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A pedestrian is reflected in a puddle on Steele Street in downtown Whitehorse on Thursday.

Temperatures soared to nine degrees yesterday and are expected to stay warm through the weekend.

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Neil Hartling, left, and Blake Rogers of the Tourism Industry Association of the Yukon are pushing the territory to promote itself with a television advertising campaign.

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he Yukon’s Tourism Industry Association wants to see its name in lights on small screens across Canada, and it’s asking the territorial government to help come up with the cash.

The association is asking for $5 million over two years to produce a series of TV commercials that would help attract Canadians to the territory.

“This campaign would be in addition to existing tourism marketing programs. It would not mean sacrificing existing programs to start something new,” said Neil Hartling, the chair of the association.

It’s been a decade since tourism marketing in the Yukon got an increase in funding, he said.

The idea is to build a series of Yukon tourism TV ads similar to the successful one that Newfoundland and Labrador has used in recent years. That project costs around $8 million a year, Hartling said.

The TIA plan would see a TV campaign funded at $2.5 million a year. After two years, it would be reevaluated and if it’s as successful as Hartling thinks it will be, he’ll ask for the territory to make the funding permanent.

Hartling said that a $5 million

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program is a smart move because of the high return on investment.

Research based on exit interviews with tourists visiting the territory shows that for every dollar spent, $28 more dollars comes into the territory, Hartling said.

That suggests the territory could expect to see roughly $140 million come back into the territory. Given that the territory’s total budget is now over $1 billion with a $72.8 million surplus last year, the territorial coffers should have plenty of money to spare, Hartling said.

“The premier and minister lead a tourism mission to Europe this fall, and the premier spoke at the TIA fall round up about the importance of tourism to Yukon’s economy. What we need now is a strategic investment that will allow tourism to live up to its full potential,” Hartling said.

Hartling and TIA director Blake Rogers both pointed to the recent media buzz around the Discovery Channel’s new Klondike TV show, which is set in Dawson City, and other Yukon-based reality shows that are gaining popularity.

This shows that the Yukon has a broad mass-market appeal, said Rogers. But even with this publicity, the tourism industry doesn’t have a way of capturing that

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market, he said.

Compare that to a show like Ice Road Truckers or CBC’s Arctic Air. Both are very popular, especially within Canada, and both feature plenty of N.W.T. Tourism TV ads during the commercial breaks.

“The N.W.T. have shown how, when you do have funds available for broadcast, piggybacking and synergies with programs like Ice Road Truckers and Arctic Air has brought great return on investment for them with small broadcasting investments,” Hartling said.

The plan has the support of Yukon’s federal MP. Ryan Leef said a TV commercial would benefit the entire Yukon, not just tourism operators directly.

“They have a concept and a direction that they want to go in. I think it’s a great idea, and it signals that the Yukon is growing up. It’s an industry-supported model,” said Ryan Leef.

“It’s no secret that the Yukon has it’s own economic development agency, CanNor. They could be a funding partner. That’s part of the exploration for this, the feasibility, where do they get the funding? Will the territory help out, will industry come up with some dollars? That’s what I want to help them figure out,” Leef said.

Contact Jesse Winter at jessew@yukon-news.com

some customers’ previous complaints about sky-high over-usage charges.

A group of territorial residents Curtis Shaw, the telecom’s viceis considering a class-action suit president of consumer markets, said the company’s ability to track against NorthwesTel over what how much data is consumed by they claim are unreasonable customers is still accurate, and charges for data they claim they that this outage was unrelated to haven’t used. (Jesse Winter)

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First Nations announce Peel lawsuit Jacqueline Ronson

that the government modified the recommended plan in favour of more development, he said. irst Nations will sue the Yukon But miners are worried about government over its handling all the extra layers of protection of the Peel plan. that this new document adds for Thomas Berger, a famed expert prospectors across much of the in Canadian aboriginal law, will watershed, he said. lead the suit, the First Nations an“When you combine all that, nounced Friday. all the different varying layers Berger will join First Nation of permitting and regulations, chiefs Ed Champion and Eddie it becomes extremely complex Taylor for an announcement Mon- and uneconomic for a number of day in Vancouver. projects.”

The event coincides with the Access is a big issue, said HartMineral Exploration Roundup land. conference, where the Yukon He mentioned special rules that government will be trumpeting will require seasonal roads where the territory’s mining potential to possible, ban road building for excompanies from around the world. ploration work and require annual First Nations are in good com- cleanups as examples. pany in their opposition to the And when it comes to flying in, plan released by the government there will be special rules about this week. flying over sheep habitat during Miners and conservationists spring lambing season and flying have found a rare moment of over rivers during summer tourist agreement in their shared displeaseason, he said. sure over the new plan.

It’s worth noting that both of Even the wilderness tourism those time-frames overlap with operators, for whom the governYukon’s relatively short explorament invented a new kind of park, tion season. are not pleased.

“From our perspective it’s a The purpose of land-use planvery high level of protection.” ning is to give all users certainty Conservation groups are not so about what sorts of activities will sure. and will not be allowed in an area.

The Peel planning commission’s ‘No real protection’ recommended plan, supported by affected First Nations, conser“There’s no real protection at vationists and tourism industry all in the Yukon government’s groups, would have banned new plan,” said Karen Baltgailis, staking and road building in 80 executive director of the Yukon per cent of the region.

Conservation Society.

But the Yukon government, “I have no faith in this business with its new Peel plan unveiled of trying to co-ordinate air flights this week, has chosen instead to so that tourism isn’t disturbed, shy away from hard rules.

While no new staking is allowed and things like that. It is so in the 29 per cent covered by pro- loosey-goosey. It just would not tected areas, mining is potentially be effective.” allowed across the watershed, if Roads are not banned anydevelopers can meet certain stan- where in the watershed. dards for preserving the region’s In most of the region, roads wilderness character. would only be allowed for mine That uncertainty about what, development, not exploration. exactly, will be allowed has both They would have to be closed miners and environmentalists to the public, and temporary. worried.

That means that after the mine is closed, the road must be re‘The devil is in the details’ claimed by nature.

But those rules don’t give Baltgailis any comfort, she said.

“The devil is in the details “There’s really no such thing as of this document,” said Samson Hartland, executive director of the a temporary all-season road.”

Once a road is built, it makes Yukon Chamber of mines. “It’s it cheaper for neighbouring comvery complex.” panies to go in and develop their The chamber is happy to see

exploration practices respect the environment.”

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Tweens allowed to hunt It’s now legal for 12-year-old Yukoners to hunt under their parents’ licences.

One of the changes under the territorial government’s hunting regulations now allows families to take children between the ages of 12 and 13 hunting, and those kids can now actually shoot an animal themselves.

The government has long known anecdotally that Yukon families have gone hunting with their kids, and the change just makes something that’s already

happening legal, said Nancy Campbell, a spokeswoman for Yukon Environment.

The other major changes in the regulations cover elk and wolf hunting seals.

The price of an elk seal is dropping to $10 from $50, and the sealing fee for wolves is removed altogether.

“By reducing the elk seal cost to $10 from $50, we are making it easier for hunters to be ready to harvest animals found in the exclusion areas, consistent with the elk management plan,” Dixon said. “This change aligns with the

A megamine for the Peel?

No one is rushing to develop the Peel soon. There are no latestage exploration projects in the region.

Mineral prices and exploration spending are down.

But if conditions were to change, how much development would Yukon’s Peel plan allow?

The allowable surface disturbance in the watershed ranges from 0.2 per cent in low-development areas to one per cent in high-development areas.

Ironically, the land management block that would support the most total surface disturbance under the government’s plan is a Restricted Use Wilderness Area.

At 0.2 per cent of the total area, the land management unit comprising the Wind and Bonnet Plume watersheds would support a maximum surface disturbance of 32 square kilometres.

Ian Stewart/Yukon News Under the government’s plan, Environment policy director Dan Paleczny explains the Yukon that’s the only area that would government’s park designations for several Peel watershed support a project comparable to rivers during a technical briefing on Thursday. the Faro mine, which has a footprint of 25 square kilometres, or means that 99.8 per cent of these claims, she said. the proposed Casino mine, at 23.5 areas will stay pristine.

“The chances of an all-season square kilometres.

But those numbers are not firm road developed for one mine These maximum footprint limits. ever getting shut down are really rules would likely rule out most “The recommended indicator remote.” major mine development projects, levels are not intended to be an which have to be big enough to absolute cap on activities,” accord- pay for the infrastructure needed Mines and wilderness ing to the plan document. to get to the mine in addition to incompatible?

Conservationists say you can that needed for the mine itself. do a lot of damage with 0.2 per The plan in all likelihood rules The biggest area of contention cent of the land. out development of the giant for both miners and conservaA 2008 report prepared by the Crest iron ore deposit, hailed by tionists are the government’s new Peel Watershed Planning ComPremier Darrell Pasloski in his Restricted Use Wilderness Areas. mission estimates that 0.1 per most recent budget speech as a The government says that these cent of the watershed has already potential driver of Yukon’s future areas will retain their wilderness been disturbed by human activity, economy. Just 15 per cent of the character even as some developalthough about 20 per cent of that estimated deposit would yield ment is allowed. has likely already been reclaimed 1.68 billion tonnes of ore, worth This land-use category covby nature. $139.7 billion, he said. ers 44 per cent of the watershed.

Reclamation is defined as when The deposit is located in a ReIt’s painted light green on Yukon trees and shrubs reach 1.5 metres stricted Use Wilderness Area with government’s maps and fills the in height, or the same height as a footprint threshold of about 14 spaces between the protected river surrounding vegetation. square kilometres, a little more corridors.

There are 8,996 active quartz than half a Faro mine.

New mineral staking is allowed, and mica claims in the watershed.

Of course, the question may but oil and gas exploration is not.

“The Peel region has been the be irrelevant, since that site is Roads can be built, but only site of numerous major exploranowhere near development, and under strict conditions. tion programs and has remained the plan is up for review in 10 The surface disturbance, or one of the world’s premier prisyears or when the parties agree to development footprint, is limited tine areas,” said Hartland. “Which, review it. to 0.2 per cent of the total area. we believe, is a testament to the Contact Jacqueline Ronson at The government says this jronson@yukon-news.com way in which modern mineral

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Public Works. “The lowest was $31.139 million and the highest was $32.655 million.”

The government’s construction reduction in bison seals we made budget for the project is $38.6 last year.” million.

(Jesse Winter) No decision has yet been made to award the contract, Black said.

F.H. Collins bids opened “We’re still evaluating the bids.

We have 60 days to do so, but The bids to build the new F.H. obviously we do not expect it to Collins high school are in, and the take that long,” she said. lowest was just over $31 million.

The bids will be reviewed first “We had four bidders, and for their compliance with the they were between $31 and $32 project requirements, then for the million,” said Kendra Black, a bidders’ relevant experience with spokeswoman for Highways and similar projects, and finally by

price. The lowest qualified bidder will get the contract, Black said.

This is the second time bids have come back for the project.

The first round, last year, was for a different design. After the government tacked on additions to the project, like a temporary gym and geothermal heat, the lowest bid on that project was $47.8 million.

The government killed the project, saying it was $10 million over budget, and instead used designs for a previously constructed school in Alberta.

(Jesse Winter)

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Yukon approves Atlin Lake campground Jacqueline Ronson

on the western shore of Atlin Lake, north of the B.C. border, is within the First Nation’s he Yukon government traditional territory. approved the Atlin Lake It would like to negotiate campground this week in spite a land claim with the Yukon of First Nation opposition to government over that parcel the project. of land. But the Yukon govern“The expectation of the Yukon government is for us to ment would like to see them pay them to use our own land,” negotiate with British Columsaid John Ward, spokesperson bia first.

The First Nation remains for the Taku River Tlingit First “opposed to any development Nation.

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the government agreed to conduct a nesting study so that birds in the area would not be disturbed during construction, said Dixon.

The government also agreed not to put in a boat launch until there is more information about the potential impact it could have on fish.

Fisheries managers raised concerns during the assessment that increased fishing on the lake could have a significant impact, especially on sensitive lake trout.

Biologists will conduct a study of the current fish populations and habitat, and a decision about the boat launch will be made based on that information, said Dixon.

The campground will have between 53 and 57 campsites.

Construction is scheduled to begin this spring for target opening in spring of 2015.

“It’s a big, beautiful lake that has fantastic fishing and spectacular views, and it will be a wonderful addition to our network of campgrounds in the area,” said Dixon.

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“I think they should be busy spending the taxpayers’ money doing what’s right and resolve these issues properly rather than using the taxpayers’ money to maintain their confrontation with First Nations.”

Dixon said the government is confident it has fulfilled its obligations to consult the First Nation.

“We’ll do our best to construct the campground in a way that mitigates the impact on their asserted aboriginal rights, and we feel that we can do that as YESAB recommends, by accepting the recommendations that YESAB provided.”

The Yukon Environmental and Socio-economic Assessment Board recommended 16 terms and conditions for the campground to proceed, mostly related to protecting fisheries and wildlife.

The Yukon government agreed to all of the terms, and added one more.

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But according to a January 15 letter sent from the Taku River Tlingit to the Yukon government, the First Nation offered to fast-track campground negotiations within the framework of larger treaty talks.

“We are not opposed to campgrounds or development in our territory, however we need to be meaningfully consulted,” said Nicole Gordon, the manager of lands and resources. “That means not being forced to concede the location, design, and management of this campground. The selected location is in an area of tremendous value that we have identified as a priority for land selection under treaty.”

The Taku River Tlingit has reached out to the federal minister of aboriginal affairs and hopes he will intervene and push the Yukon towards resolving the issue, said Ward.

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A baker’s dozen of frustrations Jesse Winter News Reporter

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rian Oman is a baker without a bakery.

When the 27-year-old trained baker was laid off from his most recent job last fall, he decided he’d had enough of working for other people, and wanted to pursue his dream of running a wholesale bakery in Whitehorse.

He looked into the employment insurance self-employment program. The program is administered by the Yukon government through Dana Naye Ventures as part of the advanced education branch.

For those who qualify, the program will help you get your feet under your own business by paying a living wage for the first year, providing support while building a business plan and helping young entrepreneurs break into the world of working for themselves.

“It was great. I went to see them when I first got laid off.

They decided that starting my own business was a good option for me, and helped me get the application process going,” Oman said.

It’s no simple process. In order to qualify, applicants must submit a feasibility study showing their business idea is

Ross River bridge demolition delayed A proposal to demolish the Ross River suspension bridge has been cancelled, again.

It’s the second time in two months that Yukon’s Department of Community Services has submitted a plan to asses-

sound and start developing a business plan to make it work.

They also must be approved for employment insurance.

That last stipulation, Oman said, is a big catch-22. If you get laid off unexpectedly, as he was, and have no savings, employment insurance is supposed to be the safety net to catch you. But in order to qualify, you have to be looking for work. If you find work, you no longer qualify, which also means you don’t qualify for the self-employment program anymore.

“Basically you have to lie to the government on one side or the other. Either you don’t look for work and tell them you are, or you have to turn down work if you find it in order to stay qualified,” Oman said.

Over the course of about three months, Oman dedicated himself to getting everything in order without any money coming in. Because he couldn’t take any new job while retaining his eligibility for EI, he only got by thanks to support from his family.

“The only reason I’m in this house (a cabin without running water that he sublets from a friend) and able to buy groceries is because of my mom. If it weren’t for her, or if, like many people I didn’t sors and then later withdrawn it.

The second proposal, submitted late December, was to take down the suspension cables, timbers and decking but leave the towers if possible as historic features.

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After many complications, Brian Oman received government support to open a new bakery. However, the program he depended on is no longer available to new clients.

have a family to rely on, I could never have done it,” he said.

Finally, he was ready. After the Christmas break he was going to take the plunge and start baking for a number of clients he had lined up. He even went Outside and to find a van he could afford to use for his deliveries.

But just when he thought everything was going well, he was told he had to abandon his plans.

The territory had suspended the program. Oman was crushed.

“I spent all this time working towards this. I could have taken another dead-end job, something to pay the bills, but those jobs are awful and you’ll never get ahead. That also would have disqualified me from EI. I felt like I’d wasted all this time and money,” he said.

He started asking for answers, and at first he didn’t get any. He emailed his MLA, Liz Hanson, and got no response.

After a week of emails back and forth with the government, he managed to negotiate an exception. The Yukon

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The demolition was to occur But those options were in late March of this year. found to be too expensive and An engineer has assessed the too temporary, according to the 70-year old footbridge in the proposal document. fall and found it to be as risk of Today would have been the last day for public comment imminent collapse.

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government promised they would allow him to go ahead with the program even though it won’t accept any new applicants to the program for the time being.

At this point, Oman is still waiting to see if he qualifies for EI, but assuming he does, everything is a go.

The reprieve is a huge relief, Oman said, but he’s still not happy about all the government red tape he had to cut through to make his dream a reality.

Oman also emailed Ryan Leef, the Yukon’s federal member of Parliament, and had a meeting with him yesterday.

“He outlined a couple of good ideas. I’m always looking for efficiencies and ways to improve the program,” Leef said.

“He made some good recommendations, and I’ll take those back to Ottawa. He had some red-tape reductions that I think were good,” Leef said.

Even with all the headaches, Oman said he still believes in the program.

“I think it’s great in principle. It just needs some work.

Some of the bureaucracy is slow and inefficient, but I wish more people knew it was out there to begin with,” he said.

Contact Jesse Winter at jessew@yukon-news.com

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An expression of interest for the project, dubbed the Lodge at Stoney Mountain, was submitted to the government this week.

The idea comes from the British Columbia-based company International Ecotourism Development Corporation.

It is proposing an eco-tourism resort at Millhaven Bay in partnership with the Carcross/Tagish First Nation.

The project would be “this incredible, iconic, world class, greenest-resort-in-the-world in the Yukon. Which would help to brand the Yukon as the place where that kind of tourism takes place,” said company CEO Rod Taylor, a longtime Yukoner.

“It’s something that the Yukon tourism industry has lacked for a long time.”

The resort would be 15 kilometres southwest of Carcross at the northern extent of Millhaven Bay on Bennett Lake, just south of the Wheaton River.

According to the expression of interest, the resort would include 20 cabins and 10 tents with room for a maximum of 120 people.

“The lodge will include a cluster of common area buildings and the main lodge. These will include a reception area, guest communications and business centre, media and theatre, library, meeting rooms, and lodge business offices,” the document says.

It would be open year-round and feature activities like horseback riding, zip trekking, gold panning, dog sledding, ice climbing and ice fishing.

But that doesn’t come cheap.

Opening rates would be set at $1,600 a day per person. The report says that’s a 12 per cent discount on the current seven-day rate at a similar resort in Tofino, B.C. Taylor said the company would do everything it could to mitigate the environmental impact of

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Concept art for the Lodge at Stoney Mountain, a proposed luxury resort at Millhaven Bay on Lake Bennett, near Carcross.

construction, particularly when it comes to the sensitive sand dunes in the area.

“The idea is that the buildings themselves would be manufactured in Carcross off-site. They would be built to LEED standards, too – they would be built as environmentally friendly as they can be,” said Taylor.

The buildings would be taken to the site by barge or over the ice.

“The thought is that there would be a crane that would actually be down on the shoreline so no heavy equipment would have to go up on the land itself. They would lift these prefabricated cabins,” Taylor said.

The buildings would be clad on the outside and inside with 200-year-old wood.

“If you’re a client or a guest and you get off the plane it’s going to look like you’re stepping back in time. It’s going to be like this TV show everyone is watching,

Klondike.”

The resort would be fly-in.

“Probably up to 40 per cent of the clients will fly in on their private jets to Whitehorse. Then our plane will be waiting for them and they will land in Millhaven Bay either on floats or skis depending on the season,” Taylor said.

The Carcross Tagish First Nation will own part of the resort, Taylor said. Details of the First Nation’s ownership stake are still being worked out.

Justin Ferbey, managing director of the Carcross/Tagish Development Corp. said plans have been in the works for years.

He said the corporation is currently in negotiations with the developer when it comes to jobs both in construction and after the resort is built.

“It’s going to provide 60 fulltimes jobs in Carcross year-round, that’s about the equivalent size of the First Nation government in the

summer,” he said. “Employment in Carcross will no longer be an issue.”

The construction, over a twoyear period if it is approved, will provide the equivalent of 90 fulltime positions.

“We have to get realistic given our small population how much we can do. We obviously don’t have 60 people who can definitely work there. That would require everyone to quit their day jobs and come back and work and that’s just not going to happen,” said Ferbey.

“But those who are willing will get the education and if they want to work there, in all likelihood they will.”

The next step is for the developers to begin a 30-day public consultation process. Once that is complete a more formal proposal could be sent to the government for consideration.

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So much for certainty

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t seems nobody likes the Yukon government’s long-awaited plan for the Peel watershed.

Conservationists doubt that the plan, which leaves most of the watershed open to new staking, will succeed in protecting the region’s wilderness character.

Miners, meanwhile, grumble that the plan will burden them with pricey conditions that would make projects in the region unprofitable.

As for First Nation chiefs, they intend to sue the territory for having fallen afoul of signed land-claim agreements in its less-thanforthright handling of the planning process.

A failure of this magnitude wasn’t the work of any single person. It was truly a team effort on the Yukon Party’s part.

Throughout the planning process, government ministers created the impression of feigning impartiality while doing everything in their power to tilt the field in favour of development. No wonder First Nation chiefs feel cheated.

The territory suppressed information that would support conservation efforts.

Recall how our former premier, Dennis Fentie, yelled at senior government officials who dared to consider sharing valuable ecological data with planners – not expecting that documentation of this freak-out would be eventually made public in a report by this newspaper.

Later, under our current regime, the government refused to include any supporting numbers in its

report on the final round of consultation – perhaps because those numbers indicated broad support for the planning commission’s final plan. When this newspaper dug up those excised numbers, Currie Dixon, the territory’s minister of environment and economic development, memorably declared that “the numbers don’t matter.”

The process also appeared to be gamed early on, when the government let miners engage in a staking free-forall in the region under review, then later complained that protecting much of the region is impossible without upsetting those same miners.

Also consider all the silly word games played by the government to justify its actions. The Yukon continues to laughably assert that it has merely “modified” the recommended plan, as opposed to rejecting it.

Yet, at least when you look at how much new staking would be allowed, the government’s plan does pretty much the opposite of what the planning commission proposed. It suggested allowing new staking in 20 per cent of the watershed, while the government’s plan opens up about 70 per cent of the region to mineral exploration.

Similarly, the government continues to label areas open to development as “wilderness.” And government politicians still can’t quite bring themselves to say the word “mining” out loud in the context of the Peel. Instead, they continue to resort to the euphemism “balance.”

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This mealy-mouthness has been broken up by the occasional flamboyant exaggeration. During the last election campaign, Premier Darrell Pasloski issued his over-the-top warning that protecting most the Peel would bury the territory in an avalanche of lawsuits launched by miners with existing claims. (The evidence he later offered to support this claim is thin, to say the least.)

Later, Pasloski devoted more than two pages of a budget speech to demonizing conservationists, warning they wanted to essentially turn the whole territory into a park. So much for showing a little statesmanship on a complicated matter that required it.

Yet such punchiness is exceptional. Throughout most of the Peel ordeal, the Yukon Party has typically lacked the courage to say what it means. That, more than anything, is probably what doomed the process.

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Maybe if the government hadn’t waited until the planning commission had wrapped up its work to actually say much concrete about what it wanted, there wouldn’t now be such a pervasive sense that the game had been rigged all along.

But it’s too late to change that now.

Affected First Nations extinguished their aboriginal rights to the whole region in exchange for things like collaborative land-use planning. The government, for its part, won through landclaim agreements the ability to tell industry it had legal certainty for development.

But, thanks to the govern-

ment’s abuse of the land-use planning process, that’s now out the window.

Thomas Berger, the esteemed lawyer who helped invent the field of aboriginal law in Canada, is helping First Nations with their case over the Peel. Who knows how long this mess will take to unravel, as cases are appealed all the way up to the Supreme Court of Canada.

In the meantime, this legal uncertainty ensures that a huge swath of the Yukon will not see any development any time soon. In a strange way, the Yukon Party has done the work of conservationists for them. (JT)

Quote of the Day “The expectation of the Yukon government is for us to pay them to use our own land.”

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What a wonderful world dressed appearance, of the latest fashion, setting the fashion.”

While it’s true that smart

by AL POPE technology is of the latest fashion, hence clever from a retailing point of view, the modern world does not understand the word “smart” to refer to fashion, or indeed to cleverness. Editors at the Oxford are said to be considering the following new entry: “Smart. adj. stupid.”

This definition would enhis month, in an unpreccompass the smart car, not to be edented technological breakconfused with the Smart Car. The through, a fridge took part in latter is a supremely fuel-efficient a spam attack. The campaign television set on wheels, while the consisted of about 750,000 junk messages, routed through personal former is a car that can drive itself – over a cliff if so commanded. computing devices, including laptops, wireless routers, TVs, and The smart category of objects also includes the smart phone, which at least one refrigerator. erases every trace of privacy you If you’ve never thought of a ever had, and the smart fridge fridge as a computing device, which, as we observed, sends welcome to the 21st century, the unwanted e-mails to your friends, brave new world of smart techcausing any who manage to trace nology. The word smart has been the message to believe you are redefined since 1966, the year my secretly a pornographer, a stockPocket Oxford Dictionary was printed. At that time the adjective broker, or a Nigerian prince.

It’s easy to see why the modern meant “of some severity, sharp, consumer would want to own a vigorous, brisk, quick-witted, car that drives itself. When have clever, dextrous, quick and precise you ever heard a Yaris argue back in movement, spruce, of fresh or over whose turn it is to be the bright or well-groomed or welldesignated driver? On the other

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Canada stands against an independent Palestine You may have noticed the national media reporting our prime minister being received in Israel as a very special friend. To understand this unique treatment here is an example of his unique policy.

On November 21, Harper’s delegate at the UN voted against the right of Palestinians to determine their own future and have their own country.

The resolution stated: “The General Assembly … Reaffirms the right of the Palestinian people to self-determination, including the right to their independent State of Palestine …”

This is how the world voted: In favour: Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Andorra, Angola, Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Armenia, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Bahamas, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belarus, Belgium, Belize, Bhutan, Bolivia (Plurinational State of), Bosnia and Herzegovina, Botswana, Brazil, Brunei Darussalam, Bulgaria, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cabo Verde, Cambodia, Chile, China, Colombia, Comoros, Congo, Costa Rica, Cote d’Ivoire, Croatia, Cuba, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Denmark, Djibouti, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Eritrea, Estonia, Ethiopia, Fiji, Finland, France, Gabon, Gambia, Geor-

hand, the car is a car. Trusting your life to 500 kilograms of metal and a computer chip is only marginally less stupid than trusting it to yourself after two margaritas.

