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epresentatives of the Council of Yukon First Nations and its lawyers were in Ottawa this week to protest proposed amendments to the Yukon Environmental and Socio-economic Assessment Act. They appeared before the Senate committee charged with reviewing those amendments on Thursday morning.

The council asserted that proposed changes to the act were made without consultation of the First Nations and would be illegal if they proceed.

“We have moved, in our opinion, from a co-operative process to a unilateral process, which is a breach of our agreements,” said Mary Jane Jim, councillor with the Champagne and Aishihik First Nations, according to the preliminary transcript of the hearing.

“CYFN does not want to follow the Tlicho and Sahtu path to litigation, and indeed it is not the position of Champagne and Aishihik as well,” said Jim. Those N.W.T. First Nations have sued or promised to sue Ottawa over changes to the environmental regulatory regime there.

However, “if Bill S-6 proceeds as it is, the CYFN and Yukon First Nations will, unfortunately, need to take steps necessary to protect the integrity of their final agreements,” Jim added.

Yukon’s environmental assessment regimes comes out of the Umbrella Final Agreement signed in 1993 between the Yukon, Canada and First Nations.

In 2003 the federal government passed the Yukon Environmental and Socio-economic Assessment Act, and a mandated five-year review process began in 2008.

First Nations assert that the review process was never completed.

The process did not adequately address CYFN’s insistence that future reviews be mandated, that First Nations be funded adequately to participate in assessments, and that First Nations must be consulted on decision documents, Grand Chief Ruth Massie told the Senate committee.

Furthermore, the proposed amendments to YESAA go beyond what was agreed to through the five-year review process.

Eric Fairclough, chief of the Little Salmon/Carmacks First Nation, outlined four amendments that are “deeply concerning” at the Senate committee hearing.

The amendments would allow the federal minister to give policy direction to the Yukon Environmental and Socio-economic Assessment Board without consent of First Nations.

It would also allow the federal minister to delegate that power and

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CYFN Grand Chief Ruth Massie told a Senate committee this week that amendments to the Yukon Environmental and Socio-economic Assessment Act were drafted without consulting Yukon First Nations.

any others to the territorial minister without consent of the First Nations.

“The provision would exclude Yukon First Nations from discussions and decisions about future redistribution of power, duties and functions under the YESAA,” said Fairclough.

“The proposed amendment would create a bilateral federal territorial process that would be inconsistent with the intent of the final agreements.”

The amendments could also give a federal or territorial minister the power to exempt projects from going through a new assessment when the project has been changed or is in need of a renewed licence.

This is in direct contravention of what was agreed to in the five-year review process, said Fairclough.

“During the development of the YESAA, the CYFN, Canada and Yukon agreed that the regulations would define which projects are subject to assessments. The proposed amendments would interfere with this approach.”

Finally, Fairclough said that proposed limits to the time that a project can spend in the assessment process “will affect the thoroughness of assessments and the opportunities for Yukon First Nations to complete comprehensive reviews of projects and to provide input.

“These matters were never discussed during the five-year review,” he said.

Yukon Premier Darrell Pasloski also presented to the Senate committee this week.

He told them that he supports the proposed amendments because

they will bring the Yukon’s environmental regime in line with other jurisdictions and promote economic development here.

“When (the act) was tabled and proclaimed in 2003, it really put Yukon at the front of the bus,” Pasloski told the News in an interview Wednesday. “It was the envy of the rest of the country. What has happened over the last decade is that as amendments have occurred in other jurisdictions, we move closer to the back of the bus. What this will do will allow us to again be consistent with other jurisdictions, like our neighbours to the east, the Northwest Territories and Nunavut.

“I had one CEO tell me that for every three months that he has been mining, he has spent one month in assessment,” said Pasloski.

NDP Opposition leader Liz Hanson called the proposed amendments “a frontal attack” on Yukon’s environmental assessment process.

“I don’t buy this race-to-thebottom approach,” she said.

“That’s a fool’s game to be playing, because you and I, taxpayers and citizens of this territory will be on the hook for decisions made

by Yukon government to try to appease or to try to say, ‘Oh no, wink wink, you don’t really need to worry about water licences, or you don’t really need to assure us, this government, that you really are abiding by the basic rules and systems that we have in place.’

“Selling out your environment, selling out your territory and creating risk for the future generations is not a way of creating certainty.”

Contact Jacqueline Ronson at jronson@yukon-news.com

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Fracking committee feels the pressure Jacqueline Ronson News Reporter

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he Yukon Legislative Assembly’s select committee on the risks and benefits of hydraulic fracturing is on the final leg of its community tour this week.

Last night in Whitehorse at the Kwanlin Dun Cultural Centre about 150 people came out to give testimony, show support or hear what others had to say.

About 40 people signed up for five minutes each of the MLAs’ attention.

Deanna McArthur prefaced her speech by saying that she had never spoken publicly about something like this before, but that in the past six months she has knocked on the doors of several hundred Yukoners to share information about fracking.

“I was so encouraged that the majority of those I talked with were individuals who do not want that practice allowed here,” she said.

“On the downside, though, I was saddened by the cynicism of so many who in spite of their feelings on the subject wondered if it would matter much one way or the other what they said or signed, and the decisions have already been made by those in power.”

Lee Mennell echoed the sentiment later in the evening.

“In spite of what I consider the biggest popular movement I’ve ever seen in 40 years of living here, and I think the government should have gotten the message loud and clear a long time ago ... they still seem intent to do this with this project,” he said.

“I’ve written letters, I’ve been to the legislature, I’ve done all this stuff – it’s time consuming. A person has to make a living. This is a waste of my time, in a sense. I have to fight against my government.

“This is masquerade, it feels to me like a masquerade, that we have to have the illusion of democracy in spite of the fact

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Corliss Burke chose to face the public during her statement at the public hearing held by the select committee regarding the risks and benefits of hydraulic fracturing at the Kwanlin Dun Cultural Centre yesterday evening.

that we all know what government wants to do.”

Mennell then led the crowd with his guitar in a version of Country Joe and the Fish’s antiVietnam protest song, with the lyrics altered.

He had a friend hold a cardboard poster with the new lyrics to the chorus, and NDP MLA Kevin Barr held the mic.

“What are we fracking for?” asked Mennell in the song’s chorus. “There ain’t nothing that they won’t trash to get at that natural gas.”

Gary Bemis attempted to survey the crowd, and asked those who favour fracking to raise a hand. It’s unclear if no industry supporters showed up, or if none dared to raise a hand in a crowd overwhelmingly opposed to fracking.

Committee chair Patti McLeod interrupted Bemis and reminded him that his time allotment was for him to give

testimony to the MLAs. The committee also visited Haines Junction and Carcross this week.

By all accounts the Carcross meeting was a rousing display of anti-fracking fervour.

The meeting went on for four hours, with 55 people speaking strongly against fracking in a community centre packed with about 150 people, said Corliss Burke, who gave a summary of the Carcross meeting to the Whitehorse crowd last night.

Many who spoke reminded the committee that the Carcross/Tagish First Nation has passed a resolution banning fracking on its traditional territory, and that the government could see another lawsuit if it goes in a different direction, she said.

It was “quite phenomenal for a tiny little town,” said Liz Reichenbach, who also attended

both meetings.

And Astrid Vogt said it “smelled like there was revolution in the air” that night in Carcross.

Sean Smith, a councillor for the Kwanlin Dun First Nation, also addressed the committee in Whitehorse last night, although he gestured to symbolically remove his councillor hat and put on his Kwanlin Dun citizen hat before speaking.

He spoke of the “natural capital” that capitalists don’t take into account in their pursuit of profit.

That natural capital is “our blanket to secure our future, our children’s future and our children’s children’s future,” he said.

The Kwanlin Dun First Nation is one of few Yukon First Nations that has not publicly come out in opposition to fracking.

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Nations unanimously passed a resolution to ban fracking within its members’ traditional territories last year, however the Kwanlin Dun are not members of CYFN. Kwanlin Dun held a meeting this week for its citizens to learn more about the oil and gas industry and allow them to ask questions.

It came up as an issue at the last general assembly, and there were concerns raised about fracking in particular, said Lael Lund, communications manager for the First Nation.

She confirmed that the First Nation has not yet taken a position on oil and gas development or fracking.

About 40 members of the First Nation attended the meeting, and asked pointed questions about potential effects of oil and gas development on caribou, water, fish and the land.

They also expressed concerns that benefits are short-lived and mainly go to Outsiders.

David Morrison, president of Yukon Energy, told the Canadian Senate this week that the Kwanlin Dun have partnered with the corporation on the planned Whitehorse liquefied natural gas power plant.

“We have a partnership with KDFN as they will be 50 per cent owners of this project,” he said, according the preliminary transcript of the Senate hearing.

Lund said that the partnership with the First Nation is not yet a done deal.

“Kwanlin Dun is eligible to invest up to 50 per cent in that project, but has not committed to it at this point,” she said.

The legislative committee’s Whitehorse hearing continues on Saturday at 1 p.m. at the Kwanlin Dun Cultural Centre.

The committee will also accept written submission until Sept. 30. Visit the Yukon Legislative Assembly website for details.

Contact Jacqueline Ronson at jronson@yukon-news.com

Fuel spills into Porcupine River Jacqueline Ronson News Reporter

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pproximately a thousand litres of diesel fuel was spilled at Old Crow’s tank farm on the banks of the Porcupine River Monday evening.

The incident occurred at about 8:30 p.m. when a planeload of fuel was being used to fill the tanks, confirmed Joe Linklater, chief of the Vuntut Gwitchin First Nation.

“Somebody forgot to do the switchover, so they were pumping fuel into a full tank and then the tank overflowed,” he said.

A response plan was put into

action immediately after the spill was discovered, said Linklater.

“Just by coincidence we had an engineering firm doing assessments on a couple of other sites in Old Crow, and a person from YTG Environment doing the assessment as well. So she was able to get onto the site and assess whether or not everything was done right, and everything was done right immediately after the spill.”

One of the biggest concerns was fuel seeping into a nearby creek that flows into the Porcupine River, he said.

Crews acted by blocking a cul-

vert with sandbags to contain the flow, and the mouth of the creek was dammed, too, where it flows into the river.

“We are able to get suction trucks in there to suction off the contaminated water,” said Linklater.

Spill kits were also used to soak up some of the mess, he said.

The total amount of fuel that was spilled is still unknown, said Linklater. The next step will be to assess the situation and develop a remediation plan.

“It’s unfortunate that this happened but oddly enough we

had the right people in town to make sure that we were doing all the right things to deal with this as quickly as possible.”

A spokesperson with Environment Yukon confirmed that an unknown portion of the spill did end up in the Porcupine River.

“The department and environmental protection officers have advised the responsible party to take all reasonable measures to immediately confine the spill in order to protect the environment and public health,” said Melissa Madden.

The party responsible for the spill is required to clean up

the site in accordance with the Environment Act, she said.

Neither Madden nor Linklater would confirm what person or organization is responsible for the spill and therefore for the cleanup.

According to the Environment Yukon website, soil contaminated by fuel typically must be removed and treated at a designated facility.

Once the remediation work is complete, additional sampling must be done to determine that the ground is no longer contaminated.

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The decision was overturned and upgraded to house arrest.

In the case of Craig Gagnon, a 29-year-old from Mayo, Schmidt gave him a suspended sentence and six months probation for violating his probation and possession of cocaine.

That was increased to 30 days house arrest curfew.

Now prosecutors are appealing two more of Schmidt’s decisions.

Ashton Rosenthal was given two years probation after being convicted for sexually assaulting someone at a party.

The second case is that of Teri Lynn Schinkel. She pleaded guilty to impaired driving causing bodily harm, dangerous driving and refusing a breathalyzer.

Schinkel sped, sometimes drove in the wrong lane, flouted stop signs and hit medians.

She hit another car and that car was pushed off the road and across the median and over a bank, according to Schmidt’s decision.

She was given a 60-day jail sentence, but she was allowed to serve that time intermittently.

Schmidt has made it clear he will

look for other options than sending someone to jail.

In the Schinkel case, he describes his time working in Alert Bay, B.C. where he was able to sit with First Nation community members and learn about their history. “In that community, in the next six years, I did not send another person to jail. But it was not because I was not going to send any more aboriginals to jail. I said to them at the end of this very trying time that if you give me an alternative that is restorative, that brings this person back into the community that you are involved in, I will not send them to jail unless there is no reasonable alternative.�

Specific details of the Rosenthal and Schinkel appeals were not available and no date has been set yet.

Meanwhile, lawyers were in court yesterday planning for the next sitting of the B.C./Yukon Court of Appeal in November.

The panel of judges will be in the Yukon for a week starting Nov. 17.

Lawyers were asked to confirm they’re ready to go, so that the official schedule can be set.

So far, cases on the list involve such matters as a long-running battle between a former bison herd rancher and the Yukon government over whether or not he waited too long to sue. Other cases include the matter colloquially known as the “Yukon time� case. Two companies and the Yukon government went to the Supreme Court asking a judge to clarify when exactly – down to the second – a tender contract has to be handed in by.

The judges will also hear an appeal by a local businessman who had his defamation lawsuit against the CBC dismissed after a supreme court judge said he did not comply with the rules.

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One failed and is being replaced, while the other is being assessed. “It’s in pretty good shape so we’re hoping not to have to replace it right away,� Albisser said. “They’re great machines, they do a lot of work. We’ve seen some pretty bizarre things come down the pipe.�

The failed machine was installed in 2005 and rebuilt in 2007 after “something large� got stuck and bent the drive shaft.

The same thing happened this time.

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When asked what some of those things included, Albisser replied “you don’t want to know.�

The strange nickname for the equipment comes from the company that manufactures it, JWC Environmental.

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Yukon musician pushes for funding changes Myles Dolphin News Reporter

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mainstay in the Yukon music industry is voicing her concerns about one of the territory’s funding agencies.

Kim Beggs said she wants to see changes made to the Yukon Film and Sound Commission’s policies after an unpleasant experience with them this year.

The issues began after Beggs’ latest solo album, Beauty and Breaking, was released a year ago.

She received funding for the album from FACTOR (Foundation to Assist Canadian Talent on Records) in the amount of $10,000 and also received $5,000 from YFSC. Beggs said the album, which was recorded in Toronto, cost well over $20,000 to produce.

In order to qualify for the $5,000 award, which is meant to cover 50 per cent of Yukon costs, she had to demonstrate she faced $10,000 in costs.

The sound recording program at YFSC allows artists to determine a cash value for one part of the recording process, and Beggs chose studio costs.

She said YSFC awarded her $2,500 up front but changed their minds after Beggs’ final report was submitted. “They were unhappy with the value I gave myself,� she said. “They slashed it to a pittance.

Rather than give me $5,000 they gave me $2,140 and asked that I pay them back $360. It puts me at a real standstill because I borrowed money to cover my costs, and now on top of that, I owe them money.�

In an email dated Jan. 31, Iris Merritt with the commission wrote to Beggs informing her that they were only able to accept her fees as a studio musician to the maximum of $80 per session or $1,200. “We pulled your old files to double check and this is consistent with what was allowed under previous Yukon Sound Recording Fund funding,� Merritt wrote.

In June, Beggs’s album was nominated for a Western Canadian Music Award in the category of Roots Solo Recording of the Year.

Brandon Isaak, with his album Here On Earth, is the only other Yukon musician nominated for an award.

Beggs applied for showcase funding to attend the event but was denied because she’s still in debt to YFSC. She has received partial funding from Canada Council for the Arts,

which covers airfare, but she doesn’t have the funds to put up the rest of the band and pay for their expenses.

She is raising funds on Kickstarter to cover those costs. “Frankly I’m just not a rich person,� she said. “I’m a really hard working person but I’m a solo artist and the financial model is very different. There are a lot of satisfying parts to being an artist but it’s quite a slap in the face to have your value diminished like that. They (YFSC) don’t have clear and transparent policies.�

Beggs appealed the decision on June 18 and received a reply from the deputy minister of Economic Development, Murray Arsenault, in a letter dated July 18.

She said she doesn’t understand the explanations given to her about why her funding was reduced.

In the letter, Arsenault states that the Yukon Sound Recording Program “allows studio musician fees, and only studio musician fees, to be calculated as eligible, cash expenses where the work is undertaken by the applicant.�

All other work by the applicant is calculated as an in-kind expense, which is why the sessions fees calculated by the commission were upheld, he said. “The alternative would be to calculate the leader session fees as an in-kind expense, which would have reduced the amount of your reimbursement,� Arsenault wrote.

In the end, both parties could not reach an agreement on the total cash value of the album.

Beggs says this is all part of a bigger problem at YFSC, and she’s suggesting a major overhaul to the way they do business with artists.

She said she wants clear answers about policies for applicants and doesn’t want to be given the runaround when communicating with the agency, among other things. “You can spend two weeks emailing them and you still won’t know what their policies are,� she said. “It’s really put me in dire financial straits. I think they need to value people’s time more.�

Kieran Slobodin, senior business development advisor for Economic Development, said the agency’s policies haven’t changed.

He wouldn’t talk about the specific details of Beggs’s case but said the YFSC’s sound recording program matches up well with what’s offered across the country. “If we were to change a policy it’s

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Long-time Yukon musician Kim Beggs at her home in Lobird.

Beggs says she was treated unfairly by the Yukon Film and Sound Commission.

quite an involved process because cabinet has to approve the change,� he said. “When we approve a change we post them on the website and, of course, we work with the industry associations and communication channels within the community to make sure people know. We haven’t made changes in the policy to the sound recording program.�

In terms of funding, things can

change, Slobodin said.

When artists submit a budget for funding, the YFSC understands that it isn’t necessarily going to be to the dollar, he said. “If you come in or over certain expenses, that can affect what the final sum is,� he said. “Sometimes things change. A small business might have to change the consultant they’re working with

halfway through, and that changes the ultimate cost in the project. In those situations we encourage them to talk to us because they need approval for that kind of thing.

Sometimes you’re making estimates, when you’re a musician on the road doing a tour you won’t exactly know to the dollar your gas costs.�

Another Yukon musician, Gordie Tentrees, said he’s sympathetic to Beggs’s issues.

He’s grateful for the existing funding programs in place for Yukon artists but disappointed that his friend and peer has to go through something like this, he said.

He proposed a solution to mitigate some of the issues between both parties. “I’m open to any sort of discussion that leads to a forum where we can talk about making it better, not only for the people administering the money, but for the artists,� he said. “There is a lot of knowledge that Kim, myself and other artists can share that would help. A lot of other organizations in Canada are more streamlined and more efficient than the YFSC, and they do a bang up job to emulate those. But a lot of work still needs to be done.�

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The purpose of the digging was to determine the pipe size for

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The activity caused a rock to hit the pipe, which then burst.

Project lead Don Gillies said the issue is partially due to the antiquated plumbing around the campus.

“Nowadays this wouldn’t have happened because they would have had valves on both sides of the fire hydrant so you could actually isolate it,” he said.

“Because it’s an old system, valves are located in such a way that we had to turn off the college in order to shut this leak off.”

The building closure also affected the Nakwaye Ku Daycare and the Yukon Native Language Centre, both housed in the main building.

Buildings such as the nearby seniors’ residence and the Yukon Arts Centre were not affected as they are on a different water line.

Contact Myles Dolphin at myles@yukon-news.com

Busy time for Yukon rescuers Ashley Joannou

located and rescued two overdue hunters from Whitehorse.

On Sept. 23 at 2:30 p.m. Mayo ukon RCMP were involved RCMP got a call about two huntin two different search and ers who were supposed to have rescues in the last five days. made it home the day before.

The first happened on Sunday, “The Mayo RCMP immediSept. 21 when police and search ately chartered a helicopter and and rescue volunteers in Whitesearched the length of the Stewart horse found a 16-year-old who River while there was still availhad wandered off into the bush able daylight, but did not locate west of Fox Creek. any sign of the men or their boat,” At approximately 3:30 p.m., police said in a news release. rescuers were alerted after the “Search efforts were renewed teen’s father flagged down a pass- at first light on Sept. 24, which erby and asked to call police. involved police watercraft from Searchers were dispatched both Mayo and Dawson City along with a police services dog detachments, as well as friends and other RCMP officers to scour of the missing men who came up the area. from Whitehorse to assist.”

The teen was found hours later.

Just before noon on the 24th, He was disoriented but unhurt.

RCMP tracked down one of the Two days later, in Mayo, RCMP men.

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Black bear dumped at the side of the highway Yukon conservation officers are still on the lookout for the person who shot a bear and left the body in a bag on the side of the highway.

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The adult bear had been dumped in an ore sack, said Environment Yukon spokesperson Melissa Madden.

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The second man was trying to walk to safety. Police found him a short time later.

Neither of the men required any medical attention. They told their rescuers that they had run out of fuel.

The pair was brought back to their vehicle in Stewart Crossing and reunited with friends who helped to find them.

Police note that the men were not carrying a SPOT beacon or satellite phone that would have been able to tell rescuers exactly where they were.

On top of that, police say the two men appeared to have changed their plans at the last minute as to where they were

planning on launching the boat from, “requiring police to consider more than one potential starting point,” RCMP said.

“The RCMP would like to thank the volunteers who came up and assisted us with this situation, and Fireweed Helicopters for making themselves available on such short notice,” said Mayo detachment commander Cpl. Chris Hutchings.

“This incident illustrates the importance of ensuring you have satellite phone, SPOT beacon or some other means of signalling your position and a distress call when you are travelling in the backcountry. We are just thankful that this incident was successfully resolved with everyone returning home safely.”

by our animal health unit and it was determined that the cause of death was a gunshot wound.”

The bear had been dead no more than two days, she said.

Officers investigated and conducted interviews but the suspected crime is still unsolved.

“Conservation officers ask that

if the public has any details about this incident, to please report them to the TIPP line. All reports will remain anonymous and may be eligible for a reward,” Madden said.

The Turn in Poachers and Polluters line is: 1-800-661-0525.

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hen a Yukon MP broke his word on a matter of symbolic importance a few years ago, he found himself on the receiving end of some tough criticism from an energetic rival named Ryan Leef who ended up taking his job. Today, Leef finds himself similarly vulnerable to charges of putting the interests of his party ahead of his constituents. Expect this to play into the next federal election campaign, to be held sometime in the coming year.

The Liberals’ decision to whip votes to fight the abolition of the long-gun registry helped unseat Larry Bagnell, but Leef is in a pickle of his own making over calls for a federal inquiry into missing and murdered aboriginal women. A year ago, he decided to break rank on the issue and support a federal inquiry. It was, he said, the “loud and clear” view of voters.

“The reality is, I’m not defying leadership,” he said.

“I’m standing up for Yukon constituents.”

Now Leef finds himself busy trying to sell his government’s proposed alternative to a federal inquiry. The problem is, the so-called action plan announced by the government is actually a plan to do absolutely nothing new at all, beyond maintaining existing spending commitments.

That’s not how Leef frames things, of course.

He has repeatedly insisted that a chunk of the money is “new,” even it’s actually a continuation of a spending package announced in 2010.

Pressed on the issue, Leef

conceded that “people get confused” on such matters.

Well, exactly: people are confused because of what Leef is telling them.

He went on to say, “I don’t think I implied that the budgets have been increased at this point or the capacity has been increased,” when that’s precisely what he’s done, repeatedly.

There are good reasons to think that an inquiry wouldn’t actually accomplish anything, given how the issue at hand has already been studied to death. But that doesn’t change the fact that Leef told voters he’d support one, and now sounds like he doesn’t. Nor does it change the fact that Leef is presenting his government’s commitments in a misleading fashion. In short, our MP isn’t being straight with voters.

None of this is quite as clear cut as the gun registry issue that helped fell Bagnell. In that case, Bagnell had long stated he personally opposed the registry, but, after being threatened with expulsion from his party if he didn’t vote with his party, fought its destruction. Crucially, Bagnell was up front with voters that he wasn’t voting as they wished, but asserted that the benefits of remaining with his party outweighed the risks of sitting as an independent.

Leef, meanwhile, hasn’t yet had to vote on an inquiry. Nor has he admitted to giving up on supporting one. He says he needs to chat with constituents about the government’s new plan, first. But, given that the new plan is not new, but Publisher

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is merely a recital of what is already being done, how many Yukoners who previously supported an inquiry will be convinced this is a reasonable alternative? This appears to be just another way to muddy the waters, in the hope that voters won’t follow what’s happening.

It should also be remembered that Leef ’s support of the inquiry was fairly halfhearted – he said he only supported it if the provinces and territories helped pay for it. Still, Leef staked some credibility on this issue by sticking his neck out in the first place. Presumably, the idea was to show he’s able to think independently, and behave as something more than the prime minister’s sock puppet. So much for that.

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has dismissed calls for an inquiry with the silly assertion that the disproportionate amount of violence that aboriginal women face is no “sociological phenomenon,” but merely a matter of locking up bad guys.

No wonder Marian Horne, president of the Yukon Aboriginal Women’s Council, is so upset. The former MLA for the rightleaning Yukon Party is now openly calling on First Nation residents to think twice before voting Conservative, in light of the government’s refusal to take the issue seriously.

It’s always hard to predict which issues will catch fire

with voters, and it’s possible the inquiry schmozzle won’t peel away many votes from Leef. After all, many Yukoners who think an inquiry would do some good are probably unlikely to support Conservatives in the first place. But this issue could also harm Leef in a more general way, by casting him as a guy who says one thing and does another. If voters can’t trust Leef on this one issue, they may wonder, can they on others?

All this makes it that much harder for Leef to present himself as Yukon’s guy in Ottawa, rather than Ottawa’s guy in the Yukon.

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New Brunswick election launches a “natural experiment” in economics ments than this. The western and Maritime provinces are in the country, and are broadly

by Keith same similar in terms of things like Halliday legal systems, workforce education, proximity to international markets and so on.

In five years, we should have some interesting evidence about both the economic well being of the two sets of provinces, as well as environmental damage done.

We’ll also be able to see how ne of the reasons that Canadians vote with their feet, economic theory is so hard to prove in practice since interprovincial migration is well tracked. is that it is hard to run experiOn taxes, Nova Scotia curments. You pull one lever like rently has the highest personal cutting taxes or boosting job income taxes in the country training, and a hundred other other than Quebec (and is higher factors like oil prices, exchange than Quebec on corporate taxes rates, business confidence or and sales tax). New Brunswick’s interest rates all change the next contribution to the experiday and muddy the waters. ment is new Liberal Premier It’s not like medicine, where Brian Gallant’s plan to leapfrog you give a new pill to 1,000 Nova Scotia. The new top rate randomly selected patients and for New Brunswickers earning compare their results with 1,000 over $250,000 will be 54.75 per other patients taking a placebo. cent, the highest marginal rate However, Canada is offering in North America according to up a unique “natural experiment” Kevin Mulligan, a UBC tax guru. in economics. Saskatchewan, Everyone loves to squeeze the Alberta and B.C. are all pro-frac- “rich” until the pips squeak, as king and low tax (by Canadian Lloyd George used to say, but standards). New Brunswick, on don’t forget that doctors, profesthe other hand, elected a new sionals and business owners are government earlier this week that pretty mobile these days. Those plans to emulate Nova Scotia’s no making more than $250,000 who fracking, high tax strategy. choose to live in New Brunswick It’s not a perfect experiment, will be paying 15 points more tax since a drug researcher would than they would in Alberta. That want to isolate fracking from could be tens of thousands of taxes. From an economics point dollars a year difference in afterof view, however, you don’t tax income. often get much clearer experiSome say tax rates aren’t that

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Stop shooting bears Human behaviour has led to the destruction of yet another bear.

