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Bottom of the barrel Randy Clarkson has discovered a cheap way to catch the fine bits of gold usually untouched by placer miners.

Andrea Kastner’s painting exhibit, on show in Dawson City, contends that our garbage says a lot about ourselves.

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his own party. “(Silver) has been noticeably vacant on the topic up until he sees ukon’s Liberals are accusing a moment to criticize,” he said in an Yukon MP Ryan Leef of letting email. an important bill die without “I tabled the bill in the House of a fight.

Commons for first reading in March Leef recently agreed to withdraw and clearly at the time I had full his private member’s bill from Parlia- expectation that the bill would receive ment, which would have amended the support and be able to move through criminal code of Canada to recognize the entire parliamentary process fetal alcohol spectrum disorder. The by spring of 2015. There are many MP contends the bill stood slim odds factors that can impact a private of becoming law, and that it’s a vicmember’s bill. tory that the issue will be considered “I made a decision in consultation by parliamentary committee, with a with the invested stakeholders and my report due in four months. government to realize a new approach That’s not how Klondike MLA that would achieve equal, albeit Sandy Silver sees it. “Our MP introslightly different, focus to FASD.” duced a really good piece of legislaDuring second reading of the bill tion and they’re trying to make us on Nov. 20, Robert Goguen, parliaswallow that this was the only way to mentary secretary to the minister of keep it alive,” Silver said. justice, raised some doubts about the “I think the Tories are the only bill. ones who are buying this story. This “For example, some people will killed the bill.” ask why there is a need to address Leef maintains that pushing the only FASD and not any other mental bill along, only to see it die on the disability or mental disorder,” the order table, would have been a merely Conservative MP said. symbolic victory. But Silver said that “Is FASD the only disability that needn’t have been the only other has an impact on an individual’s deoutcome. gree of responsibility for the purposes “Basically the feds decided they of the criminal law?” didn’t support our MP’s bill and He then moved to withdraw the asked him to pull it. He basically bill and refer it to committee. scrapped his own bill.

Leef agreed to the motion.

“The logic doesn’t make any Larry Bagnell, the territory’s forsense.” mer Liberal MLA and current federal Yesterday, Leef said it’s not true Liberal candidate, took his own jab that he was just following orders from at Leef.

If the political will was there, the bill could have become law before next year’s election, he said.

“When you’re in government, especially in majority, you can do anything,” he said.

“It’s not a valid argument that the bill couldn’t go through. It’s a Conservative controlled House, and a Conservative controlled Senate.”

Bagnell gave six examples of private member’s bills that went from second reading and referral to committee to receiving royal assent within six months.

“While there was no guarantee that it would pass in that time, it certainly was possible to get it done,” he added.

Leef swung back by criticizing Bagnell’s record as an MP, saying people should look closer at how many times he mentioned FASD during his 11 years in Parliament.

“Larry never got a private member’s bill passed in 11 years as our MP,” he said.

“I guess after seven years in opposition he’s merely learned how to critique an issue versus solve one.

Larry’s best years are behind him, while mine are still ahead of me.

“Our comparative records will speak for themselves. Like Sandy, he was absent and only now seeks relevance as some champion. The reality is he’s politicizing it for his own selfserving purpose.”

includes countries like China, an under-served, emerging market with vast promise for growth,” MLA Darius Elias said when introducing the motion.

Businesses have until Dec. 15 to apply.

Tourism Minister Mike Nixon said he sees significant potential in the Asian market.

“The objective of the February 2015 mission is to increase Japanese visits to Yukon. The Japanese component of the mission will include group travel trade events in Osaka and Tokyo with Yukon tourism businesses and key Japanese tour operators,” he

said.

According to Nixon, Japan is Yukon’s fourth-largest overseas market, with more than 3,800 Japanese visitors in 2013, representing more than nine per cent of overseas visitors.

“Many of the major Japanese tour operators are now in development of summer and fall Yukon products. It is our government’s desire to help all operators to grow their winter visitor numbers significantly. We are continuing to support trade marketing campaigns, which will position Yukon as a premier aurora-viewing destination with the Japanese trade.”

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The goal is “to realize the significant potential of Asian markets to Yukon’s tourism industry and facilitate partnerships between government and industry that will benefit Yukon’s tourism industry.”

The trade mission is scheduled for February.

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Yukon government hid $750K deal with golf course from public view ment for Whistle Bend, and that the city plans to one day pave a trail that may skirt its edge.

But Gau with the city said those things were not necessarily contingent on Mountain View relinquishing its lease.

“I don’t think they would have objected if they weren’t going to build on it anyway,” he said of the golf club. “They had no shortterm plans to expand. Likely it could have existed for quite a while before they got around to expanding, if they did at all.

“They were pretty forthcoming that it would be very difficult for them to afford an expansion anytime soon.”

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he Yukon government never wanted Yukoners to find out that it bailed out Mountain View Golf Club to the tune of $750,000 in 2011.

The government of the day went to great lengths to frame the deal as payment for a transfer of lands that were under lease to the golf course, rather than a handout to the non-profit society.

However, documents obtained through an access to information request show that the primary motivation was to help out the golf course pay off its debt.

The Yukon government paid the golf course $750,000 for lands the government already owned, for which the golf course had paid no more than $1,750 total in rent over 13 or 14 years, wasn’t using and had no immediate intention or means to develop.

The NDP Opposition asked the government about the deal in the legislature this week, and shared relevant documents with the media.

“Nobody questions the need for the government to support recreational organizations,” NDP Leader Liz Hanson said on Wednesday. “What is not OK is to do it behind closed doors and under false pretences.”

A hidden hand-out Here’s what happened.

In 1997, Mountain View leased a 51-hectare piece of land from the Yukon government, with the idea that it might one day expand from an 18-hole course to 27.

The parcel is located along the Yukon River, adjacent to the existing course and north of Whistle Bend.

The term of the lease was 30 years with an option to extend another 30 years.

The society paid $125 annually to the Yukon government to keep that land in reserve, according to a 2010 appraisal of the parcel.

Sometime before June 2010, the Mountain View Golf Club approached the Yukon government for help with its debt. The club had taken out a $500,000 mortgage in 2008.

Archie Lang, then minister of Community Services, instructed his staff to come up with a way to help out the golf course, according to emails between department staff.

The correspondence suggests that the minister did not want the deal to look like a simple handout to the golf course.

Lang did not respond to a request for comment.

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A golfer chips towards the green at Mountain View Golf Course in 2009. The golf course received $750,000 from the Yukon government in 2011. The NDP Opposition are criticizing this secretive, convoluted deal, which was arranged to look like a land purchase.

make me a bit apprehensive to be sure, but need to think everything through,” wrote Angus Robertson, then-deputy minister of Energy, Mines and Resources, on June 10, 2010.

On July 26, 2010, a manager with the lands branch provided a proposal that would see title of the leased land transferred to the City of Whitehorse, and the Yukon government pay the golf course’s debt as part of the deal.

“The premise here is to deal with the MVGC debt load which was the basis for the initial approach by MVGC to YG,” according to the email.

The deal, as proposed, would not “favour a NGO and create a ‘me too’ scenario, therefore political backlash is minimized.”

City disputes story

a sole-sourced contract to determine the viability of the land for development.

The resulting report found that about 40 per cent of the parcel was not suitable for development at all.

It may be possible to develop some parcels, but servicing those lots would pose some problems, according to the consultant’s findings. The report does not address if the development would be feasible from an engineering or economic perspective.

In the end, the Yukon government went alone and inked a deal to pay $750,000 to the golf course in exchange for ending the lease agreement.

Whistle Bend blamed

The deal also allowed for the resolution of some confusion The City of Whitehorse didn’t relating to the boundary between the existing golf course and then and doesn’t now have any interest in the land in question for the first two phases of the new Whistle Bend neighbourhood, but potential future development. this concern was not connected This directly contradicts the materially to the land transfer. deal ultimately signed with the But two communications golf course, which justifies the land transfer “to support potential briefing documents, from 2011 and 2013, demonstrate that the future development in the area.” government wanted Yukon“The City has that land in the ers to believe that the money long-term green space plan for the area and to express an interest traded hands because the city was interested in the land for future in changing that to future develdevelopment. Which, it bears opment would be unacceptable repeating, the city was not. to the City,” wrote Dan Boyd on “As this land was a prime July 26, 2010. He was an assistant deputy minister with Community location for the future expansion of the Whistle Bend residential Services at the time. project, the Yukon governThe city feels the same way ment obtained an independent today. property appraisal and with the “We wouldn’t support that,” support from the City of Whitesaid Mike Gau, Whitehorse’s director of development services, horse, purchased the land from the Mountain View Golf Club in an interview this week. in 2010,” according to a briefing “We would need an amenddated Oct. 3, 2013. ment to our official community These words appear under the plan, and there would be a lot of heading “Suggested Response(s) implications to the neighbourby Yukon Government: (to public hood concept.” or media inquiry).”

The lack of interest from the And they are demonstrably city in developing the parcel didn’t stop the Yukon government false.

The area was not a prime from spending $9,900 in 2010 on

location for future Whistle Bend expansion, and in fact the city would protest the contemplation of such an expansion.

The City of Whitehorse contends that none of its plans for Whistle Bend hinged on the land transfer.

The government did pay for an appraisal of the land, presumably to justify the money granted to Mountain View.

But to suggest that the government should pay market rate to the golf club ignores the fact that the territory already owned the land.

The Yukon government did not purchase the land from Mountain View. The title did not change hands. The golf club had paid $125 annually to hold the land in reserve, but had no plans to develop it.

Mixed messages Until this week, the official story was that the land was needed for potential future development.

That message is held up by briefing notes and the agreement itself.

These documents do not mention that helping Mountain View with its debt was a motivation for the deal.

On Thursday Community Services Minister Brad Cathers acknowledged that one of the goals of the deal was to help the golf course with its financial troubles.

In an interview Thursday, Cathers also said the deal helped the city to establish storm water management and a perimeter trail that were included in its plan for Whistle Bend.

This, too, is a new story.

These issues are not mentioned in previous communications briefings on the issue, in the agreement with the golf course, or in correspondence that the News has seen.

It is true that natural pothole depressions in the land parcel help with storm water manage-

Passing the buck In the legislature this week, Cathers responded to questions on the issue by saying that he was not a cabinet minister at the time, and must rely on information provided by department staff.

Cathers and Resources Minister Scott Kent repeated those lines in a 10-minute telephone interview Thursday.

They said they don’t yet have enough information to know if the money was given to the golf course in an appropriate way.

They also said that giving money to non-profits in a time of need is a common and regular thing for the government.

In the legislature yesterday, Hanson said the issue is not the fact that the gave the golf course money, but how they did it.

“When Mount Sima came to the city and the Yukon government asking for help, they were told to present a business case.

They had to open their books to public scrutiny. The ski community had to mobilize to demonstrate public support and raise some of the money. Mount Sima ultimately received funding from the city and the Yukon government, but only after an open, accountable and transparent process in which Yukoners had their say.”

Tom Amson, who was the president of the Mountain View Golf Club at the time, told the News this week that there was nothing wrong with how the government went about helping the club.

“The bottom line for me was, the golf course was in dire need of some help so the government was looking for ways to help it, and found a way. It’s no more complicated or underhanded than that.

We wouldn’t have a golf course today if that hadn’t happened.”

The current president, Tony Hill, said he will not comment on government business because he is a government employee. Hill is the director of agriculture with Energy, Mines and Resources.

Contact Jacqueline Ronson at jronson@yukon-news.com

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That incident led to a human In an unconventional hearing rights complaint filed by Nehass’s Thursday, the 30-year-old pleaded father on his behalf. guilty to some of the territorial Vaze said those charges could court charges he’s accumulated constitute a possible abuse of proin the Whitehorse Correctional cess and he would not recommend Centre. that his client plead guilty to those.

In total he entered guilty pleas In the end, Nehass did not enter to five charges from 2013 and 2014: pleas to those charges. attempting to break out of the jail, Vaze said there were important two counts of mischief, one count facts about Nehass’s conditions of uttering threats and one count of confinement that need to be of assaulting a police officer. public. So far he hasn’t received the At the same time he was vocal information he needs from the jail, about disagreeing with many of he said. the alleged facts the Crown tried to As part of the human rights read into court. complaint, filed in May, Nehass’s Usually, a person who pleads father said his son has been held guilty to a crime consents to an in solitary confinement for 28 agreed statement of facts prior to months. The Department of Justice coming to court. Those facts are denied that claim. usually read into the record when At the time a spokesperson said the longest anyone has been in guilty pleas are entered. segregation over the course of the In this case, no such facts were past year is seven months. agreed to. The court heard that The longest uninterrupted Nehass refused to see his lawyer stretch in solitary that anyone has Bibhas Vaze the day before the served is just shy of four months, hearing. officials said.

Visiting judge Donald Luther Requests to the department allowed Nehass to plead guilty for updated statistics were not to what would be considered the returned in time for today’s paper. “bare minimum� of the charges.

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Vaze told the judge the plan is to get the earliest possible trial date for those.

Nehass’s mental health has received a lot of public attention.

In July, a Yukon territorial court judge found him unfit to stand trial. At the time, the judge ruled Nehass’s belief that a government conspiracy is keeping him behind bars overwhelmed his ability to participate in the process.

The Yukon Review Board later reversed that decision. It ruled Nehass understood the process, understood the possible consequences and could communicate with his lawyer – all the pillars for the legal definition of fitness. “Although he appears to suffer from a mental disorder, and is often excitable, confrontational, argumentative and sometimes obstructive – particularly when he does not get his way or believes that things are not going his way – Mr. Nehass was observed to respond coherently to everything occurring throughout the proceedings,� the review board said in its decision.

Before the hearing ended yesterday, Nehass requested five minutes to speak in front of the judge.

In those five minutes he passionately argued that high ranking officials, in the Justice Department and the jail, were treating him inhumanely because of the things he was trying to expose.

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Debate on Bill S-6, which will amend the Yukon Environmental and Socio-economic Assessment Act, will begin in the House of Commons next week.

The federal government has not sought public input on the changes since the five year review process, which began in 2008.

Most of the amendments in Bill S-6, including all of those opposed by Yukon First Nations, were not discussed in the five year review.

A coalition of Yukon First Nations has urged the federal and territorial governments to consult with Yukoners.

The group hosted its own public forum on the changes earlier this month.

(Jacqueline Ronson)

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Yukon mourns passing of Alex Van Bibber Jacqueline Ronson News Reporter

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he Yukon lost a legend this week.

Alex Van Bibber passed away Wednesday at the age of 98 in a Calgary hospital, surrounded by dozens of friends and family members.

Van Bibber is remembered for his contributions to hunting and trapping in the territory and his larger-than-life personality.

He was one of Canada’s oldest living aboriginal veterans of World War II, and received the Order of Canada in 1992.

Harvey Jessup was a close friend to Van Bibber for decades. He visited with Van Bibber on his last days. “We all got word, through his brother, that he was not doing well, and so I made up my mind to go and see him. I was surprised – although I shouldn’t have been – when I got on the plane, oh my goodness well over 20 people from Champagne were also on the plane.�

Van Bibber was telling stories, right till the end.

He told Jessup about the time he snowshoed from Mayo to Norman Wells, pushing a U.S. Army engineer ahead of him on a dog sled. “At one point he closed his eyes and drifted off to sleep and I thought that was it, and 10 minutes later he opened his eyes and said, ‘560 miles,’� Jessup said, laughing. “In his mind, he was still thinking about it, I guess.�

The doctor said he had never

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Champagne and Aishihik First Nations elder Alex Van Bibber in 2010. Van Bibber died at the age of 98 on Wednesday.

seen so many people come for a single patient, said Jessup.

Near the end, the doctor called a meeting with the family. “Before he got started, he said, ‘Unfortunately I can’t give you good news, but before I get there, I’d love to hear some stories.’�

Many Yukoners remember Van Bibber for his stories.

Jessup and Van Bibber travelled across the Yukon together teaching trapping skills to adults and children.

“There’s lots of elders that have experience like Alex and could probably tell the same sort of stories, but what Alex had, I think, was charm. He loved to tell a good story,� said Jessup. “I just remember him talking in front of classrooms and he was very animated and he would set the trap and everybody would step back because they were so afraid of this big trap. And then while his arms were waving around and everyone was gasping, he would accidentally

– well, I put quotations around that – he would ‘accidentally’ put his hand in the trap. “And it would go off, and you could see the whole classroom jump. I always liked his expression, he says, ‘Well, there, now you’re caught in your own trap,’ he says.

He says, ‘You can’t go home to wife because she’ll just laugh at you.’ So he says, ‘You have to get out.’ Safety, bush survival, was important to him.�

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nancial Transparency Act, Yukon’s unsigned First Nations were given until July 29 to post their financial statements online.

Those statements include the salaries and expenses of its chiefs and councillors. First Nations were later given a 120-day extension.

As of this morning, 532 of 582 First Nations across the country had provided their documents.

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One time back in the day Van Bibber was out trapping by dog sled, being careful not to step off the sled and leave a scent, said Jessup.

But right after laying a trap, he ran into some trouble. “Before he could even pick up his gee-line his dogs took off and over he went, and he sat right in his own trap. It caught everything except his skin, he says. It caught his winter outerwear right down to his underwear. And he had to get completely undressed to get the trap off. “If you ask him his longevity, how come he lasted as long as he did, he said you work hard, and you play hard. And get outdoors, he said. Get outdoors. Get a healthy life.�

Van Bibber was one of 14 children born to Eliza and Ira Van Bibber.

He celebrated his 65th anniversary with Sue Van Bibber before she passed away at the age of 99 in 2011.

Van Bibber is survived by four brothers and sisters and more than 150 children, grandchildren, great grandchildren and great great grandchildren.

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Garret Gillespie of Boreal Compost Enterprise says he doesn’t believe the city has the expertise or resources to see the compost operation succeed. He’s predicting that many customers will flee.

“The city is facing too many technical issues and won’t be able to fill the void left by the departure of BCE,” he said.

“There’s no one in the city that can talk about compost with any kind of practical knowledge because they don’t use compost themselves. They’re not listening to expert advice rendered to them, namely by me and a colleague of mine, who have the city’s best interest at heart.”

The city, meanwhile, contends that it’s just making a prudent financial decision, after the latest bid to run the facility came in far above the city’s own estimates for how much it would cost to staff the operation directly.

David Albisser, the city’s waste and water services manager, said the municipality didn’t want to take over the compost facility, but had little choice.

“I have a lot of respect for Garret, he’s led the way and laid a path that I wish we could continue our co-operation on,” he said.

“Unfortunately I just can’t do that at any price. I can’t justify increases in the facility operational cost without a very good reason.”

Earlier this year, BCE told the city its $195,000 annual operating service agreement wasn’t enough to cover expenses and said any extension of the agreement would have to include a fee increase.

Its two-year contract, which ended in October, also saw the city receive 20 per cent of the finished compost for use in its own projects and a 66 per cent cut of all compost sales.

The city issued a public tender on Sept. 5 but received only one bid, from Adorna Landscaping.

The bid included Gillespie as manager of the facility.

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Garret Gillespie, owner of Boreal Compost Enterprises, in 2012. Gillespie is unhappy with the city’s decision to manage the compost facility on its own.

increases to $357,000 and then $375,000 the following years.

When the city concluded it could directly operate the facility for less than the bid price, it cancelled the tender and directed administration to prepare a budget submission for city staff.

Based on estimates, the cost for the city to run the facility would be $276,100 next year, excluding sales and marketing.

“It’s very sad they put forward a budget that makes our bid look really ogre-like,” Gillespie said, noting that his bid included advertising costs.

Albisser said the additional costs went beyond the scope of the tender.

Boreal’s operation was certified as organic by the Centre for Systems Integration. Since the certification follows the operator, the city would have to re-apply for it. Gillespie predicts the city will have a tough time receiving its own certification.

“It’ll be extremely difficult for them to get it,” he said. “I just made it look easy, but it was still difficult. We could have run the facility for $240,000 if we’d followed the tender to the letter.”

Albisser said attaining organic certification is a rare feat in the North, let alone in the country, but that doesn’t mean it can’t be done.

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We have systems in place that Garret set up that will aid us in doing that,” he said.

“I really don’t think there’s any concern about not being able to attain the high standard that Garret set.”

According to an administrative report Albisser prepared, the city estimates it can make $24,000 in compost sales next year alone. That figure is based on prior sales when the city ran the facility, he said.

Gillespie contends these targets are “in the realm of fiction.” He says sales would have to quadruple for the facility to function normally, otherwise compost begins to build up and cause problems.

In order to achieve that, the city would have to invest heavily in trucks, “and they have to come from somewhere,” he said.

Gillespie estimated it already costs $60,000 a year to market and distribute compost, but he says that could jump to $150,000 for the next few years, in order to cover expansion and service costs.

The city will sell compost from the gatehouse at the facility but won’t deliver it to customers, like BCE used to.

Gillespie said that’s exactly what people want, however.

“I get calls and emails every day from people who are worried about this,” he said.

“People expect convenience

and delivery, and that’s what we gave them. If people are expected to go to the dump to get compost, there’s going to be very low participation.”

The city might not have steady sales of compost yet but with big projects such as Whistle Bend, there’s a very high demand for it, said Albisser. There are plans to approach various local retailers to see if they’re interested in carrying the city’s product.

Albisser said he anticipates the city will sell all of its compost eventually.

Gillespie said he doesn’t wish any ill will towards the city or its plan. After being involved in this project for six years, he knows the challenges the city is facing, he said.

“I’m the biggest supporter of the city’s compost program,” he said.

“I’m probably the most knowledgeable person when it comes to this. I have a master’s degree in agricultural engineering and I’ve been composting since I was two years old.

“I know the challenges the city is facing. I find it frustrating to see demand on the street growing and now, being nipped in the bud because the city won’t be able to load a pickup truck.”

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ots of people are upset with Yukon Premier Stephen Harper, along with our young MP, Stephen Harper, and the territory’s unelected senator, Stephen Harper.

Hang on – did we get those names right? They easily get muddled, as all three tend to read the same lines, delivered by their boss. Riiight – that guy is Stephen Harper. The premier has a notinfrequently-misspelled Ukrainian-sounding name, if memory serves, while our MP is named like a viking, and our senator is that guy who felt the Senate was a big waste of tax dollars, until he was offered a seat in it. We’re sure their names will come back shortly.

