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ount Sima’s WildPlay adventure park lost money once again this summer, raising doubts about whether it will reopen.

Rod Taylor, a board member with Friends of Mount Sima, said there are a number of reasons why the park failed to meet expectations this summer, losing an estimated $35,000.

The original business plan had relied on locals enjoying multiple visits to the park and even potentially buying season passes.

There were hopes that large groups would show up, as well. “To that end we offered a Yukoners’ discount and a really large group discount, but even then, the numbers just weren’t there,� Taylor said. “The weather didn’t help as well, but it’s hard to believe that even with a sunny summer, the numbers would have been substantially better.�

Taylor said early plans assumed that large groups would visit the park.

That never materialized, despite aggressive advertising and marketing campaigns.

Friends of Sima hired a marketing firm to do a digital, print and radio advertising blitz.

The group believed that by following the successful model of its winter operation, the Mt. Sima ski hill – lowering prices, staying open fewer days and reducing the number of staff – they could stay above water. “There was no stone left unturned,� Taylor said. “It was quite clear that it simply wasn’t enough. The product itself, the park itself, was not thrilling or exciting enough to get guests to want to come back multiple times. That’s really what

is required in a community this size.�

WildPlay was announced with great fanfare by the previous operators of Mount Sima, the Great Northern Ski Society. The adventure park was seen as a way of turning the hill into a bigger, year-round business. Disappointing visitation numbers during the opening summer of 2012 were blamed on the park’s late opening that season.

The park closed in 2013, after the ski society went belly up.

At the time, they owed WildPlay roughly $400,000, although the exact amount was never determined.

The adventure park was resurrected earlier this year when a royalty-sharing agreement was struck between eight Yukon investors and WildPlay.

Taylor approached the company and offered them a way to get some of their money back.

Under the agreement, the park’s value was split up into 12 investment shares, each worth $15,000.

Investors who bought in would get one per cent of the royalties generated by the park’s operation.

Yukon investors bought eight shares while WildPlay bought four units.

Half the proceeds of the shares went to WildPlay, to make up for some of the money it was owed

by GNSS. The other half went to the management of the Friends of Mount Sima to help run the park itself.

Taylor said there is a “significant amount� of money left over from that.

He said he wasn’t in a position to say how much, exactly.

It’s up to investors to decide what to do with those funds, Taylor added.

They can dispose of the asset entirely, or they can make another go at saving it.

If investors decide to sell the asset, they’ll have accomplished what they set out to do, Taylor said. “We certainly would have preferred to have had a vibrant park that was bringing people there in the summer,� he said. “If that’s not to be, we will still end up in a position where the winter operation is no longer burdened by the WildPlay obligation.�

WildPlay also gets to recoup some additional money if the park is sold, which works to their advantage, Taylor said. “We knew that if it came to the point where we had to sell the asset, who better to find a potential purchaser than the WildPlay people themselves,�

Taylor said. “They are now incentivized to go out and help us do that, because that’s how they realize their money as well.�

The ski hill, meanwhile, is running on all cylinders following a successful winter season.

Last year, over 1,000 season passes were sold to the hill.

Taylor said it was the perfect winter, which doesn’t come along very often. “Now we need to hustle on the marketing and fundraising side so we can ensure we’re in the same fiscal position as last year,� he said. “The AGM is the beginning of that process, to get people excited about the hill again.�

Friends of Mount Sima will hold its annual general meeting on Wednesday, Oct. 8.

The meeting will start at 7 p.m. and will be held in the Last Run Lounge at Mount Sima.

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Minto mine announces more layoffs and the water licence, he said.

“And it’s administered by two separate agencies, one being the ithout the permits in quasi-judicial water board. place to expand opera“The waters act itself pretions, another 50 jobs dates the YESAA act as well, so will be lost at the Minto mine there’s uncertainty and some over the coming weeks. inefficiency and that’s what we In January the Capstone need to work to address. We need Mining Corp. halved open-pit to find some common ground mining production and shed 44 so that situations like this don’t jobs through subcontractor Pelly happen again in the future.”

Construction in order to stretch Some work is already being out permitted ore through the done, he said. As of October summer. there will be new timelines for But the company is still waitthe water board review process, ing on a water licence that will and amendments to the Yukon allow them to expand into Minto Environmental and SocioNorth, the next pit scheduled for economic Assessment Act are mining, and is running out of currently before the Senate. ore in existing pits.

“This work that we’re doing is As a result, the Pelly Construcof critical importance, especially tion crew will scale back again. when you see job losses associUnderground mining opated with something like this. We erations continue at the mine as remain committed to the future normal. of the mine and continue to Jesse Winter/Yukon News work closely with Capstone minMill operations are also unaffected, as ore from underground Minto mine is expected to shed another 50 jobs as it waits for a new water licence. ing towards the long-term plan operations and stockpiles conof being fully operational in the tinue to be processed. coming months.”

Burnett said that submitting a Yukon Water Board will be ready. agrees. It says that activity at the The company applied to the Capstone was in a similar situnew application could jeopardize ation in 2011. It started work in next mine pit must be covered “There haven’t been any Yukon Environmental and Sociounder a water licence, and that it the one already submitted, and major stumbling blocks, there economic Assessment Board in a new mining pit in April of that that may not by a good option currently is not. are no contentious issues, it’s July 2013 to expand into phases year without the proper water The board has suggested to for the company. just a matter of working through five and six of the mine plan. licence in place. the process,” said Cindy Burnett, the company that it could submit “From our perspective, the The board made multiple It wasn’t until a year later that Capstone’s vice president of an application for a water licence application that we have made is territorial officials informed requests to the company for investor relations and communi- that covers only Minto North, what stands,” she said. additional information before the mine that it needed a water cations. instead of all of phases five and The company hopes to have deeming the proposal adequate licence for the work.

There has been some discussix, said Carola Scheu, the water the licence in place by the end of in December.

Operations at the mine conboard’s director. the year, but at this point there The board recommended that sion over the past weeks about tinued without water board apIt’s unclear at this point if the is little certainty on the timeline, proval until a licence was finally the project proceed in April, and whether or not the next phase of mining could get started without company will do that, or consaid Burnett. the Yukon government released issued in September of 2012. the new water licence in place.

All involved said there have tinue with the major application its decision document in June.

“It’s not uncommon, for a “Our position is that bebeen no major delays in the that is currently under review.

The company applied for an short period of time, to tolerate cause the proposed work is process, it’s just that the process “We are currently reviewing amended quartz mining licence conditions of non-compliance largely land-based, that it can be their big application and getting takes time. and water licence in July. while corrective actions are being managed under the company’s Minister Kent said his govern- taken and while things are being it ready for public comment,” The new quartz mining existing water licence and the ment is working on ways to make rectified,” a director with Energy, said Scheu. licence is expected to be ready the permitting process run more Mines and Resources said at the “It’s a fairly extensive applitoday, said Mines Minister Scott amended QML that is coming out, through strict terms and efficiently. cation. We’re on it, is all I can Kent in an interview this week. time.

There’s a lot of overlap beconditions,” said Kent. say. It’s big, and it keeps us very But it’s unclear when the Contact Jacqueline Ronson at busy.” tween the quartz mining licence The Yukon Water Board disamended water licence from the jronson@yukon-news.com Jacqueline Ronson News Reporter

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he Yukon government plans to increase the recycling fee on beverage containers sold in the territory.

Currently consumers pay 10 cents per beverage containers smaller than one litre, with the exception of containers for dairy and dairy substitutes. You can get a five cent refund if the container is returned to a recycler, with the other five cents going towards the cost of recycling.

That system was set up in 1992, and the government says

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it no longer covers the costs of recycling in the territory.

“In the 22 years since the (beverage container regulation) was enacted, costs of managing, processing and transporting recyclable materials have increased,” according to the discussion document.

“Over that same period, the number and type of beverage containers sold in Yukon have increased. This puts pressure on depots and processors because they require more equipment and storage space to manage them.”

Under the proposed changes,

all beverage containers under a litre will be subject to a 15 cent fee at the time of purchase, and the refund will stay at five cents.

All beverage containers over a litre will be subject to a 40 cent deposit, with a potential refund of 25 cents.

Currently in the Yukon there is also a $5 recycling fee at the time of purchase for passenger tires with a rim size of less than 24.5 inches.

Under the proposed amendments, there would be a fee for all tires. Those with a rim size of 19.5 inches or less would cost an extra $7, those 19.5 to 24.5

inches would cost an extra $15 and those more than 24.5 inches would cost an extra $60.

In addition, the government has proposed recycling fees for some electronics and appliances such as computers, printers, stereos, microwaves and vacuums.

The Whitehorse dump currently charges tipping fees for large tires and some electronic items. If the proposed amendments pass, those fees would be eliminated, as consumers would already have paid for the costs of recycling.

This, in theory, should encourage recycling and keep more

of these items out of the landfill.

“An important consideration in this change is that paying the fee at the time of purchase would mean there would be no tipping fees imposed on those same products when they are taken to a landfill or transfer station,” according to the discussion document.

The Yukon government will accept feedback on the proposed changes through Nov. 21. The discussion document and online survey can be found on the Environment Yukon website.

territory of another First Nation.

Kenneth Nukon was caught hunting on Champagne and Aishihik First Nations land in November 2011.

He did not have permission from the First Nation to hunt in the area, according to Melissa Madden, communications officer with Environment Yukon.

Nukon was convicted in

court last week and fined $1,000 under the Wildlife Act. He was also banned from obtaining a hunting licence until September 2016.

“The individual must attend

and successfully complete a hunter education and ethical development workshop prior to the issuance of any future licences,” Madden said.

Contact Jacqueline Ronson at jronson@yukon-news.com

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Once all the work is done, it’s up to the individual jurisdictions to decide whether to add the drug to their coverage.

The decision is important, Heike said, because the compassionate care program was only designed to be a short-term stop-gap while the payment deal was being worked out, she said.

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It’s not. It has the potential to reduce the need for other CF therapies and that to us is a good thing too,� Graham said. “We think that anything that’s going to benefit those people that suffer from CF is worth paying for, even at the price that we’re paying.�

That price is a steep one and the government will be paying 100 per cent.

The company “really didn’t budge much on the price when we discussed it with them, but we finally decided to go ahead and the reason we did it is because the rest of Canada was doing it at the same time,� Graham said.

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Larissa’s family went public with their plea for help this summer. The drug costs about $350,000 a year.

They got Vertex Pharma, the manufacturer, to add their daughter to the compassionate care program back in early June.

Even in that short period of time, Larissa’s mother, Heike, has already seen improvements in her daughter. “Her lungs are clear, she’s gaining weight, she’s already gained four kilos,� she said today.

While Larissa, 13, was in the compassionate program, the country’s provinces and territories were negotiating with the drug company to get the pills covered under government health plans. On the negotiating team was Yukon Health Minister Doug Graham.

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Yukon youth tackle drug abuse in new campaign Jacqueline Ronson News Reporter

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he Youth of Today Society has launched a three-year, $309,000 campaign to raise awareness of the negative consequences of drug abuse.

Inside the society’s drop-in centre, campaign organizers Tia Stone, 21, and Ashley Duchesne, 22, show off their work.

A large banner hangs overhead, with a young man in jeans lying near a concrete wall covered in graffiti, his body flattened as two giant, mechanical mosquitoes suck vials of blood from him. “The relationship I have with drugs has sucked the life out of me,� the poster reads.

It’s a slick ad campaign that looks like it could have been produced by a leading marketing firm, but it’s actually much more than that.

With Stone and Duchesne at the helm, the campaign is about more than raising awareness. It’s also an exercise in advocacy and community building.

Stone is a recent grad of a graphic design program, so she brought a lot of tech savvy to the table.

Duchesne studied addictions counselling, so the subject matter of the campaign was right up her alley.

Together, they canvassed the Yukon for information about drug abuse and services for drug abusers. “This is what I went to school for, and it’s what I’m passionate about, so I just wanted to learn more,� said Duchesne. “I was calling Alcohol and Drug Services, and we found of the services that were offered here in the Yukon.�

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can’t get the help they need, said Durrant.

She’s hoping for a top-notch addictions treatment facility for youth in the Yukon in the coming years.

The territory’s existing 28-day in-patient addictions treatment program serves adults 25 and older.

The government has promised new services for youth in conjunction with a new planned complex destined to replace the current Sarah Steele Building.

Details on what that will look like are scant.

Durrant said she hopes it will

be a first-class facility that will attract young people from across northern and rural Canada. “We have such an amazing community, with regard to their hearts, wanting to see a change,� said Durrant. “There’s so many people in this community that are so wanting to see a healthier community and to help people.

People that are addicted to drugs, they’re in pain, and people don’t just do this because they have nothing to do. They have a lot of pain.�

Contact Jacqueline Ronson at jronson@yukon-news.com

Tia Stone, left, and Ashley Duchesne are Youth of Today Society members working on a new anti-drug campaign.

All of that information will be compiled in a calendar, featuring art from Yukon youth, so help will be right at their fingertips.

In order to get the photographs for the campaign, Stone and Duchesne approached Yukon institutions that see the worst of drug abuse.

They visited the hospital, the inside of an ambulance and a holding cell at the courthouse for photo shoots.

The community was very supportive and wanted to help in any way they could, said Duchesne. “They were all on board. They loved what we were doing, the message we are trying to send, and it was great.�

Duchesne thanked staff at EMS, Justice and the hospital as well as models Emma Blair, Orion Wanner and Tori Beemer for their help with the photo shoots.

Ryan Leef was on hand to announce the Health Canada funding last week.

He commended Stone and Duchesne for their innovative messaging around drug abuse. “It’s not language that’s being used across the country, but it is a reality that people addicted to illicit drugs or prescription drugs do have a relationship with them, albeit a negative one,� said Leef in an interview this week. “We need to break that relationship and we need to understand that that’s what it is in order to be aggressive with our strategies and tackle it.�

The Youth of Today Society has been advocating for young people with addictions since 1999.

About 25 youth come frequently to the society’s Angel’s Nest drop-in centre, with a total of about 80 youth involved with the group, said Vicky Durrant, the executive director.

Many of them struggle with addictions.

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The government hired Northern Climate Engineering to investigate the air quality in the 32-unit housing facility, according to Darren Stahl, director of capital projects with Yukon Housing.

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They cleaned the entire ventilation system, corrected any air leakage issues, and upgraded the filtration system to allow finer particulates to be captured.

At the end of July and early August, YHC publicly tendered and hired a company to relo-

cate the air intake system from its current location to a more isolated area on the building.

The cost of the upgrades so far is roughly $135,000, with an additional $10,000 expected for a complete rebalancing of the system once the work is completed.

YHC will then hold a tenant meeting to relay the work that has been done and address any further concerns.

Stahl said there are carbon monoxide monitors in the building, which are regularly maintained and tested. â&#x20AC;&#x153;At no time was there any indication of high levels of carbon monoxide in any area of the building,â&#x20AC;? he wrote in an email. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The highest reading found was 1.1 ppm in the north stairwell. All other readings were very near zero or at natural atmospheric levels. The carbon monoxide levels that were measured do not pose a health concern.â&#x20AC;?

Contact Myles Dolphin at myles@yukon-news.com

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Both parties signed an agreement today at Strachanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Farm, one of the five sites being considered for the long-term project.

The First Nation will have sole ownership of the farm, while the college will provide learning and training opportunities to residents.

The farm would also provide an opportunity for some of the collegeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s instructors and students to expand their research and work experience possibilities.

Dexter MacRae, the Trâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ondek Hwechâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;inâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s director of human resources and community training, said the partnership is a dream come true for the First Nation. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Trâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ondek Hwechâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;in folks have a long tradition of working on the land and have long hoped that some of the properties they own would eventually

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get back into sustainable farming,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I knew this and in my capacity for the First Nation I saw that anything we could do on the land would be beneficial in many ways. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a win-win.â&#x20AC;?

MacRaeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s vision for the site includes a number of buildings where Trâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ondek Hwechâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;in citizens could work as farm hands and learn more about yearround farming techniques.

Eventually, he would like to see the construction of a greenhouse and a research building with classrooms.

Besides fresh produce such as wild onions, potatoes, carrots and cabbage, the First Nation would also grow important indigenous plants and shrubs used for medicinal purposes. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I realize that this is a longterm project and we canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t do everything in the first year,â&#x20AC;?

MacRae said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have any structures out there by next summer, thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s for sure. But the goal is to say that we live in the North and we have a sustainable food supply. There is no source of fresh produce here in Dawson over the course of the winter.â&#x20AC;?

The First Nation hopes to be planting initial crops next summer.

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Government acting on coroner’s recommendations Ashley Joannou News Reporter

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ukon’s minister of health says his department is acting on the coroner’s recommendations made following the death of a Carmacks woman.

Coroner Kirsten Macdonald made eight recommendations after 31-year-old Cynthia Blackjack died while being medevaced from Carmacks to the Whitehorse General Hospital.

“She said there are a few other things that might be improved.

And we agree. There’s always things that can be improved, and that’s what we’re going to do,” said Doug Graham.

Blackjack was a familiar face at the Carmacks Health Centre. She called in with dental pain on Nov. 4 and 5, 2013.

After her death, a dental examination found 10 abscessed teeth and rampant tooth decay.

On Nov. 6 she was seen at the health centre and advised to try and get a ride to Whitehorse and come back if she couldn’t find anyone.

“The medical triage, assessment and management of Ms. Blackjack at the health centre in Carmacks November 4, 5 and 6 was reasonable given the presenting symptoms, medical and social history,” Macdonald said.

On Nov. 7, family called the health centre, saying Blackjack was disoriented and yelling out in pain.

Blood was taken for tests, but the samples had to be sent to Whitehorse for analysis.

It was decided she would be medevaced to Whitehorse. Her heart slowed down about 10 minutes before arriving at the hospital.

The cause of her death was ruled to be the failure of her liver and other organs.

The pathologist speculated that Blackjack’s use of ibuprofen and acetaminophen on a regular basis for her dental pain, combined with chronic alcohol use, may have contributed to her liver failure.

In her report, Macdonald lists a number of significant factors in Blackjack’s death. These include that the wrong IV tubing was brought for a blood transfusion and that the health centre’s suction machine did not work so Blackjack had to be suctioned manually.

The eight recommendations include that point-of-care blood testing be made available in rural communities and that health centres have functioning suction devices at all times.

“Yes, the first suction device they used didn’t work properly, but they have backups. So they immediately went to their backup. It worked properly and there was very, very

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Doug Graham, Yukon’s minister of health, says his department will work on the coroner’s recommendations following Cynthia Blackjack’s death.

little time lost,” Graham said.

The minister said staff in the communities have regularly-scheduled telehealth meetings. He said management will be highlighting the importance of the quality assurance checklist. That list instructs staff to check that all the equipment is working.

But when it comes to whether or not blood testing should be done in the communities, Graham said that’s something that will take time to look into. It’s likely an expensive proposition, and there may be problems

when it comes to the ongoing skilled staff that would be needed, he said.

“We’ll have to do an evaluation and the department is in that process right now. We’re going to take a look at it, but we’re not going to rush out and do it in all community health centres.”

Similar to the issues with the suction device, the wrong tubing for the blood transfusion was replaced quickly, Graham said.

“The first tubing that they took was incorrect. But again, they have backup systems. So again, there was

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a short delay but they did have the correct equipment necessary.”

In Macdonald’s report, she points out that “the intubation of Ms. Blackjack was delayed because there was a lack of pressure oxygen to attach to the ventilator at the heath centre, and by failure of the first ventilator tubing circuit.”

A second system was set up, and worked.

Graham said health centres don’t have ventilators.

“The only thing I can think of is that’s part of the equipment that the EMS folks brought with them because we don’t have ventilators at health centres,” he said.

A call to Macdonald for clarification was not returned in time for today’s deadline.

Graham said Yukon EMS is currently reviewing its practices.

Anyone involved with a medevac is properly trained, he said.

“The money is there to provide that education and to the best of our knowledge, the people involved with this one were all skilled, trained people” Contact Ashley Joannou at ashleyj@yukon-news.com

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Why wait for Harper to address aboriginal violence?

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rime Minister Stephen Harper has unveiled his action plan for addressing the high number of missing and murdered aboriginal women in Canada. The action, as such, is to make a long list of every federal program that could conceivably be said to touch on the issue, count up all the dollars committed to these existing programs, and then announce this spending, stretched across five years for a more dramatic final tally, as if it’s something new.

That’s just a long way of saying that Harper plans to do nothing at all, beyond what’s already being done. Many of these programs seem worthwhile, but it’s dishonest to present them as if they’re a new, co-ordinated response to the issue, which is how Conservatives like our MP, Ryan Leef, make it sound.

Leef, of course, is in a tough spot, as someone who promised to advocate for a federal inquiry into missing and murdered aboriginal women on behalf of Yukoners. The government has offered its plan – which, it’s worth repeating, is to do absolutely nothing new – as an alternative to this scheme. Leef now says he needs to chat with his constituents about this new plan. What are the odds of them being won over?

A forthright approach for the Conservatives would have been to say that they believe they’re already doing plenty of things to improve the social conditions of aboriginal Canadians, and here’s a big list of existing programs to prove it. Or, if the Harper government wanted to buttress its argument that it values action over talk on this issue, it could have pledged to spend the cost of a federal inquiry on new programs over several years.

That would have been a real action plan, if the government had

wanted to brag about one.

Instead, Harper won’t even dignify this issue with a serious response. This is disappointing, if unsurprising. Harper, after all, recently declared during a visit to Whitehorse that the matter of missing and murdered aboriginal women was simply a matter of hunting down criminals, and was not a “sociological phenomenon.” Inconveniently, many of the programs included in the so-called action plan deal with the broader social issues that Harper idiotically insists have nothing to do with the matter.

But the Conservatives aren’t wrong about everything on this issue. They’re right that it’s no mystery why a disproportionate number of aboriginal women end up missing and murdered, and that a federal inquiry is unlikely to shed much new light on the issue, which has already been thoroughly examined in previous reports. Poverty, addictions, the legacy of residential schools – the familiar tangle of interconnected social woes – play a big part in why aboriginal women – and men, for that matter – are more likely to face violent deaths.

Leef is also correct to say that if other jurisdictions see this as a pressing issue, they could do more than holler at the federal government about it. He’s suggested that other governments could pay for an inquiry, but, following the Conservatives’ own logic, wouldn’t it make more sense for local governments to create their own action plans instead, for the lack of a real one being produced in Ottawa?

You could say this is particularly true in the Yukon, where our territorial government has a big budget to spend as it sees fit, and all but three of our First Nations are no longer under the thumb of Aboriginal Affairs.

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If there’s a consensus among Yukon’s leaders that more should be done on this file, why not do it ourselves? If it’s a pressing aim to improve the social conditions of aboriginal Yukoners, why lay blame entirely at the feet of a prime minister who was never elected on a platform of tackling intractable social problems, and shows zero interest in doing so?

Here’s one way about it.

Yukon’s chiefs and our premier could convene a Yukon Forum with the aim of creating a real plan of their own. The forum rarely meets anymore, presumably since the premier dislikes being ganged up on by chiefs who rarely see eye-to-eye with him. Well, here’s a problem that all involved agree is intolerable.

Obviously, there is no single, simple solution – but if more needs to be done, then let’s do more.

Maybe each leader could present a single new idea his or her government plans to introduce to help improve the lives of First Nation women in their communities. The group, as a whole, could then pick one project that stood out, and vow to roll it out across the whole territory.

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about how they learned to abandon violence. Those speaking in the N.W.T. video, critically, are all aboriginal men. Here in the Yukon, anti-violence campaigns are too often led by privileged white women and men, who, however well-intentioned, face barriers of race, culture and class when trying to engage with aboriginal communities.

Another idea worth replicating is the community safety project started by the Liard Aboriginal Women’s Society, which brought RCMP, government and community organizations together to try to build trust between residents and authorities. Abused women in Yukon’s communities often fear speaking to police. Building this trust takes time.