First: I want to thank WildWise Yukon for educating the public, and for promoting and implementing ways to reduce human wildlife conflicts that help keep both bears and humans safe.

Environment Yukon spokeswoman Melissa Madden says “it was deemed a serious threat to public safety,” and she said killing the bear by Yukon conservation officers was “tragic.” Tragic indeed!

She went on to say: “We’ve had a number of problems with unsecured chicken coops this summer.” Also, “People can prevent such an outcome by keeping bear attractants out of their yards.”

When are people going to be held accountable for creating the very problems they complain about?

I can’t accept that the Department of Environment finds it tragic to kill bears. After all, bears – bears that don’t bother anyone – are killed legally prior to or just after hibernation every year. Every spokesperson for the department knows this.

Strange they don’t find this type of destruction “tragic.” These

deaths are preventable, too. Bears are considered “resources” to feed the human desire to kill, and this is morally wrong.

It’s a bit hypocritical to say one feels bad for killing a so-called nuisance animals, when that killing seems to be a first resort, not a last resort.

So now we have another bear killed this season. Many beavers have also been destroyed this past summer, though ethical solutions and devices exist to protect culverts without harming beavers.

Just another batch of body parts for the annual trappers’ association and government fur sale?

Wildlife need and deserve protection, too.

Mike Grieco Whitehorse

Fracking isn’t worth it As winter approaches and politicians prepare for the legislature to resume, some of us stack firewood, some drive by the liquefied natural gas construction site and some notice the posters around town indicating the blast radius if

important compared to family connections, community ties and other factors. Others point out that discouraging entrepreneurs and high-productivity jobs is a risky strategy. The governments of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick will give us a chance to see which argument is right.

On fracking, the diverging points of view are also stark. The Nova Scotia government announced a de facto moratorium on fracking recently, and the newly elected New Brunswick premier promised the same.

Meanwhile, B.C. Premier Christy Clark is staking her reputation on building a natural gas economy in her province, Alberta has been actively fracking for decades and Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall is proudly bringing profracking motions forward in the legislature.

He enjoys taunting the Saskatchewan NDP leader with twitter salvoes like “Thanks @ cambroten and the @Sask–NDP for their support of our motion affirming the use of fracking for sustainable energy dvlpt & ec growth.”

The interweb is full of people saying that fracking creates jobs, imperils the environment, generates tax revenues and sets tap water on fire. As usual with the Internet, it is not easy to figure out who to believe. As with taxes, however, in a few years we’ll be able to compare the western provinces with New Brunswick and Nova Scotia and see how things actually turned out.

One doesn’t want to prejudge an experiment. However, it’s worth noting that in some ways the experiment has been going on for a few years already.

Nova Scotia and New Brunswick already had high taxes even before New Brunswick’s latest move. And even though both are moving against fracking this year, they didn’t ever have significant onshore oil and gas activity.

Similarly, Alberta and Saskatchewan have been running low tax and frack-friendly policies for years.

So how do things look for the two groups of provinces? TD Economics has published a series of reports. Their data shows that New Brunswick and Nova Scotia are the two provinces with the lowest economic growth over 2009-12. Alberta, Saskatchewan and B.C. are the top three. The two Maritime provinces also have per capita incomes about $5,000 below the Canadian average, while both Saskatchewan and Alberta are above average and B.C. is slightly below.

On interprovincial migration, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia each lost 0.5 per cent of their populations in 2012. That is a lot of people in one year. Alberta and Saskatchewan each saw a net population increase. Unemployment rates suggest a reason for this, with all three western provinces having unemployment rates better than the national average in 2012, while New Brunswick and Nova Scotia were 3.0 and 1.8 percentage points

higher, respectively.

Looking at budget balances, the three western provinces have surpluses planned for 2014-15, according to TD Economics, while the two Maritime ones have sizeable deficits. B.C.’s provincial debt, the highest among the three western provinces, is half of the Maritime provinces’ as a share of their economies.

In five years there will be another set of provincial elections, and voters will decide which set of policies they like. In the meantime, keep an eye on those interprovincial migration figures.

*** Correction: a keen-eyed reader spotted an error in my Canada Day column in which I speculated about what life would have been like here if the border between the Russian and British Empires had run, as suggested at one point, down the 135th meridian. Incorrectly I stated that Riverdale would have remained a bastion of freedom while Copper Ridge might have ended up as a drab Soviet housing development. It turns out, if you have your map oriented the right way, that Riverdale would have been on the Russian side of the border.

Freedom-lovers would have had to move to Pine Ridge or Golden Horn.

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

a tipping fee for residential refuse, the garbage has been piling up in the bush areas inside the city.

The old copper mill site off If fracking is allowed in the there is a significant accident once the Mount Sima road is a perfect Yukon and it does contaminthe LNG facility is built. example. Most of the trash is ate the ground water, I suppose Another task at hand is atconstruction waste from renovatending the legislative committee we could use bottled water for tions, appliances, yard waste, and showers as well as drinking, on fracking hearings. even burned out cars. Some of it is washing clothes and washing Fracking has gotten a lot of dishes. But then, where would that household garbage in plastic bags, attention internationally and which the animals rip open and nationally recently. Opponents list bottled water come from? Probexamples of major problems with ably an area where fracking is not scatter.

When are you going to send it, proponents keep saying regula- allowed. out city crews to clean up the mess The legislative committee on tions will keep it safe. Opponents your garbage dump policies have fracking is still holding hearings. point to numerous problems in caused? It’s inside city limits and Might be a good idea to sign up Alberta, northern B.C. and the it’s your responsibility to clean it and let those politicians know U.S. and fracking bans in Europe up. and Nova Scotia. Proponents rely what you think. Sign up at the This would be a good thing to on hair-splitting legalities to avoid Yukon government website. Follow the links: Legislative Assembly spend your ‘sustainability’ budget liability for groundwater probon instead of more studies. Per– Select Committee Regarding lems. haps this would be a good job for Risks & Benefits of Hydraulic Proponents have yet to show the sustainability manager.

Fracturing – Public Hearings – how regulations can keep seI hope we see some action on Pre-registration. Or you could just cret chemicals pumped into this problem before the snow figure out how many bottles of the ground at the high pressure season makes it appear to go away. water it takes to have a shower. needed to shatter the rock – the This will clean up the mess in the reason to frack – can be regulated short term, however for the long to keep the chemicals from getting Skeeter Wright Whitehorse term, you should consider waiving into the groundwater. They also tipping fees for residential refuse have yet to show how regulations Whitehorse’s tipping on Saturdays. prevent that secret chemical frack Thank you for your attention to soup that comes back up the fees encourage littering this problem. drill hole, and is disposed of by pumping it back into the ground, Ever since Whitehorse’s commitMike Peltier is prevented from contaminating ground water. tee of the whole started charging Whitehorse

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Reforms needed for utilities board Open letter to the Yukon Utilities Board: On June 2 the Utilities Consumersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Group sent you a copy of our Part V energy strategy research paper on consumer perspectives for regulatory reform in the Yukon for your consideration. You wrote back: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Please be advised that your document will not be distributed to the board members, as the board does not consider matters that are outside of a proceeding.â&#x20AC;?

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The board sent an acknowledgement of receipt of the investigation request correspondence.

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your own board costs have convoluted some three-fold from prior norms, for the latest three processes, which you exercised authority over: $236,213 for the Yukon Energy rate increase hearing, $232,795 for the Yukon Electrical general rate increase and $158,537 to bless Yukon Energyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s multi-million dollar liquefied natural gas plant.

This is on top of thousands in core expenses, paid by the Department of Justice, through our tax base.

It would appear by all of this that you have no personal incentive to make the necessary changes in the regulatory regime that would cut costs for the electrical ratepayers. You, as board members, should be the first to embrace such cost cutting measures!

Several years ago, our organization wrote to the minister responsible for your board, noting the possibilities of increasing costs to provide for a board member who lives outside of the territory, as well as one who lives in Dawson, whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s travel and accommodation expenses would be sizeable. This is on top of paying thousands of dollars for several authorities you rely on, flown in from Alberta, to fill your deficiencies!

We respectfully request you look at providing transparency for all board remunerations and related costs so as to justify this to the ratepayers of electricity in the Yukon. We also request you immediately embrace regulatory reform by sending a public response to this very important matter!

Roger Rondeau Utilities Consumersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Group

Please say no to fracking Open letter to the Yukon governmentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s select committee on fracking: As one of more then almost 6,000 citizens who have implored the Yukon government to ban fracking in our territory (the most signatures ever, on a petition in the Yukon), I hope you are getting a clear message that Yukoners are passionate about keeping this devastating process out of our territory.

government has the opportunity to become a leader and a model in the development of renewable energy. There is ample eviSurely, the government that dence to show that it is possible appointed your committee real- for us to move away from fossil izes by now that its constituents fuels over the next few years. are not in favour of allowing Letâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s take up the challenge, for fracking in our territory. To the good of our citizens, our reflect the will of the majority, entire country, and our future you need to take the couragegenerations.

What a significant legacy for ous position of making an the Yukon government to leave, unequivocal recommendation and what a huge contribution to against fracking.

Yukoners have expressed their society it would be, to demonstrate our ability to reduce concerns about the amount of dependence on fossil fuels. water required for this process (water that will never be Corliss Burke returned to the hydrological Whitehorse, Yukon cycle), the resultant damage to the air as well as surface water Listen to 6,000 Yukoners and underground aquifers, the consequences to human and Open letter to the legislative select animal health, the blight on our pristine landscapes, and the committee on the benefits and risks of fracking: false economics touted by the I am writing you on behalf of industry.

Yukoners Concerned About Oil Speaking to regulators in and Gas Exploration to inform other jurisdictions is an illfounded strategy, given the fact you that our group will be submitting to the fall legislative that there is no jurisdiction on record that has implemented ef- assembly a petition of approxifective regulation. On the other mately 6,000 Yukoners who have hand, the devastation of the air, signed to ban liquefied natural gas and fracking in the Yukon. water, land, and in many cases, When going door to door the health of wildlife and human populations where fracking with our petition the fundamental point for most Yukoners has taken place is well docuwas the complete destruction of mented. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m sure by now that our fresh water. Many Yukoners you have reviewed the experience in Alberta and B.C., as well saw no benefit to drill for oil/gas as that of the U.S., where scien- by fracking if our most precious resource, water, is destroyed tists have repeatedly warned of the serious consequences of this forever.

The fact that there is little process, and where these consebaseline data on our water, quences have become a reality. geology, wildlife, permafrost, The economic arguments impacts on roadways, air qualin favour of fracking, based on ity, and potential health issues experience in other jurisdicwere very strong points raised tions, are hollow. The damage by many Yukoners at the door. to roads, and the demands on It was also stated by many infrastructure, along with the environmental devastation, has Yukoners that the Yukon Energy conversion from diesel back up always led to a negative result on the balance sheet of risks and generators to LNG generators was nothing but a demonstrabenefits. tion by government to set up a Industry promises jobs, and potential market to frack in the yet these are so few in number (most positions are technical in Yukon. As you well know the geology of the Yukon is over 90 nature, requiring highly skilled per cent shale and to extract any individuals) and are of very oil/gas will require fracking. short duration. Once the trees We state once again that apare cut, there is little other nonproximately 6,000 Yukoners are skilled work involved. telling the Yukon government Other countries have partto ban LNG and fracking in the nered with industry to create Yukon. jobs in the development and Please do the right thing. production of renewable resources, and Nova Scotiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ban on Donald Roberts fracking is courageous.

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“During the secondary inspection, Xu was found to have 51 live turtles tapped (sic) to his person,” TORONTO Kenneth Adams, a special agent with Canadian man facing charges U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, stated in the U.S. over an alleged in an affidavit outlining the criminal reptile smuggling operation complaint. was caught at the border with 51 “Specifically, Xu had 41 turtles live turtles stuffed down his pants, tapped (sic) to his legs and 10 hidrecently unsealed court documents den between his legs.” say.

Canadian authorities seized The U.S. federal court documents the turtles, which included North say officers with the Canada Border American varieties such as eastern Services Agency intercepted Kai Xu box turtles, red-eared sliders and as he attempted to cross into Wind- diamondback terrapins – some of which sell for $800 each – and sor, Ont., from Detroit last month.

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turned them over to American officials.

While the interception occurred in August, details were only made public after Xu and a second Canadian, Lihua Lin, 30, of the Toronto area, were arrested and charged in U.S. district court this week following an investigation by the Fish and Wildlife Service.

Xu, 26, and Lin appeared in federal court in Detroit on Thursday charged with smuggling, illegal trading and exporting. They could face up to 10 years in prison if convicted.

In a separate criminal complaint against Xu’s co-accused filed with the court, Special Agent Matthew Martin described how wildlife officials witnessed “known reptile smuggler” Xu pick up several boxes of live turtles in Novi, northwest of Detroit, on Tuesday.

The document said he then drove to a hotel near the Detroit international airport, where he placed the reptiles in a room he had booked for two nights, later meeting up with Lin at the hotel.

On Wednesday, the document said, Xu dropped Lin off at the airport bound for Shanghai, China.

Lin, who checked in two pieces of luggage, was arrested after a search turned up more than 200 North American pond turtles.

None of the allegations has been proven in court and the accused have not offered a defence.

The turtles are apparently prized as food or pets in China.

In his detailed complaint, Adams

described how his agency had received a tip Aug. 5 from a courier company in Detroit about a parcel addressed to Xu that was awaiting pickup.

The brown box, which had been shipped from Alabama, weighed about three kilograms and had no air holes but carried the notation “Live fish – keep cool.”

On the same day, U.S. border agents notified the fish and wildlife agency that Xu had crossed into Detroit from Windsor in an SUV. Adams and other agents then staked out the courier depot, where Xu arrived to pick up the brown parcel.

The complaint states Xu then apparently opened various boxes in the rear of the SUV, took out several round clear plastic containers, and placed their contents into plastic baggies, and was also seen with packaging tape and scissors.

“Xu turned towards me as he looked around the parking lot,” Adams states.

“As he did so, Special Agent (James) Fuller noticed irregularly shaped bulges under Xu’s sweatpants on both his legs.”

Xu then drove toward Windsor, where he was stopped.

He is due to appear in bail court in Detroit on Friday, said Gina Balaya, a spokeswoman with the U.S. attorney’s office.

Lin was released on US$10,000 bail. Conditions include having no contact with Xu and entering the U.S. only for court.

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Election 2015: Will Harper spring forward or fall back on set date?

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will abide by the date he himself brought in to law.

Tuesdayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s news that the trial OTTAWA of former Conservative Sen. n exchange for a $25 donaMike Duffy will unfold in April tion, the Conservative party and June sent the guessing recently offered its supporters machine back into overdrive. a Stephen Harper calendar â&#x20AC;&#x153;to Would Harper want to pull the help count down to election plug early to avoid the potential day.â&#x20AC;? But will they be counting damage from the proceedings? down to Oct. 19, 2015, or some The Prime Ministerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Office Monday in the spring? says no. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The timing of the elecWhen the prime minister will tion will not change,â&#x20AC;? spokesdrop the writ is what passes as man Jason MacDonald said water-cooler talk around Parlia- Tuesday in an email. ment Hill and across governâ&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be fall 2015.â&#x20AC;? ment â&#x20AC;&#x201C; even some Conservatives Still, there are plenty of are wondering whether Harper precedents in Canadian history Canadian Press

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for calling early elections, with mixed results for the government in power. Wilfrid Laurier called an early vote in 1911 on the issue of freer trade with the United States, and wound up losing to Robert Bordenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Tories.

Harper himself called an early election in 2008 arguing Parliament had become too dysfunctional and wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t allowing the government to fulfil its agenda.

The Tories came back with more seats.

Despite the supposedly fixed date, the Canada Elections Act does not prevent the prime minister from asking the Governor

General to dissolve Parliament early, as he did six years ago.

Hereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s some potential scenarios around the timing of the 2015 election: â&#x20AC;˘ The opposition calls for an early election or dares the prime minister to drop the writ, giving Harper an out. Newly elected Canadian Alliance leader Stockwell Day did that to Jean Chretien in 2000, and Chretien obliged. The Liberals won another majority. â&#x20AC;&#x153;(Trudeau)â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s in an established party, heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been around longer as leader, so I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t think that gambit would pay off,â&#x20AC;? Day said Tuesday. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think the prime minister would be correct in thinking that the solid economic record should carry the day, with a majority of voters.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;˘ The Conservatives announce

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a massive budget surplus and a new plan for how to spend it that has not appeared in previous platforms. Harper could then argue that he needs a fresh mandate to move forward with the plan. â&#x20AC;˘ World events cause the government to consider a controversial military mission.

Harper decides he needs to put the question to the public in a federal election as soon as possible. â&#x20AC;˘ The Conservatives bank on the media and public interest in the Duffy trial petering out over the summer of 2015, and stick with the fixed election date. â&#x20AC;˘ The Conservatives stick with the October date, gambling that Liberal Leader Justin Trudeauâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s popularity will fade between now and then â&#x20AC;&#x201C; with the help of attack ads and relentless Tory attacks on Trudeauâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s record. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The analysis that any prime minister will do is, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Do I have a better chance of winning in April than in May or June or October, and what are the downsides if I break the spirit of my own law, is that going to be held against me?â&#x20AC;?â&#x20AC;&#x2122; said Eddie Goldenberg, Chretienâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s former chief of staff. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think it probably would be, because heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s got a majority.â&#x20AC;?

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Government, opposition together support MPâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s bill to restore power to Commons reforms.

But Chong wanted to make sure the bill would pass and undertook months of talks with caucus leaders, backbenchers and members of the public on how to make the bill better, or at least feasible.

The MP ultimately promised to amend his bill to introduce more flexibility â&#x20AC;&#x201C; for example, allowing parties to decide on their own particular caucus rules after each federal election. Such amendments can only occur at the committee stage.

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Speaker chastises NDP in appeal for MPs to elevate tone of debate called Andrew Scheer’s impartiality into question Tuesday after Conservative MP Paul Calandra OTTAWA responded to Mulcair’s question he Speaker issued a broad on the Iraqi mission by raising a plea for better behaviour completely unrelated subject. in the House of Commons on Mulcair’s plea for an interWednesday as he chastised the vention appeared to fall on deaf Opposition New Democrats for ears, prompting the leader to tell openly questioning his neutrality Scheer, “That does not speak very during question period. favourably about your neutralNDP Leader Tom Mulcair ity in this House,” at which point Stephanie Levitz Canadian Press

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an NDP staffer on the subject in social media, complete with censored profanities.

Scheer noted in his comments that the language was unsavoury and urged MPs to choose their words more carefully.

After the Speaker’s comments, Mulcair said he considered the matter closed.

“It’s never been the case that a government has gone as far as Conservatives go, and it’s undermining the respect that the public has for our institutions,” Mulcair said Wednesday.

“Yesterday there was a rampFred Chartrand/The Canadian Press ing up – the words that were House of Commons Speaker Andrew Scheer stands in the used, a nine-year-old would have House of Commons during Question Period on Wednesday. known that those were big swear words being used in the House.

Scheer denied Mulcair the chance appeals for an elevated tone of It’s a shame that it took until debate in the House. to ask his remaining questions. today to recognize that. It’s done, “I have no doubt that CanaOn Wednesday, Scheer I’m going to move on.” dians expect members to elevate suggested he could have gone On Wednesday, it was James the tone and substance of quesfurther, noting that to challenge Bezan, parliamentary secretary to tion period exchanges,” he said. the Speaker’s character can be Defence Minister Rob Nicholson, “As your Speaker, I hope the seen as a punishable breach of who fielded Mulcair’s question privilege. He did not elaborate on House can rise to that challenge.” and confirmed that the 30-day what punishment he might have Mulcair had been asking for mission window in Iraq opened meted out. confirmation on the end-date for on Sept. 5.

Besides, Scheer added, until Canada’s contribution to the misThe federal government has MPs themselves change the rules, sion in Iraq. repeatedly said it would reassess long-standing tradition means Calandra, who is the parliathe mission before the 30 days the Speaker can’t interfere with mentary secretary to the prime have passed – and Prime Minister answers given during question minister, replied by bringing Stephen Harper revealed Wednesperiod. up the NDP’s position on Israel day that the U.S. has already Still, he reiterated previous and remarks allegedly made by asked Canada for more help.

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Analysis of Russia sanctions: Canada’s toughest, but not when it comes to oil Alexander Panetta

the U.S. or Europe. The Canadian extend to actual drilling or owneraccounted for the majority of its oil and gas companies. Calfrac Well Press compiled a database that ship stakes, which American oil international earnings. The compa- Services says it made $158 million shows Canada with 175, not includ- companies actually do have there. ny employs more than 5,800 people in revenues from Russia last year.

NEW YORK ing several against more amorphous Exxon Mobil has just had to pause and said its job count increased 27 While its revenue in that country is or all its much-touted toughness entities like “the Federal State of drilling in Russia’s Arctic because of per cent, thanks mainly to Russian smaller than in Canada and the U.S., in imposing economic sanctions Novorossiya,” which is also on the American sanctions. earnings. it’s growing fast. It reported having against Russia, Canada has been Canadian list.

“Since we don’t have a huge “We do not anticipate any placed 400 horizontal fracturing significantly more timid against one As for why Russian oil is so scarce amount of interests in Russian oil,” disruptions to our Russian business stages in Russia in 2013 – nearly 10 particular target: the oil industry. on that same list, one academic Detomasi said, “it could simply be throughout the remainder of 2014 times the previous year’s amount.

A database of sanctions compiled who has researched the geopolitical something that hasn’t been attended based upon the sanctions that have “The speed of Russia’s adoption

by The Canadian Press suggests reach of Russia’s oil industry says to yet.” been imposed to date,” the company of horizontal drilling has created Canada has been almost three times there might be an extremely simple That being said, some Canareported. significant opportunity,” said the less likely to penalize Russian oil explanation: human oversight. dian companies do actually point “However, we will continue to companies than the United States. company’s latest annual report.

David Detomasi of Queen’s to Russia as being integral to their monitor this situation closely as it The Harper government has “The unconventional work in Russia University says Canadian interests long-term growth strategy. does raise additional business risks imposed economic penalties against there are relatively minor. They’re reminds us of the early days of the Calgary-based Trican Well in the region.” five Russian oil companies, commostly limited to providing logisti- Service Ltd. said in its latest quarAnother Calgary company touts Cardium (oil formation’s) revival in pared to 13 firms targeted in that cal help with extraction – and don’t terly report that Russian operations its work for three of Russia’s biggest Canada.” same sector by the U.S. That’s despite the fact that in its vast array of more than 175 sanctions targets, Canada has been as tough as the U.S. – if not tougher – on other segments of Russian society, including private citizens, the defence industry, mining, and financial-services companies.

The oil and gas sector is a clear statistical exception, representing about 13.8 per cent of Canadian sanctions against companies imposed during the Ukraine crisis. By way of comparison, the proportion is about 29.5 per cent in the U.S. and 20 per cent in the European Union.

Also, four of Russia’s largest oil companies and its dominant pipeline company have faced sanctions in either the U.S., Europe, or both: Rosneft, Lukoil, Surgutneftgas, Gazprom, and the state-run pipeline monopoly Transneft.

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Not one of them has faced such measures from Canada.

Are you aware of the impact grief has on In an interview, Canada’s industry minister said he hasn’t heard any everyone in the workplace? complaints from the opposition or regular citizens about the approach Did you know that you play a criƟcal to sanctions. role in your employee’s grief recovery?

“There has been none of that,” Industry Minister James Moore said.

“There’s been a unified Canadian In this workshop you will learn to anƟcipate understanding that the position of the challenges of supporƟng employees Stephen Harper is the correct one, morally. It won’t be without its frusthrough loss in the workplace and develop trations for some people who have pracƟcal tools to help you provide eīecƟve had long business ties with Russia – but certainly some things are more leadership in these high stress periods. important.”

But when asked whether the You will also hear ĮrstͲhand from Deputy government might follow the U.S. Hospice Facilitators Barb EvansͲEhricht and Anne Macaire Ministers and other Managers who have with sanctions against influential Vladimir Putin ally Igor Sechin and provided excellent leadership during Ɵmes of Rosneft, the No. 1 Russian oil comloss in their own workplaces.

Thursday Nov. 6 pany that has Sechin as its chairman, Moore said: “I don’t have any com8:30amͲ5:00pm ment on that.”

The Canadian government will be on the international stage this Who should aƩend: Cost $225 + GST Lunch is provided week promoting its robust response Managers, supervisors, HR professionals, to Russia’s intervention in Ukraine, To register call Yukon College 668Ͳ8710 as Prime Minister Stephen Harper educators, school principals, and anyone in a Course Reg # 10661 makes it one of the themes of his leadership posiƟon within their workplace.

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Oct 21, 2014 CRN: 10601 Location: Yukon Inn- Willow Room

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Northern Institute of Social Justice, In Coordination with Hospice Yukon:

Living with Loss: An Introduction to Healthy Grieving This educational talk explores the grief cycle that accompanies any kind of loss. We will talk about healthy grieving and share tools that will help you support yourself and others to heal and grow through times of loss. This is not a grief support group - participants will not be asked to share any personal information. All participants will receive a package of resource materials. This course will be offered via Adobe Connect web conferencing to the following Yukon College Community Campuses: Dawson City, Watson Lake, and Carmacks.

Oct 30, 2014 CRN: 10643 Location: Dawson City, Watson Lake, and Carmacks Campuses Register for this course by calling: Northern Institute of Social Justice, 867.456.8589

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Loss Grief and Healing: Supporting Your Staff through Loss and Grief Are you in a leadership role at work? Are you aware of the impact grief has on everyone in the workplace? Did you know that you play a critical role in your employee’s grief recovery? In this workshop you will learn to anticipate the challenges of supporting employees through loss in the workplace and develop practical tools to help you provide effective leadership in these high stress periods. You will also hear first hand from Deputy Ministers and other Managers who have provided excellent leadership during times of loss in their own workplaces.

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World leaders meet at UN facing turmoil from multiple crises, with few solutions Edith M. Lederer Associated Press

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acing a world in turmoil from multiple crises ranging from wars in the Mideast and Africa to the deadly scourge of Ebola and growing Islamic radicalism, leaders from more than 140 countries open their annual meeting at the United Nations on Wednesday with few solutions.

The issue certain to top the agenda is the threat from Islamic terrorists intent on erasing borders, with the first U.S. and Arab airstrikes in Syria delivered Monday night in response.

