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Dr. Donald Reid, a conservation zoologist with the Wildlife Conservation Society Canada, answers questions from the select committee regarding the risks and benefits of hydraulic fracturing at the legislative assembly on Wednesday.

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il and gas development in the Yukon could be particularly risky for caribou herds, Yukon’s legislative committee on the risks and benefits of hydraulic fracturing heard this week.

Donald Reid, a Whitehorsebased biologist with the Wildlife Conservation Society of Canada, presented to the committee on Wednesday.

The cumulative effects of industrial development on wildlife populations are very hard to predict, said Reid.

But the caribou populations of the boreal forest from the east side of the Rockies to the east coast are well studied, and offer lessons that can be applied here.

Disturbances from oil and gas developments, such as roads and seismic lines cut through the landscape, decrease the amount of caribou habitat and also decrease its quality, Reid said.

But perhaps surprisingly, some species do better in disturbed environments, including deer and moose.

With lots of prey around, wolves do well. Wolves also benefit from the sight lines provided by roads and cut lines, because they make hunting easier.

All of these factors work together to decrease caribou populations, who are pushed out by deer and moose and preyed upon by wolves.

For boreal caribou, “the net effect of that on caribou has been a declining caribou population in most of the herds that have a heavy level of disturbance,” said Reid.

“Some populations of caribou have disappeared as a result

of this. Many are on the cusp, which is why there has been so much controversy in northern Alberta, and which is why the six populations of boreal caribou in northeast British Columbia, in the Peace River country, are currently on the decline and considered at real risk of extirpation.”

Darius Elias, committee member and MLA for Vuntut Gwitchin, asked Reid if the thresholds set out in the North Yukon Regional Land Use Plan might be the appropriate measure to ensure that caribou habitat is not disturbed to an unacceptable level.

Reid responded that having disturbance thresholds is the right idea, but that we have no way of knowing what the appropriate thresholds would be in the Yukon. That’s because the caribou populations here interact with the landscape in a different way from those in the boreal forest.

There are other potential risks to wildlife that could result from large-scale oil and gas development in the Yukon, said Reid.

One risk is the amount of water taken from local lakes, rivers and streams.

With low-flow levels in the winter months, “we run a risk of over-winter habitat loss for invertebrates and fish populations if we’re not very careful,” he said.

Another risk is air pollution from toxic gases released from underground, or evaporated from fracking fluids, said Reid.

Of particular concern are ozone and hydrogen sulfide, because they are heavier than air and can pool in valleys, he said.

“The sinking and accumulation of these gases in certain

circumstances could be lethal.”

These risks can be mitigated with appropriate management and regulations, said Reid.

But there is one area of risk that we simply do not know enough about to mitigate confidently, he said.

That is the potential for fracking fluids left underground in wells to migrate into surface waters.

He pointed to a recent Council of Canadian Academies report that found that potential migration pathways are real and probably have been underestimated.

“Many of the claims of industry have probably been over the top with regard to this water pollution issue and what happens to the water underground,” said Reid.

“Our real dearth of knowledge on how fracturing fluid water works underground in different geologies and with different aquifer and groundwater situations is really creating a huge problem for us, I think, in terms of being able to quantify risk, understand exactly where the risk is coming from, and therefore have any idea about how to regulate it or even monitor it.”

Because we know so little, the lesson is to go slow, and closely monitor effects on ecologies and wildlife, said Reid.

“We need to think about anything we do on the land base as an experiment, not as something that we are walking into with the hubris of knowing exactly what’s going to happen,” he said.

“Unless we learn from anything we do, we are going to be making big mistakes.”

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Affordable housing plans face backlash Realtors and landlords warn that subsidy won’t help those in need Ashley Joannou News Reporter

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ocal realtor and landlord organizations are warning of trouble if the Yukon government moves forward with its plan to build more affordable housing.

“There’s not going to be one tenant in need moving into these units,” said Terry Bergen, a past president of Yukon Real Estate Association.

Bergen and Sonny Gray, a director with the Yukon Residential Landlord Association, are speaking out against a plan by the Yukon Housing Corporation to subsidize developers and organizations if they promise to build affordable housing options.

Under the plan, the Yukon government has said it will use the $13 million left in the Northern Housing Trust to match private and non-government organization investment up to 50-50.

All the groups have to do is guarantee that rental rates remain affordable for at least 10 years.

In this case “affordable” means rents remaining at or below 95 per cent of median rates. The latest statistics put that rate at about $900.

But doing it that way is going to flood the market with units, Bergen and Gray say, and not actually help the people who are most in need.

“Obviously they’re targeting a certain demographic. They’ve just missed a step,” Gray said. “They haven’t had a pre-qualification.

There should be some form of screening to make sure the right people get in there.”

Without any screening process, anyone could apply to the low-rent units, even if they could technically afford to pay a higher rent, Bergen said.

Yukoners who rent out units – and had to pay full price to buy them – are going to be hurt, they say.

“Both our organizations support wholeheartedly that people who can’t afford rentals should be able to get assistance to have rentals. Nobody should be out on the street,” Bergen said. “But this whole program is targeted at all tenants. So that means there will be a drain of tenants from current housing which costs 100 per cent to provide.”

Michael Hale, vice president of the Yukon Housing Corporation,

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Terry Bergen, right, past president of the Yukon Real Estate Association and Sonny Gray, director of the Yukon Residential Landlord Association.

wouldn’t comment on whether or not there will be any sort of screening in place for prospective tenants in these new units.

“It’s certainly true that what this is is private sector,” Hale said. “And we’ll have a conversation with proponents about what’s possible.”

Five projects have been identified for funding. But until discussions are complete, many of the details of the agreement have to remain confidential, he said.

Of the five projects, three are being built in Whitehorse.

That works out to about 75 units, mostly bachelor and one-bedroom apartments between 320 and 600 square-feet, he said.

Two projects are being funded outside of Whitehorse, though Hale would not say where.

Those make up less than a dozen units.

The housing corp.’s contribution to projects represents about 40 per cent of the cost, Hale said, adding that the government has not used

up all of the $13 million in the trust.

“For instance, if you’re a proponent, you had to come up with your own land and we wouldn’t contribute money towards your land acquisition,” Hale said. “If you had anything in your building that isn’t affordable housing, if you have a downstairs commercial component where you’re going to rent out commercial space, it was excluded and it wasn’t allowed to be funded (out of the trust).”

Affordable housing is designed to fill the gap between households that make less than $40,000 a year and can qualify for social housing, and those who can afford higher rents, he said.

“We’re not trying to create more social housing.… If there’s social housing to be built, we can do it and we have built a ton of it. We’ve built over 200 units since 2009,” Hale said.

Gray, who manages hundreds of rental units in Whitehorse, said rents are high because the cost of buying a unit to rent out is high.

He uses the example of a twobedroom apartment renting for $1,500 a month.

“Out of that $1,500 there is $850 that goes to my mortgage, there’s $200 that goes to my condo fees, there’s $1,200 that goes to city taxes every year, there’s insurance and then of course I need a buffer for maintenance,” he said.

All that combined comes up to the $1,500 mark, he said. “When you talk about lowering the rent, I can’t go any lower.”

Bergen said many people who buy new homes often do it with the understanding that they will be able to rent out part at a certain rate to cover the bills. That’s the only way they can afford it.

“Basically the government has allowed hundreds of young Yukoners to go out, invest their money in these condos, and pay full price and get a full 25-year mortgage. They’re locked in for 25 years,” he said.

Both groups also have concerns about the 10-year rental guarantee

that comes with the government money.

As it stands right now, nothing stops developers from turning the units into condos and selling them off separately the moment that 10year window is over.

Hale said the 10-year timeframe is consistent with what is used in other jurisdictions for similar projects.

“It’s deemed appropriate for what you can lock someone into around a residential asset,” he said.

As it stands, the 10-year guarantee doesn’t start until after the units are built.

“Before any of these units hit the market, if they hit the market, if people decide to sell them, we’re talking like 2026,” Hale said.

“If it takes two to three years to construct these projects, it is a ways off before anyone is selling anything and there is no obligation and no guarantee that they will be sold.”

Contact Ashley Joannou at ashleyj@yukon-news.com

Mayo’s drop-in centre burns down Jesse Winter News Reporter

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ast Friday the community of Mayo lost one of its most important buildings.

The town’s drop-in centre burned to the ground in the early morning of May 23.

“It’s definitely a difficult loss,” said Nacho Nyak Dun chief Ed Champion. “There are all kinds of people who used that facility,

from youth to elders.”

Mayo RCMP and the Yukon fire marshall’s office investigated the blaze, and determined that an electrical problem was the culprit.

That was a weight off of Champion’s shoulders, he said. When he’d first heard about the blaze, he was initially worried it may have been the work of a suspected Mayo firebug who was arrested in connection with a house fire the following Monday.

But the RCMP confirmed the two fires were not related.

“That was a big relief, for sure,” the chief said.

Making the loss that much worse, the drop-in centre had recently been renovated and outfitted with all new appliances.

Champion was in Whitehorse for meetings this week, but said as soon as he’s back the community will figure out plans to replace the lost building.

In the meantime, the Nacho Nyak Dun government building has been opened as an interim drop-in centre, Champion said.

As for the suspected arsonist, police said they were called to a house fire on Monday, May 26 just after 8 a.m. The fire appeared to be suspicious and police arrested the suspect near the scene.

The investigation is on-going to determine whether charges will be laid, according to the RCMP.

The building was empty at the time, and no one was hurt, but the building itself was destroyed, leaving three people without a home in a town already facing a housing shortage.

Over the past two years there have been more than a dozen suspicious fires during the summer months in Mayo, baffling RCMP and leading them to suspect a serial arsonist.

Contact Jesse Winter at jessew@yukon-news.com

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Celebrating Yukon’s Ethno-cultural History Monday June 9, 2014 Kwanlin Dün Cultural Centre Join us as we launch our touring display panels of the Phillpotts Family and Togo Takamatsu.

Annual General Meeting to follow.

Launch at 6:30 pm | AGM at 7:30 pm Dessert and refreshments provided Top Right: Phillpotts family upon arrival in Yukon, 1965.

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Conference board forecasts economic rebound Jacqueline Ronson

“Market conditions have improved since the summer of 2013, when the mine was espite little good news initially supposed to begin lately from the minconstruction. Gold prices ing industry, the Conference have stabilized, financing is Board of Canada is predicting showing signs of loosening a rebound for Yukon’s econo- up, and the Canadian dollar my in 2014. has fallen.”

In its latest territorial outConstruction is expected to look the board has predicted begin late this year, according real growth of Yukon’s gross to the report. domestic product at 3.7 per Intense capital spending by cent this year. the Yukon government is also Yukon’s GDP stagnated last expected to give the construcyear. The same report estition sector a boost this year. mates -0.1 per cent growth in “Capital spending by the 2013. territorial government for That was mainly due to a fiscal 2014–15 is expected to slowdown in the mining secincrease by over 30 per cent. tor thanks to weak mineral As it was last year, with the prices. government continuing to inBut today’s weak Canavest in needed infrastructure, dian dollar is actually good the department with the largfor mining companies in the est capital budget is Highways Yukon, since their costs are and Public Works.” largely in Canadian dollars The F.H. Collins school but minerals are priced in rebuild, priced at $31 million American dollars. for construction, is one of the The authors of the report major projects on the governpredict that will be a factor ment’s horizon. in getting construction on The forecasts also expects Victoria Gold’s Eagle mine Eagle Industrial Minerals to started. The mine is permitted begin producing magnetite to begin work, but financing from the tailings at the Whitehas not yet been secured. horse Copper site this year.

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The three men – a 35-yearold from Whitehorse, a 48-year-old from Fort St John and a 74-year-old from Pouce Coupe, B.C. – were all able to make it to shore but ended up on opposite sides of the water Wednesday just before 6 p.m.

Mayo RCMP say the rescue is a reminder of why it’s important to carry emergency supplies.

The group had a satellite phone and were able to call out for help and start a fire to stay warm.

However, that project has hit two serious setbacks in the past year.

Last October the company said plans could be derailed because a deal could not be reached with the port authority in Skagway over expansion of the terminal for ore exports.

And in March, a Yukon court found that the Yukon government had not properly consulted a company with mineral claims that overlap the tailings area. The judge cancelled the Eagle Industrial Minerals’ permit to mine the magnetite, pending resolution of the issue.

The conference board’s forecast for Yukon in 2014 is slightly sunnier than that of Yukon’s own economists.

The government’s most recent economic outlook predicts 3.3 per cent growth this year.

In October of last year it had predicted 8.8 per cent growth, but economists downgraded that prediction in February.

Contact Jacqueline Ronson at jronson@yukon-news.com

The Mayo RCMP responded to the scene within the hour and airlifted the group with the help of Trans North Helicopters.

They were brought to Mayo for assessment and treatment at the health centre. No one was seriously injured.

“We were happy we were able to provide such a timely response,” said Cpl. Chris Hutchings. “This situation highlights why it is so important to wear a life jacket at all times while on a boat and carry emergency supplies such at satellite phones and SPOT beacons when recreating in the backcountry.”

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Yukon loses one of its eldest elders Sam Riches

land and he respected it,” said Burke.

“He looked for all Mother ne of Yukon’s oldNature’s treasures whether est and most storied they were ones you could see elders has died. with the eye or had to dig beArthur John Senior passed neath the surface. Our condoaway early Tuesday morning lences go out to everyone that at his Ross River home. He knows him. It’s a great loss was 103. when a man like that passes He is survived by four chilaway.” dren, 38 grandchildren and Ross River Dena Council his wife Alice, with whom he Chief Brian Ladue described celebrated an 80-year wedJohn as a “pillar to the comding anniversary last year that munity,” in an email to the garnered national attention Yukon News. and included a papal blessing “Throughout his lifetime from Pope Benedict. he’s accomplished many There were believed to be great things and has shared the longest wed couple in invaluable knowledge and Canada. teachings to his people, to his “The community is a pretty children, grandchildren and sad place right now,” said his great grandchildren. The loss daughter Dorothy in an interof such an amazing man and view Thursday afternoon. member of our community “He was definitely a role and nation is truly a great model for the family. He had loss, but his legend will live on a very full life. We were just through all the great legacies talking today that he probably he leaves behind,” he wrote. lived two lifetimes. He saw a In Whitehorse, residents lot of new things happen over don’t have to travel far to be his life.” reminded of John’s contribuBishop Gary Gordon of Yukon Prospectos Association/Yukon News tions to the territory.

Whitehorse led Mass at the Arthur John Senior, seen in 1976.

At Third and Main, outside John’s 80th wedding celebrathe Elijah Smith Building, tion and described the couple each other’s presence. It was him,” said Burke. “He wasn’t discovered the Faro mine in a bronze bust of a prospecas “love personified.” a guy for a lot of words, but 1969 and is credited with the beautiful.”

“There was a sense of comBy all accounts, John was a discovery of tungsten, as well when he had something to say tor and his dog towers above the street. John’s name is plete commitment to each you’d be better off listening rugged and fearless outdoors- as hard rock gold in Dawson engraved at the base of the other,” Gordon said. “It spoke man, who began a tremenand not talking.”

City, among other mineral statute, as a member of the volumes to the power of grace dously successful prospecting deposits.

John was still prospecting and the permanent bond and career in 1949. He was also an Twenty years later, and still into his 90s and was known to Prospectors Hall of Fame. Beside it, the bronze reads, “this strength that can bring to the accomplished trapper and a hard at work, he was inducted explore the area on an Argo community. They could be statue is dedicated to all those ATV. “He was tougher than into the Yukon Prospectors’ willing instructor for others. counted on for wisdom.” about 10 of me put together,” who follow their dreams.”

Hall of Fame.

“Whenever there was a After Mass, Gordon reMike Burke, chief geologist said Burke. social event in town he was A funeral for Arthur John called that someone asked In 2001, at 89 years old, there helping out,” said Doro- with Golden Predator Corp.

Senior will be held at the Ross Alice, “How do you keep goJohn’s work was again recand a member of the board thy. “He helped out a lot of River School on Wednesday, ing?” and she responded, “You different people and kids, kids of directors at the chamber of ognized with the prestigious June 4, beginning at 2 p.m. just do.”

Spud Huestis Award, awarded There will also be a viewing other than his own family. He mines, was at that induction “It was a beautiful testiceremony and worked along- for “excellence in mineral taught a lot of people trapon Tuesday night at the Ross mony for marriage, for better ping skills, he taught a prosprospecting and mineral exside John in the Kaska Dena River Catholic Church from 7 or worse,” Gordon said. “They pecting course.” ploration,” at a ceremony in region. to 9 p.m. were like a newly wed couple, Vancouver.

“He was one of those guys John was an integral Contact Sam Riches at “He loved to be out on the that just had an air about member of the team that just in absolute delight of sam@yukon-news.com News Reporter

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ary Pettifor stares down at the table in front of him, an empty cardboard coffee cup in his right hand, the fingers of his left hand curled into a fist.

“The way our society handles death is just not respectful,” says the Marsh Lake resident, his eyes lowered, his voice marked by weariness.

In the last two years, Pettifor has watched his mother, his father and his father-in-law die slow, painful deaths.

Most recently, his mother, Tina Pettifor, died on May 9. She had been sick for the previous two years but near the end of April she suffered a stroke that left her bed-ridden.

“When she had the stroke that was it,” Pettifor said. “She had no quality of life anymore.

She’d had enough.”

It was then 13 days of hell, Pettifor said, as she starved herself until her passing.

Each day the nurses would bring apple juice, Tina’s favourite, but she had made up her mind.

“I think she deserved a lot better,” Pettifor said. “I think a doctor should have come in and given her a needle and let her fall asleep, peacefully.”

Pettifor had watched the same scenario play out with his father George, who died at 88.

George suffered a heartattack “that ended any sort of good life.” His health problems worsened, and with his lungs damaged from a long firefighting career, surgery wasn’t an option. He was open about his desire to move on.

“He’d had enough. He knew his health wasn’t going to get any better, only worse,” Pettifor said. “He said he wanted to die the next morning and be cremated by the afternoon. He wanted the right to a dignified death.”

It took about four weeks for George to starve himself to The new Yukon home of

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Gary Pettifor is looking to change Yukon’s perception surrounding euthanasia after losing his parents and father-in-law.

death.

Pettifor’s father-in-law, Josef Beisser, died in 2011. Two months before his retirement from the lumber industry he was diagnosed with Parkinson’s and survived for 19 years with the disease before eventually ending up in Copper Ridge Place.

When he realized he would never leave the full-care facility he told the family that he no longer wished to live.

“We had to tell him that wasn’t an option,” Pettifor said.

“He and my dad said the exact same thing, ‘You wouldn’t treat a dog like this. You wouldn’t treat an animal this way, why would you treat me this way?’”

Fourteen months after arriving in Copper Ridge Place, Beisser died.

The debate surrounding euthanasia and assisted-suicide was brought back into the national consciousness last week when Quebec’s Bill C-52 was reintroduced in the national

assembly.

Euthanasia is defined as intentionally ending a life to relieve pain and suffering. In assisted suicide, a physician provides a patient with medication and the patient administers the lethal dose, whether it be a needle or a pills, at their own hand.

Bill C-52 calls for the legalization of both physicianassisted suicide and voluntary euthanasia, following similar legislation that’s in place in the Netherlands, Luxembourg and Belgium.

The bill was put on hold earlier this year when the provincial election was called and revived last week after an unanimous vote.

If it were to pass, it would be the first bill in Canadian history to legalize physician-assisted suicide, allowing doctors to administer lethal injections to patients in Quebec who are in “constant and unbearable physical or psychological pain.”

Currently, Canada yields one of the most severe punishments in the world for euthanasia, an indictable offence that can result in to up to 14 years in prison.

Pettifor believes it’s time for that to change.

“There’s just no option for assisted suicide, for people who’ve decided they’ve had enough. Why should we be putting them through hell?”

He recalled sitting by his mother’s side in her final days.

“I thought it would be so easy to give her some sleeping pills or put the pillow over her face,” he said.

“It’s so hard to see the ones you love suffer. Obviously we didn’t do that but those thoughts are there.”

South of the border, assisted suicide is currently legal in five U.S. states: Washington, Oregon, Vermont, New Mexico and Montana.

Opponents of Quebec’s Bill C-52 warn that the language is imprecise and could be open to abuse by doctors.

Broader arguments against euthanasia include religious convictions and that proper palliative care makes euthanasia unnecessary.

Dr. Ken Quong, president of the Yukon Medical Association, said the YMA has “not taken any position” on the matter.

Pettifor, on the other hand, is adamant about sharing his story. “I’ve talked to well over 200 people,” he said, “and not a single one has disagreed with me.”

Pettifor has drafted a letter, detailing the deaths of his mother, father and father-inlaw, that he will be sending to MP Ryan Leef, and 303 members of Parliament.

“I think it’s time for society to take a step further and respect people a little more,” he said.

“If people have too much pain or if there’s no quality of life anymore and there’s no coming back then I think we should respect their wishes.

It frees up hospital space for people who want to live, it saves the government money, it saves the family money, and it’s the right thing to do.”

Contact Sam Riches at sam@yukon-news.com

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“It’s a really terrifying situation to have,” said arlier this month TaHorsey. “Basically you’re only mara Horsey got some going to be seen if you have bad news. Her doctor plans a serious emergency, and by to leave the territory. As of then it could be too late. Like August 15, she will have no with breast cancer or somedoctor. thing, somebody gets so sick She has been told that none and they go in, ‘Oh, you have of the other doctors at White- breast cancer, but we didn’t horse Medical Services, where find it soon enough and now she is a client, will take her you’re hooped.’” or any of the other stranded Horsey was a patient of Dr. patients on.

Bruce Todd, who retired last Currently, no clinics in the year, for all of her life. territory are recruiting for His practice was taken over new patients.

by Dr. Shauna Tierney, who Horsey worries about was new to the territory and where she will go for routine signed on for a term. and preventative care after the Dr. Tierney has decided to summer, she said. move on after the comple“The ER is already tion of her term for personal swamped with problems … reasons. and now they’re going to get “It’s a really frustrateven more swamped with ing situation,” said Horsey. people with sniffles or little “There’s no blame to be laid, tummy aches, because there’s because I can’t really say that nowhere else for us to go.” it’s anybody’s fault.”

The Yukon News reported But there could be hope for last week that the emergency Horsey and the other strandroom at Whitehorse General ed patients.

Hospital continues to deal By all accounts the doctor with a significant number of shortage has eased over the highly intoxicated individuals past year. who can’t get the care they As of July 2013, 1,500 News Reporter

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Whitehorse resident Tamara Horsey was told by her clinic that she will have no doctor as of Aug. 15.

Yukoners had signed up for a doctorless patient registry with the Yukon government.

“Doctors put a big dent in the 1,500 patients on the Yukon government registry since January 2014,” wrote Dr. Ken Quong, president of the Yukon Medical Association, in a recent email. “Two new doctors alone have taken on over

600 of those patients. They have paused in their uptake to get the current patients sorted out before opening up again.”

And although no clinics are advertising openings, some people continue to be signed up with doctors, he said.

“There are doctors accepting new patients every day into their practices,”

wrote Quong. “For example when new mothers give birth, the families are most often taken on into practices. Every day, patients are taken on for follow-up from the emergency room.”

And new doctors are expected, he said. The Klondyke Medical Clinic, where he works, is on track to have three doctors accepting new patients in the late summer.

“There will always be doctors leaving the territory and doctors retiring,” wrote Quong. “The YMA continues to successfully recruit new doctors.”

The Yukon government employs a physician recruitment and retention officer, who also works to bring new doctors to the Yukon.

According to the YukonMD website, Whitehorse Medical Services, Taiga Medical Clinic, Pine Medical Clinic, the Yukon Women’s Clinic and Watson Lake’s Parhelion Medical Clinic are all currently recruiting for new doctors.

Contact Jacqueline Ronson at jronson@yukon-news.com

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he Yukon has a sprawling 8,400 kilometres of road. In a territory with fewer than 140 Mounties, perhaps it’s time to ask whether it’s the best use of tax dollars to enforce motor vehicle regulations.

As it stands, what are the odds that police are able to catch scofflaws, with such a vast area to patrol?

And how is it fair that law-abiding drivers must go through the nuisance of having vehicles registered and bearing license plates?

Surely dangerous drivers are just a few bad apples. So let’s chuck out the entire registration and licensing system, throw our hands up in the air, and ask the Mounties to give up on enforcing the law on our roads.

While we’re at it, we could tear up our wildlife regulations. What’s the point of having hunting rules when there’s so much wilderness, and so few conservation officers?

Enforcing these rules could cost a fortune. Are we to have a CO hide behind every bush? And how is it fair that lawful hunters face the hassle of paperwork and fees, while those bad apples carry on as they would?

We could carry on, but you probably get the sense these questions are being posed in jest. All the above objections, slightly tweaked, are the indignant replies now being heard in response to proposals to regulate all-terrain vehicle use in Yukon’s backcountry. The point here is that if we applied the same unreasonably high standards now being used to argue against ATV regulation to other areas of law, we wouldn’t have many rules on the books, period.

In reality, nobody expects police to catch every drunk driver. Nor do we expect conservation officers to catch everyone who hunts an animal out of season. The fact that justice is not always seen when these laws are broken, however, does not support the notion that drunk driv-

ing bans and hunting restrictions shouldn’t exist.

Laws, in these cases, help signal to all citizens what rules we expect to be followed for our collective well-being. Enforcement is necessarily spotty, but the occasionally splashy bust, and the accompanying punishment, hopefully sends a message to most people that the pain of being caught out-weights the nuisance of following the rules.

Drunk driving and poaching of course remain problems in the Yukon, but nobody pretends that the laws against these activities are useless.

Why, then, all the huff about potentially having to register and plate an ATV? People currently have to do the same for boat trailers, and you don’t see any angry letters to the editor about that. (In B.C., which passed new ATV legislation earlier this year, riders must pay a one-time $48 registration fee.)

It’s common to hear that the ugly damage being done to Yukon’s backcountry by ATV riders is the fault of a small, irresponsible group. Whether this is true or not, one thing is clear: residents who are fighting against making ATVs clearly identifiable for law enforcement purposes are effectively supporting these bad apples, by helping to ensure scofflaws won’t get caught.

Much is made of the cost of enforcement. Funny how this objection isn’t applied to existing conservation officer responsibilities. Apparently it’s worthwhile to try to stop people from shooting endangered caribou herds. Why not, then, similarly try to protect fragile wetlands from a growing web of mud ruts that will take decades to heal, by declaring certain sensitive areas off-limits, and then enforcing this ban?

Just as conservation officers are frequently aided by citizens who report hunting violations, the same could be done with ATV enforcePublisher

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ment. Residents with satellite phones could report offences, or even snap photos with GPS-tagging cameras of offenders caught in the act. This already happens elsewhere.

Another objection is that bad guys will just splash mud over their plates. Well, fine: make it an offence to obscure your license plate, as it is with motor vehicles on roads.

Will some knuckleheads succeed in evading the law? Sure – and such will always be the case. But others will be caught, and their punishment will help deter future damage.

Education efforts obviously play a role in residents learning to lessen the impact of riding ATVs in the wilderness. But you need to live in a fantasy land to believe that alone will solve the problem. If that’s how the world worked, we wouldn’t need the aforementioned laws against drunk driving and poaching.

Yukoners face a choice. They can stick with the status quo, which is to allow Yukon’s hinterland to continue to be chewed up by irresponsible ATV riders. Or we can get serious about fixing the problem – and that means creating rules and ensuring it’s possible to enforce them, however selectively. Putting plates on vehicles is a necessary part of that. To pretend otherwise is just silly.

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LETTERS Subsidizing new rentals could hurt us all Open letter to Housing Minister Brad Cathers: The Yukon Residential Landlord Association and the Yukon Real Estate Association are against subsidizing new construction of residential units in the manner that the Yukon government is currently proposing – that subsidy being an outright grant of 50 per cent by the Yukon Housing Corp. to select developers of new residential rental

“There was a sense of complete commitment to each other. It spoke volumes to the power of grace and the permanent bond and strength that can bring to the community. They could be counted on for wisdom.”

Bishop Gary Gordon on the eight decades of marriage shared by John Arthur Senior, who died on Tuesday, and his wife Alice.

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Our love-hate relationship with globalization foreign products. Others are protrade, but anti-immigrant. of the uglier tendenby Keith ciesSome on this topic have come out Halliday recently in Europe. Anti-foreign parties have done disturbingly well in recent elections, often stealing votes from traditional parties on both the right and left.

Benjamin Carle, a French journalist, has just completed a 10-month experiment that illustrates the complexity of the topic. anadians have a love-hate Seeing Socialist minister Arnaud relationship with globalMontebourg launch a nationalist ization.

“Made in France” campaign in an On the one hand, 100-mile diets and buying locally authentic attempt to save French jobs, he decided to test-drive the idea. He products are all the rage. On the tried to live for a year using only other, if you did eat a 100-mile French products. diet you would still be wearing Initially he found that around clothes from Bangladesh, using 95 per cent of the items in his a fork from IKEA and neglectapartment were non-French. ing your companions to check a Almost a year later, an external smartphone designed in Califorauditor declared his life to be 96.9 nia and built in China.

Like it or not, globalization is a per cent French. He still had those defining characteristic of our age. IKEA forks, foreign wallpaper and never succeeded in finding French It is also politically contronail clippers. He had to go withversial. Some want us to think out a washing machine. Fortunatlike global citizens. Others want ely, his girlfriend was French and to block immigration or restrict got to stay. (Nigel Farage, charisimports from foreign countries. matic leader of the anti-foreign It is also a topic we haven’t fully thought through, since many have UK Independence Party that did so well in last week’s elections, has contradictory instincts. Some a German wife.) parts of the political spectrum, At the end of his effort, Montefor example, are in favour of bourg gave Carle a medal. From being citizens of the world on environmental or immigration an ocean away, it seems slightly topics but look down on buying absurd to me to see a Frenchman

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Yukon Energy shouldn’t be gambling on LNG I and many other Yukoners were in the legislature Tuesday morning listening to Dr. Mark Jaccard testify before the fracking committee. He is the lead author of the BC Hydro Integrated Resource Plan that I think could be a great template for how Yukon needs to move forward when looking at our energy future.