These ideas are borrowed from Cathy Richardson and Allan Wade, partners in the Centre for Response-Based Practice, a B.C. group dedicated to helping victims of violence. They re-

cently visited the Yukon to share some ideas. They probably have plenty of others worth cribbing.

It’s possible that launching these new projects may not even cost our local governments much, as a large chunk of the existing federal money for such things is to be doled out as grants. Leef is keen to see the Yukon grab as much of this dough as possible. Perhaps the Yukon government could also help local First Nations, many of which are under-staffed, to produce as many smart grant proposals as possible to tap these funds.

If dealing with this issue is a real priority of our territorial leaders, of course, they’ll find a way to pay for these projects, even if Ottawa fails to cough up more cash, by cutting some of the more frivolous programs if needed. That’s how governments pay for real priorities.

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Peril lurks all around us the Yukon Liquor Corporation does not keep a backup supply of in a secure, undisclosed loby Keith liquor cation. Almost the entire territorHalliday ial scotch supply is stored in one warehouse that could be flooded or blown up at any moment.

Then there are those giant diesel tanks at Yukon Energy, not to mention the Yukon government building’s suspicious new backup generators and their fuel hitehorse saw some supply by the waterfront – perilclever guerrilla marously close to the trolley tracks, keting this week, with by the way – so that the Premieropponents of Yukon Energy’s bunker can stay in operation if, new liquefied natural gas facility for example, a future LNG fire putting up red and yellow safety disrupts the power supply. posters downtown warning that Plus, what is in that smoke the area might have to be evacuthat comes out of that tall, ated if there was an LNG fire. skinny chimney at the back of In case you didn’t get the the hospital? I’m guessing they’re point, the bottom of the poster not burning finely aged organic suggests googling a few LNG beetle-kill spruce in that thing. explosions elsewhere.

Then there are all those cellIt made me think about what phone towers, wi-fi base stations I would do in the event of an and smartphone transmitters LNG disaster. Then I took a step popping up all over town. Why back and thought about all the haven’t I gone to calamityjanet. other unlikely but catastrophic com and built myself a simple downtown perils that could kill Faraday cage to keep all that me on Main Street before I have a electro-magnetic radiation at bay? chance to finish my latte.

And who likes how jet airFirst, the dam could burst and planes are always circling overflood downtown and Riverdale. I head or buzzing Takhini? Over live slightly uphill from a friend 1,000 times a year, families in who works at Yukon Energy and Takhini must live with the risk presumably is familiar with the that an aluminum tube filled with dam’s inundation zone, so I am explosive jet fuel and a hundred sort of hoping that means we screaming Yukoners will come would be OK. But to tell the truth through the roof going several I haven’t checked. hundred kilometres an hour.

LNG also made me think It was interesting that the about propane. There is a big pro- risk of an LNG disaster had my pane facility in the Marwell area, attention while I generally throw and propane blows up very simi- the “precautionary principle” out larly to LNG. If the 3.2 kilometre the window and ignore all those evacuation zone mentioned by other risks. the LNG posters applies to the In reality, the most likely way propane plant, then everything I will get killed in Whitehorse is probably jaywalking or in a traffic from our big box stores to the liquor warehouse could be at risk. accident. I was three minutes late for lunch a few weeks ago and It’s worth pointing out that

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Changes welcome to our regulatory regime There has been recent dialogue around Bill S-6, a bill to amend the Yukon Environmental and Socio-Economic Assessment Act (YESAA) as well as the Nunavut Waters and Nunavut Surface Rights Tribunal Act. As a matter of history, YESAA was borne out of Chapter 12 of the Umbrella Final Agreement, which called for the establishment, through federal legislation, of a development assessment process that would apply on all lands within Yukon: federal, territorial, First Nation and privately held.

The Yukon Chamber of Mines has provided longstanding support to the settlement of the Umbrella Final Agreement.

As Yukoners, we believe that the UFA would provide certainty for industry and was the next step in respect to the evolution of First Nations governments.

Section 12.1.1.7 of Chapter 12 of the UFA calls for the creation of development assessment legis-

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Posters taped up downtown warn residents about the threat of a potential explosion at Yukon Energy’s future LNG plant.

dashed across Second Avenue, our civic drag strip. I lost a Birkenstock slipping on some gravel and nearly became a hood ornament.

But why isn’t anyone campaigning against speeding on Second Avenue?

Behavioural economists have shown that humans tend to obsess about risks that are new, uncontrollable and catastrophic.

People tend to fret more about dying in a plane crash, while the data shows you are much safer flying than driving yourself on an icy road while texting, drinking coffee, petting your dog and arguing with your spouse.

Foreign Policy magazine highlighted our shaky risk assessment skills when it put out a list of summer activities that are more dangerous than you think. It turns out that getting “crushed by

television or furniture” kills more Americans every year than terrorism. You might have seen Stephen Colbert pick this up on his show with a warning about “terrorist furniture.” Fireworks, vending machines and riding lawnmowers are also surprisingly dangerous.

Other studies have shown that people are much more likely to underestimate risk for activities they like. Hence people tend to underestimate the risks of downhill skiing. How many marijuana smokers have told you that the risks of smoking weed are overstated? People also underestimate risk for activities that have perceived benefits.

Meanwhile, no one likes LNG plants, and it’s not as if power rates are going down because it’s being built.

Whenever the topic of risk

comes up, we have to weigh the benefits against the risk. Air travel is more dangerous than walking the dog, but we highly value the benefit of getting cheaply and quickly to Vancouver.

We should all probably be more rigorous and data-driven about how we assess risk, as well as the benefits of risky activities.

Relying on gut feel can lead to bad decisions.

And those bad decisions can cut both ways. If you under-estimate risk and over-estimate benefits, disaster can strike. And if you exaggerate risk, you can cut yourself off from some very beneficial innovation. It’s probably good they didn’t block development of the airplane and the cellphone until enough evidence to satisfy the precautionary principle had been accumulated. We’d still be driving to Vancouver and talking on phones wired to the wall.

Yukon Energy’s website has a page with reports backing up its point of view on the LNG plant. They say they had to replace their old diesel generators anyway, and that LNG was better for economic, operational and environmental reasons. CPAWS Yukon and others have pages on Facebook and elsewhere with different points of view. I suggest you read both and make up your own mind.

In the meantime, our propensity to be fascinated by risk won’t go away. With the Yukon legislature’s report on fracking coming up, I think we can expect to see more mock warning posters soon.

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

submissions to Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada as well as the Senate Standing Committee on Energy, Environfrom heading down a potentially lation that “avoids duplication cess, a major mining project has ment, and Natural Resources in the review process for projects spent $18 million over five years destructive path. have focused on key priorities to and, to the greatest extent practic- preparing for their environmental YESAA was once known as one improve timelines and certainty, assessment that has yet to have a able, provides certainty to all afof the most progressive environin the hopes that this process confected parties and project propon- decision rendered. mental assessment processes in tinues to protect the outstanding Another company that received Canada. We are concerned that ents with respect to procedures, values of citizens and the environapproval to proceed from YESAB, this is no longer the case. There information requirements, time ment. It is our hope that these after a two-year assessment prorequirements and costs” is an interesting correlation changes will enable projects and cess, was then unable to obtain Over the past decade, the to consider when Yukon finds proponents to provide long lasta water permit. And yet another legislative and regulatory regime itself dropping out of the top 10 ing socio-economic contributions company has found itself having in Yukon had evolved to a point friendly mining jurisdictions to to go through the YESAA process 19th in the Fraser Institute rank- to Yukon and its communities. where certainty and fair process nine times on the same applicawere its hallmarks, and industry ings due in part to interpretation Samson Hartland was able to make a valuable socio- tion for a modification in location of existing regulations.

Executive director, economic contribution to Yukon. of activities.

To date, the chamber of mines’ Yukon Chamber of Mines Do these examples repreHowever, the YESAA process has sent the certainty and efficiency become an unnecessarily strong originally envisioned under the deterrent to investment.

UFA? Recently, there has been little Today’s responsible resource change to the regulatory and The Yukon News welcomes letters from its readers. extraction projects provide legislative regime, therefore the Letters should be no longer than 500 words and must be signed numerous benefits for communproposed changes have come with your full name and place of residence. A daytime phone ities, citizens and the environfrom an increasingly stringent number is also required for verification purposes only. We reserve ment alike. In light of the current and time-consuming interpretathe right to edit letters for clarity, length, accuracy and legality.

YESAA five-year review process, it tion and administration of the You can send submissions to editor@yukon-news.com. They can reminds us of the need for legislaexisting YESAA process. be faxed to 867-668-3755 or mailed to 211 Wood St., Whitehorse, tive and regulatory improvements As an example of the costs Yukon Y1A 2E4. to prevent this punitive process involved in the assessment pro-

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For most of us, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not very much. Most of us belong to an incredibly privileged group that has grown up with a public system that helps us manage chronic disease, provides us with free walk-in clinics and family doctors, and in crisis situations, pays for our hospital visits. Our system is available to every Canadian, and does not ask for more payment than what we pay in our taxes.

We are lucky enough to be able to take our health-care system for granted, to feel that it is our right as human beings and Canadian citizens. However, we may not be able to for much longer.

Early in 2015, there is a case going to trial that presents one of the greatest modern threats to Canadian Medicare. Dr. Brian Day, a Vancouver-based physician, has brought a constitutional challenge to the B.C. government, arguing that it is a Canadian â&#x20AC;&#x153;rightâ&#x20AC;? to have the option of choosing to spend oneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s money

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Dayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s argument implies that those who have great financial resources deserve faster care than those who do not. It ignores the basic values of our current healthcare system, where resources are distributed and care is provided based on the needs, rather than the economic situation, of the patient.

Should Day win his case, it will open the door to U.S.-style private clinics and hospitals throughout the country. Studies have shown that a two-tier system similar to the one he proposes leeches resources from the universally available public system to the more exclusive private system, as health-care professionals are drawn to work where they can choose their patients and charge whatever they wish for their interventions.

This leaves the public system with fewer human resources and more complicated patients, the simple cases having been â&#x20AC;&#x153;cherrypickedâ&#x20AC;? by the private sector.

The greatest cause of bankruptcy in the U.S. is health-care-

related debt. Almost two-thirds of those declaring bankruptcy due to their health bills had health insurance at the time of their illness.

These are the same insurance companies and systems that Day invites into Canada by launching his case against Medicare.

Canadians overwhelmingly support and rely on our public health-care system. In many ways, it is part of the Canadian identity, something we take pride in. Should the Day case succeed, the development of a two-tiered health-care system across Canada would be inevitable.

This kind of public/private competition is far from the best way to promote good health for everyone; instead, a well supported, regulated and maintained public system accessible to everyone helps to maintain a high basic standard of life. This is what we are defending. This is what Canadian rights actually look like.

For information on the Brian Day case and what we can do to protect our public system, please visit www.savemedicare.ca.

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Voters in Scotland reject independence in historic vote with unprecedented turnout Jill Lawless And Danica Kirka

under 85 per cent. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We have chosen unity over Associated Press division,â&#x20AC;? Alistair Darling, head of the No campaign, said early EDINBURGH Friday in Glasgow. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Today is a cottish voters have resoundmomentous day for Scotland ingly rejected independence, and the United Kingdom as a deciding to remain part of the whole.â&#x20AC;?

United Kingdom after a hisIndependence leader Alex toric referendum that shook the Salmondâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s impassioned plea to country to its core. launch a new nation fell short, The decision prevented a rupwith Scots choosing instead ture of a 307-year union with the security of remaining in England, bringing a huge sigh union with England, Wales of relief to Britainâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s economic and Northern Ireland. Still, the and political establishment, including Prime Minister David result establishes a whole new political dynamic in the United Cameron, who faced calls for Kingdom, with Cameron aphis resignation if Scotland had pearing outside No. 10 Downing broken away.

Street to pledge more powers for The vote on Thursday â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 55 regional governments. per cent against independence Even in conceding, Salmond to 45 per cent in favour â&#x20AC;&#x201C; saw an unprecedented turnout of just struck an upbeat tone.

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â&#x20AC;&#x153;This has been a triumph for the democratic process and for participation in politics,â&#x20AC;? he said to cheering supporters.

The pound hit a two-year high against the euro and a twoweek high against the U.S. dollar as markets shrugged off recent anxiety about a possible vote for independence. In early Asian trading, the pound jumped nearly 0.8 per cent to $1.6525 against the U.S. dollar before falling back slightly. Britainâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s main stock index opened higher.

A much-relieved Cameron promised to live up to earlier promises to give Scotland new powers on taxes, spending and welfare. He said the new plans will be agreed upon by November, with draft legislation by January.

But he also said change was coming to other parts of the country amid the watershed vote. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Just as the people of Scotland will have more power over their affairs, so it follows that the people of England, Wales and Northern Ireland must have a bigger say over theirs,â&#x20AC;? Cameron said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The rights of these voters need to be respected, preserved and enhanced as well.â&#x20AC;?

The No campaign won the capital city, Edinburgh, by a margin of 61 per cent to 38 per cent and triumphed by 59 per cent to 41 per cent in Aberdeen, the countryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s oil centre. The Yes campaign won Glasgow, Scot-

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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 2014 landâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s biggest city, but it was not enough.

As dawn broke to lead-grey skies over Scotlandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s largest city, the dream of independence that had seemed so tantalizingly close evaporated in the soft drizzle.

George Square, the rallying point for thousands of Yes supporters in the final days of the campaign, was littered with placards and debris of a campaign in which many had invested more than two years of their lives. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I had never voted before or got involved with politics in any way but this time I thought my vote would count for something,â&#x20AC;? said truck driver Calum Noble, 25, as his voice cracked with emotion. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I wanted a better country but itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s all been for nothing. I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t believe we will get any of the things the London politicians promised.â&#x20AC;?

But popular opinion on a leafy residential street in Edinburghâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s west end told a different tale. Young and old sat by their televisions waiting for news in a half dozen homes. Nearly all said they had voted No. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Just because Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m not out in the street in a kilt screaming how Scottish I am, that doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t mean Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m not a proud Scot. I am. And a proud Brit. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s

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Salmond had argued that Scots could go it alone because of its extensive oil reserves and high levels of ingenuity and education. He said Scotland would flourish alone, free of interference from any London-based government.

Many saw it as a â&#x20AC;&#x153;heads versus heartsâ&#x20AC;? campaign, with cautious older Scots concluding that independence would be too risky financially, while younger ones were enamoured with the idea of building their own country.

The result saved Cameron from a historic defeat and also helped opposition chief Ed Miliband by keeping his many Labour Party lawmakers in

Scotland in place. Labour would have found it much harder to win a national election in 2015 without that support from Scotland.

Former Prime Minister Gordon Brown, a Scot, returned to prominence with a dramatic barnstorming campaign in support of the union in the final days before the referendum vote. Brown argued passionately that Scots could be devoted to Scotland but still proud of their place in the U.K., rejecting the argument that independence was the patriotic choice. â&#x20AC;&#x153;There is not a cemetery in Europe that does not have Scots, English, Welsh and Irish lined side by side,â&#x20AC;? Brown said before the vote. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We not only won these wars together, we built the peace together. What we have built together by sacrificing and sharing, let no narrow nationalism

split asunder.â&#x20AC;?

For his part, Cameron â&#x20AC;&#x201C; aware that his Conservative Party is widely loathed in Scotland â&#x20AC;&#x201C; begged voters not to use a vote for independence as a way to bash the Tories.

The vote against independence keeps the United Kingdom from losing a substantial part of its territory and oil reserves and prevents it from having to find a new base for its nuclear arsenal, now housed in Scotland.

It had also faced a possible loss of influence within international institutions including the 28-nation European Union, NATO and the United Nations.

The decision also means Britain can avoid a prolonged period of financial insecurity that had been predicted by some if Scotland broke away. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This has been a long, hard fight and both sides have campaigned fiercely,â&#x20AC;? said Norma Austin Hart, a Labour Party member of Edinburgh City Council. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This has not been like a normal election campaign.

There have been debates in town halls and school halls and church halls. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been so intense,â&#x20AC;? she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;But the people of Scotland have decided.â&#x20AC;?

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Meagan Timmons, centre, and Delaney Arrell, both Grade 11 students from Vanier Catholic Secondary School, measure the circumference of a tree in the Gunnar Nilsson & Mickey Lammers Research Forest on Tuesday as part of the Envirothon. Students from several Whitehorse schools participated in the event, which teaches students how to collect and analyze environmental data.

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Cost of satellite ministerial staff soars by 70 per cent during austerity years Jennifer Ditchburn

Finance Minister Joe Oliver recently stationed two senior political staff in a regional office in Toronto â&#x20AC;&#x201C; OTTAWA former chief of staff Dan Miles and he cost of paying Conservative communications director Patricia political staffers working in a Best. network of satellite ministerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s offices The Liberal governments of the ballooned by 70 per cent during the past also employed political staff in same years the government was asking regional offices, commonly know as departments to tighten their belts.

MROs. Between 2009-10 and 2013-14, Liberal MP Sean Casey, who subthe budget for staffing at the regional mitted the written questions about the offices rose from $1.6 million to $2.7 offices in the Commons, said he has million, according to figures tabled in no issue with ministers having politithe House of Commons this week. cal staff organizing events and meetThe number of satellite locations ing with stakeholders in the regions. with staff has risen from 11 to 16 to But Casey said the steep increase include smaller centres such as Kitch- in spending is a hard pill to swallow ener, Ont., Charlottetown and Iqaluit. considering recent cuts to veterans Several cabinet ministers, including services, immigration and tax offices, Employment Minister Jason Kenney, and to Canada Post, among others.

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translates into a pay cut for employees when inflation is taken into account. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not whether or not these things should exist, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s whether the austerity program thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s applied to all other Canadian citizens has an exemption for members of the cabinet,â&#x20AC;? said Casey, who represents a P.E.I. riding. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This is the sort of thing that makes people cynical about politics â&#x20AC;&#x201C; cabinet ministers increasing the budget because theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re paying their friends.â&#x20AC;?

Public Works Minister Diane Finleyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s office said the government believes all Canadians should have

reasonable access to ministersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; regional offices. â&#x20AC;&#x153;That is why in 2010, we expanded and launched three offices in the three northern territories,â&#x20AC;? spokeswoman Alyson Queen said in an email. â&#x20AC;&#x153;While the opposition may believe that northern Canadians donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t deserve the same services as other regions of the country, our government is committed to serving all Canadians in all parts of our country.â&#x20AC;?

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Income splitting proposal would pinch provincial pockets too: report inces have been impacted financially by new federal measures.

Earlier this year, the provinces won OTTAWA a hard-fought battle over the controConservative plan to allow Cana- versial Canada Job Grant program, dians to use income splitting as fearing Ottawa would claw back a tax-saving measure will be just one federal job-training dollars even as it more example of the federal governforced provincial governments to foot ment financing its policies partly their share of the bill. through provincial coffers, a new Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve also been vocal of late in study says. expressing frustration at the billions The Mowat Centre report says if of dollars they expected to have to pay the federal government goes ahead as a result of Conservative criminal with its plan to introduce income justice reforms. splitting, the provinces would have The Tories promised to allow inno choice but to follow suit thanks to come splitting during the 2011 camexisting tax agreements. paign, saying it would take effect in And that would cost provincial 2015 as long as there was a balanced coffers around $1.7 billion a year at budget, which is now expected. a time when everyone is strapped for The plan would allow spouses with cash. children under 18 to divvy up their â&#x20AC;&#x153;The federal government has incomes to a maximum of $50,000 in walked out of the bar and the bill is order to reduce their overall tax bill. sitting on the table and the provThe government estimates 1.8 milinces are going to have to pick it up,â&#x20AC;? lion families could save an average of report author Sunil Johal said in an $1,300 a year. interview.

But critics, including the late Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s far from the first time the prov- former finance minister Jim Flaherty, Stephanie Levitz Canadian Press

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have suggested the policy is a flawed one.

The Mowat Centre, based at the University of Toronto, bills itself as a non-partisan think-tank. But multiple studies from across the political spectrum have found that in some provinces, existing tax structures mean no families will benefit. In others, some

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in high-income brackets would see only minimal financial savings.

Despite the criticism, however, the federal government has insisted it will press ahead with the measure.

The provinces would likely be on the hook because of the tax collection agreements all of them save Quebec have signed with the federal government over the last 50 years, the report said.

The deals mean there is only one tax collector for the various federal and provincial levies, which saves

everyone money. But as a result, the affected provinces all use the same definition of taxable income.

That means if the federal government changes the definition, the provinces will have to go along.

The tax agreements are a key part of the economic union in Canada, Johal said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;But at a certain point, if things like this keep happening and the cumulative impact of these decisions reaches a certain dollar value, the provinces are going to have to make an assessment: â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Is it really worth it to us to stay in these agreements if the federal government is going to continually make unilateral decisions?â&#x20AC;?â&#x20AC;&#x2122; But amendments to the agreements or an offer by the federal government to compensate the provinces for lost tax revenues are options that could be explored before the provinces just walk away, he added.

For example, Ontarioâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s agreement with Ottawa on the collection of the harmonized sales tax protects the province from any decision that would result in a one per cent revenue decrease. If the province doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t agree with the decision in writing, the federal government has to pay up.

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Chong’s private member’s bill to empower MPs gets government backing Jennifer Ditchburn

member’s bill is expected to pass its next vote in the Commons next week.

OTTAWA “That’s when the difficult work he Conservative cabinet starts because we’re up against a is poised to support backdeadline here, which is the next bench MP Michael Chong’s bill federal election,” said Chong, to rebalance the power between who would not comment on the parliamentarians and the Prime government’s position.

Minister’s Office.

“My hope is that this bill can Conservative caucus members get through the House, the comwere told during their weekly mittee, third reading and the Senmeeting that Chong’s Reform Act ate before the next election and be had received Stephen Harper’s passed into law.” stamp of approval, sources told The Ontario MP is seeking to The Canadian Press. re-empower members of ParliaChong had recently indicated ment by handing them more that he was willing to water down power to review and even eject some of the bill’s most controver- party leaders, and to vote on the sial elements. expulsion and re-admission of With the backing of both the caucus members rather than leavgovernment and a wide crossing that power to the leader. section of NDP, Liberal and He also wants to give riding backbench Tories, Chong’s private associations more say over who Canadian Press

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runs for the parties in each riding, as opposed to giving party leaders the veto.

Chong has spent the past several months discussing his bill with colleagues, and last week published a proposal for softening up some of the elements of the legislation.

The bill cannot be amended at its current stage, but if it successfully reaches a Commons committee there could be agreement for making friendly changes.

Chong is suggesting that instead of laying out specifics for how each party caucus deals with issues such as leadership reviews and the ejection of members, the MPs would be given a chance to vote on a set of rules following each general election.

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Smoke clears as crews quench long smouldering ‘dumpcano’ garbage fire in Iqaluit Chris Purdy

it’s sloped at an angle that will hopefully keep wind from pushing inside.

“Although we’ve got this fire out, there is a natural heating process because of the breakdown of the material. But if we keep the wind out of there, it keeps that temperature down and it won’t overheat again.”

Seigler said workers will monitor and take daily temperature readings of the stack until spring.

Landfill staff have already received new training on how to properly separate combustibles from incoming trash, said Noblett.

“It’ll be next to get the people of Iqaluit to co-operate with the pile. We’ve done this literally Mike Noblett with Global operators of the landfill and, bucket by bucket and quenching Forensics Inc. out of Red Deer, at a minimum, tell them what Alta., acted as site manager dur- they’re bringing to the dump,” it,” he said. ing the fire fight.

“We’re down to dirt.” he said.

