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MLA Darius Elias, centre, along with Premier Darrell Pasloski, right, speaks to reporters in the Yukon Party caucus office today about being charged for failing to provide a breathalyzer test when he was pulled over for using his cellphone while driving. Many questions went unanswered.

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ittle progress has been made to alleviate the situation of highly intoxicated individuals coming daily to the emergency room at the Whitehorse General Hospital, according to emergency room doctor Rao Tadepalli.

“The ER has become a dumping ground for this problem that needs to be dealt with,” he said in an interview last week.

The emergency room sees a rotating cast of chronic alcoholics who visit regularly, said Tadepalli.

It’s not the right place for them to be, and it’s not the right place for others, either, he said.

“When a child is sick or your mother is sick or one of us is sick, we want a healing atmosphere, we don’t really want a crammed-up ER to be dealing with people who are intoxicated and causing a lot of noise.”

In 2010 Dr. Bruce Beaton and Champagne and Aishihik First Nations Chief James Allen produced a report with a series of recommendations for helping acutely intoxicated people in the Yukon.

The top recommendation was to “alleviate rapidly the staffing and physical resource crisis” caused by intoxicated people attending the emergency room.

Things have not gotten much better since then, said Tadepalli.

“Every day we go in, we see in the waiting room queue somebody who has got their

legs spread out and is falling off the wheelchair, who has come off the ambulance, or somebody who has been brought in by RCMP. “It’s not that we don’t want to care for them, it’s just that they need care, but they don’t have a designated place to go.”

There needs to be a sobering centre where people can go and be supervised after they have been checked out by a doctor, when they no longer need acute care, said Tadepalli.

“Right now, the ER becomes the de-facto place for monitoring somebody of that nature.”

That was another of the recommendations in Beaton and Allen’s report.

The NDP Opposition questioned the government earlier this month on its progress related to the recommendations of the report.

“This isn’t just a Whitehorse problem,” said MLA Jan Stick in one of her questions. “This is territory-wide.”

The needs assessment for the Waston Lake hospital indicated that 60 per cent of services accessed are alcohol related, she said.

“What is the government’s immediate plan to increase appropriate alcohol and drug services across the territory and reduce inappropriate pressures on emergencies everywhere?” asked Stick.

Health Minister Doug Graham responded that the government is doing many things to help the problem.

“There’s no doubt that, at

the present time, individuals still utilize the ER for alcoholrelated difficulties, but with the advent of the assisted services provided at the Sarah Steele Building, we have had a number of diversions of intoxicated persons from the ER,” he said.

“We have also done a number of different things to ensure that these people receive assistance.

We have put LPNs on shifts at the detox centre, we have added a quality-assurance RN to the staff complement, and we have added a social worker to the detox unit. We are making those changes as we speak.

“We have also started a service in downtown Whitehorse – a referred care clinic – to which persons who present themselves at the emergency centre may be referred, instead of taking the time at the ER. We are making progress and we will continue to do so.”

According to numbers provided by the Yukon Hospital Corporation, there were 1,569 alcohol-related visits to the ER in the 2012-2013 fiscal year, down from 1,744 in 2009-2010.

That’s a rate of more than four alcohol-related visits per day.

But those numbers don’t tell the whole story, said Tadepalli.

“Let’s say we have a broken jaw from a fight. We write on the diagnosis, ‘fractured jaw.’ It doesn’t matter that the person is intoxicated. That doesn’t get documented.”

Contact Jacqueline Ronson at jronson@yukon-news.com

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Elias to seek help for alcohol abuse Jesse Winter News Reporter

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ukon MLA Darius Elias says he has a problem with alcohol and is seeking help.

The MLA for Old Crow was charged early Friday morning with failing to provide a breathalyzer sample after police pulled him over at a check stop in Whitehorse for using a cell phone while driving. He will be in court on June 30.

At a news conference on Wednesday morning, Elias admitted to struggling with alcohol addiction and said he is seeking “professional help.”

He wouldn’t specify what that means.

Reading from a prepared statement, Elias said, “First of all, to my family and friends, constituents and Yukoners, I apologize to all of you.”

Flanked by Premier Darrell Pasloski and cabinet spokeswoman Elaine Schiman, Elias said it was difficult for him to admit he has a problem, but the breathalyzer incident has opened his eyes.

“I want to send a message, to the youth especially, who have been contacting me to ask what happened. I want to say that when you make a mistake, the first step is to take responsibility for your actions,” he said minutes before walking out of the media conference without answering a single question.

Premier Pasloski said that Elias will remain part of the Yukon Party caucus while he

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MLA Darius Elias, right, with Premier Darrell Pasloski, left, approach the media in the Yukon Party caucus office.

“works through these serious personal issues.”

“He is a strong MLA for his community … this doesn’t make him immune to problems. People can and do make

in Dawson also left onlookers helpless, not knowing the right number to call.

A Good Samaritan helped pull The lack of 911 service has pana 19-year-old from the house with icked Dawson residents for the only minor injuries. second time in two weeks.

Both cases show the need for On Tuesday evening last week, 911 service across the Yukon, said winds picked up at the landfill, Regimbal. spreading a fire from the burn pile “If they just had an easy numout of the contained area and tober to remember, that panic would wards some propane bottles, said have been completely alleviated.”

Dawson Fire Chief Jim Regimbal.

Regimbal has been pushing for The operator of the landfill, territory-wide 911 for years. He despite being a long-time Dawson can’t understand why it isn’t in resident, didn’t know the number place yet, he said. to call to report the emergency.

The government is currently He called a friend, who also working on an interim solution, didn’t know the number for the which would play a recorded mesfire department. But the friend did sage when you call 911, allowing have Regimbal’s personal cellyou to press “1” to call police, “2” phone number. to call an ambulance and “3” for “I was actually in a meeting the fire department. when my cellphone went off,” the It would only work from fire chief said. landlines, and it wouldn’t work at “Someone was panicking and all in Old Crow. All of the phones said the landfill was on fire.” involved in reporting this week’s Fire trucks from the Dawson landfill fire were cellphones. and Klondike Valley fire departThe number for the fire departments were sent to the blaze. ment in Dawson is 993-2222. For It would have been 10 minutes emergency medical services call before the flames reached the pro- 993-4444 and for police call 993pane bottles, said Regimbal.

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Crews put out the fire in about The numbers are the same in 45 minutes, he said.

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mistakes,” Pasloski said.

When the statements were finished, both Elias and Pasloski walked away briskly in separate directions while reporters shouted questions at

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Last Thursday was the last day of the Yukon legislature’s spring sitting, but Elias missed part of that afternoon. According to reliable sources, Elias

was at the Edgewater Hotel’s bar and restaurant between 2 p.m. and 3 p.m. He went back to the legislature without paying his bill in time to vote on the government’s 2014 budget.

After Edgewater staff let him know, he returned around 5:30 to settle up.

Elias declined to speak to this, as he has for all related matters.

The Yukon Party backbencher was first elected to the legislature as a Liberal in 2011, but left the party to sit as an Independent in August 2012 and later joined the government in July 2013.

Elias refused to address questions about his sobriety when he announced he would cross the floor. The premier similarly dodged the issue, merely saying at the time that all members of the Yukon Party caucus are expected to uphold the party’s code of ethics.

During last spring’s sitting of the legislature, Elias suggested mandating special licence plates for people convicted of drunk driving.

He urged the government to consider programs like vehicle plate impoundment, which involves visually distinct licence plates for people caught drinking and driving more than once, he said.

“Nobody wants to have a bright pink or yellow licence plate on their vehicle saying that they’ve been charged with impaired twice,” Elias said.

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Canada have taken the lead in the (Jacqueline Ronson) investigation into what caused the crash, since the trucking company in question works in multiple Fracking committee jurisdictions, he said. plans public events Calls to the federal government were not returned in time for The Select Committee Regarding today’s deadline. the Risks and Benefits of HydrauCrystal Zhang, a spokesperlic Fracturing is holding public son for Yukon Zinc Corporation, event on May 27 and 28 at the Truck driver dies which owns Wolverine mine, said legislative assembly. near Wolverine mine the truck contained bagged copper Six experts have been invited to concentrate. give presentations. Yukoners can A Whitehorse man has died after The man was not a Wolverobserve the proceedings from the his truck of ore went over an emine employee; he worked for the public gallery or listen to a live bankment near Wolverine mine. trucking company hired to transbroadcast on 93.5 FM or on the Pierre Tremblay, 46, was killed port the goods, she said. legislative assembly’s website. last Wednesday while driving Zhang could not say how much Visitors in the gallery may towards Watson Lake on the Wol- ore was in the truck at the time submit written questions for the verine mine access road. of the crash. She did say it was presenters. After asking an initial Ross River RCMP say the load- less than a full load, thanks to round of questions, committee ed transport truck was travelling restrictions in place on the Robert members will select questions the mine road when it went over Campbell Highway. randomly from those submitted the side of a steep embankment.

The 26-kilometre-long access by the public.

He died at the scene. road connects the mine site to the Presenters include Dr. Brendan Richard Mostyn with the Yukon highway. Mostyn said the crash Hanley, Yukon’s chief medical offi- Workers’ Compensation Health happened near Kilometre 14. cer of health, and Dr. Eilish Cleary, and Safety Board said the crash RCMP say alcohol is not believed the chief medical officer of health was called in some time before 7 to be a factor in this case and no for New Brunswick. p.m. by another trucker who was other vehicle was involved.

(Ashley Joannou) hauling ore.

The committee will also hear from Dr. Mark Jaccard, a professor with the School of Resource and Environmental Management at Simon Fraser University, and Dr. Donald Reid, a conservation zoologist with the Wildlife Conservation Society Canada.

The committee will also travel this summer to 12 Yukon communities to hold hearings and gather public opinions on hydraulic fracturing.

(Ashley Joannou)

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National report includes missing and murdered Yukoners Ashley Joannou News Reporter

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t was seven years ago next week that Angel Carlick was last seen alive.

The 19-year-old girl disappeared in May 2007, right before she was set to graduate high school.

Her body was found months later in the Pilot Mountain subdivision.

Police are still searching for someone or something that might be able to provide them with clues to what killed her.

The upcoming anniversary of Carlick’s tragic disappearance comes just after the RCMP have released

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The number is staggering and has local advocates renewing their call for a national inquiry.

The report compiled data from 300 police forces across the country.

It found 1,181 missing and murdered aboriginal women in Canadian police databases. That’s a combination of 164 missing women dating back to 1952 and 1,017 murdered women between 1980 and 2012.

Aboriginal women make up 16 per cent of female homicides and 11.3 per cent of missing women. This is three to four times higher than their representation in the overall Canadian population.

Only a handful of statistics in the report are broken down by jurisdiction.

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That’s compared to 47 of 51 female murder victims in the Northwest Territories and all 20 of the female murder victims in Nunavut during the same period.

The number of unsolved murders in the Yukon involving an aboriginal woman: one.

The same data lists two unresolved missing aboriginal females in the Yukon.

The number of missing and murdered aboriginal women in the Yukon in this report is lower than numbers released by the local Sisters in Spirit campaign. But Marian Horne, president of the Yukon Aboriginal Women’s Council, says she’s confident the RCMP’s number will go up as investigations continue.

“Absolutely, I know it will, because this is just the tip of the iceberg,” she said.

The Yukon Sisters in Spirit campaign lists 38 missing or murdered women.

“What the public has to be aware of is that it’s not only an issue for First Nations, it’s also an issue for society in general,” Horne said.

Yukon RCMP Cpl. Calista MacLeod said there could be a number of reasons why the numbers are different. The national RCMP office that compiled the report is not providing more information beyond what is in

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Two of the women identified by Yukon Sisters in Spirit are Yukoners who went missing or were killed in other jurisdictions, MacLeod said.

In some cases the police only have a first name or a nickname. In one case, a missing woman has since been found.

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She said the work by Sisters in Spirit has done a lot of good.

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Horne credits the Yukon RCMP with doing a good job of reaching out. “(Chief Superintendent) Peter Clark has been a tremendous asset to us in Yukon, and (so has) all the RCMP,” she said. “We have teams that are apprising us regularly of the figures and asking as how we can correct the situation. But it’s a bigger issue than we can correct overnight.”

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Leef touts conservation funding Jesse Winter News Reporter

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he federal government has unveiled its latest plan for conserving Canada’s wilder-

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Under the Harper government’s new national conservation plan, the government is promising to spend $252 million over the next five years to bolster conservation and ecosystem protection across the country.

“As the vice-chair of the Conservative hunting and angling caucus … I am very keen to make sure we move our agenda forward when it comes to the protection and preservation of our wildlife,” said Yukon MP Ryan Leef at a news conference in the Elijah Smith building on Tuesday.

Leef began by listing his government’s accomplishments in the area of conservation since taking office in 2006.

Those milestones, he said, include securing more than 4,000 square kilometres of “ecologically sensitive private land,” expanding the Nahanni National Park Reserve six-fold and working to clean up polluted lakes and rivers.

“These funds will target enhanced and new initiatives such as securing ecologically sensitive lands, restoring wetlands, supporting voluntary stewardship of animals and habitats and strengthening marine and coastal conservation,” Leef said.

The plan will focus on three priority areas: conserving Canada’s lands and waters, restoring Canada’s ecosystems and connecting Canadians to nature.

“It’s that latter part that I certainly find an exciting and worthy endeavour,” Leef said.

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“I think it’s really important that we as Yukoners and Canadians make sure that we provide an opportunity at the federal level for Canadians to connect directly with nature, which is such an important part of our national identity and our national discussion,” Leef said.

That may seem surprising given the amount of criticism the federal government took over severe cuts to Parks Canada across the country in 2012.

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When asked whether the federal government was duplicating something that was already covered in Parks Canada’s mandate, Leef responded that the new funding program will be more broad and allow for the protection and conservation of lands outside national park boundaries.

“Parks Canada’s mandate is really connected to and exclusive to the national park network in our country, and we have a responsibility to make sure that the areas of nature that Canadians can enjoy are not just national parks and marine protected areas but all natural wild spaces in our country,” Leef said.

The federal government is committing a hefty chunk of change to Parks Canada, but not to pay for its operations. The federal 2014

budget committed nearly $400 million to fix up aging bridges, dams, roads and other infrastructure in national parks. Four million of that will be spent in the next two years, with the rest of it deferred until 2016 or beyond.

“Naturally with those investments as you make our national parks areas more accessible, more available with newer infrastructure, invariably that is going to lead to more traffic and more revenue to our parks and they in turn will be able to take those dollars and reinvest them in national programming,” he said.

The Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society has been harshly critical of that funding model, arguing that fixing up roads and buildings won’t help the parks system fulfill its role.

“Recent budget cuts to Parks Canada’s have significantly hampered the agency’s ability to deliver

on its mandate of maintaining and restoring ecological integrity in our national parks,” the society said in a February news release.

“What’s really needed to ‘protect and preserve’ our national parks is funding for Parks Canada to fully implement its sciencebased conservation programs, and to continue to create new parks, in partnership with local communities and indigenous peoples.

“Investing in roads and bridges is not an investment in protecting our natural heritage and we shouldn’t pretend that it is,” the release said.

The government has also taken flak for what many call the gutting of important environmental regulations like the Navigable Waters Protection Act and loosening rules around energy extraction projects.

When questioned about his government’s track record on other environmental legislation, Leef said that this new program isn’t meant to replace the Environmental Protection Act. Instead, it is intended to ensure that Canadians themselves are engaged with nature and the outdoors.

This new federal program is a funding pool that partners, including municipalities, environmental groups, hunters and anglers, landowners and community groups, can use “to take practical actions to safeguard the land and water around them,” Leef said.

Not all the money doled out will be project based, however.

Leef explained that there are some groups who do and will continue to get core funding. Other groups can apply and the decision will be based on merit, he said.

That makes it hard to say how much of this money will end up in the Yukon, he said. What money does end up here won’t be decided until the strategy is fully rolled out, Leef said.

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Wednesday, May 21, 2014

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COMMENTARY Which Peel plan is democratic?

David Loeks n a recent “Second Thoughts” column, Graham Lang makes his case that the Yukon government’s version of a “Peel plan” is not undemocratic.

He frames the widespread public criticism of the Yukon government’s document as an attack on the legitimacy of representative democracy in general and on the Yukon Party government in particular. He is knocking down a straw man, as few people seriously challenge our basic governing principles.

No, the peoples’ critique is of the process taken by the Yukon government to develop its “plan” and on its contents. It was written in secrecy, was not based on public consultation, drew skewed conclusions from the available evidence, and it rejected what Yukoners were on record as wanting. If this is democratic, it is only in the strictly limited sense that it was authorized by elected politicians. The problem is that irreversible damage can be done to the land before politicians are ever held to account.

The Peel Watershed Planning Commission, mandated by the Umbrella Final Agreement, was an advisory body appointed by elected governments, established precisely because it was arms-length from politicians. It’s seven-year process generated high-quality information about the planning region, relied on extensive and open consultation, employed sound science and planning methods, and its conclusions were consistent with the research and with values and interests of the Yukon people. The commission’s plan clearly is democratic.

But there is a deeper question here: that of legitimacy. Are there not moral limits on the right of politicians to make irrevocable decisions over irreplaceable public assets? For example, should the elected government of Egypt feel free to demolish the Sphinx or the Pyramids at Giza?

Is there not an ethical obligation to act as stewards of our natural and cultural heritage for people yet to come?

How can politicians be accountable to future generations?

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Commission learned that the people of the Yukon and the First Nations value the Peel watershed as wilderness: lightly used, but undeveloped.

A minority want it developed for mining and other industrial purposes.

The commission’s research established that at present, these competing visions cannot be reconciled.

Therefore it took a cautious, humble approach: preserve the Peel watershed’s wilderness character for the time being until society could agree better. Perhaps in the future we will craft better management approaches – maybe on the basis of new technologies. Perhaps our values will change: wilderness might become even more valuable or possibly less valuable.

A “go-slow” approach has no real downside – our economic health does not depend on developing the Peel watershed at this time. And the assertion that mining claim holders would have to be compensated is a bugbear.

The point is that wilderness is a resource that can shrink but cannot grow. Across Canada, the remnants are more valuable than ever. Our local politicians are promoting a development plan for the Peel that would eliminate some of the best wilderness remaining. Development and roadbuilding is a one-way gate for wilderness, but in conserving the Peel’s wilderness we also conserve options.

Since as a society we disagree on development, in fairness, let’s agree to keep our options open.

All ethics come from recognizing membership in a community.

The community affected by the Peel watershed plan is wider than the mining community. It is wider than the business community. Wider than the environmental community. Wider than the First Nations, wider than the voting community, wider than the people of the Yukon or of Canada; wider even than the unborn generations who should be considered.

Our ethical community includes the land and its animals, plants, and waters. Considering all this, the commission’s plan is democratic.

What about the Yukon government’s “plan”?

David Loeks is former chair of the Peel Watershed Planning Commission.

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Racism is at root of prisoner’s mistreatment

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I am writing to express my outrage on behalf of the Tahltan people at the treatment of one of our members, Michael Nehass, by the Whitehorse Correctional Centre as reported in your editorial on May 16, 2014.

I am president of the Tahltan Central Council, a governing body of the Tahltan Nation, and am confident that I speak for all our people in condemning the inhumane treatment shown to Michael. If the reported details are correct, he is clearly a troubled young man who needs support to straighten his life out. He may even be responsible for actions that deserve punishment.

But no one – be he red, white, yellow or black – deserves to be in solitary confinement for days on end, and then humiliated by being presented

in public court naked, shackled and held to the floor. It is sickening to think that this is the way correctional staff treat our people.

I am sure the correctional staff will say that he acts out, may even be violent. How would you feel, I ask, if you were stuck in a windowless cell for days on end with no human contact?

And if we only learned about this because of the courage of Michael’s father, Russell, in bringing his human rights complaint, how much more goes on behind the closed prison doors without anyone knowing?

There is no escaping the fact that Michael’s aboriginal status is the fundamental reason why he is subjected to such abusive treatment. The centuries of cultural genocide inflicted on our people continues to be felt, generation after generation, and no doubt

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shaped the path that Michael is on.

There is equally no doubt in my mind that it is the fact that he is aboriginal – an “Indian” – that gives correctional staff the licence to treat him like a non-human. The abuse he is suffering is just one more step in the cycle of discrimination inflicted on the aboriginal peoples of Canada that has been going on for centuries.

The only silver lining that I can see in this story is that it will hopefully push this issue into the spotlight and lead to an investigation of Michael’s treatment, and the use of solitary confinement in the WCC in general. But for now, all I can say is shame, shame on everyone who participated in humiliating and degrading this young aboriginal man.

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Latest WCB ads are off the mark

by Graham Lang

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ou have probably driven by the new advertisements by the Yukon Workers’ Compensation Health and Safety Board. They are hard to miss, being big billboards touting the benefit of the workers’ compensation board’s “independence from political interference.”

I take some issue with the campaign as, at best, it is an unnecessary piece of advertising for a mandatory insurance program.

At worst, it is an inappropriate foray into political discourse by a Crown monopoly.

As a society we have determined that certain products and services should be regulated and monopolized. The four big players locally are the Yukon Liquor Board, Yukon Energy Corp, the Yukon Health Corporation and the workers’ compensation board.

We grant these entities protected revenue streams in exchange for them producing some sort of public good.

In the case of the liquor corporation and the WCB, part of this public good takes the form of encouraging harm reduction: the liquor corporation publicizes the dangers of drunk driving, while the WCB advertises the importance of working in a safe manner.

These types of ads fall under the mandate of the monopolies and,

alerting the public to the fact that the Yukon Hospital Corporation is also “free from political interference.” Such an advertisement would be a waste of money, as it doesn’t matter whether the ER is the best in Canada or the worst, or whether it is free from political interference: it is the only game in town.

Whether WCB is “free of political interference” or not does not aid citizens in making any decisions about their lives; it is simply a statement that rationalizes the existence of the insurance monopoly. It is, in essence, a political statement, and it is not appropriate for the monopoly itself to wade into political debate.

Every dollar that is spent on unnecessary or inappropriate advertising is a dollar that could be spent on achieving the social good for which the monopoly is

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Mean-spirited online comments show ignorance Recently I read an online newspaper article (Whitehorse Star, May 14) written about the call for an independent audit requested by Yukon’s NDP justice critic, Lois Moorcroft, into the use of solitary confinement in the Whitehorse Correctional Centre, in particular the nearly 28 months of isolation allegedly spent by Michael Nehass.

I don’t know Michael and am not a party to his behaviour at the centre. What disturbed me most was the online comments that followed the article and the “likes” and “dislikes” for each comment.

If this is a representation of Yukoners’ opinions, then we are living in a very mean spirited environment.

The comments were overly in favour of support of the violation of Michael’s human rights and overly in disfavour for any suggestion that the justice system should be treating him humanely.

This fuels the fire for our justice system to continue this practice, as this is what is perceived as what the public wants.

Suggestions from one contributor that Ms. Moorcroft invite Michael to live in her home are so ignorant. That is not what she is calling for.

If I might be permitted to read between the lines, she is simply stating that there is a need to evaluate Michael’s mental state and that prison and solitary confinement is not the place to be treating those suffering from mental illness.

Solitary confinement can only worsen a mental disorder. The Whitehorse Correctional Centre is not where Michael should be.

Did the Yukon not just rally in support of Clara Hughes and her Big Ride campaign in support of mental health? Can we not see the hypocrisy in all of this?

I don’t know if Michael suffers from a mental health issue. I do know that we don’t have a chance of rehabilitating him through this

more importantly, make some sense.

What doesn’t make sense is a Crown monopoly spending money to advertise its effectiveness or to inform the public of its legislated management structures.

By virtue of the granted monopoly, there is no choice as to which employment insurance an employee or employer may purchase, as it is a mandatory program.

If everybody must subscribe to the program there is no need to advertise. Monopolies’ advertising their effectiveness or their management structures is a waste of money that could be spent on pursuing the actual public good of the monopoly.

The current WCB campaign is the equivalent of Whitehorse General Hospital taking out billboard ads alerting the public to the quality of the local ER, or

type and length of humiliation.

When has humiliation brought about positive change? When have acts of kindness brought out anything but positive changes?

highly trained in what they do. An emergency dispatcher can provide me with instructions on how to help a person choking, how to do CPR, get someplace safe if someone has broken into my home or what to do if I am trapped in a burning Richard Zier-Vogel building.

Whitehorse More importantly, these disLeef gets his math wrong patchers are the eyes and ears of the police officers, firefighters and paramedics until they get there.

