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charged with impaired driving, an additional 30 people received a 24-hour driving suspension.

CMP officers charged 26 That could be for a number of people with impaired driving reasons, including if they apas a result of check stops over the peared to be impaired by drugs holiday season. or if they received a “warn” on a Cpl. Shawn Pollard, head of the roadside alcohol-screening test, as RCMP’s traffic services division, opposed to a “fail,” Pollard said. released those numbers earlier He said there is a “Yukon culthis week. They do not include ture of drinking and driving” that any possible arrests over New needs to stop.

Year’s Eve. At the beginning of December, “That’s a lot,” the veteran ofRCMP Commissioner Bob Paulficer said, stating the obvious, but son declared impaired driving a clearly frustrated. national priority.

The arrests happened during “Impaired driving is an entirely check stops beginning November preventable cause of death and 20. injuries that devastates families Pollard said the territory is and communities,” Paulson said lucky no serious crashes due to at the time. impaired driving happened dur“A small decision can have ing that time. great consequences, please make Driving impaired is “virtually a the right choice before you get behind the wheel. Everyone has murder in progress,” he said. the right to come home safe. ” On top of the 26 people News Reporter

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Pollard said it’s a mistake for people to think that police are only on the lookout for impaired drivers over the holidays.

While they may ramp up their presence this time of year, check stops happen year round, he said.

It appears that people are aware of the check stops, but that hasn’t stopped them from being charged.

Pollard stopped one driver who laughed and insisted he hadn’t been drinking because he knew the police were out.

He proceeded to fail the roadside test.

Pollard said the community has a major role to play in stopping impaired driving.

“We really need everyone involved. It can’t just be officers, it needs to be the community too. If you see someone who is impaired, take their keys, step in.”

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Kicking and using her baton, she broke the front wind shield and got the mother and son out.

The pair was transported to Whitehorse General Hospital and later released.

They had been visiting the territory from British Columbia over Christmas.

Alcohol was not a factor in the crash, police said.

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subcontractor that worked on the water treatment plant in Dawson City is now suing the builders for millions of dollars.

Han Construction filed the lawsuit in Yukon Supreme Court near the end of December against contractor Corix.

In the court documents, Han says it was hired in December 2009 to construct part of the building with wood exterior walls and a wood truss framing structure.

The value of the contract was about $5.4 mil-

lion.

Han, a Dawson contractor, claims the B.C.based Corix later made changes to the subcontract.

Han claims that in December 2011 its contract was wrongfully terminated.

Han says Corix failed to pay the more than $2.7 million that is remaining on the contract for work that was completed.

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Heavy snow creates mobility hardships Jesse Winter News Reporter

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t was certainly a white Christmas, perhaps whiter than anyone in Whitehorse would have predicted.

Almost double the normal amount of snow fell on the city in the month of December, according to Environment Canada meteorologist Doug Lundquist.

“Normally we get about 26 centimetres of snow in the month of December. This year we had about 55 cm of snow, more than twice the normal amount that we’d get,” Lundquist said.

With that much white stuff on the ground, many people may be wondering if we’ve hit some sort of record.

Likely not, Lundquist said.

“In 1980 there was 69 cm of snow on the ground in Whitehorse, so I’m thinking it’s probably not a record, but without the Nav Canada daily information I can’t be certain,” he said.

Nav Canada runs Canada’s civil air navigation system. It used to measure actual snowfall in Whitehorse, but no longer maintains sampling stations here. Instead, Lundquist relies on Environment Canada precipitation measurements, which calculate the total amount of water that falls either as snow or rain.

“The big point is that we’ve had more than twice the nor-

disabilities. But then again, where do you put the snow?

Maybe there needs to be some education about piling snow in certain places. I’ve seen it piled in the handicapped ramp, for instance,” she said.

Piling snow in handicapped ramps, or on any public property, could land you up to $300 in fines, according to Clive Sparks, the city’s acting director of infrastructure.

City bylaw states that commercial areas, business owners with sidewalks, have until 11 a.m. the day after a snowfall to clear their part of the pathway, Sparks said.

Homeowners in residential areas have 48 hours to get their walkways clear. If you violate the rules, the city could slap you with up to three $100 tickets, but most people just get a warning the first time, he said.

Ian Stewart/Yukon News Sparks said that city crews City workers clear the snow on Third Avenue on Tuesday morning. Heavy snowfall over the have been working heavy hours holiday season has kept city crews busy. trying to deal with all the snow that’s fallen since Christmas – can’t get around. That’s just one nearly 20 cm – with workers on loss of independence. mal amount of snowfall. If we of the realities here, unfortu“It’s difficult to get around, look at straight precipitation, the roads 18 to 20 hours a day. nately,” she said. but it’s sort of unusual to have as in melted rain and snow, The city has a series of priRawlings Bird said one of the orities guiding which roads get this much snow as well. I think we normally get 16 mm of biggest problems is that when that maybe people sometimes precipitation in the month of cleared first, and how frequently.

December. We’ve already had 54, don’t realize the impact this kind people shovel the sidewalks out- Emergency routes and major of snow has,” said Lisa Rawlings side their homes or businesses, so way wetter, so to speak, than roadways like 2nd Ave. and the they often have nowhere to push highway take precedence over Bird, the executive director of normal,” he said. the Yukon Council on DisABIL- the snow and it ends up clogging residential and side streets.

Walk down any sidewalk wheelchair ramps and creatITY. in town today and you’ll see The weekend is expected to ing impassible walls separating “People clearing their sidesnowbanks piling well over your give a bit of a reprieve for shovpeople from where they need to ellers and pedestrians alike, with average toddler’s head. For most walks, I don’t think they realize go. how this impacts people with people, it’s a curiosity or a mild no snow expected until Sunday “It’s a danger issue for frustration, but for some people, disabilities. Some people who or Monday. everyone, not just people with have mobility challenges just this much snow can mean the Contact Jesse Winter at

More time for Peel ban Jesse Winter News Reporter

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he Yukon government bought itself three more weeks to finish its Peel watershed plan.

A ban on staking in the Peel watershed was put in place almost four years ago when the territory began the land-use planning process for the area. The staking ban was set to expire on Dec. 31, but the government still hasn’t finished its final stage of consultation with affected First Nations, a process that should have been finished last March.

Just before Christmas, the government announced it was extending the staking

ban until Jan. 21.

“We’re very close now. The finish line is in sight. We just need a few more weeks to ensure that the consultation process is completed in an adequate way,” said Yukon Environment Minister Currie Dixon.

None of the chiefs from the affected First Nations could be reached for comment by press time.

Dixon wouldn’t give specifics about what stumbling blocks are holding up the process.

“There’s nothing that anybody would be unfamiliar with. We’ve suggested that there should be modifications to the final recommended plan and we are consulting

the First Nations on those, as well as the final recommended plan itself,” he said.

The government has faced heavy criticism over its plan for the Peel watershed.

After four years of community and public consultations, as required by the Umbrella Final Agreement with Yukon First Nations, the Peel Planning Commission released its final recommended plan, which advocated protecting 80 per cent of the land.

But in October, the Yukon government released its own plan with four options that weren’t discussed at any of the public input sessions done by the planning commission. Now the four affected First Nations are at loggerheads with the gov-

ernment and threatening a lawsuit unless it approves the final recommended plan as originally released by the commission.

But despite the discord, Dixon said three more weeks will be enough to finish the work.

“As required by the Umbrella Final Agreement, we have been consulting on a government-to-government basis with the four affected First Nations. We’ve had faceto-face meetings with the affected chiefs.

Things have been going positively but we feel that we need this additional time to conclude the process,” Dixon said.

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he court orders regarding new territorial mining regulations have been met, the government says.

But staking on the Ross River Dena Council’s land has been banned until at least the end of April so a few critical details can be worked out.

The changes come in response to a Yukon Court of Appeal decision from December 2012 surrounding the government’s duty to consult with the First Nation even for the lowest level of exploration activities.

The government is dealing with the ruling through amendments to the Quartz Mining Act and Placer Mining Act and the associated regulations.

They had until Dec. 27, 2013 to put the new rules in place.

Bob Holmes, director of mineral resources for the Department of Energy Mines and Resources, explained that the court orders essentially came in two parts.

The first was to consult with the First Nation on work being done, even the lowest level – or class one – type of work.

That includes clearing trees, building trails, digging up rock and even the use of explosives.

Prior to the court’s ruling notification on that type of work was not required.

The second declaration from the court was about reaching an agreement on lands to possibly be set aside from stalking all together.

Most of the changes approved by the legislature at the end of December had to do with the first order.

“We’ve amended the Quartz and Placer Mining Acts to give the government the authority to designate areas of the Yukon where a notification for the low level, class one, work is required,” Holmes said.

“Where the miner would have to give us a notice and that would allow us to consult with the First Nation on that low-level work.”

Right now the government has used that authority only on the Ross River area. It’s the area that was the subject of the original lawsuit.

There has been speculation that the ruling could have implications through the Yukon and beyond, but Holmes would not speculate.

“What happens in the future depends, I don’t know. I know we will be talking with the Liard First Nation in the future and with the White River First Nation. But at this point in time we just specifically addressed the court order for Ross River,” he said.

After the notice is given, the new regulations say the government has 25 days to consult with

the First Nation.

As for exactly what that consultation will look like, Holmes said the new regulations do not provide a specific definition.

He said the government consults with First Nations on a number of different types of permits.

“It’s pretty well established what we do,” he said.

“We just have to have meaningful dialogue and really understand where their aboriginal rights may be impacted and make sure the project is mitigated somehow so that doesn’t happen.”

He said the government still believes there should be situations where no notification is required.

Officials will be working for the next few months to define exactly what that lower threshold will look like, Holmes said.

As for the order surrounding a possible staking ban in some areas, he said the government needed more time for discussions with the Ross River Dena Council.

So, until the end of April, there is a ban on staking in the entire area. When the work with the First Nation is done, the complete ban will be lifted and the new deal put in place, Holmes said.

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he general contractor and one of the subcontractors on the new Dawson City hospital project owe a combined $30,000 to the Workers Compensation Health and Safety Board.

Court documents filed last week show that a slew of seven companies have outstanding payments to the WCB’s compensation fund.

Becky Striegler, a spokeswoman for the WCB, said the legal action is a standard settling of accounts as the year draws to a close.

“We’re just cleaning up yearend unpaid assessments. We gave them plenty of opportunity to pay before we got to this point,” Striegler said.

Dowland Contracting, the general contractor on the new hospital project, owes $4,436.24 to the compensation assessment fund. The massive construction company fell into receivership and collapsed under a mess of liens and lawsuits for unpaid work on the project. The Yukon Hospital Corp. had Dowland’s bonding company step in, which is now sorting out the unpaid debt on behalf of the bankrupt company.

Striegler said that the court filings against Dowland is part of a process to get the WCB added to the list of creditors with outstanding claims against the company.

That means the compensation board will join a long line of Whitehorse companies and organizations that want to get paid.

All told, Dowland owes a total of $3.3 million to Yukon companies in the wake of its collapse.

Alberta’s Nelson Drywall is owed $20,556.88. It has been in an on-going dispute with Dowland over unpaid work since 2012, with the company and the hospital corporation claiming the work was of insufficient quality.

The company was one of many that placed a lien on the hospital and sued Dowland and the hospital corp.

The new hospital in Dawson City opened earlier this month, $3.2 million over budget and a year behind schedule.

The new building combines the hospital, which includes six in-patient rooms and an ER, along with the Dawson Medical Clinic, a retail pharmacy, and the Dawson City Community Health Centre.

Contact Jesse Winter at jessew@yukon-news.com

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Yukon bolsters animal health laws Jesse Winter News Reporter

The Yukon government has imposed some tougher rules on itself for dealing with animal diseases.

The new Animal Health Act, which came into affect on Wednesday, lays out careful guidelines the government must follow when ordering the destruction or quarantine of animals for health reasons.

“It updates the previous animal health act in a number of ways. There are a bunch of small things in there, but the three key policy changes are a set of new tools that we have for the government and the minister to respond to a potential disease outbreak,” explained Environment Minister Currie Dixon.

“There’s a control order, a surveillance order and a quarantine order that can be created. There is also the ability, which wasn’t in the previous act, for the minister to provide compensation for an individual or animal owner that is negatively affected by some action taken by government. For instance, if the government had to put down an animal, there is a process for compensation,” he said.

There is also an appeals process that animal owners or farmers can use to fight a quarantine or destruction order. Owners can also appeal compensation rulings if they feel they weren’t compensated fairly, Dixon said.

The whole system is set up to be as transparent as possible in what is often a very difficult situation, explained Dr. Mary

have in place to prevent disease spread in all but the most severe instances,” she said.

The act applies not only to livestock, but Tom Patrick/Yukon News to all animals in the territory, even wildlife Elk at the Yukon and hunted game, Vanderkop said.

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“Say, for example, if we knew there was massive contamination of a waterway or a pond. What we could do is order that any animals found dead near that post would need to be submitted to lab for analysis,” she said.

The most serious animal diseases, especially those most likely to require immediate destruction of livestock, are monitored and governed by federal laws, Vanderkop explained. The new Yukon rules focus on diseases with a special risk to Yukon or ones that aren’t covered by federal rules.

The last time animals were ordered destroyed by the government was in 2005 under the old act. A privately owned reindeer herd was discovered to have Johne’s disease, an incurable wasting illness that While the act is certainly robust when Vanderkop, the Yukon’s Chief Veterinary inflames the lower intestines and cripples it comes to the minister’s powers to order Officer. digestion, essentially starving the afflicted animal destruction, Vanderkop said it’s “It requires that every order record all animal to death. the quarantine rules that are actually the the details around the justification for it, On the advice of several government and the details around the what the risk is, best defence against the spread of animal biologists and with undocumented cabinet disease. why the action is being taken, and explain authorization, Environment officials “There are circumstances where drastic slaughtered the entire herd, shooting 52 of to people precisely what it is that we intend and severe action is required There are cir- the adult reindeer and bludgeoning four to do and why. cumstances where animals will need to be “It was based on what we heard from newborns to death. The herd’s owners sued stakeholders, which is that we provide for a destroyed. Those are few and far between. the government for damages but the case In most instances, the spread of disease can was tossed out after it sat dormant for five respectful approach to dealing with issues be controlled by controlling the movement years, and the owners were never compenthat are often very sensitive. It’s extremely emotional. It’s often very devastating to the of animals. The quarantine order is actusated. people who are impacted,” Vanderkop said. ally the most powerful measure that we Contact Jesse Winter at jessew@yukon-news.com

Fracking trip’s itinerary released Ashley Joannou News Reporter

The final itinerary for the upcoming government fact-finding mission regarding hydraulic fracturing has one notable change.

The Select Committee Regarding the Risks and Benefits of Hydraulic fracturing is travelling

to Alberta from Jan. 6 to 8.

Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, involves pumping pressurized water, sand and chemicals deep underground to blast apart rocks and release natural gas trapped inside.

When a draft itinerary from November was made public, some people raised concerns that the

committee was meeting with too many pro-fracking groups.

The final itinerary was released yesterday. It now includes a meeting with the Cochrane Area Under Siege Coalition, a vocal anti-fracking group from southwestern Alberta.

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He believes adding the Cochrane group is a positive step, but says the final itinerary is still off balance.

He said too many of the groups are related to the fracking industry.

“Unfortunately when they go to Alberta, you’re already going with a loaded gun. You know that they’re into fracking big time, you know that they are into fossil fuels big time so anything that is negative or critical of what they are doing is not going to necessarily come to the surface.”

The committee, which includes MLAs Patti McLeod, Darius Elias, Currie Dixon, Lois Moorcroft, Sandy Silver and Jim Tredger, will be in Alberta from Jan. 6 to 8.

They will tour a hydraulic fracturing operation and a producing well site. They will meet with groups including the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers, the Alberta Energy Regulator and Sundre Petroleum Operators Group and others.

Roberts questions whether the group will be able to get a balanced and fair perspective on their trip.

“I think the point is, if you see five or six groups that they’re going to and it’s all pro fracking and they’re going to just see one that is not necessarily pro fracking, is that a balance?”

A meeting with Alberta Health

Services is also new to the itinerary.

Allison Lloyd, clerk of committees for the Yukon Legislative Assembly, said the final itinerary was revised and approved by the committee at its last meeting on December 16th.

Lloyd confirmed the Cochrane group was not on the original draft suggested by the Department of Energy Mines and Resources.

Meetings are confidential, Lloyd said, meaning she could not provide any more details on why the changes were made.

McLeod, the committee’s chair, could not be reached for comment in time for today’s deadline.

In an open letter sent to the media yesterday, she said one of the mandates of the Select Committee is to gain “a science-based understanding of the technical, environmental, economic and regulatory aspects of hydraulic fracturing,” “We believe that this tour and these meetings will help us achieve that goal,” the letter said.

“While it was very difficult to decide which groups to meet with and how to spend our limited time in Calgary and Red Deer we believe that we have achieved a balanced schedule that allows us to hear from government regulators, industry experts, groups concerned about hydraulic fracturing, and academics.”

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Former Supreme Court justice remembered Ashley Joannou

“I think that’s the toughest job going,” Veale said, adding that while Maddison did bring in deputy judges from Outside, he former Yukon Sudidn’t have anyone next door to preme Court jusdiscuss things with. tice who spent 30 Veale described Maddison’s years on the bench is being courtroom as very formal.

“If you were late, he would give remembered as a strong you a very hard time until you figmentor and defender of the ured out that if you come in late, court’s independence. you apologize,” he said. “As soon Harry Maddison died on Box- as you apologized, everything went smoothly, but if you walked ing Day. He was 89.

Current Justice Ron Veale took in and didn’t have the courtesy of making an apology you would over the role from Maddison in wonder why he was being so hard 2000.

Veale spent years arguing cases on you.”

Veale himself was not above in front of Maddison as a lawyer criticism. and became friends with him in “Once I wore cords into the later years.

He pointed out that the Yukon court and he said that wasn’t appropriate.”

Supreme Court is currently the Veale said Maddison also recsmallest court in the country, ognized the importance of being with only two judges.

When Maddison was in charge a mentor to the lawyers.

“He would invite you in after it was even smaller. He was mostly on his own. the case and he would give you News Reporter

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Harry Maddison, former justice with Yukon Supreme Court, died Boxing Day at 89.

pointers or ask how it went. He did that with all the lawyers. It was a real mentoring role he played as well.”

That mentoring relationship continued after Veale took over

the post.

“I could call him up and bounce ideas off him. That was very helpful. He had vast experience. Almost 30 years on the bench is an enormous career.”

When the current Andrew Philipsen Law Centre was built in the 1980s, Maddison was on the design committee.

“The government had said that on the second floor, which is the courtroom floor, we’re going to have a walkway for the convenience of government lawyers so they can walk over,” Veale said.

The judge did not agree.

“Maddison said no, the access to the court is going to be the same for every person,” Veale said.

The government agreed and put up a wall.

Maddison was the pilot of a Lancaster Bomber in the Second World War. After earning his law degree from the University of Alberta he practiced in Alberta.

He was called to the Yukon bench in 1969.

In 1995 the Maddison Lectures in Northern Justice were created in his honour.

