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MP Ryan Leef plans to withdraw his private member’s bill that would have recognized fetal alcohol spectrum disorder in the criminal code. Leef says there is little chance of the bill becoming law before the next election. Leef still hopes to see the proposed measures examined by a committee, which would produce a report on the issue by the spring.

before the next election, it would have died. Private members’ bills can only be passed on through ukon MP Ryan Leef plans different sessions within the same to withdraw his private Parliament. member’s bill to amend Evagelos Sotiropoulos, a Canathe criminal code of Canada to dian political commentator who recognize fetal alcohol spectrum has written about private memdisorder. bers’ bills in the past, said Leef ’s Leef says he made the decision decision was likely the best one he to pull Bill C-583 after realizing could make to keep discussion of chances were slim it could bethe issue alive. come legislation in time for next “Strictly speaking this may not year’s election. be the best option for the bill, but “There was no way it could it may be the best option for the get through three readings in the issue – which may be more imSenate between April and the end portant to the member,” he said in of June with all the other legislaan email. tion before it,” he said.

“If he thinks the issue be“When I knew that I aping studied by committee and proached the government and reported to the government will told them I didn’t want to just increase awareness, then good on push a symbolic win and have the him. It probably won’t receive any bill die on the order table. I really attention hidden on the (private wanted to figure out a way to members’ bills) list.” make sure we could realize some When Leef introduced Bill kind of win and the most effective C-583 in April, he told MPs it option was to withdraw the bill was created in part because of and have the government agree his experiences as a correctional to move it on a priority basis to superintendant and police officer committee.” in the Yukon.

Usually, bills that undergo “I know and I have seen firstsecond reading – as Leef ’s did hand the impact of the criminal last week – are next referred to a justice system on people living legislative committee for detailed with FASD who involve themscrutiny. Leef plans to propose selves or get mixed up in it,” Leef a motion this week that would told Parliament on Friday. see his bill withdrawn, on the FASD is a permanent brain condition that a committee still injury caused when a mother examine the issue of FASD in the consumes alcohol during pregcriminal justice system. nancy. It can cause people to have That work would result in a impaired judgment, an inability report by March – a deadline that to control their behaviour and an wouldn’t have existed, had the bill impaired ability to understand been simply punted forward, said the consequences of their actions.

Leef.

In Bill C-583, Leef proposed Had the bill not cleared all the three things. The first was to dehurdles in Parliament and Senate fine FASD in the legal context.

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because in the absence of a definition, the courts are very much limited in their judicial notice of being able to account for what I will get into as somewhat of an explanation for criminal conduct,” Leef told Parliament on Thursday.

The bill would also have given judges the ability to order assessments of people who may suffer from the disorder, and permit the court to consider FASD to be a mitigating circumstance in the sentencing of an offender.

Historically very few private members’ bills ever become law.

Each session, hundreds of motions and bills are introduced by MPs. The order that these bills are considered is decided by lottery.

According to the List for the Consideration of Private Members’ Business, Leef was drawn 130th out of 243 MPs. This Parliament, of the 391 private members’ bills that were tabled, only six – or 1.5 per cent – received royal assent.

Leef said he thought he was around 160th on the private members’ roll.

“In a normal sitting of Parliament, historically, 160th wouldn’t have gotten entertained,” he said.

“I’d need to be drawn in the lottery in the private members’ bills in the top 50 to say with certainty that the legislation could move forward. But when someone asked me if I would reintroduce the bill on the 42nd Parliament, I said absolutely.

“I’m disappointed that time wasn’t on my side but ultimately very satisfied that I was able to leverage my interest in FASD to something bigger.”

Contact Myles Dolphin at myles@yukon-news.com

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City hikes taxes for some non-profits Myles Dolphin News Reporter

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ome Whitehorse non-profits will pay higher property taxes next year, following a decision made by city council on Monday.

The city says the changes replace a complicated hodge-podge of deals brokered with nonprofits with clear and transparent rules that treat everyone more fairly. But groups like MacBride Museum say the result is that their tight budget will be further squeezed, possibly causing service cuts.

Under the city’s new slidingscale formula for doling out grant money, non-profits with combined revenues and assets under $500,000 would pay no property tax. Those over $500,000 would be eligible for a 50 per cent break on property taxes.

The vote to pass the resolution was approved five to two, following almost an hour of tense debate at Monday evening’s meeting.

Councillors John Streicker and Kirk Cameron went against the grain of council.

They were both in favour of postponing the vote, suggesting administration should go back to the drawing board.

“It’s always tough to work this sort of thing out at this table,” Streicker said.

“I’d much rather continue this conversation in the background.

I’d like to recommend that we instruct administration to try and seek alternate solutions.”

Cameron, speaking to council via speakerphone, told his colleagues he wasn’t satisfied with a formula that simply isn’t uniform enough.

He cited the example of the MacBride Museum, which owns

Mayor Dan Curtis said that sum is important because it goes towards supporting needy organizations.

“We’ve been working on this for two years now and I’ve seen three people come forward tonight, and two of them won’t be losing a nickel,” he said.

“Lobbying is good and healthy but I’d prefer if the lobby groups were more factual. The vast majority of organizations think this sliding scale is fair.

“If the worst hit is $1,000 this year, then that’s not bad.”

Nancy Oakley, executive director of the Yukon Historical & Museums Association, said she supported a policy based on tax exemptions rather than rebates.

But the city doesn’t have the authority to grant tax exemptions, only the territorial government does, said city manager Christine Alistair Maitland/Yukon News Smith.

Oakley said she is willing to help the city approach the Yukon The MacBride Museum in Whitehorse last week. The Whitehorse City Council made it’s government to ask them to decision on a grantmaking policy which affects the property taxes paid by the museum change their legislation. as well as 10 other non-profits in the city.

Tensions ran high towards the end of the meeting when Streicker its land, and the Yukon Trans$769,148 last year – would pay MacBride fork over $2.70 for initially raised the idea of postportation Museum, which is on $4,726 in property taxes to the every $100 it raises once it goes Yukon government land. city over the next four years. over the $500,000 mark, Halliday poning the vote.

Stockdale referred to the “The tax hits one more than “You seem to be making an said, adding the tax impact would criticisms of the new policy as a the other,” he said. awful fuss about a small amount force cuts to certain museum “tempest in a tea cup.”

The Whitehorse Food Bank, of money,” said Coun. Dave operations that are yet to be “There’s nothing at stake here,” for example, will only pay $15 Stockdale. determined. he said. in property taxes while Softball Halliday said it might sound “It seems to me it’s time to “Let’s make a decision and Yukon will pay $4,780. like a trivial number but it’s siglook in the mirror and not tax let it run for a year. If there’s a Twelve other non-profits, such nificant to a non-profit, especially NGOs that run a lean operation,” problem it’ll surface and people as Biathlon Yukon, will get full when it hasn’t had to pay propClarke said. will be sitting in that chair telling property tax abatement. erty taxes in the past 50 years.

The city sets aside around us about it.”

Several delegates from the “We don’t think that, since the $140,000 to cover grant requests Councillors Betty Irwin, Joccity’s non-profits spoke to council city had a $3.7 million surplus from non-profits in the city. The elyn Curteanu and Mike Gladish in the hopes of convincing them last year and has almost doubled past few years the total has been also voiced their support for the their new policy was shortsighted. its reserves to $27 million since about $30,000 over budget, said policy, saying it was fair, equitable Among them were Nils Clarke 2010, that now is a good time to Robert Fendrick, director of cor- and transparent. and Keith Halliday from the cut support to a fine community porate services.

The new policy comes into efMacBride Museum. institution like the MacBride,” he Under the new formula the city fect Jan. 1, 2015.

Based on the new policy, the said. would receive $23,137 in taxes Contact Myles Dolphin at museum – whose assets totalled The formula would see myles@yukon-news.com from 11 non-profits.

Auditor general slams Nutrition North Jacqueline Ronson News Reporter

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he federal government has no idea if the full value of the subsidy it gives to grocery stores in remote communities is being passed on to customers, Canada’s auditor general has found.

The program replaced the earlier Food Mail program in 2011. Old Crow is the only Yukon community that benefits from the subsidy.

Under the old program residents could ship up food through Canada Post at subsidized rates.

With Nutrition North, the subsidy is funnelled through retailers, who promise to pass on savings to customers.

But Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada isn’t collecting enough information to be sure that the grocery stores are following through on that promise, according to the

report.

Although the department does collect price data, it has no information about profit margins, and how they may have changed over time.

The department also does not have enough data to know if prices on non-subsidized items have changed in response to the subsidy, the auditor general found.

This comes as no surprise to the community of Old Crow, said Vuntut Gwitchin MLA Darius Elias.

“It just verifies what we in Old Crow have been living with for a number of years. There’s basically nothing new in there,” he said in an interview Tuesday.

“My constituents recognized that right on April 1, 2011. We recognized that right away.

“My constituents did not feel that the full subsidy was being passed down to them when they purchased it in Old Crow.”

Aboriginal Affairs has agreed to all of the auditor general’s recommendations, including to collect profit margin data in the future.

Old Crow is fairly unique in the North. It is the only community that doesn’t have road or barge access at least once a year.

The federal government has recognized this and widened the list of products eligible for the subsidy in Old Crow, including items with a longer shelf life that residents of other remote communities stock up on when freight prices are low.

Old Crow also successfully lobbied for a continued subsidy on personal food shipments flown from Whitehorse.

But the prices for that are more than double what they were under Food Mail, Elias said.

A shipment of 50 kilograms of healthy, perishable food costs him $96 in shipping today, compared with $41 a few years ago, he said.

Still, that continued shipping subsidy has proven useful. Today, there is no grocery store in Old Crow.

The Northern store closed a couple of weeks ago, anticipating a new co-operative store that was planned to be built this summer but now is not scheduled to open until the spring.

The community planned the new co-op because of the issues with getting healthy, affordable food into the community, said Elias.

“My constituents, in their great leadership, have given the direction to myself and to the Vuntut Gwitchin chief and council to not harp on the problem. And so we sought to fix this issue.”

The building materials for the store came in on the winter road that was open to the community for a few weeks this past winter, paid for jointly by the First Nation and the Yukon government.

Now that there is no store,

getting food in is difficult but not impossible, said Elias.

Residents are getting together to order in bulk and save on freight, he said.

The main issues are having access to a credit card to pay for food remotely, and getting the food to Air North at the airport for shipping, he said.

But people are helping each other out and making it work, said Elias.

It’s hard to say how much more food is costing community members now that the store is closed, he said.

The community is working on a plan to occupy the former Northern store space as a stopgap measure until the new building is ready.

That could happen soon, said Elias.

“People are managing right now, but it is very difficult.”

Contact Jacqueline Ronson at jronson@yukon-news.com

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he family of a Whitehorse murder victim is asking anyone with information to come forward.

The Yukon RCMP’s major crime unit put out a statement Monday asking for more help investigating the murder of Allan Waugh from earlier this year.

On May 30 at 7:35 a.m. police were called to Waugh’s home on McCrimmon Crescent, where the 69-year-old was found dead.

Police are looking for anyone with information about what happened, or anyone who witnessed activity in the area of McCrimmon Crescent between May 29 and May 30, to call police.

The Kwanlin Dun First Nation is doing its part to encourage people to come forward.

People with information can also contact the First Nation’s director of justice, Jeanie Dendys, at 334-1803.

RCMP nab suspected impaired driver RCMP pulled over an impaired driver in Whitehorse this weekend who they say had a blood-alcohol level of more than two and a half times the legal limit.

On Sunday at approximately 10:10 p.m. police received a call from a concerned citizen reporting a suspected impaired driver in a white Dodge Ram 1500 pickup truck going north on Fourth Avenue towards Two Mile Hill.

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London said the fear of reprisal or the fear of being seen as “sticking their nose where they don’t belong” is common in small communities across the country.

He encouraged people to do the right thing.

“This is a very serious matter that has a direct effect on the family and an indirect and a direct effect on the community as a whole,” he said.

“This is something that people really have to take a look at themselves, and dig deep, and do the right thing. Which is to contact us and provide that information to us.”

London said he would always prefer people to come forward and provide their names. But that doesn’t mean they would turn away anonymous information.

cated a vehicle fitting that description on Fourth Avenue between Chilkoot Way and Second Avenue,” police said in a statement.

According to police, the 39-yearold provided samples of his breath that came back more than two-and-a-half times the legal limit.

He has since been charged with impaired driving and impaired driving over .08 percent. His vehicle has been impounded.

His name is not being released.

(Ashley Joannou)

ber at Monday evening’s council meeting.

“Membership was split roughly 50/50 on the need for the city’s new business project and its overall benefit to Whitehorse,” Fitzgerald told council.

The chamber received close to 80 replies from its members, he added.

The city’s plan would eat up 70 per cent of next year’s $30 million capital budget.

It would result in a new city services building erected where the fire hall now stands on Second Avenue, along with a new operations building to be located near Range Road and Two Mile Hill.

Fitzgerald and Clark made several recommendations to council based on the responses they heard from chamber members.

Those included providing more information on the city’s need to borrow money to finance this project, and quarterly progress updates.

(Myles Dolphin)

Businesses split on city’s new building plans Whitehorse businesses are on the fence when it comes to supporting the city’s $55-million plans to build itself two new headquarters.

The results were compiled after the Whitehorse Chamber of Commerce sent out a survey to its members in early November.

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“The death of Mr. Waugh has been difficult for his family and the community,” the police said in a statement.

“RCMP would like to thank those community members, and more specifically members from the community of Kwanlin Dun First Nation that have come forward with information since May. Major crime investigators continue to follow up on all leads.”

Still, officers say they believe some people who have information have not come forward.

“The family of Allan Waugh ask that those individuals search their heart and conscience,” the statement said.

Sgt. Mark London with the major crimes unit said there are several reasons a person might not want to come forward.

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Anti-violence campaign kicks off Jacqueline Ronson News Reporter

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bout 70 people came out for the launch of the 12 Days to End Violence Against Women campaign at Yukon College on Tuesday.

The focus of this year’s campaign is “call it what it is.�

That means using accurate language when describing violence against women.

The words that we typically use in everyday life and also in the justice system to talk about violence against women serves to implicate women in the violence done against them, explained ReneeClaude Carrier with Kaushee’s Place at the launch event. “When a man attacks a woman, we call it ‘domestic dispute,’ or ‘argument,’ or ‘conflict,’ or ‘fighting,’ or ‘an abusive relationship,’� said Carrier. “If I go into a bank and try to rob it, is it called a financial transaction? Why is it that when a person is assaulted with the genitals of another it is called sex?�

Calling a rape sex makes it sound like an act that the victim participated in, rather than a one-way act of violence, said Carrier.

It’s the same thing when we call someone forcing their lips on someone’s face, or forcing their tongue into someone’s mouth, kissing.

And yet these words get used to describe non-consensual acts all the time, both in and out of the justice system, said Carrier. “The language we use has an enormous impact on the police’s responses, on the

and our daughters, that each person is important, regardless of their background or their race, and that we are all equal, and we all matter.

You can teach our boys to respect women. We can teach our young women that they deserve to be respected.�

The 12 Days to End Violence Against Women campaign continues with events this week and next.

The campaign will wrap up with a ceremony for the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women, Friday Dec. 5 at noon at the Elijah Smith Building.

Dec. 6 is the 25th anniversary of the massacre at Montreal’s Ecole Polytechnique, where Marc Lepine shot and killed 14 women and injured 14 more before killing Alistair Maitland/Yukon News himself.

Renee-Claude Carrier, assistant director of Kaushee’s Place, says we should use accurate For more information language to describe violence against women. She spoke at the launch of the 12 Days to End about campaign events, visit Violence Against Women campaign at Yukon College yesterday. the Victoria Faulkner Women’s Centre website. court systems, and the capac- son than the fact that they are “You can teach our future Contact Jacqueline Ronson at ity of victims to heal from the aboriginal? jronson@yukon-news.com “It’s important that we say, generations, both our boys violence they experience. If enough is enough. It’s imporwe’re not describing it with tant that we stand up at every the right words, how do the First Nation of Na-Cho Nyäk Dun police know that what’s going opportunity that we have to say, it is not OK for violence on is deliberate? How do the #PY .BZP :VLPO : # . to happen against women, courts know that it’s not just Tel: (867) 996-2265 #137 some Don Juan gone wrong?â€? and it’s not OK that First Na'BY

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The case of the missing contracts Jacqueline Ronson

conspiracy theory.

“The member opposite obviously knows more about his week the NDP’s health the Health and Social Services critic, Jan Stick, discovered budget than I do, or at least she something curious. More than thinks she does,” said Graham.

100 contracts, worth a com“I’m not a conspiracy theobined $8.2 million, had disaprist, but I think it’s important peared from the government’s because this is a public contract public contract registry. registry, it is about open and Stick found the discrepancy when she compared the Health accountable government,” Stick and Social Services contracts on said in an interview this week.

“When $8 million in conthe registry retrieved on Oct. 9 tracts disappears, I want to to those retrieved Nov. 21. know where they went.”

She asked Minister Doug On Tuesday Graham came Graham on Monday to exback to the legislature with an plain where they went, and he accused her of spreading a explanation.

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The contracts should never have been listed on the registry in the first place, he said.

Employment contracts and contracts for physician services and legal services are not supposed to be made public, under the rules that govern the registry.

“One of the big reasons that I wasn’t fully up to speed on the contract registry is that it belongs in Highways and Public Works. When Highways and Public Works realized that an administrative error had occurred and these contracts for physicians were in error appear-

ing on the registry, they apparently corrected the error and removed these contracts from the contract registry.”

Stick thanked Graham for the answer, but said questions remain.

“Even as he was speaking, I did a quick check and there are still some contracts that I would question. I accept that that was error – that these contracts should not have been listed, but they have been (listed) for a number of years now because I have looked at them in the past.

“I would also point out that lease space in clinics – some

have been removed, some have not. I found a number of instances of those in the current contracts, as of today. I’m also able to find doctors’ contracts still on here for services that they are providing here in Whitehorse. So if this is in error, I think someone needs to go back and check it again and make sure that those things are removed, if that’s the case.”

Graham said his department will work with Highways and Public Works to ensure that the right contracts appear on the registry in the future.

Contact Jacqueline Ronson at jronson@yukon-news.com

Problems persist at Dawson sewage plant But the contractor, Corix, continues to manage operations because it has yet to deliver on the esidents of Dawson City are conditions of the contract. still waiting on a wastewater Klondike MLA Sandy Silver treatment plant that works the asked the government last week to way it is supposed to. explain the ongoing issues.

The new facility began oper“The City of Dawson is well ations in the fall of 2012, and the within its rights of refusing to plan was to hand over the plant to take over the responsibility for this facility and the government is the town a year later.

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currently left indefinitely holding the bag,” said Silver.

“Can the minister explain why the plant isn’t working? Is it a mechanical problem, for example, or a design flaw or some unanticipated reason like higher-thananticipated mineralization of the water?”

Community Services Minister Brad Cathers gave no details as to the source of the ongoing problems, but said the Yukon government is working with the town to hold to contractor to account.

“We are committed to continuing to do our utmost to holding Corix, the contractor, to the terms of their contract and ensuring that they do what they committed to in that contract, which is deliver a plant that meets the terms The Yukon home of

of the contract and meets the needs of the City of Dawson.”

Cathers also said that the design of the plant came about because Dawson residents voted against a traditional sewage lagoon.

