on-crime justice minister, Peter MacKay, didn’t mince words: the mayor who admits to breaking the law while in office “needs to get help” (although the people who sold him the crack need to get mandatory minimum sentences). Finance Minister Jim Flaherty took a similarly strong stand against crime in office when he said, “at the end of the day, (Ford) has to make his own decision about what he ought to do.”

In the strict mathematics of accountability to which Ford,

MacKay and Flaherty subscribe, an eye equals an eye, and a tooth a tooth, though some eyes and teeth are more equal than others. Crime must be punished, and those who abuse their jobs must be held accountable. Low level employees who appear to put their heads down on desks should be fired, and their jobs privatized. Conservative mayors who commit crimes and then lie about them also need to be punished, with time off and “help.”

Even the mayor’s mother believes her Robbie should face the consequences of his crimes, going so far as to suggest he should “smarten up,” get a driver, and lose weight. This is a sterling idea. Surely all of Rob Ford’s sins will be forgiven if he only sheds the avoirdupois.

But don’t discriminate against one overweight man – the entire city of Toronto could stand to lose a bit of weight. Currently experts predict the city will see instant benefits from an initial weight loss target of about 250 pounds.

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.

What about us?

by THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN

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t goes without saying that the only near-term deal with Iran worth partially lifting sanctions for would be a deal that freezes all the key components of Iran’s nuclear weapons development program, and the only deal worth lifting all sanctions for is one that verifiably restricts Iran’s ability to breakout and build a nuclear bomb.

But there is something else that goes without saying, but still needs to be said loudly: We, America, are not just hired lawyers negotiating a deal for Israel and the Sunni Gulf Arabs, which they alone get the final say on. We, America, have our own interests in not only seeing Iran’s nuclear weapons capability curtailed, but in ending the 34-year-old Iran-U.S. Cold War, which has harmed our interests and those of our Israeli and Arab friends.

Hence, we must not be reluctant about articulating and asserting our interests in the face of Israeli and Arab efforts to block a deal that we think would be good for us and them. America’s interests today lie in an airtight interim nuclear deal with Iran that also

opens the way for addressing a whole set of other issues between Washington and Tehran.

Some of our allies don’t share those “other” interests and believe the only acceptable outcome is bombing Iran’s nuclear facilities and keeping Iran an isolated, weak, pariah state. They don’t trust this Iranian regime – and not without reason. I don’t begrudge their skepticism. Without pressure from Israel, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, and the global sanctions on Iran they helped to spur, Iran would not be offering to scale back its nuclear program today.

But that pressure was never meant to be an end itself. It was meant to bring Iran in from the cold, provided it verifiably relinquished the ability to breakout with a nuclear weapon. “Just because regional actors see diplomacy with Iran as a zero-sum game – vanquish or be vanquished – doesn’t mean America should,” said Karim Sadjadpour, the expert on Iran at the Carnegie Endowment.

Why? Let’s start with the fact that Iran has sizable influence over several of the United States’ most critical national security concerns, including Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, terrorism, energy security, and nuclear proliferation. Whereas tension with Iran has served to exacerbate these issues, detente with Tehran could help ameliorate them. Iran played a vital role in helping us to defeat the Taliban in Afghanistan in 2001 and can help us get

out without the Taliban completely taking over again.

“Iran has at least as much at stake in a stable Iraq, and a stable Afghanistan, as we do – and as an immediate neighbour has a far greater ability to influence them, for good or ill,” said Nader Mousavizadeh, the Iranian-American co-founder of Macro Advisory Partners and a former top aide to U.N. SecretaryGeneral Kofi Annan.

There is a struggle in Tehran today between those who want Iran to behave as a nation, looking out for its interests, and those who want it to continue behaving as a permanent revolution in a permanent struggle with the United States and its allies. What’s at stake in the Geneva nuclear negotiations – in part – “is which Iranian foreign policy prevails,” argued Mousavizadeh. A mutually beneficial deal there could open the way for co-operation on other fronts.

Moreover, there is nothing that threatens the future of the Middle East today more than the sectarian rift between Sunni and Shiite Muslims. This rift is being used by President Bashar Assad of Syria, Hezbollah and some Arab leaders to distract their people from fundamental questions of economic growth, unemployment, corruption and political legitimacy. It is also being used to keep Iran isolated and unable to fully exploit its rich oil and gas reserves, which could challenge some Arab producers. But our interest is in quelling these sectarian passions, not taking one side.

The Iran-U.S. Cold War has prevented

us from acting productively on all these interests. It is easy to say we should just walk away from talks if we don’t get what we want, but isolating Iran won’t be as easy as it once was. China, Russia, India and Japan have different interests than us vis-a-vis Iran. The only man who could unite them all behind this tough sanctions regime was Iran’s despicable previous president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. The new president, Hassan Rouhani, is much more deft.

“Our sanctions leverage may have peaked,” said Sadjadpour. “Countries like China won’t indefinitely forsake their own commercial and strategic interests vis-a-vis Iran simply to please the U.S. Congress.”

All this is why the deal the Obama team is trying to forge now that begins to defuse Iran’s nuclear capabilities, and tests whether more is possible, is fundamentally in the U.S. interest. “The prize of detente with Iran is critical to allowing the U.S. a sensibly balanced future foreign policy that aligns interests with commitments, and allows us to rebuild at home at the same time,” said Mousavizadeh.

There are those in the Middle East who prefer “a war without end for the same tribal, sectarian, backward-looking reasons that are stunting their own domestic development as open, integrated, pluralist societies,” he added. “They can have it. But it can’t be our war. It’s not who we are – at home or abroad.”

Thomas L. Friedman writes on international affairs for the New York Times.

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means less service to vets everywhere in Canada.

I can tell you, as an example, that it has been about three years Open letter to Ryan Leef, Yukon since the last visit to the Yukon Your response invites veterans MP, Yukon open for business? has something to do with getting from an area counsellor from in the pensionable time?

We keep It is truly saddening to read your having any challenges to visit your What a crock VAC, with no visit to come in hearing that the Yukon is open for response wherein you state the office to receive assistance “on a sight.

You also talk about home business. What a crock! closure of the Veterans Services in range of matters.” A politician who Over the years I have sent many visits carrying on, well it’s been No matter which resourceCanada does not affect the Yukon. thinks they and their office can letters to media and politicians eight years since I’ve had one. based industry you may attempt, Had you accepted our invitaprovide services to our veterans is about our Yukon economy. Most The government has doubled you first have to get past the tion to the press conference on irresponsible and heartless. seem content to carry on as the funeral and burial reimbursebureaucratic hurdle. Last winter I November 5 you would have heard To be clear, Mr. Leef, any invest- beneficiaries of federal government, but the bar is set so high to spent much time trying to add a first-hand the impact the closures ments to veterans the Conservative ment transfer payments. I would qualify for this that there won’t claim to my water licence, which of the nine offices across Canada government has made have been assume that most of the antibe any increases in expenses to had historically been included. are having on Yukon veterans. spread over many years and do fracking protesters were governgovernment.

The whole thing became a comYou would have heard first-hand not come close to making up for ment employees, retired school You claim an increase in fundplete circle jerk. In the end, I the difficulties of dealing with crip- the cuts to front-line services for teachers, students and so forth. ing for services and benefits to accomplished nothing. pling post-traumatic stress and that veterans.

Oh, I forgot to mention profesvets since 2006, but I point to a 1-800 numbers and special apps sional environmental activists, In fact, the Conservative govlittle thing called the war in AfBrad Mackinnon for smart phones do not meet the whatever they are. These same ernment has cut the budget for ghanistan. More and more service Haines Junction services our veterans require upon people also protest mining and Veterans Affairs by $129 million members were injured during this their return from service and war. since 2011. A further $132 million logging. First Nations also seem to time becoming clients of VAC. Support our veterans You would have heard first-hand protest everything unless there is in cuts are planned by 2016. In You say veterans are well served from veterans when they state: a compensation package involved. total 784 jobs will be cut includby using Service Canada or your “Our lives were on the line every Open letter to MP Ryan Leef, During the Peel issue I suging case managers, client services office, but I say a veteran would single day. And what do we get?

I would like to respond to gested to my MLA that photos of agents, disability pension officers, have to be a fool to trust veterans’ Betrayal by our government.” your letter to the editor in which nurses and administrative staff who these protesters should be taken. benefit claims or appeals in the You would have heard that you serve up the governmentOnce they have been identified, process all the claims. hands of staff that have no trainexpecting veterans to travel long approved talking points and toe their names and what they do The Conservative government ing or experience in these matters. distances for services is impossible the party line. should be published. Do they may have forgotten about our vetThe most important point and that putting veterans on a bus, You say that the continued cuts drive vehicles or bicycles? Do they I would like to make is, that by when most cannot even afford the erans, but be assured Mr. Leef, the to Veterans Affairs Canada and eliminating the life-long Vetrest of the country has not, and will live in houses or caves? Do they ticket, is cruel. closures of VAC offices around the erans Affairs pension for pain own computers or pots and pans? never, forget.

You would have heard first-hand Pretty well everything used by country will not affect service to and suffering, as a cost-cutting “If this government is not willing the Yukon’s injured veterans, and modern man comes from minmeasure, your government has Julie Docherty to take care of your veterans, then ing, logging and the petroleum I say, common sense says differcreated two tiers, or standards of you do not have the moral right to Regional Executive industry. To continually protest ently. You fail to mention that veterans (pre- and post-New VetVice-President, North send them on these missions into all forms of industry is labelling the Canadian government has no erans Charter), and perpetrated a Public Service Alliance of Canada harm’s way.” oneself as a hypocrite. Due to our plans to hire additional staff at the serious injustice against Canadian reliance on federal transfers, the remaining VAC offices to handle veterans.

Yukon has generated an excepthe increased caseloads, only cuts Do not fight the deficit on the tionally large outbreak of NIMBY to funding and cuts to staff. This backs of Canadian veterans.

(Not In My Back Yard). does not equal service to Yukon We can help with: If you self-identify Our politicians in general tend veterans. These cuts put tremenDarcy Grossinger, C.D. We now have • Resume Writing to lack backbone. Perhaps this as having a dous strain on the system which Whitehorse an office in Dawson!

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Accused killer Magnotta formally enters not guilty pleas with trial judge Sidhartha Banerjee

the charges in a lower court in June 2012, murder trials are heard exclusively in Quebec MONTREAL Superior Court, where he apccused killer Luka Rocco peared Wednesday.

Magnotta entered fresh His jury trial is set to begin not-guilty pleas on Wednesday next September and be presidahead of a highly anticipated ed by Justice Guy Cournoyer. trial that is scheduled to begin Cournoyer rejected a moin 10 months. tion from defence lawyer Luc The accused is facing a Leclair on Wednesday for a first-degree murder charge publication ban on certain and four other charges in the aspects of the case. death and dismemberment Leclair wanted to stop the of Chinese student Jun Lin in media from reporting that his May 2012. client has often been shackled The 31-year-old accused and handcuffed in court and entered the pleas in a low that he has frequently apvoice while in a glass-enclosed peared in a high-security prisoner’ box at the Montreal courtroom. courthouse.

The lawyer argued the Standing up, Magnotta utdescription would make it tered “not guilty” five times as difficult to find an impartial the charges were read out loud jury and hamper his client’s by the clerk. right to a fair trial. He wanted The four other charges are: the ban to take effect until the committing an indignity to trial next year. a body; publishing obscene Cournoyer denied the momaterial; criminally harasstion, saying there was insuffiing Prime Minister Stephen cient evidence to prove the Harper and other members of publication of such informaParliament; and mailing obtion would deprive Magnotta scene and indecent material. of a fair trial.

The Crown and media lawWhile Magnotta had yers didn’t see the need for the already pleaded not guilty to The Canadian Press

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The accused killer has pleaded not guilty again in the death and dismemberment of Chinese student Jun Lin in 2012.

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Magnotta was dressed in black and looking a bit heavier than when he was arrested.

He sat quietly and listened to proceedings, occasionally using a telephone from inside the enclosure to talk with his lawyer.

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Michael Sona bragged of election exploits, witnesses told investigator Bruce Cheadle

In arguments Wednesday over the publication ban, more details emerged that highlighted the role of OTTAWA Conservative party lawyer Arthur junior Conservative staffer in Hamilton in the damning testiGuelph, Ont., charged with mony. elections offences bragged about After the robocalls story blew his allegedly fraudulent exploits open with media reports in Februto other young partisans, newly ary 2012, Hamilton brought three released court documents show. of the witnesses to the attention of A judge partially lifted a publica- Elections Canada investigators, and tion ban Wednesday that prevented was also credited with convincing a the release of details on Elections fourth reluctant witness to testify.

Canada interviews with six Conser“He phoned and said he had witvative workers. nesses that he thought had informaAll six suggest that Michael Sona tion relevant to my investigation,” boasted to them about his alleged Elections Canada investigator Allan involvement in a series of frauduMathews told the court Wednesday. lent automated phone calls during Hamilton subsequently sat in the local Conservative candidate’s on all six of the interviews with 2011 Guelph election campaign.

Mathews.

Sona, who has been charged Hamilton did not represent the with “having wilfully prevented or witnesses, several of whom were not endeavoured to prevent an elector employed by the Conservative party from voting at an election,” was in but rather by MPs or senators – inthe courtroom and maintains his cluding Sen. Carolyn Stewart Olsen, innocence, saying he’s being made Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s a “scapegoat.” His lawyer is pushing former communications adviser. to have the publication ban lifted.

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Conservative party communications head Fred DeLorey before being put in touch with Hamilton, the court heard Wednesday.

The witness statements tended to corroborate the longstanding Conservative party argument that any fraudulent calls were the work of a rogue individual.

Two Conservative MP’s employees told Mathews that Sona paid them a social call about 10 days after the May 2, 2011 election.

One said Sona spoke of buying a “burn phone” with cash and buying a Visa card with cash so that it could not be traced.

And they told Mathews that Sona told them “he had a friend or an acquaintance of some sort that, according to him, owed him a favour.”

“And so that, he then approached that individual, requesting the names and phone numbers of Liberal voters in hopes to use them on a robo-type call to do with Elections Canada.”

“From what he told us, we un-

derstood that there was, you know, maybe one other person involved but it didn’t, from our impression, make it sound like it was a widespread operation,” one of the individuals told Mathews. “It was more of an individual endeavour.”

Another witness produced by Hamilton testified that he “understood from Sona that Sona obtained a (telephone) list by impersonating someone from the Liberal campaign, using an alias.”

The names of the six witnesses – none of whom worked on the Guelph campaign – remain under a publication ban, with a decision to be announced Friday on whether that information can be released.

The documents contain claims that have not been proven in court.

A number of other people who were actually involved in the Guelph Conservative campaign have refused to co-operate with investigators.

In a separate Federal Court civil suit, Judge Richard Mosley ruled last May that elections telephone

fraud took place “in ridings across the country,” although he failed to overturn results in six contested ridings in a civil suit bankrolled by the Council of Canadians.

Mosley concluded that the “most likely source of the information used to make the misleading phone calls was the CIMS database maintained and controlled by the (Conservative Party of Canada), accessed for that purpose by a person or persons unknown to this court.”

The testimony to Mathews was included in court documents used by the former career RCMP investigator in his efforts to obtain documents from a credit card company called Peoples Trust. Sona is alleged to have used four of these prepaid credit cards to buy a “burner” cellphone and set up robocalls through an Alberta-based company, Rack Nine.

Mathews said in the document he has grounds to believe “that Michael Sona, in the period shortly after election day, advised several of his acquaintances of participation in the false calls made to Guelph voters.”

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Combative Mayor Rob Ford admits for first time to buying illegal drugs Diana Mehta and Colin Perkel Canadian Press

TORONTO n increasingly isolated Rob Ford admitted for the first time on Wednesday to buying illegal drugs while in office as a heated council debate got underway on a motion to have him take a leave of absence.

Despite the internationally televised admission, Ford resolutely insisted yet again he was not an addict.

He repeated he would not resign or step aside to seek help as councillors grilled him on his eyebrowraising activities.

“Have you purchased illegal drugs in the past two years?” Coun.

Denzil Minnan-Wong asked.

The rowdy council chamber fell silent for a few moments.

“Yes, I have,” Ford answered.

Ford has previously admitted to smoking crack cocaine and binge drinking but in response to further questions denied having a problem.

The “few isolated incidents” of substance abuse were due to “sheer stupidity” rather than an addiction, Ford said.

The “mistakes” he had made, Ford said, were of a personal nature.

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Mayor Rob Ford speaks during a city council meeting on Thursday in Toronto where he faced several questions about his conduct while in office.

“I understand the embarrassment that I’ve caused every resident in this city,” Ford said. “I’m

humiliated by it but I can’t change the past.”

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a leave is non-binding, although Minnan-Wong has said he would petition the province to oust the

mayor if he doesn’t take time off.

The debate began after 30 of 44 councillors signed onto a petition urging Ford to step aside. Council voted 41-2 to receive the petition, with even Ford’s brother, Coun.

Doug Ford, voting in favour.

But Doug Ford, who has steadfastly backed his brother and frequently speaks for him, was soon on the attack.

“Everyone in this chamber is coming across as holier than thou, lily white,” the councillor said.

He then asked Minnan-Wong, who said the whole world was watching, if he had ever smoked marijuana. The councillor refused to answer.

“Yes or no,” Doug Ford shouted.

“Everyone should be careful about throwing rocks in a glass house.”

As council erupted again in shouting, Speaker Frances Nunziata called a five-minute recess.

In a series of pointed questions from councillors – the mayor has refused to answer similar questions from reporters – Ford was asked about his links to a west-end home, where he was photographed with three suspected gang members.

A police informant has described the residence as a “crack house” and police have said it relates to a noto-

rious video apparently showing the mayor smoking crack.

“That is not a crack house,” Ford said. “Have you been in that house?”

“I have no interest in being in that house,” Coun. Michael Thompson retorted. “I’m not a crack user.”

Answering questions about a widely published photo showing the mayor posing with three men – two of them accused drug dealers and one shot dead shortly after the photo was taken – Ford said the meeting was a “one-off.”

“I had never met these three men in my life. They came out and asked me to take a picture with them. I’m not part of gang bangers.

I do not support them,” he said.

Asked about a 2006 incident at the Air Canada centre in Toronto when a drunk Ford hurled profanities, the mayor said: “I’ve admitted to my mistakes and I said it would not happen again, and it has not happened again at the Air Canada centre,” Ford said to derisive laughter from the gallery.

Outside city hall, hundreds of noisy protesters called on the mayor to resign and chanted “Hey, hey, ho, ho, Rob Ford has got to go!”

“We’re here to show our dismay at our mayor’s behaviour,” said Robyn Beattie.

“Nobody else who would have committed all the things that he’s done would still be at their current job.”

The mayor also said he had declined to talk to police, who have said they have no grounds to charge

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Also Wednesday, a judge ruled the public would be able to see previously censored information on a police investigation into the “crack” video.

It was not immediately clear when that would happen.

Parts of the 474-page police document released earlier showed frequent contacts between Ford and a friend Alexander (Sandro) Lisi, who also faces an extortion charge related to the “crack” video.

The document, containing allegations not proven in court, was filed by police to get search war-

rants in Lisi’s case.

Ontario Superior Court Judge Ian Nordheimer ruled only sections involving the mayor’s wife, other people’s personal information, and parts prejudicial to Lisi’s right to a fair trial should stay secret.

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Combative Mayor Rob Ford admits for first time to buying illegal drugs Diana Mehta and Colin Perkel Canadian Press

TORONTO n increasingly isolated Rob Ford admitted for the first time on Wednesday to buying illegal drugs while in office as a heated council debate got underway on a motion to have him take a leave of absence.

Despite the internationally televised admission, Ford resolutely insisted yet again he was not an addict.

He repeated he would not resign or step aside to seek help as councillors grilled him on his eyebrowraising activities.

“Have you purchased illegal drugs in the past two years?” Coun.

Denzil Minnan-Wong asked.

The rowdy council chamber fell silent for a few moments.

“Yes, I have,” Ford answered.

Ford has previously admitted to smoking crack cocaine and binge drinking but in response to further questions denied having a problem.

The “few isolated incidents” of substance abuse were due to “sheer stupidity” rather than an addiction, Ford said.

The “mistakes” he had made, Ford said, were of a personal nature.

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Mayor Rob Ford speaks during a city council meeting on Thursday in Toronto where he faced several questions about his conduct while in office.

“I understand the embarrassment that I’ve caused every resident in this city,” Ford said. “I’m

humiliated by it but I can’t change the past.”

The resolution to have Ford take

a leave is non-binding, although Minnan-Wong has said he would petition the province to oust the

mayor if he doesn’t take time off.

The debate began after 30 of 44 councillors signed onto a petition urging Ford to step aside. Council voted 41-2 to receive the petition, with even Ford’s brother, Coun.

Doug Ford, voting in favour.

But Doug Ford, who has steadfastly backed his brother and frequently speaks for him, was soon on the attack.

“Everyone in this chamber is coming across as holier than thou, lily white,” the councillor said.

He then asked Minnan-Wong, who said the whole world was watching, if he had ever smoked marijuana. The councillor refused to answer.

“Yes or no,” Doug Ford shouted.

“Everyone should be careful about throwing rocks in a glass house.”

As council erupted again in shouting, Speaker Frances Nunziata called a five-minute recess.

In a series of pointed questions from councillors – the mayor has refused to answer similar questions from reporters – Ford was asked about his links to a west-end home, where he was photographed with three suspected gang members.

A police informant has described the residence as a “crack house” and police have said it relates to a noto-

rious video apparently showing the mayor smoking crack.

“That is not a crack house,” Ford said. “Have you been in that house?”

“I have no interest in being in that house,” Coun. Michael Thompson retorted. “I’m not a crack user.”

Answering questions about a widely published photo showing the mayor posing with three men – two of them accused drug dealers and one shot dead shortly after the photo was taken – Ford said the meeting was a “one-off.”

“I had never met these three men in my life. They came out and asked me to take a picture with them. I’m not part of gang bangers.

I do not support them,” he said.

Asked about a 2006 incident at the Air Canada centre in Toronto when a drunk Ford hurled profanities, the mayor said: “I’ve admitted to my mistakes and I said it would not happen again, and it has not happened again at the Air Canada centre,” Ford said to derisive laughter from the gallery.

Outside city hall, hundreds of noisy protesters called on the mayor to resign and chanted “Hey, hey, ho, ho, Rob Ford has got to go!”

“We’re here to show our dismay at our mayor’s behaviour,” said Robyn Beattie.

“Nobody else who would have committed all the things that he’s done would still be at their current job.”

The mayor also said he had declined to talk to police, who have said they have no grounds to charge

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Friday, November 15, 2013 the mayor, on the advice of his lawyer.

Also Wednesday, a judge ruled the public would be able to see previously censored information on a police investigation into the “crack” video.

It was not immediately clear when that would happen.

Parts of the 474-page police document released earlier showed frequent contacts between Ford and a friend Alexander (Sandro) Lisi, who also faces an extortion charge related to the “crack” video.

The document, containing allegations not proven in court, was filed by police to get search war-

rants in Lisi’s case.

Ontario Superior Court Judge Ian Nordheimer ruled only sections involving the mayor’s wife, other people’s personal information, and parts prejudicial to Lisi’s right to a fair trial should stay secret.

Also Wednesday, organizers of the city’s Santa Claus parade urged the mayor to reconsider his decision to lead the parade, saying they did not want the distraction.

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Manitoba lifts age restrictions on polar bears taken in by zoos Chinta Puxley Canadian Press

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WINNIPEG anitoba is being criticized for making it easier to take polar bears from the icy shores of Hudson Bay and place them in captivity.

The province – home to the polar bear capital of Churchill – has quietly lifted restrictions that had been in place for 30 years and which only allowed bears under the age of two to be put in zoos.

Some scientists are applauding the change. They say climate change is making it increasingly difficult for polar bears as the sea ice they need to hunt seals melts earlier in the spring and forms later in the fall.

Confrontations with humans are becoming more frequent as the bears venture closer to civilization.

Conservation officials point out zoos have developed more sophisticated methods to help older polar bears adapt to captivity.

Jim Duncan, director of the wildlife branch at Manitoba Conservation, said polar bears that used to be destroyed now can get a second chance at a zoo.

“It certainly gives us an opportunity to save some individual polar bears that would otherwise be euthanized,” Duncan said. “It also creates a tremendous research opportunity.”

But critics such as Zoocheck Canada say the province is selling out the northern creatures. Zoocheck argues polar bears don’t adjust well to captivity, regardless of age, and there are other ways of helping them deal with climate change besides putting them behind bars.

Zoocheck executive director Rob Laidlaw, who helped draw up the original restrictions, suggested Manitoba has turned back the clock 30 years.

He said polar bears are notorious for being one of the most difficult animals to keep in captivity, no matter what modern zoos can offer. The animals suffer from lack of space, lack of environmental complexity and inappropriate climate.

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A male polar bear walks along the shore of Hudson Bay near Churchill, Manitoba. The province has made it easier for zoos to take polar bears from the wild and put them in captivity. burns,” Laidlaw said of the Manitoba government. “These poor polar bears are suffering while they pat themselves on the back for doing wonderful things. This is bad news for polar bears.

“Polar bears around the world, including in North America, are still suffering probably more than most animals in captivity.”

Winnipeg’s Assiniboine Park Zoo has taken in two bears from Churchill since the restriction was lifted – a three-year-old named Storm who attacked a man in September and an 11-month-old orphan. The zoo was already home to two-year-old Hudson, a bear acquired from the Toronto Zoo. The Winnipeg zoo is building a state-of-the-art enclosure that will allow polar bears to roam in a replica tundra. It is also striving to become an international research centre with a focus on how climate change is affecting the iconic mammals.

Zoo director Dr. Brian Joseph said lifting the restriction allows bears that have clashed too many times with humans to find a home at the zoo, where they become an important educational tool.

“We would like all the polar bears

to live in the wild but that’s simply not possible,” he said. “For many years, those bears have just been quietly euthanized. To me, that’s a terrible waste when they can serve to inspire people, especially children.”

Joseph suggested captive bears can be ambassadors for their species and help people learn about the Arctic and the impact of climate change.

“No one can tell that story like the polar bear.”

Andrew Derocher is one of the country’s leading polar bear experts and is based at the University of Alberta. He says governments have to be more proactive if polar bears are going to survive and making it easier to intervene, both temporarily and more permanently, could become crucial.

“The situation is going to get a lot more complicated as the climate warms,” Derocher said. “We could see a situation where we have massive numbers of animals – half the population – could be running out of fat stores and then the situation becomes dire.

“You could have bears piled up around Churchill trying to find food. That gets to be a very scary situation.”

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The threat many in Philippine typhoon’s path didn’t expect Todd Pitman Associated Press

TACLOBAN, Philippines wo days before the typhoon hit, officials rolled through this city with bullhorns, urging residents to get to higher ground or take refuge in evacuation centres. Warnings were broadcast on state television and radio.

Some left. Some didn’t.

Residents steeled themselves for the high winds, floods and mudslides that routinely come with the typhoons that afflict this tropical nation. But virtually no one was prepared for Typhoon Haiyan’s storm surge, a six-metre-high wall of water headed straight for them.

“It was supposed to be safe,” said Linda Maie, who stayed in her one-room house more than half a kilometre inland. She had heard the warnings but said her Tacloban (tukLOH-ban) neighbourhood “has never even flooded in my 61 years.”

Her family stocked up on canned food, water and candles and covered their TV, laptops and appliances in plastic bags. But when her 16-yearold daughter, Alexa Wung, awoke at 5 a.m. Friday to howling winds and heavy rain, it was clear that Haiyan was not a typical storm.

The house was shaking. Its wooden door frame and window hinges were banging. Peeking through the windows, Alexa saw doors and screens flying and crashing.

Their neighbourhood was coming apart.

Water began seeping in through the doorway as Alexa huddled in the tiny house with her mother and brother. Then it burst through like an explosion, ripping half the door off and quickly flooding the room with knee-high water. Within minutes, it was chest-high.

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escape.

Burke and his kids hid in a bedroom until a wall of mud came through the doors. The master bed was floating.

“Then we all got on the piano, and it started floating through the hallway,” he said. “The water kept rising, and we eventually climbed up into the attic and stayed there for a day and a half.”

––– In another part of Tacloban, Eflide Bacsal was standing in the kitchen of her family’s home when the wall of water hit with a furious roar.

“It was like a bomb – BOOM!” said her 23-year-old sister, Gennette Bacsal. “It felt like an earthquake.”

The wave smashed through the windows and swept Eflide off her feet, sucking the 26-year-old under the swirling water. She frantically waved her arms, trying to find something to grasp. Her fingers closed around the power cord to the refrigerator. She held on as tight as she Vincent Yu/AP Photo could and tried to pull herself to the Firemen carry the body of a Typhoon Haiyan victim to a mass grave in Tacloban city, surface, but the water only pushed in central Philippines, on Thursday. One of the most powerful storms on record hit her deeper. the country’s eastern seaboard last week, destroying tens of thousands of buildings She couldn’t breathe. Couldn’t and displacing at least a half-million people. think. Couldn’t see. In her panic, she began swallowing water. Everything people who were evacuated found By now, the family was on the It would be more than a day went black. She felt herself dying. dining table, watching in horror. Al- before the outside world knew what themselves in seemingly sturdy She surrendered. concrete buildings that could not exa’s brother, Victor Vincent, glanced had happened.

And then, a hand appeared – her protect them when the storm surge Haiyan was among the most at the ceiling as the precious pocket father’s.

He grabbed her shirt and – sea water pushed by the typhoon – powerful typhoons on record when of air grew smaller. They thought of yanked her to the surface. rushed in. it struck, with wind estimates at escaping, but Linda couldn’t swim.

He hauled Eflide to the second “Everybody knew a big storm landfall as high as 315 kph. But Alexa checked her cellphone. floor of their home, where they was coming,” said Mark Burke, an the first news reports hours later It was 8:30 a.m. The icon for her American native of Washington state waited along with Eflide’s sisters and suggested that it had moved across mobile service provider was replaced who lives in Tacloban with his three mother until the surge had passed. the islands so fast that the country with a circle with a slash through it. might have escaped a major catasOther family members were small children and worked as a civil“I knew then that even if we less fortunate. Relatives includtrophe. The reality was that Tacloban ian pilot on contracts supporting could scream for help, nobody in the and other hard-hit communities ing Eflide and Gennette’s brother, U.S. naval forces in the region. “But world could hear us,” Alexa said. “We had been cut off, with electricity and I had no idea it was going to be this 38-year-old Gonathan Bacsal, had were cut off from everything.” taken refuge in a church, but they hell. ... Nobody imagined what was cellphone towers knocked out.

