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Darrell Pasloski announces the F.H. Collins reconstruction project in August of 2011.

The government insists the new school, which will open two years later than planned, is on budget. But that’s only true if you exclude the cost of renovating the tech and trades wing.

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he Yukon government isn’t counting the cost of necessary renovations to the F.H. Collins tech and trades wing in its budget for the school reconstruction project.

The government has budgeted $3 million to upgrade the facility and put in a heating system so that it can function as a stand-alone building when the old school is decommissioned.

Consultants’ estimates suggest the project will cost more than that.

Liberal Leader Sandy Silver asked in the legislature this week why the government did not consider the costs and benefits of renovating the existing trades wing compared to building a new one into the new school. “A government that does good planning would have looked at it and would have looked at what the cost would have been to upgrade the trades wing and compared it to the cost of building it right into the new school,� he said.

The Yukon government continues to insist that the F.H. Collins rebuild is on time and on budget, although project completion has been delayed at least two years, and costs continue to rise.

Before the 2011 election, Premier Darrell Pasloski hosted a groundbreaking ceremony

on the building, announcing it would open in August of 2013 for a total project cost of $52.5 million.

But costs quickly spiralled out of control, as the government continued to promise features it did not budget for, like geothermal heat and a temporary gym during construction.

When contract tenders came back at a higher price than the government was prepared to

But that’s only if you buy the argument that the tech and trades wing renovations aren’t part of the reconstruction project. “I just got so frustrated,� said Silver in an interview this week. “I’ve heard time and time again from the minister, ‘on time and on budget,’ and that’s not true.

Neither of those statements are true.�

The government should have made tech and trades a priority in the planning, he said. “We’re underutilizing our youth in preparing them for the industry that we have in our backyard. “Tech and trades hasn’t even been considered in this new design.

So it kind of fell off their desk, in their desire to get re-elected.�

This week Silver asked what the government expects to spend on the tech and trades wing upgrades.

Pasloski responded that Silver “has no clue what he’s talking about.� “We saved the taxpayers millions of dollars, which we reinvested in other capital and we have reinvested in paying for teachers and doctors and building hospitals. What we will have is a beautiful school that the students and the teachers and the community will be very proud of, and we look forward to that school opening very shortly.�

“Tech and trades hasn’t even been considered in this new design. So it kind of fell off their desk, in their desire to get re-elected.� spend, it scrapped the designs completely, after spending more than $5 million on the planning.

It replaced the fancy, custom-designed school plans with a smaller school based on existing constructions in Alberta.

The government maintains that decision has saved Yukoners money.

With the new, downsized plans, the government says the school will be built within the $52-million overall budget.

Contact Jacqueline Ronson at jronson@yukon-news.com

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It’s a wrap Our MLAs are giving themselves a break from growing animosity and tension, just in time for Christmas.

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he fall sitting of the legislative assembly ended in typical fashion this week: growing tensions in question period and debate were mercifully put to death by the so-called “guillotine clause,” which allows the assembly to vote on bills that haven’t seen full debate when the clock strikes five on the final sitting day.

It wasn’t an easy eight weeks for the reigning Yukon Party government, who were hit with a major legal loss in the Peel case, blowback for supporting proposed federal amendments to environmental assessment legislation, and a scandal involving a secretive $750,000 bail-out to a Whitehorse golf course.

Tensions flared over the course of the sitting, with speaker David Laxton increasingly stepping in to scold the hecklers and remind members to watch their parliamentary language.

On the last day, Laxton even shushed the public audience.

“Order please. I remind the gallery that you are here to watch and listen and not participate in any fashion. That includes applauding or jeering. Please keep that in mind. I don’t want to have to ask you to leave.”

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Tensions flared during the fall sitting of the legislative assembly, which ended yesterday.

attached affordable rental units, Cathers dismissed the idea immediately.

“Investments in daycares would not meet the criteria of the program,” he said Thursday.

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The Yukon Party’s uncompromising approach to First Nation land and resource battles didn’t seem to win many friends this fall.

A Yukon Supreme Court judge struck down the government’s ••• plan for the Peel watershed, rulThe sitting began and ended with Community Services Minis- ing it had no right to overturn ter Brad Cathers, also responsible the planning commission’s final recommended plan and introduce for the Yukon Housing Corporaits own version at such a late stage tion, taking the heat for failing in the process. to support new affordable rental Resources Minister Scott Kent housing in Whitehorse. avoided debate on the subject In June, Cathers cancelled Wednesday by calling adjournat the last minute an affordable ment, a move that he said was housing project that would have prompted by heckling from NDP seen 75 units built in the city, after developers had spent tens of Leader Liz Hanson.

“As individuals who are able to thousands on the plans. attend these proceedings know, Whitehorse city council voted she often gets animated and very unanimously in October to ask frustrated when she doesn’t get Premier Darrell Pasloski to reher way in here. With that, I am move Cathers from housing and going to move that we adjourn community files.

Liberal Leader Sandy Silver also debate.”

First Nations are threatening to called for Cathers’s resignation over the affordable housing mess. sue again if controversial amendThis past week the government ments to the federal Yukon Environmental and Socio-economic announced that some of the unAssessment Act pass as proposed. spent affordable housing money, Yukoners found out this month which it has been sitting on since that most of the amendments that 2006, would go to homeowners who want to renovate their homes First Nations oppose came from the Yukon premier’s suggestions. for increased energy efficiency.

Pasloski did not consult First So instead of supporting YuNations or the public on those koners who can’t make the rent, ideas before putting them forward that money will go to those who can afford to own a home and save for consideration. He maintains that’s the federal government’s job. up for pricey renovations.

Two major Yukon mining But when Silver asked if the government would consider using companies have come forward to urge the feds to compromise with some of the remaining funds to First Nations. They say the posupport a Dawson City project to build a child care centre with tential benefits to the efficiency of

from the public.

While the deal took place under the leadership of Dennis Fentie, at the urging of then-Community Services minister Archie Lang, it turns out that Pasloski was on the golf club’s board at the time, just months before his successful run for party leadership.

During his candidacy he told the Yukon News that one of his biggest selling points is, “I wasn’t a part of the things that happened in the past.”

Pasloski has removed himself from influencing the current government’s response to the scandal, to avoid a perceived conflict of interest.

But ministers Cathers and Kent, who have known about the deal for more than a year, continue to peddle misleading information and change their stories.

And Minister Elaine Taylor, who was on cabinet then and now, has refused all requests for comment.

This week Cathers said that the government would have no objection to having the auditor general investigate the deal, although it does not agree that such an investigation is warranted.

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Housing Minister Brad Cathers took heat this sitting for cancelling an affordable housing project in Whitehorse.

environmental assessments aren’t worth the cost to their relationships with First Nations.

And this week, long-time Yukon businessman Rich Thompson added his name to the list of people urging more collaboration with First Nations.

“We do not want investors thinking this is the last place to do business in, but we are headed there,” he wrote in a commentary published in today’s Yukon News.

This week the Yukon government announced an agreement with the White River First Nation to start talking about reconciliation.

The First Nation, which has expressed no intention of signing a land claims agreement, has been caught up in court cases and legal threats against the territory for years.

It may be small comfort to potential investors that White River and the territory have agreed to talk about getting along.

••• Pasloski kept his mouth shut but not his nose clean during revelations that in 2011 the Yukon government bailed out the Mountain View Golf Club to the tune of $750,000 and hid the evidence

From a legislative perspective, the sitting was anti-climactic.

Much-anticipated whistleblower protection legislation passed, although national advocates have criticized the territory for copying failed laws from other provinces.

New rules for snowmobilers and ATV riders passed, although regulation advocates say the changes are insufficient.

A change to the territory’s home heating subsidy for seniors that will redistribute the fund to those most in need passed without controversy.

But the relative calm of the legislative changes didn’t stop MLAs from pushing each other’s buttons.

On Wednesday NDP MLA Kate White asked about reported delays to repairs on Closeleigh Manor’s ventilation system.

“I took the minister at his word that action would be taken to ensure that repairs were made before another long winter season,” she said. “It appears my confidence in the minister was severely misplaced.”

Cathers said that if there have been delays, there’s probably a good explanation. Then he deflected the criticism by invoking the holiday season.

“It’s truly unfortunate that the member is choosing in the Christmas season to throw unnecessary barbs in her question.”

