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he Senate committee charged with reviewing proposed changes to Yukon’s environmental assessment regime have cancelled a scheduled meeting to hear directly from the board responsible for implementing the law under review.

On Sept. 15, the Yukon Environmental and Socio-economic Assessment Board requested an audience with the committee, and on Sept. 24 the committee scheduled a presentation for Oct. 7, according to information provided by the board.

Yesterday, the clerk of the committee confirmed in an email that the board’s attendance at the hearing would no longer be required, since its written submission had been deemed sufficient. “The committee wishes to thank you very much for the presentation/submission you emailed the clerk, which clearly outlines the board’s position. Therefore an appearance in person will not be necessary,� according to the email.

B.C. Senator Richard Neufeld said Friday morning that the main reason for not hearing from the board directly is that YESAB currently has an acting chair, and has not yet appointed a permanent chair.

The expectation from the beginning was that the board would submit in writing unless a chair was appointed in time for the hearings, he said.

He only learned that a meeting had been scheduled on Wednesday, said Neufeld.

At that point he said, “Woah, that’s not what the committee agreed to,� he recalled.

The House of Commons will host similar hearings when the bill is at that stage, which could be an opportunity for the new chair, when one is appointed, to present, he said.

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Ken McKinnon, acting chair of the Yukon Environmental and Socio-economic Assessment Board, will not be appearing in front of the Senate committee after all.

concerns that the board has with implementing the amendments that are proposed. “We just thought that during questions and answers and during the presentation to the Senate, that we’d have some unique ability to talk about the operational implications to YESAB, administering the changes to the act under Bill S-6.�

In recent weeks, the Senate committee has heard from Premier Darrell Pasloski, representatives of the Council of Yukon First Nations, the president of Yukon Energy, representatives of the Yukon Chamber of Mines and the Klondike Placer Miners’ Association, the president of Alexco Resource Corp, and representatives for the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers.

There are many amendments that the board agrees will go a long way to improve the assessment process, but some major concerns remain, said McKinnon.

He was hoping to have a chance to review the new proposed timelines with the committee in particular, he said.

When it comes to the low level, designated office assessments, the proposed new timelines are actually much longer than what the board had asked for, said McKinnon. “We’re probably the first environmental and socio-economic assessment board that has said that ... the timelines are too long.

They’ve called for nine months, we said we could do it in six months, and most of our assessments at the designated office take about an average of 80 days.�

For the higher level, executive committee level assessments, those that deal with major projects like major mines or energy infrastructure, the proposed new timelines could prove to be too short, he said.

He mentioned the proposed $2.5-billion Casino copper mine, which now has an application before the board, as an example. “When you get a massive proj-

ect like Casino, which is about five times the volume that Faro, the biggest lead-zinc mine in the world at one time, and they’ve given us five volumes for the proposal, and eight volumes for the appendices.

We’ve got about 7,000 pages of highly technical detail.�

Under the planned rules, the board would have 16 months to assess that project, including the adequacy review phase but excluding the time it takes the company to respond to information requests.

Consultations on the draft bill indicated that the adequacy review phase would be excluded from the timeline, according to the board and First Nations, who were among the select groups allowed to see the bill before it was tabled.

After those 16 months, the federal minister could grant an extension of a maximum of two months. After that Ottawa could make an order on the recommendation of the minister to extend the timeline by an unlimited amount of time.

Those rules could actually work against the interests of proponents, said McKinnon.

If a project is so big and complicated that the board does not think it can be dealt with in the allotted time, the board could ask the minister for a review by a panel of the board, which is a “major, major review,� said McKinnon. That level of review has not been used to date in the Yukon, and would likely end up costing the proponents a lot more time and resources. “We’re acting on behalf of proponents, in saying, ‘Hey look, have you really thought this out really carefully?’�

Those concerns were outlined in the board’s written submission to the Senate committee, but committee members will now no longer have an opportunity to hear directly from McKinnon and have their questions answered.

Contact Jacqueline Ronson at jronson@yukon-news.com

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Filmmaker sells possessions to help families stay afloat Myles Dolphin News Reporter

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Whitehorse resident is selling most of his worldly possessions this weekend to help fund a guaranteed income experiment.

On Saturday, everything must go: a truck, snowmobile, mountain bike, computer, canoe, clothing and camping gear are among the many items Jayden Soroka is getting rid of.

He wants to raise money in order to recreate a groundbreaking social experiment from the 1970s that took place in Dauphin, Manitoba.

Known as the Mincome program, families in the small community were provided with a guaranteed income for four years and closely monitored during that time.

A report published in 2011 concluded that mothers spent more time with their newborns, students showed higher test scores and there were fewer visits to the hospital, among other positive impacts.

Soroka is partnering with Buffalo Gal Pictures in Manitoba and Flat Tires Films here in the Yukon to follow three Canadian families for a year and produce a documentary on their experiences.

The families will keep receiving welfare while their incomes are bumped to just above the poverty line, Soroka said.

The funding will be based around their needs and will be adjusted accordingly.

He believes that will require between $40,000 and $50,000, which he and the documentary’s director will raise from estate sales and help from friends and relatives.

Soroka said he won’t miss any of the items he sells.

“I looked around my place and there are a lot of things in my life that just collect dust,” he said.

“They’re things that I no longer need so why own them? It’s an easy choice between putting that money into my bank account or giving it to families in need.

“To me that’s empowering.”

Soroka, who will produce the documentary, said he’s been getting help from various agencies around the country to find the perfect families for the project.

They’ve looked a little closer at P.E.I. and Nunavut because both jurisdictions have been working on their own guaranteed income models, he said.

Pangnirtung, Nunavut is one of the communities Soroka mentioned because of its high levels of poverty.

Guaranteed income means working families can stop relying on income support programs and spend the money they earn on more important priorities, such as housing, health care and education, he added.

He wants people to witness what it’s like to be outside of poverty in those places.

“The families know that every month, they have a guaranteed amount of money,” he said.

“They’ll still be receiving welfare, we’ll just be topping them up. We want to give people the chance to be a family again, to have stability.

“Welfare is broken. This is a better system.”

Welfare benefits are often reduced dollar-for-dollar for low-income recipients who earn more money, and that’s a problem, Soroka said. This project would allow families

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Jayden Soroka is selling most his belongings this weekend to fund a guaranteed income experiment that would raise the income of three families above the poverty line. The auction is taking place at 125 Normandy Road from 10 a.m. until 3 p.m.

to keep a lot of the money they earn.

“If you want to work hard, you’re going to receive money and then you can be better off,” he said.

“When you make and spend your own money, it gives people their dignity back.”

After the project is fully funded for development, the

plan is to meet between four to six candidate families in person, create a trailer for broadcasters and hopefully go into production next spring.

Soroka wasn’t sure if one of the families would be from the Yukon, but he said Whitehorse could really benefit from a project like this.

“Can you imagine if people gathered at Shipyards Park

once a year and brought all the stuff they didn’t want anymore?” he asked.

“Then we could give money directly to families in need. We would change people’s lives.”

Soroka’s living estate sale will be held tomorrow from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at 125 Normandy Road.

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NDP confuse burning LNG with fracking Jacqueline Ronson

Yukon’s NDP Opposition has pounced on the remark, saying that the premier is pre-empting ukoners are atwitter after the work of the select commita video surfaced on social tee on the risks and benefits of media with Premier Darrell hydraulic fracturing.

Pasloski saying that the territory In fact, the NDP news release is “heavily involved in LNG.” goes as far as to suggest that “Right now we’ve put in place liquefied natural gas and fracking the legislation and the regulaare literally the same thing. tion to be able to have an LNG “The premier’s statements, industry within Yukon,” Pasloski which he tweeted October 1, goes on to say. will come as a surprise to the He made the remarks last thousands of Yukon citizens and month during an interview at the Yukon First Nation governments Denver Gold Forum, the world’s who thought it was up to the Yulargest gathering of precious kon Legislative Assembly, through metal companies and representa- the work of the select committee, tives. to make recommendations on News Reporter

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fracking (LNG) in Yukon,” according to the release.

“That is absolutely nothing short of deliberately misleading Yukoners,” said Pasloski in an interview Thursday.

As he correctly points out, there is a big difference between supporting the burning of LNG as a power source and supporting hydraulic fracturing to produce natural gas in the territory.

Yukon has been a natural gas producer, without fracking, since the late 1970s, although at the moment all the taps are shut off.

And it’s no surprise that the Yukon Party government wants to burn liquefied natural gas as a

fuel source.

That was announced loud and clear in the 2011 election campaign, along with the promise of working towards major hydro development down the road.

“We have invested heavily” in LNG, said Pasloski. “We’ve invested just under $40 million in the creation of the infrastructure that Yukon Energy is currently doing.”

By doing so, the government has cleared the way for mining companies to follow suit, by ensuring that regulations, supply chains and infrastructure are already in place.

Casino Mining Corp., for

example, plans to power its $2.5 billion copper-gold mine with an LNG plant that would more than double the Yukon’s current electricity generation capacity.

But making things easier for mining companies wasn’t part of the reason to develop LNG as a power source in the Yukon, said Pasloski.

“The use of LNG was for us a logical one,” he said.

For backup power, “it’s diesel or it’s LNG. And LNG is much less expensive to purchase and it’s cleaner burning.”

Contact Jacqueline Ronson at jronson@yukon-news.com

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something that is not there.

That might include hearing voices, seeing things or feeling something he Yukon is piloting a project crawl on your skin, said Gale. to improve care for people with Delusions are when you believe dementia living in the terrisomething to be true that is not based tory’s continuing care homes. in reality.

Reagan Gale is Yukon’s director They can be funny and pleasant or of clinical psychology for continuing they can be distressing, said Gale. care, a position newly created when For example, someone with a delushe moved to the territory last year. sion might say, “Brad Pitt, he’s madly She said she has been enormously in love with me and he’s just with impressed with the level of care here Angelina because he has to pretend in the Yukon. to love her but he’s really in love with “I’ve been really overwhelmed with me,” said Gale. the quality and dedication of our staff, Or they might say, “Brad Pitt is and that’s not just lip service. I’ve seen going to kill me. And I know Brad Pitt remarkable, remarkable things.” is going to kill me. It’s just a question She recently saw one doctor spend of when he gets to the Yukon, then I more than an hour and a half on a know I’m dead.”

About 30 per cent of Yukon’s conpatient visit with a continuing care tinuing care residents have a prescripresident, she said. tion for an anti-psychotic, in line with “I personally have never seen that the national average, said Gale. kind of engagement.”

“How many of those residents The project will involve training all staff at continuing care facilities to have delusions and hallucinations? We know it’s less than 30 per cent.” treat patients with dementia better, Patients are often prescribed an right down to the maintenance workanti-psychotic in a time of crisis, said ers. That training has already begun.

Gale. For example, maybe they are “We had a gentleman who works delirious with a high fever due to a on the heating and air systems, and bladder infection and start acting he says he spends most of the time out at staff, who need to control that in the ceiling,” said Gale. “He did behaviour in order to treat the illness. the training. The idea is, we want to After the infection clears they may capture everybody. Anybody who has not need the medication any more, the potential of interacting with any but there can be a reluctance to take resident at any level.” them off of it, said Gale.

The other part of the project Family members might say, “I’ve involves identifying patients who are being prescribed anti-psychotic medi- never seen Mom behave that way.

She’s not that person. I’ve never seen cations who maybe should not be. her yelling and fighting. If it’s the Anti-psychotics are supposed to medication that’s keeping her from be given to treat hallucinations and behaving like that, keep her on the delusions.

Hallucinations are when you sense medication,” said Gale.

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The plan is to identify a handful of Yukon continuing care residents who might be good candidates for slowly reducing anti-psychotic meds, and see how they do.

That would be done with the doctors, nurses, staff, family and patient all working together, said Gale.

If someone doesn’t do well on the lower dose, they would likely be raised back up to what they were on before, she said. But if their behaviour does not get worse, it’s probably an indication that the medication wasn’t doing much good for them.

This experiment has already been working in some facilities in Manitoba and Alberta, said Gale.

There, in most cases, behaviour didn’t get worse as patients were gradually taken off anti-psychotics.

Now Yukon is one of 15 jurisdictions selected from around the country where that work is being expanded.

The idea is to support the medication changes with care that focuses on treating people, not illnesses, said Gale.

That means adapting care to a person’s habits, needs and feelings, rather than fitting them into an institutional box.

For example, there was a man at a facility Outside who would pace at night, and staff prescribed anti-psychotic medication to help him calm down and get to sleep, said Gale.

But when they talked to his family, they learned that he was always a night owl. He would watch TV or tinker in the tool shed till 1 or 2 a.m., have a bowl of oatmeal and sleep the rest of the night.

So staff at the facility adapted to his habit, allowed him to be up and about at night and prepared a bowl of oatmeal for him at 1 a.m.

The medication was no longer needed.

Yukon’s continuing care facilities are very well-resourced compared to the rest of the country, and Gale is confident that this work will result in long-term policy and procedure changes that improve care, she said.

“I see this initiative as being totally self-sustaining,” said Gale.

“We already have everything in place to make it happen, it’s just a matter of starting conversations.”

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Reproductive health clinics open their doors Ashley Joannou News Reporter

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Dr. Xiu-Mei Zhang, left, and nurse practitioner Michelle Wolsky stand in front of the Yukon Women’s MidLife Health Clinic. It is one of two new reproductive health clinics now open in Whitehorse.

there’s going to be an ongoing need.�

The MidLife Health Clinic offers similar services, but also includes perimenopause and menopause counselling, assessment and management of osteoporosis, anxiety and depression.

Along with pap testing, it will also offer endometrial biopsies.

The MidLife Health Clinic is open Mondays and Thursdays for appointments with walk-in hours Thursday evenings.

The Sexual Health Clinic is open Tuesdays and Wednesdays with walk-in hours Tuesday evenings.

The services at both clinics will be delivered primarily by nurse practitioner Michelle Wolsky.

As a nurse practitioner, Wolsky is able to write prescriptions, diagnose and perform tests as well as refer patients to other medical professionals.

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Wolsky’s appointments will be 30 minutes long, longer than is sometimes possible when seeing a doctor. “Perimenopause and menopause health conditions are complicated. It’s very difficult to solve these conditions in 15 minutes of a visit. So we are willing to take more time to really break down people’s condition and really help to manage this,� Zhang said.

Wolsky said nurse practitioners are part of collaborative care – the idea that there should be a team of people available to look after a person’s health. “We’re nurses first, so we

practice from a nursing perspective. So we have the luxury of the time to talk about your mental health, how your kids are doing at school, whether you have housing. “That whole bit that sometimes you don’t have the luxury of doing in a 15-minute appointment. We just kind of round out your whole healthcare experience.�

Wolsky said menopause is more complicated than just not getting your period anymore. “It’s about your heart health, your bone health, your mental wellness, and all those different pieces,� she said.

Wolsky will see patients with a family doctor, and those who

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The Yukon Sexual Health Clinic and the Yukon Women’s MidLife Health Clinic opened this week.

The sexual health clinic is targeted at youth, men of all ages, and women younger than 40.

The mid-life clinic is aimed at women older than 40.

It’s all about access, say the many women involved in making these clinics a reality.

If you don’t have a family doctor, getting access to routine medical care, screening and information around sexual health and menopause can be difficult, they say.

It might mean a trip to a walk-in clinic or even the emergency room. “Now baby boomers have all reached menopause age. And women are living in menopause or post-menopause for another 40 or 50 years,� said Dr. Xiu-Mei Zhang with the mid-life clinic, run out of the Pine Medical Centre. “So this is becoming more and more an issue in health care.�

The sexual health clinic will offer things like birth control counselling and low-cost contraceptives, tests for sexually transmitted infections, pap tests, pregnancy testing and options counselling.

It’s also a place for general information on reproductive health. It’s being run out of Whitehorse Medical Clinic. “It’s difficult to get good numbers on how many people who don’t have family doctors.

But certainly a number of doctors have left and not replaced themselves. New people coming to town haven’t been able to find family doctors,� said Dr. Cindy Breitkreutz, who is involved with the sexual health clinic. “We certainly think that

don’t have one.

Zhang said having the clinics open for longer hours with walk-in times is important when it comes to attracting the most people. “I find lots of newcomers are without a family doctor and working two or three jobs, then they can’t afford to take time to go and see (a doctor for) a routine physical exam.�

Zhang said she is currently seeing two women in the Yukon with advanced gynecological cancers. “They find lots of immigrants have endometrial cancer or cervical cancer which totally can be preventable. But they don’t have access to full routine exams.�

In 2012, Yukon passed legislation to enable licensing of nurse practitioners to work in the territory. The first nurse was registered in 2013.

There are currently two nurse practitioners working in the territory. A third one will be starting in December, Wolsky said. “It’s exciting to see this new model of health care get into the public eye,� she said. “My position is the first one that’s fairly publicly visible. The support has been really overwhelming from the physician community, other health-care professionals and the general public. People are curious.�

The cash for both clinics is coming from a fund designed to pay for collaborative care.

For now, money is only guaranteed for three years.

More information on both clinics can be found on the Yukon Department of Health and Social Services website.

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A B.C. company of technical tanker carrying liquefied natural experts, Quantum Murray, is working gas crashed near Dawson City on the emergency response alongside Tuesday night. local personnel.

The North Klondike Highway “The truck driver would have on was scheduled to be closed until early his manifest an emergency response afternoon today so a crane could come activation plan,” Regimbal said. in and tip the vehicle back on its “Then when we get on scene we dewheels. termine what the product is with our The tanker was carrying 55,000 emergency guide, keep our distance litres of liquid natural gas and weighed and phone the experts out of Ottawa 80,000 pounds (36,300 kilograms) and they let us know what should be when it turned over around 8 p.m. done.”

Tuesday night. It happened just south The truck was travelling from of the bridge going into Dawson City. Delta, B.C. to Inuvik when it crashed.

Police are still investigating exactly Regimbal said he expects to have what happened, Dawson City Fire more information on what happened Chief Jim Regimbal said yesterday. later today.

No gas is leaking, he said.

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position of chief while eight are vying for four councillor spots.

Eddie Taylor is not seeking a third term as chief and is in the running for a councillor position instead.

Clara Van Bibber is one of the candidates for chief.

She said she’s been a part of the self-government implementation process for years and wants to help her people understand what that means.

“I want us to talk about that in a language that we all understand instead of throwing the words ‘selfgovernment’ around,” she said.

“I want our next steps to be moving towards creating our own governance, based on our traditions and values, as opposed to the cookie cutter policies we’ve adopted from the Department of Indian Affairs.”

Van Bibber has been a part of Tr’ondek Hwech’in’s government for nine years altogether, serving as deputy chief and councillor in three separate terms.

She also worked with members of the Champagne and Aishihik First Nations in the 1970s to develop the Together Today for our Children Tomorrow document.

The text, presented to Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau in Ottawa, provided reasons in favour of Yukon

First Nations’ independence and selfgovernance.

“I believe all of this has given me valuable experience and knowledge to represent our people,” Van Bibber said.

“I want our collective voice to be heard on the tough issues such as the Peel watershed, our land, heritage, the environment and mining agreements.”

Van Bibber said she wants to implement more traditional laws and traditions throughout the First Nation’s policies.

She thinks it’s a good time to ask members if the First Nation’s constitution and policies are truly representing them as a nation.

Tr’ondek Hwech’in voices aren’t being heard on the large stages and she wants to change that, she said.

Van Bibber is up against Darren Taylor, whose nine-year tenure as chief was ended when Eddie Taylor was elected in 2008.

Roberta Joseph, the First Nation’s Fish and Wildlife coordinator, and Deputy Chief Jay Farr are also fighting for the position.

Taylor, Joseph and Farr could not be reached for comment by press time.

The election is scheduled for Monday, Oct. 6.

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t’s safe to say that plenty of paper, plastic, cardboard and other recyclable waste will be headed for Whitehorse’s landfill in the near future, unless our municipal and territorial leaders get their act together.

That’s bad news for anyone who thought these governments were serious about promising to work towards diverting half of all waste bound for the landfill by 2015.

Last week, Raven Recycling announced that it would stop accepting most recyclable waste, save for refundable beverage containers, by Oct. 15. The non-profit says it can’t keep its current, free drop-off for recyclables going without a funding boost.

Raven receives money in the form of waste diversion credits from the city and territory, totalling $150 per tonne. Yet that currently only covers about half of Raven’s cost to ship that waste out. The depot has warned since 2008 it needed a better funding arrangement, and this spring it indicated that a shutdown would be forthcoming unless something gave. That time has nearly come.

Community Services Minister Brad Cathers points out that there’s another recycling depot in town: P&M. Unfortunately, that operation looks sure be swamped if it has to handle Raven’s volume.

Its owner, Pat McInroy, told the Whitehorse Star as much this week.

“Unfortunately, we can’t handle all the non-refundable stuff for all the customers of Raven,” he said.

To put things in perspective, Raven currently handles about three-quarters of most types of the territory’s non-refundable, recyclable waste. In 2011, that meant shipping out 2,640 tonnes of paper, plastic, tin and cardboard. That’s enough waste, once compressed and baled, to fill about 120 tractor trailers.

Raven would like to see its diversion credits double. Cathers pointed

out his government plans to hike the amount recyclers get paid to process beverage containers.

Raven offers two objections to this: it would take about a year for these additional funds to flow, which is longer than it can wait, and this is a strangely indirect and imprecise method of covering the cost of recycling. In effect, the territory’s beer guzzlers and soda-pop swillers would be propping up the cost of shipping out old newspapers, plastic bags and so forth.

As for that ambitious pledge to divert half of all waste from the landfill by 2015? Hitting that target seemed unlikely, even before Raven announced that it will become little more than a bottle depot. City officials say a year ago we were at 20 per cent. With new city rules in place, improvement has surely been made since then, but if Raven remains shut all progress will likely be quickly obliterated.

The Yukon Party promised during the last election it would strive to reach this diversion goal. Now Cathers is distancing himself from that vow, saying that it is “primarily” an individual responsibility to ensure that recyclable waste is properly disposed. In other words, not his problem.

This, of course, is silly. Once the remaining depot becomes overwhelmed, individuals won’t have any means to recycle at all. Where then, in Cathers’ libertarian fantasy world, will this waste then go?

It’s also wrong to characterize recycling as some sort of individual, charitable pursuit. If governments don’t have a responsibility in this, why did they make their promises to divert waste? Managing the landfill is obviously a collective responsibility. Environmental considerations aside, the sooner it fills up, the more ratepayers will have to pay for a pricey expansion of the facility.

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with considerably fewer staff. This discrepancy is probably explained by how Raven processes a far higher volume of recyclable waste, and likely deals with a higher proportion of the non-profitable stuff. After all, that’s their mission.

