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Wordplay Yukoner Joanna Lilley unveils The Fleece Era, her first book of poems.

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Ross River rallies for bridge

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Knitted joy A Yukon charity brings yarn dolls to orphans in India and Nepal.

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Peter Harrington plays General Marquis de Montcalm during a performance of the bilingual workshop O Canada! at Jack Hulland Elementary School on Monday. The interactive music and storytelling show celebrates Canadian history and culture and will visit three Yukon schools this week.

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he Native Women’s Association of Canada is gearing up to fight its political opponents on their own turf: at the ballot box.

Michelle Audette, the president of the association, spoke at the Brothers in Spirit symposium in Whitehorse on Tuesday.

The only way Canada’s First Nations are going to see better representation for themselves is if they enter the political arena with force, Audette said. She’s thinking of throwing down the gauntlet herself.

“Somebody’s making decisions for my present and my future in Ottawa without my consent,” Audette said.

“I might run in the next federal election. This government needs to change. Let’s stand up.

Elections are crucial. It’s a right that belongs to you, and I’m going to use that right.”

Audette pointed to the recent parliamentary report, which rejected a widespread call for an inquiry into Canada’s missing and murdered aboriginal women, as proof that the government is not listening to indigenous Canadians.

The report was released Friday, to the fury of aboriginal

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groups and opposition leaders.

It also came just as the death of Loretta Saunders made national news.

Saunders, an Inuk woman from Newfoundland and Labrador, was doing her thesis on missing and murdered aboriginal women at Halifax’s Saint Mary’s University. Her roommates have been charged with first-degree murder in her death.

She was 26 years old.

When tragedies befall nonindigenous Canadians like Nova Scotia’s Rehtaeh Parsons or B.C.’s Amanda Todd, the government is quick to act, Audette said. But it ignores the issue when the country’s aboriginal women and girls are repeatedly victimized.

“What did Stephen Harper do? He visited (Parson’s) family, sat down with the family, and shared how sorry he was for this loss, how unfair it was. He came back to Ottawa and said to all his ministers, we need to find solutions so we can eradicate that kind of violence,” she said.

Two years after Todd’s death, Canada now has a new cyberbullying law aimed at combating the online harassment that lead to her and Parsons taking their own lives.

But the government still refuses to call a public inquiry into the estimated 800 missing and

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murdered aboriginal women.

“Meanwhile we’re losing thousands and thousands of aboriginal women,” Audette said.

“Loretta Saunders made the national and international news, but Harper never called her family to say how sorry he was for her loss,” she said.

The solution, Audette says, is to get more indigenous Canadians directly involved in Canadian politics, and the coming Quebec provincial election is the perfect place to start, she said.

“The beauty now is that we have more and more power with the social media and the leadership in our communities, people will make a difference. We have more power than we think,” she said.

“As an example, last November, there were five candidates running for the municipality of Sept-Iles, which has a population of around 25,000.

“Only one candidate - Réjean Porlier - extended his hand to the Innu population and it made the difference. He won the election because of the Innu vote, even with a small campaign.

Imagine what we can do if we prepare the troops, educating and raising awareness,” she said.

Contact Jesse Winter at jessew@yukon-news.com

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The new scene-lighting system The Ibex Valley Volunteer Fire The company’s website says the Department is driving around in can light up an area the size of Rumbler siren allows the truck to two football fields. It also spins a new state-of the-art fire truck. be “felt” and heard.

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Watson Lake soup kitchen serving record numbers Jesse Winter

“We completed our 2012/13 audit. That’s been done, but we’re doing some final touch-ups on that. ith the Liard First Nation We’re still trying to get an accurate government layoffs in Watson picture of our current financial situLake showing no sign of ending, ation, which we don’t currently have the soup kitchen and food bank are yet,” Morgan said. helping record numbers of families.

As soon as the government books The St. Vincent de Paul Soup are in order, the First Nation can Kitchen usually sees about 15 people begin hiring back its employees, come in for soup when it’s open on Morgan said.

Fridays, and about the same number “We’re working very hard to get of families needing a food hamper. people back to work,” he said.

Since the government layoffs late The First Nation’s finances are last year, those numbers have been also being looked at by the federal steadily climbing, said Fred Statham, government. The results of that audit who runs the soup kitchen and food are still pending. bank.

Since the election, Morgan has “It’s actually gone up by about blamed the previous administrafive or so on average. Since the layoffs tion for the government’s financial we’re up to about 20 soups and 20 difficulties, laying the blame for the hampers, on average,” Statham said. layoffs at former chief Liard McHe said the numbers tend to spike Millan’s feet. towards the end of each month.

McMillan has disputed that asserAt the end of February, 27 food hamtion. Under his leadership, the First pers were handed out alongside 31 Nation met its auditing responsibowls of soup. bilities every year and never had “It looks like the layoffs are havto lay people off, he told the News Jesse Winter/Yukon News in January. He also claimed that ing an impact,” Statham said.

There are so many people asking Fred Statham runs the St. Vincent de Paul soup kitchen in Watson Lake. He’s seen an increase according to his record keeping, the in the number of people coming in since the Liard First Nation laid off 40 workers in January. government should have more than for food that Statham said the soup kitchen and food bank will likely enough money in the bank to cover In his first move as the newlyto pay them.

He said that record numbers at open on Mondays as well as Fridays its payroll - which he says is around elected chief, Daniel Morris laid off Morris has not spoken publicly the soup kitchen and food bank is starting in April. $50,000 per month - until the audits since the election. The First Nation’s news too him, but that his govern“Based on studying our numbers almost the entire Liard First Nation are finished and money starts flowment is working diligently to sort over the last two years, Mondays and staff after he came to power in Janu- executive director, George Morgan ing again. (who ran against Morris in the elec- out its financial woes and get people Fridays seem to be the busiest days,” ary. More than forty people in all Contact Jesse Winter at jessew@yukon-news.com he said. were told there isn’t enough money tion) is the government’s spokesman. back to work.

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Officials turned away from Ross River bridge Ashley Joannou News Reporter

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group of citizens are doing their best to stop the demolition of the Ross River footbridge.

About 30 people spent yesterday on the frozen Pelly River and turned away engineers looking to test the ice thickness before bringing on equipment, said resident Kitty Sperling.

“They asked respectfully if they could come on and they were respectfully denied access to the ice,” she said.

The bridge, which dates back to 1944, is slated to be taken down by the end of the month.

It has been in disrepair for quite some time. Inspection reports on the bridge date back to 1979.

An engineering report from September found that the footbridge over the river is at risk of imminent collapse and poses a threat to human safety.

But many community members maintain the structure should be restored and saved.

“For me that’s what it’s been about from the beginning, public awareness. I don’t think anybody knew really what the significance of the bridge was,” said Sperling, who has started a Facebook group to promote the cause.

The bridge was constructed by the U.S. Army to carry an oil

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Opponents of the demolition of the Ross River suspension bridge have set up a makeshift camp on the Pelly River.

pipeline over the river. It was never intended as a permanent structure, and never intended as a pedestrian bridge.

Sperling said the group plans on maintaining a presence on the ice for as long as necessary.

Yesterday’s event included making bannock and stew and talking around a campfire, she said.

More activities on the ice are planned for this weekend.

“We are inviting anyone who

wants to come to celebrate and honour the suspension bridge,” she said. “(People can) bring their tents and hang out on the ice and participate in some hockey and some curling and have a really nice time.”

They want to send the message that the bridge is an important heritage structure, she said.

Community Services deputy minister Harvey Brooks said hav-

ing people on the ice is an obvious obstacle.

“It’s a difficulty for the project of course,” he said. “When one is doing something this unique and potentially dangerous it’s important to have a very secure and well regulated work area.”

Officials from his department, along with the contractor, were able to do some visual inspections yesterday but did not go on the ice, Brooks said.

He maintains that the bridge is a hazard that needs to come down for safety reasons, even if only temporarily.

“We have engineering reports that say that the bridge has dangerous elements and we are trying to remove those dangerous elements before we can assess whether or not the bridge can safely be repaired.”

After the bridge deck is off, the government will be issuing a request for proposals to have all the pieces assessed “to see whether or not the bridge can be safely repaired to a structural standard and the cost of doing that,” Brooks said.

“We’ve always said we weren’t making any final decisions with regards to the bridge, but before we could do that we were essentially duty bound for public and workers’ safety to remove the dangerous elements.”

As for what will happen if people stay on the ice, Brooks said he wouldn’t speak to that.

“It’s safest to remove the dangerous elements while there is ice under the bridge, that’s clear.

To that extent we will endeavour to do that over the next number of weeks while there’s still good winter ice under the bridge.”

With files from Jacqueline Ronson Contact Ashley Joannou at ashleyj@yukon-news.com

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Falcon Ridge developer unveils new plans Jacqueline Ronson News Reporter

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developer has agreed to replace a controversial proposed apartment complex in Falcon Ridge with four-plexes and single family homes.

In January a territorial judge ordered the numbered company owned by Brian Little to come up with new plans for the development because it did not have the consent of the condo board to build the apartments.

The apartment building stands partially finished on the site of the proposed development. Work on the building was halted by court order last winter. The developer had Mike Thomas/Yukon News already spent $1 million on the The unfinished apartment complex, left, at the Falcon Ridge condo development will be project. converted into four-plexes.

Now the developer has ceptual plans that whichever two sets of three connected proposed two different scenar- replace the nixed apartments. development proceeds, the four-plexes and one stanios to fill the vacant land and The first option is to build dalone four-plex, for a total of character of Falconridge will be preserved through similar 28 units. design elements, elevations The second option is to and density,” the proposal build three connected fourATAC Resources Ltd. states. plexes, three standalone fourinvites you to attend a The developer would be plexes and one single-family pleased to consider whichever home, for a total of 25 units.

“You will see from the con- option the condo board pre-

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Kirk Price, operations manger for the government’s forest management branch, said the real power behind the project is not just the map that will be created, but the data behind it.

Information on trees and vegetation will be available for things like Wildland Fire Management or environmental assessments.

“For our branch, we primarily use it to help plan out wood supply. It helps us address all the forest management issues,” he said.

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The height of the new proposed units will be much lower than what was planned for the apartments, and consistent with existing homes in the development.

Currently the development is made up primarily of single family homes, with a few duplexes.

But Justice Ron Veale ruled in January that some combination of four-plex units and single-family homes would be “just and equitable” for the developer and for the condo board.

Veale also ruled recently that the developer owes the condo board nearly $400,000 in unpaid condo fees.

The developer argued it had an “understanding” that condo fees would only be paid on units once they were sold or leased.

But Veale ruled that there was no evidence to support that claim.

He also ordered the developer to pay the condo corporation’s legal costs.

Contact Jacqueline Ronson at jronson@yukon-news.com

That includes looking at the amount of dead wood in the area, killed by the past spruce bark beetle infestation.

Wildland firefighters will be able to use the data to estimate the likely path of a forest fire, while Environment officials could use the same information to pinpoint important wildlife habitat.

The last report like this for the area was completed from 1990 to 1992.

“It got completed just prior to the bark beetle epidemic.

It got finished, it was a nice healthy green forest, and then the beetles got started, around that time in the early 90s,” Price said.

“It gave a good snapshot in time for just before the beetle.

About three or four years ago (the beetles) died off and have gone back to normal levels.”

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“Incredible” pool instructor remembered Jesse Winter

Kelly was always friendly, and had a beautiful, bright smile.

She was encouraging and riends of a long-time taught me a lot,” Ferris said.

Whitehorse swim instruc“It was non-judgmental tor are campaigning to have a and full of positive energy and memorial bench at the Lion’s a beacon of positive light and Aquatic Centre named in her support. Naturally, like everyhonour. one in the community when Kelly Patrick worked as the news broke, I was sada lifeguard and swimming dened and shocked,” he said. instructor in Whitehorse for Given how much time almost 20 years. She died sudPatrick spent at the pool, and denly on March 6. The cause how much it meant to her, of death has not been released.

Ferris said he thinks that pool She was 46 years old. should bear her name.

Flags flew at half-mast on “I thought it would be very Friday and an impromptu neat if the city could do somememorial has sprouted at the thing and honour her life and Canada Games Centre, where work of 17 years to the city by her familiar voice so often naming the pool after her.” echoed.

A petition online to have Sarah Lewis worked with Ian Stewart/Yukon News the pool at the Canada Games Patrick for her entire career.

Centre named after Kelly has A memorial wall for swim coach and lifeguard Kelly Patrick sprung up at the Whitehorse “Working with her, it was garnered more than 1,500 Lions Aquatic Centre over the weekend. Patrick died suddenly Thursday. a range of things. It could be signatures so far, but in the really, really fun. It could be community’s rush to do Patrick was always highThat vivaciousness transwas that eight-year-old boy,” really, really frustrating. But something to commemorate energy, even as a kid. lated perfectly into her work Lewis said. every day you came to work its lost friend, no one asked “From the time she was at the pool, Wendy said.

Kelly had an enormous and you knew at some point the family what Kelly herself little, as soon as she started to Lewis agrees. She saw it first impact on the community, you would laugh,” Lewis said. talk, she was standing at the hand. not just at the Canada Games would have wanted.

Patrick’s boundless energy “We’re just floored,” said door with her little purse, and “She could call a kid a butt Centre, Lewis said. often proved difficult to conWendy, “but having the pool head. She could laugh with Wendy said her family knew tain. It could be tiring to work her first sentence was ‘Gonamed after her isn’t really them, but she would do it with of Kelly’s love for the pool, with her, Lewis said, but it was ing now?’” said her mother, what Kelly would have wantWendy Patrick. such energy that you never but they had no idea their always joyous. ed. Instead, we’ve been talking On another occasion the took it as something bad,” daughter meant so much to “She loved her job. Not about having a bench on the family was headed to their Lewis said.

Whitehorse. more than anything – she side for the little kids to sit on cabin in the B.C. mountains.

“She’d go up and try and Ramesh Ferris is one of the when they wait for their swim loved her boys more than “She said, ‘Mom, I know fart on them or rustle their people behind a push to see anything – but she loved her lessons. That’s more what she Kelly’s memory enshrined at job. What brought her joy was there’s lots of peace and quiet hair. She brought excitement would have wanted.” up there, but I can only take or joy. She approached swim- the pool. to work with children,” Lewis Contact Jesse Winter at said. so much peace and quiet.’” ming lessons as though she “I am a patron at the pool. jessew@yukon-news.com News Reporter

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COMMENTARY Setting the record straight on human rights Fia Jampolsky

Yukon News proposes exactly that. It is important to corn an ideal world, we rect inaccuracies in Mr. Lang’s would not need a human article. I appreciate the oprights commission. portunity to set the record Respect for human rights straight. is a fundamental Canadian Mr. Lang says he would be value. It’s among the things unhappy if he were charged that set Canada apart from with a crime and then tried countries where human by three random citizens. He dignity and respect are not thinks this happens in the deeply entrenched. It’s among human rights system. In fact, the reasons why Canada has ordinary people do decide never suffered the ethnic criminal cases when they sit violence that has ripped other on juries. By and large this countries apart. Ask people in works. However, the criminal Ukraine, Syria, Burma, Sudan justice and human rights sysor Afghanistan whether tems are quite different. protection and promotion of Mr. Lang uses criminal human rights is a good thing. law terms like the “accused” Our Yukon legislature creand “guilty” to describe the ated our human rights law human rights process, but the almost three decades ago. The human rights system cannot aim of our Human Rights Act punish or deprive individuals is to discourage and eliminate of their liberty, as the criminal discrimination and to prosystem does. Rather, the humote the inherent dignity and man rights board figures out worth of all members of our if discrimination has occurred human family. Those values and if so, provides remedies. and the work of the Yukon It does this outside the court Human Rights Commission system, which is adversarial, remain as important today as procedurally complex, and they were then. expensive.

While Canada is a country Mr. Lang says the huknown for celebrating divers- man rights system is free for ity, we are not perfect. Not all complainants but expensive Canadians enjoy full equality. for the “accused.” In fact, the Students are still bullied be- system is free for everyone. cause they are gay or lesbian; Employers, employees, and women are still fired because members of the public call they are pregnant; people are our free help-line daily for still refused jobs because of information and advice. a disability; and immigrants No one has to hire a lawyer are sometimes told to go back at any stage in the process, inwhere they came from. cluding hearings. Sometimes Canada’s first people have people do, and that is their faced racism from those who right. When the commission’s came after. Aboriginal women lawyer takes complaints to go missing or are murdered in hearing, she is there to repreour own community. So what sent the public interest as the is this talk of abolishing the commission’s lawyer, not the human rights commission? complainant’s. She ensures Graham Lang’s op-ed in the board of adjudication the March 5 edition of the has all the relevant evidence.

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When respondents and complainants are not represented, she helps both sides understand the process, to ensure fairness.

Most cases actually don’t go to hearing and not all complaints are investigated.

Some are not because there are no reasonable grounds for believing discrimination has occurred. But in cases where there are reasonable grounds, many of these are settled with the commission’s help.

The commission’s role is to be fair to both sides and ensure that any settlement meets the objectives of the Human Rights Act. Sometimes complainants do not want money, but other remedies like respect, understanding, an apology, and a way to repair a relationship.

Our adversarial court system, run by lawyers, is good at some things. But it is not designed to achieve these intangible remedies.

The commission does more than work on complaints. We do research on discrimination. We refer people to other agencies in the community if their issues do not fall within the commission’s mandate.

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tion, and help with policy writing so that schools, workplaces and service providers can prevent discrimination and harassment or deal with it more effectively themselves.

We also work with community organizations to advance equality: for example, we helped convince the City of Whitehorse to join the Canadian Coalition of Municipalities Against Racism and Discrimination as part of Yukon Cultures Connect.

The court system is not equipped to do this education, promotion and prevention work. Consider British Columbia where the human rights commission was abolished several years ago.

According to Bill Black, a nationally recognized expert on human rights law, “the lack of a commission in B.C. makes prevention of human rights

violations more difficult because no specialized agency is responsible for human rights education or the promotion of human rights.”

An informed public is one of the guardians of democracy. Our law belongs to you, the people, and so does our human rights system. You can find out more, and share ideas to improve our system by calling, emailing, or dropping by at 101 – 9010 Quartz Road.

Or look online at www. yhrc.yk.ca. You will find our recommendations for improving the human rights system through law reform there or can get a copy of those reports from our office.

Fia Jampolsky is chair of the Yukon Human Rights Commission and a lawyer who has practised criminal and administrative law in Yukon.

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No need for new landlord-tenant czars

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he Yukon government is in the process of a much-needed revamp of the Residential Landlord and Tenant Act and has requested comments from the public. I’ve taken a look at the legislation and have one major issue with the construction, an issue which stems from my biggest pet peeve: when we, as a territory of 30,000, create two public bodies tasked with doing the exact same thing.

We seem to do it all the time, and it drives me a bit crazy.

