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he president of Casino Mining Corp. has urged the government of Canada to compromise with First Nations over planned environmental assessment rule changes.

The federal government is currently debating amendments to the Yukon Environmental and Socioeconomic Assessment act.

First Nations oppose four of the amendments, and say they’ll sue if the bill passes as drafted.

So far, Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Minister Bernard Valcourt has shown little appetite for compromise.

The Casino letter urges him to reconsider, and expresses concern about “the fragility of intergovernmental relations in the Yukon surrounding Bill S-6 and the negative impact this is having on the territory’s mineral industry.”

The company is currently in the environmental review process for it’s $2.5 billion Casino mine, the largest development project ever proposed in the Yukon.

The project falls in the traditional territory of three Yukon First Nations.

“Casino believes that if the YESAA has the full support of all level of government, it will provide greater certainty for the mineral industry,” wrote Casino president Paul West-Sells.

“To this end, we encourage Canada, Yukon, and Yukon First Nation governments to engage, work collaboratively and find a solution to address the outstanding issues within Bill S-6.”

It appears that some of the amendments opposed by First Nations were suggested by the Yukon government.

In a Dec. 2012 letter to the Aboriginal Affairs minister, Premier Darrell Pasloski outlined amendments that Yukon would like to see made to its environmental assessment legislation.

The letter asks for the federal minister to have the power to issue policy direction to the assessment board, and to delegate responsibilities to the territorial minister.

These suggestions were not discussed in the mandated five-year review of the legislation, but were included in Bill S-6.

When asked this week why these changes were put forward without input from First Nations or Yukoners, Pasloski deflected to the federal government.

“This consultation process is Canada’s consultation process, this is federal legislation and it is being driven by the government of Canada. So they are responsible for the consultation that occurs.”

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Little Salmon/Carmacks Chief Eric Fairclough, centre, speaks at a public forum held by First Nations last month on controversial changes to the Yukon Environmental and Socio-economic Assessment Act. Chiefs are in Ottawa this week to express their opposition to some of the proposed changes.

intent of their final agreements by shifting the tripartite process that is the foundation of those land claim deals.

“We compromised all the way through this process,” said Little Salmon/Carmacks First Nation Chief Eric Fairclough on the phone from Ottawa Tuesday. “In the fiveyear review, we had a lot of issues with many of the recommendations in there, but we said we could live with them.

“The four issues that were inserted right at the end, they really came from the Yukon government. We were surprised at that because the premier is saying he’s not defending the bill, but in fact his position has been included in the bill.”

A number of First Nation chiefs are in Ottawa this week lobbying for changes to the bill.

They met with Valcourt on Monday, shortly before debate on the amendments began.

“The minister shut us down by telling us we are ‘not real governments’ and therefore he does not need to make us active participants in changing legislation that arises from our treaties,” Fairclough said in a press release Wednesday. “This flies in the face of recent court decisions that have affirmed the duty to consult First Nations. It is an insult and a signal to First Nations everywhere that our views don’t count.”

In the House, Valcourt said he looks forward to the continued participation of First Nations through the parliamentary process.

“I want to acknowledge their important contributions to the development of this bill,” he said.

Valcourt introduced the bill to Parliament on Monday. He said that the amendments will strengthen Yukon’s ability to compete in an increasingly globalized world and help ensure long-term prosperity for Canada’s North.

Consultation on the bill has been extensive, and he sees no conflict between the proposed changes and First Nation agreements, he said.

“I’m still waiting for anyone to show me where these violate the Umbrella Final Agreement.”

Yukon MP Ryan Leef asked Valcourt to reassure the House and Yukoners that there are specific provisions that ensure that this is the case.

Valcourt responded that yes, the act specifically spells out that, in the event of a conflict, the Umbrella Final Agreement will prevail.

Dennis Bevington, NDP MP for the Northwest Territories, said that the only way to resolve such a conflict would be through a legal challenge.

“We’re ending up with another bill that will end up in the courts,” he said. “Why is this government moving in this direction?”

Liberal MP Yvonne Jones similarly criticized the government for yet another piece of legislation that is “off side” from the wishes of First Nations.

Valcourt responded that the government of Canada believes that nothing in the bill violates agreements with First Nations, and that adequate consultation has occurred.

If First Nations disagree, “they are welcome to use the court,” he said.

“That’s the genius of this great country of ours.”

Bevington also criticized the government for not consulting with Yukoners on the controversial parts of the bill. Democracy requires the participation of the public, he said.

The government of Canada has not sought the input of Yukoners to date on most of the contents of Bill S-6, including all of the amendments opposed by First Nations.

Bevington called the government’s actions “attack on Yukoners’ democratic rights and the constitutional rights of First Nations.”

Leef has recently voiced his support to send the parliamentary committee charged with reviewing the bill to the Yukon to hear from the public.

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Judge quashes Yukon government’s Peel plan Jacqueline Ronson News Reporter

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Yukon Supreme Court judge has struck down the Yukon government’s plan for the Peel watershed.

In a decision released Tuesday morning, Justice Ron Veale sided with First Nations and ruled that the Yukon government strayed from the process when it introduced its own land use plan at a late stage.

The news saw cheers and happy tears in the offices of the Yukon Conservation Society and the Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society Yukon. Those groups joined the First Nations of Nacho Nyak Dun and Tr’ondek Hwech’in as plaintiffs in the case.

“We got it at 9:02, and I immediately scrolled down to the conclusion of the 90 page document, and I wanted to get the answer quick,” said Christina Macdonald, executive director with the conservation society. “And there it was, plain and simple. We got exactly what we asked for. There was a stunned moment of silence and then elation.”

“It’s pretty jubilant,” said Gill Cracknell, executive director with CPAWS, on Tuesday afternoon.

“We’ve had people coming and going and rushing in and rushing upstairs and giving us hugs and there have been tears and celebrations. It’s a historic day for us.”

The Peel commission recommended protecting 80 per cent of the watershed from development.

The government’s plan protected only 29 per cent from new mineral staking.

The Yukon government has always insisted it followed the letter of the law. But that’s not good enough when it comes to agreements that involve aboriginal rights, said Veale.

“The plain reading interpretation endorsed by the government does not enhance the goal of

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Hikers rest at Mount MacDonald, near the Snake River in the Peel watershed. Justice Ron Veale struck down the Yukon government’s plan for the Peel this week.

reconciliation and is inconsistent with the honour and integrity of the Crown.”

Veale ruled that the government must consult Yukoners and First Nations again on the commission’s final recommended plan, and that afterwards it can only make modifications that were proposed in detail at an earlier stage. The government may not reject the plan at the end of the process, according to the judgement.

The judge specifically excludes the possibility that the government revisit the questions of balance between protection and development, and options for building new roads or other surface access into the area.

On these questions the government never provided the commission with any detailed proposal so that it could consider what the government wanted, and why,

wrote Veale.

“This level of detail was insufficient for consultation and lacked any tangible or practical guidance for the planning commission.”

Veale compared the government’s actions to a Supreme Court of Canada case about the compensation of provincial court judges. For the government to call generally for “a more balanced plan” with more “options for access” is akin to telling a judicial compensation commission that judges deserve a raise, without spelling out how much or why, wrote Veale.

At the main hearing in July, lawyer Thomas Berger argued on behalf of the plaintiffs that the judge should rule that the final recommended plan is the approved plan for the watershed.

At a subsequent hearing in October, Berger softened his stance, acknowledging that such a

ruling would not allow for a final consultation before a plan is approved. The plaintiffs got exactly the remedy they asked for that stage of the process.

“This is a remarkable judgment,” wrote Berger in a statement on Tuesday.

“The vindication of this process is a great victory for the First Nations, the environmental organizations, and all Yukoners.

In the end, one of the world’s last great wilderness areas will be protected.”

“I’m very thrilled at the news.

It’s a great victory,” said Tr’ondek Hwech’in Chief Roberta Joseph from the First Nation office in Dawson on Tuesday.

“I would like to express our appreciation and gratitude to the many Yukoners and people nationally and internationally who contributed and supported this effort in big ways and little ways.

It’s so much appreciated.”

The N.W.T.-based Gwitch’in Tribal Council was an intervenor in the case. The Gwitch’in people of the Mackenzie delta have called the Peel watershed home for millennia.

Jeff Langlois, lawyer for the council, said this week’s decision makes a broader point about all collaborative processes that come out of land claims agreements.

The decision confirms that “governments are committed to participating in those meaningfully, and they can’t just retain the final say and re-write everything that the collaborative process has come up with.”

The Gwitch’in Tribal Council hosted a celebratory soup and bannock dinner in Inuvik yesterday evening.

The Yukon government has 30 days to decide if it will appeal the decision to the Yukon Court of Appeal.

Nacho Nyak Dun Chief Ed Champion said the government should choose to reconcile with First Nations instead of appealing the decision.

“If they want to appeal it, we have no choice but to fight this to the end. We have no choice. We will just keep fighting it. And all that ends up happening is it just irritates and creates more friction and hardship between the First Nations and the government.”

Conflict with First Nations, and the Peel issue in particular, is a big part of the reason Yukon has fallen in the Fraser Institute’s ranking of mining jurisdictions, and had the worst economy in the country in 2013, said Champion.

“If Yukon government will take a position of reconciliation and not appeal this, it would certainly go a long way with us, and other First Nations, to the benefit of all Yukoners.”

Contact Jacqueline Ronson at jronson@yukon-news.com

Land-use planning in Dawson suspended Ashley Joannou News Reporter

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hile the Peel land use plan is getting most of the attention these days, governments involved with a similar plan for the Dawson region have suspended their work.

The announcement was made Monday, the day before a Yukon Supreme Court judge struck down the Yukon government’s plan for the Peel watershed.

The Yukon government, Tr’ondek Hwech’in and Vuntut Gwitchin First Nation all agreed to suspend the Dawson regional land use planning process,

Coroner investigating woman’s death Yukon’s coroner is investigat-

according to a statement released by the territory.

“We all agree that there is no point going further down the process when that very process is the subject of litigation,” Environment Minister Currie Dixon said Monday, before the Peel decision was released.

There are some big differences between the two plans. While much of the Peel remains undeveloped, the Klondike has a long history of mining.

“However, what is the same, in both the Peel land-use planning process and the Dawson land-use planning process, they’re both subject to Chapter 11, they’re both following the same

ing the death of a woman early Tuesday morning.

Fifty-year-old Karen Stutzman (nee Blackjack) was found just before 7 a.m. lying

process,” Dixon said. He said they are waiting for the “clarity” they hope to get from the Peel decision.

Chapter 11 of Yukon’s Umbrella Final Agreement lays out the rules around land use planning.

In the Peel decision, Justice Ron Veale sided with First Nations and ruled the Yukon government strayed too far from the process when it introduced its own land use plan at a late stage.

No draft plan has been developed yet for the Dawson region, Dixon said.

Dixon was reluctant to say when the Dawson process could start back up again once the Peel decision was made.

“Obviously we’ll need time to review

on the ground in the Northland trailer park in Whitehorse.

Police and paramedics arrived and began CPR but she

whatever Justice Veale puts out by way of decision. That review’s going to take some time, but then there’s always the possibility that any decision Justice Veale makes may be appealed,” Dixon said.

The Dawson commission formed in 2010. Since then it has worked to collect detailed information about what exists in the region and how people would like to see it used.

All that information is being archived and preserved, Dixon said, so it will be available when the process starts up again.

was taken to the hospital and pronounced dead.

According to the coroner, Stutzman lived in the area.

Both the coroner and

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RCMP say no foul play is suspected.

An autopsy has been ordered for this week.

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n advocate for residents with fetal alcohol spectrum disorder in the Yukon says he’s disappointed with MP Ryan Leef ’s decision to withdraw Bill C-583 from Parliament.

Michael McCann, executive director of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Society Yukon, said the organization was supportive of the initiative but will take Leef ’s justification to drop the bill at face value.

Leef recently agreed to withdraw his private member’s bill, which would have amended the criminal code of Canada to recognize FASD. Leef contends the bill stood slim odds of becoming law, and that it’s a victory that the issue will be considered by parliamentary committee, with a report due in four months.

McCann said he spoke to Leef last Friday and was told the issue would be discussed in a broader way than what the bill represented.

“I don’t fully understand all the processes (the bill) would Alistair Maitland/Yukon News have had to go through, but Michael McCann is the executive director of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Society Yukon. McCann is disappointed with Yukon MP we have to take his word that Ryan Leef’s decision to withdraw Bill C-583, which would have recognized FASD in the criminal code. the clock was going down,” he said. behaviour and an impaired The first would allow “We were supportive of the ability to understand the con- judges to order external supbill going forward as it was sequences of their actions. port plans that could follow written, simply because it was McCann said Leef ’s bill, a person after a sentence was a start. We have to look at the had it gone through all the served. The other asked Corpositives, and see this as an hoops and become law, would rections Canada to make the opportunity to elevate discus- have achieved what the Canecessary changes within their sion about the disability on a nadian Bar Association has programs and services to acmuch more national level.” recommended for years. commodate the disability.

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Streicker won’t seek MP seat in 2015 “I feel we’ve got a really good mayor. So I wouldn’t want to try and run competitively against him.”

The question of which banner Streicker would run under if he wanted a seat in the territorial legislative assembly is also up in the air.

Over the years he’s been asked to run by all four territorial political parties, he said.

“It’s an unanswered question for me, if I run territorially who that would be with. I’m not hyper-partisan,” he said.

The next municipal election would be in late 2015. The next territorial election has to be called by 2016.

“Regardless of what I choose to do, whatever level I choose to run or with whom, I will continue to carry the principles that brought me to the Green Party,” Streicker said.

splitting again. So he decided to take himself out of the equation. ohn Streicker will not be “It’s clear to me that with running in the next federal my involvement that would be election. a major focus, and I don’t want The former Green Party to help promote that. I don’t candidate made the announce- want to be the central part of a ment last week at the party’s fear-based campaign,” he said. annual general meeting.

Streicker said that he hopes Streicker was a key figure in his withdrawal from the race the 2011 election. He placed will help ensure Yukoners get third in the Yukon riding, beto hear more about candidates’ hind incumbent Larry Bagnell ideas, and less about vote splitand winner Ryan Leef. ting.

He finished with nearly 19 “I don’t like having to take per cent of the votes. As perthis choice. But I felt it was centages go, it was the second the right thing to do for the highest share of votes any Yukon,” he said.

Green candidate received that Since losing in 2011, Streelection, next only to party icker won a seat on Whitehorse leader Elizabeth May. May city council in a convincing would win the Greens’ only fashion. He got more votes seat in the House of Commons than anyone else on the ballot, that year. including the mayor.

But when Leef ended up He’s also stayed active with Alistair Maitland/Yukon News winning by only 132 votes, the Green Party federally. He’s John Streicker will not be running for the federal Green Party many accused Streicker of been national president of the nomination in the upcoming 2015 election. inadvertently helping the Con- party and was advocate for servatives by splitting the vote. Arctic and northern affairs in Streicker, now a Whitehorse its shadow cabinet. city councillor, says he’s proud Even though he won’t be of the campaign he ran. on the federal ballot, Stre“I really feel I earned the icker said he would like to stay votes last time. It was a posiinvolved in politics in some tive campaign we ran,” he said capacity. He hasn’t decided yesterday. exactly how.

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Pasloski was on Mountain View Golf Club’s board at time of secretive $750,000 bail-out Jacqueline Ronson

story, until last week, has been that City of Whitehorse was interested in the parcel for potential expanukon Premier Darrell Paslo- sion of Whistle Bend. But this is not true. ski sat on the board of the Both then and now, the city Mountain View Golf Club in February of 2011, when the society would oppose the idea of such an expansion. inked a secret $750,000 deal with The deal was hidden from the Yukon government that was made to look like a land purchase. public scrutiny until last week, only after the owner of the Meadow According to documents filed with Community Services, Pasloski Lakes Golf and Country Club sat on the board from May 2010 to spent a year and close to $1,000 fighting the government to release April or May of 2011. information about the deal.

