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hree men have been arrested in connection with what the RCMP is calling “one of the most significant organized crime investigations in the territory to date.”

The investigation has been going on for most of the year, targeting a supply pipeline bringing illegal drugs into the territory, according to Yukon RCMP Cpl. Calista MacLeod.

“It’s significant mainly due to the substantial quantity of drugs seized and also because it is targeting an importation and distribution network,” she said.

“The importance of it is that we’re reducing harm to our Yukon communities by getting large quantities of drugs out of circulation and making it more difficult to bring it into the territory.”

MacLeod said the police have confiscated kilograms of marijuana and cocaine destined for the Yukon.

At a press conference yesterday, police displayed a fraction of the haul, including multiple bags of marijuana and cocaine along with weapons.

“This is just a sampling of the evidence that we have seized and gathered to date,”

MacLeod said. “It comes from a variety of locations in both Yukon and British Columbia.”

The arrests come after a joint investigation between the two RCMP divisions.

The confiscated drugs would produce at least 57,000 joints marijuana and at least 33,000 lines of cocaine, assuming the drug is not cut and mixed with another substance before sale, MacLeod said.

Police are not releasing the street value of the drugs collected.

“The problem remains that this is very difficult to estimate the amount of illegal drugs that are brought into our Yukon communities,” she said.

“We do know that we are only able to intercept a relatively small amount of the drugs that are coming into our entire area and there are far more people using drugs and bringing them in than there are those trying to stop it.

“Importers and dealers can be very creative and determined to sell drugs and they’re assisted in many ways by the people they sell to.”

MacLeod said police need Yukoners to help bring down the demand for drugs.

“Support from a healthy

community including friends, family, co-workers and others will make a difference in the amount of enforcement required to disrupt the supply,” she said.

Many of the specific details of the investigation are being kept out of public view until the accused have their day in court. MacLeod said the investigation is still ongoing and evidence is still being processed.

She would not say specifically where or when the drugs and weapons were located.

All three men are from the Lower Mainland.

Jesse Ritchie, 34 was arrested in Whitehorse and is charged with five counts of trafficking in cocaine, two counts of trafficking in marijuana and one count of conspiracy to traffic cocaine.

Asif Aslam, 37, and Matthew Truesdale, 35, were arrested in Surrey, B.C. and have been charged with two counts each of trafficking cocaine and one count each of conspiracy to traffic cocaine.

Charges of possession of the proceeds of crime are pending against two other men. Their names are not being released until they make a court appearance Feb. 26.

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Yukon Party shuts down debate on inquiry Jacqueline Ronson News Reporter

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he Yukon government will not call for an inquiry into the death of Teresa Ann Scheunert at this time.

The NDP brought forward a motion in the legislature this week urging the government to call an inquiry into the death of the 47-yearold nurse who died in the Watson Lake Hospital last year.

After explaining at length his reasons for not supporting an inquiry, Health Minister Doug Graham called for debate to be adjourned.

His proposal passed with the support of 11 Yukon Party MLAs. All NDP members and the Liberal member for the Klondike voted against the adjournment.

For the past couple of weeks, the NDP has been asking the government to respond to questions surrounding Scheunert’s death.

She was admitted to the hospital for back pain related to a workplace injury, and died two weeks later.

The coroner found that Scheunert died from a toxic combination of painkillers administered to her at the hospital. The death was ruled accidental.

Scheunert’s sister and two daughters, who live in Alberta, were in the Yukon earlier this month to find answers and push for an inquiry into the death.

The family received a copy of the coroner’s report on June 14, 2013.

But less than five hours later, the chief coroner contacted them and said that there was in error in the report, and it would have to be retracted.

A second report was released on July 9, 2013, with substantial changes.

In a release to the media, chief coroner Kirsten Macdonald explained that the error had to do with medications prescribed in Scheunert’s name at the pharmacy in Watson Lake.

The first report suggested that Scheunert may have taken some of those drugs in addition to what had been administered through the hospital.

Additional evidence showed that this did not occur.

The second report was corrected

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Teresa Ann Scheunert, left, with her daughter Crystal Thomas. The Yukon government will not hold an inquiry into Scheunert’s death at the Watson Lake hospital last year, despite the family’s call for one.

to reflect that new information, according to the release.

But changes were made to the second report that are not related to whether or not Scheunert took medication in addition to what was recorded on her charts.

For example, the first report said her chart showed no administration of oxycodone after June 7, while the second indicated that records show she received a dose on June 17.

Neither the coroner nor the government has answered to this or other discrepancies to date.

Macdonald was not available for comment this week, but indicated that she may be available for an

interview next week.

“It would appear from the facts that the system let down Ms. Scheunert,” according to both versions of the coroner’s report.

“When a member of the nursing staff dies of mixed drug toxicity in a rural hospital, it has a huge impact on the hospital staff and on the community members who rely on them,” said NDP MLA Jan Stick in her lengthy speech Wednesday. “The Official Opposition is calling for a public inquiry into Ms. Scheunert’s death because her family, her coworkers and the community she worked in deserve answers about how this death occurred and how

it could have been prevented. The public deserves to know what happened and what can be done differently so no such death occurs again.”

Health Minister Graham said there are processes in place to deal with issues of patient safety and complaints against the hospital, some of which are currently underway.

If the family wants an inquiry, they could go through the courts and have a judge decide if it would be appropriate, he said.

“We have then a disassociated person outside of involvement in this area who would be in a position to assess many of the facts and

to assess exactly the information provided by all parties instead of just one and, therefore, make an assessment about whether or not a medical inquest would be appropriate under the circumstances. That was the system that was followed during the Rusk inquiry. It’s a process that obviously works and I think it’s the process that should be followed if the family’s questions are not answered at the patient safety review.”

The family has been looking for a lawyer but has yet to find one willing to represent them, Scheunert’s daughter said at a recent press conference.

Contact Jacqueline Ronson at jronson@yukon-news.com

MLAs co-operate on collaborative care Jacqueline Ronson News Reporter

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ukon’s legislative assembly agrees that Dawson City’s new hospital should incorporate a collaborative care model.

That essentially means that different types of health-care professionals, such as doctors, nurses and pharmacists, work as a team to deliver patient care.

Interim Liberal Leader Sandy Silver brought forward the motion, which was subsequently amended

by Health Minister Doug Graham and then sub-amended by Premier Darrell Pasloski.

The original motion read, “That

this House urges the government of Yukon to work with health professionals and key stakeholders in Dawson City to transition the Dawson City hospital into a collaborative primary health-care facility that supports community nurses and meets the needs of the community.”

Silver pointed to an auditor general’s report that found that Yukon government had not done the appropriate needs assessment to determine that the community would benefit from an acute care facility.

Acute care means having around-the-clock emergency access to physicians. The Yukon government has committed to provide that

in Dawson City.

Silver said he hopes that the acute services won’t take away from other important elements of community health.

“Residents want nurses to use their full capacity in the facility and in the community. To me that means health promotion, health care, mental health services, services in the school, and the list goes on.

I have also heard from the doctors very loud and very clear. Doctors provide distinct skills, knowledge et cetera. It’s different from other health care professionals and it is a vital part of the whole health care team.”

Graham said that a needs assess-

ment is currently being done, as recommended by the auditor general.

It is currently under review, and recommendations will be released shortly, he said.

Graham spoke at length to the need for different health-care professionals to work together to provide the highest level of care, so opposition members were surprised when he proposed an amendment that removed the word “collaborative” from the motion.

He suggest that the government work “to operate the Dawson City hospital as an acute care and community care facility that supports multi-disciplinary health care services, and access to technology

including telehealth.”

But “multi-disciplinary” and “collaborative” mean the same thing, said Community Services Minister Brad Cathers when opposition members protested.

“I don’t think I’ve ever heard so much outrage before over the use of terms that a thesaurus would tell you are basically identical.”

Pasloski suggested changing the amendment to read “multi-disciplinary collaborative health care services.”

Everyone agreed that was a good solution, and the motion passed unanimously as amended.

Contact Jacqueline Ronson at jronson@yukon-news.com

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It has not, and it will be up to the Yukon Development Corporation to figure that out, replied Premier Darrell Pasloski.

The Yukon government has forSilver said that the government mally instructed the Yukon Develophas dragged its heels on building new ment Corporation to start planning hydro, resulting in the current situato build a new hydroelectric dam. tion where the territory has no excess “A substantial increase in Yukon’s hydro power. power supply will be necessary “We are at an energy cliff, because over time to foster responsible and the Yukon Party spent a lot of time sustainable economic development trying to sell our energy corporation in the territory,” said Scott Kent, the instead of figuring out how to expand minister responsible for the corporaout hydro capacity.” tion, in a news release.

He also asked how the governThe government asked the develment plans to pay for it. opment corporation to identify a new Kent replied that he expects at hydro project that will be sufficient least some of the money will come to meet the anticipated growth in from the federal government. demand.

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That board must then consult the public and develop recommendations, said Dixon. The environment minister has the final say.

“I respect the sentiments of many people who have signed the petition on the floor today who are now with the House and I have read the news stories and talked personally with people concerned about the practice of harvesting bears near major roadways or near dwellings. However, I must respect the process that the UFA and the final agreements set out.”

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Thyroid treatment adequate in Yukon: Graham

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The government responded yesterday to a petition calling for a female The government responded yesthyroid specialist to work in Yukon as terday to a petition calling for the end of bear hunting within a kilometre of soon as possible.

The thyroid gland excretes horYukon roads. mones that regulates how the body Environment Minister Currie Dixuses energy and makes proteins. on said that he appreciates that roadThyroid dysfunction can cause a wide side bears provide valuable wildlife array of symptoms and is sometimes viewing and tourism opportunities.

But agreements with First Nations difficult to diagnose.

Last year, 56 Yukon patients were must come first, he said. referred to Outside specialists for Those agreements set out the process for changing hunting regula- thyroid problems, said Health Minister Doug Graham in his response. tions, and those processes must be “The relatively small number of Yufollowed, said Dixon. koners diagnosed with thyroid prob“Any member of the public, any lems each year, in our opinion, does group and any organization can make proposals for regulations to be not warrant the high cost of hiring a thyroid specialist for the territory.” changed, removed or put in place.”

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Mining company execs talk shop Jacqueline Ronson News Reporter

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he companies in charge of Yukon’s three producing mines spent $8 million this year just on flying employees to and from their sites.

The producers presented this week at the Yukon Geoscience Forum.

Ron Light, general manager of Capstone Mining Corp.’s Minto copper mine, and Brad Thrall, chief operating officer for Alexco Resource Corp.’s Bellekeno silver mine, spoke to the challenges of people, infrastructure and permitting.

No representative from Yukon Zinc’s Wolverine zinc mine was on hand, but information from that operation was included in the presentation.

Training and attracting more Yukoners could be a big difference, said Light and Thrall.

Forty-eight per cent of Bellekeno operational costs are related to employees, and for Minto that number jumps to 65.

Those “people” costs include not only salaries and travel, but also food and accommodations.

“Long gone are the days of the mining town,” said Thrall.

Today, the model is fly in, fly out.

That’s not necessary because mining companies like that model, he said.

For employees, there are many benefits, like having accommodations costs covered and being able to live anywhere. And if the mine shuts down, transitioning to a new

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Ore trucks haul material at Minto’s open pit in September. Increasing the number of skilled local workers would reduce the need for long-distance employee transportation, one of the biggest costs for Yukon’s large mines.

job is easier, said Thrall.

But for the companies, flying people in can be very expensive, and the two-week in, two-week routine out can cause problems with continuity, he said.

The companies would love to have more Yukon employees, and the barrier to that is training.

The federal government recently committed $5.6 million to Yukon College’s Centre for Northern Innovation in Mining. The Yukon government has committed $11.4 million.

That centre hopes to bring training into Yukon communities that would meet the skills most in demand in the mines.

“We don’t want to train (Yukoners) to be janitors, we want to train them to be tradespeople, miners, where they make a good living and they can take that back to the community when the mines are gone.”

A second challenge for Yukon mining companies is the cost of infrastructure. A big part of that is power.

Energy accounts for 10 per cent of Bellekeno’s costs, and 13 per cent of Minto’s.

At Wolverine, which is off the power grid, that cost jumps to 15 per cent.

Both Light and Thrall mentioned that they are interested in looking at liquefied natural gas as a way to cut spending

on power.

“I heard some good things this morning about LNG and certainly we are looking at LNG,” said Light. “I don’t know to what degree we would go with it, but I think there is a big cost savings there.”

Light also mentioned a proposed increase in fees for overweight trucks, from one cent per tonne per kilometre to four. That would mean an additional cost of $200,000 per year for the company, he said.

“That’s hard to put into your budget. I don’t mind incremental increases, but a big increase like that really hurts.

So that’s a challenge for us.”

Permitting is another challenge for the mining industry, said Thrall and Light.

To get a mine into operation, a company first has to go through a review by the Yukon Environmental and Socio-economic Assessment Board, and applications for a quartz mining licence and a water licence.

“It’s different review bodies reviewing the same thing. It’s onerous and it’s complicated and it’s hard on companies that are trying to operate.

“We spend time and resources doing things to be compliant, not because they’re necessary to protect the environment. So we spend a lot of time spinning our wheels.”

Since 2006, Alexco has been through YESAB eight times, with a total of 36 months in that assessment process, said Thrall. The company is about to make another application, he said.

The problem is that operating conditions are not the same when you start the process as when you finish it, and the process doesn’t allow for flexibility when plans change, he said.

The companies have ideas about how the process could be improved to make it more efficient while still protecting the environment and respecting First Nations, they said.

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eorgina Lutz-McKay wants to heal her people.

The daughter of hereditary LFN chief Dixon Lutz is the latest contender to join the Liard First Nation’s race to elect a new chief. She sees a community divided along family and political lines, and she wants to help fix it.

“I’m running because of what’s happening now and in the past with chief and council. I was asked by others to represent the people. People want change. They want a positive and honest person in there,” she said.

Watson Lake is worn out from too many controversies, Lutz-McKay said. There were questions of transparency and openness under current Chief Liard McMillan’s leadership, she said, which came to a head with protests against his leadership in 2012.

That sparked a court battle between McMillan and one of the protest organizers, Vianna Abou.

McMillan successfully sued Abou for unfairly damaging his reputation by circulating a fake petition calling for his ouster, which included the names of deceased LFN members.

But every other week it seems there’s another threat of a lawsuit from someone in the community, and an ongoing public feud continues to be fought between McMillan’s government and the Liard Aboriginal Women’s Society.

“What’s happening in the media, I don’t think that’s very healthy for our government. Not a good thing,”

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Lutz-McKay said.

“I really do hope that things would be mended; this community definitely needs everyone back together. That’s the main thing. I so strongly want to see everyone back together and working together,” she said.

The most recent controversy is over funding for the community’s social assistance program. Earlier this fall, McMillan’s government handed control over the program back to the federal government, saying Ottawa wasn’t providing enough money to administer the program.

After almost two weeks of uncertainty in Watson Lake, the federal government brought in a private contractor – H.G. Smith and Associates – to do the program’s paperwork and hand out the cheques.

But Lutz-McKay wants to see that power back in the hands of the First Nation.

“I’ve spoken to the people who are directly affected – they’re very upset. A lot of people are very upset because the (social assistance workers) have to come down from Whitehorse and stay in the hotel and work out of the community hall. The people around the community have to wait until they are available. They’re without any money or fuel until they are in town,” she said.

Like many of her challengers for chief, Lutz-McKay acknowledged that her community is fighting a difficult battle against alcohol and drug addiction. Two other candidates, Jim Wolftail and George Morgan, have said the town needs aftercare services to help stabilize addicts com-

ing back from treatment.

Lutz-McKay agrees, but also thinks that education and job training are of huge importance for tackling the issue. It’s something she hears about on a “daily basis” while dealing with the public as a Canada Post employee, she said.

“I talk to the people, and they’re saying, ‘We need jobs.

We need to do something.’

They’re asking for education.

They’re asking for some kind of support,” she said.

Along with Lutz-McKay, Wolftail and Morgan, Daniel Morris and Susan Magun are also in the running for the chief ’s chair. The election date has been moved to Dec. 16, with advance polls on Dec. 2 at the Denetia School Gym in Lower Post, B.C., and the election office in Watson Lake.

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EDITORIAL The coroner should be more candid

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ukon’s chief coroner should clarify why she amended her report into the death of Teresa Ann Scheunert.

If you’ve followed the relentless questioning by the NDP’s Jan Stick about these changes over the past two weeks, you will have heard her repeatedly suggest, without quite coming out and saying it, that the coroner was leaned on by the Yukon government to soften her final report, and that she omitted relevant information as a result.

That’s a serious charge, and there’s no smoking gun to support it. That’s why the Opposition only hints at these conclusions, rather than stating it outright.

Coroners are not of habit of justifying how they do their jobs to the public. Faced with the NDP’s insinuations, Chief Coroner Kirsten Macdonald first responded with a terse, one-page news release, followed by a more detailed release. Yet outstanding questions about some changes still remain. A better explanation is warranted.

Scheunert, a 47-year-old registered nurse living in Watson Lake, died from a lethal combination of painkillers administered to her while admitted at Watson Lake’s hospital, the coroner concluded.

Scheunert had injured her back while participating in a CPR workshop in late March and early April 2012. Upon being later admitted to the Watson Lake Hospital in June, Scheunert was prescribed and administered a bevy of painkillers. She died two weeks later.

The family waited nearly a

year for the coroner’s report, only to be told just hours after receiving it that the report had a mistake and it would be retracted.

The matter in dispute was whether Scheunert had self-administered oxycodone pills, and whether these drugs contributed to her death. The coroner, based on the evidence she had at the time, assumed this had occurred, and made many recommendations that detailed how to prevent such lapses in the future.

But new information undermined this theory. It turned out that a prescription filled in Scheunert’s name had actually been collected by a doctor for the hospital’s use, and that Scheunert’s oxycodone levels could be explained solely by the drugs administered by the hospital. In recognition of this, the coroner tossed out sections of her report dealing with patients self-administering drugs.

The coroner also modified unrelated sections of her report. Many of these revised passages soften the criticisms aimed at the government, but these are largely changes in tone, rather than content. For instance, the initial report says “there was a gap identified” in how the hospital managed the use of risky drugs. The later report says “it appears that more could have been done.”

The NDP wonders what would have contributed to these changes. It’s easy to imagine someone like, say, the chair of the hospital corporation – a body that received a copy of the report – phoning the coroner and warning she would receive a legal thumping if she didn’t tone things down, Publisher

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and that the later version underwent a thorough lawyerproofing. Yet this is purely speculation, as neither government MLAs nor the coroner will say what was communicated to her.

It’s important to note that the final report does not read as if it were written by a government patsy. Both reports conclude that the system failed Scheunert by allowing her to receive a lethal combination of drugs. Both make very similar recommendations. And both manage to make the management of Watson Lake Hospital looks extraordinarily bad.

Perhaps most damningly, doctors are supposed to check for medication conflicts with an on-call pharmacist, according to Yukon Hospital Corporation policy. But it appears that policy wasn’t being followed at the Watson Lake Hospital, despite the facility being taken over by the hospital corporation three years ago.

Other best practices to prevent drug conflicts were similarly not followed in Scheunert’s case.

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death was preventable. Her distraught family has every reason to pursue damages against the Yukon government, and it’s saddening to hear they haven’t yet managed to find a lawyer willing to represent them.

Scheunert’s family wants to see a public inquiry. They are right to demand clear answers, but it’s hard to say whether an expensive and time-consuming inquiry would actually serve the public interest.

The coroner has already documented many of the mistakes that contributed to Scheunert’s death, and the government has agreed to make suitable changes to ensure similar deaths don’t occur in the future. Scheunert’s fam-

ily will also soon receive the hospital’s own review into the death, which ought to contain more details.

One matter that a public inquiry could resolve is the question of whether the government pressured the coroner to change her report, and in what way.

But there’s a simpler fix.

The coroner should simply put the matter to rest by having a candid discussion with reporters about any concerns that government officials may have expressed. This is in her own interest as well: by remaining mum, she only contributes to perceptions that the independence of her office has been compromised. (JT)

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Pie at Wal-Mart The song underlined Hill’s and the Wobblies’ disgust for who preached

by AL POPE missionaries that workers should put up with suffering in this world and look forward to succor in the next. Among the preachers to fall under Hill’s disdain were the Salvation Army.

The song, quoted above, was a spoof on the hymn, In the Sweet By and By, a favourite with the Starvation Army, as You will eat, by and by, In that beautiful land in the sky. the Wobblies called them.

Work all day, live on hay, Today, the Sally Anne is a There’ll be pie in the sky when much-loved charity. They feed you die (that’s a lie) the hungry and provide badly (From The Preacher and needed services to the poor. the Slave, Joe Hill, 1911) At this time of year, when the Christmas kettles go up, we hen Joe Hill, an orgahappily fork out our pocket nizer for the socialist change to help them help the union the Industrial Workers poorest among us. of the World (the Wobblies), The days when the Salvapenned The Preacher and the tion Army was looked on as Slave, workers in America lived the enemy of the workers died under conditions a Banglaalong with the 80-hour work deshi might recognize today. week. When labour reforms The hours were long, the work meant working-class people was brutal, and the pay barely could live a decent life, charkept working families alive. To ity wasn’t for the workers organize against these injustic- anymore, but for the desperes, or even to complain, could ate poor who fell through the cracks. get you fired, or it could get Joe Hill was executed in you killed.

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Utah on what was almost certainly a trumped-up murder charge, presumed guilty on the grounds that he was a rabblerouser, just one of many who died because they fought for fair pay and decent working conditions that for many years most people in the U.S. and Canada have taken for granted.

But wait, what’s this? The Cleveland Plain Dealer reports that Wal-Mart management has placed a box in an employees-only section of the store, with a sign reading, “Please donate food items here so Associates in Need can enjoy Thanksgiving Dinner.”

In Wal-Speak, associate means worker. A Wal-Mart spokesperson told the paper, “This is part of the company’s culture to rally around associates and take care of them when they face extreme hardships.”

Wal-Mart is the largest private sector employer in the U.S. Worldwide, its stores rake in a tidy $1.8 million profit every hour, which is how the owners, the Waltons, have come to be worth about $150 billion. At the same time, Wal-Mart employees in the

U.S. are more likely to require state support, including food stamps, than those of any other major company.

It is not, of course, just WalMart. A McDonald’s employee hotline in the U.S. explains how to apply for welfare, food stamps and Medicaid. An estimated 20 per cent of service sector workers live below the poverty line.

In Joe Hill’s day, you could die fighting for workers’ rights.

Today, try to organize a WalMart store and you will face every legal obstacle imaginable, and if you win the store might simply close. In 2009, Wal-Mart fired more than 200 employees in Gatineau, Quebec, after eight workers at the tire and lube shop won a bid to unionize. Although this tactic is illegal under Canadian labour law, Wal-Mart fought all the way to the Supreme Court, and won on a technicality.

Jobs at Wal-Mart and McDonalds are so notoriously bad, you might think they’d be hard to fill. In fact, both companies report that they have dozens of applicants

for every position. That’s the labour market today. Since unemployment is built into the system, allegedly to control inflation, there’s always somebody desperate enough to take your job if you aren’t satisfied with it.

The problem isn’t that big service-sector employers do exploit their workers, it’s that they can. In the absence of fair labour laws, living minimum wages, and strong unions, corporate executives who screw every last drop out of their employees are simply doing their jobs. Curiously though, the same principle doesn’t seem to apply to their own multi-million-dollar pay packets.

Joe Hill and the Wobblies, and many others, put their lives on the line to lead workers out of those dark days.

We’ve put those days a long way behind us. But when people with full-time jobs can’t feed themselves properly, we’re slipping back.

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

The case for an unelected Senate Art Eggleton

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anadian Senators frequently express frustration at getting little or no attention for the work they do – the comprehensive policy studies, and the “sober second thought” of legislation from the House of Commons. And when the spotlight does finally settle on the upper chamber, it is over the alleged misbehaviour of a few. Without doubt, such matters need full investigation, full disclosure, and appropriate corrective action for any misdeeds.

At the same time, these controversies stir up discussion of the need for Senate reform, and perhaps abolition of the Senate. I say yes to the former, and no to the latter. I also say no to an elected Senate. Here’s why.

We don’t need two elected chambers in the Parliament of Canada. One is enough.

Imagine the conflicts that could arise between two elected bodies, each feeling they have mandates to represent the people. Just look at the gridlock that exists in the United States Congress.

Our system, which is based on the British or Westminster model, has stood the test of time.

The Fathers of Confedera-

tion had it correct when they designed the upper chamber.

Sir John A. MacDonald said that we needed a “chamber of sober second thought” to act as one of the checks and balances in our parliamentary system. And we have seen that work time and time again throughout the history of the Senate.

Here are just two examples: When the Conservatives came into office in 2006, they introduced the Accountability Act to bring about more openness and transparency in government. It was rushed through the House of Commons and was found to be flawed by the Senate in terms of meeting the intent of the legislation. Dozens of amendments were passed in the Senate and the bill was returned to the House where many of the changes were accepted by a government that realized mistakes had been made.

This past spring, a bill allowing provinces to approve single sports event gambling came before the Senate after the House of Commons passed it with little due process – a one hour hearing with only one witness. They thought it was non-controversial, that nobody would object, and that there were no

negative consequences. The Senate, however, believes due diligence should be exercised for any legislation. Hearings were held by a Senate committee and there were several concerns and objections expressed. Regardless of how anyone feels about these bills, it has been clearly demonstrated that “sober second thought” is valuable.

An interesting statistic from the Library of Parliament during the period from 2001 to 2004 shows that the Senate amended 10 per cent of government legislation, at a time when the government of the day and the Senate majority were of the same political party. While senators need to bear in mind the will of the popularly elected House of Commons, the review process of the Senate makes for better legislation.

The importance of the Senate doesn’t end there.

Senate committees have been praised for their work on public policy development.

They frequently have more time than House committees to study issues in depth; members usually have more years to develop expertise on committee issues, and the Senate functions in a less partisan way. The chances of a House committee developing

a report involving a two-year study with a unanimous decision would be rare indeed, but this is common for the Senate.

One final point: many Senators are not politicians who would seek election to public office should it be decided to have an elected Senate. And yet they provide dedicated public service, valuable insight and expertise in helping the Senate to carry out its sober second thought, policy development and minority protection mandates.

Now what about reform?

What I believe the Senate needs more than anything else is a change in how appointments are made.

Until now, appointments have been the prerogative of one person – the prime minister, regardless of party. An alternative would be to have a special council of eminent persons making recommen-

dations to the prime minister or Parliament similar to the process of selecting judges, or recipients of the Order of Canada. And that could be accomplished without worrying about a constitutional amendment. The end result would be a Senate even less partisan, and with a good cross section of well qualified persons.

Eventually, other reforms need to be made: a better geographic balance with more western Canada representation, and term limits for Senators. At least the former will require a constitutional amendment.

Let’s renew the Senate, let’s make it function better. But let’s not destroy or radically change the structure of an institution that has served us well for 146 years.

Art Eggleton is a former Toronto mayor, member of Parliament, and is currently a Canadian Senator.

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COMMENTARY Let’s fix, rather than abolish, the Senate Andre Carrel

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Senate elections would provide for run-off elections to ensure hat to do about the Senate? that every senator elected has the Abolishing it would put support of at least 50 per cent of a merciful end to this remnant of the participating voters. Senators royal trappings.

Judging by the experience of the would be limited to a single term past few years, however, abolishing of seven years; no re-election.

To the greatest extent possible the Senate would bring us closer to a Vladimir Putin style democracy. I would want to minimize the power of political parties and their I do not want to abolish the leaders to influence members of Senate. I want to see it restrucmy Senate. tured with a new focus on its The purpose of my dream Senpurpose. ate would not be to second-guess My Senate would be elected and its size reduced. Two senators Parliament on decisions concerning taxes and services. (maybe three, but not more than What sets democracy apart four) from each province and terfrom all other forms of governritory would suffice to give equal ment is that democracy puts limits representation to the country’s on the powers of government and regions.

Provinces would be free to form imposes rules for how government powers are to be exercised. In a a single constituency for all sendemocracy the people determine ators or to establish two or more the fences within which their constituencies defined by region elected governments may roam. (north/south) or density (urban/

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Let’s do our part for the Philippines My name is Angellina Burns and I am a 19-year-old student.

I call my home Whitehorse, Yukon and I am writing to you today as a concerned member of my community and as a Canadian.

With the recent tragedy that has occurred in the Philippines I believe that as a community we should be doing everything that we can in order to support those members who need it.

One of the many definitions of a community is “the people of a district or country considered collectively, especially in the context of social values and responsibilities.”

So let me ask you: What are we doing to help the families in the Philippines of those people who are a part of our community? Those people who have been waiting years for paperwork to process in order to bring their families here to Whitehorse and to Canada as permanent residents.

The people in our community and in communities all across Canada should have the opportunity to have their families safe. If they have filled out their paperwork, paid all the money asked, and have all the required documents, why are they not able to be processed, especially in light of this catastrophic event? The children are without homes,

My Senate’s focus would therefore not be on what government does, but on how it goes about doing what it does. True to that dictum my Senate would not have the power to amend the Constitution, but it would have the authority to call a mandatory referendum to that end.

A good example is the current government’s practice of tabling voluminous omnibus bills which cover a multitude of matters ranging from Supreme Court appointments to funding for the CBC, and then imposing a time limit on debates before forcing a vote. My Senate would initiate a broad public debate on the subject of omnibus bills, their background, their effect on democratic governance, and their implications for the long term.

My Senate would have the resources to craft a constitutional amendment to curtail the use of

LETTERS without food, without proper care. Their parents are here in Whitehorse, and those children and family members should be as well. These people are trying to rescue their families, and what is our community doing to help?

I know that the government is helping to fast-track those looking for a temporary visa, but why should these families be forced to repay fees to get temporary visas and have to restart the very long, tiring process? As a Canadian I believe that we should be doing everything that we can to aid fellow

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omnibus bills. My Senate’s budget would be adequate to allow senators to travel to their constituencies to hold extensive public meetings and debating sessions in order to discuss the nature of omnibus bills and the need for restricting their use.

Following public consultation, my Senate would call a nationwide binding referendum on their proposal to amend the Constitution to restrict the use of omnibus bills.

Each political party in the House of Commons and the prime minister of the day would be free to implore citizens to vote in such a referendum, to try to convince citizens that it is in their best interest to either leave future governments with unlimited powers to use omnibus bills or not to.

In the end, citizens would decide on where to draw the line.

The concluding sentence of

Lincoln’s Gettysburg address of 1863 is the most concise and precise definition of what a democracy is, and what it should be: “government of the people, by the people, for the people.” Elections respond to the “of the people” stipulation and the services governments provide are “for the people.”

My Senate’s mandate would be to act as guardian of democracy’s “by the people” stipulation.

It would fulfill its mandate by observing what goes on in the House of Commons and government, and by engaging, informing and educating citizens, leaving citizens with the responsibility to determine how Canada is to be governed.

If that is not the essence of a democracy, what is?

members of our community.

Being a student I may seem unimportant to you, but I am a member of this community and a proud Canadian. And as a Canadian, I implore our community to do not what is easy but what is right, to contact our MP, to make some noise so that we can aid members of our community.

The small size of the city’s environmental grants fund will hardly be enough to lead the way for encouraging developers and homeowners to build solar installations into their building projects. But nonetheless, this grant, and the thorough project review process that preceded it, are very important actions on the city’s part.

It is interesting that the City of Whitehorse’s “vision statement” says that it “will be a well planned community that is a leader in energy conservation and innovation.” Neither of the city’s proposed 2014 operating or capital budgets truly advance that vision.

Therefore, it is to be hoped that the city will follow this initial small but significant step towards supporting practical and widely used energy projects with a plan to use solar power technology in all of its own buildings.

The vision statement was a useful place to start from and this grant is a very important step to take; now it’s up to the city to put this part of the “vision” into action.

Angellina Burns Whitehorse

City’s support for solar power a welcome first step

Andre Carrel is a retired municipal administrator and author of Citizen’s Hall: Making Local Democracy Work.

He lives in Terrace, BC.

The city council did the “right thing” by recently awarding a $5,000 grant to one of Whitehorse’s most forward-thinking private developers to cover part of the costs of installing roof-top solar energy panels.

Apparently they will generate enough power to light the public areas of two new developments.

It is to be hoped that this action will encourage other shrewd and responsible developers to quickly follow suit and reap the considerable energy rewards that Kenneth de la Barre sustainable solar energy provides. Whitehorse

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Students from the Northern Lights School of Dance, and Yukon Montessori schools perform a flash mob dance on Wednesday night at the Canada Games Centre to celebrate United Nations Universal Children’s Day.

Ice Wireless upgrading its network to meet smartphone and tablet demand LuAnn LaSalle

southern Canada and ended up competing only on price.

“They focused only on better MONTREAL prices rather than offering alterpstart Ice Wireless is spend- native services,” Bishay said. ing more than $12 million Mobilicity, under creditor in Canada’s North this year to protection, is up for sale and compete against major players Public Mobile has been sold to Bell and Telus for smartphone Telus, while Russian telecom and tablet customers.

VimpelCom wants to sell its 65 Ice Wireless announced per cent stake in Wind Mobile.

Friday that it is in the process of All three companies helped upgrading its network in Yukon, bring down cellphone prices for the Northwest Territories and consumers, but weren’t finanNunavut, replacing old technol- cially strong enough and didn’t ogy that supported just talkattract enough customers to and-text service on cellphones endure long-term price cutting. with a faster, more advanced Ice Wireless said major network to meet modern concompetitor Bell hasn’t offered sumer demand. the best prices to its northern Ice Wireless also wants to customers. bring prices in line with what “The pricing, historically, in consumers in the rest of Canada Northern Canada, has been very pay for their monthly voice and high and in our opinion undata plans as well as provide necessarily high,” said Cameron niche services, chief executive Zubko, chief operating officer at Samer Bishay said in an interIce Wireless. view in advance of the anIce Wireless, however, is offernouncement. ing a free service to compete. It And, he said, the company has a Voice over Internet Protowants to avoid the “expensive col service (VoIP) that its Iqaluit mistakes” of independent wirecellphone customers can use to less companies Wind Mobile, call or text some area codes in Public Mobile and Mobilicsouthern Canada, including the ity, which launched in cities in Ottawa, Vancouver and MontreCanadian Press

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as mining operations, and to governments in the area.

“It has to be a healthy mix of both,” said Bishay, who noted that the three territories’ population of about 100,000 is too sparse to allow the company to count only on consumers.

Telecom analyst Troy Crandall said Ice Wireless will have to make its mark on what it offers since it can’t rely on undercutting Bell and Telus.

“You can only go on price for so long,” said Crandall, of Montreal investment firm MacDougall, MacDougall and MacTier.

“In the long term, everything comes down to service.”

Ian Stewart/Yukon News Ice Wireless said it’s spendIce Wireless CEO Samer ing $12.4 million this year to Bishay make its network faster in a total of nine cities and towns al areas, to avoid long-distance in the three territories. It has and roaming charges.

“It enhances our network and also rolled out a faster network (3G) for the use of smartphones sets us completely apart from and tablets in Whitehorse and the competition,” Bishay said. plans the same shortly in the The company has partnered Northwest Territories capital of with Iristel, one of Canada’s largest VoIP service providers, to Yellowknife.

The network technology can offer services to consumers and be upgraded to use the even businesses.

Ice Wireless also wants to of- faster Long-Term Evolution technology, Bishay added. fer services to businesses in the Ice Wireless first launched natural resources sector, such

in Inuvik, N.W.T., in 2005 and has expanded across the North, although its corporate offices are in the Toronto area. Bishay was training to become an astronaut at the Canadian Space Agency when he got interested in VoIP technology about 16 years ago and started a career in telecom.