In this case, the new act creates the position of director of residential tenancies, an individual who will oversee and resolve disputes between tenants and landlords. It turns out we already have a very effective dispute resolution system in place in the territory overseen by profes-

Down with the Iditarod The Iditarod, like the Yukon Quest, is built on the exploitation and killing of dogs. So why does the CBC continue to play fiddle for an industry that is built on the inhumane treatment of dogs?

CBC North: Can you not get enough of the humans using dogs?

Propaganda-mush!

Why does the CBC continue to interview mushers and ex-mushers as if they are some sort of gift to dogs? Does the CBC support/condone the inhumane treatment of dogs used as sled dogs?

Or maybe they just don’t care what goes on to develop the perfect ego – pardon me, the perfect racing team. Everyone you interviewed knows what the dog-use industry is built on. Yet once again, CBC failed to show the realities of this industry.

Why? Please visit here for some insight on the Iditatrod: http://helpsleddogs.org/the-harsh-reality/abuse-iniditarod-kennels/ CBC, again: Is it your mandate as a public broadcaster to support and promote the exploitation of dogs and other animals?

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Fair Elections Act puts citizens in charge Thank you to everyone who has taken the time to write to my office with your concerns about the Fair Elections Act. Our government committed in

sional triers of evidence.

It is called the territorial court.

We have been using it for the past 100 years, and it seems to have worked out just fine so far.

The current system for landlordtenant dispute resolution works efficiently. The judges of the territorial court are granted the authority to determine whether evictions are lawful and what should be done with security deposits.

The aggrieved party, landlord or tenant, fills out a form at court services and delivers notice to the other party. The matter is given a court date very quickly, usually within a week, and the parties show before a judge who hears the evidence and makes a determination.

It is not a byzantine system; it is very straightforward and very accessible. Lawyers refer to it as Landlord-Tenant Court.

The strength of our current system lies in the individuals overseeing the process. Judges are uniquely equipped to deal with contractual disputes and the interpretation of legislation.

By downloading the dispute resolution process to a director, we create a shadow system of justice overseen by individuals who are not pos-

sessed of the same expert oversight as judges. Why have a class of people uniquely equipped to handle disputes and then not use them when disputes arise? Why create a separate system of dispute resolution where the current system works just fine?

The only change to the current system that needs to be undertaken is granting judges the ability to award damages in relation to property destruction and unpaid rent. Currently an individual has to go through the small claims process for those two items, and it would be more efficient to deal with those issue in Landlord-Tenant Court.

Further, the new act grants the director the power to ensure that rental units are maintained to a certain level. Again, we already have an entire building safety branch within Yukon’s Department of Community Services, and bylaw at the City of Whitehorse, dedicated to ensuring buildings and property are safe and up to code.

A builder does not apply to the director of residential tenancies for an occupancy permit, so why would an owner be subject to the review of the director of residential tenancies when it comes to continued safety of the building?

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Would we not want the professionals involved with building safety within the Yukon and municipal governments to be tasked with ensuring buildings are safe and up to a certain standard? Again, we are perhaps downloading review powers to an individual who is not as uniquely capable of making determinations as those individuals already inhabiting other government departments.

In short, the government already has all the enforcement tools in place to deal with residential tenancies, so why create an entirely new department to deal with what is essentially just a contract between two people?

With all that being said, and in an effort not to be seen as completely negative all of the time, I will give the government credit for deciding to forego the inclusion of any “security of tenure” provisions in the act. It’s a concept by which the landlord is restricted from evicting a tenant unless the tenant has breached the terms of the rental contract or the landlord evicts pursuant to an exemption. Examples of such exemptions are the renovation of the property or if the landlord has a family member moving in.

The problem lies in enforcing against a landlord – who checks in

to make sure the landlord is actually renovating, or that the person moving in is actually related? Such enforcement is costly, as it requires the creation of a shadow rental police department to check in on landlords to ensure compliance, which is a time-consuming and intrusive form of investigation. And the gains are minimal, as the renter is almost always already moved out by the time enforcement discovers the landlord has not renovated.

It is much easier, and more efficient, to simply expect the landlord to live up to the terms of the original rental agreement and have legislation provide an appropriate notice of termination of month-to-month tenancies. The new act calls for the landlord to give 60 days notice prior to termination, a time frame which should be adequate for a renter to find alternative accommodations.

The debate surrounding “security of tenure” is better centered on the statutory time frame required for termination of the tenancy, so as to ensure renters have adequate time to find a new place to live, as the reality is that a rental, almost by definition, can never be forever.

Graham Lang is a Whitehorse lawyer practising real estate and commercial law.

in Canada and the U.S., at 319 metres.

I feel that the government needs to listen to concerned individual can reverse the decision last fall’s speech from the throne much as a punishment but as a citizens and make an effort to of thousands of voters before judiway to get them engaged with the to bring forward a comprehensive restore the bridge. Many bridges cial recourses are exhausted; community – to help build that elections reform proposal that will • Uphold free speech by repealing respect in themselves and respect including large trestles have been protect Canadians’ votes at the polls. restored to their original condithe ban on premature transmission for others.

That is why we’ve introduced the tion after disrepair or fire. of election results; and Fair Elections Act. For example, several trestles in • Provide better customer serLidwien Hanrath The Fair Elections Act will ensure Kelowna, B.C. were destroyed or Whitehorse citizens are in charge of democracy, vice for voters by adding another damaged in the 2003 fire, but they advanced poll day and making sure by putting special interests on the have been completely restored.

Save Ross River’s bridge Canadians know where to vote, sidelines and rule-breakers out of I also understand that there is a when to vote and what ID to bring. business. It will also make it harder Open letter to Community Services federal fund specifically for World Our government’s commitment for people to break the law.

War Two artifacts and that the It closes loopholes in big money, to enhancing our electoral laws and Minister Brad Cathers: Ross River suspension bridge I am writing in response to the protecting the integrity of every balimposes tough new penalties on qualifies for this fund. lot remains firm. The Fair Elections Yukon government’s decision to political imposters and rogue calls, There needs to be a bigger fight demolish the Ross River suspenand empowers the commissioner of Act will make our laws tough, clear for this bridge. With a restored sion bridge. and easy to follow. It will make life Canada Elections. bridge and advertising, Ross River I am very upset to hear that harder for election law-breakers and Along with implementing 38 Community Services has decided would become a greater tourism put the focus back on honest Canof the chief electoral officer’s past destination, and the community’s recommendations, the Fair Elections adians taking part in our democracy. to destroy such a magnificent economy would grow. piece of history. My understandYou will also find information Act introduces sweeping changes to Furthermore, please consider ing is that another branch of on the Fair Elections Act on the our electoral laws designed to: the cultural and historical value Democratic Reform website at www. Yukon government, the Depart• Protect voters from rogue calls this bridge brings to the communment of Tourism and Culture, democraticreform.gc.ca and political imposters by punishity and the territory. Additionally, values heritage and heritage sites ing those who attempt to deceive and that these sites are an integral there is strong support in Ross Ryan Leef Canadians; to Yukon’s quality of life and pros- River and the territory to restore • Give the commissioner of Can- Member of Parliament, Yukon perity as well as promoting Yukon the Ross River suspension bridge ada Elections sharper teeth, a longer to its original condition. as a tourism destination. I do Snow sculpture vandals reach and a freer hand to ensure we It is also frustrating to know not understand why the Tourism have strong elections law enforceneed to learn respect that there have been ongoing and Culture branch has not been ment; assessments and reports of this involved with this project.

• Allow small donations in and I was reading some the online bridge for several years and that I am writing in support of rekeep big money out of our elections comments on the destruction of storing the Ross River suspension action could have been taken to by ensuring donation limits cannot the snow sculptures. bridge. This bridge has significant save the bridge much sooner. be circumvented; I agree we’ve all done stupid There is still time to keep an cultural and historical value and • Crack down on voter fraud things; I also agree such an act important part of Yukon’s heritshould be restored for these reaby ensuring fraudsters are stopped shows a lot of disrespect. I do not sons in themselves as well as creat- age. I implore you to please rebefore their ballot is in the box; agree the names of the offenders consider the decision to demolish ing a tourism draw for the area.

• Make rules easy-to-follow for should be published, as I think the Ross River suspension bridge.

My main reason for visiting all by making sure rules are clear, Ross River two years ago was to There are alternatives. predictable and publicly available to this could cause members of the public to react inappropriately. see the bridge. It is an amazing everyone; I’d also like to see the teens get engineering feat and it is also the Deb Banks • Respect the results of democommunity service, but not so longest single-span footbridge Whitehorse cratic elections by ensuring no one

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Coroner named for Scheunert/Johnny inquest Ashley Joannou

inquest to ensure that the inquest proceedings, findings and any possible recommendations are distinct B.C. coroner has been chosen and separate from any previous to oversee the inquest into findings of the chief coroner in these two women who died after receivtwo cases,” according to a statement ing treatment at the Watson Lake from the coroner’s office.

Hospital.

Scheunert, 47, died June 21, 2012 Norm Leibel has been appointed and Johnny, 60, died less than two months later on Aug. 9. to preside over the inquest into the In Scheunert’s case, a coroner’s deaths of Teresa Ann Scheunert and report was released on June 14, 2013, Mary Johnny. only to be retracted within a few Yukon’s coroner Kirsten Machours. A new report was released on donald made the announcement July 9 with significant changes. yesterday.

Macdonald’s report ruled that A new date has also been set for Scheunert died of mixed drug toxicthe inquest. It will run from June 2 ity. to 13 in a Whitehorse courtroom.

That was contradicted by a later Leibel has 12 years of experience patient safety review, ordered by the as a coroner. He spent six years as a deputy chief coroner, four years as a hospital corporation, which said regional coroner and two years as an it was an irregular heartbeat that killed the registered nurse. investigative coroner, according to Johnny died of a bowel obstrucMacdonald. tion after being originally diagnosed She “requested that coroner Leibel be appointed to preside at this as having alcohol withdrawal.

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Snowmobiler dies near Carmacks

Date set for legislature’s next sitting

A Carmacks snowmobiler has died after he crashed Saturday near Mandanna Lake.

Jason Wheeler, 37, was one of two snowmobilers travelling back to a cabin on separate machines after exploring the lake 50 kilometres southeast of Carmacks.

Carmacks RCMP said Wheeler was attempting to climb a hill off the lake around 6 p.m. when the machine rolled on top of him.

“The snowmobile did not make it to the top of the hill and rolled over on top of the rider. The man was pinned under the snowmobile as it slid down the rough and rocky slope,” RCMP said in a statement.

Friends tried to help, but Wheeler died at the scene.

He was not wearing a helmet at the time of the crash.

An autopsy has not been ordered but police say toxicology tests are being done to determine if alcohol or drugs played a role.

“The RCMP remind the public that pursuant to the Yukon Motor Vehicle Act the wearing of helmets is required while snowmobiling,” the statement says.

(Ashley Joannou)

Yukon’s MLAs are going back to work in less than two weeks.

The spring sitting of the 33rd Yukon Legislative Assembly will begin on Tuesday, March 25 at 1 p.m.

Premier Darrell Pasloski made the announcement Tuesday morning.

A key aspect of this sitting will be the 2014-15 budget, as well as a number of other legislative proposals, the premier said in a statement.

(Ashley Joannou)

Carcross dunes development green-lit by assessors The Carcross-Tagish First Nation’s plan for a housing development along Bennett Lake has the go-ahead from the Yukon Environmental and Socio-economic Assessment Board.

The board’s recommendation is that the project be allowed to proceed, as long as plans are put in place to protect endangered Baikal sedge in the area and address blow-

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Teresa Ann Scheunert, left, with her daughter Crystal Thomas. A new date has been set for an inquest into Scheunert and Mary Johnny’s deaths after treatment at the Watson Lake Hospital in 2012.

BRIEFS ing sand issues.

The plan is to build a subdivision along the shore of Bennett Lake north of town behind the school, and to put the development up for sale on the open market. It’s all part of the government’s larger economic revitalization plan for the area, which also includes a highend resort farther down the lake.

Justin Ferbey, the head of the CTFN development corporation, said the housing development will include a 15-metre buffer zone around construction to protect sensitive plant life.

He said he hopes road construction to access the area will begin this spring, assuming the weather co-operates.

(Jesse Winter)

No charges will be laid after teen set on fire The teens who set the clothing of another boy on fire last week will not face charges.

“The investigators have completed their investigation and it was determined that in this incident there was no malicious

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The 13-year-old boy was approached by a group of other teens around the same age who sprayed his jacket with an aerosol deodorant and then lit the sleeve on fire.

His hair and eyelashes were singed, but he was not seriously hurt.

Hoogland said investigators, and the parents of everyone involved, have agreed to handle the situation outside of court. “(Investigators) felt that charges weren’t appropriate in this case and that more of an educational factor would be appropriate.”

Alternative punishments could include things like curfews enforced by their parents, consequences at school or an educational component designed to teach them about safety and respect, Hoogland said.

All parties have to be in agreement.

“The investigators believe that, given their young age, this was a form of experimenting or even a form of, for lack of a better word, horseplay and not realizing what the potential implications could have been,” Hoogland said.

(Ashley Joannou)

Friday, March 14

The Scheunert family has publicly raised concerns about their inability to find and afford a lawyer to represent them at the inquest.

At the inquest it will be Leibel’s job to rule on things like witnesses and evidence. A jury of six will hear the evidence and then decide how the women died. The jury also has the option of making recommendations for how to prevent similar deaths in the future.

In 2012, Leibel presided over an inquest into the deaths of three Langley mushroom farm workers who died after inhaling toxic gases.

Inquests do not find fault or criminal responsibility. They are designed to be a public airing of facts.

Any recommendations made by an inquest jury are not legally binding.

With files from Jacqueline Ronson

Dawson hunter fined A Dawson City man has been fined $6,500 after pleading guilty to four charges under the wildlife act.

Micah Olesh admitted to hunting by aircraft, failing to make reasonable effort to kill wounded wildlife, waste of meat, and using a vehicle to transport wildlife in a closed game management subzone.

The bison hunt took place in November 2011 near Haines Junction.

Along with the fine, territorial court judge Peter Chisholm banned Olesh from hunting for five years and ordered he complete the Hunter Education and Ethics Development (HEED) course.

All seized parts of the bison were forfeited.

The sentence was based on a joint recommendation from both sides, according to Environment Yukon.

The public can use the Turn In Poachers and Polluters line at 1-800-661-0525 or www.env.gov. yk.ca/tipp to report any suspected resource violations.

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Cost of violent crimes topped $12 billion in one year: Justice Canada study Dean Beeby Canadian Press

OTTAWA iolent crimes in Canada come with a huge financial cost, to victims and to the justice system, says a new Justice Canada report.

Five types of violent crimes that occurred in 2009 had an economic impact of $12.7 billion, says the detailed accounting of dozens of factors, from medical care and lost wages to court and social welfare costs.

The study is the department’s fourth since 2011 to examine the grim price tags associated with crime in Canada, all of them focused on the burden placed on victims.

The latest research, completed in December, looked at every case of assault, criminal harassment, homicide, robbery, and sexual assault and other sexual offences, that occurred in 2009.

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“Understanding and being aware of the costs of crime, particularly as they impact victims, can result in more effective and timely crime interventions,” said department spokesman Andrew Gowing.

“The work helps program and policy makers understand where the greatest economic impact of crime falls for governments, businesses and those who have experienced violence.”

“The knowledge helps to better allocate resources for victims of crime.”

Gowing added that the research helps fulfil Canada’s commitments under the UN Declaration on the Elimination of Violence Against Women.

A consultant for the study, criminologist Holly Johnson at the University of Ottawa, said the methodology is first-rate, but she questions the value of such reports.

“It highlights a big figure and that gets public attention, but unless it leads to action to address the problem, I’m not sure that they’ve been Chris Stanford/The Canadian Press all that beneficial,” said Johnson, who studies violence against women.

Police tape seals off a downtown Kelowna, B.C., street corner. Violent crimes in Canada come with a huge financial “We know it’s a big problem and cost to victims and to the justice system, says a new Justice now we know it’s a big cost – so Canada report. what are we going to do about it? …

They’re doing so little to address it.”

Justice Minister Peter MacKay has police and court databanks as well as authors conclude. surveys from Statistics Canada.

“The impacts are eventually felt by promised a victims bill of rights this year, after consultations throughout By far the largest single cost – $4.8 all Canadians in the form of public 2013, and the department says it billion of the total – was attributed spending on the justice system and has provided more than $120 milto sexual assault and other sexual of- social services.” lion since 2006 for victim-oriented fences, crimes in which more than 90 The Canadian Press obtained a per cent of victims were women. copy of the 168-page report through initiatives, some delivered by the provinces.

Victims bore most of the costs for the Access to Information Act. At the same time, the government all five types of crime, $10.6 billion, The research emerges from the has resisted demands for a full public with criminal justice system and Conservative government’s strong inquiry into missing and murdered third-party costs far behind. focus on victims as it continues to aboriginal women – demands now “The victims bear the greatest implement changes to the justice louder after the killing in February of burden of the impacts, much of it system, including mandatory miniintangible, and family, friends and mum sentences and tougher rules on Loretta Saunders, a young Inuit student in Halifax studying the issue of employers can also be burdened,” the pardons. violence against indigenous women.

Previous Justice Canada studies, The Native Women’s Associausing the same methodology, examtion of Canada says one in 10 female ined the economic cost of all crimes used vehicle sales that occurred in 2008 ($99.6 billion); homicides involve aboriginal women, of gun crimes in the same year ($3.1 even though they make up only three billion); and of spousal violence that per cent of the population.

The Canadian Centre for Policy occurred in 2009 ($7.4 billion).

Alternatives, a left-leaning Ottawa This area of research, pioneered think-tank, last summer reviewed in the United States, the United federal spending on female victims of Kingdom and Australia, is touted as violence and concluded there is “no helping to show the potential ecoonline at nomic effects of reducing crime, and coherent federal policy addressing www.drivingforce.ca to provide governments information violence against women.”

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Ottawa report on violence against aboriginal women stops short of public inquiry and renewed her calls for a public inquiry.

The victims’ families pleaded in OTTAWA their testimony for the government parliamentary report into missto take “extraordinary actions to ing and murdered indigenous recognize this is a public emergenwomen rejected numerous calls for cy,” she added. a full public inquiry, setting off a “A national inquiry would get firestorm of criticism Friday from to the roots of the systemic issues, opposition critics, First Nation the systemic racism and sexism that leaders and human rights groups. we’re seeing here,” Crowder said.

Liberal and NDP members who “We need to pay attention to sat on the all-party panel issued what they’re asking us for.” their own dissenting reports, acClaudette Dumont Smith, execucusing the federal Conservatives tive director of the Native Women’s of sanitizing the final report on an Association of Canada, warned of ongoing crisis that has caught the the dire consequences of inaction. attention of the United Nations.