His tenure precisely overlaps the period when then-Community ••• Services minister Archie Lang was This past week the Yukon govinstructing staff to come up with ernment has deflected questions by a creative way to help Mountain asserting that a former Yukon Party View with its $500,000 debt load, government is responsible, and according to correspondence made ministers are relying on informapublic last week. tion provided by staff.

Pasloski announced his candiBut Elaine Taylor, who was dacy for leader of the Yukon Party a cabinet minister both then in late April 2011, and won the and now, has not responded to position a month later. repeated interview requests on the The 2011 agreement saw the Yu- issue. kon government pay the golf club And now it seems highly likely $750,000 to relinquish a lease to that Pasloski was intimately inan adjacent parcel of land that had volved in the deal. been set aside for possible future On the phone Tuesday, Pasloski course expansion. said he hasn’t spoken to the issue But Mountain View had only on the advice of Yukon’s conflict of ever paid $125 annually on the interest commissioner. lease, and had neither the inten“I did talk to the conflicts tion nor the means to expand the commissioner who advised me course in the near future. quite a long time ago that this in The Yukon government’s official fact would be a conflict for me News Reporter

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A Community Services communications document from October, 2013 describes the deal this way: “As this land was a prime location for the future expansion of the Whistle Bend residential project, the Yukon government obtained an independent property appraisal and with the support from the City of Whitehorse, purchased the land from the Mountain View Golf Club in 2010.”

This was the government’s suggested response to questions from the public and the media, and almost every word is untrue.

The government has failed to answer questions about the briefing or take responsibility for the false information contained in it.

Jeff Luehmann, owner of the Meadow Lakes golf club, first heard about a sketchy land transfer involving Mountain View from a government employee a little more than a year ago.

That’s when he started asking questions. In fact it was a letter from Luehmann requesting information about the deal that triggered the communications briefing just mentioned.

“A lot of times, I was just getting stuff, ‘We can’t find it, it’s not available, we don’t know what you’re

talking about.’ It was frustrating, to say the least,” he said.

Community Services acknowledged receipt of an access-to-information request from Luehmann on October 11, 2013.

The deadline to respond was pushed back twice by the records manager, the second time after the previously set deadline had passed.

At that point Luehmann requested a review by the information and privacy commissioner, launching a long inquiry into the department’s handling of the file.

Community Services challenged the commissioner’s authority to investigate, arguing that failure to meet a deadline does not constitute a refusal to release records, according to the August 2014 inquiry report.

Diane McLeod-McKay, the commissioner, ultimately found that the department had no authority to refuse access to the records, and recommended they be released.

Two years ago the Yukon Party government amended the Access to Information and Protection of Privacy Act, making it harder for Yukoners to get information about government business. Some of the restrictions were unprecedented in Canada, according to the commissioner at the time.

Luehmann said he was charged close to $1,000 for copies of the documents related to the Mountain View deal, some of which have since been posted online at the Yukon NDP Caucus website.

The government needs to be held accountable, he said.

“I don’t think that amount of money should just go without notifying the public. I think the public needs to be aware of those things.”

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“I do not have jurisdiction with respect to events that took place before a person became a member or minister, or after they cease to be a member or minister,” he wrote in an email Tuesday afternoon.

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and that’s why I haven’t been part of any of the discussions,” said Pasloski.

When asked if he was aware of the deal at the time, he declined to comment.

When asked why the conflict of interest was not disclosed to the Yukon public, cabinet spokesperson Elaine Schiman interrupted the interview to say that that’s all the premier will say on the issue at this time.

Schiman later sent the News a copy of a letter dated Oct. 11, 2013, from Pasloski’s executive assistant to ministers Cathers and Kent, about the golf course issue.

It says that after a discussion with the conflict of interest commissioner, “and to avoid any possibility of the perception of a conflict of interest, Premier Pasloski will not be involved with this file.”

It does not say that the commissioner advised Pasloski not to speak to the issue or not to disclose his involvement with the golf course to the public.

In fact, because Pasloski was not a member of the legislative assembly when the golf course deal was inked, and left his position on the board before being elected, none of his involvement with Mountain View meets the definition of a conflict of interest under Yukon’s legislation.

While it might be considered a conflict of interest if Pasloski were to, say, vote next week on a deal that would benefit the golf club, there does not appear to be anything in the legislation that would prevent him from addressing today his actions on the golf club board before he was premier.

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Support staff under review at Jack Hulland Myles Dolphin News Reporter

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he Department of Education is reviewing the number of educational assistants at Jack Hulland Elementary School, following a complaint made by the parent of an autistic child a few weeks ago.

Russ Hobbis, whose nine-yearold daughter Molly goes to Jack Hulland, said cuts to the schoolâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s support staff have seriously affected her education.

Molly used to have a full-time education assistant at the school but now, in Grade 4, her behaviour without one has deteriorated.

The only education assistant that had been present was focussed on another student, and she was pulled from the classroom on Nov. 24, he said.

Meltdowns have become more frequent because she isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t getting enough support, Hobbis said.

An internal review of the schoolâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s EA deployment system, modelled after the way the Auditor General of Canada conducts its audits, was launched in late November.

Deputy Minister Valerie Royle said the amount of support staff â&#x20AC;&#x201C; both EAs and remedial tutors â&#x20AC;&#x201C; in the territory has doubled in the past 12 years.

In 2002 there were 81 support staff for approximately 5,500 students. This year, there are 177.75 positions for 5,135 students, she said.

Royle said education assistants arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t allotted solely based on the number of students, but rather on need.

All 28 Yukon schools determine how many special needs students they have â&#x20AC;&#x201C; including autistic children â&#x20AC;&#x201C; and put their requests in for EAs to the department.

There are two kinds of allocations. One is school-based, for children with significant behavioural issues but who donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t need intensive support. The other is for students who do need intensive support.

Right now, there are 76 students who have an EA dedicated to them, and 16 others who share an EA with one or several other students.

Jack Hulland, with 301 students, has the most EA positions in the territory with 13.75, Royle added.

Whitehorse Elementary School, for example, has 425 students but only 5 EAs. Jack Hulland had 15.75 last year but two students with intensive needs switched schools, bringing their EAs with them.

That has the same impact as making cuts, Hobbis said.

While the department is responsible for divvying up 177.75 classroom assistant positions among Yukon schools, the schools themselves have to deploy them to classrooms.

In an interview on Monday, Hobbis said childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s needs should be paramount. â&#x20AC;&#x153;In the real world, what do

percentages and numbers mean to the children who need help the most?â&#x20AC;? he said.

Lissa Best, a co-ordinator at Autism Yukon, said sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s heard this situation come up many times before, and it ranks among the top reasons for visits and calls to the organization.

She said autism is an issue thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s here to stay, so itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s important to communicate openly about it. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Certainly more support is what we get begged for; thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a constant need for that. I think the department has done a wonderful job at figuring out some peopleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s needs.â&#x20AC;?

Best said she recently heard a statistic that suggested by 2025, half of all classrooms will have an autistic student. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s why we have to get this figured out,â&#x20AC;? she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think we need to all be comfortably in a conversation, as thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s needed, from parents all the way up the minister.â&#x20AC;?

Royle said the review of Jack Hulland will look at how EAs are deployed and whether the system Alistair Maitland/Yukon News can be improved.

Russ Hobbisâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s nine-year-old autistic daughter, Molly, attends Jack Hulland Elementary School.

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The real threat to the Yukon’s economy

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here are a bunch of extremists in the Yukon who appear to be hellbent on wrecking the economy, and they may not be who you think.

You won’t find them in the offices of the Yukon Conservation Society, nor among the ranks of the territory’s opposition parties. Instead, you’ll spot them behind the frosted glass doors in the legislative assembly, where cabinet ministers keep their offices.

Strange but true: the most slavishly pro-mining territorial government imaginable has managed to become a threat to mining, through its blinkered determination to push its agenda, regardless of how much it manages to tick off influential First Nations and the broader public.

We’ve seen some results from this hard work lately, when Justice Ron Veale confirmed the obvious in his judgement on the Peel watershed debacle.

He concluded that the territory bargained in bad faith with First Nations by introducing its own land-use plan in the eleventh hour, rubbishing plans that had been the product of many years of public consultations.

The Yukon Party has always insisted it obeyed the letter of the law during the Peel talks.

This is strictly true and totally beside the point, in that Canadian governments dealing with aboriginal people must live up to the intent of the agreements they’ve signed. Our government plainly did not do that. As Veale says, it “betrayed the spirit of the final agreements.”

The right thing for our government to do would be to accept this decision with

grace. But that’s pretty much unimaginable, because if the Yukon Party seems to be incapable of doing one thing, it’s admitting that it’s wrong about something – particularly an issue that it has fought so bitterly up until this point.

So you can count on the Yukon Party to appeal this decision. You can also count on them losing, again and again.

We’re not experts in aboriginal law, but those who are have been pretty clear about how governments are not allowed to goof around when it comes to the constitutionally-enshrined rights of First Nations, and that’s been the Yukon Party’s approach.

On the bright side, anyone who hoped to see the Peel protected can thank a brainiac named Patrick Rouble for ensuring, however unintentionally, that this would happen.

Miners upset with the outcome can also take that up with him.

Rouble was the resources minister of the day who, when pressed for details on what he meant by saying he wanted more “balance” in a plan, simply refused to say. Few doubt that the Yukon Party, then and now, wanted to see much of the Peel developed. But, for whatever reason, Rouble apparently didn’t think it was expedient to say as much aloud. Veale compares this bungling to judges asking for a pay raise, without specifying how much they deserve, or why.

For this ineptitude, Rouble seems to have been, naturally enough, rewarded with a plum job as chair of the Yukon Land Use Planning Council. If the Yukon Party knows how to do one thing well, it’s reward its buddies. (This appointPublisher

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by Ottawa. But, when one of our reporters once phoned a federal representative to pry for details on the process, we were told that as far as Ottawa was concerned, this pick was made by the territory.)

Now, Veale has ordered that the government may only slightly modify the planning commission’s final recommended plan, which would see most of the watershed off-limits to development. In other words, we’re at the same junction we would be at if the government had simply agreed to give First Nations what they wanted.

Well, not quite the same: much public money has been frittered away in a useless court battle, and much bad blood has been created between the Yukon government and residents who strongly desire to see the Peel protected. Way to go, team.

You would hope after making such a huge mess once, the government would avoid a similar mistake in the future.

No such luck. Instead, it looks as if the Yukon Party is applying precisely the same disastrously self-defeating tactics, and this time it could succeed in throwing into question new mining developments across the entire territory.

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We speak, of course, about the controversial amendments to the Yukon Environmental and Socio-economic Assessment Act now being debated in Parliament. Until recently it had been a bit of a mystery why Premier Darrell Pasloski was the most outspoken proponent for what was, after all, a federal piece of legislation. Now we have an answer: most of the controversial changes, proposed after a long public consultation process had already wrapped up, were suggested to the feds by none other than our premier.

Yes, that’s right: it was Pasloski’s idea to do an end-run around his own constituents and keep the public in the dark about changes that were, until recently, kept secret from ordinary residents, and that now threatens to trigger another court case launched by upset First Nations. So much for open and accountable government.

While Pasloski purports to have made these recommendations to strengthen the economy, miners are publicly fretting it will only undermine their industry. Paul West-Sells, the boss of the company that hopes to exploit the mammoth Casino copper play, has written to Aboriginal Affairs Minister Bernard Valcourt expressing his worries that his company’s own careful work to keep affected First Nations on-side will be torched by the current controversy.

Pasloski once accused conservationists who sought to protect the Peel of being economic saboteurs. Maybe it’s time for him to look in the mirror and consider how counterproductive his efforts to be a champion for industry have been.

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Even cheechakos can sometimes be right

by Kyle Carruthers

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eddlin’ southerners. Here I was, an old-time Yukoner minding my own business, when an influx of buzz-kills from Ontario showed up wanting to control every bit of my life.”

Yukoner’s are likely familiar with this line of thinking. It regularly creeps up in casual discussions and online forums – such as comments section of this newspaper, and the Facebook pages of Yukon politicians.

You see it employed in debates over issues like restrictions on the use of offroad vehicles and shooting grizzly bears from the roadside.

But it is not really an “argument” in the true sense of the word, because it doesn’t actually go to the heart of the issues, but rather serves as a convenient rallying tool.

I prefer to call it a “meme,” which Wikipedia defines as “an idea, behaviour, or style that spreads from person to person within a culture.”

Like most memes, there is a grain of truth to the caricature of the meddling southerner. It is certainly true that the Yukon has become a heavily bureaucratized place and sadly has lost a lot of its “frontier” character – even in my relatively short lifetime.

My family first came to the Yukon in the early 1970s. At that time my parents were able to secure a parcel of land near remote Frederick Lakes (between Kusawa and Dezdeash Lake) with relatively little fuss. These days, with land claims and a bloated government bureaucracy, the same acquisition would require various approvals and consultations, if it would be possible at all.

It is also true that the territory has a large professional civil service, much of which is formed of migrants from the south, many of whom who prefer skis and bicycles to snowmobiles and quads. This brings them into inevitable conflict with what my dad likes to call “highly mechanized” Yukoners, both old and new.

Reasonable people can disagree on whether various outdoor

activities impart significant enough “harm” to justify restrictions. There are arguments both for and against roadside hunting, the unrestricted use of off road vehicles and other issues that are beyond the scope of this column. But the meme must be challenged nonetheless.

First and foremost, it is parochial and xenophobic. A person’s place of origin has as much bearing on an argument as the colour of their hair or their musical tastes.

People have a fundamental right to migrate and to have a say in their new community. The Charter of Rights and Freedoms guarantees that every Canadian citizen has the right to “move to and take up residence in any province (or territory),” to “freedom of expression” and “to vote in an election of members… of a legislative assembly”.

Each person is entitled to one vote – whether that person just moved here from Ontario or has lived in the territory for 50 years.

There is also a “slippery slope” tone to the meme. There seems to be a genuine fear that limiting ATV use to trails, or forcing hunters to move a few hundred feet off the highway to take their kill, will eventually lead to the complete banning of hunting and offroad vehicles in

the territory.

These fears show a profound misreading of the political culture of the Yukon. Supporters of such complete bans represent a fringe constituency in the territory and any such proposal would be political suicide for its boosters.

The meme of the meddling southerner also ignores a history of environmental sensitivity in the territory. I can recall as a young child that commercial highway signs that were routinely spray painted with the acronym “Y.L.F.” or “Yukon Liberation Front” – a “group” (surely in the loosest sense of the word) dedicated to eliminating what it saw as the blight of highway advertisements on the landscape.

I’d also note that the names of the various members of the Trails Only Yukon Association – an organization devoted to increased regulation of off road vehicles in the territory – are immediately recognizable as long-term residents of the territory. Many of them have been here longer than many of those complaining about southern influence have been.

Environmentally focused people have been in the Yukon for some time.

Finally, there is the reality that

Oil and gas is yesterday’s industry There’s a funny thing about obsolescence. Some people see it sooner, and some realize it’s happening much later, often to their detriment.

Here’s an example. Regular transatlantic steamship service was initiated by the British in 1838. Yet some in the sailing ship industry continued to put their efforts into building bigger and faster masted clipper ships, even until the 1860s.

They had been masters of the seas for centuries and didn’t want to admit that the reliability and greater holding capacity of steamships were requirements of the modern age. Their finances took a huge hit over the three decades it took them to give up or to change.