Many diplomats hope that crisis won’t drown out the plight of millions of civilians caught in conflicts in Syria, Iraq, Central African Republic, South Sudan, Ukraine and Gaza; the misery of the largest number of refugees since World War II; and global support for new U.N. goals to fight poverty and address climate change.

Looking at the array of complex challenges, Norway’s Foreign Minister Borge Brende told The Associated Press: “It’s unprecedented in decades, that’s for sure.”

He pointed to the situation confronting the U.N. and international donors: four top-level humanitarian crises at the same time in Iraq, Central African Republic, South Sudan and Syria, which is now in the fourth year of a civil war which the U.N. says has killed more than 190,000 people.

Secretary-General Ban Kimoon, who will deliver his state of the world report at Wednesday’s opening of the General Assembly ministerial session, gave a bleak preview to reporters last week: The world is facing “multiple crises,” with all featuring attacks on civilians and having dangerous sectarian, ethnic or tribal dimensions.

In addition to the major conflicts, Ban said the world must not forget the continuing violence in Mali, the volatile situation in and around Ukraine, the chaos in Libya, the greater polarization between Israelis and Palestinians following the recent devastating war, and the advances of Boko Haram in Nigeria which “grow more alarming every day.”

The secretary-general said he will call on world leaders to unite to uphold human dignity and the rule of law.

Soon after, U.S. President Barack Obama will step to the podium, and he is certain to dwell on the terrorist threat. Rights groups have called for him to explain how the campaign against the Islamic State extremist group is in accordance with international law.

Obama also will chair a Security Council meeting later Wednesday at which members are expected to adopt a resolution that would require all countries to prevent the recruitment and transport of foreign fighters preparing to join terrorist groups such as the Islamic State.

The opening of the annual U.N. meeting, which ends Sept.

30, follows the highest-level meeting ever on climate change, with some 120 world leaders responding to the secretary-general’s call for increased political momentum to address the warming planet.

“For all the immediate challenges that we gather to address this week – terrorism, instability, inequality, disease – there’s one issue that will define the contours of this century more dramatically than any other, and that is the urgent and growing threat of a changing climate,” Obama said.

But Obama, along with China, the world’s largest greenhouse gas emitter, said he would not propose targets to reduce carbon pollution beyond 2020 until early next year. The summit also exposed longstanding political divisions between rich and poor countries, raising questions about whether a new climate pact will be reached by the end of 2015.

Such divisions on a wide range of issues are certain to be addressed in the week ahead.

This year’s VIPs include Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, French President Francois Hollande, Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, British Prime Minister David Cameron and Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro.

Two prominent no-shows are Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf because of the Ebola crisis that has hit her country hardest and Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, who gave no public reason.

While the assembly’s newly renovated chamber will be the scene of constant speech-making, most of the real “business” during the General Assembly takes place in private meetings and dinners.

This year’s side events cover a number of crisis countries including Iran, South Sudan, Myanmar, Yemen and Somalia, with a recently added high-level meeting on Ebola.

Iyad Madani, secretary general of the 57-member Organization of Islamic Cooperation, said there are “a multiplicity of crises” that are unpredictable, but “I think we are relatively a more peaceful world than in World War I, II, Korea, Vietnam or the Cold War.”

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Islamic State militants kill Iraqi woman lawyer who campaigned for human rights Vivian Salama Associated Press

BAGHDAD ilitants with the Islamic State group publicly killed a rights lawyer in the Iraqi city of Mosul after their self-styled Islamic court ruled that she had abandoned Islam, the U.N. mission in Iraq said Thursday.

Samira Salih al-Nuaimi was seized from her home on Sept. 17 after allegedly posting messages on Facebook that were critical of the militantsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; destruction of religious sites in Mosul.

According to the United Nations Assistance Mission in Iraq, al-Nuaimi was tried in a so-called â&#x20AC;&#x153;Sharia courtâ&#x20AC;? for apostasy, after which she was tortured for five days before the militants sentenced her to â&#x20AC;&#x153;public execution.â&#x20AC;?

She was killed on Monday, the U.N. mission said. Her Facebook page appears to have been removed since her death. â&#x20AC;&#x153;By torturing and executing a female human rightsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; lawyer and activist, defending in particular the civil and human rights of her fellow citizens in Mosul, ISIL continues to attest to its infamous nature, combining hatred, nihilism and savagery, as well as its total disregard of human decency,â&#x20AC;? Nickolay Mladenov, the U.N. envoy to Iraq, said in a statement, referring to the group by an acronym.

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melted away. The extremists now rule a vast, self-declared caliphate straddling the Syria-Iraq border in which they have imposed a harsh version of Islamic law and beheaded and massacred their opponents.

In the once-diverse city of Mosul, the group has forced religious minorities to convert to Islam, pay special taxes or die, causing tens of thousands to flee. The militants have enforced a strict dress code on women, going so far as to veil the faces of female mannequins in store fronts.

In August, the group destroyed a number of historic landmarks in the town, including several mosques and shrines, claiming they promote apostasy and depart from principles of Islam.

Among Muslim hard-liners, apostasy is considered to be not just conversion from Islam to another faith, but also committing actions that are so against the faith that one is considered to have abandoned Islam.

The Gulf Center for Human Rights said Wednesday that alNuaimi had worked on detainee rights and poverty. The Bahrainbased rights organization said her death â&#x20AC;&#x153;is solely motivated by her peaceful and legitimate human rights work, in particular defending the civil and human rights of her fellow citizens in Mosul.â&#x20AC;?

In the nearby town of Sderat, militants on Tuesday broke into the house of a female candidate in the last provincial council elections, killed her and abducted her husband, the UN also said. On the

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The Islamic State extremistsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; blitz eventually prompted the United State to launch airstrikes last month, to aid Kurdish forces and protect religious minorities in Iraq.

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Thursday also marked the start of German arms deliveries to the semi-autonomous Kurdish region, with the ultimate goal of supplying 10,000 Kurdish fighters with some 70 million euros ($90 million) worth of equipment.

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The Taiwan-style braised beef noodle soup is one of the specialties at Panda Panda Noodle House.

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ffice-dwellers of Whitehorse rejoice: a new downtown lunch spot has opened.

Panda Panda Noodle House replaces the former La Patrona Mexican joint, next to Antoinette’s on Fourth Avenue.

It serves up a simple menu of Chinese staples, including barbecue pork, deep-fried squid and of course several styles of noodle and wonton soup.

Tiara Zhao started Panda Panda with her husband, Vincent Wu. She moved to the Yukon in 2007, and her husband shortly before that, she said.

She was in China with her first child visiting her mom when Wu first visited the Yukon with a friend, and decided it would be a good place to live, said Zhao.

“He feels OK here, so I just followed him here at first,” she said.

“It is a little bit difficult because it’s boring, to move from a big city to a small town, not too many places to shop, just like that. “But later you will feel here in the small town it is still nice.

In the summer you can go to outside, the nature. There are so many lakes.

“And the winter is still OK because we still have the Canada Games Centre, we still can do more sports, stuff like that.

Especially, it’s not crowded like the big city. The big city has too many people, you know what I mean?”

Zhao is originally from the city of Qingdao, on the coast of northern China.

She called it “not really big,” although the city has 4.5 million people.

It is most famous for its beer, specifically the Tsingtao brewery, and the Olympics, said Zhao.

Qingdao hosted the sailing events during the 2008 Beijing Games.

Before coming to the Yukon, Zhao was a student in Toronto, she said. She and her husband have previously run restaurants in both Alberta and Toronto.

They had been looking for a space to start a restaurant in the Yukon for a while, she said.

“The Mexican restaurant, they just finished, and we just got the news and it was the right time to take over.”

Inside Panda Panda, the

freshly painted walls are decorated sparsely with decals of pandas munching on bamboo and cartoon cats.

Wu does the cooking.

“My husband, he’s Cantonese, he’s from Hong Kong. So, he does the barbecue pork especially.”

It’s made fresh every day, said Zhao.

The couple settled on a noodle house because of space limitations in the kitchen and because no other restaurant in Whitehorse is doing it, she said.

It also reminds Zhao of home.

“I’m from the north part of China, and we eat a lot of noodles.”

They special order homemade-style noodles from Calgary.

One of the specialities is the Taiwan-style braised beef noodle soup, said Zhao.

The soup is made up of a rich broth, noodles, Chinese greens and big chunks of tender braised beef.

It takes her husband six to eight hours to make the soup, said Zhao.

“The soup is very good.”

As a lunch spot, Panda Panda has a lot going for it.

Alistair Maitland/Yukon News

Owners Vincent Wu, left, and Tiara Zhao prepare entrees in the kitchen.

The menu is simple, with a handful of appetizers and a handful of mains, and the service is quick.

The food tastes fresh and homemade, and prices for a bowl of noodle soup start at $9.95.

There are daily lunch special combos posted on the wall that pair an appetizer and a main, and encourage patrons to try something new.

Already Panda Panda is at-

tracting some regular customers, said Zhao.

The restaurant only opened a week ago, and she’s seen some faces four or five times, she said.

“Many people, they come back again, again, even with their friends. That means they’re satisfied and they like our noodles.”

Panda Panda is open for lunch every day except Sunday, and for dinner seven days a week.

Contact Jacqueline Ronson at jronson@yukon-news.com

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Epic Meal Empire: YouTube stars serve up gut-busting fare on new TV series to that network. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Now, the show is exactly what we want. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s something weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re proud of.

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In the first episode, a second-grade teacher invites the guys to make her students a â&#x20AC;&#x153;fantasy meal,â&#x20AC;? a break from eating boring old healthy food.

They build a â&#x20AC;&#x153;Taterbot,â&#x20AC;? a giant robot made of Tater Tots, licorice and grilled cheese.

Other wild concoctions in the show: a Cinnabon battleship with a cream cheese frosting churro cannon, an eight-foot chicken (made of chicken tenders and 100 eggs) on roller skates and an edible car they

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A bigger budget allows the guys to be more imaginative with their meals, but network television has its drawbacks. The Jack Danielâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s-guzzling foursome canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t drink on camera, which they flout in the premiere by taking a shot off screen.

And to balance out the heavy dose of testosterone, Natalie Forte of the Cooking Channelâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Americaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Best Bites has joined the crew as their â&#x20AC;&#x153;liaisonâ&#x20AC;? to clients. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think the network was concerned when we first started the show that weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d be a little too gross for TV â&#x20AC;&#x201C; just disgusting men,â&#x20AC;? said Heuff. â&#x20AC;&#x153;So she brings a little bit of beauty and

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Dave Heuff, from left, Harley Morenstein, Ameer Atari and Josh Elkin star in new FYI series Epic Meal Empire, based on their popular YouTube series Epic Meal Time.

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TORONTO he four guys behind Epic Meal Empire have devoured cheeseburger-stuffed lasagna, pizza cupcakes and Tex-mex sushi. So whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the grossest thing theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve ever eaten? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Dried apricots and dried papayas,â&#x20AC;? says founder Harley Morenstein with disgust.

The Montreal-based kitchen crew genuinely loves calorie-laden comfort food. And after racking up 600 million YouTube views for their Epic Meal Time videos, theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re bringing their passion for gut-busting concoctions to the small screen.

In Epic Meal Empire, airing Mondays on FYI, the gang moves to Los Angeles and cooks up artery-clogging fare for â&#x20AC;&#x153;extreme-food clientsâ&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x201C; i.e. anyone with an excuse to consume meals that should probably only be eaten once in a lifetime.

The crew, led by â&#x20AC;&#x153;Sauce Bossâ&#x20AC;?

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Back in 2010, he was a substitute high school teacher in his hometown of Montreal when he began experimenting in video production. Epic Meal Time was born when he and his friends created an elaborate â&#x20AC;&#x153;cheat mealâ&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x201C; ironically, amid efforts to promote health and fitness. â&#x20AC;&#x153;After the first episode, I substituted the following week. The show had gotten a lot of traction,â&#x20AC;? he recalled. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The kids were like, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Oh sir, I saw you drinking on the Internet!â&#x20AC;&#x2122; â&#x20AC;Ś I kind of lost the children that day.â&#x20AC;?

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B.C. underwater expedition may have revealed earliest site of human habitation one stone weir – a man-made chanStone tools or evidence of campnel used to corral fish. The scan fires would not be possible to see on the ocean bottom. They’re too small. suggests a wall of large stones placed VANCOUVER in a line at a right angle to the stream, “But we had this idea that if esearchers using a robotic under- people were harvesting salmon in the a fishing tool common to the Haida water vehicle off British Colum- rivers… they might have been build- and many other ancient cultures. bia’s northern coast believe they may ing fish weirs,” Mackie said.

“That’s pretty much the exact have found the earliest evidence of archetype of what we were looking Armed with detailed scans of human habitation in Canada. for,” he said. the sea floor and with the help of Unfortunately, the site that could Based on radio-carbon dating Parks Canada and its research vessel, date back almost 14,000 years lies be- Mackie and his colleagues set out to from another archeological site on neath more than 100 metres of water search. the island, the weir could date back in the ocean around the Haida Gwaii 13,800 years.

For as many as 12 hours a day, archipelago.

Alison Proctor, a research engineer for 10 days, the torpedo-like AUV Archaeologist Quentin Mackie used sonar to survey 25 kilometres of from the university’s ocean technolfrom the University of Victoria and ogy lab, programmed and operated underwater riverbeds. his team returned earlier this month the AUV for this expedition and durHe’s far from certain, but Mackie from a research trip to the archipelaing the 2012 search for the Franklin is hopeful the images show at least go, where they used the autonomous underwater vehicle to scan the sea floor in search of evidence of ancient civilization.

“We’re not quite ready to say for sure that we found something,” he said. “We have really interesting-looking targets on the sea floor that, as an archeologist, they look like they could SAVE THE DATE be cultural.”

Mackie has studied the area for 15 years and came to believe that ancient Date: October 24-26, 2014 residents would have harvested salmLocation: Nàkwät’à Kù Potlatch House on near the coast of what was then a single island that stretched well across Hecate Strait toward the mainland.

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A geologist will now study the images to ensure the rocks are not a natural formation, then the team will return next summer to take samples of the sediment near the site and to look for stone tools.

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The $8-billion dam would lie in the heart of B.C.â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s nascent LNG industry.

Chief Roland Willson of the West Moberly First Nation said his community has title to the Peace River valley under a century-old treaty, and a recent decision from the Supreme Court of Canada has bolstered their say in any industrial development on that land.

The band is not opposed to resource development, Willson said, but it has issued an ultimatum. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve said you canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have both,â&#x20AC;? Willson said in an interview. â&#x20AC;&#x153;If you want to push Site C, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not going to be in favour of any LNG projects, any of the pipeline projects up there. We donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want to be there but if thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the case, we donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have any other choice.â&#x20AC;?

Willson was in Ottawa on Wednesday to deliver that message to the federal government. However, he and Chief Liz Logan of the Fort Nelson First Nation, Grand Chief Stewart Phillip of the Union of B.C. Indian Chiefs and Ghislaini Picard of the Assembly of First Nations did not meet with any federal government officials. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve come to Ottawa to try and talk to the decisionmakers here and weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve not

been able to get in front of anybody,â&#x20AC;? Willson told reporters.

The dam would be the third on the Peace River in B.C., flooding 5,550 hectares of land over an 83-kilometre stretch of valley. It would generate an estimated 100 megawatts of capacity, or enough to power the equivalent of 450,000 homes a year.

A report by a joint federalprovincial environmental assessment panel in May made no clear recommendation.

Energy Minister Bill Bennett said announcements are expected on environmental certificates from the federal government and the B.C. Environmental Assessment Office next month. If Site C is given the go-ahead, a final decision from the province could come in November. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Clearly we would like to have at least some of the Treaty 8 First Nations, as many as possible, involved with the actual project â&#x20AC;&#x201C; their contracting firms getting business out of it, their people getting jobs out of it,â&#x20AC;? Bennett said in a recent interview. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Obviously, with no First Nation formally in support of the project at this time, we still have lots of work to do.â&#x20AC;?

But there is a treaty in place, so the recent Supreme Court of Canada decision on land title may not have much

bearing on this particular project, he said.

The Crown-owned utility, BC Hydro, has said it needs the dam to provide for future needs and meet the provinceâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s legislated clean energy targets.

Ken Boon, a rancher whose land will be under water if the project proceeds, said he hopes the West Moberly band can convince the province to find an alternative. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think if they had to choose between the two, theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d choose LNG,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t think the government really has the appetite to get into a big litigation battle with First Nations over Site C.â&#x20AC;?

Willson said the area cannot bear the environmental impact of both LNG and the dam. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s too much,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re already inundated with gas activity. When you look at that, well, they canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have both.â&#x20AC;?

The Peace region is responsible already for 60 per cent of the provinceâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s resource revenue, he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Yes there has to be development,â&#x20AC;? Willson said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;But you canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t continue to develop and push constitutionally protected treaty rights off to the side. Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re at a point now where theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve grossly crossed over those lines.â&#x20AC;?

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Vast, man-made caverns in Utah hold promise for balancing out renewable energy supply, demand Oak Ridge National Laboratory. â&#x20AC;&#x153;If it made a lot of economic sense, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d Associated Press be seeing these projects duplicated.â&#x20AC;?

Still, Kirby and other experts CHEYENNE, WYO. added that the concept holds great proposal to export twice as promise for broader application as much Wyoming wind power expenses drop, wind power capacity to Los Angeles as the amount expands and West Coast utilities of electricity generated by the look to Rocky Mountain states to Hoover Dam includes an engineersupply more electricity. It also could ing feat even more massive than that help rebut renewable energy skeptics famous structure: Four chambers, who point to the variability of wind each approaching the size of the Em- power as reason enough to stick with pire State Building, would be carved fossil fuels. from an underground salt deposit to In this case, the electricity would hold huge volumes of compressed originate with a 2,100-megawatt air. wind farm near Chugwater, a southThe caverns in central Utah east Wyoming town of about 200 would serve as a kind of massive people 140 miles north of Denver. battery on a scale never before seen, High-voltage lines would send the helping to overcome the fact that electricity to the compressed-air site â&#x20AC;&#x201C; even in Wyoming â&#x20AC;&#x201C; wind doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t 10 miles north of Delta, Utah. blow all the time.

From there, the electricity would Air would be pumped into the go to California, a state that requires caverns when power demand is one-third of its power to come from low and wind is high, typically at renewable sources, such as wind and night. During times of increased solar. demand, the compressed air would California also is a big driver of be released to drive turbines and energy storage. Last year, the state feed power to markets in far-away required three major utilities to Southern California. acquire 1,325 megawatts of energy Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a relatively simple concept storage by 2020. proven decades ago on a much A megawatt is enough electricity smaller scale by utilities in Alabama to provide power to roughly 600 to and Germany. Yet, experts said 1,000 homes.

Wednesday thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a reason similar Batteries big enough to serve the projects donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t exist elsewhere: The grid can meet the requirement, but technology known as â&#x20AC;&#x153;compressed compressed air storage is a much air energy storageâ&#x20AC;? is expensive, better option, said Loyd Drain, particularly when stacked against executive director of the Wyoming other power sources such as cheap, Infrastructure Authority, an agency natural gas. that promotes power line developâ&#x20AC;&#x153;Stored energy technically is ment to export electricity generated wonderful stuff. But itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s primarily in the state. the capital costs that get you,â&#x20AC;? said â&#x20AC;&#x153;Battery storage is very expensive, Brendan Kirby, a private consultant and former senior researcher at the very inefficient. The second you put Mead Gruver And Matthew Brown

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Drain said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;But energy storage, like compressed air storage, you can store that and not lose any energy.â&#x20AC;?

The air would be pumped into four caverns, each 1,300-feet high and 290-feet wide and capable of holding enough air to generate 60,000 megawatt-hours of electricity through turbines at the surface. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s probably one of the only salt formations in the West that lends itself to compressed air energy storage of any scale bigger than a very small facility. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a very large salt formation, very deep,â&#x20AC;? Chris Jones, managing director of business development for Duke-American Transmission, one of four partners in the project, said Wednesday.

To excavate the caverns, the companies will pump fresh water into the salt deposit, which geologists call a â&#x20AC;&#x153;salt dome,â&#x20AC;? to gradually dissolve out the caverns. Magnum Energy, another partner in the project, already has used that process at the site to create two large caverns that can each store up to 2 million barrels of propane or butane.

As the caverns get bigger, salt water is pumped to the surface to dry, leaving behind salt that can be sold for a variety of purposes, including road salt, said Magnum Energy spokesman Rob Webster. â&#x20AC;&#x153;From the surface, it would look not different from an oil or gas well, with a big wellhead sitting on top of

it and not really much else to see,â&#x20AC;?

Webster said.

While huge salt domes are rare onshore in the West, theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re common in the Gulf of Mexico. Oil and gas companies excavate them to store natural gas using the same method.

Magnum Energy expects to begin the two-year process of excavating the caverns in 2016. Once completed with all equipment in place, the facility will cost an estimated $1.5 billion.

Paul Denholm, an analyst at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Boulder, Colorado, who has analyzed the economics of wind energy storage, said even though high costs have tripped up other projects, that wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t necessarily be the case in Utah. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The thing that makes this one different is that wind keeps getting cheaper and cheaper in price,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Every year that we move along the economics look more favourable.â&#x20AC;?

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Kate Weekes comes into her own with latest album

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Local musician Kate Weekes produced a new solo folk album, Frost On Black Fur. The release party is at the Old Fire Hall on Oct. 1 at 7:30 p.m.

On “Sing It To The Hills,” the Whitehorse-based folk musician sings about Irish tour guides who he more you listen to Frost struggle with feelings of joy, grief On Black Fur, the more and oppression associated with you enter Kate Weekes’s the country’s tumultuous past. unique perception of the world The song came about after around her.

Weekes spent two months in The latest solo album from the Ireland a few years ago.

32-year old Yukon singer-songShe kept a journal, a practice writer features a variety of lyrical she has had for many years, and themes such as winter, wildercompiled the lyrics to the song ness, politics, travel and change. based on her notes.

But what comes through On “Banks Of The Snake,” the most is a distinct yearning based on a trip into the Peel for exploration, discovery and watershed, she tackles issues of curiosity. development and taking wilderWith a voice that can shed ness for granted. light on even the darkest days, “Chopper by the Iron Creek Weekes really comes into her own cuts through the air and it’s all we hear / what’s the iron chopon this 11-track album.

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per doing there? / picking up the mess they made or making more with stick and blade?” she sings.

She said she’s grown considerably – both lyrically and as a musician – since her self-titled, solo album was released in 2007.

“I feel like I’ve become a more solid musician, one that plays more consistently,” she said.

“I’ve been playing with some really good musicians over the last few years. I’m more conscious of my playing and how the songs are structured.”

Weekes said she had about 30 songs to pick from for this latest album.

The creative process began last fall when she started working with producer Bob Hamilton,

who was instrumental in helping Weekes structure her songs and figure out the best track order for the album, among other things.

In February, she launched a Kickstarter campaign to help fund the album.

Almost $6,000 was raised in the span of a month.

The message was loud and clear: people wanted to hear more original music from Kate Weekes.

“That really helped with my confidence,” she said.

“To hear that people were so enthusiastic about my upcoming album was very encouraging to me.”

The timing for a new solo album felt right, too.

Weekes had been collaborating

with other musicians for a few years and decided it was time to “find her voice again.”

She also wanted to have more performing options available to her.

“I’m curious to see how people will react to the album, and a bit nervous,” she said.

“You’re really putting yourself out there. I think there is more energy and rhythm to these songs than my past work.”

The album release party will be held at the Old Fire Hall on Oct. 1 at 7:30 p.m.

She’ll be performing songs from the album as well as some swing tunes, she said.

Contact Myles Dolphin at myles@yukon-news.com

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Canuck animator leaps to directorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s chair with stop-motion film The Boxtrolls Cassandra Szklarski Canadian Press TORONTO

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sk Canadian illustrator Graham Annable how he landed his first big directing gig in the meticulous world of stop-motion animation and he simply shrugs.

Each step toward his upcoming 3-D feature The Boxtrolls has been an unpredictable sequence of happenstance, he insisted during a visit to Toronto this past spring. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think back to when I graduated from (Oakville, Ont.â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s) Sheridan (College) â&#x20AC;&#x201C; which is over 20 years ago now â&#x20AC;&#x201C; and the thought that I would be back in Toronto speaking about a stopmotion animated feature that I co-directed would never have entered my mind,â&#x20AC;? Annable said in an interview after delivering the keynote address at the TIFF Kids Festival Industry Conference in April. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It is kind of an amazing thing for me to sort of map all the different choices and decisions that got me to where I am right now.

I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t think I could ever repeat that performance. A lot of folks ask me: â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;How do I get to where youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re getting?â&#x20AC;&#x2122; And I honestly couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t tell you exactly how it happened.â&#x20AC;?

Well, Annable did log a lot of hours as an animator at places including Chuck Jones Enterprises and George Lucasâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; video game company LucasArts, where he spent 10 years.

The 43-year-old Sault Ste. Marie, Ont.-native went on to hone his love for storyboarding at the Portland, Ore.-based Laika Studios, where he put his stamp on the Oscar-nominated

stop-motion films Coraline and ParaNorman.

From those two acclaimed features Annable was named head of story on Laikaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s third project, The Boxtrolls â&#x20AC;&#x201C; a stop-motion and computer-generated hybrid adaptation of Alan Snowâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s book series Here Be Monsters!

The Victorian-era period piece unfolds in Cheesebridge, â&#x20AC;&#x153;a town obsessed with wealth, class, and the stinkiest of fine cheeses.â&#x20AC;?

Beneath its cobblestone streets live the Boxtrolls, an underground community of dumpster-diving oddballs who wear discarded cardboard boxes. Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve raised an orphaned human boy, named Eggs, since infancy and when they are targeted by villainous pest exterminator Archibald Snatcher itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s up to Eggs to become their guardian.

The voiceover cast includes Elle Fanning, Simon Pegg, Ben Kingsley, Toni Collette and Nick Frost.

Annable said his leap from storyboard artist to director started while working on ParaNorman. During a lull in production he was asked to try his hand at storyboarding a sequence from an early script based on Snowâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s monster-filled book. He immediately gravitated toward the boxtroll characters. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They were just super-fun, these crazy characters that lived in boxes and didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t speak in any discernable language,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;For a storyboard artist, at least for me, it was really exciting because everything had to get worked out visually through pantomime and expressions.â&#x20AC;?

He put together a rough animatic which provided a direction for the film and earned him the title of head of story. That eventu-

ally â&#x20AC;&#x153;kind of morphedâ&#x20AC;? into the co-director position with Tony Stacchi, said Annable.

As with Coraline and ParaNorman, Laikaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s latest quirky feature employs a century-old style in which intricate handmade puppets are moved infinitesimally around tiny elaborate sets. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s all photographed one frame at a time to create the illusion of motion.

