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The decision applies to all retail In a decision released this week, Internet, including residential, busiit found that Internet services in the ness and specialty services.

North are not competitive enough to It only applies to NorthwesTel’s convince the commission to refrain terrestrial network, and not to Interfrom regulating that service. net delivered by satellite.

“The terrestrial retail Internet serOld Crow is the only satellitevices market in Northwestel’s operat- served community in Yukon. ing territory is currently not characWhile providing Internet by terized by active price competition satellite is even more expensive, the and rivalrous behaviour,” according CRTC found that NorthwesTel does to the decision. “The commission has not have market power in providing not found evidence of falling prices, satellite Internet because it does not vigorous and aggressive marketing control the facilities that companies activities, or an expanding scope of require to compete in that market. activities by competitors in terms of When it comes to terrestrial Interproducts, services, and geographic net, on the other hand, competitors behaviour.” must pay NorthwesTel to access its As a result, NorthwesTel must fibre network. file its Internet rates to the commisNorthwesTel went through this sion by February 4, 2104, and its cost regulation process recently for wholeestimates for providing Internet by sale data services.

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NorthwesTel greatly exaggerated “That one’s a bit of a wildcard for costs. In response, the CRTC ordered us,” said Paul Flaherty, president of a 70 per cent drop on prices.

NorthwesTel. In this week’s decision, the comIt’s unclear at this point how that mission relented slightly, finding that process will ultimately affect Internet NorthwesTel can charge a 40 per cent prices and services, he said. But he is markup, not 30 per cent as it had previously determined.

The company is pleased with that The new Yukon home of decision, said Flaherty. That adjustment will allow the company to continue to invest in fibre infrastructure, he said.

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NorthwesTel must also resubmit it’s $233-million modernization plan to the CRTC. The plan should put more focus on upgrading transport infrastructure, the commission found.

“We’re pleased that the CRTC generally approves of the modernization plan,” said Flaherty.

NorthwesTel invested $44 million towards the modernization plan in 2013. As the company continues to invest, customers can expect more service upgrades, said Flaherty.

The CRTC will require regular updates from NorthwesTel on its progress. The company must commit to the investments regardless of its financial position, the commission found.

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he Yukon Legislative Assembly has closed another sitting.

Thursday was the final day until proceedings resume in the spring.

The NDP Opposition spent much of the sitting questioning the government about two people who died after being treated at the Watson Lake Hospital.

The coroner found that Teresa Ann Scheunert, 47, died of a mixed drug toxicity resulting from medications prescribed to her at the hospital for back pain.

An independent patient safety review ordered by the Yukon Hospital Corporation contradicts that finding, arguing instead that she died of an irregular heartbeat associated with sleep apnea.

Mary Johnny, 60, died from a small bowel obstruction after her condition was misdiagnosed as “alcoholism,” according to the coroner’s report.

The coroner found that the doctor ignored signs pointing to the bowel obstruction and failed to document decision-making.

In the legislature, Health Minister Doug Graham ignored pleas from the Opposition NDP to call a public inquiry in the deaths.

Under public and media pressure, the coroner called an inquest into the two deaths, set for March 2014.

Jurors for the inquest will determine the facts of the deaths and may make recommendations

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Premier Darrell Pasloski gives his budget speech in March.

to prevent similar deaths in the future. The inquest does not have the same broad mandate of a public inquiry.

Another hot topic this sitting was the changes to the mining acts related to the Ross River Dena Council court decision.

The Yukon Court of Appeal ordered the government a year ago to ensure that First Nation’s rights are properly accommodated when it comes to staking and Class 1 exploration on its traditional ter-

ritory.

The Yukon government says it can meet the requirements by the December 27 deadline through amendments to the mining legislation and the associated regulations. It may also withdraw some areas of Ross River territory from staking.

The amendments to the Quartz Mining Act and the Placer Mining Act were passed Thursday, after opposition members complained that the government was

avoiding debate on the subject.

Regulations have yet to be finalized, although the government insists the deadline will be met.

There’s no word on how consultations with Ross River Dena Council are progressing.

Interim Liberal Leader Sandy Silver asked why amendments go beyond what was required to meet the court declaration to give the government more active management tools.

Silver also brought forward a

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other efforts to address need.”

“Further, the needed care did not appear to be a priority in the functional programming of the he Yukon government new facilities,” the report said. spent $54.8 million on Health Minister Doug Graham two new hospitals that it would not speak to the News didn’t need. about the report, although he did On Thursday, the governmake himself available to speak ment released a health-care needs about his government’s donation assessment report for Watson to the food bank.

Lake and Dawson City, which Cabinet spokeswoman Elaine the Yukon Hospital Corporation Schiman said he was too busy, neglected to order before decidand she would attempt to have ing to build new hospitals in each Graham call back later in the community. afternoon. He did not return the That report makes it clear that call by press time. what the two communities need Yukon Hospital Corporation are increased addictions services, CEO Jason Bilsky also did not better access to mental health care return a call for comment by and a focus on collaborative care, press time. not new acute-care hospitals.

Graham did issue a press In Watson Lake in particular, release earlier this week, praising the report says that “an increase the report. in community-oriented services “We don’t have to follow seems more urgent than increased traditions and we now have the hospital services,” and “despite opportunity to do something difthe major toll (of addictions) on ferent, to care for our citizens in health and social services, the a more integrated, collaborative new facilities were not designed model,” he said. or contemplated as integral parts Late Thursday evening, Schiof addressing the need.” man sent an email saying that The need for holistic addicGraham would not be available tions treatment in Watson Lake for a full interview on the report is so dire that “not addressing because he had only received a alcohol and substance abuse, final copy of it a week ago and including prescription medicine, needed more time to study it. The would render meaningless all version tabled on Thursday in the News Reporter

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legislature is dated Oct. 23, 2013.

Schiman did not offer any clarification by press time as to why it took so long for the minister to get a copy, or why he would issue a news release about a report he was not comfortable taking questions on.

The report also called for detox services to be set up at both new hospitals, including a professionally-staffed detox bed in each centre with three trained nursing staff and one resident professional to provide aftercare and addiction prevention services in the communities.

As well, the report highlighted the importance of better palliative and end-of-life care in both communities, and calls for a dedicated methadone clinic in Whitehorse to be the basis for a territory-wide approach to substance abuse treatment, which is currently missing.

In February, Canada’s auditor general slammed the Yukon government and the hospital corp. for poor planning and mismanagement of the hospital projects.

The biggest criticism was that the projects were undertaken without first doing a needs assessment to see what services the communities would most benefit from.

“Before entering into a project

such as this, you really need to make sure that this is what you need, and that this is the best way of meeting those needs. It’s quite clear that this was a political decision,” Assistant Auditor General Ronnie Campbell said at the time.

By the time the two projects were finished this fall, they were a year behind schedule and a combined $8 million over budget.

In the wake of the auditor general’s report, the government promised to do the belated needs assessment, to make sure that the new facilities are put to the best possible use.

The needs assessment report opens with a letter to Bilsky and Paddy Meade, who co-chair the hospital project steering committee.

“It should be stressed that this study assesses needs and is not a study of supply nor a forwardlooking clinical services plan,” the letter reads.

Dawson City’s emergency department use is expected to grow by 13 per cent over the next five years, and 26 per cent over the next 10 years. Watson Lake’s emergency room needs are expected to increase by 17 per cent in the next decade, the report said.

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motion on co-operation that got so heated that it had Speaker David Laxton calling actions of the members “at an all-time low.”

The motion, which called for the government to work with First Nations to set a date for a Yukon Forum, an official meeting on intergovernmental co-operation, eventually passed unanimously.

The government also passed a bill that will allow for the protection of sensitive environments by off-road vehicles, although the mechanisms for this to actually happen have yet to be determined.

And a health information privacy act was passed that will lay the groundwork for an electronic health system across the territory.

That piece of legislation is long and complex, and opposition members complained that they had only been given a one-hour briefing on the 105-page act on the morning that it was debated.

With work yet to be done on mining regulations, and the Peel watershed land use plan, Mines Minister Scott Kent confirmed that both he and Environment Minister Currie Dixon will be working over the holidays.

The government must release a plan for the Peel watershed by the end of the year or extend the interim staking ban. The ministers could not confirm if a plan will be ready before the new year.

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a’an Kwach’an Council has abandoned plans to partner with Yukon Energy to burn liquefied natural gas in Whitehorse.

The First Nation decided to pull out because of concerns with hydraulic fracturing, said Chief Kristina Kane in an interview Thursday.

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“There was obvious opportunity for investment, but again, at this point, given that the Ta’an Kwach’an Council and our elders’ council have both passed resolutions banning fracking on our traditional territory and settlement lands, we just didn’t think that this project was in our best interest.”

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Currently that plant only produces conventional gas, but there’s no guarantee that Yukon Energy won’t switch to fracked gas down the road.

In light of the potential impacts of fracking on wildlife and the environment, the First Nation also opposes burning natural gas here that was fracked outside the Yukon, said Kane.

David Morrison, president of Yukon Energy, said he is disappointed that the First Nation has backed out of partnership talks.

Yukon Energy, Ta’an and the Kwanlin Dun First Nation have been in discussions about partnering on the project for more than a year.

The First Nations have been privy to all aspects of project planning, he said.

Yukon Energy has received no indication from Kwanlin Dun that it plans to follow Ta’an’s lead, said Morrison.

“They have been enthusiastic supporters, and keen to conclude partnership arrangements from the start.”

Although financing will have to be adjusted, the project itself will not change in any material way, he said.

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Women’s groups commit to working with Morris Jesse Winter

feels that he’s paid his dues.

Our community is so divided and we need to pull them back he Liard Aboriginal Wom- together,” Porter said. en’s Society says it will No one from the society has work with the newly elected yet spoken with Morris, Porter chief of the Liard First Nation, said. Over the past two weeks, Daniel Morris.

Morris has not returned any Morris won his seat on of the News’ repeated calls for Monday night by 23 votes over comment on this and numerrunner-up George Morgan. ous other stories relating to the Morris was chief once beelection and his history. fore. In 2004, he was removed Hillary Aitken, the profrom office in disgrace follow- gram director for the Victoria ing a conviction for brutally Faulkner Women’s Centre, beating his estranged wife and said her organization stands in threatening her and another solidarity with the statement man with a loaded rifle. issued by LAWS and would On Wednesday, the women’s make no further comment on association, which has a the issue. mandate to help end violence White Ribbon Yukon, a against women in the Kaska men’s organization that works community, said it would work to engage other men in ending with Morris now that he is violence against women, issued chief again because that’s what a statement Friday mornthe community would want. ing saying the organization “The members of the “denounces the violent and society express a sincere desire brutal assault committed by to work with the newly elected Daniel Morris … and all acts chief and council of both of violence against women in Liard First Nation and Daylu our communities.”

Dena Council to help restore “We call on Chief Morris to a healthy community,” said never again commit, condone Ann Maje Raider, the society’s or remain silent about acts of executive director. violence against women or “The society notes that the children,” said White Ribbon re-election of Chief Morris president Josh Regnier in the does not legitimize or condone release. He further asked that acts of violence on his part or Morris “work with women’s on the part of society in genorganizations and men and eral,” the release said. boys to build greater awareness Maje Raider was unavailand understanding about vioable for comment this week, lence prevention and healthy but society board member Liz relationships.”

Porter said the society feels Former chief Liard Mcthat Morris has changed.

Millan, who didn’t run in this “He’s done a lot of work on election, said he thinks it’s himself. Obviously that’s what hypocritical of LAWS to be the community, the voters, supportive of Morris when have noticed and that’s what they were so quick to attack the community wants. him in a feud between his gov“The community obviously ernment and the society that News Reporter

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lasted for years.

“They had no problem attacking me, calling me a dictator and questioning my financial transparency, but now they’re willing to work with a wife beater?” McMillan said.

Morris is accused of taking nearly $250,000 in loans and personal cheques over and above his salary, according to a report commissioned by the First Nation. When McMillan became chief he asked Aboriginal Affairs to do a forensic audit into the matter and lugged a dozen bankers boxes of financial information to the RCMP offices in Whitehorse.

The force initially said it would support a forensic audit, but Aboriginal Affairs refused, saying it couldn’t be proven it was federal money Morris took.

Now McMillan said he’s worried that, with Morris back in power, he may attempt to cover up any remaining evidence of any wrongful acts.

“I am quite concerned Morris may attempt to destroy the evidence from the RCMP. Because of that concern, prior to the election I removed several boxes from the LFN offices,” McMillan said.

He’s now considering making another formal complaint to the RCMP or possibly going to the Canadian Taxpayers Federation. Earlier this year, band members from the Chemawawin First Nation in northern Manitoba got the federation to look into missing trust fund money, and found that their chief and council appear to have made off with almost $400,000.

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he Whitehorse Food Bank is planning to purchase its own building after a one-time funding announcement by the territorial government.

The Department of Health and Social Services will be giving the organization $750,000.

Stephen Dunbar-Edge, executive director of the Food Bank Society of Whitehorse, said money will cover most of the $1-million price tag to buy the building on Alexander Street, the land it’s on and the plot of land next door.

The remaining money owed will be covered with a mortgage carried by the building’s previous owner, L’Association francoyukonnaise.

Dunbar-Edge said the mortgage payment will be less than the rent the organization currently pays.

He also hopes to rent out space to other non-profit organizations to help cover the bills.

Dunbar-Edge said owning the building means he can be more confident about the long-term sustainability of the organization.

Health Minister Doug Graham said the food bank’s long-term viability was part of the reason for the money.

The current building was built in the 1950s and is a former legion. Plans to purchase it have been in the works for more than a year.

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and was being taken to Whitehorse.

The pilot had about 900 flight hours and 800 of those were on float equipment, said the safety board’s regional manager, Peter Hildebrand.

He also received 1.5 hours of instruction on his newly-bought plane the day before the crash.

“What happened was the airplane departed, it climbed to about 150 feet above ground, it started what was described as a steep left turn and then it pitched nose down and struck the ground,” Hildebrand said.

There was a fire after impact.

The board does not do lengthy investigations on crashes involving small private aircraft and does not release an official cause.

But Hildebrand said a steep turn at low altitude can lead to problems.

“What happens is that it Ian Stewart/Yukon News Volunteers stack the shelves at the Whitehorse Food Bank. The Yukon government has given increases the aerodynamic load on the wings, it can lead to stalled the Food Bank Society $750,000 to purchase the building and an adjacent lot. wing conditions – not the engine Caucasian male, 5’10” and 150 lbs but the wings,” he said.

The 1995, blue GMC pickup As for what will be done with with brown hair and hazel eyes.

“An aerodynamic stall means the empty lot next door, Dunbar- truck was discovered in a gravel He was last seen wearing blue that the wings are no longer Edge said there are a lot of options pit about 20 km northwest of jeans, boots, and a grey coat. He Whitehorse on the Alaska Highcapable of producing as much lift to be discussed in the new year. may be wearing a toque. way this past Sunday. as is being required and then the The plan still has to be apPolice are still asking the public Schellenberg, 47, was reported airplane starts to descend.” proved by the organization’s to call Whitehorse RCMP detachmissing by his roommate on Dec. When that happens it is posboard of directors. ment at 667-5551 if they have any sible for a pilot to recover, Hildeb10.

(Ashley Joannou) He was last seen on the morn- information. rand said, but only if they have (Ashley Joannou) ing of Dec. 7. enough altitude.

Police find truck but no sign “Unfortunately this aircraft was After the truck was found, “an extensive ground search was conMore details on fatal crash at low altitude and there wasn’t of missing man time to recover.” ducted in the surrounding area as The aircraft was about 20 kilowell as a two-hour aerial search,” The Transportation Safety Board The vehicle police believe Robert grams over its maximum certified the RCMP said in a statement. has released more facts about the Schellenberg was driving has been weight.

“The search consisted of 20 plane crash earlier this year that found but there’s still no sign of The weight would have also search-and-rescue volunteers, ‘M’ killed two Yukoners. the missing Whitehorse man. division’s police dog service, and Father and son Chuck, 63, and hindered the plane’s performance, Whitehorse detachment memShane, 40, Buchanan died in June Hildebrand said.

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Some top stories of 2013 B

elow, in no particular order, are 10 of the top stories from the past year.

Metal prices meltdown

The mining industry took a big hit in 2013. Alexco Resource Corp. shut down the Bellekeno silver mine for the winter and Yukon Zinc Corp. scaled back operations at the Wolverine mine.

Capstone Mining Corp., however, actually expanded operations at the Minto copper mine as the outfit heads underground.

Exploration spending was just $45 million, down from $300 million in 2011.

The year ended on a high note, with Selwyn Chihong Mining Ltd. announcing it would spend $56 million in 2014 on developing its massive Howard’s Pass zinc-lead deposit.

Peel prevarications

The Yukon government hid numbers from the public that show that the vast majority of people who participated in the public consultation on the Peel watershed land use plan oppose the government’s stance on that plan.

The News exposed those numbers in August through an access to information request.

In response, Environment Minister Currie Dixon said that “the numbers don’t matter.”

The government and First Nations are at an impasse on the plan, although some news is expected before the new year, when the interim staking ban is set to expire.

SOMETHING FOR

ondary protested a school policy that states that homosexuality is a “disorder” and an “intrinsic moral evil.” It also forbade the formation of a gay-straight alliance at the school, something the Department of Education’s own policies explicitly protected.

Eventually the Catholic policy came down, but not before two openly gay students, Liam Finnigan and Shara Layne, took a public stand against the policy and the Catholic bishop who had written and implemented it.

In March, the government promised to have the church redraft a new policy that would meet the requirements under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, but 10 months later that work still isn’t finished.

animal shelter. Donations began again and government funding F.H. Collins fiddling was reinstated.

Two years after shovel-wielding In the courts, three past board Inmates denied methadone Premier Darrell Pasloski “broke members pleaded guilty to The Whitehorse Correctional ground” on the new F.H. Coldisobeying government orders Centre is denying some inmates lins, nothing has been built. The their prescription medication, the related to the handling of the original design was scrapped. society. Former president Shelley News reported in October.

Through access-to-information People who come to the jail on Cuthbert fought her charges but requests, the News found that was eventually found guilty by a methadone are being forced off budget estimates used to dejudge. the treatment and into detox. velop the cost of the school were All four received the same The then-president of the significantly low-balled, and the sentence: two years probation Yukon Medical Association called government knew it but chose to and an order that they not serve the practice “inhumane.” Other go ahead anyway. as executives on any society addictions experts later piled A new design is being cribbed registered under the Societies Act. on, condemning the territory’s from Alberta and the project is Cuthbert was also made to pay a actions. back out to tender. The contrac$500 donation to the society she The Yukon government says tor bids are expected back in once ran. it does not have the resources to January. dispense methadone out of the LaRue gets life sentence jail, and has not committed to Ski-hill supporters regroup Norman LaRue was found guilty rectify the situation.

The city’s beleaguered ski hill’s of first degree murder and senfortunes worsened this fall when to life in prison without Dowland goes belly-up RCMP reality show folds tenced the non-profit that has run it for the possibility of parole for 25 When the Yukon Hospital CorpoYukon RCMP were prepared to decades folded. years. ration hired Dowland Contractstar in their own reality television The Great Northern Ski SociAfter a three-month trial, a ing to be the general contractor ety had originally asked the city jury convicted him of killing for the Watson Lake and Dawson show. When news of the plan broke, days before filming was for almost $800,000 to help save 63-year-old Gordon Seybold, City hospital construction projscheduled to begin, many in the the hill, but the city refused and whose body was found in the ects, the Inuvik-based company community, including a number charred remains of his Ibex Valley the society went into bankruptcy. was a giant of northern infraof women’s groups, were furious. cabin.

A new society, the Friends of structure development.

Critics worried the show Sima, formed and began a masLaRue and his girlfriend, Now, it barely exists at all. The would exploit vulnerable resisive campaign for public help.

Christina Asp, were arrested hospital projects, which were They fought hard through the fall slammed in February by Canada’s dents. The police insisted they after a lengthy undercover police saw it as a chance to give the and reduced the overall request investigation in which officers auditor general for being overfrom the city to $72,000. The city budget, behind schedule and not public a positive look behind the posed as members of a criminal scenes. still said no, so Softball Yukon gang. even necessary, are now both The project was eventually and the territorial government The trial heard tapes of LaRue finished and open. But during the scrapped. stepped in to bridge the funding bragging about the killing to process, Dowland unexpectedly gap and allow the hill to open this collapsed into receivership under police, who he thought were hit season.

Animal shelter stabilizes men offering him a job. a pile of liens and lawsuits when Asp was convicted of secondit stopped paying subcontractors After ending 2012 on the brink of Catholic school controversy sometime last year. financial collapse, things began degree murder after a separate In October of 2012, parents and looking up for Humane Socitrial last year. LaRue has since By the time the two hospitals filed an appeal. were done, they were almost a students at Vanier Catholic Secety Yukon and the Mae Bachur

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Friday, December 20, 2013

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EDITORIAL New meaning to low standards T

crimes for which Morris has been convicted, and the cloud of unproven allegations that continue to hang over his head, these comments are so out of tune they could easily be mistaken for some sick satire.

Let’s review an undisputed summary of what Morris did, Defenders of the once disgraced, miraculously rehabilitat- according to the B.C. Court of ed Daniel Morris will put things Appeal.

One evening in June 2003, differently, of course. And it’s Morris returned home to disentirely possible we’re missing cover his then-estranged wife something important. wasn’t there. He set off in his After all, a whole decade has passed since Morris was convict- truck with a .30-30 rifle and four ed of crimes that, in many circles, live cartridges.

He found her in her vehicle in would disqualify you from ever Lower Post, asleep with another holding office again. And he’s man. Morris threatened to kill recently expressed contrition the man, who fled. Then Morin a campaign letter, in which ris took his wife to a gravel pit, he asserts that he’s sorry for his where he proceeded to punch actions, has completed anger and kick her for two hours. management classes and has The wife pleaded for him to managed to reunite his family. stop throughout the pummelMaybe Morris is a new man.

But if that’s the case, why did he ling. At one point she offered sex refuse to speak with any reporter in exchange for him to stop. He agreed, but the beating resumed throughout the election campaign? It’s true that many people afterwards.

The wife spent the following distrust the media for many reasons, and declining to comment three days in the hospital, and does not necessarily signal guilt. many months later continued to suffer from blurred vision.

But it’s hard to avoid the This is presumably not what conclusion that Morris dodged reporters because he didn’t want the Morris supporter was thinking of who said, “It’s time for to have to publicly address his people to get back together and sordid past, or to explain how act civilized.” the angry, violent man he once For crimes related to this atwas has been transformed into tack, Morris initially received a the Obama-like figure that his suspended sentence of two years defenders make him out to be. on parole. Following a public “It’s about time for a change. outcry over this sentence’s leniIt’s time for people to get back ency, the B.C. Court of Appeal together and act civilized,” one woman told CBC News’ reporter, later gave Morris a one-year prisPhilippe Morin, on election on sentence. The appeals judge night in Watson Lake. noted that Morris was not drunk “Criminal record is a criminal or high during the attack, he had record,” said another supporter. more than an hour to consider “It was just a misunderstandhis actions as he pursued his ing, it was all it was. And what wife, and he is not known to have he’s doing right now, he’s gonna suffered any childhood trauma. make a big change here.”

Morris is also accused by the Given the seriousness of the man who succeeded him as chief,

he Liard First Nation has sent a clear message: being convicted of a monstrous act of violence against women is no impediment to holding its highest office.

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Liard McMillan, of taking nearly $250,000 in inappropriate loans from the First Nation government during his time in office. A report by FJD & Company, commissioned by the First Nation, alleges as much. While Morris has apologized for his acts of violence, he maintains this accusations of financial shenanigans are false.

However, Morris’s assertion in his letter that Aboriginal Affairs cleared him of any wrongdoing is false. Instead, the federal government refused to pursue a forensic audit after it concluded it would be impossible to demonstrate whether any improperly loaned money was given by Ottawa, since the funds were mixed together in general revenue.

McMillan has suggested, plausibly, that the federal government simply didn’t want to suffer a major embarrassment by pursuing the matter.

Of course, Morris is far from being the first convict to win office in the Yukon. Our past premier, Dennis Fentie, peddled heroin as a young man. And Dawson City’s past MP and mayor, Peter Jenkins, was imprisoned after his hotel was caught stealing electricity in the 1970s.

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such a rap. Sadly, the same cannot be said about a candidate for chief.

After all, in 2012 Eddie Skookum survived a leadership vote when he sat as chief of the Little Salmon/Carmacks First Nation, following his conviction on charges related to an act of domestic violence nearly as despicable as what Morris did. During a weekend in Haines, Alaska, in July 2010, he beat his commonlaw wife so badly that investigating officers said the room looked like a murder scene.

Following Skookum’s conviction in Alaska for reckless endangerment, women’s groups in the Yukon were awfully slow to condemn his actions, presumably for fear of alienating his supporters. We can only imagine similar concerns are why the Liard Aboriginal Women’s Society, which was once a fierce critic of Morris, says it will try to work with Morris.

Many questions remain. Does Morris expect to carry out his entire term of chief without speaking to reporters? How exactly does that work, when a big part of his job is to serve as the voice of the community?

More importantly, what does the re-election of someone like Morris, however contrite he may be, say about how women are valued in some rural, First Nation communities in the Yukon?

Surely some First Nations would decline to support someone with Morris’s background, but if it can happen in Watson Lake and Carmacks, then where else?

Would the public reaction have been different if Morris was a white man, running for mayor?

In such a situation, it would be hard to imagine seeing the same reluctance from the territory’s women’s groups to comment.

Are such low expectations a little, well, racist? And isn’t that part of the problem? (JT)

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The art of the non-apology

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n the December 2012 issue of Psychology Today, psychoanalyst Joseph Burgo discusses the art of the apology. He lays out some simple rules, starting with “genuine apologies never contain the words ‘if ’ or ‘but’.” Those words, Burgo explains, are qualifiers, and the best apologies are unqualified.

of child poverty in the country, at 18.5 per cent. Needless to say his jocularity didn’t go over well with anti-poverty activists, or just about anybody else.

Adrienne Montani of First Call summed it up when she said, “It’s a very callous statement. It is his job as a federal minister to look after the welfare of some of our most vulnerable citizens and that would include children.”

At first it appeared that Moore would choose self-justifiThe news this week presents cation over apology. On Sunday two very public apologies, one he tweeted, “it is a ridiculous of which meets the Burgo test of ‘story’ that completely takes a unqualified simplicity, and one comment out of context.” By of which fails. The latter is ToMonday, however, he seems ronto Mayor Rob Ford’s attempt to have realized that there was to avoid being sued for implying no extenuating context, no that Toronto Star reporter Dan- way to blame the press for his iel Dale is a pedophile. More on own gaffe, nothing for it but to this anon. The better-worded apologize. apology came from Canada’s That’s where the minister industry minister, James Moore. finally got it right. He posted Moore had a lot to apologize an apology on his website, with for, though perhaps not as much a shorter version on Twitter. as Ford. Last week a B.C. radio Neither edition of the apology host questioned him about contains a single if or but. Here child poverty and hunger. The is the tweet: “An apology. The minister replied, “The governcause of fighting poverty is not ment says it’s my job to feed my helped by comments like those I neighbour’s child? I don’t think made last week. I am sorry.” so,” and then laughed.

If he’d said that right away, Moore is the senior federal instead of trying to bluster and cabinet minister for B.C., the shift the blame, it would have province with the highest rate scored an A+. Given the tim-

by AL POPE

NORDICITY ing, it’s looking more like a C at best, hardly a passing grade for a cabinet minister making more than $230,000 a year, but better than F for Ford.

On May 2, 2012, Daniel Dale was on the public land behind Ford’s house, photographing a piece of green space the mayor was trying to buy. Ford accosted the reporter and called the police, who found no evidence to support any of his accusations.

In a recent TV interview with Conrad Black, Ford had this to say about the incident. “I guess the worst one was Daniel Dale in my backyard taking pictures.

I have little kids. When a guy’s taking pictures of little kids” – pause for insinuating snicker – “I don’t want to say that word but you start thinking, ‘What’s this guy all about?’”

None of this was true. Police have confirmed that Dale was

an absurd attempt to accuse the media of making the whole thing up. If Ford was trying to put an end to Dale’s defamation suit, he failed. The suit proceeded. This outcome was so predictable that it’s hard not to think the mayor wanted his day in court.

If so, it was a bad idea. Court is not a good place for someone who is inclined to play fast and loose with the truth; unlike the loyal dogs of Ford Nation, judges take offence at being lied to, and the consequences can be severe. Perhaps someone reminded Ford of this. On Wednesday, the mayor made a second apology to Dale, one in which he acknowledged that almost every word he’s said on the subject to date has been false.

Dale responded by dropping the lawsuit.

There’s a lesson here. When you owe someone an apology, don’t stall. Say you’re sorry before you dig yourself a deeper hole. And leave out the ifs and buts. Otherwise, instead of appearing sincerely apologetic, you’re just another sorry-looking fool.

not in Ford’s backyard, nor did he take any pictures except of the public land. But Ford didn’t stop there. He accused Dale of climbing up on cinder blocks and “leering” over the fence. He stood by that story long after the cops found that there were neither cinder blocks to stand on, nor anyone in the yard to be leered at, nor any evidence that Dale was near the fence at all.

Faced with a lawsuit, Ford stood up in council chambers to deliver a statement he claimed was an apology. He apologized, not for what he said, but “for the way in which the media has interpreted my statements.” He denied calling Dale a pedophile, though he didn’t offer an alternative explanation for his remarks. He repeated the “leering” accusation. He repeated the unsubstantiated claim that he found Dale “very far from the land Mr. Dale advises he was researching a story about” and used the statement as an opportunity to accuse the Toronto Star of an “incredible assault on me and my family.”

In short, although Ford’s statement made use of the word “apology,” it didn’t include an actual apology. It was in many ways a restatement of the original accusation, and it made

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.

Thinking for the future W

e’re living in an era of mechanized intelligence, an age in which you’re probably going to find yourself in a workplace with diagnostic systems, algorithms and computer-driven data analysis.

If you want to thrive in this era, you probably want to be good at working with intelligent machines. As Tyler Cowen puts it in his relentlessly provocative recent book, Average Is Over, “If you and your skills are a complement to the computer, your wage and labour market prospects are likely to be cheery. If your skills do not complement the computer, you may want to address that mismatch.”

So our challenge for the day is to think of exactly which mental abilities complement mechanized intelligence. Off the top of my head, I can think of a few mental types that will probably thrive in the years ahead.

Freestylers. As Cowen notes, there’s a style of chess in which people don’t play against the computer but with the computer. They let the computer program make most of the moves, but, occasionally, they overrule it. They understand the strengths and weaknesses of

the program and the strengths and weaknesses of their own intuition, and, ideally, they grab the best of both.

This skill requires humility (most of the time) and selfconfidence (rarely). It’s the kind of skill you use to overrule your GPS system when you’re driving in a familiar neighbourhood but defer to it in strange surroundings. It is the sort of skill a doctor uses when deferring to or overruling a diagnostic test. It’s the skill of knowing when an individual case is following predictable patterns and when there are signs it is diverging from them.

Synthesizers. The computerized world presents us with a surplus of information. The synthesizer has the capacity to surf through vast amounts of online data and crystallize a generalized pattern or story.

Humanizers. People evolved to relate to people. Humanizers take the interplay between man and machine and make it feel more natural. Steve Jobs did this by making each Apple product feel like nontechnological artifact. Someday a genius is going to take customer service phone trees

suspect that’s because most students are not motivated to impress a computer the way they by may be motivated to impress DAVID BROOKS a human professor. Managers who can motivate supreme effort in a machine-dominated environment are going to be valuable.

Moralizers. Mechanical inand make them more human. telligence wants to be efficient.

Someday a retail genius is goIt will occasionally undervalue ing to figure out where customessential moral traits, like ers probably want automated loyalty. Soon, performance checkout (the drugstore) and metrics will increasingly score where they want the longer individual employees. A moralhuman interaction (the grocery izing manager will insist that store). human beings can’t be reduced Conceptual engineers. to the statistical line. A comGoogle presents prospective pany without a self-conscious employees with challenges moralizer will reduce human like the following: How many interaction to the cash nexus times in a day do a clock’s and end up destroying morale hands overlap? Or: Figure out and social capital. the highest floor of a 100-story Greeters. An economy that building you can drop an egg is based on mechanized intellifrom without it breaking. How gence is likely to be a wildly unmany drops do you need to equal economy, even if the govfigure this out? You can break ernment tries to combat that two eggs in the process. inequality. Cowen estimates They are looking for the that perhaps 15 per cent of ability to come up with creative workers will thrive, with plenty methods to think about unof disposable income. There expected problems. will be intense competition for Motivators. Millions of these people’s attention. They people begin online courses, will favour restaurants, hotels, but few actually finish them. I law firms, foundations and

financial institutions where they are greeted by someone who knows their name. People with this capacity for high-end service, and flattery, will find work.

Economizers. The bottom 85 per cent is likely to be made up of people with less marketable workplace skills. Some of these people may struggle financially but not socially or intellectually. That is, they may not make much running a food truck, but they can lead rich lives, using the free bounty of the Internet. They could use a class of advisers on how to preserve rich lives on a small income.

Weavers. Many of the people who struggle economically will lack the self-motivation to build rich inner lives for themselves. Many are already dropping out of the labour force in record numbers and drifting into disorganized, disaffected lifestyles. Public and private institutions are going to hire more people to fight this social disintegration. There will be jobs for people who combat the dangerous inegalitarian tendencies of this new world.

David Brooks writes about politics and society for the New York Times.

10 Gross inequality is a fact of Canadian life I would like to take some time to reflect on my connection to my mother’s birth nation of South Africa.

My mother’s family fled apartheid when she was 11 years old. I have been back once, when I was 17, 10 years after the horrors that apartheid ended.

I have, however, had the opportunity to witness the disparity still impacting aboriginal communities, especially now as I work for a First Nation government.

As a young child, the elders in Sto:lo traditional territory where I grew up would take the time to come to our school and teach us. They would tell us Creator stories, teach us how to make button blankets in the Coast Salish tradition and sing us songs.

The beat of those large coastal skin drums still rings in my heart.

Although there were no visible First Nation children in our school, I knew about the long house, but I didn’t realize the long and terrible history behind those kind elders’ smiles.

When driving into Calgary from Vancouver, you pass through a reserve called Stoney Creek and it’s like entering a third-world country. It never even occurred to me that people would live in houses as decrepit as what you can see from the highway.

As a wealthy, young city, Calgary shows all the promise and opportunity that Canada has to offer: big trucks, skyscrapers and bright lights. But it also clearly demonstrates the wealth disparity that exists between those with “white” privilege and those who were deemed wards of the state under the Indian Act. As a coloured woman, I have experienced a far more privileged life than my mother before me.

Here in Canada, it is illegal for me to be discriminated against based on my sex or the colour of my skin. I walk into whatever restaurant I please and expect to receive the same level of service as all of my friends. But this reality does not exist for all citizens of Canada.

I cannot list all of the reasons I feel this is true, but I will mention a few. The existence of a piece of race-based legislation such as the Indian Act is the first piece of evidence. The Royal Commission Report on Aboriginal Peoples says aboriginal children on reserve

Yukon News receive $2,000 less per year than those in the public school system among many other disparities.