And the water was still rising. fled as water rushed in. As they ran about to happen.”

The worries, in Talcoban and through nearby woods, a cousin was ––– The water rose so high that around the world, had been on the decapitated by a piece of metal that some residents punched holes in wind much more than the water. whizzed through the air. their roofs with their bare hands to That’s why many of the 800,000

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Many had scrawled desperate messages in the ruins: “HELP! FOOD. WATER.” Some messages appeared to be in chalk. One cry for help was spelled out in white clothing.

––– Today, American and Filipino C-130 cargo aircraft roar constantly at the Tacloban airport. Each plane can only take out around 150 people, and every flight is a disappointment to hundreds of residents left behind on the tarmac.

Gennette and Eflide have made it to Cebu. Burke and his kids flew to

Manila.

Alexa and her mother walked two hours to the ravaged airport terminal in hopes of leaving. Victor asked them to leave, so he could worry about guarding the house instead of feeding them.

They were near the front of the flight line on Tuesday. But after a C-130 landed, the crowd surged to try to get to the plane. The crush of people was so intense that a seven-year-old girl passed out. Alexa and Linda could not endure it and stepped away.

They sat on a curb, under an umbrella. Alexa was in tears. Their destroyed city lay behind them, an apocalyptic graveyard marked with disfigured trees and ruin. They said the government, and the world, had done nothing to help them.

Their new plan: to leave Tacloban by bus and reach relatives in Manila.

Alexa said she will return, eventually.

“Filipinos have a saying: Weeds don’t die easily,” she said. “When it’s safe, when there is electricity, when it’s livable, I’ll come back.”

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Survivors walk among the ruins of their homes in Maraboth, Philippines on Thursday.

Young and elderly relatives who could not swim were trapped by the rising water, but the family said Gonathan rescued many of them.

He, too, was killed by debris: The storm blew several nails and a shard of metal into his neck.

––– As Alexa and her family stood on their dining table, they contemplated their own deaths. The water was at Alexa’s chest, and her mother’s chin.

“Where will we go? What can we hang on to?” Alexa cried.

They were still amazed by the flood. No typhoon could cause this, Alexa thought.

Then her mother was splashed by water on her lips. It was salty. It dawned on them: This was from the sea.

Fish flittered across Alexa’s back, and she recoiled in a panic.

The family was at their very limit, and so, thankfully, was the storm.

The water stopped rising, and began, very slowly, to recede. It was again knee-high by the time Alexa walked outside.

Their neighbourhood, of barber shops and restaurants and homes and streets filled with small buses known here as jeepneys, was gone.

There was only a vast sea of debris: wooden beams filled with nails, shattered toilets and glass, concrete rubble, uprooted trees, twisted power transformers.

Survivors wandered, dazed and wounded, covered in mud and grime. Many were barefoot with seeping gashes in their feet and bruises all over. Some covered their wounds with cloth, or diapers.

“Tacloban was unrecognizable,” Alexa said. “It was as if Tacloban never existed at all.”

––– There was something else in the flatted landscape: corpses. And five days after Haiyan levelled Tacloban, many are still there.

Scores of them lay at roadsides for authorities to retrieve, covered with whatever people could find – corrugated iron rooftop slabs, wooden planks, cardboard, a broken desk drawer.

Two bodies wrapped in white tarps lay on a bus-stop bench.

Another sat on the ground below.

People rolling luggage and carrying backpacks walked past, covering their mouths to protect against the sickly stench.

One orange dump truck moved through the city to collect the remains. Emergency workers unloaded a dozen of them at building that

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The threat many in Philippine typhoon’s path didn’t expect Todd Pitman Associated Press

TACLOBAN, Philippines wo days before the typhoon hit, officials rolled through this city with bullhorns, urging residents to get to higher ground or take refuge in evacuation centres. Warnings were broadcast on state television and radio.

Some left. Some didn’t.

Residents steeled themselves for the high winds, floods and mudslides that routinely come with the typhoons that afflict this tropical nation. But virtually no one was prepared for Typhoon Haiyan’s storm surge, a six-metre-high wall of water headed straight for them.

“It was supposed to be safe,” said Linda Maie, who stayed in her one-room house more than half a kilometre inland. She had heard the warnings but said her Tacloban (tukLOH-ban) neighbourhood “has never even flooded in my 61 years.”

Her family stocked up on canned food, water and candles and covered their TV, laptops and appliances in plastic bags. But when her 16-yearold daughter, Alexa Wung, awoke at 5 a.m. Friday to howling winds and heavy rain, it was clear that Haiyan was not a typical storm.

The house was shaking. Its wooden door frame and window hinges were banging. Peeking through the windows, Alexa saw doors and screens flying and crashing.

Their neighbourhood was coming apart.

Water began seeping in through the doorway as Alexa huddled in the tiny house with her mother and brother. Then it burst through like an explosion, ripping half the door off and quickly flooding the room with knee-high water. Within minutes, it was chest-high.

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escape.

Burke and his kids hid in a bedroom until a wall of mud came through the doors. The master bed was floating.

“Then we all got on the piano, and it started floating through the hallway,” he said. “The water kept rising, and we eventually climbed up into the attic and stayed there for a day and a half.”

––– In another part of Tacloban, Eflide Bacsal was standing in the kitchen of her family’s home when the wall of water hit with a furious roar.

“It was like a bomb – BOOM!” said her 23-year-old sister, Gennette Bacsal. “It felt like an earthquake.”

The wave smashed through the windows and swept Eflide off her feet, sucking the 26-year-old under the swirling water. She frantically waved her arms, trying to find something to grasp. Her fingers closed around the power cord to the refrigerator. She held on as tight as she Vincent Yu/AP Photo could and tried to pull herself to the Firemen carry the body of a Typhoon Haiyan victim to a mass grave in Tacloban city, surface, but the water only pushed in central Philippines, on Thursday. One of the most powerful storms on record hit her deeper. the country’s eastern seaboard last week, destroying tens of thousands of buildings She couldn’t breathe. Couldn’t and displacing at least a half-million people. think. Couldn’t see. In her panic, she began swallowing water. Everything people who were evacuated found By now, the family was on the It would be more than a day went black. She felt herself dying. dining table, watching in horror. Al- before the outside world knew what themselves in seemingly sturdy She surrendered. concrete buildings that could not exa’s brother, Victor Vincent, glanced had happened.

And then, a hand appeared – her protect them when the storm surge Haiyan was among the most at the ceiling as the precious pocket father’s.

He grabbed her shirt and – sea water pushed by the typhoon – powerful typhoons on record when of air grew smaller. They thought of yanked her to the surface. rushed in. it struck, with wind estimates at escaping, but Linda couldn’t swim.

He hauled Eflide to the second “Everybody knew a big storm landfall as high as 315 kph. But Alexa checked her cellphone. floor of their home, where they was coming,” said Mark Burke, an the first news reports hours later It was 8:30 a.m. The icon for her American native of Washington state waited along with Eflide’s sisters and suggested that it had moved across mobile service provider was replaced who lives in Tacloban with his three mother until the surge had passed. the islands so fast that the country with a circle with a slash through it. might have escaped a major catasOther family members were small children and worked as a civil“I knew then that even if we less fortunate. Relatives includtrophe. The reality was that Tacloban ian pilot on contracts supporting could scream for help, nobody in the and other hard-hit communities ing Eflide and Gennette’s brother, U.S. naval forces in the region. “But world could hear us,” Alexa said. “We had been cut off, with electricity and I had no idea it was going to be this 38-year-old Gonathan Bacsal, had were cut off from everything.” taken refuge in a church, but they hell. ... Nobody imagined what was cellphone towers knocked out.

And the water was still rising. fled as water rushed in. As they ran about to happen.”

The worries, in Talcoban and through nearby woods, a cousin was ––– The water rose so high that around the world, had been on the decapitated by a piece of metal that some residents punched holes in wind much more than the water. whizzed through the air. their roofs with their bare hands to That’s why many of the 800,000

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Many had scrawled desperate messages in the ruins: “HELP! FOOD. WATER.” Some messages appeared to be in chalk. One cry for help was spelled out in white clothing.

––– Today, American and Filipino C-130 cargo aircraft roar constantly at the Tacloban airport. Each plane can only take out around 150 people, and every flight is a disappointment to hundreds of residents left behind on the tarmac.

Gennette and Eflide have made it to Cebu. Burke and his kids flew to

Manila.

Alexa and her mother walked two hours to the ravaged airport terminal in hopes of leaving. Victor asked them to leave, so he could worry about guarding the house instead of feeding them.

They were near the front of the flight line on Tuesday. But after a C-130 landed, the crowd surged to try to get to the plane. The crush of people was so intense that a seven-year-old girl passed out. Alexa and Linda could not endure it and stepped away.

They sat on a curb, under an umbrella. Alexa was in tears. Their destroyed city lay behind them, an apocalyptic graveyard marked with disfigured trees and ruin. They said the government, and the world, had done nothing to help them.

Their new plan: to leave Tacloban by bus and reach relatives in Manila.

Alexa said she will return, eventually.

“Filipinos have a saying: Weeds don’t die easily,” she said. “When it’s safe, when there is electricity, when it’s livable, I’ll come back.”

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Survivors walk among the ruins of their homes in Maraboth, Philippines on Thursday.

Young and elderly relatives who could not swim were trapped by the rising water, but the family said Gonathan rescued many of them.

He, too, was killed by debris: The storm blew several nails and a shard of metal into his neck.

––– As Alexa and her family stood on their dining table, they contemplated their own deaths. The water was at Alexa’s chest, and her mother’s chin.

“Where will we go? What can we hang on to?” Alexa cried.

They were still amazed by the flood. No typhoon could cause this, Alexa thought.

Then her mother was splashed by water on her lips. It was salty. It dawned on them: This was from the sea.

Fish flittered across Alexa’s back, and she recoiled in a panic.

The family was at their very limit, and so, thankfully, was the storm.

The water stopped rising, and began, very slowly, to recede. It was again knee-high by the time Alexa walked outside.

Their neighbourhood, of barber shops and restaurants and homes and streets filled with small buses known here as jeepneys, was gone.

There was only a vast sea of debris: wooden beams filled with nails, shattered toilets and glass, concrete rubble, uprooted trees, twisted power transformers.

Survivors wandered, dazed and wounded, covered in mud and grime. Many were barefoot with seeping gashes in their feet and bruises all over. Some covered their wounds with cloth, or diapers.

“Tacloban was unrecognizable,” Alexa said. “It was as if Tacloban never existed at all.”

––– There was something else in the flatted landscape: corpses. And five days after Haiyan levelled Tacloban, many are still there.

Scores of them lay at roadsides for authorities to retrieve, covered with whatever people could find – corrugated iron rooftop slabs, wooden planks, cardboard, a broken desk drawer.

Two bodies wrapped in white tarps lay on a bus-stop bench.

Another sat on the ground below.

People rolling luggage and carrying backpacks walked past, covering their mouths to protect against the sickly stench.

One orange dump truck moved through the city to collect the remains. Emergency workers unloaded a dozen of them at building that

once sold souvenirs. In all, there were more than 170 bodies in black bags, spread side by side.

Bulldozers have cleared debris from most main streets, but the sidewalks are filled with everything imaginable: broken speakers, typewriters, cables, artificial Christmas trees.

There have been no major food distributions. The city’s main hospital has been gutted. Medicines are running out. Police can be seen chasing scavengers through the streets.

International humanitarian organizations have yet to arrive.

With no tents, people are sleeping in destroyed homes. One family took shelter in the shade of a giant uprooted tree, and cooked under a ripped grey rooftop held down with a broken basketball pole.

And some people are even farther away from help. On Tuesday, military helicopters flew 15 minutes from Tacloban to the wasteland of a town called Tanawan, past a lake with bodies still floating in it and over bridges that had collapsed.

Amid the ruins, desperate residents frantically waved their arms.

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Romanian gov’t, parliamentary panel reject Gabriel Resources gold mine project Alison Mutler Associated Press

BUCHAREST, Romania tock in Gabriel Resources Ltd. plunged almost 11 per cent Monday after the Romanian government announced it would not allow the Canadian company to develop what would have been Europe’s biggest open gold mine.

The announcement by Prime Minister Victor Ponta came shortly before a parliamentary commission voted down a bill that would have permitted the project.

The decisions were a boost to environmental advocates and come after 14 years of protest and debate about whether the foreign investment and the jobs that would have been created by the mine outweigh the costs to nature.

Immediate reaction was muted, with just a few dozen anti-mine activists rallying outside parliament.

Jonathan Henry, chief executive of Gabriel Resources, told The Associated Press by telephone that he was waiting to see the commission’s report and declined to offer further comment.

On the Toronto Stock Exchange, Gabriel stock closed down 10 cents, or 10.87 per cent, at 82 cents.

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Many factors made typhoon such a huge disaster Seth Borenstein

biggest typhoons because of vast expanses of warm water that act as fuel and few pieces WASHINGTON of land to slow storms down. ature and man together Half the storms on an inforcooked up the disaster in mal list of the strongest ones the Philippines. to hit land in the 20th and 21st Geography, meteorology, centuries ended up striking poverty, shoddy construction, the Philippines, according to a booming population, and, to research by Jeff Masters, meteoa much lesser degree, climate rology director of the Weather change combine to make the Underground.

Philippines the nation most Storms often hit after they’ve vulnerable to killer typhoons, peaked in strength or before according to several scientific they get a chance to, but Haistudies. yan struck when it was at its And Typhoon Haiyan was most powerful, based on U.S. one mighty storm. satellite observations, Emanuel Haiyan slammed the island said. nation with a storm surge two Humans played a big role stories high and some of the in this disaster, too – probably highest winds ever measured bigger than nature’s, meteorolin a tropical cyclone – 195 ogists said. University of Miami mph (314 kph) as clocked by hurricane researcher Brian McU.S. satellites, or 147 mph (237 Noldy figures that 75 to 80 per kph) based on local reports. An cent of the devastation can be untold number of homes were blamed on the human factor. blown away, and thousands of Meteorologists point to expeople are feared dead. treme poverty and huge growth “You have a very intense in population – much of it in event hitting a very susceptible vulnerable coastal areas with part of the world. It’s that com- poor construction, including bination of nature and man,” storm shelters that didn’t hold said MIT tropical meteorology up against Haiyan. professor Kerry Emanuel. “If More than four out of 10 one of those ingredients were Filipinos live in a storm-prone missing, you wouldn’t have a vulnerable city of more than 100,000, according to a 2012 disaster.”

World Bank study. The HaiyanThe 7,000 islands of the Philippines sit in the middle of devastated provincial capital of Tacloban City nearly tripled the world’s most storm-prone region, which gets some of the from about 76,000 to 221,000 Associated Press

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Children run towards a U.S. military aircraft as it arrives to distribute aid to Typhoon Haiyan survivors in the destroyed town of Guiuan, Philippines on Thursday.

in just 40 years.

About one-third of Tacloban City’s homes have wooden exterior walls. And one in seven homes have grass roofs, according to the census office.

Those factors – especially flimsy construction – were so important that a weaker storm would have still caused almost as much devastation, McNoldy said.

“You end up with these kind of urban time bombs, where cities have doubled, tripled, quadrupled in size in 50 years” without good building standards, said Richard Olson, director of the Extreme Events

Institute at Florida International University. “It is, I hate to say, an all-too-familiar pattern.”

Scientists say man-made global warming has contributed to rising seas and a general increase in strength in the most powerful tropical cyclones. But they won’t specifically apply these factors to Haiyan, saying it is impossible to attribute single weather events, like the typhoon, to climate change.

A 2008 study found that in the northwestern Pacific where Haiyan formed, the top one per cent of the strongest tropical cyclones over the past 30 years are getting on average about

one mph stronger each year – a phenomenon some scientists suspect is a consequence of global warming.

“The strongest storms are getting stronger” said study co-author James Kossin of the National Climatic Data Centre.

Haiyan “is what potentially could be a good example of the kind of the things we’re finding.”

Similarly, the Philippines has seen its sea rise nearly half an inch in the past 20 years – about triple the global increase, according to R. Steven Nerem of the University of Colorado.

Higher sea levels can add to storm surge, creating slightly greater flooding.

Just as human factors can worsen a disaster, they can also lessen it, through stronger buildings, better warnings and a quicker government response.

Emanuel said poverty-stricken Bangladesh had much bigger losses of life from cyclones in the 1970s than it does now. The international community built strong evacuation shelters that get used frequently, he said.

“The Philippines is one of the most disaster-prone places on Earth,” said Kathleen Tierney, director of the Natural Hazards Center at the University of Colorado. “They’ve got it all. They’ve got earthquakes, volcanoes, floods, tropical cyclones, landslides.”

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Wednesday November 27 7:30 to 9:00 pm at Christ the King Elementary School Gym City Council is hosting a series of Town Hall meetings for Whitehorse residents.

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Scientists warn oceans’ future grimmer Seth Borenstein

was originally predicted,” said study co-author Richard Feely of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Pacific Marine Environmental Lab in Seattle.

The theory is that species like squid can only live in waters at certain temperature, acidity and oxygen levels, and the sweet spots where the factors combine are getting harder to find, Feely and Riebesell said.

The world ocean pH already

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WASHINGTON reenhouse gases are making the world’s oceans hot, sour and breathless, and the way those changes work together is creating a grimmer outlook for global waters, according to a new report Wednesday from 540 international scientists.

The world’s oceans are getting more acidic at an unprecedented rate, faster than at any time in the past 300 million years, the report said. But it’s how this interacts with other global warming impacts on waters that scientists say is getting them even more worried.

Scientists already had calculated how the oceans had become 26 per cent more acidic since the 1880s because of the increased carbon in the water.

They also previously had measured how the world’s oceans had warmed because of carbon dioxide from the burning of coal, oil and gas. And they’ve observed that at different depths the oceans were moving less oxygen around because of the increased heat.

But together “they actually amplify each other,” said report co-author Ulf Riebesell, a biochemist at the Geomar Helmholtz Center for Ocean Research

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At those levels shells of some mollusks, like clams and mussels, start corroding, he said.

“This is another loss that we’re facing,” Riebesell said. “It’s going to affect human society.”

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U.S. now producing more crude oil at home than it imports from abroad Josh Lederman

finally crossed, with crude oil production topping 7.7 million barrels per day.

WASHINGTON Obama administration ofor the first month in nearly ficials said President Barack two decades, the U.S. in Obama’s efforts to boost fuel October extracted more oil efficiency for cars have been from the ground than it ima driving factor, helping to ported from abroad, marking reduce U.S. demand for gas an important milestone for a and, in turn, lessening the need nation seeking to wean itself to import foreign oil. Officials off foreign oil. said requiring auto companies A promising sign for a to make cars that run on less still-slugging economy, the gas has gone a long way toward shift could foreshadow future realizing Obama’s goal of curbopportunities to boost jobs in ing global warming. They also the U.S., lower the trade deficit credited the president with and insulate the economy from promoting drilling on federal foreign crises that can send oil lands and offshore as part of prices rising. But it also speaks his strategy to encourage more to deeper, underlying changes U.S. energy production. in the way Americans use oil, “Taken together, these as price-conscious consumers factors not only reduce our seek to limit what they pay at dependence on foreign oil, but the pump. work to reduce overall carbon Not since 1995 has the U.S pollution in our communities,” produced more crude oil than said White House spokesman it imported. For several years Jay Carney. now, domestic production has But on the production side, been on the rise while net imenergy experts and the oil ports have been declining. But industry say the higher voldata released Wednesday by the umes of oil coming out of the Energy Information Adminisground come despite Obama’s tration, the statistical wing of policies, not because of them. the U.S. Energy Department, They say Obama has made it show the trend lines have harder, not easier, to produce The Associated Press

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oil on government land. After all, the U.S. still imports far more oil-based products like gas and diesel than it exports.

As the world’s biggest oil consumer by far, the U.S. is still a long way from being energyindependent.

“It’s a very positive sign – enormously positive,” said Philip Verleger, an independent U.S. energy analyst. “But energy policy has not been a help, it’s been a hindrance.”

Although domestic oil production has been growing since Obama took office, most of the expanded production has been on private and state lands that the federal government doesn’t control. Oil analysts said high oil prices have made it lucrative for oil companies to invest in new wells, even as easy-todrill areas become scarce and companies must resort to more expensive technologies to unearth oil in North Dakota and in deep-water wells in the Gulf of Mexico.

At the same time, the after-effects of the recession and high gas prices have left Americans looking for ways to cut costs – including by driving less and buying smaller

cars. The resulting decline in consumption has meant the U.S. must buy less oil from the Middle East and elsewhere to meet its needs.

In the first month of his presidency, Obama started putting into effect fuel efficiency standards that his predecessor, president George W. Bush, had signed but declined to implement.

And broader societal trends may be in play, too. Amy Myers Jaffe, an energy policy expert at the University of California, Davis, said as more baby boomers enter retirement, they’re driving less and using less gas. They’re being replaced in the marketplace by people who came of age in a time of cost-cutting and environmental awareness and are more likely to use a car-sharing service like Zipcar than to shell out tens of thousands for a vehicle of their own.

“They’re living a different kind of lifestyle, and a lot of it is a non-car lifestyle,” Jaffe said.

For Obama, a major secondterm drive to combat climate change has been juxtaposed against an economic imperative to encourage the develop-

ment of American energy resources. Oil is bought and sold on the global market, so upping domestic production is unlikely to increase how much oil is burned planet-wide. But it does make it more difficult for Obama to meet his goals of lowering U.S. emissions of heat-trapping greenhouse gases.

On the other hand, it means more American jobs removing the oil from the ground.

The October figures will be revised in the coming months as more final data becomes available. But based on the size of the gap between net imports and production – 170,000 barrels per day – administration officials said they were confident the trend will hold true.

Oil industry advocates said they hoped the shift would encourage the administration to do more to ramp production on federal lands, now that the vision of a U.S. that can rely more heavily on its own energy resources is coming into view.

“For most of our history, it’s been scarcity,” said John Felmy, the chief economist for the American Petroleum Institute.

“It’s completely changed.”

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B.C. environmental groups go to court over water use for shale gas fracking Dene Moore Canadian Press

VANCOUVER coalition of environmental groups has filed court action against British Columbia’s Oil and Gas Commission and energy company Encana Corp. over the use of water from lakes and rivers in hydraulic fracturing for shale gas.

The petition filed in B.C. Supreme Court on Wednesday claims the Crown agency responsible for regulating the oil and gas industry has been granting repeated short-term water permits for use in fracking – a violation of the provincial water act.

“The commission has become the go-to place for quick water access,” Karen Campbell, a staff lawyer for the environmental justice group Ecojustice, said outside the courthouse.

“These short-term approvals are meant to be just that – short term, or two years. However, the commission has been granting these approvals repeatedly … in some cases, these approvals have been granted for five years, allowing continuous water use.”

The groups claim the commission has allowed up to a million litres of fresh water annually to be drained from lakes, streams and rivers to be mixed with chemicals and sand and injected under high pressure into the ground. The process shatters shale formations and coal beds to

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Ecojustice, which filed the lawsuit on behalf of the Sierra Club and the Wilderness Committee, said Encana has drawn 880 Olympic-sized swimming pools’ worth of water over the last three years just from the Kiskatinaw River, which supplies drinking water to the city of Dawson Creek.

Eoin Madden of the Wilderness Committee said fracking raises concerns about venting, disposal of contaminated water, drinking well contamination and greenhouse gas emissions.

Water is already drawn from 540 rivers, lakes and streams, he said, and there are plans for a huge increase in the amount of fracking in B.C. “With climate change we expect less fresh water to be available,” Madden said. “Extreme energy projects such as fracking for gas are actually a threat to our communities. We’re the species at risk.”

The groups are asking for a court order that would declare the commission practice unlawful and a violation of the water act. They’re also asking the court to quash several short-term approvals issued to Encana.

The Calgary-based company had no immediate comment.

Hardy Friedrich, spokesman for the commission, said the agency will review the petition.

“The commission takes its responsibility for water allocation very seriously and

approved 20.4 million cubic metres of water for withdrawal and seven million cubic metres was used for hydraulic fracking, according to the agency’s annual report.

Campbell said it’s not possible to really know how much water is used via long-term licences, short-term permits and direct agreements with landowners.

The province has released a list of proposed changes to water regulations but Campbell said they don’t address the issue.

Courts around the world have become a popular battleground in the clash between environDarryl Dyck/The Canadian Press mentalists and industry over oil Eoin Madden, with the Wilderness Committee, talks about and gas activities, and hydraulic sites the provincial government has approved for temporary fracturing in particular. water withdrawal for fracking, during a news conference in An Alberta woman filed a Vancouver, B.C. multimillion-dollar lawsuit against the Alberta government all applications go through a the province, three of which and Encana, claiming that frackthorough review process. This have federally approved export ing around her property conprocess ensures water levels are licences. taminated her water well. maintained,” Friedrich said in an “The B.C. government’s LNG Related lawsuits have been email response to a request for an agenda comes with a cost, and filed in several U.S. states and, interview. the cost is B.C.’s water,” Caitlyn in at least one case in New York Friedrich said water use is Vernon of the Sierra Club said. state, energy companies have carefully monitored and fracking “We are squandering our prefiled suit against a town that wells are lined with cement to a cious water resources at a time banned fracking. depth of 600 metres to protect when climate change is already In other areas, the clash has soil and water. having an impact on water in this been more direct.

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More than a dozen people taminated as a result of hydraulic The oil and gas commission were arrested and several RCMP fracturing in B.C.” has been the permitting authorvehicles set on fire near Rexton, B.C.’s Liberal government ity for short-term water licences N.B., last month at a protest has hopes of developing a since 2004. The government against shale gas exploration. trillion-dollar liquefied natuextended the period covered by ral gas industry over the next short-term approvals last March The new Yukon home of three decades. There are at least to 24 months from 12 months.

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SAN FRANCISCO ust as one high-tech breakthrough often paves the way for the next big thing, technology IPOs move in virtuous cycles, too.

Twitter’s scintillating stock market debut punctuated a procession of highly anticipated coming-out parties over the past two-and-half years, providing a springboard for a new generation of rapidly growing startups to make the leap to Wall Street.

The next wave of potentially hot IPOs includes trendy services such as AirBnB, Square, Spotify, Dropbox, Uber, Snapchat, Pinterest, Box, Scribd, Flipboard and King.com. Most of their services are tailor made for smartphones and tablets, a crucial characteristic that helped feed the rabid demand for Twitter’s stock in its initial public offering last week.

Despite the short-messaging service’s unprofitable history, Twitter is now worth about $29 billion – a valuation that has enriched its founders, employees and early investors.

“Twitter just made it clear that the IPO window is open and a lot of success can be had,” says Ira Rosner, an attorney and shareholder for Greenberg Traurig, a law firm that helps prepare companies for IPOs. Other startups – and the venture capitalists who provide them with rounds of funding – will be angling for similar windfalls by filing their own plans to go public over the next two years, Rosner believes.

“There is no question that a successful offering encourages other offerings,” he says. “It gets people excited and it creates buzz.”

Even before Twitter’s IPO, good vibes were rippling through the stock market as the Dow Jones industrial average and Standard & Poor’s 500 indexes repeatedly set new highs. The fertile conditions have produced 199 IPOs in the U.S. this year, according to the research firm Renaissance Capital.

At the current pace, 2013 is on track to be the biggest year for IPOs in a decade.

Sentiment among venture capitalists is also strong – the highest since 2007 according to a survey by Mark Cannice, a University of San Francisco professor of entrepreneurship who polls Silicon Valley financiers every three months.

The companies generating the most interest from venture capitalists include Uber, the provider of on-demand car services that received $258 million so far this year and Pinterest, which nabbed $425 million.

Pinterest’s latest round of financing, for $225 million, valued the popular online pinboard service at nearly $4 billion. The San Francisco company just recently began trying to generate revenue, which means it could be several years before it becomes profitable.

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A string of IPOs that began with the May 2011 debut of professional network LinkedIn Corp. helped fuel investors’ interest in rapidly growing Internet companies. Other online services with large audiences followed LinkedIn into the public stock market, including online review site Yelp Inc., Internet radio station Pandora Media Inc., daily deal maker Groupon Inc., online game maker Zynga Inc. and social networking leader Facebook Inc. Groupon and Zynga have been duds so far, largely because they didn’t adjust quickly enough to shifting conditions in their respective markets, but all the others are trading above their IPO prices. LinkedIn and Yelp have more than quadrupled from their IPO prices, making the stocks star performers among the group.

Facebook’s May 2012 IPO spooked many investors because of trading glitches and questions about the company’s ability to grow mobile revenue.

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The next batch of startups expected to test their fate on the public market doesn’t include names as well known as Twitter or Facebook, so splashy IPOs of either’s calibre are unlikely. Twitter’s $1.82 billion market debut made it the second largest Internet IPO in the world, relegating Google Inc.’s stock market debut in 2004 to third place.

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Chrysler recalling 1.2 million Ram trucks to find potential steering problems three recalls on Friday. It wants to inspect the trucks and says DETROIT only 453,000 will likely need hrysler is recalling about repairs.

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Chrysler said about 968,000 of the affected trucks are in the U.S., with another 157,000 in Canada, 37,100 in Mexico and 18,000 from other countries.

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Ottawa delays decision on Jackpine oilsands mine Bob Weber

expansion in northern Alberta, but a one-sentence notice posted on a government website says the ruling has been delayed 35 days until Dec. 11.

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cision to delay a ruling on whether an environmentally controversial mine project can go ahead.

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Nation had asked for a 90-day delay.

“These are calendar days, not even business days,” band spokeswoman Eriel Deranger said Friday.

“There’s no way we can address all the issues.”

Still, the band hopes to use the time to meet with Aboriginal Affairs Minister Bernard Valcourt and Environment Minister Leona Aglukkaq.

Deranger said Aglukkaq has already turned down three requests for a meeting.

The Jackpine expansion would allow Shell to increase its bitumen output by 50 per cent to 300,000 barrels a day.

A review panel concluded last July that the project was in the public interest. But the panel also warned that it would result in severe and irreversible damage so great that new protected areas should be created to compensate.

Deranger said the band has received no indication of how the damage is to be mitigated or whether the First Nation’s concerns The new Yukon home of

will be met.

“We’re looking for what are they actually going to do to mitigate those impacts.”

The band believes the project, as proposed, will violate several federal laws covering fisheries and species at risk, as well as treaty rights, Deranger said.

“Our hope is that we can figure out what the justification is for this and what they’re going to do to mitigate those impacts with our nation.”