“If things don’t change, ab“This is a total travesty from the original women will continue to go way that Parliament used to be able missing and be murdered and be to work,” said Carolyn Bennett, the regarded as second-class citizens,” Liberal aboriginal affairs critic and she said. the vice-chair of the committee Shawn Atleo, the national chief examining the issue. of the Assembly of First Nations, “Parliament used to be able to said his organization is planning hear the witnesses and then hona meeting on Monday to discuss ourably reflect what the witnesses an action plan in the wake of the said in the report.” report.

Sean Kilpatrick/The Canadian Press It’s estimated there are hundreds A vigil on Parliament Hill in Ottawa last week for Loretta Saunders. Calls for a national “We know we cannot achieve of cases of missing and murdered the change we need without a clear, inquiry into missing and murdered aboriginal women went unanswered. aboriginal women in Canada datunequivocal commitment and ing back to the 1960s – officially as priate sentences. As well, it calls for those made by victims’ families and they came to power in 2006. The systemic change to ending violence many as 600, and likely hundreds Tories recently renewed funding to and taking all the necessary steps to support for the families of victims, other interest groups during their more unreported victims. combat violence against aboriginal ensure indigenous women and girls testimony. for aboriginal communities, for The report tabled Friday in the are safe,” Atleo said in a statement. women and girls.

“When you look at the words better police data and for action to House of Commons says aboriginal reduce human trafficking.

“This report is disappointing to “I believe that this report will in the recommendations that have women in Canada are more than indigenous women and girls and all go further to take action,” Tory MP been tabled today, you will find The Liberals dismissed the recthree times as likely to be victimized ommendations, saying the families verbs like continue, maintain, con- Stella Ambler, chair of the special Canadians who stand with us.” as non-indigenous women.

Human Rights Watch was committee, said in the House of tinue, continue,” she said. of the victims have been let down Among its 16 recommendations, equally critical of the report, saying Commons just before the report “That isn’t what the families by the government’s failure to right the report calls on the Conservative it failed to recommend the neceswas tabled. want to hear. They actually want a “terrible and ongoing attack on government to work with the provsary steps to stem the violence.

Justice Minister Peter MacKay action. They want things to happen. inces, territories and municipalities social justice.”

“The committee’s weak recomechoed those sentiments.

And, as you know, the No. 1 thing Bennett mocked the “secretive” to create a public awareness and mendations represent an accep“What we don’t need now is to they wanted to have happen was a Conservative government for its prevention campaign focusing on tance of the shocking status quo of stop and talk and study. We need national public inquiry.” failure to call a national inquiry, violence against aboriginal women violence against indigenous women more action,” said MacKay. The Conservatives, meantime, saying Tories view any mention of and girls. and girls, even by the very people Bennett, meantime, asked Amcontinued to resist calls for an insuch public investigations as dirty It also says Ottawa should who are supposed to protect them,” bler whether she honestly believed quiry, insisting they’ve taken dozens the report reflects witness testimony said Meghan Rhoad, women’s rights continue to strengthen the criminal words. of measures to address violence She added that the recommenjustice system to ensure that violent or was it “improperly influenced by researcher at Human Rights Watch. against aboriginal women since dations in the report don’t reflect and repeat offenders serve appro“The status quo is a state of the six parliamentary secretaries on constant insecurity for the indigthe committee taking orders from enous women and girls who face the (Prime Minister’s Office)?” threats to their lives and feel they In its dissenting opinion, the have nowhere reliable to turn for Liberals said the report’s recomprotection.” mendations were clearly the work A United Nations human rights of ministerial offices, since so many investigator called for a public inof them make reference to existing quiry last year during a fact-finding government programs.

The NDP’s Jean Crowder, also a visit to Canada. James Anaya said member of the special committee, such an inquiry would ensure a cocalled it appalling that the Conserordinated response to the problem vatives produced “a sanitized report and allow the families of victims to saying that everything is fine,” be heard.

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Ukrainian Canadians pressure world powers to get Russia out of Ukraine Terry Pedwell

They tried three times last post. week only to be turned back.

In addition, heavily-armed Warning shots were fired dur- soldiers wearing military uniOTTAWA ing their last attempt to enter forms with no country markkrainian-Canadians the region. They did not make ings reportedly sealed off a marched in Ottawa Sunanother attempt on Sunday military airport in Crimea. day in an attempt to convince and it was unclear whether Street violence also erupted some of the world’s bigger they would try again any time in the Black Sea port city of powers to force Russia to soon.

Sevastopol after rival pro- and release its grip on Ukraine’s Germany’s Angela Merkel anti-Russia protesters clashed.

Crimea region. joined Harper and other G7 U.S. President Barack Only France’s ambassador, leaders Sunday in telling Putin Obama is scheduled to meet Philippe Zeller, personally that a planned referendum on with Ukrainian Prime Minspoke with the dozens of prowhether Crimea should join ister Arseniy Yatseniuk on testers as they waved flags and Russia was illegal and violated Wednesday at the White placards outside the French Vadim Ghirda/AP Photo Ukraine’s constitution.

House. embassy.

A woman passes by a WWII memorial in Simferopol, Ukraine.

But Putin has ignored their The two will try to find The demonstrations began The country lurched toward breakup Thursday as lawmakers entreaties and tightened Rusa peaceful resolution to the in front of the Chinese embas- in Crimea unanimously declared they wanted to join Russia sia’s grip further on Crimea, crisis, while at the same time sy before snaking through the and would put the decision to voters this week. by seizing another border demonstrating their solidarity. capital to buildings housing But an advisor to Russian diplomats from France, the President Vladimir Putin on United States and the U.K. Thursday suggested the BuChanting anti-Putin slogans dapest accord could actually and waving placards, they be used by Russia as justificaurged the signators of a 1994 tion for sending troops into nuclear disarmament agreeUkraine to protect people in ment with Ukraine to live up the Crimean peninsula. to the accord.

Sergey Glazyev accused the “We are now turning to United States of interfering in the guarantors of the BudaUkraine’s internal affairs, saypest agreement, the countries ing it left Russia no choice but that promised Ukraine to do to intervene. everything in their capacity Canada has made it clear it to prevent it from economic supports the interim governwarfare and to protect its territorial integrity,” said protest ment in Kyiv, which Russia says was formed as the result a spokeswoman Lada Roslycky.

“At this time, they are gross- “coup.”

Last week, the Harper govly failing Ukraine’s needs.” ernment imposed a travel ban The Budapest Memoranon individuals it considered a dum on Security Assurances threat to Ukraine. was originally signed by Rus* Nine Russian soldiers parsia, the U.S. and the United ticipating in military exercises Kingdom, giving Ukraine were also ordered to leave assurances of protection in Canada by the end of the day exchange for giving up its Friday. nuclear weapons.

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Russian actions in Ukraine could cause Arctic problems: Iceland PM Bob Weber Canadian Press

EDMONTON ussia’s actions in Ukraine could cause problems for international co-operation in the Arctic, says Iceland’s prime minister.

Sigmundur Gunnlaugsson said Russia’s strongarm tactics in its former satellite could make it harder for the eight nations on the Arctic Council to reach agreements at a time when the region faces a series of critical issues.

“This has a ripple effect, even though the actual events are far from the Arctic,” said Gunnlaugsson, in Edmonton on a trade mission.

“Clearly, it has made many players in the Arctic quite worried about developments and whether they might be a sign of what is to come.”

In fact, former U.S. secretary of state Hillary Clinton echoed his sentiments earlier this week while delivering a speech in Calgary.

Clinton said it is in the best interests of Russia, Canada, the United States and the five other Arctic Council members to find ways to reach agreements on how to handle resource development in the Arctic.

The insistence of many Ukrainians on turning their country toward the West has angered Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Russian soldiers have moved into Ukrainian territory in the Crimea and the crucial Black Sea port of Sevastopol. Russian and Ukrainian troops have faced off several times over control of military facilities in the Crimean region.

Meanwhile, northern nations are involved in discussions over which country will control which parts of the Arctic. Safe shipping and oil exploration rules for the North are

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Prime Minister of Iceland Sigmundur Gunnlaugsson during an interview in Edmonton, Alberta last week. Russia’s actions in Ukraine could cause problems for international cooperation in the Arctic, says Iceland’s prime minister.

being negotiated, as is an agreement to delay commercial Arctic fishing until more is known about the resource.

Gunnlaugsson, whose country sits on the Arctic Council, said Russia’s actions are going to make

agreement on those and other environmental and economic issues in the Arctic even harder.

“I don’t think it will have an immediate effect,” he said.

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“But if it is a sign of what it to come, it is quite worrying.”

Gunnlaugsson’s country is banking a good part of its economic future on Arctic development.

It is planning to build a major seaport in northeast Iceland to service growing traffic through gradually opening Arctic sea lanes. It has signed offshore oil exploration deals with CNOOC, the Chinese company that also owns Canadian energy company Nexen.

The country has also been active diplomatically. It raised eyebrows when it formed the Arctic Circle, an international forum that included non-Arctic countries such as China before they were granted observer status at the Arctic Council.

But Iceland sometimes feels snubbed by some other Arctic countries, such as when Canada, the U.S., Russia, Norway and Denmark recently concluded an interim agreement on fisheries.

“We felt it was almost peculiar that the Arctic Five have decided to negotiate regarding the fish and leave Iceland out of it,” Gunnlaugsson said. “Iceland has a lot to offer when it comes to fisheries policy.”

Canada has a lot to gain from working with Iceland on opening the Arctic, said Gunnlaugsson.

Canadian companies could use the country as a bridgehead to burgeoning resource plays in Greenland, for example.

“With the location of Iceland and the infrastructure we already have in place and additional knowhow from Canadian companies, I think we could do a lot of good in Greenland.”

Gunnlaugsson said his government has already opened discussions with provincial governments in Manitoba and Alberta on increasing business ties. He was in Edmonton to help inaugurate expanded air service between Edmonton and the Icelandic capital of Reyjavik.

The highlight of his trip, however, may have to do with another type of ice entirely.

Gunnlaugsson and his delegation attended a hockey game during his visit between the Edmonton Oilers and the New York Islanders. Hockey legend and former Oiler Wayne Gretzky was in the crowd and invited the visiting leader to his box.

“It was pretty great, an unexpected pleasure,” said Gunnlaugsson, 38.

“He chatted and was really friendly. We took pictures of us together and it was a great experience.

“He is the first thing I knew about Edmonton. Everybody knows Wayne Gretzky.”

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Chevron pizza offer fails to register as scandal in Pennsylvania town where gas well exploded Kevin Begos Associated Press

BOBTOWN, Pa. ritics are raging after an energy giant offered pizza coupons to a community near a natural gas well that exploded last month, killing a worker.

News stories, TV shows and blogs – many sarcastic or outright scornful – spread the word far and wide. “Shame on you,” one person wrote about the offer by Chevron Corp. “How insulting!” said another. Comedy Central’s satirical “The Colbert Report” skewered it.

But the 750 or so residents of the hamlet of Bobtown? Not one has signed an online petition demanding an apology for the pizza offer. In fact, during a recent visit, The Associated Press found the talk of the town is more the furious response by outsiders.

“We feel it was something outside groups generated,” said Pete Novak, a co-director of the Polish American Club, a local gathering spot. None of the patrons has voiced outrage, he said, and residents laughed about how people who have never set foot in Bobtown claim to speak for its citizens.

Several people noted that Chevron’s pizza offer was made to apologize for traffic after the fire, not to downplay the loss of life.

“I thought it was pretty decent of them,” said Ray Elli, 54, who noted that the fire was about a mile outside town, on a ridge, and that people in town didn’t feel threatened.

Bill Sowden, co-owner of Bobtown Pizza, the area’s only restaurant, says 12 people have redeemed the coupons distributed by Chevron. The whole issue, he said, was blown out of proportion.

“We’re just a food place,” he said.

The outsized reaction from people not directly affected by

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Ray Elli at Bobtown Pizza in Bobtown, Pennsylvania. The little pizza shop was placed in the spotlight when energy giant Chevron offered coupons for free pizza to people who live near the area where a natural gas well exploded in February.

the accident illustrates the larger passions surrounding the fracking debate. Many critics seek stricter regulations or bans to protect air and water from pollution, while supporters speak of the economic benefits for an energy-hungry nation. Each side claims the high moral ground.

About 12,000 people have signed an online petition demanding Chevron apologize, according to petition organizer Karen Feridun.

“There are a few from nearby communities, but none right from Bobtown,” Feridun wrote in emails this week to the AP. She lives about 250 miles away, at the other end

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of Pennsylvania. The petition isn’t even on public display in Bobtown, about two miles from the West Virginia border.

One petition signer from New York City mentioned “Chevron’s cavalier arrogance.” Other signers came from Alaska, Florida and many other states, as well as Australia, Bulgaria, Costa Rica, Germany and Italy.

Chevron hasn’t responded to the petition, Feridun said.

Company spokesman Kent Robertson said in an email that Chevron works to be a good partner in communities, that it has been “overwhelmed by the support”

from residents and that it appreciates their understanding.

For more than a century, the region around Bobtown has been coal country, and there’s still an active mine nearby. But in the past five years, natural gas locked in shale deep underground became newly accessible because of the advent of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking.

On Feb. 11, a Chevron well outside of town exploded, killing Ian McKee, 27, who lived about a halfhour away in Morgantown, W.Va., and worked for a contractor. Five days later, as emergency vehicles clogged some narrow roads around

Bobtown, Chevron representatives visited about 100 people, seeking concerns or questions and leaving a gift certificate for a large pizza and two-litre drink at Bobtown Pizza, which had just opened.

Elli, who was born in Bobtown, said he feels for the worker who died and his family, but that the well fire didn’t threaten other residents. And while there are differing opinions about the drilling boom in the community, he doesn’t see a problem with it.

“We need gas. Better than getting it from other countries,” he said. His current priority is not getting an apology from Chevron, he said, but getting ready for the spring wild turkey season.

He noted that many locals have made money off the drilling boom, both from royalties – which can reach hundreds of thousands or even millions of dollars for landowners – and jobs.

Overall, Pennsylvanians support the drilling boom, said G. Terry Madonna, a professor of public affairs at Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster. A January poll by the school found that 64 per cent of respondents somewhat or strongly favour the gas drilling industry, compared with 27 per cent who somewhat or strongly oppose it. In some conservative rural areas with active drilling, the support is even higher.

“I think it’s pretty fascinating that folks in the community” aren’t openly upset with Chevron, Madonna said, agreeing that such kerfuffles are surrogates in the political fight over American energy production.

Novak had some advice for all the people who think they know how Bobtown residents feel: “Come to this small rural area and see for themselves.”

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ARTS Yukon poet explores legacy and connection generally, there’s a lot more judgment. There’s an attitude of “nothing is possible” as opposed to the feeling she gets here, where she finds people more open and accepting to other people’s pursuits.

Lilley was also daunted by “hundreds of years of English literature. Who am I to add to that?” In the Yukon, she found the freedom to write with less inhibition.

A clear sense of place comes through her writing, almost as if it’s unintentional. In “Ugly”, Lilley writes how she should be getting her log house ready for “winter’s steel wool scrub” instead of thinking about her black chin hairs.

In the poem “Fish Lake Ridge” Lilley compares her connection to where she’s from to the First Nation identity she notices in the Yukon:

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oanna Lilley sometimes imagines written language hadn’t been invented. She wonders how she would she express herself. “I’m just more comfortable writing than talking,” she says.

Lilley works as a senior communications advisor for the Yukon Government, and she’s a habitual writer. Her poems have been collected into a book, The Fleece Era - it’s her first one, published by Brick House.

“Poetry isn’t exactly a big money-maker,” Lilley says. She says her full-time job allows her to focus fully on creative writing in her spare time, and she doesn’t have to worry about making money from it.

Theoretically, Lilley writes every day, in the evening.

Although in her day job she works with words, she says it’s difficult to switch her brain to poetry after a day of office work. The shortest poem in the collection, “Work-life Balance” talks about the burden of bureaucracy: Of course I spend more hours away from the office than there.

I don’t sleep under my desk but balance it on my head, carry it home, lie in bed with it on top of me, its feet on the floor like in old films.

Lilley acknowledges that writing poetry seems like a self-indulgent pursuit, but the potential judgment doesn’t stop her, she says.

She has to write: “It makes me happy, it makes me feel sane, it helps me work out how to live, even though I live a comfortable life.”

Although she writes for herself, Lilley says she wants her writing to be accessible to others, too.

Water is thick where the Yukon River starts surging to the Bering Sea, rising with the blood of ancestors whose descendants watch over them as they stalk each fall, letting the bellied cow moose scratch through willow while they pierce and fell the bull. …

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Joanna Lilley is celebrating the release of her first book of poems, The Fleece Era, at the Old Fire Hall on March 21.

No ancestors watch over me.

I have no descendants to guard.

My native land is a high street of Ford Fiestas parked outside a Tudor-fronted Tesco Metro selling tuna sandwiches.

My territory is bounded by a fence my father creosotes every second summer.”

“I’m English,” she says. “I’ve never felt that’s terribly interTo have children is an innate esting. The place my parents I’ve lived with something for a Her poems read like prose; desire, Lilley says. She explores are from is nice, but I’ve never she says she’s always written long time, it inevitability just where that comes from, wheth- felt a spiritual connection to it.” fiction, but her novel manucomes out.”

Lilley hopes to challenge er a person is born with it, or if script was “becoming a buAnd it’s easy to tell what herself as she continues to it’s how or where or when she’s rden.”

Lilley’s been living with. Her write.

She wants to be able raised.

“I find writing poetry very decision to not have children to know what her poems will “I tend to over think things. joyful and liberating,” Lilley is “something I think about be before she finishes them. says, “partly because you can quite a lot,” and the theme runs It’s probably why I write Now, she says, she never knows poetry.” finish a poem.” strong in the beginning of the where they will end up as she The poems toward the end To her, poetry can be comstarts writing. She wants to book. of the book are meditations pared to visual art; there are have more control over them.

In ‘If I had Children’ Lilon place and connection. Lilmany different styles of paintShe also wants to write about ley alludes to her thoughts on ley moved to the Yukon eight ing, as there are different styles topics she doesn’t have experibringing more humans into the years ago from Britain with her ence with. She’s been thinkof poetry. Like painting, some world: husband. She says, “I came here ing about writing a series on poems are abstract, formubecause I wanted to, and belaic, and filled with metaphors extinct animal species.

As I was dying, all I would cause I was drawn to the space and symbols, while others are Lilley’s book will be and the climate.” simple and clear with less layers have launched on March 21st at the to bequeath would be a milBy ‘space’, Lilley isn’t referof meaning.

Old Fire Hall. ring just to the vastness of Lilley says she writes from a lion pounds Meagan Deuling is a Whitehorse freelance writer. of greenhouse gas emissions the North. She says in Britain, personal, emotional place: “If

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Giving the gift of love, one doll at a time Liesel Briggs Special for the News

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randma, Didi (sister),” says Busha, a 20-year-old orphan who is sponsored by our charity, Hands of Hope, to attend college in Kathmandu, Nepal.