The horrors of residential schools are too many and devastating to properly give credit to.

Nelson Mandela’s work was not done. I personally witnessed the wealth disparity that still exists between white and coloured districts in Cape Town. The multigenerational effects of racism and oppression are clear in the high prevalence of violent crime. It will take time for wounds to heal and equality to prevail. The truth and reconciliation process, in both Canada and South Africa, is only the first step.

The mechanisms by which oppression continues for aboriginal communities in Canada and marginalized populations worldwide are pervasive and complex. There aren’t any easy answers for how natural resource development contracts could mitigate negative impacts and proceed only for the benefit of local communities, or how legislative and regulatory regimes could serve to protect citizens from corporate greed, but there are many ways we could work towards a fairer future. It is time for resource projects to be developed for the benefit of those who will be most impacted.

Sarah Newton Manager of Lands and Resources Liard First Nation

Pasloski and crew make a mess of civil society Open Letter to Liz Hanson: There are many metrics for measuring democracy. Seats in a legislature is one, and the most abused.

In the last election the Yukon Party won just 40.6 per cent of the vote; most Yukoners did not want a Pasloski government. But the Yukon Party did receive a big stick to ideologically whack the majority. This is obvious, but it bears restating.

On the eve of many important decisions, we need someone to speak for the 59.4 per cent of Yukoners who are not being well represented by our government.

Call them “the opposition,” “the underrepresented majority,” “the hoi polloi,” or, if you like, the “true voices of the Yukon” – but please be our voice.

Friday, December 20, 2013

tion” come close to providing the thoughtful and constructive input received by the impeccable sixyear process undertaken by the planning commission?

If the Peel planning situation descends into litigation, it will be further evidence of the serious damage to civil society caused by the present government.

We need voices that can bring more transparency, truth, and civility to governance. We need voices to speak for the majority who did not vote for a Pasloski government. The leader of the Official Opposition is a good place to start.

For that matter, if the Liberals want to nominate someone to speak for “the true voices of the Yukon,” please do.

The majority of us need all the there won’t be time for debate. voices we can get.

Sly? Most Yukoners could be One of the gifts of entering excused for being puzzled about 2014 is that the next election will where to find truth within this not seem so far away. government.

In the meantime, go Liz HanAnother metric of good governance is the state of civil society. son, go!

This is what happens every day.

Bob Jickling Do citizens have channels for Whitehorse thoughtful participation in government? Is anybody listening?

Yukoners will soon Civil society can be developed.

Most recently, forums for buildowe $400 million ing civil society have been written into the Yukon land claims agree- Open letter to Premier Darrell ments. Councils and commisPasloski, Energy minister Scott sions are mandated to provide Kent, Yukon Development Corp. public debate and discussion and chair Joanne Fairlee and Yukon to achieve workable consensuses Energy chair Piers McDonald: around planning issues.

The Yukon Party government The Peel Watershed Planning has been in power for over 10 Commission is one. Their six years and during this time they years of consultations and the have mismanaged one capital Peel Watershed Regional Land project after another. The latest Use Plan is a good example of example pertains to Yukon civil society in action.

Energy.

If civil society can be built On Dec. 10, the Yukon Energy up, it can also be torn down.

Corporation and board appeared Discarding the planning commisbefore the legislative assembly sion’s work belittled the dedicato answer questions about their tion of many Yukon citizens that operations. They were asked participated in this planning about the payments being made process.

by Yukon Energy to pay down the Cobbling together its own loan of over $100 million bor“planning process,” the Pasloski rowed to build Mayo B. government added insult. It Dave Morrison, president would have been more truthful to of Yukon Energy, stated that say, “We won the most seats in the the corporation was making last election and the rest of you payments of $5 million a year. can go to hell.” But no, this government cooked up a half-cocked Further questioning revealed that no funds were being put aside to process. Wouldn’t more truth be pay down the principal of $100 refreshing? million of borrowed money. It Was the shambolic nature of was also revealed that Yukon this consultation purposeful, a ruse to conceal unfavourable out- Energy has a 30-year bond agreement to pay back the full amount. comes (remember the numbers Our children and grandchildren don’t matter)? How could this hastily thrown together “consulta- will be saddled with $150 million Speaking of truth, remember how, during the last election campaign, Pasloski refused to discuss his party’s vision for the Peel watershed? It’s premature, he claimed. Misleading? Now, with a couple of weeks left before the moratorium on mineral staking in the Peel watershed expires, his party claims that it is premature to announce their decision about whether to renew this withdrawal of staking. Disingenuous? Even if the truth about his position on staking is revealed in the dying days of this legislative sitting,

LETTERS

in interest (30 years x $5 million per year) plus the original $100-million loan. Who gave the social licence to the Yukon Party government and Yukon Energy to mortgage the next 30 years of future Yukon ratepayers?

When this massive loan was being negotiated the fine print of this agreement was not shared with Yukoners. This is deceitful and dishonest behaviour on the parts of the Yukon Party government, the president of Yukon Energy, the Yukon Energy board, and the Yukon Development Corp. board.

To make matters even worse, the Yukon Party government has now given approval to Yukon Energy to borrow an additional $34 million to purchase liquefied natural gas back-up generators.

Yukon Energy speculates that using LNG will save millions in the future. Economists state that once Canada starts shipping LNG to Asian countries, the price of LNG will triple making it one of the most expensive fossil fuels.

Precisely how does spending an additional $34 million to establish an LNG back-up plant and gambling that LNG prices will remain low represent a savings to Yukon taxpayers?

Remember Yukon Energy, our Crown corporation, is already on the hook for $5 million in interest payments on the Mayo B project. Now they keep repeating that LNG will save millions in the future, if they are permitted to borrow another $34 million of taxpayers’ money.

When we consider the additional $100-million debt of the Yukon Hospital Corporation and the talk of building a new emergency department at Whitehorse General Hospital for $60 million, Yukoners will be drowning in debt.

We will be looking at a possible debt of over $400 million.

How can this Yukon Party government refer to themselves as fiscally responsible?

How can the premier constantly claim we are debt free?

We need honest answers. I demand that the auditor general of Canada do a thorough forensic evaluation of the Yukon government’s financial operations and that of all our Crown corporations to determine our true financial position.

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A furry friend in a time of need child: ‘Don’t worry, don’t look, it’s fine, everything will be fine.’ It was a very interesting experience where we would ourselves being more directed to take care of the bear than the injuries.”

Sometimes it isn’t the young person who has been hurt. McKeage said watching a family member being worked on by paramedics can be just as traumatic.

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A 35-year veteran, McKeage their friendship with them.” director Michael McKeage.

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“For the people who purchase For $12 over the holidays, people president Pam Hine. these, thank you very much. It “What we’re able to do is discan buy a bear from the various gives us a wonderful opportunity tract children by naming the bear, In the last two decades nearly liquor stores around the territory. 11,000 fuzzy friends have been to give patients of all ages a little maybe using the bear to explain For every bear bought a second to them the conditions or injuries surprise and a little joy during a handed out. one is given to a child or senior time when they least expect it and Each year a new bear is chosen. they’re suffering from,” he said. who is sick, injured or experienc- This year’s addition wears a red probably most need it.”

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Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin, writing on behalf of the court, said Canada’s social landscape has changed since 1990.

“These appeals and the crossappeal are not about whether prostitution should be legal or not,” she wrote. “They are about whether the laws Parliament has enacted on how prostitution may be carried out pass constitutional muster.

“I conclude that they do not.”

In the 1990 reference, the Supreme Court upheld a ban on street solicitation, but the two women justices on the court at that time dissented.

This time, all six male Supreme Court justices sided with their three female colleagues.

The decision upheld last year’s Ontario Court of Appeal ruling that said the law banning brothels exposed sex workers to added danger by forcing them onto the streets.

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community disruption that is the object of the law,” McLachlin wrote. “Parliament has the power to regulate against nuisances, but not at the cost of the health, safety and lives of prostitutes.”

Sex-trade workers argued that much has changed since the high court last considered prostitution, including the horrific serial

target the commercialization of prostitution and to promote the values of dignity and equality.”

As for communication for the purposes of prostitution, the high court noted that the law is not intended to eliminate prostitution, but to take it out of public view so it will not be seen as a nuisance.

In weighing that balance, the high court concluded, “that the harm imposed by the prohibition on communicating in public was grossly disproportionate to the provision’s object of removing the nuisance of prostitution from the streets.”

Parliament could ask the Supreme Court for an extension on the effect of the ruling, if it has tabled legislation but can’t meet the one-year deadline.

The ruling told Parliament it needs to reshape the legal framework around prostitution.

“That does not mean that Parliament is precluded from imposing limits on where and how prostitution may be conducted,” it said.

The ruling told Parliament it needs to reshape the legal framework around prostitution.

The landmark Supreme Court decision gives Parliament a oneyear window to produce new legislation, which means prostitution-related offences will remain in the Criminal Code until Dec. 19, 2014.

The court struck down all three prostitution-related prohibitions – against keeping a brothel, living on the avails of prostitution and street soliciting – as violations of the constitutional guarantee to life, liberty and security of the person.

The ruling comes more than two decades after the court last upheld the anti-prostitution laws.

It represents a historic victory for sex workers – mainly women – who were seeking safer working

killings of prostitutes by Robert Pickton in British Columbia.

The Supreme Court appeared to acknowledge the Pickton case in the ruling, saying: “A law that prevents street prostitutes from resorting to a safe haven such as Grandma’s House while a suspected serial killer prowls the streets, is a law that has lost sight of its purpose.”

The court also struck down the law that makes living off the avails of prostitution illegal, rejecting the Ontario government’s argument that it is designed “to

“Greater latitude in one measure – for example, permitting prostitutes to obtain the assistance of security personnel – might impact on the constitutionality of another measure – for example, forbidding the nuisances associated with keeping a bawdy-house.

“The regulation of prostitution is a complex and delicate matter. It will be for Parliament, should it choose to do so, to devise a new approach, reflecting different elements of the existing regime.”

The three principles in the case are: retired dominatrix Terri-Jean Bedford, Vancouver sex worker Amy Lebovitch and former prostitute Valerie Scott, of Toronto.

The Ontario Appeal Court not only struck down the bawdy house law, but also modified a law against living on the avails of the sex trade to specifically preclude exploitation.

The federal and Ontario governments appealed those two parts of the decision, arguing among other things that Ottawa was justified in the way it dealt with a “complex social problem.”

The Ontario court decisions had been on hold pending the Supreme Court ruling.

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OTTAWA, Ont. or a hint of just how much turmoil Stephen Harper has experienced in 2013, his official Twitter account is not a bad place to start.

In January, (at)pmharper tweeted a “Day in the Life,” a behindthe-scenes look at his work day through pictures and video.

Only a few people get multiple cameos – former chief of staff Nigel Wright is one of them. In an early photo, Wright appears to lead a morning meeting with senior staff, and in a second talks to Harper at the end of the day under the title “Debriefing with Nigel.”

Another tweet features then Senate Leader Marjory LeBreton, talking to Harper just before question period.

Both those figures are now gone from their positions, swept up in the Senate expenses scandal that has sucked up most of the political energy in Ottawa this year. A few weeks after that successful social media experiment, the seeds of

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the future controversy were being sown by Wright and others around Harper.

“I think that this is going to end badly,” Wright commented in an email to another staff member about Duffy, only a week after the Day in the Life tweets.

It was the start of a difficult “year in the life” of Harper.

Wright was indeed important in Harper’s daily routine – particularly at that juncture in January.

It was Wright who helped navigate the government through the sensitive negotiations with First Nations leaders in the midst of the Idle No More movement. A deal was reached to conduct high-level treaty talks, and Attawapiskat’s Chief Theresa Spence later ended a high-profile hunger strike.

There were other bright moments. The new Office of Religious Freedom opened in February, fulfilling an election promise to promote religious tolerance globally.

But even as the negotiations to have Duffy repay his $90,000

worth of living expenses dragged on behind closed doors, there were other challenges that erupted more publicly.

Backbench MPs began to squawk about the controls exerted over their statements in the Commons. A dozen MPs spoke up to argue that only the speaker should determine the order and content of statements before and during question period.

“I want to say that I too feel that my rights have been infringed on by members of the party because I am not allowed to speak on certain topics...,” complained Alberta MP Leon Benoit.

MP Brent Rathgeber ultimately decided he couldn’t live within the highly controlled atmosphere of the Conservative caucus under Harper, and quit to sit as an independent in June.

That desire for increased parliamentary autonomy lives on, now embodied in the Reform Act of 2013, a private member’s bill tabled this month by well regarded Tory MP Michael Chong.

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setback for Harper came in May with the death of former campaign guru and key advisor Doug Finley. Finley was one of the more seasoned political hands around Harper.

“Our government has lost a trusted adviser and strategist. Canada has lost a fine public servant,” Harper said at the time. “I have lost a dear and valued friend.”

Within a few weeks of Finley’s passing, Harper was to lose Wright’s counsel too.

The details of Wright’s personal repayment of Duffy’s expenses hit the political scene like a bomb, and the reverberations have still not subsided six months later. Wright resigned, maintaining to this day that he acted in the public interest.

“I think he had the opportunity when he spoke to the caucus, that was the opportunity where a lot of this quite possibly could have been put to rest,” said former deputy chief of staff Keith Beardsley, referring to a speech Harper delivered to Tory MPs in late May. “Assuming he knew at that point all the details that we know now, it’s quite conceivable that he didn’t, but I think that was the opportunity and it didn’t happen, and we are where we are now.”

A possible respite from the story was supposed to come in the form of a party convention in late June, where Harper was to make a major speech launching the second-half of his government’s mandate. The catastrophic spring flooding in Alberta knocked that off the schedule.

The focus then transferred to a cabinet shuffle. Harper kept many of the more experienced ministers in the top jobs – John Baird, Jason Kenney, James Moore. He put a raft of younger faces in the more junior posts.

Attention to the changes melted away as quickly as a Popsicle at the cottage.

Finally, the Speech from the Throne was billed as the fresh chapter for the government. It detailed a new “consumers first” push, dangling the prospect of pick-and-pay cable. There were promises of anti-online bullying legislation, and most of all the hint of a major trade victory to come shortly afterward – the CanadaEuropean Union trade deal.

All this, unfortunately for Harper, would be overshadowed by the Senate matter. Only a day after the speech, his new leader in the upper chamber breathed life into the story by announcing motions to suspend Duffy, Wallin and Brazeau.

That in turn paved the way for blockbuster speeches in the chamber by the trio.

“They have no moral compass,” Duffy said of Conservative operatives. “Oh, they talk a great game about integrity, but, in my experience, they demonstrate every day that they do not understand the meaning of the phrase ‘the truth,

the whole truth and nothing but the truth.”’

An RCMP affidavit filed in court in November, featuring the emails of Wright and others inside Harper’s inner circle discussing the Duffy affair, gave the scandal its third act of 2013.

If Harper were to reprise his Twitter adventure of a year ago, the picture of his morning meeting would have some important differences.

His chief of staff is now Ray Novak, his loyal longtime aide.

Campaign manager Jenni Byrne is back in the PMO as Novak’s deputy. Dimitri Soudas, Harper’s former communications chief, is the recently named executive director of the Conservative Party of Canada.

All of this has the early markings of a campaign team preparing for a transition year.

Soudas in particular will need to navigate the party through a number of minefields, including the first time since 2004 that incumbent MPs will be truly challenged in open nomination battles. A number of new and reconfigured ridings entails work to be done founding and refounding riding associations, and finding suitable candidates.

There’s also the matter of keeping the coffers full.

“Justin Trudeau and the Liberals have made fundraising their top priority, and they are working hard to close the gap. We cannot let that happen,” party president John Walsh wrote to members last week.

“Our party can only win the next election if we keep our fundraising advantage and the 2015 election is right around the corner.

If we want to win, we need to get ready now.”

Harper’s message, meanwhile, is expected to be much the same as it has been. The government is emphasizing its fiscal record, and the fact it is on track to pay down the deficit by 2015.

“The core proposition that the prime minister’s selling and taking forward to the Canadian people is not going to be much different in 2014 as it was in 2011, which is stability, strength and principled leadership,” said Conservative strategist Jason Lietaer.

“I think those things will be the buzzwords.”

Still, there is the potential for the unforeseen landmine, if 2013 was any indication.

The RCMP have not yet laid any charges, and investigators are still busy pulling documents to build their cases. More juicy affidavits are likely to come. As Harper’s favourite band The Beatles once sang, “I read the news today, oh boy.”

Harper may well look wistfully upon his Twitter “Day in the Life” of January 28, 2013 as the calm before a long storm.

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Six months after floods, life still not normal in Alberta Bill Graveland The Canadian Press

HIGH RIVER, Alta.

Deborah Huisman is still grieving the loss of 41 years of memories.

She and her husband, Gerry, watched all of their belongings wash away when a wall of water hit their dream home in High River, Alta., in June.

“You know people just say to us, ‘It is just stuff,’ but it’s our stuff,” Huisman said June 22 as she cried at the roadblock into the town. “We worked so hard and everybody at the end of the day just wants to go home.”

Six months later, Deborah, 59, and Gerry, 61, are living in a room they’ve rented in Calgary as their wait continues to get back home.

“The grieving process was hard.

I never cried so much in my life. My husband said, ‘When are you going to stop crying?’ I said, ‘I have to cry,”’ said Huisman, sitting at a table in a coffee shop.

“The other day I was in Peavey Mart and all the Christmas things were out and I actually stood in the aisle and I cried because 40 years of collecting treasures is gone.

“I just want to get back in the house this year. That’s what’s driving us to be positive and to help as many people as we can.”

The water receded long ago in southern Alberta. The cleanup is done and the rebuild is on. Com-

mittees have been struck and are churning out plans to prevent floods in the future.

Still, a lot of pain and uncertainty remain after what has been labelled the most costly natural disaster in Canadian history – $6 billion by some estimates.

Cities and towns from the Rocky Mountains in the province’s west all the way east to Medicine Hat were damaged. High River, a town of nearly 13,000 just southwest of Calgary, was the hardest hit when torrential rains dumped 350 millimetres of water over a two-day period.

The Highwood River flooded much of the community. Downtown streets turned to raging rivers. It took weeks to pump water from one neighbourhood called the Hamptons.

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Calgarians look out over a flooded Calgary Stampede grounds and Saddledome in June. The Alberta flood was Canada’s top weather story for 2013.

More than 1,000 people throughout southern Alberta remain out of their homes and are living in extensive temporary housing camps or hotels. Many of the displaced are from High River, where whole subdivisions need to be rebuilt.

Many businesses downtown remain dark. Some have temporarily moved into trailers; others have closed. The historic Wales Movie Theatre still lists “Hangover 3” on the marquee. That movie was released on DVD in October.

The road to recovery hasn’t been

Jesse Winter/ Yukon News

Ice fog hangs over Whitehorse at sunrise on Wednesday. The temperature in the city hit -38 degrees Celsius.

smooth.

With home insurance policies not covering damage from overland flooding, it’s been up to the government to cover the some costs.

The province announced its funding formula this summer, but it only covers “basic levels of finish” – vinyl siding, asphalt shingles, basic-quality carpet and laminated counter tops.

The government is offering buyouts to 254 homeowners living in floodways at 100 per cent of their home’s tax-assessed value. But there was controversy over how the floodway maps were drawn. Some homes were buyout eligible, but undamaged during the flooding. Other homes where heavily damaged, but weren’t in the eligible zone, to the dismay of their owners.

The province announced in December that only 46 families of the 254 had agreed to move.

Recently, a group of High River residents who wanted to be bought out, but weren’t eligible, were awarded arbitration after they argued their homes were sacrificed as the province tried to rid the community of water.

There are huge projects being considered to help in the future.

Reviews are set to begin on constructing a diversion channel around High River and on a dry dam upstream of Calgary. The province has also said it will give money to the city of Calgary to study the merits of an underground diversion channel to take water from the Glenmore Reservoir to the Bow River.

“I think we need to be a lot better than we were before. Going back to normal isn’t an option for me. We

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“Once the mitigation stuff is done ... and we get the diversion canal started, that will really, really show the confidence that people’s lives and investments are really protected in High River. I’m extremely optimistic.”

The province says it knows it has a lot of work to do.

“When we look at the overall progress, and you think about mitigation, we’re many years down the road before completing all of that, particularly in the downtown core of High River,” said Rick Fraser, the minister responsible for the community’s recovery.

“Our hearts go out to the people in High River and other flood-affected areas and we know it’s a difficult time. We’re with them and we’re not going to give up.”

Realtor Jamie Ellice is hoping to be back in his home in the Hamptons before he and his fiancee, Christy, get married on June 7.

His house, which had just been completed, has been stripped to its studs and the hardwood floors have been removed. Some parts of the home survived, but for all intents and purposes it’s back to Square 1.

“Christy and I got engaged in this house,” said Ellice, who is still waiting for $163,000 in Alberta government disaster money. “In June we were talking about how things were

going. I was out fishing one day and sent her a quick text and told her how happy I was with everything, with our life and our brand new house.

“Within a week, who would have known something like this could have thrown you so topsy-turvy?”

It’s been a trying time, he said.

The couple is living in the basement of a friend’s home in High River.

“I can honestly say we’ve both taken a step back. I have much more stress, my anxiety level can tip quickly and I get mad for almost no reason.”

The Huismans are also waiting to receive their disaster relief money.

Retirement, which was originally scheduled for next year, has been put off. The water took that with it, too.

“This was totally devastating. The whole town was affected so there will be scars, because there’s going to be a lot of old heritage homes torn down,” Deborah Huisman said.

“Back to normal? It will be a new normal because I don’t think we’re ever going to be back the way we were,” she suggested.

“I want to make a life for us again in our little house and be happy again.

“You get mad at the powers that be upstairs and think, ‘Why did you do this to us?’ I never got any answers but, yeah, I have come to a peace.”

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The moment was captured omo the cat has been by a photographer with The living a quiet life since Canadian Press and the images gaining global celebrity garnered international media status when he leapt from a attention as a symbol of hope amidst the devastating flooding. submerged pickup truck and “I swam behind Momo and swam for his life in floodwa- wherever Momo went that’s ters that hit southern Alberta where I was going. I’m just glad he went for shore,” said Yeats in last June. a recent interview at his parMomo and his human, Kevan ents’ home in Okotoks, south of Yeats, were in Yeats’s truck on Calgary. a partially submerged street in “It was a deep spot on the High River when disaster struck. street really and it just sucked Yeats had been at work when me under. Looking back on it the flooding started and he went you kind of think, yeah, that was back to his apartment in to pick close.” up Momo.

Yeats said Momo didn’t seem The truck hit a deep spot to suffer any trauma from his on the road and was quickly swim. swamped by water washing “The next day he was fine and through the community from jumped in the shower – same old the Highwood River. cat.”

Yeats smashed out the back The Yeats family initially window of the cab and hopped thought Momo, who tips the into the truck bed with the then- scales at a hefty 7.5 kilograms, eight-month-old cat in his arms. was a female and it was reported as such at the time. They’ve since Momo jumped from Yeats’s

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Yeats still can’t believe the feline took the initiative and jumped into the raging water.

Reflecting back, he thinks Momo may have actually saved his life since he probably would have stayed with his truck.

“I wouldn’t have got out. I wouldn’t have bailed.”

Yeats said the attention he received at the time has faded.

And some people have questioned the sanity of going back to High River to save his cat.

“Lots of positive and a couple of negative reactions: ‘For a cat?

Really?’ But it’s a member of the family so what can you do?”

Lori Yeats was initially frantic when she received a call from her son after his close call.

“I just feel like I’m a lucky mom,” she said. “I was angry that he had gone back in to get the cat but, all in all, incredibly proud because he did all the right things for all the right reasons.”

“I wouldn’t have it any other way. Momo is my grandkitty. I love the cat and I can’t imagine life without either one of them.”

Season’s Greetings to you and your family from Yukon College employees and Board of Governors!

photo: Lynn Eckervogt

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Arrest of diplomat exposes huge cultural divide Tim Sullivan

series of cultural land mines, causing an uproar in a country where a woman’s honour is supposed to NEW DELHI be publicly defended, insults are In New York, it looked like a profoundly felt and the treatment of straightforward case: an obscure one’s maid is, for most, considered young diplomat at the Indian conno business at all of the authorities. sulate was accused of lying on visa As for the arrest itself: Only the forms so she could bring her maid to powerless and poor would face arthe U.S., paying her less than three rest for lying on a government form. dollars an hour. The diplomat was For someone in the educated elite, a arrested, processed through the legal strip search would be unthinkable. system like anyone else and quickly “There’s an expectation here that freed on bail. if you speak English in a certain way In India, though, the hours you will be treated with a certain that Devyani Khobragade spent in deference by the authorities,” said custody have set off a diplomatic Mihir Sharma, a New Delhi writer storm. Government officials roared and associate editor of the Business about her public arrest, particularly Standard newspaper. her strip search. Cabinet ministers It’s an expectation that means warned of international conspirpolice rarely harass drivers of Meracies. An Indian official compared cedes, and wealthy Indians convicted the search to a gang rape. Heavy of brutal crimes can spend years free concrete security barriers were on medical leave. dragged by police from around the Then there’s history. The arrest U.S. Embassy. The Indian media mingled with long-harboured fumed over the country’s humiliaworries that the U.S. condescends tion. to India, treating it as a povertyForeign Minister Salman Khurwracked nation with poor sanitashid summed up the feelings of tion instead of as the world’s largest many people here. “It is no longer democracy and a nuclear power. about an individual,” he told Parlia- Also, while New Delhi and Washment in an angry speech Wednesday. ington have become close allies over “It is about our sense of self as a na- the past decade, that followed many tion and our place in the world.” more years of Cold War distrust, Because what happened in New when India had close ties to the York was not just about an arrest, or Soviet Union, the United States had close ties to Pakistan and the U.S. about one young woman. Instead, Embassy here was regarded as little the incident pinballed through a The Associated Press

more than a walled CIA encampment.

Among the Indian elite, and particularly among senior foreign service officers, it’s not hard to find people who still look at the United States with deep-rooted suspicion.

“For (so) long these Americans … have taken us for granted, and we loved to surrender every time they insulted us, interfered in our affairs and humiliated our citizens,” Tarun Vijay, a Hindu nationalist and member of the upper house of Parliament, wrote in the Times of India. “Our ministers are subjected to humiliating searches and we kept quiet.”

But what does he mean by “humiliating searches”? Vijay is referring to basic security checks at American airports, and his description says a great deal about the cultural gulf that can separate the U.S. and India.

It’s a gulf that can leave people from both countries adrift in confusion.

Americans are raised to view elitism with distaste, or at least to pay lip service to the everyman ideal.

Presidents are celebrated for carrying their own luggage or chopping wood for the fireplace. Sitting members of Congress must go through airport security. Warren Buffett, the second wealthiest man in the world, is known for his unelaborate suburban house in Omaha.

In explaining the arrest, U.S. attorney Preet Bharara – who was

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Indian Muslims burn an effigy of U.S. President Barack Obama against the alleged mistreatment of New York based Indian diplomat Devyani Khobragade, in Ajmer, India. tall Mumbai tower thought to be born in India but raised in the the world’s most expensive private United States – highlighted that home. difference.

Largely unexamined in India is The “sole motivation in this case, the life of the maid, Sangeeta Rias in all cases, is to uphold the rule chard. If most Americans believe the of law, protect victims, and hold accountable anyone who breaks the case revolves around a mistreated woman, a maid who authorities law – no matter what their societal status and no matter how powerful, say was paid a tiny fraction of the minimum wage in one of the world’s rich or connected they are,” he said most expensive cities, most Indians in a statement.

In India, though, elitism is noth- see it far differently.

“Nobody likes talking about ing to be embarrassed about. Instead our domestic help situation, where it is something to be proud of, and there’s usually a great deal of exits perks are openly flaunted. ploitation,” said Sharma, the writer.

A boss in many Indian offices wouldn’t dream of carrying his own “’They’re a member of the family,’ briefcase to his car at the end of the we’re always told.”

In some cases, this can mean day, and no self-respecting Indian employers provide their staff with Cabinet minister would be seen good salaries, free food and housing, waiting at a security checkpoint. and schooling for their children. But Mukesh Ambani, India’s wealthiest Indian rights activists say there is man, built his family a 27-storey

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rampant mistreatment of household staff across the country, with millions of people working 12 hours a day, six days a week for less than $100 a month, often sleeping on mats unrolled on the kitchen floor.

And what of Khobragade?

She has been defended by the prime minister, the foreign minister, the political opposition and dozens of news anchors. She has been upheld as the image of the sophisticated modern Indian, a woman working in a far-away nation on behalf of her nation.

But almost no one has mentioned her caste. Khobragade comes from the bottom of Hinduism’s complex social ladder, from a community so low that traditionally it was seen as not having any caste at all. A couple of decades ago, she probably would not have had such a plum diplomatic posting, if she had made it into the foreign service at all.

Now, as India changes and its caste system frays, this surprising fact is possible: The diplomat is a dalit. The woman who has inspired such outrage on the part of fellow Indians – the woman whose handling, both in principle and physically, has touched off a diplomatic row – is a member of the outcast community once known as “untouchables.”

And in India of 2013, where dreams of global respect can often trump even the strongest of traditions, no one seems to care.

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Russia says it will deploy new railway-based intercontinental ballistic missile Vladimir Isachenkov

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Earlier this week, Lithuania and Poland expressed concern about MOSCOW signals that Russia has deployed ussia is developing a new intercontistate-of-the-art missiles in its westnental ballistic missile mounted on ernmost exclave of Kaliningrad a railway car in a bid to counterbalance that borders the NATO countries. prospective U.S. weapons, a senior military President Vladimir Putin officer said Wednesday. and other Russian officials also Col. Gen. Sergei Karakayev, the chief have voiced concern about the of the military’s Strategic Missile Forces, “prompt global strike” weapons said in remarks carried by Russian news under development in the U.S., agencies that the new weapon will be much which would be capable of strikeasier to camouflage than its predecessor. ing targets anywhere in the world The Soviet-designed railway missiles were in as little as an hour with deadly precision. scrapped in 2005.

The U.S. plans included Karakayev said the Yars missile intended for the project is much lighter than modifying some of the existing nuclear-armed missiles to carry the Soviet-built system and could be put conventional warheads as well as inside a regular refrigerator car unlike its designing new vehicles capable of predecessor, which required a heavier and bigger car that could be detected by enemy travelling at hypersonic speeds.

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A decommissioned Russian train-mounted last week, Putin refrained from “No matter how they tried to hide it, missile at a railway museum in St. Petersburg. any expert would figure out that it wasn’t a naming the U.S., but described the The Russian military is developing a new in“prompt global strike” program regular train,” Karakayev said. tercontinental ballistic missile mounted on a as an attempt to tilt the strategic Missiles hidden inside railway cars railway car to replace a Soviet-era design. balance in the United States’ favour are far more difficult to spot and destroy and vowed to counter it. says it may use nuclear weapons to counter compared to other land-based missiles, Karakayev said the development of a a nuclear attack on Russia or an ally, or a and thus have a better chance to survive an new railway-based missile was part of a large-scale conventional attack that threatenemy strike.

“It could easily be put in a conventional Russian response to “prompt global strike.” ens Russia’s existence.

Russia has increasingly relied on nuclear Russia-West ties have become increasrefrigerator car … which can travel on any weapons in its military strategy to compen- ingly strained over the U.S. missile shield, route,” Karakayev said. sate for a post-Soviet decline in its conven- Western criticism of Russia’s human rights The Kremlin has vowed to develop new tional forces. The nation’s military doctrine record and, most recently, Ukraine. types of weapons in response to U.S.-led The Associated Press

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Turkey jailed the most journalists for the 2nd year, followed by Iran, China Frank Eltman and Desmond Butler

“Jailing journalists for their work is the hallmark of an inThe Associated Press tolerant, repressive society,” CPJ executive director Joel Simon NEW YORK said in a statement accompanyor the second consecu- ing the report.

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“It is disturbing to see the number of jailed journalists rise in countries like Vietnam and Egypt,” Simon said. “But it is frankly shocking that Turkey would be the world’s worst jailer of journalists for the second year in a row.”

Despite being a democracy and a key NATO ally of the United States, a number of factors contribute to Turkey’s ranking as the leading jailer of journalists. The country has broad legislation to fight terrorism that critics say allows it to prosecute government critics as terrorists.

Until the government of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan began peace talks in recent years, Turkey waged a multi-decade conflict with armed rebels fighting for Kurdish autonomy that claimed thousands of lives. The Turkish government accuses many of the imprisoned journalists of being members of the rebel group, which is considered a terrorist group by Western allies.

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Similarly, many other journalists have been jailed in sweeping prosecutions in recent years involving allegations of conspiracies against the government by Erdogan’s secularist adversaries.

CPJ has argued that the prosecution of Turkish journalists is a form of government pressure on the media, in a country with an increasingly authoritarian bent. But this year’s report notes a slight decline in the number of jailed journalists from 49 to 40, as some were freed as they awaited trial and others were released on time served after long pre-trial detentions.

The CPJ said the number of jailed journalists in Iran fell to 35 from 45. It said some sentences expired and the government kept up its policy of releasing some prisoners on furlough. Those who are released do not know when or if they will be summoned back to jail, the CPJ said.

Authorities also continued to make new arrests and to condemn minority and reformist journalists to lengthy prison sentences despite the election in June of a new president, Hassan Rouhani, who has called for hu-

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In China, 32 reporters, editors, and bloggers were imprisoned, the same number as in 2012.

Egypt was holding five journalists in jail compared with none in 2012. The CPJ noted that following President Mohamed Morsi’s ouster in July, dozens of local and international journalists were detained, but most were later freed.

Bashar al-Assad’s government in Syria imprisoned 12 journalists in 2013, down from 15 last year. The report noted, however, that the figure does not include dozens of reporters who have been abducted and are believed to be held by armed opposition groups. As of late 2013, about 30 journalists were missing in Syria, the CPJ said.

Only one journalist was behind bars in the Americas.

Roger Shuler, an independent blogger who writes about alleged Republican corruption in Alabama, was being held on contempt of court for refusing to comply with an injunction regarding content ruled defamatory, the CPJ said.

In recent years, journalist jailings in the Americas have become increasingly rare, with one Cuban documented in prison in 2012 and none throughout the region in 2011.

Online journalists accounted for about half of the prisoners at 106, while roughly one-third were freelancers.

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Dog’s heat, burning snowmobile help Alaska woman survive extreme cold Dan Joling

Scott Mayo departed the cabin by snowmobile Saturday to check on a trap line that started about ANCHORAGE, Alaska five miles (8 km) away, Peters said. woman survived He had not returned by Sunnearly three nights in day. The Mayos were not due back bitter interior Alaska to Cantwell, a community at the west side of the Denali Highway, cold by burning her snowuntil Tuesday night, and Vivian mobile and huddling with Mayo made the decision to return her small dog, Alaska State to Cantwell and seek help for her Troopers said Thursday. husband.

She did not get far. Her snowVivian Mayo, 57, of Cantwell, mobile broke down Sunday about was found at about 1 a.m. a mile from the cabin.

