Yukon News, December 12, 2014

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Bumper crop of kudos

Whitehorse’s Nadia Moser took silver at one of the biggest biathlon events in Canadian history.

Mary and Rolland Girouard are Yukon’s Farmers of the Year.

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was being done. “Ultimately we will need to develop some options for Min esources Minister Scott Lang to consider re assistance Kent has yet another new for the golf course,� wrote explanation for the 2011 Angus Robertson, the deputy $750,000 bail-out of the Mounminister of Community Services tain View Golf Club: It’s the at the time.

NDP’s fault. “Some of the options kicked In the legislative assembly around some time back make Wednesday, Kent said that the me a bit apprehensive to be sure, structure of the lease signed but need to think everything with the golf course in 1997, Mike Thomas/Yukon News through.� under an NDP government, Resources Minister Scott Kent “If sand traps await, nobody forced the later Yukon Party says an earlier NDP governcan say we did not set them out government’s hand so that it ment is partly to blame for for all to see,� he wrote in a later had to pay full market value of the Yukon Party’s secretive email. the property to the golf club in $750,000 bail-out of MounDespite the evidence that the order to terminate the lease. tain View Golf Club. deal was concocted to obscure a “It was a 60-year lease and it bail-out for the golf club, Kent gave the golf course exclusive the rest would have significant continued this week to portray control of the area, as though challenges in terms of servicing what happened as if the land it were private property. It was the lots. transfer was a necessary thing, necessary for the government Further, developing the and the benefits to the golf to purchase it at an appraised parcel would require the City course were just a side effect. value, which is exactly what was of Whitehorse to amend its Yet, in almost in the same done in 2011.� development plans for the area, breath, Kent also asserted that The explanation appears to which it was not and is not will- the government struck the deal hold no water, and Kent has ing to do. in order to help the golf course. not responded to a request for Kent specifically called out “This NDP lease that was evidence to support his asserMLA Lois Moorcroft, who was entered into did not include tion that paying the full value a member of that NDP govern- conditions that would enable of the land was somehow a legal ment in 1997, for her role in the government to break the requirement for the termination the lease signed with Mountain lease without compensation. of the lease, for which the club View.

Therefore, as I said, it was neceshad been paying $125 annually.

But Minister Elaine Taylor, sary to purchase the parcel at an For one, title of the property who was in cabinet during the appraised value. never left the Yukon govern2011 bail-out and remains so “The government came to ment’s hands. today, has refused requests for the aid of an NGO that benefits The Mountain View Golf Yukoners – I’m sure there are Course did not have the right to comment on her role in the even a few NDP golfers out sell the property, so compensat- deal.

Documents show that the ing the club the price they might there – and freed up land to have received if they could have $750,000 agreement with facilitate the development of Mountain View was prompted sold it makes little sense.

Whistle Bend, something that by a request by the club for help was important to Yukoners who And even if the club could have sold the land, it’s unlikely it with its $500,000 of debt. were looking for lots in the day Then-minister Archie Lang would have been successful if it – and we still have a golf course instructed staff to find a way to that is an incredibly important tried to so. help the club.

A study on the viability of piece of recreational infrastrucStaff members expressed the land for development found ture for this community.� concern in emails to each other 40 per cent of the parcel comContact Jacqueline Ronson at pletely unsuitable, and that with respect to the how the deal jronson@yukon-news.com Jacqueline Ronson News Reporter

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Police arrest suspect in 17-year-old’s death

the area of Hanna Crescent or Murphy Road to contact them at 667-5555.

Police have arrested a suspect in connection with the death of 17-year-old Brandy Vittrekwa, whose body was discovered in the McIntyre subdivision on Monday evening.

No charges had been laid when this newspaper went to press. Police haven’t disclosed the name, age or sex of the suspect.

Vittrekwa had attended Porter Creek Secondary School. She was born in Fort McPherson, N.W.T., and spent some time growing up in Old Crow before coming to Whitehorse.

The Kwanlin Dun First Nation community held a vigil in her honour on Wednesday evening near the walking path where her body was found.

RCMP investigators are asking anyone with information or who witnessed suspicious activity in

(Myles Dolphin) Impaired driver spurs school lockdown A Whitehorse elementary school was put on lockdown Wednesday morning after an impaired driver failed to stop for police in Riverdale.

At approximately 8:15 a.m., the RCMP received a call from a person who reported a vehicle driving erratically down Two Mile Hill.

The suspect was found in Riverdale and failed to stop for police. Officers decided that a chase in the residential neighbourhood would be unsafe.

As a precaution, Grey Mountain Elementary School declared a lockdown. No one was allowed

to enter the school for approximately 25 minutes, according to a spokesperson from the Department of Education.

The 20-year-old driver’s vehicle was found parked in the driveway of a residence on Hart Crescent, near the school.

The driver was arrested without incident and charged with impaired driving, flight from police, dangerous operation of a motor vehicle and driving while prohibited.

(Myles Dolphin)

Correction The caption for Wednesday’s front page photo misidentified Alberta’s Bryce Chudak as being from Whitehorse. Only his partner, Bryn Hoffman, is from the territory’s capital.

We’re sorry about the mistake.

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In the hole Another human rights complaint emerges against Whitehorse Correctional Centre Ashley Joannou News Reporter

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or more than a decade, Vince Chudy has been managing his attention deficit hyperactivity disorder with medication.

But not long after arriving at the Whitehorse Correctional Centre in April, he had that medication taken away.

The withdrawal symptoms were awful, he says. They made him shaky, gave him headaches and made it hard to sleep, eat or focus.

Later he was put into segregation for 15 days, for something he insists he didn’t do. He was locked in a cell for 23 hours a day.

Chudy is one of two former jail inmates whose human rights complaints against the facility are now being told publicly.

Both Chudy and former inmate Stacey Burke say they were discriminated against based on, among other things, their disability.

Details of Burke’s complaint were not available in time for today’s deadline.

••• According to his complaint, Chudy was sentenced to jail on April 15 for breaches of bail and probation. He would be there for about two and a half months.

Shortly after arriving, a nurse accused him of trying to “cheek” his medication, meaning not swallow it.

In the complaint Chudy insists that’s not what he was doing.

He just has trouble swallowing pills, he said, and normally has to take them crushed up.

The nurse cut him off from his medication entirely, he says.

He says he asked repeatedly to see a doctor, but was denied.

He accuses the nurse of saying his condition was not important, and “that’s what you get for hiding your pills.”

While at the jail, Chudy was sentenced to 15 days in segregation for a crime he says he didn’t commit.

No details of what he was accused of are in the documents.

Alone in his cell, he said the lack of medication took its toll.

He was told he could read, but that’s hard to do with uncontrolled ADHD, the complaint says. “The complainant says that segregation is a horrible place. That there is nothing to do all day except stare at the walls. There is no TV, no clock or calendar, just four walls, a toilet, a bed and a small window.”

Eventually he did get his medication back, but only after he filed the human rights complaint, he says.

The Yukon Department of Justice has refused to comment on either the Chudy or Burke complaints.

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The segregation unit at the Whitehorse Correctional Centre.

The same act says there’s a duty to accommodate people with special needs.

The Yukon Human Rights Commission said in July that it had “identified the treatment of people with mental illness in the Whitehorse Correctional Centre as a pressing human rights issue that requires immediate attention.”

The accusations by Chudy and Burke are in addition to a complaint filed by the father of Michael Nehass.

Earlier this year Nehass was brought naked to a video court appearance. He was pinned to the ground by guards in full riot gear.

In his complaint, he claims to have been held in segregation at the jail for 28 months.

The commission can only talk about complaints when they are officially heading to adjudicators for a hearing.

Documents suggest multiple complaints have been filed by inmates. The commission’s executive director, Heather MacFadgen, wouldn’t say whether more are working their way through the system.

After investigating the three complaints she can talk about, information was sent to the panel of adjudicators on Oct. 28, MacFadgen said. It’s that panel’s job to get the ball rolling for a hearing to be held.

The commission finally got the response it needed this morning, a ••• month and a half later.

The Yukon Human Rights Act The letter, which provides some protects people from being disdeadlines for everyone involved, is a criminated against on 13 prohibcritical first step towards a hearing. ited grounds, including things like It comes after the commission ancestry, sex, and physical or mental disability. publicly raised a concern over how

said no one should be in solitary for more than 15 consecutive days and that it should be banned completely for young inmates or inmates with mental health issues. “Considering the severe mental pain or suffering solitary confinement may cause, it can amount to torture or cruel, inhumane or degrading treatment or punishment when used,” the UN concluded.

While the national discussion continues, Nehass remains in jail.

According to his complaint and his supporters, he has been in segregation for years.

A letter from the Canadian Judicial Council to Nehass’s father included an apology from Justice Leigh Gower, the judge in charge when Nehass appeared naked. According to the Yukon Civil Liberties Coalition, Nehass’s father does not consider that an appropriate apology because it was not given directly to Nehass or his family.

Nehass was in Supreme Court this week. The judge set a March 2015 trial date on the charges that landed him in jail in the first place, ••• ••• from 2011.

A segregation cell at the WhiteEither way, the numbers providNehass was agitated for most of horse Correctional Centre is 3.8 ed by Justice are longer than many the hearing. He believes in a vast metres by 2.4 metres, or eight by experts suggest is appropriate. government conspiracy involving 12 feet.

This week, the federal govmost top-ranking positions in the In 2013, 887 inmates were held ernment said it will not abolish territory, including the judge, top at the jail. Of those, 59 people were indefinite solitary confinement for jail officials and RCMP. prisoners, despite the recommendaheld in segregation at some point, He speaks passionately about his according to the Yukon Department tion of an inquest jury following the belief that he is in jail to stop him death of 19-year-old Ashley Smith of Justice. That’s about seven per from telling what he knows. in Ontario. cent.

After the trial date was set, NaAlso, retired Supreme Court According to the department, hass was visibly upset. justice Louise Arbour said solitary most people were only held for 72 “What’s going to happen? I just should be abolished beyond three hours. sit in the box until then?” days or so.

The Department of Justice has Contact Ashley Joannou at In 2011, a UN special rapporteur refused to comment on either the ashleyj@yukon-news.com

slow things were progressing.

Other cases have moved considerably quicker. For instance, a current human rights case involving a Yukon lesbian couple and a dispute over birth certificates was sent to the board on Sept. 22 and the commission heard back on Oct. 15.

While there’s no rule on how long the panel has to respond to a complaint, the policy is that request be handled “expeditiously,” MacFadgen said.

Darcy Tkachuk, chief adjudicator of the Yukon Human Rights Panel of Adjudicators, said his office doesn’t usually comment on individual cases.

The panel does its best to move things along, he said in an email.

“The time required to satisfy the legal procedures arising in any complaint may vary from case to case because of a number of factors, including the complexity of the case, specific issues arising in the complaint, the availability of counsel and witnesses, and a number of other circumstances and considerations.”

Burke or the Chudy human rights complaints.

What information they are willing to provide related to Nehass’s case changes.

When news of Nehass’s treatment in front of the judge first made headlines the department went on the offensive.

They provided statistics on segregation that they said proved Nehass had not been held for 28 months.

In May 2014 spokesperson Dan Cable said that the longest anyone has been in segregation over the course of the past year is seven months.

The longest uninterrupted stretch in solitary that anyone has served is just shy of four months, he said.

Fast forward seven months. The spokesperson has changed and so has the story.

Caitlin Kerwin has refused to provide updated numbers to the News. She’s also silent when asked why Cable was able to release the information and she is not.

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licia Murphy is out of jail.

The 34-year-old walked out the door Wednesday after a judge sentenced her to timeserved for two bail violations.

Those were the only charges she was facing – for now.

Murphy was convicted in 2009 of second-degree murder of Evangeline Billy. She appealed that conviction and, earlier this year, a new trial was ordered.

Last month a Yukon Supreme Court justice ordered the Crown pay for Murphy’s chosen lawyer for that new trial.

That hasn’t happened yet.

Prosecutors are appealing the order.

That put Murphy in an unusual position when she sat in front of judge Michael Cozens in territorial court this week.

She’s not technically facing a murder charge right now.

The supreme court ordered the charge be stayed until plans were made for her new lawyer to be paid for.

Murphy was only facing charges of breaching her bail conditions in September. She pleaded guilty to two counts – sneaking out of the house and

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It was an odd sentencing hearing.

In most cases, when a person is sentenced for violating bail, that sentence comes combined with other charges.

The lawyers on both sides of the Murphy case struggled to give the judge examples of cases that dealt with breaches specifically.

Prosecutor David McWhinnie argued that three to six months in jail for each of the two breaches would be appropriate, served one after the other.

Murder charges are serious, he said, and it’s important that there be a serious penalty to maintain the public’s confidence in the bail system.

“The crux of the Crown submission is that a breach of a condition of release on a charge as serious as murder should attract a sanction more significant than a breach of a condition of release on a less serious charge,” Cozens wrote in his decision.

On the other side was Murphy’s defence lawyer, Jennie Cunningham. She argued that a 30-day sentence for each offence, served concurrently, was more appropriate, and relatively standard in the territory.

Her client is innocent until proven guilty, she said, and so the fact that there’s a murder change involved shouldn’t be a factor, she said.

“Counsel notes that Ms. Murphy was incarcerated from 2008 until her release in July, 2014.

Until the date of the breaches,

Ms. Murphy had been diligent in following her release conditions.

She had just started working at Challenge. Her release conditions had already been relaxed due to her positive performance and there was discussion regarding easing them even more,” Cozens wrote.

In the end the judge landed closer to the defence’s side. He sentenced Murphy to 30 days for each of the charges but ordered that they be served consecutively.

Murphy had already been in custody for 74 days.

Cozens said he wasn’t persuaded that Murphy should receive a sentence outside of the normal range for an offender being sentenced for the first time for breaching court-ordered conditions.

“I find that it would be contrary to the fundamental purposes, objectives and principles of sentencing to do so,” he said.

“Ms. Murphy is entitled to the benefit of the presumption of innocence.”

No date has been set yet for when the Court of Appeal might hear the Crown’s case.

In an email yesterday, McWhinnie said his office is not involved when it comes to making financial arrangements related to court orders. He said the office intends “to both pursue the appeal (as expeditiously as is possible) and continue with the prosecution when and as we are able.”

City delays talks on letting vehicles on footbridge

ers to discuss the issue of opening the bridge to motorized off-road vehicles.

Keith Lay of the Active Trails Whitehorse Association has lobbied against allowing ATVs and snowmobiles on the bridge.

He has expressed worries about damage that would be done to the green space on either side of the bridge, and increased traffic.

“If you encourage snowmobile operators to use the bridge it’ll be used more and more,” he said.

“That means more possibility of coming into contact with pedestrians. There are liability issues and you’re just asking for trouble by mixing activities on that bridge.”

(Myles Dolphin)

A Whitehorse city council debate over whether to allow motorized vehicles on the Rotary Centennial Bridge has been pushed back until February.

Councillors initially expected to receive a report from administration on the matter this month.

The report would then prompt public consultations.

A council and senior management meeting was held in October with various stakehold-

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DP MLA Kate White is calling for stronger protection for mobile home owners.

Uncontrolled pad rent increases and the possibility of evictions without cause hurt trailer owners, who are insecure in their living situation despite owning their home, she said.

White spent three months this summer knocking on mobile home doors, talking to residents and collecting signatures on a petition, which was tabled in the legislative assembly this month.

She heard “resounding calls for help,� and collected about 350 names for the petition, she said.

She wants to see a cap on pad rent increases, so trailer owners won’t be priced out of their own homes. “You can’t plan for the future, if you have no idea what your monthly rent will be in five years.�

It’s not true that you can just move your trailer if you can’t pay the rent increase, said White. “For one thing, there’s nowhere to move them.�

Many of the trailers are too old to move, or have been built up with permanent additions or arctic entrances, she said.

To move a trailer you also have to meet current building codes at the new location, and lots of them won’t, said White.

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Colleen Tyrner wants to spend the rest of her life in the trailer she owns with her dog, Lucy.

But she worries that unrestrained pad rent increases will one day outstrip her ability to pay.

possible, it can cost tens of thousands of dollars to do it, she said.

Owners have the option to sell, but the lack of protections against rent increases and evictions make it hard to do so, said White. “If you own a home that you put a lot of care and maintenance into, you’re not going to be able to sell it.�

Under the current Landlord and Tenant Act, a trailer park owner can evict a mobile home without cause from

the land with about a year’s notice.

The provision is the same in the updated landlord tenant act, which passed two years ago but has yet to come into effect because the new regulations haven’t been finalized.

The new act has the additional provision that, in the event that a trailer park is closing for good, 18 months notice must be given to all residents.

Colleen Tyrner, a resident of a Whitehorse trailer park,

said she really worries about losing her home because the rent is raised beyond her ability to pay, or because the land is sold for some other purpose.

In her 70s, she’s already given up her cell phone and cable TV, and taken a parttime job, to pay for rising costs of living, she said. “It’s going to mean that I lose the little home that I love.

Nobody’s going to buy my trailer because the pad rents are too high, and they’re going

to price themselves out of my ability to pay the bill.�

She’s a widow, just like a lot of her neighbours in the park, said Tyrner.

She doesn’t want to end up in seniors’ housing because she can’t pay the bills.

Her trailer park owners seem to be fair, she said. “And I really honestly believe that people are entitled to a profit.�

But that shouldn’t mean that there shouldn’t be protections, so that she can stay in her home, said Tyrner. “There’s nothing to protect me against him issuing that eviction notice. If he gets an offer from some land developer for $10 million for this land, I’m yesterday’s news. I have no protection here at all.

He can raise the rent $100.�

In her trailer, she has a yard, a fence and privacy. “When you get to be old, you make a lot of noise. I cry sometimes when I think about my husband, and in here I can just wail away and not bother anybody. In seniors’ housing, they’re going to call mental health,� said Tyrner, laughing.

If she had to move to seniors’ housing, she’d lose her dog, Lucy. “At three o’clock in the morning, when it’s dark, and all is lost, sometimes only that little heartbeat in your ear keeps you going. “I don’t have a lot of years left. And I would like to spend them with Lucy, under this roof.�

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help processors, and they can move forward and finish changing the systems.� hitehorse city council’s That said, Snyder said she decision not to extend also recognizes needs to be fisRaven Recycling’s gate- cally responsible while tendering keeping contract at the landfill contracts. was premature, says the nonOn Monday evening, council profit’s executive director. decided to issue public tenders for The recycling industry in the gatekeeping and transfer staWhitehorse is in turmoil, and be- tion operations at the landfill. cause of that, it would have been Raven has held the gatekeepmore sensible for council to iron ing contract since 2000. Council out the details of its new curbalso considered extending that side recycling collection program contract another 12 months at a prior to re-issuing a public tender, cost of $176,658.

Joy Snyder said in an interview Councillors Mike Gladish, this week.

Betty Irwin and Dave Stockdale “It adds more uncertainty at a were strongly in favour of keeptime when we’re already reeling ing the status quo and extending from that,� she added, referring to Raven’s contract.

Raven’s decision to close its drop“A one-year extension gives off service in October. administration time to settle “If council can make decisions everything,� Gladish said.

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managed to convince three of his colleagues that it was a better idea to put the contracts out for competition. “This isn’t the approach you want with the private sector,� he said. “Extending this contract for another year isn’t appropriate.�

Snyder said it was one of Raven’s biggest contracts and that it complemented what they do. “Initially we were subcontracted under General Waste Management, and they asked us to get on board because they wanted to change the way the landfill was managed,� she said. “It’s the gatehouse guys that got everybody to start sorting their stuff, educating them why, and getting recycling going in the area. We played a big part in turning it from a dump to a waste management facility.�

Raven’s gatekeeping contract with the city expires on Jan. 31.

Snyder confirmed the non-profit would bid on the gatekeeping contract.

Meanwhile, the city is fasttracking plans to offer curbside recycling collection. City councillors recently approved spending $100,000 to finalize the program’s design. It’s expected that households would pay $15 per month for weekly service.

Many details still need to be ironed out, such as which organizations and companies will be involved and when the program will actually begin.

Raven is working with P&M Recycling and the Yukon government to come with an interim, short-term funding model for its own operations, said Snyder.

Contact Myles Dolphin at myles@yukon-news.com

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he public input period on amendments to the Yukon Municipal Act closed last week, and if the proposed changes go through, citizens will have a much tougher time initiating a binding referendum than before.

One of the 11 amendments proposes would require signatures from 15 per cent of the population to trigger a referendum.

Under the current Municipal Act – a lengthy document that guides the business of town councils in the territory – citizens have the option of gathering signatures from at least 2,000 eligible electors or 15 per cent of the population.

By removing that first option, a Whitehorse resident would in the future have to gather about 4,183 signatures to start the referendum process.

Ian Davis, director of community affairs, said the change was proposed because some municipalities do not use voter lists or have outdated lists.

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“This proposed approach would provide clarity and consistency as population-based numbers are simple and easy to understand, based on readily available recent data,� he said in an email. “This proposed change would remove unique criteria for Whitehorse, the only municipality with 2,000 eligible voters, which in turn would make the trigger more consistent across Yukon.�

The amendment does not mention whether only eligible voters will count towards 15 per cent of population requirement.

The Municipal Act came into effect in 1998 and was revised in both 2003 and 2008. In 2012, the current review of the act began and resulted in 11 proposed amendments.

Marianne Darragh is skeptical about many of the proposed changes.

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Darragh said. “I don’t think my taxes are wasted by asking me to vote on something. Referendums are expensive? “No one thinks that except politicians.�

Other amendments include removing the requirement to publicly post the list of eligible electors two weeks prior to an election, and removing the requirement for municipalities to submit Official Community Plans to the Yukon Municipal Board.

Davis said the government would wait until it had heard back from the Association of Yukon Communities, which has a meeting this weekend to discuss the changes, before it would gather all the feedback it had received on the amendments.

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Darragh’s petition had called for a referendum that would help create McLean Lake Park.

She had collected just over 2,650 signatures for her petition.

The following year, however, the Yukon Court of Appeal ruled that residents couldn’t force the city to hold a referendum on the matter and Veale’s decision was struck down. “We worked weekends and nights to collect those signatures,� she said. “They had to be eligible voters.

I can’t imagine how we could have been able to get over 4,100 signatures in the 90 days we had to do it.�

Another amendment would allow city council to initiate a counter-petition process to allow voters to have a say on controversial matters.

Davis said it would give council a way to find out if their decisions meet approval of the public without having to go through a costly plebiscite or referendum.

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ne particularly highminded reader expressed surprise that last Friday’s editorial dared to conclude that cabinet ministers Brad Cathers and Scott Kent may have deliberately uttered mistruths – which is to say, lied – about the Mountain View Golf Club fiasco.

It’s not a suggestion that’s made lightly. Our MLAs, after all, are forbidden from making such an accusation in our legislature, where they are expected to assume that fellow members behave with the best of motives. In that spirit, here are a few alternative scenarios to help explain the comments made by Cathers and Kent.

First: perhaps both men are terribly forgetful. Like the guy in the movie Memento, they struggle to recreate their lives every day they awaken. Given this lot, how are they supposed to recall that they were briefed on the golf course fiasco more than a year ago? When they recently suggested, falsely, they had only recently been told of the matter, this wasn’t because they are liars. It’s because they are amnesiacs.

Second: maybe both men are incredibly dense. Maybe they both mixed up two folders – the one with the real story and the one with the completely unfactual, misleading explanation that was designed to cover-up the scandal.

Maybe they have managed to fool even themselves that, say, the Mountain View transaction was a real land sale, although in fact, it involved the government paying $750,000 for it to obtain land that it owned in the first place. Or that the City of Whitehorse wanted the land parcel to develop Whistle Bend, when city officials have been clear that this is absolutely untrue.