Bell offers smartphone and tablet service on an LTE network in the three territories as well as business services. Telus launched mobile phone service in September in the Northwest Territories and Yukon.

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Ottawa to provide First Nations quicker access to disaster relief funding Canadian Press

WINNIPEG anada’s aboriginal affairs minister says the federal government is working aggressively to end one of the longest, most expensive flood evacuations in Manitoba and make it easier for all First Nations to get help after a natural disaster.

Bernard Valcourt said Ottawa is streamlining how disaster relief is delivered to aboriginal communities so they get funding more quickly. It is also spending $19 million to help them with emergency preparedness.

Valcourt said the steps will help reserves after a disaster, although flood-prone provinces such as Manitoba have said the federal government must spend much more on mitigating damage in the first place.

“I truly believe that this new approach that I’m introducing today will put the emergency management on reserves on better footing and protect the well-being of First Nation residents much, much more effectively,” Valcourt said Tuesday at a meeting of a federal-provincial aboriginal affairs working group.

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response and services that other communities are getting.”

Valcourt made the announcement in Winnipeg where about 2,000 aboriginal evacuees are still displaced following Manitoba’s 2011 spring flood. Their food and shelter has cost Ottawa about $88 million so far and the tab is rising about $1.5 million a month.

Valcourt said it’s hoped that streamlining aid and improving emergency preparedness will avoid protracted evacuations in the future. Part of the plan involves inking agreements such as the one Ottawa has with Alberta, which allowed that province to quickly respond to flooding there last summer, he said.

“We are working aggressively in co-operation with the province and the First Nations to hopefully return these people to safer sites,” he said. “It’s hard to put a dollar value on the health and safety of people. (The evacuation) is expensive but that points to the importance of working with the provinces.

“We hope that the kind of initiative we are introducing today will eventually save taxpayer dollars.”

Steve Ashton, Manitoba’s emergency measures minister, suggested the federal government should

invest heavily in flood prevention on reserves if it wants to save money down the road. He pointed to land belonging to the Peguis First Nation, about 150 kilometres north of Winnipeg, which is chronically flooded and needs at least $19 million alone for basic flood mitigation.

That kind of investment could save millions in costly evacuations and relocations, Ashton said.

“The complete lack of investment over the years in on-reserve mitigation and other resources, they’ve been doubly hard hit,” he said. “What really matters is what happens on the ground. For us, mitigation is a priority.”

Ashton said provinces are still used as a middleman, which slows everything down.

“Right now, there is about a 10-step process in doing the financial work related to anything on the First Nation side,” he said.

“It doesn’t really change that. What we feel needs to be done is for the federal government to have a direct responsibility for First Nations.”

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In Manitoba, the 2011 flood devastated some communities.

It scattered residents throughout Winnipeg and the province. They are living in hotels and rental accommodation while officials search for permanent homes.

The Lake St. Martin reserve has been declared virtually uninhabitable and officials have been working to find a new home for the First Nation.

While the provincial ministers and native groups welcomed the disaster-relief promise, they were disappointed by Valcourt’s continued rejection of their call for a national inquiry into missing and murdered aboriginal women.

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Brock University study finds oil drilling wastes are leaking into northern lakes Bob Weber

near a sump, some were far away but affected by permafrost slumping and some were unafrecently published study fected by either. suggests melting permafrost Of the 20 lakes near a sump, could be allowing oil drilling many lakes showed high salt wastes from buried pits to leak levels, Thienpont discovered. into northern lakes.

“At least four and as many as “It’s just another impact, one 15, depending on how you look of the continually growing cuat it.” mulative impacts, to these fairly Those levels are high enough sensitive freshwater ecosystems to change the micro-organisms we have,” co-author Joshua that live in the lakes and anchor Thienpont of Brock University the food chain. said Friday.

The team also looked at botThienpont and his colleagues tom sediments in one of the wanted to test the ongoing efaffected lakes to try to pinpoint fectiveness of sumps still being when the contamination ocused in the Northwest Terricurred. tories to dispose of oil drilling “In that lake, we found that wastes. at the time, or very near the Sumps are large pits dug time the sump was built, there near a wellsite and intended to was really striking and rapid permanently get rid of wastes shift of species known to be tolsuch as drilling mud, rock cuterant of higher salinity,” Thientings and drilling fluids, which pont said. commonly contain detergents He said some sumps were and highly concentrated salt probably leaching because they solutions. The sumps – which were badly built in the first can contain tens of thousands place. of cubic metres of waste – are But Thienpont said the decapped with clean material and grading permafrost in the area frozen into place by permafrost. is likely to have been the culprit The Mackenzie Delta has at for most of the seeping. least 150 sumps that date back “If our goal is the complete as far as the mid-1960s. containment of all the wastes But permafrost in the southassociated with drilling in the ern Arctic has been gradually degrading as a result of climate change. In the delta, permafrost spa robes & towels has warmed by an average of two degrees over historic levels.

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Harper’s staff and top senators colluded to whitewash Duffy report: RCMP Jennifer Ditchburn and Steve Rennie Canadian Press

OTTAWA he prime minister’s chief of staff went to Stephen Harper for approval of a secret plan that would have seen the Conservative party repay Mike Duffy’s contested expenses and whitewash a Senate report, new RCMP documents suggest.

When the party balked at the ultimate total of Duffy’s $90,000 bill, however, Nigel Wright stepped in to pay the bill himself – apparently without Harper’s knowledge. Harper has called that a “deception.”

But emails included in Wednesday’s explosive new RCMP court filings quote Wright as getting a green light from Harper when the original plan was to have the party pay. The plan was to be kept entirely secret.

“I do want to speak to the PM before everything is considered final,” Wright wrote in one February dispatch.

An hour later, he followed up: “We are good to go from the PM...”

Asked late Wednesday whether the prime minister was asked in

Sean Kilpatrick/The Canadian Press

Nigel Wright, chief of staff for Prime Minister Stephen Harper, is shown in 2010. Newly released court documents allege Wright broke the law by cutting a $90,000 cheque to Sen. Mike Duffy.

were no documents related to the matter.

The Mounties say they have found no evidence that the prime minister knew specifically about the $90,000 payment. However, there are suggestions in the file he might have known about other

elements of the plan: “The PM knows, in broad terms only, that I personally assisted Duffy when I was getting him to agree to repay the expenses.”

When asked during question period what he told Wright he “was good to go on” in February,

Harper said it was about Duffy repaying his own expenses.

“When we found that was not true, we took the appropriate action, and he has been appropriately sanctioned by the Senate,” Harper said, repeating that Wright bears sole responsibility for the affair.

The documents indicate that for the first time, the RCMP is lodging a direct allegation against Wright. Horton alleges Wright’s agreement with Duffy constitutes fraud and breach of trust because his office was used “for a dishonest purpose, other than for the public good.”

No charges have been laid against either Wright or Duffy.

Horton also said Wright appeared to be acting out of an ethical concern over Duffy’s expenses, and wanted the senator to repay them. The emails show several instances over the months where Wright appeared to be exasperated with Duffy. He also refused to promise the senator that the matter would not be sent to the RCMP if warranted.

In a terse, three-sentence statement issued Wednesday by his lawyer, Wright insisted his intentions were noble and that he did nothing to break the law.

the Conservative Fund of Canada, and asked if it would cover what was at the time believed to be $32,000 in disallowed Duffy expenses.

Wright says Gerstein agreed; Gerstein told police, however, that he only said he would “consider” the idea.

That contradicts what Gerstein told Conservative party members earlier this month: “I made it absolutely clear to Nigel Wright that the Conservative Fund of Canada would not pay for Sen. Duffy’s disputed expenses, and it never did.”

Indeed, the fund refused to pay once the bill topped $90,000.

It was then that Wright decided he would just repay the amount himself.

But things did not go smoothly.

Although Wright and his team had agreed to ensure the Deloitte audit did not make a conclusion on Duffy’s residency, they couldn’t get confirmation that would happen. Wright expressed his frustration to Sen. Carolyn Stewart Olsen, a member of the internal economy committee’s three-member steering group.

“Somehow, despite agreement to this in advance from you, (Senate leader) Marjory (LeBreton), and (Sen.) David (Tkachuk), no one on the Senate side is delivering,” fumed Wright.

Stewart Olsen responded by complaining about her colleagues.

“Confidentially both Marj and

David are telling each other the audit will not be pulled... I think the only way to do this is to tell Deloitte that we are satisfied with the repayment and end the audit,” she wrote.

“The non-partisan nature of the committee is a problem as is the (Senate) clerk who seems to have his own agenda.”

Senate clerk Gary O’Brien later told police that he had discussions with Stewart Olsen about “her partisan behaviour and a disagreement about her not acting properly as an audit subcommittee member.”

Gerstein then swung into action as well, contacting someone he knew at Deloitte to find out what was going on with the audit.

The message back to PMO, via Gerstein, was that Deloitte was unable to make a clear statement about Duffy’s residency, because he hadn’t provided them with enough documents.

That appeared to work out perfectly for the PMO and for Duffy.

“I would propose that the senator continue not to engage with Deloitte,” wrote PMO staffer Patrick Rogers. “I believe that we should make arrangements for repayment knowing that Deloitte will not say one way or another on his residency.”

At that point, attention turned to the Senate committee, and how to ensure that the Duffy review was quietly put to rest with an anodyne report.

“We are asking them to treat

the repayment as the final chapter of the expenses issue relating to his designation of the P.E.I. cottage as his primary residence to this point in time,” Wright wrote to his staff. “That is something to which Sens. LeBreton and Tkachuk and Stewart Olsen already agreed once.”

Behind the scenes, Wright and his staff allegedly worked with Stewart Olsen to change the text of a Senate report into Duffy’s expenses, making it much milder than similar reports made on senators Patrick Brazeau and Mac Harb.

“I just met with (Stewart Olsen). I gave her our changes. She agreed with them 100 per cent,” Rogers wrote to Wright and others. “I reinforced with her that the implementing of all the changes to the report was the fulfillment of her commitment to Nigel and our building.”

But again, there was another hiccup.

A staff member in LeBreton’s office, Chris Montgomery, balked at allowing the Prime Minister’s Office to intervene so baldly in the affairs of a Senate committee.

LeBreton would later tell police that it was Stewart Olsen who said the committee should not write a critical report on Duffy.

“Do I need to call Marjory?

They think they are hurting Duffy, but they will end up hurting the prime minister,” Wright wrote to his staff when he got wind of the obstacle.

Finally, LeBreton’s office ap-

peared to be brought to heel and the report emerged with the most critical paragraphs deleted, passed with the help of the Conservative majority on the committee.

LeBreton later lost her position as government Senate leader, and Montgomery left Parliament Hill.

The audit and the Senate report into Duffy’s expenses were released publicly on May 9, and LeBreton declared the matter closed.

But the Pandora’s box was to explode very soon afterward, when word of Wright’s $90,000 repayment was leaked to the media the following week.

“The Senate was being run out of the Prime Minister’s Office; we know that,” Mulcair said.

“But there lies the paradox.

The same prime minister who controls everything out of his office says the only thing he doesn’t control is his office. He didn’t know what was happening with Nigel Wright.”

Duffy’s version of events, detailed in two speeches to the Senate, put another spin on his negotiations with Wright and others. Duffy said that he was coerced into admitting fault, on the threat of losing his Senate seat.

He also said the PMO gave him a detailed communications plan to follow. Emails in his possession have yet to emerge.

Duffy, Brazeau, Harb and Sen. Pamela Wallin were all suspended without pay from the Senate on Nov. 5, following a heated debate in the upper chamber.

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In several cases, the documents illustrate senators and staff clashing or badmouthing each other behind the scenes as Stephen Harper’s office intervenes directly in an effort to manipulate the activities of Senate committees.

RCMP Cpl. Greg Horton alleges senior Conservatives went to great lengths to agree to Duffy’s list of demands to ensure he would say publicly he had repaid his living claims, thus making a political headache go away.

Email chains and details from police interviews also make clear exactly who was in the loop about the $90,000 payment from Wright: at least six Conservatives, including the party’s former executive director.

That contrasts with the claims made in the House of Commons this spring that no one else was aware of the plan, and that there

“My intention was always to secure repayment of funds owed to taxpayers,” he said. “I acted within the scope of my duties and remain confident that my actions were lawful. I have no further comment at this time.”

The trouble began nearly a year ago, when media reports questioned whether Duffy was actually a resident of P.E.I., since he appeared to spend most of his time in Ottawa. He had been claiming that his longtime Ottawa home as a secondary residence.

Wright told the RCMP that after reviewing Duffy’s details, he felt that the senator’s expenses were unethical. A back-and-forth ensued, with Duffy refusing to admit fault.

Finally, the two sides came to an agreement. Duffy had conditions to doing a public mea culpa, including: that an independent audit into his expenses not draw conclusions about his residency, that he be repaid and that Conservatives publicly say he meets the requirements to represent P.E.I. At the time, the secretive Senate internal economy committee was reviewing his expenses, along with those of three other senators.

“I noted this is all conditional on agreement on the (public) statement and communications bounds being respected by the senator,” PMO lawyer Benjamin Perrin told Wright about striking a deal with Duffy.

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Harper’s staff and top senators colluded to whitewash Duffy report: RCMP Jennifer Ditchburn and Steve Rennie Canadian Press

OTTAWA he prime minister’s chief of staff went to Stephen Harper for approval of a secret plan that would have seen the Conservative party repay Mike Duffy’s contested expenses and whitewash a Senate report, new RCMP documents suggest.

When the party balked at the ultimate total of Duffy’s $90,000 bill, however, Nigel Wright stepped in to pay the bill himself – apparently without Harper’s knowledge. Harper has called that a “deception.”

But emails included in Wednesday’s explosive new RCMP court filings quote Wright as getting a green light from Harper when the original plan was to have the party pay. The plan was to be kept entirely secret.

“I do want to speak to the PM before everything is considered final,” Wright wrote in one February dispatch.

An hour later, he followed up: “We are good to go from the PM...”

Asked late Wednesday whether the prime minister was asked in

Sean Kilpatrick/The Canadian Press

Nigel Wright, chief of staff for Prime Minister Stephen Harper, is shown in 2010. Newly released court documents allege Wright broke the law by cutting a $90,000 cheque to Sen. Mike Duffy.

were no documents related to the matter.

The Mounties say they have found no evidence that the prime minister knew specifically about the $90,000 payment. However, there are suggestions in the file he might have known about other

elements of the plan: “The PM knows, in broad terms only, that I personally assisted Duffy when I was getting him to agree to repay the expenses.”

When asked during question period what he told Wright he “was good to go on” in February,

Harper said it was about Duffy repaying his own expenses.

“When we found that was not true, we took the appropriate action, and he has been appropriately sanctioned by the Senate,” Harper said, repeating that Wright bears sole responsibility for the affair.

The documents indicate that for the first time, the RCMP is lodging a direct allegation against Wright. Horton alleges Wright’s agreement with Duffy constitutes fraud and breach of trust because his office was used “for a dishonest purpose, other than for the public good.”

No charges have been laid against either Wright or Duffy.

Horton also said Wright appeared to be acting out of an ethical concern over Duffy’s expenses, and wanted the senator to repay them. The emails show several instances over the months where Wright appeared to be exasperated with Duffy. He also refused to promise the senator that the matter would not be sent to the RCMP if warranted.

In a terse, three-sentence statement issued Wednesday by his lawyer, Wright insisted his intentions were noble and that he did nothing to break the law.

the Conservative Fund of Canada, and asked if it would cover what was at the time believed to be $32,000 in disallowed Duffy expenses.

Wright says Gerstein agreed; Gerstein told police, however, that he only said he would “consider” the idea.

That contradicts what Gerstein told Conservative party members earlier this month: “I made it absolutely clear to Nigel Wright that the Conservative Fund of Canada would not pay for Sen. Duffy’s disputed expenses, and it never did.”

Indeed, the fund refused to pay once the bill topped $90,000.

It was then that Wright decided he would just repay the amount himself.

But things did not go smoothly.

Although Wright and his team had agreed to ensure the Deloitte audit did not make a conclusion on Duffy’s residency, they couldn’t get confirmation that would happen. Wright expressed his frustration to Sen. Carolyn Stewart Olsen, a member of the internal economy committee’s three-member steering group.

“Somehow, despite agreement to this in advance from you, (Senate leader) Marjory (LeBreton), and (Sen.) David (Tkachuk), no one on the Senate side is delivering,” fumed Wright.

Stewart Olsen responded by complaining about her colleagues.

“Confidentially both Marj and

David are telling each other the audit will not be pulled... I think the only way to do this is to tell Deloitte that we are satisfied with the repayment and end the audit,” she wrote.

“The non-partisan nature of the committee is a problem as is the (Senate) clerk who seems to have his own agenda.”

Senate clerk Gary O’Brien later told police that he had discussions with Stewart Olsen about “her partisan behaviour and a disagreement about her not acting properly as an audit subcommittee member.”

Gerstein then swung into action as well, contacting someone he knew at Deloitte to find out what was going on with the audit.

The message back to PMO, via Gerstein, was that Deloitte was unable to make a clear statement about Duffy’s residency, because he hadn’t provided them with enough documents.

That appeared to work out perfectly for the PMO and for Duffy.

“I would propose that the senator continue not to engage with Deloitte,” wrote PMO staffer Patrick Rogers. “I believe that we should make arrangements for repayment knowing that Deloitte will not say one way or another on his residency.”

At that point, attention turned to the Senate committee, and how to ensure that the Duffy review was quietly put to rest with an anodyne report.

“We are asking them to treat

the repayment as the final chapter of the expenses issue relating to his designation of the P.E.I. cottage as his primary residence to this point in time,” Wright wrote to his staff. “That is something to which Sens. LeBreton and Tkachuk and Stewart Olsen already agreed once.”

Behind the scenes, Wright and his staff allegedly worked with Stewart Olsen to change the text of a Senate report into Duffy’s expenses, making it much milder than similar reports made on senators Patrick Brazeau and Mac Harb.

“I just met with (Stewart Olsen). I gave her our changes. She agreed with them 100 per cent,” Rogers wrote to Wright and others. “I reinforced with her that the implementing of all the changes to the report was the fulfillment of her commitment to Nigel and our building.”

But again, there was another hiccup.

A staff member in LeBreton’s office, Chris Montgomery, balked at allowing the Prime Minister’s Office to intervene so baldly in the affairs of a Senate committee.

LeBreton would later tell police that it was Stewart Olsen who said the committee should not write a critical report on Duffy.

“Do I need to call Marjory?

They think they are hurting Duffy, but they will end up hurting the prime minister,” Wright wrote to his staff when he got wind of the obstacle.

Finally, LeBreton’s office ap-

peared to be brought to heel and the report emerged with the most critical paragraphs deleted, passed with the help of the Conservative majority on the committee.

LeBreton later lost her position as government Senate leader, and Montgomery left Parliament Hill.

The audit and the Senate report into Duffy’s expenses were released publicly on May 9, and LeBreton declared the matter closed.

But the Pandora’s box was to explode very soon afterward, when word of Wright’s $90,000 repayment was leaked to the media the following week.

“The Senate was being run out of the Prime Minister’s Office; we know that,” Mulcair said.

“But there lies the paradox.

The same prime minister who controls everything out of his office says the only thing he doesn’t control is his office. He didn’t know what was happening with Nigel Wright.”

Duffy’s version of events, detailed in two speeches to the Senate, put another spin on his negotiations with Wright and others. Duffy said that he was coerced into admitting fault, on the threat of losing his Senate seat.

He also said the PMO gave him a detailed communications plan to follow. Emails in his possession have yet to emerge.

Duffy, Brazeau, Harb and Sen. Pamela Wallin were all suspended without pay from the Senate on Nov. 5, following a heated debate in the upper chamber.

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In several cases, the documents illustrate senators and staff clashing or badmouthing each other behind the scenes as Stephen Harper’s office intervenes directly in an effort to manipulate the activities of Senate committees.

RCMP Cpl. Greg Horton alleges senior Conservatives went to great lengths to agree to Duffy’s list of demands to ensure he would say publicly he had repaid his living claims, thus making a political headache go away.

Email chains and details from police interviews also make clear exactly who was in the loop about the $90,000 payment from Wright: at least six Conservatives, including the party’s former executive director.

That contrasts with the claims made in the House of Commons this spring that no one else was aware of the plan, and that there

“My intention was always to secure repayment of funds owed to taxpayers,” he said. “I acted within the scope of my duties and remain confident that my actions were lawful. I have no further comment at this time.”

The trouble began nearly a year ago, when media reports questioned whether Duffy was actually a resident of P.E.I., since he appeared to spend most of his time in Ottawa. He had been claiming that his longtime Ottawa home as a secondary residence.

Wright told the RCMP that after reviewing Duffy’s details, he felt that the senator’s expenses were unethical. A back-and-forth ensued, with Duffy refusing to admit fault.

Finally, the two sides came to an agreement. Duffy had conditions to doing a public mea culpa, including: that an independent audit into his expenses not draw conclusions about his residency, that he be repaid and that Conservatives publicly say he meets the requirements to represent P.E.I. At the time, the secretive Senate internal economy committee was reviewing his expenses, along with those of three other senators.

“I noted this is all conditional on agreement on the (public) statement and communications bounds being respected by the senator,” PMO lawyer Benjamin Perrin told Wright about striking a deal with Duffy.

Wright says he then contacted Sen. Irving Gerstein, the head of

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Plan to give injured vets priority for federal jobs faces bottleneck Murray Brewster

“This could add additional red tape to the release process and potentially delay the ability to acOTTAWA cess priority hiring upon release,” he Harper government’s plan Parent wrote. to bump injured ex-soldiers The proposed legislation says to the head of the federal job a veteran will qualify to go to the line could backfire and create a front of the line only if the disbottleneck for the very people it’s ability was the result of service. trying to help, says the veterans Those medically released for nonombudsman. service-related reasons will not get Bill C-11 requires veterans’ priority. cases to be adjudicated to deterThere are other uncertainmine whether the injury is related ties, including whether National to service before they’re given Defence or Veterans Affairs will do statutory priority for jobs in the the adjudication, what documents public service, Guy Parent said in will be used, and how long it will an online blog. take, the ombudsman said.

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He says the idea of veterans getting faster access to federal jobs “encouraging.”

The bill was introduced two weeks ago when the Conservatives faced rising public criticism over a growing number of wounded soldiers discharged before they have the 10 years service that gives them a pension.

Parent said the proposed legislation will create separate classes of veterans for federal priority hiring, a situation many in government and the veterans community have been striving to avoid.

“I believe that all medically releasing Canadian Armed Forces

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Canada’s Veterans Ombudsman Guy Parent in Ottawa.

members should be treated the same way,” he wrote.

The notion that there is just one veteran, regardless of when

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A spokesman for Veterans Affairs Minister Julian Fantino said details of how the legislation will unfold are still subject to debate.

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Federal budget documents show 496 veterans were on the public-service priority hiring list in 2011-12, of which 158 were appointed to federal jobs.

Soldiers let go for medical reasons have had a leg-up on federal jobs since 2005, but there was no guarantee in law. In addition, they could only take jobs turned down by other federal employees.

The new legislation applies to soldiers released on or after April 1, 2012, and extends the amount of time they have to apply for federal jobs to five years from two years under the current system.

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No EU country comes forward to destroy Syria’s chemical stockpiles Peace Prize this year for its efforts to eradicate poison gas around the world.

Poison gas was first used in Belgium during World War I and many thousands of canisters still lie buried in the farm fields straddling western Belgium and northern France.

Belgium still has operational forces specialized in neutralizing the gas.

Several EU nations, including Germany and the Netherlands, called for more financial support to take care of the destruction.

Total contributions to the trust fund for the destruction stand at 10.4 million euros (US$14 million).

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East or West? Ukraine to choose its path ahead of EU summit this month Maria Danilova

premier, Yulia Tymoshenko, who is serving a seven-year sentence on charges the West considers politiKIEV, Ukraine cally motivated. ccording to an old folk tradi“We have a chance to be finally tion, if a man knocks on the together,” said former Polish Presidoor of a Ukrainian beauty with dent Aleksander Kwasniewski, an a marriage proposal, but does EU envoy who has travelled to not win her heart, she will reject Ukraine 27 times over the past her suitor by presenting him with year-and-a-half to urge Yanuka pumpkin. Who will get the ovych to release Tymoshenko and pumpkin from Ukraine at the sign the EU deal. “Never (was) end of this month – Russia or the Ukraine so close to being inside European Union? the European community,” KwasMore than 20 years after gainniewski, who led Poland toward ing independence from the Soviet EU membership, said in SeptemUnion and painfully searching for ber at an international conference its place on the geopolitical map, in Yalta, a Ukrainian resort on the Ukraine finally has a real chance Black Sea. to firmly align itself with the EU, On Monday EU ministers were with its democratic standards and stressing that they do need to see free-market zone. The alternamovement from Yanukovych, tive is to slide back into Russia’s especially on judicial and electoral shadow, both politically and reform. economically.

“It has got to be reform that is President Viktor Yanukovych permanent and irreversible and has declared that Ukraine’s future not just reform for Christmas,” lies with the 28-member bloc said Britain’s Minister for Europe and has pushed through a flurry David Lidington. of pro-EU laws and reforms. But Most analysts say the EU deal he has resisted fulfilling the most would benefit Ukraine by giving it important condition set by the EU access to European markets, bringin order to sign a political associa- ing its products into line with EU tion and free-trade agreement at a standards, accelerating muchsummit in Vilnius, Lithuania, on needed reforms and increasing Nov. 28-29: the release from jail of the likelihood of Ukraine getting a bailout from the International his top political rival, the former Associated Press

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for Ukraine, which shares a similar language and common Orthodox Christian faith with Russia.

Having ruled over large parts of Ukraine for centuries, Moscow would hate losing this large piece of its former empire to the West, and has worked aggressively to derail the EU deal while nudging Ukraine to join a Moscow-led customs union instead.

As Kyiv intensified negations with Brussels, Moscow offered Kyiv sweet deals, such as price discounts on natural gas and loans.

But it has also banned Ukrainian imports on dubious health grounds and warned of a possible trade blockade.

“Whatever happens, wherever Efrem Lukatsky/AP Photo Ukraine is headed, we will still meet each other somewhere, some Leaflets with a picture of former Ukrainian prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko and a text reading “Freedom for Yulia” fly place,” Russian President Vladimir Putin told The Associated Press in over the heads of Ukrainian lawmakers in Kiev, Ukraine on an interview in September. “Why? Tuesday after an opposition activist tossed the leaflets from Because we are a common people.” a balcony.

With Putin facing a reinvigoMonetary Fund. But, equally choice to go with Russia, then rated opposition at home, keeping important, it would be a precursor Ukrainians can forget about Euro- Ukraine on a leash is also an atto eventual EU membership and pean values and perspectives,” said tempt to legitimize his own power thus cement Ukraine’s place in Tim Ash, chief emerging-markets among Russians nostalgic for their the West, with its commitment to economist at Standard Bank in country’s former might, according democracy and human rights.

London. The alternative, he said, to Andreas Umland, assistant pro“I think it could be a total game would be “relegating Ukraine’s sta- fessor of European studies at the changer – good for the people tus finally and decisively to that of Kyiv Mohyla Academy. “It distracts and good for Ukrainian business. a second-division Russian proxy.” from domestic politics, it creates I think if it ends up making the But the Kremlin has other plans legitimacy by building an interna-

tional alliance, a new collection of lost land.”

Moscow would also feel threatened by a fully democratic Ukraine at its doorstep, as that would pose a threat to the Kremlin’s model of “sovereign democracy,” with manipulated elections and limited tolerance for dissent.

While a majority of Ukrainians favour an alliance with the EU, pro-Moscow lobbyists are targeting the part of the population that tilts toward the historical ties with Moscow. Ukrainian Choice, a pro-Moscow organization led by a former government official with close ties to Putin, has dotted the

country with billboards warning of the perceived horrors that would follow the EU deal: price increases, job losses and, playing on the conservative Orthodox Christian attitudes, gay marriages.

With Yanukovych unwilling to pardon Tymoshenko, the charismatic leader of the 2004 Orange Revolution who nearly defeated him in the 2010 election, Kwasniewski has proposed a compromise solution. He has urged the Ukrainian parliament to pass a bill next week that would allow Tymoshenko to travel to Germany for treatment of a back problem.

But Yanukovych is up for re-

meet with Putin, a meeting only belatedly confirmed by the Kremlin. Ukraine’s opposition accused Yanukovych of selling out to Moscow in behind-the-scenes talks.

Since the trip, Kyiv appears to be stalling on Tymoshenko’s release: Parliament delayed a vote on that last week and Yanukovych’s prime minister described relations with Russia as the top priority.

The EU, however, is not giving up.

In an emotional speech at the conference in Yalta, Kwasniewski

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recalled the remarks by a senior Russian official that Russia, which shares so much history and culture with Ukraine, was offering Kyiv its love, while Kwasniewski said the EU’s offer to Kyiv was law – the rule of law.

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East or West? Ukraine to choose its path ahead of EU summit this month Maria Danilova

premier, Yulia Tymoshenko, who is serving a seven-year sentence on charges the West considers politiKIEV, Ukraine cally motivated. ccording to an old folk tradi“We have a chance to be finally tion, if a man knocks on the together,” said former Polish Presidoor of a Ukrainian beauty with dent Aleksander Kwasniewski, an a marriage proposal, but does EU envoy who has travelled to not win her heart, she will reject Ukraine 27 times over the past her suitor by presenting him with year-and-a-half to urge Yanuka pumpkin. Who will get the ovych to release Tymoshenko and pumpkin from Ukraine at the sign the EU deal. “Never (was) end of this month – Russia or the Ukraine so close to being inside European Union? the European community,” KwasMore than 20 years after gainniewski, who led Poland toward ing independence from the Soviet EU membership, said in SeptemUnion and painfully searching for ber at an international conference its place on the geopolitical map, in Yalta, a Ukrainian resort on the Ukraine finally has a real chance Black Sea. to firmly align itself with the EU, On Monday EU ministers were with its democratic standards and stressing that they do need to see free-market zone. The alternamovement from Yanukovych, tive is to slide back into Russia’s especially on judicial and electoral shadow, both politically and reform. economically.

“It has got to be reform that is President Viktor Yanukovych permanent and irreversible and has declared that Ukraine’s future not just reform for Christmas,” lies with the 28-member bloc said Britain’s Minister for Europe and has pushed through a flurry David Lidington. of pro-EU laws and reforms. But Most analysts say the EU deal he has resisted fulfilling the most would benefit Ukraine by giving it important condition set by the EU access to European markets, bringin order to sign a political associa- ing its products into line with EU tion and free-trade agreement at a standards, accelerating muchsummit in Vilnius, Lithuania, on needed reforms and increasing Nov. 28-29: the release from jail of the likelihood of Ukraine getting a bailout from the International his top political rival, the former Associated Press

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for Ukraine, which shares a similar language and common Orthodox Christian faith with Russia.

Having ruled over large parts of Ukraine for centuries, Moscow would hate losing this large piece of its former empire to the West, and has worked aggressively to derail the EU deal while nudging Ukraine to join a Moscow-led customs union instead.

As Kyiv intensified negations with Brussels, Moscow offered Kyiv sweet deals, such as price discounts on natural gas and loans.

But it has also banned Ukrainian imports on dubious health grounds and warned of a possible trade blockade.

“Whatever happens, wherever Efrem Lukatsky/AP Photo Ukraine is headed, we will still meet each other somewhere, some Leaflets with a picture of former Ukrainian prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko and a text reading “Freedom for Yulia” fly place,” Russian President Vladimir Putin told The Associated Press in over the heads of Ukrainian lawmakers in Kiev, Ukraine on an interview in September. “Why? Tuesday after an opposition activist tossed the leaflets from Because we are a common people.” a balcony.

With Putin facing a reinvigoMonetary Fund. But, equally choice to go with Russia, then rated opposition at home, keeping important, it would be a precursor Ukrainians can forget about Euro- Ukraine on a leash is also an atto eventual EU membership and pean values and perspectives,” said tempt to legitimize his own power thus cement Ukraine’s place in Tim Ash, chief emerging-markets among Russians nostalgic for their the West, with its commitment to economist at Standard Bank in country’s former might, according democracy and human rights.

London. The alternative, he said, to Andreas Umland, assistant pro“I think it could be a total game would be “relegating Ukraine’s sta- fessor of European studies at the changer – good for the people tus finally and decisively to that of Kyiv Mohyla Academy. “It distracts and good for Ukrainian business. a second-division Russian proxy.” from domestic politics, it creates I think if it ends up making the But the Kremlin has other plans legitimacy by building an interna-

tional alliance, a new collection of lost land.”

Moscow would also feel threatened by a fully democratic Ukraine at its doorstep, as that would pose a threat to the Kremlin’s model of “sovereign democracy,” with manipulated elections and limited tolerance for dissent.

While a majority of Ukrainians favour an alliance with the EU, pro-Moscow lobbyists are targeting the part of the population that tilts toward the historical ties with Moscow. Ukrainian Choice, a pro-Moscow organization led by a former government official with close ties to Putin, has dotted the

country with billboards warning of the perceived horrors that would follow the EU deal: price increases, job losses and, playing on the conservative Orthodox Christian attitudes, gay marriages.

With Yanukovych unwilling to pardon Tymoshenko, the charismatic leader of the 2004 Orange Revolution who nearly defeated him in the 2010 election, Kwasniewski has proposed a compromise solution. He has urged the Ukrainian parliament to pass a bill next week that would allow Tymoshenko to travel to Germany for treatment of a back problem.

But Yanukovych is up for re-

meet with Putin, a meeting only belatedly confirmed by the Kremlin. Ukraine’s opposition accused Yanukovych of selling out to Moscow in behind-the-scenes talks.

Since the trip, Kyiv appears to be stalling on Tymoshenko’s release: Parliament delayed a vote on that last week and Yanukovych’s prime minister described relations with Russia as the top priority.

The EU, however, is not giving up.

In an emotional speech at the conference in Yalta, Kwasniewski

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Enjoy multicultural food, music and dance, view the beautifully decorated trees and visit the kids’ corner for crafts and fun!

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recalled the remarks by a senior Russian official that Russia, which shares so much history and culture with Ukraine, was offering Kyiv its love, while Kwasniewski said the EU’s offer to Kyiv was law – the rule of law.

But what about the painful trade sanctions that Moscow has imposed on its neighbour and friend in recent months?

“What kind of love is it?”

Kwasniewski asked. “That is full perversion. That is not love.”

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election in 2015 and he is manoeuvring hard between Moscow and Brussels, trying to gauge which alliance would give him the best chance to stay in power.

His choice? Political and financial support from Moscow, which has never been fixated on clean elections, or the gratitude of Ukrainians for leading their nation toward the EU, but with the obligation to hold an honest election that comes with it.

Yanukovych took a mysterious trip to Moscow this month to

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Afghan president backs security pact with US, but…

Patrick Quinn

Taliban alone after a war that has lasted more than 12 years. The Afghan forces, however, have held KABUL, Afghanistan their ground this summer after resident Hamid Karzai urged taking control of security around tribal elders Thursday to apthe country from foreign forces. prove a security pact with WashSenior U.S. military officials ington that keeps thousands of have repeatedly stressed that U.S. troops in Afghanistan until Afghan forces still need at least 2024, but he added a wrinkle that three to four years of training he prefers his successor sign the and mentoring take on a resilient document after elections next Taliban insurgency that shows no April. sign of abating or compromisKarzai’s move could be an ing. U.S.-backed attempts to start attempt to avoid taking personal peace talks with the Taliban have responsibility for an agreement failed so far. that many Afghans see as selling If there is no security deal, out to foreign interests. the U.S. has said it will pull all His remarks to the 2,500 memits forces out of Afghanistan, as bers of the consultative council it did when Iraq failed to sign a known as the Loya Jirga came as similar agreement. Washington’s President Barack Obama made allies have also said they will not a personal plea for quick pasremain without a U.S. presence, sage of the agreement in a letter promising to respect Afghanistan’s and the exit of all foreign forces would jeopardize the more than sovereignty and only raid homes $8 billion that has been pledged when U.S. lives are at risk. annually to fund Afghan security The Loya Jirga is widely expected to approve the agreement, forces and help with the country’s development after 2014. and Karzai’s remarks could be A signed accord means that seen as last-minute move to force about 8,000 U.S. troops could stay the gathering to ask him to sign for another 10 years, which is the the long-delayed accord – thus duration of the Bilateral Security shifting the responsibility for the Agreement. Although their main deal away from him to the elders. role will be to train and assist The U.S. and its allies want the Afghan military and police, Afghanistan to sign the accord, a small number of U.S. forces and military leaders in the U.S. will continue to hunt al-Qaida and NATO widely acknowledge members. that the nearly 350,000-member The U.S. invaded Afghanistan Afghan National Security Forces following the Sept. 11, 2001, terare not yet ready to take on the The Associated Press

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as possible to allow planners in the Pentagon and NATO to prepare for a military presence after 2014.