The Jackpine review concluded that the project would mean the permanent loss of thousands of hectares of wetlands, which would harm migratory birds, caribou and other wildlife and wipe out traditional plants used for generations.

It also said Shell’s plans for mitigation are unproven and warned that some impacts would probably approach levels that the environment couldn’t support.

Shell has said Alberta’s new management plan for the oilsands area will provide more concrete data to assess and mitigate environmental impacts. The company has purchased about 730 hectares of former cattle pasture in northwestern Alberta to help compensate for the 8,500 hectares of wetland that would be forever lost.

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Patricia Robertson’s new novel, The Fire Reapers, tells the tale of a Yukon boy’s adventure in a dystopian future. A book launch takes place at 5 p.m. Friday at the Old Fire Hall.

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has been nominated for the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize, two National Magazine Awards, the n Patricia Robertson’s old Journey Prize, and the Pushhouse on Jarvis Street in cart Prize. Her second collecWhitehorse, there was a false tion, The Goldfish Dancer, window. A writer since the age arrived in 2007 and was criticof 10, she did what writers do; ally acclaimed. The National she looked at the window and Post said, “each of her stories fantasized. is a polished gem of unusual “I at one point imagined a lustre.” child moving in and then disThe Fire Reapers, a fantasy covering a secret room behind novel for young readers, prethe window,” she says, and so sents something of a departure was planted the first seed of her for Robertson but, she says, new novel, The Fire Reapers.

“My fiction has always had an Since 1994, when she element of magic and fantasy published her first short story and characters who had fancollection City of Orphans, tasies in it.” Writing for young Robertson has been a proreaders was new, but the craft lific and respected talent. Her is the same, she says. “As with poems and short stories have all fiction you have to be able appeared in dozens of literto get into the characters. And I found I was writing for the ary magazines, and her work Special for the News

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child in me.”

Just in case that childish self was too distant, she honed her ear in the presence of her 12-year old niece. “One of her phrases was ‘holy crap,’” Robinson laughs, “she said that all the time. So my character says ‘holy crap.’ So it was partly listening to kids at that age and talking to them, and partly just writing a story that I wanted to read. I really enjoyed writing it. It was fun to invent a world and invent rules, and tackle bigger themes. I found that I could deal with things like climate change and fundamentalist cults in a way that it seems hard to do in adult literary fiction.”

Having two protagonists who are 12 years old created a different kind of challenge

when it came to publishing the work. “It kind of fell between two stools,” she explains. “My agent said it wasn’t really YA (young adult fiction) because YA is supposedly 13 and up and the protagonists are 12.

She said why don’t you make them 13, but I said, no, then you get into the beginnings of sexual attraction and so on.

And they’re not 13, they’re 12.

“I eventually had it edited by a freelance children’s editor in Toronto, and she said the same thing. She said, ‘You’re going to face challenges (publishing the work) because it doesn’t fit into a niche marketing category.’ So I just got tired of people telling me this. I started the book seven years ago, and I wanted it out, and done.” With all this in mind she came to the decision

to publish the book herself.

By getting The Fire Reapers out and done, she clears her decks for several projects, some already on the go. “I’m about halfway through a book of short stories,” she says, “and I’ve started on the first draft of a new YA novel called How to Talk to a Glacier. I’m going to be writer in residence in Kingston starting in January. And I want to write more essays.” Her essay Against Domesticated Fiction will appear in Best Canadian Essays 2013.

The Fire Reapers launches Friday, November 15 at the Old Fire Hall in Whitehorse. Doors open at 5 p.m. In addition to a reading and book signing, there will be snacks, wine, and a coffee bar.

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Claims to huge German art haul could be legally unenforceable Frank Jordans The Associated Press

BERLIN hen German tax authorities entered the home of a recluse collector and found a trove of art that could include works stolen by the Nazis, they stepped into a legal quagmire – one that may end up being resolved by politics as much as the law.

For a year and a half, prosecutors kept their find quiet, hoping to trace the history of some 1,406 pieces by artists such as Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse and Marc Chagall before going public.

But since news of the case broke last week, officials have been scrambling to justify their secrecy and explain why Germany can’t just hand the pictures back to the heirs. At times German authorities have appeared to be working at cross purposes as they try to balance judicial independence with public relations.

Ironically, it may be the strong protection of individual rights introduced after the Second World War that could allow collector Cornelius Gurlitt to keep the works he inherited from his father Hildebrand, an art dealer who traded in works confiscated by the Nazis.

“His father did bad things during the Nazi period, but under our legal system you can’t punish the son for that,” said Matthias Druba, a Berlin lawyer who has dealt with other art restitution cases.

Authorities are investigating whether the paintings, prints and drawings were “misappropriated.”

But under German law, the statute of limitations for criminal prosecutions is 30 years. Only murder and genocide are exempt – a pro-

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To get around this limit, prosecutors would have to prove that Cornelius Gurlitt tried to undermine attempts to recover the works, Druba said.

“Just having the pictures on him isn’t enough,” Druba said.

“He would have had to actively lie.”

It’s clear that Gurlitt didn’t hide all of his paintings. Two years ago he sold a work by German expressionist painter Max Beckmann titled “The Lion Tamer” for 864,000 euros ($1.16 million), which he shared with the heirs of a Jewish collector who once owned the picture.

“It was all a matter of goodwill,” said Karl-Sax Feddersen, a legal adviser for the Cologne auction house Lempertz. “The heirs wouldn’t have been able to get a German court to help them.”

Experts say this example may indicate that the government’s best option could be to appeal to Gurlitt’s sense of ethics and negotiate resolutions instead of heading to court.

A spokesman for prosecutors in Augsburg, who are handling the case, acknowledged that the 30-year statute of limitations is making legal claims difficult.

“But we need to examine who can make what claims,” Matthias Nikolai told The Associated Press.

“To put it very carefully, there is a possibility in Germany’s criminal code to hand seized objects back to victims.”

The elder Gurlitt, who died in 1956, was one of four art dealers commissioned by the Nazis to sell what is known as “degenerate

anything, I know nothing. I’ve given all my documents to the prosecutors.”

Augsburg prosecutors have appealed for more time to investigate the massive case.

So far, Gurlitt appears to have made no effort to reclaim the works that have surrounded him for most of his life. If that were to change, the affair could become deeply embarrassing for the German government, Feddersen said.

“The moment Mr. Gurlitt hires a lawyer to claim back the paintings, they’ll be back in his apartment in three weeks,” he predicted. “Internationally, that would be a disaster.”

Several families have already Staatsanwaltschaft Augsburg/AP Photo come forward to stake their claims The painting Riders at the Beach by German artist Max to works in Gurlitt’s collection.

Liebermann was among the 1,400 works seized in a Munich Among them are the heirs of Paris apartment last year. Investigators are trying to establish the art dealer Paul Rosenberg, who artworks’ legal status and history. once owned Matisse’s “Woman Sitting in an Armchair,” according art” – items seized from museums “The work has begun in earnest to Chris Marinello, a lawyer for because they were deemed a cornow and it will bear results.” the family. rupting influence on the German Germany has signed up to Marinello urged the German people. Prosecutors believe some the 1998 Washington Principles government to speed up the re380 of the works found in his requiring Nazi-looted art to lease of information on the seized son’s apartment were “degenerate be handed back to its rightful works. Since the German magaart.” owners. But this has been applied zine Focus first reported on the But another 590 artworks mostly to works held by the state case last week, only 25 works have there may have been looted by the or in state-owned museums. Still, been posted on the government’s Nazis, they say.

German lawyer and art expert official Lost Art website.

The German government is Peter Raue said the fact that the “This is something that should keen to help the claimants, aware Gurlitt collection is now in public have started two years ago when that doing otherwise would be hands – albeit as part of an inves- they discovered the pictures,” a public relations disaster for a tigation – could compel Germany Marinello said, adding that aucountry trying to make amends to act. thorities should consider moral as for its Nazi past.

Any outright seizure by the well as legal claims to the works Government spokesman Stefstate – even with the best intenwhen deciding what to do with fen Seibert said Wednesday that tions – could be challenged by them. authorities were using “all the Gurlitt, Raue said.

“Statutes of limitations need available expertise at their dis“We’re entering uncharted legal to be relaxed and the requirement posal” to determine if there were territory,” he noted. for documentation may also need legitimate claims to the works.

Gurlitt, believed to be about 80, to be eased,” he told the AP. “This “We know that the Jewish has remained coy about his inten- may take a creative solution, not a organizations represent people tions. Germany’s Sueddeutsche black-and-white solution.” who are often very old and who Zeitung newspaper quoted him German government’s Lost Art suffered great injustices,” he said. as saying Tuesday: “I can’t say website: http://www.lostart.de

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Film rating system under attack Jake Coyle

A study by the Annenberg Public Policy Center and the Ohio State University recently published NEW YORK in the medical journal Pediatrics Under increasing pressure over found that gun violence in the its threshold for violence in PG-13 most popular PG-13 releases since films, the Motion Picture Asso1985 has tripled in frequency. The ciation of America defended its number of scenes featuring gun often-criticized rating system on violence in PG-13 films, the study found, has come to rival or even Wednesday.

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surpass the rate of such sequences in R-rated movies.

The association’s ratings board is no stranger to criticism, but the study – seemingly lending evidence to a long-held claim that the board is softer on violence than sexuality or language – has set off calls for reform.

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to the study, Joan Graves, head of the MPAA’s ratings board, told The Associated Press on Wednesday that the MPAA is in line with parents’ standards.

“We try to get it right,” Graves said. “The criticism of our system is not coming from the parents, who are the people we’re doing this for.”

The association has five ratings classifications, from G to NC17, but the continental divide is between PG-13 (in which parents are “strongly cautioned” that some material may be inappropriate for children under the age of 13) and R (in which children under 17 are required to be accompanied by a parent or adult guardian).

In between, battle lines are drawn over violence, language and sexual content – a fraught distinction because it determines what kids can see on their own, thus heavily influencing a film’s potential audience. Critics claim that the MPAA is far more permissive of violence in PG-13 films than fleeting nudity or a handful of expletives.

“It may be time to rethink how violence is treated in movie ratings,” said Dan Romer of the Annenberg Center.

But Graves claims PG-13 “is not a namby-pamby rating,” but intended as a strong warning to parents.

The MPAA frequently points out that it doesn’t police films, but assigns warning labels for parents so that they can make their own choices about what their children see. The ratings system is a voluntary one for theatrical released films that the movie industry founded in the 1960s to replace the far more restrictive Hays Code.

But the current ratings system has persistently drawn criticism for its perceived prudishness, while yielding more easily to the

violence in big studio releases, such as Christopher Nolan’s PG13 rated Dark Knight trilogy.

Kirby Dick’s 2006 documentary, This Film Is Not Yet Rated, levelled claims of censorship at the MPAA ratings board.

Harvey Weinstein is waging his latest battle with the MPAA over the R-rating of the upcoming Weinstein Co. release, Philomena.

While one expletive is generally allowed for a PG-13 rating, the two in Philomena were enough to make it rated R. Weinstein has enlisted the film’s stars, Judi Dench and Steve Coogan, in a series of comedic online videos protesting the MPAA’s decision.(backslash) The MPAA was hearing the Weinstein Co.’s appeal Wednesday.

Graves said parents more frequently object to language or sex in movies, and that “they feel they’re getting the correct information about the violence.”

“We’re certainly listening on the sexuality and the language,” Graves said. “We’d be very interested in adjusting violence if in fact we were hearing from them we’re getting it wrong. They don’t seem to think that.”

But violence in film and video games has become an increasingly hot topic in the wake of numerous school shootings. Studies have shown conflicting results on whether watching violent movies has any effect on real-life violence.

In January, President Barack Obama called for further research on the connection between media and violence.

Graves said the association is aware of school shootings and other violence and the debate on the possible connection to violence in movies. She said the association is open to making adjustments.

“Certainly, it’s always under consideration. It’s not a static thing, ever,” she said.

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Francis Bacon painting sets a world record at auction Ula Ilnytzky The Associated Press

NEW YORK 1969 painting by Francis Bacon set a world record for the most expensive artwork ever sold at auction and a sculpture by Jeff Koons broke a world auction record for a living artist at a Manhattan sale on Tuesday.

“Three Studies of Lucian Freud” was purchased for $142.4 million at Christie’s postwar and contemporary art sale Tuesday evening. The triptych depicts Bacon’s artist friend.

The work sold after “6 minutes of fierce bidding in the room and on the phone” to Acquavella Galleries in Manhattan, Christie’s said in a statement. The price included the buyer’s premium.

The price tag surpassed the nearly $120 million paid for Edvard Munch’s “The Scream,” which set a world record when it was sold at Sotheby’s in a 2012 sale.

The previous record for Bacon’s artwork sold at auction was the British artist’s 1976 “Triptych.” That sold for $86 million in 2008.

Also up for sale at Christie’s evening auction was Koons’ whimsical “Balloon Dog (Orange),” a 10-foot-tall stainless steel sculpture resembling a twisted child’s party balloon. It

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sold for $58.4 million, a world auction record for the artist and a world auction record for a living artist, said Christie’s.

The auction house did not reveal the buyer.

It is one of five balloon dogs Koons has created in different colours. All are in private hands. It was sold by newsprint magnate Peter Brant to benefit his Brant Foundation Art Study in Greenwich, Conn.

A 1977 painting by Willem De Kooning, “Untitled VIII,” sold for over $32 million, a world auction record for the artist. In 2006, De Kooning’s “Untitled XXV,” sold for $27.1 million.

Other highlights at Christie’s included an iconic Andy Warhol, “Coca-Cola (3),” which fetched $57. 2 million.

It was estimated to sell for $40 million to $60 million. The Warhol auction record is $71.7 million for “Green Car Crash (Green Burning Car I),” sold in 2007.

Also on sale was a bright orange-yellow and white oil painting by Mark Rothko.

Reminiscent of a radiating sunset, the 1957 large-scale “Untitled (No. 11)” garnered over $46 million. In May 2012, Christie’s sold Rothko’s “Orange, Red, Yellow” for $86.8 million, a record for any contemporary artwork at auction.

The auction also featured a masterpiece by German

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painter Gerhard Richter from the collection of Eric Clapton.

Painted in gold and orange hues, the 1994 “Abstract Painting” sold for $20.8 million.

Richter’s photo-based “Cathedral Square, Milan” brought

“Woman With Flowered Hat,” sold at Christie’s in May. Christie’s said the Tuesday sale brought in over $691.5 million, which it said is the highest total for any single auction in history.

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Porter Creek students learn to be leaders in a crisis

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Teah Dickson, left, talks with teacher Nicole Cross on Tuesday at Porter Creek Secondary School. Cross’s leadership students were the first high school class to complete a crisis intervention course.

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ichael Swainson had been working as a paramedic for more than two decades when the trauma caught up to him.

After 21 years, the Yukoner was diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD. He headed south in search of help, to a California treatment centre designed specifically for first responders.

“When I left there, I thought, you know what, there’s an opportunity here for me, having gone through PTSD, to help other first responders who have or will go through PTSD,” he said.

Swainson returned to the centre twice more, became a peer support worker, and eventually started training with the International Critical Incident Stress Foundation. Today, he teaches crisis intervention courses through Yukon College. This fall, he also brought his program to a group of Yukon high school students for the first time.

Nicole Cross, a teacher at Porter Creek Secondary School, is responsible for a new elective course called Peer Mentorship and Community Leadership in Action. When she put together the semesterlong course program for the first time, she built an adapted version of Swainson’s unit on individual crisis intervention and peer support into the curriculum.

Normally, Swainson teaches his course to adults in two full days. At Porter Creek, he taught the students in bitesized portions, two afternoons a week for four weeks. He also adapted his sessions to focus on teen-specific crises. “When I went out there to teach these guys, I went out there before I started the class and I said, ‘What are the types of crisis that teenagers go through?’

Number one was bullying.”

Other scenarios that the class worked through included the death of a parent or loved one, or a parental divorce.

Cross and others had observed their students’ reactions to deaths in the community

over the past few years. They were also aware that with the ubiquity of social media and cellphones, bullying was now inescapable. The idea behind bringing in Swainson was to teach the students to offer a support network to their peers – since teenagers, in particular, might be less likely to reach out to adults when they are in crisis. The students were taught that while they might not have any relevant life experience – they might not, for instance, have lost a parent themselves – they can create a safe space for their friends, and be there to listen.

“You’re not going to have the answers,” said Cross. “But you can be the ears.” Or as student Cara Schamber put it, “We’re just there to stop the bleeding, not fix the problem.”

The course was open to students from Grades 9 through 12. Twelve signed up, and they were enthusiastic about Swainson’s crisis intervention unit.

“We just gained the knowledge to be the people to talk to if someone’s in crisis,” said student Reuben Wurtak, a

Grade 11 basketball player.

“We’re just there to show them that it’s OK to feel the way they are … This, to me, feels like one of the best things I’ve accomplished.” He added that he’s been showing off his crisis intervention certificate to his friends.

“I’m kind of a team leader kind of guy,” said Wurtak when asked why he signed up for the course. “I like to be a leader. It’s just a chance to upgrade my leadership skills.”

He also thinks the course could be valuable for self-care, not just supporting his peers.

“You know what to expect,” he said. “If people want to become doctors, now they can take care of themselves” while working with others in crisis.

Schamber, also in Grade 11, hopes to go into social work as a career; the new course seemed like a good fit. “I actually feel like I learned a lot in this class,” she said. “It was a good course for anybody to take, because at any point in your life you could run into someone who’s having a crisis.”

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thought the role-playing and teen-specific scenarios were “crucial” to the course. “It was all really relevant to us,” agreed another classmate, Teah Dickson.

Like her students, Cross was pleased with the results of the unit. “They did a good job,” she said. “It required them to step out of their box.” Some of the students wound up sharing their own stories of crisis during the role-playing, she added.

Assuming there is sufficient interest from a new crop of students, Cross’ semester-long course should go ahead again next fall. She also thinks that Swainson’s four-week unit, which totals about 15 hours of class time, could be a good fit in a variety of course offerings at other schools.

Swainson hopes his teaching stays with the students well beyond their years at Porter Creek. “You’re not going to be in high school forever,” he said, “and the skills that I’m going to teach you, hopefully you can take them to your last breath.”

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Ford spotlight raising addiction awareness, but fuels stigma too, experts say Sheryl Ubelacker

addiction and substance abuse.

But have Ford’s troubles raised the kind of awareness that is beneficial TORONTO or harmful to the public’s underoronto Mayor Rob Ford’s standing of the disease and those admitted alcohol and drug use struggling with their own booze and drug-abuse demons? have shone a glaring spotlight on Canadian Press

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“I have never seen the issue of substance abuse get this much profile,” said Rebecca Jesseman, a research and policy analyst at the Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse. “I think that the fact that these questions and opportunities S TA R S P O N S O R S

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and dialogue are being raised is beneficial.

“What’s important is to ensure that the light in which those discussions are being held keeps in mind the fact that substance abuse is a very real problem and it’s a problem that is helped by our colleagues, our friends, by our family members,” Jesseman said from Ottawa. “And it’s something that touches all Canadians.”

Ford has repeatedly denied he has an alcohol or drug addiction, and he did so again Wednesday as city councillors approved a motion to have him take a leave of absence.

His family has backed up his assertions and agreed with his decision not to resign or take a leave, despite a chorus of voices – from political friends and foes alike to members of the public – encouraging him to do just that.

Dr. Mark Ujjainwalla, an Ottawa addiction medicine physician, said Ford’s extreme behaviour – including the obscenity-laden death threat secretly captured on video – is in line with many of the signs associated with alcohol and often drug abuse.

But the 25-year veteran of addiction treatment doesn’t think the Ford saga has done much for the public perception of addiction or those caught in its relentless grip.

“It has done absolutely nothing except to make it worse, because people are saying this guy’s crazy, he’s on cocaine, he’s a bad person,” said Ujjainwalla, whose Recovery Ottawa clinic provides treatment for people hooked on opioids.

“The way I see it is these people are ill. They’re not bad people trying to get good, they’re sick people trying to get well that need our help. And it’s our responsibility to educate the average person, which is what I’m trying to do with my clinic ... but I can tell you it’s a hard sell.”

Despite substance abuse affecting every segment of society – Ujjainwalla has treated virtually

every profession, from priests and pilots to politicians and physicians – there is often a public attitude that alcoholics and drug addicts “deserve everything they get,” he said.

Dr. Tim Stockwell, director of the Centre for Addictions Research of B.C. in Victoria, said Ford’s travails have certainly raised Canadians’ awareness about alcohol and drug addiction – but in a mixed way.

“The good part I’m hearing is a lot of compassion, even if people are assuming correctly or not that he does have a serious problem with alcohol and drugs,” said Stockwell, who was in Toronto on Wednesday evaluating addiction harm-reduction programs in the city.

“A lot of people are coming out and talking about it compassionately or sympathetically that he needs help.”

But Stockwell believes many people have, without first-hand knowledge, made stereotypical judgments about the extent of Ford’s drinking and need for treatment, which is “very stigmatizing.”

“I think the message that comes over very clearly is that if somebody has this kind of problem, they’re unfit for work,” he said. “So this is telling anybody who has this kind of problem (that they’re) not a proper person to be trusted and that you can deal with.”

Stockwell said the ridiculing send-ups of Ford by late-night talk-show hosts have also fuelled the stigma felt by people with substance-abuse issues: “It’s making fun of somebody who had a drug and alcohol problem, having already assumed that they do.

“Just pause before you make jokes about somebody who may be suffering with a drug or alcohol problem. Think about the impact that might have on other people suffering these problems who aren’t quite so high profile and what that might do to their feelings of self-worth.”

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Catholic fringe defies pope, disrupts interfaith Kristallnacht ceremony Michael Warren

ficial, appealed for calm as others in the audience rose up to repudiate the protesters, who were soon BUENOS AIRES, Argentina escorted out by police. ltra-traditionalist Roman “Let there be peace. Shalom,” Catholics have openly chalPoli then said, urging everyone to lenged Pope Francis by disrupttake their seats. ing one of his favourite events, “Dear Jewish brothers, please an interfaith ceremony in the feel at home, because that’s the Metropolitan Cathedral meant to way Christians want it, despite promote religious harmony on the these signs of intolerance,” Poli anniversary of the beginning of said. “Your presence here doesn’t the Holocaust. desecrate a temple of God. We will The annual gathering of Cath- continue in peace this encounter olics, Jews and Protestants marks that Pope Francis always proKristallnacht, the Nazi-led mob moted, valued and appreciated so violence in 1938 when about 1,000 much.”

Jewish synagogues were burned Skorka, who co-wrote a book of and thousands of Jews were dialogues with Bergoglio seeking forced into concentration camps, common ground between Judaism launching the genocide that killed and Catholicism, described the in6 million Jews. Before he assumed cident in an interview with Radio the papacy, Buenos Aires Car10 on Wednesday. dinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio and “The cathedral was full, with his good friend Rabbi Abraham people standing, prepared for a Skorka led the ceremony every profound act of introspection, year. when a group of about 40 people A small group disrupted Tuesbegan to recite from the Christian day night’s ceremony by shouting liturgy, the ‘Our Father,’ and began the rosary and the “Our Father” to hand out little pieces of paper prayer, and spreading pamphlets saying that Jews were blaspheming saying that “followers of false gods the place,” Skorka said. must be kept out of the sacred Skorka said protesters made temple.” cutting comments like “the Jews Buenos Aires Archbishop Mario killed Jesus.” He said one Jew Poli, named by Francis to replace confronted them, saying, “My him as Argentina’s top church of- grandmother died in Auschwitz,” The Associated Press

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issue was outside his normal area of jurisdiction.

The Society of St. Pius X is a breakaway group of traditionalist Catholics who are attached to the old Latin Mass and follow the late Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, who founded the Swiss-based society in 1969 in opposition to the modernizing reforms of the Second Vatican Council. The Vatican II meetings made a point of reaching out to Jews and people of other faiths.

Lefebvre and four of his bishops were excommunicated after he consecrated them without papal consent in a schismatic act. The Rodolfo Pezzoni/AP Photo A woman attending a ceremony that marks the beginning of excommunications were lifted in 2009 but the group still has no the Holocaust, left, tries to stop ultra-traditionalist Catholics legal standing in the church. from interrupting at the Metropolitan Cathedral in Buenos Pope Benedict made reconcilAires, Argentina. ing with the society a priority, but in an interview with Radio La Red. Pope Francis has made clear he to which an activist replied, “Do has little interest in courting the “This wasn’t a desire to make you believe that lie?” traditionalists. a rebellion, but to show our love The Rev. Christian BouThe same society was in the to the Catholic Church, which chacourt, the South America news in October when one of its leader of the Society of Saint Pius was made for the Catholic faith,” Italian priests offered to celebrate Bouchacourt said. “A Mass isn’t X, said Wednesday that the prothe funeral of Nazi war crimcelebrated in a synagogue, nor testers belong to his organization inal Erich Priebke after the Rome in a mosque. The Muslims don’t and that they have a right to feel outraged when rabbis preside over accept it. In the same way, we who archdiocese refused to allow him a church funeral. The society’s fuare Catholics cannot accept the a ceremony in a cathedral. neral service was later called off at presence of another faith in our “I recognize the authority of the last minute because protesters church.” the pope, but he is not infallible and Priebke’s supporters clashed The Vatican spokesman and in this case does things we declined to comment, saying the outside. cannot accept,” Bouchacourt said

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Freezing food is one of the safest preservation methods; risk in thawing, however Helen Branswell

All those guidelines about how long you can freeze this type of fish or that cut of meat relate to how TORONTO much damage the food will sustain ou reach into your freezer and going through the freezing and thawpull out an hoarfrost-encrusted ing processes. meat product of dubious origin. You The recommendations are geared have no idea how long it’s been there, to palatability. So the question isn’t you didn’t think to label it and now ‘Will this make us sick?’ but ‘Would you are wondering: Is this safe to eat? we want to eat this?’

The answer is a good news, “I think that there’s a common not-so-good news story, food safety misperception that people think food experts say. becomes unsafe the longer it sits in Freezing food is one of the safest the freezer,” says Andress, who also ways to preserve food at home for works with the U.S. National Center future use – much safer than home for Home Food Preservation. canning, which if done incorrectly “You know, that they think that can produce food contaminated with there’s an absolute cut-off date for the toxin that causes botulism. safety.

And it really is quality. Because There is no such safety risk with as long as it stays frozen, it’s not frozen food. And in fact, the process becoming less safe.” can actually enhance the safety of one The risks that do exist come from type of food we often pop into the the way food is prepared for freezing freezer, poultry.

“While something’s actually frozen – clean hands! clean surfaces! – and the way frozen food is thawed. in the freezer there’s nothing going If you are freezing something on that’s changing the safety of it,” that’s been cooked – soups or chili says Elizabeth Andress, a food safety or a casserole – be careful about specialist at University of Georgia at how you cool it down. While you Athens.

“Quality can continue to deterio- shouldn’t put hot food directly into rate, but there’s really no safety issues a freezer, you don’t want to let it sit around at room temperature for too while it’s in the freezer.”

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water and then letting it sit while the temperature of the water rises. You’re not giving the turkey a bath; the water should be cold and should be replaced when it warms up. Adding ice cubes can help by providing a visible cue, he says.

“As soon as you see that the ice is gone you know that the possibility is that the temperature of the water is above 2 C or 3 C (36-37 F).”

Freezing poultry can actually enhance the safety of the meat, Holley says. While some bacteria will reactivate once a frozen product that contains them thaws, at least one type, Campylobacter, does not surJonathan Hayward/The Canadian Press vive freezing well. Campylobacter is You reach into your freezer and pull out an ice-encrusted the leading cause of foodborne illness meat product of dubious origin. You have no idea how in Canada, he says. long it’s been there. Is it safe to eat? Some freezing Freezing actually cuts back on the experts explain the rules of food safety, freezer style. concentration of these bacteria in or on contaminated food, says Holley, So once food is cool enough to long either. who says studies have shown that Andress says in food safety people go into the fridge, it can spend some Campylobacter-associated foodborne time there before being transferred to illnesses decline when people eat only talk about the “temperature danger the freezer. previously frozen poultry products. zone.” That’s the point where food And that’s the route food should There is another misperception isn’t cold enough to suspend the follow when it’s time to thaw frozen about frozen food, though it’s one the activity of any bacteria that might be meats and fish and cooked food, experts are almost reluctant to talk present, and isn’t hot enough to kill says Doug Goff, a professor of food about. them. That zone is between 4.4 C to sciences at the University of Guelph It’s that rule about not refreezing 60 C (40 F to 140 F). in Ontario. things. Turns out it’s not entirely true.

“Bacteria won’t reproduce in the If something is frozen and thawed, freezer, but freezing won’t kill them. it can be refrozen – as long as it was So whatever was in your food when defrosted safely. So if you started to you froze it will be there again when defrost a roast in the fridge and then you thaw it,” he explains. realized you didn’t need it, you could Where this problem often comes put it back in the freezer. into play is with the behemoths of That would not be advisable for protein, turkeys.

Rock hard in the something that was thawed outside a Il n’est pas trop tard pour développer freezer, these holiday favourites take fridge, the experts say. And they warn vos idées de projet pour le FDC. forever to defrost in a fridge, using up that the damage to taste and texture Nous acceptons maintenant les demandes lots of precious space while they do. that comes from freezing would be de financement pour : But that really is the right place for exacerbated by refreezing. them, Goff says.

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Temple Grandin: More research needed on how autism affects people’s senses Nelson Wyatt

participate in the launch of the See Things My Way campaign sponsored by the Miriam FounMONTREAL dation to raise awareness about emple Grandin, one of the autism across Canada. first people to chronicle Grandin, 66, said much has her struggles with autism, says changed since she was diagnosed there needs to be more research at age two but stressed there is into how the condition affects still work to do. people’s senses.

“They used to think all these Sensory problems can mani- things were psychological,” she fest in a wide variety of ways, said. including sensitivity to sounds, “Autism is a biological, neulight – even clothing materials. rological disorder.”

“They vary from a nuisance The Boston-born Grandin to being very debilitating,” the has been a leading advocate of renowned author and activist early intervention to deal with said in a telephone interview. autism spectrum disorders.

“You’ve got some people In her own case, her mother that you take into a loud, noisy rejected a diagnosis of brain supermarket and they just can’t damage and worked with her take it. They sort of feel like child intensively, getting her they’re inside the speaker at a speech therapy and engaging her rock concert.” constantly.