Contact Jacqueline Ronson at jronson@yukon-news.com

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of mental disorder and unfit to stand trial accused under the Yukon Review Board System, he Department of Health and persons from the general continues to maintain population in the mental health that the hospital’s mensystem.” tal health unit is not meant for None of the documents delong-term inmates. fine what “intermediate” means.

Six years ago the Yukon govRight now in the Yukon, ernment used plans for the unit people who are found by a judge as a defence in a high-profile not criminally responsible or legal case around the use of the unfit to stand trial are kept in old Whitehorse Correctional jail for up to 45 days until they Centre as a “hospital.” are seen by the Yukon Review But that shouldn’t be interBoard. preted as meaning that inmates Some are kept in general are able to be housed there, the population. Others are kept department says now. segregated from other people in The Veronica Germaine case the jail’s unit. questioned the use of the old jail In some cases they’ll have as a “hospital” for people who been in jail for lengthy periods had been found not criminally of time before the court even responsible because of mental makes its decision. illness. As part of defending Health spokesperson Pat itself, the government asked that Living insists the government two affidavits be introduced as never said the secure medical unit at the hospital was going to evidence.

The first described the secure be used as a forensic psychiatric facility. living unit that has since been It is “intended to be used to built at the new jail, while the provide acute medical care for second detailed the secure anyone who required it, in the medical unit that now exists at short term,” she said.

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That includes inmates or cliThe documents were important because they “outline what ents of the Yukon Review Board, but “it was never intended as a the Yukon government’s plan is with respect to facilities for indi- residential care facility.”

Living uses the example of viduals with psychiatric probsomeone in jail who has had lems who require short term or intermediate care,” according to a psychotic break, or is in a mental health crisis, who could the court document signed by be transferred to the hospital for the government’s lawyer.

This included “accused under stabilization and then sent back to the jail. the criminal justice system; not When Germaine was found criminally responsible by reason not criminally responsible, there Friday, Dec 19 thru was talk of sending the NorthThursday, Dec 25 ern Tutchone woman to Ontario for treatment.

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She would end up losing the case.

When a case is heard by the review board, it might send someone home with conditions to follow, or they might order them to an Outside psychiatric hospital.

In the case of Victoria Elias, heard in November of this year, the woman, like Germaine, was ordered by the review board to stay at the jail as a “hospital” for months and was given day passes.

Lawyers were preparing to argue to get her out of the jail and into the hospital when a spot was found at a group home Outside.

So the issue was put aside, but both sides agreed the question is still “a very live issue in the appropriate case.”

Living said there have been cases where the jail has used the hospital’s facilities if the inmate did not pose a safety risk.

She refused to provide any examples or details, citing privacy concerns.

“Often times this is not the case and people who are under the criminal justice system or the Yukon Review Board System must be in a more secure location to protect both themselves and others from their actions.”

While the Health Department might be secure in what it told the court, the judges’ final decision could provide some hints about the impression the judges were left with.

After discussing both the affidavits – the one about the new jail and the one about the hospital – the judges said: “While this evidence is not relevant or necessary to the conclusions reached on this appeal, I would simply note that these developments may remove the serious concerns raised about the use of WCC as a ‘hospital.’”

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Aboriginal groups take on ending violence Jacqueline Ronson News Reporter

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Council, one of many organizations fighting to undo the damage done to First Nation communities in the territory.

Change has to come first from within – within yourself and within your community, said Horne. “We know what’s best for us, so we have to do the workshops, we have to do the planning, the speaking,� she said. “Whether it’s eloquent or not, we have to control that. We have to own it. We have to own our lives.�

The effects of Canada’s colonial policies against aboriginal people are visible today in higher rates of poverty, disease, violence and suicide.

A quarter of aboriginal women in Canada have been assaulted by a spouse, compared with seven per cent of non-aboriginal women, according to one study cited by Canada’s Department of Justice.

In Canada’s territories, women are twice as likely to be physically or sexually assaulted by a partner, compared with women in the provinces.

At the root of the problem is trauma, said Horne.

It took most of her life to start dealing with her own pain, she said. “I went to a counsellor. She went through a list of symptoms. She read them out. She got to the end.

She said, ‘Do you have any of these?’ I said, ‘Every one of them.’ She said, ‘You have PTSD. You have trauma problems.’ And I know I do.�

Recognizing that fact is the first step to healing, said Horne. “I changed my life, I stopped drinking and realized what I was doing was destroying myself and my family.�

ike a lot of people, Marian Horne remembers playing “Cowboys and Indians� when she was young. “Nobody wanted to be the Indian because we knew they were all killed all the time,� she said. “Who would want to be on the losing team?�

But they were all “Indians.�

Horne grew up in the aboriginal community of Teslin in the 1940s.

It was a time of great change. The completion of the Alaska Highway connected the tiny town to a world they barely knew. “In our community we had no drinking,� she said. “Everybody lived off the land. We were healthy, we were helping each other. There was no fighting, we didn’t have time to fight, because we were so involved in helping others.�

Those times did not last long.

Like all the children her age, Horne was taken away from her family and home to residential school.

Her community is still living with the consequences today. “If somebody could imagine, the RCMP coming to your door and taking your child, and say, ‘They have to come with us.’ And they take them. “And there’s nothing you can do about it. What would that do to you? “Your children are your life.�

There were a lot of deaths at that time, too, with new diseases ripping through the community, said Horne.

The children’s other favourite ••• game was called “Funeral.â€? They The national conversation would take turns laying in the cofaround missing and murdered fin, and the minister would pass aboriginal women and girls has around a collection plate. ramped up this year, and in the ••• Yukon it has hit too close to home.

Today, Horne is the president Just last week Brandy Vittrekwa, 17, was found dead on a walking of the Yukon Aboriginal Women’s

tions to assist them, and we were not involving them. They wanted to be involved. They want to be part of the solution.�

••• Horne wants the momentum from that good work to continue.

She’s working to secure funding for more workshops that would start to deal with the root of the problem, with healing the trauma that has destabilized Yukon’s aboriginal communities.

The goal would be to get men and women into a room with a counsellor, so they can begin to understand their own trauma. “I’m sure they’ll say, ‘I have all Alistair Maitland/Yukon News those symptoms,’� said Horne.

Marian Horne, president of the Yukon Aboriginal Women’s Next, you have to have to give Council, says First Nation residents must work together to people the tools to continue on their address violence in their communities. own healing journey and change their lives. communities for a conference in trail in the Kwanlin Dun First NaThat can be tough, especially if Whitehorse to discuss their role in tion’s McIntyre subdivision. Police you’re working with people that stopping the cycles of violence. are treating the case as a homicide, Representatives from Ontario’s “I don’t even have a safe place to sleep and a young man has been arrested but not charged in connection with am a kind man� initiative and B.C.’s at night, said Horne.

For women in particular, that can the death. He remains in custody on Moosehide Campaign, two programs led by aboriginal men to ad- mean constant exposure to abuse unrelated charges.

Friends remember Vittrekwa as a dress violence against women, came and sexual assault, she said. “They’re never safe. They never to share workshops and teachings. kind, loving teen who was devoted know what the next day’s going to “It was incredible,� said Horne. to her family.

It’s the second homicide investi- “We had from 18 years old up to 80. be like.�

Horne said she’s hopeful that she And the elders were more mentors. gation in McIntyre in half a year.

Allan Waugh was found dead in They told of their relationships with can make a difference, although the their wives, which was very loving June. His case remains unsolved. progress she has seen has been slow. and equal. And they told the young Recently, the Yukon Aboriginal “It’s been years in the making, men how their life was, and how Women’s Council has focused its and it’s going to be years in cleaning they respected their wives.� efforts on bringing men into the it up.�

Men who had abused women conversation about ending violence In Horne’s office there’s a picture spoke up about their past actions, against women and girls. of her holding a sign that asks, “Am said Horne. “It isn’t a women’s problem. It’s I next?� It’s an ode to a recent social “Some of them were in tears, in a society problem. So we want to media campaign urging action on how they treated women in the past, missing and murdered aboriginal bring the men in. We want both sides to see what is happening to the their partners.� women and girls.

They talked about their shame, other.� “I so want to make a difference. and how they wanted to make a Men may be the primary agI so want those young girls to grow change, for themselves and for their up in a safe environment. gressors, but men and women are both dealing with trauma, hurt and community. “I don’t want them to be next.