Similarly, perhaps Kent genuinely doesn’t understand that two explanations, recently offered by him in nearly the same breath,

contradict one another. If you dislike the shady bail-out, it’s apparently now the fault of a previous NDP government that signed the lease – although Kent has provided no information to buttress this unlikely claim. But if you like the bail-out, the Yukon Party is glad to claim credit for helping out a non-profit.

These are the charitable explanations. Otherwise, it’s hard to escape the conclusion they have lied to the public.

It’s not hard to see why they would do this. A government with no ties to a scandal committed by its predecessors would usually take pains to distance itself from the mess, with an impartial airing of the facts and a clear commitment that it would handle things differently. But the Yukon Party can’t do that, because Premier Darrell Pasloski stands smack in the middle of the golf course scandal.

He was on the club’s board at the time.

That is terribly damaging.

Pasloski won the Yukon Party leadership a few years ago in large part because supporters saw him as the best way for them to distance themselves from scandals created by his predecessor, Dennis Fentie. Now it turns out that Pasloski was deeply implicated in Fentie-era sleezy dealings. No wonder our current government has done everything it can to disguise this fact.

The Yukon public forgave Fentie for many things. What did him in wasn’t that he contemplated privatizing Yukon Energy, it was that he later tried to cover it up.

When his denials were shown to be falsehoods, his credibility was shot. It’s not hard to imagine a similar dynamic now catching up to our current leaders.

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cabinet and loudly denouncing Fentie for lying to the public. His actions were celebrated as idealistic at the time. Where, pray tell, have these ideals gone since then?

Now Cathers is the one misrepresenting the facts in order to conceal a scandal. How is this different from what Fentie had done?

Kent, a former Liberal cabinet minister, used to be widely viewed as one of the Yukon Party’s more reasonable and less partisan ministers. But now he’s also been pulled down into the Mountain View quagmire, and is left looking equally dirty.

To a lesser extent, the same holds for Elaine Taylor, who is also seen as one of the government’s more competent managers. She sat on Fentie’s cabinet at the time of the Mountain View bail-out.

An expenditure of that size would surely have been discussed and approved by Taylor and her peers then. Both Cathers and Kent held at one point they couldn’t know much about the rationale for the decision then, but clearly, they could simply ask Taylor. She has remained mum on the matter so far, refusing to answer questions.

No matter. Whether Taylor liked the decision or not, she was a part of it.

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interest commissioner that there could be a perceived conflict if he did otherwise. And, really, what is there to say? How illuminating has our premier been in any past scandal? When has he ever veered from the same stultifying talking points, or addressed the meat of a controversy head-on, rather than simply confusing matters with non-sequiturs and other diversions?

Pasloski could say, like his ministers, that Mountain View is an important community asset, and

that without the bail-out it would have shuttered. But that doesn’t justify the misleading, secretive way the bail-out was conducted, nor our current government’s painstaking efforts to obscure what happened.

In short, no matter what Pasloski would say, he would probably end up sounding quite a bit like Dennis Fentie. Unfortunately for him, even if he stays quiet, that’s an association many will have trouble shaking.

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Has F-35 accounting come to Whitehorse? “total project cost for new Service and Operations Buildings is $55 million.”

by Keith Note the words “total project Halliday cost.”

First, does the $55-million figure include financing costs for the $29 million in financing the project requires? A quick look at an online mortgage calculator suggests that a $29 million loan, at 4 per cent and amortized over 20 years would require $13 milemember when the federal Tories got in so much lion in interest costs.

That would be a substantial trouble for low-balling additional cost to taxpayers. the cost of new F-35 fighter jets?

Second, does it include all the At first they said the jets would consulting costs associated with cost $15 billion. Then it turned managing the project? There were out they had failed to mention eight consulting firms involved in another $10 billion in costs. planning the project. How much It was a clear example of polwere their fees? Does the $55 militicians and officials who really, lion include those fees plus more really wanted something, and fees for such firms going forward? didn’t want taxpayers to realize Third, does the $55 million how expensive it really was. figure include the $1.5 million The auditor general of Canada figure mentioned in council harshly criticized the government documents last week for furnifor the lack of transparency in its ture, equipment and art? Or is accounting. that not part of the “total project Let’s now talk about a different cost” publicized? project: the City of Whitehorse’s By the way, city policy is to big new $55-million megaplex, spend the equivalent of one per which involves two major new cent of the total budget on art. municipal buildings and a budget A $550,000 collection of Whiteunprecedented in our city govhorse art would certainly be ernment’s history. impressive. It would make the The press release the city put new city headquarters building in effect into the biggest art gallery out earlier this week said the

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Teed off over Mountain View Golf Club mess It appears some of the focus is being misdirected at specific individuals and groups within the Yukon government, whereas all along I have always only been critical of the people elected to govern, not the ones they pass their dirty deeds onto, as was the case with the beavers they slaughtered.

I also tried on numerous occasions to get answers from the Yukon government by sending registered letters to the commissioner’s office, the departments of Justice, EMR and Community Services, as well as Lotteries Yukon and the premier’s office.

That said, it was not the answers I was looking for so I felt that the Official Opposition would have the most clout in obtaining answers that I could not from this government. I also made it very clear to everyone involved that I had no animosity towards the other golf course and have always had a good relationship with their “maintenance staff ” who are the grunts of the operation and whom I think are the ones that make it a success.

As for my desire to be successful and profitable, one can only imagine why on earth anyone would ever need to apologize for these traits.

I will also not respond to anyone who expresses an opinion anywhere without being willing to attach their “real” name to it, although I appreciate all who be-

lieve this needs to be addressed.

I also find that the avenue used on the social media pages of both papers to be somewhat inappropriate in allowing this anonymity and that furthermore this sets the wrong example to youth and the use of social media.

This all could have been avoided had the government simply allowed the other golf course to develop its extra land for lots and perhaps even aided them financially during the process, so long as there was a process.

That means, to develop any land, one would first have to obtain approval from the City of Whitehorse for an Official Community Plan amendment in conjunction with assessors’ approval and signed off by the Yukon government. That’s followed by a zoning amendment, followed by subdivision approval, all of which are very lengthy processes involving public hearings and are very costly procedures.

I’ve done this for every one of my developments including the construction of the original ninehole golf course. But this government somehow feels it is of a higher authority and absolved from such a process.

It has not been easy but we have built and run the Meadow Lakes Golf Resort with the utmost pride and integrity and only developed the additional

in town. Hopefully it will be open to the public to view.

Fourth is cleanup costs. The mayor recently told the Yukon News that the blue building on Fourth Avenue was “littered with asbestos.” A wide variety of petroleum and chemical products have been used in the shop there over the years.

How much will it cost to remediate all the surplus city buildings before they are sold? I can’t find a firm estimate in the business case. Is it included in the $55 million, or will we only find out the real number when the buildings are sold in a few years?

Remediation is not cheap, and all this talk of asbestos and chemicals raises a question: could cleanup costs be in the millions of dollars? Low millions? High millions?

To its credit, the city has not counted the revenue from the sale of its old buildings into the business case. It might be possible that the buildings will sell for more than their remediation costs, in which case the $55 million figure would get lower.

But if you believe remediation is that cheap, I have some land near the old oil refinery in Marwell I’d like to sell you.

Fifth is the downtown fire hall, which will be demolished for one of the new megaplex buildings.

The city says the fire department is doing a strategic plan. “If it is determined that (a fire hall) is still needed in the downtown core the city will consider all options.” Does that mean that after the megaplex blots out the current fire hall on Second Avenue, the city might have to spend millions on a new downtown firehall?

It’s kind of a big question.

Finally, what else don’t we know about?

To sum up, the “total project cost” according to the city’s press release is $55 million. But does the real cost also include tens of millions extra in interest, consulting fees, furniture, equipment, art, asbestos and chemical remediation costs (net of subsequent land sales), and a new downtown fire hall?

Curtis told the News that the “business plan is airtight.” I don’t know many investors who would consider a business case airtight if it had unknown land remediation and extra fire hall construction costs remaining as large unknowns.

Remember that we are on the hook for this project. The city isn’t getting a billion dollars a year from Ottawa that can smooth over any mistakes like the Yukon government does.

Someone from Ottawa might

accuse our mayor, council and administration of F-35 accounting. To clear up any concerns on this, they should re-issue that $55 million press release with a full depiction of the true “total” costs on this project.

My trust in them has been sufficiently shaken by the communications to date on the megaplex, that I also think they should not sign another contract on this thing until they have made their case and put it to a public vote.

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

I also volunteered on the mayor’s campaign in the last election.

Keith Halliday is a Yukon economist and author of the MacBride Museum’s Aurore of the Yukon series of historical children’s adventure novels. You can follow him on Channel 9’s “ Yukonomist” show or Twitter @hallidaykeith

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Please help me help our community. For more information and being worked on, please aclands (for which we leased for on the organization see http:// $8,185.50 annually, then paid cept my apologies for bringing up tcfcanada.net/ $454,000 to purchase) after first this subject, and problem solved.

I am a bereaved parent as well trying a winter and summer It is an eyesore and it frusand am willing to work with othtourism attraction on this land. trates me to see two great looking ers who want to see a group like We then had to pay down the cabins being taken apart with no this in our community. The first substantial debt incurred just to compensation going to the Liard meeting will be on Dec. 15 at 6:30 build and maintain nine holes in First Nation. It is a crime being p.m. at 304 Hawkins Street. this very northern climate. We Please help me spread the committed if these two log cabins will continue to provide all golfword. are taken apart without permisers the best experience possible, and I also hope that golfers con- sion from the Liard First Nation.

Kim Tucker If anyone sees the people actinue to appreciate and support Whitehorse the efforts of the non-profit golf countable for taking the log cabcourse, even if that means paying ins apart, take pictures and give Stop killing bears them to the Liard First Nation or more to use it. to the Watson Lake RCMP. Both grizzly and black bears need Jeff Luehmann protection, as there should be David Dickson Meadow Lakes Golf Resort no hunting or killing of bears, Watson Lake neither spring nor fall.

Cabins near Liard Hot The Yukon Department of Bereaved parents Springs should be saved Environment’s proposal for a can help one another 30-metre buffer zone, for grizEvery time I drive south from zlies only, will do nothing to proWatson Lake and coming back I The Compassionate Friends of tect them. This proposal is smoke see the two log cabins that were Canada is starting a Yukon chap- and mirrors! The department built by the Liard First Nation ter but is in desperate need of needs to take a stand for wildlife, near the hot springs. It is hard to bereaved parents first to help get not for humans who want to kill look at now, as it is being taken it going. We’re seeking both the them. apart by persons unknown. newly bereaved and parents who Bears are not objects (“resourThese cabins cost the Liard have been on this painful journey ces”) for human desires only, First Nation a lot of money, and to mentor a newer member. they have interests of their own. if the First Nation could put the Compassionate Friends is a They deserve protection and not cabins out for bids to try at least group run by bereaved parents. I to recoup their losses on this am hoping to open a sibling chap- exploitation.

Ban the destruction of both project, that would be great! ter for the Yukon, but I cannot do grizzly and black bears. It’s the If an interested party reads this alone. humane, ethical thing to do. this letter they should contact the If you have lost a child (my First Nation and see if they can heart breaks for you) or know Mike Grieco put a bid on these cabins. someone has and is willing to Whitehorse If this item is already remedied help, mentor, guide another par-

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or cook outside their RVs. I’ve even seen tents set up and people walking around in pajamas in the It has been almost two months morning. since we closed our public drop off residents. We look forward to We have received so much supprior to re-issuing the tender.

I have talked to some of these area at Raven Recycling. We want port and good will from the public learning more about how the blue Unfortunately, this adds more people who park at Walmart and to share with our customers and uncertainty to Raven’s operations for which we are thankful. Change box system will take shape and asked them, “why do you park advocates how governments are reat a time when we are working to is difficult but we are heartened by here�? The answer: Because we get appreciate the city’s willingness sponding to our change in service. restructure our own services and the awareness that people underto work with recycling industry free wi-fi, shopping at your door We had hoped there would be a funding. stand that all waste costs money members. step, free dump station and we can resolution to the current situation, We are coping in the interim. and that diversion is a cost effective eat at McDonalds.

While we appreciate city counfor our society and our customers, For example Raven’s bottle depot use of tax dollars and worth the cil’s need for fiscal accountability How can our local businesses before now but unfortunately, we remains open.

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Oil’s slide expected to surface at provincial federal finance ministers’ meeting Andy Blatchford

be even worse in neighbouring Alberta, where the provincial government estimates the province OTTAWA loses about $215 million over a he topic of sliding oil prices 12-month period for every loonie is expected to surface this shaved off the price of oil. weekend when provincial finance “So, those are things that we’re ministers from across Canada going to have to be aware of – if have their first face-to-face meet- the federal government is looking ing with federal counterpart Joe at ensuring that there is supOliver. port for a particular industry,�

Saskatchewan Finance Minister said Krawetz, who also serves as Ken Krawetz said the federal-provincial gathering begins Sunday with an informal get-together in the Ottawa area, followed by sessions Monday that will include a presentation

by Bank of Canada governor Stephen Poloz.

Krawetz also expects the group to discuss the plunging price of oil, which threatens to erode public finances in several oil-rich provinces as well deputy premier. as the federal government’s botIn his fall fiscal and economic tom line. update last month, Oliver preOil prices fell below US$64 dicted the slide in crude prices a barrel this week – roughly a could siphon $500 million from 40-per-cent slide since midthe federal pocketbook this year summer. and $2.5 billion per year between “We are concerned about the 2015 to 2019. loss of revenue, there’s no quesPrices have dipped even deeper tion about that,� Krawetz told The since that assessment, but Oliver Canadian Press in an interview. has insisted Ottawa remains “We’re also concerned that on track to run a surplus in the if indeed there is a prolonged 2015 election year. The Finance decline, what will be the effect Department’s latest estimate is a across the entire nation with $1.6-billion surplus next year. regards to oil?� “Obviously, there are conseIn oil-producing Saskatchequences for the economy,� Oliver wan, Krawetz estimates provincial said Wednesday. “There are adcoffers will lose about $20 million vantages and disadvantages.� for every $1 drop in the price of a He said there are benefits for barrel of oil. consumers at the gas pump as He said the situation could well as savings for manufacturers.

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On the other hand, Oliver said oil companies and provinces that rely on royalties will be forced to brace for financial hits.

For this fiscal year, Krawetz doesn’t expect Saskatchewan’s books to suffer a big blow, thanks to things like strong crude prices during the first six months of 2014 and a healthy agricultural harvest.

But beyond 2014, Saskatchewan’s financial situation could face negative consequences if prices remain low. “If indeed we’re going to see $60 a barrel for all of next year, that will be of concern and we’re going to have to be looking at our expenditures,� said the veteran finance minister, who’s been responsible of the portfolio since 2010.

Krawetz is looking forward to Poloz’s presentation, which he hopes will offer further insight into the global conditions affecting oil prices.

When asked what he expects will be the hottest issue during the meeting, he predicted discussions would dwell on the state of the world economy. “It’s not necessarily oil,â€? he said. “We are in a fragile situation ‌ I think that’s going to be on the top of mind of all finance ministers.â€?

Krawetz also plans to raise issues important to his province, such as its ongoing shortage of skilled workers, the need to improve aboriginal education and

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Harper calls oil and gas regs ‘crazy economic policy’ in times of cheap oil “In fact, nobody in the world is regulating their oil and gas sector.

I’d be delighted if they did. Canada will be there with them.� agreement to set targets together, to set common disclosures and to build co-operation to get deep reOTTAWA ductions,� Glen Murray, Ontario’s tephen Harper slammed the minister of environment and clidoor on unilaterally regulatmate change, said in an interview ing Canada’s oil and gas sector from Lima. this week even as four provincial Most of the signatories to the governments, representing almost compact have agreed to reduce 80 per cent of Canada’s populaGHG emissions by 80 per cent tion, were pledging to go further or more by 2050, and are already and faster in reducing greenhouse meeting or exceeding more curgas emissions. rent targets.

Environment ministers from The deal was signed on the British Columbia, Manitoba, sidelines of a United Nations Ontario and Quebec signed what climate conference where the they’re calling a compact in Lima, international community is nePeru, where an international cligotiating a new post-2020 global mate conference is underway. agreement on curbing greenhouse They’ve joined with 12 other gas emissions. It’s hoped that sub-national governments – rang- agreement will be finalized next ing from New South Wales in December in Paris.

Australia to Scotland – in recogIn Ottawa, meanwhile, the nition that their national govern- prime minister was flatly ruling ments may not be prepared to out regulations to curb Canada’s move with the urgency required. biggest greenhouse gas emit“All of us are signed on to an ting sector, seven years after his Bruce Cheadle Canadian Press

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Conservative government first promised the sector-by-sector, “made-in-Canada� regulatory approach. “Under the current circumstances of the oil and gas sector, it would be crazy – it would be crazy economic policy to do unilateral penalties on that sector; we’re clearly not going to do that,�

Harper told the House as Conservative MPs roared their approval. “In fact, nobody in the world is regulating their oil and gas sector. I’d be delighted if they did.

Canada will be there with them.�

An Environment Canada briefing memo revealed last month by the Globe and Mail shows that the United States, in fact, placed what were called “significant� limits on its oil and gas sector in 2012. “For oil and gas, recent air pollution regulations are expected to result in significant GHG reduction co-benefits, comparable to the reductions that would result

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from the approach being developed for this sector in Canada,� states the June 2013 memo obtained by Greenpeace under the Access to Information Act. Harper was responding to questions about Canada’s poor record in meeting its previous Copenhagen emissions targets, which a government report this week showed are far off track.

The Environment Canada report shows that increasing GHG emissions from the oil and gas sector – principally the oilsands – will almost completely offset major reductions in the electricity sector by the year 2020.

In fact, the report says Canadian emission reductions flatlined over 2010, 2011 and 2012 and are set to begin rising again in absolute terms to 2020.

Nonetheless, the prime minister maintains his government is cutting emissions. “Our commitment to Canadians is that we are going to reduce greenhouse gas emissions while preserving, protecting and growing Canadian jobs,� Harper told the Commons. “That’s our commitment, that’s what we’ll continue to do.�

Harper’s comments came at almost the same moment his minister for the environment, Leona Aglukkaq, was delivering a speech to the Lima conference. “Our record speaks for itself,�

Aglukkaq told the gathering. “We have shown that it is possible to protect the environment while supporting economic growth.�

Aglukkaq noted that as the country looks beyond 2020, it is depending heavily on provinces and territories, “who hold many levers for taking substantive and innovative action on climate change.�

B.C. Environment Minister Mary Polak acknowledged, in an interview from Lima, that in a country as big and diverse as Canada, “it’s very challenging to try to form a pan-Canadian approach.�

Polak said even within British Columbia, local municipal gov-

ernments have jurisdiction over some 40 per cent of provincial GHG emissions.

The compact, said Polak is “absolutely not� a rebuke of the federal government. “If you look at the range of jurisdictions that have signed on, their motivation is not to take a poke at their national government. It’s because we have decided that if we’re serious about this as jurisdictions, we need to take it on.�

Ontario’s Murray, who had just been elected to the new compact’s steering committee, was far less diplomatic. “Everyone seems to be on board. There’s a strong consensus when we meet as sub-national governments that Canadians are united,� he said. “There’s just one government that’s just not usually in the conversation or is trying to shut it down. If you don’t want to be part of this conversation, that’s fine, then get out of the way.�

Ontario will host a summit of sub-national governments next July 7-9 to coincide with the start of the Pan-Am Games in Toronto, said Murray. “We’re hoping that by end of those three days in Toronto we will have a very strong message going into Paris that most of the Americas are on board for deep GHG reductions.�

The contrast between the prime minister’s uncompromising talk in Ottawa and the collectivist efforts of the provinces is not going unnoticed by the international community, Green party Leader Elizabeth May said in an interview from Peru. “The provinces that are here on the ground are talking seriously about going further and doing more,� May said. “That’s encouraging because otherwise the only impression that world delegates would have of Canada would be Leona Aglukkaq and Harper’s policies.�

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Conservative MP’s bill would let caucuses decide which colleagues are in or out Jennifer Ditchburn

ment on the particulars of the Liberal suspensions, but he said his proposed legislation would OTTAWA take something that is arbitrary Conservative MP’s bill rapand ad hoc and make it clear idly making its way through what should happen. the House of Commons could “What the Reform Act will restrict leaders in the future from do is allow caucuses to implement clear, written rules on how unilaterally suspending MPs – a point very relevant on Parliament members are to be afforded that due process and procedural fairHill this year. ness in the event of an allegation,” Michael Chong’s Reform Act Chong said.

2015 will be studied line-by-line “It will allow members to put

by MPs in committee Thursday, their case to caucus and have after which it is expected to be come back to the Commons for a their caucuses, as a jury of peers, penultimate vote in the new year. adjudicate that case through a Should it pass, MPs could give secret ballot vote.”

Each party’s parliamentary themselves the power within their caucus would be required to vote caucuses to vote on suspensions after a general election on whethand reinstatements, rather than er to give themselves that power leaving it to be the sole prerogaover suspensions, the reviewing tive of their leaders. and expelling of a leader, and the Last month, Liberal Leader naming of the caucus chair.

Justin Trudeau suspended MPs Should it pass, the bill would Massimo Pacetti and Scott Andrews after hearing allegations of personal misconduct from two female NDP MPs. The two men WEDNESDAY UÊFRIDAY have denied any wrongdoing.

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come into effect after the next election. Power has been centralized with the leaders’ offices in recent years; Chong’s bill seeks to restore a measure of that power to caucus members.

The bill has only received two days of study in the busy procedure and house affairs committee, with all witnesses praising the content.

“Those aspects of it are important in my mind for furthering a more democratic operation for our Parliament, because I don’t think the members should be dictated to by party leaders and told, ‘If you don’t vote this way you’re out of caucus,”’ former House Speaker Peter Milliken told the committee last week.

Chong himself has suggested a number of amendments in order to gain the approval of all three major parties – allowing caucuses

to vote to adopt new rules or stick to the status quo, for example.

“This bill is still a very good bill and will lead to meaningful change,” Chong said. “I’m cautiously optimistic we can get this done.”

The Liberals have hired labour and human rights lawyer Cynthia Peterson to lead an investigation into the allegations against Pacetti and Andrews. Trudeau has said he will use her report as the basis of his decision on whether to ultimately reinstate the men.

He explained that he had suspended Pacetti and Andrews in the absence of a formal process to deal with harassment complaints between MPs. On Wednesday, Commons Speaker Andrew Scheer announced that a harassment prevention policy and mediation process that applied to administrative staff will now apply to MPs and their office employees.

The two NDP MPs have not indicated whether they intend to take part in any such process.

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Review warns government that cost of replacing Canada’s CF-18s is rising eral’s report accused National Defence and public works of low-balling the cost and not doOTTAWA ing their homework, the Conserhe Harper government is vatives put the program on hold being warned that there’s and froze the purchase budget at increasingly less wiggle room in $9 billion. its $9 billion budget envelope, if But the review released it intends to buy the F-35 stealth Wednesday warned that time fighter. and various economic factors This week the public works secretariat overseeing the replace- are eating away at the cushion of ment of the country’s existing CF- contingency funds, which is now 18s released its annual assessment estimated at just $76 million.

Even a slight variance in inflaof the program, which has been tion or the exchange rate could on hold for two years. blow the budget envelope.

The independent review says Experts at the accounting firm the lifetime cost of owning the radar-evading jet has edged back of Grant Thornton, which conducted the review, say the project up to $45.8 billion over 40 years.