Wednesday, taking shelter under The Mayos had told family the burned-out hulk of her members they would be back by 7 snowmobile and sharing body p.m. Tuesday, and if they weren’t heat with Elvis, a small, brown back by 10 p.m. Tuesday, to alert dog of unknown breed. She was severely hypothermic and in need authorities.

Family members called troopof immediate medical attention, ers Tuesday night. Alaska Wildtroopers said. life Trooper James Ellison and Megan Peters, spokeswoman volunteer rescuers headed out for the troopers, said the dog and found Vivian Mayo in about likely helped Mayo preserve her three hours, Peters said. Mayo body heat.

“It really did help save her life,” was starting her third night in the Peters said. “Elvis is a little hero.” frigid temperatures, which dipped as low as minus 20 degrees F (-29 Mayo’s ordeal began over the C). weekend.

Her mobility was limited, She and her husband, Scott Peters said, and she could not Mayo, 61, travelled on snowsimply walk the mile back to the mobiles to a cabin near Mile cabin. The burned-out snow105 of Denali Highway, a mostly gravel east-west road east of Den- mobile had been tipped over and Mayo was using the shell for ali National Park and Preserve.

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Ellison at 2:45 a.m. reported finding what he believed was Scott Mayo’s trail. He gave trail co-ordinates to the rescue centre, which responded with a C-130 airplane and a Pave Hawk helicopter.

Searchers in the airplane spotted Scott Mayo at 5:13 a.m., just two to three miles from the cabin, Peters said. Tracks from his snowmobile indicated he had travelled much farther. He had built a small warming fire and was reported in good condition despite starting his fourth night in the cold.

The Pave Hawk landed and took Mayo back to the cabin before the Mayos were flown by helicopter to Anchorage.

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Oliphant owns Antionette’s restaurant in Whitehorse. Her daughter, Lyndie Greenwood, is in Los Angeles, busy on the set of Sleepy Hollow, one of this season’s best new shows.

Greenwood, 30, is relatively new to television acting. After guest appearances on shows like Rookie Blue and Being Erica, in 2011 she landed a recurring role on the show Nikita.

Landing the role on Sleepy Hollow was another big break, said Oliphant.

“It’s a really super fantastic opportunity for her.

She’s working with some pretty special people, and pretty big-name producers and stuff.”

Sleepy Hollow is a modern reinterpretation of the classic Washington Irvine short story.

In it, Ichabod Crane rises from the dead, 250 years after beheading the being that would become the Headless Horseman in battle while fighting for George Washington during the American Revolutionary War. He stumbles into present-day Sleepy Hollow only to find that mysterious powers are threatening to destroy the world, and he could be humankind’s last hope.

He teams up with Lt. Abbie Mills, a talented young police officer with a special connection to the

strange and occult ancient history of the town.

Greenwood plays Abbie’s sister, Jenny, who was institutionalized after becoming mentally disturbed by a encounter with dark forces when the two of them were children.

The show is part cop drama, part supernatural historical thriller. It has been well received by audiences and critics, and Fox has already signed on for a second season.

Greenwood, who grew up in Toronto, didn’t always like being in the spotlight, said Oliphant.

“As a kid we had her modelling, and she hated it.

Hated it. Every time we would go to a photo shoot, she would cry. She hated it. So we just stopped. And now, here she is.”

She had a university degree under her belt and was on her way to becoming a pediatrician or a naturopath when she turned to acting, said Oliphant.

“It’s funny, you know. This is my biology major who decided after university, ‘Oh, my gosh, I need a break from studying. I’ll just go see if I can do some commercials.’ And sure enough, it just took off for her. She started doing really well.”

Oliphant keeps her daughter’s signed headshot behind the bar at the restaurant.

“To Mummy,” the inscription reads.

“She’s my girl,” said Oliphant, beaming with pride.

Oliphant is hoping that Greenwood can make it home, to the Yukon, for Christmas.

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fter years of riding surging metal prices and spending freely on takeover deals and massive new projects, Canadian miners were forced to tighten their belts in 2013 as the cycle turned against them.

The industry took billions in write downs as companies reevaluated projects that they believed were worth far more just a couple of years ago and slashed spending as falling commodity prices squeezed margins.

But it wasn’t just financial problems for the miners, as political and environmental issues made headlines around the world for several Canadian mining companies.

The largest company to face problems was Barrick Gold, which suspended nearly all of the work at its massive PascuaLama project high in the Andes mountain range.

The halt followed massive cost overruns and protests from an indigenous community living below the project who tried to have Barrick’s licence revoked and force a new environmental impact study

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The Supreme Court of Chile stopped short of ordering a new review and upheld the environmental permit, but put construction on hold until Barrick’s environmental commitments and work to protect the water systems is completed.

Jamie Kneen, of industry watchdog group MiningWatch Canada, said technology has

made it easier for groups opposing mining projects to organize and disseminate information, even in remote areas around the globe.

“The level of awareness and information has been much greater than its ever been,” Kneen says.

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Kneen said companies are now looking to develop projects in new, less accessible areas where indigenous people can be more protective of their culture and environment.

The rise of social and environmental concerns have come at a time of volatile commodity prices.

The price of gold, which broke US$1,900 an ounce in 2011, fell to around US$1,200 this year, while the price of silver, which started the year around US$32 per ounce, fell below $19.

Copper, which traded for about US$3.70 per pound at the start of 2013, was down about 40 cents for the year.

In Mongolia, Turquoise Hill suspended work on development of the underground copper mine at its Oyu Tolgoi project after the Mongolian government said financing for the project would require parliamentary approval.

And Gabriel Resources also faced a significant set back at its

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The rejection followed weeks protests in that country over environmental concerns and criticism that Romania would earn too little from the deal.

In a recent report, Deloitte noted a trend of intensifying local community demands and government relations marked by rising hostility and zero tolerance regulatory environments.

Jurgen Beier, a national mining practice leader at Deloitte, said that 20 years ago mining companies took a more adversarial approach to environmental and social issues, but they are learning.

“I think something that the mining companies have learned is that they actually have to start seeing the governments as partners way earlier on in the process,” he said.

Gabriel Resources chief Jonathan Henry says there is still hope for his project as there has been talk about the possibility of a broader legal framework for mine development. But shareholders are running out of patience.

Without progress by the Romanian government, Henry says Gabriel will be forced to do something “radically different.”

Henry conceded that the downturn in the market for the mining industry has opened up an opportunity for some non-governmental organizations seeking improvements.

“Those who are trying to make mining better certainly have more of their say when things are not in a boom market because there isn’t that demand for metals,” he said.

“So I don’t think the period we are in now is bad for our industry and I think there is a lot of learning.”

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The ruling, tabled last month but largely overlooked

by Canadian news organizations, marks the second-tolast step in an exhaustive process that began with a complaint in 2011 by the U.S.-based Center for Biological Diversity.

The non-governmental organization argued that Canada hadn’t followed its own rules under the Species At Risk Act, or SARA, when it failed to list polar bears as either threatened or endangered.

The Secretariat of the Commission of Environmental Co-operation, after conducting a year of study and hearing a full response from Environment Canada, ruled there are “valid assertions that a party to the agreement, Canada, is failing to effectively enforce its environmental law.”

Environment Canada noted Thursday that polar bears were listed as a species of concern in October 2011 under “strong domestic legislation to conserve and protect wildlife in Canada.”

“Our response to the submission specifically explained how the government fulfilled its responsibilities under the Species at Risk Act, including aboriginal consultations and responsibilities under the Nunavut Land Claims Agreement,” spokesman Mark Johnson said in an email.

“Our response was also very clear on (the scientific advisory panel’s) role as an organization that is independent from the government.”

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their own environmental laws.

“The secretariat finds that having considered the submission in light of the (Canadian) response, there remain central open questions about Canada’s enforcement of SARA in respect of the polar bear species,” said the ruling.

“Such information involving the case of the polar bear might also shed light on the enforcement of SARA in respect of other species.”

The three-country tribunal must decide by Feb. 21 whether to go ahead with the full study, with a simple majority of two holding the hammer.

The secretariat has no power to compel governments to act.

“It is largely shaming country governments into complying with the law,” said Sarah Uhlemann, the Seattle-based staff attorney for the Center for Biological Diversity.

“They really dig into what the facts are, what the law says, what the country did right and wrong.”

Even before a full factual study may be conducted, the secretariat makes clear it was not impressed with Environment Canada’s defence.

In bureaucratic language, the Nov. 7 report dissected the government response point by point.

It says Environment Canada made no effort to prove that it used the “best available information” to assess polar bear numbers.

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The report says cabinet decisions were delayed for years for “extended consultations” that were not explained, despite firm statutory timelines in the Species At Risk Act. And the secretariat saved an especially acidic two paragraphs to address apparent charges of bias levelled by Canadian officials.

“The party’s statements regarding the secretariat’s supposed lack of objectivity are unsubstantiated and lack justification. ... Statements impugning the secretariat’s neutrality, especially unsubstantiated statements to that effect, do not appear to have a place in the process.”

Uhlemann said she attended last week’s polar bear conference in Russia, from which federal Environment Minister Leona Aglukkaq posted a Twitter photo of a freshly killed Baffin Island polar bear with the caption, “Enjoy!!”

“I was just in Moscow with a lot of the folks that are making decisions on this issue and I think it’s putting (Canada) in a really uncomfortable position,” said Uhlemann.

“They really stand alone compared to the rest of the world in their vision of how polar bears are doing and how much we should be worried about that.”

Uhlemann noted that Canada has actually increased its hunting quota for polar bears in the last couple of years as other Arctic nations are prohibiting or very severely restricting the hunt.

“I don’t see Canada, tomorrow, making any major changes, but we are hoping this process will continue to pressure them,” she said.

“We fully anticipate that once a full look into the Canadian process is done, that Canada really is going to have to change its mind on this.”

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Feds move to regulate roaming rates tower sharing.

“The penalties will encourage compliance and allow for more efCanada’s biggest telecom compa- fective remedies should violations nies are facing a cap on the wireless occur,” Moore said. roaming rates they charge smaller Under the current rules, Industry rivals for using their networks and Canada decided that established could face fines for breaking rules wireless players have to allow new that govern the industry. wireless companies the use of their Industry Minister James Moore networks, but the terms were left announced Wednesday that the gov- to be worked out between them. ernment is making legislative chanHowever, the smaller companies ges in an attempt to give consumers have complained that the rates the more competition in the wireless large, established companies charge market, dominated by Rogers, Bell are too high. and Telus.

Wind Mobile said Moore’s an“Currently, high domestic roam- nouncement shows the government ing rates hold back many providers, is serious about more competition in especially new entrants, from offerthe wireless industry. ing more choice, lower prices and “The reality is that it takes a lot of better service to Canadians,” Moore time and a lot of capital to overcome said in a statement. a 30-year head-start and achieve Ottawa will move to prevent the comprehensive national coverage,” big wireless providers from charging said Simon Lockie, Wind Mobile’s small wireless companies more than chief regulatory officer. they charge their own customers for “Minister Moore has said this domestic roaming. Moore said the government is going to do somerates “can be more than 10 times thing about domestic roaming, and what they charge their own customhe clearly meant it,” Lockie said in a ers.” statement.

Roaming fees are charged when Canaccord Genuity analyst Dvai customers use their cellphones Ghose said the move should help the outside their own network provider’s new wireless companies in theory, coverage area. but said it’s “too little too late.”

Rogers, Bell and Telus have large Ghose noted that Wind Mobile’s national networks, but smaller providers such as Wind Mobile, Mo- majority owner, Russian telecom bilicity, Maritime-based Eastlink and VimpelCom, has put its stake up Quebec’s Videotron have to negotiate for sale and struggling Mobilicity is operating under creditor protection agreements with the Big Three to and is also up for sale. Public Mobile give their customers service across has been sold to Telus. the country when they travel.

“In our view, the only potential Moore said the legislative changes beneficiaries may be Videotron and will be in place until the CRTC, which is already investigating roam- Eastlink customers when they roam ing rates, makes a decision on roam- off network,” he said in a research note. ing rates.

Ghose said Rogers is the main Last week, the Canadian Radioprovider of roaming services to the television and Telecommunications new wireless companies, but assumes Commission said it will look into that agreements only generate $50 whether big wireless companies are million or less in domestic roaming charging their smaller Canadian revenue. competitors too much to use their “We expect Rogers to generate networks. $6.8 billion of network revenue in The government will also make 2013, implying that domestic wholechanges to give the CRTC and sale roaming revenues are largely Industry Canada the ability to fine immaterial.” companies that break rules such as Rogers, Bell and Telus have more the wireless code and agreements on deploying wireless spectrum needed than 25 million wireless subscribers among them. to build networks and cellphone

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If you’re on the verge of a mall-induced rampage, maybe it’s time to try giving instead of buying.

Studies show charitable giving boosts happiness and reduces stress, says Lara Aknin, an assistant professor of psychology at Simon Fraser University.

“Giving makes you happy,” says Aknin, whose many studies of the link between philanthropy and well-being included measuring cortisol in the bloodstream. That study found that when people gave more, the stress hormone dissipated more quickly in their blood.

“When people are spending money in a way that they’re giving to others by way of charity, we see similar emotional boosts.

It’s more rewarding than spending money on yourself,” Aknin says.

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In short, good deeds put us in a good mood, but when it comes to playing Santa for social good, make sure you know who has been naughty and who has been nice.

MoneySense Magazine issues an annual list of the top 100 charities, based on its analysis of fundraising and spending activities: http://www.moneysense. ca/the-2013-charity-100-grades.

This year, the magazine gave top grades to the Nature Conservancy Canada, the Canadian Red Cross, the Calgary Interfaith Food Bank, the Royal Ontario Museum Foundation and the United Way, among others. The Calgary Foundation, the Edmonton Community Foundation and the Vancouver Foundation also made the grade for their program spending, fundraising costs, governance, transparency and cash reserves.

The Canadian Red Cross, which funds emergency relief at home and abroad, is a perennial favourite, spending 80 per cent of its funds on charitable programs and just four per cent on management and administration.

The international humanitarian organization Medecins Sans Frontieres, or Doctors Without Borders, tends to go where others fear to tread, including conflict and disaster zones. The Canadian branch spends 80 per cent of its funds on charitable

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programs and four per cent on administration.

The Canada Revenue Agency says Santa’s elves should make sure their charity of choice shares their good intentions.

The agency website has a searchable database of registered charities (http://www.cra-arc. gc.ca/charitylists/) that includes a breakdown of how much is spent on charitable programs in comparison to how much goes toward administration, political activities and payroll.

Individual food banks are easily searchable on the site, but most spend at least nine cents of every dime on feeding the hungry. The Union Gospel Mission Foundation in Vancouver spends 94 per cent and Food Banks Canada spends 91 per cent.

“Confirm that the organization is a Canadian registered charity or a qualified donee,” says Mylene Croteau, a spokeswoman for the Canada Revenue Agency.

And get to know the charity, she says.

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Some charities are more generous than others when it comes to funnelling donated funds into action. And then there’s the just plain naughty.

“Learn to recognize the signs of fraud,” Croteau says.

There are some disappointing revelations on the website. More than one charity incorporating “missing children” in its title has had its charitable status revoked, and some popular animal welfare or environmental groups are not, in fact, registered because they do not meet the criteria.

Canadians are a generous bunch, according to Statistics Canada.

In 2010, individual Canucks passed $10.6 billion to charitable or non-profit organizations. Just under 24 million people aged 15 and over reported at least one financial donation that year.

Women were more likely than men to have made at least one financial donation (86 per cent compared with 82) and people who attend religious meetings or services at least once a week were more inclined to donate.

When it comes to giving, it seems West is best. Alberta, Saskatchewan and British Columbia gave the highest average amounts ($562, $544 and $543).

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As wine counterfeiters get more sophisticated, the industry is fighting back Sarah Dilorenzo

of silence, producers across the $217-billion industry are finally beginning to talk about the probSAINT-EMILION, France lem and ways to combat it.

The astronomical prices paid n FBI agent recently for fine wine these days makes the showed Arnaud de bottles “more than just a luxury Laforcade a file with several item,” said Spiros Malandrakis, labels supposedly from 1947 senior analyst of the alcoholic drinks market at Euromonitor, bottles of Chateau Cheval a research firm. “They become Blanc, one of France’s finest a currency in themselves. And wines. To the Saint-Emilion as with every currency, at some point, people want to find ways to vineyard’s CFO, they were that and make more clearly fakes – too new look- manipulate money.”

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But customers may be more easily duped.

Regardless of his skill, the counterfeiter had ambition: 1947 is widely considered an exceptionally good year, and Cheval Blanc’s production that year has been called the greatest Bordeaux ever.

The current average price paid for a bottle at auction is about $11,500, according to truebottle. com, which tracks auctions and helps consumers spot fakes.

Counterfeiting has likely dogged wine as long as it has been produced. In the 18th century, King Louis XV ordered the makers of Cotes du Rhone to brand their barrels with “CDR” before export to prevent fraud.

But it is getting more sophisticated and more ambitious, particularly as bottle prices rise due to huge demand in new markets, mainly in Asia. After decades

Experts say it’s impossible to know the size of the counterfeit market. Partially that’s because many sales happen privately and because it is woven into a legal market, unlike, say, cocaine trafficking. Many known counterfeits likely go unreported because the victims are embarrassed – and chagrined to lose their investment. Industry insiders, meanwhile, have long ignored the problem collectively as producers were afraid of scaring customers.

But many experts agree on one point: the quantity of rare bottles from illustrious vineyards being auctioned is just too high to not include fakes.

“I think it’s pretty obvious to everybody that there is a relatively large amount of counterfeit wines from these top wineries that is on the market,” said Leonardo

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Chateau Smith Haut Lafitte winery in Martillac, near Bordeaux, France. Counterfeiting has dogged wine as long as it has been produced, but it is getting more sophisticated.

LoCascio, founder of Winebow, a leading U.S. importer of wine.

Maureen Downey, an expert wine appraiser and authenticator who founded Chai Consulting, says it is important not to overestimate the problem, guessing it is still probably a very small proportion of the global wine trade, but she added that many producers

think that recent publicity on the problem means it’s been solved.

Not so, she and others said. In fact, it will likely simply get more sophisticated and even harder to track and estimate.

China’s case is a good illustration of the evolution of counterfeiting. Initially, criminals took advantage of the country’s twin

weaknesses: consumers who were new to wine but had the money to buy it for show. That led to flagrant fakes, whose labels simply piled on the names – or near names – of as many famous vineyards and locales as possible, claiming, for example, to be a great Burgundy wine from a famous Bordeaux chateau.

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But in the past two years, as more Chinese became connoisseurs, there has been an explosion in Asia of more refined counterfeits, says Mark Solomon, who co-founded truebottle.com.

Experts fear this problem will only continue to grow and won’t be confined to Asia, as technology makes it possible to make better fakes and steadily rising auction prices make it worth the while.

“It’s kind of an arms race” between the increasing sophistication of the methods used to authenticate bottles and the increasing sophistication of counterfeiters, said Solomon.

Fighting back On the front lines of that race is Bernard Medina, who is the director of a lab run by the French Finance Ministry in Bordeaux devoted to sniffing out fake wine. He recently laid out at least 15 bottles when journalists came to visit that ran the gamut from the silly to the serious. Some were outrageous amalgamations, like the bottle that had “Luxembourg” on the label and “produit de France” below that. Others were trying to give consumers just a soupcon of glamour: Chatelet Cheval Blanc, another attempt to copy the illustrious Chateau Cheval Blanc. Most of the bottles were picked up in China by French customs or fraud agents and would easily be sorted out.

But Medina also sometimes receives bottles from chateaux in the surrounding area, which is home to many of the world’s best wines. These are suspected fakes but so well done that even the owners aren’t quite sure if they might be real.

Medina’s lab runs a series of tests on bottles that come their way: measuring the isotopes of certain elements can determine generally which country a wine comes from, measuring the trace radioactivity in a bottle can broadly determine its age. Wines that claim to be from before the invention of the atom bomb, for instance, should have no cesium-137. By contrast, bottles from the 1960s, when nuclear tests happened almost weekly, show a noticeable spike in cesium.

The lab also makes its own wines from grapes collected about every 30 miles (50 kilometres) across Western France. Each of those wines then serves as a reference point for a given year and micro-region.

None of these tests is definitive, but, taken together, they can generally sniff out the fakes. Medina warns, however, that over the past year he has been seeing fewer of the gross counterfeits and expects criminals are focusing on harder to spot, more lucrative fakes.

For instance, counterfeiters buy up old, empty bottles from the best vineyards, so the wine would pass a test that sampled the bottle’s glass or inspected the label. A recent search on eBay showed several old, empty bottles were for sale, including a 1958 Chateau Lafite Rothschild, a 1928 Chateau Margaux and a 1971 Romanee Conti – all of which are

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Several wineries are laser-engraving their bottles with unique serial numbers. Other wineries are experimenting with hologrammed or bar-coded stickers placed half on the bottle, half on the capsule – the foil that covers the cork – that serve as ID tags and will shred if removed. The Bordeaux winegrowers’ professional association has created an app, called Smart Bordeaux, that it bills as the “Shazam for wine.”

Point your cellphone camera at a wine bottle’s label and the app will give you information about the wine and contact details for the winery. Smart Bordeaux is also keeping a database of labels that appear to be fakes.

Code of silence Hindering the industry’s ability to shake out the forgeries is the wine industry’s secretiveness. It is a discrete business, conducted quietly among a relatively small number of people who know one another. When a bad apple worms its way into that circle, many it seems would rather swallow their losses than rat out their “friends” and admit their own ignorance.

Bill Koch, the billionaire businessman whose cellar includes 43,000 bottles of wine, says he has upset that order by becoming a vocal crusader against fakes. He started collecting wine about 40 years ago and has bought some of the most sought-after wines in the world, including bottles that purported to be part of Thomas Jefferson’s private collection.

Those were the first bottles Koch discovered were fake, but the experience led him to hire experts to sniff out the other forgeries. They have found 500 to 600 counterfeit bottles, for which he paid between $4 million and $5 million – and the experts aren’t yet finished.

“There’s a code of silence in the entire industry,” Koch said, but his lawsuits against the auction houses where he bought fakes have threatened that.

As have high-profile cases like the FBI’s against Rudy Kurniawan, who is accused of selling $1.3 million worth of counterfeit wine – and believed to have put many more millions of dollars in fakes on the market.

“I think the ostrich strategy, hiding yourself and saying we’ll figure it out later, is not satisfying,” said Fabien Teitgen, who is in charge of winemaking at Smith Haut Lafitte in Bordeaux. “The best is to speak about it openly and to say what we’re doing and let the consumers know what means there are to verify that they have the right product.”

Not all wineries feel that way.

Some, at the very highest levels of wine making, have told Koch that their wine is “too good to be faked.”

Downey says consumers also have to get smarter, choosing a reputable merchant and resisting “deals.”

“Spending $5,000 on a $7,000 bottle is not a bargain,” said Downey.

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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Teslin Tlingit Heritage Centre ExprEssion of intErEst DEsign anD ConstruCt Display CabinEts for thE tEslin tlingit hEritagE CEntrE The Heritage Department of the Teslin Tlingit Council requires new cabinets for display of artifacts and artwork. We are looking for professional(s) experienced in design and construction display cases. Cases will be sympatric in look and materials to existing cases.

Case 1: Will be a Clan Regalia Case sensitive to the important cultural artifacts that are being displayed. The case will dramatically display the objects and create a safe standard museum environment. The case will free standing easy access exhibit case of wood and tempered glass with stand alone lighting system with storage/display drawers. The case will accommodate 2 life size mannequins and two upper torso mannequins and three glass shelves. Maximum size is 9'X 8'X 4'.

Case 2: Will be a wall mounted case of wood construction with tempered glass with ceiling lighting with storage/display drawers.

It is to be easily accessible and be design to dramatically display the objects and create a safe standard museum environment.

Maximum size is 10'X6'X2'.

Interested parties please submit proposal, budget, timelines, resumes of principals and references on or before 4:00pm January 20th, 2014 to the Department of Heritage, Teslin Tlingit Council, Box 133 Teslin Tlingit Council.

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LIFE Longest nights from long ago

Courtesy Ione Christensen

Ione Christensen with her parents, Martha and Cam Cameron, and dog, Sheep, at Fort Selkirk circa 1938. Christensen notes: “The snowshoes mom and dad have are Teslin-made. Everyone used them back then.”

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hristmas and New Year’s may be the headline events around this time of year, but for many northerners, winter solstice is a major event too.

This Saturday marks the darkest day of the year in the Yukon, after which the light will return fast and furious, gaining as much as a minute a day in some parts of the territory. To celebrate Yukon’s longest night, we asked two of its longest-term residents to share their favourite winter solstice memories with us.

Percy Henry Percy Henry was born on the Ogilvie River (Gwazhal Njik) and grew up in the Blackstone River region as well as in the DawsonMoosehide area.

He was chief of the Tr’ondek Hwech’in First Nation from 1968 to 1974 and was instrumental in early land claims and selfgovernment negotiations for the First Nation.

Henry is fluent in Han and Gwich’in, and is active in helping recover and preserve both languages, as well as the culture and traditions of the Tr’ondek Hwech’in. Henry currently serves as an adviser to the Tr’ondek Hwech’in First Nation Government, as well as deacon at St. Paul’s Anglican Church in Dawson City.

cook, they just make bread, cake, cut wood using swede saw. Some“When I was just a kid, I was those kinds of food that’s all. Men body mentioned to have dance pretty young then, six or seven so we set date. I was the last one do all the cooking. They look years old. All this happened at to come to town. I sat behind Moosehide. I seen everybody out after this part. Christmas week old truck and it was cold. When trapping or cutting wood to make they have big pot of coffee hot and ready and lots of sandwiches I come in, nothing was done so some money for Christmas.

“At Christmas everybody go to too. These are my best memories I got everybody moving. Eight wood-cutters bought all the food church, all the women all dressed of Moosehide in celebrating the and Caley’s store gave us lots. We winter solstice, Christmas and up and they all wear kerchief. had lots of food for everybody, New Year’s. Not too many have They wear their best. The young big feast. people, the “We went boys all wear to Moosehide suit and tie. and got the fire Everybody going in Misgo to church, sion House people from so we can get town come everything ready. to Moosehide Both places, and join us in Mission House church. These and Gihi House, people come was packed with from town people. Lots of used to live people from at Moosehide Dawson came to with us. After Moosehide. In the church the morning we people have had hard time fun and have getting people to big dance and Michael Edwards photo leave.

That was this event go In sharing his winter solstice memories, elder Percy Henry was the last dance in on for two quick to note that winter solstice is also Christmas Festive time.

Moosehide in weeks. New 1955.”

Year’s they these memories of Moosehide. have church too, just packed with people from Moosehide and Not too many can share memIone Christiensen ories like this one. town.

“Christmas was highly re“In 1935, the last group of Though born in Dawson spected, spiritual time and fun.

McPherson people come to Creek, B.C., Ione Christiensen Moosehide. Chief Julius was with No more good times today. was raised on a homestead in “I remember the last dance we them too. Nine dog teams came. had after Moosehide fell apart. At Fort Selkirk, Yukon. In addition There was a big dance everyday to serving as the territory’s first for a week, big potlatch everyday, French Creek. We had a big tent female justice of the peace and where eight of us camped. We lots to eat. had no powersaw them days. We Juvenile Court judge, Chris“Those days women don’t

tiensen has acted as mayor of Whitehorse, commissioner of Yukon, and a federal senator for Yukon. She was appointed a member of the Order of Canada in 1994.

“My mother loved to celebrate everything – each holiday was an opportunity for her to do or create something special. On Valentine’s Day everything was red: my milk, the bread, my porridge, and so it went for each holiday.

Because we were so isolated at Fort Selkirk and because I was an only child, she wanted me to enjoy these special days and it was an excuse to have a party and a little fun.

“On Dec. 21, regardless of the temperature (and often it would be -40 C) we would go for a long snowshoe in the afternoon to celebrate the shortest day of the year and the fact that tomorrow would be that much longer, with the sun peeping over the hill just a little sooner each morning. We would return home, our parka hoods heavy with frost and icicles on Dad’s moustache. Often others in the community would join us and we would top the day off with hot cocoa and shortbread around the kitchen table with the wood stove crackling.

“It didn’t take much to have a celebration in a community of 12 people. In the winter our First Nation neighbours would be out on the traplines or wood camps so our population was down to a minimum.”

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Britain’s ‘Great Train Robber’ Ronnie Biggs dies at 84 Biggs was soon caught and jailed, but his escape from a London prison and decades on the run turned him into a media sensation and something of a notorious British folk hero.

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lion pounds – $7.3 million at the time, or more than $50 million today – and became known as LONDON “the heist of the century.” onnie Biggs was a petty crimBiggs, who has died aged 84, inal who set out to transform was soon caught and jailed, but his life with the daring heist of a his escape from a London prison mail train packed with money. and decades on the run turned The plan worked in ways he him into a media sensation and could never have imagined. something of a notorious British Biggs was part of a gang of at folk hero. least 12 men that robbed a GlasHe lived for many years gow-to-London Royal Mail train beyond the reach of British in the early hours of Aug. 8, 1963, justice in Rio de Janeiro, where switching its signals and tricking he would regale tourists and the the driver into stopping in the media alike with stories about the darkness. The robbery netted 125 robbery. He appeared to enjoy sacks of banknotes worth 2.6 mil- thumbing his nose at the British The Associated Press

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He was free for 35 years before voluntarily returning to England in 2001 on a private jet sponsored

by The Sun tabloid.

Biggs died Wednesday, daughter-in-law Veronica Biggs said. She did not provide details about the cause of death.

Most of the Great Train Robbery gang was caught and sentenced to long terms in jail.

Biggs got 30 years, but 15 months into his sentence he escaped from London’s Wandsworth Prison by scaling a wall with a rope ladder and jumping into a waiting furniture van.

It was the start of a life on the run that would hone his image as a cheeky rascal one step ahead of the law.

Biggs fled to France, then to Australia and Panama before arriving in Rio de Janeiro in 1970.

By that time, life on the run and plastic surgery to change his appearance had eaten up most of his loot from the robbery.

In all, he spent more than 30 years in Brazil, making a living from his notoriety. For a fee, he regaled journalists and tourists with the story of the heist and offered T-shirts with the slogan

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Ronnie Biggs was known for his role in the 1963 Great Train Robbery.

“I went to Rio and met Ronnie Biggs … honest.”

Biggs recorded a song with punk band the Sex Pistols titled No One Is Innocent,” wrote a memoir called Odd Man Out and even promoted a home alarm system with the slogan: “Call the thief.”

“It’s been a screwed-up life in many respects, but a different life,” he told The Associated Press in 1997. “I’ve never been much of a 9-to-5er.”

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British detectives tracked him down in 1974, but the lack of an extradition treaty with Brazil saved him. When Brazil’s military government tried to deport him, Biggs produced a son Michael with a Brazilian woman and the law again prevented his expulsion.

In 1981, two men posing as journalists grabbed Biggs at a Rio restaurant, gagged him, stuffed him into a duffel bag and flew him to the Amazon River port of Belem. From there they sailed to Barbados, expecting to turn Biggs in and sell their story to the tabloids. But Barbados also had no extradition treaty with England and sent him back to Rio. At a dive bar just down a winding street from the house where Biggs’ lived in Rio de Janeiro, regulars fondly remembered the fugitive.

“He never talked about the heist,” said Ronaldo Mendes, a 58-year-old photographer who said he often drank draft beers with Biggs.

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Portuguese, but you could understand him. People liked him a lot, and when he disappeared from Rio it was a surprise to us all.”

Maria do Ceu Narciso Esteves, who owns a grocery store in Rio’s Santa Teresa neighbourhood that Biggs frequented for decades, said he “was a good client and a friend.”

“He used to buy his whiskey here, one, two or three bottles, and also ingredients for lunches at home that he served to tourists.

That’s how he earned his money,” said Narciso, 77. “He didn’t do anything for free.

“He used to buy here on credit and always paid his bill in the end,” she said. “He was a good person, a polite person and a good client.”

In 1997, Brazil’s Supreme Court rejected an extradition request on the ground that the statute of limitations had run out.

At the time, Biggs said he didn’t want to go back to Britain.

“All I have to go back to is a prison cell, after all,” he said.

“Only a fool would want to return.”

But within a few years, debilitated by strokes and other ailments, Biggs began to yearn to see England again.

The Sun newspaper helped arrange his return, even chartering the private jet that flew him home. Aboard the plane was Detective Superintendent John Coles of Scotland Yard, who took Biggs into custody with the words: “I am now going to formally arrest you.”

Biggs spent several years in prison, emerging as a frail shadow of his dapper “gentleman thief ” image.

Biggs’ lawyers had long argued that he should be released on health grounds, although then-

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Friday, December 20, 2013 Justice Secretary Jack Straw objected, saying Biggs was “wholly unrepentant.”

Unionized train drivers, mindful that railway man Jack Mills never fully recovered after being hit on the head with an iron bar during the robbery – he died seven years later – also lobbied to keep Biggs behind bars.

Finally convinced that Biggs was a dying man, officials released him on Aug. 7, 2009, a day before his 80th birthday. He had been living in a nursing home since.

In late 2011, Biggs appeared at a London news conference to promote an updated version of his memoir. Unable to speak because of several strokes, he said through his son Michael Biggs that he had come to regret the train robbery and, if he could go back in time, he would now choose not to participate.

Still, he insisted he’d be remembered as a “lovable rogue.”

Not everyone agreed.

“Biggs is not a hero. He’s just an out-and-out villain,” said the train driver’s widow, Barbara Mills.

Biggs had not been one of the ringleaders of the robbery, but he became its most famous participant. The British media remained fascinated with him until the end.

The 50th anniversary of the train robbery this year brought a slew of new books and articles, and the very day of Biggs’ death coincided with a long-planned BBC television show about the crime.

In 2002, Biggs married Raimunda Rothen, the mother of Michael. They survive him, as do two children – Chris and Farley – from his first marriage to Charmian Brent. A third son, Nicholas, died in a car crash in 1971.

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NEW YORK he $111.05 New York restaurant receipt includes a $1,000 tip and the words “god bless!” scrawled across it.

The handle (at)tipsforjesus is stamped next to an illegible signature.

In recent weeks, similar tabs have popped up in restaurants from coast to coast and even in Mexico, with tips of as much as $10,000 – all charged to American Express.

On Sunday just after midnight, the mysterious man surfaced again – this time in Fairfield, Connecticut. He left a $5,000 gratuity on a $112 bill at the Seagrape, an eatery where college kids drop by for cheap beers by the beach.

Tips for Jesus – an Instagram account filled with photos documenting the tips – has more than 54,000 followers. The account displays photos of smiling servers holding receipts with outlandish gratuities on bills also tallied in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, Phoenix and Ann Arbor, Michigan. On Twitter, Tips for Jesus has nearly 3,000 followers but no tweets.

The Instagram feed comes with the tagline, “Doing the Lord’s work, one tip at a time.”

Three Manhattan restaurants were especially blessed the first weekend of December. A waiter in the restaurant of the NoMad Hotel got a $7,000 tip, another at The Smith restaurant was left $3,500, and $1,000 went to Aruj Dhawan, a 25-year-old fashion marketing student and immigrant from India working at Bo’s Kitchen & Bar Room.