Overall, the men were very shame. Solving those issues means I don’t want them to go through enthusiastic about being included in what I did as a young girl. We have listening to each other, said Horne. the conversation, said Horne.

Last year the council’s Brothers to stop it.� “They said they always felt left in Spirit initiative brought together Contact Jacqueline Rosnon at men from all of Yukon’s First Nation out when the women had organizajronson@yukon-news.com

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The Health Department announced yesterday that the new facility will be built in Whistle Bend by 2018.

The initial phase will be for 150 beds, with the second phase of an additional 150 beds to begin immediately after completion.

The contract has been awarded to the British Columbia crown corporation, Partnerships BC. The decision to go with Whistle Bend was made after considering several sites around the city, Health Minister Doug Graham said in a statement. “We recognize the pressing need for more continuing care beds. This is a need that won’t go away in the near future and we are doing everything possible to ensure that this facility is ready in a timely fashion.�

In the same announcement, Graham said two new beds were opened at the Thompson Centre.

Patients will move into these beds from Whitehorse General Hospital.

Right now, continuing care patients are being kept in acute care beds at Whitehorse General Hospital.

Officials with the hospital have said that about one-third of the 55 hospital beds at Whitehorse General Hospital are typically used as continuing care.

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Health Minister Doug Graham with Yukon Hospital Corp. CEO Jason Bilsky in early 2013.

Wednesday’s draw was sold in British Columbia.

This win is the second-largest jackpot ever in the Yukon. It is the first Yukon winner of Lotto 649.

Last year a group of eight coworkers from Faro won a $25-million Lottomax prize.

The only other jackpot won in the Yukon was a $1-million scratch ticket uncovered in 2005, said van Egdom. (Ashley Joannou)

The mid-winter hunting closure will remain in effect for about twothirds of the core bison range. The closure was first implemented in 2010-11 to give local residents, fur trappers and wildlife a break from the disturbance caused by bison hunters.

The core range is bordered by the two highways and Kluane National Contact Ashley Joannou at Park. ashleyj@yukon-news.com According to Environment Yukon, since 1998, 1,557 bison have been harvested, providing an estiWinning lotto ticket Winter hunting season for mated 817,874 pounds of meat. sold in Whitehorse Aishihik bison extended The bag limit remains one bison per hunter per year. Kill reports must Everybody check your lottery tickets. Yukon bison hunters will have nine be made to an Environment Yukon Someone’s a new millionaire. game management subzones availoffice within 72 hours of harvest.

One of the two tickets that won able for hunting from Jan. 1 to Feb. Maps showing the new boundary the jackpot in Wednesday’s Lotto 14. of the closed area are available on the 649 draw was sold in Whitehorse.

The zones, GMS 5-36, 5-38, 5-39, Environment Yukon website and at That means that small slip of 5-41, 5-44, 5-46, 5-47, 5-49 and 5-50, all department offices. paper is worth about $3.5 million. are all along the Alaska and North (Ashley Joannou) Kevin van Egdom with the West- Klondike highways. ern Canada Lottery Corporation Environment Yukon says the exTerritory to share more confirmed that the winning ticket tension of the hunting season in this was sold here. details with contractors area is meant to reduce the size of So far no one has come forward the Aishihik wood bison population. to claim it.

It’s also meant to discourage the bi- The Yukon government is changing “Typically someone has to get son from expanding their range and how it announces capital project in touch with us and present the plans, in hopes of getting better keep the animals off the highways ticket to us. Especially in a place information to contractors sooner. during the winter. like Whitehorse that can take a With the new system, the governThe latest numbers, from July little bit of time,� he said. “We have ment will provide a capital project 2014, estimate the size of the Aishito go through various reviews and update in the fall, so that potential hik herd at 1,470, including calves. processes to confirm that they’re the The bison management plan aims bidders can plan for the next conticket holder.� to keep the population to at or near struction season.

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Public Works Minister Wade Istchenko announced the change at a news conference in front of the new F.H. Collins school construction site last week. “The ministers apparently missed the irony of making this announcement at the very site of one of their most mismanaged capital projects,� said MLA Lois Moorcroft, NDP public works critic, in the legislature on Monday. “This new capital funding process allows this government to hold off on providing budget estimates up until the project is nearly underway.

Is this new capital planning process an attempt by this government to alter the planning process merely to avoid embarrassing cost overruns that have plagued this government for years now?� asked Moorcroft.

Istchenko responded that the change is responding to the needs of the territory’s construction industry. “We are happy to see people, local Yukoners, working,� he said. “We have promoted an economic economy; I said this. We keep our local suppliers and contractors busy and carried out and created local jobs, and we are proud of that on this side.�

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pgrades to Closeleigh Manor’s ventilation system are almost two months behind schedule but nearing completion, according to the Yukon Housing Corporation.

In September the government held a tenant meeting at the seniors’ home after one its residents, Davina Harker, expressed concerns about the air quality in the building.

Harker said she first started experiencing health issues that ranged from memory loss to dizziness to chronic exhaustion in January 2013.

During the meeting the government announced that it had spent roughly $150,000 to upgrade the system and that additional work, such as relocating the air intake system and extending the chimney, would be completed by the end of October.

It took until the beginning of December for those final permits to be issued, said Doug Caldwell, spokesperson for the corporation.

He said the delays were caused by material for the new chimney arriving late for contractors.

All other work has progressed as planned, he added, and the rebalancing of the system will be completed in January.

That will be followed by additional testing to measure the efficiency of the upgrades.

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Upgrades to the Closeleigh Manor ventilation system should be complete soon.

In an open letter this week, Harker criticized the delays and continued to blame her poor health on the building’s ventilation system. “A number of tenants, including me, do not feel well and some have been quite ill and may not understand why,� she wrote.

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This summer, the government made a number of improvements to the ventilation system.

It hired Northern Climate Engineering to investigate the air quality in the 32-unit housing facility and it determined there were a number of upgrades to be made, such as relocating the air intake and cleaning the entire ventilation system.

Other work was completed earlier in the summer. Air leakage issues were corrected and the filtration system was upgraded.

The housing corporation also hired a company to move the air intake system to a more isolated area on the building.

On Wednesday NDP housing critic Kate White raised the issue at the legislative assembly, calling on the government to complete its work at Closeleigh Manor and have air quality samples tested in an accredited facility.

Community Services Minister Brad Cathers responded by saying that he was confident in the Yukon Housing Corporation’s ability to complete the work at the building.

White followed up by saying she visited Closeleigh Manor last month and heard from residents who complained about “having foggy brains, breathing trouble, pains and disorientation.�

She asked whether Cathers would take immediate action to remedy the situation at the building.

Cathers said $250,000 in the 2014-15 capital budget was allocated to upgrade the ventilation system at the seniors’ residence.

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nternational experts are in agreement that prolonged spells of solitary confinement are just as psychologically harmful to prisoners as other, more grisly types of torture.

Yukon’s tough-on-crime crowd, meanwhile, are equally certain that it’s no big deal that Whitehorse Correctional Centre locks away inmates in solitary for months on end. Nor are they the least bit concerned by at least three human rights complaints that have been filed against the jail.

Let’s follow this thinking through to its natural conclusion. If it’s acceptable to torture inmates, why not go whole hog?

The jail should be equipped with a waterboarding facility, to start. If it’s good enough for the CIA to scare prisoners witless with simulated drownings, it should be good enough for us.

And why stop there? Disobedient inmates could have their fingernails ripped out. They could be electrocuted with car batteries. There are hundreds of imaginative ways to express the disgusting, sadistic pleasures of residents who apparently think this sort of thing is appropriate in Canadian society today.

So let’s get on with it and do it right.

Otherwise, maybe it’s time for Yukoners to agree that torturing inmates is inhumane and degrading to all involved. It’s also probably unlawful, as a form of cruel and unusual punishment.

And, on a practical level, there is good reason to worry that prolonged use of solitary confinement actually makes the Yukon a more dangerous place for us to live.

Remember, almost every inmate will eventually be released one day. Would you rather give them opportunities to become

more mentally stable while in prison, or would you use the one method that is assured to cause already-dangerous people to become even more deranged before their release?

Shamefully, the answer that Justice Minister Mike Nixon has given is the latter. What’s more, his department is fighting to ensure that any details of unsavoury activities within the jail don’t see the light of day.