“The lawyers of the Yukon wanted to recognize Justice Maddison’s contribution to northern justice and felt that the establishment of a permanent chair with Yukon College was more enduring than the usual gold watch,” according to the publisher of a collection of those lectures. “The Maddison Chair invites a distinguished judge, lawyer or scholar to make a public presentation each year on northern justice. The Maddison Chair Lecture is an ongoing commitment to providing a forum to explore contemporary issues in northern justice,” Plans for a celebration of Maddison’s life are in the works, but nothing official has been decided yet.

Contact Ashley Joannou at ashleyj@yukon-news.com

Liard First Nation being audited Jesse Winter News Reporter

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he Liard First Nation is being audited by the federal government.

Erica Meekes, a spokeswoman for Aboriginal Affairs Minister Bernard Valcourt, said the First Nation was notified of the audit in July.

“Liard First Nation was selected for a recipient audit and was notified of this decision in July 2013,” Meekes said in an emailed statement.

“The recipient audit will not affect the delivery of programming to eligible First Nation

the building burned down. The controversy over that spending, and allegations that it was handled improperly by the First Nation, followed then-chief Liard McMillan until the end of his last term this fall.

But when McMillan came to power in 2003, he leveled allegations against the leader he replaced, Daniel Morris, that he had taken more than $250,000 in improper personal loans while he was the leader. In that case, McMillan tried to get Ottawa to investigate the missing money, but the federal government refused, saying it couldn’t prove that federal tax dollars were the ones that went astray.

members in the Watson Lake area. Auditors work with the First Nation’s staff and their activities will not disrupt the general public or community,” the statement said.

Federal funding recipients are selected for an audit based on a risk evaluation, the value of the funding agreement, or at random.

This is not the first time that the Liard First Nation’s finances have come into question. In 2007, the government spent nearly $3 million in federal money to buy three hotels in Watson Lake. The plan was to convert one of them into affordable housing units, but years after the sale that still hadn’t happened and eventually

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Morris is chief once more, having won the recent election earlier in December. However, he did not return a call for comment on this story, and has not spoken to any media outlets since the election.

McMillan said he’s not worried about this audit finding fault with anything in his decade-long administration’s finances.

“We’ve done our best to be in compliance with our contribution agreements. Aboriginal Affairs has signed off on our audit each and every year. I’m not saying there haven’t been issues we’ve had to work through from time to time, but I wouldn’t see anything major coming out in terms of what has happened over the last 10 years,” McMillan said.

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“It has been challenging to manage our organization effectively over the past 10 years and I think that challenge has increased, due in part to the fact that Canada and Aboriginal Affairs is unhappy with the fact that the LFN has rejected a land claims agreement. My belief is that they have been trying to penalize us financially within whatever measures they have at their disposal within the funding agreements,” he said.

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Levee highlights youth talent Darrell Hookey

missioner’s Award for Youth was recognized for his work as a he says.

Governor General’s Academic Recognition, this award recogsoccer coach for children.

Also receiving an award was Awards were established in 1873. nizes youth who “performed “I’ve always liked kids,” Banks Cody Park, a coach and mentor Framed certificates went to he achievements of Yukon an outstanding or extraordinsaid in a telephone interview at Vanier Catholic Secondary Cameron Cottrell-Tribes, of youth were in full display ary service for their communbefore receiving his medal. “You School.

Porter Creek Secondary School; Wednesday, as Doug Phillips ity; and/or have made positive can just be yourself with kids Excelling academically as well, Wendy Hartmann, St. Elias used his Commissioner’s New contributions and demonstrated and have fun … they are always Park was chosen valedictorian Community School; Michaela Year’s Levee to put 20 of them on leadership in their activities by there to have fun.” for his First Nations grad.

St. Pierre, F.H. Collins Secondary centre stage.

School; and Jonas Vasseur, From the singing of Vanier Catholic Secondary Oh Canada, by 15-yearSchool. old Madi Dixon, to Before Patti Balsillie, performances by the the MC, re-introduced Northern Lights School Dixon to close the cereof Dance, and to the mony with a rendition winning artwork of the of Land of Gold, some Illuminate Youth Art “non-youth” were recogContest Exhibition that nized for contributions to was displayed during the the Yukon: Joanne Green reception, Phillips worked and Kenneth Oppold were his desired legacy. both presented with St. “As commissioner, I John Ambulance Volunhave the opportunity to teer Awards for over 2,000 do some pretty special hours of volunteer service. things, and promote As well, Amanda Price, issues that are close to vice-president of the my heart,” he told the Whitehorse chapter of audience at the Kwanlin MADD, was presented Dun Cultural Centre after with a Commissioner’s being piped in by the Award for Public VolunMidnight Sun Pipe Band. teer Service.

“One such program, Following the afterthat I began in my first noon ceremony, guests year as commissioner, had cake and refreshis the promotion of our Ian Stewart/Yukon News ments amid the artwork talented young artists and Northern Lights School of Dance students perform at the Commissioner’s New Year’s Levee on Wednesday. of the Illuminate Youth musicians across Yukon.

Art Contest, a part of the “Some of you may Commissioner’s Youth have noticed,” he added, to volunteering their time, energy Besides, he says, coaching Then there was Vera Schall Showcase. Youth, aged six to 18, knowing chuckles throughout and talent for the betterment of helps him rethink his own game. and Finley Sparling who both created original artworks that the room. their community.”

And he has the satisfaction of contributed to their community were inspired by First Nations Indeed, he renamed the enterThe award is sponsored by seeing a nervous child leave his of Marsh Lake. arts and culture. tainment program two years ago the Yukon Government Youth or her comfort zone and maybe Sparling was also a sailing Among the artwork of the to “The Commissioner’s Youth Directorate in partnership with score a goal by the end of the camp instructor for youth, while many runners up, winning enShowcase.” the commissioner’s office. season.

Schall was involved in running tries were framed.

A modern ballet piece, FireSince he was among the first Banks says he likes the “men- children’s programming as a Winners were Jessica Van bird, and a Bollywood routine, four youth to receive the new tality” of soccer and how incluyouth recreation assistant. She Bibber, Hailey White, Aleyxanboth by the Northern Lights award, it can be understood why sive it has been since his parents also helped co-ordinate Marsh dra Smith, Mariah MacDonald, School of Dance troupe, framed Travis Banks had not heard of it first put him on a pitch at the Lake’s annual dog show.

Sol-Edene Drolet, Nev Shannon, the presentation of the Outuntil recently, but, “when I got age of five. All of his friends, and Another four youth were rec- Kassua Dreyer, Tristin Primozic standing Youth Achievement the call, I was pretty excited.” new friends, played, too. ognized for achieving the highest and Robin Mueller.

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The 18-year-old graduate of “No matter where you go in average, upon graduation, from Darrell Hookey is a freelance Formerly known as the Com- Porter Creek Secondary School this world, you can play soccer,” their secondary school. The writer living in Whitehorse.

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COMMENTARY Poverty costs Canada billions of dollars every year

poverty destroys opportunity and causes worse health outcomes.

The poorer you are the more likely you will die early.

123RF Stock Photo Why do we continue to have so much child and family poverty John Millar and to socialize with friends and and inequality in a wealthy counrelatives. This applies not only and Laurel Rothman try like Canada?

Troy Media to those living on incomes in the In the late ‘80s, in Canada, as poorest 10 per cent but also to in many developed countries, very year, Campaign 2000, a those at each rung up the income the trend began toward smaller non-partisan public educascale; the middle class experiences government, lower taxes, fewer tion movement to build awareness more stress, a higher prevalence social supports, privatization, and around poverty issues in Canada, of disease and earlier death than releases a report on the state of high earners, while those with low a reliance on continued ecoour country’s children. It doesn’t incomes and living in poverty suf- nomic growth with “trickle down” economics to “raise all boats.” paint a rosy picture. fer most of all.

The result has been a flattening of This year’s report shows that Here’s what the evidence income tax with greater relief for child poverty in Canada continues tells us. The stress of worrying the wealthy, fewer social supports at a high and unacceptable level, about the basics of life lowers the in the way of welfare rates, child with income inequality continuing body’s defences against disease. benefits, employment insurance to grow. Most provinces and all As a result, we see a higher and three territories have recognized increasing prevalence of all disease and other income supplements for the poor, and inadequate governthis as a crisis, and have put in (obesity, diabetes, heart disease, place poverty reduction plans. stroke, cancer, lung disease, mental ment investments in social housUnfortunately, the federal govern- illness, addictions and others) ing, child care and development, ment has yet to come to the table education and skills training. among those who are worse off – or create a poverty reduction Despite decades of economic right across the income gradient. plan of its own – despite numergrowth, benefits have not “trickled Children who go to school ous recommendations from its down”: almost 40 per cent of poor hungry and whose parents are own reports to do just that. children have at least one parunder constant stress tend not to There’s one thing we know for learn well and so become discour- ent working full time; in many families, parents hold down sevcertain: poverty and inequality aged and leave school early. They eral low-paid jobs to try to make have a devastating effect on chilthen are often doomed to repeat ends meet. While the income of dren and families. the poverty cycle with low-paid Poverty means living with con- work, chronic unemployment, and low and middle income workers has stagnated, the very wealthy stant worry about having enough a greater likelihood of becoming involved in crime and drug addic- continue to increase their share of healthy food to eat, adequate the pie. housing, clothing, not to mention tion as well as early pregnancy.

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Taxpayers dollars (federal, provincial and local) are being wasted. Research by economists for the Ontario Association of Food Banks demonstrated that the cost of poverty in Canada is between $72- and 86-billion annually (health care, soup kitchens, shelters, police, corrections). Poverty could be eliminated for just a fraction of this amount.

We know what is needed to reduce poverty: increase pay for low-wage workers (a living wage); increase welfare rates, EI and child benefits; provide universal subsidized child care; invest in social housing, education and skills training; improve health-care access; and specifically focus on First Nations’ issues.

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The Yukon government is fracking Yukoners again Open Letter to Premier Darrell Pasloski, Scott Kent minister of Energy, Mines and Resources and Patti McLeod, chair of Select Committee Regarding the Risks and Benefits of Hydraulic Fracturing, On Nov. 10 a draft of the Legislative Select Committee Regarding the Risks and Benefits of Hydraulic Fracturing tour of Alberta frack sites was released, but not to the public.

A final draft was belatedly released publicly on Jan. 2 only a week before the trip. I would like to point out that it appears the committee will be primarily shepherded by oil and gas representatives, supporters and/or regulators to tour locations and meetings chosen mainly the proindustry and government sectors.

We all know, or can imagine, these sectors have a strong bias towards hydraulic fracturing. Adding one anti-fracking group to the trip is a wonderful move, but it is not enough.

Meetings with those that have been negatively affected by, and/ or those critical of oil and gas development are still largely being avoided.

Yukoners Concerned takes exception to this biased approach in that the guidelines for the committee are to study both the risks and benefits of hydraulic fracturing, not just the so-called positives spun by industry and a fossil-fuel obsessed Alberta government.

Once again we believe that the Yukon Party government does not want Yukoners to know about this; the lack of any public transparency has ensured, thus far, there is no public discussion or input.

We feel that leaving the release of the committee’s schedule to this late in the game is unacceptible. Yukoners should see that this committee is subjecting itself to a biased agenda, deficient in public environmental and health considerations.

On another important concern, I spoke to Patti McLeod a few weeks ago about the legislative hearings that are to take place on Jan. 30 and 31. According to her, they are going to be very restrictive in that the public will not be given the opportunity to present or ask questions directly to the committee. Although she assured me there will be other public meetings in the communities that may be structured so that questions and comments could be presented.

We have not yet seen any posted dates or a list of communities that are going to be visited. It is our opinion that this lack of transparency and limited The new Yukon home of

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Friday, January 3, 2014 opportunity for participation by Yukoners is another ploy, just like loading the fracking committee tour with industry-biased tour sites and meetings. They do not want to hear any negative public reactions.

Would you kindly let Yukoners know if you will be following up these concerns.

Don Roberts, chair Yukoners Concerned

A public company is avoiding scrutiny Open letter to Premier Darrell Pasloski and Mike Nixon, minister of Justice, During the recent Yukon Utility Board proceedings for the Yukon Electrical 2013-15 General Rate Application, the parties involved were formally informed

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lated project except in accordance with an energy project certificate.

Section 39 continues: An application for an energy project certificate or energy operation certificate shall be made to the minister and shall contain the prescribed information. Section 40 On receipt of an application, the minister shall refer the application to the board for a review.

Under these sections, once this project is applied to be regulated onto the rate base, the privately owned Yukon Electrical company must be treated under the same conditions as our publicly-owned corporation.

UCG also recommends the costs for the rebuild of the Old Crow facilities also go through a Part 3 review as business plans numbers 8, 10 and 15 for this project demonstrates a cost of $3 million. The new development of an ice road to the community now needs to be considered as this should lower these costs greatly, so this plan should be re-evaluated.

Secondly, Yukon Electric has not even considered any other alternative energy source to this plan to get the community of Old Crow off-base fossil fuel generation. The various government’s concerned (First Nation, federal and YTG) have the fiduciary and environmental responsibility to make this happen before Yukon Electric spends these millions on a revamp of old technology.

There is great urgency in making this request, as the Yukon Utilities Board is now deliberating on these applications and they need advance notice that a Part 3 process application for an energy project certificate advance before these plans can become a regulated project to go into rate base.

that YECL plans on spending some $10.6 million on their Fish Lake facility for which they now want to place onto the rate base.

In other words, have the Yukon electrical ratepayers pay for all of these expenses.

They are creating this brand new hydro infrastructure due to a “catastrophic failure” of their very old facility which has earned their shareholders millions upon millions of dollars over the years.

On August 15, 2013 the Utilities Consumers’ Group wrote you requesting the Yukon Energy-proposed Diesel Liquified Natural Gas Conversion project be brought forward for a Part 3 assessment under the Public Utilities Act. This has been done and Roger Rondeau Utilities Consumers’ Group we thank you and all concerned very much.

Now we have a private enterprise trying to ram through a maWe sell trucks! jor project without undergoing the same scrutiny. The YECL conveniently split this project into several business cases numbers 1,2,7,9 and 28 – separating the costs in an attempt to ease this through a far less in-depth regulatory process.

The Public Utilities Act Chapter 186 section 36 states: www.drivingforce.ca Interpretation “energy operation certificate” means a certificate issued under this Part authorizing the holder of the certificate to operate a regulated project.

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Lately, I’m working under system overload but we at Yukoners Concerned try to stay on top of the subject and we do all this on our own dime and time. In the last 20 months, I spent probably half of my days researching the subject of fracking and all its environmental social, economic and health effects.

A lot of these effects are nothing new. As a matter of fact, I knew since my apprenticeship days, in the late ‘50s and early ‘60s, as a steamfitter-pipe fitter that natural gas is not cleaner then coal. In the last decade or so, with the tremendous development of new drilling technologies, especially fracking, the side effects of the extraction of fossil fuels on the environment have increased many fold. But so has the development of renewable energy technology. We in the Yukon already have one of the best track records in electrical energy production (close to 99 per cent hydro) so why don’t use more of these new clean alternatives?

Share the Spirit by the Kinette Club of Whitehorse has been a part of our lives for a few years now. It is a blessing at Christmas for our single-income family. So it was to my surprise that this year, after Share the Spirit dropped off their magic, there was a mysterious box left on my doorstep from Kris Kringle of the North Pole.

My name on the box was misspelled and the address incorrect yet here it was filled with gifts for my daughters. I almost cried.

Of course, being paranoid, we opened the gifts and re-wrapped them. This is totally mind boggling to me. I am a person to say thank you but I have no one to thank! Trust me when I say investigations are pending.

The next day was Christmas Eve and when I got home from errands, there was a tote full of food labelled, “Merry Christmas from Santa!” Now seriously, first presents and now food! I am a very grateful person to whoever did this. Thank you! Thank you!

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Regulations, including minimum rental standards, are being proposed to support the new Residential Landlord and Tenant Act. Input from Yukoners will help balance the rights of tenants and landlords in support of a healthy rental market in Yukon.

Provide your input and comments by MARCH 11, 2014 Questionnaires can be completed online at www.community.gov.yk.ca/ consumer/new_rlta.html. Print copies are available at your nearest community library and at the Information Desk in the Yukon Government Main Administration Building on Second Avenue in Whitehorse.

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VICTORIA he mayor of Oak Bay, British Columbia, gets dead deer alerts.

Nils Jensen barely has time to sit for a coffee when his phone pings and signals another tragic deer fatality in the suburban Victoria community known as the Tweed Curtain for its primarily elderly and refined population.

“I get regular updates,” Jensen said, as he gestured to his cell phone. “There it is, the deer count, 38 so far.”

That number of dead deer in Oak Bay in 2013 is a huge increase, Jensen said, considering there were zero reported deer deaths in 2008. But the number has been rising steadily over the years.

Oak Bay and several other British Columbia communities, including Invermere in southeastern B.C., plan to target growing urban deer populations in 2014 to prevent potentially hazardous human-deer interactions.

“Doing nothing is not an option because we can see the rising number of deer-human conflicts,” Jensen said.

He said Oak Bay’s deer management strategy includes public education, bylaw enforcement, including prohibitions on feeding deer, and more signs warning drivers to beware of deer on the streets but that residents can expect the launch of a deer cull sometime next year.

Gerry Taft, the mayor of Invermere, said his community is aiming to apply for a provincial government permit next year to launch its second deer cull because they attack dogs and are no longer wary of people.

“The sheer number of deer is a concern for people,” Taft said.

“On garbage day, when we have curbside pickup, we have groups of deer walking down the street knocking over garbage cans and eating the garbage.”

Jensen said he can recite numerous brutal and dangerous incidents involving deer in Oak Bay. Police are regularly dispatched to shoot wounded deer after they’ve been hit by cars, and in one instance, officers were forced to put a deer out of its misery when the animal impaled itself trying to leap a fence.

“Some of them have died an excruciating death,” Jensen said.

“One of them had to be put down by an officer after essentially being completely cut open as it tried to vault a fence, unsuccessfully. This isn’t an easy issue for anybody. It’s complex. It’s emotional.”

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Jensen said a grandfather reported a deer leaping over his grandson’s head as the two sat in their backyard. The female deer was apparently fleeing the unwanted advances of a young buck.

There are videos of bucks locking horns downtown during mating season and reports of frolicking, love-struck deer running head-on into cars.

“They don’t know about traffic safety,” Jensen said. “They run into the street and strike the car or cyclist.”

Jensen said his recently scheduled deer-cull meeting with representatives of the Association for the Protection of Fur-Bearing Animals was delayed for several hours because a driver hit a deer in Oak Bay. “That sucked. It was awful,” said Lesley Fox, of the animal rights organization. “She was probably about eight months, not quite a year old.”

Fox, who stopped to tend to the fatally wounded animal, said the fawn suffered at the side of the road for 90 minutes until Oak Bay police officers arrived to relieve its suffering.

Last spring, British Columbia’s Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations Ministry published an urban deer management fact sheet that said urban deer have become a safety concern due to growing conflicts between people and pets, increases in deer-automobile collisions and the tendency of deer to attract predators, including cougars.

The ministry said it will issue permits to communities opting for culls to reduce deer populations.

“Wildlife experts advise that capturing deer in collapsible clover traps and euthanizing them with a bolt gun is the safest, most efficient and most humane method of deer control in urban areas,” the government fact sheet said. “Clover traps, which resemble oversized hockey nets, are placed in quiet locations to reduce stress on deer.”