“A mechanical treatment plant was not the government of Yukon’s preference or the City of Dawson’s preference. As a result of the decision by the citizens of Dawson – their request, as stated through a plebiscite, that objected to located a conventional sewage lagoon as a treatment option, we then had to go to Plan B to respect the wishes of the citizens of Dawson. Mechanical treatment plants are more complex.

They have more issues in commissioning than a sewage lagoon, but we are respecting what the citizens of Dawson asked us and the town of the City of Dawson to do.”

The next day Silver presented a motion to the legislative assembly

calling on the government to stop blaming the residents of Dawson for the design choice, admit that it had the final say on the plant’s design, and focus its energy on ensuring the proper operation of the facility.

“What we are seeing play out right now is exactly what we knew was going to happen,” he said.

“It was said at that time by many people, this will not work.

“If you go in and take a look at what the city wanted, this isn’t what they wanted, bottom line,” said Silver.

What they wanted was something that works, he said.

Residents voted against a lagoon in a particular location, but they aren’t responsible for the final design, said Silver.

“It was in the Yukon Party’s hands as far as what system, who builds it, where it goes, all those other things.”

Contact Jacqueline Ronson at jronson@yukon-news.com

When: Wednesday, December 3, 2014, 6:30 – 9 p.m.

Where: Marsh Lake Community Centre (Judas Creek) Brief presentation to start at 7:00 p.m.

Copies of the draft plan can be downloaded now from the Plan Marsh Lake website and will be available at the open house.

This open house is your opportunity to learn more about the draft plan and to provide any comments.

Comments will be received until January 5, 2015.

For more information, please visit www.planmarshlake.com or call Tomoko Hagio, Land Use Planner, Land Planning Branch, Department of Energy, Mines and Resources at 867-667-3179 (toll free 1-800-661-0408 ext. 3179) or John Meikle, Senior Lands and Resources Planner, Kwanlin Dün First Nation at 867-633-7859.

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New Yukon distress line ready to answer the call Ashley Joannou News Reporter

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he Yukon’s Distress and Support Line is up and running.

Volunteers at the territory’s new crisis line took their first call Monday.

The phone line, at 1-844-5333030, runs seven days a week between 7 p.m. and 3 a.m. and is a toll-free number across the territory.

Callers will find trained volunteers who are willing to listen to people’s problems.

“We really want to be a support first and then providing resources. Always asking people what they’re looking for, versus ‘I think this would be the best thing for you,’” said Hailey Hechtman with the Second Opinion Society.

“Just trying to be as focused on empowering the person to find the resources that are going to be useful for them as possible.”

Plans for the line were announced in September.

Since then 28 volunteers have gone through training from specialists flown in from Ottawa.

That training lasted for four days and focused on things like “active listening skills, dealing with crisis, things around mental health and addictions and child abuse and all sorts of topics,” Hechtman said.

The group has also completed the local suicide assistance program and training about various resources that exist around the territory.

Hechtman said she’s been impressed with the amount of interest the phone line received from potential volunteers, almost right from the start.

“It was really surprising, especially the turnout for the first few days after we made the announcement,” she said. “We got a lot of the applications in really quickly.”

Volunteers are both men and women, covering a range of ages.

Some come from professions like nursing, teaching or social services.

Others are people who may have faced a past crisis themselves, without having the benefit of having someone to talk to, said Hechtman.

“Usually in the training people drop out over time… a few people leave or they realize it’s not for them. But we haven’t had anyone dropout.”

Posters and cards with the new phone number have been sent out across the territory to let people know that it’s available.

“We’ve been in contact with the First Nations and all the community health centres to make sure they have access to that,” she said.

The next step would be more training planned for the spring.

In those sessions, Hechtman said she hopes to bring in representatives from the communities to talk about specific concerns that exist

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Hailey Hechtman of the Second Opinion Society sits in front of of a crisis line station yesterday. The Yukon Distress and Support Line started accepting calls on Monday. You can call it at 1-844-533-3030 between 7 p.m. and 3 a.m.

outside of Whitehorse.

The phone line is being paid for using $30,000 from the Bell Let’s Talk Community Fund and $25,000 from NorthwesTel. On

top of that, the Yukon Department of Health and Social Services donated $8,100, over six months.

The City of Whitehorse is also providing free advertising of the

Yukon Soccer Association is holding a

Referee Development Clinic Entry Level Referee Clinic - 2014

Participants must be at least 15 years old (calendar year).

Dates:

November 26th, 27th and 29th

Location: Vanier Secondary, 26th & 27th (classroom & large gym) Canada Games Centre, 29th (boardroom and turf) Times:

Cost:

Wednesday 6pm to 10pm Thursday 6pm to 10pm Saturday 12pm to 5pm $75.00 (cash or check) (Cheques payable to Yukon Soccer Referee Development)

Registrations must be submitted to Sport Yukon by noon on November 26th. Applications will be available at Sport Yukon or on the website www.yukonsoccer.yk.ca/ There is pre course reading/study to be completed prior to the course and is available on the website.

Please bring pen and paper. Laws of the Game (LOTG) and whistles will be supplied.

For more information contact: Tony Gaw, Referee Development Coordinator chilkootyt@gmail.com 867-336-2075

new phone number on buses and at the Canada Games Centre.

More information on the support line is online at http:// yukondistressline.weebly.com or

by contacting the Second Opinion Society at (867) 667-2037 or yukondistressline@gmail.com.

Contact Ashley Joannou at ashleyj@yukon-news.com

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The public needs a say on Yukon’s regulatory reforms Ruth Massie

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would like to sincerely thank all of you who came out to the Nov. 13 public forum hosted by a coalition of Yukon First Nations on the proposed changes to the Yukon Environmental and Socio-economic Assessment Act through Bill S-6. Over 160 people packed the Kwanlin Dun Cultural Centre’s multi-purpose room. Sadly, some people were turned away because the room was full.

It was a clear signal that Yukoners care about this issue.

YESAA was born from the Umbrella Final Agreement and all of the 11 self-governing Yukon First Nations final agreements. It was a central part of the land claims treaty process to ensure First Nations continued to have a meaningful role in decision-making that affected traditional territories. This, and the regional land use planning provisions of our treaties, was to give some assurance that our interests and rights would be protected in exchange for only a small percentage of land as settlement lands.

As was discussed at the forum, the treaties are not just for Yukon First Nations, they are for all Yukoners, and everyone in the Yukon benefits from them.

We, as Yukoners, need to ensure our land, water and communities will be protected now and into the future. The YESAA was designed to strike a careful balance between development and protecting the environment, our economy and our communities.

Yukon First Nations have always been in support of development and continue to do so, but it needs to be done right.

Last week’s forum confirmed that a great number of Yukoners share Yukon First Nations’

concerns but have not had the opportunity to be involved in any of these discussions. Canada and Yukon failed to consult with the Yukon public on these changes. This is the reason we hosted this forum: to provide Yukoners an opportunity to have a say. The public has not had the opportunity to give the federal or territorial governments their views on YESAA since 2008/2009 during the early stages of the five-year review.

We continue to be perplexed as to how the Yukon government can continue to support these changes when many of the amendments that will fundamentally change YESAA have only been discussed behind closed doors without consulting their constituents. This support is clearly evident through Premier Darrell Pasloski’s presentation to the Senate committee on Sept. 23, the motion tabled in the Yukon legislature on Nov. 12 and the news release issued on Nov. 18. Premier Pasloski and his government continue to support these changes despite the concerns of the public and Yukon First Nations.

The forum was not only to let people know what our concerns were with these amendments and why they will harm the Yukon, our environment and our economy, but was also an opportunity for Yukoners to express their unease.

A quick summary of the changes to YESAA we oppose include: imposing maximum timelines for assessments; excluding projects from assessment when they are going through regulatory renewals or amendments; giving the federal minister the power to dictate binding policy direction to the assessment board (a board that was designed to be independPublisher

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ent, neutral and arms-length from governments); and giving the minister the authority to delegate powers to a territorial minister without our consent or engagement. None of these amendments arise from the fiveyear review, and there was little to no opportunity for meaningful discussion or willingness to accommodate our issues.

We also hosted the public forum because we believe it is important that people know the facts. There have been a lot of misunderstandings and misleading or incorrect statements made about these amendments. We want to set the record straight.

For those of you that could not attend, or anyone looking for more detail, we strongly encourage you to visit the CYFN web page for further information.

We continue to strive for a collaborative relationship with both Canada and Yukon governments. Addressing these issues will require leadership, political will and honourable statesmanship. It is not acceptable to walk away when the discussions get tough or when there are differing perspectives. We need to work through these. We continue to hope that we can address these important matters in a constructive and meaningReporters

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ful way.

This should be done with all Yukoners. Time is running short.

Bill S-6 has already been through the Senate and is now before the House of Commons, awaiting second reading. The bill will likely be sent to a parliamentary committee. These committees can travel to hear the views of witnesses throughout the country. We hope the committee comes to Yukon to hear from Yukoners.

We encourage Yukoners to reach out to their elected representatives to share their views or concerns on the changes to YESAA that threaten our land, our economy, our Yukon. Visit our web page at: www.cyfn/services/yesaa to learn how to contact your member of Parliament or request the House of Commons committee to hold its hearings in the Yukon.

Ruth Massie is grand chief of the Council of Yukon First Nations.

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You can send submissions to editor@yukon-news.com. They can be faxed to 867-668-3755 or mailed to 211 Wood St., Whitehorse, Yukon Y1A 2E4.

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On apathy and obstinate anti-environmentalism Party’s purportedly revenue neutral “green shift” – that sought to tax carbon dioxide emissions while reby Kyle Carruthers ducing taxes elsewhere – was a political dud. Dion’s opponents dubbed it a “tax on everything” and his successor did everything he could to distance himself from it.

The green shift was probably the most politically toxic policy proposal of the last decade. No doubt this was, in part, a result of Dion’s pathy about the state of the poor salesmanship and a lingering environment is a serious problem in our country. Ca- distrust of his party, but these facnadians may agree in a very general tors alone cannot explain the failure of the policy. sense that the environment should On a smaller scale, the debate be protected for future generations, over recycling in the Yukon these but vast numbers of us seem stubbornly unwilling to spend a cent or past months is another example.

While there was a backlash lift a finger to do so. against the decision of Raven Pollsters have found that the environment ranks low in the hier- Recycling to refuse non-refundable recyclables, it was of insufficient archy of political priorities of Canadians. A poll conducted by Abacus magnitude to get the government Data back in August found that only to act quickly to prevent that from happening. Moreover, if Internet 23 per cent of Canadians listed the comments are a gauge of anything, a environment as one of their top surprising number of Yukoners were three concerns, below health care content to see Raven Recycling shut (51 per cent), job creation (34 per cent), taxes (32 per cent), debt/defi- its door. After all, as they see it, recit (29 per cent) and accountability cycling is a “choice,” a “service” that users should pay for, rather than and trust (25 per cent). an obligation to one another and Canadians have eschewed bold the planet. Recycling depots, so the ideas to make our lives more susargument goes, should sink or swim tainable.

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The debate then shifted to the City of Whitehorse’s proposed curbside pickup.

There can certainly be legitimate debate about the city “crowding out” the Blue Bin Recycling Society, and the imposition of an additional fee on those who already happily bring in their own recycling. There are also questions about why a city with a full time “sustainability manager” still needs to hire an Outside consultant at a cost of $100,000 to “design” a curbside recycling program.

But it seems likely that curbside recycling would increase the number of people who recycle. There are many Yukoners who simply can’t be bothered to recycle if it means loading up their recyclables and driving downtown.

Speaking anecdotally there have been number of times I have intervened and taken on other people’s recycling – even people my own age – before it ended up in the garbage because they “can’t be bothered.”

But perhaps, if it were as easy as putting a bin out on the curb, more would participate, diverting more garbage from the landfill and negating the need to extract more raw materials from the planet.

But the reaction to the proposal has been hostile. Many Yukon-

ers simply do not want to see any further expansion of government, even on an issue where coordinated social action is required. One online commenter went so far as to promise that his/her recycling would “continue to go into the gray garbage cans every other week.”

What end could possibly be served by this type of obstinate anti-environmentalism? And why are young adults – with children of their own – who have a stake in the health of our planet for the better part of the 21st century so indifferent to this issue?

It is well known by social scientists that humans as a species are horrible at evaluating risk. This is why we’re terrified about our children being abducted by strangers (a statistically unlikely occurrence) but feed our children too much high fructose corn syrup and trans fats, thereby setting them on a path to obesity and diabetes. Dramatic, highly visible dangers that manifest themselves suddenly have our attention, but we have a tendency to ignore detrimental phenomena that occur slowly as a result of cumulative actions.

Environmental damage is an interesting mix of the two.

Environmental activists have had some success motivating people

when they focus on the supply side of the equation. The highly visible and immediate consequences of resource extraction – such as a new clearcut or a tailings pond near someone’s back yard – do often spark successful resistance. This is why a number of pipeline projects – the Northern Gateway, Trans Mountain, and Keystone XL – are encountering difficulties.

Where environmentalists have had less success is on the demand side: in getting people as individuals to recognize the long-term consequences of our patterns of consumption. In a way, throwing a can in the garbage today is like eating a donut or drinking a cola. The action seems so far removed from the consequences that we often don’t even appreciate the connection and, even if we do, continually defer changing our behaviour to tomorrow. The link between the throwing a tin can in the garbage and the necessity of a new mine, like the link between eating a donut and developing diabetes, is so remote that we scarcely see it.

We can only hope that we recognize environmental degradation for the long term danger that it is before it is too late.

Kyle Carruthers is a born and raised Yukoner who lives and practises law in Whitehorse.

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A wonderful thing called democracy I’m a little perplexed by a summation of the problem the Yukon Party has with the final recommended plan for the Peel.

I believe they are saying it would “tie their hands� in their ability to govern? Now why would they say that? There’s this wonderful thing called democracy, which, it seems to me, makes governing very easy.

It shouldn’t be necessary to keep explaining the basic tenets of democracy to this government.

But, again, look up the meaning of democracy in any dictionary.

You will always get something like, “A form of government in which political power resides in all the people.� Representational democracy, which is what I believe we practise, means we elect representatives to carry out the will that “resides in all the people.�

Pretty clear and straightforward.

I realize there are major decisions to be made by governments – budgets to be created and balanced, programs developed, infrastructure spending, etc. But any and all decisions have to be within the framework of the will of the people.

I am far from an expert, but years back, when it looked like big forestry was headed north with their feller-bunchers, I studied as best I could alternative sustainable forestry practices. A concept I kept coming across was an insightful, forward-thinking system of land-use planning.

The underlying purpose was the

development of a sustainable resource economy by ensuring the protection of the landscape. If the production system of the natural capital is not being protected, the economy is not sustainable.

The paramount principle to all these planning systems is that decisions of what to protect are decided by the populace at large, through extensive public consultation. This invariably grows public acceptance of the land use plan as people see their input actually taken seriously.

Kind of sounds like the workings of representational democracy, wouldn’t you say? Civil society in action.

There is no doubt that the final recommended plan for the Peel is the quintessential model of these principles. It relied on consultation and took the input of all sectors of society seriously.

In pure democratic form, it was compromised to include resource development, while still protecting the biological structure of the landscape. You will not find a more clear and democratic statement of the will of the people. It is a most beautiful example of the expression of civil society.

No, Premier Darrell Pasloski, your hands are not tied at all from governing – by the tenets of the democratic process. If you feel your hands are tied, its because you wish to govern dictatorially, against the will of the people.

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That is why your government is in court. Instead, you wish to tie the hands of civil society, the very expression of democracy itself. If you wish to be remembered for at least one civil act before you are voted out of office next year, Mr. Pasloski, stop wasting our hard earned tax dollars and accept the final recommended plan.

Jim Borisenko Tagish Lake

Call violence what it is Nov. 25 marks the start of the annual 12 Days to End Violence Against Women campaign in the Yukon. Is anything different for this year’s annual campaign than last year?

We have seen many instances this year of violence against women hitting the front page: Jian Ghomeshi, Rinelle Harper, sexual harassment on Parliament Hill, the growing call for a national inquiry into missing and murdered aboriginal women.

I’ve also seen commentators calling this a “tipping point� for violence against women advocates, but I’m still not convinced that is what we face. Unfortunately, gendered violence has been happening for generations.

Women have been resisting this violence for just as long, both privately and publicly. Why hasn’t there been as much media coverage and public attention dedicated to these women and the injustice they have faced? Why haven’t those been a tipping point?

Perhaps more accurately, the events of this year provide an “opening.� They offer a new conversation piece around which we can mobilize. So many Canadians know who Jian is and – somewhat surprisingly to me – feel they have developed a personal relationship with him through his radio show. Now, we can all have the same conversation in different places, but together. Someone we know committed horrible violent acts against women. How do we respond?

Victoria Faulkner Women’s The Yukon home of

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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 2014 significant when considered as a percentage of the museum’s operating budget and may ultimately mean reductions in service.

Centre and our community partMay I remind you that the ners are suggesting in this year’s museum provides historical procampaign that as a first step, we grams for visitors in the summer can respond by examining the months, educational camps and language we use to describe this programs for children in sumviolence. By calling violence what mer, plus interesting adult winter it is, we offer a more accurate pic- time lectures and talks. The recent ture of violence in the media, the presentation on the Canol project public, and the legal system. that not only filled the audiBy using unilateral words torium but spilled out into the like violence, assault, and rape hallways is a prime example. The instead of mutualizing words like excellent special exhibits downdomestic dispute and relationship stairs in the museum are of interproblems, we can create a better est to one and all and changed response to women who have ex- frequently. perienced violence and ultimately, A museum such as our Maca recognition that this injustice is Bride should be cherished and unacceptable. supported by the City of WhiteThe campaign launches horse for the important contribuon Tuesday, Nov. 25 at Yukon tion it makes to the community.

College. To learn more about MacBride was started on a shoelanguage use specifically, we are string over 50 years ago by just inviting everyone to come to an a few residents with vision and information session Wednesday, a passion for local history. Every Nov. 26 at 1 p.m. at the Whiteyear there are improvements and horse Public Library. Keep an eye additions to the exhibits there. out for our posters.

Our museum deserves full Attend the many other events support from the city government happening as part of the 12 Days for the enormous contribution it campaign. Above all, join the makes to the community. Shame conversation. on you for ever thinking otherwise.

Hillary Aitken Program Coordinator Alice Cyr Victoria Faulkner Women’s Whitehorse Centre

Letter to Whitehorse mayor and city council: The City of Whitehorse is reportedly talking about a tax surplus while at the same time muttering about eliminating MacBride museum’s historic tax abatement.

Given the year-round effort that MacBride museum puts into both collecting and protecting Whitehorse’s history, creating programs and events for the edification and entertainment of citizens both old and young, plus thousands visitors, to eliminate this tax abatement is a huge slap in the face.

The abatement in question represents a very small reduction in the amount of taxes collected, ultimately equal to pennies when apportioned to the total number of citizens served by a very dedicated and energetic museum staff and volunteers. Yet, to the museum the tax abatement is

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I am just hoping to put the whole roadside bear hunting situation into perspective, seeing as we are all wasting a lot of time and money on it.

According to the Yukon Fish and Wildlife Management Board’s website, we are all talking about the approximately one grizzly bear a year shot in the roadside right of way in the Southern Lakes Region. To put that in context, around 13 grizzlies a year are shot in defence of life or property and one every two years dies as a result of a vehicle collision, as per the same website.