At the peak of production, Annable estimated roughly 350 people worked on The Boxtrolls, while roughly 50 stages were constructed and as many as 30 animators worked on set at the same time.

Amid a sea of computergenerated animated blockbusters, Annable said he appreciates the unique look and feel that stopmotion offers. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just nothing that looks like it, it really does stand out,â&#x20AC;?

Annable said of the technique, also seen in Tim Burtonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Frankenweenie, and Peter Lord and Jeff Newittâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s The Pirates! Band of Misfits, from Aardman Animations, the British company behind the Wallace & Gromit films. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Stop-motion is so tactile and thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s so much texture to it and I really feel like weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve done a lot with The Boxtrolls â&#x20AC;&#x201C; itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s such a rich-looking form of animation.

You can feel the light on all the objects, you can feel the density of everything.â&#x20AC;?

Still, The Boxtrolls does take advantage of modern-day technology by integrating visual effects to enhance the handmade elements, he said.

And it employs 3-D printers to create a range of facial expressions that can be inserted into each puppet without the need to re-scupt the figures.

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â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think Coraline had about 207,000 expressions available to her. And Eggs, our main character, has about 1.4 million,â&#x20AC;? Annable noted. â&#x20AC;&#x153;So the amount of ability to emote and act in the films just keeps going up and up.â&#x20AC;?

The learning curve for Annable has been steep, with the softspoken illustrator calling the

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Fox cartoon makes rape a punch line, draws protest released online over the summer.

It punctuates a scene in NEW YORK which the incorrigible Bart is he Fox network isn’t reinstructing Stewie Griffin in sponding to suggestions the art of the prank phone call. that it edit its upcoming crossBart dials the owner of Moe’s over episode of The Simpsons Tavern and asks whether there is and Family Guy to remove a anyone there with the last name joke where the punch line is Keybum, first name Lee. When “your sister’s being raped.”

Moe calls out to his patrons, The line appears in Sunday’s asking for a “leaky bum,” everymuch-awaited special where one gets a laugh.

Bart Simpson and his family Stewie thinks that’s cool, and hang around with Stewie and asks to make his own prank call. the rest of the Family Guy crew, “Hello, Moe?” he says. “Your and has already circulated in a sister’s being raped.” trailer for the episode that Fox Tim Winter, president of David Bauder Associated Press

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the advocacy group Parents Television Council, said he’s a longtime fan of Matt Groening, creator of The Simpsons, and sought out the trailer when it was released.

“I was blown out of my shoes when I saw the scene with the rape joke in it,” Winter said. “It really troubled me.”

He said he found it particularly offensive in the context of stories about sexual assaults on college campuses and, most recently, talk about abusive treatment of women by some Fox/AP Photo players in the National Football Stewie Griffin, left, learns to skateboard from his new friend League. He said when rape is ac- Bart Simpson in a scene from The Simpsons Guy, the onehour season premiere episode of Family Guy, airing this Sunday.

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cepted as a punch line for a joke in entertainment, “it becomes less outrageous in real life.”

Winter said he wrote to Groening, Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane and Fox in August, asking that the joke be removed when the episode is shown on television. He said he received no reply.

Fox’s entertainment division, through a spokeswoman, said it would not comment on the criticism or whether there are any second thoughts about the joke.

Katherine Hull Fliflet, spokeswoman for the Washington-based Rape, Abuse and Incest National Network, said she did not find the line offensive.

“I think the show is making it clear that rape is not funny by how they are positioning the joke,” Fliflet said. “It’s my hope that would be the viewers’ takeaway.”

RAINN, which says it is the nation’s largest anti-sexual assault organization and oper-

ates a rape hotline, works with creators in Hollywood to help them depict sexual assault realistically. The group lists actress Christina Ricci as a national spokesperson.

The National Organization for Women didn’t respond to requests for comment on the Fox comedies.

MacFarlane brought up the line during a recent interview with Entertainment Weekly, predicting he will get attacked for it in the media. “But in context,” he said, “it’s pretty funny.”

Winter said he didn’t think the subject was worth joking about, and said he was particularly concerned about its exposure to younger viewers who may be fans of The Simpsons, but are not familiar with the Family Guy style of comedy.

“We don’t mock certain groups because we realize that it is highly insensitive and morally wrong,” he said. “Why wouldn’t we do the same thing about sexual assault?”

High Noon Association (Yukon Shrine Club No. 30) 7th Annual

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Why Winnipeg? How Canadaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s national lab became an Ebola research powerhouse in the form of two names â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Heinz Feldmann, the labâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s first special pathogenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s chief and Gary KobinTORONTO ger, his successor and the current hen Dr. Frank Plumbranch chief. They are indeed key mer talks about the first players in the Winnipeg labâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Ebola experimental Ebola drug story. used in an outbreak, he pronouncâ&#x20AC;&#x153;Both of these guys are abes it â&#x20AC;&#x153;Zed Map.â&#x20AC;? solutely world class. I canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t say â&#x20AC;&#x153;I do it consciously,â&#x20AC;? says Plum- enough good things about them. mer, who retired this year after They are both superb scientists serving for nearly 14 years as the and in addition to being superb head of Canadaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s National Microscientists they are great individubiology Laboratory in Winnipeg. als,â&#x20AC;? says Jim LeDuc, director of The rest of the world says the the Galveston National Laboratory first letter of the drug ZMapp the at the University of Texas Medical way Americans do, calling the Branch, which also employs key concoction of three Ebola antibod- Ebola researchers. ies â&#x20AC;&#x153;Zee Map.â&#x20AC;? But the cocktail was â&#x20AC;&#x153;They have the right attitude. created in Winnipeg and Plummer Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re collaborative, theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re cothinks the name of a made-inoperative, they share their informaCanada drug ought to pronounced tion readily and they have a global the Canadian way. perspective. And they know exactly Winnipeg. Half a world away what needs to be done. And theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re from the countries in Africa where incredibly well respected within the Ebola, and its viral cousin, Marscientific community.â&#x20AC;? burg, occasionally slip out of their Still, the story doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t begin animal reservoir to start infecting with Feldmann and Kobinger. and killing people, as Ebola is now When the federal government doing in West Africa. decided to build in Winnipeg a They are two of the worst new, state-of-the-art laboratory viruses known to humankind, as to replace aging Health Canada evidenced by the current outbreak, facilities in Ottawa, it was not imwhich has infected at least 5,335 mediately clear the complex would people and killed at least 2,622. To contain a Level 4 lab, the high date, fortunately, there has never containment space needed to work been a case of either viral hemon the worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most dangerous orrhagic fever infections within pathogens.

Canadian borders.

The Ottawa facility had not So why then is Canadaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s had one, meaning that any time national lab an Ebola research Canada had to test a specimen that powerhouse? Why is a facility on might contain a Level 4 bug, it was the edge of the Prairies, near North forced to ship the sample to the Americaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s longitudinal centre, the labs of the U.S. Centers for Disease site from whence some of the most Control in Atlanta, Ga. promising Ebola research emaThis was the early 1990s and nates? concern about emerging infectious What research? Well, thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s diseases was front-burner. The U.S. ZMapp, the most promising of the Institute of Medicine had issued its current experimental treatments. seminal report â&#x20AC;&#x153;Emerging InfecThereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s also an Ebola vaccine that tions: Microbial Threats to Health may be useful both to prevent in the United Statesâ&#x20AC;? in 1992. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The infection and stop it in its tracks, if Hot Zone,â&#x20AC;? Richard Prestonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Ebola given shortly after exposure. And page turner, and Laurie Garrettâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a mobile diagnostic lab that has â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Coming Plagueâ&#x20AC;? were burnchanged the way outbreak testing ing up bestseller lists a few years is done. later.

These are enormous contribuâ&#x20AC;&#x153;We really felt that to be proptions to the scientific efforts to erly prepared for all of the posprevent or contain Ebola. And the sible diseases that we were seeing fact that they come from Winnipeg spreading â&#x20AC;Ś that it was better and seems to come down to a few good wise for Canada to have a Level 4 men. lab,â&#x20AC;? recalls Dr. Harvey Artsob, who was then the head of zoonotic dis*** If you ask why Winnipeg â&#x20AC;&#x201C; why eases for what became the National Canada? â&#x20AC;&#x201C; is such a player in Ebola Microbiology Laboratory, or NML, research, the instant answer comes as the scientists call it.

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Dr. Joseph Losof, then director general of Health Canadaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Laboratory Centre for Disease Control, gave the go-ahead. The search began for someone to head the special pathogens team.

the Level 4 labs of Winnipeg. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Heinz basically introduced Gary to me saying â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a really good guy, it would be great if we could find a job for him,â&#x20AC;? Plummer says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;So I hired him and it was one of the smartest things I ever did.â&#x20AC;?

When Feldmann was lured away to the U.S., Kobinger became his successor. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think with Gary they found the perfect person to run that project,â&#x20AC;? Feldmann says.

remote locations where Ebola and Marburg outbreaks typically occur.

Plummer says the idea originated in the uncertain days after 9/11, when anthrax-laced envelopes were mailed to news outlets and Congressional offices in the *** United States. Suspicious mail was Lab leaders keenly wanted a young German researcher who was found in New Brunswick, but no working in Marburg, German, but carrier was willing to transport it who had recently spent time at the to Winnipeg. So NML had to send scientists to New Brunswick to do CDC. Heinz Feldmann, who had the testing. (It wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t anthrax.) started his career studying influThe mobile lab â&#x20AC;&#x201C; and the team enza, had moved on to researching to run it â&#x20AC;&#x201C; was offered to the WHO Ebola and Marburg (the virus is during an Ebola outbreak in 2002 named after the German town or 2003, Artsob says. Diagnostic where he was working). testing is critical in Ebola outFeldmann was finding it tough to get the funding and support his breaks, because in its early stages the disease is indistinguishable work needed. He wanted to move from malaria and other common on. But Winnipeg wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t his only ailments. Figuring out who has suitor.

Ebola and separating them from â&#x20AC;&#x153;We knew we wanted Heinz. people who donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t is how outbreaks We thought he was a good fit for are contained. the lab, which he absolutely was,â&#x20AC;?

Prior to the creation of WinArtsob, who is now retired, recalls.

The lab flew Feldmann to Win- nipegâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s mobile lab, the CDC took care of testing, setting up a more nipeg to meet NML leaders. He liked what he saw, even though the elaborate laboratory, generally in an outbreak countryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s capital. first trip occurred in December.

Specimens needed to be driven â&#x20AC;&#x153;When I came home I told my from affected villages to the lab, wifeâ&#x20AC;Ś â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s bitterly cold out there.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; But she said â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fineâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; and thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s which on African roads can add how I got to Winnipeg,â&#x20AC;? Feldmann hours or days to the diagnostic process. says.

The mobile lab could be set up Actually, it was not quite that easy. Artsob recalls being warned in where the sick people were. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Once they (WHO) deployed us December 1997 by LeDuc â&#x20AC;&#x201C; then at the first time I think they realized CDC and advising Health Canada that the on site thing was giving on the new lab â&#x20AC;&#x201C; that Feldmann some advantage,â&#x20AC;? Feldmann says, wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t going to make the move. noting that a lab technician named â&#x20AC;&#x153;I remember Jim saying to me: Allen Grolla who is still with NML â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Harvey, give it up. Heinz will not was instrumental in devising the leave Europe. Heinz will not be mobile lab. coming.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; That was my low point,â&#x20AC;?

The Winnipeg mobile lab has Artsob says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;But in fact Heinz acbeen deployed by the WHO during cepted a few months after.â&#x20AC;? most subsequent Ebola and Marâ&#x20AC;&#x153;He suited Canada and Winniburg outbreaks.

And many other peg so well.â&#x20AC;? countries have copied the model. *** A number of other mobile labs are NML suited Feldmann too. He in the Ebola zone helping with the liked the idea of starting his own current epidemic. lab, building up his own program, *** rather than taking over an existing Also instrumental in Winnipegâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s one. As well, heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d been impressed success was Plummer, a seasoned by how supportive the environHIV scientist with years in the field ment appeared to be. And he was drawn to the mandate: Do science, who returned to Canada to take over as head of the new lab in 2001. but also do public health.

A scientistâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s scientist, Plumâ&#x20AC;&#x153;I had the feeling that the leadmer was a Winnipeg native, eager ership would be basically willing to put it in the peopleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hands, in our to help his facility make a global mark. hands, to build this program up â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think that Frankâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s motto is: under the condition that we have Set your people free. And I think to fulfil the public health portion basically he created the environof it. And that was something I ment here,â&#x20AC;? says Kobinger, the learned at CDC and found very rising star in Ebola research. interesting, being an M.D. by Says Feldmann: â&#x20AC;&#x153;I hardly have training,â&#x20AC;? says Feldmann, who left ever seen anybody that was more Winnipeg in 2008 to become chief supportive than Frank.â&#x20AC;? scientist for Level 4 laboratories â&#x20AC;&#x153;His expectations were high. But at the U.S. National Institute of he would support any way whatHealthâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Rocky Mountain Laborasoever.

It was up to you to make tories in Hamilton, Mont. something out of it. You always Under Feldmann, the Winnipeg knew you had his support â&#x20AC;&#x201C; unless lab created Ebola and Marburg you did something very stupid or vaccines that are widely thought something disastrous. But otherto be highly promising. Between wise, you had his support.â&#x20AC;?

800 and 1,000 vials of the Ebola *** vaccine, called VSV-EBOV, have Another thing about Plummer: been donated to the World Health He was always keen to bring top Organization and will be used in Canadian scientists home. this outbreak, if preliminary trials Gary Kobinger â&#x20AC;&#x201C; born in Europe show it is safe in humans. (It is but raised in Quebec â&#x20AC;&#x201C; was workeffective and safe in non-human ing on an Ebola vaccine at the primates.)

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*** Kobinger has continued work on the Ebola vaccine. But it is with something known as monoclonal antibodies where heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s made a major mark.

Our immune systems produce a soup of antibodies to protect against various invaders. But scientists try to figure out which specific ones target a given pathogen, then grow up lots of that individual antibody. Those are called monoclonals.

Kobinger and his team produced a cocktail of three Ebola monoclonals that looked promising against the virus in animal testing. Scientists at the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases in Frederick, Md., were also working on a monoclonal cocktail of three antibodies.

There was no overlap between the two.

Kobinger decided to try to optimize the cocktails, testing various combinations to see which was best. The result: ZMapp, which is made up of two of Winnipegâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s monoclonals and one made by the U.S. team. A recently published study showed the antibody cocktail protected 100 per cent of Ebolainfected primates, even when treatment was only begun five days after infection.

Plummer couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be prouder. â&#x20AC;&#x153;People had been trying (to make Ebola monoclonals) for years and couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t. And we had people who were very good at making monoclonals.â&#x20AC;?

*** Winnipegâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s success comes down to excellent scientists given free rein to do world class work. But serendipity plays a role in science too.

Kobinger says as a scientist, he pursues avenues he hopes will work. But he acknowledges you never know until you try. Promising avenues can turn out to be dead ends.

Feldmann feels the same way. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Out of small things and maybe being lucky â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m sure being lucky â&#x20AC;&#x201C; and maybe certain people making the right decisions, Canada became a player in the game. And I think that was the concept,â&#x20AC;? he says.

Kobinger admits he occasionally meets people who want to know the secret of the Winnipeg labâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s success. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re trying to understand if itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s because we have more resources. I guarantee you, no,â&#x20AC;? he says with a chuckle. â&#x20AC;&#x153;In relation to many labs in the U.S., definitely we have less.â&#x20AC;?

It comes down to people, an institutional philosophy and support.

Plummer sums it up. â&#x20AC;&#x153;My strategy, and I think it still is the departmentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s strategy, is to keep the scientific opportunity as rich as possible.â&#x20AC;?

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Behavioral economist argues in new book there’s a divide in parenting: drifters vs planners The book, from Brookings Institution Press, is out Thursday.

A conversation with Isabel V. NEW YORK Sawhill: hen it comes to pregnancy AP: The premise of your book and childrearing, behavseems to be that unplanned pregioural economist Isabel nancies and births are bad for the V. Sawhill sees a cultural divide beeconomy, bad for our culture? Is tween the planners and the drifters. that what you’re arguing?

The senior fellow at the BrookSawhill: I’m arguing more ings Institution argues in a new centrally that it’s not good for chilbook, Generation Unbound: Drifting dren. Their life prospects are being into Sex and Parenthood without undermined by too many young Marriage, that the act of not becom- adults drifting into relationships, ing pregnant until one is ready pregnancy, childbearing, rather than would save billions of dollars and waiting until they’re ready to be help ensure that children are born parents. into families with the means and We may have always known that to be true but we have not been motivation to care for them.

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practicing it. Sixty per cent of all births to young unmarried adults, I’m talking about people under the age of 30, are unplanned, unintended.

AP: On the one hand you support all the personal choices and freedoms we now have in terms of sex, contraception and forming families, but you then argue that drifting into parenthood is a bad idea. Can you explain that a little bit?

Sawhill: The children born under those circumstances are going to have constrained life chances, and it’s going to be stressful for their parents as well, and it’s often going to produce a single-parent family that

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I think that many single parents are doing a heroic job of raising children on their own. It’s just a very hard thing to do. You have half as much time and often half as much money as you would have if you had joined forces with another person.

AP: Can you talk specifically about the impact on families, governments, schools, etc. from a high rate of pregnancies and births, not just among teens because as you noted the teen birth rate is going down, but among unmarried women in their 20s? When did that start happening?

Sawhill: The teen birth rate has come down dramatically, and the fact that we’ve had some success there makes me somewhat optimistic that we can have success with a slightly older group as well. But the problem of unplanned birth outside of marriage has shifted up the age scale. It’s now a major problem amongst 20-somethings in the United States.

Over half of all births to women under 30 are outside of marriage and most of those births are unintended.

AP: Can you address why social policies to reduce what you call tooearly unplanned births have been ignored or sidelined, and where that fits into what you describe

as a “demographic tide of family breakdown.”

Sawhill: We had a huge transformation in our society from one that was based primarily on the idea that if you had children you should have them within marriage. And that worked reasonably well. Now marriage seems to be disappearing because, among other things, much greater opportunities for women, their ability to support themselves and their desire for autonomy and their ability to achieve that autonomy.

They don’t need marriage in the way they used to. That to me is the biggest factor, but there are some others, such as the fact that men, less skilled men in particular, are struggling in today’s labour market, aren’t doing as well and therefore have all kinds of problems and don’t look terribly marriageable to the women that they might partner with.

AP: What do you see in the future in terms of our culture’s default when it comes to marriage and having children?

Sawhill: There will likely be more and more people deciding not to have children, but I’m not arguing that that’s what we should make the standard for the way an adult should live. Far from it.

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Snowden, Guardian editor among winners of â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;alternative Nobelâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; award which withdrew the prize juryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s permission to use its media room for the announcement.

STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN Snowden split the honordward Snowden was among ary portion of the award with the winners Wednesday of Alan Rusbridger, editor of the a Swedish human rights award, Guardian, which has published sometimes referred to as the a series of articles on governâ&#x20AC;&#x153;alternative Nobel,â&#x20AC;? for his dis- ment surveillance based on closures of top secret surveildocuments leaked by Snowden. lance programs.

The 1.5 million kronor The decision to honour the ($210,000) cash portion of the former National Security Agen- award was shared by Pakistani cy contractor with the Right human rights activist Asma Livelihood Award appeared to Jahangir, Basil Fernando of the cause a diplomatic headache Asian Human Rights Commisfor Swedenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Foreign Ministry, sion and U.S. environmentalist Karl Ritter

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Created in 1980, the annual Right Livelihood Award honours efforts that founder Jacob von Uexkull felt were being ignored by the Nobel Prizes.

Foundation director Ole von Uexkull â&#x20AC;&#x201C; the award creatorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s nephew â&#x20AC;&#x201C; said all winners have been invited to the Dec. 1 award ceremony in Stockholm, though he added itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s unclear whether Snowden can attend. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We will start discussions with the Swedish government and his lawyers in due course to discuss the potential arrangements for his participation,â&#x20AC;? von Uexkull told The Associated Press.

Snowden, who has reportedly also been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, remains exiled in Russia since leaking top secret NSA documents to journalists last year. He has been charged under the U.S. Espionage Act and could face up to 30 years in prison.

Though the honorary award doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t include any money, the foundation would offer to help pay Snowdenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s legal costs, von Uexkull said.

The announcement had been set for Thursday, but it was communicated early after a leak to Swedish broadcaster SVT.

Von Uexkull said the foundation was denied access to the Swedish Foreign Ministryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s media room, where it has announced the awards since 1995, after it gave the ministry advance notice of the winners.

He provided an email sent Tuesday in which the ministry said it had closed the room to â&#x20AC;&#x153;external eventsâ&#x20AC;? for security reasons, but said he believed the decision was linked to the fact that Snowden was among the laureates.

The ministry referred questions to Foreign Minister Carl Bildtâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s spokesman, Erik Zsiga, who said in an email that new security rules that took effect on Sept. 1 mean that government buildings â&#x20AC;&#x153;cannot in the same way as previously be used for this type of event.â&#x20AC;?

As late as last week, the Foreign Ministry sent a note inviting foreign correspondents to attend the news conference in the ministryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s media room.

The award foundation cited Snowdenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;courage and skillâ&#x20AC;? in revealing the extent of government surveillance and praised Rusbridger â&#x20AC;&#x153;for building a global media organization dedicated to responsible journalism in the public interest.â&#x20AC;?

In a statement, Rusbridger said he was â&#x20AC;&#x153;delightedâ&#x20AC;? to share the award with Snowden â&#x20AC;&#x153;because I think he was a whistle-

blower who took considerable risks with his own personal freedom in order to tell society about things that people needed to know.â&#x20AC;?

Jahangir is a human rights lawyer who has defended women, children, religious minorities and the poor in Pakistan, the award citation said.

Fernando, originally from Sri Lanka, led the Hong Kongbased Asian Human Rights Commission for nearly two decades and now serves as its director of policy and programs.

McKibben is founder of 350. org, a grass-roots environmental movement aimed at spurring action to fight climate change.

The Right Livelihood Award is typically announced just ahead of the Nobel Prize announcements, which this year will begin on Oct. 6. There is no connection between the two, except Jacob von Uexkull established his prize after failing to persuade the Nobel Foundation to expand the categories for its prestigious awards. A wealthy stamp dealer, he sold his collection to fund the prize.

The Right Livelihood Award foundation typically honours grass-roots activists and says itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;not an award for the worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s political, scientific or economic elite.â&#x20AC;?

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Conference Board report says age, not gender, the new income divide in Canada that’s unfolded over a prolonged period, a pattern which has some disturbing implications going OTTAWA forward.” ge, not gender, is increasHe pointed out that top Canaingly at the heart of income dian earners fought for prininequality in Canada, says a ciples of equal work for equal new study that warns economic value, yet their children now growth and social stability will face lower wages and reduced be at risk if companies don’t pension benefits even if they’re start paying better wages. doing the same work at the same The Conference Board of employer.

Canada findings suggest younger The trend is particularly workers in Canada are making troubling, he added, because less money relative to their elders as the baby-boom generation regardless of whether they’re moves into retirement, Canadimale or female, individuals or ans will be relying on a smaller couples, and both before and share of the population to drive after tax. economic growth and sustain The average disposable inthe tax base that supports public come of Canadians between the services. ages of 50 and 54 is now 64 per Canada therefore needs avercent higher than that of 25- to age employment incomes to rise, 29-year-olds, the report found. not fall behind, in order to pay That’s up from 47 per cent in the for the increasing health-care mid-1980s. costs of the baby-boomer genConference Board vice-preseration, among a host of other ident David Stewart-Patterson, expenses, Stewart-Patterson said. one of the study’s co-authors, “We are moving into an era said the economic think-tank where people of working age are was motivated to undertake the going to be increasingly scarce; study due to a wealth of “anecthat should put upward pressure dotal evidence” that suggests Ca- on wages going forward,” he said. nadian youth are falling behind “And yet, if we look at the economically. past 30 years … the real incomes “We all know the stories – all that are being earned in the our kids getting really good edu- workplace by younger workers cations but too many of them are have barely budged after inflastill stuck living in their partion. That creates an issue in how ents’ basements, still in low-end much governments can raise in service jobs that don’t really take tax revenues, how much can our advantage of all the education economy grow?” that we’ve paid for,” StewartPatterson said in an interview.

“Our report provides some pretty persuasive, quantitative evidence that yeah, there really is a systemic pattern here. These aren’t just stories of individuals – there really is a pattern Lee-Anne Goodman Canadian Press

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He also warned that before long, the younger generation is going to “get fed up.”

Andrew Langille, a Torontobased labour lawyer and youth employment advocate, said the Conference Board study confirms what’s already known: Canada’s young people are falling behind.

“Increasingly it’s clear that Canada doesn’t have a problem with a declining middle-class; rather it’s a problem of income and wealth inequality for younger generations,” he said.

“From skyrocketing tuition to the increasing cost of home ownership to the prospect of stagnating wages and precarious work – young Canadians are increasingly on shaky financial footing and not able to get ahead.”

Few politicians seem ready to

tackle the problem, he added.

“Unless politicians get serious about intergenerational equity, this issue has the potential to cause damaging social and eco-

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BlackBerry aims to rework its reputation with launch of a new smartphone screen that measures 11.4 cm diagonally and a keyboard the company said is four times TORONTO more accurate for the user than hether you love the phone’s competitors.

BlackBerry or hate However, CIBC analyst Todd it, the Canadian Coupland said BlackBerry will smartphone maker is banking need more than just one unique on its new Passport device to and marketable product to help reshape perception of the recover its presence in the techcompany in a highly competinology sector. tive market.

“Does this by itself flip the “We are determined to switch for BlackBerry and turn win back the Canadian home them around? I don’t think so,” crowd,” chief executive John he said.

Chen told the audience at the “Chen has made some reaToronto launch on Wednesday sonable first steps. He’s had a that included an appearance by pragmatic approach, and this is Wayne Gretzky. another OK step, but (they’ve) “If you guys don’t support got a ways to go still.” us, then you’ve got some probPriced at $699 in Canada belems,” he joked. fore carrier subsidies, the PassRather, it might be Blackport is angled towards health Berry that faces more problems care professionals, government if the Passport doesn’t catch on workers and the military, secwith the business users it wants tors in the market that embrace to attract. technology through big orders Nearly a year ago, Chen was and stick with a device for brought on board at the strugyears. gling company to help dig it out Together the target market of a financial pit and reshape its – people who use their smartbusiness model. So far, he has phones mostly for work – repcompleted a major restructurresents about 30 per cent of ing of its operations through mobile phone users, Chen said. cost cuts, layoffs and a shift in Among the Passport’s definthe company’s overall strategy. ing features is a wider screen, The Passport is the next step. which makes the phone ideal The device is comparable in for viewing documents and size to a Canadian passport, a spreadsheets, the company says. point which Chen demonstrat- The keyboard has also been ed by placing the phone against reworked from previous Blackthe government-issued identiBerry models to remove a row fication booklet. It has a square of keys and merge the space bar into the bottom row.