That figure includes the cost of remains affordable within the existing framework and suggest that buying 65 jets, as well as mainif the contingency gets chewed taining and operating them over up, the shortfall “could be met by their entire service life. buying fewer aircraft.�

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But the analysis notes that even over the long term, there are risks because in order to meet the maintenance costs the F-35 would have to be flown much less than the current fleet. “This estimate uses a planned yearly flying rate of 11,700 hours – approximately 20 per cent less than the currently planned CF-18

yearly flying rate – or 15 hours per month per aircraft,� said the report.

The analysis suggests, if the government decides, to continue with the program, it could start buying the planes in 2020 with a few aircraft arriving each year until the CF-18s are retired in 2025.

The federal cabinet received

an overall analysis of what options are out there to replace the current fleet, which is over 30 years old, but it has yet to make a decision whether to continue – or hold an open competition.

There was a Pentagon report last month that stated Canada wanted to buy four F-35s in the 2015-16 budget year and had asked the U.S. Air Force to make arrangements, but the notion was shot down by senior government officials.

The F-35 has been the subject of cost overruns and delays for years and the analysis suggests that hurdles, mostly in the plane’s advanced systems remain a problem. “Software continues to be the most challenging technical risk to the F-35 program,� said the report. “Software build delays and limitations in delivered software capabilities have caused delays in mission system testing, putting at risk the schedule for achieving initial operating capability.�

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New Assembly of First Nations Chief Perry Bellegarde: ‘Canada is Indian land’ more than the 60 per cent required for victory. Ghislain Picard, the assembly’s interim leader, finished WINNIPEG second. Leon Jourdain, chief of he new national chief of the the Lac La Croix First Nation in Assembly of First Nations is Ontario, finished third. warning it will no longer be busiBellegarde, who was until ness as usual when it comes to de- Wednesday chief of the Federation velopment on First Nations land. of Saskatchewan Indian Nations, In a fiery speech to assembly ran a campaign that focused on delegates in Winnipeg on Wednes- a pledge to restore pride among day, Saskatchewan’s Perry BelFirst Nations and focus on selflegarde singled out pipelines and determination. energy development as one of the He told reporters the assemfrontlines in his battle to put First bly under his leadership will “be Nations on equal footing with the respectful, it’s going to be responrest of Canada. sive and it’s going to be relevant to “To the people across this great First Nations people.” land, I say to you, that the values “As indigenous people, we of fairness and tolerance which have the inherent right to selfCanada exports to the world, are a determination,” Bellegarde said. lie when it comes to our people,” “That means the ability to say ‘yes’ Bellegarde said. “Canada will no to development or ‘no’ to developlonger develop pipelines, no lonment.” ger develop transmission lines, or Aboriginal Affairs Minister Berany infrastructure, on our lands as nard Valcourt issued a statement business as usual. congratulating Bellegarde. Val“That is not on.” court said the federal government He pledged opposition to any believes aboriginal people “should project that deprives First Nations have the same quality of life, the a share of the profits. same opportunities and the same “We will no longer accept choices as all other Canadians.” poverty and hopelessness while He listed some of the “concrete resource companies and governaction” the government has taken ments grow fat off our lands and on shared priorities, including a territories and resources,” he said. controversial transparency law “If our lands and resources are which requires chiefs to post their to be developed, it will be done salaries and their band’s financial only with our fair share of the roy- information online. The governalties, with our ownership of the ment is taking six First Nations resources and jobs for our people. to court to force them to comply It will be done on our terms and and is withholding “non-essential our timeline.” funding” from almost 50 others His final remarks drew one of that failed to meet the deadline for the loudest responses from the disclosure. crowd.

That law is just one of the chal“Canada is Indian land,” he lenges testing the assembly’s relasaid. “This is my truth and this is tions with Ottawa, Bellegarde said. the truth of our peoples.”

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Bellegarde said he is open to meeting and working with the federal government because it’s the only way to change the status quo. Jourdain used his concession speech to bitterly voice the frustration of some who feel any leader who meets with Prime Minister Stephen Harper is “a sellout.”

“That road has led us nowhere,” Jourdain said. “Today, the prime minister is celebrating … This will come and haunt us all.”

The AFN’s top job came open earlier this year when former national chief Shawn Atleo resigned due to fallout from his support of a controversial federal act to reform First Nations education.

Bellegarde will have an extra six months added to his three-year term as the organization restructures amid questions about its relevance. Many argue the assembly should wean itself off federal funding, while others have argued it doesn’t reflect the views and concerns of grassroots people.

Grand Chief Derek Nepinak, head of the Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs, has been an outspoken critic of the organization and formed an alternative group called the Treaty Alliance. Nepinak, who shared the stage with Bellegarde when he took his oath of office, said he’s cautiously optimistic about the new national chief.

“Anybody who tries to stand in the way of the Treaty Alliance, whether it be regionally or nationally, would be making a mistake,” Nepinak said. “I hope that doesn’t happen.”

Ken Coates, senior fellow with the Macdonald-Laurier Institute, followed the election campaign.

He said opinion among First Nations is split between those who want to negotiate more rights for aboriginals and those who say

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The Idle No More movement that saw nationwide protests was as much a rejection of aboriginal leadership as it was of the federal government, he suggested.

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CIA fallout: Calls for prosecution echo in the wake of Senate torture report Alexander Panetta

the hook – neither the torturers themselves, nor the policy-makers, nor the public officials who define WASHINGTON the policy or give the orders,� said he U.S. government is fending high commissioner Zeid Ra’ad Al off calls for criminal prosHussein, a member of the Jordanian ecution following the release of a royal family. damning report on the CIA’s use of “If someone commits murder, torture. they are prosecuted and jailed. If The White House emphatically they commit rape or armed robresisted those calls Wednesday in bery, they are prosecuted and jailed. the wake of the landmark report If they order, enable or commit on Bush-era practices, the first torture – recognized as a serious thorough public account of how international crime – they cannot the agency delivered punishment simply be granted impunity because at secret sites around the world, of political expediency.� imprisoned some suspects unfairly, The issue is relevant in Canada, and allegedly misled elected officials said Kerry Pither, the author of a about the program. book about four Canadians imprisIn the face of this can of worms, oned abroad, including Maher Arar. the White House appeared more There have been no consequencdetermined to slam it shut than es for members of Canada’s security further sift its contents. apparatus who co-operated with Josh Earnest, a spokesman for American intelligence, said Pither.

President Barack Obama, repeatedly She cited the example of Michel changed the subject when asked Cabana, the supervisor in charge of substantive questions like: Did the the RCMP investigation targeting Jacquelyn Martin/AP Photo torture achieve anything? Will anyWhite House press secretary Josh Earnest speaks during his daily news briefing at the White those four men, who has since been one be punished? promoted to deputy commissioner House in Washington last Monday.

Indeed, Earnest responded to of the Mounties. those questions and others with the As for compensation, Arar is the moral authority of the United “The commander-in-chief a thorough investigation. same vague expression of regret that reached a $10-million settlement concluded that the use of the techCivil-liberties groups want more.

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OTTAWA he Canadian foreign minister who was a driving force behind a groundbreaking treaty to ban landmines 17 years ago says he sees encouraging signs that the United States will finally sign on.

Former Liberal foreign minister Lloyd Axworthy says American support would be a major boost to the treaty, which the U.S. and three dozen other countries have snubbed since it was signed in Ottawa in 1997.

This week Secretary of State John Kerry said his country was going to look at joining the Ottawa Convention. “It’s been a long haul. It’s been 17 years,� Axworthy said in an interview, noting that the treaty has more than 160 member countries.

In a column published earlier this week in the American newspaper, USA Today, Kerry said landmines remain a hazard in 60 countries. “Decades after soldiers have laid down their weapons and leaders have made peace, these grim legacies of war kill and maim local populations.�

Kerry said his government has spent US$2.3 billion in 90 countries since 1993 to eradicate the weapons. He also noted his government’s announcement in September that the U.S. would no longer use landmines except in the Korean Peninsula. “And we will work to find ways that may ultimately allow us to accede to the Ottawa Convention – the international treaty that prohibits the use, stockpiling, production and transfer of anti-personnel land mines.�

Reports of anti-personnel landmine use in Syria and the fact that dormant mines are still killing innocent civilians in dozens of post-war countries show there is still a pressing need to work towards a global ban on their use, said Axworthy. “Having the Americans put some new energy into it is a great step, and welcome. It should give some momentum to the ongoing campaign behind the treaty.�

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Axworthy said he hopes the renewed U.S. interest might spur the Harper government to do more to support the clearance efforts of the deadly weapon. “I hope one of those areas which will take note will be the country north of the them because there’s been significant cutbacks of Canadian government support.�

The most recent edition of the International Landmine Monitor, released last week, noted that Canada’s support has waned substantially in recent years.

Paul Hannon, executive Director of Mines Action Canada, said the U.S. deserves credit for being the top donor to mine clearance. But he said it is disappointing that Canada has dropped out of the top five, falling to 14th position last year with its smallest contribution to the treaty’s eradication provisions since they came into force in 1999.

Given Kerry’s remarks and the level of U.S. spending, Hannon urged Ottawa to push Washington to join the treaty. “These are steps towards joining the Ottawa Treaty and we encourage all 35 countries still outside the mine ban treaty to join. Only by being fully and legally bound will we eliminate landmines,� said Hannon. “The U.S. just needs to take one more step and Canada should be doing everything we can to help them take (it).�

The office of Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird had no comment to a request for response.

Axworthy said he’s disappointed that the Harper government hasn’t taken a more active role on landmine eradication because Canada has a “good track record� on it. He said Canada is “missing an opportunity� to make a difference on an issue it once led internationally. “The Conservative party were supporters at the time of the treaty, when we brought all the parties together,� he said. “It wasn’t a matter that this was some kind of Liberal gambit.

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Growing Yukon food for Yukon families

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Mary and Rolland Girouard, owners of Rivendell Farm, have been named Yukon’s farmers of the year for 2014.

Jacqueline Ronson News Reporter

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ary and Rolland Girouard are old hands at farming in the Yukon.

They acquired their little piece of paradise in 1983, and were one of the firsts to develop the now-abundant Takhini River Valley for agriculture.

This year they were named Farmers of the Year at the annual North of 60 Agricultural Banquet in Whitehorse.

They call it Rivendell Farm, and the Tolkien reference is no accident.

Rolland had been looking for a piece of land to farm since he was a teenager, and when he saw this one, he knew it was special.

“I looked and it and I went, ‘Wow, the river is pinched together here, it flows around the valley, there’s a cliff on this side and it pinches together and flows out again,’” he says.

“And if you read The Hobbit, it’s the exact description.

Exactly as the hobbit said.

“I just, ‘Wow.’ And it’s been my Rivendell ever since.”

Mary had voted for “Strawberry Fields,” an ode to the late wild strawberry crop that carpeted the land on the September day she first saw it.

The name of the farm is settled, but Mary and Rolland’s battle of wills continues.

Sitting around their farmhouse kitchen table, they are a caricature of a couple that has spent decades living and working side by side – talking over each other, finishing each other’s sentences, sometimes saying the same thing at precisely the same time and other times diverging on their own separate tangents.

Their farm has survived various incarnations.

At first the intention was to have horses and grow hay.

Later they had a herd of elk, 55 head strong.

Those plans were sidetracked by severe allergies that Rolland developed.

“My doctor said, you have to sell your elk and stop farming because your wife is going to come home and find you dead of anaphylactic shock with your head in a bale of hay,” he says.

So they did stop. But only

was the Broccoli Lady, “who shall not be named.”

“She went into the garden, she came back and said,” Rolland says, before Mary interrupts, speaking over him.

“She had baskets, big baskets of broccoli,” says Mary.

Rolland jumps back in.

“She said, ‘I don’t have to go ••• home and cut any of them up.

They grow 60 varieties of They’re all just the right size.’” vegetables and fruit, and two He motions to indicate that or three or four types of many all of the little broccoli pants of those.

They call it “Yukon’s organic had each only grown to a little floret poking out of the soil. experience,” and it’s all about “Which means they were growing food for people, and teaching them how to do it for two weeks before harvest,” adds Mary. themselves.

“She cut my entire crop, 500 Since 2008 the couple has plants,” says Rolland. operated a pick-your-own “Two weeks before they club, a farm membership that were due to harvest,” Mary not only allows families to be repeats, for emphasis. involved in their own food “Heads of broccoli this big,” production, but teaches them a says Rolland, again indicating little along the way.

The Girouards have learned little, golf ball sized plants.

“Where did my crop go? Do from experience that a little I get mad at this lady?” asks knowledge goes a long way Rolland. when it comes to harvesting “She was perfectly sweet,” the garden.

Mary interjects.

Before the pick-your-own “She was a nice, sweet lady!” club, untrained pickers did a Rolland agrees. “She didn’t lot of damage. know any better,” he says.

The most famous example, Mary and Rolland will tell you, “It happened so fast. Within

for a time.

Rolland’s allergy issues have since been resolved, but they didn’t go back to keeping livestock.

Today their operation is part organic market garden, part tourism operation and part educational experience.

half an hour, it was all done.

And there went an entire year of growing. We got some nice side shoots. But everybody else that came to the garden, ‘Where’s the broccoli?’”

••• So today, helping with the harvest comes with a little more supervision and training.

But you don’t have to be in the club to visit the farm and learn a few things.

For an entrance fee you can bring the family out and spend the day wandering the gardens, nibbling on whatever’s ripe, walking the raspberry bush labyrinth, or playing with a variety of lawn games, including a chess set.

The sugar peas are always a big hit, when they’re reading for picking, says Rolland.

“I say, ‘Sample the wares, don’t turn green.’ Because everyone will overeat.”

The kids are often happy just to run around and play in the mud, Mary says.

“We’re really popular with the four-to-seven year olds.

“It’s like Disneyland for them, and all they’re doing is playing in the puddles and looking at the plants and nib-

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One of the greenhouses at the farm.

Alistair Maitland/Yukon News

The raspberry labyrinth and garden plots are located in the valley below.

bling on the peas.

“There’s nothing extravagant about what we’re doing,” says Rolland. “Kids just get to use their imagination. It’s an imagination station.”

And they love to see the food come out of the ground.

“You should see their faces when you pull up a potato plant for the first time, and all these potatoes spill out.”

“The swarm!” adds Mary.

“And when you pull a carrot out of the ground, and they’ve never seen where a carrot

comes from,” says Rolland. “It’s just, ‘Wow.’” Kids will eat their vegetables if they taste good, Rolland and Mary say.

One mom told them that after a trip to the farm, she took the kids through the McDonald’s drive-though and was munching on veggies while the kids ate their french fries in the back seat.

“Mom’s sitting in the front, she’s eating a purple bean,” says Rolland. “They say, ‘What are you eating, Mum?’ ‘Beans.

Wanna try?’ Give the kids beans, they never went back to their french fries!”

••• The biggest barrier to people growing their own food in the Yukon is only believing that it’s possible, says Rolland.

“We grow a tremendous variety of food here. We can feed ourselves here. Always have been able to. People just don’t have the belief.”

A few years back, a local paper ran an editorial that

asserted the only thing that grows in the Yukon is mould in the bathrooms, he said.

But it’s just not true.

There are close to 200 operating farms in the territory, according to the agriculture branch’s latest statistics.

A 2011 livestock survey counted 3,601 chickens, 615 horses, 213 cows, 90 goats and 60 pigs.

Farmers are also raising llamas, bison, elk, rabbits, turkeys and other poultry.

Over the summer the weekly famers’ market attracts dozens of vendors and hundreds of Yukoners looking to get closer to the food they eat.

And in the fall even the conventional grocery stores are flooded with plump, sweet Yukon vegetables, especially potatoes, carrots, beets and

cabbage.

Mary and Rolland don’t keep their Yukon farming secrets close to their chests, because they want you to grow food, too.

All of their varieties are marked with custom signs, with tips on how to grow that plant in the North.

Rolland will tell you where to buy the seeds and how to care for them.

“Because I want you to grow it,’ he says. “You don’t necessarily have to buy from me, but if you’re growing that I’ve been successful, as far as my philosophy goes.

“I’d like be a millionaire, but I chose this lifestyle, being a farmer and growing food for people.”

Contact Jacqueline Ronson at jronson@yukon-news.com

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T The 14th annual Young Women Exploring Trades career Fair which was held on November 28th, 2014 was another great success! Eightytthree Grade-8 girls from across the Yukon participated in seven different workshops, which gave them a unique hands-on introduction to the eexciting world of trades. The organizers were delighted to see participants from Haines Junction, Teslin, Carmacks and Watson Lake, as well as rrepresentation from all Whitehorse high schools.

Thank you to the many people who contributed their time and knowledge to this remarkable event, including sponsors, tradespeople, T iinstructors and volunteers.

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Five-year-old business boy sells homemade blocks to Yukon toy store Terri Theodore

sets – as many as he could manage to make – for $10 each.

The sets sold out in one day WHITEHORSE and Burns now has a waiting list.

The business-boy spirit didn’t uxley Briggs was just tall enough to see over the store surprise Huxley’s mother, Amoree counter, but that didn’t throw the Briggs, who said she and her husband often talk with their son five-year-old off his pitch to sell his Yukon-wood building blocks. about saving money and investWhen the young entrepreneur ments.

She said Huxley got the idea approached Betty Burns at her Yukon toy store he asked to speak from looking over some scrap wood in her husband’s shop. The to the owner about buying his boy also knew that his two-yearhomemade blocks. old brother really liked to play “I took one look at him and my heart melted. I actually teared with the blocks.

Bernard Briggs and his son up,” Burns said of the day the boy then spent a couple of hours walked into Angellina’s Toy and working on the idea together.

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Many of the blocks were made “He said he is five years old

by Huxley himself using power and makes the blocks all by himself … and he had an idea he tools, which his mom admitted was “a little bit nerve-racking at could sell them.” first.”

The rectangles and wedges “My husband, he was that way came nicely packaged in plastic when he grew up. His dad showed with a label in his own printing him early how to use tools. He rethat read “Huxley’s Block Comally explains safety precaution.” pany.”

He doesn’t cut the small blocks Burns, who’s also a Grade 1 with a saw, she said, but uses a teacher, began negotiating on a belt sander and a wheel sander price. and helps his dad with the planer.

“He said ‘five dollars’ and I And, with the heavy demand, didn’t say anything and I looked Huxley has had to call in some over at his mom … She nodded extra help, Mom said. and said ‘yes.”’

“He’s negotiating with his Burns thought Huxley might grandfather to come out and help have been under-valuing the product and she offered to buy 10 him with the next set of blocks.

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He’s agreed to take him out for ice cream and a movie if he comes and helps,” she said with a chuckle.

Huxley, who is kindergarten age and has been home schooled, has purchased himself a toy, bought his sister some knitting supplies and put some cash into an investment account with the block proceeds.

Burns is selling the blocks for $20 each and is donating the profit to Big Brothers and Big Sisters of Yukon, the family’s charity of choice.

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Gougers face public shaming as feds tackle Canada U.S. ‘price discrimination’ some critics called misguided.

Industry Minister James Moore said the aim is to proTORONTO tect Canadian consumers, not ompanies would be regulate prices. forced to justify why their “This unexplained differprices are higher in Canada ence in price between Amerithan in the United States or can and Canadian prices for face naming and shaming the exact same product is under federal legislation infrustrating,” Moore said at a troduced this week – a move toy store.

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The bureau would then publicize its findings but could not impose sanctions unless anti-competitive practices were uncovered.

Numerous studies have shown prices in Canada to be between 10 and 25 per cent higher on average than in the U.S. Moore himself rhymed off a list of articles – shampoo, a television, running shoes – he said cost as much as double this side of the border.

Last year, a Senate committee cited “country pricing” by manufacturers as one reason for the difference, while a study by the American Economic Review journal also blamed distributors and wholesalers.

Experts often cite a complex set of volatile variables for Canada-U.S. price differences, including the exchange rate, transportation costs, tariffs, and different regulations.

“Those factors do explain some of the price differences but it’s certainly not the only story,” Moore said.

In 2009, the Conservative government scrapped price discrimination as a longstanding but rarely enforced criminal offence with punishment of up to two years.

Moore said the potential for public fallout should result in companies cutting unfair prices.

Finn Poschmann, vicepresident with the C.D. Howe Institute, said the legislation will do nothing to bring Canadian prices down.

“It would be odd if busi-

nesses charge anything other than what consumers are willing to pay,” Poschmann said. “(The bill) is a misguided direction of government resources that can only prove costly to businesses and costly to consumers to little good end.”

Competition Commissioner John Pecman said in an interview the bureau, which will receive no extra funding, will now start developing forensic pricing expertise.

He said the bureau would take consumer complaints but intended to be proactive in identifying and publicly naming price gougers.

“Hopefully, the parties involved will voluntarily decide to change their conduct,” Pecman said.

The price gap has been particularly hard on smaller retailers who have lost sales to cross-border shopping.

As a result, the 45,000-member Retail Council of Canada said it supports the legislation.

“For the consumer it’s simple,” said council CEO Diane Brisebois. “They want transparency on why prices are higher in Canada.”

George Addy, a lawyer with competition expertise, said cross-border pricing is a highly complex issue dependent on “almost an infinite number of factors.”

It remains to be seen what would happen if price gouging was publicly identified but it would likely fall to consumers to take action, perhaps via social media, to shame offenders, Addy said.

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Zero emissions idea floated by climate ‘nerd’ getting traction at UN conference in Peru Karl Ritter

for adoption in Paris next year should phase out greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, says the LIMA, PERU London-based environmental ulling a worn, yellowed copy lawyer. of the 1992 U.N. climate “In your lifetime, emissions change convention from her have to go to zero. That’s a meshandbag, Farhana Yamin points sage people understand,” said to the paragraph that states its the Pakistani-born Yamin, who goal: To stabilize greenhouse gas has been instrumental in getting concentrations at a level that that ambitious, some say crucial, would prevent dangerous warm- goal into drafts being discussed at ing.

U.N. talks in Lima this week.

It doesn’t provide any guidSince she launched the idea ance on how to do that. in 2013, it has exploded. Papers But Yamin does. And, in a have been written, seminars held. historic first, dozens of governU.N. Secretary-General Ban Kiments now embrace her prescrip- moon, environmental groups and tion. The global climate pact set celebrities including Leonardo Associated Press

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Critics call the idea unrealistic because it restricts us to two hard options. Either we abandon fossil fuels, our main current source both of energy and greenhouse gas pollution, or we find ways to capture emissions from coal, oil and gas and bury them underground.

The first would require a tectonic shift to renewable energy.

The second would mean rapid deployment of expensive technologies yet to be tested at scale.

This would need to happen within decades, even as the developing world’s energy needs grow rapidly.

“I do not think this is realistic when 2 billion people do not have access to energy,” said Saudi Arabia’s chief negotiator in Lima, Khalid Abuleif. “Concepts like zero emissions … aren’t really helping the process.”

Yamin is a veteran of the U.N. climate talks – these are their 20th iteration. She has been “island hopping” throughout, advising a range of small island states that fear being swallowed by the rise in sea levels scientists attribute to global warming.

In Lima, she is an adviser for the Marshall Islands. She has also worked for the European Union.

While scientists have long said the greenhouse gas emissions blamed for global warming need to be phased out, the overarching goal of U.N. climate negotiations is to stabilize those gases at a level that keeps warming below 2 degrees C (3.6 F), compared with

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It was Yamin who urged that an emissions phase-out by mid-century be incorporated in the Paris deal, whose focus is on more near-term emissions cuts beginning in 2020.

“Yamin had the original idea,” said Niklas Hoehne, a German climate researcher inspired by her work.

In May, she presented it at a symposium in Norway.

“That was when this idea started to get more attention,” said Aslak Brun, chief of Norway’s delegation in Lima.