Some left-leaning readers tend to view the prime minister’s name as simply being a particularly nasty swear word. That’s not the intent here. Rather, it’s just to say that our premier, our MP and our senator are all shamelessly spewing the same misleading clap-trap from Ottawa about plans to overhaul Yukon’s environmental review laws. For all intents and purposes on this issue, Yukoners are dealing with the same person: Stephen Harper.

Heck, Premier Darrell Pasloski – we knew his name would come to us – didn’t even bother having his own talking points prepared about this mess. Instead, his Twitter account recently lobbed out a series of posts presented as a rebuttal to myths about the regulatory affair. Thing was, all these talking points were simply copied-and-pasted from the federal government’s own website.

The premier repeated many of the same canards in the legislature.

This would be dull enough if the federal government’s statement contained neutral, factual information. But it doesn’t.

Instead, it deliberately muddies what’s at stake, and why people are upset.

Pasloski’s handlers clearly understood at some point this had crossed a line, as they eventually took the plagiarized posts

down. Perhaps they realized they had signalled a little too baldly what is already obvious in many respects: push come to shove, our premier is incapable of speaking independently on issues like this, beyond the cue cards provided by Ottawa.

The bill that’s stirred up this controversy has already cleared the Senate and is now whizzing through Parliament. To recap, one contentious changes would tighten environmental assessment timelines – raising concerns, in cases, that assessments may be rushed and overlook some details. Other changes would allow the federal minister to dictate policy to the assessment board, and allow the federal minister to download authority to his territorial counterpart.

This could call into question the credibility and independence of assessors.

The premier makes it sound as if these contentious changes were discussed over a span of seven years. In fact, the contentious bits were made public only when the bill was tabled in the Senate.

The premier similarly implies that changes come out of a mandated five-year review of Yukon’s environmental assessment regime. Most didn’t. In fact, three-quarters of the changes being proposed – and all the ones that are controversial – were never raised during the five-year review.

And the premier suggests that the public was kept in the loop when he insists that “extensive consultations” took place. In fact, the crucial plans were made behind closed doors, involving only the federal and territorial governments, their buddies in industry, and affected First Nations. The public was kept in the dark.

Some of the other “myths” that the premier sought to debunk, meanwhile, are not actually positions held by anyone, to our knowledge. For instance, he reassures residents that the composition of the assessment board won’t change. It’s news to us that anybody believed that would Publisher

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MP Ryan Leef and Senator Daniel Lang are equally guilty of saying the exact same things, of course. But it’s pretty well understood their jobs involve acting as the prime minister’s mouthpieces when called upon. And it’s worth noting that our MP, who has the most reason to be under the prime minister’s thumb, supports First Nations’ call for parliamentarians to visit the territory to hear residents’ concerns.

The premier, meanwhile, has stuck his neck out the furthest of the three. That’s strange, because if he were simply looking out for his own self-preservation, he could simply shut up about this whole thing and let federal representatives do the talking.

It is, after all, a federal initiative.

But this puzzle is tidily resolved if you accept the theory that Pasloski is just another spokesman for Stephen Harper.

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attack on the coalition plans of Stephane Dion and Jack Layton. This clunky comparison is prompted by the plans of Yukon’s opposition parties to make a trip to Ottawa to denounce the federal government’s approach to regulatory reform.

To nobody’s surprise, Stephen Harper’s representatives in the Yukon are not interested in denouncing Stephen Harper, and have declined to partake. The premier is at least right to call Hanson’s suggestion grandstanding, in that it’s ludicrous that Harper would welcome territorial Liberals and New Democrats, who he would surely view as partisan foes.

Would it be too much to ask for a premier who doesn’t seek to publicly feud with the prime

minister, nor is willing to simply throw his constituents under the bus when it suits Ottawa’s interests? Say, someone who would have picked up the phone earlier this summer and explained to federal officials that Yukoners need to be kept in the loop about big changes to our regulatory regime? But that would require a leader willing to politely disagree with his federal counterparts from time to time. And when was the last time Pasloski did that?

Yukoners didn’t push for representative government just so that a gormless premier could read off speaking notes prepared in Ottawa. At this rate, we may as well have remained a federal fiefdom and left the commissioner in charge to take Ottawa’s orders.

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We should all vote on the city’s megaplex proposal When we all filled in the city’s web survey on various minor topics like the snow clearing

by Keith budget, did the mayor and Halliday administration know they were about to drop their $55 million bomb on us?

The mayor’s January budget speech is important since it announced tax hikes that, it now appears, will strengthen the city’s finances so it can pay for the was gobsmacked when people megaplex. If you look on page 29 of the city’s latest annual report started phoning me earlier this month to tell me the City you’ll see that they ran an annual of Whitehorse was announcing a surplus in both 2012 and 2013.

The 2014 tax hikes will have $55 million spend on not one, but increased revenue further. Page 10 two large new buildings. shows how the reserves, or cash in Fellow citizens seemed equally the bank in colloquial terms, have shocked, judging by the jokes risen rapidly from $15 million in that flew around afterwards. I 2010 to $27 million in 2013. Are received an email entitled “Artist’s these reserves paying for part of rendering of new Whitehorse city the project? Is the plan that our hall.” When you opened it, there future taxes at the raised rates will was a photo of Queen Amidala’s pay back the $29 million in borcliff-top palace from Star Wars. rowing required for the megaplex?

Another joke picks up on the One city insider told me what double-building concept, saying they have been doing with the “This will be great for tourism; city’s finances was on purpose for India only has one Taj Mahal.” the megaplex. If so, why didn’t the And referring to the mayor’s mayor mention this in his budget claim the megaplex will be “tax speech or the budget consultaneutral,” someone remarked that tion? the Tax Fairy would pay for it.

The second reason I was surThe first reason I was surprised prised is the economy. The mood is that, having heard rumours at the Yukon Geoscience Forum in October that the project was recently was gloomy thanks to the moving through the bureaucollapse of exploration spending. cratic obstacle course at city hall, Of our three operating mines, one I downloaded the mayor’s last isn’t actually operating and the budget speech from January. I other two have announced layoffs also read the city’s slick “budget or shift reductions. Gold prices consultation” completed a few are down sharply. Many private weeks ago. Neither mentioned the sector people are working reduced hours or not getting raises this project and its $55 million price.

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year. Statistics Canada’s latest numbers say the Yukon economy had the weakest performance of any province or territory in the country in 2013.

Generally, it is not considered wise to spend and borrow heavily on real estate unless you are pretty confident in the future economic environment. There is a nontrivial chance this project will end up as a “lessons learned” case vignette in some future public administration course, describing how a small city in a resource region went into big debt just before the bottom fell out of its local economy.

The third reason is how city council asked publicly a few weeks ago for the resignation of Brad Cathers, minister responsible for handing out cash to municipalities with infrastructure projects.

This seems an odd way to get the Yukon government to spend some of its transfer payments on the project, lightening the tax burden for citizens. Indeed, the existence of this project, if known to the Yukon Party cabinet, may have reduced the chance that they would give money to the city for affordable housing or other programs. If the city can afford the megaplex, they might have thought to themselves, it doesn’t need any help from the Yukon government.

I’m not sure how this plan is going to fly politically for the politicians supporting it. I have to admit that as I read the 278page megaplex report on the city’s website, I was reminded of Margaret Thatcher’s quip that the

A brief history of affordable housing in Whitehorse The recent interest in the problem of housing and the concern for those struggling to meet high rents while earning minimum wage is getting to be a great concern. Obviously the gap is widening. Opportunities to earn a good blue-collar wage locally has vanished.

Service jobs are not adequately paid. The $10 minimum wage is out of proportion from the $7 offered 25 years ago, when you could buy a starter home for $50,000 (speculation in real estate is not an economy, kiddies).

It has always been expensive to live in the North: rent, fuel, food travel etc. In the past, wages had to be more generous than down south.

Then came the northern allowance for federal government employees: travel benefits as well as cheap housing. I believe it was initiated to attract and balance the then low-paid salaries of civil servants, and was untaxed.

Government provided homes in Riverdale and Valleyview.

Same with the Canadian military in Camp Takhini and Hillcrest.

Their civilian employees could live in less opulent quarters – barrack-type apartments in Lot 19 or Camp Takhini. Single women had

a separate apartment, now called The Barracks, all with a low rent.

Another perk was the subsidized Takhini and Hillcrest rec. centres.

Some took jobs with the Highways Department and lived in the maintenance camps along the highway. They were complete with school, rec. centre, low-rent comfortable homes plus northern allowance. This gave couples a great opportunity to save a stake.

As well, the private sector had a supply of company houses: Cassiar Asbestos, Whitehorse Copper, Marwell Construction, Territorial Supply, White Pass, Taylor and Drury, staff apartments above The Bank of Commerce, Burns, the NC Company Store.

Housing has always been pretty tight, and many pioneers started out in squatting downtown on White Pass and government land.

No taxes, but without services.

Statistics compiled by Jim Lotz in 1963 listed 1/3 of the houses downtown as squatters, occupied by an assortment, from government workers waiting for housing to trappers.

One could also mention the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity of the almost free old U.S. army barracks that could be moved onto a city lot downtown or in Porter

Creek, and fixed up from payday to payday.

Realistically, the minimum wage should be topped by the employer with a northern cost of living bonus. And the big box stores should be encouraged to build staff apartments as well.

This would take the load off of taxpayers and also the food bank.

Pat Ellis Whitehorse

Watson Lake women’s shelter bosses must be held accountable Re: “Watson Lake shelter execs accused of financial mismanagement,” Nov. 21.

This article raises many questions for anybody with common sense!

1. If the listed examples of the society’s spending (airplane tickets, furniture, hair salon) were “honest mistakes,” how come the execs did not make an honest attempt to set matters straight?

Why did they instead dismiss the people who voiced their concerns?

2. Is it not considered a conflict of interest when a board member

Labour Party campaign manifesto was the longest suicide note in history.

So, we citizens have to figure out what we think of the megaplex. Is it a big-budget tax-andspend extravaganza, committing us to a generation of higher taxes just as the economy does a nosedive? Or is it a wise plan with good long-term economics that no previous mayor and council had the vision and gumption to push forward?

The megaplex report was prepared by at least eight consulting firms and is full of impressivelooking analysis and recommendations.

The megaplex may be the right choice, but that’s not the main point. The big point is that this project is big, risky, involves borrowing $29 million and was not mentioned in the budget consultations. We as citizens will end up paying the price if the experts are wrong.

The price will be paid in all the things we don’t get because the money was spent on this project. I talked to one city official who told me it was already clear in the corridors of power that the megaplex would be sucking up budgets from other city programs “for the next 10 years.”

The price may also be paid in higher taxes, if the experts turn out to be too optimistic in their conclusions that the megaplex is the most economical option in the long run. That $55 million in the end comes out of our pockets, whether it comes from reserves generated from past taxes, gas tax

funding that could have been used for something else, or loans that future taxpayers have to pay back.

That works out to over $5,000 per household, and could be higher if there are major cost over-runs or higher than expected borrowing costs.

I don’t recall the mayor’s or any councillor’s campaign platforms telling us they were going to raise taxes over several years and build a megaplex.

In Alaska, citizens get to vote before committing to huge debtfinanced projects. We should do the same. City council should not sign a single contract about this project until they have held a binding citizen vote on it, or been re-elected next fall.

Disclosure: I own a house in Whitehorse and pay property taxes. My family uses facilities like the Canada Games Centre that may be affected if the megaplex negatively affect other city programs and services. And I am a user, donor or board member for four of the 11 community groups negatively affected by the city’s recent decision on property tax grants for community groups (and this column is my own opinion and does not speak on behalf of any of them). I also volunteered on the mayor’s campaign in the last election.

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5. How much more money is this society going to spend on internal matters (a councillor, a lawyer…) instead of spending it receives a loan for an airplane ticket? Isn’t it even more conflict- for the women seeking shelter?

6. Considering all this, can ing when this loan gets turned we really speak about “financial into a gift for the president of the mismanagement” or is this not society, a statement made by the a misappropriation of public president in writing? funds?

3. If the executive director “is There are actually a lot more attempting to determine whether questions in regards to this matone couch was charged to her ter, but it would exceed the space account,” and apparently still had of this letter. But I would like not determined it until this article to top it off with a couple more was published, how capable is she anyway: in her position as an executive Will the officials that are now director? handling this issue take serious 4. How come the main funder measures? Are we going to see and the society’s registrar did that those who seem to have their not take immediate action after hands in the coffers be made perreceiving these weak explanasonally responsible – and not just tions in the president’s letter from with a slap on the wrist?

Oct. 27? Would it not have been sensible to promptly suspend the Nicola Hanna execs and seize all the books?

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biodiversity within natural ecosystems and agricultural landscapes. And thanks in part to our technologies, Canadian agriculture has never been more sustainable than it is today.

It is mind-boggling to read that a foundation that claims to advocate for a sustainable future is suggesting that we go back to agricultural practices from decades ago when soil erosion was an epidemic, yields were only a fraction of what they are today and bee populations were actually much less robust than they are today.

The truth of the matter is that activist groups like this aren’t looking for solutions, they’re looking for public profile – as evidenced by the “Donate” button that is always prominent.

While we work with all stakeholders, including the Canadian Honey Council, to identify solution-focused approaches to ensure a sustainable future for agriculture and beekeeping, activist groups such as these are entrenched in unworkable positions and don’t seem to care if they jeopardize the progress that’s being collaboratively made.

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When people eat healthy, they live longer, better lives, Mulcair said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;And theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re less likely to suffer from chronic diseases like diabetes and cardiovascular disease, which puts enormous strain on our healthcare system.â&#x20AC;?

For the first time, he continued, young Canadians are facing the prospect of having a lower life expectancy than their parents did. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re leaving future generations with a full-blown public health crisis,â&#x20AC;? Mulcair said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We can do better.â&#x20AC;?

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Pardon backlog denies social reintegration to thousands of former offenders Bruce Cheadle

Press revealed in 2010 that former hockey coach and serial sex predator Graham James had been granted a routine pardon.

James was facing fresh allegations at the time, to which he has since pleaded guilty. The public outcry over his pardon prompted a sharp political reaction.

The Parole Board was immediately given a new mandate to ensure no pardon would be granted that could bring the administration of justice into disrepute.

The Conservative government later enacted a three-strikes rule, meaning anyone with more than three convictions for indictable offences with two-year sentences (even if all

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OTTAWA lmost 7,000 outstanding pardon applications are in limbo as the Parole Board of Canada struggles to clear a backlog created when the Conservative government changed the rules in 2010.

The parole board has announced it is not currently processing old pardon applications for more serious, indictable offences, but rather is focusing its efforts on lesser, summary convictions.

In March 2013, the board told The Canadian Press it would clear a backlog of 22,000 older applications within two years, but now says it still has more than 10,000 applications remaining.

It announced last month that only older applications pertaining to summary offences are being processed at this time. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The board expects to have close to 70 per cent of the overall backlog, and 100 per cent of the backlog of files containing offences tried summarily, cleared by March 31, 2015,â&#x20AC;? the board said in response to a media inquiry. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This will leave approximately 6,963 applications for indictable offences in the backlog.â&#x20AC;?

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served concurrently) could never be pardoned. Certain offences, such as sex crimes against children, were made ineligible.

The crime-free cooling off period after a sentence was fully served was also increased to five years from three for lesser offences, and doubled to 10 years from five for indictable offences.

The term â&#x20AC;&#x153;pardonâ&#x20AC;? was dropped and the process is now referred to as a â&#x20AC;&#x153;record suspension.â&#x20AC;?

And the application fee, long set at an affordable $50 to reflect the notion that pardons benefit society as much as the individual, was tripled to $150 and subsequently raised to the current $631.

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Graham James arrives at court for sentencing in Winnipeg in 2012. Almost 7,000 outstanding pardon applications are in limbo as the Parole Board of Canada struggles to clear a backlog created when the Conservative government changed the rules in 2010.

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criminal records are easily obtained, shutting the door to job, education and housing opportunities. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It is unacceptable that people are being denied human rights protections associated with pardons due to administrative delay and poverty,â&#x20AC;?

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Tory-hired expert backs claim about Liberal candidate’s controversial comments Joan Bryden

In a report to the party, given to The Canadian Press, Primeau concludes that it was indeed OTTAWA Raynolds who said the Tory Conservative cloak-and-dag- income-splitting plan would give ger caper aimed at capturing couples with children money that a Liberal candidate in a verbal they’d waste on television sets and gaffe has taken another twist, cars, rather than caring for their with the governing party produc- kids. ing expert audio analysis to back Raynolds was flabbergasted up its version of who said what.

Wednesday to learn the ConserThe Conservative party asked vatives are refusing to back down, Edward J. Primeau, an audio even though another individual forensic expert with 30 years involved in the conversation, experience, to analyze audio of a Tam McTavish, has said he’s the secretly recorded conversation in- one who uttered the offending volving Marlo Raynolds, the Lib- remarks. Sun Media has retracted eral candidate in Banff-Airdrie. the story on which the Tories Canadian Press

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“It’s quite astounding that the Conservatives continue to pursue this,” Raynolds said in an interview.

He said he’ll continue demanding an apology “until I clear my name because I know what I said and Tam knows what he said.”

For his part, McTavish said he’d be happy to provide the expert with another audio sample of his voice, repeating word for word what is said in the disputed audio.

“But this is getting silly. It really is as simple as everyone who knows me recognizes it (as me),” he said.

The audio – surreptitiously recorded by a woman identified as a Conservative operative who has conducted previous sting operations against Liberals – was given to Sun Media personality Brian Lilley. He attributed the remarks to Raynolds in a column and on his television show last week.

Sun Media issued a retraction Tuesday.

Four Conservative MPs, including Employment Minister Jason Kenney, have used the Sun story to attack Raynolds – and, by extension, all Liberals – for thinking they know better than parents how they should spend their money and care for their kids.

Since the retraction, they’ve simply doubled down on the matter.

“I think it’s actually quite a remarkable situation when Sun News is demonstrating a higher level of ethical standards than the Conservative cabinet,” Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau said Wednesday.

In the House of Commons, Liberal MP Kevin Lamoureux asked Kenney to show the same “standards of decency” as Sun Media and apologize. Kenney was having none of it.

“That Liberal candidate (Raynolds), that Liberal member (Lamoureux) and every Liberal member opposes tax fairness for families,” Kenney retorted, asserting that the Liberals are opposed to all the family-focused tax cuts

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“They want to take these benefits away from families, and they do so because they believe that Liberal politicians known better how to spend money than do moms and dads. We profoundly disagree on this side.”

The Conservative MP for Banff-Airdrie, Blake Richards, also refused to apologize.

“Well, certainly the people who were at the meeting maintain that the statements were made by the Liberal candidate. So, you know, I would encourage people to just check the record for themselves,” he said outside a Conservative caucus meeting.

The audio, recorded during a Nov. 13 public meeting in Canmore, Alta., is a little over two minutes long and of varying quality. It is clear that at least two men and one woman are involved in the conversation about income splitting.

The relevant remarks are toward the end, by which time the audio is muffled and the voices partially obscured by background noise. Lilley has told Raynolds the poor quality of the audio was due to the female Conservative supporter “zipping up her coat when she thought you were getting nervous that she might be recording you.”

In his report to the Conservative party, Primeau says he’s “100 per cent sure that the male at the beginning of the digital audio recording and the male speaking at the one minute and fifty-eight second mark, is the same person.”

Comparing that male’s voice to a YouTube video of Raynolds, Primeau says he’s “75-80 per cent sure” that speaker is Raynolds.

Raynolds confirmed he’s the one speaking at the start of the audio recording, expressing his opposition to income splitting.

But he and McTavish both say it’s McTavish towards the end.

The speaker starts talking about “Planet Money,” a National Public Radio podcast, just before the recording ends. McTavish said that’s one of his favourite shows.

Raynolds said he’d never heard of the program until that moment.

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In wake of interviews, NDP now embracing neutral probe of misconduct complaints Joan Bryden

â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s why (NDP whip) Nycole Justin Trudeau since making his Turmel wrote a very detailed letter proposal two weeks ago, he added. yesterday to Speaker Scheer saying, Last week, Turmel said MulOTTAWA â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;What are you talking about here cairâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s proposal was intended only he NDP is embracing the idea because weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not sure whether itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s for complaints that may arise in of a neutral third-party inves- prospective, retrospective, what it future, not to the complaints that tigation of misconduct complaints would apply to.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; You canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t mediate have sparked a frenzy on Parliaagainst two Liberal MPs, now that something like this, obviously, so ment Hill since Trudeau abruptly one New Democrat complainwhat exactly is on the table?â&#x20AC;? suspended Pacetti and Andrews ant has said sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d be willing to Mulcair urged other leaders to over what he called â&#x20AC;&#x153;serious perparticipate. endorse his proposal to develop a sonal misconduct.â&#x20AC;?

Andrew Scheer, the Speaker formal code of conduct for MPs But Mulcair said Wednesday of the House of Commons, last and appoint a non-partisan ofhe sees his proposal as a â&#x20AC;&#x153;starting week offered the use of House ficer of Parliament to investigate pointâ&#x20AC;? for creating a process to administration resources as well as complaints. deal with the current situation and â&#x20AC;&#x153;external expertsâ&#x20AC;? to help resolve â&#x20AC;&#x153;Instead of passing this back added that heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s open to other sugthe complaints against Massimo and forth like a hot potato, take gestions from other leaders.

Pacetti and Scott Andrews, both of the concrete proposal thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s on the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m not claiming to have tranwhom insist theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve done nothing table, sit down together and start quil possession of the truth on this. wrong. trying to come up with a solution I want to make sure that we get a The NDP dismissed his offer to deal with this,â&#x20AC;? Mulcair said. result. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the obligation.â&#x20AC;? last week and insisted neither of The NDP leader has had no Trudeau welcomed the NDPâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the two New Democrat complain- response from Prime Minister apparent change of heart. ants wanted to pursue the matter.

Stephen Harper or Liberal Leader â&#x20AC;&#x153;We have said from the very However, one of the women, who began late Monday to disclose N OT I C E TO C U S TO M E R S details of her complaint in media W H I T E H O R S E M O T O R S LT D interviews, has said sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d be willPA R T S & S E R V I C E ing to take part in an investigative process.

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Such a process is important, he said, both to give the suspended Liberal MPs â&#x20AC;&#x153;an opportunity to tell

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Tory MP retracts advice to wear recording devices to guard against harassment allegations Lee-Anne Goodman

Office.