It’s important to note that both depots currently benefit from public subsidies in the form of waste diversion credits.

P&M was gifted a $200,000 plastic-to-oil machine two years ago, paid for by the Canadian Northern Economic Development Agency, that not only gets rid of a lot of money-losing plastic but pumps out enough oil to replace the recycler’s $18,000 annual heating bill.

Much of Raven’s equipment has also been purchased with public money. But that money has dried up lately, apparently out of the territory’s concern for funding an operation when there’s a private competitor.

It’s also worth noting that Raven’s share of the recycling pie has slowly shrunk since the Yukon Blue Bin Recycling Society started offering its pick-up service in a growing number of neighbourhoods. It hauls waste to P&M. The convenience of curbside pick-up is undeniable. Yet many Blue Bin customers probably don’t realize that the yogurt containers they toss out, rather than being recycled, likely end up being melted down into oil to help heat P&M’s warehouse. This is still preferable Reporters

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to having plastic in the landfill, but Raven’s boosters say it’s not as environmentally friendly as recycling, since the energy required to truck products south is miniscule compared with the energy required to find new oil and pump it out of the ground.

In short, Whitehorse has a weird, jury-rigged recycling system that is probably not optimal. Elsewhere, cities usually directly operate recycling operations, or contract that work out. Seeing as our city and territory both employ minds paid to ponder such matters, it would be worth hearing whether alternate set-ups have been considered here.

But the city’s union wages would surely hike the cost of recycling, if the municipality moved things in-house. And if everything were folded into P&M, that would amount to a massive public subsidy of equipment handed over not just to a private firm, but one owned by the president of the Yukon Party.

Which brings us back to our current game of brinkmanship. Which, unfortunately, is not an unfamiliar spot for our territorial government

to be in. Whether you’re a cash-poor recycling non-profit, any number of First Nations that assert they haven’t been adequately consulted, or the territory’s francophone school board looking for more resources, the story always seems the same: you spend a long time making your case to the government, whose ministers nod politely and then give you the brush-off.

It’s obvious why governments are skittish about boosting the money sunk into recycling. Some Yukoners reliably throw a fit whenever rates rise – particularly for those associated with municipal services.

But residents need to realize they pay the cost to recycle waste, one way or another. You can do it at the time of purchase as a surcharge, at the time of disposal as a tipping fee, or through the municipal or territorial taxes you pay. Anyone who isn’t able to start at this point shouldn’t to be part of the discussion.

As guys like Cathers are often fond of saying, there’s no such thing as a free lunch. The same holds with free recycling.

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Fractastic Fort St. John Alaska Highway. At the Yukon legislature’s public meeting on fracking in Whitehorse last week,

by Keith media reports suggested that Halliday almost nobody showed up to support the industry. In Fort St. John, on the other hand, Mayor Lori Ackerman seems happy to extol the benefits of the oil and gas industry for her community.

Mayor Ackerman recently gave a lengthy interview for an industry-sponsored section on responast week I wrote about the sible energy in the National Post. stark difference in governIf you read it you’ll quickly see ment policy towards the enwhy they opted for “The Enerergy industry in Western Canada getic City” as their municipal compared to New Brunswick tagline, leaving “The Wilderness and Nova Scotia. Over 150,000 City” moniker to Whitehorse. wells have already been fracked Fort St. John voters seem to across Saskatchewan, Alberta and have a soft spot for frackophile B.C., for example, while these politicians. In addition to Mayor two Maritime provinces are efAckerman, the city’s MLA is a fectively putting moratoriums on member of the B.C. Liberals, who the practice. are pushing hard to boost B.C.’s This divide also plays out gas exports to Asia. He won the closer to home if you look at the 2013 election by a wide margin. differences in attitudes between Before that he was elected several Whitehorse and Fort St. John. times to Fort St. John city counBoth are regional centres of cil. And the MP for the region is a Conservative who won the last about 25,000 people along the

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LNG explosions are a real concern Keith Halliday’s Sept. 19 column about the liquefied natural gas warning posters he noticed around town takes an unusual path.

The posters warn about the evacuation zone from the now under construction facility. Halliday clumps the unlikelihood of an LNG accident killing himself with numerous other risks he sees around Whitehorse but is not worried about, noting that “behavioural economists have shown that humans tend to obsess about risks that are new, uncontrollable and catastrophic.”

It doesn’t take an expert to see that humans also tend to obsess about risks that are old, uncontrollable and catastrophic. It’s good to obsess a bit about risks that are in your midst, especially if they have the potential of producing catastrophic effects and if authorities don’t seem to be obsessing too much on your behalf.

Halliday found studies that show that people tend to underestimate the risk of activities that have perceived benefits or that they like. Right. So then the LNG posters are providing an interesting little poke – asking people not to see just the perceived benefits and consider the risks to themselves, to the city.

It’s a false logic to limit concern about the LNG facility because there are lots of other risks around. We do live with risks, sure. Natural forces or human error may or may not cause events to occur. But LNG is explosive and has exploded in a number of places.

If something did happen, what would be the effects and threats?

It’s about wisdom and planning, foresight, looking out for the

common good (not just the economic good) and common sense.

Of course all kinds of accidents occur with individuals. These are unfortunate and sometimes tragic. But often their possibility is tied to the actions and control of the individuals. But as we waive the control of situations to planners, corporations, utilities, and governments, we expect that their analyses will not overemphasize the perceived benefits.

We expect higher standards of planning, safety, risk assessment and it’s a bit difficult to see where that has been done in the case of the LNG facility location. It’s beside the dam and water supply; a few feet from a major commuting artery; with an evacuation zone that includes most of downtown, all of Riverdale, the airport, part of Hillcrest, and the hospital.

Winds do tend to blow southnorth. Is this a good place to build an industrial facility with liquified natural gas? It doesn’t seem so.

If the posters got your attention Keith, it might not be because they are a new risk that you are conditioned to attend to. It might be because citizens pointed out something that makes sense and you’re questioning why a smarter location wasn’t chosen.

election with over 60 per cent of the vote.

Partly this is because the energy industry has been working in the region for decades, so it is as familiar to Fort St. John residents as the mining industry is to Yukoners. Economic growth and jobs are also major attractions. In fact, the reason I started to do some research on Fort St. John is because I noticed some Fort St. John businesses advertising job openings in Whitehorse newspapers.

If you look at job websites, there appear to be a lot of openings in Fort St. John. Using job website Indeed.com as a very rough indicator, there appear to be more than twice as many job opportunities this week in Fort St. John as there are in Whitehorse.

Mayor Ackerman is not shy about the economic benefits of the energy business. “This is a community where skilled workers and tradespeople will never be looking for work,” she told the advertorial writers at the Na-

tional Post. “Ten years ago about 50 per cent of our roads were gravel with open ditches. Now only a handful of blocks remain unpaved.”

She is also looking forward to liquefied natural gas exports, hoping that it will triple or quadruple the industry’s impact in her city.

She says the biggest challenge is the “lack of energy literacy across the country. There are those who pass judgment based on information that’s not always fact-based or balanced. The reality is the energy industry allows us to travel the globe, to power life-saving technology and to fuel our gadgets.”

Whitehorse’s fracking open house last week would have been even more exciting if Mayor Ackerman had showed up to debate the topic.

Although it would be entertaining for newspaper columnists, such a debate is not likely to take place.

Yukoners have seldom showed much interest in Fort St. John,

preferring to drive through or even better fly over the place (ask any old-timer how annoying it was when the plane to Vancouver stopped there).

I don’t recall any of Whitehorse’s municipal politicians pushing for drilling around Whitehorse, at least not since a certain colourful politician a few decades ago. Even the Yukon Party government, which makes a big deal about economic development, has banned drilling in the Whitehorse trough. And we shall see if any members of the Yukon legislature’s fracking committee dare to stick their necks out on the topic.

Fort St. John has struck oil and Whitehorse has struck transfer payments. Until one or the other run out, the two cities seem set to continue on their separate paths.

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

about our tipping fees! Down south you can easily pay $25 for a small load to the dump – and I hardly hear anyone complaining.

But we certainly like to complain The economic arguments up here. in favour of fracking, based on The fact that people like to experience in other jurisdictions, are hollow. The damage to roads, point to the trash that ends up and the demands on infrastrucon the side of the road (or in ture, along with the environrest-stop garbages) to avoid $5 mental consequences, have always fees for a regular load to the led to a negative result on the bal- dump is, frankly, a sad state of ance sheet of risks and benefits. affairs.

Industry promises jobs, and yet That grown-ups throw childthese are so few in number (most like tantrums about small fees positions are technical in nature, to accommodate our wasteful requiring highly skilled workers) culture is beyond imaginable to and are of very short duration. me.

Once the trees are cut, there is There are larger fees for more little other non-skilled work substantial waste, but these all involved. make sense to me – have you Other countries have parttried to process the waste from nered with industry to create jobs a fridge or a couch in your own in the development and producbackyard? Not that easy. tion of renewable resources, and Again, we need to pay for Nova Scotia’s ban on fracking is what we want to consume and courageous. dispose of.

At this juncture, the Yukon I am also slightly confused by government has the opportunity the call-outs to government to to become a leader and a model in the development of renewable “save” Raven Recycling. Personally, if we are so inclined to acenergy. There is ample evidence to show that it is possible for us to cumulate consumer waste and be such poor stewards of our planet, move away from fossil fuels over then we should pay for the nonthe next few years. Let’s take up the challenge, for the good of our refundable recycling, to divert waste from the dump. citizens, our entire country, and I don’t mind paying – not our future generations. that I have an excess amount of What a significant legacy for cash – but I accept if I want to the Yukon government to leave, consume to the level that creates and what a huge contribution that kind of waste, then I should to society it would be, to demaccept responsibility to pay for it. onstrate our ability to reduce This is a cost that goes above my dependence on fossil fuels. tax contributions, I think.

Stop complaining and cough Corliss Burke up $5 for a small load – maybe Whitehorse give up your Tim Hortons coffee that day to pay for your disproWaste disposal costs portionate waste contribution to are no reason for hissy-fits the planet!

in the Yukon), I hope you are getting a clear message that Yukoners are passionate about keeping this devastating process out of our territory.

Surely, the government that appointed your committee realizes by now that its constituents are not in favour of allowing fracking in our territory. To reflect the will of the majority, you need to take the courageous position of making an unequivocal recommendation against fracking.

Yukoners have expressed, overwhelmingly, their concerns about: • The enormous quantity of water required for this process (water that becomes polluted with hundreds of chemicals and is never returned to the hydrological cycle); • The damage to the air as well as surface water and underground aquifers; • The consequences to human and animal health; • The effects on the Porcupine caribou migration patterns; • The false economics touted by the industry; • The blight on the landscapes.

Speaking to regulators in other jurisdictions is an ill-founded strategy, given the fact that there is no jurisdiction on record that has implemented effective Ross Burnet regulation. On the other hand, Whitehorse the damage to air, water, land, and in many cases, the health of Say no to fracking wildlife and human populations, where fracking has taken place, A letter to the Yukon governis well documented. I’m sure by ment’s select committee on now that you have reviewed the fracking: experience in Alberta and B.C., as As one of more the almost well as that of the U.S., where sci6,000 citizens who have implored entists have repeatedly warned of the Yukon government to ban the serious consequences of this Frankly, I am tired of seeing fracking in our territory (the process, and where these conseletters to the paper complaining most signatures ever, on a petition quences have become a reality.

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She said the questions that are asked by the NDP during question period are based on the concerns of the community. “When the government trash talks the member who’s asking it, ridicules them, or avoids the question entirely, essentially what they’re doing is paying a disrespect to the citizens of the territory.�

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Questions over a proposed federal trade agreement led to the premier accusing the NDP of being anti-Chinese. Cathers once pointed out that losing the court case over the Peel would be “not all flowers, sunshine, roses, theories, fairies and Marxism.�

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Cathers said the government could ask the chair of the Standing Committee on Rules Elections and Privileges (SCREP) to convene a meeting. “We have not been considering any changes that would increase the Speaker’s power to restrict the freedom members have on both questions and answers. But if either of the other caucuses was pushing to propose it, we would take a look at that.�

In the Yukon, the current guidelines to question period include: “A reply to a question should be as brief as possible, relevant to the question asked, and should not provoke debate.�

A minister is not obliged to answer a question. “A minister may decline to answer a question without stating the reason for his or her refusal. Insistence on an answer is out of order,� the guidelines say.

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“We’ve defaulted to say ‘There’s a reason why they call it question period and not answer period.’ I’ve never held that to being a rule. That’s an interpretation and it needs to change.�

Silver, who is a member of SCREP along with Cathers and others, said the committee needs to meet.

The committee has only held one meeting since the start of the 33rd legislative assembly in 2011. That meeting took place on February 27, 2013.

Silver said he doesn’t blame the current Speaker for the problem, saying it is something that has developed over time. “It would be nice to see the Speaker keeping us on task of having the debate, the ideological debate.�

Silver said the idea is to “have all parties come together and have a debate on why they believe their direction works.

The more that the Speaker can keep us on that debate, the more that we’re actually earning our salaries.�

The issue of answers during question period came up this week in the House of Commons.

An NDP MP proposed changes that would have given the Speaker the authority to cut off irrelevant answers to questions.

The proposal was voted down.

The Yukon’s legislature clerk, Floyd McCormick, said the issue of relevance is a difficult one for Speakers.

Part of the struggle has to do with freedom of speech. It’s also difficult to intervene in a way that might actually solve the problem since you have to wait to hear the answer before ruling on it. “At some point you have to rely on the members and ministers themselves to ‘do the right thing,’ either because they are inclined to do so themselves, or because they are under pressure from other MLAs or the public,� he said.

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Group Crisis Intervention Registration: Please call Admissions at 867.668.8710 and quote the Course Registration Number (CRN) listed above.

For more information on the Northern Institute of Social Justice and courses offered: Visit our website: yukoncollege.yk.ca/programs/info/nisj

October 23-24, 2014 8:30am to 4:30pm CRN: 10602 $300 + gst Location: Legion- 503 Steele St., Whitehorse, Yukon (SAME LOCATION FOR BOTH)

9:00am to 4:30pm $200 + gst

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.

October30, 2014 CRN: 10643 Location: Dawson City, Watson Lake, and Carmacks, Yukon College Campuses Register for this course by calling: Northern Institute of Social Justice, 867.456.8589

November 6, 2014 CRN: 10661 Lunch is provided For more info call: Hospice Yukon 867.667.7429

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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.

Who should attend: Managers, supervisors, Human Resource professionals, educators, school principals, and anyone in a leadership position within their own workplace.

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This course is designed for anyone who desires to increase their knowledge of individual (one-on-one) crisis intervention techniques in the fields of Business & Industry, Crisis Intervention, Disaster Response, Education, Emergency Services, Employee Assistance, Healthcare, Homeland Security, Mental Health, Military, Spiritual Care, and Traumatic Stress.

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

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Individual Crisis Intervention and Peer Support

This one-day course is intended for anyone interested in learning more about Yukon First Nations and Self-Government. Develop a broader understanding and appreciation for the key events in Yukon First Nations distant and recent past, in a day that includes interactive activities, discussions and presentations by staff from the Yukon First Nations Initiative department at Yukon College. The instructors incorporate historical timelines, facts, personal stories, and activities for an engaging look at history and recent developments.

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Please call Admissions to register (with the exception of FASD: Considerations for Practice and Living with Loss) at 867.668.8710 and quote the Course Registration Number (CRN) listed above.

Withdrawal Policy:

Please notify the Admissions Office, in person or by telephone, five business days prior to the course start date to allow for a refund. If you withdraw fewer than five business days before the start of a course, you will forfeit the course fee.

For more information on the Northern Institute of Social Justice and courses offered: Visit our website: yukoncollege.yk.ca/programs/info/nisj Call: 867.456.8589 Email: nisj@yukoncollege.yk.ca

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Harper says 2013/14 deficit projected at $5.2 billion, down from $16.6 him not to run a surplus this year.” $10,000, doubling the children’s Last month Clark and his fitness tax credit and implementformer Finance colleague Peter ing a new adult fitness tax credit OTTAWA were also Conservative pledges tied DeVries published a report that rime Minister Stephen found Ottawa on track to a $4 to a surplus.

Harper says last year’s federal billion surplus – not including a $3 Meanwhile, the Harper govdeficit will be more than $10 ernment has implemented waves billion “risk adjustment” cushion billion smaller than forecast, but built into the 2014 federal budget. of cost-cutting that have slashed he’s refusing to predict the rapidly everything from Statistics Canada They based their estimates on last improving bottom line will mean year’s deficit falling to about $10 research to departmental librarbalanced books this fiscal year. ies, Coast Guard stations, veterans billion.

Harper dropped the new, $5.2 “For that not to continue, offices and even ammunition billion deficit figure for 2013(Harper) would have to be aspurchases by the Department of 14 – down from the $16.6 billion suming that this year is somehow National Defence. shortfall projected in last Februgoing in the tank, economically As the PBO stated in a report ary’s federal budget – during a pre- last April, improving odds of a speaking,” Clark now says. sentation to a business audience That is certainly not the governsurplus this year were attributable Thursday in Brampton, Ont. to a “combination of an improved ment line. In fact, the ConservaBut the good fiscal news didn’t economic outlook and measures tives praise Canada’s economic make it into a news release from fundamentals at every turn. in budget 2014, in particular the Prime Minister’s Office, and Harper suggested to his further planned restraint in direct Harper insisted there won’t be a Brampton audience that “one-time program expenses.” surplus until the 2015-16 election “You’ve got to believe the bene- factors” – a richer than expected year. fits of last year are carried forward spectrum auction comes to mind “The government has no plan – were responsible for a “signifito this year in terms of revenues or no intention to move this year and that sort of thing,” Scott Clark, cant part” of last year’s improved into a surplus,” Harper said. bottom line. an economics professor at Carle“We continue to intend to run “So you won’t see all of this ton University and former senior a small deficit this year before projected forward into the future, Finance Department bureaucrat, returning to surplus.” but some of it clearly will be,” said Downplaying the Conservative said in an interview Thursday. the prime minister.

“It’s virtually impossible for government’s fiscal position may be more about politics than bookNORTHERN INSTITUTE OF SOCIAL JUSTICE, keeping. in coordination with Economists and budget watchINTERNATIONAL CRITICAL INCIDENT ers, including the independent STRESS FOUNDATION, TRAINING PROGRAMS: Parliamentary Budget Office, had calculated Ottawa may already be en route to a surplus this fiscal Completion of these courses and receipt of a certificate indicating full year, which ends next March 31, attendance (13 Contact Hours) qualifies as a class in ICISF’s Certificate of before the prime minister’s anSpecialized Training Program nouncement further improved the bottom line.

“The monthly fiscal monitor Individual Crisis Intervention and Peer Support numbers for 2014-15 effectively Oct 20-21, 2014 8:30am to 4:30pm show that the government is skimCRN: 10600 $300 + gst ming along balance,” Kevin Page, Location: TBD the former PBO, said in an email.

“From a political perspective it Group Crisis Intervention may be better to break out the proOct 23-24, 2014 8:30am to 4:30pm verbial champagne just before the CRN:10602 $300 + gst next election and with a budget Location: TBD that lays political claim to potential fiscal surpluses,” said Page, now with the University of Ottawa.

Registration: Please call Admissions at 867.668.8710 and quote the Course A surplus would trigger a series Registration Number (CRN) listed above. of 2011 Conservative election For more information on the Northern Institute of Social Justice and courses promises that were contingent on offered: Visit our website: yukoncollege.yk.ca/programs/info/nisj balanced books, including a pricey and controversial plan to allow income splitting for tax purposes Northern Institute by couples with children under of Social Justice 18. Doubling the annual Tax Free Savings Account maximum to Bruce Cheadle Canadian Press

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“And so, as I say, our certainty that we’ll move into surplus in 2015 will continue to be the case, obviously.”

The timing is hardly a happy coincidence for the Conservatives, who are positioning themselves for a bonanza of pre-election tax cuts or targeted spending in next spring’s budget – while keeping the opposition parties in the dark about the true size of the surplus and the possibilities that presents, for as long as possible.

Nathan Cullen, the NDP finance critic, called the moving budget numbers “the same stunt the Liberals played for years,” fudg-

ing the books to engineer betterthan-promised bottom lines “and then expecting to get kudos for it.”

Cullen and his Liberal counterpart, Scott Brison, both said Harper should have announced the 2013-14 budget figure in the House of Commons where he could be grilled on the deep spending and service cuts they believe are in large part responsible for the improved bottom line.

“We don’t know whether this wildly different number is a result of stealth cuts or one-time sources of revenue, but it looks clearly like padding the books on the eve of an election budget,” said Brison.

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DND slashed ammo order in 2014, raising questions about prep for Iraq mission Murray Brewster

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One such document, a memo to Public Works Minister DiOTTAWA ane Finley dated Feb. 5, 2014, ational Defence slashed its indicates her department tried annual order of ammunito convince defence officials to tion this year to save money – a either abandon the cut or at least revelation that raised fresh quesspread it out over a couple of tions Wednesday about just how years. prepared Canada is to do battle Defence officials said that with militants in the Middle East. would be impossible, because The 38 per cent cut was large “they would not allow the deenough to cause other government departments, Public Works partment to meet its financial and Industry Canada in particu- targets.�

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During the early phases of the Afghan war, National Defence was caught similarly flat-footed and had to rush an order through General Dynamic Ordnance, particularly for artillery shells.

The memo surfaced on the same day Prime Minister Stephen Harper told the House of Commons that the cost of deploying special forces to northern Iraq is being taken out of the department’s current budget.

Harper did not say where the money would come from in any potential combat deployment, which was still being discussed behind closed doors on Wednesday. Nor would he speculate on how much a combat mission would cost. “Our No. 1 priority is the safety and security of Canadians and the government will spend whatever is necessary to ensure that,� Harper said during question period.

Opposition Leader Tom Mulcair accused the prime minister of dodging the question: “Is the prime minister really telling Canadians he has no idea – at all – how much it’s going to cost?

Ballpark? Nothing?�

During the 2006 election campaign, the Conservatives

promised to fund overseas deployments separately from the hard-pressed defence budget.

The war in Afghanistan was given a special appropriation, but the Libya bombing campaign and the recently concluded Afghan training mission were not, according to briefing documents prepared for Defence Minister Rob Nicholson last year.

Both the NDP and Liberals clawed for details on Wednesday about the scope and size of the Harper government’s commitment to the U.S.-led war against the militants known as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.

A government motion detailing Canada’s plans in Iraq, expected to include sending CF-18s on bombing runs, is expected in the coming days, likely on Friday.

The opposition parties won’t say whether they’ll support the motion until they see the details.