Open letter to MP Ryan Leef: On May 13, you told Parliament Dispatchers provide for the safety that “the incumbent (Larry Bagnell) of these first responders by asking questions like, “Is the assailant still in the last election in the Yukon there?” “Do they have a weapon?” spent $20,000 more than he had in “Are there any chemicals in the the last election and lost by 1,500 building?” votes.”

In the world of emergency reMr Leef, not only do I have sponse the dispatcher is referred to serious issues with the policies and as the first, first responder. attitude of the Harper government, If I had a medical emergency or I now have a serious problem with a fire at my house in Whitehorse your math and your memory.

I would pick up a phone and call Larry Bagnell lost his seat by less 911. The expectation is that an than 150 votes, not by 1,500 as you ambulance or a fire truck will show have so falsely stated to the Canup in around eight minutes and adian public. the emergency dispatcher will help Your victory in 2011 was a razor- me until paramedics or firefighters thin one, made possible by vote arrive. If I live in Haines Junction or splitting and not because the Yukon Mayo that eight minutes will most public embraces Harper conservalikely be at least doubled to 16 mintism to the point that they gave you utes, because ambulance and fire an overwhelming landslide victory. service is provided by volunteers A retraction of your statement who will be responding from their and a public apology to Larry home or place of work.

Bagnell are in order.

More importantly, am I talking Please go back to math class and to a trained dispatcher until help please work on your memory issues arrives? The answer is no. before the next election, Mr. Leef.

For an ambulance dispatch in a community I will be talking to a nurse in the local clinic who could Jon Wilkie be up to her elbows with another Dawson City patient or patients in her care. For 911 dispatchers save lives a fire dispatch I will be talking to a volunteer firefighter who needs to hang up as quickly as possible as As a former ambulance dispatcher and a person trained in both emer- they will most likely be coming on the fire truck. gency medical dispatch and emerNeither a nurse nor a volunteer gency fire dispatch I will take the opportunity to weigh in on the 911 firefighter is trained in emergency dispatch with a computerized call service for the entire Yukon issue. taking system on a screen in front I live in Whitehorse and I am of them. Are these people asking the able in an emergency to dial 911 right questions to ensure the safety and speak to either a professional police, fire or ambulance dispatcher of the emergency crews they are dis-

patching? The answer again is no.

The emergency dispatcher’s role is doubly important for rural Yukon responses because of the long waiting times for help to arrive.

During my career as a paramedic and EMS dispatcher I had the opportunity to visit dispatch centres in Alaska, British Columbia, Alberta and California. An enhanced 911 system will triangulate cell phone calls, give a map grid location of my house, show a Google Earth picture of my house and identify the closest emergency vehicle to my location automatically if I were to place a 911 call.

An enhanced 911 system is something all Yukoners deserve and have a right to!

Michael Swainson Whitehorse

LNG plant approval disappoints

granted, or a dollar that is unneeded, meaning the price of the service or good could be reduced.

The marketing arms of Crown corporations, WCB in particular, should sit down and think about the social good their monopoly should address and then identify measurable marketing strategies that produce results. In many cases advertising will be warranted by a Crown corporation, but that advertising should be targeted and narrow.

The important question that should be asked by any Crown corporation looking to advertise is, “Why have we been granted this monopoly, and how best can we meet that social goal?” The question should not be, “How can we leverage our protected position to continue our existence?”

Graham Lang is a Whitehorse lawyer and long-time Yukoner.

will be loaded onto trucks and driven far up the Alaska Highway.

Then there are the “fugitive emissions,” essentially leaked methane gas, 20 to 100 times more powerful than CO2 as a greenhouse gas. They are everywhere in the supply chain. The wells leak during production and after abandonment. Fugitive emissions recently measured over gas wells are up to 1,000 times higher than industry reports. Then there are leaks in pipelines, liquefaction plants, transfer facilities, trucks and storage.

The price myth: right now, fracked gas is cheaper than diesel, because we are going wild drilling for it. So, since there is money to be made, industry is fast gearing up to export most of it to Asia and Europe. Anyone believing gas prices will remain low lives in the Land of Grand Delusions.

Once we’re burning LNG, the fracking will begin here. Many speculate that is precisely the YuCon Party’s plan. Because of geology it will all have to be fracked. Say goodbye to our pristine wilderness and our water. Prepare to dodge the thousands of trucks hauling the gear and chemicals.

Our roads will be a mess, adding millions to maintenance budgets.

Sure, natural gas burns pretty clean. It’s everything that gets it to the burner that destroys the dream. University studies have confirmed that, well to burner, fracked gas is more damaging to the climate than diesel, and even coal. Then throw in the energyintensive liquefaction process and it looks even worse.

Both our approval bodies ignored the facts. Look at the documents. Part of the problem is the narrow terms of reference they use. Corruption? Maybe. Installing harmful, obsolete fossil fuel infrastructure makes Yukon look like a dinosaur in a world moving rapidly into clean energy sources.

I am embarrassed. Our children deserve better.

This is a huge disappointment for Yukoners looking for government vision and leadership in the energy realm. The plan is to use gas from fracked wells located 500 kilometres from here: gas obtained by poisoning billions of litres of fresh surface water and pumping it deep into the earth where we will never (ever) be able to use it again.

What doesn’t make it deep enough threatens groundwater aquifers.

And then there are all the surface spills of poisonous fracking fluids.

Each well yields a tiny quantity of gas, so thousands are drilled.

They all require fossil fuels to build the roads and pipelines to the site, haul the equipment and chemicals, and do the drilling. Wildlife habitat is fragmented, destroying forever the natural environment.

Gas is piped away to be compressed and refrigerated to a liquid. This too demands tremen- Lee Carruthers dous inputs of energy. The liquid Whitehorse

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government consulted beforehand thought he was eligible, including two former Supreme Court justices. who was perhaps one of the retirement plan. Now you could I just want to thank all the caring Utilities Board had accepted I will reserve judgement on most obviously political appointand passionate Yukon people who Yukon Energy’s $40 million LNG you please hurry up and retire whether the PM’s comments ments to the Supreme Court in and give me some peace? project with no conditions. Our participated in the two-day elecregarding Chief Justice McLachlin recent memory, acknowledged regulator had swallowed Yukon tric thermal storage workshop. were off mark, but if his intent was the political overtones that affect Energy’s LNG delusion hook, line Sally Wright I have to admit, I was worried the judgements of the court when to send a message to the honourKluane Lake and sinker. it was going to be a tense showshe once stated it is impossible for able justices about their proper Thanks to my friends withdown between defensive utilities judges to completely divorce their function and role, he was bang on. holding the utilities board and enraged consumers who felt The Supreme Court has judgements from their personal Perhaps a name change from they had not been educated about decision, I had a night to bicycle beliefs. long been political Supreme Court to “The High the alternatives to Yukon Energy’s under a beautiful full moon And what is the Supreme feeling full of promise for the liquefied natural gas plans, with Court of Canada” would be a good Court’s record? It has frequently future. I had a sound sleep feeling Opposition politicians, as well as powerless government workers start towards creating a proper “read in” law that was never many judges and lawyers, have the peace of knowing the Yukon stuck in between. view of the Supreme Court and intended by Parliament. It has But once again, the wonderful people were going to lead the way been critical of Prime Ministhe court’s view of itself. Parliachanged and reinterpreted laws in ment is supreme, or should be, ter Stephen Harper and Justice into a renewable energy future Yukon community modeled colMinister Peter McKay for making accordance with the chief justice’s not the court, and it seems to me laboration, inclusion, understand- and the leaders would have no choice but to follow. public remarks about Chief Justice stated view of the law as “living” ing and innovation in united odd that the chorus of critics of and “evolving,” thereby essentially the PM should so clearly see the But then this morning, on Beverly McLachlin’s supposed affirmation that there are better dictating law to Parliament. this unforgettable blue mor“inappropriate influence” in the ways to move forward and away problem of politicians interfering Chief justices have made public in the court, but not see the probning, I booted up my email and decision to disallow the appointfrom fossil fuels. I sat around presentations and pronouncelearned the utilities board deciment of Justice Marc Nadon to the table with people across the lem of the court inserting itself ments on the court’s “philosophy” the Supreme Court of Canada. spectrum of our community and sion ignored all of the concerns; into, and interfering with, politics and struck down laws passed by They accuse the PM of politicizwe opened our minds to the pos- they had accepted all of Yukon and the law as determined by our Parliament which were not in line Energy’s LNG game plan. It is ing the court and damaging its sibilities and our hearts to each democratically elected representaabsolutely unbelievable to me that neutrality, and they assert that the with the court’s philosophical other’s struggles. tives. there could be such a disconnect views. The court has acted as a Supreme Court is non-political Energy affects us all. Not only No doubt a good argument can between humanity and the very surrogate for the birthing of the and politicians should stay out of do we all use it, need it, rely on be made for judges to be socially Earth that it needs to survive! previous Liberal government’s soits business. it, but the type of energy we use and politically aware and, when What is it going to take to get cial engineering agenda and generThis ignores how the SCC has affects our water, our air, our cliappropriate to do so, to take those our collective consciousness to ally acted as if its role entitles the long been liberal and activist and mate and our very ability to exist. realize that this is a finite planet? judges who sit thereon to conduct considerations into account when therefore political. Appointments Around the table, looking at I’ve been in town for the themselves and render judgements making judgements. This, though, to the court may be made based each other eye to eye, sharing our is a fine line which must be tread whole winter writing, filming and on merit, but they are also politas though they are “supreme” to concerns, our hopes, we didn’t very carefully if our courts are learning about this problem, and ical. Political parties, various inter- Parliament. That is political! see the enemy, the miner, the not to interfere with the legitimThe court could just as easily est groups and the provinces all try environmentalist, the bureaucrat, I just cannot do it anymore. I’m ate and proper functioning of our going home and I’m pretty sure to influence the selection of judges have ruled that the law concernthe politician. We saw ourselves. democracy. ing the appointment of Supreme Most of all, I want to thank my the CEO of Yukon Energy will be whose known views and judicial relieved to hear that.

Court judges had also “evolved” to record is most likely to mirror caring community as well as my OK, Mr. Morrison, you won, make Justice Nadon’s appointment Rick Tone their own politics and interests. partner JP Pinard, who did not you got your legacy, your LNG valid. Certainly experts which the Whitehorse Even Justice Rosalie Abella, tell me last night that the Yukon

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Getting creamed for charity

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CIBC branch manager Christopher Tessier awaits another volley of whipped cream pie from financial advisor Lalena Marshall on Main Street last Friday. Tessier organized the event to raise money for the B.C. Children’s Hospital.

Cool the outrage over roadside hunting Yukon has been always a place where its inhabitants have hunted, fished, trapped and harvested.

Today we have the sad reality that there are people who have moved here that want to make us think we are a bunch of Neanderthals or something.

I raised my children on wild meat: moose, caribou, fish, and from time to time black bear.

I’m not a trophy hunter. I hunt for meat, so I have never hunted grizzly.

I’m not a fan of trophy hunting, but it does provide jobs, and adds money to our economy. As long as the trophy hunts are well managed to protect the populations of those hunted species, I’m OK with it.

The latest controversy on road hunting is a joke. There are many quiet back roads, such as the south and north Canol highways, the Robert Campbell Highway, Nahanni Range Road, etc. where many hunt outside of tourist season. These areas are hunted by many native and non-native who have mobility and disability issues. To close hunting by roadways would be so wrong.

This would also cause many more lazy, able-bodied, less experienced hunters to go deeper in the bush, and on river trips. That will cause more missing hunters, more wounded animals from poorly placed shots, and more risk to inexperienced people’s lives, and cost our taxpayers

more money on added search and rescue.

The two young men who killed the blond grizzly near Carcross last year were in such a situation. They spent much time and energy hunting in the bush for a grizzly, and happened upon the opportunity for this bear. To put them down for this situation shows very ignorant and poor judgement.

I watched this bear grow up.

So I was sad to see it go, but I understand it as a fact of hunting.

It was born north of Tagish and had a female sibling. This bear worked its way over four years towards Carcross, while its sibling (which is just as blond) worked its way towards Little Atlin Lake, where it still resides today. I saw her two days ago.

The genetic profile of the Carcross bear is still alive and well.

The mother has had several other cubs over her lifetime, and she’s still living in the Tagish area.

There is no danger of losing these bears. No more than five or six bears, black or grizzly, are annually taken off our roads, as documented by Yukon’s game branch, so this is not an epidemic.

What’s more, these hunts, both spring and fall, happen outside the tourist season. The Yukon government salts the bush over the summer to keep these animals away from the Alaska Highway in the summer months to cut down on human-wildlife conflicts, which is why, during

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need to go to the back roads, or do a river canoe trip.

To those who don’t the summer months, you see very believe in hunting and trapfew moose or grizzly along that ping, and continue to push your main artery. Tourists wanting to views: You don’t belong here, as see our wildlife soon learn they

hunting and trapping is part of the history of this territory, and I for one plan to keep that history alive and strong.

Doug Hamilton Marsh Lake

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Proposed ‘wage floor’ for temporary foreign workers concerns businesses Lee-Anne Goodman Canadian Press

OTTAWA he business community is reacting with apprehension to the federal government’s consideration of a so-called wage floor as it ponders new fixes to its troubled temporary foreign worker program.

At a closed-door meeting with stakeholders last week, Employment Minister Jason Kenney presented various options to tighten the program.

They included measures that would prevent companies from paying temporary foreign workers less than a set wage level, yet to be determined. That wage floor would be aimed at making it more difficult for employers such as low-paying fast-food restaurants to access the program, the stakeholders were told.

No final decisions on the proposals have been made, but one of those stakeholders was nonetheless unimpressed.

“Minister Kenney is not known to be a union sympathizer, but some of his recent language would make you wonder,” Dan Kelly, head of the Canadian Federation of Independent Business, said in an interview Friday.

Kenney has called upon businesses, particularly fast-food restaurants, to raise wages if they can’t find Canadian labour in their communities.

The latest proposals floated by his department have struck some in the business community as yet another startling example of traditionally business-friendly Conservatives interfering in how corporations choose to do business.

The wage floor idea essentially amounts to banning major sectors of the economy from hiring temporary foreign workers, including those in regions with labour shortages, Kelly charges.

“It would basically cut out large chunks of the labour force. Retail, hospitality, the service sector, the restaurant sector – these are Canada’s largest employers and the government appears to be tiering the program so that it’s only available to very highly skilled occupational categories.”

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Stephen Cryne, head of the Canadian Employee Relocation Council, is also uncomfortable about the wage floor.

“Leave it to market forces.” said Cryne, who was also at the meeting.

“There are lots of ways of doing that – collective bargaining, industry demand, economic cycles, those are the things that determine wage rates.”

Cryne added that he wonders why the government isn’t cracking down on the almost 60,000 workers, aged 18 to 35, who come to Canada every year under the International Experience Canada program without a skills assessment or wage regulations.

“If they want to close something up, isn’t that one area that they should looking at?”

Darrell Kopke, founder of consulting firm Institute B, works with several organizations that have had to hire temporary foreign workers due to a scarcity of local job ap-

Canadian companies currently face a $275 fee to apply to hire temporary foreign workers. In the U.S., employers can pay as much as $2,300 to access the American program.

The government also raised the possibility of exempting areas of the country with full employment from any crackdown measures.

Kenney has been on the hot seat for weeks as fresh allegations have surfaced about abuses of the temporary foreign worker program by various companies, but particularly those in the food services sector.

Adrian Wyld/The Canadian Press Last month, he placed a temEmployment Minister Jason Kenney responds during quesporary ban on restaurants that tion period in the House of Commons on Parliament Hill in prevents them from accessing the Ottawa on Tuesday. program and a new slate of rule plicants. the vast majority of jobs in Canada.” changes are going to be announced soon.

“The vast majority of businesses In the stakeholder meeting on The temporary foreign worker are small- to medium-sized busiThursday, government officials also nesses, and many of them struggle floated the possibility of significant- program has ballooned under the just to get by; it’s tough to do when ly higher fees for companies seeking Conservatives from about 100,000 people in 2002 to as many as you don’t have a workforce,” he said. temporary foreign workers. Those 338,000 now working across the “Let’s have better enforcement, fees would be on par with what country. In 2013 alone, Ottawa not abolishment. We need to be American companies are charged aware of the needs of the smallto hire such employees, the meeting approved approximately 240,000 business owners who are creating was told. temporary foreign workers.

33rd Yukon Legislative Assembly

33e Assemblée législative du Yukon

SELECT COMMITTEE REGARDING THE RISKS AND BENEFITS OF HYDRAULIC FRACTURING

COMITÉ SPÉCIAL D’EXAMEN DES RISQUES ET DES AVANTAGES DE LA FRACTURATION HYDRAULIQUE PRÉSENTATIONS PUBLIQUES Le comité spécial d’examen des risques et des avantages de la fracturation hydraulique a été établi par décret pris par l’Assemblée législative le 6 mai 2013 (motion n°433).

Le comité organise des présentations publiques les 27 et 28 mai dans la Chambre de l’Assemblée législative, à l’édifice administratif principal du gouvernement du Yukon, au 2071, 2e Avenue, à Whitehorse.

PUBLIC PROCEEDINGS The Select Committee Regarding the Risks and Benefits of Hydraulic Fracturing was established by Order of the Legislative Assembly on May 6, 2013 (Motion #433).

The Committee will be holding public proceedings May 27 and May 28 in the Legislative Assembly Chamber, located in Whitehorse in the Yukon Government Main Administration Building at 2071 2nd Avenue.

Le mardi, 27 mai 2014

Tuesday, May 27, 2014

8 h 30

Mark Jaccard, professeur, École de gestion des ressources et de l’environnement, Université Simon Fraser

10 h 30

Lalita Bharadwaj, professeure agrégée, toxicologue, École de santé publique, Université de la Saskatchewan

8:30 a.m.

Mark Jaccard, Professor, School of Resource and Environmental Management, Simon Fraser Universityd Northern Cross

10:30 a.m.

Lalita Bharadwaj, Associate Professor, Toxicologist, School of Public Health, University of Saskatchewan

Le mercredi, 28 mai 2014 8 h 30

Dr Brendan Hanley, médecin hygiéniste en chef du Yukon Dr Eilish Cleary, médecin hygiéniste en chef du NouveauBrunswick Dr Charl J. Badenhorst, médecin hygiéniste, ColombieBritannique nord-est

1 h 15

Donald Reid, zoologiste adjoint, spécialiste en conservation, Wildlife Conservation Society Canada

15 h 15

John Hogg, vice-président, MGM Energy Corp.

La diffusion en direct des audiences publiques est disponible à http://www.legassembly.gov.yk.ca et à la radio au 93,5 FM Pour de plus amples renseignements : Site web : http://www.legassembly.gov.yk.ca/fr/rbhf Courriel : rbhf@gov.yk.ca

Wednesday, May 28, 2014 8:30 a.m.

Dr. Brendan Hanley, Chief Medical Officer of Health, Yukon Dr. Eilish Cleary, Chief Medical Officer of Health, New Brunswick Dr. Charl J. Badenhorst, Regional Medical Health Officer, Northeast British Columbia

1:15 p.m.

Donald Reid, Associate Conservation Zoologist, Wildlife Conservation Society Canada

3:15 p.m.

John Hogg, Vice President, MGM Energy Corp.

Live broadcast is available at http://www.legassembly.gov.yk.ca and 93.5 FM For more information: Website: http://www.legassembly.gov.yk.ca/rbhf.html Email: rbhf@gov.yk.ca

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Wednesday, May 21, 2014

Internal survey blasts feds for missing database: the long form census Dean Beeby

complaints the government is opaque about information, citing in part its Open Government OTTAWA Action Plan, which includes the he Conservative government web posting of 200,000 data sets has touted the thousands of available for free download on data.gc.ca. databases it is making public as Last year, the department proof of its openness and transconsulted more than 80 users in parency. four cities about the website and But key data users in a Treaits trove of newly released digital sury Board survey complained about one giant database that has information – and heard widespread feedback about data missactually disappeared: the longing because of the demise of the form census, killed by the Harper government in 2011 and again for mandatory long-form census.

“At four of the five meetings, the 2016 census. large numbers of stakeholders Treasury Board President Tony raised concerns about the terClement has repeatedly rebuffed mination of the mandatory long form census,” says a report on the We sell trucks! consultations, obtained by The Canadian Press under the Access to Information Act. The complaints echo an audit last week from the auditor general of Canada, who found the voluntary National Household Survey in 2011 cost taxpayers $22 Ian Stewart/Yukon News million more than the mandatory President of the Treasury Board Tony Clement speaks long-form census it replaced – and www.drivingforce.ca at a Whitehorse Chamber of Commerce lunch in 2011. produced far less reliable data.

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required their input.”

Eaves, which surveyed 82 people in Vancouver, Edmonton, Ottawa and Montreal over five meetings, said a common theme was the request for government data that was geographically tagged with key identifiers, such postal codes.

“Connecting data to geography is one of the most popular uses, both for analysis and application development,” says the 13-page report from last June.

But users said they were spooked by a lawsuit launched by Canada Post against a small Ottawa company, Geolytica, claiming copyright on postal codes.

Through Geocoder.ca, Geolytica provides a downloadable database of postal codes that includes geographic boundary information. Canada Post launched its suit in March 2012, later claiming the phrase “postal code” is also a trademark.

“In addition to being a source of frustration and concern to researchers, many developers and private industry raised concerns Statistics Canada eventually demnation of the Harper govern- about the ‘chilling effect’ (the lawsuit) was having on their desire to withheld the release of survey data ment’s decision to kill the longform census, a decision it says was innovate with GC open data,” says for one of every four municipalities and other census sub-divisions made to protect citizens from state the report from Eaves Consulting, run by public-policy entrepreneur because of the poor quality of the intrusion.

David Eaves.

Clement himself attended at numbers.

The vast majority of datasets least one of the consulting ses“As a result of data not being available on data.gc.ca are from sions, in Ottawa a year ago. released due to quality concerns, Natural Resources Canada, repreThe analysis, commissioned potential users of this data for senting 96 per cent of the 193,000 from Eaves Consulting Ltd. for approximately 25 per cent of posted as of April 1. The depart$10,700, also blasted the website’s geographic areas do not have reliment’s vehicle fuel-consumption dysfunctional search tool. able National Household Survey “Almost without fail, the single ratings database has been the most data available for their use,” said greatest complaint about the Fed- downloaded, more than 700 times.

Michael Ferguson’s report.

Statistics Canada datasets are eral Government’s Open Data PorThe Treasury Board’s survey the next most common on the tal was the quality of its search,” last year of data.gc.ca users adds website, representing almost three says the document. fresh voices to the widespread conper cent.

“Participants talked of searchTreasury Board has since reing for datasets they knew existed but could not find without typing launched data.gc.ca, saying it has fixed most of the problems cited in an exact phrase or knowing a key the consultation sessions, includterm.” ing improved search functions and There were also complaints about the inadequacy of metadata quality of metadata.

“All feedback provided on and documentation, and the lack data.gc.ca is acknowledged and of answers or even acknowledgment when a user offered feedback responded to via email within our service standard of 24 hours,” through the site. added spokesperson Kelly James.

“Some stakeholders reported As of last week, the website that this (lack of communication) offered 200,273 data sets from 38 caused users to lose confidence in the site and other features that government departments.

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Wednesday, May 21, 2014

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Pushing clean heat for Yukon homes Jacqueline Ronson News Reporter

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lean energy geeks of Yukon gathered last week to talk about weening the territory off of its fossil fuel diet.

The two-day workshop was hosted by the Yukon Conservation Society, and focused on the potential for electric thermal storage, or ETS, to maximize our renewable resources.

Using heat to store electricity is not a new idea - it was first used in Europe after WWII - but the technologies have in recent years have become much more sophisticated.

At its most basic, an ETS device uses heating coils to warm up ceramic bricks in a wellinsulated casing. That energy is then released gradually as space heating.

The difference between using an ETS unit and regular baseboard heaters is that, while conventional heaters pull energy from the grid around the clock as needed, ETS units only pull from the grid either when demand is low, or supply of renewable power is high.

Energy demand on Yukon’s grid peaks in the morning, when people are getting up and ready for work, and again in the after work hours. Demand is much lower over the night.

So an ETS unit can charge - by heating up the ceramic bricks inside - overnight, and slowly release that heat to the home over the course of the day.