“I retract that press release unconditionally and deeply regret it.”

OTTAWA Hours earlier, Goldring issued a Conservative backbencher press release saying he wears video who issued a bizarre warning recording equipment due to unspecto colleagues against “consorting ified past encounters with authority without protection” in the wake of figures to “prevent besmirchment Parliament Hill misconduct revelawhen encounters run awry.” tions retracted his statement late “It will not be good enough to Wednesday. simply say that your intentions “Earlier today I issued a press were honourable and you were just release that I now recognize was inviting a colleague to your apartcompletely inappropriate,” Edmon- ment at two in the morning to play ton MP Peter Goldring said in his a game of Scrabble at the end of a second statement of the day, this day of playing sports and drinking,” one released via the Prime Minister’s he said.

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“MPs must learn, as I have from encounters with authority figures in the past, that all do not tell the truth.”

Others should wear recording equipment as well, Goldring advised, “because some accusers hide behind a shield of supposed credibility which many times is not, and sometimes even hide behind a cloak of anonymity, which conceals their shameful indiscretion and complicity.”

Liberal MPs Massimo Pacetti and Scott Andrews were suspended from caucus earlier this month amid allegations of misconduct levelled by two of their NDP colleagues.

One of the New Democrat MPs, whose name has not been disclosed publicly, spoke to the media this week.

Goldring’s news release immediately became a social media sensation, with several wags tweeting doctored photos of the bearded MP donning a collection of video recording equipment.

Earlier Wednesday, the Prime Minister’s Office would say only that Goldring’s news release reflects his own personal opinions.

In Australia earlier this month, Stephen Harper said the government does not take complaints of sexual harassment lightly.

“Obviously sexual harassment is

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Conservative backbencher Peter Goldring issued a bizarre warning to colleagues against “consorting without protection” in the wake of Parliament Hill misconduct revelations.

He retracted his statement late Wednesday.

a very serious issue and I know that in government, in our government, we have had policies on how we deal with it for some time,” he said. “The matter has to be taken seriously and there has to be a framework for dealing with these things.”

Goldring, who was first elected as a Reform MP in 1997, is not running for re-election in next year’s vote.

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Advocates for sexual assault victims encouraged by Ghomeshi charges Michelle McQuigge

The 47-year-old former host was fired by CBC on Oct. 26 after the public broadcaster TORONTO said it had seen “graphic evihe sexual assault charges dence” that he had physically filed against former CBC injured a woman.

Radio host Jian Ghomeshi Since his dismissal, nine offer tentative hope to those women have come forward who fear their claims will be with allegations that Ghodismissed by an indifferent meshi sexually or physically law enforcement system, say assaulted them, and three of victims’ advocates. them ultimately filed police Their optimism, however, complaints.

Ghomeshi has admitted that is tempered by the sweeping changes they argue would need he engaged in “rough sex” but insisted his encounters with to take place if the Ghomewomen were consensual. Ghoshi case is to become the rule meshi’s lawyer Marie Henein rather than the exception. has also said that her client Sexual assault is widely intends to plead not guilty to considered to be grossly under-reported, and rape crisis the charges.

Kerner said the case has had counsellor Hilla Kerner says some decided positive effects, the complaints that are filed namely triggering a public diararely get aired before a judge logue about what constitutes or jury. assault. The fact that GhomeWhile she and her colleagues at the Vancouver Rape shi is now facing charges, she said, means the conversation Relief and Women’s Shelter can progress to a new and fear that Ghomeshi’s day in necessary phase. court came about in part be“We’re in a moment that I cause of his prominent public don’t think we’ve had before profile, she said it still reprein terms of public understandsents a victory.

“This is a very rare example ing and support for victims of sexual assault,” she said. that the police actually was “The conversation was very diligent, very fast and heavily focusing on why womthorough, and the result is criminal charges,” Kerner said en do not come forward, and now we can talk about what in a telephone interview. will allow women to come for“So we do think that it will ward: public support, public create a positive effect. That belief and a criminal justice women can see that where system that takes responsibility there is a will there is a way to protect women.” and the police are diligent.

Erin Ellis, a Toronto-based Unfortunately, we’re afraid lawyer who represents sexual that the police only acted like assault victims in civil suits, that because there was such a said the Ghomeshi case has public outcry.” potential to be an educaThe former “Q” radio host tional one for women debating was charged Wednesday with whether to speak up. four counts of sexual assault Wednesday’s charges are a and one count of overcoming concrete reminder that there resistance by choking. He was is no statute of limitations on released on bail and was orcriminal sexual assault allegadered to live with his mother, tions, she said, adding that surrender his passport and women may feel reassured by remain in Ontario.

Kerner said allegations of sexual assault against GhoCELLPHONE meshi from multiple women DECORATION spanning more than a decade 207 Main St. 668-3447 sparked outrage the likes of which she’s rarely seen.

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the fact that police can be willing to take their complaints seriously no matter when they’re filed.

She said police themselves can also benefit from these high-profile situations, since they pose questions about how victims should be treated.

“Every time one of these cases hits the media, it raises awareness, the public reacts, and it forces people to look at how they handle these types of cases,” she said.

But others say the Ghomeshi case won’t have much meaningful positive impact unless it changes the way victims are treated once charges are laid.

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The women who file complaints may approach police as victims of a crime, but are treated as mere witnesses to one once a trial gets under way.

Dale said defence lawyers typically make their cases by attacking the victim’s credibility, adding this approach is unique to sex-based charges.

“If I report a break-in at my house, they don’t ask me if my curtains were left open, if my stereo was too close to the window, if I enjoyed having my house broken into,” she said.

“That is how we approach the crime of sexual assault, and I cannot see…that anything is going to have changed by the time this comes to trial.”

Ellis concedes that it’s hard to obtain a sexual assault conviction, since defendants only need to establish reasonable doubt to walk free.

But she says any case that comes to trial should be viewed as a step forward and a chance to deepen public awareness around a complex subject.

Dale agrees, but hopes the high-profile nature of the Ghomeshi case won’t detract from the broader issues.

“It behooves us to look at the particularities of this scenario, learn from them, but not limit our learning to the facts of these particular cases.”

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Bill Cosby, under oath, says he gave tabloid exclusive in 2005, had accuser’s story spiked published similar claims by Beth Ferrier. Both women accused Cosby of drugging and molesting PHILADELPHIA them. ill Cosby testified under oath in “Did you ever think that if Beth 2005 that he gave the National Ferrier’s story was printed in the Enquirer an exclusive interview National Enquirer, that that would about looming sexual-assault acmake the public believe that maybe cusations by a Canadian woman Andrea was also telling the truth?” against him in exchange for the Cosby was asked. tabloid spiking a second accuser’s “Exactly,” Cosby replied, acstory. cording to court motions initially Excerpts released Wednesday filed under seal and made availof Cosby’s deposition from a civil able from archived federal court lawsuit filed by Andrea Constand records. quote Cosby as saying he feared the Cosby, in the deposition, said he public would believe her sexualhad a contract with the Enquirer.

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story, my words,” Cosby said in the Sept. 29, 2005, deposition. In return, “they would not print the story of – print Beth’s story.”

The release of the documents comes after Cosby this month was shown on an Associated Press video trying to persuade the news co-operative not to use his response when asked this month about sexual-abuse allegations.

“I would appreciate if it was scuttled,” Cosby said in a videotaped exchange with the AP on Nov. 6.

Cosby said in 2005 he had been given a draft of Ferrier’s interview with the Enquirer and was told

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she had passed its lie-detector test. He said he also was given an advance look at his exclusive, titled “My Story,” which warned that he would defend against anyone trying to “exploit” him.

Constand later sued Cosby and the Enquirer, alleging defamation.

The claims were consolidated with her sexual-assault lawsuit against Cosby and were settled.

A representative for American Media, Inc., which owns the National Enquirer, said in an emailed statement Wednesday that the Enquirer was “unflinching” in its coverage of the allegations against Cosby.

“We continue to remain aggressive in our reporting today and stand by the integrity of our coverage of this story which we have taken the lead on for more than a decade,” the representative said.

Cosby had said at his deposition that Constand and her mother asked only for an apology in early phone calls about the issue in January 2005, and he said they received one.

“Andrea’s mother said, ‘That’s all I wanted, Bill,”’ Cosby testified.

Constand’s lawyers argued in their defamation suit: “Requesting only an apology is not the action of an extortionist or someone who wants to ‘exploit’ a celebrity.”

They said that Cosby later called back and offered to pay for Constand’s “education.”

Constand had met Cosby through her job with the women’s basketball team at Temple University in Philadelphia, and she said he sexually assaulted her at his nearby home in 2004. She quit the job and moved home that year, and

she first filed a report with Ontario police on Jan. 13, 2005, and filed a federal civil suit that March. After prosecutors near Philadelphia decided not to file criminal charges, several other women came forward to support Constand’s claims, including Ferrier.

Ferrier has gone public about what she called her brief affair with Cosby when she was a model in 1984. She said that he once drugged her coffee during an encounter in Denver and that she woke up hours later in the backseat of her car with her clothes disheveled. The Enquirer in 2005 withheld her story and instead published Cosby’s account, in which he said, “Sometimes you try to help people and it backfires on you and then they try to take advantage of you.”

In the legal deposition, taken at a Philadelphia hotel, Constand’s lawyer asked Cosby if he tried in the Enquirer article “to make the public believe that Andrea was not telling the truth?”

“Yes,” Cosby replied.

Constand’s civil lawsuit grew to include nine women willing to testify about allegations of sexual assaults involving Cosby. Some came forward after a suburban Philadelphia prosecutor declined to file criminal charges over Constand’s police complaint.

A comedian this year referenced the accusations anew in a performance, prompting some of the suit’s Jane Doe witnesses to reveal their names and other women to raise new accusations.

Cosby has refused to discuss allegations raised in recent weeks by numerous women.

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Auditor cites problems in Syria projects, military water purification

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OTTAWA unding delays of more than a year plagued two major Canada humanitarian assistance projects in Syria, while the military’s water purification system didn’t measure up during last year’s typhoon in the Philippines.

So says auditor general Michael Ferguson in his latest report, which explores, among other things, how well the federal government has been responding to humanitarian crises around the world.

The audit focused mainly on the Foreign Affairs Department, but included an assessment of how the Canadian Forces responded to Typhoon Haiyan in November 2013, which left 6,300 dead and forced more than four million people from their homes.

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Two bilateral projects totalling $6 million in neighbouring Jordan, the desert kingdom that has been inundated with Syrian refugees, experienced delays of more than a year with “no substantive assistance” delivered , the audit said.

One project was delayed because of lengthy negotiations, while the other was cancelled and transferred to a new project by the same partner.

Given the government’s commitment of $200 million to Syrian assistance for the next few years, the audit said it is “important that the department reflect on its experiences with these two projects … to help ensure short-term objectives are achievable.”

Meanwhile, Canada’s reverseosmosis water purifiers, long one of the Defence Department’s marquee disaster response tools, didn’t produce as much clean drinking water as hoped, the audit found.

Mission reports showed that the purifiers produced only 65 per cent of the average projected output, and distributed only 73 per cent of what was produced. The military has responded by convening a planning group to study the “issues encountered in the Philippines.”

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grant of 3.6 billion kroner ($600 million) from Denmark. Since gaining self-rule, the island’s local politics have been plagued by corruption, nepotism and other scandals. A former premier took a leave of absence to get a grip on his alcohol problem while another was accused of sexual abuse.

“No doubt that the tumultuous climate in Greenland is not the best to attract investors,” said Jakob Janussen, a political scientist from Greenland working at Aarhus University in Denmark.

“When there are problems, investors stay away.”

Most of Greenland, the world’s largest island, is covered by a massive ice sheet three times the size of Texas. The 57,000 residents live on the coast, in Inuit settlements or small cities, including the modern capital, Nuuk.

The giant island’s iron ore, zinc, gold, diamonds, rare earths and other minerals are expected to become more accessible as the ice sheet melts due to global warming, but no exploitation licenses have been issued.

Hammond, Greenland’s first female premier, stepped down Oct. 1, after admitting she used government funds to pay for private airline tickets and hotel stays in Greenland for herself and her family. Her centre-left government collapsed shortly after, prompting Friday’s elections a year-and-a-half earlier than planned.

While the recurring scandals underscore that Greenland is still a young democracy, the fact that Hammond had to resign over what would previously have been considered a minor misstep shows the political system is maturing, said analyst Ulrik

Gad Pram of the University of Copenhagen.

“What was accepted in the past is no longer acceptable,” he said.

Still, the political crisis wasn’t good for business. The natural resources minister had to cancel a trip to China, where investors have been eyeing mining opportunities in Greenland.

In January, an independent report concluded that Greenland’s goal of having several large mines operational by 2040 was “unrealistic” because there is no infrastructure, work force or legislation needed for large mines.

A ban on uranium mining was removed under Hammond’s government to allow exploitation of a southern Greenland mine with rare earth elements – key ingredients in smartphones, weapons systems and other modern technologies. Uranium is often found mixed with rare earth metals.

That ban could be re-introduced if the main opposition group, Inuit Ataqatigiit, or IA, wins the election.

Hammond’s social-democratic Siumut party or the left-leaning IA may emerge as winners, opinion polls show. However, both need backing from smaller parties to be able to control a majority of the 31 seats in the local parliament.

Greenland’s Parliament speaker Lars-Emil Johansen said Inuits are proud to have created an Arctic nation with its own constitution, political structures, flag and national anthem over the past 35 years.

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New gizmo could help placer miners snag lost gold Myles Dolphin News Reporter

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andy Clarkson doesn’t know how his homemade rod mill wasn’t invented long ago.

But he can predict with certainty it’ll be found at every Yukon placer mine within the next five years.

“It’s too cheap, simple and easy to use,” he said.

An engineer by trade, Clarkson has spent the past two years working on a prototype to allow placer miners to separate fine gold particles from difficult concentrates.

Clarkson, the executive director of the Klondike Placer Miners’ Association, gave a demonstration of his invention at last week’s Geoscience Forum.

He’s been in the field since 1985, working on upgrading sluice box efficiency and conducting research in the Amazonian jungle and elsewhere in South America.

Placer miners may pass many cubic metres of gravel through a sluice box, a process that usually recuperates between 70 to 80 per cent of the gold.

Sluice boxes help separate gold from dirt using barriers called riffles. The riffles catch the heavier gold, while lighter rocks are washed away.

Sluices in the Klondike are often pretty quick, Clarkson said, and can process 50 to 200 cubic metres of gravel per hour.

Once or twice a week, miners clean out the equipment and come up with about a cubic metre of sluice box concentrate, from which they can no longer separate the gold unless they do it by hand – a tedious and time consuming process.

There’s quite a bit of gold in that sluice box concentrate but miners can’t sell it, Clarkson said, because it’s not pure enough.

That’s why placer miners have been storing the concentrate away in coffee pots and peanut butter containers, waiting for the right equipment to come along to be able to separate the gold from it.

Although the gold weighs more than heavy minerals, the particles are flat, making it much harder to separate.

The particles vary in size but can be as fine as 50 microns, or 0.05 millimetres.

That’s where Clarkson’s simple invention comes in, to get the other 20 to 30 per cent of gold that was missed.

This time last year, Clarkson and a colleague at the University of Fairbanks in Alaska were ready to throw in the towel.

“We were at our wit’s end,”

Alistair Maitland/Yukon News

Randy Clarkson, executive director of the Klondike Placer Miners’ Association, at his home in Mary Lake. Clarkson invented a prototype rod mill that would allow placer miners to easily separate fine gold particles from waste minerals.

Clarkson said.

Then they hit a breakthrough and came up with the idea of using a rod mill, which has been around for hundreds of years.

In this case, the rod mill is a steel tumbler, small enough to be moved on a dolly, that’s partly filled with 20-cm steel rods.

Concentrate is put inside, and as the tumbler turns, the rods inside grind any rock into dust and flatten any bits of gold.

Through trial and error, they eventually realized the mill had to contain approximately 1 to 1.5 kilograms of concentrate and rotate at 70 revolutions per minute for it to effectively work.

The minerals and gold are put into the rod mill with a small amount of water, and ground between six and 10 minutes.

“Then you just take this ground up paste and put it through a fine sieve and the gold sits on top.”

After that, it’s easy to recover the gold using a shaking table.

By the end of the process, about 99 per cent of the gold that was missed has been recovered.

The invention was tested over the summer by placer miners around the territory and yielded successful results.

“This technique recovered between five and 10 ounces of gold per day of testing this summer at

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Clarkson’s prototype rod mill is comprised of a cement mixer, pulleys and small steel rods.

a profit of $5,000 per day - from concentrates that would normally be left behind,” said Clarkson.

Gold is extremely malleable and can be flattened extensively, Clarkson said, referring to gold-

plated ruins in the Middle East.

“They look impressive but there isn’t a heck of a lot of gold because it can be hammered so thin.”

It costs under $2,000 to put

together Clarkson’s invention, using a cement mixer, pulleys and small steel rods.

He said he’s been asked to build four of them and is helping other placer miners build their own.

He has no plans to commercialize the design, however.

“You could, but that’s not the idea because all my life I’ve done research for placer mining and I’ve always made it available publicly,” he said.

“Usually there’s been some component of public funding involved so that’s the whole idea – if you spend public money it should be available to the public.”

The rod mill could work separating other minerals such as platinum and lead, Clarkson said, and might also be useful in the developing world where they’ve been using cyanide and mercury to separate gold.

He said he would be publishing a research paper on his findings, which will be published on the Yukon Geological Survey website, among other places.

The next step would be to improve the rod mill and turn it into a continuous, rather than batch, process.

“Someone else can look at that,” he said with a laugh.

Contact Myles Dolphin at myles@yukon-news.com

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Feds urge improvements for foreign mining practices Bruce Cheadle

from Canada. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Can we do things better? Of course, thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s always things we can OTTAWA improve,â&#x20AC;? Fast finally conceded. tâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s taken almost a decade of loud, â&#x20AC;&#x153;But Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m absolutely confident often unwelcome advocacy, but that we have a very, very good story the federal government appears to tell.â&#x20AC;? to finally recognize that Canadaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Natural Resources Minister Greg international brand needs a little Rickford had already warmed up spit and polish. the crowd by cautioning that â&#x20AC;&#x153;there In back-to-back addresses this can be no compromiseâ&#x20AC;? on enviweek to a Mining Association of ronmental stewardship and social Canada luncheon, two federal cabi- responsibility. net ministers repeatedly stressed â&#x20AC;&#x153;Our collective actions â&#x20AC;&#x201C; govthe critical importance of what ernment and industry â&#x20AC;&#x201C; are critical they called the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Canada brandâ&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x201C; to meeting our obligations (for) and how it is a key to grabbing new safety of the environment and the business in the mining sector. communities in which we operate, â&#x20AC;&#x153;We as a government and here and abroad,â&#x20AC;? said Rickford.

Canadians broadly speaking expect Their pitch came with a lot of our companies to do business in a puffery about further government way that reflects the highest ethical assistance for Canadaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s dominant standards, that reflects the highmining sector â&#x20AC;&#x201C; but also, notably, est environmental standards, the the hint of a stick, too. highest level of corporate social For the first time, the fedresponsibility, the highest level of eral government is threatening to transparency,â&#x20AC;? International Trade withdraw financial and political Minister Ed Fast told the gathering support from Canadian compaat an Ottawa hotel. nies that donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t live up to its social Fast recited a host of laudatory responsibility ideals. statistics: about 1,200 Canadian For non-governmental orgamining companies operate more nizations that have been fielding than 8,000 properties in over 100 mining development horror stories countries, with 35 per cent of for years, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a start. global exploration budgets coming A revamped, corporate social Canadian Press

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â&#x20AC;&#x153;We are moving slowly, of course, but we are moving,â&#x20AC;? said Worms.

New federal legislation is also in the pipeline that would force Canadian companies to detail payments to all levels of government, a transparency measure designed to discourage graft, kickbacks and bribes.

Fast, speaking to reporters after last weekâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s mining lunch, said there is a long list of success stories of Canadian companies acting responsibly around the world, while acknowledging that the ugly incidents make the news.

Pierre Gratton, president and CEO of the Mining Association Frank Gunn/The Canadian Press of Canada, said the increasingly International Trade Minister Ed Fast plans to punish bad dominant notion of resource combehaviour by Canadian mining firms operating abroad if panies requiring a â&#x20AC;&#x153;social licenceâ&#x20AC;? they break new rules on corporate social responsibility. to operate is being applied at home and abroad. or issue reports â&#x20AC;&#x201C; but he or she will responsibility counsellor will He noted there are more than have leverage to at least get alleged 260 agreements in Canada between screen foreign community comoffenders to come to the table to plaints about mining operations aboriginal communities and mintalk. and companies that refuse to ing companies. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Find me another Under the previous federal co-operate with the counsellor will sector that has anything close.â&#x20AC;? counsellor, who resigned four years lose government support.

He said the same principle apinto her five-year mandate without plies abroad.

MiningWatch Canada began explanation, three of six formal advocating for poor communities â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not going to pretend that complaints she handled simply hurt by Canadian mining operaevery project we develop will be died when the companies involved without incident. Sometimes there tions abroad in 1999 and spokesrefused to play ball. woman Catherine Coumans says are,â&#x20AC;? said Gratton.

The government also now says there used to be shocked disbelief â&#x20AC;&#x153;But weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re getting better and that Canadaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Boy Scout self-image it will withdraw support from committed to improving, and could be tarnished by poor corpo- companies that donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t follow social certainly thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a recognition that responsibility guidelines. However, corporate responsibility is not just rate behaviour. without any investigative mechaâ&#x20AC;&#x153;Of course they wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t say in a nice to-do. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s core to being able public thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a big problem,â&#x20AC;? Cou- nism, it is not clear how such a to be welcomed in the countries sanction would be adjudicated. mans says of todayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s government. where we develop and to grow â&#x20AC;&#x153;Who will be in charge of the â&#x20AC;&#x153;But to see a Conservative within those countries.â&#x20AC;? government like this one say, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Look, supervision of those companies That bottom-line corporate and their operations abroad?â&#x20AC;? Ryan recognition, coupled with the prinwe need to put things in place like Worms of the Canadian Catholic a CSR counsellor, we need to have ciple that Ottawa has and can wield a penalty like withholding financial Organization for Development and some leverage on companies, is Peace asked in an interview. and political supportâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; â&#x20AC;&#x201C; you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t cause for optimism, said Coumans. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Who will make sure that there do that if you think thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s no â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not talking anymore is some transparent investigations? about whether or not there is an problem. â&#x20AC;&#x153;So weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve definitely come some- No one. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the main problem issue. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re talking about what is we see again.â&#x20AC;? where.â&#x20AC;? the right way to deal with the isNonetheless he too, like MinThe new counsellor still has no sue â&#x20AC;&#x201C; and even there I think weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re power to independently investigate ingWatchâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Coumans, sees merit in making some progress,â&#x20AC;? said the longtime advocate. something less than half a loaf. problems, recommend solutions

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High Arctic no refuge for polar bears if climate change continues apace: study Bob Weber

of Boothia if global temperatures increased by 3.5 degrees Celsius.