Conservative backbenchers were careful to stow any potential doubts following Wednesday’s weekly caucus meeting. “I think it’s pretty safe to say we’re united on this issue,� said Alberta MP Laurie Hawn.

One bit of information that raised eyebrows was the revelation that the number of Canadian special forces soldiers advising

Kurdish and Iraqi forces is much smaller than originally thought.

Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird confirmed that only 26 of the highly trained troops – not 69 as originally believed – are currently deployed in and around Irbil, in northern Iraq. “The prime minister authorized up to 69 members of the Canadian Forces to provide training and assistance to stop the terrorist activities in Iraq,� he told the Commons. “We said, in fact, a few dozen, and we find that a few dozen are there.�

The Conservative government, under repeated questioning in the House of Commons, revealed last month that up to 69 commandos were slated to deploy to help local forces battle ISIL. A government official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said only a smaller contingent was required by allies, and noted that the 30-day deployment is under review.

The official, who was not authorized to discuss the matter publicly, said there were no problems getting the necessary diplomatic approvals, including an agreement setting out the limits of Canadian military involvement.

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Faceoff over Hong Kong democracy protests: 3 sides have options could defuse, escalate crisis Associated Press

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is lobbying business people whose livelihoods are being harmed by the protests. Others are urging both sides to agree to talks without preconditions.

OCCUPY, AS PROMISED: The student leaders may step up their action by occupying government buildings, which could escalate confrontation since the police warned Thursday that such moves may bring on “serious consequences.” It could also undermine public sympathy for their cause.

STAY THE COURSE: The students could drop the plan to charge into government buildings but continue to occupy main roads around

WAIT IT OUT: So far, the Chinese leadership in Beijing appears to be waiting for the protesters to lose momentum and leave the streets on their own. The pressure to clear out will grow as the Chinese National Day holidays wrap up. Stores and offices reopen Friday.

MAKE CONCESSIONS: Beijing could remove Leung, as the protesters have demanded, and replace him with a deputy, Carrie Lam, who is more popular. It could also offer concessions about how it will choose the 1,200-member committee that’s set to pick the city’s chief executive candidates in 2017.

Chinese leaders, however, have over the past year resisted compromising while responding to democracy demands in Hong Kong.

SEND TROOPS: Chinese leaders could send in mainland police or military to clear the streets, but that would risk bloodshed and could severely destabilize not only Hong Kong but the mainland. That option grows even more complicated as the ranks of protesters expand and spread around the city.

HONG KONG ens of thousands of protesters filled the streets of Hong Kong and crowds of students blocked the entrances to government headquarters Thursday as midnight approached – the deadline protest leaders had set for the resignation of the city’s chief executive.

Tensions could escalate early Friday if the demand goes unmet, as expected. But many experts and politically involved people in Hong Kong say all players in the confrontation – the pro-democracy protesters, the Hong Kong government and the Communist Party leadership in Beijing – have opportunities Ringo H.W. Chiu/AP Photo to defuse the situation and allow Hong Kong to get back to normal. Hundreds of demonstrators wave with their mobile phones at Grand Park downtown Los Angeles to show their support for the pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong that have Here are some of their options: been dubbed the “umbrella revolution”, on Wednesday.

The protesters

Hong Kong. So far the police, who fueled an initial clash last weekend by using tear gas and pepper spray, seem prepared to let this scenario play out. They have backed down and now have minimal presence at most protest sites.

COMPROMISE: Students are debating among themselves whether to meet with authorities without setting preconditions such as the resignation of Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying. Some favour back-

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ing down if the government agrees to talks with the pro-democracy movement. Others are adamant in demanding Leung step down.

into the streets. They could step up their efforts to clear the streets, but it would be a huge task with all the barricades blocking major roads.

GIVE IN: Leung could quit, under pretext of ill health, as others Hong Kong authorities have done in the past. So far the ANOTHER CRACKDOWN: Beijing-backed chief executive has The police drastically scaled down their handling of the protests after ruled out any changes in government personnel, suggesting he is their use of tear gas and pepper spray against the protesters on Sun- rejecting calls for his resignation.

SEEK SUPPORT, OR A DEAL: day rallied sympathy for the demThe pro-Beijing political leadership onstrators and drew more people

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Rarely making headlines, small countries struggle to be heard at annual UN General Assembly Edith M. Lederer Associated Press

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onduras, terrorized by drug gangs, railed against the world for ignoring the violence and lack of jobs that sends thousands of young Central Americans fleeing north to the United States.

Nepal, a poor landlocked country, called for bridging the “digital divide� along with a global code of conduct to regulate the flow of information.

These are just a few of the concerns of small countries whose voices and pleas at the U.N. General Assembly’s annual ministerial meeting are almost

always drowned out by the agendas of the big powers. This year’s top item was the fight against Islamic extremist groups whose tentacles have spread from the Mideast to Europe and Africa.

Other hot topics were combating Ebola and climate change.

While most of the 191 countries that spoke touched on these issues, the concerns of smaller nations – some impacted by global warming, others by refugees, many by persistent poverty – rarely made headlines, and were often delivered in a near empty assembly hall.

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General Assembly President Sam Kutesa tried to change the focus from terrorism to achieving U.N. goals to combat poverty by a 2015 deadline, and setting new targets for 2030. He also raised the problem of high unemployment, especially among the young, and its destabilizing effects.

By the time he had wrapped up the ministerial meeting, only a few dozen diplomats were sitting in the newly renovated assembly chamber that seats more than 1,800 people.

Here are a few of the speeches that went largely unnoticed in the wider world: • The president of the transitional government in Central African Republic said the country hopes the new U.N. peacekeeping mission will help restore security and promote development, and asked the U.N. Security Council to re-examine the arms embargo on the conflict-torn country that was imposed in December, for a year.

Catherine Samba-Panza said the success of the U.N. force will hinge on the involvement of the country’s security and defence forces at its side. • Gambia’s President Yahya Jammeh spoke of the plight of Africans who seek a better life and the impact of climate change on development. “While Africa is not responsible for the pollution and the factors causing climate change, it stands to suffer the

most,â€? he said. Jammeh raised what he called “the very frequent and mysterious sinking, capsizingâ€? of boats carrying mainly black African migrants “looking for greener pastures in the West only to end up in body bags on European shores.â€? He accused unnamed countries that preach good governance, the rule of law and respect for human life to African leaders of staying quiet “about the very dangerous, racist and inhuman behaviour of deliberately causing boats carrying black Africans to sink only to select a few lucky ones to be rescued and sent to concentration camps, called Asylum Seekers Camps.â€? • Honduras’ President Juan Orlando Hernandez cited a drug war that his country didn’t start and a dearth of job opportunities for parents and youth as factors driving Central American children and families to flee to the U.S. He proposed creating “a multinational forceâ€? to fight drug trafficking cartels. “Today, we talk about what is happening in other regions to children, young people, families displaced by war, violence and radical extremists,â€? Hernandez said. “But little is said about the situation of thousands of families in the northern triangle of Central America.â€? • Kyrgyzstan Foreign Minister Erlan Abdyldaev stressed that climate change isn’t affecting only island nations and coastal areas.

“Rapidly melting glaciers, rising temperature, land degradation, landslides, mudflows and floods cause significant economic damage and serve as vivid reminders of mountain ecosystem vulnerability,â€? he said. “According to reliable forecasts, in 2025, the ice cover in Kyrgyzstan would be reduced by a 40 per cent average, with a one-third reduction of regional water availability.â€? • Nepal’s Prime Minister Sushil Koirala urged the international community to address the special needs of the world’s poorest countries, and to provide financial and other support to promote development. One way, he said, is to support wider dissemination of information technologies. But he stressed that modern technology “must not be used to interfere in other countries’ internal affairsâ€? and urged agreement on global rules of conduct to regulate the flow of information.

The United Nations, which will celebrate its 70th anniversary, also came under criticism from many countries for failing to bring its key organs, especially the powerful Security Council, into the 21st century. “It remains thoroughly dominated by the few and has marginalized the overwhelming majority,� said Eritrea’s Foreign Minister Osman Saleh. “Its institutions and structures are an anachronism in the modern world.�

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LIFE Picking up the pieces of Yukon’s great silver heist of 1963 Jacqueline Ronson News Reporter

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rock fell on the moon.

That’s how Gerald H. Priest explained away the 70 tonnes of silver ore that he was accused of stealing from United Keno Hill Mines in 1963.

Gerry worked as the mine’s chief assayer at the time, and lived with his young family in the nearby company town of Elsa.

In Gerry’s telling, he had hand-picked the ore from the nearby Moon claims, which he had bought the year before.

But the rich ore matched nothing in the immediate area where Gerry claimed to have found it. Those high concentrations of silver match much more closely with finds from the mine’s Bonanza Stope, where ore measured on average 1,500 ounces of silver per tonne.

A very large boulder of rich ore could have, in the distant past, rolled down the mountain and landed on the Moon claims, resting there as surface ore, or “float,” reasoned Gerry.

It seemed as implausible an explanation to some, familiar with the area, than if he had claimed to have found the ore on the moon itself.

But Gerry’s confident and self-assured nature left the FBI agent who interviewed him in Montana with the impression that he was a man with nothing to hide.

And the Whitehorse jury who first heard Gerry’s case was left deciphering conflicting expert testimony about whether or not that rock could have landed on the Moon.

One geologist gave three theories on how that ore could have ended up where Gerry said he found it. It left the court with the impression that “in geology, anything is possible,” according to one of the investigators.

The longest, most expensive and most complex trial to that point in Yukon history ended with a hung jury, although Gerry went on to be convicted of the crime in a second trial, and ultimately did time in one of B.C.’s roughest penitentiaries.

The story of Yukon’s great silver heist of 1963 had previously been recorded only in scattered accounts in a handful of history books, and in piecemeal records mostly lost to the basements of RCMP and courtroom storage rooms.

Now Alicia Priest, who knew Gerry as “Pappy,” ties the threads together in her newly-released book, A Rock Fell on the Moon: Dad and the Great Yukon Silver Ore Heist.

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Left to right: Helen, Vona, Alicia, and Gerry Priest pose for a photo near Stewart Crossing. Alicia lived with her family in Elsa, Yukon, until she was 10.

The book is partly a memoir of an idyllic Yukon childhood in the bygone era of the mining town, ripped apart at the seams by a father’s dreams of fortune.

It is also a true-crime story, telling a piece of Yukon history that could have been slowly lost along with the memories of those who lived through it.

Finally, it is an account of Alicia’s effort to piece together her own history, visit the places of her childhood and learn something of the man her endlessly adored father had been.

Alicia’s effort to tell her family’s story was indeed extraordinary. She was diagnosed with a degenerative and terminal neurological disorder, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), in 2012 and only starting writing the book after that.

“That’s when I received the ultimate deadline,” she says in the press kit for the book.

“If I was going to write the book, I had to start there and then while I could still talk, type, eat and walk somewhat normally.”

She finished the manuscript late last year.

“It was a long time coming, because it was becoming harder for her to write,” says her husband, Ben Parfitt, who is also a

journalist.

“She has a lot more determination than I gave her credit for. I really felt at times that it was going to be too much for her to do what she did.

“I’m thrilled and she is thrilled beyond words that she was able to finish the manuscript.”

Ben and Alicia will be in Whitehorse next week to officially launch the book.

Alicia has been back to the Yukon a couple of times, and Ben has visited, too, but they have never come together. They plan to visit Atlin, B.C., for a night, if weather permits, a spot they both know and love.

“It’s a special trip for us,” says Ben. What really happened on those evenings when Gerry Priest left the comforts of home and family and disappeared into the dark, frigid Elsa night?

Sometime in July 1961, two underground miners start to work under cover of night to squirrel away portions of the richest vein of silver ore in the mine’s history in abandoned tunnels.

In August one of them, nicknamed “Poncho,” is hired in the assay office where Gerry is boss.

In March, the mine announ-

ces that a previously deactivated section of the mine will be recommissioned. That’s when Gerry’s nighttime disappearances begin.

Later that year, he buys the remote Moon claims, and registers a company in his name.

And on June 21, 1963, three truckloads loaded with ore head out from Keno destined for a smelter in Montana.

The shipment may have escaped undetected if one of the driver’s had not gotten turned around and stopped for directions at the Elsa Cookhouse. It was spotted there by the mine’s general manager, who ordered samples of ore stolen from the truck.

Gerry admitted his role in the heist to his wife and later to Alicia’s sister, Vona, but never to Alicia.

“For years, I didn’t know the full story,” writes Alicia in the press kit.

“I believed he was innocent and wrongly convicted, and his subsequent humiliation was just too much to bear.”

In the book Alicia paints the portrait of a man so stuck in his stubborn pride that he can barely admit to himself his own lies.

Guilt and incarceration

brought out her father’s worst traits, Alicia writes. “Bitter, cynical and emotionally twisted in some weird way.”

The family fell apart for good in 1969, and for more than two decades of her adult life Alicia was mostly estranged from her father, although she says she never stopped loving him.

He died at a nursing home in 2006, “toothless, penniless, diapered and demented,” the day after Alicia saw him for the last time.

She vowed then to “some day soon” delve into the true story, she writes.

“He broke our hearts. It took me decades to get over it” But left among the wreckage Alicia found a story worth telling.

She hopes above all that readers find the book to be a pleasurable read, she writes.

“Also, I hope readers gain a glimpse of a lost world, an overlooked snippet of Canadian history, and perhaps a wee lesson about taking care who you marry.”

The launch for A Rock Fell on the Moon will take place Wednesday, October 8 at 6 p.m. at Baked Cafe in Whitehorse.

Contact Jacqueline Ronson at jronson@yukon-news.com

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Recalling Yukon’s great silver heist

The following excerpt from A Rock Fell on the Moon: Dad and the Great Yukon Silver Ore Heist describes the first odd events at the United Keno Hill Mines Elsa operations in the summer of 1961, events that police investigators and mining company officials later believed marked the beginning of the theft of a record 70 tonnes of super-rich silver ore from the mine.

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n the early hours of July 30, 1961, Frank Obella was alone at the United Keno Hill Mines Elsa operation. As a compressor operator, he’d just returned from a short stroll into the dark, damp 400-foot portal, an adit into Galena Hill about 400 feet below the original surface outcrop of ore.

This subterranean tunnel, the mine’s main entrance, was situated next to the mine office, change room and mill, and near other major UKHM operations.

After his routine inspection of the air pipe, Obella noted something odd on his return to the compressor house. Inexplicably, a sudden drag of air exited the system. The pressure plummeted by nearly half ‌ Either the line had broken somewhere, or someone in the mine had opened a valve to release a blast of air.

Air pressure drops would be routine during a work shift when the mine was crawling with a crew of labouring men. But this was sometime between two a.m. and six a.m – the four “deadâ€? hours between the day and night shifts ‌ Air compressors are vital to underground mining. They blow away dust particles or smoke, regulate temperatures and power machinery used to drill, push or lift rock. But in the Elsa shaft, compressors served an even more critical function.

As a result of a thick cap of permafrost marked by cracks that leaked out oxygen-rich air from beneath, the Elsa mine had notoriously “bad� air. Compressors channelled fresh air into underground areas and forced out the bad air that could be dangerously low in oxygen, so

low it could kill.

That’s exactly what had happened the previous decade when two miners climbed several lifts to retrieve a mucking machine. As they rose higher within the mine, the air became thinner and thinner.

One miner collapsed and fell back down to the floor, where he revived, but the miner who continued higher died of asphyxiation. UKHM geologist Al Archer had a surefire solution to the problem: a lit cigarette.

Like the proverbial canary in the coal mine, when Archer’s cigarette began to sputter, he knew it was time to either get the hell out or get a drag of fresh air from the compressor.

Naturally Frank Obella was perplexed about the sudden change in pressure. Who could be in the mine when both crews were off shift? And why?

Ambling back into the shaft a second time to ensure he wasn’t going loco, he spotted a man in the distance fading deeper into the darkness ‌ Rather than pursue the man, Obella returned to the powerhouse where he phoned and woke mine captain Fred Southam. Outside, a northern dawn washed the sleeping town in a flat light, pale as skim milk.

Southam showed up about twenty minutes later, along with surface superintendent Jack Hogan, production superintendent Bruce Lang and staffer George Reynolds.

The group strode 500 feet into the adit – as far as the downward sloping shaft – and out again.

They hung around for about an hour and then, after remarking that anyo – ne in there would be impossible to find, left ‌ Two weeks later, another compressor man, Joseph Keller, had a similar experience. Seated in the doorway of the compres-

sor house, once again in the dead hours of the night, he saw two men cross in front of the lights from the doorway going toward the 400-foot portal. He recognized one as twenty-nineyear-old UKHM miner Anthony Bobcik and the other as thirtyfive-year-old night mine captain Martin Swizinski.

Bobcik visited our home often over the space of a year or two, which I thought normal at the time but now seems strange.

Unspoken town etiquette discouraged management, staff and miners from socializing with each other. In fact, Bobcik was the only underground worker Dad, who was staff, befriended to that degree. Like many others, we knew him by his nickname, “Poncho.â€? He was built like a giant, tall and wide with dark greased-back hair, a ruddy complexion and a belly ‌ Shortly after seeing the two men, Joseph Keller noticed the same sudden drag on the compressor that Obella had ‌ He returned to his station and hung out to see who would eventually emerge. But just as before, no one did.

The failure of the two men to walk out the main entrance of the mine was neither magic nor mystery nor an employee’s alcohol-fuelled fantasy. Up the hill and around the corner from Elsa, just off the Calumet road, was a second entrance, the seldom-used 200-foot portal, hidden from the main road and the town itself and partially seen by the occupants of only one house ‌ The 200-foot portal’s entrance fronted a deserted spur of a road where anyone could come or go, virtually undetected ‌ That year, UKHM Ltd. was in the last phase of excavating the richest vein of silver ore in its history and indeed one of the richest silver veins on the planet. Discovered in 1957 at the 525-foot level and called the “15-foot vein,â€? this ossified river produced the highest silver

assays UKHM ever obtained, up to a phenomenal 7,500 ounces per ton. At the time, the average grade of UKHM ore was a decent 40 ounces silver per ton ‌ Archer, then UKHM’s chief geologist, was intimately familiar with the Stope’s fine-grained ore ‌ knew its worth better than anyone, as well as its tempting allure. Archer jokingly said as much to Martin Swizinski during one conversation when the

stope was being mined ‌ “Martin and I often talked about how easy it would be to steal ore from that stope,â€? Archer said. “A fellow could fill his lunch box with high-grade ore, say 20 pounds every day, and by the end of three years he’d have hundreds of thousands of dollars. The stuff was already broken up and lying around.

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Canada prepping for potential Ebola cases but still sees risk as low: Ambrose Helen Branswell Canadian Press

TORONTO anada is considering placing doses of an experimental Ebola vaccine in hospitals around the country that have been designated to treat Ebola cases if any arrive in the country, the new chief public health officer said Wednesday.

Dr. Gregory Taylor said having vaccine at the ready means it could be used if health-care workers treating Ebola patients had risky exposures.

“We’re considering prepositioning some of that at receiving hospitals across the country who may be looking after Ebola patients. This is for the health-care workers,” Taylor said during a news conference held in Banff, Alta., where the federal, provincial and territorial health ministers met Wednesday.

Taylor said that includes the Ontario hospital that has been designated to care for Canadian responders if any become infected in the Ebola zone and are transferred back to Canada for care. He did not mention the hospital by name, but it is Toronto Western.

To date, that need has not arisen.

The vaccine, created by researchers at Canada’s National Microbiology Laboratory in Win-

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nipeg, is still experimental. But in animal testing it has been shown to both protect primates from contracting Ebola if it is given before they are exposed to the virus and prevent death, if exposed animals receive it quickly after exposure.

Taylor and Federal Health Minister Rona Ambrose met with the media Wednesday to address concerns raised by Tuesday’s announcement that a Dallas hospital had diagnosed Ebola in a man who recently travelled to Texas from Liberia, one of the hardest hit countries in the West African outbreak.

Ambrose insisted Canada’s risk from the virus is low.

“We have strong measures in place to protect Canadians,” she said, noting the Canadian Border Services Agency has stepped up screening of passengers entering Canada from affected countries.

In reality, that offers imperfect protection. Ebola has a long incubation period – the time from exposure to when an infected individual develops symptoms. While it is rarely the case, the incubation period can be as long as 21 days.

Symptoms more typically start to develop within eight to 10 days after exposure. That leaves plenty of time for someone to contract the virus and travel across the globe

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Nowa Paye, 9, is taken to an ambulance after showing signs of the Ebola infection in the village of Freeman Reserve, about 50 kilometres north of Monrovia, Liberia, on Tuesday.

while still appearing to be perfectly healthy.

Quarantine officers might detect people who are starting to show symptoms – which is when Ebola cases become contagious – but an exposed person who hasn’t yet developed symptoms would look like any other traveller.

Still, Canada’s current risk is still likely low because few people from the three affected countries travel here, said Dr. Kamran Khan, a Toronto-based infectious diseases

expert who uses global flight data to predict spread of diseases.

Khan said only about 1.5 per cent of travellers leaving the three countries – Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia – come to Canada, and about half of them travel to Quebec.

But Khan warned that if the outbreak spreads to other parts of Africa or the world, the mathematics of risk will shift for Canada and other countries that currently reassure themselves that the problem is

a distant one.

“When people ask ‘Is this likely to spread?’ I think the answer really is it depends on how long this epidemic persists and the magnitude and scale of the epidemic,” said Khan, who practises at St. Michael’s Hospital.

“So it’s really just an issue of the larger that it is, the more that it goes unchecked or that it grows, and the longer it persists the likelihood of it showing up in other places starts to increase.”

Taylor and others in public health say Canada has been preparing for that risk for months, by beefing up the country’s ability to respond should a case be imported to Canada.

Provincial laboratories are working to develop the ability to test for Ebola, with Quebec’s facility already capable of doing so, Taylor says. Provincial labs in Ontario, British Columbia, Alberta and Nova Scotia will soon be able to test for the virus as well, he says.

“They can rule out Ebola very, very quickly,” Taylor says. “And if they get a preliminary positive they will ship that to our laboratory (in Winnipeg) and we will do a definite positive to be absolutely certain. And that’s part of the preparedness in case somebody does get through, comes to Canada with

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Washington hears of Plan B for exporting oil: an â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Arctic Gatewayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Alexander Panetta Canadian Press

WASHINGTON ith pipeline plans facing opposition in the West, the East, and the South, a Canadian premier is in the U.S. this week promoting an alternate route for exporting oil: the North.

The premier of the Northwest Territories has been in the American capital promoting an â&#x20AC;&#x153;Arctic Gatewayâ&#x20AC;? to carry oil through his region to international markets.