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to support Apple and Android smartphones in the workplace.

It has also recently announced a partnership with Amazon’s app store that makes about 20,000 Android apps available on BlackBerry, including Netflix, Intstagram and Pinterest. They had been unavailable without using software hacks.

Later this year, the company will also release BlackBerry Classic, a new take on its popular older smartphones which Chen expects will appeal to a Dave Chidley/The Canadian Press broad customer base.

BlackBerry CEO John Chen shows off the new Passport (left) “On a volume basis I think and Classic phone models after the company’s annual the Classic will (sell) more,” he general meeting in Waterloo, Ont., in June of this year. said, declining to give sales projections for either phone, but When asked why Canada was suggesting that the company The number keys and other functions are now incorporated a priority for BlackBerry, Chen could move into regions with into an on-screen extension of said he believes it’s important less mobile penetration. the keyboard. to recapture the audience who “We could capture new It’s a different look for first embraced the phone. markets and new users with the BlackBerry that may take some “It’ll take time,” he said. “The Classic.” getting used to, though Chen best place to start is at the home Also on the schedule are said he believes it will change team plate.” numerous software updates, how business professionals use Before the end of this year, including BlackBerry Enterprise their mobile devices. the Passport is expected to be Server 12, a refreshed version “I no longer bring any lapavailable in 30 countries. In of its management system for tops around when I go to busi- Canada, the phone will be sold IT professionals who oversee ness meetings,” he added. “This by all three major wireless caremployee phones. is powerful enough as a tool.” riers, Rogers, Bell and Telus.

Attention shifts to BlackAside from the new phone, Apple’s iPhone and SamBerry’s second-quarter financial the company also showcased sung’s Galaxy models have been results on Friday. While Chen its new BlackBerry Blend apencroaching on the business declined to discuss specifics, he plication, which securely links market where BlackBerry was said progress has been made a user’s smartphone and data once considered nearly unin improving the company’s like email, BBM and other touchable with its dominant books. documents, seamlessly with market share. The company BlackBerry shares closed their nearby computer or tablet has responded by opening up nine cents lower cents at $11.61 through the Internet. its secure enterprise platform on the Toronto Stock Exchange.

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As Apple goes big with new iPhones, Samsung gets snarky Michael Oliveira Canadian Press

TORONTO here arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t many companies that dare sass Apple, but these days, Samsung is happily launching snarky potshots at its biggest competitor.

Earlier this month, when Apple officially unveiled its two new larger iPhones â&#x20AC;&#x201C; the modestly enlarged iPhone 6 and the super-sized iPhone 6 Plus â&#x20AC;&#x201C; one of Samsungâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Twitter accounts sent out a not-so-subtle dig in response.

An image embedded in the tweet included the quote â&#x20AC;&#x153;No one is going to buy a big phone,â&#x20AC;? a reference to a comment made by the late Apple CEO Steve Jobs, who dismissed phablets and other oversized smartphones back in 2010 as a passing fad.

For good measure, Samsungâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s tweet added: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Guess who surprised themselves and changed their minds.â&#x20AC;?

Samsung has also produced a number of TV commercials poking fun at Apple and its fans, so it was really no surprise when Samsung Canadaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s senior vice president of mobile, Paul Brannen, couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t resist jeering the company during an interview about the glut of new smartphones hitting the market.

Samsung will release a competitor to the iPhone 6 Plus next month, the Galaxy Note 4, and another phablet, the Galaxy Note Edge, early next year.

On Thursday, Samsung also tweeted a photo of the Galaxy Note Edge, which has a curved screen along one side of the phone, and the message: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Curved. Not bent.â&#x20AC;? Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a reference to reports that some new iPhones have bent in customersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;

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pockets. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We kind of created, defined, and continue to refine the large-screen category and I think thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s really what the Note 4 is about,â&#x20AC;? says Brannen. â&#x20AC;&#x153;When you look back at some of the doubters and think about it, we have some iconic industry leaders and experts who had negative things to say about the large-screen technology, but now some of those people are starting to follow us. â&#x20AC;&#x153;There are probably some loyal consumers with my competitor who have probably been waiting for this for years and I think potentially some of the success youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re seeing right now is (because) there hasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t been any meaningful evolution in that product in the last couple of iterations. And I think consumers are saying, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Finally youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re where the other leaders are in this industry with large-screen technology.â&#x20AC;?â&#x20AC;&#x2122;

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While the Galaxy Note 4 is more of an incremental upgrade over its predecessors, Samsung is hoping the curved screen built into the Galaxy Note Edge connects with consumers.

The rounded screen acts independently of the main display. It can light up with notifications when the device is in standby mode, or be used to display specialized content like headlines, sports scores or stock prices. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s really up to the imagination of the developer community and the carrier community and ourselves to create a unique experience for consumers that you canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t get on any other device,â&#x20AC;? says Brannen of the screenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s potential.

While he was happy to take a few swings at Apple, Brannen was more diplomatic in talking about BlackBerry, which on Wednesday released its own large-screen device, the Passport. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We take all the competition seriously, because if youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not aware of your competition people can sneak up on you,â&#x20AC;? he says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The feedback we get from both the business community and the consumer community is theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re really looking at two primary manufacturers they focus on in the marketplace, one being Samsung. I think it will be a long road for them to recover but I think you should never underestimate anybody.â&#x20AC;?

Public review of recycling system changes The Government of Yukon wants to hear from you on its plans to modernize recycling regulations in the territory. The proposed changes affect the Beverage Container Regulation and the Designated Materials Regulation.

The changes aim to increase the diversion of recyclable materials from our landfills and will better cover the costs of handling, processing and transporting these materials. You can provide comments online or by email, fax or mail. A public meeting is scheduled in Whitehorse for October 29, 2014 at the Kwanlin DĂźn Cultural Centre, 3 to 8 p.m.

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Harpist strums for gorillas, orangutans

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Terri Tacheny plays her harp to a gorilla at Como zoo.

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ST. PAUL, MINN. arpist Terri Tacheny long enjoyed taking her young daughters to Como Zoo in St. Paul, Minnesota, except for the Primate House, where she thought the gorillas, orangutans and monkeys seemed a little lethargic.

Her solution: A little music.

Now Tacheny, 57, a zoo volunteer, plays once a month for an appreciative audience that ambles down to the barrier as soon as Tacheny begins setting up her beautifully carved wooden harp. She’s been doing it for nearly a decade.

“I don’t speak gorilla, but there’s a gorilla purr that occurs when I begin to play. And that’s their happy sound,” Tacheny said.

As the shimmering sounds of Tacheny’s harp drift through the leafy zoo, a male gorilla stares through the fence at the musician, then chews contentedly on vegetation. Families stop to snap pictures.

A therapeutic harpist, Tacheny plays for hospital patients to help them deal with pain and anxiety. She thought if the soothing sounds helped calm humans, it would work for the primates too.

“I would love to see every zoo have a harpist. I think it benefits the animals,” said Tacheny, a quick-to-smile woman.

Tami Murphy, a zookeeper at Como, said Tacheny has played for all the animals at the zoo. Some animals appear ambivalent, Murphy said, but the harp music “seems to be a really calming thing for the apes to listen to.”

Tacheny says she’s never gotten a negative review from her ape audience.

“I’ve never had anything thrown at me,” she said.

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has shown time and again that nature makes humans happier, less irritable, and more creative and generous. Teaching is stressful work, and nature provides a powerful stress buffer.â&#x20AC;?

Despite all the benefits for students and educators, moving classes outdoors can be daunting.

Teachers cite a host of barriers, from parental concerns to lack of time, confidence and support from administration.

So how can a teacher ease in (or jump right in) to teaching outside?

Ridley suggests joining forces with fellow educators for support and advice. Mendoza also seeks out guidance from outdoor enthusiasts. Several online communities exist to help and inspire, like the popular weekly #EnviroEd Twitter chats.

Organizations all across the country, including the David Suzuki Foundation, offer workshops for educators interested in taking students outside. These often include sample activities, logistical tips and advice for getting parents and administration on-board.

And many of the same organizations have published excellent educational resources for teaching outdoors. The Foundationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s own Connecting With Nature guides for kindergarten through Grade 8 are full of lesson plans, step-bystep instructions and ideas for The Yukon home of

engaging local communities.

So while the idea of moving science or math class outdoors might be unnerving at first, the end result is more than worth it, for the wellbeing of everyone involved. â&#x20AC;&#x153;If teachers are happy and connected to nature, they can pass that on to their students,â&#x20AC;? Sheppard says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They can be the role models

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After all, those who learn to appreciate and love nature are more likely to protect it.

Written with contributions from David Suzuki Foundation Connecting Youth With Nature Project Lead Rachelle Delaney. Learn more at www.davidsuzuki.org.

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their work, and more innovative in their teaching strategies. By extension, schools benefit from the

by DAVID leadership and influence of their SUZUKI teachers who take students outside.

Rob Ridley, field centre coordinator with Ontarioâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Peel District School Board, says he has seen many educators gain confidence and renew their interest in teaching simply from taking their classes outdoors. hildren belong outdoors. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Going outside takes away the We know this intuitively, boundaries of your classroom but now an extensive and walls,â&#x20AC;? he says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It opens you up to ever-growing body of research new ideas and lesson plans. Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll supports it. step outside to study science or Kids who spend time outside social studies, and suddenly youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll every day are healthier, happier, see ways to connect it to math or more creative, less stressed and language arts.â&#x20AC;? more alert than those who donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t.

Hopi Martin, who teaches at the Several recent studies even show Toronto District School Boardâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s time in nature or green space helps Forest Valley Outdoor Education reduce ADHD symptoms.

Centre, agrees: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Teaching outdoors But what about teachers who demands that we respond to the take children outdoors, contribut- wonder of students and opporing to their learning and growth? tunities that arise. I could have a More alert, calm and creative beautiful lesson on tree identifistudents are a plus to them as cation prepared that gets totally educators. Could they also benefit derailed by the discovery of ants as individuals from taking students on a tree. Going outside has made outside every day? me a stronger, more innovative, With most of Canadaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s educamore resilient teacher.â&#x20AC;? tors back from the summer break, For Michael Mendoza, a facing the many challenges that teacher-librarian at Wilmington contribute to the countryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s high Elementary School in Toronto rates of teacher attrition â&#x20AC;&#x201C; from who regularly takes students increasing class sizes to mounting outdoors, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s seeing â&#x20AC;&#x153;an immedicurriculum expectations â&#x20AC;&#x201C; itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a ate absorption of knowledge, and good time to ask: How can â&#x20AC;&#x153;nature the studentsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; contagious eagerness as classroomâ&#x20AC;? support teacher and curiosityâ&#x20AC;? that refreshes and well-being? inspires him as an educator. On So far, only a few studies focus a personal note, he adds, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Being on the benefits of green time for outside makes me feel more awake teachers, but those indicate that and alive.â&#x20AC;? teaching in nature has great effects. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The fact is, teachers arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t just A study out of the U.K.â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Kingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s teachers, theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re human beings,â&#x20AC;?

College London suggests teaching says Aryne Sheppard, senior public outdoors makes educators more engagement specialist at the David confident and enthusiastic about Suzuki Foundation. â&#x20AC;&#x153;And research

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Maverick red aspens in a world of gold

by Ned Rozell

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ill Lentz, a reader from Fairbanks, asks a question that flares every fall: why do some aspens turn red?

A few scientists from Fort Collins, Colorado, pondered that subject in the late 1970s.

Curious about red aspen trees people had noticed for half a century, they studied why these existed amid those with the more common leaf color, yellow.

Before getting to the scientistsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; results, a quick refresher on why tree leaves change color.

Deciduous trees (the broadleafed ones that drop their leaves in the fall, in contrast to our needle-leaved spruce) are gamblers now folding their hands after a few months of prosperity.

Sensing shorter periods of daylight, trees have quit refreshing their leaves with chlorophyll, the green pigment that helps capture the sunâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s energy and allows the tree to convert it to the sugars that make it taller and bushier.

Right about now, when a tree reaches its daylight threshold, cork-like cells develop where leaf meets stem. This abscission layer, which later reveals itself as a handsome scar, is an ever-

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A few aspen trees go their own way, leaves turning red and orange when the majority turn yellow.

clogging pipeline that restricts the flow of sugars from leaf to tree.

As the tree informs its solar panels their services will no longer be needed, chlorophyll production stops. In midsummer, chlorophyll was the loudest kid in the family. The parent tree replenished its leavesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; chlorophyll as the sun faded them like colored paper left on the windowsill. The treeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s autumn refusal to ante any more chlorophyll allows the quiet pigments in the leaf to express themselves.

These include yellow (xanthophylls) and orange pigments (carotenoids). Reds and purples

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Kuo-Gin Chang, Gilbert Fechner and Herbert Schroeder, then at Colorado State University, a few decades ago dropped aspen leaves into a blender and pushed the button. From the solution of liquid leaves, they determined that a sugary red pigment was indeed present in red and orange aspens, but not in yellow aspens.

The scientists hinted that the red occurs on only some trees, meaning it is probably a genetic trait â&#x20AC;&#x201D; a red aspen is sort of like a person with red hair. The researchers also wrote that yellow trees remained yellow from year to year but one tree they selected for its redness at the start of their five-year observation was red only for the first year and yellow each following year. And most of those lovely reds and oranges did not endure to carpet the forest floor, fading to bland yellow within a week of falling.

Another intriguing question: in this donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t-waste-a-molecule world, why do trees invest in creating pigments other than energy-gathering green? Nobody seems to have answered that, but scientists have speculated that red acts as a sunscreen to keep played-out leaves from getting overexcited by photons.

Another idea is that color might also either throw off greenmunching bugs or be a treeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s way of showing insects its vigor compared to its drab, easy-toattack neighbor.

Since the late 1970s, the director of the Geophysical Institute at the University of Alaska Fairbanks has supported the writing and free distribution of this column to news media outlets. 2014 is Ned Rozellâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 20th year as a science writer for the Geophysical Institute.

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The History Hunter goes into seclusion HISTORY

floor, with a sleeping loft. An adjacent washroom provided toilet and shower. For a couple accustomed to living together

by Michael Gates for 35 years, the compact space worked well. ast spring, Jeff Brady In the evenings, a magnifimade me an offer that cent harvest moon bathed the I couldn’t refuse. Jeff is rainforest landscape around us the proprietor of the Skaguay in its unearthly glow. To lie in News Depot, the editor and bed with the curtains parted to publisher of the Skagway News, allow the moonlight into the and author of the excellent loft was magical. book, Skagway: City of the New When we filled up the bird Century. He is also involved feeder hanging from the front with the annual North Words porch, a small flock of Stellar’s Writers Symposium, which I jays descended upon the offerwas attending. ing and their antics provided During the symposium, us with continuous entertainhe asked me if I would like to ment – and company – for the come back later in the summer duration of our occupancy. and reside in a rustic log cabin A juvenile sharp-shinned for two weeks. He and his wife hawk eyed them hungrily from Dorothy are developing a cabin a short distance, but after a few as a retreat for writers and art- days it disappeared, presumists at their picturesque propably to continue its southward erty on a tributary of the Taiya migration.

River, near historic Dyea at the We set up our laptops and head of Lynn Canal. began processing the boxes I spoke to my wife, Kathy, of research material we had who is gathering material for a brought with us. Kathy and I biography on George Black, the threw ourselves into the task at prominent Yukon lawyer and hand with a zestful energy and politician in the first half of the commenced the slow, painstak20th century. Would this be an ing task of sifting through hunopportunity to digest the voldreds of articles that chronicle umes of research material that the daily activities of George she has accumulated on this Black. interesting man? We agreed it George has always fallen was. in the literary and historical Our departure from Whiteshadow of his wife Martha. Yet horse had been a wet one. The reviewing the documents that previous week had been nontraced his activities revealed stop rain, but at the summit more than the octogenarthe clouds parted and the sun ian known to most long-time came out. The following days Yukon residents who still rewere warm, calm, sunny ones member him from the 1950s. with brilliant clear blue skies Instead, the story of a young, that set us in a positive frame energetic and formidable of mind from the beginning.

Our little cabin at Dyea was lawyer and politician emerged.

Remaining in the Yukon to a gem, containing a kitchen/ living room space on the main mine during and after the initial Klondike stampede, Black

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eventually set up a law practice.

He had remarkable success in obtaining acquittals for defendants that the prosecutors were convinced were heading for the slammer.

He also pursued his life-long passion for politics. There was no Conservative (opposition) party to confront the Liberal administration, so he helped start one. When a federal election in 1902 was tarnished by Liberal interference, George Black led the charge at the following election, hunting down the keepers of the voters list and forcing the returning officer to add all eligible voters to the list, not just those who were Liberal supporters.

George entered territorial politics in 1905 and campaigned for a fully elected council. The Liberal administration was entitled to place half the members onto council without election. Black re-

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mained active in the territorial legislature long enough to see a fully elected council installed in 1909.

Black became the commissioner (governor) of the Yukon in 1912, finally leaving that position to enlist and lead a company of 225 men overseas to the trenches of France during World War I. Within a couple of years of returning to Canada, he was elected to Parliament as the Yukon representative, and was returned to his seat five more times over a period of more than 23 years.

Poring over the old records without everyday interruptions, we were able to read his speeches and follow the battles of this formidable political warrior. His personal writings were enhanced by the physical landscape we were in. Driving in to Skagway, we contemplated the gold rush trail winding through the valley. His gold

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rush descriptions of it are vivid and compelling: “Sometimes a horse or an ox slips,” he wrote, “or driven to exhaustion, falls and there is no room to pass him, then all is confusion; those behind not knowing the cause of the delay keep crowding up, a fearful jam and much shouting and cursing ensues, sometimes for hours. Many a time we see a good animal go down never to rise again, and dogs, cattle and horses are strewn all through the canyons. Several times some of our own horses have gone through the ice or tumbled off the edge of the narrow ledges into the water, but with prompt action we have always had the good fortune to get them out safe and sound; our horses always have strength enough left to keep themselves – it doesn’t pay to exhaust them.”

Along the trail he witnessed a gunfight between a stampeder who had just been robbed of $300 and the gang of gamblers that had fleeced him, all of which took place within earshot of the American troops, who passively stood by.

Similarly, we absorbed the physical setting through which George’s future wife Martha passed. We viewed the salt marshes where the gold-mad crowd came ashore and the now vacant landscape where the gold rush town of Dyea once stood. Perhaps she passed near our little refuge in the rainforest while she wandered in the area, waiting for her party to advance over the trail. She loved to collect wild flowers and pick berries.

Each time we went to Skagway, we passed the start of the fabled Chilkoot trail. This is the way that Martha came in 1898. When she reached Sheep Camp, near the summit of the pass, bodies were still being recovered from the deadly slide of April 3. We wandered among the decaying grave markers of the little cemetery at Dyea where most of the victims of the avalanche are now buried.

While we were undergoing this study of the man, the Bradys were generous hosts, always available when the need arose. It was the ideal situation for our intensive study of the life of a man who was a political giant in the territory for half a century.

If you want a quiet, contemplative place in a beautiful coastal setting, this writer’s retreat will prove to be a popular location to get the creative literary (or artistic) juices flowing. We both recommend it.

Michael Gates is a Yukon historian and sometimes adventurer based in Whitehorse. His latest book, Dalton’s Gold Rush Trail, is available in Yukon stores. You can contact him at msgates@northwestel.net

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Picky eater is weary of family’s harassment

by Judith Martin

MISS

MANNERS DEAR MISS MANNERS: I am a picky eater. I like some foods; I hate some foods; some foods make me sick even to consider eating. I am an adult and eat what I like.

I have been trying new things and learning about cooking to try to change my tastes, but change is slow.

My problem comes with my family. They are constantly harassing me about what I do and don’t eat. When we plan meals together, it is always, “what are you going to eat?”

I am never rude (in my opinion) when people make things I do not like, but it seems as though they still expect me to eat it, or give them a valid excuse (and not liking a food doesn’t count).

My mother-in-law once made a breakfast meal, put everything on the table and said, “Well, there must be something here you can eat.” She has gone so far into being insulted that one Thanksgiving she told me she wanted me to put

a little bit of all the food on my plate and move it around, pretending that I ate some (which I feel is just wasteful and disingenuous).

I just want to be left alone. Why can’t I be allowed to decline food, for whatever reason, and not be made to feel bad or have it pointed out that it is yet another thing I

don’t like?

GENTLE READER: You are. In polite society, no one is supposed to notice what is or is not eaten.

It should not be the subject of conversation at all.

But we are not talking about polite society; we are talking about family.

Miss Manners hopes that yours

does not badger its guests, but is acting out of desperation to please you after repeated failed attempts.

Still, you must make them stop.

First, you should be complimenting the dishes you do like.

Then you could show off your new cooking skills by inviting them, or

by bringing a dish to share – – as long as it is clear that you’re not bringing it only for yourself, or as an alternative to what is offered.

The point is not to engage in defending your eating habits, but to appreciate their efforts and make some effort of your own.

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Religious Organizations & Services Whitehorse United Church

Yukon Bible Fellowship

601 Main Street 667-2989

FOURSQUARE GOSPEL CHURCH 160 Hillcrest Drive Family Worship: Sunday 10:00am

(Union of Methodist, Presbyterian & Congregational Churches) 10:30 a.m. - Sunday School & Worship Service Rev. Beverly C.S. Brazier

Grace Community Church 8th & Wheeler Street

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Church Of The Nazarene 2111 Centennial St. (Porter Creek) Sunday School & Morning Worship - 10:45 am

Pastor Dave & Jane Sager 689-4598 10:30 AM FAMILY WORSHIP WEEKLY CARE GROUP STUDIES Because He Cares, We Care.

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311-B Black Street • 668-2327 Sunday Church Services: 11 am & 7 pm EVERYONE WELCOME

Our Lady of Victory (Roman Catholic)

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Confessions before Mass & by appointment.

Monday 7:00 PM Novena Prayers & Adoration Tuesday through Friday: Mass 11:30 a.m.

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668-4079 tlc@northwestel.net Sunday Worship at 10:00 AM Sunday School at 10:00 AM

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EVERYONE WELCOME!

Riverdale Baptist Church 15 Duke Road, Whse 667-6620 Sunday worship Service: 10:30am REV. GREG ANDERSON

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Quaker Worship Group RELIGIOUS SOCIETY OF FRIENDS Meets regularly for Silent Worship.

For information, call 667-4615 email: whitehorse-contact@quaker.ca

Christ Church Cathedral Anglican

1609 Birch St. (Porter Creek) 633-5385 “We’re Open Saturdays!”

Worship Service 11:00 am Wednesday 7:00 pm - Prayer Meeting All are welcome.

4th Avenue & Steele Street • 667-2437 Masses: Weekdays: 12:10 pm.

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Whitehorse

Bethany Church

Pastor Mark Carroll Family Worship & Sunday School

at 10:30 AM

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Christian Mission

Saturday Vespers 5:00 pm Sunday Liturgy 10:00 am FR. JOHN GRYBA 332-4171 for information www.orthodoxwhitehorse.org

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Sunday 10:00am Prayer / Sunday School 11:00 am Worship Wednesday Praise & Celebration 7:30 pm Pastor Roger Yadon

2060 2ND AVENUE • 667-4889

Meditation Drop-in • Everyone Welcome!

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149 Wilson Drive 668-5727

Baptist Church

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Sacred Heart Cathedral

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(Roman Catholic)

Pentecostal Assemblies of Canada Early Morning Service 9:00 - 10:00 am Family Service 10:30 am - Noon Filipino Service 4:00 - 5:00 pm Sunday School Ages 0-12

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4TH AVENUE & ELLIOTT STREET Services Sunday 8:30 AM & 10:00 AM Thursday Service 12:10 PM (with lunch)

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Church of the Northern Apostles

An Anglican/Episcopal Church Sunday Worship 10:00 AM Sunday School during Service, Sept to May

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1301 FIR STREET 633-2886

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Sunday Morning Worship 10:30 a.m.

Sunday Evening Worship 6:00 p.m.

Wednesday Bible Study 7:30 p.m.

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Regular Monthly Service: 1st and 3rd Sundays of the Month 11:00 AM • All are welcome.

Rev. David Pritchard 668-5530

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Mad Trappers bowling alley set to close this spring Tom Patrick News Reporter

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hitehorse bowlers should knock some pins while they still can.

Mad Trappers Alleys, Whitehorse’s only bowling alley, is set to close this spring following the end of the season.

The bowling alley, located in the Riverdale plaza Leisure on Lewes, hasn’t turned a profit in years, said plaza owner Chris Sorg.

“The bowling alley has been a labour of love for a number of years,” said Sorg. “It doesn’t actually turn a profit really.”

“It isn’t just the fact that it’s a money-loser, it’s been that way for a long time, the equipment is in such an old state of repair,” he added. “It’s extremely old equipment – like the pins-setters and that stuff. It’s just reached a point where it will be needing a major overhaul. It’s just reaching the end of its life here...

“The equipment is killing us there. We’re looking at having to invest maybe $100,000 to refurbish or replace (equipment). It’s throwing good money after bad because we really don’t have a profitable business there.”

The five-pin alley with 10 lanes opened in 1976, says Stephen Kwok, who has managed the alley since 2002. Kwok has mixed feelings about the potential closure.

“To me, it’s half and half,” said Kwok. “Half is disappointment because I have to give up something that me and my wife really enjoy. But the other way I look at it is relief because the machine is getting really old. It’s almost 40 years old.

“Like an automobile that is 40 years old, I’m sure a mechanic can fix it every day, but that’s not the point.”

Mad Trappers still sees a lot of action. It is home to men, junior, mixed and senior leagues. It hosts a number of corporate, birthday and Christmas parties each year.

Big Brothers and Big Sisters hosts fundraising events there.

Special Olympics Yukon also uses the alleys and has prospered from the practice lately. They won Yukon’s first-ever team medal – a silver – and came away with three individual medals as well at the 2014 Special Olympics Canada Summer Games in July.

Mad Trappers is also practice grounds for the teams who compete in the Youth Bowling Canada National Championships every year. Yukon has sent junior teams to the championships every year since 2001, said coach Kevin Murphy.

Tom Patrick/Yukon News

A Team Yukon bowler practices before heading to the Youth Bowling Canada 2013 National Championships in May last year.

The Whitehorse bowling alley will likely close for good next spring.

“We send kids out every year, from Newfoundland to B.C.,” said Murphy. “I think we’ve stopped in every province, with the exception of the Maritime provinces.”

“I’m not surprised. The economics of the decision are fairly apparent to me,” added Murphy, who also plays in the men’s league. “I’m disappointed, of course, because it’s one of the recreation sports that people can enter into at any age and continue the rest of their life enjoying. I’m disappointed that the sport won’t be available in Whitehorse after decades of bowling being taken for granted

as something to do in this town.”

Kwok, whose son Harrison won a silver at the junior nationals in 2002, has informed leagues that this will be the last season.

But closure of the alley is not an absolute certainty.