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The case of Alicia Murphy boils down to how much choice you get

when you are being represented by a legal aid lawyer.

Both sides agreed that there is no “absolute right” to pick whoever you want. But Murphy’s lawyer argued that she was, in fact, getting no choice at all.

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in the 2008 death of Evangeline Billy.

Murphy appealed that decision and was granted a retrial. That’s scheduled for June of next year.

She applied for legal aid and specifically asked to be represented by local lawyer Jennifer Cunningham, who had represented her at the appeal.

Legal aid told her that Donald Campbell, a lawyer from Kamloops, B.C., had been chosen.

“The board explained that this was primarily for two reasons. First, Mr. Campbell has almost 30 years of experience as a criminal defence lawyer and has specialized in defending murder charges,” Gower said.

“Second, that he had recently represented a young adult male charged with first-degree murder, at the request of legal aid, and that legal aid thought he ‘did excellent work’ and ‘uses common sense when resolving matters.’”

She was told that if she did not want Campbell, she could pay for a lawyer of her own.

In an affidavit, Murphy told the court she was concerned about the wording of this letter. She intends to plead not guilty and fight the charges in court.

She said she’d heard Campbell was identifying himself as her lawyer before he had even talked to her.

Part of Murphy’s original appeal was the accusation that she had ineffective counsel from her first legal aid lawyers.

Though that was not the part of the appeal she won, she said she is

mistrustful of the process, but trusts Cunningham.

This type of court application, known as a Rowbotham application, comes up when a person has been denied legal aid but cannot afford a lawyer to represent them on a complex, serious charge.

A Rowbotham application is not supposed to be about reviewing the decision-making process at legal aid, the judge notes.

In court, prosecutor David McWhinnie argued that Murphy can’t say that she was denied a lawyer. He said Murphy’s reasons for mistrusting the lawyer picked for her are vague and subjective.

But Gower disagreed.

He said legal aid’s refusal to authorize Cunningham to act for the accused in this context can be viewed as a de facto denial of legal aid.

He pointed to the letter from the legal aid board which suggested that if Murphy were to not accept legal aid’s offer, then she was “free to hire (her) own counsel privately.”

“Again, I do not want to fall into the trap of reviewing legal aid’s decision, but I cannot help observing that, in the present circumstances, the board’s suggestion here is simply unrealistic. It does not give rise to a genuine choice on the part of the accused,” he said.

For now, Murphy’s charges have been stayed until funding for Cunningham can be worked out.

Contact Ashley Joannou at ashleyj@yukon-news.com

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Watching the forest breathe: Movie inspired environmental monitoring innovation Bob Weber

The sensors were designed in Edmonton. The analytical software was adapted by IBM from some EDMONTON of its processing systems designed atching an old disaster to crunch through huge amounts movie gave a University of of data.

Alberta scientist an idea that could The sensors could be especially revolutionize environmental and useful in Alberta, where they could climate change tracking. provide a more comprehensive In the 1996 storm-chaser flick monitoring of pipeline networks.

Twister one of the characters tosses Sanchez-Azofiefa said they a handful of sensors into the sky to could also attune researchers to be swept up by a menacing whirl- subtle environmental changes in wind. The sensors relay data that the oilsands region by providing enables the heroes to save the day.

“I was watching the movie,” said Arturo Sanchez-Azofiefa, of the university’s department of Earth and atmospheric sciences.

“I thought to myself, ‘Hmm …

I wonder if this stuff is real? Is this possible?’ That’s how we started the creative process of building everything.”

What Twister led to is a network of about 1,000 small sensors in six different countries that can monitor up to 64 different environmental parameters and transmit data to a central location where it can be studied in real time. Researchers can tell exactly what the temperature is, how moist the soil is, the content of the local airshed and myriad other factors.

They can watch as a forest sucks in carbon dioxide during the day as it turns sunlight into sugar, then releases oxygen at night as the plants rest.

“You can see the system breathing, in and out,” said SanchezAzofiefa.

Getting data as conditions occur – some sensors report every second – and being able to analyze it immediately changes everything about how scientists or policy-makers can react to change.

Typically, said Sanchez-Azofiefa, a scientist would go into the field, collect data and come back to the lab to analyze it.

“You come back six months later and say, ‘Hey look. This happens.’ What this (innovation) is allowing us to do is, we go from the concept of ‘it has happened’ to the concept of ‘it is happening now.’

“If you know the process … you can actually detect that a drought is happening months before someone decides that, ‘Oh yes, we have a drought.’ It becomes a very important tool in decisionmaking.”

That’s already occurred. Sensors located in Costa Rica told monitors that a drought was in progress 150 days before the government acknowledged it.

The 1,000 sensors are each about the size of a cellphone. Just under one-third of them have been placed in northern Alberta, but they are also being used by collaborating researchers in Costa Rica, Brazil, Germany, Mexico and Australia.

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instant notice of any changes and by improving the picture of what’s normal.

“We can see, for example, ‘Oh look – the leaves are popping out today in Peace River.’ If we know the long-term history, we can say, ‘They’re popping out a week early.

I wonder why.”’

It’s a case of life imitating art, said Sanchez-Azofiefa.

“The inspiration for this was the movie Twister.’

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Tory attempt to embarrass Liberal candidate ends up embarrassing Conservatives Joan Bryden

the 2006 election campaign by then prime minister Paul Martin’s communications director, Scott Reid.

OTTAWA Reid was pilloried for arguing that n attempt by the Conservatives parents would spend the Conservato catch a prominent Liberal tives’ proposed $100 per month child candidate with his foot in his care benefit on beer and popcorn, mouth has instead wound up biting instead of child care. several Tory MPs, including senior Lilley’s theme was immediately cabinet minister Jason Kenney. picked up by Conservative MPs in the The political sting operation – just House of Commons. the latest in a series of covert Tory efBlake Richards, the Conservative forts aimed at capturing verbal gaffes MP for Banff-Airdrie, denounced

by Liberals – was launched at a Nov. Raynolds for what he called “insulting 13 public meeting in Canmore, Alta., and condescending” comments. by a young Conservative who’s been Two other Alberta MPs, Chris involved in at least one other similar Warkentin and Kenney, the employplot. ment minister, also raised the matter She secretly recorded a conversain the Commons. tion about the Harper government’s “That is an echo of the Liberplan to introduce income splitting als saying that parents would spend with Banff-Airdrie Liberal candidate money on beer and popcorn,” said Marlo Raynolds and two other men.

Kenney, adding that Liberals think The recording was subsequently they “know how to spend money betgiven to Sun News Network personal- ter than families.” ity Brian Lilley, who used it to bash Richards went further, sending out Raynolds and the Liberals in a news- a fundraising email about the compaper column and on his television ments attributed to Raynolds, arguing show. Raynolds, Lilley reported, had that “arrogance like that is frightensaid the Tory tax break would give ing” and asking for donations to help couples with children money for “keep Banff-Airdrie blue.” “arguably nothing” – money they’d There’s only one problem: another spend on TVs, cars and other things participant in the secretly recorded that don’t benefit the economy. conversation has stepped forward “It looks like another beer-andto say it was he, not Raynolds, who popcorn moment,” Lilley wrote in actually made the offending remarks. a Nov. 18 column, referring to a “I don’t believe Marlo should have controversial comment made during to take the flak for something I said,” Canadian Press

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Canmore resident Tam McTavish told The Canadian Press.

McTavish, who says he voted Conservative in the last election and has never been a member of the Liberal party, last week wrote a comment on Richards’ Facebook page, correcting the record. Richards has not responded to it.

“I have no real motive aside from the fact that I said these things and I don’t like someone else taking the blame for my words,” McTavish said in an interview Monday.

Neither Richards, Kenney nor Lilley responded Monday to a request for comment.

Lilley has so far refused to issue a retraction, saying in emails to Raynolds that the Conservative supporter who recorded the conversation insists it was the Liberal candidate who made the offending remarks.

“There is also no consensus from our own people after listening to the audio. In fact, most lean towards thinking it is you,” Lilley wrote Raynolds on Monday.

Conservative party spokesman Cory Hann intimated that no retraction will be forthcoming from Tory MPs, either.

“The person who recorded the conversation maintains the comments in question are from the Liberal candidate,” Hann said in an email. “The audio tape is available online for anyone to hear.”

The Canadian Press has listened to the audio. It is clear that at least two different men are involved in the conversation. However, the quality of the recording varies and, at the moment when the words in question are uttered, there is so much background noise that it’s difficult to make out the words, much less who is speaking.

Lilley has told Raynolds that the change in audio quality is due to the Conservative operative “zipping up her coat when she thought you were getting nervous that she might be recording you.”

Indeed, Raynolds said he was suspicious that the woman was up to something from the outset of the Canmore meeting, in part because he was sure he’d seen her at an earlier meeting in Airdrie – although he says she told him that was her look-alike cousin.

Raynolds asked his wife to take some photographs of the woman during the meeting. They match the profile photo posted on the Facebook page of Alexandra Constantinidis, a former parliamentary assistant to Calgary Conservative MP Rob Anders.

Her Facebook page includes two photos of Constantinidis with Prime Minister Stephen Harper.

It was Constantinidis who gave Sun News Network an audio recording earlier this fall of another prominent Liberal, retired general and

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would-be candidate Andrew Leslie. In that recording – similarly used by the Tories to denounce the Liberals in the Commons and to solicit donations – Leslie criticized Israel for “firing indiscriminately” on Palestinian women and children in Gaza.

The woman at the Canmore meeting signed in with the name Tasia Kemp and provided a phone number.

When The Canadian Press called that number Monday, a woman who said she was Alexandra hung up when told she was speaking to a reporter.

Last spring, Toronto Liberal MP John McKay was caught in a similar sting operation. A young man, later identified as an intern in Health Minister Rona Ambrose’s office, took McKay aside and asked to speak confidentially to him about Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau’s decision to veto would-be candidates who don’t support a woman’s right to have an abortion.

McKay, a well-known pro-life advocate, candidly talked about what he dubbed Trudeau’s “bozo eruption.” Secretly recorded audio of his remarks was given to CTV News.

Raynolds said the Tory tactic is disheartening.

“People are tired of politicians acting like this, parties acting like this,” he said in an interview. “It’s very un-Canadian. When did we lose that Canadian value of courtesy in our political discourse?”

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ew information has emerged about the explosive allegations of misconduct made by two female New Democrat MPs that prompted Justin Trudeau to suspend two sitting members of Parliament from the Liberal caucus.

After one of the women complained directly to the Liberal leader late last month, both women agreed to meet confidentially with Liberal whip Judy Foote and her NDP counterpart, Nycole Turmel, to detail their allegations.

Multiple sources familiar with what was said during those meetings have spoken to The Canadian Press, which believes it is in the public interest that Canadians have a clearer idea of what is at the root of a delicate controversy that has been raging on Parliament Hill for weeks.

Trudeau has said only that the allegations involve “serious personal misconduct” grave enough to warrant suspending Massimo Pacetti and Scott Andrews from his caucus. He has also suspended the pair from running for his party in the next election, pending an independent investigation.

Both men deny doing anything wrong and have said they expect to be exonerated by an investigation. The incident involving Pacetti is said to have occurred about a year ago.

According to an interview given to HuffingtonPost Canada, the alleged victim says she and Pacetti both belonged to the same sports league, members of which would often go out for drinks after games. She agreed one night to go to Pacetti’s hotel room, his residence while in Ottawa, for a drink.

The woman told HuffPost she was sexually assaulted as a teenager so, when Pacetti made it clear he wanted to have sex, she “froze.” What ensued was “sex without explicit consent,” she told HuffPost.

According to multiple sources, the woman acknowledged during her meeting with party whips that she did not explicitly say no, either. She also acknowledged providing a condom.

Sources say the woman maintained she signalled to Pacetti that she did not want to have sex but she was not pressed to explain what those signals were. They also say she was sufficiently traumatized by the incident that she took a three-month leave of absence.

HuffPost reported that the woman never confronted Pacetti after the fact, quoting her as saying “we pretended it didn’t exist.”

Pacetti has denied having sex with the female MP and has said it would be no one’s business if he had.

In an email statement, Pacetti said he has continued to maintain his innocence since the allegations first surfaced and to refrain from speculation in the media “in order not to prejudice any persons or institutions seized with adjudicating this matter.”

“I am troubled that the complainant chose to air these allegations in the media as this is inconsistent with statements conveyed through her party that privacy and fairness must be respected for both sides.

“As with media reports of this nature, in this instance many questions remain unanswered and there is no way to evaluate the veracity of

the claims being made. If need be, this matter should go through a confidential process mediated by an independent third party as was proposed by the Speaker of Parliament. Canadian standards of fairness and the presumption of innocence can then be maintained to arrive at the truth.

“I reaffirm my innocence and I will not comment on this matter in the media any further.”

The same woman approached Trudeau about the alleged misconduct by his MPs late last month in Hamilton.

That’s when she revealed to him that another NDP MP had allegedly been victimized by Andrews within the past six months.

The woman says she had not intended to destroy Pacetti’s career – only to receive an apology and have Pacetti get behavioural training. Liberals say the woman did not mention

these options to Trudeau or Foote.

The sources say the incident involving Andrews allegedly started at a social event on Parliament Hill before the woman, Andrews and Pacetti went from there to Pacetti’s office, where they drank some wine. Eventually, Pacetti left, leaving Andrews and the woman alone.

Sources say the woman alleges that Andrews followed her home, forced his way through her door, pushed her against a wall, groped her and ground his pelvis against her. She ordered him to leave. He did.

Afterwards, sources say the woman alleges that Andrews repeatedly verbally harassed her, calling her a “c-kteaser.” Andrews has denied any misconduct but sources say he has not yet given a detailed rebuttal to the woman’s complaint.

In an email, lawyer Chris Mac-

Leod, who is representing Andrews, said the MP was not provided with “any details of the internal summary or any documentation from the Liberal caucus” about the complaint against him. “He is in no position to respond to an unknown allegation,” MacLeod told The Canadian Press.

“Any allegation of misconduct on his part is untrue, and any reporting of the same will be considered libel on the part of you and your office.”

The women have so far refused to take part in a more formal probe of their allegations and the House has no process for dealing with misconduct complaints between MPs. Trudeau is now trying to find a professional with expertise resolving harassment complaints in private sector workplaces to investigate, using notes taken by the Liberals during the confidential meetings with the alleged

victims, whose names are widely known in parliamentary circles but have not been published by any media outlet to date.

Although New Democrats have said the women are too traumatized and fearful of being exposed publicly to take part in a confidential investigation, one of the complainants has begun telling her side of the story in interviews. Neither woman would speak to The Canadian Press. Nor would Pacetti or Andrews.

In the meantime, the reputations of Pacetti and Andrews, both married men, have been shredded and New Democrats have furiously denounced Trudeau for making the matter public, against the wishes of the two women.

Trudeau has insisted he had a duty to act after one of the women directly complained to him late last month.

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Alberta wolf cull stabilizes caribou numbers, but just buys time: study Bob Weber

those activities have not reversed temporary. Boutin said the herd’s higher the cost. It’s not scalable, reduce the energy footprint and any of the population declines.” in the sense that I don’t think shaky stability would likely colthey need to end logging in highly And it raises questions about anyone has the stomach for doing disturbed ranges,” she said. “It’s lapse under further disturbance.

EDMONTON caribou management that relies it across the province.”

Energy leases are still being important for the government to ew research shows that killheavily on killing wolves, while The provincial government sold and forestry continues on take those solutions and not coning hundreds of wolves has allowing industry’s footprint to other caribou ranges. is required under the Species tinually bow to very short-term barely managed to stabilize the increase.

Ramping up wolf culls would At Risk Act to file a range plan pressures. numbers of a threatened Alberta “It is buying us time, but it’s be difficult and expensive, said for Little Smoky that will keep “Previous history is not that caribou herd in a region increasbuying us time in a worse landBoutin, especially if they were caribou on the landscape. That encouraging. On the other hand, ingly impacted by industry. scape,” said Carolyn Campbell of extended to any of the other 18 plan is now almost a year behind we have a premier who says that The study, conducted by some the Alberta Wilderness Associawoodland caribou ranges in Alschedule and isn’t expected until to have social licence to extract of the province’s top caribou scition. berta, all of which are signifi cantly early 2015. our energy, we have to be an envientists and published online late While the Little Smoky range disturbed by industry.

The content of that plan will be ronmental leader. last week, suggests that Albertans currently enjoys a moratorium “The larger the area that you crucial for the Little Smoky herd – “We’re not being an enviface a stark choice as their governon new energy leases and forestry treat, the more wolves that you’re and all the others, said Campbell. ronmental leader by just killing ment prepares legally required going to have to deal with and the cutblocks, that breather is only wolves.”

“The range plans need to plans to restore the herds.

“One hopes that it’s not just some window dressing that’s going on,” said Stan Boutin, a University of Alberta biologist and one of the co-authors.

“If … the plan is one that tries to satisfy all the players in the game, it becomes a thing where each of the players at the table are in there primarily to ensure they don’t lose too much, as opposed to the overall objective. Which is, what do we have to bloody well do to keep caribou around?”

The study examines the effect of a seven-year wolf cull in the northwestern Alberta range of th the Little Smoky caribou herd – roughly 70 animals scratching out a living on land 95 per cent disturbed by forestry and energy development. Seismic lines and cutblocks from that development allow wolves deep into the undisturbed portions of the forest, adding further pressure.

In an attempt to keep caribou from disappearing, Alberta began an annual cull of about 45 per cent of the wolves on that range in 2005. By 2012, 841 wolves had been poisoned or shot from helicopters.

The study compares caribou numbers before and after the cull. It also compares them with a nearby range subject to similar development pressures on which no cull took place.

“Removing” wolves has stopped the Little Smoky herd’s decline, it concludes. Cow and calf numbers are up, just enough.

“It is fair to say the Little Smoky is stable,” said Dave Hervieux, co-author and provincial caribou biologist.

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The comments of the officials were sneakily recorded by innie the Pooh may be a councillor and leaked to local loved by children everymedia, according to the Croatian where, but the willy nilly silly old Times. Cichy said later that he bear stuffed with fluff has caused had been joking at the end of a quite a huff in a Polish commudiscussion on a playground that nity. had gone on too long.

The British newspaper The Joke or not, Tigger and Eeyore Independent reports that counwould doubtless not be amused. cillors in the town of Tuszyn Milne named Pooh for a teddy have punted Pooh as a possible bear owned by his son, who was playground patron because of his the basis for the bear’s friend, “dubious sexuality” and “inapChristopher Robin, in the stories. propriate” dress.

The boy had in turn named Illustrations of the bear his toy after a Canadian black created by British author A.A. Milne in the 1920s confirm Pooh bear he often saw at the London Zoo. The bear cub had been does tend to wander the Hundred Acre Wood in the buff or squeezed into the teensiest of red T-shirts.

“The problem with that bear is it doesn’t have a complete wardrobe,” Coun. Ryszard Cichy is quoted as saying.

“It is half naked which is wholly inappropriate for children. Poland’s fictional bear is dressed from head to toe, unlike Pooh, who is only dressed from the waist up.”

An unnamed councillor denounced poor Pooh as a “hermaphrodite” – although the official may have meant the bear was androgynous.

“It doesn’t wear underpants because it doesn’t have a sex.”

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The Guild offers up entertaining and thought-provoking drama

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Roseann Stuckless, left, and Eliane Cloutier talk during a scene in Dedication.