As for smart phones, they exist to settle arguments. Can’t agree on who won the FA Cup in 1976, or who really said, “In the morning I shall be sober?” No worries, not only is your phone smarter than you are, it’s in touch with that incontrovertible arbiter of truth, the World Wide Web. But why a smart fridge? To judge by the Samsung Wi-Fi enabled RF4289, the function of the net-connected fridge is to part fools from money. At $3,499 for a device that allows you to tweet while grabbing a sandwich – in case you happen to have left your smart phone on the couch – there can be few surer ways on Earth of ridding oneself of unwanted coinage.

If, on the other hand, you choose to leave the planet Earth, the sky, so to speak, is the limit.

Planners at Mars One, the project to put a human colony on the Red Planet by 2023, estimate that it will cost $6 billion to send the first four astronauts, who will live together in a giant dumpster sur-

gia, Germany, Ghana, Greece, Grenada, Guatemala, Guinea, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Hungary, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Iran (Islamic Republic of), Iraq, Ireland, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Lao People’s Democratic Republic, Latvia, Lebanon, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaysia, Maldives, Mali, Malta, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mexico, Monaco, Mongolia, Montenegro, Morocco, Mozambique, Myanmar, Namibia, Nepal, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Norway, Oman, Pakistan, Panama, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, Republic of Korea, Republic of Moldova, Romania, Russian Federation, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Samoa, San Marino, Sao Tome and Principe, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Serbia, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, Solomon Islands, South Africa, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Suriname, Swaziland, Sweden, Switzerland, Syrian Arab Republic, Tajikistan, Thailand, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, TimorLeste, Trinidad and Tobago, Tunisia, Turkey, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, United Republic of Tanzania, Uruguay, Uzbekistan,

Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of), Viet Nam, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

Against: Canada, Israel, Marshall Islands, Micronesia (Federated States of), Palau, United States of America.

Abstaining: Cameroon, Paraguay, Tonga.

Robb Ellwood Whitehorse

We need a community approach to homelessness The Yukon government deserves praise for announcing the development of a housing action plan last March. The need for a plan recognizes the critical challenge of having adequate, appropriate and affordable housing options available for all Yukoners.

It will be a 10-year plan under the leadership of Yukon Housing Corporation. The three action pillars for building such a plan are affordable home ownership, affordable rental housing and housing accommodation with additional services.

Three working committees are being formed with an overarching community advisory committee. All those involved to date acknowledge that if the housing action plan is to be successful, it has to be a community plan with measurable targets that involves all stakeholders.

rounded by uninhabitable desert, and then die.

Mars One organizers report that more than 165,000 people have applied to be Mars colonists.

This outbreak of acute technophilia is believed to be brought on by over-exposure to smart (in the sense of stupid) technology.

Americans make up 23 per cent of all applicants, and an estimated 99 per cent of those either own or wish they owned a smart fridge.

On Mars, everything will be smart. Tight energy supply will require the lights, fridge, furnace, and toilet to be in constant communication with each other. No word yet on contingency plans for when the appliances begin to squabble over resources.

No matter. The uber-nerds who will be chosen for the suicide mission of the century won’t mind a little adversity. And for those still earthbound who crave the latest in technology, what could be more appealing than appliances which have been tried on Mars?

Just as hip consumers in the 1970s lined up to buy fishing reels tested on the moon, so will modern-day technophiles jump at the chance to buy fridges that work on Mars. Whether product testing

will help to cover the cost of the mission remains to be seen, but organizers do have a plan to defray expenses. The whole mission will be one big reality TV show.

Picture the future. Your smart couch detects that you are thirsty, and relays a message to the smart fridge. The fridge, mindful of your calorie count, selects a low-cal beer. The TV lets the fridge know that Big Brother on Mars is at a turning point – Tiffany is mad at Mindy for flirting with Max – so the fridge sends a robot with your beer so you don’t miss anything.

The couch, the fridge and the TV are all in communication with your personal robo-trainer, which makes a note to give you extra treadmill time. A computer at CSIS registers all of the above and determines that you are unlikely to be a terrorist, and the drone of death passes over your house.

As the Mars colonists wait to die, technology will make life on Earth safer, more comfortable, and more predictable for everyone.

Don’t you just love this brave new world?

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

group, your class, your neighbourhood association, your government, your business, your organization or your colleagues.

The Yukon Anti-Poverty If we understand the issues Coalition strongly feels that there surrounding homelessness better, has to be a good understandwe as a community can take a ing and focus in the plan on the new approach. Standing together needs of the most vulnerable and having a united vision reamong us. quire us to think seriously about Kate Mechan recently comour community and our completed a study for the coalition munity values. called “Enriching Our UnderPeter Block, a community standing of Homelessness in developer, puts it this way: “We Whitehorse,” thanks to funding are in community when we from the Community Developfind a place to belong, to be a ment Fund. In that report, part of something, to be ‘home.’ she states “we are now better We are in community when we equipped to develop effective know, even in the middle of the solutions to end homelessness in Whitehorse. If we step up our night, we are among friends and coordination and stand together not feeling isolated. We are in with the united vision of ending community when all of us, not just some of us, have a sense of homelessness, the development ownership and accountability for and implementation of a clear plan to end homelessness is well this place, our home.”

Let’s learn about and focus on within our reach.” the needs of the homeless and be You can learn more by goa better community for it. ing to the coalition’s website, at www.yapc.ca, or calling us Bill Thomas at 334-3917. Kate is happy to Chair, housing task force present her findings to anyone Yukon Anti-Poverty Coalition who is interested – your church

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The Yukon’s magic shines through The Yukon is a wonderful place to raise our children and live out our dreams when things are going well in our lives. But it is when things take a turn for the worse that the true magic of this place shines through. If I ever doubted this, I do not now.

I am sitting here wondering, how does one begin to say thank you when the acts of kindness, collectively, are so overwhelming huge, and the words “thank you” seem so small?

I found this quote: “How far that little candle throws his beams!

So shines a good deed in a weary world.” It’s from William Shakespeare’s play, The Merchant of Venice.

Little Gem is a wonderful little girl that lives in our Haines Junction community and her family has been a regular contributor, doing their part to make this a better place to live. So, it is now, during Gem’s walk with cancer, that our tiny northern home, at the foot of the mighty mountains, has done just as William Shakespeare wrote of.

Through the generosity of many

donors and bidders, no candle could shine any brighter into the dark to help light this family’s way.

On Jan. 17, final auction items for Little Gem were disbursed and the money was deposited into her family’s account. The grand total was $11,357.46.

In response to everyone’s efforts to help, Little Gem’s Mum recently wrote that she will never live anywhere else, and for that I am grateful.

I am grateful that while one of our own is most in need, you have pulled together in an incredible display of love and support. I am grateful to know this family and to know Little Gem’s smile.

I am grateful to call the Yukon and Haines Junction home. I am grateful to know, no matter how hard life may get, there are people just outside our front door that will rally around us.

I am grateful to have had the time to visit (both on the phone and in person) with the people who have supported this fundraising effort. And I am grateful for the overwhelming reminder that the Good is always there – some-

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hole in the middle of the Yukon.

The Peel River basin will be slashed with dirt roads leading times all we have to do is look, and service with Air North in the past, to empty treeless hills that have been explored but not mined so tearfully I called Air North not even very hard. yet. The Dempster Highway will reservations.

I’m still not sure how to say have a pipeline along its length The woman I spoke to was thank you to everyone that instantly supportive and offered to obstructing what I remember becontributed to the success of this ing the most amazing terrain on make a call for me. The outcome auction, but I will take the good I have seen in our Yukon home and was that my passport was returned Earth.

We will look out over Eagle carry it with me forever. And today, to me that same day by Air North.

Plain to the remains of fracking I believe we are losing our comI will pray that Little Gem and her passion and trust for one another criss-crossing the meadows all the family have a good day, together. way to the horizon. The Umbrella in this ever-changing world and I Final Agreement will be tied up in endeavor in my life to not follow Heather FitzGerald Supreme Court for decades, bankthis trend. This experience with Haines Junction rupting our First Nations.

Air North renewed faith for me Yukon taxpayers will still be Saluting Air North that we can still look up from the paying off debts owed to banks for screen and respond with care to hospitals built for no reason exOn a recent return trip to Whiteone another. cept as monuments to politicians.

This may sound dramatic to horse from Vancouver, I accidenThere will still not be any affordsome, but what else do we have tally dropped my passport on the plane. I am grateful for the airline but our everyday experiences and able housing for my grandchildren to live in. employee that picked it up, but the encounters to measure ourselves Tired old MLAs who were once as human beings.

Thank you Air events from there were a challenge. ministers making profound deciI attempted to follow the phone North for caring about your comsions back in the year 2014 based message instruction left for me by munity, I salute you. on sketchy information and bias the airline baggage counter in Vanwill be retired, drinking cold beer couver, but after hours of attempts Bonnie MacDonald in warmer climates, laughing at us.

Whitehorse to figure out how I could retrieve Is this what we want for our the passport, I was told I could not grandchildren?

Dark days ahead be helped and would have to contact the customs office. I was also Eleanor Millard told my passport may be destroyed I have been trying to imagine Carcross what the Yukon Party wants us to if it was not claimed.

I had been planning an import- be left with in the Yukon 20 years A repulsive legacy ant trip to Alaska in six weeks and from now. That will be about the was concerned about my passport time when my grandchildren will It is with extreme disappointbe working here and raising their being destroyed. ment and disgust that we read Admittedly, I had not travelled own children. It is not a pretty the government’s Peel Watershed sight. with Air North as my sister had Regional Land Use Plan. This A mine 10 times the size of gifted me a trip home on her plan is a significant deviation points. I have received impeccable Faro will leave an unfillable toxic from the Peel planning commission’s final recommended plan, which followed a lengthy and fair stakeholder process.

Contrast this to the current government’s plan, a myopic view favouring exploration and mining sectors at the expense of all other considerations and values. This is a plan that supports a few at the cost of compromising a fragile, intact ecosystem. Describing this plan as “balanced” and redefining the term “protected areas” does Vintage. Mo not make it so. de rn The processes and conditions Many styles of . used to produce the Peel Watershed Regional Land Use Plan accent chairs to were established for the desired outcome. This government has complement any violated the public trust and set style of decor. the stage for negatively impacting the Peel watershed in perpetuity.

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First Nation sues over Tulsequah Chief project process,” the province approved the project. The Taku River Tlingit First Nation filed its first application for judicial review the following year.

The Taku River Tlingits lost that case in 2004 when the Supreme Court of Canada ruled the province had consulted the band.

What followed was several years of apparent delays in the progress of the mine, which were

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A containment pond filled with acid drainage and runoff from the Tulsequah Chief mine sits next to the Tulsequah River. The Taku River Tlingit have launched a lawsuit against mine owner Chieftain Metals.

The band says the proposed mine would significantly harm VANCOUVER the community’s way of life.

First Nation has launched a “The project is within the lawsuit in an attempt to stop heartland of the Taku River a struggling but potentially lucra- Tlingits’ traditional territory,” the tive mine in northwestern British lawsuit says.

Columbia, more than a decade “The area that would be after the band’s first court chaltraversed and impacted by the lenge of the project. proposed access road is endowed The Taku River Tlingit First with significant populations of Nation has filed a notice in B.C. large mammals and is the part Supreme Court asking that the of the territory where there is Tulsequah Chief mine project, the most concentrated pattern owned by Chieftain Metals, be of Tlingit use and occupation, stopped. particularly for the harvesting The proposed zinc, copper, of wildlife and fish, and also for lead, silver and gold mine is cultural and spiritual activities.” perched in the Taku River waterThe notice of claim was filed shed, a region rich in wildlife and with the court on Dec. 17, but salmon that straddles the border the band, which is being supbetween northwestern B.C. and ported by the group Ecojustice, southeastern Alaska. only publicly announced its The claim alleges that neither application for judicial review on the company nor the provincial Wednesday. government properly consulted The company could not be the band, and it argues the prov- reached for comment. ince’s Environmental Assessment The lawsuit follows nearly 20 Office was wrong to extend the years of controversy and legal mine’s environmental assessment battles that included a trip to the certificate in June 2012.

Supreme Court of Canada.

The lawsuit says the office The project was first proposed issued the extension after conto the province’s Environmental cluding work at the mine had Assessment Office in 1995 by “substantially started.” But the its previous proponent, Redfern band insists none of the mine’s Resource Inc. main components have ever been In 1998, after what the band’s constructed and it argues the lawsuit describes as a “controverextension was invalid. sial environmental assessment

followed by extensions in the project’s environmental approvals.

The previous extension was set to expire in December 2012, but six months before that, the Environmental Assessment Office issued another extension after concluding that work at the project had “substantially started,” according to the band’s lawsuit.

“Had the Taku River Tlingits been consulted before the

(Environmental Assessment Office’s) determination had been made, they would have provided information showing that some works and activities relied on by the respondent Chieftain … have not been undertaken or do not form part of the project,” says the notice of claim.

None of the allegations in the statement of claim have been proven in court.

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Minister ready with (type of incident) sympathies to (city or town) Jim Bronskill

However, the minister won’t be at a complete loss for words if he follows the carefully crafted script he’s been OTTAWA provided for just such a terrible ocf there’s a major cyberattack on casion.

Canada, Public Safety Minister “Cyberattacks are a global pheSteven Blaney will not be giving the nomenon,” Blaney is advised to tell public “specific details” of the incident, Canadians. newly released briefing notes indicate.

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The notes suggest Blaney be circumspect about an assault on vital electronic networks.

“While I won’t provide specific details about the nature of this incident, I can assure you the government of Canada has plans in place to prevent, minimize and address the impacts of cyberthreats.

“Government agencies are working closely together to take appropriate action and implement mitigating measures.”

In fact, Blaney will be ready to respond to other kinds of catastrophes – including a major natural or manmade disaster in Canada.

“Our heartfelt sympathies are with the families and friends of those affected by this terrible (type of incident) in (city or town),” he is counselled to say.

“The government of Canada is in contact with its (provincial/territorial) counterparts and will continue to share information as it becomes available.”

And if terrorists strike the country?

“Canada has suffered a national tragedy.”

Blaney is also advised to reassure the public the government “remains unwavering” in its commitment to protect the safety and security of Canadians and to advance the global

fight against terrorism.

“The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) and the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) are working closely with local law enforcement officials to investigate.”

Public Safety officials suggest, should terrorists land a blow to the United States, that Blaney remind the public “Canada is not immune” from the extremist scourge.

“I have been in contact with my U.S. counterpart, the Secretary of Homeland Security, and have offered both our sympathy and our assistance to the U.S.” During any event with a continental dimension, the president of the Canada Border Services Agency and the commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection will activate a protocol to help “co-ordinate responses and public messaging,” the notes say.

The prepackaged federal statements have international precedents.

American Gen. Dwight Eisenhower scratched out four sentences of regret on a piece of paper in June 1944 as Allied troops prepared for the D-Day invasion of Europe.

Then-U.S. president Richard Nixon was also ready in 1969 should the manned Apollo mission of 1969 end in failure: “Fate has ordained that the men who went to the moon to explore in peace will stay on the moon to rest in peace.”

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Groups launch court challenge of federal approval of GM salmon Bruce Cheadle

mentation on how the Harper government made its regulatory decision and the data and OTTAWA studies it was based upon. trio of environmental “This is a global precedent groups has filed a suit in in the first genetically modified Federal Court challenging food to be approved for growEnvironment Canada’s deciout and for human consumpsion to approve the production tion,” Susanna Fuller of the of genetically modified Atlantic Ecology Action Centre said in salmon eggs. an interview Monday.

The suit contends the “We’d better be doing our federal department did not due diligence on it, because it follow its own legislated rules will set a precedent for others.” and do a full risk assessment That’s why the Ecology Acbefore clearing a U.S. company tion Centre, Living Oceans and to produce the eggs in Prince Ecojustice launched the legal Edward Island. challenge, they say.

Boston-based AquaBounty The problem, say the litiTechnologies says it has found gants, is that the entire process a way to make Atlantic salmon has been cloaked in secrecy. grow twice as fast as normal Environment Canada by modifying eggs with genes refused to comment Monday, from chinook salmon and an saying the matter is before the eel-like fish called the ocean courts. pout.

In the U.S., the Food and It has been seeking regulaDrug Administration received tory approval in the United more than 30,000 public comStates since 1995. And while ments after its preliminary neither Canada nor the U.S. 2012 assessment of the modihas approved the fish for hufied salmon found it would man consumption, Environhave no significant environment Canada’s decision to mental impact. green-light the manufacture of Environment Canada has eggs in Souris, P.E.I., is seen as not opened its process to a significant milestone. public comment, and advocacy The court challenge degroups say they were unable mands the release of docuto determine whether a risk Canadian Press

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assessment was even underway until the government announced its decision last November by publishing it in the Canada Gazette.

“The one way to really try to raise public awareness around this is you’ve got to take the government to court,” said Fuller.

“The only recourse we have now is to take them directly to court ... because the public is just pretty much shut out of most of these decisions.”

Under the Canadian Environmental Protection Act, the government must evaluate new substances, including chemicals and genetically modified organisms, that are introduced into the environment.

The suit contends the government failed to take into account information that’s required by the legislation, including test data on “toxicity, invasiveness and pathogenicity,” said Will Amos, a lawyer with Ecojustice.

“Our clients’ position is that the federal government did not conduct the assessment of this new genetically modified organism according to the law.”

AquaBounty’s plan is for the genetically modified fish to be grown in Panama and then later in other facilities, pending approval by U.S. authorities.

In a November release, AquaBounty said Environment Canada’s approval was based on a close study of its hatchery facility in P.E.I., and the opinion of a panel of independent scientific experts through the department of Fisheries and Oceans.

Officials with AquaBounty did not respond to a request for comment on the legal challenge Monday.

The legal challenge was actually filed Dec. 23 but the suit was not publicly announced until Environment Minister Leona Aglukkaq, Health Minister Rona Ambrose and AquaBounty Technologies all had been formally served notice.

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Ukrainian president faces choice: call new elections or face street rage Laura Mills Associated Press

KYIV, Ukraine hick black smoke from burning tires engulfed parts of downtown Kyiv as an ultimatum issued by the opposition to the president to call early elections or face street rage was set to expire with no sign of a compromise on Thursday.

The three main opposition leaders urged protesters late Wednesday to refrain from violence for 24 hours until their ultimatum to President Viktor Yanukovych expires. They demanded that Yanukovych dismiss the government, call early elections and scrap harsh anti-protest legislation that triggered the violence.

The largely peaceful protest against Yanukovych’s decision to shun the EU and turn toward Moscow in November descended into violence Sunday when demonstrators, angered by the passage of repressive laws intended to stifle the protest, marched on official buildings.

For days protesters hurled fire bombs and stones at police, which retaliated with stun grenades, tear gas and rubber bullets. The Wednesday

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tors in battles with police if their demands are not met. If Yanukovych doesn’t concede, “tomorrow we will go forward together. And if it’s a bullet in the forehead, then it’s a bullet in the forehead, but in an honest, fair and brave way,” declared one of them, Arseniy Yatsenyuk.

On Wednesday, riot police beat and shot at protesters, volunteer medics and journalists.

The Interior Ministry said 70 protesters were arrested.

The United States responded by revoking the visas of Ukrainian officials linked to violence and threatened more sanctions.

Protesters slingshot a Molotov cocktail at police in Kyiv, Ukraine. An ultimatum to the president to call an election or face street rage was set to expire with no sign of a compromise on Thursday.

deaths of two protesters – the first fatalities in more than two months of protests – fueled fears of more violence.

Police on Wednesday tore down barricades and chased the protesters down the hill from official buildings, but demonstrators later set hundreds of tires ablaze and regained their positions under plumes of heavy smoke helped by the wind blowing in the police

direction.

Tensions were high Thursday, amid reports of abduction of activists by police, but police and demonstrators, separated by the wall of smoke, refrained from any decisive action.

The three main opposition leaders, who addressed the crowds on Kyiv’s main Independence Square after meeting the president on Wednesday vowed to lead the demonstra-

But it also condemned the extreme-right radical protesters for their aggressive actions. The EU condemned the violence and said it was also considering action against the Ukrainian government.

Russia has accused the West of meddling in Ukraine’s affairs.

“We feel regret and indignation about the obvious foreign interference in the developments in Kyiv,” President Vladimir Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov told the daily Komsomolskaya Pravda in an interview published Thursday.

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Marijuana isn’t more dangerous than alcohol: Obama ing the case.” troubled at the disproportion“And the experiment that’s goate number of arrests and imWASHINGTON prisonments of minorities for ing to be taking place in Colorado resident Barack Obama said marijuana use. “Middle-class kids and Washington is going to be, I he doesn’t think marijuana is think, a challenge,” the president don’t get locked up for smoking more dangerous than alcohol, “in pot, and poor kids do,” he said. said. terms of its impact on the indiEthan Nadelmann, the execu“And African-American kids and vidual consumer.” tive director of the Drug Policy Latino kids are more likely to be “As has been well documented, poor and less likely to have the Alliance praised Obama’s words, I smoked pot as a kid, and I view resources and the support to avoid saying his use of the word “imporit as a bad habit and a vice, not tant” about the new Colorado and unduly harsh penalties.” very different from the cigarettes Washington laws “really puts the He said in the interview that that I smoked as a young person wind in the sails of the movement users shouldn’t be locked up up through a big chunk of my to end marijuana prohibition. for long stretches of time when Critics of the new laws raise people writing drug laws “have adult life. I don’t think it is more concerns about public health and probably done the same thing.” dangerous than alcohol,” the law enforcement, asking whether But Obama urged a cautious president said an interview with wide availability of the drug will approach to changing marijuana The New Yorker magazine. laws, saying that people who think lead to more underage drug use, Smoking marijuana is “not more cases of driving while high legalizing pot will solve social something I encourage, and I’ve and more crime. problems are “probably overstattold my daughters I think it’s a bad idea, a waste of time, not very healthy,” Obama said.

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Proposed 2014 Operating Budget Written submissions are encouraged by email to budgetinput@ whitehorse.ca Citizens can also address Council during Public Input Night on January 27 at 5:30pm in City Hall Council Chambers.

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Behind Olympic facades is a crumbling Sochi Nataliya Vasilyeva

facets of a hidden dark side in the host city of next month’s Winter Olympics, which stands side-bySOCHI, Russia side with the glittering new conshining new $635 million struction projects that President highway on the outskirts Vladimir Putin is touting as a of Sochi stands next to a crumsymbol of Russia’s transformabling apartment block with a red tion from a dysfunctional Soviet “SOS!” banner on its roof. leviathan to a successful, modThe residents of 5a Akatsy ern economy. While state-run street have lived for years with no TV trains its cameras on luxury running water or sewage system. malls, sleek stadiums and highConstruction for the 2014 Winter speed train links, thousands of Games has made their lives more ordinary people in the Sochi area miserable: The new highway has put up with squalor and environcut them off from the city centre. mental waste: villagers living next Even their communal outhouse to an illegal dump filled with had to be torn down because it Olympic construction waste, was found to be too close to the families whose homes are sinking new road and ruled an eyesore. into the earth, city dwellers sufThe slum is one of the many fering chronic power cuts despite Associated Press

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Igor Zarytovsky, centre, and his father Vladimir, left, gather with their neighbors in a village outside Sochi, Russia. As the Olympics approach, many Sochi residents are complaining that their living conditions only got worse and that authorities are deaf to their grievances.

promises to improve electricity.

Putin promoted the Sochi Games, which begin on Feb. 7, as a unique opportunity to bring investment to the Black Sea resort and improve living standards for its 350,000 residents.

Looking back at those promises, many residents, weary from years of living in the midst of Russia’s biggest construction project in modern history, say they have yet to see any improvement in their lives and point to an array of negative effects.

“Everyone was looking forward to the Olympics,” said Alexandra Krivchenko, a 37-yearold mother of three who lives on Akatsy street. “We just never thought they would leave us bang in the middle of a federal

highway!”

People elsewhere in Sochi and surrounding villages have seen the quality of their life decline because of Olympic construction. In the village of Akhshtyr, residents complain about an illegal landfill operated by an Olympics contractor that has fouled the air and a stream that feeds the Sochi water supply.

Waste from another illegal dump in the village of Loo has slid into a brook that flows into the already polluted Black Sea. In the village of Mirny, just outside the Olympic Park, rumbling trucks have damaged foundations and caused homes to sink. And right across the railroad tracks from the Akatsy building, another multifamily

residence has become prone to flooding after an Olympics-related road was built nearby.

Sochi residents also complain about widespread environmental damage, including the destruction of forests and the contamination of a river running down to the sea. Near the Olympic Park, a popular sandy beach was paved over for the development of a port that was never built.

The Winter Games were intended to showcase Russia’s resurgence from the collapse of the Soviet Union two decades ago. From drab sanatoriums to gleaming ski resorts. From outdoor markets with counterfeit clothes to boutiques filled with international brands. When an AP correspondent asked the

Sochi mayor last year what had changed in the city for the better, Anatoly Pakhomov started talking about a new shopping mall and a Louis Vuitton store as symbols of positive change.

Amid such pride in status symbols, Sochi has fallen short in providing basic necessities, residents say.

Two giant power stations have been commissioned to provide electricity for the Olympic venues and the city, but power shortages across the city are still ubiquitous. At a recent televised meeting with Putin, Russia’s energy minister said the grid was still being built and was unlikely to come online before Saturday, less than two weeks before the opening ceremonies.

The city has undertaken a colossal effort to upgrade its infrastructure and municipal services, installing a new sewage and waste-disposal system and hooking up thousands of homes to pipelines supplying natural

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Friday, January 24, 2014 gas. Three weeks before the start of the games, some Sochi streets remain dug up as construction workers continue to lay down new pipes and pavements.

Thousands of people whose homes were demolished to make way for Olympic construction have been relocated, but many others are still waiting for new homes. Meanwhile, even as investment has poured into Olympic facilities, Sochi’s slum dwellings remain standing: The city government told The Associated Press in a written statement that more than 100 apartment buildings and private homes have been classified as uninhabitable.

For many residents, the Sochi they live in bears little resemblance to the city they see on Kremlin-controlled national television.

“It’s a parallel universe that locals to a great extent have no access to,” said Olga Beskova, editor of the local website Sochinskiye Novosti, or Sochi News. “It has

very little to do with how Sochi lives every day. So far, city streets are all dug up, residents have a lot of problems, and it’s hard to see a happy ending after all of this construction.”

The people on Akatsy street have petitioned for decades to get the government to classify the 1941 barracks-like building as uninhabitable and provide them with new housing, so far with no success. They put up their red “SOS!” sign in a desperate effort to call attention to their plight.

City Hall has insisted that the government roads management agency is responsible for relocating the Akatsy residents; the road agency shifts the responsibility on City Hall.

The Akatsy house, in the village of Vesyoloye, is about three kilometres (less than two miles) from the Olympic Park, where the arenas and main stadium are located. Like thousands of private houses in Sochi, this property is not connected to city

water or sewage systems, but residents have made do over the years by drilling wells and building outhouses.

Adding humiliation to hardship, the roads agency secured a court ruling ordering them to pull down their common outhouse, which stood on the edge of the new highway. Krivchenko’s neighbour, Irina Kharchenko, whose family is seeking justice for 5a Akatsy in court, said the judge told them to “get yourselves a bio toilet.”