It’s a big roadblock in at“If you’ve got a two-year-old tempts to socialize people with that’s not talking, you’ve got to autism and Grandin would like start immediately working with to see more research money that kid, doing a lot of one-onspent on it. one teaching,” Temple Grandin “You can’t socialize them said. if they can’t stand the envi“You’ve got to start workronment,” said Grandin, who ing with that kid and working uses medication to control the with him right now, getting him anxiety aggravated by her own engaged with the world.” sensory issues.

This groundwork can help Treatment varies from person the child find out what they’re to person, depending on the good at, which could eventually severity. Some remedies try lead to employment. to help sufferers tolerate what “Start working with kids bothers them by getting them when they’re 12, doing paper used to it.

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Grandin, who was named as one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2010 by Time magazine, pointed out that some autistics, like herself, are very strong visual thinkers, for example. Others have heightened math skills.

“Einstein would be labelled autistic today – no language until age three,” she said.

Grandin acknowledges that not everyone will excel, saying those who do are generally on the higher-functioning end of the spectrum.

“Then you have much more severe autism. No, they’re not going to be doing these things.”

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Autism activist Temple Grandin is one of the first people to chronicle her struggles with autism.

livestock and written several books on her experiences with the autism, is one of the world’s best-known activists on the condition.

Her life story was the subject of an Emmy Award-winning HBO movie in 2010.

Grandin was born in 1947, when the diagnosis for autism was only four years old and little was known about the disorder.

Child psychology was still in its infancy and the word autism was a rarity in psychiatric journals. She wouldn’t be referred to as autistic until she was about 12.

When Grandin was initially diagnosed, neurologists described her as “odd” and deemed she suffered from brain damage, she wrote in her new book The Autistic Brain: Thinking Across the Spectrum.

Her mother sought help after noticing the child was destructive, didn’t speak, was sensitive to physical contact and focused on spinning objects.

But she rejected the diagnosis and began working with her, discovering for herself what would eventually be standard treatment for autistics, Grandin wrote.

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Slightly sleep-deprived surgeons still function well, study finds Helen Branswell Canadian Press

TORONTO urgeons who are slightly sleep deprived do not perform more poorly than when they are well rested, the largest study to look at the question suggests.

The study showed that general surgeons who performed emergency surgery the night before planned operations did not have a higher level of medical errors or deaths then when they operated after not working overnight.

The study, which is based on records of more than 10,000 gallbladder removal surgeries in Ontario, is published in this week’s issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association.

“These findings do not support safety concerns related to surgeons operating under these conditions,” concluded the authors from London Health Sciences Centre in London, Ont. In Canada and the United States, there have been moves to restrict the number of hours that residents – doctors still in training – can work without breaks.

And in the U.S., there have also been calls to regulate the working hours of surgeons as well.

These findings suggest that type of move is unnecessary, said Dr. Michael Zinner, chief of surgery at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston.

“The key message is for us there’s no need to create regulation or policy changes to limit performing surgery. There’s no evidence that it makes a difference,” said Zinner, a general and oncologic surgeon who co-wrote an editorial on the study for the journal.

One of the authors of the study said the results should assuage concerns of patients about to undergo surgery.

“It hopefully will make patients feel better and reassure them that their physician can still perform well, even if they were performing the night before,” said Danielle Nash, an epidemiologist.

Several previous studies have looked at the issue. But they have been small studies, often looking only at the safety records of a single hospital.

In this case, the authors drew on the huge data resources of Ontario’s Institute of Clinical

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They then compared the outcomes of those operations to gallbladder operations the same surgeons performed on days when they hadn’t worked overnight.

The study compared results from 2,078 operations done when the surgeons had worked overnight to 8,312 operations the same doctors performed when they hadn’t worked the night before.

They looked for cases where surgeons started off doing laparoscopic surgery – formerly known as keyhole surgery – but then changed mid-operation to open-cavity surgery. While that switch can happen for other reasons, such a move is generally an indication that something has gone wrong with a surgery.

There wasn’t a higher rate of mid-operation technique shifts among operations when the surgeon had worked the night before. Nor were there higher rates of surgery-related injuries.

And when the authors looked at deaths – which are uncommon in gallbladder removal surgery – there was no elevated risk seen there either.

This type of study is what is known as observational, so it cannot prove (or disprove) cause and effect. The authors can only say operating without a full night’s sleep was not associated with a higher rate of surgical errors.

To prove cause and effect, they would have needed to do a randomized controlled trial, where some surgeons were randomly assigned to perform when well rested and others operated while tired. But such a study would not be allowed, for ethical reasons.

So a study like this one is likely the best option there is for answering the question of what the effect of slight sleep deprivation is on surgical performance, Nash said.

She acknowledged the messaging here is complex. No one would advise surgeons to skip sleep or to over-pack their

schedules.

Still, if they miss some sleep because they have to respond to an emergency the night before a scheduled operation, their performance may not suffer

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Beware festive threats to pets A

s I strolled through the grocery store last month, I noticed that the Christmas decor was already up. In my mind, it was still summer, but apparently the good folks at my local fooditorium wanted to ring in the holidays a tad early this year.

Some day, I am certain they will start putting up the tinsel in June.

The holiday season is one of togetherness, and pets are increasingly a big part of the holiday festivities. During this otherwise joyous season, a few pet dangers are lurking, though. This info will help keep your pet safe during all the fun and avoid expensive trips to the pet ER. • Food – The biggest holiday threats to pets come from the same threats to your waistline and chances of you fitting into your skinny jeans – food! The holiday season is all about food (yeah, and love and family and all that other stuff, too), and there’s plenty of it to be had: cookies, roast beast, puddings and more cookies. To you, it may just mean another hour on the stair stepper, but to your dog, human food can cause real problems.

Vomiting and diarrhea are common side effects from eating too much people food (the medical term we throw about is “dietary indiscretion”), and in some cases, this can proceed to a more serious condition called pancreatitis. Pancreatitis

is inflammation of the pancreas, the gland that makes digestive enzymes as well as insulin. When the pancreas becomes inflamed, it releases these enzymes and begins digesting itself. This can be a serious and painful condition that often requires hospitalization.

It is probably a good idea to either keep pets confined during any holiday parties, or make sure guests (especially kids) know not to give treats to your pets. Dogs and cats have been known to drag an entire turkey off the counter when the owner’s back is turned (you know they’ve gotta be thinking, “SCORE!”), so make sure you stay aware of their whereabouts during meal preparation.

If you do want to include your pet in the meal and fun, stick to a bit of lean turkey and low- or nofat veggies (no onions, though, as these can cause anemia in dogs and cats), and skip the gravy, dressing and pecan pie. Sugar-free items that contain xylitol are also toxic to pets.

• Booze – It is true: Don’t get your Doberman drunk during the holidays (or any other time), and don’t let any lampshade-wearing guests try to give your pug a mug of beer. And no one wants to see a basset with a hangover.

Your dog or cat’s liver is not equipped to process alcohol, and even small amounts can be life-threatening. Put boozy party leftovers well out of reach. That

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• Open doors – People come and go much more during the holidays than other times of year, and all that traffic can lead to plenty of opportunities for escape. In the ER, we see many pets who made a break for freedom when Uncle Floyd came a-callin’ with his special tuna surprise. Dogs and cats can dart out the door without anyone even noticing, and there’s a whole big world of hurt just waiting for them out there. Ensure that pets are safely put away when you are expecting guests, and make a nightly head count to make sure that all the furry family members are accounted for before turning in for your visions of sugar plums.

Here’s hoping you have a sane season, and that all family members make it through safely, no matter how many legs they have.

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Q&A Take the bite out of an eager dog Q: We have adopted a new dog.

He is very friendly and has really great manners, except for one thing: He snatches food. A couple of times his teeth have grazed our fingers. How can we break him of this bad habit? – via Facebook A: That’s definitely a common problem. Sometimes hard mouthing indicates a dog who is anxious, fearful or overstimulated. There are a couple of things you can try to make the situation less overwhelming for the dog and teach him to take food (and other objects) gently.

First, always deliver treats below the mouth. When you hold

them up high, the dog’s natural inclination is to jump up and grab. Sometimes dogs jump and bite because they’re used to treats being dropped and are trying to grab them before they fall. This may call for a bit more bending on your part, especially if you have a small dog.

Deliver the treat right to the dog’s mouth. This takes practice, because sometimes it’s hard to hold a treat without fumbling and starting to drop it, but once you get the hang of it, he’ll be less likely to grab at it.

Another way to teach your dog to take treats more gently is what’s sometimes called the “Zen” game. Place a treat on your palm and close your hand over it. Show the dog your closed hand. He will probably mouth it, but wait until only his tongue or nose is touching the outside of your hand.

Then you can open it to give him the treat. The hand opens only when the mouth is gentle and soft without teeth. Let him know you like that behavior by saying “Good” and opening your palm.

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• Gazing at an aquarium can be very soothing – in fact, aquariums in dentist’s and doctor’s waiting rooms have been shown to reduce anxiety in patients. But at a recent infectious disease conference held in San Francisco, Dr. George Alangaden of the Henry Ford Health System told physicians that aquariums can be responsible for skin infections because of an organism known as Mycobacterium marinum. The bug has a long incubation period, and often goes undiagnosed, even though it’s easily treated. So if you’re dealing with a skin infection and you keep fish, be sure to ask your doctor to look for M. marinum.

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Rare mammal sighted in Vietnam for the first time in 15 years in central province of Quang Nam. In the area where the Saola was photographed, WWF has recruited forest guards from local communities to remove snares and battle illegal hunting, the greatest threat to Saola’s survival, the statement said.

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The Associated Press HANOI, Vietnam One of the rarest and most threatened mammals on earth has been caught on camera in Vietnam for the first time in 15 years, renewing hope for the recovery of the species, an international conservation group said Wednesday.

The Saola, a long-horned ox, was photographed by a camera in a forest in central Vietnam in September, the WWF said in a statement Wednesday.

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Gold Run Creek was once a busy place HISTORY

ity. There was fierce competition who had arrived in the Yukon before row of cottages, a large two-storey hotel (operated by Chute and Wills), between the roadhouses to see the Klondike was discovered, with who could offer the most attractive events. Dances were regular occurrences, especially around the traditional holidays. Easter, Christmas, New Year’s, and the national holidays, the First and the Fourth of July, as well as Victoria Day, were celebrated in the early days.

Reverend George Pringle made frequent visits to Gold Run to hold services in his small log church.

He even participated in the lively debates sponsored by the Gold Run Literary and Debating Society. At a Courtesy of Candy Waugaman collection meeting at the Central Hotel in December of 1901, for example, it was The village on Gold Run Creek consisted of a cluster of resolved: “That women should have buildings located around claim number 28. It included the equal voting privileges with men.” mining headquarters of Chute and Wills, a large two-storey log hotel, a school, a Presbyterian Church, police station and The decision came out in favour of the women, incidentally. a mining recorder’s office. In 1900, it even had telephone Sports were enjoyed, but primarservice to Dawson City. ily as a social event. Ben Matteson (The Texas Steer) and Jack Higgens mess hall and bunkhouses. For a the North West Mounted Police.

(The Tipperary Cyclone) both of while, there was a school, a PresIn partnership with Jerome Chute, whom had been working on Chute byterian church, a detachment of he formed the company of Chute and Wills’ claim scheduled a boxing the North West Mounted Police, a and Wills. Together, they accumumatch on the creek March 23, 1901. mining recorder’s office and a post lated more than a dozen claims on Winner was to take all gate receipts, office. the lower part of Gold Run Creek, plus a side bet of $250. Special As early as 1901, Gold Run could holidays were an excuse for sports. including Nordstrom’s Claim No. 27 (claims were numbered sequentially boast of at least one woman of Victoria Day, 1901 was celebrated “questionable character,” although up the creek from its mouth). with a high kick competition, a fat the Klondike Nugget went on to Soon, Chute and Wills had 150 man’s race (George Barr ‘won by clarify that there was no question at a waistcoat’) tug of war between workers mucking for gold on their ground. A small townsite consisting all about her character. Some years teams from upper and lower Gold later, Sam Tym, a miner, intoxicated Run Creek (a draw), and swimming of 40 buildings grew up at the hub of their operations at Claim No. 28. after spending the evening with the (Ed Herring swept the gold in all In addition to Dr. Wills’s impressive notorious “Gypsy,” disappeared into events). the night. He never made it home; two-storey log home, there were a It didn’t last; large corporate his brother found his body in the interests bought out many of the spring encased in ice, lying on his claims, reducing the population. back, looking up to the sky, his body By 1911, there were only 26 people perfectly preserved. remaining on Gold Run Creek, Scattered along the creek were including four women and three a dozen roadhouses, some squalid children. All that remained by 1982 affairs, and others rivalling Chute were the decaying cabins, scattered and Wills’s establishment. There pieces of machinery, and numerwas a dentist, a doctor, a bakery, a ous abandoned mine shafts filled barber and a confectionary. Orr and with ice. Even these are now gone, Don’t miss it!

Tukey ran a scheduled stage service pushed aside, dug up or covered to Gold Run from Dawson. The over in the mad scramble to extract Dawson Daily News ran an express the remaining gold buried in the and messenger service. In 1900, the gravels of Gold Run Creek. local telephone syndicate had even Michael Gates is a Yukon historian extended a branch line from Dawand sometimes adventurer based in son City to Gold Run Creek.

Whitehorse. His latest book, DalBy 1900, the creek had also ton’s Gold Rush Trail, is available in Yukon stores. You can contact him at become a beehive of social activ-

One of the early miners on the creek left the Yukon in 1899 with $13,000 having laboured on his Gold Run claim by this method for months.

His name was John W. Nordstrom,

by Michael Gates and he used the money to establish n its hey-day, Gold Run Creek was what has become one of the largest retail chains in the United States. one of the busiest, most producThe first steam equipment was tive and most heavily populated introduced to the creek one year creeks in the Klondike goldfields. later, and soon most of the minBut when I first visited the stream in 1982, all that remained were trees ing operations on the creek were using boilers to generate steam to growing amidst old dredge tailing piles, decaying cabins, the occasional operate pumps and winches and thaw the frozen muck. The demand piece of derelict machinery, and a for firewood became insatiable, and gentle breeze blowing through the dense brush on a clear autumn day. thousands of cords of wood were consumed each year to feed the After the frenzy of the original hungry boilers. staking of the Klondike had subsidWhen the government road was ed, determined prospectors spread completed to Gold Run by Novemout to the adjoining watersheds in ber of 1899, easier transportation search of the elusive yellow metal. made the creek more profitable, and The first discovery of gold on Gold the population exploded. By 1900, Run Creek occurred in February 699 people were reported to be of 1898 when Billy Leake, a veteran living and working there. One newsprospector in the Yukon, and Robert paper predicted it would soon be a and David Ennis set up camp at the thousand. Other towns grew up in mouth of the creek, and prospected the goldfields: on Bonanza Creek at up the valley through the ice and Grand Forks, as well as on Hunker snow until they staked 10 miles (Gold Bottom), the Klondike valley above the mouth. The claims later (Bear Creek), Dominion (Granville proved to be unproductive, but the and Caribou) and Sulphur.

Ennis brothers continued to mine The official government census on Gold Run Creek for many years. for 1901 showed that 389 people The early mining on the creek lived on Gold Run, of whom 45 was by hand, using the tradwere women and 10 were children. itional drift mining method, into The populations hovered between the permanently frozen ground.

400 and 500 for several years.

“Armstrong”-powered windlasses One of the early miners in on Gold Run Creek was Dr. A.E. Wills, hauled the paydirt to the surface.

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by DAVID to melting Arctic ice – conSUZUKI tinue to worsen, with costs mounting daily, the impetus to resolve the problem is growing.

We’re exhausting Earth’s finite resources and pushing global ecosystems to tipping points, beyond which addressing pollution and climate issues will become increasingly difficult s people in the Philippines and costly. The only hindrance struggle with the devastato developing a fair, ambitious tion and death from the worst and legally binding climate plan storm to hit land in recorded for the world is lack of political history, world leaders are will. meeting in Warsaw, Poland, to Part of the problem is that discuss the climate crisis. “What much of the world is tied to my country is going through as the fossil fuel economy, and the a result of this extreme climate rush is on to get as much oil, event is madness. The climate coal and gas out of the ground crisis is madness,” Yeb Sano, and to market while people are lead negotiator for the Philipstill willing to pay for it and pines, told the opening session burn it up. We’re wasting preof the UN climate summit, cious resources in the name of which runs until November quick profits, instead of putting 22. “We can stop this madness. them to better use than proRight here in Warsaw.” pelling often solo occupants in Given the slow progress at large metal vehicles, and instead the 18 meetings held since 1992 of making them last while we – when countries from around shift to cleaner energy sources. the world joined the United NaBut there’s cause for hope. tions Framework Convention Solutions are available. Governon Climate Change – it’s hard ments just have to demonstrate not to be pessimistic. Canada, courage and leadership to put in particular, has been repeatus on a path to a healthier edly singled out among the future. close to 200 member countries For example, a recent report for obstructing progress and by energy consulting firm not doing enough to address ECOFYS, “Feasibility of GHG climate change at home. emissions phase-out by midcentury,” shows it’s technically But as scientific evidence

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Dr. Letourneau will summarize key scientific findings on brain development and provide practical steps that moms, dads, and other adults can take to promote positive mental health in infants and toddlers and give them a good start in life.

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and economically feasible to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions to zero from 90 per cent of current sources with readily available technology.

It shows we could phase out almost all net emissions by 2050 by innovating further. In doing so, we could likely meet the agreed-upon goal of limiting global average temperature increases to below 2 C, and we’d stand a 50 per cent chance of staying below 1.5 C by the end of the century. All of this would have the added benefit of reducing “water, air and soil pollution associated with traditional energy generation.”

The report echoes the David Suzuki Foundation’s findings regarding Canada’s potential to meet its current and forecasted demand for fuel and electricity with existing supplies of solar, wind, hydroelectric and biomass energy.

Whether or not any of this is politically feasible is another question. But the longer we delay the more difficult and expensive it will get.

Polling research also shows Canadians expect our government to be a constructive global citizen on climate action. A recent Leger Marketing survey sponsored by Canada 2020 and the University of Montreal found the majority of Canadians understand that human activity is contributing to climate change and believe

the federal government should make addressing the issue a high priority. Of those polled, 76 per cent said Canada should sign an international treaty to limit greenhouse gas emissions, with most supporting this even if China does not sign.

The poll also found majority support for a carbon tax as one way to combat climate change, especially if the money generated is used to support renewable energy development. Although B.C. has recently stepped back from previous leadership on climate change, its carbon tax is one example among many of

local governments doing more than the federal government to address climate change.

We and our leaders at all political levels – local, national and international – must do everything we can to confront the crisis. As Mr. Sano told delegates in Warsaw, “We cannot sit and stay helpless staring at this international climate stalemate.

It is now time to take action.

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The Government of Yukon is preparing to update the Condominium Act and is seeking the comments and suggestions of the public, in particular owners of condominium units or those considering purchasing a condominium unit.

A discussion paper to explain the scope of the Act and potential changes is available at: http://www.justice.gov.yk.ca/land_titles_modernization.html Comments on the act can be provided in person at a public meeting: Gold Rush Inn – The General Store Monday, November 25, 2013 7 p.m. - 9 p.m.

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The glacier(s) of Attu they saw crevasses in aerial photos.

“Small glaciers still exist in

by Ned cirques of the Attu MountainRozell Martinez Mountain ridge in central Attu, the only peaks in the Near Islands that reach altitudes of more than 3,000 feet. The largest of the more than a dozen glaciers here has an area of slightly less than half a square mile.” n late August, seabird bioloSo, What makes a mass of gist John Piatt paused from ice and snow a glacier and not his task of “stealing food from just a snowfield? baby puffins” to look up at the “Glaciers are made up of green mountains of Attu, the fallen snow that, over many last island in the long sweep of years, compresses into large, the Aleutians. thickened ice masses,” rePasted to the side of 3,000searchers for the National foot (914 m) Attu Mountain Snow and Ice Data Center was a snowfield with a dirty wrote on their website. “Some band of ice. Piatt, a U.S. Geoglaciers are as small as football logical Survey Alaska Science Photo by John Piatt fields.”

Center scientist working on Unlike other low-elevation A small, seldom-seen glacier on the far-west island of Attu.

Savage Island, a small island glaciers in Alaska that are fed off the southern coast of Attu, Refuge research vessel Tiglax tain slopes and often feed in “If there was going to be a by giant snowfields high in pulled out his camera. He took glacier on Attu, that’s where on a sunny, clear day. bays chilled by glacial runoff. cold mountains, the tiny glaa telephoto shot of what he Piatt considered trying to The birds are found in watyou would expect it,” he said. ciers of Attu are doomed if the suspected was a glacier. Then name the glacier for Kevin Bell, climate continues to warm. ers around Attu and scientists He then opened a copy of he went back to his work of the late captain of the Tiglax the USGS publication Glaciers have discovered their nests on “The amount of precipitausing tufted puffins as samwho loved Attu. Years before, of Alaska and looked for men- nearby Agattu. tion in the Aleutians is pretty plers of the tiny fish they catch tion of glaciers on Attu. He Bell told Piatt there were both “Working on Kittlitz’s high, but the temperatures are and feed their young. By block- found none, and felt the flush glaciers and Kittlitz’s murrelets often hovering right around murrelets, I’m always looking ing the entrance of puffin nest- of finding something neat. on and near the island. Then for glaciers,” he said. “I always freezing,” said glaciologist ing burrows with wire screen, suspected there have been gla- a colleague told Piatt about a “I felt that I had discovChris Larsen of the University Piatt causes returning adults government publication based of Alaska Fairbanks Geophysicciers there.” ered a new glacier,” Piatt said to drop their fish so he can see recently from his home in Port on work from the 1940s and It’s hard to see the glaciers al Institute. “So, if it snows, what they are.

‘50s. The geologist authors of Attu because the island is Townsend, Washington. it can snow a lot. Or, if (air Weeks later, far from Attu, mentioned more than 12 small temperatures are) just a little often cloudy and the 2,500The visible evidence of at Piatt blew up his photo on glaciers on Attu.

3,000-foot mountains are least one tiny glacier on Attu bit warmer, it will rain a lot.” computer and pinpointed its In the “Geology of the powdered with snow for much excited Piatt for other reaSince the late 1970s, the University of location on Google Earth. of the year. This year happened Near Islands, Alaska,” Olcott sons, too. He is an expert on Alaska Fairbanks’ Geophysical InstiHe found the body of ice was Gates, Howard Powers and Ray tute has provided this column free in to be a warm one; Piatt was Kittlitz’s murrelets, rare and stuck to the largest peak on the mysterious seabirds that nest in there visiting from the Alaska co-operation with the UAF research Wilcox wrote this about Attu community. Ned Rozell is a science island. ice, which they surmised after recently de-deglaciated moun- Maritime National Wildlife

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Old Crow Basin holds the clues to ice-age mysteries Zazula says people will be arguing about such details long after his bones have joined the fossil record.

Also up for debate is how and when fauna from the North American temperate regions to the south made their way up into the Old Crow Basin.

Why are so many creatures we know from southern excavations only found in the north near Old Crow, things like short-faced skunks and scimitar cats, Zazula wonders. “Based on the fossil record it seems like those dispersals are actually quite temporary.

They showed up here when it was

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Vuntut Gwitchin person 300 or 400 years ago, there’s no way that you would have even heard of an rant Zazula first stepped elephant. Seeing bones of masout of an aircraft and into sive woolly mammoth would have the Old Crow Basin in 1999 as been completely beyond their a 22-year-old graduate student from Edmonton. Today, the Yukon imagination, but they could relate to the shape of those bones, to paleontologist readily recalls the the animals that were familiar … awe and excitement his younger a femur is a femur … a tibia is a self felt standing above the Arctic tibia.” When the hunter-gatherers Circle in the isolated and fossilpaddled passed a giant femur (hiprich northeast corner of Berinbone) or tibia (lower leg bone) gia. There he was surrounded by protruding from the river bank, visions of the ice-age beasts that once literally teemed on the same they immediately recognized the fossil’s nature and function. These cold ground. people have been hunting and Zazula has been marvelling at carving up animals like caribou the Old Crow region ever since.

And that comes through in Ice Age for centuries and are experts at Old Crow, a booklet he wrote with mammal morphology.

“It’s just amazing that for colleague Duane Froese, a geologenerations these people were livgist of the University of Alberta, ing in essentially one of the most and which was released earlier amazing ice-age paleontological this fall by Yukon Tourism and sites in the world,” says Zazula.

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What conditions led to the The Old Crow Basin is located Yukon’s northernmost community in the northeast corner of what being situated in the midst of such was once the Beringia Refugia, a scientific treasure trove? For one a vast landscape stretching from eastern Asia to the Northwest Ter- thing, ice sheets hadn’t scoured ritories. The Vuntut Gwitchin have away ancient animal bones and teeth as they had further south, long known about their Pleistocene animal predecessors through nearer Carmacks and Whitehorse. fossil remains and through oral re- The conditions that made northcords. The Pleistocene lasted from eastern Yukon a refugia – that is, made it possible for animals about 2.5 million to 12,000 years to feed there – also ensured the ago. Remnants of woolly mammoths, 300-pound beavers, sloths, preservation of their more durable parts. camels and other creatures from Rivers flowing north through within that epoch richly informed the basin have been depositing silt later First Nation mythologies. over prehistoric animal remains The booklet opens with a continuously for hundred of quote from elder Charlie Peter Charlie Sr.: “First, I’ll tell you that thousands or millions of years.

Rivers are also great excavators. it is long, long, long ago. Lots of dangerous animals lived here long “Because there’s this constant erosion that’s happening on the bluffs ago.” The elder went on to recall by the river, anything that’s in the Traveller, or Ch’ataiiyuukaih, bluffs is going to fall out and be who managed to make the Far concentrated on the riverbanks,” North more bearable for humans says Zazula. by shrinking the most imposing The people of the region have beasts down to more manageable been using those rivers as highsizes.

Scattered along the river banks ways for centuries and would have are fossils of giant beaver cheek by noticed any newly exposed bones. jowl with the bones of their much Zazula himself participated in a collecting expedition along the smaller contemporaries. And, of Old Crow River in 2006. “We were course, there are a multitude of just absolutely blown away by the mammoth parts. “If you were a

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nice and warm, kind of like tourists; they came for a few thousand years and then they die off.”

Is there something we can learn about future climate-change scenarios from the challenges faced by mammals, including humans, in the distant past? A search for answers can begin with Ice Age Old Crow. E-mail heritagepublications@gov.yk.ca This column is co-ordinated by the Yukon Research Centre at Yukon College with major financial support from Environment Yukon and Yukon College. The articles are archived at http://www.yukoncollege.yk.ca/research/ publications/newsletters_articles

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“Getting to Old Crow is not easy.

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There’s a lot of logistical effort to Tuesday and Thursday – 2:00-6:00 pm get there. That’s true today as it Wednesday – 11:00-3:00 pm was 100 years ago.

Until November 20 “I can just imagine what was going through these people’s minds… the effort to get from Washington, D.C. to Seattle, then up the coast and through the Interior to get to Old Crow. It must have blown their minds compared with what they were used to in Washington, D.C.: showing up in BEst this little community.”

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by YUKON Revelations of the sexual abuse PUBLIC of boys at the school, first published LIBRARIES in the book in 1994, sparked the criminal conviction of three former teachers and a successful multi-million dollar class action suit against UCC. James’ second book, What Disturbs Our Blood: A Son’s Quest to Redeem the Past, is a multi-layered erton House writer James exploration of madness and high FitzGerald will present a reading achievement within his prominent at Dawson City Community Library Toronto medical family.

Completing a trilogy of creative on Monday, December 2 at 7:00 non-fiction, James is currently p.m. working on Dreaming Sally, a true FitzGerald is a Toronto-born journalist and author. His first book, story of first love, sudden death and synchronicity set in the summer of Old Boys: The Powerful Legacy of 1968.

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Photo by Mark Prins This is a free, drop in event and Whitehorse writer Claire Eamer will present a farewell open to the public. For more inforreading on December 5. mation please contact at Whitehorse Public Library at 667-5239. public and refreshments will be had stories published in the Young This program is presented by served. For more information, Adult, science fiction and fantasy Whitehorse Public Library in partplease call the Dawson City Library anthologies Tesseracts Fifteen: A Case nership with the Whitehorse Health at 993-5571. of Quite Curious Tales and Polaris: A Centre, Department of Health and Celebration of Polar Science.

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In addition, Eamer is a freelance Reading by Claire Eamer writer and editor of science-based In a presentation illustrated Fine Free! reports and publications, mainly for with pictures from her books, Yukon Public Libraries will waive Whitehorse children’s author Claire various levels of government and a fines in exchange for overdue library number of international agencies.

Eamer will talk about writing both materials returned from December Her talk is at Thursday, Decemnon-fiction and fiction for kids, and 1 to 24, 2013. Please let a staff member 5 at 7:30 p.m. at Whitehorse what both kinds of writing have in ber know when returning overdue Public Library. This free event will common. materials so the fines associated also serve as a farewell for Eamer, Eamer is a full-time profeswho is relocating to B.C. at the end with the materials can be waived. sional writer. She currently has six For more information please conpublished non-fiction books to her of this year. tact the library in your area. credit, five for children and one for This column is prepared by Yukon Story Time news adults. public libraries, Department of Community Services.

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Not every milestone deserves money from friends and family seems stingy to not want to pay for strangers’ divorces. Even the people who were married to them resent doing that.

But Miss Manners has noticed that what you describe is part of

by Judith a much larger problem. Many people have come to believe that Martin all milestones in their lives — including, but not limited to, birthdays, graduations, changing residences, engagements, weddings, births, divorces and DEAR MISS MANNERS: In funerals — entitle them to dethe past couple of years, I have mand sponsorship from others. been invited to three separate Relatives, friends, friends’ friends, fundraisers for women who were professional acquaintances going through divorces. The and the world at large may be purpose was to raise money to targeted. pay court costs during divorce It takes various forms: Bridal hearings and custody hearings. couples spreading the vulgar Only one of these women did I urban legend that guests must know personally; the others were spend on them the amount of friends of friends. money that it costs to entertain I may be wrong, but I feel it them; self-sufficient adults presis rude to solicit your friends for suring their pensioned parents money to pay for your divorce, to pay for multiple weddings; and even more rude to have birthday celebrants summoning them solicit their friends who are people for a restaurant celebrastrangers to you. tion for which they are expected These fundraisers were not to pay; expectant mothers giving anything someone would want to participate in unless they were their own showers or having their relatives do so; even the doing someone a favor. (For example, one was a silent auction bereaved asking for donations for funeral costs or orphans’ educafor shoddily made crafts that another friend had created; they tion.

This does not usually reprewere poorly done and nothing sent warm communities reaching you’d want in your home.)