The U.S. had wanted a deal signed by the end of October.

“If you accept it and Parliament passes it, the agreement should be signed when the election is conducted, properly and with dignity,” Karzai said in his speech.

But he left open a loophole, saying he basically made the suggestion to give Afghans more time to consider it. Karzai hinted he was seeking the advice of the Loya Jirga on when a deal should be signed.

“We need some time. If you Rahmat Gul/AP Photo agree and give me advice to have Members of the Afghan Loya Jirga attend a meeting in some time, that would be to our Kabul, Afghanistan. Afghan President Hamid Karzai told the benefit,” Karzai said. He did not gathering that he supports a security deal with the U.S. explicitly rule out signing if the elders asked him to and the Parliarorist attacks to go after al-Qaida, U.S. officials have said the U.S. ment approved. and NATO could keep between which was being sheltered by the The Jirga will hold a series of 8,000 and 12,000 troops. Of those, Taliban. The longest and costliclosed-door meetings until Sunest war in U.S. history has proven the U.S. is expected to provide no day, when it makes its suggestions more than 8,000. deeply unpopular at home and on the security deal to Karzai.

The Afghan Parliament will among its allies, and most have He also hinted that asking for also have to agree on the deal after said they will not commit any the deferral could be personal – troops after 2014 unless the secur- the Loya Jirga, but the lawmakers that neither he nor the U.S. trust are expected to rubber-stamp the ity deal is signed. each other and that it would be Karzai said the deal would pave elders’ decision. A previous Loya better if someone else put pen to Jirga overwhelmingly approved the way for 10,000 to 15,000 U.S. paper. troops to stay in the country after the strategic partnership agree“It all turns to trust, and ment signed by Obama and Karzai the NATO combat mission ends between me and America, there in May 2012. at the end of 2014 and give the is not very good trust,” he said. “I If Karzai carries out his threat United States nine bases around don’t trust them and they don’t to have his elected successor sign the country that it can use. the accord, it could be a potential trust me. The last 10 years has U.S. officials have not yet disclosed how many troops they want deal-breaker, because the U.S. has shown this to me. I have had fights to keep in Afghanistan after 2014. said it wants an agreement as soon with them and they have had

Religious Organizations & Services Whitehorse United Church

Yukon Bible Fellowship

(Union of Methodist, Presbyterian & Congregational Churches) 10:30 a.m. - Sunday School & Worship Service Rev. Beverly C.S. Brazier

160 hillcrest Drive 668-5689 Sunday Service 10:00 a.m.

Pre-Service Prayer 9:00 a.m.

Family Worship & K.I.D.S. Church

601 Main Street 667-2989

Grace Community Church 8th & Wheeler Street

Pastor Paul & Moreen Sharp 667-2134 10:30 aM FaMILY WoRShIP WeeKLY CaRe GRoUP STUDIeS Because He Cares, We Care.

The Salvation Army

311-B Black Street • 668-2327

Sunday Church Services: 11 am & 7 pm eveRYoNe WeLCoMe

Our Lady of Victory (Roman Catholic)

1607 Birch St. 633-2647

Saturday evening Mass: 7:30 p.m.

Confessions before Mass & by appointment.

Monday 7:00 PM Novena Prayers & adoration Tuesday through Friday: Mass 11:30 a.m.

ALL WeLCOMe

TRINITY LUTHeRAN 4th Avenue & Strickland Street

668-4079 tlc@polarcom.com Sunday worship at 10:00 am Sunday school at 10:00 am Pastor Deborah Moroz eVeRYONe WeLCOMe!

Riverdale

Baptist Church

Canadian Baptist Ministries

15 Duke Road, Whse • 667-6620 Sunday Worship Service: 10:30 AM ReV. GReG ANDeRSON

www.rbchurch.ca

FoURSqUaRe ChURCh

PaSToR RICK TURNeR

Church Of The Nazarene 2111 Centennial St. (Porter Creek) Sunday School & Morning Worship - 10:45 am

Call for Bible Study & Youth Group details

PaSToR NoRaYR (Norman) haJIaN

www.whitehorsenazarene.org 633-4903

First Pentecostal Church 149 Wilson Drive 668-5727

Sunday 10:00am Prayer / Sunday School 11:00 am Worship Wednesday Praise & Celebration 7:30 pm Pastor Roger Yadon

Whitehorse

Baptist Church 2060 2nD AvEnuE • 667-4889

Pastor Mark Carroll Family Worship at 11:00 am Sunday School 9:45 am

St. Nikolai Orthodox

Christian Mission

Reader Service Sundays 10:30 am 332-4171 for information

www.orthodoxwhitehorse.org

Quaker Worship Group ReLIGIoUS SoCIeTY oF FRIeNDS Meets regularly for Silent Worship.

For information, call 667-4615 email: whitehorse-contact@quaker.ca

website: quaker.ca

Seventh Day Adventist Church

Rigdrol Dechen Ling,

Vajra North Buddhist Meditation Society Meditation Drop-in • Everyone Welcome!

403 Lowe Street

Mondays 5:15 to 6:15 PM

www.vajranorth.org • 667-6951

Christ Church Cathedral Anglican

eCKANKAR

Religion of the Light and Sound of God

For more information on monthly activities, call (867) 633-6594 or visit www.eckankar-yt.ca www.eckankar.org ALL ARe WeLCOMe.

Church of the Northern Apostles

An Anglican/episcopal Church Sunday Worship 10:00 aM

1609 Birch St. (Porter Creek) 633-5385 “We’re open Saturdays!”

Worship Service 11:00 am Wednesday 7:00 pm - Prayer Meeting All are welcome.

oFFICe hoURS: Mon-Fri 9:00 aM to 12 Noon

Sacred Heart Cathedral

TAGISH Community Church

Box 31419, Whitehorse, YT Y1a 6K8 For information on regular community activities in Whitehorse contact:

www.tagishcc.com

The Church of Jesus Christ of

(Roman Catholic)

4th Avenue & Steele Street • 667-2437 Masses: Weekdays: 12:10 pm.

Saturday 5 pm Sunday: 9 am - english; 10:10 am - French; 11:30 am english

Bethany Church

Pentecostal Assemblies of Canada early Service 9:00 - 10:00 am Family Service 10:30 am - Noon Filipino Service 4:00 - 5:00 pm Sunday School ages 0-12

91806 alaska highway

Ph: 668-4877 • www.bethanychurch.ca

The Temple of Set

The World’s Premier Left hand Path Religion

a not-for-prophet society. www.xeper.org

canadian affiliation information: northstarpylon@gmail.com

4Th aveNUe & eLLIoTT STReeT Services Sunday 8:30 aM & 10:00 aM Thursday Service 12:10 PM (with lunch)

668-5530

Meeting First Sunday each Month Details, map and information at:

867-633-4903

Calvary Baptist

1301 FIR STReeT 633-2886

Sunday School during Service, Sept to May

THe ReV. ROB LANGMAID

45 Boxwood Crescent • Porter Creek 633-4032 • All Are Welcome

Bahá’í Faith

whitehorselsa@gmail.com

Public Input into Conditional Use – 33 Levich Drive; Public Hearing – Bylaw 2013-51 – Zoning Amendment (Sportees, 6th Avenue); Water, Sewer & Storm Utility Bylaws; Public Hearing Report – Ogilvie Street Local Improvement; Environmental Grant Allocations; Interim City Manager Bylaw; Fees & Charges Amendment; Third Quarter Capital Variance Report; Conditional Use Application – 33 Levich Drive (For Info Only).

For a complete meeting list please visit whitehorse.ca/CASM

Turn Frost Protection Devices ON Frost protection devices should now be activated. These could include authorized free flowing bleeders, Thermostatically controlled bleeders, circulating pumps, electrical impedance heat trace, and aqua flows.

Homeowners with aqua-flow devices are asked not to disconnect or use the device as a bleeder. Disconnection will result in plugging of the filters.

Come and meet Santa and Mrs. Claus – bring your appetite for pancakes and of course your camera!

Breakfast served up by the Rotary Club of Whitehorse

ADAMS FAMILY

Questions? Please call 668-8350 between 8am - 5pm Monday to Friday.

Join a City Committee or Task Force Are you able to contribute your time to some important volunteer work? Want to use your talents and insights to make a difference in our community? The City is seeking applications from interested Whitehorse residents as follows:

Parks and Protected Areas Bylaw Task Force

Main Yukon Government Building Saturday, November 23 10 am to 1 pm

Calling out all community associations and stakeholders for a seat on this Task Force, which will meet several times in 2014 to assist with recommendations for a new Bylaw. Application forms and supporting information may be downloaded at whitehorse.ca/bylawinput or picked up at the Public Safety Building, 305 Range Road. Please respond by November 28.

Tickets $5 at the door

Whitehorse Trails and Greenways Committee

Dale & Rena Mae McDonald Word of Faith Ministers & Teachers. check out our website!

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

Rev. David Pritchard 668-5530

City Council will meet at 5:30pm to discuss:

Council & Senior Management (CASM)

Skookum Santa Breakfast

Northern Light Ministries

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

November 25 Regular Council Meeting

Agenda packages are available at whitehorse.ca/agendas

1-867-667-2353

1154c 1st Ave • Entrance from Strickland

What’s New?

2013-46 – Local Improvement (Ogilvie Street West) 2nd & 3rd 2013-49 – Land Disposition (67 Wann Road) 1st & 2nd 2013-50 – Land Disposition (706/708 Ogilvie Street) 1st & 2nd 2013-54 – Fees & Charges Amendment (Misc.) 1st & 2nd 2013-55 – Interim City Manager – 1st & 2nd 2013-56 – Sewer & Storm Utility Bylaw – 1st & 2nd 2013-57 – Water Utility Bylaw – 1st & 2nd

Sunday Sacrament Service starts at 10:00 AM Sunday School at 11:00 AM and Priesthood hour will be from 12:00 to 1:00 PM

St. Saviour’s

they favoured the deal because it ensured Afghanistan’s security and development.

Sidiqa Safi, a female teacher from the northern city of Mazari-Sharif, said she approved of the agreement “because Afghanistan needs it.”

The country’s security “will be in a bad situation without the United States,” she added. “The situation is getting worse. There are more attacks from the Taliban, and the Afghan forces are not able to protect Afghanistan.”

Bylaw Readings as follows:

Latter Day Saints

www.northernlightministries.ca

that was read to the assembly.

In it, Obama assured Karzai that under the agreement, the U.S. will continue to respect “Afghan sovereignty.” He also said the U.S. military will not conduct raids on homes – a particularly sensitive issue for Afghans – except under “extraordinary circumstances” involving urgent risks to U.S. nationals.

Obama also said in the letter that “we look forward to concluding this agreement promptly.”

Many Jirga members said

S TA R S P O N S O R S

108 WICKSTROM ROAD, WHITeHORSe

Sunday Morning Worship 10:30 a.m.

Sunday evening Worship 6:00 p.m.

Wednesday Bible Study 7:30 p.m.

Pastor L.e. harrison 633-4089

Anglican Church in Carcross

propaganda against me.”

Karzai’s mercurial nature was evident before the 2012 signing as well. He had repeatedly criticized the U.S. for its military actions in Afghanistan, including night raids against Afghan homes and airstrikes that resulted in civilian casualties.

But now, all of Karzai’s concerns have been resolved in the agreement, and a final issue over whether U.S. forces could enter Afghan homes during raids was addressed by Obama in a letter

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Friday, November 22, 2013

Calling community associations and stakeholders interested in sitting on this Committee, which will meet once a month in 2014 to assist with implementation of the 2007 Trail Plan.

Nominations are for a two year term. Please visit whitehorse.ca/trails to download forms and details or pick them up at the Outreach and Events Office (Sport Yukon Building, 4061 - 4th Avenue). Please respond by December 2.

Finance Committee The responsibility of this Committee is to consider and assess the financial implications of existing and proposed policies, programs and actions, and to recommend to Council the measures or adjustments required to make the best use of the City’s financial resources. For more information and an application form, visit whitehorse.ca/financecommittee or call the Manager, Financial Services at 336-0011. Please apply by January 10, 2014.

or call 456-7131

Yukon Muslim Association www.yukonmuslims.ca

www.yhf.ca

www.whitehorse.ca

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Yukon News

Friday, November 22, 2013

Afghan president backs security pact with US, but…

Patrick Quinn

Taliban alone after a war that has lasted more than 12 years. The Afghan forces, however, have held KABUL, Afghanistan their ground this summer after resident Hamid Karzai urged taking control of security around tribal elders Thursday to apthe country from foreign forces. prove a security pact with WashSenior U.S. military officials ington that keeps thousands of have repeatedly stressed that U.S. troops in Afghanistan until Afghan forces still need at least 2024, but he added a wrinkle that three to four years of training he prefers his successor sign the and mentoring take on a resilient document after elections next Taliban insurgency that shows no April. sign of abating or compromisKarzai’s move could be an ing. U.S.-backed attempts to start attempt to avoid taking personal peace talks with the Taliban have responsibility for an agreement failed so far. that many Afghans see as selling If there is no security deal, out to foreign interests. the U.S. has said it will pull all His remarks to the 2,500 memits forces out of Afghanistan, as bers of the consultative council it did when Iraq failed to sign a known as the Loya Jirga came as similar agreement. Washington’s President Barack Obama made allies have also said they will not a personal plea for quick pasremain without a U.S. presence, sage of the agreement in a letter promising to respect Afghanistan’s and the exit of all foreign forces would jeopardize the more than sovereignty and only raid homes $8 billion that has been pledged when U.S. lives are at risk. annually to fund Afghan security The Loya Jirga is widely expected to approve the agreement, forces and help with the country’s development after 2014. and Karzai’s remarks could be A signed accord means that seen as last-minute move to force about 8,000 U.S. troops could stay the gathering to ask him to sign for another 10 years, which is the the long-delayed accord – thus duration of the Bilateral Security shifting the responsibility for the Agreement. Although their main deal away from him to the elders. role will be to train and assist The U.S. and its allies want the Afghan military and police, Afghanistan to sign the accord, a small number of U.S. forces and military leaders in the U.S. will continue to hunt al-Qaida and NATO widely acknowledge members. that the nearly 350,000-member The U.S. invaded Afghanistan Afghan National Security Forces following the Sept. 11, 2001, terare not yet ready to take on the The Associated Press

P

as possible to allow planners in the Pentagon and NATO to prepare for a military presence after 2014.

The U.S. had wanted a deal signed by the end of October.

“If you accept it and Parliament passes it, the agreement should be signed when the election is conducted, properly and with dignity,” Karzai said in his speech.

But he left open a loophole, saying he basically made the suggestion to give Afghans more time to consider it. Karzai hinted he was seeking the advice of the Loya Jirga on when a deal should be signed.

“We need some time. If you Rahmat Gul/AP Photo agree and give me advice to have Members of the Afghan Loya Jirga attend a meeting in some time, that would be to our Kabul, Afghanistan. Afghan President Hamid Karzai told the benefit,” Karzai said. He did not gathering that he supports a security deal with the U.S. explicitly rule out signing if the elders asked him to and the Parliarorist attacks to go after al-Qaida, U.S. officials have said the U.S. ment approved. and NATO could keep between which was being sheltered by the The Jirga will hold a series of 8,000 and 12,000 troops. Of those, Taliban. The longest and costliclosed-door meetings until Sunest war in U.S. history has proven the U.S. is expected to provide no day, when it makes its suggestions more than 8,000. deeply unpopular at home and on the security deal to Karzai.

The Afghan Parliament will among its allies, and most have He also hinted that asking for also have to agree on the deal after said they will not commit any the deferral could be personal – troops after 2014 unless the secur- the Loya Jirga, but the lawmakers that neither he nor the U.S. trust are expected to rubber-stamp the ity deal is signed. each other and that it would be Karzai said the deal would pave elders’ decision. A previous Loya better if someone else put pen to Jirga overwhelmingly approved the way for 10,000 to 15,000 U.S. paper. troops to stay in the country after the strategic partnership agree“It all turns to trust, and ment signed by Obama and Karzai the NATO combat mission ends between me and America, there in May 2012. at the end of 2014 and give the is not very good trust,” he said. “I If Karzai carries out his threat United States nine bases around don’t trust them and they don’t to have his elected successor sign the country that it can use. the accord, it could be a potential trust me. The last 10 years has U.S. officials have not yet disclosed how many troops they want deal-breaker, because the U.S. has shown this to me. I have had fights to keep in Afghanistan after 2014. said it wants an agreement as soon with them and they have had

Religious Organizations & Services Whitehorse United Church

Yukon Bible Fellowship

(Union of Methodist, Presbyterian & Congregational Churches) 10:30 a.m. - Sunday School & Worship Service Rev. Beverly C.S. Brazier

160 hillcrest Drive 668-5689 Sunday Service 10:00 a.m.

Pre-Service Prayer 9:00 a.m.

Family Worship & K.I.D.S. Church

601 Main Street 667-2989

Grace Community Church 8th & Wheeler Street

Pastor Paul & Moreen Sharp 667-2134 10:30 aM FaMILY WoRShIP WeeKLY CaRe GRoUP STUDIeS Because He Cares, We Care.

The Salvation Army

311-B Black Street • 668-2327

Sunday Church Services: 11 am & 7 pm eveRYoNe WeLCoMe

Our Lady of Victory (Roman Catholic)

1607 Birch St. 633-2647

Saturday evening Mass: 7:30 p.m.

Confessions before Mass & by appointment.

Monday 7:00 PM Novena Prayers & adoration Tuesday through Friday: Mass 11:30 a.m.

ALL WeLCOMe

TRINITY LUTHeRAN 4th Avenue & Strickland Street

668-4079 tlc@polarcom.com Sunday worship at 10:00 am Sunday school at 10:00 am Pastor Deborah Moroz eVeRYONe WeLCOMe!

Riverdale

Baptist Church

Canadian Baptist Ministries

15 Duke Road, Whse • 667-6620 Sunday Worship Service: 10:30 AM ReV. GReG ANDeRSON

www.rbchurch.ca

FoURSqUaRe ChURCh

PaSToR RICK TURNeR

Church Of The Nazarene 2111 Centennial St. (Porter Creek) Sunday School & Morning Worship - 10:45 am

Call for Bible Study & Youth Group details

PaSToR NoRaYR (Norman) haJIaN

www.whitehorsenazarene.org 633-4903

First Pentecostal Church 149 Wilson Drive 668-5727

Sunday 10:00am Prayer / Sunday School 11:00 am Worship Wednesday Praise & Celebration 7:30 pm Pastor Roger Yadon

Whitehorse

Baptist Church 2060 2nD AvEnuE • 667-4889

Pastor Mark Carroll Family Worship at 11:00 am Sunday School 9:45 am

St. Nikolai Orthodox

Christian Mission

Reader Service Sundays 10:30 am 332-4171 for information

www.orthodoxwhitehorse.org

Quaker Worship Group ReLIGIoUS SoCIeTY oF FRIeNDS Meets regularly for Silent Worship.

For information, call 667-4615 email: whitehorse-contact@quaker.ca

website: quaker.ca

Seventh Day Adventist Church

Rigdrol Dechen Ling,

Vajra North Buddhist Meditation Society Meditation Drop-in • Everyone Welcome!

403 Lowe Street

Mondays 5:15 to 6:15 PM

www.vajranorth.org • 667-6951

Christ Church Cathedral Anglican

eCKANKAR

Religion of the Light and Sound of God

For more information on monthly activities, call (867) 633-6594 or visit www.eckankar-yt.ca www.eckankar.org ALL ARe WeLCOMe.

Church of the Northern Apostles

An Anglican/episcopal Church Sunday Worship 10:00 aM

1609 Birch St. (Porter Creek) 633-5385 “We’re open Saturdays!”

Worship Service 11:00 am Wednesday 7:00 pm - Prayer Meeting All are welcome.

oFFICe hoURS: Mon-Fri 9:00 aM to 12 Noon

Sacred Heart Cathedral

TAGISH Community Church

Box 31419, Whitehorse, YT Y1a 6K8 For information on regular community activities in Whitehorse contact:

www.tagishcc.com

The Church of Jesus Christ of

(Roman Catholic)

4th Avenue & Steele Street • 667-2437 Masses: Weekdays: 12:10 pm.

Saturday 5 pm Sunday: 9 am - english; 10:10 am - French; 11:30 am english

Bethany Church

Pentecostal Assemblies of Canada early Service 9:00 - 10:00 am Family Service 10:30 am - Noon Filipino Service 4:00 - 5:00 pm Sunday School ages 0-12

91806 alaska highway

Ph: 668-4877 • www.bethanychurch.ca

The Temple of Set

The World’s Premier Left hand Path Religion

a not-for-prophet society. www.xeper.org

canadian affiliation information: northstarpylon@gmail.com

4Th aveNUe & eLLIoTT STReeT Services Sunday 8:30 aM & 10:00 aM Thursday Service 12:10 PM (with lunch)

668-5530

Meeting First Sunday each Month Details, map and information at:

867-633-4903

Calvary Baptist

1301 FIR STReeT 633-2886

Sunday School during Service, Sept to May

THe ReV. ROB LANGMAID

45 Boxwood Crescent • Porter Creek 633-4032 • All Are Welcome

Bahá’í Faith

whitehorselsa@gmail.com

Public Input into Conditional Use – 33 Levich Drive; Public Hearing – Bylaw 2013-51 – Zoning Amendment (Sportees, 6th Avenue); Water, Sewer & Storm Utility Bylaws; Public Hearing Report – Ogilvie Street Local Improvement; Environmental Grant Allocations; Interim City Manager Bylaw; Fees & Charges Amendment; Third Quarter Capital Variance Report; Conditional Use Application – 33 Levich Drive (For Info Only).

For a complete meeting list please visit whitehorse.ca/CASM

Turn Frost Protection Devices ON Frost protection devices should now be activated. These could include authorized free flowing bleeders, Thermostatically controlled bleeders, circulating pumps, electrical impedance heat trace, and aqua flows.

Homeowners with aqua-flow devices are asked not to disconnect or use the device as a bleeder. Disconnection will result in plugging of the filters.

Come and meet Santa and Mrs. Claus – bring your appetite for pancakes and of course your camera!

Breakfast served up by the Rotary Club of Whitehorse

ADAMS FAMILY

Questions? Please call 668-8350 between 8am - 5pm Monday to Friday.

Join a City Committee or Task Force Are you able to contribute your time to some important volunteer work? Want to use your talents and insights to make a difference in our community? The City is seeking applications from interested Whitehorse residents as follows:

Parks and Protected Areas Bylaw Task Force

Main Yukon Government Building Saturday, November 23 10 am to 1 pm

Calling out all community associations and stakeholders for a seat on this Task Force, which will meet several times in 2014 to assist with recommendations for a new Bylaw. Application forms and supporting information may be downloaded at whitehorse.ca/bylawinput or picked up at the Public Safety Building, 305 Range Road. Please respond by November 28.

Tickets $5 at the door

Whitehorse Trails and Greenways Committee

Dale & Rena Mae McDonald Word of Faith Ministers & Teachers. check out our website!

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

Rev. David Pritchard 668-5530

City Council will meet at 5:30pm to discuss:

Council & Senior Management (CASM)

Skookum Santa Breakfast

Northern Light Ministries

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

November 25 Regular Council Meeting

Agenda packages are available at whitehorse.ca/agendas

1-867-667-2353

1154c 1st Ave • Entrance from Strickland

What’s New?

2013-46 – Local Improvement (Ogilvie Street West) 2nd & 3rd 2013-49 – Land Disposition (67 Wann Road) 1st & 2nd 2013-50 – Land Disposition (706/708 Ogilvie Street) 1st & 2nd 2013-54 – Fees & Charges Amendment (Misc.) 1st & 2nd 2013-55 – Interim City Manager – 1st & 2nd 2013-56 – Sewer & Storm Utility Bylaw – 1st & 2nd 2013-57 – Water Utility Bylaw – 1st & 2nd

Sunday Sacrament Service starts at 10:00 AM Sunday School at 11:00 AM and Priesthood hour will be from 12:00 to 1:00 PM

St. Saviour’s

they favoured the deal because it ensured Afghanistan’s security and development.

Sidiqa Safi, a female teacher from the northern city of Mazari-Sharif, said she approved of the agreement “because Afghanistan needs it.”

The country’s security “will be in a bad situation without the United States,” she added. “The situation is getting worse. There are more attacks from the Taliban, and the Afghan forces are not able to protect Afghanistan.”

Bylaw Readings as follows:

Latter Day Saints

www.northernlightministries.ca

that was read to the assembly.

In it, Obama assured Karzai that under the agreement, the U.S. will continue to respect “Afghan sovereignty.” He also said the U.S. military will not conduct raids on homes – a particularly sensitive issue for Afghans – except under “extraordinary circumstances” involving urgent risks to U.S. nationals.

Obama also said in the letter that “we look forward to concluding this agreement promptly.”

Many Jirga members said

S TA R S P O N S O R S

108 WICKSTROM ROAD, WHITeHORSe

Sunday Morning Worship 10:30 a.m.

Sunday evening Worship 6:00 p.m.

Wednesday Bible Study 7:30 p.m.

Pastor L.e. harrison 633-4089

Anglican Church in Carcross

propaganda against me.”

Karzai’s mercurial nature was evident before the 2012 signing as well. He had repeatedly criticized the U.S. for its military actions in Afghanistan, including night raids against Afghan homes and airstrikes that resulted in civilian casualties.

But now, all of Karzai’s concerns have been resolved in the agreement, and a final issue over whether U.S. forces could enter Afghan homes during raids was addressed by Obama in a letter

23

Yukon News

Friday, November 22, 2013

Calling community associations and stakeholders interested in sitting on this Committee, which will meet once a month in 2014 to assist with implementation of the 2007 Trail Plan.

Nominations are for a two year term. Please visit whitehorse.ca/trails to download forms and details or pick them up at the Outreach and Events Office (Sport Yukon Building, 4061 - 4th Avenue). Please respond by December 2.

Finance Committee The responsibility of this Committee is to consider and assess the financial implications of existing and proposed policies, programs and actions, and to recommend to Council the measures or adjustments required to make the best use of the City’s financial resources. For more information and an application form, visit whitehorse.ca/financecommittee or call the Manager, Financial Services at 336-0011. Please apply by January 10, 2014.

or call 456-7131

Yukon Muslim Association www.yukonmuslims.ca

www.yhf.ca

www.whitehorse.ca

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Yukon News

Friday, November 22, 2013

C. African Republic says talking with alleged war criminal Kony Jason Straziuso and Krista Larson

LRA fighters have killed at least 33 people since January and abducted The Associated Press more than 100 others.

Central African Republic governNAIROBI, Kenya ment spokesman Gaston Mackentral African Republic’s ouzangba said Thursday that Kony government said Thursday is now believed to be in the town of that Joseph Kony, an accused war Nzako. None of the groups searchcriminal hunted by African troops ing for Kony reported any indication and U.S. advisers, is believed to be in that Kony was really there. the country’s remote southeast and “The president said he had has been talking with the president. spoken by telephone with Joseph U.S. officials and others expressed Kony who wants to lay down his doubt the reported talks represent a arms,” Mackouzangba told The Asbreakthrough in efforts to bring him sociated Press. “The negotiations are to justice. ongoing.”

Kony, who has been indicted on The government also said it had charges of crimes against humanity, sent medicine to Kony at his request. has evaded capture for decades and The African Union envoy in charge was the subject of viral video seen of pursuing the LRA said Wednesday by more than 100 million people that many reports indicate Kony is last year produced by the advocacy seriously ill. group Invisible Children. His fightThe U.S. State Department said ers with the Lord’s Resistance Army Thursday that U.S. authorities are are known for hacking off the lips aware that CAR officials have been and ears of their victims, and turnin contact “for several months” ing young girls into sex slaves. with a small LRA group “that has Reports over the years have expressed interest in surrendering.” claimed that the brutal jungle gang- The U.S. said it’s clear the LRA is ster was hiding in Sudan’s Darfur facing significant pressure from region or in a remote corner of vola- African military forces hunting for tile Central African Republic, where LRA fighters and Kony.

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“They have referred to involvement from ‘the big boss’ but there has been no evidence of actual involvement from Kony in this process. On the contrary, there is some indication that the group may be acting independent of his direction,” said Poffenberger, whose group helps run the LRA Crisis Tracker, a website Stuart Price/AP Photo that charts LRA attacks.

Joseph Kony in southern SuThe spokesman for Uganda’s dan in 2006. The spokesman military also said Thursday that he’s for Uganda’s military said pessimistic that the reported contact Thursday that he’s pessimistic with Kony or his fighters will bear that reported contact with fruit. Lt. Col. Paddy Ankunda said the rebel leader Kony will Uganda supports in principle any inbear fruit. itiative by Central African Republic to engage in talks with Kony, but he “At this time, we have little reason noted that it’s the third time there to believe that Joseph Kony is part have been reports of such efforts. of this group,” the State DepartUganda has about 2,500 troops ment said, adding that Kony and his working to find Kony in CAR and senior commanders have used “any the surrounding region, Ankunda and every pretext to rest, regroup, said. The U.S. also has about 100 and rearm, ultimately returning to special forces stationed across central kidnapping, killing, displacing and Africa who are helping advise in otherwise abusing civilian populathe hunt for Kony. The LRA leader tions.” was the subject of viral video seen The Resolve, a U.S. aid group that by more than 100 million people carries out anti-LRA work, said the last year produced by the advocacy report of talks with Kony is based group Invisible Children.

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The U.S. military’s Africa Command says the LRA has “murdered, raped and kidnapped tens of thousands of innocent men, women and children” and that more than 380,000 people across three African countries have been displaced while fleeing the violence. The U.S. State Department is offering a $5 million reward – up to $15 million total – for help in the arrest of Kony and two of his lieutenants.

Kony and two top commanders are wanted by the International Criminal Court for crimes against humanity.

The State Department said that nearly 100 men, women and children have successfully left the LRA since 2012. U.S. military advisers work with the African Union Regional Task Force and local communities to encourage and facilitate defections from the LRA. “We will continue to welcome those who are serious about putting down their arms and surrendering,” the State Department said.

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‘Solution deniers’ suck the life out of climate change action more than skeptics Bruce Cheadle

is not close to being on track to meet its 2020 emissions target under the subsequent Copenhagen OTTAWA Accord. Aglukkaq has not indicated nyone wondering why Canada, what Canada’s immediate postwith its minuscule global 2020 emissions targets might look carbon footprint, attracts so much like. international ire from environmenNatural Resources Minister Joe talists these days should listen to Oliver was in London on Tuesday, Avrim Lazar. where he continued to question a The former forest industry exEuropean Union fuel directive that ecutive and one-time Environment paints Alberta’s oilsands bitumen as Canada policy lead was part of a much more highly polluting than biodiversity seminar Tuesday at the conventional sources.

University of Ottawa, where policy Government officials have talk inevitably meandered over to repeatedly noted that Canada climate change. contributes less than two per cent Lazar said a feeling of powerless- of global greenhouse gas emissions; ness is sapping motivation and he Oliver told reporters Tuesday in believes the problem lies in getting London that the “oilsands, which everyone in the global commons to have become a symbol for some contribute. opponents, represent 0.1 per cent of “It’s not the people that say there global emissions.” is no problem who are standing in Back in Ottawa, Lazar suggested the way of solutions,” Lazar told the in an interview the statistic misses assembled business, government, the point. academic and student representa“Those who are furious with tives.

Canada’s performance, it’s not “It’s the people who are saying because they need our two per cent there is no solution. That basically (of global GHG emissions),” he sucks the energy out of the necessaid.

“The government’s quite right sary human action and initiative.” saying we’re only two per cent of A United Nations conference the problem.” in Warsaw, Poland, is currently The anger comes from Canada struggling to find an international “reducing the global collectivity’s consensus on a post-2020 framebelief that if they act, others will act. work for reducing greenhouse gas It’s de-motivating. That’s the reason emissions. for the fury.”

Canada’s low-key Environment “Each time someone says ‘I’m Minister Leona Aglukkaq carried not going to step up,’ everyone else exceedingly low expectations to thinks there’s no point to my stepWarsaw this week, and indications ping up,” said Lazar. are they’re being met.

His comments were not a politiUN Secretary General Ban Kimoon urged delegates at the confer- cal attack on the government. The ence Tuesday to “set the bar higher” university forum was devoid of paras they work toward a 2015 summit tisan posturing and focused entirely on efforts to advance environmenin Paris where it is hoped the 2020 tal policy. framework can be nailed down.

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t’s 9 a.m. on a brisk November morning. The six little pigs who’ve been running around my yard all summer are confined to the squeeze pen, all grown up into 50-kilogram hogs.

It’s slaughter day on the farm, and the mobile abattoir is just backing up beside the pens. A gleaming fifth-wheel trailer, the abattoir comes equipped with its own power and water, and everything required to butcher my hogs.

Today it also comes with two skilled operators, private contractor Caine Vangel and the Yukon government’s agricultural development officer, Kevin Bowers, whom Caine has assured me is “great with pigs.”

It turns out that in addition to being a civil servant, Bowers is also a farmer. “Like yourself, I raise pigs, have for a number of years,” he says.

The Yukon government’s mobile abattoir is now seven years old. “It came about in response to research work that the Yukon Agriculture Association did,” Bowers explains. “The mobile abattoir we have in the Yukon is modeled after one that was built for a farming co-operative in Washington state.” Farmers were looking for a way to bring government inspected meat to market.

The abattoir was unveiled at the Fireweed Farmers Market in August of 2006, with tours for the public.

Then resources minister Archie Lang expressed the hope that it would “increase the amount of commercially available, locally grown, government inspected beef, bison, pork and elk for sale in Yukon.” He also expected that after five years, the government would be able to stop funding the program and let producers cover the costs. But farmers saw things differently.

“It should be free,” bison farmer Cliff LaPrairie told News reporter Genesee Keevil at the time. “It costs us $100 an animal … and his mileage in and his mileage back, plus $70 hour to clean up and everything.

“We normally do it ourselves and we’re standing around here and I still have to pay my hired hand and we can’t touch the animals.”

Today, it seems the farmers have won. I’m paying nothing to have my hogs butchered in a far more professional way than I’d ever manage myself. When it’s all done, they will be stamped for commercial use and transported to the Deli to be cut and wrapped.

I ask Bowers how it came about that there’s no fee for this service. It all came down to the contractor, he explains.

“We put out proposals to provide a contracting service to operate the abattoir, and included in that was a request to provide a schedule of slaughter fees, mileage fees, and that kind of thing, and so that’s what we saw for the first six years. In this past year, we followed a similar process … and the successful contractor was innovative in his proposal. The

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Al Pope’s pigs await the gun last week in Mount Lorne.

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Al Pope delivers a hog carcass to the mobile abattoir trailer at his property in Mount Lorne. bid is separated into two elements, a monthly retainer fee and a fee to producers. In this case (Vangel) weighted it toward the monthly fee.