The arrival of an investor with deep pockets, or a sizable jump in attendance, could potentially keep it afloat, said Sorg.

“If the community really demonstrated it’s prepared to support it at a level that has not been there – like I said, we haven’t made an arrangement with a future tenant at this point,” said Sorg. “We have made the decision, but barring

anything miraculous happening, something unexpected happens, and investor coming along saying they want to purchase the facility, then we’ll see what happens.

“If the sales were to double or triple – doubling would be enough. There’ll have to be an awful lot of additional activity.”

If Mad Trappers does close, Whitehorse bowlers will have to gas up the car to get some frames under their belts.

The Watson Lake Recreation Centre has four lanes that were recently upgraded to include computerized scorekeeping.

“It’s going to run for another eight months or so, then we’ll see

what happens,” said Sorg.

“There are quite a few leagues and various commitments that are already in place and obviously we didn’t want to do anything to harm those commitments, and give people adequate notice and make them aware.

“We don’t have a firm plan in place for a transition, we’ve just come to the decision it might be time to cut our losses here and just move on.”

“A miracle can happen, but we don’t plan on that,” said Kwok.

“It’s a possibility, if I find an investor. That would be a totally different story.”

Contact Tom Patrick at tomp@yukon-news.com

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Scoffin kicks off new season with bonspiel win in Calgary “We got stronger throughout the week and I think that’s one of the positives we can pull out of this weekend,” said Scoffin. “The finals wasn’t our closest game, it was actually the game we won the most by.

“The semifinal was a good game. I feel we controlled the whole game. Right from the start we were playing well and always had a little edge on them and were always pretty comfortable.”

Scoffin is playing with a completely new team on the Junior Golden Bears. Well, sort of. Throwing second on the team is David Aho, who curled with Scoffin on Team Yukon at the 2012 junior nationals. Aho is one of very few curlers to make more appearances at the junior nationals than Scoffin.

Last year he attended his eighth and is the only curler in history to attend the championship for three different jurisdictions – N.W.T., Yukon and Alberta.

Also on board this year is third Aiden Proctor and lead Brayden Power.

“It’s an interesting situation,” said Scoffin. “The team I played with this past weekend is the Junior Golden Bears, and

then I have a second separate team with the university, the Golden Bears, and we’ll be competing later on in the year at CIS (Canadian Interuniversity Sport) westerns and hopefully CIS nationals.

“This year I essentially have two teams.”

Last season Team Scoffin lost in the final of Alberta’s junior provincial championships, thus ending a string of seven consecutive appearances for Scoffin at the junior nationals.

Scoffin competed six times for Yukon and then for Alberta in 2013, reaching the final and taking home silver.

With this being Scoffin’s final year of eligibility for the championships, qualifying is high on his to-do list.

“Absolutely, that’s definitely our focus this year and we’re doing everything we can to get it done,” said Scoffin.

“It’s a bit of a different year for me, being on two teams.

The first goal on my mind is making provincials and I want to go to nationals, represent Alberta, and play well.”

Contact Tom Patrick at tomp@yukon-news.com

Table Tennis Yukon

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Yukon’s Thomas Scoffin takes in some practice in Whitehorse last winter. Scoffin and his University of Alberta junior team won the Calgary Curlers Corner Junior Bonspiel on Sunday in Alberta.

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hitehorse curler Thomas Scoffin has a busy season on the sheets ahead.

The 20-year-old is skip for not one, but two teams from the University of Alberta where he is in his third year of study.

He is skip for both the senior and junior school teams – the Golden Bears and the Junior Golden Bears.

Well, so far so good.

Scoffin and his junior rink began the new season by winning the Calgary Curlers Corner Junior Bonspiel last weekend in Alberta.

“It’s awesome to get off to a good start,” said Scoffin. “It’s the first bonspiel of the season in Alberta, so it feels good to be the one team to win it, on the men’s side.

“I think we have a lot of work to do. We ended up with a good result in the end, but we dropped a game early and definitely didn’t play to our potential. Next we’re putting

some time in, getting some practice done.”

The Scoffin rink opened with a loss but avenged it with a semifinal win over the same team of Kyler Kleibrink, win-

ning 4-3 after scoring one in the eighth end.

They then clinched the title in an 8-3 win over Alberta’s Jared Scharff team in the final on Sunday.

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Coaching the Men’s and Women’s U-16 Basketball Teams at the 2015 Western Canada Games in Wood Buffalo Alberta, August 8 - 11, 2015.

The coaching positions and qualifications for each team include: Men’s team: 2 coaches and 1 manager one of whom must be male; Women’s team: 2 coaches and one manager one of who must be female.

Head coaching candidates must be fully certified under the National Coaching Certification Program (NCCP), Level 3 or the equivalent Competition Development (trained) in the new NCCP competition stream in Basketball. The Assistant Coaches must be fully certified Level 2 or equivalent level, Train to Train in the new NCCP. Your expression of interest should be sent in writing to: Tim Brady, Basketball Yukon, 4061 4th Ave. Whitehorse Yukon, Y1A1H1 or emailed to bballyukon@klondiker.com on or before Oct. 3, 2014.

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Ski club rolls over on dog fee Tom Patrick

fees for skiers who wish to bring their dogs on the trails, the club announced Wednesday. ocal pooches hoping to hit the The annual fee of $20 for one trails this winter can stop sav- dog, $25 for two, will now be acing their pennies. cepted by the club on a voluntary The Whitehorse Cross Country basis.

Ski Club has overturned its deci“When it comes down to it, the ski club is a big organizasion to include annual or daily News Reporter

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tion – 1,300 members, we have a $400,000-a-year budget,” said club treasurer Claude Chabot.

“It’s a big operation and with 1,300 members, not everyone is going to agree on everything.

“We had all this issue on dogs on leashes (last year) and we did a bunch changes to the dog trail

system and had a bunch of modifications. And somebody down the line suggested we need more revenue to pay for all of this, so let’s toss in a nominal fee for the dogs, that’ll help towards the cost of this. We didn’t think it would be a big issue, but I guess it was.”

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with dogs would be charged an additional fee came a month ago when season passes went on sale.

The club estimates about a third if its members bring dogs on the trails on occasion, a handful of which opposed the fee. Whitehorse’s Cord Hamilton was one of them.

“I didn’t believe the fee, as it was described as being applied, was fair,” said Hamilton. “Essentially the fee was identified as being required to account for some expenditures related to work on the dog trails. But the reality is the dog trails are used by a very broad selection of the membership over and above dog owners. On that basis it did not seem fair or reasonable to expect one user group would be responsible to cover the costs of those improvements.”

“I was grateful and satisfied they listened to concerns and made a reasonable decision,” he added of this week’s decision.

“There was a group of skiers who volunteered to assist the board in looking at some dog-related issues over the summer, and the bulk of those people continued to supply advice about this issue the last several weeks.”

About a third of the club’s 85 kilometres of trails are dog friendly. Last season the club had another canine controversy when it introduced on-leash requirement for dogs between the “dog parking lot” off Hamilton Boulevard and Telemark Hill.

This season Sundog Trail is an off-leash area while Dog Trail – yep, that’s the name of the trail – up to Telemark Hill is now an on-leash area.

“We’ve done some changes on Sundog Trail, so when you’re out of the parking lot you can go right on Sundog Trail and be in an off-leash area right away,” said Chabot. “The whole area of Dog Trail to Telemark Hill is a really popular spot for lessons and school groups because of the terrain. So we were always a little bit nervous about loose dogs, especially when they are really hyper – they’re right out of the car they get hyper rushing around. We were just nervous about safety. That was the original intent behind that leash rule.”

Contact Tom Patrick at tomp@yukon-news.com

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Team Koltun makes quarterfinal at World Curling Tour event Tom Patrick

learned a lot that we can use movUnlike last season, all four ing forward.â&#x20AC;? members of the team are atThe Koltun rink â&#x20AC;&#x201C; the only tending post-secondary school in hitehorse curling skip Sarah Yukon team at Cloverdale â&#x20AC;&#x201C; four separate locations.

Koltun has the band back notched three wins and two losses Koltun is at Trinity Western together. to reach the quarterfinal of the University in Langley, Jenna Koltun was back on the ice Womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s World Curling Tour at Simon Fraser University in with third Chelsea Duncan, event.

Burnaby, Wallingham at DougThey won their first three las College in New Westminster, second Patty Wallingham and games, opening with a 6-2 win and Chelsea is the farthest away, lead Jenna Duncan for the first over New Westminsterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Team studying at the University of time in over a year and a half at Alberta in Edmonton. the Cloverdale Cash Spiel in Sur- Gushulak, who went on to reach the semifinal. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Jenna, Patty and I are all really rey, B.C., over the weekend.

The Koltun crew lost 9-6 in the close and are able to curl in two It was the first time the four quarterfinal to Chilliwackâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Team leagues together, so thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s nice,â&#x20AC;? competed together since their remarkable run at the 2013 junior Prinse, who went on to lose in the said Koltun. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We all curl in New semi to the eventual spiel winners, Westminster. I live the farthest nationals in which they placed Sijia Liuâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s team of China. away and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s like a 20-minute fourth. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think overall it went fairly CELEBRATE AUTISM AWARENESS MONTH BY HELPING US THANK OUR well,â&#x20AC;? said Koltun. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We were really SUPPORTERS & BY JOINING IN OUR WEEKLY AUTISM AWARENESS TUESDAY EVENTS happy to get back on the ice and On behalf of Autism Yukon start playing together again because it had been a while since the four of us had played together. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We were really just feeling for your contributions to our 2014 event: things out, seeing what we could do, so it was nice to start out with those three wins. We did start WITH CONTRIBUTIONS FROM 140 PARTICIPANTS to struggle a bit, but I think we News Reporter

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with Autism Community drop-ins after-hours> Community Development Fund for supporting our Adult Support Group! Crime Prevention Trust Fund for supporting our Ashrams for Autism!

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Scotties and the Junior Canadian Curling Championship in the same season.

Last yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Koltun team (or teams, as the case may be) included Ottawaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Andrea Sinclair who played instead of Chelsea at junior events and played instead of Jenna at senior events.

Koltun made a record eighth and final appearance at last yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s junior nationals, posting her 31st career win at the championship, placing 10th.

Contact Tom Patrick at tomp@yukon-news.com

SEACANS/ SHIPPING CONTAINERS 20 Foot, Wind & Water Tight, Active Structural CertiďŹ cation.

$3150+GST

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In association with National Seniorsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Day,

Dr. D. Kanachowski will be giving a presentation on

Palliative Care October 1, 2014 at 11:00 a.m.

Golden Age Society 4061A-4th Ave

The next deadline for Environmental Grants is October 15 at 4:30 pm.

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The Koltun team has four more World Curling Tour events planned for this season, but their main goal is a second straight appearance at the Scotties Tournament of Hearts, the Canadian womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s championship.

The rink made their first appearance at the Scotties last year as the first Yukon team to qualify for the championship in 13 years.

They came away with two wins.

Koltun was also the first skip in history to lead a team at the

Fall/Winter Indoor Soccer October 2014 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; April 2015

FREE ADMISSION Lunch to follow

REGISTRATION OPEN

REGISTRATION DEADLINE:

Noon, October 9, 2014 (No late registrations).

Drop off your registration form at Sport Yukon (4061-Fourth Ave).

FEE:

$130 for ďŹ rst half, $90 for second half or $200 for entire season (Cash or cheque only)

GAMES:

are played every Sunday evening, plus Wednesday or Thursday at the Canada Games Centre. The indoor season starts October 15th 2014.

FREE: PRE-SEASON DROP-IN GAMES OCTOBER 5TH, 8TH AND 12TH 2014 FOR FORMS AND MORE INFORMATION yukonsoccer.yk.ca/coed Whitehorse Recreational Coed Soccer A Fun League For Men & Women Ages 18-55+

Coaching Opportunities INTERESTED IN COACHING

COMPETITIVE SOCCER??

The Yukon Soccer Club wants to increase its coaching staff for the Yukon Strikers program.

Coaching experience is preferred, but we will train you!!

If you are interested in coaching or have any questions please contact John MacPhail at jmac@sportyukon.com

WANT TO GET INVOLVED WITH

the Humane Society?

Become a volunteer and join the Board, walk dogs or help with a fundraiser; it all helps!

Call 633-6019 today to find out how you can become involved!

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YUKON NEWS

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 2014

RUBES速

by Leigh Rubin

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 2014

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PUZZLE PAGE

Kakuro

By The Mepham Group

Sudoku Like puzzles? Then you’ll love sudoku.

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

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

FRIDAY CROSSWORD PUZZLE

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

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

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

WORD SCRAMBLE Rearrange the letters to spell a word Hint: misleading or beguiling speech.

Puzzle A

ALVREAA

WORD SCRAMBLE Rearrange the letters to spell a word Hint: hungry, greedy

Puzzle B CLUES ACROSS 1. Live in a tent 5. Capital of W. Samoa 9. Seer’s prop 12. Household God (Roman) 14. Leavened rum cakes 15. Swiss river 18. Deepsea fishing line 21. “Taming of the Shrew” city 23. Tapioca source

25. Stems used for wickerwork 26. Very bad in degree or extent 28. 14 lines with a fixed rhyme scheme 29. Enfeebles 31. Pops 32. Not a convenient time 38. Estimates 39. Making easier 41. Finished a skirt edge

42. Leprosy sufferers 44. Hasidic spiritual leader 45. Wife of Abraham 46. Runner used for gliding over snow 47. Not plain 52. Airport code for Gaborone 53. A mother’s summoning words 58. London Modern Art Museum 59. Motorcar

17. A scrap of cloth 19. Take as a wife 20. Killers Leopold & ___ 21. Breathe rapidly 22. ____ Frank’s diary 24. Made dry and brittle 25. Not inland 27. Ladyfish genus 28. Look at with fixed eyes 30. Wedding vow 32. Shakespeare’s pentameter 33. Deprived of feeling 34. Double curve 35. Employees 36. Type of palm or grass

37. Forceful exertion 38. Oddball computer expert 40. Grasp suddenly 41. Time units (abbr.)

43. Refers to a female 47. Federal excise tax 48. Ingested 49. Not yes 50. Awards org. for country music 51. Not me 54. Overtime 55. 1/1000 of an ampere 56. Montana 57. Atomic #42

CLUES DOWN 1. Atomic #24 2. Pharaoh 1323-1319 BC 3. Mutual savings bank 4. Community school assoc.

5. Winglike part 6. NPR TV equivalent 7. Farm state 8. Atomic #13 9. Extended neck for a better view 10. Blood group 11. And gentlemen 12. Your store of remembered information (abbr.)

13. Father of Araethyrea 16. Your father’s sister

SRE TNIUE

WORD SCRAMBLE Rearrange the letters to spell a word Hint: to drink liquor freely or excessively.

Puzzle C

AOSEURC LOOK ON PAGE 63, FOR THE ANSWERS

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ROOM, RIVERDALE, $650/mon, shared common areas. Rick 332-6030 SHOP/OFFICE/STUDIO Multi-Use Building with space available to rent Shop/Office/Studio Various sizes, will modify to suit Washroom on site, friendly environment whserentals@hotmail.com Phone 667-6805 2-BDRM 1-BATH upper suite, Riverdale, on bus route, N/S, N/P, DD reqʼd, avail now, 1-yr lease, $1,600/mon + utils, 332-2370 or 667-8773 3 ROOM suite, McCrae area, fully furnished, includes all utils & satellite TV, $995/mon.

668-5559 OFFICE SPACE FOR RENT 2nd floor of building on Gold Road in Marwell Sizes 180 sqft & 340 sqft Quiet spaces with reasonable rent 667-2917 or 334-7000 SHARE HOUSE, not just a room, with 3 quiet professionals, private, Porter Creek, furnished, Internet, everything included, N/S. $850/mon. tim@timmit.ca, toll-free 1-855-628-7138 x99, http://timmit.ca/share

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

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

Call 867-333-0144

Horwood’s Mall Main Street at First Avenue Coming Available Soon!

Two small retail spaces.

150 & 580 sq. ft.

(Larger space faces Front Street)

For more information call Greg

334-5553

2,628 SQUARE FEET OF PRIME OFFICE SPACE Available for Lease NOW! Two Suites available for lease. Suites can be leased separately or combined as one.

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

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

MOVE-IN READY.

For more information, please contact: 336-0028

STORE FRONT RETAIL OR OFFICE SPACE FOR RENT

NEWLY RENOVATED 3 offices and large reception area with all day natural light 936 sq ft, Jarvis Street $25 per square foot Phone 335-3123 DOWNTOWN COMMERCIAL SPACE FOR LEASE 1,1 00 sq ft commercial space located downtown available for lease.

May be used for a small consignment or grocery store, or for office use.

Rent and terms are negotiable.

Please call management at 667-7801 for more information 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.

660-4321

2-BDRM 1-BATH upstairs of house, Granger, large L/R, kitchen/dining area, large fenced backyard, deck, close to school, grocery, bus, $1,650/mon incl utils.

334-4653 2-BDRM 2-BATH condo/duplex, Crestview, large wraparound deck, ensuite, wood/bamboo floors & cabinets, wood burning stove, responsible tenants, $1,900/mon, avail Oct. 15. 1-403-437-4734 1-BDRM BASEMENT suite in Riverdale, newly renoʼd, everything included except phone & Internet, $1,000/mon. 333-2418 ROOM IN 2-bdrm house, heat, lights, water & sat tv incl, $300/mon. 867-689-0864 HOUSESITTER NEEDED for January to April, 2015 at Marsh Lake. Reliable couple or single person with references, pay utilities.

N/S, animals welcome. 660-4321 2-BDRM, FULL bath, Ingram, shared kitchen, laundry, N/P, N/S, includes heat, electric, internet. 668-2848 lv msg

ROOM AVAILABLE immediately. Incls all utils, parking, laundry, semi-private bathroom, internet, N/S, $700/mon. 334-4134 2-BDRM SUITE, Riverdale, on greenbelt, N/S, N/P, built 2011, email for pics, $1,200/mon + utils. thomper13@hotmail.com ROOM, COPPER Ridge, full bath, kitchen, large rec room, shared laundry, fully furnished, close to bus, utils & internet incl, $850/mon 668-3968 or 334-1393 GORGEOUS CONDO-CRESTVIEW •Mountain views from large wrap-around deck •2 bedrooms, 2 full baths •Wood and bamboo floors and cabinets •Wood burning stove •High efficiency heat •RV parking area Looking for long term responsible tenants, no pets/no smoking. $1,800 mth plus utilities 1 month rent damage deposit.

Available October 15 1-403-437-4734

COPPER RIDGE bedroom, private kitchen, bathroom, living room, washer/dryer, heat & elec incl, avail Oct 1, N/S, N/P, $800/mon + dd. 336-0627

1 BDRM cabin @ Marsh Lake, lake view, oil heat, septic system, delivered water, pets negotiable, avail immed, refs, dd, 1st mon rent required, $900/mon + utils. 633-5033 eves

BIG BSMT suite, Copper Ridge, full bath, lg LR, new appliances, long term rental, separate entrance, avail ASAP, N/S, N/P, $1,300/mon including utils. 335-0390

Wanted to Rent

SINGLE MALE, no family, looking for bachelor pad. Text 334-0942 or call after 7

2-BDRM 2-BATH townhouse, Hillcrest, N/S, N/P, no parties, $1,500/mon + utils.

335-9977 for viewing

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

SMALL FURNISHED room, Riverdale, clean, responsible tenant, avail October 1, dd & refs reqʼd, $375/mon incl utils.

668-4082

3-BDRM HOME in Riverdale, 1,500 sq ft, 1.5 baths, partially furnished w/washer & dryer, heat & hot water inclʼd, $1,800/mon .

867-334-5055 or 867-333-0050

TWO PENSIONERS looking for 2-3 bedroom house.

335-1678 or global97@msn.com

3-BDRM 2-BATH townhouse style in condo complex, Copper Ridge, N/S, N/P, refs reqʼd, 1 year lease, $1,500/mon + utils. Reply to yukon4rent@me.com

TINY CABIN, furnished, wired, water nearby in shared bathroom. Approx 1/2 hour west of Whse. Good winter vehicle an asset. Pets OK, incls utils, wifi & water, $700/mon.

633-4857

REGISTERED MASSAGE therapist to share office with same, part time only, please call for details. 334-7505 ROOM IN new home in Ingram, N/S, N/P, $600/mon. 335-6628 for details

3-BDRM 1-BATH duplex, Hillcrest, large fenced yard, 5 appliances, wood/oil heat, refs, fuel & dd reqʼd, avail October 1, $1,450/mon + utils. 668-2499 FURNISHED ROOM in Copper Ridge duplex, incl phone, Internet & utils, female only, avail immed, $650/mon + $400 dd. 333-6353 or 668-7517

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

Competitive lease rates offered.

Sandor@yukon.net or C: 333.9966

GRANGER 2-BDRM private suite. Electricity inclʼd. Avail Oct 1, $1,275/mon. 332-4087 DAWSON CITY, private bdrm & bath, shared entrance, kitchen, laundry. Heat, power & sat TV inclʼd. 8 kms from Dawson City, $650/mon + 1/2 H20 & sewer.

867-993-5636 1-BDRM APT, Valleyview, fully furnished, modern very private. Available Oct 1, $1,275/mon. 332-4087 2-BDRM MOBILE home, wood heat, shared elec. Phone & internet avail. Water tank, 20 mins from town in Ibex Valley, $750/mon + $400 DD. Email: 1275woodland@gmail.com 668-6885 ROOM AVAILABLE Oct 1, N/S, N/P, everything inclʼd, $750/mon. 393-2276 MARSH LAKE, New Constabulary, 1-bdrm cabin. Power, water, phone, sat TV, wood & propane heat, 800 sq ft. Available Oct 1, $800/mon. 660-4806

TOWN & MOUNTAIN HOTEL

RESTAURANT FOR LEASE

1,600 square foot. Excellent location.

3rd & Jarvis Street AVAILABLE JUNE 1, 2014

80 Seats on great corner Food Services to Two Lounges

Please call Ivan @ 668-7111 for information and to view.

CONTACT BARRE FLEMING 401 Main Street Whitehorse, Yukon kayle@townmountain.com | 867-668-7644

WANTED: BACHELOR or 1-bdrm apt that allows older cat, prefer downtown or Riverdale. Contact Patty at 867-689-6423 BELGIAN COUPLE looking for house-sitting opportunity in/close to (on bus line) Whitehorse for winter, beginning in December, responsible, mature, clean, handyman experience, references. 334-0339 or 778-267-6645 NEW RESIDENT wants to rent 1-bedroom apt or bachelor in downtown Whitehorse near Main Street, from Oct 1/14. Call 778-882-9286 (Van, BC.) RESPONSIBLE, SINGLE woman who can take care of plants/small pets looking to house sit in December before the 19th.

335-0607

Real Estate CONDO SUITE NANAIMO, B.C. Quality construction+materials, partially furnished, w/kitchen appliances, well organized 300 sq ft.

Quiet residential area near transit, shopping, & park.

Low condo fees+utilities.

Asking $85,000.

Call: 867-660-4516.

Brand New Single Family Homes starting at $349,900.

Certified Green.

Show Home Open Daily 1-85 Aksala Dr. Visit www.homesbyevergreen.ca for more details or call Maggie 335-7029 2-BDRM 2-BATH truly incredible view property in Carcross, 3 acres, propertyguys.com #143659, $299,000. 633-2686 PROPERTY FOR sale, corner of Range Road & Rhine Road. 332-1927 WANTED: 1800 to 2000 sq ft rancher on Country Residential. 3-bdrms, 2-baths, fireplace or wood stove. Would consider trade for house in the city. 633-3113

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 2014 ATLIN CABIN, 16Ęźx20Ęź chinked log cabin on 50Ęźx100Ęź town lot. Double glazed windows & door, power, heat, outhouse, $49,000. Email Gary: gacrawford@hughes.net

Help Wanted SCHOOL BUS DRIVERS WANTED Training Provided Apply in person to: TAKHINI TRANSPORT #9 Lindeman Road, Whitehorse, Yukon 867-456-2745

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YUKON NEWS THE WATSON LAKE DAYCARE (located in Watson Lake) is seeking Child Care Workers for children ages 6 months to 12 years.

For qualifications and duties, please contact Michelle at (867) 536-2167

JANITOR: CDC (Carmacks Development Corporation) is seeking part-time janitor in Carmacks to clean both commercial and residential units.

Own equipment preferred.

Consumables provided.

For more 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: â&#x20AC;˘maintaining inventory of vacancies, reservations and room assignments â&#x20AC;˘register guests, answer inquiries regarding hotel services and registration by mail, phone and in person â&#x20AC;˘present statements of charges & receive payment Contact: Joyce Yukon202@gmail.com Elite Hotel & Travel Ltd. 206 Jarvis St Whitehorse, Yukon Y1A 2H1

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

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Requirements: Telephone system programming, basic electrical, construction, security clearance check.

Apply in person at 133 Industrial Rd.

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SEEKING A FULL TIME RECEIVER

IDEAL COUNTRY RESIDENTIAL LIVING

The successful candidate will be processing shipments of general gift merchandise and jewellery for retail sale at Murdochâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s.

Shipments arrive in boxes and require physical handling. An eye for detail is an asset to ensure product has arrived in saleable condition. Some jewellery experience is also an asset.

The position also requires some front-end customer service.

Competitive wage and beneďŹ ts package.

Please apply in person with resume to

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55 JUDAS CREEK DRIVE

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$380,000 18 Ruby Lane Whitehorse 867-456-7066

1801 HICKORY STREET, EXECUTIVE OR FAMILY HOME IN PORTER CREEK. Many upgrades, including brand new kitchen, maple cabinets (no particle board), SS appliances, granite, and Northerm windows. 2 bathrooms, newly updated, hardwood ďŹ&#x201A;oors, new hot-water heating system, wood/electric alternatives, metal roof, paved driveway, double lot.

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439,000 (appraised higher).

332-2970 to view.

AFFORDABLE COPPER RIDGE HOME

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Quick Possession Possible

2 Bedroom, 2 bath with a view lot facing green space and trails. Large south facing deck. Large open kitchen. New hot water tank, new laundry appliances.

Osburn glass front wood stove. 1999 Triple E Mobile home on titled city lot. Close to schools and neighborhood grocery store. Plenty of parking for RVs, boats, vehicles etc.

$232,000.00

Call 334-4066 for an appointment to view.

Mobile & Modular Homes Serving Yukon, NWT & Alaska

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 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 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 canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be done remotely, such as installing and conďŹ guring new hardware, dealing with hardware failures, network failures, internet connectivity, and managing equipment that canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;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.

CAFNâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Human Resources Policy will apply. For complete job description(s) please check the CAFN website at

House Hunters

http://www.cafn.ca/jobs.html or contact below.