Bob McLeod has promoted the plan in meetings with Exxon Mobil, the American Petroleum Institute, Canadian diplomats, and in appearances before two Washington thinktanks with numerous members of the Obama administration in attendance.

He told one audience Tuesday that pipeline projects are being stalled everywhere â&#x20AC;&#x201C; and not just with the famous Keystone XL example that Americans keep hearing about. â&#x20AC;&#x153;In Canada itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s become a real problem to get pipelines approved,â&#x20AC;?

McLeod told a packed conference room at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the Northern Gateway pipeline, the expansion of the Kinder Morgan, thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the Keystone XL pipeline. Even within the provinces we canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t go through our own provincesâ&#x20AC;Ś â&#x20AC;&#x153;If we canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t go south, and we canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t go west, and we canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t go east, we have no choice but to go north.â&#x20AC;?

He explained in a separate interview that there could be initial shipments by summer 2015. An existing rail line would carry oil to Hay River, and then an existing barge system would ship it to Tuktoyaktuk, to be loaded onto tankers on the Beaufort Sea and shipped anywhere in the world.

He said that could keep running for about five months a year, at first.

The second and third phases, he said, would include additional infrastructure, the reversal of an old pipeline, and finally, within five years, the construction of a brand new pipeline from Fort McMurray to Tuktoyaktuk

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The premier noted that the Alberta government had commissioned a feasibility study, with his blessing, that confirmed the technical viability of the plan.

One author of that study, however, said itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s about so much more than creating an alternate route for Albertaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s oil.

Building up Arctic energy infrastructure would help unlock the vast economic potential of the North, while encouraging a renaissance in research and development in the oilpatch farther south, said Scott Tiffin of Canatec Associates International Ltd. The May 2013 report, which Tiffin co-authored for the Alberta government, compared the concept to the Panama or Suez canals, as a precursor to a revolution in global logistics. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Alberta has now retreated into a focus on oilsands, oilsands, oilsands or oilsands. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not realizing that, in fact, they led the world in Arctic offshore marine technology. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been forgotten. But it needs to be remembered,â&#x20AC;? Tiffin said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This could have enormous, sustainable, long-term benefits for the North â&#x20AC;&#x201C; transforming it, basically, from a backwater in economic and political terms into a global player in the world.â&#x20AC;?

If an Arctic expansion were managed slowly and smartly, instead of being used to pump out as much bitumen as possible as quickly as possible, the ultimate production potential would be â&#x20AC;&#x153;unlimited,â&#x20AC;? he added.

In an interview, McLeod concurred that his own interest in an Arctic Gateway is stoked by the possibility it could open up his territory to exploration and investments.

On the environmental side, however, thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s no infrastructure to respond to an oil spill in the Arctic, warned David Hayes, a former U.S. deputy secretary of the interior under President Barack Obama.

Environmental groups are already promising stiff resistance.

Greenpeace Canada predicted a repeat of pipeline battles in the south:

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the idea might start with support from local governments, and thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s excitement about economic spinoffs, but then residents realize thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s little long-term benefit in being on a pipeline path, opposition grows, and politicians get cold feet. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This pipeline is going to face all

â&#x20AC;&#x153;This will face enormous opposition.â&#x20AC;?

He called the plan a sign of an increasingly desperate oil industry: â&#x20AC;&#x153;This really is a crazy idea. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re looking at the melting of the Arctic, so letâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s build a pipeline there and bring in supertankers? Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a recipe for disaster.â&#x20AC;?

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Estimated 35,000 walrus gather on Alaska beach; lack of sea ice sends animals to shore spotted during NOAA’s annual arctic marine mammal aerial survey, spokeswoman Julie Speegle said by ANCHORAGE, ALASKA email. The survey is conducted with acific walrus that can’t find sea the Bureau of Ocean Energy Manice for resting in Arctic waagement, the agency that oversees ters are coming ashore in record offshore lease sales. numbers on a beach in northwest Andrea Medeiros, spokeswoman Alaska. for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife SerAn estimated 35,000 walrus vice, said walrus were first spotted were photographed Saturday about Sept. 13 and have been moving on eight kilometres north of Point Lay, and off shore. Observers last week according to the National Oceanic saw about 50 carcasses on the beach and Atmospheric Administration. from animals that may have been Corey Accardo/NOAA Point Lay is an Inupiat Eskimo killed in a stampede, and the agency Some 1,500 walrus gather on the northwest coast of Alaska. village 480 kilometres southwest was assembly a necropsy team to of Barrow and 1,130 kilometres determine their cause of death.

The gathering of walrus on companied the loss of summer sea northwest of Anchorage.

“They’re going to get them out there next week,” she said. shore is a phenomenon that has ac- ice as the climate has warmed.

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Unlike seals, walrus cannot swim indefinitely and must rest. They use their tusks to “haul out,” or pull themselves onto ice or rocks.

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In recent years, sea ice has receded north beyond shallow continental shelf waters and into Arctic Ocean water, where depths exceed three kilometres and walrus cannot dive to the bottom.

Walrus in large numbers were first spotted on the U.S. side of the Chukchi Sea in 2007. They returned in 2009, and in 2011, scientists estimated 30,000 walruses appeared along a half-mile stretch one kilometre of beach near Point Lay. Young animals are vulnerable to stampedes when a group gathers nearly shoulder-to-shoulder on a beach. Stampedes can be triggered by a polar bear, human hunter or low-flying airplane. The carcasses of more than 130 mostly young walrus were counted after a stampede in September 2009 at Alaska’s Icy Cape.

The World Wildlife Fund said walrus have also been gathering in large groups on the Russian side of the Chukchi Sea. “It’s another remarkable sign of the dramatic environmental conditions changing as the result of sea ice loss,” said Margaret Williams, managing director of the group’s Arctic program, by phone from Washington, D.C. “The walruses are telling us what the polar bears have told us and what many indigenous people have told us in the high Arctic, and that is that the Arctic environment is changing extremely rapidly and it is time for the rest of the world to take notice and also to take action to address the root causes of climate change.”

This summer, the sea ice’s annual low point was the sixth smallest since satellite monitoring began in 1979.

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Tracing the Franklin mystery in Orkney and the man who tried to solve it Mike Fuhrmann Canadian Press

STROMNESS, SCOTLAND efore crossing the Atlantic on what would prove to be his final and most famous voyage, a disastrous Arctic expedition resulting in the mysterious loss of two sturdy British ships and all 129 crew members, Sir John Franklin stopped here to take on fresh water.

A sign at the well, sealed up in the 1930s, commemorates the visit by HMS Erebus and HMS Terror in 1845. Tourists pause to peer through glass at the murky hole next to the narrow, flagstonepaved main street that winds through town.

Last month the wreck of one of those ships, later identified as Erebus, was sensationally discovered by a Parks Canada-led team off an island in Nunavut, lying in shallow water. The location of Terror remains unknown.

Stromness looks much the same now as when Franklin showed up.

Grey stone houses huddle next to a natural harbour that has lured mariners for centuries to this Orkney island seaport at the edge of the north Atlantic.

While the town acknowledges its connection to the English naval officer who went in search of the

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A statue of Arctic explorer John Rae clad in fur-lined boots and parka stands in the harbour of Stromness, Orkney.

Northwest Passage, it does much more to celebrate a local Orkney

man, the medical doctor and explorer John Rae, who played a

key role in the aftermath of the doomed Franklin expedition.

Street plaques also pay tribute to Orkney’s strong ties to Canada forged through the Hudson’s Bay Company, Rae’s employer.

For almost two centuries beginning around 1700, HBC ships stopped in Stromness for food and water, and to hire men for the fur trade in what Orcadians called the Nor’ Wast. By 1800, fully threequarters of the company’s workforce came from Orkney, a fertile archipelago off the north coast of the Scottish mainland.

“I think the Hudson’s Bay Company heritage is something that people here are quite proud of,” Sheila Garson, curator at the Orkney Museum, said in her office in Kirkwall, a half-hour from Stromness.

“Older Orcadians used to say that an Orcadian measures their success by how far away from home they are.”

A waterfront building once used as an HBC recruiting centre in Stromness now serves, after a brilliant transformation, as a gallery housing the Pier Arts Centre’s collection of 20th-century British paintings by such stars as Ben Nicholson, Barbara Hepworth and Alfred Wallis.

Windows in the gallery look out on the harbour. In the late afternoon on a day in July, Wallis’s

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 3, 2014 naive boats for which he is much celebrated seemed right at home hanging in a space just a stone’s throw from a dock where men were unloading buckets of mackerel from a real-life fishing boat.

At the nearby Stromness Museum, Rae’s snowshoes, octant and shotgun are among exhibits that spotlight his achievements in the Arctic. The explorer charted more than 2,000 kilometres of northern coastline, leading major expeditions and adopting wilderness survival techniques learned from aboriginals whom he befriended.

The museum also displays HBC artifacts such as blankets and tools used in trade for beaver pelts.

Relics of the Franklin expedition, including a powder horn obtained

by Rae, are shown as well, alongside elaborate, floral-patterned Cree beadwork brought back from Moose Factory in the 19th century.

There are, additionally, hints at what life was like for Orcadians who found themselves dropped into the wilds of Rupert’s Land seemingly a million kilometres from home. A thick binder contains employment records of men who served at York Factory, on the southwestern shore of Hudson Bay, in the 1790s. Among the brief entries: “a good steersman but very dissatisfied”; “a very weak old man, desires to return”; and “a better servant cannot be, humbly hopes a small advance will be made to his present salary.”

Some of the Orkney transplants left an enduring impact on Canada in the form of Metis descendants with Orcadian surnames such as Flett, Louttit, Folster and Linklater.

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The upshot was a determined attack on Rae by Franklin’s influential wife, Lady Jane Franklin, who enlisted novelist Charles Dickens in her campaign to discredit the Arctic explorer.

More than a century and a half later, efforts are now being made to give Rae his due.

“At the moment, there is quite a lot of interest in John Rae, and attempts to make people realize his importance, as a result of Mrs.

Franklin trying to blacken his name,” said David Mackie, senior archivist at Orkney Library and Archive, which holds some of Rae’s letters.

A life-size statue of Rae, clad in Arctic-worthy fur-lined boots and parka and with a shotgun slung over his shoulder, was unveiled in Stromness harbour in September 2013 during an academic conference marking the 200th anniversary of his birth.

An award-winning 2001 biography, “Fatal Passage,” by Canadian author Ken McGoogan, has also done much to stir interest in the Orkney doctor.

McGoogan argues forcefully in the book that not only was Rae

right about the cannibalism, but that it was Rae who discovered the final link in the Northwest Passage during his search for the lost expedition (a view not shared by all historians) and not Franklin who received credit for the find.

On Tuesday, Rae was honoured with a memorial plaque in London’s Westminster Abbey, the result of a years-long campaign by Scottish MP Alistair Carmichael.

Ironically, Franklin and Dickens are also memorialized in the Abbey.

“I should like to listen in on the lively conversation of those three ghosts,” blogged American academic Russell Potter, who has written about Arctic exploration.

Rae died in 1893 and is buried in a cemetery next to St. Magnus Cathedral in Kirkwall.

“I think he set an incredible example of learning from native people – he was not too proud, he did not assume the superiority of his culture and his technology,” said Jay Morrison, 65, of Wakefield, Que., standing next to the grave.

“Canadians think they have a connection to the Hudson’s Bay Company,” added Morrison, calling himself an avid conservationist and student of Canadian history.

“But I don’t think there’s any place in Canada, including Winnipeg or Red River, that has a bigger connection to the Hudson’s Bay Company than Orkney.”

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Yukon photographer shortlisted for prestigious prize Myles Dolphin News Reporter

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eep in the remote wilderness of the sacred Ni’iinlii Njik Territorial Park, a remote, fly-in area between Dawson City and Old Crow, Peter Mather waited for something special.

The Whitehorse photographer put his camera in an underwater housing and placed it next to a pile of branches in the Fishing Branch River.

The chum salmon swim from the Bering Sea, more than 1,600 kilometres away, to spawn and die in the river’s crystal clear waters each fall.

Hidden in a viewing area eight metres away, his hands clasped around a remote trigger, Mather and his guide carefully tracked the patterns of a grizzly sow and her cub.

The pair had been walking up and down the shoreline every three hours, looking for fish.

It took a few tries, but Mather finally captured the moment when the mother approached his camera and was about to sink her teeth into a fish.

The picture, which Mather titled “What’s This” because of the bear’s inquisitive look, was shortlisted last month for the most prestigious wildlife photography competition in the world.

He’s one of 50 finalists for the Wildlife Photographer of the Year People’s Choice Award, presented by London’s Natural History Museum and the BBC. The award, introduced for the first time this year, is presented in honour of the competition’s 50th anniversary.

It was one of 20 shots Mather submitted to the competition, which features 10 adult categories and four special awards.

The finalists were picked from among more than 41,000 entries.

Mather said it took a lot of patience – five days’ worth – to get the shot he wanted.

“A lot of wildlife photography is just waiting for something special to happen,” he said.

“In this park there are all these bears everywhere, it gets so cold, there’s snow on the ground and they’re covered in ice. It’s a really unique place in the whole world.

“We just had to set up, wait, adjust and retry until we got it right.”

Mather was inspired to get into photography 20 years ago after seeing a slideshow on the Peel watershed by Ken Madsen.

He began working with Madsen on environmental issues like the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and now devotes two-thirds of his time to photography.

There are three important keys to becoming a successful wildlife photographer, he said: patience,

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Peter Mather’s photo of a grizzly bear getting a closer look at a dead chum salmon in Ni’iinlii Njik (Fishing Branch) Territorial Park is one of 50 finalists for the Wildlife Photographer of the Year People’s Choice Award.

persistence and passion.

That’s because you’re not always guaranteed to get the shot you’re looking for.

Mather and his father went up the Dempster Highway in January to photograph caribou, part of a longterm project.

They spent 10 days sleeping in a snowmobile trailer, which Mather described as “dark and depressing.”

“I didn’t get a single good shot,” he said.

“But then I went back in March, for eight days, and got five really good ones. That’s just the way it rolls sometimes. You have to be pretty persistent sometimes because it’s easy to give up after 10 days.”

After 20 years of taking pictures, Mather said wildlife photography has changed the way he sees the world.

Although he grew up hunting and believes it’s important for people to get out on the land and hunt their food, he strongly opposes sport hunting.

“Killing animals like wolves and bears, for fun, is something I really struggle with now,” he said.

“You spend time with these animals. It’s hard to imagine someone could come along in five minutes and shoot it because they want to put something cool on their wall.”

Mathers recounted the story of his favorite picture, one of a black

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Mather’s submission was one of 41,000 entries to the competition from around the world.

bear cub and its mother coming out of a den last spring.

The cub came out and was screaming like a baby, Mathers said.

The mother, beside it, was clearly tired and deflated.

“They were just like two humans,” he said.

“It was just like a mother and her newborn baby. Then you realize that someone could come along and shoot this bear. That’s the biggest thing that changed my view of the world.”

The winning images from the competition will be announced on

Oct. 21.

The Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibition will go on display at the Natural History Museum in London on Oct. 24 before embarking on an international tour.

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Ballet meant to educate Canadians about Indian residential schools: commissioner The $60-million truth and reconciliation commission is part of a landmark compensaWINNIPEG tion deal between the federal ne of the most European government, the Crown and forms of dance will tackle residential school survivors.

Canadaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fraught colonial It has visited hundreds of history when performers with communities and has heard the Royal Winnipeg Ballet graphic details of rampant take to the stage Wednesday sexual and physical abuse. for the world premiere of a Learning about the issue ballet about Indian residential through dance can reach those schools. who would not necessarily The ballet, entitled Going attend a lecture or a speech Home Star â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Truth and Recon- on the topic, Sinclair said. ciliation, follows the journey of Dance and music have also a young, urban First Nations been shown scientifically to woman who discovers her stimulate a separate part of ancestors and finds meaning the brain, so the ballet has the in her own life with the help of potential to reach people on a a homeless residential school different level, he said. survivor. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This is not an aboriginal Based on a story by novelstory. This is not only about ist Joseph Boyden, it includes the experience of those who appearances by Polaris prize were students in the school. winner and Inuk throat singer This is also the story about Tanya Tagaq along with other Canadaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s experience,â&#x20AC;? Sinclair aboriginal vocalists. said.

The ballet, sponsored by â&#x20AC;&#x153;While they were indoctrithe Truth and Reconcilianating aboriginal people into tion Commission, of Canada, believing that their people is an attempt to capture the were inferior, their languages emotions and experiences of were irrelevant, their cultures residential school survivors by were not worth protecting, the a company that doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have very same message was being an aboriginal dancer. given to students in public But commission head Mur- schools in this country.â&#x20AC;? ray Sinclair said itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a way to The performance was spearbring a dark chapter of Caheaded by aboriginal actress nadian history to a different and former MP Tina Keeper, audience. who sits on the balletâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s board â&#x20AC;&#x153;We know that people will of directors. The history of say this is not their story to tell residential schools in Canada us,â&#x20AC;? Sinclair said in an interlends itself well to the ballet view. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s true, but what we stage, she said. say to survivors who wonder â&#x20AC;&#x153;At the heart of every ballet why this is being done is: â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;This is a great story and thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s what is a story that theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re telling we have here,â&#x20AC;? she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It is themselves. This is a story that a great tragic tale and a love Canadian society needs to be story, so in that sense, it fits able to communicate to itself perfectly.â&#x20AC;? in a way that they can appreciChoreographer Mark Godate.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; den said the aim was to reflect â&#x20AC;&#x153;This is one way of doing the heart-wrenching stories that.â&#x20AC;? coming out of the truth and About 150,000 First Nareconciliation commission. tions, Inuit and Metis children But the experience also needed were taken from their families to be positive. and forced to attend governâ&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s to not deny the past but ment schools over much of the to say that, in many ways, First last century to â&#x20AC;&#x153;take the Indian Nations and aboriginal people out of the child.â&#x20AC;? The last are stronger than they are school closed outside Regina before. Many of them arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t in 1996. victims,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;That was the Chinta Puxley Canadian Press

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desire â&#x20AC;&#x201C; to build a story that was more uplifting.â&#x20AC;?

Godden said he started by watching streaming testimony given at the commission. With two kids of his own, he was an â&#x20AC;&#x153;emotional wreckâ&#x20AC;? absorbing the raw, emotional testimony, he said. But he also saw the courage and strength of survivors who relived their abuse by talking about it publicly. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s something I wanted to put into the ballet,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;If everybody picks up the burden of this story, then we lighten the load for everybody.

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a sense of social responsibility there.â&#x20AC;?

The ballet is careful to avoid cultural appropriation, Godden said. There is no attempt to integrate traditional aboriginal dance or costume. The music, performed by aboriginal artists, provides a bridge between the European tradition of ballet and the aboriginal experience, he suggested.

Commissioners and survivors met with those involved with the ballet throughout the creative process. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The process itself has been

reconciling,â&#x20AC;? said commissioner Marie Wilson. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The process of having dancers and creative people learn about this history while they are practising their own art form has allowed for growth. Those who come as audience members will be witness to that.â&#x20AC;?

The ballet is giving away free tickets to residential school survivors and is setting aside a batch of â&#x20AC;&#x153;pay-what-you-canâ&#x20AC;? tickets for one performance.

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hoped the ballet will tour across the country following its premiere in Winnipeg.

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Lake Huron is no place for a nuclear waste dump

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The panel is examining an Ontario Power Generation proposal to bury low- and intermediatelevel nuclear waste from the Darlington, Pickering and Bruce nuclear plants in limestone at the Bruce site in Kincardine, beside Lake Huron. According to the Toronto Star, the experts reported that 1,000 cubic metres of contaminated water could leak from the site, although itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;highly improbable.â&#x20AC;? But even if it did leak, they argued, the amount is small compared to Lake Huronâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s water volume and the quantity of rain that falls into it.

If the materials were instead

buried in Canadian Shield granite, any leaking waste would be diluted by active streams and marshes, the experts claimed: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Hence, the volumes of the bodies of water available for dilution at the surface are either immense (Great Lakes) or actively flowingâ&#x20AC;Śso the dilution capacity is significant.â&#x20AC;?

Others arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t convinced. The Stop the Great Lakes Nuclear Dump group has more than 62,000 signatures on a petition opposing the dump. Many communities around the Great Lakes, home to 40-million people, have passed resolutions against the

project, including Canadian cities Toronto, Mississauga, Hamilton, Niagara Falls, Kingston, Thunder Bay, Sault Ste. Marie, Windsor and more, and local governments in the states of Michigan, Illinois, Pennsylvania, Indiana, Minnesota, Wisconsin, New York and Ohio.

The United Tribes of Michigan, representing 12 First Nations, is also opposed.

Michiganâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Senate recently adopted resolutions to urge President Barack Obama, Secretary of State John Kerry and U.S. Congress to intervene, and for the International Joint Commission, the Great Lakes Commission and all Great Lakes States and Ontario and Quebec to get involved.

According to Stop the Great Lakes Nuclear Dump, burying such highly toxic wastes in limestone next to 21 per cent of the worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fresh water â&#x20AC;&#x153;defies common sense.â&#x20AC;? The groupâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s website notes, â&#x20AC;&#x153;There are no precedents anywhere in the world for burying radioactive nuclear waste in limestone. The repository must function to safely contain the nuclear wastes for over 100,000 years. No scientist or geologist can provide a 100,000 year guarantee.â&#x20AC;?

The Great Lakes are only 12,000 years old!

On top of that, retired Ontario Power Generation research scientist and chemist Frank R. Greening wrote to the review panel stating that OPG has â&#x20AC;&#x153;seriously underestimated, sometimes by factors of more than 100â&#x20AC;? the radioactivity of material to be buried.

Greening says the company acknowledged his criticism but downplayed its seriousness, which he believes raises doubts about the credibility of OPGâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s research justifying the project. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Their re-

sponse has been, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Oops we made a mistake but it isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t a problemâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; and that really bothers me as a scientist,â&#x20AC;? he told Kincardine News. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It is rationalizing after the fact.â&#x20AC;?

According to the newspaper, â&#x20AC;&#x153;a radiation leak at a nuclear waste site in New Mexico â&#x20AC;&#x201C; cited by OPG as an example of a successful facility â&#x20AC;&#x201C; is further fuelling criticism of the project.â&#x20AC;? In February, radiation was detected in vaults and in the air a kilometre from the U.S. Department of Energyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Waste Isolation Pilot Plant near Carlsbad, where radioactive materials from the nuclear weapons program are stored. The facility, the worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s only deep geologic repository, had only been in use for 15 years and is closed for now. The cause of the leak isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t yet known.

Those and other factors led the joint review panel to re-open hearings beginning September 9.

They initially ended October 30, 2013. A federal cabinet decision is expected sometime next year.