Residents seemed embarrassed and reluctant to explain how they got around the problem. Some mentioned a bucket, while others pointed to an outhouse on the other side of the property.

Unusual for Russia, Sochi residents are not only willing to talk to reporters but stop them in the street and invite them over to see “what the real Sochi looks like.”

Across railroad tracks is another barracks-type house with no indoor plumbing,

where Vladimir Zarytovsky has been living for 43 years. Since a road for the Olympics was built nearby, the house and yard have become prone to flooding.

“You have to put on rubber boots if you want to go to the toilet,” Zarytovsky, 56, said with a chuckle as he pointed to water marks crawling up the walls of the wooden outhouse and outdoor kitchen that reach a foot high.

His 29-year-old son, Igor, lives elsewhere with his wife and two children, but says he still loves the house where he grew up, even though it is crumbling.

What he resents is what he describes as the lies on Russian state television.

“I watch Channel One and get the feeling that I am living in paradise,” he said. “It’s disgusting to hear the governor and the mayor singing songs to Putin, telling him that everything is fabulous.”

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SOCHI, Russia t’s a tale of two toilets.

When BBC reporter Steve Rosenberg went to use the bathroom at the cross-country skiing and biathlon centre for next month’s Winter Olympics in Sochi, he found two toilets but only one stall.

His tweeted picture instantly became a national joke.

Although toilets like that are not common in Russia, social media users posted photos of other toilets side by side, including some said to be in a courthouse and a cafe.

The editor of the state R-Sport news agency said such communal toilets are standard at Russian soccer stadiums.

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Russians jested that the toilets in Sochi were designed for a “tandem,” the name used to describe the duo of President Vladimir Putin and Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev. One popular blogger altered Rosenberg’s photo to put in a framed portrait of the two leaders above the toilets.

In a nod to the tight security measures imposed in Sochi for the Olympics, another joke has it that the second toilet was for a security officer.

The Sochi organizing committee refused to comment.

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Another hot year: 2013 tied for 4th warmest on record

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Typhoon Haiyan survivors walk through ruins in the village of Maraboth, in the Philippines. Last year was tied for the fourth warmest year on record around the world.

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worst heat and biggest climate disasters last year were outside the U.S. Parts of central Asia, central WASHINGTON Africa and Australia were record ast year tied for the fourth warm. Only a few places, includhottest year on record around ing the central U.S., were cooler the globe. than normal last year.

The average world temperature Temperatures that were only was 58.12 degrees (14.52 Celsius) the 37th warmest for the natying with 2003 for the fourth tion last year. That followed the warmest since 1880, the National warmest year on record for the Oceanic and Atmospheric AdU.S. ministration said Tuesday.

Last year, the world had 41 bilAt the same time, NASA, lion-dollar weather disasters, the which calculates records in a second highest number behind different manner, ranked last only 2010, according to insurance year as the seventh warmest on firm Aon Benfield, which tracks record, with an average temglobal disasters. Since 2000, the perature of 58.3 degrees (14.6 world has averaged 28 such bilCelsius). The difference is related lion dollar disasters, which are to how the two agencies calculate adjusted for inflation. temperatures in the Arctic and Nearly half of last year’s bigother remote places and is based gest weather disasters were in Asia on differences that are in the and the Pacific region, including hundredths of a degree, scientists Typhoon Haiyan, which killed at said. least 6,100 people and caused $13 Both agencies said nine of the billion in damage to the Philip10th warmest years on record pines and Vietnam. Other costly have happened in the 21st cenweather disasters included $22 tury. The hottest year was 2010, billion from central European according to NOAA. flooding in June, $10 billion in The reports were released as damage from Typhoon Fitow in a big snowstorm was hitting the China and Japan, and a $10 bilU.S. East Coast. lion drought in much of China, “There are times such as today according to the insurance firm. when we can have snow even in Usually the weather event a globally warmed world,” said called El Nino, a warming of the Gavin Schmidt, deputy director central Pacific, is responsible for of NASA’s Goddard Institute of boosting already warm years into Space Studies in New York. “But the world’s hottest years. But in the long term trends are not go2013, there was no El Nino. ing to disappear ... Quite frankly The fact that a year with no people have a very short memory El Nino “was so hot tells me that when it comes to climate and the climate really is shifting,” said weather.”

Andrew Dessler, a Texas A&M Those longer trends show the University climate scientist, who world has seen “fairly dramatic was not part of either the NOAA warming” since the 1960s with “a or NASA teams. smaller rate of warming over the For many people, global last decade or so,” said Thomas warming first hit the headlines in Karl, director of NOAA’s National 1988 when NASA climate scienClimatic Data Center. In the past tist James Hansen testified before 50 years, the world annual temCongress on a hot summer day. perature has increased by nearly That year ended up the warm1.4 degrees (0.8 degrees Celsius), est on record at the time. But on according to NOAA data.

Tuesday, it was knocked out of the 20 top hottest years by 2013.

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Mining industry groups back transparency for payments to government debate and assist investors.

“Greater transparency surOTTAWA rounding the collection of resource he Canadian mining industry is revenues can help to address these backing recommendations that issues and improve the develpublicly traded mining companies opment outcomes of resource report project-related payments to extraction for billions of citizens foreign and domestic governments in oil, gas and mineral producing that can range from royalties and countries,” said the report which taxes to transportation fees. proposed a framework for discloThe recommendation was sure. included in a report Thursday by Mining companies have faced a group including the Mining Association of Canada and the Prospec- a number of challenges at home tors and Developers Association of and abroad in recent years over just who benefits from projects under Canada. development.

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Meanwhile, Gabriel Resources was dealt a significant setback last year after legislators rejected a bill that would have allowed its Rosia Montana project in Romania to proceed.

Last summer, Canada adopted a G8 initiative that would require companies to disclose any payments they make to governments.

However, the government is still working on implementation details.

The mining industry group said Thursday that its recommendations for implementation aim to bring Canada in line with standards in the United States and the European Union.

Canada is a world leader in the mining industry, home to companies like Barrick Gold, one of the world’s largest gold miners, while the Toronto Stock Exchange is a key venue for mining companies around the world looking to raise cash.

The report recommended that large mining companies disclose payments over $100,000 and small firms disclose payments of more than $10,000.

The requirement, the group said, will allow the public and investors to have a clear picture of payments made by companies to governments including taxes, royalties, bonuses, dividends, infrastructure payments and transportation

and terminal operations fees.

The working group’s report recommended that disclosure be made to provincial securities regulators through harmonized rules across the country and that there be no exemptions under its proposed framework.

“Transparency of payments to governments will highlight the financial contributions and benefits that come from resource development,” said Ross Gallinger, executive director of the Prospectors & Developers Association of Canada.

In addition to the PDAC and the Mining Association, the group included Publish What You Pay-Canada and the Revenue Watch Institute.

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act of smoking.

“The action of taking the hand to the mouth has been repeated so many times that it becomes overlearned,” says Selby. “The habit part is so difficult to stop, because that gets triggered at different times of the day, with different cues, like drinking alcohol or having a meal or taking a break.

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comes so hard for the person to stop and stay stopped.”

An addiction to any drug, including nicotine, warps a person’s thinking processes, he says. “They feel that they cannot function or survive without that drug.”

Smokers will often personalize their relationship with cigarettes, considering them like a best friend that has been with them through good times and bad, Selby says.

“One of the things we have to help them think about is it’s more like an abusive lover. In the short term, it does great things for them, but in the long term it’s killing them and they have to break up with that relationship,” he says.

Unlike using heroin or cocaine, whose downsides are more quickly evident, the adverse health effects from cigarettes are more akin to a slow burn, often lulling smokers into a false sense of security.

“This one’s like guerilla warfare, it’s embedding in your body. When you have a cigarette you’re getting 4,000 chemicals, you’re getting 60 cancer-causing chemicals, and those things accumulate and they’re slowly working away and causing you harm.”

Besides contributing to many health conditions, among them high blood pressure and cardiovascular disease, 30 per cent of all cancer deaths in Canada directly result from tobacco use, says John Atkinson, director of tobacco control and cancer prevention at the Canadian Cancer Society’s Ontario division.

Smoking is behind 80 per cent of lung cancer deaths.

“It still remains the No. 1 preventable cause of disease and death,” says Atkinson. “We know the No. 1 thing an individual can do to lower their risk of cancer is quit smoking.”

At a CAMH clinic that tries to help smokers butt out for good, participants are advised to come up with a comprehensive plan that includes a firm quit date, tips on getting through the physical and psychological aspects of dependency, and counselling on the pitfalls to avoid and what to do if one slips and lights up.

“So we talk about the things you need to pay attention to, like environment – where you’re working, living, playing – that could be modified so you’re not triggered to smoke,” said Selby.

“Make sure you pick your date right and you optimize it.

Get a plan. If you get a craving, ask ‘What can I do. What do I have on hand,” he says, pointing to rescue medications

like nicotine gum, spray or lozenges.

Indeed, CAMH experts believe combining such over-thecounter products as the patch or oral nicotine replacements with either the prescription medication Zyban or Champix offers the best chance for successfully crushing the cigarette habit.

“Generally, quitting is a process and not an event,” says Selby, noting that this doublebarrelled approach has been shown to roughly double or triple the odds of succeeding over the long term.

“Current research suggests combining two forms of treatment works better than either one alone.”

While some smokers can quit cold turkey, using willpower alone, that strategy can wear thin for many people, says Selby, advising them to seek support through self-help booklets, calling a quit line, seeing a health practitioner or getting into a specialist clinic.

“All of those things should be brought in because you’re learning to undo something that has been so ingrained in your brain. It’s not a miracle; you need to work at it to make it happen.”

Atkinson says the Canadian Cancer Society offers a printed self-help guide to quitting and a national toll-free smokers helpline – 1-877-513-5333 – that serves most of Canada, providing “quit coaches” to

help callers trying to butt out for good. B.C., Alberta, Quebec, and Newfoundland and Labrador have separate quit lines.

There is also the society’s online program – www. smokershelpline.ca – that offers advice, quit coaches and an online community where smokers in the process of quashing their addiction can connect.

“There is no magic bullet, unfortunately, for quitting smoking,” agrees Atkinson. “It does still take, on average, five to seven times for people to be successful in quitting.”

For those who have quit for six months, research shows there is a five per cent risk of starting to smoke again, and after a year of being tobaccofree, the chances of starting to light up again are another five per cent – usually because of stress, says Selby.

“The problem is most people end up relapsing within the first three weeks of making that quit attempt and they give up trying. And what we are saying is: ‘No, no, let’s shift that so you are staying in the process,”’ he says.

“It’s never too late to quit.

Even people in their 60s and 70s and 80s. You can see a benefit to their longevity and quality of life.

“The only time it’s too late is when the person has died and we failed to act.”

Thank You Heartfelt thanks to Dr. P.J. Anderson for the medical care and exceptional support extended to my late husband Jack over the past 19 years, as he lived with a heart condition, COPD and other related ailments. Also, thanks to the Whitehorse General Hospital’s emergency room, and medical ward doctors, nurses and staff who cared for Jack during his numerous medical emergencies and extended hospital stays and Yukon Home Care.

Jack’s most recent courageous fight was with aggressive and untreatable brain cancer. Words cannot express my gratitude for the dignified care and comfort given to Jack and the extended support to my family and me as we prepared to say our final good-byes. Thank you Dr. Anderson, Dr. Kanachowski, WGH medical ward nurses (there were so many of you), social workers (Jenny Charchun, Emily Tyson and Hailey Henderson), therapists (Arielle & Lauren), Janet McDonald (Jack’s wound specialist), Hospice Yukon (Trish and Sue), Alkan Air and the emergency medevac team and last but not least, Bishop Gary for his many comforting visits of prayers and blessings.

I would also like to thank family, friends and co-workers, my ECO family, Jack’s Masonic brethren and Heritage Funeral Home’s (Karla and Jennifer) for their comforting words, visits, hugs, cards, phone calls, donations, and flowers.

To Father Kieran, Lina, Truska, Tony, Ryan, and Caroline for the beautiful service, the Catholic Women’s League for tending to the refreshments and to all those who were able to join our family in saying a final farewell to Jack, thank you!

In loving memory forever John Ernest (Jack) Thompson

Apr. 5th, 1934-Dec. 31, 2013

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comes so hard for the person to stop and stay stopped.”

An addiction to any drug, including nicotine, warps a person’s thinking processes, he says. “They feel that they cannot function or survive without that drug.”

Smokers will often personalize their relationship with cigarettes, considering them like a best friend that has been with them through good times and bad, Selby says.

“One of the things we have to help them think about is it’s more like an abusive lover. In the short term, it does great things for them, but in the long term it’s killing them and they have to break up with that relationship,” he says.

Unlike using heroin or cocaine, whose downsides are more quickly evident, the adverse health effects from cigarettes are more akin to a slow burn, often lulling smokers into a false sense of security.

“This one’s like guerilla warfare, it’s embedding in your body. When you have a cigarette you’re getting 4,000 chemicals, you’re getting 60 cancer-causing chemicals, and those things accumulate and they’re slowly working away and causing you harm.”

Besides contributing to many health conditions, among them high blood pressure and cardiovascular disease, 30 per cent of all cancer deaths in Canada directly result from tobacco use, says John Atkinson, director of tobacco control and cancer prevention at the Canadian Cancer Society’s Ontario division.

Smoking is behind 80 per cent of lung cancer deaths.

“It still remains the No. 1 preventable cause of disease and death,” says Atkinson. “We know the No. 1 thing an individual can do to lower their risk of cancer is quit smoking.”

At a CAMH clinic that tries to help smokers butt out for good, participants are advised to come up with a comprehensive plan that includes a firm quit date, tips on getting through the physical and psychological aspects of dependency, and counselling on the pitfalls to avoid and what to do if one slips and lights up.

“So we talk about the things you need to pay attention to, like environment – where you’re working, living, playing – that could be modified so you’re not triggered to smoke,” said Selby.

“Make sure you pick your date right and you optimize it.

Get a plan. If you get a craving, ask ‘What can I do. What do I have on hand,” he says, pointing to rescue medications

like nicotine gum, spray or lozenges.

Indeed, CAMH experts believe combining such over-thecounter products as the patch or oral nicotine replacements with either the prescription medication Zyban or Champix offers the best chance for successfully crushing the cigarette habit.

“Generally, quitting is a process and not an event,” says Selby, noting that this doublebarrelled approach has been shown to roughly double or triple the odds of succeeding over the long term.

“Current research suggests combining two forms of treatment works better than either one alone.”

While some smokers can quit cold turkey, using willpower alone, that strategy can wear thin for many people, says Selby, advising them to seek support through self-help booklets, calling a quit line, seeing a health practitioner or getting into a specialist clinic.

“All of those things should be brought in because you’re learning to undo something that has been so ingrained in your brain. It’s not a miracle; you need to work at it to make it happen.”

Atkinson says the Canadian Cancer Society offers a printed self-help guide to quitting and a national toll-free smokers helpline – 1-877-513-5333 – that serves most of Canada, providing “quit coaches” to

help callers trying to butt out for good. B.C., Alberta, Quebec, and Newfoundland and Labrador have separate quit lines.

There is also the society’s online program – www. smokershelpline.ca – that offers advice, quit coaches and an online community where smokers in the process of quashing their addiction can connect.

“There is no magic bullet, unfortunately, for quitting smoking,” agrees Atkinson. “It does still take, on average, five to seven times for people to be successful in quitting.”

For those who have quit for six months, research shows there is a five per cent risk of starting to smoke again, and after a year of being tobaccofree, the chances of starting to light up again are another five per cent – usually because of stress, says Selby.

“The problem is most people end up relapsing within the first three weeks of making that quit attempt and they give up trying. And what we are saying is: ‘No, no, let’s shift that so you are staying in the process,”’ he says.

“It’s never too late to quit.

Even people in their 60s and 70s and 80s. You can see a benefit to their longevity and quality of life.

“The only time it’s too late is when the person has died and we failed to act.”

Thank You Heartfelt thanks to Dr. P.J. Anderson for the medical care and exceptional support extended to my late husband Jack over the past 19 years, as he lived with a heart condition, COPD and other related ailments. Also, thanks to the Whitehorse General Hospital’s emergency room, and medical ward doctors, nurses and staff who cared for Jack during his numerous medical emergencies and extended hospital stays and Yukon Home Care.

Jack’s most recent courageous fight was with aggressive and untreatable brain cancer. Words cannot express my gratitude for the dignified care and comfort given to Jack and the extended support to my family and me as we prepared to say our final good-byes. Thank you Dr. Anderson, Dr. Kanachowski, WGH medical ward nurses (there were so many of you), social workers (Jenny Charchun, Emily Tyson and Hailey Henderson), therapists (Arielle & Lauren), Janet McDonald (Jack’s wound specialist), Hospice Yukon (Trish and Sue), Alkan Air and the emergency medevac team and last but not least, Bishop Gary for his many comforting visits of prayers and blessings.

I would also like to thank family, friends and co-workers, my ECO family, Jack’s Masonic brethren and Heritage Funeral Home’s (Karla and Jennifer) for their comforting words, visits, hugs, cards, phone calls, donations, and flowers.

To Father Kieran, Lina, Truska, Tony, Ryan, and Caroline for the beautiful service, the Catholic Women’s League for tending to the refreshments and to all those who were able to join our family in saying a final farewell to Jack, thank you!

In loving memory forever John Ernest (Jack) Thompson

Apr. 5th, 1934-Dec. 31, 2013

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Request for Public Input on Changes to the Employment Standards Act From December 19, 2013 to January 31, 2014, the Yukon government is seeking public input In the spring 2013 legislative session, the Government of Yukon made changes to the Employment Standards Act. The Act now provides an employed parent of a critically ill child with up to 37 weeks of job protection to match the federal Employment Insurance Act, and up to 35 weeks for a parent of a missing child or a child who has died as a result of a crime so that they can take unpaid leave from their jobs and be able to access new federal financial benefits.

Changes needed to ensure access to full results of medical studies Sheryl Ubelacker Canadian Press

TORONTO bout $240 billion is spent globally on medical studies each year, but only about half of the results end up being made public for use by other researchers and doctors treating patients.

That lack of accessibility not only wastes precious research dollars, but is also potentially harmful to patient care, argues a group of researchers, who are calling for changes to ensure study results are fully reported in medical journals.

“Overall, half of health research, nothing from it is made public, not even the basic results or the basic journal paper,” said Dr. An-Wen Chan, a scientist at the Women’s College Research Institute in Toronto.

And when research is published, a study’s goals, methods and findings are usually summarized, resulting in significantly incomplete information, said Chan, lead author of one in a series of articles on research waste published in a recent edition of the Lancet.

“There are hundreds to thousands of pages of research information that describe how the study was done, as well as reporting all the analyses. And that is compressed into a journal paper that’s less than 10 pages,” he said.

“So clearly there’s some loss of information. And when you select what information to report, as with any journal, the most interesting information is selectively reported.”

Chan said the strongest predictor of a medical study being submitted for publication is finding positive results for a drug, medical device or other intervention being tested.

When results of research are negative – in other words, the drug or device didn’t prove to be beneficial – researchers often don’t bother

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from the market by Merck in 2004.

Those scientists were able to show the drug’s inherent dangers only because they obtained access to complete information, Chan said.

“The tens of thousands of excess heart attacks and deaths that have been estimated could have been avoided.”

In the Lancet article, Chan and co-authors make the following recommendations: –Research institutions and funding agencies should provide incentives that reward scientists who provide full dissemination of study materials.

–Researchers, funders, sponsors, government regulators, research ethics committees and journals should develop and adopt standards for the content of full study reports and for data-sharing practices.

–These groups should endorse and enforce study registration policies, wide availability of full study information, and sharing of all patient-level health research.

Dr. Andreas Laupacis, executive director of the Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute at St. Michael’s Hospital in Toronto, said the article highlights an important issue that the public should be concerned about.

Patients often agree to take part in research trials because they’re told it could benefit society or future patients, said Laupacis, who was not one of the authors.

“If we don’t then publish results, the benefit’s not nearly what it should be and my sense is that (people) might be less interested in entering trials,” he said, adding that it also breaks an “ethical contract” made between researchers and patients.

“I think it’s something that researchers will need to solve themselves, hopefully with a bit of a push from the public.”

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to submit their study to a journal, he said.

But negative results are highly valuable in themselves, Chan stressed.

“To know that something doesn’t work and we should not be treating our patients with a particular intervention is important to know.

It wastes money, it wastes time and they’re potentially harmful if they don’t work.”

Chan and his co-authors from the U.S., Europe and Australia cite several examples of incomplete study information leading to wasted health-care spending or harm to patients.

For instance, governments worldwide spent billions of dollars on Tamiflu (oseltamivir) to treat influenza, especially during the 2009 H1N1 pandemic.

But the decision to stockpile the drug was based on inadequate information, including clinical trials in which almost two-thirds of patient data were not reported. As it turned out, Tamiflu did not necessarily reduce hospital admissions or complications from flu and its harmful side-effects were unclear.

“It’s really been based on questionable evidence of whether it works or not, questionable in the sense that regulators and independent researchers are unable to fully evaluate whether it works or not because not all the data are available,” Chan said.

In the case of the blockbuster painkiller Vioxx, exclusion of data by its maker Merck from studies submitted to journals and to government regulators resulted in thousands of patients who took the drug having heart attacks or strokes.

A subsequent analysis by independent researchers that included full data from all patient trials of the drug – obtained through a lawsuit – revealed the risk of heart attack and stroke, leading to Vioxx being pulled

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Body 13 brings three love stories set on a beach

Courtesy Gwaandak Theatre

A scene from Body 13, a theatre piece from award-winning multicultural theatre company The MT Space, part of Gwaandak Theatre’s festivities at the Yukon Arts Centre from January 29-February 4.

Jacqueline Ronson

between generations, genders and cultures through movement and sexuality. waandak Theatre has an excitIt was the Yukon Arts Centre that ing line-up of performances arranged for MT Theatre to come to and workshops in the coming the Yukon for the performances. weeks, and it’s all about cultural But Gwaandak saw an opportuncollision. ity for much more.

“It’s all linked to a wonderful “As soon as we heard that Yukon company from Kitchener, Ontario, Arts Centre was presenting this, we called MT Space coming here to said, ‘Oh, can we talk? Can we talk?’” share a really, really powerful and said Flather. “We would love to work sexy and innovative piece of Canwith these artists, we would love to adian theatre called Body 13, which spend more time with them, collaball happens on a stretch of Canadian orate, and also give more time for beach,” said Patti Flather, Gwaanpeople in Whitehorse to just hang dak’s managing artistic director. out with them and have an artistic The “MT” stands for Multiculdialogue.” tural Theatre, and the company And so Gwandaak Theatre will has a mandate to produce works co-present the shows with the that reflect the cultural diversity of Yukon Arts Centre, and a whole lot Canadian communities. more.

Body 13 tells three love storThere will be three performances ies that take place on a stretch of of Body 13, at 8 p.m. on January Canadian beach in the context of a 29-31. wedding and a funeral.

On the Thursday, January 30 The work explores conflicts event there will be a beach party in News Reporter

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the arts centre lobby following the performance. It is free with a ticket to that evening’s performance.

Gwaandak thought that that would be a good way to jolt people from the winter blues and allow them to interact with the visiting artists, said Marjolene Gauthier, the company’s general manager.

There will be a live DJ, bhangra and belly dance lessons and tropical-themed drink specials.

People are encouraged to come decked out in beach-wear, but it’s not mandatory, said Flather.

Over the following days artists from MT Theatre will conduct community workshops in Whitehorse.

Trevor Copp will facilitate The Unexpected Body, a workshop about using your body in surprised and spontaneous ways.

“He’s an amazing dancer as well as actor. He moves beautifully,” said Flather.

The workshop will be offered in English on February 1 and in

French on February 2.

And Nada Humsi will facilitate Playful Acting on February 2. It will be a sort of Theatre 101 workshop, introducing people to how to use their bodies to bring texts to live, said Gauthier.

No experience is required for the workshops. They will take place at the Centre de la francophonie at 302 Strickland.

The cost is $25 per workshop, and spots are still available. Contact Gwaandak Theatre to register.

Artists from MT Theatre as well as local artists will also be working with Patti Flather over four days to workshop her new play, Paradise.

It’s about the entangled lives of four characters who find themselves living in different sorts of prisons.

There’s an unemployed logger with a war in his head, a family doctor searching for love, a young woman searching to score and a teenager imprisoned in the war on terror.

“It’s a lot about isolation, too, and people in different spaces, and a lot of times about not connecting.

Wanting to connect, not connecting,” said Flather.

“I’m really, really excited to be working with director Majdi BouMatar and these actors who have such a grounding in telling stories through physicality and through different ways besides just the text to tell a story.”

The four days will allow the artists to work together on some of the scenes that are the most complicated to stage, she said.

At the end, there will be a public reading of selected scenes.

That will take place at 6:30 p.m. on February 4 at the Kwanlin Dun Cultural Centre’s artist studio.

Please RSVP to Gwaandak if you plan to attend, as seating is limited.

That play is slated for a full production next year.

Contact Jacqueline Ronson at jronson@yukon-news.com

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Sunday, Feb 2

Wednesday, Feb 5

3pm 15 Reasons to Live

9pm The Congress

A ZWEIG, ON, 2013, 83MIN

A FOLMAN, ISR/BEL/POL/GER/FRA, 2013, 122 MIN

12pm Fire Hall Film Talk (free event)

12pm Fire Hall Film Talk (free event)

Zweig (I, Curmudgeon, Lovable) explores themes such as work, love, humour, and solitude with an eclectic cast of characters in this thought-provoking documentary.

Robin Wright, a Hollywood actress who once held great promise (The Princess Bride, House of Cards) receives an unexpected offer: Mirramount Studios proposes to scan her entire being into their computers and purchase ownership of her image for an astronomical fee. Parental guidance suggested: sexual content.

With Miroir Noir’s Vincent Morisset about Creating Films for Computers. Old Fire Hall.

Guests TBA. Old Fire Hall.

12pm PilgrIMAGE

7pm Arctic Defenders

(A Tribute to Peter Wintonick)

J WALKER, NU/NS, 2013, 90 MIN

WINTONICK/BURT-WINTONICK, QC, 2009, 82 MIN

5:15pm Oil Sands Karaoke

A stunningly photographed piece about the creation of the largest Aboriginal land claim in the world—the Territory of Nunavut. This finely layered film explores the meaning of sovereignty and Inuit self-determination. Director in attendance.

Renowned Canadian documentarian Peter Wintonick and his 19-year-old daughter Mira take a cinematic road trip around the world, exploring life lessons as well as the past, present and future of film and image-making.

C WILKINSON, BC, 2013, 85 MIN

Monday, Feb 3 12pm Fire Hall Film Talk (free event)

With Crazywater’s Dennis Allen, Teri Snelgrove and Kirk Tougas. Old Fire Hall.

5:30pm Crazywater D ALLEN, YT/BC, 2013, 55 MIN

The Canadian Premiere of this emotional and revealing exploration of substance abuse among First Nations people in Canada. Director in attendance.