Updated figures on solitary confinement would surely be higher than the latest numbers, released in May, which show an inmate staying in solitary for nearly four consecutive months.

It’s entirely possible that one well-known inmate, Michael Nehass, will have spent all of 2014 in segregation. He and his family maintain he has been holed up by himself for much longer than that.

So why won’t the Justice Department disclose the same figures it saw fit to release earlier in the year? Or even offer an explanation why? The answers seem obvious. Its practice of putting inmates in solitary for long periods is simply inexcusable, and officials realize as much.

It’s counter-intuitive that locking away someone in a box for an extended period would be as dangerous to the inmate’s mind as physical forms of torture. Indeed, as Patrick White recalls in an excellent recent report in the Globe and Mail, solitary confinement was invented in the 19th century by Quakers and Anglicans who hoped it would bring inmates closer to God. The word penitentiary has its roots in the word for repentance.

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have established that extended use of solitary confinement induces anxiety, depression, paranoia, psychosis, even hallucinations. This psychological stress is considered as clinically distressing as physical torture, and its impact can be permanent. That’s why the United Nations has called for solitary confinement to be banned, except in limited, short-term cases, no longer than 15 days.

Jail guards have tough, thankless jobs, and we don’t doubt many workers at Whitehorse Correctional Centre are simply doing the best they can in difficult circumstances. But the jail’s abuse of solitary confinement just goes to show that justice officials are in way over their heads when it comes to the treatment of inmates with serious mental illnesses.

In the case of Nehass, friends and family have watched his behaviour grow increasingly erratic as he languishes in solitary. He espouses strange conspiracy theories. He looks dangerously thin.

Does anyone actually believe this treatment is helping prepare him for release into society?

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work: solitary confinement fuels a mentally ill patient’s delusions, causing more acting out, which leads to yet more solitary confinement.

At the heart of the problem is the Justice Department’s delusional claim that the jail is equipped to double as a psychiatric facility. It clearly isn’t.

A Health Department report prepared in March states that psychiatric care for high-risk inmates is limited to just two hours a week.

Back in 2008, a lawsuit launched by a mentally ill inmate threatened to jeopardize the territory’s flimsy claim that the jail is able to adequately serve as a psychiatric hospital. In response, the Yukon government suggested that it would, among other things, build a psychiatric

ward at the hospital that could be used by mentally ill inmates.

However, today the hospital maintains its psychiatric ward was never intended for inmates long term. Notch that as just one more promise broken by the Yukon Party.

It’s easy to imagine why our government doesn’t take this issue seriously, given the low regard that many voters hold for inmates. It’s much more popular to tout how you’re helping victims of crime. What’s often missed is that, with the Yukon’s dangerous misuse of solitary confinement, our government is quite likely creating future victims, by ensuring that mentally unstable inmates leave the jail even more deranged than they arrived. This needs to stop.

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City council goes for the tax-and-spend trifecta Hiring eight consulting firms to work on the giant new megacivic building project showed

by Keith plex confidence. It’s like the “in your Halliday face” celebration NBA stars do after a slam-dunk.

Now the mayor has announced another tax hike for 2015, plus a sizeable increase in water and sewer rates.

If their Year 3 tax increase passes to complete the trifecta, hitehorse’s mayor and then 2015 ought to set another city council are going record for city tax revenues and for the tax-and-spend spending. trifecta.

You have to remember that They are looking fit and relaxed, and in excellent mid-season mayor and council are doing this in the face of some stiff headform. winds, or “handicapping” in the In Year 1 of their three-year language of turf aficionados. term, they raised taxes. As page First, it comes after a series of 10 of their 2013 annual report tax hikes by the previous council. shows, they achieved record tax revenues, record user fees, record Successfully raising taxing and spending after your predecessor net financial assets and record already annoyed taxpayers is a reserves.

This early move marked them political accomplishment of no small order. out among the field as real taxSecondly, mayor and council and-spend contenders.

In 2014 they raised taxes again. are raising taxes in a recessionary We don’t have the final figures for environment. Statistics Canada 2014 yet, but it looks highly likely recently reported that the Yukon economy actually shrank in 2013, they will break more records for the worst economic performance both taxing and spending.

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in Canada. And 2014 is not looking like a year to write the Guinness Book of Economic Records about.

Any politician can raise taxes in a booming economy. It takes something special to raise taxes on families and small businesses struggling in a flat economy.

Thirdly, mayor and council are way ahead of the competition with no cover. The federal government has been cutting taxes lately. The Yukon government has left taxes more or less stable for years, with a couple of minor reductions such as a small cut in small business taxes in the last Yukon budget.

It’s a slick move for the city to swoop in and vacuum up those Yukon small business tax savings.

There are a couple of things that highlight how quickly mayor and council have picked up the skills needed for the tax-andspend trifecta.

I don’t recall any of them saying during the election that they were going to enter the trifecta contest. People voted for them without somehow realizing they would go on a three-year tax-and-

spend adventure. This is something every politician dreams of achieving.

On top of that is the huge new $55 million (plus extras) city megaplex project that the mayor announced last month. This has drawn all eyes to the city’s finances, scrutiny that would make lesser politicians blanch as they rushed to the finish line to grab the trifecta trophy.

Also, you have to admire some of the small things. For example, the mayor was pointing out that the Year 3 tax increase was the smallest in years. It’s true, but doesn’t tell the whole story of course.

He’s counting on voters having forgotten the Commutative Principle they learned in Grade 3. Remember, this is the one that says that it doesn’t matter which order you multiply numbers in.

For example, 5 x 2 x 1 works out to exactly the same as 1 x 2 x 5.

Making a large percentage tax increase in Year 1 and multiplying it by a smaller percentage increases in Years 2 and 3 results in the same tax take in Year 3 as doing it the other way around.

The mayor did strain credulity by telling the Yukon News last week that the megaplex project doesn’t affect property taxes. How you can hire eight consulting firms, spend $55 million on new buildings, dip into reserves created by previous tax revenues and borrow $29 million and still say it doesn’t affect taxes is a mystery to me.

Perhaps it is just a minor stumble on the way to the trifecta finish line. We’ll know if they make it in the new year.

The good news is that they get to vote on their own property tax increase, so it is quite likely to pass. Unlike Alaska, there’s no requirement here for big projects like the megaplex to get voted on by taxpayers.

The only thing they have to remember is that you have to give the tax-and-spend trifecta trophy back if you get booted out of office in the next 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

Does the Yukon need a wake-up call?

‘We do not want investors thinking this is the last place to do business, but we are headed there.’

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his time of the year it sometimes pays to be reflective.

I pen these reflections not in my capacity as chairman of the Yukon Chamber of Commerce, nor as CEO of Northern Vision Development LP. Not even as a concerned Yukoner, as despite spending much time here, I continue to reside in Alberta. I write as a long-term Yukon investor worried about recent events.

I was introduced to the Yukon in 1994 as a marketing strategist on Yukon Tourism campaigns. I have seen the territory grow significantly in the 20 years since, with devolution, a solid mining cycle and other events that have seen the territory emerge as a mature region with growing confidence, often governed by strong leaders, and home to serious and full debates on what is right – from the economy to the environment, from social welfare to creating vibrant communities.

Most of the time, I could not believe that I was so lucky as to have business interests in such an awesome and awe-inspiring place.

From my start with tourism, I moved as CEO of NVD, to become an owner/operator of hotels, real estate properties and other Yukon assets. NVD has developed a large business park, helped redefine waterfront, and invested heavily in hotels and restaurant assets. Along the way we have attracted the support of First Nation partners who own more than 40 per cent of NVD while playing an important role in the development of our company.

We have benefited from governments at all levels that are passionate about the Yukon’s future and that work with inspiring dedication in developing policies that help move things forward. I have been impressed with the conviction of Yukoners of all stripes, specifically with their strong commitment to making the Yukon a great place for all. For the most part, I have seen Yukoners put their oar in the water and row in much the same direction.

Not so much anymore. The arguments over amendments to the Yukon Environmental and Socio-economic Assessment Act seem poised to undermine what is intended – and therefore to communicate to many that the Yukon is not open for business. Industry desires a Yukon that is properly regulated, but capable of producing investor returns. We do not want investors thinking this is the last place to do business in, but we are headed there.