He described how excavators “If they’ve got batteries, tell first dug out a pond near the them they’ve got batteries. If New Inventory burning pile and hoses stretch- they’ve got a propane tank, Arriving Weekly! ing to a nearby creek filled don’t hide it.” it with water. Machines next The cost of putting out the removed sections of the hot gar- fire was estimated at $2.3 milbage and dunked them several lion, but Noblett believes the times into a pond of water. bill will be less since it didn’t The cooled garbage was then take as long as expected to put dumped into a flatter and short- it out. er pile. Noblett said workers will The city wants to build a 1o867o668o2137 spend the next week reshaping modern landfill since the dump, www.drivingforce.ca it into a new pile, making sure built in 1995, was intended to be used for only five years.

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no flames could be seen, the fire deep within the garbage created heat up to 2,000 C. IQALUIT, NUNAVUT But letting the fire take care long-smouldering dump of itself would have taken about fire in Iqaluit, dubbed the three years. And fumes had “dumpcano,” is finally out. forced schools to close for sevThe smoky blaze had been eral days and prompted health burning on the south side of the warnings.

Nunavut capital since May. Instead, experts were brought The city had initially planned in and crews started fighting the to let the fire burn itself out fire 17 days ago. because fighting the hot and unDeputy fire chief George Seistable pile was too dangerous. gler said the blaze was officially When the fire began, the declared out Tuesday mornmound was about the length of ing, almost two weeks ahead of Adrian Wyld/The Canadian Press a football field and as high as 17 schedule.

A car approaches the city dump as smoke rises from a fire “We’ve reached the end of metres on one side. Although burning among the garbage on Thursday, July 10, 2014 in Iqaluit, Nunavut.

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Le comité spécial d’examen des risques et des avantages de la fracturation hydraulique a été établi par décret pris par l’Assemblée législative le 6 mai 2013 (motion n°433).

Le comité organise des audiences publiques en vue de recueillir les opinions des citoyens yukonnais.

THE RISKS AND BENEFITS OF HYDRAULIC FRACTURING

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

The Committee will be holding its final public hearings to receive the views and opinions of Yukon citizens.

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Le comité accepte aussi les commentaires écrits jusqu’au 30 septembre 2014.

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The Committee is also accepting written submissions until September 30, 2014.

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Tainted water in two states from leaky gas wells, not fracking itself, study says In fracking, highly pressurized chemicals and water are pumped deep underground to WASHINGTON break shale and release natural he drilling procedure called gas for harvesting. fracking didn’t cause muchThe fracking process has bepublicized cases of tainted come highly charged. It started groundwater in areas of the a boom of natural gas drilling states of Pennsylvania and Texas, and with it, an initial surge of a new study finds. Instead, it reports of water contamination blames the contamination on nearby. People started pointing problems in pipes and seals in fingers at the fracking process, natural gas wells. thinking that the fracturing After looking at dozens of allowed methane to travel up, cases of suspected contaminaoutside the pipes, into water tion, the scientists focused on supplies. eight hydraulically fractured In at least two cases around wells in those states, where they one well in Texas, scientists chemically linked the tainted saw people’s homes have their water to the gas wells. They then water supplies go from clean to used chemical analysis to figure contaminated during the year out when in the process of gas of study, with methane levels extraction methane leaked into jumping ten-fold, said Stangroundwater. ford University environmental “We found the evidence sug- sciences professor Rob Jackson, gested that fracking was not to co-author of the study. Methane blame, that it was actually a well while not particularly toxic is integrity issue,” said Ohio State explosive and a potent greenUniversity geochemist Thomas house gas.

Darrah, lead author of the study.

“I don’t think homeowners He said those results are good care what step in the process the news because that type of conwater contamination comes,” tamination problem is easier to Jackson said. “They just care that fix and is more preventable. their lives have changed because The work was released Mon- drilling has moved next door.” day by The Proceedings of the The scientists reached their conclusions by chemically National Academy of Sciences.

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analyzing methane and other chemicals in the groundwater.

That let them link the contamination to particular wells, and then to discover what part of the drilling process was responsible.

For example, they studied the precise proportions of methane, helium, neon and argon. Those proportions pointed to leaky pipes and seals, because the results would have been different if the contamination had come from fracking.

Since the fracking boom started in Pennsylvania in 2008, the state has identified 243 cases of private water supply contamination “impacted by oil and gas activities.” That is out of more than 20,000 wells drilled there.

Jackson and colleagues have been studying water contamination around natural gas wells for years and for this study they didn’t chose a random sample, but aimed at areas that seemed to have most complaints of contamination. And even in those areas, it was only in a minority of dozens of sites that they could they connect the contamination to the natural gas wells, he said.

In some cases, the contamination was natural and had no connection to gas wells, Jackson said.

Terry Engelder, a professor of geosciences at Pennsylvania State University who wasn’t part of the study, praised it, saying “focusing on frack fluids at depth is not the real problem.”

The problem of leaky wells is one the gas industry has known about for decades, Darrah said.

That includes the pipes the gas flow through and the cement that encases the pipes, keeping it from escaping.

It is possible the high pressure of fracking or the bends in unconventional wells could lead to problems with the well’s piping, but there’s no evidence yet proving that, Jackson said. Another issue could be the hurry drillers are in during a boom, leading to poor quality wells, he said.

Cindy Dunn, president of the environmental group PennFuture, said it isn’t surprising that the methane leaks problem is more due to poor pipes and cement seals, calling for states to update regulations covering that topic.

Dave Spigelmyer, president of the Marcellus Shale Coalition of drillers, said his industry is working with state officials “to modernize and dramatically strengthen shale developmentrelated regulations.”

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Cornell University engineering professor Anthony Ingraffea, who wasn’t part of the study, praised it, adding that he’s worried because “it’s impossible to drill and cement a well that will never leak.”

“There’s still serious and significant harm from what’s coming before fracking and what’s coming after fracking,” Ingraffea said.

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The caribou’s call We Are Golden by Sandra Grace Storey transports viewers into a land of whisper and wonder

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A view of We Are Golden, at the Yukon Art Centre.

words. “I belong.” “Remember.” “I am caribou.”

“The caribou wall is like the alking into Sandra Grace cave painting full of metaphor Storey’s latest exhibit is like and whispers and words,” says walking into a dream.

Storey.

The Tagish-based sculptor has In the middle of the room sits created a life-size herd of caribou a large raven made of clay, surveyon the walls of the Yukon Arts ing the scene.

Centre gallery.

“He’s partly a folklore raven, The clay tiles that make the he’s partly a First Nations raven, scene evoke the fragmented rehe’s partly the raven that gets into mains of something lost long ago, my garbage. But he’s there, and carefully pieced back together by he’s a messenger.” a skilled and patient hand. The Look up, and the shadow of a edges curl out, as if weathered raven circling overhead traces a with age. path around the room.

And while the caribou look “His presence with the shadow ancient, they at the same time feel thrower is to tie in the past and very much alive. present, the real and the metaAnimals’ chins jut out from the phoric and the fantasy of the clay slabs. The caribou appear to whole situation,” says Storey. interact with each other and the The raven has caught the room. Their hides glint with hints attention of the two small chilof silver and gold. dren sculpted from clay whose The tiles that hold the caribou eyes are cast up from where they are imprinted with textures, both kneel nearby in a midden pile full natural and manufactured, and of treasures.

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Storey was inspired by a trip with her son and a friend who discovered an abandoned cabin and were captivated by the artifacts they found there, she says.

“They were just fascinated by them.”

The clay children sit amongst toy figurines of animals that can be found in the Yukon, or that could be found here in the past.

Among them there’s a mammoth, a wolf, a muskox and a bear.

“It’s posing a question, to myself, ‘What does my son inherit, and what do his children inherit?’

No matter who you are in the story, we all come to the same consequence. We all share the consequences of our actions and our decisions,” says Storey.

“I thought of the children being flesh and the caribou being spirit, and the raven being able to inhabit both worlds.”

All the figures are characters in a story, a story that viewers

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Sculptor Sandra Grace Storey in her Tagish studio.

become a part of as they enter the room.

“The thing I like about this scale is that it’s a story that you enter into, and the characters are on the same scale as the viewer,” says Storey.

The size of the work, which covers two full gallery walls with hundreds of clay slabs, came as a surprise to even the artist.

“I never actually saw the whole thing up until two hours before the exhibition opened,” she says.

It was, ‘Wow, it’s really big!’ I didn’t expect it was going to be this big. I thought it would cover maybe one wall.”

The tiles were first imagined on rolls of paper in Storey’s cabin studio in Tagish, and then brought to life in pieces.

‘When I saw it all up and lit, I was just really delighted. It was just a delight to see them all coming off the wall, and remembering the individual caribou as I had made them over the past five, six months.”

The exhibit, We Are Golden, will be on display at the Yukon Arts Centre through November 29.

Contact Jacqueline Ronson at jronson@yukon-news.com

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Art form to marketing tool: U2â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s freebie continues evolution of music business, LP format Chris Talbott Associated Press

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But whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s listening to it? The answer is still unclear. Apple has not released official download rates for Songs of Innocence and U2â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s manager, Guy Oseary, also said he didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know how many people had actually downloaded the album.

But that really wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t the

point: The album will live on in usersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; iCloud, and the band envisions new listeners accessing it for the first time for years to come. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re quite happy that 7 per cent of the planet has this album, and they can enjoy it at their leisure,â&#x20AC;? Oseary said.

The Rock and Roll Hall of Famersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; move was hotly debated within the industry as people tried to assess whether it was another stroke of genius from a band that has been a top-selling juggernaut for decades or a ploy by an aging group trying to make a splash in a landscape that has vastly changed since it released its

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last album in 2009. Even though that album went platinum, its sales were a bit of a disappointment for the band.

Back then, frontman Bono told The Associated Press, â&#x20AC;&#x153;We felt that the â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;albumâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; is almost an extinct species, and we (tried to) create a mood and feeling, and a beginning, middle and an end. And I suppose weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve made a work that is a bit challenging for people who have grown up on a diet of pop stars.â&#x20AC;?

That diet has gotten even more extreme since then, with album sales continuing to plummet industrywide, singles dominating and streaming services including Spotify and even iTunes helping to diminish the impact of a cohesive art form album.

So what is U2 trying to achieve with its latest Apple alliance? Oseary said the band achieved one goal: keeping the integrity of â&#x20AC;&#x153;Songsâ&#x20AC;? intact by releasing it as an album. As far as U2â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s larger business goals? â&#x20AC;&#x153;I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t expect everyone to get everything now,â&#x20AC;? Oseary said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Maybe in a few years things will start making sense or they wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t.

But thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not our job. Our job is to make sure the music is in as many hands as possible. This was an incredible opportunity to do that.â&#x20AC;?

U2 joined Jay Z, Beyonce and a growing number of artists who are working out exclusive corporate deals and employing guerrilla ad campaigns rather than moving the album through

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the typical marketing plan of singles release and slow build to launch date.

Like Jay Z and his Samsung partnership to launch â&#x20AC;&#x153;Magna Carta â&#x20AC;Ś Holy Grailâ&#x20AC;? last year, U2 and Interscope Records get handsomely paid â&#x20AC;&#x201C; something thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s no longer guaranteed from album sales alone â&#x20AC;&#x201C; and the money comes on up front. Apple continues a high-profile relationship with a longtime business and philanthropic partner, plus earns more credit for innovation.

Fans get something for free and those who donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want it can just ignore it. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I applaud each of those artists creating a stir and not just falling into a predictable market-

ing strategy,â&#x20AC;? longtime producer and Sony Music Entertainment executive Clive Davis said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think in the case of Beyonce and Jay Z, they had successful results triggering so much extra media attention and coverage because they didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t do things in a formulaic kind of manner.â&#x20AC;?

But there may be penalties to pay later if physical retailers refuse to stock the album, as Target did when Beyonce surprisedropped her self-titled LP exclusively on iTunes last December for a week (it was still a top-seller worldwide). And there are still lots of questions. Will fans now buy a physical copy, released Oct. 14? Will the band lose some of its cool? Even the unflappable

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Jay Z suffered backlash when the app he and Samsung used to distribute his album to 1 million customers cataloged user information, and there have already been complaints from some who didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want a U2 album on their cloud â&#x20AC;&#x201C; even as a gift.

Rob Beckham, an agent with William Morris Endeavor Entertainment who handles some of country musicâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s biggest stars, thinks any negatives that might emerge have already been offset.

All acts suffer a cooling of interest when their careers reach into the decades, he said, and the trick is to find ways to rekindle interest and build new audiences. A win for U2, for sure, but in some ways he feels the excitement over an innovative move will inspire the industry. â&#x20AC;&#x153;People still have to have a passion for the music,â&#x20AC;? Beckham

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spending on its advertising campaign. The band is focused on next monthâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s deluxe edition release, which will include four unreleased songs and acoustic versions of album tracks, and he said theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not ready to talk about the forthcoming album â&#x20AC;&#x153;Songs of Experienceâ&#x20AC;? or speculation that a tour announcement is imminent.

He encouraged everyone to think differently. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s great for music,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Someone right now may have seen this happen and they may decide they want to do something amazing with artwork or with lyrics or something amazing with a video or photos.

We donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know what someone else will innovate, but itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s great to see something exciting happen and see big companies launch something with new music.â&#x20AC;?

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LIFE No need to be ashamed Colleen Segriff spent a long time trying to hide her hair-pulling compulsion. Now she’s trying to help others with the same disorder.

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hen Colleen Segriff leans forward you can see where the bald spots have started to grow in.

It’s been a month since she’s pulled a hair out of her head.

“Right now, I’m just going with it,” she said, smiling.

Segriff has trichotillomania. Literally translated, that means “hair-pulling craziness,” Segriff said. It’s a disorder that involves recurrent urges to pull out hair – from your scalp, eyebrows or even your eyelashes – but beyond that, its cause and treatment are still medical mysteries.

For 37-year-old Segriff, it started with pulling out her eyelashes at about nine years old.

Her parents took her to her pediatrician and later to the hospital, but no one could explain what was going on.

“I remember my pediatrician saying, ‘Well, are other kids pulling out their eyelashes?’” she said.

“There was really not a lot of knowledge” Pulling out eyelashes evolved into pulling out eyebrows.

Eyebrow pencils and dark eye makeup became her shield, but things were never simple.

“It took a lot of effort and it was really scary for me in different circumstances to be exposed in that way.”

In university she started pulling hairs out of her head.

That was a lot harder to mask.

“Going to the hairdresser was stressful. Going swimming was stressful. Things like that, where it was harder to hide where I was pulling,” she said.

For Segriff that was a turning point. She decided to get help and finally received an official diagnosis.

Hair pulling is part of a group of disorders collectively known as body-focused repetitive behaviours.

Aside from pulling hair, people under the BFRB umbrella can also pick at their skin or even severely bite their nails.

These repetitive self-grooming behaviours sometimes get to the point where they can cause significant distress to a person’s life and also shame.

“People think it’s just a really bad habit. They think that

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Colleen Segriff has trichotillomania, a disorder that causes her to have the urge to pull out her hair. She is running the Yukon’s first peer support group meeting for related disorders in October as part of a national awareness week.

they’re the only person who does this really strange thing,” said Sarah Robertson, founder of the Canadian Body-Focused Repetitive Behaviours Support Network.

“But it’s not. There are so many other people.”

BFRBs like trichotillomania affect two to five per cent of the Canadian population, or approximately 2 million adults and children, according to the national advocacy organization.

The disorders are considered part of the obsessive compulsive disorder spectrum, but are not the same thing as OCD. Robertson said the top theory right now is that it has something to do with genetics.

There could also be environmental causes, or it could be trauma-based, she said.

“I know that it feels good and it sooths me and it’s a compulsion. It’s so strong,” Segriff said.

She describes pulling on hairs as similar to weeding a

garden.

“When you pull out a weed, there’s a pull, a tug, and then a release. It’s like that.”

That release of pressure feels good, she said.

With her eyelashes and eyebrows it was also about balance.

“If I pulled out more on this side, I’d have to pull out more on that side. To create balance.”

“You’re completely conscious, but sometimes I can zone out, you know, like when you’re driving.”

Segriff said she would sometimes drive her car with one hand on the steering wheel and the other pulling out hair.

She’s tried therapy to stop and is also on medication.

She credits a hypnosis tape, combined with other factors with helping her for the last month.

Stress levels, combined with eating right and exercising can all contribute to having good mental health, she said.

“I think a combination of

those factors. I would never say to someone else suffering from this condition that you can be hypnotized and be cured.”

The first week in October is Body-Focused Repetitive Behaviours Awareness week in Canada.

Both Segriff and Robertson agree that the public stigma that comes with these types of behaviours is strong.

The public perception is that these are habits that people can “just stop,” Robertson said.

“But it’s not a habit, it’s more serious than that.”

Isolation can lead to depression, Segriff said.

She has lived in the Yukon for the last seven years working as a teacher and now at the Yukon Literacy Coalition.

“It’s actually pretty amazing the number of people that identify somehow with a bodyfocused repetitive behavior,” she said.

“Trichotillomania itself, I have met many people who

have that, and because I’m open about it people talk to me about it.”

Being open has allowed her to talk to the parents of children dealing with BFRBs and help articulate things that the kids might not be able to explain.

“I got to a point in my life that I stopped wanting to hide it because I felt that too much energy was going into trying to mask it.”

Since the medical community has no concrete answer at this point, peer support can be even more helpful than a doctor, Robertson said.

As part of the upcoming awareness week, Segriff is hosting a drop-in public event.

The first BFRB Yukon Peer Support Group Meeting is taking place Monday, Oct. 6 at 7 p.m. at the Family Literacy Centre in the Canada Games Centre. For more information email bfrbyukon@gmail.com.

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When the B.C. 18-year-old was diagnosed with osteosarcoma in his right leg in 1977, doctors immediately amputated the limb above the knee – the standard treatment then – and he embarked on a 16-month marathon of chemotherapy, a drug regimen for this kind of bone cancer that was still somewhat experimental at the time.

For many Canadians, the heroic runner’s name has become synonymous with osteosarcoma, the most common form of primary bone cancer to affect children and teens, and one that also occurs rarely in older adults.

“And that’s always a good and bad analogy because they know who he is but that he had his leg cut off and died – and that’s not the typical scenario now,” says Dr. Jay Wunder, an orthopedic surgeon at Mount Sinai in Toronto who specializes in sarcomas.

“Most bone sarcoma patients now don’t have amputations. Most get limb-sparing or limb-reconstructive surgery,” says Wunder.

“Now the cure rate’s almost up to 80 per cent in younger patients. In older patients it’s more like 70 per cent.

“So that’s a pretty big turnaround in a couple of decades.”

When Dave Lambert, 63, was diagnosed with sarcoma in his left knee almost two years ago, he was initially unaware of the connection to Fox, nor that the path he would follow had been made so much easier by the determined teen who set out in 1980 to run across Canada to raise money for cancer research.

The businessman from Aurora, Ont., just north of Toronto, had developed a bump on his left knee, which rapidly grew into a large mass and burst open when he

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Dr. Jay Wunder, surgeon and chief at Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto, pulls a tower of sarcoma specimens used for cancer genetics research from a freezer of liquid nitrogen in the hospital’s Biospecimen Repository and Processing Lab last Wednesday.

tripped and fell.

His doctor told him a biopsy had confirmed it was a sarcoma.

“He just looked at me and said, ‘Remember Terry Fox?”’ “I’m an older man and when I was growing up anybody who had cancer, they just died,” says Lambert. “And when you heard the word ‘Terry Fox,’ the immediate vision I remember, all that flashed in front of my face, was Terry Fox losing his leg and I could picture him running and then being dead.

That’s all I thought of when he said that word to me and then I just went into shock, total shock.”

But during a referral appointment with Wunder the following week, Lambert learned his cancer was no longer considered an automatic death sentence.

Surgery did not mean losing part of his leg; instead the tumour was removed and tissues in and around the joint were reconstructed.

“It was a very humbling experience,” says Lambert, who was up walking within weeks of the operation and says his knee “looks great.”

While much progress has been made in treating osteosarcoma, there is still much work needed to advance treatment for most of the 50 or so other sarcomas, which in overall cancer terms are still considered rare.

Sarcomas are tumours that arise in connective tissues, such as bone.

But most types develop in soft

tissues like muscle, nerves, skin, fat and blood vessels. The cancer can spread to other parts of the body, such as the lungs, which occurred in Fox’s case and ended his Marathon of Hope on Sept. 1, 1980 just outside Thunder Bay, Ont. “They’re harder to treat,” Wunder says of soft-tissue sarcomas. “If we do good local surgery for those patients, we can cure a fair percentage, but a lot of those patients relapse and there’s no effective curative chemotherapy for them.”

“In fact, if we had effective chemo, (these tumours) would probably be transformed the way osteosarcoma was and we could treat those people very differently.”

In 2010, 1,175 Canadians were diagnosed with soft-tissue sarcoma; about 470 died of the disease in 2009, according to the Canadian Cancer Society, citing the most recent years for which statistics are available.

The cause of sarcoma is unknown, although genetics may make some people more susceptible to the cancer. Various research groups around the world are investigating whether aberrant stem cells might give rise to these tumours, but that still to be determined.

Much of the research focus is on finding new drugs to treat various types of sarcomas, and there has been modest progress in that area.

For instance, a once “uniformly fatal” abdominal sarcoma called

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 2014 GIST, is now being treated with a molecular drug that specifically targets a genetic mutation found in these tumours, leading to â&#x20AC;&#x153;an overnight change in outcome,â&#x20AC;? says Wunder.

His colleague at Mount Sinai and the Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, oncologist Dr. Albiruni Razak, says before the drugâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s discovery, GIST patients had an average life expectancy of nine months; survival for some patients now is measured in years, and for some it can be as long as 15 years.

Drug development is a key goal of the sarcoma research team at Mount Sinai, which includes genetic studies using samples of patientsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; cancerous tissues that are frozen and stored in the hospitalâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s tumour bank â&#x20AC;&#x201C; a collection of innocuouslooking metal containers. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This is the whole critical path of the future, because if you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t do this, you can never improve anything,â&#x20AC;? Wunder says of storing tumours for study.

Cell lines grown in the lab from tumour samples are used to look for potentially effective drugs. Tiny quantities of the cells are put in â&#x20AC;&#x153;dishes,â&#x20AC;? then mixed with candidate drugs by robotic equipment in a so-called high-throughput lab at the hospital. The technology can test thousands of compounds at one time. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s kind of a needle-in-a-

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Razak says chemotherapy has for many years been given using a â&#x20AC;&#x153;blunderbuss approach,â&#x20AC;? trying different combinations in the hope of killing a patientâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s cancer.

Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s increasingly giving way to a more focused strategy, called personalized medicine, in which oncologists hope to match particular drugs to an individual, based on their genetic profile or that of their tumour. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Another way to look at it is to try to individualize per person, not to individualize per disease,â&#x20AC;? he says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The whole idea that just because you have sarcoma â&#x20AC;Ś we

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Lambert attributes his survival to Fox, and the scientific advances spurred by the millions of dollars raised by his marathon and the annual events run in his name. â&#x20AC;&#x153;If they could really understand the true good this money has gone to achieve. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m walking now. I have my leg now. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m alive now because of people like Terry Fox and the people who have supported the Terry Fox run over the years. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Without that, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m not here.â&#x20AC;?

Last Sunday, an estimated 200,000 Canadians joined Terry Fox runs in almost 800 communities across the country, and an estimated three million participants took part in runs hosted by 9,400 schools throughout September.

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NEW ZEALAND Kat Bolstad, a squid scientist from t was a calm morning in Antarctica’s the Auckland University of Technology remote Ross Sea, during the season who was leading a team examining the when the sun never sets, when Capt. creature, described it as “very big, very John Bennett and his crew hauled up beautiful.” a creature with tentacles like fire hoses “This is essentially an intact speciand eyes like dinner plates from a mile men, which is almost an unparalleled below the surface. opportunity for us to examine,” she A colossal squid: 350 kilograms, said. “This is a spectacular opportuas long as a minibus and one of the nity.” sea’s most elusive species. It had been Many people around the world frozen for eight months until Tuesday, agreed: About 142,000 people from when scientists in New Zealand got a 180 countries watched streaming footlong-anticipated chance to thaw out age of the squid examination on the the animal and inspect it – once they Internet.