Several world leaders, including Norway’s prime minister, expressed support for some form of phase-out goal during a September climate summit in New York.

DiCaprio also backed it, though he, like many green activists took it a step further and called for a phase-out of fossil fuels.

Yamin’s 20-year-old daughter, Aliya, the oldest of four children, helped her track the statements and put them in a spreadsheet, she said.

In Lima, Norway is now pushing for a “net zero emissions” goal by 2050, meaning no more carbon emissions than the world’s forests can absorb. Other options being discussed at the slow-going talks use different timelines and words like “carbon neutrality.”

“Some people don’t like ‘zero’ – it’s kind of harsh and scary,” Yamin said.

Chris Field, a scientist on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, says the net zero emissions goal is consistent with staying below the 2-degree target.

Dozens of the most vulnerable countries, including small

island states and some European countries, support a long-term emissions phase-out, but the biggest countries have not taken a clear stance.

U.S. climate envoy Todd Stern told reporters in Lima he could imagine a long-term goal in the Paris agreement “but I’m not sure what kind, whether it would be ‘net zero emissions’ or something else.”

China, the world’s top carbon polluter, hasn’t announced its position and didn’t immediately answer a request for comment by The Associated Press.

Jennifer Morgan of the World Resources Institute said many businesses welcome the idea of a long-term emissions goal “because they want clarity and predictability” to guide their investments.

Oil companies aren’t thrilled about the zero emissions idea, though, because it could encourage thinking that investments in fossil fuels are a bad idea.

ExxonMobil on Tuesday predicted that oil will remain the world’s largest fuel source in 2040.

In a speech earlier this year, Shell CEO Ben van Beurden said expectations of a zero-carbon future need to be tempered with the “understanding that there are significant technological and economic obstacles.”

Yamin said she was optimistic that the phase-out goal would survive in the Paris agreement, once people “get over the shock of the idea.”

But if it does, don’t expect her to take credit.

“It’s a great idea. But if it survives it will because thousands of people worked on it,” she said.

“I’m just a nerd and a mother.”

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Critics ask why Canada hasn’t blocked international trade in 76 endangered species Bob Weber

Few of the species Canada declined to protect have significant domestic value. A small East Coast ecently released documents fishery exists for the porbeagle indicate the federal government shark, but Canada does not harvest has reservations about restricting manatees, manta rays or ebony. international trade in endangered Environment Canada spokesspecies – more of them than almost man Danny Kingsberry said the any other government on Earth. reservations are temporary and the The papers show that Canada protections will eventually come has opted out of nearly every into law. resolution to protect endangered “Canada, as with many other species taken at last year’s meeting parties to the convention, requires of the Convention on Internaadditional time to make the necestional Trade in Endangered Species sary regulatory changes,” he said in (CITES). Delegates from 180 an email. “These reservations are countries voted to extend protectechnical in nature, not substantive, tions to 76 plant and animal species and were made to allow Canada from soft-shelled turtles to tropical hardwoods.

Canada, however, filed “reservations” against all those motions, meaning Canadian trade in those species will continue as normal.

“It’s unprecedented,” said Sheryl Fink of the International Fund for Animal Welfare. “I can’t think of any explanation for it.

“I’ve been told no other country has ever taken such an action.”

The protections were voted on in March 2013 at the last CITES convention in Bangkok. According to a document released earlier this fall, Canada chose to opt out of all but one of the motions that upgraded species protections.

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sufficient time to amend its domestic legislation to reflect the changes.”

But the text of the agreement says reservations are “a unilateral statement that (a country) will not be bound by the provisions of the Convention relating to trade in a particular species.”

As well, Fink said, Canada has previously managed to produce regulations well within a 90-day grace period allowed under the treaty.

“As far as I’m aware, this has never been a problem for Canada,” she said. “There is no logical explanation for Canada to place reservations on all of these species, and no

plausible excuse for a 20-month delay in updating our legislation.”

The government has also failed to follow through with a promise last August to update its wild animal and plant trade regulations, said the animal welfare fund.

Canada’s stance baffles its international partners, said Fink.

“For Canada to opt out of its obligations under CITES for every single species that was listed, when we don’t even have a commercial interest in the species, it has no logical explanation as far as anyone can tell.

“It’s something that’s been noticed in the international conserva-

tion community – why has Canada done this?”

Canada has been fighting a rearguard action at CITES over polar bears. It has been working to stop the organization from further restricting trade in polar bear parts.

Support for Canada’s position, however, has been declining.

In 2010, CITES considered banning all trade in polar bear parts and the European Union voted in a single bloc with Canada against it. In 2013, after major European countries including the United Kingdom and Germany said they opposed Canada’s polar bear hunt, the EU simply sat on its hands.

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Singer-songwriter Dan Mangan and band Blacksmith. The two-time Juno Award winner will be giving a solo performance on Jan. 30 at the Yukon Arts Centre.

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ize doesn’t matter, according to Dan Mangan.

The two-time Juno Award winning musician has played some big festivals in his day – Glastonbury, Osheaga and Sasquatch, to name a few – but he’ll tell you the size of the crowd has nothing to do with the success of a performance.

“Scale doesn’t dictate the experience,” he said.

“I’ve played a lot of small gigs in my life to less than 50 people. Those can be either really special or really terrible.

“And sometimes the really big gigs can be the most life-affirming experiences.”

Mangan said he has fond memories from his only two performances in the Yukon, which took place in 2010 at Frostbite and the Dawson City Music Festival.

Four years later, the Yukon Arts Centre is bringing him back. He’s

been added to its 2014-2015 lineup and will be performing a solo show in Whitehorse next month.

“There’s a really great community of folks up there,” he said about the Yukon.

“It’s funny how every festival has its charm but it’s a special thing when you can go to a tiny place.

You get a sense that you’ve been somewhere a bit wild, outside of the urban framework and you experience something special.”

At Dawson City, he remembers standing with Fred Penner, the wellknown Canadian children’s music performer, watching indie rock band Constantines.

“We’re watching this show and it’s screechingly loud and awesome, and I’m watching this blue-collar band singing protest rock songs,” the 31-year-old said.

“At some point Penner turns and says, ‘I think the decibel level in here is approaching potential hearing damage.’

“Later on I recounted that to

Constantines’ sound guy and he told me that if I could hear him say that, it wasn’t loud enough.”

Over the years Mangan has run into Penner a number of times and they’ve developed a bit of a friendship.

“When my son was born he sent me an email with a song he’d written just for him,” Mangan said.

Dawson City holds a special place in the Vancouverite’s heart. He said the festival is unique because you know a lot of people travelled a great distance just to be there.

Before leaving the area he remembers being taken to a scenic spot overlooking a vast expanse of land, and being truly impressed by the view.

“That’s when you get smacked with a dose of humility, of just how small you are in the scope of all things,” he said.

He’s looking forward to getting back on the road after a well-deserved break.

Mangan and his band, Black-

smith, are back in the spotlight after a two-year spell in which the musician co-produced a film soundtrack, created a new album and had a son.

Club Meds, out Jan. 13, is Mangan’s fourth full-length album and a departure from his earlier material, he said.

After years of playing with the same musicians, he decided to acknowledge their contributions to the band by adding Blacksmith to his moniker.

“We’ve been together in such a clear ensemble that it doesn’t seem like me surrounded by a backing band,” he said.

“It seemed weirder and weirder to show up and it was just my name on the ticket, or just my picture in a magazine. It’s a bit of a new beginning for us.”

For a while the group was touring non-stop, trying to build up an audience and make a name for itself.

It was working, Mangan said, but they got to a point where they were

exhausted and burnt out.

“We were just hustling all the time,” he said, “riding a crest of momentum and you get to a point where you’re just trying to juggle all the plates at once.”

The break has infused new energy into the band, the music and the performances.

Mangan says the new material is a “massive galloping leap” from Oh Fortune, the album he released in 2011.

It’s the strongest thing he’s ever been a part of, he added.

“The lyrics, songs and arrangements are better, I feel like it’s been elevated to a new level,” he said.

He’s since discovered that life is about balance. You can only rev the engines for so long, he said.

Mangan’s solo performance at the Yukon Arts Centre Mainstage is on Jan. 30 at 8 p.m. The show will include a local opening act, which is yet to be determined.

Contact Myles Dolphin at myles@yukon-news.com

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Questions swirl over Jian Ghomeshi probe at CBC Colin Perkel Canadian Press

TORONTO uestions about the effectiveness of an investigation into the CBC’s handling of the Jian Ghomeshi affair are swirling amid employee concerns about incriminating themselves.

While senior managers defended the process as independent, the union said only a promise of immunity would allow all employees to speak freely to investigator Janice Rubin.

There’s no guarantee that your information or your identity is protected, said Carmel Smythe, president of the Canadian Media Guild. “Every day, it looks less independent, that she’s just now taking orders and supplying all the information to CBC.” CBC asked Rubin, a labour lawyer, to conduct an independent investigation after firing Ghomeshi, 47, as host of the radio show “Q” in October. The broadcaster said it axed Ghomeshi after seeing what it called “graphic evidence” he had caused physical injury to a woman.

More than a dozen other women then stepped forward with allegations he had physically or sexually attacked them, with one woman saying he had sexually harassed her at work but her complaints went nowhere.

Ghomeshi has denied the allegations, arguing that he engaged in “rough sex”, but insisting it was always consensual.

Earlier this week, the guild cautioned members that Rubin would be recording their interviews with her – information

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that could wind up being used in disciplinary proceedings against them.

CBC spokesman Chuck Thompson on Wednesday confirmed that could happen – but only after disciplinary proceedings had already started.

Essentially, he said, Rubin would flag the need to take action against an employee in her final report. “If there’s something that she believes needs to be brought to management’s attention based on her investigation, she will do that,” Thompson said.

“Any discipline that would be taken would fall to management.”

Despite the guild’s misgivings, one management source said those who spoke to Rubin were struck by her professional approach and left assured there

would be no whitewash.

Among those who have spoken to Rubin was former “Q” producer Kathryn Borel, the woman who said she had complained to no effect about Ghomeshi to union representative Timothy Neesam.

Reached in California, Borel praised what she described as Rubin’s rigorous fact-finding exercise but expressed doubt the investigation will ultimately yield much because people are afraid to speak out. “How that information will be used, obviously, is where the process breaks down and where I stop believing that anything good will come from it, because management is far more interested in dodging and obfuscation than actually examining itself,” Borel said. “Fear and silence are what created this mess.”

Just how tricky the situation is can be seen in an attempt by the guild to negotiate an agreement to protect Neesam’s identity, which Rubin refused.

In a confidential letter obtained by The Canadian Press, Rubin spells out when a recording and transcript of her session with Neesam could be made available to management.

“Should the CBC request a copy of the material, it may also be given access to it by me but only if it engages in a disciplinary process with respect to Mr. Neesam in relation to the subject matter of the investigation,” Rubin states.

She then goes on to state that “engages in a disciplinary process” means if and when Neesam first receives a notice to attend a disci-

plinary meeting.

Neesam has denied Borel mentioned sexual harassment to him, saying only that she talked about inappropriate behaviour.

Smythe said people want answers and a thorough investigation is needed, but Rubin’s isn’t the way to go.

“Many people want someone to be held accountable and actually so do we,” Smythe said.

“We were very optimistic initially and each day we’re a little less optimistic.”

Ghomeshi also faces sexual assault and choking charges stemming from alleged incidents involving three women. His lawyer has said he intends to plead not guilty.

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TORONTO Canadian-led international team of researchers has begun solving the mystery of just how a specialized cell taken from a person’s skin is reprogrammed into an embryonic-like stem cell, from which virtually any other cell type in the body can be generated.

The research is being touted as a breakthrough in regenerative medicine that will allow scientists to one day harness stem cells to treat or even cure a host of conditions, from blindness and Parkinson’s disease to diabetes and spinal cord injuries.

Besides creating the reprogramming roadmap, the scientists also identified a new type of stem cell, called an F-class stem cell due to its fuzzy appearance. Their work is detailed in five papers published Wednesday in the prestigious journals Nature and Nature Communications.

Dr. Andras Nagy, a senior scientist at Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto, led the team of 50 researchers from Canada, the Netherlands, South Korea and Australia, which spent four years analyzing and cataloguing the day-by-day process that occurs in stem cell reprogramming.

The work builds on the 20062007 papers by Shinya Yamanaka, who showed that adult skin cells could be turned into embryoniclike, or pluripotent, stem cells through genetic manipulation, a discovery that garnered the Japanese scientist the Nobel Prize in 2012.

Nagy likened the roughly 21-day process to complete that transformation to a “black box,”

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so called because scientists did not know what went on within the cells as they morphed from one cell type into the other.

“It was just like a black box,” Nagy said Wednesday, following a briefing at the hospital. “You start with a skin cell, you arrive at a stem cell – but we had no idea what was happening inside the cell.”

Nagy’s team set about cataloguing the changes as they occurred by removing cells from culture dishes at set points during the three-week period, then analyzing such cellular material as DNA and proteins present at that moment.

The result is a database that will be available to scientists around the world, which the team hopes will spur new research to advance the field of stem cellbased regenerative medicine.

Co-author Ian Rogers, a scientist in Nagy’s lab, said the database will allow researchers to identify various properties of the developing stem cells, which could mean improving their ability to treat or cure disease.

“Should we, instead of waiting the full 21 days, should we start using the cells a week into the progression or two weeks into the progression? Do they have optimal therapeutic properties then?

Do they gain some or do they lose some as it moves along?

“So depending on the therapy, so maybe for spinal cord injury treatments … or diabetes … you can look at this database and say, ‘OK, we are going to stop our cells in the progression at this stage,” Rogers said.

“So it allows for more personalized therapy.”

Nagy said the F-class stem cells

his lab identified have unique properties that could open up new avenues for generating “designer” cells that may be safer and more efficient when used in future therapies. They differ from their more classical stem cell cousins in that they can be grown faster and more cheaply in bioreactors, he explained.

Dr. Jim Woodgett, director of the Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute at Mount Sinai, said Nagy’s team has in effect created a rule book for tissue regeneration.

“This encyclopedic data set … will worldwide help to power many more discoveries by hundreds of research labs working in this field and in the fields of cancer and fetal development and many other areas,” he said.

Calling it an extraordinary achievement, Ontario Health Minister Dr. Eric Hoskins hailed the research as a game-changer that will open up new frontiers in scientific and medical knowledge around the globe.

“This research can and will and is leading to new medical treatments using a patient’s own cells,” he told the briefing. “That kind of individualized treatment is something that physicians like me have only dreamed of in the past.”

Nagy said the next step is to further mine the database to understand more of what is happening during the cell-to-stem cell transformation. He estimated the work so far represents only about 10 per cent of the knowledge that can be gleaned about the process.

The ultimate goal, of course, is to translate the basic science into therapies that will help patients, he said.

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Why snot? Gooey gunk is actually a vital part of your bodyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s protective arsenal Helen Branswell

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Police have limited right to search cellphones Mike Blanchfield

Three dissenting justices said the police must get a search warrant in all cases except in rare OTTAWA instances where there is a danger divided Supreme Court of to the public or the police, or if Canada has ruled that police evidence could be destroyed. can conduct a limited search of It is the first Supreme Court suspect’s cellphone without getruling on cellphone privacy, an ting a search warrant, but they issue that has spawned a series of must follow strict rules. divergent lower court rulings.

By a 4-3 margin, the court said The high court dismissed the in a precedent-setting ruling that appeal of the 2009 armed robbery the search must be directly related conviction of Kevin Fearon, who to the circumstances of a person’s argued unsuccessfully that police arrest and the police must keep violated his charter rights when detailed records of the search. they searched his cellphone withCanadian Press

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conduct that requires exclusion of evidence.”

Cromwell said the court was trying to strike a balance between the demands of effective law enforcement and the public’s right to be free of unreasonable searches and seizures under Section 8 of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

“In my view, we can achieve that balance with a rule that permits searches of cellphones incident to arrest, provided that the search – both what is searched and how it is searched – is strictly incidental to the arrest and that the police keep detailed notes of what has been searched and why.”

The ruling laid out detailed criteria to guide police.

The arrest must be lawful, and the search must be “truly incidental to the arrest” and “based on a valid law enforcement purpose,” it said.

The ruling defined valid law enforcement as: protecting the police, accused or the public.

That includes preserving evidence and discovering new evidence, “including locating additional suspects, in situations in which the investigation will be stymied or significantly hampered absent the ability to promptly search the cellphone incident to arrest.”

Moreover, the ruling said a phone can subjected to a warrantless search if the “nature and the extent of the search are tailored to the purpose of the search” if police “take detailed notes of what they examined on the device and how it was searched.”

That lack of proper notetaking was the one flaw the high court identified in Fearon’s arrest, but it said that wasn’t enough to exclude the evidence that was gathered from his phone.

After police arrested Fearon, they found a relevant draft text message that referred to “jewelry” and photographs, including the

handgun used the robbery.

“We did it,” the text message read in part.

Police later obtained a search warrant but found nothing more useful on the phone.

The court said the evidence the officers presented in court about the initial search was unsatisfactory. One officer testified that he “had a look through the cellphone” and another said he did “some quick checks” for about two minutes.

Beyond that, the court concluded, the police “were not able to provide many specifics.”

Still, the high court allowed that evidence to stand – upholding Fearon’s conviction – and agreed with the original trial judge’s finding that excluding it would “would undermine the truth-seeking function of the justice system.”

Writing for the three dissenters, Justice Andromache Karakatsanis said police should need a warrant in all cases to search a cellphone.

“The intensely personal and uniquely pervasive sphere of privacy in our personal computers requires protection that is clear, practical and effective,” she wrote.

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Make sure your travel insurance policy fits your trip and your health: advisers Linda Nguyen Canadian Press

TORONTO ast winter, Eugene Gushuliak was in the kitchen of his Mexican timeshare when he collapsed and blacked out.

Gushuliak, 73, doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t remember the events that followed â&#x20AC;&#x201C; the ambulance that took him to the Puerto Vallarta hospital, the three specialists enlisted for his care, or the flight that brought him back to Winnipeg.

What he does know is that the three-day hospital stay to treat a heart problem, along with the flight home with his wife, nurse and doctor, added up to $90,000.

It was a bill his travel insurance company took care of completely.

Virginia Gushuliak said she and her husband have been vacationing in Mexico for years and have never taken chances when it came to buying travel insurance. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a gamble. Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re gambling that youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going to be well,â&#x20AC;? she said.

Alex Bittner, the head of the Travel Health Insurance Association of Canada, said while the cost of a policy can put people off, the value should be weighed

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He said itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s risky to take the cheapest policy without reading the fine print first. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I always say, know your trip, know your policy and know your health,â&#x20AC;? said Bittner, who is president of the volunteer-run industry group. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Price is important, obviously. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re all consumers. But coverage is key. Once I establish that the coverage is what I want and what I need, then I can start looking at the price and see if that fits my budget.â&#x20AC;?

Other tips on buying travel insurance: â&#x20AC;˘ Ensure that the policy will cover you for the length of your trip and can be extended for any reason. â&#x20AC;˘ Know what medical conditions and emergencies are covered. For example, some policies exclude treatment stemming from high intensity sports, such as hockey. A parent who buys travel insurance for a child playing in a minor-league hockey

tournament in the U.S. should make sure that the policy would cover all medical incidents, whether itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s an on-ice accident or a slip and fall at the hotel pool. â&#x20AC;˘ Check the payout cap. A good travel insurance plan can have a payout of up to $5 million. â&#x20AC;˘ Read the fine print on pre-existing health conditions that could result in a rejected claim. Last month, a Saskatoon couple made the news when they were hit with $900,000 medical bill after their baby was born prematurely while on vacation in Hawaii. Even though Jennifer Huculakâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s doctor had cleared her for travel, Blue Cross rejected the claim, arguing that she had a pre-existing medical condition that voided the policy, which also expired while Huculak was in hospital in Honolulu.

If you are over 60, an insurance company will usually have you fill out a medical questionnaire, which will be used to calculate the policy premium.

Generally, someone under the age of 60 can expect to pay

around $15 for a weekend of travel insurance coverage while a snowbird, who plans on spending four months in the U.S., can pay anywhere from $1,000 to more than $5,000. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Is it expensive? Yes, $5,000 for a senior is a hefty bill,â&#x20AC;? said Bittner. â&#x20AC;&#x153;On the other hand, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re essentially looking at handing a senior a blank cheque and saying: â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Have a wonderful trip and if something happens, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re here for you.â&#x20AC;?â&#x20AC;&#x2122; Travellers should also check to see if major credit cards â&#x20AC;&#x201C; usually ones with annual fees â&#x20AC;&#x201C; includes travel insurance. Provincial health plans also cover a small portion, usually under 10 per cent, of medical bills incurred during international trips. Emergencies within Canada are fully

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Evan Rachkovsky, a spokesman for the Canadian Snowbird Association, said itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s important to buy insurance even if youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re travelling just for a day to do some cross-border shopping. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re really gambling with your life savings, especially in the U.S. where healthcare rates are exorbitant,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;And honesty is always the best policy.

If youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re lying on your health insurance application, the policy you receive is not worth the paper itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s written on.â&#x20AC;?

For the Gushuliaks, theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be spending six weeks in Mexico in January again this year. Like last time, theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve bought travel insurance.

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Hounded by conservatives, Iran’s dogs find peace at country’s only licensed animal shelter conservatives view pet dogs as a corrupting Western influence.

But in a rare animal shelter in the TEHRAN, IRAN countryside west of Tehran, hunan’s best friend is seen as dreds of lucky pups have found anything but in Iran, where mercy, and a growing number city workers gun down strays and of Iranians are learning to love Nasser Karimi Associated Press

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Islamic tradition holds cats in high esteem, and in much of the Muslim world people leave food out for feral felines. Stray dogs, on the other hand, are often seen as a public nuisance – overgrown

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rats with wagging tails.

In Iran’s Islamic republic, dog ownership is seen as a pernicious Western import, and conservative lawmakers have called for it to be banned or at least heavily restricted, in line with other regulations governing Western music and fashion.

But outside Tehran, more than 500 dogs find care and affection at the Vafa Animal Shelter, which was established through an endowment in 2004 and is the country’s only licensed animal refuge.

“In our society, dogs are the most vulnerable animals,” said Ali Sani, the shelter’s manager. “The dogs that are brought here used to be in urban environments and were struggling with problems and needed help.”

The shelter rescues stray dogs, who otherwise risk being shot and disposed of by municipal workers. But pet dogs don’t have it much better. Dog-walking in public is banned, as is allowing dogs to stick their heads out of car windows. Around 30 lawmakers have signed onto a draft bill to punish dog walkers with up to $3,000 in fines and 74 lashes, but a similar previous attempt failed.

The dispute over dogs is part of a culture war in Iran that dates back to the revolution in 1979 that toppled the pro-Western shah. Conservatives have sought to impose their version of Islam on society and rid it of Western influence. But their efforts have met with resistance, particularly from younger, more urban and more well-off Iranians – the dog owner demographic – who helped elect President Hassan Rouhani, a relative moderate, last year.

“Dog owners sometimes bring them to public, in buses for example, or let the dog stick its head out of a car window to show it to others. That is unacceptable,” said Mohammad Ismail Kowsari,

one of the parliamentarians supporting stiffer penalties. “What made us consider drawing up such a bill was the increasing number of those who exhibit dogs by walking them in public.”

Kowsari added, however, that the mere ownership of a dog would not be criminalized, as long as it is kept indoors.

The shelter has steered clear of the debate, and does not promote dog-walking. Sani said authorities have generally been supportive of the shelter’s work, in part because it gathers up strays and spays and neuters them.