Trained contractors must conduct the culls and the deer meat must be processed by a qualified butcher, and “communities must make full use of healthy deer carcasses resulting from these culls, for example by donating the meat to First Nations, local food banks or other charitable groups.”

Taft said Invermere’s first deer cull in December 2011, when 19 deer were killed, revealed the extent of the emotions at stake when a community initiates such action.

Opponents to the deer cull cut the nets that held the deer, followed the cull contractors, slashed their tires and appeared

to place deer repellent near the clover net traps, he said.

“There were definitely times where the contractor came to a net which had been triggered and there were no deer inside because the net had been cut.”

But Invermere, like Oak Bay, is proceeding with the intention to conduct a deer cull next year, Taft said.

The Invermere Deer Protection Society tried unsuccessfully to sue the community for moving to a cull without properly consulting residents or considering deer mitigation options.

The society has said it will appeal the ruling even though an official community opinion poll suggested that most residents favoured a deer cull.

“We’re trying not to be held hostage by this small group of people who are playing these legal games,” Taft said.

He said deer culls are expensive, but communities that feel they’re part of an ungulate invasion want their numbers controlled. Taft said his community wants financial support from the province, but so far all that appears to be coming from the B.C. government are guidelines and permits.

“The cute thing that some of the deer lovers like is we have some raised crosswalks in different parts of town and the deer seem to love crossing the road on the raised crosswalks,” he said.

But Victoria resident Dave Shishkoff, who represents the U.S. animal advocacy rights organization Friends of Animals, said B.C. communities such as Oak Bay and Invermere should fully explore non-lethal opportunities to deer culls.

He said enforcing local nofeeding bylaws, adding more deer warning signs on streets and roads, and fencing off Oak Bay golf areas would reduce deer populations rather than culls.

“Feeding deer is what keeps them in the area,” Shishkoff said.

“It’s a huge problem. People are baiting deer, essentially, and keeping them in the neighbourhoods.”

Changing human behaviour towards urban deer is required to control the conflict problems, he said.

“We need to be concerned for the deer and their safety, as well as our own. It’s a lot harder to manage wildlife than it is to manage people, so if we manage ourselves it becomes much less of an issue.”

Shishkoff said he’s preparing a brochure that outlines how to use non-lethal methods to control urban deer and will distribute it throughout the community.

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National Defence orders poll about superheroes’ abilities Dean Beeby

Toronto researcher M. Afzal Upal for Defence Research and Development Canada, or DRDC. OTTAWA, Ont. National Defence spokesman Noel Paine said the project efence researchers included a $13,750 payment to spent almost $14,000 the University of Toronto for data on a survey that collection.

“Work on this study was also asked whether superheroes done by internal DRDC staff,” can leap over skyscrapers.

Paine said in Ottawa.

The study for the research arm “This work will not only allow of National Defence also asked cultural scientists to better under150 people online whether super- stand the spread of non-natural heroes can fly through the air; and religious concepts but also see through walls; hear whispers allow the Canadian Armed Forces from miles away; become invis... to design messages that are ible; and walk through walls. more memorable for their target The oddball questions were audiences,” says a summary of the part of a short study completed research. in October to help the CanThe armed forces have “no adian Forces “win the hearts and modeling or analytic capability to minds” of the local populations understand how its actions will it faces when deployed overseas, impact the psychological meansuch as recently in Afghanistan. ing space of individuals.”

Some of the questions were The study, one of several designed to probe people’s explanned on the subject, included pectations about – as the study three experiments that posed put it – “supernatural categories a range of philosophical statethat are so prevalent in popular ments, to which online particiculture and religion.” pants indicated their level of The study was carried out by agreement.

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There was relative agreement among survey participants that superheroes can fly and leap over DC Comics/CP skyscrapers. The Superheroes are shown in this publicity image released by DC Comics. survey found least Defence researchers spent almost $14,000 on a survey that asked whether agreement about superheroes can leap over skyscrapers. whether they can become invisible offered in a competitive process.” such training. or walk through walls.

The next step in the research, The military says PSYOPS are “The Canadian Armed Forces Upal wrote, is to examine the designed to influence attitudes needs to be able to inform and re- common messages already used and behaviours to bring about assure local populations,” DRDC by the Canadian Armed Forces political and military objectives. spokeswoman Myriam Bower to reach local populations, and Beginning in 2007, the said in an email, when asked why Canadian Forces established a the research was undertaken at a how those populations actually understand them. radio station – RANA-FM – in time of defence budget cuts.

Upal’s research is related to support of the Canadian army “This cannot be done without “psychological operations” or in Kandahar, as a way to ensure understanding people’s psycho“PSYOPS,” a capability that began NATO messaging with the local logical meaning space, i.e., how people perceive, understand and to be formally developed within population. The station was remember various messages.” the Canadian Army in 2004. Pre- actually based in Kingston, Ont., She added: “To ensure best viously, Canada’s soldiers relied transmitting in Afghanistan using value for taxpayers, the study was on other NATO countries for a satellite link.

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Alberta facing aboriginal legal onslaught over oilsands in 2014 “All litigation, all the time, is what I see on the horizon.”

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eries and Navigable Waters Acts run afoul of their rights.

The Beaver Lake Cree is fighting both levels of government in a case that seeks to force them to consider the cumulative effects of oilsands development when issuing new permits.

A total of 17 First Nations from around Alberta are trying to get legislation on access to public lands tossed out in a longrunning case expected to go to trial this year.

The Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation plans to file a lawsuit in January attacking Ottawa’s new environmental assessment legislation after the approval of a major oilsands expansion that it says will violate both treaty rights and federal laws.

At the same time, the Alberta government’s other major oilsands initiatives are running into heavy weather.

All six First Nations in the oilsands area have requested a statutory review of the Lower Athabasca Regional Plan, the government’s attempt to balance development and environmental values. Those same bands, along with many others, have also rejected the province’s plans to centralize and control aboriginal consultation.

One major band – the Fort McKay First Nation – has pulled out of the Joint Oilsands Monitoring program, the showpiece federal-provincial effort to monitor environmental change in the oilsands.

Even the Lubicon Cree First Nation are back in court, with another try in a decades-long attempt to win a reserve and get some royalties on energy extracted from what they say is their land.

Alberta Environment and Minister Robin Campbell declined to be interviewed.

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immering disputes over the oilsands between Alberta aboriginals and the provincial and federal governments will break into the open in 2014 as virtually every one of the many recent changes in oversight of the controversial industry comes under legal and political attack.

“All litigation, all the time, is what I see on the horizon,” said Larry Innes, lawyer for the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation.

Over the last 18 months, Ottawa and Edmonton have rewritten the book on resource development. Everything from how aboriginals will be consulted to land use planning to oilsands monitoring to the basic ground rules for environmental assessment has been changed.

Governments say the new regime is more efficient, predictable and transparent. Aboriginals say it violates their rights and ignores their recommendations.

So as aboriginal groups in British Columbia prepare for an expected attack on the Northern Gateway pipeline proposal, Alberta aboriginals are pushing back with a long list of lawsuits either now or soon to be before the courts.

The Fort McKay First Nation is appealing an approval of Brion Energy’s plans for a 50,000-barrel-a-day operation northwest of Fort McMurray. It says the province has violated the constitution by setting up an energy regulator expressly forbidden to hear arguments based on aboriginal rights.

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variety of areas and will continue to do so,” said spokesman Kevin Zahara. “We will not speculate on possible legal challenges.”

A big part of the problem is simply the scale of development, said Nigel Bankes, professor of resource law at the University of Calgary.

“In the oilsands area, it’s really the intensity of the development,” he said.

“The treaties give the province the power to take up lands and the argument is there must be a limit to that. That can’t be an entitlement to take away all lands (to) which First Nations have historically exercised hunting rights.”

Those concerns grow as governments narrow who has the right to air concerns and what concerns they’re allowed to raise.

“I think that’s a fair characterization,” said Bankes, who said that process has been going on for years. “(There’s a) very narrow and stringent standing test and I think that does mean there’s a level of frustration out there.”

Not only are bands barred from raising aboriginal rights at regulatory hearings, two have recently been denied the right to even speak at ones concerning oilsands projects on their doorstep. Lawsuits happen when discussion fails, said Joe Jobin, chief operating officer of the Fort McKay First Nation.

“First Nations have always tried to work with the government on developing a policy that works for First Nations and for industry,” he said.

“The frustration is that the input is not being meaningfully considered. It’s almost like this attitude, ‘Well, if you don’t like it, take us to court.”’

The result is higher costs for everyone and uncertainty for industry, said Bankes. He added Alberta is increasingly resembling

lawsuit-happy British Columbia, which has few treaties.

“What we’re seeing now is the same sort of litigation that we’ve been seeing in B.C. for a long time. This is now being transplanted to the treaty context of Alberta.

“Government has said to itself, ‘Things are clearer here, there’s more security precisely because we’ve got treaties.’ I guess what the litigation that we’re seeing now is calling into question is, is that really true?”

Innes said Alberta bands that have traditionally preferred to negotiate are increasingly through with talking.

“First Nations who have been investing in the process find the process is stacked against them,” he said.

“Things are coming to a head.”

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Alberta’s opposition Wildrose party embraces centrism, activism in 2013 Dean Bennett

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“We’ve go two more years (before the 2016 election) to EDMONTON demonstrate our credibility not rom Team Angry to only as an opposition but also as Team Advocate, Alberta’s a government in waiting, but I’m very pleased with the progress.” opposition Wildrose party In 2013, Smith’s 17-member enters 2014 with scars from caucus moved beyond its focus some painful soul searchon balanced budgets and government ethics scandals to more ing in 2013, but also armed community involvement and to with a new centrist, activist highlighting problems with dayplatform. to-day government policy.

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This fall, the Wildrose fought for the family of Violet MacDonald, a senior who was ignored in a Calgary senior’s care home to the point her bedsores poisoned her bloodstream and decayed her flesh, bringing on complications that ultimately led to her death.

Health Minister Fred Horne said he was appalled by the case and is now reviewing the contract for the care facility.

“I look at our role as the opposition as being an advocate,” said Smith.

“If we feel that we can, by shining a light on a particular issue, solve a policy problem that can benefit hundreds if not thousands of people, then we think that we’ve really done our job.”

The caucus has focused more on doing more, including setting up a foundation to fund various charitable causes. All the caucus members are looking to give back at the community level, participating in events like AIDS walks.

At Christmas, they decided to not give gifts to each other at the office party but instead donate

them to a home for women fleeing domestic abuse.

There were changes at the party level, too.

At the party’s fall policy convention, they eradicated policy planks blamed for the election loss in 2012.

They formally embraced the science of climate change as a real problem that needs to be addressed.

In the last election – and even up to the days prior to the fall convention – Smith said the science was not settled, allowing Premier Alison Redford’s Tories to gleefully portray a theoretical Smith government as a bunch of embarrassing, science-denying hillbillies.

The Wildrose cause was also decimated in 2012 by racist and homophobic comments from two candidates. When Smith refused to turf the candidates she was cast as an apologist for intolerance.

But at the fall 2013 convention, the party had reiterated its support for all minority rights, and adopted stricter rules on candidates to make sure they’re picked earlier and screened closer.

Redford’s team reacted in 2013 as it did in 2012, by con-

tinuing to depict the Wildrose as marginal, angry extremists. On Twitter, Redford’s communications staff mockingly refers to them as Team Angry.

Smith said her team has moved on.

“Last year when people were just getting used to having a feisty opposition, I had some people say, ‘You’re really tough on the government (but) it seems like you’re criticizing a lot,”’ she said.

“But now people are saying, ‘We’re glad you’re there.’

“That is important, that people see things aren’t being run all that great by a party that’s been in power for 42 years and should know better.”

Smith said they won’t get away from fighting for sound finances, but not as end in itself.

“You can have a fiscally conservative agenda so that you can balance the budget, but you can do so in a way that continues to preserve programs for the most vulnerable,” she said.

“Making sure we’re doing it in a way that’s compassionate and preserves those programs is absolutely what people want to see in a party that wants to be government.”

Dissolution of the Yukon Power and Sail Squadron Association

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'.

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Yukon Power and Sail Squadron Box 31044, Whitehorse, Yukon, Y1A 5P7 http://www.ypss.ca/ December 18, 2013 Dear YPSS Member Re: Dissolution of YPSS, the Yukon Power and Sail Squadron Association This letter is to briefly advise Yukon members of the Canadian Power and Sail Squadron (CPS) on the current status of the Yukon Power and Sail Squadron (YPSS) and advise of the date of the meeting to: 1. Distribute any assets of the Association 2. Dissolve YPSS. Location: Royal Canadian Legion, 504 Steele St., upstairs Date: Wed, Jan 15, 2014 Time: 6:00 p.m.

Over the last few months, the Commander of YPSS, Scott Widmeyer has had discussions with the CPS executive. Much to the surprise of the YPSS executive, CPS advised that although YPSS has functioned as a squadron of CPS, it ceased to exist as a squadron under the CPS organization in August 1995 when the Yukon Squadron became a non-profit society under the Yukon Societies Act. Further, as long as YPSS exists as a Yukon society, the Yukon organization cannot be a squadron within the CPS organization.

The executive of YPSS is recommending winding up the affairs of YPSS as a society. This may make it possible to establish a Yukon squadron of CPS. Assets of the YPSS will be donated to a Yukon society according to the Societies Act and Regulations.

It is hoped that some assets will be available in the national organization of CPS to establish a new Yukon squadron of CPS. At this time, none of the current or past executive members of the YPSS plan to establish a Yukon squadron. If any CPS members or Yukon boaters are interested in establishing a Yukon squadron of CPS, the current executive members will provide background information and contacts for this purpose.

CPS headquarters in Scarborough, Ontario will continue to administer to the needs of existing Yukon CPS members and you can renew memberships at http://www.cps-ecp.ca.

On behalf of the current and past executive and other members who volunteered to offer CPS courses, certification and boating events, we would like to thank all Yukon boaters who participated in YPSS activities.

Sincerely, Scott Widmeyer.

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Greenpeace activist says ordeal was worth it Benjamin Shingler The Canadian Press

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In fact, the 35-year-old Montrealer doesn’t hesitate when asked whether he would do it again.

“Give me two weeks vacation and I’d go back out there (on another boat),” Paul said in an interview Friday at Montreal’s Pierre Elliott Trudeau airport, shortly after arriving home.

Paul said the whole ordeal helped raise awareness about climate change and the effects of Arctic drilling.

The career activist, who worked on Greenpeace boats several times in the past, was among those arrested during a September protest against a Russian state-owned offshore drilling platform in the Arctic.

The group included 28 Greenpeace members and two freelance journalists. They were originally charged with piracy after some of them tried to scale the platform.

Paul and the other activists had their cases closed this week under a recent amnesty passed by the Russian parliament.

On Friday, Paul was greeted at the airport by his teary-eyed mother, his father, a small group of friends, and a swarm of reporters.

“I’m really, really happy to be back home,” Paul said, flanked by his mother Nicole and father Raymond.

“It wasn’t the most joyous experience, I can tell you that.

But every moment I spent behind bars was worth it.”

Fellow Canadian Paul Ruzycki, of Port Colborne, Ont., also arrived home on Friday, Greenpeace Canada said in a release.

Ruzycki declined interview requests, but said through Greenpeace that he’s “very happy to be back home in Canada.”

“I’ll be taking some private time now to be with my family

and friends … and have that Christmas turkey dinner I missed,” Greenpeace quoted Ruzycki as saying.

Paul recalled the arrest as “a scary moment, something really out of an action movie,” with Russian authorities rappelling onto their ship from Graham Hughes/CP a hovering helicopter. They Greenpeace activist Alexandre Paul gestures during a press conference at Montreal Airport forced him and other Greenon Dec. 27, as his parents Nicole and Raymond look on. Paul was among 30 members of peace members to their knees Greenpeace arrested at a September protest outside a Russian oil rig in the Arctic. at gunpoint, he said.

Paul originally set out on a Greenpeace boat in mid-July and expected to be home by early autumn, only to end up spending two months in jail.

When Paul realized the piracy charges could carry a 15-year sentence, panic set in, he said.

“I realized my parents might not be around for that length of time,” he told a news conference at the airport.

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Paul told the news conferSUPERSTORE ence he appreciated the support he received during his experience and said he was treated well in jail.

He thanked Canadian consular officials for helping him keep in touch with his family as well as bringing him books.

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Asked what he thought B nd about Canada’s intervention in helping him return home, Paul Our old office is closed on Wednesday, January 15, 2014; replied: “What intervention? however, our inspectors are available to carry out That’s my question. inspections all day as usual.

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NAFTA at 20, a qualified success but some say deal is showing its age Julian Beltrame The Canadian Press

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fter two decades, the age lines are starting to show on the NAFTA trade deal that at one time made Canada, the United States and Mexico the globe’s biggest and most affluent economic zone.

As the North American Free Trade Agreement celebrates its 20th anniversary of implementation Jan. 1, only a few voices would begrudge the pact’s birthday congratulations.

Its accomplishments are often quoted.

Among the three countries, gross national product has ballooned, although Mexico appears to have gained the most traction. Trade flows have more than tripled – even accounting for the temporary retreat during and immediately following the deep 2008-09 recession.

No one is saying NAFTA was responsible for all this, but no one can argue that it led to disaster either.

Canadian Trade Minister Ed Fast, who has little patience for free-trade doomsayers, suggests that if there is a problem with NAFTA it is that it was a “20th century free trade agreement,” rather than a 21st century deal, like the one that Canada signed with the European Union in October.

By that, Fast means it didn’t include sub-national procurement, intellectual-property protection, regulatory co-operation, labour-mobility clauses and some other “innovations.”

Still, it was at the time a model for the world.

“There were fear mongers back 25 years ago (when Canada signed NAFTA’s precursor with the U.S.). They claimed we were going to lose our sovereignty over fresh water, we

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People shop at a local Costco in Mexico City. It’s hard to remember the country before the North American Free Trade Agreement, which went into effect 20 years ago on Jan. 1.

would lose our health-care system, our culture, we were going to hollow out our economy and lose millions of jobs, it went on and on and on, and none of that came to pass,” says Fast.

“History has shown us that freer and more open trade has been a boon to Canada’s economy and a boon to Canada’s long-term prosperity.”

The minister is right in referring to the big daddy of trade deals, the Canada-U.S. agreement, as the cause of much angst back in 1987. Mostly, NAFTA grafted Mexico onto

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the hard-fought bilateral pact.

And 20 years later, it’s still the Canada-U.S. economic partnership that dominates.

Bank of Montreal chief economist Doug Porter says Ottawa lobbied to create a NAFTA mostly as a defensive manoeuvre after it was clear the U.S. and Mexico would seek their own pact, which geographically would have put the U.S. in the cat-bird seat.

“In some ways we had no choice. Otherwise we really would have had a hub-andspoke situation where the

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United States would have had a free-trade deal with both of us and we couldn’t have benefited that much from each other,” he said.

For many analysts, the arguments about free-trade deals are not whether they are good or bad, but whether the world had to go in that direction.

Free trade didn’t just pop into a policy wonk’s mind out of the blue. The march of history was leading the world to freer trade and a globalized economy, despite critics.

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revolutionized factories, the advent of mass communications, and innovations in transportation that made moving products around the world faster and cheaper all pointed in one direction. Closed economies sheltered behind high tariffs and non-tariff barriers were going to lose the long game.