It was a very good presentation and will be transcribed and on the public record. Other than being ill-informed about the Cornell study comparing natural gas and coal, Dr. Jaccard’s testimony reinforced the Yukoners overwhelming opposition to Yukon Energy’s liquefied natural gas plan.

The one quote on the last slide that really screamed out at me: “Be prepared for ‘few-orno-LNG-plants’ scenario. Thus, avoid major public infrastructure investments. Let industry do it.”

In the Yukon context, the major public infrastructure investment is our Crown corporation, Yukon Energy, investing $42 million in this LNG plan.

Let Casino mine take the risk of LNG on. The “few-or-no-LNGplants” scenario has already been foreshadowed by Shell Oil abandoning its Jumping Pound LNG plant in February.

Yukon Energy is taking all the risks (with our money) and its

worried if his cheese comes from Belgium, his coffee maker from Germany or his wine from Italy.

Indeed, why restrict the feeling of absurdity to neighbouring countries. What’s wrong with Polish furniture, Canadian wheat or Chinese electronics?

This highlights one of the challenges of protectionism: how to define what to protect? Economics professors often demonstrate this with a reductio-ad-absurdum argument. Should we buy global or buy Canadian? Should we buy Yukon or buy Canadian? Should we buy Takhini or buy Yukon? Takhini North? Cassino Street? Your own house on Cassino Street?

I don’t think even the most enterprising residents of Cassino Street, if they wanted to emulate Benjamin Carle, could make their own smartphones.

Some worry about the environmental impact of longdistance shipping. But advances in shipping technology have made this astonishingly efficient.

I spoke to an analyst looking at the carbon emissions of groceries in Europe, and he told me the biggest carbon emissions per kilo of food were usually in the “last mile.” What he meant was your leg of lamb’s trip from New Zealand in a super-efficient freighter probably emitted less carbon than the same leg’s share of the carbon emitted by your SUV as you drove

board needs to heed Dr. Jaccard’s wisdom.

Sally Wright Kluane Lake

Habitat and wildlife protection comes first Regarding ATV management, here is an important question: Going into the coming consultations what is going to be the priority and what is going to be our mindset?

We were recently honoured to be invited to give a presentation to the Yukon Fish and Wildlife Management Board and afterwards, the chairperson, Harvey Jessup spoke very eloquently to us about their focus of concern which is the protection of habitat and wildlife.

We listened carefully because in the coming ATV management consultations – if we start the conversation with protected habitat and wildlife being the first priority – that conversation is likely to end well with reasonable and sensible solutions that benefit our wilderness and ultimately our children and ourselves.

If, on the other hand, the conversation and mindset begins with me and my machine being the first priority – that conversation may not result in the wise stewardship of wildlife, habitat

and the wilderness that we all hope for.

So, I think it would be wise to listen to the admonition from the Yukon Fish and Wildlife Management Board on this one – habitat and wildlife protection comes first.

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Where’s the outrage over industry’s foreign funds?

Vivian Krause is so shocked (shocked!) that American foundations provide funding to CPAWS for its Peel court case that she travels to Whitehorse to warn the “Yukon chamber guys” (The News, May 23.)

She is mistaken in her claim that American interests are ignoring environmental destruction in Texas and North Dakota.

They are not. In fact, American environmental organizations are quite vocal about this.

But more to the point, the oil and mining industry finds nothing upsetting about foreign money influencing our natural resources development. Industry welcomes Chinese investment and ownership in our mining and oil sectors, and I’ve

from the grocery store.

Buying a foreign product shipped to a local store by truck might also be more carbonefficient than a national product shipped by airfreight from a website in Eastern Canada. Choosing to go on vacation by airplane or buying a suburban house with a daily commute probably completely swamps the carbondifferential as you choose between Alberta and New Zealand meat.

Others worry about the low wages paid to workers in foreign countries. The entertaining economics show Planet Money looked at this question when they went to garment factories in Bangladesh. Wages and conditions were indeed unacceptable by Canadian standards, but the workers interviewed still preferred factory work to subsistence agriculture in the country. Do we agree with Montebourg that French people should not buy shirts from Bangladesh, potentially putting these Bangladesh workers out of a job?

We also worry about security. Where will we be if there is a global famine? Most Yukon families only have a week or two of food in their larders and would soon be reduced to eating whatever is in all those out-ofdate sauce bottles that fill our fridges. Or what if we allowed our industrial base to wither away and there was another big war? What

about saving Canadian jobs in industries shrinking under foreign competition? These aren’t easy questions to answer, since using border restrictions to protect entire industries can end up passing surprisingly large costs onto Canadian families.

Cost is a key question here, because globalization has enabled specialization and cost-efficiency that would astonish Adam Smith and the early economists who studied the gains from trade.

Clothes and basic consumer goods are so cheap they are almost disposable. Most inhabitants of rich countries spend, by historical standards, just a fraction of their working days earning enough money to feed themselves. They have access to drugs and advanced electronic devices that wouldn’t be economic to develop for just the Canadian market.

The debate on globalization is sure to continue. But, tellingly, I suspect that few of the people who applauded Benjamin Carle’s experiment will throw out their foreign clothes, foods and gadgets.

Keith Halliday is a Yukon economist and author of the MacBride Museum’s Aurore of the Yukon series of historical children’s adventure novels.

You can follow him on Channel 9’s Yukonomist show or Twitter @hallidaykeith

At present there is no cure, but celiac disease is readily treated by following a gluten-free diet. Gluten is a protein found in not heard that Krause comwheat, rye, triticale and barley. plains about this.

Although statistics are not The Peel watershed plan readily available, it is estimated is now before the courts, the that one in 133 persons in CanCPAWS and First Nations suit ada are affected by celiac disease. funded in part by American It affects people of all ages and foundations. What is wrong more are being diagnosed daily, with foreign money funding the including those of us in the search for justice and sound reYukon. source management, if it is OK As part of increasing awarefor foreigners to fund resource ness of this disease, information exploitation? packages prepared by the CanAfter all, the Yukon governadian Celiac Association are bement – arguably on the side of unsustainable development and ing distributed to Yukon health practitioners in both private illegal procedures – is funding practice and those employed by its side of the court case with health-care agencies, schools, taxpayers’ money. The terrirestaurants and dental clinics. tory is forcing all Yukoners The Canadian Celiac Asso– Peel plan supporters as well ciation is the national voice for as developers – to finance the government’s pro-development people who are adversely affected by gluten, and is dedicated to court position.

The foreign foundations have improving diagnosis and quality a choice in how they spend their of life. It is an excellent source of money for influencing this mat- information for individuals who need to eat gluten free. ter; Yukoners don’t. Now that’s I am pleased to inform disturbing.

Yukoners that a CCA support group has just been established Conrad Frieslander in Whitehorse thanks to Barb Whitehorse Geroux, a new resident.

Please come to the first meetIt’s celiac awareness month ing on June 5, 2014 at the WhiteCeliac disease is a medical condi- horse Public Library. Drop-in between 6:00 and 7:45 p.m. For tion which impacts the ability further information contact me of the body to absorb nutrients: at 668-2863. protein, fat, carbohydrates, vitamins and minerals, which are Cheryl Smith Whitehorse necessary for good health.

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Remembering my friend Teresa Scheunert Chris Caldwell

We camped and fished and canoed and horseback adventured – generally enjoying all Yukon experiences that eresa Scheunert was wild and one can with limited funds, a small woolly, bubbling with mischief canoe and a big old 4x4 pickup. Little and always prepared to do Atlin, Jackson Lake, Little Fox and our something fun on a moment’s notice.

Teresa and I met as neighbours back “secret” fishing spot at Little Braeburn Lake were our habitual destinations. in the ‘80s, living in the “beautiful” Hot summer days were spent mindBaranov Trailer Park – yes, we were ing the kiddies and trying to keep cool. “trailer trash,” but you’ve gotta start The trailer court wasn’t much more somewhere! than a gravel parking lot and it cooked Our years living next door to each in the heat. We had no kiddie pool other were almost a situation of conjoined households. Only 15 feet separ- for the yard so made do by filling the trusty canoe – it held water just as well ated us, easy talking distance through as it floated on it! the facing windows.

We would always collaborate on the Rather than use the phone, Teresa would fling open a window and yell for big July summer birthday weekend as Teresa and my man Doug were born me to do the same. We’d lean out our opposing windows and yap about what mere days apart. Winter fun was a succession of weird parties, one of which we should do today.

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Many years, many miles and many changes in work, lives and loves caused us to drift apart, but we always had the kind of friendship that transcended the time and distance.

Sometime around 2008, with her nursing degree and vast experience “in hand,” Teresa returned to the Yukon, allowing us to reconnect our friendship in person. With Teresa based in Watson Lake we only saw each other during the few times she was able to take a weekend off. I’d hoped she could get a Submitted photo/Yukon News permanent position in Whitehorse so Teresa Ann Scheunert, left, with her daughter Crystal Thomas. we could hang out more often, but this plan never had a chance to come to be. was our annual mid-winter toga party closer than sisters that we knew could In June 2012 the Yukon lost one of our own. Teresa was a true Yukoner featuring a host of strange guests and stand the test of time and the test of a and had worked hard to make her way bizarre attire made from bed sheets. business partnership. back to the land she loved so she could Yes, there was much drinking and eatTeresa and her family departed to be a strong contributor to our Yukon ing of grapes.

Alberta in the ‘90s as she needed her community.

Our favorite card games were Shit nursing degree so our dream lodge It is my hope that next week’s and Spit (Teresa and I) or Canasta for would have an on-site nurse, but her inquest will help Teresa’s family and four (Paul, Teresa, Doug and I) – Cape ailing parents in Red Deer needed her loving friends cope with her untimely Breton rules. Many hours and as many assistance and our dreams went on death, and will prevent Yukoners from bottles ‘o’ Dram were spent enjoying hold. suffering similar tragedy and loss in the each other’s company.

We would still do out-of-the-blue We raised our kids together and visits like driving down to Red Deer on future.

Chris Caldwell is a well-known made plans for someday sharing a long weekend for a game of Canasta, local artist based in ownership in a Yukon wilderness or “Surprise! We hopped on a plane to Whitehorse and was best friends touring lodge. We had a rare friendship come to the Yukon for dinner!” then with Teresa for over 30 years.

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Romeo Dallaire resigning from Senate next month here and the nation to the international sphere.”

OTTAWA Dallaire, a former lieuteniberal Sen. Romeo Dalant-general who retired from laire, a career soldier best the Canadian Forces in 2000, known in Canada as former was appointed to the Senate in commander of the UN’s ill2005 by prime minister Paul fated peacekeeping mission Martin. in Rwanda, is resigning – not He made headlines in retiring, he insists – from the December when he fell asleep upper chamber. at the wheel of his car and Dallaire’s last day in the crashed into a traffic barSenate will be June 17, after rier on Parliament Hill – an which he intends to focus ataccident he attributed to the tention on a growing portfolio stress of the coming Rwandan of international humanitaranniversary. ian work, the square-jawed Dallaire still bears the senator told a news conference mental and emotional scars of Wednesday. bearing witness to the bloody The decision has nothing genocide that erupted there in to do with either the shadow the spring of 1994. of scandal that has loomed As the world marked the over the Senate for more than tragedy’s 20th anniversary last a year, or with the Rwandanmonth, Dallaire complained born post-traumatic stress bitterly about lessons he says disorder that has haunted him have gone unheeded – includfor 20 years, he said. ing his sense that the Conser“I have submitted my resig- vative government wants little nation to the Governor Gento do with the UN. eral with a torn heart, because But he insisted Wednesday I have served here nine years in that has nothing to do with his the Senate and the work here decision to leave. was meeting the challenges “The PTSD was not a factor that I hoped (for),” Dallaire in my resignation,” he said. said.

“The way I’m looking at it, “The international dimenI’m going to be travelling more sion of my work has shifted my and more engaged internationsense of duties from the Senate ally than I am right now, so Canadian Press

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I’m not leaving one job to find time to do other things; I’m leaving one job because I’ve got a more demanding job.”

Dallaire has long used his role as senator to champion the needs of military veterans, and he said Wednesday he believes the Senate continues to play a vital role within Canada.

“It’s come to the public,” he said of the Senate’s newfound prominence in the Canadian consciousness, although he acknowledged that “the angle may not be the most positive one, for sure.”

“There’s no doubt in my military mind that this country needs that second chamber to balance out the other one,” he said, referring to the House of Commons. And senators should continue to be appointed, not elected, he added.

Dallaire also recently pressed the Conservatives to build a replica of the Vimy Ridge monument known as Mother Canada in Gatineau, Que., across the Ottawa River from Parliament Hill.

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Harper’s kids, moms aid plan for poor countries polarizes at home Mike Blanchfield

lusioned aid workers, diplomats and public servants who see Canada’s declining foreign aid spending and OTTAWA the dissolution of the government’s ne polarizing question will hover development agency as evidence of over the prime minister this Harper’s hypocrisy towards helping week as he opens his international the world’s most vulnerable. conference on helping dying kids Opposite are those who sincerely and mothers in poor countries: does thank the prime minister for focusing Stephen Harper truly care, or is it just the world’s attention on reducing the another cynical political ploy? millions of needless deaths of pregThe answer, which depends on nant women, newborns and young which side of a very divisive divide children in the developing world each it is asked, is either a passionate yes year. or no.

Harper’s high-profile supportOn one side lives a core of disilers will include the philanthropist Melinda Gates, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, the Aga Khan and Queen Rania of Jordan, who will join him in Toronto for the opening of the three-day summit dubbed, “Saving Every Woman, Every Child.”

Joel Spicer, head of the Canadian 5 Star Restaurant aid agency Micronutrient Initiative, Chez Noodle Open 7 Days a Week was one of a dozen people to meet Vietnamese Cuisine privately with the prime minister last month after he announced the sumHealth Conscious Choice mit, an attempt to refocus attention Tuesday Specials on the aid priority he unveiled when ed t n Licensed he hosted G8 leaders in 2010. a W lper, Help en He , Kitch er, Cooks Spicer and others in the room Air-Conditioned Serv p. Cooks pre used the opportunity to carefully take Dine-in Or Take-OuT the measure of the man behind the $2.8-billion Muskoka Initiative.

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It accused Canada of grandstanding and pretending to lead on an issue that has been on the international radar for two decades.

The group again blasted the Harper government for not funding abortion-related projects in order to appease its domestic political base.

It reiterated former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s public criticism of that stance during previous visit to Canada, when she said: “You cannot have maternal health without reproductive health, which includes contraception and family planning and access to legal, safe abortions.”

The government has carefully Nathan Denette/The Canadian Press vetted this week’s agenda to avoid “the Prime Minister Stephen Harper, right, and Jakaya Kikwete, gaping Canadian policy flaws around president of the United Republic of Tanzania, attending the providing safe abortion or basic Maternal, Newborn and Child Health Summit in Toronto on contraceptive services” and other Wednesday. controversy, the post said.

Harper deserves credit for giving “The fact of the matter is: this is ally sincere; he’s personally commitmomentum to a worthy effort to save not something that would win an ted to it,” Spicer recalled Tuesday. the lives of vulnerable children and election.”

“He was saying, ‘I deal with so mothers, said Alan Whiteside, head of But many others see Harper as many issues on a daily basis and this global health policy for the Centre for nothing more than a callous opporis one of the ones I actually think is International Governance Innovation, tunist who is latching on to what is important.”’ based in Waterloo, Ont. literally a motherhood issue to bolster Many in the room had a vested “But I find it quite troubling that his domestic support and soften his interest in believing in Harper’s apat the same time as you have the maparent altruism. Spicer’s organization public image as a man with a hard, ternal and child health initiative, we got $75 million over five years in 2010 unfeeling exterior. have a government that shuts down That view is embodied by the to improve the nutrition of pregnant the Canadian International DevelopOttawa-based McLeod Group, a women and young children. ment Agency,” Whiteside said, refercollection of academics, former diplo- ring to the agency’s recent merger “People around the table were asking, ‘What’s in it?’ There was some mats, government and development into the Foreign Affairs department. hands who are deeply embittered discussion about to what extent was “It could be a form of political this opportunistic. It was very clear he by Canadian foreign policy under gamesmanship.” was personally committed, that he felt Harper.

Also troubling, he added, is the “Once again Canada’s developa sense of injustice.” government’s decision to freeze aid ment co-operation policies are being spending, which has plunged to less Spicer’s career in international development has spanned the United driven by domestic interests, not than 0.3 per cent of GDP, well below the development outcomes and the Nations and the World Bank, from the international goal of 0.7 per cent.

West Africa and South Asia to Wash- results the government claims to be “A number of countries have done seeking,” the group said Tuesday in ington and Geneva. He says it is rare it, the British most recently,” Whitethe latest in a series of blog posts for a world leader to make a comside said. “So I think it’s really quite a mitment on a development issue and criticizing Harper’s initiative, titled, searing indictment that Canada has “Delusions about international follow it through years later. frozen it.”

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No more stowing of electronic devices during takeoff and landing, says Raitt Terry Pedwell Canadian Press

OTTAWA or tech-savvy travellers, flying the Canadian skies is about to get just a little bit friendlier.

The federal government is changing regulations to permit the use of video games, tablets, computers and cameras at any time during a flight, including during takeoff and landing, Transport Minister Lisa Raitt announced this week.

“We’re going to be allowing passengers to use portable electronic devices during takeoff, ascent, descent and landing provide that the airlines have met certain safety conditions,” Raitt told a news conference at the Ottawa airport on Monday.

Travellers still won’t be allowed to use cellphones or access WiFi, or use any device that hasn’t had its transmitting functions disabled, since such activity can interfere with aircraft systems, she added.

But as long as a device is in “airplane mode” and unable to send or receive a signal, its use will be permitted “gate to gate” – a change Raitt said is meant to strike a better balance between

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Under the regulation exemption, airlines will also have to demonstrate that their aircraft are not affected by the devices and that passengers can still be made aware of crew instructions during emergencies.

The exemption takes effect immediately, although it will be up to individual airlines to determine when they are ready to adopt the change, said Raitt.

Canadian airlines were informed in advance that the rule change was being contemplated, giving them time to prepare for Monday’s announcement. Air Canada, for one, said it welcomes the decision.

“Our customers have been telling us they want the option to use their (personal electronic devices) at all times on board our aircraft, both for working and entertainment,” the airline said in a statement.

“Air Canada, Air Canada Rouge and its Air Canada Express regional partners are finalizing measures to safely implement the new procedures.”

A ban on using over-the-ears headphones, however, remains in effect on board Air Canada

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WestJet said it had already completed comprehensive testing of the electronic systems aboard its next-generation Boeing 737 fleet to support the expanded use of personal electronic devices.

But more work is required to properly train flight crews, amend operating manuals and demonstrate that radio signals from devices don’t pose a risk to aircraft systems and equipment, the airline said.

Last year, the U.S. Federal Aviation Authority lifted its ban on the use of portable electronic devices under safe flying conditions.

Shortly afterward, all major U.S. airlines began allowing the gate-to-gate use of devices and the European Aviation Safety Agency quickly followed suit.

Canada’s move brings domestic carriers in line with other airlines around the world, Raitt added.

“It’ll ensure that Canadian operators can remain globally competitive.”

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Coup in sunny Thailand spurs overseas cancellations, as tourists ask, ‘What coup?’

Jocelyn Gecker Associated Press

BANGKOK, Thailand hen Thailand’s military staged a coup last week, Phil Koenighaus was on a beach enjoying the debauchery of the country’s infamous “Half Moon” festival.

Not a soldier was in sight on the white sands of Koh Phangan and the raucous party that attracts revelers from around the world carried on for hours. After shaking off the effects of too much celebration, the German backpacker headed from the island to Bangkok, unfazed by the military takeover.

“I figured if I survived the Half Moon Party, I could go to Bangkok and brave the coup,” said the 19-year-old, tanned and relaxed as he strolled through one of the capital’s bustling bar and nightclub districts. “This is not how I imagined a coup.”

So far, the drama of Thailand’s military takeover has played out mainly in the political arena. As the army summons journalists and academics seen as anti-coup, detains ousted political leaders and issues stern warnings on TV, tourists are kicking back on the country’s famed beaches and sightseeing in Bangkok. The main impact on visitors has been a 10 p.m. curfew, though it was being eased.

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home before 10,” said American tourist Rosemary Burt.

Burt and her daughter, from Gilbert, Arizona, were roaming around the ornate Grand Palace in Bangkok, before heading off to other sites and then a pre-curfew dinner. It was a normal day at the Grand Palace as tuk-tuk touts outside tried to swindle tourists with inflated rates and only the usual security stood guard.

Daughter Dior Tidwell, 36, said her initial concerns had dissipated: “I thought it was going to be a little dangerous.”

Photos posted to Twitter show scenes of white-sand tranquility and crystal clear waters in Phuket, Samui and other idyllic beach resorts. One post was titled, “What Coup?”

For Thailand’s tourist industry, however, the situation is more ominous. Bookings were already down after six months of anti-government protests in Bangkok, and the combination of coup plus curfew along with uncertainty over how long the crackdown will last could be bruising, hotels and industry experts say. It’s a blow the economy, already struggling, could do without.

Tourism accounts for about 7 per cent of Thailand’s economy and provides more than 2 million jobs. The industry has been resilient despite a decade of political turbulence. A record 26.7 million visitors came last year, up 20 per cent from the year before.

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Thai soldiers stand guard at Victory Monument in Bangkok, Thailand yesterday.

But political protests that escalated in November led to a 6 per cent drop in foreign tourist arrivals from January-April this year, said Piyaman Tejapaibul, president of the Tourist Council of Thailand. In a sign of fallout from the coup, Taylor Swift cancelled a sold-out concert in Thailand scheduled for June 9.

Piyaman has petitioned the ruling junta to lift the nightly curfew at beach resorts including Phuket, Samui, Krabi and Pattaya.

“Everyone in the country, especially in the tourism sector, hopes military rule is lifted soon and democracy restored,” she told the Phuket Gazette newspaper.

More than 40 countries have issued travel alerts, including the U.S. and Hong Kong, which have

advised citizens to avoid nonessential travel to Thailand.

In Hong Kong, a major source of visitors to Thailand, the Travel Industry Council reported that travel agents cancelled at least 70 tour groups this week involving 1,300 people.

Hotels in Bangkok say the coup has kept them busy – with nonstop cancellations.

“We have received more than 650 cancellations in the past five days,” said Deepak Ohri, chief executive of the 358-room Lebua hotel, whose dizzyingly high rooftop Sky Bar was featured in “The Hangover Part II.” The 5-star hotel is offering promotions it calls “Staycations” to entice locals to come for drinks or dinner and spend the night – and avoid rushing

home for curfew. The Swissotel Nai Lert Park has announced a similar “Beat the Curfew” rate for residents through June.

Hotels say they are waiting for events to unfold before slashing rates for overseas visitors. The junta warned this week that it won’t tolerate dissent or protest, raising concerns of a crackdown on anti-coup protesters.

“If this continues another week, there will be a price war,” Ohri said. “Then again if civil war happens, hotel price wars have no significance.”

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As the 10 p.m. curfew approached Monday night, the blaring music stopped along Silom Road, where side streets are crammed with clubs, pubs and restaurants. As the neon lights switched off and tourists emerged trying to flag down taxis, a few bars tested the curfew and stayed open.

“People are starting to push the curfew, slowly,” said Simon Robinson, a 51-year-old Englishman seated on a bar’s terrace in a darkened street at 10:15 p.m. “It makes you feel a bit naughty to be out past curfew.”

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Renegades, recluses and rebels:

New European Parliament is an eclectic mix David Rising

Sonnenborn, as his party’s first MEP, knows he bears a grave responsibility.

Dane who lives in an amuse“I’m going to use the next four ment park. A Gypsy who weeks to intensively prepare for my vows to ban short-distance resignation,” he said. air travel. A Pole who wants to turn the European Parliament into a Brussels Bordello? brothel.

Many candidates triumphed in Europe has elected 751 people the European elections by plugto five-year terms as members of ging an anti-EU line, but few had European Parliament, or MEPs. proposals quite as radical as Pole The vast majority of the seats were Janusz Korwin-Mikke’s. He wants won by traditional parties, but the to turn the parliament buildelection also saw an eclectic group ing into a brothel as a sign of his of outsiders win seats. Here are contempt. some of their stories: Korwin-Mikke’s “New Right Wing” party won 7 per cent of the vote in Poland, securing four seats Party of parody in the Parliament, with a promise Germany’s Die Partei – The to destroy the European Union by Party – pledges to do away with daylight savings time (“for an extra destroying its regulations.

During his campaign, Korwinhour of sleep”), build a wall around Mikke called politicians in Brussels Switzerland (“because they’ve earned it”), and have a well-known “thieves” and vowed to “eradicate” every manifestation of EU’s exisGerman television presenter host child-porn videos (“so that nobody tence, calling it “pink rot.”

Korwin-Mikke is also a master will watch them anymore.”)

Bridge player who wrote a popular Still, leader Martin Sonneborn book on the game. says: “I don’t think we’re the craziAfter winning a seat, he pledged est in European Parliament.” he would “fight to make Europe Die Partei – whose name is more normal.” an acronym for “Party for Work, Rule-of-Law, Protection of Animals, Advancement of Elites and Parliament merry-go-round Grassroots-Democratic-Initiative” When the Danish People’s Party – was founded by editors of the sa- MEP Morten Messerschmidt isn’t tirical magazine Titanic. It grabbed in Brussels, he lives in a Copenhaone parliamentary seat with 0.6 per gen amusement park. cent of Germany’s vote.

His girlfriend, Dot Wessmann, Sonneborn said the party works there as a cabaret singer and intends to rotate 60 representatives her family own many of the game through the seat so they will each booths. The 33-year-old Dane receive a month’s salary and “tran- with a penchant for French wines frequently helps with chores at the sitional pay” once they leave. The Parliament has already said the plan Bakken amusement park, including hosing down rides and preparing isn’t allowed under its rules. bumper cars. The couple, who live “We’ll milk the EU like a small in a wooden home, recorded a CD south European country,” he said.

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German satirist and chairman of the political coalition “Die Partei” (The Party), in front of the Reichstag in Berlin in 2009.

of Christmas carols in 2008.

Messerschmidt is taking one of the four seats in European Parliament won by the Euro-skeptic Danish People’s Party, known for its anti-Muslim rhetoric.

Messerschmidt has often found himself at the centre of controversy.

In 2002, Messerschmidt was convicted of inciting racial hatred over an ad that read: “Mass rape, gross violence, insecurity, forced marriages, oppression of women, gang crime. This is what a multiethnic society offers us.”

In 2007, Messerschmidt, was accused of praising Adolf Hitler and singing Nazi songs publicly. He admitted being drunk at lunch with Danish lawmakers and celebrities, but was acquitted two years later, and the newspaper that carried the allegation was fined.

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Kuneva, who studied history at university, became an outspoken labour organizer and was attacked with acid outside her Athens home in 2008, suffering life-threatening injuries.

She continued to campaign against labour abuses during her harrowing recovery and multiple surgeries in Greece and France. She was elected to the European Parliament with the left-wing Syriza party – which triumphed in austeritybattered Greece with 27 per cent of the vote. The 50-year-old Kunveva, whose face was disfigured in the attack, campaigned in dark glasses and still speaks with difficulty.

She has promised take her campaign to Europe and seek EU-wide restrictions on the sale of acid.

Democratic Party, known by initials NPD, won one of Germany’s seats in European Parliament for the first time, with 1 per cent of the vote.

The far-right party has long attracted neo-Nazis with its antiimmigrant, nationalist platforms, though it officially denies modeling itself on the Nazi party.

New MEP Udo Voigt once said that even though Hitler committed “great crimes” he also “achieved great things.”

Voigt was pictured on a motorcycle on the party’s campaign poster carrying the slogan “step on the gas” – causing widespread offence because of the Nazis’ use of gas chambers in the murder of 6 million Jews. Voigt defended it, saying “you have to stop worrying about things from the past.”

Another NPD poster pictured immigrants on a flying carpet with the caption: “Have a nice flight home.”

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Pablo Iglesias, a bearded, ponytailed political science professor, came from virtually nowhere to upend Spanish politics.

Iglesias’ leftist Podemos – “We Can” – party stunned the political world by winning 5 seats, on 8 per cent of the vote, despite forming only four months ago.

The 35-year-old Iglesias has promised that if elected to a national office he will lodge the homeless in empty apartments held by banks.

He also proposes banning former ministers from holding executive jobs in big companies.

Iglesias, who prefers jeans and Neo-Nazi shock checkered shirt to a suit and tie, German Foreign Minister Frank- won fans across the country with Walter Steinmeier said it “horrifies” his calm and determined performance on Spain’s often strident him that the far-Right National

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Triple J’s turns 10 Alistair Maitland News Reporter

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hen Jordi Mikeli and Jeremy Jones met, they probably had no idea that their names, fused in marriage, would eventually form the title of a fixture for Whitehorse’s fans of loud music, piercings and tattoos.

This year is the tenth anniversary of Triple J’s opening its doors to the public.

As with many small businesses, Triple J’s started with a mix of passion, frustration and vision. At the time, Jeremy was working for the Department of Education, while Jordi was at the Yukon Workers’ Compensation Health and Safety Board. Both felt the need for something different.

The first solution was academic escapism. Jordi wanted to pursue law and Jeremy had his eye on a teaching degree. But their shared dream was to open a music store with a “punk rock esthetic,” serving as “a counter-culture hub” for Yukon.