As we sipped chai, Busha zipped open his well-used, black-and-red daypack and dug to the bottom. Then, with a huge smile on his face, he announced, “Look, I still have my doll you gave me.”

That doll had travelled around in his daypack from Chemistry to Physics to Math class and home in the cramped bus.

Several years back I toted 24 dolls to the Linh Son Orphanage in Lumbini. They had come to us from Doreen Sorrenti of Surrey, who loves knitting.

At the time, my daughter Rosemarie and I had no inkling what impact a little soft doll, 16 centimetres long, would have.

What Doreen didn’t know was that this gift of love has remained with this young man through high school and college.

Some dolls are definitely girls, with pink, mauve, blue and yellow outfits or multi-striped skirts with yellow or purple or blue tops and a green shawl or a green skirts with a pink top, little beige faces, big dark eyes, brown eyebrows and pink or red mouths.

The boy dolls have striped gold, brown, green or blue pants and a coordinated top. Some dolls have little added flourishes for necklaces, suspenders, bows, bow ties, broaches or buttons.

There are little coordinated hats and brown shoes. Each one is different.

Doreen got into knitting over 70 years ago. She’s knitted for the Christmas Bureau in Surrey and for friends. Her arthritic fingers fly along creating beauty. She just can’t stop. And why should she?

It all began at age five, when Doreen made her first knitted squares. Later she launched into bigger projects, casting on to create hats, afghans and blankets, baby coats, sweaters and socks.

Then along came dolls. It started several years ago when Doreen helped a friend do up dolls for Africa. Then, when Doreen heard about children in Nepal who didn’t have any toys or “stuffies,” she decided to remedy that.

She had heard the children there treasured even the smallest gift. Doreen loves children. This whiz of a knitter had yarn remnants from other projects. With the multicolored yarn scraps she knitted small unique dolls, only needing to purchase brown yarn for the shoes and stuffing.

Doreen puts special love into the

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Tibetan children in Bir, a refugee village in northern India, with their dolls knitted by Doreen Sorrenti of Surrey, B.C.

dolls she’s making for children she never had.

With the first set of dolls complete, she packed them up to go with Maggie Leary, a teacher at Mayo’s JV Clark School. Since then we have taken dolls to Nepal or India and given them to children in communities where we are doing volunteer work.

One year, the dolls I took to Nepal went to a school without walls. I placed those flashy dolls out in the field for the four- and five-year-old children.

It was the perfect storm. Boys, girls, dolls, dust and one teacher pulling his hair. Pandemonium.

And there was love. Dolls were grasped and hugged to the chest.

And it hasn’t stopped. In September 2013, Rosemarie dished out dolls to little Hindi and Tibetan girls and boys in Bir, Himachal Pradesh, India. The instant bedlam was a joyous occasion. No one turns away from a rich hued doll. Everyone wants to cuddle one.

We had purchased and donated sports equipment for two schools and set up a library in an adjacent school. Dolls were the frosting on an electrifying day.

Do you remember your first doll or stuffed toy? How long did you cherish it? We can definitely say that the dolls we lug to India or Nepal are cherished, kept

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Doreen, an expert knitter, with her latest dolls.

and much sought after. The love Doreen has put into the dolls is passed onto the children they are given to in Nepal and India.

Maybe this woman never had any children of her own, but she

has at least 150 grandchildren in India and Nepal. Those children love the dolls and the person who made them. True love never dies, it only get stronger with time.

For the more complete story of the work of Rosemarie and Liesel Briggs of Hands of Hope please go to: www. hands-of-hope.ca. We are currently accepting donations to keep children in school. You can also call 668-7082.

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Canadian scientists studying whether immediate treatment ‘cures’ infants of HIV children who were treated this way, Samson says.

Another of the researchers, miTORONTO crobiologist Hugo Soudeyns from team of Canadian scientists Ste-Justine Hospital in Montreal, is beginning a study to see says children who received early whether starting to treat infants treatment will be compared to at risk of developing HIV in the HIV-positive children who were first 72 hours after birth leads to started on their drug regimens better outcomes than starting drug later. regimes after HIV infection has “Definitely at this stage a talk of been confirmed. cure is premature,” Samson says.

That’s the protocol that has “We are very focused on trying been touted as a possible cure for to understand whether early treatinfants infected with HIV, one ment in infants living with HIV which has been used with apparinfection may lead to an ability or ent success at least twice in the an enhanced ability to control the United States. virus. However … we do not want But the Canadian researchers to raise unrealistic expectations say it is premature to use the word amongst the patients and their cure in relation to infants treated parents regarding any talk of cure.” in this way.

Rodrique Ngowi/AP Photo They say at least five Canadian Dr. Audra Deveikis, a children have been treated in the pediatric infectious same manner as the so-called disease specialist, was “Mississippi baby,” the first case involved in the treatment in which it has been reported that of a baby born with the early treatment led to apparent AIDS virus, who may remission. have been cured by The Mississippi baby is now 3 very early treatment.

1/2 years old and has been off HIV drugs for the past two years.

But the Canadian scientists say the children in Canada who received early treatment have not been taken off their AIDS medications.

The study has received nearly $2 million in funding from the UMBRELLA FINAL AGREEMENT Canadian Institutes of Health BOARDS AND COMMITTEES Research, the International AIDS Society and the Canadian FoundaAre you interested in being a federal nominee? tion for AIDS Research.

One of the investigators says Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada, Yukon it has been Canadian practice for Region, is seeking Yukon residents who wish to be considered for at least the past five or 10 years to nomination as the federal nominee to the Yukon Environmental and start drug treatment immediately Socio-economic Assessment Board (YESAB) as required under the on infants born to HIV-positive Umbrella Final Agreement (UFA). women whose infection is not well controlled.

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From DIY tinkerers to hardcore smokers, e-cigarettes take off amid raging debate

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Talia Eisenberg, co-founder of the Henley Vaporium, smokes an e-cigarette, using liquid nicotine turned into flavorful vapor that is intended to simulate traditional smoking.

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ready to be plucked from behind a wooden bar and turned into flavourful vapour for a lung hit with a kick that is intended to simulate traditional smoking. A hint of banana nut bread e-juice lingered in the air one recent afternoon as patrons gathered around a low table to chat and vape, or sidled up to the inviting bar for help from a knowledgeable “vapologist.”

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grown from a few thousand to millions. Believed by some to be the invention of a Chinese pharmacist, vaping now has its own YouTube gurus, trade associations, lobbyists, online forums and vapefests for meetups centred on what enthusiasts consider a safer alternative to the “analog,” their name for tobacco cigarettes.

Vaping may be safer – there are differing opinions – but it isn’t necessarily cheap.

Will Hopkins, a 21-year-old dog walker in black leather jacket and skull ring, visits Henley four or five times a week. He smoked a pack of full-strength Marlboros a day for eight years, until he took up vaping. The same goes for his buddy, 20-year-old photographer Will Gallagher, who has been vaping for two years and is fond of his brass mod, a cylindrical device that’s larger than a cigarette and decorated with a tiger and Chinese lettering.

“I think both of us have poured in probably a little over a thousand” dollars, Gallagher

said of their equipment. “I like the exclusivity of vaping. I like to keep changing up my stuff.”

The Wills are into rebuilding tanks and rewiring coils, scouting new e-liquid flavours and adjusting their devices, which can cost up to $300 at Henley, to allow for more vapour, more flavour. But the co-owners of Henley count older smokers among their clientele as well.

E-cigarettes are usually made of metal parts combined with plastic or glass and come in a variety of shapes and sizes.

They heat the liquid nicotine solution, creating vapour that quickly dissipates when exhaled. The vapour looks like tobacco smoke and can feel like tobacco smoke when taken into the lungs at varying strengths, from no nicotine up to 24 milligrams or more.

In 2006, sellers of all things vape worked primarily online or via kiosks in shopping malls.

Now there are more than 250 brands and devices that can cost mere dollars for a case of “cigalikes,” which resemble the real thing, to a gold-and-dia-

Eisenberg.

She scoffs at the notion that child-friendly flavours of e-liquids – Watermelon Wave and Frozen Lime Drop, for instance – were created to lure teens. And she rejects the idea that e-cig companies should be banned from advertising on TV, as tobacco companies were more than 40 years ago.

While e-liquids and vaping supplies lack oversight and long-term research, they are readily available to all ages online, and at gas stations, bodegas and many drug stores.

But Henley doesn’t serve those under 18. Would it make more sense to help people give up nicotine – an addictive substance – altogether?

“Sure, but how’s that workin’ for the country so far? How are they doin’ with that? We’re talking in terms of serious harm reduction,” said Eisenberg’s business partner, Peter Denholtz. His mother died of lung cancer two years ago; he himself smoked cigarettes for 36 years, but has been vaping for four years.

Some vapers, like Hopkins and Gallagher, find fun in tinkering with the paraphernalia. Denholtz likens them to older DIY enthusiasts who once whiled away their time on Heathkits, those all-inclusive boxes of parts that could be turned into TV receivers, amateur radios or stereo speakers.

“There’s a whole subculture coming up. They’re very into all of the different devices.

They rewire and rebuild and use different materials for drawing up the juice. It’s unbelievable what they’ve turned it into,” he said.

Denholtz and others said vaping, to many, is merely a less harmful activity than tobacco smoking that duplicates the most pleasurable aspects and offers a communal feel like hookah use and cigar bars.

Xavier Armand, 25, has been vaping for a little more than three years and owns an advertising and marketing firm that is helping Henley put together a “liquid of the month club,” along the lines of mail-order

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fruit of the month.

“I always kind of knew smoking was bad for me. My mom was a smoker, but I was never going to look into the patch or the gum or anything,” Armand said. “At the end of the day, the best part about smoking is the smoke part.

And that oral fixation is kind of a big thing as well. I consider my agency the 2014 version of ‘Mad Men.’ We all sit around there and instead of smoking cigarettes everyone is smoking e-cigs.”

Much as movie stars made

tobacco smoking seem glamorous in the 1930s and ‘40s, celebrities have helped fuel interest in vaping.

At the Golden Globes, Leonardo DiCaprio was shown vaping away in the audience. The actor told The Associated Press recently he vapes to “relieve the stress of life.”

Other celebrities have signed on as paid e-cig endorsers, including co-host of “The View,” Jenny McCarthy, and actor Stephen Dorff, both of whom push Blu, a big player in e-cigs that was recently bought by Big

Tobacco’s Lorillard.

Dorff, who took up smoking 20 years ago, stuck to Blu’s talking points in a recent interview. He described how vaping offers him the freedom to smoke where regular cigarettes are frowned upon.

But wouldn’t his loved ones like to see him quit nicotine for good?

“Ah, probably yeah,” laughed Dorff, “but there’s a lot of bad things in the world, you know.

The one thing that I’ve always enjoyed is smoking. I consider myself a smoker.”

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mond unit the size of a fountain pen that was reportedly made for a Russian oil tycoon and cost about $900,000.

Whether vaping is cheaper than a cigarette habit is up to how much is spent on equipment and liquids and how often one vapes. A 15-millilitre bottle of liquid at Henley can go for $12 and may be roughly the equivalent of four packs of cigarettes, depending on the strength of both liquid and leaf cigarette, among other factors like how many puffs a smoker takes in. Rechargeable devices require batteries – another expense – and a starter kit for reuse that comes with a device can run around $66.

By comparison, the cost of a 20-cigarette pack of regular cigarettes can range from about $5 to about $15, depending on state tax and the type of location where they’re purchased.

The Food and Drug Administration has not yet stepped in to regulate e-cigs – and their amped-up marketing – but that’s likely to happen as some cities and states have already moved to ban public use the way they do tobacco.

Critics believe e-cigs may serve as a tobacco gateway for uninitiated young people. “It may be smoking e-cigarettes, but it’s still smoking,” said U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal, a Connecticut Democrat who was one of four senators to fire off a scathing letter to NBC and the Hollywood Foreign Press Association after a spoof on e-cigs aired during the Golden Globes in January.

Proponents argue that vaping isn’t only safe but is helping people quit smoking. The Henley has a white “wall of doom,” where it lists in big black letters the numerous tars and chemicals found in tobacco cigarettes, but absent in e-cig use if one is careful about the liquids purchased.

“What’s so beautiful about this product is we can take people from a high level of nicotine down to zero, down to nothing, so they’re just vaping basically water and flavouring,” said Henley co-owner Talia

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Food not to your liking doesn’t need to be announced

by Judith Martin

MISS

MANNERS DEAR MISS MANNERS: When a relative and her children came over to dinner, the children didn’t like one particular dish they were served. When they asked their mother if they could be excused without eating it, she instructed them to bring it to me and say, “This is not to my taste.”

It was clear that the mother felt she was teaching them polite company manners, but I was baffled. I would have been more comfortable if they had simply left the uneaten food without comment.

What is the correct thing for children (and adults) to do when they do not want to eat what they have been served?

GENTLE READER: What did the mother expect you to do?

Take it back and apologize for the bad service?

Of course they should have been instructed — preferably before they went out to dinner — simply to leave the food uneaten and say nothing. Miss Manners gathers that the mother believes that the purpose of manners is to demonstrate consideration for oneself.

DEAR MISS MANNERS: My fiancee and I are debating about proper eating manners such as: (1) Do I have to keep my mouth shut while chewing my food?

(2) Can I keep both or one elbow on the table while I eat?

GENTLE READER: And here are two questions that Miss Manners asks you to consider: (1) Do you want to have a happy marriage?

(2) Are you really interested in knowing how many mealtimes of watching you eat crudely (and

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remembering that you would But she finds herself wonnot grant a simple request to im- dering instead about the “poor prove) it will take to affect your response” you cite in justificafiancee’s romantic feelings? tion of revoking an invitation that has been both issued and, DEAR MISS MANNERS: I in some cases, accepted. To these have a 6-year-old son, and my people the host owes an apology, husband’s brother has a 1-yearan explanation and, ideally, a old boy. We live in two different replacement invitation. countries. Still, we meet every Given how many people are year when we visit my motherin the habit of attending events in-law, as they live with her. to which they did not respond, They named their son my it would be wise to warn the boy’s name. I was so devastated non-responders as well, lest they to hear that, and I gently told his appear on your doorstep expectwife how I feel. But her husband ing to be fed. In fact, you do not and elder daughter and even need to offer to feed them ever my mother-in-law won’t allow a again. change.

Both kids always get confused DEAR MISS MANNERS: I to hear the name, and I feel so was invited to a dinner party sad every time I tell mine, “It’s hosted by my law school profesnot you.” My mother-in-law sor. It was on a Thursday evening always is on the other brother’s and the invitation said dress was side and doesn’t care about my casual. I, and other students, son at all. Last vacation I didn’t wore jeans and a casual shirt. stay there for long as I cannot I overheard the host discussstand the ego of these people. ing our outfits as uncouth and Am I overreacting? I am that we should have been wearlearning to ignore and live with ing “business casual” attire. I it. Still, please let me know how was embarrassed and put on my would you handle a situation cardigan. like this.

Was I wrong for dressing GENTLE READER: If the casual? Should I have interpreted cousin is already a year old, it’s a dinner party “casual” to mean unlikely his family will change business attire? what they call him to appease GENTLE READER: Has the relatives whom they only see factor of context never come up once a year. in your law classes? Or the quesHowever, Miss Manners has tion of what the understanding heard that children often acquire nicknames. Perhaps you can in- of a reasonable person would be?

Actually, nobody knows the vent one for your nephew. If you meaning of “casual.” As far as make it charming and affectionMiss Manners can tell — and ate enough, it may catch on. she is as reasonable as one can DEAR MISS MANNERS: One reasonably be — it merely tells people that they don’t have sends out an RSVP invitation to make any effort they don’t with a specific deadline, and feel like making. So some feel then, because of poor response, like making the effort to look the hosts want to cancel. Obvipolished, and some don’t feel ously the regrets do not need to be notified. Those accepting the like making much of an effort, if any. Certainly, a reasonable invitation should be notified. student would interpret “casual” A topic of debate within my household: Is the host under any as meaning jeans.

But your professor seems to obligation to notify those who have trouble understanding condid not respond?

GENTLE READER: Your im- text. Correcting students when plicit frustration with those who they are taking his courses is his job. Disparaging his guests when do not respond to invitations he has invited them to a party is would normally find a symparude. thetic listener in Miss Manners.

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DEAR MISS MANNERS: I just turned 12, and my friends were very nice, brought balloons, cookies, etc., to school. The next day, several of them asked me what I had gotten for my birthday.

I told them the truth — that it had been a pretty busy night and I hadn’t opened them yet — but I couldn’t help but think that the question was a little tactless.

What if, in this economy, my parents couldn’t afford a lot of presents? It seems almost parallel to adults asking each other how much money they make. Am I wrong for thinking this, and what would be an appropriate response in the future?

GENTLE READER: The difference is that your friends are not really asking for the complete catalog you are envisioning. Miss Manners assures you that they are expressing a conventional interest that can be answered with a conventional response: Express enthusiasm for all the wonderful gifts and name one, without suggesting that it is the best.

DEAR MISS MANNERS: Last week I joined a popular online dating site and went on a first date. He picked me up at my house and took me out to dinner. Unfortunately, from the moment he opened his mouth, I knew we would not be compatible.

I spent the entire evening with a pleasant expression, feigning interest, and counting down until I could go home. He had a good time, and upon following up was shocked to hear that I did not share his feelings.

In retrospect, I felt trapped and helpless on the date and wound up pretending everything was OK. Is this the appropriate approach, or is it better to be upfront with my feelings and save us both time and the emotional runaround?

GENTLE READER: An activity that used to have the charming and perhaps fanciful name of courtship has become so businesslike that there is a frightening logic to your suggestion.

Yes, announcing, “Sorry; you won’t do” at that moment when the gentleman first opened his mouth would have allowed you both to move on to the next candidates. But at what horrifying sacrifice of the decencies of social behavior?

Miss Manners is no advocate of dating services, but even she can recognize that you violated its implicit cautions. You accepted a dinner date with a stranger after — at most — a week of the usual preliminaries, such as exchanging emails and eventually arranging a short meeting on neutral territory.

Having made that commitment, however, you were obliged to see it through. At what point do you think you could have bolted? On your doorstep, when he introduced himself? During the soup course? Or the dessert?

The proper dismissal would have been at the end of dinner, when you express regret that you have a full schedule in the foreseeable future.

DEAR MISS MANNERS: My son is proposing tonight. I want to send her flowers tomorrow.

What should the card say?

GENTLE READER: “I knew about this before you did, and preapproved you”?

Not a good idea. Miss Manners certainly favors welcoming a bride into the family, but recommends allowing the couple to break the news to you together first.