In fact there’s no cost to producers for this year.”

But why did the government accept a proposal that put the burden of cost on the public purse, and not on the farmer? “It was an opportunity to make the unit more attractive to individuals to experiment, to try the unit.

You’re an example, I would suggest, of a producer that took advantage of the free services that we’re offering this year. There were at least two or three other producers that now have something to compare with the way they’ve done their slaughter work in the past.”

He’s right. I’m hooked. Butchering hogs the way I’ve done it in the past, with a come-along on a log tripod, is a huge, messy, exhausting job. Six

hogs that would have taken me two days, disappear one-by-one into the trailer, tidy gut piles appear at the side door for me to whisk away, and 12 perfect sides of pork hang in the cooler.

The meat is government stamped, my hogs didn’t have to endure a long and terrifying trip to the slaughter, and the whole operation took a bit more than three hours.

I ask what’s in the abattoir’s future.

“I’m hoping that the producers who used it for the first time this year will consider continuing to use it in the future,” says Bowers, “whether it’s free or whether there’s a fee for service.”

A small blood stain in the snow is all that remains of the summer’s pigs.

My meat’s on the way to the butcher and my back doesn’t hurt. At the end Ian Stewart/Yukon News of the easiest day of slaughtering I’ve The carcass is processed in the mobile abattoir. ever seen, I’m already considering the abattoir for next year.

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Pulling the plug on traditional TV is still a slow-moving trend LuAnn LaSalle

television behind is Matthew Duffie, who hasn’t had cable for seven years and watches TV online and subMONTREAL scribes to Netflix for $8 a month. atching television on the He said he may never return as a Internet is cheap and contraditional TV customer. venient, but so far only a small “If I could pick about 10-ish number of Canadians have cut the channels that I would want, then cord on traditional viewing as TV maybe,” said Duffie, 33, who works providers offer discount prices and in alarm systems. “Other than that, I spend more on programs to keep would be hard pressed.” customers who pay bigger monthly The federal government wants to bills. give consumers more choice and has The death of traditional TV asked the CRTC to do a report on watching has been exaggerated so steps it can take toward unbundling far, say analysts who track viewing TV packages containing multiple habits. channels that viewers may not want.

“The truth of the matter is the TV providers are fighting to keep revolution hasn’t come,” said Brahm every subscriber and Bell’s Fibe Eiley of the Convergence Consulting TV has been leading the way with Group in Toronto. aggressive promotions noted by It’s slow moving with about competitors Rogers and Videotron, 400,000 TV subscribers – 3.5 per which have lost customers in the cent – out of 11.8 million who have intensely competitive environment. cut the cord since 2011, Eiley said, Mario Mota, a consultant with adding cord cutting started after the Ottawa-based Boon Dog Profesarrival of online subscription service sional Services, said TV customers Netflix in late 2010. are calling their providers constantly “TV is not dead,” Eiley said. for better deals to lower their bills.

Canadians watch about 28 hours Cable, satellite and Internet protocol of TV a week and another three TV providers must decide whether hours on the Internet, according to they want keep these customers the Canadian Radio-television and with “sweetheart deals,” he said.

Telecommunications Commission.

Eric Rosenquist, who has a But the movement to online blog called, Adventures in Canaviewing can’t be ignored because dian Cord Cutting, said he cut his it has a cost for TV providers. The satellite TV service in 2012 after the average revenue that a TV customer Stanley Cup playoffs due to annual generates is $65 monthly, compared prices hikes. One way he satisfies his hockey watching is with an NHL with almost $45 for an Internet streaming package. customer, Eiley said.

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come in viewing with younger Canadians, calling them “cord nevers,” an industry term used to describe those who don’t bother at all getting a TV subscription. They will only consider a television subscription if it suits their budget, he said.

“They will wait until Bell or Rogers, Shaw or Telus comes out with something that they say, ‘Yeah, that’s worth paying $25 a month,”’ said Rosenquist.

Traditional television is still

tops over Internet viewing, though, because TV providers have more money to buy programming than Netflix or other online competitors, said Mota.

“The biggest complaint about Netflix in Canada is there still isn’t enough content,” he said, estimating that Netflix Canada has between 2.5 million and 3 million subscribers.

“Can you have a sufficient menu of content that will keep people in your universe and that’s where tele-

vision remains king,” Mota said.

Convergence Group’s Eiley said Netflix is paying $2.5 billion a year for programming while North America’s TV providers pay $50 billion yearly.

“As Netflix has to negotiate or make new deals, it will have to pay much more for content. At some point, push is going to come to shove with Netflix and they’re either going to have to raise prices or cut their programming spend.”

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Back up claims of ‘flushable’ wipes, utilities in Canada tell manufacturers Lee-Anne Goodman Canadian Press

OTTAWA hey’re billed as a fresh, clean alternative to toilet paper – but waste-water utilities across Canada say personal wipes are creating putrid sewage clogs that are costing Canadian ratepayers at least $250 million a year.

Sewage experts in Canada, the U.S. and beyond are cringing at efforts to sell the masses on the need to freshen their nether regions, including a recent ad campaign for Cottonelle wipes featuring a cheeky British spokeswoman urging people in public places to “talk about your bum.”

Manufacturers, meantime, say the wipes are getting the bum’s rush from waste-water officials and are perfectly safe to flush.

Nonetheless, the Municipal Enforcement Sewer Use Group (MESUG), comprised of 25 Canadian communities, wants a federal standard to ensure more honest labelling of the wipes and other products that they insist are not safe to send down the toilet.

Among them: Supposedly flushable toilet cleaning sponges, tampon applicators and even plush, multi-ply toilet paper.

While those products and personal wipes may swirl down the toilet with ease, experts say they don’t disintegrate, creating serious problems as they work their way through aging sewage systems on their way to treatment plants.

“If we don’t deal with this problem, the Canadian taxpayer will be literally flushing away millions,” said Barry Orr, a waste-water with MESUG. “It’s not a sexy topic – it’s an out-of-sight, out-of-mind situation. People expect to flush things down the toilet and then don’t want to think about it anymore. But for me, this is every-day life, and we have to get this information out to the

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Indeed, Orr said, many municipal officials believe that MESUG’s estimate of the $250 million annual cost is low and that wipes are poised to take a bigger toll. Personal wipes are a $6-billion industry in North America, one that’s expected to grow six per cent annually over the next five years.

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Consequently, Orr and his fellow sewage experts have spent the last two years urging manufacturers, including Kimberly-Clark, SC Johnson and Nice-Pak, and the Association of the Nonwoven Fabrics Industry – known as INDA – to address the problem.

“We had a discussion with them and we wanted to do some awareness, and asked them what they’re doing about changing the labelling on these products,” Orr said of a meeting earlier this year.

“We didn’t make any progress; they seemed to not be very interested in our position.”

Eric Bruner of KimberlyClark begs to differ, saying his company – maker of the popular Cottonelle wipes – works closely with the industry.

“Kimberly-Clark is committed to working with the waste-water community to ensure that sewage systems work properly and to educate consumers about what is safe to flush and what isn’t,” he said in an interview from the company’s headquarters in Dallas.

“But if we label something safe to flush, we stand by that.

We put these products through a litany of industry tests. ... I certainly know our products perform well in lab tests and field tests to ensure flushability.”

Bruner and officials at Nice-Pak, which bills itself “the world’s leading producer of wet wipes,” say 90 per cent of what public utilities deal with in terms of clogs involve products that absolutely should not be flushed down the toilet, and are labelled as such.

“They’re finding things like paper towels, feminine hygiene products, diapers and baby wipes. What we believe is that it’s very important for consumers to read the labels,” Bruner said.

“One of the questions that I have is why the focus on these products when it’s been shown that 90 per cent of the products that are causing the utilities problems are things that, in fact, aren’t flushable and aren’t labelled as flushable.”

Added Nice-Pak in a statement: “Four recent forensic studies did not find flushable

wipes in pump clogs, and less than 10 per cent of the material found on inlet screens were identified as flushable wipes.”

Indeed, INDA says its tests have proven flushable wipes aren’t clogging municipal pipes. They point the finger at baby wipes, hard-surface wipes and other non-flushable items.

Nonetheless, Consumer Reports tested several brands of wipes labelled flushable and found that while toilet paper broke down after about eight seconds, the wipes showed no sign of disintegrating after 30 minutes in a toilet-flushing simulator.

Orr agreed that baby wipes are being flushed down the toilet and causing clogs, but he insisted personal wipes are also part of the problem.

MESUG members have set up traps across Ontario municipalities, Orr said, and they’re catching hundreds of flushable wipes. The situation is the same across the country, with officials in Penticton, B.C., recently complaining publicly about the wipes.

Canadian utilities aren’t alone in their battle against personal wipes.

In the U.S. capital region, the Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission has spent more than $1 million installing powerful grinders to shred wipes before they reach pumps on their way to treatment plants.

The utility has also devoted hundreds of man-hours to unclog pipes and repair broken sewer lines. It blames wipes for blockages that have caused sewage to overflow into streams or back up into residential basements.

In western New York over the summer, utility officials installed strainers on sections of pipe that were often clogged to determine which households were the culprits.

They then contacted residents and pleaded with them to stop flushing wipes.

And in England a few months ago, a 15-tonne blob of wipes and cooking grease the size of a bus – nicknamed “Fatberg” by the Brits – was discovered in a London sewer pipe after residents complained their toilets wouldn’t flush.

Orr said it’s just a matter of time before a similar phenomenon wreaks havoc in Canada.

“There needs to be a federal, centralized standard or else we’ll soon be dealing with our very own, very costly Fatberg.”

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Helmet camera lets skiers record their own runs for posterity, YouTube and grandma Samantha Critchell

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WILMINGTON, Vt. ey, mom, did you see that cool jump? That explosion of powder? How I squeezed between those trees?

There are moments on the slopes when skiers wish all eyes were on them. But here’s the next best thing: helmet cameras, which enable skiers to photograph and videotape their own descents, jumps and tracks to show off later.

Helmet cams have become so ubiquitous that they are “almost the norm” at Steamboat Ski & Resort in Steamboat Springs, Colo. “The cameras take bragging rights to the next level,” said resort spokeswoman Loryn Kasten.

Steamboat is even incorporating user content into its own social media and marketing, because the vantage point of the skier or boarder taking video has more impact than the pro cameraman standing at the bottom. The user videos, Kasten says, are a “scrapbook in motion.”

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Sharing video not just for kids A new teen centre at a membersonly resort will even have indoor video editing booths and a screening room to play footage and finished films for a crowd.

The teen centre is part of a new lodge at The Hermitage Club at Haystack Mountain in Wilmington, Vt. Hermitage owner and founder Jim Barnes was inspired by the interest of his own children – ages 16, 14 and 9 – in using the cams.

But the cameras are not just for kids. Barnes recalled a 40-something who took video of 47 runs during a single day last season.

“Each generation pushes other generations to do it. Gen-Xers are sharing, and Gen-Yers and Z. There’s a push for all of them to use cameras because they’re going to share it,” said Kelly Davis, director of research

ski movies,” he said, referring to the annual snow sports films beloved by skiers and boarders. “You wished for a way to do that, but I didn’t have a camera crew waiting for me at the bottom of the run. Now with $400 – boom! – you are out there getting your own movie.”

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Helmet cams have become so ubiquitous that they are “almost the norm” at Steamboat Ski & Resort in Colorado.

for the SnowSports Industries America association.

“Sharing” is the key: The explosion of social media is what’s led to the leap in cameras among skiers and boarders – not to mention surfers, skate boarders, rock climbers and mountain bikers.

“The cameras seem to be driving people to do more adventurous things, explore the back country, so they can share it,” said Davis. “It’s not just ego. But people are aware that they are presenting an image of themselves, and videos of them doing this stuff starts conversations.”

Even older skiers who don’t use the cameras are watching the footage. “My grandma loves to see the video. She got them for us so she can see us skiing,” said Will Coffin, a 13-year-old member of Vermont’s Mount Snow race team. “And I don’t ski with my parents much, so sometimes I’ll show them, too.”

His 11-year-old brother Charlie will show them “to anyone who’s there after skiing.” Most likely his videos are off-trail in the trees, which he thinks makes the best visuals. The Coffin videos will occasionally go up on YouTube, and they’ll

watch the ones their friends make.

Sales and impulse buys Sales of the cameras, like the industry leader GoPro, were up 50 per cent to 123,000 at snow sports retailers for the 2012-13 ski season, according to the Sports Industries Association. The trade group expects a higher number for 2013-14, with additional sales at electronics stores and elsewhere that the SIA does not track.

GoPro sells its HD Helmet Hero Plus 3 model for close to $400, but the price has not deterred impulse buyers who see others using it and must have one.

“Veteran skiers are looking for the best deal, and might get their GoPro in an off-season sale,” said Kasten. “But it’s also not farfetched to say, a family will come into one of our retail outlets and tell us, ‘We’re using our iPhone for video, but we just saw someone else’s video”’ shot The new Yukon home of

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Friday, November 22, 2013

Canadian teen raises $200K on Kickstarter for smart watch Michael Oliveira The Canadian Press

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19-year-old entrepreneur from Montreal is taking on tech juggernauts Samsung and Sony by trying to launch his own smart watch.

Like many startup companies, Neptune Computer Inc., has turned to an online crowdfunding platform to raise funding for a full launch of its product.

Simon Tian’s vision for a better smart watch quickly won over the community at Kick-

starter. Tian hit his target of $100,000 in just over 24 hours and passed $200,000 Thursday afternoon with 30 more days to raise additional funds.

He had the idea for his smart watch, called the Neptune Pine, last year and visited factories in China to investigate what he could have built.

“What I learned is that in 2013 it’s actually possible for small startup companies like us to develop products as competitive as what the big guys are coming up with, because material costs have been going down for years and they’ve

been made accessible – all the different chips and components – not to only large orders but to small orders as well,” said Tian.

“So that’s what’s really permitting us to develop this product.”

The first thing that stands out about the Neptune Pine is its 2.4-inch screen, which he admits looks large on a wrist.

“Obviously the initial reaction will be, ‘Oh, it’s big for a watch!’ but we think a paradigm shift is going to be required in the future.”

He decided a big screen was crucial to make a truly useful

smart watch that could browse the web, launch Google Android apps and make calls. The watch also takes its own SIM card so it’s not dependent on a smartphone for a wireless connection. It can also connect to WiFi networks.

“Right now the biggest issue with smart watches is screen size, the form factor is limiting it from replacing a fully functional smartphone,” Tian said. “(Current smart watches) are all very good at specific things, like peering with your phone for notifications or tracking fitness data, but there’s no one single smart watch that can sort of do it all.”

He believes the future of smart watches lies in using flexible-screen technology, which many companies are working to commercialize.

“It would basically circle around the wrist and when you remove it you would have a three- or four-inch screen that would be entirely large enough for smartphone functionability,” said Tian.

He plans to produce at least 2,500 units of his Neptune Pine smart watch by January.

A model with 16 gigabytes of storage will sell for $335, while it will be an extra $60 for double the storage.

Tian is following the lead of another young Canadian entrepreneur who found success in wearable technology. Last year, 26-year-old Eric Migicovsky raised more than $10 million on Kickstarter for his Pebble watch, which connects wirelessly to a smartphone to display message notifications and launch apps.

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Officials find camel infected with MERS-like virus Helen Branswell

Bats have been identified as the likely ultimate source of the virus, though it’s generally thought that TORONTO another species is acting as a bridge ealth authorities in Saudi to transmit the virus to people.

Arabia have revealed they That’s because bat-human interachave found a camel that has tested tions are rare. positive for what may be the MERS A study published in late August coronavirus. reported finding a segment of viral The camel was owned by a Saudi RNA in feces from an Egyptian man from Jeddah who recently tomb bat that was identical to the contracted the disease. The animal corresponding section of the MERS tested positive using a polymerase virus. But the fragment was so small chain reaction or PCR test, which other experts said was impossible to looks for small bits of RNA from the say if the full virus would have been virus in specimens such as mucous identical as well. or saliva.

As researchers around the world Dr. Ziad Memish, the Saudi work to try to puzzle out the source deputy minister of health, said of the MERS virus, attention focused additional work is being done to on camels after several cases said chart the genetic sequence of the they had contact with the beasts virus, which will then be compared before becoming ill. to MERS viruses that have infected Also in August, European people. researchers reported finding If the finding is confirmed it antibodies that react to the MERS will mark the first time the MERS coronavirus in camels from Oman coronavirus has been found in an and the Canary Islands. A later study animal. reported the same in camels from Memish said in an email that the Egypt. camel was tested as part of an invesThe discovery of antibodies tigation into a human case of MERS means the camels had been previthat was reported two weeks ago that ously infected with MERS or a involved a 43-year-old man from MERS-like virus. But there is no Jeddah who got sick in late October way to tell when that infection took and who reportedly is in an intensive place. And without a sample of the care unit in hospital. virus that generated the antibod“In this particular case there ies, there is no way to know if it was was a history of contact with sick MERS, or a related but different animals that the patient owned,” virus.

Memish said, adding that testing on That’s why the search has been on other animals belonging to the man for animals that are currently infectcontinues. ed. They are potential sources of viCanadian Press

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ruses that can be isolated, sequenced and compared to the viruses that are causing illness in humans.

Marion Koopmans, a Dutch virologist who led the first study that found MERS antibodies in camels, said the Saudi finding is an interesting development. But she said it will be important to see the sequence of the virus the PCR test detected.

For one thing, there are other known camel coronaviruses, which at least in theory might have generated a positive hit on the MERS test.

“I would want to know for sure that the MERS corona(virus) PCR assay does not pick up those viruses,” said Koopmans, chief of virology at the National Institute of Public Health for the Netherlands.

“PCR positive, that tells that there is most likely a coronavirus. But the sequencing will tell whether it is MERS corona. But it’s of course a strong signal if they used the MERS coronavirus assays.”

While finding the virus in an animal – particularly an animal that has contact with people – will be a coup, it won’t solve all of MERS’s mysteries.

Many MERS patients reported having no contact with animals before becoming sick. So where did those who didn’t own camels contract the virus?

As well, finding the virus in an animal species does not automatically explain the route of transmission – how people become infected.

Nor does it shed light on why the

virus – which appears to have spread widely through camels in the Middle East and possibly North Africa – seems to have only recently turned its attention to humans?

“Let’s assume that a very close virus is found in camels,” Koopmans said.

“Then the question is: Given that so many animals test positive, then the most likely situation is that this is some kind of virus that has been circulating in camels for maybe a long time.... So what changed? What changed recently that explains that we now see these human cases?”

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Friday, November 22, 2013

Doris Lessing, Nobel Prize winning novelist, dies aged 94 Danica Kirka Associated Press

LONDON oris Lessing emerged from a black cab outside her home in London one day in 2007 and was confronted by a horde of reporters. When told she had won the Nobel Prize, she blinked and retorted “Oh Christ! ... I couldn’t care less.”

That was typical of the independent – and often irascible – author who died Sunday after a long career that included The Golden Notebook, a 1962 novel that made her an icon of the women’s movement. Lessing’s books reflected her own improbable journey across the former British Empire, and later her vision of a future ravaged by atomic warfare.

The exact cause of Lessing’s death at her home in London was not immediately disclosed, and her family requested privacy.

She was 94.

“Even in very old age she was always intellectually restless, reinventing herself, curious about

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the changing world around us, always completely inspirational,” her editor at HarperCollins, Nicholas Pearson, said in one of the many tributes.

Lessing explored topics ranging from colonial Africa to dystopian Britain, from the mystery of being female to the unknown worlds of science fiction. In winning the Nobel literature prize, the Swedish Academy praised Lessing for her “skepticism, fire and visionary power.”

The often-polarizing Lessing never saved her fire for the page. The targets of her vocal ire in recent years included former President George W. Bush – “a world calamity” – and modern women – “smug, self-righteous.”

She also raised hackles by deeming the 9-11 terrorist attacks on the United States “not that terrible.”

She remains best known for The Golden Notebook, in which heroine Anna Wulf uses four notebooks to bring together the separate parts of her disintegrating life. The novel covers a range of previously unmentionable

ence of a generation.”

Although she continued to publish at least one book every two years, she received little attention for her later works and was often criticized as didactic and impenetrable.

Lessing was 88 when she won the Nobel literature prize, making her the oldest recipient of the award.

“This is pure political correctness,” American literary critic Harold Bloom said in 2007 after Lessing won the Nobel Prize.

“Although Ms. Lessing at the beginning of her writing career had a few admirable qualities, I find her work for the past 15 Martin Cleaver/AP Photo years quite unreadable ... fourthDoris Lessing, the free-thinking, world-traveling, often-porate science fiction.” larizing writer of The Golden Notebook and dozens of other While Lessing defended her novels has died. She was 94. turn to science fiction as a way to explore “social fiction,” she, female conditions – menstruathe book did not make it to too, was dismissive of the Nobel tion, orgasms and frigidity – and France or Germany for 14 years honour. made Lessing an icon for wombecause it was considered too inAfter emerging from a Lonen’s liberation. But it became so flammatory. When it was repubdon black cab, groceries in hand, widely talked about and dissect- lished in China in 1993, 80,000 that day in 2007, she said: ed that she later referred to it as copies sold out in two days.

“I can’t say I’m overwhelmed a “failure” and “an albatross.”

“It took realism apart from with surprise,” Lessing said. “I’m Published in Britain in 1962, the inside,” said Lorna Sage, an 88 years old and they can’t give academic who knew Lessing the Nobel to someone who’s since the 1970s. “Lessing threw dead, so I think they were probover the conventions she grew ably thinking they’d probably up in to stage a kind of breakbetter give it to me now before down – to celebrate disintegraI’ve popped off.”

As the international media tion as the representative experi-

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surrounded her in her garden, she brightened when a reporter asked whether the Nobel would generate interest in her work.

“I’m very pleased if I get some new readers,” she said. “Yes, that’s very nice, I hadn’t thought of that.”

Born Doris May Tayler on Oct. 22, 1919, in Persia (now Iran), where her father was a bank manager, Lessing moved to Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) aged 5 and lived there until she was 29.

Strong-willed from the start, she read works by Charles Dickens and Rudyard Kipling by age 10 and lived by the motto, “I will not.” Educated at a Roman Catholic girls school in Salisbury (now Harare), she left before finishing high school.

At 19, she married her first husband, Frank Wisdom, with whom she had a son and a daughter. She left that family in her early 20s and became drawn into the Left Book Club, a group of literary communists and socialists headed by Gottfried Lessing, the man who would become her second husband and father her third child.

But Lessing became disillusioned with the communist movement and in 1949, at 30, left her second husband to move to Britain. Along with her young son, Peter, she packed the manuscript of her first novel, The Grass is Singing. The novel, which used the story of a woman trapped in a loveless marriage to

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Friday, November 22, 2013 portray poverty and racism in Southern Rhodesia, was published in 1950 to great success in Europe and the United States.

Lessing then embarked on the first of five deeply autobiographical novels – from Martha Quest to The Four-Gated City – works that became her “Children of Violence” series.

Her nonfiction work ranged from Going Home in 1957, about her return to Southern Rhodesia, to Particularly Cats, a book about her pets, published in 1967.

In the 1950s, Lessing became an honorary member of a writers’ group known as the Angry Young Men who were seen as injecting a radical new energy into British culture. Her home in London became a centre not only for novelists, playwrights and critics but also for drifters and loners.

Lessing herself denied being a feminist and said she was not conscious of writing anything particularly inflammatory when she produced The Golden Notebook.

Lessing’s early novels decried the dispossession of black Africans by white colonials and criticized South Africa’s apartheid system, prompting the governments of Southern Rhodesia and South Africa to bar her in 1956.

Later governments overturned that order. In June 1995, the same year that she received an honorary degree from Harvard University, she returned to South

Africa to see her daughter and grandchildren.

In Britain, Lessing won the Somerset Maugham Award in 1954, and was made a Companion of Honor in 1999. That honour came after she turned down the chance to become a Dame of the British Empire – on the ground that there was no such thing as the British Empire at the time.

Lessing often presented women – herself included – as vain and territorial, and insisted in the introduction for a 1993 reissue that The Golden Notebook was not a “trumpet for women’s liberation.”

“I think a lot of romanticizing has gone on with the women’s movement,” she told The Associated Press in a 2006 interview.

“Whatever type of behaviour women are coming up with, it’s claimed as a victory for feminism – doesn’t matter how bad it is. We don’t seem to go in very much for self-criticism.”

But what about that day with the press camped on her door – a video of which was copied and widely displayed by Twitter followers noting her passing in sadness. Was she really dismissive of the Nobel? Her editor, Pearson, said her reaction corresponded with her personality.

“That was typical Doris. She took things in their stride,” he said. “I think she was delighted.”

She is survived by her daughter Jean and granddaughters Anna and Susannah.

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Friday, November 22, 2013

Doris Lessing, Nobel Prize winning novelist, dies aged 94 Danica Kirka Associated Press

LONDON oris Lessing emerged from a black cab outside her home in London one day in 2007 and was confronted by a horde of reporters. When told she had won the Nobel Prize, she blinked and retorted “Oh Christ! ... I couldn’t care less.”

That was typical of the independent – and often irascible – author who died Sunday after a long career that included The Golden Notebook, a 1962 novel that made her an icon of the women’s movement. Lessing’s books reflected her own improbable journey across the former British Empire, and later her vision of a future ravaged by atomic warfare.

The exact cause of Lessing’s death at her home in London was not immediately disclosed, and her family requested privacy.

She was 94.

“Even in very old age she was always intellectually restless, reinventing herself, curious about

D

the changing world around us, always completely inspirational,” her editor at HarperCollins, Nicholas Pearson, said in one of the many tributes.

Lessing explored topics ranging from colonial Africa to dystopian Britain, from the mystery of being female to the unknown worlds of science fiction. In winning the Nobel literature prize, the Swedish Academy praised Lessing for her “skepticism, fire and visionary power.”

The often-polarizing Lessing never saved her fire for the page. The targets of her vocal ire in recent years included former President George W. Bush – “a world calamity” – and modern women – “smug, self-righteous.”

She also raised hackles by deeming the 9-11 terrorist attacks on the United States “not that terrible.”

She remains best known for The Golden Notebook, in which heroine Anna Wulf uses four notebooks to bring together the separate parts of her disintegrating life. The novel covers a range of previously unmentionable

ence of a generation.”

Although she continued to publish at least one book every two years, she received little attention for her later works and was often criticized as didactic and impenetrable.

Lessing was 88 when she won the Nobel literature prize, making her the oldest recipient of the award.

“This is pure political correctness,” American literary critic Harold Bloom said in 2007 after Lessing won the Nobel Prize.

“Although Ms. Lessing at the beginning of her writing career had a few admirable qualities, I find her work for the past 15 Martin Cleaver/AP Photo years quite unreadable ... fourthDoris Lessing, the free-thinking, world-traveling, often-porate science fiction.” larizing writer of The Golden Notebook and dozens of other While Lessing defended her novels has died. She was 94. turn to science fiction as a way to explore “social fiction,” she, female conditions – menstruathe book did not make it to too, was dismissive of the Nobel tion, orgasms and frigidity – and France or Germany for 14 years honour. made Lessing an icon for wombecause it was considered too inAfter emerging from a Lonen’s liberation. But it became so flammatory. When it was repubdon black cab, groceries in hand, widely talked about and dissect- lished in China in 1993, 80,000 that day in 2007, she said: ed that she later referred to it as copies sold out in two days.

“I can’t say I’m overwhelmed a “failure” and “an albatross.”

“It took realism apart from with surprise,” Lessing said. “I’m Published in Britain in 1962, the inside,” said Lorna Sage, an 88 years old and they can’t give academic who knew Lessing the Nobel to someone who’s since the 1970s. “Lessing threw dead, so I think they were probover the conventions she grew ably thinking they’d probably up in to stage a kind of breakbetter give it to me now before down – to celebrate disintegraI’ve popped off.”

As the international media tion as the representative experi-

SousVide Cooking The Secret of Top Chefs

surrounded her in her garden, she brightened when a reporter asked whether the Nobel would generate interest in her work.

“I’m very pleased if I get some new readers,” she said. “Yes, that’s very nice, I hadn’t thought of that.”

Born Doris May Tayler on Oct. 22, 1919, in Persia (now Iran), where her father was a bank manager, Lessing moved to Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) aged 5 and lived there until she was 29.

Strong-willed from the start, she read works by Charles Dickens and Rudyard Kipling by age 10 and lived by the motto, “I will not.” Educated at a Roman Catholic girls school in Salisbury (now Harare), she left before finishing high school.

At 19, she married her first husband, Frank Wisdom, with whom she had a son and a daughter. She left that family in her early 20s and became drawn into the Left Book Club, a group of literary communists and socialists headed by Gottfried Lessing, the man who would become her second husband and father her third child.

But Lessing became disillusioned with the communist movement and in 1949, at 30, left her second husband to move to Britain. Along with her young son, Peter, she packed the manuscript of her first novel, The Grass is Singing. The novel, which used the story of a woman trapped in a loveless marriage to

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Friday, November 22, 2013 portray poverty and racism in Southern Rhodesia, was published in 1950 to great success in Europe and the United States.

Lessing then embarked on the first of five deeply autobiographical novels – from Martha Quest to The Four-Gated City – works that became her “Children of Violence” series.

Her nonfiction work ranged from Going Home in 1957, about her return to Southern Rhodesia, to Particularly Cats, a book about her pets, published in 1967.

In the 1950s, Lessing became an honorary member of a writers’ group known as the Angry Young Men who were seen as injecting a radical new energy into British culture. Her home in London became a centre not only for novelists, playwrights and critics but also for drifters and loners.

Lessing herself denied being a feminist and said she was not conscious of writing anything particularly inflammatory when she produced The Golden Notebook.

Lessing’s early novels decried the dispossession of black Africans by white colonials and criticized South Africa’s apartheid system, prompting the governments of Southern Rhodesia and South Africa to bar her in 1956.

Later governments overturned that order. In June 1995, the same year that she received an honorary degree from Harvard University, she returned to South

Africa to see her daughter and grandchildren.

In Britain, Lessing won the Somerset Maugham Award in 1954, and was made a Companion of Honor in 1999. That honour came after she turned down the chance to become a Dame of the British Empire – on the ground that there was no such thing as the British Empire at the time.

Lessing often presented women – herself included – as vain and territorial, and insisted in the introduction for a 1993 reissue that The Golden Notebook was not a “trumpet for women’s liberation.”

“I think a lot of romanticizing has gone on with the women’s movement,” she told The Associated Press in a 2006 interview.

“Whatever type of behaviour women are coming up with, it’s claimed as a victory for feminism – doesn’t matter how bad it is. We don’t seem to go in very much for self-criticism.”

But what about that day with the press camped on her door – a video of which was copied and widely displayed by Twitter followers noting her passing in sadness. Was she really dismissive of the Nobel? Her editor, Pearson, said her reaction corresponded with her personality.

“That was typical Doris. She took things in their stride,” he said. “I think she was delighted.”

She is survived by her daughter Jean and granddaughters Anna and Susannah.

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Friday, November 22, 2013

NHL unveils new reality show for Stadium Series games and Sochi Olympics Stephen Whyno

league “had to” send players to the Olympics because there was so much interest in going. A nine-hour time ameras will follow more than a difference from Sochi to the East dozen NHL stars this winter as Coast of North America causes probpart of a new reality show that will lems, as does taking a break in the air on CBC. middle of the regular season.

NHL Revealed: A Season Like No “The question is how we can use Other will chronicle the league’s “Sta- (the Olympics) to grow the sport dium Series” games, Heritage Classic and grow the league brand but also and the 2014 Winter Olympics with to keep the momentum going in our the kind of behind-the-scenes access business,” Collins said. previously reserved for HBO’s 24/7.

The NHL’s hope is that this pro“You may hear many beeps,” gram will do that. executive producer Ross Greenburg Greenburg, who worked on the said on a conference call Monday. first incarnation of HBO’s 24/7: Road “You will not hear the actual colour- to the Winter Classic, former CBC ful language, but you’ll be able to executive Julie Bristow and Steve decipher and lip-read at times.”

Mayer of IMG Productions will serve The seven-part series will be as the executive producers. It will be broadcast on CBC in Canada and produced by Toronto-based Bristow NBCSN in the U.S. beginning Jan. Global Media.

22 and feature players from the Unlike the Emmy Award-winning Anaheim Ducks, Los Angeles Kings, 24/7 program, the producers said the New York Rangers, New York Island- focus will be on the players, rather ers, New Jersey Devils, Vancouver than the coaches who tended to get Canucks, Ottawa Senators, Chicago emphasized on when it was just two Blackhawks and Pittsburgh Penguins. teams.

Those are the seven teams involved Some of the players expected to in the league’s five extra outdoor be showcased are Sidney Crosby games this season beyond the Winter of the Penguins, Jonathan Toews Classic between the Toronto Maple and Patrick Kane of the BlackLeafs and Detroit Red Wings. That hawks, Henrik and Daniel Sedin game will be the subject of 24/7. of the Canucks, Henrik Lundqvist This season is part of a long-range of the Rangers, Jonathan Quick of plan by the league to grow into what the Kings and John Tavares of the COO John Collins estimated could Islanders. Barring injury, all of those be a $4-billion business. The NHL players are expected to participate in was at $3.3 billion in 2011-12 before the Olympics as well as the Stadium the lockout.

Series.

“We’ve been focused now for Greenburg said if they see good probably over the last six years in storylines in other players in the growing our global scale and busilead-up to the Olympics, “we will ness,” Collins said. pounce on those as well.” In other The show is supposed to be a words, Chris Kunitz could be in line showcase for that. Nowhere is that to be a supporting actor. more evident than the expectation Bristow said the “temples” where that there will be inside access at the the games are played – Dodger StaOlympics in Sochi. dium in Los Angeles, Yankee Stadium It’s a stark contrast to Vancouver in New York, Soldier Field in Chicago and other Games because the NHL and BC Place in Vancouver – will isn’t even allowed to have video of also be in the spotlight.

Sidney Crosby’s gold-medal-winning Only one of those games is actugoal on its website. The NHL sought ally taking place in Canada, but CBC, more control over photos and video Canada’s Olympic rights-holder, had in 2014, and this program could bear a major role in making this producthe fruits of that agreement with the tion happen. Rogers Sportsnet is also International Olympic Committee. set to re-broadcast all seven episodes.

“The IOC basically said: ‘If CBC “This series, I think, really capitaland NBC are comfortable with this, izes on the excitement for the game then obviously we’re comfortable of hockey in Canada,” CBC executive with it,”’ Collins said. “It created a re- Jennifer Dettman said. “I think it’s ally unique opportunity to do this.” going to give Canadian hockey fans Commissioner Gary Bettman a new perspective and bring them said last week in Toronto that the closer to the game than ever before.”

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Teslin Tlingit Heritage Centre ExprEssion of intErEst rEsEarch and plan Exhibition for thE tEslin tlingit hEritagE cEntrE The Heritage Department of the Teslin Tlingit Council has received funding from the Community Development Fund CDF to research and plan a permanent exhibition on the Teslin Tlingit 200 year journey to re-establishing self-government.

The year 2015 marks the 20th anniversary of the effective date of Self-government and marks the 42 years of beginning the Land Claims Negotiations. The Exhibition has a working title “Self-Government to Self-Government” and will explore the history of the Teslin Tlingit people as they experienced the transitions from being a Clan Based Self-Governing coastal people migrating to the interior of northern western North America and being transformed into a Canadian Indian Act Band emerging into a modern 21st Century Clan-Based Self-Governing First Nation.

The Exhibition it will be a permanent interactive multi-media and new media display using video footage, sound recordings, photographs, maps, documents, artifacts and a scale model of the Teslin Tlingit Traditional Territory.

It will be a memorial piece recognizing the contributions and sacrifices of the many people and families who worked on land claims.