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Mary Sloan, left, and Eric Epstein during a scene in Dedication by Terrance McNally. The play is showing at the Guild Hall in Porter Creek until Dec. 6.

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Combine all this with the cancer-ridden, cantankerous and rich old lady who he Guild’s new produc- owns an empty old Vaudeville tion of Dedication by theatre the troupe would like Terrence McNally is to occupy (Annabelle, by an entertaining and thoughtMary Sloan), and her beefcake provoking night out. chauffeur (George Maratos) Adding more zip to the and you have all the ingredievening is how the play is ents you need for a night out. about a struggling communThe dialogue is snappy with ity theatre in a small town. plenty of great one-liners, as It will strike a chord – and a you would expect from a play few laughs – for anyone who’s by Terrence McNally. He won been involved in any kind of all those Tonys, Emmys and Whitehorse community group. other awards for a reason. The Dedication is about Captain direction is also well done, Lou and Miss Jessie’s Magic thanks to veteran SaskatchTheatre for Children of All ewan director Ian C. Nelson.

Ages, which performs in a Many of the best lines come dismal strip mall in upstate from Annabelle, who shares New York. Lou (Eric Epstein) a flair for memorable lines in and Jessie (Roseann Stuckless) the tradition of female vilused to have big-city theatlains such as Marie Antoinette rical ambitions, but are now or Cruella de Vil. When Lou in the trough of a mid-career goes on about what theatre crisis. Highlighting this is the can do for the community, return from rehab of Jessie’s she demands to know what estranged daughter Ida (Eliane the community has ever done Cloutier), who is a popular, for her. Same for saving the stadium-filling pop star. The whales. “What has a whale ever troupe’s technical director done for me?” she asks.

Arnold (Jody Woodland) proThe dialogue explores vides the third point to Lou some sensitive topics with its and Jessie’s community group humour, including jokes about crack, rehab, age, death and love triangle.

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cancer. As a cancer survivor I tend not to be a big fan of chemotherapy humour, but the play delivers them well.

Part of Dedication’s attraction is that it explores some uncomfortable topics.

Dedication is also a paean to amateur theatre. There are plenty of inside jokes that cognoscenti will enjoy, plus some scenes that will bring back some fond and possibly cringe-worthy memories of your high school Shakespeare class.

The play makes a surprising twist near the end, distilling all the banter on the value of community theatre into a single, chilling question. The community theatre enthusiasts are presented with an opportunity wrapped in a moral dilemma. “Just what would you do to ensure a pet project continued?” is how Nelson sums it up in the director’s notes.

You’ll have to go see it to find out what that question was, how the characters answered it and, perhaps, think about what your community group would have done in the same situation.

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Roseann Stuckless plays Miss Jessie.

Dedication is playing Wednesdays to Saturdays until Dec. 6, and you can get tickets at Whitehorse Motors or at the door. Showtime is 8 p.m. and more details are posted on guildhall.ca.

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

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LIFE Connecting with music, thousands of kilometres away Ashley Joannou News Reporter

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verett Igobwa has the kind of love of music that you’d expect from someone who plays 15 instruments.

He can play the piano and most of the brass and woodwind instruments. Or he can play and speak with authority about the thum nyatiti, an eight-string Kenyan lyre.

When he’s not chatting about music, Igobwa has an equal amount of affection for technology and what it can do to improve education.

After working at universities around Canada, he’s now a faculty development instructor at Yukon College.

There, he assists faculty with things like bringing new technology into their classrooms and transferring their curriculum to the web.

Those two skill sets combine once a week, at about 10 p.m. local time. Igobwa sets up his computer in his downtown Whitehorse apartment and over the Internet he is able to connect with music mentors in Kenya’s Nairobi School, 13,370 kilometres away, where it is 9 a.m. the next morning.

“I mentor the mentors who mentor the boys,” Igobwa explains.

Igobwa spent three years at Nairobi school and graduated in 1986. He went on to get his bachelor of education from Kenya’s Kenyatta University. After years teaching music at private schools and volunteering to teach classes at his alma mater, Igobwa immigrated to Canada in 2001. He has since earned his masters in musicology and is working on his education PhD. He returns to Kenya often, usually with music on his mind.

When Igobwa went to school, music education was funded in public schools. It’s not anymore.

“Music is always the ‘other’ subject,” he says.

As an educator, he says you shouldn’t look at topics as if they’re in silos.

“Scientific studies have been done whereby music is linked to mathematics – music can be linked to other things. Music can be linked to memory, to actually help remember things.”

Music exams and music skills can help a student develop confidence and self-esteem, he says.

Located on the outskirts of Kenya’s capital, Nairobi School is a public boarding school for boys from 12 to 19 years old.

The 200-acre campus was established in 1929. It houses about 1,100 students.

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Yukon College instructor Everett Igobwa uses web conferencing software to teach music lessons in Nairobi, Kenya.

Teaching Kenyan mentors to lead the classes is better than doing them himself, Igobwa says.

“It’s good to teach the older boys how to teach. Then it trickles down, a domino effect, to the younger boys.”

The boys school has 28 trained music mentors. Igobwa just started working with Precious Blood Secondary, a nearby all-girls school, this year, where 17 mentors are being trained.

This year the two schools combined to win first prize at the Kenya Music Festival. They performed Vivaldi’s Gloria arranged for mixed choir and chamber ensemble.

Over the years Igobwa and another graduate with the local alumni association have invested back in the school’s music program, expanded it from being a brass band to a

small orchestra.

“We have brass, we have woodwind, we have percussion and we are building string,” Igobwa says.

All the fundraising is done in Kenya, through events like golf tournaments. The cash is then brought back to Canada where Igobwa is able to buy instruments, get them serviced and ship them to the school.

He says there’s been a lot of good will from former Nairobi School graduates. Many are part of an alumni association known as the Old Cambrian Society, which has helped him out.

Over the last 10 years Nairobi School’s music program has been given about 80 instruments.

Now the Yukon College is hoping to help Igobwa improve the school’s technology alongside its instruments.

In September, when Yukon

College was upgrading computer equipment, Igobwa stepped in and asked that the equipment be donated to the Nairobi School music program.

Fifteen computers and six projectors that used to call the Yukon College student labs home were boxed up.

If they make it to Nairobi, some will be used to replace the “very old laptop” used for web conferencing, and others will be placed elsewhere around the school, Igobwa says.

But getting the technology to Kenya is not as easy as putting the computers in the mail.

Air North has already shipped the equipment for free from Whitehorse to Calgary.

Now they’re sitting in a church basement waiting for the next leg of the journey.

As Igobwa explains it, the Kenyan government worries about other countries “dump-

ing” obsolete technology at its doorstep.

To keep that from happening duties are added to older equipment. In some cases, technology that is considered too old could actually be destroyed at the port of entry, Igobwa says.

The Yukon computers are about three years old.

Igobwa has applied for a waiver to eliminate the duty.

Meanwhile, other alumni for Nairobi School will be meeting with Kenya’s education department to convince them the Yukon equipment still has value.

Igobwa is working to find the cheapest way to ship everything over once they get the green light.

“We’ve just had very good will. There’s been a lot of good will.”

Contact Ashley Joannou at ashleyj@yukon-news.com

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Warriors edge out Rams for girls volleyball title

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The F.H. Collins Warriors celebrate in the final of the Pepsi Yukon Grade 8 Volleyball Championships at Porter Creek Secondary on Saturday. The Warriros defeated the Porter Creek Rams in the final.

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Both teams were just News Reporter points away from victory in Saturday’s final. Tied 12-12 he F.H. Collins Warriors in the third set, Warriors’ faced an uphill battle on Tugugin Swan put in an unSaturday. returned serve before teamTo win gold, they needed mate Kate Storey produced to top the two teams that match point, bumping the had beaten them so far at the ball into a gap in the CrusadPepsi Yukon Grade 8 Volleyers defence. ball Championships.

Warriors’ Dana Sellars It was not an unwinnable then slapped a kill down the challenge, as they showed. middle for the title.

“I think we did really well “We came up against a very and we came together as a tough team – great athletes team in the end a lot more on that F.H. team,” said Rams than in the previous games,” head coach Daniel Bisson, said Warriors captain Emily who shared coaching duties Johnson. “We fought really with senior Rams player Hanhard to get gold. We feel nah Milner. “A bunch of nice great.” kids too. So it’s always nice to After losing in three sets play against nice kids. They to the Porter Creek Rams 2 worked just as hard as we did. team in the round robin, the “Volleyball is a game of F.H. Collins Warriors 1 team momentum and they got answered back with a 25-21, the momentum at the right 23-25, 15-12 win in the final time.” at Porter Creek Secondary The Rams took the School. second set with kills from The Warriors 1 team Caroline Freemantle and reached the final with a win Kendra Peters in the final over the Vanier Crusaders, points. Down by two midway who they also lost a threethrough, the Rams tied it on setter to in the round robin. a service winner and then a “We always kept positive,” diving dig from Sarah Hardie, said Johnson. “Even when we who was named tournament were losing we kept that ener- MVP. gy up and we worked really “Determination. She just doesn’t give up on a play,” good together as a team.”

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said Bisson. “She definitely Above: Rams MVP Sarah Hardie goes up for the kill. Below: has skill. She was very posiWarriors’ Tugugin Swan spikes the ball during the final. tive and was a really great leader this weekend, and that’s all you’re hoping to develop in a player.”

The Grade 8 girls championship was a close one.

After the round robin the Warrior champs, both Porter Creek teams and the Crusaders each had four wins. The other F.H. Collins team – the Warriors 2 – and Dawson’s Robert Service Knights had one win, while the Teslin School team had three.

“The tournament was so close,” said Warriors head coach Rob McGurk. “I was saying to the girls, ‘Winners win, but champions dominate,’ and there was no domination throughout this tournament. They were close games.

“I just want to congratulate the other teams – the Porter Creek team, the Vanier team, the Dawson team, the Teslin team – for their participation and their efforts. It was close all the way through.”

The Porter Creek Rams 1 team defeated the Vanier Crusaders 25-19, 26-24 for the bronze medal.

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Black Rams cruise through Grade 8 volleyball championships Tom Patrick News Reporter

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he Porter Creek Rams Black team was in the black over the weekend.

The Black squad dropped only two sets in seven games en route to winning the Pepsi Yukon Grade 8 Volleyball Championships at Porter Creek Secondary School on Saturday.

The Black Rams won the boys title with a 25-19, 23-25, 15-12 win over the Vanier Crusaders, the defending Grade 8 champs, in the final.

“We’re pretty excited,” said Black’s Dylan Cozens. “It was a close game. They came out pretty strong, stronger than we expected.”

“I’m pretty happy,” said teammate Grayson Turner. “It took a bunch of work, but we made it.”

Besides the dropped set in the final, the only other set the team lost was to their schoolmates on the Porter Creek Red team in the round robin. The Red squad went on to take the bronze after losing a three-setter to the Crusaders in the semifinal.

“They (Porter Creek Black) were the team to beat,” said Crusaders head coach Ben Craigen.

“They beat us in the round robin.

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Above: Porter Creek Rams’ Dylan Cozens goes on the attack during the final of the Pepsi Yukon Grade 8 Volleyball Championships at Porter Creek Secondary on Saturday. The Rams defeated the Vanier Crusaders in three sets. Right: Vanier’s Levrone Miron bumps the ball.

Ironically, to win the gold medal we had to beat the two teams we lost to in the round robin, which were the two PC teams.

“So they persevered, went to three sets in the semifinal match, and came out on top. They had a hard-fought battle in the final, came extremely close … It could have gone either way.”

In the final’s deciding set, the Rams took a 4-3 lead on a service winner from Turner, and there was no turning back. The Rams went up 12-9 and then 13-10 on kills from Cozens, who then made a crafty tip at match point for the win.

“There are just a lot of strong players here at Porter Creek,” said Cozens. “We have small teams, not very many subs, so that’s

pretty good.

“Everyone played great this tournament.”

The Crusaders led for all of the second set until the Rams caught up at 21-21 on a kills from Turner and took the lead on a tough serve from Tristan Snooks.

Not to be outdone, Vanier tied it 22-22 on a kill down the line from CJ Dumadag and picked up set point on an ace from Dumadag. Teammate Brandon Petelski planted a shot on the baseline for the set.

Vanier’s Arcel Siosan, a key player in offence and defence, was named tournament MVP. “Arcell has incredible talent for his age,” said Craigen. “He has an older brother who was quite

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Porter Creek Red captured the bronze with a 25-17, 25-16 win over the F.H. Collins Warriors.

“We started with a really good group of boys – we had a Red squad and a Black squad – and they were very competitive,” said Rams head coach Jerry Heal. “We had senior boys coaching them, had junior boys coaching them.

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Nachos defend Bob Park title with OT win Tom Patrick News Reporter

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ukon Brewing has a knack for making the final of the Bob Park Ice Breaker Broomball Tournament. Winning it, not so much.

The Nacho Nyak Dun Development Corporation team defeated Yukon Brewing (formerly Roadhouse) 2-1 in the final at Takhini Arena on Sunday.

It was the sixth consecutive time the Yukon Brewing squad reached the final, last winning it in 2009.

“I knew these guys were going to be smart and we expected a tight game,” said Nacho captain Chris Saunders. “They are the smartest team in the league with a lot of good players. We were lucky to have a good, big bench this year. It was our saving grace.

“We picked up a whole new line and everybody showed up … That was the benefit of having some extra legs out there: everyone was still feeling good.

Our girls were a little short – we had a couple girls get injured … One of our girls got sick, Leah Mcleod, so we dragged her out of deathbed this morning, put her out there to fill in a few shifts.”

Last year in the final Nachos also beat Yukon Brewing 2-1 in a come-from-behind performance.

This year was as dramatic, with the Nachos taking it in overtime.

Two minutes into overtime, which is played with empty nets at both ends, Nachos sharpshooter Justin Saunders brought the ball into the Brewing’s end and had his shot at the open net stopped with a diving block by Brewing’s Violeta Azizaj.

Brewing failed to get the ball out and Justin got a second chance. You do not want to give Justin – one of the league’s top scorers – too many chances. He buried it for the win.

“She’s hard. I don’t get around her very often, so I thought, ‘I’ll just shoot,’” said Justin of Azizaj.

“She stopped it so the second time I thought, ‘I can’t just shoot.’

“I try to care less and less every year, but it’s hard,” he added. “I focus on the fun aspect. It’s nice to win, of course, but we’re all here to have fun.”

Justin also scored the winning overtime goal against the then Roadhouse team in the 2010 final of the Bob Park tourney.

“It’s always Justin,” said Yukon Brewing goalie Aedan Greer.

“These guys are a tough team.

Other than our team, they have the hardest shots and they’re fast. We were tired, but they were tired too.

“We contained them pretty well. We spent most of the time in their end, it seemed to me, being the goalie.

“It was the most exciting game I had, the most pressure I had.”

Following a scoreless first period, the Nachos captain put

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John Tom Tom, of the Nacho Nyak Dun Development Corporation, breaks through a pair of Yukon Brewing defenders during the final of the Bob Park Ice Breakers Broomball Tournament on Sunday at Takhini Arena. The Nacho team won 2-1.

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The Nachos celebrate their overtime win.

his team up, finding the far, top corner on a backhander with 6:22 left.

Yukon Brewing forced the overtime as Caleb Dawe knocked in a rebound from the side of the Nachos net, assisted by Mike Wintemute and Melanie Lachapelle, with 1:28 left in regulation.

The Nachos arrived in the final with another overtime win in the semifinal. John Tom Tom

got the game winner to give his team a 1-0 win.

The tournament win marked a triumphant return for Nachos goalie Tim Laboucan, who missed the last two seasons.

“Seven games and he only let three goals against,” said Chris.

“Justin did marvelous, Tim was great, Amy (Kolfer) got her first goal – she’s been playing for a few years.”

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yclist Zach Bell clearly remembers the first time he met an Olympian.

It was 22 years ago, when he was 10, in his hometown of Watson Lake.

Canadian Olympic wrestler Chris Wilson, a six-time national champ, travelled to the town and gave a talk to Bellâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s wrestling team. â&#x20AC;&#x153;My dad (Greig), who was a coach at the time, made a call to see if we could get him down,â&#x20AC;? said Bell. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think they actually flew him down on one of the RCMP planes just for the day and he came in to talk to 15 or 20 of us.â&#x20AC;?

That memorial encounter â&#x20AC;&#x153;jump-startedâ&#x20AC;? Bellâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s career, said the two-time Olympic cyclist.

Bell now wants to help young Yukon athletes have similar experiences.

Shortly after being named International Male Athlete of the Year at the Sport Yukon Awards Night on Thursday, Bell unveiled his program to do just that.

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Watson Lake cyclist Zach Bell races in the Tour de Alberta in September. Bell announced the creation of the Zach Bell Rural Youth Sport Development Program at the Sport Yukon Awards Night on Thursday.

territory. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s my hope that this will provide myself, as well as other Yukon Olympians, a chance to connect young Yukon athletes with a network of expertise that weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been able to connect with through our participation in national teams, without increasing the financial strain on the sport organizations or the sport funding already available in the Yukon,â&#x20AC;? said Bell.

The goals of the program are to create a fund to aid sports groups in accessing Olympic level expertise from athletes and coaches, to support Yukonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s rural communities by requiring their participation in camps and clinics, and for sports groups to build connections with professional athletes and coaches outside of Yukon. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Sport organizations in good standing with Sport Yukon will be able to apply to bring up Olympic level athletes and coaches to direct camps and clinics,â&#x20AC;? said Bell. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The proposed camps must also include the communities by bringing in athletes from the communities to Whitehorse to participate in these camps or by hosting the camps in the communities themselves.â&#x20AC;?

The program is not geared towards any specific sport and can be accessed by any group affiliated with Sport Yukon. Groups must have a specific athlete or coach

in mind, and must cover costs of bringing at least one rural athlete to the camp, which must be a minimum of three days in length.

In addition to Bell and Sport Yukon, Air North has stepped up to the plate in making the program possible. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve granted us a set number of travel credits per year to move people around and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a significant number, so we decided we wanted to use that to bring some expertise in,â&#x20AC;? said Bell. â&#x20AC;&#x153;If we get applicants who want to travel out to attend camps run by similar individuals, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll consider those.

But the priority is going to be bringing people in.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;This all became possible with partnership with Air North,â&#x20AC;? he added.

The program will get rolling in earnest early in the New Year. The application deadline for summer camps is Jan. 31. The deadline for camps next winter is June 30. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The program is ready to launch, but we are looking for other supporters in the business community who might want to help grow it, to allow us to bring more people in, maybe higher profile people,â&#x20AC;? said Bell. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re open to working with and promoting businesses too.â&#x20AC;?

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embers of judo Yukon returned from their first Outside tournament of the season with plenty in tow.

Yukon’s Daniel Tonner and Hannah King fought to a gold and silver medal at the Steveston Judo Tournament on Saturday in Richmond, B.C. The team also returned with plenty of motivation to get even better, said Judo Yukon head coach Bianca Ockedahl.

“I was happy with what I saw today. I saw the improvements in everyone,” said Ockedahl, in a news release. “I think everyone fought hard and well today and they are all coming back with more motivation to do even better at the next one.

It is a good tournament for us and we will bring more competitors next year. Now, we will go home and work on a few things before the next tournaments and training camps.”