Another historical example was the practice of owning slaves in pre-Civil War U.S.A. Again, there was a financial perspective. Southern plantation owners insisted that having slaves was necessary for their economic viability.

But as early as 1696, Quakers in Pennsylvania recognized the moral obsolescence of slavery. It took another 169 years before slavery in the U.S. was finally abolished. And still there were those who argued for its continuation. It’s hard not to question the intelligence and morality of those hangers-on.

Now it’s the oil and gas industry’s turn to recognize its obsolescence. There are financial and moral imperatives to change to renewable and clean energy sources. The easily

tapped sources are gone, and industry has to pay more to get at what remains, hence a much smaller profit margin.

And any finite resource will eventually run out. Businessmen and politicians with foresight will invest in cuttingedge ideas and technologies to develop alternatives.

I find it hard (or should I say impossible) not to question the intelligence and morality of those still extracting and selling oil and gas as well as those who legislate in favour of the oil and gas industry. How can they logically continue to invest in a doomed industry?

How can they morally justify endangering life as we know it by promoting the burning of fossil fuels?

The Harper and Pasloski governments must change their stances on the environment.

Otherwise, they will be proving to us that they themselves are obsolete.

to Yukon minimum wage at $10.72 per hour.

Why does our government value the labour of foreign workers more than Canadians?

There are single parents, seniors, individuals with disabilities and many hardworking others who also deserve to be paid $15 per hour. We are all affected by this two-tiered system. Surprisingly, there hasn’t been a lot of media coverage or discussion about this.

Please report more on this topic so that Yukoners and Canadians can understand why our labour is worth so much less. For all my fellow workers, I demand equal pay for equal work!

Erin Giesbrecht Whitehorse

‘Tis the season for driving checkstops

As Christmas approaches, the holiday traditions are beginning Dianne Homan to materialize. Coloured lights Whitehorse shine brightly on houses with perhaps a reindeer or two on the Raise the minimum wage front lawn. It’s a time for family and friends to come together Open letter to Education Min- and enjoy each other’s company ister Elaine Taylor: and express gratitude for all the The CBC reported on Nov. blessings they have received. The 17 that foreign workers under police will be out there as well the Yukon Nominee Program with flashing red and blue lights, are to be paid a starting wage reflective cones and a friendly, of $15 per hour. I can’t help but “Good evening, Yukon checkthink that there are many Can- stop.” adians who work in those same During the very first checkpositions, and are only entitled stop of the 2014 Christmas

season, most drivers were sure to say, “Glad you’re out here tonight,” followed by a cheerful “Stay warm!” as they drove away.

And you know what? It does cheer you up to know that most people don’t mind taking the few necessary minutes at the checkstop. We always enjoy saying hello, even if we’re only halfway through a long, dark, cold and endless shift. We’re happy to make every possible effort as we’re always hopeful that people are really getting the message this year.

So how did it go? Well, within 30 minutes of the first set up of our very first checkstop on Friday evening, Traffic Services, with the help of Whitehorse auxiliary officers, arrested two drivers – one for impaired driving and one for refusing to provide a breath sample, with one driver being issued a 24-hour suspension.

Over the Christmas and holiday season, “M” Division Traffic Services will be setting up checkstops across Whitehorse. As well, local RCMP detachments will be conducting checkstops in the communities throughout Yukon.

How did the rest of Friday and Saturday turn out? Unfortunately, the rest of the weekend did not go as hoped. Another two drivers were charged with impaired driving; one of those drivers was almost three times the legal limit. As well, another two 24-hour suspensions were issued.

On Dec. 5, police across Canada will be participating in

the Yukon has changed. The population has by no means exploded, but our choices in recreational activities have certainly changed.

When I was a child a family may have one snowmobile or perhaps a quad. Today they are ubiquitous.

The best illustration of this new reality is the Skagway summit – a place that was relatively quiet in the 1980s – whereas now, on any given winter day, it is chock-full of people ripping around the mountainside.

I’m not criticizing this activity.

I’m simply saying the impetus for various regulatory changes is not migration but changed circumstances. There is a push for more regulation of these activities because they are far more prevalent today than in the past, and consequently have more impact.

So by all means make your case why we should reject new regulations, and maintain (or even restore) the frontier Yukon of the 20th century. It is your right to do so, and the public debate is improved by your participation in it. But do so without demonizing fictitious caricatures like the migrants from the south who want to control your life.

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

the National Impaired Driving Enforcement Day. This is where a concerted effort is put in by all RCMP officers across the country to combat impaired driving. To show how serious we are with this initiative, the commanding officer of “M’’ division will leave the comforts of his warm and toasty office to brave the frosty temperatures and assist the members on the street conducting checkstops.

Cpl. Shawn Pollard RCMP “M” Division, Traffic Services

Congrats in order for Peel plaintiffs In his Supreme Court Judgment concerning the Yukon government’s Peel watershed plan, Justice Veale said: “I have concluded that the process adopted by the Government of Yukon to create the government-approved plan was not based upon a contextual interpretation of s. 11.6.0. Nor did it enhance the goal of reconciliation. It was an ungenerous interpretation not consistent with the honour and integrity of the Crown.”

This is consistent with what most Yukoners have said all along.

It is a pity that so much time and so many resources were required to establish this in a court of law.

But then again, it now exists as a legal precedent.

Congratulations to all the plaintiffs and their lawyer, Thomas Berger.

Bob Jickling Whitehorse

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Lovingly remembered by her siblings; Michael (Elsa) Richie, Karen (Harry) Ellis, Jane (Randy) Kovar all of Chatham, ON and Marsha Richie and the late David Quinlan (2013) of Victoria, BC. Elaine will also be fondly and lovingly remembered, and missed by several nieces, nephews, aunts, uncles, cousins and childhood friends from South Western Ontario.

An adventurous soul, Elaine left Chatham seeking her place in the world; living in Sudbury and the Toronto area, before venturing west to Vancouver where she graduated from Langara College majoring in Criminology. In 1991 Elaineâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s wanderlust brought her to Haines Junction, Yukon Territory, where she fell in love with the vast, majestic and rugged landscape of mountains, alpine lakes, forests and most of all, her soul mate Mark. Elaine and Mark continued their lifeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s journey together, moving to Whitehorse (1992), Inuvik, Northwest Territories (1993) and then in 1995 they hung their hat permanently, relocating southward to Carmacks, where they enjoyed their love for the pristine outdoors; hunting, fishing and spending time at their log cabin on Little Salmon Lake with their loyal canine, Rocky.

Elaine had the respect of the Elders and was a fierce champion of all youth. Passionate, caring, determined and always a straight shooter, Elaine found her niche and purpose when she entered the political arena. With her ability to see the â&#x20AC;&#x153;big-pictureâ&#x20AC;? combined with her no nonsense direct approach, Elaine was elected to Carmacks Municipal Council in October 2003 serving 3 years. In April 2006 she became acting Mayor and was officially elected as Mayor in October 2006, until the time of her passing. Elaineâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s love of the Yukon and her vision for its future, propelled her to run for the Yukon Territorial Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA). Likewise, she was instrumental in bringing the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Voice of the Northâ&#x20AC;? to the Provincial/Territorial and Federal government tables, as President of the Association of Yukon Communities (AYC). Likewise, most recently Elaine had been recognized and awarded the prestigious Hanseatic award, nominated by her Peers, for her outstanding contributions to the advancement of Yukon municipal government. Elaine was also a humble recipient of the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee medal.

Loving Wife, Mother, Grandmother, Daughter, Sister, Friend, as well as beloved Mayor of Carmacks, Elaine will forever be loved and remembered. Her legacy lives on.

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Robocaller Michael Sona out on bail pending appeal of election fraud conviction as long, if not longer, than the nine-month jail term itself.

“In this case – a case of a TORONTO sentencing without precedent ichael Sona, the former and where there are arguable Conservative staffer con- grounds of appeal – Mr. Sona victed last month in the 2011 ought to have an opportunity robocalls scandal, has been to have this court consider the granted bail pending an appeal fitness of his sentence before he of his conviction and sentence. is required to serve it,” LaForme Crown lawyer Nick Devlin wrote. confirmed the Ontario Court “The novelty of this case of Appeal decision Monday. makes it more difficult for the The Crown contested Sona’s Crown to show that the appeal bail application last week, but is frivolous.” agreed it would be worthwhile Sona was the only person for the Appeals Court to review to be charged after some 6,700 whether his nine-month senautomated phone calls were tence was appropriate. placed on the morning of the Sona was released on 2011 federal election with $20,000 bail and was ordered to misleading information on how remain in Canada, not possess to vote. any weapons, or consume ilSona had been in jail since legal drugs. He must notify the Nov. 19, when he was convicted court if he plans to move from under the Canada Elections Act his Ottawa apartment. of wilfully preventing or endeaThe bail hearing focused vouring to prevent an elector only on Sona’s intention to ap- from voting. peal his sentence, although his Krongold argued Sona’s senlawyer Howard Krongold said tence was unnecessarily harsh, on Friday that he also plans to given that he’s already suffered contest the conviction. considerably in the aftermath Appeal Court Justice Harry of his arrest.

LaForme said in his decision As a young first-time ofthat he granted Sona bail befender with good rehabilitacause the process of appealing tion prospects, Sona deserved the sentence could take almost a shorter jail term, he argued, Michael Oliveira Canadian Press

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noting that Sona’s life has been turned upside down and irreparably damaged by the charges and the trial, to say nothing of the conviction.

LaForme agreed that Sona has had to endure more stress than the typical first-time offender.

“Mr. Sona has been subjected to more than the usual ignominy of a public trial and conviction,” he wrote.

“Most youthful first-time offenders enjoy some measure of obscurity; Mr. Sona’s trial has been fervently covered by the national media. Given the serious offence he committed, I am not being critical when I make this observation.”

Krongold also said he intends to argue that Sona was punished for not showing any remorse during his trial, although he maintains he’s innocent.

In a statement issued through a friend and posted to Twitter on the day he was sentenced, Sona continued to insist

he had “no involvement in the fraudulent phone calls.”

“Furthermore, although I have suspicions based on media reports I’ve read, as other Ca-

nadians do, I have no (personal) knowledge who on the … campaign was responsible for these fraudulent phone calls,” the statement said.

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Experts revise extinction theory as mastodon bones older than thought Terri Theodore Canadian Press

VANCOUVER cientists who re-examined the fossils of mastodons that once roamed what is now the Yukon and Alaska have changed their thinking and now believe global cooling probably wiped out the ancient cousin of the elephant.

Earlier estimates dated the mastodon bones at about 14,000 years old, but a paleontologist in the Yukon Paleontology Program says radiocarbon dating now puts the fossils at about 75,000 years old.

Grant Zazula says that instead of dying off at the end of the ice age as first believed, mastodons are more likely to have migrated to the area during a warming trend.

He says scientists always believed the dating of the fossils was suspect because it placed the animals in a time interval when it was incredibly cold in the north – at the height of the last ice age.

“We know that mastodons – which are relatives of mammoths and elephants – are not really well adapted to cold conditions because their behaviour and their preferred habitats are forests.

They eat forests-type plants,” Zazula said.

Experts have always debated what drove so many of the

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animals to extinction around the same time.

One theory is that when humans moved in, they hunted the animals to extinction. Another theory suggests climate change at the end of the ice age wiped out dozens of species.

But the dating of the mammoth bones pre-dates both those occurrences, Zazula said.

“We actually learned – based on what we know of mastodons’ preferred habitat – they were actually probably killed off by global cooling, rather than global

warming.”

Zazula said temperatures before the extinction were probably close to conditions we have today.

“A number of these animals, mastodons specifically, migrated northwards, established populations and then they were subse-

quently wiped out because it got cold again.”

The discovery is another piece in the puzzle over the disappearance of the massive creatures. It also raises more questions about the extinction of other animals presumed to have been part of an extensive dieoff at the end of the ice age, Zazula said.

“There were periods in the past where populations were dying off because of other variables like cooling or warming. It wasn’t one massive extinction at the end of the ice age. Rather it was sort of a punctuated process through time.”

He said there are interesting similarities between now and warm periods in between past ice ages.

“We know with warming temperatures today, there are animals migrating northward as well.

It provides a really interesting comparison from the fossil record of how these animals respond to global warming events.”

He noted cougars and certain deer have been showing up in Yukon, something that hasn’t been seen before.

Zazula was the lead author of a mastodon study published this week in the scientific journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Gas prices tumbling along with crude oil, but lower Canadian dollar is a headwind Canadian Press

CALGARY ith the price of crude plunging to its lowest level more than four and a half years, consumers are benefiting at the gas pump, but the savings are being dampened somewhat by a weaker dollar and other factors, according to an energy expert.

Roger McKnight, with En-Pro International in Oshawa, Ont., says motorists across the country are enjoying lower prices, though differing tax structures and market dynamics mean some are paying much more than others.

The average price for a litre of gas in Edmonton now is at around 96 cents, according to Gasbuddy. com and some stations in Calgary were posting sub-dollar prices too.

“On Sunday you’re probably going to see a drop of about three cents. That will put Ottawa, believe it or not, below a dollar,” he said.

At the higher end, Montreal was seeing average gas prices of $1.24 per litre and Vancouver was at $1.21.

McKnight said foreign exchange swings are a headwind for Canadian consumers, as energy products tend to be bought and

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sold in U.S. dollars. On Friday, the loonie was at 87 cents against the U.S. dollar.

And oil companies that have operations in both oilfields and refineries will be looking to bolster their profit margins.

“I just don’t know how much longer the oil companies can handle that because I think the refining margins must be getting rather narrow,” McKnight said.

“If they start hurting in the upstream with this crude oil price war going on, they’re going to compensate for that by not passing on as much reductions on the downstream, so the consumer won’t see as much happening that way.”

The price of U.S. benchmark crude – used to make gasoline and other products – is down by more than a third since the summer and closed down a whopping $7.54 at US.$66.15 a barrel on Friday.

And with the decision Thursday by the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries to keep output at 30 million barrels a day rather than cut back and put a floor under prices, there’s not much to buoy crude in the near term.

McKnight called OPEC’s deci-

sion to stand pat a “shot across the oil firms were taking a hit after the bow” aimed at North American OPEC decision. On Thursday, the shale oil producers, who have Toronto Stock Exchange’s energy added significant volumes to the market.

But he said he can’t see OPEC Thank you keeping up its levels indefinitely.

“I think OPEC is going to have for the an emergency meeting within conversations three months because nine of the 12 members of OPEC need ...

US$100 a barrel to balance their budgets and provide social services Have you noticed I for their people. So I can’t see this haven’t been there for going on much longer.”

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Canada’s clean energy sector growing quickly as investment jumps: study Bruce Cheadle Canadian Press

OTTAWA anadian investments in clean energy totalled $6.5 billion last year, a 45 per cent increase from 2012, according to a new study released Tuesday.

More than half the Canadian investment – $3.6 billion – went into wind power, with another $2.5 billion invested in the solar sector, says Clean Energy Canada, an advocacy and research organization.

The investment spike moved Canada up to seventh place among the Group of 20 industrialized nations, from 12th spot a year earlier.

“We hear a lot of talk about pipelines and the oil and gas sector,” Merran Smith, the director of Clean Energy Canada, said in an interview.

“What we don’t hear is that Canada’s actually gone from a boutique clean energy industry to really big business.”

Over the past five years, $24 billion has been invested in clean energy, and the sector now accounts for almost 24,000 direct jobs, a total that includes manufacturing but not construction employment.

The report comes as Canadian officials begin two weeks of meetings in Lima, Peru, on the United Nations framework convention on climate change.