Homa Rashid, a dog groomer, said the shelter relies on volunteers and private donors – which can be a hard sell at a time of crippling international sanctions over Tehran’s nuclear program.

“We try to convince people to donate, but unfortunately talking them into helping this shelter is a very difficult job, because most of them say as long as there are human beings that need help, why should they help dogs?”

The shelter also struggles to find homes for dogs, with only around six being adopted each month. Iranians, like many other prospective dog owners, prefer purebreds to strays, something the shelter is trying to change.

“We want to show people that those homeless dogs that they see in streets and alleyways can be our best friends,” said Afsaneh Zarrin, who is in charge of adoptions.

Mahtab Zeinali, 20, another volunteer, dreams of a day when dogs in Tehran won’t be confined to private homes, security checkpoints and guard duty.

“I think it would be great if there were a place where dogs could play with each other; a place exclusively for dog owners to walk their pets,” she said as she cuddled her pug, William, at home.

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Homegrown ingenuity brings nature to the city

by DAVID SUZUKI

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anada’s newest “national park” is a vibrant patchwork of green space meandering through dynamic downtown neighbourhoods in one of Canada’s densest metropolises, along the former path of a creek buried more than 100 years. It’s a welcoming space for birds and bees that’s nurturing a new generation of city-builders. And it may spread to your city. Let me explain.

Authors Douglas Tallamy and Richard Louv originally proposed the Homegrown National Park idea.

They advocated stitching together a diverse tapestry of green spaces to create a living corridor for butterflies, birds and bees. Ultimately, this connected pollinator pathway would become a natural space to rival traditional national parks.

The David Suzuki Foundation launched the Toronto Homegrown National Park Project in 2013, starting with the former path of Garrison Creek in the downtown west end. Two-dozen local residents were recruited as Homegrown Park Rangers, trained in community organizing and connected with local environmental and city-building organizations.

The rangers discussed common desires to make their neighbourhoods and the city more green and livable. They were also given evidence that, as Harvard School of Public Health says, “even small amounts of daily contact with nature can help us think more clearly, reduce our stress, and improve our physical health.” Then they returned to their home turfs with a simple mission: to make awesome things happen where they live, work and play, with the ultimate goal of cocreating a green corridor through the heart of the city.

These newly minted community leaders connected with local groups and agencies, participated in community events, made new partnerships and created opportunities for plantings in parks, yards, schools and laneways.

Over the past two years, the Park Rangers have added thousands of wildflowers and native plants, often in surprising nooks and crannies and in unexpected ways – a network of flower-filled canoes in schoolyards and parks, and patches of pavement transformed into butterfly gardens.

Together, through more than 30 initiatives, they’ve begun to bring more nature to the city and create the foundation for even more striking transformations. The project has cultivated a reputation for bringing residents out to celebrate the wonder of nature nearby, with fun events combining art, music, food and drink with the project’s ambitious ecological goals.

What’s most exciting is the potential for communities across the country to adopt this place-based activism.

Canada’s cities are facing increasing challenges, from rapidly growing populations and aging infrastructure to economic downturns and uncertainty. They also represent remarkable landscapes of opportunity for green interventions – from rooftops and schoolyards to trails and laneways.

Vancouver’s Country Laneway project and Montreal’s Green Laneways demonstrate the rich transformative possibilities lying dormant in the hundreds of residential and commercial laneways found in most cities. Colossal crisscrossing hydro and railway corridors can be reimagined as recreational and naturalized spaces, such as Toronto’s proposed Green Line and ambitious 80-kilometre Pan Am Path. Projects like the U.K.-based River of Flowers and Seattle’s Pollinator Pathway have shown the power of making space for birds and bees in a city.

You need look no further than a Google Map to see vast seas of rooftops awaiting urban greening.

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A key strategy in connecting green spaces is utilizing the areas in between. Neglected bits of streetscape and “meanwhile” spaces sitting empty, waiting for the next highrise or commercial development, can become temporary pollinator patches, community gardens providing local

food, or space for quiet sanctuary, movie screenings and community dinners. They bring neighbours together. In short, they make communities more livable.

Will Canada’s network of Homegrown National Parks ever rival our actual national parks? Not likely.

But we must harness and amplify this homegrown local creativity to enhance urban ecologies and make our communities more livable and

resilient. Smart urban innovations should be scaled up, shared and continuously adapted, supported by smart public policy and investment.

Here’s to the many local organizers, innovators and park rangers who are making our cities greener. Please keep bringing nature home, one fun, green intervention at a time!

Written with contributions from David Suzuki Foundations Communications Specialist Jode Roberts.

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As I write, for the first time in weeks snow is spiraling in airy clumps to the ground. It is dusting the spruce, cheering the mood and freshening a dour landscape. Listening to the hiss of frozen water disguised as fluff, one wonders if a vole can feel the warming, hear the man sounds fading and sense the return to the most familiar season.

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The lack of white that represents Alaska at its most common (much of the state is snow-covered for three-quarters of the year) affects many things.

Some far-north life forms have adapted to depend on that blanket of snow. Both low-bush cranberries and wood frogs can survive cold air, but each would die in a winter without snow. UAF plant person Pat Holloway once found cranberry bushes perish when exposed to air colder than minus -24 Celsius. UAFâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Brian Barnes found wood frogs can survive to minus 30 but also cannot take a prolonged hit of minus-40 degree air.

Bearberry, yellowjackets, voles and dozens of other species survive in Alaska and other northern places because of dependable snow cover. Each lovely flake joins spiked arms with others to create an airtrapping matrix above the ground surface. Those who have measured that zone, like Geophysical Institute Professor Emeritus Carl Benson, have found the ground beneath the white blanket remains a consistent -33 degrees Celsius no matter the temperature above.

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In 1974, Warnsby and Stutter sold the Brainstorm and went into placer mining on Hunker Creek. They continued to mine for the next 22 years. When I asked Warnsby what happened to the Brainstorm, he said that 10 years ago it was still operating in Alaska.

Reminiscing about his experience operating the Brainstorm, his eyes lit up and his conversation was animated. He made Courtesy of Ben Warnsby/Yukon News many friends, and had many The Brainstorm, here shown with the barges Burro and Bee, was memorable moments in more built in 1951 by George Kirk, a retired Mountie from Old Crow. than a dozen years on the river. and there were three bunks below, Later that season, he got the And during that time, neither he, plus one in the engine room.

Brainstorm as far as Fort Yukon, nor Stutter, nor any member of They had electricity, a propane where he purchased several hun- the crew was ever formally certifridge and oil stove in the galley, dred barrels of fuel and headed fied by the government to pilot and full plumbing. back to Old Crow. They could not the Brainstorm!

Going downstream, they proceed beyond Canyon Village, Michael Gates is a Yukon historian placed the two barges side by so they cached the fuel there for and sometimes adventurer based in side, and then strung them out the winter, and completed the Whitehorse. His latest book, Dalsingle file when they got to the haul into Old Crow the followtonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Gold Rush Trail, is available in Yukon stores. You can contact him at Porcupine River, for the upstream ing spring. That year, the winter msgates@northwestel.net journey. Later, they exchanged fuel was flown into Old Crow in a both the Brainstorm and the two barges for steel-hulled replacements, the latter by an unnamed 20-metre barge, which was lengthened an additional nine metres the following year.

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Once they were stranded on a bar for several days. It was raining the whole time, and they were exhausted and falling asleep on their feet. In 1966, it was so dry that the Brainstorm was stranded at Old Crow for several weeks by low water. Warnsby flew back to Dawson to wait for higher water.

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The Brainstorm was constructed in 1951 and subsequently operated by George Kirk, a retired Mountie who had been stationed at Old Crow for 16 years.

In 1958, when Kirk died, the Brainstorm passed to Frank Burkhard of Dawson. On June 5, 1961, Burkhard sold the Brainstorm, and two wooden-hull barges, the Burro and the Bee, to Ben Warnsby and Mike Stutter of Dawson City for $8,500. Warnsby showed me the original bill of sale when I interviewed him earlier this fall.

Warnsby arrived in Dawson as a young man in the spring of 1952. Born in Lincolnshire, England, he was lured to the Yukon by the promise of a job at the North Fork Power Plant, 40 kilometres east of Dawson City.

The plant provided electricity to the town of Dawson, as well as powering the fleet of dredges that operated in the goldfields southeast of the Klondike capital.

He started working for the owner, the Yukon Consolidated Gold Corporation, for $1.18 per hour. It may not seem like a lot today, but it provided him with year-round employment, and he was able to save some of it every year until he had enough to purchase the Brainstorm. To remain solvent after the purchase, Warnsby had to continue working for YCGC for another year while Stutter ran the Brainstorm.

When I asked, he couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t tell me why he decided to buy the boat (and the business), but he and Stutter, his lifelong business partner and friend, operated the Brainstorm for the next 14 years, until it was sold in 1974.

During that time, they transported large consignments of goods to the trader Joe Netro, as well as supplying the government needs, and those of Yukon Electrical, in Old Crow.

From the very beginning, Warnsby and Stutter had to work hard and be creative to stay in business. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We never made a lot of money,â&#x20AC;? he said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;and we never knew if we made ends meet until the end of the year.â&#x20AC;? Instead of the two trips per summer that had been the regular practice before, they started making as many trips as they could. They augmented this business by delivering supplies to small Alaskan communities for the U.S. government.

For two years, while oil exploration was active in the Eagle Plain area, they hired Harry Campbell of Dawson City to haul non-perishable supplies, including barrels of fuel, during the winter to the mouth of the Bell River on the Porcupine, about 160 kilometres above Old Crow. In the spring, upon delivery of their first barge load of supplies to Old Crow, they proceeded up river to the cache at the mouth of the Bell River, thereby saving a 2,200 kilometre round trip back to Dawson.

As soon as the freight was off-loaded and the bills paid, they would depart for Dawson with another load of supplies. Warnsby said that when he got back to Dawson, he would go home, shower and sleep while another shipment of freight was being loaded, and then he was off again.

Warnsby and Stutter employed different strategies over the years, including exchanging places when the Brainstorm reached Old Crow. Stutter might fly in from Dawson to replace Warnsby, who flew out on the same flight, or vice-versa.

During their 14-year operation, they kept the same crew working on the Brainstorm: Paul Ben Kassi, John Kendi and Alfred Charlie from Old Crow, and Percy Henry from Dawson City. These were supplemented by others, including Gordon Frost of Old Crow, and Henry and Isaac Henry from Dawson City.

According to Warnsby, the crew was a well-oiled machine.

These men knew how to read every ripple, every eddy and change of colour. Their knowledge of the Porcupine River was invaluable.

Once the Brainstorm set off from Dawson, they operated around the clock, seldom setting foot on land except at Eagle, for customs inspection, or if they were forced ashore by fog.

They also had a cook on board.

At first, it was Stutterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s wife Joyce, but she was later replaced by her mother. Stutter and Warnsby had bunks behind the pilot house,

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Von Finster went on to become a Department of Fisheries biologist.

Other species and other biological puzzles demanded his attention through the decades of his official employment, but in 2010 retirement began opening new opportunities.

“It gives me time to work on areas of interest, rather than just necessity,” he says now.

Von Finster was freed to devote time and energy to researching an old obsession: rainbow trout. How and when did it arrive up here? How has it fared? What does its northern future look like and how might it presence might affect Yukon fisheries?

The biologist’s fascination with the lovely fish coincided with questions being asked about it by the Yukon Fish and Game Association, of which he is a member. The association approached the Yukon Fish and Wildlife Enhancement Trust, which provided essential funding for a research project directed by von Finster. One result was his paper: “The distribution of Rainbow Trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) in the Upper Yukon River Basin 2013.”

Von Finster began the research by sifting his memory and reading the literature – popular and academic accounts of trout, angling and of the re-engineering of Yukon streambeds.

The rainbow trout has established a place in Yukon history as well as in its geography.

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smaller native fish in these far-flung rivers.

Von Finster began his fieldwork in May 2013. Informed by his personal experiences and by text research, he placed minnow traps baited with salmon eggs in promising rainbow waters. “The rainbow are very vulnerable to baited minnow traps,” he says.

Only a handful of species enter these traps, including the two major ones – slimy sculpins and Chinook salmon, a close relative of the rainbow. A trap left in overnight can bring up more than a hundred Chinook.

The biologist says there must be more at work than simple hunger when it comes to Chinook, rainbows and baited traps. “Personally, I think there’s a pheromone at work,” he says.

“Something else is pulling them in. I have to think it’s a chemical marker.”

Whatever the lure, no huge surprises were lifted from the water in 2013. Reports and casual anecdotes were confirmed, including a small Al von Finster population in Laurier Creek. The Rainbow trout look like Chinook salmon but have a spotted dorsal fin. Above, a yearling rainbow are holding on in a select rainbow. area, but do not appear poised to upset a natural order of the upper known introduction of rainbows connection to the Yukon River such their way made for them, to every into the territory. Before the Second as McLean Lakes. These fish cannot continent except Antarctica, says von Yukon basin.

The field work and the studies are World War, Black planted 25,000 enter the Yukon River and pose no Finster. complete for now, though von Finster rainbow eggs in the Klondike River, threat to native fish.

Down the road from us, the cautions that this was a one-year says von Finster. It appears that the The Yukon rainbows “are not large rainbow – once confined to rivers Klondike transplant didn’t take. fish and almost their entire diet is draining to the Pacific Ocean – is field study, and that 2013 was a cool, We must be careful when judging made up of invertebrates,” says von causing headaches on the eastern high-water year. Further work during Black’s efforts, von Finster adds. The Finster. They aren’t decimating other slope of the Rockies. They’re hybrid- a warm, low-water year, might yet trout-egg initiative wasn’t mere reck- game fish species here and they aren’t izing with an endangered species provide new information. lessness, as we might assume in these outcompeting them for food. of native cutthroat trout. This can His 2013 report will provide a days of heightened invasive-species Meanwhile, well-established threaten biodiversity, says von Finster. digitally available baseline should awareness. “I think they were looking Yukon predators such as the northern Attempts are now being made to future researchers need it, von Finster to the future,” he says. “They were pike and burbot help keep rainbow block the rainbow’s access to some says. The information is now in place looking toward a future where there numbers in check. eastern-slope waters. should rainbow trout populations would be rainbow trout to catch.”

“Nobody has been able to identify In the late 19th and early 20th expand and threaten the ecosystem.

The first official stocking of Jack- or document any harm that has been century, technology gave rainbows a While it’s not worth a rainbowson Lake took place in 1956, while caused” by introducing rainbow trout boost in their inadvertent quest for specific public-awareness campaign the last was conducted in 1959. These to the Yukon, says von Finster. world domination. The hard-fighting today, these fish could be worked fish did better than the eggs planted In the introduction to his paper trout was so loved by European aninto future presentations on invasive in the Klondike, and their descendhe quotes the Yukon government’s glers that a small industry developed species, says the biologist. Oncorhynants are found today in Whitehorse’s definition of invasive species: “An to meet their angling needs, wherever chus mykiss might help answer the Porter Creek, McIntyre Creek and organism (plant, animal, fungus or they were sent by their respective nagging question: Should species be in Croucher Creek. A rainbow had bacterium) that is not native and has empires. After engine-powered ships manipulated to suit human priorities also been captured in Lake Laberge negative effects on our economy, our replaced sailing craft and modern of the moment? at the mouth of Laurier Creek. These environment or our health.” When it refrigerators were developed, rainThis column is co-ordinated by the fish are frequently seen among the comes to rainbow trout, we’re likely a bow eggs were distributed globally – Yukon Research Centre at Yukon salmon in the Whitehorse Rapids long way from that situation, he says. including in eastern North America, College with major financial support Fishway viewing window.

That, however, cannot be said Europe, Australia and India. from Environment Yukon and Yukon Rainbows were stocked in pothole in every region through which Because rainbows are robust, College. The articles are archived at lakes such as Hidden Lakes and rainbows swim. From the northern tenacious and voracious, they have www.yukoncollege.yk.ca/research/ publications/your_yukon watersheds that do not have a surface Pacific they’ve made their way, or had often proved more than a match for

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Yukon biathlete shines at national team trials Tom Patrick News Reporter

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t was one of the largest biathlon events in the history of Canada and a Yukoner was out in front with the best of them.

Whitehorse’s Nadia Moser won a silver medal at a national team trials event, that was also a North American Cup, over the weekend in Canmore, Alta.

“I think it was a really good weekend, I had a lot of fun racing,” said Moser. “I did a lot better than I thought I was actually going to do. I wasn’t expecting to get second place in my second race.”

The team trials began on Dec. 4 and continued through the weekend within the North American Cup. It was Biathlon Canada’s team trials for the Youth/Junior World Biathlon Championships this coming February in Belarus. That event is taking place at the same time as the Canada Winter Games in Prince George, B.C. The trials were held earlier than usual so the national team, as well as the provincial and territorial teams, could decide which biathletes are going to worlds and which are going to the Canada Games.

Since some provinces also made the event their Canada Games trials, the event featured about 290 biathletes from all over the country.

Moser started out placing ninth for youth women in the 7.5-kilometre sprint on Dec. 4.

She then won silver in the youth women’s 7.5-kilometre sprint on Saturday in the NorAm. She hit nine out of 10 at the range for the second place finish in a field of 37 biathletes.

“I shot really well; I shot how I wanted to shoot,” said Moser. “I was really happy with that.”

Moser finished the NorAm/team trials with seventh out of 37 in the 7.5-kilometre mass start race on Sunday.

Those results put the 17-yearold fourth overall in youth women, making the national team standard.

However, despite qualifying for the worlds team, Moser was not selected.

“They can take 16 to the world championships, but as it turns out … they are going to focus on their juniors – the 19- and 20-year-olds,” said Biathlon Yukon coach Laurie Jacobsen. “Biathlon Canada is trying to bring up the level of biathlon up through requiring certain standards … that you’ve medalled or come in the top four with your average.

“What happened is they decided to focus on the juniors because they feel those juniors could win medals at the world championships.”

“I was really happy to get fourth overall,” said Moser. “I was just going to go for the experience of trying out for it and I didn’t actually think I’d place that high. I’m really happy with that.”

Tom Patrick/Yukon News

Yukon biathlete Nadia Moser races at the Arctic Winter Games in March. Moser won a silver in a North American Cup and made national team standards last weekend in Canmore, Alta.

On the plus side, Moser is now available to compete for Yukon at the Canada Winter Games. Biathlon Yukon has not named their team for the Games, but it’s all but certain Moser will be on it.

Moser was Team Yukon’s only athlete to capture three gold medals at the 2014 Arctic Winter Games last March in Fairbanks, Alaska. She also produced a ninth place finish at the 2014 Canadian National Biathlon Championships in New Brunswick in March.

“I was going, ‘I don’t really want to make the decision to go to junior worlds or Canada Games.’ I don’t know what I would have chosen,” said Moser. “So in a way I’m happy

I didn’t end up on the junior worlds team.”

Moser was not the only member of Biathlon Yukon to win hardware over the weekend in Canmore.

Yukon’s Jake Draper was golden at Biathlon Alberta’s Calforex Cup No. 2 on Saturday.

Draper cleaned house both trips to the range and won gold in a field of 26 biathletes in the Dev. 2 boys 3.75-kilometre sprint.

“This is his last year in Dev. 2 boys and he was determined and he got it,” said Jacobsen. “He had fabulous shooting; he cleaned both bouts.

“He has great potential.”

Yukon’s Maria Peters faced

some international competition in the senior girls division races in the Calforex Cup. Her division included some South Koreans as part of an exchange with Biathlon Canada.

Peters placed fifth – fourth for Canadians – in Saturday’s sixkilometre sprint. She then took fourth – second for Canadians – in Sunday’s 7.5-kilometre race, just a minute and 10 seconds behind the bronze winner from Korea.

Biathlon Yukon also had three biathletes in the senior boys division of the Calforex Cup. In Saturday’s six-kilometre sprint, Liam Adel came 25th, Bruce Wilson 30th and Daniel Sennett

31st.

In Sunday’s 7.5-kilometre race, Wilson was 24th, Sennett 25th and Adel 26th.

Adel and Sennett are in their first season of senior boys. Wilson competed in snowshoe biathlon in March’s Arctic Games and moved into ski biathlon this season.

“They had a little bit of challenge at the range,” said Jacobsen.

“They are still doing some pretty good skiing, but their range results were not the best.

“It has an effect on their placing, for sure.”

Contact Tom Patrick at tomp@yukon-news.com

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Skaters impress at Gold Nugget Championships

Tom Patrick/Yukon News

Arctic Edge Skating Club’s Jamie Nickel competes at the Yukon Gold Nugget Championships at the Canada Games Centre on Saturday. Over 40 skaters, including ones from Inuvik and Juneau, took part in the championship.

Tom Patrick

tions that our skaters had,” said Hays. “They said they noticed quite an improvement since last isiting judges gave out year on that and overall they scores and positive comthought the performances were ments at the Yukon Gold Nugquite strong. get Championships over the “They were happy with the weekend. number of skaters and the numThe judges, who fly in each ber of events we had, because year for the territory’s figure some skaters were competing in skating championship, had com- four or five events throughout pliments to deliver following the day.” tests on Friday and the competiIndeed, it was a busy time. tion on Saturday at the Canada About 45 skaters from three Games Centre, said Arctic Edge clubs took part – almost twice as Skating Club chair Stacey Hays. many as last year.

“The judges commented that The hosting Arctic Edge Skatthey were really impressed by ing Club (AESC) had 23 skaters the performance quality and ex- compete. There were 15 from pression and artistic demonstra- N.W.T.’s Inuvik Skating Club News Reporter

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(ISC), which last competed at the Gold Nugget in 2012. The championship also included five skaters from Alaska Juneau Skating Club (JSC), making it the third year in a row the club attended.

Four skaters from Special Olympics Yukon, who are preparing for the 2015 Special Olympics BC Winter Games in February, also took to the ice.

“One thing that stood out was how many kids were competing,” said Hays. “For some of our younger skaters, last year was their first year, so they haven’t competed against that many kids at our local competition.

“Inuvik brought four skaters who were competing in the pre-juvenile category, which is the competitive stream, and we don’t have any skaters in that.

We only have one competitive skater in our club who is skating locally. Of course we have Rachel (Pettitt), but she’s skating Outside, and we have Mikayla Kramer who skates here.”

Pettitt won a silver in novice women at the Skate Canada Challenge in Montreal last week, marking the best finish by a Yukon skater at the national event.

Pettitt and Kramer have been selected to represent Yukon at the Canada Winter Games this February in Prince George, B.C. Kramer was evaluated by the judges in pre-novice Friday and received a personal best score of 64.13.

Contact Tom Patrick at tomp@yukon-news.com

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Arctic Edge’s Tessa Moore skates in the senior A creative event.