Tonner won four straight matches to win gold in the under-12 division. The yelloworange belt also opened the season with a pair of silvers at the Golden Horn Judo Championships in Yukon last month.

“I fought good and even though I won gold, I still have some things to work on,” said Tonner in the release.

King claimed silver despite fighting up a category. She went 2-1 to claim silver in the U16 under-63 kilo division.

“I think my tournament went well and it was fun. I fought great,” said King.

Also representing Yukon were brothers Jacob and Shayne Melanson, both of whom fought in new divisions.

Jacob, 16, competed in U18 under-66 kilos – instead of 60 kilos – and went winless in four bouts.

Shayne, who jumped to U16 under-73 kilos, from under-66 kilos last year, went 0-2.

“It is a new weight category and they are stronger,” said Shayne. “I’m going home with some experience and knowledge on what I need to work on before the next tournament. I am motivated to make it to the top of the podium.”

Jacob, who is a brown belt in Whitehorse’s Shiroumakai Judo Club, is in line to represent Yukon at the Canada Winter Games this February in Prince George, B.C. It will be the first time Yukon competes in judo at the Games since Whitehorse hosted in 2007.

“I think it’s going to be awesome, a great experience and I can’t wait to go,” Jacob said in a recent interview with the News.

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t last year’s Sport Yukon Awards Night, cross-country skiers blanketed the individual athlete awards. There was far more diversity this year.

A pair of cross-country skiers pocketed awards, but so did a paddler, a soccer team, a bowling coach and a well-know cyclist at the 39th annual event at the Yukon Convention Centre on Thursday.

“It’s a huge honour,” said Watson Lake’s Zach Bell. “I think it’s great to be recognized … The group of international athletes nominated this year was phenomenal, and the women were unbelievable.”

Bell, a two-time Olympic cyclist, was named International Male Athlete of the Year, beating out cross-country skier Knute Johnsgaard, pistol shooter John Simmons and soccer player Callum Ryan. Bell won the award three times in a row between 2008 and 2010, and again in 2012.

“All the athletes nominated here couldn’t get to where they are without the phenomenal sport system we have here,” said Bell in his acceptance speech.

“I really appreciate the honour again. The competition is getting pretty stiff, so this might be the last time you see me up here, so remember my face.”

Bell produced three top-10 finishes in track cycling at the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, Scotland, this summer.

In one race, he helped Canadian teammate Remi Pelletier-Roy win a bronze medal. Bell also placed 14th in the men’s time trial in road racing at the Games.

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Whitehorse’s Emily Nishikawa, centre, competes for Canada at the 2014 Sochi Olympic Games in March. Nishikawa was named International Female Athlete of the Year at the Sport Yukon Awards Night on Thrusday.

The 32-year-old is captain of Team SmartStop, a professional cycling team based out of Winston-Salem, North Carolina.

SmartStop made the podium in every event they raced this season and finished first in the Union Cycliste Internationale’s Americas Tour rankings, which includes North and South America. The team also came third in the team standings in the U.S.’s National Racing Calendar.

Bell, who missed some of the season with a broken collarbone sustained in a crash at the start of May, finished ranked 28th in the UCI individual rankings with three podium finishes in UCI races.

It was three in a row for Whitehorse’s Emily Nishikawa. The

25-year-old cross-country skier, who competed for Canada at the Sochi Olympics, was named International Female Athlete of the Year for a third consecutive time, beating out fellow cross-country skier Dahria Beatty, swimmer Bronwyn Pasloski and wrestler Brittanee Laverdure, who won a silver at the Commonwealth Games.

“I am very honoured to win this award,” said Nishikawa in an email to the News. “I have such an amazing support network in the Yukon and I’d like to thank everyone for making this past season so memorable for me. It was really special to share my Olympic journey with the whole community.”

Nishikawa, who is on the national team, was the first Yukon

cross-country skier to compete at the Olympics since 1992. She led the Canadian team in two races in Sochi, topping out with a 42nd place finish in the 15-kilometre skiathlon.

She finished the season with two gold and a silver at the Haywood Ski Nationals in March, placing second in aggregate open women.

Nishikawa is currently at a Team Canada training camp in Gallivare, Sweden, preparing for her first World Cup race this weekend in Kuusamo, Finland.

“Can’t wait to get the season started!” she added.

Brother Graham Nishikawa also received a special award on Thursday, honouring his work as a guide for visually impaired skier

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Elders Senate All Champagne and Aishihik First Nations Elders are invited to attend the Elders Senate.

Where: Kwanlin Dun Cultural Centre Date: November 27, 2014 Time: 10:00 a.m.

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For more information, please contact Charlene Hume at 867-634-5117 or 867-634-4249 by email chume@cafn.ca

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Brian McKeever at the Paralympics in Sochi. McKeever won three gold medals in Sochi with the help of Graham.

Whitehorse paddler Pelly Vincent-Braun made some waves this summer and earned the National/Territorial Male Athlete of the Year award.

The 15-year-old won five Canadian titles at the Whitewater Nationals, was selected for Canada’s junior national slalom team and will compete at the junior world championships in Brazil this April.

“I was pretty excited. I just got the letter in the mail two days ago and I never thought of winning an award,” said Vincent-Braun. “I’m very honoured to receive it. It’s so cool.”

Annah Hanthorn’s first season with the Yukon Ski Team was a profitable one. The 19-year-old cross-country skier won three medals at the Haywood Nationals.

Hanthorn, who moved to Whitehorse from Fort McPherson, N.W.T. before the start of last season, was also named to Canada’s junior team.

“I just want to thank my coaches and Cross Country Yukon,” said Hanthorn. “I just moved here and there’s a huge amount of support here that I’ve been given. And thank you to my teammates.”

“Last season, I felt like my highlight was a year of firsts,” she added. “The year of skiing on new trails, year of skiing on a ski team, the year of having really good coaching and going to the junior (world) trials – I had never been to them.

“There were just a lot of firsts and that was really exciting for me.”

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Whitehorseâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Pelly Vincent-Braun won National/Territorial Male Athlete of the Year.

soccer team scored gold over the summer and also scored Team of the Year on Thursday. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It was a big effort,â&#x20AC;? said team member Gaetan Michaud. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Going down there, we didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know what to expect. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Being named Team of the Year, you canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t ask for anything better.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Natalie (Taylor) is such a great coach,â&#x20AC;? he added. â&#x20AC;&#x153;When she came on board to coach us, I thought, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re in good hands.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re just so grateful to have her.â&#x20AC;?

The Yukon team captured its very first soccer gold in a thrilling shootout win over New Brunswick at the 2014 Special Olympics Canada Summer Games in July.

Yukon twice fought back from a goal down to finish regulation tied 2-2 and extra time tied 3-3.

The territoryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Kenny Atlin, Owen Munroe and Michael Sumner scored in the shootout to secure the win.

Also on the team were Rachel Dawson, Teddy Jackson, Christopher Lee, Duncan McRae, Steven McGundy and Marvin Hall. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Lisa Vowk did our bootcamp all winter and got us ready and prepared,â&#x20AC;? said Michaud, who was also named Special Olympics Yukonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Male Athlete of the Year. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Winning gold on a team was a dream for me because I havenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t done that. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been playing soccer for quite a few years now and it really eluded me a lot. But when I came to the Yukon and I thought 2014 is the year weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve got to do something and we did.â&#x20AC;?

The soccer team wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t the only ones from Special Olympics Yukon honoured at the awards night.

Special Olympics five-pin bowling coach Krista McKinnon was named Coach of the Year. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m just very proud of this and Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m so very proud of my athletes,â&#x20AC;? said McKinnon. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Without them I certainly wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have won an award.â&#x20AC;?

McKinnonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s bowling team won silver for Yukonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s first-ever team medal at the national Games in July and three of her bowlers also won individual medals.

McKinnon, who lives on the far end of Marsh Lake from Whitehorse, would drive an hour

each way four times a week to work with the bowling team. On Saturdays she worked with over 40 Special Olympians at the alleys in Whitehorse. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Every Saturday I was head coach of the 42-member bowling team â&#x20AC;&#x201C; of course I had help,â&#x20AC;? said McKinnon. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Of the 42 athletes, many were in other sports (such as) soccer, bocce.â&#x20AC;?

The Yukon Freestyle Ski Associationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s team has had tremendous success over the last few seasons and Whitehorseâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Lynda Harlow has been a big part of that.

Harlow, who is starting her fourth season as president of the association, was named Administrator of the Year. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been involved in hockey, figure skating, but this group of people, kids and parents, are so much fun,â&#x20AC;? said Harlow. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They will do anything. So itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not just me, there are a lot of people who help. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re just a big family. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I just love it, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m passionate about it. I should have thanked Dylan Reed because without him inviting (my son) Josh five or six years ago, I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know when we would have gotten involved in freestyle skiing. That was the start of things.â&#x20AC;?

Under Harlowâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s leadership the association has made successful bids for government grants and has acquired top-notch training equipment.

In 2012 the association purchased a massive 15x15-metre airbag â&#x20AC;&#x201C; much like those used by Hollywood stuntmen â&#x20AC;&#x201C; for skiers to practice â&#x20AC;&#x153;big airâ&#x20AC;? aerials.

More recently, the ski association received funding from Lotteries Yukon and the Yukon governmentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Community Development Fund to construct a â&#x20AC;&#x153;dry slopeâ&#x20AC;? summer training ramp at Whitehorseâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Mount Sima. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t thank the government enough, and the support organizations,â&#x20AC;? said Harlow. â&#x20AC;&#x153;And other organizations around town, who maybe arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t government but local businesses, are so supportive of sport. It actually blows my mind. This is a great place to have kids in athletics; they have a real advantage to have such a great community and such a great

government.â&#x20AC;?

After winning its first medal at the Canadian Junior Freestyle Ski Championships in 2013, the Yukon Freestyle Ski Team collected six last season, including three gold.

Thursdayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s gala wrapped up shortly after the induction of Bill and Diana Simpson into the Yukon Sports Hall of Fame.

The Simpsons were posthumously inducted in the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Builderâ&#x20AC;? category for their many years of work with Yukonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ElderActive

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Recreation Association. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Both Diana and Bill Simpson were visionaries of ElderActive Recreation for more than a decade,â&#x20AC;? said ElderActive president Tom Parlee, at the ceremony. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Bill, in his wisdom, could see there were opportunities for senior and elders to have a better life by having a chance to play in an organized way through sport, whether it was running on the track, swim-

ming, curling or playing cards. â&#x20AC;&#x153;First it was through the biennial Canada Senior Games and then it translated into year-round activities here at home in the Yukon. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Though the ElderActive Recreation Association was established before the Simpsons got involved, they quickly established key leadership roles.â&#x20AC;?

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3-BDRM GARDEN suite, available Dec 15, country residential, large fenced yard for dogs, primary heat wood/propane backup, greenhouse, wood shed, on water delivery, $1,600/mon. 633-5499

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New paint, new flooring, large balcony, N/P, no parties, responsible tenant, utils inclĘźd, $1,400/mon. 668-5558 2-BDRM 1-BATH house, Km 6.5 Hot Springs Rd, refs reqĘźd, approved pets ok, $1,000/mon + utils, power, monitor oil heat, water delivery, phone & internet. 633-6178 1-BDRM FURNISHED apt downtown, all utils incl, N/P, no parties, responsible tenant, avail Dec 1, $950/mon. 668-5558 OFFICE/STUDIO SPACE FOR RENT 2000 sq. ft., 129 Copper Road. $2,000/mon includes utilities.

Space includes kitchen area with stove & fridge.

667-2614 ask for Brenda or Michelle or e-mail: totalfire@northwestel.net LOOKING FOR roommate, 1 room, dd reqĘźd, N/S, $550/mon + 1/2 utils. 336-3833 HOME IN Mt. Lorne, 30 min to town, loft bedroom, 3-pc bath, log w/woodstove & propane, power, water, phone, good insulation, dd&refs reqĘźd, $1,100/mon + utils. Ross 393-2767 SHOP SPACE for rent by the hour, half-day or full day, short term only, some tools and compressor onsite, change tires, fix brakes etc. 333-9084 1-BDRM SUITE, downtown, fully furnished, all-inclusive, includes parking beside private entrance, laundry, heat, electricity, cable/PVR, Internet, quiet, responsible tenant, N/S. 332-7444

SHOP FOR rent in Titanium Way. Energy efficient including boiler & hotwater tank, 14Ęź high ceiling, 980 sq ft, available January 1, $1,600/mon + elec. Call 335-9732 or 335-9529 after 5pm LARGE 1-BDRM apt on Lewes in Riverdale, quiet bldg, free heat, hot water & laundry, lots of storage, plug-in parking, N/S, N/P, refs & dd reqĘźd, $1,200/mon. 334-2269 CABIN, MARSH Lake, avail immed, fully furnished, elec, propane, firewood, Internet, no running water, pets welcome, $500/mon.

335-5130 2-BDRM $1,400/MON, bachelor apt, $950/mon, heat & hot water incl, N/P, N/S, adult building, downtown, avail immed.

335-3994 3-BDRM 1.5 bath apt, downtown, 2,300 sq ft, large storage rm, power & heat incl, $1,750/mon. 335-5237 2-BDRM 2-BATH & den, Artkell, large fenced yard incl shed & large deck, pet friendly, prefer long-term renters, $1,500/mon + dd. 335-7010 3-BDRM DUPLEX, Takhini North, fenced yd, hardwood, new furnace, avail Dec 1, N/S, $1,500/mon + utils. 393-2739 lv msg 2-BDRM 2.5 bath condo, Crestview, new, N/S, N/P, avail Dec 1, $1,500/mon & utils & dd. 334-7306 NEWER 3-BDRM 2-bath duplex, Copper Ridge, 1,800 sq ft, 2 floors on large lot, N/S, N/P, $1500/mon + utils. 334-3488 ROOMMATE WANTED for house share in Porter Creek home, female, total three folks, large yard, pet friendly if existing pets likes, $700/mon all inclusive. Greg 456-7141 2 BEDROOMS in Riverdale house, fully furnished, close to bus, avail Dec 1, N/P, N/S, $480 & $500 + utils & dd. 334-3280 PINE MEDICAL Building, office space for rent, $500/mon + GST for 305 sq ft. Call 668-3838 2-BDRM BASEMENT legal suite, open concept, laundry facility, shed, N/S, N/P, close to schools/hospital, $1,050.00/month + utils + $1,050.00 dd. 335-9232 after 6pm ROOM IN big Copper Ridge house, $559/mon incl utils. Contact Sarah at 613-422-9395 or sarah_g_d@outlook.com 1-BDRM APT, Porter Creek, near Super A & bus route, N/S, N/P avail Dec. 1, 2014 prefer long term lease, $950/mon. 393-3767 after 5pm or weekends 2-BDRM MOBILE home, 30 mins from Whitehorse, includes electricity, avail Nov 1, $1,395/mon. 867-668-2215 after 7pm

2-BDRM 1-BATH small house, Mile 4.8 Hot Springs Rd, lg acreage, newly constructed, electric heat, appliances, w/d, 1000 gal. water tank, phone/internet, avail Jan 1, $1,100/mon + utils. 633-4342 CABIN, GOLDEN Horn, spacious, elect/WiFi incl, cell service, trails, Toyo & EPA wood stove, propane cookstove, hot water on demand, shower, outhouse, N/S, N/P, dd&refs reqĘźd, $850/mon. 668-7295 FRIENDLY, RELIABLE housemate wanted, furnished space in Riverdale avail Dec 1, N/S, $550/mon all incl. 456-7490 LARGE UNFURNISHED bdrm w/private bathroom, downtown, storage space avail, house shared with 2 females, must like dogs, $800/mon + dd, heat/elec/Internet incl. (514) 467-2817, 335-0504 jamie.sachi@gmail.com VISIT BAJA MEXICO and help support a kidĘźs project in Guatamala Ninosdellago.org 5-room Casa near Harbour in Colonial Centre, La Paz January/February, 2015 $500/week suzanne@dunroaminretreat.com 867-821-3492 1-BDRM BASEMENT suite, Crestview, avail Dec. 1, $1,000/mon + utils & dd. 334-7306 1-BDRM LEGAL bsmt suite, downtown, bright, new renos, separate entrance, small office space, storage room, w/d, N/S, N/P, $995/mon + utils. 667-2255 ROOMMATE FOR upper level of house, female preferred, beautiful view, less than 15 mins from d/t Whitehorse, N/S, $750/mon incl utils & laundry. 587-434-9834 DOWNTOWN OFFICE space available within house located in commercial zone, $800/mon, negotiable, call or email (514) 467-2817, 335-0504 or jamie.sachi@gmail.com

Wanted to Rent HOUSESITTER AVAILABLE Mature, responsible person Call Suat at 668-6871 HOUSESITTER WANTED January to April 2015 at Marsh Lake, reliable couple or single person with refs, N/S, animals welcome.

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Help Wanted VUNTUT GWITCHIN FIRST NATION Old Crow, Yukon

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

Employers seeking over 200 additional CanScribe graduates. Student loans available.

Income-tax receipts issued. Start training today. Work from Home! www.canscribe.com. info@canscribe.com. 1.800.466.1535.

WANTED: LICENSED HAIRSTYLIST for new beauty shop in Porter Creek Mall PatĘźs Hairstyling & Barber Shop 633-5395 332-0784 MEDICAL TRANSCRIPTION is an in-demand career in Canada! Employers have work-at-home positions available. Get the online training you need from an employer-trusted program.

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

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Do you speak Spanish?

We are looking for professional tour guides for the winter season with great communication skills.

667-2209 or jobs@arcticrange.com Part-time Dental Assistant required Please forward resumes to: Whitehorse Dental Clinic 406 Lambert St Fax: 867-667-4488 NAZARENE DAYCARE is seeking a part or full-time caregiver. Must have all government requirements and be over 18. To apply please call Clayton @ 633-5520 or apply online @ www.nazarenedaycare.org.

GPRC, FAIRVIEW CAMPUS requires a Heavy Equipment Instructor to teach in our Heavy Equipment Program! Please contact Gavin Winter at 780-835-6695 and/or visit our website at www.gprc.ab.ca/careers for more information.

THE JOB: Reporting to the Executive Director, this position is responsible for directing the business of the Natural & Heritage Resources Department in lands, environment, heritage, and ďŹ sh and wildlife. This position supervises the Heritage Manager, Lands Manager, Fish & Wildlife Manager and Administrative Assistant. This position also serves as a member of the Senior Management Team in the Vuntut Gwitchin Government.

THE CANDIDATE: The ideal candidate will hold a degree or diploma in one or more of the following: natural or renewable resource management, land management, environmental studies and have extensive relevant work experience at a senior management level. The ideal candidate will have knowledge of the principles, practices, issues and legislations associated with natural resources management. Strong skills are needed for managing projects, developing policies and procedures, applying ďŹ nancial management, negotiating, supervising and problem solving. Excellent oral and written communication skills are required.

Pay Range: $79,806 - $103,748 ($52.47 - $68.21) per annum plus an excellent beneďŹ t package This is a full-time position based on 32.5 hours per week. (6.5-hour workday 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. & 1:00 to 4:30 p.m.) VGG closes every second Friday.

A detailed job description is available at: http://www.vgfn.ca/employment CLOSING DATE: December 02, 2014 @ 4:00 p.m. We thank all applicants but only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

Please submit resumes that include job experience related to position to: Brenda Frost, Manager, Human Resources Vuntut Gwitchin Government Box 94, Old Crow, YT Y0B 1N0 Phone: (867)966-3261, ext. 256 Fax: (867)966-3800 Email: hrd@vgfn.net While qualiďŹ ed VGFN citizens will be given preference, all interested and qualiďŹ ed individuals are encouraged to apply.