Triple J’s Music Cafe opened on May 3, 2004 at 41218 Fourth Ave, in the space beside what is now Antoinette’s Restaurant. From the beginning, the store filled a niche for Yukoners.

Customers could special order their favourite heavy metal, stoner rock, alternative, electronic, or punk album while they ordered their coffee.

“We knew already we had the best special order service in the North,” Jordi explains. “That was something we always prided ourselves on. Our mantra is, if it exists in this world we can track it down and get it in for you.”

Building the business wasn’t easy for the Joneses. The couple went to half time at their respective jobs to work at the cafe. Jordi also took on a third job, working as Yukon’s first female resident disk jockey for the first three years of the business. Working under the handle, “3JDJ,” she played one night a week at the Capital and the Kopper King.

In 2009, Triple J’s moved into its current location at 308 Elliot St. The move allowed them to expand the store’s existing tattoo and piercing studio, boosting revenues and bringing more variety to Yukoners.

“We have guest artists from all over the world that have been here that just had the draw to the North,” says Jordi.

Jen Densmore, Triple J’s original piercer in 2007, is now back on the roster.

More space meant more goods.

Music on offer grew to include blues, jazz, folk, pop and world music. And those looking for locally produced music can find a deep collection.

A large portion of the second floor of the building, meanwhile, was renovated to become Gallery 22, a space for artists both local and from Outside to showcase their talents.

Customers now have over 200 different kinds of products from which to choose. “Anything you can throw a logo on,” says Jordi, from clothing to accessories. There is also a large selection of pipes, bongs and other marijuana paraphernalia.

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Co-founder Jordi Mikeli-Jones is celebrating the 10th anniversary of Triple J’s Music this month.

The store also supports Jordi’s passion for animal welfare. She’s used the shop as a platform to produce over 200 events, mostly to the benefit of animals, the best known of which is the Sunstroke Music Festival.

Six hundred people came to the first festival, where punk rockers No Means No headlined for a measly $500. Now in its ninth year, the event attracts musicians who support the animal welfare cause from around the world and enjoys crowds of over 2,000. This $60,000 event receives no government funding and is completely volunteer-based.

After sitting on the board of Yukon Humane Society for six years, Jordi started Kona’s Coalition last March.

Named in memory of her late canine companion, the non-profit uses Triple J’s as a base of operations and is dedicated to improving animal welfare in Yukon through education, advocacy, financial assistance, fostering and support. Fundraising efforts have garnered over $35,000 in the last year.

One might look at Triple J’s and wonder about its sustainability. It is, after all, a music store in a world of iTunes downloads. But to its cofounder, the store sells much more

than that.

“I often say we sell cool,” Jordi says. “You need to be immersed in the demographic that you’re selling to.

The reason we’ve been able to outlast the transition from CDs is the fact that we sell records. If we just sold CDs we would’ve gone the way of CD Plus.

People of all ages can come in and find their favourite band on CD, on LP, on a patch, a sticker, poster, a hoodie.

It’s so much more than one avenue.

Because we know our customers by name, because we’re always pushing the envelope. We’re always thinking outside the box.”

Juggling the store, the gallery, the tattoo and piercing studio and Kona’s Coalition is a labour of love, Jordi says.

And it’s love, whether it be for music or for your own four legged companion, that she hopes drives you to come visit her shop.

“I encourage people that when they’re spending their dollars, whether it’s here or Walmart, or even on Amazon, that they know where their dollar is going and that they make it count.

If they support Triple J’s they’re supporting all these other endeavours.”

Contact Alistair Maitland at alistair@yukon-news.com

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Environmental groups fire legal warning shot over climate change Bob Weber Canadian Press

EDMONTON nvironmental groups are taking inspiration from the legal fight against tobacco to fire warning shots at major energy companies over their alleged role in funding climate change denial and blocking climatefriendly legislation.

Greenpeace and the World Wildlife Fund have sent letters to dozens of Canadian and international energy companies asking them about their guidelines for public communication and lobbying practices on climate change. The groups have also asked if corporate officers are insured against the possible spread of misinformation about the impact of greenhouse gases.

It’s the opening salvo in an attempt to hold the industry accountable for what the environmental groups say is its role in slowing efforts to fight global warming.

“We’re laying the groundwork for court cases to come,” Keith Stewart of Greenpeace Canada said Wednesday.

“In many ways, the oil industry is right now where the tobacco industry was back in the 1980s.”

Martin Olszynski of the University of Calgary law school said legal scholars take seriously a link between the legal actions that extracted big

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payouts from tobacco companies and the position of the energy industry over climate change.

“It’s a live issue,” said Olszynski, who, with his colleague Sharon Mascher, hopes to publish research on the topic later this summer. “It definitely has some potential and it can’t be discounted.”

The letter has gone out to 32 companies.

The list includes both oil and gas majors as well as other large greenhouse gas emitters such as cement producers and coal companies.

As well as energy multinationals with large Canadian operations such as ConocoPhillips and Total, it has gone to five Canadian companies: Suncor, Talisman Energy, Husky Energy, EnCana and Canadian Natural Resources.

The letter asks: “Has your company implemented a clear and specific policy to make sure it is not involved in distorting the public’s, investor’s, regulator’s, insurer’s or policy-maker’s understanding of the risks of climate change?”

The letter is accompanied by documentation from government and media sources that suggests industry has funded groups that are spreading doubt about climate science. It also indicates they have obstructed advocates for greenhouse gas reduction and lobbied govern-

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The letter also asks if corporate officials have fully informed insurers of their involvement in any such activities.

A separate letter has gone to 44 insurance companies, including several Canadian firms, asking about their exposure in case clients are found to have helped spread misinformation.

The Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers dismissed the letters as a “stunt.”

“Our member companies are not out there publicly questioning climate science, nor is CAPP,” said spokeswoman Geraldine Anderson.

“Canada’s oil industry publicly advocates for carbon policy that is effective and maintains an eye to industry’s competitiveness. I think it’s just Greenpeace’s goal to shut down the industry and they’re only interested in climate policy that would render Canadian oilsands unable to compete.”

Kelli Stevens of Suncor denied her company sows doubt about climate change.

“Our president and CEO has gone on record – in multiple public forums – to say that climate change, as caused by humans, is a concern of his and of Suncor’s,” she wrote in an email. “We also meet regularly with non-governmental organizations

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Olszynski said it took enabling provincial legislation before tobacco companies could be taken to court.

Given the difficulty of linking specific climate change effects to specific companies, that’s likely to be the case here as well.

“In our view, it is extremely likely that, should current predictions with respect to the impacts of climate change bear out, future legislatures will seek to alter the legal landscape to ensure that the relevant industries do not escape liability,” Olszynski wrote in his research summary.

“The identification of this potentially significant source of future liability should inform and influence present-day government policy and corporate decision-making.”

Such changes would probably take years, Stewart acknowledged. But that’s OK, he said.

“This will be an ongoing saga.”

(Greenpeace included) to discuss this and other issues.”

Stewart said the idea is to encourage CEOs and directors to consider whether their activities could be exposing their companies to lawsuits.

“There can be consequences for this,” he said. “Those corporate executives need to start taking that into account when they decide on where they’re going to put their shareholder dollars.”

Stewart has a point, said Olszynski, who noted several similarities between the climate change and tobacco issues.

“It’s all about identifying some kind of wrongful conduct,” he said.

“In the tobacco context, efforts to deny the link between tobacco consumption and cancer seems to have played a fairly significant role.

That’s the analogy that Greenpeace is trying to draw.”

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Retailers using smartphones to track customers Linda Nguyen Canadian Press

TORONTO efore store owner Melissa Davis started using mobile analytics, she didn’t know much about her customers shopping habits aside from how many came into her trendy sneaker shop each day, and how many of them bought a new pair of kicks.

But after signing up last September with Toronto startup Physicalytics, Davis can now tell you the number of people who walk past her Ugly Dukling store at 3 p.m. on a Tuesday, how long the average customer lingers at the window display, and how many times they’ve shopped there.

Using wireless Internet and Bluetooth technology linked to consumers’ smartphones, retailers can now track shopping patterns the same way online retailers have done for years.

The data has helped Davis make key decisions on staffing schedules, what shoe lines to carry and how to make the most of her store displays.

“I realized what colours and styles that people liked more, what made them gravitate to come into the store more,” said Davis, whose downtown Toronto shop specializes in basketball shoes and streetwear clothing.

Analytics – finding patterns in recorded data – has long been a major component of retailing and, with the advent of online shopping, it’s an area where e-commerce has always had a leg up on traditional brick-

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and-mortar stores. An e-tailer can tell how many times a customer has visited its website, what items they browsed and recommend products based on demographics.

Now, owners of traditional stores can have a glimpse into the same type of data.

“Generally, before this, the inside of the store was a complete black hole,” said Alexei Agratchev, chief executive at RetailNext in San Jose, Calif. “Once you start shining the light there, you can improve and see pretty dramatic results.”

The Silicon Valley tech start-up uses algorithms to interpret data taken from surveillance video cameras and smartphone trackers installed inside some of North America’s biggest retailers.

The video cameras and Wi-Fi trackers can tell store owners important details, like how long a customer spends looking at a specific pair of jeans, whether they take them to the change room and if they end up buying them. Wi-Fi trackers, which can be set up on store shelves, gather data by automatically activating and reading anonymous identifiers in customer’s smartphones.

Beyond the identifier, which is a long list of numbers unique to every iPhone, Android, or BlackBerry, retailers do not receive any other personal information about the phone owner.

RetailNext said its mobile analytics technology is used at 400 locations in Canada, including at clothing retailer American Apparel, as well as Bloomingdale’s and

Verizon Wireless in the U.S. The cost of buying the software to analyze the data can range anywhere from hundreds to thousands of dollars a month, depending on the depth of the information requested.

It allows stores to improve on one of the reasons people still like to shop in person: customer service.

“Today, if you compete based on your product availability and price, if that is your only differentiator, it is going to be very hard for you to stay in business as a physical retailer,” he said.

Lori Schafer, executive adviser of retail for analytics company SAS Institute, said the retail industry is currently at the “cusp of a transformative shift,” as more retailers realize the potential of mobile analytics, like low-energy Bluetooth beacons.

The beacons work by sending marketing messages and other information to shoppers’ phones when they are in a retailer’s set area.

Unlike Wi-Fi trackers, those who receive messages via beacons and Bluetooth must first “opt-in” or have downloaded a retailer’s app.

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Even though the possibilities are limitless, she said retailers have been reluctant to aggressively test beacon technology due to fears of inundating the consumer with offers, or breaching their sense of privacy.

“The retailers need to know how much of the beacons they want to use and figure out whether they should crawl, walk or run (with the technology),” said Schafer, who is a director at the National Retail Federation in the U.S. and author of Branded, a book about retailers and social media.

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Other retailers in the U.S., including the department store Macy’s, grocery giant Safeway, and clothier American Eagle Outfitters, are also using the technology to send customized discounts to customers’ phones.

Schafer said the power of marketing directly to consumers at the “point of decision” can be paramount to a retailer’s success, as customers begin to get used to the idea

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Google to build driverless car Justin Pritchard

people around a hospital campus in South Carolina. But in terms of a truly self-driving car from a major LOS ANGELES company, Google looks to be first. oogle plans to build and launch The tech titan began developing onto city streets a small fleet of the prototype more than a year ago subcompact cars that could operate after it loaned some employees its without a person at the wheel. retrofitted Lexuses and saw that some Actually, the cars wouldn’t even “would basically trust the technology have a wheel. Or gas and brake pedmore than it was ready to be trusted,” als. The company says the vehicles Urmson said. Making a car that will use sensors and computing drives itself seemed more practical power, with no human needed. than somehow ensuring that people Google Inc. hopes that by this zoning out behind the wheel could time next year, 100 of the two-seaters take over at a moment’s notice. will be on public roads, following The first 100 prototypes will be extensive testing. The cars would not built in the Detroit area with the be for sale and instead would be prohelp of firms that specialize in autos, vided to select operators for further Google/AP Photo Google said. It would not identify tweaking and have limitations such as A very early version of Google’s prototype self-driving car. those firms or discuss the cost of each a 25 mph top speed. prototype.

The announcement presents a around a corporate campus or conthe prototypes would have buttons This summer, Google plans challenge to automakers that have to begin and end the drive. Passengested downtown – with headlights to send test prototypes on closed been more cautious about introduc- gers would set a destination. The car and sensors arrayed to resemble a courses, then later this year on public ing fully automated driving and would then make turns and react to friendly face. streets. Those test cars will have a to government regulators who are other vehicles and pedestrians based Major automakers have steadily wheel and pedals because under Caliscrambling to accommodate selfon computer programs that predict introduced technology that helps fornia law a test driver must be able driving cars on public roads. Other what others might do, and data from cars stay in their lanes and avoid to take immediate control. companies are working on the techsensors including radar and cameras accidents. However, all those vehicles By summer 2015, however, nology but none as large as Google that read in real time what other come with a steering wheel and ped- California’s Department of Motor has said it intends to put such cars in objects are actually doing. als – and the expectation that a driver Vehicles must publish regulations the hands of the public so soon.

The route might be set by typing will jump in should trouble arise. allowing the public to use truly drivTo date, Google has driven a destination into a map or using Several companies have said they ex- erless cars. Big questions the DMV is hundreds of thousands of miles on spoken commands, Chris Urmson, pect by 2020 to market vehicles that wrestling with include who is liable public roads and freeways in Lexus the leader of Google’s self-driving car can drive themselves under certain if a driverless car crashes and how team, told reporters Wednesday.

SUVs and Toyota Priuses outfitted conditions. the state can be confident that an The car will be powered by elecwith special sensors and cameras.

“Nothing is going to change over- automated car drives at least as safely But with a “safety driver” in the front tricity and could go about 100 miles night, but (Google’s announcement) as a person. before charging. Its shape suggests seat, those vehicles were not truly is another sign of the drastic shifts That change in the law would ala rounded-out Volkswagen Beetle – self-driving. in automotive technology, business low the 100 prototypes that would be something that might move people Instead of the standard controls, practices and retailing we’re going to intended for a public “pilot project”– witness,” said Karl Brauer, a senior details to be determined – to not have analyst at Kelley Blue Book’s KBB. a steering wheel or pedals. com.

Though next year is the goal for A French company, Induct the pilot project, Urmson said public access “won’t happen until we’re Technology, has produced a driverless shuttle, which in February drove confident in the safety.”

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Construction Notice For Ogilvie St. West Work begins the week of May 19 on Ogilvie St. from 4th Avenue to 6th Avenue.

There will be no vehicle access to this area, but pedestrian access will be maintained and businesses will remain open.

Traffic control persons and/ or detours will be in place.

Gravelled surfaces, dusty conditions and slight delays may be encountered.

Please drive with care, reduce speed and obey traffic controllers and construction signage.

All work is weatherdependent and subject to change. Construction hours: 7 am - 7 pm.

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The Yukon Association for Community Living is holding the 2014 Annual General meeting

For Robert Campbell Bridge

Thursday June 26th, 2014 from 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm

Construction of the Robert Campbell Bridge Widening Project begins Tuesday May 20 and will continue through the summer.

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Work will be limited to the sidewalks and vehicle traffic disruptions should be minimal. Pedestrians will have access to one side of the bridge sidewalk at all times while work proceeds on the other side.

At Highways and Public Works, we work hard to provide safe, efficient and well-maintained airport facilities so that Yukon’s air travellers continue to enjoy reliable transportation options now and into the future.

Please drive with care, reduce speed and obey traffic controllers and construction signage.

During construction, there will only be one passenger bridge available and at times air carriers may be required to escort passengers across the tarmac.

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This summer, we are investing again in improvements at the airport by upgrading the concrete apron area where planes park in front of the air terminal building.

The department apologises for any inconvenience this may cause passengers travelling through the Erik Nielsen Whitehorse International Airport.

Highways and Public Works thanks Transport Canada for their funding contribution through the Airport Capital Assistance Program (ACAP) to make this project possible.

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YACL is looking for a few general volunteers and new volunteer committee members to work alongside staff and board members and share time and skills for short-term projects in any of the following areas: • • • •

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First Nations Governance & Public Administration is offering three new non-credited workshops.

Trust Basics 101 FNA 001

This non-credit workshop is an introduction to the study of trust law and how self-governing Yukon First Nations have utilized trusts. You will learn about why self-governing Yukon First Nations use trusts, key approaches to prepare First Nation communities in the development of a trust, current issues in trust administration and best practices for the effective administration of trusts.

June 9-10 |Monday-Tuesday| 9:00am-4:00pm $150 + GST | CRN 30302 Instructors: Victoria Fred and Daryn Leas

Resource Agreement Negotiation FNA 002 In this highly interactive workshop, you will be introduced to what Impact Benefit Agreement (IBA) Negotiations are by focusing on Exploration Agreements. At the end of the workshop, you will have learned more about the legal and functional incentives for negotiating these agreements along with the basic components of an IBA. June 11-13 |Wednesday-Friday| 9:00am-4:00pm $200 + GST | CRN 30303 Instructors: Kim Hudson and Daryn Leas Public Policy FNA 003 Learn what public policy is and its relationship within First Nation governments. You will gain a better understanding of why and how good policy development is critical for First Nation decision-making as you are introduced to a First Nation-centric policy framework.

June 18-20 |Wednesday-Friday| 9:00am-4:00pm $200 + GST | CRN 30304 Instructor: Kirk Cameron Funded by YG Executive Council Office

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Friday, May 30, 2014

Maya Angelou dies at age 86 Hillel Italie

received an Emmy nomination for her acting in the 1977 miniseries Roots, and never lost her NEW YORK passion for dance, the art she aya Angelou, a modern considered closest to poetry.

Renaissance woman who Her very name as an adult survived the harshest of childwas a reinvention. Angelou was hoods to become a force on born Marguerite Johnson in stage, screen, the printed page St. Louis and raised in Stamps, and the inaugural dais, died Arkansas, and San Francisco, Wednesday, her son said. She moving back and forth between was 86. her parents and her grandAngelou’s son, Guy B. Johnmother. She was smart and son, said the writer died at her fresh to the point of danger, home in Winston-Salem, North packed off by her family to Carolina, where she had been a California after sassing a white professor of American studies store clerk in Arkansas. Other at Wake Forest University since times, she didn’t speak at all: At 1982.

Reed Saxon/AP Photo age seven, she was raped by her Tall and regal, with a deep, mother’s boyfriend and didn’t Poet and author Maya majestic voice, Angelou defied Angelou during an interview speak for years. She learned by all probability and category, reading, and listening. in Santa Monica, California becoming one of the first black in 2005.

At age nine, she was writing women to enjoy mainstream poetry. By 17, she was a single success as an author and thriv- a sensation reading her caumother. In her early 20s, she tiously hopeful “On the Pulse ing in virtually every artistic danced at a strip joint, ran a of the Morning” at President medium. The young single brothel, was married (to EniBill Clinton’s first inauguration. stasious Tosh Angelos, her first mother who worked at strip Her confident performance clubs to earn a living later of three husbands) and then openly delighted Clinton and wrote and recited the most divorced. By her mid-20s, she was performing at the Purple popular presidential inaugural made the poem a bestseller, Onion in San Francisco, where poem in history. The childhood if not a critical favourite. For she shared billing with another victim of rape wrote a million- President George W. Bush, she read another poem, “Amazing future star, Phyllis Diller. selling memoir, befriended Peace,” at the 2005 Christmas Angelou was little known Malcolm X, Nelson Mandela tree lighting ceremony at the outside the theatrical comand the Rev. Martin Luther White House. munity until I Know Why the King Jr., and performed on She was a mentor to Oprah Caged Bird Sings, a book occastages around the world.

An actress, singer and dancer Winfrey, whom she befriended sionally attacked for its content. when Winfrey was still a local In a 1999 essay in Harper’s, in the 1950s and 1960s, she television reporter, and often author Francine Prose critibroke through as an author appeared on her friend’s talk cized Caged Bird as “manipulain 1969 with I Know Why the tive” melodrama. Meanwhile, Caged Bird Sings, which became show program. She mastered Angelou’s passages about her several languages and pubstandard (and occasionally rape and teen pregnancy have censored) reading, and was the lished not just poetry, but made it a perennial on the advice books, cookbooks and first of a multipart autobiogAmerican Library Associachildren’s stories. She wrote raphy that continued through tion’s list of works that draw music, plays and screenplays, the decades. In 1993, she was complaints from parents and educators.

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Excerpts of the poetry and prose of Maya Angelou Associated Press

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aya Angelou’s words spanned worlds: From the inner city to the presidential stage, from her painful childhood to a soaring career as a poet, professor and performer.

Here are some excerpts from her best-known works: “Did you want to see me broken?

Bowed head and lowered eyes?

Shoulders falling down like teardrops.

Weakened by my soulful cries.

Does my haughtiness offend you?

Don’t you take it awful hard ‘Cause I laugh like I’ve got gold mines Diggin’ in my own back yard.

You may shoot me with your words, You may cut me with your eyes, You may kill me with your hatefulness, But still, like air, I’ll rise.”

– from 1978’s “Still I Rise.”

“Late one day, as we were attending to the pigs, I heard a horse in the front yard (it really should have been called a driveway, except that there was nothing to drive into it), and ran to find out who had come riding up on a Thursday evening…

The used-to-be sheriff sat rakishly astraddle his horse.

His nonchalance was meant to convey his authority and power over even dumb animals. How much more capable he would be with Negroes. It went without saying.

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– from 1969’s “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.”

“You, created only a little lower than The angels, have crouched too long in The bruising darkness

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Have lain too long Face down in ignorance.

Your mouths spilling words Armed for slaughter.

The Rock cries out to us today, you may stand upon me, But do not hide your face.

Across the wall of the world, A River sings a beautiful song. It says, Come, rest here by my side.”

– from “On the Pulse of Morning,” which Angelou read at President Bill Clinton’s inauguration in 1993.

Champagne aishihik First nation’s elder 1937 oct 01 – 2014 may 25 gerry was Fran Wellar’s first born. he dearly loved his mother and inherited many of her noble qualities. gerry was an honest, thoughtful man, who loved his family, his friends and the Yukon. at just eighteen, gerry left the Yukon to serve in the Canadian air Force. While stationed in montreal, gerry met a beautiful nurse, the love of his life, rita. they married in 1958 and after his air Force service, gerry and rita settled in Whitehorse. their first son stephen was born in 1961. gerry worked for northern Commercial Caterpillar who transferred him and his family to manage the Fairbanks and Juneau offices. their second son, michael, was born in Juneau in 1965. gerry and rita raised their sons to be examples of honesty, independence, and hard work. the summer of ‘84 the Fromme family placer mined up arch Creek. gerry, rita and michael worked the season, alongside his brothers, who hoped clean up would generate gold for money and a lifestyle that suited adventurous, industrious individuals. one fall morning gerry encountered a grizzly when he left the shower trailer. armed with a face towel and shaving kit, gerry instinctively threw the kit and hit the snarling face dead center; next came a slap with the hand towel. the grizzly gave up. that morning gerry had his favourite scotch for breakfast. gerry’s courage served him through many life challenges. gerry and rita returned to Yukon ten years later. they purchased a shell of a building over looking marsh lake. gerry worked for WCC, a friend to both colleagues and inmates. rita nursed at mcCauley lodge and Wgh. they finished the construction of their home in Judas Creek, with a million dollar view. gerry and rita retired there and lived quietly, content with their much deserved rewards of life well lived. gerry deeply loved his wife of fifty-six years. spending time with them was always very special. they were two human beings, joined at the hip; openly affectionate and feisty; kibitzing and forgiving; completely content in each other’s company. they made you feel welcome and always made you laugh. gerry was diagnosed with parkinson’s five years ago and though he hated the symptoms he fought with courage to maintain his and rita’s independence. gerry’s sense of humour was not compromised by his illness; coming in by ambulance may 24th, gerry said “You may as well turn the siren on, there’s no point in riding in an ambulance without the siren!” gerry left us suddenly may 25th. gerry is survived by his beloved wife rita, his sons stephen and michael, his daughter’s in law, Joanne and Jeannie; grandchildren michelle, erin, danielle and Clair and great grand children tyler and kaylin. gerry’s brother, al, was his favourite golf partner; his brother Wayne shared gerry’s love for history and they generously swapped books and enthusiasm over a “good find.” gerry’s two sisters, maxine and Joan, told many adventurous stories of their early childhood while growing up at their family cabin on kluane lake. running water was the creek nearby with gerry, al, maxine and Joan on bucket duty.

We wish for more time and there is none. We wish for one more hug but that must wait. a good and honest man is gone from us and so, for a while, we will wait patiently until we meet again.

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At-risk youth program swaps snowboards for mountain bikes ‘I know for most of the kids we have, a trip to Sima, the cost of lift tickets and rentals, the mechanics of transportation, getting from town to town, getting out there and back, just would not happen for them.’

Tom Patrick

It gives kids who otherwise wouldn’t have an opportunity to get out there and experihe arrival of spring usuence Yukon culture and Yukon ally means another chapter sports,” said David Blottner, closed for the Young Riders executive director of the Boys Program. and Girls Clubs of Yukon.

This summer they ride “I know for most of the kids again. we have, a trip to Sima, the The program, offered by the cost of lift tickets and rentals, non-profit group Yukon Youth the mechanics of transportaOutdoor Leadership Association, getting from town to tion, is becoming a year-round town, getting out there and operation, it was decided back, just would not happen recently at the association’s anfor them. nual general meeting.

“They’re outside, they’re “Young Riders, historically exercising, they’re taking part speaking, has only functioned in a new sport, they are getting as a ski and snowboard prothe feel of the Yukon culture. gram. So what we’re looking All those things are awesome.” to do this year is continue our YYOLA isn’t done expartnership with the varipanding. It hopes to grow ous youth service providers the program and its accessin the Whitehorse area,” said ibility. Roddick hopes to have president James Roddick. week-long canoe and kayak “Currently YYOLA has been trips added to the program successful in securing more in the future. He also wants funding through the Youth to start splitting participants Investment Fund to expand the into groups based on age and Young Riders Program from a have the older kids, who have winter-based program to inbeen with Young Riders longer, clude spring, summer and fall. mentor the younger kids.

So our goal is for the Young “One of our hopes as an Rider Program to be offered organization premised around on an annual basis … (and) leadership and mentorship is to also expand our communto make the Young Riders a ity partnerships with youth two-tier program,” he said. “To service providers, aboriginal have a young group, six to 12, groups and departments in the and have some sort of mentorYukon government to insure ship where the older youth are the most marginalized youth helping the young youth in the are able to access this proprogram.” gram.”

For more information, The program, which is contact James Roddick at rodgeared towards creating outdick_jim@hotmail.com. door recreation opportunities “It’s kind of unique in that for at-risk and/or underprivilit focuses on providing excepeged youth in the Yukon, will tional athletic opportunities now offer downhill mountain for at-risk youth or marginalbiking and time at the Wildized youth that they otherwise, Play adventure park at Whitemost likely, wouldn’t have the horse’s Mount Sima for the chance to do,” said Roddick. first time this summer.

“By extending this opportunity The expansion into yearto these youth, they are more round activities comes just a likely to become engaged in a couple years after the organizapositive and pro-social activtion all but dissolved. YYOLA ity, which helps to accomplish was on the edge of collapse as such goals as building selfAlistair Maitland/Yukon News esteem, self-worth through Roddick took over the reigns.

Yukon Youth Outdoor Leadership Association president James Roddick has overseen Since he became president, challenging themselves in an the growth of the association’s Young Riders Program for underprivileged youth into YYOLA has more than 50 outdoor environment, building a year-round operation. “unique” youth participate in healthy relationships with famthe Young Riders Program the ilies and friends and the larger last two ski seasons. This past said Andrew, 11.

These days YYOLA casts a from partnerships with the community through teamwork season about a third of them In its inception a decade much wider net, also targetBoys and Girls Clubs of Yukon, and mentoring. were female. ago, YYOLA was specificing socially and economically Youth Achievement Centre, “It helps also to reduce “I wish I could live at Sima, I ally aimed at partnering with disadvantaged youth, includSkookum Jim Friendship Cen- exposure to harmful situations never want to leave,” said John, Yukon Youth Justice and the ing wards of the state living in tre and the Kwanlin Dun First by providing an alternative 13, one of this year’s riders.

RCMP to provide outdoor group homes, and youth strug- Nation. recreation opportunity.”

“I’m going to be a profesactivity opportunities for those gling with drugs and alcohol.

“I think it’s a spectacular Contact Tom Patrick at sional snowboarder some day,” in the justice system.

The group draws strength tomp@yukon-news.com program. It’s really awesome.

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Skin cancer rates, evidence on Canadians’ sun behaviour concern cancer experts Helen Branswell

counsels people diagnosed with melanoma.

“In doing the volunteer work TORONTO that I do through peer support an Anderson is one of the 2.5 with the cancer society I do speak per cent. to people who are in a very similar After his first diagnosis of situation to myself. And I’ve actumelanoma, the Brampton, Ont., ally had more than one person say man was told that without imto me when we talk for the first mediate treatment he would be time: ‘Wow. You’re actually giving dead within two months. After his me some hope.’ And that’s the second, he was informed that if whole point.”

100 people were in his shoes, 97.5 Anderson’s story is one of would not make it to the five-year optimism – but also of reality. mark, the standard measuring While he’s living proof some lucky stick for beating a cancer. people can survive Stage 4 melaNineteen years after the second noma, he is also confirmation that occurrence, Anderson, now 56, is people who don’t take sun precaustill around to tell the tale – in his tions can develop the more-often ever-present hat and sunscreen, deadly disease. which he slathers on religiously.