Switching Yukon homes from oil furnaces to ETS heat makes sense because they don’t pull electricity from the grid at times when spikes in demand require the use of diesel generators. They only pull energy when there is excess hydro power that would otherwise be spilled at the dam.

But do they make sense for consumers?

J.P. Pinard spent $17,000 to replace the oil furnace in his mid-sized Whitehorse home with an ETS unit, he told workshop participants and members of the public in a presentation last week.

Pinard is an engineer and renewable energy expert who is among those leading the push for ETS and wind power as an alternative to oil furnaces for home heating.

Yukon Energy will save money from Pinard’s ETS device, because heat for his home will not contribute to the spikes in power demand that require the utility to burn expensive diesel.

But Pinard won’t save money compared with what it would cost to heat the home with conventional electric heat. That’s because Yukon Energy and Yukon Electrical do not offer incentives to consume electricity during

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An electric thermal storage unit on display last Wednesday at the Gold Rush Inn. Ceramic bricks fit between the heating coils to absorb and store heat.

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J.P. Pinard speaks to the audience about the the benefits of electric thermal storage during an alternative energy workshop organized by the Yukon Conservation Society last week.

off-peak times.

Many jurisdictions do. In Ontario, for example, you pay 7.5 cents per kWh between 7 p.m. and 7 a.m. and between 11.2 and 13.5 cents per kWh during the day.

If Yukon had that sort of time-of-use pricing, it would incentivize the purchase of ETS devices because you could heat your house exclusively on cheap overnight power.

But in order for the utilities to provide time-of-use pricing, they would first have to install smart meters that know when power is being pulled to each house on

the grid.

Yukon doesn’t have smart meters, and they are expensive to install, especially in a small jurisdiction where there are few ratepayers to split the costs.

To date Yukon’s utilities have concluded that smart meters would not be a good investment for the territory.

But there are other ways to incentivize ETS heat.

In Summerside, P.E.I., the local utility offered a rebate on all electricity usage to homeowners who switched from oil heat to ETS. After installing the new

system, homeowners received a guaranteed electricity rate of 8 cents per kWh for five years, compared with the regular rate of 13 cents.

While the homeowners had to pay upfront for the ETS unit, the savings on their power bill result in an average payback of five years, according to Greg Gaudet, the town’s director of municipal services, who also presented in Whitehorse last week.

The plan made sense for the utility because it had an excess of wind power that, before ETS, was being sold at a loss to New Brunswick.

The utility gained revenue both from the sale of ETS units and the new heating customers on its grid.

Those homeowners who signed up will see dramatically lower heating costs after the fiveyear payback on their investment.

And 142 homes were moved off of fossil fuel heat, resulting in a 42 per cent drop in greenhouse gas emissions related to the energy consumption of those households.

Getting ETS to the Yukon on a large scale won’t be easy.

Yukon Electrical has looked at the technology as part of its demand-side management planning, but so far has not found that it makes sense economically, said Laura Carlson, the utility’s senior communications advisor, in an interview last week.

“It just didn’t fit into the economic models that we had.”

Part of the problem is, ironically, that currently the Yukon burns so little diesel to fuel its grid.

Only about one per cent of Yukon’s total electricity usage comes from diesel, including offgrid communities.

Lots of homes burn oil for home heating, but since that happens independent of Yukon’s utilities, it does not factor into their cost calculations.

And since Yukon Energy and Yukon Electrical are regulated by the Yukon Utilities Board, they cannot make any investment moving away from fossil fuels unless they can prove it would be in the best interest of ratepayers.

“We cannot get recovery on costs unless the board says that we can,” said Carlson. “So there’s risk there for us, if a project doesn’t get approved. It’s challenging for utilities to be the groups that are leading on the edge of new initiatives, because we don’t have any certainty of recovering those costs.”

That’s a problem, according to Pinard.

“That’s been really the big lacking issue in the utilities board mandate, is they just look at what protects the ratepayers in the short term, and not in the long run,” he said.

The solution is to form an independent partnership of individuals and groups interesting in promoting renewable energy, said Pinard.

The group would promote “the good of the community with a long term vision of protecting the community.”

And that means investing in renewable energy and moving away from fossil fuel, he said.

‘We are one of the luckiest jurisdictions in Canada, where we can still make a choice.”

Contact Jacqueline Ronson at jronson@yukon-news.com

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Wednesday, May 21, 2014

With pipeline decision looming, Ottawa tweaks tanker safety rules Dene Moore

ships anywhere in the world,” Transport Minister Lisa Raitt said in Saint John, N.B., far from the VANCOUVER eye of the oil tanker storm on the ith a decision expected West Coast. next month on the conten“We want to make sure that if tious Northern Gateway pipeline there is a spill … that it is not the through British Columbia, the Canadian taxpayer, that it is the federal government announced polluter who pays at the end of new measures last week to the day.” strengthen its oil-spill response The proposed changes failed to regime and placate a reluctant convert pipeline critics, who said public. the entire Canadian Ship-source Those changes include remov- Oil Pollution Fund wouldn’t ing a $161-million cap on payouts scratch the surface in a worst-case from a national oil spill compen- scenario spill off the B.C. coast. sation fund and making the entire “That’s really not good $400-million fund available to enough,” said Art Sterritt, excover the costs of a marine spill. ecutive director of Coastal First “With these changes, Canada Nations, a coalition of aboriginal will have the most robust and communities along the north and comprehensive liability and com- central B.C. coast that opposes pensation system for spills from the pipelines.

The changes offer no comfort to those concerned about the increased tanker traffic that would result from Northern Gateway or Kinder Morgan’s proposed Trans Mountain pipeline through central B.C. to Port Metro Vancouver, he said.

The unlimited liability of the fund was one of 45 recommendations from an expert panel on tanker safety that reported last fall.

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would almost triple the current capacity to Port Metro Vancouver, from 300,000 barrels a day to almost 900,000.

The two pipelines would see more than 600 additional oil tankers a year plying the B.C. coast.

The pipelines would contribute an estimated US$131 billion to Canada’s gross domestic product between 2016 and 2030, according to a University of Calgary study.

Tuesday’s legislation is the Gerald Herbert/AP Photo latest in a long list of changes Oil can be seen in the Gulf of Mexico as a large plume of introduced by the federal governsmoke rises from fires on BP’s Deepwater Horizon offshore ment since the Northern Gateway oil rig in 2010. project began to founder two total is available in compensation gime that is one of five conditions years ago.

The proposals would also and to cover damages in the event of provincial support for any oil allow for the use of chemical of a spill through the ship owners’ pipeline project. dispersants – measures that drew insurance, the domestic fund, and “There’s a long way to go the international Ship-source Oil toward implementation but when immediate fire from project opPollution Fund. Both are funded ponents. you consider where we were at by levies on the shipping industry. the beginning when we anDispersants are meant to break If all of those funds are exnounced our five conditions, and down oil but Karen Wristen, hausted, the federal government executive director of the environwhere we are now – specifically would pay compensation and with the federal government – we mental group Living Oceans, said then recover the money from evidence is mounting that they are feeling very pleased with the industry, she said. are more toxic than the oil itself. way in which they have worked Sterritt said taxpayers could “The only benefit to dispertoward our goals,” Polak said in still be on the hook. sants is that they make it difficult Victoria.

But B.C. Environment Ministo see an oil spill, by breaking it The $6.5-billion Northern ter Mary Polak called the changes Gateway project proposed by up and mixing it into the water a significant step toward the column,” said Wristen. “For the Calgary-based Enbridge would “world-class” marine safety retransport about 525,000 barrels a oil polluters – and apparently, the government – it’s out of sight, out day of diluted bitumen from the Alberta oil sands to the northern of mind.”

The new Yukon home of Sterritt agreed.

B.C. coast.

“It’s more of a cover-up than The $5.4-billion Trans Mouna clean-up because dispersant tain expansion proposed by Texas-based Kinder Morgan cleans up nothing,” he said.

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Tim Hortons celebrates 50 years, but faces new challenges beyond coffee David Friend

a marketing analyst at Winegard stacked with decades of memoand Company. rabilia like retro Timbits boxes and desserts that once graced “Any time you walk away TORONTO the menu. from the core promise to your s the candles burn out on While nostalgia runs through loyal customers, in the interTim Hortons’s 50th Anthe veins of Tim Hortons, stayest of attracting new customers niversary celebration, the iconic ing true to the company’s fa… you risk your diehards,” she Canadian brand is looking to mous image won’t be enough to said. avoid a mid-life crisis. keep it relevant as the $4.6-bilBut at the same time, “it’s no Saturday marked the official lion business of Canadian coffee longer adequate to say, ‘I’m a half-century birthday of the evolves, and competitors vie for coffee company.”’ original “Tim Horton Donuts” a bigger chunk of the market.

While Tim Hortons continrestaurant in Hamilton, Ont., Starbucks has spent years ues the fight for market share which opened on May 17, 1964, focused on an aggressive rollout in Canada, the company is also after it was renovated from an across most of the country, looking abroad for further auto repair garage. chasing the high-end coffee growth.

Starting from its modest drinker who prefers lattees and In February, Tim Hortons roots, the company, which took frappuccino while, more reannounced plans to open 300 its name from Toronto Maple cently, McDonalds began to lure new U.S. locations by 2018, Leafs player and founder Tim more cost-conscious customers which will add to the 870 Horton, has found a home with a cheaper brew and free restaurants already operating in seemingly every Canadian giveaways.

Alistair Maitland/Yukon News south of the border. neighbourhood and, in some Somewhere in the hustle, The Persian Gulf region is Previously enjoyed Tim Hortons coffee cups. places, nearly every street corTim Hortons lost some focus also in the sights for massive ner. as it dabbled in alternative food positions the company as a cof- fic that’s comparable to McDon- growth, as the company wants With more than 3,600 locaand drink items to mixed sucto boost the number of locaalds, its biggest competitor. fee spot foremost, but also the tions across the country, Tim cess. tions there from 44 to 200.

Tim Hortons had a 21.8 per home of various other items Hortons is at a crossroads beThe company launched The wider rollout will take cent share of quick-service that might not immediately tween maintaining its steadfast smoothies and frozen lemonsome patience and experimenrestaurant traffic in the three spring to mind, like the Extreme reputation and staying relevant ade drinks as an answer to the tation, Caira said. months ended in February, Italian sandwich and the crispy in an increasingly competitive broader selections of some of its “I’m not going to be evalujust slightly above McDonalds’ chicken sandwich. quick-service business where biggest competitors, and while ated one month at a time – this 21.7 per cent share in the same “(You need) to be able to coffee is just another menu they still remain on the menu, is a journey,” he said. period, the research found. have the consumer realize, item. a foray into larger submarine“We need to make (financial However, there can be a “Tim Hortons has done sized sandwiches didn’t last long ‘Hey, if I’m going to have a targets) every month, we need danger in trying to associate crispy chicken, maybe I’ll go to an impeccable job of managbefore it was yanked from the to make (them) every year, but an established brand with new the Tim Hortons, rather than ing their brand experience to offerings. products, said Brynn Winegard, we need to build.”

Burger King or KFC,”’ Caira date,” said Axle Davids, a brand In 2009, Tim Hortons dove said in a recent interview. strategist at Distility Branding into the frozen treats business in Toronto.

Tim Hortons is already makwith the installation of U.S. “It’s not splashy or cuttinging progress, Caira said, citing chain Cold Stone Creamery at edge – the name Tim Hortons research from the NPD Group, some of its Canadian restauand the brand are simply conwhich says the restaurant has rants. The concept failed to tainers for all of the hard work been generating lunchtime trafignite much interest, and five and loyalty they’ve built up over years later the ice cream bars time.” were torn out, at a cost of $19 visit mac’s A study from marketing million. underground... research firm Ipsos Reid found Despite some failed launches, that Tim Hortons ranked as the chief executive Marc Caira, to browse our great book sixth most influential brand in who started at the company deals, place special orders, the country last year, a promilast summer, believes there’s or pick up your topo maps! nence which is supported by potential to get more customers how instilled coffee slang like thinking about Tim Hortons the “double-double” has become during their lunch breaks. in Canadian culture.

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Robots and astronauts collide in Carcross Jesse Winter News Reporter

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tudents at the Ghuch Tla Community School in Carcross got an out-of-this-world surprise last week when Canadian astronaut David Saint-Jacques stopped in for a visit.

The spaceman spent the morning telling kids about his years-long training to become an astronaut, and answering questions about space flight and aliens.

After lunch, Saint-Jacques teamed up with Ben Sanders, from the Yukon Government’s tech and telecom development directorate (aka T2D2) and Tanyss Knowles, from BYTE, to build robots with the kids, who

then got to race them around the gymnasium.

The little gadgets consisted of a foam frame with two small electric wheels.

While they’re not as sophisticated as, say, the International Space Station’s Canadarm, Sanders said the idea is to find a way to get kids engaged in science beyond just memorizing periodic tables and math equations.

The robot building is part of a series of workshops T2D2 is hosting at community schools around the territory while it also engages with those communities to talk about 4G wireless networks and other tech-related wizardry.

Contact Jesse Winter at jessew@yukon-news.com

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Clockwise from the top: Zach Lennie (front) shows off his finished robot, with Jaqulin JamesBarrett, Nicky Charlie and Sage Smarch; Ben Sanders solders the wiring on Jaqulin JamesBarrett’s robot; Sheldon Beattie heads to the gymnasium with his robot at the Carcross community school; Nicky Charlie plays with her robot at the school in Carcross; Children from the Ghuch Tla Community School in Carcross listen as astronaut David Saint-Jacques tells them about how be became Canada’s newest spaceman.

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Prehistoric girl’s bones in underwater cave helps link ancient and native Americans Sheryl Ubelacker Canadian Press

TORONTO he pristine skeleton of a teenaged girl who lived about 13,000 years ago, discovered in a deep, water-filled underground cavern in the sprawling cave system in Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula, is providing archeologists with an unprecedented glimpse into the history of the early inhabitants of the Americas.

Given the name Naia, Greek for “water nymph,” the remains of the 15- or 16-year-old girl were found at the bottom of the boulder-strewn, underwater chamber dubbed Hoyo Negro – “black hole” in Spanish – along with the scattered bones of 26 large animal species, among them sabre-tooth tigers, giant ground sloths and cave bears.

“Sealed off by water and darkness for over 8,000 years, it is a time capsule of the environment and human life in central America at the end of the Ice Age, when glaciers across the globe trapped massive amounts of water as ice and sea level was far lower than it is today,” said American paleontologist Jim Chatters, head of an international research team investigating the site and its archeological treasures.

Chatters, the first scientist to study the prehistoric skeleton known as Kennewick Man that was found in Washington state in 1996, described Hoyo Negro as being like a miniature of California’s La Brea tar pits, “only without the tar and with considerably better preservation.”

At the time of Naia’s death, the caves would have been dry and accessible, he told a media teleconference. “Perhaps seeking fresh water in the dark passages, animals and at least one human fell into this inescapable … trap.”

Naia’s remains were discovered in 2007 by three Mexican cave divers exploring an underwater cavern, deep in the Yucatan jungle about eight kilometres from the Caribbean coast. In a 50-metre-deep sinkhole

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Divers Alberto Nava and Susan Bird transport the Hoyo Negro skull to an underwater turntable so that it can be photographed to create a 3-D model in an underwater cave in Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula.

within the cavern, the girl’s skull was resting on a boulder, “laying upsidedown with a perfect set of teeth and dark eye sockets looking back at us,” said diver Alberto Nava.

After the divers reported their find to the National Institute of Anthropology and History in Mexico, a consortium of 16 scientists and cave explorers from Mexico, the U.S. and Canada was formed in 2011 to photograph and document the site, and to collect fossilized flora and fauna samples for testing.

“A big part of it has just been trying to map the locations of things and get the shape of the tunnels and cavern, and mapping locations of human bones and animal bones,” said Ed Reinhardt, a professor of geography and earth sciences at McMaster University in Hamilton who is part of the research team. His role is studying microfossils, such as those of single-celled animals, and water salinity, within Hoyo Negro.

But beyond the stunning discovery of Naia’s skeletal remains in her watery grave, reported in the journal Science, is what DNA from her

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bones is telling researchers about the origins of the Western Hemisphere’s first peoples and their link to modern-day native Americans.

Based on carbon-dating and other chronology testing, the researchers estimate “the small, slight” girl lived between 12,000 and 13,000 years ago.

DNA was extracted from one of Naia’s teeth and scientists sequenced what’s called mitochondrial DNA, which is passed from mother to child.

The results show the girl is related, maternally at least, to today’s native Americans, meaning both would trace their lineage to Beringia – the land masses on either side of the ancient land bridge now covered by the Bering Sea that was used by prehistoric people to migrate from northeast Asia into what is now

Alaska and southward into Central and South America. Those first migrants have been dubbed the Clovis people.

Whether all early inhabitants of the Americas came across the Bering land bridge or somehow migrated from elsewhere in the world remains a controversial question because of the differences in skull shape and facial features among prehistoric fossilized remains discovered across the Americas and modern-day indigenous populations.

Naia’s skull shape and facial features are considered “Paleoamerican” and differ from native Americans living today in the Western Hemisphere.

“Because she exhibits the distinctive Paleoamerican skull and facial features, the study shows for the first time that Paleoamericans with these

distinctive features can have Beringian ancestry,” said Deborah Bolnick, a genomic anthropologist at the University of Texas at Austin.

Bolnick said the physical differences between them are likely due to evolutionary changes that occurred either in Beringia or in the Americas over the last 9,000 years, rather than the two groups having separate origins.

“Mitochondrial DNA for this individual does not exclude the possibility of separate ancestry for some Paleoamericans, but our results provide no evidence for an early migration to the Americas from other regions of the world – southeast Asia, Australia or Europe – as some have proposed,” she said.

“Instead, our results suggest that Paleoamericans and contemporary native Americans both have Beringian ancestry.”

Reinhardt of McMaster said Hoyo Negro, which is now off-limits to the public because unauthorized divers have disturbed the artifacts, said the cathedral-like site is breathtakingly beautiful, with crystal-clear water surrounded by white limestone walls.

But for Naia, who may have been seeking fresh water in the cavern and accidentally plunged into the sinkhole and could find no escape, it must have been a terrifying experience, he said.

“When we’re diving the site, it’s spectacular, but the reality is this pit was a bit of a house of horrors in the sense that you would drop and perhaps survive the fall but not have any light. You wouldn’t know the extent of the cavern. You’d be in a pool of water (at the bottom), kind of thrashing around trying to get out.

“Yeah, it would have been a pretty awful way to die for sure.”

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Consumers question safety of genetically modified foods as Vermont becomes first to label them

What they are GMOs are not really a “thing,” Nestle says, and that’s hard for the average consumer to grasp.

You can’t touch or feel a GMO. Genetically modified foods are plants or animals that have had genes copied from other plants or animals inserted into their DNA. It’s not a new idea – humans have been tinkering with genes for centuries through selective breeding. Think dogs bred to be more docile pets, cattle bred to be beefier or tomatoes bred to be sweeter. Turkeys were bred to have bigger breasts – better for Thanksgiving dinner.

What’s different about genetically modified or engineered foods is that the manipulation is done in a lab. Engineers don’t need to wait for nature to produce a desired gene; they speed up the process by transferring a gene from one plant or animal to another.

What are the desired traits?

Most of the nation’s corn and soybeans are genetically engineered to resist pests and herbicides. A papaya in Hawaii is modified to resist a virus. The FDA is considering an application from a Massachusetts company to approve a genetically engineered salmon that would grow faster than traditional salmon.

In your grocery cart

Jeff Barnard/AP Photo

Chuck Burr cultivates a row of onions on his organic seed farm outside Ashland, Oregon.

Mary Clare Jalonick

istration says they don’t need to be labeled, so the state of Vermont has moved forward on WASHINGTON its own. On Thursday, Gov. Peter enetically modified foods Shumlin signed legislation makhave been around for years, ing his state the first to require but most Americans have no labeling of genetically modified idea if they are eating them. organisms, or GMOs. What about the rest of the The Food and Drug AdminAssociated Press

G

country? And does labeling matter?

There’s a lot of confusion about genetically modified foods and their safety.

Some people feel very strongly about GMOs. Opponents, who at times have protested in the streets, say consumers

have the right to know whether their food contains GMOs. The Vermont law is their first major victory.

The food industry and companies that genetically engineer seeds have pushed back against the labeling laws, saying GMOs are safe and labels would be

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“It’s really polarizing,” says New York University’s Marion Nestle, a professor of nutrition and food studies. “There’s no middle ground.”

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Most of the genetically modified corn and soybeans are used in cattle feed, or are made into ingredients like corn oil, corn starch, high fructose corn syrup or soybean oil.

Even in some of those products, the manufacturing process itself may eventually remove some of the modified genes.

A few fruits and vegetables are engineered – the Hawaiian papaya and some squash and zucchini, for example. Only a small amount of sweet corn, the corn we eat, is genetically modified.

But there’s no genetically modified meat or fish, like the fast-growing salmon, currently in the market for human consumption; the Food and Drug Administration has yet to approve any.

tific research conducted so far has not detected “any significant hazard directly connected with the use of GM crops.”

One French research team raised safety questions, but their much-criticized 2012 study linking genetically modified corn to rat tumors was retracted in 2013 by the scientific publisher, who cited weak evidence supporting the conclusions.

Even the food police say they are safe: The Center for Science in the Public Interest, a well-known critic of food companies and artificial and unhealthy ingredients in foods, has not opposed genetically modified foods, on the basis that there’s no evidence they are harmful.

Though what we are eating now appears safe, the main concerns for the future would be new genetically engineered foods – from the United States or abroad – that somehow become allergenic or toxic through the engineering process. The FDA says the foods they have evaluated to this point have not been any more likely to cause an allergic or toxic reaction than foods from traditionally bred plants.

Unlike animals, the FDA is not required to approve genetically engineered crops for consumption. However, most companies will go through a voluntary safety review process with FDA before they put them on the market.

that are engineered to ward off pests or to tolerate herbicides, for example. And companies like Monsanto that produce modified seeds say their technologies will be needed to feed a rising world population as they engineer crops to adapt to certain climates

and terrains.

While most modified foods have so far been grown to resist chemicals, pests or disease, advocates envision engineering crops to make them more nutritious as well. Food animals have been engineered to be bred to be free of diseases, be cleaner in their environments or grow more efficiently, though none has yet been approved in the United States.

The politics

There is an escalating political fight between the labeling advocates and the food industry, which has dug in against labeling. In the absence of a federal labeling standard, GMO opponents have gone to the states to try to get a patchwork of labeling laws approved – a move that The benefits could eventually force a national standard.

Ballot measures in California There are clear benefits for the agricultural industry – the crops and Washington state failed, but

®

The future

speech on food packaging and food advertising that consumers are often buying things they think are GMO free when they are not,” says Scott Faber of the Environmental Working Group, which is pushing for the labels.

Faber and other labeling proponents say it’s about transparency, not technology. They say there is precedent, like orange juice labels that say whether the juice is from concentrate.

David Ropeik, the author of the book “How Risky Is It, Really? Why Our Fears Don’t Always Match the Facts,” says he thinks the food industry should endorse labeling so it can move past the debate.

“By supporting labeling, companies would say, ‘There’s no risk, we have nothing to hide,”’ he says.

He says people rightly or wrongly fear GMOs because they are more concerned about manmade risks than natural ones and the food industry’s control over what we eat.

“It’s a surrogate for a values war they have against big companies,” he says.

Safe or not, consumers are increasingly interested in what is in their food, including GMOs. “There’s so much confusing

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the legislative effort prevailed in Vermont. Maine and Connecticut also have passed laws requiring labels, but they don’t take effect unless other states follow suit. The food industry is widely expected to challenge the Vermont law in court.

The state efforts aren’t slowing down.

According to the National Conference of State Legislatures, there are 85 pending GMO labeling bills in 29 states.

In Congress, the food industry is pushing a House bill that would head off efforts to enact mandatory labeling of genetically modified ingredients by proposing new voluntary labels nationwide – an attempted end run around the state-by-state laws.

Currently, the FDA says labeling of genetically modified foods isn’t needed because the nutritional content is the same as non-GMO varieties.

“There’s so much confusing speech on food packaging and food advertising that consumers are often buying things they think are GMO free when they are not.”

The risks The vast majority of scientific research has found genetically engineered foods to be generally safe.

An Italian scientist’s review of 10 years of research, published in 2013, concluded that the scien-

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Consumers question safety of genetically modified foods as Vermont becomes first to label them

What they are GMOs are not really a “thing,” Nestle says, and that’s hard for the average consumer to grasp.