Derocher acknowledges that’s a EDMONTON “severe” amount of warming, but ven Canada’s High Arctic it’s a level the planet is on track islands won’t remain a sancfor if significant measures to curb tuary for polar bears if climate greenhouse gas emissions aren’t change continues at its current enacted. pace, a new study suggests.

Such warming would lead to The study, published this week more and more years in which waters used by specific polar bear in an online science journal, says populations would be ice free for climate change is on track to more than 180 days, the study push the bears into dire straits throughout the region by the end says. That would mean more and more years in which the bears of the century. couldn’t use the hunting platform “Under business-as-usual climate projections, polar bears may they need to get their fat-rich seals for at least six months. face starvation and reproductive At 180 ice-free days, starvation failure across the entire archipelawould be likely to kill off between go by the year 2100,” it says. nine and 21 per cent of adult Even co-author Andy Deromale bears, with females and cubs cher, a polar bear expert at the more vulnerable.

University of Alberta who is no At the same time, the ice would stranger to gloomy news, was be breaking up earlier and formtaken aback by the results. ing later, which would affect how “I had hung my hopes on the successful females were in raising idea that polar bears would persist out to the end of this century, their cubs. Early breakup can cause reproductive failure in anyallowing us to go into some sort where from half to all of pregnant of conservation mode,” he said.

“But now, looking at this work sows.

Caught between increasingly and this modelling, it does not look very good. I’m not as optimistic as I used to be.”

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frequent years of poor sea ice and increasingly poor birth rates, the bears would eventually be squeezed out, the report suggests.

“We find that sea ice conditions may become unsupportive of polar bear population persistence in the (Canadian Arctic

archipelago) and its surroundings by the late 21st century.”

The study follows a series of similarly dispiriting surveys of two southern bear populations.

Bears in the southern Beaufort Sea area have declined to about 900 from about 1,600 between

2000 and 2010. Inuit and Cree hunters in the southern Hudson Bay area agreed recently to reduce their hunt quota over fears about the population’s health.

“We’re starting to see the edges fall away for polar bears,” Derocher said.

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Polar Sea doc explores climate change on TV and with virtual reality tech Michael Oliveira

me or you to sail through the Northwest Passage, but if you’re an amateur sailor now that’s your TORONTO goal. In a way it’s become like the t’s a 10-part TV documentary new Mount Everest, something series, an interactive web doc, people want to test themselves an in-depth online magazine and against.” an experiment in the emerging The documentary series will field of virtual reality. also be available for all CanadiThe producers behind The ans to stream at www.tvo.org/ Polar Sea, which follows a trio of polarsea. Borrowing a strategy from Netflix, all 10 episodes will middle-aged amateur sailors on an ambitious and arduous voyage go online on Monday for binge watchers to gorge on. through the Northwest Passage, It was decided early on that don’t really care how you choose the TV documentary would be to experience their investigation into climate change in the Arctic. just one part of the The Polar Sea story, says McMahon.

But they are mighty proud “I think everybody in this that the main attraction, the TV business is now looking at finding documentary, is getting so much a way to speak to as broad an auairtime. The Polar Sea is being dience as possible and increasingbroadcast on TVO in Ontario ly that means speaking through starting on Monday. New epidifferent platforms,” he says. sodes air every weeknight over “We’re trying to offer as many the course of two weeks. doors into the story as we pos“From our point of view sibly can.” it’s quite unusual for television Digital production company because you virtually never get Deep 360 created an interactive a 10-hour documentary series 30-minute online companion anymore and I can’t think of one documentary with a technology ever in this country where we’re called 360-degree video. In a web telling one epic story over the course of it,” says producer Kevin browser, users can zoom, pan up or down, or spin the camera McMahon of Toronto-based angle around as the documentary Primitive Entertainment, who plays. In one incredible scene, notes that the Canada-German viewers are situated on a beach as co-production involved five film crews shooting over the course of the northern lights glow overheard. four months.

“Everyone had this wish to McMahon says the idea was to create something on the interlook at climate change through active side in tandem with the the Arctic because he notes the series that would allow people to Arctic is changing faster than actually experience the Arctic,” anywhere else in the world. says Deep 360 founder Thomas “Ten or 15 years ago it Wallner, who adds that the online would’ve been impossible for documentary has its own story, characters and footage that are The Yukon home of independent of the TV doc.

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The interactive documentary is also compatible with soon-tobe-released virtual reality devices, including the Facebook-owned Oculus Rift and Samsung’s Gear VR. Virtual reality early adopters will be eager to get their hands on content for those devices, which should expose The Polar Sea to new audiences worldwide.

“It’s the right place at the right time for sure, but it was a strategy from the beginning,” says Wallner.

“There may be an audience coming into this that doesn’t necessarily care about climate change or the Arctic but they’ll be brought into it (by the technology).”

For those who want to go really deep into the subject matter, there’s an interactive online magazine – available to read in English, French or German – based on the TV documentary.

McMahon says those who take in The Polar Sea – in any of its forms – may be surprised by how much debate there is about the future of the Arctic.

“What we found interestingly enough is they’re split. A lot of them are worried about what its going to do to traditional culture, on the other hand a lot of them are interested in what opportunities it opens up for them,” he says.

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Painting wasted dreams Meg Walker Special for the News

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trange fascinations can lead to evocative art works. Andrea Kastner’s painting exhibition The Waste Land, currently showing at the ODD Gallery in Dawson City, is a strong example of how powerful work can emerge when an artist trusts their instincts. The skill of this painter who depicts garbage is such that her work was included in the 10-person show The Lure of the Local: Women Artists in the Canadian Landscape in Athens, Greece, at the end of 2013.

The former Montrealer was living in Edmonton to work on her masters of fine arts degree when she began wondering what people choose to toss away as trash. Kastner went for long walks down alleyways and brought home whole bags of garbage. Wearing gloves, she sorted through them as if they were mini-excavation sites. She meticulously organized their contents according to size and type and made precise lists.

“I kept thinking about trash as a diary, as secrets, as an identity or a code,” she says. “Eventually it occurred to me that a diary is different, because it records events we consider important, whereas trash is all the stuff we never even think about, the great roiling underground of daily life.”

From there, Kastner began thinking of garbage, and the landfills that result, as a version of the unconscious. She stopped making archival, accurate paintings of trash. It was time to create visual fictions that place the visual richness of sprawling rubbish heaps into relationships with buildings and roadsides. “It became clear as I was working on the paintings that this was why I cared about all that stuff,” she recalls.

“Some people find my work depressing,” she adds, but she sees her “small painterly way” as a way to think about excess and garbage directly, instead of suppressing the knowledge that it’s all there piling up.

Titles add sly humour to Kastner’s works. “Small disasters” (2014) is a group of four small square paintings infused with a specific, familiar shade of turquoise-green that first seems to recall garbage bags or swimming pool liners or… oh wait, those are crumpled, used… disposable diapers! The motivation for these works: Kastner initially painted them for a Mother’s Day show.

Other titles wryly illuminate the conflicts we feel on a personal or a community level when we discard formerly valued belongings. For example, Kastner composes an outsized heap of debris above an abandoned “heritage” building and calls the work “Keepsake” (2013). A pickup truck’s canopy tops the pile, perhaps recalling road trips, since that common activity often leads to people gathering memorabilia they don’t really want.

The exhibition title itself, The Waste Land, refers to T.S. Eliot’s long poem of the same name. In that poem, Eliot

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Andrea Kastner is an artist based in Kamloops. Kastner’s exhibition The Waste Land is currently showing at the ODD Gallery in Dawson City until Dec. 6.

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Andrea Kastner’s oil painting, “The inventory of dreams.”

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contemplates people’s fear-and-desire relationship with ruin and rubbish, among other topics. Kastner creates the link, she says, as a way “to communicate to people walking into the show what kind of world I am trying to draw out.”

Kastner completed her MFA in 2012, the same year she was shortlisted for the RBC Canadian Painting Competition. Then she and her husband, artist Colin Lyons, relocated to Kamloops, where she painted most of the works in The Waste Land.

The canvases offer smooth, seductive surfaces and colour combinations that are harmonious without becoming bland. Kastner’s confident, steady brushwork equally reveals her passion for geometry and light.

Sections of an abandoned apartment complex in “The Inventory of Dreams” (2014), for example, can be enjoyed as miniature colour-field paintings. Yet in the foreground, a capsized bathtub, looks queasy, most of the furniture is broken into sticks, and a bicycle may or may not be whole

Another Kastner piece, “The one that got away.”

enough to use as an escape vehicle.

Kastner recently relocated with her family to Hamilton, but was able to come north for the Dawson City opening – the final stop on the show’s five-city tour. A fitting conclusion to her Yukon stint was a visit to the Quigley Landfill, also known as Dawson’s dump, free store and source for much reusable building and mechanical materials.

“Standing in the freezing cold at

the dump, surrounded by compressed stacks of refrigerators and stoves as ravens made their eerie sounds – I think that will stay with me,” she reflects. “I think the images from the dump will keep showing up in the next series. I have a feeling that the next body of work will be more surreal perhaps, more otherworldly.”

In the meantime, The Waste Land is at the ODD Gallery until Dec. 6.

Meg Walker is a writer and visual artist based in Dawson City.

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Obama defends authority to pardon turkeys and this is a great excuse to do it.’

Presidents as far back as Abraham Lincoln spared turkeys, WASHINGTON according to the White House. resident Barack Obama has President George H.W. Bush issued an executive action granted the first turkey pardon in that some of his Republican opNovember 1989. ponents may be hard-pressed to The pair of barrel-chested disagree with – sparing Thanksbirds that Obama said he was giving turkeys from the dinner sparing from a “terrible and table. delicious fate” will live the rest of In the spirit of the holiday, Obama on Wednesday took “action fully within my legal authority, the same kind of action taken

by Democrats and Republican presidents before me,” to pardon the National Thanksgiving Turkey, a 49-pound bird named Cheese. He also spared an alternate turkey, a 47-pounder named Mac. Both came from Cooper Farms in Oakwood, Ohio.

“If you’re a turkey, and you’re named after a side dish, your chances of escaping Thanksgiving dinner are pretty low,” Obama said at the annual event, which drew international media coverage. He was accompanied by his daughters, Malia and Sasha, who declined his invitation to pet the birds. The ceremony was moved indoors because of cold, wet weather that blanketed Washington.

“So these guys are well ahead of the curve. They really beat the odds,” he said of Mac and Cheese.

Obama last week announced a series of highly anticipated executive actions immigration that have left Republicans crying “fowl.”

Joking about his poultry action, Obama said: “I know some will call this amnesty. But don’t worry. There’s plenty of turkey to go around.” Later Wednesday, Obama was taking the family to a neighbourhood food pantry to donate a pair of turkeys “that didn’t make the cut.”

At the ceremony, Obama referenced news reports that questioned the wisdom of the turkey pardon tradition and said “it is a little puzzling that I do this every year.” But Obama said he enjoys the tradition because “with all the tough stuff that swirls around in this office, it’s nice once in a while just to say ‘Happy Thanksgiving,’ Darlene Superville Associated Press

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their feathered days at Morven Park’s Turkey Hill, a turkey farm in Leesburg, Virginia.

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President Barack Obama, right, pardons “Cheese,” the turkey at the White House in Washington on Wednesday during the annual Thanksgiving ceremony.

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As computer hackers show cars can be commandeered, feds and automakers aim to block threats Justin Pritchard

rorists penetrate them.

“You’re stepping into a rolling computer now,” said Chris Valasek, LOS ANGELES who helped catapult car hacking gainst the team of hackers, the into the public eye when he and poor car stood no chance. a partner revealed last year they Meticulously overwhelming its had been able to control a 2010 computer networks, the hackers Toyota Prius and 2010 Ford Escape showed that – given time – they by plugging into a port used by would be able to pop the trunk and mechanics. start the windshield wipers, cut the These days, when Valasek isn’t brakes or lock them up, and even working his day job for a computer kill the engine. security firm, he’s seeing how BluTheir motives were not malietooth might offer an entry point. cious. These hackers worked on Automakers are betting heavbehalf of the U.S. military, which ily that consumers will want not along with the auto industry is just the maps and music playlists scrambling to fortify the cyber of today but also Internet-enabled defences of commercially available vehicles that stream movies and the turn dictation into email. The cars before criminals and even terAssociated Press

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One major association representing brands including Honda and Toyota is helping establish an “information sharing and analysis centre” patterned after efforts by big banks to try to thwart cyberattacks.

“Before, when you designed something, you looked at how might components fail,” said Michael Cammisa, director of safety for the Association of Global Automakers. “Now, you have to look at how would somebody maliciously attack the vehicle.”

The so-called Auto-ISAC will allow participating companies to evaluate the credibility of threats and, in the event of an attack, let one warn Chris Carlson/AP Photo others so they could test their own Chris Valasek poses for a picture at the Los Angeles Auto systems. The effort was announced Show earlier this month. this summer at the Cyberauto Challenge in Detroit, one of an increasfederal government wants to require the car’s networks. That may take cars to send each other electronic months, Fisher said, but from there ing number of programs focused on auto hacking. Several days later, in messages warning of dangers on the it would be “pretty easy to package road. up the smarts and make it available China, organizers of a cybersecurity conference announced success in In these and other connections, online, perhaps in a black-market their challenge to hack a Model S hackers see opportunity. type situation.” made by Tesla Motors.

There are no publicly known The project’s goal is more than Another American company, instances of a car being commanjust to plug vulnerabilities – it is to General Motors, has checked how deered outside staged tests. In those reconceive the most critical lines Boeing and defence companies cretests, hackers prevail. of computer code that control the ate systems to repel hackers, accordOne was the Defence Departcar in a way that could make them ing to Mark Reuss, GM’s executive ment-funded assault on a 2012 invulnerable to some of the major vice-president of global product model American-made car, overknown threats. The model code seen by computer scientist Kathleen would be distributed to automakers, development.

Cybersecurity is “one of the highFisher. who could adapt it to their needs. est priority things that we have,” Hackers demonstrated they That should take a few more years.

Reuss said. “We have got to make could create the electronic equivaThe industry is participating – lent of a skeleton key to unlock and not waiting. sure that our customers are safe.”

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Perusing Harry Potter for science? Scans show brain activity as readers get caught in a story Lauran Neergaard

that much of the neural activity is about the history of the story up to that point, rather than deciphering the current word, Mitchell added.

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WASHINGTON eading about Harry Potterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s adventures learning to fly his broomstick activates some of the some of the same regions in the brain we use to perceive real peopleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s actions and intentions.

In a novel study, scientists who peeked into the brains of people caught up in a good book emerged with maps of what a healthy brain does as it reads.

The research reported Wednesday has implications for studying reading disorders or recovery from a stroke. The team from Carnegie Mellon University was pleasantly surprised that the experiment actually worked.

Most neuroscientists painstakingly have tracked how the brain processes a single word or sentence, looking for clues to language development or dyslexia by focusing on one aspect of reading at a time. But reading a story requires multiple systems working at once: recognizing how letters form a word, knowing the definitions and grammar, keeping up with the charactersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; relationships and the plot twists.

Measuring all that activity is remarkable, said Georgetown University neuroscientist Guinevere Eden, who helped pioneer brainscanning studies of dyslexia but wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t involved in the new work. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It offers a much richer way of thinking about the reading brain,â&#x20AC;?

Eden said, calling the project â&#x20AC;&#x153;very clever and very exciting.â&#x20AC;?

No turning pages inside a brain-scanning MRI machine; you have to lie still. So at Carnegie Mellon, eight adult volunteers watched for nearly 45 minutes as each word of Chapter 9 of Harry Potter and the Sorcererâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Stone was

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distinguish with 74 per cent accuracy which of two text passages matches a pattern of neural activity, he said, calling it a first step as researchers tease apart what the brain does when someone reads.

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flashed for half a second onto a screen inside the scanner.

Why that chapter? It has plenty of action and emotion as Harry swoops around on his broom, faces the bully Malfoy and later runs into a three-headed dog, but thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not too much going on for scientists to track, said lead researcher Leila Wehbe, a Ph.D. student.

The research team analyzed the scans, second by second, and created a computerized model of brain activity involved with different reading processes. The research was published Wednesday by the journal PLoS One. â&#x20AC;&#x153;For the first time in history, we can do things like have you read a story and watch where in your brain the neural activity is happening,â&#x20AC;? said senior author Tom Mitchell, director of Carnegie Mellonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Machine Learning Department. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Not just where are the neurons firing, but what information is being coded by those different neurons.â&#x20AC;?

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reading a story rather than just words or phrases.

But parsing the brain activity took extraordinary effort. For every word, the researchers identified features â&#x20AC;&#x201C; the number of letters, the part of speech, if it was associated with a character or action or emotion or conversation. Then they used computer programming to analyze brain patterns associated with those features in every four-word stretch.

They spotted some complex interactions.

For example, the brain region that processes the charactersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; point of view is the one we use to perceive intentions behind real peopleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s actions, Wehbe said. A region that we use to visually interpret other peopleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s emotions helps decipher charactersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; emotions.

That suggests weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re using pretty high-level brain functions, not just the semantic concepts but our previous experiences, as we get lost in the story, she said.

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Mystery novelist P.D. James, creator of sensitive sleuth Adam Dalgliesh, dies aged 94 copies around the world, and most were just as popular when adapted for television.

LONDON Because of the quality and care.D. James took the classic British ful structure of her writing â&#x20AC;&#x201C; and detective story into tough mod- her elegant, intellectual detective ern terrain, complete with troubled Dalgliesh â&#x20AC;&#x201C; she was at first seen as relationships and brutal violence, a natural successor to writers like and never accepted that crime writ- Dorothy L. Sayers, creator of Lord ing was second-class literature.

Peter Wimsey, in the between-theJames, who has died aged 94, is wars â&#x20AC;&#x153;Golden Ageâ&#x20AC;? of the mystery best known as the creator of sensinovel. tive Scotland Yard sleuth Adam But Jamesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; books were strong on Dalgliesh. But her wickedly acute character, avoided stereotype and imagination ranged widely, inserttouched on distinctly modern probing a murder into the mannered lems including drugs, child abuse, world of Jane Austen in Death terrorism and nuclear contaminaComes to Pemberley and creating tion. a bleak dystopian future in The Novelist A.S Byatt said the realChildren of Men. ism of Jamesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; writing was one of its James told the Associated Press strengths. in 2006 that she was drawn to â&#x20AC;&#x153;When people in her books died mystery novels because they â&#x20AC;&#x153;tell the other charactersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; lives changed us more â&#x20AC;Ś about the social mores as they would in real life,â&#x20AC;? Byatt about the time in which they were told the BBC. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Phyllis (James) was written than the more prestigious working with real people that she literature.â&#x20AC;? cared about.

Publisher Faber and Faber said â&#x20AC;&#x153;The world will be a worse place James died peacefully on Thursday without her.â&#x20AC;? at her home in Oxford, southern Although there was nothing England. remotely genteel about P.D. Jamesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Faber, Jamesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; publisher for more writing, she was criticized by some than 50 years, said in a statement younger writers of gritty urban that she had been â&#x20AC;&#x153;so very remark- crime novels. able in every aspect of her life, an They accused her of snobbery inspiration and great friend to us because she liked to write about all.â&#x20AC;? middle-class murderers, preferably intelligent and well-educated, who Jamesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; books sold millions of Jill Lawless

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Author P.D. James discusses her latest novel, The Lighthouse, in 2005. James, who brought realistic modern characters to the classical British detective story died yesterday at 94.

agonize over right and wrong and spend time planning and justifying their crimes. Dalgliesh of Scotland Yard, hero of more than a dozen of Jamesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; 20 novels, is a decidedly gentlemanly detective, who writes poetry, loves jazz and drives a Jaguar.

James was unapologetic. She said her interest was in what made people tick. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The greatest mystery of all is the human heart,â&#x20AC;? she said in a 1997 interview, â&#x20AC;&#x153;and that is the mystery with which all good novelists, I think, are concerned. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m always interested in what makes people the sort of people they are.â&#x20AC;?

Phyllis Dorothy James was born in Oxford on Aug. 3, 1920. Her father was a tax collector and there was not enough money for her to go to college, a fact she always regretted.

Even as a child, she said, she had been interested in death. As a little girl, when someone read â&#x20AC;&#x153;Humpty Dumptyâ&#x20AC;? to her, she asked, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Did he

fall or was he pushed?â&#x20AC;?

But she did not start producing her mysteries until she was nearly 40, and then wrote only early in the morning before going to the civil service job with which she supported her family. Her husband, Connor Bantry White, had returned from World War II mentally broken and remained so until his death in 1964. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It was a late beginning for someone who knew from early childhood that she wanted to be a novelist, and, looking back, I canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t help regret what I now see as some wasted years,â&#x20AC;? James wrote in a 1999 autobiography, Time to Be Earnest.

James worked as a filing clerk, hospital administrator and in the forensics and criminal justice departments of Britainâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Home Office.

Her first novel, Cover Her Face, was published in 1962 and was an immediate critical success, but she continued to work as a civil servant until 1979.

In 1980, with the publication of her eighth book, Innocent Blood, her

small but loyal following exploded into mass international popularity. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Monday, I was ticking along as usual, and by Friday I was a millionaire,â&#x20AC;? she once said.

The Crime Writersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Association gave James its Diamond Dagger award in 1987 for lifetime achievement, and in 2005 the National Arts Club honoured her with its Medal of Honor for Literature.

As well as Dalgliesh, James created the female detective Cordelia Gray, protagonist of An Unsuitable Job for a Woman and The Skull Beneath the Skin.

Her work was not confined to the mystery genre. Her 1992 science fiction novel The Children of Men, about a dystopian future in which humanity has become infertile, was turned into a critically praised 2006 movie by Alfonso Cuaron.