(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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Crusaders three-peat in thrilling final at Yukon championships

Tom Patrick/Yukon News

Left, F.H. Collins Warrior Ken Valdez attempts a layup against Vanier during the senior boys final at the Yukon High School Basketball Championships at Porter Creek Secondary on Saturday. Vanier defeated F.H. Collins 83-80. Above, Vanier Crusader Josh Tobias shoots over F.H. Collins’ Sam Bonar.

scoreboard counted down in small intervals as free-throws and timeouts put the Tom Patrick couldn’t ask for a better group of News Reporter game in slow motion. guys to be coaching and I’m just Players stepped to the freehappy for them right now.” he Vanier Crusaders finthrow line as teammates watched Not only did the win mark a ished the season with their from the bench, hands over their three-peat at the championships closest, most contested mouths, hoping and praying. for Vanier, it capped an immacugame of the season. They built Crusader Ian New drained one late season for the team. The Cruleads only to have them slip away saders went undefeated in Yukon, from the line for the game winas the F.H. Collins Warriors surged not dropping a game on the way ning point. Teammate and All-Star on the scoreboard.

RJ Siosan got the final one with to the Super Hoops title and the It was how championship eight seconds left on the board. territorial championship. games should be: tense, dra“We just held onto that game,” “We’ve gone undefeated the matic and determined in the final whole year, but both teams are said Hougen. “F.H. made a great minute. push at the end and we’re just pretty evenly matched,” said The Crusaders downed the Crusaders All-Star Noah Kitchen. lucky to come out with this one.

Warriors 83-80 to win their third We came together, timeouts “We get the wind, then we lose it straight senior boys title at the were useful, and we were able to – back and forth, back and forth.

Yukon High School Basketball Both teams are pretty much evenly regroup and get it done. It was a Championships on Saturday at great game. matched, so that’s what that was Porter Creek Secondary.

“Both teams made big runs and all about.”

“That was the most competitive that’s what it was the whole game,” Three times in the game the game we’ve had all year and it was Crusaders built a six-or-more he added. “We were just able to just great to be a part of,” said Cru- point lead only to have it crumble. keep our head above the water and saders head coach Cody Hougen. battle through it.”

Vanier began the fourth quarter Crusaders’ Chris Carino was “I’m just really proud of the up 57-56, grew it to 77-65, but Vanier’s top scorer with 28 points, guys. Everyone came together. began the final minute of regulaThis is my first year coaching, so I tion with a narrow 81-80 lead. The including two fourth quarter

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three-pointers. Siosan was close behind with 24 points.

Carino was named championship MVP. He was also the Super Hoops MVP in the Whitehorse high school league.

“He’s so valuable to our team because he’s such a level-headed guy and he’s always in the right mindset on the floor and is able to calm the guys down,” said Hougen.

“The guys get a little more rattled and he’s just the solid rock on our team who’s able to make big shots and big plays, and he’s still got another year to go.”

Kitchen was third in scoring for his team with eight points. Saturday’s was the Grade 12’s final high school game.

“This is my last year and it feels good to play with these guys,” said Kitchen. “Some of them I’ve been playing with since the beginning of high school. We went to Western (Canada Summer Games) and all these different tournaments with Yukon basketball. So it feels good to finish the last year, walk out with the gold, and I had

a good time playing with these guys.”

“It feels great to be done and to walk out with a gold medal around my neck.”

Bryan Hermosa put the most up on the Warriors’ side of the scoreboard, amassing 27 points.

Teammate Ken Valdez sent 19-worth through the hoop.

Vanier’s B team, including All-Star Zack Giczi, defeated the Porter Creek Rams for the senior boys bronze.

Contact Tom Patrick at tomp@yukon-news.com

Championship All-Stars Bryan Hermosa (Warriors) Ken Valdez (Warriors) RJ Siosan (Crusaders) Noah Kitchen (Crusaders) Zack Giczi (Crusaders)

MVP Chris Carino (Crusaders)

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Warriors cap undefeated season with Yukon title

Tom Patrick/Yukon News

Vanier’s Linsey Eby pushes past F.H. Collins Warrior Rachel Kinvig.

Tom Patrick/Yukon News

F.H. Collins Warrior Galena Roots takes a shot during the senior girls final at the Yukon High School Basketball Championships on Saturday at Porter Creek Secondary. The Warriors beat the Vanier Crusaders 67-38.

Tom Patrick News Reporter

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he F.H. Collins Warriors have pulled off a perfect season. All the check marks are in the ‘W’ column.

To the victors go the spoils.

The Warriors took gold in the senior girls division of the Yukon High School Basketball Championships at Porter Creek Secondary on Saturday. The last time F.H. Collins won the title was in 2012.

“I’m really proud of my girls, they put in a lot of time and they worked really hard,” said Warriors head coach Tyler Bradford.

“They’ve been a tremendous defensive team all season and they really worked with that.

We’d really like to thank all the coaches they’ve worked with, Sarah Crane, Deidre Davidson,

Nicole Schroeder, who have all put in a lot of time helping these girls get better.”

The Warriors won gold with a 67-38 win over the Vanier Crusaders, the same team the War-

relentless.

“We wanted to come out strong with a strong defensive effort and put the game away early, and I feel like we did a pretty good job of that,” said Bradford.

F.H. Collins players stepped up when the team needed it.

Jacy Sam rose to the occasion when fellow starters Sam Burgis, Jaylene Kelly and captain Quynh Nguyen were out of commission early in the championship.

Sam, who is in Grade 11 with a year to go in high school, was named championship MVP. “Jacy played a great game, the whole tournament was fantastic and today she played really well,” said Bradford. “Last week she kept us in the game against Vanier with Quynh and Sam and Jaylene all out. She was fantastic again today.

“She’s really developed as a player over the season.”

While Sam still has a season to go, captain Nguyen has reached the end of her high school career.

“We had a great run, played really well as a team. We work really hard in practice, which I think shows in the games,” said Nguyen, the Super Hoops MVP. “We did what we did in practice, applied what we learned

and came out hard,” she said of the final. “We played hard and hustled.”

Warriors’ Galina Roots led the team with 22 points in the final while Nguyen and Sam had 17 and 15, respectively. All three will play for Yukon next week at the Arctic Winter Games in Fairbanks, Alaska.

“Galina always gets open, sees the court very well,” said Nguyen.

Amy Hannon-Beattie led Vanier with 11 points. Kelly Mahoney had 10 and captain Linsey Eby had six.

The Porter Creek Rams, last season’s Yukon champs, took the bronze in the senior girls – Grade 10/11/12 – division over the weekend.

Contact Tom Patrick at tomp@yukon-news.com

Championship All-Stars Kelly Mahoney (Crusaders) Quynh Nguyen (Warriors) Kennedy Cairns-Locke (Rams) Galina Roots (Warriors) Linsey Eby (Crusaders)

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Crusaders grab gold with big fourth quarter

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Vanier’s Daniel Kim drives to the hoop.

boys.”

The Crusaders produced the most lopsided quarter Vanier Crusader Lorem Lumanog makes a fast break against Porter Creek Ram Thomas to end the final against the Moore during the junior boys final of the Yukon High School Basketball Championships at Rams, who were the only Porter Creek on Saturday. Vanier beat Porter Creek 43-30. team from Porter Creek to Tom Patrick interesting mixing (Grade) division at the Yukon High make a final at this year’s News Reporter 8s and 9s for the first time, School Basketball Chamchampionship. at least as far as my coaching pionships at Porter Creek Vanier put 11 points on he Vanier Crusadperiod in the Yukon.”

Secondary. the board – the same as in ers practiced some In previous years there was the first and third quarters The Crusaders, who were alchemy on Saturday, a Grade 8 division in addithe defending champs in – but held the Rams to just turning a two-point lead into junior boys, went undefeated tion to Grade 9/10 and Grade five, Porter Creek’s lowest in gold.

11/12 divisions. This year at the championships. the game.

The Crusaders ended the there were two divisions, a “I’m really proud of Crusaders’ Lorem season with a big fourth Grade 8/9 and a 10/11/12. the boys to maintain their Lumanog led his team with quarter, defeating the Porter “The composure is built composure throughout the 20 points in the final while Creek Rams 43-30 for gold in part from these Grade 9s, game,” said Crusaders head teammates Rosuel Carpina in the Grade 8/9 junior boys bringing up the maturity of coach Mike Gallant. “It’s and Morgan Ramsey each the 8s,” said Gallant. “The 8s had six. were responding because the Lumanog hit three of four 9s were here and it was that free-throws in the fourth aspect of the game that alquarter and capitalized on lowed us to keep composure, an offensive rebound for keep focus and keep looking his team’s final points in ahead no matter if PC was the game. He was named Tell the Kusawa Park Steering Committee what scoring on us or not. championship MVP after the you think about key topics to be addressed in the “I’m really proud of the medal ceremony.

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“Lorem is a fantastic player, he’s mature and has one of those gifts where he has a lot of composure and maturity and sees well beyond himself during a game,” said Gallant.

“That’s what you need out of all your players and we’re fortunate to have Lorem fill that role in that category. I couldn’t be prouder of him.”

Jerrett Peterson and Zack Unrau led the Rams with eight points each in the final.

The Porter Creek Rams No. 2 team claimed the bronze, leaving the F.H. Collins Warriors with no hardware in the division this year.

Contact Tom Patrick at tomp@yukon-news.com

Championship All-Stars Roswell Karpina (Crusaders) Jared Leary (J.V. Clark) JR Smallwood (Rams) Anshil Kumar (Warriors) Zack Unrau (Rams)

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It is being held at the Whitehorse public Library.

We are hoping to elect a Board of Directors, pass updated constitution and bylaws and review interim financial statements.

All members welcome and encouraged to attend. Anyone interested in becoming a member or has any questions contact the Mae Bachur Animal Shelter 633-6019. Current and proposed constitutions and bylaws are available online or upon request.

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Warriors clash at junior girls final

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F.H. Collins Warriors white squad’s Jayden Demchuk and black squad’s Dannica Nelson watch the ball after a collision.

Tom Patrick/Yukon News

F.H. Collins’ Georgia Gaw, right, pushes to the hoop against Jenna Wyers during the junior girls’ final of the Yukon High School Basketball Championships on Saturday at Porter Creek Secondary. Two F.H. Collins Warriors’ squads faced off in the final, with F.H.’s White team defeating the Black squad 27-25.

Tom Patrick

kon High School Basketball Championships.

They couldn’t lose. he smart money was The Warriors White definitely on the F.H. squad launched a secondCollins Warriors in the half comeback to defeat the Warriors Black 27-25 in the junior girls final of the YuNews Reporter

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Grade 8/9 girls division final on Saturday at Porter Creek Secondary.

“We worked as a team really well, we all cheered in a positive way and we executed our plays that we set

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up and made them work,” said Warriors White’s Jayden Demchuk. “We have a really positive team that cheers everybody on and I think that really helps us in a game.”

The Warriors White found themselves down 18-7 at the half and fought to make it 22-19 at the end of the third quarter.

White tied the game 23-23 on a jump shot from Maggie O’Connor-Brook.

After successful freethrows by Black’s Georgia Gaw and White’s O’ConnorBrook, White took a 26-24 lead on a shot from the side of the key from Demchuk.

Black shrunk the lead to one on a free-throw from Siggy Grantham-Wearer before Demchuk sunk an insurance free-throw to put the score where it settled.

The Warriors White went undefeated at the championship. F.H. Collins, who was the favourite going into the tournament, split the Warriors team into two squads for the Yukon championship.

“That was the first time some of them played together – we just wanted everyone to play,” said Warriors White head coach Christine Kirk.

“We tried to make them as even as possible. And every game we played was a onepoint game or a two-point game, so it’s been good com-

petition.”

Demchuk, who will play for Yukon in female basketball at the Arctic Winter Games next week, was named the championship’s MVP. “That feels great,” she said.

“All this hard work and practice and games, it’s great to have that at the end.”

The Porter Creek Rams, who won the junior division last year when it was a Grade 9/10 competition, took the bronze.

“Our Grade 8/9 girls this year is a really good group of girls,” said Kirk. “A lot of them have spent time playing, not just in the season, but they spent their own time playing basketball. And a lot of them played on the (Whitehorse) Lynx team.

“There are four of them on the Arctic (Winter Games) team too, so you can tell when you put in the time, you get good players.”

Contact Tom Patrick at tomp@yukon-news.com

Championship All-Stars Jetta Bilsky (Crusaders) Danica Nelson (Warriors) Indica Stewart (Rams) Sarah Diment (Warriors) Jen Mendelson (Warriors)

MVP Jayden Demchuk (Warriors)

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PUZZLE PAGE

Kakuro

By The Mepham Group

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Complete the grid so each row, column and 3-by-3 box (in bold borders) contains every digit 1 to 9. For strategies on how to solve Sudoku, visit www.sudoku.org.uk.

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To solve Kakuro, you must enter a number between 1 and 9 in the empty squares. The clues are the numbers in the white circles that give the sum of the solution numbers: above the line are across clues and below the line are down clues and below the line are down clues.

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

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WORD SCRAMBLE Rearrange the letters to spell a word Hint: extreme chauvinism or nationalism marked especially by a belligerent foreign policy.

Puzzle A

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WORD SCRAMBLE Rearrange the letters to spell a word Hint: hot; burning; glowing.

Puzzle B

CLUES ACROSS 1. Bawled out 10. Former “Today” host 12. Shape anew 13. Skulls 15. Renting dwellers 16. Choose to refrain 18. Anno Domini 19. Old French small coin 20. Carry out 21. Dashes 24. Expresses suspicion

27. Followed the trail of 30. The highest point of something 31. Geological times 33. Cartilaginous structure 34. Hill (Celtic) 35. Bura 37. Center of a wheel 39. __ de plume 41. String, lima or green 42. Greek goddess of discord 44. Move back and forth

47. Britain’s Sandhurst (abbr.)

48. Comedian Carvey 49. Public promotion 50. Federal residential mortgage insurer 52. Location of White House 53. Gives an answer 56. Populates 61. Fires a weapon 62. More tense 63. An outstanding achievement 65. Annotations

CLUES DOWN 1. Buddhist monk of Tibet 2. Egyptian sun god 3. Soft roe 4. Garden planting areas 5. Atomic #89 6. Soul and calypso songs 7. Large European flatfish 8. Expunction 9. Impression in a surface 10. PBS filmmaker Burns 11. Former OSS 12. Draft an edict 14. Assistant

15. Proclamation upon finishing 17. Slight head bend 22. Asian ethnic hill people 23. SE Asian goat antelope 24. Aware of the latest trends 25. Person of Arabia 26. Industrial process to produce ammonia 28. Expressed pleasure 29. The plural of crus 32. Old Thailand 36. Riboneucleic acid 38. One who assembles books 40. Cosa Nostra member

43. Pouchlike structures 44. Violent action 45. ___ of March 46. Slum area of a city 51. Valuable, useful possession 54. Philemon (Biblical abbr.)

55. Shaped bread 56. Fruits of the gourd family 57. Copyread 58. Double curve 59. Photographs (slang) 60. Side sheltered from the wind 64. Atomic #86

E VNTERF

WORD SCRAMBLE Rearrange the letters to spell a word Hint: to suppress; omit; ignore; pass over.

Puzzle C

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Amber Enterprises is looking for: SEASONAL LIVE-IN ONSITE CAMPGROUND OFFICE MANAGER NOC #0632 $12.50 per hour.

May till Oct, full time, shift work.

Requirements: Accommodation Registration Management, Payroll, Scheduling, Staffing, Customer Service Must speak English and also have one of the following: German, Spanish or French Contact: rsc@klondiker.com Apply with cover letter, resume, and references.

Amber Enterprises is looking for: CAMPGROUND ACCOMMODATION ATTENDANTS, NOC #6435 May till Nov, full time, shift work.

Requirements: Front desk customer service, accommodation registration, barista, and office staff Must speak English with a second language preferred (German, French, Spanish) Contact: rsc@klondiker.com Apply with cover letter, resume, and references.

EUROPE, AUSTRALIA, OR NEW ZEALAND: Live and work on a dairy, crop, beef, or sheep farm. AgriVenture invites applicants 18-30 for 4-12 month 2014 programs. Apply now! www.agriventure.com 1-888-598-4415

ENSIGN IS looking for Assistant Drillers, Drillers, Night Tour Pushes, and Rig Managers for our Australian Division. Recruiter's will be in Nisku, Alberta, March 31 - April 9 to conduct interviews. If you want to hear more about our International opportunities please contact our Global group and apply online at ensignjobs.com. Call 1-888-367-4460.

Animal Control Constable Permanent Full Time 40 hours per week – scheduled between 0700 and 2400 hours, Sunday to Saturday.

Salary Range $27.30 to $32.12 / hour. This is a unionized position and contract negotiations are in progress.

The City of Whitehorse offers a competitive benefits and leave package.

Apply to careers@ whitehorse.ca by 11:59pm March 20, quoting 025-BYL14. For details, visit:

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CLARK BUILDERS Now Hiring in Whitehorse and Yellowknife Project Managers Project Coordinators Estimators Superintendents Apply at www.clarkbuilders.com

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COMMERCIAL FLEET MECHANIC

North 60 Petro Ltd. is a home heating delivery and bulk fuel Transportation Company having a fleet of 16 plus truck and tractor combinations. We are currently looking to hire a journeyman mechanic to diagnose, service and maintain our current fleet.

The ideal candidate will have a commercial or heavy duty journeyman certification, experience with diagnosing electronic controls on Cummings and Caterpillar engines, experience with major driveline repairs and overhauls.

Class 1 driver’s with air endorsement and PMVI qualifications would be an asset.

Candidate must have the willingness to work overtime as required.

This is a full time position based in Whitehorse. Wages are based on our collective agreement. We also have an excellent benefit package with tool allowance.

PLEAsE subMIT yOuR APPLICATION by: MARCH 14, 2014

Are you looking for volunteer opportunities?

Please check www.volunteeryukon.ca to find more volunteer opportunities.

• Strong interpersonal skills • Diplomacy, respect, autonomy, selfstarter • Team player with leadership skills time Commitment, # hours: • The Ambassador role is a commitment until May 8th and may be extended with agreement between the volunteer and Ovarian Cancer Canada Awareness Coordinator, Pacific Region.

• Flexible hours, dependent on availability and level of interest by local volunteers. trAining And suPPort: • Training provided by Ovarian Cancer Canada.

• Awareness materials, volunteer handbook, and expenses template will be provided to the Ambassador in addition to a reporting template to track the volunteer hours and activities of the region represented by the Ambassador.

• Volunteers that are recruited and/or working with the Ambassador will be supported by the Regional Manager/ Awareness Coordinator and receive documentation, orientation, reference checks consistent with the volunteer intake process of Ovarian Cancer Canada.

Worksite: Flexible ContACt informAtion: Marlena Cross Awareness Coordinator BC/Yukon Ovarian Cancer Canada 330 – 470 Granville Street, Vancouver, BC V6C 1V5 mcross@ovariancanada.org 604 676 3428 Ext 12 Toll Free 1 800 749 9310

You work for a non-profit organization and you would like to add your volunteer opportunities? Please click on http://www.volunteeryukon.ca/.