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Dhawan served three guests who walked in one recent Saturday evening.

Their order – a bourbon, a beer, an appetizer, a pork ragout and a pork chop – amounted to $111.05, plus $1,000 for the waiter.

When they were gone, “Aruj approached me, handed me the receipt and said, ‘Is this for real?”’ said general manager Benjamin Cramer.

Again, before leaving, the tipster had snapped a photo of the waiter with the cheque and posted it on Instagram.

The tipster also wrote his cellphone number at the bottom of the tab, telling Cramer to call him if American Express had any issues with processing the receipt.

After seeing the amount, Cramer said he understood why the credit card company might be suspicious and he himself was curious. So he called the number.

The man who answered reassured the manager that the tip was real.

The man demanded anonymity, so Cramer did not pursue tracking his identity.

A $1,000 tip also went to a waiter at the Hungry Cat in Los Angeles after three men finished their dinner, said restaurant spokeswoman Jannis Swerman.

One of them stamped the cheque (at)tipsforjesus.

In another photo, a Phoenix bartender beams looking at his $2,500 tip.

“This middle-aged gentleman came in with a woman, and they sat at the bar,” says Micah Olson, the bartender at a restaurant called Crudo who served them one of the most expensive whiskeys at $70 per ounce.

“They sat at the bar and had five ounces total,” Olson says.

“The guy was really cool and bought me two ounces.”

The man asked for the cheque – $530.67 – and paid with his Amex “Black Card,” an invitationonly charge card issued to affluent clients.

“When they left, I saw the tip and I went, ‘Wow!”’ says the 35-year-old bartender. “I hope one of these days, we’ll find out who he is.”

The mysterious stranger apparently knows some Spanish.

A tab dated Dec. 5, 2013, from a resort in Punta Mita, Mexico, is posted on Instagram with the comment, “Muchas gracias Carlos!” – meaning “many thanks” to Carlos Mendez, a grinning young waiter holding a bill for $158.11 with a tip of 13,100 Mexican pesos, or about $1,000.

One day last week, “I saw him looking so happy, holding the cheque,” said Benito Robles, a concierge at the resort. “I asked him, ‘Why are you smiling?’ and he showed me the tip.”

Mendez went home to his wife and two kids in a nearby village and took some vacation, according to Robles.

Across the land, restaurant servers are posting pleas on Instagram asking the mysterious tipster to visit them, giving exact locations.

He’s not the only one with a knack for generosity at the table.

Seth Collins, of Lexington, Kentucky, has been leaving $500 tips around the country – following his late brother’s instructions.

Before Aaron Collins died last year, he gave his brother a mission: Eat, be merry and leave a giant tip.

Through his family, he’s given away more than 80 tips throughout the U.S.

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Life expectancy for people with HIV approaching that of general population Helen Branswell

improvement of antiretroviral drugs, HIV has become a chronic disease for most who have access TORONTO to and can afford the medication.

A leading HIV researcher, Dr. new study suggests the life expectancy of Canadians and Julio Montaner, says the findings of the study are excellent news.

Americans who are HIV positive Montaner is director of the is closing in on that of the general B.C. Centre for Excellence in HIV/ population.

AIDS, which led the research The study says that a 20-year old diagnosed with HIV today can collaboration that produced the study, which is published in the expect to live into their early 70s.

A couple of decades ago, a diag- journal PLoS One. He says the longevity gains nosis of HIV was a death sentence have been remarkable. In 2000, a for most who received it.

20-year-old newly diagnosed with But with the discovery and HIV could expect to live another 36 years. By 2006, that figure had climbed to 51 years.

“I don’t think, in all honesty, that there has been an area of medicine that has undergone a revolutionary evolution over our lifetime as HIV has,” Montaner says.

Dr. Ann Stewart, medical director of Toronto’s Casey House, agrees.

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patients. As treatment has prolonged the lives of the community it serves, the facility has transitioned into a hospital that offers care for people living with HIV. Stewart says the findings of the study mirror what Casey House staff see in their patient population. But she warned that the picture is not an “unclouded” one – HIV-positive people often develop the health problems of age faster than those who are not infected.

So heart problems, cancers and the onset of dementia that might be expected in the late 60s, 70s or even 80s in HIV-negative people can show up in the 50s for HIVpositive people, she says.

“It’s much better than it was, for sure. For sure. But it’s not without challenges,” Stewart says.

“You can have HIV and live a wonderful life. But there’s certain complications and challenges associated with it as there are with other chronic diseases that you’re going to struggle with. So it’s not an unclouded sky.”

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Gene therapy scores a big win against leukemia and other cancers Marilynn Marchione

to the patient in infusions over Associated Press three days.

“What we are giving essentially n one of the biggest ad- is a living drug” – permanently vances against leukemia altered cells that multiply in the body into an army to fight the and other blood cancers cancer, said Dr. David Porter, a in many years, doctors University of Pennsylvania scienare reporting unprectist who led one study.

Several drug and biotech edented success by using gene therapy to transform companies are developing these therapies. Penn has patented its patients’ blood cells into method and licensed it to Switsoldiers that seek and de- zerland-based Novartis AG. The stroy cancer. company is building a research A few patients with one centre on the Penn campus in Philadelphia and plans a clinical type of leukemia were trial next year that could lead to given this one-time, exfederal approval of the treatment perimental therapy sevas soon as 2016. eral years ago and some Talking with the researchers, remain cancer-free today. “there is a sense of making history ... a sense of doing someNow, at least six research very unique,” said Herve groups have treated more thing Hoppenot, president of Novartis than 120 patients with Oncology, the division leading many types of blood and the work.

Lee Greenberger, chief scienbone marrow cancers, tific officer of the Leukemia and with stunning results.

Lymphoma Society, agreed.

“It’s really exciting,” said Dr. “From our vantage point, this Janis Abkowitz, blood diseases looks like a major advance,” he chief at the University of Washsaid.

“We are seeing powerful reington in Seattle and president of sponses ... and time will tell how the American Society of Hemaenduring these remissions turn tology. “You can take a cell that out to be.” belongs to a patient and engineer The group has given $15 milit to be an attack cell.” lion to various researchers testing In one study, all five adults and this approach.

Nearly 49,000 new 19 of 22 children with acute lymcases of leukemia, 70,000 cases phocytic leukemia, or ALL, had of non-Hodgkin lymphoma and a complete remission, meaning 22,000 cases of myeloma are no cancer could be found after expected to be diagnosed in the treatment, although a few have United States in 2013. relapsed since then.

Many patients are successThese were gravely ill patients fully treated with chemotherapy out of options. Some had tried or bone marrow or stem cell multiple bone marrow transtransplants, but transplants are plants and up to 10 types of cherisky and donors can’t always be motherapy or other treatments. found. So far, gene therapy has Cancer was so advanced in been tried on people who were eight-year-old Emily Whitehead in danger of dying because other of Philipsburg, Pa., that doctors said her major organs would fail treatments failed.

The gene therapy must be within days. She was the first made individually for each pachild given the gene therapy and tient, and lab costs now are about shows no sign of cancer today, $25,000, without a profit margin. nearly two years later.

Results on other patients with That’s still less than many drugs myeloma, lymphoma and chronic to treat these diseases and far less than a transplant. lymphocytic leukemia, or CLL, The treatment can cause sewill be reported at the hematolvere flu-like symptoms and other ogy group’s conference that starts side effects, but these have been Saturday in New Orleans. reversible and temporary, doctors Doctors say this has the say. potential to become the first Penn doctors have treated the gene therapy approved in the most cases so far – 59. Of the first United States and the first for cancer worldwide. Only one gene 14 patients with CLL, four had complete remissions, four had therapy is approved in Europe, partial ones and the rest did not for a rare metabolic disease. respond. However, some partial The treatment involves filterresponders continue to see their ing patients’ blood to remove cancer shrink a year after treatmillions of white blood cells ment. called T-cells, altering them in “That’s very unique to this the lab to contain a gene that tarkind of therapy” and gives hope gets cancer, and returning them

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the treatment may still purge the cancer, said Porter. Another 18 CLL patients were treated and half have responded so far.

Penn doctors also treated 27 ALL patients. All five adults and 19 of the 22 children had complete remissions, an “extraordinarily high” success rate, said Dr. Stephan Grupp at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.

Six have since relapsed, though, and doctors are pondering a second gene therapy attempt.

At the National Cancer Institute, Dr. James Kochenderfer and others have treated 11 patients with lymphoma and four with CLL, starting roughly two years ago. Six had complete remissions, six had partial ones, one has stable disease and it’s too soon to tell for the rest.

Ten other patients were given gene therapy to try to kill leukemia or lymphoma remaining after bone marrow transplants.

These patients got infusions of gene-treated blood cells from their transplant donors instead of using their own blood cells.

One had a complete remission and three others had significant reduction of their disease.

“They’ve had every treatment known to man. To get any responses is really encouraging,” Kochenderfer said. The cancer institute is working with a Los Angeles biotech firm, Kite Pharma Inc., on its gene therapy approach.

Researchers at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center will report on 13 patients with ALL; the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center will report about two-dozen patients with ALL or lymphoma, and Baylor College of Medicine will give results on 10 patients with lymphoma or myeloma.

Patients are encouraged that relatively few have relapsed.

“We’re still nervous every day because they can’t tell us what’s going to happen tomorrow,” said Tom Whitehead, eight-year-old Emily’s father.

Doug Olson, 67, a scientist for a medical device maker, shows no sign of cancer since gene therapy in September 2010 for CLL he had had since 1996.

“Within one month he was in complete remission. That was just completely unexpected,” said Porter, his doctor at Penn.

Olson ran his first half-marathon in January and no longer worries about how long his remission will last.

“I decided I’m cured. I’m not going to let that hang over my head anymore,” he said.

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Museum of Nature exhibit reveals the art and science of fish X-rays The Canadian Press OTTAWA or most people, fish bones may be just an annoyance at dinnertime. But a new exhibition at the Canadian Museum of Nature could give viewers a broader perspective.

“X-rays of Arctic Fishes,” opening Jan. 11, features images that show “the spectacular osteological architecture of fishes,” said museum ichthyologist (fish scientist) Noel Alfonso.

Fish are considered to have the most complex bone structures of all vertebrates. That makes osteology – the study of bones – more challenging with fish than with other animals possessing a spinal column.

As revealed in X-rays, the number of vertebrae can be used to differentiate one fish species from another, Alfonso said.

But besides being scientifically useful, there is an artistic aspect to the technology.

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of seeing internal structure,” said Alfonso. Some can be beautiful, he said, noting that he’s long had a fascination with “the interface between art and science.”

The museum has one of the best collections of Arctic marine fishes in the world. Species showcased in the exhibition of 16 back-lit images include such well known varieties as Arctic char, capelin and Atlantic halibut, as well as less familiar ones like the glacier lanternfish and the ninespine stickleback.

There’s also a skeletal image of a Greenland halibut, a “really weird” type of flatfish that swims up in the water column and not exclusively along the ocean floor as other flatfish do, said Alfonso.

Another odd thing about the species is the fact that one of its eyes only partially migrates from one side of the head to the other, instead of all the way as with other flatfish.

The X-ray of a 14-centimetrelong boa dragonfish, which was caught in a net and brought to the museum, reveals a fish in its stomach. That makes this specimen a rare find, since “these things can often go for months without feeding,” said Alfonso.

Alfonso and a colleague made the X-ray images in November, using equipment at the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto better suited for the artistic project than that at the Museum of Nature.

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Orlando jumped down and tried to rouse Williams even as a train The Associated Press approached.

“He was kissing him, trying to NEW YORK get him to move,” Martin said. allant guide dog Orlando, Witnesses called for help and a black Labrador retriever, the train’s motorman slowed his bravely leapt on to the tracks at approach as Williams and Ora Manhattan subway platform lando lay in the trench between Tuesday after his blind owner lost the rails. consciousness and tumbled in “The dog saved my life,” Wilfront of an oncoming train. liams said.

Cecil Williams, 61, and OrAs Williams regained conlando both escaped serious injury sciousness, he said he heard when the train passed over top someone telling him to be still. of them – a miraculous end to Emergency workers put him on a harrowing ordeal that began a stretcher and pulled him from when Williams began to feel faint the subway, and made sure Oron his way to the dentist. lando was not badly injured.

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Orlando, described by Williams as serious but laid-back, was making new friends at the hospital. He will be rewarded with some kind of special treat, Williams said, along with plenty of affection and scratches behind the ears. “(He) gets me around and saves my life on a daily basis,” Williams said.

Williams, of Brooklyn, has been blind since 1995, and Orlando is his second dog. The lab will be 11 on Jan. 5, and will be retiring soon, Williams said.

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If he had the money, Williams said, “I would definitely keep him.”

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Florida centre offers students unique marine mammal degree Suzette Laboy The Associated Press

GRASSY KEY, Fla. olly, a bottlenose dolphin in her early 50s, can’t see very well and requires special care.

The staff at the Dolphin Research Center in the Florida Keys is teaching her to respond to verbal and touch-related signals before she loses her sight completely.

Molly isn’t the only one learning from these sessions, which also include the first five students in the centre’s College of Marine Mammal Professions. The 36-week program that yields an Associate of Science Degree in Marine Mammal Behavior, Care and Training is the only one in the U.S. that teaches hands-on training and care of marine mammals, according to the International Marine Animal Trainers’ Association.

The care of marine mammals is a growing but competitive field.

In particular, geriatric marine mammal care is a field that is becoming more important these days as Molly and other animals in human care are living longer than their counterparts in the wild, said Kirsten Donald, the centre’s education director.

“We provide the same kind of care as with aging humans,” Donald said.

The centre’s degree is an expansion on its week-long dolphin lab program that started in 1985.

The college’s first students, all women, will graduate in May and the college is looking to expand by offering other degrees in marine mammal professions. The program costs $20,310, including tuition and fees.

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Students watch a dolphin named Molly, who is in her early 50s, swim during a training session at the Dolphin Research Center in the Florida Keys.

Most marine animal caregivers learn through internships, acquiring such skills as how to prepare an animal’s meal. The research centre’s program teaches advanced skills such as how to calculate a diet based on the animal’s age, health status or the season.

Students learn how to create a diet for a nursing or pregnant mammal, Donald said.

The centre has two nursing baby dolphins.

“You already have an edge in the fact that we went through and got to see a baby dolphin being born right in front of you,” Donald told her students in a small classroom at the facility. “Talk about great education right there.”

There are about 40 aquariums or theme parks in the U.S. that are potential employers of students who learn how to work with marine mammals, according to the Alliance of Marine Mammal Parks and Aquariums. The organization also has 26 international member institutions in Mexico, the Bahamas, Bermuda, Hong Kong, Europe and elsewhere.

The jobs are highly coveted, explained Ken Ramirez, the former president of the International Marine Animal Trainers’ Association.

“For any position you have 100 applications. You have to do everything you can to get your resume to stand out and part of

that is practical, hands-on experience as well as the education. And that’s something unique that the program can offer,” he said of the coursework at the centre in the Florida Keys.

Samantha Sorbello, a recent graduate, said getting the handson education was difficult for her while in school because there were not a lot of places to get an internship while studying.

“When I saw this, I thought ‘Oh my gosh, this is perfect.’ I can get the hands-on experience. I’m going to be learning a whole lot and I don’t have to worry about trying to fit it in with different things at the same time,” said Sorbello, who’s from Rhodes Island.

The centre also teaches the

students how to care for animals with special medical needs, such as Molly and Karen, a 27-year-old California sea lion who is blind.

Karen has to use her sensitive whiskers to feel her way around her habitat.

On a recent day, trainer Kelly Jayne Rodriguez called out instructions as the sea lion swam closer to the dock.

“So you guys can see as I call her, she listens to my voice. Dock,” she said as Karen shuffled her way onto the wooden dock. “She uses the whiskers to find the dock.”

As Karen made her way to the centre of the outdoor classroom, Karen said: “I’m still talking to her so she knows where I’m at. She follows my voice.”

At this session, the students were learning how to give Karen eye drops.

“Eyes,” Rodriguez says loudly as Karen’s whiskers pluck up. The word “eyes” tells Karen to have her eyes open so Rodriguez can pour the drops in.

“Good girl,” she said, reinforcing the good work with a fish treat.

Back at the dolphin area, the students were learning how to transfer hand signals into a touch or vocal signal while Molly still has some sight.

“So I’m going to say the world ‘Dive!,”’ Rodriguez said loudly, giving her the hand signal – a circular hand motion – as she says the word. “I’m pairing the two.

She’ll learn that that dive sounds means for me to jump.”

Rodriguez then blew the whistle to call her back. But Molly kept putting on a show for the students by jumping in and out of the water. “And with age, selective hearing comes into play, too.”

Champagne & Aishihik First Nations is seeking 2 more applicants for the nearly completed Tri-Plex in Takhini River Subdivision!

We would like to invite all Citizens interested in becoming Homeowners to attend an information session held at: Whitehorse Saturday December 21, 2013 CAFN office, 3rd & Jarvis 4:00 - 5:30pm Habitat for Humanity Yukon homes are energy efficient and low monthly payments result from a no-interest mortgage, with no down payment.

For more information, contact Sharmane Jones at 634-4215 or 867-634-5118

Friday, December 20, 2013

Yukon News

Thank You! Thank You! Thank You! To our Volunteers and Support: • Chief Judges: JP Pinard and Tim Topper • Judges: Aaron Foos, Aletta Leitch, Bruce Bennett, Chris Dixon, Dagmar Ferris, Cathy McHardy, Emily Dayboll, Erica Nickel, Glenn Piwowar, Greg Hare, Ian Church, Jim Tredger, Karen Walker, Katherine Mackwood, Maria Leung, Micah Quinn, Michael Pealow, Michael Woods, Nicole Jacques, Pat Tobler, Paula Mott, Phil Borgel, Philippe LeBlonde, Sally Wright, Sam Skinner, Sarah Laxton, Scott Gilbert, Shannon Jensen, Shauna MacLean, Stefans Jackson, Susan Moorhead Mooney, Tom McBee • Registrar: Cord Hamilton • Photographer: Bruce Barrett • Science Activities: Katie Aitken, Tara Stehelin, Ernie Prokopchuk , Bronwyn Benkert, Alison Perrin • Master of Ceremonies: Sandi Coleman • Concession: U Kon Echelon Bike Club • Security: Yukon College Student Union • Organizing Committee: Brenda Allen, Bruce Bennett, Ian Church, Joel Cubley, Lori LaRochelle, David Michayluk, Ryan Sikkes, Jody Woodland

The 2013 Regional Science Fair Committee would like to thank the following people and organizations for their generous support.

To our Award Presenters: • Bob Cameron, Administrator, on behalf of the Yukon Commissioner • Hon. Ryan Leef, Member of Parliament • Hon. Elaine Taylor, Yukon Minister of Education • Dr. Karen Barnes, Yukon College

To our Sponsors: • Yukon Commissioner’s Office • Yukon Department of Education • Yukon Department of Energy, Mines & Resources • Yukon College • Science Adventures • Science Fair Foundation of BC • Association of Professional Engineers of Yukon • Genome BC • Society for Canadian Women in Science and Technology • BC Assoc. of Physics Teachers • BC Science Teachers Assoc.

• Heart & Stroke Found. of BC & Yukon • Workers Compensation Board of BC

Complete Results: www.scienceadventures.ca

Special thanks to all the students, teachers and parents

who participated in local school fairs and the Regional Science Fair. Apologies to any volunteers we have missed.

WINNERS Representing Yukon/Stikine at the Canada-Wide Science Fair in May, 2014 in Windsor, Ontario: Sophia Ross Isabel Magsucang KC Mooney Commissioner’s Award Best of Fair: Wyatt Sheardown-Waugh Students Choice Award: Liam Russell and Derek Deuling

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High-and-dry log points to great Alaska tsunamis

Archbould.com

Introduction to Underground Mining Operations Program

Friday, December 20, 2013

Student Application Form The program fee is $1,500.00. It is up to the applicant to apply for funding if required. Please see the student information sheet for specific information about the provision of accommodation and meals during the program.

Program will begin on January 13, 2014. Ten students will be accepted into the program. Applicants are encouraged to apply quickly and will be contacted for an interview.

Rob Witter photo

For information on the application process or to fax, email or deliver your application, please contact: Centre for Northern Innovation in Mining Yukon College 500 College Drive, PO Box 2799 Whitehorse, Yukon Y1A 5K4 cnim@yukoncollege.yk.ca t. 867.456.8636 f. 867.668.2935

Education

Christmas Mass Schedule Roman Catholic Churches

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Sacred Heart Cathedral 4th Avenue & Steele Street Whitehorse December 24 7:00 p.m.

9:00 p.m.

11:00 p.m.

Christmas Night Mass Messe de Noël en français Christmas Midnight Mass

December 25 11:00 a.m.

Christmas Day Mass

December 31 5:00 p.m.

11:00 p.m.

January 1 10:10 a.m.

11:30 a.m.

New Year’s Eve Mass Maryhouse Prayer Vigil 506 Cook Street Messe en français New Year’s Day Mass

Our Lady of Victory

1607 Birch Street Porter Creek December 24 7:00 p.m.

Christmas Night Mass

December 31 7:30 p.m.

New Year’s Eve Mass

Researchers near a driftwood log a tsunami carried high above sea level.

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s Gary Carver stepped through the grasses of a treeless Alaska island with an archeologist friend, he spotted a bleached driftwood log. The log rested on sand about a half mile from the beach and 50 feet (15 m) above sea level.

Carver, on the island searching out Aleutian mummies for a Discovery Channel program, is an expert on tsunamis. He suspected that only a giant wave could have delivered a 30-foot log that high on uninhabited Sedanka Island, about 15 miles (24 km) southeast of Dutch Harbor. Then he grabbed his shovel.

Carver, an emeritus professor at Humboldt State University who lives in Kodiak, dug a hole near the driftwood log. He saw in the soil that big waves had soaked the island at regular intervals.

“In the profile were layers of beach-like sand separated by peaty soils,” Carver said in San Francisco at the Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union. Carver was one of more than 20,000 scientists who attended the weeklong gathering of Earth and space scientists in December 2013.

Because worsening weather required Carver and archeologist Rick Knecht to leave Sedanka Island with haste, Carver didn’t have time to backfill his hole. But he sailed away with a new theory of why he and Knecht found no aboriginal remains on the south side of islands on the Alaska Peninsula and the eastern Aleutians.

“We spent several weeks cruising around islands and found a great many occupation sites,” Carver said of his 2005 visit. “We found no sites on the Pacific side.

They were all on the Bering Sea side. They had a tradition based on the past that the south side was bad.”

Over the years, Carver couldn’t forget the driftwood log above Sedanka Island’s Star-

dust Bay (named after a shipwreck on the beach).

He returned in 2012 with a team including Rob Witter of the USGS Alaska Science Center in Anchorage and Rich Koehler of Alaska Division of Geological and Geophysical Surveys in Fairbanks.

The scientists found Carver’s hole from seven years earlier.

They pulled out their shovels and Ned Rozell photo expanded it. They Tsunami expert Gary Carver of Kodiak mapped six sand holds a nail that came from a driftwood deposits from log a tsunami deposited on a remote giant waves.

Alaska island.

“Tsunamis have show a tsunami carried the sand hit Stardust Bay there after 1950 but before 1964. on average every 310 through “The 1957 tsunami is the best 340 years,” Witter said at his explanation,” Witter said. presentation at the American Carver found four clues driven Geophysical Union meeting. into the log that let him know an Witter also pointed out ancient tsunami did not carry it strange waterways on the island that widen and deepen in a seahigh above Stardust Bay. Rusty ward direction. nails in the log make him think it “These unusual channels are might have been an old telegraph similar to areas inundated by the or telephone pole. He pulled Sendai tsunami (in 2011),” he one of the nails during his last said. trip and now wears it on a cord The scientists think the tsuaround his neck. namis that hit Sedanka Island Scientists at the recent were probably at least as large as American Geophysical Union those generated by giant Aleutian conference also revealed evidence earthquakes in 1946 (magnitude found on Hawaii that points to 8.1) and 1957 (an 8.6). Both an extraordinary tsunami that earthquakes sent waves racing may have originated in Alaska. across the Pacific. The 1946 That finding, from the island of tsunami killed 159 people in Kauai and possibly related to the Hawaii and destroyed Hilo. The sands on Sedanka Island, will be 1957 tsunami killed no one but the subject of another column. wrecked two villages on Oahu.

Since the late 1970s, the University of Carver doesn’t know the Alaska Fairbanks’ Geophysical Instisource of the driftwood log that tute has provided this column free in tipped him off to the island’s tsuco-operation with the UAF research nami history. Tests on the sand community. Ned Rozell is a science deposit closest to the surface writer for the Geophysical Institute.

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Harper’s hockey history includes spectral prime ministerial presence Bruce Cheadle

served “as a distraction from the hectic and obsessive nature of political life.”

OTTAWA Compulsively detailed, the here’s the ghost of a prime book’s intricate player moves, minister lurking somecontract disputes and ownership where between the words battles – not to mention centuryof Stephen J. Harper’s gorgeously old scoring feats – can be eyebound, deeply researched and glazing. impressively illustrated and footThere are occasional vivid noted hockey history. descriptions of the early game, A Great Game: The Forgotten and any student of hockey will apLeafs and the Rise of Professional preciate Harper’s research on rule Hockey, is the tale of Canadian changes that gradually opened up hockey’s beginnings at the turn the sport. of the 20th century and the war Harper has said he worked on between amateurism – with all its the book for about 15 minutes character- and nation-building each day, and it probably should ideology – and the early barnbe read the same way. storming, paid professionals.

But the narrative truly lifts when A Great Game chronicles Prime Minister Harper famthe granite personalities who ously moonlighted as an author shaped the early trajectory of the throughout much of his now sport in a young, hockey-obsessed almost eight years in office, an country. achievement only exceeded by Here also flits the ephemeral William Lyon MacKenzie King’s ghost of the author. obsessive work as a prime minisJohn Ross Robertson, the terial diarist.

But where King chronicled his book’s central figure, is depersonal and political life, Harper scribed by Harper as a man with disappears behind his hockey sub- a “breath-taking proclivity for ject matter so completely that the control” who achieved a remarkable degree of power “not only author forms an almost photothrough long hours of dedicated graphic negative: What is not service, but also by constitutional there defines the spectral image. manipulation and self-promotion In the book’s acknowledgbordering on self-mythologizing.” ments, Harper says his writing The Canadian Press

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Robertson’s iron control of the Ontario Hockey Association, with its powerful ideological aversion to professionals in sport, resulted in “enforced conformity” and an echo of modern political battles.

Writes Harper, “in their search for an enemy, the OHA brain trust would create one.”

There’s not a hint of introspection, rueful self awareness or irony in Harper’s account of the powerful J.R.R. – a man of towering contradictions.

Similarly, the death of the professional National Hockey Association and its immediate rebirth as the NHL, including its 1924 American expansion to Boston, is portrayed as a highly personal battle between former Montreal sports reporter Frank Calder and Toronto team owner E.J. Livingstone.

Livingstone, writes Harper, was a “combative, sanctimonious and generally difficult personality” who “expected others to live rigidly by the rules while he would skirt their spirit.”

The “iron rule” of NHL president Calder won the day.

Author Harper, a master political tactician, offers no insight into this clash of personalities.

Harper describes turn-ofthe-century Toronto with a

dispassionate, clinical eye and his passing mention of the 1911 “reciprocity” election which rejected free trade with the United States is also devoid of any modern prime ministerial hindsight or analysis.

There are some nice echoes of the modern game from Harper, a devoted hockey fan.

“Managers pleaded for the need to control salaries (in 1908-09) at the same time as they agreed to bigger contracts,” he writes – a situation recognizable to any 21st century fan.

Or how about a 1908 complaint that the “chaotic competition for the ringer-infested Stanley Cup had become a ‘joke.”’

And author Stephen J. finally loosens up in the 14th chapter, called “Overtime,” where he mentions the entry of professionals into the Olympics by describing the Olympic movement as “an unholy alliance of European elitists and Soviet communists who were really marketing nationalism more than amateurism.”

Again, though, there’s no self-reflection from the prime minister/author who was writing his book’s home stretch when his Conservative government trumpeted Vancouver’s flag-draped Winter Games in February 2010.

It is tempting to ascribe the

absence of a clear prime ministerial voice in A Great Game to either heroic self-discipline or a complete absence of self-awareness.

But then back comes the ghost of Stephen J., winking around the book cover on the very last page.

The closing paragraphs of A Great Game summarize how the mighty J.R. Robertson won the battle over amateurism only to lose the longer war.

Harper provides an unvarnished lament for modern professional hockey, peopled by “millionaire players ... motivated more by greed than any devotion to the national game,” even wealthier owners “making profits off a ridiculously long season and a largely needless playoff system,” and of “team loyalties ... sold as commodities.”

Old J.R. Robertson would have conceded his vision of amateurism lost out, but would still say the battles of a previous century were worthwhile, Harper asserts, quoting Robertson’s own words: “A poor man is he who journeys through the mazes of a busy world with no purpose in view, no ambition to serve.”

Harper concludes: “In other words, and without hesitation, he would do exactly the same.”

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

Grace Community Church

Church Of The Nazarene

601 Main Street 667-2989

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@northwestel.net

Dec. 24, 4:30 PM Christmas eve Candlelight Service and Dec. 24, 7:00 Christmas eve Candlelight Service with holy Communion.

Christmas Day worship service at 11:00 am.

Pastor Deborah Moroz pastor.tlc@northwestel.net

Riverdale Baptist Church invites you to attend our Special Christmas Services 15 Duke Street Sun, Dec 15 @ 10:30am Choir presentation of Lessons and Carols Tues, Dec 24 @ 6pm and 8pm Christmas eve Services

FoURSqUaRe ChURCh

PaSToR RICK TURNeR

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

Latter Day Saints

108 WICKSTROM ROAD, WHITeHORSe

1-867-667-2353

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

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

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

www.northernlightministries.ca

St. Saviour’s

1154c 1st Ave • Entrance from Strickland

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

Rev. David Pritchard 668-5530

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

Anglican Church in Carcross

or call 456-7131

Yukon Muslim Association www.yukonmuslims.ca

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2012-2013 Academic Awards and Honour Roll F.H. COLLINS ACADEMIC AWARDS 2012-2013 Foods services/Foods & NutritioN departmeNt aWards Most Improved FEAST Award: ........................Daniel Kerr& Wei Jei Wu Feast Support Service/Cashier ...................................Christa Leschert physical educatioN departmeNt proFicieNcy aWards Physical Education 8 (Female) ................................... Hannah Deuling Physical Education 8 (Male) .....................................Michael Kishchuk Physical Education 9 (Female)....................................Monica Johnson Physical Education 9 (Male) ...........................................Malcolm Muir Physical Education 10 (Female)................ Hanna Atmanspacher-Wirth Physical Education 10 (Male) ................................Roan Evans-Ehricht Physical Education 11 (Female)........................................Amber Wally Physical Education 11 (Male) ............................................Jake Njootli Physical Education 12 (Female)................................... Madison Logan Physical Education 12 (Male) ........................................Keifer Sterriah scieNce proFicieNcy aWards Science 8 ............................................Katharina Atmanspacher-Wirth Science Naturelles 8 .......................................................Ashley Harris Science 9 .......................................................................Clair Mooney Science Naturelles 9 ......................................................Ashley Borgel Science 10 .............................................. Hanna Atmanspacher-Wirth Science Naturelles 10 ...................................................... Mira Tuzlak Science & Technology 11 ............................................... Tristan Walsh Earth Science 11 ................................................... Adrian Woodhouse Biology 11 .............................................Haley Braga & Pankhil Kainth Chemistry 11 ............................................................... Quynh Nguyen Physics 11 ................................................................... Danielle Smith Chemistry 12 .........................................................Michaëla St. Pierre Physics 12 ...................................................................... Remy Kuiper Biology 12 ................................................................... Quynh Nguyen Geology 12 ............................................................... Shermaine Chua Psychology 12 .......................................................Michaëla St. Pierre social studies proFicieNcy aWards Sciences humaines 8 ...............................................Michael Kishchuk Social Studies 8 .............................................................Sarah Diment Soc. Studies Fundamentals 8 ...................................... Katrina Dobush First Nations Studies 8 .................................. Keegan Phillips-Hopkins Sciences humaines 9 ........................................Bailey Muir-Cressman Social Studies 9 ........................................................ William Macklon Social Studies 9 general ............................................... Andrew Glada Sciences humaines 10 ........................................... Cambria Fuerstner Social Studies 10 .................................Katharina Atmanspacher-Wirth Sciences humaines 11 ....................Danielle Smith & Shermaine Chua Social Studies 11 ..........................................................Pankhil Kainth History 12 ................................................................. Shermaine Chua Geography 12 .............................................................. Megan Jensen Comparative Civilization-12 ............................................Karine Potvin First Nations Studies 12 ..........................................Connor Donaldson Law 12 -($200.00 award) ..........................Chris Little & Marten Sealy eNGlish departmeNt aWards English 8 ......................................................................Cayley Sparks English 9 ........................................................................ Maria Peters English 10 ....................................................................... Haley Braga English 10 Honours .................................. Hanna Atmanspacher-Wirth English 10 First Peoples ...............................Hannah Silverfox-Belcher English 11 ................................................................... Danielle Smith English 11 Honours .........................................................Karine Potvin English 12 .................................................... Graham Mainer-Pearson Communications 12 ......................................................... Kelly Redies laNGuaGe departmeNt aWards immersion Français awards Français langue 8 .......................................................... Hannah Shier Français langue 9 ......................................Ashley Borgel & Alexis Gee Français langue 10 .................................................. Luka Van Randen Français langue 11 .......................Sara Burke-Forsyth & Moya Painter Français langue 12 .........................................................Paige Savard Core French Core French 8 ..................................................................Czarina Lubi Core French 9 .....................................................................Karyin Qiu Core French 10 ................................................................ Haley Braga Core French 11 ............................................................ Megan Jensen Core French 12 ..................................................................Eric Fekete spanish second language awards Beginner Spanish 11.............................................. Cambria Fuerstner Spanish 11 .............................................. Hanna Atmanspacher-Wirth Spanish 12 ..................................................................Talia Woodland Gwitchin awards Gwich’in Language .................................................. Richelle Cockney math departmeNt aWards Math 8 ...........................................................................Sarah Diment Mathématiques 8..............................................................Sana Javed Math 8 Fundamentals ..................................................... Bobby Janes Math 9 ............................................................................Clair Mooney Mathématiques 9 .................................. Ashley Borgel & Maria Peters Math 9 Fundamentals .............................................. Richelle Cockney Foundations of Math & Pre-Calculus 10 ... Hanna Atmanspacher-Wirth Fondements et-Pré-Calculus 10....Solstice Sarin-Toews & Mira Tuzlak Apprenticeship and Workplace Math 10 ..........................Tristan Odian Foundations of Math 11 ............................................. Taylor Campbell Apprenticeship & Workplace Math 11 ...................................... Paul Hermosa & Tanisha Low-Bayne Pre-Calculus 11 ........................................................... Quynh Nguyen Maths-Pré-Calculus 11 ..................................... Charlotte Rentmeister Foundations of Math 12 ........................................................Julia Hall Pre-Calculus 12 ................................................................ Trevor Bray Pré-Calcul 12.................................................................. Remy Kuiper Calculus 12............................................................Michaëla St. Pierre AP Calculus ..................................................................... Trevor Bray

FiNe arts departmeNt aWards Art 8 (Female) .................................................................Chloe Ellson Art 8 (Male)................................................... Keegan Phillips-Hopkins Art 10 (Female) ....................................................... Annie Johnsgaard Art 10 (Male)................................................................ Howard Coyne Art 11 (Female) ........................................................Misty MacFarlane Art 11 (Male)...................................................................... Yi Fei Tang Art 12 (Female) ........................................................... Megan Andison Art 12 (Male)..................................................................... Chad Shaw photoGraphy aWards Photo 10 ...........................................Malcolm Muir & Ignat Poltorasky Photo 11 ...................................................................... Rowan Darnell Photo 12 .......................................................................Pankhil Kainth BaNd aWards F.H. Beg. Band 8 Top Achievement ..........................Michael Kishchuk F.H. Grade 9 Top Achievement .......................................Ashley Borgel F.H. Grade 10 Top Achievement ......................................Karine Smith F.H. Senior Band Top Achievement ................................ Olivia Findlay techNoloGy aNd applied sKills aWards Computer Applications 8 ...................... Sam Finton & Pascale Halliday Animation 8 ....................................................................Ashley Harris Media Arts ..................................................................Crystal Legoffe Animation ..................................................................... Kienna Baker Yearbook....................................................................... Andrew Glada Drafting .....................................................................Max Lommerse iNdustrial educatioN departmeNt aWards Metalwork 8 ..........................................................Elias Barlow-White Metalwork 10 ...................................................Bailey Muir-Cressman Metalwork 11 .....................................................................Alex Wyatt Introduction to Mechanics 10 ..................................... Caelan McLean Woodworking 8............................ Jordan Shopland & Hannah Deuling Woodworking 10................................................................Kyran Allen Carpentry 11.............................................................. Ignat Poltorasky Wood Products 12............................................................ Tyler Dewar Automotive Technology 11 ...........................................Michael Tesoro maJor iNdustrial educatioN departmeNt aWards acKlaNds-GraiNGer iNc. aWard (This award is presented to the most outstanding Carpentry and Joinery 12 student) RECIPIENT ...................................................................... Remy Kuiper BerNie hiNderKs aWard (This award is presented to the most outstanding Automotive 12 student across all disciplines) RECIPIENT ...................................................................Crystal Legoffe Keith starK aWard (Presented to the most outstanding Metalwork 12 student) RECIPIENT ....................................................................... David Lister craiG lattiN aWard (This award is presented to the most improved Applied Skills student across all disciplines.)