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According to WHO, “Climate change is already causing tens of thousands of deaths every year from shifthat if we could reduce ing patterns of disease, from extreme worldwide deaths from dis- weather events, such as heat-waves and ease, starvation and disaster floods, and from the degradation of while improving the health of people water supplies, sanitation, and impacts everywhere? According to the World on agriculture” – and it will get worse Health Organization, we can. if we fail to address the problem. The “Previously unrecognized health poor, elderly and children are most benefits could be realized from fast vulnerable. action to reduce climate change and WHO’s conference was held in its consequences,” says a news release advance of UN secretary general Ban about WHO’s first global conferKi-moon’s Climate Summit 2014 for ence on health and climate in Geneva world leaders, taking place in New August 27 to 29, adding, “changes in York September 23, and geared partly energy and transport policies could toward ensuring world leaders come save millions of lives annually from up with an agreement to replace the diseases caused by high levels of air Kyoto Protocol at the Paris UN climate pollution.” Encouraging people to use change conference next year. public transit, cycling and walking Two days before the Climate Suminstead of driving would cut trafmit, on September 21, more than half fic injuries and vehicle emissions a million people are expected to gather and promote better health through in New York for the People’s Climate increased physical activity.

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In a Huffington Post article, Ban Ki-moon stresses that global warming is an immediate and urgent issue.

“Instead of asking if we can afford to act, we should be asking what is stopping us, who is stopping us, and why?” he writes. “Let us join forces to push back against skeptics and entrenched interests. Let us support the scientists, economists, entrepreneurs and investors who can persuade government leaders and policy-makers that now is the time for action.”

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Scientists have warned about global warming consequences for decades, but efforts by fossil fuel interests to sow doubt and confusion, combined with intransigent governments and public apathy, have brought us to a tipping point.

The choice is clear: If we want to protect our health, our children’s and grandchildren’s health, and the natural systems that keep us alive and healthy, we must act now.

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Ernest Leffingwell, scientist with a fan club From that lonely base, Leffingwell made 31 trips around the area by sled and small boat, covered about

by Ned 7,250 kilometres, and camped in a Rozell tent “about 380 times.” This detail he included in a 250-page report for the USGS that reads like a manual on how to live and perform science in the far north. The work has gained him some fans.

“He wasn’t a traditional scientist,” said UAF permafrost scientist and ne hundred years ago, a group world traveler Kenji Yoshikawa. “He of men sailed to the northern was more like an early explorer from coast of Alaska to find a land the 18th century.” mass rumored to protrude from the “Unlike his counterparts of the Arctic Ocean. They did not find the time who were mostly looking for land. After wintering in the north everyone hurried back to warmer places. glory and doing only enough science to support that, Leffingwell quietly Except for Ernest Leffingwell.

Leffingwell, a geologist, teacher, and wandered on his own, dedicating himself to a better understanding of this a veteran of the Spanish-American War, stayed behind on Flaxman interesting place,” Matt Nolan of UAF’s Island, a sandy wedge of land north of Water and Environmental Research Alaska’s coast and 90 kilometres west Center wrote on his website. of Kaktovik. He lived for nine sumNolan found rock cairns at spots mers and six winters in a cabin made where Leffingwell photographed from the ship that brought him there Okpilak Glacier in the Brooks Range in 1906. in 1907. Nolan repeated Leffingwell’s

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The main building at Ernest Leffingwell’s living site on Flaxman Island.

photos in 2004 and shows the impressive loss of ice since Leffingwell hiked there from the coast: drmattnolan.org/ photography/2010/sota/index.htm In addition to taking photos of things that interested him, Leffingwell wrote down observations of everyday life, including dogs’ reactions to wearing packs made of sealskin (“A good dog will pack half his weight all day, but he does not enjoy it.”), and the prevailing opinion about polar bears

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Leffingwell must have loved Alaska’s far north, because he stayed there long after expedition money ran dry. His father gave him some funds to help with his dream, and he also earned a few thousand dollars by selling furs. He even tried whaling with Native crews in the spring of 1910.

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price of $5 a pound for whalebone,” Leffingwell wrote in his USGS paper, The Canning River Region, Northern Alaska. “About six weeks were spent on the ice near Point Barrow, but no whale was killed.”

Local Natives on and near Flaxman Island and some white prospectors in the country taught Leffingwell how to survive in the area. He learned well, judging from his writing.

“At Flaxman Island, during the summer of 1907, about 400 eider ducks and brant were stored in the icehouse for winter consumption,” he wrote in his customary passive voice.

His favorite meat was caribou, but in lean times anything would do.

“Seal and polar bear are not appetizing when one has recently eaten caribou,” he wrote, “but after a period without meat of any other kind for comparison they form a welcome addition to the table.”

Leffingwell shared the local Natives’ preference for fur clothes over wool.

“At first the (fur) clothes are uncomfortably warm, so that one perspires freely, but after a few months the skin becomes accustomed to the heat, so that a man in good physical training will perspire much less than when dressed in woolen clothes,” Leffingwell wrote.

Leffingwell named the Sadlerochit formation (the reservoir of the Prudhoe Bay oilfield), and wrote about oil seeps that inspired government officials to create what is now the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska.

He also took photos of rocks on Flaxman Island he thought glaciers had dropped, though geologists thought there had never been glaciers in the area. Scientists found ancient glacial ice not far from Leffingwell’s camp.

“He made the first (detailed) map of the coast, and he was the first guy to explain ice wedges; you can still use his definitions today,” said permafrost expert and consultant Torre Jorgenson.

“One hundred years later we’re still rediscovering things he discovered.”

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Yukon bird observatories are now ‘full-fledged’ ning in the Western Hemisphere,” says a statement on the Bird Studies Canada website.

Yukon field ornithologists have been displaying their skill and devotion since Ted MurphyErling Friis-Baastad Kelly launched a banding station at Albert Creek in 2001. Since then, arly this month, the US amateurs and professionals have National Audubon Society re- been maintaining careful counts leased the Birds and Climate and consistent coverage of species, Change Report: 314 Species on the locations and dates.

Brink. Meanwhile, the US National Full CMMN membership has Wildlife Service in co-operation real benefits, especially that of being with Cornell Ornithology Lab gave fully included in annual national us The State of the Birds Report for bird-trend studies, says Scho2014. newille. The new status also opens It didn’t come as a shock that the further fundraising opportunities, reports target disappearing habitats and threatened species or that they he adds. That’s especially important call for awareness and action, while when it comes to having trained, experienced field ornithologists on stressing the need for ever more site. knowledge, communication and The bird observatories are well co-operation. served by a host of volunteers, but What is surprising is how well banding is a delicate operation and Yukon is positioned to meet these requires professional direction. The needs. society is fortunate to be able to That was underscored in July hire local fi eld ornithologist Jukka when the Society of Yukon Bird Jantunen each year.

Observatories was granted full The long wait for full membermembership in the Canadian ship is significant in another way.

Migration Monitoring Network, Both the Audubon survey and The CMMN. State of the Birds 2014 report cover The Yukon society maintains a broad swath of geography: the the observatory at Albert Creek Outside. Many southern observanear Watson Lake, the Teslin Lake Bird Observatory and the McIntyre tories that have been in operation longer than those in the Yukon.

Marsh Bird Banding DemonstraOne can’t expect all of their obsertion Site in Whitehorse. “We are now full-fledged,” says biologist Ben vations and data to match those of our territory, says Schonewille.

Schonewille, station manager for It takes time to turn evidence into McIntyre Marsh and co-founder even tentative conclusions. Orniof the Teslin operation. “You have thologists have to sort ongoing to be able to show that you are trends from brief anomalies. really doing things in a scientific“We can’t simply look at the data ally rigorous manner. They put you through the paces to become a we’ve collected in one year or two years or five years,” he says. “The member of the network.” main reason for that is when you The network includes national are monitoring songbirds there’s a member stations, Bird Studies Canada and the Canadian Wildlife lot of variation for different reasons Service. “The vision of the CMMN … Variation in weather is a major factor.” For instance, the heavy, is: To be an essential component prolonged rain of this late summer of bird monitoring, migration research and conservation plancould have affected the number of

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It’s a bumper year for yellow warblers passing through Teslin Lake Bird Observatory.

birds stopping at Teslin. Some may have come to ground while others may have taken detours.

While the Albert Creek observatory and the McIntyre demonstration site operate only in spring, the Teslin observatory opens for bird business in mid-July. Its personnel will be banding until the end of September and the station will remain open until mid-October.

Anything can happen. “For that reason we can’t really even look at trends in our data until we have 10 years,” says Schonewille.

There are indicators ornithologists can use to tell whether birds have had a productive year or not.

In the fall it’s easier to gauge the local productivity of passerines.

Observers can readily tell the young from the old and determine how many were born during a particular year.

“It’s different for different species, but so far we’ve seen record levels of yellow warblers.” But it’s unwise to draw conclusions about the long-term prognosis for either species based on one bumper summer. “If we saw them increasing every year for the next five years that would really be interesting,” he says.

This has been a rich year for

pine siskins as well, but these birds are described as an “irruptive species.” They go through lean years, where comparatively few show up, and then all of a sudden, for some reason, there are many of them.

“So far, as of mid-September, we’ve seen record numbers,” he says.

As for all bird species passing through Teslin – the daily tallies for September are about average this year, the biologist adds. “Though a week ago in Teslin they caught 90 birds in one hour.”

Teslin bird observatory is the furthest north of Canada’s avian observatories. Albert Creek is on the southern end of the Tintina Trench flyway, near Watson Lake.

Many songbirds breed just to the south of the community, in north-

ern B.C. and southern Alaska, so they have traditionally shown up sporadically in the Yukon. Some of these, such as the Cape May warbler and western tanager, are among the birds now, as Schonewille says, “inching their way up the map.” In the wake of warming trends, they are appearing in greater numbers in the North.

Of birds listed in the Audubon climate change report as being endangered because of diminishing habitat, many pass through Yukon stations. These include Bohemian waxwings, white-winged crossbills, boreal chickadees, varied thrushes and Wilson’s warblers. (For a complete list go to climate.audubon. org/geographical-search/yukon) “We are uniquely positioned to monitor the process and we know where the birds are coming from,” says Schonewille.

If that “inching up” among songbirds isn’t, at first blush, as dramatic as the fact that the white-faced ibis is now nesting in Saskatchewan, it is certainly very significant and will require ongoing surveillance.

Follow the Yukon action at yukonbirdobservatories.blogspot. ca/ and for a broader overview visit climate.audubon.org/ and www. stateofthebirds.org/ This column is co-ordinated by the Yukon Research Centre at Yukon College with major financial support from Environment Yukon and Yukon College. The articles are archived at http://www.yukoncollege.yk.ca/research/publications/your_yukon

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There was trouble brewing in the Klondike HISTORY

by the influx of humanity. Tens of thousands of people flooded into the Yukon basin, changing the complexion of the landscape

by Michael Gates forever.

Consequently, the government f you have read Pierre Berton’s had at first a hard time keeping account of the Klondike gold up with the changes, which led to rush, you probably have an im- heroic efforts and creative impropression of the harsh climate and visation by some officials, but isolation, the ordeal experienced in also to well-founded allegations getting there, and the excitement of incompetence and corruption against others. As a result, amidst of the gold rush town at its peak.

The Klondike was transformed the carnival-like atmosphere of Dawson City was a festering seam overnight from an isolated extenof discontent. sion of the Dominion of Canada During the confusion of the into a remote region overwhelmed stampede, the North West Mounted Police extended their authority into areas beyond their mandate simply to save lives and to keep a lid on the temper of the rough and ready mob.

The Mounted Police found themselves not only acting as law enforcement officers, but as judge and jury, postmaster, and in some cases, as social workers too.

They made it mandatory for Senior Bylaw each person entering the Yukon bring a year’s supply of food with Services Constable them. They registered everyPermanent Full Time body who entered the Yukon to keep track of their progress, and The incumbent supervises invoked rules for passage through Bylaw Services personnel Miles Canyon and the Whitehorse and administers the Rapids. They even enforced a enforcement of bylaws and Lord’s-Day provision on the town relevant Territorial Acts for of Dawson, the violation of which the City of Whitehorse. led to a term on the government woodpile.

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People standing in line for mail at the post office sometimes waited for days. Women made day wages holding the place for the wealthier miners.

flood of humanity. Overwhelmed by the volume of paperwork, many civil servants during the gold rush exhibited confusion, incompetence and outright corruption.

Thomas Fawcett, transferred from a backwater sinecure in British Columbia to serve as Gold Commissioner, was not up to the job before him. With as many as 100,000 pieces of paper to process, he was swamped by the demands of the job. He slept in his office to prevent theft, and literally sprinted from his office at lunch time to keep ahead of the mob that wanted to talk to him.

Honest, and painstakingly careful, Fawcett focused on the clerical work but failed to grasp the demands of the bigger situation.

Until the arrival of Commissioner James Walsh. Fawcett was the senior man in the gold rush town.

Meanwhile, Walsh was encamped up the Yukon River four hundred and 50 kilometres away for the winter of 1897/98, seemingly afraid to face the pandemonium that existed in Dawson.

Miners were disgruntled for

a number of reasons. First, they resented the steep royalty rates taken by the federal government off the top of the gold the miners recovered. Secondly, they were angered by changes in the mining regulations that, among other things, reduced the size of claims to 30 metres from the previous one 150. A petition signed by 2500 enraged miners even was sent to Ottawa protesting this change. Third, they were angered by the obvious corruption and incompetence of the civil service.

According to Tappan Adney, noted gold rush chronicler, the staff at the mining recorder’s office ran a side door business, “selling to individuals, for cash or interest in claims, information on unrecorded claims,” and then, “emboldened by the impotency of the Gold Commissioner to correct these abuses, favoured ones began to be admitted during office hours, upon passes, and recorded claims ahead of men who had been waiting often for days in line outside.”

Lineups at the post office were just as bad. People had to wait for mail for as long as three days.

Others were paid to stand in line to hold the place for impatient wealthy miners. Delivery was slow and disorganized. American miners had another beef: the already slow US mail addressed to Dawson City was first directed past Dawson down river to Circle, Alaska, before being sent back up river to its destination, adding weeks to delivery.

Flora Shaw, a British journalist on assignment from the Times of London reported on the situation in letters she sent back to her newspaper. She stated bluntly that government officials were on the take. “A half or quarter interest is frequently quoted as the price at which good claims can be record-

ed,” she said, and “Scarcely a day passes in which some fresh story does not become current of the number of dollars which it has cost to obtain letters.”

But it was the Dominion Creek scandal that provided tangible proof of what had long been known but could not be proven.

In the spring of 1898, Dominion Creek, which had been closed to staking, was reopened. Acting on insider information, with leave granted by his boss, Commissioner Walsh’s cook, Louis Carbeno snuck out of town and staked on Dominion ahead of the crowd. He then worked out a deal with Walsh’s brother for a share in the mine.

Sadly, it was the hapless Fawcett, not Walsh, who became the target of much criticism, especially by the Klondike Nugget newspaper.

The Nugget’s editor, in retaliation for the embarrassment of once being ejected from Fawcett’s office, mounted a campaign against the overworked official, who was eventually demoted and then removed from the Yukon.

Commissioner Walsh was quickly out of a job as well, replaced by William Ogilvie, who journalist Shaw praised as “the symbol of disinterested integrity.”

Ogilvie was also appointed to head an inquiry into the whole corruption affair. Working within restricted terms of reference, Ogilvie exonerated both Fawcett and Walsh of seeking any personal gain. Only one clerk was found guilty of accepting bribes, while others were acknowledged as having accepted money for work done outside of regular working hours.

Clifford Sifton, minister of the Interior in the Laurier government, was the continuing target of much criticism from the Opposition over the whitewash of the affair, even receiving dissent from within the ranks of his own caucus.

Yet when the smoke cleared from the federal election of 1900, Laurier’s government was re-elected to another term in Parliament.

It appears that the electorate was much more satisfied with Laurier’s action with the economy than it was dissatisfied with any mishandling of affairs in a remote nether region of the Dominion.

In Dawson City, the civil servants had displayed some of the finest and worst aspects of human character as the unscripted drama of the gold rush unfolded.

Michael Gates is a Yukon historian and sometimes adventurer based in Whitehorse. His latest book, Dalton’s Gold Rush Trail, is available in stores.

This column originally ran in September 2011. You can contact him at msgates@northwestel.net

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Downhill racers slam it at Sima

Tom Patrick/Yukon News

Aiden Michayouk rides a steep rock face at Sima Slamfest at Whitehorse’s Mount Sima ski resort on Sunday. Over 30 riders took part in the downhill races.

Tom Patrick News Reporter

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ima Slamfest was a bit of a last-minute event this year. But downhill racers have quick reaction times. They need them.

Over 30 riders took part in Slamfest at Whitehorse’s Mount Sima ski resort on Sunday, racing down about 335 metres of vertical drop on windy, challenging trails in mere minutes.

“It was just a last-minute thing,” said organizer Julien Revel.

“Sima was open for biking this weekend and I thought we should get a race because we usually have one.

“We were tight for time, but we were able to find a sponsor and they helped us out quite a bit.”

Revel was an organizer and a winner on Sunday. The 28-yearold won the expert men’s division, completing the roughly two-kilometre run in four minutes and 6.07 seconds.

“It was pretty good. I slipped at the top, but I don’t think I lost that much time,” said Revel, who also won at the 2010 Slamfest.

“I tried to not fall and keep my

speed up.”

Revel couldn’t spare much time; just four seconds separated the top three finishers.

Ben Kinvig came blazing over the finish line in 4:07.52 for second and Joe DeGraff in third at 4:10.07.

“There’s a traverse section that’s really flat and pedally, and I always have trouble maintaining momentum through there,” said Kinvig.

“Joe, who took third, his chain fell off a ways up on a rock feature – he probably could have won it,” he added. “He’s super fast.”

Kinvig won the expert division at last year’s Slamfest, beating Revel by just six seconds. The 20-year-old suffered a concussion in a bad landing off a 60-foot jump at the Canadian Open downhill race at Crankworx in Whistler, B.C., last year.

“I was slower than usual, I’m just getting back into it,” said Kinvig. “I had a bad crash last year in Whistler. I’m just taking it easy now, just slowly getting back into it. I’ll maybe go hard next season, into the racing again.”

A young rider takes part in the post-race “whip” competition.

“I’m glad everybody made it

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Last year’s Slamfest was held without the chairlift with racers shuttled to the top in pick-up trucks and other four-wheel drive vehicles.

“It’s really fun, all the people and everything,” said Mackenzie.

“Knowing everyone is kind of cool because you get to cheer on everyone and everyone cheers you on. It’s just a good event, I think.”

Results Expert men 1st Julien Revel – 4:06.07 2nd Ben Kinvig – 4:07.52 3rd Joe DeGraff – 4:10.07 4th Jonah Clark – 4:13.35 5th Terry Morrison – 4:35.00 6th Josh de la Salle – 4:42.79

Expert women 1st Mackenzie Davy – 5:34.8 2nd Martina Knopp – 5:50.27 3rd Emilie Herdes – 5:50.70 4th Cat O’Donovan – 6:08.61

Males 15-18 1st Brody Ryckman – 4:47.30 2nd Finn Matrishon – 5:14.36 3rd Tim Schirmer – 5:31.24 4th Sam Schirmer – 5:58.41 5th Ian Hanson – 6:08.50 Tom Patrick/Yukon News

Left, Martina Knopp rides in the expert women’s race. Right, Jonah Clark catches some air during a practice run.

in one piece; nobody got hurt,” added Revel speaking of Sunday’s races.

It was a close finish in the expert women’s division as well.

Mackenzie Davy finished the same expert course as the men with a time of 5:34.8. At just 16 years old, she was the youngest in the field.

“The last few years I’ve been in the women’s category because there aren’t many my age that want to do it, so I just kind of compete with them,” said Davy.

“It was really good. I had one little slip, but nothing major. I had a couple crashes in the practice runs, but the race run is what

counts, I guess.”

Martina Knopp raced to second at 5:50.27, Emilie Herdes third in 5:50.7, and Cat O’Donovan, last year’s winner, came fourth with a time of 6:08.61.

Davy placed second last year in expert women and was first for junior women. She won the sport women class at the AFD Gravity Cup downhill event at Sima in 2012 at Sima.

“I won at the Gravity Cup a couple years ago, but this was my fastest time I’ve ever had on this track … My Gravity Cup times was 6:15.

“There are a couple steeper

rock faces, but there are ridearounds for everything though,” added Davy. “Earlier today I crashed on the first rock face …

I’ve done it before, but today is was a little slippery and wasn’t ready for it and crashed. That was the one thing I did the ridearound for in my race run.”

Mackenzie was one of two Davys to win a division on Sunday. Brother Ethan Davy took first in the under-15 expert division.

Brody Ryckman, who won two youth divisions last year, made it three in a row with a win in the males 15-18 division, finishing the expert course in 4:47.30.

Sunday’s was the fifth edition

of Sima Slamfest. The downhill event was held in 2008, 2009 and 2010. Construction of Sima’s chairlift prevented Slamfest from taking place in 2011.

The AFD Gravity Cup Downhill Mountain Bike Race was held instead of Slamfest in 2012.

This past weekend was the last of three in which Sima’s chairlift was operating this summer, taking bikers (and paragliders) to the summit.

Under-15 expert 1st Ethan Davy – 5:14.78 2nd Sam Mather – 5:41.98 3rd Mael Pronovost – 6:25.69

Under-15 intermediate 1st Shane Corban – 7:48.9 2nd Angus Endress – 7:55.34 3rd Ben Shier – 8:03.56 4th Reena Coyne (female) – 9:24.9 Contact Tom Patrick at tomp@yukon-news.com

Tom Patrick/Yukon News

Left, a biker takes Sima’s chairlift up for another run following the races. Right, winner Shane Corban heads towards the finish line in the under-15 intermediate race.

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warm. Jennifer went to the Dominican Republic, so I think that would be nice to go to.”

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Its mission statement reads: “To provide assistance to charities and non-profit organizations.

To help raise funds and bring public awareness to their charitable causes. Promote multiculturalism, special events and non profit fundraisers throughout Canada. Be a symbol of today’s modern woman!”

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iss Teen Yukon Territory is now also Miss Teen Canada Charity.

Whitehorse’s Alissa Budzinski was awarded the title of Miss Teen Canada Charity at the Miss Canada Globe Productions pageant in Toronto last month.

The 17-year-old arrived in Toronto expecting a final stage of selection, but her charity work over the past year earned her the title outright.

“When I first got there, I didn’t know I had won. I figured they were bringing back the top five finalists and would have to do an interview and all that question-and-answer thing,” said Budzinski. “So I was pretty shocked at first … I wasn’t expecting that to happen at all. That was quite a big surprise.”

Budzinski, who is a senior at Vanier Catholic Secondary School, was named Miss Teen Yukon Territory at last year’s Miss Canada Globe pageant.

Following the pageant she donated a lot of her time to various organizations. She took part in numerous charity runs/ walks including the Aids Walk for Life, Terry Fox Run and ALS walk in Whitehorse.

“After I won my regional title, I did charity events throughout the year and I had done the most of the girls who were competing,” said Budzinski.

She also gave time to a local animal shelter, walking dogs and caring for cats. “I wanted to take them all home,” she said.

“I tried to volunteer as much as I could. I tried to go weekly to the animal shelter … In the fall I did a lot of the (charity)

Contact Tom Patrick at tomp@yukon-news.com Alistair Maitland/Yukon News

Whitehorse’s Alissa Budzinski was named Miss Teen Canada Charity at a Miss Canada Globe Pageant last month in Toronto, Ont. The 17-year-old will next compete in an international pageant as Miss Canada.

walks … and the Rendezvous events.”