“A lot of people have the “I’m living proof that it can mindset ‘Well, it won’t be me.’ … happen,” says Anderson, who now My job now is to tell people ‘You Canadian Press

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The YTA-YG jointly sponsored Retirement and Awards Ceremony will be held at the

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Appetizers, refreshments and cash bar will be available at 7:00 pm, the formal ceremony will begin at 7:30 pm.

This event will recognize retirees who contributed many years to the education of the young people of theYukon and is open to retirees, colleagues past and present, secretaries, custodians, family and friends.

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A Canada-Yukon initiative providing funding to Yukon’s agriculture, agri-food and agri-products industry Growing Forward 2 offers programs in the areas of business risk management, business development, food safety training and development, marketing, research and the environment.

Take a look at the Growing Forward 2 Programming Guide on our website at www.agriculture.gov.yk.ca for funding opportunities. You can also contact the Agriculture Branch for more information or to request a hard copy of the programming guide.

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Cancer survivor Caitlin Jones is pictured in Toronto on Monday.

know what? It can happen,”’ says Anderson.

“Why not take some form of precaution if it can help you out?

Simple as putting on a hat and putting on sunscreen. We’re not talking Einstein here.”

The Canadian Cancer Society worries that more people will hear the kinds of frightening diagnoses Anderson did in the future.

That’s because skin cancers – particularly the most deadly kind, melanoma – are the most common kinds of cancers in Canada.

And whereas the incidences of some cancers are actually going

down, melanoma cases are on the rise, in both women and men. In 2014, it is estimated that 6,500 new melanoma diagnoses will be made, and 1,050 Canadians will die from this form of cancer.

“Because we don’t get a lot of sun in this country, skin cancer isn’t top of mind for most Canadians,” says Prithwish De, an epidemiologist with the Canadian Cancer Society.

“There’s over 80,000 skin cancer cases expected in Canada this year. And that’s almost the same number of cases of the top four cancers combined – lung, breast,

prostate and colorectal cancer.”

The skin cancer figures are among new national projections for the toll cancer will take in Canada this year. The cancer society estimates that 191,300 Canadians will get a new cancer diagnosis in 2014, and 76,600 will die from some form of cancer this year.

The estimate does not include 76,100 cases of non-melanoma skin cancer. Although these types of skin cancer make up about 40 per cent of all cancers in Canada, good estimates are not available because these types of cancers aren’t generally reported as part of

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The report says 45 per cent of Canadian men and 41 per cent of Canadian women will have a diagnosis of cancer at some point in their lifetimes.

Apart from skin cancers, the leading cancers among Canadian women are breast, lung and colorectal, in that order; among Canadian men, prostate, colorectal and lung are the main types of cancers. Lung cancer is the leading cancer killer among Canadians and is expected to claim the lives of 36,600 women and 40,000 men this year.

A piece of good news in the report relates to women and lung cancer. De says the tide has finally turned on this deadly form of cancer in Canadian women, with rates hitting a plateau after years of increases.

“This is the first year where we’re able to see that the incidence rate has stabilized and that’s actually great news because the rates had stabilized in Canadian men about 10, 15 years ago and we were anxiously waiting for that to

occur among Canadian women,” says De. He explains that the decrease in smoking among Canadian women that started in the mid-1980s is finally beginning to be reflected in the cancer statistics. Decades ago women took up smoking later than men did. But they also, as a group, started giving up smoking later too. Lung cancer is a disease that takes decades to develop, so it has taken years for rates in women to start to follow the declining pattern of lung cancer in men.

Though the pattern of lung cancer cases shows Canadians got the message about the cancer risk posed by smoking, evidence suggests there is still work to be done on getting Canadians to adopt safe sun behaviours.

The cancer society compared data from two large surveys conducted 10 years apart – in 1996 and 2006 – and found that while more Canadians were reporting spending time outdoors, there was not a corresponding increase in the numbers of people reporting they are applying sunscreen,

sporting hats, seeking shade or wearing long-sleeved clothing.

“We see more people spending time in the sun. But we don’t see more people taking precautions,” says Loraine Marrett, senior scientist for prevention and cancer control at Cancer Care Ontario.

One sun safety message that has been sent out consistently – but hasn’t always been heeded – is the recommendation that people not use tanning beds. The surveys actually showed an increase in the proportion of people who said they used tanning beds between 1996 and 2006.

Caitlin Jones was an avid indoor tanner – until she discovered at age 23 that a spot on her forehead just below her hair line was basel cell carcinoma, which comprises about four out of five non-melanoma skin cancers.

Jones had surgery to remove a quarter-sized piece of skin from her forehead to excise the cancer –

a procedure that altered her view on tanning. She notes that around the same time some of her friends’ parents were also dealing with skin cancers.

“You kind of think: ‘Oh, well, when you’re 50 and 60, that’s

something you have to worry about.’ But for me it was a rude awakening to realize that I was 23, 24, and that’s already begun.

“Now I take a lot better care of my skin to prevent any further damage.”

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Love the pristine outdoors of a cottage?

Get rid of your old boat engine Helen Branswell

of view, say the organizers of a new campaign to get old boat motors off Canada’s lakes and rivers.

TORONTO The campaign – called Clean ith prices soaring at the pump, Wake – is targeting two-stroke boat old gas-guzzling cars are a rare motors, so named because of the sight on the roads these days. simple up-and-down action of the But the same isn’t true of the piston in the engine. country’s waterways, where boat These outboard motors are bad engines are passed down from one for water and people swimming in generation to the next, often lovingly it and they give off emissions that coaxed into yet one more summer’s are harmful to people riding in the active duty – for decades. boats they propel, explains Heather But the apparent frugality – why Farquharson, managing director of buy a new motor when Uncle HarSummerhill Impact. old’s still works? – is actually a false The organization, an environsavings, both from a human health mental health not-for-profit group, is encouraging people to turn in their and an environmental health point Canadian Press

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old two-stroke engines and replace them with more environmentally sound four-stroke motors.

The incentives are not just health related. The newer motors are substantially more fuel efficient – between 30 and 50 per cent more efficient, to be precise – and are estimated to be 90 per cent cleaner than two-stroke engines.

“At today’s gas prices, it’s quite something,” says Farquharson, who suggests that boat operators will recoup the cost of their investment over time.

The newer motors are also quieter, a plus for both the boat operators and their neighbours.

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Mike Driedger, program director with Summerhill Impact, says emission regulations introduced in the United States in 1996 essentially banned the production of two-stroke motors from 1997 onward, though stock made before the ban came into effect was not covered by it.

Not certain when your boat engine was made? “The best way for people to tell if they have an old conventional two-stroke is if they mix oil and gas together. Recreational boaters only do this for conventional two-stroke engines,” Driedger says.

A major problem with two-stroke engines is that about 30 per cent of the fuel that passes through the motor’s combustion chamber does not burn. It flows through the engine and into the water.

As well, the engines emit smogforming particles “in quite intense amounts, even for short periods of time,” says Farquharson.

“In a heat wave in July, the smog emitting from that engine is made worse because of the heat,” she explains.

You don’t see a yellow layer of smog hanging over a lake in the way you would over a city on a hot summer’s day. But that doesn’t mean the components of smog aren’t being generated by old boat motors.

And people in the boats or nearby are breathing in those emissions,

Farquharson says.

“It’s quite proximate from a human health perspective to those that are in the boat – especially if you’ve got children in the boat,” she notes.

“And that exacerbates respiratory issues in all people, but especially people with asthma and all kinds of breathing difficulties.”

Two-stroke engines also produce more carbon monoxide than fourstroke motors, Driedger says. There have actually been carbon monoxide poisonings – including the occasional fatal case – reported in relation to the operation of motor boats.

Currently Clean Wake is only officially operating in Ontario, where people who turn in two-stroke engines to designated locations will be offered a 10 per cent discount off a new four-stroke engine sold

by Honda Marine, a partner in the program.

Environment Canada has provided financial support for the program.

The old motors will be drained and crushed.

Farquharson says Summerhill Impact hopes to run Clean Wake in other provinces in future. But in the meantime, people who want to get rid of their two-stroke engines can turn them in to a recycler. Automotive Recyclers of Canada can help you locate one, she says.

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CirCumpolAr studies Multidisciplinary degree program focusing on the Circumpolar World. Delivered through the University of the Arctic, an international network of colleges and universities, including Yukon College. Courses are university transferable.

Computer support teChniCiAn Certificate program preparing students for a career in information technology and related fields. All courses are available online.

CulinAry Arts Eight-month certificate program designed to meet the need for qualified cooks in the hospitality industry. eArly Childhood development Certificate and diploma programs providing opportunities for students to develop the knowledge, skills and abilities necessary to provide and evaluate quality early childhood experiences for young children and families. eduCAtion–yukon nAtive teACher Four-year degree program emphasizing elementary education, Yukon First

Nations and northern content. Application deadline May 24. Late applications accepted if space is available. Program start date is August 29. Call John Wright at 867.668.8833 for more information.

Food And BeverAge operAtions Students in this one-year certificate program will master skills in the areas of wine, the art of eating and dining, bartending and dining room service.

First nAtions governAnCe And puBliC AdministrAtion Ten-course certificate program focusing on the professional development of executive and senior management staff to enhance the operations of First Nation Governments. generAl studies Flexible certificate and diploma programs that integrate general knowledge and intellectual skills with specific occupational or professional skills. Courses are university transferable. heAlth CAre AssistAnt Nine-month certificate program providing opportunities to develop the knowledge, skills and attitudes necessary to function effectively as front-line caregivers, and respected members of the healthcare team, in community and facility settings.

heritAge And Culture Certificate program focusing on Yukon First Nations heritage and culture, leading to degree work in the social sciences and humanities as well as careers in heritage and culture interpretation, management and preservation. Courses are university transferable. heritAge And Culture essentiAl skills Completion certificate program teaching employability skills through community-based heritage management and interpretation. Delivered in partnership with local First Nations. Registration throughout the year. liBerAl Arts Certificate and diploma programs in the social sciences and humanities that build transferrable skills for future career and educational pursuits, foster social responsibility and cultural sensitivity, and instil independent reasoning and critical thinking skills.

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also be eligible for elective credit at the secondary level; check with high school counsellors to determine eligibility. Dual Credit Handbook available at www.yukoncollege.yk.ca/ programs/info/dc.

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duAl Credit Courses that allow secondary students to earn post-secondary credits while still in high school.

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Delivered via satellite and over the internet by the University of Alaska Southeast, to students in Alaska and Yukon.

restAurAnt operAtions Combines both the Culinary Arts, and Food and Beverage Operations programs with a Capstone project where students will research, plan and carry out an event that incorporates all aspects of food and beverage operations. sCienCe Courses are available in mathematics and in the earth, life and physical sciences. Certificate of Science is available for students who wish to transfer into an engineering program, or into the second year of a Bachelor of Science program at a Canadian university. soCiAl work Four-year Bachelor degree program focusing on social work practice in northern communities. Application deadline was March 28. Late applications accepted if space is available. women’s And gender studies Certificate program looking at the lives, contributions and experiences of women; the social construction of men and masculinity; and the development and impact of gender roles in a changing world. Courses are university transferable. visuAl Arts Foundation-year certificate offered through the School of Visual Arts (Yukon SOVA) in Dawson City. Transfer to a visual arts degree program at one of Canada’s major art schools. Application review date is May 15. Late applications accepted if space is available. For more information visit www.yukonsova.ca or call 867.993.6390.

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Sky’s the limit for pet burials Sue Manning Associated Press

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LifeGem is a 13-year-old LOS ANGELES company in Elk Grove Village, Ilore pets are buried in U.S. linois, that turns strands of hair or backyards than any other remains of a pet (or person) into a place, but that is becoming illegal colorless, blue, red, yellow or green in more and more places. For synthetic diamond that costs from those who want something unique, $1,999 to $24,999. though, the sky’s the limit, literally.

From companies that will send your pet’s remains to the heavens Balloon lift to those who will help scatter them The Eternal Ascent Society in at sea – or turn them into a manNewport Richey, Florida, will send made gemstone for your favourite your pet’s remains to the heavens, broach – there’s a vast array of op- said Joanie West, who has owned tions. Here are some of them: the company for 16 years. She puts remains (pet or person) in a 5-foot round balloon, adds helium and Aquamation releases it at a tree- and wire-free This method is similar to crelocation the family chooses. The mation, but it’s done with waterballoons come in red, yellow, green based technology that leaves pure and blue. Families usually choose ash reminiscent of powdery beach a service with music, gifts and sand, said Jerry Shevick, CEO of remembrances. They can let the Peaceful Pets Aquamation Inc. balloons go. Around 5 miles up at in Newbury Park. The process is 40 degrees, the balloon fractures called alkaline hydrolysis. It is legal and the ashes are caught in high for humans in seven states and winds and scattered. Balloons start legal for pets in every state. But at $399. There are added costs for in New York, it can be performed larger balloons, a videotape or only by a veterinarian. The nearly special container. green, 20-minute process ranges from $75 to $350 depending on Burial at sea size.

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More pets are buried in backyards than anywhere else. It’s free, 100 per cent green, you can visit anytime, and goodbyes can be as simple or as fancy as mourners want. But it is illegal in many places. Los Angeles, for example, bans the burial of any animal or fowl except in an established cemetery.

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Includes a plot of ground or mausoleum space. You can buy a headstone or plaque. Cemetery burial can cost several hundred to several thousand dollars depending on size, location, grave marker, type of casket or cremation, urn and other costs.

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Costs vary depending on location, pet size and extras. The Caring Pet Crematory in Sacramento charges $140 for a pet under 20 pounds and $275 for a pet from 151 to 200 pounds. If the family wants to watch the cremation, it costs $50, but not every crematory allows witnesses, crematory operator Alex Gordon said. Caring Pet normally scatters remains in the forest. For $125, the company also will scatter remains off the coast of San Francisco by plane. Urns also vary in cost.

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The successful XPrize team was to be announced in September 2015, but Campany said the foundation is considering whether to wait to name the winner in January 2016 to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the genesis of Star Trek.

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If the Canadian team were to win top prize, Kohli said the money would be plowed into commercially developing the device, which he said is one of the few dreamed up by the creator of Star Trek that haven’t become everyday reality.

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Now a Canadian company and 20 other teams from around the world are vying for a $10-million XPrize by trying to replicate Dr. McCoy’s “tricorder” and go where no real-world medical device has gone before.

The entry by the Cloud DX team from the Toronto-based medical devices company Biosign is based on an existing product called Pulsewave, a wrist-worn monitor that measures blood pressure, heart rate and pulse rhythm irregularities, as well as divining the wearer’s respiration rate.

Readings from the USB-powered wrist monitor appear on a small computer screen.

“For the XPrize, however, really the goal is to have something that’s much more mobile, much more powerful,” said chief medical officer Dr. Sonny Kohli. “So we’re using that current platform and evolving it so it’s XPrize ready.”

Kohli, who works as a critical care physician at Oakville-Trafalgar Hospital just west of Toronto, said team Cloud DX is also designing a “home-based lab” component for its submission, which would be able to analyze blood,

who will then have to submit prototypes for testing by reallife patients.

“The winner will be the team whose technology most accurately diagnoses a set of diseases independent of The Canadian Press a health-care Biosign chief medical officer Dr. Sonny Kohli. professional or facility, and that provides the best urine and saliva samples. consumer user experience with The goal of the tricorder their device,” the foundation says competition, sponsored by the Qualcomm Foundation, is to cre- on its website.

Such an instrument could also ate a lightweight, portable “docbe used by medical professionals tor in the palm of the hand” that in developing areas of the world would allow consumers to check vital signs and to diagnose a set of with limited health-care resources, said Kohli.

15 disorders, among them Type 2 “So a portable, mobile device diabetes, urinary tract infection, that partners with your smarthigh cholesterol and HIV. The phone or tablet and that you can device would also take key meacarry with you … it becomes very surements: blood pressure, heart powerful for remote settings,” said rate and variability, temperature, respiration and oxygen saturation. Kohli, adding that he and other “Incorporating these technolo- volunteers in Haiti after the 2010 earthquake could have used such gies into a hand-held device will a tool. ultimately be opening up the “You can imagine (using it in) opportunity for these devices to be low-income settings, disaster zones sold directly to consumers,” said or on a flight, on a boat – anyGrant Campany, a senior director where where you can’t normally with the Los Angeles-based XPrize access high-quality medical inforFoundation and lead for the Qualmation and diagnostic capabilicomm competition. ties.”

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by DAVID it as a threat at all. But the scientific evidence is overSUZUKI whelming: climate change is here, and unless we curb behaviours that contribute to it, it will get worse, putting our food, air, water and security at risk. A recent White House report confirms the findings of this year’s Intergovernmental ecause we enjoy relaPanel on Climate Change tively pure air, clean Fifth Assessment report, and water and healthy food concludes global warming is systems, Canadians sometimes a clear and present danger to take the environment for the U.S. granted. Many scarcely blink if “Climate change is not a oil from a pipeline spills into a distant threat, but is affecting river, a forest is cleared for tar the American people already,” sands operations or agriculsays White House science adtural land is fracked for gas. If viser John Holdren in a video Arctic ice melts and part of the about the report. “Summers Antarctic ice sheet collapses, are longer and hotter, with longer periods of extended well… they’re far away.

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heat. Wildfires start earlier in the spring and continue later into the fall. Rain comes down in heavier downpours. People are experiencing changes in the length and severity of allergies. And climate disruptions to water resources and agriculture have been increasing.”

Recognizing the problem’s severity is a start, but whether the U.S. will actually do anything is another question. Action to curb climate change is constantly stalled – thanks to the powerful fossil fuel industry, political and media denial, extensive fossil fuel-based infrastructure and citizen complacency.

But at least the U.S. and its president have unequivocally called for action. It’s disturbing that political leaders in Canada – a northern country already feeling impacts, with a long coastline particularly vulnerable to rising sea levels – ignore the issue in their drive to make Canada a petro-power.

Our government prefers to spend taxpayers’ money to support the fossil fuel industry with advertising campaigns and billions of dollars in subsidies. A recent New York Times ad, worth US$207,000, touts oil sands and pipelines as

“environmentally responsible.”

Despite opposition from communities throughout B.C. and the rest of Canada, including many First Nations, approval of the Enbridge Northern Gateway pipeline project is expected next month.

Perceived economic benefits (mostly short-term) trump the needs of all Canadians and their children and grandchildren for clean air and water, healthy food and a stable climate. Droughts, floods, water shortages, insect-plagued forests, extreme weather events, rising sea levels and melting glaciers don’t matter as much as getting the oil, gas and coal out of the ground and sold as quickly as possible.

B.C. once showed promise with climate policies such as a carbon tax. Now the government in my home province is also pinning its hopes on the fossil fuel market, fracking our way to “prosperity” at the expense of long-term human and economic health, farmland and climate.

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created economy and the natural environment – an absurd argument on many levels, and a false dichotomy. Even within the current flawed economic paradigm, it’s far more financially sound to invest in renewable energy and diversification than in a dying industry.

Others, often driven by fossil fuel industry propaganda, doubt the evidence and question the credentials of thousands of scientists worldwide studying the issue.

The IPCC report involved hundreds of scientists and experts worldwide who analyzed the latest peer-reviewed scientific literature and other relevant materials on climate change. The White House report was overseen by 13 government agencies, including the Environmental Protection Agency, NASA, Department of the Interior, Department of Defense and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. It was written by close to 300 scientists and experts and reviewed by numerous others, including the National Academy of Sciences. It was also vetted by groups ranging from oil companies to environmental organizations. As an article on Desmog Blog points out, “If anything, this report is conservative in its findings.”

The IPCC and White House reports are clear: solutions are available. But the longer we delay the more difficult and expensive they will be to implement. We can’t just sit by and do nothing.

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atalia Ruppert was at the dentist when she heard the ping of a text message on her phone. When she rose out of the chair, she noticed a magnitude 4.2 earthquake happened near Noatak.

“Aftershock,” she thought, as she remembered her recent visit to the northwest Alaska village of about 500 people.

Ruppert, a seismologist with the Alaska Earthquake Center in Fairbanks, last week flew north at the request of Northwest Arctic Borough Mayor Reggie Joule.

She happened to be working on the Saturday he called the Alaska Earthquake Center after a decent shake the night before. Joule was looking for information on recent trembling in an area of Alaska that doesn’t often experience large earthquakes.

Three days after Joule’s call, Ruppert was on a plane to Kotzebue and then Noatak with Earthquake Center technician Christopher Bruton. Ruppert traveled to those towns for her first time ever to answer peoples’ questions. Bruton’s mission was to install seismometers in places featuring both electricity and an Internet connection to get a better idea of what the northwest Alaska earthquakes were like.

Like Ruppert, Bruton had prior experience with spontaneous deployment. In early January 2013, a magnitude 7.5 Natalia Ruppert photo/Yukon News earthquake tore the sea floor off Seismologist Natalia Ruppert of the Alaska Earthquake Center speaks to Noatak the coast of Southeast Alaska. school children during a recent visit to the village.

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his way down to Port Alexander, a fishing outpost on the south point of Baranof Island.

There, he installed a broadband seismometer that remained in place until late last summer, when Port Alexander resident Bill Luedke recovered it for the seismologists and mailed it back to the Geophysical Institute in Fairbanks. Bruton packed the same one for the recent Kotzebue trip.

Ruppert also traveled to Southeast Alaska last winter, performing a similar mission to her recent ones in Kotzebue and Noatak. She gave PowerPoint presentations in Craig, on Prince of Wales Island, and Sitka. Both of her talks attracted dozens of locals who peppered her with questions.

Born and raised in Russia, Ruppert is not the Einstein lookalike people perhaps expect when they hear an earthquake expert is coming to visit. Having observed her as an audience member in Sitka and Craig, I can report that her pleasant accent and sure manner have a

calming effect on those who are worried about big shakes (and in the case of Southeast Alaska, the waves that might follow).

Last week, Ruppert spoke on the radio in Kotzebue and gave five presentations in Noatak, which was within about 20 miles of the epicenter of a 5.6 earthquake on April 18 and a sizable 5.5 aftershock May 3.

In one day, she spoke to three classes of school children, gave a presentation to the tribal council, and spoke to those assembled in the Noatak school gym at night. She told people that though northwest Alaska does not shake as frequently as Southeast Alaska or the Aleutians, “normal” earthquakes produced when built-up stress is released from hidden faults sometimes happen in the Noatak area.

Trained in earth science and physics, Ruppert is getting more comfortable with public speaking, which is perhaps a natural by-product of knowing what you are talking about. She thinks squashing rumors is the most valuable part of her occasional

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No, she told people, thawing permafrost did not cause the Noatak earthquakes. Frozen ground is relatively close to the surface and these earthquakes rumbled eight-to-25 kilometres deep. For the same reason, activities at nearby Red Dog Mine did not cause the earthquakes.

Lastly, a big earthquake in Thailand did not trigger the recent shakes in northwest Alaska.

Far-off earthquakes can shake faults into action far away, but the timing is almost immediate as waves travel through the earth like ripples in a pond.

Even areas of Alaska not sitting on obvious fault lines are subject to earthquakes, Ruppert said. The only real aseismic part of Alaska seems to be the tundra north of the Brooks Range. Seismologists know very little about northwest Alaska because there are few instruments there and researchers haven’t studied the area much.

“Though it’s rare, it’s not unprecedented,” Ruppert said, citing a 5.5 earthquake near Noatak in 1981. “An important message is that there will still be aftershocks for a few weeks.”

This column is provided as a public service by the Geophysical Institute, University of Alaska Fairbanks.

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Their efforts – fragile, yellowed scrapbook pages containing newspaper columns from 1867 to 1874 – proved instrumental in piecing together those early parliamentary debates in the absence of an official record.

Now, after 50 years of work, Canada’s Library of Parliament has finally wrapped up reconstructing the debates, posting them online for all to see.

“I think the record is democratically important and fundamentally important,” said Sonia Bebbington, the library’s director of knowledge management and preservation.

“Even though it’s never going to be an official record, filling that gap the best we can with what we have, I think, is a really important contribution to readers of Canadian history.”

The debates are a composite of different newspaper accounts, mainly from two newspapers of the era: the Ottawa Times and the Toronto Globe. The Times closed a few years later, making the pages even rarer; the Globe went on to merge with the Toronto-based Mail and Empire to form the Globe and Mail in 1936.

Library of Parliament staff used other parliamentary records, such as the text of bills, and advice from historians to validate the articles and help fill in missing details.

Back in the day, a small group of newspaper reporters perched in the gallery above the Speaker’s chair recorded Parliament in shorthand, often working into the wee hours.

Where today’s record is nononsense account of what is said and done in the Commons and the Senate, there was more editorial flourish in those early years.

“Long before three o’clock, the galleries of the Senate chamber were crowded with anxious spectators, and even the space set apart for the sole use of the knights of the quill was ruthlessly invaded by the fair visitors and denizens of Ottawa,” reads the Ottawa Times account of the first day of Parliament on Nov. 8, 1867.

Some MPs complained that because the newspapers were tied to political parties, their accounts were biased or incomplete. French reports were also scarce. Late-night debates sometimes got short shrift as reporters battled deadlines.

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It was the beer that made the Klondike famous HISTORY

beer) and finally, promoting its healthful properties by suggesting that beer was necessary for proper digestion of food. By 1910, the O’Brien Brewery beer production

by Michael Gates had fallen to less than half of its peak year. n its heyday, Dawson City was In 1915, the brewery tried one a wide open town. Liquor, more marketing ploy: direct sales. gambling and prostitution all In the Discovery Day issue of the flourished during and shortly after Dawson Daily News, they ran an the gold rush. At its peak, Dawson advertisement announcing that had 80 saloons operating day and they had taken over the operation night. In fact, the social life of Dawof one of the surviving saloons, son revolved around the drinking the Red Feather, to “sell directly to establishments, which became sothe customer, thus cutting out the cial centres and havens of warmth middle man and giving his profits and light for the hordes of men to our patrons. All Drinks and housed in tiny dark, cold cabins or Cigars 2 for 25 cents.” That attempt drab rented rooms. failed.

Establishments such as the The prohibition lobby was out Monte Carlo, the Aurora, the Orifor total abolition of liquor sales. ginal, the Sourdough and the Arctic In a plebiscite on August 30, 1916, gained a reputation that exceeded they almost got their way, losing their worth. In 1902, a total of 30 Yukon Archives/Yukon News to the “wets” by a mere 3 votes. By hotel and 21 saloon licenses were In its heyday, there were 80 drinking establishments in Dawson City. In 1902, 51 liquor that time, however, the last of the issued by the government. They licenses were issued to hotels and saloons, some of which crowded along Front Street, saloons had been closed down. In were merely continuing a tradition facing the river. failing health, T.W. O’Brien had that had started well before the sold his holdings in the brewery to onslaught of the gold rush. tariff of “50 cents per gallon” on the Joseph Segbers in 1915, and passed Brewing and Malting Company in tight compartments he will also The first mounted police officer imported competition.

December of 1903, with O’Brien as construct two beer vats… one of away just days before the votes were to remain in the Yukon for a winter, In addition to the two main the majority shareholder.

4,000 gallons capacity.” cast for and against prohibition. at Forty Mile, reported the operThis new company did not brands of beer, the brewery also Tinsmiths Blair and Johnson The outcome of the plebiscite ation, by a “whiskey gang,” of 35 wait long to take action. Within were making a brewing kettle, using introduced “Genuine Bohemian didn’t matter anyway. Two years illicit stills the winter of 1894/95. weeks, the new company was mak- a tonne of copper, and contracts Bock,” and “Special Brew,” “Cham- later the federal government placed Notable among these were Leroy ing alterations to some property pagne Cider,” a porter and a ginger a wartime ban on the manufacture, were being let for engines, pumps Napoleon “Jack” McQuesten, and owned by O’Brien and his partner, and steam fittings. Brewmaster beer. Soft drinks produced included transportation and sale of liquor.

Thomas W. O’Brien.

Billy Moran, in Klondike City, on aerated water, ginger ale, cream Liquor licenses in the territory Charles Bolbrugge arrived in O’Brien fared well as a consethe opposite side of the mouth of soda, and sarsaparilla. From the were terminated. Ottawa offset the town about the same time. Soon, quence of the discovery of gold in the Klondike River from Dawson. devastating loss of revenue with an beginning, sales of the local beer predicted O’Brien, they would be the Klondike, securing claims, or “Dawsonites May Tipple Before additional subsidy. took off. Imported beers declined producing 1,200 gallons (5,400 shares of claims on both Bonanza Spring” announced the headline At the conclusion of the war, the by more than 50 per cent in the litres) of locally brewed beer a day. and Eldorado Creeks, one of which ban on liquor was lifted, but two of an article in the Yukon Sun on market place, while the O’Brien This home-brewed beer, he said, yielded him $250,000 in one year. years later, in 1920, another plebisJanuary 24, 1904. George Mero was would: “make the Pabst article taste Brewery products sold 55,570 galHe began re-investing his new cite on the issue went in favour of awarded the contract to turn three like soda water without any soda lons (250,000 litres) in 1904, and wealth into various ventures in the “drys.” But Prohibition lasted buildings into a modern brewery. increased by 24 per cent to 68,748 in it.” the Klondike. He and six other less than a year. When Ottawa reWork began on January 21.

(309,000 litres) the following year.

The brewery was officially investors incorporated the O’Brien duced the subsidies to the territory, Fourteen skilled carpenters were In 1910, the brewery was emopened April 14, and immediately Yukon electors quickly voted to set to the work of modifying the ploying 15 men. started producing two brands of retail complex into a brewing After 1905, a number of factors reinstate the sale of alcohol to save beer: “Blue Label Lager,” and “Red operation. In a whirl-wind of activ- Label Steam Beer.” The latter was a caused beer production to taper off. the Yukon’s public budget.