Not everyone sees it that way.

Leading labour economist Jim Stanford of Unifor says a more targeted approach – such as sectoral arrangements with defined conditions, including the Canada-U.S. Auto Pact – would have brought larger benefits and without the disruptions that free-trade pacts tend to cause.

“Canada can and should be a big player in the world, we should not be insular, but FTAs are not the only way to do that,” Stanford says.

“We should be developing strategies for world-beating industries, but FTAs limit governments’ ability to do so and hence are actually inhibiting Canada and relegating us to secondary status in the world.”

That’s not the majority view, and the argument may be moot because we will never know if

Stanford’s approach would have worked, or whether Canada could have found willing partners.

The numbers suggest NAFTA has boosted economic output overall, expanded bilateral trade, and transformed industries. In the case of Mexico, the transformation was virtually economy-wide.

For Canada, manufacturing has been in a free fall, but it’s not obvious that NAFTA was mostly responsible. Advanced nations are losing manufacturing jobs throughout the world – FTAs or no – in part because with modern processes and robotics, fewer people are needed to produce more goods, whether electronics or cars.

“Most of the impact on the loss of jobs has come from technology, not from trade,” says Stephen Blank, a New York-based expert on North American integration who has served as a visiting professor in several Canadian universities, most recently at the University of Ottawa.

“People feel like it must be trade, but everybody’s lost bluecollar jobs, nobody has gained jobs. Canada would be a hell of lot worse without NAFTA.” Trade specialist Angeles Villarreal of the U.S. Congressional Research Service says it is difficult to tally up the gains and losses from free-trade deals.

That’s because the losers tend to be localized and highly visible – a plant shuts in a town and the effect is devastating – while the benefits from lower prices and productivity improvements tend to be more incremental and widespread.

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Friday, January 3, 2014 Given the integration of manufacturing that has come about since NAFTA, says Blank, it may not even be appropriate to talk about trade between Canada, U.S. and Mexico any more. We don’t trade with each other, he says; we make things together.

One study on the subject finds that Canadian exports to America contain 25 per cent inputs from the U.S., so only 75 per cent are truly Canadian made, or at least of non-U.S. content. Mexico has 40 per cent U.S. inputs.

For Blank, the only question is where do the three amigos, as they were once called, go from here?

Geography dictates that the Canada-U.S.-Mexico axis will always trump all others, regardless how many deals the three sign with Europe or Asia.

But Blank and some others believe the three partners should be thinking more strategically, as North Americans rather than as three distinct countries.

For instance, he asks, did it make sense for Canada to sign a free-trade deal with Europe, when the U.S. will soon follow with its own, then Mexico?

Why wasn’t a North AmericaEuropean Union agreement attempted? Why isn’t there a North American Chamber of Commerce, or a continental strategy on climate change?

The examples of where co-operation makes sense are endless, he says.

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He acknowledges that the appetite for such an approach is limited in the U.S., where trade with Mexico remains a controversial subject. But without thinking about those issues, NAFTA will continue to lose its

special place in the continental reality, he says.

Fast largely dismisses such talk, but adds that NAFTA is being updated indirectly through the negotiations at the Trans-Pacific Partnership table, where all three countries are participating.

NAFTA may be showing its age, but it is still delivering for Canada, he says. Even under the new arrangement with Europe,

NAFTA puts Canada in the favoured position of being the only country with access to the world’s two richest markets.

“We are fortunate because we have had two-and-a-half decades of experience with free and open trade, and certainly NAFTA put us on the world stage,” he says.

“If we do it right Canada will fare very well (under free trade).”

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to create a sense of privacy,” he said.

Online users, especially younger ones, will move to more obscure or niche social media sites, believing they will have better privacy.

“Security by obscurity, in this particular case, by using not as popular or non-popular social media sites is just not going to do it,” Haley said.

People will also try to create false identities that only their circle of friends will know, he added.

Raj Samani of McAfee Inc. said online users need to understand their “digital tattoo.”

“When they put something or post something online, it’s there for life,” said Samani, vicepresident and chief technology officer for McAfee in Europe, Middle East and Africa.

Samani notes that in some cases parents are signing up their children for social media sites when they’re actually underage. Facebook users must be at least 13 years old.

“Parents in many cases are enabling children to be on the Internet without any safeguards at all,” he said from London.

Both Symantec and McAfee said they expect to see more threats from mobile apps for smartphones next year and consumers should be aware of what they could be consenting to – such as having data and locations collected and sold – when they download an app.

Some apps have a list of permissions that must be agreed to before they can be installed – and they can sometimes open the door to malware attacks.

Samani said in some cases a user’s camera or microphone can be taken control of by a third party.

Added Haley: “People download apps or do things on a phone that they would probably never do on a PC.”

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response to a consumer inquiry or as a result of a referral may also be allowed.

And the law won’t change the way charities OTTAWA are currently allowed to reach out to potential t will be another six months before Candonors.

But the law will ban the most deceptive forms ada’s new anti-spam law begins to come of spam, such as identity theft, phishing and into force, following its passage three years spyware, says Moore. ago.

The Public Interest Advocacy Centre says the legislation will “mark a new era in consumers’ Industry Minister James Moore says most of and citizens’ use of the Internet to communicate Bill C-28 will be the law of the land as of July 1, with businesses.”

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“Consumers and Experts say the citizens will now be delay in enacting the better able to decide law was the result of for themselves whethintense lobbying by er and how they will industry players, who engage with compatried to generate fear nies using electronic and uncertainty about means for commerits effects. cial messages,” said The law provides the centre’s executive tough new penalties director John Lawand sets out some agford. gressive standards for The government how companies can estimates that Interuse people’s personal net spam costs the information for marCanadian economy more than $3 billion annuketing purposes.

Law professor Michael Geist advocated for an ally.

Australia, Britain and the United States have anti-spam law nearly a decade ago. for years had strong laws on the books to combat Geist, who holds the Canada Research Chair online threats. in Internet and E-commerce Law at the UniverCanada’s law faces a mandatory review in sity of Ottawa, says the law is long overdue. three years.

“It’s rather incredible to think how long this Under the legislation, consumers will control process has taken,” he said in an interview.

“Canada has lagged badly behind other coun- who can send them a commercial electronic message or business email. tries when it comes to addressing some of these Even after being given consent, companies issues,” he said.

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LIFE Making do at the Salvation Army

Roxanne Livingstone

There’s a new volunteer today, maybe doing community service as part of her probation. A stronger kitchen helper is hauling here’s an aroma of potatoes up the staircase from shepherd’s pie waftone of the basement fridges. We ing from the Salvaconstantly go up and down those tion Army kitchen as I enter stairs to get produce or to use the oven to bake for more than the old building for my shift extra 100 people per lunch. one morning last month. I Salvation Army Captain Shannon Howard assures me that a chop veggies here. solution to this inefficient layout Men and women in layers of is in the works. clothing are already huddled at “Our dream is to have a new the plastic dining room tables, building,” she said. The Sally Ann trying to warm up with a coffee has partnered with the Yukon in their hands. A few look up government to study the creation and say hello – if they have the of a new building. “It would have energy. Others just blink. a new kitchen and flex rooms I hurriedly hang up my coat in to offer life skills programs, so the overflowing closet that’s in a that we’re more than a Band-Aid corridor between the kitchen and solution,” she said. “It would even prep cook area. It only takes one have transitional housing.” person standing there to block That dream is a few years the entire flow of traffic between away, so right now I ask my cothe two work areas. worker to step out of the work Luke Caithcart, the gentle area so I can squeeze past him to cook, smiles and says good my corner where I chop celery morning over the blare of the and carrots. My back is cold radio pop tunes. He’s a tall, slim, because there’s a draft from a bashful man who doesn’t give hole above the air conditioner in orders – he simply asks us if we’d the wall. The darned thing didn’t like to do a certain task, as if it’s a keep me cool in the sweltering favour to him. It makes me want heat of summer and I’m mad at myself for not stuffing insulation to do more.

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around it before the north winds blew in.

Trader Time is on the radio now. The guys crank up the volume, as always. It’s affordable shopping. I hungrily eye trays of lime pies. Someone must have given us a box of limes.

“Half of our food is donated,” Howard says. “We estimate $6,800 per month in donated food and we spend another $6,250. So our cook can’t plan in advance because we never know what’s coming in. He really has to keep on his toes every day and is fantastic at stretching the dollar. We even accept wild meat from the public if it is done by a butcher. We must pick it up directly from the butcher, by law.”

That explains the bison sausage we’ve been using lately on the pizzas. I wash lettuce for caesar salad and am thrilled to see a new industrial-size salad spinner. I can barely wrap my arms around this big bucket and I only have to fill it twice to spin the lettuce dry. Like everything else here, the old spinner was just a household utensil. I used to fill and spin a dozen times or more to do the job.

“We do the most we can with the little we have,” says Howard.

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Luke Caithcart prepares a spaghetti lunch for 80 at the Salvation Army shelter in Whitehorse. Caithcart has been cooking at the shelter for five years.

“We are very good at taking whatever we’ve got and making it work. You know, we serve 4,500 meals a month.”

As we’re dicing, slicing, stirring and hauling food, I hear someone in the cafeteria yell for Caithcart. He’s deeply loved here.

This cook is more of a listener than a talker, and I’ve never seen him angry despite frequent chaos. Now a client wants to speak only to Caithcart. He sets down his whisk, goes into the dining area and stands patiently listening, as if he doesn’t have urgent tasks at the stove.

I think this lady was here overnight. Howard says this is home for many people. “As well as the kitchen we also have 14 beds and 16 mats. At night the tables in the dining room get moved and then we lay down mats for people to sleep. Some of our clients want to volunteer and we accept any help they offer. They will take it upon themselves to mop the place – it provides them dignity to know they can help out and

it gives them some ownership of the shelter.”

As my shift nears the end, it’s time for me to cut the lime pies into serving sizes and put them in bowls. It’s a hunt to find what I need for this job because everything is stacked three deep on the shelves. I’m starved by now from the mileage I’ve covered just getting stuff so I toss a slice of pie into my mouth, then use bowls to serve the other kitchen helpers.

The radio is playing a hit tune from Blue Rodeo as I bundle up to leave and Caithcart thanks me for my help. The lyrics ring in my ears as I emerge onto the worn wooden Salvation Army porch where a few guys stand silently having a smoke, watching the 4th Avenue traffic roll by: “Hey, hey, I guess it hasn’t hit me yet. / I fell through this crack and kinda lost my head. / I stand transfixed before the street light / Watching the snow fall on this cold December night.”

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step forward.” Few studies have focused on how cats became domesticated, in contrast to dogs, pigs and sheep, he said.

In fact, it was the cat’s appetite that started it down the path to domestication, scientists believe. The grain stored by ancient farmers was a magnet for rodents. And that drew wild cats into villages to hunt the little critters. Over time, wild cats adapted to village life and became tamer around their human hosts.

That’s the leading theory, anyway, for how wild cats long ago were transformed and became ancestors of today’s house cats. That happened in the Middle East, rather than China. But bones from the Chinese village back up the idea that felines took on the pestcontrol job in ancient times, says researcher Fiona Marshall of Washington University in St. Louis.

Marshall is an author of a report on the fossil research, published online Monday by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences The study, focused on an agricultural village in northern China, comes from a poorly understood time in the history of cats. The first evidence of domesticated cats comes much later, in Egyptian artwork from about 4,000 years ago.

So what went on in that village?

Researchers found signs that rodents were threatening the village grain supply. Storage Wild cats may have agreed to become domesticated more vessels were designed to keep them out, and rodents had bur- than 5,000 years ago. rowed into a grain-storage pit.

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It’s very possible the images of numerous other Canadians TORONTO were also swept up in 2012 as part hen a photo of the late Reh- of a digital art project hosted at taeh Parsons was used for Lovely-Faces.com. a dating website’s advertisement The website was designed to on Facebook last year, the callous look like an online dating service misappropriation of her image and included fake profiles based shocked those who saw it. on images and data taken from It should’ve also been seen as a one million Facebook users who warning, say privacy experts. had their privacy preferences set Having a photo stolen and reto public. posted elsewhere online could just The partners behind the as easily happen to any of the mil- project, Paolo Cirio and Aleslions of Canadians who regularly sandro Ludovico, say it was easily post images to the web without a put together because of a process second thought. called data scraping. They wrote “Many of us are sharing images a simple program that automated without considering how others the collection of Facebook data may use them or how we may lose that was publicly available to anycontrol,” says Marian Merritt, the one and everyone.

Internet safety advocate for secur“Facebook tries to expose as ity software maker Norton. much as it can, they want search Last September, ads for the engines indexing that personal now defunct Ionechat.com information (that isn’t marked featured photos of Parsons with private),” says Cirio. the text, “Find Love in Canada!

“And because of that it was Meet Canadian girls and women pretty easy to harvest that data.” for friendship, dating or relationThe website has since been ships.” taken down and Cirio says any It had been several months users who found their photos since the much publicized death or data on the site were able to of the Nova Scotia teen in April request that it be removed. following a suicide attempt. Her He says the project wasn’t parents said she was the victim of meant to be nefarious and was an alleged sexual assault when she designed as a social commentary was 15, and then bullied about it on the dangers of posting private information online. for more than a year.

“People are not educated and The online backlash over do not know the danger about the misuse of Parsons’s image publishing their private data, prompted the company and especially to a company’s platform Facebook to apologize and pull The Canadian Press

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Yukon Permanent Art Collection CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

The Government of Yukon and the Friends of the Gallery invite artists from all Yukon communities to apply. Artwork should be suitable for display in public buildings.

Submission deadline: February 17, 2014 For submission forms and information: www.tc.gov.yk.ca phone 667-5858 toll-free 1-800-661-0408, extension 5858 garnet.muething@gov.yk.ca Above: The Box of Light by Ken Anderson, from the Yukon Permanent Art Collection

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Rehtaeh Parsons is shown in a handout photo from the Facebook tribute page “Angel Rehtaeh.” When a photo of the late Rehtaeh Parsons was used for a dating website’s advertisement on Facebook last year, the callous misappropriation of her image shocked those who saw it. It should’ve also been seen as a warning, say privacy experts.

that makes money and has an aim to expose their personal data to generate more traffic and make more money.”

Merritt says even experts find themselves making mistakes online that lead to privacy lapses.

And sometimes once the mistake is made, it can’t be undone.

Merritt ran into the band Arctic Monkeys while on a vacation with her daughter, who was able to pose for a photo with the rock group.

“We posted it on a social network, which is what you do.

And one of her friends was really excited, tagged it with the band, and posted it to their fan page,” says Merritt.

“It has subsequently ended up on other social media sites many thousands of times, so we have completely lost control of my daughter’s image, and there’s not much we can do about it. And it’s kind of our own fault.”

Luckily, there was nothing embarrassing about the photo, otherwise it could’ve been much

worse.

“You’ve heard the stories where kids have an unfortunate or embarrassing image, and adults too, and it becomes an Internet meme where people make changes to it (and make fun of it),” Merritt says.

There’s even a chance that a photo uploaded to a social network could potentially be used in a way you didn’t originally intend by the platform itself.

“You know from the enduser licences of popular social networks that they do retain the rights to do things with your images,” says Merritt.

For example, Facebook’s policy states: “for content that is covered by intellectual property rights, like photos and videos (IP content), you specifically give us the following permission, subject to your privacy and application settings: you grant us a non-exclusive, transferable, sub-licensable, royalty-free, worldwide license to use any IP content that you post on or in connection with Facebook (IP license).”

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As for the odds of users finding that their photo has been stolen and used in an advertisement on Facebook, manager of privacy and safety Nicky Jackson Colaco says “statistically it’s very, very small.”

She advises that should it happen to a user, they should click on the Report button to have it resolved.

“If you believe that your copyright has been violated – either your photo or a photo that you took and someone is using that – if you report that to us we’re definitely going to take the appropriate action, so we want to hear about those cases and to make sure that we’re really responsive,” says Colaco. “(Parsons’s) case in particular was a very interesting case because it was a violation of our policies and it was also an advertiser not based in the U.S. or Canada, who had chosen that photo at random to use and it was just very, very unfortunate. We felt very badly that that happened but we were able to rectify that situation.”

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Oh say can you see others standing up?

by Judith Martin

MISS

MANNERS DEAR MISS MANNERS: When sitting in a sports bar during the Super Bowl at the time the singing of the national anthem is broadcast on TV, is it proper for the patrons to sit or stand? Or is either response proper?

GENTLE READER: If the rule of standing for the national anthem applied to recorded renditions, listening to the game on the radio while driving would be fatal.

However, Miss Manners would also like to prevent accidents in bars. She must therefore warn you about the Patriotic Police, who can be extremely belligerent about enforcing respect for the anthem and flag, even when they are not fully conversant with the rules. So if others get off their bar stools, and perhaps put their hands on their hearts, you may want to do so, too.

DEAR MISS MANNERS: How do I properly address someone

who cut the line in front of me?

GENTLE READER: As “Sir” or “Madam,” continuing with, “I believe that the end of the line is over there.”

Miss Manners doesn’t want to know what you were thinking of saying, but you will only incite worse behavior unless you give the breaker-in a dignified way to retreat.

DEAR MISS MANNERS: My husband feels it is poor manners to expect the family to help with the cleanup after a big holiday meal. They are all adults, and I have done all the cooking entirely by myself. They have never objected, but after more than 50 years, he has decided to make an issue of this.

GENTLE READER: Please tell him that Miss Manners congratulates him for sparing all his relatives, you above all, by volunteering — albeit belatedly — to do all the cleaning up alone.

Hand towels in the powder room are to be used, not admired DEAR MISS MANNERS: My husband and I are flummoxed.

In our powder room, we keep a pretty container with decorated paper hand towels on the vanity right next to the sink. There is also a towel ring on the wall with a towel that is there as a decora-

tion. (It’s embroidered and is partly satin, and to us it is obviously a show towel only.) Inevitably, some, if not most, guests will use the show towel rather than the paper hand towels.

Why do you think this is? We would think it’s obvious that if there are paper hand towels in a powder room, they are to be used, rather than a show towel hanging on a rack. We certainly use the paper towels at other people’s homes. Are we doing something wrong?

GENTLE READER: Yes: trying to show off with a hand towel.

Miss Manners has heard of show horses and show dogs, and she is aware that some people use expensive art or automobiles to show off. But to hang a towel as a showpiece is ridiculous, and to expect guests to understand that they are unworthy of drying their hands on it is insulting.

code for the 10 other guests — except for Joe and his wife. They brought the guacamole, but he was dressed as though he was going to bed. He had on what looked like pajama bottoms and a rather raggedy-looking sweatshirt from one of the competing teams. His wife was only a little more “formal” in another team sweatshirt and color-coordinated sweatpants.

Should someone have spoken to Joe beforehand about what clothes were appropriate, or should we talk with them now, after the fact? There was no willingness to say anything, just a few raised eyebrows.

GENTLE READER: Of course you should come to Miss Manners with this — who else acknowledges the symbolic importance of dress codes? (Nearly everyone notices them, as you know from those raised eyebrows, but even you feel sheepish about DEAR MISS MANNERS: My doing so.) wife says I shouldn’t bother you The people whom you should with this question. It might be less than important in the scheme not bother with this are Joe and his wife. Their mistake could have of social relations, but it’s been been an accident — who knows bugging me. what “casual” means? — but in We were invited (by teleany case, it would be rude to phone) to a Super Bowl watch chastise them for it. Besides, it party. Along with a snack item, wouldn’t accomplish anything. we showed up two hours before, Either they realized that they were dressed casually (me in a sport improperly dressed, in which case shirt and slacks, my wife in a you surely do not want to increase sweater and skirt).