In 2013 she published Death Comes to Pemberley, introducing a murder mystery into the world of Jane Austenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Pride and Prejudice.

Queen Elizabeth II made her Baroness James of Holland Park in 1991, in recognition of her work as a governor of the BBC, a position she held from 1988 to 1993.

James represented the Conservative Party in the House of Lords, but in many ways she was anything but conservative.

James was often spoken of as an heir to classic mystery icons Agatha Christie and Arthur Conan Doyle, but her admirers thought she transcended both. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Doyle and Christie are genre writers â&#x20AC;&#x201C; clever, yes, but one must suspend considerable disbelief right from the get-go when reading their works,â&#x20AC;? said author Anita Shreve. â&#x20AC;&#x153;No such acrobatics are necessary with a James novel.â&#x20AC;?

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Blue Christmas: Torontoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Blue Rodeo make moody first holiday disc stuff. I sort of wander around to do this!â&#x20AC;? Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s like, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Rena? Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s biggest breakup month in the Nov. 4. We got a lot of time.â&#x20AC;? like an orphan in a Dickens year? â&#x20AC;&#x201C;â&#x20AC;&#x201C;â&#x20AC;&#x201C; play wondering whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s going to â&#x20AC;&#x201C;â&#x20AC;&#x201C;â&#x20AC;&#x201C; TORONTO CP: Grass is greener, I guess? take me in for Christmas?

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Cuddy explained, seated next Keelor: Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m not talking him?

Keelor: Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just a certain to Keelor. about you, per se, right now.

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Cuddy: Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been going on and on? Come on! Get to the funny part. He walked out of the door. He said: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thanks for the gift.â&#x20AC;? And he threw it over his shoulder into the snow.

And I didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t understand. I thought that was a perfectly good gift. That would have been back in the late â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;70s. If there were tuners they were well beyond our means.

So you can see why the giftgiving between us â&#x20AC;&#x201C; thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not a rich history. â&#x20AC;&#x201C;â&#x20AC;&#x201C;â&#x20AC;&#x201C; CP: You didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t answer whether Greg got you anything you liked over the years.

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OTTAWA o one country or coalition of countries should be given administrative control over the Internet because that would undermine its freedom, an international commission examining the future of cyberspace concluded this week.

And that includes the United States, which currently holds administrative control over the domain naming and the numbering of Internet IP addresses, says Carl Bildt, the former Swedish prime minister who chairs the Global Commission on Internet Governance.

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That highly complex and technical function also has serious political ramifications because countries that censor Web access, such as China, are posturing for administrative control of it. â&#x20AC;&#x153;If we hand it over only to states â&#x20AC;&#x201C; and there are those who want that, the Russians, the Chinese, the Iranians and the Saudis to take some obvious examples â&#x20AC;Ś then we will lose that vitality, that dynamism and openness

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There are also fears that some of those countries could opt out of the current administrative regime, which Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird said would lead to a â&#x20AC;&#x153;balkanizedâ&#x20AC;? Internet.

Baird said in a speech Tuesday night that Canada endorses the commissionâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s core finding: keeping much of the current architecture of the U.S.-led administration but essentially replacing that control function with an independent oversight body akin to the World Trade Organization that would hear disputes and ensure transparency. â&#x20AC;&#x153;To do this in the long term, we must ensure that the Internet is run not just for and by governments, but also for and by the private sector and civil society,â&#x20AC;? said Baird, who joked

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Bildt said the U.S. effectively has a veto over giving up its leadership role. The U.S. wants to ensure that whatever system replaces it will ensure that the Internet is still free and open. â&#x20AC;&#x153;If there is not a credible mechanism then I guess the U.S. government will not hand over, and things will continue as they are. From the point of view of functionality, fine,â&#x20AC;? he explained. â&#x20AC;&#x153;But in terms of the trust in the system, globally, I think it would be a serious setback and might open up for other states to try to grab control over the Net. We believe from the point of view of credibility it is extremely important that this actually happens according to the time plan.â&#x20AC;?

There was immediate Republican opposition to the Obama White Houseâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s announcement of the planned handover in March.

Republican Newt Gingrich took to Twitter to say: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Every American should worry about Obama giving up control of the Internet to an undefined group. This is very, very dangerous.â&#x20AC;?

Fen Hampson, the head of CIGIâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s global security program, said the commission is emphasizing the importance of having a new system in place by the September 2015 deadline in part because of internal U.S. opposition. â&#x20AC;&#x153;If we look at the constellation of forces in U.S. domestic politics, thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s no guarantee that a new administration and a new Congress is going to agree to what President Obama has agreed to,â&#x20AC;? said Hampson. â&#x20AC;&#x153;So you will be stuck with a status quo and an erosion of political legitimacy.â&#x20AC;?

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Shake up pet gift giving with unique holiday options: Camera mount for dogs, ugly sweaters Sue Manning Associated Press

LOS ANGELES et owners looking to launch the next Internet sensation or just longing for a new view of their dogâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s dashing and digging wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have to shop for long to find the perfect holiday gift. Wrap up a dog harness that holds GoProâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s durable cameras and watch Frisbee fetch, lazy lap naps and every memory in between come alive.

The Fetch dog harness fits over Fidoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s chest or back and holds the small, waterproof camera known for attaching to helmets, surfboards, cars and wrists to film rugged adventures. Sony, Garmin and Kurgo also make camera mounts for dogs.

The device is among a legion of gifts that retailers have rounded up for pet wish lists this year. Narrowing it down is tough, but the harness tops the more unique options and creates lasting footage.

The most pet-friendly camera in the GoPro Inc. line is the Hero4, which allows people to decide what the dog records and control all the functions with a touch screen, company spokeswoman Kelly Baker said. The camera sells for $399, and the mount costs $59.

The chest harness captures bone-chewing and digging, while the back mount films running and jumping, Baker said. They adjust to fit dogs weighing 15 to 120 pounds.

The canine camera view has proved popular. A video went viral of an eager Labrador strapped with a camera sprinting through trees and across rocks to an Italian beach, where it leaps into the ocean.

John Duffield of Santa Monica, California, loves the footage he got from the GoPro he mounted on his two dogs. He got enough shots to make a short video shortly before his chow-Labrador-Akita mix, Lupa, died.

But Duffield didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t strap the camera to his Chihuahua, Pup, three months ago when he and his wife brought their newborn daughter home from the hospital. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Pup is like a member of the family, too,â&#x20AC;? Duffield said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;He belonged in this picture because he was welcoming home part of his family.â&#x20AC;?

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Ugly sweaters They are the rage this year, so PetSmart Inc. will hawk ugly sweaters for cats and dogs from Bret Michaelsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Pets Rock line ($15.99), said Shelly Albrecht, spokeswoman for the national retailer. Swath pets in sweaters stitched with gingerbread men and Christmas trees and they could win worst-dressed at those seasonal ugly sweater parties popular with people.

PetSmart also is selling leg warmers online and in stores from Top Paw and Luv-A-Pet.

Devices for older dogs Make it easier for your senior dog to get around safely with equipment from Solvit Pet Products (www.solvitproducts.com ). Help them avoid injury in the car with a Department of Transportation-tested safety harness ($30) and ease their way out of the vehicle with a ramp for those who can no longer jump ($159).

Keep them close on a bike ride with a bicycle trailer or stroller ($399) or with a wicker basket ($89).

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MARSH LAKE LOCAL AREA PLAN

Open House RESCHEDULED to December 3, 2014 The Yukon government, Kwanlin DĂźn First Nation and the Marsh Lake Planning Steering Committee have rescheduled the open house to present the draft Marsh Lake Cooperative Local Area Plan on: When: Wednesday, December 3, 2014, 6:30 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 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.

Autism Yukon would like to invite you to a Holiday Fun Party for families and kids!!

We will have good food, karaoke for the kids, live music with Roxx Hunter and Gary Lachance, a visit from Santa, and presents!

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 DĂźn First Nation at 867-633-7859.

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We can all be 21st-century scientists birds to flower-blooming times.

Science relies on observation. As

by DAVID more people examine natural phenomSUZUKI ena and record and share information, we gain better understanding of the world. An increasing number of scientific inquiries now depend on contributions from ordinary people to help them answer important questions.

The National Audubon Society has been enlisting volunteers to monitor birds during its annual Christmas bird ur ancestors may not have called count for more than 100 years, but it’s themselves “citizen scientists” or not the oldest citizen science program. organized to collect data for scientific It was predated by a couple started in inquiry, but they were keen observers the 1880s: a survey asking lighthouse of the natural world. Their survival keepers to identify and count birds that often depended on being able to tease struck their lighthouses and another apart nature’s complexity – where to find game and when to sow seeds, col- that looked at bird migration.

Citizens now have many opporlect berries and prepare for winter or tunities to partake in a wide range of bad weather. scientifi c discovery.

But our modern, technologyTake roadkill. The Humane Society obsessed lives increasingly divorce us estimates that more than a million from nature, with consequences for animals are killed every year on U.S. our health and well-being. Numerous highways. Collisions with large animals studies now remind us of what we know intuitively: Spending time in na- are tragic for all involved and cost inture makes us feel better – helping with surance companies millions of dollars a year. The insurance industry is workdepression, attention deficit disorder, ing on an innovative partnership with recall and memory, problem-solving the University of California’s Roadkill and creativity. People who spend Observation System to enlist citizens in more time outside are also physically efforts to identify and protect wildlife healthier. corridors in particular hot spots, saving Enter citizen science – using the both human and wildlife. same technologies that separate us The David Suzuki Foundation from nature to help us understand and started engaging citizens in research enjoy it. Smartphones, the Internet following the 2011 meltdown of Japan’s and accessible research technologies Fukushima nuclear reactor, partnerdeinstitutionalize science and get the ing with various organizations and inner scientist in all of us outside to contribute to a broader understanding universities, including the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, to set up a of a variety of topics, from backyard volunteer network to sample seawater

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This will help scientists understand the ongoing spread of radiation across the Pacific and its evolving impacts on the ocean. Volunteers from 14 communities are collecting seawater samples over three years. The radioactive plume has not yet reached North America, but we’ll know when it does, thanks to ordinary people providing extraordinary coverage across the region.

NatureWatch, another uniquely Canadian citizen science project, was also recently launched. It has four programs. Frog Watch participants collect data on amphibians, valuable indicators of changes in our air, land and water. PlantWatch records flowering times for select species, helping track the effects of climate change. And WormWatch monitors earthworms and soil health.

This winter, you can volunteer for the organization’s IceWatch and contribute to the scientific understanding of global warming. By analyzing citizen records, scientists have found that the freeze-thaw cycles of northern water bodies are changing. However, since climate change is not consistent across the country and large gaps exist in the current monitoring network, scientists require critical data from many more regions.

By recording yearly ice events – the freeze and thaw dates of lakes and rivers – you’ll help monitor the effects of climate change on Canadian ecosystems. You can also join RinkWatch, an initiative by geographers at Wilfrid Laurier University asking citizens to track skateable days on local outdoor rinks.

Canada has hundreds of citizen science programs. Although never a substitute for or rationale to cut science spending, these programs amplify and fill gaps in government- and university-led science. There’s something for every individual, every interest and every region of the country.

We all have mighty powers of observation. Citizen science is a way to

encourage us all to get outside, hone our senses, and undertake meaningful activity to monitor and maintain our environment, improve scientific literacy and, best of all, be happier and healthier.

Written with contributions from David Suzuki Foundation Science and Policy Director Mara Kerry. Learn more at www.davidsuzuki.org.

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KWANLIN DÜN LAND VISION PROJECT

Wildlife ~ Heritage ~ Traditional activities ~ Land for residential use ~ Economic development ..

Project Introduction The intent of establishing a vision for Kwanlin Dün First Nation (KDFN) lands is to ensure that there is a consistent approach to the planning, management and use of settlement land based on the values of the Kwanlin Dün community.

Kwanlin Dün Citizens are invited come out to the following sessions and have your say!

Community meeting: project introduction December 8 5:30pm – 8:30pm Kwanlin Dün Cultural Centre

Workshop #1 January 24 10am - 4pm Kwanlin Dün Cultural Centre

Workshop #2 February 7 10am - 4pm Kwanlin Dün Cultural Centre

Meals will be served at each meeting and rides are available.

Call Tammy Joe for more information at 633-7866.

Community meeting: review draft vision March 10 5:30pm – 8:30pm 1¢NZ¦Wȇ¢ .ĵɣ Potlatch House

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Northern lab cranked out the quirky and creative Laboratory from the late 1940s to the 1960s. Developed during the Cold War to “solve the severe

by Ned environmental problems of men Rozell living and working in the Arctic,” workers for the lab cranked out dozens of quirky and sometimes controversial publications in its two decades of existence.

Based at Ladd Air Force Base in Fairbanks, which later became Fort Wainwright, the Arctic Aeroectal Temperature of the medical Laboratory was a group Working Sled Dog.” of about 60 military and civilian “Cleaning and Sterilization of researchers charged with finding Bunny Boots.” the best way to wage warfare in “Comparative Sweat Rates of the cold. At the time, U.S. politEskimos and Caucasians Under ical and military leaders feared a Controlled Conditions.” nuclear war with the Soviet Union These are some of the studand thought Alaska a likely battleies completed by scientists who worked for the Arctic Aeromedical ground.

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to 102 Alaska natives from five northern villages and 19 military volunteers. The National Research Council in the 1990s investigated and found ethical problems with the study but decided that the damage done by the capsules was probably “negligible,” and that the scientists “held a genuine belief, justified at the time, that their research was both harmless and important.”

Less publicized was the lab’s “simulated survival trek” from Anaktuvuk Pass to the Arctic Ocean by an Air Force captain and staff sergeant in July 1962.

The men were given an aircraft survival kit and instructed to hike and float their way to the Beaufort Sea. Their objective was to “provide field experience in this area and to determine the merits and deficiencies of the F-102 Aircraft Survival Kit.” One deficiency was the lack of raingear, which forced the men to drape their small life rafts over their heads to stay dry, “with only partial success . . . Both ‘survivors’ were shivering uncontrollably and had to call on considerable will power to make camp,” they Arctic Aeromedical Laboratory/Yukon News wrote. Upon completion of their A sleeping bag that allowed the user to walk around in trip, with the help of an “observer” a survival situation was one of the developments of the who traveled next to them in the Arctic Aeromedical Laboratory, a Cold War research unit Colville on a larger raft, the men in Fairbanks. recommended that future version of the survival kit include both in Fairbanks included cold-weath- better adapted to the cold than lightweight rain gear and salt, er gear development (as in Technon-native soldiers. which they craved after shootnical Report 59-4, “Walk-Around Many people later criticized ing ground squirrels and netting Sleeping Bag,”); the body strucone of those studies, on the role of whitefish.

Shivering volunteers were a ture and function of bears, ground the thyroid gland in acclimation common site at the Fairbanks lab, squirrels, and other animals that to the cold, because researchers hibernate; and comparison studies in 1956 and 1957 gave capsules of where researchers quantified how of different races of people, to iodine 131, a radioactive material different areas of the body generate and lose different amounts of see if Eskimos, for example, were used to trace thyroid activity, heat. In one experiment, scientists found that no matter how thick the insulation covering the body core, a person’s hands and feet will always get cold if uncovered.

To combat these weak points, the lab developed heated bunny boots and gloves powered by a sevenpound battery vest that would allow a person to remain somewhat comfortable while being inactive at 40 below Celsius.

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Since the late 1970s, the director of the Geophysical Institute at the University of Alaska Fairbanks has supported the writing and free distribution of this column to news media outlets. This is Ned Rozell’s 20th year as a science writer for the Geophysical Institute. This column first appeared in 2004.

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New book chronicles Yukon Sports HISTORY

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id you know that the first documented competitive sport in the Yukon took place the winter of 1882-83? It was at Fort Reliance, Jack McQuesten’s trading post on the Yukon River.

It consisted of a snow shovelling contest and a foot race. Presumably they shovelled the snow first to make the race easier.

Or how about the time that a Dawson hockey team (The Dawson Nuggets) played the Ottawa Silver Seven for the Stanley Cup? It was 1905, and they lost, incidentally, but the Dawson team is engraved on the cup.

These accounts and many more are included in the new book written by John Firth, titled Yukon Sport: An Illustrated Encyclopedia.

When John Firth as commissioned to write the sport section of the book Whitehorse – An Illustrated History, published just a year ago, he didn’t know then that it would lead to this book, which was launched last week at the Sport Yukon banquet.

John Firth has long been associated with the Yukon sports community. He has written several books on dog mushing, one of which, One Mush: Jamaica’s Dogsled Team, received international acclaim. He is currently working on a biography of Father Mouchet, the Catholic priest who did so much for cross country skiing in the territory In a recent interview with him, I learned that only a third of the material he gathered found its way into the much celebrated Whitehorse book. At the time, he was told that he should write his own book on sports in the Yukon, so he approached George Arcand, the president of Sport Yukon with the idea. According to John, Arcand had discussed the same idea at a board meeting of the association just the night before. It was a match made in heaven.

John was given a short timetable, at least by book publishing standards, in which to complete the book – 18 months. That left him with a short time frame in which to undertake the research, so he enlisted the help of Kathy Jones-Gates to get the job done. Kathy threw herself into the job of assembling extensive information on sports in Dawson City. By the end of her assignment, she had compiled a list of no less than 70 sports that were popular in the Klondike over the past century.

While gathering historical information, he was also assembling photographs for the book. Of the 500 images provided, 258 of them were selected for the book.

John turned to the interviews with people he had gathered over many years. He also interviewed as many people as he could during the research phase of this project.

While he wasn’t able to include everybody, the quantity of people

he interviewed is impressive. Somehe wrote about who would have times, he said, the most compelling benefitted from sponsorship was stories came up as an afterthought Martha Benjamin of Old Crow. In at the end of an interview. These 1962, while chaperoning a team of stories were so interesting that young skiers from Old Crow, the he left his recorder running, even mother of five, on a whim, entered while he was packing up in prepa cross-country skiing event in aration to leave.

Fairbanks and left the competition He devoted several months to in her dust. writing the text for the book, and The following year, she entered then turned it over to his publisher, and won the first national women’s Figure 1 Publishing in Vancouver, cross-country skiing championship where it was reviewed by no less in Ottawa in a time that bested the than four editors. Of the 450 pages men’s time in the same event. She of text he wrote, 100 didn’t make was invited to join the women’s the final cut, nor was it possible to cross-country ski team for the include all of the sports that the 1968 winter Olympics, but had to research had uncovered. decline for lack of sponsorship.

Gold panning, a highly comNevertheless, Benjamin has the petitive global sport, and bowling distinction of being the first Yukon are two of those that didn’t make athlete to win a Canadian chamit into the final product. They pionship in any sport. and many others will have to be There are many more stories like included in the second volume, these in Yukon Sport. Firth will be sometime in the future. available at Mac’s Fireweed Books The final product is impressive. on Saturday, Dec. 13 to autograph At 352 pages, it is only a few pages copies of the book. Over the next shorter than the Whitehorse book. few months, you can expect to hear It might be shorter, he added, but it of other special events to promote is heavier. They didn’t skimp on the this most interesting book. size of the photos – both black and For anybody involved in sports, white, and colour – which are sharp this book will be an interesting, and eye-catching.

Figure 1 Publishing/Yukon News perhaps inspirational read, and will The book could just as easYukon Sport, the new book by John Firth, will make a great make a good holiday gift for the ily have been titled An A to Z Christmas present for the sports enthusiast in the family. sports enthusiast in the family. of Yukon Sport. The topics are Michael Gates is a Yukon historian arranged in alphabetical order and sometimes adventurer based in in the Yukon was in decline, the sponsor for amateur sport with Whitehorse. His latest book, Dalas the most convenient format for national association considered the creation of the Arctic Winter ton’s Gold Rush Trail, is available in readers. If it were composed as a dropping the Yukon from its mem- Games.

Yukon stores. You can contact him at narrative in chronological order, bership, until they were reminded msgates@northwestel.net One of the unsung heroines references to each sport would be that it was a Yukoner who kept scattered throughout the book. them afloat financially in their time This way, he told me, if a reader is of need. interested in hockey, they just have Until 1966, it was private sponto look under “H” in the table of sorship that kept amateur sport contents, or the index, to find that alive in the Yukon. In 1966, the section. year before the Canada Centennial, You will find personal glimpses Yukon had a team in the Canadian of many Yukoners who have conCanoe Pageant. “Team organizers tributed to sports in the territory. told Commissioner James Smith Example: Art Fry was a long-time that, unless the Yukon government advocate of boxing in the territory, came up with funding, the name even training a couple of young ‘Yukon’ would be replaced on the Magical events to remember Dawson City boxers to become canoe by the names of their biggest Public Tree Viewing & Silent Auction national champions. In fact, durYukon Government Main Administration Building Foyer private sponsors.” They got their ing the 1970s, when the Canadian Thursday, November 20 – Wednesday, November 26 sponsorship.

Amateur Boxing Association was in Capstone BAH Humbug Cocktail Party That was the first time the Yukon Government Main Administration Building Foyer dire financial straits, it was Fry who Yukon government provided Thursday, November 20, 5:30 pm bailed them out with gold from his financial support for amateur sport Skookum Asphalt Santa Breakfast mining claim in the Klondike.

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Soapberries may provide the key to safer camping he adds. find new solutions to old crossOne result was that partial species problems at Congdon campground closures were Creek is a far cry from moreimposed at the height of the rapidly deployed “bear remberry season. This meant that edies” of the past. The proposed hard-sided RVs could park there solutions are respectful of bears, Erling Friis-Baastad overnight, but small-footprint, humans and even plants. and more vulnerable, tenters were The hopeful thinking is that ach summer and autumn, not allowed. “The bear occurrence efficient bears don’t waste prewe’re reminded that we reports for the Congdon Creek cious warm-weather dining time share this land with grizzlies area show that of 21 reports aton less-nourishing plants, says and black bears. Sometimes the tributed to the campground, 24 Gilbert. If high-protein fare can’t bears and sometimes the people per cent … involved reports of be readily enjoyed near the tentare not gracious about this. bears disturbing tents,” Gilbert ing areas, the bears will likely look Problem bears? Problem humans? elsewhere.

Depends on whose paws you were writes.