By that time, the O’Brien Brewity that lasted only 17 days, Mero San Francisco specialty. A half cen- The declining population reduced ery was history. The last meeting remodelled the buildings: “making tury before in the Golden Gate city, the market, and thus the producinclined floor and several steamwhere it was costly to maintain the tion. Attempts to export the prod- of the shareholders was held in the fall of 1919. The buildings were low temperatures for the tradition- uct to Alaska failed as well. Social maintained for a few more years, trends made the situation worse. al slow-brewing lager beer, they but in 1933, the production line Pressure to direct the liquor trade developed a “steam beer” process was dismantled, and shipped to to hotels and away from saloons, that worked at room temperature Fairbanks, probably for the openplus partisan political chicanery and took only 10 to 12 days from ing of the new Pioneer Brewery reduced the number of saloon start to finish.

Keep Your Frost licenses from 21 licences in 1902, to in that city. All that remains today Since steam beer came out flat, is an archeological site where the Protection On! 13 licenses in 1905, to 6 in 1909. it had to be subjected to krauseIn 1909, the company started to once-proud brewery stood. ning – a process intended to add Residents are advised to advertise heavily, focussing on three Michael Gates is a Yukon historian the necessary carbon dioxide to and sometimes adventurer based in keep their water service main themes: celebrating the Klonmake the beer bubbly. The beer Whitehorse. His latest book, Dalfrost protection devices on. dike mystique (“the beer that made ton’s Gold Rush Trail, is available in sold for $24 a barrel, $18 a keg, Ground frost is still 3m (10 Milwaukee Jealous”), appealing to and $3.50 per dozen. In 1907, the Yukon stores. You can contact him at ft) deep in some areas and territorial legislature even passed a the local economy (home-grown msgates@northwestel.net

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High schoolers hit the field at track meet Junior boys 1st Skylar Bryant (FHC) – 24:85 2nd Robert Smallwood (PCSS) – 25:25 3rd Callum Ryan (FHC) – 25:43

Tom Patrick News Reporter

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he Yukon Schools’ Athletic Association Track and Field Meet was a little more field than track this year.

With the track at F.H. Collins Secondary – the only track in Whitehorse – ripped up this spring by construction of the new school, meet organizers needed a plan.

Their solution: paint a track on the lower grass field next to the old one that is now a dirt field full of excavators.

The result was remarkable.

Though it was still a grass field, the track was expertly made; the lines were straight and the curves perfectly rounded.

Dozens of man-hours were put into creating it for Wednesday’s meet.

“The track was designed and built by (Athletics Yukon coach) Don White,” said F.H. Collins organizer James Shaw. “He went out and measured the entire track and then he mowed three of the lanes and the edge of the outside lanes so we knew where to paint. He strung the track out so we have these nice straight lines and the soccer people were gracious enough to come and paint it for us.”

“Thanks very much to the wonderful staff here at F.H. Collins because regardless of the inconvenience they are going through they managed to pull something spectacular together,” said YSAA president Marc Senecal.

“They spent considerable amount of time and energy to get a wonderful track meet put together on the limited area that they have.”

The track will be used again on Friday for the first elementary school track meet in well over a decade. Five elementary schools have registered to compete.

Over 150 athletes from Whitehorse’s three high schools took part in Wednesday’s meet. Porter Creek Secondary School entered about 35 athletes, Vanier Catholic Secondary School about 20, while hosts F.H. Collins Secondary had about 100 athletes compete. Like in years past, FHC’s big numbers got big results.

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Senior girls 1st Camille Galloway (FHC) – 30:82 2nd Galena Roots (FHC) – 31:18 3rd Jay Kelly (FHC) – 32:44 Senior boys 1st Aiden Bradley (PCSS) – 24:66 2nd Derrick Gibbons (PCSS) – 25:38 3rd Brody Smith (PCSS) – 28:62 400-metre Grade 8 girls 1st Reena Coyne (FHC) – 1:15.28 2nd Jayden Demchuk (FHC) – 1:16.47 3rd Georgia Gaw (n/a) – 1:16.69 Tom Patrick/Yukon News

Porter Creek Secondary’s Kestrel Martin takes part in the junior girls high jump at the YSAA Track and Field Meet on Wednesday at F.H. Collins Secondary.

Top three results 100-metre sprint Grade 8 girls 1st Alice Frost (FHC) – 14:25 2nd Katie Vowk (FHC) – 14:60 3rd Jayden Demchuk (FHC) – 14:75 Grade 8 boys 1st Adrian Robinson (FHC) – 13:50 2nd Gary Schultze t (FHC) – 14:36 3rd Jackie Lam (FHC) – 14:31 Junior girls 1st Avery Bramadat (FHC) – 13:09 2nd Megan Bank (PCSS) – 14:00 3rd Thea Carey

200-metre

(PCSS) – 14:32 Junior boys 1st Skylar Bryant (FHC) – 12:01 2nd Robert Smallwood (PCSS) – 12:25 3rd Tristan Rentmeister (FHC) – 12:28

Grade 8 girls 1st Reena Coyne (FHC) – 30:34 2nd Katie Vowk (FHC) – 30:63 3rd Jayden Demchuk (FHC) – 30:75

Senior girls 1st Sierra Oakley (FHC) – 14:69 2nd Jay Kelly (FHC) – 14:75 3rd Camille Galloway (FHC) – 15:25

Grade 8 boys 1st Adrian Robinson (FHC) – 28:62 2nd Ted Schulze (FHC) – 29:81 3rd Gary Schulze (FHC) – 30:06

Senior boys 1st Dominic Korn (FHC) – 11:19 2nd Emile St. Pierre (FHC) – 12:15 3rd Etienne Geoffroy (FHC) – 12:25

Junior girls 1st Thea Carey (PCSS) – 29:94 2nd Megan Banks (FHC) – 30:53 3rd Kate Londero (VCSS) – 31:03

Grade 8 boys 1st Hayden Kremer (FHC) – 1:17.00 2nd Stephen Salas (FHC) – 1:15.91 3rd Daniel Kim (VCSS) – 1:16.97 Junior girls 1st Kate Lodero (VCSS) – 1:14.40 Junior boys 1st Mackenzie Shaw (FHC) – 1:00.53 2nd Jarrett Peterson (PCSS) – 1:02.12 3rd Josh Tetlichi (FHC) – 1:03.28 Senior girls 1st Galena Roots (FHC) – 1:16.189 2nd Kathryn Fortune (VCSS) – 1:17.53 Senior boys 1st Derick Gibbons (PCSS) – 1:16.15 2nd Brody Smith

Tom Patrick/Yukon News

Left, F.H. Collins’ Dominic Korn wins the senior boys 100-metre sprint. Right, Runners leave the blocks in the junior boys 100-metre final.

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Teams pass by the construction site in the 4x100-metre relay races.

2nd Jackie Lam (FHC) – 2.442 3rd Cruz Goodman (VCSS) – 2.310

Tom Patrick/Yukon News

Porter Creek’s Derrick Gibbons takes part in the senior boys broad jump. Gibbons won bronze.

(PCSS) – 1:16.22 3rd Aiden Bradley (PCSS) – 1:16.31

Junior girls 1st Kestrel Martin (PCSS) – 6:20

800-metre Grade 8 girls 1st Brook Lesak (n/a) – 3:34 Grade 8 boys 1st Tyler Milton (FHC) – 2:39 2nd Darby McIntyre (VCSS) – 2:41 3rd Daniel Kim (VCSS) – 2:59 Junior boys 1st Caelan McLean (FHC) – 2:46 2nd Jarrett Peterson (PCSS) – 2:52 3rd Bruce Wilson (PCSS) – 2:52 Senior boys 1st Brody Smith (PCSS) – n/a 2nd Aiden Bradley (PCSS) – n/a 3rd Derrick Gibbons (PCSS) – n/a

Junior boys 1st Calean McLean (FHC) – 5:11 2nd Jarrett Peterson (PCSS) – 5:57 3rd Brahm Hyde (FHC) – 6:21

1,500-metre Grade 8 girls 1st Reagan Fuerstner (FHC) – 6:09 2nd Katelyn Holway (VCSS) – 7:10 3rd Brook Lesak (PCSS) – 7:13 Grade 8 boys 1st Darby McIntyre (VCSS) – 5:14 2nd Ted Schulze (FHC) – 5:58 3rd Gary Schulze (FHC) – 5:59

Junior girls 1st Avery Bramadat (FHC) – 2.276 2nd Megan Banks (PCSS) – 2.090 3rd Jen Mendelsohn (FHC) – 2.035 Junior boys 1st Skylar Bryant

(FHC) – 2.784 2nd Malcolm Muir (FHC) – 2.466 3rd Ryan Hindson (FHC) – 2.448 Senior girls 1st Sierra Oakley (FHC) – 2.206 2nd Quynh Nguyen (FHC) – 2.201 Senior boys 1st Dominc Korn (FHC) – 3.048

2nd Kyl Wallace (FHC) – 2.750 3rd Derrick Gibbons (PCSS) – 2.678 High jump Grade 8 girls 1st Alice Frost (FHC) – 120 cm 2nd Natalie Daniels (FHC) – 115 cm 3rd Isabel Magsucang (VCSS) – 110 cm Continued on page 44

3,000-metre Grade 8 girls 1st Regan Fuerstner (FHC) – 11:20 2nd Savannah Cash (FHC) – 11:41 3rd Nila Stinson (PCSS) – 11:58 Grade 8 boys 1st Darby McIntyre (VCSS) – 10:02 2nd Ted Schulze (FHC) – 10:32 3rd Gary Schulze (FHC) – 10:38

Lotteries Yukon is seeking proposals for artwork from Yukon and Atlin visual artists.

Lotteries Yukon is commemorating the Yukon Lottery Commission’s 40th anniversary by commissioning artwork that is a creative expression and interpretation of the positive impact of lotteries in Yukon.

Pursuing dreams, whether through re-investing of lottery revenues in art, sport and recreation or through purchasing lottery tickets is the theme for artist work.

Junior boys 1st Brahm Hyde (FHC) – 11:32 Senior boys 1st David Jackson (PCSS) – 13:40 Broad jump Grade 8 girls 1st Alice Frost (FHC) – 2.150 2nd Katie Vowk (FHC) – 2.024 3rd Jayden Demchuk (FHC) – 1.950 Grade 8 boys 1st Adrian Robinson (FHC) – 2.470

Deadline for submissions is July 11, 2014 at 4 pm.

Submission guidelines can be found on the Lotteries Yukon website at www.lotteriesyukon.com or by contacting the Program Administrator at (867) 633-7892 or toll free at 1-800-661-0555

Supporting art, sport and recreation in Yukon… one ticket at a time.

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Grade 8 boys 1st Adrian Robinson (FHC) – 145 cm 2nd Austin Paquet (FHC) – 140 cm 3rd JC Mutuc (FHC) – 125 cm

(VCSS) – 13.47 m 3rd Kathryn Fortune (VCSS) – 10.35 Senior boys 1st Timber Schrott (FHC) – 37.30 m 2nd Matt Moses (VCSS) – 28.50 m 3rd Allen Mark (FHC) – 25.95 m

Junior girls 1st Megan Banks (PCSS) – 123 cm 2nd Thea Carey (PCSS) – 119 cm 2nd Maggie Brook (FHC) – 119 cm

Shot put Grade 8 girls 1st Jayden Demchuk (FHC) – 27’2” 2nd Lisa Francis (FHC) – 20’9” 3rd Isabel Magsucang (VCSS) – 19’4”

Junior boys 1st Ryan Hindson (FHC) – 155 cm 2nd Jarod Morgan (VCSS) – 150 cm 3rd Argus Huggard (FHC) – 135 cm

Tom Patrick/Yukon News

Porter Creek’s Hannah Milner competes in the senior girls high jump. Milner won silver.

Senior girls 1st Sierra Oakley (FHC) – 123 cm 2nd Hannah Milner (PCSS) – 119 cm 3rd Kelly Mahoney (VCSS) – 117 cm

2nd JB New (FHC) – 145 cm 3rd Derrick Gibbons (PCSS) – 140 cm Javelin Grade 8 girls 1st Jayden Demchuk (FHC) – 16.60 m

Senior boys 1st Jacob Elliott (FHC) – 150 cm

YOUR SILK SCREENING HEADQUARTERS

2nd Alice Frost (FHC) – 15.65 m 3rd n/a

2nd Kat Wirth (FHC) – 8.20 m Junior boys 1st Skylar Bryant (FHC) – 30.85 m 2nd Logan Harris (FHC) – 28.83 m 3rd Tristan Rentmeister (FHC) – 28.45 m

Grade 8 boys 1st Austin Paquet (FHC) – 23.70 m 2nd Jackie Lam (FHC) – 21.95 m 3rd Ted Schulze (FHC) – 20.55 m

Junior girls 1st Kat Specht (FHC) – 22’2” 2nd Megan Prawdzik (FHC) – 27’4” 3rd Kestrel Martin (PCSS) – 25’5”

Senior girls 1st Haley Braga (FHC) – 19.50 m 2nd Kelly Mahoney

Junior girls 1st Megan Prawdzik (FHC) – 10.95 m

Junior boys 1st Levi Johnson (FHC) – 49’3” 2nd Robert Smallwood (PCSS) – 43’0” 3rd Dillon Greenough (PCSS) – 39’4”

• Team orders • CorporaTe apparel • CusTom designs

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Professional accounting service for:

Small business • Not for profit Corporate and personal tax 505 Jarvis Street Whitehorse, YT Phone: 867.667.4700 Fax: 867.667.4439 klawrie@yukonaccounting.ca

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Grade 8 boys 1st Austin Paquet (FHC) – 40’1” 2nd Haiden Kremer (FHC) – 32’11” 3rd Cruz Goodman (VCSS) – 31’8”

Whitehorse Minor Hockey Association Annual General Meeting Saturday, May 31, 2014 10:00 am – 12:00 Mount McIntyre Rec Centre

Senior girls 1st Kate Londero (VCSS) – 28’3” 2nd Hannah Milner (PCSS) – 28’3” 3rd Haley Braga (FHC) – 27’7” Senior boys 1st Levi Johnson (FHC) – 42’0” 2nd Jacob Elliott (FHC) – 36’9” 3rd Dominic Korn (FHC) – 36’7”

Yukon Soccer Association is looking for

Head Coaches

for both our Male and Female 2015 Western Canada Summer Games teams

.

Applicants must have, or be prepared to obtain by May 2015: CSA Provincial B license NCCP Competition-Development (formerly Level 3) certification Experience coaching 14 -16 year old players.

Assistant Coaches are also being sought for these teams: Applicants should have CSA B Prep license NCCP Introduction to Competition Part A and B Experience coaching 14-16 year old players Please apply in writing to Yukon Soccer Association 4061 – 4th Ave, Whitehorse, YT Y1A 1H1 Applications are to be received by June 13th, 2014

Adventure into the wild

with new summer hours!

Open Daily: 9:30am - 6:00pm Guided Bus Tours: 10am, 12 noon, 2pm & 4pm Call 456-7300 to reserve!

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Coaching Opportunities Town Hall Meeting Wednesday June 4 7:30 to 9:00 pm Elijah Smith Elementary School, Multipurpose Room City Council wants to hear about issues affecting Whitehorse residents and neighbourhoods.

This meeting will focus on McIntyre, Hillcrest, Valleyview, Granger, Copper Ridge, Logan, Arkell, Ingram, and Lobird.

Get more information at whitehorse.ca/townhalls

www.whitehorse.ca

Friday, May 30, 2014

COMICS DILBERT

BOUND AND GAGGED

ADAM

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RUBES速

by Leigh Rubin

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PUZZLE PAGE

Friday, May 30, 2014

Kakuro

By The Mepham Group

Sudoku Like puzzles? Then you’ll love sudoku.

This mind-bending puzzle will have you hooked from the moment you square off, so sharpen your pencil and put your sudoku savvy to the test!

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

FRIDAY CROSSWORD PUZZLE

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

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

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

WORD SCRAMBLE Rearrange the letters to spell a word Hint: variegated in color

Puzzle A

OLYE TM

LOOK ON PAGE 59, FOR THE ANSWERS

CLUES ACROSS 1. Wolf groups 6. Liquid propane gas (abbr.)

9. Liz’s 3rd husband Mike 13. Quickly, rapidly 14. Ventured into the unknown 16. 2 floor rental 18. Point midway between S and SE 19. Jells 20. Syringe 21. Greek god of the woods 22. Of I 23. A way of cutting

CLUES DOWN

1. Blouse shoulder shapers 2. European swift genus 3. Cod or Good Hope 4. Kilocalorie (abbr.)

5. Teetertotter 6. Kissing tools 7. Bluegrass genus 8. Gonadotropin releasing hormone (abbr.)

9. Poster paint 10. Chocolate cookie with white cream filling 11. The shelter of wild animals 12. Insecticide 14. Mrs. Nixon 15. Plural of etymon 17. 45385 Ohio

26. Italian cheese city 29. Detailed design criteria for a piece of work 31. Expressed pleasure 33. Swiss river 35. Harmless cyst 36. Angry 37. Airtight metal food container 38. Cowboy star Autry 40. Jupiter’s closest satellite 42. Greek goddess of youth 43. Grass spikelet bracts 45. Gazes

47. Used to chop 48. Escape to avoid arrest 49. Imitators 51. Air pollution 53. Engine additive 56. One who comments on events of the day 60. In a way, pardoned 61. Lizard of the family Agamidae 62. ____ ‘n boots 63. A lumberman’s tool 64. Full of conversation

21. Political action committee 23. Plants of the genus Cassia 24. Personal identifier 25. Indian stairways to water 26. Palladium 27. Staffs 28. United ____ Emirates 29. Sine wave generator (abbr.)

30. Look furtively 32. Copyread 34. Midway between NE and E 39. Passes, as of time 40. One thousandth of an ampere 41. Hairdresser’s shop 42. A skirt’s finished edge

44. Company officers 46. Shaggy or unkempt 49. Slender grass appendages 50. Drunkards 51. Smallest merganser 52. ___ student, learns healing 53. Pierce with a knife 54. Burial vault 55. Address a diety 56. Take a siesta 57. Australian flightless bird 58. Actress Farrow 59. Honorable title (Turkish)

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Priceroundtrip includes roundtrip wildlife cruise; continental breakfast andand dinner; Price includes wildlife cruise; continental breakfast dinner; sightseeing bus tour of Juneau and Mendenhall Glacier; sightseeing bus tour of Juneau and Mendenhall Glacier; free time downtown free time downtown Juneau for lunch, shopping and sightseeing.

Juneau for lunch, shopping and sightseeing.

Yukoner Special! $145 roundtrip, Canadian at par, cash Yukoner Special! $150 roundtrip, Canadian at 19, par,20,cash only.

Special applies to the following dates: May 22, only.

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Reservations: www.alaskafjordlines.com/yukonerspecial or 1-800-320-0146.

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www.yukon-news.com • 211 Wood Street, Whitehorse, YT Y1A 2E4 • Phone: (867) 667-6285 • Fax: (867) 668-3755 For Rent 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 HOBAH APARTMENTS: Clean, spacious, walking distance downtown, security entrance, laundry room, plug-ins, rent includes heat & hot water, no pets. References required. 668-2005 SKYLINE APTS: 2-bdrm apartments, Riverdale. Parking & laundry facilities. 667-6958

Office Space fOr LeaSe

Above Starbuck’s on Main St. Nice clean, professional building, good natural light. 3 different offices currently available.

Competitive lease rates offered.

Sandor@yukon.net or C: 333.9966

WEEKEND GET AWAY Rustic Cabin-45 minutes from town Hiking Trails in the summer Skiing in the winter Includes sauna. Reasonable rates.

Rent out by the week or for a weekend.

867-821-4443 ARE YOU New to Whitehorse? Pick up a free Welcome to Whitehorse package at The Smith House, 3128-3rd Ave. Information on transit, recreation programs, waste collection & diversion. 668-8629 Available Now Newly renovated OFFICE SPACE & RETAIL SPACE Close to Library & City Hall A short walk to Main Street Phone 633-6396

1-BDRM SPACIOUS Suite, Hidden Valley, 2.5 acres & trails, includes all utils (sat, int, h eat) except small power bill, $1,300/mon + dd, avail June 1, pets negotiable. 335-6335 ROOM FOR rent, N/S, N/P, immed, $750/mon. all incl. 393-2275

Newer Shop/Studio/Office/Gallery for lease, 127 Gold Road in Marwell.

1,200 sq. ft. Available July 1, 2014.

See Kijiji Whitehorse Ad ID 587674913 for more info and pictures or call Erica 668-3408

1-BDRM APT downtown, avail June 1, N/S, no dogs, no partying, active seniors in the building, $850/mon + dd, incl utils. 633-3940

3-BDRM 2-BATH condo, Takhini, avail immed, N/P, N/S, DD&refs reqʼd, $1,700/mon + utils, 335-5248

Office/Studio Space Available 2000 square feet.

129 Copper Road. $2,000/ month includes utilities.

Space includes kitchen with stove Call Brenda or Michelle @ 667-2614 or e-mail: totalfire@northwestel.net

OFFICE SPACE FOR RENT Various sizes available, 400-750 sq ft Central location Second Avenue or 4th Avenue One year lease - deposit required Call 633-4136

OFFICE/RETAIL SPACE, downtown Ogilvie St, 1,350 sqft, reasonable rent, 667-7144

QUALITY FINISHED Copper Ridge residence, N/S, N/P, $1,700/mon + utils, refs reqʼd. 334-4741 SMALL 1 bdrm suite, Granger, avail immed, N/P, N/S, refʼs reqʼd. $750/mon + utilʼs.

668-4205

Horwood’s Mall

OFFICE SPACE FOR RENT 2nd storey of building in Marwell.

340-sqft & 190-sqft spaces.

Quiet, reasonable rent.

334-7000 or 667-2917

2-BDRM BASEMENT suite, 172 Alsek, Riverdale, L/R, dining room, kitchen, bathroom, N/S, N/P, no parties, $1,350/mon incl heat and elec, 334-3735

Coming Available Soon!

3-BDRM 2-BATH duplex, Copper Ridge, 1-car garage, 5 appliances, lots of storage, avail June 1, refs & dd reqʼd, $1,700/mon + utils. 334-1907

ROOM IN large home, comfortable, furnished with double bed, TV with cable, wifi internet, utilities incl, laundry facilities/parking available, $650/mon. 667-7733

NICE ROOMMATE wanted at Marsh Lake, sandy beach, waterspports equip for your use, animals welcome, N/S, $500/mon, 660-4321

4-BDRM 1.5 bath house, Riverdale, avail lst week of June, newly renoʼd kitchen, fenced backyard, N/S, pet considered, refʼs reqʼd, 1-yr lease reqʼd. 335-0993

NEW (2013) OFFICES ON MAIN ST. in Capital Hotel Building.

Security system, 170 -245 sq ft, includes heat and power.

Reasonable rates.

Archie 668-2648

2-BDRM HOUSE upstairs, quiet d/t neighborhood, Includes laundry, storage, living rm, dining rm, new bathrm, upgraded kitchen, newly painted, N/S, N/P, no parties, $1,350/mon + utils. 633-8430

Main Street at First Avenue Two small retail spaces.

150 & 580 sq. ft.

(Larger space faces Front Street)

For more information call Greg

334-5553

2,628 square Feet oF priMe oFFice space available for Lease starting June 1, 2014.

Two Suites available for lease. Suites can be leased separately or combined as one.

One suite is 1,248 square feet. The second suite is 1,380 square feet.

Located in a professional building downtown Whitehorse, this space is ideal for accounting, legal or other professionals.

Move-in ready.

For more information, please contact: 336-0028

Business for Sale

After 22 years, we are selling a well-established Yukon Business.

Operation consists of flushing and camera inspection of storm & sanitary lines. Turnkey operation, all equipment to operate this business is included. Sale includes 16-foot cube van, which houses camera equipment & high pressure flusher/hydro/vac combo.

Currently over $80,000 in contracts.

Training will be provided.

3-BDRM 2-BATH house, Riverdale, avail June 1, laundry, carport, N/S, N/P, no parties, $1,700/mon + heat & utilities + dd.

335-5976

1-BDRM LEGAL bsmt suite, renovated, bright, well insulated, quiet d/t neighborhood, laundry, new appliances, patio area, N/S, N/P, no parties, $1,200/mon + utils.

633-8430

for rent for rent Approx. 750 sq ft

of high-end office space with fantastic views available immediately.

Elevator accessible, excellent soundproofing, large windows, lots of natural light.

Please call Kevin at 334-6575 for more information.

Approx. 1650 sq ft

of high-end office space available immediately.

Independent HVAC system, elevator accessible, excellent soundproofing, move-in ready.

Please call Kevin at 334-6575 for more information.

2ND 2ND AVENuE AVE & Elliot & Elliot St.StrEEt

1,600 square foot. Excellent location.

3rd & Jarvis Street AvAilAble June 1, 2014 Please call Ivan @ 668-7111 for information and to view.

2-BDRM BASEMENT suite in Riverdale, avail August 1, includes heat, electric, satellite TV, internet, private entrance, laundry, dishwasher, $1,500/mon, txt or message 336-0306 3 BEDROOMS in large executive Copper Ridge home, avail July 1, 668-4779 2-BDRM CONDO, Main St, newly built, N/S, N/P, no parties, $1,700/mon + utils + $1,500, avail July 1, responsible tenants. 333-9590 3-BDRM 2 bath house, Riverdale, avail June 1, laundry, carport, deposit required, N/S, N/P, no parties, $1700/mon + heat & utils, 335-5976 ROOM IN Ingram, fully furnished, family house, heat, electricity, laundry facilities included, N/S, N/P, no parties, clean & responsible tenant, $650/mon. 334-3186 ANNIE LAKE Rd country home, 1,850 sq ft, pet friendly, 2 bdrm, all amenities, avail August, dd & refs reqʼd, $1,350/mon + utils.

667-6429 1-BDRM DOWNTOWN, newly renovated, utils incl, refs reqʼd, laundry on site, $900/mon + lst & last, 335-0477 2-BDRM 2-BATH condo on greenbelt, avail July 1, granite counters, 6 appliances, 5 min to downtown, N/S, N/P, refs reqʼd, $1450/mon + utilities & security dep, 334-4484 or 335-4484 4-BDRM 3-BATH townhouse, Ingram, new, fenced yard, N/S, N/P, dd&refs reqʼd, avail June 16, $2,000/mon + utils. 335-5248 SMALLER CABIN/HOME @ Carcross cutoff, elec/plumbing/monitor heater, bdrm, living room, full bathroom, & kitchen area w/stove/fridge, 15 min from downtown, N/S. 667-6970 ROOM IN Ingram, N/S, N/P, heat, electricity, interntet included, 668-2848 after 4:30 pm or lv msg LOOKING FOR roommates, beautiful 3-bdrm 1.5-bath townhouse, Riverdale, great landscaped backyard, N/S inside, laundry room, parking, avail July 1, $650/mon.

335-5037 SMALL 1-BDRM furnished cottage for short-term rental (week, weekend) for Yukoner in Haines Alaska, room for RV parking for multi-family stay, great yard for kids, cozyhomeforu@gmail.com

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

Asking $250,000. Serious inquiries only – phone 334-2261

STORE FRONT RETAIL OR OFFICE SPACE FOR RENT

WATERFRONT, 2-BDRM house & workshop on Morley Bay (Teslin Lake). $1,200/ mon, avail July 1st. Melissa at 336-1296

Real Estate Downtown Whitehorse officE SpAcE Small buSineSS? need office Space?

• Prime 2nd Avenue office space available for • March 1, 2013 • Individual or multiple offices for rent ranging from $325 to $790/month on a one-year lease basis • Excellent location, 2nd and Elliot, one block off Main Street toward Government buildings • Rent includes all expenses • Cold storage and parking available for additional fee call for viewing and more information, 633-4136

Beautifully finished office space is available in the Taku Building at 309 Main Street.

This historic building is the first L.E.E.D. certified green building in Yukon. It features state of the art heat and ventilation, LAN rooms, elevator, bike storage, shower, accessibility and more.

Call 867-333-0144

TAGISH WATERFRONT home w/million dollar view, 1,400sqft ranch style, 3-bdrm 2-bath, kitchen, living room, dining room, 20X24 garage, dock, boathouse, oil heat, Property Guys #143589, $385,000.

867-399-3710 ATLIN, BC, 16' x 20' cabin on 50 x 100 lot, no lake view but fairly private, power, phone line, outhouse, $50,000 email gacrawford@hughes.net or voicemail 250-651- 2253 HAINES JUNCTION, 2-storey 2-bdrm house, contemporary design, open concept, 10-acre lot, cul-de-sac, fire-smarted around house, 85% completed, 1,350 sq ft, $275,000 as is. 634-2240

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5-BDRM LOG house on 2 acres in Watson Lake, $195,000 obo. Call 867-632-9618 for info WATER VIEW, 2-bdrm, 1-bath home located in Haines, AK, remodeled and located in Haines townsite, $175,000 firm.

907-766-2401 5 ACRES (2 ha), Hamlet of Mount Lorne, zoned rural residential cluster, power, partially cleared, maintained road and school bus route, no building deadlines, 45km to Whitehorse, $165,000 obo. 334-8271 2-BDRM 1.5 bath house in Mt. Sima, 276 Moraine Dr. (Lot 66), 2,023 sqft, 3 + acres, 2011, $513,000, open house Sunday May 25 after 10:00am 3-BDRM 2.5 bath house in Faro, 2,100 sqft, laundry room, wood floor in L/R, oil/wood heat, garage, shed, w/d, dishwasher, fridge, stove, $129,900. 335-9272 LAKEFRONT PROPERTY, .65 hectare lot on California Beach, Tagish Lake, mountain/lake views, large sandy beach, fully furnished open concept log cabin with 2 separate bedrooms & additional cabin, 456-3303 LAKEFRONT PROPERTY at 4th of July S/D, Atlin, 2 lots 1.38 acres, 2 cabins and shop, turnkey package reduced for quick sale, 250-651-2222 or king.jimbeth@gmail.com for details NICE TITLED cottage lot, 4th of July S/D, Atlin, lakeview with green belt on 2 sides, off the grid property going fast for $75,000.