As a contestant in last year’s pageant, Budzinski listed all the elements on the periodic table in numeric order for her talent. For her regional gown, she showed her Yukon roots with a “snowshoe shuffler” costume inspired by the Rendezvous celebrations. She selected WaterCan as her primary charity. It’s a Canadian organization dedicated to providing clean water to poor people around the world.

As a national title holder, Budzinski will eventually trade her Miss Yukon sash for a Miss Canada one when she goes to compete at an international pageant.

One doesn’t have to look far back to find a similar Yukon success story.

Whitehorse’s Jennifer Perrin was named first princess at the Miss Canada Charity pageant last September in Toronto.

As a title holder Perrin attended the Miss Petite Beauty International in the Dominican Republic this past April where she was named first princess as the runner-up at the international pageant.

Budzinski was actually one three Yukoners Perrin recruited following her first pageant in 2012.

“She scouted me a little over a year ago and I went to the first one where I won my regional title, and then I got invited back this year,” said Budzinski.

“It’ll probably be in 2015 because I have a lot of school work to do,” she added of going to an international pageant.

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Construction of new F.H. Collins track underway Tom Patrick News Reporter

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ukon runners will be back on track next year. Literally.

Construction of a new running track is underway at F.H. Collins Secondary School in Riverdale and will be ready for use sometime next year.

It will replace the track that was ripped up early spring to make way for the new school currently being built on the site. The former track was the only one in the territory, meaning Yukoners have been without one all running season.

School track meets and training sessions for Outside competitions were held on a field, where the new track is being constructed, with lines painted directly onto the grass.

The new track will be much like the former one. It will be a six-lane, 400-metre cinder gravel track, not a rubber track like many had hoped.

“It’s better than nothing,” said Athletics Yukon head coach Don White. “Having said that, take a look at the results the seniors got (at the 55+ Games) when they were practising on the grass track – a track is a track at their level. The big difference is, when we take the young people out to compete at westerns, the Canada Games, anywhere there’s rubber, if they are using track spikes and they have no experience, the issue is muscle damage and strain. One example, we were at the westerns a number of years ago and Knute Johnsgaard was there to do the 5,000-metre and he was crippled for a week afterwards because of the muscle strain that happened.”

“If we have a rubber track here, we can train the kids on it properly so they don’t end up running into those kinds of issues.”

Yukon’s Department of Educa-

tion, which is putting $828,520 into the track, consulted both Athletics Yukon and the Yukon Soccer Association in planning the project.

With its location on a lower field, between the new school and a forest with power lines along the edge, the oval shape of the track has been elongated. Because of that, there is not enough room to put a regulation-size soccer field within the track.

“The difference is it’s a narrower radius,” said White. “So instead of being 37 metres from the centre out, it’s only 30 metres. So it’s going to be a bit tighter for people to go around the corners.”

“At the end of the day, the dimensions are right as far as the lengths go. Where we end up putting the off-sets for things like the 400, the 800, the start of the 1,500, will have to be adjusted a little bit to suit the track.”

Since it is not rubber and has six lanes, opposed to eight, the track will not suffice if Whitehorse hopes to host a major Games, like the Western Canada Summer Games or the Canada Summer Games.

(Whitehorse also doesn’t have enough tennis courts to host either Games.)

“It’s not eight lanes, it’s not rubber, it doesn’t have a steeplechase (water pit), so it doesn’t meet the minimums required to host the westerns,” said White. “So we still end up needing another track somewhere.”

On the bright side, the straightaways will be long enough for the

Alistair Maitland/Yukon News

Construction of a new running track at F.H. Collins Secondary, seen here on Thursday, will be ready next year. The Department of Education is spending $828,520 on the project.

100-metre dash. There is also poten- allow us to put in a long jump pit – tially room to add onto the facility at least we’re hoping so.”

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train on, Yukon athletes posted some fantastic results this season in athletics competitions.

Yukon’s track team won 26 medals at the 2014 Canada 55+ Games last month in Alberta.

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In his first Canadian Masters Outdoor Championships, Yukon MP Ryan Leef won a gold and silver in Toronto earlier in the month.

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Whitehorse paraglider Trevor Mead-Robins, of Fly Yukon, takes student Bostjan Skrlj up for a flight at Mount Sima on Sunday.

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is a former winner of ``The Ultimate Fighter’’ who has a black belt in Brazilian jiu-jitsu as well as a cannon for a right hand.

And both are coming off big performances: Hunt (9-8-1) against Silva and Nelson (21-9) with a TKO win over Antonio (Minotauro) Nogueira in April. Like Hunt, Nelson broke his hand in the bout.

Hunt and Silva earned the fight of the night bonus and kudos from UFC president Dana White for their Brisbane brawl. ``Both Hunt and Silva win FON and both get their win bonus and I might buy them both their own private ISLANDS!!!! Sickest HW fight ever!!!,’’ White tweeted that night.

The UFC boss’s enthusiasm was tempered later by news that the sixfoot-four 264-pound Silva tested positive for elevated levels of testosterone.

Hunt has been in the wars of late.

At at UFC 160 in May 2013, his last fight before Silva, he broke his toe and needed six stitches after a knockout loss to Junior Dos Santos. He was laid low after the fight when a bruise suffered during his training camp became infected. ``It’s been kind of funny, one (fight) after the other,’’ Hunt said of his ill luck. ``But such is life, it’s part of fighting.’’

Hunt appears to have issues of his own heading into the Nelson fight. Yahoo, quoting a UFC source, reported that the five-foot-10 Hunt weighed 284 pounds Thursday, meaning he would have to lose 19 pounds to make the heavyweight limit of 265 Friday for the Saitama Super Arena bout.

The card also includes a lightweight bout between No. 9 contender Myles (Fury) Jury and Takanori (The Fireball Kid) Gomi. Welterweight Amir Sadollah, winner of Season 7 of ``The Ultimate Fighter,’’ takes on veteran Yoshihiro (Sexyama) Akiyama in a battle of two fighters who have not been in the Octagon for more than two years And second-ranked women’s bantamweight Miesha (Cupcake) Tate faces Japan’s Rin Nakai.

Hunt is no stranger to Saitama from his days in K-1 and Pride. ``I have good and bad memories fighting in Japan,’’ he said. ``I’m looking forward to going back to work and putting on a good show for the people that pay their money to come and watch me fight. I’m going to try to move closer to that title shot.’’

Hunt calls his combat sports abilities ``a gift from God.’’ ``I never wanted to be a fighter,’’ he said. ``I just got into a fight outside a nightclub and that’s how I started. I didn’t go to train at some karate school for 10 or 20 years. I just stumbled upon it. Four days later I was fighting (Muay Thai).’’

One of the bouncers at the nightclub invited him to his gym and Hunt, who had been going down a poor life path, suddenly found himself a fighter.

Years later he is the main attraction. ``God saved my life and so has fighting,’’ he said. ``Fighting changed my life completely. The angry kid that was lost as a child is gone. I’m an adult now _ of course I make mistakes, I’m not perfect_ but I’m always trying to stay straight ... I’m grateful. I’ve been blessed.’’

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

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

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: of, forming, or relating to a velum and especially the soft palate

Puzzle A

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Rearrange the letters to spell a word Hint: characterized by chance or random elements.

Puzzle B

CLUES ACROSS 1. Cudgel 5. Wanes 9. Capital of Morocco 14. Glass in a window or door 15. A pellet of medicine 16. Era 17. Friends (French) 18. The content of cognition 19. Reverence 20. Evian or Perrier 23. Violent public disorder 24. Photograph (slang) 25. Picket fence

28. Internal support structure 33. Was in debt to 34. Old festival 35. Wrath 36. Nostrils 38. Option key 39. Plastic wrap brand 41. Data executive 42. Motorsports company 44. At an advanced time 45. Makes an effort 47. Des __, Iowa 49. The sheltered side

50. An open skin infection 51. Am. N.W. mountains 56. 1st Hindu calendar month 58. Ballpoint pen 59. Swiss river 61. Thomas __, American patriot 62. 50010 IA 63. Tectona grandis 64. One who avoids others 65. Used esp. of dried up vegetation 66. Make less difficult

CLUES DOWN 1. Accountant certified by the state 2. A young sheep 3. Pearly shelled mussel genus 4. Mount a horse 5. Concluding speech 6. Fr. bathroom basin 7. Emitted blood 8. Shredded cabbage 9. Lizards 10. To each one 11. Dutch colonist 12. Behave in a certain manner 13. Old word for “your”

21. Metal food container 22. One who copies the behavior of another 25. 68770 NE 26. Be ready for, expect 27. Dormouse of So. Europe 28. The act of selling 29. Young foxes 30. Straits between the Sinai & Arabian Peninsula 31. Speak 32. Hawaiian geese 34. Abstain from food 37. Period of an academic year 40. Estrange

43. Detailed design criteria for a piece of work 46. __ May, actress 47. Having a cheerless aspect 48. Mouths or openings 50. More dried-up 51. Abel’s brother (Bible) 52. Son of Lynceus 53. Coin worth 1/10 of a dollar 54. Mother of Cronus 55. Geological times 56. Corporal (abbr.)

57. Vietnamese currency unit 60. Supplement with difficulty

L AOYR T E A

WORD SCRAMBLE Rearrange the letters to spell a word Hint: in mingled confusion or disorder.

Puzzle C

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ROOMMATE WANTED to share quiet scenic waterfront home at Marsh Lake, close to ski trails & community centre, animals welcome, N/S, $500/mon + shared utils.

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F/T or P/T Customer Service Representitive You are a mature person who is looking for a long term position with an established company that has a competitive wage and benefits package. You also enjoy giving a high level of customer service to people looking for fine gifts and jewellery.

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SEEKING A FULL TIME RECEIVER The successful candidate will be processing shipments of general gift merchandise and jewellery for retail sale at Murdoch’s.

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Case Manager Regular Full Time Salary: $63,022.26 - $73,727.13 Location: Whitehorse Reporting to the Director of Community Wellness, this position manages the income assistance program, manages client cases; performs as part of the CAFN Community Wellness team; and performs other related duties.

Income Assistance Administrator Auxiliary On-Call Salary: $48,617.15 - $56,875.19 Location: Haines Junction Reporting to the Haines Junction Case Manager, this position administers the CAFN Income Assistance Program; performs as a member of the Community Wellness Team; and performs other related duties.

IT – Site Support Technician Regular Full Time Salary: $57,620.35 - $67,407.66 Location: Haines Junction Under the direction of the System Administrator, the Site Support Technician provides hands on assistance in the areas of information and communication technology (ICT), following documents, procedures and checklists. The role of the Site Support Technician is to deal with task that can’t be done remotely, such as installing and configuring new hardware, dealing with hardware failures, network failures, internet connectivity, and managing equipment that can’t be managed remotely. The site support technician also assists with information and communication technology help desk requests in coordination with the System Administrator.

Under Fills & Mentorships will be considered.

An Eligibility List will be established from this posting.

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

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

Application deadline: 4:30 p.m. on September 30, 2014 Send Applications and/or resumes to: Human Resource Officer Champagne & Aishihik First Nations Fax: (867) 634-2108 Phone: (867) 634-4244 Email: jgraham@cafn.ca

Reporting to the Executive Director, you will be providing advice and support to members, shop stewards and colleagues. You will be required to form and maintain collaborative working relationships with employer representatives, despite opposing views or changing interests. You will need to be able to manage a busy caseload covering a variety of labour relations issues in an often-hectic environment where work priorities can change any moment.

HIGH POINT ELECTRIC is hiring electricians for a commercial project in Whitehorse.

Experience to include: Conduit, BX and distribution work, fixture installation, bending EMT. Must be willing to do shift work and overtime Valid drivers license required Must have own tools & safety gear Send resume to: office@hpoint.ca MAINTENANCE WORKER: CDC (Carmacks Development Corporation) is seeking skilled handyman for occasional/part-time work in Carmacks.

Duties include minimal landscaping, building maintenance. Own tools preferred.

For information email: info@cdcproperties.ca HELP WANTED Hotel Front Desk Clerk NOC #6525 Permanent Full-time 35-40 hrs/week, $13.00 per hr Duties include: •maintaining inventory of vacancies, reservations and room assignments •register guests, answer inquiries regarding hotel services and registration by mail, phone and in person •present statements of charges & receive payment Contact: Joyce Yukon202@gmail.com Elite Hotel & Travel Ltd. 206 Jarvis St Whitehorse, Yukon Y1A 2H1

Head Cook The Town and Mountain Hotel is seeking a qualified kitchen cook to manage the food service for The Towne Club Lounge, which is

In order to be successful in this position, you will require a moderate level of knowledge in the areas of administrative law, labour relations and con lict resolution. You must have the ability to conduct legal and other research, and to engage in pragmatic problem solving. You should possess excellent interpersonal and communication skills, and be comfortable dealing with upset or angry individuals. Moderate to excellent writing skills are required for this position.

You should be familiar with collective bargaining/grievance processes, as well as the bene its and challenges associated with unionized working environments.

Applications should be sent to: Laura Hureau, Executive Director Yukon Employees Union 201-2285 Second Avenue Whitehorse, YT, Y1A 1C9 Email to: lhureau@yeu.ca Application Deadline: September 26, 2014 (deadline extended) Please note: We welcome applications from all equity groups.

open from 4:00 to 11:00 PM daily.

TOP WAGES PAID. Please email: kayle@townmountain.com

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

Specializing in estate clean-up & buy-outs.

The best way to deal with your concerns.

Free, no obligation consultation.

333-0717 SINGER QUILTING sewing machine, many features. 668-5786 TORIN 2 1/2 floor auto jack, $20. 334-8318 MENʼS VASQUE hiking boots, size 10.5 or 11, 667-7144 MCDONALDS H O C K E Y cards from 1991-92 to 2009/10. Almost every card issued minus some short prints, incl. 27 unopened paks/yr. Over 1,200 cards, $1,000 firm. 633-3154.

4 NEW pocket knives, $10 for all. 334-7061

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 2014 WORLD HOCKEY Association, remember it? Two rare books, (history, statistics, photos). Exc. shape, $50. 633-3154 TRADING CARDS, binder full of non-sport trading cards (James Bond, X-men, Desert Storm, Enduring Freedom). About 500 cards. $50. 633-3154 CFL FOOTBALL cards, 17 different complete sets of cards, including early OPC. Almost 2,600 cards, serious inquiries. $1,500.

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

2 GLASS display cases, 36â&#x20AC;?HX24â&#x20AC;?WX30â&#x20AC;?L, 36â&#x20AC;?HX24â&#x20AC;?WX32â&#x20AC;?L. 334-4568 1,250 GALLON water tank, used only in summer for 4 years, clean, perfectly functional, not needed anymore, $500. 336-1502 COMPLETE ELECTRICAL panel for 200 AMP, great cond, $150. 633-2837 34â&#x20AC;? SNOWBLOWER, being fully tuned & serviced at Ken Small engines, $1,500 obo.

800 Contractor genset, 1 tank gas since new, $1,500 obo. 334-9636

THREE COMPLETE OPC hockey card sets (1999-00 to 2001-02 period) plus some short prints. Over 900 cards. $150. 633-3154

We will pay CASH for anything of value Tools, electronics, gold & jewelry, cameras, furniture, antiques, artwork, chainsaws, camping & outdoor gear, hunting & fishing supplies, rifles & ammo.

G&R New & Used 1612-D Centennial St. 393-2274 BUY â&#x20AC;˘ SELL

COLLECTION OF 1,000 vinyl records, $2,000 obo. 334-4568

3 LARGE glass display cabinets suitable for small store. Text 334-0942 or call after 7

DIAMOND RING, 10 Cdn diamonds, white gold, never been worn, all paperwork incl, size 7, new $1,800, asking $1,000. 334-7405

GOLD NUGGET watch, brand new, double ram set, paid $4,200, asking $3,500.

393-4796 or cell 336-2146

400 BOARD ft of 3/4â&#x20AC;? cedar boards, $700, 35 gallon electric water heater, $60.

633-4018

BEAUTIFUL CRYSTAL bowl and vase, exc cond, $40 for both. Anne @ 456-7297

FICUS TREE, end table with magazine rack, lv msg 667-2583

PARTY-LITE CANDLES and candle holders, brass, iron, glass, 26 items in all priced from $10 to $25 ea or in pairs. Anne @ 456-7297

V, THE complete series, The Final battle + the original miniseries, $25. Serge @ 667-2196 after 5pm

WOLF HIDE, large tanned timber wolf pelt, typical grey & white colour, $500. 668-3632 lv msg TOOLS, COMPLETE set of tools for bricklaying, drywalling, tiling, carpeting, make a deal. 668-7026 WOOD SHAVINGS FROM MILL 1 ton feed bag Clean & dry Excellent bedding, mulch, landscaping, insulation etc. $50/bag plus $25 bag deposit Delivery available 633-5192 or 335-5192 9-24â&#x20AC;?X24â&#x20AC;?X5.5â&#x20AC;? THICK steel reinforced concrete pads at $30 ea. Len @ 867-332-1927 HOUSEPLANTS, 4Ęź long orange bloom, lipstick vine, large Chinese evergreen, large spider plant, etc, $10 to $35. 660-4321

KEYCHAIN RACK with assorted vintage keychains, large gumball machine, old, never used, text 334-0942 or call after 7

OKIDATA 390 Plus Microline 24 Pin Printer, Tractor Feed paper & 4-ply invoices.

668-6079 22â&#x20AC;? WEED trimmer on wheels, gas powered, 821-3591 HYDROPONIC GROWING kit incl 1 1,000 watt balast plus HPS or NH bulb plus reflector hood. Kit price $200. 334-7535 30â&#x20AC;? ELECTRIC start snowblower, Craftsman II, 667-6649 MOVING OUT sale, queen size bed, 8 mos old, $700, leather chair, $200, small kitchen appliances, lamps. 456-4711 HONEYWELL HEATING thermostat, $25, Dayton cooling thermostat, $50. 334-7535 8â&#x20AC;? IN-LINE Hurricane fans, $100 ea, Intermatic timers, T-104, $35. 334-7535 8 1,000-WATT digital dimmable ballast, dual power, 120/240, very efficient, $150 ea.

334-7535 NORTH POWER 330 reversible 700lb plate compactor, new, never used, $1,000.

867-634-7074 TWO 4X4S, 12Ęź long, 10 sheets of sheet iron, 10Ęź long, six sheets @ 6Ęź long, good condition, ideal for shed roofing, $75 for all.

Jim 633-2070 5-PIECE KING size comforter set & 12X12 Berber carpet in neutral colours. 668-7157 LADIESĘź STAMPED 14K yellow gold custom ring channel set with 5 round brilliant cut diamonds, 0.66ct, needs to be seen to be appreciated, size 7.5, $1,000. 667-6587 lv msg LADIESĘź 14K yellow/white gold engagement ring set with 1 round brilliant cut diamond & 4 round brilliant cut diamonds, 1.43 ct, size 7.5, must be seen, $2,000. 667-6587 lv msg PANASONIC LUMIX DMC G3 camera with Acme made water resistant case, good cond, $250 obo. 335-0233 DSLR CANON T3 camera, 2 Canon lenses, 18-55mm & 15;-85mm, lens hood EW-78E, camera bag, Giotto tripod, Manfrotto joystick, shutter release cable, 2 batteries, charger, SD card (10) 32Gb, Lenspen, $1,200.

336-2848 TV STAND suitable for flat screen, 3 glass shelves, $50. 633-2837 NEW HONDA generator, SM6500 XE, $2,500. 456-9536

SEVERAL PIECES of 1â&#x20AC;? & 2â&#x20AC;? rough Birch lumber, 4-2X6X12Ęź, 2-1/2â&#x20AC;? 4X8 plywood sheeting, walnut veneer, glass topped coffee and end tables. 633-4242 eves

DEHUMIDIFIER, WORKS well, removes 1 gal plus of moisture per day, $300 obo.

633-5552

2011 RADIENCE Lounger Curve Hot Tub, Elite series-45 jets, Black Opal, cedar skirting, full insulation, incl brown cover, $8,500 obo. can also include wiring and breaker.

332-3493

KENMORE DRYER, good cond, $40, GE electric range, $30. 334-8318

3 PAIRS used Nike shoes, good cond, size 8.5, $10 ea or all for $15, also new 1.5 TB Seagate External Hard Drive, $70. email raghu@northwestel.net or call 633-2093 LOTS OF Melamine white kitchen cupboards, upper & lower, enough for large kitchen, c/w oak pulls from reno, good for suite, cabin, shop, or your own kitchen.

333-0717

35 PAPERBACK mysteries, various authors, $20. 633-3154 PLACER CLAIMS on proven creek in Whitehorse mining district, requires large iron capability, may consider percentage with p r o v e n o p e r a t o r . bcmackinnon@northwestel.net or 867-634-2629 LADIES 18â&#x20AC;? 12-spd bicycle from Cdn Tire, new cond, ridden twice, paid $125, asking $50. 332-1680 lv msg CANNING JARS & lids, propane furnace for shop or cabin. 456-7243

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KENMORE WASHER & dryer pair, older model, top load, $150 for both or $100 ea.

456-7030 for details

KENMORE FRIDGE & stove, mint cond, $250 for both. 633-2837 COMPACT ALL-IN-ONE kitchen unit, 2-burner 120 volt ac stove top w/stainless steel sink and 120 volt ac refrigerator, perfect for small suite, made by Wood, $350.

336-1412 GE QUIET Power portable dishwasher, exc cond, $300. 456-7856

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BUTTON LEVI jeans, new/used, free new Beta VCR & tapes, older cash register for garage sales, $50, glass metal frame door, pressure step exerciser, $30. 667-7144 TRAILER TIRE, ST 205/75R15 on 5-hole rim, 5 ply load range C (max 1820 pds.), new, $50. 633-4676 or paradisem@northwestel.net KERR OIL furnace, 74,000 BTU, serviced every year, very good cond, $450 obo.

667-6365 STANDARD SIZE stainless dbl bowl kitchen sink with ledge, new, still in box, didn't fit, paid over $100, asking $70 obo. 456-7880

Des professionnels engagĂŠs Conseils en dĂŠveloppement de carrière CrĂŠation, amĂŠlioration et traduction de CV Simulation dâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;entrevue

LOOKING FOR 0 gauge model electric trains, Lionel, MTH. Call 633-6310 SEGA DREAMCAST with Sonic Adventure and memory unit, $225. 334-7124 after 7pm

WOMEN'S GLOVERALL duffle coat, blue, size 18, $30. 668-2877

HOBART WELDER w/large wire-feed, 18 hp Onan gas engine, 1300 hours. 8500 watt generator. Ideal for welding or backup power for house or small business, $3,500. Don 332-6701 ELECTRIC DOWNRIGGER for fishing with weight & attachments, little used, $500.

456-2027

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Electrical Appliances GE PROFILE flat-top stove, very clean, vg cond, must sell $125. 633-3982

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CHEST DEEPFREEZE, 21 cu ft, 52â&#x20AC;? wide.

821-3591 WHITE SELF-CLEANING stove & built-in dishwasher, good working cond, $125.

333-9020

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

60-GAL HOT water tank, fairly new, $150.

633-2837 MAYTAG PORTABLE dishwasher, $100.

456-7030 for details

Employment Opportunity

Providing leadership through our strengths in programming, services and research, Yukon Collegeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;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 Yukonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s capacity through education and training.

Instructor/Coordinator

Watson Lake Community Campus School of Community Education and Development Permanent Position Salary: $74,096 to $88,204 per annum (Based on 75.0 hours bi-weekly) Competition No.:14.111 Initial Review Date: October 6, 2014 Watson Lake is a small Yukon community that lies within the traditional territory of the Liard First Nation with an estimated population of 800. It is located near the Liard River, at the junction of the Robert Campbell Highway and the Alaska Highway and is considered a key transportation hub for the Territory and the â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;gateway to the Yukonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;.