Greenhouse gas emissions are rising again in Canada, according to Environment Canada projections, and the country will not come close to meeting its 2020 international target for curbing emissions under the 2009 Copenhagen accord. The talks in Lima are part of negotiations for a post2020 international agreement that

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Wind turbines generate power on Dalhousie Mountain, N.S. in 2010.

is supposed to be completed next December.

The UN talks were given a jolt of adrenalin last month when the United States and China, the world’s two biggest emitters, announced a bilateral deal to curb emissions through 2030.

Both the Chinese and U.S. governments are investing heavily

in renewables.

“There’s a clean energy transition underway globally already, and they’re backing their clean energy industries,” said Smith.

What makes the Canadian investment story more compelling is that it’s happening without much federal government interest.

Private sector financiers –

many from abroad – and provincial governments are driving the investment boom.

Of the top five financiers of clean energy in Canada over the past five years, investing $3.44 billion among them, two are Japanese, two are German and just one is Canadian, says the study.

Clean Energy Canada would

like to see a federal industrial policy, based on tax and research incentives, like the one that helped Canada’s aerospace and oil sands industries in their infancy.

“If the federal government got engaged we could be a real world leader in clean energy,” said Smith.

“But the federal government is really missing in action.”

Oldest Canadian, Merle Barwis, dies at 113 Amy Smart

oldest-person title for almost two years died Nov. 22.

Her grandson Terry Barwis, 65, VICTORIA a resident of the nearby comanada’s oldest person who munity of Sooke, said she had was known for celebrating few tips to share with her family her birthday with a cold beer has about longevity. died just one month and one day “She said there’s nothing you shy of her 114th birthday. can do about it,” he said. “If you’re Merle Barwis lived at The old, you’re old. And if you’re Priory residential care facility young, you’re young.” in Victoria, B.C., and held the Variations of her favourite Canadian Press

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Merle was born Dec. 23, 1900, in Des Moines, Iowa. Her father was a horse rancher and she moved to Abbey, Sask., in her teens. She met a ranch hand, Dewey Barwis, at a dance and they married in her parents’ parlour.

Dewey got a job as a train station agent and the couple moved around Western Canada with their three children.

Merle, who was often left alone with the kids, learned how to stretch a dollar.

“I know sometimes she did without, so that we could have things,” said her daughter Esther Gaff, 88, from Medicine Hat, Alta.

In 1952, Merle and Dewey retired to Sooke, where their son

lived. Dewey died in 1966 and Merle never remarried.

Terry remembered waking up early Christmas mornings and seeing a light on at his grandmother’s house, which was on the same property. He and brother Richard spent the early morning there – Merle always had coffee on next to her bed – until their parents awoke.

His daughter Tara, now 41, phoned Merle every day after school for a full report on the soap operas.

“She called a spade a spade.

But she was very loving – not in a mushy way, but hard loving. Like, ‘I love you and that’s that,”’ Tara said.

Merle loved to bake, said her grandson Richard. But she also got a kick out of ordering cakes out of the Sears catalogue, Tara

said.

Merle took pleasure in the simple joys of life. In her 90s, Terry said, she liked cutting the grass.

“She cut half the lawn, sat down and had a cold beer, then cut the other half after she finished her bottle,” Terry said.

She was pleased when she learned she was the oldest Canadian at age 112, Richard said.

“She thought that was pretty good. I asked if she wanted the prime minister (Stephen Harper) to come, and she said, ‘I don’t want anything to do with Trudeau,”’ he said.

Both of Merle’s parents lived into their 90s and she had a sister who lived to be over 100.

Merle outlived her two sons and two of her 10 grandchildren.

She had 17 great grandchildren.

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Old Alberta wells that fail standards raise fears; critics seek tougher rules away.” mothball wells for years and even Under the regulator’s new prodecades without having to spend the gram, operators have to bring at least money to clean them up.

EDMONTON “They can keep the well inactive as 20 per cent of their non-compliant ew research is raising concern wells up to snuff annually. long as they want. The longer a well about tens of thousands of dorMany of those wells are nonsits inactive the more the likelihood mant Alberta oil wells that don’t meet that you could have some sort of compliant because the operator hasn’t even minimum safety standards. done the paperwork, said David wellbore issue.

The Alberta Energy Regulator Hardie, the regulator’s senior adviser “Some of these wells have sat for has begun a program that it says will on closure and liabilities.

15 or 20 years.” result in all wells meeting those mini“The well might be just fine, just Besides the environmental risk, mums within five years. the suspended wells are also a risk for that the company hasn’t reported it But critics say those standards to us.” landowners. amount to little more than a locked The program is to be strongly “The banks want protection that gate and a few signs. They want firm enforced by inspectors in the field. you’re not going to get nailed with timelines to force companies to clean a million-dollar cleanup when you But it won’t move wells along from up old well sites – some of which suspended to abandoned to fully buy a property,” said Don Bester of have been sitting unused for decades reclaimed. the Alberta Surface Rights Associa– before the liability winds up with “It’s not within the AER’s regulation, which advocates for landowners. taxpayers. tory authority to create timelines for “Same as the seller – he has to do an “Unless timely action is taken to environmental assessment to provide that,” said Anita Lewis, also a closure ensure that oil companies deal with and liabilities adviser. “That actuto the buyer. their liabilities while they still have the “If I’ve got a contaminated site on ally falls under government policy financial capability to do so, the reality my place, where do you think the buy- perspective.” will be that either the taxpayer is going ers are going to run to? Completely Alberta Environment spokesman to be on the hook or the landowner will be stuck with the problem,” said Keith Wilson, a lawyer who has represented hundreds of landowners against the energy industry.

Since 2007, inactive wells in Alberta must be fenced, locked, signed and YUKON LAND USE PLANNING COUNCIL tested to ensure they don’t leak. For most “suspended” wells, no cleanup is required.

But in the report, Barry Robinson of the environmental law group Ecojustice points to recent figures from the regulator that acknowledge 37,000 inactive wells in Alberta don’t meet those minimum standards. Of those, at least 3,300 also have wellbore 201-307 Jarvis Street, Whitehorse, Y.T. integrity problems.

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Jason Maloney said the government will consider such timelines as part of policy reviews planned in 2015.

“We’re working with stakeholders,” he said. “That will be explored.”

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Other jurisdictions force operators to clean up a well after a certain period of inactivity, said Robinson.

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“That seems to be a process that works in some jurisdictions,” Robinson said.

Wilson said Alberta’s current rules only postpone the inevitable – perhaps until it’s too late.

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Scarred, poisoned wasteland highlights Peru’s challenges in halting deforestation Rodrigo Abd And Frank Bajak Associated Press

TAMBOPATA, PERU decade of illegal gold mining has transformed large areas of virgin Peruvian rainforest into pocked, denuded, mercury-poisoned wastelands.

Excavations to separate gold flecks from tons of earth have left holes big enough to swallow a half-dozen buses. Mercury, a neurotoxin used to bind the gold, pervades the local food chain, reaching humans through the fish they eat.

The ruined lands scar the southeastern region of Madre de Dios, a mecca of biodiversity whose natural marvels lure ecotourists and where several tribes live in voluntary isolation.

Thousands of people have left the region in recent months as the government has cracked down on illegal mining, dynamiting mining machinery, dismantling brothels and cutting off gasoline supplies.

Illegal mining is the No. 2 cause of deforestation in Peru, after clear-cutting for agriculture, Environmental Minister Manuel Pulgar-Vidal said on the eve of the Dec. 1-12 U.N. climate conference

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Policemen stand guard on the perimeter of a crater created by gold mining activities in La Pampa, in Peru’s Madre de Dios region. Peru sent a battalion of police into its southeastern jungles to dismantle illegal gold-mining camps, just weeks before the global climate talks that the country is hosting.

that his nation is hosting.

“It is terrible for the nearly irremediable wounds it causes to the forest,” he said.

Peru is more than 60 per cent rainforest and only Brazil has a larger share of the Amazon jungle, whose preservation is vital to mitigating global damage from climate change.

Deforestation and land conversion account for about 40 per cent of Peru’s greenhouse gas emis-

sions. The country has vowed to halt deforestation by 2021, and Norway in September pledged $300 million toward that goal.

Yet Peru’s stewardship of its rainforest has been questioned by environmentalists, and deforestation appears to be on the rise.

University of Maryland scientist Matthew Hansen, who tracks deforestation globally, said preliminary data indicates Peru lost an average of 770 square miles

(1,995 square kilometres) of forest annually over the past two years, up from 490 square miles (1,270 square kilometres) a year during the previous decade.

As part of the agreement with Norway on halting deforestation, Peru said it would grant native communities ownership of a total of 19,300 square miles (5 million hectares). Environmentalists argue that native communities are better stewards of the world’s forests than

governments or private interests but say successive Peruvian government have been stingy for the past two decades in granting titles.

Granting that much land to the more than 600 native communities that seek titles will not be easy.

Regional governments, many of which have turned a blind eye to deforestation-related corruption and illegal logging, were given jurisdiction over land titling in 2008.

Corner Gas: The Movie a bittersweet ending for stars of the beloved sitcom Laura Kane Canadian Press

TORONTO hen the pumps closed at Corner Gas five years ago, the end of the beloved CTV sitcom was an emotional time for its close-knit cast.

Now that Corner Gas: The Movie is set to hit theatres, stars including Brent Butt, Nancy Robertson and Gabrielle Miller say it’s bittersweet to face the end once again.

“It was tough this time around,” said Lorne Cardinal, who plays simpleminded police officer Davis Quinton.

“I took a selfie of myself in front of the gas station, in front of the ‘Corner Gas’ sign, and I got really weepy. I spent 10 years here with all my good friends.

And now I have to leave again.”

The movie picks up five years after fans last saw the Corner Gas gang, and little has changed in Dog River. But when Brent and his pals discover their sleepy Saskatchewan town is broke, a greedy corporate giant swoops in to capitalize on their misfortune.

Filmed in Rouleau, Sask., this summer, Corner Gas: The Movie will screen in select Cineplex theatres across Canada from Wednesday to Sunday.

Fans can visit cornergasthemovie.com to buy tickets or check local listings.

Butt, the creator and star of Corner Gas, said one of the themes of the show is that nothing ever changes in Dog River. In the movie, the well-

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known cast of characters – gas station attendant Brent Leroy, his sidekick Wanda Dollard (Robertson), coffee shop owner Lacey Burrows (Miller) – are the same as always.

“They’re almost frozen in time,” he said. “I think there’s comfort to knowing that or feeling that in Dog River, Sask., in this town that you watch every week on TV, nothing changes. You can come back at any time and they’re all going to be there hanging out.”

But even while bringing back the characters fans loved, Butt knew he had to elevate the storyline for film. He spent years reworking the script, which was co-written by Andrew Carr and Andrew Wreggit.

“It’s a tightrope to walk,” he said.

“You don’t want to change it so much, because (fans) like Corner Gas, they want to see Corner Gas. But you can’t just make it be a long episode. You have to raise the stakes.”

After the movie’s theatrical run, it will air on The Movie Network Dec. 8, on CTV and CTV Two Dec. 17 and on The Comedy Network Dec. 22.

The DVD will be released before the holidays.

During recent interviews in Toronto, the cast was jovial and wisecracking. But when asked about how the movie perhaps marks the end of Corner Gas, all became earnest and reflective.

In Butt’s mind, the people of Dog River will always be there, going about

their business and getting into trouble, he said.

“In a way, it doesn’t feel like an end.

It just feels like we’ve turned the cameras off and walked away. But that’s still all going on,” he said.

Robertson, who is Butt’s real-life spouse, said she was grateful to have a second chance to say goodbye.

When filming on the series wrapped, everyone was exhausted at the end of a four-month shoot, she said.

So when the cast returned to Rouleau in June to film the movie, they made a point of being “present” and appreciating their surroundings.

“This was the nicest month I’ve spent,” said Robertson. “If this is the end of it, then the wind-up couldn’t have been nicer. But we’ll always be a part of each other’s lives. As corny as that sounds, it’s true.”

Fans were also constantly on set during the month-long shoot, in part because of a wildly successful Kickstarter campaign – which raised more than $285,000 – that featured rewards like set visits and walk-on roles.

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Ewanuick compared returning to Corner Gas to being reunited with an old friend.

“That show to me is like a friend in your life that can go away for long periods of time, but when you come back, it’s like, ‘Yup, right back into it.

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Clancy, originally from Penticton, B.C., disappeared in Dawson this past July while on a trip with his owner. The cat was found last month and is recovering at the Dawson City Humane Society.

– Bill driving and Clancy riding shotgun – and headed north from their home in Penticton, B.C. f Jack London had decided to It wasn’t their first trip North write about a rough-and-tum- of 60. In 2013 they put 12,000 ble cat, he would have written kilometres on the RV, including a about a cat like Clancy. visit to Whitehorse.

The orange tabby has They camped and travelled. crammed quite the explorer’s life Clancy has always been an into his five years. Most recently outdoor cat. He was taken off the he was found scrounging for streets of Penticton in 2012 before food in Dawson City, about four Burles decided to adopt him from months after he disappeared the local rescue group AlleyCats while visiting the area.

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He’s a little tattered around the “He wasn’t the prettiest cat, edges now. His ears have pieces that’s for sure,” Burles remembers. missing from them, maybe from But Burles, whose dog had just foxes or possibly frostbite. died, decided to give Clancy a But his personality is intact, home. says Dani Thorne, shelter co-orThe two got along well. While dinator with the Humane Society camping with Burles, Clancy was Dawson. He purrs every time let out, but always returned home. someone opens his cage door.

During the 2013 trip, Clancy Clancy heard the call of the wandered away once, but Burles wild back in May when he and was able to find him and trap his owner Bill Burles hopped in him. their camouflage-patterned RV But on that fateful day in July, Ashley Joannou News Reporter

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when Burles and Clancy were camping near the Bonanza Gold Motel, the cat wandered off and didn’t come home.

Burles spent weeks looking for him.

“I eventually thought, you know what, something’s got him.”

Burles returned to B.C. without his travel buddy but not before filing a report with the local humane society.

Fast forward to November.

Thorne was at the shelter when she got a call from a woman who had found a stray cat.

“He had been spotted in the Bonanza Gold Motel area for a few weeks now. I guess people had been trying to catch him,” she says. “But she just shook the food and was able to get him in her car in five minutes. He was so hungry he ripped open her bag of cat food.”

The Good Samaritan was on her way out of Dawson, so

Thorne came by right away to pick up the cat.

As shelter co-ordinator, she says she’s always in touch with Dawsonites who have lost their pets. No one local had reported an orange tabby cat missing.

That’s when she started thinking about the tourist from months earlier.

“I just sort of had that feeling, it was too much of a coincidence, same area, male tabby cat,” she says.

A call to the AlleyCats Alliance for photo confirmation and a scan of the cat’s microchip confirmed his identity.

Clancy had survived. Some might consider him an honourary Sourdough.

Thorne admits it’s uncommon for a cat to survive out in the wild for so long. She calls the whole situation “absolutely insane.”

It was a call Burles wasn’t expecting.

“I just couldn’t believe it,” he says.

He says Clancy is more than welcome to come back and live with him.

It’ll be a few weeks before the cat is ready to travel. Aside from the damage from foxes and frostbite, Clancy had dirty eyes, ear mites and probably worms, Thorne says.

But a once-over from the vet found no long-term damage.

He’s sleeping and eating at the Dawson Humane Society for now.

December van den Berg, president and co-founder of AlleyCats Alliance, says the group is fundraising right now to bring Clancy home to Penticton.

Thorne is confident he’ll find a good home wherever he ends up.

“He’s such a sweet cat... He’s remained pretty positive and lovely throughout this whole experience.”

Contact Ashley Joannou at ashleyj@yukon-news.com

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Men, let the gloves come off before you shake hands accounts the URL for a website where interested parties can submit a request for an invitation. If you do not submit such a request, then they will assume you do not wish an invitation and will not

by Judith waste money and paper by sending you one.