RECIPIENT ........................................................................ Kris McKay F.h. colliNs school couNcil trades Bursary This award will be given to a Grade 12 student who is pursuing a career in the trades and demonstrates excellence in the field of trades. Preferences given to students based on grades in high school trades related courses, involvement with Skills Canada and Citizenship and service to school and community.

RECIPIENT ................................................................... Justin Ostlund outstaNdiNG recoGNitioN aWards audrey mclauGhliN Bursary aWard This award takes the form of a $250.00 bursary. The recipient will have demonstrated a commitment to learning, and a keen interest and involvement in his/her community. The student will have plans for continued education or training.

RECIPIENT ................................................................. Adrienne Hynes studeNt oF the year aWard This $500.00 award is sponsored by F.H. Collins School Council and is given to an F.H. Collins student who has demonstrated not only high academic ability, but also excellent leadership qualities. The student is a role model for his/her peers and a credit to his/her school and community.

RECIPIENT .........................................................................Eric Fekete F.h. colliNs scholarship aWard This $300.00 award is given to a Grade 12 student based on his/her academic achievement in two of the following courses: Comparative Civilizations 12, Geography 12, History 12, and English 12. To qualify a student must have taken two of these four courses. The award recognizes the outstanding achievement in the field of humanities RECIPIENT ............................................................... Shermaine Chua elKs lodGe #306 – distiNGuished seNior studeNt aWard This award is given to a Grade 11 student who demonstrates not only strong academic abilities, but also excellent citizenship qualities. Students have to apply, or be nominated for this award. The award takes the form of an immediate cash grant of $200.00, and an additional grant of $1,000.00, which is held in trust for a maximum period of two years.

RECIPIENT .................................................................. Quynh Nguyen F.h. colliNs math/scieNce aWard - sponsored by the Medicine Chest Pharmacy. This $300.00 award is given to a Grade 12 student based on his/her academic achievement in three of the following courses; Math 12, Calculus 12, Biology 12, Chemistry 12, Physics 12. To qualify, a student must have taken at least three of the five courses. The award recognizes outstanding achievement in the fields of math and science.

RECIPIENT ........................................................................ Trevor Bray yuKoN colleGe scholarship aWard This award is given to a Grade 12 student, who firmly intends to continue his/her education in the field of business or technology education at Yukon College. The scholarship is based on academic achievement and commitment to the field of business or technology education. The scholarship will cover the entire tuition fee (two semesters) for a first year program in either of the previously mentioned areas. The present value of this scholarship is $1,500.00.

RECIPIENTS ............Justin Ostlund, Britini Zazulak & Erica Moorhouse

F.H. COLLINS HONOUR ROLL 2012-2013 GRADE 8

1ST CLASS HONOURS Atmanspacher-Wirth,, Katharina Barlow-White, Elias Cooper, Mathew Deuling, Hannah Diment, Sarah Dobush, Katrina Gullison, Alysha Halliday, Pascale Harris, Ashley Hougen, Sarah Janke, Sophie Javed, Sana Kemshead, Carrie Khalik, Alisha Kishchuk, Michael Kramer, Sylvie Kruse, Mikaela Lemaire, Alina Lister, Danielle Lubi, Czarina Magro, Rebecca Magsi, Maira Malhotra, Akshay Mason, Mira McBride, Mary Matrishon, Finn Nordahl, Ali Parker, Isak Paslawski, Gibson Perrier, Curtis Prawdzik, Megan Richardson, Samantha Ryckman, Brody Sage, Akasha Sears, William Segriff, Sadie Shier, Hannah Smoler, Riley Sparks, Cayley Tadepalli, Neha van Kampen, Yataya Whipple-Grantham, Sigourny Wishart-MacDougall, Justin GRAde 8 HONOURS Bisson, Jenna Bryant, Skyler Butler, Matthew Chowdhury, Vaskor Clyde-Lien, Matthias Cox, Olivia Dinh, Michael Ellson, Chloe Finton, Samuel Foster-Lavoie, Avery Francis, Jennifer Hill, Alison Horoscoe, Noella May Hyde, Brahm Joe-Hudson, Jamie Jones, Levi Kemp, Autumn Kumar, Anshil Leas, Chelsey Leenders, Elisha McLeod-Smith, Clare Mendelsohn, Jennifer Moorhouse, Eli Nelson, Dannica O’Connor-Brook, Mary Pinter, Selina Poulter, Robyn Roberts, Alexander Roothman, Chanelle Russell, James Shopland, Jordan Taylor(cook), Gordon Thorson-Looysen, Loughran Tokic, Tomas Troke, Ryan Vincent-Braun, Pelly Wyers, Jenna

Grade 9

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Rentmeister, Tristan Shaw, Mackenzie Thomson, Heather Van Randen, Luka Ward, Alix GRAde 9 HONOURS Aujla, Kenzan Boorse, Lyndsey Cash, Simon Cockney, Richelle Curteanu, Brendan Davy, Mackenzie Dieckmann, Lauren Harris, Logan Hawes, Abby Johnsgaard, Annie Johnson, Monica Krabel, Flynn Lucier, Hudson Mitchell, Tayler Muir, Malcolm Muir-Cressman, Bailey Musil, Whitney Parker, Aimee Paterson, Lilli Pierce, Quinn Randell, Victor Rodden, Niko Small, Shannon Smart, Abigail Smart, Gillian Spicer, Erin Stirton-MacNeill(simmons), Meaghan Storey, Josie Sundby, Sterling Toulouse, Meaghan Troke, Devon Venasse, Caitlyn

Grade 10

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Grade 11

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Grade 12

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De Niro, Stallone are lords of the ring again Season’s Greetings Here’s hoping you have a happy holiday season and a wonderful new year!

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From left; Sylvester Stallone, Alan Arkin, Kevin Hart, Robert De Niro and Jon Bernthal in a scene from Grudge Match.

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Dixon for the heavyweight title.

The story line for that film was similar, including the HBO payhe last time Robert De Niro per-view that Rocky barely loses laced on the gloves for the in a brutal fight. The difference big screen he delivered a knockthis time is Grudge Match is more out as Jake LaMotta in Raging or less a parody, played mostly Bull. for laughs.

More than 30 years later, he Instead of a tearful scene at was given a chance to fight again. a cemetery there’s Stallone and But he wasn’t going to do it with- De Niro butchering the national out the undisputed champion of anthem at a monster truck event. boxing movies, Rocky himself.

Instead of an inspirational talk Raging Bull, meet Aging Bull. from the corner, there’s trainer It’s De Niro vs. Sylvester Stallone Alan Arkin urging Stallone’s in a geriatric battle for the aged.

Henry “Razor” Sharp to toughen “It was just common sense up his hands by dipping them in who did it,” De Niro said. “It horse urine. could have gone either way for And then there’s a postscript me if he didn’t do it.” to the ending featuring a couple The question might have been of real fighters who show some why do it at all. Implausible at comedic chops of their own. best, the tale of two 60-someWhat is somewhat the same thing former light heavyweight is De Niro and Stallone had to champions coming out of trade punches, something that retirement to fight each other can be a bit dicey for actor/boxin an HBO pay-per-view event ers in their 30s, much less late is a stretch even by Hollywood 60s. Stallone drew on his chorstandards. eography from the Rocky movies It wouldn’t work as a drama for the fight scenes, which come like Raging Bull or any of the six across realistic enough as long as Rocky movies. But Grudge Match you suspend disbelief for a few excels as comedy, with enough moments and accept the premise laugh-out-loud moments and two senior citizens can still fight. good cheer to put it in the early “There are thousands and running for the feel-good movie thousands of punch combinaof the holiday season. tions that have been practiced in Grudgement Day anyone? films,” Stallone said in a phone “I haven’t been very lucky interview with The Associated in comedy,” Stallone said. “But Press. “Some work and some I’m taking a character that got don’t. I brought things that me here so it didn’t take a lot of worked in six Rocky’s and made persuasion.” them age appropriate. I knew it That character, of course, is would have the desired results.”

Rocky Balboa, first seen in the It helped that De Niro had original Rocky movie in 1976 experience in staging fights from and reprised in various forms five Raging Bull. Thankfully, he didn’t times since. The last was Rocky have the liver punch that Mr. T Balboa in 2006 in which the threw during filming of “Rocky fighter comes out of retirement III” that left Stallone writhing in to take on champion Mason pain on the canvas.

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“There were some close calls, some nicks in this film, that I could see on playback,” Stallone said. “Your adrenaline is up, you’re in front of the crowd and you’re not tuned into your own body. It was sort of like just being in the moment of a fight.”

The fight takes place in Pittsburgh, where Stallone’s character works in a factory after losing all his money in early retirement. De Niro’s Billy “The Kid” McDonnen is better off with a used car lot and bar but he still yearns for the one thing that was taken away from him – a chance to beat his hated rival in the rubber match after splitting two fights 30 years earlier.

And, of course, there’s a love interest, played by the still spectacular Kim Basinger, along with a cute six-year-old old who steals a scene or two. The fight promoter (Kevin Hart) steals a few of his own, too.

“I think this is a family movie,” Stallone said. “It’s like Meet the Fockers, something that everyone will enjoy the ride. It’s not just for Grandma.”

In the end, as in all boxing movies, there’s a climactic fight scene, though in this case it’s hard to figure out for whom to root. Win, lose or draw something had to be settled the only way boxers know how to settle things – in the ring.

They did, something that should make old geezers everywhere feel a little better about themselves.

“It could go three ways and I would be satisfied,” Stallone said.

“Believe me, even in Rocky when Rocky lost I was satisfied.”

“Yeah,” said De Niro. “Same for me.”

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Friend getting divorce should be the one raising subject Several weeks have passed, she has moved in with her parents, and we have all been together with her — and she still acts like nothing is going on.

It’s making us all uncomfortby Judith able, and it’s like an elephant in the room. Do we ask if everything is Martin OK, or try to talk to her, or just let her tell us when it works for her?

GENTLE READER: Please bear in mind that it is not your elephant. It is your friend’s, and she may be hoping that it will galumph DEAR MISS MANNERS: A out of the room before anyone good friend is getting divorced. notices it. So her friends’ task is to A select few of us are very close pretend they haven’t noticed it. to her, but she has decided not to Miss Manners realizes that the tell us she’s getting divorced. She chance of a reconciliation is not has been married only a year and good when the husband is ana half, and this divorce we heard nouncing a divorce. Still, it is posabout from her soon-to-be-ex-hussible, and if that happens, friends band was a total shock to all of us. who have commiserated with one

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spouse will find that marital loyalty then kicks in, as well as the desire to classify the separation as a mere blip in the marriage. In that case, your pre-emptive sympathy would be held against you.

DEAR MISS MANNERS: My daughter has a boyfriend who works in a tire shop. He handles and works with tires daily, so he gets very dirty and his hands are black from work. They stopped by the other day, and he came in the house and touched my cabinets, and then apologized for leaving smudges on the counter.

Before I could stop myself, I asked him, “Don’t they have a sink at work?” He indicated they did, and that was the end of the discussion.

I don’t want him or my daughter to feel unwelcome, but I want to

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take care of my things. Any suggestions on how I can approach this?

GENTLE READER: As a hostess, not a nanny. Therefore offer to help, not to teach, and certainly not to scold.

That means welcoming him and saying hospitably: “I suppose you’d like to wash up after working so hard. There are fresh towels for you in the bathroom.”

Miss Manners recommends that you be on the alert to do this before the gentleman has had a chance to touch anything, and lay in a supply of dark towels.

DEAR MISS MANNERS: I have a male friend whose family I don’t know and have never met. My male friend has just been hospitalized, and I don’t know why. Is it appropriate to ask the family member whom he is in contact with what happened?

GENTLE READER: No, but you can get them to tell you.

Not everyone wants his or her medical history to be spread around, as that has a tendency to attract unsolicited advice. To indicate concern, rather than curiosity, Miss Manners advises that you not ask what happened, but instead confess that you have been worried about your friend and hope to hear that he will be all right.

DEAR MISS MANNERS: My 31-year-old daughter and her 36-year-old fiance had my beautiful baby granddaughter nine weeks ago. The grandmothers hosted a baby shower prior to the birth, and friends and relatives were most generous in their gift giving.

They are planning a wedding six months from now. My daughter does not believe she should register for the wedding. They have combined their households and have many of the basics, and yet between them they have four matching plates, no china, crystal, new towels or the essentials that would make their new life together complete. Neither has been married before.

Essentially my daughter feels that everyone has been so supportive and generous and accepting of the baby situation before the wedding, she just wants everyone to celebrate the day.

What is appropriate in this situation? Her wedding list is at least 150, so a normal bridal shower could be around 50 guests, a small, intimate celebration, possibly theme driven — or no shower at all?

GENTLE READER: With a daughter gracious enough to ask nothing more of her relatives and friends than that they celebrate her wedding, what exactly is your quarrel?

That she is passing up an opportunity to get free stuff? Or maybe even rake in some cash?

That her friends and relatives, having already been proven generous, could be milked for more?

Miss Manners believes you could profit by listening to your daughter’s definition of what makes life complete.

DEAR MISS MANNERS: An old friend, now more of an acquaintance, recently lost his wife of

40-plus years. We’ve always loved their home. Not now, but at some point in the future, is it appropriate to let him know that if he considers selling to please keep us in mind?

If it is appropriate, when would be a good (better) time, and would it be best to send a letter or ask to speak in person with him?

GENTLE READER: A better time would be if he tells you that he is thinking of moving. Otherwise, it is unforgivably intrusive to assume that as a widower, he should be downsizing, and downright ugly to let on that you see his wife’s death as an opportunity.

Miss Manners would advise you to watch the real estate advertisements instead.

DEAR MISS MANNERS: I needed the email address of a friend at the company my best friend works at. He would not directly provide me with the email address. Instead, he told me that he must ask for this friend’s permission to give it to me.

I think this is absurd, since the friend I want to contact and I have known each other for a few years now, although we are not at all close. Anyway, my best friend believes this is the proper procedure. In this day and age, people exchange emails all the time. What are your thoughts on this matter?

GENTLE READER: That you are fortunate to have a best friend who will not be handing out your address to everyone who wants to clutter your inbox. He could have suggested that he give yours to the person you wanted to write, but still, Miss Manners commends him for his discretion.

DEAR MISS MANNERS: It seems inconsiderate to me when people RSVP to dinner invitations by saying they will come “if I can,” or “I’ll call an hour before to let you know whether I can make it,” when what I have needed is an accurate head count some days before the event.

Now I find myself in the shoes of my rude invitees, that is, wishing to accept but uncertain, for reasons beyond my control, whether I can make good on the commitment.

What is the proper response? My inclination is to decline rather than find myself having to withdraw at the last minute.

GENTLE READER: Remember when you were a child and did something unkind, and your mother said, “How would you feel if he did that to you?”

You were supposed to conclude that if you wouldn’t like this done to you, you should not do it to other people. Thus having discovered the Golden Rule for yourself, you were then supposed to use it to govern your conduct in general.

That is why your inclination is to decline an invitation that you may not be able to accept. Miss Manners suggests that you follow that inclination. If you decline while explaining the circumstances, your host may or may not grant you an exception and say that you can defer the response.

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RECREATION Porter Creek, Whitehorse Elementary win at arctic sports

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Porter Creek Secondary’s Derrick Gibbons competes in the one-foot high kick at the Yukon Arctic Sports Inter-School Championships at the Kwanlin Dun Cultural Centre last Friday.

Top right, A pair of competitors engage in the arm pull. F.H. Collins’ Kuduat Shorty competes in the Inuit stick pull against schoolmate Elisha Leenders, middle, and Maeve McManus of Ecole Emilie Tremlay compete in the head pull.

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ukon schools met to knuckle hop, high kick, head pull and more at the Yukon Arctic Sports Inter-School Championships at the Kwanlin Dun Cultural Centre last week.

Porter Creek Secondary and Whitehorse Elementary School were the big winners in the two-

day event hosted by the Yukon Aboriginal Sports Circle.

Porter Creek won Friday’s high school ahead of F.H. Collins Secondary in second, Vanier Catholic Secondary in third and Ecole Emilie Tremblay in fourth.

Whitehorse Elementary won the elementary competition the previous day. Carcross School and Selkirk Elementary tied for second in front of Ecole Emilie

Tremblay.

Friday’s championship saw 35 participants take part while 77 competed for elementary schools on Dec. 12.

The Arctic sports trials for the Arctic Winter Games took place on Saturday. The team roster will be released at the end of January.

1st Matt Jacobson 2nd Kurt Spenne 3rd Andre Crist 3rd Derrick Gibbons

Overall individual results

Junior girls 1st Fayne O’Donovan

Senior boys

Junior boys 1st Mikaiah Ladue 2nd Maik McKinnon 3rd Jackie Lam

2nd Megan Banks 3rd Robyn Poulter Grade 3/4 male: Zachary Saplyary Grade 3/4 female: Charliez McLaughlin Grade 5/6 male: Derek Devling Grade 5/6 female: Zoe Sage Grade 7 male: Liam Matters Grade 7 female: Alisa Albisser Contact Tom Patrick at tomp@yukon-news.com

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Selection begins for Yukon’s Dene games team Tom Patrick News Reporter

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he selection process for Yukon’s Dene games team that will compete in Fairbanks, Alaska, got underway with trials at Takhini Elementary School on Sunday.

Over 20 athletes came out to compete for spots on the team that will head to the 2014 Arctic Winter Games in Fairbanks in March.

“It looks great, I feel pretty good. There was a lot of energy and enthusiasm here today,” said Blair Hogan, head coach of Yukon’s Dene games team. “We have a lot of repeat offenders – there are a lot of people who have done the Games before in the Dene games. So there’s a little continuity, which always helps.

“So I think I have a really good team to work with this year.”

Potential Team Yukon athletes competed in two events at the trials, the finger pull and the stick pull. The hosting Yukon Aboriginal Sports Circle planned to also hold a snow snake event, but it had to be cancelled due to

improper snow conditions.

“Nature worked against us,” said Hogan. “We had two feet of snow to deal with. You need a nice, hard compact snow to have a nice snow snake.”

Final team selection will be made at the end of January. There are a few spots left on the team the Sports Circle hopes to fill.

“It’s not quite developed yet, we still have a few vacancies to fill, but we have a general idea of who’s going to be on the team,” said Hogan.

Yukon won seven ulus in Dene games at the 2012 Arctic Winter Games in Whitehorse. The Games also include the team events hand games and pole push.

Matthew Brown, who took first in the finger pull on Sunday, won a bronze in snow snake at the 2012 Games.

Results Juvenile female finger pull 1st Sarina Primozic 2nd Jessa Frost-Klugie 3rd Jasmine Johnson Juvenile female stick pull 1st Azreil Allen

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2nd Delilah Stephen-Bailey 3rd Jessa Frost-Klugie Junior female finger pull 1st Madison Allen 2nd Brittney Brown 3rd Natane Primozic Junior female stick pull 1st Brittney Brown 2nd Madison Allen 3rd Natane Primozic Junior male finger pull 1st Matthew Brown 2nd Terrance O’Brien 3rd Anthony Primozic Junior male stick pull 1st Anthony Primozic 2nd Tyler O’Brien 3rd Terrance O’Brien Open male finger pull 1st Colby Sharp 2nd Terry Dick 3rd Jonah Caesar Open male stick pull 1st Jonah Caesar 2nd Terry Dick 3rd Colby Sharp

Contact Tom Patrick at tomp@yukon-news.com

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Matthew Brown, left, competes in the stick pull at Team Yukon’s Dene games trials for the 2014 Arctic Winter Games at Takhini Elementary on Sunday.

Yukoners boost Team Canada at World University Games Tom Patrick News Reporter

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hree Whitehorse athletes are giving Team Canada a leg up at the Winter World University Games in Trentino, Italy, this week.

Cross-country skiers Kendra Murray and Lee Hawkings and biathlete Ryan Burlingame are getting some of Canada’s best results in their sports.

It has been a great experience, said Murray and Hawkings, who study at Carleton University in Ottawa.

“The experience has been amazing!” said Murray in an email to the News. “It is an amazing experience to race against so many international athletes, some of which have been on the world cup. Additionally, it has been really interesting to explore the area and investigate many different towns in the surrounding area and get a taste of Italian culture.”

“The experience has been absolutely amazing so far,” said Hawkings in an email. “The

venue and location are stunning and the level of competition in cross-country skiing is impressive. It is my first time racing internationally and it is great to be racing against some of the best skiers in the world!

“It is a tremendous honour to be representing Canada at a Games of this scale and it is definitely a highlight of my ski career.”

Murray has finished as the second Canadian in all her individual races thus far.

The 20-year-old took 52nd in the women’s 10-kilometre skiathlon on Dec. 12, 56th in the sprint qualifier last Saturday and 62nd in the five-kilometre free on Tuesday. She also helped Canada’s relay team finish 13th in the women’s 3x5-kilometre relay on Thursday.

“The first race went fairly well,” said Murray. “It was a super tough one, as it was the first race of the season and a big race at that but I am happy with my effort and result.”

Hawkings, 22, was the third Canadian on the team of six in two races, taking 58th in the sprint qualifier last Saturday and

75th in the 10-kilometre free on Tuesday. He also raced to 72nd in the men’s 15-kilometre skiathlon on Dec. 12 and helped the relay team take 16th in the 4x10-kilometre relay on Thursday.

Burlingame, who studies at the University of Alberta, led Team Canada in the 10-kilometre sprint on Sunday, taking 45th.

The 22-year-old shot and skied to 49th in the men’s 20-kilometre last Friday, 48th in the men’s 12.5-kilometre pursuit – as the second Canadian – and helped the team take ninth in the mixed relay on Wednesday.

Burlingame could not be reached for this story.

Also on Canada’s ski team is former Whitehorse resident Mary Waddell as team leader (manager). Waddell lived in Whitehorse for three years until 2007 and worked with Cross Country Yukon.

Murray will compete in the 15-kilometre classic on Friday and Hawkings in a 30-kilometre on Saturday.

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Sport highlights galore in 2013 Tom Patrick News Reporter

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nother year of Yukon sports is almost in the books. There were enough accomplishments to fill a book.

Watson Lake cyclist Zach Bell won the Canadian road race championships and the omnium event at the track nationals.

Nishikawa siblings, Emily and Graham, qualified for and skied at the world championships in Italy.

Yukon wheelchair racer Jessica Frotten won three bronze medals at the Canada Summer Games in Sherbrooke, Que. The following is a highlight reel, if you will, of Yukoners in sports from the past year.

January

Cheap hits lit a fire under the Bantam A Mustangs at the Alberni Valley New Years Tournament in Port Alberni, B.C. on Tom Patrick/Yukon News Vancouver Island. Down 1-0 in Whitehorse’s Jessica Frotten won three bronze in para wheelchair racing at the Canada the final, Mustangs goalie Josh Summer Games in Sherbrooke, Que. in August.

Tetlichi was bowled over on an illegal hit from a player on the Melvin-McNutt unveiled his latest so many times running it,” she Games,” Sumner told the News in Kerry Park Islanders from the said. “I had some trouble on (An- an interview from Pyeongchang. trick – a switch frontside double Victoria area. The Mustangs tied nie Lake), so I didn’t expect to be “I just felt excited.” the game just 12 seconds into the cork 900 – in back-to-back first.”

Whitehorse’s Peewee A Muscompetitions at Sun Peaks Resort. resulting five-minute penalty and Whitehorse’s Mandy Pearson tangs overcame three deficits en The 19-year-old member of the went on to win the final 7-4 over topped the 10-mile dogsled race route to beating the Castlegar Rethe Islanders and take gold in the B.C. Provincial Freestyle Snow13 years after first winning it. bels 9-8 in a shootout in the final board Team took first in both Tier 2/3 tournament.

Whitehorse’s Jill Pangman, meanof the Castlegar Tier 3 Peewee B.C. Snowboard Provincial Series Whitehorse curler Thomas while, took first in the six-mile Tournament in B.C. Slopestyle competitions.

Scoffin and his University of skijor race.

“It was a barnburner … It was Whitehorse’s Justin Peterson Alberta Junior Golden Bears team Whitehorse’s Stefan Wackera huge effort from the boys,” said took first place in the 0-440cc won Alberta’s Junior Provincial hagen prevented the XX-chromoMustangs co-head coach Martin liquid class of the 44th annual Championships in Edmonton. some sweep of the Carbon Hill Lawrie.

Alcan 200 International Snow Whitehorse’s Darryl Tait distance races. Wackerhagen won Defenceman Cruz Goodman Machine Road Rally. He comcompeted in adaptive snocross the 30-mile skijor race for a third got the game-winner as Whitepleted the 250-kilometre course at the X Games, the Olympics of consecutive year. horse’s fifth shooter before goalie in one hour, 40 minutes and 17 extreme sports, in Aspen, Colo.

Hurricanes and Huskies seconds with an average speed Ethan Vanderklay plugged the net “It’s a childhood dream come joined forces to win hockey gold. to give the Mustangs the gold. of 149 kilometres per hour. He true,” said Tait. “It’s pretty cool.”

A mixed squad of players from Allen Moore of Two Rivers, Whitehorse cross-country skier was the only Yukoner to win a the Holy Family Hurricanes and division in the race.

Alaska, won the Yukon Quest in Colin Abbott placed 47th out the Hidden Valley Huskies went Women won three out of the Fairbanks. Moore crossed the finof 72 skiers in the 1.6-kilometre undefeated in seven games to take ish line one hour and 16 minutes sprint at the FIS Nordic Junior & four distance races at the 19th the top spot at the Whitehorse ahead of defending champion U23 World Ski Championships in annual Carbon Hill Sled Dog Elementary Hockey Tournament. Hugh Neff of Fairbanks.

Race at the Mount Lorne ComLiberec, Czech Republic. The then munity Centre. A female sledder “It’s great when a plan comes 22-year-old Team Canada skier also topped one out of the two February together,” said Moore, who finplaced 63rd out of 84 starters in Whitehorse’s Michael Sumner ished with a time of eight days, 18 the 15-kilometre individual-start children’s races.

After years of trying, Fox Lake’s had plenty to be excited about at hours and 57 minutes. skate race for the country’s best Martine LeLevier won the 30-mile the start of the year. The 16-yearJust eight seconds separated result for U23 men. old figure skater won silver at the the top two teams at the Yukon Whitehorse snowboarder Max dogsled race, “which is nice after 2013 Special Olympics World Quest 300 following a neckWinter Games in Pyeongchang, and-neck battle from the start South Korea. in Whitehorse. Tagish’s Michelle “I was about to scream out Phillips held a narrow lead over loud because I won my first Fairbanks’ Aliy Zirkle to win the medal at my first World Winter 300-mile dogsled race.

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Skip Sarah Koltun and her team took fourth place in the women’s division of the Canadian Junior Curling Championships in Fort McMurray, Alta. It was the best-ever finish for a women’s team representing Yukon at the junior nationals. Yukon’s Team Young with skip Mitchell Young finished with a 5-4 record to place ninth in junior men. Whitehorse’s Thomas Scoffin, who was skip for Alberta, took his team all the way to the finals and left with silver.

Glacier Bears swimmers Dannica Nelson and Luke Bakica won gold medals at the B.C. AA Championships in Surrey. Both swimmers won in the 200-metre breaststroke.

Biathlete Jake Draper picked up two medals at the B.C. Cup in Kelowna. The member of Biathlon Yukon’s Velocity Squad won a gold and a silver in the juvenile division.

Josie Storey and Abby Hawes had the fastest overall times at the Yukon Cup, the territory’s alpine ski championship. Hawes had the fastest time of any skier in the giant slalom, while Storey had the fastest overall time in the slalom event.

Whitehorse Black fought back from down 3-0 to defeat the Juneau Capitals 5-4 in a shoot-out in the final of the Yukon Atom Hockey Championships in Haines Junction.

“That’s nothing but heart.

They played a lot of hockey this weekend,” said Black head coach Mark Daniels. “The last three (games) were three in a row and that’s amazing.”

The Whitehorse Canucks weren’t expected to win the Yukon Novice Hockey Championships in Dawson City. Far from it. The Canucks, who struggled for wins in the Whitehorse house league, lost their one goalie to injury during the final. But even with a far less experienced goalie between the pipes, the Canucks held on to defeat the Whitehorse Senators 7-5 for the title.

Two teams kept their perfect record intact to end the season at the YSAA Elementary Basketball Championships. The Elijah Smith Eagles went undefeated in the girls side of the tournament and the Holy Family Hurricanes went undefeated on the boys side. Both teams went undefeated all season

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With just 26.9 seconds remaining on the clock in overtime, Vanier Crusaders guard RJ Siosan tied the game with a basket and drew a foul. He then sunk the free-throw to his team a one-point lead over the Porter Creek Rams. The Crusaders held the slim lead to win the game 55-54 and capture gold in the junior boys division of the Yukon Basketball Championships.

The Porter Creek Rams took control early and never let go as they won the junior girls division of the Yukon Basketball Championships. The Rams beat the F.H. Collins Warriors 41-30 in the final.

There was an electrifying end to the senior girls basketball season. The Porter Creek Rams launched a huge fourth-quarter comeback to win in the dying seconds in the final of the Yukon Basketball Championships.

“It’s crazy. The season has been really even for all the teams and for us to come back from such a stretch was really crazy – to win by one point,” said Rams captain Megan Lanigan. “I’m really proud of my whole team.”

The Rams took the Yukon title with a 61-60 win over the F.H. Collins Warriors.

The Vanier Crusaders had a big second half to come from behind and win the Yukon senior boys championship 86-73 over the Rams.

Just weeks after completing the Yukon Quest, Carcross musher Crispin Studer won the River Runner 120. Whitehorse’s Stefan Wackerhagen beat out three other racers in the skijor division.

Studer went on to win the Percy DeWolfe Memorial Mail Race in Dawson City in April.

Whitehorse’s Caelan McLean was one of two Whitehorse crosscountry skiers to win a division at the Western Canadian Championships in Grande Prairie, Alta.

The other was Dahria Beatty in junior women.

After not competing at all during the season, past champion Erin Oliver-Beebe was back in action at the 2013 Yukon Biathlon Championships. Oliver-Beebe had the fastest time of any biathlete on the six-kilometre course.

Whitehorse’s Lois Johnston finished no race empty-handed at the Masters World Cup in Asiago, Italy. Johnston won four medals in four races in the W7 division (females age 60-65) at the championship.

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Yukon’s freestyle snowboard team had its best-ever results at Snow Crown – the Canadian freestyle snowboard championships.

Yukon’s Lara Bellon placed ninth in the junior women slopestyle event and Adam Waddington placed 20th in junior men. Waddington also placed 12th in his open division qualifier, just two spots from making the final.

Whitehorse’s Ryan Burlingame placed 11th overall in all three races in the open men division at the North American/Canadian Biathlon Championships in Whistler, B.C. “It was really fun actually, it was an interesting experience,” said Burlingame. “The courses were fun, the competition was pretty tough and I’m pleased with my results.”

Whitehorse’s Josh Harlow landed a corked 900 with blunt tailgrab to win bronze in the big Bob Nishikawa/Yukon News air competition at the Canadian Emily Nishikawa competes at the 2013 Nordic World Ski Championships in Val di Fiemme, Junior Freestyle Ski ChampionItaly in March. ships in Penticton, B.C. The bronze was the first medal Her reaction to returning the B.C. AAA Age Group Cham12th in the 5,000-metre to end won by the Yukon Freestyle Ski home with four medals: “Compionships in Victoria. Teammate the North American Speed SkatAssociation’s competitive team at plete surprise,” she said. “EveryCassis Lindsay won a gold, silver ing Championships in Salt Lake the national level. thing lined up and I didn’t have and bronze.

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Yukon’s Lyndsey Boorse won any problems with the time Yukon Elite Squad teammates Whitehorse Rapids speedskater gold and teammate Aiden Allen change … I had a couple days Knute Johnsgaard and Colin Heather Clarke placed ninth won silver in the slopestyle to acclimatize and I was pretty Abbott didn’t cut each other any overall in the Junior A division competition at the B.C. Freestyle healthy, so I could adapt quite slack at the Yukon Cross-Country after four events at the Canadian Ski Championships in Vernon. well.”

Ski Championships. Johnsgaard Short Track Championships in Boorse’s medal was the first gold Johnston won two gold, a silver outpaced his teammate by a half Montreal. won by a female on the Yukon and a bronze. second to win the open men’s “I didn’t have a very good team and Allen’s silver was the division. weekend,” said Clarke, who first medal won by a male at the Johnsgaard was awarded the fell in the 500-metre final, March provincials.