Reporting to the Chair, School of Community Education & Development (SCED), this position works as a member of a diverse team to develop, promote, deliver and evaluate programs/courses that support the education and training goals of the Watson Lake community and Yukon College.

Applicants should have an undergraduate degree, SUHIHUDEO\ D 0DVWHU¡V LQ D UHODWHG Ă&#x20AC;HOG FRPELQHG ZLWK experience in the following: instructing in Adult Basic Education, developing and coordinating educational courses and programs, community development and working with First Nations organizations and agencies.

Consideration may be given to those with an appropriate blend of education and teaching experience.

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

Be a part of one of Canadaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most dynamic environmental and socio-economic assessment processes; working with an energe c, progressive organiza on. We are commi ed to the well-being of our employees and encourage their personal and professional development.

Our commitment is to be an impar al, eďŹ&#x20AC;ec ve and eďŹ&#x192;cient organiza on that provides assistance to all involved in the assessment process.

ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT Mayo Designated OďŹ&#x192;ce Permanent posi on

Located in Mayo, this posi on reports to the Manager, Designated OďŹ&#x192;ce and is responsible for providing recep on and administra ve support to the staďŹ&#x20AC; of the Designated OďŹ&#x192;ce. Applicants should demonstrate their ability to work independently in a confiden al environment, with frequent interrup ons, and their ability to mul -task and priori ze their workload while maintaining a posi ve a tude with both co-workers and the public. Applicants must have experience with Microso Outlook, Word, Excel and Access.

The annual salary range for this posi on is $51,489 - $59,126 based on 75 hours biweekly.

Flexible work arrangements may be considered.

If you feel you have the qualifica ons and desire to meet the challenges of this posi on please forward a cover le er and resume outlining how your experience and qualifica ons relate directly to the posi on.

A job descrip on is available at the Mayo Designated OďŹ&#x192;ce, 308 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 1st Avenue in Mayo, YESAB Head OďŹ&#x192;ce, Suite 200 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 309 Strickland Street in Whitehorse or on our website at www.yesab.ca.

Please submit applica ons to: Finance and Administra on Manager, YESAB Suite 200 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 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 September 28, 2014.

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KENMORE KITCHEN stove, older but 4 burners & oven work perfectly, beige & black in colour, 867-821-2997 or sweeet_30@hotmail.com

HURLBURT ENTERPRISES INC.

2 BELL satellite receivers w/remotes, exc cond, Model 3100, $60. 334-8318 PROJECTOR LCD Model HD-3k w/HDMI connection, c/w extra lens & 50" screen, vg cond. Paid $3,600 for it. 332-6678 TV/STEREO CABINET/STAND, glass door, two shelves & wood top, $25. 633-6310

Computers & Accessories NEC 18â&#x20AC;? flat screen monitor, good working cond, $20. 668-6079 BLACK IPHONE 4S in excellent condition, 16Gb, locked with Telus, $220. 796-3749 FAX/PHONE P 1040/1050 Fax series, phone and fax in one, exc cond, new toner, c/w manual, $60 obo. 456-7856

Musical Instruments ELECTRIC & acoustic guitars, Ibanez hollow-body, Larevee special edition, all paper work incl, also Guilds, Corts, Seagull, Alverez etc. Call for info 334-3009 PIANO & THEORY LESSONS Beginners to Advanced, Private & Class lessons.

Utilizing the musical concepts of Kodaly, Music for Young Children and RCM. RCM exam & Rotary Music Festival preparation.

668-2889 YAMAHA CLAVINOVA piano model CVP509, check wonderful features on Internet, perfect for beginners or advanced players, over $9,000 in stores, asking $6,500.

Serge 667-2196 after 5pm 3/4 SIZE violin, great condition, c/w wax, tuner, case, needs someone to play it again, paid $450, asking $350 obo. Kerri or Paul @ 668-4768 VINTAGE AMP speakers 24"X19", 10" woofers, 3 1/2â&#x20AC;? tweeters, $40 for both. 633-3819 120-YR-OLD VIOLIN, hand crafted in NB, very special quality sound, needs a good home, case included, make an offer.

456-7856

Guns & Bows

TO THE woman in Hillcrest who was going to give me free wood behind her shed, please call me, I lost your ph# & couldnĘźt find your house. 333-0744

2006 TOYOTA Corolla CE, exc cond, standard, 74,965 kms, $6,500 obo. Mike or Kim at 667-4701

WINCHESTER MODEL 70, XTR, 300 Win Mag, Burris 3X9 scope, some ammo, gd cond, $625. 456-4395

WANTED: BLUEBOARD left over from building bathrooms, need 20ĘźX6Ęź. 333-0744

2004 JETTA TDI Sedan, gets 1100 km/tank, winter Pirelli tires, hid lights, recent work incl timing belt, regular synthetic oil changes, $6,000 obo. 336-8525

Firewood

TVs & Stereos

Store (867) 633-3276 Dev (867) 335-5192 Carl (867) 334-3782

â&#x153;&#x201D; Beetle-killed spruce from Haines Junction, quality guaranteed â&#x153;&#x201D; Everything over 8" split â&#x153;&#x201D; $250 per cord (4 cords or more) â&#x153;&#x201D; Single and emergency half cord deliveries â&#x153;&#x201D; You-cut and you-haul available â&#x153;&#x201D; Scheduled or next day delivery

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 2014

RUGER .338 mag, stainless steel bolt action rifle with 3X9 scope & ammo, $600.

456-2027 REMINGTON 12-GAUGE shotgun, 3â&#x20AC;? magnum pump action, long barrel, $450.

456-2027 PROFESSIONAL RELOADING kit, 8 dies for different cartridges, everything you need, $1,800 obo, bench also available. 456-2027 RUGER SUPER Six revolver, .22 magnum single action, fully adjustable sights, 6â&#x20AC;? barrel, $350 obo. 456-2027

2012 HONDA Civic Ex, blue, auto, sunroof, remote start, Bluetooth, USB, power windows/locks, 40,000 km, windshield/interior mint, no accidents, c/w winter/summer tires, $18,000. 336-2023 2012 HONDA Civic LX, auto, black, exc cond, block heater, winter & all season tires, 2 sets of Honda mats, 4-cyl, cruise control a/c, Bluetooth, 23,500kms, $15,000.

335-5583

SMITH & Wesson .357 mag model 686, 6â&#x20AC;? stainless steel revolver, double action, $500 obo. 456-2027

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FIREWOOD FOR SALE $160 per cord 20 ft. lengths, 5 cord loads.

Small delivery charge.

867-668-6564 Leave message CORDS OF DRY PINE For sale Cut to length 668-3534 DONĘźS FIREWOOD Scheduled daily deliveries HJ Beetle kill Spruce $260 per cord, City limits Phone 393-4397

2010 TOYOTA Matrix, 42,000kms, standard, power windows, locks, cruise control, AC, great winter tires, auto start, AUX/CD player, exc cond, $12,900. 334-3605

CZ 455 22 Win mag, $500, Remington 700 LSS, 300 Win mag, Leupold scope 3-9X40, $1,200. 667-4425

2007 HONDA Civic SI, 6-spd manual, 90,000, mint cond, $12,900 obo. 334-2194

EVF FUELWOOD ENT Year Round Delivery â&#x20AC;˘ Dry accurate cords â&#x20AC;˘ Clean shavings available â&#x20AC;˘ VISA/M.C. accepted Member of Yukon Wood Producers Association Costs will rise.

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STAINLESS REMINGTON model 700, .375 H&H mag, iron plates, c/w recoil pad & cartridge holder, $600. 334-8086

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Wanted WANTED: CARING individuals who would like to join our team of volunteers, training will be provided. Contact Cst. Philip Whiles at Philip.Whiles@rcmp-grc.gc.ca for more info WANTED: WINDOWS & doors for cabin.

336-3283 WANTED: DOUBLE futon frame. 633-2117

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MEDIUM SIZED dog compatible with cats.

633-2837

2:04 AM ON SEPTEMBER 10, AT 6 LBS 2 OZ AND 18 INCHES.

WANTED: COMMERCIAL chain link fencing, good for dogs, 4Ęź to 6Ęź height. Frank @ 668-3647

We are very grateful to Ruth Lera, Dr. Alton and Dr. Barnes, and the maternity nurses at WGH for their care of us.

WANTED: 668-6716

13Ęź Trillium travel trailer.

WANTED: RECLINER in good condition.

633-5324

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2007 SUBARU Impreza SE, awesome winter car, AWD, heated seats, mechanic checked, 5-spd manual, exc shape, 146,000 kms, new battery, exc summer/winter tires on alloys. 335-1242

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2003 GRAND Am, low mileage, exc cond, priced to sell, $3,900. 667-7733 or 334-3456

2000 SUBARU Impreza, silver, AWD, 130,000km, good on gas, great winter/summer car, well maintained, second owner, $5,000 obo. 667-2388 after 12pm, lv msg

LEE ENFIELD No 4 Mk I, 303 British, sporterized, very nice bluing, good bore, scope rail instead of rear sight, 10 rd mag, sling, $300 FIRM, PAL req'd. 667-2276

SAVAGE 22-250 12fvss with Accutrigger, stainless heavy barrel, 100 new Lapua cases, 700-800 various bullets, 24 factory rounds, very accurate, dies available, $750 obo. 668-6066

2003 CHEVY Malibu, 171,000kms, good shape, $3500. 334-8205

2002 SUBARU Legacy L wagon, 4-dr hatchback, AWD, 4-spd auto, 2.5L, air, tilt, cruise, P/W, P/L, elec seats, well maintained, 1 owner, seniors, $4,900. 633-2836

ZASTAVA M98 Mauser 30-06, same as Interarms Mark X or Rem mod 798, adj trigger, composite stock, one piece base and rings, Redfield 3x9x40, $525. 334-7335

BUSHNELL TROPHY XLT scope, 3-9X40, $150. 667-4425

2004 TOYOTA Echo, manual, 2-dr hatchback, 312,000km highway mileage, set of winter/summer tires with rims, $3,800 obo.

334-5607

2002 NISSAN Sentra GXE, 4-dr, good on gas, 172,000km, $1,500. 334-6900

LICENSED TO BUY, SELL & CONSIGN rifles & ammo at G&R New & Used 1612-D Centennial St. 393-2274 BUY â&#x20AC;˘ SELL

DIMOK TIMBER 6 CORD OR 22 CORD LOADS OF FIREWOOD LOGS BUNDLED SLABS U-CUT FIREWOOD @ $115/CORD CALL 634-2311 OR EMAIL DIMOKTIMBER@GMAIL.COM

2004 TOYOTA Echo, manual, 2-dr hatchback, 312,433 km highway mileage, set of winter/summer tires with rims, $3,800 obo.

334-5607

2003 HYUNDAI Santa Fe, FWD, 2.4L 4-cyl, 5-spd manual, lots of room, good fuel economy, silver/grey, good cond. 335-4087

BROWNING 9 mm semi-auto pistol, 5â&#x20AC;? barrel, $450 obo. 456-2027

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1999 PLYMOUTH Voyager, needs engine work, almost new tires, $600 obo. 633-5552 1994 FORD Crown Vic, runs well, $1,000. Al 667-6998 1994 NEON, 194,000km, new water pump & winter tires, $1,300. 334-6921 1992 HONDA Civic, white, runs great, radio/CD, nice little car, good on gas, $1,000 obo. Ph 399-3226 1992 VW Golf GTI, 206,000km, 4 cyl, 5speed, black, 2-dr hatchback, gasoline, FWD, mechanically sound, well maintained, new winter tires, clutch, transmission seals, $3,200 obo. 336-8503 1991 MERCEDES Benz 2-dr, 4-seat sports coupe, air bags, heated seats, back seats have auto recline, needs fuel regulator to drive perfect, $6,000. 633-3819 1991 OLDSMOBILE Cierra Cutlass, 230,500km, runs good, $1,000 obo.

332-3817 1979 CHEV Corvette. For details text 334-0942 or call after 7

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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 2014 1966 FORD XL 500, 2-dr hardtop, for sale or trade, 867-821-3004 1965 OLDSMOBILE convertible, for sale or trade, 867-821-3004

Trucks

1995 CHEVY Blazer, 235,000kms, exc running cond, lots of work done with paperwork from mechanic, motivated to sell, $3,700 obo. 334-5731 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

We Sell Trucks!

1991 FORD F250 Custom long box 4X4, 5.8L, boat/canoe rack, canopy, bars & power for camper hook up, 148,000kms, standard, runs exc, well maintained, Paul @ 668-4768

1-866-269-2783 â&#x20AC;˘ 9039 Quartz Rd. â&#x20AC;˘ Fraserway.com

1990 TOYOTA Hiace, 8-passenger, camping or handicap minivan, 4wd, 4-cyl diesel, auto, 133,000 kms, offers or trades, 333-9020

2009 CHEVROLET Silverado 1500 LT 4X4 extĘźd cab, 4-dr, silver exterior, black interior, new tires, all receipts since new, warranty, $13,800. 333-9020 2008 FORD Escape, 144,000kms. 633-6528 2008 TOYOTA Tundra, 136,000kms 5.7 L, long box, canopy, 4X4, crew cab, front skid plate, side steps, box liner w/tie down, etc, 10,500 lbs towing capacity, $23,000 obo.

867-335-0177 2007 FORD Freestar van, a/c, P/W, P/B, 6-pack CD/DVD, keyless entry, 3rd row seating, leather, exc cond, 137,557km, $8,950.00. 660-4243

1990 TOYOTA Hiace, AWD, diesel, auto, excellent fuel consumption, 8 passenger or great camping/handicapped vehicle, 133,000 kms, offers or trades considered.

333-9020 1989 FORD F150, 300-6, auto, 2wd, runs well, $1,000. Al 667-6998 1988 FORD F150 2WD, extended cab, tons of new parts, excellent truck, $1,800.

667-7223

Auto Parts & Accessories

2007 GMC Sierra 2500HD 3/4 ton, 6L gas, crew cab, 8Ęź box, toolbox, liner, new tires, 2 spares, 5th wheel rails, front end overhaul August 2013, $16,000. 633-5665 after noon 2007 TOYOTA Rav 4, 82,000km, 4WD, auto, 4-cyl, P/W, new tires & battery, auto start, fresh detailing, very clean, $12,500.

334-1935or 667-6315

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

2006 DODGE Ram diesel 4x4, ext cab short box, built to tow, Banks intake, exhaust, exhaust brake, new towing trans, bully dog chip, 209,000km, $24,000 obo. 336-8525 2006 NISSAN Titan 4X4 Supercab, 166,000km, c/w mechanical inspection, new tires, looks & runs great, lots of power, was asking $7,900, dropped to $6,900 firm.

333-0717 5-TON INTERNATIONAL cab & chassis, 920 Bud rims, dual fuel tanks, 28,000 original miles, stored under cover, $3,000 obo.

633-3608 2005 RAV4 AWD 6 cyl loaded w/heated seats & sunroof, 164,000 kms, $8,750 obo, serious inquiries only. 336-0918 2005 T O Y O T A Sienna awd van, 139,000kms, can be viewed behind T&M, $11,000. 668-7644 2004 CADILLAC Escalade SUV, awd, fully loaded, leather, 227,000km, $10,900.

333-0186 2004 DODGE Ram 1500, 165,000 kms, 4-door crew cab, 2x4, Tranny rebuilt 40,000 kms ago. Very clean good looking truck, $8,000 obo. 250-661-9781 2004 TOYOTA Sienna, great family van, always serviced by Toyota, great shape, changed timing belt and pump as suggested

by Toyota in 2013, $11,000 obo. 668-2659 2003 F-350 6L, new high pressure pump, ICP, IPR, rebuilt turbo, 8 new injectors, new tires, batteries, body is a bit tough, $8,500 obo. 334-2341for details 2002 CHEV Avalanche, fully loaded, leather, 20'' wheels, 245,000km, $5,000. 333-0186 2001 FORD F150 short box, c/w high rise canopy, 4X4, never been off-road, Lloyd 456-7243 2001 FORD F150 short box, c/w high rise canopy, 4X4, never been off-road, Lloyd 456-7243 2001 FORD F350, 7.3L diesel, burgundy, 6-sp manual, 250,000 km, exc cond, regulary maintained, hitch Curt E16, dirt skirt, could c/w 30Ęź toy hauler, $12,000 obo.

393-3675 after 6pm 2001 MAZDA B3000 pick-up, ext cab, 4-dr, 5-spd standard, good cond, no leaks, doesnĘźt burn oil, new tires, $1,200. Call/text 334-4800 1999 TOYOTA Sienna 7 passenger van, 230,000kms, new battery, runs great, green, $3,200 obo. Florian @ 660-4723 1997 TAHOE, great winter truck in exc cond, priced to sell, must see, $3,900. 334-3456 or 667-7733 1996 DODGE Caravan, AED, 3.3L V8, vg in snow, power everything, engine runs well, needs transmission work, $1,200. 668-2811 1996 DODGE Caravan, runs but will need transmission, $700 OBO. 334-1985 1996 FORD Aerostar XLT, AWD, 7-passenger, V6 auto, loaded, great cond, $1,350 obo. 333-9899 1996 GMC service truck w/elec crane, 3500 crew cab on duals, 6.5 diesel, recent tune-up, new auto trans, no rust, ready to go $7,000. Can deliver. Don 332-6701

1 SET of stock 2002 Trailblazer side steps, $100. 633-6704 lv msg JEEP AUTO trans and trans case for early 80s-late 90s, $500 obo. 334-6740 CAR CARRIER X-cargo, over 15 cu ft, locking plastic top & bottom, adaptable to many vehicles, $25 obo. 633-5552 HEAVY-DUTY HEADACHE RACK for 2nd generation Dodge Pickup. $300.

Call 660-4516.

GEM TOP canopy with boat rack for older full size truck, $200 obo. 334-6740 TRUCK RIMS, 15â&#x20AC;? 5-bolt steel rims, $10 ea or $40 for set. Call/text 334-4800

TOYOTA ALLOY wheels, fits Tacoma or Tundra, 16X7, retail $490 ea, asking $125 ea or all for $400, near new condit, 633-3053 TRUCK BOX, black, 70â&#x20AC;?X20â&#x20AC;?, for full size truck, $35, fibreglass canopy, white, 61â&#x20AC;?WX89â&#x20AC;?LX26â&#x20AC;?H w/windows, $75.

660-4321 351 WINDSOR Ford small block engine, $1,000. 334-4568

633-6019

Help control the pet overpopulation problem

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 19

2014

have your pets SPAYED OR NEUTERED. FOR INFORMATION CALL

633-6019

Dog Wash Fundraiser

CANOPY, FITS 1990 Ford F250, $100.

633-4942 1951 OLDSMOBILE 88 4-dr, project car, 303 seized rebuildable engine, good auto trans, motor is out, paid $4,700 for car, body & tires, asking $2,000 obo for all. 633-3819

Pets THE FALL TRAINING SCHEDULE is posted www.theneighborhoodpup.com Enjoy positive methods in a small group on Tuesday evenings.

Call 633-3294 to reserve your space.

KENNELS, VARIOUS sizes, small & medium pet carriers, $15 to $25. 660-4321 2 MEDIUM-SIZED dog kennels, one folding, metal, adjusts to fit space, one Canine Camper soft-sided folding kennel, ideal for travel and overnights, c/w case, $100 ea.

Ken @ 456-7297

GENTLY USED

INVENTORY

ATVâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S:

â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;08 Kawaski 450 Sport/Race ................. $4,299

MOTORCYCLES:

â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;00 Yamaha 650 Vstar ................$3,499 $2,999 â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;08 Yamaha BW50 Scooter .................. $1,699 â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;09 Yamaha WR450 Off-Road .............. $4,299 â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;13 Yamaha WR250F.............................. $7,499 â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;12 Yamaha WR450 ............................... $6,499

YUKON

HOURS OF OPERATION FOR THE SHELTER: 5VFT 'SJ QN QN t 4BU BN QN $-04&% 4VOEBZT .POEBZT

4X GOODYEAR Nordic Tires on new rims, bought at start of winter last year, used half season, don't fit new vehicle, $550 for tires/rims. 334-1348

WANTED: CANOPY for 1998 F150 long box truck. 334-5408

4 M&S winter Snowmark tires, P185/65R15 radials. 667-6649

2 JACKALLS, 336-4333

Pet Report

4 TRAILER wheels, 205/75 15â&#x20AC;?, $200 obo.

633-4215

3rd Saturday of each month. Next Date:

Saturday, Sept. 20TH

4 - 225/75 R16 off rims, 60-70% tread, $200 obo. 334-5408

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

2006 CHEV Silverado, short box, 4wd, auto, cloth seats, box liner, very nice truck, exc cond, $15,000 firm. Text/call 403-921-3920

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YUKON NEWS

YAMAHA

(867) 668-2101 or 1-800-661-0430

1 KM south of Robert Service Way, Alaska Highway, Whitehorse, Y.T.

Pets of the Week!

M & A

at The Feed Store Pet Junction 10:00AM - 2:00PM

LOST/FOUND LOST

t Takhini, male neutered, DLH, light orange, no collar, answers to Sandy, Contact Deede @ 456-7172 (05/09/14) t Top of Grey Mountain, female spay, yellow lab, microchip, wearing a red collar with tags, answers to Taku, Contact Anne-Marie @ 3350177 (11/09/14)

FOUND

t Mt. Sima Copper hall rd, large, male husky, no collar, very friendly, Contact Cathie @ 335-7260 ( 13/09/14)

RUNNING AT LARGE...

If you have lost a pet, remember to check with City Bylaw: 668-8382

AVAILABLE FOR ADOPTION

IN FOSTER HOMES DOGS

t 2 yr. old, spayed female, cream, husky (Darby) t 7 yr. old, female spayed, rottie X, brindle (Daphne) t 3 yr. old, neutered male, GSD/Rottie, black and brown (Tristan)

CATS

t 11 yr. old, male neutered, DSH, black (Mingus)

AT THE SHELTER DOGS

t 2 yr. old, spayed female, beardogX, black (Jackie) t 13 weeks old, male, husky x GSD, black and white (Buddy) t 13 weeks old, male, husky x GSD, black and tan (Artie) t 13 weeks old, male, husky x GSD, black and blonde ( Bobo) t 13 weeks old, male, husky x GSD, black and white ( Cavin) t 1 yr. old, neutered male, husky, white and black, ( Salty)

t 7 weeks old, female, husky, black and brown, (Megghan) t 7 weeks old, female, husky, black and brown, (Cerry) t 7 weeks old, male, husky, blonde, ( Stephan) t 7 weeks old, male, huksy, blonde, ( Peatah) t 6 yr. old, neutered male, corgi, black, (Badoo) t 7 month old, female, collie X, white and black, (Penny)

CATS

t 2 yrs. old, female, DSH, black, (Alize)

SPECIAL t Homes needed for retired sled dogs. They would make excellent pets. Please contact 6683647 or kennelmanager@muktuk.com

INGUS LIZE

We are new to the shelter.

Mingus is in foster care and Alize is at the shelter.

633-6019 126 Tlingit Street

www.humanesocietyyukon.ca

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

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

You can also check out our award winning website at:

WWW.HUMANESOCIETYYUKON.CA

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YUKON NEWS CANINES & COMPANY Dog Obedience School Puppy fundamentals September 30 & January 20 Puller interactive training October 4 Reactive Dog Class September 27 Professional, high quality certified trainers Phone 333-0505 caninesandcompany@northwestel.net www.facebook.com/caninesandcompany

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Agnes â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Sunnyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Sonne Sunrise October 15, 1919 to Sunset September 9, 2014 You will be remembered as a woman of wit, strength, and moderation.

You planted seeds of comfort and wisdom through countless letters to family.

Despite hard beginnings, you managed to shine in character and spirit.

You did not succumb to circumstances, but forged a happy path.

May your legacy live on in the hearts of family and friends.

LOVING DOG to give away to good home.