250-651-2222 or king.jimbeth@gmail.com for details TO BE moved, nice newer cabin located in Atlin, 18X28, $15,000. 250-651-7868

2 ACRES, Atlin, nice location, nicely landscaped, newly constructed 18X34 unfinished 2-storey house, mobile home w/basement, well water & septic, $184,900. 250-651-7868 #5 CARLISLE Pl, 2005 4- bdrm 3-bath home, 2,200 sq ft, double attached garage, landscaped, concrete driveway, fenced yard, west facing deck/hot tub, details/Property Guys or call for viewing, 334-9777 REMOTE TRAPLINE #381, 600 sq mi, several hotsprings on line, good marten country, 750 sq ft main cabin, 3 line cabins, turn-key operation, all equipped, $100,000. 393-2714 LARGE 3-BDRM trailer, Takhini, attached workshop, large Arctic entrance, completely renovated inside, new appliances, must see.

335-0218 for info

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 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

DOOR PeRsOnnel Drop résumé off at

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

Friday, May 30, 2014 LARGE DOZER OPERATOR Must have experience operating: Komatsu 475, 375 or Cat D11, D10 Dawson area Placer Mine Email resume to hmh1@shaw.ca PART-TIME DENTAL HYGENIST required at Whitehorse Dental Clinic Please send resume to 406 Lambert Street Fax: 867-667-4488

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.

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NEW ENVIROLET compost toilet, stand alone, waterless, odor-less self contained unit, cheaper than septic, easier than digging a hole, $1,500 obo. 633-6502 17ʼ STEEL flat deck c/w headache rack, enclosed b/u lamps, (2) metal tool compartments under-deck mounted, $4,500.

667-7777 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 HOMEMADE CABBAGE Patch dolls, clothing includes jeans, dresses, tops, shorts, all beautifully sewn, 633-4945 ASSORTMENT OF Blue Mountain pottery, all offers considered, 633-4945 HUSQVARNA 'LIGHT 28' chainsaw boots, size 10.5, good cond, $50, text anytime or call after 5:30pm: 335-0233 2 USED 100 lb propane tanks with dual regulator, $125 for the set. 668-7927

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

8 GALLON food-grade containers, $20 ea, 12 available, ideal for canoe or car camping, approx 16”x 13”x13”, 633-2300

:) = full woodshed.

Super-dry straight-grained lodgepole pine, $200/cord delivered in Whitehorse. Text or call Doug Martens/Teslin @ 334-7364

WASTE BINS, cooler/ice box, metal pail, misc rugs/mats, upright toolbox w/drawers, HP94 black computer ink & colored ink, various prices, 633-4547

ANTIQUE/VINTAGE STEREO cabinet/record player, Zenith floor model, flips over for compact storage, 333-9020

12” WHIRLY bird attic vent, brown, never used, $25. 456-4926 2 3ʼ sections of 6” inside diameter oil furnace chimney, $50 ea obo. 456-4926

LIGHT TOWERS, Kubota 8kw $8,000, Perkins 6kw $6,000, new skid shacks, 10'x20' $14,600/trailer. Swede 333-0192 or Ross 332-3293

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Perfect for entertaining, over 20’ of granite counter space to prepare food or BBQ on the .40 x 12 x 32 x 10 deck, your guests will never want to leave. Master Suite has breathtaking views with double ended claw tub set up for star and northern light gazing. Immediate possession possible. Priced well below appraised value at $489,000. You are welcome to bring your realtor. You will love this home. See you on Thursday!

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Warehouse Manager/ Customer Service Representative (CSR) Steel products manufacturer seeks a Customer Service Representative with ability to drive a fork-lift to oversee receiving of inbound product, warehouse management, & shipping to end customer various strata-control support products to meet production and delivery deadlines for our customer base in the mining and tunneling industries.

Warehouse Manager Duties are: daily operations oversight; coordinate & track material flow & warehouse daily receiving, shipping, logistics; maintain/report stock item inventory; operate forklift to load/unload trucks.

À LA RECHERCHE D’UN EMPLOI?

Des professionnels engagés Conseils en développement de carrière Création, amélioration et traduction de CV Simulation d’entrevue

CSR duties are: Effectively deal with telephone enquiries requesting quotations for products; Liaise between plant & customers to efficiently answer general enquiries; Liaise with Field Rep’s regarding information related to the accounts.

Position requires: secondary school diploma with min 2 yrs warehouse/customer service or related experience; proficient knowledge of French/English; solid math & computer skills; knowledge of Ross ERP software or similar, a plus; valid clean driver’s license.

The right individual has personable, outgoing communication skills; is dependable, well organized, and detail-oriented with ability to multi-task and prioritize. This opportunity requires total visual field, verbal interaction, manual dexterity, multiple limb coordination & physical conditioning with ability to sit for extended periods & lift 22.5kg (50 lbs).

Salary is commensurate with experience.

Excellent benefits include medical, dental, retirement.

Send your resume to HR@jennmar.com

Des services personnalisés et des ressources utiles.

Éducation

Direction de l’enseignement postsecondaire

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

Employment Opportunity www.yukoncollege.yk.ca

Providing leadership through our strengths in programming, services and research, Yukon College’s main campus in Whitehorse and 12 community campuses cover the territory. A small college, YC provides a stimulating and collegial environment. We work with Yukon communities, Yukon First Nations, local governments, business and industry, to promote a community of learners within a vibrant organization. Come join us as we continue to enhance the Yukon’s capacity through education and training.

Student Engagement Coordinator

Journeyman Automotive Technician, Full Time Klondike Motors is seeking experienced Automotive Technicians to join our teams in Whitehorse and Inuvik. We are looking for long term employees who take pride in their work and put customer satisfaction first.

The successful candidates will possess the following qualifications: • Journeyman Certification; • Valid Driver’s Licence; • Ability to read and comprehend repair orders; • Self-motivated and results orientated; • Dependable, professional and positive attitude.

• Interprovincial Red Seal Certification and GM Experience are considered an asset.

Locations Available: 191 Range Road, Whitehorse, YT Y1A 3E5 Box 2568, 170 Airport Road, Inuvik, NT X0E 0T0 We thank all candidates for their interest, however, only individuals selected for an interview will be contacted.

Please forward your resume and salary expectations to: Human Resources E-Mail: hr@klondikemotors.com Fax (780) 638-4867 Or drop off a resume in person at our Whitehorse location; Ask to speak with Dean Brown, Service Manager.

Student and Infrastructure Support Ayamdigut (Whitehorse) Campus Term position to: June 30th, 2015 Salary: $31.17 to $37.11 per hour Full time based on 75 hours bi-weekly Competition No.: 14.74 Initial Review Date: June 11, 2014

Yukon College is committed to creating a unique postsecondary experience that inspires, motivates and supports the success of our students.

As a Student Engagement Coordinator, you will develop, research, implement and evaluate student engagement and leadership initiatives, as well as support student orientation, events, recreation, and special programs. You will work with individuals and groups of students to encourage leadership, innovation and creativity.

The successful candidate will have relevant post-secondary education and experience working with diverse populations and designing and delivering events, programs and activities that engage students. Experience with post-secondary educational institutions, and residence life programs would be considered an asset.

You have demonstrated leadership skills and the ability to work creatively in an academic environment along with the ability to advise and mentor student leaders on matters related to leadership development, student committees, student organizations, special projects, and special task forces. You are highly organized and skilled at working collaboratively with numerous partners.

A security clearance is required. Candidates with an acceptable combination of experience and education may also be considered.

Go to: http://yukoncollege.yk.ca/about/employment for more information on all job competitions. Quoting the competition number, please submit your resume and cover letter to: Yukon College, Human Resources Services, Box 2799, 500 College Drive, Whitehorse, Yukon, Y1A 5K4 Fax: 867-668-8896 Email: hr@yukoncollege.yk.ca

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Yukon News 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 OXYPEX, 1,000ʼ, NSF61,14, ASTM CSA DIN 4726 HONDA GX160 powerjet industrial pressure washer, 50ʼ hose for hot water, 335-9272

THE GUILD SOCIETY is seeking applications for the position of

PRODUCTION MANAGER

Organization Description The Guild Society in a non-profit charitable society, which has been producing community theatre productions in Whitehorse for three decades.

The primary mandate of the Guild Society is to produce three to four plays a season between September and May. The Guild’s focus is to produce high-quality community theatre, involving local amateur actors and crew.

Job Description Reporting to the Board of Directors, and working closely with the Artistic Director and Stage Managers, the Production Manager will play an integral role in pre-production, production, post-production, publicity, and volunteer coordination.

Qualifications THE PRODUCTIOn MAnAGER WILL HAvE: • strong organizational and logistical skills.

• the ability to determine production requirements and schedules.

• a high level of interpersonal skills.

• understanding of professional theatre operations.

• the ability to lead groups of various sizes.

Other Information • For a complete job description please email guildhalljobs@gmail.com • This is a part-time position, from mid-August to April 30th; one year term, renewable.

How To Apply Please submit your resume and cover letter and three professional references, before end of day Friday, June 20, 2014.

Please submit by email to: guildhalljobs@gmail.com with ‘Production Manager Application’ in the subject line. No phone calls please. We thank all applicants, but advise that only those considered for an interview will be contacted.

E O PPORTUNITY MPLOYMENT

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

Acting Implementation Official

Friday, May 30, 2014 2 45-GALLON lined heavy duty drums, 667-6649 ROCKWELL SAW, Sawbuck frame, trims saw, 335-9272 GLASS OFFICE entrance door, heavy, older basic cash register, large 90s air conditioner, offers. 633-5130 FILING CABINET, $75. 668-2972

EmploymEnt opportunity At Yukon Energy, we believe that we are the employer of choice in the Yukon. We foster a respectful and positive work environment making it a rewarding place to work. We offer competitive salaries, excellent benefits and generous northern and travel allowances. So take the next step in your career path and join our team of skilled and dedicated employees.

Casual/Temporary Plant Operator Whitehorse, Yukon Salary Range: $26.62/hr – $31.31/hr Yukon Energy requires a casual/temporary Plant Operator based out of Whitehorse. The successful applicant will have some vocational training and/or experience in the operation and light maintenance of power generation equipment; a valid class 5 driver’s license; and experience with computer based applications such as Word and Excel.

To apply for this position submit a covering letter and resume by 5:00 pm June 2, 2014 to Human Resources via fax to (867) 393-5334 or email us at hr@yec.yk.ca.

We appreciate all responses; only short-listed candidates will be contacted.

Governance Office

QUALIFICATIONS • Relevant education related to administration / negotiations at a senior level; • Course work or training in the areas of negotiations, research, writing, problem solving, conflict resolution, or a related area; • Experience leading, drafting, initiating, creating legislation, policy, and other government documents; • Excellent organizational skills and communication skills; • Knowledge of C/TFN First Nation history, Final and self Government Agreements with accompanying implementation plans, programs and services transfer agreements and final transfer agreements; • Knowledge of C/TFN practices and standards; • Knowledge of C/TFN book 1: C/TFN Traditional family beliefs and practices: Our place – Our responsibility; and knowledge of C/TFN Book 2: Family Act CONDITION OF EMPLOYMENT • Valid Yukon Class 5 driver’s licence • Willingness to travel both in and outside of Yukon may be required • Located in an office environment • May experience stress, meeting deadlines and handling heavy workloads • To function in a potentially stressful environment • May include working extended work hours An eligibility list will be established from this competition. It will be used to fill future vacancies, which may arise, for identical positions in the same department and location.

The eligibility list will be valid for a period of one year.

We thank all those who apply and advise that only those selected for further consideration will be contacted. Preference may be given to Carcross Tagish First Nation citizens on all CTFN competitions.

Candidates’ cover letter and resume should clearly demonstrate their related qualifications, since selection for further consideration will be based on the information provided.

PLEASE QUOTE THE COMPETITION TITLE ON YOUR COVERLETTER WHEN SUBMITTING YOUR RESUME. APPLICATIONS/RESUMES MUST BE RECEIVED BY 4:00PM ON THE CLOSING DATE. Please apply to: Carcross/Tagish First Nation, Box 130, Carcross, Yukon Y0B 1B0 Phone: (867) 821-4251 EXT 8213 Fax: (867) 821-3903 Email: patricia.jamest@ctfn.ca

MASSAGE/PHYSIO BENCH, stationary, 2” high density foam, brown, exc cond, new $750, asking $98. 668-3381 ELECTRIC FIREPLACE, like new, paid $200, asking $125. 334-4206 COLEMAN POWERCHILL 12-volt cooler, powered by 12-volt vehicle or 110 home outlet, $69. 668-3381 STAINLESS STEEL sink, 60”LX24”WX6”Deep, $100. 633-4375 PROPANE CLOTHES dryer, never used, heavy duty, w/propane line + regulator, $1,200. 334- 5214 DIESEL OIL stove w/ fuel line, Geostove 39,000BTU, gravity fed, ideal for walltent, shop, greenhouse, $950, 334-5214 14X16X6' WALL tent, double zipper door, chimney through back wall, one window on each side, $1,200. 334-8335 SLAB WOOD, $80 per cord, 8ʼ lengths, pick up in town, 8:00am-4:30pm, Darren, 668-4363 FREE, FOLDING shuffleboard table, exc cond. 393-3630 CEDAR, 1X6 beveled cedar siding, planed one side, approx 2,500lf in lift would cover approx 750 sqft, random lengths from 16'-5', $1,500 for whole lift, located Marsh Lk area, 335-1088 GARAGE, FUTURE steel, 30ʼx40ʼ, 335-9272 2 1/2 ton floor Torin jack, $50. 334-8318 4 FRONT row tickets to Irish Descendants at Art Centre, June 3rd. 334-6197 100ʼ+ PLASTIC eavestrough, plastic blue 45 gallon barrel, 3 soaker hoses, 10 5ʼ treated fence posts, 1 brass tile roller, steel rack for barrel, make an offer. 633-4781 GO PRO Hero 2, like new, exc cond, $200, 335-8062 for details SHOP VAC, $25, 5 cu ft deep freeze, $50.

827-4838 BISSELL SHAMPOO-PRO Heat, Pet 2X, used once, good deal, $150. 393-4333 25 GALLON tow type sprayer/spreader for applying herbicides/pesticides on large gardens, hobby farms, gently used, $350, 633-3169 or can be viewed at 18 Wann Road LARGE SPIDER plant, $40, 311B Hanson St. 1 CIRCULATION Booster complete w/attachments, $150, 1 No No Hair Removal System, $100, 1 Bread Man Bread Maker, $50, 1 Older sofa bed in fair condition, $50.

334-3774

CLOSING DATE: June 4, 2014 STATUS: Two year term SALARY: CTFN Wage Scale Levels 5-9, commensurate with education and experience OB SUMMARY The Implementation Official is responsible for overseeing all the negotiations of programs and services on behalf of C/TFN and for representing C/TFN as a government official on various committees and teams and at various negotiations table.

OIL DRIP stove, 13,000BTU, small wood stove approx 10”x10”x16”, $75. 335-9510 Monday pm or later

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

Our commitment is to be an impartial, effective and efficient organization that provides assistance to all involved in the assessment process.

Network AdmiNistrAtor Head Office, Whitehorse Full-time one-year term position

The Network Administrator position co-ordinates the implementation, management and technical support of YESABs IT network infrastructure.

The position handles the deployment and maintenance of YESABs software and hardware while providing user support services to YESAB staff and Board. This position performs systems and administration functions for YESAB and participates in the planning, development, analysis, evaluation, implementation and management of information systems and platforms such as SharePoint and Microsoft Server.

The annual salary range for this position is $68,252 – $78,749 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 YESAB Head Office, Suite 200 – 309 Strickland Street, 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 June 8, 2014.

CANDY FLOSS machine, commercial, new, c/w Ringmaster Cart & accessories to have you up and running, $2,650 obo. Katherine 393-2611 LARGE MIRROR, 4ʼ3” X 3ʼ4”, $150.

334-3822 8 PLASTIC drums, 55 gal, 5 black, 3 white, $40 ea. 456-4755 STAINLESS 335-2307

STEEL boat BBQ, $100.

CANOPY CAB for quad, roll-up side windows with windshield, $75. 335-2307 STEEL WHEELBARROW, mid 40ʼs era, ideal flower planter, $100. 633-2837 3M PORTABLE overhead projector, 2 bulbs, fold down arm, $55. 668-3381 3 NEW boxes of Shingle Vent II, good for new roofing, paid $420 new, asking $200.

333-0717 INSULATED CHIMNEY pipes, 2”, good cond, 3-pc, 7.5ʼ, $100. 633-2837 MOVING OUT, round dining table w/6 chairs, $119, new 5 cu ft compact chest freezer, $130, cocktail table & end table, $99. 667-2676 OFF-GRID 3-DEEP cycle Eliminator batteries, new, $350 ea, Nautilus marine multi-charger, 2000W inverter and al cables, all for $900. 336-0686 130 GAL Tidy Tank, 12 volt pump, 399-3201 WOOD MISER LT 40 bandsaw mill, 30 blades, blade sharpener, all accessories, $9,000. 633-6603

Electrical Appliances CHEST FREEZER, 12 cu ft, 4X2, good cond, $100 obo. 633-2837 REFRIGERATOR, SLIMLINE model, 28 cu ft, as new cond, $200 obo. 633-2837 SEARS 30" stove/oven, hardly used, $250.

668-2972

TVs & Stereos 2 BELL satellite receivers w/remotes, good cond, $100. 334-8318

46” TV, $100. 827-4838 STAR CHOICE digital satellite receiver, Shaw Direct HD receiver, digital satellite receiver, 668-3933 Paying cash for good quality modern electronics.

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

Computers & Accessories MICROSOFT SURFACE Pro 2. 128 GB, like new, includes Type Cover 2 keyboard with backlighting, extra stylus, extra power adapter, Microsoft extended warranty, $1,000 firm. 335-6040

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 ROLAND VGA-7 guitar amplifier, great shape, $400. 633-6373 PIANO TUNING & REPAIR by certified piano technician Call Barry Kitchen @ 633-5191 email:bfkitchen@hotmail.com SEAGULL ACOUSTIC guitar w/case, like new, $400. Cort acoustic guitars w/case, great shape, $325 ea. Fender Squire elec guitar w/case, $275. Elec guitar w/case, like new, $300. 334-3009 KAWAI UPRIGHT grand piano, glossy black, made in Japan in 1970s, good cond, recently tuned, suitable for beginners to advanced, incl adjustable stool, 131cm x 150cm x 66cm, $2,200. 336-2502 IBANEZ HOLLOW body electric guitar, c/w hard shell travel case, like new, $1,400.

334-3009 GRETCH HOLLOW body electric guitar, c/w Gretch custom hard shell travel case, like new, $1,250. 334-3009

Firewood

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

✔ 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

MasterCard

Cheque, Cash S.A. vouchers accepted.

TEN TON Firewood Services $150/cord for 10-cord load - 30ʼ lengths $200/cord - 3-cord load 11' lengths $240/cord - bucked up, discounts on multiple-cord orders Call or text David 867-332-8327 DIMOK TIMBER 6 CORD OR 22 CORD LOADS OF FIREWOOD LOGS BUNDLED SLABS U-CUT FIREWOOD @ $105/CORD CALL 634-2311 OR EMAIL DIMOKTIMBER@GMAIL.COM 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 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

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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

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

KNIGHT WOLVERINE II 50-cal black powder, as new, $250. 335-5577 MOSSBERG MVP .223 24” barrel 10X scope bi-pod, 2 mags, exc cond, $725.

333-0087

Guns & Bows Case cutlery, high quality hand-crafted pocket and hunting knives available at G&R Pawnbrokers 1612-D Centennial St. 393-2274 BUY • SELL • LOANS VANGUARD ENDEAVOR ed 8x42 binoculars, like new, $350, Nikon Monarch 2-8x32 scope, BDR reticle, like new, $300.

335-9510 Monday pm or later 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

45/70 LEE loader, $25. 333-0087 BROWNING BL-22 lever action .22LR, has Skinner sights, swivels and sling mounted, $450 firm. 335-2182 TRIPOD FOR spotting scope or camera, $20. 633-5009 7MM-08 AMMO, Hornady gmx $20, Husqvarna 6.5x55 model 1896 sporterized, Scout config 2-7x32 scope, nice accurate gun, 335-9510 Monday pm or later REMINGTON 870 Marine Magnum, exc cond, $500, P.A.L. required. 335-0801 NEWER REMINGTON model 7600 pump action 30/06, exc cond, $700 firm. 399-3791

JOB OPPORTUNITY

EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY The Village of Haines Junction is currently recruiting for the following positions:

Public Works Foreman Public Works level 2 Water system oPerator For a copies of these employment postings, contact the Village of Haines Junction at 634-7100 or vhj@yknet.ca

The closing date for both positions is June 2, 2014.

CERTIFIED

Heating & Service Applicants should have experience installing all forms of heating systems including forced oil, propane and wood furnaces, sheet metal installation, fuel tanks, HRV systems, wood stoves and fireplaces complete with chimneys.

Qualifications: • Red Seal Journeyman OBT • 5 Years minimum experience • Valid Yukon driver’s licence C/W driver’s abstract • Ability to work unsupervised and manage time proficiently • Ability to train and work with an apprentice • Be clean and professional in appearance • Have exceptional customer service

Please apply in person with resume at: #9 GaRdeN ROad, WhITehORse, YT Y1a 0J1

www.certifiedheatingyt.com EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNIT Y

Bringing us together.

Northwestel offers an attractive compensation package: competitive salary, bonus plan, pension, benefit plan, and vacation travel allowance.

We are hiring the following permanent, full time position in Whitehorse, YT:

Associate Director Retail Operations 14-0142

Manages the operations of our four retail stores and provides leadership, drives sales, and encourages excellent customer service while meeting subscriber, revenue and customer satisfaction targets.

Marketing Communications Manager 14-0154

Develops and executes marketing communication campaigns.

Market Manager Enterprise 14-0120

Develops and manages marketing programs and business strategies for our high value customers.

Process Analyst 14-0129

Plans and manages all aspects of process improvement programs and initiatives.

Application Manager 14-0167

Provides administration, support, and vendor management for our enterprise applications.

Skill Requirements:

• Communication • Leadership • Analytical • Project and Time Management • Organization • Accountable

To apply and for more details please visit www.nwtel.ca/employment.

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.

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LEFT-HANDED ORIGINAL Mauser 30-06, Remington pump action 300 Savage, needs minor work, call for prices. 250-651-0073 TIKKA T3 Lite stainless left hand bolt action in 338 Federal, exc cond, c/w bases, $700 firm, 399-3791 BRITISH LEE Enfield No. 1 Mk. III, made 1916, full wood, not hacked, $500 firm.

335-2182 SW MP40 full range kit package, under 400 rounds through it, c/w ammo pouch, speed loader, holster, and 4 mags, $600 obo, must have valid restricted license, 334-1500 REMINGTON 887 12 gauge 3 1/2", $350, 1943 Mosin Nagant cw bayonet and sling, exc cond, $350, 1954r SKS, exc cond, c/w sling & 1300 rds ammo, $550. 668-2769

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WANTED: DOG-SITTER in your home for 8 lb dog, no other pets, please, for June, July & Aug, Monday through Thursday overnight.

Will pay well. 335-0009 for info 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 WANTED: TURBO infrared cooker, inexpensive, 668-5188 WANTED: LOOKING for ladies and menʼs bike, large, for free, 633-2236 WANTED TO rent: Hitch travel trailer (4-6 person) or motorhome for June 16-19 Whitehorse-Dawson. Will Insure. Roger 633-5210

1996 PONTIAC Bonneville, 310,000kms, 3.8 L, 6-cyl, new front end, good body, tranny slipping, $800 obo. 660-4425

2011 F150 4X4, regular cab, long box, V6, 70,000kms, no off-road driving, $23,000 obo.

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2010 HONDA Fit LX, 52,000kms, 2 sets tires, 3-yr ext warranty, 1 driver, like new, 668-6810

1996 TOYOTA Corolla, white, 275,000km, good engine, $1,300, for $250 you get 4 winter tires on 2 rims, 633-6081

2010 TOYOTA Corolla LE, loaded, keyless entry, moonroof, A/C, good cond, new tires, $11,000 obo. 668-6580

1990 CHEVY Sprint, 4-dr white, 3-cyl, good running order, rubber & battery, body needs work. 667-6649

2010 DODGE Dually 3500, mint cond, 29,000kms, all options + DVD, B&M gooseneck hitch, tool box, $58,000, a must see.

334-4206

2009 TOYOTA Çorolla standard, dk grey w/tinted windows, low kms, $9,000 obo.

335-0826

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

2009 TOYOTA Yaris, 61,000 km, sedan, good cond, no body/windshield damage, great on gas, $50 for 500km tank, $11,000.

668-4649 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

WANTED: WHITE bathtub with right-hand drain, 53.5”L, 28.5”W. 250-566-1346

2007 PONTIAC G5, silver, 64,344 kms, 2.2L engine, $4,900. 336-2607

WANTED: USED CB or shortwave tower, 20 to 30 ft tall, 334-6265

2006 V O L K S W A G E N Jetta TDI, 180,000kms, good cond, 399-3201

WANTED: 40ʼ of eavestrough for greenhouse, 668-3984

2004 PONTIAC Grand Prix, 4-dr, auto, P/S, P/W, brakes, leather interior, sun roof, heated seats, new tires, $5,800 obo.

334-4210 2003 JETTA VW station wagon, diesel, 140,000kms, exc cond, $8,000 firm.

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2003 NISSAN Xterra, single owner, winter/summer tires, manual, A/C, 165,000 miles, 2WD, tow pkg, speedometer in miles with kms smaller, $3,800 obo. 668-6666 2003 TOYOTA Solara SLE V-6, 2-dr sport coupe, fully loaded, JBL sound system, original owner, $8,995. 336-1755

Okanagan 90W 9’ Camper - 2000an, shower, HW tank,

2002 SUBARU Legacy GT, AWD, 5-sp, 4-dr edan, loaded, exc cond, 230,000 highway km, all service up to date, 334-7955 lv msg

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1999 SUBARU Forester, great cond inside/out, just over 300,000km, auto, all season tires, $4,000. 335-0598 1997 DODGE Neon, runs, needs some work, $700. 334-3774 1996 GMC Safari AWD 270,000km, still runs but needs work, good for parts, $500.

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335-6928 2007 TOYOTA Sienna limited AWD 7-passenger minivan, 78,000 kms, power sliding doors/rear hatch, sunroof, 2 sets of tires on rims, really nice cond, offers/trades considered. 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, lowered to $10,500 obo. 867-863-5069 2006 FORD F-250 supercab 4X4, 5.4L, auto, 147,000 kms, 8' box w/liner, fiberglass cap w/rack, electric brake, tow package, summer/winter tires on rims, new windshield, clean truck, $14,500. 335-0277 2005 DODGE Dakota 2005 4x4, 2-dr ext cab, 150,000 km, 5-sp auto, runs perfect, 6.5ʼ box w/ clean liner, 2WD & 4WD switchable, no dents, navy blue, $9,800 obo.

335-7904 2002 PONTIAC Montana van, 189,000 km, black w/tan interior, command start, seats 8, alloy wheels, P/L, P/W, mirrors, cruise, new front brakes & tires, $3,500, call/text 867-332-7301 for pictures

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2010 DODGE Ram 1500, silver, quad cab, 4x4, 5.7 V8 Hemi, 3.92 diffs. RamBox Cargo MNGMT System, 13,248 km, many extra features, exc cond, $33,500. 393-3123 2010 FORD F150, 4X4, 5.4 Triton V8, good cond, remote start, new rotors and brakes, box liner, hitch, side step rails not mounted, well maintained, $10,000 obo. 334-3398 2010 NISSAN X Terra 4x4, very good shape, good glass, good rubber, 62,000km, 332-3928 lv msg 2008 F250 Super Duty 4X4, $20,000 obo.

335-3243 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 2008 FORD F150 XLT 5.4 Triton V8, crew cab with matching canopy, 99,000km, exc cond, $17,500, Robert @ 332-2901 2008 GMC Acadia AWD SLT1,92,000km, blue-gold crystal metallic, fully loaded (no Nav), 7 seats-3rd row foldable, $18,000 obo.

333-0033 2008 TACOMA, red, 4x4, crew cab, lock tool box, well kept, $21,000. 335-2951 2007 TOYOTA Tacoma, 2 wd with access cab, 84,000 km, $12,000. 336-4301 2007 TOYOTA Tundra 4X4 crew cab, V8, auto, loaded, dealer serviced, matching canopy, 2 sets wheels/tires, 150,000kms, exc cond, $23,000. 334-8912 lv msg 2006 AWD Toyota Sienna CE minivan, 135,000 km, good cond, c/w extra set of tires/rims, Info 634-2422 or yukonjackyt@yahoo.ca 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

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1987 FORD Tempo, runsbut needs work, new winter tires, $500 obo. 336-0893

2007 PONTIAC G5 sedan, 95,050kms, P/L, P/W, A/C, C/C, 18” Primax wheels/low profile tires & set of winter tires on rims, $6,500 obo. 334-7822 2007 PONTIAC G5, red w/black&grey interior, 67,000kms, mint, $6,500. 667-6185

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2011 NISSAN Versa SL hatchback, 6spd MT, GPS NAV, c/w winter tires on rims, $11,000. 336-3347

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2000 Ford F-550

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2005 FORD Ranger, 85,000kms, good cond, 399-3201 2004 GMC Yukon XL,139,000kms, 4x4, 8 passenger, exc shape, low kilometres, mechanically sound, $14,000. 333-0034 for info 2004 N I S S A N Titan Endurance, 157,000kms, very good cond, $13,000 obo.