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Governance Council - Youth Representative JOB DESCRIPTION: The Kwanlin Dün Cultural Society’s (KDCS) Governance Council is placing a call for a youth delegate. The youth delegate will sit on the KDCS’s Governance Council and take part in key strategic decisions and planning discussions for the Kwanlin Dün Cultural Centre. This is an opportunity for a young individual to learn and take part in community planning with a focus on local First Nations culture.

Applicants up to 30 years of age are welcome to apply.

ClOSING DaTE fOR SuBmISSIONS: Sunday, March 23rd 2014. fuRThER INfORmaTION: can be obtained at the Kwanlin Dün Cultural Centre, 1171 Front Street,Whitehorse YT. For questions regarding the position, please contact Amanda Buffalo at (867) 633-7805.

Documents and full job description can be obtained from the KDCC website (www.kdcc.ca).

Senior Advisor to Chief & Council

ACTIVE IN YOUR COMMUNITY

PurPose To assist Ovarian Cancer Canada to support remote volunteers; to act as a local contact and raise awareness of Ovarian Cancer and Ovarian Cancer Canada in the community the Ambassador represents. resPonsibilities: • The role of the awareness ambassadors is flexible, and will involve support of local volunteers as needed.

• Ambassadors may also represent Ovarian Cancer Canada at local volunteer recruitment fairs.

• Provides leadership and motivation to newly recruited volunteers interested in participating in these awareness initiatives.

• Distribute resources throughout the local health services and medical industry.

• Distribute resources throughout the community, where appropriate to increase public awareness about ovarian cancer.

• Share social media posts within own network • Identify Knowledge is Power presentation opportunities in your community • Use ideas and brainstorming from other ambassadors to engage the community in new ways - as the ambassadors schedule allows skills, Attitudes, knowledge: • Excellent command of the English and/ or French language • Organization, attention to detail, initiative

Kwanlin Dün Cultural Centre

Champagne and Aishihik First Nations

North 60 Petro Ltd. Attention: sharon Ness 146 Industrial Road Whitehorse, y.T. y1A 2V1 Phone: 867-633-8822 or Fax: 867-633-8841 sness@north60petro.com

Awareness Ambassador

YOuTh DElEGaTE POSITION

Community Services

Term Full Time Salary: $70,821.44 - $82,851.07 Location: Haines Junction Under the direction of the Chief, this position provides a wide range of administrative and analytical self-governance support to the Chief that includes strategic thinking on new directions for the organization; project design and project analysis including financial review. As well this position will assist in fostering good public relations with citizens, staff and other governments.

This position works in Haines Junction in a normal office setting and requires occasional overtime. Position is regularly required to meet regular and ad hoc deadlines in the production of materials and information. A high level of concentration is required while conducting research. Frequent travel can be expected, including accompanying the Chief or Council members to meetings as required. The incumbent will frequently interact with people of different culture and values. Stress may be encountered when responding to inquiries or interacting with people of different values We offer a competitive benefits package with RRSP plan, group health with Sun Life, and a travel benefit.

Education and Experience: Successful completion of a Degree in Public Administration, Political Science or a directly related field combined with Human Resource & Financial experience at a senior level with Self Governing First Nation governments. Executive level experience working with First Nations governments in a political and administrative capacity. Fluent in English is a requirement.

Condition of Employment: Criminal Record Check Possess a valid Yukon Class 5 Driver’s License CAFN’s Human Resources Policy will apply. For complete job description please check the CAFN website at http://www.cafn.ca/jobs.html or contact below.

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

Application deadline: 4:30 p.m. on March 20th, 2014 Send Applications and/or resumes to: Kathy Brown Champagne and Aishihik First Nations 304 Jarvis Street Whitehorse Yukon Territory, Y1A 2H2 Fax: (867) 667-6202 Phone: (867) 456-6879 Cell: (867) 332-5247 Email: kbrown@cafn.ca

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Executive Assistant Yukon Employees’ Union (YEU) Permanent full-time Position salarY: $53,633 to $62,743 per annum based on 37.5 hours per week (under review) Yukon Employees Union is committed to providing friendly and professional service to its 4000+ members throughout the Yukon.

While our main business is representation, training and education, we accomplish our work through commitment to the principles of open communication, inclusion and professionalism.

Reporting to the Executive Director, you will be providing administrative support to the union executive, and sharing the day to day reception and operation of the office. You will work in a busy environment where priorities can change any moment.

You will need broad knowledge and skills in general office and administrative work; excellent interpersonal skills, including the ability to deal with upset individuals; good written and oral communications skills (composition, spelling and grammar); a working knowledge of a variety of office equipment; as well as excellent keyboarding and personal computing skills on MS Office.

Familiarity with collective bargaining/grievance processes, a unionized environment and collective agreements and knowledge of file management principles and practices, are desirable. applications should be forwarded to: Laura Hureau, A/Executive Director Yukon Employees Union 201-2285 Second Avenue Whitehorse, YT, Y1A 1C9 lhureau@yeu.ca

Wednesday, March 12, 2014

DOWNTOWN DAYS CHILDCARE CENTRE Looking for an early childhood caregiver Training in early childhood or a related field required This position is 9:00am-5:30pm, Monday to Fridays Wage dependent on training and experience Call 667-6776, Echo or Lynda, for further information Resumes may be dropped off at 478 Range Road, faxed to 667-6736 or emailed to rustic@northwestel.net

Miscellaneous for Sale TRADING CARDS, binder full of non-sport trading cards (James Bond, X-men, Desert Storm, Enduring Freedom). About 500 cards. $50. 633-3154

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

Photographer/Reporter The Yukon News has a contract position available for a photographer/reporter from May 1 to August 29, 2014.

We are looking for a creative person with strong skills in photography and writing. You must be a self starter who is able to work in a team effort and take direction from the supervisor. Shooting quality video is also a necessity.

A vehicle and valid driver’s license is required. You will need a good knowledge of Photoshop and Final Cut Pro. A post-secondary education is required.

Duties and responsibilities include: • Writing, modifying, integrating and testing Java code.

Knowledge of JavaSctipt, HTML, CSS, Linux/Unix, MySQL and SQL server, and ColdFusion an asset.

• Maintaining existing programs by making functional modifications as required • Assisting in reports, manuals and other doucmentation on the status, operation and maintenance and software For complete details and duties, visit flyairnorth.com/careers LOCATION: Whitehorse, Yukon HOURS/WAGE: Full time (40 hours per week), $32.97 per hour.

Please submit your resumé to Krista Power on or before March 28, 2014.

EMAIL/FAX: careers@flyairnorth.com / 867.456.3111 IN PERSON: Air North Administrative Office 150 Condor Road, Whitehorse, Yukon We wish to express our appreciation to all applicants for their interest in the position and advise that only candidates selected for an interview will be contacted.

flyairnorth.com/careers

Air North, Yukon's Airline is committed to employment equity, and has been serving Yukoners for 35 years.

We offer competitive wages, a benefits package and an enriching work environment to our over 270 employees.

THREE COMPLETE OPC hockey card sets (1999-00 to 2001-02 period) plus some short prints. Over 900 cards. $150. 633-3154 CFL FOOTBALL cards, 17 different complete sets of cards, including early OPC. Almost 2,600 cards, serious inquiries. $1,500.

633-3154 STEEL BUILDINGS/METAL BUILDINGS 60% OFF! 20x28, 30x40, 40x62, 45x90, 50x120, 60x150, 80x100 sell for balance owed! Call 1-800-457-2206 www.crownsteelbuildings.ca

MCDONALDS H O C K E Y cards from 1991-92 to 2009/10. Almost every card issued minus some short prints, incl. 27 unopened paks/yr. Over 1,200 cards, $1,000 firm. 633-3154.

STARTECH 7 Port USB 3.0/2.0 Hub with Charging Port ST7320USBC, $35, 667-6472 20 IAN Rankin paperback novels (John Rebus detective), all in good cond, $25.

633-3154 FIBREGLASS WALL & tub combo, 2 pcs, minor damaged edges, color snow white, retail $950, asking $450. 647-996-7531 LEATHER TEDDYBEAR, mooseskin and beads, $100. 335-9934 YOUTH GAUNTLETS, rabbit fur suede, imitation shearling lining, $185, baby slippers, beaver trim, $80. 335-9934

SIZE 10 Canvas Tops, moose + #10canvas,

by Daisy OʼBrian, $150. 335-9934 MOCCASINS, 335-9934

SZ 10,

moose, $100.

FIREPLACE, PROPANE, cast iron, gray, $1,195. 332-6116

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ENVIROLET COMPOST toilet, needs no water, chimney/ducting incl, $2,400 obo.

633-6502 MENʼS GOLD chain, 26”L, 10k yellow gold, appraised at $450 in 2007, $300 obo.

633-2837

EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY

Our Computer Programmers offer exceptional customer service and technical expertise by providing technical support, programming and testing for Air North’s computer systems.

WORLD HOCKEY Association, remember it? Two rare books, (history, statistics, photos). Exc. shape, $50. 633-3154

SPIRIT MASK, “Blind Fisherman”, painted cedar carved by Calvin Morberg, $350.

335-9934

Send your resume and portfolio to: Mike Thomas 211 Wood Street Whitehorse,Yukon Y1A 2E4 mthomas@yukon-news.com

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

ARCTIC SPA HOT tub cover, 1 yr. old, fits 88”x88” tub, $1,000 new, asking $500.

667-4910

application Deadline: march 21, 2014 Please note: We welcome applications from all equity groups.

COMPUTER PROGRAMMER

DIRT DEVIL vacuum cleaner, nearly new, $40. 668-6007

The Yukon News is seeking a general assignment reporter with photography skills.

We’re a twice-weekly community newspaper that often punches above our weight, producing probing, award-winning journalism. Last year we won six Canadian Community Newspaper Awards – more than any other publication in our circulation size.

This is a full-time job.

We’re looking for someone to preferably start June 1.

We’re looking for someone who has a proven ability to work as a newspaper reporter. In exchange for your hustle and drive, we’ll give you an opportunity to do some of your best writing in your career.

As one of three or four news reporters, you’d be expected to divide your time between writing news assignments and producing features for our arts, business and life sections in the back of the paper. The ideal candidate is able to pound out a hard-hitting news story on deadline and write a thoughtful, entertaining feature during a lull. News judgement, attention to detail, the ability to meet daily deadlines and a cool head under pressure are all essential.

Having competent photography skills is an asset. The Yukon News supplies the camera equipment. Please also indicate if you have a driver’s licence.

Please send editor John Thompson a cover letter, resume and five published stories that show the depth and breadth of your reporting experience, as well as samples of your published images.

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MYSTERY AND detective novels, 35 cents each, 668-6007 MICROWAVE OVEN, 19x9, near new, used once, paid $84, selling at $70. 668-6007 OIL FURNACE, 3 yrs old, just serviced professionally. Olsen BML80B, 59,000-97,000, BTU/hr. EnergyGuide 83, $1,000. 335-8153 KRENOL 425 All Fiber insulating machine, 200ʼ of 2 1/2” hose, used twice, paid $7,000, asking $5,000. 335-2005 or 668-5814 MAKITA 12” planer, 6” joiner combination machine, 220 volt carbide joiner blades, 3 sets HSS planer blades, exc shape, $900.

633-2916 after 6pm.

SMALL SLOW cooker, gently used, $15; black canvas travel bag w wheels, $10; scales, in good shape, $8. 668-6007 CONTACT ME if you are interested in ordering bulk, organic food from Horizon Foods.

334-3978 CARPET AND underlay, used, approx. 200 sq ft, brown/earth tones, excellent for cabin or basement, $200 obo. 668-5644 STEEL BUILDING SALE... BIG YEAR END CLEAR OUT CONTINUED! 20X20 $3,915.

25X28 $4,848. 30X32 $6,339. 32X34 $7,371. 40X50 $12,649. 47X68 $16,691.

One End wall included. Pioneer Steel 1-800-668-5422. www.pioneersteel.ca RED WOOL coat, sz 16, exc cond, $100 obo; Black wool coat, sz 20, exc cond, $100 obo. 633-2751 SPRING IS THE TIME to get your firewood in place $225/cord for fire-killed pine 5 cord minimum Credit cards accepted Doug Martens, 334-7364 INVESTMENT OPPORTUNITY: Two Air North shares, Class C convertible to Class D, for sale. 334-7441 OLDER STYLE double paned wooden framed windows for solarium, 4x3ʼ, 4x4ʼ, or 4x5ʼ, 668-5964 AIR ROCK drill c/w 3 section of drill rod and bit, $1,200. 334-3237 GAF SLIDE projector, like new, spare bulb, numerous slide trays, $60. 667-6907 TWO BLUE Lenses for 10” Lightforce lights, $35. 667-6907

2” HONDA water pump, like new, with hoses & nozzle, $600. 335-0164 EXTRA LARGE suits for sale for women, different colours & materials, different prices, one is new. 667-7840 evenings & weekends, 668-5185 days MARMOT LIKE down jacket, womenʼs small, $40. MEC hydro foil pants, womenʼs medium, new, 311B Hanson St. after 6:00 pm.

17 HP Kolher 225 amp Hobart arc welder, on wagon with hitch pull, low hours, $2,400 obo. 633-6502 EARLY CHILDHOOD Education Books for different courses, Learning Through Play, Science for Young Children, Guiding Young Children and more. Selling 1/2 a price, good cond, 668-5185 BRAND NEW Murdoch gold nugget watch, double ram head design, paid $4,700, asking $4,000 firm. August @ 393-4796 STAINLESS STEEL sink, new Elkay 18 gauge, 33”x22”, premium satin finish, straight sides for greater depth, 7 1/4”, sound insulation, undermount or drop in + fasteners, 667-6014 WANTED: 821-2938

MURPHY bed and frame.

GRIPPING HAND tool design for lifting, carrying, moving building materials, like new condition, retail $57 each, asking $45 for pair. Save your back. 335-0177 CANON 5D Mark II DSLR Camera, 21.1 Megapixel, full frame sensor, 1080p, broad ISO, Live View, 3.9 fps, weather resistant, original box, new fall 2011, excellent condition, $1,250. 667-6472

Electrical Appliances KENMORE DRYER, front loader, works great, $300. Also nw pump out of Kenmore washer, $40. 332-7797 KENMORE CERAMIC top range, convection, self-clean, delay cook, top end several years ago, one burner is slower, $200, can deliver in Whse area. 667-2276 CLOTHES DRYER, good working cond, heavy duty, $50. 633-2837

TVs & Stereos

APPLE AIRPORT Extreme 802.11n Wi-Fi Model #A1354, 4th generation, $50.

667-6472 EPSON PHOTO R1800 color printer, free.

633-3154 SANDISK COMPACT Flash CF cards, 9 cards/4GB Extreme IV, 6 cards/46B Extreme III, 1 card Ultra II 1GB, $125. 667-6472 ESATA KIT: G-Technology 4 Port eSATA PCIE Host adapter, 2x Startech 2 Port PCI ExpressCard, 4x 6ft cable male/male, 5x 3ft cable male/male. $350 new. Asking $135, 667-6472 SONNET TEMPO SATA PRO, 2 port expresscard/34 expansion card, $35. 667-6472

Musical Instruments

DONʼS FIREWOOD, congratulations James Kirby, #5 Bluebell Place, winner of my seasonʼs 750th cord of firewood free of charge.

Thank you to all my valued, loyal friends & associates. Don. FIREWOOD FOR SALE Beetle killed Approximately 20-cord logging truck loads $150 per cord Delivered to Whitehorse Call Clayton @ 867-335-0894 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 DIMOK TIMBER 6 CORD OR 22 CORD LOADS OF FIREWOOD LOGS BUNDLED SLABS U-CUT FIREWOOD @ $105/CORD CALL 634-2311 OR EMAIL DIMOKTIMBER@GMAIL.COM

We will buy your musical instrument or lend you money against it.

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

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

PIANO WITH Bench, Mason & Risch, full keyboard, 39 & 3/4“ high, motivated to sell, $800 obo. 633-6355 TENOR RECORDER, Clarinet size, nickel flaps on lower notes, c/w case & beginner book, beautiful sound. $55.00 obo. 633-6355 PIANO TUNING & REPAIR by certified piano technician Call Barry Kitchen @ 633-5191 email:bfkitchen@hotmail.com ELECTRIC GUITAR: Fender Bullet Strat (Squier), Arctic white, excellent for beginner/students or casual players, $100.

335-9875

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

FENDER SQUIER Vintage modified precision bass, exc cond, c/w gig bag, $385. Thomas at 867-660-4826, lv msg FENDER SUPER Champ X2 HD guitar amplifier, mint, $350. Thomas @ 867-660-4826, lv. msg 1960'S BLONDE-COLOURED Sterling Piano, needs to be tuned, $800. 334-4236 lv msg

SANYO TV, 32” screen, excellent picture and sound, am upgrading. $160 obo.

633-6355

Computers & Accessories

Duke’s Firewood avoid the Fall rush & prices! spring Wood prices:

cash and debit accepted

HP LASERJET 6P C3980A plain paper B+W Laserjet printer w nearly full cartridge, quality results, $40, 667-6472

334-8122

PANASONIC KX-FP250 plain paper fax and copier, incl spare roll of ink film (KX-FA136A). $30, 667-6472

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

CANON CANOSCAN 5600F scanner, exc cond, rarely used, c/w setup guide and installation software, $40, 667-6472 LEXAR PRO Compact Flash Reader ExpressCard PCLe Interface, $35. 667-6472

WHITEHORSE RIFLE and Pistol Club, firearms safety course (class size limited) Mar. 15 & 16, 2014. Info 633-2488, 333-5640 BRAZILIAN MAUSER in 8mm Mauser, hand made hardwood stock, bedded and floated, recent refinish of whole rifle, $300 firm, PAL req'd, 667-2276 The Patty Maker We process wild meat.

We offer: Cut, grind, cut & wrap Fresh sausages 1/4 lb patties All natural casing Werner Fischer 7 Locust Place (off Ponderosa) 633-2346 WINCHESTER MODEL 1906, .22 pump action rifle, mfg in 1913, PAL required, $500 firm. 333-9056 BENELLI NOVA 12ga shotgun, 3 1/2” chamber, 28" barrel, 3 interchangeable chokes, camo pattern, exc cond, $500. 634-2559

✔ Beetle-killed spruce from Haines Junction, quality guaranteed ✔ Everything over 8" split ✔ $250 per cord (2 cords or more) ✔ Single and emergency half cord deliveries ✔ You-cut and you-haul available ✔ Scheduled or next day delivery

GRANGER

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DOWNTOWN: The Deli Extra Foods Fourth Avenue Petro Gold Rush Inn Cashplan Klondike Inn

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Coyote Video Goody’s Gas Green Garden Restaurant Heather’s Haven super A Porter Creek Trails north Mac’s Fireweed Books Ricky’s Restaurant Riverside Grocery Riverview Hotel shoppers on Main shoppers Qwanlin Mall superstore superstore Gas Bar

WINCHESTER MODEL 77 semi-auto .22 long rifle, c/w vintage Weaver B4 3/4” tube scope in Weaver mounts, 10-shot mag, good cond, $335. Bill 633-2443 WINCHESTER MODEL 47 single shot .22 bolt action w Lyman target sights front & rear, 24” barrel, exc cond, missing safety button, $400. Bill 633-2443 300 SAVAGE bolt action rifle, $400, PAL reqʼd, August @ 393-4796 WTB NON-SPORTERIZED Lee Enfield .303. Call or text 335-2034 8'' MEADE Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope, many accessories, must go ASAP, $700 obo. 335-7154 NORINCO 97 Bullpup unfired, mint condition in .223, $1,000 firm. 335-7154

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6 cord load $210/cord $230 for multiples of 2 cords Approx 8 cord loads of 20ft dry logs $1300

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

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.