Graham and Emily Nishikawa Gordon Taylor Memorial Trophy the 1,000-metre final and the The Bantam A Mustangs for having the fastest time on both struggled with illness, as 3,000-metre final. “It was just not had a heartbreaking end to the the 12.5-kilometre course in the did most of the Canadian team, B.C. Hockey Championships in a good weekend at all. at 2013 Nordic World Ski Cham- championships.

“The 1,500 I stayed on my feet. Dawson Creek. Playing for the An N.W.T. skier took the pionships in Val di Fiemme, Italy. bronze medal, the Whitehorse But so many thing went wrong But it was still a fantastic experiGordon Taylor Trophy for the minor hockey rep team dropped for me and nothing was working ence, said Graham. two one-goal leads en route to women. Fort McPherson’s Annah out.”

“It was amazing week for me,” Hanthorn had the fastest time losing 5-4 to Smithers at the Tier Yukon’s Rachel Kinvig made he said. “I’m really tired right on the 10-kilometre course for her last season of competitive dog 3 championship. The loss gave the now, but it was an amazing exthe trophy. Hanthorn moved to sledding a good one. The 16-year- bantams fourth place for the best perience. Some highs and lows. finish of the four Mustangs teams Whitehorse and joined the Yukon old from the Annie Lake area “I’m just overall really happy.” Ski Team during the summer. raced to third place in the six-dog, playing in the provincials.

Graham placed 39th out of 95 Whitehorse’s Chaos Combat Whitehorse’s Troy Henry got 6.5-miles division at the IFSS skiers in the men’s 15-kilometre faster all season and finished with Winter World Championships in Continued on page 60. skate race for his strongest result.

Emily placed 57th in two races for her best finishes.

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Club had a productive weekend at the Tiger Balm Internationals, a huge international martial arts event in North Vancouver. Eight members of the mixed martial arts gym in Porter Creek returned with 14 medals, including six gold.

The Spectrum Security Bears captured the Kopper King Cup with a shutout win in the Yukon Broomball Association’s playoff final at the Takhini Broomball Arena. The Bears, who placed first in the regular season, won the Cup with a 4-0 win over Capital Towing.

Yukon teams prevailed in the youngest and oldest divisions at the 36th annual Yukon Native Hockey Tournament in Whitehorse. The Whitehorse Wolverines captured the youth title and the Kaska Warriors from Watson Lake were tops in the oldtimer division.

April

The Green Beasts beat the Red Dragons 5-4 in a shootout in the final of the Whitehorse Women’s Hockey Association league. Of the six shooters, only Beasts centre Laura Grieve found the back of the net in the shootout for the game-winner. She also tied the game 4-4 with 1:37 left in regulation.

The Whitehorse Cross Country Ski Club won 16 race medals, not counting aggregate hardware, and placed fourth out of 67 clubs at the 2013 Haywood Ski Nationals.

Whitehorse had five skiers reach the podium in aggregate divisions. Kendra Murray took first in the Year of Birth aggregate division and was sixth for junior women. Caelan McLean claimed second in Year of Birth aggregate and in juvenile boys aggregate.

Graham Nishikawa placed second in the senior men’s aggregate division with fellow Yukoner David Greer not far behind in fourth.

Knute Johnsgaard, in his first year competing in senior men, was seventh overall and first in Year of Birth aggregate results. Dahria

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1A), Jasmine Bergeron (Level 2A), Anisa Albisser (Level 3) and Fayne O’Donovan (Level 4).

Watson Lake’s Jason Carlson captured his fourth consecutive open men’s singles title at the championship at the 2013 Yukon Badminton Championships.

“It just keeps getting harder and harder every year,” he said.

Carlson was the only triplegold winner at the championships, winning the open men’s doubles with Vancouver’s Jerry Lum and the mixed doubles with fellow Watson Laker Abbie Rotondi. Whitehorse’s Shermaine Chua won two gold and a silver including the women’s singles title.

Whitehorse’s Kevin Murphy captured his 19th men’s singles title and Edna Knight her 12th women’s singles title at the Yukon Table Tennis Championships. The two members of Yukon table tennis royalty also won doubles titles at the tournament that marked the 40th anniversary of the first recorded territorial championships.

Glacier Bears Thomas Bakica and Matthew Blakesley both set club records at the 2013 Yukon Championships Invitational Meet.

Whitehorse Black celebrates their gold-medal victory over the Juneau Capitals at the Yukon Atom Hockey Championships in February.

May

The Yukon Judo Championships had its largest turnout to at the championship.

Beatty, a member of the junior with 23 points in the final. national team, came in fourth for Yukon Inn captured the White- date with 67 judokas competing Mount Sima wrapped another – 21 more than last year and 28 junior women and second in Year season with its annual seasonhorse Oldtimer Hockey League of Birth. ending celebration, Simapalooza, title with a 5-2 and 4-1 wins over more than in 2011. In addition to four Yukon clubs represented, Eighteen skaters combined that included a pair of champion- the Firth Rangers. the championships welcomed to set a total of 33 personal best Drift Geomatics siphoned an ships. times at the Yukon Speed Skating unexpected win from Takhini Gas 15 Alaskans from the Juneau’s Marie-Helene Blanchet won Championships to end the season. open female and Adam Wadto close out the basketball season. Capital City Judo Club and Anchorage’s Mountain View Judo. A Jacob McPherson and Tristan The Drift team downed topdington open male in the Yukon couple weeks later Yukon judokas Muir, and brothers Caius and seeded Takhini Gas 53-17 in the Snowboard Championships. captured 10 medals, including five Lucas Taggart-Cox from Marsh Whitehorse Women’s Basketball Josh Harlow took open male gold, at the 54th annual Alaska Lake set personal best times in all and Sara Burke-Forsyth open League final.

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division. Whitehorse junior Kai Knorr went undefeated in the men’s A draw to win his first adult title at the Yukon Open.

In her first outdoor track meet, Whitehorse’s Jessica Frotten won five gold medals in wheelchair racing at the 2013 Dogwood Track and Field Meet at the University of Victoria.

“I am a little bit surprised actually,” said Frotten. “It was so much fun. My dad (Howard) came from Whitehorse to come cheer me on. I had a little cheering section – the loudest in the stands.”

In volleyball, Sub Zero’s U14 boys posted three consecutive wins en route to taking gold in Tier 3 of Division 2 of the Canada West Open in Abbotsford, B.C. The Yukon Roller Girls went undefeated to win the first annual United We Roll Roller Derby Tournament in Fairbanks, Alaska.

“We went into this tournament … with the intention to just have fun, just to play some bouts and enjoy our time there,” said Yukon president Lindsay “Bonanza Babe” Agar. “And then all of a sudden we won all our seeding bouts, were second in the seeding, and then we were playing for the championship.”

The Yukon Roller Girls clinched first place with a 179-120 win over Fairbanks’ Raven Rebels in the final. The Yukon squad was the only one from Canada in the tournament, with five Alaskan teams also competing for the title.

June

After years of coming close, Yukon cyclist Zach Bell became a national champion on the road.

The Watson Lake native placed first in the 2013 Canadian Road Championships in St-Georges, Que. “Being an athlete from the Yukon and being able to win, basically, the most prestigious, professional race you can find in Canada … I think it’s pretty cool,” said Bell. “The first thing I thought was, ‘How cool is this that someone from the Yukon won this?’”

Bell also took fourth place in the time trial and eighth in the criterium at the national championship.

The Yukon Selects U11 boys team went undefeated to win gold and the Selects men’s team lost in the final of the open men’s division to take silver at the 2013 Alaska Airlines Cup in Anchor-

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Total Soccer Consulting grabbed the U15 title through a shootout, while Adorna Landscaping captured U13 with a five-goal shutout at the Yukon Soccer 2013 Outdoor Championships. Haines Junction hosted its first championship tourney with the U11 Yukon Soccer Championships. Whitehorse’s Yukon Outfitters went undefeated en route to taking gold and the territorial title.

Whitehorse teams won six of 11 divisions at the Kluane Chilkat International Bike Relay. New solo records were set by a British Columbian and an Alaskan.

Glacier Bears swimmer Thomas Bakica broke club records five times en route to winning three medals at the B.C. AA Long Course Championships in Victoria.

The three segments of the Yukon Orienteering Championships featured a good variety of terrain and Whitehorse’s Forest Pearson was the fastest on all three.

Star Whitehorse swimmers MacKenzie Downing and Alexandra Gabor announced their retirements a week apart from each other.

July

Whitehorse’s Max MelvinMcNutt won his third straight advanced division at the Canada Day Skate Comp, the Yukon skateboarding championship.

Whitehorse’s Preston Blackie won the expert men’s division of the Tour de Whitehorse. Whitehorse’s Trena Irving regained the women’s tour title, cycling alone in the sport women’s division.

Four of the seven athletes representing Canada at the Junior World Orienteering Championships in the Czech Republic were Yukoners with Kendra Murray, Jennifer MacKeigan and Pia Blake and Trevor Bray competing. Murray produced her team’s strongest results in every individual race.

Speedy sisters Cassis and Rennes Lindsay captured three medals and broke club records 10 times at the 2013 Swim B.C. AAA Long Course Championships in Vancouver.

Whitehorse’s Phil Mullin won his sixth men’s title and third in

a row at the 2013 Yukon Golf Championships. Nicole Baldwin won the women’s title and James McGrath claimed his first junior title.

Yukon amassed 20 medals, a record for the territory, at the 2013 Special Olympics British Columbia Summer Games. That’s almost three times as many as the seven won by Yukon at the previous B.C. Games in 2009.

Whitehorse’s Jessica Frotten won two gold medals at the 2013 Canada Summer Games Western Challenge in Calgary.

sey Baker and Andrew Savard rode to a sixth-place finish out of 11 teams in the mountain bike relay race. Skerget also placed 15th in the eliminator event and teammate Veronica Huggard finished 13th in the women’s cross-country race.

Yukon road cyclist Melanie Tait twice finished in the top-20 at the Games.

The Yukon men’s soccer team defeated the Northwest Territories 2-0 to avoid last place at the Games. Yukon’s women’s team failed to pick up a win in Sherbrooke.

Whitehorse’s Pelly VincentAugust Braun paddled to eight medThe Canada Summer Games in als, including two gold, at the Sherbrooke, Que., presented a lot Canadian National Whitewater of ups and downs and a couple Championships in Alberta. He historic firsts for Team Yukon in was the first Yukoner to compete August. in the downriver and slalom Whitehorse’s Jessica Frotevents at the championships. ten, who was racing for Team Whitehorse’s Erin Light Saskatchewan, won three bronze worked her way to 27th for medals in para-wheelchair racing. women at the CrossFit Games “I didn’t expect this at all,” said – the world championships – in Frotten. “I’m pretty blown away Carson, California. that I came in third – that’s third “I feel incredibly proud of that in Canada. That’s pretty big. result,” said Light. “I came into “The sky’s the limit now. I’m that competition being (ranked) going to get right back into train42nd and I moved up to 27th.” ing.”

Whitehorse handgun shooter The Yukon men’s volleyball John Simmons placed 17th in team twice defeated Prince Edthe open division at the IPSC ward Island, which was the first Canadian Nationals. He went on time a Yukon team produced two to place seventh at the IPSC B.C. wins over a province at the Games Provincial Championships the in volleyball. The Yukon women’s next month. team went winless.

Whitehorse’s David Gonda and Whitehorse’s Logan Roots Tamara Goeppel were king and became the first Yukoner to make queen again following the King of a final in athletics at the Games. the Canyon – Yukon’s mountain Roots placed 11th overall out bike championship – at the end of of 22 runners in the A final of the month. It was Gonda’s third the 1,500-metre event. Also in time winning the men’s title and athletics, Kieran Halliday became Goeppel’s fourth time winning the first Yukoner to race the the women’s title.

3,000-metre steeplechase, placing Whitehorse’s Jan Polivka won 12th. his fifth straight men’s singles title Team Yukon’s Jason Zrum and at the 2013 Yukon Tennis ChamAndrew Crist became the first two pionships. Polivka also captured paddlers from any of Canada’s the mixed doubles title with partthree territories to compete in ner Anne Copland. Whitehorse’s flatwater racing in Canada Games Nicola Pritchett took the women’s history. singles title. Pritchett, and partner Yukon’s Spencer Skerget, Mas- Fleur Marsella, went undefeated

in the women’s doubles roundrobin to capture that title as well.

September

Just two months after winning the national title in road racing, Watson Lake’s Zach Bell returned to the velodrome to win gold in the omnium at the 2013 Canadian Track Championships in Dieppe, N.B., “It was challenging for sure,” said Bell. “My form wasn’t actually too bad considering I haven’t really been on the track since the (London) Olympics.”

Team Canada, which included Whitehorse’s Aidan Love, reached the quarterfinals at the Men’s U23 World Wheelchair Basketball Championships in Adana, Turkey.

Whitehorse’s Scarecrow men’s team captured its fourth-consecutive open division win at the 31st annual Klondike Trail of ’98 International Road Relay. Seven Whitehorse teams won a division in the 176.5-kilometre race from Skagway, Alaska, to Whitehorse.

Whitehorse’s Ladies Worth Freezin’ For won the women’s division.

Logan Boehmer and Sue Bogle captured titles at the Yukon Cross-Country Running Championships.

October

The Peewee A Mustangs rallied from an opening loss to win four straight and claim gold at the 11th annual International Seafair Icebreaker Rep Tournament in Richmond. The Mustangs took gold with a 7-4 win over the South Delta Storm from Delta, B.C., in the Tier 2 tournament.

Mustangs forward Dylan Cozens scored 21 of his team’s 30 goals.

Yukon’s Denise McHale was the fastest masters women runner at the 34th annual Victoria Marathon on Vancouver Island.

McHale placed first for women 40-44 and was the third female overall in the marathon with a time of 2:56:39.

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62 “I was happy,” said McHale.

“I hadn’t done a road marathon since 2006 and that was a personal best for me.”

Yukon’s top male in the marathon was Whitehorse’s Joel Macht in 106th overall out of 1,726 runners and 19th for men 35-39.

Whitehorse’s Logan Roots finished 12th overall and was third for men 20-24 in the half-distance division.

Yukon Strikers U12 rep soccer team was split in two to compete in U12 and U11 at the 27th annual North Shore Girls Soccer Club Thanksgiving Tournament.

The U11 half of the Strikers went undefeated to take gold and the U12 reached the final for silver in their respective age divisions.

The same weekend, Yukon’s Junior Selects boys soccer team went 3-1 in a four-match round robin, to capture silver in U12 boys at the second annual Mini Gobbler Soccer Fest in Burnaby, B.C. Three Yukoners won hardware in every race at the Canadian Orienteering Championships in Hamilton, Ont., Juniors Kendra Murray, Trevor Bray and senior Nesta Leduc won medals in all three distances.

The Bantam A Mustangs went undefeated at the Revelstoke Bantam Rep Tournament in B.C. The Whitehorse rep team outscored the competition 37-9 in five games on their first road trip of the season.

Logan Roots placed 16th at the British Columbia Cross Country Championships in the open division (men 20-34) in Abbotsford.

“I didn’t really have any goals going into it,” he said. “I just wanted to run hard and see how I placed. I was happy with how it turned out.”

Whitehorse’s Kieran Halliday ran to 19th out of 242 runners in the senior boys division at the B.C. High School Cross Country Championships in Aldergrove.

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Jenny Darling of Meadia Solutions Chicks rides in the Kluane Chilkat International Bike Relay in June.

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Tour Bonspiel in Calgary.

“We’re definitely feeling pretty Whitehorse’s Jackie Harrison confident right now, especially finished her university soccer career with a Canada West bronze going 7-0 into the final,” said Scoffin. “It shows a lot of good medal with her University of signs leading up to our goals here Victoria Vikes women’s team. in the next couple of months.

Harrison logged a goal in what “We’re happy with that perwas her final match as a university formance for sure.” player.

Whitehorse’s Jeff Wiggins After three losses to the Matshot his way to his second top-30 Su Eagles from Wasilla, Alaska., finish in three years at the 2013 the Whitehorse Atom Mustangs squeaked out a 3-2 nail-biter win Canadian PGA Club Professional over the Alaskans in the final of National Championship. The the Whitehorse International Mountain View club pro hit four Atom Hockey Tournament. Huss over in three rounds to place 27th Breithaup scored the gameout of 85 pros at the championwinner. ship in Port St. Lucie, Florida.

Arctic Edge skater Rachel He qualified for the nationPettitt placed 12th in her short als with a third-place finish at program and third in her long for the 2013 PGA of B.C. Club Pro sixth overall in novice women at Championship in September. the Skate Canada’s BC/YT SecThe Atom Jr. Mustangs got a tional Championships. lot of practice killing off penalWhitehorse’s Thomas Scofties at the Adam Myers Memorial fin and his University of Alberta Tournament in Leduc, Alta. They Golden Bears made the final of struggled to stay out of the box, the Original 16 World Curling accruing more penalties than any

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n this season of special celebration let us do our best to remember that all children are precious. I would like to take you back to 1923 and a quote from Eglantyne Jebb, “The child that is hungry must be fed, the child that is sick must be nursed, the child that is backward must be helped, the delinquent child must be reclaimed, and the orphan and the waif must be sheltered and succored.”

The present day UN Convention on the Rights of the Child morphed out of the original work initiated by Eglantyne Jebb.Today, all children in Canada have Rights and rightfully so.

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he office of the Yukon Child and Youth Advocate wishes all Yukon Children and families a very safe healthy and happy Christmas Holiday season.

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other team, but still managed to take the bronze.

For the first time in the school’s history, the Hidden Valley Elementary School Huskies won gold in both the Grade 7 boys and girls divisions at the Yukon Elementary Volleyball Championships. Not only did both Hidden Valley teams go undefeated at the championships, neither team even dropped a set in any match.

The Vanier Crusaders senior boys team toppled the previously undefeated F.H. Collins Warriors in the final of the Pepsi Volleyball Yukon Championships.

Vanier defeated the Warriors, who won the Dawson Invitational and the Super Volley league, 2523, 25-22 in the final for the title.

Rams defeated the Crusaders 26-24, 25-21 in the senior girls final.

The Crusaders took a 25-18, 25-23 win over the Porter Creek Rams junior girls final. Vanier also won in junior boys, defeating the Warriors 25-18, 25-21 in the final to take gold.

Two rinks representing the Whitehorse Curling Club made historic runs at the Dominion Curling Club Championships in Thunder Bay, Ont. Pat Paslawski’s men’s team and Nicole Baldwin’s women’s team both reached the playoffs, losing to Saskatchewan in the semifinals.

Whitehorse’s female rep hockey team gave goalies a good workout at the Wickenheiser Female World Hockey Festival in Calgary, Alta. The Great Canadian Dollar Store Female Mustangs outshot opposing teams 150-38 in their first three games. The Mustangs opened with three straight wins before ending with two losses to Alberta’s Stettler Storm, taking second place in the tournament’s Tier 3 midget division.

Whitehorse’s Roan EvansEhricht dominated in the ring to win gold in the 81-kilogram weight class at the Alberta Bronze Gloves in Stony Plain. He won two fights in just a total of four rounds for the gold.

“I’ve been training for three

The Peewee B Mustangs twice fought back from losing situations en route to a silver at the Wetaskiwin Peewee Challenge, a Tier 4 tournament.

“I’m very happy with the trip,” said head coach Ryan Hennings.

“These boys only played three games as a group prior to going to this tournament and we were playing teams from Alberta that play two games a week and have practices.”

Whitehorse’s Lindsay Carson fought rain, mud and chilly temperatures to take fourth place in the senior women’s division at the Canadian National Cross Country Championship in Vancouver.

Logan Roots ran to 46th in the senior men’s division.

Junior Dahria Beatty sprinted to gold and siblings Graham and Emily Nishikawa each collected a bronze at the first Haywood NorAm event of the ski season in Vernon, B.C.. This past weekend in a NorAm in Rossland, B.C. Emily won her first NorAm gold of the season in the senior women’s 1.4-kilometre free sprint on Saturday. She then won silver, and was the top Canadian, in the open women’s 10-kilometre classic on Sunday. Beatty also won silver in the junior women’s sprint on Saturday and bronze in junior women for the 10-kilometre classic Sunday, finishing 12th overall in open. Graham Nishikawa won his second and third NorAm bronzes of the season in Rossland.

Whitehorse speedskater Troy Henry is getting a shot at Sochi.

The 24-year-old long-track skater qualified for the Team Canada’s Olympic trials, Speed Skating Canada announced last week.

“I was pretty happy about it,” said Henry. “Most of it was from a competition I had in October – the World Cup trials that I skated pretty well at. I got seventh there and that gave me a lot of points towards getting to the Olympic trials.”

Henry will vie for a spot on Canada’s Olympic team bound for the Sochi Games in two distances. He will race in the 5,000-metre trials Dec. 28 and the 10,000-metre on Jan. 3 at the Calgary Olympic Oval, where he trains in the Calgary Oval Program.

In curling, Team Baldwin and Team Koltun were ranked No. 1 and No. 2 going into January’s Yukon/N.W.T. playdowns after the Yukon Women’s Curling Championship on the weekend.

“I’m really pleased with the way we were curling and I’m glad we’ll have two great representatives for the Yukon in the territorial (playdowns) this year,” said skip Nicole Baldwin.

Contact Tom Patrick at tomp@yukon-news.com

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Kakuro

By The Mepham Group

Level: Moderate

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This mind-bending puzzle will have you hooked from the moment you square off, so sharpen your pencil and put your sudoku savvy to the test!

Complete the grid so each row, column and 3-by-3 box (in blod borders) contains every digit 1 to 9. For strategies on how to solve Sudoku, visit www.sudoku.org.uk.

FRIDAY CROSSWORD PUZZLE

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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CLUES ACROSS

1. Peruse a book 5. Eating houses 10. Semitic fertility god 14. Protoctist genus 15. Lower in esteem 16. Having sufficient skill 17. Copyread 18. More lucid 19. Bleats 20. Baltimore footballers 22. Removes writing 24. Six (Spanish) 26. Santa & Rancho Santa 27. Computer memory hardware CLUES DOWN 1. One who feels penitence 2. Name meaning “God knows” 3. Tel __, Israel city 4. Palm fruits 5. Coarse cinnamon bark 6. Goat and camel hair fabric 7. Sport devotee 8. Point midway between E and SE 9. Imperturbable 10. Spongelike cakes 11. Arabian outer garments 12. Winglike structures 13. Smaller quantity 21. Beaks

30. Bangles and beads 32. (Latin) e’around time of 35. Saudi citizens 37. Ladies’ undergarment 38. Evoke or elicit 40. The central part of the Earth 41. Small amount 42. Off-Broadway theater award 43. Related on the mother’s side 45. Opposite of beginning 46. Afrikaans 47. A very small circular shape 48. Material 51. Bill the Science Guy

52. Segregating operation 53. Small sleeps 55. Dispoiling a country in warfare 58. Any digit of a vertebrate 62. An apron 63. Island in Bay of Naples 67. Not at home 68. Of a city 69. Daughter of Asopus & Metope 70. Camera apertures 71. Tip of Aleutian Islands 72. Profoundly wise men 73. Ice hockey feinting

23. Tear down 25. Hidden meaning 26. His magic lamp 27. Had a contest of speed 28. 04473 ME 29. Murdered in his bathtub 31. 14027 NY 32. A citizen of Havanna 33. Very coldly 34. Singer Della 36. Wager 39. Arrived extinct 44. British School 46. The Education Project Asia

49. Raises 50. Madames 52. European Capital of Culture: Romania 54. Burn with a hot liquid 55. __-__-la-ma-ding-dong 56. Be next to 57. British beer unit 59. Overly precious (British) 60. An American 61. Cause cell destruction 64. Satisfaction 65. Small pin of wood 66. Relative Biological Effectiveness

Puzzle B

Puzzle C

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AVAILABLE IMMEDIATELY 3-bdrm 2-bath home in Crestview with attached garage On greenbelt Next to park and rink No Smoking, no pets $1,700/mon Including electricity & utilities Call 334-9773 LARGE ROOM in PC, private ent, recent reno, shared accom, avail immed, heat & utils incl, $750/mon + dd. 668-7213 NEW CABIN 20 min. n. of city, wood heat, propane cookstove & lights, private, quiet, great view, avail immed, $600/mon.

333-5174 1-BDRM 1-BATH beautiful fully furnished lower floor suite in CR, bright, new, clean, quiet, sep entry, N/S, N/P, avail immed. $1,250/mon incl all util. 335-2288 1-BDRM HOUSE, avail immed, 40 min south of Whitehorse, $800/mon. 821-3739 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 MARSH LAKE 3-bdrm 2-bath house (1,000 sq ft) washer/dryer, N/S, avail immed, $1,000.00/mon + elec & dd. (250) 864-4499 1-BDRM FULLY furnished apt in d/t, incl heat, lights, hot water, basic cable, N/P, no parties, responsible tenant, avail Jan 1, $950/mon. 668-5558

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2-BDRM BASEMENT suite, Riverdale, avail immed, $1,200/mon includes everything, $500 dd required. Call Pink, 334-6283

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

STUDIO/OFFICE SPACE available on Copper Road.

Two spaces available or able to combine for one large space.

First unit, 780 sq. ft.

Second unit, 1,080 sq. ft.

Full lunchroom and utilities included.

Contact Brenda or Michelle at 667-2614 or email totalfire@northwestel.net

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

2-BDRM APARTMENTS, Takhini, clean, well-kept, incl w/d, f/s, dw, parking & city utils, N/S, N/P, responsible tenants, $1,300/mon or $1,100/mon & sec dep.

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ROOM FOR rent, N/S, N/P, avail. Dec. 1. $750/mon. all incl. 393-2275

3-BDRM CONDO D/T, N/S, no pets, avail Jan. 1. $1,600/mon + utils. 667-2255

3-BDRM TRAILER, clean, N/S, N/P, $1,100/mon + utils, dd $600. 334-7872

3-BDRM DUPLEX in Hillcrest, wood/oil heat, w/d, avail immed, $1,100/mon + utils.

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1-BDRM BSMNT suite, PC, avail January 1st, w/d, N/S, N/P, $1,250/mon incl power & heat. Stephanie 335-2090

3-BDRM 2-BATH townhouse, PC, N/S, N/P, avail Dec. 1. $1,700/mon + utils & dd.

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SMALL 1-BDRM apt. D/T, lower level in quiet, secure building, new floors, paint, good light, N/S, N/P, refs&dd reqʼd.

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2 OR 3 bedroom mobile home, completely renoʼd, electric baseboard and/or oil heat, fenced yard, 8x12 storage shed, dd&refs reqʼd, $1,200/mon + utils. 332-0726 2-BDRM + den in PC, triplex with attached garage, bright sunny, dw, w/d, parking, bus stop in front, allow one cat, N/S $1,275/mon + $1,275 dd. 333-0866 3-BDRM 1.5 bath condo, Riverdale, avail Jan 10, N/P, N/S, no partie, 1st month rent as dd, refs reqʼd. $1,400/mon + utils.

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FURNISHED ROOM in D/T house, responsible female, incl cable, elec, kitchen&laundry facilities, avail immed, $600/mon. 668-5185 days or 667-7840 eves & weekends BRIGHT ROOM in Hillcrest available Jan 1st, clean home on green space, share kitchen/ bath/laundry, clean/tidy person, $650/mo. all incl. 456-7140 4-BDRM HOUSE, Riverdale, N/S, N/P, call Ben 780-367-2215

2-BDRM MOBILE home, new renos, new bathroom, 10" thick walls, elec baseboard heat, oil stove, fenced yard, shed, $1,200 + utils & dd. 332-0726 3-BDRM 2.5 bath townhouse, garage, fenced yard, pets ok. $1,600/mon + utils & dd, avail Jan 1. Call 335-8910 WANTED: FEMALE roommate, prefer over 40, to share 2-bdrm apt beside Riverdale Super A, basic cable & utils incl, $450/mon + $450 dd. 335-8915 2-BDRM TRAILER, newly renoʼd, new w/d, oil or wood heat, $1,300/mon + heat + hydro.

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3-BDRM HOUSE, Riverdale, avail immed, completely renovated this past yr. N/S, N/P refs and DD reqd. $1,600/mo +utils, serious inq only. 335-0277

ONE BEDROOM in a house, Riverdale, fully finished upper level, close to bus, N/P N/S $480 utils & dd, avail Jan 1, 334-3280 after 4 pm

LONG-TERM HOUSESITTER available for winter months, gd w/pets & plants. No criminal record, 30 yr. Yukon resident. 335-0009

3-BDRMCOUNTRY RESIDENTIAL suite, pets ok, wood heat, well, W/D, storage space, 45km south of Whitehorse. $1,000/mon. 334-3053

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RESPONSIBLE MATURE female looking to rent a one bedroom suite or apartment in the Whitehorse area, preferably downtown or in Porter Creek. Michell at 336-3389

BACHELOR APT 15 mins fr downtown, private entrance, on bus route. N/S, N/P, dd&refs reqʼd, avail Jan 01, suitable for 1 person, $950/mon. 333-0497 FURNISHED ROOM with TV/Cable, wifi internet access, double bed, large comfortable home in Porter Creek, laundry facilities and parking, N/P, avail immed. $695/mon.

667-7733 WANTED: JAN. 1, roommate to share waterfront home at Marsh Lake, close to community centre & ski trails, N/S, animals welcome, $500/mon & share elec. 660-4321 1 & 2 bdrm units for rent at Cedar Apts & Terra Suites. Call 667-7772 or 668-2416 1-BDRM BSMT suite, Porter Creek, full bath, w/d, N/S, N/P, avail immed or Jan. 1, $1,000/mon + dd, heat/light incl. 456-7729 2-BDRM HOUSE D/T, avail January 1, ample parking, newer appliances, N/S, small dog considered, dd&refs reqʼd, $1,500/mon + utils. 667-7170 4-BDRM 1-BATH house D/T, furnished, avail Jan. 1, $1,500/mon + utils. 456-9575

Office Space fOr LeaSe Above Starbuck’s on Main St. Nice clean, professional building, good natural light. 544 sq.ft. (can be leased as one office or can be split into two smaller spaces).

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ROOM IN Copper Ridge, private bathroom, shared common areas, no partying, no drinking, no drugs, avail January 1st, must like animals. 334-4430 MOBILE HOME, electric baseboard/oil furnace, renoʼd in last 4 years, new flooring, drywall, paint, vinyl windows, bathroom, stacking washer/dryer, furnished if need be, $1,200 + utils. 334-7664

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The marketing manager position will oversee the development and implementation of an annual marketing plan and budget, aligned with the College’s strategic plan. This position will provide leadership and direction in a variety of marketing areas, including print and internet collateral, video and photography, advertising, campaigns, social media, and website development and maintenance.

Reporting to the Director of College Relations, this is a position with varied and competing demands. A strong communicator, with the ability to diplomatically deal with multiple, competing expectations, the incumbent should have proven management experience as a leader in the marketing arena.

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JOURNEYMAN AUTOMOTIVE Service Techånician(s) in Hanna Alberta. Hanna Chrysler Ltd. offers competitive wages from $30/hour, negotiable depending on experience. Bright, modern shop. Full-time permanent with benefits. Friendly town just 2 hours from major urban centres. More info at: hannachrylser.ca. Fax 403-854-2845; Email: chrysler@telusplanet.net.

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Employment Opportunity

Providing leadership through our strengths in programming, services and research, Yukon College’s main campus in Whitehorse and 12 community campuses cover the territory. A small college, YC provides a stimulating and collegial environment. We work with Yukon communities, Yukon First Nations, local governments, business and industry, to promote a community of learners within a vibrant organization. Come join us as we continue to enhance the Yukon’s capacity through education and training.

Administrative Assistant

Continuing Education (CE) Extension Division Ayamdigut (Whitehorse) Campus Term Position to: August 9, 2014 Hourly Rate: $26.87 to $31.99 (Based on 75.0 hours bi-weekly) Competition No.:13.161 Initial Review Date: December 23, 2013 This position is responsible for providing program support services to the School of Continuing Education and Training.

Duties include the following: greeting, assisting and directing enquiries from students, staff and the public; supporting casual and contract instructors arranging meetings, preparing minutes, distributing mail; assisting with financial procedures and word-processing publications and various correspondences.

We are looking for an individual who has completed administrative courses at a post-secondary level, with excellent customer service skills, and has related office experience in a front-line administrative support position.

Applicants will have the ability to multi-task various office procedures including the following: basic bookkeeping, wordprocessing using Microsoft Word and Excel, and the ability to provide quality front-line customer service in a cross-cultural environment.

Candidates with an acceptable combination of education and experience may also be considered.

Applicants with several years experience providing administrative and receptionist service in a related office environment may also be considered.

Go to: http://yukoncollege.yk.ca/about/employment for more information on all job competitions. Quoting the competition number, please submit your resume and cover letter to: Yukon College, Human Resources Services, Box 2799, 500 College Drive, Whitehorse, Yukon,Y1A 5K4 Fax: 867-668-8896 Email: hr@yukoncollege.yk.ca

Go to: http://yukoncollege.yk.ca/about/employment for more information on all job competitions. Quoting the competition number, please submit your resume and cover letter to: Yukon College, Human Resources Services, Box 2799, 500 College Drive, Whitehorse, Yukon,Y1A 5K4 Fax: 867-668-8896 Email: hr@yukoncollege.

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, $150.

633-3053 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 THREE COMPLETE OPC hockey card sets (1999-00 to 2001-02 period) plus some short prints. Over 900 cards. $150. 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 WORLD HOCKEY Association – 5 complete hockey card sets from the 1970s. Exc cond. $750. Ross 633-3154 TRADING CARDS – binder full of non-sport trading cards (James Bond, X-men, Desert Storm, Enduring Freedom). About 500 cards. $50. Ross 633-3154 CFL FOOTBALL cards – 17 different complete sets of cards, including early OPC. Almost 2,600 cards, serious inquiries. $1,500.

Ross 633-3154 KICK SLED, slightly used, exc cond, $350 obo. 633-4018 STEEL BUILDINGS/METAL BUILDINGS 60% OFF! 20x28, 30x40, 40x62, 45x90, 50x120, 60x150, 80x100 sell for balance owed! Call 1-800-457-2206 www.crownsteelbuildings.ca 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.

WHITE CHINA trimmed in gold, setting for 8, dinner plates, side plates, cups/saucers, serving platter, serving bowl, sugar/creamer, salt/pepper, $150 obo. 456-4434 CANON EOS-1DS Mark III DSLR Camera, 21.1 Megapixel, full frame CMOS Sensor, 5 fps, live view, weather resistant, takes both CF and SD cards, good cond, $850, 667-6472 CANON 5D Mark II DSLR Camera, 21.1 Megapixel, full frame sensor, 1080p movie mode, broad ISO, live view, 3.9 fps, weather resistant, original box/manuals, exc cond, $1,250. 667-6472 YAMAHA EF 3800 Generator (head shaved a few years ago, not used since) $300, Craftsman 10" table saw. $50.00, King Canada 10" sliding compound mitre saw C/W 10" Freud blade, 634-5151 DIAMOND EARRINGS in time for Xmas, valued at $800, asking $400 obo. 335-6042 MARMOT TRESTLES Syntec Fibres, -18C, exc cond, $65. 334-1252 MARMOT CWM MemBrain -40C Long Dawn sleeping bag, new $830, used 3 times, $675.