867-634-2240 2003 CHEV Blazer 4X4, 4-dr, 180,000kms, $4,500 obo. 668-2145 2003 FORD E-350, 1 ton cargo van, clean, shelves & separator, gas, 5.4L engine, auto, good 4-season tires, new battery, 210,000km, $7,000. 335-3674 2000 F350 auto V10, 164,000kms, good rubber, box liner, 668-3933 2000 TOYOTA Sienna LE, exc cond, regularly maintained, recently serviced, winter/summer tires on rims, roof top carrier, new trailer hitch, wired, 310,000kms, $3,900. 633-6373 1995 F150 ext cab 4X4, lots of dents, needs front end work, starts & runs great, $1,500 obo. 393-3638 1995 FORD Aerostar, needs starter & some TLC, partly computerized, $300 obo. 1994 Ford E250 Econoline, runs, needs windshield, $300 obo, $500 for both. 333-9358 1995 FORD F250, 5 spd, 6- cyl, plywood boxes on bedrails, plywood sliding bed cover, runs great, $2,500. 335-9510 Monday eve earliest 1994 CHEV diesel 4X4, 3/4 ton, $6,000 obo.

668-2972 1994 TUNDRA 2, $2,000. 335-9510 Monday eve earliest 1992 DODGE diesel 4X4, club cab, well maintained, tidy tank & pump, 16ʼ rack for loading boat, extras, $4,500 firm. 633-2070 1990 FORD F250 4-spd manual, comes with canopy, $2,000. 456-4567 1990 HILIUX Surf Toyota 4-cyl 4x4 turbo, 5-sp manual, right-hand drive, low mileage, 131,744km, diesel, $3,700 obo. Gus 336-3146 or 393-4796 1989 CHEVY flat deck, lots of new parts, new tires all around, exc cond, $2,800 obo.

633-5130 1989 FORD 250 7.3 diesel, c/w canopy, new tires, 5-spd, 320,000kms, some rust, 334-6101

4 17” tires mounted on aluminum rims to fit Dodge 1/2 ton p/u, 5-hole, size LT265/70R17”. 668-2968

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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 2007 HARLEY Dyna Super Glide, exc cond, c/w quick release saddle bags, sissy bar, one up seat, windshield, $10,000. 334-6946 RONʼS SMALL ENGINE SERVICES Repairs to Snowmobiles, Chainsaws, Lawnmowers, ATVʼs, Small industrial equipment.

Light welding repairs available 867-332-2333 lv msg 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 2005 SUZUKI Boulevard, 800 cc, exc cond, shaft drive, electronic fuel injection, well maintained, easy to drive, maneuverable, great on gas, 335-4486 2005 SUZUKI 700 King Quad, 3,500lb, windshield and faring, rear storage compartment, low miles, great cond, $5,500. 333-9020 4 ATV/UTV tires, never used, from 2013 Ranger, 2@ 25x11x12, and 2 @ 25x9x12, $500. 334-4206

1989 FORD 350 cube van, has blown head gasket, $2,000. 333-0943 for info

2010 RANGER 6x6 side by side EFI 800, 190,000kms, c/w winch, windshield, roof, side racks for box, spare tire & misc, $13,500 firm. 334-6101

1989 FORD E-350 cube van, 16ʼ box, gas propane, $3,900. 2000 E-450, 23ʼ box, auto, 7.3 diesel. 333-0717

2 POLARIS 2-wheel drive 4-wheelers, 250cc, in running condition and 1 more for spare parts, $2,800. 633-4643

1986 TOYOTA pick-up, not running but has some life in it for handy person, good for parts, $400 obo. 668-2807

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

1978 TOYOTA Land Cruiser (gas), $2,500 obo. 667-4002 FULL SET of 4 all-season tires from 2010 GMC Sierra, 60% tread left, P265/70 R17, $400. 335-0907

Auto Parts & Accessories TRUCK CANOPIES - in stock * new Dodge long/short box * new GM long/short box * new Ford long/short box Hi-Rise & Cab Hi - several in stock View at centennialmotors.com 393-8100 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 CANOPY TO fit 1/2 ton or 3/4 ton truck, galvanized type, to give away. 633-2837 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

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

COLLECTORʼS ITEM, 1973 Yamaha, GP246F snowmobile, 1,439 original miles, needs a bit of body work, open to offers.

667-4002

2008 HONDA Shadow VT750C, incl bike cover, 2 helmets, leather saddle bags, 1 owner, gently driven, heated handles, full windshield, 4,400 km, $5,500. 332-0270 2008 HARLEY Davidson Sportster 883L, 2,700km, windshield, passenger seat & backrest, roll-bars & highway pegs, 634-2412 16ʼ HAULMARK enclosed motorcycle trailer, top of line $12,000, new, exc cond, asking $7,800. 393-1891

THULE, NEW x-Sporter truck rack, incls adaptor, aluminum, load stops $ locks, $475.

335-7330

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Congratulations to our son and nephew,

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

Harman Parhar,

for completing UBC medical school, receiving his MD degree and matching to Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery at UBC. Your passion and drive is inspirational. Wishing you great success throughout your residency.

16.5ʼ MIRROCRAFT, aluminum, 65HP Evinrude, power trim & tilt, 2 downriggers, spare prop, tight & stable, $4,500. 334-8321 OCEAN KAYAK. Fibreglass Necky Arluk III, 18ʼ, sleek & fast., good sized hatches, comes with spray skirt, $1,200 obo.

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1995 20ʼ Bayliner, cuddy cabin, 250 Volvo Penta inboard, 15hp Johnson kicker, tandem axle trailer, $6,000. (without kicker $5,000), salt water fishing gear also available. 633-2839 for info/view 16ʼ VANGUARD boat, 60HP Mercury & trailer, 399-3201 2002 16.25ʼ Harbour Craft boat & trailer, 50 hp Johnson & 9.9 hp Yamaha, down rig, new winch, life jackets, exc cond, $14,000.

334-8912 lv msg 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 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.

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Gently Used

Inventory

Atv’s:

‘05 Polaris Sportsman 800 ....................................................$5,999 ‘08 Kawaski 450 Sport/Race .................................................$4,999 ‘09 Yamaha Big Bear 250 ......................................................$3,499

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1992 YAMAHA Venture Royale, exc cond, 1,300 cc 4-cyl, great touring motorcycle, 56,000 kms, $4,200. 334-3775

‘00 Yamaha 650 Vstar ............................................... $3,499 $2,999 ‘04 Kawasaki Ninja 1000 (7800km). ......................................$5,999 ‘08 Honda Shadow 750..........................................................$4,999 ‘09 Ducati 696 Monster..........................................................$7,499 ‘10 Yamaha YZ250F ...............................................................$4,999 ‘13 Yamaha WR250F..............................................................$7,499

4 225/55R17 tires & rims, $100. 827-4838

after 37 years of dedication and commitment to Yukon Education’s youngest students!

1984 YAMAHA ET 340 long track snowmobile, running order, first $200 takes it.

667-4002

ALCOA POLISHED aluminum 22.5 rim, $200. 335-2307

2 GOODYEAR tires, Trailmark P265/70R16, only driven 5000 kilometers $60 ea firm, 660-4723 or 332-5450

Jeanette McCrie’s Retirement

BUELL X1 Lightning 2002, 1200 sportster engine, Race ECM, carbon fiber parts, 33,500km, clean fast and fun, $3,950.

335-4017

MOtORCYCLEs:

BACK WINDOW for 1980-82 Chev or GMC pickup, $50. 334-4206

12ʼ ALUMINUM boat, $1,250 obo. 334-6101

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2013 SKANDIC WT/600 ACE engine, only 3,000 km, mint cond, $10,500 firm. 399-3791

2005 ARCTIC Cat 650 V-Twin ATV, exc cond, just serviced, new battery, $3,700.

393-2692 2006 SUZUKI Boulevard 800 cc, loaded, only 3000 km, absolutely like new, $6,800.

633-6920

BOAT LIFE ring, $35. 335-2307

2003 BMW 1200CLS, front ferring, trunk, saddlebags, heated grips, cruise control, stereo, 3,300 mi, exc cond, $6,800. 393-1891

GOODYEAR 1122.5 tire, near new, $200.

335-2307

WANTED: FRONT differential housing for '99 Chevy Tracker. Will consider whole vehicle if price is right. Voicemail 250-651-2253 or email gacrawford@hughes.net.

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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

16ʼ ALUMINUM fishing boat and EZ loader trailer, Sylvan King Fisher by Smoker Craft, c/w Honda 40hp 4-stroke motor, outrigger, fish finder, exc cond, $10,000. 667-7351

10.5ʼ TITAN inflatable boat, 3-yrs old, c/w 2 oars, anchor, aluminum floor air pump, used total 10hrs fishing, rated for 7.5hp engine, $1,600. 333-0717

16ʼ STARCRAFT boat with trailer & 25 HP long shaft motor, $2,500 obo. 668-7976

20' FREIGHTER canoe decked in & fiberglassed on trailer, $1,200 obo. 667-4002

Heavy Equipment

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

1995 BAYLINER 16ʼ Capri with Force 70hp O/B, 2011/12 Suzuki 4-stroke 6hp kicker, c/w marine radio, fish finder, safety kit, two oars, 4 adult pfds, 4 bumpers, $7,500 obo.

668-7576

WANTED: ANY free boat parts, seats, etc, rebuilding old boat. 633-2236 1996 KAWASAKI 750 Seadoo & trailer, low hrs, runs good, $3,700 obo. 12ʼ inflatable Titan boat, aluminum floor, used 10 hrs, $1,800. 16ʼ fibreglass boat & trailer (project not finished), $875. 333-0717 BOB'S SPECIAL 15 Kevlar Canoe, exc cond, aluminum gunnels, ash thwarts, weighs 47lbs, 2 adult Kokatak Bahia adult Pfds, 2 Grey Owl Voyageur Paddles, 1 Roleez Kayak /Canoe cart, 335-0801 OUTBOARD MOTOR mount, heavy duty Garelick, $75. 335-2307

2012 Hewescraft Ocean PrO 22'

Twin Yamaha 115’s, 85 hours. Hard top, suspension seats, Wallas heater, Lowrance chartplotter, 4G radar, sonar, downriggers, life raft, Fusion stereo, Maxwell windlass, Rocna anchor, bench seat bed. etc. etc.

75,000 firm.

$

$100,000 new.

867-668-2255 info@uncommonyukon.com YAMAHA 4HP motor, 4-stroke, new, used 4 times, c/w 5 gal gas can & hose, 250-566-1346 1981 26ʼ Bayliner, great cond, $9,000.

334-1051 for info 18FT V-HULL speed boat and tubes, 70hp outboard, trailer, with controls & tanks $8,000 obo. 456-4926

FLOAT TUBE/BELLY Boat for sale, purchased in 2012 from Cabelaʼs, used once, pd $500 for boat and accessories, asking $350. 668-2866 WANTED: RELIABLE 6 to 7.5hp outboard, 393-3753 16ʼ VIKING canoe, fibreglass, $120.

667-4002 WHITEWATER SPRAY deck, Snap Dragon, $70. 335-1993 OLD TOWN Tripper XL canoe, ABS plastic, 20ʼ long, c/w paddles, life jackets, $2,200 new, asking $800 firm. 634-5257

Tina Pettifor died a horrible death on 9 May 2014 Mom was 89 years of age. When dad died two years ago mom had a hard time coping. We moved her to Surrey where three of my sisters lived so she could have a support group.

Mom enjoyed life and was horrified of death. She progressed from her own condo which she owned for about 18 months to assisted living for about three months and then into full care for her last three months. Mom had dementia that came and went. Sometimes we would come in and she would be hiding on the floor saying the Germans are coming. Mom was Dutch

1998 PETERBILT highway tractor, estate sale, $14,900. 30ʼ Jeep (trailer for fuel), $7,900. 1989 Freightliner parts, good tires, $5,900. 6,000ʼ irrigation pipe, estate, $3,500.

Patriot street sweeper, ex-City, $17,900.

333-0717 AIR ROTARY drill rig, everything needed for water wells & exploration, $45,000, atlinmech@outlook.com 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

2013 WORK and Play WPT18EC Toy Hauler, like new, 19'6" box, full bathroom, dinette, refrigerator, sink, microwave, furnace, a/c, hot water heater, awning, $18,900.

334-8227 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 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 1972 12ʼ travel trailer, new elec wiring, new propane hoses, new spare tire, $2,000 obo.

667-7057

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

1987 BIGFOOT camper, truck bed must be 65” wide, $1,500. 668-4683

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

7ʼX14ʼ BLACK tandem axle cargo trailer, spray foam insulated, exc cond, $6,500.

334-4206

IMPALA TRAVEL trailer, mid 80ʼs, needs roof work, otherwise fine, $1,200 obo.

633-2837

1997 CAT D6M LGP 6-way blade with ripper Brand new undercarriage $75,000 Phone 867-536-2265 in Watson Lake

20ʼX8ʼ WIDE tandem axle cargo trailer, spray foam insulated, 2 new axles, exc cond, $7,500. 334-4206

1980 INTERNATIONAL DUMP TRUCK DT466 engine, 13-speed Tandem axle Old but reliable $5,000 obo Phone 867-536-2265 in Watson Lake

HOME BUILT camper, plywood construction, insulated, peaked tin roof, lots of headroom, very solid, 335-9510 Monday pm or later

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 LINCOLN WELDER, Millar wirefeed and 12 hp compressor and some supplies, 335-3243

MID 70ʼS older motorhome, 7ʼx22ʼ in running cond, Ford chassis, $700 obo. 633-2837

CAMPER WITH propane stove, heater & 12V electric fridge, toilet, working good, 335-9272 FLAT DECK trailer, 8ʼx12ʼ, 2 axle, tool box, 335-9272 14ʼ FLAT deck trailer, 2ʼ sides, folding tailgate, 3,500 lb axle, $1,200. 334-8321 UTILITY 633-2837

TRAILER, frame only, $50.

1”X250 PSI red water hose or air, 1000ʼ, 633-4643

18ʼ TRIAXLE trailer with winch on front & ramps, $6,500 obo. 335-3243

and shot. Her Mom and Dad hid Jews (my cousins) in the crawl space of their home. At these times she was

50 HP MFWD tractor with loader, $6,500.

668-2769

horrified or very scared. Mom suffered a couple of little strokes, she lived for the times we would take her out

2 STONE boat drilling platforms you pull behind excavator, 633-4643

2010 JAYCO 29' BHS trailer, sleeps up to 9, CD/DVD/I POD JK.SND.SYS, 1 slide-out, electric patio awning, micro wave, outside BBQ, like new, $25,500. 393-3123

and had saw some of her cousins stood up against a wall

to lunch or just out for walks. Then things changed on 26 of April when Mom had a major stroke. Mom realized that she would never get out of bed on her own again. She hated filling her diapers and found it degrading and totally lacking in self-respect. She made up her mind that there was no quality in her life anymore. Mom had no other choice so she decided that she would not eat anymore and let nature take its course. I have had two sisters that have dedicated the last two years of their lives to helping Mom. The next day Mom’s decision Carol came in to see Mom, Mom was strapped into a wheel chair and the staff at the Dutch Baptist retirement village they were force-feeding mom. When Mom saw my sister come in she cleared off the table of the food and started thrashing around and was very vocal. Carol stated enough of this shit, demanded that the nurse in charge come to Mom’s room she then took Mom back to her room. Again it was made clear that Mom did not want to eat or have anything to drink. My two sisters started a 24-hour vigil. When I heard about this I flew down and then we were three on vigil. It was a good thing that I had come down, my sisters were spent and needed relief.

Every day the staff would either bring in food or apple juice that was my mom’s favourite. I had talked to one of the staff that had her mother also in this retirement home. Her mother was unresponsive and lasted eight years being force feed and changed, before she died. After two to three days mom became subconscious and the only thing she showed was fear when she time travelled back to the Second World War and pain that she was suffering. We asked for medicine and Mom received Morphine, Halitol and other pain medication. In watching Mom she would be full of fear and thrashing or moaning in pain, then she would get some medication and she would quiet down after about an hour. In realizing this we asked that she get preventative medication so she would not have to be in pain or be in fear. This was a fight from the start. After all three of us stood up and showed the nursing residences what we already realized they capitulated and started giving preventative medicine before she went into her episodes of pain and fear. This was a fight we had to have almost every day as these places do not give pain medicine until the person is in pain. But if we waited the medicine would take about an hour for Mom to calm down again. Thirteen days later mom stopped breathing and we all were relieved that Mom would not have any more pain or fear. I wish that there were a more respectful way that Mom could have died, Mom was the most loving and respectful person that I have known. Mom deserved better, her ashes will be spread in Lyn Valley under a new tree. If Mom works as hard in death as she did in life the tree will grow to be a very large tree.

If you agree that our seniors/elders deserve to die with respect and dignity, then I request that you email our Member of Parliament and make your views known. Ryan.Leef@parl.gc.ca I am writing to all 303 Members of Parliament and requesting that they put aside their personal religious convictions and vote for Bill C52 which is in favor of Euthanasia or Assisted Suicide (only upon personal request and when there is no quality of life left).

Gary Pettifor

AIR DRILLS & hammer stopers, jack legs, rods & bits, 633-4643 2 PORTABLE Wikki diamond drills, 20X10ʼ rods & 40X5ʼ rods, plus core barrels, bits & tripods, 633-4643

Aircraft 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 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 11.5ʼ TIMBERLINE camper by Security, fully loaded, custom built, lots of storage.

334-4477 2000 COACHMEN Mirada 30ʼ motorhome, 66,122 kms. Triton V10, mechanical inspection in July/13. Onan 4000 gen, A/C, separate shower, walk-around queen bed. $21,500, phone 335-5506 1989 CHEV camper van, 81,000kms, fridge, stove top, sink, good running cond, $3,500.

667-2480 1992 8.9ʼ Frontier camper, very good condition, clean, lots of storage, many new/upgraded features, a must see, $6,900 obo.

633-4618 2004 PIONEER travel trailer, overall length 28ʼ, large bath, queen bed, full kitchen, stereo, large awning, $12,500. 633-2580 27ʼ V-NOSE snow machine trailer or other toy hauler, fully insulated w/spray foam, 3 fold-down beds & 1 table, good bison hunting rig, $9,000. 334-4206 ATCO 12-TON horse/utility trailer, new brakes, bearings & tires, $4,500 obo.

334-4477 SKIDOO TRAILER w/side rails, $1700.

668-2972

FOUR STEP camper stairs for sale, 633-6502 2004 COACHMAN 34ʼ motorhome, Class A, low milage (24586), V/10 Ford, c/w 2014 car dolly, can be seen at 44-11th Ave, Porter Creek, lots of extras on coach, 335-4723 27ʼ ROCKWOOD, motorhome, fibreglass, 60,000 miles, new tires, lg fridge, furnace, roof top a/c, built-in generator, very clean, 460 engine, $16,000 obo. 334-0657 30ʼ GOOSENECK flat deck trailer, flip over ramps & 3-7,000lb axles, as new, 18ʼ car hauler trailer c/w hideaway ramps, exc shape, 334-6101 BOAT TRAILER for 14ʼ boat wih tilted xray for ramp, steel construction, $200 obo.

633-2837 1988 DODGE camper van, 318 c.i., 170,000kms, exc shape, fridge, stove, sink w/pump, furnace, c/w pots, plates, cutlery, mini BBQ, $6,000 obo. 633-6802 32' TERRY 5th wheel, great cond, rear kitchen, bedroom w/new queen bed, huge bath w/large shower, hookup for washer/dryer, winter pkg, insulated floors, heated tanks, double-pane windows, $7,700 obo. 333-9456 2004 5TH wheel, 24' Conquest by Gulfstream, great cond, c/w 12' slide, living room rear w/picture window, fully equipped kitchen w/extras, $12,900 obo. 668-7576 CAR HAULER, two 3,500lb axles, very strong, needs a bit of work but in great shape, $2,500 obo. 390-2313 2012 THOR Ace 29ʼ motorhome, slide-out, island bed, front electric bunk, leather int, elec awning/steps, levelling jacks, 4 kw gen, back-up camera, hitch, 32,500 km, 5-yrs on warranty, $79,900. 633-6804 1994 FORD Rockwood motorhome, 27ʼ, sleeps 6, very good condition, queen size bed & full bath, 138,000km, must sell, $12,900. 334-3252 2004 28ʼ Class C motorhome, exc cond, V-10, lots of power, walk around queen bed, built in gen, good tires, well maintained, $28,500. 334-2466 or 334-2355

Coming Events 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

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Friday, May 30, 2014 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

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 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 AL-ANON MEETINGS, contact 667-7142.

Wednesday 12:00 noon, Hellaby Hall, 4th & Elliott, Friday 7:00pm, Lutheran Curch, 4th & Strickland, beginnerʼs meeting, 8:00pm Lutheran Church, 4th & Strickland, regular meeting 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 PUCK POCKETS AGM will be held June 6th, 2014. Location 17-9th Ave Whitehorse, Yukon at 19:00 hrs ESTATE SALE, Saturday May 31, 2014, 10:00 am - 4:00 pm, Cheryl Klippert yard in Mayo, stephron@northwestel.net, 867-996-2368 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 YUKON LEARN Society AGM 2013/14, is on Wednesday June 18th, 12noon-1:00pm at Pho 5 Star. Everyone welcome 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 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 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 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

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 LINE OF Life Association Yukon AGM on Tuesday, June 10, 2014, 1:00pm, Greenwood Place, 3090 3rd Ave. Join us.

867-667-6945 for information CPAWS YUKON AGM & Barbeque on Wednesday, June 4th at our office 506 Steele St. Barbeque at 5:30 - AGM at 6:30.

For more info. call 393-8080 YUKON PRIDE: 24 (more!) Hours of Gaylight, June 11 - 15, 2014, Whitehorse. Parade, picnic, dance and more. Visit www.queeryukon.com for details.

YUKON TOURISM EDUCATION COUNCIL (YTEC) AND MULTICULTURAL CENTRE OF THE YUKON (MCY) offices will be relocating as of June 2nd, 2014.

The new offices are located at the corner of 4th Avenue and Jarvis Street or 4141-4th Avenue, 2nd Floor (Performance Centre Building).

Phone numbers and email remain the same YTEC 667-4733 / MCY 667-6205 FREE CHILDREN'S summer programs, weekdays at Whitehorse Public Library from June 16 to August 1, ages 4-12. For more info or to register call 667-8900 THURSDAY NIGHT Salsa Dancing in the Park, every Thursday night 7:00pm to 9:00pm, Rotary Peace Park , dance lesson at 7:00pm. salsayukon@gmail.com

AGM & Open House Saturday June 7, Yukon Guild of Needlearts @ Whse Public Library 1:00pm-4:00 pm. Join friends for tea & embroidery arts. Doris 633-4026 HAMLET OF Mount Lorne Local Advisory Council next regular monthly meeting scheduled for Tuesday June 3, 2014 at 7:00pm at LMCC, Km. 1 Annie Lake Road. Info: 667-7083 SCOUTS CANADA Bottle Drive in Granger, Saturday May 31st between 1:00pm-4:00pm, scouts will be going door to door. Proceeds to assist Scouts with summer jamborees YUKON STATUS of Women Council AGM June 10 6:30pm, Victoria Faulkner Womenʼs Centre, everyone welcome. Come see what weʼve been up to in the last year. http://yukonstatusofwomencouncil.blogspot

PORTER CREEK Community Association meeting Monday, June 2nd, 5:15 pm, Guild Hall. More information 633-4829. Everyone welcome, come show your support

20E AGA Les Essentielles Présentation 5 mois en vélo solo en Amérique du Sud 10 juin 18h @ Centre de la francophonie 302 rue Strickland, Whitehorse Rafraîchissements seront servies info: elles@lesessentielles.ca ARCTIC EDGE Skating Club Annual General Meeting. Monday, June 16, 2014.

7:00pm, Sport Yukon Building (4061-4th Avenue) Meeting Room #2. Website: arcticedge.ca HIDDEN HISTORIES Society Yukon: Launch of touring display panels (Phillpotts Family and Togo Takamatsu), and AGM. Monday, June 9, 2014 - Kwanlin Dun Cultural Centre, 6:30pm-8:30pm

Services SHARPENING SERVICES. For all your sharpening needs - quality sharpening, fair price & good service.

At corner of 6th & Strickland.

667-2988

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

22ND ANNUAL Children's day service, June 8, 10:45am. Neale Bacon and His Crazy Critters will entertain. Free hot dog BBQ to follow. Church of the Nazarene, 2111 Centennial St. Call 633-4903 or whitehorsenazarene.org.

- INSULATION Upgrade your insulation & reduce your heating bills

ACTIVE TRAILS Whitehorse Association meeting Tuesday June 10 7:00pm at Sport Yukon Boardroom, 4061-4th Ave, topics Rotary Centennial Bridge, WTGC, Regional Parks plan, new members welcome. http://www.activewa.org

YUKON RIVER Trail Marathon, early bird registration until May 30th, capped at 325 runners. www.yukonmarathon.com FH COLLINS School Council Regular meeting at 6:30 pm, June 4, 2014, in the Fine Dining Room at the school, everyone welcome

STEINER STUDY group meetings 7:30pm Tuesday nights, exploring and conversing over a range of metaphysical subjects, free.

Josef for info/location, 335-2300

DAD Raymond S. Douville Sr. 1904 – 1975

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

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

13 Denver roaD in McCrae • 668-6639

Custom-cut Stone Products

HEADSTONES • KITCHENS • BUILDING STONE • AND MORE...

sid@sidrock.com In Memory of

Wilfred R. Gordon June 28, 1913 - May 31, 1993

Forever Missed With Love ALWAys Betty & FAmiLy

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

FREE RESUME and Cover Letter Writing Workshop for immigrants, Monday, June 2nd 6:00pm Multicultural Centre of the Yukon, 4141D-4th Avenue (2nd Floor). Contact 667-6205 for information

ARE YOU a coach interested in forming a Northern International Coach Federation Chapter? Join fellow coaches interested in support and professional development by contacting Tanya Lanigan at ktlanigan@northwestel.net.

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

CAMP YUKON Kids Camp (ages 8-12): June 29-July 5 and July 6-12. Teen Camp (ages 13-18): July 13-19, $285.00. Register Now, www.camp-yukon.com, 668-4817, 91806 Alaska Highway. Sponsored by Bethany Church

YUKON ORIENTEERING Association events June 4 on Riverdale map, call Ross 633-3154. June 11 on Lewes Lake map, call Bruce 668-5032. Start at 6:30pm for both events. All are welcome VOLUNTEER RECOGNITION Night, May 30th 2014, 5:00pm, Kwanlin Dün Cultural Centre, Yukon French-speaking organizations unite to thank all the volunteers who played a part in the growth of our community. afy.yk.ca

NORTHRIDGE BOBCAT SERVICES • Snow Plowing • Site Prep & Backfills • Driveways • Post Hole Augering • Light Land Clearing • General Bobcat Work Fast, Friendly Service 867-335-1106

Cortland Williams on Sunday June 1, 2014 from 1:00 - 5:00pm at the Mount Mac Rec centre.

In Anne’s memory, feel free to bring your favourite flower.

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

1926 – 1998

LOVE FOREVER – Rita, Raymond, Margaret, Joyce, Earl, Alice, Jeannette

Anne

Energy North Construction Inc. (1994) for all your insulation & coating needs Cellulose & polyurethane spray foam Free estimate: 667-7414

MOM Ida Douville

A cloud turns into an angel, and flies up to tell God to put another rose on a pillow.

A bud gives the message back to the world and sings a silent prayer that makes the rain cry.

People disappear, but they never really go away.

A memorial service will be held for

A Celebration of Life for

Richard “Dick” Dickson

BROTHER Alfred Roy Douville 1956 – 1971

Dec 21st 1921 May 24th, 2014

Will be held in Champagne on Monday June 2nd at 2PM Potlatch to follow

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Yukon Communities & Atlin, B.C.

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

Health Centre

Carcross Y.T. Wednesday - 7:30 p.m.

Library Friday - 1:30 p.m.

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

Health Centre

Dawson City Y.T.

Thursday - 8:00 p.m.

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

Health Centre Saturday 7:00 p.m.

Community Support Centre 1233 2nd Ave.

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

Health Centre

Faro Y.T.

Friday - 1:30 p.m.

Health Centre

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

Health Centre

Mayo Y.T.

Friday - 1:30 p.m.

Health Centre

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

Health Centre

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

Health Centre

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

Health Centre

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

Soaring Eagles Sewing Centre

Teslin Y.T.

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

Health Centre

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

Health Centre

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TOPSOIL Call Dirtball

668-2963

KLONDIKE INSULATION Spray foam insulation Competitive Prices - Price Match Phone 867-335-6886

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

MAN WITH 3/4 TON TRUCK for hire for Yard clean-up, garbage, et cetera Phone 668-3534

DRUG PROBLEM?

ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS MEETINGS

Leather Repairs & Alterations Jackets, vests, seats & saddlebags Everything and anything Brent at 335-3488

Narcotics

Anonymous MEETINGS:

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

ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS MEETINGS in Whitehorse

MONDAY: 12 noon Joy of Living (OM, NS) Maryhouse, 504 Cook St. 8:00 pm New Beginnings Group (OM,NS) Maryhouse, 504 Cook St. TUESDAY: 12 noon Joy of Living (OM, NS) Maryhouse, 504 Cook St. 7:00 pm Juste Pour Aujourd’hui 4141B - 4th Avenue.

8:00 pm Ugly Duckling Group (CM, NS) Maryhouse, 504 Cook St. WEDNESDAY: 12 noon Joy of Living (OM, NS) Maryhouse, 504 Cook St..