8pm Cas & Dylan J PRIESTLEY, BC, 2013, 90 MIN

Priestley directs this offbeat comedy-drama starring Richard Dreyfuss and Tatiana Maslany as two unlikely companions who drive a beat-up orange Volkswagen from Winnipeg to Vancouver Island on a voyage of discovery.

Tuesday, Feb 4 12pm Fire Hall Film Talk (free event)

With Rhymes for Young Ghouls’ Kawennahere Devery Jacobs. Old Fire Hall.

12pm The Call of the Yukon W WELCHER, YT, 2014, 52 MIN

This documentary series considers the lifestyles of German-speaking Yukoners. Two episodes will screen; director in attendance. In German w/ English subtitles.

4:30pm Alias M LATIMER, ON, 2013, 65 MIN

Raw and uncompromising, this inspiring documentary tells the story of aspiring rappers trying to escape the gangster life, while illuminating a darker side of urban Canada. Parental guidance suggested: coarse language 6:30pm Rhymes for Young Ghouls J BARNABY, QC, 2013, 88 MIN

A fictional 1970s Indian reservation by the name of Red Crow is the backdrop for this funny stylish, and starkly original black-comedy-horror film. The residents do what they can to survive and resist the oppression of the church, the residential school and the reserve’s evil Indian agent.

Parental guidance suggested: graphic violence and mature themes.

9pm Miroir Noir V MORISSET, QC, 2008, 82 MIN

This documentary/concert film follows the Montreal based band Arcade Fire on their aroundthe-world tour and in the studio as they prepare to record their sophomore album Neon Bible.

Director in attendance.

Screens with Subconscious Password C LANDRETH, 2013, 11 MIN

An NFB animation with music by Daniel Janke.

5pm La jaula de oro (The Golden Cage)

Through five oil sands workers belting their hearts out at a Fort McMurray pub we get an intimate view of community and culture in a town overshadowed by its reputation. Director in attendance.

D QUEMADA-DÍEZ, ESP/MEX, 2013, 102 MIN

8pm The Summit

Three teenagers from the slums of Guatemala journey toward the US in search of a better life, at the mercy of whatever horrors and joys cross their path. In Spanish w/ English subtitles. Parental guidance suggested: graphic violence.

N RYAN, IRL/UK, 2012, 100 MIN

7:30pm The Grand Seduction

This stunning and riveting documentary tells the story of the 2008 climber tragedy on K2 (the world’s second highest mountain), zeroing in on the super-human feat of a Nepalese climber who spent 36 hours in the ‘death-zone’ to rescue fellow climbers.

D MCKELLAR, ON/NL 2013, 115 MIN

This remake of the Quebecois film of the same name charts the lengths to which the townsfolk of a tiny Newfoundland coastal community will go to enchant a big-city doctor (with Gordon Pinsent and Brendan Gleeson). Director in attendance.

Thursday, Feb 6 12pm Salmon Confidential T ROSCOVICH, BC, 2013, 89 MIN

This provocative film documents biologist Alexandra Morton as she uncovers dangerous viruses threatening wild Pacific salmon, with surprising insight into government agencies tasked with managing the safety of our food supply.

6:30pm No Clue C BESSAI, BC, 2013, 96 MIN

A beautiful femme fatale (Amy Smart) walks into a private detective’s office, only the man behind the desk is not a real detective, he’s comedian Brent Butt (Corner Gas) who has wandered into the wrong place. But the blonde is such a bombshell that he figures what harm would there be in posing as a hard-boiled detective and helping her out a bit? Director in attendance.

9pm Tom à la ferme (Tom at the Farm) X DOLAN, QC, 2013, 102 MIN

Dolan (I Killed My Mother) plays the grief-stricken Tom, who ventures into the bucolic Quebec countryside for his lover’s funeral only to become a pawn in a sadistic game perpetrated by the deceased’s savage sexually repressed brother.

In French w/ English subtitles. Parental guidance suggested: mature themes and graphic violence

10:15pm I am Divine J SCHWARZ, USA, 2013, 85 MIN

This is the story of Divine, aka Harris Glenn Milstead, from his humble beginnings as an overweight, teased Baltimore youth, to his collaboration with filmmaker John Waters in the 1960s and 70s that transformed him into an internationally recognized drag superstar. Parental guidance suggested: mature themes.

Saturday, February 8 9:30am My Neighbour Totoro H MIYAZAKI, JPN, 1988, 82 MIN

This classic animation is as lovable now as when it was first released. Satsuki and her younger sister Mei move into a house in the country and discover that the nearby forest is inhabited by magical creatures called Totoros (pronounced toe-toe-ro). Free admission: family screening.

11:30am Expedition to the End of the World

(Ekspeditionen til verdens ende) D DENCIK, DNK/SWE/GRL, 2013, 90 MIN

A thrilling 21st century adventure film. NorthEast Greenland’s melting massifs set the scene for this exploratory mission realized by a myriad of personalities—scientists, philosophers and artists—all on one magnificent ship. In English and Danish w/ English subtitles.

2pm Hi Ho Mistahey!

Sunday, Feb 9 10am Uvanga HÉLÈNE-COUSINEAU/IVALU, NU, 2013, 88 MIN.

In the land of the midnight sun, 14-year-old Tomas returns to the people and culture of an Inuk father he never knew.

12pm Revolution R STEWART, CAN, 2013, 90 MIN

Revolution is a film about changing the world and the true-life adventure of director Rob Stewart (Sharkwater): one that will take him through 15 countries over four years, and where he’ll discover that it’s not only sharks that are in grave danger—it’s humanity itself. Q&A to follow.

3pm Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer LERNER/POZDOROVKIN, UK/RU, 2013, 88 MIN

Moving from farce to tragedy and back again, the film explores how political and religious forces in Russia make an example out of three young artists who stepped out of line. In Russian w/ English subtitles.

5pm Watermark J BAICHWAL, ON, 2013, 92 MIN

Renowned photographer Edward Burtynsky teams up with filmmaker Jennifer Baichwal to explore the massive impact that human intervention has had on the world’s water supply with images of astonishing (and sometimes terrifying) beauty.

7:45pm The Rocket K MOUDANT, LAO/THA/AUS, 2013, 96 MIN

A boy who is believed to bring bad luck builds a giant rocket in order to prove his family that he’s not cursed. The Rocket is a feel-good film for the whole family that will transport you into a tropical rainforest and the fascinating life of a Laotian boy. In Lao w/ English subtitles.

Venue Yukon Arts Centre, unless noted

A OBOMSAWIN, CANADA, 2013, 99 MIN

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Legendary director Alanis Obomsawin addresses shocking issues surrounding the rights of Indigenous children through the inspirational story of Shannen Koostachin, a Cree teenager who became a powerful activist. Director in attendance.

10:30am Gold

4:30pm Blood Brother

Ticket/pass prices include Box Office surcharge.

T ARSLAN, GER, 2013, 102 MIN

1898—the Klondike Gold Rush. Driven by hope for a better life, courageous Emily Meyer joins a group of seven German-Americans on the long journey to the Dawson gold fields. In German w/ English subtitles. Parental guidance suggested: frightening scenes.

12:30pm My Prairie Home C MCMULLAN, ON, 2013, 77 MIN

True Canadian iconoclast and acclaimed transgendered country/electro-pop artist Rae Spoon revisits the stretches of rural Alberta that he once considered ‘home’ and confronts memories of growing up queer in an abusive, evangelical household.

$12 /$11 YFS Members, seniors, youth under 16.

Select films are $7 for youth under 16. Refer to schedule for details.

Five Film Pass: $52

S HOOVER, USA, 2013, 92 MIN

Rocky Braat’s inspiring story about leaving behind his life in Pittsburgh to offer full-time support in India to women and children living with HIV and AIDS. In Tamil and English w/ English subtitles.

6:45pm Gabrielle L ARCHAMBAULT, QC, 2013, 104 MIN

Produced by the team behind Monsieur Lazhar, Gabrielle is a captivating tale of a developmentally challenged young woman’s quest for independence and love. In French w/ English subtitles.

Parental guidance suggested: mature themes.

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Robert Munsch continues drug recovery, will do rare reading this weekend Victoria Ahearn Canadian Press

TORONTO eloved children’s author Robert Munsch says he has no regrets about going public with his addiction issues nearly four years ago, and still attends support meetings almost daily.

“Four or five days a week I go to the morning narcotics anonymous meeting, because I’m an addict and I don’t want to be an active addict,” the bestselling author of Love You Forever and The Paper Bag Princess said in an interview Thursday.

“In the afternoons I write and walk my dog. I walk my dog out of town, off the leash, we go through woods, it’s crazy.”

Munsch, who will join other authors at the Ontario Science Centre for Family Literacy Day on Sunday, made headlines in May 2010 after admitting in a TV interview that he was four months clean from a long cocaine and alcohol addiction.

The 68-year-old, who lives in Guelph, Ont., said he felt compelled to make the revelation because he was being interviewed about his life and recovery from drug addiction was a big part of it.

“Everybody told me not to do this and I did it and I’m glad I did it,” he said.

“The response is very positive. I got some bad reviews but it helped that I said, ‘Hey, I’m a drug addict. I haven’t used for a while.’ It wasn’t like ‘Bob Munsch found in

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Toronto hotel.’ I did it myself.

Nobody outed me.”

Munsch also wrote on his website back then that he’d been diagnosed as obsessive compulsive and manic depressive, and had been going to 12-step recovery meetings for more than 25 years.

He said he’s “been on some pill or another for about 10 years” but has finally found one that works.

“I’m on Lithium to stop mood swings and without that I’m a wreck,” said Munsch, a member of the Order of Canada and Canada’s Walk of Fame who has sold tens of millions of copies of his children’s titles.

“Some days I’m (makes wild hand gestures) and other days I’m (makes a growling noise),” he added, evoking the fun animated storytelling style that has earned him legions of young fans around the world.

Though Munsch will be doing a reading at the Family Literacy Day event on Sunday, his days of touring and doing 50 storytelling shows a year are over – a result of a 2008 stroke that left him unable to speak for two days.

“Age has kind of defeated me,” said the soft-spoken wordsmith, who grew up in Glenshaw, Pa., and planned to become a Jesuit priest before volunteer work at preschools put him on his path as a children’s writer.

“I never did recover all my fluency that I had before the stroke and that is most notable when I tell stories and I tell stories in front of audiences.

was no money to do tours and stuff. I ended up staying on people’s sofas in people’s basements and there I got stories.

“I continued that when I no longer was forced to do it and consequently have stayed with all kinds of families all over Canada, and most of the kids in my books are children I met in those families.”

From those experiences, Munsch has concluded “family literacy has sort of stalled” in Canada.

“It’s not getting worse but it’s not getting better,” he said.

“Families, especially with Frank Gunn/The Canadian Press people working, are under a Author Robert Munsch in Toronto. lot of stress and one of the things that’s lost in that is the event created by ABC Life “I would sometimes forget kind of interactions with the Literacy Canada, is encouragthe story, like The Paper Bag kids that help family literacy.” ing Canadian families to have Princess. I’ve told that 1,000 Munsch recommends par“15 minutes of fun” learning times but I just forget it. ents spend 20 minutes readThat’s why I stopped touring. I together. ing two “fun” books to their Despite his struggles to do couldn’t do it.” children at bedtime. public readings, Munsch said Munsch has still managed “Then on top of that there’s he still makes the time for the the kind of reading and to maintain his career goal of event because he’s witnessed publishing two books a year numbers stuff that you do (culling material from the 100 first-hand the challenges some throughout the day, just like, parents and children face with ‘Oh look, let’s see how much or so unedited children’s storeading and writing. ries he’s had on file), and he’s sugar is in this box of Corn “I’ve stayed with families written one new story since Flakes.”’ where the father couldn’t the stroke. It’s about a little His most requested book at read,” said Munsch, who’s girl who wants to take home readings? a pet rat, much to her father’s been a part of Family Literacy Love You Forever, in which Day for 10 years. “He got the chagrin. a mother sings a lullaby to her kids to read things out of the “My goal in stories is to son, who then sings it back to paper for him.” make a story that will be her when she becomes sick.

Indeed, Munsch has stayed good, irrespective of the time “I wrote that after I had a with many families throughthat it’s surrounded in,” said baby die,” he said. “That still out his career, partly because Munsch. gets to me.”

“Little kids’ lives, for better of economics and partly for “I can perform it without or worse, are not yet cluttered inspiration. thinking about it, which is “I discovered very early that best because I’m reacting to up with iPhones and the neatI never got a story at a Holiday the audience,” added Munsch. est thing on the block.”

Inn,” said Munsch. “But when “But then if I think about it, I The 16th annual FamI was just a new writer there ily Literacy Day, a national tear up, I have to stop.” present

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Whitewash: a murder flick with a Canadian spin Nelson Wyatt

roles to his credit, says he found the script by director Emanuel Hoss-Desmarais and Marc Tulin to MONTREAL be intimidating when he first read n Whitewash, winter is literally it but he couldn’t refuse the role. murder.

“Anything that I read that is And that murder is committed, intimidating, that’s challenging appropriately for its remote Cana- to the level that it’s intimidatdian setting, with a snowplow. ing, you know you have to do it,” While the movie, which opens said Church, whose films include Friday, stars Thomas Haden Sideways, Spider-Man 3 and George Church and Marc Labreche, the of the Jungle. elements and the snowplow are “You know you have to step just as key. up because if I’m not challenging Whitewash is the story of Bruce, myself then I’ve sort of given up played by Church, a loser and and I’m not ready to give up.” heavy drinker who ends up runHe cited being outdoors in the ning over Paul (Labreche) with his cold most of the time and not havsnowplow after stopping him from ing anyone to play off during large committing suicide and trying to chunks of the film as some of the help him get his life together. challenges.

Bruce flees into the bush in the “But that’s where you do take it snowplow and lives in it as he tries to a different level,” he said. to come to grips with what he’s Whitewash is as stark with its done in a downward spiral and dialogue as it is with its landscapes. intense battle with his conscience. While Church and Labreche do “It’s almost a simplistic emotalk, they communicate just as tional story because the characters much through carefully nuanced seem to be so uncomplicated but expressions and actions that speak as they collide with one another, it volumes. starts to pull out the darker bindA bone-chilling cold permeates ings of who they are,” said Church, the film, something that attests to who came to Montreal to attend what co-producer Kim McCraw the premiere as the city descended described as “the magic of cinema” into a bitter cold snap. because the movie was shot a “The snowplow absolutely becouple of years ago during a mild comes his muse and the weather is winter. just this unrelenting beast that he “There was very little snow,” has to keep at bay.” said co-producer Luc Dery. “It became a really big challenge in Church, who hails from Texas terms of production because we and has a slew of movie and TV Canadian Press

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Actor Thomas Haden Church poses for photographers during a photo call for his new movie, Whitewash, in Montreal.

had to make artificial snow and we had to ship in snow from higher north.”

Church recalled that some shooting was juggled around heavy snowstorms.

“Nature wasn’t always manipulating us,” he said. “That was the good thing.”

Whitewash is the first Englishlanguage film for Dery and McCraw’s Montreal-based microscope film company, which has known considerable success in the past with such movies as the Oscar-nominated Incendies and Monsieur Lazhar.

It’s also the first feature film directed by Hoss-Desmarais and it

has already brought him accolades including the Best Narrative New Director Award from the Tribeca Film Festival last year.

The Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television also announced Wednesday that he had won the Claude Jutra Award for an outstanding debut.

“Whitewash is a remarkable debut film which does a lot with a little to create a unique story with highly compelling performances,” said Richard Speer, the academy’s Quebec chair. “Whitewash is sure to establish Emanuel Hoss-Desmarais as an upcoming Canadian filmmaker of note.”

Hoss-Desmarais, who is already

being courted by Hollywood, was “elated” by the award.

“To be recognized by one’s own peers at home is deeply touching,” he said.

Labreche is also nominated for a best supporting actor award from the academy and Hoss-Desmarais and Tulin are also contenders for best screenplay. The awards will be given out in Toronto on March 9.

Hoss-Desmarais described the film, which has touches of black comedy in it, as “a bizarre hate triangle” between the characters played by Church and Labreche and the snowplow.

“It was definitely in our minds to give it human qualities and human features,” said the director, who also makes a brief appearance in the film. “The main character ends up transferring most of his guilt over to the plow.”

He said he and Tulin explored the concept of the modern hermit, particularly those who live off the land in Russia, as they crafted Church’s character.

Labreche said he liked the atmosphere and ambiguity of the film when he first read the script because it was clear the characters were not as simple as they seemed.

“I could not ever answer in a strong way if he was a creepy guy or just so desperate that he did what he did,” Labreche said of his character Paul. “He cannot stop himself.”

And using a snowplow to kill someone in a Canadian movie?

“It’s a formidable little machine when you get it cranked up and going,” Church said. “I can see how it could happen.”

Labreche saw it in more philosophical terms.

“The most Canadian death possible – by a plow, in the country, and get buried in the snow by the side of the road,” he said with a laugh. “Oh, my God. It’s too depressing.”

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A fashion show for furry friends

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Jordi Mikeli-Jones snuggles with Bean, a French bulldog. Mikeli-Jones is organizing ResQ, a fashion show to raise funds for Kona’s Coalition. All proceeds will go towards helping animals in urgent need.

Ashley Joannou

The show is meant to help people realize all the different options that are available. ashionistas don’t need fur to That means not only the be fancy. conventional ideas of avoiding That’s the message behind fur or leather, but also consideran upcoming fashion show to ing where and how the clothes benefit a local animal charity. were made.

Plans are in the works to “Look at someone like Clitransform the gym at Yukon mate Clothing. They are using College into a runway for the soy and hemp. It was the most ResQ: Rescued By Design show comfortable thing I wore pregon Feb. 1. nant,” she said.

Funds raised will support KoThe show will feature more na’s Coalition, a charity to help than 30 models wearing clothes pet owners in financial need. from an ensemble of fashion The show will feature fashion designers, from high school stuthat is “cruelty free,” said orgadents to established veterans. nizer Jordi Mikeli-Jones.

Local businesses Sandor’s “I feel like, as northerners, Clothing, Unity Clothing and we have a very active lifestyle.

Climate Clothing will also be People are very conscious of providing some wears for the what they put in their body, but show. some people might not pay as The night will feature a cockmuch attention to what they put tail party at 6:30 p.m. followed by a fashion show at 8. on their body,” she said.

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Performances are planned by the Brass Knuckle Society and DJ KJ. “We’re really trying to bridge the communities of animals, music and fashion,” MikeliJones said.

Kona’s Coalition began in March 2013. Since then it has raised approximately $20,000 to help pay for a range of medical procedures.

This includes things like amputations, tumor removals and porcupine quill removal from animals whose owners could not afford to do it otherwise.

“What we’re trying to do is avoid having animals end up needlessly euthanized and save those relationships that have been built,” Mikeli-Jones said.

The organization looks at situations on a case-by-case basis. Sometimes they’ll pay for a portion of the medical work,

and other times the entire procedure, she said.

This year the focus is on growing that part of the organization and also on expanding.

Mikeli-Jones said she would like to begin working in the local schools to develop some form of a “junior ambassador” program for young students looking to learn about animal welfare.

“We want to reach out to kids when they’re younger and talk about spaying and neutering and responsible pet ownership,” she said.

The coalition has also begun setting up a network of foster pet parents to help out in emergencies.

Lastly, the group would like to start advocating first for changes to Whitehorse’s municipal bylaws dealing with animal protection and later the territo-

rial animal protection laws.

Mikeli-Jones points to a recent case of a Whitehorse woman who dumped her cat at the edge of town and ran it over with her truck.

She was fined $800 and ordered to donate $500 to the Mae Bachur animal shelter emergency fund.

Mikeli-Jones said those fines were not nearly enough and are a sign that the laws need to be updated.

Tickets to the February event are $20 ahead of time and can be bought at Triple J’s, Sandor’s Clothing, Unity Clothing and Climate Clothing.

Tickets at the door will be $25.

The event is licensed and minors need to be accompanied by an adult.

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Film underscores need to address climate change

by DAVID SUZUKI

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First Nations and local politicians about climate change. The result is a powerful film, Climate Change in Atlantic Canada, with people from different walks of life sharing observations about what’s happening all around them.

When an old fisherman says, “We used to go out at low tide and gather a bucket of clams, but now there’s no low tide, only high tide and higher tide,” it’s compelling.

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The film is timely. In November, the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change – created 25 years ago to provide the most authoritative documentation on global climate science – released the first part of its fifth assessment. The new report raises the level of scientific certainty about human causes of global warming from 90 per cent in the Fourth Assessment five years ago to more than 95 per cent today, and says action is urgently needed.

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The last intact ecosystem on Earth functions as the shark of the Ross Sea — would forever change the ecosystem there.

“There’s simply not enough known about the biology of these animals to determine a sustainable harvest,” O’Brien said, referring to what she perceives is mismanagement by the commission, a group with representatives from countries including the United States.

The commission met in November and did not reach a consensus on a proposal to make the Ross Sea a marine protected area.

“Unlike global warming, the answer is so simple – closing a fishery. The benefits are enormous,” she said. “The Ross Sea is one of the few remaining places on Earth that have been relatively untouched by human activities. I think that is worth protecting.”

by Ned Rozell

ALASKA

SCIENCE B

ack from the bottom of the world – where she had just experienced her second winter solstice in six months – Kristin O’Brien parked her shopping cart at the fish counter of a Fairbanks grocery.

The biologist who studies “icefish” in the ocean surrounding Antarctica saw behind the glass a chunky filet of Chilean sea bass.

She asked the man at the display if he realized why the store should not be selling it.

No, he said, but customers had told him the cold-water, fatty fish tastes good. O’Brien then explained how the unique animal from the other side of the globe is at the heart of a fight for what many consider the last intact ecosystem on Earth.

O’Brien is a professor at the University of Alaska Fairbanks at 64.8 degrees north. Every other year, during Alaska’s early summer and Antarctica’s autumn, she travels to Palmer Station, 64.7 degrees south. There, she and her colleagues study icefish that live in the frigid waters of the Southern Ocean.

The pale, almost transparent fish have white blood, which indicates a lack of hemoglobin, a protein in blood that transports oxygen. Unlike every other animal with a backbone, the fish can do without hemoglobin because frigid water has more dissolved oxygen than warmer water.

“They survived because they live in the Southern Ocean (which features salt water below the freezing point),” O’Brien said. “There’s not a lot of competition there, either.”

O’Brien studies icefish for what they can tell us about oxygen de-

Rob Robbins photo

An Antarctic toothfish.

livery to living tissues. She catches the fish aboard a ship off Palmer Station and studies them there.

She also sends the hearts and other tissues back to her Fairbanks lab, where she and UAF students tease apart the mysteries of this organism so different from us.

Introduced to the scientific preserve of Antarctica and the pristine Southern Ocean by the late Antarctic fish biologist Bruce Sidell of the University of Maine, O’Brien appreciates the unique nature of the continent and the waters that surround it.

Larger than the Arctic Ocean, the Southern Ocean is home to more than 300 species of fish tolerant to extreme cold and dark.

O’Brien studies the blackfin icefish, among others, and thinks the icefish are among the most remarkable creatures on Earth.

She believes the same is true of that Chilean sea bass she saw at the Fairbanks fish counter. Also known by the name Antarctic toothfish, the cod-like fish can weigh more than 100 pounds and live 50 years or more. The fish had a sanctuary in the ice-clogged waters around

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Antarctica until 1996. That’s when the international governing body that manages fisheries in the Southern Ocean, the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources, approved industrial longline fishing for toothfish in the Ross Sea. Ships chugged southward from all over the world, and their crews have pulled toothfish from the waters ever since.

Since fishing began, O’Brien’s colleagues studying fish at McMurdo Station in the Ross Sea have caught fewer toothfish each year.

It is now a major event when one comes up on their fishing lines.

O’Brien and other biologists attribute that rarity to overfishing on a species scientists know little about. Researchers have never seen a toothfish egg, larvae or small adult in the Ross Sea and have no idea how effective the fish is at replacing itself.

The sight of that mysterious creature in a subarctic supermarket was to O’Brien another sign that she should do everything she can to make people aware that the depletion of toothfish — which

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Since the late 1970s, the University of Alaska Fairbanks’ Geophysical Institute has provided this column free in cooperation with the UAF research community. Ned Rozell is a science writer for the Geophysical Institute.

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The Yukon Environment Act says: “The Government of the Yukon is the trustee of the public trust and is therefore responsible for the protection of the collective interest of the people of the Yukon in the quality of the natural environment.”

This week the Pasloski Government shattered that trust, and showed contempt for democratic land use planning.

In the face of appalling disregard for the people of the Yukon, Land Claims agreements, and the Final Recommended Peel Watershed Regional Land Use Plan, it’s time to ask:

Does Darrell Pasloski have the moral authority to govern?

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The Klondike goes Hollywood HISTORY

for good measure, then this miniseries might work for you. If you want something that portrays the events of the gold rush honestly and accurately, then you could

by Michael Gates turn instead to Charlotte Gray’s excellent book, Gold Diggers, as it to be education, or upon which the film is based. entertainment? I had been It is said that any publicity is waiting for the release of the good publicity, but I disagree. The Discovery Channel’s Klondike Klondike Gold Rush was interesttelevision miniseries with great ing enough as an event without anticipation. having to distort it to conform to It’s well researched, attested a stock Hollywood formula. series producer Sir Ridley Scott, Film and television have a who added that “you’ve got to get powerful influence in shaping our the facts right.” perception of the world. We may Discovery Channel producer know that the facts are wrong, Delores Gavin indicated that the but most don’t know which miniseries was a journey into new facts – and we are constantly territory for the network. Viewers bombarded with the usual cliches want to learn, she insisted, and of good guys and bad guys and should feel that they have walked gunplay to the point that the a mile in the shoes of the stammyth is permanently imprinted peders. in our brains as the reality. The One of the actors, Richard few who are well-versed in the Madden, in an interview stated historical facts are overwhelmed that working in the harsh cold Mark Von Holden/AP Images for Discovery and drowned out by the historical landscape of foothills Alberta Director Simon Cellan, left, and actor Richard Madden walk the gold carpet at the Discovery fiction presented on the silver must have been very much like screen. the experience of the stampeders Channel’s New York premiere of Klondike in Manhattan, New York.

While it is thought to be good during the gold rush. for tourism, I would prefer that The days might have been down. This was a piece of absurd paths with Haskell – months cigarettes were smoked, rather visitors arrive in the Yukon with a long, and they might have been old-style cowboys and Indians before he actually arrived in the than pipes and cigars; snow and realistic expectation of the unique cold, but at the end of the day, the mud were out of the question Klondike. And while the real Lon- Hollywood. It certainly never place it is (and was), instead of actor could still retire to decent because they cost too much; and don spent most of his time in the happened in the Yukon. the Hollywood version. After all, accommodation for the night.