You can’t touch or feel a GMO. Genetically modified foods are plants or animals that have had genes copied from other plants or animals inserted into their DNA. It’s not a new idea – humans have been tinkering with genes for centuries through selective breeding. Think dogs bred to be more docile pets, cattle bred to be beefier or tomatoes bred to be sweeter. Turkeys were bred to have bigger breasts – better for Thanksgiving dinner.

What’s different about genetically modified or engineered foods is that the manipulation is done in a lab. Engineers don’t need to wait for nature to produce a desired gene; they speed up the process by transferring a gene from one plant or animal to another.

What are the desired traits?

Most of the nation’s corn and soybeans are genetically engineered to resist pests and herbicides. A papaya in Hawaii is modified to resist a virus. The FDA is considering an application from a Massachusetts company to approve a genetically engineered salmon that would grow faster than traditional salmon.

In your grocery cart

Jeff Barnard/AP Photo

Chuck Burr cultivates a row of onions on his organic seed farm outside Ashland, Oregon.

Mary Clare Jalonick

istration says they don’t need to be labeled, so the state of Vermont has moved forward on WASHINGTON its own. On Thursday, Gov. Peter enetically modified foods Shumlin signed legislation makhave been around for years, ing his state the first to require but most Americans have no labeling of genetically modified idea if they are eating them. organisms, or GMOs. What about the rest of the The Food and Drug AdminAssociated Press

G

country? And does labeling matter?

There’s a lot of confusion about genetically modified foods and their safety.

Some people feel very strongly about GMOs. Opponents, who at times have protested in the streets, say consumers

have the right to know whether their food contains GMOs. The Vermont law is their first major victory.

The food industry and companies that genetically engineer seeds have pushed back against the labeling laws, saying GMOs are safe and labels would be

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misleading.

“It’s really polarizing,” says New York University’s Marion Nestle, a professor of nutrition and food studies. “There’s no middle ground.”

A look at the debate and some of the facts about genetically modified foods:

Receive

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Most of the genetically modified corn and soybeans are used in cattle feed, or are made into ingredients like corn oil, corn starch, high fructose corn syrup or soybean oil.

Even in some of those products, the manufacturing process itself may eventually remove some of the modified genes.

A few fruits and vegetables are engineered – the Hawaiian papaya and some squash and zucchini, for example. Only a small amount of sweet corn, the corn we eat, is genetically modified.

But there’s no genetically modified meat or fish, like the fast-growing salmon, currently in the market for human consumption; the Food and Drug Administration has yet to approve any.

tific research conducted so far has not detected “any significant hazard directly connected with the use of GM crops.”

One French research team raised safety questions, but their much-criticized 2012 study linking genetically modified corn to rat tumors was retracted in 2013 by the scientific publisher, who cited weak evidence supporting the conclusions.

Even the food police say they are safe: The Center for Science in the Public Interest, a well-known critic of food companies and artificial and unhealthy ingredients in foods, has not opposed genetically modified foods, on the basis that there’s no evidence they are harmful.

Though what we are eating now appears safe, the main concerns for the future would be new genetically engineered foods – from the United States or abroad – that somehow become allergenic or toxic through the engineering process. The FDA says the foods they have evaluated to this point have not been any more likely to cause an allergic or toxic reaction than foods from traditionally bred plants.

Unlike animals, the FDA is not required to approve genetically engineered crops for consumption. However, most companies will go through a voluntary safety review process with FDA before they put them on the market.

that are engineered to ward off pests or to tolerate herbicides, for example. And companies like Monsanto that produce modified seeds say their technologies will be needed to feed a rising world population as they engineer crops to adapt to certain climates

and terrains.

While most modified foods have so far been grown to resist chemicals, pests or disease, advocates envision engineering crops to make them more nutritious as well. Food animals have been engineered to be bred to be free of diseases, be cleaner in their environments or grow more efficiently, though none has yet been approved in the United States.

The politics

There is an escalating political fight between the labeling advocates and the food industry, which has dug in against labeling. In the absence of a federal labeling standard, GMO opponents have gone to the states to try to get a patchwork of labeling laws approved – a move that The benefits could eventually force a national standard.

Ballot measures in California There are clear benefits for the agricultural industry – the crops and Washington state failed, but

®

The future

speech on food packaging and food advertising that consumers are often buying things they think are GMO free when they are not,” says Scott Faber of the Environmental Working Group, which is pushing for the labels.

Faber and other labeling proponents say it’s about transparency, not technology. They say there is precedent, like orange juice labels that say whether the juice is from concentrate.

David Ropeik, the author of the book “How Risky Is It, Really? Why Our Fears Don’t Always Match the Facts,” says he thinks the food industry should endorse labeling so it can move past the debate.

“By supporting labeling, companies would say, ‘There’s no risk, we have nothing to hide,”’ he says.

He says people rightly or wrongly fear GMOs because they are more concerned about manmade risks than natural ones and the food industry’s control over what we eat.

“It’s a surrogate for a values war they have against big companies,” he says.

Safe or not, consumers are increasingly interested in what is in their food, including GMOs. “There’s so much confusing

Certified

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$ online at

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Medical Practice

Closure

Whitehorse Medical Services regretfully announces the closure of the Medical Practice of Dr.s’ Todd/Tierney.

This closure is effective August 15th, 2014 unless we are fortunate enough to find a replacement for the practice before that date.

The Management

Lions Clubs

of Whitehorse Society

The Purina Walk for Guide Dogs Sunday, May 25th Registration is 1:00pm at Rotary Park.

The walk starts at 2:00pm on the Millennium Trail.

Sponsored by the

Our goal is to raise $10,000 through donations, silent auction, and local sponsors.

Visit our website for more info:

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the legislative effort prevailed in Vermont. Maine and Connecticut also have passed laws requiring labels, but they don’t take effect unless other states follow suit. The food industry is widely expected to challenge the Vermont law in court.

The state efforts aren’t slowing down.

According to the National Conference of State Legislatures, there are 85 pending GMO labeling bills in 29 states.

In Congress, the food industry is pushing a House bill that would head off efforts to enact mandatory labeling of genetically modified ingredients by proposing new voluntary labels nationwide – an attempted end run around the state-by-state laws.

Currently, the FDA says labeling of genetically modified foods isn’t needed because the nutritional content is the same as non-GMO varieties.

“There’s so much confusing speech on food packaging and food advertising that consumers are often buying things they think are GMO free when they are not.”

The risks The vast majority of scientific research has found genetically engineered foods to be generally safe.

An Italian scientist’s review of 10 years of research, published in 2013, concluded that the scien-

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The following are a handful of preventative measures that can help exercise enthusiasts avoid injury as they attempt to get or stay fit in the great outdoors. * Study the terrain. Part of the danger of exercising outdoors is that, unlike a gym fitted with machines designed for the sole purpose of exercise, nature’s terrain is unpredictable. Safety features you take for granted at the gym, such as padded floors, are nonexistent outdoors. In addition, certain areas in nature might not be suitable to all athletes. For example, mountain biking is a popular sport, but not all mountain biking trails are the same. Some trails are ideal for beginners, while others are best ridden by more seasoned riders.

When your outdoor exercise regimen will be taking you off the beaten path, be sure you know the terrain before you start your workout. Speak with fellow outdoor enthusiasts about which trails or courses are best for someone of your skill level and adhere to their recommendations. When exercising on a trail for the first time, bring a friend along so someone can go get help should an accident happen. * Stay hydrated. Dehydration is another cause of injury when athletes exercise in the great outdoors. When exercising outdoors, be sure to bring along enough water so you can stay hydrated regardless of how far away from civilization you may find yourself. * Honestly assess your abilities. When exercising outdoors, it’s easy to overdo it. Warm air and sunshine have a way of encouraging athletes to prolong their workout routines or push themselves a

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any people take advantage of nice weather by exercising in the great outdoors. Some might skip the treadmill at the gym in favour of running at the park, while others join recreational sports leagues for some exercise and fun in the sun.

But exercising outdoors carries its share of risk. Unlike gyms, where machinery clearly advises members about proper form and warns against lifting excessive weight, Mother Nature comes with no such warning labels. As a result, it’s up to people to make injury prevention a priority when taking their exercise routine outside.

The following are a handful of preventative measures that can help exercise enthusiasts avoid injury as they attempt to get or stay fit in the great outdoors. * Study the terrain. Part of the danger of exercising outdoors is that, unlike a gym fitted with machines designed for the sole purpose of exercise, nature’s terrain is unpredictable. Safety features you take for granted at the gym, such as padded floors, are nonexistent outdoors. In addition, certain areas in nature might not be suitable to all athletes. For example, mountain biking is a popular sport, but not all mountain biking trails are the same. Some trails are ideal for beginners, while others are best ridden by more seasoned riders.

When your outdoor exercise regimen will be taking you off the beaten path, be sure you know the terrain before you start your workout. Speak with fellow outdoor enthusiasts about which trails or courses are best for someone of your skill level and adhere to their recommendations. When exercising on a trail for the first time, bring a friend along so someone can go get help should an accident happen. * Stay hydrated. Dehydration is another cause of injury when athletes exercise in the great outdoors. When exercising outdoors, be sure to bring along enough water so you can stay hydrated regardless of how far away from civilization you may find yourself. * Honestly assess your abilities. When exercising outdoors, it’s easy to overdo it. Warm air and sunshine have a way of encouraging athletes to prolong their workout routines or push themselves a

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Let the bringer of children beware

by Judith Martin

MISS

MANNERS DEAR MISS MANNERS: How would one interpret an invitation that states, “his is an adult-oriented event. Chaperoned children are welcome”?

GENLE READER: “We really don’t want children at the party, but if you bring them anyway, they’d better not be loud or break anything.” ****** DEAR MISS MANNERS: I take the train to New York City to work and the ride is approximately an hour. Yesterday a man sitting next to me played with a bunch of coins the entire time — moving them from one hand to the other, making an annoying noise.

Because the train ride is relatively short and I don’t feel it’s my place to ask others to stop, I said nothing. But if the train ride were, say, two hours, I would have lost my mind if I hadn’t asked him to stop. Does the duration of the infraction affect how impolite it would be for me to ask the man to stop?

GENLE READER: No, only if your mounting irritation might make your reaction uncivil. If you find the noise unbearable, try gently warning the gentleman that especially in New York it’s never a good idea to draw attention to one’s money. If he’s a true New Yorker, he will be so wounded by the insinuation that he is not a native that Miss Manners trusts he will be silenced into submission by the shock. ****** DEAR MISS MANNERS: My younger brother is half-African American. His fair wife is AngloIrish. hey have three small sons, all blond and blue-eyed.

My brother takes them out on Saturday mornings so his wife can sleep in, and as no good deed goes unpunished, on these outings he is often accosted by strangers demanding to know the parentage of the children and denying they could possibly be his. He is usually quite patient and good-natured, but occasionally the queries become vehemently accusatory, as if he is suspected of abducting the wee laddies and nefariously nannying them in the coffeehouse, grocery store or park.

One never wishes to be rude, and so one turns to Miss Manners, to seek an effective rebuff.

GENLE READER: If these inquiries are becoming attacks, your brother would be more than justified to say, “I’m sorry, but you are upsetting my children” as he changes seats or hurries the little

ones off in another direction. his should make it obvious that it is the accusers, and not he, who is the real threat to his children’s wellbeing.

As a side note, Miss Manners can’t help but caution you against the mindset that refers to a fatherly outing as a “good deed.” A parent does not baby-sit his own children, but one who thinks he does could well lead others to suspicions of his being a stranger to them.

DEAR MISS MANNERS: I work as a secretary at an English department. Somewhat to my surprise, we have been besieged by fringe “academics” who are very adamant that we are part of a conspiracy to cover up the fact that Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford, was Shakespeare. he professors understandably do not wish to waste their time on this. I personally think the “authorship question” is an incredibly stupid and classist one, but as I am not credentialed, just the person handling incoming general mail, I am not sure what to say.

GENLE READER: Have you thought of responding that you are all wild-eyed revolutionaries, determined to suppress an aristocratic genius in favor of a plebeian hack?

No, Miss Manners supposes not. Conspiracy theorists are not known for their sense of humor, and inflaming them would only waste your own time. hese letters are not academic challenges; they are accusations.

What you need is not a response, but a crank file. ****** DEAR MISS MANNERS: With all the read-a-thons, walk-a-thons, bike-a-thons, bowl-a-thons, etc., I’m frequently asked to make donations and often do so. More often than not, the request is in the form of an email and a link to a website where I can make a donation.

For the past 15 years, I’ve been fundraising myself for a number of charities by participating in multiday bicycle rides. I send out letters and emails with requests for funds.

When I get a donation, I make sure that I at least send an email to the donor. After the event, I write a letter recapping the event. I’m often complimented on the letter. I also bake goodies at Christmas to give to the donors I can easily reach.

Since I know the effort it takes to raise funds, I give donations to others, including people participating in the same event. I don’t expect the same amount of effort I do in responding to my donors, but I’m always a bit disappointed when I don’t have my gift acknowledged.

Last year I made a donation to another high-profile rider who sent out an email asking for donations since he was having problems raising the minimum. I responded, and noticed later that he went way beyond the minimum required to

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participate. I’m certain he was notified of my donation, since the ride sends out emails to the participants when they receive a gift. We saw each other several times while on the ride and he said nothing.

Finally, I approached him and told him, “You’re welcome.” His response was along the lines that he sends out all thank-yous at one time after the ride. I never got one.

Am I assuming too much when I expect some form of acknowledgment from the participant when I make a donation?

GENLE READER: he dark side of philanthropy is the widespread notion that being charitable excuses one from practicing other virtues.

A frankly taught technique of charitable fundraising is causing embarrassment. And if it weren’t organizations being required to acknowledge donations for tax purposes, donors would hear nothing from their beneficiaries except repeated requests for more.

Miss Manners is sorry to find that you are not only the victim of this attitude, but also a perpetrator.

Your donation did not excuse the rudeness of confronting the recipient with his ingratitude.

DEAR MISS MANNERS: I am an American student doing my Ph.D. in Great Britain and working in a bookstore part-time. Over the last year, I have been insulted several times at work because of my nationality and American foreign policy.

My boss says I am allowed to say what I wish to those who offend me with these small-minded remarks, but I can’t think of a response that will be polite and dignified. Can you suggest anything?

GENLE READER: When your British boss suggested you say “what you wish,” Miss Manners fears he did not have in mind something polite and dignified. She is grateful that you do. his is not a discussion that once begun, ends well. Even if you disagree with the American policy in question, it would be disloyal to endorse anti-American sentiment. Yet if you disagree with the customer, you will be called cheeky or rude, probably with an additional antiAmerican sneer. he best response is, “Can I help you find something?” accompanied by a chilly smile. ******

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My fiance’s mother is driving me nuts because she would like to wear a ballgown that is bigger than my dress and has a large amount of jewels and gems on the dress.

I believe that she should look elegant and subdued to match my mother’s dress, but she feels she will look matronly. She wants to dress very fancy, but I believe that she is trying to purposely be the center of attention, therefore outshining my mother and also trying to pull attention off of me and onto her.

I know she wants to look good and she does look amazing for her age (51), but I believe this is not the appropriate place. I have talked to her several times and told her that I want her to look elegant and not brothel-esque. I told her no strapless and nothing with too much beading or sequins because she will make my mom look underdressed, and it will seem like the dress is over the top, and she keeps showing me the exact opposite.

Am I being a bridezilla or do I have any merit? How should I ap-

proach the situation?

GENLE READER: By turning around. Instead of approaching, you should be backing off. As you are understandably worried about going over the bend, Miss Manners must tell you the danger signals.

One is believing that you are in total charge of costuming. You can set the standard of formality for your guests and hope for the best; you can state your wishes to the bridesmaids and hope that they consent. You may even be able to dictate to the bridegroom. But to attempt doing so to his mother is as impertinent as it is useless. She is an adult and will use her own judgment, good or bad.

An even worse sign is worrying that someone else will outshine you. here is unlikely to be an occasion in your life when you can be as sure of being the center of attention as at your wedding.

But is that really what will be foremost on your mind when you are being married?

(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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First-ever Tour de Skagway a hit with cyclists

Tom Patrick/Yukon News

Whitehorse’s Stephen Ball leads the peloton in the 81-kilometre road race on Saturday.

Tom Patrick/Yukon News

Expert men riders race in the first stage of the Tour de Skagway outside Fraser, B.C., on Saturday. The inaugural tour event featured three races in two days.

Tom Patrick News Reporter

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ukon road cyclists got a change of scenery over the weekend, some of it in Skagway, some of it in B.C. Cyclists from Yukon and Alaska took part in the inaugural Tour de Skagway, a three-race, two-day event hosted by the U Kon Echelon Cycling Club.

“We had a lot of youth participation, which is my goal,” said U Kon Echelon director Trena Irving. “But I love to see those fast guys out because the younger kids look up to them. So I make sure to thank them and say, ‘Thank you for coming out because that’s what those young guys want to be like, they aspire to be like you. You show them how to do it.’”

The Skagway Hill Climb, a grueling 20-kilometre ride from just outside downtown Skagway up 1,000 metres in altitude to the White Pass summit, has been held annually for years. This year it was sandwiched between a road race and a time trial. The road race ran 81 kilometres from Fraser, B.C. to the B.C.-Yukon border and back, for the expert riders. (Sport and youth riders did just one way.)

Sunday’s time trial went from

the summit to Canada Customs in Fraser and back, for experts, and one way for sport and youth.

“It was excellent,” said Whitehorse’s Ian Parker. “It was great to ride on some different terrains and different roads, to see some of the Skagway folks out.”

Parker topped the inaugural tour with top times in the road race and hill climb, taking the expert men’s crown.

Skagway’s Spenser Morgan placed second and Whitehorse’s Stephen Ball third in the expert men tour.

“I think it’s good they are organizing races in different areas,” said Ball. “They had the one in Haines Junction (the previous weekend) and now three in Skagway. It’s a good change … It’s good having different races.”

Morgan placed second in the hill climb and first in the 21-kilometre time trial. He placed ninth in the road race after getting tangled up with U23 tour winner Shea Hoffman, who had to withdraw from the race due to damage to his bike.

Morgan at first headed back to the start line but then decided to tough it out and keep going.

“Spenser Morgan had a bad crash, his bike was banged up,

he was banged up,” said Parker.

“He started heading back towards home (and then turned around) and finished it. He said, ‘I didn’t want to tell my daughter I quit.’ I thought that was great.”

“He said, ‘I’m not a quitter, I’m going to finish the race,’” said Irving, who won the expert women division. “Spenser’s bike was pretty messed up, but good enough to still ride. He ended up heading back but turned around and caught me within half an hour and blasted past me.”

Yukon’s David Jackson placed first in under-17 boys for the tour; Jodi Cox first in sport women ahead of Simi Morrison; Johna Irving-Staley came first for under-six boys; Ava Irving-Staley was first for under-13 girls.

Marsh Lake’s Cauis TaggartCox placed first in only one event, but the 10-minutes he beat his brothers by in the road race was enough to take first in the tour for under-13 boys. Micah TaggartCox came second and Lucas Taggart-Cox third.

“Lucas was seven last year and Tom Patrick/Yukon News

Whitehorse’s Aaron Foos holds the front spot during Saturday’s road race. Foos placed second in the race.

tried the (hill) climb and made it as far as the bridge,” said Parker.

“This year, at eight, he completed the climb … he was so stoked, he had a big smile on his face. To me, that’s why you do stuff like this.”

Irving is holding the Yukon High School Bike Race – a mountain bike race – at the Takhini Hot Springs on Wednesday. It will be followed by a U Kon Echelon race open to the public from the Yukon Wildlife Preserve to the North Klondike Highway and back, beginning at 6 p.m.

“I’m glad someone is keeping road racing alive in Yukon right now,” said Parker. “Mountain biking is on a huge upswing, and that’s great, everyone is stoked on that. But there’s a smaller, hardy group keeping the road scene going, and Trena has a lot to do with that.”

Contact Tom Patrick at tomp@yukon-news.com

Results Road race (81 kilometres) 1st Ian Parker – 2:26:10 (expert men) 2nd Aaron Foos – 2:26:14 (expert men) 3rd Joel Macht – 2:26:16 (expert men) 4th Stephen Ball – 2:26:20 (expert men) 5th Sean McCaron – 2:28:09 (expert men) 6th Rob Reese – 2:41:44 (expert men) 7th Paul Drduyck – 2:41:46 (ex-

pert men) 8th Spenser Morgan – 2:46:57 (expert men) 9th Geof Harries – 3:09:55 (expert men) Shea Hoffman – DNF (U23 male) 1st Trena Irving – 3:19:25 (expert women) Road race (41 kilometres) 1st Cauis Taggart-Cox – 1:47:50 (U13 male) 2nd Micah Taggart-Cox – 2:02:24 (U13 male) 3rd Lucas Taggart-Cox – 2:09:21 (U13 male) 1st Malcolm Taggart – 1:36:29 (sport men) 1st Jody Cox – 1:38:33 (sport women) 2nd Simi Morrison – 1:39:15 (sport women)

1st Trena Irving – 1:23:16 (expert women) 1st Shea Hoffman – 1:07.08 (U23 male) 1st Micah Taggart-Cox – 1:20:15 (U13 male) 2nd Cauis Taggart-Cox – 1:25:15 (U13 male) 3rd Lucas Taggart-Cox – 1:44:42 (U13 male) 1st Malcolm Taggart – 1:29: 51 (sport men) 1st Simi Morrison – 1:31:04 (sport women) 2nd Jody Cox – 1:32:46 (sport women) 1st David Jackson – 1:40:05 (U17 male) 1st Ava Staley (U13 female) Time trial (21 kilometres)

1st Ava Staley – 1:10 (U13 female) 1st Johna Staley – 1:10 (U6 male) Peter Staley – 1:10 (support rider)

1st Spenser Morgan – 41:57 (expert men) 2nd Ian Parker – 43:46 (expert men) 1st Trena Irving – 49.10 (expert women) 1st Shea Hoffman – 47:01 (U23 male) 1st David Jackson – 1:06:03 (U17 male)

Hill climb (20 kilometres)

Time trial (11 kilometres)

1st Ian Parker – 55:57 (expert men) 2nd Spenser Morgan – 56:15 (expert men) 3rd Stephen Ball – 59:51 (expert men) 4th Rob Reese – 1:09:59 (expert men)

1st Micah Taggart-Cox – 17:29 (U13 male) 2nd Lucas Taggart-Cox – 19:17 (U13 male) 3rd Cauis Taggart-Cox – 19:18 (U13 male) 1st Malcolm Taggart – 16:09 (sport men)

Road race (10 kilometres)

1st Jody Cox – 17:46 (sport women) 1st Ava Staley – 36:50 (U13 female)

1st Johna Staley – 43:38 (U6 boys) Peter Staley – 43:38 (support rider)

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First-ever Tour de Skagway a hit with cyclists

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Whitehorse’s Stephen Ball leads the peloton in the 81-kilometre road race on Saturday.

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Expert men riders race in the first stage of the Tour de Skagway outside Fraser, B.C., on Saturday. The inaugural tour event featured three races in two days.

Tom Patrick News Reporter

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ukon road cyclists got a change of scenery over the weekend, some of it in Skagway, some of it in B.C. Cyclists from Yukon and Alaska took part in the inaugural Tour de Skagway, a three-race, two-day event hosted by the U Kon Echelon Cycling Club.

“We had a lot of youth participation, which is my goal,” said U Kon Echelon director Trena Irving. “But I love to see those fast guys out because the younger kids look up to them. So I make sure to thank them and say, ‘Thank you for coming out because that’s what those young guys want to be like, they aspire to be like you. You show them how to do it.’”

The Skagway Hill Climb, a grueling 20-kilometre ride from just outside downtown Skagway up 1,000 metres in altitude to the White Pass summit, has been held annually for years. This year it was sandwiched between a road race and a time trial. The road race ran 81 kilometres from Fraser, B.C. to the B.C.-Yukon border and back, for the expert riders. (Sport and youth riders did just one way.)

Sunday’s time trial went from

the summit to Canada Customs in Fraser and back, for experts, and one way for sport and youth.

“It was excellent,” said Whitehorse’s Ian Parker. “It was great to ride on some different terrains and different roads, to see some of the Skagway folks out.”

Parker topped the inaugural tour with top times in the road race and hill climb, taking the expert men’s crown.