The Yukon Legislative Assembly is recruiting for a:

Child & Youth Advocate Closing Date: 4:00 p.m., December 16, 2014 Salary: $121,795.00 per annum (includes pay in lieu of beneďŹ ts) (This full-time position is not included in the Yukon Government public service)

The Child and Youth Advocate is an independent ofďŹ cer of the Yukon Legislative Assembly who is required to communicate, advocate, support and assist children and youth to access designated services and ensure that the views and interest of the child or youth are considered in accordance with the provisions of the Child and Youth Advocate Act. The Child and Youth Advocate will also be responsible for administration of the Child and Youth Advocate Act and the overall direction and supervision of the Child and Youth Advocate ofďŹ ce.

The successful applicant will be appointed by the Commissioner in Executive Council to a 5-year term on the recommendation of the Yukon Legislative Assembly.

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Expression of Interest Casual, Part-time Researchers/Writers Competition No: 14.129 Review Date: December 9, 2014 Yukon College is looking for Researchers/Writers to assist with marketing materials, college reports and website communications.

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For additional information, please contact: Jacqueline Bedard, Director, College Relations jbedard@yukoncollege.yk.ca (867) 668-8716 Candidates with an acceptable combination of education, training and experience may also be considered.

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

STEEL BUILDINGS/METAL BUILDINGS 60% OFF! 20x28, 30x40, 40x62, 45x90, 50x120, 60x150, 80x100 sell for balance owed! Call 1-800-457-2206 www.crownsteelbuildings.ca MCDONALDS H O C K E Y cards from 1991-92 to 2009/10. Almost every card issued minus some short prints, incl. 27 unopened paks/yr. Over 1,200 cards, $1,000 firm. 633-3154.

WORLD HOCKEY Association, remember it? Two rare books, (history, statistics, photos). Exc. shape, $50. 633-3154 TRADING CARDS, binder full of non-sport trading cards (James Bond, X-men, Desert Storm, Enduring Freedom). About 500 cards. $50. 633-3154 CFL FOOTBALL cards, 17 different complete sets of cards, including early OPC. Almost 2,600 cards, serious inquiries. $1,400.

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

ACTIVE IN YOUR COMMUNITY Are you looking for volunteer opportunities?

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

Santa is coming to Town!!!

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SAFETY/SURVIVAL, SOUVENIRS, novelty, knives, unique handcrafted, crystal, fine china, clothes, gifts. On Facebook at "Little Footprints Big Steps-Silent Auction". Amazing deals, all proceeds to support work in Haiti.

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

On December 6th, the Waterfront Trolley is partnering with the Winterval Festival to make a fun filled day for all - including the annual City of Whitehorse Christmas Parade that showcases Santa down Main Street to light the Christmas tree. We are opening the Round House on Front Street for free photos with Santa, cookie and cake decorating, crafts, refreshments and our beautiful Red-Trolley will transport eager Santa lovers to and from the Old Fire Hall to the â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Santa Houseâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;, the name for our venue. As a non-profit organization, we rely on VOLUNTEERS like you to assist us with making the day one to remember.

If you have any questions or are interested in donating, you can contact the event coordinator, Rhoda Merkel, at rlmerkel@yahoo.ca or call 867335-1761 or 667-6355.

WINTERVAL 2014 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Volunteer recruitment On Saturday December 6th, the traditional Winterval Santa Parade and Arts Festival will warm up Main Street, bring magic to the winter, and give a kick-start to the holiday season! Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re looking for volunteers and parade participants to help make it a huge success. Volunteers will be invited to participate in a brief orientation session on December 5th at 5:45pm.

The following volunteer positions are available: Santaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Helper (12:30-6:00pm) x1 Possibly the most important position of all! This person will pick up Santa from his home, drop him off at the end of the day, and make sure that he gets where he needs to be for photos and the parade. Must hold a valid driverâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s license and provide a vehicle.

Event Set-up: Decorations and Signage

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COLLECTION OF 1,000 + vinyl records from 70s, 80s & 90s, rock, country & blues.

334-4568 WOLF HIDE, large tanned timber wolf pelt, typical grey & white colour, $500. 668-3632 lv msg 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

Native Brain-Tanned

Moose Hides AT REASONABLE PRICES Tanned beaver & other furs also available.

Ph (780) 355-3557 or (780) 461-9677 or write Lodge Fur and Hides, Box 87, Faust AB, T0G 0X0 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 35 PAPERBACK mysteries, various authors, $20. 633-3154

(12:00-1:30pm) x4 Install outdoor lights and decorations, decorate Old Fire Hall, and place signage as appropriate.

Security (3:30-5:30pm) x4 Provide assistance to City of Whitehorse staff for traffic control during the parade, and ensure safety at the Arts Festival.

Security volunteers will be identified with safety vests.

Fire Security (4:00-5:30pm) x2 Work with City of Whitehorse staff to light 2 bonfires, stock fires, and ensure safety around the fires. Distribute marshmallows and roasting sticks to public, and ensure they are returned!

Workshop Volunteers (Nov. 30th 1:00-4:00pm at Yukon Arts Centre / Dec. 6th 1:00-3:00pm at YukonStruct) x3 Assist Winterval workshop facilitator and help workshop participants with craft projects. No art skills required, just a smile and helping hands!

Santa House Helper (1:00-3:00pm & 4:305:30pm) x1 Give a hand to the staff at the Roundhouse, the official venue for pictures with Santa!

We also invite community groups, organizations, and members of the public to participate in the parade. Everyone is welcome to wear their best seasonal costume, make a parade float or puppets, bring lights, lanterns and musical instruments or just themselves, and join in!

Funding for this project is made possible through the assistance of Arts Fund, Department of Tourism and Culture, Mike Nixon, Minister.

Special Thank you to the City of Whitehorse and our presenting sponsor, Main Street Yukon Society, for supporting this event.

OIL FURNACE, Kerr 74 000 BTU. Riello 40 burner. Serviced every year. In vg cond, $400 obo. 667-6365 YUKON WILDLIFE Conservation stamps, rare and unique collection of 13 stamps, from 1996-2008, beautiful artwork depicting Yukon birds and wildlife, $150. 633-3154 32ĘźX16ĘźX6Ęź WALL tent, new, never used, $2,000. 334-8335 1965-66 TOPPS Hockey Cards, complete set, great shape, $1,500. Ross @ 633-3154 HOUSEPLANTS, PEACE lily, ivy, lipstick, umbrella tree, etc, $10-$35. 660-4321 XBOX ONE, bought in spring 2014, never used, c/w original box, controller, documentation, no kinect, $290 firm. 633-6343 to view VINTAGE MIRRORS, $30, $45, & $75. 311B Hanson St INVERSION TABLE. 334-5337 LANDĘźS END down coats, wm med, $85, MEC xs blk, $75, MEC pile-lined wms lg, $60, MEC Hydrofoil pts, new, wm med, $80.

311B Hanson St LA-Z-BOY RECLINER, fabric covered, good cond, $250 obo; small TV, $10; 2 rocking chairs, $15 ea; standing 5 metal shelves, $40. 668-6007 PAJAR, BLACK seal skin boots, menĘźs size 9, new, $250 firm. 668-5043 ROBERT SERVICE, Songs of the Sourdough, 1st edition book, signed, serious enquiries. 821-3492 JEWELRY, AMBER earrings & pendants (no gamers); very large spider plant, $50.

311B Hanson St JOTUL F500 WOODSTOVE, non-catalytic, front and side-loading, matte black, up to 24" logs, heats up to 2,000 sqft, exc cond, $1,600 obo. 633-2091

Sarah Cloutier-HÊbert, 418-554-4894, s.cloutierhebert@gmail.com or Geneviève Gagnon 867-335-9269

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

MORE BUYERS

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

Community Services

CANVAS WALL tent, 14'x16'x6' walls, used, good shape, Pioneer brand, 11 ounce canvas, $1,000 obo, canvas wall tent, 8'x10'x3' walls, used, good shape, $400 obo. Tim at 334-7545 SQUARE QUILTED Christmas tablecloth, $25, 2 quilted Christmas table runners, $15 & $20, unfinished 3Ęź Raggedy Ann doll, $15, round glass reversible vase, $15. 667-4788 for info 35 CC Jiffy ice auger, like new, $275 obo.

633-6502

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2012 Hond a Fourtrax 700km. W 420 arn

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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 2014 FULL SETUP, Bataleon Enemy 157 Snowboard, Burton Escapade bindings, med, size 8.5 Thirtytwo Vela women's boots, all great cond, $800. 456-2577 ARTIFICIAL MIXED pine tree, 4.5Ęź, used 1 year, $50, 3 boxes glass tree ornaments, silver, blue/white, red/gold, never used, $15 ea, silver angel w/ lights, approx 12" high, never used, $25. 633-3923 300-500 GAL steel tank, $60. 633-4018 ARTIFICIAL CHRISTMAS fir tree, 7Ęź, various decorations, indoor/outdoor lights in cases, exc cond, $75. 668-6303 after 6 pm POPLAR LOG bed frame, queen size, beautiful natural colours, estimated price $800-$1,000, asking $650. Is in tagish but can be delivered to Whitehorse.

867-399-3904 after 6pm SNOWBOARD (MDP 48â&#x20AC;?) c/w size 9 menĘźs Burton boots, $75. 668-3594 PIONEER FEATHER-LITE parka, menĘźs sz med, $200; North Face menĘźs sz med parka, $150, neither ever worn, snowmobile suit, unisex down insulated, $75. 633-3053 BLIZZARD WINTER boots, ladies sz 9, new, never worn, water & wind resistant, Thermolite insoles, warm, comfort lining, dark brown, $60. 332-0417

COLEMAN VERTEX 5500 professional vertical generator, electric start, new NAPA battery, like new cond, $600. 334-8347

BLONDE GRIZZY bear rug, $1,600 obo.

335-5465 FIREPLACE, PROPANE, cast iron, gray, $999. 332-6116

Electrical Appliances KENMORE 668-4680

18 cu ft fridge, $100 obo.

BURLS FOR sale, different sizes, some are peeled, some are still on pole, 5-6Ęź long.

867-399-3920 LADIES GOLD nugget watch, turquoise bracelet, pair of clustered diamond earrings, 2 foamies in pkg. 667-6604

NEW COMMERCIAL clothes dryer, coin-operated, $300. 633-2837 PORTABLE DISHWASHER, General Electric, exc cond, downsizing, $100. 333-9640

ANTIQUE STYLE music system, 3-speed turntable, AM/FM stereo radio, CD-R/RW player, 2 yrs old, exc cond, $70. 668-6303 after 6pm 32â&#x20AC;? PANASONIC GAOO CRT TV, works well, pick it up and it is yours. 660-5101

Computers & Accessories CAMERA, SONY DSR PD150P (Pal format) and tripod, editing, Avid Xpress 3.5 NTSC/ PAL, Effects & After Effects 4.1/50, Graphics 5.5 & Motion Graphics, Photoshop, 24hr footage, 2 flat monitors. jstj62@gmail.com MS SURFACE RT with blue type cover, Windows 8.1, used 25 hours, $325, great Christmas gift. 633-2580 lv msg

Musical Instruments PIANO TUNING & REPAIR by certified piano technician Call Barry Kitchen @ 633-5191 email:bfkitchen@hotmail.com

WINE CELLAR, holds 120 bottles; full length black mink coat, sz 12-14. 633-2535

YAMAHA CLAVINOVA piano model CVP509, check wonderful features on Internet, perfect for beginners or advanced players, over $9,000 in stores, asking $6,200.

Serge 667-2196 after 5pm

PAT GREEN wool carder for felting, like new, $500, huge amount of assorted wool, $200, will sell both for $650. 456-7038

A UNIVOX collectors electric guitar, made in the 80s, nice rock and roll guitar, $160.

333-9084

WOODSTOVES FOR sale, different sizes & types. 867-399-3920

PEAVEY STUDIO Pro 112 electric guitar amp, 65 watts 12â&#x20AC;? speaker 1 clean & 1 lead channel, lts of controls, $250. 333-9084

PORTER CREEK Graduation Fundraiser Nov. 29, butter tarts $15, will be quite a few dozen tarts unspoken for, they will be available at PCSS on that date between 4 & 8pm FULL-SIZE SCHOOL bus, no engine, located 1 hour from town, good glass/rubber, seats removed, would make a great shed/in-law suite, must be towed from current location, $500. 633-3392

MARSHALL VALVESTATE 10 10 watt electric guitar amp, 1 clean, 1 lead channel, $50.

333-9084 GIBSON S G Robot electric guitar, great guitar, rare, American-made Gibson, valued at $3,999, selling for $1,500 firm. 333-9084

3 IN 1 kids starter bike, Wishbone brand, almost new, great Christmas present, eco friendly, $200 obo. 633-3392

ROLAND CUBE 40 XL.40 watt electric guitar amp, 1 clean and one lead channel, solo function, five effects and reverb, $250.

333-9084

ANTIQUE CIRCULAR buzz saw blade, 31â&#x20AC;? diameter, good shape, great decoration, $100 obo. 633-3392

BASS PLAYER looking to join working band, no beginners please. Thomas @ 660-4826

MEN'S CANADA Goose Chilliwack bomber jacket, like new, size M, brown, $249 obo.

660-4646

TECKNICS DIGITAL piano, exc cond, $750.

334-2779

8â&#x20AC;? ICE fishing auger, new still in box, $500 obo. 867-689-9715

Dev (867) 335-5192 Carl (867) 334-3782

â&#x153;&#x201D; Beetle-killed spruce from Haines Junction, quality guaranteed â&#x153;&#x201D; Everything over 8" split â&#x153;&#x201D; $250 per cord (6 cords or more) â&#x153;&#x201D; Single and emergency half cord deliveries â&#x153;&#x201D; Scheduled or next day delivery

SAVAGE 300 WSM, stainless action/barrel, muzzle break, synthitic stock & Boyds laminated thumbhold stock, Vortex scope, box of handloaded 190 gr berger bullets, $1,000 obo, PAL reqĘźd. 335-0277 SPRINGFIELD XD 9mm Pistol 2 magazines, magazine loader and holster, $500.

335-2939 CSA SPORTER VZ-58 non-rest rifle, new, 7.62X39 Tele-stock, $950. 334-1422 lv msg LEE ENFIELD No4 Mk1, professional conversion to .308 win, new .308 bbl, no finish, new bolt parts, new synthetic stock, scope mount, no sights, no magazine, $500, PAL req'd. 667-2276

Wanted FIREARMS. ALL types wanted, estates, collections, single items, military. We handle all paperwork and transportation. Licensed Dealer.1.866.960.0045, www.dollars4guns.com

FENDER FM 212 100 watt amp, 2-12â&#x20AC;? speakers, very loud, clean & lead channels, $225. 333-9084

2008 CHEV Equinox, 140km, great shape, remote start, A/C, heated seats, AWD, excellent winter vehicle. 334-8950 2008 VW City Jetta, low km, well maintained, fully loaded, cold weather equipped, clean inside & out, great fuel mileage. 334-3049 2007 HONDA Civic DX Sedan with silver exterior, auto, FWD, 79,500 kms, remote start, i-linc, 2 sets of tires, $9,500. 334-1052 2007 JEEP Compass 4x4 Limited, 97,800 km, trans axle, roof racks, sunroof, heated seats, reliable, no problems, $9,500 obo.

334-9415 2007 KIA Spectra 5, 5 spd manual, fully maintained highway commuter, loaded, extra studded tires on rims, 153,000 km, $5,000.

667-2276 2007 KIA Spectra 5, 5-spd manual, fully maintained highway commuter, loaded, extra studded tires on rims, 153,000 km, $5,000.

667-2276

WANTED: VW camper van, good condition, 1984 and up. 334-4576

2007 SUBARU Outback, 130,000km, great shape, $12,000 firm. 456-7900

WANTED: RCMP Victim Assistance Volunteer Program is looking for volunteers. We provide an immediate response to victims of crime. For further info contact philip.whiles@rcmp-grc.gc.ca

2003 SUBARU Legacy, 88,000 km, exc cond, 1 owner, no smoking/pets, regular service, heated seats/mirrors, roof rack, lots of options, great winter car. 668-5166

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

ARE YOU moving away? I will buy your firewood. 633-2236

2003 TOYOTA Rav 4, Sports Edition, 190,000 kms, black, auto, 4-cyl, auto start, $8,000. Text or call 334-1295

DONĘźS FIREWOOD Keeping Yukoners Warm For 7 years 393-4397

WANTED: BULK or set Lego, Kreo, Kinects, for creative-minded lads, by donation or puchase. 456-7030

2001 INFINITY QX4 SUV, AWD, auto, loaded, leather, 158,000, exc cond, body very good, safe, clean in & out.

778-231-9445

OFFICE ADMINISTRATOR for Teen Parent Access to Education Society, contract position for 4 hours/week, clerical and financial duties, reports, one meeting a month.

667-3421

2000 HONDA Civic DX, 180,000 km, c/w set studded winter on rims & set all season tires on rims, roof rack, soft roof carrier, bike rack, $3,000 obo. 334-7949

CHRISTMAS CAROLERS wanted to perform for a Christmas function. Call Casey 867-334-4092

2000 TOYOTA Corolla, 5-spd, 178,000 kms, vg cond, great gas mileage, winter/summer tires both on rims, recent mechanical inspection, $3,400. 633-2981

Cheque, Cash S.A. vouchers accepted.

STANDING DRY FIREWOOD for sale â&#x20AC;˘Free delivery in the city â&#x20AC;˘$250/cord for 18â&#x20AC;? or bigger â&#x20AC;˘Half cords available Call 633-5041 for more information

DJG CONTRACTING Delivering single/multiple cord orders cut to length 20 cords in tree length Pick up in Whitehorse or Haines Junction Call or text David at 332-8327

WANTED: VOLKSWAGEN camper van, liquid cooled, good cond. 334-4576 WANTED: WOMENĘźS skates approx size 8.

633-4152

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

WANTED: METAL filing cabinet. Peter 333-9043

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

2013 HYUNDAI Genesis Coupe, 2.0T, fully loaded, 6-spd standard w/cargo tray, winter front mats, new winter tires/rims, oil pan heater, 12,000 kms, $27,500 obo. 334-9039

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 332-1939 (cell)

Guns & Bows LICENSED TO BUY, SELL & CONSIGN rifles & ammo at G&R New & Used 1612-D Centennial St. 393-2274 BUY â&#x20AC;˘ SELL NON-RESTRICTED FIREARMS safety course presented by Whitehorse Rifle & Pistol Club Dec 6 & 7. For more info call 334-1688 or 667-6728

Cars 2009 TOYOTA Yaris, red, auto, after market rims, only 63,000 km, $9,500 obo. 336-1129

2012 HONDA Civic Ex, blue, auto, sunroof, remote start, Bluetooth, USB, Eco Mode, extended warranty, about 40,000 km, windshield/interior mint, winter/summer tires, $17,500. 336-2023 2011 C H E V R O L E T Aveo LT, 5-dr, 14,500km, 4-spd auto, P/W, P/L, A/C, 4 stud tires installed, 4 season tires, remote keyless entry w/alarm, still under warranty, $9,500.