Advertise your Home in 3 issues (3 consecutive weeks) for only $60+GST

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

PHONE: 867-667-6283

Application deadline: 4:30 p.m. on September 30, 2014

667-7681 or cell 334-4994 23 Lorne Rd. in McCrae

clivemdrummond@gmail.com

Send Applications and/or resumes to: Human Resource OfďŹ cer Champagne & Aishihik First Nations Fax: (867) 634-2108 Phone: (867) 634-4244 Email: jgraham@cafn.ca

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E M P L OY M E N T O P P O RT U N I T Y CULTURAL COUNSELLOR â&#x20AC;&#x201D; JACKSON LAKE WELLNESS TEAM

Corporate Clerk/ Legal Assistant Duties include working in the Corporate Department handling requests from clients and lawyers on corporate matters including preparing documents such as incorporations, extra-territorial registrations, amalgamations, resolutions and invoices as well as regularly communicating with the Yukon Registrar of Corporations for filing requirements.

Experience with Microsoft Word and Outlook; good keyboarding skills; ability to perform tasks accurately and in a timely fashion; work under pressure and in a professional manner. Corporate experience is not required but previous experience in a professional office would be an asset. Candidate will be required to become a Notary Public within 6 months of hire.

A criminal record check is required for this position.

Position Type: Department: Closing: Salary:

Complete position details and job description can be found online at: www.kwanlindun.com/employment

E M P L OY M E N T O P P O RT U N I T Y OUTREACH AFTERCARE WORKER â&#x20AC;&#x201D; JACKSON LAKE WELLNESS TEAM Position Type: Department: Closing: Salary:

Bring your resume and cover letter to our office by 5:00 p.m. Friday, October 3rd, 2014 at 3081 Third Ave., Whitehorse,

Part-time (.80 FTE), Term to Mar 31, 2016 Justice Mon., October 6, 2014 at 4:30p.m.

Level 6 - $52,886 to $63,463 (based on .80 FTE) plus benefits

Full-time, Term to Mar 31, 2016 Justice Mon., October 6, 2014 at 4:30p.m.

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

Complete position details and job description can be found online at: www.kwanlindun.com/employment

NO PHONE CALLS PLEASE AND ONLY THOSE CANDIDATES SELECTED FOR INTERVIEW WILL BE CONTACTED.

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PARTENARIAT COMMUNAUTĂ&#x2030; EN SANTĂ&#x2030; (PCS) Le rĂŠseau pour la santĂŠ en français au Yukon, favorise lâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;offre de services de santĂŠ en français en ĂŠtant Ă lâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ĂŠcoute de la communautĂŠ et en participant Ă la planification, la mise en Ĺ&#x201C;uvre et lâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ĂŠvaluation des services grâce Ă des stratĂŠgies novatrices pour accroĂŽtre lâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;accès Ă des services de santĂŠ de qualitĂŠ en français pour le territoire du Yukon.

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TOP WAGES PAID. Please contact:

AIRPORT GIFT SHOP

RETAIL SALES CLERKS (2 Positions) (NOC 6421)

Full time shifts start at 4:00 am Some experience preferred 36-40 hours per week. $15 per hour

Start Date: ASAP Drop off resume at store Email: govindarajmurugaiyan@yahoo.ca Phone: 335-6886

Castle Rock Enterprises is a local General contractor based in Whitehorse which prides itself on client satisfaction and a strong commitment to safety.

Miscellaneous for Sale

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Description des tâches

FRONT ST. CLOTHING CO. is looking for two energetic and mature sales people for the beginning of November â&#x20AC;˘One full time position with basic managerial duties, Mon-Fri 10am - 4:30pm. â&#x20AC;˘One part time and on-call position with flexible schedule Wage dependent on experience.

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Barre Fleming 401 Main St Whitehorse

attention to Greg LeBlanc, Manager.

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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

Human Resource Director

Location: Pelly Crossing, Yukon Territory Status: Full-time, Permanent Salary Level: Level 9 Salary Range: $67,340 - $84,193 (under review) Closing Date: October 3, 2014, 4:30pm Job Summary: This senior level position is responsible for providing corporate leadership and direction in the formulation, development and implementation of strategies for corporate human resource management business processes and practices and corporate human resource management information. This requires working in collaboration with all departments and senior management to manage, integrate and coordinate diverse needs into a cost effective package that best meets the evolving Human Resource and organizational requirements of Selkirk First Nation.

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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 TORIN 2 1/2 floor auto jack, $20. 334-8318 MENĘźS VASQUE hiking boots, size 10.5 or 11, 667-7144 CFL FOOTBALL cards, 17 different complete sets of cards, including early OPC. Almost 2,600 cards, serious inquiries. $1,500.

633-3154 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.

WORLD HOCKEY Association, remember it? Two rare books, (history, statistics, photos). Exc. shape, $50. 633-3154 WORLD HOCKEY Association, 5 complete hockey card sets from the 1970s. Exc cond. $750. 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 THREE COMPLETE OPC hockey card sets (1999-00 to 2001-02 period) plus some short prints. Over 900 cards. $150. 633-3154 V, THE complete series, The Final battle + the original miniseries, $25. Serge @ 667-2196 after 5pm NORDIC TRAK 130 Eliptical Trainer, digital display, program setting, folds up to save space, paid over $1,000, asking $500.

633-3113 COLLECTION OF 1,000 vinyl records, $2,000 obo. 334-4568 COMPLETE ELECTRICAL panel for 200 AMP, great cond, $150. 633-2837

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 2014 400 BOARD ft of 3/4â&#x20AC;? cedar boards, $700, 35 gallon electric water heater, $60.

633-4018

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

393-4796 or cell 336-2146

STEEL STUDS, 3 5/8â&#x20AC;? wall thickness, top & bottom plates, wall stiffeners; 70-gal aluminum saddletank; 9 concrete pads, 2ĘźX2ĘźX5.5â&#x20AC;? thick, Len 332-1927

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

TOOLS, COMPLETE set of tools for bricklaying, drywalling, tiling, carpeting, make a deal. 668-7026

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

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 LOOKING FOR 0 gauge model electric trains, Lionel, MTH. Call 633-6310

FURNACE, 1 yr old, with 250 gal fuel tank full of fuel, $700. 332-8393

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

35 PAPERBACK mysteries, various authors, $20. 633-3154

10â&#x20AC;? RADIAL arm saw, Craftsman Contractor model, 120/240 volt, gd cond. Will deliver to Whse, $325. 250-651-7726

9-24â&#x20AC;?X24â&#x20AC;?X5.5â&#x20AC;? THICK steel reinforced concrete pads at $30 ea. Len @ 867-332-1927

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

CANADA BOOK of the Road, hard cover, complete. Motoring Guide of Canada. Pictures Maps and Tourist Guide, $20.

633-3113

LADIES 18â&#x20AC;? 12-spd bicycle from Cdn Tire, new cond, ridden twice, paid $125, asking $50. 332-1680 lv msg

3 PATTERNED hard cover books, The Cowboys, The Great Indian Chiefs, Famous Gun Fighters of North America. As a set, $50.

633-3113

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

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

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 CANNING JARS & lids, propane furnace for shop or cabin. 456-7243

WHITEPASS WINTER coat, men's large.

Black w/Whitepass logo, exc cond, rare find, $100. 336-8737

2011 RADIANCE Lounger Curve Hot Tub. Elite series, 45 jets. Black opal, cedar skirting. Full insulation for Yukon weather. Incls brown, insulated cover, $7,900. Can include wiring & breaker. 332-3493

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

REXON 10" commercial table saw with extension, has Rexon RM-425, 115/ 230 volt single phase motor, exc cond, $500 obo.

667-7222

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

Electrical Appliances

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 KERR OIL furnace, 74,000 BTU, serviced every year, very good cond, $450 obo.

667-6365 AMERICA AT The Millennium, hard cover, 262 pages of poetry. The best poems & poets of the 20th century, $25. 633-3113

Ă&#x20AC; LA RECHERCHE Dâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;UN EMPLOI?

SEGA DREAMCAST with Sonic Adventure and memory unit, $225. 334-7124 after 7pm

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

HOUSEPLANTS, 4Ęź long orange bloom, lipstick vine, large Chinese evergreen, large spider plant, etc, $10 to $35. 660-4321

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

Des services personnalisĂŠs et des ressources utiles.

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

CROSLEY ELECTRIC clothes dryer, works great, 11 yrs old, $75, 335-7711

Employment Opportunity

WHIRLPOOL PROFILE 4-burber stove, very clean, vg cond, must sell $125. 633-3982 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

Your store is hiring!

Licensed Automotive Mechanic Working in a busy service centre, with state-of-the-art equipment and modern technical training, the technicianâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ability to combine automotive expertise with good customer relations skills contribute to making Canadian Tire the most recognized leader in the automotive service industry.

We will offer a competitive wage based on experience plus benefits.

Please drop off your resume to Allan or Dwayne at the Auto Service Counter.

You can also fax your resume and cover letter at 667-2904 attn: HR department or email at hr.452@thetire.ca.

Only applicants selected for an interview will be contacted.

www.yukoncollege.yk.ca

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.

Expression of Interest - Instructor(s)

Safe, Healthy and Functional Homes â&#x20AC;&#x153;HomeSmartâ&#x20AC;? Program Ayamdigut (Whitehorse) Campus School of Community Education & Development Hourly Rate: $32.94 Competition No: 14.113 Review Date: October 6, 2014 The School of Community Education and Development is ORRNLQJ IRU TXDOLĂ&#x20AC;HG LQGLYLGXDOV WR LQVWUXFW RQ D FDVXDO basis in the â&#x20AC;&#x153;HomeSmartâ&#x20AC;? Program. The broad goal of the program is to provide Yukon First Nation and non-First Nation communities with resources, skills, and tools to increase the VRFLDO UHVLOLHQFH RI FKLOGUHQ DQG IDPLOLHV OLYLQJ LQ GHĂ&#x20AC;FLHQW housing in rural and isolated settings.

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Previous experience working with aboriginal governments, organizations and/or communities would be considered an asset.

For more information please contact: Michael Kulachkosky, Instructor/Coordinator, School of Community Education and Development mkulachkosky@yukoncollege.yk.ca t. 867.456.8577 Go to: http://yukoncollege.yk.ca/about/employment for more information on all job competitions. Quoting the competition number, please submit your resume and cover letter to: Yukon College, Human Resources Services, Box 2799, 500 College Drive, Whitehorse, Yukon, Y1A 5K4 Fax: 867-668-8896 Email: hr@yukoncollege.yk.ca

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GE QUIET Power portable dishwasher, exc cond, $300. 456-7856 KENMORE KITCHEN stove, older but 4 burners & oven work perfectly, beige & black in colour, 867-821-2997 or sweeet_30@hotmail.com 18CUFT FRIDGE in exc working cond, $175.

333-9020 FREE DRYER, working cond. Must pick up.

668-4587 KENMORE WASHER, 29â&#x20AC;? wide. Works well but has small lead in bottom. Free. 633-2837 17 CU ft freezer, $150; 21 cu ft freezer, $100. 633-3805

TVs & Stereos 2 BELL satellite receivers w/remotes, exc cond, Model 3100, $60. 334-8318

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 120-YR-OLD VIOLIN, hand crafted in NB, very special quality sound, needs a good home, case included, make an offer.

456-7856

TV/STEREO CABINET/STAND, glass door, two shelves & wood top, $25. 633-6310

VIOLINS, 1/8, 1/2 & 3/4 sizes. Incls case, bows & accessories. $300 to $500.

456-4900

Computers & Accessories

Firewood

BLACK IPHONE 4S in excellent condition, 16Gb, locked with Telus, $220. 796-3749

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.

ORDER NOW 456-7432

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 VINTAGE AMP speakers 24"X19", 10" woofers, 3 1/2â&#x20AC;? tweeters, $40 for both. 633-3819

Seeking a

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.

Please apply in person with resume to

Murdochâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, 207 Main Street

www.yukoncollege.yk.ca

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.

HURLBURT ENTERPRISES INC. 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 (6 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

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Cheque, Cash S.A. vouchers accepted.

DONĘźS FIREWOOD Scheduled daily deliveries HJ Beetle kill Spruce $260 per cord, City limits Phone 393-4397 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 FIREWOOD Clean, beetle-kill, dry Ready for pick-up, $230/cord or Local delivery, $250/cord Prices include GST 1/2 cords also available for pick-up only Career Industries @ 668-4360 or 668-4363

Guns & Bows LICENSED TO BUY, SELL & CONSIGN rifles & ammo at G&R New & Used 1612-D Centennial St. 393-2274 BUY â&#x20AC;˘ SELL CZ 455 22 Win mag, $500, Remington 700 LSS, 300 Win mag, Leupold scope 3-9X40, $1,200. 667-4425

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 2014 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 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 BUSHNELL TROPHY XLT scope, 3-9X40, $150. 667-4425

WANTED: LEATHER loveseat recliner in good cond. 393-3777 WANTED: WOOD stove, medium size, for greenhouse. 393-3777 CONCERT SERIES at Thomson Centre: Would you like to volunteer one Sunday afternoon a month to support seniors and enjoy professional performances? For more info, call Kathy 393-8629

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

VOLUNTEER NEEDED to assist Thomson Centre Residents in a hand bell program Monday afternoons starting in October. For more information call Kathy 393-8629

MARLIN MODEL 1895 GS, .4570, stainless steel, $600. 334-8086

Cars

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 JUNGLE CARBINE in perfect cond, packed in grease. $600 firm. 333-9056 .22 COOEY single shot rifle, $100. 335-1106 OLD-SCHOOL 12 gauge double barrel shotgun, needs repair before firing, $150.

335-1106 12 GAUGE bolt action shotgun with 3-shot clip, $200. 335-1106

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 MEDIUM SIZED dog compatible with cats.

633-2837

2013 HYUNDAI Genesis Coupe, 2.0T, 12,000 kms. 334-9039 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

13Ęź Trillium travel trailer.

2011 C H E V R O L E T Aveo LT, 5-dr, 13,300km, 4-spd auto, P/W, P/L, A/C, 4 stud tires installed, 4 season tires, remote keyless entry w/alarm, $9,900. 332-9457

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

2011 NISSAN Sentra sedan, 2.0L, 4-cyl, auto, AM/FM/CD, P/W, P/L, 42,000km, $9,900. 660-4220

WANTED: RECLINER in good condition.

633-5324 WANTED: BLUEBOARD left over from building bathrooms, need 20ĘźX6Ęź. 333-0744

2010 TOYOTA Corolla XRS, great cond, 40,000kms, 5 speed manual transmission.

Black exterior, heated leather seats, sun roof, winter tires & rims, command start, $15,000. 334-2770

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

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

WANTED: MOVING boxes, wardrobes, etc.

399-3710

2009 CHEV Cobalt SL Tudor, metallic grey, 32,690km, clean, exc cond, $7,500.

667-7222

WANTED: 668-6716

EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY Do you have a lot to offer? So do weâ&#x20AC;Śwork in an energy efďŹ cient building situated on the banks of the Yukon River, a respectful and positive environment, challenging and fast-paced work, competitive salaries, excellent beneďŹ ts and generous northern and travel allowances. So take the next step in your career path and join our team of skilled and dedicated employees.

Corporate Secretary Permanent â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Full Time Position Whitehorse, Yukon This is an excellent opportunity for a skilled professional to join our corporate team. You will be a highly experienced and committed individual looking for a dynamic and fast-paced work environment. You will work closely with the Board of Directors in areas such as corporate compliance and regulatory matters and assist with the efďŹ cient running of board meetings. As well you would provide support to the President & CEO and the Sr. Management team and act as the Yukon Access to Information and Protection of Privacy coordinator.

You will need a university degree (law or business preferred) or successful completion of paralegal education at a community college and several yearsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; related experience as a corporate secretary and/or paralegal or legal assistant in a law ďŹ rm or in-house legal environment. You will bring a high degree of professionalism, excellent communication, organizational and computer skills to this position.

For more information please visit www.yukonenergy.ca.

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

To apply, submit a covering letter and resume by 5:00 pm October 10, 2014 to Human Resources via fax to (867) 393-5334 or email us at hr@yec.yk.ca.

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

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

2009 NISSAN Altima sedan, 2.5L auto, air, tilt, cruise, Am/FM, CD, p/windows & locks, 137,000 kms, $9,900. 660-4220 2007 KIA Spectra 5, 5 spd manual, fully maintained highway commuter, loaded, command start, extra studded tires on rims, 153,000 km. 667-2276 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 2005 CHEVROLET Impala sedan V6 automatic, air, tilt, cruise AM/FM, CD, p/windows & doors, 2 sets of tires, 105,000kms, $4,900.

660-4220 2004 TOYOTA Echo, manual, 2-dr hatchback, 312,400 kms, highway mileage, set of winter/summer tires with rims, gd cond, $3,800 obo. 334-5607 2003 GRAND Am, low mileage, exc cond, priced to sell, $3,900. 667-7733 or 334-3456 2003 HYUNDAI Santa Fe, FWD, 2.4L 4-cyl, 5-spd manual, lots of room, good fuel economy, silver/grey, good cond. 335-4087 2003 TOYOTA Solara, heated leather seats, remote start, original owner, exc cond, 207,000kms, price reduced to $6,995 obo.

393-2926 or 336-1754 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 2001 CHRYSLER Sebring, 4 new tires, 200,000kms, good shape & good mechanical cond, $1,200. 633-5306 2001 TOYOTA Corolla CE, original owners, 165,000kms, good cond, standard, new windshield, trailer hitch, winter & all season tires on rims, $3,300. 668-4976 1998 AUDI A4, 1.8T Quattro, 5 speed std, new front brakes, newer tires, exc cond, 300,000kms. Great for winter. Receipts, work orders/repairs available. Clean, $4,000 text/call 867-334-6705 1994 MUSTANG, exc cond, mechanically sound, 200,000kms, great all year-round driving, winter tires w/rims inclĘźd, $5,000 obo.

867-334-5055 or 867-333-0050 1994 NEON, 194,000km, new water pump & winter tires, $1,300. 334-6921

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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

2006 NISSAN Titan 4X4 Supercab, 166,000km, c/w mechanical inspection, new tires & extra set tires/rims, looks & runs great, lots of power, $6,900 firm. 333-0717

1994 ISUZU Trooper 4X4, 4-dr, black, very clean, needs engine work, $1,200 obo.

867-536-7206

1988 FORD F150 2WD, extended cab, tons of new parts, excellent truck, $1,800.

667-7223

2005 FORD F350 diesel 4x4 auto, crew cab, short box, good cond, $9,000. 334-7373

1991 CHEVY Astro Van, 307,000km, needs fuel pump, tires, take it away for $300.

335-7711

TRUCK & camper, 1988 Ford F-250 XLT, V8 gas, ext cab, 5 new 10-ply tires, tow package, trailer & camper wiring, exc cond, $6,500 obo. 335-1106

1983 TOYOTA Tercel, 4-dr hatchback, good running cond, some rust & needs exhaust repair, $350 obo. 334-3375

4"-&4 t #0%: 4)01 t 1"354 t 4&37*$& 1994 Ford Explorer, 4X4, AUTO .............................................................................. $995 2003 Pontiac Montana Ext, 2-TONE GREEN........................................... $5,595 2005 Ford F350 Crewcab, 4X4, DIESEL ................................................. $11,995 2009 Nissan Sentra, 4-DOOR AUTO, BLUE .................................................. $8,995 2010 Honda Civic, 4-DOOR SPORT, WHITE, SUNROOF ........................$14,900 2010 Dodge 1500 Quad Cab, 4X4, SLT................................................. $22,500 IN-HOUSE FINANCING AVAILABLE!

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

1998 Honda ATV 350cc 4x4

3,595

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

2012 Wildwood Towable RV Trailer

2001 DODGE 2500 Cummins diesel, 4X4, extra cab long box, 230kms, 1k on tires, new windshield, no rust, new heater core, trailer brake controller, driving lights, good shape, $10,900. 332-3619

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2014 Chev 1500 Silverado Double Cab, White, 2,500 Kms

2001 FORD F150 short box, c/w high rise canopy, 4X4, never been off-road, Lloyd 456-7243

$

25,995

2014 Chevrolet Silverado 1500 4x4

with Trailer & Tow

CrewCab, Antilock Rearend, Silver

$

33,995

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For Quick Approval call: 668-5559 #4 Fraser Road, McCrae, Whitehorse, YT Y1A 5S8 EMAIL: woloshyn@northwestel.net

1999 TOYOTA Tacoma ext cab, 4x4, 4 cyl w/extra suspension, c/w canopy & 2 sets of great tires on rims. Great mileage on the roads. Low mileage, $7,500. Sean 634-7088

2008 FORD Escape XLT, 6 cyl, auto, heated seats, 144,000kms, $11,000. 633-6528

1998 FORD Winstar, good runner, very clean, 7-passenger, c/w new safety cert, $2,995 obo. 867-536-7206

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

1997 TAHOE, great winter truck in exc cond, priced to sell, must see, $3,900. 334-3456 or 667-7733

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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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 1994 CHEV Club Cab, 4WD w/5th wheel, $1,200 obo. 322-1514

1990 NISSAN Pathfinder 4X4, turbo diesel, like new, 160,000km, radio & disc player, right-hand steering, power everything, a/c, bought 3-4 yrs ago, never used, $3,000 firm.

Peter 633-4606 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

Auto Parts & Accessories 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 TOYOTA ALLOY wheels, fits Tacoma or Tundra, 16X7, retail $490 ea, asking $125 ea or all for $400, near new condit, 633-3053

1998 DODGE RAM 3500 Cummins Dually Diesel Ex-cab. Auto transmission, mechanic deck 2000 lb electric crane & 5th wheel. Comes with 30ft goose neck trailer, adjustable tri-axle tilt. 2 spares

$23,000

336-2029

SALVAGE SALE The following insurance salvage is up for bids. Salvage vehicles may have signiďŹ cant collision damages. Listed salvage is currently located at Irving Collision Repairs. GST will be added to all bids. It is offered on an â&#x20AC;&#x153;as is, where isâ&#x20AC;? basis. The highest or any bid not necessarily accepted.

Bids close at 6:00 p.m. Oct. 6, 2014. Contact Irving Collision Repairs (867-667-6315) for viewing appointment & information.

YEAR 2002 2005 2014 1994

MAKE Ford Ford Honda Ford

MODEL Mustang Explorer Sport Trac Civic F150

FILE NUMBER 781904 811942 794227 765312

BRANDING Non-Repairable Salvage Salvage Salvage

1990 FORD F250 4-spd manual, comes with canopy, $1,200. 456-4567

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2000 GMC 4S, 4 door, long box, loaded, runs well, $3,500 obo. 334-9903

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

2011 DODGE Grand Caravan, 157,000km recently serviced, $12,000 obo. 334-4944

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2001 RAM SLT Laramie, quad cab, 4x4, exc shape, 175,000km, spray in box liner, leather, seats 6, trailer breaks & Goodyear Wranglers, recent mechanical/oil change.

333-0034 or nathandumont@hotmail.com

1999 GMC 2500 SLE, 4X4, auto, 213,000kms, extended cab, canopy, camper ready, clean, $5,500 obo. 334-6941

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2001 FORD F150 short box, c/w high rise canopy, 4X4, never been off-road, Lloyd 456-7243

2011 F150 4X4, regular cab, long box, V6.

Special, 1/2 price. 393-1953

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

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2005 T O Y O T A Sienna AWD van, 139,000kms, can be viewed behind T&M, $11,000. 668-7644 2005 TOYOTA Sienna, 100,000kms, $9,500.

334-6510

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

633-3608

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1991 OLDSMOBILE Cierra Cutlass, 230,500km, runs good, $1,000 obo.

332-3817

Sport GT 2006 Mazda 3disk CD changer,

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Pet Report 633-6019 FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 26

2014

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 2014

TRUCK CANOPIES - in stock * new Dodge long/short box * new GM long/short box * new Ford long/short box Hi-Rise & Cab Hi - several in stock View at centennialmotors.com 393-8100

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

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

633-4215

Help control the pet overpopulation problem

TIRES, FITS Sunfire, P195/70R14 90S, all season, lots of tread, $35 ea. 335-7711

633-6019

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

have your pets SPAYED OR NEUTERED. FOR INFORMATION CALL

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

FOUND t Mt. Sima Copper hall rd, large, male husky, no collar, very friendly, Contact Cathie @ 3357260 ( 13/09/14) t Cowley creek, husky X, female, black and white, wearing a collar no tags, Contact Megan @ 335-4776, 393-4404 (20/09/14)

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

DOGS 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)

CATS t None at this time.

SPECIAL t Homes needed for retired sled dogs. They would make excellent pets. Please contact 6683647 or kennelmanager@muktuk.com If your lost animal has been inadvertently left off the pet report or for more info on any of these animals, call 633-6019 or stop by 126 Tlingit Street.

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

You can also check out our award winning website at:

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2007 YAMAHA Phazer RTX, 121â&#x20AC;? track, piped, new skis & carbides, elec start & reverse, $3,500 obo. 393-4397 2003 ARCTIC Cat 900 Mountain Cat snow machine, 151â&#x20AC;? track, low mileage, exc cond, trailer available etc, $3,750. 333-9020

MANUAL 5 speed transmission from a 2WD 1996 V6 Chevy/GMC. Works great. Reasonable offer. 334-7723

WANTED: 2 kittens. 633-2263

2009 KLR 650, only 7,000 kms, c/w 2 helmets & saddle bags. In really good shape, $4,200. 332-6678

25 GALLON fish tank with fish & accessories. $50 takes all. 456-2464

POLARIS 333-9020

Motorcycles & Snowmobiles

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

Pets KENNELS, VARIOUS sizes, small & medium pet carriers, $15 to $25. 660-4321

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

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

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Pet of the Week!

T

RISTAN

Hi Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m Tristan. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m super excited about meeting you!

I love going for long walks to burn off my energy, all part of being a young guy! The staff are trying to crate train me for at night time, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m not to sure how I feel about it but Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m cooperating. I like running around in the yard playing and chasing toys!

I am currently in foster, contact the shelter for info on how to meet me.

2006 HONDA 750 Shadow, 15,000kms, sounds like a Harley, $1,900 firm. 333-0717

V-PLOW with mount, $500.

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 2009 POLARIS Sportsman 850 with EPS, 3,400km, $3,500. 335-8062 2004 HONDA Fourtrax, 1,100km, winch & plow, $4,500. 393-2332 2008 BAJA 250 Wilderness atv, well maintained, low miles, c/w owners & shop manuals, exc cond, camo colour, $2,200.

633-4656 2000 ARCTIC Cat ZL 600, runs well, fun fast machine, $2,100 obo. 334-1862

INVENTORY

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

AT THE SHELTER

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

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

2 METAL dog kennels, 1 large, 1 small.

Lloyd 456-7243

SMITTYBILD WINCH bumper, no winch, for 2012 Jeep Wrangler Unlimited, $500 obo.