Skagway’s Spenser Morgan placed second and Whitehorse’s Stephen Ball third in the expert men tour.

“I think it’s good they are organizing races in different areas,” said Ball. “They had the one in Haines Junction (the previous weekend) and now three in Skagway. It’s a good change … It’s good having different races.”

Morgan placed second in the hill climb and first in the 21-kilometre time trial. He placed ninth in the road race after getting tangled up with U23 tour winner Shea Hoffman, who had to withdraw from the race due to damage to his bike.

Morgan at first headed back to the start line but then decided to tough it out and keep going.

“Spenser Morgan had a bad crash, his bike was banged up,

he was banged up,” said Parker.

“He started heading back towards home (and then turned around) and finished it. He said, ‘I didn’t want to tell my daughter I quit.’ I thought that was great.”

“He said, ‘I’m not a quitter, I’m going to finish the race,’” said Irving, who won the expert women division. “Spenser’s bike was pretty messed up, but good enough to still ride. He ended up heading back but turned around and caught me within half an hour and blasted past me.”

Yukon’s David Jackson placed first in under-17 boys for the tour; Jodi Cox first in sport women ahead of Simi Morrison; Johna Irving-Staley came first for under-six boys; Ava Irving-Staley was first for under-13 girls.

Marsh Lake’s Cauis TaggartCox placed first in only one event, but the 10-minutes he beat his brothers by in the road race was enough to take first in the tour for under-13 boys. Micah TaggartCox came second and Lucas Taggart-Cox third.

“Lucas was seven last year and Tom Patrick/Yukon News

Whitehorse’s Aaron Foos holds the front spot during Saturday’s road race. Foos placed second in the race.

tried the (hill) climb and made it as far as the bridge,” said Parker.

“This year, at eight, he completed the climb … he was so stoked, he had a big smile on his face. To me, that’s why you do stuff like this.”

Irving is holding the Yukon High School Bike Race – a mountain bike race – at the Takhini Hot Springs on Wednesday. It will be followed by a U Kon Echelon race open to the public from the Yukon Wildlife Preserve to the North Klondike Highway and back, beginning at 6 p.m.

“I’m glad someone is keeping road racing alive in Yukon right now,” said Parker. “Mountain biking is on a huge upswing, and that’s great, everyone is stoked on that. But there’s a smaller, hardy group keeping the road scene going, and Trena has a lot to do with that.”

Contact Tom Patrick at tomp@yukon-news.com

Results Road race (81 kilometres) 1st Ian Parker – 2:26:10 (expert men) 2nd Aaron Foos – 2:26:14 (expert men) 3rd Joel Macht – 2:26:16 (expert men) 4th Stephen Ball – 2:26:20 (expert men) 5th Sean McCaron – 2:28:09 (expert men) 6th Rob Reese – 2:41:44 (expert men) 7th Paul Drduyck – 2:41:46 (ex-

pert men) 8th Spenser Morgan – 2:46:57 (expert men) 9th Geof Harries – 3:09:55 (expert men) Shea Hoffman – DNF (U23 male) 1st Trena Irving – 3:19:25 (expert women) Road race (41 kilometres) 1st Cauis Taggart-Cox – 1:47:50 (U13 male) 2nd Micah Taggart-Cox – 2:02:24 (U13 male) 3rd Lucas Taggart-Cox – 2:09:21 (U13 male) 1st Malcolm Taggart – 1:36:29 (sport men) 1st Jody Cox – 1:38:33 (sport women) 2nd Simi Morrison – 1:39:15 (sport women)

1st Trena Irving – 1:23:16 (expert women) 1st Shea Hoffman – 1:07.08 (U23 male) 1st Micah Taggart-Cox – 1:20:15 (U13 male) 2nd Cauis Taggart-Cox – 1:25:15 (U13 male) 3rd Lucas Taggart-Cox – 1:44:42 (U13 male) 1st Malcolm Taggart – 1:29: 51 (sport men) 1st Simi Morrison – 1:31:04 (sport women) 2nd Jody Cox – 1:32:46 (sport women) 1st David Jackson – 1:40:05 (U17 male) 1st Ava Staley (U13 female) Time trial (21 kilometres)

1st Ava Staley – 1:10 (U13 female) 1st Johna Staley – 1:10 (U6 male) Peter Staley – 1:10 (support rider)

1st Spenser Morgan – 41:57 (expert men) 2nd Ian Parker – 43:46 (expert men) 1st Trena Irving – 49.10 (expert women) 1st Shea Hoffman – 47:01 (U23 male) 1st David Jackson – 1:06:03 (U17 male)

Hill climb (20 kilometres)

Time trial (11 kilometres)

1st Ian Parker – 55:57 (expert men) 2nd Spenser Morgan – 56:15 (expert men) 3rd Stephen Ball – 59:51 (expert men) 4th Rob Reese – 1:09:59 (expert men)

1st Micah Taggart-Cox – 17:29 (U13 male) 2nd Lucas Taggart-Cox – 19:17 (U13 male) 3rd Cauis Taggart-Cox – 19:18 (U13 male) 1st Malcolm Taggart – 16:09 (sport men)

Road race (10 kilometres)

1st Jody Cox – 17:46 (sport women) 1st Ava Staley – 36:50 (U13 female)

1st Johna Staley – 43:38 (U6 boys) Peter Staley – 43:38 (support rider)

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Pettitt skates away with gold at Super Series Tom Patrick News Reporter

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rctic Edge skater Rachel Pettitt won gold over the weekend with plenty of room to spare.

The 15-year-old laid down two clean routines to claim the top spot in the novice ladies 2014 Super Series Victoria Day competition in Surrey, B.C. Her routines were so clean, in fact, the second place finisher wasn’t even close.

“I had really good training leading up to it, probably the best training I’ve ever had,” said Pettitt. “It was very efficient. My training has been super good, so I was pretty confident going in. I had a really good short (program) I was happy with …

“My long was just amazing, it was the best long I’ve ever had. I had a clean program, so I landed three triples. Overall it was so good, I was so happy.”

Pettitt, who was the only skater from Yukon’s Arctic Edge Skating Club, placed first in the short and in the long for first overall out of 14 skaters.

She posted a personal best in her long and in her combined score.

“I pretty much got my personal best by almost 15 points,” said Pettitt. “It’s a huge accomplishment.”

“I had two clean programs, which I’ve never done in competition,” she added.

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Arctic Edge skater Rachel Pettitt competes at the 2014 Super Series Victoria Day competition in Surrey, B.C., this past weekend. Pettitt took gold in the novice ladies division.

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bined score of 109.15, almost a full 20 points ahead of second place’s Ajsha Gorman of Kelowna with an 89.20.

All her triples in both routines – including a tripletoe-double-toe, triple-sal and triple-toe in her long program – went off without a hitch.

She also nailed double axels in both routines.

“I’m pleased she went out and was able to do what she can do,” said mom and Arctic Edge coach Trish Pettitt. “It’s a good feeling when they do.

They work hard to train to do that under pressure.”

Rachel captured gold in novice ladies at the 2014 B.C. Coast Region Championships WinterSkate in February to start the new season.

She finished last season with sixth overall in novice women at the Skate Canada’s BC/YT Sectional Championships in November. By missing the top-four, Rachel didn’t qualify for the Canadian Figure Skating Championships.

“My jumps have been really consistent, so I had a lot of clean run-throughs in my practices,” said Rachel.

“I haven’t had this in a long time, after how my season ended.”

Rachel was the first Yukoner to win Skate B.C.’s Super Series season-long competition in pre-novice in 2012.

She qualified for the Skate Canada Challenge national championship after becoming the first Yukoner to win gold at the BC/YT Sectional Championships in 2012. She placed fourth in pre-novice against 55 skaters at the nationals that year, which marks the highest finish by a Yukon skater at the event.

Contact Tom Patrick at tomp@yukon-news.com

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Frotten hits top speed in Switzerland

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Whitehorse’s Jessica Frotten gets set to race at the Swiss Open Nationals over the weekend in Nottwil, Switzerland. It was Frotten’s first international competition of her career.

Tom Patrick

and I was pushing a lot better.”

The Swiss Open was the second time in just over a essica Frotten’s first taste of week Frotten set a personal international competition best time in the 400-metre. was as sweet as Swiss chocoShe placed fourth in the late. women’s 400-metre with a The Whitehorse para time of 1:11.16 at the Desert wheelchair racer took two Challenge Games in Mesa, fifth-place finishes and set two Arizona, the previous weekpersonal best times at the 41st end. That time qualified her Swiss Open Nationals over the for the Canadian Track and weekend in Nottwil, SwitzerField Championships this land.

June in Moncton, N.B. “This has been an incredFrotten also took fourth in ible experience! I’ve been the 200 and fifth in the 100 meeting people from all over in Arizona, with times that the world, racers who are would have been personal waaaay more experienced than bests but were ineligible due me,” wrote Frotten in a mesto illegal winds. sage to the News. “I’ve been She’ll be back in action on getting all sorts of helpful tips Wednesday in a second Swiss from the pros. It’s pretty awe- Racing Series event. some to line up on the start “Hearing the announcer line in a full heat with girls say ‘Jessica Frotten reprefrom across the world!” senting Canada’ is pretty neat,” The 26-year-old raced to she said. “I’m getting a little eighth in the 200-metre on homesick, it’s been a long time Friday in the T53 division away.” with a time of 36.45. She Arizona was the first outplaced fifth in the 800-metre door competition for Frotat 2:27.29. ten since she captured three Then she really turned up bronze medals at the Canada the heat. Frotten came sevSummer Games last August enth in the 400-metre with a in Sherbrooke, Que. Frotten personal best time of 1:08.83 competed for Team Saskatchand fifth in the 100-metre in a ewan, having moved to Regina personal best time of 19.19. for the First Steps Wellness “I think my first two races Centre, a non-profit organizawere so rough mostly because tion dedicated to improving of nerves, but also it was really the quality of life for those livcold and rainy,” said Frotten. ing with spinal-cord injuries.

“Saturday the sun came out Frotten also snagged two News Reporter

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gold at the 2013 Canada Summer Games Western Challenge and captured three silver at the Canada Summer Games Trials, Senior and Master Provincial Championships last July in Saskatoon, Sask.

She also finished as the top female in four races at the 2013 Saskatchewan Open Championships and Trials in Regina, last June.

Frotten won five gold at her first outdoor meet, the Dogwood Track and Field Meet in Victoria, B.C., a year ago.

Contact Tom Patrick at Tomp@yukon-news.com

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Quiet & private, on approx 3/4 acre in New Constabulary, 2-minute walk to lake & 35 minutes to Whitehorse. 2 bedroom, lots of windows, large kitchen, loft area, vaulted ceiling, office/sunroom, very bright & warm.Very economical to heat, well with treatment system, freshly painted inside and out, new roof, new decks, too many upgrades to list.

Vibrant community, ideal for peaceful country living.

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Help Wanted ROSIEʼS DAYHOME has opened for children 18 months and older 15 years experience, downtown location Low rates 633-4318 CHEEKY MONKEYʼS DAYCARE is hiring a Toddler Teacher & a Supported Childcare Worker.

Looking for mature, responsible, fun-loving individuals to join our dynamic team.

Competitive wages & benefits.

Drop off resumes to: 95 Lewes Blvd cheekymonkeysdaycare@gmail.com 334-4665 Gold Village Chinese Restaurant Looking for experienced full-time kitchen helper and server Apply with resume to 401 Craig Street, Dawson City, YT Y0B 1G0 Fax resume to: 867-993-2336 PUT YOUR EXPERIENCE to work - The job service for people aged 45 and over across Canada. Free for candidates. Register now at: www.thirdquarter.ca or Call Toll-Free: 1-855-286-0306.

SAWMILLS FROM only $4,397 - MAKE MONEY & SAVE MONEY with your own bandmill - Cut lumber any dimension. In stock ready to ship. FREE Info & DVD: www.NorwoodSawmills.com/400OT 1-800-566-6899 Ext:400OT. LOOKING FOR Qualified Journeyman Electrician Wage dependent upon experience Email resume to IES@polarcom.com or drop off at 178 Industrial Road EMPLOYERS C A N ' T FIND the work-at-home Medical Transcriptionists they need in Canada! Get the training you need to fill these positions.

Visit CareerStep.ca/MT to start training for your work-at-home career today!

LARGE DOZER OPERATOR Must have experience operating: Komatsu 475, 375 or Cat D11, D10 Dawson area Placer Mine Email resume to hmh1@shaw.ca

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Wednesday, May 21, 2014 TOUR GUIDE NOC6531 Sky High Wilderness Ranch Full time 40 hours/week $17/hour Applicant must have prior experience guiding horse treks and/or dog sled tours Must have Wilderness First Aid Certificate & second language an asset To apply email resume to info@skyhighwilderness.com

EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES EMPLOYMENT SERVICES OFFICER Position Type: Department: Closing: Salary:

Full-time, Permanent Education and Social Assistance May 27, 2014 at 4:30p.m.

Level 6 - $66,107 to $79,329

TENANT RELATIONS OFFICER Position Type: Department: Closing: Salary:

Full-time, Permanent Community Services May 28, 2014 at 4:30p.m.

Level 5 - $59,344 to $71,213

FINANCE PROPERTY OFFICER Position Type: Department: Closing: Salary:

Full-time, Term (1 year) Community Services May 28, 2014 at 4:30p.m.

Level 6 - $66,107 to $79,329

Visit www.kwanlindun.com/employment for complete details on these postings and to view job descriptions.

NAZARENE DAYCARE is seeking one full-time caregiver. Must have all government requirements and be over 18. To apply please call Clayton @ 633-5520 or apply online @ www.nazarenedaycare.org.

Matco Moving is looking for the following:

SUMMER EMPLOYMENT PACKER/SWAMPER Whitehorse, YT

**End of Summer Retention Bonus Available $500** Duties and requirements: • Manual loading and unloading of household goods and ofce furniture • Disassembling and re-assembling of furniture, wrapping, padding and some packing of items may be required • Laying out of oor runners at residence • On-site clean up at residences of packing debris and carton removal • Working with a partner to use dollies and straps to move very heavy items • Taking inventory of articles being moved noting existing defects or scratches • A class 5 license may be required to drive pack vans to transport crew members and materials to job sites • Must be able to safely lift and carry weights of 10 to 50 lbs. without assistance, and 50 to 100 lbs. plus with a second person. Proper lifting techniques must be used at all times.

This is a temporary summer position starting in May 2014 and ending August 31, 2014. Daily/weekly overtime and weekend hours may apply. Training provided.

Our “End of Summer Retention Bonus” is paid out if you work until August 22. Please send your email to Marica MacDonald at marica.macdonald@matco.ca

Tlicho Engineering & Environmental Services Ltd. (TEES), a division of the Tlicho Investment Corporation (TEES), has a challenging career opportunity as part of the Faro Mine Remediation Project. We are searching for the ideal candidate to fill a key role in our dynamic fast-paced work team. We invite you to join us providing care and maintenance services at the Faro Mine site, which is an abandoned lead-zinc mine situated in Faro, Yukon

Site Superintendent This is a full time 4 day on 3 day off position reporting to the Site Manager.

Preference will be considered for those who are willing to live and work from Faro. The individual should be a strong leader that has well rounded people skills. Shared accommodations may be available to the right candidate. The Site Superintendent must have northern/cold climate background experience gained in performing water treatment functions, maintenance functions, civil work functions, mechanical repair functions and site security and health and safety functions. The Site Superintendent will provide assistance for a wide range of tasks associated with Care & Maintenance of the Faro Mine complex.

Such Job DutieS incluDe, yet are not limiteD, to the following: • Provide support to the Site Manager on an operational level.

• Review daily reports for labour, materials, and equipment, as well as conduct audits and perform site inspections • To perform a role with each discipline on site including Civil Works, Maintenance and Trades, and Water Treatment Operations • Communicate and liaise effectively with colleagues, subcontractors, consultants and clients • Think creatively and logically to resolve operational problems while managing all resources • Schedule material and equipment purchases and delivery as well as receive these items on site • Assist in ensuring the project runs smoothly and is completed on time • Organize the project logistics including purchasing and supply chain management • Ensure compliance with all safety and government regulations.

• Oversee and provide guidance for Health and Safety, including daily tool box meetings, Joint Health and Safety, and investigations. for more information on the faro mine remediation Project, please visit www.faromine.ca.

APPLICATION PROCESS & FOR MORE INFORMATION Please forward your resume “and” salary expectations no later than May 30, 2014 by 5:00pm to career@tlichoic.com with “Site Superintendent” in the subject line. Please note that only qualified candidates are being considered and 3rd party submissions will be treated as if supplied by the candidate.

APPLY NOW: Pennywise Scholarship for Women to attend Journalism certificate course at Langara College in Vancouver. Application deadline May 31, 2014. Send applications to fbula@langara.bc.ca. More information: www.bccommunitynews.com/ourprograms/scholarship POWELL RIVER and Region Transition House Society is posting for a full-time “Stopping the Violence Counsellor.” For a complete job posting, please email Julie at chamberj@telus.net.

DOOR PeRsOnnel Drop résumé off at

The Town & Mountain Hotel 401 Main Street Whitehorse, Yukon info@townmountain.com

ACTIVE IN YOUR COMMUNITY Are you looking for volunteer opportunities?

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

Yukon Multiple Sclerosis Association, 2014 Scotia Bank MS Walk We are having a one way walk from Copper Ridge Place to Canada Games Center, on May 31 2014.

What we would be looking for is some people to possibly assist people with wheel chairs along the path.

ensure that the pedestrians have safe crossing • Time commitment Approximately 3 - 4 hours, possibly less • Incentive for the volunteer Volunteer recognition from the MS Society Of Canada, as well as the Yukon Multiple Sclerosis Association. possibly other goodies, but will know that closer to event.

• Staff position that will supervise the volunteer Jenny Roberts, 393-3824 or jiroberts@ gmail.com, President Yukon Multiple Sclerosis Association.

Task description • Ensure safe crossing at intersections along Hamilton BLVD • Skills needed Knowledge of Traffic Control, pedestrian safety • Responsibilities Ensure that Vehicles stop where they are supposed to at the intersections that the walking path/trail crosses to

The Human Society Yukon is looking for volunteers to sell cookie dough!

We have some great choices including gluten free and for your dogs as well. To all of you that are willing to help , we have packages made up to help us get the word out.

We couldn’t do what we do without you and the great support from the community. Let’s pull together once again and make this happen. Hope to hear from you soon and thank you for your time!

With your help we are hoping to reach a goal of $2500. To which will help with Vet bills, food, toys and every day needs of these great animals. If you have interest in selling or want to know more please call or e-mail.

Paula Dupuis, Email: shelter@northwestel.net Phone: 867-633-6019

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

MONDAY • WEDNESDAY • FRIDAY

Community Services

Financial Services Clerk Temporary Full Time until August 31, 2014 The incumbent is responsible for a wide range of accounting activities and support functions for the Financial Services Department.

Apply by email to:

careers@whitehorse.ca by 11:59PM May 25, 2014.

Please quote job posting #062-FIN-14.

For details visit: whitehorse.ca/careers

www.whitehorse.ca Miscellaneous for Sale BETTER BID NORTH AUCTIONS Foreclosure, bankruptcy De-junking, down-sizing Estate sales.

Specializing in estate clean-up & buy-outs.

The best way to deal with your concerns.

Free, no obligation consultation.

333-0717 STEEL BUILDINGS...HOT SAVINGS SPRING SALE! 20X24 $4,348. 25X24 $4,539. 30X30 $6,197. 32X36 $7,746.

40X46 $12,116. 47X72 $17,779. One End wall included. Pioneer Steel 1-800-668-5422. www.pioneersteel.ca RV PLASTIC water tank 15 gal. 8”x16”x30”, exc cond, $50. 821-6011

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 BOWMAN BOLTS. 1 box of 300 pieces. 6” long by 3/8 NC grade 5. (57 lbs). I have six boxes total, $50/ea obo. 668-5207 :) = full woodshed.

Super-dry straight-grained lodgepole pine, $200/cord delivered in Whitehorse. Text or call Doug Martens/Teslin @ 334-7364 VINTAGE STEREO cabinet/record player, Zenith floor model, flips over for compact storage, 333-9020 DEEP FRYER, professional quality, gas powered, 105,000 BTU, 10-litre capacity, twin baskets 36”x22”x15”, $600. 456-4922 NEW ENVIROLET compost toilet, stand alone, waterless, odor-less self contained unit, full time use of 6 people 3 times a day, includes ducting. $1,500 obo. 633-6502 PROFESSIONALLY BUILT poker table, never been used, $500 firm. 336-1045 METAL SHELVING unit, 8 bolted adjustable shelves, 61.25”Hx30.25”Wx11.5”D, $25.

821-6011 CHEST WADERS, 5mm neoprene, Browning size LT menʼs, like new, $75 firm.

821-6011

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Wednesday, May 21, 2014 HUSQVARNA 'LIGHT 28' chainsaw boots, size 10.5, good cond, $50, text anytime or call after 5:30pm: 335-0233 HOMEMADE CABBAGE Patch dolls, clothing includes jeans, dresses, tops, shorts, all beautifully sewn, 633-4945 2 3ʼ sections of 6” inside diameter oil furnace chimney, $50 ea obo. 456-4926 WASTE BINS, cooler/ice box, metal pail, misc rugs/mats, upright toolbox w/drawers, HP94 black computer ink & colored ink, various prices, 633-4547 ASSORTMENT OF Blue Mountain pottery, all offers considered, 633-4945 8 GALLON food-grade containers, $20 ea, 12 available, ideal for canoe or car camping, approx 16”x 13”x13”, 633-2300 VCR, APT deep freeze, sewing machine, cabinet for 32” TV, china cabinet, BBQ/full propane tanks, quilts, 12ʼ longarm quilting frame, 17” longarm sewing machine, gold nugget jewelry. 667-7440

Electrical Appliances KENMORE 633-2837

E L E C T R I C range, $40.

CHEST FREEZER, 48”x24”, $100. 633-2837 FRIGIDAIRE FRIDGE, almond in color, exc cond, $100 obo. 668-6302 DRYER, EXCELLENT working condit, $250.

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STERLING SILVER collector spoons from different countries in display cabinets, 333-9020

KENMORE 667-7446

2 TICKETS for Saturday May 24 Haines beer festival, $80. 334-1732

THEATRE-STYLE POPCORN maker, hardly used, $75. 667-4526

WASHING machine, $100.

FRIGIDAIRE REFRIGERATOR, Slimline model, 28ʼx65”, great cond, $200. 633-2837

Short term ContraCt o pportunity

STOVE, KENMORE, white, 30" wide, good working condition, $175. 393-3164

Call for Chairperson

KENMORE BAR fridge, like new, black & stainless steel, $125. 633-2293

DURATION: June 6, 7 & 8, 2014

OLD 15 cu ft freezer, works great, $25.

633-2293

TVs & Stereos

DUTIES: • Work closely with Council Clerk and Council Secretary to discuss meeting agenda and procedures, • Make sure that the meeting is planned effectively, conducted according to the constitution and that matters are dealt with in an orderly, efficient manner consistent with Roberts Rules of Order, • Co-ordinate the meeting to ensure that appropriate policies and procedures are in place for the effective management of LSCFN, • Provide support and supervision for to the Chief, • Work with minute taker to accomplish goals, • Makes frequent summaries of any decision/action items to be taken, • Restate all motions, amendments, outcome of voting according to LSCFN constitution, • Ensure all completed motions, resolutions are submitted in writing

Paying cash for good quality modern electronics.