And why can’t they get the tiny community at the mouth of viewers had to settle for a Caliwhy visit the Klondike if it is porSpending a few days on a frozen, fornia landscape that included the Stewart River, and then came fundamentals right? All the bad trayed as just another Gunsmoke wind-swept lake doesn’t compare pine trees and oaks rather than things in Hollywood seem to down with a debilitating case of to the weeks, even months, spent boreal forest because it was too happen in the dark of night – is it backdrop? scurvy, the Hollywood version is Hollywood is big business, but by the original horde of gold not possible for evil to exist in the expensive to shoot on location in healthy and robust, and hanging if the ratings aren’t good enough, seekers as they fought their way perpetual daylight of a northern around Dawson City. the North. the truth doesn’t matter. over the Chilkoot trail in 1897, summer?

Father Judge was not on the In Scott’s miniseries, the hisMichael Gates is a Yukon historian ‘98, or ’99.

In conclusion: if you want Chilkoot Trail in 1897, he was in tory gets in the way of the plot, and sometimes adventurer based in In fact, the original gold-seekso it is massaged and moulded to Dawson City, where he had been entertainment with a predictWhitehorse. His latest book, Dalers could have walked as much as able storyline of gun battles and since he moved from the town conform to a typical Hollywood ton’s Gold Rush Trail, is available in 4,000 kilometres of trail, haulconflict, good guys and bad guys, Yukon stores. You can contact him at of Forty Mile in the autumn of production. After a while, I lost ing as much as a ton of supplies, msgates@northwestel.net with a few wild Indians thrown in 1896.

And the Mounted Police? count of the anachronisms. one 25-kilogram load at a time, Well in this version, they arrive Guns and murder prevail. In over a precipitous mountain pass the summer of 1897. In reality, one scene, Bill Haskell, the main from Dyea to Bennett – and that they actually arrived in 1895, character in Klondike, is trying was just the beginning of their and had established British-style to arrange for a funeral for his odyssey. justice before the gold rush even friend, Epstein, who was shot in Hollywood has not had a started. cold blood on their claim.

The good track record when it has The Tr’ondek Hwech’in may undertaker, who has a pile of produced films with a Klondike corpses to deal with, informs him not be happy with the portrayal theme. The honour of being the of First Nations in this film. that he is going to have to wait a first venture onto the TV screen They have been replaced, or few days for his turn. goes to a short-lived television displaced, in the script, by the At the height of the gold rush, series of the same name that aired Tlingit people, who actually not one murder was committed in 1960 and 1961. Lasting only lived a thousand kilometres away in Dawson City, and while there 17 episodes, it was produced by in coastal Alaska. In the third was crime, most of it was the Ziv-United Artists for the NBC episode, they attack Dawson City, white collar variety, perpetrated network, and starred Ralph killing a Mountie, after which mainly in the corrupt governTaeger (remember him?) and a the Mounties ride after them ment mining recorder’s office. young James Coburn. on their horses, dressed in red Jack London appears in the According to Pierre Berton, serge to hunt (and shoot) them summer of 1897, and crosses on whose book, Klondike, the earlier television series was based, the producers planned to have a U.S.-marshal type as the main character. Elected by the miners of Dawson City, he would bring Friday, February 7 th, 2 014 law and order to the gold rush 6:30 pm Whitehorse public library town. As a consultant for the series, Berton informed them that everyone is welcome to attend and Dawson City was in Canada, that enjoy our hospitality as we elect our the Mounties maintained law directors for the coming year. and order, and that there were no serious crimes committed during the gold rush. In fact, it was considered a serious infraction Yukon Green Party to chop wood on Sunday. So the PO Box 31603, producers relocated the setting to Whitehorse, YT Y1A 6L2.

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“I’m sorry, but we’re out of that item; is there something else you would like instead?”

Should the lady answer those questions directly to the waiter, or should she have her male partner relay the information, even when the waiter is present?

GENTLE READER: It depends on how crazy you want to drive the waiter.

Many are young enough to be unacquainted with this custom and will be rattled by it, fearing that the lady will be insulted that the gentleman is

speaking for her, and that food is about to fly.

But, as you have discovered, even those few who do know about it will rarely keep it up by directing all questions to the gentleman. In theory, the waiter should ask him, for example, “How would madam like that done?” whereupon the lady would respond to the gentleman, “Rare to the point of bleeding,” and he would relay this to the waiter.

Miss Manners admits that this bit of theater is difficult to carry off with a straight face,

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DEAR MISS MANNERS: Is it impolite to call people by their last names in the United States?

GENTLE READER: Apparently. It implies that they are grown-ups.

DEAR MISS MANNERS: My mother told me not to eat out of the saucepan after cooking my oatmeal. I find it easier and not necessary to waste another dish.

GENTLE READER: You seem to be interested in efficiency. Miss Manners therefore wonders why you have not discovered how consuming of time and energy it is to keep annoying your mother, as opposed to how much it takes to wash a dish.

(Please send your questions to Miss Manners at her website, www. missmanners.com; to her email, dearmissmanners@gmail.com; or through postal mail to Miss Manners, Universal Uclick, 1130 Walnut St., Kansas City, MO 64106.)

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SPORTS AND

RECREATION

Freestyle team bags four medals on Timber Tour “It’s a great way to boost our confidence heading into the next competition.

I think we’re going to see some really great things from the team this year.”

Marlynn Bourque photo

Yukon’s Etienne Geoffroy performs for the judges at the Timber Tour competition in Penticton, B.C. on Friday. The Yukon Freestyle Ski Team collected four medals at the event to start the season.

Tom Patrick

the team this year.”

Half the Yukon team won hardware in the trip. he Yukon Freestyle Ski Team Josh Harlow won a pair of caught some big air and bronze medals, taking third in came down right on the podium the slopestyle and the big air last weekend. events in the M2 division (16In the team’s first competi18). tion of the season, Yukon skiers Teammate Dylan Reed capwon four medals and all six tured silver in slopestyle in M2 skiers placed in the top-10 at with a corked 900 blunt in his the Timber Tour competition bag of tricks. at Apex Mountain Resort in Etienne Geoffroy climbed to Penticton, B.C. silver in the M2 big air event “It was not unexpected. I with an immaculate switch 900 know the boys have been train- with a mute grab. ing hard and we had a great “It’s the best one I’ve ever early season with (Whitehorse’s done and my coach said it was Mount) Sima and all the hard probably one of the best tricks work they’ve been doing has he’s ever seen me do,” said Geofpaid off and I’m really proud froy. “It’s good that I could pull of the whole team,” said head it off in big air and not crack coach Stu Robinson. “It’s a great under pressure.” way to boost our confidence Geoffroy was likely the heading into the next competiyoungest in the M2 division, tion. having missed the cutoff by “I think we’re going to see just five days. He also won the some really great things from open division at the Icebreaker News Reporter

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Railjam at Mount Sima in December.

The medal in big air represents his first from outside the Yukon.

“I was really pleased,” said Geoffroy. “In slopestyle the day before I placed fifth but I was happy because I missed the younger category by five days … the cut-off day was January 1. So I was put in the older category and I still managed to get second in big air and fifth in slopestyle, so that’s wonderful.”

Yukon occupied five of the top six spots in big air with Aidan Allen and Reed placing fourth and fifth respectively.

The Yukon team also had single-digit places in the younger M3 division (14-15). Kyran Allen took fifth in slopestyle and seventh in big air and Niko Rodden snagged ninth both days.

“They both had solid results.

I think I saw some of their best

skiing over that weekend,” said Robinson. “We’re having a little trouble staying consistent during the competition runs. They are really young and are still learning and I think they learned a lot from that first event.”

A great start to the ski season in Whitehorse may of played a part in the team’s success over the weekend. Whitehorse has had great condition so far this winter with twice the average snowfall in December. Sima’s skills park is the best it’s been in years – if not ever – providing the team with great training opportunities, said Robinson.

“The (Apex) park was a lot smaller than we were expecting,” said Robinson. “The boys’ confidence was really high because Sima has been built up so well they had a far superior training for this competition.”

The Timber Tour is a qualifier for the Canadian Junior Freestyle Ski Championships in

March. Yukon currently has five spots secured and are hoping for one more so all six skiers can make the trip to the nationals, this year being held in Quebec.

“There’s even a chance we might go to the senior nationals this year because the boys are getting so good they need some higher level competitions,” said Robinson.

Harlow won a bronze in big air for Yukon’s first ever medal at the junior nationals last year.

The Yukon team is hoping to improve on that this year.

“It’s a really good way to start off the season and we’re going to be super stoked for the next comp – start racking up the medals,” said Geoffroy. “The whole team performed at their best – not just Josh, Dylan and me on the podium, but everyone on the team improved a lot on the trip.”

Contact Tom Patrick at tomp@yukon-news.com

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Yukoners place in world’s longest sled race Podium finishes Overall fastest 1st Chris Brooks (Haines, Alaska) – 1:27.01 2nd George Juhlin (North Pole, Alaska) – 1:31:58 3rd Steve Cornwall (Fairbanks, Alaska) – 1:35:40 0-440cc fan class 1st Dan Dickerson (Fairbanks, Alaska) – 1:46:21 2nd Davis Tester (North Pole, Alaska) – 1:49:31 3rd Mario Poulin (Whitehorse, Yukon) – 1:53:19 0-440cc liquid class 1st George Juhlin (North Pole, Alaska) – 1:31:58 2nd Gene Bloom (Fairbanks, Alaska) – 1:49:12 3rd Justin Peterson (Whitehorse, Yukon) – 2:21:40 441cc-open fan class 1st Ken Schamber (Haines Junction, Yukon) – 1:49:44 441-550cc liquid class John Hagen/Yukon News

Wisconsin’s John Holmes, left, and Amy Tonsgard of Haines get their sleds up to speed at the start of the Alcan 200 Road Rally on Saturday.

1st Steve Cornwall (Fairbanks, Alaska) – 1:35:40 2nd Nathan Peterson (Whitehorse, Yukon) – 1:36:18 3rd Seth Marley (Fairbanks, Alaska) – 1:44:53 551-650cc liquid class 1st Steven McLaughlin (Haines, Alaska) – 1:37:05 2nd John Holmes (Lake Tomahawk, Wis.) – 1:38:16 3rd Amy Tonsgard (Haines, Alaska) – 1:54:35 651cc-open class 1st Chris Brooks (Haines, Alaska) – 1:27:01 2nd Jack Smith, Jr. (Haines, Alaska) – 1:39:18

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Racers stage for the start at 42-mile Haines Highway, near the US-Canada border on Saturday.

Tom Patrick

“I was quite a bit faster News Reporter this year,” said Peterson. “My average speed was 96.6 miles ust finishing the Alcan 200 an hour.”

International Snow MaThe 24-year-old sped to chine Road Rally is an accom- second place in the 441-550cc plishment. liquid class after placing third Only 15 of 24 entries did it the previous two years. on Saturday in the 45th annuConditions were much al event, deemed the world’s warmer than usual and racers longest snowmobile race. started out with about eight Haines Junction’s Ken kilometres of dry pavement Schamber finished the on the road before hitting 250-kilometre course from snow. the Canada-U.S. border “It wasn’t too bad,” said outside of Haines, Alaska, Peterson. “There was a little to Dezadeash Lake and back bit at the beginning of the in one hour, 49 minutes and race, other than that, it was 44 seconds, including three a pretty good road. Not too mandatory fuel stops. much wind, little bit of fog, He was one of four sledbut that’s to be expected.” ders in the 441cc-open fan Peterson was just 38 class and the only one to fin- seconds behind first place in ish. Schamber, who could not his category and over eight be reached for comment, also minutes ahead of third. Not won the division in 2012 with bad considering his sled moa time four minutes slower. tor was a pile of parts a few Schamber was the only days before the race.

Yukoner to win a division, “I had quite a bit of trouble but Whitehorse’s Nathan leading up to the race. I Peterson came pretty darn completely rebuilt my motor three or four days ago before close.

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the race,” said Peterson. “It was kind of a mad rush to put it back together and it turns out it ran pretty good.”

Whitehorse’s Mario Poulin slipped a spot from last year in his category, placing third in the 0-440cc fan class.

Poulin, who finished in 1:53:19, has been racing the Alcan for about a quarter century, and so has his sled.

For the umpteenth time he was the Oldest Sled award, cruising to the finish on his 1980 Polaris TX 440cc.

Peterson’s brother Justin, also of Whitehorse, took third in the 0-440cc liquid class with a time of 2:21:40.

Justin, who was the only Yukoner to win a division last year, was given the Red Lantern award as the last sledder to reach the finish.

“He had a little bit of mechanical troubles,” said Nathan. “A lot of people don’t finish, so even finishing is a step in the right direction.”

Contact Tom Patrick at tomp@yukon-news.com

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Yukon rinks out of medal contention at junior nationals Tom Patrick News Reporter

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ukon’s two rinks will not be shooting for gold after failing to reach the championship pools at the 2014 Canadian Junior Curling Championships in Liverpool, Nova Scotia, this week.

Whitehorse rinks Team Koltun and Team Wallingham are out of medal contention, but top-10 finishes are still within their grasp.

A pair of wins for both junior teams could put them in a ninth place finish.

Expectations were particularly high for Team Koltun in their last trip to the junior championship. Not only did the team place fourth at last year’s championship, in a little over a week skip Sarah Koltun will become the first curler to lead a team at junior nationals and the Scotties Tournament of Hearts in the same season.

“We are a little disappointed with the result, but the way the championship was set up, it’s hard to have a slow start and still make a run for the title because you have to make it into the championship round,” said Koltun. “We had a good enough record to get in there, but unfortunately we lost that really close tiebreaker.

“We’re upset that our last year’s run was cut a little short, but at the end of the day we are still competing and are still trying to represent the Yukon well. We are going to do our best in our last couple of games and hopefully get (Yukon) a good seeding spot for next year.”

Team Koltun, which includes

third Andrea Sinclair, second Patty Wallingham and lead Jenna Duncan, was edged out of a spot in the championship pool with a narrow loss in a tiebreaker against Quebec’s Camille Boisvert on Tuesday. The Whitehorse rink lost 7-6 on the last rock.

Koltun went into the tiebreaker carrying a 3-3 record with wins over Nunavut, N.W.T. and B.C., the last of whom qualified fourth in the championship round.

The Koltun crew played Northern Ontario Thursday evening and will play Newfoundland on Friday to end the championship. (Thursday’s results were not available by press time.)

“We’re just going to try to get as much out of it as we can and prepare for the Scotties that are coming up,” said Koltun, who is making a record eighth appearance at the nationals this week. “We’re going to take the rest of this as a learning experience and a chance to show our talent and what we can do. Hopefully we’ll finish strong.”

Not all losses weigh on the mind equally, as Yukon’s junior men can attest.

Team Wallingham beat provinces B.C. and Quebec, but lost 7-4 against neighbouring N.W.T. A win over their fellow territory would have put Team Wallingham in a tiebreaker for entry into the championships pool.

“That one hurt,” said Wallingham coach Kevin Patterson. “That is the game, if you ask anyone on our team, we’d want back. It was unfortunate. We were up 4-0, had

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some chances to break the game open, it just didn’t come together for whatever reason.

“Had we beaten that team, we would have been in a tiebreaker to get into the championship pool opposed to being in the seeding round.”

Like Koltun, Team Wallingham – skip Joe Wallingham, third Brayden Klassen, Spencer Wallace as second and lead Trygg Jensen – went into the seeding pool in the top spot.

Wallingham played Newfoundland Thursday evening and will face Nunavut on Friday to end the championship.

“Early on in the week we played well, we fought hard to get in every game,” said Joe. “There have been a couple bad breaks, but the team as a whole has been playing petty good together and are coming together as a team.”

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Brand new gymnastics team selected for Arctics Tom Patrick News Reporter

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Top, Megan Banks competes in the vault for a spot on Yukon’s Arctic Winter Games gymnastics team on Friday at the Polarettes Gymnastics Club. Four gymnasts, including Banks, were named to the team this week. Left, Anisa Albisser performs on the beam at the team trials.

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ukon will field a brand new gymnastics team at the Arctic Winter Games in Fairbanks, Alaska.

All four gymnasts, selected during team trials at the Polarettes Gymnastics Club on Friday, will be competing at their first Arctics in March with no returners from the 2012 Games.

Though none on the team have Games experience in gymnastics, they are still seasoned competitors.

Two current Yukon champs and a runner-up from last year’s Yukon championships are included on the team.

Selected for the team are Anisa Albisser, Megan Banks, Sydney Cairns and Emily King. All four are Level 3 gymnasts from the Polarettes club.

“We have two girls who are more veteran Level 3s, who have competed at this level a little bit longer, and two girls who are kind of brand new to Level 3,” said head coach Catherine O’Donovan. “Anisa and Megan are veteran Level 3s who will be moving up a category after (the Arctic Games).”

“They’ve all been on our traveling team for the last little bit and they are the four Level 3s that we have at the gym, so we have our four strongest competitors on the team.”

Banks, who is the oldest on the team at 15, was the Level 3 runner-up at last year’s Yukon championship behind Anisa Albisser. She competed in Arctic sports at the 2012 Games in Whitehorse.

“I’d say Megan is our powerhouse and will probably be the leader on the team,” said O’Donovan. “I can see her rallying everybody and getting them motivated. I’d see her as our captain in terms of personality … If gymnastics had a captain.”

King, who O’Donovan calls the team’s “beam specialist,” is the youngest on the team at 10 years old. She was a Level 2 winner at last year’s Yukon championship.

Matisse Robertson was named the team’s first alternate. Nine gymnasts tried out for the team on Friday, which is more than usual, said O’Donovan.

“We usually have four or five trying out for the team and this year we had nine,” said O’Donovan. “It was really fun, really exciting and it was a good goal for everyone to work towards.

“I’ve been trying to build up our team and have more competitive athletes than before. We usually have 25 competitive gymnasts and this year we have 35.”

There was a little extra pressure on the gymnasts at Friday’s trials. Gymnastics is one of six sports that will not be held at the 2016 Arctic Games in Nuuk, Greenland, due to a lack of facilities. Most of the athletes at the trials will likely be above the Level 3 cutoff come the 2018 Games.

“We’re one of ones missing out,” said O’Donovan. “So it was a big try-out for these girls. That’s why we pushed to have nine girls trying out: it’s going to be the only opportunity

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Team Yukon went winless at the senior high school tournament hosted by the Stevenstonfter a couple months London Secondary School. of practices, the Yukon With two Grade 8 players, a women’s basketball team head couple in Grade 9 and 10, one in coach Nicole Schroeder got to Grade 11 and just three Grade see her team in action over the 12s, Yukon was the youngest weekend. team there.

The team that will compete “We knew, going down there, for Yukon at the Arctic Winter that we were going to be conGames this March got some siderably younger than our opgame time at the Bob Carkner ponents and not as experienced Memorial Basketball Classic in as some of the lower mainland Richmond, B.C. girls,” said Schroeder. “So we “We didn’t concentrate on went in there having our own the score,” said Schroeder. “We specific goals of what we wanted went in there wanting to work to achieve. And the girls played on our defence and our zone very, very well. defence was amazing. The girls “We had two Grade 8s on were talking to each other and our team and they were playing moving to the proper spots. against Grade 12 girls, and they “We did struggle in offence. went out there and were scoring We need to practise our set plays against them. It was awesome a little bit more so everyone feels to see that we have some great confident handling the ball. young talent coming up. We also “The tournament really have a couple Grade 9 and 10 granted us the opportunity to players and they were crashing take a hard look at our offence the boards really hard and doing and for me to pinpoint what everything I asked them to do.” we’re doing great and what we Yukon opened with a 75-35 need to work on for the Arctics.” loss to Richmond’s Hugh Boyd News Reporter

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School. Yukon’s Galena Roots had six points in the game while point guard Quynh Nguyen and Jayden Demchuk each had four.

The Yukon squad then had a much closer battle in a 50-33 loss to John Oliver School.

Jacy Sam put 10 points on the board while Roots had eight.

Yukon finished the tournament against Burnaby Central School, dropping the game 5525 (unofficial).

“That was a good game for our Grade 8s,” said Schroeder.

“Jetta Bilsky had eight points in that game and most of her passes came from the other Grade 8 player, Jayden Demchuk.

“It was nice to see they were helping each other out out there.”

Yukon finished the road trip with an exhibition game against the Stevenston-London Sharks.

No official score was recorded.

“Quynh and Galena were really motivational and inspirational for our younger players,” said Schroeder. “They set a great example and were constantly supporting our younger girls and giving them some helpful hints and pointers.”

“Galena had a solid tournament. She led us in rebounds, directed younger layers on the floor.”

This year’s Arctics team has three returning players – Nguyen, Roots and Sam – from Yukon’s gold-winning team at the 2012 Games.

The 2014 Arctic Winter Games will take place March 1522 in Fairbanks, Alaska.

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Thus, a clue of 3 will produce a solution of 2 and 1 and a 5 will produce 4 and 1, or 2 and 3, but of course, which squares they go in will depend on the solution of a clue in the other direction.

No difit can be repeated in a solution, so a 4 can only produce 1 and 3, never 2 and 2. © 2013 The Mepham Group. Distributed by Tribune Content Agency. All rights reserved.

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Puzzle B

CLUES ACROSS 1. Syrian president 6. Grand Caravan brand 11. Immeasurably small 14. Myriagram 15. Yellow-fever mosquito 16. Radioactivity unit 18. Anklebone 21. Adobe house 23. Direct to a source 25. Piper __, actress

CLUES DOWN

1. Fished in a stream 2. Left heart there 3. Yes in Spanish 4. Nursing organization 5. Cease to live 6. River in NE Scotland 7. Former CIA 8. Didymium 9. Gram 10. Audio membranes 11. 8th Jewish month 12. Touchdown 13. Madames 14. Metric ton 17. Fabric colorants 19. Capital of Bashkortostan

26. Leuciscus leuciscus 28. Moral excellences 29. Describes distinct concepts 31. Rubberized raincoat 34. Inhabitants of the Earth 35. Distress signal 36. Destroyed by secret means 39. Skin abrasions 40. Caesar or tossed 44. Supplied with a chapeaux

45. Fictional elephant 47. Forced open 48. Pole (Scottish) 50. Browning of the skin 51. Boy Scout merit emblem 56. British thermal unit 57. Decomposes naturally 62. Freshet 63. Lawn game

20. Extra dry wine 21. An Indian dress 22. Expenditure 24. Ribbed or corded fabric 25. Can top 27. So. African Music Awards 28. Weather directionals 30. A scrap of cloth 31. Gin & vermouth cocktails 32. A way to lessen 33. Contended with difficulties 36. Egyptian beetle 37. CNN’s Turner 38. A quick light pat 39. Shipment, abbr.

41. Resin-like insect secretion

42. Goat and camel hair fabric 43. Superficially play at 46. Network of veins or nerves 49. Atomic #44 51. Wager 52. The time something has existed 53. Physician’s moniker 54. Talk excessively 55. Pre-Tokyo 58. Out of print 59. Ducktail hairstyle 60. Carrier’s invention 61. Canadian province

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Dèslin Development Corporation (DDC) Board of Directors

General Manager Start Date: April 1st, 2014 Salary: $85,000 - $95,000 Type: Full-Time Closing Date: February 21st, 2014 The General Manager, reporting to the Board of Directors of the Dèslin Development Corporation (DDC), will lead the agency to ensure it fulfills its mandate to i) explore, identify, and capitalize on local economic development opportunities, ii) impact positively and measurably on local business development, iii) identify and implement training and professional development programs for local individuals, iv) create long-term employment opportunities for persons living in the area, v) assist in long-term community economic development planning and project implementation, and vi) assist in diversifying the local economy.

To apply with résumé and cover letter and/or to request a full job description outlining the General Manager position’s roles, responsibilities, and qualification requirements, please contact: Brad Stoneman at: Box 190, Teslin, Yukon, Y0A 1B0 Email: stoneman@northwestel.net Phone: 867 390 2180 or 867 335 1723

SINGLE FATHER of 2 looking for a reasonably priced 3 bedroom in Whitehorse for long term or lease to own. Contact dalvincalby@gmail.com LOOKING FOR studio space, recent Emily Carr graduate working in sculpture.

667-6973

Real Estate TRAPLINE FOR sale, Dawson area, wray556@yahoo 1,400 SQ ft 2-bdrm house, Ibex Valley, 1 acre of land, 65x65 ft dog pen, 500 sq ft attached shop both wood/oil heat, owner motivated for quick sale. 335-2103

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2-STOREY 2-BDRM house, contemporary design, open concept on cul-de-sac, $275,000 as is, 10+ acres, fire-smarted around house, plenty of dry wood, 1,350 sqft, view of St. Elias Mtns, 634-2240 NEW 28ʼX34ʼ 2-storey unfinished house in Atlin, drilled well, power & septic field, on 2-acres w new 18ʼx28ʼ cabin, mobile home on concrete foundation, shop, $196,000.

250-651-7868 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 3 BDRM on large corner treed lot, 2 driveways, basement suite, close to bus stop & elementary/high schools, will sell furnished or unfurnished, 49 Redwood St. 633-6553 309-ACRE WORKING farm, hayfields, pasture, forest, long growing season, 1.6km Skeena front, 3,000 sqft rancher, outbuildings, B&B, 10 min. to Hazelton, adj. to crown land, www.trakehnerhof.ca, $850,000, 250-842-5400

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CENTRE DE LA FRANCOPHONIE 302, rue Strickland, Whitehorse (Yukon) 867.668.2663 poste 223 www.sofa-yukon.ca

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667-2514 Whitehorse, yukon

Each Office Independently Owned & Operated

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

Castle Rock Enterprise is looking for a qualified and skilled Paving Superintendent to work in the construction and maintenance of driveways, parking lots and roadways.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES • Plans, assigns, schedules, and supervises the work of laborers, truck drivers, and equipment operators engaged in the construction, reconstruction, and maintenance of streets, driveways, and parking lots; including grading, excavation, base prepping, paving and patching.

• Knowledge and experience for the proper setup, operation and maintenance of paver auger feed and automatic grade control systems.

• Supervise and assist in land leveling projects.

• Instructs and trains employees in the safe operation of construction equipment and tools and in job techniques and skills.

• Prepare time and other required reports.

• Monitor quality control to ensure specifications are met.

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE High school diploma or GED; related experience including supervisory or lead experience and considerable experience in construction and maintenance projects including some supervisory experience in the related area; or any equivalent combination of training and experience.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES • Thorough knowledge of paving operations • Knowledge of practices, methods, equipment, materials and tools used in construction and maintenance.

• Knowledge of the occupational hazards and safety precautions of the work.

• Ability to interpret and work from instructions, penciled plans and sketches, and construction drawings.

• Ability to layout, direct and supervise construction and major repair projects.

• Ability to supervise the work of others.

• Ability to keep records and to prepare work and timely reports.

Wages will commensurate with experience.

Please submit resumes with cover letter as follows: No phone calls please. office@castlerockent.com Or fax: 867-633-2621

Castle Rock Enterprises accepting applications for: Paving Operator, Screed Operators, Rakers and Labourers DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES Paver Operator: • Maintain proper paver maintenance and operation.

• Knowledge and experience for the proper setup, operation and maintenance of paver auger feed and automatic grade control systems.