The respectful dialogue that I have always marvelled at between the most advanced First Nations in Canada, the Yukon government and industry seems to be eroding. The fundamental pillars of strength that exist in the Yukon, and that I have bragged about to colleagues in southern Canada, are disappearing.

This is what I know. The First Nation partners that are a key part of our company are some of the best partners I have ever had. They are committed, long term in their thinking, and respectful of the partnerships we have developed.

Governments in the Yukon,

whether it be NDP, Liberal or Yukon Party, have been led by committed individuals with vision who have been responsible at least in part for developing best-inclass land claim settlements with First Nations and investment in infrastructure that has helped the Yukon grow from a frontier land to a key Canadian region – all the while with a careful eye on social issues and the importance of creating vibrant communities.

I have seen the citizens of the Yukon, buoyed by the northern entrepreneurial spirit of the citizens before them, build a confidence and an enthusiasm that the Yukon can be a great place to live, and that they can all continue to work together to ensure that sustainable progress is made that will ensure a pristine environment remains for our children’s children and beyond.

In my view, this great success has been achieved because people have been committed to real dialogue and consensus building.

People have not resorted to lawsuits to reach agreements. There has been a true spirit of partnership, at most times aimed simply at ensuring that the Yukon is better tomorrow than it is today.

I have been most impressed by that spirit of partnership that has brought together political parties, First Nations, industry and ordinary citizens in a way that made the Yukon a better place. It seemed to be the one part of Canada that really had things figured out.

But today, I see governments trying to make things happen but being accused of a lack of proper

consultation or vision. This results in failed initiatives and stutter steps. I see First Nations challenging the government’s effort at almost every step. I see a business community losing its confidence and worried that the Yukon is no longer an appropriate place to invest. I see increasing partisanship.

I see a great place that is starting to lose its way.

But we can get it right. To me, the solution lies in partnership.

Government should abandon their view that they can never provide enough consultation because no amount of consultation will ever be viewed as sufficient. And First Nations should avoid at all costs the threat of using lawyers and the courts to help chart the future course. Business people should speak more confidently about what is required.

In short, we should get back to the partnerships that have made us strong, and stop the erosion of so many good things in the Yukon.

We have not stepped too far into the ditch. But with each passing day I fear we are getting in deeper, and the time for leadership from all sides is right now.

Here is what I know. The Yukon is one of the best places in Canada – it truly reflects what makes our nation great. The company I run has become stronger precisely because we work in respectful partnership with First Nations. We don’t agree on everything, but we work to understand in order to make things better.

It is a good company because it has developed strong and respectful relationships with government.

Again, we have our disagreements, but there is a desire to ensure understanding so things can be done better in the future. We have relationships with all political parties because we understand fully that the members of all parties represent their constituents and have dedicated themselves to the goal of making the Yukon a better place.

Our company is stronger because we count amongst our board and senior management an exNDP premier, a leading supporter of the Liberals, an early participant in the Reform Party of Canada, and a former city councillor. Our staff is a strong mix of highly experienced business people mixed with young entrepreneurs upon whose back the future of the Yukon can be built – a mixed gender group, young and old, experienced and wide-eyed, who work closely together for our success.

In my 20 years in the Yukon, I have never seen a more serious need for the appropriate leadership to be delivered from all sides – government at all levels, including federal, territorial, First Nation and city – business and industry, nonprofits and the citizens at large.

Our GDP growth has fallen off – moving swiftly from the best in Canada to the worst – and the confidence that was beginning to build into a firm foundation is at risk.

This is a great place, and Yukoners are great people. Let’s replace some of the criticism, partisanship and opposition with strong mutual respect and full partnership between all of us, and let’s get the important jobs done.

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Pioneer Utility Grant changes need a rethink Open letter to Social Services Minister Doug Graham: Recently I received a letter describing the proposed changes to the Pioneer Utility Grant. Upon review I find the proposal flawed and inequitable.

I don’t object to an incometested model, as I believe that to be fair, as those who can well afford to pay really don’t need the grant.

What I do object to is a twotier system that penalizes single seniors. The text of the letter states that Yukon Legislative Assembly members unanimously agreed to make changes to the grant.

According to the table of public statutes, the act has been changed.

However, the payment schedule outlined in the graph contained in the letter seems to imply that payment schedule is a proposal.

Is it a proposal or is it the final solution? That is unclear.

The proposed change to the schedule of payments is unfairly penalizing single seniors. I don’t understand the rationale behind the two-tiered approach and how the dollar amount for the cut-off was determined. A single senior pays the same rate for gas, oil and electricity as a couple.

Take the scenario of a couple whose income is $55,000, living in a typical three-bedroom house heated with oil that consume about 800 kilowatt-hours of electricity monthly. Compare this household with a single senior

living in the same size house, consuming the same amount for utilities and with a similar income.

Using the proposed income test, the single senior receives about $800 and the couple receives $1,000.

When the single senior’s net income reaches $114,000 he or she receives nothing, while a couple with the same income still receives about $500 with their cut-off limit of $165,000 net income. This make little sense. There should only be one schedule of entitlement for all eligible grant applicants.

The income test should be applied per household and not based on the composition of the household. As stated in the act the grant is payable based on a principle residence. The grant should be applied equally to all seniors irrespective of the make up of the family unit.

The revised act makes no mention of a two-tiered eligibility criteria. It certainly appears that little thought has gone into the proposed payment schedule, as it really benefits those who need it the least.

Frankly, any senior or couple who has an income of over a $114,000 should not be in need of a grant. Furthermore, I trust the amounts will be adjusted should applicants have an increase or decrease in net income from one year to the next.

This proposed schedule definitely needs to be revisited and the inequities addressed before the changes are finally implemented.

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The case for a ranked ballot Re: Our electoral system needs an overhaul (Pointed Views, Dec 10) Absolutely, Canada needs proportional representation. If a party receives 25 per cent of the vote, that party should get 25 per cent of the seats. This is common sense.

Our Westminster-style “first-past-the-post� system was designed for two parties, so the winning party automatically represents over 50 per cent of the vote. But now, in Canada, with at least four established parties, the winning party is routinely rewarded with a “majority� after winning only about 40 per cent of the vote.

That isn’t fair to the other parties and does a disservice to voters. It’s undemocratic. People are forced to vote strategically – for the lesser of evils – instead of for the candidate they truly support, and many votes are “wasted� since people vote for a party that doesn’t elect the number of members to match its popular vote.

But mixed-member proportional representation, what the federal NDP is recommending, isn’t right for Canada. Moving to larger ridings, adding list MPs or adopting multi-member constituencies may work for smaller, more homogeneous countries, but not here.

Most of our ridings, such as Yukon riding, are large and shouldn’t get larger. And people need to know exactly who their MP is. Our cities, provinces and territories are culturally, geographically and demographically distinctive and must be repre-

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Well on to the apology, did Judge Gower apologize to Misented by MPs elected directly chael Nehass in person, face to from those jurisdictions. face? Apparently not, as Michael The best type of proportional has stated so. I take that as a representation for Canada is non-apology. Shame on you called “ranked ballot� or “instant Judge Gower! runoff voting,� where voters Are you that supreme, that indicate their first, second, third, you cannot humble yourself to or fourth choice of candidates. By do this decent act? Can you not dropping off the lowest candilocate Michael? I know where he dates and reallocating voters’ is. He is in a solitary confinement second and third choices, the cell at the Whitehorse Correcmost popular candidate in each tional Centre, where he has been riding is elected, just what should for close to 30 months, accordhappen. ing to his family, and where now The ranked ballot system is apparently he will be held for voter-friendly, simple, doesn’t an additional three and a half expand ridings, keeps local repmonths. resentation, ends strategic voting I believe that length of time is and values every vote. Exactly a violation of a United Nations’ what Canada needs. charter that Canada is a signature of. That length of time is a Frank de Jong violation of close to a thousand Faro days.

Wow – is our judicial system Michael Nehass deserves trying to drive Michael into a a face-to-face apology state of unrecoverable mental illness? Are our justice ministers, It is not always easy to apologize. namely Mike Nixon (territotial) It can and should be a very hum- and Peter Mackay (federal) not bling experience. intelligent enough to understand I read recently that an apology that there has to be a better way was given by Judge Leigh Gower to deal with difficult prisoners to Michael Nehass. Michael apother that solitary confinement? peared shackled and chained and Wasn’t the death of Ashley Smith quite naked on a video appearenough? ance before Judge Gower in 2014.