Am I correct in my belief that out to help those in need. Rather, it is apt to be solvent people who divorce costs are a private affair and should not be shared among want more, reaching out on their friends, or am I just being stingy? own behalf. And the donors can by no means count on their genGENTLE READER: It hardly erosity being reciprocated.

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Furthermore, the demands keep rising. There is the invention of the engagement gift; the elevation of the shower present from amusing trivia to become equivalent to a wedding present; the graduation party that is no longer just for the graduate’s friends but for the parents’ circle; the infant birthday parties for adults; the workplace collection; and above all, the gift registry.

So Miss Manners is not surprised to hear about the divorce fundraiser. What surprises her is the willingness of people to be shamed into diverting their philanthropic resources from the needy to the greedy. She trusts that you simply declined the honor politely.

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Whitehorse’s Scoffin edged out of first World Curling Tour title ‘We’re definitely feeling pretty confident right now, especially going 7-0 into the final.’

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Skip Thomas Scoffin makes a shot against the Chang-Min Kim rink at the Original 16 WCT Bonspiel in Calgary, Alberta, on Sunday. Scoffin’s University of Alberta rink lost in the final.

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signs leading up to our goals here in the next couple of months. t all came down to a make-or“We’re happy with that perbreak shot. Unfortunately for formance for sure.”

Whitehorse’s Thomas Scoffin, he Team Scoffin, which includes came out on the wrong side of third Dylan Gousseau, second the equation.

Jaques Bellamy and lead Andrew The 19-year-old skip and his O’Dell, lost 3-2 to South Korea’s Team Scoffin rink lost on the last Chang-Min Kim in the final. shot in the final of the Original Scoffin scored points in the 16 World Curling Tour Bonspiel fourth and fifth end to take a at the Calgary Curling Club on slim 2-1 lead. Kim scored one Sunday. in the eighth to push to an extra Though the Scoffin team end where his team registered missed a chance at their first the decisive point.

World Curling Tour title, they Scoffin needed to make an are still pleased with their perin-turn shot to the four-foot formance. through a port, but the rock “We’re definitely feeling pretty didn’t curl enough. confident right now, especially “We controlled the whole going 7-0 into the final,” said game, really,” said Scoffin. “We played a good eighth end. He Scoffin. “It shows a lot of good News Reporter

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made a really nice shot for one point. It was close to being over right there actually.

“We played a pretty good extra end. I had a shot to win it and it didn’t quite react the way we thought it would.”

Sunday marked the second time Scoffin reached the final of WCT event. He was runner-up at the WCT Shamrock Shotgun Cashspiel in Edmonton last season.

Over the weekend Team Scoffin won seven consecutive games to reach the final, defeating Team Kim 6-4 during the roundrobin. Team Kim won the 2013 Karuizawa International Curling Championship in Japan last season and is vying to represent South Korea at the 2014 Sochi Olympics.

“They were both good games,” said Scoffin. “In the final the Korean team played really defensive, so there was a low score that kept things close.

“Both games I had a shot for the win. One game I made it and one game not quite.”

Team Scoffin is the junior team for the University of Alberta Golden Bears. Scoffin and Gosseau are in their second season with the team while Bellamy and O’Dell are new this season.

Last season the rink won Alberta’s Junior Provincial Championships and went on to win silver at the Canadian Junior Curling Championship.

Scoffin was named skip of the First Team All-Star with a 78-per-cent shot rate at the junior nationals. He is currently tied

for fourth on the all-time win list with 33 career wins at the junior nationals and still has two more years of eligibility, including this season.

Team Scoffin reached the semifinal of the WCT Avonair Cash Spiel with four wins and two losses early last month in Edmonton.

“It was our goal to qualify (for the playoff) and we achieved that with flying colours,” said Scoffin of Calgary. “And I’m really happy with how we kept pushing on through the quarter and through the semis and right to the final.

We played a good game and I know if we keep working hard we’ll win more finals than we lose in the future.”

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Yukon Roller Girls star jammer decides to retire Tom Patrick

be highlighted because we started working really cohesively,” said Dupuis-Rossi. “So the blockers he Fighting Mongoose is and the jammers started working hanging up her skates. really well together.”

Whitehorse’s Amil DupuisThe Hamilton, Ont. native, Rossi – a.k.a. the Fighting Monused the city’s nickname, The goose, a.k.a. the Jammer from the Hammer, in her handle “Jammer Hammer – has decided to retire from the Hammer.” from her position as jammer for She picked up “The Fighting the Yukon Roller Girls, she anMongoose” from an episode of nounced on Saturday. the Matt Groening cartoon series “I started getting more wary of Futurama. injuries, having said that I need to “I’d caution anyone to do that state that there aren’t any more or because for the last three years less than in other contact sports, I’ve been known as Goose,” said it was just that I became less and Dupuis-Rossi. less willing to risk injury for roller “I leave roller derby with a derby,” said Dupuis-Rossi. “There heavy heart,” she added. “I have was a time I was willing to take done some amazing things with that risk though, and I will take this team and I encourage anyone that risk for other activities that I who has an interest to try it. The do. My priorities changed. team, the sport and the commun“Also, I started becoming less ity are amazing. I’m glad that I challenged at this level. It was was a part of developing roller great as a coach to watch skaters derby in the North. I just feel as challenge themselves and grow – I though it’s time for me to move really found that rewarding, but I on.” wasn’t getting that as a skater and If the Yukon Roller Girls were I have that personality where I to have a bout scheduled for next need to be challenged as well.” week, they’d be hard up for jamDupuis-Rossi spent three years mers. The Fighting Mongoose was with the Whitehorse derby club the last jammer-specific player the and travelled with the YRG to team had.

Hawaii and Washington State.

Yukon jammer Jennifer “Lady She was Yukon’s star jammer C” Duncombe, suffered an ankle – a skater who laps the group of injury against the Juneau Rollerskaters to score points – over the girls during a 188-182 loss in last year.

February and hasn’t been involved Dupuis-Rossi was named MVP with the organization for a few jammer for Yukon and the tourmonths. nament when the Yukon Roller Jammer Paige “Shania Pain” Girls won the first annual United Parsons, who was a rookie last We Roll Roller Derby Tournament season and showed a lot of promin Fairbanks, Alaska, last May. ise in the position, is currently She was jammer and head attending school in Ottawa. coach in the YRG’s last bout, a “Essentially there are no 252-243 win over North Pole, specific jammers anymore,” said Alaska’s Babes in Toyland in Sep- Dupuis-Rossi. “There are people tember. who can jam, but I think I was the Jesse Winter/Yukon News Dupuis-Rossi credits a “collab- last specific jammer on the team.”

YRG’s Amil Dupuis-Rossi (aka The Fighting Mongoose) jumps over North Pole’s Amber orated effort” by her team for her The Yukon Roller Girls curSchlesinger during a match in Whitehorse on September 14.

Dupuis-Rossi announced success as jammer. rently don’t have any bouts lined on Saturday she has decided to retire from roller derby.

“I think my skills were able to up.

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• Be a Kwanlin Dun First Nation citizen; • Meet University or College entrance requirements; • Be enrolled in, or accepted for enrolment in a program of study at a recognized and accredited institution of learning.

They hope to return to Alaska’s United We Roll tournament to defend their title in May and might host a bout in March.

“We’re in discussions with about three different spots,” said YRG president Lindsay Agar. “I can’t tell you anything because nothing is set in stone.”

The roller girls are focusing on building their “fresh meat” rookie program. They are also looking

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“We’re focusing on our fresh meat program, so we’ve had girls training since our bout in September … getting ready to join our ‘seasoned meat’ in our January to May season,” said Agar.

The Yukon Roller Girls are holding their annual general meeting November 19, from 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m., at Christ the King Elementary School, one of the YRG’s practice locations. A new board of directors will be elected at the AGM. “We’ll, hopefully, be passing a new membership policy … for our volunteers who want to be a member of the Yukon Roller Girls that might not skate or might not want to ref or be an official but are still a big supporter,” said Agar. “They could be the amazing volunteers we have, or they could be announcers – we’re having different levels now that are more encompassing of our roller girl community.”

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Whitehorse Lynx pick up wins in Skagway Tom Patrick News Reporter

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he Whitehorse Lynx girls basketball team returned from Alaska with an even record over the weekend.

The Lynx won two and lost two at the Boyd Worley Elementary Basketball Tournament at Skagway City School. (No official final team placements were determined following the round-robin tournament.)

“I think we got better every game,” said Lynx head coach Christine Kirk. “It was such a good learning weekend for us. When you don’t get that many games throughout the year – it was some of the girls’ first basketball game ever – it was a huge step as far as our learning goes.”

The Whitehorse squad opened with a 31-14 loss to Haines, Alaska’s Glacier Bears on Friday. They then won 14-6 over the Skagway Panthers later on Friday.

“It was the lowest scoring game ever,” said Kirk.

Erin Schultz/Yukon News On Saturday the Whitehorse Lynx player Jayden Demchuk drives to the hoop at Lynx played two the Boyd Worley Elementary Basketball Tournament in Skagway Hoonah Braves teams from Alaska’s Hoonah last Friday. The Lynx won 14-6 over the Skagway Panthers.

School. a small tournament with the in its third season together, The Lynx dropped a game does not represent any specific Lynx Dec. 7-8.

27-17 against the Braves’ older school.

It’s a girls under-13 “We will put together a squad, made up mostly of team for players in Grade Grade 8 players.

5-8 with players from variThe Whitehorse team, with ous Whitehorse elementary just a couple Grade 8 playschools. ers, then squashed the Braves’ younger squad 34-6.

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little jamboree and we might get some young kids from (Yukon’s) Arctic Winter Games team, and an F.H. (Collins Secondary) Grade 8 team,” said Kirk.

“We’re also going back to Haines in January or February.

To end off the year we’ll probably do a bigger trip some-

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The Lynx played their first games as a team last February in Haines, Alaska. They won three of four exhibition games against girls teams from Haines Elementary School.

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Midget Mustangs held to one win in Abbotsford Tom Patrick News Reporter

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he KBL Environmental Mustangs notched their first win on the road over the weekend, but they aren’t exactly jumping for joy at this point.

The midget A Whitehorse rec team went 1-3 at the Abbotsford Midget Memorial Tournament, a Tier 3 competition in B.C. ending on Monday.

“A few games we played hard, we just have to work harder every game,” said Mustangs winger Chance Goodman. “Some days we have we take days off and don’t play as hard.”

Whitehorse’s win in Abbotsford was a 6-3 triumph over the Vancouver Spirit on Sunday.

Mustangs Jarrett Peterson, Kadin Kormandy, Malachi Lavallee, Ryan MacDonald, Sam Logan and Bohdi Elias all scored in the game.

Teammates Braeden PaunBurnett and Jack Blisner each had two assists in the win.

“We had good defensive coverage and we could score goals, which we really needed to do,” said Goodman.

The Mustangs opened with a 10-1 loss to the Winfield Bruins on Saturday. Levi Johnson scored Whitehorse’s lone goal in the game.

They then lost 6-1 to the Tier 2 Richmond Blues, who went on to win the tournament. Goodman found the back of the net to avoid the shutout.

In both losses the Mustangs found themselves down by a pair of goals within the first minute or two of play.

“You’ve got to be able to battle back from that kind of thing,” said Mustangs head coach Barry Blisner. “At the same time, it’s hard to not get deflated.”

“I thought their effort was

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Midget A Mustangs’ Ryan MacDonald lets loose a slapshot during a team practice at Takhini Arena on Wednesday.

The Mustangs went 1-3 at the Abbotsford Midget Memorial Tournament in B.C., over the weekend.

good, but there were too many lulls,” he added. “Being focused at the beginnings was a problem in a couple of games.”

Oddly, the Vancouver Spirit, who the Mustangs defeated, went on to beat the Winfield Bruins, who thumped Whitehorse at the start of the tournament.

“We know because of the age of our team, it’s going to be a tough year sometimes,” said Barry, who has just two returning players from last season’s team. “The team that beat us 10-1 – they’re a good

team, but we didn’t play especially well. We beat the team that beat them and that tells us we obviously didn’t show up for that game.”

The Mustangs finished with an 8-2 loss to the Vernon Vipers on Monday. Scoring for Whitehorse were Johnson and Elias.

A team can let in a lot of goals and still win games. A team can score few goals and still win games. But a team that allows a lot of goals and scores few, is in trouble.

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a combined four goals, so we obviously have to get on the board more,” said Barry.

“Our two big things right now are we have to learn to score more and at the same time take care of our own end a little better.

“You’re not going to win many games scoring one goal. You’re not going to win many more letting in seven or eight.”

The Tier 3 Midget Mustangs team took four straight losses at the Tier 2 International Seafair Icebreaker Rep Tournament in their first road trip of the season last month.

“There were a couple teams there that were better than teams in the Tier 2 tournament we were in last month,” said Barry of Abbotsford. “There were some good teams there definitely.”

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The Bantam A Mustangs went undefeated in Revelstoke Bantam Rep Tournament at the end of October.

The Peewee A Mustangs bounced back from an early loss to win four straight and take gold at International Seafair Icebreaker Rep Tournament in Richmond, B.C., earlier in the month.

Just this past weekend, the Atom Jr. Mustangs defeated the Mat-Su Eagles from Wasilla, Alaska, for gold at the Whitehorse International Atom Hockey Tournament.

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No digit can be repeated in a solution, so a 4 can only produce 1 and 3, never 2 and 2. Solution published tomorrow.

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To solve Kakuro, you must enter a number between 1 and 9 in the empty squares. The clues are the numbers in the white circles that give the sum of the solution numbers: above the line are across clues and below the line are down clues.

Thus, a clue of 3 will produce a solution of 2 and 1 and a 5 will produce 4 and 1, or 2 and 3, but, of course, which squares they go in will depend on the solution of a clue in the other direction.

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Dear Annie: I am hurt that my children and grandchildren do not include me when they have family get-togethers. They say they would have to clean their houses if I came, or they don’t know when I am available. They expect me to call when I want to see them. They swear they aren’t upset with me, but they never initiate a call. When I invite them to my house, the conversation revolves around recent outings and get-togethers at their homes to which I haven’t been invited.

I have taken my grandchildren on many vacations over the years, but they are teenagers now and too busy. They don’t want to go unless I include their friends, which I cannot afford. I recently decided not to call them and have had no contact in more than three weeks. Should I just go on without them in my life? — Hurt in Florida Dear Hurt: We agree that their excuses seem flimsy, but they do not need to include you in every get-together or outing. It’s perfectly OK for them to have these events with just their spouses and kids. You also know teenagers tend to be busy and that family obligations are not high on their list of priorities. We don’t believe anyone is being intentionally hurtful.

We hope you will continue to call, email and invite them over. You don’t need to take the kids on expensive vacations, but a special few hours with Grandma a couple of times a year — dinner at a nice restaurant or watching their favorite rock band together — would be lovely and help cement the bond. Think of ways to make the relationship warmer, instead of focusing on your hurt feelings and blaming them because you aren’t closer.

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867-821-4443 ARE YOU New to Whitehorse? Pick up a free Welcome to Whitehorse package at The Smith House, 3128-3rd Ave. Information on transit, recreation programs, waste collection & diversion. 668-8629 3-BDRM, 2-BATH HOUSE, Crestview, avail Dec. 1. Fully fenced yard, small dogs welcome. $1,650/mon + utils. DD&refs reqʼd.

334-5949 NEW 3-BDRM, 2-bath townhouse in PC, 1,800 sqft, 2 parking stalls, N/S N/P, avail immed, $1800/mon + utils. 334-3575 3-BDRM, 2-BATH DUPLEX in Crestview 6 appliances Large lot with mountain view No smoking, No pets,1 year lease Damage deposit required $1,700/mon + utilities 633-4106 HAINES, ASLASKA! Swan View Rental Cabins Right on the lake!

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

(907)766-3576 BACHELOR APT downtown, fully furnished, no pets, $900/mon. incl. utils, avail Dec. 1.

668-5558 1-BDRM NEW apt in Riverdale, avail immed, N/S, N/P, no parties, includes heat, hot water, lights, responsible tenant, $1,200/mon.

668-5558 MARSH LAKE, avail immed, 3-bdrm 2-bath log housem private acre, newly renoʼd, w/d, N/S, fridge, stove, & microwave, $1,200.00/mon + elec & dd. (250) 864-4499 Available Now Newly renovated OFFICE SPACE & RETAIL SPACE Close to Library & City Hall A short walk to Main Street Phone 633-6396 INTERESTED IN living on an acreage not far from town in your own mobile unit or cabin on skids? Elec avail, N/S, responsible person, price negotiable. 333-0744

BRIGHT 1-BDRM suite, Porter Creek. Full bath, in suite laundry, attached greenhouse, on bus route, available immed, $840/mon. + utils, N/S only. Suites@auroramusic.ca or 604-595-4895 RENDEZVOUS PLAZA on Lewes Blvd, Riverdale Lots of parking 1,100 sq ft (previously flower shop, studio) 7,000 sq ft (previously Frazerʼs) Call 667-7370 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 NEWER 1,200 sq ft SHOP/STUDIO/OFFICE in Marwell area lots of natural light, in-slab heat with Viessman boiler, bathroom and small kitchen, $1,500/mon.

See kijiji AD ID 510028138 or call 668-3408 COMMERCIAL UNIT, located on main floor, 3151A 3rd Ave, 850 sqft, bathroom & kitchen facility, incls heat. Unit can be leased for $1,491/mon + utils. Month to month rent.

667-2090 CABIN, 2 bdrm. incl. elec., phone, Internet, no water, super insulated, easy to heat, N/S, N/P. Refs. & dd required. $800/mon.

660-5545 FOX LAKE Great, cozy cabin for your next getaway Soak in the wonderful scenery and lose yourself in serenity Completely furnished and equipped Located 40 minutes from Whitehorse Beautiful trails at your door for hiking, skiing, bicycling Good lake for fishing Accommodates 2-6 people Call for rate, 633-2156 RENT ONE of our cozy cabins with sauna for a weekend getaway Relax and enjoy the winter wonderland on the S. Canol Road 332- 3824 or info@breathofwilderness.com.

1-BDRM BRIGHT, clean basement suite PC, responsible tenants, N/S, N/P, no parties, avail immed, $950/mon. 633-2046 2-BDRM, BRIGHT, clean basement suite PC, N/S, N/P, no partying, responsible tenants, avail immed. $1,050/mon. 633-2046 ROOM FOR rent, N/S, N/P, avail. Dec. 1. $750/mon. all incl. 393-2275 ROOM IN Riverdale, $750/mon. all inclusive.

Annette, 333-0490 after 6pm.

1-BDRM EXECUTIVE condo d/t, nicely furnished, washer and dryer, balcony. N/S, N/P. Refs reqʼd. $1,600/mon + utilities. Call 633-4874 LOG CABIN, Army Beach, Marsh Lake, furnished, wood stove, elec. & water incl., avail.

Nov. 1, $800/mon. 660-5020 1-BDRM SPLIT level duplex in DT area, sep ent, w/d, N/S, no pets, $1,100/mon incl. utils.

336-0112 2-BDRM HOUSE in PC, full bsmt, N/S, no parties, pet considered, $1,600/mon, utils incl. 336-0112 2-BDRM HOUSE, 406 Ogilvie with w/d, oil heat incl, $1,665/mon, avail Nov. 1. Lee at 393-2200 5 BDRM, 2-3/4 bth, garage, fenced yard. $1,800/mon, N/S, no parties, 1 pet ok.

633-4357 1-BDRM BSMT suite Copper Ridge, 5 appliances, no pets, avail immed. $1,100 + dd, utils incl. 667-6828

2-BDRM 1 bath condo Main St. w appliances on greenbelt, avail Nov. 1, $1,575.00/mon + utils, dd & refs reqʼd. 667-7462, email nsevergreenoffice@gmail.com 2-3 BDRM upper level house Riverdale, bright & clean, sundeck, fireplace, carport, avail immed. $1,650/mon heat incl. 334-5448 1-BDRM GROUND level suite Riverdale, bright & clean, sep ent, w/d, back yard, avail immed. $1,000/mon, heat incl. 334-5448 BSMT SUITE, Takhini, shared kitchen/ laundry, walk to Yukon College, Games Centre and downtown. $750/ mon utils + internet.

Vegetarian female preferred. Avail Dec. 1.

335-4070 ROOM D/T, shared bath, $800/mon.

334-1759 1 BDRM suite, Valleyview, fully furnished incl. dishe, linens & cable. $1,350/mon.

633-4778.

3-BDRM. IN Takhini, 2,000 sq ft w. garage, N/S, N/P, avail Dec. 1. $1,700/mon.

334-6510 1-BDRM APT PC, clean, sep ent, coin laundry, near bus station, N/P, N/S, $900 + dd + utils. 334-9402 PORTER CREEK - 1 bdrm bsmnt suite, n/pets, N/S, close to bus stop, $1,000/mon. incl. heat & light. 456-7729 2-BDRM BASEMENT suite, Granger, newly renoʼd, furnished, sep. ent, kitchen, laundry, refs, & dd reqʼd, 334-9788, $1,700/mon incl. utils. 334-9788 3-BDRM 2-BATH home in Crestview with attached garage Next to park and rink No Smoking, no pets Available Dec. 1st $1,700/mon including electricity Call 334-9773 2-BDRM TRAILER, spacious, $1,300/mon & heat & elec. 334-8381 TESLIN LAKE, 4-bdrm house, fully furnished incl. linens, 2 hrs south of Whitehorse, $500/ week all inclusive or $1,150/ mon longer term + utils. 633-4778 LARGE, FURNISHED, corner office for rent, main floor. 1 block from Main Street. $875/mon. Sascha, 633-6463

Office Space fOr LeaSe Above Starbuck’s on Main St. Nice clean, professional building, good natural light. 544 sq.ft. (can be leased as one office or can be split into two smaller spaces).

Competitive lease rates offered.

3-BDRM TRAILER in Lobird, no dogs, avail immed. $1,350/mon + elec. 334-7872 BACHELOR SUITE DT, main floor, furnished, clean & quiet, Includes utilities, cable, wifi, linen, dishes, etc, N/P, no parties, smoking outside only. Refs & dd reqʼd. $800/mon. 456-4338 FURNISHED MASTER bedroom Northland, w sep entrance, bathroom, no shower, responsible tenant, NS/NP/ND, avail Dec, $400 + dd all-inclusive. 456-7833 LARGE ROOM in PC, private ent, recent reno, shared accom, avail immed, heat & utils incl, $750/mon + dd. 668-7213 BACHELOR SUITE, PC, sep entrance, full bath, kitchen/dining area, access to sauna, N/S, N/P, $900/mon + dd, utils incl.

335-4075 1-BDRM SUITE, Riverdale, sep ent, own laundry, dishwasher, stove, fridge. N/S, no parties, pets will be considered, $1,150/mon. incl utils. Email nona_ilieva@yahoo.com, leave name & ph no.

LARGE SEMI-BACHELOR, c/w fireplace, wifi, satellite TV, large treed acreage in Mary Lake, pets ok. $950/mon incl utils.

780-915-2940 anytime, or 335-3619 after 6pm.

3-BDRM 2-BATH Riverdale suite, dishwasher, shared laundry, garage, workshop, avail Dec 1, N/S, refs, $1,500/mon + utils, 604-614-4418, www.riverdalerental.com 3-BDRM DUPLEX, CR, 2 sep furnished spaces incl bdrm, bath, L/R, TV, internet, linen, dishes, util, shared kitchen/laundry, $1,100/mon upper, $900/mon lower, refs&dd, N/S N/P no parties, avail: Dec-Jun, 393-2700 FURNISHED, CLEAN room in large home in PC, incl TV, cable, internet, phone, utilis, w/d, parking, N/P. $650/mon. 332-7054 or 667-7733

2-BDRM NEW apt, Riverdale, incl heat, elec & hot water, big balcony, N/S, N/P, no parties, responsible tenant, avail immed. $1,500/mon. 668-5558 CONDO AVAIL. Jan 1st, Riverdale (potentially earlier) 1.5 bath, 3 bdrms, Renovated kitchen, half-bath and living room. Fenced yard, shed, parking, dog friendly. $1450/mth includes condo fees/water L/T, N/S. 334-1614 WOLF CREEK - available now, bright, clean 2-bdrm basement suite, 5 appliances, large fenced yard. No smoking, no parties, one dog OK. $1100/mon + utilities. References, security dep. req. 393-3728 4 BEDROOM single family house downtown (406 Ogilvie) with washer and dryer now available. $1,665 per month. 393-2200 4 BEDROOM log cabin on 16 acres available December 1.Two bathrooms, septic, well, woodstove, electric furnace, all appliances. Utilities not included. Pets welcome. $1,700 per month.l Chris @ 633-3941 40X70 SHOP with 14 Ft Door, reinforced concrete floor, 15 minutes from downtown, available immediately, $1500 a month.

633-5230 FURNISHED ROOM, in new condo near Yukon College. Female student preferred.

LG Closet, LG bathroom, free util and wi-fi.

Kitchen and lounge areas. $700/month.

Must love pets. 332-8887. Avail Nov 15.

3-BDRM HOUSE in Riverdale, fully renovated, new kitchen, N/P, N/S, refs&dd reqʼd, avail Dec 1st, $1,600 + utils. 456-4120 4-BDRM 2-BATH house, d/t, save gas money, $990/mon + elec, Lee at 393-2200 1 BDRM, 1 bath, beautiful fully furnished above ground suite, off-street parking w plug-in, N/P, N/S, $1,300/mon incl heat, hydro, internet, laundry. 335-2288 CABIN IN Judas Creek (Marsh Lake), lake view, sunny hill, $450+. 660-4813

for rent for rent Approx. 900 sq ft

of high-end office space with fantastic views available immediately.

Elevator accessible, excellent soundproofing, large windows, lots of natural light.

Please call Kevin at 334-6575 for more information.

Approx. 1650 sq ft

of high-end office space available immediately.

Independent HVAC system, elevator accessible, excellent soundproofing, move-in ready.

Please call Kevin at 334-6575 for more information.

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2 - Second Floor units available.

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Call 334-5553

Beautifully finished office space is available in the Taku Building at 309 Main Street.

This historic building is the first L.E.E.D. certified green building in Yukon. It features state of the art heat and ventilation, LAN rooms, elevator, bike storage, shower, accessibility and more.

Call 867-333-0144

1140 sq.ft.

Corner of 4th & Olgilvie

4198 Fourth Avenue

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Downtown Vacation Suites 2 & 3 bedroom executive class furnished suites with well equipped kitchens, Cable TV, internet & utilities included Perfect for relocation, corporate, and for short or extended stay in mind Offering a less expensive alternative to hotel rooms A home away from home 667-2255 or www.midnightsunvr.com

CABIN 20 min. n. of city, wood heat, propane cookstove, lights, generator power, $600/mon. 333-5174

1-BDRM SUITE d/t, sep entrance, laundry & heat incl, N/S, N/P, avail Dec. 15, $1,050/mon. 334-6510

2-BDRM + den w/attached garage, upper level of triplex, energy efficient, bright, beautiful kitchen, shared laundry, N/S, N/P, $1,350/mon + utils, $1,350 dd. 333-0866.

2-BDRM APT located 5 mins from Main St. N/P, N/S, refs+dd reqʼd, avail Dec 1st. $1,200/mon + elec. 456-4120

HOUSE IN country, 2 bdrm plus den, large deck with beautiful views, avail immed, refs reqʼ. 633-4496

2-BDRM HOUSE d/t, laundry, plug-in parking, new wood floors, N/S, pets ok, 1-yr lease reqʼd, $1,200/month + utilities, Lisa at whsehouse@hotmail.com ROOM IN CR, newly renoʼd, avail Dec. 1, $700/mon + $300 dd, all utils incl. 334-3869

2-BDRM, 1 bath unfurnished condo, Hillcrest, laundry in building, quiet, warm, clean, 1 car parking, refs+dd reqʼd, N/S, N/P, no parties, $1,400/mon. 633-3453 3-BDRM 2-BATH upper level house, CR, bright & clean, shared laundry, N/S, no parties, $1,700/mon. 335-6410 lv msg, or carolinetran22@hotmail.com

ROOM IN PC, bdrm, L/R, 46” TV, satellite, internet, avail immed, $575/mon. 334-4113 CHARMING 3-BDRM country residential suite, W/D, wood stove, well, pet friendly, 35 min from Whitehorse, $1,110/mon incl utils.

334-3053 or 334-8271 2-BDRM 1,300 sq ft duplex in Riverdale, available Dec 1, N/S, no pets, $1,575.00/mon. For info call 334-3878 1-BDRM HOUSE, avail Dec. 15, 40 min south of Whitehorse, refs reqʼd, $800/mon.

821-3739

Friday, November 15, 2013 3-BDRM, 1.5 bath house in PC, close to schools & bus stop, N/S, no parties, small dog considered, call for more info 633-4626

Wanted to Rent HOUSESITTER AVAILABLE Mature, responsible person Call Suat at 668-6871 LONG-TERM HOUSESITTER available for winter months, gd w/pets & plants. No criminal record, 30 yr. Yukon resident. 335-0009 QUIET, RESPONSIBLE woman w. foster dog looking for place to live in or near Whitehorse, under $750 all-inclusive. 334-2208

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Wage: $18.95 / hr Full time position offering a min. of 35 hrs / week Job Location: Whitehorse, Yukon Skills and certification requirements: • Must speak and write in English • ACMG Hiking certification or equivalent • Valid wilderness First Aid (70 to 80 hrs)

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Help Wanted

YM Tours Ltd.

Box 31112 Whitehorse, Yukon, Y1A5P7 job1@yamnuskaguides.com

YUKON MAN Barbershop requires one barber/hair stylist. For more info please call 336-0950.

E M P LOYM E NT O P P O RTU N IT Y

Customer Service Representative Job ID: 1300015624

Whether you’re looking for an opportunity to start your career in financial services or want a role you can grow in for the long-term, join BMO Bank of Montreal as a Customer Service Representative and turn your potential into performance.

As part of a team of financial professionals, you will consistently deliver great customer experiences within a branch environment. You will fulfill the transactional needs of personal and commercial customers, proactively identifying and discussing customer needs and if required referring to an appropriate team member or fulfilling directly where appropriate.

You will ensure compliance and adherence to Bank policies and procedure, as well as, assist with branch administration and operations through completion of assigned tasks to ensure an effectively and efficiently operating branch.

Qualifications • Passion for helping customers • Sales and service oriented with a demonstrated ability to proactively listen, identify sales opportunities and solve problems • Strong communication skills • Solid multitasking skills • Team player • Demonstrated flexibility to adapt to a constantly changing environment Education and Accreditation • Completed high school education, or equivalent work experience Schedule: 15 hours per week.