6-yr old golden-coloured retriever X who thinks he's still a puppy. Curious about the world, but Rex listens well. 333-9071 8-YR-OLD NEUTERED male, yellow tiger stripe cat, excellent mouser, good with kids, cheap to a good country home.

867-996-2580 3-YR OLD Flashy Brindle male boxer, trained, good with kids, home without cats necessary, $400. 867-993-5593

2 METAL dog kennels, 1 large, 1 small.

Lloyd 456-7243

Motorcycles & Snowmobiles TAITĘźS 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 RONĘźS SMALL ENGINE SERVICES Repairs to Snowmobiles, Chainsaws, Lawnmowers, ATVĘźs, 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 2009 POLARIS IQ 2-person touring snow machine, 4-stroke electric start, block heater, reverse, driver/passenger hand/thumb warmers, exc cond, $7,500. 333-9020

2009 POLARIS Razr 800 ATV, added accessories including roof, 4,500lb Warn winch, snorkel intake, upgraded wheels & rims, spare tire carrier, shoulder harness/seat belts, $6,950. 333-9020 2008 HONDA CRF230L dual purpose bike, less than 1200 kms, 1 owner. 4 stroke engine, front disk brakes, electric start, great for trails or the street, $3,900. 668-4198 2009 KLR 650, only 7,000 kms, c/w 2 helmets & saddle bags. In really good shape, $4,200. 332-6678

Merle Thorman Lien passed away in loving company on his 83rd birthday, September 2, 2014. He had been well cared for by the doctors and staďŹ&#x20AC; at Whitehorse General Hospital, struggling with lymphoma cancer for some yearsâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;a condi on which physically overwhelmed him. He was clear-minded to the end and spoke by phone to his loved ones on the morning of his passing.

Raised on a farm in Peerless, Montana, he was a re red U.S. Air Force lieutenant and aerospace engineer by trade. A er working for Boeing and General Dynamics in Sea le and San Diego, Merle moved to Dezadeash Lake, Yukon in 1970 to pursue a more crea ve and adventurous life.

He was known by many for his dry humour, industriousness, crea vity, and an unyielding stance on environmental issues. His short but poignant le ers to editors expressed support for wildlife protec on and an opposi on to non-aboriginal hun ng and trapping.

He was fascinated by the history of the Haines Road area, including Dezadeash Lodge (previously known as Beloud Post) which he co-owned and managed from 1970 un l 1980.

He was respected by those who knew him well, and has le his colourful mark on Yukonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s history.

He is survived by his eldest sister Idella, his children Stefanie and Ma hew (who knew him as an uncondi onally generous and super-fun dad), a host of grandchildren, and a stream named â&#x20AC;&#x153;Flying Squirrel Creekâ&#x20AC;?.

Friends can contact info@ma hewlien.com regarding an informal gathering at Merleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Dezadeash Lake homestead, Whispering Willows Estate, where his ashes will forevermore grace the knoll.

2007 CAN Am 400 HO XT, c/w winch, 5Ęź plow & travel cover, great cond, approx 150 hours on it, $5,500 obo. 668-6469 2008 KAWASAKI Teryx 750 SXS w/snow blade, 2 spare tires, 2 extra back seats, new battery, tune up done by cert mechanic, works great, $6,000 firm. Text/call 334-4847 2012 ARCTIC Cat ATV, 550cc GT Special Edition, less than 10 hrs on machine, power steering, many other options, like new, $8,000 obo. 334-3009 2008 BAJA 250 Wilderness atv, well maintained, low miles, c/w owners & shop manuals, exc cond, camo colour, $2,200.

633-4656 2009 POLARIS Sportsman 850 with EPS, 3,400km, $3,500. 335-8062 2000 ARCTIC Cat ZL 600, runs well, fun fast machine, $2,100 obo. 334-1862 2004 HONDA Fourtrax, 1,100km, winch & plow, $4,500. 393-2332

5-HOLE DOG box, offset construction, holds 10-15 dogs, $450. 633-3608

2003 ARCTIC Cat 900 Mountain Cat snow machine, 151â&#x20AC;? track, low mileage, exc cond, trailer available etc, $3,750. 333-9020

Merle Thorman Lien

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 2014

POLARIS 333-9020

V-PLOW with mount, $500.

TAKING ORDERS FOR Custom built gold mining trommels for next season Any size can be built.

Can only build a limited number so order early.

Phone 250-638-0552 or e-mail sabre2ooth@hotmail.com 2 BUNKHOUSES for sale, skid mounted, 4 rooms each, $10,000 per unit. 332-3293 6 KW and 8 KW diesel light towers for sale.

332-3293

Aircraft 1957 CESSNA 172, Bush STOL, 5000TT 500 SMOH, Mogas STC, 3 pt harnesses, dual channel King VHF, economical trainer, great performer, well maintained, $35,000 obo. 633-5495

Campers & Trailers

Marine PROFESSIONAL BOAT REPAIR Fiberglass Supplies Marine Accessories FAR NORTH FIBERGLASS 49D MacDonald Rd Whitehorse, Yukon 393-2467 2002 16.25Ęź Harbercraft boat & trailer, 50 hp Johnson & 9.9 hp Yamaha, down rig, new winch, life jackets, exc cond, $13,500.

334-8912 lv msg 18Ęź INFLATABLE V hull, ultra safe boat, twin 35hp, fuel tanks, controls, tubes, tow ropes, $7,000 obo, ex-coast guard boat. 456-4926 NISSAN 10Ęź inflatable boat w/aluminum flooring, 950 lb max load, 5-person, w/Nissan 8hp outboard motor, 1 tank & extras, exc cond, $1,800 obo. 668-7026 MARSH LAKE MARINA 4 boats for sale Make an offer Old boat docks to give away Phone Gary at 660-4404 15HP MERCURY 2 stroke,electric start, rebuilt in 2011, starts anytime, runs smooth, they don't make this good anymore.

332-6678 SCOTT WILDERNESS canoe, 16Ęź, exc cond, $600. 456-7856 16Ęź MISTY River WD aluminum boat, long transom, 30 hp Johnson long shaft, new trailer, $3,950 obo. 867-390-2192 or 633-4322

Heavy Equipment AIR ROTARY drill rig, everything needed for water wells & exploration, $45,000, atlinmech@outlook.com BRENTĘźS HYDRAULICS Portable line boring Bore welding, we go anywhere Torque nuts up to 30,000 ft lbs General machining, lathing, milling Phone 334-3027 10Ęź X 40Ęź skid mounted wellsite trailer, $20,000. 332-3293

Robert Leslie (Les) Boisvert

JçĂ&#x201E;Â&#x203A; 2, 1953 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; SÂ&#x203A;Ă&#x2013;ĂŁÂ&#x203A;Ă&#x192;Â?Â&#x203A;Ă&#x2122; 9, 2014

It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Les Boisvert at the age of 61.

Les was the loving husband of Gloria for 41½ years, father of Kathleen (Tyson) of Whitehorse and Roberta of Whitehorse, and a grandfather to his greatest joys in life, Michelle, Taylor, Kent, Isaac, and Benjamin.

We welcome everyone to help the family celebrate his life at the Grey Mountain Room in the Mount McIntyre Recrea on Centre on Saturday, October 4, 2014 from 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m.

The family requests, in lieu of flowers, a dona on be made to: Pacific Parkinsonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Research Ins tute @ www.parkinsons.ubc.ca click on the Donate Now link.

The family would like to express their thanks and gra tude to Dr. Cindy Breitkreutz, Dr. Stephanie Buchanan, Dr. Armando Heredia, and Dr. Rebecca Barnes, as well as the staďŹ&#x20AC; of the Medical Unit of Whitehorse General Hospital.

TAITĘźS 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 2004 PIONEER travel trailer, overall length 28Ęź, large bath, queen bed, full kitchen, stereo, large awning, $9,800. 633-2580 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. 633-3339 or 334-9634 1991 31Ęź school bus, 366 gas engine, seats removed, Allison 3-spd auto, good running order, suitable for moving, storage, camping, greenhouse. 633-5155

Great Deals on used RVâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s!

Is SELLING OFF their

x-rentals Check out: klondikerv.com (867) 456 2729 1996 TRAVELAIR Rustler 5th wheel RV275, fully equipped with front queen bed, dinette, rear lounge, full bathroom and kitchen, $7,500. 393-2629 lv msg 2014 RAINBOW 19Ęź tilt deck trailer, tandem 3,500lb axles, electric brakes, new, $5,250 obo. 334-0578 CAR HAUL/UTILITY trailer, twin axle, hydraulic brakes, capacity 3,181 kg/7,000 lbs, deck 16'/total length 20', c/w rack for 6 canoes, $3,000. 867-863-5404 HEAVY DUTY 3/4 ton utility truck trailer, 16â&#x20AC;? tires, no rust, $750 obo. 334-4568 DOUBLE AXLE trailer, c/w racks & ramps, rated for 4,000kg, 14Ęź bed, $2,850 obo.

633-4018 1987 FORD F350 crew cab, 4-spd, 1998 12Ęź camper w/stove, oven, hot water, elec jack, $5,600 obo. 456-7122 1992 8.5Ęź Travel Mate camper, fridge, stove, forced air furnace, washroom with shower, good cond, $3,600. 334-6167 1987 21Ęź Toyota motorhome, fiberglass body, totally redone inside, dual axles, $15,000 obo. 668-4070 COUGAR 24 RKS travel trailer, must sell.

660-5152 2007 LAREDO 5th wheel 31Ęź, exc cond, fully equipped, sleeps 2, full bath, A/C, front king bed, 2-30 lbs tanks, 4-burner stove/oven, fridge/freezer, must see, $22,000 obo.

667-6970 CAR DOLLY, can fit smaller truck, comes with towing lights & straps, $950 obo.

336-2492 2004 16Ęź RoadRunner travel trailer, great cond, everything works, full bathroom, sleeps 3-4, c/w hitch and sway bars, $8,000.

336-1820 2011 24Ęź Cougar travel trailer, exc cond, full kitchen, sofa, queen size bed, bathroom etc, $22,000. 667-2804 2003 9.5' Lance camper, queen north/south bed, forced air heat, 3-way fridge, hot water, bathroom w/shower, stove /oven, 2x20 lb propane tanks, weĘźve outgrown it, $10,500 obo. 633-6781 TRAILER FOR up to 2 snow machines or ATVs, just serviced & wired, really nice cond, $500. 333-9020 1995 SPORTSMAN 5th wheel trailer, 26.5Ęź, well maintained, everything clean & working, c/w am/fm/cd player, microwave, large awning, new spare tire & 5th wheel hitch for truck, $8,200. 633-4656

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 2014 Coming Events ATLIN GUEST HOUSE Deluxe Lakeview Suites Sauna, Hot Tub, BBQ, Internet, Satellite TV Kayak Rentals In House Art Gallery 1-800-651-8882 Email: atlinart@yahoo.ca www.atlinguesthouse.com THE ALZHEIMER/DEMENTIA Family Caregiver Support Group meets monthly. A group for family/friends caring for someone with Dementia. Info and register call Cathy 334-1548 or Joanne 668-7713 ATLIN - GLACIER VIEW CABINS â&#x20AC;&#x153;your quiet get awayâ&#x20AC;?

Cozy self contained log cabins canoes, kayaks for rent Fax/Phone 250-651-7691 e-mail sidkatours@ atlin.net www.glacierviewcabins.ca ANNUAL GENERAL Meeting for Selkirk School Council, 6:30pm, Selkirk School Library, September 24, 2014, everyone welcome. For further info Cheryl at 334-4686 YUKON CURLING Association AGM, Whitehorse Curling Club September 30, 2014 at 6:30pm. Everyone is invited to attend and share your curling thoughts/ideas as well as join the board THE GOLDEN Horn Elementary School Council Annual General Meeting will be held on Wednesday, September 24, 2014 at 7:30pm in the school library. Childcare will be provided ELIZABETH FRY Yukon AGM, September 24, 5pm, Unit #23, HorwoodĘźs. 334-2419 AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL Writing Circle meeting Tuesday, September 23 from 7:00pm - 9:00pm at the Whitehorse United Church (upstairs). Writing letters to support human rights worldwide. www.amnesty.org COFFEE HOUSE Saturday Oct.4, 2014, featuring The Windy Valley Boys + the Open Stage. Help set up 6pm, open stage sign-up 7pm, 7:30pm show, $5 United Church Bsmt, 6th+Main, 633-4255 HOSPICE WALKING Group, Mondays September 8 to 29, 6-7:30pm. A healthy way to receive and give grief support. To register call 667-7429 or administrator@hospiceyukon.net ATLIN GOSPEL Service at the Rec Centre Board Room Sundays Sept 14 & 21 from 4-5pm. The service is quiet and reverent and we welcome anyone and everyone to come.

CANADIAN FIREARMS Safety Course, Non-restricted, Sat & Sun Sept 27 & 28 at Whitehorse Rifle & Pistol Club. Cost $120.

Seating limited. 633-6202 to register.

YUKON ROLLER Girls Want You! Have you always wanted to join Roller Derby? Come join us in September for your chance. www.yukonrollergirls.ca TAI CHI Yukon, classes for all ages and level of experience begin this September.

Check out the class schedule at http://www.taichi-yukon.ca/schedule.htm ALL-CITY BAND is looking for new musicians! We have a Band that fits you. Check us out on allcityband.com

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YUKON NEWS AUTUMN CLASSIC canoe and kayak race, Saturday, Sept. 20. Race starts at 11 am McClintock River Bridge, distance 11 km.

Info: 333-0755 YUKON HOME Education Society AGM, Monday, Sept. 22, 3-6 pm. Whitehorse Library boardroom. Anyone interested in homeschooling is more than welcome. More info: 660-5347 LINE DANCING, seniors @ Golden Age Society, Wednesdays starting September 24, beginner instruction 1pm-2pm, regular session, 2pm-3pm. All welcome to participate in both sessions YUKON BROOMBALL AGM, October 4, 10am, at Sport Yukon. All welcome BIKEJOR AND Canicross Hot Hound Event on September 21st at Takhini Hot Springs.

4pm Intro Clinic for Beginners, 5pm Race Registration, 6pm Races. Potluck BBQ. Info: 335-4904

SENIORS, COME try floor curling on Friday, September 19, 9:30am, Golden Age Cerntre, Sport Yukon Building, 4th Ave. Regular leagee play starts September 26. Register at Golden Age or phone 668-5977 YUKON ORIENTEERING Association final event of the year. Night "O" sprint Friday Sept. 26 on Wolf Creek map. Register at Campground at 8:00pm. Bring your headlamp. For info Jim 668-2639

GLOBAL FRACKDOWN with Frackfree Yukon Alliance. How to get democracy back? Meet community rights attorneys Margil and Linzey (CELDF) Presentation & Conversation @ Kwanlin DĂźn Cultural Centre, Friday Sept 26, 7pm

FALUN GONG, advanced practice of Buddha school self-cultivation, meeting Mondays and Wednesdays, Wood Street School from 6pm, no charge. Call, or come by for an introduction to the practice. 667-6336

ALPINE SKI Association of Yukon AGM is on October 7 at 7pm, in Sport Yukon Boardroom. Registration begins in early November.

YUKON HOME Education Society AGM, Monday September 22, 3pm-6pm, Whitehorse library meeting room. Anyone interested in homeschooling is welcome. More info: 660-5347

FRIENDS OF Mount Sima Society AGM October 8 at 7pm, Mount Sima Chalet. See how you can help with plans for 2015. See you there. Call 336-3483 for details

WHITEHORSE DUPLICATE Bridge Club is holding beginner Bridge lessons starting Oct 25. Contact Bruce at 660-5101 or email nmcgowan@klondiker.com for more information

SPORTS GEAR Swap, Jackhulland Elementary Sept 20th, table rentals $10, please contact Tabitha Driscoll at tabbylloyd@hotmail.com to arrange your rental

KWANLIN DUN Cultural Centre, September 19, 4pm-9pm, complimentary BBQ & dance, live music by Ben Mahony, 4pm-5:30pm, Shoo Fly, 6pm-7pm, Canucks, 7pm-9pm, presentations, door prizes

SALSA YUKON Latin Dance Classes, Beginner Rueda de Casino starting October 16th, Beginner Salsa and Beginner Bachata starting October 17th, salsayukon@gmail.com for info

CONCERT BY BC singer/songwriter Linnea Good Sunday Sept 28 at Whitehorse United Church, 7pm. Admission by donation. Family friendly, all welcome, wheelchair accessible

SUZUKI STRINGS Association Yukon AGM, Monday Sept 29, 5 pm at Selkirk Elementary School. Anyone interested in Suzuki violin is welcome. More info: Jody 660-5347

YUKON FIRST Nations Culture and Tourism Association (YFNCT) AGM is Thursday, September 25, Whitepass Building board room, Noon-1pm. Everyone is welcome. For info call 667-7698, ext. 202

WHITEHORSE CONCERTS presents Infinitus on Saturday, September 20, 2014. The show will take place at 8:00 pm at The Yukon Arts Centre. Please contact: steve@whitehorseconcerts.com

CANOE & Kayak Race Autumn Classic, Saturday, September 20, McClintock River Bridge, 11am. More Info 333-0755

THE ALZHEIMER/DEMENTIA Family Caregiver Support Group meets monthly. A group for family/friends caring for someone with Dementia. Info and register call Cathy 334-1548 or Joanne 668-7713 JOIN THE Bowel Movement, a support group for those living with digestive disorders such as Crohn's, Colitis, Ostomies, Diverticulitis, IBS and other creative combinations! Library Meeting Room Wed Oct. 22 @ 7pm

HOSPICE WORKSHOP, LIVING with Loss, Wednesday Oct 1 6:30-8:30pm for anyone living with personal loss or supporting others who are grieving. Register: 667-7429, info@hospiceyukon.net YUKON SCIENCE Institute presents The Polar Data Catalogue: Sharing and Archiving CanadaĘźs Polar Data with Julie Friddell, Sunday, September 21st, 7:30pm, Beringia Centre, Whitehorse. Free.

HOUSE CONCERT in Riverdale, September 20, 7pm, Jim Vautour & Olivier de Colombel, $20, BYOB. Reservations: helene_saintonge@hotmail.com

BODY FOCUS Repetitive Behaviour Peer Support Group (hair pulling/skin picking/nail biting), Monday October 6th, 7pm, Family Literacy Centre, CGC. For more info email: bfrbyukon@gmail.com

MARSH LAKE Solid Waste Management Society AGM will be held on Monday Sept.

22nd at 7pm at the Marsh Lake Community Centre. All welcome.

FHCOLLINS 60S Reunion, July 10th to 12th, 2015. Go to: FHCollins60sReunion for details or Pat @ 633-5155

CANADIAN CELIAC Association Yukon Support Group will hold it's final meeting for 2014 on Thursday, September 18 at the Whitehorse Library from 6pm to 7:45pm

U KON Echelon Bike Club AGM on Thursday, September 25, Porter Creek Secondary School, 7pm. Contact Trena Irving at trenairving@gmail.com for details

NAKAI THEATRE AGM, Tuesday Septemb er 30, 6pm, White Pass Building boardroom, 2nd Flr, Front St & Main, snacks provided.

For info call Nakai 667-2646

MEDITATION RETREAT, Saturday October 4 & Sunday October 5, 9am-5pm, Association Francophone Yukonnaise, 302 Strickland St. Contact@vajaranorth.org

ATLIN COURTHOUSE Gallery is open daily 11am-5pm and will have the end of season sale from Friday September 26 to Sunday 28. Closed after 28th for the season

PUBIC TALK, Red Tara, Sanity in a Divided World, Tibetan Buddhist Perspective, Friday October 3, 6:30pm-8:30pm, Lewis Hall, United Church basement, 601 Main St

IN LOVING MEMORY OF MÄ&#x2020;Ä&#x17E; 6, 1923-SÄ&#x160;Ä&#x2022;Ä&#x2122;Ä&#x160;Ä&#x2019;Ä&#x2021;Ä&#x160;Ä&#x2014; 12, 2014

GOLDEN AGE Society: If anyone over 55 is interested in playing pool or shuffleboard, call Deborah at 668-5538

YUKON EDUCATIONAL Theatre AGM Monday Sept. 29 at Dean's Strings, 312 Wood St, 7pm. YET puts on Winterval & Burning Away the Winter Blues. Attend if you'd like to learn more TESLIN DIGITAL Skills for the Work World, September 29-October 10, free program to learn about computers & help you get a good job. Call Yukon Learn, 867-668-6280 FRIENDS OF McIntyre Creek clean-up September 20 at 10am. Meet at blue Pumphouse below Yukon College, lunch provided, garbage bags provided but bring your own gloves.

CLAIRE NESS, Jackfish Girl, Old Fire Hall, Friday, Sept 26, 7:30pm Featuring Annie Avery, Kieran Poile, Scott Wilson and Yves Paradis. Tickets $20 at Dean's Strings

GOLDEN AGE Society 55+ potluck dinner Tuesday, September 30 at 5:00pm. Bring a dish to share. For more info call 668-5538

Services

INTEREST IN family history & genealogy?

Interested in forming a Club? Join us on Monday Sept 22, 2014, 7pm, Whitehorse Public Library meeting room. All Welcome

- INSULATION Upgrade your insulation & reduce your heating bills

MAE BACHUR Animal Shelter Dog Wash Saturday Sept 20, 10am-2pm, Feed Store/Pet Junction, huge thanks to Dog Wash Team and Feed Store for their generous donation of time, supplies and venue

Energy North Construction Inc. (1994) for all your insulation & coating needs Cellulose & polyurethane spray foam Free estimate: 667-7414

MT. LORNE Volunteer Fire Department open house/AGM Tuesday, October 7th at 7 pm at firehall on Robinson Subdivision Rd. New volunteers and board members always welcome. Info Judy 668-2849

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

BERTON HOUSE Reading & Talk: with writer Anik See, Thursday, September 25, 7:30pm at Whitehorse Public Library. Free.

For more information please call 667-5239.

DOGS SKIERS with concerns about the proposed dog fee please attend the Club AGM on October 1, 2104, at Mount McIntyre to have your voice heard and your votes counted

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

YWIM AGM on Friday, Septembetr 26, 2014 at 5:30pm, Westmark Whitehorse. Contact yukonwomeninmusic@gmail.com if you have any questions.

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

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eith Allen Holmberg, who passed away on September 16th 2014, at the age of 49 years after a brief illness with his wife Amberleah at his side. His greatest legacy, besides his two children Juel and Jile (Chris) and two grandsons Talan and Kellan, is the joy and happiness he offered to others.

Keith spent so much of his life helping others. Since his passing, all of us who loved Keith have found some solace in the tremendous outpouring of affection and admiration for him from the people whose lives he touched.

Poldi is survived by her daughter Marlene Dunstan and son Max Fuerstner, son-in-law John Dunstan, daughter-in-law Amanda Fuerstner, granddaughters Rebecca, Ellysse, Cambria and Regan, and nephews Fred Mandl and Fritz Mandl.

Keith had a profound impact on everyone he interacted with, friends, family, colleagues and patients by living every day to the fullest. His motto was Live small, live simple and live free.

He will be deeply missed by everyone whose life he touched.

Poldi was predeceased by her husband Max Fuerstner, sister Anna Mandl and brother-in-law Franz Mandl.

The family wishes to extend heartfelt thanks and appreciation to Dr. K. Adams, Dr. D. Kanachowsky the staff of Thompson Centre, Noreena Mandl, Solange Farah, Eva Wagenblast, Barbara Kelly and the many other friends who provided her with company and encouragement when she needed it most.

ANNUAL GENERAL Meeting for Selkirk School Council, 6:30pm, Selkirk School Library September 24, 2014. Everyone welcome. For further info Cheryl at 334-4686

The family wish to express sincere gratitude and thanks to the staff at the Humboldt Hospital who went above and beyond to provide care to Keith and help our family through everything.

There is no service at Poldisâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; request.