Results

STAR4 girls

1st Jamie Nickel (AESC) Elements 1 women 2nd Bronwyn Hays (AESC) 3rd Tessa Moore (AESC) 1st Jamie Nickel (AESC) – 4.70 2nd Bronwyn Hays (AESC) – 4.10 4th Josephine Zuelow (JSC) 5th Emily Bowman (JSC) 3rd Lenneah Timmermans 6th Kendall Allen (ISC) (AESC) – 2.10 3rd Emilie Perreault (AESC) – 2.10 STAR5 girls 5th Adrian Lau (AESC) – 0.90 1st Alissa Russell (AESC) – 16.82 5th Phoebe Qiu (AESC) – 0.90 2nd Jenelle Clethero (AESC) – 13.95 Elements 2 women 3rd Landyn Blisner (AESC) – 1st Landyn Blisner (AESC) – 5.20 13.82 2nd Jenelle Clethero (AESC) – 5.10 Level 1 Special Olympics 3rd M. Kingmiaqtuq Devlin – 1st Aimee Lien (ISC) 4.60 2nd Tijana McCarthy 4th Alissa Russell (AESC) – 4.30 3rd Theresa Roberts 5th Ally Engram (ISC) – 2.90

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3rd Katelynn Crocker (ISC) – 24.75 4th Kiersten Rogers (ISC) – 23.15 5th M. Kingmiaqtuq Devlin – (ISC) 19.34

Level 2 Special Olympics 1st Michael Sumner

Junior creative women (Gr. 1) 1st Sarah Milton (AESC) – 19.39 2nd Jocelyn Cole (ISC) – 16.17 3rd Jasmine Firth (ISC) – 14.92 4th Katie McKenna (JSC) – 14.68 5th Kristen Harder (ISC) – 12.84 6th Gabe McCooeye (ISC) – 12.68 7th Sadie Murphy (JSC) – 12.26

Junior creative women (Gr. 2) 1st Emma Riske (AESC) – 17.42 2nd Mikayla McCain (AESC) – 14.32 3rd Annie Li (AESC) – 14.25 4th Adrian Lau (AESC) – 13.68 5th Queenie Lu (AESC) – 13.10 6th Kaylin Harder (ISC) – 12.85 7th Hannah Gordon Rogers (ISC) – 5.91

Pre-intro women 1st Kendall Allen (ISC) – 20.76 2nd Sarah Milton (AESC) – 18.88

Intro women 1st Landyn Blisner (AESC) – 27.41 2nd Jamie Nickel (AESC) – 25.51 3rd Alissa Russell (AESC) – 25.28 4th Tessa Moore (AESC) – 25.20 5th Bronwyn Hays (AESC) – 24.90

Bronze women (Int.) 1st Jenelle Clethero (AESC) – 28.76 2nd Ally Engram (ISC) – 26.07 3rd Katelynn Crocker (ISC) – 25.65 4th Kiersten Rogers (ISC) – 24.06

Junior creative women (Gr. 3)

Pre-juvenile women

1st Chloe VanLankveld (AESC) – 19.43 2nd Anika Kramer (AESC) – 18.41 3rd Halayna Cockney Goose (ISC) – 17.91 4th Pearl Gillis (ISC) – 14.94 5th Myja Semmler (ISC) – 13.92 6th Shelby Hydock (JSC) – 12.99 7th Phoebe Qiu (AESC) – 9.37 8th Lotus Scott (ISC) – 6.50

1st M. Kingmiaqtuq Devlin (ISC) – 15.09 2nd Kiersten Rogers (ISC) – 14.10 3rd Katelynn Crocker (ISC) – 14.01 4th Ally Engram (ISC) – 13.34

Senior A creative women

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1st Josephine Zuelow (JSC) – 26.99 2nd Jamie Nickel (AESC) – 23.74 3rd Emily Bowman (JSC) – 21.42 4th Bronwyn Hays (AESC) – 20.85 5th Tessa Moore (AESC) – 20.31 6th Kendall Allen (ISC) – 17.33 7th Lenneah Timmermans (AESC) – 16.61

Senior B creative women Tom Patrick/Yukon News 1st Alissa Russell (AESC) – 28.05 Inuvik Skating Club’s Halayna Cockeny Goose performs her junior creative routine. 2nd Ally Engram (ISC) – 26.42

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of the body length. It was a pleasure for Whitehorse coaches to watch the effort our swimmers put in, that pays hristmas came early for the off now.â&#x20AC;?

Whitehorse Glacier Bears swim Glacier Bearsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Rennes Lindsay team over the weekend. checked a lot off her to-do list.

Glacier Bears set personal bests, Lindsay won bronze medals in the achieved AA, AAA and national 100-metre freestyle and the 50-metre qualifying times, made 17 A finals, freestyle in girls 12-and-under. She won two medals and set a club record placed fourth in the 200-metre at the Xmas Cracker Invitational freestyle and the 400-metre freeSwim Meet in Victoria, B.C. style, took sixth in the 200-metre â&#x20AC;&#x153;All Whitehorse swimmers, after individual medley, seventh in the working on their underwater fly kick 100-metre backstroke and eighth in for more than a year, began to put the 100-metre breaststroke. this skill into racing,â&#x20AC;? said Glacier Lindsay also set her third and Bears head coach Malwina Bukszow- fourth national standard times, in ana in a news release. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Clearly this the 200 and 400 free, qualifying her weekend most of Whitehorse Glacier to compete at Swimming Canadaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Bears were very efficient off each Age Group Nationals next summer in wall, beating their opponents from Quebec City. the lanes by their sides by at least half It is her first time qualifying for News Reporter

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And along with it, the season when so many dogs ride in the back of pick-up trucks. Dogs riding in the back of pickup trucks may look like theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re having fun. With nose testing the wind and ears flopping, the dogs seem to enjoy the trip. And they get to go with their masters, after all, butâ&#x20AC;Śâ&#x20AC;Śwhether your dog enjoys the ride or not, they are in great danger riding in an open truck bed. If you hit a bump, swerve to avoid an obstacle, or brake suddenly, the dog could easily fly out of the truck. Carrying dogs in pickups poses a threat to both the animal and other motorists. Simply tying the dog to the truck bed is not enough. Ropes and leashes become nooses if the dog should be jolted out of the truck. And the wind is full of dirt, debris, and gravel that can lodge in the eyes, nose, or ears and cause serious damage. Take your dog along for the ride. But let him/her ride secured in the front with you or in a secured kennel in the truck bed.Your dog will enjoy the trip a lot more if they donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have to fight for their lives against gravity, momentum, and traffic to get there.

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Whitehorse Glacier Bears swimmer Thomas Bakica, top, takes part in the Ryan Downing Memorial Swim Meet last month. Bakica was one of 19 Whitehorse swimmers to compete at the Xmas Cracker in Victoria, B.C., over the weekend.

the national event, which requires a minimum of three national qualifying times. She was one short last year. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve improved a lot since the Kamloops Classic Invitational Meet (in May) thanks to Malwina, our coach. She gave me lots of feedback after my races,â&#x20AC;? said Rennes, who also set a B.C. AAA time in the 50-metre butterfly. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I broke all my times at least once, some in heats and some in finals. It went really well.â&#x20AC;?

Older sister Cassis Lindsay, swimming in girls 13-14, set a Glacier Bears club record in the 200 back, twice. She set a club record of 2:26.24 in heats and then improved that to 2:25.76 while placing fourth in the A final. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve actually been afraid to swim that 200 back because I had a really bad experience earlier this year,â&#x20AC;? said Cassis. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I was really tired and completely failed, and came in dead last. â&#x20AC;&#x153;But I decided to give it a try, to give it my all, and I ended up making a club record and Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m very, very proud of it.â&#x20AC;?

Cassis also placed fourth in the

100 back, fifth in the 50 free, seventh in the 100 free and made B finals in the 200 free and 100 fly.

Glacier Bear Hannah Kingscote had a productive stay in Victoria.

Kingscote set B.C. AAA times in the 100 back (placing fifth), the 200 back (placing eighth), and the 50 fly, in girls 12-and-under. She also made four B finals. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It was really fun and exciting, and all my swims were good and I think everyone elseâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s swims went good,â&#x20AC;? said Kingscote. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It was exciting. I made AAAs in most of my best swims. They were personal bests â&#x20AC;&#x201C; I had personal bests in almost all my swims and took off a lot of time.â&#x20AC;?

Other top Whitehorse results include: Brooklyn Massie making B.C. AA times in the 50 free, 100 back and 800 free, in which she placed eighth.

Aidan Harvey set a B.C. AA in the 200 back and placed eighth in the 200 breast.

Thomas Bakica made a AA in 200 breast and reached four B finals; Luke Bakica made a AA in the 100 breast and 200 breast, placing eighth in the

latter; Dannica Nelson reached AAs in the 100 breast and 200 breast; and Alex Petriw placed eighth in the 800 free. â&#x20AC;&#x153;(We had) very impressive swims had Ruby Lieu-Ashthorn, our only 10-year-old swimmer,â&#x20AC;? said Bukszowana. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Ella Pollock, Emma Boyd, Liam Diamond, took off a lot of times and achieved best times in almost every race, holding better strokes. As well as the oldest swimmers from the club: Cassidy Cairns, Donovan Bielz, Caelon Workman, Rebecca Koser, Taylor Harvey, Meghan Pennington.â&#x20AC;?

A total of 19 Glacier Bears members attended the meet that saw 800 swimmers take to the water. Every Whitehorse swimmer set a personal best time. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It was really cool, we had a really big team this year,â&#x20AC;? said Kingscote. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think all of us had a lot of fun swimming and a lot of us did really, really well. Lots of personal bests, lots of people made finals. It was just lots of fun.â&#x20AC;?

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s the races got longer, Emily Nishikawa’s results got better.

The Whitehorse Olympian posted improved results in a FIS World Cup mini tour event last week in Lillehammer, Norway.

After three races of increasing length, Nishikawa placed 46th overall out of 74 skiers.

“The sprint and the five-kilometre free weren’t the best races for me, but I was very happy with my performance in the 10-kilometre classic,” said Nishikawa in an email to the News. “This was a great race for me. I am racing better in classic than I ever have before. I’m very happy with the way I am improving in my international results this year. Racing in Norway is just incredible, I had lots of fun.”

The 25-year-old placed 76th in 1.5-kilometre sprint last Friday, 67th in five-kilometre free Saturday and 42nd in the 10-kilometre pursuit classic Sunday.

“This was my first sprint of the year,” said Nishikawa. “I am focusing more on distance racing this year. But as this weekend was a mini tour, you have to complete each race to be able to start the next race.”

Nishikawa, who is a member of the national team, placed 38th in a field on 76 skiers in the women’s 10-kilometre classic at the FIS World Cup season opener in Ruka, Finland, two weeks ago.

The national team skier who competed at the Sochi Olympics at the start of the year, placed fourth in a 10-kilometre FIS warm-up race three weeks ago in Sweden.

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Whitehorse’s Emily Nishikawa races in a FIS World Cup in Lillehammer, Norway, last Friday. Nishikawa finished the mini-tour event in 46th place.

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Kakuro

By The Mepham Group

Sudoku Like puzzles? Then you’ll love sudoku.

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

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

FRIDAY CROSSWORD PUZZLE

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

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

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

WORD SCRAMBLE Rearrange the letters to spell a word Hint: to assert without proof or before proving.

Puzzle A

LEEGLA

WORD SCRAMBLE Rearrange the letters to spell a word Hint: A misrepresentation intended to harm another’s reputation.

Puzzle B CLUES ACROSS 1. Tooth caregiver 4. Greek counterpart of Rhea 7. A numbered mail compartment (abbr.)

10. New Zealand parrots 12. Political action committees 14. Fringe-toed lizard 15. Reposes 17. Winglike structures 18. MacMurray of “My Three Sons” 19. Oprah’s Broadway show 22. Ceaser, egg and tossed 23. Oarlock

24. Agile, lively (nautical) 25. Skim or dart 26. And (Latin) 27. Embodies 28. Gallivants 30. Hyperbolic cosecant 32. Rural delivery 33. Atomic #89 34. Opposite of wealthy 36. Imus and Knotts 39. Yellow ageratum species 41. Large tropical Am. lizard

43. Late Show star 46. Armor breastplate 47. “Death in the Family” author 48. Liquors from rice 50. Bread for a burger 51. Yeast 52. 100 = 1 tala in W. Samoa 53. Two-year-old sheep 54. Hyrax or cony 55. Engine additive

13. 9th month (abbr.)

16. Thrown into a fright 18. A playful antic 20. “Waiting for Lefty” playwright 21. Ultrahigh frequency 28. Cutting gun barrel spirals 29. Youth loved by Aphrodite 30. Get by begging 31. Cleans by scrubbing vigorously 34. Bubonic calamity

35. Radioactivity unit 37. South African peoples 38. Legless reptiles 40. Thick piece of something 41. A distinct part of a list 42. Regarding (Scottish prep.)

43. Something that is owed 44. Mild exclamation 45. Etce____: continuing the same 49. Variation of 17 down

WORD SCRAMBLE Rearrange the letters to spell a word Hint: to laugh at contemptuously.

Puzzle C

CLUES DOWN 1. Danish krone (abbr.)

2. Insect repellents 3. Move sideways 4. October’s birthstones 5. __ Alto, California city 6. Mark of healed tissue 7. Somewhat purple 8. Egg mixture cooked until just set 9. Past tense of bid 11. Ancient stone slab bearing markings

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OFFICE SPACE FOR LEASE Above Starbuckâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s on Main St. Nice clean, professional building, good natural light. 536' ft. office space on Main St c/w kitchette.

Competitive lease rates offered.

Sandor@yukon.net or C: 333.9966

Horwoodâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Mall Main & Front Street Available Now!

Office/Retail & Locker Space

For more information call Greg

334-5553

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

Rent out by the week or for a weekend.

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

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

Call 867-333-0144

OFFICE SPACE available Jan 12/15, 1 block from Main, $1,200/mon, 516 sq ft, security access, onsite free parking, wheelchair accessible. 667-2802

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

RESPONSIBLE ROOMMATE required, 2-bdrm 1-bath downtown house, calm, quiet, musical, music lovers preferred, semi-furnished, N/P, N/S, no parties, $800/mon + utils. 604-349-0940

LOG HOME in Mount Lorne, 25 min from town, responsible tenants, wood, propane, water, power, phone, $990/mon + utils.

393-2767

3-BDRM 2-BATH duplex, Riverdale, split level, large rec room, fenced yard, N/S, pets negotiable, available immed, $1,450/mon + utils. 456-7927

3-BDRM, 5 appliances, bright, sunny, large deck, claw foot tub, open concept, just renovated, looks great, avail immed, $1,650/mon + utils. 336-2533

ROOMMATE FOR upper level of house, beautiful view, less than 10 mins south of Whitehorse, N/S, $750/mon incl utils & laundry. my.dreamvision@hotmail.com or 587-434-9834

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 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

DOWNTOWN HOUSE, 3 small bdrms, new floors/appliances, dd & refs reqĘźd, $1,200/mo + utils. 250-918-9019 for details CABIN, MENDENHALL area, outhouse, propane cook stove, wood stove, cut wood off property, private, pets/dog teams welcome, N/S, weekend/short term retreat, $250/mon. 456-7447

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

STUDIO APT, Riverdale, quiet, bright, private, attached to home on main level, private ent, full bath, laundry on site, utils incl, new renos, N/S. 633-5617

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

2-BDRM HOUSE, Copper Ridge, lg back patio, carport, RV pkg, close to svcs, easy access to Hmltn Blvd and dntn, avail immed, $1,550/mo + utils. 393-2747/334-2747

FURNISHED BEDROOM, Copper Ridge, close to bus, responsible tenant, $650/mon incl utils, cable, internet. whseinc@gmail.com

2-BDRM CONDO-STYLE apt, Hillcrest, responsible tenants, renovated, clean, fresh paint, 5 appliances, carport, N/S, no dogs, $1,425/mon + elec heat + dd. 333-0085

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

UPPER FLOOR of a house downtown, 2 bdrms & a small room. Pets OK, laundry area, fenced yard. Available Jan 1. $1,500/mon + utils. 332-4093

1-BDRM BSMT suite, Porter Creek, sep ent, w/d, N/S, N/P, $1,100/mon incl heat/power.

Stephanie 335-2090

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 2-BATH condo, Ingram, N/S, N/P, no parties, $1,600/mon + utils. denali.gms@gmail.com

1-BDRM LEGAL suite, Copper Ridge, Internet and TV satellite incl, avail Jan. 1, N/S, N/P, refs & dd reqĘźd, $1,000/mon + elec.

334-9087

PRIME RETAIL/OFFICE/CLINIC, corner 4th & Ogilvie, 1,900 sq ft, infloor heating, built-in office, tile & carpet, heat incl. 399-3671

3-BDRM 1-BATH duplex, Takhini North, fenced yard, storage shed, N/S, no parties, pets negotiable, $1,400/mon. denali.gms@gmail.com

CABIN, 25 mins from town, wood heat, water delivery. 668-6885

2-BDRM EXECUTIVE country cottage, wood/oil heat, all amenities, beautiful river/mountain view, 1/2 hr north of downtown, available immed or Jan 1, $1,400/mon + utils. 393-2684 ROOM FOR rent, N/S, N/P, avail immed, $750/mon all incl. 393-2275

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

t plenty of on street parking for clients/ residents right at the building; t very quiet; t 2nd ďŹ&#x201A;oor of building is all residential

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1-BDRM BASEMENT suite, downtown, furnished incl TV & kitchen utensils, N/S, N/P, responsible tenants only, $1,350/mon incl heat, elec, Internet. 334-1130

3-BDRM 1-BATH rancher on 1.5 acres, 1,000 sq ft, carport, pets ok, $1,600/mon.

335-3253

DOWNTOWN HOME, 1 1/2 blocks from Main St, 2-bdrm on main floor, 1 basement bedroom/office, incl heat, WiFi, off-street parking, pet considered, refs reqĘźd.

668-3907

Office/Commercial Space for Rent t Approximately 3200 square feet on the ground ďŹ&#x201A;oor; t turnkey; t downtown on quiet street; t handicap accessible including handicap doors;

SHOP FOR rent in Titanium Way. Energy efficient including boiler & hotwater tank, 14Ęź high ceiling, 980 sq ft, available January 1, $1,500/mon + elec. Call 335-9732 or 335-9529 after 5pm

3-BDRM 2-BATH condo, furnished w/new couch, new 8-person table, bedroom set, flat screen TV, located in Takhini North behind school, $2,000/mon + utils. denali.gms@gmail.com

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

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 1-BDRM FURNISHED bsmt suite, PC, avail immed, completely renoĘźd, heat incl, $1,200/mon. 335-5352

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

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

3-BDRM 3-BATH condo, heated 2-car garage big enough to fit a boat, new, located in Takhini behind school, N/S, N/P, $2,500/mon + utils. denali.gms@gmail.com 2-BDRM APT in Riverdale house, some yard space, incl laundry, avail Jan 1, N/P, responsible tenants, $1,450/mon incl heat & power.

334-9594

1-BDRM APT, Porter Creek, clean, quiet, private ent, N/P, avail immed, $800/mon.

332-8801 WANTED: NICE roommate at Marsh Lake, animals welcome, N/S, $500/mon. 660-4321 LARGE 12X24 room, Porter Creek, sep entrance, shared kitchen & bath, avail immed, $750/mon + dd. 334-4568

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

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

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

MOVE-IN READY.

For more information, please contact: 336-0028

Wanted to Rent HOUSESITTER AVAILABLE Mature, responsible person Call Suat at 668-6871 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 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 QUIET SENIOR woman desperately seeking clean room while waiting for seniors housing, will pay up to $500/mon. 633-6677

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

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

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

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WANTED: LICENSED HAIRSTYLIST for new beauty shop in Porter Creek Mall PatĘźs Hairstyling & Barber Shop 633-5395 332-0784

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

TRADING CARDS, binder full of non-sport trading cards (James Bond, X-men, Desert Storm, Enduring Freedom). About 500 cards. $50. 633-3154

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CFL FOOTBALL cards, 17 different complete sets of cards, including early OPC. Almost 2,600 cards, serious inquiries. $1,400.

633-3154

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333-0717

WORLD HOCKEY Association, 5 complete hockey card sets from the 1970s. Exc cond. $750. 633-3154 THREE COMPLETE OPC hockey card sets (1999-00 to 2001-02 period) plus some short prints. Over 900 cards. $150. 633-3154

BAFFIN SNOPACKS boots, size 12 Arctic type, new, $90. 660-5101 NIKON 401X auto focus camera for slides, prints, 90 mm lens w/Nikon adapters.

Large Lowepro camera bag, $50. Slik tripod, $50. 660-5101 WORLD HOCKEY Association, remember it? Two rare books, (history, statistics, photos). Exc. shape, $50. 633-3154 36 PAPERBACK mysteries, various authors, $25. 633-3154

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

334-4568 WOLF HIDE, large tanned timber wolf pelt, typical grey & white colour, $500. 668-3632 lv msg PERSIAN CARPET, Habibian Nain, creme/blue, tan, red trim, 600 knots psi, 5'X8', bought mid-east, appraised/docs at $5,500, offers, great in L/R, dining rm, home, cabin, 867-456-4109. herbeeking@hotmail.com

GOLD NUGGET watch, brand new, double ram set, paid $4,200, asking $3,000 firm.

393-4796 or cell 336-2146 YUKON WILDLIFE Conservation stamps, rare and unique collection of 13 stamps, from 1996-2008, beautiful artwork depicting Yukon birds and wildlife, $150. 633-3154 WALL TENT, 14X16X6, 12 oz canvas, new, never used, $1,200. 334-8335 MOUNTAIN EQUIP wms down coat, sz XS, black, $75, MEC pile-lined jacket, wms large, $60, LandĘźs End fleece-lined hooded jacket, wms L, $30. 311B Hanson St. 32ĘźX16ĘźX6Ęź WALL tent, new, never used, $2,000. 334-8335 BERKELEY 5PL pressure pump with Pro Pressure Tank, PS6H-505, new, never used, $550. 334-8335 1965-66 TOPPS Hockey Cards, complete set, great shape, $1,500. Ross @ 633-3154

4-DRAWER FILING cabinet, exc shape, $350. 332-6565 JOTUL F500 WOODSTOVE, non-catalytic, front and side-loading, matte black, up to 24" logs, heats up to 2,000 sqft, exc cond, $1,500 obo. 633-2091 DOG HOUSE for large dog, insulated floor, offers. 668-4876

PIONEER FEATHER-LITE parka, menĘźs sz med, like new, $175, snowmobile suit, unisex down insulated, $75. 633-3053 GAMES, 3 Japanese Pachinko pinball machines, new, never used; antiques, mostly glass, depression carnival, Wheaton bottles.

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ORGANIC GARLIC â&#x20AC;˘Eight varieties â&#x20AC;˘Smooth to bold, not bitter â&#x20AC;˘Large Cloves â&#x20AC;˘$14/pound I grew & harvested this garlic in B.C. in summer of 2014 before moving to the Yukon 867-332-0417 COMIC BOOKS, 1500+, very nice, must see; Shell gas sign, 5X5Ęź, double sided, lighted, needs work, from 60s, text 334-0942/call after 7pm or weekends 2 ANTIQUE wooden chairs; large wine decanter w/brass spout, works, all glass. Text 334-0942 anytime or call after 7pm or weekends

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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

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

PC INDOOR cooking grill, $40; oval mirrors, 24â&#x20AC;?X31â&#x20AC;?, rectangular, 31â&#x20AC;?X43â&#x20AC;?, momĘźs ruby ring, amber earrings & pendants. 311B Hanson St.

YUKON PARKA, full length w/shell, purple, sz L, $200. 668-7320

MEN'S XL 100% down Woods parka, real fur trim, $150 firm. 668-7828

CHAIN LINK fence w/cement posts, free for pick-up, wooden shelf, 8ĘźLx2.5ĘźH, 6 compartments, $20. 393-3358

ANTIQUE METAL toboggan, exc shape, offers. 332-6565

ARTWORK BY Halin de Repentigny, Bombay PeggyĘźs building in Dawson City, framed, 20x24â&#x20AC;?, $2,100. 668-7355

BETA MOVIES, near 600 with 2 working machines; mini popcan or beer vending machine; Text anytime or call 334-0942 after 7pm or weekends WOMENĘźS MEDIUM 100% down Woods parka, real Coyote fur trim, $125 firm.

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We may have just the thing for you! Pelly Construction has a Special Project at the Minto Mine Site where we need a skilled Heavy Duty Equipment (dozer/loader/grader/excavator) operator to mine a switchback.