Must be fully flexible for any days & shifts from Monday to Friday.

BMO Financial Group is committed to an inclusive, equitable and accessible workplace. By embracing diversity, we gain strength through our people and our perspectives. We advise only those who qualify for an interview will be contacted.

Apply at bmo.com/careers

Bank of Montreal

Champagne and Aishihik First Nations

JOB OPPORTUNITY – October 30, 2013

Sr. Advisor to Chief & Council Term Full Time Salary: $70,821.44 - $82,851.07 Location: Haines Junction Under the direction of the Chief, this position provides a wide range of administrative support and analytical assistance to the Chief that includes strategic thinking on new directions for the organization; project design and project analysis including financial review. As well this position will assist in fostering good public relations with citizens, staff and other governments CAFN’s Human Resources Policy will apply. For complete job description please check the CAFN website at http://www.cafn.ca/jobs.html or contact below.

Application deadline: 4:30 p.m. on November 21, 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

Envirolube Full-time Positions Available

• Women welcome to apply • Must be energetic and able to work in fast paced environment • Work efficiently and unsupervised • Competitive wages • Must have a valid driver’s licence • Experience welcome, but not necessary

Please drop resume off to Leroy at 411 ogilvie Street RAYMOND BROS TRUCKING LTD is accepting resumes for experienced Class 1 drivers for seasonal camp work in fort Nelson.

Drivers must have references & experience with End Dump, Winch Truck & Low-Bedding Equipment.

H2S, 1st aid & GODI required Email: sraymond@northwestel.net

RAYMOND BROS TRUCKING LTD Accepting resumes for WATER TRUCK OPERATORS Fort Nelson oil patch $27-$30/hr + overtime Seasonal camp work Class 1 or 3 First Aid, H2S & GODI required sraymond@northwestel.net

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 FURNACE BURNER, fully reconditioned, new motor, transformer & pump, $200.

633-3053 LADYʼS GOLD & diamond ring, 10K, claw set brilliant cut diamond, set on 5.5 grm naural gold nuggets, trademark Jacoby Bros, .72 cut clarity, VV52, colour J. $4,000. 335-8479 OSBORNE WOOD-BURNING fireplace insert in gd cond, $300 obo. 633-6238 aft 6pm

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Yukon News

Friday, November 15, 2013

Ta’an Kwäch’än Council

Marsh Lake

117 Industrial Road Whitehorse, Yukon Y1A 2T8 Telephone: 867.668.3613 Facsimile: 867.667.4295

Solid Waste Society Invites applications for the position of:

Waste Facility Manager This position is available immediately and requires a mature individual who has experience working in conjunction with a Board of Directors, works well with minimal supervision, and has experience supervising staff.

The Board expects the Manager to work variable hours including occasional weekends, an estimated 15 hours a week. Safety of staff and the public is paramount followed closely by maintaining the facility at an acceptable level of organization and efficiency. Wage $28-$30/hour depending on experience.

A complete job description is available by calling Jean Kapala at 660-5101.

Please submit applications by email: jkapala@northwestel.net

by December 2nd, 2013.

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

Southern Tutchone Language Instructor The Lands, Resources and Heritage department is seeking the services of a Southern Tutchone language instructor teaching the Ta’an dialect. This assignment is a continuation of the Fall and Winter language classes.

Instructions are held on Mondays at the Health and Education Centre, 117 Industrial Road from 5:00 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. beginning December 2nd.

Closing date: November 22, 2013 Please submit a cover letter and resume to: Human Resources Department Ta’an Kwäch’än Council. 117 Industrial Road Whitehorse, YT Y1A 2T8 Fax: 867-667-4295 Email: Pkimbley@taan.ca

NEW 2013 GE 50 gallon liquid propane water heater, 36,000 BTUs, recovers @ 87 GPM, 6 yr warranty, $450 firm. 333-0744 ELECTRIC SNOWTHROWER, 20” wide, used twice, works well. $150. 633-4215

HISTORY IS IN THE MAKING, IT IS TIME TO TAKE PART!

SNOWBLOWER, OLDER Sears model, 24” wide. $200 obo. 633-4215 KENMORE CANNISTER vacuum cleaner, 12.0 amps, c/w accessories, $50. 633-6404 150-GAL TIDY Tank, $300. 633-4246, lv. msg.

SET OF cutting torches, old welder w. box of accessories, $200 obo. 336-4025 36" SENTINEL wood stove chimney pipe for 6" stovepipe, for 10" opening, one length, like new, original box. 668-3441 PROPANE BOTTLE 100+-, full revalve Oct/13, $150 firm. 333-1010 PANASONIC LUMIX DMC G3 touch screen, body + kit Lens (14-45mm), telescopic Lens (45-200mm), all attachment cables, sun hoods, extra battery, camera bag, lens filters, $800 obo. 633-5082 3 QUALITY chandelier light fixtures, all 3 for $75, or $35 each for the 2 large ones, $20 for the smaller one. 456-7297 INSULATED OVERHEAD garage door, 12' w x 16' h with all hardware, $500. 667-4910 DUTCHWEST WOODSTOVE, model 2478, glass front, cast iron, exc condit, incl 6” telescoping pipe, heats 800-1600 sq ft, approved for city use. $950 firm. 667-6116.

Rio Tinto Alcan is the aluminum product group of Rio Tinto, headquartered in Montreal, Canada. Building on more than a century of experience and expertise, Rio Tinto Alcan is the global leader in the aluminum industry. Rio Tinto Alcan is a global supplier of high-quality bauxite, alumina and primary aluminum. Its AP smelting technology is the industry benchmark and its enviable hydroelectric power position delivers significant competitive advantages in today’s carbon-constrained world.

As part of Rio Tinto Alcan Primary Metal North America, the company’s BC Operation is based in Kitimat, British Columbia and is one of the largest industrial complexes in the province. Employing about 1200 people and contributing more than $290 million annually to the provincial economy, the Kitimat-based aluminum operation is in the midst of growth.

We are looking for Operations Supervisors to join the team at Rio Tinto Alcan in Kitimat, B.C. The candidates of choice will be part of a strong team that work together to meet business objectives while promoting continuous improvement and leading in health, safety and environmental (HSE) issues.

Operations Supervisor - Position ID HR0017168

KING SIZE mattress with homemade wooden bed frame, good condit, no stains. $200 for mattress and frame, $100 for mattress only. 333-0503

Under the direction of the Coordinator/Manager the Supervisors are responsible to: • Manage production teams • Meet business objectives • Control operating parameters and budgets • Ensure quality standards are met • Coach teams – motivate employees to make positive contributions • Promote and lead in health and safety

OLD TEACHER'S DESK, 1960ʼs style, $50.

334-1732

To succeed in this challenging role, you must possess:

ORGANIC FIBER asphalt shingles, Aristocrat 25 (red in color), enough for 450 sq ft. $150. 667-4910

NORTH FACE down jackets, menʼs small, exc condit, 1 black, 1 olive green, $100 ea.

668-4268 MOUNTAIN HARDWARE Ghost -40 DryLoft down sleeping bag, used 2 nights, like new, $650, 668-4634 HD GLASS entrance door, no cracks.

667-7144 MCCLARY JUBILEE wood cookstove. $750. 668-6613, Kim DAKOTA SIZE 8 composite toe extreme cold, oil resistant, winter boots, barely used, over $200 new, asking $150 obo. 334-5190

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5 + years of supervisory experience 5+ years of manufacturing experience (unionized environment ) Proven ability to lead in health and safety An understanding of lean tools Strong computer /software aptitude

The rewards and benefits of working for Rio Tinto Alcan are market benchmarked and very competitive, including an attractive remuneration package, regular salary reviews, employee share plan, competitive pension plan, a self-education assistance policy, and comprehensive health & disability programs.

PILOT CAR sign & full-size p/u box mount, complete. $1,000 obo. 633-4246 lv. msg.

To apply, please submit an on-line resume directly at our website at jobs.riotinto.ca

REXON 10” commercial table saw w. extension, has RM-425 115/230 volt single phase motor, exc condit, $500 obo. 667-7222

Resumes must be received by Friday, 29 November 2013.

STEEL I-BEAM, 5”x14”x29ʼ w. 2 pieces steel angle iron approx 12ʼ long ea, best offer.

667-7222 MUSIC BOXES, 15 or so, call to view.

633-3398 UNOPENED M O D E L car/truck kits, craft/hobby supplies, lace, ribbon, etc.

667-7144 GOPRO HERO HD camera + accessories $100 firm, text or call 334-1574 SELLING BRYCE Courtenay Novels: 'Jessica' and 'The Potato Factory' $10 for both.

Call 334-1013 'OSTER' BLENDER/FOOD Processor, $45; in excellent condition/hardly used; 1000W, reversing 6 point blade, pre-programmed settings, easy to clean. Call 334-1013.

Rio Tinto Alcan would like to thank all applicants; however only those short-listed will be contacted.

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Yukon News 1 ROLL Velux Skylight Underlay; 12"x21' for $10 call 334-1013

Friday, November 15, 2013 23 TRUSSES, 23ʼ6” wall span w. 2ʼ overhang, 5:1 pitch, $1,000 obo. 332-3293

EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES

KWANLIN DUN

Kwanlin Dun Justice Department has been successful in accessing federal funding to support a five person Wellness Team to be working in mental health and addictions related prevention, treatment and aftercare. The new programs and services will augment those in place within KDFN and support service to all Yukon First Nations in culturally based prevention and land-based healing. Based in Whitehorse, the team will also work with four other First Nations partners in the development and delivery of community, land and culture based aftercare programs.

All opportunities are full time starting December 2013 to March 31, 2016 and include benefits.

COORDINATOR Salary Level 8 $79,820 - $103,765 CULTURAL COUNSELLOR Salary Level 6 $66,107 - $79,328

CLINICAL COUNSELLOR Level 6 $66,107 - $79,328 AFTER CARE OUTREACH WORKERS 2 positions - Level 5 $59,344 – $71,213 Closing date November 22, 2013 at 4:30 p.m.

To view our employment opportunities visit our website www.kwanlindun.com/employment

www.yukoncollege.yk.ca

Employment Opportunity

BEAUTIFUL LADIESʼ Russian fox fur coat, pd $1,200 used, sz L, asking $600 obo.

668-7157 DAVID WINTERS cottages, certificates but no boxes. 668-7157

Operations Manager Ruby Range Adventure, one of Yukon’s leading outdoor adventure companies, is looking for an exceptional operations manager for the seasonal operation.

Office of the Registrar Ayamdigut (Whitehorse) Campus Permanent Positions Salary: $36.40 to $43.33 per hour 1 position based on 75 hours bi-weekly 2nd position (1/2 time based on 37.5 hours bi-weekly) Competition #: 13.147 Initial Review Date: November 15, 2013 Yukon College is seeking two instructors to join the Learning Assistance Centre (LAC) team. The Learning Assistance Centre is open year-around and facilitates, provides, and coordinates reasonable accommodations and educational support services to applicants, potential applicants and students, with disabilities and other academic challenges.

As one of the LAC team members you will be responsible for teaching and preparing individualized lessons and other instructional materials to meet the needs of students with disabilities particularly in the areas of study skills, learning strategies and adaptive technology.

The ideal applicant will have an undergraduate degree (Masters preferred) in a related field such as Psychology, Counselling or Education, combined with direct experience in a learning assistance environment. Candidates must demonstrate experience working with learning strategies, adaptive technology, while applying principles of Universal Design for Learning and providing services for students with disabilities.

Consideration may be given to those with an appropriate combination of education and substantial experience as noted above.

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

LIMITED EDITION RCMP 100th anniversary Yukon Territory medallion, numbered, $30.

456-4507 LARGE BOX of Christmas dishes, $10.00, 668-5882

The job of the operations manager entails the management of overall operation of the company. You need to be enthusiastic with great people skills, you likewise perform related tasks and duties when the situation warrants it. You need to be very detailed oriented and extremely responsible to run the day to day and multiday trip operations. With a range of responsibilities at your feet, you need to be a great all-rounder and an expert multi-tasker.

TWIN CAPTAIN'S bed in white melamine with 3 drawers and headboard with shelves, mattress included, $100. 633-6494

DUTIES AND SPECIFICATIONS • Plans and heads the operations of the company.

• Planning, scheduling, improving, monitoring operations.

• Self-motivated and resourceful, with the proven ability to multi-task and operate successfull under tight deadlines and time pressures.

• Interviewing, hiring of tour guides, tour escorts, drivers.

• Training, coaching of tour guides, staff and personnel.

• Responsible for the supervision of up to 25 operational staff members at any given time.

• Developing, implementing, enforcing and evaluating policies and procedures.

• Coordinating duties with the office- and base/fleet manager.

• Reporting to senior management.

• Good interpersonal and teamwork skills.

NUMEROUS LEGGO sets with boxes & instructions, prices vary. 393-3638

EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATIONS & EXPERIENCE • 2-3 years of supervisory experience in operation.

• 5 years experience in a managerial position.

• Clean driving record and class 4 drivers license.

• First Aid Certificate & CPR • Spoken and written fluently in English.

• Fluency in German, French and Spanish would be an added advantage.

This position is seasonal with the possibility for year-round employment depending on qualification and performance.

Application deadline: December 5th, 2013 If you have the experience, drive and interest to qualify for this opportunity please email your resume, cover-letter and references to jobs@rubyrange.com.

For full job description visit www.rubyrange.com/operations-manager

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.

Instructors (1.5) Learning Assistance Centre

TRUE-ADVENTURE LOVERS! 4 books by Joe Simpson: 'Touching the Void', 'This Game of Ghosts', 'The Beckoning Silence', 'Dark Shadows Falling'. $20 for the bunch.

Call 334-1013

DELTA DRILL press, floor model, 16 1/2”, $400, 10-ton Hyd body kit, brand new, $350.

633-4643

NEW/USED STORE shelving (like in Cdn. Tire store), good for shop, garage or store, excellent prices, 333-0717 APPROX 400 board feet of 1x6 cedar boards in 2ʼ + 4ʼ lengths, $700. 633-4018 WHITE CHINA trimmed in gold, setting for 8, dinner plates, side plates, cups/saucers, serving platter, serving bowl, sugar/creamer, salt/pepper, $150. 456-4434 RSF WOOD stove, brass framed door, c/w steel floor mat, back shield & chimney pipe, ideal for cottage/camp use. $250. 667-6951 eves HOOKED ON Phonics, Your Reading Power, $100, Harley boots, ladiesʼ size 10, never worn, $200.

YELLOW ROSE china dish set, 8 place setting incl dinner plate, side plate, bowl, cup & saucer, no chips or cracks, 1 saucer has some crazing. $115. 821-6011

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

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.

Safety and Security Officer(s) Student Infrastructure Support Casual Positions - various shifts Salary: $22.99 per hour Competition No.: 13.150 Initial Review Date: November 25, 2013

Looking for casual part-time work in Safety and Security?

We are looking for individuals with experience and or training in a safety and security setting.

Whether you’re just starting out, returning to the workforce or planning a second career, Student Infrastructure Support is a place that encourages ideas and offers student-focused work. You will work with a diverse team to provide safety and security services for students, staff, residents, and visitors.

Related training/education will be considered an asset.

Strong customer service experience and communication skills are essential along with a demonstrated ability to work respectfully with a diverse post-secondary student population. A criminal record check will be required.

If you are interested in casual work in this field, 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 Resource Services, Box 2799, 500 College Drive, Whitehorse, Yukon, Y1A 5K4 Fax: 867-668-8896 Email: hr@yukoncollege.yk.ca

SEARS BEST refrigerator, $200. 633-2580 eves LAUNDRY PAIR. Regular, top loading washer and propane dryer. Both work fine.

Kenmore brand. $100. Call 393-2929 NATURAL GAS cooktop. 4 burner 30", Ge Profile Black, exc condit, $150. 335-8846 DISHWASHER, FRIGIDAIRE Ultra Quiet 2, good working order, $95. 633-3705 HOT POINT XL heavy duty clothes dryer, good working order, $95. 633-3705 OREK XL AIRPURIFIER $50; captures 99.97% of dust, allergens, smoke, pet dander and pollen particles; in great working condition & very quiet (Professional Series), comes with filters. Call 334-1013

TVs & Stereos Paying cash for good quality modern electronics.

G&R Pawnbrokers 1612-D Centennial St. 393-2274 BUY • SELL • LOANS SONY KV-32XBR55 32" television in good overall condition. One of the RCA video inputs (out of three) does not function. $50.

633-3266.

SANYO TV 21”, $40, Sharpe TV 21”, $40, no remote, both for $70. 336-1406 or 668-6446 after 4pm.

Computers & Accessories 19” FLAT screen Samsung monitor, 930b LCD, $75, 1 new keyboard $20, 1 used keyboard, $15, 1 set speakers $15 obo.

667-7222 PS2 WITH games & controllers, $50, Wii Fit system w. balance board, controllers & games, $125. 633-4707

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 2 ACCORDIONS: 2 row Hohner, 3 row Hohner. Both in exc cond. 867-994-2233 3/4 SIZE violin with case, bow, and chin rest. $250.00. 335-9230 to view

Musical Instruments BILL NASH Stratocaster relic with tremelo bar, $1,800, Bill Nash T52 Telecaster, relic finish, pastel red, $1,800, ash body w maple neck on both, c/w hard case, 335-9230 LEFT-HAND VALENCIA semi-acoustic, Groove Factory amp, soft case, $450.

333-9607

Firewood FIREWOOD FOR SALE 20-cord orders Big or small tree length Logging truck loads $150/cord Delivered to Whitehorse Call Clayton: 335-0894 HURLBURT ENTERPRISES $250 per cord We have wood. You-cut available.

Discount for larger quantities.

PROMPT Scheduled Delivery Visa, M/C, Check, Cash Dev Hurlburt 335-5192 • 335-5193 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

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

DIMOK TIMBER 6 cord or 22 cord loads of firewood logs.

Call 634-2311 DONʼS FIREWOOD 20 Cord Always stock piled for quick deliveries to -40° C. Social Services & Kwanlin Dun 393-4397 WOOD FOR sale. Call 334-8999.

FIREWOOD FOR SALE Donʼt delay - Get your wood today $250/16” cord $220/4ʼ cord $200/8ʼ cord Large dry timber from Haines Junction Delivered 336-2013 1ST QUALITY heating wood Season-dried over 3-yrs. to be picked up on Levich Drive in Mt. Sima industrial subdivision.

Complete info at 335-0100.

DRY PINE, 18”, $250/cord, prices may vary upon length. Call Stu at 633-5041 BIG BEAR WOODWORKS Firewood & Delivery Clean beetle-kill wood Accurate honest cord Will deliver anywhere $270 per cord 16”, $225 per cord 48” Call 867-689-9017 CGFJ WOODCUTTING SERVICE $250 - 16” lengths $220 - 4ʼ lengths Prompt, friendly service Dry timber, money-back guarantee 336-2013 Fire-killed Spruce Firewood Very dry, clean burning $250/cord 16”x3-cord load Larger loads available $190/cord if you cut & haul from my yard in town 333-5174

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 8MM MAUSER, hand made hardwood stock, bedded and floated, recent refinish of whole rifle, $300, PAL req'd. 667-2276 .338 CALIBER L61R right-hand Sako Finnbear Mannlicher full stock carbine with Bushnell scope, exc condit, $1,500. 633-2229 SAKO A7 bolt action rifle in 308 win. Stainless/synthetic, peep sight, extra mag, scope rings, 13" LOP w/ Limbsaver pad. $1,000.

334-3375 LEE ENFIELD #1 Mk 3, 303 British, 10 rd mag, sporterized wood, good bore, military sights, steel scope rings, with 3-9x40mm scope mounted. PAL req'd, $360. 667-2276 PRE-WW2 B E L G I A N Browning A-5 semi-auto shotgun, full choke 29” barrel, 3" magnum, bore bright, internals clean, some rust on outside of barrel, FAC REQ. $900 obo. 334-4453

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Yukon News

Friday, November 15, 2013

Full-Time Front

Desk Agent

Includes 2 Night Audit shifts Must be able to read, write and speak English accurately and professionally. This position requires an individual that is responsible, reliable, works well under pressure, detail oriented, able to multi-task and work as a team player. If you fit this criteria, apply in person with Vanessa at the Westmark Whitehorse or online at yukontourjobs.com.

Many Rivers seeks a

Generalist Counsellor in Watson Lake for a Full-time Position

Experienced Clinical Counsellor with a Masters degree for full time (37.5 hours/week), position in Watson Lake, Yukon Territory.

Annual Salary Range: $63,713 - $73,610. Comprehensive benefits, professional development, and clinical supervision. Relocation expenses available. The successful candidate will possess: • • • •

2 plus years clinical experience working with individuals, couples, children and families Masters Degree minimum.

Cultural sensitivity and experience working with First Nations clients and/or Northern communities.

Current membership in a recognized professional association is an asset.

Many Rivers is a unionized work place covered by a Collective Agreement with PSAC. If you are looking for an opportunity that provides meaningful work in a non-profit human service team environment, please submit a resume with cover letter to: Brent Ramsay, Executive Director Many Rivers, 4071 – 4th Ave., Whitehorse, Yukon Y1A 1H3 E-mail: info@manyrivers.yk.ca Fax: 867-633-3557 Application Closing Date: December 6, 2013, by 4:00 p.m. (PST) For further info please visit our website at www.manyrivers.yk.ca We thank all applicants in advance, however, only those invited to interview will be contacted.

Yukon Agricultural Association EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY

Executive Director Yukon agricultural association (Yaa)

Reporting to the association President, the Executive director is responsible for implementing the policies and direction of the Yaa board and for carrying out the full range of duties required to further the purposes and administer the services and affairs of the association, including the preparation and administration of contracts with people or organizations who may be engaged for certain tasks.

The successful candidate will possess a relevant university degree or diploma, or an equivalent combination of education and experience. he or she will be a self-starter with strong planning, organizational and financial skills and significant administrative and/or management experience, preferably in a multidisciplinary environment. candidates must possess effective interpersonal communication, writing and leadership skills and be proficient with computers and their full range of applications, including developing and presenting power-point presentations and managing and maintaining the association’s website. Relevant experience in, and/or knowledge of, agriculture and the agri-food industry is a must. familiarity with Yukon’s ag industry and some key factors, which affect it, is desirable. candidates must be willing to work irregular hours which may occasionally include evenings and/or weekends. a valid Yukon driver’s licence and willingness to travel is required. salary range is $25-$32/hour commensurate with experience.

Deadline for receipt of applications is November 29, 2013. send resumes to: Yukon agricultural association 203-302 steele street, whitehorse, Yukon, Y1a 2c5 faX: 393.3566; Email: admin@yukonag.ca for more information, contact Rick Tone at 867-668-6864.

Advertising Sales Representative The Yukon News, a twice-weekly award-winning newspaper has an outstanding opportunity for a full-time sales person.

The successful candidate will have sales experience – preferably in the advertising or retail industry. The ability to build relationships with clients and offer superior customer service is a must. The winning candidate will be a team player and will also be called upon to grow the account list with an aggressive cold calling mandate. The ability to work in an extremely fast paced environment with a positive attitude is a must. We offer a great working environment with a competitive base salary coupled with a strong benefit package. Black Press has more than 170 community newspapers across Canada and the United States and for the proven candidate the opportunities are endless.

Please submit your resume with a cover letter to Mike Thomas Publisher, Yukon News, 211 Wood Street, Whitehorse, Y.T. Y1A 2E4 or email to mthomas@yukon-news.com No phone calls please.

www.blackpress.ca

ONLY ThOsE aPPLIcaNTs scREENEd fOR aN INTERvIEw wILL bE cONTacTEd.

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Icy Waters Ltd.

has a vacancy for an:

AnimAl cAre worker (except farm) Aquarist for Arctic chArr fAcility (Noc 6563) Pay rate $16/hour, 40 hours per week. to assist Management in maintaining and improving husbandry practices in all aspects of the aquaculture facility; participate in vaccination and brood stock programs; undertake research including recirculation technology. the applicant should have at least 12 months experience of fish health, breeding and genetics issues. An understanding of hAccP both for internal and export use, is required. high School, and college vocational qualifications in fish or animal health are required.

Please email resume to Jlucas@icywaters.com ; cloSiNg dAte for APPlicAtioNS iS NoveMber 30th 2013.

HELP

WANTED

Shipper/Receiver

We are currently searching for a Shipper/Receiver to join our Whitehorse location. If you are a team-player with an interest in auto parts and a knack for coordination and organization, this opportunity is for you.

If you are looking to grow your career with a successful, continuously growing company, we want to hear from you!

Please forward your resume to Daniel Murray:

dmurray@napacanada.com

or apply online at www.uapinc.com/careers.

MAUSER PREDUZECE 44, Model 98, cal.

8x57, bolt-action, 24” barrel, 5 shots, good condition, photos available, $250, e-mail: heidiwirth47@gmail.com

WANTED: COPIES of videos and/or pictures of Burwash Landing Resort events, Burwash 27, Pheasant Hunt & Frog Race etc. Pamela 335-4349

2009 PONTIAC G5 SE 4-dr sedan, like new, still on warranty, well maintained, c/w power windows/locks, Pioneer stereo system, sunroof and so much more, $8,500. 634-2157

1958 WINCHESTER Model 12, 12-gauge pump shotgun, full choke 30" heavy duck barrel, 3" Super Speed/Super X, bore bright, no rust, blue 8/10. FAC REQ. $500 obo.

334-4453

WANTED: ACCORDION/SQUEEZEBOX and a mandolin player to jam some tunes for a local band.Call 633- 5575

2008 HYUNDAI Tucson Limited 4x4, sunroof, heated leather seats, Blue Tooth, command start, new tires, 78,000kms, $12,900.

333-0602

LEE ENFIELD No4 Mk1*, 303 British, 10 rd mag, sporterized, good condition, scope mount instead of rear sight, $300 firm, PAL req'd, 667 2276 WANTED: 9MM Largo/Bergmann ammo or reloadable brass, fair price, 667 2276 1250FPS AIRGUN, Gamo Rocket, .177 caliber, fully functioning, incl 4x32 Gamo Sporter– scope, good condition, small piece of synthetic stock broken, firearm license reqʼd, $110. 335-1093 NON RESTRICTED firearms safety course, presented by Whitehorse Rifle & Pistol Club, Dec 7 & 8. For more info call 667 6728 or 334 1688

Data Entry Clerk

The successful candidate will be responsible for accurate and timely data entry as well as clerical duties. 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 newspaper/publishing group with more than 170 publications across Canada and the United States.

Please submit your resume with a cover letter to: Stephanie Newsome, Operations Manager, Yukon News 211 Wood Street, Whitehorse, Yukon Y1A 2E4 Or email to stephanien@yukon-news.com NO PhONE cAllS PlEASE.

WANTED: NEED extra cash? Seeking reliable person travelling southeast, to bring light items down to or near Golden, BC, now or in future, lv msg 250-439-8225 WANTED: FREE or cheap juicer for fruits and veggies, going to good home. Nicole 336-2663 WANTED: FREE home gym, electric typewriter with self-erase feature, 333-9607 WANTED: HEAVY duty professional treadmill in good working condition. Leave msg between 9am & 5pm @ 667-2737

Cars

2007 TOYOTA Highlander SUV, white, AWD, command start, extra set winter tires, tow package, approx 128,000kms, $15,500.

332-4143 2006 CHEV Equinox AWD, black, 167,000kms, p/w, p/l, sunroof, 6 disc changer, heated seats, new windshield, great condit, $8,900 obo. 334-7842 2006 FORD Focus ZX4 SES, silver, c/w sports package, moonroof, heated leather seats, new winter Toyo Tires, 76,000 km, well maintained, $10,200 obo. 668-4186

2005 PONTIAC Sunfire air, tilt, cruise, auto, p/w, p/l, alum rims, 130,000kms, new windshield & winter tires, exel on fuel, $5,000.

332- 6022

IF YOU would like to offset your expenses to Anchorage, will pay up to $100 to transport a transmission from Northwest auto parts to Whitehorse, weighs 85 lbs. 334-6087

WANTED: CHAIRS or stools, solid wood, well kept, short, medium & high, reasonable price. 668-6871

2007 PONTIAC G5 sedan, 95,050kms. p/l, p/w, a/c, c/c, 18” Primax wheels/low profile tires & set of winter tires on rims. $7,200 obo. 334-7822

2005 PONTIAC Grand Am, in good shape, 180,000kms, p/w, p/d, p/s, auto, $4,500.

335-9230 for more info

Wanted

WINTERVAL IS looking for volunteers and parade participants to help make the magic happen November 30! For info contact Lianne Maitland, 335-5387 or lianne.maitland@gmail.com

2007 NISSAN Versa Hatchback SL 1.8L auto, a/c, cruise, tilt, p/w & locks, AM/FM CD, new winter tires, 47,650km., $8,500.

660-4220

2005 CHEV Impala, 110,000 kms, v-6 auto, remote entry, runs good, looks good, burgundy, $5000. 668-2014

MARLIN .22LR XT, bolt action, synthetic stock, w/ optics, mint condition, need PAL, $275, 334-5498

FOR SALE

has an exciting opportunity for a part-time data entry clerk.

WANTED: ELECTRICAL wire scraps, 12 or 14 gauge, >8" sections for art project. Kim @ 668-6613

RUGER M77 Hawkeye, 300 win mag, all weather, mint condition, incl mounted 3-9x40mm Leupold scope, Plano Gun Boot, cleaning kit, must have firearm license, $900, 335-1093

WANTED: 12' X 12' or 14' canvas tarp.

633-5575

The award winning

Friday, November 15, 2013

2013 DODGE Dart SE 4-dr sedan, black exterior/interior, less than 180,00kms, advertised at $15,995 on TV, make me an offer.

634-2720 2010 MUSTANG GT convertible, gold, 5-spd trans, 40,000kms. 336-0505 1998 GMC Geo Tracker, on road ʻtil Nov. 1/13, high mileage, $500 obo. 334-5708

2004 HONDA CR-V, 140,000kms, silver, command start, new windshield, removable roof racks, seats 5, good condit, $8,500.

333-0503 2003 BUICK Century 4-dr. sedan, white, V6 auto, p/w/driverʼs seat, a/c, FWD, cruise, tilt, fairly new tires, less than 9,000 mi. per year, $4,000. 633-4110 2003 HYUNDAI Santa Fe GL, f/w drive, 4-dr, 4 cyl, 174,000 kms, 5 spd manual, silver/grey, good mechanical condit, regular service, $3,900. 335-4057 2002 CHRYSLER Concorde 116,000 ks all options, leather, drives great, in super clean condition, $4,000 obo. 335-3868 2000 PONTIAC Sunfire Coupe, 2.2 L standard, winter tires, remote starter, recent tune-up, reliable & clean car, $2,500.