Martin Since I get on Facebook maybe once every six months, I hadn’t seen this announcement, hence my ignorance.

I guess I know what to do: If DEAR MISS MANNERS: Do I want an invitation – and I do – ladies remove gloves before shakthen I’ll have to submit my name. ing hands? What about gentlemen? It makes me feel weird, though.

GENTLE READER: Why does This is my brother! We have a this question strike fear in Miss loving relationship. Surely he must Manners’ brave heart? assume I would want to celebrate She knows the answer to your this day with him? question, of course, and if you Do you think I would be out of will be patient for a moment, she line to just skip the online form will give it to you. But then she and call my brother directly to let will have to brace herself for the him know that I would very much onslaught of indignant reactions like to attend his wedding? Or from those who believe that any should I just suck it up and go to variation in expectations of ladies the sign-up website? and gentlemen, no matter how GENTLE READER: Admittedly, trivial, constitutes oppression. it is crude of your brother to reYou may notice that Miss quire people to request invitations Manners uses the term “ladies” to his wedding. He also commits here. She fails to see any conflict the common error of assuming between being a fervent feminist that the entire world is on Faceand being a lady – or a gentleman, book. Close, maybe, but he runs for that matter. the risk of omitting any relatives She also admits to a bit of fond- or friends who are not. ness for some of the social gestures But Miss Manners finds it that traditionally characterized astounding that you hesitate to let ladylike behavior. For example, your brother know that you want she is probably the last person on an invitation. How difficult would Earth to know that ladylike apit be simply to say to him directly, plause does not consist of smack- “Look, silly, of course I want to be ing the hands together vertically, invited to your wedding”? the way gentlemen clap. Rather, ladies should hold the left hand DEAR MISS MANNERS: palm up in a horizontal position When you are a guest at a family and hit the right hand against it. If member’s house, and the hostess the hands are slightly cupped, this overcooks the cinnamon rolls for can make a remarkable amount of breakfast, is there ever a way to noise. criticize her?

Oh, and gentlemen must reGENTLE READER: So as to move gloves before shaking hands, avoid being invited back? That is but ladies need not. the only reason Miss Manners can think of, as no matter how you DEAR MISS MANNERS: My put it, you surely do not imagine brother announced a few months the lady will thank you and begin ago that he was engaged. We were another batch. delighted for his happiness and thrilled to meet his fiancee, who is DEAR MISS MANNERS: My a wonderful woman. wife and I had her family over We soon heard from family for dinner on a Sunday evening. what the wedding date would They came at 6:30. By 9:30 I was be, but have not yet received an tired. I’m a young man (31), but invitation. I assumed one would I’m a CPA, and it was my busy tax come eventually, but I was told season, when I need sleep for my by another family member that 60-65 hour weeks. I whispered in I was mistaken. Evidently what my wife’s ear that we should try my brother and his fiancee have to find an opportunity to let the done is to post on their Facebook party end, as my usual bedtime is

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My wife didn’t handle it gracefully, but her father seemed understanding. However, I heard the next day from my wife that my mother-in-law was upset that we “kicked them out.”

Who is in the wrong here? I feel that 9:30 was late enough for a Sunday evening. If it was a Friday or Saturday, I would have been more willing to let the evening go longer. Who should apologize?

GENTLE READER? You. While Miss Manners agrees that three hours is a reasonable amount of time for dinner, she must remind you that it is never polite to dismiss your guests. Departures, however much wished, should be made of their own volition.

If you must entertain on a Sunday, plan for the evening to begin even earlier. Or when you issue the invitation, tell your relatives that you’re afraid that since it’s a work night, you won’t be able to stay up as long as you might otherwise like. If they still stay beyond your ability to stay awake, discreet yawns, surreptitiously checking the clock and occasional fits of narcolepsy are (marginally) allowed.

courages people from expressing their opinions.

But on the other, for me to post a subsequent comment to those who agree with me – like “Thanks, you’re swell, too” – seems self-serving; for me to post a subsequent comment to those who disagree – like “I disagree; let me have the last word why” – is still more self-serving.

I reply to those I know via private email, but many people don’t give contact info, since an email address on a website is an invitation for spam. What do you suggest?

GENTLE READER: Too often the purpose of maintaining a blog appears to be to have the last word, so Miss Manners appreciates your modesty. But if your purpose is to foster dialogue, it seems only logical to allow dialogue. Replying politely to those who disagree with you will further your purpose more than thanking everyone who agrees with you.

much you hope she enjoys her trip. If you want to present her with a new outfit in addition, all the better.

DEAR MISS MANNERS: Must every conversation become a job interview? People always seem to ask what I am doing, and I do not see a reason to tell them. Is there a polite response for people who see others as only their careers?

GENTLE READER: Not if you mean a polite response that tells them to reorder their priorities.

But a polite response need not actually answer the question. If you do not want to tell people what you do for a living, Miss Manners suggests that you tell them what you do for fun.

DEAR MISS MANNERS: In the past few years, I have been invited to baby showers that ask people to participate in a diaper raffle in addition to bringing a gift. Anyone who would like to brings a pack of diapers and then is entered into a DEAR MISS MANNERS: Our raffle for a prize. nanny has been with us for some I silently decline to participate, time now, and we just adore her. on the grounds that this comes She is everything you could want across as grabby. When I offered in someone who cares for your my opinion as graciously as possichildren – kind, attentive, patient ble on a social media site, I imme... I could go on.

DEAR MISS MANNERS: Is it diately received numerous comShe is from another country OK for a gay coach to invite his ments from people who thought I soccer team of 16-year-old girls to and will be traveling in the next was the greedy one – among other few months back to see her famhis wedding? unpleasant comments. ily for the first time in almost a GENTLE READER: Certainly, So now I’m wondering if I’m decade. I am so excited for her provided he sends them all inoff base. What’s your take on diato get to see her own babies and dividual invitations, so that they per raffles, Miss Manners? grandbabies, and I want to do understand that being a guest at GENTLE READER: Miss something extra-special for her by a ceremonial occasion is not like Manners is happy to say that she way of taking her to get her hair showing up for a sports event. doesn’t have one. But she feels that Miss Manners is afraid that people and nails done, and maybe buy a she need hardly tell you that if nowadays do not always make that new outfit. you express an opinion on social I know that the amount of distinction. media, it will certainly be chalmoney I spend on her can go far lenged. Your first instinct – to stay DEAR MISS MANNERS: I have in her home country. If I offered always felt faintly ridiculous when- her the equivalent sum, I know she silent about a made-up ritual that would spend it on her family. She you find distasteful – was the corever someone proposes a toast, does so much for others and lives whereupon glasses are raised and rect one. pressure is applied to clink on each a very modest life in order to send and every glass remotely waved in more money back home.

DEAR MISS MANNERS: If I Is it OK for me to insist that she encounter a celebrity whose stage my direction.

Are toasts still considered good spend some time and money on name is different from his/her herself, just this once, or should form? Are they not a little trite? birth name, how should I address I offer her some cash and express And what does one do when at a him/her? What about celebrities long table where persons at oppo- my hope that she’ll do so? who go by only one name?

GENTLE READER: That her site ends of the table can’t possibly GENTLE READER: If you are job includes telling the children clink on each other’s glass? being introduced to that person in how to behave does not make it a business situation, you use the yours to do the same for her. Miss stage name or names. If you have DEAR MISS MANNERS: I’m not sure whether to reply to com- Manners believes that a kind, met socially, and the celebrity uses attentive employer restrains her ments on my blog. the birth name in private life, you impulse to make personal choices may use that.

On the one hand, ignoring for her employees. You should reader comments entirely makes But Miss Manners suspects that offer her a bonus and say how the blog look one-sided and disyou are speaking of encountering that person in public, without an introduction. In that case, it would be more useful to know if that particular celebrity generally reacts to being addressed with a smile or a fist.

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Warriors log historic milestone at Yukon volleyball championships Tom Patrick

momentum going into the final.

The Porter Creek team went undefeated in the tournament’s he F.H. Collins Warriors have round robin, dealing the Warriors finally gotten a monkey off their first loss of the season on their backs.

Thursday.

After coming close last year – “Our goal was to peak and play so darn close last year – the War- our best volleyball at the end of rior senior boys have achieved the the season, and throughout the team’s first Triple Crown in Yukon tournament we went 4-0 in the high school volleyball. round robin, so we beat every“This is a big win for the body – we were the only team to school, not just the team,” said beat F.H. Collins and they were Warriors head coach Denis Boyd. really good all year,” said Rams “F.H. hasn’t ever won the Triple head coach Derick Bilodeau.

Crown, so we have the monkey “We didn’t play our best game off our back. F.H. is on the board today. But it’s a long weekend and it was a total team effort, so and our guys played their best I’m feeling pretty happy right volleyball this weekend and durnow.” ing the tournament, so I’m really The Warriors won the Dawson proud of them all. They are a Invitational Volleyball Tournagreat group of guys to coach and ment at the start of November.

I’m happy with the outcome that They then won the Super Volley we got.” title, going undefeated during “We struggled as a group, we the Whitehorse league’s regular just didn’t have the killer atseason. titude,” said Boyd of Thursday’s They then pocketed the highly loss. “Porter Creek took our percoveted Triple Crown by winfect season away from us. So not ning the senior boys division at only did we want to get the Triple the Yukon Volleyball Champion- Crown – especially after coming ships at F.H. Collins Secondary on up short last year – we had someSaturday. thing to prove.

Last season, the Warriors “We wanted to go out and achieved the first two, but then prove we were the best team and lost in the final of the champion- the guys did it.” ships to the Vanier Crusaders.

After taking the lead at 13-12 “It’s really just a relief,” said in the first set, the Warriors Warriors power Max Clarke. “We reached set point on a kill from were expected to win the whole Tristan Sparks and then took the year and it’s just a relief to get it set on a kill from Clarke. over with. And considering last Then tied 3-3 in the second set, year’s disappointment, it’s just the Warriors took the lead a final really good to get that under our time on a kills from Peter Jacob, belts.” who later logged another to make The Warriors capped the it 18-11. The Warriors then went school’s standout season with a up 21-11 on three unreturned 25-19, 25-13 win over the Porter serves that came over the net like Creek Rams in Saturday’s final. knuckleballs from Tim Schirmer.

Despite the Warriors’ suTwo more kills from Jacob premacy leading up the chammoved his team to 23-13 before they got match point on a missed pionships, the Rams had the News Reporter

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Porter Creek attack.

Clarke, who was named Tournament MVP, finished off the Rams with thundering spike.

“I thought the first set was interesting, in the second set PC sort of dropped off – their confidence was a little bit lower,” said Clarke. “But overall it was a pretty good game.

“It was good revenge because we had lost to them (on Thursday).”

Needless to say, the Warriors will attempt a second straight Triple Crown next season, but it won’t be easy. The team’s entire starting line – Clarke, Jacob, Schirmer, setter Ben Grundmanis, Sparks, Marcus Deuling, Allen Mark – will be graduating at the end of the school year.

“Unfortunately we are losing our entire starting line-up, but we have a great group of guys, Grade 11s, coming up next year,” said Boyd. “We’re still going to have a very strong team.”

“The juniors on the bench were really supportive; they’re a good group of guys to have on the team,” added Clarke. “They pushed us in practices and cheered during the games.”

The Vanier Crusaders captured senior boys bronze at the championships with a win over Dawson City’s Robert Service Knights.

All-Stars Daniel Moses (Crusaders) Galen Clark (Knights) Jack Woodwalker (Rams) Trygg Jensen (Rams) Peter Jacob (Warriors) Ben Grundmanis (Warriors) MVP Max Clarke (Warriors) Contact Tom Patrick at tomp@yukon-news.com

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Warriors libero Allen Mark digs the ball early in the final.

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Top: F.H. Collins Warriors middle Etienne Geoffroy goes to block Porter Creek Rams’ Chance Goodman during the senior boys final of the Yukon Volleyball Championships at F.H. Collins Secondary on Saturday. The Warriors won the final and pocketed the school’s first Triple Crown.

Below: Warriors middle Tristan Sparks goes to block Rams setter Trygg Jensen.

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Rams three-peat in senior girls division Tom Patrick News Reporter

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he Porter Creek Rams did it in threes this season.

The team won the school’s third straight senior girls title at the Yukon Volleyball Championships at F.H. Collins Secondary on Saturday.

The title also marked a Triple Crown for the school – another three. They already won the Dawson Invitational Volleyball Tournament – a third consecutive year – and Whitehorse’s Super Volley league.

What they didn’t do in threes was win matches. The Rams went through the Yukon championship without a single match going to three sets; they won all of them in two.

“We’re pretty proud of ourselves,” said Rams co-captain and tournament All-Star Sam Wintemute. “It’s pretty bittersweet for the seniors because it’s our last season, but finishing off with the Triple Crown couldn’t be any better.”

“We started off as a group of individuals this season and we worked really hard to become a unit,” said Rams head coach Amy Palamar. “They brought all the skill that they individually have and mashed it all together and made the dream team.”

The Rams capped the threepeat with a 25-15, 25-13 win over the Vanier Crusaders in the final.

Porter Creek picked up steam as the final went on. After trailing in the beginning, the Rams caught the Crusaders at 8-8 and later went up 18-11 on four straight unreturned serves from setter Hannah Milner.

Milner, who like Wintemute was playing in her final high school game, was named tournament MVP following the final.

“I think the setter is the most important player on the court and she really sets up our offence very well,” said Wintemute. “And her serving was really on point this whole tournament and throughout the whole season.”

“She’s a spectacular setter, she works really hard, she gets to the ball and makes good plays,” said Palamar. “She’s just an asset to the team.”

The Rams claimed the first set on a service winner from co-captain Tayla NcNally and then a kill from Wintemute, her spike going off the net tape and over.

Wintemute (whose jersey is No. 3) put her team off to a good start in the second, registering an ace in a four-point run. She put in another unreturned serve to make it 23-13.

Following a missed Vanier attack, Rams’ Teah Dickson put in a big swinging kill into the corner for the win. Dickson was named Volleyball Yukon’s Female Athlete of the Year at the Sport Yukon Awards Night a couple weeks ago.

“I think we were at the top of our game,” said Wintemute. “We weren’t beating up on ourselves.

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Porter Creek Rams co-captain Sam Wintemute spikes the ball during the senior girls final of the Yukon Volleyball Championships on Saturday at F.H. Collins Secondary. The Rams defeated the Vanier Crusaders in two sets.

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Vanier Crusader Olivia Smith looks to make a pass.

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Rams’ Teah Dickson bumps the ball as teammate Tayla McNally looks on during the final.

After every mistake we just moved strong.” on from it.

Saturday’s win in the final “We couldn’t have played marked another three for Porter any better. We finished off very Creek. It was the Rams’ third

successful encounter with the Crusaders in a final this season, beating them in the final in Dawson, in Super Volley and now the Yukon championship. To Vanier’s credit, they dealt the Rams their only loss of the season during the Super Volley season.

Dawson City’s Robert Service School Knights took the senior girls bronze with a win over the F.H. Collins Warriors.

All-Stars Olivia Holmes (Knights) Avery Bramadat (Warriors) Jiela Tobias (Crusaders) Chloe Turner-Davis (Crusaders) Sam Wintemute (Rams) Tayla McNally (Rams) MVP Hannah Milner (Rams) Contact Tom Patrick at tomp@yukon-news.com

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Warrior junior girls go undefeated for gold

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F.H. Collins Warriors setter Alice Frost dives for a dig during the junior girls final at the Yukon Volleyball Championships on Saturday at F.H. Collins Secondary. The Warriors defeated the Porter Creek Rams for gold.