We are looking for professional(s) experienced in exhibition research, planning and design. They will be researching the Teslin Tlingit First Nation history and their Political Evolution. They will be expected to develop the exhibition storyline and fleshing out the main historical themes and the overall narrative, identify and gain access to exhibition support materials, conducting interviews and gathering firsthand accounts from TTC Citizens and people associated with the Land Claims process. They will also help in planning and designing of the Exhibition, including the use of standard exhibit techniques and the selection of new media to support the telling of the story. We anticipate a great deal of consultation with elders and community members.

Interested parties please submit proposal, complete with budget, timelines, resumes of principals and references on or before 4:00 PM, January 6th, 2014 to the Department of Heritage, Teslin Tlingit Council, PO Box 133 Teslin Tlingit Council.

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Colin McAdam wins $25,000 Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize Nick Patch

warded,” he added. “There’s food and mortgage and kids and all the rest of it and the realities of makTORONTO ing stuff up for a living change, olin McAdam’s novel A Beau- so it’s really fantastic to have this tiful Truth was celebrated for support.” its inventive language as it won McAdam’s short list competithe Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction included Hellgoing by Scotion Prize on Wednesday, but the tiabank Giller Prize winner Lynn choked-up Toronto-based author Coady (a native of Cape Breton, was at a loss for words as he took N.S.), Toronto scribe Krista the stage to accept the $25,000 Bridge’s The Eliot Girls, A Bird’s award.

Eye by Toronto’s Cary Fagan and Published by Hamish HamilCaught by Lisa Moore. ton Canada, the sensitive novel Moore, however, still had is told both from the perspective reason to celebrate – the St. John’s, of a married pair who adopt a N.L., writer won the $25,000 chimpanzee as well as the apes at Writers’ Trust Engel/Findley the sanctuary where he eventuAward, given to an author in midally winds up. Trying to nail the career for his or her entire body of primates’ movement, personalities work as well as what’s to come. and even imagined speech pat“I knew I was winning this terns was an ambitious undertak- award beforehand, so it actually ing for McAdam, who explained made me feel quite at ease because after the Toronto-based gala that award ceremonies can be quite he was emotionally overwhelmed anxiety-provoking,” she said with by the generosity of the prize. a laugh following the gala. “But I “I think the realities of the felt like I was very lucky. I’m quite writing life have been a little too happy with the way things turned real for a while,” he said shortly out.” after winning the award. “It’s a Born in Hong Kong, McAdam tough gig sometimes when it’s lived in England, Denmark, your only source of income and Australia, Bermuda and Mont... you try to write things that are real before eventually moving to important to you.

Toronto.

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files of the chimps he met.

In all, he spent about three years crafting the novel.

“It was different from my other books in so many ways and in terms of how it came about,” he said. “But the research, it was really fun to do a lot of it. And to meet chimps and the chimps I met were extraordinary chimps in themselves and that was a really life-changing experience in a way.

It’s not often that you can write a book like that, that sort of changes as you write it.”

The Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize was selected by jury members Caroline Adderson, AliLisa Myers/The Canadian Press son Pick, and Miguel Syjuco, who Author Colin McAdam has won the $25,000 Rogers Writers’ read 115 books from 50 publishTrust Fiction Prize for his novel A Beautiful Truth. ers to choose the five finalists – all of whom received $2,500 for beGreat Thing – which went on to “I think it probably still won’t ing nominated. Last year’s fiction win the Books in Canada First sell,” he said with a rueful smile. winner was Waterloo, Ont.-based Novel Award while racking up “But that’s fine. I’ve got some Tamas Dobozy for the short story nominations for the Governor money in my pocket.” collection Siege 13.

General’s Award and the RogThe linguistically imaginaAlso Wednesday, Alberta ers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize tive novel begins with Looee’s journalist Andrew Nikiforuk won – while working on his PhD in adoption by Walt and Judy, a the $20,000 Matt Cohen Award English literature at Cambridge childless Vermont couple. But for lifetime achievement, chilUniversity. after a shocking incident, he is dren’s book illustrator and author His 2009 followup Fall claimed transferred to a research facility in Barbara Reid won the $20,000 the Paragraphe Hugh MacLennan Florida, and eventually to a sanc- Vicky Metcalf Award for literature Award for Fiction and landed on tuary where he is introduced into for young people, while Naben the short list for the Scotiabank a group of other chimpanzees.

Ruthnum won the $10,000 jourGiller Prize.

McAdam conducted extensive ney prize, given to a developing He said that prizes such as the research for A Beautiful Truth. He writer who has recently published Writers’ Trust bring much-needed visited the Fauna Foundation, a a short story. attention to otherwise overlooked sanctuary near Montreal, he spoke The Writers’ Trust of Canada is works, though even after winning to a former employee at a medical a charitable organization founded he wasn’t sure a major commertesting research facility and he by authors including Margaret Atcial bump was forthcoming. even scanned some of the medical wood and the late Pierre Berton.

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LIFE TEDx returns to Whitehorse

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Gwich’in fiddler Boyd Benjamin is one of the speakers at Whitehorse’s second TEDx speaker series Saturday at the Yukon Arts Centre.

Jesse Winter

to is Dr. Nicole Letourneau’s presentation on “un-inventing the modern family.”

EDx is back in Whitehorse “Most of our society is still this weekend. focused around this sort of 1950sThe day-long series of 1960s idea of the nuclear family, inspirational talks is taking place but that’s really starting to change. tomorrow at the Yukon Arts Cen- How does society’s way of thinktre, and after last year’s inaugural ing about and approaching society event was such a success, organadd up?” Allen explained. izer Nigel Allen is excited about Yukon College instructor Larry this weekend’s prospects.

Gray will also be giving a new take “Last year was just a really good on an old idea: aging. turnout, a really good response, “My talk is going to be about and we just want to keep that go- something called conscious ing,” Allen said. eldering,” Gray said. “It’s part of a The biggest surprise from last broader movement in society in year’s event was how smoothly general called conscious aging. It everything ran, Allen said, and grew out of the baby boomer genhe’s keeping his fingers crossed for eration, basically, because boomthat to happen again. ers are, shall we say, interested in “This year the plan was to kind longevity.” of do the same thing again. The In Western society, there is an theme for this year is the power of almost overwhelming focus on the reinvention. A lot of the speakers self-discovery life journey. There is are talking about common themes no shortage of movies and books of rethinking, reimagining old about young people leaving home, issues but trying to come at them going out into the world and from a new angle,” he said. figuring things out for themselves.

“We’re going to try to push “It usually focuses on your the envelope a bit, maybe be a bit work, and your material possesprovocative.” sions, establishing yourself.”

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have the white picket fence, and the dog, and the two-and-a-half kids, we may think that we’re done and the journey is over. That is, until we are presented with a serious crisis that we haven’t yet learned how to deal with.

“Some people often say they go to therapy to feel better. But what they really need to be doing is learning to get better at feeling.”

At 60 years old today, Gray’s moment came a decade ago when his son was born. He began to realize that, while he’d achieved success as we usually define it – big house, well-paying job, strong career – there were other parts of his life that seriously needed some work.

“It’s similar to the work that people often have to do when they learn they’re about to die,” he said. “They try to bring peace to their lives, to find resolution for things. But you don’t have to wait until the end to do that. If you do it right … you could honestly say that any day is a good day to die,” he said.

Boyd Benjamin, another speaker at the conference, knows first hand how hard that first self-discovery journey can be. The

Flying Gwich’in Fiddler from Old Crow had to confront a lot of his community’s expectations as he carved his own path in the world.

That’s what his talk will focus on.

“My idea was reinventing your path in life. Everyone has a place that they come from, and everyone is born into a certain status. There are certain things that are expected from you, depending on where you are from and your family.

“I’m from Old Crow. The things that are expected from a man growing up into the world are things like hunting and fishing and providing for your family.

Things like furthering your education outside of Old Crow, that’s not so much expected,” Benjamin said.

“People up in the North, we’re pretty small town folk. A world beyond Old Crow to, for instance, the elders, they have a very unique … almost like tunnel vision.

Anything beyond what they see is different and new age. I think I was lucky in that I had the drive in me to go beyond that,” he said.

That’s exactly what he did, and it was harder than he’d expected, but he also found a way to balance it.

The Gwich’in of Old Crow have a strong tradition of fiddling in the community, but the idea of leaving and going Outside for school is a definite divergence from what was expected of him.

His dual identity as an airman and musician allow him to bridge his heritage and his future.

“I want to talk about how you can go outside of the norm, and there are certain sacrifices you have to make in order to do these things. But I want people to get from this that you can do these things and still honour where you came from; your family and your community,” Benjamin said.

TED, which stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design, is a set of global conferences that invite leading thinkers to speak for 18 minutes. TEDx events are an offshoot of the idea, and are independent, locally organized events.

Tickets, which go towards covering the cost of the event, are $35 – down from $50 last year, and includes lunch and coffee during the day-long event.

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New websites try to keep the gift-giving magic alive Leanne Italie

and off, abound, along with old-fashioned list-making that you just turn over to mom or NEW YORK Santa, a couple of new websites ount Cynthia Gibson are looking to bring back the among gift recipients not surprise while also pleasing the interested in being surprised. picky, like Gibson.

“Most of the time it’s a According to the 2009 disappointment, and I’m one book Scroogenomics: Why You of those people who don’t hide Shouldn’t Buy Presents for the their emotions very well,” said Holidays, by economist Joel Gibson, in Los Angeles. “The Waldfogel, buying gifts is a best gift is getting what you lousy allocation of resources want.” due to the ignorance of givNatalie Caine begs to differ. ers about the true preferences She has a holiday ritual with of their giftees. He estimated some women friends: They do a that about $12 billion a year in surprise giveaway of something the U.S. and $25 billion a year they have at home and want to worldwide is misallocated on pass on. Life is busy enough, she said, without having to hunt giving at the holidays.

That is one reason Jessica down your own gifts.

Jessup decided to co-found GifAnd besides, what about the tovus.com in San Diego, Calif. magic?

At Giftovus, a recipient puts “We already have too many together a list that loved ones to do lists,” said Caine, a fellow can pluck from, if desired, while Angeleno. “Let’s enjoy bringtalking things over on a group ing out our creative surprise page without the giftee seeing giver and take a chance it is well their activity. received.”

So, for example, if a gift Welcome to gifting 3.0, when recipient lists “bike,” her group we can – and do – make our can drill down together, picking own dreams come true with each other’s brains on colour a click or a list or a trip to the and style, Jessup said. mall. That sounds just fine to “A lot of other sites are Gibson. focused on just pulling off of a “A lot of people regift,” she said. “If they didn’t like it, what list,” she said. “We found among makes them think that I would our own experiences and talking to other people there’s like it?” And gift cards? Pffft. definitely a group that wants to “That’s for the truly lazy.”

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duplicate gifts.

“Now, we can share our ideas of surprise gifts with one another,” he said. “They can’t see the things that are secret.”

Group registries are ready made for Christmas, when so much buying and so many lists are in play, Swick said from Houston. At his site, which has a Pinterest-like interface, you can also add a gift suggestion to a person’s list and let them see it.

In stealth mode, however, “It’s almost like I’m pasting something to the person’s Facebook wall that they can’t see Nam Y. Huh/AP Photo but everyone else can,” Swick Shoppers lug their bags in downtown Chicago. While gift explained. “We make it a bit registries abound, a couple of new websites are looking to more collaborative.” bring back the surprise while also pleasing the picky.

The site, which was built out last year, has about 25,000 users, personal touches to a gift. When umes of Robert Frost poems she while Jessup’s site got off the had coveted. The sentiment was ground in earnest a couple of people get back to that surin the right place – and then prise, they realize what they’ve months ago and had not yet hit some. missed.”

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“She had emailed out a wish At CheckedTwice.com, giftees Busy people benefit greatly. can create groups and share lists list of ideas that people could “Some people want to give in one place. It allows for “secret get her,” he said. “Then she personal gifts that are also a came up with this idea. It was gifts” to be added to lists by surprise and get down to the really designed to organize and perfect gift without having to anybody in the group, hidden from the view of the list-maker stop that duplicate gift problem ask the receiver,” Jessup said. without ruining the surprise.” but visible to everybody else.

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Salopek is walking from EthioNAIROBI, Kenya pia to Chile, a seven-year journey n Paul Salopek’s first year of his that aims to reproduce man’s globtrek across the globe, the real migration. Beauty and difficulty porter walked alongside his camels filled his first year, which is now for days in Ethiopia without seeing nearly complete. In his second he glass or bricks or any other signs of will skirt the violence of Syria but modern humanity, ate a hamwill cross Iraq and Afghanistan. burger on a U.S. military base and After about 2,100 kilometres on foot, Salopek has walked through was shadowed by minders in the Associated Press

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through Saudi culture, from walking along highways with camels, to – the surreal reality of it in some cases is walking with camels by a Pizza Hut with Saudis inside eating pepperoni, who look outside and see a skinny American with camels,” said Salopek, interrupting himself with the observation.

Saudi Arabia made global headlines in October over protests against its effective cultural ban on women drivers. But Salopek encountered many women drivers in the country. “They just happen to be in places where there are no reporters,” he said.

In some places in the counNational Geographic Society, John Stanmeyer/AP Photo try Salopek knew he was being Paul Salopek walks across the Afar desert of Ethiopia watched by government officials, as part of his planned seven-year global trek from who explained their presence by Africa to Tierra del Fuego. saying they were concerned for the American’s safety. But most times five languages (Afar, Amharic, Ara- bound to our cars the rest of the he has had unfettered access, he bic, French, Somali), filled 40 note- world is.” said. He thinks he’s the first outside Salopek’s journey will take him journalist to walk through Saudi books full of words, said goodbye to four camel companions and has from Africa, through the Middle Arabia since 1918.

East, across Asia, over to Alaska, logged one 55-kilometre day.

Salopek doesn’t miss much Beginning in Ethiopia’s Rift Val- down the western United States, from the Western world except ley, where early man lived, Salopek then Central and South America, information because of his limited walked east into Djibouti, where he ending in Chile. That’s about access to the Internet. He also ate a hamburger on a U.S. military 34,000 kilometres. misses his family, but his wife The walk is called Out of Eden base, then waited nearly six weeks is joining him in Jordan, where and is sponsored by National – because of insurance requirehe currently is. He says he’s on ments over piracy attack fears – for Geographic, the Knight Foundation schedule to complete his sevena boat to take him over the Red Sea and the Pulitzer Center for Crisis year journey, though because of his Reporting. A two-time journalism six-week wait in Djibouti and his and into Saudi Arabia.

Pulitzer Prize winner, the AmeriMuch of Africa, the 51-yearboat ride up the Red Sea, he didn’t can plans to write one major article walk as many steps as he thought old noted, is still dominated by a year, the first of which appears in he would. He has suffered few humans who travel on foot.

December’s National Geographic. physical pains or ailments, save for “The Africa segment was Salopek’s highlight from his remarkable for its kind of historitwo blisters. first year was his access to Saudi cal reverberations, and getting to “This has been very fun and Arabia, a country that maintains go through historical pastoral very interesting and I have no cultures like the Afar, and walking tight controls on what outside indication as I sit that I’m getting through a landscape still shaped by journalists can see. He noted that bored with it. On the contrary, the oil-producing nation is 83 per walking into a new country on foot the human foot,” Salopek said by telephone. “It really has struck me cent urban, a higher percentage with your clothes on your back than the U.S. that walking out of Africa, a place and a shoulder bag stuffed with notebooks was really fascinating.”

“I have been moving slowly that still walks, how fantastically

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Energy choices risk climate chaos for Atlantic Canada Mount Allison University in New Brunswick, interviewed

by DAVID farmers, fishers, local residents, First Nations community SUZUKI members, scientists and business people from all around the Atlantic provinces. All say climate change is affecting their communities and livelihoods.

They also agree something must be done and that the “business as usual” scenario is no longer David Suzuki Foundation an option. supporters who live in WestThe heart of the problem ern Canada often have eyes is our seemingly unquenchriveted on Ottawa to see what able thirst for mainly fossil-fuel the federal government’s next based energy resources. As our move will be when it comes to desire for comfort and effienvironmental issues. So we ciency grows, so does our energy sometimes too easily overlook consumption, prompting the Canadians in the Maritimes and search for sources increasingly Newfoundland and Labrador – difficult to extract. The words coastal regions, like ours, on the tarsands, shale gas, offshore front lines of climate change. drilling and fracking have only As oceans warm, water entered our vocabulary in just expands and sea levels rise. Melt- the past few decades – including ing glaciers, icebergs and ice in Atlantic communities, many sheets add to the water volume. of which now also rely on these Scientists predict oceans could fossil-based industries to fuel rise by more than a metre before economic prosperity. the end of the century. They’re But with current talks about also increasingly convinced that oil and gas exploration in the escalating carbon emissions are Gulf of St. Lawrence, shale gas linked to the risk of extreme fracking in New Brunswick, and weather events and intensified moving tarsands bitumen from storms, such as the recent TyAlberta to the East Coast, we phoon Haiyan in the Philippines must ask if economic profit and or super storm Sandy in the U.S. prosperity for a few are worth in 2012. A key finding from the the environmental and social latest Intergovernmental Panel risks to so many – especially on Climate Change report is that when the latest IPCC report Atlantic Canada faces similar suggests that to avoid global risks if climate change is left catastrophic climate chaos, we unchecked, with more severe must leave much of the known storms causing surging tides, reserves of fossil fuels in the flooding and widespread coastal ground. erosion.

In light of what the scienFor his captivating documen- tific community is telling us tary, Climate Change in Atlantic about the scope and impacts of Canada, Ian Mauro, an environ- climate change – largely a result of burning fossil fuels – we owe mental and social scientist at

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And, as New Brunswick Chief Medical Health Officer Eilish Cleary points out regarding the economics of shale gas development, “(We) cannot simply assume that more money equates to a healthier population.”

Coastal regions such as Atlantic Canada have a long cultural history based largely on fishing, tourism and other marine activities. Although fossil-fuel activities have been in Atlantic Canada for decades, proposed new on- and offshore energy projects will likely put Atlantic Canada’s existing economy and way of life at risk, affecting tourism and fishing in the ocean and on rivers like New Brunswick’s famous Miramichi.

When it comes to climate change, our future will not be determined by chance but by choice. We can choose to ignore the science, or we can change our ways and reduce carbon emissions and our dependence on fossil fuels. It’s up to us and our leaders to consider and promote energy alternatives and other solutions that modernize our energy systems, provide a clean, healthy environment for our families and offer long-term economic prosperity.

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By the light of the moon primary line of defence were quite active under moonlight. The creatures that ate them seemed shyer on moonlit nights than she and her coauthor, Chris Golden of Harvard University, predicted.

“That predators were less active in moonlight surprised me,” she said.

About half the mammals on the planet are, like most of us, active in the day and sleep at night. The other half are nocturnal, which begs a question: Why? The ancestor of all mammals may have been a tiny nocturnal shrew-like animal, said Prugh, who specializes on wildlife-community interactions, such as how an abundance of snowshoe hares in the Alaska Range might drive

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That result led Prugh, now a wildlife ecologist with the Institute of Arctic Biology at the aura Prugh knew she shouldn’t bother trying to trap University of Alaska Fairbanks, to look a bit deeper. She recently kangaroo rats in the California coauthored a paper in which desert on nights when the moon she compared the kangaroo rat was shining. Professors had told study to other projects involving her that small mammals make themselves scarce under the light night animals and moonlight.

She found that nocturnal creaof the moon, lest they become a tures that use their eyes as their meal for a predator that spotted

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The diminutive creature that millions of years ago kickstarted the era of mammals might have lurked in a shadow world for a couple of reasons – to avoid being eaten by dinosaurs active in the daytime and perhaps because the heat of the day was too much for them.

Avoiding competition with animals active in daylight is perhaps one reason nocturnal animals still exist in great numbers.

In Alaska, night-active creatures include flying squirrels, bats and owls. While it’s easy to imagine flying squirrels and owls haunting the long Alaska nights this time of year, it’s harder to picture them going about their work in summertime.

How nocturnal animals function in the yellow light of the subarctic June is a question that intrigues Prugh. She has not seen many studies on the effects of crazy daylight swings on animals.

At lower latitudes, nocturnal animals have dependable darkness that allows them to stick with circadian rhythms, a somewhat consistent cycle of sleeping and waking.

“It’d be interesting to know if (Alaska animals’) activity cycles are deeply ingrained or flexible,” she said. “To some degree it’s not

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possible for nocturnal animals here to stick with a light-based cycle, or else they would have to hibernate in the summer. It’s a pretty basic unanswered question.”

Prugh has no immediate plans to study the activities of night animals in Alaska, but she sees how a researcher could execute such a study by radiocollaring animals with a device that monitors when they are active. Such a tool would also be effective for seeing the effects of moonlight on animal activities, which might be quite dramatic in Alaska.

“In the winter, being dark for so long, the presence of the moon affects light levels longer than farther south,” Prugh said. “And the reflection off the snow amplifies the affect of moonlight.”

Prugh is also curious of what moonlight might do to the most visible Alaska mammal.

“I wonder if moon cycles have a strong effect on people up here in the winter,” she said. “There are certainly studies from other places that show a relationship between the full moon and intake rates at hospitals and factors like that.”

Since the late 1970s, the University of Alaska Fairbanks’ Geophysical Institute has provided this column free in co-operation with the UAF research community. Ned Rozell is a science writer for the Geophysical Institute.

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Breeders seeking designer dogs with an eternally youthful look Sue Manning Associated Press

LOS ANGELES magine the ideal designer dog. It would be smart, healthy and hypoallergenic. It would have the yap bred out and longevity bred in. And, most important, it would never lose its puppy face.

Enter the “cava-poo-chon.”

The breed is the newest and latest in the decades-old search for the dog-face fountain of youth and perfect pet accessory. But the American Kennel Club does not recognize the new trend as an official breed, and one expert calls some specially bred small dogs expensive “gimmicks.”

“There’s always been a market for these forever-ish young dogs,” said veteran trainer Steve Haynes of Fidelio Dog Works in Austin who is working with 50 first-generation cava-poo-chons. “Until recently, specialized dogs like miniature Yorkies and miniature Maltese were the go-to dogs.”

The cava-poo-chon is a cavalier King Charles spaniel and bichon frise mix bred with a miniature poodle. With the help of a geneticist and reproductive veterinarian, the tribrid or “triple cross” was created

by Linda and Steve Rogers of Timshell Farm in Pine, Ariz.

With a price tag ranging from $2,000 to $3,500, the cava-poo-chon combines the best of the three breeds, Linda Rogers said. She added that there is no reason they can’t live for 20 years. The dogs weigh 10-15 pounds on average and the Rogerses offer a choice of colour and two types of coat – curly or very curly, she said.

So far, 58 families have returned to get a second cavapoo-chon, and 12 of the dogs have been certified to work in nursing homes and hospitals as therapy dogs, Rogers said.

Amy Wolf of Austin says she found her perfect dog in the breed.

“I can’t tell you the number

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of times a day I look at her and say, ‘You are so cute.”’

Not only that, her threeyear-old named Callie has become the love of her husband’s life – despite his allergies – and enchanted all their new neighbours. She hired Haynes as a trainer.

“Never have we had a more loving, sweet dog. She wants to say hello to everyone,” said Wolf, who moved into a new home with her husband two months before getting Callie. “We’ve met tons of people while walking her. We feel much more connected with this neighbourhood than the previous one, all because of her. She makes us more approachable, and we feel a lot safer.”

The popularity of the baby look for dogs started more than a half-century ago with mail-order teacup pups advertised in the backs of magazines.

Yorkies, Maltese and Pomeranians were popular for a while, and recently there have been hybrid hounds “with cutesy names that end in ‘-oodle,’ ‘-uddle’ or ‘-poo’ that come with thousand-dollar price tags,” said author and certified animal behaviour consultant Darlene Arden of Massachusetts.

Arden said she was unfamiliar with the cava-poo-chon, though she applauded the use of a geneticist.

But she condemned “gimmicks” that some breeders and groomers use to attract unwitting buyers.

“There is no such thing as a teacup anything,” Arden said.

“It is a market term used by backyard breeders and commercial breeders so they can breed the smallest dogs that shouldn’t be bred and sell them for a whole lot of money. These dogs usually end up having health problems and most veterinarians don’t want to touch them because the organs are so small.”

The American Kennel Club does not recognize the cava-

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two purebred parents of different breeds, resulting in a litter of mixed breed puppies, not a new breed, according to our requirements.”

But Brande Bradshaw of Austin thinks Bridgette, her six-month-old cava-poo (there is no bichon in her), is the perfect dog.

“I have been blown away,” said Bradshaw, who also hired Haynes as a trainer. “She is amazing, the cutest puppy I’ve ever seen.”

Bradshaw flies frequently for her job as a technology saleswoman, and she leaves Bridgette at day care, where the 10-pounder is a favourite.

“Every time I log in, she is running around having a blast,” Bradshaw said. She Courtesy Brande Bradshaw/AP Photo sometimes feels like Bridgette Brande Bradshaw holds her cava-poo Bridgette. The breed is has forgotten about her until the newest and latest in the decades-old search for the dog pickup time, when Bridgette fountain of youth and perfect pet accessory. spots Bradshaw and “runs poo-chon. dogs as official breeds,” spokes- full-speed ahead, her tail going a million miles a minute, right “AKC does not recognize woman Lisa Peterson said. cross-bred or mixed breed “These dogs are the product of into my arms.”

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f Dawson City defined the character, spirit and politics of the Yukon for first half of the 20th century, then it was Whitehorse that defined the second half. While the history of Dawson City, which was born out of the Klondike Gold Rush, was documented in detail, that of Whitehorse was not – until now.

Whitehorse: An Illustrated History, published by Figure 1 Publishing of Vancouver, has just been released – and just in time for Christmas. Put this book on the top of the list of gifts for those you love because it is going to be the hit of the holiday book season.

It was only a year and a half ago that Ione Christensen, former mayor of Whitehorse, and long-time resident of this town, addressed a gathering at the Robert Service art piece at the Corner of Main Street and Second Avenue. She announced the plan to produce a book on the history of Whitehorse. Now the project and the dream have become a reality.

Christensen’s husband Art gets credit for dreaming of a book on the history of Whitehorse. In March of 2011, a group of seven residents met in the Whitehorse library to form the Whitehorse History Book Society. Quickly they received support from the city, the territory, business, and private benefactors. All they needed was a team to create the book, and they found it in Linda Johnson and Helene Dobrowolsky.

Both Johnson and Dobrowolsky are Whitehorse residents, accomplished historians and authors with credit for nearly a dozen books on Yukon history between

them. Johnson moved to the Yukon in 1974 as an archivist, eventually serving as territorial archivist for 18 years.

Dobrowolsky has operated a heritage consulting business with her partner, Rob Ingram, since 1988. Their work has included research, planning, writing, exhibit development and interpretation.

Supported by a team of writers and specialists in various areas of Whitehorse history, they have assembled a remarkable account of the development of Whitehorse from its geological origins, First Nations occupation, genesis as gold rush entrepot and finally, as commercial, administrative and transportation hub of the territory.

The story of Whitehorse begins with an account of its geological origins. Imagine lava flowing across the valley six to eight million years ago. Imagine the land being covered by glaciers a kilo-

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metre thick. Imagine Whitehorse at the bottom of a lake – this happened as the glaciers receded only 10,000 to 14,000 years ago. It wasn’t long before the first peoples occupied the land, and continued to do so, despite catastrophic volcanic events that occurred 1,900 years ago, and then again about 1,200 years ago.

The first European intruders did not arrive until the second half of the 19th century, and then only sporadically, until the Klondike Gold Rush exploded upon the Yukon between 1897 and 1899. At that time, Whitehorse was a stopping point where stampeders rested long enough to dry out their belongings after braving the violent waters of Miles Canyon and Whitehorse Rapid, or portaging around them.

The White Pass and Yukon Route Railway arrived in 1900, and Whitehorse became the transfer point from rail to river en route to Dawson City.

It remained a quiet village until the American invasion during the Second World War when both the CANOL pipeline and the Alaska Highway were constructed. The highway changed everything, and the community thrived and grew, causing Horace Moore, editor of The Whitehorse Star in 1946, to predict that “We might grow to be a city of 3,500.” How wrong he was!

Whitehorse: An Illustrated History, is divided into nine chapters, arranged chronologically from the city’s

origins to the present day. In 364 pages, it traces life before the arrival of Europeans, and the coming of the “Cloud People.” An underlying theme of the book is the impact the “Cloud People” had upon the First Nations who lived and utilized the area, and the problems and challenges they faced when overwhelmed by an invading culture.

With the onset of the gold rush, and more particularly, the completion of a rail line to the western shore of the Yukon River below Whitehorse Rapid, Whitehorse grew and survived. It became the transportation hub for the southern Yukon. It was a company town, had a copper boom for a while, then endured fires and haphazard growth for decades.

Whitehorse: An Illustrated History covers many of the defining events and moments in the history of the community. It characterizes the early development of the town, and covers fur farming, early tourism, disasters and murders. It describes the impact of the construction of the Alaska Highway and the transfer of government from Dawson City. It details the growing pains of a town that had trouble keeping up with its own success.

Later chapters include sections on sports, aviation and cultural developments. The growth of various institutions and organizations is charted; prominent personalities are presented, and significant places and events are described. From its incorpora-

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Endnotes and photographic credits are neatly tucked away at the back, where they don’t intrude on the text, but are easily accessible for anyone interested in where the images, and the information, came from. A selected bibliography running almost two pages is followed by the profiles of the contributing authors: Bob Cameron, John Firth, Michele Genest, Ty Heffner, Rob Ingram, Marilyn Jensen, and Ingrid Johnson. The index is 11 pages long.

One of the strongest features of Whitehorse: A Illustrated History is the quantity

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and quality of the illustrations. There are 11 excellent maps and, by my count, 323 fascinating photographs. All are well chosen (including such photographers as James Quong, Ephraim Hamacher and E.A. Hegg). Many are in colour, and all are of a decent size and sharpness which is enhanced by the glossy format of the pages.

This book is a fascinating journey through the history of Whitehorse, and a remarkable accomplishment to have been taken from inception to publication in such a short time.

When I spoke to Ione Christensen about the birth of this brainchild, she expressed regret for the many topics that were not included in the book, but I don’t think she has to worry. This book is a

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stunning summary of the life of the community, and fills a long overlooked gap in our history.

The official launch for Whitehorse: An Illustrated History will take place at the Old Fire Hall on Front Street next Friday, November 29.

The doors will open at 4:30

p.m. and the program will run from 5:30 to 6:30. Books will be available for sale and signing until 9.

Michael Gates is a Yukon historian and sometimes adventurer based in Whitehorse. His latest book, Dalton’s Gold Rush Trail, is available in Yukon stores. You can contact him at msgates@northwestel.net

The next deadline for Touring Artist Fund is:

December 16, 2013

Touring Artist Fund

supports professional artists, ensembles and companies to present their work outside of Yukon.

There are four deadlines per year: 15th March, June, September and December.

Touring should not begin until 8 weeks after the deadline.

If you are preparing a proposal for this deadline or want to obtain the application package, please contact the Fund Administrator in advance.

Applicants are encouraged to consult with the fund administrator before applying.

phone: (867) 667- 8789 toll free: 1- 800 - 661- 0408 ext. 8789 artsfund@gov.yk.ca www.tc.gov.yk.ca @insideyukon

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The next deadline for Arts Fund is:

December 16, 2013

PUBLIC COMMENT PERIOD OPEN PROPOSED WHITEHORSE DIESEL – NATURAL GAS CONVERSION PROJECT The Executive Committee of the Yukon Environmental and Socio-economic Assessment Board (YESAB) invites the public to comment on the above Project. The Project is subject to a Screening by the Executive Committee of YESAB under the Yukon Environmental and Socio-economic Assessment Act (YESAA).

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The Project consists of the construction of a new natural gas-fired generating station and associated activities adjacent to Yukon Energy Corporation’s existing primary power generating station, the Whitehorse Thermal Generating Station. The Expanded Site Area will produce 13.2 MW, which will provide an additional 4.1 MW to the Yukon electrical grid upon the decommissioning of the two diesel generators (9.1 MW capacity) they intend to replace.

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Comments can be submitted through the YESAB Online Registry (www.yesab.ca/registry) or by contacting the Executive Committee at the YESAB Head Office.

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There are four deadlines per year: 15th March, June, September and December.

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Applicants are encouraged to consult with the fund administrator before applying.

phone: (867) 667-3535 toll free: 1-800-661-0408 ext. 3535 artsfund@gov.yk.ca www.tc.gov.yk.ca @insideyukon

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f Dawson City defined the character, spirit and politics of the Yukon for first half of the 20th century, then it was Whitehorse that defined the second half. While the history of Dawson City, which was born out of the Klondike Gold Rush, was documented in detail, that of Whitehorse was not – until now.

Whitehorse: An Illustrated History, published by Figure 1 Publishing of Vancouver, has just been released – and just in time for Christmas. Put this book on the top of the list of gifts for those you love because it is going to be the hit of the holiday book season.

It was only a year and a half ago that Ione Christensen, former mayor of Whitehorse, and long-time resident of this town, addressed a gathering at the Robert Service art piece at the Corner of Main Street and Second Avenue. She announced the plan to produce a book on the history of Whitehorse. Now the project and the dream have become a reality.

Christensen’s husband Art gets credit for dreaming of a book on the history of Whitehorse. In March of 2011, a group of seven residents met in the Whitehorse library to form the Whitehorse History Book Society. Quickly they received support from the city, the territory, business, and private benefactors. All they needed was a team to create the book, and they found it in Linda Johnson and Helene Dobrowolsky.

Both Johnson and Dobrowolsky are Whitehorse residents, accomplished historians and authors with credit for nearly a dozen books on Yukon history between

them. Johnson moved to the Yukon in 1974 as an archivist, eventually serving as territorial archivist for 18 years.

Dobrowolsky has operated a heritage consulting business with her partner, Rob Ingram, since 1988. Their work has included research, planning, writing, exhibit development and interpretation.

Supported by a team of writers and specialists in various areas of Whitehorse history, they have assembled a remarkable account of the development of Whitehorse from its geological origins, First Nations occupation, genesis as gold rush entrepot and finally, as commercial, administrative and transportation hub of the territory.

The story of Whitehorse begins with an account of its geological origins. Imagine lava flowing across the valley six to eight million years ago. Imagine the land being covered by glaciers a kilo-

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metre thick. Imagine Whitehorse at the bottom of a lake – this happened as the glaciers receded only 10,000 to 14,000 years ago. It wasn’t long before the first peoples occupied the land, and continued to do so, despite catastrophic volcanic events that occurred 1,900 years ago, and then again about 1,200 years ago.

The first European intruders did not arrive until the second half of the 19th century, and then only sporadically, until the Klondike Gold Rush exploded upon the Yukon between 1897 and 1899. At that time, Whitehorse was a stopping point where stampeders rested long enough to dry out their belongings after braving the violent waters of Miles Canyon and Whitehorse Rapid, or portaging around them.

The White Pass and Yukon Route Railway arrived in 1900, and Whitehorse became the transfer point from rail to river en route to Dawson City.

It remained a quiet village until the American invasion during the Second World War when both the CANOL pipeline and the Alaska Highway were constructed. The highway changed everything, and the community thrived and grew, causing Horace Moore, editor of The Whitehorse Star in 1946, to predict that “We might grow to be a city of 3,500.” How wrong he was!

Whitehorse: An Illustrated History, is divided into nine chapters, arranged chronologically from the city’s

origins to the present day. In 364 pages, it traces life before the arrival of Europeans, and the coming of the “Cloud People.” An underlying theme of the book is the impact the “Cloud People” had upon the First Nations who lived and utilized the area, and the problems and challenges they faced when overwhelmed by an invading culture.