That was pretty much the dress their embarrassment, or they

didn’t notice or don’t care.

DEAR MISS MANNERS: Granddaddy always took his hat off when going indoors. Is this still true?

GENTLE READER: You’ll have to check with Granddaddy. If he is a gentleman, Miss Manners trusts that he still does.

Red roses for a blue lady should appear only at home DEAR MISS MANNERS: I have been through a divorce and will be spending my first Valentine’s Day alone in quite some time. I have been thinking about ordering myself a few roses and having them sent to my work.

I was wondering if that would be crass of me, or is it OK? Could you please shed some light on the subject?

GENTLE READER: Perhaps you should shed some light on your motive. If it cheers you to have roses, by all means, buy yourself some. But the ploy of having them sent to the office, rather than just taking some there or to your home, makes Miss Manners suspect that your idea is to make your colleagues believe you have a new beau.

If that is the case, please don’t.

It is too pathetic, and will only invite questions that will oblige you to spin tales. In the end, that will make you feel worse.

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Church Of The Nazarene

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Sunday Church Services: 11 am & 7 pm eveRYoNe WeLCoMe

Our Lady of Victory (Roman Catholic)

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Saturday evening Mass: 7:30 p.m.

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

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

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

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Seventh Day Adventist Church

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

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Mondays 5:15 to 6:15 PM

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Church of the Northern Apostles

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

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Sacred Heart Cathedral

TAGISH Community Church

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The Church of Jesus Christ of

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

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1154c 1st Ave • Entrance from Strickland

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

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SPORTS AND

RECREATION

Skiers ‘hit’ the rails at Sima event Tom Patrick/Yukon News

Anna Smith competes in the Icebreaker Railjam at Mount Sima on Saturday.

Smith won the open female category.

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Under-15 winner Kyran Allen launches over the barrel.

Tom Patrick News Reporter

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tienne Geoffroy’s last two hits on the rails made the difference at the Icebreaker Railjam hosted by the Yukon Freestyle Ski Association on Saturday at Mount Sima.

The 16-year-old slid into the top spot of the open male division with a pretzel 270, a trick he doesn’t often pull off.

“I think the big trick was a 270 on and then a pretzel 270,” said Geoffroy. “I think that’s what did it for me. I landed it once in the park, and somehow it pulled through for me on the last couple of hits there.”

It was Geoffroy’s first time winning the open division at the fourth annual event.

Last year, he won the under-15 division and placed third in open behind Calahan Guidolin, who was third this year.

“I’m absolutely stoked. I’ve never had a cheque this big,” said Geoffroy, gesturing towards the oversized cheque that was part of his winnings. “I’m happy to start off the season like this.”

For the win Geoffroy defeated Yukon teammate and second-place finisher Josh Harlow, who won the open division last year and in 2010.

Former Yukon team skier Anna Smith, 19, won the open female division riding the tricky urban tube landing switch.

“I’m just really happy. It’s more fun than anything to see all the girls out, there’s more girls every year,” said Smith.

“Last year I went traveling so I didn’t really have a ski season. The season before that I hurt my knee, so I was out for a little bit too.”

Smith won four medals at the Arctic Winter Games and a silver and bronze at the B.C. Freestyle Championships in 2010.

Jacob Finton won under-12 with a clean ride down the challenging urban rail.

Kyran Allen took the under-15 division with a 270 on and a 270 off switch.

Steven Harlow topped the masters division with a 270 onto the urban rail.

Last season was a big one for the Yukon Freestyle Ski Association. Josh Harlow captured Yukon’s first-ever national medal with a bronze at the Canadian Junior Freestyle Ski Championships in March. Geoffroy placed seventh in the slopestyle for M3 (ages 14-15) at the nationals.

This year’s Icebreaker Railjam did not include snowboard divisions.

Top-three results

Under-12 1st Jacob Finton 2nd Cole Beaman 3rd Brodie Ferland

Under-15 1st Kyran Allen 2nd Niko Rodden 3rd Argus Huggard Female 1st Anna Smith 2nd Lyndsey Boorse 3rd Sara Burke-Forsyth Masters 1st Steven Harlow 2nd Sam Schirmer 3rd Lynn McDiarmid Open 1st Etienne Geoffroy 2nd Josh Harlow 3rd Calahan Guidolin

Contact Tom Patrick at tomp@yukon-news.com

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Steven Harlow hits the rail on his way to first in the masters division.

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Arctics ski team takes shape with Sumanik races Tom Patrick News Reporter

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he cross-country ski team that will race for Yukon at the Arctic Winter Games this March is beginning to take form.

Invites for team positions have been extended to 11 females and eight males following the Don Sumanik Memorial Races Dec. 21 and 22 at the Whitehorse Nordic Centre.

Now it’s decision-making time. The 19 skiers who received invites will soon decide between competing at the Arctic Winter Games in Fairbanks, Alaska, and the Haywood Ski Nationals taking place the same week in Newfoundland.

“It’s looking pretty good,” said Cross Country Yukon head coach Alain Masson. “It’s a young team. It’s not finalized because some of the older athletes who can qualify nationals will have to make the decision whether to go to the Arctic Games or the national championships, which are unfortunately the same week.

“They probably won’t decide until early February because they have the chance to qualify for nationals early February.”

Savannah Cash, Regan Fuerstner, Amanda Thomson, Hannah Jirousek, Natalie Hynes, Hannah Deuling, Hannah Shier, Alexis Gee, Cambria Fuerstner, Solstice Toews and Zoe Painter have been selected for the females after the classic mass start races on Dec. 21 and free races on Dec. 22.

Liam Mather, Nichollis Schmidt, Adam Hynes, Simon Cash, Michael Kishchuck, Leif Blake, Mac Prawdzik and Andrew Seal were selected for the males.

Dagmar Janzen, Mary Landero and Mira Mason were named alternates.

Of those selected, Natalie

Tom Patrick/Yukon News

Skiers leave the start during the Don Sumanik Memorial Race on December 21. The Sumanik races doubled as the Arctic Winter Games trials.

Hynes, Cambria Fuerstner, Simon Cash, Gee, Painter, Kishchuck and Seal competed at the 2012 Arctic Games in Whitehorse.

Coaches for the Arctic Games are Véronique Thériault, Nathalie Dugas and Perry Hynes.

Masson will be with the Yukon team at the Haywood Nationals.

Skiers Etienne Richard and Annah Hanthorn were awarded the Sumanik Trophy for the fastest times over both days at the races.

3rd Leif Blake

Top-three results for Dec. 21

Junior female (5km) 1st Annah Hanthorn 2nd Katie Peters

Midget boys (2.5km) 1st Judah Hanthorn 2nd Liam Mather 3rd Nichollis Schmidt

Midget girls (2.5km) 1st Amanda Thomson 2nd Savannah Cash 3rd Regan Fuerstner Juvenile boys (7.5km) 1st Simon Cash 2nd Michael Kishchuk

Juvenile girls (5km) 1st Hannah Shier 2nd Hannah Deuling 3rd Natalie Hynes Junior boys (7.5km) 1st Caelan McLean 2nd Marcus Deuling 3rd Hudson Lucier Junior girls (5km) 1st Zoe Painter 2nd Ruth Hanthorn 3rd Cambria Fuerstner

Open men (7.5km) 1st Etienne Richard 2nd Colin Abbott 3rd Nansen Murray Open women (5km) 1st Sarah Murray

Top-three results for Dec. 22 Atom boys (1km)

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Simon Cash, left, and Nansen Murray sprint to the finish.

1st Felix Masson 2nd Daniel Phillips-Freedman Atom girls (1km) 1st Abigail Jirousek 2nd Sophia Giandrande Peewee boys (2km) 1st Mettias Schmidt 2nd Curtis Cash 3rd Oscar Setterington Peewee girls (2km) 1st Kate Mason

Juvenile girls (5km) 1st Natalie Hynes 2nd Hannah Deuling 3rd Mira Mason Junior boys (7.5km) 1st Marcus Deuling 2nd Caelan McLean 3rd Hudson Lucier Junior girls (5km) 1st Cambria Fuerstner 2nd Solstice Toews 3rd Zoe Painter

Midget boys (2.5km) 1st Nichollis Schmidt 2nd Sasha Masson 3rd Sam Mather

Junior female (5km) 1st Annah Hanthorn 2nd Adrienne Hynes

Midget girls (2.5km) 1st Regan Fuerstner 2nd Savannah Cash 3rd Hannah Jirousek

Open men (7.5km) 1st Etienne Richard 2nd Colin Abbott 3rd David Greer

Juvenile boys (7.5km) 1st Simon Cash 2nd Michael Kishchuk 3rd Leif Blake

Open women (5km) 1st Sarah Murray Contact Tom Patrick at vtomp@yukon-news.com

Team Koltun sweeps up eighth junior curling title Tom Patrick News Reporter

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in or lose, Whitehorse curler Sarah Koltun is going into the record books this month.

Team Koltun won their eighth consecutive girls title at the Yukon Junior Curling Championships held at the Whitehorse Curling Club on Dec. 21.

The win will send the skip to her eighth Canadian Junior Curling Championships later this month, a record for the national event. It will be the final appearance at the junior nationals for Koltun, who will ageout after this season.

Her team placed fourth at last year’s junior nationals.

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“It’s really exciting because no one else has been able to attend this many junior national events,” said Koltun. “It’s weird that it’s become the last shot because it’s become a normal part of my life. Every year we playdown and we’ve made it to junior nationals.

“It’s weird that it’s my last shot, but hopefully we’ll be able to take advantage of the opportunity, play really strong and go out with a bang.”

Koltun and former junior teammate Chelsea Duncan, who agedout at the end of last season, set the current record of seven appearances at the junior nationals last year.

The Koltun rink, which includes third Patty Wallingham, second

Jenna Duncan and lead Andrea Sinclair, defeated Team Horte 8-2 and 8-6 in the best-of-three playdown at the Yukon championship.

“I think we played pretty well. In the second game I was struggling for a while and the other team was able to come back a bit,” said Koltun.

“My teammates were able to keep us in the game and were shooting well and gave us a better chance at holding on for that win.”

Tied 6-6, Koltun scored two in the ninth end to win in the decisive game against Team Horte, which consists of skip Bailey Horte, third Kelsey Meger, second Kelly Mahoney and lead Sian Molloy.

“They played really well and they’re really happy with how they played,” said Team Horte coach Rhonda Horte. “Obviously there were a couple shots had they made it would have turned the tables, but overall they played really well.

“Bailey’s team has played together for many years, it’s just age that makes a difference. Sarah’s team has more experience.”

Koltun is currently competing with her women’s rink in Yellowknife, N.W.T. for a shot at the Scotties Tournament of Hearts – the Canadian women’s championship.

Her women’s rink includes Chelsea Duncan as third, Wallingham as second and Sinclair as lead.

horse, will exchange Sian Molloy, who is to old for the Games, for Meger’s little sister Alyssa.

On Team Wallingham, Will Klassen, Brayden’s little brother who played for Team Nerysoo at the Yukon championships, will likely take the spot of Wallace at the Games.

Wallace was on the gold-winning Yukon boys rink at the 2012 Games.

The Arctic Winter Games will take place in Fairbanks, Alaska, March 15-22. Canadian Junior Curl-

Wallingham wins in junior boys

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Team Koltun skip Sarah Koltun calls out to her sweepers at the Yukon Junior Curling Championships on December 21 in Whitehorse. Koltun will represent Yukon for the eighth time at the junior nationals this month.

Whitehorse’s Joe Wallingham and Spencer Wallace have punched their ticket for their second junior nationals.

Team Wallingham secured Yukon’s junior boys title with 12-2 and 9-4 wins over Team Nerysoo in the boys draw.

It will be Wallingham’s first trip to nationals as skip.

“It’s definitely a lot different because last year we had Mitch (Young) and Will (Mahoney) with their experience and they helped us along really well,” said Wallingham.

“It is a little more pressure but it’s going to be fun.”

The Wallingham crew, which includes third Brayden Klassen, Wallace as second and lead Trygg Jensen, overcame a 3-0 deficit in the second game against Nerysoo for the title.

“My team really came out to play,” said Wallingham. “We played really well together, gelled as a group. We prepared well and played well.”

“The first game was probably the best game we’ve played all year,” said Wallingham coach Kevin Patterson.

“They all came together and focused on the task at hand and knew what their goal was and succeeded in it.”

On board Team Nerysoo were skip Eric Bailey Muir-Cressman, with Chris Nerysoo at third, Karn Seaman as second and Will Klassen throwing lead.

Horte, Wallingham set for Arctic Games

Tom Patrick/Yukon News

Skip Joe Wallingham lines up a shot. The Wallingham rink will compete for Yukon at the junior nationals.

The pressure of the Yukon junior championships was good preparation for the Wallingham and Horte rinks, who will represent Yukon at the Arctic Winter Games this March in Fairbanks, Alaska.

However, both rinks will likely have changes in the rosters.

Team Horte, who won silver at the 2012 Arctic Games in White-

ing Championships will be hosted

by Liverpool, Nova Scotia, January 18-26.

“I think they’ll have a pretty good shot at it,” said Koltun of Team Horte. “They did well last time they went to Arctics and their team has been coming together pretty well.

Every year they come to the playdowns and put up a strong fight.

“We wish them the best.”

Contact Tom Patrick at tomp@yukon-news.com

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No junior nationals for Scoffin this year Tom Patrick News Reporter

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or the first time in eight years, Thomas Scoffin will not compete at the Canadian Junior Curling Championships.

The Whitehorse skip and his University of Alberta rink failed to qualify for the nationals following a loss in the finals of the Alberta Junior Curling Championships on Monday in Leduc.

“It’s a tough one. It’s what we worked all year for,” said Scoffin. “We put a lot of hours in, we were a good team going in, so it’s a tough one to swallow.”

Team Scoffin, who were the defending Alberta junior champs, lost 7-4 in an extra end in the final to Carter Lautner’s Calgary rink, which will move on to the nationals.

“He made a nice short four-foot run-back for the win,” said Scoffin. “I made my last shot and gave him a tough shot and he made it.”

Scoffin, 19, took his team all the way to the finals of the junior nationals last year, taking home the silver. It was the 19-year-old’s seventh consecutive trip to the championships after representing Yukon in his first six.

Scoffin, who has one more year of eligibility in juniors, was named skip of the First Team All-Star with a 78-percent shot rate at last season’s nationals. He is currently tied for fourth on the all-time win list with 33 career wins at the Canadian championship.

The Scoffin rink, which includes third Dylan Gousseau, second Jaques Bellamy and lead Andrew O’Dell, took three straight wins to qualify for the provincials the Northern Alberta Curling Association’s Junior Men’s and Women’s Northern Playdowns last month.

Gousseau and O’Dell are aging out of junior next season, so Scoffin and Bellamy will be looking for replacements.

“It’s tough on us all to have the season cut short. We trained hard to go all the way this year so it’s disappointing,” said Scoffin. “We’ll keep working on our game and will come back strong next year.”

The Scoffin rink has had successes on the World Curling Tour this season. In November they reached the final of the Original 16 World Curling Tour Bonspiel at the Calgary Curling Club. Team Scoffin lost 3-2 to South Korea’s Chang-Min Kim in the final.

The team also reached the semifinal of the Spruce Grove Cashspiel and the Avonair Cash Spiel on the World Curling Tom Patrick/Yukon News Tour.

Whitehorse’s Thomas Scoffin and his University of Alberta team lost in the finals of the Alberta JuContact Tom Patrick at tomp@yukon-news.com nior Curling Championship in Leduc on Monday.

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tend our race and we’re happy the turnout was so great,” said Katherine Sheepway, who was he first scheduled Dog also hosting the event with husband Darryl.

Powered Sport AssoKatherine had another reason ciation of the Yukon race to be happy. The skijorer posted was postponed and later the fastest time of anyone on the 15-mile route – including the cancelled due to poor trail mushers – completing the jourconditions at the start of ney in one hour, seven minutes last month. and 45 seconds.

It would seem DPSAY made “I’m really happy with my up for it over the holidays. dogs because today I was runMushers and skijorers were ning one veteran and three of treated to a lengthy sprint race at our little puppies,” said Katherthe season-opening Yukon Brew- ine. “Three of them are only a ing Twister at Stardog Kennel in year and a half old, so I’m really Mount Lorne on Dec. 22. proud of how they did.”

The main races took place on Cynthia Corriveau placed a 15-mile trail, about twice as second for skijorers at 1:14:04 long as most DPSAY races. There and Virginia Sarrazin third at was also a two-mile forest trail 1:24:25. through the trees caked with Less than a minute behind snow for youth and pet divisions. Katherine was Luc Tweddell “We feel really honoured crossing the finish line at 1:08:22 to win the sled division. people drove all this way to atNews Reporter

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Katherine Sheepway skijors at the Yukon Brewing Twister on December 22 in Mount Lorne. Sheepway set the fastest time in the 15-mile race.

“I was actually not supposed to enter the race,” said Tweddell.

“I came here for my kids, they want to qualify for the Arctic Winter Games. They each had four dogs and they did the fourmile loop. After that they were back and the race hadn’t started yet, so I entered the race with the same team.

“The trail was awesome. It was a beautiful trail.”

Tweddell, who lives in Mendenhall, raced the Yukon Quest in 2009, placing 14th. He hopes to run it again in a year or two.

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Skijoring (15 miles) 1st Katherine Sheepway – 1:07:45 2nd Cynthia Corriveau – 1:14:04 3rd Virginia Sarrazin – 1:24:25 4th Amelie Janin – 1:31:16 5th Adam Robinson – 1:33:50 Sled (15 miles) 1st Luc Tweddell – 1:08:22 2nd Jon Lucas – 1:09:20 3rd Marine Gastard – 1:16:04 4th Michele Staaf – 1:20:41 5th Maren Bradley – 1:21:59 6th Magnus Kaltenborn – 1:23:23 7th Tamra Reynolds – 1:41:15 Youth (two miles) 1st Louve Tweddell – 9:22 2nd Lori Tweddell – 10:21

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Soccer teams collide at Christmas tourney Tom Patrick News Reporter

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idway through the second half of the men’s final, three straight goals topped Team Lars’ Christmas wish list. Old Saint Nick was paying attention.

Team Lars overcame a 4-2 deficit to win the men’s division at the 10th annual Christmas Tournament, hosted by Yukon Soccer’s Senior Metro League, on Dec. 22 at Vanier Catholic Secondary.

“We’re way older than they are, so it feels good,” said Team Lars captain Lars Jessup. “We’ve won this before, so it’s good to be back.”

Trailing by two to the ‘91 Grizzlies, Team Lars regained their title from three years ago with goals from Ash Jordan, Calef Staples with the tying goal and Stewart Patton with the game-winner to make it 5-4.

Also scoring for Lars were Jan Aalt van den Hoorn and Arlo O’Riordan in the first half.

“We’re a team of aging goal-scorers and grinders,” said Jessup. “We managed to grind out a couple and our aging goal-scorers put it in the back of the net.”