This â&#x20AC;&#x153;out of sight, out of mindâ&#x20AC;? mentality must end. We canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t continue to dump garbage into the oceans, waterways and air or bury it in the ground and hope it will disappear. If we canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t find better ways to use or at least reduce waste products, we must stop producing them.

In the meantime, this project must be halted. The Great Lakes are already threatened by pollution, agricultural runoff, invasive species, climate change and more.

We canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t afford to add the risk of radioactive contamination to one of the worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s largest sources of fresh water.

Written with Contributions from David Suzuki Foundation Senior Editor Ian Hanington. Learn more at www.davidsuzuki.org.

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Minto earthquakes then, now and tomorrow traveling band of seismometers that has blanketed the continental states in past years. This summer,

by Ned technicians and scientists have Rozell installed 20 stations in Alaska, including the one in Minto. Next year, workers with the National Science Foundation-funded project will try to install 40 more seismometers in some of the loneliest spots in Alaska and the Yukon. If that goes well, 80 more MINTO installations will follow in 2016.

With Alaska peppered with arah Silas, 89, smiled as she remembered an earthquake the stations, which will record earthquakes for a few years before that shook her village more than 60 years ago. The floor of her most are removed and used elsewhere, seismologists hope to cabin swayed so that her young find out more about weak spots son staggered away from her. in Earth’s crust that slip to cause “My three-year old boy was earthquakes. One of the more laughing,” she said inside her intriguing areas is the chain-oflog cabin, its front door open to lakes country outside the window warm air on a golden day. “The of the Silases’ cabin. ground was moving so much I Tape, a researcher at the couldn’t even reach my little son.”

University of Alaska Fairbanks’s Silas, with her husband BergGeophysical Institute, describes man a gracious host to a visiting the Minto Flats seismic zone as a seismologist, was one of a few bowl of jellied soil the size of Mt. people in this village of about 200 Everest. He is quite happy for the who remembered an earthquake new seismometer at the Minto in October 1947. The earthquake airport. It will help him and other scientist, Carl Tape, was in Minto scientists understand more about to interview elders and check faults beneath the swampy, selfon the installation of a superhealing surface. When the ground sensitive instrument that detects slips there, it produces earthground motion. quakes like the magnitude 5.0 that A few blocks away at the Minto happened 16 kilometres east of airport, two contractors were Minto on Aug. 30, 2014. drilling a nine-foot hole that “In the past, you’ve had earthwould soon be the home to a quakes in this region 1,000 times seismometer. That sophisticated larger than two weeks ago,” Tape earthquake detector is part of a told 25 students in the Minto plan to carpet Alaska with like school before he walked over to instruments about every 50 miles, knock on the door of Bergman from the Alaska Peninsula to and Sarah Silas. Almost every kid Barrow. in the class had a story about the The EarthScope Project is a recent earthquake. One girl said

stories of the 1947 earthquake, a magnitude 7.2. The Silases, married 70 years, both remembered intense shaking where they lived then on the Tanana River, at a site about 40 kilometres away known as Old Minto. Villagers moved from Old Minto to here above the Tolovana River flats in 1969. With the relocation, Bergman Silas said, they entered a world with electricity, TVs and telephones.

“Before, we just lived by telling stories,” Bergman said.

Now, the village of Minto has a scientific device that hears the Earth from beneath airport gravel. The instrument will record the passage of four wheelers, the tire bumps of the mail plane from Fairbanks and tremors in the ground from the restless lake country to the east. Seconds after earthquakes happen, scientists in Fairbanks and around the world will be able to see them for the first time with such exquisite detail.

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Snowshoe hares flee through â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;a landscape of fearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; when it comes to the snowshoe hareâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s famous 10-year-cycle, it appears these carnivores have plenty of say as well.

Krebs, now professor emeritus at UBC, has been conducting research in the Yukon since 1973. Passing through Whitehorse in late September, he Erling Friis-Baastad talked about some of what he and his y following lynx and snowshoe colleagues have learned over the past hare tracks scientists have deter- 40 years of studying hare cycles at the Kluane Research Station. mined that only about 20 per â&#x20AC;&#x153;Why does a snowshoe hare die? cent of lynxesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; hare pursuits are sucIt dies because of a predator,â&#x20AC;? he says. cessful, says zoologist Charley Krebs.

Predation accounts for 95 per cent of But forget about some smug hare snowshoe hare deaths. â&#x20AC;&#x153;If you take hiding under a fallen spruce and them into captivity theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll live, three, celebrating her good fortune as one of the 80 per cent who get away. Stress four even five years, but in the wild if they live to be two years old itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s almost takes its own toll among those who a miracle.â&#x20AC;? manage, moment by moment, to The boreal forest is full predators. evade carnivore jaws and beaks.

And snowshoe hares do not burrow or When it comes to hare mortality, predators rule, says Krebs. And climb trees. If theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re lucky they find a

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predators around when the hares start to proliferate. Where there are plenty of lynx, coyotes, foxes and greathorned owls, etc., they catch up to the hares pretty quickly and the hares have a â&#x20AC;&#x153;low-amplitude cycle.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;So far this data is consistent here and in Alaska, so again it appears that predators are driving whether we have a super cycle or a modest cycle,â&#x20AC;? says the zoologist.

The cycles are not disappearing.

They are going through peak peaks and low lows. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Now all this has to be Alice Kenney photo/Yukon News qualified,â&#x20AC;? he says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It takes 10 years Predators like this lynx are the driving force behind to get one observation of the system snowshoe hare cycles. and weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been working in Kluane for 40 years. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve got only four cycles fallen tree to hide under. Such vulner- has been blamed on climate change able animals would have to reproduce especially â&#x20AC;&#x201C; â&#x20AC;&#x153;the universal explanation nailed down.â&#x20AC;?

Where is all this going? â&#x20AC;&#x153;In terms quickly to maintain their population. for everything these daysâ&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x201C; as well as of conservation of ecosystems the They do â&#x20AC;&#x201C; often with five to six babies disease, parasites, moon phases, sunin each litter and four litters in a sum- spots and habitat loss. It is known that message is really simple,â&#x20AC;? says Krebs. â&#x20AC;&#x153;You have to have a large-scale ecothere are peak highs and peak lows, mer. and then higher lows and lower highs system to keep the whole thing going That seems straight forward, but in the cycles. It seems that habitat loss where snowshoe hares do occur.â&#x20AC;? A thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s more to it. â&#x20AC;&#x153;When we got details of the hare cycle down, several in concert with predation is the major large, contiguous boreal forest allows hares protective cover. Breaks in that things were puzzling,â&#x20AC;? says Krebs. The factor. cover leave the animals exposed.

When their prey disappears, death rate does go up when there are predators have two choices, beyond more predators â&#x20AC;&#x201C; more lynx, more What are we talking about when coyotes, more great horned owls, and starvation, says Krebs. They can eat we talk about large enough ecoone another. Coyotes eat lynx. Lynx so on. However, at the same time, or systems? Kluane National Park and even just before the death rate climbs, eat coyotes. Wolverines climb trees Reserve is â&#x20AC;&#x153;just a postage stampâ&#x20AC;? in the when numbers are near their peak, the and prey on great horned owlsâ&#x20AC;Ś. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s scheme of things, says Krebs. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve dog eat dog out there,â&#x20AC;? he says. hares lower their reproductive rate. got to think about wildlife manageBut something else can occur. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The cycle goes down to its low ment on an enormous spatial scale if Predators â&#x20AC;&#x153;go walkabout.â&#x20AC;? Collared phase, but itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s entirely variable how you want to protect an ecosystem like lynx have been known to travel 800 long that is and you go out in the a boreal forest.â&#x20AC;? kilometres in a year. The species is woods sometimes and for two years From the northern U.S. up there are hardly any hares, and some- â&#x20AC;&#x153;panmicticâ&#x20AC;? across boreal North through Alberta and British Columbia America, which means that lynx genes forest cover is being broken up by times there are hardly any for four in one area are identical to those in years,â&#x20AC;? he says. agriculture and other development. A another. Alaskan lynx and Nova Scotia hare trying to dash from one patch of The offspring of stressed females lynx successfully mate. apparently inherit something called protective forest to another is a sitting Why go walkabout? Just for â&#x20AC;&#x153;a maternal effect.â&#x20AC;? This can apply to duck. Out in the open they find themromance? Or could they be following selves in â&#x20AC;&#x153;a landscape of fear.|â&#x20AC;? many animals, from pigs to people, prey? and is a major area of study these â&#x20AC;&#x153;That is to say, what does a snowâ&#x20AC;&#x153;You read in books that hare cycles shoe hare worry about?â&#x20AC;? says Krebs. days, says Krebs. The inheritance is not genetic, but entirely physiological, are synchronous across Canada,â&#x20AC;? says Does it worry about food? Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s surKrebs. Not so. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The hare-cycle peak he adds. Meanwhile, do the stressed rounded by food. Does it worry about begins, so to speak, in central B.C., offspring of stressed mothers pass the weather? It doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t give a hoot stress to their offspring, and if so how then it marches north and about a about the weather, except that they year later itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hitting southern Yukon many generations does this affect? eat more in the cold. What it worries and a year later northern Yukon and How long does stress keep the birth about is predators. â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Am I going to be then it moves east into N.W.T. about rate down? When does the maternal eaten today?â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;? effect finally disappear from a lineage? a year later and Alaska, a year or two This column is co-ordinated by the after that.â&#x20AC;?

These are questions our colleagues Yukon Research Centre at Yukon When hares start to breed up in a and their students are now studying, College with major financial support region, predators start catching up. If says Krebs. from Environment Yukon and Yukon the predators begin from their own There has been plenty of media College. The articles are archived at coverage of the collapsing hare cycles, low phase, it takes longer to for them http://www.yukoncollege.yk.ca/reto catch up than if there are many he says. The so-called â&#x20AC;&#x153;collapseâ&#x20AC;? search/publications/yourâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;yukon

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Celebrating Jim Robbâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Yukon HISTORY

This was a remarkable event ing Emily Carr, and world-renowned where history crossed paths with the Yukon artist Lilias Farley. The â&#x20AC;&#x153;Colourperforming arts. Musicians and singers ful Five Per Cent,â&#x20AC;? which has become were challenged to compose songs a hallmark of his work, came about in inspired by Jim Robbâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s visual creations.

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by Michael Gates Authors and poets did the same. A for his column in the Whitehorse Star. ake a little poetry and some short documentary was produced, and He describes Whitehorse as he prose; add some music and a of course, woven throughout is Jim knew it when he arrived in 1955 with video, artist Jim Robb, a dash of scattered buildings and unpaved Robbâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s evocative art work, inspired by Yukon history and stir well. What do the places and people that have made streets. Whiskey Flats and Moccasin you get? A fine afternoon of entertain- Flats were interesting to him artisticthe Yukon such an interesting place. ment.

Jin Robbâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s painting of a cabin on ally. People like Wigwam Harry, Andy On Sunday, Sept. 28, a special event Hooper and Buzz Saw Jimmy were Black Hills with a spruce tree growing Courtesy of Dan Halen/Yukon News out of the roof is one of my favourites. at the Old Fire Hall featured the release one of a kind, and it became Jimâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Artist Jim Robb (centre, with glasses) was honoured in words In 1981, he was sponsored by Territorof the catalogue of the Yukon Arts purpose to preserve the memories of Centre Exhibition titled â&#x20AC;&#x153;Jim Robbâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ial Gold Placers to go out into the gold these characters. Says Robb: â&#x20AC;&#x153;You donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t and music by several writers and musicians at the Old Fire Hall on Sept. 28. fields and paint what he saw.

Yukon.â&#x20AC;? It was part of Culture Days, a see this kind of people anymore; itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Later that same summer, the same weekend-long celebration of local arts, mostly bureaucrats these days.â&#x20AC;? eyed aliens who inhabit this future old, and then performed a number company asked photographer Richard heritage and culture.

Later, when Robb got up to speak, world attempt to reconstruct Whitewith delightful lyrics about the Hartmier and me to record the historic There are few people who have as he modified his remarks about horse as a heritage village based upon â&#x20AC;&#x153;Colourful Five Per Cent.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Be truly remains found scattered throughout passionate love of Yukon history and bureaucrats when it was pointed out Robbâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s work. free and different,â&#x20AC;? he advises, â&#x20AC;&#x153;in the the Klondike gold fields. That project have captured the spirit of the Yukon that some of the artists who perFollowing that, Hingley read one of land of the midnight sun.â&#x20AC;? sparked us to continue recording the the way that Jim Robb has through his formed at the event worked for the Vocalist and recording artist Fawn rapidly vanishing historical remains art. His work was celebrated last year government. But what really came out her own compositions, a poem about Buzz Saw Jimmy and his wood-cutting Fritzen closed off the set by comparof the early days for the following two in a display at the MacBride Museum in his brief speech was his absolute machine. Andrea McColeman and ing Robbâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s work to W.O. Mitchellâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s decades. I had the opportunity to visit and more recently in a retrospective love for the history and people of the Brenda Lee Katerenchuk performed a classic book Jake and the Kid, another the very same cabin on Black Hills exhibition of his artistic creations Yukon.

(May to August of 2014) curated by Several local writers and musicians stirring number entitled â&#x20AC;&#x153;Lamp of the example of the exaggerated truth. She Creek that was painted by Robb; a Poor,â&#x20AC;? a reference to moonlight, folsaid that this was the first time that she print of that picture now has a promJessica Vallenga at the Yukon Arts reprised their performances from the had met Robb in person (a confession inent place in our living room.

Centre. heritage-themed Arts in the Park event lowed by Sylvie Painchaud who sang If you did not attend this event, made by some other performers) and As well, one of the Arts in the Parks earlier in the summer. Susanne Hing- her song in French, while accompanyou missed the exclamation mark at ied by Chick Callas on violin. accompanied herself on piano while programs in August was constructed ley read an essay prepared by Jerome the end of a summer-long statement They were followed in turn by she performed her own composition from the performances of several Stueart, who was not present to read about the work of the Yukonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most Chick Callas and Dan Halen, who titled â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Unvarnished Truth.â&#x20AC;?

Yukon musicians who were inspired by it in person. The essay was a humerbeloved resident artist. It was a fine performed two numbers, the first After the performances had conthe work of Jim Robb. And, of course, ous piece about Whitehorse in the blend of art, music and history. there was the event at the Old Fire titled â&#x20AC;&#x153;Good Old Days,â&#x20AC;? about Jim cluded, the musicians crowded around year 2356, rather reminiscent of David Michael Gates is a Yukon historian Hall.

Macaulayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s delightful picture book The Robb the artist, followed by â&#x20AC;&#x153;Whiskey the star of the day and posed for a and sometimes adventurer based in What made this last event so Flats,â&#x20AC;? which was inspired by a Robb group photograph. Robb reciprocated Motel of the Mysteries. Whitehorse is Whitehorse. His latest book, Dalinteresting and so special was the paintings of the same name. by giving each of them one of his now an archaeological ruin, and the tonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Gold Rush Trail, is available in coalescence of several different forms Remy Rodden reminisced about his prints, which he obligingly personalonly thing that has survived intact is Yukon stores. You can contact him at of expression of Jim Robbâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s work. The Jim Robbâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s art. The tentacled, multifirst visit to the Yukon as a nine-yearized with his autograph. msgates@northwestel.net focus was the release of the exhibit catalogue, which is a small, glossy YUKON ARTISTS AT WORK COOPERATIVE 36-page booklet, containing photos First Nation of Na-Cho Nyäk Dun IS PLEASED TO PRESENT THE FOLLOWING FALL of the artist and of some of his most Box 220, Mayo, Yukon Y0B 1M0 iconic works, a narrative explaining Fax: 867-996-2267 the curatorial intent of the exhibition, Phone 867-996-2265 ext 213 a brief biography, and a commemoraEmail: dhogan@northwestel.net tive essay.

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Turn the tables on relative’s jocular threat intend to show how much they care about a friend or relative.

But to me, it seems one should at least assume that the person could select a good partner.

Is it really necessary or acceptby Judith able to bring up the possibility of “If you ever hurt him/her ...”?

Martin How should these remarks be handled?

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I’d like to invite another couple in their stead. (I’m limited in how many I can invite by the size of my dining table.) Is there a gentle way to convey this when I respond to their email?

GENTLE READER: There is nothing wrong with shutting the door into which your guest has inserted his metaphorical foot.

Miss Manners appreciates that doing so will be less painful for both parties than if it were a real door.

Email your friends that you completely understand, adding that of course they will want to be home with poor kitty. You are so sorry that they will not be able to attend, and you look forward to rescheduling.

DEAR MISS MANNERS: I have a new friend who shares a remarkable resemblance to a famous movie actress. Others agree with my observation, and I would really like to tell this to her as a huge compliment. We are both straight and married, so it

wouldn’t be taken the wrong way in that sense.

However, how do I go about telling a relatively new friend this information without making it awkward for her? Most agree that the actress is beautiful, but one can never be sure if another is entirely of the same opinion.

GENTLE READER: If the resemblance is really remarkable, you may be sure that people have remarked upon it before. Whether your new friend finds this flattering or tiresome or both, Miss Manners cannot say.

The way to find out is to deliver the usual opening, “Has anyone ever told you that ...”

Then, if you see a tired little smile, continue by saying that you have heard that the actress “has complained that people keep mistaking her for you.” ****** DEAR MISS MANNERS: I love to light candles throughout my home to create a warm and cozy atmosphere. I do this all the time, whether or not I am expecting guests.

Several times now, I have noticed some of the candles blown out or snuffed out using the jar lid. Usually, it is the candle in the guest room and the main bathroom.

This irritates me because I like the candles lit. Is it appropriate for the guests to blow them out?

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The mother tries to reason with her child and threatens punishments that never occur. The father wants to correct/punish his child, but the mother stops him, and he gives in.

“They’re just children” is the response I get when I protest or point out ugly behaviors.

My husband thinks their child is a sociopath. During play dates or get-togethers, I now make them stay within eyesight, and I’ve taken to correcting behavior and even separating them into different areas of the room.

Our child has been raised to be considerate, helpful and honest.

People even stop us in public places to compliment us on how well-behaved our child is – our friends included. The father has even expressed a wish his child was like ours.

We love the parents, but dislike their child and their method of raising him. Is there any way to fix these problems without losing the friendship of the parents, or should we just cut ties?

GENTLE READER: Ask your son.

Miss Manners assures you that this is not always her method of solving adult problems, but if your child is in third grade, he is old enough to make a decision about his own friendships – and that could influence the way you make yours.

If your son genuinely wants to be best friends with the other boy, give him strategies and statements, such as, “I want to play with you, but not if you don’t treat me and my things well.”

However, if your son doesn’t like the other boy, but feels that he must please him (or you), you can spare him the friendship without cutting off yours with the parents. Suggest that the parents all go out without the children – share a (strict, no-nonsense) baby sitter – or come up with other creative ways to keep it just adults (have just the women or men take turns going out alone).

It should be easy enough to convince those parents that you all could use a child-free night.

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Busy season takes toll on Wiggins at B.C. club pro championships

Tom Patrick/Yukon News

Mountain View pro Jeff Wiggins plays in the One Club Wonder Invitational last month in Whitehorse. Wiggins tied for 19th at the Canada PGA of B.C. Club Professional Championship in North Vancouver on Wednesday.

Tom Patrick News Reporter

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t has been a long, busy summer for Mountain View Golf Club pro Jeff Wiggins.

His duties as director of golf at the club, overseeing operations and making everything run smooth, kept him off the course more than he’d like. He also put less competitive rounds under his belt than usual.

All that took a toll on him at the Canada PGA of B.C. Club Professional Championship this week.

Wiggins tied for 19th out of 48 top B.C. pros on Wednesday at the Seymour Golf & Country Club in North Vancouver.

“This last round, this tournament, summed up the year,” said Wiggins. “It was a year that I didn’t play a lot and I didn’t play any good quality golf, meaning competitive golf. I like to get out a couple times in the beginning of the year in June or July, and get a couple tournaments in. It keeps me motivated for the summer and gives me some-

thing to work on and focus on and is an integral part of my career.

“This year I just didn’t get it and the reason for that is priorities. With us losing our assistant early in the year, (assistant pro) Graham (Frey) and I had to take on a little more responsibility this year … So playing took a backseat this year. Priorities had to be on the operations, the staff, the service levels and things like that.”

Wiggins, who placed third in last year’s championship, carded a 74 in Round 1 on Tuesday, putting him in a tie for fifth. An 80 in the decisive second round dropped him down the leaderboard.

“The first day, the first nine holes were great,” said Wiggins. “I was two-under after nine and went on a bad stretch of bogeys through 10, 11, 12, and sort limped into club house. But I got tired after nine holes.

“Day 2, my expectation was hopefully somewhere around par, a couple over, I wasn’t expecting a great day. But I thought an average day around par would be enough to

keep the top-five placing. I didn’t get off to a good start and for the most part, that whole day was just so-so.

There was nothing fantastic that happened.”

Only one player, 10th place finisher Brian McDonald, managed to hit under par on Day 2. The championship winner, Doug Morgan from Redwoods Golf Course in Langley, was the only player to finish under par, shooting a three-under over two rounds. Bill Kelly and Kevin Maxwell, who tied for second, both finished with even pars.

Wiggins got into a bit of trouble early on in Round 2. His tee shot on Hole 1 got buried in the wet sand of a bunker, right under the lip, and it took two strokes to get out. Wiggins ended up two-putting to bogey the hole.

“After that I couldn’t get anything going,” said Wiggins. “I didn’t feel competitive.”

“I felt a little bit tired, the tempo was out in the swing, so every swing was a different speed,” he added.

“Anytime you have that, the ball contact isn’t going to be pure. And

your distance control is going to be inaccurate.”

Wiggins, 36, shot five over to tie for 15th at the 2014 Titleist/FootJoy PGA of B.C. Championship at Point Grey Golf and Country Club in Vancouver this past August. By placing T15, Wiggins moved up to a career high of 136th in the PGA of Canada rankings and automatically qualified for the Canadian PGA Club Professional Championships of Canada next month in Fountain Hills, Arizona.

“I’m feeling it. I’m a little bit tired, the body is a little bit sore. I look outside and there’s six inches of snow, so the season is pretty much done. But we still have a tough month ahead of us, getting everything done.

“Then I can maybe rest, recover, and focus on the Canadians. That’s the priority now.”

A big part of the provincial championship is about networking with other pros, discussing the industry and what’s coming out next season. The Canadian championships are all about the competition,

said Wiggins.

“The Canadian club pro (championship), that’s the one we focus on playing … that’s strictly competition,” said Wiggins. “So I want to be in the right state of mind, I want my body in a position where I can go down there and perform. I do have an expectation of a top-15 in the Canadians.”