G&R Pawnbrokers 1612-D Centennial St. 393-2274 BUY • SELL • LOANS SPEAKERS, MRX 500 JBL, $700, JRX 115 JBL, $350. 667-7055 TV, CITIZEN, 27", $100. 393-3164 FREE 27” Sony Trinitron TV, like new, 633-3053

Computers & Accessories COMPUTER MONITOR, 16", Optiquest, $50. 393-3164

EXPERIENCE: Several years experience in conducting general assembly’s; knowledge of meeting objectives & rules; familiar with rules of order, bylaws, constitution, parliamentary procedures; Good communication skills, well organized, reliable & committed, working flexible hours;

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

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

APPLY TO: If you are interested, please submit your expression of interest to Doris Caouette, Human Resource Office before May 22nd, 2014, 4:30 P.M. Box 135, Carmacks, YT, Y0B 1C0 Phone: 867-863-5576, Fax: 867-863-5710, Email: resume@lscfn.ca

SAMICK 30 watt guitar amp, clean and overdrive sound, $75. 333-9084

OLD STYLE propane stove, $100. 335-0164

SkookuM JiM FriENDShiP CENTrE

VINTAGE KEEPER wine cabinet, holds 400 bottles, vibration & acoustic dampening, temp range 52-64 degrees, computerized airflow, plugs into standard outlet. Pat 332-3438

requires an

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LINCOLN ELECTRIC stick welder AGM 225, like new, $150 obo. 334-4196 SNOWBLOWER, 20” gas engine, used twice, $300 firm. 334-4804 or 667-4829 BARBECUE, LARGE cooking area, works well, no tank, $50 obo. 633-6310 MOBILITY SCOOTER & shop rider, like new cond, used very little, $1,600 obo. 393-2926 LEATHER MOTORCYCLE jacket, size M, like new, $80. 667-6907 ELECTRIC FIREPLACE, new (still in box), cost $300, asking $125. 668-6033 RCA DVD/VCR combo, $35, book case w/3 shelves, storage doors, 28”wx12”dX6ʼh, $35, sofa, $130, swivel chair, $65. 667-2676 2 PLASTIC water tanks, never used, 3ʼhx2.5ʼwx56”l, approx 200 gal tanks, $400 ea. 334-6101 EQUALIZER HITCH, heavy duty, $250.

334-6101

116ʼ 3” green suction hose & camlocks, FOR VIEWING 300ʼ roll 3” blue lay flat hose, 334-6101 A THEDECKMASTER WEBSITE. 60 mm vinyl sheets for outdoor use, 2 new 2 6' X 10' sheets, tan color., new $460, asking $50. Dave at 334-2028

idely read newspaCEDAR HOT tub with submersible aluminum wood stove, 6'4" across, 4ʼ deep, seats 6 get results.

Check comfortably, can arrange delivery for a reafee, $2,700 obo. 336-1412 ies forsonable the one that JUKI INDUSTRIAL sewing machine, $250. needs.668-2626 Use the 3 5 M P E N T A X camera, digital K5 fice. TheMClassiw/18-55mm and 55-300mm zoom, used 1 yr, for price, 660-4012 ou cancallsubmit one 60 PIECES of 4ʼ long pressure treated 6”x6” lumber, $300. 633-6603 6ʼX6ʼ TIN garden shed, $50. 633-6603 ABS PIPE, 8 pieces 10ʼ length, 3”, threaded at both ends, $80. 821-6011

0 p.m.length, two 20busipieces of 1/2” 12ʼ length, 5 pieces INDUSTRIAL REBAR, 30 pieces 1/2” 40ʼ

3/4'” 60ʼ length, plus numerous 1/2” angle pieces, $1,000 takes all. 335-2648

FENCE POSTS, 4 bundles, 60 posts per bundle, 8ʼx 5-6” treated blunt fence posts, $2,000 for all. 335-2648

rds FREE for two be published in IN box Schlage commercial door lock paper inNEW whatever sets, chrome, 4 complete sets, $100 ea.

335-2648 wed. This service SOLID CORE unfinished maple door, new, 1 only. Businesses, 3/4” door 32" x 80" with window 24"x30" and MOOSE ANTLERS for Sale, 39” - 40” $99, 47 1/8” $149, 56 1/8” $229, WP # 5350/ 5361/5362/ 5349, 668-3381

fire rated door frame, complete $200 obo.

335-2648

12” WHIRLY bird attic vent, brown, never used, $25. 456-4926 PIANO TUNING & REPAIR by certified piano technician Call Barry Kitchen @ 633-5191 email:bfkitchen@hotmail.com

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Be part of one of Canada’s most dynamic environmental and socio-economic assessment processes and work with an energetic, progressive organization. We are committed to the well-being of our employees and encourage their personal and professional development.

We are an impartial, effective and efficient organization that provides assistance to all involved in the assessment process.

ASSESSMENT OFFICER Teslin Designated Office Full-time, Permanent

Located in Teslin, this position reports to the Manager, Designated Office and is responsible for assisting in conducting environmental and socio-economic assessment of projects. This includes identifying project effects and mitigation measures for adverse effects, determining the significance of any residual effects and developing recommendations.

The annual salary range for this position is $65,670 - $75,712 based on 75 hours biweekly.

If you feel you have the qualifications and desire to meet the challenges of this position please forward a cover letter and resume outlining how your experience and qualifications relate directly to the position.

A job description is available at the Teslin Designated Office, 8 McLeary Street, Teslin YESAB Head Office, Suite 200 – 309 Strickland Street in Whitehorse or on our website at www.yesab.ca.

Please submit applications to: Finance and Administration Manager, YESAB Suite 200 – 309 Strickland Street, Whitehorse, YT Y1A 2J9 Ph: 867.668.6420 Fax: 867.668.6425 or email to yesab@yesab.ca Toll free: 1.866.322.4040 Resumes must be received by May 25, 2014.

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Post Secondary training in Business Administration and/or First Nation Management Minimum of 2 years work experience at a management level Must have proven organizational and financial management skills Must have demonstrated skills and abilities in strategic planning and policy development Must have human resource management skills and a working knowledge of Yukon Labour Standards Must have experience working with a Board of Directors Must have computer skills in Microsoft word, excel, power point, outlook and internet explorer Must have knowledge of Yukon First Nation culture and traditions including knowledge of the Skookum Jim Friendship Centre Must have knowledge and experience in interpretation and dissemination of legislation and by-laws Must have strong written and oral communication skills Must demonstrate ability to work in a team environment Must be willing to travel

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2 USED 100 lb propane tanks with dual regulator, $125 for the set. 668-7927

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

SIMON PATRICK Luthier acoustic guitar, hand crafted in Laprairie Quebec, c/w soft shell case, $475. 333-9084 FENDER FRONTMAN 212R combo amp, 2 12” special designed speakers, 100 watts, loud, 3 channels clean/drive and extra drive, easy to transport to gig, $375 for quick sale, 333-9084

Donʼs Firewood “Service thatʼs often copied, never duplicated” 1/2 - 4 cord deliveries Kwanlin Dun & Social Services $250 per cord 393-4397 anytime

ELECTRIC GUITAR, First Act, good neck, plays great, $150; Arc tube guitar amp, $75; Regent HT-391 home theatre system, email tagishskratch@hotmail.com

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

ORDER NOW 456-7432

GEORGE WASHBURN Limited acoustic guitar, plays well, $140. 333-9084 JAY TURSER Strat-styled electric guitar, $80. 333-9084 ROLAND CUBE 40XL electric guitar amp, new condition, many functions, $250.

333-9084

VINTAGE FENDER Bandmaster reverb tube amp, TFL 5005-D.45 watts through 2- 12” speakers, rich, beautiful bluesy sound, priced in $1,200 range, asking $675.

333-9084

DUKEʼS FIREWOOD Standing Dry Beetle Killed Spruce Wood Prices: 6-cord load - $210/cord $230 for multiples of 2 cords Cut your own - $75/cord 8-cord loads of 20ft dry logs $1,300 per load Cash and Debit Accepted 334-8122

Firewood

Guns & Bows

KORG LP350 88 key digital piano, black, exc cond except surface scratches, easily fixed in town, product code LP350-BK, $800.

335-5185

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

HURLBURT ENTERPRISES INC. Store (867) 633-3276 Dev (867) 335-5192 Carl (867) 334-3782

BRAZILIAN MAUSER in 8mm Mauser, nice hand made hardwood stock, bedded and floated, recent refinish of whole rifle, sights & rings, $300 firm, PAL req'd, 667-2276

✔ 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

LEE ENFIELD No. 1 Mk III, 303 British, sporterized, very nice bluing, good bore, scope rail instead of rear sight, 10 rd mag, $300 firm. PAL reqʼd. 667-2276

LOOKING FOR expert gardener who would be willing to volunteer some time to teach a small group gardening basics. Must be female. 667-2693

PARKER HALE Lee Enfield, 303 British, professional conversion, very nice bluing, monte carlo stock, vg bore, 5 rd mag, needs new butt pad, $360 firm, PAL reqʼd.

667-2276

WANTED: TURBO infrared cooker, inexpensive, 668-5188

BROWNING BL-22 lever action .22LR. Has Skinner sights, swivels and sling mounted, $450 firm. 335-2182

MasterCard

Cheque, Cash S.A. vouchers accepted.

LEE ENFIELD 303 sporter, synthetic stock, c/w scope mount, $300. Paul 335-8482

CELEBRATE!

MOSSBERG MVP .223 24” barrel 10X scope bi-pod, 2 mags, exc cond, $725.

333-0087 BROWNING BL-22 lever action .22LR, has Skinner sights, swivels and sling mounted, $450 firm. 335-2182 45/70 LEE loader, $25. 333-0087

Wanted WANTED: WOOD stove for the garage, preferably RSF. 334-6868 WANTED: EXTERIOR door frame & threshold for 36” door. 668-5207 SPRING TIME MEANS CLEAN UP TIME! WILL PAY CASH FOR UNWANTED ITEMS: Downsizing, de-junking, moving, estate dispersals Call Brenda @ 993-3689 in the Dawson City area for a free no obligation assessment.

WANTED: LOOKING for heated storage for 1 mid size car for next winter, willing to pay fair price, call 867-536-2374 ANYONE TRAVELLING from Vancouver to Whitehorse May 19th-21st? I need a carry-on chaperone for a puppy. Offering $50. Call Lizann 604-785-2455 I AM traveling back thru canada, from Seattle to Alaska. I am looking for some moose antlers, sheds or singles. Please email.

Kentscifres@hotmail.com WANTED: WRINGER washer, phone 867-399-3171 WANTED: TRAILER axle 2000-2500 pound 48"-50" at hub. Willing to pay up to $75.

668-5207

1 column x 3 inches ...............................Wed - 34.02 • Fri - 35.10

WANTED: 334-6265

2 columns x 2 inches

WANTED: GAS lawn mower mosquito magnet trap, working or not. 668-5644

...............................Wed - $45.36 • Fri - $46.80

WORKFORCE TRAINING options this May and June in Atlin: Occupational First Aid, Transportation Endorsement, and Traffic Control Person for certification in BC! Email Sarina at sdelange@nlc.bc.ca

Phone: 867-667-6285

...............................Wed - 68.04 • Fri - 70.20 $

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2 columns x 4 inches ...............................Wed - 90.72 • Fri - 93.60 $

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TV antenna for the roof,

WANTED: GOOD used crutch, preferably aluminum. 667-4540

2 columns x 3 inches 211 Wood Street, Whitehorse

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WANTED: 50ʼ orange snow fence. 633-2651 WANTED: LOOKING for a used YZ 125 in excellent condition, please call 333-9113 WANTED: LOOKING for ladies and menʼs bike, large, for free, 633-2236

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Canadian Tire Cashplan The Deli Edgewater Hotel Extra Foods Fourth Avenue Petro Gold Rush Inn

1978 CAMARO, 454 LS6/7, M22 4-spd with positraction axle, about 550hp, new radiator, 3” dual exhaust, high HP project car, $6,500 obo. 667-6641

MARLIN .22LR bolt action rifle, black synthetic stock w/ sm survival gear cache, adjustable scope, 10rnd mag, mint cond, PAL reqd. $275, 334-5498

WANTED: TRANSPORTATION for 4 to 12 stored bins from Edmonton to Whitehorse.

Verena at 334-9390

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1981 FORD Granada, in running condition, open to offers, 668-2006

WANTED: BRITISH .303 with full wood (not sport). Does not have to work, needing it for a trophy. Call 334-6946

KNIGHT WOLVERINE II 50-cal black powder, as new, $250. 335-5577

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

1990 TOYOTA Corolla station wagon, 380,000km, auto, body very rusty but engine/transmission very reliable, $500, 334-5498

1983 TOYOTA Tercel, runs great, good car but is best used for parts due to rust, drive her away for $500, 333-9876

300 WIN Mag Remington 700 w/3X9 Leupold, $700. 335-5577

MOSSBERG 4X4 .30-06, stainless steel barrel & action, synthetic stock, fixed 4 power Bell scope, very good cond, $450. 633-2443

1994 GEO Metro, running rough but good for parts, engine needs attention, $120.

668-6805

1988 COUGAR 2-dr hard top, good tires, good running cond, $2,000 firm. 668-7976

LEE ENFIELD No4 MK1 303, full wood stock, $375. Paul 335-8482

Births! Birthdays!

Weddings! Graduations!

Anniversaries! $

Cars

WINCHESTER MODEL 94 30-30, $400.

Paul 335-8482

SEARS ROEBUCK J.C. Higgins, 12-gauge bolt action shotgun w tube magazine, blued 27” barrel, walnut stock, recoil pad, all good cond, $200. Bill @ 633-2443 VIVITAR (CAMERA lens company) scope, fixed 4-power scope with rings, duplex cross-hair reticle, exc cond, $75. 633-2443

Wednesday, May 21, 2014

1978 GRAND Marquis, all original, body in prime shape, interior in good shape, drive train in good shape, great classic and driver, serious inquiries only. 668-3229 2011 HONDA Civic sedan, white, tinted, like new, 30,000kms, summer/winter tire sets with rims, auto, few extras, $15,000 obo.

633-2101 lv msg 2009 NISSAN Maxima Sport, 59,500 kms, exc cond, bose, remote start, leather heated seats/ steering, loaded luxury sports car, $24,500 obo. 335-9976 2008 CHRYSLER 300 touring model, silver, c/w sunroof & 2 sets of tires, very well maintained, 53,000kms, $10,500. 333-9966 2008 MAZDA 5, std trans, really gd tires, clean cond, 80,000 kms. Cool minivan w/sturdy roof rack, $7,500. 667-4463 or 334-9436 2007 H O N D A Civic, great on gas, winter/summer tires/rims, remote start, manual 5-spd, clear windshield, new battery, maintenance records, detailed, 78,000kms, $12,500. 335-2648

FREE 1996 Nissan Altima for parts, runs and drives, has body damage, you just have to pick up, 668-2750 HYUNDAI SANTA Fe GLS, 3.3L AWD, reliable/fuel efficient, leather interior and sunroof, 150,000kms, $11,000, e-mail sharony@ualberta.ca for viewing TOYOTA COROLLA, gold, 112,000kms, keyless entry, push button start, 88,000 km left on warranty, $11,500. 667-7167 TOYOTA SIENNA LE 2005 Auto, driven by one senior in summer only, show room condition, dark red color, 120,000kms, $15,000, call/text 335-5426 WANTED: NEWER station wagon, reliable, automatic, good on gas. 334-5032

the yukon’s best pre-owned vehicles!

2006 DODGE Caravan, second owner, 112,000km, 2 set of tires, remote start, block heater, AC, great cond, $6,500. 335-8420 2006 INFINITI G35X Luxury Sport sedan V6 AWD, great safety features, 143,000 km, silver, fully loaded power everything, sun roof, all-leather interior, two sets tires, Bluetooth, $9,900, 668-5790.

✔ I50 point comprehensive vehicle inspection ✔ 3 month or 5000 km limited powertrain warranty ✔ 10 day or 1000 km Vehicle Exchange Privilege ✔ Car Proof verified report ✔ Complimentary Roadside Assistance ✔ Nitrogen inflated tires ✔ Full tank of fuel ✔ First two oil changes FREE

2005 MONTE Carlo, auto, 3.4L 6-cyl, 77,000kms, power doors/windows, extra winter tires on rims, one owner car, $7,500 obo.

667-0407 1999 CAVALIER, $1,200. 335-1853 2005 SUBARU Imperza Auto Wagen, 210,000kms, well maintained, c/w records, has some body hail damage. Call or text 335-5426 2003 ECHO, rollover, engine runs fine, 50,000 km and the vehicle drives, manual 5-spd, can only be sold for parts, all body panels dented, $1,000. 668-2802

dependable...

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2000 PONTIAC Sunfire GT, 2.4L twin cam, 5-spd, allow wheel, good brakes, tires, steering, good body, runs well, sunroof, a/c, C/D, $2,100. 334-8083

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2000 TOYOTA Echo 2-dr hatchback, 195,000kms, c/w 4 studded tires on rims, $3,500 obo. 399-3648

Trucks

2000 TOYOTA Sienna, 256,000kms, new CV axles, wheel bearings, shocks, sway bar links, catalytic & exhaust system, front brake calipers. Spare studded tires. Synthetic oil, hot heater, $3,500 obo. 633-5495

We Sell Trucks!

1999 HONDA Odyssey, 240,000kms, runs well, clean, $3,200. 334-1935 or 667-6631 1997 NISSAN Altima, great parts car, engine runs great, body partially damaged, needs back windshield, $1,300. 633-3982

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1996 BUICK Regal 4 dr. 300,000kms, very reliable, $800 obo. 335-1681

2010 DODGE RAM 1500 quad cab, under 50,000kms, still under warranty, can package up with 2001 21' fifth wheel, $24,000 obo. 334-3655 or deuces11@hotmail.com

1996 HONDA Accord 5-spd manual, extra set of wheels on hubs, good working condition, has been regularly serviced, $1,500 obo. 393-3321

10ʼ STEEL truck deck c/w (2) tool boxes attached, (2) 50 gal saddle tanks, headache rack w/mounted b/u lamps, $2,500.

667-7777

RIVERDALE: 38 Famous Video super A Riverdale Tempo Gas Bar

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Kopper King Hi-Country RV Park McCrae Petro Takhini Gas Yukon College Bookstore

2008 FORD F150 XLT 4x4 crew cab short box, loaded w/options, in very clean cond, gd tires, 130,000 kms, $11,000. 667-4463 or 334-9436

2002 DODGE Ram 1500 quad 4x4, auto, 625,000kms, commercially maintained record available, runs well, tool box, roof & side racks, towing gear, call or text 335-5426

2008 FORD F150 XLT 5.4 Triton V8, crew cab with matching canopy, 99,000km, exc cond, $17,500, Robert @ 332-2901

2002 PONTIAC Montana passenger van, $1,100 obo. 333-0100 lv msg

TIRES! TIRES! TIRES! Seasonal Changeover Good used tires–15”,16”,17”,18”,19” and 20”–lots to choose from. $25 to $150 a tire. $25 to mount and balance per tire.

Mechanical Services Call Art 334-4608

2008 FORD F350 Lariat crew cab, leather interior, low kms, Triton V10 engine, tow hitch, canopy, extended warranty, $24,900, 633-2458

2001 CHEVROLET Tahoe 4WD sports utility, white/ grey interior, 4.8L, V8, cruise control, full size spare tire, tachometer, trailer package, trailer hitch, power locks, power seats, 667-7733

ENGINE STAND, good cond, $30 firm.

821-6011

2008 FORD Ranger, automatic 4x4 XLT ext cab, runs on synthetic, hitch, boxliner, 120,000 kms, $9,500. 335-5993

2001 DODGE Ram 1500 4x4 quad cab, automatic, tool box, 250,000kms, $4,800 obo. 667-4911

STEEL WHEELS, original equipment GM 6 bolt steel wheels, 2 avail, 16"x 6.5" like new. $50 firm ea. 821-6011

2007 GMC 3500 crew cab 6.0L gas, 2006 Dodge 3500 mega cab diesel, 2005 GMC 2500 crew cab diesel with or without pilot car equipment, 660-4220

2000 DODGE Ram 1500 SLT 4x4 auto, new motor, 4” lift, 33” studded tires, cold air intake, magnaflow exhaust, 2 12” subs/amp, canopy, toolbox, much more, $8,000 obo.

335-8657

20R TOYOTA engine and transmission, $250 obo. 335-0164

2007 TOYOTA Sienna limited AWD 7 passenger minivan, 75,000 kms, power sliding doors/rear hatch, sunroof, all options, new winter tires/rims, possible offers/trades/cash, 333-9020 2006 CHEVY Sierra 4X4, ext cab, 190,000kms, high-rise canopy, auto, gd shape, small crack in windshield, full tow pkg, Carmacks area, $12,500 obo.

867-863-5069 2006 DODGE Caravan, great shape, tires like new, 3.3L engine, very clean, new battery/new trailer hitch and wiring installed, ($460 value), $5,500.00. 333-9084 2005 DODGE Grand Caravan, 130,000kms, seats 8, that can be removed, immaculate condition, great family wagon, blue, $6,900 obo. 667-7733 or brendan109@hotmail.com 2005 F150 Super Crew, loaded, leather int, FX4, sun roof, 135,000kms, black, $16,500.

334-3160 or 633-3116 2005 F350 diesel Lariat, 4wd, long box, fully loaded, all engine updates, orig owner, exec cond, 160,000kms, $18,000. 334-9436 or 667-4463 2005 FORD F-450, 6.0 diesel, 17 passenger shuttle bus w/wheelchair lift, luggage compartment, 286,000km, good shape but needs engine work, $4,500 obo. 335-6757 2005 FORD F150 4x4 supercab, 5.4 Triton V8, remote start, box liner, winter/all season tires, new rotors/brakes, well maintained, exc cond, $10,000 obo. 334-3398 2005 FORD Ranger Edge, immaculate condition, auto, rear wheel drive, new box cover, only 52,000kms, $8,800 obo. 668-7136 2004 BUICK Rendezvous SUV Crossover, mint condition, leather interior, heated seats, all power, 4wd, great family SUV, 130,000kms $8,900/obo. 332-7054, 667-7733 or jenskel@hot- mail.com 2004 N I S S A N Titan Endurance, 157,000kms, very good cond, $13,000 obo.

867-634-2240 2001 DODGE Grand Caravan, 305,000kms, good runner, winter tires, new $1,900, asking $1,200 obo. 335-2273 after 5:00pm

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1998 DODGE Dakota Sport, 4x4, 5 spd manual, rear airbag ride. Nw: front brakes, roters, ball joints, tie rod & a boxliner. Candy apple red. 229,000kms. $6500obo. 633-3116 or 334-3160

2005 F350 crew cab, parting out, 4 tires w/steel rims, Goodrich 285/70R17, as new just on before the wreak, $800 obo. Also body parts available. bseeley@northwestel.net. 536-2680

1997 F150, 3-door 4X4 pick-up w/canopy, standard, low mileage, 667-2046

TEKONSHA VOYAGER 9030 electric brake controller for trailer with 1-4 axles, new & never used, cost $130, asking $65.

334-8083

1994 FORD Escort 4-dr station wagon, exc cond, winter/summer tires mounted on rims, $1,750 obo. 333-0484 1993 JEEP Cherokee, runs well but needs some work, $1,000. 335-2182 1992 DODGE Dually 250 5.9 Cummins, high performance pump & injectors, rebuilt 5-spd tranny, rebuilt rear diff, spare rims, good paint/body, truck in great shape. 668-3229 1992 FORD 4X4 super cab, extra parts (transfer, transfer case etc), $1,000 obo.

335-0164 1992 GMC 2500, ext cab 4X4, very powerful, new motor, transfer case, exh system, well maintained, low kms, $4,200. 336-3666 1992 SUZUKI 4x4 standard, 1.6L, 226,000kms, stored inside last 5 yrs, $1,850 obo. 334-6101 1990 TOYOTA Hiace, AWD, diesel, auto, excellent fuel consumption, seats 8, middle seats swivel, great camping/handicapped vehicle, 128,000 kms, offers or trades considered. 333-9020 1989 FORD 250 7.3 diesel, c/w canopy, new tires, 5-spd, 320,000kms, some rust, $3,500 obo. 334-6101 1985 FORD V6 4-spd 4X4 super cab, $500.

335-0164 17ʼ STEEL flat deck c/w headache rack, enclosed b/u lamps, (2) metal tool compartments under-deck mounted, $4,500.

667-7777

4 BF Goodrich T/A P265/70 R16, $35 ea.

Gus 336-2146 or Dave 393-4796

2014

For inFormation call

633-6019

Are you interested in Selling or Ordering some cookie dough to help us Fundraise?

Cookie Dough, Gluten Free Macaroons or Doggie Dough Call or drop by the shelter for more info.

In-Dey-Go order forms are here.

LOST/FOUND

GM HD 4-speed transmission for older GM, $400 obo. 667-6907

LOST

4 NEW Dunlop tires, P275/55R20, $600 obo.

334-4544 2013 NEW factory OEM 20” chrome-plated rims from Toyota Tundra, 5x150 bolt pattern, fits 2007-2014 Tundra or Sequoia, worth $2,000, asking $750 obo.. 334-4544 20” OEM rims from 2014 Toyota Tundra, bolt pattern 5x150, fits 2007-2014 Tundra or Sequoia, c/w or without 4 new Dunlop tires P275/55R20, $1,000 obo for tires/rims.