Canada may not have the Judge Gower, aware of Mideath penalty, but we do have a chael’s condition, allowed the method of killing a living person proceedings to continue for and still leave him or her as livquite some time while Michael ing. Shame on all of you involved was calling out for something to for allowing this to happen. cover his lower body, screaming If I happen not to wish you a that people are going to see his “Merry Christmas,� Judge Gower, penis. and you are reading this message Judge Gower did eventually as slander, I apologize. stop the proceedings. It would appear to me that Judge Gower Richard Zier-Vogel Whitehorse is not a seasoned enough judge EXTENDED CHRISTMAS HOURS SUNDAYS, DEC 14 & 21 NOON-3:00 THURSDAY & FRIDAY DEC 18-19 10:30 -7:00 MONDAY, DEC 22 NOON-3:00 TUESDAY, DEC 23 10:30-6:00 WED, DEC 24 10:30-3:00 CLOSED DEC 25-29

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Stateless Yukon man, 60, ponders declaring refugee status in Canada Keven Drews

help him, said McGlaughlin, who said applying as a political refugee may be his last option.

VANCOUVER “I don’t know how much onovan McGlaughlin harder my situation has to be admits his story is hard to without applying for politicalbelieve, but he wants Canadirefugee status,” said McGlaughans to keep an open mind as lin. “What else is there? I mean he explains why he may have I’m stateless. I have no rights to apply as a political refugee within my own country.” in the country he’s called home His lack of status and medifor his 60 years. cal troubles also have territoHis father was First Narial and federal government tion, his mother Caucasian, bill collectors knocking on his and both were anarchists who door, looking for money from didn’t want to register his birth the man who has never had because they feared he’d be held full-time job. taken away from them and end Jan. 19, 1954 is the day up in a residential school, said McGlaughlin celebrates as his McGlaughlin. birthday, although he doesn’t The ramifications of their know the exact date. He only decision have been far reaching knows he was born somewhere for the Dawson City, Yukon, between Rosebud, S.D., and resident who said he’s been Guelph, Ont., where his matercaught up in a life-long bunal grandparents lived. reaucratic nightmare that has Home schooled as a child, prevented him from obtainMcGlaughlin said his paring any form of identification, ents moved around Canada including a health-care card. frequently because they were He said his problem came to afraid of the government, and a head even before he was hit at the age of 15 he left them, by a series of heart attacks that surviving off farm work and have resulted in up to $130,000 “migrant jobs” like picking in medical and air-ambulance fruit. bills.

About 30 years ago, he Nobody in government, it hitchhiked to and fell in love seems, has yet been able to with the Yukon, where he has Canadian Press

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Canada official in October 2010, but he suffered a near-fatal heart attack and was flown to a hospital in Victoria, so he missed the meeting.

The interview was rescheduled and took place in early 2011, and the official decided against issuing an order for his removal from Canada, he added.

He has had three more heart attacks since that interview, one of which required his admission to a Vancouver hospital and another expensive air-ambulance flight, said McGlaughlin.

Lacking a medical card means McGlaughlin is on the Tina Proce/The Canadian Press hook for his health-care and From left to right: River, Jeb (back) and Maverick transportation costs and can’t McGlaughlin, with their mother Julie Dugrenier and father book any followup treatments, Don McGlaughlin, seen in an undated photo in Dawson City. he said.

Taxation problems are now survived ever since by hunting tion, he also can’t apply for a his family’s latest worry. and fishing on First Nations’ job, vote, marry his partner Documents obtained by The land. who is the mother of his three Canadian Press show the CanaYet, because he has no birth children, or volunteer at their da Revenue Agency and Yukon certificate, McGlaughlin said school because a background government wrote his partner, he hasn’t been able to get a check is required. He can’t even Julie Dugrenier, asking her for citizenship card, a Social Insur- get on a long-haul bus, because McGlaughlin’s Social Insurance ance Number or a passport, that now requires ID, too, he Number and 2012 tax return and that means he can’t get a said. to determine whether she was driver’s license or even a Yukon McGlaughlin said he had entitled to tax benefits for their Health Care Card. an interview scheduled with a three children.

Since he has no identificaCitizenship and Immigration In an Oct. 21 letter, the

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McGlaughlin said he has applied under Section 5.4 of the Citizenship Act for the minister to grant him citizenship because of a “special and unusual hardship.”

Nancy Caron, a spokeswoman for the federal agency, said in an email that McGlaughlin filed an application in late September, but it contained “insufficient documentation to demonstrate how long he has been living in Canada,” and the agency asked for more information in a November correspondence.

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YUKON NEWS “We recognize Mr. McGlaughlin lacks most forms of ID and documents that citizens would use as proof of residency,” said Caron. “CIC will consider any evidence he can provide to support his claim that he has resided in Canada for the majority of his life.”

The department, she said, has yet to make a final decision on his application.

Ryan Leef, the Yukon’s member of Parliament, was unavailable for an interview, but in an email, his executive assistant Kay Richter said staff have communicated with McGlaughlin.

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ABIGAIL STEINBERG

Abigail Steinberg grew up in Whitehorse and graduated from Vanier Catholic Secondary School. She attended the University of Victoria, where she earned her Combined Honours Degree in Biology and Psychology (BSc). After taking a year off school to work for Health and Social Services branch of Yukon Government, she entered the Doctor of Medicine Program at the University of Calgary. Upon completing her studies, Abigail plans to return to the Yukon to practice medicine.

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Joelle Ingram was born and raised in the Yukon and graduated from F.H. Collins. She earned her MA in Anthropology from the University of Victoria. Currently, she is completing the second year of her Masters of Physical Anthropology program at McMaster University.

She hopes to return to live and work in the Yukon after completing her degree.

VIDA NELSON

Vida is a graduate of Vanier Catholic Secondary School. The selection committee was impressed that she had earned her Bachelor of Science at Simon Fraser with distinction, and was now in her third year of law at the University of Manitoba. Vida plans to return to the Yukon to practice law starting next year.

opens his office to assist with all matters of federal jurisdiction,” said Richter. “We deal with many immigration related cases, and have a high resolution rate.”

Don Chapman, the founder of Lost Canadians, a group that has spent years identifying gaps in citizenship laws, said he has tried to intervene on McGlaughlin’s behalf and estimates there could be as many as 50 or 60 people across the country in a similar situation.

“Quite seriously, denying Donovan citizenship amounts to a death sentence,” said Chapman in a recent email.

“With no medical insurance and being a victim of a major heart attack, Donovan is doomed.”

As for his refugee application, McGlaughlin was told that all applications must be delivered in person to a Citizenship and Immigration office, an ordeal for somebody who lives in the North, doesn’t

have a driver’s licence, can’t book a bus ticket and has heart problems.

McGlaughlin said he may have to make that trip by foot.

“I have battled this far and will continue to as long as I can,” he said in a followup email. “Perhaps after the holiday, I may just go ahead and start walking. Until then I will be enjoying what could be my last Christmas with my children and wife.”

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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 19, 2014

What does hunger look like in Nunavut?

One man’s struggle to feed his kids Steve Rennie Canadian Press

IQALUIT, NUNAVUT srael Mablick’s youngest son clings to his neck as another one of his children and his nephew bounce around on a thin mattress stuffed into a cramped space that doubles as a bedroom and a living room.

This is where Mablick, his wife Donna and their five kids sleep. Mablick and his wife share a mattress with their one-and-a-half-year-old son, Israel Jr. The couple’s four other children – Kyle, 11; Karol, 9; Kody, 7; and Kimberley, 5 – double up the other two mattresses that take up the rest of the floor space.

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Israel Mablick is an Inuk father of five who can’t afford food to feed his family.

share the other room of their Iqaluit apartment.

Mablick is tired. Hunger pangs kept the 36-year-old up most of the night. He says he finally fell asleep around 4 a.m. and woke four hours later.

This is what food insecurity looks like in Nunavut.

A recent report from auditor general Michael Ferguson, footage of Rankin Inlet residents foraging in the town dump and the Conservative government’s Nunavut MP, Environment Minister Leona Aglukkaq, getting caught reading a newspaper in the Commons instead of fielding questions about the food problem – for which

she eventually apologized – drew fresh attention to an old problem.