With the onset of the gold rush, and more particularly, the completion of a rail line to the western shore of the Yukon River below Whitehorse Rapid, Whitehorse grew and survived. It became the transportation hub for the southern Yukon. It was a company town, had a copper boom for a while, then endured fires and haphazard growth for decades.

Whitehorse: An Illustrated History covers many of the defining events and moments in the history of the community. It characterizes the early development of the town, and covers fur farming, early tourism, disasters and murders. It describes the impact of the construction of the Alaska Highway and the transfer of government from Dawson City. It details the growing pains of a town that had trouble keeping up with its own success.

Later chapters include sections on sports, aviation and cultural developments. The growth of various institutions and organizations is charted; prominent personalities are presented, and significant places and events are described. From its incorpora-

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Friday, November 22, 2013 tion, the mayors of Whitehorse are profiled, and then listed in an appendix at the end of the book, as are prominent aboriginal leaders from the Whitehorse area.

Endnotes and photographic credits are neatly tucked away at the back, where they don’t intrude on the text, but are easily accessible for anyone interested in where the images, and the information, came from. A selected bibliography running almost two pages is followed by the profiles of the contributing authors: Bob Cameron, John Firth, Michele Genest, Ty Heffner, Rob Ingram, Marilyn Jensen, and Ingrid Johnson. The index is 11 pages long.

One of the strongest features of Whitehorse: A Illustrated History is the quantity

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and quality of the illustrations. There are 11 excellent maps and, by my count, 323 fascinating photographs. All are well chosen (including such photographers as James Quong, Ephraim Hamacher and E.A. Hegg). Many are in colour, and all are of a decent size and sharpness which is enhanced by the glossy format of the pages.

This book is a fascinating journey through the history of Whitehorse, and a remarkable accomplishment to have been taken from inception to publication in such a short time.

When I spoke to Ione Christensen about the birth of this brainchild, she expressed regret for the many topics that were not included in the book, but I don’t think she has to worry. This book is a

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All courses Are full dAys in Whitehorse, except Where noted. to register for a course, call Admissions at 668-8710 or 1-800-661-0504. for more information, contact catherine Mallet at 668-8798. to apply for eocp certification exams, download the application from www.eocp.ca/program-info/forms/ or call 1-866-552-3627.

stunning summary of the life of the community, and fills a long overlooked gap in our history.

The official launch for Whitehorse: An Illustrated History will take place at the Old Fire Hall on Front Street next Friday, November 29.

The doors will open at 4:30

p.m. and the program will run from 5:30 to 6:30. Books will be available for sale and signing until 9.

Michael Gates is a Yukon historian and sometimes adventurer based in Whitehorse. His latest book, Dalton’s Gold Rush Trail, is available in Yukon stores. You can contact him at msgates@northwestel.net

The next deadline for Touring Artist Fund is:

December 16, 2013

Touring Artist Fund

supports professional artists, ensembles and companies to present their work outside of Yukon.

There are four deadlines per year: 15th March, June, September and December.

Touring should not begin until 8 weeks after the deadline.

If you are preparing a proposal for this deadline or want to obtain the application package, please contact the Fund Administrator in advance.

Applicants are encouraged to consult with the fund administrator before applying.

phone: (867) 667- 8789 toll free: 1- 800 - 661- 0408 ext. 8789 artsfund@gov.yk.ca www.tc.gov.yk.ca @insideyukon

Government Tourism and Culture Cultural Services Branch

The next deadline for Arts Fund is:

December 16, 2013

PUBLIC COMMENT PERIOD OPEN PROPOSED WHITEHORSE DIESEL – NATURAL GAS CONVERSION PROJECT The Executive Committee of the Yukon Environmental and Socio-economic Assessment Board (YESAB) invites the public to comment on the above Project. The Project is subject to a Screening by the Executive Committee of YESAB under the Yukon Environmental and Socio-economic Assessment Act (YESAA).

PROJECT

Whitehorse Diesel – Natural Gas Conversion Project - Project Number 2013-0115

PROPONENT

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PROJECT DESCRIPTION

PUBLIC COMMENT PERIOD ACCESS TO PROJECT PROPOSAL SUBMIT COMMENTS MORE INFORMATION

The Project consists of the construction of a new natural gas-fired generating station and associated activities adjacent to Yukon Energy Corporation’s existing primary power generating station, the Whitehorse Thermal Generating Station. The Expanded Site Area will produce 13.2 MW, which will provide an additional 4.1 MW to the Yukon electrical grid upon the decommissioning of the two diesel generators (9.1 MW capacity) they intend to replace.

November 5, 2013 2013to toDecember December6,20, 2013 November 5, 2013

An electronic copy of the Whitehorse Diesel – Natural Gas Conversion Project Proposal is available through the YESAB Online Registry (YOR) at www.yesab.ca/registry (search project #2013-0115).

The project proposal is also available for viewing at the YESAB Head Office.

Comments can be submitted through the YESAB Online Registry (www.yesab.ca/registry) or by contacting the Executive Committee at the YESAB Head Office.

YESAB Head Office Suite 200-309 Strickland Street, Whitehorse, Yukon, Y1A 2J9 Phone (867) 668-6420 or toll free 1-866-322-4040 / Email yesab@yesab.ca

Make Your Voice Count.

Visit the YESAB Online Registry: www.yesab.ca/registry

Arts Fund fosters the creative

development of the arts in Yukon by funding group projects related to the literary, visual and performing arts.

There are four deadlines per year: 15th March, June, September and December.

If you are preparing a proposal for this deadline or want to obtain the application package, please contact the Fund Administrator in advance.

Applicants are encouraged to consult with the fund administrator before applying.

phone: (867) 667-3535 toll free: 1-800-661-0408 ext. 3535 artsfund@gov.yk.ca www.tc.gov.yk.ca @insideyukon

Government Tourism and Culture Cultural Services Branch

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same room. I’m not a prude, but it makes me feel very uncomfortable.

The last straw was when I received my wedding photos a few weeks ago and was dismayed to find many pictures where my in-laws were kissing and making googly eyes at each other in our wedding party (bridesmaids and groomsmen) pictures. Looking at them you would wonder why my husband and I were wearing the bride and groom’s attire instead of them.

I really want to say something without hurting their feelings too much, but my husband is convinced they don’t know what they are doing. We are all in our late 20s and early 30s, so there is no chance that they will grow out of this behavior.

GENTLE READER: You mean that they look like newlyweds, and yet will never outgrow that stage?

Miss Manners finds that a rather charmingly optimistic view of marriage.

It is not charming to watch, however. Prudery — so common a charge that you anticipate it — has nothing to do with it. Watching people kiss (and more) on film constitutes a great deal of our socalled entertainment. The reason that onlookers dislike this in life is because it is clear that the loving couple is not interested in others, to the extent of pretending that they are not there.

Do not seat them next to each other at dinner, where couples should be separated anyway, for variety of conversation. Elsewhere, a slightly more polite way of saying “get a room,” at least among visiting relatives, is, “It’s all right if you want to go home now and be alone.” And to keep from going bonkers, stay off their Facebook pages.

DEAR MISS MANNERS: During the offertory collection at my church, some form of religious musical performance takes place. It may be the choir, a soloist (vocal or instrumental) or the bell choir.

At the conclusion of the performance the entire congregation applauds as though they are at a concert. To me this borders on being sacrilegious.

Is this acceptable behavior?

Wouldn’t it be more appropriate to compliment the performers individually and informally after the service? Is this a common practice in other churches?

GENTLE READER: It is, alas, increasingly common for people to regard everything as a source of entertainment. Miss Manners is grateful that you recognize that church music is indeed intended for the glory of God, not the pleasure of worshippers. Praise for the performers may certainly be delivered after the service, but it should not be allowed to interrupt praise for God. (Please send your questions to Miss Manners at her website, www. missmanners.com; to her email, dearmissmanners(at)gmail.com; or through postal mail to Miss Manners, Universal Uclick, 1130 Walnut St., Kansas City, MO 64106.)

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Friday, November 22, 2013

SPORTS AND

RECREATION

Yukon’s hockey prowess knows no bounds Tom Patrick News Reporter

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ukon hockey talent is too abundant to be kept within the territory’s borders. It has seeped into leagues across Canada and the U.S. From minor hockey teams in B.C. and Alberta, to junior and university teams in Canada and the U.S., even up to the professional level, Yukon has representation all over the place.

“I’m enjoying it, the team is great, everything is great here,” said Whitehorse’s Jordan Lane.

“We’re off to a real good start, we’ve got a good squad here.”

Lane is a defenceman for the Quad City Mallards in Central Hockey League and is currently Yukon’s only professional player.

The Mallards, which are based in Moline, Illinois and currently have a 4-3-2 record, are affiliated with the NHL’s Minnesota Wild.

“I’ve been playing in most of the games, playing my role, doing my job,” said Lane in an interview last week. “I’ve been in three fights so far, put up a couple PIMs, being defensively sound, doing what I have to do.”

Lane is in his first season with the team. The 24-yearold was on the Elmira Jackels in the Eastern Central Hockey League last season.

At six-foot-eight, 250 pounds, Lane is the biggest guy on the team and has an enforcer role. But gone are the days of thugs who only fight and can’t play, he said.

“You can’t just be an enforcer anymore, you have to be able to play the game,” said Lane. “You can’t be a defensive liability.

“I’m just here to work hard, get better and show that I can play hard enough that I get a chance to go play some games in the American league and show my stuff up there.”

Yukon is also represented in the Western Hockey League.

Whitehorse’s Brett Roulston is playing right-wing in his second season for the Prince George Cougars.

“It’s awesome. It’s a pretty good experience,” said Roulston. “It’s as close to pro hockey as you can get without actually playing pro, so it’s a lot of fun.”

The Cougars (9-13-1-3) missed the playoffs by a few points last season. Roulston played major midget in Prince George before moving up to the Cougars. The 19-year-old

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Whitehorse’s Jordan Lane is playing his first year with the Quad City Mallards of Central Hockey League in Moline, Illinois. Lane is currently Yukon’s only professional hockey player.

finished last season with eight goals and 11 points.

Yukon has a handful of players lacing up for college and university teams in Canada and the U.S., but they’re not all from Whitehorse.

Haines Junction’s Reid Campbell is playing NCAA hockey for the St. Norbert College Green Knights in Wisconsin.

“We drove back and fourth probably five days a week when I was eight to 14 to play hockey in Whitehorse – I have my parents to thank for that,” said Campbell. “I went through the whole Mustangs system all the way up to when I moved away at 15 to go to Fort St. John with a few other Yukon guys to play major midget there.”

The Whitehorse Mustangs rep club “is a good system, they definitely develop some good hockey players,” said Campbell. “It was fun to be a part of.”

Since Campbell joined the Green Knights, the team has won two NCAA Division III championships.

The team is currently undefeated after six games this season.

Campbell, who is studying communications with a business minor and is in his senior year, has one goal and two assists in the six games.

“It was different coming in from playing junior in Powell

River to college hockey,” said the defenceman. “The lifestyle is a little different, it’s more of a student-first mentality. So you have to keep your marks up in order to play.

“Coming in was really good.

I got to play as a freshman, which is nice.

“I’ve carried my workload through and had success. I was an All-American in my sophomore year. That was an honour I wasn’t expecting.”

Whitehorse’s Andrew Pettitt, who played Junior A with Campbell on the Powell River Kings, is a forward for the SeaWolves at the University of Alaska Anchorage.

Pettitt, who is in his junior year, registered two assists in 23 games last season with the “Green and Gold.” The team is currently undefeated at home with four straight.

Whitehorse’s Ian Perrier is goalie for the Westfield State College Owls in Westfield, Massachusetts.

The team is currently 1-4-0 in the NCAA Division III (not including Thursday’s game).

Perrier, who is in his junior year, played for Northland College last year.

Whitehorse’s Angela Burke is playing for the University of Lethbridge Pronghorns in the Canadian Interuniversity Sport.

Burke is in her fourth year and currently has two assists

this season as the team struggles to improve on a 3-7-0-2 record.

“I feel like there’s been a lot of growth, not only individually, but in our team,” Burke told the News at the start of the season. “We have a really strong core group of girls and we’ve really developed with each other through the years.”

Burke is one of four female players outside the territory this season.

Whitehorse’s Tamara Greek is playing defence for the Richmond Pacific Steelers in the Junior Women’s Hockey League in B.C. Marsh Lake’s Jocelyn Wynnyk and Dawson City’s Lynsey Keaton are playing for the Trojans at the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology in Calgary.

“I absolutely love it,” said Wynnyk. “There’s something about the team and the atmosphere that’s really good. The fact that you’re playing with girls who are at your level and can challenge you as well is really good. And the program is set up really well.”

Whitehorse’s Ted Stephens is in his third season playing forward with the St. Francis Xavier University X-Men in Nova Scotia.

The X-Men are currently in third place in their CIS division with a 5-4-1 record, including an overtime loss to

the Acadia Axemen on Wednesday.

Stephen’s brother David is experiencing tremendous success as a forward with Maritime Junior A Pictou County Weeks Crushers in the Maritime Hockey League.

The Weeks Crushers are currently first in the league with a 15-3-0-3 record.

David is leading the team with eight goals and 18 assists for 26 points.

Whitehorse’s Trevor Hanna is having a great Junior B season. The forward is turning on red lights more often than Amsterdam while playing with the Creston Valley Thunder Cats in the Kootenay International Junior Hockey League.

Hanna has 19 goals and 18 assists in 22 games and is third on his team in points and second for scoring. The Thunder Cats are at the top of the Eddie Mountain Division and fifth in the league.

Dawson City’s Charles Dagostin is playing defence for the Kimberley Dynamiters, a Junior B team in the KIJHL. Whitehorse’s Trevor Whynot is a forward for the Junior B’s Dawson Creek Junior Canucks (6-8-0-1) in the North West Junior Hockey League.

Whitehorse’s Tyson Glass is playing left wing for the Fort St. John Huskies in Junior B, also in the NWJHL. Yukon has a number of midget level players Outside, three of which are on the same team.

Whitehorse’s Riley Pettitt, Kole Comin and Cole Morris are all forwards for the Prince George Cariboo Cougars in the British Columbia Major Midget League. The Cougars are currently in fourth place in the league with an 8-7-1 record.

Other Yukon midgets include Dylan McCuaig for the Airdrie Avalanche Midget, Tomas Jirousek in Lethbridge, Liam Webster for the Whistler Hawks and Wyatt Gale and Alex Hansen playing AA in Fort St. John.

Yukon bantams include Matt Braga in Kamloops on the Players Bench Raiders, Matt Butler at the Calgary Edge School, Jonas Leas North Shore Winter Club in North Vancouver and Lukas Jirousek in Lethbridge.

If you know any hockey players who should have been included in this story but weren’t, please contact Tom Patrick at tomp@yukon-news.com.

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Friday, November 22, 2013

Yukon ski coach Alain Masson selected for Hall of Fame Tom Patrick News Reporter

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e’s an Olympian, a Team Canada wax technician, an accomplished head coach, and is soon to be a Hall of Famer.

Whitehorse’s Alain Masson is this year’s inductee to the Sport Yukon Hall of Fame, Sport Yukon announced on Wednesday.

“I was very pleased, I was super happy,” said Masson.

“I’m very honoured to have been selected.”

Masson, 52, became the head coach and sport coordinator for Cross Country Yukon in 1995. Since then, 14 Yukoners have been selected for national team spots.

He takes great pride in the systems and programs he implemented that have helped make Yukon a powerhouse in the sport.

“My greatest pride is the system I have help put in place since I started with CCY, the ability of the squad program to optimize the potential of the athletes coming through it,” he said.

“The first 10 years were building the program, making changes, increasing capacity, developing new structure and programs. The last 10 years have been the rewards of all the work from the first 10 years.”

Before he became a coach, Masson was an accomplished athlete.

Masson represented Canada at three Olympic Games – two winter and one summer. He competed in cycling at the 1984 Summer Games in Los Angeles. He then raced in cross-country skiing in the 1998 Winter Games in Calgary and the 1992 Games in Albertville, France.

He also skied at four world championships.

“For skiing, I don’t remember the exact number, but in the low-40s was my best placing as an individual (at the Olympics),” said Masson. “At the world championship 30th was my best individual placing.”

Following retirement in 1992, the Montreal native began to work as a wax technician with Cross Country Canada. Masson continues to work with Canada’s national ski teams and has attended seven world championships and three Olympic Games in his role as a wax technician.

Masson will add a fourth Olympics to the list in February at the Sochi Games.

“That’s been one of the highlights, being able to combine my experience and skills to contribute to their success,” said Masson.

The Yukon Ski Team’s 2006/2007 season is one that stands out in his Ian Stewart/Yukon News mind.

Cross Country Yukon head coach Alain Masson will be inducted in to That year Whitethe Sport Yukon Hall of Fame next week. horse hosted the Canada Winter national championship. the 2012 World Junior & U23 Games with Yukon winning “That year was remarkable,” Championships. three medals. said Masson.

“It’ll be very difficult and At the end of the season, The 2011/2012 season was will take a long time before Yukon skiers collected 17 another good one. Five White- we can equal that one,” said medals at the Haywood Ski Masson.

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on national teams including Whitehorse siblings Graham and Emily Nishikawa on the senior development team, and Dahria Beatty on the junior team. All three have trained under Masson.

The Nishikawas competed for Canada at last year’s work championship.

“I’ve been working with Graham and Emily since they were about 13 years old,” said Masson.

So what makes Whitehorse such a powerhouse on the national ski scene?

“There are many reasons,” said Masson. “It’s great community that really cares about their athletes, their program.

Great volunteers, great athletes, obviously. Supportive families. The quality of the programs that have been in place for a long time. And the support of the government in terms of funding to the athletes and to the program.

A great facility with an ideal climate for winter sports.

“There are just so many factors. We’re just lucky to have so many quality athletes entering the program.”

Oops, he forgot something: a great head coach.

The induction ceremony will take place during the Sport Yukon Awards Night next Thursday at the Westmark Whitehorse.

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Friday, November 22, 2013

Yukoners climb into top-five at Juneau bouldering competition

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Julian Beairsto of the Yukon Youth Climbing Team attempts the overhang at F.H. Collins on Wednesday. Beairsto placed first in 13-and-under division at a competition in Juneau last weekend.

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embers of the Yukon Youth Climbing Team were scaling the standings at the Rock Dump Climbing Competition in Juneau over the weekend.

Of the 12 Yukon climbers at the competition, three placed in the top-five.

“I think everyone was really happy to expose themselves to competition,” said Yukon coach Alain Dallaire. “Half of them came to the competition last year, the other half it was their first experience.

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“It’s really good. Why do we do these sports? It’s bonding …

The competition is important, but getting out and making sure the kids are enjoying their time is the most important thing.”

The Yukon’s best result came from Whitehorse’s Julian Beairsto, who placed first in the boys 13-and-under division.

It was the 13-year-old’s first Outside competition. The F.H. Collins Secondary student completed a V3-rated problem for the win.

“Excited. It makes me feel like I can do this,” said Beairsto. “I started climbing because of my

brothers who have been doing it for a while, and I was excited when I thought I was doing well because it’s something I accomplished.”

Teammate Kassi Wright climbed to third place in the open women division.

“I’m pretty happy,” said Wright. “Last year I didn’t do as well, I was pretty surprised by this year.”

Wright, who also attends F.H. Collins, completed a V4, “or something around there,” she said.

Though she was in open women, Wright is just 16, but

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Kassi Wright placed third in the open women’s division.

as Dallaire explains: “Youth can compete against adults.

“In terms of weight ratio to finger strength, usually kids are pretty good. They are small and their fingers are fairly strong for their size.”

The Yukon club’s other topfive results came from Calden Hoefs placing fourth in open men. Hoefs graduated high school last year and is now a coach with the team.

The Yukon Youth Climbing Team is just beginning its fifth season together and has over 20 active members. The high-school age team meets three times a week at F.H. Collins Secondary but welcomes students from any Whitehorse high school.

The team specializes in bouldering.

“Bouldering is way faster, I don’t have to handle ropes, I don’t have to handle equipment,” said Dallaire.

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The club will host the Yukon Open Pump For Fun on Dec. 4, a competition open to the public.

They host a fundraising night every Wednesday night 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. at F.H. Collins. The open night is to help pay for the expense of traveling to Outside competitions.

“Instead of doing grocery bagging, we open the climbing wall to the public and we charge $10 for two hours,” said Dallaire. “It’s a bit pricey, but it’s a fundraiser.”

The youth team plans to return to Juneau for another competition in January, host a second Yukon competition in February and attend the Tour de Bloc competition in Vancouver to end the season.

“It’s great. Alain is a great coach and everyone gets along so well,” said Wright. “So traveling together is perfect.”

Contact Tom Patrick at tomp@yukon-news.com

Friday, November 22, 2013

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Wiggins claims 27th at club pro nationals

Tom Patrick/Yukon News

Mountain View club pro Jeff Wiggins placed 27th at the Canadian PGA Club Professional National Championship in Port St. Lucie, Florida on Wednesday.

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ers he coached at the Canada Summer Games in Sherbrooke, Que., in August. hitehorse’s Jeff Wig“My inspiration and mogins shot his way to tivation this week is being his second top-30 finish in drawn from the week I spent three years at the 2013 Canaat Canada Games with our dian PGA Club Professional junior athletes,” he said on National Championship on Monday. “I had to literally do Wednesday. everything I coached them to The Mountain View club do in order to mentally prepro hit four over in three pare for this event. I remember rounds to place 27th out of how nervous they were out in 85 pros at the championSherbrooke and how I tried ship held at PGA Golf Club’s so hard to calm them down Ryder Course in Port St. Lucie, and put their minds at ease. So Florida. before today’s event when the “I had a great start to the nerves started to kick in, I reevent with the opening round flected back on what I taught 70. However, my body hasn’t them and it really put me at felt 100 per cent this fall so I ease before the dreaded first knew it would be a grind to tee shot. So today’s round was maintain that momentum or for them.” even better that score,” said With his 27th-place finish, Wiggins in an email to the Wiggins moves up to 148th in News. “I’m certainly not saying the Canadian PGA rankings. that I knew it was going to get He qualified for the nationworse … I just knew that I als with a third-place finish at didn’t have my ‘A’ game.” the 2013 PGA of B.C. Club Pro Following his 70 on MonChampionship last month in day, Wiggins carded 75s in Vancouver.

Rounds 2 and 3.

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Yukon at the event, Wiggins tied for 20th.

Last year he finished tied for 62nd.

Wiggins had hoped to crack the top-10 this year, he said, following the B.C. championship.

“We do have at least 40 of the country’s top 100 Canadian PGA players in the field … so I knew coming down that I had to play good to achieve my earlier mentioned goals.”

Wiggins, who is originally from Saskatoon, has been with Mountain View for six seasons.

He was named the 2012 Golf Professional of the Year by the Professional Golfers’ Association of British Columbia last November.

“I do want to spend more time on fitness this off-season.

I spent some time talking with a good friend of mine who is a physician back home over the last few weeks and there were a few things that he mentioned that really hit home with me. I have a very demanding job up in the Yukon and as much as I love it, I have to do a better job

of creating balance in my life.

“The last six years have taken a toll on my body and I need to make sure that I take care of myself better in order to maintain success at work and in my personal life. So this

winter I have been afforded a little time off in JanuaryMarch and I really want to use that time to refocus, relax and be healthier.”

Contact Tom Patrick at tomp@yukon-news.com

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Friday, November 22, 2013

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Michael Ritchie, left, Micah Taggart-Cox, centre, and Caleb McPherson compete at a Whitehorse Rapids time trials event at the Canada Games Centre on Sunday. Sixteen Rapids skaters set 44 personal bests at the event.

Penalty-stricken Mustangs snag bronze in Leduc Tom Patrick

“The kids need to learn what’s second game on Friday after travacceptable in terms getting a pen- eling to Leduc the same day, barely alty, trying to stop a breakaway or making it from the airport in time he Atom Jr. Mustangs got a lot a goal. Taking a penalty after the for the game against the Rangers. of practice killing off penalties whistle is just useless and we took Naoise Dempsey showed the most over the weekend. too many of them.” hustle en route to receiving the The Whitehorse rep team The Mustangs began their first Hustler Award. struggled to stay out of the box, road trip of the season with a 3-1 The Kinsmen Flyers went on to accruing more penalties than any win over the Fort Saskatchewan take gold in the tournament. other team, but still managed to Rangers to open the tournament “I thought we played OK; pentake third at the Adam Myers Me- on Friday. Mustangs defenceman alties were a big issue this weekmorial Tournament in Leduc, Alta. Dylan Cozens got the Hustler end,” said Mylymok. “We don’t “They played well. We ran Award. mind penalties if they’re team into a lot of penalty trouble this Whitehorse then lost 10-4 to penalties, trying to stop a goal, but weekend,” said Mustangs assistant the Fort St. John Kinsmen Flyers some of the kids were more worcoach Pat Brunet. “We hadn’t had after dropping a 3-1 lead. ried about themselves in terms of trouble with it in the past. We ran The loss was the Mustangs’ selfish penalties, retaliatory – just into discipline issues and took a lot of penalties and basically that’s what hurt us through the tournament.”

The Mustangs secured third place with a 5-2 win over the Leduc Roughnecks home team in the bronze medal match on Sunday.

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not team penalties.

“They caught up to us in a couple of games.”

The Atom Mustangs now have a gold and bronze to show for the season.

The previous weekend the Mustangs defeated the Wasilla, Alaska’s Mat-Su Eagles 3-2 in the final of the Whitehorse International Atom Hockey Tournament.

The Whitehorse Minor Hockey Association will take up hosting duties again next month for Hockey Day in Whitehorse and Mustangs Night Dec. 6-8.

Four Outside teams are looking to visit Whitehorse to compete against Mustangs teams from peewee to midget.

“It’s been different players stepping up every game,” said Brunet of the season thus far. “We’ve had different forwards scoring for us every game. So it’s been great as a coach not having to rely on two or three players.

“We have three lines of players and every game we have a different line stepping up and making a difference in the game.”

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IOC retroactively tests for doping

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LONDON he IOC is using an improved steroid test to reanalyze frozen doping samples from the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin and may use the same method to conduct retests from the 2008 Beijing Games.

The tests can detect steroid use going further back than ever before and in lower concentrations, IOC medical commission chairman Arne Ljungqvist told The Associated Press on Tuesday.

“It’s a natural development of the methodology,” he said, adding that the test increases the chances of catching drug cheats who went undetected at the time.

The International Olympic Committee announced in March that it would retest Turin samples, just as it rechecked samples from the 2004 and 2008 Summer Games in Athens and Beijing – catching 10 dopers retroactively.

The IOC stores Olympic samples for eight years to allow for retesting if new methods become available.

The Turin retesting involves a wider detection window, possibly going back as much as six months or more after steroids were taken.

“The IOC is currently retesting some of the samples collected during the Olympic Winter Games in Turin in 2006 and we can confirm that we are using the new long-term metabolites method to detect anabolic steroids,” the IOC said in a statement.

The method will also be used in the drug-testing program at February’s Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia.

According to a weekend report by German broadcaster ARD, doping labs in Cologne and Moscow using then new method have detected hundreds of positive cases in recent months. The report said the substances included oral turinabol, a steroid widely used in the former East Germany, and stanozolol, the drug which led to Ben Johnson’s disqualification at the 1988 Seoul Olympics.

Ljungqvist said he had no independent information on the contents of the ARD report, suggesting the cases may have involved “very old samples” tested for research purposes.

“It’s nothing that we have initiated,” he said.

Meanwhile, Ljungqvist said the IOC expects to have the results of the Turin tests by the end of the year.

The tests are looking for steroids, new generations of the blood-booster EPO and growth hormone, he told the AP in a telephone interview.

Urine and blood samples from Turin are stored at the doping laboratory in Lausanne, Switzerland.

The exact number of retests is not known, but Ljungqvist said the IOC had identified “a couple of hundred” samples for possible reanalysis. Endurance events such as cross-country skiing are considered the most open to doping abuse.

The IOC wants to wrap up the testing process, including any sanctions, before the Sochi Games, which begin Feb. 7.

In 2010, the IOC reanalyzed some Turin samples for insulin and

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International Olympic Committee vice-president Craig Reedie at the World Conference on Doping in Sport in Johannesburg, South Africa. blood-booster CERA but all came back negative. The IOC decided a few months ago to test more samples before the eight-year deadline runs out in February 2014.

Only one positive case was recorded during the Turin Games – Russian biathlete Olga Pyleva was stripped of a silver medal after testing positive for a banned stimulant.

But Turin was hit by a major doping scandal when Italian police – acting on a tip-off from the IOC – raided the lodgings of the Austrian cross-country and biathlon team, seizing blood-doping equipment.

While no Austrian athletes tested positive at the time, four later received life bans from the IOC. Last year, the IOC retested samples from the Athens Olympics and caught five athletes who were retroactively stripped of medals for using steroids, including men’s shot put winner Yuriy Bilonog of Ukraine.

Previously, retests of samples from Beijing for CERA led to five positive cases – with Bahrain runner Rashid Ramzi stripped of gold in the 1,500 metres.

Ljungqvist said more Beijing samples could now be retested using the improved steroid test. While the samples that have already been retested no longer exist, many others remain.

“We can go back to Beijing before 2016,” Ljungqvist said. “We may do that. We haven’t decided yet. We will do it as the eight-year time ap-

proaches.”

Under newly approved global rules, the statute of limitations in doping cases will be increased to 10 years starting in 2015.

On a separate issue, Ljungqvist said he was confident the Russian lab assigned to test doping samples in Sochi will be ready for the games, despite a threat of sanctions from the World Anti-Doping Agency.

On Sunday, WADA gave the lab until Dec. 1 to start reforms to improve the reliability of its results, or face a six-month suspension.

The Moscow lab is due to set up a “satellite” facility in Sochi for the Olympics.

“We interpret the WADA decision as if we will have the Moscow lab available,” Ljungqvist said. “We take that for granted. They (the Russians) will of course fulfil the requirements established in the decision to make sure they have the proper procedures in place. We are feeling pretty confident.”

If the lab fails to come up to scratch, the Sochi samples would have to be sent to another lab outside Russia for testing, posing logistical and financial issues.

“Of course, we have to have a ‘Plan B,’ but the ‘Plan B’ is not attractive,” Ljungqvist said. “That would be to send samples out of Russia. We have to find a lab which wishes to do that and I’m not sure what labs may wish to do that. It’s quite risky with transport and all that.”

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REGINA he stadium that was once home to CFL greats like George Reed, Ron Lancaster and Dave Ridgway is about to host its last championship.

Mosaic Stadium, home of the Saskatchewan Roughriders football club, will host the 101st Grey Cup on Sunday.

Sure, there will be more regular season games at Mosaic, possibly playoffs too, but no more championships. The stadium will be torn down when a new facility is ready for the 2017 season.

Former Roughrider Steve Mazurak says he has a lot of fond about memories “about this great old stadium.”

“I was blessed with the fact that I was able to be a teammate of Ron Lancaster and George Reed,” said Mazurak, who played wide receiver and slotback from 1973 to 1981.

“To share a huddle with them and to stand there and go ‘OK, there’s Ronny Lancaster, he’s reading a play and he’s actually calling my number,’ that gives me goosebumps right this very second.”

Former offensive lineman Gene Makowsky says the stadium holds a special place in his heart too.

Makowsky, who played for the Riders from 1995 to 2011, says the Labour Day matchups between Saskatchewan and the Winnipeg Blue Bombers were always a lot of fun.

“The one memory I think that stands out is certainly the ‘07 Labour Day Classic. Certainly, the playoff games are the big games, but I still for some reason just remember the last drive by (former Rider quarterback) Kerry Joseph in the ‘07 Labour Day Classic,” Makowsky said in an inter-

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Steve Mazurak, former Saskatchewan Roughrider and now the team’s vice-president of sales. The stadium that was once home to CFL greats and is about to host its last championship. view in front of the stadium.

“It was a big game between two teams that were vying for first place and it was huge play. He ran 30 yards untouched in the endzone and the crowd just went wild. It was just amazing.”

Mosaic Stadium last hosted the Grey Cup 2003 when the Edmonton Eskimos beat the Montreal Alouettes in front of 50,909 fans.

Mosaic sits in an area of Regina known as North Central, near downtown. The stadium, that originally started as a rugby field in 1910, is known for wind that, as Mazurak says, will “knock your socks off” and old wooden bench-style seating.

It has undergone several upgrades over the years and extra seats have been added in the endzones for Grey Cup. “But way back in the day, that what was we called ‘Hemorrhoid Hill.’ And so if there was an overload of crowd, they would put them on

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that hill and people would sit on the grassy knoll at the south end of Mosaic Stadium, of course then it was Taylor Field,” Mazurak said in an interview on the field.

“If the stands were full and the grassy knoll was full, then they would line people up along the sidelines here.”

Mosaic was place where Mazurak would go as a nine-year-old boy to watch the Riders and sit on rickety wooden benches in the north endzone, “probably for less than a $2 bill,” he said.

It was later the place where he played high school and junior football before becoming a Rider. “(It has) a lot of warm feelings of fuzziness with me,” said Mazurak, who is now the team’s now vicepresident of sales and corporate partnerships.

Mazurak says there are a lot of mixed emotions when he thinks about Mosaic being torn down, especially when he thinks about the history and the pride in the stadium.

But he also says it’s time for a new facility.

“When they finally put the bulldozer to it, oh the quicker they can do it, the better. Then we can finally be what we want to be for our fans and that’s major league,” he said.

“Only through a major league venue can you really get to the point where you need to be for the whole game day experience.”

Makowsky is now one of those fans. He’s a season ticket holder who takes his children to games.

When Mosaic is torn down, long-time season ticket holders will find themselves in different seats, he noted.

“There’s been people that have sat in the same seats for 40 and 50 years, you hear that all the time,” said Makowsky. “So that’s going to be certainly an end of an era and it’ll be a little bit sad in a way, certainly, if you move along to the new stadium you won’t be sitting with your own section anymore, the people that have surrounded you for years and years.”

“But the old stadium served us well,” he added.

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Kakuro

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Level: Moderate

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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 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.

No difit can be repeated in a solution, so a 4 can only produce 1 and 3, never 2 and 2. © 2013 The Mepham Group. Distributed by Tribune Content Agency. All rights reserved.

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Puzzle B

CLUES ACROSS 1. Pepsi is one 5. Kilocalorie (abbr.)

8. Canadian flyers 12. Bright fleshy seed covers 14. Exclamation of triumph 15. Dawn (Spanish) 16. Former Spanish currency 18. Illuminated 19. A benefit bestowed 20. Spanish beaches 21. Solid water 22. Baby flowers

CLUES DOWN

1. “’Lil Abner” cartoonist Al 2. Pitcher Hershiser 3. Elvis’s daughter 4. Mt. Lebanon resort town 5. Islamic civil and religious leader (var. sp.)

6. Mexican American 7. A sideways pass 8. Bunny 9. Threatening rain 10. Where one abides 11. Ardent devotees 13. Not moving

23. Surrealistic comic strip 26. Uncontrollable tremors 30. Dapper 31. Ear shell 32. Russian river 33. #1 soup noodle brand 34. Relating to a tube 39. Air Reserve base (abbr.)

42. Relating to Deism 44. More dried-up 46. Pear-shaped vowels 47. Creator of 23 across

49. Leavened rum cake 50. “Much __ About Nothing” 51. Two-sided discussion 56. Snakelike fishes 57. Fold 58. Removed writing 59. Away from wind 60. Small time unit (abbr.)

61. Look at with fixed eyes 62. Former Soviet bloc 63. Vision organ 64. Three-banded Armadillo

17. Ghastly pale from distress 24. Midway between E and SE 25. Writing materials sellers 26. Even golf score 27. Fabric of camel or goat hair 28. Hide from police: on the ___ 29. Patti Hearst’s captors 35. Universal Standard Time (abbr.)