334-1252 COMPLETE COLLECTION of Liquor Store Bears from 1992-2012, like new, $100 firm.

Just in time for Xmas. 668-7377 MARMOT EARLYLIGHT 2 pers tent,, like new, $100. 334-1252 SCHWINN PULL-BEHIND bicycle child carrier, holds 2 children, c/w push bar, exc cond, $100. 334-1252 ORGANIC MAPLE syrup “B”, frozen tin can, $8. 393-3754 or 334-4787 INFRA-RED SAUNA for two, 35”x40”, hardly used for 1 year, $450. 393-3754 or 334-4787 MOVING OUT sale from now to end of December, everything must go, furniture, sports & camping equipment, musical instruments, electronics, etc. Phone for appt. 334-1252 WOOD TURNING Tool Set, Freud, with calipers and case, $75, for pics, 660-5101 WOOD LATHE, 12" X 37", 3/4 hp, adjustable speed, on bench. $250 obo, for pics.

660-5101 FUR COAT, like new, med length, sz L-XL, worth $1,100, asking $500. 667-4540

UNI-SPOTTER PIN welder/dent puller kit, c/w two large boxes of pins, slide hammer, tool box, great for classic car project/body shop $250 obo. 633-3392 1 DOZEN framed, numbered Richard Shorty large prints, all in exc cond, $250 ea.

334-3774 THREE SIZED medium Eric Clapton tour merchandise T-Shirts. All from early to mid 2000s. Great shape. $50 for all. 333-9317

À LA RECHERCHE D’UN EMPLOI?

1X6” CEDAR boards, 400 board feet, $500.

633-4018

DOUBLE-SIZE HEADBOARD, footboard & rails, black cast iron, double mattress, no boxspring, $100. 633-4707 BIOMAT PROFESSIONAL Amethyst Pillow Mat produces Infrared ray that penetrates body 5-6 inches, keeps cold out of bones, c/w spare controller, new $2,000 ask $1,200, deliver to Whse, 821-6000 QUEEN SIZE quilt cover set, "Fleur-de-lis" pattern, sage in colour, good quality material. $200. 633-5911 ARCTERYX HYLLUS hat, blue moon, menʼs L-XL, never worn, still has tags, new $60, asking $35. 667-6472 20' SEA container, good shape, no leaks, $3,700 obo, located in Whitehorse. 993-6500

Des professionnels engagés Conseils en développement de carrière Création, amélioration et traduction de CV Simulation d’entrevue

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

31 WILLIAM W. Johnson westerns, $4 each obo. 633-6004 ARCTERYX STRIDE tight, menʼs black sz L, never worn, still has tags, new $100, asking $65. 667-6472 LEGO, 14 large sets of Lego c/w all pieces & mini figures, $375 obo. 334-7098 GIRLʼS WINTER shoes, Aldo, dz 6.5, never worn, still in box, $40. 633-3053 AIR NORTH shares, 2 shares offered, Class D-8-B, 4 segments per year or 2 round trips, $8,500 ea. 335-3082 MOVING SALE, household furniture, couches, chair, kitchen table, microwave, kitchen appliances, etc. 335-6042 lv msg WOOD LATHE in Atlin, new March 2013, specs and details, Google "General lathe 25-300." $1,100. Come with pickup, two strong backs, timbers, tarps, tie-downs and cash. 250-651-0055

Electrical Appliances KENMORE DRYER, front loader, works great, $300. Also nw pump out of Kenmore washer, $40. 332-7797 DRYER, 2 years old, excellent working condition, $250. 335-6042 KENMORE REFRIGERATOR Coldspot model 106, top freezer. 18 cu ft., off white color, exc cond, $300. 633-3544

TVs & Stereos Paying cash for good quality modern electronics.

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

Computers & Accessories WII BOARD game & controller, $120, XBox PS2 w/Guitar Hero, $50. 633-4707 COMPUTER AND desk, $279. 633-6004 LOGITECH Z323 computer speakers, about $80 new, asking $30. 393-3409 LEXAR PRO Compact Flash Reader ExpressCard PCLe Interface, $35. 667-6472 APPLE AIRPORT Extreme 802.11n Wi-Fi Model #A1354, 4th generation, $50.

667-6472

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 FULL SIZE violin for sale, with case and bow. Never used. Comes with teach-yourself instructional video. $300. 668-7659

Employment Opportunity

SGS PROGRAMS ASSISTANT

YUKON FIRST NATIONS PREFERENTIAL HIRING POLICY IS APPLICABLE AND MUST BE CLEARLY IDENTIFIED ON APPLICATION.

GENERATOR, 1,300 watt, 2.4HP, $100.

334-1252

LADIES 14K YELLOW AND WHITE GOLD designer diamond ring Professionally certified appraisal Comes with photo of ring Appraised at $7,335 Asking $4,500 or best offer 867-994-3077 or devaden@northwestel.net

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Friday, December 20, 2013

EmploymEnt opportunity

Comptroller, Finance Department Permanent Full-Time Salary range: $54,530-$65,436

Qualifications: A Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration, economics, commerce or a related field or Grade 12 supplemented with several years of experience in accounting, auditing, budgeting, financial planning and analysis or other financial activities are required. Courses or equivalent experience with software programs; ACCPAC (specifically general ledger and accounts payable), Word, Excel, Easy Pay. Knowledge of generally accepted accounting principles, CA, CMA or CGA. This implementation of the comptroller strategy will include the following duties: • To help plan, organize, direct, control and evaluate the operation of an accounting, audit or other financial department.

• Develop and implement the financial policies, systems and procedures of the First Nation.

• Prepare or coordinate the preparation of summaries and other cost-benefit analyses and financial management reports.

• Take part in coordinating the financial planning and budget process, and analyze and correct estimates.

• Supervise the development and implementation of financial simulation models.

• Evaluate financial reporting systems, accounting procedures and make recommendations for changes to procedures, operating systems, budgets and other financial control functions to senior managers and other department or regional managers.

• Organize, train and manage staff in budgeting and spending.

• Act as liaison between the First Nation Directors and Chief and Council.

• Establish standards for handle mergers and/or acquisitions.

• Notify and report to senior management concerning any trends that are critical to the First Nation’s financial performance.

• Train junior finance staff in accounting, and other financial management as requested by the Finance Director.

• Provide financial management advice to the Finance Director.

Closing Date: Until filled Location: Whitehorse Hours: 37.5 per week full time Salary: Level 6 Job Summary: Reporting to the Director of the Self Government Secretariat this position is responsible for performing a wide variety of administrative duties in support of the Director and department staff. This position ensures that communication is maintained between department staff, Yukon First Nations, CYFN staff, contractors and staff of other levels of government. The position will also be involved on special or joint projects as directed by the Director including but not limited to administrative support for the Aboriginal Language Revitalization, the Yukon First Nations Statistics Agency and other projects outlined in the annual workplan.

Additional Information: Only those candidates who are selected for an interview will be contacted. For further information and job description, please contact Renie Bruton at 867-393-9206 or email at renie.bruton@cyfn.net.

Please submit applications and/or resumes to: Name: Renie Bruton Address: Council of Yukon First Nations, 2166 2nd Avenue, Whitehorse, Yukon, Y1A 4P1 Phone: (867)393-9206 Fax: (867)668-6577 E-mail: renie.bruton@cyfn.net

EmploymEnt opportunity

Communications Coordinator 1 Year Term, Full-time Salary range: $54,530-$65,436

Qualifications: A university degree or college diploma in public relations, communications, journalism, or a discipline related to a particular subject matter is usually required or a combination of work experience and/or education.

The Communications Coordinator is responsible for directing, initiating, evaluating, developing, and implementing a LSCFN communications strategy. This implementation of the communications strategy will include the following duties: • Develop, implement and evaluate communications strategies and programs designed to inform LSCFN citizens, employees and general teams and committees as identified.

• Present work plans which will include timelines, resources required and budgets to directors.

• Gather, research and prepare communications material for internal and external audiences.

• Conduct public opinion and attitude surveys to identify the interests and concerns of key groups served by LSCFN. • Prepare or oversee preparation of briefs, bibliographies, speeches, presentations, Web sites and press releases.

• Develop and organize workshops, meetings, ceremonies and other events for publicity, fund-raising and information purposes.

• Prepare and deliver educational and publicity programs and informational materials to increase awareness of LSCFN programs and service, initiatives, and history.

• Initiate and maintain contact with the media.

• Arrange interviews, news conferences, and press releases.

• Act as liaison between leadership and the media.

• Promote special events for internal and external audiences as required.

• Assist in the preparation of 1-pagers, brochures, newsletters and other material.

• Arrange for the dissemination of community information via multi-media sources including radio, Internet, sandwich boards, posters, and other identified sources

LSCFN preferential hire will apply.

LSCFN preferential hire will apply.

If you are interested, please submit your expression of interest along with your resume by 4:30 P.M. Dec. 31, 2013 to: Attention: Doris Caouette, Human Resource Officer PO Box 135, Carmacks Y.T. Y0B 1C0 Phone: (867)863-5576 ext 280 Fax: (867)863-5710 Email: resume@lscfn.ca

If you are interested, please submit your expression of interest along with your resume by 4:30 P.M. Dec. 31, 2013 to: Attention: Doris Caouette, Human Resource Officer Little Salmon Carmacks First Nation PO Box 135, Carmacks Y.T. Y0B 1C0 Phone: (867)863-5576 ext 280 Fax: (867)863-5710 Email: resume@lscfn.ca

While LSCFN thank all applicants, only those candidates selected for an interview will be contacted.

While LSCFN thank all applicants, only those candidates selected for an interview will be contacted.

If you require a job description please feel free to contact us.

If you require a job description please feel free to contact us.

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Position Type: Full-time, Permanent Department: Justice Closing: Jan. 10, 2014 Position Type: Full-time, Permanent Salary: Level 6 -Justice $66,107 to $79,328Jan. plus benefi ts Department: Closing: 10, 2014 Salary: Level 6 - $66,107 to $79,328 plus benefits For complete details, visit www.kwanlindun.com/employment For complete details, visit www.kwanlindun.com/employment

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Friday, December 20, 2013

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 deceMber 31St 2013.

Softgoods Buyer Wanted

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.

www.yukoncollege.yk.ca

Employment Opportunity

Providing leadership through our strengths in programming, services and research, Yukon College’s main campus in Whitehorse and 12 community campuses cover the territory. A small college, YC provides a stimulating and collegial environment. We work with Yukon communities, Yukon First Nations, local governments, business and industry, to promote a community of learners within a vibrant organization. Come join us as we continue to enhance the Yukon’s capacity through education and training.

Expression of Interest for: Sessional Instructor(s)

School of Continuing Education & Training Hourly Rate: $32.30 to $36.33 Initial Review Date: January 6, 2014 Competition No.: 13.166 Are you interested in teaching part-time?

Do you possess a post-secondary degree/certification or possibly have a combination of related education and experience?

We are looking for interested, qualified candidates with relevant education, experience and, exceptional demonstrated skills in the following areas: • • • •

Simply Accounting Bookkeeping Multimedia Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint, etc.)

For additional information please contact: Kathryn Zrum Manager, School of Community Education and Training Email: kzrum@yukoncollege.yk.ca Phone: (867) 668-8740 Go to: http://yukoncollege.yk.ca/about/employment for more information on all job competitions. Quoting the competition number, please submit your resume and cover letter to: Yukon College, Human Resources Services, Box 2799, 500 College Drive, Whitehorse, Yukon, Y1A 5K4 Fax: 867-668-8896 Email: hr@yukoncollege.yk.ca

We are the Taku Sports Group, a group of sports companies that cater to a wide range of sports and outdoor enthusiasts in the Yukon. We have 4 stores encompassing 30,000 square feet of retail space, located in downtown Whitehorse, Yukon.

We are looking for a softgoods buyer, to be located in Whitehorse, Yukon.

Responsibilities include: Managing product assortment in order to identify and address opportunities; • Negotiating product costs, terms; • Identifying items to maximize promotional and marketing opportunities; • Participating in product pricing strategies to achieve specific margin objectives, and recommend appropriate markdowns; • Traveling to trade shows across Canada and the US.

expeRience/education RequiRed: • Minimum 2 years related retail buying experience; or equivalent combination of education and experience.

• Effective communication, analytical, negotiation and organizational skills.

• Completely comfortable working with Excel and Word.

We offer a highly competitive salary and benefits package. If this opportunity appeals to you, please send your resume to chougen@hougens.com or fax 867-667-7282.

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HUMAN RESOURCES DEVELOPMENT / EMPLOYMENT & TRAINING BOX 130, CARCROSS, YUKON Y0B 1B0 PHONE (867) 821-8300 FAX (867) 821-8214

Counsellor

Health and Wellness Department

CLOSING DATE: January 10th, 2014 STATUS: Full Time-Term 2 Years with the possibility of extension SALARY: Level 12-14, commensurate with education and experience JOB SUMMARY As a member of our Health & Wellness team, the successful candidate is responsible, under the direct supervision of the Director of Health & Wellness, to provide direct clinical counselling services involving consultation, assessments and treatments using individual, family and group modalities, often with survivors/victims of physical, sexual and other types of abuse. Assessing urgency and risk of harm to self and/or others involved with the client and developing a holistic treatment or management plan. The candidate will use the Values and Virtues of Life (mental, emotional, spiritual, and physical) as the basis of their duties.

EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE: • Bachelor or Master of Social Work or Psychology Degree (or equivalent work experience in the areas of crisis intervention, trauma counselling, or psychology).

• Experience working with First Nations • Experience dealing with issues pertaining to the protection of children and families • Experience with several treatment modalities (family systems therapy, group and individual therapy) • Knowledge of mental health disorder, classification and diagnosis.

• Knowledge of Yukon first nation history with residential schools, loss of culture and community healing.

• Knowledge of current trends, developments and issues in mental health services and programming including assessment, interventions and support services.

• Ability to design and deliver individual and group treatment programs for a wide range of mental health and trauma issues.

• Ability to work as a member of a multidisciplinary healing program and make appropriate use of other community resources CONDITION OF EMPLOYMENT • Criminal record check • Will at all times maintain the strictest of confidentiality.

• Sign and abide by the CTFN Code of Ethics Job Description is available, please contact Patricia James at 867-821-4251 ext. 8213 or Tanya at ext. 8269.

An eligibility list will be established from this competition. It will be used to fill future vacancies, which may arise, for identical positions in the same department and location. The eligibility list will be valid for a period of six (6) months.

We thank all those who apply and advise that only those selected for further consideration will be contacted. Preference will be given to Carcross Tagish First Nation citizens on all competitions for CTFN. Candidates’ applications/resumes should clearly demonstrate their related qualifications, since selection for further consideration will be based on the information provided.

APPLICATIONS/RESUMES MUST BE RECEIVED BY 4:00PM ON THE CLOSING DATE. Please apply to: Carcross/Tagish First Nation Human Resource Department Box 130, Carcross, Yukon Y0B 1B0 Phone: (867) 821-4251 ext:8213 or 8269 Fax: (867) 821-8214 Email: patricia.james@ctfn.ca or tanya.james@ctfn.ca

Stringed instrument repair and fine furniture restoration

Erica Heyligers * luthier 104 Tungsten Rd., Whitehorse, YT Y1A 6T9

867-668-3408 erica@northwestel.net SELMER CLARINET c/w case, exc cond, $80. 334-1252

Firewood CRL FIREWOOD/WHITEʼS WOOD Standing dry from Haines Junction.

Cut to any length • $250/cord 335-1934 Serving Whitehorse since 2007

Come on Whitehorse, get off your stumps and start heating your homes with Yukon-made fuel!

FIREWOOD FOR SALE 20-cord orders Big or small tree length Logging truck loads $150/cord Delivered to Whitehorse Call Clayton: 335-0894 HURLBURT ENTERPRISES $250 per cord We have wood. You-cut, You-haul available.

Discount for larger quantities.

Stockpiled in Whitehorse for PROMPT Delivery Visa, M/C, Cheque, Cash Dev Hurlburt 335-5192 • 335-5193 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 DONʼS FIREWOOD Wishing all a Merry Christmas Single cord specialists since 2008 3-hour emergency delivery time 20 cord cut firewood Always stockpiled for quick delivery No excuses 393-4397 1ST QUALITY heating wood Season-dried over 3-yrs. to be picked up on Levich Drive in Mt. Sima industrial subdivision.

Complete info at 335-0100.

BIG BEAR WOODWORKS Firewood & Delivery Clean beetle-kill wood Accurate honest cord Will deliver anywhere $250 per cord Available Now Call 867-689-9017 CGFJ WOODCUTTING SERVICE $250 - 16” lengths $220 - 4ʼ lengths Prompt, friendly service Dry timber, money-back guarantee 336-2013 Fire-killed Spruce Firewood Very dry, clean burning $250/cord 16”x3-cord load Larger loads available $190/cord if you cut & haul from my yard in town 333-5174 FIREWOOD Clean, beetle-kill, dry Ready for pick-up, $210/cord or Local delivery, $250/cord 1/2 cords also available for pick-up only Career Industries @668-4360 TEN TON Firewood Services $160 - cord for 10-cord load - 30ʼ lengths $250 - cord - bucked up, discounts on multiple-cord orders Call or text David 867-332-8327 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 Dry Pine Firewood $240/cord 456-7112 FIREWOOD FOR SALE Cut to length, $260/cord Same day delivery Call 334-4911

PINE FUELWOOD seasoned two years, bucked to length, split and delivered, $250.

393-2728 FIREWOOD Split dry spruce 16” or 18”, $250 per cord Marsh Lake area Rolland at 332-4671 or 660-4671 DUKEʼS FIREWOOD Standing Dry Beetle Killed Spruce Wood Prices: 6 cord load $240/cord $260 for multiples of 2 cords Cut your own at $95/cord 20 cord truckload logs $155/cord 8 cord loads of 20ft dry logs $180 per cord Cash and Debit Accepted 334-8122

Guns & Bows Case cutlery, high quality hand-crafted pocket and hunting knives available at G&R Pawnbrokers 1612-D Centennial St. 393-2274 BUY • SELL • LOANS LEE ENFIELD No 1 Mk 3, 303 British, 10 rd mag, sporterized wood, very good bore, military sights, steel scope rings mounted, $300, or $360 with decent 3-9x40mm scope mounted. PAL req'd. 667-2276 WHITEHORSE RIFLE and Pistol Club, non-restricted firearms safety course (class size limited to 22 students) Jan. 11+12/2014.

Info 633-2488, 333-5640 BRAZILIAN MAUSER in 8mm Mauser, handmade hardwood stock, bedded and floated, recent refinish of whole rifle, inexpensive scope already mounted, $300 firm, PAL req'd. 667-2276 LEE ENFIELD #1 Mk 3, 303 British, 10 rd mag, sporterized wood, good bore, military sights, steel scope rings, with 3-9x40mm scope mounted. PAL req'd, $350 firm.

667-2276 LEE ENFIELD No4 Mk1, 303 British, 10 rd mag, sporterized, good condition, picatinny style rail instead of rear sight, sling, $300 firm, PAL req'd, 667-2276 NORINCO JW 27 bolt action .22 LR with 2.5X scope, $160. Cooey mod 840 .410 gauge single shot, $120. 668-6716 RUGER M77 Hawkeye, 300Win, mag, all weather, mint condition, incl mounted 3-9x40mm Leupold scope, Plano gun boot + cleaning kit, must have firearm license. $800. 335-1093 RUGER M77 Mark II all weather stainless steel cal. .223, new, $700. 668-6716 WANTED: #4 Lee Enfields especially longbranch manufacture, prefer unsporterized, top $ for original snipers, back in mid-Jan, thirtypound@hotmail.com or 905-878-1584 MARLIN 45-70 govʼt lever action, $450, PAL required, Harrington & Richardson 410 single shot, full choke, 3”, $200, PAL required.

334-1252 MARLIN 30-30 lever action, $375, PAL required. 334-1252 VINTAGE BEAR archery "polar" recurve 55# @ 28" $180. 334-7664

Wanted WANT TO part with your old Lister CS 6/1 engine? Can be in running condition or not.

536-4744 WANTED: LARGE Blaze King wood stove in good cond, 667-4540 1 OR 2-car garage for young local woodworking artist, prefer Hot Springs, PC area.

Craig 334-2121 WANTED: FREEZER burned meats, game for small dog team. Thank you. 633 6060 or newmusher@live.ca

Cars

2007 NISSAN Versa, low mileage, one owner, exc cond, 70,000kms, $6,500.

335-0771 2007 PONTIAC G5 sedan, standard, 95,050kms. p/l, p/w, a/c, c/c, 18” Primax wheels/low profile tires & set of winter tires on rims. $7,200 obo. 334-7822 2007 TOYOTA Highlander SUV, white, AWD, command start, extra set winter tires, tow package, approx 128,000kms, $15,000.

332-4143 2007 TOYOTA Matrix, std trans, exc cond, $8,300. 633-2740 2006 FORD Focus ZX4 SES, silver, moonroof, leather heated seats, new winter Toyo Tires, 76,000 km, great on gas, $9,750 obo.

668-4186 2005 CAVALIER, 4-dr, black, 5-spd, 4 cyl.

118,312 km, great cond, c/w 2 sets of tires and rims, $4,500 obo. 336-0594 2005 CHEV Impala, 4-dr, V6, auto, loaded, heated seats, new winter tires, 334-4210 2004 JETTA 4-dr auto, 2L, GL model, aluminum alloy rims, sunroof, Monsoon stereo, new windshield, brakes, timing chain, certified. $6,800. 660-4806 2002 CHEVY Tracker LRT 4 x 4, 5 sp, 35 mpg, studded ice & summer tires, 124,000km, driving lights, tow hitch, exc cond, $7,200. 335-3656 2001 FORD Interceptor Crown Vic, V8, electric Windows & locks, well maintained, reliable, $2,200 obo. 332-7781 2000 SUBARU Forester, all-wheel drive, 240,000kms, $3,500 obo. 334-1252 2000 TOYOTA Camry, c/w power everything, sunroof, HID lights, command start, many good parts, 173,000 km. $7,000.

334-8212

1987 CIVIC Wagon, 5spd manual, 231,000km, studded tires, rusty but runs great, manual choke, easy start, great on gas, $1,200 obo. 633-6799 1974 VOLKSWAGEN Beetle, body in great shape, runs well. $2,500. 993-5576

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1992 NISSAN Sentra, runs but needs work, $100. 336-4629

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1994 CHEVY Cavalier, runs great, $600 obo.

Jared, 780-267-8719 1993 TOYOTA Corolla AWD wagon, good winter car, runs great, safety inspected, new brakes/exhaust/shocks/spark plugs, some rust, $1,200. 668-2576

EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY

HUMAN RESOURCES MANAGER

CHEVY HHR, 150,000 kms, very good cond, $7,000. 336-2036

Air North, Yukon's Airline is looking for a dynamic individual to join our management team.

The Human Resources Manager will be the driver of innovation for Air North, and will plan and nurture all areas of human resources for the company. This strategic thinker will formalize and revise policy, procedures, guidelines and handbooks, and play a critical role in maintaining our employee culture. Essential assets of this leader are strong communications skills and the ability to encourage and support training and development of our management and employees—who are our greatest asset.

For complete details visit flyairnorth.com/careers CLOSING DATE: December 27, 2013 LOCATION: Whitehorse, Yukon POSITION: Full time, wage commensurate with experience If you are interested in this position, please submit your resumé to Krista Power on or before December 27, 2013.

EMAIL/FAX: careers@flyairnorth.com / 867.456.3111 IN PERSON: Air North Administrative Office 150 Condor Road, Whitehorse, Yukon We wish to express our appreciation to all applicants for their interest in the position and advise that only candidates selected for an interview will be contacted.

Trucks 2006 F350 Lariat Super Duty Short box 4x4, Turbo MBRP exhaust, AFE cold air intake, ARP headstuds, stereo/blue tooth, Kenwood speakers, box liner, tunnel cover, tow package, $17,900.00 obo. 334-6857

HUMAN RESOURCES DEVELOPMENT / EMPLOYMENT & TRAINING BOX 130, CARCROSS, YUKON Y0B 1B0 PHONE (867) 821-8300 FAX (867) 821-8214

Canadian Prenatal Nutrition Program Coordinator

flyairnorth.com/careers

Air North, Yukon's Airline is committed to employment equity, and has been serving Yukoners for over 35 years.

We offer competitive wages, a benefits package and an enriching work environment to our over 300 employees.

Health and Wellness Department

CLOSING DATE: January 9th, 2014 STATUS: Full Time-Permanent SALARY: Level 7-9, commencing on education and experience JOB SUMMARY As a member of our Health & Wellness team, the successful candidate is responsible, under the direct supervision of the Wellness Director for coordinating and providing prenatal nutrition support and education to expectant mothers and families. The Canadian Prenatal Nutrition Coordinator will use the Values and Virtues of Life (mental, emotional, spiritual and physical) as the basis of re-engaging and providing opportunities for like skills, education and support the health of women, mothers/fathers and infants up to age of three. Also be willing to implement the Theory of Change into the work environment. The person in this position must be willing to develop and implement the program in regards to change within the ongoing evolution of C/TFN circle governance, and other related duties as requested.

QUALIFICATIONS • Completion of grade 12 with post secondary coursework in Early Childhood Development, Woman’s Health Issues or a combination of work experience and education.

• Knowledge of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder and ability to help educate others on the topic; • Knowledge of nutrition, health and wellness of First Nation Communities; • Knowledge of C/TFN culture, history,demographics, goals and aspirations as well as a good knowledge of the Carcross, Tagish, Squanga and Whitehorse.

• Knowledge of and willingness to implement the Theory of Change concept into the program • Ability to deal with crisis intervention events • Ability to work in a team environment with minimal supervision CONDITION OF EMPLOYMENT • C/TFN Health and Wellness Department policy requires that all Health and Wellness Employees are role models for a substance abuse free lifestyle, and are working on their individual wellness plan • To submit to a Criminal Records Check • Valid Yukon Class 5 driver’s licence • Travel to various locations in the Yukon is a requirement of this position

Village of Haines Junction

EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY MUNICIPALITY OF HAINES JUNCTION

CHIEF ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICER The Village of Haines Junction invites applications for the position of Chief Administrative Officer. Haines Junction is home to approximately 850 residents and has extensive year round services and amenities. Located at the junction of the Alaska Highway and the Haines Road, Haines Junction lies on the edge of a vast and spectacular wilderness and is a community that offers a high quality of living and unparalleled recreational opportunities for the outdoor enthusiast.

Reporting to Mayor and Council, the successful applicant will be responsible for the overall administrative functions of all municipal departments, as per the Yukon Municipal Act and the bylaws and policies of the Village. The ideal candidate should have a minimum of five years’ experience in municipal senior management and should have the following: 1) Proven track record in municipal operations 2) Excellent communications and interpersonal skills 3) Growth and infrastructure renewal experience

Job Descriptions and Statement of Qualifications are available at the Capacity Development Office, please call: Patricia James at 821-4251 ext 8213 or Tanya James at ext 8269

4) Grant development and budget preparation

An eligibility list will be established from this competition. It will be used to fill future vacancies, which may arise, for identical positions in the same department and location. The eligibility list will be valid for a period of six (6) months.

The salary range for this position is $81,510 to $103,740 per annum and an attractive benefit package is included.

We thank all those who apply and advise that only those selected for further consideration will be contacted. Preference will be given to Carcross Tagish First Nation citizens on all competitions for CTFN. Candidates’ applications/resumes should clearly demonstrate their related qualifications, since selection for further consideration will be based on the information provided.

2009 TOYOTA Matrix, 59,000kms, XR package w/power everything, front wheel drive w/traction control, manual, summer/winter tires w/winter rims, exc cond. $15,300 obo. 333-9990

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APPLICATIONS/RESUMES MUST BE RECEIVED BY 4:30PM ON THE CLOSING DATE. PLEASE INCLUDE COVERLETTER WITH RESUME Please apply to: Carcross/Tagish First Nation Capacity Development Department Box 130, Carcross, Yukon Y0B 1B0 Phone: (867) 821-4251 ext:8213 or 8269 Fax: (867) 821-8214 Email: patricia.james@ctfn.ca or tanya.james@ctfn.ca

5) Certificate in local government or relevant post-secondary education

The closing date for this competition is January 3, 2014 at 5:00 p.m.

If you wish to be considered for this position, please send a covering letter and a resume to:

Mayor Mike Crawshay

Village of Haines Junction Box 5339, Haines Junction, Yukon Y0B 1L0 You may also fax your application to (867) 634-2008, or email to vhj@yknet.ca The Village of Haines Junction thanks everyone for their interest, however only those selected for an interview will be contacted. The Village of Haines Junction does not offer compensation for relocation expenses.

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

633-6019 WEDNESDaY, DEcEmBEr 18

2013

Help control the pet overpopulation problem

have your pets spayed or neutered.

For iNFormatioN call

633-6019

Friday, December 20, 2013

We Sell Trucks!

2003 FORD F350 Superduty dually crewcab 7.3l turåbo diesel, 143000km, $17,900.

660-5660 2002 CHEV Silverado 1/2 ton 4x4, auto, V8, ext cab, P/S, P/B, cruise, a/c, radio/tape, new Wrangler grips, short box, 207,000 kms, $6,250. 336-2029

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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 2007 CHEV 2500HD Crew Cab 4X4, great unit, many options, trailer tow, fully serviced, new brakes/battery, $16,000. 633-4311 2007 TOYOTA Sienna limited awd 7-passenger minivan, 74,000 kms, power sliding doors/rear hatch, sunroof, loaded, new winter tires on rims. 333-9020 2006 HUMMER H2 SUV, fully loaded, c/w TVs leather, all power heated seats, dvd, low millage, after market moto metal rims, new tires, chrome kit, mint cond, 335-3869 2005 CHEV 1500 4x4, ext cab, 258,000 km, cruise, PW, PL, clean, minor things wrong, $6,250. 867-634-5275 2005 DODGE 1/2 ton 4x4 quad cab 4-dr, long box, auto, V8, P/S, P/B, cruise, a/c, radio/CD, $6,550. 336-2029 2005 DODGE Ram 3500 5.9 diesel auto 4x4, 4-dr SLT long box, loaded, 265,000 highway kms, running boards, camper tie-downs, well maintained, $18,500.

667-7276, 335-4568

★ ★ plEAsE notE ★ ★

from december 18 - January 2 we will not be accepting adoption applications. lost/found

lost

• mountain view, male, malamute alaskan X, Brown, wearing a brown and white collar with no tags. if found contact Donnie Williams @ 335-9501 (12/13/13) • riverdale, lab x, black, male, answers to Duddley contact lynn @ 633-4889 (12/14/13) • Hot Springs rd, female, under a year old, border collie, black and white answers to Dublin wearing a chokechain for a collar. if found contact linda @ 393-4104.

(17/12/13).

found

• Hillcrest area, male husky white and tan, wearing a large Harley Davidson collar, contact christina @604-990-9944.

(20/11/13) • South Klondike HWY cc rd, male small to medium dog, black with white stripe down his head contact ross or ann @ 393-2767 (12/12/13)

RunninG At lARGE...

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

AVAilABlE foR Adoption in fostER HoMEs

doGs

• 14 weeks old, female, havanese, black, ( Sadie) • 8 yr old, neutered male, hound GSDX, black and grey and white ( Ed)

CAts

• None at this time.

2003 CHEV HD 2500 - 4x4, ext cab, recent transmission, V8, 280,000 km, tow package $6,900. (867) 634-5275 2003 FORD Explorer SportTrac XLT, 4x4, V6, 4-door, heated leather seats, remote start, sunroof, c/w 4 winter tires, pickup box cover, extension rack. $7,500. 667-6951 eves

2002 SIERRA X-Cab, approx. 200,000km. $2,000 obo. 334-9432 2001 CHEV Tahoe 4x4, 160,000 km, clean, leather seats, no damage, CD, PW, PL. $5,200. 867-634-5275 2001 DODGE Dakota Sport RT, 5.9L, auto, loaded, runs exc, $7,500. 633-2740 2001 DODGE Grand Caravan Sport, 3.3L, V6, 194,000kms, new brakes/rotors all around, current inspection, $2,800 obo.

633-6639 2001 FORD F-250 Lariat, 7.3L diesel, 224,000 kms, ext cab long box, rebuilt auto, new rubber, many upgrades, good cond, $12,500 obo. 335-7878 1999 GMC Jimmy, 4-dr, fully loaded, 4-wd, auto, $3,800 obo. 399-3014 or 332-7921 1999 GMC Sierra 4wd, V8 auto, ext cab, cruise, a/c, c/w extra tires, 228,000 kms, good cond & reliable, $4,500. 633-3860 or 334-3860 1999 LINCOLN Navigator 5.4L, V8, 232,000kms, 7-passenger, leather power seats, loaded, good tires, tow pkg, command start, great shape, $14,000 firm. 633-6639 1995 CHEV 1/2 Ton, extended cab, Z71 package, exc cond, fully loaded, call for price if interested, serious inquiries only, 668-2486 1995 CHEVY for parts, 350 2wd, tires on rims 80% tread left, canopy in good shape, leather captains chairs, frame is bent, lots if usable parts, $1,000 obo. 336-0059 1990 TOYOTA Hiace, 4wd, 4-cyl diesel, auto, excellent fuel consumption, seats 8, middle seats swivel, 128,000 kms. 333-9020

Pet of the Week!

S

adie

Hi! I’m Sadie! I’m a bit of a crybaby but my foster mom said that I am a great dog, squeaky toys and red peppers normally help to keep me distracted.

I love sleeping under beds cuddled up to my bone or a fuzzy toy.

Come on down and say hi soon!

• 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) • 11 week old, male, husky X, white and brown (chance) • 11 week old, male, husky bear dog X, black and tan (lance) • 6 months old, male, collie X, black ( Elf) • 12 week old, female, husky X, blonde (Bianca)

• 3mos old, female, havaneseX, black (Sadie)

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.

TOYOTA TUNDRA 4x4, 380,000kms, many new parts, awsome bush truck, great for snow plow, good rubber, $2,500. 336-3922

Auto Parts & Accessories TRUCK CANOPIES - in stock * new Dodge long/short box * new GM long/short box * new Ford long/short box Hi-Rise & Cab Hi - several in stock View at centennialmotors.com 393-8100 TRUCK C A N O P Y , white high rise, 80”lx60wx28”h, lots of windows, originally on older Toyota p/u, $200. 660-4806 TRUCK CANOPY, 92”x60”, high rise, white, lots of windows, originally on S-10 p/u, $200.

660-4806 KENWOOD EXCELON car stereo, new (still in box), CD-Receiver with USB Interface, iPod, iPone, Pandora, Bluetooth, Sirius XM ready and more, $250. 668-4497

3 TRAILER tires, 14” on white spoke rims, $300. 633-2740 4 TOYOTA Matrix mags with 4-16” tires, good cond, $400. 633-2740

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DODGE DAKOTA tail gate, new cond, $300.

633-2740 MANY TOOLS, new, great Christmas gifts.

633-2740 4 17” summer tires, good cond, from 2007 Ram 3500, $250. 633-2740

Pets

Easier than ever

to donate to the Humane Society!