But for Mablick, not knowing where his family’s next meal will come from is a problem he has struggled with for months – and by no means is his situation unique.

The last Inuit Health Survey found seven out of every 10 Inuit households in Nunavut are food insecure. That means they lack access to nutritious, affordable foods – despite government subsidies and programs to confront hunger. “The issue is serious,� said Harriet Kuhnlein, a nutritionist and the founding director of McGill University’s Centre for Indigenous Peoples’ Nutrition and Environment. “What has been appalling is the seriousness of the issue and what people face. We don’t need more research to

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Food insecurity puts people at risk of chronic disease, has consequences on their mental health and lowers their capacity to learn, according to the Public Health Agency of Canada.

It’s a spiral that has gripped the Mablick household.

Mablick says he hasn’t eaten solid food in a week.

What little food he has he gives to his children. He subsists mainly on tea that loses its flavour and strength each time he reuses a tea bag, which he does until they’re completely spent. “The outcome is not fun.

You start having the runs,� he said. “Too much liquid in your body and you having diarrhoea and that’s not fun. But gotta make sacrifices to feed my family, you know?�

His refrigerator is mostly bare. There’s a half-empty bag of milk, some Cheez Whiz and a tub of margarine. Inside a small pot are scraps of seal meat given to him by a rela-

tive who recently caught one of the animals.

Mablick says he has been out of work since he quit his job at Parks Canada in October over a dispute with a supervisor that he did not want to elaborate on.

His social-assistance cheques are only now starting to come in, but they won’t begin to cover the price of groceries for his entire family.

Hunting is out of the question, partly because he has never been very good at it, and partly because he has no transportaion.

He has been forced to sell most of his possessions to put food on the table and says the most difficult item to part with was his snowmobile. “Pretty much everything that we can sell. Jewellery or carvings, whatever,� said Mablick, who is wearing a white T-shirt with a ragged collar and a gaping hole under the right armpit. “I mean, I’ll go to my shack, which is outside, I’ll carve something and sell something, but it’s been awhile since I carved. I started working on a cribbage board but it’s been so cold that my toes are freezing so I can’t really carve anything right now.�

He also turns to friends and family for food but knows they face their own struggles. “Sometimes, they’ll say yes, they can spare some food or give some food,� he said, “but most of the time they have a huge family as well, so it’s pretty hard to get food from other family members or friends unless they have enough.�

The hardest part for Mablick is telling his kids they can’t have any more food. “Every day, they ask for more, like snacks or meals, if they can get their meals early or can have snacks,� he said. “It’s hard. It breaks my heart, you know? I got to say ‘No,’ because we got nothing.�

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Father pleased reporting restrictions eased on Rehtaeh Parsons’ name Keith Doucette Canadian Press

HALIFAX hen a judge placed a publication ban on Rehtaeh Parsons’ identity, Glen Canning began wearing a T-shirt to court bearing his daughter’s name in a campaign that ended Wednesday as reporting restrictions in the child pornography case were eased.

For Canning, a directive from Nova Scotia’s attorney general allowing Parsons’ name to be reported was a relief.

“It almost feels like I got her name back,” Canning said in an interview. “We can attach her name again to this conversation and that’s just fantastic.”

Attorney General Lena Metlege Diab says breaches of the ban by the media or in other forums will not be prosecuted, unless the girl’s name is used in a derogatory way.

A judge put the mandatory ban on Parsons’ identity in May in the case of two young men who were charged with child pornography offences, even though he said his decision “serves no purpose” because both of the girls’ parents wanted her identity public and her case had been widely reported.

Last month, the Halifax Chronicle-Herald identified Parsons as

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the victim in the case when one of the young men pleaded guilty in youth court. Others published her name on social media sites.

He will be sentenced in January for distributing a sexually graphic image of the teenaged girl, who died last year following a suicide attempt.

The other young man was given a conditional discharge for making child pornography.

Neither of them can be identified because they were youths at the time of the offence.

Canning said he believes the decision by the Chronicle-Herald and at least two other media outlets to publish his daughter’s name tipped the balance.

“I guess in the end, it made the ban look a little bit ridiculous,” he added.

“It’s like a dark cloud was just lifted and here it is in black and white. It’s kind of what we wanted, the way the minister released this and worded it was perfect.”

Canning said the ban shut down debate on the issues surrounding the case and the confusion even led some high schools to cancel his appearances to talk about cyberbullying.

“It was such a grey area that Rehtaeh’s friends were afraid to say her name on Facebook,” he said.

much ambiguity and so much inconsistency on the use of Rehtaeh Parsons name in the public that clarity needed to occur,” she said.

“The publication ban was never intended to hinder important discussions that need to happen in our society.”

Police have investigated a number of complaints since the ban was imposed and have not laid any charges.

The director of public prosecutions said the directive clarifies the approach his office should take as he described the situation as unusual, given the judge’s comments about the ban and calls from the Facebook/The Canadian Press girl’s parents for it to be lifted.

Martin Herschorn said when Nova Scotia’s attorney general says no one will be prosecutdeciding whether to prosecute ed for identifying Rehtaeh Parsons as the victim in a recent alleged breaches of the ban, those high-profile child pornography case unless her name is used factors were used in deciding what in a derogatory manner. course to take.

Canning said the decision ment the ban but he also said the “Those were unique public would also help free up the work Crown could decide not to prosinterest factors that guided the of an organization he started last ecute if it was broken. That route position of the Crown then and month with Rehtaeh’s mother, wasn’t taken until Diab’s directive this directive provides additional Leah Parsons. The Rehtaeh Parwas issued Wednesday. clarity,” he said in an interview. sons Society aims to address the Diab said she decided the Halifax Regional Police said prevalence of cyberbullying, youth directive was necessary after they will review current and sexual violence and the distribuconsulting a range of legal experts, future complaints in light of the tion of images among young academics, teens and parents, directive from the minister. Those people through educational and including Glen Canning and Leah cases will be closed unless it is support initiatives.

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149 Wilson Drive 668-5727 Sunday 10:00am Prayer / Sunday School 11:00 am Worship Wednesday Praise & Celebration 7:30 pm Pastor Roger Yadon

4th Avenue & Steele Street • 667-2437 Masses: Weekdays: 12:10 pm.

Saturday 5 pm Sunday: 9 am - English; 10:10 am - French; 11:30 am English

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Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church 4th Avenue & Strickland Street

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Riverdale Baptist Church 15 Duke Road, Whse 667-6620 Sunday worship Service: 10:30am REV. GREG ANDERSON

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Baptist Church 2060 2ND AVENUE • 667-4889

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Yukon Muslim Association 1154c 1st Ave • Entrance from Strickland

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Harper urged to award Memorial Cross to mom of ‘one penny’ soldier “insensitive and terrible error.”

The minister also promised at the time to take another look at whether the death was related to his military service.

However, in a letter to Stark in June, Nicholson reiterated the board’s findings, although he pledged to address the family’s concerns “to the maximum extent possible.”

In an email Tuesday, his spokeswoman indicated no change in that

position.

Stark and her husband Wayne stressed there would be no financial gain in getting the recognition they want.

Marion Foster, of Edmonton, one of about 450 people to have signed the petition to date, said she believed in the Starks’ cause.

“As a military mom I know firsthand the struggles of what PTSD has on a person and my heart hurts for

how little help is really out there,” she said on the petition.

“Recognition of these service members needs to be in the forefront because it is a job-related injury.”

Stark said she was grateful for the supportive comments on the petition at change.org, which comes amid widespread criticism of the Harper government’s treatment of veterans.

“Some have even brought me to tears,” Stark said.

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Petition co-organizer Keven Ellis, “It would be a sense of a closure, who heads the North Wall Riders which we don’t have, knowing that Association veterans support group, Justin’s service would be recognized said the issue crystallized for him at – a recognition that I feel is long a recent Christmas gathering, where overdue,” Stark told The Canadian other moms were wearing the Silver Press Tuesday from Hamilton.

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“How do you know why someone The petition calls on Prime committed suicide?” Ellis said.