• Operate paver and control asphalt delivery to and placement by the paver to mitigate mix segregation and support of screed personnel to maintain required asphalt thickness and smoothness requirements.

• Coordinate truck dumping.

Screed Operator: • Knowledge and experience for the proper setup, operation and maintenance of paver auger feed and automatic grade control systems.

• Observe and control distribution of asphalt mix to ensure uniformity to obtain specified compacted mat thickness and cross section while achieving proper surface drainage with minimal segregation.

• Ability to discuss and plan daily project paving procedures and goals with fellow paving personnel to maximize productivity and workmanship.

Rakers & Labourers: • Able to follow direction, abide by company rules and comply with safety policies and OH&S regulation.

• Clean or prepare construction sites to eliminate possible hazards.

REQUIRED ABILITIES: • Physically fit in order to perform manual labor and work extended hours.

Wages will commensurate with experience.

Please submit resumes with cover letter as follows: No phone calls please. office@castlerockent.com Or fax: 867-633-2621

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. Creative Play Daycare is seeking a full-time and part-time child care worker Wage will depend upon level of ECD education Level 1 - $16.00/hr Level 2 - $18.00/hr Level 3 - $22.00/hr Downtown location Health Benefits Off the floor planning Wonderful facility with on-site playground and indoor mini gym Drop off resume to 312 Strickland Street or Phone 667-2761 CANADIAN LYNDEN TRANSPORT Looking for Class 1 drivers with superb experience Please e-mail resume to abjork@lynden.com or Fax 867-668-3196 Phone: 668-3198

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

NIKON 401X Autofocus Camera for slides/prints, 90 mm Lens with Nikon adaptors, lg Lowepro Camera bag, $50, Slik tripod, $50. 660-5101 STAMPS, ALBUM of United Nations 1950s-70s, $30. 660-5101 COMMERCIAL PROPANE 48” flat top griddle, reconditioned. 333-0943 BATTERY CHARGER, new, 10A2A, $20, electric heater, mini-oil filled, new, $15, Brother 275 fax/phone, heat printing, no ink, $20. 335-8964 FAXPHONE, BROTHER 275, heat printing, no cartridge needed, $20. 335-7535 SHAW MULTI-SWITCH, takes 4 lines, puts out 8 lines, $50. Jesse 667-2355 PORTABLE MEDICAL oxygen unit. Comes with two tanks, valves and hoses, very clean. $250 obo. 633-3392

Electrical Appliances

HOTPOINT (GE) washer & dryer, 8 years old, works great (we upgraded) $500 obo for both. 334-5323

BLACK 19" & gray 27" TV's, exc cond, no storage room, $20 for the 19” and $30 for the 27". 334-2888

KENMORE DRYER, front loader, works great, $300. Also nw pump out of Kenmore washer, $40. 332-7797

KENMORE 12 cu ft deep freeze, %150.

250-651-7868

Computers & Accessories

TVs & Stereos

BROTHER MFC 290 Printer, exc cond, printer, scanner, fax, includes cords & new ink $99 obo. 633-4618

KENMORE DRYER, good working cond, you pick up, Takhini Hotsprings Road, $50.

633-3608 KENMORE CERAMIC top range, convection, self-clean, delay cook, etc, top end model, works well, $300, can deliver in Whse area, 667-2276 DRYER FOR sale $150, exc cond, matching washer to give away, broken switch, unbalanced drum. 336-1864 after 5pm

117 Industrial Road, Whitehorse, Yukon Y1A 2T8 Telephone: 867.668.3613

INK CARTRIDGES, Canon, 14 units, $20.

335-8964

OLSEN FURNACE w. Beckett burner, ECM fan motor, blocked flu switch, for parts, $300.

334-3497 JIM ROBB prints, "Moon over the Klondike", “Caribou Crossing", Bateman print "End of Season Grizzly", prints signed by the artists & framed. 633-6553 3 TON chain hoist, new, 30,000 BTU propane forced air heater, new. 633-6553 PORCELAIN COLLECTIBLE dolls, various prices. 667-6847 2 WATER pumps, 1 1/2” Homelite, like new, and 3” Briggs and Stratton. 633-6553 ANTIQUE WOOD cook stove, warming oven, water jacket, ready to use, $900.

336-1412 WOMENS TELEMARK boots, Garmont Venus size 24.5, fits womens 8-8.5, never worn or thermo-molded, great for the backcountry, $200 obo. 335-0342 BAFFIN SNOPACKS Boots, sz 12, Arctic type, new, $90. 660-5101

32 INCH Sony Bravia Flatscreen TV, $125.00. 334-1785

Ta’an Kwäch’än Council

BOWMAN BOLTS. One box of 300 pieces.

6 inch long by 3/8 NC grade 5. (57 pounds) I have six boxes total, $50ea obo. 668-5207

YUKON PARKA w shell, full length, sz L, purple color, dry cleaned, $250. 668-7320

Paying cash for good quality modern electronics.

G&R Pawnbrokers 1612-D Centennial St. 393-2274 BUY • SELL • LOANS

EmploymEnt opportunity

Manager Housing and Infrastructure Regular Full Time ı TKC wage scale Level 9

In this new and exciting position, your leadership skills will be relied upon to manage Ta’an Kwäch’än Council’s housing and infrastructure department. Reporting to the Executive Administrator, you will work diligently to reflect Ta’an Kwäch’än Council’s goals to actively seek out opportunities to address our citizens’ housing needs. As well, you will be responsible for estimating and forecasting budget requirements; preparing, monitoring and reporting on various project initiatives; and, preparing proposals thus ensuring that funding is available that addresses our housing plan and initiatives.

ROYAL DOULTON "Carnation" Fine Bone China 4 dinner plates, 4 side plates, 4 salad plates, 3 teacups, 4 saucers, good cond, $75 obo. 633-4618 DAY LIGHT, safe effective bright light therapy. like new, $130. 335-8964 YUKON PARKA, womenʼs sz small, red with wolf trim, midlength, good shape, 335-0342 COFFE MACHINE, DeLonghi Magnifica ESAM 3000 B Automatic Cappuccino, precoffee directly from beans, imported, exc cond, $290. 335-8964 FUJI S5000 digital camera, one owner, $75, http://www.dcviews.com/_fuji/s5k.htm, 336-1412 WOOD LATHE with bench, 3/4 hp, adjustable speed, $250. 660-5101 BOGS, WOMENʼS size US 10, rated to minus 40C, new, only worn once, $141 new, asking $110. 667-2715 BLACK & Decker bread machine, like new, $40. 667-6752 WOODEN 250-651-7868

TOOL

boxes, $40 ea.

WOOD STOVE, $200. 250-651-7868 ELECTRIC FIREPLACE, new, still in box, cost $300, asking $150. 668-6033 MEN'S XL retired RCMP down filled parka, belonged to ex-RCMP pilot, rarely worn, heʼs moved south, has fur collar, inside woolen synch strap, etc. $300.00 obo. 336-1412 RENDEZVOUS RENTAL COSTUMES AND all accessories for the ladies, exquisite vests for gentlemen, wool tailcoats, ruffled shirts in many sizes, bowties, colored tophats, suspenders & feathers for fun. Phone 660-4218 MOULINEX MASTERCHEF 850 food processor, makes juice, slices, chops, $100 obo.

667-6752 RENDEZVOUS DRESS, blue velvet/gold trim, evening gown, size 8, c/w feather hat, purse, pic at Sequels, $200. 667-6752

o p p o r t u n i t y

Description: Under the direction of the Executive Director and the Board of Directors, the Program Coordinator will manage the logistics required to successfully coordinate Skills Canada Yukon programming for high school and post secondary students. The Project Coordinator has two main responsibilities: 1. To act as Competition Coordinator and work with volunteers to design scopes, projects, judging criteria and to secure judges, materials, equipment etc to run a successful Territorial Competition. The project coordinator is responsible for ensuring that all committees and volunteers are working effectively together and meeting established guidelines and deadlines to ensure the integrity of the competition.

2. To assist the Executive Director in delivering in-school programs and attend career fairs / community events to promote Skilled Trades and Technology Careers as first-choice career options for Yukon youth.

Full job description available online at www.skillsyukon.com

Education Government Éducation

To access the job description, please call Human Resources Department or contact by e-mail pkimbley@taan.ca.

Closing date: Monday, February 3, 2014.

Selkirk First Nation

The TKC Preferential Hiring policy will apply.

Please submit a cover letter and résumé to the above address.

P.O. Box 40, Pelly Crossing, YT Y0B 1P0 Phone: 867-537-3331 Fax: 867-537-3902

EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES

Finance Director THE CANDIDATE: Reporting to the Chief and Council through the Executive Director, the Director of Finance will be a key member of and support to the Selkirk First Nation (SFN) senior management team. The successful candidate will be a well-rounded and hands on accountant who is responsible for all financial activities of SFN. She/he will provide leadership, direction, training and guidance to the finance staff, overseeing and carrying out a full range of day-to-day financial activities including: overseeing the payroll, preparing budgets, managing and monitoring funding and financial agreements and reporting requirements, cash flow analysis, preparation of financial statements, month end and year end reports.

YO U N R C O M MUNITY CONNECTIO

4-PERSON SOFT tub from Waterstone, 4 yrs. old, exc cond, no special wiring required, take home and set up in a day, 334-6724

PIANO TUNING & REPAIR by certified piano technician Call Barry Kitchen @ 633-5191 email:bfkitchen@hotmail.com

Program Coordinator

Ideally, you will possess post secondary education in property management, housing administration, business administration or First Nations Management, or, you can demonstrate having the equivalent combination of education and work related experiences.

DENBY "MEMORIES" Stoneware, complete set for 4 dinner plates, side plates, soup bowls, cups & saucers plus 1 quiche/serving plate, oven, dishwasher, freezer safe, exc cond, $175 obo. 633-4618 DALL SHEEP full shoulder mount, Tony Grabowski, full curl 12 1/2”x35”, good quality, am moving, $1,000.00 obo. 336-1412

e m p l o y m e n t

Musical Instruments

SkillS Canada Yukon

WOMENʼS/GIRLʼS MOUNTAIN Hardwear brown down jacket, sz. small, $50. 334-0455

HEATER, RADIANT, Noma, exc. cond, $50. 335-8964

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The Director of Finance will develop and enhance financial controls and systems while supporting and overseeing financial administration and reporting for several.

She/he will also possess the following qualifications: • an accounting designation, complimented by a minimum of five (5) years financial management or an equivalent combination of demonstrated ability and education; • Proven skills in developing, implementing and monitoring financial systems, controls, policies and best practices while ensuring compliance with all regulators and funding agencies; • Advanced proficiency in with Excel and accounting software, ideally Quickbook; • Demonstrated strong communication and interpersonal skills combined with the ability to work • Effectively with all internal and external stakeholders including auditors, lending institutions and • Government agencies; familiarization with Selkirk First Nation Final Agreement and FTA an asset • Strong organizational and administrative skills as well as experience managing multiple projects and time sensitive deadlines; • Previous knowledge and experience working with First Nations governments and communities • (preferably within the Yukon Territory), INAC, CMHC and other government agencies is an asset; and A competitive annual salary with full benefits is offered, commensurate with qualifications / experience for this senior management position located at Pelly Crossing, Yukon Territory. If you are interested in this exciting career opportunity, please provide your resume and cover letter in complete confidence by, January 31, 2014 to: Albert Drapeau, Executive Director preferably by Email: execdir@selkirkfn.com Or by Fax: (867) 537-3902.

No phone calls will be accepted.

WEDNESDAY • FRIDAY

The successful candidate will be required to complete/provide: 1.

3 recent work related references; 2.

The successful candidate will be subject to a criminal records check; 3.

Applicants must be able to work in Canada.

Applicants are requested to submit resume package consisting of a cover letter describing their qualifications and resume. We thank all applicants for their interest, however, only those selected for an interview will be contacted.

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G&R Pawnbrokers 1612-D Centennial St. 393-2274 BUY • SELL • LOANS

First NatioN oF Nacho Nyak DuN is currently seeking 3-4 interested individuals to serve on the

administrative appeals Working Group Please send your expression of interest and resume by 4 p.m. on January 24, 2014 to: Executive Director, Brenda Jackson Box 220 Mayo, Yukon Y0B 1M0 or email to execdirector@nndfn.com

Community Services

ANTIQUE 1960'S Gerhard Heintzman upright piano, $1,800 obo. 334-3053 1967 GIBSON J50 acoustic guitar w B-Band pickup, hard shell case, fabulous sound, $1,900. 336-1412

CASIO KEYBOARD, CTK-710 with stand, gently used, great for beginner. 633-4699

SUMMER POOL STAFF Pool Managers

Marie Cairns Government of Yukon Sport & Recreation Branch C-10 PO Box 2703 Whitehorse, Yukon, Y1A 2C6 FAX: (867) 393-6416 E-mail: maire.cairns@gov.yk.ca

DRUM KIT, bass, floor tom, snare, high hat, 2 hanging toms, 2 cymbals. 393-3929

DRUMS, BLACK 5 piece Westbury Pro-Cussion kit with drummer's stool for $275. 335-9875

We are now accepting applications for Yukon summer aquatics staff in Yukon communities.

Please submit your resumé and a copy of your current certifications by February 26, 2014 to:

GUITAR, GODIN 5th Ave Kindpin Sunburst Archtop electric acoustic, mint, great tone, c/w original case, $600. 667-6876

Pool Manager Applicants must possess the following current awards or certifications: National Lifeguard Service, Water Safety Instructor, Lifesaving Society Instructor, Pool Operator Level I, CPR “C” and Standard First Aid or Aquatic Emergency Care. Certification in Pool Operators II, Aquatic Emergency Care Instructor/ Examiner, Water Instructor Trainer and NLS Instructor/Examiner would be an asset.

Wages range from $18-22/hour and many communities offer extra benefits, such as accommodations and a travel subsidy.

Lifeguards / Instructors

Minimum qualifications for a Lifeguard/Instructor are a current National Lifeguard Service Award, Red Cross Water Safety Instructor, CPR “C” and Standard First Aid or Aquatic Emergency Care.

Firewood

Duke’s Firewood standing dry beetle Killed spruce

avoid the Fall rush & prices! spring Wood prices: 6 cord load $210/cord $230 for multiples of 2 cords Come cut your own at $75/cord Approx 20 cord truckload logs $2800 Approx 8 cord loads of 20ft dry logs $1300

cash and debit accepted

334-8122 Cheapest wood from Haines Junction!!

CGFJ WOODCUTTING SERVICE Delivered $220 - 16” lengths $200 - 4ʼ lengths Prompt, friendly service Dry timber, money-back guarantee Prices vary for Communities 689-1727

Friday, January 24, 2014 EVF FUELWOOD ENT Year Round Delivery • Dry accurate cords • Clean shavings available • VISA/M.C. accepted Member of Yukon Wood Producers Association Costs will rise.

ORDER NOW 456-7432 DONʼS FIREWOOD 20-cord bucked firewood always available No-charge emergency delivery Kwanlin Dun Wy wait? Prompt delivery $245/cord City limits 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 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 $150/cord for 10-cord load - 30ʼ lengths $200/cord - 3-cord load 11' lengths $240/cord - bucked up, discounts on multiple-cord orders Call or text David 867-332-8327 DRY SPRUCE FIREWOOD $250/cord Call David 335-3616

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.

expeRience/education RequiRed: • Minimum 2 years related retail buying experience; or equivalent combination of education and experience.

• Effective communication, analytical, negotiation and organizational skills.

• Completely comfortable working with Excel and Word.

INTERMEDIATE CONTAMINATED SITES SPECIALIST An employee-owned, Canadian company, Summit Environmental Consultants Inc. provides a range of consulting services in the environmental assessment and planning, water resources science and management, environmental management, and information management/GIS sectors. Our clients include industry; federal, provincial and local governments; First Nations; and small business. Summit is a member of the Associated Engineering Group of companies.

Position We are searching for an Intermediate Contaminated Sites Specialist for our Whitehorse office. Reporting to the Regional Manager, the successful candidate will have a minimum of five years of contaminated sites experience including at least one year in remediation plan design, and project management experience. The ideal candidate has worked in the Yukon and has experience with the Yukon regulatory environment, and local contaminated sites practice.

The position is well-suited for a motivated individual who thrives in a dynamic team environment working on a variety of interesting and challenging projects. Some travel is required for this position.

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.

EmploymEnt opportunity

Executive Director The Yukon Conservation Society (YCS) is seeking an experienced and highly motivated person to lead and manage our organization. The successful candidate must have: • excellent communication skills • management, fundraising, and strategic planning skills • experience with non-governmental organizations • relevant educational background or equivalent experience • knowledge of environmental issues • a strong environmental ethic

YCS is a vibrant, 45-year-old grassroots environmental organization committed to pursuing ecosystem well-being and sustainable living throughout the Yukon and beyond.

Interested?

37.5 hours per week $27 to $32 per hour

If you have the right background and would like to join one of Canada’s 50 Best Managed companies, please forward your resume and cover letter in confidence (include the job title in the subject field) to: Nicole Jacques at nrj@summit-environmental.com. Only applicants who are shortlisted will be contacted.

Email resume and cover letter to: ycs@ycs.yk.ca, Attention: Search Committee For full job description see www.yukonconservation.org

For a complete list of job requirements and qualifications, please visit our website at www.summit-environmental.com

Closing date: February 16, 2014.

yukon Conservation Society 302 Hawkins Street, Whitehorse, yukon, y1A 1X6 867-668-5678

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 FIREWOOD FOR SALE Beetle killed $3,000 per logging truck load Delivered to Whitehorse Approximately 20 cord loads Also community deliveries Call Clayton @ 867-335-0894 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 ANDYʼS FIREWOOD SERVICE February 1st Price Drop!

Limited time quantity offer Haines Junction Standing Dry Fully stacked, measured cords $220/cord - 7-cord loads $230/cord - small orders Stock up now!

667-6429

Guns & Bows Case cutlery, high quality hand-crafted pocket and hunting knives available at G&R Pawnbrokers 1612-D Centennial St. 393-2274 BUY • SELL • LOANS BRAZILIAN MAUSER in 8mm Mauser, hand made hardwood stock, bedded and floated, recent refinish of whole rifle, $300 firm, PAL req'd, 667-2276 LEE ENFIELD No.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 LEE ENFIELD No.4 Mk1, 303 British, 10 rd. mag, sporterized, good+ cond, T 01 scope mounted instead of rear sight, sling, $300 firm, PAL reqʼd. 667-2276 COMPOUND BOW, asking $150. 336-2607 WINCHESTER 94 30-30, $375. Marlin lever 30-30, Bollard rifling, $350, Mossberg 12-gauge, short barreled pump, like new, $350. 334-7465 WINCHESTER 12-GAUGE, pump action, c/w folding stock, pistol grip, sling. PAL reqʼd, $175. 334-8175 SAKO A7, stainless synthetic, 300 wm, bolt action, removable magazine, after market limbsaver recoil pad, rings, bases, 4 x Bushnell scope, sling swivels, $925 obo.

633-4322 BUSHNELL 15 x 60 spotting scope, older, aluminum construction, extendable light barrel, mechanical fine focus, lens cover, rarely used, $75.00. 336-1412 LEE ENFIELD No. 4Mk2, c/w Redfield L9 scope, action glass bedded, PAL reqʼd, $350. 334-8175 COMPOUND BOW, Hoyt 45-60 older model, good shape, $125. 334-8175 CROSSBOW FOXFIRE, 125 lbs older model, c/w pouch w spare parts, $125.

334-8175 WINCHESTER LONG barrel, lever action, 30-30 cal, Canadian Centennial model, used, good shape, $400 firm. 633-2488 or 333-5640

Wanted WANTED: EXTERIOR door frame and threshold for 36 inch door (just the frame etc) 668-5207 WANTED: 3” chimney and wicks for coal oil lamp. 334-6265 WANTED: RELATIVELY cheap used or new flat screen TV. 333-9604 WANTED: USED, or deal on new, pwf pressure treated wood 2x4 2x6 or 2x8 or 8ft or longer. 668-5207 WANTED: VHS to DVD recorder. 456-4922 WANTED: OLDER snowmobiles, working, almost working, and not working. 456-4922 WANTED: PROTECTIVE riding gear for dirtbike, 5ʼ09” & 180 lbs & size 8.5/9 mens.

667-2940 WANTED: USED dartboard in good condition 667-2940

2008 F250 supercab, 7' flatdeck, 5.4L V8, 4WD, auto, recently serviced, new windshield/battery, winter package, new tires/ rims, low kms. $11,500 obo. 334-3049 lv msg

Cars

1991 GMC 1/2 ton, 6.2L diesel, air bags, needs work, make offer. 336-1695

2000 FORD F150 XL Triton V8 4X4, new brakes master/cylinder 2012, engine replaced 2007, well maintained, $2,500 obo.

660-4567

DIRECTOR - EDUCATION AND SOCIAL ASSISTANCE Position Type: Full-time, Permanent Department: Education Closing: Feb. 7, 2014 Salary: Level 9 - $90,352 to $117,458

2009 DODGE Caliber SXT, 58,000kms, exc cond, mint inside, c/w command start, new mud/snow tires, $11,750 obo. 668-4206 2008 KIA Magentis, fully loaded, 66,000 kms, recent appraisal $12,400, asking $10,000. 668-7090 2007 FORD ZX5 manual, 151,000 kms, sunroof, leather, touchscreen, perfect condition, 2 sets of tires/rims, great on gas, $8,500 obo, email sgraham87@hotmail.com 2007 TOYOTA Matrix, std trans, exc running cond, $7,500. 633-2740 2004 CHEVY Optra 4dr sedan, manual, 100,000kms, $4,200 obo. 456-7026 2004 FORD Focus, 2 dr hatchback, auto, 237,000 kms, well-maintained, great car, 667-7535 2004 JETTA 4-dr auto, 2L, GL model, aluminum alloy rims, sunroof, Monsoon stereo, new windshield, brakes, timing chain, certified. $6,500. 660-4806

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COMMUNITY WELLNESS SOCIAL WORKER Position Type: Full-time, Term - one year Department: Health - Counselling Unit Salary: Level 6 - $66,107 to $79,329 plus benefits Closing: Jan. 23, 2014 For complete details, visit www.kwanlindun.com/employment

E M P L OY M E N T O P P O RT U N I T Y TUTOR (Part-Time Casual to June 10, 2014) Department: Education Closing: Feb. 7, 2014 Salary: $25-$30/hour, depending on experience For full details, visit www.kwanlindun.com/employment

2002 CHEVY Tracker, 124,000km, 5 sp, 35 mpg, studded ice & summer tires, driving lights, $7,000. 335-3656 after 5pm 2002 C H R Y S L E R Concorde LX, 117,000kms, leather, CD, A/C, fully optioned, super clean cond, $3,800. 335-3868 2002 MUSTANG GT, 8-cyl standard, low kms, great cond, $8,500. 633-2740 2001 FORD Crown Vic, V8 auto, c/w winter tires, reliable car, $2,000 firm, call or text 867-332-7781 1998 HONDA Civic 4-dr, auto, a/c, 179,000 miles, 2 sets tires, great cond, $2,200.

334-5964 1998 MERCURY Grand Marquis, good cond, $1,800 obo. 633-5924 1996 HONDA Accord, 5-spd manual, fuel efficient, well maintained, 2 sets of wheels. $2,100 obo. 335-7707 1982 CHRYSLER Cordova slant 6, auto, make offer. 336-1695 HHR 2006, 149,000km, 5 seats, lots of cargo space, many extras, $7,000 obo. 336-2036

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Journeyman Heavy Duty Mechanic Key Responsibilities: This position is responsible for safely completing all fleet and commercial mechanical repairs to trucks, trailers, and other equipment. Ideally you have achieved your journeyman status of the Heavy Equipment Technician, Heavy Duty Equipment Mechanic or Truck & Transport Mechanic program and are able to diagnose and complete repairs on all aspects of heavy equipment. This position will also entail completion of work orders and offering direction and assistance to apprentice mechanics. Along with managing the Mechanics Shop you are responsible for scheduling of the fleet and commercial vehicles.

Wage: Starting at $40.00/hr and up, based on experience Schedule: This position has a Monday thru Friday work week, with shifts from 8:00am – 5:00pm and overtime and weekends as needed.

Qualifications and Skills • High School Diploma • Red-Seal Journeyman status in Heavy Equipment Technician, Heavy Duty Equipment Mechanic and/or Truck & Transport Mechanic • CVIP License is an asset, or must be willing to obtain • Previous experience with repairing on-road heavy duty equipment is an asset • Strong mechanical aptitude and demonstrate the willingness to learn • Excellent interpersonal skills with proven leadership ability • Ability to triage the work in the Mechanics shop • Knowledge of the technology side of the mechanic’s job would be a huge asset as well.

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2012 NISSAN Versa SL, 12,000km, 6-spd manual, HID headlights, DC air intake and exhaust, winter tires/rims, summer tires/17" rims, $16,500. 335-7878

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This is a tremendous opportunity for a dynamic, ambitious and enthusiastic individual looking for a career with a vibrant and growth oriented company. If this sounds like something that would interest you, we want to hear from you.

Our preferred method of application is to email resumes to sheldon@pnwgroup.ca We would like to thank all candidates in advance for their interest in this position, however only those being considered will be contacted.

Applications are being accepted until February 3rd 2014.

Dakwakada Development Corporation (DDC)

Finance Manager

Currently Dakwakada Development Corporation (DDC) has an opening for a Finance / Office Manager. Reporting to the General Manager, this is an exciting opportunity to contribute to the overall success of the corporation (and its subsidiaries) by effectively managing all financial tasks along with administrative oversight. The position will also include efforts to minimize corporate risks, coordination of Board of Director meetings, provide corporate support, property management and assisting with researching and assessing business cases and emerging investment opportunities while providing recommendations to Senior Management.

Qualifications: The ideal candidate should possess a university degree or college diploma in Accounting, Commerce, or Business Management/Administration and a minimum of 3- 5 years of progressive financial and office administration experience. Knowledge of the construction and manufacturing sector is considered to be an asset. Candidates should also possess advanced knowledge of all aspects of financial analysis, accounting and financial reporting. The candidate should further possess demonstrated skills in problem solving and analysis, proficiency in the use of computer programs particularly excel, relational databases, MS office. Good oral and written communication skills to be able to clearly explain financial concepts and the ability to maintain a high level of confidentiality as it concerns sensitive financial information are required. A valid driver’s license is required. Some travel may be required.

HoW to aPPlY: Qualified candidates are invited to send their resume and cover letter by February 10, 2014 to: Human Resources at #6 – 17 Burns Road Whitehorse, Yukon Y1A 4Z3, fax to (867) 668-5841, or email to michelle@dakwakada.com Preference will be shown to a qualified Champagne Aishihik First Nation Citizen.

We thank all applicants for their interest, however, only those selected for an interview will be contacted. oRGaniZational BacKGRounD: Dakwakada Development Corporation (DDC) is a privatelyheld investment firm located in Whitehorse, Yukon. Our sole-shareholder is the Champagne and Aishihik Trust, an organization whose purpose is to hold and manage most investment and business assets of the Champagne and Aishihik First Nations, based in Haines Junction, Yukon.