668-6716

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, mirochip, wearing a red collar with tags, answers to Taku, Contact Anne-Marie @ 335-0177 (11/09/14) t Lazlite,female, DSH, black and white, wearing no collar, answers to Jessica, Contact Lissa @ 335-2561,(17/09/14) t 12th Ave, neutered male, tabby,no collar, answers to Jerry, Contact Sandra @ 335-4375 (18/09/14) t Fishlake rd, female spayed, grisson, wearing a red collar, anwsers to Pelly, Contact Tony @ 335-0941 (18/09/14)

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

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

TOW MASTER 5000 front hitch to pull car behind motorhome, was on Geo Tracker but could adapt to other vehicle, $350.

867-536-7206

t Benchmark trailer park. Female. Tabby aprox. 10 months. not wearing a collar.

Answers to July. Contact Carmen @ 3330069 (19/09/14) t Iron horse, DSH, neutered male, orange, wearing a collar with a rabies tag, answers to Tiny, Contact Gary @ 335-3760 (19/09/14)

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

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

50 ASSORTED mufflers, 50 exhaust pipes, adapters, etc, $500. 536-7206

LOST

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

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

4 WINTER tires 185/65R15 studded with rims. Goodyear Nordic Winter tires from a 2008 Nissan Versa that is no longer with us, $200. 393-3301

LOST/FOUND

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.

SLED DECK for long box p/u. Aluminum const with electric power tilt motor, $1,200 obo. 333-0117

Marine PROFESSIONAL BOAT REPAIR Fiberglass Supplies Marine Accessories FAR NORTH FIBERGLASS 49D MacDonald Rd Whitehorse, Yukon 393-2467 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 18Ęź ALUMINUM, deep wide dry, custom console, 25 hp Yamaha long shaft, tuned up, new impeller, EZ Loader trailer, tuned up, new tires. Great deal, $3,500 obo. 633-4322 16Ęź MISTY River WD aluminum boat, long transom, 30 hp Johnson long shaft, new trailer, $3,950 obo. 867-390-2192 or 633-4322 SCOTT WILDERNESS canoe, 16Ęź, exc cond, $600. 456-7856 FREE WOODEN boat, 16.6Ęź w/extended transom, console steering & cuddy cabin, gd cond. No motor. $400 for the trailer. New tires. 336-8737 24Ęź STARCRAFT aluminum boat. Asking $10,000 obo or will consider trade for cargo trailer. 668-4593 or 335-1283

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 2012 BOBCAT S-205, fully loaded, hand & foot controls, cab heater, A/C, block heater, battery blanket, exc cond, 175 hrs, 2 buckets, will deliver in Yukon, $39,500 obo.

335-1106

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2 BUNKHOUSES for sale, skid mounted, 4 rooms each, $10,000 per unit. 332-3293 10Ęź X 40Ęź skid mounted wellsite trailer, $20,000. 332-3293 6 KW and 8 KW diesel light towers for sale.

332-3293

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 2014 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

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

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

COFFEE HOUSE Saturday Oct.4, 2014, featuring Jim Vautour + the Open Stage. Help set up 6pm, open stage sign-up 7pm, 7:30pm show, $5 United Church Bsmt, 6th+Main, 633-4255

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

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

2004 PIONEER travel trailer, overall length 28Ęź, large bath, queen bed, full kitchen, stereo, large awning, $9,800. 633-2580

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

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 HOME MADE 3/4-ton utility trailer, 16â&#x20AC;? tires, great for hauling firewood, trash, etc, $750 obo. 334-4568 after 5pm 2014 RAINBOW 19Ęź tilt deck trailer, car hauler, tandem 3,500lb axles, electric brakes, $5,250 obo. 334-0578 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

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

Is SELLING OFF their

x-rentals Check out: klondikerv.com (867) 456 2729 2011 24Ęź Cougar travel trailer, exc cond, full kitchen, sofa, queen size bed, bathroom etc, $22,000. 667-2804 2004 16Ęź RoadRunner travel trailer, great cond, everything works, full bathroom, sleeps 3-4, c/w hitch and sway bars, $8,000.

336-1820 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 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 TRAILER FOR up to 2 snow machines or ATVs, just serviced & wired, really nice cond, $500. 333-9020 2006 PIONEER 180 CK, 1/2 towable, very clean inside and out, everything works, $9,500. 867-634-2242

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CANADIAN FIREARMS Safety Course, Non-restricted, Sat & Sun Sept 27 & 28 at Whitehorse Rifle & Pistol Club. Cost $120.

Seating limited. 633-6202 to register.

ALL-CITY BAND is looking for new musicians! We have a Band that fits you. Check us out on allcityband.com YUKON BROOMBALL AGM, October 4, 10am, at Sport Yukon. All welcome 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

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 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 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 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 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 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

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Farewell to you and the youth I have spent with you It was but yesterday we met in a dream.

You have sung to me in my aloneness, and I of your longings have built a tower in the sky.

But now our sleep has fled and our dream is over, and it is no longer dawn.

The noontide is upon us and our half waking has turned to a fuller day, and we must part.

If in a twilight of memory we shall meet once more, we shall speak again together and you shall sing to me a deeper song.

And together we shall build another tower in the sky.

K .Gibran

Memorial Potlatch To all the Ravens and Crows you are invited to be guests of the Daklaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;weidi clan of the Keet Hit house of Carcross to witness a memorial Koo.eex on October 11, 2014 in Carcross for the late

Jeff Williams and Colin Lindstrom

Placing of the headstones will take place at the Carcross cemetery at 1pm. Potlatch to follow at the Gooch Tlaa School.

UTILITY TRAILER with canoe racks & handmade fold-down camper, $750. 668-4976 BIG FOOT camper, exc cond, 9.5Ęź, full bath w/shower, hot water, oven, furnace, queen sz bed, sleeps 4, storage facility. New $40,000, asking $10,000. 867-334-5055 or 867-333-0050 1974 PREMIER Trailer 12x68 with 8x10 Arctic entry. $35,000. shilver3000@msn.com 2009 PROWLER 25Ęź travel trailer, Extreme Edition w/all available options. Sleeps 2 w/lots of living space. New $36,900, asking $25,000. 660-4220 1993 BIGFOOT 9.5Ęź camper, 2-piece fibreglass exterior, 3-pc bthrm, fridge/freezer (gas/electric), furnace, hot water, super clean, non-smoker, no leaks, very light (815kg), $7,300. 633-8430 1985 CLASS C motorhome 460, F350 Ford chassis, 30Ęź, very clean inside/out, $7,500 obo. 867-536-7206

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

HORSES!

Have you always wanted to ride?

Find a complete list of all the great horse activities in Yukon! www.HorsinAroundYukon.com

Celebration of Life for

C laire F estel-B riand (May 29, 1957 - June 9, 2014)

You are cordially invited to celebrate Claireâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s life at the Townhall of the Gold Rush Inn on Tuesday, October 7, 2014 from 4:00pm to 6:00pm.

Light snacks and beverages will be served.

If you have an uplifting story to tell that would be greatly appreciated! The events will be casual among friends and family.

Katherine (Jan) Morrison February 24, 1932September 15, 2014

If my parting has left a void, then fill it with remembered joy.

A friendship shared, a laugh, a hug.

Be not burdened with times of sorrow I wish you the sunshine of tomorrow My life has been full, I savored much Family, good friends, good times, a loved ones touch.

My time was not brief, donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t lengthen it now with undue grief.

Lift up your heart and share it with me.

-Author Unknown As per momâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s request there will be no Celebration of Life or Open Service If you care to make a donation in remembrance, please consider the Yukon Lung Association or Line of Life Yukon.

60 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 CONCERT BY BC singer/songwriter Linnea Good Sunday Sept 28 at Whitehorse United Church, 7pm. Admission by donation. Family friendly, all welcome, wheelchair accessible 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 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 GOLDEN AGE Society: If anyone over 55 is interested in playing pool or shuffleboard, call Deborah at 668-5538 ALPINE SKI Association of Yukon AGM is on October 7 at 7pm, in Sport Yukon Boardroom. Registration begins in early November.

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 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 GOLDEN AGE Society 55+ potluck dinner Tuesday, September 30 at 5:00pm. Bring a dish to share. For more info call 668-5538 MEDITATION RETREAT, Saturday October 4 & Sunday October 5, 9am-5pm, Association Francophone Yukonnaise, 302 Strickland St. Contact@vajaranorth.org FHCOLLINS 60S Reunion, July 10th to 12th, 2015. Go to: FHCollins60sReunion for details or Pat @ 633-5155

CELEBRATE!

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 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 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 YWIM AGM on Friday, Septembetr 26, 2014 at 5:30pm, Westmark Whitehorse. Contact yukonwomeninmusic@gmail.com if you have any questions.

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 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 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

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Phone: 867-667-6285 211 Wood Street, Whitehorse

www.yukon-news.com

Narcotics

Anonymous 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.

F.H. COLLINS School Council regular meeting @ 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, October 1 in the Fine Dining Room at the school. Everyone welcome.

Beaver Creek Y.T.

CONTAGIOUS MOUNTAIN Bike Club AGM. L'AFY at 302 Strickland Street, 6pm on October 25.

Friday - 1:30 p.m.

Health Centre

Carcross Y.T.

POLARETTES GYMNASTICS club AGM, Oct 23 at 6pm at the gymnastics gym in Riverdale.

Friday - 1:30 p.m.

Health Centre

THE FREE monthly Kids Kreate art class, Yukon Arts Centre, Sunday October 19, 1pm-4pm. Dress for a mess! Children must be accompanied by an adult. Registration is not required.

Carmacks Y.T.

HAMLET OF Mount Lorne LAC next scheduled meeting Tuesday, October 7 at 7pm at LMCC, km. 1 Annie Lake Road. See website for agenda.

JOIN US at the Old Fire Hall Thursday, October 23, 5:30pm for the second free Public Talk of the season called 'The History of Advertising and Marketing in Yukon', 5:30pm.

DANCE GATHERING, first Saturday of every month 8-9pm at Leaping Feats. Adults and mature teens, a place to be yourself, connect with community and dance the way y o u w a n t ! whitehorsedancegathering@gmail.com

JACK HULLAND School Council is having it's regular council meeting on October 1, 7pm in the school library. Everyone is welcome YUKON TABLE Tennis AGM, Sunday September 28, Whitehorse Elementary School, followed by a ranking tournament information. 668-3358 for info BRAEBURN LAKE Christian Camp Association AGM Tuesday Oct 28, 5:15pm, Whitehorse United Church. Looking for new members to share ideas for future successful camping season. Info: Stella 668-4629 AGM FOR Pan-Territorial Air Cadet Committee, Air Cadet League of Canada, will be on Saturday, October 18, 10am, 309 Lambert St. All are welcome. Ken 456-7297 for info WHITEHORSE RAPIDS Men's Over 35 Soccer drop-in's. September 27 and October 4th at 11 AM. League play starts October 11.

Info: rapids.contact@gmail.com.

GWAANDAK THEATREĘźS Writing Home Playwriting Workshop with award-winning theatre artists Tara Beagan and Andy Moro.

Fri eve. Oct. 3 to Sun 5th in Whitehorse, KDCC. Cost $75. To register/more info call 393-2676 YUKON COUNCIL on Aging bi-annual meeting on Friday, October 17, Golden Age Centre, registration at 9am

Services PIANO TUNING & REPAIR by certified piano technician Call Barry Kitchen @ 633-5191 email:bfkitchen@hotmail.com - INSULATION Upgrade your insulation & reduce your heating bills Energy North Construction Inc. (1994) for all your insulation & coating needs Cellulose & polyurethane spray foam Free estimate: 667-7414

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 2014 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

ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS MEETINGS

MEETINGS:

FAMILY STORY TIME: Oct 7, 10:30 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 11:30 am, Whitehorse Public Library. For children ages 3 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 6 who are accompanied by an adult. Free registration. 667-5239

BOOK LAUNCH, A Rock Fell on the Moon, Dad and the Great Yukon Silver Ore Heist, an Elsa memoir by Alicia Priest, Wed. Oct 8, Baked CafĂŠ, 6pm. Free, all welcome

Births!

Birthdays!

Weddings!

Graduations!

Anniversaries!

DRUG PROBLEM?

YUKON NEWS

Friday - 1:30 p.m.

Health Centre

Dawson City Y.T. Thursday - 6pm (summer only) New Beginners Group Rm 2160 @ Hospital

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

Health Centre

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

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

Health Centre

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)

NS - No Smoking OM - open mixed, includes anyone CM - closed mixed, includes anyone with a desire to stop drinking

www.aa.org bcyukonaa.org AA 867-668-5878 24 HRS A DAY

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 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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Friday - 1:30 p.m.

Health Centre

Telegraph Creek B.C.

LOW COST MINI STORAGE

Tuesday - 8:00 p.m.

Soaring Eagles Sewing Centre

Teslin Y.T.

Friday - 1:30 p.m.

Health Centre

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

Contact 456-4048 or 334-8029

Pelly Crossing Y.T.

Watson Lake Y.T.

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

Boats, Motor Homes, Trailers, R.V. â&#x20AC;&#x201C; All Types of Vehicles.

Secure. Safe. Locked and Fenced.

Monthly, Yearly or Seasonal Storage Facilities!

Friday - 1:30 p.m.

Health Centre

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

Health Centre

SEASONAL STORAGE of your RV, Boat, Trailer & Vehicle.

Secure and reasonable rates.

Located at McCrae subdivision.

Contact us at klondikestorage19@gmail.com

Winter Special on now call for rates

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Old Crow Y.T.

Ross River Y.T.

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

Straightline Storage

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

Health Centre

Friday - 1:30 p.m.

Health Centre

BUSY BEAVERS Painting, Pruning Hauling, Chainsaw Work, Yard Cleaning and General Labour Call Francois & Katherine 456-4755

in Whitehorse

Friday - 1:30pm Unity Group Rm 2160 @ Hospital Saturday - 7pm North Star Group Community Support Centre 1233-2nd Ave.

LOG CABINS: Professional Scribe Fit log buildings at affordable rates.

Contact: PF Watson, Box 40187, Whitehorse, YT, Y1A 6M9 668-3632

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Now 2 locations: Porter Creek & Kulan.

Onsite & offsite steel containers available for rent or sale.

We now offer 8'x10' units. 8'x20â&#x20AC;&#x2122; units also available.

Phone 633-2594 Fax 633-3915

OFFICE LOCATED BESIDE KLONDIKE WELDING, 15 MacDONALD RD., PORTER CREEK, info@lowcostministorage.ca

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 2014 RETIRED PRACTICAL NURSE 23 years working with Whitehorse General Hospital Seeking to do private duty nursing and/or housecleaning Available anywhere in the Yukon Phone 334-3043 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

Sports Equipment COMPLETE SET of Spalding womenĘźs golf clubs, c/w cart, $60. 633-4018 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

Lost & Found

FOUND: B.C. trailer licence plate UVK-01C, June 30, 2014, in ditch on South Access.

633-2050

LOST: KEYS, possibly Main street or the College, large keychain on black lanyard, Honda key, truck key and home/office keys.

332-3726 LOST: BLUE Lumix waterproof camera in silver hard case at or near Fraser Lake on Saturday September 14, reward!

867-333-9604 LOST: REAR trailer gate between Carmacks and Twin Lakes, grey in color, for small tin trailer on Saturday afternoon/evening.

332-4202

Business Opportunities

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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

FRESH CUT 1,000 lb hay bales In the field $100 each 867-633-3388 Please leave a message

PUBLIC TENDER STANDING OFFER AGREEMENT FOR GROCERIES FOR ALL YUKON GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENTS FOR 2 YEARS

FOUND: PAIR of prescription glasses at Walmart, describe to claim. 322-2505

FOUND: RED Samsung camera on road Tigereye Cres, name inside case. Call 667-6806 to identify

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YUKON HAY Quality Timothy / Brome mix

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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 ANGUS BEEF for sale Born and Bred in the Yukon No hormones or drugs Delivered to your butcher or your home horses@exploreyukon.com 667-6376 HAY FOR SALE Dry bales kept under a shelter Great quality, $12/bale.

633-4496 or astra@northwestel.net Quality weed free brome hay bales for sale.

830 lb round bales and also small square bales Phone 668-2407

Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title.

The closing date for submissions is October 21, 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 Bill Stonehouse at (867) 6678281.

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

KLONDIKE HIGHWAY FUNCTIONAL PLAN DEVELOPMENT AND QUALIFIED SOURCE LIST Project Description: Provision of engineering services to deliver a functional plan for the development and management of the Klondike Highway and establishment of qualified source list.

Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title.

The closing date for submissions is October 15, 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 Ken Jeffrey at (867) 633-7960.

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

MASSEY FERGUSON seed drill, stored covered, older but working cond, best offer.

633-3608

LAMB Locally grown.

Order now.

Phone (867) 821-4613 Leave Message MCCABE CREEK Farm did not raise chicken or pigs this year. To our loyal customers, please get your meat from another local farmer. Maybe next year! Jerry and Kathy Kruse

YUKON LAND USE PLANNING COUNCIL REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS Common Land Use Planning Process Review 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.

Closing Date: 3:00pm October 6th, 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

Highways and Public Works

PUBLIC TENDER BONANZA CREEK FORESTRY ROAD CONSTRUCTION

REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL

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

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

View or download documents at: www.planyukon.ca/index.php/documents/ylupcdocs/ads.html

REQUESTS FOR QUOTATION 2015 Brushing Requirements Yukon Energy is inviting quotations from qualiďŹ ed contractors for 2015 brushing requirements per the following vegetation brushing Requests for Quotation: = RFQ 2014-047: approximately 5.1 kilometers of distribution line located at Faro, Yukon Territory = RFQ 2014-048: approximately 33.5 kilometers of the L170 transmission line located between the Takhini substation and Carmacks

approximately 45.4 kilometers of the L177 transmission line located between Carmacks and Faro

approximately 9.5 kilometers of L453 distribution line located between the Mayo hydro substation and the Town of Mayo This work would be scheduled for the 2015 summer work season and would be completed by October 31, 2015.

The successful proponent will be responsible for supplying all supervision, labour, tools, equipment, materials, mobilization and demobilization of personnel, transportation, and meals and lodging, as required. COR certiďŹ cation (or equivalent) will be required for this work.

Sealed quotations clearly marked with the RFQ number and description will be received up to 4:00:00 p.m. Yukon time, November 4, 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. Request for Quotation packages will be available on Tuesday, September 30, 2014.

To obtain a Request for Quotation package contact Matthew Sills at Yukon Energy, 867-393-5335 or at matthew.sills@yec.yk.

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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

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

REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL

PUBLIC TENDER

CONSULTANT SERVICES FOR ARCHIVES VAULTS EXPANSION WHITEHORSE, YUKON 2014

ROTARY WING SUPPORT FOR DEPT OF ENVIRONMENT TATCHUN MOOSE CENSUS SURVEY

Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title.

The closing date for submissions is October 15, 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 Zubair Qureshi at (867) 3937125.

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

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

Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title.

The closing date for submissions is October 14, 2014. Please refer to the procurement documents for the closing time and location.

Documents may be obtained from the Procurement Support Centre, Department of Highways and Public Works, Suite 101 - 104 Elliott Street, Whitehorse, Yukon (867) 667-5385.

Technical questions may be directed to Robin Chambers at (867) 6675989.

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

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

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

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 2014 REG. QUARTERHORSE mare - green broke. Super temperament, donĘźt have time for her. To a good home, $350. 668-3885

Baby & Child Items CRADLE 633-2837

FOR infant, mint cond, $40.

PUBLIC TENDER 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.

The ďŹ rst time of publication of notice is September 19, 2014.

The second time of publication of notice is September 26, 2014.

ROTARY WING SUPPORT FOR DEPT OF ENVIRONMENT KLUANE DUKE RIVER MOOSE CENSUS 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 Robin Chambers at (867) 6675989.

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

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

The third time of publication of notice is October 3, 2014.

Highways and Public Works

Environment

INVITATION TO TENDER

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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www.whitehorse.ca

ANJU & MEENAĘźS FAMILY DAYHOME Has childcare spaces available Located in Riverdale Hot meals provided Extended care available Located near school Low & Affordable Rates More info 668-5243 or 3341979

REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS DESIGN AND ELECTRONIC DRAWINGS FOR TWO PROPOSED DUPLEX CONVERSIONS, CARMACKS, YUKON

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

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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

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

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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.

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All enquiries to:

SOLID PINE mate's bed, three drawers, twin size with mattress, paid $600 for set, asking $250 obo. Crystal 334-7298

Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title. The closing date for submissions is November 10, 2014. Please refer to the procurement documents for the closing time and location.

Environment

INVITATION TO TENDER

RANGE ROAD NORTH - EDIBLE PLANT NODES

CHILDRENĘźS CLOTHING in excellent condition, given freely the first & third Saturday monthly at the Church of the Nazarene, 2111 Centennial. 633-4903

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www.whitehorse.ca

PUBLIC TENDER ANNUAL SUPPLY & DELIVERY OF WOOD PELLET FUEL WHITEHORSE CORRECTIONAL CENTRE WHITEHORSE, YUKON 2014/2015 Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title.

The closing date for submissions is October 15, 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 Blair Rawlings at (867) 667-5966.

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

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 2014

Garage

DOUBLE FUTON with cover, $50; single folding cot, $15. 633-2117

Furniture SEARS ARMCHAIR/RECLINER, w/foot rest, good cond, 336-0534 WARDROBE, 633-2837

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NEW FURNITURE from Brick, double bed, fold-out faux leather sofa bed, misc furniture items & dishes. Best offer, must sell.

335-8915

NEW, still in crate, $50.

QUEEN-SIZE WATER bed, comes with solid wood bookcase headboard, mattress, liner & heater, all in good condition. Open to offers.

667-2176 HANDCRAFTED SOLID wood desk, no plastic or chipboard, 6 drawers & wing, must be seen, made by Yukon craftsman, $350 obo. 633-6781

OAK COLOURED bookshelf. 3 shelves, 33"W x 4ʼ H x 12" deep. Clean, exc cond.

Downtown, come & pick up. 867-689-5907 DOUBLE BED, Searsopedic mattress & box spring, good condition, $40. 334-3300 NEW QUEEN size log bed, suitable in a cabin or as a gift, $650. 399-3904 after 6pm

Personals

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

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

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

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

TWIN SIZE box spring, frame & mattress, like new, protective allergy pro covers used & come with set, $350 obo. 456-7856

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

OAK CHINA cabinet with glass doors & buffet, $350 obo. 633-3805 BLACK LEATHER recliner easy boy chair, $900 new, asking $500, exc cond, very comfortable. 456-7856 KITCHEN TABLE and 4 chairs, Oak frame, octagonal table & chair frames, $75 for all.

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

To Constable Michelle Faulkner, I would like to express my deepest and most sincere apology in this letter.

In mid-June of this year (2014) I was severely inebriated and acted in a way towards you that was completely out of character and has since made me never want to drink again.

I would like to let you know that I respect and admire you, and all police officers, for doing what you do on a daily basis. I have never before in my entire life had a problem with an officer of the law, I’ve never even had a speeding ticket. I never meant to show you dis-respect, and I am very sorry for causing you harm.

I hope that you will hear my letter as a plea to not think of me in a bad light, as I never act this way under normal circumstances, and as a sincere apology as I am very sorry for disrespecting you and causing you harm. I have since stopped drinking all-together and am working on why I acted in such a way.

I would also like to say to whoever else may be reading this letter: While drinking is socially acceptable in small amounts, it can be very easy to overdo it. Everyone knows that drinking too much may cause you to do things that you wouldn’t normally do. There is a fine line between doing something silly that you feel a little ashamed of, and acting in a way that you will regret for the rest of your life. Is it really worth it?

REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL

SALES

LABOUR MARKET INFORMATION WEB PORTAL Project Description: Advanced Education Branch is seeking Proposals to develop, by March 31 2015, a Labour Market Information Web Portal (LMI Portal). The LMI Portal has to be developed in accordance with the concepts and conclusion expressed in the LMI Needs Study.

Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title.

The closing date for submissions is October 21, 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 Jean-Sebastien Blais at (867) 456-6162.

A RFP Briefing will be offfered on October 3, 2014. Refer to tender package for further details.

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

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

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 26TH ARKELL

M6 PTARMIGAN Pl, Arkell, Friday, September 26, 4pm-8pm & Saturday, September 27, 10am-2pm. Multi-family. Hot bannock & jam! Furniture, HH items, clothes, boots, shoes, blankets, dishes, cookware, pics etc.

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 27TH ARKELL M6 PTARMIGAN Pl, Arkell, Friday, September 26, 4pm-8pm & Saturday, September 27, 10am-2pm. Multi-family. Hot bannock & jam! Furniture, HH items, clothes, boots, shoes, blankets, dishes, cookware, pics etc.

BURWASH LANDING RESORT MBURWASH LANDING Resort, Saturday September 27, 10am-3pm, furniture, small household appliances, kitchen items, coolers, lamps, etc COPPER RIDGE M8 KEEWENAW Dr, Copper Ridge, Saturday September 27, 10am-2pm, furniture and household items M48 LAZULITE Dr, Copper Ridge, Saturday September 27 starting at 10am, 1989 New Yorker, winter clothes, jewelry, nail polishes, etc

Education

DOWNTOWN M804 COOK Street, Downtown, Saturday September 27, 10am-3pm, women’s sporting equipment, kitchenware, electronics

Puzzle Page Answer Guide

INGRAM MUNIT 101 - 102 Goldeneye St, Ingram. Saturday, September 27, 9am-3pm. No early birds please.

Sudoku:

M88 MALLARD Way, Ingram. Saturday, September 27, 9am.

Held in the back yard. Fabric, kitchen items, baby items, women’s clothing, some furniture.

MCCRAE

Sincerely, Laura

CASH SALE

M10 DENVER Rd, McCrae, Windoor Recyclers yard, Saturday September 27, 10am-2pm, huge window sale, greenhouse windows blow-out sale, large/medium windows $20, small $10. Come & see what else we have PORTER CREEK

Kakuro:

M7 ASPEN Pl, Porter Creek, Saturday September 27, 10am-1pm, variety of household stuff, etc, no early birds please

OCTOBER 4TH AND 5TH AT 10:00AM TO 2:00PM PST

RIVERDALE

Yukon College is holding a cash sale (nominal pricing that includes GST) of surplus assets on October 4th and 5th at 10:00am to 2:00pm PST. The items will be displayed at two locations on campus - there will be directional signage.

M18 BLANCHARD Rd, Riverdale. Saturday, September 27, 9am-1pm. HH items, toys, kids’ stuff. Postponed if raining.

TAKHINI - NORTHLAND MHP M175 NORTHLAND Trailer Park, Range Rd, Saturday September 27, 9am-12Noon, cancelled if raining

Included in the sale will be various classroom and office furnishings including chairs, desks, tables, filing cabinets, office dividers, etc.

All items are offered in as-is, where-is condition, with no stated or implied warranty. Items that are not sold on Saturday will be offered free on Sunday – all items must be removed at time of purchase.

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 28TH

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MCPHERSON M15 MACPHERSON Rd, MacPherson, Sunday September 28, 10am-4pm, furniture, household items RIVERDALE

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