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he goal of every Yukon volleyball team is to peak at the seasonending territorial championships.

Everything else – the Dawson invitational, the Whitehorse league – is just preparation.

The F.H. Collins Warriors junior girls team achieved that goal.

The Warriors went undefeated at the Yukon Volleyball Championships, beating the Porter Creek Rams in Saturday’s final at F.H. Collins Secondary.

The Rams won the Dawson Invitational Volleyball Tournament, in which the Warriors didn’t even make the final.

“It’s a little bit unexpected because we didn’t know what to expect coming into the tournament,” said Warriors head coach Peter Grundmanis.

“All year long we’ve had 17 or 18 players, so in other tournaments and games we had different combinations of them … So the lineup for this tournament, we never had before.

“After the first game, they played really well, and they just kept rolling.”

The Warriors took the junior girls title and their fifth straight victory at the championship with a 25-16, 2426, 15-9 win over the Rams.

The final was nearly a two-set affair. The Rams dispatched two match points for the Warriors to push the final to a third and deciding set.

The Warriors reached match point at 24-22 on a kill from Maggie Brooks. However, a kill from Rams’ Kaitlin Organ, followed by three unreturned serves from Thea Carey, set the score at a set apiece.

“I thought they did great, they worked their hardest, they played point for point, they fought the entire game,” said Rams co-head coach Brittany Milner. “They are an awesome

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The Warriors celebrate their three-set win over the Rams for gold.

group of girls. They are amazing.”

“Porter Creek played clutch at the end (of the second) and error-free ball, and made life a little more exciting for us,” said Grundmanis.

Seemingly unfazed by the secondset comeback by the Rams, the Warriors came out hard in the third, going up 4-0 on a block from setter Alice Frost. Frost also made a block at match point for the win.

During the third set, Warriors power Jayden Demchuk hit three consecutive kills and a few points

later registered an ace to put her team up 12-5.

Demchuk, who is in Grade 9, was named Tournament MVP. “I was really excited about that,” said Demchuk. “All the hard work really paid off.

“I know our setter Alice (Frost) did a great job playing, and she definitely set me up with some really good balls.”

“Jayden just brings so much to the court,” said Grundmanis. “Everyone gets excited when she hits the big kill

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Porter Creek Rams’ Tasha Schwantz puts a free ball over the net.

and she really does do that. But she brings so much more to the court including her leadership, her passing and her defence. She really is such an outstanding player at such an early age.”

The Warriors advanced to the final with a win over Dawson City’s Robert Service School Knights, who

went on to take the bronze with a three-set win over the Vanier Crusaders.

“It’s a great way to end off the season and I think our team did super good with all our energy,” added Demchuk.

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Dawson Knights claim gold at volleyball championships

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Members of Dawson City’s Robert Service School Knights celebrate their gold medal win at the Yukon Volleyball Championships on Saturday at F.H. Collins Secondary. The Knights defeated the Porter Creek Rams in the junior boys final.

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respect each other and they’re in it together. It’s a team thing and today they pulled together.” ew gold medal wins are as The Knights came out really long in the making as the one strong in the opening set of the in the junior boys division at the final. After jumping out to a 4-0 Yukon Volleyball Championships lead, Dawson went on a nineon Saturday. point run on the serve of Caleb Dawson City’s Robert Service Verdonk to go up 15-4. The School Knights, who won gold, Rams chipped away at the deficit have been playing together since and caught up at 22-22 with a before they reached the high crafty tip by Jon Amos followed school level. by an unreturned serve from “We’ve known each other Amos. Rams’ Jarrett Peterson since we were six years old and then put away back-to-back kills we’ve never come apart from before teammate Robert Smalleach other,” said Knights cowood followed up with a kill of captain John Dagostin. his own for the set.

“We keep our hopes up “We tend to start a little slow,” together, we always push each said Rams head coach Tara other to achieve greater goals.

Wardle. “We get a little nervous That’s the benefit to this team, and get the best of ourselves … there’s only seven of us, but we’ve The more we talk the better we all known each other since we do, and unfortunately we were were kids.” a little quiet out on the court The Knights captured gold today.” with a 22-25, 25-17, 15-7 comeThe Knights got back on track from-behind win over the Porter in the second. They went on a Creek Rams in the gold medal five-point run on the serve of game at F.H. Collins Secondary.

Dagostin to go up 8-1 and 10-3 It wasn’t the team’s first gold on an ace from middle Zach medal. The same Knights team Bartholomeus. Bartholomeus won gold in the Grade 8 division was named tournament MVP – with an all Grade 7 team – at following the final. the 2011 Yukon championships, “He’s got some big blocks, which was the last time the Daw- some timely hits and he really son school won a Yukon title. stepped up as a leader too,” said The next year, in Grade 8, the Laszlo. “It’s well deserving. He’s team won silver in the junior improved his game on and off boys division. the court.”

“You look out on the court, The Knights got to within they know their positions and arm’s reach of the second set on they play them well,” said Knights a service winner from Dagostin, head coach Steve Laszlo. “They who plays middle, at 23-14. They are friends on and off the court. tied the match a set apiece on a After the game they’re not going kill from Will Connellan. off in every direction, they’re The Dawson crew took the hanging out with each other. So lead for the final time at 3-2 in they care for each other and they the third on a kill from Verdonk.

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They then went up 13-6 on a kill from co-captain John Kilpin before the Rams were called on a double hit and missed a serve to end the match.

“It’s special, it just doesn’t Tom Patrick/Yukon News happen every day for Dawson,” Knights co-captain John Kolpin goes for the kills against Porsaid Laszlo. “We’ve come to the ter Creek during the final. dance before, but we haven’t been able to close it. We were able to close today and it’s a good feeling.”

The team is feeling “pretty great,” said Dagostin. “It’s been a while. We got silver last year at the (Dawson Invitational Volleyball Tournament) and we hungered for gold at this tournament.”

The gold-winning Knights suffered just one loss at the championships, dropping a round robin game to the F.H. Collins Warriors, who went on to take bronze.

Surprisingly, before the playoffs, the Rams went winless in four matches in the round robin.

“We didn’t play well in the round robin at all,” said Wardle.

“We’ve lost a number of players in the last week … It took us the round robin to find our chemistry again with the six out on the court.”

The junior boys gold was one of three medals won by the Robert Service School Knights at this year’s championships. The Knights also won bronze in the junior girls and the senior girls divisions.

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Nishikawa places 38th to open World Cup season

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She was just four spots from a â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m really happy to start my personal best World Cup placing. season off this way. This was a She placed 34th in a 15-kilometre great race for me, and Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m really skiathlon at a World Cup event in excited to build off this success,â&#x20AC;?

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was incredibly deep, as this was the first World Cup of the season.â&#x20AC;?

The national team skier placed fourth in a10-kilometre FIS race the previous weekend in Gallivare, Sweden. She is scheduled to compete at a second World Cup event this weekend in Lillehammer, Norway.

Nishikawa, who raced for Canada at the Sochi Olympics early this year, was named International Female Athlete of the Year for a third year in a row at the Sport Yukon Awards Night a couple weeks ago in Whitehorse.

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Wiggins makes the cut at nationals before excelling at Vegas pro-am Tom Patrick News Reporter

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hitehorse’s Jeff Wiggins has never missed a cut at a tournament in his professional career.

The Mountain View Golf Club pro kept the string going at the PGA Club Professional Championship of Canada in Fountain Hills, Arizona, two weeks ago.

Wiggins was one of 70 golfers out of 108 to make the cut following two rounds. He finished tied for 58th.

“There were a lot of great players who didn’t even make the cut,” said Wiggins. “So I kind of changed my goals. After the first two practice rounds, when we knew how fast the greens were and how difficult it was going to play, my initial goal was to make the cut. And I accomplished that, which is great.”

“It was the most difficult golf course and conditions we’ve ever played the national championship on, and obviously the scores reflected it.”

The 37-year-old finished the three rounds 22-over. The winner, Matt Peavoy of Peterborough, Ont., finished with a two-over-par, winning a playoff with a par.

“That was the highest winning score ever in the championship,” said Wiggins.

“I don’t think anyone expected it to be that difficult.

After we got a couple practice rounds in, it was unanimous among all the professionals, this was not going to be an easy task.

“It was one of those tournaments where you had to know pars and bogeys were going to be great scores.”

The club pro championships were held at Arizona’s Sunridge Canyon Golf Club, home of the “wicked six” – the nickname for the extremely challenging final six holes.

In his “go for broke” third round, Wiggins finished with three double bogeys on the last three holes. Had he pared the last three, like he did in his second round, he would have moved up to 35th.

“Coming into the last three holes I went, ‘I’m just going to fire at pins and see if I can get a few back here,’” said Wiggins. “I’m either going to strike it really good or I’m going to make some double bogeys, and it just so happened it was the latter.”

“I went out there and gave it my best, and what a great experience,” he added. “It was a great championship to play because now I have even more experience that I can pass down to the amateur golfers in the territory that represent us at national events.”

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Mountain View Golf Club pro Jeff Wiggins, seen here in August, made the cut at the PGA Club Professional Championship of Canada two weeks ago in Arizona.

Wiggins tied for 58th.

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Wiggins placed 27th last year and tied for 20th in 2011 at the nationals, then held in Florida.

Following his stay in Arizona, Wiggins headed over to Las Vegas to meet up with a group of Mountain View golfers last week.

Wiggins, Glen Slonski, Gary Hewitt, Sean Campbell and former Yukon champ Landon Kulych took part in the 15th annual Vegas Baby Pro Am. The Whitehorse team kicked off the four-day pro-am winning the first-day tournament with the low team score and Wiggins notched the low pro score of 73.

The team then placed 11th in the three-day Stableford format event held at the Las Vegas Country Club, Cascata Golf Course and the Rio Secco Golf Club.

“The courses were phenomenal,” said Wiggins. “We had a blast.

“They were long days. We’d get up a six in the morning, be on buses at eight, shotguns at 10. So you weren’t getting back until 5:30 at night. By that time you were a little tuckered out, so you’d take a nap and then get up and eat.

“So it wasn’t your typical Las Vegas trip: all shows and gambling.”

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Paslawski edged out of playoff spot at Travelers Championships Tom Patrick News Reporter

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ukon’s Team Paslawski was the most exemplary men’s team for the Travelers Club Curling Championship, last week in Halifax.

The Paslawski rink traveled farther than any other in the men’s draw at the sixth annual event, formerly called the Dominion Curling Club Championships, held for club-level curling teams.

But bonus points weren’t awarded for longest distance traveled.

The Paslawski team, who was representing the Whitehorse Curling Club, went 3-3 and missed a spot in the playoffs.

“We absolutely want to go back. It’s a great time,” said skip Pat Paslawski. “First and foremost, it’s a great party. And the level of curling there is better suited to the level that we’re at.

“If we were to go to the Brier we’d get killed. So it’s nice to go there and compete for a national championship where we have a reasonable chance at winning some games.”

The Paslawski team, which included third Doug Hamilton, second Trent Derkatch and lead Gary Brown, jumped out to a 3-1 record with wins over Northern Ontario, B.C. and N.W.T. They lost to Alberta, Manitoba and were eliminated with a 9-2 loss to New Brunswick on Thursday.

“We were 3-2 and we had to win against New Brunswick,” said Paslawski. “I missed a shot and it was a five-point swing; instead of us getting four, we gave them one. That really took the wind out of our sails. If I made that shot it

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Team Yukon lead Gary Brown sends a shot down the ice at the Travelers Curling Club Championships last week in Halifax.

Yukon’s men’s team went 3-3 at the championships.

would have been a very different game.”

Paslawski, Hamilton and Derkatch, along with Alexx Peeach, won last year’s Yukon Men’s Curling Championships.

The same four became the

first men’s rink from Yukon to reach the playoffs of the Travelers championships last year. They went 5-1 in the round-robin to make the semis, where they lost 5-1 to Saskatchewan.

Yukon had less success on the

women’s side of the tournament.

Team MacInnis, which was representing the Atlin Curling Club, went winless at 0-6.

On board to represent the Atlin club were skip Sherry MacInnis, third Daniyel McNeil,

second Bev Murphy and lead Janis Harper, Their closest loss was 8-5 to Manitoba, who went on to reach Friday’s semifinal.

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Reebok deal takes sport of mixed martial arts to a new level Neil Davidson Canadian Press

TORONTO he UFC has joined forces with Reebok on a six-year deal billed as the biggest nonbroadcast partnership in the history of the mixed martial arts organization.

UFC co-owner Lorenzo Fertitta called the agreement “a seminal moment for this company and for this sport, taking it to another level.”

The deal will change the way UFC fighters look.

Instead of a mishmash of sponsors on shorts (or tops for women), they will wear gear with the Reebok logo with perhaps one title sponsor.

“Think more along the lines of European soccer,” Fertitta said in a conference call prior to Tuesday’s announcement in New York.

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Any title sponsor on the Reebok gear will be “a major global brand,” promised Fertitta.

“Just that alone is going to completely change the perception of the sport, the perception of the athletes, the level that where we’re at,” he added. “This is a true game-changer.”

The new “athlete outfitting policy” will start in July 2015.

Fertitta declined to detail the value of the Reebok deal but said “the vast majority if not all of the revenues” will go to the fighters in the beginning. The UFC hopes to dip into the revenue itself down the line as it grows.

For the UFC, a partnership with Reebok adds legitimacy to combat sports. Indeed, it’s a far cry from condom and gun shop ads that used to adorn fighter butts.

Fighters will be paid to wear the new gear on a per-fight basis.

How much they get will be based

on their ranking the day of the weigh-in. Champions will make the most, with subsequent tiers for fighters ranked No, 1-5, 6-10, 11-15 and those not ranked.

Fighters will also get royalties on gear with their likeness.

Previously fighters were essentially allowed to walk in wearing gear advertising their own sponsors. If their sponsor was not connected to the UFC and was of a certain size, it would have to pay the UFC an “affiliation fee.”

Some elite fighters also shared in revenue from top UFC sponsors who elected to use them.

Fighters also had their own deals.

Light-heavyweight champion Jon (Bones) Jones, for example, has a deal with Nike.

Former welterweight title-holder Georges St-Pierre had his own line with Affliction.

Fighters can keep those sponsors although they won’t be able

to wear them into Octagon.

“So no different than any other professional sports league,” said Fertitta. “Obviously if you play in the NFL, Tom Brady wears a Nike uniform, DeMarco Murray wears a Nike uniform but Tom Brady is actually sponsored by Under Armour and DeMarco Murray is sponsored

by Adidas.”

The UFC has some 500 male and female fighters under contract “Most of the people I’ve talked to, they really get it.

They’re excited about it,” said UFC president Dana White.

Now they will have to wear Reebok into the cage and the sponsor banners that were displayed during pre-bout introductions will disappear.

But Fertitta says fighters will still have their own look under the new deal.

“It will allow for each of the

fighter’s individuality but also will provide a unique iconic and consistent look for all the athletes,” Fertitta said.

Fighters’ cornermen will also wear Reebok gear.

The new partnership will see UFC-Reebok gear in 1,500 Reebok stores and thousand more retail outlets worldwide.

“It’a a massive, massive move for the sport of MMA and the brand of UFC and the fighters’ brands,” said Fertitta.

Reebok will also invest in research and development “to create and innovate new products for training in the sports of mixed martial arts.”

A percentage of revenue from the deal will go to Fight for Peace, a non-profit organization.

The UFC had hoped to announce the Reebok partnership at a Las Vegas news conference last month but did not get it done it in time.

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WINNERS...

Up to five years

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WINNERS...

Up to five years

Oliver Cann Six to eight years

Kinnia Choi Nine to twelve years

Juliette Belisle-Greetham Congratulations to our winners and runners-up and good luck to those of you entering next week’s competition.