There will be a â&#x20AC;&#x153;get-togetherâ&#x20AC;? at Poldisâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; place: 349 ValleyView Drive on September 30, 2014 from 4:00-6:00 pm

Life can be painful, you often have to search your soul to ďŹ nd the meaning in sorrow, so you can be free to live again.

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

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

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

Health Centre

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

Health Centre

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

Health Centre

Dawson City Y.T. Thursday - 6pm (summer only) New Beginners Group Rm 2160 @ Hospital Friday - 1:30pm Unity Group Rm 2160 @ Hospital Saturday - 7pm North Star Group Community Support Centre 1233-2nd Ave.

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

Health Centre

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 THOMAS FINE CARPENTRY â&#x20AC;˘ Construction â&#x20AC;˘ Renovation â&#x20AC;˘ Finishing â&#x20AC;˘ Cabinets â&#x20AC;˘ Tiling â&#x20AC;˘ Flooring â&#x20AC;˘ Repairs â&#x20AC;˘ Specialty woodwork â&#x20AC;˘ Custom kitchens 867-633-3878 or cell 867-332-5531 thomasfinecarpentry@northwestel.net

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 Aujourdâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;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 PufďŹ n (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 Peopleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Meeting BYTE OfďŹ ce, 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 (OM, NS) Maryhouse, 504 Cook St. SATURDAY: 1:00 pm Sunshine Group (OM, NS) DETOX Building, 6118-6th Ave. 2:30 pm Womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Meeting 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)

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

Health Centre

NS - No Smoking OM - open mixed, includes anyone CM - closed mixed, includes anyone with a desire to stop drinking

Haines Junction Y.T.

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Friday - 1:30 p.m.

Health Centre

Mayo Y.T.

bcyukonaa.org AA 867-668-5878 24 HRS A DAY

Friday - 1:30 p.m.

Health Centre Friday - 1:30 p.m.

Health Centre Friday - 1:30 p.m.

Health 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

LOST: KEYS, possibly Main street or the College, large keychain on black lanyard, Honda key, truck key and home/office keys.

332-3726

SEASONAL STORAGE of your RV, Boat, Trailer & Vehicle.

Secure and reasonable rates.

Located at McCrae subdivision.

Contact us at klondikestorage19@gmail.com BOOKKEEPING Full range of services from data entry to year end financials and everything in between including payroll, GST, and remittances.

20+ years experience.

Call Today 332-8489 or 633-8489 ELECTRICIAN FOR all your jobs Large or small Licensed Electrician Call MACK N MACK ELECTRIC for a free estimate!

Save 10% until September 30 867-332-7879 ANGYĘźS MASSAGE Mobile Service.

Therapeutic Massage & Reflexology.

Angelica Ramirez Licensed Massage Therapist.

867-335-3592 angysmassage@hotmail.com 8 Versluce Place Whitehorse YT, Y1A 5M1 JUDEĘźS PAINTING & HOME RENOVATIONS â&#x20AC;˘Interior/Exterior Painting â&#x20AC;˘Kitchen/bathroom renovations â&#x20AC;˘Hardwood & Laminate flooring â&#x20AC;˘Decks â&#x20AC;˘Fences Call 867-689-1458 Email judewaldman@gmail.com S.V.P. CARPENTRY Journey Woman Carpenter Interior/Exterior Finishing/Framing Small & Medium Jobs â&#x20AC;&#x153;Make it work and look good.â&#x20AC;?

Call Susana (867) 335-5957 susanavalerap@live.com www.svpcarpentry.com

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FOUND: RED Samsung camera on road Tigereye Cres, name inside case. Call 667-6806 to identify FOUND: B.C. trailer licence plate UVK-01C, June 30, 2014, in ditch on South Access.

633-2050

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EAGLE CONSTRUCTION Specializing in bathrooms & kitchens Also all facets of construction Journeyman Carpenter Operating since 1985 Phone 335-2005 or 668-5814

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Friday - 1:30 p.m.

Health Centre Tuesday - 8:00 p.m.

Soaring Eagles Sewing Centre

JOURNEYMAN CARPENTER 30 years experience Commercial-Residential â&#x20AC;˘Renovations â&#x20AC;˘Repairs â&#x20AC;˘Kitchens â&#x20AC;˘Bathrooms â&#x20AC;˘Drywall Tiles â&#x20AC;˘Decks â&#x20AC;˘Fine Finishing and Painting No job too small Local references available Phone 335-8924 bradmre@gmail.com

To make your ideas a reality, call Mike Morrow at 335-1888.

Ross River Y.T.

FOUND: PAIR of prescription glasses at Walmart, describe to claim. 322-2505 FOUND: AT top of 2 Mile Hill, bag of bicycle accessories. To claim call 633-6244

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Pelly Crossing Y.T.

Lost & Found

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

Custom

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PAINTING DONE RIGHT! Interior/exterior, oil, staining.

Professional work at reasonable rates.

17 years in Yukon. Also serving the communities.

(Williamson Yukon) Phone 456-2043 or 333-0403

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 2014

Boats, Motor Homes, Trailers, R.V. â&#x20AC;&#x201C; All Types of Vehicles.

Secure. Safe. Locked and Fenced.

Monthly, Yearly or Seasonal Storage Facilities!

Contact 456-4048 or 334-8029

PUBLIC TENDER BOILER REPLACEMENT YUKON HOUSING OFFICE 410 JARVIS WHITEHORSE, YUKON Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title. The closing date for submissions is October 1, 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 Chris Gladish at 867-667-3764.

Site Visit: September 24, 2014 at 2:00 p.m.

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

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

PUBLIC TENDER ACCESSIBILITY UPGRADES YUKON HOUSING UNIT #432000 - 22 WATERFRONT WHITEHORSE, YUKON Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title. The closing date for submissions is October 1, 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.

Site Visit: September 24, 2014 at 11:00 a.m The highest ranked or lowest priced submission may not necessarily be accepted.

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

PUBLIC TENDER FRONT DOOR REPLACEMENT YUKON HOUSING UNIT #450000 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 600 COLLEGE DRIVE WHITEHORSE, YUKON Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title. The closing date for submissions is October 8, 2014. Please refer to the procurement documents for the closing time and location.

PUBLIC TENDER BOILER REPLACEMENT YUKON HOUSING UNIT #876100 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 9 JACKSON AVENUE TESLIN, YUKON Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title. The closing date for submissions is October 1, 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 Chris Gladish at 867-667-3764.

If documents are available they may be obtained from Yukon Housing Corporation, 410 Jarvis Street, Whitehorse, Yukon. Technical questions may be directed to Raymond Mikkelsen at 867-6675718.

Site Visit: September 25, 2014 at 2:00 p.m.

Site Visit September 23, 2014 at 11:00 a.m.

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

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

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

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

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 2014 Sports Equipment COMPLETE SET of Spalding womenĘźs golf clubs, c/w cart, $60. 633-4018 DOUBLE WEIGHTS, 8 lbs to 40 lbs, c/w compact rack. Paid $360 for the weights & $180 for the rack, asking $250. 332-6678 SKATEBOARD, ELEMENT deck, Core trucks, TMG wheels, Black Diamond griptape, $75. 633-6704 SNOWBOARD, 154 Option Influence w/Technine bindings & Vans Hi-Standard sz 10 boots, $450 obo. 633-6704 SALOMON SNOWSCAPE 7 waxless cross-country skis with SNS bindings, only used a few times last winter, 193cm long, 80-95kg, great cond, $180 obo. Call/text 335-0233 DOWNHILL SKIS, poles & boots, menĘźs size 9, Solomon boots, exc cond, $500. 456-2027 PACEMASTER GOLD treadmill, long belt, $600 obo. 456-7030 for details BELT DRIVE eliptical trainer, used very little, $75. 633-2431 SELKIRK ELEMENTARY Outdoors is seeking cross country ski equipment, donation or to be bought, prefer NNN system, SNS system would also be appreciated. Alison at 667-3688

Livestock 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 â&#x20AC;˘ 668-7218

NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND CLAIMANTS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF

Tom Smith Deceased, late of Ross River, in the Yukon Territory, who died on

April 22, 2014.

All persons having claims against the above mentioned Estate are requested to file a claim, supported by Statutory Declaration, with Testloa Smith, on or before October 19, 2014, after which date the said Estate will be distributed, having reference only to claims which have been so filed.

All persons indebted to the Estate are requested to make immediate payment to:

Testloa Smith 131-833 Range Road, Whitehorse, Yukon Y1A 3A7

RED DUN Quarter horse-Tennessee Walker cross, light build, has some training but needs more, $1,100. 867-536-2633 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 Quality weed free brome hay bales for sale.

830 lb round bales and also small square bales Phone 668-2407

HAY FOR SALE Dry bales kept under a shelter Great quality, $12/bale.

633-4496 or astra@northwestel.net

PUBLIC TENDER

PUBLIC TENDER SALE OF SURPLUS LIGHT DUTY VEHICLES & MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title.

The closing date for submissions is October 1, 2014. Please refer to the procurement documents for the closing time and location.

Documents may be obtained from the Procurement Support Centre, Department of Highways and Public Works, Suite 101 - 104 Elliott Street, Whitehorse, Yukon (867) 667-5385.

Technical questions may be directed to Stan Dorosz at (867) 667-3164.

Viewing Dates: Tuesday September 16, 2014...12:00 PM to 2:00 PM Thursday September 25, 2014...12:00 PM to 2:00 PM Viewing Location: 277-9029 Quartz Road, Asset Compound 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

DEMOLITION PROJECT ON TLINGIT STREET Project Description: Demolition of 3 cabins and 2 outhouses at 127 and 121 Tlingit street in Whitehorse.

Work involves demolition, debris clean up, transportation to the Whitehorse land fill facility and ground leveling of these lots.

Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title.

The closing date for submissions is October 3, 2014. Please refer to the procurement documents for the closing time and location.

Documents may be obtained from the Procurement Support Centre, Department of Highways and Public Works, Suite 101 - 104 Elliott Street, Whitehorse, Yukon (867) 667-5385.

Technical questions may be directed to Pierre Marchand at (867) 6673127.

A mandatory site visit will be held on Thursday, September 25, 2014 at 1 p.m. Those who do not attend will not be eligible to bid.

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

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

Energy, Mines and Resources

YUKON LAND USE PLANNING COUNCIL REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS Common Land Use Planning Process Review

Liquor Corporation

LIQUOR ACT TAKE NOTICE THAT, South Canol Services and Contracting of Box 158, Teslin, Yukon Y0A 1B0, is making application for a Food Primary Beer and Wine Licence and an Off-Premises - All Liquor Licence, in respect of the premises known as Johnsonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Crossing Lodge situated at Mile 836, Alaska Highway, Teslin, Yukon.

Any person who wishes to object to the granting of this application should ďŹ le their objection in writing (with reasons) to: President, Yukon Liquor Corporation 9031 Quartz Road Whitehorse, Yukon Y1A 4P9 not later than 4:30 pm on the 8th day of October, 2014 and also serve a copy of the objection by registered mail upon the applicant.

Chapter 11 - Land Use Planning (Yukon First Nation Final Agreements)

The Yukon Land Use Planning Council (YLUPC) requires a review of the process by which regional plans are created through the implementation of Chapter 11 - Land Use Planning. The review includes an examination of regional planning in other jurisdictions, interviews with key resource managers in the territory and the integration of these findings with work completed by the YLUPC. The final product will be a summary of recommendations for changes to the planning process.

Proposal submissions are to based upon the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Request for Proposals: Common Land Use Planning Process Reviewâ&#x20AC;? package available online or at the Councilâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s office. The highest ranked or lowest priced submission may not necessarily be accepted.

The ďŹ rst time of publication of notice is September 19, 2014.

Closing Date: 3:00pm October 6th, 2014.

The second time of publication of notice is September 26, 2014.

Questions regarding this RFP may be directed to: Ron Cruikshank, Director, Yukon Land Use Planning Council 201-307 Jarvis St. Whitehorse, Yukon, Y1A 7A1 ron@planyukon.ca 867-667-7397

The third time of publication of notice is October 3, 2014.

Any questions concerning this speciďŹ c NOTICE are to be directed to Licensing & Social Responsibility at 867-667-5245 or 1-800-661-0408, local 5245.

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FRESH CUT 1,000 lb hay bales In the field $100 each 867-633-3388 Please leave a message

PUBLIC TENDER

REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL YUKON ELECTRONIC LICENSING SYSTEM Project Description: Government of Yukon would like to obtain an e-licensing system for managing, processing, and issuing authorizations and related documents electronically in response to online self-serve applications from the general public.

Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title.

The closing date for submissions is October 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 Tim Green, PEng at (867) 4565570.

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

Highways and Public Works

BONANZA CREEK FORESTRY ROAD CONSTRUCTION Project Description: Maintenance and minor surfacing of 1.35km of existing road and construction of 5.3km of new all season Forest Resource Road. The construction will consist of one 4.0km mainline and 2 spur roads within the Bonanza Creek II THP. Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title.

The closing date for submissions is October 2, 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 Mark Pedersen, Area Forester at (867) 633-7909.

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

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

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

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

Energy, Mines and Resources

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REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL AUDIT OF THE 2009 ROCK CREEK FLOOD AND 2010 MAYO RIVER FLOOD Project Description: To provide audit services to the Government of Yukon for the 2009 Rock Creek flood event and the 2010 Mayo River flood event.

Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title.

The closing date for submissions is October 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 Michael Templeton at (867)6675220.

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

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

Community Services

MASSEY FERGUSON seed drill, stored covered, older but working cond, best offer.

633-3608

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

Fay Eileen White, of Whitehorse, Yukon, Deceased, who died on August 7, 2014, are hereby required to send them to the undersigned Executor at the address shown below, before the 26th day of September, 2014, after which date the Executor will distribute the Estate among the parties entitled thereto, having regard to the claims of which they have notice.

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

BY: Martie Welsh c/o Lackowicz & Hoffman Suite 300, 204 Black Street Whitehorse, YT Y1A 2M9 Tel: (867) 668-5252 Fax: (867) 668-5251

INVITATION TO TENDER

FOX LAKE HERITAGE FARM For Sale â&#x20AC;˘Turkeys, chickens, eggs â&#x20AC;˘Free range & grass fed *Pastured pork, grass fed beef & goat meat â&#x20AC;˘Brome hay in 55lb bales â&#x20AC;˘Chicken plucker for rent Phone 334-8960 or yukonheritagefarm@gmail.com TIMOTHY/BROME HAY â&#x20AC;˘No rain â&#x20AC;˘Quality horse and livestock mix â&#x20AC;˘Square and round bales â&#x20AC;˘Delivery available For more information call 668-6742 or 334-4589

OAT BUNDLES FOR SALE â&#x20AC;˘Great horse feed â&#x20AC;˘On field price $1.00/bundle â&#x20AC;˘Two bundles/day/horse â&#x20AC;˘Feed alone or good hay supplement Call 668-6742

REGISTERED FOUNDATION QH mare, 11 years old, well built, well started, 30 solid days, gentle, ties, trailers, stands for farrier, regularly trail ridden bareback, started under saddle, $800 firm. 399-3791

LAMB Locally grown.

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REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL #2014-046 Building Entry Security System

Yukon Energy is inviting proposals from qualiďŹ ed organizations for the supply and installation of a centralized building entry security system. The system would maintain security access and entry privileges for 62 entrances at 25 Yukon Energy sites throughout the territory. This work is scheduled for the fall of 2014 with a completion date of December 19, 2014.

Sealed proposals, clearly marked â&#x20AC;&#x153;RFP # 2014 046 Building Entry Security Systemâ&#x20AC;? will be received up to 4:00:00 p.m. Yukon time, October 3, 2014, at Yukon Energyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s corporate ofďŹ ces, #2 Miles Canyon Road, Box 5920, Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada Y1A 6S7 or via e-mail.

To obtain an Request for Proposal package contact Matthew Sills at Yukon Energy Corporation, 867-393-5335 or at matthew.sills@yec.yk.ca.

Baby & Child Items

TODDLER BED, open to offers. 334-7061 GRACO INFANT car seat, $25. 336-1502 CRADLE 633-2837

FOR infant, mint cond, $40.

SOLID PINE mate's bed, three drawers, twin size with mattress, paid $600 for set, asking $250 obo. Crystal 334-7298

Childcare MAY-MAYĘźS FDH IN COWLEY CREEK has two full-time spaces available for 18 months plus.

Monday to Friday, 7:45-5pm Meals and diapers included.

Please contact Mary @ 668-3348 or quaile@klondiker.com

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09.19.2014

WANTED: HORSEBACK riding lessons for 8 year old girl near Mary Lake. Please call 668-2571

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 2014

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 2014 MONTESSORI BOREALIS PRESCHOOL has limited spots available for 2 to 5 year-olds.

For more information about the program and to register, please call 456-7100 or visit MontessoriBorealis.com

SOLID OAK entertainment centre, 5' x 4ʼ, fits a 36” TV. Room for stereo & other equipment, exc shape, $200. 668-4198 OLDER 4-DRAWER filing cabinet including insert, $80. 633-5362 WOODEN BUNK bed without mattress, $50.

660-5020

Furniture

40” DIAMETER round patio table with yellow/white umbrella & stand, $25. 668-6079

LARGE CHINA cabinet & buffet, dark wood, glass front doors, $350 obo. 633-3805

MEMORY FOAM mattress, very clean, $125. 334-1732

TEMPUR-PEDIC MEMORY foam mattress, paid $3,000, asking $1,000, exc cond.

334-9990 SEALY POSTURPEDIC mattress, California King. In exc cond, a bit too soft for me, 2 yrs old. You pick it up. 668-4634

4ʼ ROUND d/room table & 6 chairs, dark wood, leather seats & backs, $350 obo.

633-3805 QUEEN-SIZE WATER bed, comes with solid wood bookcase headboard, mattress, liner & heater, all in good condition. Open to offers.

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LARGE OAK book shelf 6'.6"X7'X19.25", made of 3/4" oak plywood, no particle board, strong and solid, $350 obo. 633-3819 SOLID WOOD coffee table, Mahogany finish with beveled glass insert, 48"x26"x19", exc cond, $225. Ken @ 456-7297 QUEEN SIZED futon with mattress made by Futon Plus in Regina SK, $200 obo.

456-4877 OAK CHINA cabinet with glass doors & buffet, $350 obo. 633-3805

DRUG PROBLEM? Narcotics Anonymous meetings Wed. 7pm-8pm #2 - 407 Ogilvie St. BYTE Office FRI. 7pm-8:30pm 4071 - 4th Ave Many Rivers Office

Personals

Good Night!

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

Wind up your day with everything you need.

867-667-6283

File No. 2020-60-LM46: J Braden Bennett has made application to subdivide Lot 1068, Quad 105 D/10, Plan 91-106, to create two rural residential lots, Mt Lorne Development Area.

File No. 2020-60-LM47: Alexander Pope & Lois Moorcroft have made application to subdivide Lot 1142, Quad 105 D/7, Plan 2014-0006, to create two rural residential lots, Mayo Road Development Area.

File No. 2020-60-LM48: David & Dawn Bouquot have made application to subdivide Lot 1189, Quad 105 D/10, Plan 2008-0133, to create two rural residential lots, Mayo Road Development Area.

File No. 2020-60-MR31: Peter & Joanne Harms have made application to create a home site severance of agriculture Lot 1201, Quad 105 D/14, Plan 89-78, Mayo Road Development Area.

File No. 2020-60-TH60: 35392 Yukon Inc. has made application to create a home site severance of agriculture Lot 1395, Quad 105 D/14, Plan 2003-0025, Hotsprings Road Development Area.

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Phone: 867 867-667-6285 667 6285

KITCHEN TABLE and 4 chairs, Oak frame, octagonal table & chair frames, $75 for all.

456-7856

File No. 2020-60-LM45: Mathieu Devred & Alexia Faivre have made application to subdivide Lot 1026, Quad 105 D/7, Plan 66558, to create two rural residential lots, Mt Lorne Development Area.

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TWIN SIZE box spring, frame & mattress, like new, protective allergy pro covers used & come with set, $350 obo. 456-7856

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

Pursuant to Section 7(b) of the Subdivision Regulations made pursuant to the Subdivision Act, the Yukon government gives notice of the following subdivision applications:

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www.yukon-news.com SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 20TH DOWNTOWN M CORNER OF 5TH & WOOD, downtown, Saturday September 20, 10am-1pm, multi-family, seasonal decorations, household items, sports, toys, movies, chairs, books, house plants, bicycle, coffee is on M 5131 - 5TH AVE, downtown, Saturday September 20, 9am-12Noon, furniture, Christmas decorations, miscellaneous items M 702A COOK ST, downtown, Saturday September 20, 9am-12Noon, miscellaneous items GRANGER M 67 WILSON DR, Granger, Saturday September 20, 9am-12Noon, multi-family, high end Italian leather furniture, tables, chairs, dishes, clothes, shoes, camping stuff, Partylite candle holders HILLCREST M 8 SUNSET DR NORTH, Hillcrest, Saturday September 20, 10am-1pm JUDAS CREEK M LOT 48, DIGGER DR, Judas Creek, Marsh Lake, Saturday September 20 & Sunday September 21, 10am-5pm, estate sale, household items, skis & poles, furniture, dishes, crafts etc

Comments on these applications will be accepted until October 17, 2014.

For further information or to comment on these applications please contact the EMR Land Planning Branch at 667-8877 or call toll-free 1-800-661-0408 ext. 8877.

211 Wood Street, Whitehorse, Yukon Y1A 2E4

Garage S SALE PORTER CREEK

M 56 TAMARACK DR, Porter Creek, Saturday September 20, 9am-Noon, rain, snow or shine

M 21 JUNIPER DR, Porter Creek, Saturday September 20, 9am-11am, tires, tools, single bed, girls clothing, fridge, ski boots, winter boots M 1410 CENTENNIAL ST, Porter Creek, indoors, Saturday September 20, 10am-12Noon, everything must go, offers, no early birds M 24 LABERGE RD, Porter Creek, Saturday September 20 & Sunday September 21, 10am-2pm, estate sale, some new & same stuff, tools, vehicles, appliances, furniture, newer tires, lots of trailers etc RIVERDALE

M 31 ALSEK RD, Riverdale, Saturday September 20, 9am-12Noon, jewelry, clothes, shoes, last sale of the year, everything cheap

TAKHINI M 600 COLLEGE DR, Takhini, Sunday September 21, 11am-4pm, 4-apt sale, small items & furniture M 408 MOUNTAINVIEW PL, across from Northlands Trailer Park, Saturday September 20 starting at 10am, multi-family, household items, pots & pans, fall/winter clothing, boots, fabric etc VALLEYVIEW M 365 VALLEYVIEW CRES, Valleyview, Saturday September 20, 10am-2pm, sporting goods, computer desk, queen mattress & boxspring etc

LOGAN

M 40 ALSEK RD, Riverdale, Saturday September 20, 10am-2pm, tools, furniture, misc items, cancelled if raining, 667-7413

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 21ST

M 61 FINCH CRES, Logan, Saturday September 20, 9am-12Noon, cancelled if raining

M #145, 1 KLONDIKE RD, Riverdale, Saturday September 20, 10am-2pm, computer equipment

M 53A DRIFT DR, Copper Ridge, Sunday September 21, 9am-11am, high quality toys, clothes, books, bikes, skates, electronics, TV’s & surprise lucky dip

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JUDAS CREEK M LOT 48, DIGGER DR, Judas Creek, Marsh Lake, Saturday September 20 & Sunday September 21, 10am-5pm, estate sale, household items, skis & poles, furniture, dishes, crafts etc PORTER CREEK M 24 LABERGE RD, Porter Creek, Saturday September 20 & Sunday September 21, 10am-2pm, estate sale, some new & same stuff, tools, vehicles, appliances, furniture, newer tires, lots of trailers etc TAKHINI M 600 COLLEGE DR, Takhini, Sunday September 21, 11am-4pm, 4-apt sale, small items & furniture

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