36. British thermal unit 37. Own (Scottish) 38. Digital display material 40. Fall back to a former state 41. Tom __, former LA mayor

42. Runs PCs 43. Wear away 44. Russian marten furs 45. Item used for 58 across 47. A Scottish Highlander 48. Rolls-__, luxury car 49. Jeff Bridges’ brother 52. Bay Area Transit Authority 53. As fast as can be done (abbr.)

54. Metric prefix for 10 to the 12th power 55. Frankenberg river

Puzzle C

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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 WEEKEND GETAWAY 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.

2-BDRM, BRIGHT, clean basement suite PC, N/S, N/P, no partying, responsible tenants, avail immed. $1,050/mon. 633-2046 1-BDRM BRIGHT, clean basement suite PC, responsible tenants, N/S, N/P, no parties, avail immed, $950/mon. 633-2046

40X70 SHOP with 14 Ft Door, reinforced concrete floor, 15 minutes from downtown, available immediately, $1500 a month.

633-5230 4 BEDROOM single family house downtown (406 Ogilvie) with washer and dryer now available. $1,665 per month. 393-2200 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 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 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 CABIN IN Judas Creek (Marsh Lake), lake view, sunny hill, $450+. 660-4813 HOUSE IN country, 2 bdrm plus den, large deck with beautiful views, avail immed, refs reqʼ. 633-4496 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 Riverdale, $750/mon. all inclusive.

Annette, 333-0490 after 6pm.

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.

2-3 BDRM upper level house Riverdale, bright & clean, sundeck, fireplace, carport, avail immed. $1,650/mon heat incl. 334-5448

1-BDRM SUITE d/t, sep entrance, laundry & heat incl, N/S, N/P, avail Dec. 15, $1,050/mon. 334-6510

1-BDRM APT PC, clean, sep ent, coin laundry, near bus station, N/P, N/S, $900 + dd + utils. 334-9402

CABIN 20 min. n. of city, wood heat, propane cookstove, lights, generator power, $600/mon. 333-5174

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

ROOM IN CR, newly renoʼd, avail Dec. 1, $700/mon + $300 dd, all utils incl. 334-3869

3-BDRM TRAILER in Lobird, no dogs, avail immed. $1,350/mon + elec. 334-7872 LARGE ROOM in PC, private ent, recent reno, shared accom, avail immed, heat & utils incl, $750/mon + dd. 668-7213 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 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

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 3-BDRM HOUSE in Riverdale, fully renovated, new kitchen, N/P, N/S, refs&dd reqʼd, avail Dec 1st, $1,600 + utils. 456-4120 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 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 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 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 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 1-BDRM HOUSE, avail Dec. 1, 40 min south of Whitehorse, refs reqʼd, $800/mon.

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OFFICE/STUDIO SPACE available in Marwell area, street facing. Approx 840 sq ft includes coffee room, utils incl. Call Michelle or Brenda at 667-2614 or michelle@totalfireyukon.ca LARGE, CLEAN bachelor suite, McCrae, wood/oil heat, smoking permitted, pet-friendly, private secure yard, lg storage shed incl, avail immed, $700 + utils.

334-6730 2-BDRM DUPLEX in Copper Ridge, N/S, N/P, responsible tenant, dd & refs reqʼd, $1,200 + 50% utils, avail Jan 1st. 393-3823 2-BDRM APT, d/t Cook St, incl utils & internet, avail Dec. 1, $1,400/mon. 335-1269 2-BDRM 1-BATH apartment with appliances on Main St, avail Dec. 1, refs & dd reqʼd, $1,575/mon + utils, 667-7462, Email nsevergreenoffice@gmail.com 2-BDRM, 1.5 bath house, Carcross Cut-off, monitor stove heat, laundry facilities, well, shop, $900/mon + utils & dd. Email cozyhomeforu@gmail.com for more info/application.

SMALL OFFICE space, 2nd Floor, Main St., reasonable rent, all included, ideal location, for info call 332-7545 ROOMMATE WANTED in nice 2 bdrm suite downtown, fully furnished, heat, hydro and int incl, responsible tenant, male or female, no pets, 335-6957 FULLY FURNISHED room includes single bed/ dresser/bookcase/desk, incls all utils cable, netflix, internet, laundry facilities in home, close to bus stop NS, NP. 456-7855 2-BDRM FULLY furnished house, PC, recently renoʼd, 1 level w/wheelchair access, refʼs reqʼd, $1,500/mon + utils. 335-6840

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for rent for rent of high-end office space with fantastic views available immediately.

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Competitive lease rates offered.

Please call Kevin at 334-6575 for more information.

Office Space fOr LeaSe

2-BDRM SELF-CONTAINED unit, Granger, above ground, own laundry, bright, N/S, no parties, small pet ok, sep ent, dd, $1,250/mon incl utils. 633-6332

ROOM IN PC, bdrm, L/R, 46” TV, satellite, internet, avail immed, $575/mon. 334-4113

4-BDRM 2-BATH house, d/t, save gas money, $990/mon + elec, Lee at 393-2200

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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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

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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

Office Spaces Available

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.

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

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HILLCREST, 2-BDRM, avail Dec 1, W&D, wood/oil heat, near bus stop, schools & groceries, pets ok, lg fenced backyard, storage shed, $1,100/mon + utils. 667-6530 energynanne@gmail.com

UPPER FLR, 3-bdrm PC house, 5 appl, stor. shed, extra prkg, on bus route, recent reno, N/S, N/P, no parties, avail Dec. 15, $1,600/mon. heat incl, dd&refs req'd 668-3120

CABIN 20 min. north of town, wood stove, elec & water incl, avail immed, $700/mon.

335-4431

2 BDRM, 1.5 bath, Teslin, large den/living room, lake view, wood/oil heat, large fenced yard, w/d, pets ok, N/S, $800/mon + utils, avail immed. 250-686-6416

FULLY FURNISHED 1-bdrm suite PC, clean, quiet person, 900 sq.ft., private, open concept, all amenities, on bus route, close to shopping, N/S, N/P, $1,000/mon + utils, Barbara evenings 633-2180

2-BDRM APT with balcony, 404 Jeckell St., newly renoʼd, 5 appliances, private parking w/plug, avail Dec. 1, $1,200.00 + utils, 250-767-3478, email apvedress@gmail.com

RESPONSIBLE FEMALE roommate for furnished room in d/t house, heat, laundry, kitchen facilities, N/S, N/P, refʼs reqʼd. $620/mon. 688-5185 days, 667-7840 eves/weekends 2-BDRM LEGAL bsmt suite, CR, sep ent & driveway, fridge, stove, w/d, avail Dec. 1, dd & refs reqʼd, $1,250/mon + utils. 336-1406, 668-6446 after 4pm.

3-BDRM D/T condo, N/P, N/S, no parties, avail Jan. 1, $1,700 + utils. 334-8873

DOWNTOWN FURNISHED accommodation.

Suitable for single working person. Call 667-6546 for more details.

2-3 BED mobile home avail Dec. 1st, completely renovated, electric/oil heat, lg fenced yard, cable tv, laundry, can be partially furnished, N/S, no cats, refʼs reqʼd. $1,200+util.

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3-BDRM 1-BATH in Porter Creek, private fenced yard, lots of parking, call for details 633-5414

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WANTED, 2-BDRM house, rent to own, $20,000 deposit plus legal fees, payments not to exceed $850/mon unless on own property with low interest, Beve @ 668-4380 or larkin1954@hotmail.com

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MAYO, SPLIT level, 3-bdrm, 2 bath, lower, 1 bdrm, 1 bath, office, family rm & laundry area, upper, 2 bdrms, 1 bath, w/walk-in linen closet, kitchen w/pantry. $100,000 obo, babeross@msn.com WATSON LAKE split level home for sale, 2 acres, private well, 3-bdrm 2-bath, custom kitchen, heated workshop, garage and outbuildings, patio. Winter sale: $199,000 (appraised at $250,0000). Call 867-536-7757 BEAUTIFUL & bright describes this new 2013 Mobile home in quiet well managed park. 3 beds + 1 bath . See Property Guys #143605 no dogs $154,900 call 334-4174

Help Wanted DOWNTOWN DAYS Childcare Centre is hiring for a full-time caregiver position for mid-December Please call 667-6776

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667-7681 or cell 334-4994 23 Lorne Rd. in McCrae

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17 Jackson Avenue, TESLIN

Beautiful 2,000 square foot Pine Creek suB-division, atlin Open concept living, dining, kitchen and laundry. Large family or ‘whatever room’, 3 bedrooms, 1 and a half baths.

Blaze King wood stove and electric baseboard. New enclosed porches front and back. New roof, attic and upgraded windows. Drilled well plus septic. 2.5 acres with rental cottage, small stable and corral.

867-633-4778

Priced to sell at

YUKON MAN Barbershop requires one barber/hair stylist. For more info please call 336-0950.

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 Gold Village Chinese Restaurant Looking for experienced full-time kitchen helper and server Apply with resume to 401 Craig Street, Dawson City, YT Y0B 1G0 867-993-2368 WANTED, JOURNEYMAN/CARPENTER for work on a basement reno, door trim, baseboards, hanging ceiling, closets, etc.

Call for details 633-4580

230,000

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1-250-651-7861

Help Wanted

Business is looking for people to join ou g n i w r t ea m o Gr .

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MicMac

WE ARE LOOKING FOR

2 Parts/Service Advisors and a Product Advisor for our growing dealership.

We offer competitive wages and a benefit package.

Applicants should see Brad Barker for the Parts/Service position and Derek Kindervater for the Product Advisor. @ 6111-6th Avenue, Downtown, Whitehorse.

No phone calls please.

Only those selected for an interview will be contacted.

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

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

Family Support Worker Full Time ı TKC wage scale Level 6 This position is responsible for overseeing Child Welfare matters, and providing family support and guidance for citizens of Ta’an Kwäch’än Council, many of whom may be survivors of former Residential School and/or their descendants.

The descendants may suffer the intergenerational impacts of Residential Schools and may require development of life skills and parenting skills. This position will be responsible for providing family support and on-going education, including liaising with other inter-departmental program staff and community agencies.

To access the job description please call Human Resources Department or contact by e-mail human.resources@taan.ca The TKC Preferential Hiring policy will apply.

Closing date: Thursday, December 5, 2013

Journeyman Automotive Mechanic Permanent Full Time 40 hours per week – 10 hours per day; Sunday to Saturday 0700 to 0700.

This is a Salary Range 12 position ($32.09 to $37.76 per hour).

Apply quoting #121-OPS-13 to careers@whitehorse.ca by 11:59pm November 25.

For more details please visit our website.

www.whitehorse.ca

TAGS food & gas 24 hrs/7 Requires

Gas Service Attendant $11/hr

Open 24/7.

This position requires you to work shiftwork.

NOC: 6621 Mail or Drop off Resume to:

Tags Food & Gas

4221-4th Ave. Whitehorse, Yukon Y1A 1K2 5 VAcAnT pOsiTiOns Opening date: Nov. 1st, 2013 Closing date: Nov 30th, 2013

TAGS food & gas 24 hrs/7 Requires

Food Counter Attendant $12/hr

Open 24/7.

This position requires you to work shiftwork.

NOC: 6641 Mail or Drop off Resume to:

HARMAN PELLET stove, $800. 456-2633

EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY

Administrative Assistant Whitehorse Office Full Time 37.5 hrs/week (Permanent Full-time) $22.03-$25.30/hour

Many Rivers seeks a mature, organized, and experienced individual to provide general office duties, word processing, invoicing, and with periodic reception responsibilities.

Qualifications: Preference will be given to candidates with a minimum of 3 years experience in an office environment; Knowledge of office procedures and equipment; Excellent word processing skills including Power Point, Publisher and Excel; Attention to detail; Excellent interpersonal and communications skills; Ability to maintain strict confidentiality; Valid driver’s license.

If you are looking for meaningful work in a human service organization, please respond with a resume and cover letter by email, fax or mail to: Brent Ramsay, Executive Director Many Rivers Counselling & Support Services 4071 - 4th Avenue, Whitehorse, YT Y1A 1H3 Ph: 667-2970 • Fax: 633-3557 E-mail: info@manyrivers.yk.ca Closing date: December 9, 2013 at 4:00 pm For further info please visit our website at www.manyrivers.yk.ca We thank all applicants in advance for their interest however, only those invited for an interview will be contacted. Many Rivers is covered by a Collective Agreement.

Many Rivers seeks a

Generalist Counsellor in Watson Lake for a Full-time Position

Tags Food & Gas

Experienced Clinical Counsellor with a Masters degree for full time (37.5 hours/week), position in Watson Lake, Yukon Territory.

5 VAcAnT pOsiTiOns Opening date: Nov. 1st, 2013 Closing date: Nov 30th, 2013

Annual Salary Range: $63,713 - $73,610. Comprehensive benefits, professional development, and clinical supervision. Relocation expenses available. The successful candidate will possess:

4221-4th Ave. Whitehorse, Yukon Y1A 1K2

Miscellaneous for Sale BETTER BID NORTH AUCTIONS Foreclosure, bankruptcy De-junking, down-sizing Estate sales.

Specializing in estate clean-up & buy-outs.

The best way to deal with your concerns.

Free, no obligation consultation.

333-0717 We will pay CASH for anything of value Tools, electronics, gold & jewelry, cameras, furniture, antiques, artwork, chainsaws, camping & outdoor gear, hunting & fishing supplies, vehicles & ATVs. G&R Pawnbrokers 1612-D Centennial St. 393-2274 BUY • SELL • LOANS 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 CFL FOOTBALL cards – 17 different complete sets of cards, including early OPC. Almost 2,600 cards, serious inquiries. $1,500.

Ross 633-3154

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• • • •

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.

Director of Health & Social Dev.

(Permanent Full Time) Health & Social Department: Program Areas: (Education K-12, Health, Justice, Social and Youth Programs) Posting Date: November 15, 2013 Salary: Level 10 ($87,987.00 Annual) Closing Date 4:00pm (PST): December 2, 2013 Reporting to the Executive Director, the incumbent is responsible for leading the development and delivery of Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in Health & Social programming namely Education K-12, Health, Justice, Social and Youth Programs. Management duties will include daily staff supervision, regularly monitoring all department budgets, program planning and delivery, ensuring efficient and effective staff case management and annual budget submissions for all Health and Social Programs. The incumbent will also represent Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in Health & Social Services issues on the Territorial and National levels as necessary.

If this opportunity interests you, please submit a resume clearly demonstrating the qualifications below, as selection for further consideration will be based solely on the information you provide: Essentials • Completion of Grade 12, with a Degree in Public Health, Social Services, Education, Public Administration, Justice, Education or other related disciplines with courses in case management, public health, wellness counseling, social services programming, community justice, education planning and development, or equivalent knowledge and experience; • At least three to five years of senior level management experience; • Ability to plan, develop and implement Community Services program systems and controls; • Knowledge of health, social, public education issues affecting First Nations people; • Good knowledge of funding agencies and associated requirements; • Financial / Budgeting management skills; • Ability to plan, direct, develop, implement and evaluate programs, policies, and procedures; • Experience in conflict management, mediation and problem solving; • Excellent leadership, supervisory and employee management skills; • Ability to work effectively as part of a team of professionals; • Ability to provide guidance, advice and direction at a senior level; • Strong organizational, prioritization, multi-tasking and time management skills; • Strong ability to receive, follow and give direction, establish priorities and delegate tasks; • Strong communication, negotiation, problem solving and conflict resolution skills; • Ability to meet critical deadlines with minimal supervision; • Ability to prepare documentation accurately from verbal and written instruction; • Ability to implement TH Policies, legislation, and standard operating principles as it relates to the position; • Excellent listening and communication skills, both oral and written; • Ability to deal tactfully and respectfully with all citizens, staff and the general public; • Ability to work effectively in a cross cultural environment and be sensitive and understanding of First Nation Culture and Traditions; • Strong computer skills (MS Word, MS Excel, MS Outlook, MS Access, PowerPoint, Internet).

Assets • Ability and desire to work as part of a team of professionals; • Knowledge of TH history, culture, demographics, goals and aspirations; • Knowledge of TH Policies, Final Agreement, Self-Government, Implementation Plans, and Constitution; • Knowledge of First Nations government systems; • Advocacy experience in adjudications, grievances, arbitrations or other similar types of hearings.

Conditions of Employment • Mandatory confidentiality is a condition of employment for all TH personnel. Failure to meet this requirement could result in dismissal; • Mandatory attendance at General Assemblies when directed by Executive Director; • Criminal Records Check.

• Class 5 Drivers License with a clear Driver’s Abstract.

A detailed job description is available upon request.

Open to Tr’ondek Hwech’in Citizens Only.

For more information, contact Human Resources Phone: (867) 993-7112 Fax: (867) 993-6553 Email: hrjobs@trondek.ca Mail: Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in Government, P.O. Box 599, Dawson City, Yukon, Y0B 1G0 Physical Location: 1242 Front Street, Dawson City, Yukon We thank all applicants, but only those selected for further consideration will be contacted.

“To work together, to speak with one voice and to serve Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in Citizens in the pursuit of a strong, healthy, and united future.”

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Operations Manager Ruby Range Adventure, one of Yukon’s leading outdoor adventure companies, is looking for an exceptional operations manager for the seasonal operation.

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.

TRADING CARDS – binder full of non-sport trading cards (James Bond, X-men, Desert Storm, Enduring Freedom). About 500 cards. $50. Ross 633-3154

HOCKEY CARD set, 1964-65 Parkhurst (Tall boys format; printed 1994-95), 180 cards + Future Stars insert, set of 6. $150.

Ross 633-3154

WORLD HOCKEY Association – remember it? Two rare books, (history, statistics, photos). Exc. shape, $50. Ross 633-3154

NEW 2013 GE 50 gallon liquid propane water heater, 36,000 BTUs, recovers @ 87 GPM, 6 yr warranty, $450 firm. 333-0744

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

MASTER CRAFT variable speed wood lathe, $500 obo. 456-2633

SELLING BRYCE Courtenay Novels: 'Jessica' and 'The Potato Factory' $10 for both.

Call 334-1013

WORLD HOCKEY Association – 5 complete hockey card sets from the 1970s. Exc cond. $750. Ross 633-3154

FOR SALE roll-top desk, teak veneer; room divider, steel, 3 sections, gold/off-white; art, original and prints, all framed; sheepskin rug, new, white. 667-2583

'OSTER' BLENDER/FOOD Processor, $45; in excellent condition/hardly used; 1000W, reversing 6 point blade, pre-programmed settings, easy to clean. Call 334-1013.

HOCKEY CARD set: 1956-57 Parkhurst Missing Years set, printed 1993-94, set of 180 + Future Stars insert set of 6. $150.

Ross 633-3154

CIVIL WAR Trading Cards: 4 complete sets of unique trading cards commemorating the U.S. Civil War, including the 1962 Topps set. $750 firm. Call 633-3154

1 ROLL Velux Skylight Underlay; 12"x21' for $10 call 334-1013

Marsh Lake

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.

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.

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.

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.

For full job description visit www.rubyrange.com/operations-manager

EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES Road Foreperson – Ogilvie (Permanent) Closing Date: December 5, 2013 Requisition: #4164

Leadhand – Ogilvie (Permanent) Department of Highways and Public Works Salary: $35.36 per hour

Closing Date: December 5, 2013 Requisition: #4165

For viewing all jobs, please go to

www.employment.gov.yk.ca “Committed to employment equity”

GOPRO HERO HD camera + accessories $100 firm, text or call 334-1574

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

Invites applications for the position of:

This position is seasonal with the possibility for year-round employment depending on qualification and performance.

MCDONALDS H O C K E Y cards from 1991-92 to 2009/10. Almost every card issued minus some short prints, incl. 27 unopened paks/yr. Over 1,200 cards, $1,000 firm. Ross at 633-3154.

LARGE BOX of Christmas dishes, $10.00, 668-5882

Solid Waste Society

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.

Department of Highways and Public Works Salary: $39.09 per hour

Friday, November 22, 2013

Icy Waters Ltd.

TWIN CAPTAIN'S bed in white melamine with 3 drawers and headboard with shelves, mattress included, $100. 633-6494 23 TRUSSES, 23ʼ6” wall span w. 2ʼ overhang, 5:1 pitch, $1,000 obo. 332-3293 DAVID WINTERS cottages, certificates but no boxes. 668-7157 NUMEROUS LEGGO sets with boxes & instructions, prices vary. 393-3638 BEAUTIFUL LADIESʼ Russian fox fur coat, pd $1,200 used, sz L, asking $600 obo.

668-7157 LIMITED EDITION RCMP 100th anniversary Yukon Territory medallion, numbered, $30.

456-4507 RSF WOOD stove, brass framed door, c/w steel floor mat, back shield & chimney pipe, ideal for cottage/camp use. $250. 667-6951 eves APPROX 400 board feet of 1x6 cedar boards in 2ʼ + 4ʼ lengths, $700. 633-4018

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.

Public Service Commission (867) 667-5834

À LA RECHERCHE D’UN EMPLOI? employment Opportunities Yukon Hospital Corporation has the following position that it is recruiting for:

Therapy assisTanT – Casual On Call rehabilitation Department Competition#2013-271

Des professionnels engagés Conseils en développement de carrière Création, amélioration et traduction de CV Simulation d’entrevue

Visit our website at www.yukonhospitals.ca for more information on this and other job opportunities.

please email your resume/application quoting the appropriate competition number to: human resources Department Whitehorse General hospital

5 hospital road, Whitehorse, yukon y1a 3h7 email: wghjobs@wgh.yk.ca

Yukon Hospital Corporation is committed to employment equity. We thank all those who apply and advise that only those candidates selected for further consideration will be contacted.

Des services personnalisés et des ressources utiles.

Éducation

Direction de l’enseignement postsecondaire

CENTRE DE LA FRANCOPHONIE 302, rue Strickland, Whitehorse (Yukon) 867.668.2663 poste 223 www.sofa-yukon.ca

NEW/USED STORE shelving (like in Cdn. Tire store), good for shop, garage or store, excellent prices, 333-0717 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

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

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

MAPEX FALCON Single Bass Drum Pedal, like new, extremely adjustable $175 obo.

667-6931 lv. msg.

MOVING SALE: satellite receiver $70, loft bed $90, juicer $20, obo. 334-3698.

TAMA IRON Cobra PowerStroke Double Bass Drum Pedal, used, refurbished $75 obo. 667-6931 lv. msg.

BLACK SEAL skin boots, menʼs size 9, $250 firm. 668-5043 PORTABLE CUSTOM built testing sluice new with 3” Honda water pump new and new suction hose with Venturi tube $4,600 for all, 604-868-4149 WATER PUMPS, one Homelite 1 1/2”, other 2 1/2” Briggs and Stratton, 604-868-4149 HONDA GENERATOR EB 2200X like new.

604-868-4149 3 TON chain hoist, new, and forced air propane heater 30,000 BTU, new.

604-868-4149 M-7 TWIN pipes, mint shape, hardly used, $50, 332-7174 WOOD STOVE, Jotul 500 c/w fan, rear heat shield, chimney parts also avail, 4-yrs. old, exc condit. 393-2125 DIGITAL GE answering machine, c/w instructions, $15, call 633-2093 INFRARED SAUNA, 1-yr. old, two-person size. $500. 393-3754 or 334-4787.

PROPANE TANK heat pad for 1000L tank, $50, 633-2981 HELMET, MOTOR bike, size for 8-12 yrs, $10. 667-6966 ONE GALLON BeautiTone paint, Benjamin Moore colour HC-33 Montgomery White, $10. 633-4580 11 CHRIS Caldwell original prints, Yukon Sourdough Rendezvous 25th anniversary celebration, all signed by artist, dated 1988, prints 23 out of 500, 33 out of 500. 633-2535 GREEN POWER Juice Extractor, juicer, homogenizer, pasta maker, heavy duty $150 obo. 667-6931 lv. msg.

Electrical Appliances KENMORE DRYER, front loader, works great, $300. Also nw pump out of Kenmore washer, $40. 332-7797 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 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 DRYER, $150. 335-7520 or 393-2600

TVs & Stereos Paying cash for good quality modern electronics.

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

Computers & Accessories PS2 WITH games & controllers, $50, Wii Fit system w. balance board, controllers & games, $125. 633-4707 DELL DESKTOP computer, P4@2GIG, 80GIGHD, 1.25 GIGRAM, DVDROM, CDRW, WinXP, MSOffice 97, 17” LCD monitor, $100. 332-1680 lv msg.

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

Firewood FIREWOOD FOR SALE 20-cord orders Big or small tree length Logging truck loads $150/cord Delivered to Whitehorse Call Clayton: 335-0894

3/4 SIZE violin with case, bow, and chin rest. $250.00. 335-9230 to view

HOOKED ON Phonics, Your Reading Power, $100, Harley boots, ladiesʼ size 10, never worn, $200.

PROPANE STOVE, 20”, with oven, good working condition, good for cabin. $40.

668-6033

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DIMOK TIMBER 6-cord or 22-cord loads of firewood logs.

You cut in the bush - $105 /cord Call 634-2311 or email dimoktimber@gmail.com

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.

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

MELDON FIREWOOD Prompt, professional delivery Licenced, certified and registered Haines Junction standing dead wood $250 - 22”, 18”, 16” $220 - 4ʼ $200 - 8ʼ Jordon 335-0725

The award winning has an exciting opportunity for a part-time data entry clerk.

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.

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

EmploymEnt opportunity

Employment Opportunity What a great opportunity to join a collaborative team as our

Recreation Manager

The Town of Faro is a progressive; growing community of approximately 400 residents located 357kms northeast of Whitehorse in beautiful Yukon. The Recreation Manager reports directly to the Chief Administrative Officer in the performance of a variety of highly responsible duties.

This is a full-Time Term posiTion (up To Two years)

At Yukon Energy, we believe that we are the employer of choice in the Yukon. We foster a respectful and positive work environment making it a rewarding place to work. We offer competitive salaries, excellent benefits and generous northern and travel allowances. So take the next step in your career path and join our team of skilled and dedicated employees.

Coordinator, Mechanical Projects Permanent – Full Time Position Whitehorse Salary Range $81,979 - $96,447 plus benefits This is an excellent opportunity for a skilled technical professional to join our engineering services team. The Coordinator, Mechanical Projects will provide technical, design and project management services throughout all stages of assigned mechanical projects.

Additionally, the successful candidate will troubleshoot problems that arise during construction, participate in commissioning new installations and develop operating procedures for new or modified systems.

We are looking for someone with: A two-year engineering technology diploma in a mechanical discipline, with a minimum of five years of related experience in a utility or heavy industrial environment. Excellent project management, and computer skills, as well as, strong client service orientation, good interpersonal skills and experience with contractor supervision are required.

To apply, submit a covering letter and resume by 5:00 pm December 6, 2013 to Human Resources via fax to (867) 393-5334 or email us at hr@yec.yk.ca.

We appreciate all responses; only short-listed candidates will be contacted.

our recreation manager serves a very important role in the town and possesses the following competencies and suitability factors: The successful candidate will be responsible for a wide range of duties including, but not limited to: • Promotion, development, and delivery of special events and core recreation programs.

• Management of all recreation facilities.

• General administration, ability to write proposals, develop and manage a budget • Ensure that all safety standards under the Occupational Health and Safety Act and pursuant to regulations are adhered to including Town of Faro Policies and Procedures.

• Applicant must be willing and available to work evenings and weekends.

• This position will report directly to the Chief Administrative Office reQuiremenTs • Experience in event and program planning.

• Working knowledge of computer programs (Microsoft Word, Excel, Publisher).

• Possess a degree in recreation or closely related field, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.

• Effective oral and written communication skills.

• Must be a “people person” – and especially enjoy working and relating to children and youth as well as adults • Good working knowledge of the Occupational Health and Safety Act and Regulations.

• Must be highly organized.

• Excellent leadership skills and a minimum of two years management experience.

• Valid First Aid and CPR certification is required or willingness to attend training when it is offered in the community.

• Incumbent must pass a security check.

If you are a quick learner and interested in working with our dynamic team of Faro in a rewarding position, please forward your resume and a covering letter by 4:00 p.m. December 6, 2013. Should you require any further information or a detailed job description, please do not hesitate to contact us at (867)994-2728.

Tom lie, Chief administrative officer Town of faro Box 580 faro, yukon, y0B 1K0 e-mail: cao-faro@faroyukon.ca fax: (867) 994-3154 We thank all applicants for their interest; however only those considered for an interview will be contacted.

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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.

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

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

Qualifications: Must have experience in Admin Law and Negligence Lawsuits

CGFJ WOODCUTTING SERVICE $250 - 16” lengths $220 - 4ʼ lengths Prompt, friendly service Dry timber, money-back guarantee 336-2013 FIREWOOD Clean, beetle-kill, dry Ready for pick-up, $220/cord or Local delivery, $270/cord 1/2 cords also available for pick-up only Career Industries @668-4360

Guns & Bows

www.yukoncollege.yk.ca

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

Cars

Case cutlery, high quality hand-crafted pocket and hunting knives available at G&R Pawnbrokers 1612-D Centennial St. 393-2274 BUY • SELL • LOANS NON RESTRICTED firearms safety course, presented by Whitehorse Rifle & Pistol Club, Dec 7 & 8. For more info call 667 6728 or 334 1688 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 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 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: 9MM Largo/Bergmann ammo or reloadable brass, fair price, 667 2276 MARLIN .22LR XT, bolt action, synthetic stock, w/ optics, mint condition, need PAL, $275, 334-5498 RARE 30-30 1896 Winchester manufactured 1906 nickel,/ steel , 26” octagonal barrel exc condit, 604-868-4149 WANTED, INEXPENSIVE break action 12 gauge shotgun. 334-7664

SALES • BODY SHOP • PARTS • SERVICE 2001 Dodge Dakota 4x4 Clubcab, v8, white ................................... $5,500 2005 Honda Pilot EX, black ..........................................................................$13,900 $ SOLD! 2005 Chev Colorado Ext, v6, green ............................................................

7,595 $ SOLD! 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 4 door, Auto, White

10,550

$

2013 Hyundai Accent

DRY PINE, 18”, $250/cord, prices may vary upon length. Call Stu at 633-5041

Heather’s Haven is in a desperate need for lawyer

Employment Opportunity

WANTED: CEMENT chimney blocks, 16-3/4"x16-3/4", (inside fluliner hole: 9-1/4"x9-1/4"), need as many as 18 but will take any.

667-6530 or energynanne@gmail.com

DONʼS FIREWOOD 20 Cord Always stock piled for quick deliveries to -40° C. Social Services & Kwanlin Dun 393-4397

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

Must be better than YTG lawyers. Wanna-be govt. lawyers need not apply. (Been there, done that.)

Contact Ken 668-4011

Friday, November 22, 2013

NEW!

4-Wheel Drive, 6 Speed, White

16,500

$

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 NISSAN Altima Coupe, 45,000km power everthing, a/c, c/c, CVT trans, moon roof, heated seat, spolier, remote start, winter tires on rims, $18,500 obo. 335-0959 2009 SUBARU Impreza sedan,5-spd std, 4-door, new winter tires, 65,000km, exc cond. $12,900 obo. 660-5212 2007 D O D G E Caliber, like new, 126,000kms, standard, heated seats, remote start, 6-CD stereo, 3 sets tires, $9,800 obo.

333-0236 or 456-4112 2007 SUBARU Forester, 5-speed manual transmission, dealer-serviced, one owner (non-smoking), new struts, Toyo winter tires two weeks ago. Well looked after. 125,000 km (mostly hwy driving). $13,500 obo.

660-5212 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 2005 MAZDA 6, 4-dr, 4-cyl, 140,000kms, $7,500. 668-4844 2005 PONTIAC Grand Am, in good shape, 180,000kms, p/w, p/d, p/s, auto, $4,500.

335-9230 for more info 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 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 CHEV Cavalier, new winter tires, fully winterized, runs well, 243,000kms, $1,400 obo. 633-6114 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

2013 Dodge Ram 1500 Quad 4x4 Laramie

NOTHING LEFT OUT!

leather, Sunroof, Auto Suspension, loaded!

$

45,595

2012 Chrysler 300 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

2008 FORD F150 4x4 quad cab 5.4 l, c/w P/S, P/L, P/W, cruise, back-up camera, tow package, 3-pc. Tonneau, CD, new tires, etc., 120,000 km. $17,500. 660-4806 2008 FORD XLT F350, superduty diesel, qua cab, headache rack, driving lights, $169,000kms, $20,750 obo. Gary 335-9596 2007 CHEV LS 2500HD Crew Cab 4X4, great unit, many options, trailer tow, fully serviced, new brakes/battery, $16,500 obo 633-4311 2007 CHEVROLET Uplander, 101,000kms, Silver FWD, $5,500.00, serious Inquiries only. 668-4787 2007 FORD Diesel F250 XL 4x4 Super Duty extended cab 8', long box, 77,000kms, AT tires, good condition, $12,500 obo. damien_meroni@yahoo.com 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 2005 F-350 dually, 6" lift, chrome wheels, heated leather, full loaded, stored all winter, only 130,000kms, immaculate condition, will consider trade, $22,000 obo, 335-7436 2005 F150 Super Crew, loaded, leather int, FX4, sun roof, 135,000kms, black, $17,800.

334-3160 or 633-3116

2002 CHRYSLER Concorde 116,000 ks all options, leather, drives great, in super clean condition, $4,000 obo. 335-3868

2005 F350 diesel Lariat, 4wd, long box, fully loaded, all engine updates, exec condit, $20,000. 667-4463 or 334-9436

2002 TOYOTA Corolla, 4 door, 4 cyl, A/T, power windows, A/C, studded winter tires, 175,000kms, $4,900. 332-0726

2005 FORD E350 Cube Van, 16ft, 126,000km, Turbo Diesel, clean, well maintained, full loading ramp, exc condit, $11,000 firm. 335-3421

1997 TOYOTA Aristo RWD, 300 hp to rear wheels, 140,000kms. $2,300 obo. 3351460 1992 CROWN Vic LX, 104,000kms, clean, always serviced, runs great, $2,500 obo.

335-3868 1989 PLYMOUTH Sundance, new tires, roof rack, auto, $1,000 obo. 668-5751 1989 TOYOTA Tercel 3-door hatch-back.

Nice little car but needs some work. $300 obo. 668-2836

4X4 ACCESS Cab, fully loaded, SR5 TRD package, keyless entry/car starter, w/canopy & two sets of tires (summer/winter) on rims, exc condit, serviced regularly. $18,000.

336-1019 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

Trucks

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.

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

We Sell Trucks!

2003 FORD Ranger XLT extra cab with jump seats, c/w command start, a/c, box liner, 2wd, auto, 6-cyl, dk blue, great condit, 129,000 kms, $4,300. 668-4504

WANTED: ACCORDION/SQUEEZEBOX and a mandolin player to jam some tunes for a local band.Call 633- 5575

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

Wanted

WANTED: ELECTRICAL wire scraps, 12 or 14 gauge, >8" sections for art project. Kim @ 668-6613 WANTED: FREE or cheap juicer for fruits and veggies, going to good home. Nicole 336-2663 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 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

2003 TACOMA, reliable, well-maintained, 180,000 miles, new winter tires, asking $7,000. 335-4436

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

2002 CHEVY 2500HD, great truck, new winter tires, winch, winterized, always kept in good condition, $5,000 obo. 336-1022

2013 TOYOTA Tacoma 4x4 V6, ext cab, 6-sp manual, a/c, p/w, pdl, back-up camera, matching canopy, 8-yr warranty, 10,000kms, summer/winter tires, exc condit, $32,900.