Wiggins, who is originally from Saskatoon and turned pro in 1997, placed 27th last year and tied for 20th in 2011 at the Canadian championships in Florida.

This year’s championship will be held at Arizona’s Sunridge Canyon Golf Club, home of the “wicked six” – the nickname for the challenging final six holes that can turn a good round into a heartbreaker.

“They are extremely tough and if the winds come in from the east, it’s probably the six hardest holes I’ve ever played in my life,” said Wiggins.

“Nobody goes low on the last six holes. It’s trying to get your score under after 12, and then hang on for dear life.”

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Mustangs to start season in full gallop to make sure all these teams got booked, even before the team was picked.â&#x20AC;? he ink on the Mustangs Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s an early start to the rosters has barely dried, and season, but the four Mustangs already three squads are set for teams so far selected are all their first road trip of the season equipped with a fair amount of next weekend. returning players.

The atoms, peewees and Last season the Bantam bantams from the Whitehorse Mustangs had just four returnrep hockey club will compete at ers. This season the team has the 12th annual International a returning goalie, four deSeafair Icebreaker Rep Tournafencemen (plus one part-time ment in Richmond, B.C., over defenceman from last year) and the Thanksgiving long weekend. seven forwards.

The Whitehorse Minor They also have size on their Hockey Association booked side, said head coach Martin the tournament in advance to Lawrie. ensure spots for the teams. â&#x20AC;&#x153;One of the first things we â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s good to get a tournanoticed was how much bigger ment early,â&#x20AC;? said Peewee Muswe are this year,â&#x20AC;? he said. tangs head coach Kirk Gale. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re excited. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re off to â&#x20AC;&#x153;Whitehorse Minor Hockey Seafair next weekend for a Tier booked them well in advance 2 tournament, so weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re kind of because itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not always easy to jumping in the deep end right get in tournaments sometimes. off the bat this season. I think They fill up quick. So Whitemost of the boys will be ready horse Minor took the initiative for it.

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Atom Mustangsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Joshua Schenk, left, puts a shot on net during the final of the Whitehorse International Atom Tournament last November. Four Mustangs rep teams have been selected and three are heading to a tournament in Richmond next weekend.

â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m very encouraged. I liked how a lot of these guys finished off last year â&#x20AC;&#x201C; the returning players â&#x20AC;&#x201C; so Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m expecting them to play really well this year.â&#x20AC;?

Lawrie is working double duties this season. In addition to the Bantam Mustangs, Lawrie is working on creating a minormidget team that will compete for Yukon at the 2015 Canada Winter Games in Prince George, B.C., in February. Members of the bantam Mustangs will likely end up on the under-17 Games team. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a team dominated by first-year, 15-year-olds right now,â&#x20AC;? said Lawrie. â&#x20AC;&#x153;And weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve called in a handful for 16-, 17-year-olds to fill out the roster.â&#x20AC;?

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The Female Mustangs has 12 returning players from last year, many of whom played at the 2014 Arctic Winter Games early this year.

As usual, the team, which has players ranging in age from 11 to 17, is very representational of the territory. There are two players from Haines Junction, three from Dawson City, one from Faro and two from Teslin.

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practicing, but the kids certainly are improving,â&#x20AC;? said Gale. â&#x20AC;&#x153;You can practice all you want, but you have to start playing some games to really see how the kids react to something different than the practice environment.â&#x20AC;?

The Mustangs organization has a pair of new coaches on board for the 2014-2015 season. Trevor Matthews is the new head coach for the Atom Jr. Mustangs and Derek Klassen is the new head coach for the Whitehorse Minor Hockey Association and the Mustangs program. â&#x20AC;&#x153;My son was involved in it last year, but I never really coached because I didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have the time, but this year I have the time,â&#x20AC;? said Matthews. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We have six players that were on the team last year, so we have a good core of kids that have the rep hockey experience.

And the core of new kids are good, theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going to be good, coachable kids and should make progress fast.â&#x20AC;?

Klassen has taken over the role of Whitehorse Minorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s head coach from Clint Mylymok, who spent one season with the association. Klassen is a Whitehorse native and Mustangs alumni. Needless to say, heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s pretty excited about the job. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a pretty cool opportunity to get back involved,â&#x20AC;? said Klassen. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s something I didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t expect to happen, but it came along and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been pretty fun so far for sure.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m just trying to see how everything is being run, where we can make improvements and where we can continue to do things weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re doing well.â&#x20AC;?

Following his time with the Mustangs, Klassen attended the Athol Murray College of Notre Dame in Saskatchewan, at which time he played AA and AAA hockey.

He also spent three seasons with the Fort McMurray Oil Barons in the Alberta Junior Hockey League, pocketing a championship along the way.

Klassen then attended the University of Alaska Fairbanks on a hockey scholarship and captained the Nanooks team for three of his four seasons with the team. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re putting a lot of emphasis on skill development with each individual player, that should help the program going into the future,â&#x20AC;? said Klassen. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We have some really good players and some awesome coaches, so Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m looking forward to what we can accomplish this year.â&#x20AC;?

Whitehorse Minor is putting together an open midget â&#x20AC;&#x201C; under-18 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Mustangs team and hopes to have the roster finalized next week. A handful of the players currently on the Bantam Mustangs will likely be moved up to the open midget squad that will compete at the B.C. Hockey Championships this March.

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 3, 2014 In fact, Whitehorse has been selected to host the Tier 3 midget division of the provincials. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Instead of B teams, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re trying to make three bantammidget teams: one bantam, one minor midget, one open midget,â&#x20AC;? said Whitehorse Minor president Carl Burgess. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The way it worked out is we basically have a minor midget team with a bunch of older guys on it and a bantam team. So we still have the same number of kids playing rep and weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re hoping if we get a coach and enough players, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll make an open midget team and put that together. And thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be the core group who compete at provincials here in March.â&#x20AC;?

In addition to the Tier 3 midget provincials, Whitehorse will also take part in the second annual Air North Challenge with three Whitehorse teams travelling to Yellowknife and three Yellowknife teams coming to Whitehorse, novice to midget, the weekend of October 24.

Also in the works is a peewee and bantam tournament next month in Whitehorse with teams from Yellowknife and Alaska attending.

The Atom Jr. Mustangs will also possibly host a Whitehorse International Atom Hockey Tournament for the second year in a row in early December.

They hosted the tournament last November with teams from Fort Nelson and Wasilla, Alaska, attending. The Mustangs ended up winning the tournament with a narrow 3-2 win over the Mat-Su Eagles from Wasilla in the final.

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Rosters Bantam Mustangs Bryce Anderson (F) Mackenzie Benn-Wipp (F) Oscar Burgess (F) Dylan Cozens (F) Johnny Elias (F) Payton Fobe (D) Lochlan Fraser (F) Cameron Gingell (F) Cruz Goodman (D) Dylan Kindervater (F) Haiden Kremer (D) Kailem Letto (D) Niall Lawrie (D) Jarod McCulloch (D) Wyatt Peterson (F) Oscar Sawicki (F) Cole Smith (G) Joe Stokes (F) Ethan Vanderkley (G) Brett Walchuk (D) Isaac Williamson (F)

Female Mustangs Mikaila Blanchard (F) Emily Grantham (F) Shania Hogan (D) Sophie Janke (D) Monica Johnson (D) Jaime King (F) Zoe Leas (D) Mary McBride (D) Haley McConnell (F) Mykhaila McInroy (F) Emma Morin (F)

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With lockout and Olympics behind it, NHL is back to normal crazy,” Boston Bruins goaltender Tuukka Rask said. “Playing that shortened season, shorter off-season year ago, the NHL was in the and really compact season with the middle of a whirlwind. The Olympics. It was kind of a long year lockout-shortened season had and a half and now a really long offbarely ended and the Sochi Olym- season and a regular season. Things pics and six outdoor games were are back to normal, I guess.” on the horizon.

This is, indeed, a regular season in “Last year was a season like no the strictest definition of the phrase. other,” commissioner Gary Bettman There are no glaring problems facing said. a business with $4 billion in revenues, When Alec Martinez scored in and things are going so well that the overtime to win the Stanley Cup for rampant expansion rumours won’t the Los Angeles Kings and the league go away even as Bettman insists the faded into summer, the ice chips NHL isn’t ready to look in that direcsettled. Now well into an era of lation just yet. bour peace and two years away from A new Canadian television-rights the likely return of the World Cup of deal should result in the salary cap Hockey, there’s nothing interrupting rising next summer, and the health of each team playing 82 from Oct. 8 the league is perhaps as good as it has through April 11. ever been.

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been better,” Bettman said. “It’s never been more competitive, more entertaining, more exciting, more unpredictable, and everything we do starts with that. We have a system that gives us stability and gives all teams an opportunity to compete, which is why we see such competitive balance.”

Calm waters all around mean there’s not a crisis, but it doesn’t mean the landscape is boring. In the Western Conference, the Kings and Chicago Blackhawks each have two championships over the past five years and haven’t shown any signs of going away.

In the process of those duelling dynasties developing, the West is in the midst of an arms race to keep up.

The Dallas Stars went out and got Jason Spezza and Ales Hemsky, the Anaheim Ducks got Ryan Kesler and the St. Louis Blues got Paul Stastny.

The Stars had one of the busiest off-seasons and are a team to get excited about. But given the stiff competition are they even one of the best three or four teams in their conference?

“I think we get lost under the radar because there are some powerhouse teams in the West,” Dallas centre Tyler Seguin said. “Teams are only getting better, and a lot of guys and top-end guys from the East are coming over and playing in the West.

I think it’s a lot of fun.”

The fun in the East is that no one’s untouchable and pre-season prognostications don’t matter. Again the Boston Bruins are the favourites, even after losing Jarome Iginla in free agency, but the Montreal Canadiens, young-and-talented Tampa Bay Lightning and ever-changing Pittsburgh Penguins could just as easily go

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Of course last year the New York Rangers showed they could make a run, too.

“It’s about getting hot at the right time,” Rangers goaltender Henrik Lundqvist said. “First thing you need to get in, but after that it’s about peaking at the right time.”

The 2013-14 season was a test of endurance, specifically for the likes of Lundqvist, Martin St. Louis and the Kings’ Drew Doughty and Jeff Carter, who all went to the gold-medal game at the Olympics and then to the Cup final. The Rangers and Kings also each played hockey outdoors last year as part of the NHL’s “Stadium Series.”

In 2014-15, only two of the 1,230 regular-season games will be outdoors: the Winter Classic at Nationals Park in Washington on Jan. 1 between the Blackhawks and Capitals and one Stadium Series event Feb. 21 at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, Calif., between the Kings and San Jose Sharks.

Cutting down from six outdoor games to two wasn’t just a matter of preventing too much of a good thing, according to Bettman, who said there’s still plenty of interest from cities to host in the future.

“Everybody wants one,” Bettman said. “What happened, though, this year, when we were looking at doing games, the games have gotten so big our clubs that are interested want more lead time. There were teams that didn’t want to go this year. They said, ‘We’ll take a game, but make it the following year because we want more lead time.”’

Future outdoor games could be coming to Toronto, Winnipeg and Minnesota. But the Maple Leafs, Jets and Wild will have to deal with 41 indoor home games this season.

Among those games, the lack of an Olympic break will allow for a more normal schedule without as many back-to-backs and stretches of three games in four nights.

After that 48-game condensed schedule after the end of the lockout in 2013 and 82 sandwiched around the Olympics last year, players hope a return to normalcy also means fewer injuries and better quality of play.

Normal, though, is relative and could be short-term. The league and the NHLPA could as soon as this month announce plans for the return of the World Cup of Hockey in 2016, and there’s still hope that players go to Pyeongchang, South Korea, for the 2018 Olympics.

That’s a concern for down the line, when prospective top picks in June’s draft like Connor McDavid and Jack Eichel are blossoming NHL stars and not just prizes for the league’s worst teams. The Sabres and Calgary Flames can dream of that, but Bettman is glad that playoff hopes are the new normal almost everywhere.

“What we have in competitive balance now is unprecedented in our history and maybe for any sport,” he said at a recent Canadian Club luncheon. “It’s more important that no matter what team you root for, you feel at this time of year, ‘Boy my team’s got a shot at the playoffs,’ and as we’ve seen the last few years once you make the playoffs anything can happen.”

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WORD SCRAMBLE Rearrange the letters to spell a word Hint: extremely sharp or keen.

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CLUES ACROSS 1. Airborne (abbr.)

4. Mother 7. The 17th Greek letter 10. Small indefinite quantity 12. Grandmothers 14. Semitic fertility god 15. Aba ____ Honeymoon 16. Bearded reddish sheep of So. Asia 17. Breezed through 18. Used of one who is overly conceited 20. Official document seal 22. Flight to avoid arrest 23. Records the brain’s electric currents

24. NW Swiss city ___-Stadt 26. Slovenly persons 29. Hit lightly 30. Favoring social equality 35. A metal-bearing mineral 36. Tennis barrier 37. Women’s undergarment 38. Psychic object movement 44. An easy return in a high arc 45. More dried-up 46. Tears down (alt. sp.)

48. Military mailbox 49. Suffix for similar

50. Washbowls 53. Melanie Wilkes’ husband 56. Late Show’s Letterman 57. Reproduction of a form 59. Mild yellow Dutch cheese 61. Affirmative votes 62. Gives over 63. Pins 64. 1776 female decendant’s org.

65. A lump of gum 66. Pen point

19. An account of incidents or events 21. NYC’s Insatiable Critic Greene 24. Uncovers 25. White aspen 27. Sacred Christian book 28. Gallipoli gulf 29. A tiny round mark 31. NY Times writer Crittenden 32. Side sheltered from the wind 33. Belonging to a thing 34. Catch in wrongdoing 39. Removes pencil marks 40. Cap with a flat circular top & visor

41. Humorously sarcastic 42. Iridaceous plants 43. A ribbon belt 47. Traipse 50. Common Indian weaverbird 51. Affirm positively 52. Smallest merganser 53. Advanced in years 54. Adam and Eve’s garden 55. A sharply directional antenna 56. Father 58. Dentist’s group 60. Mutual savings bank

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3-BDRM 2.5-BATH duplex, Copper Ridge, first floor has big open space, garage, 5 appliances, fenced yard, avail Oct 1, refs & dd reqĘźd, $1,650/mon + utils. 334-1907

HOBAH APARTMENTS: Clean, spacious, walking distance downtown, security entrance, laundry room, plug-ins, rent includes heat & hot water, no pets. References required. 668-2005

2-BDRM BASEMENT suite, Porter Creek, close to school & bus stop, N/P, N/S, $1,000/mon. 332-8801

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

Rent out by the week or for a weekend.

867-821-4443 SKYLINE APTS: 2-bdrm apartments, Riverdale. Parking & laundry facilities. 667-6958

Horwoodâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;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 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

Beautifully ďŹ nished ofďŹ ce space is available in the Taku Building at 309 Main Street.

This historic building is the ďŹ rst L.E.E.D. certiďŹ ed 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 OFFICE SPACE FOR LEASE Above Starbuckâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;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 ROOM FOR rent, N/S, N/P, avail immed, $750/mon all incl. 393-2275

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

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t kitchen area; t board/meeting room; t 10 ofďŹ ces/rooms; t reception/waiting area; t lots of windows, very bright. t 4 dedicated parking stalls with plug ins;

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2-BDRM 1-BATH upper suite, Riverdale, on bus route, N/S, N/P, DD reqĘźd, 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

YUKON APARTMENTS, 28 Lewes Blvd, now avail 2-bdrm apts, heat & elec incl, refĘźs reqĘźd. 667-4076

ROOM AVAILABLE immediately. Incls all utils, parking, laundry, semi-private bathroom, internet, N/S, $700/mon. 334-4134

1-BDRM APT, Valleyview, fully furnished, modern very private. Available Oct 1, $1,275/mon. 332-4087

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

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 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 ROOM AVAILABLE Oct 1, N/S, N/P, everything inclĘźd, $750/mon. 393-2276

3-BDRM 2-BATH duplex, Riverdale, avail immed, N/S, N/P, $1,400/mon + utils & dd.

668-2006

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

867-334-5055 or 867-333-0050

AVAILABLE OCTOBER 1st, 4-bdrm 2-bath house, Riverdale, N/P, N/S, refs&dd reqĘźd, oil deposit required, lease, $1,750/mon + utils. 335-5976

GRANGER 2-BDRM private suite. Electricity inclĘźd. Avail Oct 1, $1,275/mon. 332-4087

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

FOR RENT

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 DAWSON CITY, private bdrm & bath, shared entrance, kitchen, laundry. Heat, power & sat TV inclĘźd. 8 kms from Dawson City, $650/mon + 1/2 H20 & sewer.

867-993-5636

107 Main Street, Whitehorse Unit 1 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 1000 sq. ft. $1500 all incl.

Unit 3 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 500 sq. ft. $750 all incl.

Quiet professional building on Main Street Call to view 334-1458 Anne.

TOWN & MOUNTAIN HOTEL

RESTAURANT FOR LEASE 80 Seats on great corner Food Services to Two Lounges CONTACT BARRE FLEMING 401 Main Street Whitehorse, Yukon kayle@townmountain.com | 867-668-7644

STORE FRONT RETAIL OR OFFICE SPACE FOR RENT 1,600 square foot. Excellent location.

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

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 â&#x20AC;˘Mountain views from large wrap-around deck â&#x20AC;˘2 bedrooms, 2 full baths â&#x20AC;˘Wood and bamboo floors and cabinets â&#x20AC;˘Wood burning stove â&#x20AC;˘High efficiency heat â&#x20AC;˘RV parking area Looking for long term responsible tenants, no pets/no smoking. $1,700 mth plus utilities 1 month rent damage deposit.

Available October 15 gregochef@yahoo.ca 1-403-437-4734 2-BDRM SUITE, Riverdale, on greenbelt, N/S, N/P, built 2011, email for pics, $1,200/mon + utils. thomper13@hotmail.com 2-BDRM HOUSE 25 mins north of town, $1,200/mon, first & last month req'd, available asap. 332-2452 2-BDRM, HUGH deck, full services, Fox Lake area, new constr, beautiful wood details, pets considered, wood/oil heat, for outdoor lovers, must see, $950/mon. 667-2390 2-BDRM HOUSE, downtown, fridge/stove, hook-up for w/d, refs reqĘźd, avail Oct. 1, $950/mon + utils + first & last monthĘźs rent.

667-4380 SMALL CABIN available for short term accommodation on Annie Lake Road, fully furnished, wood stove, pet friendly, $150/week.

334-8271 3-BDRM CONDO, Takhini, great location, 2 parking places beside front door, rear deck, 5 major appliances, window blinds. 332-3598 FURNISHED ROOM for short term Oct. 01 Dec. 15, close to bus stop, all utils incl, must be pet friendly, 1 small dog & 1 cat, female preferred, $700/mon. 334-9415 ROOM, PORTER Creek home, shared living space, on bus route, must like dogs, I have 2, cannot have more, N/S, refs reqĘźd, $800/mon + utils. 335-4321 3-BDRM DUPLEX, Riverdale, private yard, close to all amenities, N/S, long term only, avail Nov. 1, $1,400/mon + utils. 456-7397 2,000 SQ ft shop, 600 sq ft office, full bathroom, avail immed, Brian at 780-351-2677 FURNISHED ROOM, Riverdale, roommate wanted to share 3-bdrm non-smoking condo with 2 others & friendly dog, parking is limited, dd&refs reqĘźd, avail immed, $550/mon.

333-9492 2-BDRM HOUSE, 4 appliances, Echo Lake, avail immed, $1,000/mon + utils. 351-2677 1-BDRM & den, furnished, until May approx, newly renoĘźd, 2nd fl at High Country RV Park, refs reqĘźd, $1,000/mon incl heat & power. 334-4994 2-BDRM MOBILE home on large property 30 mins from Whitehorse, oil heat/elec incl, avail Oct 1, $1,695/mon. 668-2215 after 7pm BACHELOR PAD, new const, clean & compact, full services, responsible tenant, pets considered, very quiet, Fox Lake area, great fishing, $550/mon. 667-2390 lv msg

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1-BDRM, FOX Lake area, new const, full services, wood/oil heat, pets considered, very quiet, lots of outdoor space, $750/mon.

667-2390 lv msg DOWNTOWN 1 bdrm self-contained suite, heat incl, N/S, N/P, responsible tenant, $900/mon + dd. 667-2631 1-BDRM STUDIO suite, bright & modern, responsible, quiet tenant, kitchenette, completely furnished, cable internet, Sat tv, N/S, N/P, no parties, $750/mon + utils. 668-6808 2-BDRM BSMT legal suite, open concept, shed, close to bus stop & Super A, N/S, N/P, no parties, $1,100/mon + utils + $1,100 dd.

335-9732 or 633-2158 after 5pm

3-BDRM 2-BATH house, 33 Wilson Dr, $1,350/mon + utils. To view phone 668-6884 or csuley@northwestel.net

2-BDRM 1-BATH, Whistlebend, modern, new, avail Nov 1, large windows, 2-storey, private laundry, small yard, pets negotiable, N/S, $1,400/mon + utils. Jackie 336-1496

1-BDRM GROUND floor suite, Porter Creek, clean, bright, private, N/S, N/P, avail Nov 1, $900/mon + utils & dd. bellis@klondiker.com

Wanted to Rent HOUSESITTER AVAILABLE Mature, responsible person Call Suat at 668-6871 RESPONSIBLE, SINGLE woman who can take care of plants/small pets looking to house sit in December before the 19th.

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HOUSE HUNTERS

IDEAL COUNTRY RESIDENTIAL LIVING

ATLIN CABIN, 16'x20' chinked log cabin on 50'x100' town lot, power, heat, outhouse, $49,000. voicemail-250-651-2253 or preferably email gacrawford@hughes.net

QUIET, RESPONSIBLE tenants looking for 1 or 2 bdrm, N/S, N/P, non-partying, single parent with young teenager, $1,200 inclusive. Quietfamily123@gmail.com.

SMALL CABIN, 8ĘźX12Ęź on skid, fridge, stove, propane heater, electricity, porch, lots of windows, double insulated, $11,000.

867-660-5545

5 ACRES rural residential, Annie Lake Road, cleared, driveway, power available, $165,000. 867-334-8271

Real Estate

2-BDRM 2-BATH truly incredible view property in Carcross, 3 acres, propertyguys.com #143659, $299,000. 633-2686

ESTATE SALE, 7253 Watch Lake Rd, Lone Butte, BC, 3,074 sq ft rancher home, 3-bdrm 3-bath, full basement, 2-car garage, 25 acres, shop, sheds, $399,000. 250-695-6670

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

PROPERTY FOR sale, corner of Range Road & Rhine Road. 332-1927

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

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.