“This is probably the best competition we get all year for men’s soccer,” he added. “It’s always a great tourney, always have the maximum amount of good players because they always come back from university. So this is always the most fun every year.”

Team Lars went undefeated in the tournament with one tie along the way.

The ‘91 Grizzlies, mostly made up of players born in 1991, got on the board with goals from Cody Reaume, Logan Potter, Cody Fraser and Stephen Dynes.

“It was a tough one,” said Reaume of the final. “It was a lot of fun, but we didn’t have enough left in the tank. We had one, two subs through the whole tournament.”

There was far less nail-biting in the women’s final.

Team Charly’s Angels downed the Reds 9-2 to win the title. Charly’s Angels, named after coach Charly Kelly, contained many players who will represent Yukon in junior female indoor soccer at the Arctic Winter Games in March.

“We didn’t have full Arctics team here, but with the team we had we were doing really good,” said Angels’ Jaylene Kelly. “We had good passes and were moving up the field well. I’m kind of sad our Arctics team couldn’t be here together to get this experience.”

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Team Lars’ Calef Staples, left, shoots the tying goal during the men’s final of the 10th annual Christmas Tournament at Vanier Catholic Secondary on Dec. 22. Team Lars beat the ‘91 Grizzlies 5-4 in the final.

Jaylene Kelly and Megan Lanigan, who was a red shirt for the University of Victoria Vikes women’s soccer team this season, each had a hat trick in the final. Also scoring were Emily Wilson, Caroline Miller and Aimee Parker.

“It was such a fun experience. Every time we get to play with the Arctics team we’re bonding,” said Miller, who is on the Arctics squad. “It’s such a fun tournament before the Arctics, which is such a serious tournament.”

Sisters Susan and Jamie Whitty scored for the Reds in the final.

The two finalist teams tied 3-3 in their previous game during the round-robin.

“I think today we connected better as a team,” said Jaylene. “Our passes were crisper than yesterday and we knew where we going more.”

The 10th annual tournament featured a chest-high

wooden wall along one end of the gym that sectioned off the bleachers that we filled for the finals. The fence was constructed specifically for the tournament by True Scale Design and Consulting Ltd. with materials donated by Home Hardware.

“Vanier gives us the gym for free and there’s so much interest in it every year,” said tournament co-organizer Haley Stallabrass. “We had to cap it at eight men’s teams this year because there were too many teams interested.

“We had five women’s team that we’re really happy with.”

Contact Tom Patrick at tomp@yukon-news.com

Happy Holidays!

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Reds’ Alexis Miller, left, and Charly’s Angels’ Megan Lanigan fight for possession in the women’s final. Charly’s Angels won 9-2.

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Runners welcome winter with solstice run Tom Patrick/Yukon News

Tom Ullyett leads a pack of runners during Athletics Yukon’s Winter Solstice Run on Grey Mountain Road.

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minus-20 temperature, strong winds and large snowdrifts didn’t stop runners and walkers from taking part in the Athletics Yukon’s Winter Solstice Run on Dec. 21.

Thirty-three runners and walkers kicked off winter with a 10.4-kilometres jaunt, up and down Grey Mountain, climbing 420 metres in elevation.

“It was beautiful,” said Whitehorse’s Logan Roots. “I think I lost about five minutes tying my snowshoes.”

Roots was the fastest up and down, wearing snowshoes that helped him speed through high snowdrifts near the turnaround point at the top. He completed the run in one hour and five minutes. He was wearing the same snowshoes he won three gold and a silver in snowshoe races at the 2012 Arctic Winter Games in Whitehorse.

Roots was also the fastest in the Grey Mountain Summer Solstice Fun Run with a time of 45:39 in June.

“The first part was a little more packed, but then you got up to the part that was a little more windswept and it was really drifty,” said David Eikleboom, who was six minutes behind Roots. “If you stayed on the crust it was OK, but if you broke through you were thigh deep.”

No official results were kept from the event.

(Tom Patrick)

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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

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 2-BDRM HOUSE in Riverdale, partially furnished, N/P, N/S, laundry facilities, large deck/yard, responsible tenant, avail Dec 15, $1,100/mon. 867-634-3887 2-BDRM BASEMENT suite, Riverdale, avail immed, $1,200/mon includes everything, $500 dd required. Call Pink, 334-6283 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 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.

668-7596 after 4pm NEWER 3-BDRM rowhouse downtown, N/S, N/P, avail Jan. 1. $1,600/mon + utils.

667-2255 1 & 2 bdrm units for rent at Cedar Apts & Terra Suites. Call 667-7772 or 668-2416 SMALL 1-BDRM apt. D/T, lower level in quiet, secure building, new floors, paint, good light, N/S, N/P, refs&dd reqʼd.

334-2269 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 1-BDRM BSMNT suite, PC, avail January 1st, w/d, N/S, N/P, $1,250/mon incl power & heat. Stephanie 335-2090 4-BDRM 1-BATH house D/T, furnished, avail Jan. 1, $1,500/mon + utils. 456-9575 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 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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This historic building is the first L.E.E.D. certified green building in Yukon. It features state of the art heat and ventilation, LAN rooms, elevator, bike storage, shower, accessibility and more.

Call 867-333-0144

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3-BDRM, 1.5-BATH condo, Riverdale, newly renovated kitchen/bathroom/LR, small fenced yard, shed, lots of parking, dog friendly, N/S, L/T, avail Jan. 1, refs reqʼd. $1,450/mon. 334-4215

867.334.1111

2-BDRM HOUSE D/T, avail immed, laundry, parking, fenced yard, N/S, no parties, pet considered, $1,200/mon + utils. 667-6403

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2-BDRM BSMT suite, bright, clean, N/S, N/P, no parties, avail immed, $1,050/mon.

633-2046 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

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 ROOM IN Copper Ridge, private bathroom, shared common areas, no partying, no drinking, no drugs, avail January 1st, must like animals. 334-4430 3-BDRM, 2-BATH Riverdale upper suite, dishwasher, shared laundry, garage, workshop, avail now, N/S, refs reqʼd, $1,500/mon plus utilis.604-614-4418 or www.riverdalerental.com 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 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 3-BDRM 2.5 bath townhouse, garage, fenced yard, pets ok. $1,600/mon + utils & dd, avail Jan 1. Call 335-8910 2-BDRM TRAILER, newly renoʼd, new w/d, oil or wood heat, $1,300/mon + heat + hydro.

334-8381 2-BDRM BSMT suite, Porter Creek, avail February 1, sep ent & laundry, N/S, N/P, no parties, $1,440/mon incl heat, elec, cable, internet. 334-6064 ROOM AND board, Copper Ridge, avail immed, must be okay with a small dog, cat, and 6-year-old, $600/mon. 334-4134 4-BDRM 2-BATH house, Riverdale, 6 appliances, carport, dd reqʼd, N/S, N/P, no parties, avail Jan. 1. $1700/mon + utilities.

335-5976 6-BDRM EXECUTIVE House in Porter Creek area. 250-661-0745 2-BDRM HOUSE, Riverdale, spacious, newly renovated, open concept, heated tile floors, close to bus stop, $1500/mon. Amy 334-3878 3-BDRM TOP level of house, fully renovated, shared laundry, N/S, N/P, dd&refs reqʼd, avail Jan. 28. $1,600/mon + utils.

334-9087 3-BDRM, 1-BATH country residential suite, wood stove, W/D, deck, well, storage space, pet friendly, $950/mon. 334-3053

3-BDRM 1.5 bathroom condo, Riverdale, avail Jan 10, N/S, N/P, dd&refs reqʼd, $1,400/mon + utils. 332-8686 1 BEDROOM in Riverdale house, upper level, fully furnished, 3 mins to bus stop, N/P, N/S, dd, avail Jan. 1. $500 + utils. 334-3280 LARGE 3-BDRM suite in Porter Creek, avail Jan 1st, new renovation, satellite TV, dishwasher, shed, laundry, $1,600/mon, text or call 336-0306 3-BDRM 1 bath, N/P, N/S, dd&refs reqʼd, CT, avail Feb 1, $1,350/mon + utils.

393-3823 FURNISHED ROOM in family home, electricity and internet included, shared bath, N/P, N/S, no drinking, $700/mon. 334-3186 3-BDRM 1.5 bath condo, Riverdale, newly renoʼd, small fenced yard, shed, lots of parking, dog frdly, L/T, N/S, dd&refs reqʼd, $1,450/mon incl condo fees/water, 334-4215 3-BDRM 2.5 bath duplex, Takhini North, new, 1800 sq ft, avail Feb. 1, new appliances, deck, fenced back yard, refs reqʼd, $1,900/mon + utils, laram@northwestel.net or 668- 3756 3-BDRM HOUSE, fully renovated, avail Jan 28, N/P, N/S, refs&dd reqʼd. $1,600/mon + utils. 334-9087 TOP FLOOR of house D/T, 1 bdrm w/ den or smaller 2nd bdrm, close to shopping/services, shared laundry, avail immed, N/S, N/P, $1,600/mon incl heat and elec. 334-2512 FURNISHED ROOM, Porter Creek, c/w private bath, wood stove, internet, for responsible, clean & dog-friendly roommate, $700 all incl with deposit. 336-3952 ROOM IN clean, quiet home, Copper Ridge, avail immed, N/S, N/D, female preferred, $900/mon. incl utils. 667-6641 TWO STOREY cabin south of Whitehorse, elec, oil monitor heat, water nearby, quiet location, prefer no pets. 393-2728

Wanted to Rent HOUSESITTER AVAILABLE Mature, responsible person Call Suat at 668-6871 HOUSESITTER AVAILABLE year-round.

Professional, non-smoking, non-partying, mature female, offering unequalled care for pets, plants, yards, & house. Refs. Call Tracy 334-2882 LONG-TERM HOUSESITTER available for winter months, gd w/pets & plants. No criminal record, 30 yr. Yukon resident. 335-0009

BACHELOR APT, clean, bright, 15 mins from downtown, above ground, small deck, close to bus stop, N/S, N/P, $900 incl. cable & utils. 333-0497

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

OFFICE SPACE, 550 sq. ft, ground flr, wheelchair access, close to Law Centre, City Hall, $25/sq. ft. includes heat, power, taxes, basic janitorial, free off-street parking w/plug-in. 335-3123

HOUSE-SITTERS AVAILABLE to care for pets, plants, property etc. Responsible with references and transportation. Non-smokers, non-drinkers, no pets, no children.

867-689-1737

BACHELOR SUITE, large, bright, heat/elec incl, private laundry, entrance, parking.

Internet/cable is negotiable, refs reqʼd. $900/mon. 335-4712

WANTED: 1 or 2 bedroom place starting in Feb 2014 for 1 year. Ideally close to downtown. Must have parking space. Price is negotiable. 613-298-0690

3-BDRM TAKHINI West duplex, full laundry, oil furnace, N/S, refs, oil and security deposit required, avail Feb. 1. $1,475/mon + oil and elec. 668-2703

Real Estate

900 SQ/FT shop, insulated, oil heat, set up with three car bays. Out of city limits, 20 mins from town. $750 + utils. 335-4181

HAINES JUNCTION 2-storey house. Contemporary design, open concept on cul-de-sac, 10+ acres, Fire-smarted around house, lots of trees left, view of St. Elias Mtns, 1350 sq. ft. Rod 634-2240

WATSON LAKE split level home, 2 acres, private well, 3-bdrm 2-bath, custom kitchen, heated workshop, garage and outbuildings, patio. Winter sale: $199,000 (appraised at $250,0000). Call 867-536-7757 BEAUTIFUL 2013 Moduline 3 bed + 1 bath home in quiet, well managed Benchmark, 6 months free pad rent, no dogs. Property Guys #143605. $154,900. 334-4174 TESLIN LAKE. 4-bed, 2-bath home with stone fireplace, beautiful pine finishing, spa tub, built in sound system, alarm, large garage, drilled well w great water. $365,000.

633-4778

Help Wanted Gold Village Chinese Restaurant Looking for experienced full-time kitchen helper and server Apply with resume to 401 Craig Street, Dawson City, YT Y0B 1G0 867-993-2368

TAGS food & gas 24 hrs/7 Requires

Gas Service Attendant $11/hr

Open 24/7.

This position requires you to work shiftwork.

NOC: 6621

Laborer/Small Engine Mechanic required.

Primary responsibilities include loading/unloading construction equipment and cleaning/preparing equipment for rentals.

See full job description at MACPHERSON RENTALS 117 Copper Road, Whitehorse, or on our website at www.MacPhersonRentals.com.

Please drop off resume in person.

House Hunters brand new: meadow lakes!

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

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$369,000 Alusru Way Whitehorse

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

Open 24/7.

This position requires you to work shiftwork.

NOC: 6641 Mail or Drop off Resume to:

Tags Food & Gas

4221-4th Ave. Whitehorse, Yukon Y1A 1K2 5 VAcAnT pOsiTiOns Opening date: Dec. 1st, 2013 Closing date: Dec. 31st, 2013 NOC: 6435 Wanted: Hotel Front Desk Clerk Full time, 40 hours per week, permanent Wage: $13.00 per hour Main Duties: Register guests, Answer Inquiries Follow Safety and Emergency Procedures Clerical duties (faxing, photocopying) Apply by email to yukon202@gmail.com Employer: Elite Hotel & Travel Ltd.

Attached 2½ heated garage Detached heated double workshop & Double high RV/storage outbuilding.

Additional 2-bedroom year-round Cottage

Call Lelah for more info 780-632-9618.

867-660-4106 for appointment & directions

106 Judas creek drive $775,000.00

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HOCKEY CARD set, 1964-65 Parkhurst (Tall boys format; printed 1994-95), 180 cards + Future Stars insert, set of 6. $150.

Ross 633-3154

$406,900

CFL FOOTBALL cards – 17 different complete sets of cards, including early OPC. Almost 2,600 cards, serious inquiries. $1,500.

Ross 633-3154

867-334-3567

667-7681 or cell 334-4994

36 Tamarack Drive Whitehorse

23 Lorne Rd. in McCrae

clivemdrummond@gmail.com

Help Wanted

E M P L OY M E N T O P P O RT U N I T Y E M P L OY M E N T O P P O RT U N I T Y CHILD AND FAMILY LIAISON CHILD AND FAMILY LIAISON SUPPORT WORKER SUPPORT WORKER

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

Requires

$12/hr

WATERFRONT RESidENcE

Watson Lake Accommodations!

5-bedroom fully furnished house for rent.

1 kitchen and 1 kitchenette, 2 full bathrooms.

Located on Airport Road.

WORLD HOCKEY Association – 5 complete hockey card sets from the 1970s. Exc cond. $750. Ross 633-3154

24 hrs/7

Food Counter Attendant

FAMiLy HoMe or stAFF HousinG

5-Bdrm porter creek with suite!

4221-4th Ave. Whitehorse, Yukon Y1A 1K2

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HOUSE HUNTERS

867-335-6200

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business opportunity

GREEN GARDEN RESTAURANT is seeking an experienced, hard-working, reliable full-time food and beverage server, $13 per hour.

Apply with resume to 1612 Centennial Street between 2:00pm and 4:00 pm.

Mail or Drop off Resume to:

5 VAcAnT pOsiTiOns Opening date: Dec. 1st, 2013 Closing date: Dec. 31st, 2013

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Friday, January 3, 2014

Employment Opportunity

SGS PROGRAMS ASSISTANT

YUKON FIRST NATIONS PREFERENTIAL HIRING POLICY IS APPLICABLE AND MUST BE CLEARLY IDENTIFIED ON APPLICATION. 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

FLIGHT ATTENDANTS

Our flight attendants provide authentic Yukon hospitality throughout the Yukon, Canada, and the United States.

A flight attendant’s primary responsibility is to ensure the safety of all passengers and crew while on duty. Positive energy, teamwork, a sense of humour, a professional attitude and the ability to work in a team environment are required to work in this highly visible, fast-paced and exciting environment.

For complete details visit flyairnorth.com/careers CLOSING DATE: January 20, 2014 LOCATION: Whitehorse, Yukon POSITION TYPE: Seasonal full-time, March – September 2014 If you are interested in this position, please submit your resumé to Krista Power on or before January 20, 2014.

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.

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.

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TRADING CARDS – binder full of non-sport trading cards (James Bond, X-men, Desert Storm, Enduring Freedom). About 500 cards. $50. Ross 633-3154 WORLD HOCKEY Association – remember it? Two rare books, (history, statistics, photos). Exc. shape, $50. 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 KICK SLED, slightly used, exc cond, $350 obo. 633-4018 FUR COAT, like new, med length, sz L-XL, worth $1,100, asking $500. 667-4540

À LA RECHERCHE D’UN EMPLOI?

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 CIVIL WAR Trading Cards: 4 complete sets of unique trading cards commemorating the U.S. Civil War, including the 1962 Topps set. $750 firm. Call 633-3154 1X6” CEDAR boards, 400 board feet, $500.

633-4018

Friday, January 3, 2014 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.

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

JOB OPPORTUNITY Da Ku Cultural Facility Manager Regular Full-time | Salary: $70,821.44 - $82,851.07 Location: Haines Junction, YT | POSTED December 18, 2013

Conseils en développement de carrière Création, amélioration et traduction de CV

EDucaTiOn anD ExPERiEncE:

Simulation d’entrevue

Completion of Grade 12 with at least 2 years’ experience in either facility management, financial management or event planning/marketing. An equivalent combination of education and experience will be considered.

CAFN’s Human Resources Policy will apply. For complete job description please check the CAFN website at http://www.cafn.ca/jobs.html or contact below.

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

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

1 DOZEN framed, numbered Richard Shorty large prints, all in exc cond, $250 ea.

334-3774 GENERATOR, 1,300 watt, 2.4HP, $100.

334-1252 THREE SIZED medium Eric Clapton tour merchandise T-Shirts. All from early to mid 2000s. Great shape. $50 for all. 333-9317 QUEEN SIZE quilt cover set, "Fleur-de-lis" pattern, sage in colour, good quality material. $200. 633-5911

Champagne and Aishihik First Nations Des professionnels engagés

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

We thank all those who apply but only those selected for further consideration will be contacted.

Application deadline: 4:30 p.m. on January 10th, 2014 Send ApplicAtionS And/or reSumeS to: Human Resource Officer, Champagne & Aishihik First Nations Fax: (867) 667-6202 | Phone: (867) 456-6879 | Email: kbrown@cafn.ca

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.

Marketing Manager College Relations

Ayamdigut (Whitehorse) Campus Term Position from: March 1, 2014 to February 28, 2015 (with a possible extension) Hourly rate: $37.12 to $44.19 (Based on 75.0 hours bi-weekly) Competition No.:13.165 Initial Review Date: January 17, 2014 Yukon College is a fast-paced, creative, rapidly progressing, northern post-secondary education institution. We’re looking for an innovative individual, with a background in marketing, ideally in post-secondary education, to lead the marketing vision of this institution.

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.

The successful candidate will have a relevant Bachelor’s degree and experience in managing marketing, budgets and people in a cross cultural environment, with extensive experience marketing programs and services and working with an understanding of marketing of post-secondary education. A valid Class 4 driver’s license and the ability to travel are also required.