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STEREO SYSTEM incl JVC AM/FM computer-controlled receiver w 5-band equalizer, JVC double cassette-deck, audiotape selection, continuous play, Yamaha 5-CD players, 2 BSM speakers, $175 obo. 821-6011

Guns & Bows

DONʼS FIREWOOD 100+-cord bucked firewood always available No-charge emergency delivery Kwanlin Dun/Social Services Why wait? Prompt delivery $240/cord City limits No excuses 393-4397

YAMAHA CLARINOVA CPL-820 digital piano, $500. 333-0329

Paying cash for good quality modern electronics.

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

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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

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Help control the pet overpopulation problem

2014 633-6019 Get your tickets for: have your pets spayed or neutered.

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$25/ticket... available at Mae Bachur Animal Shelter

LOST/FOUND

LOST

• Downtown area, 2 yr old, grey and white, female DSH very fluffy answers to Jewels, if found contact Patty @667-6994. (18/02/14) • mendenhall area, 3 month old puppy, female white and brown patches answers to Daisy, if found contact raymond @ 6687291. (22/02/14) • crestview area, 7 month old, DSH female black and grey with a little orange behind the ears , no collar answers to Skittles, if you found contct marie@ 667-2024.

(22/02/14)

• Porter creek area, 5-6 month old kitty, male, black answers to Salem.if found contact morgan @ 334-0126. (04/02/14)

WANTED: FOOT pedal for sewing machine, 3 prongs, 7A 125V, 335-9934 WANTED: ALL-AMERICAN canner with room for 7 quart glasses, 335-9934 WANTED: 335-9934

KITCHEN Aid Artisan, call

WANTED: OLD-FASHIONED typewriter in good working order, reasonable price.

668-6871 WANTED: PICK up truck. Prefer 4 x 4, late 80's or 90's Toyota, Nissan, but will consider what you have. 633-4322 WANTED: TRUNK in good condition, good locks and very clean inside, 668-6007 WANTED: PLAYMOBILE figurines, big pieces, suitable for 8-yr old boy. 667-6616 WANTED TO buy: FIREARMS. All types wanted, estates, collections, single items, military. We handle all paperwork and transportation. Licensed Dealer. 1.866.960.0045 www.dollars4guns.com.

HOUSE-SITTER AVAILABLE in Whitehorse, no fees for usual house-sit, pets, garden, etc., discount on house-painting (journeyman), for longer term sit. 335-2300 LOOKING FOR monitor heater 442 ,441,or 2400 working or not for parts only, 994-3322

Cars

AVAILABLE FOR ADOPTION

IN FOSTER HOMES cATS

• 11 month old, neutered male, DlH, grey (Deegan) • 6 months old,DSH, grey and white, neutered male (moss) • 2yr old, DSH, grey and white, neutered male (Sappy)

2004 VOLKSWAGEN Jetta TDI, fully loaded, heated leather seats, sunroof, good cond, well maintained, $7,500. 667-7741 or 336-8383 2003 FORD Focus, 25k, stick, good cond, sunroof, heated seats, 6-cd's-music player, $5,000. 647-996-7531 2003 SUBARU Forester AWD, great shape, well-maintained, summer/winter tires, roof racks, auto-start, $6,250 obo. 335-3784 1999 VOLKSWAGEN Jetta TDI, 1.9L, 5-spd, invested $5,000, asking $4,000. August @ 393-4796 1994 MITSUBISHI Gallant, new trans, P/W, P/L, sunroof, Alpine stereo, winter/summer tires on rims, good cond, $1,800 obo.

336-3570 1992 BUICK Regal Grand Sport, 4-dr, 170,000 miles, good all-around car, $1,000.

335-5046 1987 DODGE 600, 4-dr, runs fine, good on gas, $1,500 obo. Text only to 867-336-3529 JEEP WRANGLER Unlimited 4DR 2007, manual, 76000km, good cond, ike new Goodrich 10ply all-terrain tires, all weather rubber mats, $13,500 obo. Daniel 335-6503

Trucks

We Sell Trucks!

1-866-269-2783 • 9039 Quartz Rd. • Fraserway.com

2010 DODGE 3500 dually, all options incl DVD entertainment centre, rear heated seats, B&M gooseneck hitch, only 29,000kms, replacement cost $88,000 + GST, asking $57,750. 334-4206

• Granger, small grey/white female cat, DSH, no collar contact Hauff or Holly @ 668-3372 (10/02/2014) • cowley creek, medium, black and white akita and Husky, wearing a blue harness contact rebecca @ 403-891-4827 (14/02/14)

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

• 5 year old, spayed female, lab/Pit Bull X, black (Gaia) • 6 months old, female, Husky / labX, blonde ( winnie) • 3yr old, neutered male, akita, grey and white (a.J.) • 2 yr old, spayed female, blue heeler, black and white (mc)

Wanted

FOUND

RUNNING AT LARGE...

DOGS

Wednesday, March 12, 2014

2009 KIA Borrego, 4WD, 7 passenger, auto, new AT tires, tow hitch 5,000lb, full winter package, heated front seats, cruise, CD/MP3/USB/AUX/SAT, 4 wheel ABS, ESC, DBC, $17,500 obo. 333-9242 2010 MAZDA 3 GS Sport, 6-spd manual, 2.5 L 4 cyl, fully loaded, power everything, full size/factory spare, 16" studded winter tires, low kms, well maintained, $14,900.

335-3691 2009 VOLVO V-50 2.4i, 5-door estate wagon, 5-spd manual, red, FWD, winter/summer tires, convertible child seats, alloy wheels, roof load carrier/rack, $18,500.

334-7441 2006 FORD Focus Hatchback Coupe, under 90,000km, new winter tires, set of all seasons, new battery/alternator, dealer maintained, $7,500 obo. 335-8203 FREE, 1992 Ford Festiva, fixable. 633-4391

2008 FORD Superduty diesel quad cab, XLT, headache rack, driving lights, 169,000 km., good cond, $21,000 obo. 335-9596 2008 GMC 2500 Sierra ext cab, long bed, 4x4, 200,000km, new rims and tires, $14,000 obo. 334-4923 2007 CHEVY Colorado LT 4X4 Crew Cab 110,000 kms, great cond. 336-8161 2007 TOYOTA Tundra 4X4 crew cab, V8, auto, loaded, dealer serviced, matching canopy, 2 sets wheels/tires, 150,000kms, exc cond, $25,000. 334-8912 lv msg 2004 GMC 7 passenger Safari van, blue, 170,000km, well maintained, $5,800 obo, 334-5491 for info

2002 CHEV Silverado 4x4 ext cab, 4-dr, V8 auto, cruise, new Wrangler tires, $5,999.

667-7777 or 336-2029 2002 GMC Sonoma SLS 4X4 quad cab, auto, 4.3L V6, power everything, 192,000 kms, exc cond, good rubber, full size spare, tow package, canopy, racks, $8,500.

335-3692 2001 GMC Jimmy SLS, 4.3L, V6 auto 4X4, auto start, overall great cond, low kms, $3,000 obo. 668-4315 1999 DODGE Ram 1500 SLT 1/2 ton, 4X4, ext cab, 4-dr, V8 auto, c/w canopy, new Michelin tires, all power equipped, $4,299.

667-7777 or 336-2029 1998 YUKON Navigator, low average miles, V8, 7-passenger, fully loaded, $3,900.

333-9899 1995 FORD F250 Econoline van, runs, needs windshield/battery, insulated, and 1994 Ford Aerostar, runs, needs TLC, must go, info 333-9358 1994 7.3 diesel 17-passenger shuttle bus, 270,000km, no passenger seats, made into work truck, shelving in back, $3,500.

335-5046

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 FULL SIZE truck bed liner, fits 1974-1996 Ford, $200. 633-2580 GOODYEAR NORDIC 4 non-studded 15” winter tires/steel wheels, Chev/Buick 5-bolt pattern, approx 70% tread remains, $375.

821-6011 2 SETS summer tires, Goodyear Wrangler, P275/65R18, 1 set new, other set used 1 season, $700 & $500. Pat 332-3438 4 LT Nokia tires, 245/75 R16 studded, used one winter, mounted on Chevy rims, centre bolt 3 1/2”, $400 firm. August @ 393-4796

Pets Canines & Company Puppy & Obedience Level 1 Feb 25, April 15 Private Lessons Behaviour Modification FCI/WUSV/MEOE certified Bronze Master Trainer Serving the Yukon since 1992 www.facebook.com/ caninesandcompany 333-0505 or 668-4368 caninesandcompany@northwestel.net

AT THE SHELTER DOGS

• 3 yr old, neutered male, GSD/ rottweiler, black and brown ( trouble) • 8 months old, neutered male, StaffordshireX, black ( tank) • 7 mos old, female, husky X, blonde (Bianca) • 4 yr old, neutered male, husky, black and white (rikki) • 7 weeks old, female, corgi X, black and brown (Pippa) • 7 weeks old, female, beardog collie X, black (molly) • 7 weeks old, male, beardog collie X, black (Gil) • 7 weeks old, female, beardog collie X, black (Deema)

• 7 weeks old, male, beardog collie X, black and brown (Goby) • 7 yr old, spayed female, beagle/houndX, brown and black (tootsie) • 2 yr old, spayed female, collie/ beardog X, black (Fierce) • 5 mon old, male, blue heeler, white and black, (Patch)

cATS

• 2 yr old, DSH, white and black, neutered male (tom) • 3 yr old, DmH, black and white, spayed female (cece) • 3 yr old, DSH, white and black neutered male (Jax) • 2 yr old, DSH, brown spayed female (minou)

SPEcIAL • Homes needed for retired sled dogs. they would make excellent pets. Please contact 668-3647 or kennelmanager@muktuk.com if your lost animal has been inadvertently left off the pet report or for more info on any of these animals, call 633-6019 or stop by 126 Tlingit Street.

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

You can also check out our award winning website at:

www.Humanesocietyyukon.ca

Mad as a Hatter Masquerade Mae Bachur Animal Shelter FundrAiSer by Music ead Fish h w ste

Saturday, March 22nd

$25/ticket available at Mae Bachur Animal Shelter Dinner included. Cash Bar • Mt. McIntre Rec. Centre

Doors open at 6:30 • Dinner at 7:00 pm

Great prizes to be won!

Everything from 26x13 canvas print of the Mount Sumanek Wolf Pack Meet Up December 2010 by Inanda Images to.... a one night stay at the Hidden Valley B&B (romantic champagne and jacuzzi for a couple).

Legal age only.

FLEMISH GIANT/ANGORA cross rabbits for sale. Ready to go to new homes. $65 ea.

333-0915 WANTED: 668-7659

EXTRA-LARGE dog crate.

20 GAL fish tank and stand. Lots of extras including live plants, under-gravel heater, moonlights, decorations and timer. $200 335-5018 DOG RADIO fence containment system, never used, $25. 633-6603

Motorcycles & Snowmobiles 2010 POLARIS 800, 155 track, all stock, 30 hrs on unit, c/w cover, wheel dollies, $6,500 obo. 334-5182 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 RONʼS SMALL ENGINE SERVICES Repairs to Snowmobiles, Chainsaws, Lawnmowers, ATVʼs, Small industrial equipment.

Light welding repairs available 867-332-2333 lv msg 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 2010 KAWASAKI KLR 650 cc, 1,850 kms, on/off road, XL pants, jacket, helmet, saddle bags, exc cond, $5,400. 334-8912 lv msg WANTED: LATE 60s or early 70s snowmobile, any condition, seeking Elan parts.

633-5480 Recreational Powersports and Marine (RPM) Repairs Service, repair and installations for snowmobiles, ATVs, motorcycles, chainsaws, marine and more Qualified and experienced mechanic Great rates 335-4181 2012 POLARIS assault 800, 155" track, good shape, well maintained, low miles, C&A pro skis, extra belts, $9,000 obo. 334-6032 SKIMMER, STAND behind style, box is l:65”; w:21"; h:19", exc cond, $300. 821-6011 2009 RHINO/CHINO UTV side by side for sale for parts only, $1,800 obo. email: hendrik@mountsima.com or call (867) 332-4174 2010 HARLEY Davidson Sportster 883L, red, beautiful bike, 11,000 kms, c/w windshield, locking saddlebags, engine guard, luggage rack, $8,000 obo. 334-4364 2013 SKIDOO Exp 550F, $6,500 obo.

335-0164 2014 SWT Skandic 4 stroke, take over monthly payments. 867-336 -3833 1991 HARLEY Davidson Electra Glide, has newer motor, 1,450 cc, twin cam, $13,000.

335-5046 1995 340 Arctic Cat, good shape, good track, new front ski, $1,000. 633-3303 ICE AUGER for sale, Jiffy 30 cc, as new, $300 obo. 633-6502

Marine PROFESSIONAL BOAT REPAIR Fiberglass Supplies Marine Accessories FAR NORTH FIBERGLASS 49D MacDonald Rd Whitehorse, Yukon 393-2467 18ʼ FREIGHTER canoe & trailer, 20 hp Johnson, exc cond, $3,200. 334-8912 lv msg 2002 16.25ʼ Harbour Craft boat & trailer, 50 HP Johnson & 9.9 hp Yamaha, down rig, new winch, life jackets, exc cond, $14,000.

334-8912 lv msg 2000 15HP Mariner outboard, long shaft, exc cond, electric charging system, day tank, spare prop, $1,500 obo. 668-5644 eves

Heavy Equipment 5KW DEUTZ genset , top end done, $4,500, ST2 Lister, 4.5 kw, top end done, good fuel economy, 1200rpm, $5,500, SR3 Lister, 6kw-1200rpm, $5,000. Ph 633-4822 2003 VOLVO A35D articulated truck, 9500 total hours, new trans @ 5,000 hours, tires are approx 65%, FOB Dawson City, $135,000. jonathanganter@hotmail.com, 780-289-4989 1995 FREIGHTLINER, 350 CAT engine, 10-speed, $10,000 obo. 335-1088 ALUMINUM FUEL tank, pup trailer holds 30,000 litres, 3 compartments, all good valves, new 40X40 foot liner, no registration, good for mine or private yard, $6,500.

Wesley 250-235-3333

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Wednesday, March 12, 2014 2004 DOOSAN Ex. 300 size Was used as a spare, low hours, QA, extra bucket and hyds. to stick. $78,000 firm, located in Whitehorse.

Can finance to right place Contact Wesley at 250 235 3333 or brmining@hushmail.co

Campers & Trailers

CRESTVIEW CROSS-COUNTRY ski group meets Sundays at 12:00 noon at 222 Squanga Ave to ski Pine Forest Loop, 2-3 hours, free HABITAT FOR Humanity Yukon will be holding its AGM March 29, 2014, at the Whitehorse Public Library at 1:00 p.m. Everyone welcome!

SAVATE IS an empty handed fighting form using the feet, the hands, and other body parts Come try at Aikido Dojo on Baxter St. Thursday, 6:00pm to 7:30pm. savateyukon.weebly.com

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

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL Action Circle.

Letter writing to protect and promote human rights worldwide, Tuesday, March 25, Whitehorse United Church (upstairs) 7:00pm-9:00pm. www.amnesty.ca Call 667-2389

45ʼ VAN trailer, made into very nice home, lots of extras, 4-pc bath, kitchen, etc, water truck, generator, battery packs, inverters, 10ʼWx15ʼLx12ʼH addition, $18,000 obo.

335-5046

TAGISH COMMUNITY Centre, Vanier Jazz Combo Performance, March 5th, 1:00pm. 8 members of grade 9-11 students performing a variety of styles of jazz music, lots of improvisation and fun

2006 STARLITE enlosed cargo trailer, 14ʼ inside, 6ʼ wide, man door & side, exc cond, $4,700. 334-8912 lv msg

YUKON GUILD of Needlearts Meet Thurs.

Mar 13th 7:00pm, Whse. Public Library.

Bring or meet a friend, start or finish a project, preserving the art of hand embroidery.

Info 633-4026

SWS TRAILER, 2 axles, 7000lbs, enclosed cargo mate, 20ʼlx81/2ʼwx7ʼh, barn doors, $10,895. 332-6116 20ʼ SPRAY foam insulated car hauler/cargo trailer, would double as great tool trailer, $7,500. 334-4206 14ʼ SPRAY foam insulated cargo trailer, great tool trailer, has ramp door, $6,500.

334-4206 10ʼ SLUMBER Queen camper, like new, no damage or leaks, rear bathroom, one owner, $3,500. 456-2130

Coming Events ATLIN GUEST HOUSE Deluxe Lakeview Suites Sauna, Hot Tub, BBQ, Internet, Satellite TV Kayak Rentals In House Art Gallery 1-800-651-8882 Email: atlinart@yahoo.ca www.atlinguesthouse.com ATLIN - GLACIER VIEW CABINS “your quiet get away” Cozy self contained log cabins canoes, kayaks for rent Fax/Phone 250-651-7691 e-mail sidkatours@ atlin.net www.glacierviewcabins.ca

GOLDEN AGE Society is holding it's Annual General meeting Monday March 17th 2014 at 1:00pm at the Golden Age Center, Sport Yukon Building, 4th Ave. For info call 668-5538 MARCH 16TH, 11:00am, Maple Sugar Time Brunch, French-Canadian specialities served with pure maple syrup, 302 Strickland, tickets at the door, all details at afy.yk.ca/fondation HOMEGROWN THEATRE Festival still taking registrations! We encourage as many genres of live performance as you can imagine. For registration details www.nakaitheatre.com Registration closes Mar 17 STREAMS IN the Desert, world day of prayer by women of Egypt, Friday, Mar 14, 7:00pm at Whitehorse United Church. Free, all welcome. 667-2989 YUKON RESIDENTIAL Landlord Association AGM Wednesday, March 26, 7:00pm, Whitehorse Public Library, membership purchases/renewals at 6:30pm. Questions/comments about AGM or survey are welcomed, YRLA Facebook or ytrla2014@gmail.com YUKON SCIENCE Institute presents A fuller, rounder mouthfeel without the “red wine headache” with Hennie van Vuuren, Sunday, March 16, 7:30pm, Beringia Centre, Whitehorse. Free

THE ALZHEIMER/DEMENTIA Family Caregiver Support Group meets monthly. A group for family/friends caring for someone with Dementia. Info and register call Cathy 633-7337 or Joanne 668-7713

EVEREST NIGHT, HIMALAYA slide show presenters: Sally Wright, Dr. Zimmerman, Carlos and Petra Ferguson, Shelagh Smith, Lise Densmore. Tickets at Well-Read Books, April 10 event at the United Church

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

DECADENT SUNDAY Brunch & Live Bluegrass Music, Marsh Lake Community Centre Sunday, March 30th 10:00am. Tickets $15 adults, $5 kids 6-12, age 5 and under free.