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.

Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t miss this unique opportunity to own a large home, rental apt and a 30x55 shop/garage, just 15 minutes from downtown!

Too many features to list!! Ask for details at:

Help Wanted

INCOME PROPERTY, 2 duplexes, large shop & office space currently rented at $4,000/mon. Brian at 780-351-2677

For more information please visit www.yukonenergy.ca.

NEWLY RETROFITTED HOUSE

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

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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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

3-BDRM 2-BATH house, large, well treed corner lot near schools & bus, basement suite, 49 Redwood, Porter Creek, will consider offers. 633-6553

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CARCROSS, YUKON

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.

Extremely well built 2 bedroom, 2 bath home with open ďŹ&#x201A;oor plan, two decks and a huge back yard. A half acre cleared lot is landscaped and includes outside storage, covered wood storage, and a fenced chicken coup.

364,000.00

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

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

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 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.

Please submit resume with references to frontstreetclothing@hotmail.com.

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Mobile & Modular Homes Serving Yukon, NWT & Alaska

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.

667-7681 or cell 334-4994 23 Lorne Rd. in McCrae

clivemdrummond@gmail.com

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.

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ELECTRICIANS NEEDED NOW

Head Cook

A well-established electrical contracting company since 1992, High Point Electric Ltd. requires experienced Journeymen and Apprentice Electricians for a commercial project in Whitehorse.

The Town and Mountain Hotel is seeking a qualiďŹ ed kitchen cook to manage the food service for The Towne Club Lounge, which is open from 4:00 to 11:00 PM daily.

Electrical Experience to include: t Conduit, BX and distribution work, ďŹ xture installation, bending EMT t Commercial and light industrial t have the ability to work alone or as part of a team t have your own vehicle, tools and safety gear t able to work - day & night shift, overtime t have a valid driverâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s license

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Please contact: Barre Fleming 401 Main St Whitehorse 668-7644

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Employment Opportunity 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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Assistant Venue Coordinator â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Old Fire Hall.

The Old Fire Hall is Yukon Arts Centreâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s downtown venue specializing in community events, workshops and intimate presentations.

The Yukon Arts Centre is a not for proďŹ t charitable organization that is dedicated to the development of the arts as an important cultural, social and economic force in the Yukon. We intend to be model for the development of the arts in the north and a stimulus for a vibrant and creative Territory. We are seeking a like-minded team player that can help us achieve our goals: an enthusiastic, innovative and skilled individual with excellent people skills who will ďŹ ll the position of Assistant Venue Coordinator â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Old Fire Hall.

The Assistant Venue Coordinator will provide support and guidance to the clients of the Yukon Arts Centreâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Old Fire Hall; including professional artists, community performers and commercial clients. The Old Fire Hall is a community venue; the Assistant Venue Coordinator should be able work with diverse clients in all aspects of planning their event. They should also have knowledge and experience with basic lighting design and operation; live sound, video and general stage technical services. The person will work closely with the Venue Coordinator and the YAC Technical Director.

Duties 1. Assist in all areas of event presentation.

2. Operate the facility independently as required by the rental/ event.

3. Perform regular and seasonal maintenance and upkeep to all theatrical equipment.

4. Meet with clients to establish event requirements and assist in all areas of event planning and execution.

5. Assist in the training and development of local volunteers wishing to assist at the facility.

6. Assist with the occupational safety and health of co-workers, performers, volunteers and audience members.

7. Assist in planning and implementing technical improvements to the Old Fire Hall.

Required Knowledge and Skills 1. Stagecraft or stage management diploma from a recognized postsecondary institution or a minimum of 2 years related equivalent work experience.

2. Experience with assisting and working with community and semiprofessional groups with patience, understanding and consideration.

The candidate must have strong communication skills; good time management skills, ďŹ&#x201A;exibility and be able to approach each situation with diplomacy.

3. Experience working in a wide range of related production areas including sound, lighting and rigging.

4. Demonstrated ability to work independently with minimum direct supervision and the capacity to work smoothly with other team members and community 5. Experience working in a community facility with a wide variety of events and short turn around time.

6. Demonstrated ability to work and assist a wide range event types including live music, theatre, dance, variety shows, ďŹ lm presentations, weddings and corporate presentations.

7. Demonstrated ability to establish priorities and achieve deadlines.

8. Demonstrated ability to work in a safe and timely manner.

9. Ability to work at heights, climb ladders, lift up to 50 pounds and skill with basic power tools.

10. Literate with computer systems and software. (Windows 7, Mac OS).

11. A good sense of humour is a useful asset.

This is a 32 hour per week Public Service Alliance of Canada position with a wage range of $19.81 - $20.62 per hour. Hire Date: As soon possible.

Applications will be accepted until the position is ďŹ lled.

Please provide a cover letter with a detailed rĂŠsumĂŠ with related experiences. We encourage all members of the community to apply. The Yukon Arts Centre is an equal opportunity employer. We thank all those that take the time to apply. We will only contact those that best meet the listed qualiďŹ cations.

Submit rĂŠsumĂŠs and cover letter to: Josh Jansen, Technical Director.

Email: josh.jansen@yac.ca (preferred). Phone 867 667-8568 FAX: 867 393-6300 Mail: PO Box 16, Whitehorse, YT. Y1A-5X9

SPECTRUM SECURITY-SOUND LTD is looking for a reliable, self motivated, full-time technician for installation and programming of a variety of communication systems including phone and alarm systems.

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

Apply in person at 133 Industrial Rd.

FOOD COUNTER ATTENDANT (NOC:6641)

DUTIES: MAKING COFFEE, CASH, CUSTOMER SERVICE, CLEANING. 35-40 hours/week, $14/hour

Apply via email: mitsue@bakedcafe.ca

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

Specializing in estate clean-up & buy-outs.

The best way to deal with your concerns.

Free, no obligation consultation.

333-0717 OLSEN OIL furnace with chimney & flashings, suitable for garage, works well, $200.

633-5569 MENĘźS BASQUE hiking boots, size 10.5 or 11, $50. 667-7144 GARRET ELECTRONICS, 4-coil metal locator w/case, exc shape, $600. 332-6565 SPILSBURY TINDALL SBX-11 2-way radio w/antenna, $450. 332-6565 INSULATED CHIMNEY, two 3Ęź sections & rain cap, 6â&#x20AC;? inside diameter, rated for 650 degrees, $100 ea obo. 456-4926 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 DIAMOND RING, 10 Cdn diamonds, white gold, never been worn, all paperwork incl, size 7, new $1,800, asking $1,000. 334-7405 HAMSTER CAGE w/accessories, $45, Inglis clothes dryer, like new, $200, house plants $5-$20, silk flowers $10-$100, stool, like new, $20. 668-4186 WOLF HIDE, large tanned timber wolf pelt, typical grey & white colour, $500. 668-3632 lv msg 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 900L FUEL oil tank and stand, 2004 model, free. 456-4926 CANADA BOOK of the Road, hard cover, complete. Motoring Guide of Canada. Pictures Maps and Tourist Guide, $20.

633-3113

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 3, 2014 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 2 GLASS display cases, 38â&#x20AC;?HX24â&#x20AC;?WX42â&#x20AC;?L, 334-4568 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

59 ANTIQUE Royal Doulton airline dishes, offers. 332-6565

17 CU ft freezer, $150; 21 cu ft freezer, $100. 633-3805

MENĘźS COWICHAN sweater, sz L, $75, menĘźs mucklucks sz 11 snowshoes, handmade, with bindings, $300, hipwaders, sz 11, $50, chestwaders, sz 11, $50. 660-5942

WHIRLPOOL W A S H E R , HE model WTW4900BW, used 15 times, still under warranty, paid $560, asking $300 firm.

633-4607

TRAPLINE FOR lease, #301 Tagish, 867-399-3001 for info

TVs & Stereos

KIDS WOODEN 3 in 1 starter bike, grows with your child, Wishbone brand, very eco-friendly, $250. 633-3392

BELL EXPRESSVU 60 cm dish, qty 2, new, $20 ea. 667-8726 STAR CHOICE dish, $50. 633-5569

CASH REGISTER, $50. 667-7144 31â&#x20AC;? CIRCULAR saw blade great shape, no chips in teeth, if youĘźre brave enough to use a saw that big or would make a great decoration, $100. 633-3392

CROSLEY ELECTRIC clothes dryer, works great, 11 yrs old, $75, 335-7711

FURNACE, 1 yr old, with 250 gal fuel tank full of fuel, $700. 332-8393

WHIRLPOOL PROFILE 4-burner stove, very clean, vg cond, must sell $125. 633-3982

10â&#x20AC;? RADIAL arm saw, Craftsman Contractor model, 120/240 volt, gd cond. Will deliver to Whse, $325. 250-651-7726

17 CU ft refrigerator & electric range, both white, great cond, $250 for both. 633-2837

3 PATTERNED hard cover books, The Cowboys, The Great Indian Chiefs, Famous Gun Fighters of North America. As a set, $50.

633-3113

Musical Instruments

Electrical Appliances

KERR OIL furnace, 74,000 BTU, serviced every year, very good cond, $450 obo.

667-6365

WHITEPASS WINTER coat, men's large.

Black w/Whitepass logo, exc cond, rare find, $100. 336-8737

KENMORE WASHER, 29â&#x20AC;? wide. Works well but has small leak in bottom. Free. 633-2837 18CUFT FRIDGE in exc working cond, $175.

333-9020 FREE DRYER, working cond. Must pick up.

668-4587

REXON 10" commercial table saw with extension, has Rexon RM-425, 115/ 230 volt single phase motor, exc cond, $500 obo.

667-7222 TONNEAU COVER for Ford short box Super Duty, $250 obo. Owen or Lana 633-6617 TELESCOPE 12â&#x20AC;? Schmidt-Cassegrain Meade Lx-200, alt-az mount, with tripod, new in 1994, mostly lived in closet, good optics, good cosmesis, $1,400 firm, in Atlin. Dick at 250-651-0055 TROY-BILT SINGLE stage snow thrower, new Oct 2011, used once, carburetor needs cleaning, $250. 633-2431 9am-10pm LADIES CLOTHING, sizes 4X-6X, tops, pants and reversible coat ranging from $5 to $30. 633-4728

Stringed instrument repair and fine furniture restoration

Erica Heyligers * luthier 104 Tungsten Rd., Whitehorse, YT Y1A 6T9

867-668-3408 erica@northwestel.net VIOLINS, 1/8, 1/2 & 3/4 sizes. Incls case, bows & accessories. $300 to $500.

456-4900

OIL MONITOR, Model 422, can be plumbed in and can run off self-contained tank, includes exhaust, $1,000. 456-4926 FREE, APPROX 150 12" vinyl classical discs, mainly Beethoven, most in first-class shape, in Atlin. Dick at 250-651-0055 FREE, APPROX 15 lbs of dry birch bark from Telegraph Creek tree, pieces 6-10" by 16-24", in Atlin, Dick at 250-651-0055 SMALL POOL/AIR Hockey table, includes 4 pool cues and wall stand, $75 obo. Owen or Lana 633-6617 WHITE MINK coat w/blk leather trim, older style, full length double breasted, size small, $400. 334-2041 YUKON WILDLIFE Conservation stamps, rare and unique collection of 13 stamps, from 1996-2008, beautiful artwork depicting Yukon birds and wildlife, $150. 633-3154

EXCAVATOR OPERATORS WITH MINIMUM 5 YEARSâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; OPERATING EXPERIENCE.

Castle Rock is seeking experienced

Standard First aid an asset and must be committed to safety.

Forward resumes to ofďŹ ce@castlerockent.com or fax to 867-633-2621 Castle Rock Enterprises is a local General contractor based in Whitehorse which prides itself on client satisfaction and a strong commitment to safety.

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:

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

Position Type: Department: Closing: Salary:

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

Complete position details and job description can be found online at: www.kwanlindun.com/employment

STAFF NEEDED:

YARD WORKS 30'' snow blower, extreme auger, remote chute control, electric start, $300. 660-5942

SCHOOL BUS, no engine, drive train ok, seats removed, good glass, would have to be towed from current location an hour from town, use for cabin/shed/homeless shelter, $500. 633-3392 BARBECUE TABLE, $35. 660-4321 4-DRAWER METAL filing cabinet; Vision Fitness R2200 bike w/heart monitor, hardly used, $300. 633-5362

Part Time Servers Part Time Cashiers Part Time Delivery Drivers Part Time Cooks

RIELLO BURNER with furnace blower, make an offer. 334-2695 WHITE MICROWAVE, $25, small white bar fridge $25, small 4Ęź Christmas tree with sparkly lights, $10. 668-5882 CRAFT SUPPLIES. 667-7144

Forward resumes to ofďŹ ce@castlerockent.com or fax to 867-633-2621 Castle Rock Enterprises is a local General contractor based in Whitehorse which prides itself on client satisfaction and a strong commitment to safety.

P.O. Box 40, Pelly Crossing, YT Y0B 1P0 Phone: (867) 537-3331 Fax: 867-537-3902

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.

Provides leadership, direction and management of the department responsible for the provision of corporate human resource management information systems.

Education and Experience: t %FHSFF JO )VNBO 3FTPVSDF .BOBHFNFOU PS t " EJQMPNB JO 'JSTU /BUJPO HPWFSOBODF BOE BENJOJTUSBUJPO QSPHSBN PS t &RVJWBMFOU DPNCJOBUJPO PG USBJOJOH BOE FYQFSJFODF JO B TFOJPS MFWFM QPTJUJPO with a government organization.

Conditions of Employment: t 7BMJE $MBTT %SJWFS T MJDFODF t $SJNJOBM 3FDPSET DIFDL t $POmEFOUJBMJUZ 0BUI t *OUPYJDBOUT 0BUI *OUFSFTUFE JOEJWJEVBMT NBZ TVCNJU UIFJS SFTVNFT CZ October 3, 2014, 4:30 p.m. to: "MCFSU %SBQFBV &YFDVUJWF %JSFDUPS 4FMLJSL 'JSTU /BUJPO #PY 1FMMZ $SPTTJOH :5 : # 1 &NBJM FYFDEJS!TFMLJSLGO DPN t 'BY We thank those that apply and advise that only those selected for an interview will be contacted

CULTURAL COUNSELLOR â&#x20AC;&#x201D; JACKSON LAKE WELLNESS TEAM

TIFFANY HANGING lamp, green, one of a kind, $100; double air mattress with accordion frame, $40. 633-5009

SELLING 2 Air North shares, come with this yearĘźs flight benefits, $10,000 ea. 668-4082

First aid an asset and must be committed to safety.

E M P L OY M E N T O P P O RT U N I T Y

THE CAT Who books, first 30, $20; complete works of Scott Peck, $30. 633-5009

LADIES ITEMS, JEANS, tops, dress slacks, extra lg, 16, 18, great cond, some new with tags, been in storage, $1 per item, shoes/dress boots size 7.5-8 $2 or $3.

867-689-5907

Castle Rock is seeking experienced CLASS 1 TRUCK DRIVERS & CLASS 3 WITH AIR BRAKE, 3 YEARS DRIVING EXPERIENCE.

Selkirk First Nation

AMERICA AT The Millennium, hard cover, 262 pages of poetry. The best poems & poets of the 20th century, $25. 633-3113 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

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2220 2nd Ave

Apply in person Karen to Tony

Capital Planning & Development Manager This is a full time employment opportunity.

Reporting to the Director Capital & Infrastructure, the Capital Planning & Reporting to the Executive Manager, the Policy Analyst develops, monitors and evaluates TTC policy and develops processes for policy approval and implementation.

A degree or diploma in First Nation Governance, Public Administration, Political Science, Business Administration, or a related field combined with experience working with First Nations governments, preferably at a senior level will prepare you for this position. Your skills will include the ability to develop, implement and evaluate policies and procedures including research, analysis, synthesis of complex issues; collaboration and consultation with stakeholders.

We encourage those who are interested to call for more information and a full job description For detailed job description call 867.390.2532 ext 316 Please quote the job title in the subject line of your email, fax and/or cover letter: HR & Staff Development Officer Teslin Tlingit Council Box 133 Teslin, Yukon Y0A 1B0 f. 867.390.2176 humanresources@ttc-teslin.com

Closing Date: Friday, October 10, 2014

EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY www.ttc-teslin.com

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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 SAMICK PIANO, made in Korea, maple, paid $4,200, will sell for $2,000. 667-4970

Firewood

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

DONĘźS FIREWOOD Scheduled daily deliveries HJ Beetle kill Spruce $260 per cord, City limits Phone 393-4397

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

FIREWOOD FOR SALE Beetle killed Approximately 20-cord logging truck loads $150 per cord Also offering approx 8-cord orders Delivered to Whitehorse Call Clayton @ 867-335-0894

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

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

MasterCard

Cheque, Cash S.A. vouchers accepted.

JUNGLE CARBINE in perfect cond, packed in grease. $600 firm. 333-9056

FOR SALE

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

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

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 3, 2014

NON-RESTRICTED FIREARMS course presented by Whitehorse Rifle & Pistol Club Oct 18 & 19. For more info call 334-1688 or 667-6728

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

SAVAGE 93R17 GV Bolt Action (HMR .17cal), new w/o scope, shot twice, $280 obo. Ray at 335-4179

1991 DODGE Dynasty, 4 snows mounted, new battery, runs great, am leaving Yukon, $1,000. 335-3277 or see at Judas Creek Marina, Doehle Dr Marsh Lake

Wanted

WANTED: WOOD stove, medium size, for greenhouse. 393-3777 WANTED: LEATHER loveseat recliner in good cond. 393-3777 WANTED: MOVING boxes, wardrobes, etc.

399-3710 VOLUNTEER NEEDED to assist Thomson Centre Residents in a hand bell program Monday afternoons starting in October. For more information call Kathy 393-8629 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

2013 HYUNDAI Genesis Coupe, 2.0T, 12,000 kms. 334-9039 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 2011 NISSAN Sentra sedan, 2.0L, 4-cyl, auto, AM/FM/CD, P/W, P/L, 42,000km, $9,900. 660-4220

WANTED: FIREWOOD, 24â&#x20AC;? long, delivered to Marsh Lake. 660-4001

2011 T O Y O T A Matrix hatchback, 65,000kms, command start, summer/winter tires, $16,550 obo. Salina or Gerry at 334-6338

LOOKING TO sell Air North shares? IĘźm interested in buying some. Call 335-2388 or 333-9181

2009 CHEV Cobalt SL Tudor, metallic grey, 32,690km, standard, clean, exc cond, $7,500. 667-7222

WANTED: GALVALUME roofing material, 23â&#x20AC;? lengths or longer. 456-4926

2009 NISSAN Altima sedan, 2.5L auto, air, tilt, cruise, Am/FM, CD, p/windows & locks, 137,000 kms, $9,900. 660-4220

WANTED: USE of small milling machine to drill dowel along central axis, needs to be exact, willing to pay for service. 633-2300

Cars

2009 VW Jetta diesel, great shape, highway driven, just over 100,000km, 6-spd, exc fuel economy, c/w winter tires, $12,000 obo.

336-4687

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2008 TOYOTA Corolla, red, exc cond, 95,000 km, c/w 4 winter tires on rims, clean/well cared for, $9,500. 336-2694

.22 COOEY single shot rifle, $100. 335-1106

Trucks

2006 HONDA Civic sedan, P/W P/L, cruise, a/c, factory autostart, new summer/winter tires mounted on rims, exc shape inside and out, 108,000 kms, $10,500. 334-5043

2010 Dodge Ram 1500 4X4 quad cab ONLY 52,000KM! The 5.7 litre Hemi has plenty of power and the Eco drive makes it great on fuel.

Comes with a trailer break and tonneau cover.

deuces11@hotmail.com

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

334-3655 $22,00 OBO 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 2008 NISSAN Versa SL, grey, 6-spd standard, 111,000 km, 2nd owner seniors, cruise, P/W, P/L, A/C, tilt, stereo, CD, 4 winter tires on rims, vg cond, clean, $6,400.

332-1945

BETTER BID NORTH Auctions & Appraisals has been commissioned by ATCO Electric to sell by sealed bids the following vehicles:

1999 Dodge 4x4 Ram 250 Single Cab (Unit 851) .........................................................Showing 202,506 km

2001 Chevrolet Silverado 2055HD 4x4 Single Cab with service body (Unit 163).............................Showing 226,238km

2000 Chevrolet S10 Club Cab

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, vg cond.

334-5607 2003 SUBARU AWD Legacy SW, solid, reliable, safe, install the near new Hakapollita studded snow tires/steel rims, exc shape, winterized, $6,400. 334-3555

1998 Honda ATV 350cc 4x4

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, $4,695. 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 1999 HONDA Civic hatchback, black, manual, radio/CD, remote starter, block heater, winter & all-season tires, 177,000km, $3,000. 335-1913 1999 PONTIAC Sunfire, sporty auto, 4-dr, large trunk, clean & good mechanical cond, $2,000 obo. 393-1992 or contact fossilpoint@northwestel.net 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 1983 TOYOTA Tercel, 4-dr hatchback, good running cond, some rust & needs exhaust repair, $350 obo. 334-3375

with canopy (Unit 882).......................................................Showing 227,342 km

All vehicles can be viewed at the Better Bids North Auction Yard #24 Laberge Rd (Kulan Industrial) Bids will be received from Friday, September 26, 2014 until Wednesday, October 15, 2014.

The successful bidder will be notiďŹ ed on Thursday, October 16,2014. Highest bid not necessarily accepted. ATCO Electric Yukon reserves the right to accept or reject any bid.

Please contact auctioneer, Paul Heynen @ 333-0717 to view vehicles and ďŹ ll out bid form.

A deposit of $100 is required on all bids. Unsuccessful bidders will have their deposits returned; successful bidders deposits will go toward the purchase. *Note: Should a successful bidder refuse to purchase, their deposit will be forfeited.

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!

Loaded!

$

3,595

2012 Wildwood Towable RV Trailer 26 Ft Long

$

18,995

2014 Chev 1500 Silverado Double Cab, White, 2,500 Kms

$

25,995

2014 Chevrolet Silverado 1500 4x4

with Trailer & Tow

CrewCab, Antilock Rearend, Silver

$

33,995

*VEHICLES MAY NOT BE EXACTLY AS SHOWN

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For Quick Approval call: 668-5559 #4 Fraser Road, McCrae, Whitehorse, YT Y1A 5S8 EMAIL: woloshyn@northwestel.net

We Sell Trucks!

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

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

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 3, 2014 2013 CHEV Silverado 1500 extended cab with suicide doors, low km, box liner, 4x4, $32,200 or take over payments. 334-9415 2011 DODGE Grand Caravan, 157,000km recently serviced, $12,000 obo. 334-4944 2011 F150 4X4, regular cab, long box, V6.