DDC has made numerous investments in the Yukon, primarily in growing sectors. Investments in construction and manufacturing sector include Castle Rock Enterprises, Kilrich Industries Limited and the RAB Energy Group/Northerm. Other investments include a variety of property holdings.

Dakwakada Development corporation #6 - 17 Burns Road, Whitehorse, Yukon Y1A 4Z3

www.dakwakada.com | p. 867-668-5831 | f. 867-668-5841

Executive Director

Yukon Women in Trades and Technology (YWITT)

Closing Date: Wednesday, February 7, 2014 Hours: 37.5 hours per week (some evening and weekend hours required) Wage: $25-$30 per hour DOE Job Description/Duties: YUKON WOMEN IN TRADES AND TECHNOLOGY (YWITT) If you are an energetic, visionary leader committed to making a real difference for Yukon women of all ages, this job is for you. As the Executive Director you will be the leader and senior manager responsible for carrying out the YWITT strategic plan. Working with governments, industry and non-government partners, you will be responsible for overseeing the funding, developing, managing and delivering of a variety of diverse training programs for adults and exciting and educational events for youth. Additional highlights of necessary knowledge, skills and abilities are: • • • • • • • • •

excellent leadership, communication and interpersonal skills public relations –strong networking skills proposal development financial management within a context of multiple government funding agencies flexible program planning, implementation and evaluation ability to provide hands on support to trainers in a variety of trades and technology related workshops ability to flex hours to accommodate evening and weekend programs Trades and/or Technology industry experience will be considered an asset.

Applicants must have a reliable vehicle and be willing to travel to various communities within Yukon.

requirements/qualiFications: The ideal candidate will have a university degree in a relevant field and/or a minimum of five years experience in a similar work environment/capacity. You understand the responsibilities of an Executive Director reporting to the volunteer, policy-oriented Board of Directors of a non-government organization.

HoW to apply: Quoting the title, please submit your resume to: YUKON WOMEN IN TRADES AND TECHNOLOGY #191 – 108 Elliott Street, Whitehorse, Yukon Y1A 6C4 or Email: ywitt@yukonwitt.org Phone: 867-667-4441, Fax: 867-633-5689.

Contact Name: Kim Solonick WE THANK ALL THOSE WHO APPLY AND ADvISE THAT ONLY THOSE CANDIDATES INvITED FOR AN INTERvIEW WILL BE CONTACTED.

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Pet Report Hours of operation for tHe sHelter: Tues - Fri: 12:00pm-7:00pm • Sat 10:00am-6:00pm CloSed Sundays & Mondays

633-6019 FriDaY, JanUarY 24

Help control the pet overpopulation problem

2014

have your pets spayed or neutered.

For inFormation call

633-6019

LOST/FOUND LOST

• riverview Hotel area, brown, small male puppy, wearing a red collar, short legs and a long torso. if found please contact Florence @ 668-2237 or 332-8082 or 867-969-2117 (07/01/14) • 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

• mount mcintyre little corgiX, big ears and black, answers to Blue, no collar. if found contact Gary @ 3343313. ( 08/01/14) • mile 2 mayo HWY, female,7yr old retriever missing right hind leg, no collar or tags, wearing a blue scarf. if found contact 334-2799 (11/01/14)

FOUND

• none at this time.

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) • 3 yr old, female spayed, beardogx GSD, black and tan (Holly)

CATS

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

AT THE SHELTER DOGS

• 4 mos old, female, husky X, blonde (Bianca) • 1 yr old, neutered male, labx GSD, black and tan ( rider) • 5 yr old, neutered male, labx collie, black (arlo) • 1 yr old, neutered male, Pekingese, white and brown (christmas) • 8 wks old, female, alaska malamute/ husky, tan and black (Dasher) • 8wks old, female, alaska malamute / husky, tan and black (Donner) • 2 yr old, neutered male, black and white, husky X (D.o.G) • 1 yr old, female, blonde, husky/ lab X (lucky) • 5 months old, male, husky, white (cupid) • 3yr old, neutered male, akita, grey and white (a.J.) • 3 yr old, neutered male, GSD/ rottweiler, black and brown ( trouble) • 8 months old, spayed female, black, StaffordshireX, black ( Peanut) • 8 months old, male, StaffordshireX, black ( tank)

• 5 months old, female, Husky / labX, blonde ( Winnie) • 1yr old, neutered male, mastiffX, brindle and white (apollo) • 4mos old, male, blue heeler/pitbull, white and black (Skylos)

Friday, January 24, 2014

CENTENNIALMOTORS.COM 867-393-8100 We are now The Yukonʼs Distributor for TRUCKBOSS. TRUCKBOSS is simply the best truck deck on the market today.

TRUCKBOSS provides users unequalled quality and flexibility in hauling snowmobiles, ATV's, UTV's, and motorcycles along with industry exclusive winch loading & sealed under deck storage.

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. Call 667-6951 eves 2002 FORD Windstar, 270,000kms, bucket middle seats, bench 3rd row, new stereo, power locks, windows, mirrors & power sliding back doors, runs great, summer/winter tires, $4,000. 334-2888 2009 SUBARU Tribeca Ltd, loaded, 7-seater, CD/DVD, heated seats, remote start, back-up camera, regularly serviced, 50,000kms, $22,900. 667-6752

2008 FORD F150 4x4 quad cab 5.4 l, c/w P/S, P/L, P/W, cruise, back-up camera, tow package w/brake controller, 3-pc. Tonneau, CD, new tires, etc., 120,000 km. $17,500.

660-4806 1994 FORD F250 Econoline van, runs, needs windshield/battery, insulated, and 1995 Ford Aerostar, runs, needs TLC & windshield. Info 333-9358 1990 NISSAN 4X4 5-spd, regular cab, c/w winch, extensive maintenance done, invoice available, c/w utility trailer electric hook-up, $2,500 obo. 633-2837 2011 DODGE Ram 2500 diesel 4X4 crew cab, 8ʼ box w/canopy & slide-out, many features, 129,000kms, $34,500. 333-0451 2010 DODGE 3500 Laramie dually, 4X4, 29,000kms, every option plus, mint cond, $65,000 obo. 668-4206 2005 GMC Sierra, crew cab, leather, Bose stereo, lots of miles, regularly serviced, runs good, $6,500. 334-5739

2008 TOYOTA Tundra 4X4, 5.7L, auto, crew cab, heated seats, climate control, canopy w/slideout, CD changer, AM/FM, Bluetooth capable, 129,000 kms, $27,000. 333-0451

2004 DODGE 1500 4x4 Laramie, fully loaded, c/w canopy, new tires, windshield, $12,500, call or text 867-334-2846

2003 TACOMA TRD, 4 cyln, 2 wh/drv, 180,000 miles double cab, PWR, AC, new winter tires, well maintained, $7,500.

335-4436

2002 CHEVY Tracker, 124,000km, studded ice and summer tires, 5 speed, driving lights, 35 mpg, $7,000 obo. 335-4656 after 5:00pm

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ianca

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Inventory Atv’s: 2009 Yamaha Big Bear 250 ..........................................................$3,499 2009 Yamaha Wolverine 450 .......................................................$4,999

snowmobiles: 2007 Yamaha Apex Gt 121" .........................................................$5,999

2012 Yamaha Nytro Xtx 144" Speed Racer Edition ...................$9,999 2012 Yamaha Nytro Mtx 162" 270hp Turbo ..............................$15,999

motoRCYCles: 2000 Yamaha 650 Vstar ............................................................... $3,499 2008 Yamaha Wr450 Offroad .......................................................$4,499 2008 Yamaha R6 Canadian Edition .............................................$7,999 2011 Harley Davidson Sportster 1100 ........................................$8,999 2012 Yamaha Bw50 Scooter ....................................................... $2,499

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2014 Chrysler 200 LX NEW! Auto, White,

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2014 Jeep Cherokee North Edition 4x4 Auto, Black

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OPEN 7 DAYS A WEEK In-House Financing Available

For Quick Approval call: 668-5559 #4 Fraser Road, McCrae, Whitehorse, YT Y1A 5S8

WANTED: LOOKING for 4-wd mid-size pick-up truck, standard, with ext cab.

660-4321

2009 Bravo 250 mint condition 700km ....................................... $5999

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

2014 Dodge Dart SXT

1984 FORD F250 4x4, c/w 300-straight 6, winch, rails, perfect firewood truck, $2,500.

334-8668

2008 Honda Shadow 750..............................................................$4,999

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.

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$

1990 DODGE 1-ton van, V8, auto, rear cabinets c/w heater, mint cond (needs differential), near-new rubber, $1,400. 667-7777

2009 Yamaha Nytro Rtx Se 121" Sno X Edition 1275km ...........$7,999

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

Please contact 668-3647 or kennelmanager@muktuk.com

4 door, Auto, White

1999 DODGE Dakota 4X4 V6 Magnum, clean, runs great, 6-CD changer, tonneau cover, class 4 hitch, $5,500 obo. 633-3881

2008 Yamaha Phazer Mtx 144" Timbersled Suspension ..........$6,499

SPECIAL

IN-HOUSE FINANCING AVAILABLE!

2008 Toyota Corolla SE

2001 DODGE Dakota Sport RT, 5.9L, auto, new tires/windshield, low kms, exc cond, $6,500. 633-2740

CATS

• 2yr old, DSH, grey and white, neutered male (Sappy) • 6 months old,DSH, grey and white, neutered male (moss) • 2 yr old, DSH, white and black, neutered male (tom) • 6mos old, DSH, grey tabby, spayed female (ruby) • 6mos old, DSH, black and white, neutered male (onyx)

SALES • BODY SHOP • PARTS • SERVICE $ 2001 Dodge Dakota 4x4 Clubcab, v8, GREY......................................

5,500 SOLD! 2005 Honda Pilot EX, black ..........................................................................$13,900 $ SOLD! 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

2013 Kawasaki Ninja 300 .............................................................$3,999

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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 15” NOKIAN winter tires on alloy rims, 195x65R from 2001 Honda accord, 65% treadwear remaining, $1,500 new, asking $500. 335-5964

Pets 2 PET carriers, small, for cat, plastic hard shell, $15 ea. 660-4806 8 MONTH old Chihauhau available for stud service. Purebred tea cup. Exchange for pick of the litter. Contact 393-3868 MALE POODLE X, hypoallergenic, free to good home, gentle, quiet, calm, would do well with children, likes cats. 633-4699 LARGE DOG Whisperer dog crate, wood & metal, 250-651-7868

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 1982 YAMAHA SS440, mint, $2,000.

250-651-7773 RONʼS SMALL ENGINE SERVICES Repairs to Snowmobiles, Chainsaws, Lawnmowers, ATVʼs, Small industrial equipment.

Light welding repairs available 867-332-2333 lv msg 2001 POLARIS 700RMK 144"x2", windshield bag, slp air filter, cover, belt cover bag, hitch, 2,600 mi, exc cond, atac temp/altitude controller, lots of extras. $3,999 obo.

668-5644 2009 SKIDOO Summit 800 xp x package, 1,700 miles, c/w ceramic coated can, Skidoo cover, extra set of upper/lower a-arms, great shape, $7,000 obo. 333-0484

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Friday, January 24, 2014 Marine PROFESSIONAL BOAT REPAIR Fiberglass Supplies Marine Accessories FAR NORTH FIBERGLASS 49D MacDonald Rd Whitehorse, Yukon 393-2467 18ʼ SANGSTERCRAFT w trailer, $1,500, 115hp Johnson, $1,000, 125hp Merc w jet leg, $1,000, complete OMC leg V6 engine $ controls, 250-651-7773

Heavy Equipment 2005 FIRE Cat 700 runs awsome, low kms. $3,000. 336-3922 2009 M8 Arctic Cat, 153" x 2" track, Can 2" riser. 800cc, take a test ride. 334-1890 2003 RXI Yamaha 1000 turbo sled, for parts or rebuild, low miles, $1,500. 334-5739 2010 VK pro 4 stroke widetrack, red, 1600 km, located in Dawson but will deliver to Whitehorse if needed, $10,000 firm, 993-6217

2001 CHAMPION 740G grader, 5 winter tires, extra cutting edges, Sam at 332-7020 for info

23rd October 1919-26th December 2013

D-8K STRAIGHT blade, double hydraulic tilts, new corner bits & cutting edges (still in pkg, never installed), $5,000. 667-7777

Muriel, resident of Whitehorse, Yukon, passed away on 26th December 2013, at the young age of 94 at Whitehorse General Hospital.

GOLD SHAKER sluice box, spray bar, on metal skids, $5,000, for info call 867-536-7610 LPW-2 CYL Lister 6kw genset, new engine, $6,000. 633-4822

PITSTER PRO X2 140cc 2011 model, some cosmetic damage but repairable, runs great, $900 obo. 335-8405

KUBOTA ENCLOSED genset 10kw, mounted on fuel tank and on wheels, $7,000. Lister 3 cyl, 14kw, mounted on oil sump, $5,000. 633-4822

2004 YAMAHA WR 450F, street legal, elec start, Rekluse clutch, bar riser, heat grips TrailTech Vapor digital gauge, low miles, well maintained, $4,200 obo. 633-5495

LISTER 3 cyl, 6kw genset, $5,500. Yanmar 8kw, low hrs, mounted on fuel tank, $7,000.

633-4822

1996 ARCTIC Cat Bearcat 440 162" track, fan cooled, good cond, new pistons, rebuilt clutches, completely serviced, $3,200.

334-8261 2011 YAMAHA 25hp LS 4 Stroke outboard w/ 5gal tank/stand, less than 60 hours, well maintained, yearly maintenance on lower unit oil/lube changes, quiet, easy to start, $3,950. 334-8324 MICHAEL KELLY Patriot elec guitar, set-neck construction, mahogany body/neck, flame maple top, rosewood fretboard, 22 medium jumbo frets, 24 3/4" scale, tune-o-matic bridge, MK PAF pickups, $300. 336-1412 2009 BEARCAT XT wide track 570, 3,500kms, reverse, winch, 2-up seat, heated grips, $5,800. 335-2083 TO GIVE away, 2007 Suzuki Hayabusa GSX1300RZZ GSX-R Sport Bike, 100% mechanically ok, starkjohn336@yahoo.com 2 SKIDOOS, 1995 Phazer 488 and Arctic Cat F700, both in good shape, 390-2313 2010 SWT Skandic, 800 4 stroke, 8,000kms, new track, good cond, $9,000 obo.

390-2689 8FT LONG skimmer toboggan for snowmobile. Teflon with metal frame. Manufactured locally by Art Lock. $1,800 new, asking $1,000. 332-5364 2013 SUMMIT XM 163, 1400 kms, lots of upgrades, fantastic sled in amazing shape. $12,500 obo. 335-3633

DEUTZ 1 cyl, 5kw genset, $5,000. Lister 2 cyl, 4.5kw genset, $5,500. Ph 633-4822

Campers & Trailers TAITʼS TRAILERS www.taittrailers.com taits@northwestel.net Quality new and used Horse * Cargo * Equipment trailers For sale or rent Call Anytime 334-2194 Southern prices delivered to the Yukon TRAILER 5ʼX10ʼ, HD construction, 3 new tires, stake pockets, 2 toys or firewood, 5km on new trailer, $700 obo, 456-4137 after 4pm

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She was born at their home in Foster, Quebec, Canada to Richard and Blodwen Chilton, the older daughter of two girls.

They lived on a one-acre parcel of land. The family loved gardening, so they always had lots of fresh vegetables and Muriel’s mother also did lots of canning and preserving in the autumn. Muriel loved to help with that.

One of her fondest memories growing up in the country was with the family going out for drives with their horse “Bob”, especially in winter when Bob’s harness had bells on and they were ringing while gliding over the snow.

In August 1933 Muriel’s father died. The family moved into Kingsbury, Quebec in September 1934. This is where her mother was born.

On December 28th, 1935 Muriel’s mother was married again to Charles William Stevens, whom she had known years before.

Muriel and her sister Marion joined with the new family of seven step brothers and sisters. She was very fond of her step-father and siblings.

Muriel spoke of them as being a loving, caring family. The young friends gathered at the Stevens’

home regularly and that is how she met Murray MacMorine.

Murray and Muriel started keeping company in 1938, but it was not until the 5th of February 1944 that they were married due to World War II. Muriel and Murray had three girls during the time the family lived in various communities in Quebec and Ontario.

In 1984 all their now grown-up daughters and their families where living in Ontario. So on Murray’s retirement they both moved into the vicinity so that they could be near all their families.

In 1995 Muriel and Murray made their first trip to the “Land of the Midnight Sun” and had a wonderful time visiting their daughter and family here in the Yukon. They again visited here in December 1997 and had a Happy Christmas and New Year celebration.

In 1999 they both decided to move to Whitehorse to live and bought a condo in Riverdale across the river from the downtown area of Whitehorse. Later on they moved into Closeleigh Manor.

In 2004 Murray’s illness forced him to live at Copper Ridge, a

We wish to thank all of those who cared for her during the last few months of her life.

The funeral service and internment was held at Christ Church Cathedral on January 3rd, 2014.

Condolences and donations may be sent to her Grand-daughter at: Heather, Brian, Autumn, Faith and Jordis Gallacher, 20 Violet St., Barrie, Ont. L4N 9N2 Arrangements were provided by Heritage North Funeral Home and Christ Church Cathedral.

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continuing care home while Muriel remained in the apartment. She visited her husband often while he was there, surviving 60 years of marriage together. He died later that same year. Muriel missed his company and love very much.

She continued living in Closeleigh Manor for the last years of her life with her best friend Michael as her constant helper, protector and companion at her side.

Muriel was a very active member in the communities that she lived in. She served on the Board of Health in Tulsa for 30 years and was active in the community taking part in many Church activities like Sunday school, Women’s Groups, Missionary Societies, and later Canada Senior Games. She was a loving, caring and very interesting lady to talk to. Muriel is missed so very much by all who knew her.

Muriel died peacefully on Boxing Day – her favorite season of Christmas - in Whitehorse General Hospital, at age 94 years, 2 months and 3 days. She is survived by her 3 daughters Marilyn, Karen and Phyllis and their families of 5 grandchildren and 8 greatgrandchildren.

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54 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 CHILKOOT TRAIL/LOG Cabin: Non-Motorized Weekend, Jan 17-19. Other weekends & weekdays, Multi-Use. For more info: 867-667-3910

Yukon News 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 MT LORNE Classic Ski Race 2014, Feb 22nd noon, info and registration @ www.mountlorne.yk.net

HORAIRE PISTE Chilkoot/Log Cabin: Multi-usage sauf du 17 au 19 janvier : fin de semaine réservée aux activités non motorisées. 867-667-3910 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

In memory of

Michael Anthony Rawlings

April 4, 1949 – January 24, 2008

Beloved husband, father, grandfather, brother and friend

“Grieve not, nor speak of me with tears, but laugh and talk of me as if I were beside you there” Isla Paschal Richardson

Dearly missed, forever loved – your family.

It is with great sorrow that the family of John William (Bill) Pringle must share the news of his passing with his many friends.

Bill died at home in Carcross at the age of 80, surrounded by his wife Linda and several close friends at 8:00pm, January 19, 2014 following a short, valiant struggle with cancer.

Bill was born November 12, 1933 in the “Boston States” to Kenneth G. and Elizabeth C. Pringle (nee McLeod). He was the third of their 5 boys. The family lived in Boston until 1944 when they returned to Roberta, Cape Breton.

It was there in Roberta that Bill developed a passion for of hunting, fishing and the great outdoors that stayed with him his whole life.

Bill attended high school in Glace Bay, Nova Scotia. He was accepted as a recruit with the RCMP in November 1952. He was very proud to be a member of the “Force” and served with distinction for 31+ years.

One of his early postings was in 1955 when he was sent to Aklavik.

He spent his first summer in the North at Whitefish Station with a Special Constable and his family November 12, 1933 – putting up fish and whale meat for January 19, 2014 the winter dog food supply. It was there that he fell in love with the North. He left the North in 1957 for 3 years service in New Brunswick returning to Whitehorse in 1958 never to leave the North again.

Bill opened the first summer detachment in Carcross in 1959 where he found the place that he wanted to eventually retire to. He loved the country and the outdoors opportunities available as well as the people of this small community. He spent many years finding property to build his retirement home.

Bill worked throughout the North for the duration of his

Bill Pringle

career making a multitude of friends. He has particularly fond memories of the time he spent in Spence Bay developing close bonds with the people there, most notably the Lyall family who remained dear to him to the end. It was also in Spence Bay that he met his first wife Isabelle. They married in 1963 and were inseparable until her death in 1986.

In 1987 he met Linda Garner. They married in July 1988 and they spent 25 wonderful years together.

Bill retired in 1983 after 31 years service with the RCMP and started his second career as the school bus driver. Many young Carcross adults will remember the Friday bus treats.

After retirement Bill dedicated his time to the Carcross Volunteer Ambulance service and Fire Department as well as the development of the Isabelle Pringle Library, the establishment of the Carcross Rod and Gun Club and in more recent years the RCMP Veteran’s Association and the Yukon Heritage Resources Board.

Bill was the proud recipient of the Canada Medal of Bravery 1983, the Queen’s Golden Jubilee Medal 2002, the Queen’s Silver Jubilee Medal 1977, the RCMP Long Service Medal with silver clasp 1983, the Canada 125 Medal 1992, the Order of St. John Silver Lifesaving Medal 1983 as well as a Commissioners’ commendation 1983 and a CO commendation 1959.

Bill is survived by his loving wife Linda, brothers George (Leone) and Donald (Belle), both in Cape Breton, and numerous nieces and nephews.

Bill is predeceased by his wife Isabelle, father Kenneth G., mother Elizabeth and brothers Jim and Douglas. Also gone before him were his golden girls that gave him so much love and enjoyment, Bridey, Emma, and Molly.

A celebration of life will be held on Thursday, January 30 at 2:00 pm at Whitehorse United Church with Rev. Bev Brazier officiating.

Interment will be at a later date in Regina.

In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to your favourite charity or the Canadian Cancer Society (www.cancer.ca).

Bill was a man of principle, integrity, honour and compassion. His generosity and care for his friends and neighbours was limitless. He had a great sense of humour as well as a limitless capacity for love. He will be sorely missed.

Friday, January 24, 2014 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

WEEKLY DROP-IN Recovery Group meetings, Wednesdays: 2:30 pm to 4:00 pm, Alcohol and Drug Services. Call 667-5777 for more information

THE YUKON Orienteering Association AGM will be held Jan. 29, 2014 at 7:00 p.m. in the Sport Yukon boardroom. Members are welcome.

SEEKING SAFETY Group, for women dealing with trauma and addiction. Call Alcohol and Drug Services at 667-5777 for more information

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/$40 families. www.ldayukon.com/668-5167 for details

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

QUEER YUKON: upcoming socials events for the LGBT and allies community at www.queeryukon.com. Bowling night, Rendezvous Drag Dance, Film Fests and more!

FALUN GONG, an advanced practice of Buddha school self-cultivation. Fa study Monday, Wednesday, Friday at Wood Street Annex from 6 p.m. No charge. For an introduction to the practice call 633-6157 YUKON SCHUTZHUND Association AGM, Sunday, Feb. 2, 2014, 1:00pm-3:00pm, Whitehorse Public Library meeting room.

Dog training enthusiasts invited.

YUKON WIG Bank provides wigs, free of charge, to individuals suffering hair loss due to cancer treatment. For more information contact: yukonsupport@hotmail.com PEER FACILITATED Support Group for people with a diagnosis of cancer. First Monday of each month, Copper Ridge Place, 7:00-9:00 p.m. Next meeting February 3, 2014. Info: yukonsupport@hotmail.com 2014/2015 FRENCH Immersion Kindergarten Info Night: Thur. Feb. 6th at Whitehorse Elementary: 6pm. Info: 667-8083

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September 20, 1952 - January 23, 2004 It has been nine ten years since your unexpected parting.

Thoughts about you are often by family, friends and community. Your brush strokes are always on our hearts and minds. You will always be missed amongst all of us, and the memories of you and your wonderful contributions will linger with us.

We know that your passion for painting is being well displayed as we walk through life and see the wonders that surround us that remind us of you.

The Hildebrand Family

Peter, Meghan & Tony, Holly, & Riley Peter; Megan & Tony & Holly;

Mark, Delan and Riley

Richard (Dick) William Lapensée July 19, 1934 - January 16, 2014

Richard passed away rapidly at Whitehorse General Hospital. He leaves behind his wife Hélène, the love of his life for the last 42 years, his sister Anne Bryant, many nieces and nephews, great-nieces and greatnephews, sisters-in-law and brothers-in-law as well as very good friends.

Richard considered himself as a true Yukoner. He left Montreal, his hometown, to come to the Yukon in 1976. He worked for the federal and territorial governments and he also had his own heating business.

A public viewing will take place on Monday, January 27th from 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm at Heritage North Funeral Home, located on 412 Cook Street.

The funeral service will be held on Tuesday, January 28th at 2:00 pm at Sacred Heart Cathedral, located on the corner of 4th Avenue and Steele Street.

A finger food potluck reception will follow at the CYO Hall.

Richard will be cremated on January 29th and will have a private burial service a few days later.

Donations can be made in Richard’s name to The Alzheimer Society (www.alzheimer.ca), Parkinson Disease Society (www.parkinson.ca) or any other charity of your choice.

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Friday, January 24, 2014 PEER FACILITATED Support Group for people with a diagnosis of cancer. First Monday of each month, Copper Ridge Place, 7:00-9:00 p.m. Next meeting February 3, 2014. Info: yukonsupport@hotmail.com

A DAY of Quiet Retreat at Hospice Yukon, Sunday, February 2. Remember your loved one with writing, painting, collage or simple reflection. 667-7429 info@hospiceyukon.net

HABITAT YUKON is holding 2 public information sessions, Whitehorse Public Library, Jan. 23, 6:00pm, and January 26, 10:00am.

Applications for a habitat home can only be obtained at these presentations

PORTER CREEK Community Association meeting Monday, February 3rd, 5:15 pm at the Guild Hall. More information 633-4829.

Everyone Welcome. Come show your support

TOO MUCH Guitar Quartet w/ Oliver Gannon & Bill Coon. Sun, Jan 26, 7:30 pm cabaret. Arts Centre. Tix yukontickets.com. YAC Box Office, Arts Underground or door

ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION Association general sharing meeting. All welcome!

Thursday January 30, Whitehorse Public Library meeting room 3:45 pm. Find out/tell us about EE in Yukon

YUKON GIRL Guides celebrate 100 years of Guiding history. Exhibit opens Sat Feb 1 at 2:00pm, MacBribe Museum. Reception open to public. There will be cookies! Phone 667-2709 or 667-2455

ROTARY MUSIC Festival online registration is open until February 1st. Regulations & Syllabus document available online, www.rmfestival.ca. For info: 393-2389 or rmfestival@yahoo.ca

COME EXPERIENCE an Aurora workshop on Saturday, January 25, 2014, 10:15am4:15pm, Whitehorse Public Library. Learn new strategies that enhance your day-to-day learning

YUKON LIBERAL Party Leadership. Per YLP constitution 29A, this is notice of a leadership convention to be held March 1, 2014.