660-4999 to reserve by March 26th

FALUN GONG, an advanced practice of Buddha school self-cultivation. Fa study Monday, Wednesday, Friday, Wood Street School from 6 p.m. No charge. For an introduction to the practice call 633-6157 F .H. C O L L I N S Secondary School Parent/Teacher/Student conference Thursday March 13, 5:00pm-7:00pm, Friday March 14 10:00am-1:00pm. No classes for students on March 14, but students may attend either session, no appt required HOSPICE WORKSHOP "LIVING with Loss" Thurs Feb 27, 6:30-8:30pm for anyone living with personal loss or supporting others who are grieving. Register: 667-7429, administrator@hospiceyukon.net LEARN ENGLISH free! Classes every Friday at 7.00pm. Call 335-5443 for info RISE & Shine Story Time: Wednesdays, February 5-March 12, 10:30am–11:15am, stories, music, finger plays & crafts for children 3-6 years & caregivers, registration necessary, space limited. 667-5239 YUKON CONSERVATION Society AGM, Wednesday March 19, 2014 at 5:30pm. 302 Hawkins St. 668-5678 for more info FREE WIGS, hats and head coverings for people who have lost their hair due to cancer treatments. For more information email: yukonsupport@hotmail.com 12TH ANNUAL Disability Expo, March 12, 2014, from 10:00am to 4:00pm at the Kwanlin Dun Cultural Center EVEREST NIGHT, dinner and slideshows of Himalayas, April 10, United Church basement 6:00pm, tickets for sale March 10 at Well-Read Books, Fundraising Event for Hands of Hope, www.hands-of-hope.ca 668-7082 YK-AK COFFEE House, Sat. Apr. 19, 2014.

Open Stage By Invitation, bring potluck 4:30PM, help set-up 5:30PM, 7:00PM show! $5 United Church Bsmt, 6th+Main, 633-4255

TAGISH PANCAKE Breakfast, March 23rd, 9:30 am-12:00pm, Tagish Community Centre, hosted by the Tagish EMS Team, $8.00 per adult, $3.00 per child. Everyone is welcome

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 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 www.svpcarpentry.com

IBEX BOBCAT SERVICES “Country Residential Snow Plowing” •Post hole augering •Light landscaping •Preps & Backfills Honest & Prompt Service Amy Iles Call 667-4981 or 334-6369 LOG CABINS: Professional Scribe Fit log buildings at affordable rates.

Contact: PF Watson, Box 40187, Whitehorse, YT, Y1A 6M9 668-3632 PASCAL PAINTING CONTRACTOR PASCAL AND REGINE Residential - Commercial Ceilings, Walls Textures, Floors Spray work Excellent quality workmanship Free estimates pascalreginepainting@northwestel.net 633-6368 IF YOU own a home or real estate, ALPINE CREDITS can lend you money: It's That Simple. Your Credit / Age / Income is NOT an issue. 1-800-587-2161.

HOUSECLEANING, Spring Cleaning, Detailing!

Safe, reliable, bondable RCMP check available on request For into call 334-7405 KLASSIC HANDYMAN SERVICES “HOME RENOVATION SPECIALIST” “SPECIALIZING IN BATHROOMS” Start to Finish • FLOORING • TILE • CARPENTRY • PAINTING • FENCING • DECKS “ONE CALL DOES IT ALL!!

DON: 334-2699 don.brook@hotmail.com

Remembering Jason Wheeler December 15, 1976 to March 8, 2014

A memorial service will be held at the Carmacks recreation Centre at 2:00 PM on Saturday, March 15, 2014.

All family & friends are invited to bring stories and light-hearted memories to share in remembering Jason. light refreshments will be served.

YUKON OUTDOORS Club meeting March 27th 7:00 p.m. Sport Yukon Board Room (4061-4th Avenue) to discuss the disbanding of the Club READING & Talk with Yukon fiction writer Dan Dowhal, Mon Mar 31 at 7:00pm, Dawson City Library. For info call 993-5571 WOLF WORKSHOP, Transportation Museum, March 15th, 10:00am, bring own lunch, hosted by the Yukon Trappers Association. Pay by donation. 667-7091 BLUEGRASS CAMP, June 9-13, Kluane Mountain Bluegrass Camp at Sundog Retreat. Don't miss out, registration now open.

Stellar lineup of instructors. Details at www.yukonbluegrass.com or email camp@yukonbluegrass.com

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

At corner of 6th & Strickland.

667-2988 BACKHAULS, WHITEHORSE to Alberta.

Vehicles, Furniture, Personal effects etc.

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

Celebration of Life for

Herbert (Herb)

Zollweg

Thursday, March 13 • 6:00–8:00pm Hootalinqua Community Firehall Located on the Mayo Road across from Takhini Gas Come out for a visit and share some stories EVERYONE WELCOME!

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MAR. 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

ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS MEETINGS Yukon Communities & Atlin, B.C.

Beaver Creek Y.T. Friday - 1:30 p.m.

Health Centre

Carcross Y.T.

Wednesday - 7:30 p.m.

Library Friday - 1:30 p.m.

Health Centre

Carmacks Y.T. Friday - 1:30 p.m.

Health Centre

Dawson City Y.T.

Thursday - 8:00 p.m.

New Beginners Group Richard Martin Chapel Friday - 1:30 p.m.

Health Centre Saturday 7:00 p.m.

Community Support Centre 1233 2nd Ave.

Destruction Bay Y.T. Friday - 1:30 p.m.

Health Centre

Faro Y.T.

Friday - 1:30 p.m.

Health Centre

Haines Junction Y.T. Friday - 1:30 p.m.

Health Centre

Mayo Y.T.

Friday - 1:30 p.m.

Health Centre

Old Crow Y.T. Friday - 1:30 p.m.

Health Centre

Pelly Crossing Y.T. Friday - 1:30 p.m.

Health Centre

Ross River Y.T. Friday - 1:30 p.m.

Health Centre

Tagish Y.T. Monday 7:30pm Lightwalkers Group Bishop’s Cabin, end of road along California Beach Telegraph Creek B.C. Tuesday - 8:00 p.m.

Soaring Eagles Sewing Centre

Teslin Y.T. Wednesday - 7:00pm Wellness Centre #4 McLeary Friday - 1:30p.m.

Health Centre Watson Lake Y.T. Friday - 1:30 p.m.

Health Centre

ANNACIS ISLAND PAWNBROKERS open 'till midnight 7 days a week. 604-540-1122.

Cash loans for Jewellery, Computers, Smartphones, Games, Tools etc. #104-1628 Fosters Way at Cliveden. annacisislandpawnbrokers.com.

VEHICLE LOANS Bear Country Pawn is offering vehicle loans up to $10,000 Must have stable employment and chequing account Call 335-5500

DROWNING IN DEBT? Cut debts more than 60% & DEBT FREE in half the time! AVOID BANKRUPTCY! Free Consultation. www.mydebtsolution.com or Toll Free 1-877-556-3500 BBB Rated A+

AVAILABLE NOW Mending, running errands at reasonable costs Please call Violet at 867-336-2866

ELECTRICIAN FOR all your jobs Large or small Licensed Electrician Call MACK N MACK ELECTRIC for a competitive quote!

867-332-7879

HOUSEKEEPING/HOME BAKING PREPARATORY COOKING Do you need more time to relax at home?

If you need extra hands to vacuum, bake cookies or peel potatoes, call 668-6835 Over 10 years experience

SNOW CLEARING/REMOVAL Sidewalks, Driveways, Parking lots, Compounds Private and Commercial Properties Fast and reliable service Aurora Toolcat Services 867-334-8447 Licensed and Professional Automotive Repairs 20-year Journeyman Mechanic Monday - Friday 8:00am to 5:00pm Call Brian Berg 867-633-6597 FINISHING CARPENTRY & RENOVATIONS For Clean, Meticulous & Tasteful Quality Work INTERIOR Design & organization of walk-in closets, laundry & storage room, garage Kitchen & Bathrooms, Flooring, Wood & Laminate, Stairs.

EXTERIOR Decks, Fences, Insulation, Siding, Storage Shed DIDIER MOGGIA 633-2156 or cell 334-2156

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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ELEMENTAL FARM Eat organic, fresh & local this summer!

15-week veggie box program (CSA) Free-range chickens & turkeys Must pre-order by April 1st Email elementalfarm@riseup.net for more information Journeyman Plumber Available for residential and commercial repair, service and installation Prompt, professional, and guaranteed workmanship $50/hour until May 1st Call 335-6982

DRUG PROBLEM?

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Narcotics

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Wednesdays 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm #2 - 407 Ogilvie St. <BYTE> Fridays 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm 4071 - 4th Ave. <Many Rivers>

Wednesday, March 12, 2014 BALANCED BOOKKEEPING Full range of services from data entry to year end financials and everything in between including payroll, GST, and remittances.

20+ years experience.

Call today, 332-8489 or 633-8489

Lost & Found LOST: BLACK menʼs wallet at Supertore or Bigway Feb.22-23rd. Call 456-4246

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Sports Equipment GIRLʼS BIKE, 16” Illusion Supercycle, purple/pink, white tires, age 4-6, good cond, $30. 667-6472 TIPI, CANVAS, 10ʼ diameter, 8ʼ peak, stove pipe hole, similar to wall tent but goes up with one pole, weighs about 25 lbs. $175 obo. 633-4322 SUMMER TENTS: Kelty sleeps 4, $60.

Eureka Cirrus for 2, $30, call 633-4887

60 Below Snow Management Commercial & Residential

Snow Removal (867) 336-3570

Parking Lots, Sidewalks, Rooftops and Sanding

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QUALITY YUKON MEAT Dev & Louise Hurlburt Grain-finished Hereford beef Domestic wild boar Order now for guaranteed delivery Payment plan available Samples on request 668-7218 335-5192 HAY FOR SALE Square bales kept under a shelter Great quality, $12/bale.

633-4496

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

NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND OTHERS NOTICE is hereby given that Creditors and others having claims against the Estate of

Jacob Kenneth Beckley,

of Keno City, Yukon, Deceased, who died on August 10th, 2013, are hereby required to send them to the undersigned Administrator at the address shown below, before the 30th day of April, after which date the Administrator will distribute the Estate among the parties entitled thereto, having regard to the claims of which they have notice.

AND FURTHER, all persons who are indebted to the Estate are required to make payment to the Estate at the address below.

BY: Michelle Anne Beckley 867-668-7970 michelleabeckley@gmail.com

PUBLIC TENDER DESTRUCTION BAY SOLID WASTE FACILITY MAINTENANCE

8:00 pm Lutheran Church Basment Regular Mtg ( 4th & Strickland )

Community Services

contact 667-7142

affected by

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

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Project Description: To provide maintenance services at the Destruction Bay Solid Waste Facility.

Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title.

The closing date for submissions is March 27, 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 Darrin Fredrickson at 867-667-5195.

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

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

AL-ANON Has your

BOWFLEX BLAZE, 1.5 yrs old, barely used, good cond, $500 obo. 335-6937

WEDNESDAY 12:00 noon Hellaby Hall, 4th & Elliott

CLOSED DEC. 25TH FOR CHRISTMAS 7:00 pm Lutheran Church Basement Beginners Mtg ( 4th & Strickland )

Childcare

KROEHLER LOVESEAT, high quality construction, smoke/pet free home, factory Scotchguarded, 65.5”l, 35”w, 35.5”h, antique pattern jade/salmon/cream, $290. 821-6011

ROSIEʼS DAY HOME Opening May 1, 2014 Day/Night/Weekend Spots available Call 668-3448

SKLAR PEPLAR dining room suite, oak veneer/ash, 63”x42” pedestal table, 2 extensions, 6 chairs, hutch upper, 4 doors/glass shelves, hutch bottom, 3 drawers, 2 cupboards, $1,700 obo. 821-6011

MARANATHA DAYCARE has openings for children ages infant to 12 years Long-term staff qualified and experienced Fun & educational environment Call Gurnam 668-7937

KITCHEN STORAGE unit, 2 drawers, bottom lg drawer w pull-out shelf, good for counter extension, 23.5”w, 24”d, 35”h, $45 obo. 821-6011

COUCH & chair, brown w/wood trim, $300.

667-7107 KINGSIZE WOODEN bed frame in good cond, $20. 633-2837 BOX SPRING, mattress, rails & headboard, $75 obo. 660-5478 3 TABLES, kitchen/utility, $20 ea. 311B Hanson St. after 6:00 pm.

BEDROOM 667-7107

Community Services

EXPRESSION OF INTEREST EXPANSION OF 4G CELLULAR SERVICES IN YUKON COMMUNITIES Interested parties are invited to submit expressions of interest relating to the delivery of current generation wireless/cellular services in Yukon communities.

Written submissions clearly marked with the above project title, will be received up to March 31, 2014, at Procurement Support Centre, Department of Highways and Public Works, Suite 101 - 104 Elliott Street, Whitehorse, Yukon Y1A 0M2.

Technical questions may be directed to Geoff Woodhouse at (867) 6678078.

The responses will not be ranked or used to pre-qualify or assess the respondent’s ability to provide goods or services.

Interested parties may obtain the information package from www.gov.yk.ca/tenders/tms.html or by contacting the Procurement Support Centre.

Economic Development

EXTERIOR RETROFIT UNIT 870600 - 5 PLEX 356-354 CAMPBELL STREET FARO, YUKON Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title.

The closing date for submissions is March 26, 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: March 18, 2014 at 1:00 p.m.

Joint tender closing with Faro The highest ranked or lowest priced submission may not necessarily be accepted.

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

REPAIRS AND UPGRADES UNIT 210700 - 111 MCDADE, CARMACKS, YUKON

FRI. 7pm-8:30pm 4071 - 4th Ave Many Rivers Office

ProjeCt DesCriPtioN: The NAD Coordinator will be responsible for the planning and implementation of the NAD events and main stage performances on June 21st, 2014 at the Kwanlin Dün Cultural Centre. In collaboration with the KDCC team, the Coordinator will work with the programming partners to ensure the successful execution of activities at KDCC on June 21st.

Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title.

The closing date for submissions is March 27, 2014. Please refer to the procurement documents for the closing time and location.

the ClosiNg DAte for submissioNs is Sunday March 23rd, 2014.

Applications should include a cover letter, resume, and relevant background in event coordination. As well as references, work plan and proposed fee of service.

If documents are available they may be obtained from Yukon Housing Corporation, 410 Jarvis Street, Whitehorse, Yukon. Technical questions may be directed to Laura Vanderkley at 867-667-8114.

further iNformAtioN can be obtained at the Kwanlin Dun Cultural Centre, 1171 Front Street, Whitehorse YT. For questions regarding the contract please contact Elise Bousquet at (867) 456-5320. Documents and full job description may be obtained from the KDCC website (www.kdcc.ca)

Site Visit: March 17, 2014 at 10:30 a.m.

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

requeSt FOr PrOPOSalS

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

Kwanlin Dün Cultural Centre

Puzzle Page Answer Guide

Five-Year Strategic Plan and a Business Model Options Paper

Sudoku:

PrOject DeScriPtiOn: This request for proposals has two parts: a Strategic Plan and a Business Model Options Paper. Please note that applicants can submit a proposal for either one or both parts of the RFP. The KDCS (Kwanlin Dun Cultural Society) requires a strategic plan that establishes immediate and long-term programming, operational and developmental priorities that ensure organizational continuity and mechanisms for long-term, sustainable growth.

The KDCS requires an Options Paper on business models for KDCC that will ensure inclusion of stakeholders and community members. the clOSing Date FOr SuBMiSSiOnS is March 14th, 2014 .

DAWSON AIRPORT CBSA EXPANSION DAWSON AIRPORT - BLDG. #2544 DAWSON CITY, YUKON 2014

Highways and Public Works

CHECK OUT THE JOB SECTION IN THE

DRUG PROBLEM? Narcotics Anonymous meetings Wed. 7pm-8pm #2 - 407 Ogilvie St. BYTE Office

National Aboriginal Day 2014 Coordinator

PUBLIC TENDER

Project Description: Supply and installation of modular building.

Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title.

The closing date for submissions is March 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 Mike Otto at (867) 667-3004.

Site visit March 12, 2014 at 10:00 AM The highest ranked or lowest priced submission may not necessarily be accepted.

The Yukon Business Incentive Policy will apply to this project.

Bidders are advised to review documents to determine Certificate of Recognition (COR) requirements for this project.

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

ARE YOU MÉTIS? Are you registered?

Would you like to be involved?

There is a Yukon Metis Nation that needs your support Contact 668-6845

CITIZENS ON PATROL. Do you have concerns in your neighborhood & community?

Be part of the solution! Volunteer valuable time to the C.O.P.S. program. With your eyes & ears we can help stomp out crime.

Info: RCMP 867-667-5555

Kwanlin Dün Cultural Centre

Further inFOrMatiOn can be obtained at the Kwanlin Dun Cultural Centre, 1171 Front Street, Whitehorse YT. For questions regarding the contract please contact Amanda Buffalo at (867) 633-7805. Documents and full job description may be obtained from the KDCC website (www.kdcc.ca)

Kakuro:

Public Meeting

Proposed Agriculture Subdivision Km 1462-1464 north Alaska Highway (ibex Hamlet Area) The Ibex Hamlet Council is sponsoring a public meeting in cooperation with Yukon government Agriculture and Land Planning Branches to present the updated concept plan for the proposed agriculture subdivision in Ibex Hamlet.

Crossword:

Please join us to provide feedback on the proposed agriculture subdivision.

Wednesday, March 19, 2014 7:30 - 9:00 pm ibex Fire Hall, KM 1442.9 Alaska Highway For more information, please contact the Yukon Agriculture Branch at (867) 667-3699 or toll-free in Yukon at 1-800-661-0408, ext. 3699.

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Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title.

The closing date for submissions is March 20, 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 Anderson at (867) 456-6542.

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

Personals

request for ProPosAls

PUblIC TENDER

OFFICE CHAIR, brown, adjustable arms, back & seat, $100. 667-7107

ROSS RIVER WATER TREATMENT OPERATIONS & MAINTENANCE

HUTCH & end table, $75.

2 BEIGE wingback recliners, stylish/cozy, $300 obo; never-used microstereo system $50 obo. Pick up only. Granger. 335-9693 or e-mail: lodgician@gmail.com

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