335-1932

2002 GMC 1500HD V8 6L 4x4, 4-dr, runs well, no leaks or mechanical issues, heated seats, c/w alloy 18" wheels, 233,000 kms, $6,500 obo. 332-8833

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

2002 F250 ext cab long box lariat, , new factory Ford transmission, 142,000 miles, fully loaded with leather, camper/tow package, $8,500 668-5882

2001 FORD E-350 V8 diesel, extʼd passenger van, auto 8-cyl, 2 buckets, 1 bench, 186,301kms, $4,500 334-662 1998 CHEV Blazer 4x4, v6, auto, leather seats, loaded, $3,700 obo. 633-5211

2001 FORD E350 15-passenger van, silver grey, diesel, exc condit, 270,000kms, inspected, $10,000. Tom 633-4786 1998 CHEV Z71 4x4, $3,000 or trade for double-axle trailer. 336-4008 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 1998 F-150 XLT ,4x4 ext. cab, long box , 170,000km Great condition $4600 OBO Phone Cory 335-0244 1996 NISSAN Quest minivan, V6, auto, power mirrors/seats/windows/sunroof, CD-changer, winter/summer tires, block heater, towing package, 255,000kms, new brakes, runs well, $1,900, 633-6389 1996 NISSAN Quest minivan, V6, auto, power mirrors/seats/windows/sunroof, CD-changer, winter/summer tires, block heater, towing package, new brakes, runs well, 255K, $1,900. 633-6389

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.

TO GIVE away, 1 Pointer/Husky cross sled dog w/dog house for recreational team.

335-2675.

2 PET carriers, small and med-small for cat or dog, plastic hard shell, $15 ea. 660-4806 TO GIVE away, male German Shepherd, 7 yrs. old, good with kids. 867-399-3042

Motorcycles & Snowmobiles

1992 CHEVY Astro extended van, seats 8, runs well, 1 liter oil/1,000km, clean, good tires, well maintained, $1,150. 335-3421

RONʼS SMALL ENGINE SERVICES Repairs to Snowmobiles, Chainsaws, Lawnmowers, ATVʼs, Small industrial equipment.

Light welding repairs available 867-332-2333 lv msg

1988 CHEV 1/2 ton, runs good, new motor 3 years ago, very little rust, w/command start & canopy, $1,600. 456-2525 1984 FORD F-350 crew cab 4x4 manual with 351 4 barels with late Vanguard, 8.5ʼ, $3,500. 334-7373 HAYNES REDAIR manual for 1993-1999 Ford Ranger pick-up, $15. 660-4806

Auto Parts & Accessories TRUCK CANOPIES - in stock * new Dodge long/short box * new GM long/short box * new Ford long/short box

1991 POLARIS 488 Fan-cooled, 121” studded track, engine rebuilt, $1,500. 633-4643

FOR SALE

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

TRUCK C A N O P Y , white high rise, 80”lx60wx28”h, lots of windows, originally on Toyota p/u, $200. 660-4806 SET OF Blizzak LT 235/75R15 winter tires, used for one season, like new. $600 firm.

335-7238, lv msg.

SET OF 16” rims w/summer tires and good hub cabs, from Toyota Matrix, 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 2003 DODGE Cummins engine parts for sale, Turbo, intercooler pipes air intake and exhaust manifold, excellent shape. 633-6502 1985 FORD F-250 4x4 manual with 6.9 diesel for parts. Take it away for $250.

334-7373 SET OF 4 black winter rims, 16" with 5-bolt pattern, $60 for the set, call Matt 667-4394 4 GOODYEAR Nordic non-studded 15” winter tires and steel wheels, Chev/Buick 5-bolt pattern, approx. 70% tread remaining. $375.

821-6011 4 ALL season Motormaster tires on rims, 15” rims, 205/70 R15, good condit, fit older Subaru Forester $175. 250-964-8495 or sara4dp@yahoo.com TRUCK CANOPY, 92”x60”, high rise, white, lots of windows, originally on S-10 p/u, $200.

660-4806 SET OF 4 used Good Year Nordic Tires P215/65R15. Asking $125 OBO 456-7855 TOYO OBSERVE GSI-5 winter tires, 225/60R16 mounted on Toyota steel rims, excellent trea, paid $1,200, asking $700 obo.

332-7174 SET OF 4 tires, 205/55 R16 Sailun Ice Blazers, directional studded, used 1/2 a winter season, $250. 335-4284

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 2006 POLARIS Edge classic touring, 550 fan, electric start, reverse, two up seat, 1,000 miles, $5,200. 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 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 2010 POLARIS Assault 800, less than 1,000 mi, c/w new powder track, ice scratchers, gold finger throttle & cover. $7,500 call or text 335-1983 1998 YAMAHA Venture Triple 600, working order, elec & pull start, reverse, extra parts incl, $2,900 obo. 633-4018

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

633-6019 FriDay NoV. 22

2013

Help control the pet overpopulation problem

have your pets spayed or neutered.

For iNFormatioN call

633-6019

lost/found

lost • None at this time. found • riverdale area on grey mountain school road, medium size dog with brown head with white body and

darker brown spots, contact Puneet @334-2955. ( 17/10/13) • Hillcrest area, male husky white and tan, wearing a large Harley Davidson collar, contact christina @604-990-9944. (20/11/13)

RunninG At lARGE...

AVAilABlE foR Adoption

in fostER HoMEs

doGs • None at this time.

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

salvage sale The following insurance salvage is up for bids. Salvage vehicles may have significant collision damages. Listed salvage is currently located at Irving Collision Repairs. GST will be added to all bids. It is offered on an “as is, where is” basis. The highest or any bid not necessarily accepted.

Bids close at 6:00 p.m. Dec. 2, 2013. Contact Irving Collision Repairs (867-667-6315) for viewing appointment & information.

YEAR 2003 2012 1999 2009

Pet Report

if you have lost a pet, remember to check with city Bylaw: 668-8382

Hi-Rise & Cab Hi - several in stock View at centennialmotors.com 393-8100 TIRES! TIRES! TIRES! Seasonal Changeover Lots of good used tires–15”,16”,17”,18”,19” and 20”–lots to choose from. $25 to $150 a tire. $25 to mount and balance per tire.

Call Art 334-4608

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

Pets

1994 TOYOTA SR5 Pickup, extended cab, 5 sp V6, 4X4, green, no rust, c/w canopy, will pass safety inspection, $3,000. 335-6898

1990 6CYL Dodge Dakota pickup w/canopy, standard, studded tires, low mileage, glass and interior in exc condit, $3,500 obo.

334-6265

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Friday, November 22, 2013

MAKE Ford Kia Toyota Subaru

MODEL Focus Rio Tacoma Impreza WRX

FILE NUMBER 675834 6676291 6685621 670440

BRANDING Salvage Salvage Non-repairable Salvage

Pet of the Week!

Hi there!

My name is Bambi!

I came in with 16 of my friends from Pelly. I am super friendly and love meeting new people, even if it does take me a couple minutes to warm up to you!

Come on down and take me for a walk some time?

b

ambi

CAts • 1.5yr old, DSH, grey and white, neutered male (Sappy)

At tHE sHEltER

doGs • 5 yr old female, lab/Pit Bull X, black (Gaia) • 3yr old, neutered male, akita, grey and white (a.J.) • 1 yr old female, Husky, grey and white, (chinook) • 7 yr old, neutered male, GSDX, black and tan (Nitro) • 1 yr old, spayed female, bear dogX, black and brown (Bambi) • 11 week old, male, bear dog X, black and brown (Bert and Ernie) • 11 week old, male, husky X, white and brown (chance) • 11 week old, female, husky/ bear dog X, black (chris) • 13 week old, male, husky/ bear dog X, blonde (Justin) • 11 week old, male, huskyé bear dog X, black and tan (lance) • 1 yr old, female, bear dog/ husky X, black (lulu)

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) • 2 yr old, DSH, female spayed, black and white (morticia) • 2 yr old, DSH, female, lilac tortie (Whimsy) • 4 11 week old kittens, DSH, 3 male 1 female, 3 grey and white 1 black and white (Guppy, lynx, mustacio, and Bubble)

spECiAl

• Homes needed for retired sled dogs. they would make excellent pets. Please contact 668-3647 or kennelmanager@muktuk.com

633-6019

126 Tlingit Street

www.humanesocietyyukon.ca

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

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

You can also check out our award winning website at:

www.Humanesocietyyukon.ca

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2005 SUMMIT 1000, 162" x 2.5", 16" wide track, exc condit, 1,600 kms, new rebuilt engine. $5,500. 334 6370/667 4981 2013 ARCTIC Cat 600 Sno Pro race sled in great conditon, $9,200.00. 334-6857 2010 ARCTIC Cat 600 Sno Pro race sled in great condition, $6,600.00. 334-6857 WANTED: SNOW plow for my 500 Arctic Cat quad, 2008 model. 336-1621 SNOW PLOW for Arctic Cat or Suzuki, like new, $275. 633-6114 WANTED: 456-2130.

CHILD-SIZED snow machine.

ARGO CONQUEST, new tires/rims $6,800, Argo Conquest, new motor ,windshield, canopy, $7,800. 867-863-5715

Marine PROFESSIONAL BOAT REPAIR Fiberglass Supplies Marine Accessories FAR NORTH FIBERGLASS 49D MacDonald Rd Whitehorse, Yukon 393-2467 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 TECK ARMOURED electrical cable #000/3 wire, $7/ft. 863-5715 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

VARIOUS CAMP trailers for sale or rent Wellsites, kitchens, wash trailers, offices, first aid trailers, generator trailers, etc.

393-3648 or mercercontracting@northwestel.net 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 1998 PETERBILT Highway tractor, $14,900 30ʼ Jeep transport trailer, $7,900 1989 Freightliner complete parts $6,900 333-0717 HOBART 225 amp gas powered welder 2000 obo. call 633-6502 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

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

THE YuKoN NEWS IS AlSo AVAIlABlE AT No CHARGE IN All YuKoN CoMMuNITIES AND ATlIN, B.C.

MONDAY • WEDNESDAY • FRIDAY

“YOUR COMMUNITY CONNECTION” WEDNESDAY * FRIDAY

2000 BOBCAT 773, 2,300 hrs, open cab, block heater, 5 attachments, rock & smooth bucket, man-lift, snow-push, heavy duty hydraulic dirt/snow blade, extra tires/rims, $19,600 obo, package deal. 334-7098

Campers & Trailers 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

CAR-HAULING DOLLY with new tires and 2 sets of straps, $700 o.b.o. Mornings at 456-4312 LATE 70ʼS 8.5ʼ Vanguard on 1984 F-350 crew cab 4x4 manual, $3,500. 334-7373

Coming Events ATLIN GUEST HOUSE Deluxe Lakeview Suites Sauna, Hot Tub, BBQ, Internet, Satellite TV Kayak Rentals In House Art Gallery 1-800-651-8882 Email: atlinart@yahoo.ca www.atlinguesthouse.com ATLIN - GLACIER VIEW CABINS “your quiet get away” Cozy self contained log cabins canoes, kayaks for rent Fax/Phone 250-651-7691 e-mail sidkatours@ atlin.net www.glacierviewcabins.ca FAMILY FUN Night, November 22, 6-8pm.

Yukon College gym, drop-in tennis. All welcome. Free. 393-2621 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.

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 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.

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 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

V-NOSED 8.6ʼX20ʼ enclosed trailer, has barn doors, side window, roof vent, wired. $6,750 obo. Gary 335-9596

FIRST NATIONS Craft Fair at Elijah Smith School Nov. 30th. Book your tables now!

Call the school at 667-5992.

2012, 16' rainbow equipment trailer, dual 5000 lb axles, used for one summer, $3600 OBO 668-5882

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

13 Denver roaD in McCrae • 668-6639

Custom-cut Stone Products

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

2003 JOHN Deere 310. Four wheel drive loader/backhoe in great condition, under 1,200 hours, $48,500. 332-9975 or 668-3367

26ʼ TANDEM Dually Pintle Trailer, Hydraulic Tilt deck, 15,000lbs axles, very strong trailer $4,500 obo, 335-0244

The Yukon News is available at these wonderful stores in Whitehorse:

Bernie’s Race-Trac Gas Bigway Foods

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

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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2005 Arctic Cat 650 V2 Limited Edition ......................................$5,499 sold 2009 Yamaha Big Bear 250 ..........................................................$3,499 2009 Yamaha Wolverine 450 .......................................................$4,999 2011 Yamaha Bruin 350 winch/plow included ...........................$5,499 2012 Polaris Sportsman 550 EFI 200km .....................................$6,499

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

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(867) 668-2101 or 1-800-661-0430

1 KM south of Robert Service Way, Alaska Highway, Whitehorse, Y.T.

WOLF CREEK Community Association AGM - Wednesday, Nov 27th, 7pm at Golden Horn School.

Info: wolfcreekca@gmail.com

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

MEDIATION YUKON AGM on Dec. 3 at 6:30pm, Canada Games boardroom.

YUKON ARTISTS @ Work Co-op Gallery launches its 10th anniversary Christmas sale

AGM, TABLE Tennis Yukon, Sun. Dec. 1, 2:00pm, Whitehorse Elementary School. Info 668-3358

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Friday, November 22, 2013

Brian H. Hunt December 8, 1943 – November 18, 2013

On November 18, 2013, after a brief but courageous battle with cancer, Brian H. Hunt passed away peacefully at Whitehorse General Hospital. Born December 8, 1943, he is survived by his loving family: His wife Gudrun, sons Derek and Carson and their immediate families, as well as his extended family throughout Canada and Austria.

He will be remembered by all the lives he touched through education and youth and fitness involvement throughout his life and career. The time he invested and his dedication will never be forgotten.

The family would like to extend their sincere thanks to Dr. Alison O’Hearn, whom Brian trusted with her care and unwavering support. Although the time was short, her compassion and care was very much appreciated by both Brian and his family. In addition, the Home Care Support Team and the nursing staff at Whitehorse General Hospital were exceptional.

If you would like to send your fondest memories, thoughts or pictures of Brian, you can email them to: memorylane@ thehuntfamily.ca Please include your contact information.

In lieu of flowers, please make a donation to Pancreatic Cancer Canada at www.pancreaticcancercanada.ca

In LovIng MeMory

rhea Trerice January 6, 1947 november 26, 2012

Forever Missed

Sweet memories will linger forever, Time cannot change them, itís true, Years that may come cannot sever, Our loving remembrance of you.

Samantha

Georgina Elizabeth arbyshire

D

Sept. 16, 1980 – Nov. 20, 1999

Love Mom, Dad, Caroline, Chris, Emily, Carl, Betty, aunts and uncles, and all your family and friends everywhere.

Daughter, wife, mother, sister, auntie, niece and grandmother, you were a gift from Heaven

In loving memory

Lesley Joan McDiarmid nee. Smith

April 29, 1951 – November 19, 2012

Given to us from God above We didn’t know how much you would teach us About the meaning of true love…

For true love sometimes means letting go Of someone precious and dear That is what we were forced to do…

Although we wanted to keep you here!!!

However, this is quite a selfish wish.

Lesley, we truly do believe That God must have needed you more…

Perhaps to be an Angel now, Full of wisdom and love…

Watching over those of us who love you From the shining stars above.

We miss you more than you can know.

You will never be replaced…

In our hearts and memories forever Lesley, not a day goes by Your loving smile, your gentle ways No one can take your place...

With love your husband Joe McDiarmid; son Eugene Smith; daughters Darlene Smith, Georgina Smith, Julie Smith; and grandson Trevaughn and Ikah ; brother John-John Smith (Lena); sisters Judy Gingell (Don), Shirley Smith, Dianne Smith, Edith Baker (Mundy), Betsy Smith, Kathy Smith and Rose Smith.

Auntie Barb Fred and Uncle Alfie Lavalle. Missing you so much your mother Annie Smith. And many other family & friends.

Doreen May Bently DupuIs February 5th 1955 – OctOber 17th 2013 It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Doreen May Bently Dupuis.

Doreen leaves behind her loving husband Michel, and two sons Glen and Brian.

To keep Doreen’s memory alive please make a donation to your local animal shelter.

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LOW COST MINI STORAGE

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Onsite & offsite steel containers available for rent or sale.

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Phone 633-2594 Fax 633-3915

OFFICE LOCATED BESIDE KLONDIKE WELDING, 15 MacDONALD RD., PORTER CREEK, info@lowcostministorage.ca

60 Below Snow Management

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

Health Centre

Carcross Y.T.

Commercial & Residential

Wednesday - 7:30 p.m.

Library Friday - 1:30 p.m.

Health Centre

Carmacks Y.T.

Snow Removal

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.

(867) 336-3570

Parking Lots, Sidewalks, Rooftops and Sanding

Friday - 1:30 p.m.

Health Centre

REPAIRS TO: SNOWMOBILES, CHAINSAWS , LAWNMOWERS, ATVS, SMALL INDUSTRIAL EQUIPMENT ETC.

Light Welding Repairs Available

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

Health Centre

Friendly Service at Affordable Rates

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

Health Centre

PHONE: (867) 332-2333 • FAX: (867) 633-6830

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

Health Centre

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

Health Centre

Please call ahead for appointments

Authorized dealer for Sun & Snow Parts & Accessories for Snowmobiles & ATVs. Authorized dealer for Laser Sales small engine parts supplier.

MEETINGS

Friday - 1:30 p.m.

Health Centre

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contact 667-7142

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Tuesday - 8:00 p.m.

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Ross River Y.T. Tagish Y.T. Monday 7:30pm Lightwalkers Group Bishop’s Cabin, end of road along California Beach

ENVIRONMENT EDUCATION Association general sharing meeting, all welcome, Tuesday November 26, Whitehorse Public Library meeting room 3:45 pm. Find out/tell us about EE in Yukon

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

READING & Talk, Writing From a Place of Wonder with Yukon writer Claire Eamer, Thursday, December 5th at 7:30pm at Whitehorse Public Library. Free.

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 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 GENERAL METING, Yukon Queer Film Alliance. Monday December 2 @ 6:30pm, 40 Dieppe Dr. Meeting to discuss Coordinator position for Festival.

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 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 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

ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS MEETINGS in Whitehorse

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

Health Centre

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

THE LITTLEST Art & Craft Fair, 15 years of handmade and local gifts. Saturday, December 7th ,10am – 5pm. 56 Carpiquet Road, Takhini North

www.ironworkyukon.com call mike morrow at 335-1888

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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 )

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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YUKON SCIENCE Institute presents Math, Pattern, and M.C. Escher: The relationship between symmetry and beauty with Bryn Knight, Sunday, November 24, 7:30pm, Beringia Centre, Whitehorse. Free MUSIC FOR A WINTER AFTERNOON, Whitehorse String Ensemble Sunday December 1, 2pm, Christ Church Cathedral 4th Ave & Elliott St across from RCMP, admission $10 at the door. For info 667-4630 CORY WEEDS jazz quartet w/New Yorker Steve Davis trombone. Sun, Nov 24, 7:30 pm cabaret.

Arts Centre.

Tix yukontickets.com. YAC Box Office, Arts Underground or door.

FOOD BANK Society of Whitehorse annual general meeting, Wednesday December 11th at 6:00pm, 306 Alexander Street, Whitehorse. For info call 393-2265 F.H. COLLINS School Council Regular meeting December 4, 6:30p.m. in the Fine Dining Room at the school, everyone welcome VIMFF WHITEHORSE Dec 12 and 13. Two nights of mountain films showing at the Beringia Centre. Tickets sold at Up North Adventures.

SLUT SHAMING & Victim Blaming, panel discussion Thurs, Dec 5 at 6:30 pm, Rah Rah Gallery. Free, everyone welcome, refreshments served. Call 667-2693 or email vfwc@northwestel.net A GOSPEL Christmas, an evening of Christmas music presented by Whitehorse Community Choir, 8:00 pm, Dec 6th & 7th, Yukon Arts Centre, tickets at Yukon Arts Centre and Arts Underground SLAM RACISM. Tuesday December 3rd, Yukon College, student lounge, 7pm, prepare short performance of 7-8 minutes, talk about your view of racism. Contact Gwaandak Theatre for more info. 393-2676 OPEN HOUSE Scentsy Products, Saturday Nov 23rd, 1-3pm, 21 Loon Rd, more info 456-4696 PORTER CREEK Community Association meeting Monday, December 2nd, 5:15pm at the Guild Hall. More information 633-4829.

Everyone welcome HOSPICE LIGHTS of Life Opening Ceremony Thurs Dec 12, noon, Elijah Smith Bldg.

Remember the life of a loved one, Dec 12-20. More info 667-7429

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 BACKHAULS, WHITEHORSE to Alberta.

Vehicles, Furniture, Personal effects etc.

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

At corner of 6th & Strickland.

667-2988 MC RENOVATION Construction & Renovations Laminated floor, siding, decks, tiles Kitchen, Bathroom, Doors, Windows Framing, Board, Drywall, Painting Drop Ceiling, Fences No job too small Free estimates Michael 336-0468 yt.mcr@hotmail.com BOBCAT AND BACKHOE SERVICES in Whitehorse, Marsh Lake, Tagish area Call Andreas 660-4813

456-4567 NEED UNDERGROUND WIRE?

THOMAS FINE CARPENTRY • construction • renovation • finishing • cabinets • tiling • flooring • repairs • specialty woodwork • custom kitchens 867-633-3878 or cell 867-332-5531 thomasfinecarpentry@northwestel.net ANGYʼS MASSAGE Mobile Service.

Therapeutic Massage & Reflexology.

Angelica Ramirez Licensed Massage Therapist.

867-335-3592 or 867-668-7724 angysmassage@hotmail.com 200-26 Azure Rd Whitehorse YT, Y1A 6E1 NORTHRIDGE BOBCAT SERVICES • Snow Plowing • Site Prep & Backfills • Driveways • Post Hole Augering • Light Land Clearing • General Bobcat Work Fast, Friendly Service 867-335-1106 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

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Friday, November 22, 2013 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 TOMBSTONE CONTRACTING Loader and dump truck services Driveways, parking lots, concrete driveways, sidewalks and pads.

Fork lift, lifting boom Snow haul and removal Free quotes Call 334 2142 CITYLIGHT RENOS Flooring, tiling, custom closets Painting & trim, kitchens & bathrooms Fences & gates Landscaping & gardening Quality work at reasonable rates Free estimates Sean 867-332-1659 citylightrenos@gmail.com

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 TCM MAID SERVICE Reliable, Thorough & Professional Reasonable Rates References available 335-4421or 393-3868

CERAMIC TILE INSTALLATION Licensed, insured, WCB certified Small or big contracting Specialize in new or tiled bathroom renovation Phone David: 333-0772

FOUND: 633-4580

SUBARU GURU Fix•Buy•Sell Used Subarus 30 year Journeyman Mechanic Towing available Mario 333-4585 ELECTRICIAN FOR all your jobs Large or small Licensed Electrician Call MACK N MACK ELECTRIC for a competitive quote!

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KICK SLED in good shape, $360 obo.

633-4018 AVALANCHE BEACON Tracker DTS, excellent condition, easy to use, 2 avail, $130 ea. 821-6011 ASSORTMENT OF cross-country & tour skis, poles & boots, different sizes, reasonably priced. 994-2233 WANTED: HEAVY duty professional treadmill in good working condition. Leave msg between 9am & 5pm @ 667-2737 BOYS BAUER ice skates, sz. 5, Pro-Hockey Life, exe condit, paid $335, asking $150.

667-6966 LOOKING TO purchase a rowing machine.

Please call Molly@668-7852

Sports Equipment

KICK SLED, Norwegian, good condit, new over $600.00, sell for $200.00. 456-4312

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

SMALL HAND dumbbells, rubber coated, 2 each of 1, 2 & 4 lb, $10 for all. 332-1680 lv msg.

LINE TWINTIPS 133 Freestyleski with Salomon bindings (skis 1 yr old, tops worn, bottom good), bindings March 2013, $150 obo.

Txt 336-0903

Lost & Found

1991 ALPINE ll double track, good condit, c/w winch and spare parts. $2,000. (867) 634-2157

LOST, SET of keys on a unique purple/blue metal chain-mail ball. Heather at 335-9876.

RIGHT-HAND HOCKEY stick, Easton Ultra-Extreme, never used, $15. 660-4806

TITAN DRYWALL Taping & Textured Ceilings 27 years experience Residential or Commercial No job too small Call Dave 336-3865

Kitchen or Restaurant for Lease 401 Main Street Apply to Kayle Tel: 668-7644 Fax: 668-5822 Email: info@townmountain.com

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.

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

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

Yukon Notice YukonWater WaterBoard Board– –Application Application Notice Office des eaux du Yukon – Avis de demande Office des eaux du Yukon – Avis de demande Application Number Numéro de la demande

MS13-048

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Water Source Location Point d’eau/Lieu

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Deadline for Comments 4:00pm Date limite pour commentaires, avant 16 h

GY – Community Services

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Miscellaneous

December 2, 2013

Any person may submit comments or recommendations, in writing, by the deadline for notice.

Applications are available for viewing on the Yukon Water Board’s online registry, WATERLINE at http://www.yukonwaterboard.ca or in person at the Yukon Water Board office. For more information, contact the Yukon Water Board Secretariat at 867-456-3980.

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.

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Yukon News 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

Dispute Between Parties

2012-13 Annual Report Publication Announcement The primary role of the Yukon Surface Rights Board (the “Board”) is to resolve access disputes between persons owning or having an interest in the surface of the land and others having a right to access or use the land. The Board’s process starts when the parties are unable to reach an agreement and one party applies to the Board. The Board’s jurisdiction is derived from several statutes. The primary authority for the Board is set out in the Yukon Surface Rights Board Act (Canada).

Additional responsibilities of the Board are set out in other laws and agreements including the Quartz Mining Act (Yukon), Placer Mining Act (Yukon), Oil and Gas Act (Yukon), Expropriation Act (Canada), Radiocommunications Act (Canada), and individual Yukon First Nation Final Agreements.

To learn more about the Board and its process or obtain a copy of the Board’s 2012-13 Annual Report visit www.yukonsurfacerights.com, or contact the Board’s office.

resolution (by parties)

negotiation

application to the board

binding decision (by board)

board hearing

Physical address: Suite 206 Horwood’s Mall, 100 Main Street, Whitehorse, Yukon; Mail: Box 31201, Whitehorse, YT, Y1A 5P7; Phone: (867) 667-7695; Fax: (867) 668-5892; info@yukonsurfacerights.com

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 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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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

WINTER HORSE boarding/pasturing available close to Whitehorse.

Excellent feed with economical prices.

Phone 334-4589

INFANT CAR seat, 0-12 mon, good condit, $40, auto baby swing, good condit, $50.

334-7061

TIMOTHY/BROME MIX round bales for sale.

Irrigated quality hay, netting wrapped Delivery available Phone 334-4589

EASY BAKE Oven c/w attachments & instructions, exel Xmas gift, $25. 667-6966

YUKON PORK MEAT Cut & Wrapped Government inspected 25lb. boxes or individual order YUKON VALLEY FARM 335-4431

resolution (by parties)

mediation

Friday, November 22, 2013

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 HAY FOR SALE Good variety of excellent quality hay 1st cut alfalfa/timothy mix (65/35%) 60-65 lb, $14.50 2nd cut alfalfa/timothy mix (90/10%) $15 Brome/timothy/orchard grass mix $14.50 Plus we have our own brome hay, $12 for 50-55 lb Oat straw bales $7 Nielsen Farms - Maureen at 333-0615 or email: yukonfarm@gmail.com

TWO CANADIAN made Sensation Ride treeless saddles for sale, 17", dressage and all purpose, both complete. Check out www.nickerssaddlery.com and call 334-1522 for inquiries and pictures.

LARGE COSCO stroller w canopy, $50, white Ikea baby crib, $50. 633-5427

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 ELECTRIC MATTRESS cover w. dual controls, fits king size mattress, great condit. $75, maple headboard/footboard and springs, dbl. size, $40. 660-4806 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 SOLID OAK drop leaf coffee table, 47 1/2”L. Width 21” (closed ), 35” (open), 15"H. $75.00. 867-634-2040 for info/photo ELECTRIC FIREPLACE, light oak colour 40"H x 46"L x 16"D, $200, 668-4575 before 8pm

PubLIC TENDER

RED SOFA bed , excellent condition, like new, $300. 668-4575 before 8pm.

PAN-TERRITORIAL HEALTHY EATING PROJECT FINAL REPORT

REquEsT FOR PROPOsAL

COFFEE TABLE & two end tables, oak, 50" x 26", 24" x 22" $150 668-4575 before 8pm

Project Description: The Proponent will provide the Government of Yukon Department of Health and Social Services with a final report of the activities of the pan-territorial healthy eating project. The report will collect and compile the lessons learned from the Departments of Health and Social Services in the Governments of the Northwest Territories, Nunavut and Yukon through this pan-territorial project.

Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title.

The closing date for submissions is December 11, 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 Sidney Maddison at 867-667-5694.

The highest ranked or lowest priced submission may not necessarily be accepted.

View or download documents at: www.gov.yk.ca/tenders/tms.html

FOX LAKE LOCAL AREA PLANNING Project Description: Land Planning Branch, Energy, Mines and Resources, is seeking professional planning services to develop a local area plan for Fox Lake area, approximately 40 km north of Whitehorse, Yukon. The planning process will involve the public, First Nations, the Government of Yukon departments, and other stakeholder groups.

The process is divided into three phases. This RFP is for the first phase - to conduct background information gathering and issues identification.

Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title.

The closing date for submissions is December 19, 2013. Please refer to the procurement documents for the closing time and location.

Documents may be obtained from the Procurement Support Centre, Department of Highways and Public Works, Suite 101 - 104 Elliot Street, Whitehorse, Yukon (867) 667-5385.

Technical questions may be directed to Tomoko Hagio at 867-336-3103.

The highest ranked or lowest priced submission may not necessarily be accepted.

View or download documents at: www.gov.yk.ca/tenders/tms.html

Health and Social Services

Energy, Mines & Resources

ARTISTS PRINTS framed w/matting & glass all signed by the artists, 1 Bateman , End of Season, 2 Jim Robb Moon on The Klondyke and Carribou Crossing.

604-868-4149

DRUG PROBLEM? Narcotics Anonymous meetings Wed. 7pm-8pm #2 - 407 Ogilvie St. BYTE Office

BEIGE OVERSTUFFED couch, $350, 633-4707

FRI. 7pm-8:30pm 4071 - 4th Ave Many Rivers Office

LARGE WOOD office desk with matching credenza and 2 large filing cabinets.

604-868-4149 KING SIZE Posturepedic mattress, new condit, less than 1-yr old, paid $1,000, asking $550 obo. 633-5324 CORNER COMPUTER desk, light color, $50. 667-6630 LA-Z-BOY COUCH & loveseat, burgundy leather, in good condit, $1,200 obo.

335-7520 or 393-2600

I HAVE no affiliation with Dome Realty on any level. I quit working with Dome Realty on November 6th, 2013. Sincerely, Dawn Kostelnik, www.thewhitegirl.ca

Announcements

Personals 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 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 GAZETTE

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NOTICE

Whitehorse Duplicate

Bridge Club

November 19, 2013

1. Mark Davey Chris Bookless 2. Harvey Brooks Andrzej Jablonski 3. Noreen McGowan - Lorraine Hoyt

Puzzle Page Answer Guide

4 UNIT FRONT LINE PANEL WORKSTATION FURNITURE SYSTEM

Project Description: This tender is for the supply and installation of a 4 unit front line panel workstation furniture system.

Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title.

The closing date for submissions is December 10, 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 Sandy Brown at (867)667-5108.

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

Highways and Public Works

2013/16

Appoints a member of the community advisory board Corrections Act

REQUEST FOR QUALIFICATIONS

Kakuro:

NORTHERN HOUSING TRUST AFFORDABLE RENTAL ACCOMMODATION YUKON

Sealed submissions, plainly marked with “with the above project title”, must be received up to and including 3:00 p.m. local time, December 10, 2013, at the Yukon Housing Corporation offices at 410C Jarvis Street, Whitehorse, Yukon Y1A 2H5.

The Request for Qualifications (RFQ) is stage one of a two-stage Procurement Process. The purpose of this RFQ is to provide a fair and open process for interested parties to have their qualifications evaluated using pre-determined criteria

Crossword:

Appoints members of the community advisory board Corrections Act

For technical questions you may call Mary Cameron at (867) 6673773. For questions regarding the proposal submission process, you may contact Sharon McCreadie, Contract Administrator at (867) 667-5796.

Dated at Whitehorse, Yukon November 15, 2013.

Government

College Drive, November 23 from 10am to 2pm. 668-6208

HOLIDAY CRAFT Sale, Saturday, November 23rd,

10am-2pm, 16 Thompson Rd. (Granger), Basket Bonanza, Boreal Bag Lady, Cathy’s Creations, Fireweed Stamping

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

LINGONBERRY AT Rah Rah Gallery Christmas arts & crafts sale featuring Yukon and Alaskan artists, Sunday November 24 11:00am-3:00pm, 6159 6th Avenue.

Westmark Whitehorse, 11-4pm. Sandra Pena, Robert Postma, Claudia Macphee, Shauna Jones, Erin Suggitt, Nola Pullar, Brook Bouquot, Mariah Morningstar, Tammy Ward, Lois Gillis Wednesday, November 27 @ Midnight Sun Coffee Roasters, limited edition Hands of Hope Coffee/ chocolates/truffles & more, India Nepal Slide Show www.hands-of-hope.ca

The following Ministerial Orders were issued during the period November 1 to 15, 2013: Name of Regulation Act

CHRISTMAS CRAFT Sale, Seniors Centre, 600

COFFEE AND Chocolate Christmas Fair 5:00pm

2013/199 Appoints a member of the Faro Housing Advisory Board Housing Corporation Act

Order #

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

THE OTHER Craft Fair. Sunday November 24,

Name of Regulation Act

2013/198 Establishes the Ministerial Rezoning Regulation Area Development Act

2013/17

PUBLIc TENDER

Sudoku:

The following Commissioner’s Orders were issued during the period November 1 to 15, 2013: Order #

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Friday, November 22, 2013

Word Scramble A: Autumn B: Frosting C: Beef

Packages may be obtained from the Yukon Housing Corporation offices at 410 Jarvis Street, Whitehorse, Yukon or by calling (867) 667-5759.

The highest ranked or any submission may not necessarily be accepted.

Little Footprints, Big Steps was founded to provide ongoing care and protection for the children of Haiti. We welcome and greatly appreciate your support. Please check our website to donate, fundraise or to get involved.

www.littlefootprintsbigsteps.com This ad sponsored by the

CHRISTMAS CRAFT Fair, Atlin Rec Centre,

Saturday, Nov. 30 11am-3pm. To book a table call Lynn, 250-651-7663, Margaret 250-651-7881.

FIRST NATIONS Craft Fair at Elijah Smith School Sat. Nov. 30th 10-4. Crafts, silent auction, concession, entertainment. School fundraiser. For more info call 667-5992 GRANDMA BABE’S Beads & Bangles Jewellery Sale, Sunday, December 1st, 2-4 pm, at the Masonic Hall, 1501 Dogwood Street, (off Wann Rd) LADIES CHRISTMAS tea sponsored by Whitehorse Baptist Church, Friday, December 6, 7:30 pm at Mt. McIntyre Rec Centre. For info call 667-4889 or visit whbc.ca

PHOTOGRAPHY SHOW

Saturday, December 7, 10:00 am - 4:00 pm Hellaby Hall (4th & Elliott) Metal, canvas, framed and matted Prints, posters, calendars & cards

COUNTRY CHRISTMAS Craft Fair, December 8th at Lorne Mountain Community Center, reserve a table now. 667-7083 12 DAYS of Christmas Market, Tuesday Dec. 11

to Dec. 22, presented by the Fireweed Community Market Society at The Old Fire Hall. Opening day Noon-9pm, Sat-Wed 10am-7pm, Thur-Fri 10am-9pm

ARTFUL THINGS Christmas Market, Saturday,

Dec. 14th at the Westmark Hotel, 201 Wood Street, 10am4pm, featuring 12 local bakers, artists and craftspeople.

Everyone is welcome!

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Friday, November 22, 2013

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