332-9457 2011 KIA Sportage FWD, 60,000 kms, 2 yrs left on warranty, exc cond, $15,000 firm. nat05@hotmail.com or 668-6051 eves 2011 TOYOTA Matrix 4-dr hatchback, 66,000kms, command start, summer/winter tires, $13,750 obo. 334-6338 or 633-4873 2010 COROLLA SPORT, 63,000km, remote start, 2 sets of wheels with new studded winter tires, sunroof, auto trans, $13,000 obo.

Phone 335-5718 2009 CHEVROLET Cobalt SL Tudor, metallic grey, 32,690 km, standard transmission, very clean, exc cond, $7,500 obo. 667-7222 2009 NISSAN Maxima Sport, fully loaded, leather, heated seats/steering, 2 sets of tires on rims, low kms. 668-5869 eves

CELEBRATE! Births! Birthdays!

Weddings! Graduations!

Anniversaries!

2009 VW Jetta diesel, great mileage, low kms, 6-spd standard, great cond, $14,000 obo. 336-4687

WANTED: WOOD stove for greenhouse, 2ĘźLx2ĘźWx2ĘźH or close. 393-3777

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2 BELL satellite receivers w/remotes, exc cond, Model 3100, $60. 334-8318

ORGANIC GARLIC â&#x20AC;˘B.C. Okanagan farmers selling eight varieties â&#x20AC;˘Smooth to bold, not bitter â&#x20AC;˘Large Cloves â&#x20AC;˘2014 harvest â&#x20AC;˘$14 per pound Absolutely delicious!

Phone 867-332-0417

Store (867) 633-3276

KENMORE FRIDGE, 16 cu ft, matching Kenmore elec range, clean, $250 for both.

633-2837

2011 HONDA generator, EU 2000 I inverter, 800 hrs usage, exc running cond, $675 obo.

334-1846

SATELLITE PHONE, Globalstar Qualcomm GSP 1600, incl wall charger & 12 V charger and manual, needs new battery, $100 firm.

660-4723 or 332-5450

HURLBURT ENTERPRISES INC.

ANTIQUE STAINED glass window from old chapel found in cabin outside Carcross, 17â&#x20AC;?X28â&#x20AC;?, chalice design, $500. 821-3492

TVs & Stereos

SUNTAN BOOTH, walk in, exc cond, for pick up, dismantle & set up instructions, $500. 660-4106

Firewood

FOOSBALL TABLE, soccer theme, heavy set, used & loved, vg cond, $250 obo.

668-4775

SNOW BLOWER, Sears 27", 8hp, electric start, headlight, little used, $600. 633-5576

RED COAT, good cond, sz 16, $50 obo, black coat, good cond, sz 20, $50 obo.

633-2751

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2001 FORD Taurus 4-dr, 114,500kms, cruise, P/W, P/L, V6 auto, 4 winter tires, $3,395. 336-2029

1999 FORD Taurus sedan, 163,000 km, new battery, ball bearings, alternator, rear brakes done 2013, mechanical inspection certificate, great shape, no rust, $1,950. 335-4109 1999 FORD Taurus, great car, 4-dr, 130,000 km, 5 new winter tires, runs perfectly, well maintained, exc interior/exterior, must be seen, $3,299 obo. 335-3570

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1997 CHRYSLER Cirrus LX(I), fully loaded, good running condition, 205,000km, auto, 4-dr, green, $1,900. 660-4646 1996 CHRYSLER Intrepid ES 3.5 litre, new front brakes/rotors, drives nice, clean, needs winter tires, 138,000 km, $2,200. 335-1317

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1990 CADILLAC Eldorado, 2-dr, full power, c/w 4 winter tires & 5 new summer tires & rims mounted, 58,000 original miles, $2,800.

336-2029

Trucks

Help control the pet overpopulation problem

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 26

2014

have your pets SPAYED OR NEUTERED. FOR INFORMATION CALL

633-6019

We Sell Trucks!

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

t Medium haired, black and white female cat. Green eyes, found at Kopper King Trailer Park. Please call the shelter 6336019 (23/10/14) 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) t Walmart parking lot, Black and Brown Collie X. No collar, please contact the Shelter @633-6019 t Arkell area, adult female black and white, green eyes. Please call Fran Mason @3351123 or the Shelter @633-6019 (31/10/14) t High Country Inn, medium, male, redish brown hair, wearing a drak brown collar with white writing, no tags, Contact Doug or Carol @ 667-7928 (14/11/14)

1988 FORD F-350 Custom, 180,000 km, 2WD, Crew Cab, 351 gas engine, new tires/windshield, recent mechanical inspection, great running cond, good truck, $2,200 obo. 336-1306

Auto Parts & Accessories

2008 FORD F150 Lariat SuperCrew 4WD, auto, 5.4L, V8, loaded, blue/gold exterior, leather interior, heated leather bucket seats, 178,000km, $21,650 obo. 335-3570

t Alaske Hwy, 9 yr old, female, Cardigan Welsh Corgi, brown and white, answers to Abby Contact Al @ 633-3758 ( 23/10/14) t 10 year old, male, Labrador Husky, golden, wearing red collar. Please contact Maya if found @403 360 3702 t Industrial rd, neutered male, husky, wearing a purple collar with tags, answers to Dafen, Contact Logan @ 335-2216 (04/11/14) t Takhini, 1yr old, neutered male, DMH, black, answers to Mufasa, Contact Tammy @ 633-4004 (04/11/14) t Oak street, male, Goldendoodle, white, wearing a blue collar with tags, anwsers to Dio, Contact Trevor @ 334-2597 ( 18/11/14) t Mayo and Burma rd, male, pomeranian x, light brown, wearing a brown leather collar no tags, answers to Keech, Contact Deb @ 333-0744 (19/11/14)

1999 CHEVROLET 1/2 ton 4X4, ext cab, c/w winch, head rack & rails, storage bins, $6,950. 336-2029

2011 FORD Ranger 4x4 sport, 80,000 km, auto, jump seats, nice truck, $9,000.

334-0972

2008 F450 King Ranch, 6.4 diesel 4x4, auto, crew cab, long box w/matching canopy, leather, sunroof, $25,000. 668-2215

FOUND

2002 DODGE Ram 1500 quad, 4x4, auto, working well with new tires & battery, well maintained with records, $4,000 obo. call/text: 867-335-2555

BLACK 2007 4x4 Toyota Tacoma SR5/TRD, exc cond, dealer maintained, 2 sets of tire/rims, 150,000km. matching canopy, undercoating, $16,000. 336-1019 for viewing

2009 CHEV Colorado 4X4, ext cab, auto, V6, P/W, P/D, cruise, radio/CD, $7,995.

336-2029

LOST

2002 CHEV Avalanche, 177,600 km, auto, new fuel & water pumps, remote start, 4x4, recent inspection, $5,800 obo. George 336-0995 or Graham 334-9146 (text)

2013 CHEVY Silverado 1500 Limited 4x4, extended cab, storage under back seat, great fuel economy, great cond, box liner, $31,900. 334-9415

2010 NISSAN Xterra, low mileage, good glass, tires, 6-spd manual, never off-road, great shape. Robbie @ 332-3928

LOST/FOUND LOST/ T FOOUND

2003 RED Honda Odyssey 7-seat van, 194,000 km, non-smoking, no accidents, new brakes, 50% winter tires + new summers, $5,800 obo. 335-1509 lv msg

2006 CHEVROLET 3/4 ton 4X4, ext cab, V8 auto, P/S, P/W, cruise, new tires, 215,000, $7,950. 336-2029 2006 FORD Escape, quality/durable cross over SUV, runs great, 215,000 km, $4,000 obo. 335-0891

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 TOYOTA ALLOY wheels, fits Tacoma or Tundra, 16X7, retail $490 ea, asking $125 ea or all for $400. 633-3053 5 BRAND new Goodyear 245/75-17â&#x20AC;? 10ply mud/snow tires, $420 cost each, will sell for $325/ea obo, only sold as a complete set, will not fit my truck. Call 332-1374 3-265/70R17 TIRES, 2-205/75R15 trailer tires. 2-245/75R16 tires. 1-22X11X8 tire.

334-5337

2003 DODGE Caravan, FWD, exc cond, one owner, reduced to $4,900 obo. 667-7733

HEADACHE RACK for Dodge w/full-size 8Ęź box. Heavy-duty skookum rack is 64 3/4" wide, tapers to 63" at back. Like new, black, $300. 660-4516

2003 F-250 XLT, 7.3 diesel, 4x4, SuperCab, auto, 8Ęź box, perfect Yukon truck, great cond & towing capacity, trailer brakes, must see, reduced to $8,500 obo. 668-7295

REMOTE STARTER with 2 controls, new, c/w all wiring, fits on any car or truck, $115.

334-4299

2003 F150 4x4 Crew Cab 250,000 km, summer/winter tires, like new, matching canopy, $6,000. 668-9214

AC DELCO 105 amp alternator, low hours, fits 2002 HD GMC 2500, GM Part #1915 1893, $100 obo. 634-2106

AVAILABLE FOR ADOPTION

IN FOSTER HOMES DOGS

CATS

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

t 11 yr old, male neutered, DSH, black (Mingus) t 11 yr old, DLH female spayed, yellow and grey ( Kizzie)

AT THE SHELTER DOGS t 12 weeks old, female, huskyx, blonde ( Caroline) t 11 weeks old, female, husky, blonde ( Brin) t 11 weeks old, female, husky, brown ( Nova) t 4 yr old, neutered male, beagleX, brown and black and white ( Dexter) t 1 yr old, neutered male, boxerx, brindle (Nikolaos) t 3 yr old, neutered male, boxer X, white, (

Kale) t 2 yr old, male, beardog X, black and tan, ( Rufus)

CATS t 9yr old, female spayed, calico, tortie and white,(Mao) t 2yr old, DLH, female spayed, tabby, ( Lindy) t 6 yr old, DMH, female spayed, brown tabby, ( Judy )

SPECIAL t Homes needed for retired sled dogs. They would make excellent pets. Please contact 6683647 or kennelmanager@muktuk.com If your lost animal has been inadvertently left off the pet report or for more info on any of these animals, call 633-6019 or stop by 126 Tlingit Street.

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

You can also check out our award winning website at:

WWW.HUMANESOCIETYYUKON.CA

SET OF Bridgestone winter dueler tires on 5-bolt GM steel rims, 90% tread, $145.

689-5791 6.5 HP OHV Power Fist engine, new, 3/4" horizontal shaft, $120. 634-2106 4 SILVER 16" rims incl winter tires 215/65 R16, 5-bolt pattern for Honda, may fit others, rims under 2 years old, tires about 6 years old, $250. 332-1281 TRUCK TOPPER/CANOPY, sliding windows with screens, front sliding window, back window with lock, 98"x72"x22", dark red, $349 obo. 660-4646 THULE SKI/CARGO box, exc cond, holds many skis/gear, easy to install, c/w lock/2 keys, approx 73â&#x20AC;?LX18â&#x20AC;?WX13â&#x20AC;?H, paid $420 new, asking $190. 668-7361

Pets ADAR/SPCA is offering Boarding Services for your dogs.

Book early.

5 acres of secure land.

References provided upon request.

Email adarspca@gmail.com for rates.

PARROT CAGE, ideal for small parrot, comes with carry case, perches, toys, $200 firm. 332-1488 LOCALLY RAISED beef scraps, healthy diet supplement for your dog, packaged in 2-3 lb bags, $2 ea. 667-2067 VERY FRIENDLY 8 yr old brother and sister Siberian Huskies to go together as pair of companion dogs to loving home with fenced yard. 336-0686 3 WHITE German Shepherd puppies without papers, ready to go, $850 ea. Linda at 633-3652 or 456-8602

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

Did you FIND or SEE â&#x20AC;&#x153;Abbyâ&#x20AC;??

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

RUNNING AT LARGE...

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

TRUCK TIRES, LT 265/70 R17, Michelin LTX & Pirelli Scorpion, good cond, $50 or 5 for $200. 660-5166

ABBY is a Cardigan Welsh Corgi and is micro-chipped.

600 SKIDOO Tundra 4-stroke, purchased Dec. 2013, lots of extras, only 273km, new, paid over $11,000, asking $9,000. Ted at 333-0038

A reward if offered for her safe return of $150

2009 POLARIS Assault, 1500 miles, slp pipe heads v force reeds programmer and LCD display tunnel bag, $6,500 obo. 334-7131

Please call Lynn @ 633-3758

78 ARCTIC Cat Panther 5000, one owner, runs great, $1,000. 633-3053

Pet of the Week!

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WANTED: YAMAHA VK 540. 863-5715 1998 SPORTSMAN 500 ATV, good cond, $2,500. 334-2006

Marine

ALE

Hi, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m Kale.

Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m a very energetic young guy.

I love to go for walks.

SNOWMOBILE SLEIGH, heavy duty, folding, $250. 633-3053

PROFESSIONAL BOAT REPAIR Fiberglass Supplies Marine Accessories FAR NORTH FIBERGLASS 49D MacDonald Rd Whitehorse, Yukon 393-2467 KLEPPER AERIUS Expedition SL 490 folding canoe, weight 27 kg, 490cmL, 72 cmW, payload 300 kg/720lbs, blond wood (27 kg) , black TPU hull, $2,499 obo. 660-4646

Heavy Equipment

633-6019 126 Tlingit Street

www.humanesocietyyukon.ca

225 AMP Hobart gas powered arc welder on small trailer, $1,200 obo. 633-6502 2014 ROCKHOUND 30 EXHD Brushhead, like new, $11,500 obo. 867-536-4595 2008 CAT excavator, model 303.5 CCR, low hours, exc cond, all service records, $43,000 obo. 867-536-4595

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1980 DODGE One Ton 2WD Truck in good condition with steel welding deck and Canox Big Red Air-Pak welder with less than 500 hours since new.

Comes with lots of extras, including 2 wire feeds.

FOB: Dawson City.

Asking $24,500 + GST. jonathanganter@hotmail.com 780-289-4989

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

THE FRIENDS of the Gallery AGM Wednesday December 3rd 2014 from 6pm-7pm, Whitehorse Visitor Information Centre. New and current members welcome. Refreshments provided. Info: 667-5858

YUKON LEARN Society, free drop-in computer lab for your self-directed computer studies Mondays 10am–2pm. Tutor/instructor on site to assist you. Yukon Learn Society, 2158-2nd Ave

VINTAGE POP Up Shop at Rah Rah Gallery, Sunday, November 30 11am-7pm, Monday December 1 5pm-9pm. Menʼs and womenʼs vintage clothes, music and socializing

Campers & Trailers

WHITEHORSE EDUCATION, Career and Volunteer Expo. Kwanlin Dün Cultural Centre. Thursday, November 27th- 10:30-4pm.

Public welcome, free entry. Full list of exhibitors at www.volunteeryukon.ca

CEREMONY FOR the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women. Friday, December 5 at noon, Elijah Smith Building. Call VFWC at 667-2693 for more info

THE YUKON Federal Green Party AGM will be held Thursday, November 27, at the MacBride Museum (lower floor), starting at 7:00pm. Come to meet and elect the 2015 board!

YUKON FEDERAL Green Party AGM to be held on Thursday Nov. 27 at 7 pm, McBride Museum downstairs. All welcome

TAITʼS TRAILERS www.taittrailers.com taits@northwestel.net Quality new and used Horse * Cargo * Equipment trailers For sale or rent Call Anytime 334-2194 Southern prices delivered to the Yukon HEAVY DUTY 3/4 ton utility truck box trailer made from Chevy truck box, blue & white, no rust, 16” wheels, $750 obo. 334-4568

We sell used Class C RV’s!

Check it out here

klondikerv.com or call us to view (867) 456-2729 RV LOT Rentals $8.95 a day. 362 days of sunshine, pets, events, classes, entertainment. Reserve by 11/01/2014. Web-site: www.hemetrvresort.com.

Call: 1-800-926-5593 27ʼ FLATDECK dual axle trailer, new lights, stand & chains, needs some brake parts, good trailer for skidoos, $1,750 obo.

867-399-3920 DOUBLE SNOWMOBILE/ATV trailer, drive on back, drive off front, 12ʼX8ʼ deck, V front protects sleds from rocks/snow, great trailer, $2,500. 335-3570 SWS TRAILER, 2 axles, 7000lbs, enclosed cargo mate, 20ʼlx81/2ʼwx7ʼh, barn doors, $9,999. 332-6116

Coming Events ATLIN GUEST HOUSE Deluxe Lakeview Suites Sauna, Hot Tub, BBQ, Internet, Satellite TV Kayak Rentals In House Art Gallery 1-800-651-8882 Email: atlinart@yahoo.ca www.atlinguesthouse.com 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 ATLIN - GLACIER VIEW CABINS “your quiet get away” Cozy self contained log cabins canoes, kayaks for rent Fax/Phone 250-651-7691 e-mail sidkatours@ atlin.net www.glacierviewcabins.ca

WOLF CREEK Community Association AGM Wed, November 26th at 7:30pm, Golden Horn School Libary. Info: Ken. 668-7592 WHITEHORSE EDUCATION, Career and Volunteer Expo. Kwanlin Dün Cultural Centre. Thursday, November 27th- 10:30-4pm.

Public welcome, free entry. Full list of exhibitors at www.volunteeryukon.ca STORIES AND Voices of the Valley meeting at LMCC, Km , Annie Lake Road, December 3, 7pm. Recordings of local residents stories, snacks/refreshments provided, free event. More on www.mountlorne.yk.net ANNUAL GENERAL Meeting (AGM) of Yukon African Caribbean Association, on Tuesday, December 2nd from 5:15pm-6:45pm at Whitehorse Public Library. Contact: yaca@yaca.yk.net

WHITEHORSE COMMUNITY Choir presents their Christmas concert Christmas by Firelight, 8pm, Dec. 5th and 6th, Yukon Arts Centre. Tickets are available at Arts Underground and the Yukon Arts Centre WHY WORDS Matter: Language Use and Violence Against Women. Wednesday November 26 at 1pm, Whitehorse Public Library. Everyone welcome

WHITEHORSE RECREATIONAL Ice Hockey Association Special Meeting vote on legal name change to Whitehorse Rec Hockey League to be held Dec 3, at 7 pm at Sport Yukon.

THE LURE of the Magic Bus: Reading & Discussion with writer Eva Holland, Thurs Nov 27 at 7:30pm, Whitehorse Library. Free

COFFEE HOUSE! Sat. Dec 6. Featuring: Calla Paleczny + the Open Stage! Help set up 6PM, Open stage sign-up 7PM, 730PM show! $5 United Church Bsmt, 6th+Main, 633-4255

DO YOU PLAY EUCHERE? Want to learn how to play Euchere?

Come out and join us!

Monday night at the Whitehorse Legion starting at 7:00 pm Non-Legion members are welcome!

YUKON BLUEGRASS Music Society AGM, Public Library Mtg Rm, 7pm, Wed Nov. 26.

Sneak peak at 2015 lineup; advance festival ticket purchase for members. Info: festival@yukonbluegrass.com

WHITEHORSE EDUCATION, Career and Volunteer Expo, Kwanlin Dün Cultural Centre, Thursday, November 27, 10:30-4pm.