334-4544 305 CHEVY V-8 engine, have various other parts that could be added to the engine, $1,200 obo. 633-6502 2003 CUMMINS intake parts, turbo, intercooler, intake plenum, filter, performance chip, 633-6502 2 LT 265/75 R16 BF Goodrich, $35 ea. Gus 336-2146 or Dave 393-4796

• 4th ave pug, male, tan, wearing a black collar answers to Kiowk, contact Heather @ 334-3542 (01/05/14) • riverdale, DSH, grey neutered male, wearing a black collar with tags, answer to J.t, contact Gordie @334-3595 (08/05/14) • Glenna rd, female 6-9 months old, brown and black white on belly, and one brown eye and one blue eye, contact Kim @ 6332029 (13/05/14) • main street, Shihtzu just under a year old, male, black and brown, wearing and blue collar and a army leash, answers to Sitcha, contact Kara @ 668-7188 (17/05/14).

• riverdale, 6 month old DlH, grey male, no collar anwser to Paps, contact clarie @ 335-5705 (20/05/14)

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

1986 TOYOTA truck for parts, 4X4, $250, 456-4922

Pets DOGHOUSE, 633-3053

LARGE Igloo style, $50.

Pet of the Week! aphne

FOUND

• alaska Hwy, near Kopper King, young female chocolate lab, wearing red collar, please contact laura @ 335-5224 or toodi @ 332-4170 (29/04/2014) • takhini area, small white male dog, contact Stephanie @335-7853 • copper ridge lazlaite dr, cream shihtzu, male, no collar, contact John @334-6015 (08/05/14) • Between lowbride and copper ridge, Female, black with and little Brown on the legs, shepherd x, aprox 10 -12 weeks old, no collar. contact Jim @ 334-4410 (14/05/14)

RUNNING AT LARGE...

NEW ALUMINUM fuel tank tool box combo single wall, never been used, $1,360 firm.

660-4220

TRUCK CANOPIES - in stock * new Dodge long/short box * new GM long/short box * new Ford long/short box

dough for dogs!

Cookies for Cats!

Fundraising

BLUE LENSES for large Light Force lights, like new, $35. 667-6907

3 P225/60R16 tires on rims to fit Ford Crown Vic, 2 Goodyear Eagle Ultra Grips, 1 Power King winter grip, $25 ea. 335-3338

I’m Daphne. I’m new to the shelter life but so far it seems nice.

I like going for long walks, playing fetch in the yard and most of all I love cuddling up for some much needed snuggle time. Come on down and say hi soon!

Help control the pet overpopulation problem

have your pets spayed or neutered.

1 BRIDGESTONE 6-hole Desert Dueler 31X1050 R15LT, fairly new, aluminum tire & rim, $75. Gus 336-2146 or Dave 393-4796

MICHELIN SUMMER tires, P225/45R18, used 2 seasons, set of 4 for only $300.

333-9013 or 668-7369

D

weDneSDay, may 21

1 BF Goodrich T/A P265/70 R16, 6-hole rim, $60. Gus 336-2146 or Dave 393-4796

Auto Parts & Accessories

Hi-Rise & Cab Hi - several in stock View at centennialmotors.com 393-8100

633-6019

HONDA CAR Battery. Tall narrow 6” wide, 12v battery. 668-5207 FOUR ALL season radial tires, inclʼg rims, 185/70R14, gd cond, only used for 12 months, $200. 667-8031

1994 CHEV Silverado 2500 ext cab, 2WD, long box, auto, 6.5L diesel, 282,000kms, runs good, $4,000. 667-7649

Hours of operation for tHe sHelter: Tues - Fri: 12:00pm-7:00pm • Sat 10:00am-6:00pm CloSed Sundays & Mondays

4 15” summer tires, $40. 393-3097

2000 SUBARU Forester, teal, new 5-spd engine, great tires/alloy rims, tow hitch, roof rack, great mileage, super winter AWD & more, $4,300. 334-8083

1996 CHEV pick-up, V6 auto, ready to go, $900 obo. 334-3822 or 456-7522

Pet Report

AVAILABLE FOR ADOPTION

IN FOSTER HOMES DOGS

• 3yr old, neutered male, akita, grey and white (a.J.) • 3 yr old, neutered male, GSD/rottie, black and brown (tristan)

• 8 yr old, neutered male, GSD/bear dogX, black and tan (mr. Bojangles)

cATS

• none at this time.

AT THE SHELTER DOGS

• 7 yr old, neutered male, Great DaneX, tan and white (Spot) • 5yr old, male neutered, GSDX, black and tan (moe) • 7 yr old, male, GSD, black and tan (atilla) • 10 yr old, female, labX, black, (catnis) • 7 yr old, female spayed, rottie X, brindle (Daphne) • 1 yr old, female spayed, staffie/labX, black (Peanut) • 12 weels old, female, Husky, black (aster)

• 7 month old, male, lhasa apso X, cream and lots more brown, (malcolm) • 7 month old, male lhasa apso X, cream and brown (Howard)

cATS

• none at this time.

SPEcIAL • Homes needed for retired sled dogs. they would make excellent pets. Please contact 668-3647 or kennelmanager@muktuk.com

633-6019 126 Tlingit Street

www.humanesocietyyukon.ca

if your lost animal has been inadvertently left off the pet report or for more info on any of these animals, call 633-6019 or stop by 126 Tlingit Street.

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

You can also check out our award winning website at:

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IT'S A DOG'S LIFE BOARDING KENNEL New, clean, safe, family friendly.

Heated indoor kennels with covered outdoor runs.

Large play area in natural setting, daily walks.

131 Empress Rd, Golden Horn Subdivision 333-9841 MALE & female malamutes from Norway, w/papers, 4 yr old. $500/ pair to good home.

Suitable for rural/wilderness dwellers. Great sled/ski dogs & pets. Prefer familiarity w/breed. ryangust2@yahoo.com 634-2817 10 CUTE kittens for free, can send pictures to phone, winged, litter trained, very playful, 405-350-3295 2 PURE breed female and male pug puppies, born on 13th Febuary 2014, wormed, vaccinated, microchipped, hand-raised so are a little smaller than average, 402-870-4523

Motorcycles & Snowmobiles TAITʼS CUSTOM TRAILER SALES 2-3-4- place snowmobile & ATV trailers Drive on Drive off 3500 lb axles

by Trailtech - SWS & Featherlight CALL ANYTIME: 334-2194 www/taittrailers.com

Recreational Powersports and Marine (RPM) Repairs Service, repair and installations for snowmobiles, ATVs, motorcycles, chainsaws, marine and more Qualified and experienced mechanic Great rates!

Call Patrick at 335-4181

1991 ARCTIC Cat, 550 cc snowmobile, runs great, just serviced, helmet included, registration & plated, great machine, $1,100 obo.

667-7733, 332-7054 or brendan109@hotmail.com 2 POLARIS 2-wheel drive 4-wheelers, 250cc, in running condition and 1 more for spare parts, $2,800. 633-4643

2005 SUZUKI 700 King Quad, windshield and faring, rear storage compartment, low miles, great cond, $5,500. 333-9020

2004 SKIDOO MXZ 800cc, 136” track, Fox suspension, new top end/bottom end, black plastic, $3,500 neg. Call/text 335-5945

2007 VESPA LX50 motor scooter, as new cond, 319 original kms, c/w floor mat, new battery & helmet. $2,900. 335-4768

2012 KAWASAKI KX 85 with Monster Energy Plastics and graphic kit, exc cond, $2,900 obo. 333-9113

2008 SUZUKI GSX-R 750, under 5,000 kms, mint cond, well maintained, just serviced & ready to go, $7,400. 335-1106

2003 DRZ125, new handle bars and maxxis rear tire, never raced, $1,000 obo. 668-6680

2011 ARCTIC Cat Quad, 425 cc engine w/snow plow attachment, $6,000 obo.

336-1045

KO-KART, 2 seats, 6hp, runs good, good for kids up to 12 yrs, $600 obo. 334-6519

Marine

2004 YAMAHA V-Star 1100cc, not a scratch, 4000km, $5,500 negotiable, call 336-4887

2000 BEAR Cat 440 Snowmobile, 120kms on new engine, new skis and track, c/w cover & new adult helmet, all work done at Listers, $2,999. 335-2648

2007 BOMBARDIER Quad, 90 cc, almost new, $1,500 firm. 334-4804 or 667-4829

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

Light welding repairs available 867-332-2333 lv msg 2004 WR 450 street-legal dirtbike, gobs of power, low kms, Rekluse clutch, electric start, riser bar, trailtech gauge, ShockSkinz, LED signals, Heat grips, FX graphics, meticulously maintained. 633-5495

2012 Hewescraft Ocean PrO 22' Twin Yamaha 115’s, 85 hours. Hard top with aft canopy, suspension seats, Wallas heater, Lowrance chartplotter, 4G radar, sonar, downriggers, life raft, Sirius XM, Fusion stereo, Maxwell windlass, Rocna anchor, bench seat bed.

Fully outfitted for ocean fishing/camping. $100,000 new.

2006 KAWASAKI KLX 125cc, 4-stroke, exc shape, great for 11-14 yr-old, $1,700 obo.

456-4430 or 332-5510

867-668-2255 info@uncommonyukon.com

2010 RANGER 6x6 side by side EFI 800, 190 kms, c/w winch, windshield, roof, side racks for box, spare tire & misc, $13,500 firm. 334-6101 2006 YAMAHA FZR 1300 sport touring, 28,000kms, new tires, 2 saddle bags, drive shaft, exc cond, 633-2916 or 334-1166 1997 SKIDOO Rotax 380, used for 2 hrs in last 4 yrs, good cond, new track, recently serviced low hrs, seats 2, rear storage, $2,400. 334-8083

75,000 firm.

$

15 HP Johnson 2 stroke outboard engine in good condition, incl. tank, $1,550 obo.

332-1002 16ʼ PRINCECRAFT boat & trailer, electric winch, $9000 obo. 633-4115 BAYFIELD 25 sailboat w/cradle, 8hp diesel motor, 3 sails, ice box/sink, new marine head, alcohol stove, compass, VHF radio, mast stepping equip, sleeps 4, $10,900 obo, delivery in YT/AK for $, 867-336-1412 2007 MACGREGOR 26X sailboat, chart plotter/fish finder, heater, stove, furling, 70 hp Suzuki, sleeps 6, great for lake/ocean, $27,500. 456-4065

There will be a Service for the late

10ʼ INFLATABLE, new, heavy duty PVC 1.2mm, aluminum floor, 2 seats, oars and cover, $950 obo. 334-4068

May 24 at 1pm at the Whitehorse cemetery

2002 115HP Yamaha, 21' boat, warm, safe, wheelhouse and canvas covered walled deck, with trailer, quality crafted, ex shape, light and strong wood and fiberglass construction, $10,000 obo. 335-0395

Ethel Johnston

with a reception to follow on Vista Rd. If anyone has any questions please call Mike at 633-4496.

12ʼ SUMA Pro aluminum boat, $1,250 obo.

334-6101 1999 CAMPION 552 Explorer, 19ʼ, 4.3 inboard, 5hp Merc kicker, 2 manual d/riggers, rod holders, stereo, VHF, full top/trl tarp, new spare, ex shape, Tagish. $11,000 obo.

335-7133

A celebration of life for

John Richard Cletheroe February 24, 1941 - February 12, 2014

will be held on May 24th, 2014, at the Anglican Christ Cathedral, 4th & Elliot Street at 1:00pm. Interment will be at Ta’an Kwach’an Cemetary, Lake Lebarge.

A barbeque feast, in memory of John will take place at 5:30pm at Helen’s Fish Camp, Lake Lebarge.

Everyone is welcome.

17ʼ MAD River Canoe ABS, new gunnels, well used, minor repair necessary, much life remaining, $750. 332-0260 MARIN 20-HORSE outboard jet motor, runs good, nice shape, $1,200 obo. 336-0460 BILL MASON heavy duty special 17ʼ6” cedar and canvas canoe in very good cond, built by Paul Fletcher, $2,500 obo. 633-2443 12ʼ HARBORCRAFT aluminum boat c/w down rigger and two rod holders, $925 obo.

333-9084 19ʼ WELDED aluminum hull jet boat, 350 Chev, 773 Hamilton Jet, 3/4 top and travel top, approx 160 hrs run time, c/w custom built trailer, $16,000 obo. 821-6011 2000 MACGREGOR 26X Sailboat/trailer, good cond, 20hp Honda, (low hours); EZ to sail, wheel steering, bathroom; stove/sink, sleeps 6, $17,400. 334-5490 KAYAK PERCEPTION Shadow, 16.5ʼ w/rudder, c/w paddle, skirt, safety gear, used 8 times, $1,500. 689-7339

Cruise the beautiful Pacific Coast in your own yacht this year!

Funeral ServiceS For the late

Kitty Jackson Gaghäla (August 11, 1934 – May 16, 2014)

will be held at 2 p.m.

Saturday, May 24, 2014 Champagne Hall, Yukon Territory

Potlatch to follow

21ʼ JET boat. Wood/fiberglass deep V hull, 350 Chev 4-barrel engine, Smith Marine jet in running cond, c/w steel tandem axle trailer, $2,000 as is where is. 667-6641 21ʼ CAMPION cabin cruiser, 350 Chev engine with Volvo legs, fridge, stove, sink, toilet, 15hp Yamaha kicker, must see at 7220-7th Avenue. 667-2344 1995 20ʼ Bayliner, cuddy cabin, 250, Volvo Penta inboard, 15hp Johnson kicker, tandem axle trailer, $5,000. Salt water gear also available. 633-2839 32' BAYLINER project boat, 3 floors, 4 axle trailer, transom gate, front & rear thrusters, stand up shower.

More at whiskeypapamike.com. 335-1395

16ʼ STARCRAFT boat with trailer & 25 HP long shaft motor, $2,500 obo. 668-7976

1997 HONDA Goldwing GL1500, reverse, CB, heeltoe shift tape AM-FM, new rubber, serviced Green, great ride, ready to go, 668-3229

KAWASAKI SIDEXSIDE, 6-ply tires, 2 winches, solid, powerful & reliable, 334-2647

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

21ʼ CAMPION, walk around w/cuddy, marine radio, GPS, depth sounder, 2 downriggers, 2 live wells, 225hp Mercury outboard on transom, $11,000. 333-0745

2006 HONDA Shadow 750CC, c/w windshield, saddle bags, weather cover, low mileage, beautiful bike, rides like a charm, $49,000 obo. 334-8929

2008 BAJA 250 Wilderness ATV, well maintained in ex. cond, low miles, c/w owner and shop manuals, $2,500.00. 633-4656

Wednesday, May 21, 2014

WANTED: ANY free boat parts, seats, etc, rebuilding old boat. 633-2236 18ʼ INFLATABLE ridged V hull, ex coast guard, very safe boat, dual 35hp outboards with controls, tanks, and tow-toys $8,000 obo. 456-4926 SOLO WHITEWATER canoe, Dagger Ovation, 12ʼ, incl foam pedestal seat, thigh straps, float bags, exc cond, $1,600.

821-6011 1990 18.5ʼ Campion Bow Rider w/190 hp 4.3L V6 Merc, + 1997 Yamaha 15hp kicker, EZ load trailer, 2 Scotty downriggers, fish finder, new full top, low hrs, exc cond, $11,500. 399-3710

North Pacific 38 Sedan / 2 Staterooms / Bow and Stern Thruster / 33% share available - $94,900

www.one4yacht.com 604-669-2248

10ʼ CAMPER, Adventurer 2007, exc cond, north/south queen bed, bathroom w/shower, fridge, stove, oven & furnace, $10,000 obo.

633-4356 1989 CHEV camper van, 81,000kms, fridge, stove top, sink, good running cond, $3,500.

667-2480 9ʼ CAMPER 2007 Adventurer, 90WS, toilet-shower, fridge-freezer, furnace, twin sinks, electric jacks, rear ladder, roof rack, febreglass siding, stands, great layout, exc cond, $11,500 obo. 335-5709 2004 8ʼ Camperette, sleeps 2, very clean, light weight, great for camping, $1,500 obo.

335-1106 2004 PIONEER travel trailer, overall length 28ʼ, large bath, queen bed, full kitchen, stereo, large awning, $12,500. 633-2580 2000 25' Travelaire Rustler 5th wheel, mint condition, forced air furnace, all the options, hitch and brackets available, $10,500 obo.

668-5882 2002 FLEETWOOD 9U camper, electric jacks,19 tv DVD CD AM-FM, 3burner top, oven, micro-wave, full bath room, 1 slide power plant, serious inquiries only. 668-3229 2008 27ʼ Outback trailer, 2 slide out queen size beds, large forward bedroom with wardrobe and desk/work station, kitchen with white cabinets, bright interior, exc cond, $18,900. 668-2575 2008 ENCLOSED cargo trailer 5 x 8, new tires and brand new spare, includes large tool box on front, $2,900 obo. 334-4068

MERCURY 100 hp outboard with jet drive (1988?) c/w controls, runs very well, was just checked through, $1,500 obo. 633-5246

1998 COLEMAN tent trailer, sleeps 6, awning, very good shape, $3,500 obo. 334-4804 or 667-4829

Heavy Equipment

8ʼ BOAT trailer in good cond, metal welded, $300. 633-2837

AIR ROTARY drill rig, everything needed for water wells & exploration, $45,000, atlinmech@outlook.com

1988 FORD Sterling motorhome, $9,000 obo. 633-4115

1991 BABY Kenworth cabover, long frame, single axle, excellent shape, 667-2046 2000 INTERNATIONAL Eagle, big sleeper, newer N14 Cummins engine, 667-2046 WOODBUG POWERSAW mill c/w 3-10ʼ sections log dogs, dimension stops, two saws, 2 bars, $2,800. Norwood portable edger w/13hp Honda, located in Haines Junction, $2,800. 334-6101 4 NEW CL729-17.5x25-E3/L3 loader tires, $500 ea. 1 near new Kumho 385/65R 22.5 tire & two rims, $650 obo. 334-6101 2002 GMC 7500 5-ton 24ʼ van body with power tailgate 6 speed transmission, 3126 Cat engine New rubber, very low kms $20,000 obo Phone 867-536-2265 in Watson Lake 1980 INTERNATIONAL DUMP TRUCK DT466 engine, 13-speed Tandem axle Old but reliable $5,000 obo Phone 867-536-2265 in Watson Lake 2002 KENWORTH T300 FLATDECK 3126 Cat engine, Eaton 10-speed air brakes, 27 ft deck, new tranny, clutch, radiator and rubber. $25,000 obo Phone 867-536-2265 in Watson Lake 1997 CAT D6M LGP 6-way blade with ripper Brand new undercarriage $75,000 Phone 867-536-2265 in Watson Lake

Aircraft 1957 CESSNA 172, Classic straight tail, Bush STOL, 4900TT, 475 SMOH, 3 point belts, King VHF, great performer, well maintained. Cheap and fun to operate. 633-5495 1975 BALLANCA Scout, 1800 hours total time, 180hp, floats & wheels, pristine aircraft, $89,000. 667-2075

Fractional ownership can make your lifelong dream a reality right now.

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

PROJECT - HAS CRACKED SPAR 1946 AERONCA CHIEF 90HP (no electrics) 2408 TTAF 4 new cylinders roughly 500 hrs ago.

Will include very new Federal 1500 skis as well as good shape EDO 1400 floats with airplane all for $10,000 Phone: 867-536-2265 in Watson Lake

Campers & Trailers MID 80ʼS Ford older motorhome in running cond, $800. 633-2837

FOR SALE

26 Ft 2007 North Shore Travel Trailer. Front full size queen bed, centre kitchen, dining/living room with 8 foot slide out and rear bathroom with full Shower. Less than 1500 miles. Paid $37,000 asking $22,000.

Call 633-4615 or 334-8030

2006 FORD F350 Super Duty crew cab 4x4 w/Diplomat camper, loaded, 6.0L direct injection turbo diesel, 248,000km, auto, locking hubs, exc condition, truck and camper $29,500. 633-5470 UTILITY TRAILER, single axle, 6ʼwx10ʼl, 16” sides, $1,250 obo. 334-6101 2008 FORD F350 Lariat crew cab with leather interior, low kms, comes complete with 9ʼ 2011 Adventurer camper, queen bed, dinette slide, power awning, $38,900. 633-2458 1999 FORD Vanguard 22' motorhome,V-10, 198,000kms, well kept, sleeps 2-3, furnace, fridge/freezer, stove/oven, microwave, bathroom, awning, new front tires & windshield, air ride springs, towing hitch, $9,900.

634-2828 CAR HAULER, 2 3,500 pound axles, 16ʼ deck, 7ʼ wide, $2,500. 390-2313 1988 CLASS C motorhome, perfect running cond, rebuilt 7.3 diesel motor and drive train, $5,500 obo. 390-2313 26' FRONTIER Travel Trailer, sleeps 8, dinette, sofa, fridge, stove/oven, solar battery charger, full bathroom, outside shower, exc cond, willing to sell truck/trailer combo, $11,500, trailer, $22,000 combo. 334-3990 1994 SOMERSET import truck camper, clean, clamshell design, no leaks and minimal maintenance, propane stove, furnace, fridge, electrical system all work, dry weight 1049 lbs, $5,750. 335-0225 1992 27' Corsair 5th wheel & hitch, covered storage, sleeps 6, fridge, 4 burner stove w/oven, micro, stereo, a/c, exc cond, don't use it anymore, $12,500. 633-6759 2013 WORK and Play WPT18EC Toy Hauler, like new, 19'6" box, full bathroom, sleeps 4, dinette, refrigerator, sink, microwave, furnace, a/c, hot water heater, awning, $20,000. 334-8227 CITATION SUPREME truck camper, 10'8" with slide out, fully loaded, immaculate cond, $17,500 obo, 335-0186

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Wednesday, May 21, 2014 CARGO TRAILER enclosed single axle, 6ʼx10ʼ, c/w 3 outside tool boxes & roof rack, $2,550 obo. 334-6101 1995 DODGE Wide Body Camper Van, fridge, stove, microwave, large bed, lots of storage, 141,000 kms gets 16 mpg. $21,500 obo, consider part trade. 335-1681 29.5ʼ 2008 Corsair Excella Polar Pac, loaded, many extras, 867-536-7626 or cell 867-536-4590 2009 30' Citation trailer, polarpak pkg, enclosed valves tanks, thermopane windows dualpane skylights, 50amp power baseboard heaters, slide awnings, 16" wheels, shocks, equalizer hitch/antisway, $33,900 obo.

334-9634

Coming Events

LATE FRENCH Immersion Registration is still open and has been extended to the 23rd of May. Submit your applications in person or by fax to Whitehorse Elementary School.

Fax: 393-6211 YUKON DEVELOPMENT Education Centre AGM Wednesday May 28th, 7:00-9:00 pm at lʼAFY (Francophone Association, Strickland St). Appetizers, presentations, and announcement of new funding for YDEC! Contact ydecsecretary@gmail.com for info ESTATE SALE, Saturday May 31, 2014, 10:00 am - 4:00 pm, Cheryl Klippert yard in Mayo, stephron@northwestel.net, 867-996-2368 YCKC 3RD Annual Paddle Swap May 24 10:00am-2:00pm at the Intake, go to www.yckc.ca for more information THURSDAY NIGHT Salsa Dancing in the Park. Come dance and support the Association for Helping Yukon Youth in Need. Every Thursday Starting May 8th, 7:00pm-9:00pm, Rotary Peace Park. salsayukon@gmail.com

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

AGA DE la Fondation boréale. Décidez avec nous!, 22 mai, 12 h 05 à 13 h 05, salle communautaire du Centre de la francophonie.

Rens. (867) 668-2663, poste 500, fondation@fondationboreale.ca YUKON ORIENTEERING Association regular Wednesday meet May 21 at 6:30 p.m.

Chadburn Lake map. Park at Canyon City Viewpoint on Chadburn Lake Road. Info call Afan 335-2287

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 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 CHILKOOT TRAIL/LOG Cabin: Non-Motorized Weekend: April 11-13. Other weekends & weekdays: Multi-Use. For info: 867-667-3910 HORAIRE PISTE Chilkoot/Log Cabin: Multi-usage sauf du 11 au 13 avril : fin de semaine réservée aux activités non motorisées. 867-667-3910 HOSPICE WALKING Group Tuesdays May 6 to June 10, 6-7:30pm. A healthy way to receive and give grief support. To register: 667-7429 or info@hospiceyukon.net HOSPICE YUKON: Free, confidential services offering compassionate support to those facing advanced illness, death and bereavement. Visit our lending library @ 409 Jarvis, M-F 11:30-3:00, 667-7429, www.hospiceyukon.net LOSS, GRIEF and Healing in the Workplace.