8:00 pm Porter Crk Step Meeting (CM) Our Lady of Victory, 1607 Birch St. 8:00 pm No Puffin (CM,NS) Big Book Study Maryhouse, 504 Cook St. THURSDAY: 12 noon Joy of Living (OM, NS) Grapevine Discussion Maryhouse, 504 Cook St. 6:00 pm Young People’s Meeting BYTE Office, 2-407 Ogilvie Street 7:30 pm Polar Group (OM) Seventh Day Adventist Church 1609 Birch Street (Porter Creek) FRIDAY: 12 noon Joy of Living (OM, NS) Big Book Discussion Maryhouse, 504 Cook St. 1:30 pm #4 Hospital Rd. (Resource Room) 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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AA 867-668-5878 24 HRS A DAY

JOURNEYMAN CARPENTER/PAINTER 30 years experience No job too small.

Free quotes. References available.

335-8924 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 BUSY BEAVERS Painting, Pruning Hauling, Chainsaw Work, Yard Cleaning and General Labour Call Francois & Katherine 456-4755 LOG CABINS: Professional Scribe Fit log buildings at affordable rates.

Contact: PF Watson, Box 40187, Whitehorse, YT, Y1A 6M9 668-3632 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 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 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 HOUSECLEANING, Spring Cleaning, Detailing!

Safe, reliable, bondable RCMP check available on request For into call 334-7405 Licensed and Professional Automotive Repairs 20-year Journeyman Mechanic Monday - Friday 8:00am to 5:00pm Call Brian Berg 867-633-6597 JOSEF GRAF PAINTING Certified Journeyman for 20 seasons Residential & Commercial Free estimates and consultations 335-2300 Master quality in the Yukon TITAN DRYWALL Taping & Textured Ceilings 27 years experience Residential or Commercial No job too small Call Dave 336-3865 ELECTRICIAN FOR all your jobs Large or small Licensed Electrician Call MACK N MACK ELECTRIC for a free estimate!

867-332-7879 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

Friday, May 30, 2014 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 CEDAR CONNECTION Bulk lifts at sale prices!

Cedar decking, siding, fence materials and more!

Located in Marsh Lake Phone: 867-335-1088 TAIGA TILE & STONE Ceramic, porcelain, glass, slate, stone & cultured stone kitchens, bathrooms, backsplashes, fireplaces and exteriors 6 years in the trade Excellent references Contact Adam, 867-335-6526 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

Business Opportunities

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OWN SHARES IN

HOT SPRINGS Retiring entrepreneur looking to sell shares in Takhini Hot Springs.

Both class A & class B voting shares available.

Call Tom Parlee at 633-4786.

Sports Equipment BOWFLEX BLAZE, 1.5 yrs old, barely used, c/w free 28" LED TV still in the box, $00 obo.

335-6937 60”X108” STIGA ping pong table, exc cond, includes paddles, balls, net, $50. 334-6908 BIVY BAG advanced by outdoor research, $320 new, asking $160, located in Haines Junction, 250-566-1346 A R M Y M U M M Y sleeping bag, $40.

250-566-1346 ARC TERYX Bora menʼs large, good cond, older style, $150. 335-9510 Monday pm or later ROME SNOWBOARD pants, sz L, great cond, used 1 yr, $40, Burton Rampant snowboard boots, sz 11, paid $300 asking $80, 32 Project boots, sz 10.5, new $330 asking $100 obo, great cond. 633-3982 3-LADDER TREE stands, 1 holds 2 people, $75-$125, 1 tripod stand, $65. 668-3381

HIKING BOOTS, new, Montrail Mountain Masochist, sz 10, paid $110, asking $75, running shoes, new, menʼs sz 9.5, Saucony Mirage 2, paid $110, asking $65. 668-6867 KOKATAT TROPOS Dry Jacket, sz M, paid $160, asking $90, Kokotat Tropos Dry Pants, sz S, paid $98, asking $60, Kokotat Guides PFD, sz S, paid $220, asking $100, all in exc cond. 668-6867 ARIZONA TRAIL Complete Map Set, covers entire 800 miles, exc cond, $40. 668-6867 MENʼS BIKE with childʼs Trail A Bike attachment, red menʼs bike with child carrier, pre-schooler boyʼs bike, prices negotiable, 668-4010

Livestock 40 FEET chain link fence, $60. 668-2972 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 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

HORSES!

Have you always wanted to ride?

Find a complete list of all the great horse activities in Yukon! www.HorsinAroundYukon.com 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 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

REqUEST FOR PROPOSAL OUTSOURCED PROJECT ENGAGEMENT COORDINATOR SERVICE FOR PROJECT ENGAGEMENT AND COMMUNICATIONS – NEXT GENERATION HYDRO WORKPLAN Project Description: The project will provide project engagement coordination in support of Yukon Development Corporation’s ongoing evaluation of new hydro infrastructure in Yukon.

Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title.

The closing date for submissions is June 19, 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 Ryan Hennessey at (867) 3937075.

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

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

BLIZZARD SURVIVAL bag, never used, light weight, reusable, $75. 250-566-1346 MIYATA VINTAGE bike, lists on E-Bay for $550-$1,200, asking $350, racing bike, red, 633-6543 4 WETSUITS sizes small to large (MEC brand), great shape, paid $99 ea, asking $50 ea. 668-6867

Energy, Mines and Resources

PUBLIC TENDEr DENTAL HEALTH MEDICAMENTS AND SUPPLIES Project Description: One year Standing Offer Agreement for the supply of Dental products.

Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title.

The closing date for submissions is June 24, 2014. Please refer to the procurement documents for the closing time and location.

Documents may be obtained from the Procurement Support Centre, Department of Highways and Public Works, Suite 101 - 104 Elliott Street, Whitehorse, Yukon (867) 667-5385.

Technical questions may be directed to Sandy Brown at (867) 667-5108.

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

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

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

REquEST FOR PROPOSAL CLASS III WILDLIFE PROJECTS HELICOPTER SERVICES Project Description: Helicopter Charter Company to describe Class III wildlife project experience as a company and provide a list of pilots with previous experience. Successfull applicants will be eligible to bid on tenders for Class III wildlife project contracts.

Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title.

The closing date for submissions is June 16, 2014. Please refer to the procurement documents for the closing time and location.

Documents may be obtained from the Procurement Support Centre, Department of Highways and Public Works, Suite 101 - 104 Elliott Street, Whitehorse, Yukon (867) 667-5385.

Technical questions may be directed to Todd Powell at (867) 456-6572.

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

REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL STANDING OFFER AGREEMENT FOR TERRESTRIAL AND AQUATIC ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES FOR YUKON MINE REMEDIATION PROJECTS Project Description: Government of Yukon is soliciting proposals for the provision of terrestrial and aquatic environmental services related to Yukon mine remediation projects.

Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title.

The closing date for submissions is June 17, 2014. Please refer to the procurement documents for the closing time and location.

Documents may be obtained from the Procurement Support Centre, Department of Highways and Public Works, Suite 101 - 104 Elliott Street, Whitehorse, Yukon (867) 667-5385.

Technical questions may be directed to Monique Raitchey at (867) 6337966.

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

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

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

Environment

Energy, Mines and Resources

PUBLIC TENDER

REQUEST FOR BIDS - Industrial Lot, Mount Sima Industrial Subdivision The City of Whitehorse will be holding a bid process for one industrial lot located at 106 Collins Lane in the Mount Sima Industrial Subdivision.

Bid Packages are now available at City Hall, 2121 Second Avenue, Whitehorse, Yukon, Y1A 1C2. Please note that the package is not available at the Municipal Services Building.

The deadline for applications to be received at City Hall is before 2:00 pm on Friday June 6, 2014.

Bid opening will occur at 2:30 pm on Friday June 6, 2014 at the City Hall Council Chambers.

The minimum upset price for the industrial lot is $298,000 (not including GST). Only bids above $298,000 will qualify.

All enquiries to: Phone: 867-668-8346 Email: land@whitehorse.ca

REVEGETATION VARIOUS LOCATIONS ATLIN ROAD #7, TAKHINI HOT SPRINGS ROAD #14 & CAMPBELL HIGHWAY #4 YUKON 2014-2015 Project Description: The project includes approximately 35 ha of mechanical seeding, 34 ha of hydroseeding, and other related contract items at various locations on Atlin Road #7, Takhini Hot Springs Road #14 and Campbell Highway #4, Yukon.

Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title.

The closing date for submissions is June 19, 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 Dale Enzenauer at (867) 633-7940.

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

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

The Yukon Business Incentive Policy will apply to this project.

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

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

REqUEST FOR PROPOSAL POST-STUDY COORDINATOR FOR THE FASD PREVALENCE STUDY Project Description: Yukon’s Department of Justice has implemented the Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) Prevalence Study. The services of a Post-Study Coordinator are required to assist participants involved in the study, after participants have gone through a clinical FASD diagnostic assessment. The Post-Study Coordinator’s services will be to meet one-to-one with participants, work with existing case managers, and assist participants in further debriefing the implications of an FASD diagnosis, or other identified issues.

Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title.

The closing date for submissions is June 25, 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 Kailey LeMoel at (867) 393-7180.

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

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

Request for Proposals Ayamdigut Campus www.yukoncollege.yk.ca

Design Services – CNIM Building Yukon College RFP2014400 Closes: Noon PST, June 10, 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).

Notice of iNteNtioN to AmAlgAmAte tAKe Notice that 39825 Yukon inc. intends to amalgamate with 10895 Yukon ltd. in accordance with the Business corporations Act, R.S.Y. 2002, c. 20, unless any creditor of 39825 Yukon inc. objects to the amalgamation within (30) days from the date of this Notice . on the effective date of the amalgamation, all of the properties and assets of 10895 Yukon ltd. and 39825 Yukon inc. will continue to be the properties and assets of the amalgamated corporation, which in turn will continue to be liable for the obligations of 10895 Yukon ltd. and 39825 Yukon inc., including the liabilities of 39825 Yukon inc. to it’s creditors. this Notice is given pursuant to s. 187 (2) (b) (ii) and (3) (a) and (c) of the Business corporations Act, R.R.Y. 2002, c. 20 DAteD this twenty-second day of may, 2014.

39825 Yukon inc.

Secretary and treasurer

Notice of iNteNtioN to AmAlgAmAte tAKe Notice that 37295 Yukon inc. intends to amalgamate with 10895 Yukon ltd. in accordance with the Business corporations Act, R.S.Y. 2002, c. 20, unless any creditor of 37295 Yukon inc. objects to the amalgamation within (30) days from the date of this Notice. on the effective date of the amalgamation, all of the properties and assets of 10895 Yukon ltd. and 39825 Yukon inc. will continue to be the properties and assets of the amalgamated corporation, which in turn will continue to be liable for the obligations of 10895 Yukon ltd. and 39825 Yukon inc., including the liabilities of 37295 Yukon inc. to it’s creditors. this Notice is given pursuant to s. 187 (2) (b) (ii) and (3) (a) and (c) of the Business Corporations Act, R.R.Y. 2002, c. 20

DAteD this twenty-second day of may, 2014.

37295 Yukon inc.

For more information visit whitehorse.ca/msi

www.whitehorse.ca

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WANTED: UNWANTED horses 3-12yrs old, no time/no luck with training, I'd be interested, prefer horses be sound/good confirmation/healthy, will make reasonable offers depending on reason for rehoming.

335-4123

CAR SEAT, gently used for less than 5 yrs, $20. 633-5009

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 BABY CAR seat, newborn-12 mo, $40, auto baby swing, $50, 2-pc infant snowsuit, new, 1-pc infant snowsuit, new, all in good cond, 334-7061 for details

public tender HVAc SYSteM cleAninG clOSeleiGH MAnOr unit #080000 100 lAMbert Street WHiteHOrSe, YuKOn Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title. The closing date for submissions is June 18, 2014. Please refer to the procurement documents for the closing time and location.

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

Site Visit: June 10, 2014 at 9:30 a.m.

Friday, May 30, 2014

GRACO INFANT car seat, $20, basic white crib, no mattress, $45. 334-7061 CHILDRENʼS BOOKS, toys of different sizes, stuffed animals, backpack, free.

633-4547

3-WHEEL JOGGING stroller, Expedition Sport model, pneumatic tires, exc cond, $45.

668-4082 LARGE PLASTIC playhouse, price negotiable, 668-4010 1 CARRY-ON type, baby, $30. 633-2837

Furniture

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 COMPUTER DESK & black leather armchair, $100. 668-2626 BEDROOM SUITE, bed, mattress, headboard, 4 end tables, $100. 668-2626 DESK & table, 335-9272

BOOKCASES, 5 shelves, decorative trim, light oak, some with doors, $35 ea.

668-3381 FILE CABINETS, 2-drawer, $10-$29, 4-drawer $55. 668-3381

OLDER STYLE computer desk with stand, 49x24 with stand 54”, 667-6649 BEDROOM SET, 7-piece solid hickory wood, $700 obo. 668-2972

RFP2014381

6ʼ FICUS artificial silk tree w/decorative pot, $59, several artificial plants, $5-$29.

668-3381 SWIVEL TV stand, 31”WX24”H, 2 storage slide doors, shelf/underneath storage, light oak, good cond, $42. 668-3381 ENTERTAINMENT CENTRE, holds up to 48” TV, 2 towers, glass doors, pull-out drawers, adjustable shelves, light oak, 7ʼWX6ʼ3” high. 668-3381

Advertising It’s good for you.

The College requires a Site Master Plan for its operations that will help us implement our strategic directions in land planning (including the newly established reserve land), in planning for future growth (construction), in participating in community/ economic development, and in ensuring sustainability on the Yukon Place (AyamdigutCampus) site. The Plan will consider all existing operations on the site and develop recommendations with a focus on the requirements of Yukon College.

Complete packages are available on MERX service at www.merx. com or by emailing Procurement and Contracts at purchasing@ yukoncollege.yk.ca (867-668-8864).

INVITATION TO TENDER Wellness Centre Flooring Tender packages are available for pick-up at City Hall after 12:00 noon, May 23, 2014.

The Invitation to Tender closes before 3:00 pm Local Time on Thursday June 5, 2014.

See more details online:

www.whitehorse.ca

ExPRESSION OF INTEREST

Government Liquor Corporation

LIQUOR ACT

TAKE NOTICE THAT Cabin Fever Adventures of P.O. Box 120 Carcross, Yukon, is making application for a Food Primary - Beer/Wine Liquor Licence, in respect of the premises known as The Bistro On Bennett situated at Lot: 1035, Quad: 105D2, Plan: 72181 CLSR 8999: LTO, in Carcross, Yukon.

Any person who wishes to object to the granting of this application should file their objection in writing (with reasons) to: President, Yukon Liquor Corporation 9031 Quartz Road Whitehorse, Yukon Y1A 4P9

Government Liquor Corporation

LIQUOR ACT

The law firm of Austring, Fendrick & Fairman is looking for a legal assistant:

Applicant must have: • Excellent keyboarding and communication skills.

• The ability to proofread and edit is essential as accuracy is a must.

• Good working knowledge of office procedures, Word and Outlook is necessary.

• Experience working in a legal field would be an asset, but will train the right person.

• This position is full time and salary will correspond with experience.

• We provide an attractive benefit package along with a progressive vacation plan.

The successful candidate will have to pass a criminal record check.

If you have taken office administration courses or have worked as an administrative assistant, we would be interested in hearing from you.

We invite interested candidates to apply with resume to our office by 5:00 p.m., Friday, June 6th, 2014: 3081 Third AvE WhiTEhOrsE, YukOn Y1A 4Z7 Attention: Greg LeBlanc, Manager No phone calls please and only those candidates selected for an interview will be contacted.

TAKE NOTICE THAT Boréale Mountain Biking Ventures of Box 10197, Whitehorse, Yukon Y1A 7A1, is making an application for a Special liquor licence, in respect of the premises known as Boréale Biking situated at KM 35 South Klondike Highway, Yukon.

Any person who wishes to object to the granting of this application should file their objection in writing (with reasons) to: President, Yukon Liquor Corporation 9031 Quartz Road Whitehorse, Yukon Y1A 4P9 not later than 4:30 p.m. on the 11 day of June, 2014 and also serve a copy of the objection by registered mail upon the applicant.

The first time of publication of notice is May 23, 2014.

The second time of publication of notice is May 30, 2014.

The third time of publication of notice is June 6, 2014.

Any questions concerning this specific NOTICE are to be directed to the Licensing & Development Branch at 667-5245 or 1-800-661-0408, local 5245.

Yukon Water Notice Yukon WaterBoard Board– –Application Application Notice Office des eaux du Yukon – Avis de demande

Office des eaux du Yukon – Avis de demande Application Number Numéro de la demande

Applicant/Licensee Demandeur/Titulaire

Water Source Location Point d’eau/Lieu

Type of Undertaking Type d’entreprise

Deadline for Comments 4:00pm Date limite pour commentaires, avant 16 h

PM14-010

Sandro Frizzi

Big Creek, Granite Creek & 2 UNRLT of Big Creek

Placer Mining

June 23, 2014

Any person may submit comments or recommendations, in writing, by the deadline for notice.

Tourism and Culture

MAPLE 7-DRAWER desk, $75; Maple rocking chair, $85; Duncan Phiffe double drop leaf table, $225. large unique mirror, $75.

Serious inquiries only, evenings, 311B Hanson St.

Closes: Noon PST, June 18, 2014

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

Interested parties are invited to submit expressions of interest relating to Historic Sites Unit, Tourism and Culture are seeking expressions of interest for the repair and restoration of a log building in a remote area near Whitehorse. Access to the site is by boat. Replacement logs are on the site and have been peeled and stacked on dunnage, however, the majority of work will be with the original logs. Historic log shaping techniques will be required using traditional hand tools.

Written responses to this request should include previous experience or building and/or restoring log structures, training and/or credentials and contact information.

Written submissions clearly marked with the above project title, will be received up to June 19, 2014, at Procurement Support Centre, Department of Highways and Public Works, Suite 101 - 104 Elliott Street, Whitehorse, Yukon Y1A 0M2. Technical questions may be directed to Barbara Hogan at (867) 667-5386.

Please note: This is not a Request for Proposal or a tender call of any type.

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

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

KITCHEN TABLE w/ 4 olive green leather chairs, very modern, table has black cylinder stand, $300. 633-4139

Site Master Plan – Yukon Place (Ayamdigut Campus)

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

REPAIR OF HISTORIC LOG BUILDING AT REMOTE SITE

TWIN WARDROBE, new, $50. 633-2837

Applications are available for viewing on the Yukon Water Board’s online registry, WATERLINE at http://www.yukonwaterboard.ca or in person at the Yukon Water Board office. For more information, contact the Yukon Water Board Secretariat at 867-456-3980.

Toute personne peut soumettre ses commentaires ou ses recommandations à l’Office avant la date limite indiquée sur le présent avis.

Pour voir les demandes, consultez le registre en ligne WATERLINE au http://www.yukonwaterboard.ca ou rendez-vous au bureau de l’Office des eaux du Yukon. Pour de plus amples renseignements, veuillez communiquer avec le secrétariat de l’Office au 867-456-3980.

not later than 4:30 p.m. on the 11th day of June, 2014 and also serve a copy of the objection by registered mail upon the applicant.

The first time of publication of notice is Friday, May 23, 2014.

The second time of publication of notice is Friday, May 30, 2014.

The third time of publication of notice is Friday, June 6, 2014.

Any questions concerning this specific NOTICE are to be directed to the Licensing & Development Branch at 667-5245 or 1-800-661-0408, local 5245.

PUbLIc TenDeR SUPPLY OF FORKLIFT Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title.

The closing date for submissions is June 19, 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 Geoff Dixon at (867) 667-5244.

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

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

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

Yukon Liquor Corporation

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 DRUG PROBLEM? Narcotics Anonymous meetings Wed. 7pm-8pm #2 - 407 Ogilvie St. BYTE Office FRI. 7pm-8:30pm 4071 - 4th Ave Many Rivers Office WHITEHORSE DUPLICATE BRIDGE CLUB May 27, 2014 1st - Jan Ogilvy & Darwin Wreggitt 2nd - Bill Grandy & Nick Smart 3rd - Mark Davey & Chris Bookless We play every Tuesday at 7:00 pm at the Golden Age Society.

New players are welcome.

For more information call 633-5352 or email nmcgowan@klondiker.co

request for proposals retrofIt YuKoN HousING uNIts #260100 aND #260600 ross rIver, YuKoN Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title. the closing date for submissions is June 26, 2014. Please refer to the procurement documents for the closing time and location.

If documents are available they may be obtained from Yukon Housing Corporation, 410 Jarvis Street, Whitehorse, Yukon. Technical questions may be directed to raymond Mikkelsen at 867-6675718.

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

Announcements 4 SNOWMARK all season tubeless tires, M&S P185/65R15 86ʼs, 20% worn, 667-6649

PUBLIC TENDER SUPPLY OF REST STOP CLEANING MAINTENANCE SERVICES HAINES JUNCTION & BLANCHARD MAINTENANCE SECTIONS YUKON, 2014

SALES

M 104 FALCON Drive, Copper Ridge, Friday May 30, 5:00pm-8:00pm, Saturday May 31, 9:00am-1:00pm, multi-house garage sale, lots of good stuff

Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title.

The closing date for submissions is June 19, 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 Mickey Parkin at (867) 667-5453.

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

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

satuRday, May 31st aRkell

M 7 GrOUSe CreSCeNt, Arkell, Saturday May 31, 9:00am-2:00pm, household items, outdoor items, no early birds please

M 6 PtArMiGAN PL, Arkell, Saturday May 31, 9:00am-12noon, 2 bistro table/chairs, 4 folding chairs, kitchen ware, misc, hot Bannock+jam

M 20 LOON rOAD, Arkell, Saturday May 31, 8:30am-11:30am, yard sale

coppeR RIdge

M 12 tOPAZ CreSCeNt, Copper Ridge, Saturday May 31, 8:30am-1:00pm, some large furniture items

M 43 tOPAZ CreSCeNt, Copper Ridge, Saturday May 31, 9:00am-12pm, multifamily M 77 NOrtH StAr, Copper Ridge, Saturday May 31, 8:30am-2:00pm, a little of everything

Highways and Public Works

M 156 FALCON Drive, Copper Ridge, Saturday May 31, 9:00am-Noon, $5 bag sale, keyboard, free trampoline, bikes, etc

Puzzle Page Answer Guide

M #3 CArLiSLe PL, Copper Ridge, Saturday May 31, 8:00am-1:00pm, lots of 0-4T clothing b/g, baby stuff, toys, household, shelves, kitchen, furniture etc, no early birds

Sudoku:

Joint tender closing with Ross River and Whitehorse

cRestvIew

M 709 MiNtO rD, Crestview, Saturday May 31, 9:00am-1:00pm, multi-family sale, household goods, decorative, exercise equip

The highest ranked or lowest priced submission may not necessarily be accepted. view or download documents at: www.gov.yk.ca/tenders/tms.html

M 172 rAiNBOW rOAD, Crestview, Saturday May 31, 10:00am-2:00pm, some small furniture and household items M 161 rAiNBOW rD, Crestview, Saturday May 31, 9:00am-Noon, a bit of everything come on by and check it out

Kakuro:

M 112 rAiNBOW rOAD, Crestview, Saturday May 31, 9:00am-Noon, something for everyone

PUbLIC TENDER

M 345 KLUKSHU Ave, Crestview, Saturday May 31, 9:00am-1:00pm, bedding and linens, household items, toys, wall oven

REPAIRS AND UPGRADES UNIT 212200 – 111 KLAZA CARMACKS, YUKON

M 245 SQUANGA Ave, Crestview, Saturday May 31, 9:00am-1:00pm, household items, go-cart, desk, tables, dog pen 21’x14’, clothes, 6’ high chain link

M 603 KAtHLeeN rD, Crestview. Saturday, May 31, 9:00am-1:00pm, toys, kid’s and women’s clothes, household items, books, games, etc

Crossword:

M 405 KUSAWA rOAD, Crestview, Saturday May 31, starting at 10:00am, hundreds of yards of novelty sewing/quilting cotton fabric @ $4/yard, 2 Kobos, female sm/md clothing, etc

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

downtown

M 6095-6tH Ave, Downtown, Saturday May 31, 9:30am-2:30pm, 2 large bookcases, jewellery, theatre-style popcorn maker, etc

Site Visit: June 4, 2012 at 10:30 a.m.

Word Scramble A: Motley

05.30.2014

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

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

Garage FRIday, May 30th

Mandatory site visit: June 17, 2014 at 1:00 p.m.

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.

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M 805 WHeeLer St, Downtown, Saturday May 31, 8:30am-12:30pm, multi-family, kids toys, furniture, clothes, kitchen items, baked goods, free stuff bin

M 705 BLACK St, Downtown, Saturday May 31, 9:00am-2:30pm, something for everyone M rOBert ServiCe CAMPGrOUND, #70 Downtown, Saturday May 31, 9:00am3:00pm, tools, clothes, dishes, etc.

M 610 WOOD Street, Downtown, Saturday May 31, 10:00am-2:00pm, something for everyone

gRangeR

M 65 WiLSON Drive, Granger, Saturday May 31, 8:30am-11:30am, stereo equipment, truck job box, 60 gallon hot water tank, baby clothes, household odds & ends, free stuff

M 105 WiLSON Drive, Granger, Saturday May 31, 9:30am-1:00pm, rain or shine, no early birds, household items, Christmas decorations, linens/textile, bookshelves, complete 4x5 darkroom, photographic equipment, movie projectors, garden tools misc household, electric range, convection oven, photography equipment etc.

M 108 WiLSON Drive, Granger, Saturday May 31, 9:00am-11:30am, household items, clothes, games, misc items, no early birds please

M 128 WiLSON Drive, Granger, Saturday May 31, 9:30am-1:00pm, tools, gardening tools, misc items

hIllcRest

M 7 rOUNDeL rD, Hillcrest Blue Shop, Saturday May 31, 9am-3pm, and Sunday June 1, 10am-2pm. Huge estate sale for Tony Caron of Caron Diamond Drilling, tools, pumps, generators, hydraulic hoses, fittings, household, office furniture, wall tents, propane stoves. 333-0717

logan

M 61 FiNCH CreS, Logan, Saturday May 31, 9:00am-12:00Noon, oak office desk, Electrolux vacuum, ladies clothing, new sandals, wall hangings, etc

M 12 BLUeJAY WAY, Logan, Saturday May 31, 9:00am-1:00pm, moving out sale, rain or shine

Mt. sIMa

M 80 DrUMLiN CreSCeNt, Mount Sima, Saturday May 31, 10:00am–3:00pm, furniture, sporting goods, kitchen appliances, etc, rain or shine

poRteR cReek

M 127 PONDerOSA, Porter Creek, Saturday May 31, 9:00am-2:00pm, household items, some furniture, other

M 31 JUNiPer Drive, Porter Creek, Saturday, May 31, 10:00am-2:00pm, no early birds, cancelled if raining M 1504 ALDer Street, Porter Creek, Saturday May 31, 10:00am-2:00pm, household items M WANN rD & BOxWOOD CreSCeNt, Porter Creek, Church of the Northern Apostles, Saturday May 31, 9:00am-Noon, books, toys, clothing, sports equipment, hot dogs & Rice Krispie squares

M 41 WiLLOW Cr, Porter Creek, Saturday May 31, 9:00am-1:00pm M 28 - 9tH Ave, Porter Creek, Saturday May 31, 10:00am-2:00pm

M 1101 HeMLOCK St, Porter Creek, Saturday May 31, 9:00am-12:00 pm, multi-family, clothing, shoes, outdoor, fishing, crafting, home decor/hardware, etc M 90 WALNUt CreSCeNt, Porter Creek, Saturday May 31, 9:00am-Noon, multifamily sale

RIveRdale

M 1 HArt CreSCeNt, Riverdale, Saturday May 31, 9:00am-Noon. Ladies clothing, shoes, luggage, purses

M 35 tAKHiNi Ave, Riverdale, Saturday May 31, 8:30am-Noon, kids stuff/clothes, sports gear, men’s & ladies clothes, fishing gear, etc M 37 tAKHiNi AveNUe, Riverdale, Saturday May 31, 9:00am-Noon, variety of items

M 13 BLANCHArD rD, Riverdale, Saturday May 31, 9:00am-12:30pm, furniture, clothes, shoes, indoor plants, household items, etc.

M 56 FirtH rOAD, Riverdale, Saturday May 31, 10:00am-2:00pm

M 13 KLONDiKe rD, Riverdale, Saturday May 31, 8:30am-Noon, fabric, jewelry & jewelry supplies, many more items M 9 LiArD rD, Riverdale, Saturday May 31, 8:00am-noon M 33 KetZA rOAD, Riverdale, Saturday May 31, 10:00am-2:00pm, toys and more

M 47 BeLL CreSCeNt, Riverdale, Saturday May 31, 9:00am onwards, furniture, housewares, kids stuff, clothing, lots of interesting bits and bobs M BOSWeLL CreSCeNt, Riverdale, Saturday May 31, 9:00am-Noon, multi family, lemonade stands, free parking for the first 100 vehicles

takhInI noRth

M 48 rHiNe WAY, Takhini North, Saturday May 31, 9:00am-1:00pm, spring cleaning, elliptical, treadmill, air hockey, kid’s stuff, children books, household items

takhInI - noRthland Mhp

M 147 NOrtHLAND, Takhini, Saturday May 31, 8:00am-1:00pm, multi-family yard sale, fresh baked goods and coffee, something for everyone

valleyvIew

M 210 vALLeYvieW Drive, Valleyview, Saturday May 31, 8:00am-Noon, moving out sale, Jet Stream oven, new skis, household kitchen items, bedding, towels.

rEmEmbEr....

WHEN placing your Garage Sale Ad through The Yukon News Website TO INCLUDE:

• ADDRESS • AREA • DATE(S) • TIME OF YOUR GARAGE SALE 30 words or less FREE! Classifieds/Reception wordads@yukon-news.com or 667-6285

Deadline: Wednesday @ 3pm

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