Candidates with an acceptable combination of education and experience 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

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 AIR NORTH shares, 2 shares offered, Class D-8-B, 4 segments per year or 2 round trips, $8,500 ea. 335-3082 ARCTERYX HYLLUS hat, blue moon, menʼs L-XL, never worn, still has tags, new $60, asking $35. 667-6472 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 20' SEA container, good shape, no leaks, $3,700 obo, located in Whitehorse. 993-6500 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 MOVING SALE, household furniture, couches, chair, kitchen table, microwave, kitchen appliances, etc. 335-6042 lv msg CENTRAL VAC plug in outlet kind, $150, girl cartoons VHS $3, DVD cartoons $3, some action, girl clothes 4-6 and other things, $2, call Shelly 393-4341 2005 SUMMIT 1000 in very good condition.

163 inch track, only 1700 km, not being ridden. $4,900. 334-6370 SIZE 8 booties, beige, Coast Mountain, new cond, $80 obo, hand-knit green sweater, $50. 667-7840 OTTER SKINS, two, tanned. $150 each.

668-2802

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 LG DIRECT drive large tub dishwasher, stainless steel tub, white outside, 1 year old, exc cond, offers, 633-4234

TVs & Stereos Paying cash for good quality modern electronics.

G&R Pawnbrokers 1612-D Centennial St. 393-2274 BUY • SELL • LOANS TIVO W/REMOTE, IR sensor & WiFi adaptor, $30 obo. 667-7840

Computers & Accessories WII BOARD game & controller, $120, XBox PS2 w/Guitar Hero, $50. 633-4707 LOGITECH Z323 computer speakers, about $80 new, asking $30. 393-3409 APPLE AIRPORT Extreme 802.11n Wi-Fi Model #A1354, 4th generation, $50.

667-6472 LEXAR PRO Compact Flash Reader ExpressCard PCLe Interface, $35. 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 FULL SIZE violin for sale, with case and bow. Never used. Comes with teach-yourself instructional video. $300. 668-7659 CORT X2-SA Limited Edition electric guitar with a Spyder IV 30 amplifier, both in great condition, barely played. $500. 335-8844

Stringed instrument repair and fine furniture restoration

PIANO WITH Bench, Mason & Risch upright, full keyboard, 39 & 3/4“ high, motivated to sell, $865 obo. 633-6355

Firewood

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

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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 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.

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 CGFJ WOODCUTTING SERVICE $250 - 16” lengths $220 - 4ʼ lengths Prompt, friendly service Dry timber, money-back guarantee 336-2013 FIREWOOD Clean, beetle-kill, dry Ready for pick-up, $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 Dry Pine Firewood $240/cord 456-7112 FIREWOOD FOR SALE Cut to length, $260/cord Same day delivery Call 334-4911 FIREWOOD Split dry spruce 16” or 18”, $250 per cord Marsh Lake area Rolland at 332-4671 or 660-4671 PINE FUELWOOD seasoned two years, bucked to length, split and delivered, $250.

393-2728 DIMOK TIMBER 6 CORD OF 22 CORD LOADS OF FIREWOOD LOGS BUNDLED SLABS YOU CUT FIREWOOD @ $105/CORD CALL 634-2311 OR EMAIL DIMOKTIMBER@GMAIL.COM

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

Guns & Bows

104 Tungsten Rd., Whitehorse, YT Y1A 6T9

TENOR RECORDER, Clarinet size, polished nickel flaps on lower notes, c/w case, carry strap, beginner songbook, beautiful sound. $55.00 obo. 633-6355

Case cutlery, high quality hand-crafted pocket and hunting knives available at G&R Pawnbrokers 1612-D Centennial St. 393-2274 BUY • SELL • LOANS

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

Erica Heyligers * luthier 867-668-3408 erica@northwestel.net

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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

ss is looking for people to join

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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.

E MPLOYMENT O PPORTUNITY

HUMAN RESOURCES DEVELOPMENT / EMPLOYMENT & TRAINING BOX 130, CARCROSS, YUKON Y0B 1B0 PHONE (867) 821-8300 FAX (867) 821-8214

Canadian Prenatal Nutrition Program Coordinator Health and Wellness Department

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

MARLIN 30-30 lever action, $375, PAL required. 334-1252 MARLIN 45-70 govʼt lever action, $450, PAL required, Harrington & Richardson 410 single shot, full choke, 3”, $200, PAL required.

334-1252 VINTAGE BEAR archery "polar" recurve 55# @ 28" $180. 334-7664

Champagne and Aishihik First Nations

expression of interest Youth Story Animation Project Champagne & Aishihik First Nations (CAFN) is looking for an individual or team with multi-media training and experience to work with CAFN Youth to assist them in telling our traditional stories through simple animation techniques. The project will operate during the period January through March 2014, and result in the production of one or more short multi-media presentations suitable for public viewing.

An information package on the Youth Story Animation Project can be obtained from the Department of Language, Culture and Heritage at Da Ku Cultural Centre in Haines Junction, and at the CAFN office at 304 Jarvis Street, Whitehorse. Contacts for this project are Sheila Joe / Paula Banks, at 456-6876. Those wanting to be considered for this project must obtain the information package, and submit a formal “Expression of Interest” that includes details noted in the package. Deadline for submissions of Expression of Interest is January 15th, 4:30pm.

E MPLOYMENT O PPORTUNITY

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 9th, 2014 STATUS: Full Time-Permanent SALARY: Level 7-9, commencing on education and experience

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 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.

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.

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 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 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 4:30PM 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

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

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REMINGTON .280 stainless, Lone Wolf Summit XL bedded stock, Leupold 6x36 scope with original laminate stock. Ex. shape, very light mountain rifle, $1,500.

668-4634

ANTLERS WANTED: Antler pile getting a little big? Looking for antlers for creative project. Moose, Caribou, or Elk, willing to pick up, open to negotiations. 332-8642

2012 NISSAN XTerra, Trail Green colour, trailer package, hatch tent, Bluetooth and more. Pd $41k in 08/12, reduced to $29,900.

336-0375

Cars

2007 DODGE Caliber, standard, heated seats, remote start, 6 CD stereo, 2 sets tires, like new condition, 127,000 km, $9,500, obo.

333-0236 or 456-4112

PENTAX PF 65 ED spotting scope with 60X zoom eye piece. One of the best value, high end optic scopes around. $500. 668-4634

2007 TOYOTA Highlander SUV, white, AWD, command start, extra set winter tires, tow package, approx 128,000kms, $15,000.

332-4143

Wanted WANTED: LARGE Blaze King wood stove in good cond, 667-4540

2007 TOYOTA Matrix, std trans, exc cond, $8,300. 633-2740

1 OR 2-car garage for young local woodworking artist, prefer Hot Springs, PC area.

Craig 334-2121

2006 HONDA Civic, 4-dr, very clean, one owner, winter tires, remote starter, $10,500.

334-9087

WANTED: FREEZER burned meats, game for small dog team. Thank you. 633 6060 or newmusher@live.ca WANTED: ASAP dryer in good condition, reasonable. 332-7447 WANTED: LADIES Rendezvous dress size 12-16. Call 334 - 4625

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 2007 NISSAN Versa, low mileage, one owner, exc cond, 70,000kms, $6,500.

335-0771

Softgoods Buyer Wanted

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.

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 2005 PONTIAC Sunfire, 4-dr, low kms, new windshield/tires, P/W, P/L, air, tilt, cruise, CD fully loaded, good on fuel, $4,400, 332 6022 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 2000 SUBARU Forester, all-wheel drive, 240,000kms, $3,500 obo. 334-1252

expeRience/education RequiRed:

2000 TOYOTA Camry, c/w power everything, sunroof, HID lights, command start, many good parts, 173,000 km. $7,000.

334-8212

• 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.

1996 HONDA Accord 4-cyl, front wheel drive, 5-spd standard, 270,000kms, c/w PL, PW, PS, AC, CC, command start, good on fuel, new winters, $3,600 obo. 333-9982

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.

1993 TOYOTA Corolla AWD wagon, good winter car, runs great, safety inspected, new brakes/exhaust/shocks/spark plugs, some rust, $1,200. 668-2576

Friday, January 3, 2014 1992 NISSAN Sentra, runs but needs work, $100. 336-4629 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 CHEVY HHR, 150,000 kms, very good cond, $7,000. 336-2036

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NATHAN WADE

EARLE April 7, 1953 ~ Dec. 22, 2013

WHERE DO I GET THE NEWS?

Nate passed away at Vancouver General Hospital, at the age of 60.

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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 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 2003 FORD Explorer SportTrac XLT, 4x4, 4L. V6, 4-door, heated leather seats, remote start, sunroof, c/w 4 winter tires, pickup box cover & extension rack. $7,500. 667-6951 eves 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

He is survived by his fiancée Ruth Klee; and his family in Newfoundland: Margarette Lynch, Abner Earle, Lloyd Earle, Evelyn Mercer, Calvin Earle, Carl Earle, Frank Earle, Serina Earle, & Jimmy Earle; his sons Reggie & Alan, and his daughter Natasha; his Aunt Pal and Uncle Winston, who love Nate very much!

Nate is predeceased by his sister Sylvia Earle, brothers James and Wayne, and by his mom Sylvia, and dad Nate.

A Celebration of Nate’s Life will be held in Tagish in the summer.

In lieu of flowers a donation can be made to the Heart & Stroke Foundation.

John (Jack) Thompson April 5, 1934 Dec. 31, 2013

A Celebration of Life will be held on

Tuesday, January 7th at the Sacred Heart Cathedral at 2:00 p.m.

The family of Jack Thompson is sad to announce his passing on December 31, 2013. Jack left behind his wife of 39 years, Carolyne; daughters, Debbie (Ron), Rochelle (Randolph) and Sarah; sons Gerald and Richard; grandchildren Christopher and Clayton (Katy); and several nieces, nephews and extended family. He was predeceased by his father Ernest, mother Evelyn, sister June and daughter Leslie.

In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to the Yukon Hospital Foundation, Shriners Crippled Children’s Hospital or Hospice Yukon.

SALES • BODY SHOP • PARTS • SERVICE 2001 Dodge Dakota 4x4 Clubcab, v8, GREY...................................... $5,500 2005 Honda Pilot EX, black ..........................................................................$13,900 2007 Toyota Sequoia Limited, black ..................................................$27,500 2007 Pontiac Torrent, aWD, RED..................................................................$12,995 2005 Ford F350 Crewcab, 4X4, DiEsEl .................................................$10,500 2007 Kia Spectra 5, 5-spEED, RED................................................................. $6,595

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Friday, January 3, 2014 1990 TOYOTA Hiace, 4 wheel drive, 4 cylinder diesel engine, auto, excellent fuel consumption, 8 passengers, middle seats swivel, 128,000 kms. 333-9020

FOR SALE, 2004 Dodge Laramie, 1500 quad cab, fully loaded 4x4, new tires, canopy, 185,000km, $12,500. 456-4377

1981 DODGE 250 Camper van, 5.9L, new battery & starter, runs well, $1,800.

993-5576

MAZDA B2300 2.3L 4 cylinder manual 150,000 km new timing chain and set c/w studded winter tires canopy included, great running cond, 334-8287 call or text

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2011 CHEVY 1 ton diesel crew cab, only 40,000km, still under warranty, command start, On Star. Paid $59,000, asking $39,000. 456-7157 2009 TOYOTA Tundra Crewmax 4x4, 5.7L Limited, red, leather interior, sunroof, power everything, ext warranty, 68,500kms, $29,500. 335-2083 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, every option available, 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 F350 diesel Lariat, 4wd, long box, fully loaded, all engine updates, exec condit, $19,500. 667-4463 or 334-9436 2005 NISSAN frontier Nismo, 165k, new shocks, brakes, battery, transmission, hid headlight conversion, $9,900 obo. 333-9000 2003 CHEV HD 2500 - 4x4, ext cab, recent transmission, V8, 280,000 km, tow package $6,900. (867) 634-5275 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 2002 F250 ext cab long box 4x4, 225,000km, lariat trim, tow package, camper package, new transmission, $8,400.

668-5882 2002 F250 ext cab long box, 4x4, 5.4 gas, 225,000km, new transmission $8,400 obo.

668-5882 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 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 1995 CHEV 1/2 Ton, extended cab, Z71 package, exc cond, fully loaded, call for price if interested, serious inquiries only, 668-2486 1990 TOYOTA 3L V6 220,000, some rust, is straight piped, new water pump & alternator, c/w canopy, studded winter tires on rims $2,000 obo, 334-8287 call or text

Heather May Thompson October 8, 1940 – December 26, 2013

It is with great sorrow that the family announces the passing of their beloved wife, mother and grandmother on December 26 in Whitehorse. Heather will be lovingly remembered by her husband Bob and children Scott (Leslie), Ward (Susan), Trent (Kathy), Michele (John) and Miles and grandchildren Patrick (Vanessa), Connor, Tyrra, Page and Ivymay. She is also survived by her sister Georgia Joorisity and her family. She will be missed by her many friends and former colleagues.

Born in Regina, Heather received her elementary education at Long Creek, a one room school house in rural Saskatchewan. She attended Avonlea High School and upon graduating received the Governor General’s Academic Medal. At Teacher’s College in Moose Jaw, where Heather started her post-secondary education, she won the Grolier Award for her academic achievements.

At just 17 years old, she began her teaching career in the Regina Public School System.

In 1959, Heather married Bob, her high school sweetheart. Together they began their life adventure, which included the birth of their five children. Heather encouraged Bob in his studies to become a licensed radio operator. His first posting was in Aishihik.

Heather and Bob spent most of their lifetime in the Yukon, in Burwash, Teslin and Whitehorse, and three years in Yellowknife where Heather taught at J.H. Sissons School.

Throughout her married life, Heather continued to study professionally, achieving her B.Ed from the University of Saskatchewan and her M.Ed from the University of Alaska Southeast. If a teaching position was available where Bob was stationed, Heather taught.

After moving to Whitehorse, she taught at Whitehorse and Selkirk Elementary schools and then advanced to principal positions at Grey Mountain Primary and Takhini Elementary where she remained for 19 years. During this time, she represented the Yukon on the Canadian Principals Association and was awarded an Innovative Teacher Award.

Heather was a woman of varied interests, including travel. The Thompsons were family campers and covered many Canadian and Alaskan miles. In later years, Bob and Heather enjoyed several cruises and a trip to Ireland. Heather loved the Yukon scenery and wild life. These interests developed into bird watching, collecting Yukon art and hiking the Chilkoot Pass.

In her retirement, Heather found time to explore genealogy and wrote wonderful family histories. She was a talented seamstress and loved quilting, spending many hours with her friends at “Quilters without Borders.”

She was active in the Yukon Council on Aging, the Yukon Retired Teachers Association and the Breakfast for Learning Program, and was a very generous contributor to many charities. Her quilts and sewing were donated to charities in the Yukon, Alberta and Saskatchewan.

A celebration of Heather’s life was held on Tuesday, December 31 in the gym at Takhini Elementary School in Whitehorse. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the BC Lung Association at bc.lung.ca in memory of Heather Thompson.

February 27, 1953 - December 31, 2013

Passed away peacefully with his family and friends by his side Dale fought a brave and valiant fight with cancer, but God decided to bring his Master Carpenter home to work on his new addition in heaven.

A Celebration of Life will be announced at a later date.

Norman Blair King

August 27, 1927 - December 25, 2013

Norman King passed away in Truro, Nova Scotia on December 25, 2013 at the age of 86.

Born in Ontario to William Blair King and Hazel (Sinclair), he was raised in Nova Scotia after his mother’s death when he was five.

Norm got into “trucking” at an early age and worked various jobs throughout Nova Scotia. There he met and married Josephine Van Buskirk. In 1953 he moved to Whitehorse where he worked and raised his family for the next 20 years.

He worked for United Keno Hill Mines, Cassiar, BYN (White Pass) before becoming an independent trucker. In the mid 60’s he started City Deliveries and by the end of the decade had created Norm’s Trucking, hauling freight to Faro and Ross River.

In 1973 he returned to his beloved Nova Scotia. He worked for the postal service delivering mail from Truro to Amherst. It was there he met and married Ethel MacEachern. They returned to Whitehorse in 1976 and shortly thereafter, Norm was back in the trucking business with his son Wayne and Kluane Freightlines was born.

Norm “trucked” every inch of the Alaska Highway that passes through the Yukon.

In the mid 90’s Norm and Ethel retired to Nova Scotia. Norm couldn’t stay away from Whitehorse and returned often to visit family.

He was predeceased by his parents, two sisters, a brother, two step-sisters and his second wife Ethel.

He leaves to mourn his first wife Josephine Goring, his children Linda Ticiniski, Terry Kinney (Dale), Wayne, (Lynette), seven grandchildren and eight great grandchildren and his companion Edith Leadbetter.

At Norm’s request there will be no service.

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Pet Report 633-6019 tHUrSDaY, JanUarY 2

2014

Hours of operation for tHe sHelter: Tues - Fri: 12:00pm-7:00pm • Sat 10:00am-6:00pm CloSed Sundays & Mondays Help control the pet overpopulation problem

have your pets spayed or neutered.

For inFormation call

633-6019

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 WANTED: CANOPY in good shape for GMC Silv. short box (82'' x 67''), email: g.burges@gmx.de or phone 250-651-7654 TURBO, INTERCOOLER, pipes connectors and cold air intake for 2003 Dodge Cummins. 333-9790

lost/found

lost

• riverview Hotel area, blonde, small male puppy, wearing a red collar, short legs and a long torso. if found please contact Florence @ 668-2237 or 332-8082 or 867969-2117 (27/12/13) • Pilot mountain, redish brown, spayed female, small HuskyX, wearing a green collar no tags, very shy answers to red. if found contact lee @ 668-3469.

(27/12/13) • mcintyre area, 10yrs old, black with white on chest and white toes, male, wearing camo collar with city tags. if found contact Jarmah @ 335-4802

found

• crestview area, female Husky X, grey and white, wearing a red bandana, aprox 10yr+, lump on left leg. contact crystal @ 3347797 or cole @ 334-9956 • Hillcrest area, male Black lab, no collar. contact Heather @ 335-6005.

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

AVAilABlE foR Adoption in fostER HoMEs

doGs

• 5 year old, spayed female, lab/Pit Bull X, black (Gaia)

CAts

• 11 month old, neutered male, DlH, grey (Deegan)

At tHE sHEltER

doGs

Friday, January 3, 2014

• 3yr old, neutered male, akita, grey and white (a.J.) • 1 yr old, spayed female, Husky, grey and white, (chinook) • 7 yr old, neutered male, GSDX, black and tan (nitro) • 11 week old, male, Husky Bear Dog X, black and tan (lance) • 12 week old, female, Husky X, blonde (Bianca) • 11 week old, male, HuskyX lab, black and tan (Jingle) • 11 week old, female, HuskyX lab, black and tan (Bell) • 1 yr old, neutered male, labX GSD, black and tan ( rider) • 3 yr old, spayed female, Bear Dog X GSD, black and tan (Holly) • 8yr old, neutered male, HoundX,

• • • •

black and grey (Ed) 5 yr old, neutered male, labX collie, black (arlo) 1 yr old, neutered male, Heinz 57, white and brown (christmas) 8 wks, 1 male 2 female, Border collie/lab X, mixed coloring.

(Frosty, Joy) 3 Yr old, female, Daschund X, black and white (Queenie)

CAts • 8 yr old, DSH, female spayed, calico (mao) • 1.5yr old, DSH, grey and white, neutered male (Sappy)

4 17” summer tires, good cond, from 2007 Ram 3500, $250. 633-2740 DODGE DAKOTA tail gate, new cond, $300.