Paypal is a quick, easy and safe method of supporting the Shelter. You can make a one-time donation or you can donate a set monthly amount, all with one simple click of the mouse! Go online today.

A printable receipt is provided at time of donation.

The Shelter relies heavily on the donations of generous Yukoners. Over 60% of our annual budget is made up of donations and fundraising. Without YOU, the Shelter would not be able to run.

Let’s help those who can’t help themselves!

Our furry, four-legged friends thank you!

You can also check out our award winning website at:

www.Humanesocietyyukon.ca

HAYNES REDAIR manual for 1993-1999 Ford Ranger pick-up, $15. 660-4806

TURBO, INTERCOOLER, pipes connectors and cold air intake for 2003 Dodge Cummins. 333-9790

Or enter the link below: http://www.humanesocietyyukon.ca/charitablegifts.html

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

CENTENNIALMOTORS.COM 867-393-8100 We are now The Yukonʼs Distributor for TRUCKBOSS. TRUCKBOSS is simply the best truck deck on the market today.

TRUCKBOSS provides users unequalled quality and flexibility in hauling snowmobiles, ATV's, UTV's, and motorcycles along with industry exclusive winch loading & sealed under deck storage.

WANTED: CANOPY in good shape for GMC Silv. short box (82'' x 67''), email: g.burges@gmx.de or phone 250-651-7654

Click “Donate” then “Charitable Gifts”.

• Homes needed for retired sled dogs. they would make excellent pets.

Please contact 668-3647 or kennelmanager@muktuk.com

1981 DODGE 250 Camper van, 5.9L, new battery & starter, runs well, $1,800.

993-5576

TRUCK BOX, black, for full size truck, 70” long, 660-4321

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spECiAl

1990 FORD Aerostar, runs good, $300 obo.

Jared, 780-267-8719

SPORTRACK EXPEDITION cargo box, full size, $300. 334-1252

CAts

• 8 yr old, DSH, female spayed, calico (mao) • 1.5yr old, DSH, grey and white, neutered male (Sappy) • 11 yr old, Siamese, seal, neutered male ( Boris) • 4 yr old, DSH, tabby white, female (tigs) • 4 yr old, DSH, black, neutered male (tinsel)

1994 FORD F250 Econoline van, runs & insulated, and 1994 Ford Aerostar, runs, both need windshields & TLC to get running. Info 333-9358

FIBREGLASS CANOPY, size 61” x 84”, 660-4321

126 Tlingit Street

At tHE sHEltER

doGs

2005 F350 diesel Lariat, 4wd, long box, fully loaded, all engine updates, exec condit, $19,500. 667-4463 or 334-9436

2002 F250 ext cab long box, 4x4, 5.4 gas, 225,000km, new transmission $8,400 obo.

668-5882

1994 CHEV Silverado 2500 2wd, new engine, rebuilt tranny, new tires/alternator/battery, P/S, P/B, P/L, P/W, no rust, ext cab, winch, clean, 290,000kms, $2,800 obo.

668-4726

2 PET carriers, small and med-small for cat or dog, plastic hard shell, $15 ea. 660-4806 The Yukon Kennel Club has NEW COURSES for 2014!

FCI/MEOE Certified Training Director - Niomi Smith Puppy Kindergarten Jan 7 – Feb 25 Novice Obedience Jan 4 – March 29 Agility Fundamentals Jan 7 – Feb 15 Foundation to Nosework Mar 4 - 29 Please contact Wendi @ 633-4952 www.Facebook.com/YukonKennelClub FUNDOGS DOG TRAINING January 2014 Classes Positive, gentle, force-free Puppy Kindergarten Jan14 Small Dog Play Jan20 Growly Dog Class Jan14 K9 NoseWork® I + II Jan16 Good Manners I + II Jan20 667-6668 FunDogsTraining.com 3 SHIH Tzu pups, $200. 668-2910, lv msg.

For more info, please call 633-6019.

LARGE CARRIER/KENNEL, $30. Large dog pillow, $50. Dishes and stand, $10.

Food, $10. 668-6721

Pets BEAUTIFUL, MATURE male cat to give away to good home, neutered, good health, very affectionate. 668-5751 QUALITY GERMAN Shepherd puppies, CKC reg. World Champion working bloodlines, approved homes only, not ideal for green owners, ready to go, serious inquires only 668-6118 Canines & Company Puppy & Obedience Level 1 January 7 Private Lessons Behaviour Modification FCI/WUSV/MEDE certified Bronze Master Trainer Serving the Yukon since 1992 www.facebook.com/ caninesandcompany 333-0505 or 668-4368 caninesandcompany@northwestel.net

Motorcycles & Snowmobiles 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 TUNDRA II skidoo, has reverse, $2,000.

867-536-7610

RONʼS SMALL ENGINE SERVICES Repairs to Snowmobiles, Chainsaws, Lawnmowers, ATVʼs, Small industrial equipment.

Light welding repairs available 867-332-2333 lv msg SNOWMOBILE TRAILER, homemade tilt deck, new tires, great for one sled, wide enough for two. $500. 336-0556 2006 RMK 700, needs new top end, $800 obo. 336-0556 2010 GTX Sport 550 cc with reverse, electric start, fan cooled (2up). Barely used only 850 km's. Asking $6,000 obo. 332-1200 2010 RMK 800, low miles, lots of extras low compresion in one cyl cheap to rebuild top end. good cond, make an offer. 334-2712 1988 YAMAHA Enticer long track trapper special, reverse, 3800 kms, very good cond, $1,800.00. 333-0866 2006 ARCTIC Cat Panther 660 4 stroke, 2 up seat, rear rack, 2000 miles, exc cond, factory cover, $5,300. 333-0866

2004 POLARIS 800 Escape, good shape, 144 track, new power valves, clutch redone & general tune-up ($800 spent), $4,600 obo.

335-2005

1997 YAMAHA Venture, 600 long track with hitch, $1,500 obo. 336-2081 1996 POLARIS Indy 500, 136" Track, EFI, runs great, needs clutch/belt adjustment, 2 owners, $2,200. (867) 634-5275

1986 YAMAHA Ovation, rebuilt engine, lenthened tunnel, new windshield, very snappy sled, $1,100 obo. 335-2005

2001 700 RMK, needs work, runs good, new 2" paddle 152" track, riser handle bars, bent tie rods, cracked tunnel, great fixer-upper, $900. (867) 634-5275

2007 YAMAHA Phazer MTX/MP hybrid, 159”x16”x2”, Challenger Track, Simmons Gen 2 10” powder skis, Skinz airframe running boards, lefty throttle, exc cond, $6,500 obo, view at Yukon Yamaha, 660-4711

2006 ARCTIC Cat Bear Cat 570 longtrack, like new cond, c/w electric start, reverse,hand/ thumb warmers, approx 1,350 miles, $5,300. 867-634-2350

2009 BEARCAT 570 XT Wide Track, $6,300, 2010 BearCat 570 XT Wide Track $7,350. Call 393-2111 1998 YAMAHA 600, vg shape, c/w elec/pull start, hand/thumb warmers, reverse, 2-up seat, lots of power, $2,300 obo. 633-4018 1991 POLARIS INDY 488, engine rebuilt, short track, $1,500. 633-4643

1999 SUMMIT X 670 136x2" track, Jaws pipes & stocks, pro taper bars, 4" risers, runs great, small rip in seat, small crack in hood, $3,000 obo. 334-6776

2012 POLARIS Pro RMK 800 163" 1050 miles good cond, c/w Bikeman Exhaust, oem exhaust, rear tunnel bag, HMK shovel kit, Polaris custom fit cover. $10,000. 667-7276 or 335-4568

2009 SUMMIT XP Hillclimb edition 154", spare jerry can MBRP can Enzo suspension sled, mint condition, well cared for, $8,200 obo. 334-1859 or 334-1222 2007 SUMMIT 800 HO Hill Climb Edition, 153" track, new factory engine 2010, MBRP exhaust, $5,800 obo. 334-6857 2003 POLARIS Trail 550, new parts, in reliable condition, strong hitch, $2,000 obo.

334-2647 2009 800 Polaris Dragon, 1,700 mi, caned, 155 track, great shape, c/w extra trac, $7,200 obo. 335-2005

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2009 Yamaha Big Bear 250 ..........................................................$3,499 2009 Yamaha Wolverine 450 .......................................................$4,999 2012 Polaris Sportsman 550 EFI 200km .....................................$5,999 sold

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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

snowmobiles:

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2001 Polaris 120cc Youth Snowmobile ......................................$1,699 sold 2007 Yamaha Apex Gt 121" .........................................................$5,999 2008 Yamaha Phazer Mtx 144" Timbersled Suspension ..........$6,499 2009 Yamaha Nytro Rtx Se 121" Sno X Edition 1275km ...........$7,999 2010 Yamaha Nytro Xtx 144" .......................................................$6,999 2011 Yamaha Bravo 250cc 600km .............................................$5,999 2012 Yamaha Nytro Xtx 144" Speed Racer Edition ...................$9,999 2012 Yamaha Nytro Mtx 162" 270hp Turbo ..............................$15,999

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2010 RMK 800, 863 miles, mint shape, 155" track 2.5" paddles, c/w slp pipe and can, slp intake kit, clutch kit, Vforce 3 reeds, cover. $8,000 obo. 634-2157 or 634-5389

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

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

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

Heavy Equipment 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

Friday, December 20, 2013

LATIN DANCE Classes, new 8-week sessions start January 10, 2014, Beginner, Salsa and Merengue or Intermediate, Salsa. salsayukon@gmail.com or 336-0255 to register

SUPPORT GROUP for People who have had a diagnosis of cancer. First Monday of each month, Copper Ridge Place, 7:00-9:00 p.m. Next meeting January 6, 2014. Info: yukonsupport@hotmail.com

MOVEMBER IS ending. Shave and come down to register for our New Growth Beard Contest! $10 entry fee, win prizes. Contact: admin@yukonrendezvous.comor by phone @ 667-2148

HAMLET OF Mount Lorne Advisory Council next meeting Tuesday January 7th. 7pm at the LMCC. All welcome.

CHILKOOT TRAIL/LOG Cabin: Non-Motorized Weekends: Dec 6-8 & 27-29. Other weekends & weekdays: Multi-Use. For info: 867-667-3910 RIVERDALE BAPTIST Church, celebrate Advent and Christmas, Dec. 8th: Children's program @ 10:30 a.m., Dec. 15th: Choir presentation @ 10:30 a.m., Dec. 24th Christmas Eve services @ 6:00 and 8:00 p.m.

CATERPILLAR 950F & 950F Series II manuals for service, parts, operation, maintenance, assembly & disassembly, $50.

668-4497

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

NEW, SMALL ACRYLIC Yukon Landscape paintings

by Rosemary Piper Present this ad to receive 15% off Rosemaryʼs framed watercolors until December 31 Y.A.A.W. 120 Industrial Rd 11am-5pm daily 668-5776

HYDRAULIC POWER unit, 3 phase 30 horse electric motor. Has hoses for rig up and 20 gallon tank. $3,000 obo. 335-1486

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

HORAIRE PISTE Chilkoot/Log Cabin: Multi-usage tous les jours sauf du 6 au 8 et du 27 au 29 décembre : activités non motorisées. 867-667-3910

INTRO TO Quaker Practice, silent worship, corporate discernment, peace and social justice work, 6 experiential learning sessions, first Sundays 1:00–3:30pm December 1. Sue 334-6629 yukonsuestarr@gmail.com

JOIN THE Community Choir to sing memorable peace and protest songs from 60's and 70's. Registration Tuesday, Jan 7 6:307:30pm, Whitehorse United Church. Rehearsals begin week of Jan 13

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

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, www.hospiceyukon.net, 667-7429

DIESEL GENERATORS, Listers, Deutz's, various sizes from 4.5 kw to 25kw. For more info 633-4822

Campers & Trailers SINGLE AXLE cargo trailer 12ʼx6ʼ, barn doors, man door, 2” ball, spare tire, cargo hooks, 2 yrs. old, 2,000 kms, $4,200.

393-2249

COFFEE HOUSE, Sat. Jan.4, 2014, featuring Doug Thorseth + the Open Stage! Help set up 6pm, 7pm, open stage sign-up, 730pm show! $5 United Church bsmt, 6th+Main, 633-4255 LATIN DANCE Classes, New 8 week sessions starts January 10, 2014, Beginner Salsa and Merengue or Intermediate - Salsa.

336-0255 or salsayukon@gmail.com to register CASTING CALL a Christmas Play Sunday, December 22 at 7:00pm First Pentecostal Church 149 Wilson Dr. Refreshments to follow Everyone welcome!

Custom-cut Stone Products

HEADSTONES • KITCHENS • BUILDING STONE • AND MORE...

sid@sidrock.com

Joanne Carol

Dennis Sept 2, 1945 - Dec 11, 2013

It is with great sadness we announce the passing of Joanne Carol Dennis (nee Sinoski) after a brief battle with cancer.

Born in Regina, SK, Joanne attended school where she met and married Wayne Dennis, her partner of 48 years. Joanne and Wayne had three children in Regina, then moved to Prince Albert, Saskatchewan to raise their children. After a brief move to Yellowknife, NT the couple settled in Whitehorse, YT. Joanne had a great passion for arts and crafts, especially in design and production that led her to start her own business “Needleboxes Etc.”, which gave her the opportunity to travel and meet a lot of new people. Joanne was predeceased by her parents Adam and Elsie, her brother Donald, sister Sharen, and her son Wayne Jr. Joanne is survived by Wayne, her husband of 48 years, her daughters Nicole Jack (David) and Monique Rousseau, her sister Elanor Denoncourte, her grandsons Skylar, Alex and Koti Rousseau, Christopher Tapatonoa and great grandson Declan Rousseau.

Services to be held at a later date in Regina, SK, following which her ashes will be spread in Missinnipi, SK to be with her beloved son, at the family’s cabin.

Joanne will never be forgotten, and very sadly missed by all. In lieu of flowers donations can be made to the Canadian Cancer Society.

THE YUKON Orienteering Association AGM will be held Jan. 29, 2014 at 7:00 p.m. in the Sport Yukon boardroom. Members are welcome.

MENTAL HEALTH Caregivers Support Group meets the third Thursday of every month, 7-9 p.m., #4 Hospital Rd., main floor resource room, in Whitehorse. 667-8346 YUKON WIG Bank lends wigs, hats, head coverings to cancer patients for free. Email yukonsupport@hotmail.com to make an appointment or for more info

YUKON HANDGUN Association, annual general meeting. Call Dave 334-5977, Len 633-6094 or Dan 633-3170

13 Denver roaD in McCrae • 668-6639

SANTA STORY Time, Sat Dec 21, 11am–12 pm, holiday stories, songs, craft & Santa. For kids 4–7 yrs. Registration necessary, space limited. Free! Call Whitehorse Public Library 667-5239

CHILDRENʼS PAGEANT, Tuesday Dec. 24, 7:00pm. Candle service with handbells.

Whitehorse United Church, 6th & Main. Elevator access. All welcome.

CAROL SINGING. Come sing your favourites! Sunday, December 22 at 7:00pm, Whitehorse United Church, 6th & Main, elevator access. All welcome.

CRESTVIEW CROSS-COUNTRY ski group meets Sundays, 11am, at 222 Squanga Ave, to ski Pine Forest Loop, 2 to 3 hours, free

SKIER RAIL Jam, Mount Sima, Saturday Dec. 28. Great prizes, cash for open category. All ages. Registration opens at 10. Fun to compete & watch. Sponsored by Yukon Freestyle, yfsa.ca.

LDAY SNOWSHOE Loppet: Saturday, February 1st at Mt. Mac, 2.5 and 5 km routes.

Hot lunch, prizes and silent auction. $20 adults/$10 children/$50 families. www.ldayukon.com/668-5167 for details QUEER YUKON: upcoming socials events for the LGBT and allies community at www.queeryukon.com. Bowling night, Rendezvous Drag Dance, Film Fests and more!

Casting Call: A Christmas play Sunday, December 22 at 7:00 pm First pentecostal Church 149 Wilson Drive Refreshments to follow Everyone welcome!

YUKON SCIENCE Institute AGM Wednesday, January 15, 6:00 pm at the Whitehorse Public Library. All welcome

Services 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

- INSULATION Upgrade your insulation & reduce your heating bills Energy North Construction Inc. (1994) for all your insulation & coating needs Cellulose & polyurethane spray foam Free estimate: 667-7414 SHARPENING SERVICES. For all your sharpening needs - quality sharpening, fair price & good service.

At corner of 6th & Strickland.

667-2988 MC RENOVATION Construction & Renovations Laminated floor, siding, decks, tiles Kitchen, Bathroom, Doors, Windows Framing, Board, Drywall, Painting Drop Ceiling, Fences No job too small Free estimates Michael 336-0468 yt.mcr@hotmail.com THOMAS FINE CARPENTRY • construction • renovation • finishing • cabinets • tiling • flooring • repairs • specialty woodwork • custom kitchens 867-633-3878 or cell 867-332-5531 thomasfinecarpentry@northwestel.net ANGYʼS MASSAGE Mobile Service.

Therapeutic Massage & Reflexology.

Angelica Ramirez Licensed Massage Therapist.

867-335-3592 or 867-668-7724 angysmassage@hotmail.com 200-26 Azure Rd Whitehorse YT, Y1A 6E1 NORTHRIDGE BOBCAT SERVICES • Snow Plowing • Site Prep & Backfills • Driveways • Post Hole Augering • Light Land Clearing • General Bobcat Work Fast, Friendly Service 867-335-1106 BUSY BEAVERS Painting, Pruning Hauling, Snow Shovelling and General Labour Call Francois & Katherine 456-4755 LOG CABINS & LOG HOMES Quality custom craftsmanship Using only standing dead local timber For free estimate & consultation contact: Eldorado Log Builders Inc. phone: 867.393.2452 website: www.ykloghomes.com S.V.P. CARPENTRY Journey Woman Carpenter Interior/Exterior Finishing/Framing Small & Medium Jobs “Make it work and look good.”

Call Susana (867) 335-5957 susanavalerap@live.com

Fast, Hassle-Free

cHeque casHing no Holds... instant casH!

Open 7 Days A Week Whitehorse Money Mart 2190 second avenue 867-668-6930

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 IF YOU own a home or real estate, ALPINE CREDITS can lend you money: It's That Simple. Your Credit / Age / Income is NOT an issue. 1-800-587-2161.

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 GET RESULTS! Post a classified in 125 newspapers in just a few clicks. Reach more than 2 million people for only $395 a week for 25-word text ad or $995 for small display ad. Choose your province or all across Canada. Best value. Save over 85% compared to booking individually. www.communityclassifieds.ca or 1-866-669-9222.

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

CONDO MANAGEMENT SERVICES Including reserve studies.

North of 56 Property Management.

332-7444 CATHWAY WATER RESOURCES We buy used hot tubs and take trade ins! come visit us today at 101B Copper Rd., Whitehorse or call 668-7208

SUBARU GURU Fix•Buy•Sell Used Subarus 30 year Journeyman Mechanic Towing available Mario 333-4585

Heat moulded skates Skate sharpening Downhill, X-ski and Snowboard repairs and maintenance Bike maintenance and repairs Fast, thorough service

Tired of the snow in your driveway?

Let Redʼs Helping Hands shovel it for you each time it snows Reasonable rates 668-2866 (h) - 333-9958 (c)

The Hougen Centre, Whitehorse, Yukon

HEATHER MJOLSNESS, RMT Relaxing and therapeutic Swedish massage Gift certificates available!

689-5908

SIX OLYMPIC weight plates, 10 lbs each.

Buy all 6 for $50. 667-6472 BOWFLEX EXTREME, approx 10 yrs old, needs new rods (extra $230), first $40 takes it. 393-3638 GRAF 370 skates, sz 2.5 exc cond, $50.00, 141 Salomon Skis & poles with Salomon ski boots sz 4, $45.00. 456-7758

Lost & Found FOUND: ONE key on the sidewalk in front of the Department of Education building by the bridge, Tues. night. Call 667-4394 to identify LOST: BLACK “Brownline” Daytimer downtown week of Nov. 25, if found pls call Judy 333-0432 FOUND IN alley in Riverdale, carrying case with menʼs clothing. 667-4378 LOST: CROSS-COUNTRY ski between Porter Creek & Kopper King on the highway.

Thanks. 633-6603

Sports Equipment 2013 SALSA Spearfish, 1 frame has never been ridden, rest of the bike has light wear.

Call for specs and more info, $2,500 obo.

334-8287

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in the Hougen Centre, 305 Main St. 668-6848

RIGHT-HAND HOCKEY stick, Easton Ultra-Extreme, never used, $15. 660-4806

MAY-MAY'S FAMILY Day Home in Cowley Creek has two (18 months & up) spaces available M-F 7:30-3:30pm.

Hot meals and diapers included.

Day Home is closed on all school holidays (Christmas/Spring breaks & summers from July to mid-August) Please call Mary @ 668-3348 for more info

BOBCAT AND BACKHOE SERVICES in Whitehorse, Marsh Lake, Tagish area Call Andreas 660-4813 TITAN DRYWALL Taping & Textured Ceilings 27 years experience Residential or Commercial No job too small Call Dave 336-3865

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LOW COST MINI STORAGE

Now 2 locations: Porter Creek & Kulan.

Onsite & offsite steel containers available for rent or sale.

Phone 633-2594 Fax 633-3915

OFFICE LOCATED BESIDE KLONDIKE WELDING, 15 MacDONALD RD., PORTER CREEK, info@lowcostministorage.ca

ELECTRICIAN FOR all your jobs Large or small Licensed Electrician Call MACK N MACK ELECTRIC for a competitive quote!

867-332-7879

CUSTOM To make your ideas a reality.

SNOW CLEARING Sidewalks, Driveways, Commercial, Residential Call Francis at Speedy Sparkle 668-6481 or cell 334-8480

railings, gates and much more

DISCONNECTED PHONE? National Teleconnect Home Phone Service. No One Refused! Low Monthly Rate! Calling Features and Unlimited Long Distance Available. Call National Teleconnect Today!

1-866-443-4408. www.nationalteleconnect.com.

WANTED: PLUMBING JOBS! Journeyman plumber can help you with your plumbing and heating projects.

Contact Frank by phone or text at 403-827-5643 or email frank.herbrig@gmx.net Employer wanted!

Plumbing and heating technician (Journeyman Plumber/Gasfitter B, Red Seal) is looking for full-time employment in Whitehorse, available immediately.

Call or text Frank at 403-827-5643 Acorn Building Construction *Bathrooms *Kitchens *Renovations Call Roland at 633-5324 or 334-1198 SNOW CLEARING/REMOVAL Sidewalks, Driveways, Parking lots, Compounds Private and Commercial Properties Fast and reliable service Aurora Toolcat Services 867-334-8447

Ironwork

www.ironworkyukon.com call mike morrow at 335-1888

AL-ANON MEETINGS

DRUG PROBLEM?

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

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Friday, December 20, 2013

Narcotics

Anonymous

MEETINGS:

Wednesdays 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm #2 - 407 Ogilvie St. <BYTE> Fridays 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm 4071 - 4th Ave. <Many Rivers>

ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS MEETINGS in Whitehorse

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

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

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

NS - No Smoking OM - open mixed, includes anyone CM - closed mixed, includes anyone with a desire to stop drinking

www.aa.org

bcyukonaa.org

AA 867-668-5878 24 HRS A DAY

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

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

Health Centre

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

Library Friday - 1:30 p.m.

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

Health Centre

Dawson City Y.T.

Thursday - 8:00 p.m.

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

Health Centre Saturday 7:00 p.m.

Community Support Centre 1233 2nd Ave.

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

Health Centre

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

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

Health Centre

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

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

Health Centre

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

Health Centre

Ross River Y.T. Friday - 1:30 p.m.

Health Centre

Tagish Y.T. Monday 7:30pm Lightwalkers Group Bishop’s Cabin, end of road along California Beach Telegraph Creek B.C. Tuesday - 8:00 p.m.

Soaring Eagles Sewing Centre

Teslin Y.T. Wednesday - 7:00pm Wellness Centre #4 McLeary Friday - 1:30p.m.

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

Health Centre

contact 667-7142

Has your life been affected by someone’s drinking ???

WEDNESDAY 12:00 noon Hellaby Hall, 4th & Elliott

CLOSED DEC. 25TH FOR CHRISTMAS

FRIDAY

7:00 pm Lutheran Church Basement Beginners Mtg ( 4th & Strickland ) 8:00 pm Lutheran Church Basment Regular Mtg ( 4th & Strickland )

60 Below Snow Management Commercial & Residential

Snow Removal (867) 336-3570

Parking Lots, Sidewalks, Rooftops and Sanding

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BAUER UNISEX ice skates sz 9 US, 8 UK, 42 Euro, like new, very light, $45. 334-1252 MADSHUS X-COUNTRY/BACK country ski boots, sz 9 US, 210 cm. metal edge, like new, $400 new, asking $300. 334-1252 3 HUNTING knives, Kershaw 1098 w/3 field dress blades/sheath, Buck 728 w/nylon case, custom-made hunting model w/antler handle/custom leather sheath, like new, $50 ea. 334-2365 WANTED: BOWFLEX or Soloflex home gym. Must be in good condition. Virginia @633-3388

REqUEST FOR PROPOSAL STANDARDS DEVELOPMENT FOR ALCOHOL AND DRUG SERVICES

Project Description: Required to conduct an evidence-based literature review for the development of evidence-based standards, write the standards, and develop accompanying evidence-based support documents for the standards. Completion of this work is to provide support for standards implementation at the Detoxification and Treatment Services at Alcohol and Drug Services.

Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title.

The closing date for submissions is January 2, 2014. 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 Jocyline Gauthier at (867) 6675780.

The highest ranked or lowest priced submission may not necessarily be accepted.

View or download documents at: www.gov.yk.ca/tenders/tms.html

GIRLʼS BIKE, 16” Illusion Supercycle, purple/pink, white tires, age 4-6, good cond, $30. 667-6472 CROSS-COUNTRY SKIS, new, Salomon X-Adventure, 198cm, suits 60-75kg person. $175 obo 335-0233 SNOWBOARD BOOTS, Firefly brand, menʼs sz 11.5, used 5 times, exc cond. $50 obo.

456-2218 SNOWBOARD & bindings, Firefly brand, 156 cm, used 5 times, exc cond, $75 obo.

456-2218

PUBLIc TENDER VENTILATION UPGRADE YUKON TRANSPORTATION MUSEUM - BLDG.#1448 WHITEHORSE, YUKON

Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title.

The closing date for submissions is January 7, 2014. 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 Rob Kelly at (867) 667-8980.

Site Visit December 18, 2013 at 1:00 p.m.

The highest ranked or lowest priced submission may not necessarily be accepted.

This tender is subject to Chapter Five of the Agreement on Internal Trade.

The Yukon Business Incentive Policy will apply to this project.

Bidders are advised to review documents to determine Certificate of Recognition (COR) requirements for this project.

View or download documents at: www.gov.yk.ca/tenders/tms.html

Livestock QUALITY YUKON MEAT Dev & Louise Hurlburt Grain-finished Hereford beef Domestic wild boar Order now for full delivery Payment plan available Samples on request 668-7218 335-5192 HORSE HAVEN HAY RANCH Dev & Louise Hurlburt Irrigated Timothy/Brome mix Small square & round bales Discounts for field pick up or delivery Straw bales also for sale 335-5192 • 668-7218

Highways and Public Works

Notification of Harvesting Licence Applications Pursuant to Section 18 of the Forest Resources Act, Forest Management Branch notifies the public of applications made for commercial timber harvesting.

Current applications for harvesting licences are available for comment for a minimum of 30 days at www.forestry.gov.yk.ca or through the Compliance Monitoring & Inspections Office in your community.

Commercial timber harvesting occurs in accordance with an approved Timber Harvest Plan that has undergone public review.

These plans are available online. For more information, e-mail forestry@gov.yk.ca or phone 1-800-661-0408, ext. 3999.

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 LOCAL FREE Range pork, no hormones, no antibiotics. Professionally cut and wrapped.

20lbs or more, $6/lb. 393-1939 WANTED, 16 to 20 foot electric hay elevator or conveyor in working condition. 633-4249

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 WOODEN PLAN Toys dollhouse and furniture and dolls. $125 for all. 668-7659

REqUEST fOR PROPOSAL SECURITY PATROL SERVICES YUKON HOUSING UNITS WHITEHORSE, YUKON

Project Description: Provide security patrol services at Yukon Housing Units located in Whitehorse, Yukon Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title.

The closing date for submissions is January 16, 2014. Please refer to the procurement documents for the closing time and location.

If documents are available they may be obtained from Yukon Housing Corporation, 410 Jarvis Street, Whitehorse, Yukon. Technical questions may be directed to Kristen Richmond at 867-456-3892.

The highest ranked or lowest priced submission may not necessarily be accepted.

This tender is subject to Chapter Five of the Agreement on Internal Trade.

The Yukon Business Incentive Policy will apply to this project.

Health and Social Services

Friday, December 20, 2013

REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL DESIGN BUILD REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS CCTV & PANIC ALARM UPGRADE ANDREW A. PHILIPSEN LAW CENTRE - BLDG.#1262 WHITHEORSE, YUKON 2014 Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title.

The closing date for submissions is January 16, 2014. 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 Elliott Street, Whitehorse, YT (867) 667-5385.

Technical questions may be directed to Anton Pertschy at (867) 6673651.

Site Visit: Thursday, January 9, 2014 from 9:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m.

The highest ranked or lowest priced submission may not necessarily be accepted.

View or download documents at: www.gov.yk.ca/tenders/tms.html

Childcare CHEEKY MONKEYʼS DAYCARE Leisure on Lewes Complex A fun, educational program for your children.

All food provided.

Accepting enrollment in all age groups 6 months to 12 years.

334-4665

Furniture CREAM-COLOR OVERSTUFFED couch, good cond, $250, 633-4707 TWIN OR double bed frame, new $83, sell for $50. 633-6004 ANTIQUE DINING room chairs, exc cond, recently reupholstered, $75 ea. 334-1043 FRIDGE, $100, table w/leaf & 6 chairs, $275, ceiling fan, new, $45. 334-7771

Liquor Corporation

LiQUoR acT Take noTice ThaT, 16714 Yukon Inc. of 131 Falaise Place - Whitehorse, Yukon Y1A 3C8, is making application for a Food Primary- All Liquor, liquor licence, in respect of the premises known as G&P Steakhouse and Pizza situated at 209 Main St. in Whitehorse, Yukon. any person who wishes to object to the granting of this application should file their objection in writing (with reasons) to: President, Yukon Liquor corporation 9031 Quartz Road Whitehorse, Yukon Y1a 4P9 not later than 4:30pm on the 15th day of January, 2014 and also serve a copy of the objection by registered mail upon the applicant.

The first time of publication of notice is December 20, 2013.

The second time of publication of notice is January 03, 2014.

The third time of publication of notice is January 10, 2014. any questions concerning this specific noTice are to be directed to Licensing & Social Responsibility at 867-667-5245 or 1-800-661-0408, local 5245.

Bidders are advised to review documents to determine Certificate of Recognition (COR) requirements for this project.

View or download documents at: www.gov.yk.ca/tenders/tms.html

Highways and Public Works

Request for Proposals Technical Support Services Executive Committee Screening Western Copper and Gold – Casino Project The Executive Committee of YESAB is issuing 4 separate Requests for Proposals (RFP) for technical support services in anticipation of the screening of the Western Copper and Gold – Casino Project.

These RFPs are specific to the following knowledge areas: • • • •

RFP No. 001 – Hydrology and Aquatic Resources; Engineering Design and Geotechnical Considerations RFP No. 002 – Wildlife and Habitat RFP No. 003 – Use of Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) RFP No. 004 – Socio-economic Considerations

Interested Bidders should submit their Proposals on or before 4:00 PM Pacific Time, Friday, January 3, 2014 For more information related to these RFPs visit: www.yesab.ca

CSA Group Proposes 1st Of 4 New Standards Addressing The Impact of Climate Change The proposed standard, Buildings in Permafrost Supported on Thermosyphon Foundations, helps address the impact of climate change in Northern Canada as part of the Standards Council of Canada’s Northern Infrastructure Standardization Initiative (NISI).

It is available for a 60-day public review online. The draft of the standard is available for public and stakeholder feedback by visiting: http://publicreview.csa.ca.

6 MATCHING dining room chairs (holiday dinners), 1 computer armoire, very reasonable, for details call 667-7908 3-PIECE ALL reclining microsuede loveseat, couch and chair, $800 obo. 334-8553

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

BEDFRAME, FITS twin or double, $30.

633-6004

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

REqUEST fOR PROPOSAlS

PUblIC TENDER

MAINTENANCE AND EMERGENCY REPAIRS YUKON HOUSING UNITS CARCROSS, YUKON

PURCHASE VIDEO CONFERENCING EQUIPMENT AND COMPONENTS Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title.

The closing date for submissions is January 16, 2014. 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 Elliott Street, Whitehorse, Yukon (867) 667-5385.

Technical questions may be directed to David Knight at (867) 667 3114.

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

Project Description: Perform regular preventative maintenance and emergency repairs on approximately 10 housing units in Carcross.

Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title.

The closing date for submissions is January 7, 2014. Please refer to the procurement documents for the closing time and location.

DRUG PROBLEM? Narcotics Anonymous meetings Wed. 7pm-8pm #2 - 407 Ogilvie St. BYTE Office FRI. 7pm-8:30pm 4071 - 4th Ave Many Rivers Office Lake Lebarge Lions would like to thank everybody for buying Christmas cakes & cookies.

Thanks to A&W for their contribution in helping the Seniors have a joyous Christmas

HEATING SYSTEM UPGRADE YUKON HOUSING UNITS OLD CROW, YUKON

Project Description: Heating system upgrades in Yukon Housing Units Old Crow, Yukon Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title.

The closing date for submissions is January 16, 2014. Please refer to the procurement documents for the closing time and location.

If documents are available they may be obtained from Yukon Housing Corporation, 410 Jarvis Street, Whitehorse, Yukon. Technical questions may be directed to Laura Vanderkley at 867-667-8114.

The highest ranked or lowest priced submission may not necessarily be accepted.

This tender is subject to Chapter Five of the Agreement on Internal Trade.

The Yukon Business Incentive Policy will apply to this project.

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Technical questions may be directed to Kathie Ravensdale at 867-821-4281.

Documents are available at Yukon Housing 410 Jarvis Street, Whitehorse or Carcross Housing Association, Carcross The highest ranked or lowest priced submission may not necessarily be accepted.

View or download documents at: www.gov.yk.ca/tenders/tms.html

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Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title.

The closing date for submissions is January 7, 2014. Please refer to the procurement documents for the closing time and location.

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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 Anwar Rizvi at 667-3533.

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.

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The Yukon Business Incentive Policy will apply to this project.

Bidders are advised to review documents to determine Certificate of Recognition (COR) requirements for this project.

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View or download documents at: www.gov.yk.ca/tenders/tms.html

Bidders are advised to review documents to determine Certificate of Recognition (COR) requirements for this project.

View or download documents at: www.gov.yk.ca/tenders/tms.html

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