Enjoy the clean, new camp with updated recreational facility, free Wi-Fi, active recreational clubs and a great crew! You will work on a schedule of 2 weeks on and 2 weeks off with 10 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 11 hour daily shifts, so there is still plenty of time to spend at home with your family or go travelling!

If this sounds good to you, please give us a shout; send us a resume or drop by the ofďŹ ce â&#x20AC;&#x201C; we are open Monday through Friday from 8AM until 5PM. 6676161 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 111 Industrial Road (beside Integra Tire)

SAWMILL 42" insert tooth head saw/carriage/6cyl gas engine, complete $1,500.

867-633-5575 250 GALLON turtle tank, good cond, new lid & valve, $250. 393-2332

OUTDOOR CHRISTMAS decorations, spiral trees, lights, huge wreath, wrapping paper.

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DOG SLED suitable for one or more dogs, made with birch, weighs approximately 25lbs, interchangeable runner inserts, never used, offers.

668-4876

MONITOR SPACE heater, new, never installed, oil fired, model 2200 for approx 1,000 sq ft, incl thru wall kit, manual, templates, $1,500. 668-7355 lv msg

OVAL OIL/FUEL tank with stand, $400 obo.

633-6502

LINOLEUM, 9.5'X12' piece, new, off-white colour, tile pattern, $65. 456-7880 eves

3100 WATT Powerease generator, never used, $375. 393-2332

GRAENSFORS BRUKS Sweden, axes, 4 different sizes, all new, log building tools including Veritas log scribe, all new. 660-4723 or 332-5450 or email for pictures and prices wolf@northwestel.net

FURNITURE, COUCHES, dining room/bedroom sets, office sets, electronics, big-screen TVs, surround sound systems, contractor tools, wetsaws, ladders, David @ 333-0772 to book viewing time

ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT Whitehorse Designated OďŹ&#x192;ce Full-Ć&#x;me, permanent

The salary range for this posi on is $51,489 - $59,126 per annum.

Repor ng to the Manager, Designated OďŹ&#x192;ce, the Administra ve Assistant is responsible for providing recep on and administra ve support to the staďŹ&#x20AC; of the Designated OďŹ&#x192;ce. Applicants should demonstrate their ability to work independently in a confiden al environment, with frequent interrup ons, and their ability to mul task and priori ze their workload while maintaining a posi ve a tude with both co-workers and the public. Applicants must have experience with Microso Outlook, Word, Excel and Access.

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

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

Please submit applica ons to: Finance and Administra on Manager, YESAB Suite 200 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 309 Strickland Street, Whitehorse, YT Y1A 2J9 Ph: 867.668.6420 Fax: 867.668.6425 or email to yesab@yesab.ca Toll free: 1.866.322.4040 Resumes must be received by December 28, 2014.

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ALTO SAX, ST.90 Series IV Keilwerth, exc condition, includes travel case. 668-4587 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 ACOUSTIC GUITAR Yamaha F 310 with CNB gig bag soft case, like new, played once, great Christmas gift, $150 firm.

660-4723 or 332-5450 GUITAR RAVEN Acoustic A-series with case, 660-5101 SEAGULL ACOUSTIC 12-string guitar w/electric pickup, c/w hard case, tuner & music, $450. 393-2332 PIANOS FROM certified piano technician, all come with warranty and after sales tuning, both uprights & a grand piano available, call to view. 333-3941 ACOUSTIC GUITAR, $200, electric guitar, $200, both like new, $300 for both. 667-2940

MODERN CHANDELIER, quite new, beautiful, stainless steel, round, $350 incl 4 LED bulbs. 633-4139

ARTICULATING TV wall mount rack, 180â&#x20AC;?, & 50â&#x20AC;? Toshiba LED TV, less then 1 yr, like new, $850 obo. 332-6678

SMALL VIOLIN, like new, barely played, child's size, $100. Rae 334-0423

MOVING OUT sale, DVDs, kitchen items, book shelves, kitchen table, exercise gear, camping gear, outdoor furniture, garage in back, 27 Mallard way, Dec. 20 8:30am-12pm

OLA, SMALL Dora TV, cw/remote & hand-held joystick, Dora game, $75 obo.

334-0423

YAMAHA ACOUSTIC electric guitar, built in electric tuner, model APX500II, cut away, black, c/w soft shell case, guitar strap, new strings, sounds good, $250. 333-9084

33 CC ice auger, as new, $225 obo.

633-6502

BLU-RAY DISC/DVD Sony Home Theatre System, less then 1 yr, $850 obo. 332-6678

GAS POWERED 225 amp Hobart arc welder, 17hp Kohler engine, mounted on 4-wheeled wagon, $1,200 obo. 633-6502

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IPHONE, 5 Black 16gb, unlocked, no contract, always in protective case, $375.

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NORTH FACE Codura menĘźs rain jacket, size XL, new cond, $50. 660-5101

WW II German submarine leathercoat, needs some needlework, $195 obo.

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YUKON PARKA, full-length, original design, blue duffle, Kelly green shell, white fur, sm/med, sz 8-10, $250. 668-4949 eves

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

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

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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 12, 2014 DRY SPRUCE FIREWOOD Cut to length 16â&#x20AC;? and up From Haines Junction Local delivery $250 per cord 456-2035

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

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

REMINGTON .270 win mag, exc cond, wood stock, very accurate, $650, PAL reqĘźd.

689-2127 WANTED: SINGLE shot .22 long rifle, preferably bolt action, also Savage model over/under .22 long rifle/20 gauge. Sofia at 867-689-6888

Wanted WANTED: BOAT trailer suitable for 18-25Ęź boat, fixer-upper ok, must have brakes, no rollers or boat perch is ok. 668-5207 WANTED: STEEL door for furnace room in residence and an aluminum fuel tank, 10-15 gallons, dents ok. 668-2802

WANTED: MOVING trunks. 668-7026 OLD OR dead long track snowmobiles, cheap or free. 456-4922 WANTED: WOMENĘźS Yukon parka in good condition, size 14 or 16. 668-7903 WANTED: LADIES cross-country ski boots, 3-pin toe, size 8. 660-5101 WANTED: 1 volume set of Uncle ArthurĘźs Bedtime Stories by Arthur Maxwell in good cond, prefer copyright 1986. 821-4338 WANTED: HIDE to help 8 yr old girl with circulation problems sleep warmly, Beaver or anything larger, not picky. Kristina 633-3392

WANTED: ROCKBAND for Wii guitar and drum set, must be in workable condition.

633-4807

Cars 1999 FORD Taurus, interior/exterior excellent, great mechanical shape, current mechanical cert, 5 new winter tires, well maintained, must be seen, 103,000km, $2,900.

335-3570 2007 SUBARU WRX, immaculate, 73,000 km, 5-spd, sunroof, CD, winter/summer tires, black, 5-dr, performance enhancements, maintenance records, $16,000. 668-3416 2007 PONTIAC G5, 155,000km, good car, good on gas, $3,800. 334-1935

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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 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 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 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) EVF FUELWOOD ENT Year Round Delivery â&#x20AC;˘ Dry accurate cords â&#x20AC;˘ Clean shavings available â&#x20AC;˘ VISA/M.C. accepted Member of Yukon Wood Producers Association Costs will rise.

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Journeyman Heavy Duty Mechanic Key ResponsibiliĆ&#x;es:

This posi on is responsible for safely comple ng all fleet and commercial mechanical repairs to trucks, trailers, and other equipment at our shop in Whitehorse, Yukon. Ideally you have achieved your journeyman status of the Heavy Equipment Technician, Heavy Duty Equipment Mechanic or Truck & Transport Mechanic program and are able to diagnose and complete repairs on all aspects of heavy equipment. This posi on will also entail comple on of work orders, oďŹ&#x20AC;ering direc on and assistance to appren ce mechanics, and any other du es applicable to the job.

Porter Creek Super A requires a

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

NO PHONE CALLS PLEASE.

Wage:

Star ng at $40.00/hr and up, based on experience along with medical and insurance benefits.

Schedule:

This posi on has a Monday through Friday work week, with shi s from 8:00am â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 5:00pm and over me and weekends as needed.

QualificaĆ&#x;ons and Skills: â&#x20AC;˘ â&#x20AC;˘ â&#x20AC;˘ â&#x20AC;˘ â&#x20AC;˘ â&#x20AC;˘ â&#x20AC;˘ â&#x20AC;˘

High School Diploma Red-Seal Journeyman status in Heavy Equipment Technician, Heavy Duty Equipment Mechanic and/or Truck & Transport Mechanic CVIP License is an asset, or must be willing to obtain.

Previous experience with repair of on-road heavy duty equipment is an asset Strong mechanical ap tude and demonstrate the willingness to learn Excellent interpersonal skills with proven leadership ability Ability to triage the work in the Mechanics shop Knowledge of the technology side of the Mechanics job would be a huge asset as well.

This is a tremendous opportunity for a dynamic, ambi ous and enthusias c individual looking for a career with a vibrant and growth oriented company. If this sounds like something that would interest you, we want to hear from you.

Our preferred method of applicaĆ&#x;on is to email resumes to: sheldon@pnwgroup.ca We would like to thank all candidates in advance for their interest in this posi on, however only those being considered will be contacted.

ApplicaĆ&#x;ons are being accepted unĆ&#x;l December 19th 2014.

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2005 HONDA Odyssey, 49,000km, vg shape, non-smoking, winter/summer tires each w/aluminum rims, spare tire original size, recent inspection, $10,800. 660-4137

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

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

1999 FORD Taurus, great car, 4-dr, 103,000 km, 5 new winter tires, runs perfectly, well maintained, exc interior/exterior, mechanicĘźs cert, $2,900. 335-3570

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1989 CADILLAC Seville, 4-dr, original paint, interior & chrome, like new, c/w mechanical check, low mileage, immaculate, stored inside, drive it away for $1,000. 689-4624

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Karl was born in a small town in Austria and in 1965 he immigrated to Canada, following a dream which brought him to Whitehorse in 1977.

A private family graveside service was held by Father Kieran of the Maryhouse on December 3rd.

Karl was a loving husband and friend to Jenny for 44 years, father and friend to Karl Jr(Kelly) and Tonya (Brian), and proud grandfather of Zander, Hudson and Jenna, all of Whitehorse. In Austria he leaves behind a loving sister,

Erna, nephews Karl and Arnold and cousin Herbert (Marta).

There will be a celebration of Karlâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s life early summer 2015, date of which shall be announced.

In memory of Karl we ask for random acts of kindness or words of comfort be passed on to persons in need.

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In Remembrance Of Our Fallen Hero

Warren L. Battaglia J

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We lost you Ď&#x201D;ive years ago, no warning, no clue, only 49 years old, it was too early, too soon, And weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve never forgotten that December day, when a higher power took you away.

Time has never healed our wounds, we miss you every day, morning, night and noon.

Some days are good and some are bad, but December is always so very, very sad.

Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a seat reserved for you at our table, If Angels can Ď&#x201D;ly, then come when youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re able.

Our fond memories of you live in our hearts forever, And we promise you Warren of what weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll never â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll never forget your smile or your laughter, your demanding presence, your heart, your passion, A Veteran we are proud to say, as a Corporal in the R.C.H.A. Fishing, hunting or champion at Darts, we know your greatest skill was your Art. As Sourdough Sam-you made perfect sense, because to us youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Colorful Five Percentâ&#x20AC;?.

Since 1969 Yukon was your home, which earned you the right to be named â&#x20AC;&#x153;Sourdoughâ&#x20AC;?.

We want you to know that weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll love you forever, and we cherish the years we did have together.

Your strength and your courage will get us through, each day that goes by and we remember you.

Most of all dearest Warren we send you our love, and know youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll receive it in the heavens above, Rest in Peace-Brother, Son, Uncle, Grandfather, Nephew, and Father.

Love, Your Mother Bonnie, Brother Michael, Sister Dawn, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Little Brotherâ&#x20AC;? Craig(me).

2004 CHRYSLER Sebring for sale or trade for any goods or services, $500 obo.

336-1141 2002 KIA Rio, hatchback, auto, 4-cyl, 137,000 kms, very nice car, $2,600.

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2000 CHRYSLER Intrepid, 4-dr, 6-cyl, auto, 196,000 kms, (needs engine), $600.

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2009 Ford Super Duty F-450 DRW Harley

2000 MAZDA Protege, drives excellent, economical, new winter tires & brakes, 258,000 km, $1,900. 633-2224

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1990 TOYOTA Camry, 5-spd standard, c/w winter & summer tires. 668-2253

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Thank You. Mark Wyatt and Family would like to express their heartfelt gratitutde and thanks to all the doctors, nurses and staff of the Whitehorse General Hospital, Carmacks Health Centre, First Nations Health Programs and to the many friends (too many to mention) who assisted my wife, Elaine, and our family through this most dif icult time with Elaineâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s battle with cancer.

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2009 CHEV Colorado 4X4, ext cab, auto, V6, P/W, P/D, cruise, radio/CD, reduced to $5,995. 336-2029 2009 CHEVROLET Silverado 1500 LT 4x4 extended cab truck, 4 doors, silver exterior, black interior, new tires, all receipts since new, warranty, $13,800, trades considered.

333-9020 2008 TOYOTA Tundra SR5, incredible upgrades, new lift kit, includes Iron Cross bumper, new tires, new sound system, $22,900 obo. 335-5882 2007 CHEV 2500HD, Crew Cab 4X4, great unit, many options, trailer tow, fully serviced, new brakes/battery, $15,000 obo. 633-4311 2007 DODGE 2500 HD SLT, full crew cab, short box, 139,000kms, 5.7 Hemi, most options, immaculate, new tires & windshield, $17,000. Don at 393-4397 2005 JEEP LIBERTY SPORT 171,000 kms, 4X4, good shape $4,800 334-7257 2003 FORD F350, crew cab, 4X4, long box, 200,000kms, very clean inside & out, lots of options, priced to sell. 334-3876 (cell)

Olga Jensen

1999 CHEV Tahoe LS 4X4, 181k, good shape, runs excellent, $5,400 obo. 668-2262 AÄ&#x161;Ä&#x152;Ä&#x161;Ä&#x2DC;Ä&#x2122; 16, 1923 - NÄ&#x201D;Ä&#x203A;Ä&#x160;Ä&#x2019;Ä&#x2021;Ä&#x160;Ä&#x2014; 24, 2014

On Monday, November 24, 2014, Mrs. Olga Jensen peacefully passed away at the Two Hills Health Centre at the age of 91 years.

Olga leaves behind her dog, Tiffy; sisters Sally (Royce), Lena, Elizabeth (James) and Joan (Izydore); brothers Jim (Brenda); along with numerous nieces and nephews. She was predeceased by her husband Hegelund Jensen; sister Ann; brothers Walter, Peter and Arthur.

A Memorial Service will be held on May 16, 2015 at 2:00 PM at the Two Hills Senior Citizens Centre.

Memorial donations may be made to the Heart & Stroke Foundation of Alberta.

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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 12, 2014 1999 CHEVROLET 1/2 ton 4X4, ext cab, c/w winch, head rack & rails, storage bins, reduced to $5,950. 336-2029 1999 D O D G E 3500 diesel dually, mechanicʼs truck, reduced to $13,000.

336-2029 1999 GMC Safari Van, fully equipped for camping, bed, propane stoves, cooler, winter tires, tire chains, new alternator, battery, 198,000km, $3,700 obo. 335-8444, Whitehorse or Dawson 1996 CHEV, 2WD, 3500 HD, long w/b, rust-free, 6.5 turbo diesel, 5-spd, new clutch, 8,000 kg GVW, packs 4 cords firewood, 10-bolt wheels, comes with parts trk, $5,000.

Don at 393-4397 1995 FORD Econoline cargo van, V8 auto, running cond, good body, as is, $500 obo.

333-0100 1992 MITSUBISHI Delica, 4WD, 7 passenger van, right-hand drive, good running cond, good body, as is, $2,300. Steve 333-0100 1990 CHEV Blazer for parts, 4.3L engine, auto, good running cond, 4 winter studded tires/rims hardly used. bigeasy.613@gmail.com for info 1990 TOYOTA Hiace, 8-passenger, camping or handicap minivan, 4wd, 4-cyl diesel, auto, 133,000 kms, offers or trades, 333-9020 1986 FORD F150 4x4, 4-speed manual, 302 V8 gas engine, good running cond, as is, $800. bigeasy.613@gmail.com

Auto Parts & Accessories TRUCK CANOPIES - in stock * new Dodge long/short box * new GM long/short box * new Ford long/short box Hi-Rise & Cab Hi - several in stock View at centennialmotors.com 393-8100 TOYOTA ALLOY wheels, fits Tacoma or Tundra, 16X7, retail $490 ea, asking $125 ea or all for $400. 633-3053 5 BRAND new Goodyear 245/75-17” 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 15” RIMS with 5x108 bolt pattern, came off Ford Focus, used 1 winter, $100 obo.

335-2092 VARIOUS ENGINE parts for ʻ03 5.9 Cummins engine, turbo charger, intercooler, air intake, power chip, various prices. 633-6502

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 POMERIANS, 2 females, 2 males, ready to go Dec. 28, born Oct. 28, will have first shots before they go, $600. 250-651-2464 DACHSHUND OWNERS, join our facebook group to connect, plan social dates, group walks, hikes & sign up for summer weiner races. Search Whitehorse Weiners facebook search bar & join today WANTED: LARGE dog kennel for medium to large dog. 334-6197

Motorcycles & Snowmobiles 2008 POLARIS Dragon 800 155, slp stage 4 kit except porting, aftermarket clutch weights & plug wires, springs, 2009 front end narrowing kit, slp cold air vent kit, $6,500 obo.

334-7670 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 2009 POLARIS Razr 800 atv with V-plow, 4500lb Warn winch, upgraded wheel/rims/spare tire/shoulder harness/seatbelts & vplow, $7,200, trade considered.

333-9020 1982 YAMAHA XJC650J street bike, needs work & parts, $600 obo. 633-5155 2003 ARCTIC Cat Snopro 440 race sled, exc cond, $3,500. 334-6857 2005 KINGCAT 900 1M, low kms, riser bars, race can, fast, loud, ready to rock, $3,500. 390-2313 78 ARCTIC Cat Panther 5000, one owner, runs great, $1,000. 633-3053 WANTED: YAMAHA VK 540. 863-5715 2009 POLARIS IQ touring 2-person snow machine, 4-stroke, reverse, elec start, block heater, hand/thumb warmers for driver/passenger, 500 mi, trades considered. 333-9020

WARN M8000 (8,000lb) winch & accessories, never used commercially, 1 yr warranty, $425 obo. Call/text 333-0100

TAITʼS 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

SNAP-ON RED brick hand-held automomtive code reader & diagnostic trouble shooter, 1984 & up, foreign & domestic, w/case & manuals, $500 obo. 333-0100

2012 ARCTIC Cat Bearcat 570, long track 2-upseat only 170km/14 hours on engine, like new, garage store, ready to ride, $7,900.

Call/text 519-854-1300

4 GOODYEAR Assurance 265/65 R18 radial tires w/aluminum rims, mud & snow, mounted c/w pressure indicators, from 2014 Chev True North, only 5000 km on tires, $600 obo. 668-3197

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

1997 TOYOTA 4-Runner, 2.7L, 5-spd, power train, axles, body parts & electrical items.

333-0100

4 FIRESTONE tires, LT245/75 R17, 60% good, 4 tires 275/65 R18, 60% good, 2 tires, 245/75 R16, 50% good. John at 689-9212

RONʼS SMALL ENGINE SERVICES Repairs to Snowmobiles, Chainsaws, Lawnmowers, ATVʼs, Small industrial equipment.

Light welding repairs available 867-332-2333 lv msg

Pets

TWO ARGO Conquests, $10,000 for both, 863-5715

2 KITTENS, litter trained & weaned, 6 weeks old, $60 ea. 393-3496

1995 SKIDOO Skandic 380 for parts or repair, $500. 867-634-2631 HJ

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SNOWMOBILES 2008 Yamaha Phazer Mtx 144” ...........$5,499.00 2011 Yamaha Phazer Mtx 144” ...........$6,499.00 2011 Yamaha Phazer Rtx 121” ............$6,499.00 $ !

DUCED 2012 Yamaha Phazer Gt 121”..............$ 121”RE..............$5,999.00

2012 Yamaha Nytro Xtx 144” 4”............... ...............$7,999.00 SOLD! 2013 Yamaha Nytro Xtx 144” 4” ..............

Supercharged ................................... $ SOLD! $12,999.00

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1981 SKIDOO Skandic, 377, 15" track, vintage sled, well maintained, vg cond, $800 obo. 867-634-2631 HJ 2004 SKIDOO Skandic SWT 550F, 740 km on top end rebuild, new 24" wide track, trans rebuilt ʻ06, includes shop manual, receipts for work, good cond, $4,500. 867-634-2631 HJ 2003 ARCTIC Cat 900 Mountain Cat snow machine, powerful & fast, 151” track, 580 kms, exc cond, $3,750. 333-9020 2 HARLEY Davidson skidoos, 1973/74, one running, one good for parts, $950 obo.

399-3920 2011 SKANDIC WT 600 ACE, 8,500 kms, $8,000. 633-5955

DOUBLE SNOWMOBILE trailer, drive on back, drive off front, new 12ʼX8ʼ deck, V front, undercoated, mint cond, $2,500.

335-3570

12ʼX72ʼ OLDER house trailer, furniture & appliances incl, take it away for $15,000.

633-2885

10X30 ATCO wellsite, kitchen/diner, bedroom, bath c/w toilet, shower & sink, was $20,000, reduced to $8,000. 336-2029

PLEASURE-WAY 2003 Excel MP motorhome, Dodge 3500 auto, 52,000km, generator, air conditioning, showers, bathroom, queen bed, awning, microwave, convection oven, fridge, hitch, exc cond, $39,000.

867-821-4299

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

Coming Events RAH RAW Play Readings featuring plays from Gwaandak Theatre's New Yukon Voices participants Andrameda Hunter, Leonard Linklater, Kevin Kennedy and others December 12, 7pm, Rah Rah Gallery, by donation, 393-2676

1973 ALPINE double track, reverse & manual start, c/w spare engine & some parts, $1,450 obo. 399-3920 2013 EXPEDITION 550F, new sliders, winshield, c/w plugs, belt, helmet, $6,000 obo.

335-0164 2005 WT Skandic 550 Fan, engine & suspension rebuilt, $4,600. 633-4643 2005 POLARIS 800 RMK, 159” track, rebuilt engine & clutch, has reverse, $4,600.

633-4643 POLARIS 500 Ranger 4X4 tilt box, new bearing & seals, new brakes, winch, $5,500.

633-4643

Thank You! We wish to express our appreciation and gratitude to the following organizations that assisted us as

Mr. & Mrs. Yukon 2014.

Yukon Order of Pioneers (YOOP)

To Dawson City and Whitehorse Chapters for selecting and offering us the opportunity to be Mr. & Mrs. Yukon 2014. Accommodation at Klondike Kate’s Restaurant & Cabins at Dawson City and travel expenses to Dawson City and return were provided. Dawson City YOOP arranged transportation for the Discovery Day Parade.

Marine PROFESSIONAL BOAT REPAIR Fiberglass Supplies Marine Accessories FAR NORTH FIBERGLASS 49D MacDonald Rd Whitehorse, Yukon 393-2467

Mic Mac Motors Ken Mason for transportation and escorting us in the Canada Day Parade at Whitehorse on July 1st.

Commissioner’s Ofϔice

12ʼ ALUMINUM boat, $300. 633-2760

An invitation to the Commissioner’s 2014 Ball at Dawson City, which included accommodation at the Eldorado Hotel and tickets to the tea, dinner and dance.