633-2740 3 TRAILER tires, 14” on white spoke rims, $300. 633-2740 MANY TOOLS, new, great Christmas gifts.

633-2740 4-195/55R 15 studded snow tires, lots of tread, $100. Keith, 334-8560 TWO NEW 12” Sony subwoofers, 2000w, and new 1400w 2-channel Sony Xplode amplifier with custom box ready to install, $500.

334-7877 2003 CUMMINS turbo, intercooler, intake pieces and cold air intake for sale. All excellent shape. 633-6502

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

GERMAN SHEPHERD puppies, CKC reg. hip and health guarantee, European working bloodlines, approved homes only, crate trained, top sport, family, personal protection, ready to go, $2,000. 668-6118 GIVE AWAY to good home in the city, mature neutered Bichon Frise, crate and leash trained, microchipped and CKC registered, loves walks and cuddles. Serious enquiries only. Kala 332-3258

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

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

TUNDRA II skidoo, has reverse, $2,000.

867-536-7610

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

2003 POLARIS Trail 550, new parts, in reliable condition, strong hitch, $2,000 obo.

334-2647

RONʼS SMALL ENGINE SERVICES Repairs to Snowmobiles, Chainsaws, Lawnmowers, ATVʼs, Small industrial equipment.

Light welding repairs available 867-332-2333 lv msg

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

WANTED: UNNEUTERED male Labradoodle, will consider 0-5 yrs old. 536-2296

Pet of the Week!

D

eegan

Hi! I’m Deegan! Im super cuddly and love to play!

I’m still a young guy so I’m still learning. But I think I have some real potential! Please contact the shelter if you wish to meet me while I’m in my foster home, I think my foster mom might be a little attached to me though.

1996 POLARIS Indy 500, 136" Track, EFI, runs great, needs clutch/belt adjustment, 2 owners, $2,200. (867) 634-5275 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 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

633-6019

126 Tlingit Street

www.humanesocietyyukon.ca

1991 POLARIS INDY 488, engine rebuilt, short track, $1,500. 633-4643 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

currency exchange

$ € £ ¥ Best rates in town for US & Euros

spECiAl • Homes needed for retired sled dogs. they would make excellent pets.

Please contact 668-3647 or kennelmanager@muktuk.com 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.

4 TOYOTA Matrix mags with 4-16” tires, good cond, $400. 633-2740

Pets

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

You can also check out our award winning website at:

www.Humanesocietyyukon.ca

Open 7 Days A Week Whitehorse Money Mart 2190 second avenue (867) 668-6930

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 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 2009 BEARCAT Widetrack XT, 3,500kms, 2-up seat, winch, handwarmers, reverse. $6,200. 335-2083 2004 800 MountainCat snow machine, only 1000 miles, great condition, $3,700.

333-0192 2009 BEARCAT 570 XT Wide Track, 2up, reverse, hand warmers, elec starter, good cond, $5,985. 393-2111 2009 M8 Arctic Cat. 153" x 2" track. Can. 2" riser. 800cc. 334-1890

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

Heavy Equipment DIESEL GENERATORS, Listers, Deutz's, various sizes from 4.5 kw to 25kw. For more info 633-4822 17 H.P. 225 amp portable arc welder/genset, comes with trailer. excellent running condition. $2,500.00 obo. 633-6502

Campers & Trailers

HAMLET OF Mount Lorne Advisory Council next meeting Tuesday January 7th. 7pm at the LMCC. All 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 THE YUKON Orienteering Association AGM will be held Jan. 29, 2014 at 7:00 p.m. in the Sport Yukon boardroom. Members are welcome.

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!

LATIN DANCE Classes. New 8 weeks sessions starts January 10, 2014. Beginner Salsa and Merengue, or Intermediate Salsa. 336-0255 or salsayukon@gmail.com to register FALUN GONG is an advanced practice of Buddha school self-cultivation. Fa study Monday, Wednesday, Friday at Wood Street Annex from 6 p.m. No charge. Newcomers are welcome. Call 633-6157 JOIN US for the official kick off of our 50th Anniversary Festival January 9th. Meet our 2014 Queen Contestants and this yearʼs Mr. & Mrs. Yukon. Stay for a drink. Old Fire Hall, 5:00 pm.

DUGS COMMUNITY Garden AGM and Potluck, 6 to 9 p.m. Wednesday, January 15, 6189 6th Avenue at the corner of Cook and 6th. All welcome. 633-4379 for info

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

YUKON SCHUTZHUND Association AGM, Sunday, Feb. 2, 2014, 1:00pm-3:00pm, Whitehorse Public Library meeting room.

Dog training enthusiasts invited.

2010 4X8 enclosed utility trailer, 950 lb capacity, 2000 lb axle, very sturdy, lightweight, great cond, $1,800. 335-9199

LATIN DANCE Classes. New 8 week sessions starts January 10, 2014, Beginner Salsa and Merengue, Intermediate - Salsa, Intermediate - Rueda de Casino. 336-0255 or salsayukon@gmail.com to register

Coming Events

YUKON FISH & Game Association will be holding their AGM on January 15th, 2014, at the Canada Games Centre Board Room 7:00pm -10pm

THE AGM of the Yukon Music Camp Society will be at Well Read Books 11:00am on Sunday Jan 12. Everyone welcome!

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 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 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 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 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 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 CRESTVIEW CROSS-COUNTRY ski group meets Sundays, 11am, at 222 Squanga Ave, to ski Pine Forest Loop, 2 to 3 hours, free HORAIRE PISTE Chilkoot/Log Cabin: Multi-usage sauf du 17 au 19 janvier : fin de semaine réservée aux activités non motorisées. 867-667-3910 CHILKOOT TRAIL/LOG Cabin: Non-Motorized Weekend, Jan 17-19. Other weekends & weekdays, Multi-Use. For more info: 867-667-3910 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

BARN DANCE Saturday Jan. 11, 7:30pm Old Fire Hall, Bob Kuiper, Barndance Band, Fiddleheads. Adults $10, Youth $5, Families $25. Tickets at the door. Bob at 633-4501 for more info WEEKLY DROP-IN Recovery Group meetings, Wednesdays: 2:30 pm to 4:00 pm, Alcohol and Drug Services. Call 667-5777 for more information SEEKING SAFETY Group, for women dealing with trauma and addiction. Call Alcohol and Drug Services at 667-5777 for more information AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL Action Circle.

Letter writing to protect and promote human rights worldwide. Tuesday, January 28, upstairs of Whitehorse United Church 7:00pm-9:00pm, www.amnesty.ca, or call 667-2389

Services

YUKON SCIENCE Institute AGM Wednesday, January 15, 6:00 pm at the Whitehorse Public Library. All welcome

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

2009 T@B trailer in exc condition, fridge, stovetop, sink, dining table folds down to large bed, CD player, c/w large tent which attaches, $12,000. 334-5190

TAI CHI Yukon classes resume the week of January 6 including two classes for beginners. See www.taichi-yukon.ca, email info@taichi-yukon.ca or call 668-3814

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- INSULATION Upgrade your insulation & reduce your heating bills Energy North Construction Inc. (1994) for all your insulation & coating needs Cellulose & polyurethane spray foam Free estimate: 667-7414 SHARPENING SERVICES. For all your sharpening needs - quality sharpening, fair price & good service.

At corner of 6th & Strickland.

667-2988 BACKHAULS, WHITEHORSE to Alberta.

Vehicles, Furniture, Personal effects etc.

Daily departures, safe secure dependable transportation at affordable rates. Please call Pacific Northwest Freight Systems @ 667-2050 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.

CONDO MANAGEMENT SERVICES Including reserve studies.

North of 56 Property Management.

332-7444 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)

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

AL-ANON MEETINGS

DRUG PROBLEM?

1997 YAMAHA Venture, 600 long track with hitch, $1,500 obo. 336-2081

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Friday, January 3, 2014

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 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.

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) 8:00 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

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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Yukon News 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

HEATHER MJOLSNESS, RMT Relaxing and therapeutic Swedish massage Gift certificates available!

689-5908 Snowblower and Shovelling Driveways, sidewalks, and Low sloped roofs Put me to work!

Good rates.

Call Dave at 333-9084

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

PUbLIC TENDER

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.

The Yukon Business Incentive Policy will apply to this project.

LOST: DOWNTOWN Whitehorse Dec 21 set of house keys on a carabiner. 334-5655

Advertise in The Yukon News Classifieds!

SOLOFLEX EXERCISE (muscle) machine with leg extension, butterfly attachment and extra weight straps. See www.soloflex.com for info and pics. $400. 399-4478

LOST: SPOT Satellite GPS Messenger on Dec 13 possibly at Macrae North 60 station.

Battery dead/reported lost to Spot. Call 633-5975. Reward offered.

Take Advantage of our 6 month Deal...

Advertise for 5 Months and

WEIDER WEIGHT machine, complete exercise for the entire body, also Trimline treadmill, monitors distance & time, walk, run, climb, $100 ea or $150/both. 668-5786

Get 1 MONTH OF FREE ADVERTISING

ELAN PINBALL Pro Junior twintip skis 145cm comes with Tyrolia SL75 bindings good condition. 821-3823

Book Your Ad Today!

Livestock

FOUND: 334-0184

GATEWAY laptop computer.

PUbLIC TENDER

T: 667-6285 • F: 668-3755 E: wordads@yukon-news.com

PURCHASE FIRE RESISTANT CLOTHING

SIX OLYMPIC weight plates, 10 lbs each.

Buy all 6 for $50. 667-6472

Project Description: Theory and practice for managing public information during crisis situations.

Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title.

The closing date for submissions is January 14, 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 Michael Templeton at (867)6675220.

The highest ranked or lowest priced submission may not necessarily be accepted.

View or download documents at: www.gov.yk.ca/tenders/tms.html

Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title.

The closing date for submissions is January 21, 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

Community Services

Highways and Public Works

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

134" BURTON snowboard with liquid bindings and boots size 7, used twice. $150 obo.

633-3565

Looking for New Business / Clients?

CRISIS COMMUNICATIONS TRAINING

Project Description: Heating system upgrades in Yukon Housing Units Old Crow, Yukon

SNOWBOARD & bindings, Firefly brand, 156 cm, used 5 times, exc cond, $75 obo.

456-2218

Business Opportunities

LOST: ON December 26th (wedding day) a new Acer Aspire laptop in the box between PetroCan and Carmacks on N. Klondike Highway. 335-7478

ReqUeST fOR PROPOSAl

HEATING SYSTEM UPGRADE YUKON HOUSING UNITS OLD CROW, YUKON

This tender is subject to Chapter Five of the Agreement on Internal Trade.

LOST: CROSS-COUNTRY ski between Porter Creek & Kopper King on the highway.

Thanks. 633-6603

Friday, January 3, 2014

AVALANCHE TRANSCEIVERS: Ortovox F1. Excellent condition. $150 each or 2 for $250. 667-8031

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

Sports Equipment BOWFLEX EXTREME, approx 10 yrs old, needs new rods (extra $230), first $40 takes it. 393-3638

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

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

CROSS-COUNTRY SKIS, new, Salomon X-Adventure, 198cm, suits 60-75kg person. $175 obo 335-0233

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

SNOWBOARD BOOTS, Firefly brand, menʼs sz 11.5, used 5 times, exc cond. $50 obo.

456-2218

WANTED, 16 to 20 foot electric hay elevator or conveyor in working condition. 633-4249

GIRLʼS BIKE, 16” Illusion Supercycle, purple/pink, white tires, age 4-6, good cond, $30. 667-6472 WANTED: BOWFLEX or Soloflex home gym. Must be in good condition. Virginia @633-3388

Dorothy Hobbis is turning

New Projects Open for Comment

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Please come and celebrate with us on

Saturday, Jan. 4th 2014!

New Projects Open for Public Comment PROJECT TITLE

CLOSEST COMMUNITY

(Assessment Office)

SECTOR

PROJECT #

We will be hosting a get together at the

DEADLINE FOR COMMENTS

Whitehorse Senior’s Center

(The Main St. end of the Sports Yukon Building on 4th Ave.) Please drop in any time from

Placer Mine- Upper Little Gold Creek

Dawson City (Dawson City)

Mining- Placer

2013-0152

January 3, 2013

Placer Mine- Lower Clear Creek

Dawson City (Dawson City)

Mining- Placer

2013-0159

January 7, 2013

To get more information and/or submit comments on any project Visit - www.yesab.ca/registry or Call Toll Free 1-866-322-4040 Little Footprints, Big Steps was founded to provide ongoing care and protection for the children of Haiti. We welcome and greatly appreciate your support. Please check our website to donate, fundraise or to get involved.

An account at Raven Recycling has been set up for Little Footprints, Big Steps. People may donate their refundable recycling to help continue Morgan’s work in Haiti.

www.littlefootprintsbigsteps.com This ad sponsored by the

11-3pm Hope to see you there!!

REQUEST FOR QUOTaTiOnS RFQ 2013-043 Supply of Four Vehicles

Yukon Energy Corporation is seeking bids for the supply of four vehicles, all requiring service bodies supplied and installed as outlined in the specifications.

Sealed bids, clearly marked “RFQ Supply of Vehicles” will be received up to 4:00:00 p.m. Yukon time Friday January 17, 2014, at the Corporation’s main office building, #2 Miles Canyon Road, Whitehorse, Yukon. To obtain a tender package or if you have questions please contact Lynda Harlow at (867) 393-5302, or lynda.harlow@yec.yk.ca.

FORD 5000 farm tractor, hi/lo speeds, four cylinder diesel, ford factory front end loader, three point hitch, new rubber. $4,200.00 obo.

633-6502

Baby & Child Items CHILDRENʼS CLOTHING in excellent condition, given freely the first & third Saturday monthly at the Church of the Nazarene, 2111 Centennial. 633-4903 WOODEN PLAN Toys dollhouse and furniture and dolls. $125 for all. 668-7659 BABY CAR seat, newborn-12 mo, $40, auto baby swing, $50, 2-pc infant snowsuit, new, 1-pc infant snowsuit, new, all in good cond, 334-7061 for details HIGH CHAIR, exc cond, paid $170, asking $80 obo. Evenflo Car Seat, 2011, expires Dec 2017, rear facing from 5-30lbs and forward facing over 30lbs, $100 obo. 456-2753

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, $200, 633-4707 6 MATCHING dining room chairs (holiday dinners), 1 computer armoire, very reasonable, for details call 667-7908

BEDFRAME, FITS twin or double, $30.

633-6004 3-PIECE ALL reclining microsuede loveseat, couch and chair, $800 obo. 334-8553 MICROWAVE CART with hutch, 2 doors on casters, dark wood grain finish, exc shape, $35.00 obo. 456-7880 MICROWAVE STAND with hutch 2 doors + shelf on casters, dark wood grain, lots of storage space exc cond, $35 obo. 456-7880

Personals DRUG PROBLEM? Narcotics Anonymous meetings Wed. 7pm-8pm #2 - 407 Ogilvie St. BYTE Office FRI. 7pm-8:30pm 4071 - 4th Ave Many Rivers Office

PUBLIC TENDER RESIDENTIAL FUEL TANKS AND SUPPLY LINE REPLACEMENTS YUKON HOUSING UNITS ROSS RIVER, YUKON

DOUBLE-SIZE MATTRESS, cast iron headboard & footboard with rails, black, $150.

633-4707

Project Description: Installation of 6 supplied residential fuel tanks and supply line replacements.

Puzzle Page Answer Guide

Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title.

The closing date for submissions is January 23, 2014. Please refer to the procurement documents for the closing time and location.

Sudoku:

If documents are available they may be obtained from Yukon Housing Corporation, 410 Jarvis Street, Whitehorse, Yukon. Technical questions may be directed to Carmon Whynot at 867-667-3764.

The highest ranked or lowest priced submission may not necessarily be accepted.

View or download documents at: www.gov.yk.ca/tenders/tms.html

Kakuro:

Crossword:

Word Scramble A: Poultry B: Cone C: Roaming

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Yukon News

Friday, January 3, 2014

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 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 WHITEHORSE CURLING Club December $100 winners, A.F. (Drew) Dunn, $50 winners, Arnold Heckstrom, Maggie Wallingham, Merton Friesen, $25 winners, Chad Bustin, Odiel Vandenberghe, Patrick Deer, Colin Dawe, Pat Hayden, Jeff OʼFarrell, Mike Stanley, Elsie Chapman, Trina Evans, Jared Tuton, Erin Purdie, Annabell Vance, Jim Baker, Linda Derbyshire, Jared Tuck, Al Wallace, John Groenewegen, Pat Paslawski, Pat Banks, Thomas Riexinger, Darol Stuart, Keith Bridal, Nicole Petitclerc, Cam Kaplar, Paul Petitclerc, Walter Dryke, $1,500 winnere, Joanne Bold.

PUbLIC TENDER 11 FURNACE AND 4 FUEL TANK REPLACEMENTS YUKON HOUSING UNITS WATSON LAKE, YUKON

Project Description: Installation of Owner supplied Dettson furnaces and fuel tanks Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title.

The closing date for submissions is January 28, 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 Carmon Whynot at 867-667-3764.

Site Visit: Wednesday January 15, 2014 at 1:00 p.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

PuBLIc TENdER PROPERTY APPRAISAL OF ERIK NIELSEN WHITEHORSE INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT Project Description: A contract to appraise the leased lands at Erik Nielsen Whitehorse International Airport Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title.

The closing date for submissions is February 18, 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 Bruce Binder at (867) 634-2442.

The highest ranked or lowest priced submission may not necessarily be accepted.

View or download documents at: www.gov.yk.ca/tenders/tms.html

PUbLIC TENDER RESIDENTIAL FUEL TANKS AND SUPPLY LINE REPLACEMENTS YUKON HOUSING UNITS MAYO AND PELLY CROSSING, YUKON

Project Description: Installation of 4 supplied residential fuel tanks and supply line replacements.

Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title.

The closing date for submissions is January 23, 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 Carmon Whynot at 867-667-3764.

Liquor Corporation

LiQUoR acT 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.

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.

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

PUBLIc TENDER APRON PANEL REHABILITATION - ERIK NIELSEN WHITEHORSE INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT, WHITEHORSE, YUKON

Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title.

The closing date for submissions is January 17, 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 Jim Newnham at (867) 667-5109.

Site Visit: January 9, 2014 at 2:00 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

Project Description: The project includes removal of existing concrete apron panels, removal and disposal of existing granular base, placement and compaction of new granular base course materials, construction of concrete stabilized base, forming, pouring and dowelling of new concrete apron panels, re-grading and installation of new asphalt pavement, sealing of joints with jet fuel resistant cold pour sealant, and repainting of aircraft stand markings.

Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title.

The closing date for submissions is January 23, 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 Kyle Jansson at (867) 633-7922.

There is a MANDATORY site visit scheduled on January 15, 2014.

This project is being partially funded by the Government of Canada through the Airports Capital Assistance Program.

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

Highways and Public Works

Highways and Public Works

PUBLIc TENDER VENTILATION UPGRADE TRANSPORTATION ENGINEERING - BLDG.#1344 461 RANGE ROAD WHITEHORSE, YUKON

The highest ranked or lowest priced submission may not necessarily be accepted.

Highways and Public Works

View or download documents at: www.gov.yk.ca/tenders/tms.html

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the yukon’s best pre-owned vehicles

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