See ylp.ca for details

LORNE MOUNTAIN Centre Skate-A-Thon, February 16th 2:00pm. Join us for fundraising activity for the whole family, pledge forms, info on great prizes, www.mountlorne.yk.net

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LORNE MOUNTAIN Centre, Foodie Club meeting February 10th 7:00pm. Discover East India cuisine. Register 667-7083, more info www.mountlorne.yk.net

children until she permanently committed to the five kids she called her own, Jordan, Kendra, River, Jesse, and Sierra.

In 2009 she was diagnosed with cancer but her spirit was unyielding. She faced her life and her death with eyes wide open. She was a miracle in many ways surviving many medical crisis when the prognosis was bleak. She used her illness to teach and support others going through the same thing. Nicky’s friend and Yukon Hospice support, Trish Eccles said it best when she shared that “Nicky never became her pain”.

Nicolearie Evelyn M

Wynnyk,

47, of Marsh Lake Yukon, passed away on November 2nd 2013, after a 4 year battle with cancer.

N

icky is survived by her 2 children, Tyler and Jocelyn, Tylers fiancés Katelyn Bushell and 5 foster children Jordan Howes, Kendra Cardinal, Jesse Collins, River Tourangeau and Sierra Sauve, her parents Guy and Florence Turcotte, Aunt, Evelyne Chartrand (Rolly), Uncle Jean Turcotte (Brian) , brother Guy Turcotte Jr. (Tammy) and sister Mary Bracken (Bruce). She will be missed by the many aunts, uncles, nieces and nephews, cousins and close friends/family in the Yukon who shared in her life.

Nicole was born in Temiscaming Quebec April 10th 1966. She grew up in Hudson Bay Saskatchewan where she graduated at HBCH in 1985. After grad she took Early Childhood Development at SIAST. In 1997 Nicky enrolled in the EMT Program at the Saskatchewan Institute of Applied Science and Technology. She returned to work as an EMT for the Hudson Bay Ambulance service. She loved what she did and used her passion to help, making a difference in people’s lives.

Work moved Nicky to Mayerthorpe Alberta where she was blessed with her two children Tyler and Jocelyn. In 2002 they moved to the Yukon to help a new business get off its feet not knowing the doors it had just opened. She quickly found the local volunteer fire department to continue practicing her medical passion that eventually led her to Yukon EMS who became extended family.

With an abundance of love she opened her home to foster care where she had touched the lives of several

Nicky drew her strength by helping others. The more pressure or adversity she faced the stronger her resolve became. From an early age Nicky she showed that determination. She wore many hats in her lifetime and did everything; farming, coaching gymnastics, working in a lumber mill, equipment operator, EMT, Primary Care Paramedic, Marsh Lake Volunteer Fire Department, she served on the board for the Foster Parents Association. Whatever she did she gave it her best. She loved hunting fishing, quading and camping. Anything to spend time with the kids.

Your home.

Your life.

Your paper.

To her children she was a loving mother, referee, taxi driver, counselor, banker, judge, jury and nurse (they got hurt a lot,). Nicky lived life to the fullest and taught all of her kids to do the same.

Nicky wouldn’t come back to lower Canada, and once we came up it was evident why she chose to stay, she had family here too. The many people we’ve had the pleasure to meet this last few years and months.

You are the reason that Nicky called the Yukon her home. She was surrounded by people that loved her, helped her and needed her. Our family will be forever grateful for the love and support you have shown to our beloved Nicky, her children and to us. You have shown us how a community can become a family.

Nicky was a strong, stubborn and compassionate person that could see the greatness in people when no one else could. She was always there to help, give you a hug, give you words of encouragement or give you a swift kick. You didn’t always like her but you definitely always loved her.

Nicky never gave up and fought cancer the best she could, touching many lives in her short time on earth.

She knew her purpose was to support, be there for the underdog and she accomplished that and much more, helping so many.

To all that knew her, we thank you for being part of her life and letting our family be part of yours. We will all miss her dearly, her pain is now over. Remember the good times; there was a lot of them.

Nicky wanted to see a separate palliative care unit set up in Whitehorse General Hospital so anyone wanting to donate towards that in Nicole Wynnyks name please see the attached link or go to Yukon Hospital Foundation/giving. http://www.yhf.ca/giving Nicky, we always have and always will love you. You will be forever in our hearts. We want to share a favorite quote of Nicky’s. “Don’t miss out on a blessing because it isn’t packaged the way you expected.” She truly is the bravest person we know.

WEDNESDAY • FRIDAY

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LORNE MOUNTAIN Centre February 8th Coffeehouse, Two Piano Tornado with Annie Avery, Grant Simpson, doors open 7pm, tickets $18, info www.mountlorne.yk.net

pUbLIC TENDER DEMOLITION OF OLD FIRE HALL, ROSS RIVER, YUKON Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title.

The closing date for submissions is February 13, 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 Mike O’Connor at (867) 667-3553.

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

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

YUKON CIRCLE of Change AGM Thursday February 6, 7:30, Whitehorse Library. Get involved in creating positive change in our community. www.yukoncircleofchange.com

PUblIc TENDER EXTERIOR RETROFIT YUKON HOUSING UNIT 874200 ROSS RIVER, YUKON Project Description: Exterior retrofit of Unit #874200 in Ross River Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title.

The closing date for submissions is February 5, 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 Robert Kostelnik at 867-667-5795.

Site visit January 29, 2014 at 12:00 noon

Community Services

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 GENETIC ANALYSIS OF CARNIVORE SAMPLES

public Tender iSOTOpe AnAlYSiS (cArbOn, niTrOGen, SulpHur) OF cArniVOre SAMpleS

SALSA YUKON January Fiesta. Come dance to Salsa, Merengue, Bachata and more, January 25th 8:30pm-12am, Antoinette's restaurant, 4021-4th Ave, salsayukon@gmail.com for info

PUBLIC TENDER 1 FURNACE AND 1 FUEL TANK REPLACEMENT YUKON HOUSING UNITS BEAVER CREEK, YUKON

Friday, January 24, 2014 DANCE PARTY! Put on your summer clothes and make the snow melt! Jan. 30, 10pm, Yukon Arts Centre Lobby, 393-2676, info@gwaandaktheatre.com, facebook/gwaandaktheatre.com

GWAANDAK AND YAC present public reading of Paradise by Patti Flather, Feb. 4th, 6;30pm, Kwanlin Dun Cultural Centre, Artist Studio, admission by donation, limited space, RSVP at 393-2676 or marketing@gwaandaktheatre

CD FUNDRAISER for Dennis Allen, Saturday January 25 9:00pm, Paddyʼs Place, 101 Wood St. Hot food, blues jam, new music video, $5 at the door. 335-0638

YUKON SCIENCE Institute presents The Germ Code, Building a Better Relationship with Germs with Jason Tetro, Sunday, January 26, 7:30pm, Beringia Centre, Whitehorse. Free GREY MOUNTAIN Housing Society AGM, Monday, January 27, 7:00 pm. Call 633-4880 for info.

PUbLIC TENDER 3 FURNACE REPLACEMENTS YUKON HOUSING UNITS CARCROSS, YUKON

Project Description: Installation of 1 Dettson AMP098SD furnace and 1 fuel oil tank supplied by YHC. Removal of 2 indoor single wall steel fuel oil tanks

Project Description: Installation of 3 Dettson furnaces

Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title.

The closing date for submissions is January 29, 2014. Please refer to the procurement documents for the closing time and location.

Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title.

The closing date for submissions is February 6, 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.

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.

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

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

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

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STANDING OFFER AGREEMENT FOR CONSULTATION SERVICES

FOR THE SUPPLY OF POLYETHYLENE FLOTATION FOAM

pUbLIC TENdER INTERIOR RETROFIT UNIT 084000 6A - 2004 CENTENNIAL WHITEHORSE YUKON Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title.

The closing date for submissions is February 11, 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 Robert Kostelnik at 867-667-5795.

Site Visit: February 4, 2014 at 1:00 p.m.

The highest ranked or lowest priced submission may not necessarily be accepted. requirements for this project.

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

PubLIC TENDER

Project Description: Environment Yukon requires analysis of carnivore samples including species identification, gender identification, individual identification, and parentage analysis.

Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title.

The closing date for submissions is February 11, 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 Ramona Maraj at (867) 393-7423.

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

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

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

project description: Environment Yukon requires analysis of carnivore samples for carbon, nitrogen and sulphur isotopes. The lab must also complete isotope analysis on plant material and tissue samples.

Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title.

The closing date for submissions is February 12, 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 ramona Maraj at (867) 393-7423.

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

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

Project Description: Provide continued consultation services for business case development work on the Yukon Government’s PeopleSoft HRMS. Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title.

The closing date for submissions is February 13, 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 Eckhard Krabel at (867) 6675974.

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

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

Project Description: To supply 270 sheets of Polyethylene Flotation Foam as per tender.

Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title.

The closing date for submissions is February 5, 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 Sandy Brown at (867) 667-5108.

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

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

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

Project Description: Environment Yukon requires quantitative fatty acid signature analysis of carnivore samples to assess diet.

Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title.

The closing date for submissions is February 12, 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 Ramona Maraj at (867) 393-7423.

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

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

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GWAANDAK THEATRE et l'AFY offrent un atelier en théâtre physique avec l'acteur, chorégraphe et éducateur, Trevor Copp le 1er février, de 13 h à 16h, au Centre de la francophonie. 668-2663, vhamel@afy.yk.ca ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION Association general sharing meeting. All welcome!

Thursday January 30, Whitehorse Public Library meeting room, 3:45 pm. Find out/tell us about EE in Yukon

Services - INSULATION Upgrade your insulation & reduce your heating bills Energy North Construction Inc. (1994) for all your insulation & coating needs Cellulose & polyurethane spray foam Free estimate: 667-7414 BACKHAULS, WHITEHORSE to Alberta.

Vehicles, Furniture, Personal effects etc.

Daily departures, safe secure dependable transportation at affordable rates. Please call Pacific Northwest Freight Systems @ 667-2050 SHARPENING SERVICES. For all your sharpening needs - quality sharpening, fair price & good service.

At corner of 6th & Strickland.

667-2988 MC RENOVATION Construction & Renovations Laminated floor, siding, decks, tiles Kitchen, Bathroom, Doors, Windows Framing, Board, Drywall, Painting Drop Ceiling, Fences No job too small Free estimates Michael 336-0468 yt.mcr@hotmail.com THOMAS FINE CARPENTRY • construction • renovation • finishing • cabinets • tiling • flooring • repairs • specialty woodwork • custom kitchens 867-633-3878 or cell 867-332-5531 thomasfinecarpentry@northwestel.net NORTHRIDGE BOBCAT SERVICES • Snow Plowing • Site Prep & Backfills • Driveways • Post Hole Augering • Light Land Clearing • General Bobcat Work Fast, Friendly Service 867-335-1106 BUSY BEAVERS Painting, Pruning Hauling, Snow Shovelling and General Labour Call Francois & Katherine 456-4755 LOG CABINS & LOG HOMES Quality custom craftsmanship Using only standing dead local timber For free estimate & consultation contact: Eldorado Log Builders Inc. phone: 867.393.2452 website: www.ykloghomes.com

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Friday, January 24, 2014 IBEX BOBCAT SERVICES “Country Residential Snow Plowing” •Post hole augering •Light landscaping •Preps & Backfills Honest & Prompt Service Amy Iles Call 667-4981 or 334-6369

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

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Snow Removal (867) 336-3570

S.V.P. CARPENTRY Journey Woman Carpenter Interior/Exterior Finishing/Framing Small & Medium Jobs “Make it work and look good.”

Call Susana (867) 335-5957 susanavalerap@live.com

ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS MEETINGS Yukon Communities & Atlin, B.C.

Beaver Creek Y.T. Friday - 1:30 p.m.

Health Centre

Carcross Y.T.

Wednesday - 7:30 p.m.

Library Friday - 1:30 p.m.

Health Centre

Carmacks Y.T. Friday - 1:30 p.m.

Health Centre

Dawson City Y.T.

Thursday - 8:00 p.m.

New Beginners Group Richard Martin Chapel Friday - 1:30 p.m.

Health Centre Saturday 7:00 p.m.

Community Support Centre 1233 2nd Ave.

Destruction Bay Y.T. Friday - 1:30 p.m.

Health Centre

Faro Y.T. Friday - 1:30 p.m.

Health Centre

LOG CABINS: Professional Scribe Fit log buildings at affordable rates.

Contact: PF Watson, Box 40187, Whitehorse, YT, Y1A 6M9 668-3632 PASCAL PAINTING CONTRACTOR PASCAL AND REGINE Residential - Commercial Ceilings, Walls Textures, Floors Spray work Excellent quality workmanship Free estimates pascalreginepainting@northwestel.net 633-6368 CITYLIGHT RENOS Flooring, tiling, custom closets Painting & trim, kitchens & bathrooms Fences & gates Landscaping & gardening Quality work at reasonable rates Free estimates Sean 867-332-1659 citylightrenos@gmail.com TITAN DRYWALL Taping & Textured Ceilings 27 years experience Residential or Commercial No job too small Call Dave 336-3865 SUBARU GURU Fix•Buy•Sell Used Subarus 30 year Journeyman Mechanic Towing available Mario 333-4585

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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.

Parking Lots, Sidewalks, Rooftops and Sanding

Friday - 1:30 p.m.

Health Centre

Want to get involved with the Humane Society?

Become a volunteer and join the Board, walk dogs or help with a fundraiser; it all helps!

Call 633-6019 today to find out how you can become involved!

ELECTRICIAN FOR all your jobs Large or small Licensed Electrician Call MACK N MACK ELECTRIC for a competitive quote!

867-332-7879 Snowblower and Shovelling Driveways, sidewalks, and Low sloped roofs Put me to work!

Good rates.

Call Dave at 333-9084 SNOW CLEARING No job too big or too small Skid Steer & Trailer Call Lawrence at 335-3390

WEDNESDAY • FRIDAY

House Hunters Advertise your Home in 3 issues (3 consecutive weeks) for only $60+GST PHONE: 867-667-6283

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Kitchen or Restaurant for Lease Town and Mountain Hotel 401 Main Street Apply to Kayle Tel: 668-7644 Fax: 668-5822 Email: info@townmountain.com

CONTROLS UPGRADE BERINGIA INTERPRETIVE CENTRE - BLDG.#1329 WHITEHORSE, YUKON

SUPPLY OF SECURITY / INTRUSION ALARM RESPONSE VARIOUS CITY FACILITIES Sealed tenders will be received at the office of the Manager of Financial Services at City Hall, 2121 Second Avenue, Whitehorse, Yukon Y1A 1C2, before 3:00 p.m. Local Time, Thursday, February 6, 2014.

Tenders must be submitted in a sealed opaque envelope clearly identifying the bidders name and address and plainly marked “Tender for the Supply of Security/Intrusion Alarm Response in City Facilities” # 2014-001328 and addressed to:

Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title.

The closing date for submissions is February 4, 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) 6675385. Technical questions may be directed to Rob Kelly at 667-8980.

Mandatory Site Visit: January 23, 2014 at 1:00 p.m.

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

The Yukon Business Incentive Policy will apply to this project.

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

Highways and Public Works

City of Whitehorse Manager, Financial Services 2121 Second Avenue Whitehorse, Yukon Y1A 1C2

REquEST FOR PROPOSAL

The Tender is to provide Security/Intrusion Alarm Response beginning March 1, 2014.

STANDING OFFER AGREEMENT FOR GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING SERVICES

Tender Documents may be obtained by Tenderers who are fully authorized to conduct business in the City of Whitehorse, after 12.00 o’clock on January 24, 2014 from the office of the Manager, Financial Services at City Hall, 2121 Second Avenue, Whitehorse, Yukon, Y1A 1C2.

The City of Whitehorse reserves the right to accept or reject any or all Tenders, or to accept the Tender, which the City deems to be in its own best interest. Tenders submitted by fax or e-mail will not be accepted nor considered.

All inquiries to: Richard Graham A/Manager, Operations Department Phone 867-668-8302 Fax 867-668-8386 Email: richard.graham @whitehorse.ca

www.whitehorse.ca

Property Management for Condos Accounting, Contractors, Reserve studies.

North of 56 Property Mgmt Call 332-7444

Lost & Found

PUBLIC TENDER

INVITATION TO TENDER

Budo-Taijutsu-Ninjutsu Private, semi-private & group classes Esoteric lessons for the modern warrior More than self defence, This is a lifeʼs journey Sensei Jason Wyatt, Moku Senshi 334-3480

LOST: DENIM fur-lined vest on Main St. Jan. 14, would really appreciate it being returned, no questions asked. 667-6699

Friday, January 24, 2014 VILLAGE BAKERY Haines Junction Lease or Sale for 2014 season Email for details villagebakery@hotmail.ca Worldwide travel company seeks distributors.

We are well established in the luxury travel industry.

Full training and support is provided.

Very lucrative compensation plan.

Ph: 633- 5756 or info@onlineholidayincome.com

Looking for New Business / Clients?

LOST: SKIDOO "mud" flap between Porter Creek/dump/Haeckel Hill area. Need it back.

633-5495

Advertise in The Yukon News Classifieds!

LOST ON Jan 10, 2 right hand cowling pieces, one yellow and one black. from a skidoo somewhere between Watson Lake and Johnson Crossing, Contact 334-9244

Take Advantage of our 6 month Deal...

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Business Opportunities

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24 Hour Free Recorded Message: 1-800-846-9070 ext. 465

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

NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND OTHERS

NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND OTHERS

NOTICE is hereby given that Creditors and others having claims against the Estate of

NOTICE is hereby given that Creditors and others having claims against the Estate of

Book Your Ad Today!

Nicole Evelyn Marie Wynnyk, of Marsh Lake, Yukon

GERALD BRIAN TONER,

AND FURTHER, all persons who are indebted to the Estate are required to make payment to the Estate at the address below.

AND FURTHER, all persons who are indebted to the Estate are required to make payment to the Estate at the address below.

Territory, Deceased, who died on November 2, 2013, are hereby required to send them to the undersigned Executor at the address shown below, before the 14th day of February, 2014, after which date the Executor will distribute the Estate among the parties entitled thereto, having regard to the claims of which they have notice.

BY: Mary Bracken c/o Lackowicz & Hoffman Suite 300, 204 Black Street Whitehorse, YT Y1A 2M9 Tel: (867) 668-5252 Fax: (867) 668-5251

of Watson Lake, Yukon Territory, Deceased, who died on Oct. 28, 2013, are hereby required to send them to the undersigned Administrator at the address shown below, before the 19th day of February, 2014, after which date the Administrator will distribute the Estate among the parties entitled thereto, having regard to the claims of which they have notice.

BY: Sandra Ellis, Proposed Administrator c/o Lackowicz & Hoffman Suite 300, 204 Black Street Whitehorse, YT Y1A 2M9 Tel: (867) 668-5252 Fax: (867) 668-5251

Sports Equipment EXERCISE EQUIPMENT for free! Gym pull-up/dip frame, Bowflex Extreme, approx 10 yrs old, needs new rods (cost of $230).

393-3638 WESLO 9 speed treadmill spacesaver, paid $500, sell for $225. 393-4403 FREESPIRIT FOLDING treadmill, 12 mph, 10 degree incline, 11 programs, heart monitor, 20" by 55" running track, great cond, c/w manual, can deliver within Whitehorse area, 633-3824 OZONE 11M Frenzy Snow Kite, 2012 model, as new, flown 3 times, new $1,600, asking $1,300 obo. 660-4711 FREESPIRIT ELECTRIC exercise cycle, programmable, exc cond, c/w manual $75 obo. 633-4618 STEP CLIMBER, good cond but electronic counter doesnʼt work well, $20 obo.

633-4618 SNOWSHOES, TSL-225. Excellent quality and condition. One pair $60. Two pairs $100.

Solid price. 335-7535

Livestock QUALITY YUKON MEAT Dev & Louise Hurlburt Grain-finished Hereford beef Domestic wild boar Order now for full delivery Payment plan available Samples on request 668-7218 335-5192 HORSE HAVEN HAY RANCH Dev & Louise Hurlburt Irrigated Timothy/Brome mix Small square & round bales Discounts for field pick up or delivery Straw bales also for sale 335-5192 • 668-7218 HAY FOR SALE 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 Fresh free run farm eggs for sale. $6.00 / dozen Phone 633-4249

Baby & Child Items CHILDRENʼS CLOTHING in excellent condition, given freely the first & third Saturday monthly at the Church of the Nazarene, 2111 Centennial. 633-4903 3-WHEEL SCHWINN jogging stroller, good cond, $100. 667-7061

public Tender

PUBLIC TENDER

PUBLiC TEndER

HeMATOlOGY AnAlYSiS OF cArniVOre SAMpleS

DOOR ACCESS SYSTEM, COPPER RIDGE PLACE - BLDG.# 1389 WHITEHORSE, YUKON

SUPPLY OF LAPTOP COMPUTERS

Project Description: Government of Yukon is soliciting proposals for professional engineers to provide geotechnical services for Yukon mine site and mine remediation projects for use by Assessment and Abandoned Mines Branch.

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 Geena Grossinger at (867) 4563915.

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

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

project description: Environment Yukon requires hematology analysis of carnivore samples.

Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title.

The closing date for submissions is February 12, 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 ramona Maraj at (867) 393-7423.

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 February 7, 2014. Please refer to the procurement documents for the closing time and location.

Documents may be obtained from the Procurement Support Centre, Department of Highways and Public Works, Suite 101 - 104 Elliott Street, Whitehorse, Yukon (867) 667-5385.

Technical questions may be directed to Rob Johnstone at (867) 667-8450.

Site Visit: January 29, 2014 at 10:00 a.m.

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

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

Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title.

The closing date for submissions is February 13, 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 Wayne Beauchemin at (867) 667-8039.

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

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

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

Energy, Mines and Resources

Environment

Highways and Public Works

Highways and Public Works

DOUBLE STROLLER, converts to bike trailer, $40, 2 infant car seats w base, $5 ea, crib & matching change table, $75.

250-651-7868

Childcare 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 LOLAʼS DAYHOME Located downtown Has spaces available for children 6 months & up ECE with more than 12 years of experience Fully licensed Call 668-5185 days or 667-7840 evenings

Furniture

LARGE WOOD office desk and matching credenza, two large metal filing cabinets.

633-6553

Personals CITIZENS ON PATROL. Do you have concerns in your neighborhood & community?

Be part of the solution! Volunteer valuable time to the C.O.P.S. program. With your eyes & ears we can help stomp out crime.

Info: RCMP 867-667-5555 ARE YOU MÉTIS? Are you registered?

Would you like to be involved?

There is a Yukon Metis Nation that needs your support Contact 668-6845

PROJECT INSPECTION AND QUANTITY CONTROL - ENWIA EXTENSION AND RESURFACING RUNWAY 32R-14L

FUNDING ALLOCATION FOR YUKON MUSEUMS AND FIRST NATION CULTURAL/HERITAGE CENTRES Project Description: Completion of a discussion paper which identifies options for the allocation of operations and maintenance funding, project funding and infrastructure projects for Yukon Museums and First Nation Cultural/Heritage Centres.

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 Brian Groves at 867) 667-3660.

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

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

Tourism and Culture

SELKIRK

FIRST NATION

expression of interest Selkirk First Nation is seeking interested individuals for one contract position as Chief Returning Officer, and one contract position as Deputy Chief Returning Officer to administer the Selkirk First Nation General Election, according to the Selkirk First Nation Election Act (2013).

Interested individuals can obtain a Request for Proposal package from the Selkirk First Nation office.

The deadline for submissions is January 31, 2014, at 4:30 p.m.

Inquiries or submissions can be sent by email or facsimile to:

SelkiRk FiRSt NatiON

attention: albert Drapeau, executive Director PHONe: 867-537-3331 | FaCSiMile: 867-537-3902 eMail: execdir@selkirkfn.com

public Tender

FRI. 7pm-8:30pm 4071 - 4th Ave Many Rivers Office

dieT AnAlYSiS OF YuKOn WildliFe ScAT SAMpleS And relATed FOrAGe

PUbLIC TENDER

BUNK BEDS, bottom converts to desk, $250, sleigh bed/mattress, $200, cabinet/hutch, $250, 6 matching wooden chairs, $100, 2 pine dressers, $100 & $75, desk/chair, $250, wood dresser $30.

250-651-7868

REqUEST FOR PROPOSAL

Highways and Public Works

It’s good for you.

RESIN SHELF, 36”, new, $12. 335-8964

REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL

Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title.

The closing date for submissions is February 12, 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.

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.

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

Advertising

CREAM-COLOR OVERSTUFFED couch, in great shape, $150, 633-4707

DRUG PROBLEM? Narcotics Anonymous meetings Wed. 7pm-8pm #2 - 407 Ogilvie St. BYTE Office

REqUEST FOR PROPOSAL TOURISM SALES CONTRACTOR/AGENT GERMAN SPEAKING EUROPE Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title.

The closing date for submissions is February 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 Robin Anderson at 867-667-3532.

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

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

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

project description: Environment Yukon requires diet-related analyses with scats and relevant forage for different wildlife species from the Yukon.

Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title.

The closing date for submissions is February 12, 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 ramona Maraj at (867) 393-7423.

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

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

TRANSPORTATION OF GOODS TO AND FROM OLD CROW INCLUDING THE HAULING OF WASTE METAL Project Description: Hauling waste metal and other materials out of Old Crow via the ice road as well as the transportation of goods into Old Crow.

Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title.

The closing date for submissions is February 3, 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 Dwayne Muckosky at (867) 456-6191.

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

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

Environment

Puzzle Page Answer Guide

Sudoku: Community Services Tourism and Culture

PubLIC TENDER STRESS HORMONE ANALYSIS (CORTISOL, ALDOSTERONE, TESTOSTERONE AND ESTRADIOL) OF CARNIVORE SAMPLES Project Description: Environment Yukon requires stress hormone analysis of carnivore samples for cortisol, aldosterone, testosterone, and estradiol.

Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title.

The closing date for submissions is February 12, 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 Ramona Maraj at (867) 393-7423.

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

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

Environment

REqUEST FOR PROPOSAL WATER SAMPLING AND MONITORING SERVICES FOR YUKON MINE SITES AND MINE REMEDIATION PROJECTS Project Description: Provision of surface and ground water sampling and monitoring services related to Yukon mine sites and mine remediation projects for the Assessment and Abandoned Mines Branch of Energy, Mines and Resources.

Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title.

The closing date for submissions is February 26, 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 Carenn Kormos at (867) 3937429.

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

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

Energy, Mines and Resources

Feel like a small f ish in a big pond?

Kakuro:

Crossword:

Word Scramble A: Vessels B: Garden C: Thorny Stand out from the crowd and be seen!

Advertise your business in the Yukon News.

Phone: 867-667-6283 • Fax: 867-667-3755

01.24.2014

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

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