Heavy Equipment TECK ARMORED electrical cable, size 000.

863-5715 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, 16” wheels, $750 obo. 334-4568 30ʼ TRI-AXLE tilt deck trailer c/w 2 new spares & 5th wheel mount attachment, $4,600. 336-2029

Great Deals on used RV’s!

Is SELLING OFF their

x-rentals

Vancouver Yukoners’ Association Tickets to the Vancouver Yukoners’ Association 86th Annual Reunion, plus complimentary accommodation at the River Rock Casino Resort.

Yukon Sourdough Rendezvous Society What an amazing honour to be part of the Sourdough Rendezvous 50th Anniversary.

Due to medical reasons, we were unable to attend any Rendezvous events; therefore, a special thank you to those who attended on our behalf.

Air North Providing tickets from Whitehorse to Vancouver and return to attend the Vancouver Yukoners’ Association 86th Annual Reunion banquet and celebration.

Myrna’s Best Friend Services (Myrna Kingscote) Assisting us in choosing clothing and accessories from her establishment for participating in various events.

Family and Friends Thank you for your support during our term as Mr. and Mrs. Yukon 2014.

Dwayne & Nellie Backstrom

Check out: klondikerv.com (867) 456 2729

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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 A CANUCKS Christmas at MacBride Museum. Join us for an evening of holiday music with The Canucks December 17 from 6-8pm. For info call 667-2709, ext.4 or www.macbridemuseum.com

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

Everyone welcome. Info: 334-9317 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

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 12, 2014

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

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

DEADLINE FOR breast cancer survivors wishing to paddle on the Paddlers Abreast 2015 Yukon River Quest team is Jan 31, 2015. www.paddlersabreast.org for more information and application form.

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

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

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

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

Come out and join us!

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

AL-ANON MEETINGS, 667-7142. Has your life been affected by someoneĘźs drinking?

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

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RFP2014454 Evaluation Plan â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Northern Institute of Social Justice (NISJ) â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Yukon College Closes: Noon PST, January 15, 2015 The College requires consulting services to prepare an Evaluation Plan for NISJ that will be used as a guide for the ongoing evaluation of the Institute. The Plan is required

by March 31, 2015. NISJ was created to deliver training that meets the short-term needs of social justice-related organizations for qualified entry-level staff and to provide accredited education that meets the longer-term needs of social justice-related agencies for senior staff.

Complete packages are available by emailing Procurement and Contracts at purchasing@ yukoncollege.yk.ca (867-6688864).

The College will be closed from December 24 (noon) and reopening on January 2, 2015.

INVITATION TO TENDER

RFP2014459 Design Build â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Lower residence renovation â&#x20AC;&#x201C; north side â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Yukon College

RFP2014460 Evaluation Plan â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Yukon Research Centre (YRC) â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Yukon College Closes: Noon PST, January 15, 2015 The College requires consulting services to prepare an Evaluation Plan for YRC that will be used as a guide for the ongoing evaluation of the Centre. The preferred consultant will have experience in preparing Plans for entities conducting applied research, and those involved in the commercialization of research projects. The Plan is required by March 31, 2015.

Closes: NOON PST, January 19, 2015

2015 - 2020 WASTE MANAGEMENT FACILITY GATEKEEPING OPERATIONS

The College requires a Design Build Contractor to design and complete a renovation project in accordance with specifications.

The renovation is to be completed by July 31, 2015, with a portion completed by March 31 to match funding cash flows.

Complete packages are available by emailing Procurement and Contracts at purchasing@yukoncollege.yk.ca (867-668-8864).

Complete packages are available by emailing Procurement and Contracts at purchasing@yukoncollege. yk.ca (867-668-8864).

The College will be closed from December 24 (noon) and reopening on January 2, 2015.

The College will be closed December 24th (noon) reopening on January 2, 2015.

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Groundwater, Trib. of Bonanza Creek

Placer Mining

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Assignment from Tech Metals Ltd to BMC Minerals (No. 1)

Geona Creek

Applications are available for viewing on the Yukon Water Boardâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s online registry, WATERLINE at http://www.yukonwaterboard.ca or in person at the Yukon Water Board office. For more information, contact the Yukon Water Board Secretariat at 867-456-3980.

WHERE DO I GET THE NEWS? THE YUKON NEWS IS ALSO AVAILABLE AT NO CHARGE IN ALL YUKON COMMUNITIES AND ATLIN, B.C.

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Toute personne peut soumettre ses commentaires ou ses recommandations Ă lâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Office avant la date limite indiquĂŠe sur le prĂŠsent avis.

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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 12, 2014 COMPASSIONATE FRIENDS meeting Dec 15 6:30pm at 304 Hawkins St. Contact Kim 336-1416 AGM/YUKON SCHUTZHUND Association, Sunday, January 25, 2015, 10am-12Noon, Whitehorse Public Library. Dog enthusiasts welcome.

YUKON SCIENCE Institute AGM Monday, December 22 at 5pm in the Whitehorse Public Library meeting room PADDLERS ABREAST Open House/AGM and General Meeting Jan 15th, Whitehorse Public Library. Breast cancer survivors interested in paddling in the YRQ or recreational paddling are encouraged to attend. www.paddlersabreast.org LIKE BIRDS? Join the Christmas bird count in Caribou Crossing on Saturday December 20. Call Dan Kemble at 867-821-3461 for details.

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 all those facing advanced illness, death and bereavement. Visit our lending library @ 409 Jarvis, M-F 11:30-3PM. 667-7429, www.hospiceyukon.net MUSIC FOR a Winter's Eve, Dec 15 & 16, Yukon Arts Centre, 7pm, Tickets $7, allcityband.com FINE FREE! Yukon Public Libraries will waive fines in exchange for overdue library materials returned Dec 4 - 24. Info 667-5239 HOSPICE LIGHTS of Life Opening Ceremony Fri Dec 12, 12:15, Elijah Smith Bldg Remember the life of a loved one. More info 667-7429

BUSY BEAVERS Painting, Pruning Hauling, Chainsaw Work, Snow Shovelling and General Labour Call Francois & Katherine 456-4755 JOURNEYMAN CARPENTER 30 years experience Commercial-Residential •Renovations •Repairs •Kitchens •Bathrooms •Drywall Tiles •Decks •Fine Finishing and Painting No job too small Local references available Phone 335-8924 bradmre@gmail.com MC RENOVATION Construction & Renovations Laminated floor, siding, decks, tiles Kitchen, Bathroom, Doors, Windows Framing, Board, Drywall, Painting Drop Ceiling, Fences No job too small Free estimates Michael 336-0468 yt.mcr@hotmail.com

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

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

Health Centre

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

Health Centre

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

Health Centre

COFFEE HOUSE Sat. Jan. 3, 2015, featuring Because Iʼm A Girl + the Open Stage, help set up 6pm + open stage sign-up, 7:30pm show, $5, United Church Bsmt, 6th+Main, 633-4255

Dawson City Y.T.

FREESTYLE SKI movie night & dinner, Friday Dec. 12, 630pm, Beringia Centre. Great food, sick movies! Fundraiser for young athletes. More info: yukonfreeski@gmail.com.

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

MAGGIE Tʼs Final Clothing “POP-UP SALE” for 2014!

30% off all fashion & accessories Westmark (dining room annex) Saturday, December 13 & Sunday, December 14, 11am - 5 pm 668-4835 MEETING PROGRAM Speaker, Rotary Club of Whitehorse, Midnight Sun, Tuesday, Dec. 9 6pm-7:15pm, Yukon Inn Plaza, 4230 4th Avenue, Suite 6A, boardroom, guest speaker, Michael Brandt, VP Yukon Energy ANNUAL GENERAL Meeting (AGM) of Yukon African Caribbean Association Wednesday, December 31st, 2014 from 5:30pm-7:00pm at Asian Central, 210 Ogilvie St, Whitehorse. Contact Leonard: yaca@yaca.yk.net SATURDAY SALSA Dancing at the Wheelhouse, the latest Latin music will play all night long, 9pm-12:30am, Saturday December 27th 2014, The Wheelhouse, 2237-2nd Ave. salsayukon@gmail.com for info YUKON SUMMER Music Camp AGM, January 9, 2015, 6:30pm at Well Read Books.

Snacks, refreshments, music camp talk, join our board, become a friend of YMCS. See you there

DRUG PROBLEM?

Services

Narcotics

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

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

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

Health Centre

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

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

Health Centre

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

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

Health Centre

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

Health Centre

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

Health Centre

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

Soaring Eagles Sewing Centre

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

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

Health Centre

NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND OTHERS

NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND OTHERS

NOTICE is hereby given that Creditors and others having claims against the Estate of

NOTICE is hereby given that Creditors and others having claims against the Estate of

Maria Debreceni

Virginia Ivy May Cooper,

(aka MARIA FARKAS), of Whitehorse, Yukon, Deceased, who died on November 19, 2014,

are hereby required to send them to the undersigned Executor at the address shown below, before the 26th day of December, 2014, after which date the Executor will distribute the Estate among the parties entitled thereto, having regard to the claims of which they have notice.

AND FURTHER, all persons who are indebted to the Estate are required to make payment to the Estate at the address below.

BY: John Debreceni c/o Lackowicz & Hoffman Suite 300, 204 Black Street Whitehorse, YT Y1A 2M9 Tel: (867) 668-5252 Fax: (867) 668-5251

of Whitehorse, Yukon, Deceased, who died on September 30, 2014, are

hereby required to send them to the undersigned Executors at the address shown below, before the 29th of December, 2014, after which date the Executors will distribute the Estate among the parties entitled thereto, having regard to the claims of which they have notice.

AND FURTHER, all persons who are indebted to the Estate are required to make payment to the Estate at the address below.

BY: Gary Boyd and Rick Boyd c/o Lackowicz & Hoffman Suite 300, 204 Black Street Whitehorse, YT Y1A 2M9 Tel: (867) 668-5252 Fax: (867) 668-5251

ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS MEETINGS in Whitehorse

MONDAY: 12 noon Joy of Living (OM, NS) Maryhouse, 504 Cook St. 8:00 pm New Beginnings Group (OM,NS) Maryhouse, 504 Cook St. TUESDAY: 12 noon Joy of Living (OM, NS) Maryhouse, 504 Cook St. 7:00 pm Juste Pour Aujourd’hui 4141B - 4th Avenue.

8:00 pm Ugly Duckling Group (CM, NS) Maryhouse, 504 Cook St. WEDNESDAY: 12 noon Joy of Living (OM, NS) Maryhouse, 504 Cook St..

8:00 pm Porter Crk Step Meeting (CM) Our Lady of Victory, 1607 Birch St. 8:00 pm No Puffin (CM,NS) Big Book Study Maryhouse, 504 Cook St. THURSDAY: 12 noon Joy of Living (OM, NS) Grapevine Discussion Maryhouse, 504 Cook St. 7:30 pm Polar Group (OM) Seventh Day Adventist Church 1609 Birch Street (Porter Creek) FRIDAY: 12 noon Joy of Living (OM, NS) Big Book Discussion Maryhouse, 504 Cook St. 1:30 pm #4 Hospital Rd. (Resource Room) 8:00 pm Whitehorse Group (OM, NS) Maryhouse, 504 Cook St. SATURDAY: 1:00 pm Sunshine Group (OM, NS) DETOX Building, 6118-6th Ave. 2:30 pm Women’s Meeting Whitehorse General Hospital (Board Room) 7:00 pm Hospital Boardroom (OM, NS) SUNDAY: 1:00 pm Sunshine Group (OM, NS) DETOX Building, 6118-6th Ave. 7:00 pm Hospital Meeting Boardroom (OM, NS) NS - No Smoking OM - open mixed, includes anyone CM - closed mixed, includes anyone with a desire to stop drinking

www.aa.org bcyukonaa.org AA 867-668-5878 24 HRS A DAY

Land Act: Notice of Intention to Apply for a Disposition of Crown Land Take notice that 6485397 CANADA INC. from Whitehorse, YT, has applied to the Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations (MFLNRO), Smithers, for a Crown Grant – Commercial Purposes situated on Provincial Crown land located DISTRICT LOT 7373, CASSIAR DISTRICT, CONTAINING 3.211 HECTARES, MORE OR LESS, by the Tutshi River, BC.

NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND CLAIMANTS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF

Martha Elaine Wyatt Deceased, late of Carmacks, in the Yukon Territory, who died on

November 26, 2014.

Notice is hereby given to all persons having claims against the above mentioned Estate. Claimants are requested to file with the undersigned, on or before January 13, 2015, after which date the said Estate will be distributed, having reference only to claims which have been so filed.

All persons indebted to the Estate are requested to make immediate payment to: Mark Wyatt, Box 119, Carmacks, YT. Y0B 1C0

PUBLIC TENDER PURCHASE OF AUTOCLAVE SYSTEM AND ACCESSORIES Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title.

The closing date for submissions is January 8, 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 Jenny Richards at (867) 3936387.

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

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

Highways and Public Works

Adopt me!

The Lands File for this application is 6406970. Written comments concerning this application should be directed to the Skeena Stikine Land Officer, MFLNRO,at Bag 6000 – 3333 Tatlow Road Smithers, BC V0J 2N0.

Comments will be received by MFLNRO up to January 9, 2015.

MFLNRO may not be able to consider comments received after this date. Please visit the website at http://www.arfd.gov.bc.ca/ ApplicationPosting/index.jsp for more information.

Be advised that any response to this advertisement will be considered part of the public record. For information, contact the Freedom of Information Advisor at Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations’ Office in Smithers.

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

62 HOUSE CLEANING SERVICE â&#x20AC;˘Low rates. â&#x20AC;˘Great service. â&#x20AC;˘Honest and trustworthy. â&#x20AC;˘Six years experience.

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IBEX BOBCAT SERVICES â&#x20AC;&#x153;Country Residential Snow Plowingâ&#x20AC;?

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

YUKON NEWS LOG CABINS: Professional Scribe Fit log buildings at affordable rates.

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

Vehicles, Furniture, Personal effects etc.

Daily departures, safe secure dependable transportation at affordable rates. Please call Pacific Northwest Freight Systems @ 667-2050 THOMAS FINE CARPENTRY â&#x20AC;˘ Construction â&#x20AC;˘ Renovation â&#x20AC;˘ Finishing â&#x20AC;˘ Cabinets â&#x20AC;˘ Tiling â&#x20AC;˘ Flooring â&#x20AC;˘ Repairs â&#x20AC;˘ Specialty woodwork â&#x20AC;˘ Custom kitchens 867-633-3878 or cell 867-332-5531 thomasfinecarpentry@northwestel.net - INSULATION Upgrade your insulation & reduce your heating bills Energy North Construction Inc. (1994) for all your insulation & coating needs Cellulose & polyurethane spray foam Free estimate: 667-7414

REQUEST FOR QUOTATION Porter Creek Flush Tank Upgrades Small Controls Building QUOTATIONS will be received at the Water and :DVWH 6HUYLFHV 2IÂżFH )RXUWK $YHQXH :KLWHKRUVH <XNRQ EHIRUH 4:00:00 PM local time on Tuesday, December 23, 2014.

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NEED MATH HELP? Math tutoring, homework help, exam prep for grades 6 - 12.

Contact Kathleen at 336-2071.

Rate is negotiable.

PASCAL PAINTING CONTRACTOR PASCAL AND REGINE Residential - Commercial Ceilings, Walls Textures, Floors Spray work Small drywall repair Excellent quality workmanship Free estimates pascalreginepainting@northwestel.net 633-6368 SNOWPLOWING SERVICES â&#x20AC;˘Commercial â&#x20AC;˘Residential â&#x20AC;˘Anywhere, anytime Phone 867-633-2885 SNOW CLEARING/REMOVAL Sidewalks, Driveways, Parking lots, Compounds Private and Commercial Properties Fast and reliable service Aurora Toolcat Services 867-334-8447

Expression of Interest www.yukoncollege.yk.ca

Providing leadership through our strengths in programming, services and research, Yukon Collegeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s main campus in Whitehorse and 12 community campuses cover the territory. A small college, YC provides a stimulating and collegial environment. We work with Yukon communities, Yukon First Nations, local governments, business and industry, to promote a community of learners within a vibrant organization. Come join us as we continue to enhance the Yukonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s capacity through education and training.

Expression of Interest Yukon Research Centre

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Lost & Found 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 LOST: DECEMBER 9 either on Main St or Superstore between 9am & 2pm, keys, command start & Betty Boop keychain. If found please call 633-2122

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Sports Equipment 4 PAIRS of skis with bindings, Rossignol, Bermuda Shorts, Volkl Solomon, Head, $150 for all. 332-6565 OZONE FRENZY snow kite, 11m Kite, as new, used 5 times, $1,000. 660-4711 K2 WAYBACK 88 174cm backcountry skis, w/Dynafit TLT vertical bindings & G3 fitted skins, as new, never used, $1,000. 660-4711 THULE SNOWBOARD carrier roof rack attachment, $40, Louis Garneau snowsport helmet, size medium, blue, like new, $25, childĘźs snowsport helmet, silver, size small, $10. Call or txt Matt 332-1281

INVITATION TO TENDER

Competition#: 14.132 Initial Review Date: On-going

Are you interested in working on research projects in the Yukon?

We are looking at setting up eligibility lists for Technical/ Scientific Editors, Researchers, Report Layout/Editors, Technical/Scientific/Proposal Writers in the following areas: â&#x20AC;˘ â&#x20AC;˘ â&#x20AC;˘ â&#x20AC;˘ â&#x20AC;˘ â&#x20AC;˘ â&#x20AC;˘ â&#x20AC;˘ â&#x20AC;˘ â&#x20AC;˘ â&#x20AC;˘ â&#x20AC;˘ â&#x20AC;˘ â&#x20AC;˘ â&#x20AC;˘ â&#x20AC;˘ â&#x20AC;˘ â&#x20AC;˘ â&#x20AC;˘ â&#x20AC;˘ â&#x20AC;˘ â&#x20AC;˘ â&#x20AC;˘ â&#x20AC;˘ â&#x20AC;˘

Technology Innovation Food Security and Agriculture Climate Change Permafrost Alternative Energy Building Science Construction Mining Tourism Social Science Biodiversity Monitoring Hydrology Geological hazards Transportation Policy (development and/or implementation) Glaciology Health Infrastructure (in addition to â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;building scienceâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; and â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;constructionâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; above) Resource Development (other than mining) Mitigation Adaptation Risk Assessments Contaminants Data Analysis Weather Data Analysis

We will consider contractors as well as employees (depending on the nature of the work and project).

If you are interested, please send us your business information and credentials and/or your resume outlining your educational background, areas of interest, previous research conducted, previously published work, previous experience and/or field work.

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

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Baby & Child Items

ROSSIGNOL X-TOUR cross country skis, 208 cm without bindings, $180 new, only used twice, $90. Call or txt Matt @ 332-1281

CHILDRENʼS CLOTHING in excellent condition, given freely the first & third Saturday monthly at the Church of the Nazarene, 2111 Centennial. 633-4903

2 PAIRS of menʼs Salomon alpine ski boots, sizes 30 & 26. 668-2253

Childcare

SNOWBOARD/SKI HELMET, size medium, 668-2253

BUSY BEE DAYHOME, Riverdale, has openings.

18 months - 5 years.

Hot lunch, snacks provided.

Learning through play, planned activities, caring environment.

20 yearsʼ experience.

References available. Kim 633-2177 kmbryer@gmail.com

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

Furniture SOLID QUEBEC-MADE pine double bed, c/w hand crafted headboard, footboard, side rails & foam mattress, beautifully crafted, rich dark color. 668-7828

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

QUEEN SIZE bed, like new cond, includes bedframe, $300. 633-2602 BLACK CREDENZA, 66"Wx24"Dx30"H, great shape, glass top, clean, sturdy, $100 obo. 334-0423

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 OAT BUNDLES FOR SALE •Great horse feed •On field price $1.00/bundle •Two bundles/day/horse •Feed alone or good hay supplement Call 668-6742

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.

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

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12-Days Of Christmas Market Presented by the Fireweed Community Market Society December 11th - 22nd at the Old Fire Hall.

Open daily 10am-7pm, Thurs-Fri 10am-9pm.

First Nations Craft Fair Saturday December 13th, 10am-4pm, at Elijah Smith School Kakuro:

REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL #2014-064 Commissioning Management Services – Whitehorse LNG Project

HPS Background: The Homelessness Partnering Strategy (HPS) aims to prevent and end homelessness across Canada. It does so by developing partnerships that contribute to a sustainable and wide range of supports to help those who are homeless or at risk of homelessness move towards self-suf iciency through three separate funding streams.

In order to receive an application package including the Proposal Guide please contact: Candice Menzi, Homelessness Partnering Strategy Coordinator Council of Yukon First Nations – HPS Community Entity 2166-2nd Avenue, Whitehorse, Yukon, Y1A 4P1 Phone: (867) 393-9222 E-mail: Candice.Menzi@cyfn.net

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April 1, 2015 – March 31, 2017 Closing Date: February 13, 2015– 4:00 pm

Yukon Energy is inviting proposals from qualified contractors for project commissioning management services at the LNG facility being built in Whitehorse, Yukon. The selected proponent, working with the Project Manager and the Corporation, will be responsible for ensuring that the plant and related equipment is commissioned by the relevant contractors and vendors and is ready to be energized and put into operation. Duties will include, but not be limited to:

Crossword:

? development and implementation of the commissioning schedule; ? development and implementation of the test procedures; ? supply of all personnel and equipment to fully manage the commissioning of the project; ? coordination of contractor activities for commissioning.

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3. Rural and Remote Funding Stream (Rural communities only): Projects that address prevention and reduction of homelessness in communities outside of Whitehorse are eligible for funding. This funding stream does not require funding from other sources, although partnerships are strongly encouraged.

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Elijah Smith School, Saturday December 13, 10am-4pm.

Bedding, purses, jewelry, fairy garden decor & more.

Homelessness Partnering Strategy: Designated, Aboriginal and Rural and Remote funding streams

2. Aboriginal Funding Stream (Whitehorse only): This stream funds projects delivered primarily by Aboriginal service providers and is also guided by the 2014-2019 Community Plan priorities outlined above. It includes activities that promote inclusion within the Aboriginal community and that are congruent with Aboriginal identity and practices to ensure services are integrated and culturally-appropriate.

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Call for Proposals-2 Year Projects

1. Designated Funding Stream (Whitehorse only): Designated funds are targeted to local priorities identi ied in the 2014-2019 Community Plan, and must be cost-matched (directly or in-kind) by other funding partners.

Proposals will be assessed according to whether the projects are meeting or working towards the HPS Community Plan priorities, which are as follows: 1. To reduce homelessness through a Housing First approach.

2. To improve the self-suf iciency of homeless individuals/families and those at imminent risk of homelessness through individualized services.

3. To preserve/increase the capacity of facilities used to address the needs of people who are homeless or at imminent risk of homelessness.

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If documents are available they may be obtained from Yukon Housing Corporation, 410 Jarvis Street, Whitehorse, Yukon. Technical questions may be directed to Laura Vanderkley at (867) 667-8114.

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

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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Project Description: Conversion of two single detached units into two duplexes.

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

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The project is to be substantially complete (both construction and commissioning) and operational by April 26, 2015.

Sealed proposals, clearly marked “RFP# 2014-064 Commissioning Management Services – Whitehorse LNG Project” will be received up to 4:00:00 p.m. Yukon time, January 9, 2015, at Yukon Energy’s corporate offices, #2 Miles Canyon Road, Box 5920, Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada Y1A 6S7 or via e-mail.

To obtain a Request for Proposal package contact Matthew Sills at Yukon Energy Corporation, 867-393-5335 or at matthew.sills@yec.yk.ca.

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