Public welcome, free entry. Full list of exhibitors at www.volunteeryukon.ca

HABITAT-FOR-HUMANITY HOME dedication ceremony, and Habitat Yukon's 10- Year Anniversary Celebration, Saturday Nov. 29th from 1 - 3 pm, at Mt. Mac Rec Centre

TIMELY DECEPTION, November 28 and 29, 7:30 pm, Old Fire Hall, bilingual play about abuse of senior citizens by loved ones. afy.yk.ca

YUKON ARTISTS @ Work Co-op Gallery & Gift Shop presents Christmas Group Show, opening reception 5-8pm Friday November 21. Show runs until December 24, 11am 5pm upstairs 120 Industrial Road

SENIOR METRO Soccer League AGM Friday November 28, 2014 @ 6:30pm, CGC Meeting Room

WHERE DO I GET THE NEWS?

The Yukon News is available at these wonderful stores in Whitehorse:

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL Writing Circle meeting Tuesday, December 9, 7pm-9pm, Whitehorse United Church upstairs. Writing letters to support human rights worldwide to celebrate International Human Rights Day DEVON COYOTE, a captivating trio that wows audiences wherever they perform.

Their unique style, sound and lyrics traverses rock'n'roll, blues, folk country, Whitehorse Nov 25-30 @ The Dirty Northern Pub

to be held at the

Watson Lake Signpost Senior Centre from 11:00 am-3:00 pm Sunday, November 30th Forever remembered by his loving wife, childred and grandchildren

In Memory of

Jeannine Lacasse

On the 22 of November, 2014, our mother, Jeannine Lacasse, at the age of 83 passed away calmly, at The Chateau in Sturgeon Falls, Ontario. Daughter of deceased father Isidore Therien and Florida (nee Baril) Therien. Loving wife of now deceased Gabriel Lacasse and mother of: Denis (Sally Dyck), Marie-France, Ginette (Rene Rochon), Pierre (Michelle Longlade), Richard (Estelle Dumas), Robert (Vicki) and Nathalie (Michel Paquette). She will be missed by her grandchildren: Jean Rochon (Nathalie Sache), Melanie Rochon (Eric Guenette), Gabriel et Alexandre Paquette, Wayne Lacasse, Tarah Lacasse (Justin Scoffield), Caitlin Roe, Addison Lacasse (Elizabeth), Danielle Kastelein (Rhys Law), Alexander Kastelein (Stephanie Petrie), and with 3 great grandchildren: Phelix Guenette, Isaiah and Joy Lacasse.

Pre-deceased by her great granddaughter Mariel Lacasse. She will also be greatly missed by her dear sister Lizette (Horace) Lavoie, Gilbert (Jeannine) Therien, and Regent (Gemma) Therien. Pre-deceased by her brothers: Henri and Wilfrid and by her sister Therese Gallagher. She will be missed by her sister-in-laws and husbands: Marie-Ange (Marcel) Lachapelle and Lia (Reynald) Landry. Jeannine was a retired teacher, who had a passion for crafts, sewing and cooking and was also an artist. She was a member of the Canadian French Federation of Ontario and l’Union Culturelle. Her family will receive parents, families and friends at Theoret Bourgeois Funeral Home, in Sturgeon Falls, on Monday the 15th of December, 2014 from 9:30-11 am. There will be a service following at the chapel.

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Canadian Tire Cashplan The Deli Edgewater Hotel Extra Foods Fourth Avenue Petro Gold Rush Inn Home Hardware Klondike Inn Mac’s Fireweed Books Ricky’s Restaurant Riverside Grocery Riverview Hotel Shoppers on Main Shoppers Qwanlin Mall Superstore Superstore Gas Bar Tags Walmart Well-Read Books Westmark Whitehorse Yukon Inn Yukon News Yukon Tire

GRANGER Bernie’s Race-Trac Gas Bigway Foods

PORTER CREEK Coyote Video Goody’s Gas Green Garden Restaurant Heather’s Haven Super A Porter Creek Trails North

RIVERDALE: 38 Famous Video Super A Riverdale Tempo Gas Bar

“YOUR COMMUNITY CONNECTION” WEDNESDAY • FRIDAY

Celebration of Life

APPLE MACBOOK Pro laptop computer, 13” 2.4 Hz intel Core 2 Duo, 4-GB Ram, 250-GB hard drive, mid 2010, latest OSX Yosemite operating system, vg cond, $495.

667-4955 WHITEHORSE STRING Ensemble, Sunday November 30 2pm, Christ Church Cathedral, 4th & Elliott, selections from Vivaldi, Holst, Tchaikowsky, $10 regular, $5 students, 10 and under free, info 667-4630

MOUNT LORNE Local Advisory Council Meeting will be held December 2, 2014, at the Mt. Lorne Community Center at 7pm

APRIL 7, 1929 – NOVEMBER 15, 2014

MEGAFAUNA EXTINCTIONS, Past, Present & Future, a long-ago Yukon Skype talk

by Dr. Emily Lindsey, University of California Museum of Paleontology, Saturday November 29, 1pm, Berengia Centre. 633-6579 for info

MT. LORNE Foodie club/community kitchen style, Persian Cuisine November 26, 7pm, please register, $20, bring containers.

667-7083 more on www.mountlorne.yk.net

STOP EBOLA. Fundraiser for MSF in West Africa. Thursday Nov 27. Francophone Centre, 210 Strickland. Silent auction, speakers, music, refreshments. Tickets $20 Well Read Books. Info Jan 633-3445

John DesRosiers

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

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CARNATIONS: LDAY'S Annual Christmas Carnations fundraiser is in full swing. $20 for one dozen carnations, delivered to any home or business in Whitehorse on December 8th/9th. Order now: 668-5167, office@ldayukon.com

Post an ad in 126 newspapers.

Reach more than 2 million people for only $395/week for a 25-word text ad or $995/week for a formatted display ad!

Book by province or whole country. Save over 85% compared to booking individually.

JACK HULLAND School Council is holding it's regular council meeting on December 3, 2014 at 7:00pm in the school library. Everyone is welcome to attend

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F.H. COLLINS School Council regular meeting on December 3rd, 2014 @ 6:30pm in the Fine Dining Room at the school. Everyone welcome.

TEENS, EXPRESS yourself. Draw, write, read, unwind, mingle at Whitehorse Public Library, Thursdays 3:30pmâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;5pm until Dec 18. Drop in (teens ages 12-17). Snacks too.

For information call 667-5228

ELIJAH SMITH School Council is holding it's regular council meeting on December 2, 2014 at 6:30pm in the school library. Everyone is welcome to attend

Services IF YOU own a home or real estate, ALPINE CREDITS can lend you money: It's That Simple. Your Credit / Age / Income is NOT an issue. 1-800-587-2161.

BUSY BEAVERS Painting, Pruning Hauling, Chainsaw Work, Snow Shovelling and General Labour Call Francois & Katherine 456-4755 LOG CABINS: Professional Scribe Fit log buildings at affordable rates.

Contact: PF Watson, Box 40187, Whitehorse, YT, Y1A 6M9 668-3632 BACKHAULS, WHITEHORSE to Alberta.

Vehicles, Furniture, Personal effects etc.

Daily departures, safe secure dependable transportation at affordable rates. Please call Pacific Northwest Freight Systems @ 667-2050 GET RESULTS! Post a classified in 125 newspapers in just a few clicks. Reach more than 2 million people for only $395 a week for 25-word text ad or $995 for small display ad. Choose your province or all across Canada. Best value. Save over 85% compared to booking individually. www.communityclassifieds.ca or 1-866-669-9222.

SNOW CLEARING/REMOVAL Sidewalks, Driveways, Parking lots, Compounds Private and Commercial Properties Fast and reliable service Aurora Toolcat Services 867-334-8447 THOMAS FINE CARPENTRY â&#x20AC;˘ Construction â&#x20AC;˘ Renovation â&#x20AC;˘ Finishing â&#x20AC;˘ Cabinets â&#x20AC;˘ Tiling â&#x20AC;˘ Flooring â&#x20AC;˘ Repairs â&#x20AC;˘ Specialty woodwork â&#x20AC;˘ Custom kitchens 867-633-3878 or cell 867-332-5531 thomasfinecarpentry@northwestel.net 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 - INSULATION Upgrade your insulation & reduce your heating bills Energy North Construction Inc. (1994) for all your insulation & coating needs Cellulose & polyurethane spray foam Free estimate: 667-7414 S.V.P. CARPENTRY Journey Woman Carpenter Interior/Exterior Finishing/Framing Small & Medium Jobs â&#x20AC;&#x153;Make it work and look good.â&#x20AC;?

Call Susana (867) 335-5957 susanavalerap@live.com www.svpcarpentry.com JUDEĘźS PAINTING & HOME RENOVATIONS â&#x20AC;˘Kitchen/bathroom renovations â&#x20AC;˘Hardwood & Laminate flooring â&#x20AC;˘Tile â&#x20AC;˘Window & door installation Additions, sheds, water rooms & outhouses â&#x20AC;˘Interior painting â&#x20AC;˘No job too small Call 867-689-1458 Email judewaldman@gmail.com

ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS MEETINGS Yukon Communities & Atlin, B.C.

Beaver Creek Y.T. Friday - 1:30 p.m.

Health Centre

Carcross Y.T. Friday - 1:30 p.m.

Health Centre

Carmacks Y.T. Friday - 1:30 p.m.

Health Centre

Dawson City Y.T. Friday - 1:30pm Unity Group Rm 2160 @ Hospital Saturday - 7pm North Star Group Community Support Centre 1233-2nd Ave.

Destruction Bay Y.T. Friday - 1:30 p.m.

Health Centre

Faro Y.T. Friday - 1:30 p.m.

Health Centre

Haines Junction Y.T. Friday - 1:30 p.m.

Health Centre

Mayo Y.T. Friday - 1:30 p.m.

Health Centre Old Crow Y.T. Friday - 1:30 p.m.

Health Centre

Pelly Crossing Y.T. Friday - 1:30 p.m.

Health Centre

Ross River Y.T. Friday - 1:30 p.m.

Health Centre

Telegraph Creek B.C. Tuesday - 8:00 p.m.

Soaring Eagles Sewing Centre

Teslin Y.T. Wednesday - 7:00pm Wellness Centre #4 McLeary Friday - 1:30p.m.

Health Centre

Watson Lake Y.T. Friday - 1:30 p.m.

Health Centre

DO YOU HAVE A PROBLEM WITH FOOD? Meetings

Mondays 7:30 p.m.

4071 4th Avenue PBZVLPO!HNBJM DPN t XXX PB PSH

DRUG PROBLEM?

INTRODUCTION TO Next Generation Hydro, public speaker event. Meet the team and learn about the technical process to review and select potential hydro for Yukon.

November 26, 2014. 7-8:30pm, Westmark Whitehorse

Narcotics

Anonymous MEETINGS: Wednesdays 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm #2 - 407 Ogilvie St. <BYTE> Fridays 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm 4071 - 4th Ave. <Many Rivers>

ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS MEETINGS in Whitehorse

MONDAY: 12 noon Joy of Living (OM, NS) Maryhouse, 504 Cook St. 8:00 pm New Beginnings Group (OM,NS) Maryhouse, 504 Cook St. TUESDAY: 12 noon Joy of Living (OM, NS) Maryhouse, 504 Cook St. 7:00 pm Juste Pour 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. 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 (Board Room) 7:00 pm Hospital Boardroom (OM, NS) SUNDAY: 1:00 pm Sunshine Group (OM, NS) DETOX Building, 6118-6th Ave. 7:00 pm Hospital Meeting Boardroom (OM, NS) NS - No Smoking OM - open mixed, includes anyone CM - closed mixed, includes anyone with a desire to stop drinking

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FOUND: NOVEMBER 22 at Lazulite rink, kid's left handed hockey stick, Call/text and describe to claim. Mike 335-9829

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JOURNEYMAN CARPENTER 30 years experience Commercial-Residential â&#x20AC;˘Renovations â&#x20AC;˘Repairs â&#x20AC;˘Kitchens â&#x20AC;˘Bathrooms â&#x20AC;˘Drywall Tiles â&#x20AC;˘Decks â&#x20AC;˘Fine Finishing and Painting No job too small Local references available Phone 335-8924 bradmre@gmail.com PASCAL PAINTING CONTRACTOR PASCAL AND REGINE Residential - Commercial Ceilings, Walls Textures, Floors Spray work Small drywall repair Excellent quality workmanship Free estimates pascalreginepainting@northwestel.net 633-6368 TCM MAID SERVICE Reliable, Thorough & Professional Reasonable Rates References available 335-4421or 393-3868 SNOWPLOWING SERVICES â&#x20AC;˘Commercial â&#x20AC;˘Residential â&#x20AC;˘Anywhere, anytime Phone 867-633-2885 IBEX BOBCAT SERVICES â&#x20AC;&#x153;Country Residential Snow Plowingâ&#x20AC;?

All Subdivisions & acreages off Mayo Rd, MacPherson, Hidden Valley, Pilot Mountain & Hot Springs Rd. Honest & Prompt Service Amy Iles Call 667-4981 or 334-6369

MULTI-COLOURED MITTS found on Hanson St. across from the deli on Nov 21st.

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Sports Equipment DOWNHILL SKI boots for teenagers, Nordica BZX, grey, length 290mm, width A, exc cond, $50. 668-6303 AIR HOCKEY/FOOSBALL table, $80.

689-2191 (cell) evenings or 668-4010

Lost & Found

ROSSIGNOL SKI package, Actys 100 skis, 154cm, Axium 100 bindings, Exalt 6 ThermoFit boots size 9 (27), poles, & Dakine ski bag, $300. 335-3660

LOST: BLACKBERRY phone with skull & crossbones around trails in Porter Creek, 13th, Wann, Holly, cash reward. Vanessa at 335-7569

Livestock QUALITY YUKON MEAT Dev & Louise Hurlburt Grain-finished Hereford beef Domestic wild boar Order now for guaranteed delivery Payment plan available Samples on request 668-7218 335-5192

LOST: PONTIAC ignition key with black leather fob, SD card in envelope. 660-5166 FOUND: CHILDĘźS bicycle in Hillcrest, describe to claim. 668-2903 FOUND: BACKPACK on Fish Lake Rd., Nov 10, call 336-1062 FOUND: TUESDAY mornining on Sandpiper in Arkell, set of keys on lanyard, including 1 Master key. To recover, contact RCMP

HORSE HAVEN HAY RANCH Dev & Louise Hurlburt Irrigated Timothy/Brome mix Small square & round bales Discounts for field pick up or delivery Straw bales also for sale 335-5192 â&#x20AC;˘ 668-7218

LOST: IN downtown area November 4th, 8 month old dog, black with tan and white markings, medium build, wearing blue collar, responds to the name Rowdy. Contact David 334-3288

HAY FOR SALE Dry bales kept under a shelter Great quality, $12/bale.

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FOUND: GLASSES from Halloween night in Granger, smaller bifocals with wire frame & some face paint on them. 336-2533 LOST: KEACH, 6lb brown female dog, November 18 @8pm, Burma Rd & Mayo Rd (Klondike Hwy), wearing brown leather collar, saw someone pick her up, please bring her back. Reward. 333-0744

806 INTERNATIONAL Harvester tractor, 6-cyl diesel tractor with front end loader & cab, runs & starts great, $8,500 obo.

633-6502

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ANTIQUE 4-DRAWER dresser with mirror, 1930Ęźs style, exc cond, $400 obo. 334-5683 BUFFET, RETRO style, solid wood, 5 drawers + sliding glass doors, 54"Lx20"Dx33"H, $150. 668-6048

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2-PC CHERRYWOOD china cabinet, new cond, 667-6604 for enquiries LARGE DARK wood office desk, 6 drawers, 2 large metal filing cabinets, 1 pull out 5 drawers, 1 two-door 5 shelves, offers, 49 Redwood St. 633-6553

Baby & Child Items CHILDRENĘźS CLOTHING in excellent condition, given freely the first & third Saturday monthly at the Church of the Nazarene, 2111 Centennial. 633-4903 WOODEN LITTLE Ticks table, $20, 3-floor plastic doll house, $10. 689-2191 (cell) or 668-4010 BURLEY CHILD Stroller Encore for 2 children, including ski, jogging and bike set, like new, paid $1,250, asking $950. 633-3399 WOODEN SLEIGH/WAGON with removable sides, foam pads included, $50. 633-2390

ANTIQUE DANISH sleeping/storage bench, over 100yrs old, 178cm long x 55cm deep x 110cm high, $1,400 obo. Chris 456-7148

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Info: RCMP 867-667-5555

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DRUG PROBLEM? Narcotics Anonymous meetings Wed. 7pm-8pm #2 - 407 Ogilvie St. BYTE Office FRI. 7pm-8:30pm 4071 - 4th Ave Many Rivers Office

NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND OTHERS NOTICE is hereby given that Creditors and others having claims against the Estate of

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PARTIAL INTERIOR AND EXTERIOR RENOVATIONS YHC UNIT #300300 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 4050â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 4TH AVENUE WHITEHORSE, YUKON Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title. The closing date for submissions is December 10, 2014. Please refer to the procurement documents for the closing time and location.

If documents are available they may be obtained from Yukon Housing Corporation, 410 Jarvis Street, Whitehorse, Yukon. Technical questions may be directed to Laura Vanderkley at 867-667-8114.

Mandatory Site Visits: November 27, 2014 at 9:30 a.m. OR December 2, 2014 at 9:30 a.m.

hereby required to send them to the undersigned Executor at the address shown below, before the 12th day of December, 2014, after which date the Executor will distribute the Estate among the parties entitled thereto, having regard to the claims of which they have notice.

AND FURTHER, all persons who are indebted to the Estate are required to make payment to the Estate at the address below.

BY: Gayle Hiebert c/o Lackowicz & Hoffman Suite 300, 204 Black Street Whitehorse, YT Y1A 2M9 Tel: (867) 668-5252 Fax: (867) 668-5251

The highest ranked or lowest priced submission may not necessarily be accepted.

View or download documents at: www.gov.yk.ca/tenders/tms.html

12-DAYS OF Christmas Market presented by the Fireweed Community Market Society December 11th - 22nd at the Old Fire Hall.

Opening day: noon-9pm, Sat-Wed: 10am-7pm, Thurs-Fri: 10am-9pm.

FIRST NATIONS Craft Fair at Elijah Smith School Saturday December 13th, 10am-4pm. To book tables call 667-5992 or email Melanie.Bennett@gov.yk.ca CHRISTMAS CRAFT Fair and Open House, Saturday November 29th from 10am 4:00pm, hosted by the Whitehorse Public Library and KDCC at the Kwanlin Dun Cultural Centre

WINTER CRAFT Sale & Tea, November 29, 10am-2pm, Marsh Lake Community Centre

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LEE VALLEY non-marring blocks, hard foam, bright colours, various shapes, excellent condition, $25. Plan Toys crane, new in box, $70. 668-7659

KOSS FAMILY DAY HOME available now in Porter creek.

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PUBLIC TENDER STANDING OFFER AGREEMENTS FOR THIRD PARTY EQUIPMENT RENTALS FOR VARIOUS GOVERNMENT OF YUKON DEPARTMENTS 2015 Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title.

The closing date for submissions is December 11, 2014. Please refer to the procurement documents for the closing time and location.

Documents may be obtained from the Procurement Support Centre, Department of Highways and Public Works, Suite 101 - 104 Elliott Street, Whitehorse, Yukon (867) 667-5385.

Technical questions may be directed to Jenny Richards at 867-393-6387.

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This tender is subject to Chapter Five of the Agreement on Internal Trade.

Bidders are advised to review documents to determine Certificate of Recognition (COR) requirements for this project.

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