393-3141 1997 COUGAR XR7, Gold Edition, never winter driven, exc cond, ivory, 142,000 kms. $8500 obo. 633-3116 or 334-3160

1999 GMC Sierra

½ Ton, 4x4, V/8, Auto, Cruise Tilt, A/C, Custom Bumper c/w Winch driving lights

$6,3000

$5,450

2005 DoDGe 1500 Quad Cab 4x4 ,V/8, Auto, Cruise Tilt , A/C , P/S , P/B

$6,8000

667-7777

À LA RECHERCHE D’UN EMPLOI?

1992 CROWN Vic LX, 104,000kms, clean, always serviced, runs great, $2,500 obo.

335-3868 1989 TOYOTA Tercel 3-door hatch-back.

Nice little car but needs some work. $300 obo. 668-2836 1979 LINCOLN Continental Town Coupe, 2-dr, tan, no dents/rust, good paint, vinyl roof cracking, big car, 90,000kms. 867-993-6639, lv. message.

PONTIAC MONTANA for sale, 7 seats, roof box, winter/summer tires. good condit, history record last 4 years, new brakes, $ 3,000 obo. 403-862-6608

Trucks

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INSULATED VAN box for one/three ton truck Approx 9ʼx8ʼ, aluminum construction with roll-up door, fairly new Asking $2,500 393-3648 or mercercontracting@northwestel.net

Des professionnels engagés Conseils en développement de carrière

2009 LAND Rover LR3, mint condit, 21,000kms, 3-yrs left on warranty or 140,000kms, leather int, loaded, service avail anywhere in N. America, $39,000.

456-4918

Création, amélioration et traduction de CV Simulation d’entrevue

1998 DODGE Dakota Sport, 4x4, 5 spd manual, rear airbag ride. Nw: front brakes, roters, ball joints, tie rod & a boxliner. Candy apple red. 229,000kms. $6500obo. 633-3116 or 334-3160

Des services personnalisés et des ressources utiles.

2011 TOYOTA Tundra regular cab, 23,000kms TRD off-road pkg, 4X4, driven only to and from work, $22,500 or take over payments. 334-1348 Éducation

Direction de l’enseignement postsecondaire

Suite202 202-204 -204Black Black Street Suite Street Whitehorse,Yukon YukonY1A Y1A 2M9 Whitehorse, 2M9 Website:www.employmentyukon.ca www.employmentyukon.ca Website:

Ph: (867) 393-8270 (867) 393 -8270 Facsimile: (867)393-8278 393-8278 Facsimile: (867) Email: ec@northwestel.net Email: ec@northwestel.net Education

Advanced Education

CENTRE DE LA FRANCOPHONIE 302, rue Strickland, Whitehorse (Yukon) 867.668.2663 poste 223 www.sofa-yukon.ca

2007 CHEV LS 2500HD Crew Cab 4X4, great unit, many options, trailer tow, fully serviced, new brakes/battery, $16,500 obo 633-4311 2006 DODGE Grand Caravan, silver, auto, low kms, c/w winter studded tires, all seasons for summer, has front bumper damage, $6,500 obo. 334-1500

1998 CHEV Z71 4x4, $3,000 or trade for double-axle trailer. 336-4008

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

1998 F-150 XLT ,4x4 ext. cab, long box , 170,000km Great condition $4600 OBO Phone Cory 335-0244

SALES • BODY SHOP • PARTS • SERVICE 2001 Dodge Dakota 4x4 Clubcab, v8, white ................................... 5,500 2005 Honda Pilot EX, black ..........................................................................$13,900 2005 Chev Colorado Ext, v6, green ............................................................$7,595 2010 Chrysler 300, silver ...............................................................................$14,995 2010 Kia Soul, 4 door, auto, silver...........................................................$14,900 2007 Kia Spectra 5, 5-speed, red................................................................. $6,595 $

IN-HOUSE FINANCING AVAILABLE!

2008 Toyota Corolla SE

10,550

$

2013 Hyundai Accent

1991 FORD F-150 Lariat, runs great, high mileage. $1,500 obo. 334-7713

4-Wheel Drive 6 Speed, White

$

2014 RAM 1500 Crewcab 4x4 SXT

1994 FORD 1/2 ton, 306 engine, 143,000 orig kms w/canopy, in exe shape, $2,900.

668-5776

1992 CHEVY Astro extended van, seats 8, runs well, 1 liter oil/1,000km, clean, good tires, well maintained, $1,150. 335-3421

NEW!

16,500

1997 F-150 XLT 4.6L V8 4x4 auto, runs well but engine clicks, body in great shape, all season tires, command start, winter care package, box liner. $4,990 obo, 335-1404

1994 TOYOTA SR5 Pickup, extended cab, 5 sp V6, 4X4, green, no rust, c/w canopy, will pass safety inspection, $3,000. 335-6898

4 door, auto white

NEW! FOR LEASE

5.7 hemi 6’4” box, Red

1990 FORD F-150, 6” procomp lift, 35” mud terrain tires w full size spare on rim, many new parts, needs some work, $1,000 obo.

336-0502

$

1990 FORD F250 4-spd manual, comes with canopy, $1,700. 456-4567

2012 Chrysler 300

1990 TOYOTA Hiace 4wd, 4-cyl diesel, auto, good on gas, 8-pass, swivel middle seat, 128,000kms, offers. 333-9020.

29,995

low Kms black

22,595

$

*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

2010 JEEP Wrangler 4-dr Islander Edition, blue, 63,400kms, auto, undercoated, removable 3rd row seat, $23,500 obo. 332-1659 2008 FORD XLT F350, superduty diesel, qua cab, headache rack, driving lights, $169,000kms, $20,750 obo. Gary 335-9596 2007 CHEVROLET Uplander, 101,000kms, Silver FWD, $5,500.00, serious Inquiries only. 668-4787 2007 TOYOTA Sienna, AWD, 7-pass, 72,000kms, power doors, rear hatch, sunroof, new winter tires, offers. 333-9020

1988 CHEV 1/2 ton, runs good, new motor 3 years ago, very little rust, w/command start & canopy, $1,600. 456-2525 1987 FORD Ranger XLT Standard 2-wd, 2 gas tanks, gray with white canopy, engine runs well, front passenger side is damaged, rear tires very worn, $400. 335-1404 1985 GMC 1/2 ton 4x4, parts, no motor, T700 tranny, roll over. 633-2760 1984 FORD F-350 crew cab 4x4 manual with 351 4 barels with late Vanguard, 8.5ʼ, $3,500. 334-7373 53ʼ TRACTOR trailer van, exc. for storage, $6,000 firm. 332-6363

2006 TOYOTA Tacoma 4x4, V6, never been off road, access cab, box liner, all service records, winter tires, 133,629km, $16,000.

334-7576

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

2005 F350 diesel Lariat, 4wd, long box, fully loaded, all engine updates, exec condit, $20,000. 667-4463 or 334-9436 2005 FORD E350 Cube Van, 16ft, 126,000km, Turbo Diesel, clean, well maintained, full loading ramp, exc condit, $11,000 firm. 335-3421 2004 CADILLAC Escalade 6L V8, awd, sunroof, heated leather seats, loaded, $14,900, trade or offer. 660-4220 2004 GMC 2500 HD 4x4 Xcab long box, great unit, remote start, trailer tow pkg, aluminum liner/toolbox, fully serviced, new battery & tires. 633-4311 2004 TOYOTA Sienna LE. Very well maintained at Mic Mac...2 Sets of tires New shocks brakes and Battery. Asking $9000 obo. 334-4060 for more info.

2003 CHEV Silverado 2500 LT model 4x4, crew dab, Duramax diesel, fully loaded, leather seats, $17,900. 332-8801 2003 TACOMA, reliable, well-maintained, 180,000 miles, new winter tires, asking $7,000. 335-4436 2002 CHEVY 2500HD, great truck, new winter tires, winch, winterized, always kept in good condition, $5,000 obo. 336-1022

RANGE RIDER truck cap for Toyota Tundra or equivalent 8' long box, fits rounded cab, good shape, w. lock and keys. 456-7297 NEWER WINTER tires on rims $1,000.

334-7576

4 GOODYEAR Nordic non-studded 15” winter tires and steel wheels, Chev/Buick 5-bolt pattern, approx. 70% tread remaining. $375.

821-6011

M

2001 FORD E-350 V8 diesel, extʼd passenger van, auto 8-cyl, 2 buckets, 1 bench, 186,301kms, $4,500 334-662 1999 CHEV Suburban LT 4x4 5.7L V8, leather interior, loaded, good condit. $5,900, trade or offer. 660-4220 1999 GMC Sierra 1/2 ton 4x4, ext. cab, V8 auto, c/w cruise, tilt, a/c, great shape, $4,800. 633-3860 or 334-3860.

633-6019

lost/found

1990 TOYOTA 4-Runner, doesnʼt run, lots of good parts, $350. 332-4578 SET OF Blizzak LT 235/75R15 winter tires, used for one season, like new. $600 firm.

335-7238, lv msg.

GOOD SET of 16 inch rims, with summer tires and hub cabs, from a Toyota Matrix. $150. 205/55 R16. 633-3154.

2 SETS of 2 Dunlop winter tires on Ford rims, 205/6015 or 205/6515, $100 per set.

393-3638 195/70 R14, 4 all-season tires on 5-hole rims, 2 Hankook H714 in good condition, other 2 s/b replaced, $150 obo. 667-7455

Help control the pet overpopulation problem

FRiDaY, noV. 15

LOUVERED 5TH-WHEEL tailgate for 1999 Ford 350, needs paint, $100 obo. 667-7222

have your pets spayed or neutered.

FoR inFoRmation call

lost • none at this time. found • mccrea, black and grey dog with boxer type face has a collar but no tags contact lori @ 633-3218.

(05/10/13)

633-6019

• Riverdale area on grey mountain school road the dog is a medium size with brown head with white body and darker brown spots, contact Puneet @334-2955.

(17/10/13)

RunninG At lARGE...

SET OF 4 black winter rims, 16" with 5-bolt pattern, $60 for the set, call Matt 667-4394

if you have lost a pet, remember to check with city Bylaw: 668-8382

2003 DODGE Cummins engine parts for sale, Turbo, intercooler pipes air intake and exhaust manifold, excellent shape. 633-6502

AVAilABlE foR Adoption

1985 FORD F-250 4x4 manual with 6.9 diesel for parts. Take it away for $250.

334-7373

Pets Canines & Company Dog Obedience School All level training courses Private lessons FCI/WUSV/MEOE/Bronze Master Trainer and FCI certified training directors Serving the Yukon since 1992 333-0505, 668-4368 www.facebook.com/caninesandcompany CAT BED. 17 x 21 x 8 inches. Would suit small dog. New condition, not used. $15.

393-2929.

TWO 8-WK. old male terrier/bear dogs, $100 ea. 334-0244 after 5pm.

ao

in fostER HoMEs

doGs • 11 mos old, spayed female, RetrieverX, tan (Jewel)

CAts • 1.5yr old, DSH, grey and white, neutered male (Sappy)

At tHE sHEltER

doGs • 5 yr old female, lab/Pit Bull X (Gaia) • 3yr old, neutered male, akita, grey, white (a.J.) • 10 weeks old, female, Bear dog, black, white (Happy) • 1 yr old female, Husky, grey white, (chinook) • 7 yr old, neutered male, GSDX, black/tan (nitro) • 1 yr old, spayed female, bear dogX, black/brown (Bambi)

CAts • 6yr old, maine coonX, neutered male, grey and white (tinker) • 11 yr old, DSH, female spayed, black (neko) • 8 yr old, DSH, female spayed, calico (mao) • 3 yr old, DSH, male neutered, grey (nicky)

spECiAl

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633-6019

126 Tlingit Street

www.humanesocietyyukon.ca

2002 FORD F150, V8, 4X4. 278,000kms, runs good, new tires, we are downsizing, $7,000. 668-3892 or email nudawn54@hotmail.com 2001 DODGE Grand Caravan, seats 7, 2 sliding doors, power drivers seat, windows, locks, 2” receiver, full size spare, regular service. 139 ,000kms. $5,000. 333-9740

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

2013

Pets of the Week!

Hey! I’m Neko!

My sister Mao and I are brand new here at the shelter so the staff are still getting to know us.

Stay tuned for more info!

Pet Report

4 WINTER tires complete wth rims for a Kia, Rhonda, 668-7691

Auto Parts & Accessories TRUCK CANOPIES - in stock * new Dodge long/short box * new GM long/short box * new Ford long/short box

2005 F150 Super Crew, loaded, leather int, FX4, sun roof, 135,000kms, black, $17,800.

334-3160 or 633-3116

4 16”, 4 stud steel rims, good condit from 2009 Nissan Sentra, $25 ea. 633-3910

U-BILT TRAILER 8ʼ Dodge box, 100 obo.

633-2760

2006 FORD F350 Super Duty Lariat long box diesel Automatic, 140,400km, c/w 20" mag wheels and front guard bumper. $22,800 obo. 660-5511

2005 DODGE 1500 quad cab, 5.7 Hemi, 130,000kms, long box, elec. break controller, rear air shocks, $9,000. 633-5246.

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• Homes needed for retired sled dogs. they would make excellent pets. Please contact 668-3647 or kennelmanager@muktuk.com

Dog Wash Fundraiser

3rd Saturday of each month. Next Date:

Saturday, november 16th at the Feed Store Pet Junction 10:00am - 2:00pm

want to get involved with

the Humane Society?

Become a volunteer and join the Board, walk dogs or help with a fundraiser; it all helps!

Call 633-6019 today to find out how you can become involved!

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

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

You can also check out our award winning website at:

www.Humanesocietyyukon.ca

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Attention miners

Murdoch’s Gem Shop is now accepting mining gold for melt.

Convenient Main Street Whitehorse drop-off location.

Fast settlement - within 24 hours after receipt of goods by the refiner.

Payment by direct deposit or cheque. Any lot size - small or large.

CAll Troy AT

Friday, November 15, 2013

GOOD HOME for 9-yr. old tortoise shell cat ASAP due to family allergies, good with indoor and outdoor living, good mouser, friendly and healthy. Comes with cage/food dish. 668-6199

2002 SUMMIT 700, lots of after-market parts, c/w box of parts, $2,500 obo.

336-4025

4 BEAR dog puppies born Sept 22, $100 ea.

Alanna 867-966-2172

DINGO DUNE buggy, needs drive gear, runs good. $300 obo. 336-4025

Motorcycles & Snowmobiles

ARGO FOR sale , 867-863-5715

2009 SKI-DOO Summit X 800, ceramic coated can, c/w complete spare front end kit of a-arms and bushings and team Skidoo cove, 1,600 miles, $7,500.00 obo. 333-0484

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

SNOWMOBILE SLED deck, aluminum, power tilting, fits full size p/u. $1,500. 333 0117

Kenneth Cober Snider

2007 SKANDIC superwide 550, 1,300kms, like new, $6,900. Russel 634-5288 or 634-2455

2000 GEN II Polaris, 500 liquid rebuilt engine, recently serviced, 36” track, $2,800.

633-4643

July 26, 1933 - October 29, 2013

POLARIS INDY 440 SKS, liquid cool,, exc running condit, tune-up done, $1,600.

334-1252

2006 POLARIS Edge classic touring, 550 fan, electric start, reverse, two up seat, 1,000 miles, $5,200. 633-4643

867-667-7403 for details.

In Loving Memory

Archdeacon of the Klondike

Ken Snider died at home in his beloved Dawson City, Yukon, after being diagnosed with terminal pancreatic cancer in mid-July, as he was turning 80. Ken lived a rich and full 80 years. Ken was born on a farm in Etobicoke Township near Toronto, Ontario. He spent his life doing what gave his life meaning – serving God as an Anglican priest. Through his service to God, he served others; with humility and generosity, with kindness and compassion, with that dogged determination of his, with an unwavering sense of humour and wit, and with love. Great love.

The Snider family would like to thank the community of Dawson for supporting us as we accompanied our Dad to his home death. We would like to express our deep gratitude to Dr. Adam Sherrard, the staff at the Dawson Medical Clinic, the Home Care team at McDonald Lodge (Alex and Cris), Dr. Danusia Kanachowski (the Palliative Care Doctor in Whitehorse), Trish Eccles at Hospice Yukon, Reverend Laurie Munro, friends at St. Paul’s Church, friends at Arctic Inland Resources, the Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in, Garry Gammie and the crew, and all family and friends who buoyed us up along the way with phone calls, e-mails and visits.

Ken is survived by Aldene, his loving wife and partner of 55 years. He is also survived by his children: John, Peter, Hope, Grace (George), Paul (Christine), and Richard (Jody). His grandchildren: Jarvis, Liam, Hailey, Rachel and Carter. His brother Donald (Helen). His nieces and nephews: Craig, Dale and Kerri. Ken is predeceased by his father, John Snider, his mother, Lila Snider and his sister, Shirley Snider.

Gently Used

Atv’s:

Inventory

2005 Arctic Cat 650 V2 Limited Edition ......................................$5,499 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 sold 2007 Yamaha Apex Gt 121" .........................................................$5,999 2007 Yamaha Vk Professional Widetrack ..................................$5,499 sold 2008 Yamaha Phazer Mtx 144" Timbersled Suspension ..........$6,499 2009 Yamaha Phazer Rtx 121" sold ....................................................$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

1 KM south of Robert Service Way, Alaska Highway, Whitehorse, Y.T.

At John’s request, there will be no service and his ashes will be spread over the McQuesten River at a later date.

1998 YAMAHA Venture Triple 600, working order, elec & pull start, reverse, extra parts incl, $2,900 obo. 633-4018

Marine PROFESSIONAL BOAT REPAIR Fiberglass Supplies Marine Accessories FAR NORTH FIBERGLASS 49D MacDonald Rd Whitehorse, Yukon 393-2467 19ʼ ALUMINUM boat w. 20P and trailer, $1,500 obo. 633-2760 2008 YAMAHA SS 8hp 4-stroke boat motor, $1,000 firm. 335-0164 2006 SEA-DOO RXT supercharged, mint condition, only 33 hours, 215 hp, 1500cc, always stored inside, c/w trailer and spare tires, $6,450 obo. Kyle@ 867-335-1799.

Heavy Equipment NEW & USED EQUIPMENT For Sale Come see MACPHERSON RENTALS @ 117 Copper Rd or call 633-4426 TECK ARMOURED electrical cable #000/3 wire, $7/ft. 863-5715 1981 950 loader, bucket, forks, snow-blade and jib, $25,000. 333-0192 D7E DOZER, tilt-angle blade, winch, also 2 rippers and parts with it, $25,000. 333-0192 2002 EXCAVATOR, Kobelco 330, 8,800hrs, 2 buckets and ripper shank, $63,000.

333-0192 ENGINE HOIST/HYDRAULIC floor crane, good condit, heavy duty, $400 obo.

667-7222 REZNOR WASTE oil furnace, 300,000 BTUs, Brand new, still in crate New price $10,500 plus freight Will sell for 1/2 price, $5,900 333-0717

“Gypsy Sharone”

Nov 1, 1925 - Nov 11, 2013

A great light dimmed last Friday.

It is with great sadness that after a long & courageous battle with breast cancer, family & friends of Sharone Maldaver announce her peaceful passing.

Her hand was held lovingly.

Sharone was born in Halifax, NS, then spent her younger years in Toronto, ON. She studied Psychology at University of Toronto, and in the early 1970’s she ran a house for troubled youth through Jewish Family Services. On advice from a friend who told her she was “one heck of a salesperson”, Sharone entered into real estate. She was very successful, but after a busy decade doing that, she moved to Chiapas, Mexico. She lived amongst the people and helped establish the “Women for Dignity” Co-operative, which helped Mayan women sell their handcrafted wares. During that time she was also involved in the Zapatista land reform movement.

Thank you to Dr.Lucille Stuart and Dr. Shauna Tierney, and to all the nurses at Whitehorse General Hospital for the support and care extended to John.

2000 POLARIS 2-up Sports 500 sled w/reverse, 975 mi, asking $3,500 or will sell w/7x12 single axle trailer for $4,500 obo.

333-0717

Sharon Dvorah Maldaver

John Mercer Wheelton

John was born in Clyde, Alberta to British immigrant parents.

His family returned to England and John grew up in Dorset, England. John immigrated back to Canada in 1952 as a young man to search for gold in Dawson City. John’s life journey was about searching for gold.

In his later years he conceded to not discovering much gold, yet declared that his greatest treasures had become his eight grandchildren; Courtney, Olivia, Nylan, Emily, Julia, Sophie, PJ and Benny.

YAMAHA

(867) 668-2101 or 1-800-661-0430

In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the St. Paul’s Church Restoration Fund in Dawson City.

Box 570, Dawson City, Yukon, Y0B 1G0.

It is with sadness that we announce the passing of John Mercer Wheelton after a lengthy battle with cancer. John is survived by his wife Marion, children Hester (Greg), Wanda, Philip (Joanna), and Sandra (Gordon).

1991 POLARIS 488 Fan-cooled, 121” studded track, engine rebuilt, $1,500. 633-4643

440 ARCTIC Cat Cheetah Touring, long track, little used, older, well maintained, runs well, c/w cover, rear cargo/hard case, extra oil and skimmer on Teflon runners. $2,600.

335-3421

Upon returning to Canada in 1985, Sharone followed the “Pow-Wow” trail across Canada selling her wares from the Co-operative. And then in 1986 she moved to Fort Smith, NWT where she fought pulp & paper mill expansion/ pollution which impacted the Slave River & the eradication of Canada’s largest free roaming buffalo herd in Wood Buffalo National Park.

After a short time in Nevada City, CA, where she studied Massage Therapy, Sharone returned once again to the north – this time settling in Whitehorse, YT in 1996. Along with massage therapy and later menopause counseling, she also established “Temple of the Goddess” and then later “Sharone’s Magical Market” which toured the northern festival circuit in summer selling her wares, and even set up in downtown Whitehorse for the two weeks before Christmas. In her later years she focused on acting, singing & stand-up comedy.

Sharone built and nurtured a community of friends in Whitehorse for almost two decades. Sharone also built a community of friends on Salt Spring Island where she often “wintered”. She gave herself fully to her communities who in turn supported her whole heartedly in her times of need. Thanks to all who were with her physically, spiritually and / or financially.

She loved you all.

Thanks to her Yukon healing team: Dr Sally MacDonald, Dr Danoucha Kanachowski, Karen LaPrairie, the staff at Homecare, Whitehorse General Hospital, and East West Clinic, Hospice Yukon, Gordon Smith, Dr Carolee; all her loving friends.

Thank you to her BC healing Team: Dr Karen Gelmon, Dr Walter Lemmo, to Vancouver Cancer Lodge, Vancouver General Hospital and Inspire Health, Salt Spring Healing Team: Kim Hansen, Candace, Patrick Callas and so many friends …

March 28, 1942 – November 8, 2013

Thank you to Rick Karp and members of the Jewish community for being there with traditional prayers and special goodies in the difficult final weeks.

No matter where Sharone was, she was always involved in making her community a better place for all. Her saying “OH MY GODDESS” is known throughout the Americas! Her kind, thoughtful, eccentric presence always made everyone feel at ease & drew many people of all ages close to her. Although gone in body, her spirit shines on in all those she touched.

Sharone is predeceased by her mother Helen Maldaver (Webber), and her father Louis Maldaver. She is survived by her loving brother Jeffrey Maldaver (Karen Forsyth), her Aunt Claire Long; her Goddess Daughter Jessica Perlitz (Emily Squires) and her Goddess Son Jacob Perlitz (Cheyenne) ; the “Goddesses”: Cate Innish, Marie-France Campagna, Andrea Schlupp, Shawn Verrier; and Sharone’s adopted-in-spirit daughters: Tamar Vandenberghe, Janice Durant, Kim Beggs & Marie-Jane Warshawski.

She is also pre-deceased by her larger than life dog “Bushman” :) As per Sharone’s request a “Watch Out! Sharone has Passed to the Other Side Party!” / Celebration of Life, will be held in the summer, date TBA. In Whitehorse a Memorial Service will take place in the United Church Basement on Saturday November 16, 2013 from 3pm 5 pm. It is wheelchair accessible with an elevator.

Everyone is welcome to share stories and send condolences though heritagenorth. ca on the obituary page.

15W KUBOTA generator for sale Meter reads 6500hrs, 2 phase, skid mounted, self-contained with enclosure and fuel tank Asking $6,500 393-3648 or mercercontracting@northwestel.net

26ʼ TANDEM Dually Pintle Trailer, Hydraulic Tilt deck, 15,000lbs axles, very strong trailer $4,500 obo, 335-0244

LAKE LABERGE Lions Christmas cakes and cookies are here now. Get yours early, please call Ann at 633-5493.

Car-hauling dolly with new tires and 2 sets of straps, $700 o.b.o. Mornings at 456-4312

SUZUKI STRINGS Association Yukon AGM, Nov. 18 at Riverdale Baptist Church, 4:30 pm onward. More info: Lise at 668-7659

LATE 70ʼS 8.5ʼ Vanguard on 1984 F-350 crew cab 4x4 manual, $3,500. 334-7373

VARIOUS CAMP trailers for sale or rent Wellsites, kitchens, wash trailers, offices, first aid trailers, generator trailers, etc.

393-3648 or mercercontracting@northwestel.net

Coming Events

1998 PETERBILT Highway tractor, $14,900 30ʼ Jeep transport trailer, $7,900 1989 Freightliner complete parts $6,900 333-0717 2003 JOHN Deere 310. Four wheel drive loader/backhoe in great condition, under 1,200 hours, $48,500. 332-9975 or 668-3367 2003 Dodge Single Cab 4x4 service box, $7,900 2003 Dodge Crew Cab 4x4 service box, $9,800 2003 Chev Super Cab 4x4 service box, $6,900 Ex-Yukon Electrical trucks 333-0717

ATLIN GUEST HOUSE Deluxe Lakeview Suites Sauna, Hot Tub, BBQ, Internet, Satellite TV Kayak Rentals In House Art Gallery 1-800-651-8882 Email: atlinart@yahoo.ca www.atlinguesthouse.com ATLIN - GLACIER VIEW CABINS “your quiet get away” Cozy self contained log cabins canoes, kayaks for rent Fax/Phone 250-651-7691 e-mail sidkatours@ atlin.net www.glacierviewcabins.ca

HOBART 225 amp gas powered welder 2000 obo. call 633-6502

FAMILY FUN Night, November 22, 6-8pm.

Yukon College gym, drop-in tennis. All welcome. Free. 393-2621

1997 I N T E R N A T I O N A L 4900 S/A Plow/Dump Truck DT466 diesel, 10-sp, air brakes, underbody & front plow, sander controls, for info 334-3775

GRANDPARENTS AND extended family: Having problems with access or custody?

Contact Grandparents Rights Assoc. of Yukon, meetings as needed. 821-3821

Campers & Trailers

FREE TENNIS Family Fun Nights. Oct. 25 & Nov 22, 6-8 pm. Yukon College gym. Bring a friend/parent/kid, have fun playing tennis.

Coach and assistance available. No registration required.

NEW OR USED TRAILERS For Sale or Rent MACPHERSON RENTALS 117 Copper Road 633-4426

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COPPER RIDGE Place is looking for volunteers to share time with seniors. Please phone Catherine Chenier 393-7508.

THE CARDBOARD Crush Scavenger Hunt is on! Find all 5 bales of cardboard, collect the facts and enter in the draw for a prize. www.ravenrecycling.org/crush.

IT'S ALL about Coffee and Chocolate. 5 pm, Wednesday, November 27, Midnight Sun Coffee Roasters, 9002 Quartz Road (at Icycle Sport). Fundraiser/slide show for Hands of Hope. 668-7082

WOMEN'S HOCKEY Jamboree, Nov 29 & 30 at Takhini Arena. Registration is now open! Guaranteed 5 games and banquet.

For registration forms email wwhajamboree@gmail.com

COFFEE HOUSE! Sat. Dec. 7, featuring Darcy Lindberg, Alana Martinson the Open Stage! Help set up 6PM, 7PM Open stage sign-up, 730pm show! $5 United Church Bsmt, 6th+Main, 633-4255

HEART OF Riverdale Community Centre Open House Nov 17, 2 to 5pm in Riverdale, 38A Lewes, Rendevous Plaza. Activities for all, mini show at 3pm.

Theheartofriverdale.com or 393-2623

CAROLING CHORISTERS, singers from the Whitehorse Community Choir will come to YOUR Christmas party and sing carols for 20 minutes. Nov 29, Dec 13, 14 & 20. Fundraiser. 633-4786

Funeral service will be held at the Carmacks Recreation Centre on

Saturday Nov. 16, 2013 at 2:00pm.

WOLF CREEK Community Association AGM - Wednesday, Nov 27th, 7pm at Golden Horn School.

Info: wolfcreekca@gmail.com

Potlatch to follow at 5:00pm.

All are welcome.

HU, A spiritual love song to God, regain peace, love and comfort. Tuesday Nov 5 and Tuesday Dec 3 at 8:10 pm at Elijah Smith School. 633-6594 or www.eckankar-yt.ca FIRST NATIONS Craft Fair at Elijah Smith School Nov. 30th. Book your tables now!

Call the school at 667-5992.

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL Action Circle, letter writing to protect and promote human rights worldwide. Tuesday, November 26 at Whitehorse United Church, 7:00pm-9:00pm, www.amnesty.ca, 667-2389 HOSPICE YUKON: Free, confidential services offering compassionate support to those facing advanced illness, death and bereavement. Visit our lending library, 409 Jarvis, M-F, 11:30-3:00. 667-7429, www.hospiceyukon.net THE ALZHEIMER/DEMENTIA Family Caregiver Support Group meets monthly. Group for family/friends caring for someone with Dementia. Info call Cathy 633-7337 or Joanne 668-7713

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

Out Of respect fOr the fAmily, pleAse nO drugs Or AlcOhOl.

The Blackjack and Sam families sadly announce the passing of

Cynthia Roxanne Blackjack Feb. 10, 1984 - Nov. 7, 2013

Beloved daughter, sister, aunty, cousin and friend.

2nd Anniversary November 15th, 2013

34 years old was too young. Your tragic death is still very hard to live with.

The beautiful things you have accomplished in your life are healing our pain but emptiness is with us everyday.

We love you and miss you everyday.