As if natural goodies weren’t This column is co-ordinated by the born into. Most of us seem to be problem enough, another atYukon Research Centre at Yukon both terrified and thrilled by the College with major financial support beautiful creatures Ursus horribilis tractant was added to the area in the 1970s: “a trench and burn” from Environment Yukon and Yukon and Ursus americanus.

Submitted photo/Yukon News College. The articles are archived at landfi ll.

“Several of the workers Campgrounds are among the A game camera catches a grizzly a kilometre south of the www.yukoncollege.yk.ca/research/ I interviewed who were involved places where bear wishes and Congdon Creek campground last fall. publications/your_yukon with the Congdon Creek camphuman wishes collide, and where ground in the 1980s mentioned wilderness-loving people seem to the plant by converting nitrogen that the bears that frequently want it both ways – exhilarating for plant use. With ample nitrovisited this landfi ll … likely also and safe. That puts tremendous gen the plants produce high levels visited the nearby campground,” pressure on conservation officers of protein. Vive la difference! … writes Gilbert. and parks staff. at least as far as bears are conMeanwhile campground Historically wildlife managers cerned. Though they do eat some garbage went into receptacles have sometimes been too quick meat, the big creatures can fuel fashioned from 45gallon drums to employ less-than-effective up just fine with proteinaceous “with a metal top removed and strategies, says Yukon College soapberries. replaced with a wooden cover to Renewable Resources ManageJake Montgomery, a student prevent wind and small animals ment program instructor Scott in Yukon College’s Renewable from spreading litter.” By the late Gilbert. He and his students are Resources Management program, 1980s and early ‘90s, bear-proof trying to manipulate bear habitat set up an experiment last spring . containers were finally being as an alternative to lethal force He wanted to determine whether deployed in the territory’s parks and relocation. soapberry bushes could be sucand at rest stops. But all in all, a Gilbert, with some strongcessfully transplanted elsewhere bear could hardly be faulted for backed college students and a – to a place where hungry bears crossing our many confusing lines crew from the Yukon Environwere less likely to encounter in the sand. ment’s Y2C2 program, has campers. Perhaps the tenacious So garbage cans were re-enbeen toiling in Congdon Creek plants might even contribute to gineered and the landfill moved, campground over the past two landscape remediation – at an summers to find ways of reducing but the soapberries continued to abandoned mine site, for instance. thrive at Congdon Creek.

“Most these cross-species conflicts and Meanwhile, Renewable Resourberry-producing plants use the subsequent calls for drastic ces Management student Shayna action. The campground sits just sugar (carbohydrates) to attract Kinney gathered ripe soapberries south of Destruction Bay and in a foragers to help disperse their in August to ship to a lab Outside seeds because nitrogen needed to convenient spot for Alaska Highin order to determine protein make proteins is in short supply,” way travellers. Grizzlies enjoy the levels of in the berries at Congdon Gilbert explains. area too.

Creek and nearby.

However, “soapberry bushes Another major player in the All in all, the multifaceted, seem to differ,” he adds. They have Congdon Creek campground root nodules where bacteria assist sometimes backbreaking, effort to drama is Shepherdia canadensis, the soapberry. Soapberries have a bitter taste. This is fine with bears Yukon Women’s Clinic – so fine that Gilbert suspected that removing the berry shrubs ST – or at least the females, which produce the berries – could cut down on ursine traffic in an area.

Your choices for Gilbert’s first step in studymaternity care are… ing bear problems and possible solutions at Congdon Creek was to undertake historical research.

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MEDICAL CLINIC highway crews. All contributed MEDICAL CLINIC w Wednesday, September 3rd at Noon, Room 2202 knowledge, in print or orally. So 406 Lambert St. 302 Ogilvie St. did Yukon Archives, Yukon Enw Wednesday, October 8th at 6pm, Room 2603 Tel: 393-6646 Tel: 668-3911 vironment library and the Energy, w Wednesday, November 5th at Noon, Room 2202 Fax: 393-6601 Fax: 668-4078 Mines and Resources library. w Wednesday, December 3rd at 6pm, Room 2603 After all that searching, Gilbert Drs. S. Alton, C. Breikreutz, Drs. D. Lisoway, C. Naylor, was unable to find any informaR. Barnes, S. Buchanan, J. Urness, A. Sawchuck tion that could provide a rationale Applications for the 2015 BSW Program may be downloaded from the S. Himmelsbach for choosing Congdon Creek for a YC website www.yukoncollege.yk.ca/programs/info/bsw campground, as he admits in HisCurrent patients of Yukon Women’s clinic, tory of Human Bear Interactions call 393-8670, if chart transfer needed. Previous patients School of Health, Education and Human Services at Congdon Creek Campground. charts will be stored at WGH for future access “Nor could I find any preliminary INFORMATION: 867.668.8845 assessment of the anticipated imdjennejohn@yukoncollege.yk.ca pacts of using high quality grizzly bear habitat for a campground,”

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Ex-wife strengthens her position by staying above it all

by Judith Martin

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DEAR MISS MANNERS: My ex is getting remarried to a woman he had an affair with, our next-door neighbor. He has pressured all three of our children to be in his wedding. (One daughter and a son live with me.)

I understand asking his son, who refused three times, then finally gave in, but to ask our daughters to stand with her as bridesmaids seems not only hurtful, but in very poor taste. I feel the pain as if I’m being replaced.

GENTLE READER: Unfortunate-

ly, despite the unsavory circumstances that led to it, this woman is now going to be a part of your children’s lives – and, by association, yours.

You are not being replaced as their mother – and Miss Manners assures you that spreading this accusation is only going to make it more unpleasant for everyone.

Do your best to say nothing and stay impartial. It will be more effective to let your children show resentment on your behalf. It seems that

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hit the right note of concern, laced with just a hint of creepiness, the DEAR MISS MANNERS: At our parents will be the ones running to gym we have a women’s locker room, the managers to enforce the rules. a men’s locker room, and a “family” DEAR MISS MANNERS: My locker room for adults with children family recently celebrated my sister’s of either gender under the age of 13. marriage. My brother-in-law’s side Yet women insist on bringing of the family is very social, and we their children into the women’s are not. locker room in violation of the rules.

My sister wants us all to meet up We try to be polite (“Did you know with them, even though my parents that we have a family locker room do not want to – not because they for children 12 and under?”) but the don’t like my brother-in-law’s family, response is often impolite (“So what? but simply because they are old, do I don’t need to follow the rules”). not speak fluent English, and prefer I think I have the right to undress, to avoid potentially stressful situashower or change clothes without a tions (i.e. travel, social awkwardness).

4-year-old boy who’s half my height How do we politely decline their staring at me with interest. request to meet up without offending The staff members, when we man- them? age to track one down, often refuse GENTLE READER: There is no to enforce their own rules. Short of inoffensive way for parents to tell a changing gym memberships, do you child that spending time with her have any suggestions on how to deal new family is burdensome. with this situation?

You can, however, make counterGENTLE READER: Concern proposals. If the travel suggested is for the children and their potential legitimately difficult for your parents, psychological damage can go a long suggest alternatives: They could act as way toward convincing (or shamthe hosts, or a more accessible meeting) a parent who doesn’t want to be ing place could be substituted. inconvenienced. You might say, “I am Miss Manners would not advise about to undress, and I don’t want declining on the grounds that they to scar your child. I think he would “are not very social” or that it would be better off if you used the facilities be “stressful” or “socially awkward.” designated for families.”

The former makes them sound snobMiss Manners hopes that if you bish, and the latter, unpresentable.

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Team Yukon skip Pat Paslawski delivers a shot at the Travelers Curling Club Championships this week in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Paslawski’s team is currently 3-3 going into Friday’s playoffs. The Yukon women’s team, representing the Atlin Curling Club, are winless at 0-6.

Team Koltun takes close losses at Island Shootout They also lost 5-4 to Victoria’s Team Sivertson and, following a win, lost 6-5 to Vancouver’s eam Koltun came out on Team Gibson. the wrong end of games of Koltun’s first win of the weekinches over the weekend. end was 8-3 over New WestminThe Whitehorse curling team ster’s Diane Gushulak, who went suffered three one-point losses on to place second with a 6-3 – including one to the eventual loss to Sarah Wark in the final. champs – at the Vancouver IsThe Whitehorse crew finished land Shootout, a women’s World with a decisive 6-0 victory over Curling Tour event, in Victoria. Surrey’s Team Prinse.

“Overall, we were playing “When we were on, we were pretty well together,” said skip really on,” said Koltun. “That Sarah Koltun. “We got stuck on was a good feeling for us. the wrong side of the inch for a We were just playing so well few of those games. We fought together and having such a high really hard and kept them really shooting percentage as a team. close, it was just unfortunate And we were just really finding we weren’t able to pull off at our groove in those games. In least one more win because that the other games we were still would have given us a good playing well, but we weren’t as chance to qualify there. much in the groove as we were “But overall it was a pretty in those two wins.” good weekend.”

Team Koltun went 3-3 at the The Koltun team, which Colonial Square Ladies Clasincludes third Chelsea Duncan, sic, a Grand Slam event on the second Patty Wallingham and women’s World Curling Tour, lead Jenna Duncan, opened earlier this month. with a 6-5 loss to Team Wark of They reached the quarterfinal Victoria, who went on to win of Surrey, B.C.’s Cloverdale Cash the bonspiel.

Spiel, another world tour event, Tom Patrick News Reporter

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in September.

The Whitehorse rink’s main goal for the season is a second straight appearance at the Scotties, the Canadian women’s championship. The rink made their first appearance at the Scotties last season as the first Yukon team to qualify for the championship in 13 years. Hindered by illness, they came away with two wins.

The Koltun team is in town this weekend for the Polar Eyes Optometry Cashspiel at the Whitehorse Curling Club. They will then focus on the Yukon Women’s Curling Championship, which they’ll have to win to reach the qualifying rounds of the Scotties, this year being held in Moose Jaw, Sask., in February.

Contact Tom Patrick at tomp@yukon-news.com Andrew Klaver/Canadian Curling Assn.

Team Yukon skip Sarah Koltun throws at the 2014 Scotties. Team Koltun took three close losses at the Vancouver Island Shootout in Victoria over the weekend.

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Mustangs cap road trip with wins Tom Patrick News Reporter

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pair of uninspired third periods in their opening games took the Peewee Mustangs out of medal contention at the Winfield Rep Tier 3 Tournament over the weekend in B.C. But the Whitehorse rep team, who went 2-2, started to punch in for the full 60 minutes to finish with a pair of wins. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We had a few bad bounces, but we were good for the first 40 minutes of the first two games,â&#x20AC;? said head coach Kirk Gale. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Our third period was tough. I think it just comes from getting an hour and a quarter here (in the Whitehorse minor league) when we get two hours there. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hard to prepare a team to play 60 minutes when they are really just playing 40 at home.â&#x20AC;?

The Mustangs finished the round-robin with an 8-3 win over the hosting Winfield Bruins. Whitehorse forward Eric Potvin registered five points with a hat trick, while

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Peewee Mustangs forward Ashton Underhill gets ready to pop in a goal at Whitehorse Minor Hockey Associationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s International Fall Showdown earlier this month. The Peewee Mustangs went 2-2 at the Winfield Rep Tier 3 Tournament over the weekend in B.C.

forward Saul Gale found the back of the net twice. Mustangs forward Jesse Goodman had a goal and assist and teammates Ashton Underhill and Josh Zaccarelli also scored.

Despite the win, the Mustangs were delegated to the sixth-seventh place game in the seven-team tourney. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We missed out by a quarter of a point trying for fourth and fifth,â&#x20AC;? said Kirk. â&#x20AC;&#x153;In these small tournaments, you have to get a couple of wins.â&#x20AC;?

The Mustangs galloped into sixth place in a 4-0 win over the South Delta Storm. Forward Kyron Crosby pocketed two goals and Kyle Bierlmeier and Goodman took care of the rest. Aimery Barrault and Saul Gale had assists.

Goalies Dawson Smith and Quinn Howard shared the

shutout, each playing a period and a half.

Whitehorse opened the tournament with a 6-2 loss to the Kelowna Jr. Rockets after finishing the second period down 3-2.

They then fell 7-4 to the Richmond Blues, dropping a 4-3 lead in the third. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The tournament actually didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t go too bad,â&#x20AC;? said Kirk. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It seems like it takes them a game or two to realize they can play with these guys. After that they were fine. They got better as the tournament went on.â&#x20AC;?

Crosby and Saul scored against the Rockets while defenceman Conner Cozens grabbed two assists. Crosby and Potvin each had two goals against the Blues, Saul had two assists.

Crosby, Potvin, Smith and Saul Gale each received Player of the Game nods during the tournament. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They performed really well and scored a couple goals,â&#x20AC;? said Gale. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Dawson played three and a half out of four games, so he stood pretty tall there.â&#x20AC;?

The Peewee Mustangs captured bronze at Whitehorse Minor Hockey Associationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s International Fall Showdown in Whitehorse early this month.

At their first tournament of the season, the Mustangs went winless at the Seafair International Ice Breaker Rep Tournament â&#x20AC;&#x201C; a Tier 2 competition â&#x20AC;&#x201C; in Richmond, B.C., in October.

Contact Tom Patrick at tomp@yukon-news.com

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Mr. Black survives Reservoir Dogs tourney

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Mr. Red captain Mark Tubman takes on Mr. Orangeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Grayson Peters in the final match on Saturday.

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1,637 points.

Syed won the top division of Squash Yukonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Early Bird Squash Tournament in October.

He also went 2-2 in U17 boys at the 2014 Canadian Junior

Squash Championships in April. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This is a really fun tournament and I was excited to win it,â&#x20AC;? added Syed.

Contact Tom Patrick at tomp@yukon-news.com

Mr. Black captain Mustafa Syed winds up a forehand at the Reservoir Dogs Squash Tournament at Better Bodies on Saturday. The Mr. Black team took first ahead of Mr. Blue in second.

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Well, at least for one team.

The Mr. Black team of Mustafa Syed, Chris Toleman, Brian Healy, Scott Burrell and Everett Igobwa, accumulated the most points for first place at Better Bodies Whitehorse.

In the Squash Yukon event, six teams of five players hit the courts for five 30-minute sessions, trying to win as many points as possible.

Players were awarded bonus points when their shots came off the front wall and hit any of six plastic drinking cups along the sides of the court.

Syed, the Mr. Black captain, topped the tournament with 24 cups.

Mr. Blue, which includes former Yukon champ Julien Revel, Dylan Letang, Lorne Harris, Micah Smith and Brian Larnder, took second with 1,667 points.

The Mr. Green team of Kyle Marchuk, Kevin Daffe, Jim Gilpin, Muhammad Idrees and Erika Joubert placed third with

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After two and a half hours of court time, Mr. Black finished with 1,682 points.

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

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

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

WORD SCRAMBLE Rearrange the letters to spell a word Hint: of, relating to, or living or occurring in the open sea : oceanic trick.

Puzzle A

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Rearrange the letters to spell a word Hint: a usually questionable remedy or scheme : panacea

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CLUES ACROSS 1. Easy as 1-2-3 4. Goat and camel hair fabric 7. A women undergarment 10. British bathrooms 12. Assemblages of parts into one entity 14. Semitic fertility god 15. Dull & uninteresting 16. Yemen capital 17. Stare impertinently 18. Banished persons 20. Heart failure & energy supplement 22. Reduction in force 23. Women’s ___ movement

24. Polynesian wrapped skirt 26. Double-reed instruments 29. Own (Scottish) 30. Summer window dressings 35. Many not ands 36. Paddle 37. Being a single unit 38. Silly behavior 44. Insecticide 45. A blank area 46. Reduces stress 48. Morning moisture 49. Tear away roughly

50. Elevated 53. Cristobalite 56. Baseball’s Ruth 57. Indian monetary unit 59. Contest of speed 61. Having a slanted direction 62. Gross receipts 63. A river in NE Spain 64. The brain and spinal cord (abbr.

65. Dynegy Inc. on NYSE 66. Japanese monetary unit

19. Fain 21. Supports trestletree 24. Parian Chronicle discovery site 25. Greek famous for fables 27. Farcical afterpiece 28. Dispatches by mail 29. Hall of Fame (abbr.)

31. Aah 32. Unnaturally pale 33. Before 34. Fixed in one’s purpose 39. Madames 40. Frosts

41. City drains 42. Baseball playoff 43. Cruise 47. Steeple 50. Precipitation 51. Ancient Greek rhetorician 52. A unit of two 53. Viewed 54. Taxis 55. 4840 square yards 56. London radio station 58. Perform work regularly 60. Longest geological time

CLUES DOWN 1. Vestment worn by priests 2. The trunk of a tree 3. Transmission line cable 4. Freshwater duck genus 5. Bulk storage container 6. Oil obtained from flowers 7. Shopping containers 8. Abnormal breathing 9. Brew 11. Bake eggs in their shells 12. Serviceable 13. A person in the navy 14. A child’s slight injury

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

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

OFFICE SPACE-NEWLY RENOVATED 936 sqft, 3 attractive offices plus large reception Minutes from Law Centre & City Hall $24 per sq ft includes Janitorial, heat, a/c & electricity 335-3123 or 667-2063

2-BDRM 1/2 duplex, Hillcrest, $1,100/mon + utils, dd & oil deposit. 393-2784

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

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

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2,000 SQ ft shop, 600 sq ft office, full bathroom, avail immed, Brian at 780-351-2677 2-BDRM EXECUTIVE country cottage, wood/oil heat, all amenities, beautiful river/mountain view, 1/2 hr north of downtown, available immed or possibly Jan 1, $1,400/mon + utils. 393-2684 FURNISHED ROOM in large home sharing with 4 adults, TV, wifi Internet & all utils, laundry facilities & parking available, kitchen use, avail immed, $650/mon. 667-7733 ROOM FOR rent, N/S, N/P, avail immed, $750/mon all incl. 393-2275 2-BDRM APT in Riverdale available Dec 1.

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OFFICE SPACE FOR LEASE Above Starbuckâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s on Main St. Nice clean, professional building, good natural light. 3 different offices currently available.

Competitive lease rates offered.

Sandor@yukon.net or C: 333.9966 1-BDRM SUITE in Copper Ridge, available Dec 1, incl w/d, dishwasher, fridge, stove, microwave, N/S, N/P, $1,100/mon. 393-4730

3-BDRM 1/2 duplex w/large yard & deck, 4 appliances, $1,200/mon + utils.

780-351-2677 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 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 1-BDRM FURNISHED apt downtown, all utils incl, N/P, no parties, responsible tenant, avail Dec 1, $950/mon. 668-5558

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 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 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 ROOM IN big Copper Ridge house, $559/mon incl utils. Contact Sarah at 613-422-9395 or sarah_g_d@outlook.com 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 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 2-BDRM MOBILE home, 30 mins from Whitehorse, includes electricity, avail Nov 1, $1,395/mon. 867-668-2215 after 7pm 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 PINE MEDICAL Building, office space for rent, $500/mon + GST for 305 sq ft. Call 668-3838 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

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

3-BDRM 1-BATH house on 10 shared acres, 20 mins north of Whitehorse on Mayo Rd, great for pets/kids, new in 2007, energy efficient, fabulous view, $1,350/mon + utils.

Serena 335-0150 3-BDRM DUPLEX, Copper Ridge, garage, 5 appliances, avail Jan. 1, refs & dd reqĘźd, $1,650/mon + utils. 334-1907 3-BDRM DUPLEX w/garage, Copper Ridge, partially furnished, short-term rental until March at least, $1,500/mon + utils. Mike at 333-6410 ROOM, COPPER Ridge, close to bus, all utils, wifi, satellite, gym included, washer/dryer access, own fridge with room, $600/mon, $300 dd. 333-0875

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

WANTED: LICENSED HAIRSTYLIST for new beauty shop in Porter Creek Mall PatĘźs Hairstyling & Barber Shop 633-5395 332-0784 ARE YOU INTERESTED in sharing your passion for the Yukon?

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.

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

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Show Home Open Daily 1-85 Aksala Dr. Visit www.homesbyevergreen.ca for more details or call Maggie 335-7029

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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

WOLF HIDE, large tanned timber wolf pelt, typical grey & white colour, $500. 668-3632 lv msg OIL FURNACE, Kerr 74 000 BTU. Riello 40 burner. Serviced every year. In vg cond, $400 obo. 667-6365

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

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

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1-BDRM BASEMENT suite, Crestview, avail Dec. 1, $1,000/mon + utils & dd. 334-7306

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Opportunity to be part of a unique collaborative care team 32 HOURS PER WEEK (CONTRACT) SALARY DEPENDANT ON EXPERIENCE AND QUALIFICATIONS DUTIES INCLUDE: Working with team including Physician, Nurse Practitioner, Mental Health Nurse. Contact patients with regard to appointments .Transporting (with own vehicle) patients to and from appointments as needed. Assisting patients compliance with treatment plans, accessing community supports, other duties as required.

REQUIREMENTS: Vehicle that will accommodate wheel chair and patients, clear drivers abstract with 3rd party liability. Cell phone.

Criminal Record Clearance to be provided at time of interview.

Experience working with mental health , addictions and chronic pain problems an asset.

Please send resume to Eileen Carver OfďŹ ce Manager at Taiga Medical Clinic 210 Elliott St. Whitehorse, YT Y1A 2A2 Closing date December 1, 2014

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Expression of Interest: Part-time and Casual Instructor(s) School of Continuing Education & Training Ayamdigut (Whitehorse) Campus Initial Review Date: December 5, 2014 Competition No.: 14.127

Yukon College, School of Continuing Education and Training is looking for ways to expand the educational opportunities we offer to the community. Opportunities and possibilities are endless for new classes. If you enjoy teaching and have a skill set that can be turned into a dynamic professional development or personal enrichment course, propose it to us.

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32ĘźX16ĘźX6Ęź WALL tent, new, never used, $2,000. 334-8335

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.

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.

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.

General Interest: â&#x20AC;˘ Culinary, Cooking, Food, and Beverage â&#x20AC;˘ Photography, Lightroom, and Photoshop â&#x20AC;˘ Conversational Languages: French, Spanish, German or others â&#x20AC;˘ Personal wellness programs â&#x20AC;˘ Personal interest programs For additional information please contact: Bunne Palamar A/Manager, School of Continuing Education and Training Email: bpalamar@yukoncollege.yk.ca Phone: (867) 668-8740

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 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 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 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 ARTIFICIAL CHRISTMAS fir tree, 7Ęź, various decorations, indoor/outdoor lights in cases, exc cond, $75. 668-6303 after 6 pm

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

660-4723 or 332-5450 SUNTAN BOOTH, walk in, exc cond, for pick up, dismantle & set up instructions, $500. 660-4106

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.