Special, 1/2 price. 393-1953 2010 DODGE Ram 1500 4X4 quad cab, 52,000km, 5.7L Hemi, powerful, good on fuel, c/w trailer break & tonneau, $22,000 obo. cover.deuces11@hotmail.com, 334-3655 2010 F-150 Lariat, pearl white on black leather, 4-dr, 6.5' box, pwr everything with all options, 130,000km, auto, 4x4, over $65,000 new, asking $26,000. 250-254-1945 2008 FORD Escape XLT, 6 cyl, auto, heated seats, 144,000kms, $11,000. 633-6528 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 2005 CHEV 2500 4x4, 6.0L, V8, auto, extended cab, 240,000km, headache rack, bumper winch, gooseneck hitch, very dependable, $8,500 obo. 332-8283/text Earl

TOW MASTER 5000 front hitch to pull car behind motorhome, was on Geo Tracker but could adapt to other vehicle, $350.

867-536-7206 50 ASSORTED mufflers, 50 exhaust pipes, adapters, etc, $500. 536-7206 SMITTYBILD WINCH bumper, no winch, for 2012 Jeep Wrangler Unlimited, $500 obo.

668-6716 1998 PONTIAC Sunfire for parts, as is, where is, $400 obo. 334-9325 4- GOODYEAR Wrangler P255-70R16 tires, like new, $125. 660-4000 4 WHEELS & tires, 245/40 R19 on Buick aluminum rims, 19X8.5 c/w TPMS, only 8,000 kms, $1,000. 333-9221 HEADACHE RACK, metal, for 8Ęź box, $100; wheel trim for Ford 1988, stainless steel, 4 pieces, $80. 667-7223 GOODYEAR N O R D I C winter tires, P205/75R14 w. 5-hole rims, used on Buick for 2 seasons, $200 for all. 667-8726 13â&#x20AC;? TIRES, 4 summer & 4 winter, $100 takes all. Phil @ 335-5707

2005 DODGE SLT 2500 short box diesel, canopy, driving lights, sliding cargo bed, newer tires, 195,000km, $16,500. 668-4479 2005 FORD Explorer, fully loaded, heated leather seats, remote starters, 7 passenger seating, 147,000 km, motivated to sell, $9,000 obo. 336-6410 2005 FORD F350 diesel 4x4 auto, crew cab, short box, good cond, $9,000. 334-7373 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 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 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

Pets 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 25 GALLON fish tank with fish & accessories. $50 takes all. 456-2464 WANTED: 2 kittens. 633-2263 15-HOLE DOG box, boxes big enough to double load, c/w hot water heated box for thawing frozen meat while traveling, 2-level w/storage space in middle & end, $800 obo.

633-6502

1999 SUBURBAN 1500 4x4, full load, 8 passenger, new tires, 260,000km, $7,000.

Call/text 333-0186 1999 TOYOTA Rav 4, 4X4 standard, $4,890 obo. 667-6726 1998 FORD Winstar, good runner, very clean, 7-passenger, c/w new safety cert, $2,995 obo. 867-536-7206 1994 CHEV Club Cab, 4WD w/5th wheel, $1,200 obo. 322-1514 1994 ISUZU Trooper 4X4, 4-dr, black, very clean, needs engine work, $1,200 obo.

867-536-7206 1991 CHEVY Astro Van, 307,000km, needs fuel pump, tires, take it away for $300.

335-7711 1990 FORD F250 4-spd manual, comes with canopy, $1,200. 456-4567 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 1988 FORD F150 2WD, extended cab, tons of new parts, excellent truck, $1,200.

667-7223 1984 FORD F350 4X4, c/w winter tires & 2 spares on rims, reg cab, 10Ęź box, 4X4 works, diesel, $2,500. 334-8086 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

Auto Parts & Accessories TRUCK CANOPIES - in stock * new Dodge long/short box * new GM long/short box * new Ford long/short box Hi-Rise & Cab Hi - several in stock View at centennialmotors.com 393-8100 TIRES, FITS Sunfire, P195/70R14 90S, all season, lots of tread, $35 ea. 335-7711 MANUAL 5 speed transmission from a 2WD 1996 V6 Chevy/GMC. Works great. Reasonable offer. 334-7723 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

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

by Trailtech - SWS & Featherlight CALL ANYTIME: 334-2194 www/taittrailers.com RONĘźS SMALL ENGINE SERVICES Repairs to Snowmobiles, Chainsaws, Lawnmowers, ATVĘźs, Small industrial equipment.

Light welding repairs available 867-332-2333 lv msg

2014

have your pets SPAYED OR NEUTERED. FOR INFORMATION CALL

633-6019

2007 YAMAHA Phazer RTX, 121â&#x20AC;? track, piped, new skis & carbides, elec start & reverse, $3,500 obo. 393-4397 2006 HONDA 750 Shadow, 15,000kms, sounds like a Harley, $1,900 firm. 333-0717 2009 KLR 650, only 7,000 kms, c/w 2 helmets & saddle bags. In really good shape, $4,200. 332-6678 SLED DECK for long box p/u. Aluminum const with electric power tilt motor, $1,200 obo. 333-0117 1989 HONDA 3-wheeler ATV, $250 obo.

Wayne at 456-7707 2 ARGO Conquests, $6,500 and $5,500, or $10,000 for both. 867-863-5715

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

MOTORCYCLES:

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

YAMAHA

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

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

Pet of the Week!

AO

Hi my name is Mao! I would really like to meet new people, and maybe get some pats on the head and get scratches under the chin. So come down and meet me today.

Help control the pet overpopulation problem

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 3

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

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

INVENTORY

YUKON

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

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

GENTLY USED

2000 GMC 4S, 4 door, long box, loaded, runs well, $3,500 obo. 334-9903 1999 GMC 2500 SLE, 4X4, auto, 213,000kms, extended cab, canopy, camper ready, clean, $5,500 obo. 334-6941

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LOST/FOUND LOST t Takhini, male neutered, DLH, light orange, no collar, answers to Sandy, Contact Deede @ 456-7172 (05/09/14) t Top of Grey Mountain, female spay, yellow lab, microchip, wearing a red collar with tags, answers to Taku, Contact Anne-Marie @ 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, answers to Pelly, Contact Tony @ 335-0941 (18/09/14) t Benchmark trailer park. Female. Tabby approx. 10 months. not wearing a collar.

Answers to July. Contact Carmen @ 333-

0069 (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)

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) t Airport Chalet, pug X, male wearing a black collar, has red paint on the left leg, and a cherry eye in the right eye, Contact Evghenii @ 416-834-8596 (27/09/14)

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 3 yr. old, neutered male, GSD/Rottie, black and brown (Tristan)

t 2 yr. old, female spayed, collie X, white and black, (Dot)

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

AT THE SHELTER 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 yr. old, female spayed, rottie X, brindle (Daphne) t 2 yr. old, female spayed, husky, brown, ( Foxy) t 9 month old, male, beardog X, blonde (Snoosh) t 8 weeks old, male, collie X, brown, ( Thor)

CATS t 9yr old, female spayed, calico, torte and white,(Mao)

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

633-6019 126 Tlingit Street

www.humanesocietyyukon.ca

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

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

You can also check out our award winning website at:

WWW.HUMANESOCIETYYUKON.CA

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Motorcycles & Snowmobiles 2004 P O L A R I S 600 ATV, winch, hand/thumb warmer, hand guards, 286 hrs, well maintained, $4,500, wonĘźt last long.

867-660-4000 2004 MOUNTAIN Cat 800, 800 mi, $3,600, 2001 RMK 600, piped, new clutch, not pretty but runs great, $1,900, buy both with simple 1 place trailer $5,300. 250-254-1945

Marine

24Ęź STARCRAFT aluminum boat. Asking $10,000 obo or will consider trade for cargo trailer. 668-4593 or 335-1283

Heavy Equipment 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

PROFESSIONAL BOAT REPAIR Fiberglass Supplies Marine Accessories FAR NORTH FIBERGLASS 49D MacDonald Rd Whitehorse, Yukon 393-2467

TECH ARMORED electrical cable, 4 wire, 000, 867-863-5715

Aircraft

18Ęź INFLATABLE V hull speed boat & trailer, 70 hp, fuel tanks & controls, $6,000.

456-4926 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 FREE WOODEN boat, 16.6Ęź w/extended transom, console steering & cuddy cabin, gd cond. No motor. $400 for the trailer. New tires. 336-8737

FOR SALE or lease, half interest in Cessna 180. Wheels, wheel-skis & floats, 7130 TT, 615 SMOH. 867-335-5787

Campers & Trailers 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

TAITĘźS TRAILERS www.taittrailers.com taits@northwestel.net Quality new and used Horse * Cargo * Equipment trailers For sale or rent Call Anytime 334-2194 Southern prices delivered to the Yukon 2004 PIONEER travel trailer, overall length 28Ęź, large bath, queen bed, full kitchen, stereo, large awning, $9,800. 633-2580 2009 30' Citation trailer, polarpak pkg, enclosed valves tanks, thermopane windows dualpane skylights, 50amp power baseboard heaters, slide awnings, 16" wheels, shocks, equalizer hitch/antisway. 633-3339 or 334-9634 1991 31Ęź school bus, 366 gas engine, seats removed, Allison 3-spd auto, good running order, suitable for storage, camping, moving, or shed. 633-5155 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 2007 NORTHWIND 20Ęź pull type trailer.

Sleeps 6, Jack and Jill bunks, fridge, stove, microwave, AC, stereo, $12,000 obo.

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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

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 1985 CLASS C motorhome 460, F350 Ford chassis, 30Ęź, very clean inside/out, $7,500 obo. 867-536-7206 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 2001 NORTHERN Lite 9.5' truck camper, bsmt model, oven, bathroom/shower, forced air, large fridge with freezer, n/s queen bed, hot water, outside shower, 1900 lbs dry, $10,900 obo. 633-5545

Coming Events

Placing of the headstones will take place at the Carcross cemetery at 1pm. Potlatch to follow at the Gooch Tlaa School.

Headstone Potlatch

Larry Joe Saturday Oct. 4, 2014 WOLF CLAN

Unveiling at 2:00 pm at the Joe family homestead in Marsh Lake Potlatch to begin at 3:30

Everyone welcome!

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 HOSPICE YUKON: Free, confidential services offering compassionate support to those facing advanced illness, death and bereavement. Visit our lending library @ 409 Jarvis, M-F 11:30-3:00, 667-7429, www.hospiceyukon.net

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 3, 2014 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 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 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 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 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 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 FRIENDS OF Mount Sima Society AGM October 8 at 7pm, Mount Sima Chalet. See how you can help with plans for 2015. See you there. Call 336-3483 for details WHITEHORSE DUPLICATE Bridge Club is holding beginner Bridge lessons starting Oct 25. Contact Bruce at 660-5101 or email nmcgowan@klondiker.com for more information 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 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 ALPINE SKI Association of Yukon AGM is on October 7 at 7pm, in Sport Yukon Boardroom. Registration begins in early November.

FHCOLLINS 60S Reunion, July 10th to 12th, 2015. Go to: FHCollins60sReunion for details or Pat @ 633-5155 MEDITATION RETREAT, Saturday October 4 & Sunday October 5, 9am-5pm, Association Francophone Yukonnaise, 302 Strickland St. Contact@vajaranorth.org 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 GOLDEN AGE Society: If anyone over 55 is interested in playing pool or shuffleboard, call Deborah at 668-5538 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 CONTAGIOUS MOUNTAIN Bike Club AGM. L'AFY at 302 Strickland Street, 6pm on October 25.

Milo A. Spring Dec. 11, 1992- Oct. 6, 2013

Our angel in heaven, ďŹ&#x201A;y like an eagle Fly free, spread your wings and glide with grace Never forgotten and loved for eternity Rest now my baby, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll take it from here.

Parents: Wayne Spring & Shirley Lutz Brothers: Todd & Kyle Spring, Randy, Ryan, Kelvin and Sheldon Lutz Sister: Tracey Andres

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 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.

HAMLET OF Mount Lorne LAC next scheduled meeting Tuesday, October 7 at 7pm at LMCC, km. 1 Annie Lake Road. See website for agenda.

POLARETTES GYMNASTICS club AGM, Oct 23 at 6pm at the gymnastics gym in Riverdale.

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.

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 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 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 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 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.

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 YUKON COUNCIL on Aging bi-annual meeting on Friday, October 17, Golden Age Centre, registration at 9am TEDXWHITEHORSELIVE OCT 9th 6-9pm.

Watch live talks streamed from TEDGlobal 2014, Yukon College lecture hall. Admission by donation to the Whitehorse Food Bank.

More info at www.tedxwhitehorse.com FH COLLINS Parent-Teacher-Student Conference, parent-teacher meeting Thursday Oct. 23, 5pm-7pm, & Friday Oct. 24 10am-1pm. No student classes Oct. 24, but they may attend either conference session, no appointment necessary WHITEHORSE G E N E R A L Hospital Women's Auxiliary monthly meeting: Mon. Oct. 6th, 7:30 p.m. at WGH. New members welcome! Info: 667-7185 FIDDLEHEADS YUKON Annual General Meeting October 20, 6pm, Selkirk Elementary School, 5 Selkirk Street, Whitehorse.

For info 867-821-4344 YUKON INN Christmas Craft Sale Saturday November 1, 9am-3pm, hosted by Ladies Auxiliary to Legion, First Nations & Yukon-made arts & crafts, bake tables, raffles, etc. 633-4583 to book table ALASKA HIGHWAY Heritage Society public meetings: Whitehorse, Thursday, Oct. 2, 7pm Bush Pilot Room, Yukon Transportation Museum; Teslin, Monday, Oct. 6, 7pm Teslin Tlingit Council Longhouse YRTA (YUKON Retired Teachers) Breakfast Tues. Oct. 14th, 9:30 a.m. at Ricky's. Guests welcome! Info: 667-2644 A CHRISTMAS Bazaar at the Best Western Gold Rush Inn, Saturday November 1, 10am-4pm, for crafters/home businesses.

For info, Jean @ 667-6772 or Shelly @ 667-7629 FREE DROP-IN computer lab, self directed computer studies, Mondays from 12pm-2pm, tutor/Instructor on site to assist. Yukon Learn Society 2158 - 2nd Ave, Suite B FREE SENIORS/ELDERS Conference, October 27/28 on protecting senior's benefits, wills, enduring power of attorney, advance directives, preventing abuse, mental health issues, etc. Rural travel subsidies. See www.yplea.com/conference or phone 867-633-5269 YUKON GUILD of Needlearts meets Thursday Oct 9, Whitehorse Public Library, 7pm.

Preserving the Art of Hand Embroidery. Meet Friends. Info 633-4026 THE WHITEHORSE Photography Club's Wildlife Photography Workshop with John Marriott Oct 24 to 26. Details at http://whitehorsephotoclub.ca

YUKON WOMEN in Music Concert Friday, October 3rd, 7:30pm, Centre de la francophonie. The most beautiful voices of Yukon women offer an evening of French song and music. afy.yk.ca THE WHITEHORSE Photography Club's Tuesday October 7 meeting features Haines Junction photographer Bruce Binder. 7:00pm Whitehorse Public Library. Info at whitehorsephotoclub.ca NAKWAYE KU Child Care Society AGM October 3, 6pm-7pm, Yukon College Daycare THE MEANING of Life, documentary on a BC prison without bars, focusing on First Nation approach to rehabilitation, healing.

Whitehorse Library, October 8, 6:30â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 8:30pm. Sponsored by YCRC and SOS. 667-2037

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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)

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YUKON LAND USE PLANNING COUNCIL REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS Common Land Use Planning Process Review

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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

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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.

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Phone (867) 821-4613 Leave Message TIMOTHY/BROME HAY •No rain •Quality horse and livestock mix •Square and round bales •Delivery available For more information call 668-6742 or 334-4589

OAK COLOURED bookshelf. 3 shelves, 33"W x 4ʼ H x 12" deep. Clean, exc cond.

Downtown, come & pick up. 867-689-5907 NEW QUEEN size log bed, suitable in a cabin or as a gift, $650. 399-3904 after 6pm TWIN CAPTAINʼS bed, headboard & 3 drawers, med oak, incl down duvet, Daniadown duvet cover, 2 sets flannel sheets, mattress cover, exc cond, $300 firm.

633-4607

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

DOUBLE BED mattress & boxspring, includes mattress cover, exc cond, $200.

633-4607

FOX LAKE HERITAGE FARM For Sale •Turkeys, chickens, eggs •Free range & grass fed *Pastured pork, grass fed beef & goat meat •Brome hay in 55lb bales •Chicken plucker for rent Phone 334-8960 or yukonheritagefarm@gmail.com

2 LARGE metal filing cabinets, one drawer type, one with doors & shelves, 49 Redwood Street, Porter Creek. 633-6553

REG. QUARTERHORSE mare - green broke. Super temperament, donʼt have time for her. To a good home, $350. 668-3885 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 1996 SOUTHLAND horse trailer, 3 angle haul or 4 straight, 2 3500lbs flex axles, spare tire, brakes/lights work, all bearings checked recently, lots of options, $4,500.

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Baby & Child Items CHILDRENʼS CLOTHING in excellent condition, given freely the first & third Saturday monthly at the Church of the Nazarene, 2111 Centennial. 633-4903 EVENFLO HAPPY Camper childʼs playpen, c/w storage/travel bag, good cond, $25.

667-8726 CANADA GOOSE snow suit, size 4T, fits 3-4 year olds, $200. 336-3383

Childcare ANJU & MEENAʼS 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 KOSS FDH available now in Porter creek.

Accepting 18 months and older .

We provide snacks and lunch.

Contact 867-336-3769

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LA-Z-BOY LEATHER recliner, burgundy, exc cond, $300. 633-4607

OFFICE DESK dark brown wood, 6 drawers and matching credenza, both in vg cond, 49 Redwood Street, Porter Creek. 633-6553 KITCHEN TABLE w/4 chairs, 40” across, round, walnut, best offer. 633-5155

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

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

Info: RCMP 867-667-5555 DRUG PROBLEM? Narcotics Anonymous meetings Wed. 7pm-8pm #2 - 407 Ogilvie St. BYTE Office FRI. 7pm-8:30pm 4071 - 4th Ave Many Rivers Office 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

PUBLIC TENDER HEATING SYSTEM SERVICE, WATSON LAKE HOUSING UNITS, WATSON LAKE YUKON Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title.

The closing date for submissions is October 22, 2014. Please refer to the procurement documents for the closing time and location.

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

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

NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND CLAIMANTS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF

Tom Smith

4 CARLISLE Pl, Copper Ridge, Saturday October 4, 9am-1pm, downsizing, furniture, tools, kitchen stuff, garden stuff, fabric, sewing supplies, books, movies, inside if cold/rain

April 22, 2013.

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NOTIFICATION OF FAILURE TO PAY.

NOTICE is hereby given that Creditors and others having claims against the Estate of

Customer listed below are requested to contact LOW COST MINI STORAGE (phone 633-2594) regarding their storage container.

If arrangements of monies owing can not be made, their items will be sold to recover costs.

William Clapham Claude Bourque Tina Baile

15 MacDonald Road WHITEHORSE, YUKON Y1A 4L1 0( s &!8

If documents are available they may be obtained from Yukon Housing Corporation, 410 Jarvis Street, Whitehorse, Yukon.

Technical questions may be directed to James Smith at 867-456-6171.

Deceased, late of Ross River, in the Yukon Territory, who died on

1410 CENTENNIAL St, Porter Creek, indoors, Saturday & Sunday October 4 & 5, 10am-12Noon, everything must go, offers, no early birds

NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND OTHERS

MINI STORAGE

Garage Sales

143 WILSON Drive, Granger, Saturday October 4, 9am-12Noon, cancelled if raining, no early birds, toys, books, furniture, nice stuff

LOW-COST

All persons having claims against the above mentioned Estate are requested to file a claim, supported by Statutory Declaration, with Testloa Smith, on or before October 19, 2014, after which date the said Estate will be distributed, having reference only to claims which have been so filed.

All persons indebted to the Estate are requested to make immediate payment to:

PUBLIC TENDER SPRINKLER AND FIRE PANEL REPLACEMENT 3090 – 3RD AVENUE, GREENWOOD PLACE, WHITEHORSE, YUKON 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.

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 867-667-5718.

OCTOBER 4TH AND 5TH AT 10:00AM TO 2:00PM PST 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.

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.

are hereby required to send them to the undersigned Administrator at the address shown below, before the 24th day of October, 2014, after which date the Administrator will distribute the Estate among the parties entitled thereto, having regard to the claims of which they have notice.

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

BY: Shayne D. Parker c/o Lackowicz & Hoffman Suite 300, 204 Black Street Whitehorse, YT Y1A 2M9 Tel: (867) 668-5252 Fax: (867) 668-5251

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

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

Testloa Smith 131-833 Range Road, Whitehorse, Yukon Y1A 3A7

Kakuro:

DOUBLE FUTON with cover, $50; single folding cot, $15. 633-2117

CASH SALE

of Whitehorse, Yukon Territory, Deceased, who died on August 14, 2014,

Site Visit: October 7, 2014 at 1:00 p.m.

SEARS ARMCHAIR/RECLINER, w/foot rest, good cond, 336-0534

NEW FURNITURE from Brick, double bed, fold-out faux leather sofa bed, misc furniture items & dishes. Best offer, must sell.

335-8915

Patricia Anne Parker,

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 Johnson’s Crossing Lodge situated at Mile 836, Alaska Highway, Teslin, Yukon.

Any person who wishes to object to the granting of this application should file their objection in writing (with reasons) to: President, Yukon Liquor Corporation 9031 Quartz Road Whitehorse, Yukon Y1A 4P9 not later than 4:30 pm on the 8th day of October, 2014 and also serve a copy of the objection by registered mail upon the applicant.

The first time of publication of notice is September 19, 2014.

The second time of publication of notice is September 26, 2014.

The third time of publication of notice is October 3, 2014.

Any questions concerning this specific NOTICE are to be directed to Licensing & Social Responsibility at 867-667-5245 or 1-800-661-0408, local 5245.

PUBLIC TENDER FRONT DOOR REPLACEMENT YUKON HOUSING UNIT #450000 – 600 COLLEGE DRIVE WHITEHORSE, YUKON Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title. The closing date for submissions is October 8, 2014. Please refer to the procurement documents for the closing time and location.

Crossword:

If documents are available they may be obtained from Yukon Housing Corporation, 410 Jarvis Street, Whitehorse, Yukon. Technical questions may be directed to Chris Gladish at 867-667-3764.

Site Visit: September 25, 2014 at 2:00 p.m.

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

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

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