Name: _____________________________ Address: ____________________________ __________________________________ Phone: _____________________________ Age Up to five Six to eight Nine to twelve years years years Group:

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211 Wood Street, Whitehorse, Yukon Y1A 2E4.

Open to kids up to age 12. Entries for this week’s contests must be received by 12 pm next Monday in order to appear in next week’s paper. If your entry arrives late (which may happen with out-of-town entries), it will be judged along with the contestants from the following week. Please limit entries to ONE PER CHILD PER WEEK. The contests are divided into three age groups: Up to five years, Six to eight years, Nine to twelve years. Drawings for the drawing contest must be on a separate piece of paper and reproducible on a photocopier to win. (Black and white drawings on white paper are easier to reproduce.)

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Please note that only winning entries will be returned. WINNERS RECEIVE GIFT CERTIFICATES FOR “SECOND SHOW”.

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867-821-4443 SKYLINE APTS: 2-bdrm apartments, Riverdale. Parking & laundry facilities. 667-6958 HOBAH APARTMENTS: Clean, spacious, walking distance downtown, security entrance, laundry room, plug-ins, rent includes heat & hot water, no pets. References required. 668-2005 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

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 OFFICE SPACE FOR RENT 2nd floor of building on Gold Road in Marwell Sizes 180 sqft & 340 sqft Quiet spaces with reasonable rent 667-2917 or 334-7000 WHY SETTLE for dingy basement or noisy apartment? Share whole house with other professionals, Porter Creek, everything incl. $750/month. http://timmit.ca/share, tollfree 1-855-628-7138x99 1-BDRM FURNISHED bsmt suite, PC, avail immed, completely renoĘźd, heat incl, $1,200/mon. 335-5352 SHOP/OFFICE/STUDIO Multi-Use Building with space available to rent Shop/Office/Studio Various sizes, will modify to suit Washroom on site, friendly environment whserentals@hotmail.com Phone 667-6805

2,000 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 ROOM FOR rent, N/S, N/P, avail immed, $750/mon all incl. 393-2275 3-BDRM HOUSE w/den, Copper Ridge, clean, yard, carport, deck, washer/dryer, N/P, dd & refs reqĘźd, $1,650/mon includes heat. 667-4463 3-BDRM 1/2 duplex w/large yard & deck, 4 appliances, $1,200/mon + utils.

780-351-2677 2-BDRM 2.5 bath condo, Crestview, new, N/S, N/P, avail Dec 1, $1,500/mon & utils & dd. 334-7306 PRIME RETAIL/OFFICE/CLINIC, corner 4th & Ogilvie, 1,900 sq ft, infloor heating, built-in office, tile & carpet, heat incl. 399-3671 3-BDRM, 2-BATH duplex in Copper Ridge, $1,600/mon + utils. 633-6708

For Rent

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

PINE MEDICAL Building, office space for rent, $500/mon + GST for 305 sq ft. Call 668-3838

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

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

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 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 2-BDRM APT in Riverdale available immed.

New paint, new flooring, large balcony, N/P, no parties, responsible tenant, utils inclĘźd, $1,400/mon. 668-5558 2-BDRM MOBILE home, 30 mins from Whitehorse, includes electricity, avail Nov 1, $1,395/mon. 867-668-2215 after 7pm

ROOM IN big Copper Ridge house, $559/mon incl utils. Contact Sarah at 613-422-9395 or sarah_g_d@outlook.com 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 DOWNTOWN OFFICE space available within house located in commercial zone, $800/mon, negotiable, call or email (514) 467-2817, 335-0504 or jamie.sachi@gmail.com 1-BDRM LEGAL bsmt suite, downtown, bright, new renos, separate entrance, small office space, storage room, w/d, N/S, N/P, $995/mon + utils. 667-2255

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

LARGE UNFURNISHED bdrm w/private bathroom, downtown, storage space avail, house shared with 2 females, must like dogs, $800/mon + dd, heat/elec/Internet incl. (514) 467-2817, 335-0504 jamie.sachi@gmail.com

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

ROOMMATE FOR upper level of house, female preferred, beautiful view, less than 15 mins from d/t Whitehorse, N/S, $750/mon incl utils & laundry. 587-434-9834

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

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

Call 867-333-0144

VISIT BAJA MEXICO and help support a kidĘźs project in Guatamala Ninosdellago.org 5-room Casa near Harbour in Colonial Centre, La Paz January/February, 2015 $500/week suzanne@dunroaminretreat.com 867-821-3492 FRIENDLY, RELIABLE housemate wanted, furnished space in Riverdale avail Dec 1, N/S, $550/mon all incl. 456-7490 1-BDRM BASEMENT suite, Crestview, avail Dec. 1, $1,000/mon + utils & dd. 334-7306 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

Office/Commercial Space for Rent Available Immediately:

Newly built, bright 2 bedroom condos for rent located at 117 Jasper Place.

Each bedroom with its own master bathroom, large kitchen, garage, washer, dryer, dishwasher. No smoking.

$2,200 per month plus utilities. Call: 334-8052

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WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 3, 2014 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 2-BDRM HOUSE, Copper Ridge, lg back patio, carport, RV pkg, close to svcs, easy access to Hamilton Blvd and d/t, avail immed, $1,550/mon + utils. 393-2747 or 334-2747 DOWNTOWN HOME with 3 small bedrooms, new floors & appliances, dd & refs reqĘźd, $1,200/mon + utils. 250-918-9019 for details FURNISHED BEDROOM, Copper Ridge, close to bus, responsible tenant, $650/mon incl utils, cable, internet. whseinc@gmail.com LARGE HOUSE on acreage in Porter Creek, oil heat, N/S, N/P, no parties, avail Jan. 1, $1,800/mon + utils. christinestephen7@hotmail.com. 867-335-0043

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

Certified Green.

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

MOBILE HOME Association of Yukon requires 2 people to volunteer to assist with ongoing projects. Some knowledge of City affairs/Internet skills an asset. Contact charlotte158@yahoo.com or text 332-4466. No phone calls please

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.

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

Miscellaneous for Sale

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

Condo Suite in Nanaimo, B.C. Quality construction+materials, partially furnished w/kitchen appliances, small but well organized 300 sq ft space in quiet residential neighbourhood.

Transit, park, shopping nearby.

Low condo fees+utilities.

Asking $85,000.

Call 867-660-4516 2-BDRM 2-BATH 2001 millinium home, large lot with raised beds, green houses, new shed, triple pane windows, nice hideaway in Haines Jct. 867-634-2064

TWO BEDROOMS in Riverdale home near park, fully furnished, close to bus, N/P, N/S, $450-$500/mon + utils & dd, avail Dec. 1.

336-0368

ONE HA. lots for sale outside Haines Jct, power, phone, internet, road access, south-facing, stunning views of St. Elias, $90,000 to $125,000. paintmountainsubdivision@yahoo.ca

3-BDRM 2-BATH home, Takhini North, ample parking, 2 L/Rs, laundry, storage shed, close to College/bus/CGC, avail Feb 1, $1,875/mon incl City utils. 336-1019

Help Wanted

Wanted to Rent HOUSESITTER AVAILABLE Mature, responsible person Call Suat at 668-6871 HOUSESITTER AVAILABLE from now May 2015, reliable and trusworthy woman, lots of very good references from Yukon, Argentina, Spain, Hawaii, Quebec, etc. Valerie @ (867)336-2848 WANTED: CLEAN, furnished, quiet, non-smoking 2-bdrm affordable situation in central Whitehorse, 2 BC nursing students arriving for practicum for 7 weeks, living with family/couple ok. 250-739-8956

Real Estate

SCHOOL BUS DRIVERS WANTED Training Provided Apply in person to: TAKHINI TRANSPORT #9 Lindeman Road, Whitehorse, Yukon 867-456-2745 WANTED: LICENSED HAIRSTYLIST for new beauty shop in Porter Creek Mall PatĘźs Hairstyling & Barber Shop 633-5395 332-0784 MEDICAL TRANSCRIPTION is an in-demand career in Canada! Employers have work-at-home positions available. Get the online training you need from an employer-trusted program.

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

Part-time Dental Assistant required Please forward resumes to: Whitehorse Dental Clinic 406 Lambert St Fax: 867-667-4488

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

Specializing in estate clean-up & buy-outs.

The best way to deal with your concerns.

Free, no obligation consultation.

333-0717 STEEL BUILDINGS/METAL BUILDINGS 60% OFF! 20x28, 30x40, 40x62, 45x90, 50x120, 60x150, 80x100 sell for balance owed! Call 1-800-457-2206 www.crownsteelbuildings.ca

ATCO Electric Yukon

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

334-4568

Electric Yukon has been serving you since 1901.

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

Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re recruiting: Position Title Meter Reader Location Whitehorse Requisition ID # REQ2010

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

For information, please visit: www.atco.com/careers/

Native Brain-Tanned

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

Ph (780) 355-3557 or (780) 461-9677 or write Lodge Fur and Hides, Box 87, Faust AB, T0G 0X0

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2-BDRM 1-BATH condo, downtown end of Main, elevator, floor heating, no shared walls, 2 units per floor, deck, wheelchair access, bsmt storage, pets ok, $330,000.

250-716-6190. 250-716-6190 or email hanasaly.czca@gmail.com

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BLIZZARD WINTER boots, ladies sz 9, new, never worn, water & wind resistant, Thermolite insoles, warm, comfort lining, dark brown, $60. 332-0417 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

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

867-399-3920

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

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

2 ANTIQUE wooden chairs; large wine decanter w/brass spout, works, all glass. Text 334-0942 anytime or call after 7pm or weekends

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

ANTIQUE CIRCULAR buzz saw blade, 31” diameter, good shape, great decoration, $100 obo. 633-3392

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

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

668-4775

8” ICE fishing auger, new still in box, $500 obo. 867-689-9715

DOWN NORTH Face parka, men's XL, 700 weight, blue with black reinforced elbows, hood, $120. 334-2037

INTRODUCTORY CHEMISTRY, A Foundation, textbook, 6th edition, Zumdahl/Decoste, used Jan-April 2014 at Yukon College, good condition, $40. 633-3810 obo

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

ANTIQUE STAINED glass window from old chapel found in cabin outside Carcross, 17”X28”, chalice design, $500. 821-3492

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

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

LADIES GOLD nugget watch, turquoise bracelet, pair of clustered diamond earrings, 2 foamies in pkg. 667-6604 WINE CELLAR, holds 120 bottles; full length black mink coat, sz 12-14. 633-2535

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 3, 2014

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

COLEMAN VERTEX 5500 professional vertical generator, electric start, new NAPA battery, like new cond, $600. 334-8347 BLONDE GRIZZLY bear rug, $1,600 obo.

335-5465

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

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

660-4646

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

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

332-5212

LEATHER JACKET, suit jacket or outer jacket, tailored, black, size 42 - 44, $110.

334-2037 DEC 6, 9am, 2102 Centennial St, hockey, downhill skis, kids clothing, toys, household items, in heated garage behind house down driveway

WHERE DO I GET THE NEWS?

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

HILLCREST

PORTER CREEK

RIVERDALE:

Airport Chalet Airport Snacks & Gifts

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

38 Famous Video Super A Riverdale Tempo Gas Bar

GRANGER Bernie’s Race-Trac Gas Bigway Foods

CHAIN LINK fence w/cement posts, free for pick-up, wooden shelf, 8ʼLx2.5ʼH, 6 compartments, $20. 393-3358 COMIC BOOKS, 1500+, very nice, must see; Shell gas sign, 5X5ʼ, double sided, lighted, needs work, from 60s, text 334-0942/call after 7pm or weekends YUKON PARKA, full length w/shell, purple, sz L, $200. 668-7320 SNOWBLOWER, HONDA HS621, 6hp, OHV Honda engine, electric start, exc cond, $750. 332-4092 DOG HOUSE for large dog, insulated floor, offers. 668-4876

Porter Creek Super A requires a

PART-TIME BUTCHER

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

NO PHONE CALLS PLEASE.

ACTIVE IN YOUR COMMUNITY Are you looking for volunteer opportunities?

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

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

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

Volunteer Kettle Host Positions Job Description: t Give back to our community by hosting a Kettle stand at one of the Host Business locations t Report to assigned Kettle Station 5-10 minutes before your 2 hour shift begins t 2 hr shifts run Wednesday thru Saturday from 10 am to 8 pm t Be friendly/respectful to the public with a smile, t Say “Merry Christmas” & ring bells during your shift t Thank donors with a “Thank You! – or God Bless You” and offer a candy cane from your supply bag t Hosts who start at the beginning of the day will need to pick up the Kettle from Customer Service t Hosts finishing at the end of the day will need to drop off the Kettle at Customer Service Have fun and spread Christmas cheer!

Contact Claudine for more information and to apply.

(867) 335-0571 whitehorse.sa.kettles@gmail.com Give the gift of hope this Christmas!; The Salvation Army provides direct support to the Homeless in our community; In the past year more than 50,000 meals have been served at our Community Shelter.

Santa is coming to Town!!!

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

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

Thank you – in advance – for participating with us.

If you have any questions or are interested in donating, you can contact the event coordinator: Rhoda Merkel, rlmerkel@yahoo.ca , 867-335-1761 or 667-6355.

“YOUR COMMUNITY CONNECTION” WEDNESDAY * FRIDAY

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Community Services

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 3, 2014 PETER PAN antique 50s-60s glass lamp shade for ceiling; 2 large Japanese vases, beautiful. Text 334-0942 anytime or call ater 7pm or weekends BETA MOVIES, near 600 with 2 working machines; mini popcan or beer vending machine; Text anytime or call 334-0942 after 7pm or weekends DOG SLED suitable for one or more dogs, birch, weighs approx 125 lbs, interchangeable runner inserts, never used, offers.

668-4876 GAMES, 3 Japanese Pachinko pinball machines, new, never used; antiques, mostly glass, depression carnival, Wheaton bottles.

Text 334-0942 anytime or call after 7pm or weekends

Guns & Bows

HURLBURT ENTERPRISES INC.

LICENSED TO BUY, SELL & CONSIGN rifles & ammo at G&R New & Used 1612-D Centennial St. 393-2274 BUY • SELL

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

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

CSA SPORTER VZ-58 non-rest rifle, new, 7.62X39 Tele-stock, $950. 334-1422 lv msg 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

Electrical Appliances MasterCard

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

TVs & Stereos 32” PANASONIC GAOO CRT TV, works well, pick it up and it is yours. 660-5101

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

Musical Instruments PIANO TUNING & REPAIR by certified piano technician Call Barry Kitchen @ 633-5191 email:bfkitchen@hotmail.com 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 ALTO SAX, ST.90 Series IV Keilwerth, exc condition, includes travel case. 668-4587 BASS PLAYER looking to join working band, no beginners please. Thomas @ 660-4826 TECKNICS DIGITAL piano, beautiful Christmas gift, exc cond, $750. 334-2779 Guitar/Bass and Music Theory Lessons with Jim Holland in the Takhini Hot Springs area starting in January 2015.

Beginners to intermediate Call for times and prices 867-335-0396

Firewood 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

Cheque, Cash S.A. vouchers accepted.

Wanted

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

2006 Mazda 3 Sp

Call or text 000-00 0-0000

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

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

2001 INFINITY QX4 SUV, AWD, auto, loaded, leather, 158,000, exc cond, body very good, safe, clean in & out, keyless entry, $8,000. 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

2007 JEEP Compass 4x4 Limited, 97,800 km, trans axle, roof racks, sunroof, heated seats, reliable, no problems, $9,500 obo.