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

334-1846 BLIZZARD WINTER boots, ladies sz 9, new, never worn, water & wind resistant, Thermolite insoles, warm, comfort lining, dark brown, $60. 332-0417 LADIES GOLD nugget watch, turquoise bracelet, pair of clustered diamond earrings, 2 foamies in pkg. 667-6604 BURLS FOR sale, different sizes, some are peeled, some are still on pole, 5-6Ęź long.

867-399-3920

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.

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

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.

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

If you ďŹ nd this position of interest, please submit your resume clearly demonstrating the GPMMPXJOH RVBMJmDBUJPOT t TUSPOH MFBEFSTIJQ TLJMMT XJUI EFNPOTUSBUFE PSHBOJ[BUJPOBM administrative and managerial abilities and familiarity with government systems and QSPHSBNT t FYQFSJFODF UIBU IBT QSPWJEFE BO VOEFSTUBOEJOH PG 'JSTU /BUJPO DVMUVSF USBEJUJPOT WBMVFT CFMJFGT BOE IJTUPSZ t FYUFOTJWF LOPXMFEHF BOE FEVDBUJPO SFMBUFE UP DIJME BOE ZPVUI JTTVFT t DPOTJEFSBCMF LOPXMFEHF BOE FYQFSJFODF JO MFHJTMBUJPO policies, programs and services for children, youth and children with disabilities t BCJMJUZ UP OFHPUJBUF QSPCMFN TPMWF BOE NFEJBUF t DBTF NBOBHFNFOU FYQFSJFODF t TUSPOH DPNNVOJDBUJPO TLJMMT CPUI PSBM BOE XSJUUFO t LOPXMFEHF PG :VLPO BOE JUT people would be an asset.

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

Selection for further consideration will be based solely on the information you provide. We thank all those who apply and advise that only those selected for further consideration will be contacted.

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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

HOUSEPLANTS, PEACE lily, ivy, lipstick, umbrella tree, etc, $10-$35. 660-4321

35 CC Jiffy ice auger, like new, $275 obo.

633-6502

We are seeking individuals for part-time casual opportunities who want to instruct individual courses, workshops or seminars. If you have a post-secondary degree/certification or possibly have a combination of related education and experience in these areas or others: Business, Leadership, & Management area: â&#x20AC;˘ Management and Supervisory training, Business & Professional training including Leadership, Human Resources, and soft skills â&#x20AC;˘ Operations Management, Business Development â&#x20AC;˘ Strategic Planning â&#x20AC;˘ Board Governance â&#x20AC;˘ Bookkeeping, Accounting, Payroll, and Supply Chain Management â&#x20AC;˘ Financial Management (Accounting) for Non-Financial Managers â&#x20AC;˘ Microsoft Office 2007 & 2010 (Excel, Access, Word, Outlook, SharePoint), and Sage (Simply Accounting) 2014 â&#x20AC;˘ Communications, Marketing, Business Strategic, and Technical Writing â&#x20AC;˘ Resume writing and career planning â&#x20AC;˘ Performance Management â&#x20AC;˘ Customer Service Training

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

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COLEMAN VERTEX 5500 professional vertical generator, electric start, new NAPA battery, like new cond, $600. 334-8347 8â&#x20AC;? ICE fishing auger, new still in box, $500 obo. 867-689-9715 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 MEN'S CANADA Goose Chilliwack bomber jacket, like new, size M, brown, $249 obo.

660-4646 ANTIQUE CIRCULAR buzz saw blade, 31â&#x20AC;? diameter, good shape, great decoration, $100 obo. 633-3392 BLONDE GRIZZY bear rug, $1,600 obo.

335-5465 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

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 2014 3 IN 1 kids starter bike, Wishbone brand, almost new, great Christmas present, eco friendly, $200 obo. 633-3392

MS SURFACE RT with blue type cover, Windows 8.1, used 25 hours, $325, great Christmas gift. 633-2580 lv msg

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

Musical Instruments

ANTIQUE STAINED glass window from old chapel found in cabin outside Carcross, 17â&#x20AC;?X28â&#x20AC;?, chalice design, $500. 821-3492 FOOSBALL TABLE, soccer theme, heavy set, used & loved, vg cond, $250 obo.

668-4775 KOMBUCHA SCOBY'S for sale, $25. Make your own home brewed Kombucha.

332-5212 NEW WHITE 32" square MAAX shower stall, never used, still in box, $100. 336-2694

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PIANO TUNING & REPAIR by certified piano technician Call Barry Kitchen @ 633-5191 email:bfkitchen@hotmail.com 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 BASS PLAYER looking to join working band, no beginners please. Thomas @ 660-4826

WINTER YARD sale, Saturday November 29, 9am-5pm, 1.5 kms past Ketleys Canyon south on highway. 660-5096

Firewood

LIMITED EDITION ShopRider 4-wheel scooter w/2 batteries & charger, deluxe captains seat & usefbasket, rarely used, low mileage, $1,200 firm. 668-2866

HURLBURT ENTERPRISES INC.

COWICHAN STYLE lined outer sweater jacket with zipper, warm, killer whale design, men's L/XL, blue with black/white design, fabulous Xmas gift, $225. 334-2037 DOWN NORTH Face parka, men's XL, 700 weight, blue with black reinforced elbows, hood, $120. 334-2037 I'M DRIVING from Vancouver Island to Whitehorse in a few weeks, if you need a ride or stuff brought up contact yukonpearl@hotmail.com LEATHER JACKET, suit jacket or outer jacket, tailored, black, size 42 - 44, $110.

334-2037

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

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

Electrical Appliances NEW COMMERCIAL clothes dryer, coin-operated, $300. 633-2837

MasterCard

Cheque, Cash S.A. vouchers accepted.

PORTABLE DISHWASHER, General Electric, exc cond, downsizing, $100. 333-9640

DONĘźS FIREWOOD Keeping Yukoners Warm For 7 years 393-4397

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

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

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

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

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 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) 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 DRY SPRUCE FIREWOOD Cut to length 16â&#x20AC;? and up From Haines Junction Local delivery $250 per cord 456-2035

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

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WANTED: BOAT trailer suitable for 18-25Ęź boat, fixer-upper ok, must have brakes, no rollers or boat perch is ok. 668-5207

WANTED: WOMENĘźS skates approx size 8.

633-4152 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

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32 hours per week. Must work weekends. Wage DOE. Please bring resume to Hank.

NO PHONE CALLS PLEASE.

CSA SPORTER VZ-58 non-rest rifle, new, 7.62X39 Tele-stock, $950. 334-1422 lv msg SPRINGFIELD XD 9mm Pistol 2 magazines, magazine loader and holster, $500.

335-2939 NON-RESTRICTED FIREARMS safety course presented by Whitehorse Rifle & Pistol Club Dec 6 & 7. For more info call 334-1688 or 667-6728 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

Births!

Birthdays!

Weddings!

Graduations!

Anniversaries!

211 Wood Street, Whitehorse

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

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

CELEBRATE! Phone: 867-667-6285

WANTED: VOLKSWAGEN camper van, liquid cooled, good cond. 334-4576

Wanted

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

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

ASSESSMENT OFFICER Head OďŹ&#x192;ce, Whitehorse Full-Ć&#x;me permanent posiĆ&#x;on

This posi on is responsible for being part of a team reviewing, analyzing and evalua ng project submissions from proponents.

This posi on supports Senior Assessment OďŹ&#x192;cers, the Execu ve Commi ee and YESAB Panels in environmental and socioeconomic assessments. This support includes iden fying project eďŹ&#x20AC;ects and mi ga on measures for adverse eďŹ&#x20AC;ects, determining the significance of any residual eďŹ&#x20AC;ects and developing recommenda ons.

The annual salary range for this posi on is $65,669 - $75,712 based on 75 hours biweekly.

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

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

1 column x 3 inches ............. Wed - $ s &RI $35.10 2 columns x 2 inches ........... Wed - $ s &RI $46.80 2 columns x 3 inches ........... Wed - $ s &RI $70.20 2 columns x 4 inches ........... Wed - $ s &RI $93.60

Please submit applica ons to: Finance and Administra on Manager, YESAB Suite 200 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 309 Strickland Street, Whitehorse, YT Y1A 2J9 Ph: 867.668.6420 Fax: 867.668.6425 or email to yesab@yesab.ca Toll free: 1.866.322.4040 Resumes must be received by December 2, 2014.

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WANTED: BULK or set Lego, Kreo, Kinects, for creative-minded lads, by donation or puchase. 456-7030 WANTED: METAL filing cabinet. Peter 333-9043 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 EVINRUDE OR Johnson 25-35HP 1978-1985 for parts, ok if still running, must be hand throttle/steer, if unsure of year, phone with model # from transom mount.

668-5207 WANTED: SOLID wood table 30â&#x20AC;?X20â&#x20AC;? or smaller, light colour wood, well built, reasonable price. 668-6871

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

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

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

667-2276

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

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

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

667-2276

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 2009 NISSAN Maxima Sport, fully loaded, leather, heated seats/steering, 2 sets of tires on rims, low kms. 668-5869 eves 2009 VW Jetta diesel, great mileage, low kms, 6-spd standard, great cond, $14,000 obo. 336-4687 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 JEEP Compass 4x4 Limited, 97,800 km, trans axle, roof racks, sunroof, heated seats, reliable, no problems, $9,500 obo.

334-9415

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2003 TOYOTA Rav 4, Sports Edition, 190,000 kms, black, auto, 4-cyl, auto start, $8,000. Text or call 334-1295 2001 FORD Taurus 4-dr, 114,500kms, cruise, P/W, P/L, V6 auto, 4 winter tires, $3,395. 336-2029 2001 INFINITY QX4 SUV, AWD, auto, loaded, leather, 158,000, exc cond, body very good, safe, clean in & out.

778-231-9445 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 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

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

336-2029 2009 CHEVROLET Silverado 1500 LT 4x4 extended cab truck, 4 doors, silver exterior, black interior, new tires, all receipts since new, warranty, $13,800. 333-9020 2008 F450 King Ranch, 6.4 diesel 4x4, auto, crew cab, long box w/matching canopy, leather, sunroof, $25,000. 668-2215

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

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 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

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

Trucks

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

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

1995 DODGE Neon, auto, 4-dr, immaculate cond, no cracks, windshield good, new water pump, winter tires, non-smoking vehicle, mechanical inspection avail, $1,000. 633-2837

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

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2008 FORD Escape XLT, 6 cyl, auto, heated seats, 144,000kms, $9,700. 633-6528

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

334-0972

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

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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

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2007 NISSAN Quest SL minivan, 156,000 kms, $5,000. 633-2232

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www.yukon-news.com

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

THE YUKON NEWS IS ALSO AVAILABLE AT NO CHARGE IN ALL YUKON COMMUNITIES AND ATLIN, B.C.

667 6285 Phone: 867 867-667-6285 211 Wood Street, Whitehorse, Yukon Y1A 2E4

AND â&#x20AC;Ś

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WEDNESDAY * FRIDAY

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 2014

We Sell Trucks!

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

1999 CHEVROLET 1/2 ton 4X4, ext cab, c/w winch, head rack & rails, storage bins, $6,950. 336-2029 1998 CHEVROLET Silverado Crew Cab Dually, 7.4L Vortec 454, 5-spd manual, view on castanet.net under trucks 16 yrs & older, 312,839 kms, $5,500, is in Kelowna, BC. 250-718-1167 1990 TOYOTA Hiace, AWD, diesel, auto, excellent fuel consumption, 8 passenger or great camping/handicapped vehicle.

333-9020 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 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

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Motorcycles & Snowmobiles

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.

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

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

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

3 WHITE German Shepherd puppies without papers, ready to go, $850 ea. Linda at 633-3652 or 456-8602

2003 ARCTIC Cat 900 Mountain Cat snow machine, 151â&#x20AC;? track, 580kms, exc cond, $3,750. 333-9020

HAVE YOU seen our Abby? She is a Cardigan Welsh Corgi dog and is sadly missed at home. She is micro-chipped. $150 reward for her safe return. 633-3758

2009 POLARIS Razr 800 atv with V-plow, 4500lb Warn winch, upgraded wheel/rims/spare tire/shoulder harness/seatbelts & vplow, $7,200. 333-9020

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

633-6019 FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 28

Help control the pet overpopulation problem

2014

have your pets SPAYED OR NEUTERED. FOR INFORMATION CALL

633-6019

GENTLY USED

INVENTORY

4"-&4 t #0%: 4)01 t 1"354 t 4&37*$& 2005 Chev Colorado X-Cab, GREEN ...........................................................$7,595 2003 Pontiac Montana Ext, 2-TONE GREEN........................................... $5,595 2005 Ford F350 Crewcab, 4X4, DIESEL ................................................. $11,995 2009 Nissan Sentra, 4-DOOR AUTO, BLUE .................................................. $8,995 1997 Ford Taurus, 4-DOOR, NEW GLASS...................................................... $1,595 2011 Chev 1500 Chev, 4X4, RED................................................................. $23,995 IN-HOUSE FINANCING AVAILABLE!

2013 Dodge Grand Caravan Stow & go.

Red.

$

23,900

2011 Jeep Wrangler Rubicon 2 Door, upgraded wheels & tires

$

27,900

2012 Jeep Liberty Sport 4x4 Red, Auto

$

21,995

ATVâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S:

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

MOTORCYCLES:

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

YUKON

YAMAHA

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

LOST/FOUND LOST/ T FOUND LOST t 0 year old, male, Labrador Husky, golden, wearing red collar. Please contact Maya if found @403 360 3702 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)

FOUND t There is none at this time.

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

2015 Chev Silverado 1500 Crew 4x4 Auto 4.3 L, bright red

$

34,995

*VEHICLES MAY NOT BE EXACTLY AS SHOWN

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For Quick Approval call: 668-5559 #4 Fraser Road, McCrae, Whitehorse, YT Y1A 5S8 EMAIL: woloshyn@northwestel.net

Auto Parts & Accessories TRUCK CANOPIES - in stock * new Dodge long/short box * new GM long/short box * new Ford long/short box Hi-Rise & Cab Hi - several in stock View at centennialmotors.com 393-8100 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 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 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 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 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

RUNNING AT LARGE...

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

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

AVAILABLE FOR ADOPTION

IN FOSTER HOMES

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

A reward if offered for her safe return of $150

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

DOGS

Pet of the Week!

ALE

Hi, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m Kale.

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

I love to go for walks.

CATS

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

AT THE SHELTER

Please call Lynn @ 633-3758

K

DOGS

t 12 weeks old, female, Husky X, blonde (Caroline) t 11 weeks old, female, Husky, blonde (Brin) t 11 weeks old, female, Husky, brown (Nova) t 4 yr old, neutered male, Beagle X, brown and black and white (Dexter) t 1 yr old, neutered male, Boxer X, brindle (Nikolaos) t 3 yr old, neutered male, Boxer X, white, (Kale) t 2 yr old, male, Beardog X, black and tan, (Rufus) t 5 yr old, female, Border Collie, brown, (Annie)

t 4 yr old, neutered male, Pitbull Terrier X, brindle (Tux) t 11 months old, female, Beagle/ Dachshund, tri-colour, (Josie)

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 ) t 2 yr old, neutered male, DSH, black and white (Ace)

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

633-6019 126 Tlingit Street

www.humanesocietyyukon.ca

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

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

You can also check out our award winning website at:

WWW.HUMANESOCIETYYUKON.CA

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WANTED: YAMAHA VK 540. 863-5715 78 ARCTIC Cat Panther 5000, one owner, runs great, $1,000. 633-3053 SNOWMOBILE SLEIGH, heavy duty, folding, $250. 633-3053 1998 SPORTSMAN 500 ATV, good cond, $2,500. 334-2006 2009 POLARIS IQ touring 2-person snow machine, 4-stroke, reverse, elec start, block heater, hand/thumb warmers for driver/passenger, low kms, exc cond, $7,200.

333-9020

2014 ROCKHOUND 30 EXHD Brushhead, like new, $11,500 obo. 867-536-4595

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

225 AMP Hobart gas powered arc welder on small trailer, $1,200 obo. 633-6502

Is SELLING OFF their

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

Marine

Campers & Trailers

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

TAITĘźS TRAILERS www.taittrailers.com taits@northwestel.net Quality new and used Horse * Cargo * Equipment trailers For sale or rent Call Anytime 334-2194 Southern prices delivered to the Yukon

Heavy Equipment

HEAVY DUTY 3/4 ton utility truck box trailer made from Chevy truck box, blue & white, no rust, 16â&#x20AC;? wheels, $750 obo. 334-4568

2008 CAT excavator, model 303.5 CCR, low hours, exc cond, all service records, $43,000 obo. 867-536-4595

SWS TRAILER, 2 axles, 7000lbs, enclosed cargo mate, 20Ęźlx81/2Ęźwx7Ęźh, barn doors, $9,999. 332-6116

x-rentals Check out: klondikerv.com (867) 456 2729 DOUBLE SNOWMOBILE/ATV trailer, drive on back, drive off front, 12ĘźX8Ęź deck, V front protects sleds from rocks/snow, great trailer, $2,500. 335-3570

(AÄ&#x2022;Ä&#x2014;Ä&#x17D;Ä&#x2018; 4, 1916 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; NÄ&#x201D;Ä&#x203A;Ä&#x160;Ä&#x2019;Ä&#x2021;Ä&#x160;Ä&#x2014; 26, 2014)

Funeral Services for the late Alex Van Bibber will be held at 2:00 PM on Saturday, December 6, 2014 at Champagne, Yukon.

In lieu of Ď&#x201D;lowers, donations can be made to the Yukon Fish & Game Associationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Outdoor Education Camps, 509 Strickland Street, Whitehorse, or 667-4263.

For more information please contact: Diane Strand (867) 689-5119 or Darlene Smith (335-1825)

WHITEHORSE G E N E R A L Hospital Women's Auxiliary monthly meeting & Christmas party, Mon. Dec. 8th, 7:30 p.m. at WGH. Guests & new members welcome.

Info: 667-2087

2001 DODGE Pleasureway camper van, 5.9L gas engine, low mileage, stove, fridge, microwave, toaster oven, shower, toilet, a/c, reduced to $23,000. 668-2866

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

YRTA (YUKON Retired Teachers) Christmas Luncheon Thurs. Dec. 11th, 11:30 a.m. at Westmark Whse. Phone 668-6905 or 667-7989 by Dec. 4th if you plan to attend

Coming Events

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

Services

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

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 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 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 APPLE MACBOOK Pro laptop computer, 13â&#x20AC;? 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

YUKON LEARN Society, free drop-in computer lab for your self-directed computer studies Mondays 10amâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;2pm. Tutor/instructor on site to assist you. Yukon Learn Society, 2158-2nd Ave

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

FALUN GONG, an advanced practice of Buddha school self-cultivation. Meeting Mondays and Wednesdays, Wood Street School, 6pm. No charge. Call or come by for an introduction to the practice. 667-6336

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!

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

YRTA (YUKON Retired Teachers) Breakfast Tues. Dec. 9th, 9:30 a.m. at Ricky's. Guests welcome. Info: 667-2644

With his family by his side, Peter passed after a courageous battle with cancer. Born in Pembroke, ON, he came to the Yukon with his family at the age of 2. At the age of 17, he joined the Army and was posted to the PPCLI out of Calgary. After his service in the army, Peter returned to Whitehorse to pursue further education. He then worked for his two brothers at K&R Electric, which led him into his own business called P&G Electric. He then pursued his dream of becoming a helicopter pilot and took training and received his pilotâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s license through Trans North Turbo Air Ltd. In 1978 he met his wife Donna and in 1990 their son Michael was born. Peter continued to work as a helicopter pilot until 2000. His love of computers then lead him to a new job as a system tech for the Yukon Government, where he worked for the last 10 years.

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 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

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.

October 18, 1952 November 21, 2014

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

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

2008 OKANAGAN camper van, F350 V8, 1-ton chassis, tow pkg, 98,000 kms, bathroom w/shower, rack off back, generator, studded & all season tires, fridge, stove, oven, microwave, $22,000. 335-0009

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

Clifton (Peter) Kelly

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

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

ACTIVE TRAILS Whitehorse Association monthly meeting Tuesday, December 9, Sport Yukon Boardroom #1, 7pm, info www.activetwa.org. All welcome

27Ęź FLATDECK dual axle trailer, new lights, stand & chains, needs some brake parts, good trailer for skidoos, $1,750 obo.

867-399-3920

ATLIN - GLACIER VIEW CABINS â&#x20AC;&#x153;your quiet get awayâ&#x20AC;?

Cozy self contained log cabins canoes, kayaks for rent Fax/Phone 250-651-7691 e-mail sidkatours@ atlin.net www.glacierviewcabins.ca

Van Bibber

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

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

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

Alex

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 2014

He will be loved and forever remembered by his wife Donna, son Michael, brother Brian Kelly and sisters Linda Adams (Ed) and Debbie Kelly, as well as in-laws Sheila Murphy, Kevin Murphy, Lori Richardson (Greg) & Kerry Murphy and many nieces and nephews.

Predeceased by his parents Frances & Cliff Kelly and brother Richard Rotondo.

The family would like to thank Dr. Danusia Kanachowski and the wonderful staff at homecare, especially Margie Peters. Thank you to the awesome staff at Medicine Chest Pharmacy. If it werenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t for these special people, Peter would not have been able to remain in the comforts of his home with his wife and son.

Visitation will be Thursday, December 4th from 4:00-5:00pm at Heritage North Funeral Home. A small reception will follow for friends and family from 5:00-7:00pm. Celebration of life to be held next summer with close friends and family.

In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to the Yukon Cancer Care Fund c/o Yukon Hospital Corp.

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 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 SENIOR METRO Soccer League AGM Friday November 28, 2014 @ 6:30pm, CGC Meeting Room AL-ANON MEETINGS, 667-7142. Has your life been affected by someoneĘźs drinking?

Wednesday 12Noon @ Anglican Church, 4th & Elliott, back door, Friday 7pm Lutheran Church, 4th & Strickland, beginnerĘźs meeting, Friday 8pm Lutheran Church regular meeting 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 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

K-12 MATH TUTORING $20/hr.

Delivering the world of mathematics through knowledge and patience.