1974 TRILLIUM travel trailer, exc condit, many new upgrades, must be seen. $4,800 firm. 867-634-2501 2013 7'X14' enclosed trailer, ramp/man door, LED interior light, dual 3500 lb axles, c/w full size spare, is practically new. $5,750.00 obo.

333-0484

Your dad, your mom, your brother and your sister, your family and all of your friends.

16ʼ HOME-MADE tandem axle trailer, $650 obo. 336-4025

Anniversary Mass will be celebrated at

26ʼ 5TH wheel, needs deck, $500. 633-2760 2012 FOREST River 16ʼx8ʼ6” cargo trailer, never used, top quality, $7,500 trade or offer.

660-4220 2010 4X8 enclosed utility trailer. 950 lb capacity, 2,000 lb axle, sturdy, lightweight, great condit, $1,950. 333-0747 7FT`10``VALLEY CAMPER , clean, new wiring/plug, double bed, sink, 3-burner top stove, toilet, furnace, battery, propane tanks included. No hot water tank, light enough for 1/2-ton truck. $2,400. 633-6009.

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St-Michel Cathedral, Sherbrooke, Quebec on Saturday November 16th at 8am.

At Sacré-Coeur Cathedral, Whitehorse, Yukon on Sunday, November 17th at 10:10am.

In Memory of

Denis Chabot 1977-2011

currency exchange

$ € £ ¥ Best rates in town for US & Euros Open 7 Days A Week Whitehorse Money Mart 2190 second avenue (867) 668-6930

Graham Stockley

74, passed away on Oct 31, 2013 after a battle with cancer.

He is survived by his wife of 41 years, Patricia, his son Gerry and family Ann-Marie, Kyle, Paige and Jaxon, his son Al and family Garrett and Katie-Mae, his daughter Tracy and family Tim, Taylor and Tiffany.

Graham and Pat moved to the Yukon in 1972 where they owned Yukon Pump. After 30 years they retired and moved to B.C. in 2001. Graham loved being outdoors with family and friends, and he enjoyed farming, golfing, traveling and playing guitar.

For his final request, he will be returned “home” to the Yukon at a later date.

Condolences may be directed to the family at www.nunes-pottinger.com.

In lieu of flowers, a donation may be made to the BC/Yukon Cancer Society.

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TALKS AT the Old Fire Hall featuring Sharon Shorty and Claire Ness. See comedians talk about their process of creating characters. Nov. 19, 5:30-6:30 pm. For info 667 8476 AGM, TABLE Tennis Yukon, Sun. Dec. 1, 2:00pm, Whitehorse Elementary School. Info 668-3358

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

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

Health Centre

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

Library Friday - 1:30 p.m.

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

Health Centre

Dawson City Y.T.

Thursday - 8:00 p.m.

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

Health Centre Saturday 7:00 p.m.

Community Support Centre 1233 2nd Ave.

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

Health Centre

Faro Y.T.

Friday - 1:30 p.m.

Health Centre

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

Health Centre

Mayo Y.T.

Friday - 1:30 p.m.

Health Centre

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

Health Centre

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

Health Centre

YUKONERS CONCERNED About Oil & Gas Exploration/Development, video & discussion, consequences of fracking, connecting to LNG, protecting Yukon's water, wildlife.

Tuesday, November 19, 7pm, Da Ku Cultural Centre, Haines Junction

ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS MEETINGS in Whitehorse

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

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

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

NS - No Smoking OM - open mixed, includes anyone CM - closed mixed, includes anyone with a desire to stop drinking

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AA 867-668-5878 24 HRS A DAY

Has your life been affected by

Teslin Y.T. Wednesday - 7:00pm Wellness Centre #4 McLeary Friday - 1:30p.m.

Health Centre

someone’s

Friday - 1:30 p.m.

Health Centre

AWG TABLE tennis trial, Whitehorse Elementary School, Sat. Nov. 16, registration 1:30pm, fee $10. Info 668-3358 NORTH END Gallery, Halin de Repentigny reception Nov 8 till end of November, oil on canvas, Transition, Halin's first show in two years featuring new works. 393-3590 YUKON LIBERAL Party Annual General Meeting, December 4th 5:30pm, MacBride Museum. This is notice of constitutional amendments, see YLP.ca for details. Only members may vote. Join or renew at YLP.ca YUKON FEDERAL Green Party AGM Tuesday, November 26, 7:00 p.m. MacBride Museum Lower Gallery. Green Party of Canada leader Elizabeth May (via Skype). Pledge auction, election of officers. Information: 633-5726 ARCTIC EDGE Skating Club Fundraising Bingo, Elks Lodge Friday November 15, 2013. Doors open at 4 pm. Early bird game starts at 6 pm. Come out and support the club!

THE LITTLEST Art & Craft Fair, 15 years of handmade and local gifts. Saturday, December 7th ,10am – 5pm. 56 Carpiquet Road, Takhini North

456-4567 NEED UNDERGROUND WIRE?

Narcotics

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MEETINGS:

Wednesdays 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm #2 - 407 Ogilvie St. <BYTE> Fridays 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm 4071 - 4th Ave. <Many Rivers>

contact 667-7142

Tuesday - 8:00 p.m.

Soaring Eagles Sewing Centre

Watson Lake Y.T.

TIBETAN BUDDHIST scholar Khentrul Lodro Thaye Rinpoche returns to Whitehorse November 28. Public talk on mind and how mental states affect accomplishment of goals. 7:00 pm High Country Inn.

MEETINGS

Friday - 1:30 p.m.

Health Centre

Telegraph Creek B.C.

DECREASING SUFFERING in difficult situations. Buddhist teacher Khentrul Lodro Thaye Rinpoche. Nov 30, Dec 1, 10:00am-5:00pm, Vista Outdoor Learning.

All welcome. Suggested donation $220.

Register: savonian@hotmail.com.

AL-ANON

Ross River Y.T. Tagish Y.T. Monday 7:30pm Lightwalkers Group Bishop’s Cabin, end of road along California Beach

FREE NINE-WEEK study of key Old Testament topics Wednesday nights 7:00pm starting Nov. 13 at Whitehorse Church of the Nazarene, 633-4903, details at http://www.whitehorsenazarene.org/old-testament.html

DRUG PROBLEM?

Do you neeD storage?

MEDIATION YUKON AGM on Dec. 3 at 6:30pm, Canada Games boardroom.

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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 )

Friday, November 15, 2013 HUMAN RIGHTS Day is December 10. Join the Amnesty International Action Circle to write letters to protect and promote human rights worldwide. Whitehorse United Church (upstairs)7:00pm-9:00pm. www.amnesty.ca MAE BACHUR Animal Shelter Dog Wash every 3rd Saturday. Next one November 16th,10 - 2, Feed Store Pet Junction. Your pooch gets nice and clean and you stay dry.

BARN DANCE, Saturday Nov. 23, 7:30pm, Old Fire Hall, w/Bob Kuiper, Barndance Band & the Fiddleheads. Adults $10, youth $5, families $25, tickets at the door. For more info 633-4501 TAKE BACK the Night! Mon, Nov 25, 5:00pm. Women and children meet at Yukon Courts, men invited to join at 6:00pm at Kwanlin Dun Cultural Centre for speakers, music, food. 667-2693 ATELIER SUR la violence faite aux personnes aînées. Mercredi 27 novembre de 18h30 a 20h30 au Centre de la francophonie. Un échange sur la violence déclarée et non-déclarée. 668-2663, poste 320 GENERAL METING, Yukon Queer Film Alliance. Monday December 2 @ 6:30pm, 40 Dieppe Dr. Meeting to discuss Coordinator position for Festival.

CELEBRATE SIMA, Saturday November 23rd, 4:00-11:00 at the Ski Hill. Entertainment by Claire Ness, Second Cousins, Dave Haddock Ensemble, food and beverage available, silent auction/door prizes, free Admission LEADING THINKERS/INNOVATORS will deliver a series of talks aimed to inspire thoughts/action as part of TEDxWhitehorse, Yukon Arts Centre, November 23, 9.30am-5 pm. More info: tedxwhitehorse.com

Services - INSULATION Upgrade your insulation & reduce your heating bills Energy North Construction Inc. (1994) for all your insulation & coating needs Cellulose & polyurethane spray foam Free estimate: 667-7414 SHARPENING SERVICES. For all your sharpening needs - quality sharpening, fair price & good service.

At corner of 6th & Strickland.

667-2988 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 MC RENOVATION Construction & Renovations Laminated floor, siding, decks, tiles Kitchen, Bathroom, Doors, Windows Framing, Board, Drywall, Painting Drop Ceiling, Fences No job too small Free estimates Michael 336-0468 yt.mcr@hotmail.com THOMAS FINE CARPENTRY • construction • renovation • finishing • cabinets • tiling • flooring • repairs • specialty woodwork • custom kitchens 867-633-3878 or cell 867-332-5531 thomasfinecarpentry@northwestel.net ANGYʼS MASSAGE Mobile Service.

Therapeutic Massage & Reflexology.

Angelica Ramirez Licensed Massage Therapist.

867-335-3592 or 867-668-7724 angysmassage@hotmail.com 200-26 Azure Rd Whitehorse YT, Y1A 6E1 BLUE HILL MASONRY • Cultured Stone • Ceramic Tile • Brick Andre Jobin 633-2286

NORTHRIDGE BOBCAT SERVICES • Snow Plowing • Site Prep & Backfills • Driveways • Post Hole Augering • Light Land Clearing • General Bobcat Work Fast, Friendly Service 867-335-1106 BUSY BEAVERS Painting, Pruning Hauling, Snow Shovelling and General Labour Call Francois & Katherine 456-4755 CUTTING EDGE BOBCAT SERVICES •Experienced operator •Insured & WCB certified •Snow removal •Site preparation •Landscaping •Backfills •Asphalt prep work •Clean up & haul away More Info & Free Estimates 333-9560 LOG CABINS & LOG HOMES Quality custom craftsmanship Using only standing dead local timber For free estimate & consultation contact: Eldorado Log Builders Inc. phone: 867.393.2452 website: www.ykloghomes.com S.V.P. CARPENTRY Journey Woman Carpenter Interior/Exterior Finishing/Framing Small & Medium Jobs “Make it work and look good.”

Call Susana (867) 335-5957 susanavalerap@live.com IBEX BOBCAT SERVICES “Country Residential Snow Plowing” •Post hole augering •Light landscaping •Preps & Backfills Honest & Prompt Service Amy Iles Call 667-4981 or 334-6369 HOUSECLEANER AVAILABLE Fast and thorough No criminal record 30-year Yukon resident $30/hr 335-0009 TCM MAID SERVICE Reliable, Thorough & Professional Reasonable Rates References available 335-4421or 393-3868 LOG CABINS: Professional Scribe Fit log buildings at affordable rates.

Contact: PF Watson, Box 40187, Whitehorse, YT, Y1A 6M9 668-3632 PASCAL PAINTING CONTRACTOR PASCAL AND REGINE Residential - Commercial Ceilings, Walls Textures, Floors Spray work Excellent quality workmanship Free estimates pascalreginepainting@northwestel.net 633-6368 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 BOBCAT AND BACKHOE SERVICES in Whitehorse, Marsh Lake, Tagish area Call Andreas 660-4813

60 Below Snow Management Commercial & Residential

Snow Removal (867) 336-3570

Parking Lots, Sidewalks, Rooftops and Sanding

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

Business Opportunities

Looking for New Business / Clients?

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

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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 TIMOTHY/BROME MIX round bales for sale.

Irrigated quality hay, netting wrapped Delivery available Phone 334-4589 WINTER HORSE boarding/pasturing available close to Whitehorse.

Excellent feed with economical prices.

Phone 334-4589 4 HORSE steel/fiberglass trailer w dividers, 4 side doors, 2 back doors, small storage compartment at front, 2" ball hitch, located in Atlin, $1,000 obo. Anna @ 250-651-7548

BELGIAN/NEW ZEALAND giant cross rabbits, excellent breeding stock, male & female. 668-5964 YUKON PORK MEAT Cut & Wrapped Government inspected 25lb. boxes or individual order YUKON VALLEY FARM 335-4431 HORSE BOARD on Takhini River Road, 100+ acres, immediate access to Dawson Trail. $175/month 3 months in advance.

633-4868 or 335-1509.

GRASS-FED BEEF No hormones/antibiotics $4.50/lb hanging weight Sold by quarter, half or whole YUKON VALLEY FARM 335-4431

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 BOYʼS CLOTHES from sizes 2+ and up, by the bag, asking $60. 393-2630 BOYʼS WINTER snowsuit, $25, have other jackets for spring and summer. 393-2630 ONE-PIECE BOYʼS snowsuit, size 3+, blue/black/grey, by Molehill, $60. 393-2630 LARGE COSCO stroller w canopy, $50, white Ikea baby crib, $50. 633-5427

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TITAN DRYWALL Taping & Textured Ceilings 27 years experience Residential or Commercial No job too small Call Dave 336-3865

Sports Equipment

CERTIFIED TECH SHOP

SUBARU GURU Fix•Buy•Sell Used Subarus 30 year Journeyman Mechanic Towing available Mario 333-4585

Heat moulded skates Skate sharpening Downhill, X-ski and Snowboard repairs and maintenance Bike maintenance and repairs Fast, thorough service

ELECTRICIAN FOR all your jobs Large or small Licensed Electrician Call MACK N MACK ELECTRIC for a competitive quote!

867-332-7879

The Hougen Centre, Whitehorse, Yukon

in the Hougen Centre, 305 Main St. 668-6848

NORDIC TRACK treadmill, $50. 668-5863, lv. msg.

SNOW CLEARING Sidewalks, Driveways, Commercial, Residential Call Francis at Speedy Sparkle 668-6481 or cell 334-8480

UNIVERSAL GYM, approx 400 lbs & weights, $200. 668-5863, lv. msg.

AJAY FUN & Fitness exercise bike, $20.

668-5863, lv. msg.

CONSULTING SERVICES available for proponent(s) requiring government permitting and YESAB assessment work on their projects.

Reasonable hourly rate Please contact Zodie at 403-785-7150 or zodie.groves@gmail.com

ROAD BIKE. Giant "Avail" fits women 5'7"-5'10". Lightly used. This is a fast, high-end bike with great components. You feel like you're flying! 336-2108 1991 ALPINE ll double track, good condit, c/w winch and spare parts. $2,000. (867) 634-2157

Cromarty General Contracting Licenced boiler mechanic (repairs & services) Home & office renovations Bookkeeping services Residential cleaning For boiler & renovation services call 334-2701 For bookkeeping & cleaning services call 335-2702

AVALANCHE BEACON Tracker DTS, excellent condition, easy to use, 2 avail, $130 ea. 821-6011 KICK SLED in good shape, $360 obo.

633-4018 WANTED: HEAVY duty professional treadmill in good working condition. Leave msg between 9am & 5pm @ 667-2737 ASSORTMENT OF cross-country & tour skis, poles & boots, different sizes, reasonably priced. 994-2233

Lost & Found LOST, SCHIPPERKE (small black tailless dog), Porter Creek/KK/Takhini/College sightings, answers to Spud. Call 335-8135, 668-3885, 633-3294 LOST, SET of keys on a unique purple/blue metal chain-mail ball. Heather at 335-9876.

LOST: ON Alaska Hwy south of Watson Lake, Lab-Rottweiler-cross dog, friendly, called Mazi. Call 867-536-7868 or email yukongrannie@gmail.com if found.

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

Look , y d r Lo who’s Lordy! 40!

Happy Birthday

November 17th Love from your whole family!

WHERE DO I GET THE NEWS? The Yukon News is available at these wonderful stores in Whitehorse:

HILLCREST

PORTER CREEK

RIVERDALE:

Airport Chalet Airport Snacks & Gifts

Coyote Video Goody’s Gas Green Garden Restaurant Heather’s Haven Super A Porter Creek Trails North

38 Famous Video Super A Riverdale Tempo Gas Bar

GRANGER Bernie’s Race-Trac Gas Bigway Foods

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

THE YuKoN NEWS IS AlSo AVAIlABlE AT No CHARGE IN All YuKoN CoMMuNITIES AND ATlIN, B.C.

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

MONDAY • WEDNESDAY • FRIDAY

“YOUR COMMUNITY CONNECTION” WEDNESDAY * FRIDAY

AND …

Kopper King Hi-Country RV Park McCrae Petro Takhini Gas Yukon College Bookstore

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NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND CLAIMANTS in the matter of the estate of

ALEDA MARIE KINSEy Deceased, of Whitehorse, in the Yukon territory, who died on

October 3, 2013.

Request foR PRoPosals: Delivery of 8 Community Mining Awareness Workshops Seeking a qualified organization or contractor to develop workshop materials, and deliver 8 workshops in Yukon Communities. The workshops are to provide communities with information that can assist them in making informed decisions around employment/business opportunities and mining development in their local area.

all persons having claims against the above-mentioned estate are requested to file the same, supported by Statutory Declaration, with the undersigned on or before november 27, 2013 after which date the said estate will be To obtain application documents, distributed having reference only to please email request to: claims which have been so filed. all persons indebted to the said rfp@ymta.org. estate are requested to make immediate payment to the estate Submission deadline is in care of the undersigned.

2 column footer for YMTA November ad template 18th, 2013.Minimum white space steve Kinsey #4 Juniper Drive Whitehorse, Yukon Y1a 4W7 1-867-393-3390

above and left of logo

Minimum white space above tag line

LOVE-SEAT, HUNTER green with gold diamond pattern; wood trim on arms, good condit, $50 obo. 333-0503

Childcare LOLAʼS DAYHOME Located downtown Has spaces available for children 12 months & older Fully licenced & ECD levels 12 years experience Enjoy a clean & learning environment Call 668-5185 LITTLE MUNCHKINS DAYCARE New - has openings for children ages 6-months to school age Great downtown location!

7:30am - 6:00pm French introduction for pre-schoolers, specialized infant room, loving & nurturing 668-2075

Furniture REAL WOOD chairs, need new upholstery, $5 ea, side tables, $25 ea. 393-2275

Yukon Mine Training Association 2099 - 2nd Avenue Whitehorse, YT Y1A 1B5 Tel: 867-633-6463

Friday, November 15, 2013

LIVING ROOM set, kitchen table/chairs, dryer, etc. 633-5938 for info or best offer.

STEREO CABINET (or other uses), 4ʼ high, black with glass doors on castors, offers.

333-9020.

TO GIVE away, twin boxspring, mattress & frame. 667-4540

REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS

SPECIFIED PROCEDURES REPORT

CONSULTANT SERVICES FOR OGILVIE STREET RECONSTRUCTION

The City is inviting proposals from interested individuals or firms for the development of a Specified Procedures Report.

Sealed proposals, addressed to the City Engineer, in an envelope plainly marked “Proposal for Consultant Services for the City of Whitehorse - Ogilvie Street Reconstruction Project” will be received at the Municipal Services Building, 4210 4th Avenue, Whitehorse, YT, Y1A 1C2, up to 4:00 p.m.

Local Time on Wednesday, December 11, 2013.

Respondents should submit bids in writing, enclosed in an sealed envelope clearly marked "RFP 2013-00384 - Specified Procedures Report" and addressed to Manager, Financial Services City of Whitehorse 2121 Second Avenue Whitehorse, Yukon, Y1A 1C2 Proposals will be accepted before 4:00 p.m. Pacific Standard Time Friday, November 22, 2013.

Proposal documents may be picked up from the office of the Manager of Financial Services, City Hall, 2121 Second Avenue, Whitehorse, Yukon, after 12:00 noon Pacific Standard Time on Friday, November 8, 2013.

Proposals will be "EVALUATED IN THE BEST INTEREST OF THE CITY OF WHITEHORSE." Proposals submitted by facsimile will not be accepted or considered.

Complete terms of reference for the proposed consultant services may be obtained, after 1:00 pm on Wednesday, November 13, 2013 from the office of the City Engineer at the Municipal Services Building, 4210 4th Ave., Whitehorse, YT, Y1A 1C2.

The City of Whitehorse invites proposals from consultants to provide the engineering consulting services necessary to complete the preliminary design, detailed design, and construction management for the Ogilvie Street Reconstruction Project.

All proposals shall be “evaluated in the best interest of the City of Whitehorse”.

All enquiries to:

All inquiries regarding this Request for Proposals may be directed to the Director of Corporate Services at 867-334-2122 between the hours of 8:30 am and 3:00 pm Monday to Friday.

Mr. Dale Cebuliak, C.E.T. Sr Private Development Technologist Phone (867) 668-8311 Fax: (867) 668-8386 Email: dale.cebuliak@ whitehorse.ca

www.whitehorse.ca

www.whitehorse.ca

Personals DRUG PROBLEM? Narcotics Anonymous meetings Wed. 7pm-8pm #2 - 407 Ogilvie St. BYTE Office

MICROFIBER SAGE-COLOURED sofa, loveseat and chair, non smoking household, good condit, slight damage on chair, $600 obo. 456-7157 OAK WALL unit, 72”hx32”wX18”d, 2 leaded glass doors, 2 oak doors, $200 obo, 3 wood nesting tables, $50 obo, 7ʼ Spruce Xmas tree, $25 obo. 633-6878 MIRRORS, SHELVING, chairs, fireplace, mini-fridge, snowblower, massage chair, best offers. 333-0602

FRI. 7pm-8:30pm 4071 - 4th Ave Many Rivers Office

ARE YOU MÉTIS? Are you registered?

Would you like to be involved?

There is a Yukon Metis Nation that needs your support Contact 668-6845

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

Applicant/Licensee Demandeur/Titulaire

Water Source Location Point d’eau/Lieu

Type of Undertaking Type d’entreprise

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

PM13-045

41497 Yukon Inc

Placer Mining

December 10, 2013

PM13-049

Martin Knutson

Browns Creek Bonanza Creek and Gauvin Gulch

Placer Mining

December 10, 2013

Any person may submit comments or recommendations, in writing, by the deadline for notice.

REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS

ANTIQUE WOODEN child's school desk.

Width of table part: 21”, length 14", total height of chair part 31.5”, pull-out drawer. $120. 821-6011

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

Toute personne peut soumettre ses commentaires ou ses recommandations à l’Office avant la date limite indiquée sur le présent avis.

Pour voir les demandes, consultez le registre en ligne WATERLINE au http://www.yukonwaterboard.ca ou rendez-vous au bureau de l’Office des eaux du Yukon. Pour de plus amples renseignements, veuillez communiquer avec le secrétariat de l’Office au 867-456-3980.

the procurement support centre

(formerly called Contract Services, 2nd Floor – 9010 Quartz Rd.)

i s r e l o c at i n g t o : Suite 101 – 104 Elliott Street (W-3C) Whitehorse, YT Y1A 0M2

ph: 867-667-5385 fax: 867-393-6245 email: contracts@gov.yk.ca

FOR OFFICE USE ONLY Whitehorse Star, Yukon News: November 15, 2013

Operations will cease at the current location at 4:30 p.m. on Wednesday, November 13, 2013 Operations will resume at the new location at 8:00 a.m. on Monday, November 18, 2013 No tenders will be closing during this time; however, we will accept bids and proposals

Please refer to the tender documents for the closing location.

The staff at the Procurement Support Centre thank you for your patience during this transition and look forward to serving you at our new more accessible ground-level location.

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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

Announcements

MATURE GENTLEMAN, N/S, very clean, seeks N/S female for possible permanent relationship.

393-2545 or email ceberus44@yahoo.ca

Liquor Corporation

LiQUoR acT Take noTice ThaT, Karina Lapointe of Box 20404, Whitehorse, in Yukon, is making application for a Food Primary - beer/wine and Off-premises Liquor Licence, in respect of the premises known as Café Balzam situated at Km 10 - Takhini Hot Springs Road, Whitehorse, Yukon. any person who wishes to object to the granting of this application should file their objection in writing (with reasons) to: President, Yukon Liquor corporation 9031 Quartz Road Whitehorse, Yukon Y1a 4P9 not later than 4:30pm on the 20th day of November, 2013 and also serve a copy of the objection by registered mail upon the applicant.

The first time of publication of notice is November 1, 2013.

The second time of publication of notice is November 8, 2013.

The third time of publication of notice is November 15, 2013. any questions concerning this specific noTice are to be directed to Licensing & Social Responsibility at 867-667-5245 or 1-800-661-0408, local 5245.

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TENDER NOTICE SNOW REMOVAL OF SIDEWALKS, PARKING AREAS AND DRIVEWAYS YUKON HOUSING UNITS MAYO, YUKON 2013/14 Sealed tenders, plainly marked “with the project title” will be received up to 2:00 p.m. local time, Wednesday, November 20, 2013, at Mayo Housing Association Office in Mayo.

Tender documents may be obtained from the Mayo Housing Association Office in Mayo, phone (867) 9962358.

For questions relating to the bidding requirements, you may call Sharon McCreadie, Contract Administrator at (867)667-5796.

For questions relating to the tender specifications you may contact Wendy Andre, Project Manager at (867) 996-2358.

The lowest or any tender is not necessarily accepted.

Yukon Housing Corporation now has all public tenders listed on our website at www.housing.yk.ca/ tenders.

PuBLIC TENDER

REqUEST fOR PROPOSAL REGIONAL GRAVITY SURVEY, DAWSON AREA, YUKON Project Description: Collection of gravity data at 2 km station spacing, centered on the Eldorado/Bonanza creeks area, west-central Yukon.

Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title.

The closing date for submissions is November 28, 2013. Please refer to the procurement documents for the closing time and location.

Before November 14, 2013, documents may be obtained from the Procurement Support Centre, Department of Highways and Public Works, Second Floor, 9010 Quartz Road, Whitehorse, Yukon (867) 667-5385. On or after November 18, 2013, documents may be obtained from the Procurement Support Centre, Department of Highways and Public Works, Suite 101, 104 Elliot Street, Whitehorse, Yukon. Technical questions may be directed to Carolyn Relf at (867) 667-8892.

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

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

View or download documents at: www.gov.yk.ca/tenders/tms.html

MAINTENANCE FOR THE BEAVER CREEK SOLID WASTE FACILITY Project Description: To provide maintenance services at the solid waste facility in Beaver Creek.

Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title.

The closing date for submissions is November 22, 2013. Please refer to the procurement documents for the closing time and location.

Before November 14, 2013, documents may be obtained from the Procurement Support Centre, Department of Highways and Public Works, Second Floor, 9010 Quartz Road, Whitehorse, Yukon (867) 667-5385. On or after November 18, 2013, documents may be obtained from the Procurement Support Centre, Department of Highways and Public Works, Suite 101, 104 Elliot Street, Whitehorse, Yukon. Technical questions may be directed to Darrin Fredrickson at (867) 667-5195.

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

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

View or download documents at: www.gov.yk.ca/tenders/tms.html

Energy, Mines & Resources

Government Community Services

Whitehorse Duplicate

Bridge Club

November 13, 2013

1. Bruce Beaton Lynn Daffe 2. Mark Davey Chris Bookless 3. Diane Emond Don Emond

Craft Fairs

Chrisalyn Creations Arts & CrAfts sAle Friday, November 15th, 4-8 PM Saturday, November 16th, 12-5 PM Sunday, November 17th, 1-4 PM

94 Alsek road ❧ 668-5885 for info.

PUBLIC TENDER DESIGN - BUILD F.H. COLLINS SECONDARY SCHOOL REPLACEMENT F.H COLLINS SECONDARY SCHOOL - BLDG.#1221 WHITEHORSE YUKON 2013/2015

Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title.

The closing date for submissions is December 12, 2013. Please refer to the procurement documents for the closing time and location.

Before November 14, 2013, documents may be obtained from the Procurement Support Centre, Department of Highways and Public Works, Second Floor, 9010 Quartz Road, Whitehorse, Yukon (867) 667-5385. On or after November 18, 2013, documents may be obtained from the Procurement Support Centre, Department of Highways and Public Works, Suite 101, 104 Elliot Street, Whitehorse, Yukon. Technical questions may be directed to Philip Christensen at (867) 667-3543.

Documents may be purchased for the non-refundable sum of $500.00 Cash or Cheque.

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

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

The Yukon Business Incentive Policy will apply to this project.

Bidders are advised to review documents to determine Certificate of Recognition (COR) requirements for this project.

View or download documents at: www.gov.yk.ca/tenders/tms.html

Friday, November 15, 4-8pm Saturday, November 16, 12-5pm Sunday, November 17, 1-4pm, 94 Alsek Road. 668-5885 for info.

OLD FASHIONED Christmas Sale

November 16th & 23rd, 11am-3pm, Old Log Church Museum, 3rd Ave & Elliott Street.

Heritage inspired Christmas ornaments and more. 668-2555, www.oldlogchurchmuseum.ca

ANGLICAN CHURCH Women’s Annual Christmas sale and tea Saturday, Nov. 16 at Hellaby Hall, Elliot St, from 11am-3pm.

SPRUCE BOG

Saturday, November 16, Canada Games Centre, Flexi Hall, 11am-5pm. Early 10:15am opening for seniors and persons with mobility difficulties. Draw for gift baskets and draw for kids.

TAGISH CHRISTMAS Craft Sale & Breakfast Call for vendors!

Tagish Community Centre, Nov. 17, 9:30am12:30pm, $10/table. 14 vendors selling.

Breakfast: $8.00 per adult, $3.00 per child, runs until 12:00 PM. Pancake Breakfast. Info: 867-399-3407

CHRISTMAS CRAFT Sale, Seniors Centre 600 College Drive, November 23 from 10am to 2pm. 668-6208

CRANBERRY FAIR Sunday, November 24, more than 30 artists.

Starting at 10:15 am for those with reduced mobility. Open to all 11am-4 pm. Westmark Whitehorse

TAGISH PANCAKE Breakfast/ COUNTRY CHRISTMAS Craft Fair December 8th at Lorne Mountain Community Center, reserve a table now. 667-7083

Advertising It’s good for you.

CHRISALYN CREATIONS Arts & Crafts Sale

Highways and Public Works

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Canada’s favourite RV dealer has released a small number of its pristine late model 4x4 trucks, offered for a limited time on a FIRST-COME basis.

Due to the exceptional quality of these trucks demand is always high.

Supply is limited.

Sale starts today.

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#35906 2013 Ford F450 Lariat

Pristine Condition 4x4 trucks Gas & Diesel models Low Mileage - Virtually all “low-wear” hwy KMs Only European tourist driven 5 mo/year (summer only) Virtually NO winter use (No roadsalt exposure) Never used “off-road” Factory Warranty

9039 Quartz Road (across the road from Kal-Tire)

Mon Mon -- Fri Fri 8:30 8:30 -- 5:00 5:00 // Closed Closed Saturday Saturday && Sunday Sunday

Toll Free: 1-866-269-2783