Practical tools for frontline workers, May 28 & 29 offered by Hospice Yukon and Northern Institure of Social Justice. For infor 667-7429, www.hospiceyukon.net AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL Action Circle, letter writing to protect and promote human rights worldwide, Tuesday, May 27, Whitehorse United Church (upstairs) 7:00pm-9:00pm. www.amnesty.ca Info call 667-2389 AUTISM YUKON is hosting its AGM and coffee house at Baked Café, Whitehorse, Friday, May 23rd. Doors open at 6:00 with AGM starting at 6:20 FASHION PAY it Forward. Clear your closet for charity and shop 'til you drop! May 24, 2285-2nd Ave. All proceeds to girls and women in Haiti. Donate? Info? 456-4434 YUKON INVASIVE Species Council and the Alsek Renewable Resources Council are hosting a spotter's network workshop on May 26 in Haines Junction, St. Elias Convention Center Atrium, 7:00pm. info@yukoninvasives.com YUKON INVASIVE Species Council AGM, May 29 6:30pm, meeting room, Public Library. Learn about our projects and become involved in early detection and rapid response of invasive species YUKON SOURDOUGH Rendezvous Society Annual General Meeting, Thursday May 29, Yukon Inn, Fireside Room, 6:00pm Meet and Greet, 6:30pm Proceedings. Everyone is welcome. Memberships available www.yukonredzvous.com or 867-667-2148 YUKON FOOD for Learning Association AGM will be held May 21, 2014, 12;00 PM in the YTA Boardroom, 2064 2nd Avenue, Whitehorse. Contact 393-6902 or ykfoodforlearning@gmail.com for information. Everyone welcome

PUCK POCKETS AGM will be held June 6th, 2014. Location 17-9th Ave Whitehorse, Yukon at 19:00 hrs AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL Action Circle.

Letter writing to protect and promote human rights worldwide. Tuesday, May 27, Whitehorse United Church (upstairs) 7:00pm-9:00pm. www.amnesty.ca Info call 667-2389 TODDLER STORY Time, ages: 2–3 & caregiver(s), Wednesdays, May 14–June 11, 10:30–11:30 a.m., Whitehorse Library, free registration only, 667-5239 BABY STORY time, ages: 6 - 24 months & caregiver(s), Tuesday, May 13–June 10, 10:30-11:15am, Whitehorse Library, free registration only, 667-5239 THE PURNIA Walk for Guide Dogs is a Lions Club initiative to help people in Whitehorse get the support they need from guide dogs that can change a person's life for the better. The dog walk is May 25th at 2pm on the Millennium Trail, starting at Rotary Park.

Registration is at 1pm. Our goal is to raise $10,000 through donations, silent auction, and local sponsors. www.purinawalkfordogguides.com<http://www.purinawalkfordogguides.com> FREE SUMMER recreation program for moms and kids every Friday starting May 23, 2014. Please call 667-2693 for registration info. Registration begins May 14 THE MADDISON family invites you to celebrate the life of Mr. Justice Harry Maddison on Saturday, June 14, 2014 from 2:00pm-5:00pm at the Yukon Arts Centre.

Contact: 633-3363 or sidneyukon@hotmail.com 2014 MS Walk, May 31, CK In 11AM @ Copperridge Place. Ends at GCC. Support Myelin Rejuvenators to ensure we can support locals MCY WORKSHOP. Credit/Debit Cards and Small Business Banking. Monday, May 26 at 6:00pm, Multicultural Centre of the Yukon, 202 Strickland Street 3rd Floor.

667-6205 YUKON LEARN Society AGM 2013/14, is on Wednesday June 18th, 12noon-1:00pm at Pho 5 Star. Everyone welcome TEEN PARENT Society AGM, Tuesday, May 27 at 7:00 pm at Teen Parent Centre.

New members welcome. www.teenparentcentreyukon.ca HOSPICE WALKING Group, Tuesdays until June 10, 6:00pm-7:30pm. A healthy way to receive and give grief support. To register: 667-7429 or info@hospiceyukon.net HOSPICE AGM WED May 21 7:30pm at the Golden Age Society, 4061A 4th Ave. To RSVP call 667-7429 or email info@hospiceyukon.net LOSS, GRIEF and Healing in the Workplace, Practical Tools for Frontline Workers, May 28 & 29 offered by Hospice Yukon and the Northern Institure of Social Justice. For information 667-429, www.hospiceyukon.net

Bode Lee Johnson Born May 14 2014 7lbs 5oz (52cm)

Born to Armin and Mandy Johnson Huge thanks again to maternity ward staff at Whitehorse General!

HOSPICE YUKON: Free, confidential services offering compassionate support to all those facing advanced illness, death and bereavement. Visit our lending library @ 409 Jarvis, M-F 11:30-3:00, 667-7429, www.hospiceyukon.net

BUSY BEAVERS Painting, Pruning Hauling, Chainsaw Work, Yard Cleaning and General Labour Call Francois & Katherine 456-4755

KNIGHTS OF Columbus annual yard sale, Saturday May 24, 4th & Steele, 8:00am-1:00pm

LOG CABINS: Professional Scribe Fit log buildings at affordable rates.

Contact: PF Watson, Box 40187, Whitehorse, YT, Y1A 6M9 668-3632

YUKON RIVER Trail Marathon, early bird registration until May 30th, capped at 325 runners. www.yukonmarathon.com YUKON TRAPPERS Association annual Hide and Horn Auction at the gym, Takhini Elementary School, Sunday, May 25th, from 10-4. Sealed bids, like us on FB YEU LOCAL Y010 special general meetings to select delegates to YEU Convention in October, YEU Hall, May 21 and June 17, 5:30-6:00. Contact Tammi at 335-1329 for more info THE WHITEHORSE Curling Club is hosting its AGM in the club lounge starting at 7pm on Wednesday, May 21st. The Board of Directors encourages all members to attend TRY TENNIS Open House at the Mt. Mac Tennis Courts, Thursday, May 22 and May 29 from 5:00 to 8:00pm, everybody welcome! www.tennisyukon.com Springtime Garden Fort Nelson grown flowers for sale starting May 24th, weather permitting.

Located at gravel lot in front of Kwanlin Dun Cultural Centre.

Call Rosie for information 335-4132 CAMP YUKON Kids Camp (ages 8-12): June 29-July 5 and July 6-12. Teen Camp (ages 13-18): July 13-19. Cost $285. Register Now: www.camp-yukon.com, 668-4817, 91806 Alaska Highway. Sponsored by Bethany Church ARTS IN the Park, 18th season; Tuesday, May 20 All-City Band, Wednesday May 21 Claire Ness, Wednesday evening, May 21 Midnight Sons, Thursday, May 22 Howard Chymy, Friday, May 23 Summer Music Camp Alumni FH COLLINS School Council Regular meeting at 6:30 pm, June 4, 2014, in the Fine Dining Room at the school, everyone welcome CCA YUKON Support Group for Diagnosed Celiacs first meeting on June 5. This is a drop in meeting for information/support, arrive anytime between 6:00pm-7:45pm, meeting ends at 8:00pm FASHION PAY It Forward, fantastic buys, give a donation for the girls and women in Haiti, May 24 10:00am-1:00pm, Yukon Employee Union building, 2285-2nd Ave (beside Fountain Tire). 456-4434 WRESTLING ASSOCIATION of Yukon AGM, Holy Family elementary school, 55 Wann Rd, Monday May 26th, 4:00pm, library, for information, contact T. Hupe at 667-3500

Services 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 HOUSECLEANING, Spring Cleaning, Detailing!

Safe, reliable, bondable RCMP check available on request For into call 334-7405 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

PASCAL PAINTING CONTRACTOR PASCAL AND REGINE Residential - Commercial Ceilings, Walls Textures, Floors Spray work Small drywall repair Excellent quality workmanship Free estimates pascalreginepainting@northwestel.net 633-6368 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

FROGGY SERVICES PEST CONTROL For all kinds of work around the house Windows & Wall Cleaning & Painting Clean Eavestroughs Carpentry Yard Work etc.

References available 867-335-9272

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PAINTING DONE RIGHT! Interior/exterior, oil, staining.

Professional work at reasonable rates.

17 years in Yukon. Also serving the communities.

(Williamson Yukon) Phone 456-2043 or 333-0403 TITAN DRYWALL Taping & Textured Ceilings 27 years experience Residential or Commercial No job too small Call Dave 336-3865

NORTHRIDGE BOBCAT SERVICES • Snow Plowing • Site Prep & Backfills • Driveways • Post Hole Augering • Light Land Clearing • General Bobcat Work Fast, Friendly Service 867-335-1106

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

867-332-7879

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

DREAMWEAVER SESSIONS The ultimate musical vibrational healing sound therapy.

The Dreamweaver facilitates energetic balancing, deep relaxation, eases stress, & relief of physical & emotional pain.

Contact Barbara/Shalandra @ 660 - 4022 for more details

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668-2963

AL-ANON MEETINGS contact 667-7142

- 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

WINDOOR RECYCLER We buy & sell new & used windows & doors Have Triple Pane double & single pane vinyl, wood and metal Now carrying new oak kitchen cupboards Package deals on green house glass 333-0717

Has your life been affected by someone’s drinking ???

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

CLOSED DEC. 25TH FOR CHRISTMAS

FRIDAY

7:00 pm Lutheran Church Basement Beginners Mtg ( 4th & Strickland ) 8:00 pm Lutheran Church Basment Regular Mtg ( 4th & Strickland )

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Yukon News JOURNEYMAN CARPENTER/PAINTER 30 years experience No job too small.

Free quotes. References available.

335-8924

MILLENNIUM GENERAL SERVICES -Spring Yard Cleaning -Power Raking -Aerating -Cut and Vacuum -Fertilizer -Install New Lawns -General Bobcat Work Make a Reservation First-Come, First-Served 633-3404 / 334-4474

Licensed and Professional Automotive Repairs 20-year Journeyman Mechanic Monday - Friday 8:00am to 5:00pm Call Brian Berg 867-633-6597

DRUG PROBLEM?

SUPER CLEAN WINDOWS We clean eavestroughing, siding, and do pressure washing too 668-2998 or 336-0125

Narcotics

Anonymous MEETINGS:

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

ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS MEETINGS

ANGYʼS MASSAGE Mobile Service.

Therapeutic Massage & Reflexology.

Angelica Ramirez Licensed Massage Therapist.

867-335-3592 angysmassage@hotmail.com 8 Versluce Place Whitehorse YT, Y1A 5M1 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

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Yukon Communities & Atlin, B.C.

Beaver Creek

Friday - 1:30 p.m.

Health Centre

Y.T.

Carcross

Y.T. Wednesday - 7:30 p.m.

Library Friday - 1:30 p.m.

Health Centre 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 Friday - 1:30 p.m.

Health Centre

Y.T.

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

Health Centre Haines Junction Friday - 1:30 p.m.

Health Centre

Y.T.

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

Health Centre Old Crow

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

Health Centre

Pelly Crossing

Friday - 1:30 p.m.

Health Centre

Y.T.

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

Leather Repairs & Alterations Jackets, vests, seats & saddlebags Everything and anything Brent at 335-3488

KLONDIKE INSULATION Spray foam insulation Competitive Prices - Price Match Phone 867-335-6886

REDʼS YARD WORK & HARD WORK Lawn work and those other odd jobs getting you down?

Let us do it for you.

Reasonable rates.

668-2866 or 333-9958

MAN WITH 3/4 TON TRUCK for hire for Yard clean-up, garbage, et cetera Phone 668-3534

PAST LIFE REGRESSIONS Inner Journeying • Reiki • Energy Healing Reflexology • Flower Remedies Tune into your bodyʼs birthright, wisdom, awareness & healing Shift issues & regain your vitality Susan 660-4224 LANDSCAPING 25 years experience Mowing • Pruning • Edging • Trimming Fertilization program • Aeration Overseeding • Power Washing • Hauling Trail Blazing Quick, reliable service 333-9596 MOD CONSTRUCTION New Construction • Renovations Flooring • Siding Fencing • Decks No job too small Fast, friendly service Ticketed carpenter with Red Seal reg_andrews@hotmail.com Call Reg @867-335-3690

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Lost & Found FOUND: 1 pair of mens reading glasses in soft case Saturday May 3rd on 2-mile hill.

Call 667-6116 if yours

meetings

mondays 7:30 p.m.

4071 4th avenue

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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Request for Tender

CALLAWAY RAZR X driver, graphite shaft, like new, $75. Pat 332-3438

The purpose of this project is as follows: LSCFN want to build a new energy efficient home.

SANTA CRUZ Bullit, large frame, XT/XTR buildout. $1,000. 335-8153

Project Description:

LSCFN is looking to construct a new energy efficient home minimum of 900sqft 2 bedroom home with a full basement.

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Carmacks

Wednesday, May 21, 2014

• Bidders should provide the following items as part of their proposal for consideration: • Description of experience in planning, building, • List of how many full time, part time, and contractor staff in your organization • Examples of 1 or more construction projects • Reference from past clients • Valid business license and WCB insurance • A full estimated plan All proposals must include proposed costs to complete the tasks described in the project scope. Each bidder must submit 2 copies of their proposal to the address below by May 30, 2014 at 4:30pm PST. Proposal package can be picked up in LSCFN Capital Department. For further information please contact Jeremy L’Heureux, Capital Projects Manager at (867) 863-5576 ext 229.

Little Salmon Carmacks First Nation PO box 135, Carmacks Yukon Y0B 1C0

Request for Tender The purpose of this project is as follows: LSCFN want to build a new energy efficient home.

Project Description: LSCFN is looking to construct a new energy efficient home minimum of 1200sqft 3 bedroom home with a full basement.

Bidder Qualifications • Bidders should provide the following items as part of their proposal for consideration: • Description of experience in planning, building, • List of how many full time, part time, and contractor staff in your organization • Examples of 1 or more construction projects • Reference from past clients • Valid business license and WCB insurance • A full estimated plan All proposals must include proposed costs to complete the tasks described in the project scope. Each bidder must submit 2 copies of their proposal to the address below by May 30, 2014 at 4:30pm PST.

WOMENʼS 334-4196

GOLF clubs with cart, $50.

BIKES, KIDS up to mountain bikes, $5 to $35, 335-2005 BASIC WEIGHT bench c/w barbell & weights, 60 lb punching bag c/w hardware & gloves, 668-2253

PUbLic TENDER MAYO WATER TREATMENT PLANT UPGRADES Project Description: Well Development, Water Treatment and Building Upgrades Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title.

The closing date for submissions is June 12, 2014. Please refer to the procurement documents for the closing time and location.

Documents may be obtained from the Procurement Support Centre, Department of Highways and Public Works, Suite 101 - 104 Elliott Street, Whitehorse, Yukon (867) 667-5385.

Technical questions may be directed to Rick Kent at (867) 456-6564.

This project is being funded through the Canada - Yukon Build Canada Fund.

A mandatory tender period site visit is scheduled for June 3, 2014 at 1:00 PM local time at the Village of Mayo Municipal Office in Mayo, Yukon. All contractors submitting bids on this tender must attend the mandatory site visit in order to submit a bid on this project.

The mandatory site visit registry must be signed by a representative of all prospective contractors.

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

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

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

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

Proposal package can be picked up in LSCFN Capital Department. For further information please contact Jeremy L’Heureux, Capital Projects Manager at (867) 863-5576 ext 229.

Little Salmon Carmacks First Nation PO box 135, Carmacks Yukon Y0B 1C0

Community Services

LARGE BASEBALL fielderʼs glove, like new, $40. 667-6907 ADULT BIKE, $50, teenager bike male/female, $75, all in good driving cond, call or text 335-5426 2 20” bicycles, good shape, fully functional, $20 ea. 633-4018 MTB HARDTAIL 26”, extra components, $1,500 obo. 399-3648

Do you have a horse-crazy child who would like to learn more about the care of horses and riding?

Registration open now for beginner workshops for children ages 6 - 12 Workshop 1: May 23 - 25 Workshop 2: May 30 - June 1 Friday 6 - 8 Saturday and Sunday 9 - 12 Northern Tempo Equestrian Centre 633-5047 or northerntempo@gmail.com

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

60”X108” STIGA ping pong table, exc cond, includes paddles, balls, net, $50. 334-6908

GRACO INFANT car seat, $20, basic white crib, no mattress, $45. 334-7061

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 HORSE HAVEN HAY RANCH Dev & Louise Hurlburt Irrigated Timothy/Brome mix Small square & round bales Discounts for field pick up or delivery Straw bales also for sale 335-5192 • 668-7218 Hay & Straw For Sale Excellent quality hay Alfalfa mix 60-65lb $14.50 Timothy/grass mix 60-65 lb $14.50 Brome hay 50-55 lbs $12 Straw bales $7 Nielsen Farms Maureen 333-0615 or yukonfarm@gmail.com FOR SALE 25 lbs assorted beef and/or elk Locally produced Elk is on special this month Call for details Barbara or Bill Drury, 668-1045 WEANER PIGS Available May 3 Taking orders on finished pigs for fall 393-1955 2012 REGISTERED Sorrel Overo Paint Filly.

Well marked, halter broke, easy to handle & trim. Should mature 15.2 - 16 hands, $1,200.

Email for pics. augustfirst76@gmail.com.

335-1317

PUBLIC TENDER PARKING LOT IMPROVEMENTS ELIJAH SMITH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL - BLDG. #1316 WHITEHORSE, YUKON 2014 Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title.

The closing date for submissions is June 5, 2014. Please refer to the procurement documents for the closing time and location.

Documents may be obtained from the Procurement Support Centre, Department of Highways and Public Works, Suite 101 - 104 Elliott Street, Whitehorse, Yukon (867) 667-5385.

Technical questions may be directed to Jim Newnham at (867) 667-5109.

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

Highways and Public Works

SOLID WOOD crib with high quality mattress, converts to toddler bed, black, very good condition. $150 obo. 668-7659 HIGH CHAIR with foot stool (vintage), height approx 60 cm, good cond, 668-6138 CHILDRENʼS BOOKS, toys of different sizes, stuffed animals, backpack, free.

633-4547

Furniture LAPTOP DESK, 633-2513

SOLID OAK sideboard and china cabinet, beautiful condition, oiled finish, made in Canada, $500 obo. 633-2759 PATIO SET, table approx 3ʼx5ʼ, see through top, incl umbrella, 4 highback armchairs, 2 swivel chairs, good cond, $100. 667-2607 MATCHING SOFA & chair, 668-2253

ROCKY MOUNTAIN Sherpa $1,100, Includes Sigma speedometer, new Michelin tires, new chain, fenders, not included back rack, U lock ($1,200 for everything) 668-4186

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LOVESEAT. KROEHLER brand; high quality foam & construction. Smoke & pet-free home. Factory Scotchguard protection. L 65.5", W 35", H 35.5". Antique-type pattern w/light jade/salmon/cream colours, $290.

821-6011

LOG PICNIC table, full hand scribed tradition Scandinavian tradition, 8' long and finished with a light stain, $1,500. 336-1412 SOLID OAK kitchen set, custom-made table with 5 chairs, $300. 667-2760 OFFICE DESK, dark brown, 72”Lx60”H, 3 drawers & legal size cabinet, pin board/storage 4/4 glass doors on upper level, exc cond, worth $1,200, asking $250 obo.

334-4544 6'X4' WOOD fired cedar hot tub, seats 6, go anywhere without electricity, $2,700.00 obo, 336-1412, can deliver for a fee. See YouTube Root 66 cabin for details DESK CHAIR $5, sewing table $10, bookshelves $10 each, coffee/end tables $10, chest drawer $10, ladies golf clubs/bag $10, glass computer table $20, 6 Carnelian Court, Copper Ridge, 633-6953

Request for Proposals Ayamdigut Campus www.yukoncollege.yk.ca

Design Services – CNIM Building Yukon College RFP2014400 Closes: Noon PST, May 30, 2014 Design services, including schematic and fast-tracked design, and tender and construction administrative services, are required for a stand-alone Industrial Trades Training Building at Yukon College in Whitehorse. It is expected the building will be approximately 15,000 sq feet in size and include a large shop area, classrooms and offices.

Complete packages are available on MERX service (www.merx.com), or by emailing Procurement and Contracts at purchasing@yukoncollege.yk.ca (867-668-8864).

Invitation to Tender 2014 Well Drilling Program - Construction and Testing of Four (4) New Production Wells in The City of Dawson, Yukon.

TENDERS will be received at the office of Morrison Hershfield, 202208 Main Street, Whitehorse, Yukon, Y1A 2A9 before 4:00 PM local time on Thursday, May 29, 2014.

Tenders must have the seal of the Tenderer affixed and submitted in an envelope clearly marked “TENDER FOR THE CONSTRUCTION aND TESTINg OF FOUR (4) NEW PRODUCTION WELLS IN THE CITY OF DaWSON, YUKON.” The tender form will detail the actual estimated quantities.

However, for general information the project consists of: Drilling of four (4) 305 mm diameter (12 inch) production wells to an approximate depth of 20 metres, c/w collection of samples, installation of well casing, stainless steel screen, well development and pumping tests.

Tender documents may be obtained at the office of Morrison Hershfield, on or after 1:00 PM local time Wednesday, May 14, 2014.

The City of Dawson reserves the right to accept or reject any or all Tenders, which the City deems to be in its own best interest. Tenders submitted by Fax or email will not be considered.

All enquiries to: Jonathan Kerr, M.Sc., Pg.Geo. Morrison Hershfield 202-208 Main Street, Whitehorse, Yukon Y1A 2A9 Tel (867) 456-4747 | jkerr@morrisonhershfield.com To request a digital tender package by email, contact: Osa Muckosky, omuckosky@morrisonhershfield.com

BOOKCASE WITH 5 shelves, black, $20, another bookcase with 6 shelves, 2 with doors, $20.00, wooden. 667-4526 3-PIECE SECTIONAL couch, curved w/pull out queen bed, 2 recliners with drink caddy between, exc cond, blue, paid $3,100, asking $859. 668-3381 BOOK & misc shelves, different sizes, misc small shelves, 2 beige chairs, folding chairs, lounge chair/bed, 3 small tables, red ottoman, cream-colored ottoman, various prices, 633-4547

Personals 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

REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL SOCCER FIELD, LAWN AND GROUNDS MAINTENANCE VARIOUS LOCATIONS, YUKON 2014

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 DRUG PROBLEM? Narcotics Anonymous meetings Wed. 7pm-8pm #2 - 407 Ogilvie St. BYTE Office FRI. 7pm-8:30pm 4071 - 4th Ave Many Rivers Office

Garage Sales 128 WILSON Drive, Granger, Saturday May 17, 10:00am-2:00pm, patio set, golf clubs, household items

PUBLIC TENDER CUSTODIAL SERVICES WHITEHORSE PUBLIC LIBRARY, KDFN CULTURAL CENTRE - BLDG. #1995 WHITEHORSE, YUKON

Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title.

The closing date for submissions is May 28, 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 Kevin Poyton at (867) 667-8458.

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

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

Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title.

The closing date for submissions is June 4, 2014. Please refer to the procurement documents for the closing time and location.

Documents may be obtained from the Procurement Support Centre, Department of Highways and Public Works, Suite 101 104 Elliott Street, Whitehorse, Yukon (867) 667-5385. Technical questions may be directed to Karen Bevilacqua at (867) 456-3869.

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

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

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SALE OF SURPLUS HEAVY EQUIPMENT S2014/02 Project Description: Sale of Surplus Heavy Equipment Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title.

The closing date for submissions is May 28, 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 Stan Dorosz at (867) 667-3164.

Viewing Dates: Tuesday May 13, 2014...12:00PM to 2:00 PM Thursday May 22, 2014...12:00PM to 2:00 PM The highest ranked or lowest priced submission may not necessarily be accepted.

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

Highways and Public Works

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ELECTRIC BIKE, City Biker (E. Torque), $600, 821-3369

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Carcare Motors 4103-PJSAVNTM_MNMA_SENTRA_ALL

2261 Second Avenue cAll lee At 668-4436 Monday to Friday 9 am to 5:30 pm Sales OPEN Saturday 10 am to 2 pm For service on all makes call 667-4435