From developing arithmetic to solving the infinite value of ĘťXĘź in algebra. http://ca.linkedin.com/in/dinorudniski dinorudniski@gmail.com 668-4186 - 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

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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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 2014 LOG CABINS: Professional Scribe Fit log buildings at affordable rates.

Contact: PF Watson, Box 40187, Whitehorse, YT, Y1A 6M9 668-3632 BUSY BEAVERS Painting, Pruning Hauling, Chainsaw Work, Snow Shovelling and General Labour Call Francois & Katherine 456-4755 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 NEED MATH HELP? Math tutoring, homework help, exam prep for grades 6 - 12.

Contact Kathleen at 336-2071.

Rate is negotiable.

ELECTRICIAN •Licensed •Residential & Commercial •All jobs, large or small •Free Estimates •10% Seniorʼs Discount 332-7879 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 JOURNEYMAN CARPENTER 30 years experience Commercial-Residential •Renovations •Repairs •Kitchens •Bathrooms •Drywall Tiles •Decks •Fine Finishing and Painting No job too small Local references available Phone 335-8924 bradmre@gmail.com TCM MAID SERVICE Reliable, Thorough & Professional Reasonable Rates References available 335-4421or 393-3868 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 • Construction • Renovation • Finishing • Cabinets • Tiling • Flooring • Repairs • Specialty woodwork • Custom kitchens 867-633-3878 or cell 867-332-5531 thomasfinecarpentry@northwestel.net

DRUG PROBLEM?

IBEX BOBCAT SERVICES “Country Residential Snow Plowing” 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

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>

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YUKON NEWS MC RENOVATION Construction & Renovations Laminated floor, siding, decks, tiles Kitchen, Bathroom, Doors, Windows Framing, Board, Drywall, Painting Drop Ceiling, Fences No job too small Free estimates Michael 336-0468 yt.mcr@hotmail.com S.V.P. CARPENTRY Journey Woman Carpenter Interior/Exterior Finishing/Framing Small & Medium Jobs “Make it work and look good.”

Call Susana (867) 335-5957 susanavalerap@live.com www.svpcarpentry.com SNOWPLOWING SERVICES •Commercial •Residential •Anywhere, anytime Phone 867-633-2885

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

Beaver Creek

Y.T.

Friday - 1:30 p.m.

Health Centre

NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND OTHERS NOTICE is hereby given that Creditors and others having claims against the Estate of

Leonard Jacob Hiebert, of Whitehorse, Yukon, Deceased, who died on October 20, 2014, are 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.

Carcross

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

Health Centre

Carmacks

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

Health Centre

Y.T. Friday - 1:30pm Unity Group Rm 2160 @ Hospital

Saturday - 7pm North Star Group Community Support Centre 1233-2nd Ave.

Destruction Bay

EXPRESSION OF INTEREST

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.

The highest ranked or lowest priced submission may not necessarily be accepted.

This tender is subject to Chapter Five of the Agreement on Internal Trade.

Bidders are advised to review documents to determine Certificate of Recognition (COR) requirements for this project.

View or download documents at: www.gov.yk.ca/tenders/tms.html

YUKON SCHOOLS NETWORK OPTIMIZATION Interested parties are invited to submit expressions of interest relating to Yukon Education is looking to optimize WAN connection between community schools and central Internet gateway with a focus on schools that are getting curricular materials delivered from the Internet.

Curriculum is comprised primarily of YouTube videos and contact with Learning Management Systems (IE: Moodle hosted in BC).

Written submissions clearly marked with the above project title, will be received up to December 11, 2014, at Procurement Support Centre, Department of Highways and Public Works, Suite 101 - 104 Elliott Street, Whitehorse, Yukon Y1A 0M2.

Technical questions may be directed to Shannon Trott at (867) 667-3483.

The responses will not be ranked or used to pre-qualify or assess the respondent’s ability to provide goods or services.

Interested parties may obtain the information package from www.gov.yk.ca/tenders/tms.html or by contacting the Procurement Support Centre.

BY:

Dawson City

Y.T.

Friday - 1:30 p.m.

Health Centre

Gayle Hiebert c/o Lackowicz & Hoffman Suite 300, 204 Black Street Whitehorse, YT Y1A 2M9 Tel: (867) 668-5252 Fax: (867) 668-5251

PUBLIC TENDER

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Education

Call for Proposals-2 Year Projects Homelessness Partnering Strategy: Designated, Aboriginal and Rural and Remote funding streams April 1, 2015 – March 31, 2017 Closing Date: February 13, 2015– 4:00 pm

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

Tired of looking at snow on your walkways & drive?

Let Redʼs Yard Work keep them clean for you this winter.

Reasonable rates.

Phone 668-2866 or 333-9958 to book now

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

STANDING OFFER AGREEMENT FOR THE SUPPLY OF MOTOR OILS AND LUBRICANTS Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title.

The closing date for submissions is December 18, 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) 3936387.

The highest ranked or lowest priced submission may not necessarily be accepted.

This tender is subject to Chapter Five of the Agreement on Internal Trade.

View or download documents at: www.gov.yk.ca/tenders/tms.html

1. Designated Funding Stream (Whitehorse only): Designated funds are targeted to local priorities identi ied in the 2014-2019 Community Plan, and must be cost-matched (directly or in-kind) by other funding partners.

Proposals will be assessed according to whether the projects are meeting or working towards the HPS Community Plan priorities, which are as follows: 1. To reduce homelessness through a Housing First approach.

2. To improve the self-suf iciency of homeless individuals/families and those at imminent risk of homelessness through individualized services.

3. To preserve/increase the capacity of facilities used to address the needs of people who are homeless or at imminent risk of homelessness.

2. Aboriginal Funding Stream (Whitehorse only): This stream funds projects delivered primarily by Aboriginal service providers and is also guided by the 2014-2019 Community Plan priorities outlined above. It includes activities that promote inclusion within the Aboriginal community and that are congruent with Aboriginal identity and practices to ensure services are integrated and culturally-appropriate.

3. Rural and Remote Funding Stream (Rural communities only): Projects that address prevention and reduction of homelessness in communities outside of Whitehorse are eligible for funding. This funding stream does not require funding from other sources, although partnerships are strongly encouraged.

In order to receive an application package including the Proposal Guide please contact: Candice Menzi, Homelessness Partnering Strategy Coordinator Council of Yukon First Nations – HPS Community Entity 2166-2nd Avenue, Whitehorse, Yukon, Y1A 4P1 Phone: (867) 393-9222 E-mail: Candice.Menzi@cyfn.net

Watson Lake

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

Health Centre

HPS Background: The Homelessness Partnering Strategy (HPS) aims to prevent and end homelessness across Canada. It does so by developing partnerships that contribute to a sustainable and wide range of supports to help those who are homeless or at risk of homelessness move towards self-suf iciency through three separate funding streams.

Highways and Public Works

Little Footprints, Big Steps was founded to provide ongoing care and protection for the children of Haiti. We welcome and greatly appreciate your support. Please check our website to donate, fundraise or to get involved.

www.littlefootprintsbigsteps.com This ad sponsored by the

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YUKON NEWS Lost & Found

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 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 FOUND: NOVEMBER 22 at Lazulite rink, kid's left handed hockey stick, Call/text and describe to claim. Mike 335-9829 MULTI-COLOURED MITTS found on Hanson St. across from the deli on Nov 21st.

Call to identify. 633-2534 LOST: PURSE downtown on Thurs afternoon, Nov 13, multi-coloured shoulder bag, contained knitting, very important notebook & receipts. Please call Kathi 393-3695 HAVE YOU seen our Abby? She is a Cardigan Welsh Corgi dog and is sadly missed at home. She is micro-chipped. $150 reward for her safe return. 633-3758

PUBLIC TENDER SUPPLY OF 3 GEOTECHNICAL LABORATORY TRAILERS Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title.

The closing date for submissions is December 18, 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 David Knight at (867) 667-3114.

The highest ranked or lowest priced submission may not necessarily be accepted.

View or download documents at: www.gov.yk.ca/tenders/tms.html

TURNKEY BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY & Separate Residence in one building!

•Located in Faro, Yukon •Currently operating as 'The Valley Bed & Breakfast' •Totally renovated •Quiet, comfortable, amazing views •Established clientele with great yearly income •8 bedrooms, 4 bathrooms •All furniture included $259,000 obo For more information: www.thevalleybandb.ca or call 867-994-2122 Have your own private residence and a great income too

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DOWNHILL SKI boots for teenagers, Nordica BZX, grey, length 290mm, width A, exc cond, $50. 668-6303

BY VIRTUE of a Writ of Seizure and Sale issued out of the SUPREME COURT OF YUKON against the GOODS, LANDS AND CHATTELS of Angelika Knapp & Eric Dufresne.

Namely, the land known as: LOT 1028, QUAD 105 K/03, PLAN # 2007-0016 Sealed bids will be received by the Sheriff of Yukon up to and including the 20th day of December, 2014 at 4 P.M. in the afternoon. Bids will be opened at 4:00 P.M. on December 30th, 2014.

The sale is, as is, where is, without warranty to title. The highest or any bid not necessarily accepted.

Payment by successful bidder will be required within five working days from acceptance of Bid. Sheriff Law Court Building 2134-2nd Avenue Whitehorse YT Y1A 5H6

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

633-6502 TIMOTHY/BROME HAY •No rain •Quality horse and livestock mix •Square and round bales •Delivery available For more information call 668-6742 or 334-4589 BROME HAY BALES 55 lb bales No rain, no weeds Nice leafy hay $12.00 each 456-2035

OAT BUNDLES FOR SALE •Great horse feed •On field price $1.00/bundle •Two bundles/day/horse •Feed alone or good hay supplement Call 668-6742 HORSE HAVEN HAY RANCH Dev & Louise Hurlburt Irrigated Timothy/Brome mix Small square & round bales Discounts for field pick up or delivery Straw bales also for sale 335-5192 • 668-7218 HAY FOR SALE Dry bales kept under a shelter Great quality, $12/bale.

633-4496 or astra@northwestel.net

AIR HOCKEY/FOOSBALL table, $80.

689-2191 (cell) evenings or 668-4010

Good Night!

Wind up your day with everything you need.

867-667-6283

ROSSIGNOL SKI package, Actys 100 skis, 154cm, Axium 100 bindings, Exalt 6 ThermoFit boots size 9 (27), poles, & Dakine ski bag, $300. 335-3660 OSIRIS SNOWBOARD boots, size 8, worn once, $75. 336-2694

RFP2014453

Evaluation Plan – Centre for Northern Innovation in Mining (CNIM) – Yukon College Closes: Noon PST, December 18, 2014 The College requires consulting services to prepare an evaluation

Ray Chaykowsky (Tents & Events) & Doug Dupont (Six Mile River Resort), for the generous $1000 donation to the Tagish Community Library for youth programs.

They donated their winnings from the Come Dine With Me Tagish contest, hosted by Six Mile River Resort.

plan for CNIM that will be used as a guide for the ongoing evaluation of the Centre. CNIM was created to deliver programs for entry level training, trades training and technical training for the mining industry and to construct a trades training facility.

Complete packages are available by emailing Procurement and Contracts at purchasing@yukoncollege.yk.ca (867-668-8864).

Section 87(1) Quartz Mining Act

SHERIFF’S SALE

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SURVEY NOTICE Highways and Public Works

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 2014

Situated in the Watson Lake Mining District in Quad 105 H/3 west of Robert Campbell Highway at approximate Latitude 61°07’, Longitude 129°26’.

Take notice that a survey has been made of the following mineral claims shown in Schedule A under Instructions from the Surveyor General, and that at the termination of sixty days from the date of this notice the said survey shall be accepted as defining absolutely the boundaries of the said claims, unless in the meantime it is protested, as provided in Section 75 of the Quartz Mining Act.

The Grimley /Raymond Family would like to thank friends, family and businesses for their very generous donations of food,, cash, and the numerous items for the silent auction.

Together we were able to raise $16,500.00 for the “sing for Mom” fundraiser. Without all your hard work this would not have been possible and Cathy and Niall would like to personally thank Brandi, Jeremy and especially Yvonne, whose support and never ending love has made such a difference in our lives. We love you!

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give - Winston Churchill

The plan of survey can be viewed at the office of the Mining Recorder, Watson Lake, Yukon.

Dated at Whitehorse, Yukon this 6th day of October, 2014.

Want to get involved with the Humane Society?

Gabriel Aucoin Underhill Geomatics Ltd. Agent for Yukon Jade Ltd. SCHEDULE A Lot 1003 1004 1005 1006 1007 1008 1009 1010 1011 1012 1013 1014 1015 1016 1017

Quad 105H/3 105H/3 105H/3 105H/3 105H/3 105H/3 105H/3 105H/3 105H/3 105H/3 105H/3 105H/3 105H/3 105H/3 105H/3

Name Nevada 2 King 5 King 6 Arctic 3 Nevada 5 Nevada 4F Nevada 1 King 4 Rose 1 Rose 2 King 3 Arctic 2 Rose 3 Nevada 7F Nevada 6F

Grant No. YE85932 Y64835 Y64836 YA00241 YE85780 YE85779 YE85931 YA68812 YA69220 YA69221 YA68811 Y93771 YA69222 YE85781 YE85782

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

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

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 2014 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

ANTIQUE 4-DRAWER dresser with mirror, 1930ʼs style, exc cond, $400 obo. 334-5683 12X12 BERBER carpet & underlay, exc cond, $100 obo; queen size mattress, boxspring, headboard & footboard, $400 obo. 668-7157

CITIZENS ON PATROL. Do you have concerns in your neighborhood & community?

Be part of the solution! Volunteer valuable time to the C.O.P.S. program. With your eyes & ears we can help stomp out crime.

Info: RCMP 867-667-5555 DRUG PROBLEM? Narcotics Anonymous meetings Wed. 7pm-8pm #2 - 407 Ogilvie St. BYTE Office

Personals Baby & Child Items CHILDRENʼS CLOTHING in excellent condition, given freely the first & third Saturday monthly at the Church of the Nazarene, 2111 Centennial. 633-4903 BURLEY CHILD Stroller Encore for 2 children, including ski, jogging and bike set, like new, paid $1,250, asking $950. 633-3399 WOODEN LITTLE Ticks table, $20, 3-floor plastic doll house, $10. 689-2191 (cell) or 668-4010 WOODEN SLEIGH/WAGON with removable sides, foam pads included, $50. 633-2390 LEE VALLEY non-marring blocks, hard foam, bright colours, various shapes, excellent condition, $25. Plan Toys crane, new in box, $70. 668-7659

Childcare KOSS FAMILY DAY HOME available now in Porter creek.

Accepting 18 months and older .

We provide snacks and lunch.

Contact 867-336-3769

Furniture 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

ARE YOU MÉTIS? Are you registered?

Would you like to be involved?

There is a Yukon Metis Nation that needs your support Contact 668-6845

FRI. 7pm-8:30pm 4071 - 4th Ave Many Rivers Office

SUPPLY OF WELDED ALUMINUM V HULL BOAT PACKAGE Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title.

The closing date for submissions is December 17, 2014. Please refer to the procurement documents for the closing time and location.

Documents may be obtained from the Procurement Support Centre, Department of Highways and Public Works, Suite 101 - 104 Elliott Street, Whitehorse, Yukon (867) 667-5385.

Technical questions may be directed to David Knight at (867) 667-3114.

The highest ranked or lowest priced submission may not necessarily be accepted.

View or download documents at: www.gov.yk.ca/tenders/tms.html

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Crafters Christmas Open House & Sale

Saturday November 29th, 10am - 2pm, 16 Thompson Road, Granger, featuring Basket Bonanza, Fireweed Stamping and Cathy’s Creations. Wonderful gifts at great prices!

PUBLIC TENDER

PUBLIC TENDER PARTIAL INTERIOR AND EXTERIOR RENOVATIONS YHC UNIT #300300 – 4050– 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.

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Motherlode Jewellery Christmas

Home show with Guests, Arbonne and Essential Soap Bar, Saturday December 6th, 11am-3pm, 109 Craig Rd, Crestview. Refreshments & door prizes. 334-5083 or motherlodejewellery.ca

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Christmas at the Bean

Saturday, December 6, 11am-5pm. Birdhouse Yukon, Lara Melnik, Bruce MacDonald, Lise Merchant, Dawn Bouquot, Silpada Jewelry, Taiga Naturals Skin Care, and Darren Holcombe. Bean North Cafe Takhini Hotsprings Rd

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Sunday December 7, 142 Mt. Sima Rd, 10am-4pm. Artful, quality creations, sculpture, mittens, tie-dye, felt, glass, paintings, jewellery, unchewable leashes, art cards, food treats

Mandatory Site Visits: November 27, 2014 at 9:30 a.m. OR December 2, 2014 at 9:30 a.m.

The highest ranked or lowest priced submission may not necessarily be accepted.

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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Puzzle Page Answer Guide

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Sudoku:

To my Will, (Richard W. Nerysoo), I have never been prouder of you!

To let your name stand again in the election takes courage. You risk being criticized, judged, blamed, talked about, your name to be slung in the mud, past work to be analyzed and disregarded, hateful and hurtful comments to be attached with your name and causes your family and friends to show who they really are. But it also gives your supporters the chance to declare their unconditional support for you, to show you love and encouragement, to share what positive work you have completed, to share stories that are moving and show your true character, and causes your family and friends to become closer with a bigger purpose.

Kakuro:

It is easy for anyone to speak disrespectfully about someone through Facebook or gossip and not care about the consequences, but to put your words on paper and address it to those who made serious allegations, while considering the consequences is when courage and character rise to the top and stands out. And you did exactly that when you confronted your opponents at the beginning of this year.

To receive numerous phone calls from former opponents about major issues was sombre yet somehow gratifying but you did not take advantage once.

Crossword:

Word Scramble A: Pelagic B: Nostrum C: Crabwise

11.28.2014

To get encouragement and admiration and stand boldly is one thing but to get hateful and hurtful words and still continue to stand boldly is quite another feat that few can do and do it sincerely. That is what makes you one of a kind.

You have taught me that love can erase many mistakes and misunderstandings but hating does not solve one thing. To have the greatest support from one of your former rivals has demonstrated this truth enormously.

I admire and love you for your courage, your dedication, your boldness, your thoughtfulness and your forgiveness of others. You are a true and ultimate champion. ~ Trina

Winter Craft Sale & Tea November 29th, 10am-2pm, Marsh Lake Community Centre

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

16th Annual Littlest Art & Craft Fair We’re a week early this year! Saturday, November 29th, 56 Carpiquet, Takhini North, 10am – 5pm

Nàkwät’à Kù Christmas Craft Fair Saturday, November 29, 10am-4pm, Nàkwät’à Kù Potlach House. Traditional and contemporary artwork and crafts, unique handmade items, concession by KDFN’s Youth Council

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 Elijah Smith School. Saturday, December 13th, 10am-4pm. To book tables call 667-5992 or email Melanie.Bennett@gov.yk.ca

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YUKON NEWS

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 2014

ONE-YEAR INTRODUCTORY FINANCING

TRUCK SALE Virtually all mileage is low wear highway mileage All our trucks have been regularly and professionally maintained

FINANCING

None of our trucks have ever been

All our trucks are 1-ton 4x4 gas and diesel

OFFER ENDS DEC. 4 2014

Most vacation rentals are for two people so the back cab seats are practically new

Absolutely no previous industrial use

* CC = Crew Cab LB = Long Box SB = Short Box QC = Quad Cab DW = Dual Wheels Year

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Fuel

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Price

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Year

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Model

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Fuel

Mileage (kms)

Price

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2011 2012 2012 2012 2012 2012 2012 2012 2012 2012 2012 2012 2012 2013 2013 2013 2013 2013 2013 2013 2013 2013

FORD FORD FORD FORD FORD FORD FORD FORD FORD FORD FORD FORD FORD FORD FORD FORD FORD FORD FORD FORD FORD FORD

XLT F350 LARIAT F350 LARIAT F350 LARIAT F350 LARIAT F350 LARIAT F350 LARIAT F350 LARIAT F350 XLT F350 XLT F350 XLT F350 XLT F350 LARIAT F350 LARIAT F350 LARIAT F350 LARIAT F350 LARIAT F350 LARIAT F350 LARIAT F350 LARIAT F350 LARIAT F350 LARIAT F350

CC / LB CC / LB CC / LB CC / LB CC / LB CC / LB CC / LB CC / LB CC / LB CC / LB CC / LB CC / LB CC / LB CC / LB CC / LB CC / LB CC / LB CC / LB CC / LB CC / LB CC / LB CC / LB

Diesel Diesel Diesel Diesel Diesel Diesel Diesel Diesel Gas Gas Gas Diesel Diesel Diesel Diesel Diesel Diesel Diesel Diesel Diesel Diesel Diesel

68,981 50,880 53,442 58,805 70,015 60,450 66,408 71,881 65,794 70,430 74,284 50,655 38,651 41,187 43,346 43,859 48,017 49,460 50,493 51,963 52,870 55,997

$40,633 $51,696 $51,584 $51,386 $49,458 $49,877 $49,693 $48,367 $34,825 $33,625 $33,652 $45,725 $58,904 $58,055 $57,704 $57,705 $57,446 $57,704 $56,246 $56,246 $56,813 $56,504

31880 33875 33881 33891 33888 33858 33868 33864 33815 33822 33808 33834 35673 35658 35665 35664 35860 35652 35670 35667 35657 35655

2013 2013 2013 2013 2013 2013 2014 2014 2014 2015 2015 2015

FORD FORD FORD FORD FORD FORD DODGE DODGE DODGE FORD FORD FORD

LARIAT F350 LARIAT F350 LARIAT F450 XLT F350 XLT F350 XLT F350 LARAMIE 3500 LARAMIE 3500 LARAMIE 3500 LARIAT F350 LARIAT F350 LARIAT F350

CC / SB CC / SB CC / LB CC / LB CC / SB CC / SB QC / LB QC / LB QC / SB CC / LB / DW CC / LB / DW CC / LB / DW

Diesel Diesel Diesel Diesel Diesel Diesel Diesel Diesel Diesel Diesel Diesel Diesel

50,612 52,863 56,211 56,141 44,934 48,871 21,947 22,068 31,439 19,335 23,148 15,213

$55,781 $56,091 $59,612 $46,728 $47,482 $47,400 $61,331 $59,881 $57,926 $63,997 $62,797 $62,348

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