334-9415

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

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

667-2276

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

2003 PONTIAC Sunfire, 2-dr, Ecotec 2.2L 5-spd, new alternator, starter, battery, oilpan heater, exhaust, recent mechanical inspection, solid car, 181,000km, $3,000. 332-5510

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

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

2011 KIA Sportage FWD, 60,000 kms, 2 yrs left on warranty, exc cond, $15,000 firm. nat05@hotmail.com or 668-6051 eves

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

DRY SPRUCE FIREWOOD Cut to length 16” and up From Haines Junction Local delivery $250 per cord 456-2035

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

DONʼS FIREWOOD Keeping Yukoners Warm For 7 years 393-4397

WANTED: METAL filing cabinet. Peter 333-9043

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

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

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)

WANTED: SOLID wood table 30”X20” or smaller, light colour wood, well built, reasonable price. 668-6871 WANTED: STEEL door for furnace room in residence and an aluminum fuel tank, 10-15 gallons, dents ok. 668-2802 OLD OR dead long track snowmobiles, cheap or free. 456-4922

EVF FUELWOOD ENT Year Round Delivery • Dry accurate cords • Clean shavings available • VISA/M.C. accepted Member of Yukon Wood Producers Association Costs will rise.

ORDER NOW 456-7432

Brian Michael Hotte MAY 13, 1981 – DECEMBER 10, 2007

It is still hard to believe that you are not here.

We think of you, you feel so near.

In some small way, every single day memories of you come our way.

We miss you.

LOVE, MOM, DAD, KAREN AND FAMILY.

WANTED: MOVING trunks. 668-7026

Cars 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

Alex

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Funeral Services for the late Alex Van Bibber will be held at 1:00 PM on Saturday, December 6, 2014 at Champagne, Yukon.

In lieu of ϔlowers, donations can be made to the Yukon Fish & Game Association’s Outdoor Education Camps, 509 Strickland Street, Whitehorse, or 667-4263.

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2006 TOYOTA Matrix, AWD, auto, fully loaded, Pioneer stereo, 4 studded tires on rims, 4 all-seasons on rims, missing rear sport trim, 110,000kms, well maintained, $10,000. email yukonpearl@hotmail.com

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

STANDING DRY FIREWOOD for sale •Free delivery in the city •$250/cord for 18” or bigger •Half cords available Call 633-5041 for more information

REACH ort GT Excellent shape, 6 disk CD change r, A/C, Heated leathe r seats, 5 spd ma nual, Steering wheel co ntrols, sunroof, PW /L, Keyless entry. As king $7,500

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

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2007 PONTIAC G5, 155,000km, good car, good on gas, $3,800. 334-1935 2008 CHEV Equinox, 140km, great shape, remote start, A/C, heated seats, AWD, excellent winter vehicle. 334-8950

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

633-6019

Help control the pet overpopulation problem

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 3

2014

have your pets SPAYED OR NEUTERED. FOR INFORMATION CALL

633-6019

1997 CHRYSLER Cirrus LX(I), fully loaded, good running condition, 205,000km, auto, 4-dr, green, $1,900. 660-4646

MicMac USED VEHICLE SPECIALS!!

4"-&4 t #0%: 4)01 t 1"354 t 4&37*$& 2013 Toyota Tundra SR5 TRD, STOCK #1406 .............$40,795 2014 Nissan PathďŹ nder STOCK #7388A................$36,900 $ ! #7411A LD AGON, STOCK # ...... 26,595 2013 Volkswagen Golff WWAGON, SO $ TOCK #7430A ........................ 24,795 2011 Toyota Tacoma STOCK

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STOCK #7569A

14,995

$

2006 Toyota Corolla STOCK #7501A

9,200

$

LOST/FOUND LOST

FOUND

t 10 year old, male, Labrador Husky, golden, wearing red collar. Please contact Maya if found @403 360 3702 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)

t There is none at this time.

RUNNING AT LARGE...

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

IN FOSTER HOMES DOGS

CATS

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

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

AT THE SHELTER t 12 weeks old, female, huskyx, blonde (Caroline) t 11 weeks old, female, husky, blonde (Brin) t 4 yr old, neutered male, beagleX, brown and black and white (Dexter) t 1 yr old, neutered male, boxerx, brindle (Nikolaos) t 3 yr old, neutered male, boxer X, white, (Kale) t 2 yr old, male, beardog X, black and tan, (Rufus) t 5 yr old, female, border collie, brown,

17,290

$

(Annie) t 4 yr old, neutered male, Pit bull terrier X, brindle (Tux) t 11 months old, female, beagle/ dachshund, tricolour, (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 If your lost animal has been inadvertently left off the pet report or for more info on any of these animals, call 633-6019 or stop by 126 Tlingit Street.

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

You can also check out our award winning website at:

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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

CHECK OUT OUR ALL-NEW WEBSITE @

www.micmactoyota.com TOLL FREE 1-877-667-7202 ext 2 email: sales@micmac.toyota.ca

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

We Sell Trucks!

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

STOCK #7527A

WE BUY USED CARS

AVAILABLE FOR ADOPTION

DOGS

2009 Kia Sorento

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

2000 FORD truck 1995. 1999 Ford Explorer 1995. 2000 Toyota rav4 1995. 2003 Honda 2995. 2006 VW diesel 7888. 2006 Dodge pickup 4995. Eagleridge 855-200-3899

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

41,895

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

Trucks

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

STOCK #7354A

2006 FORD Escape, quality/durable cross over SUV, runs great, 215,000 km, $4,000 obo. 335-0891

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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2009 Ford Super Duty F-450 DRW

2006 CHEVROLET 3/4 ton 4X4, ext cab, V8 auto, P/S, P/W, cruise, new tires, 215,000, $7,950. 336-2029

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)

2012 Toyota Corolla

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

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

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

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

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

1999 CHEV Tahoe LS 4X4, 181k, good shape, runs excellent, $5,400 obo. 668-2262 1999 CHEVROLET 1/2 ton 4X4, ext cab, c/w winch, head rack & rails, storage bins, $6,950. 336-2029 1999 D O D G E 3500 diesel dually, mechanicĘźs truck, reduced to $13,000.

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

Auto Parts & Accessories TRUCK CANOPIES - in stock * new Dodge long/short box * new GM long/short box * new Ford long/short box

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

A reward if offered for her safe return of $150

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

Please call Lynn @ 633-3758

TOYOTA ALLOY wheels, fits Tacoma or Tundra, 16X7, retail $490 ea, asking $125 ea or all for $400. 633-3053

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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 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

UDY

Hi, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m Judy.

Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m a sweet old girl who loves to get attention with having my belly or chin scratched.

So Come on down and meet me today.

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

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 TRUCK TOPPER/CANOPY, sliding windows with screens, front sliding window, back window with lock, 98"x72"x22", dark red, $349 obo. 660-4646

Pets

633-6019 126 Tlingit Street

www.humanesocietyyukon.ca

CANINES & COMPANY Dog Obedience School Puppy fundamentals January 20 Private Lessons Reactive dog rehabilitation Professional, high quality certified trainers Phone 333-0505 caninesandcompany@northwestel.net www.facebook.com/caninesandcompany

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 3, 2014 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.

3 WHITE German Shepherd puppies without papers, ready to go, $850 ea. Linda at 633-3652 or 456-8602 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 POMERIANS, 2 females, 2 males, ready to go Dec. 28, born Oct. 28, will have first shots before they go, $600. 651-2464

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

Campers & Trailers 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

We sell used Class C RVâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s!

Check it out here

Motorcycles & Snowmobiles

klondikerv.com or call us to view (867) 456-2729

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 2003 ARCTIC Cat 900 Mountain Cat snow machine, 151â&#x20AC;? track, 580kms, exc cond, $3,750. 333-9020 2009 POLARIS Razr 800 atv with V-plow, 4500lb Warn winch, upgraded wheel/rims/spare tire/shoulder harness/seatbelts & vplow, $7,200. 333-9020 2003 ARCTIC Cat Snopro 440 race sled, exc cond, $3,500. 334-6857 WANTED: YAMAHA VK 540. 863-5715 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 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 TWO ARGO Conquests, $10,000 for both, 863-5715 RONĘźS SMALL ENGINE SERVICES Repairs to Snowmobiles, Chainsaws, Lawnmowers, ATVĘźs, Small industrial equipment.

Light welding repairs available 867-332-2333 lv msg 2012 ARCTIC Cat Bearcat 570, long track 2-upseat only 170km/14 hours on engine, like new, garage store, ready to ride, $8500.

519-854-1300 2013 SNOPRO 600 race sled, fresh top end installed last season, exc cond, has fox floats and c&a pro skis, $8,500. 334-3237

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

Heavy Equipment TECK ARMORED electrical cable, size 000.

863-5715 2008 CAT excavator, model 303.5 CCR, low hours, exc cond, all service records, $43,000 obo. 867-536-4595 2014 ROCKHOUND 30 EXHD Brushhead, like new, $11,500 obo. 867-536-4595

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RV LOT Rentals $8.95 a day. 362 days of sunshine, pets, events, classes, entertainment. Reserve by 11/01/2014. Web-site: www.hemetrvresort.com.

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

867-399-3920 DOUBLE SNOWMOBILE/ATV trailer, drive on back, drive off front, 12ĘźX8Ęź deck, V front protects sleds from rocks/snow, great trailer, $2,500. 335-3570 SWS TRAILER, 2 axles, 7000lbs, enclosed cargo mate, 20Ęźlx81/2Ęźwx7Ęźh, barn doors, $9,999. 332-6116 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 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 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 30Ęź TRI-AXLE tilt deck trailer c/w 2 new spares & 5th wheel mount attachment, $4,600. 336-2029 10X30 ATCO wellsite, kitchen/diner, bedroom, bath c/w toilet, shower & sink, was $20,000, reduced to $8,000. 336-2029 12ĘźX72Ęź OLDER house trailer, furniture & appliances incl, take it away for $15,000.

633-2885

Coming Events ATLIN GUEST HOUSE Deluxe Lakeview Suites Sauna, Hot Tub, BBQ, Internet, Satellite TV Kayak Rentals In House Art Gallery 1-800-651-8882 Email: atlinart@yahoo.ca www.atlinguesthouse.com HOSPICE YUKON: Free, confidential services offering compassionate support to those facing advanced illness, death and bereavement. Visit our lending library @ 409 Jarvis, M-F 11:30-3:00, 667-7429, www.hospiceyukon.net ATLIN - GLACIER VIEW CABINS 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 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 F.H. COLLINS School Council regular meeting on December 3rd, 2014 @ 6:30pm in the Fine Dining Room at the school. Everyone welcome.

ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING YUKON PUBLIC LEGAL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION

17 December 2014, 5:30 pm Board Room | Java Connection

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

DANCE GATHERING Dec 6th @ 8-9pm at Leaping Feats. Adults and mature teens. A place to be yourself, connect with community and dance the way you want! whitehorsedancegathering@gmail.com

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

YUKON SCIENCE Institute presents Carnivores, roads and plants: how unexpected relationships change ecosystems with Alberto SuĂĄrez-Esteban, Sunday, December 7, 7:30pm, Beringia Centre, Whitehorse. Free

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.

YUKON ANTI-POVERTY Coalition's Christmas Potluck & monthly meeting is Thursday, December 18th, CYO Hall from 5 to 7pm.

Everyone welcome. Info: 334-9317

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

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

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 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 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 COMPASSIONATE Friends for bereaved parents is coming to Whitehorse looking for members and professionals for support and to serve on the advisory board.

Contact Kim 336-1416 COMPASSIONATE FRIENDS meeting Dec 15 6:30pm at 304 Hawkins St. Contact Kim 336-1416 ENJOY BREAKFAST with your family at Vanier Catholic Secondary School Annual Pancake Breakfast Tuesday, December 9th, 7:00am-10am. $5.00/plate, $20.00/family. All proceeds to â&#x20AC;&#x153;Share the Spiritâ&#x20AC;? Fundraiser.

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FOUND: NOVEMBER 22 at Lazulite rink, kid's left handed hockey stick, Call/text and describe to claim. Mike 335-9829 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 FOUND: SET of trailer ramps on Hot Springs Rd Sunday. email yukonhamish@gmail.com FOUND: GOLD bracelet downtown on Dec 1st. Contact 667-4109 with description

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PUBLIC TENDER SUPPLY AND INSTALL TYPE 2 CLASS A2 BIOLOGICAL SAFETY CABINET Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title.

The closing date for submissions is December 30, 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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WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 3, 2014 THE DISABILITY TAX Credit. $1,500 Yearly Tax Credit. $15,000 Lump Sum Refund (on avg). Covers: Hip/Knee Replacements, Arthritic Joints, COPD. For Help Applying 1-844-453-5372.

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Sports Equipment 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 K2 WAYBACK 88 174cm backcountry skis, w/Dynafit TLT vertical bindings & G3 fitted skins, as new, never used, $1,000. 660-4711 OZONE FRENZY snow kite, 11m Kite, as new, used 5 times, $1,000. 660-4711

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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

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 WOODEN SLEIGH/WAGON with removable sides, foam pads included, $50. 633-2390

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12X12 BERBER carpet & underlay, exc cond, $100 obo; queen size mattress, boxspring, headboard & footboard, $400 obo. 668-7157

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KOSS FAMILY DAY HOME available now in Porter creek.

Accepting 18 months and older .

We provide snacks and lunch.

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DRUG PROBLEM? Narcotics Anonymous meetings Wed. 7pm-8pm #2 - 407 Ogilvie St. BYTE Office

BUSY BEE DAYHOME, Riverdale, has openings.

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Furniture ANTIQUE 4-DRAWER dresser with mirror, 1930ʼs style, exc cond, $400 obo. 334-5683 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

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.

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ARE YOU MÉTIS? Are you registered?

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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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GOOD NEIGHBOURS PROJECT - HALF HOUR DOCUMENTARY PRODUCTION

Project Description: To select an insurance broker or agent who will obtain insurance to complement and innovate a comprehensive Risk Management Program.

Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title.

The closing date for submissions is December 23, 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 Richard Gorczyca at 867-6675710.

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

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

Project Description: Production of a half hour documentary that ties together existing interview footage into a thematic exploration of the Whitehorse ‘Good Neighbours” project.

Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title.

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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 Clare Daitch at 867-667-3458.

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

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

Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title.

The closing date for submissions is 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.

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STANDING OFFER AGREEMENTS FOR THIRD PARTY EQUIPMENT RENTALS FOR VARIOUS GOVERNMENT OF YUKON DEPARTMENTS 2015

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Project Description: Historic Sites Unit, Tourism and Culture, is seeking proponents to create a Digital Media Plan for Historic Sites Interpretation (the “Plan”). The goal of the Plan is to provide Historic Sites with a roadmap for the development of a digital platform for the creation of interpretive products that will enhance visitor experiences and understanding of Yukon’s history, culture, geography and environment.

Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title.

The closing date for submissions is January 6, 2015. 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 Clare Daitch at 867-667-3458.

Optional Informational Meeting: See Section 2: Supplementary Instruction to Proponents, Item # 4 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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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.

CLEARING GRANULAR BORROW PITS & HIGHWAY RIGHT-OF-WAY VARIOUS LOCATIONS, CAMPBELL HIGHWAY #4 YUKON 2014-2015 Project Description: The project includes clearing and salvage of 1.3 ha, clearing of 25.8 ha for 4 granular borrow pits, access roads and highway right-of-way, and other related contract items at various locations along the Campbell Highway between km 68 and km 101.

Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title.

The closing date for submissions is December 16, 2014. Please refer to the procurement documents for the closing time and location.

Documents may be obtained from the Procurement Support Centre, Department of Highways and Public Works, Suite 101 - 104 Elliott Street, Whitehorse, Yukon (867) 667-5385.

Technical questions may be directed to Dale Enzenauer at 867-633-7940.

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.

The Yukon Business Incentive Policy will apply to this project.

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