Minister Stephen Harper, Defence “For Justin to go to the armouries Minister Rob Nicholson, his predeces- in Hamilton – his place of employsor Justice Minister Peter MacKay, ment – and to kill himself there is a and Veterans Affairs Minister Julian real indicator to me that it was workFantino to intervene in what they call place related.” the “gross injustices” perpetrated on In March, Nicholson was forced the family. to apologize amid a public furor Stark, 22, a reserve soldier with the after Public Works sent a one-cent Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders cheque – marked CF Release Pay – to of Canada, served a seven-month de- Stark’s mom. The minister called it a ployment in Afghanistan. In October “bureaucratic screw-up,” while Trea2011, 10 months after his return to sury Board President Tony Clement Canada, he killed himself at the John accused a civil servant of making an Colin Perkel

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Canada hosting key meetings between U.S., Cuba, part of storied tradition Mike Blanchfield Canadian Press

OTTAWA anada played a central part in hosting breakthrough diplomatic talks between the United States and Cuba – a role one leading historian calls part of a half-century-old tradition that includes sharing intelligence.

Canadian author and academic John English, who has written definitive biographies of former prime minister Pierre Trudeau, struck up a lasting friendship with Cuba’s iconic leader Fidel Castro in the 1970s.

English said he wasn’t surprised that the White House thanked Canada publicly for hosting the meetings that led to Wednesday’s announcement that the United States and Cuba were re-establishing diplomatic relations and opening economic and travel ties.

Senior Obama administration officials say Canada was “indispensable” in hosting the majority of the secret talks, which took place for more than a year.

While Trudeau’s relationship with Castro was storied – the Cuban leader was an honorary pallbearer at his 2000 funeral – it was actually his Progressive Conserva-

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tive predecessor John Diefenbaker who set the chain of historical events in motion that culminated in Wednesday’s announcement, English said.

“I think it’s a continuation of Canadian policy and what we’ve been doing for the Americans for 50 years,” he said in an interview.

“We tried to facilitate contacts.

We would make introductions.

We knew the people.”

English said he helped supervise new doctoral-level research, based on newly disclosed Canadian documents, that reveals new details in the long history of Canada’s role in the acrimonious Cuba-U.S. freeze-out.

It started in 1961 when U.S. President John F. Kennedy imposed an economic embargo on the Caribbean island state 135 kilometres off the tip of Florida – one that Diefenbaker, then the prime minister, decided not to support.

“The United States had its moments when it was a bit upset with Canada, but only a bit upset with its continuing recognition and interaction with Cuba – the principal reason being, and this is relevant to events of today, that Canada was a reliable listening point,” English said.

“We shared with them infor-

mation about Cuba which was of great interest to American foreign service officers, political officers and not least, intelligence officers.”

Harper tried to play down Canada’s contribution, telling the CBC in an interview Wednesday that Canada did not mediate or direct the talks. But he called the news an “overdue development.”

“We facilitated places where the two countries could have a dialogue and explore ways of normalizing the relationship,” Harper said. “I personally believe changes are coming in Cuba, and this will facilitate those.”

Harper told another interviewer in 2009 that the long U.S. embargo had simply “not worked.”

U.S. officials say the first faceto-face talks with the Cubans took place in Canada in June of last year, with several other discussions taking place since then.

A senior Canadian official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said seven meetings took place over the course of the next year and half at locations in Toronto and Ottawa.

Canadians didn’t take part in of the discussions, none of which took place at the prime minister’s official residence or his summer retreat at Harrington Lake, Que.

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The official, who wasn’t authorized to discuss the matter publicly, would not say specifically where the talks took place, but said they involved a small group of people who were determined to keep them secret.

Harper issued a statement congratulating the two countries on reaching their agreement, which marks a historic shift in U.S. policy after a half-century of enmity towards Cuba dating back to the Cold War. The announcement coincided with the release of American prisoner Alan Gross, as well as a swap for a U.S. intelligence asset held in Cuba and the freeing of three Cubans jailed in the U.S. Pope Francis was also personally engaged in the process and sent separate letters to Obama and Castro this summer urging them to restart relations.

“Canada supports a future for Cuba that fully embraces the fundamental values of freedom, democracy, human rights and the rule of law,” Harper said in his statement.

“Canada was pleased to host the senior officials from the United States and Cuba, which permitted them the discretion required to carry out these important talks.”

Another Canadian author who has chronicled Canada’s relations with Cuba said Harper was simply carrying on a tradition that started with Diefenbaker in 1961.

“It’s always been very useful to Washington to have Canadians in Havana, or as Henry Kissinger put it once, to have a Canadian at Fidel Castro’s picnic table,” said Robert Wright, whose book “Three Nights in Havana”

chronicled Trudeau’s 1976 trip to the Cuban capital.

“Trudeau always congratulated Diefenbaker for being the guy that set in motion that unique Cuban-Canadian relationship.

“Every Canadian prime minister’s policy has always been not to imagine that we could somehow put Havana and Washington together to broker a deal. We are not in the brokering business.”

White House spokesman John Earnest said it was the U.S. that took the lead in seeking Canada’s assistance. “As the president’s team sought to find a place to meet with the Cubans, we turned to our friends to the north, in Canada.”

During a stop Wednesday in Vancouver, Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau recalled Castro, while attending his father’s funeral at Montreal’s Notre Dame Basilica in 2000, speaking with former U.S. President Jimmy Carter.

Carter later became the first U.S. president – in or out of office – to visit Cuba since its 1959 communist revolution.

“I think Canada has played, historically, an important role as being a buffer, a go-between,” Trudeau said.

NDP foreign affairs critic Paul Dewar said Canadian diplomats deserve thanks for their hard work on the file.

“This is an example of constructive diplomacy, something that Canada is very good at,” Dewar said in a statement.

“Today is a great day for those who believe in engagement as the most effective tool of diplomacy.

We should see more of this constructive approach in Canadian foreign policy.”

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A stronger Cuban economy could eventually benefit Canadaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, say experts Andy Blatchford Canadian Press

OTTAWA xperts believe closer ties between the United States and Cuba will eventually make economic waves for Canadian business, though it remains unclear who stands to benefit â&#x20AC;&#x201C; or lose out.

Steps taken Wednesday toward rebuilding U.S.-Cuba relations will almost certainly lead to greater prosperity for the Caribbean country, which is also an important Canadian trading partner, said Carleton University economics professor Arch Ritter.

A boost in Cubaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s wealth will be a net benefit overall for Canada, said Ritter, an expert on economics in Cuba. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I believe that will help to promote economic expansion and greater prosperity in Cuba,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;When that occurs, thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s going to increase the size of the market for Canadian exports. That should also occur with investment â&#x20AC;&#x201C; the stronger the Cuban economy, the greater the potential for Canadian investment.â&#x20AC;?

But not everyone will welcome the change.

Ritter expects some Canadian firms to suffer from a bigger U.S. presence in Cuba.

He said a number of Canadian exporters will likely be â&#x20AC;&#x153;squeezed outâ&#x20AC;? from an eventual influx of American competition, particularly in key sectors like agricultural products and machinery.

Canada did nearly $1 billion worth of trade with Cuba last year, including more than $465 million in exports. For at least the last five years, the most exported products to Cuba were machinery and parts, followed by cereals.

Canada has maintained ties with Cuba since the U.S. imposed an embargo in 1961. That continued relationship has allowed Canadians to forge business relationships in Cuba without having to contend with as many rivals, especially those from the U.S.

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â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s going to be tougher â&#x20AC;&#x201C; we had a much wider road to travel on in Cuba,â&#x20AC;? said John Graham, an ex-Canadian diplomat who served as a spy for the Central Intelligence Agency in Cuba in the 1960s. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Canada does have a head start, but â&#x20AC;Ś my goodness, this is going to galvanize the investment climate in Cuba. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s going to make Cuba a whole lot more attractive for outside investment.â&#x20AC;?

Sherritt International (TSX:S), which runs a nickel and cobalt mining operation in Cuba, is one Canadian company with deep roots in the island nation.

David Pathe, the firmâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s president and chief executive, said Wednesday that Sherritt is the largest foreign investor in Cuba, where it has had operations for 20 years. Sherritt also produces 20,000 barrels of oil per day and is involved in power generation, he added. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been operating within the confines of the U.S. embargo the entire time weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been doing business there and weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been able to be successful, notwithstanding those restrictions,â&#x20AC;? Pathe said in an interview.

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Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hopeful the shift will eventually give Sherritt access to the U.S. market for products and supplies.

Sherrittâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s shares certainly benefited from the Obama administrationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s announcement Wednesday, as its stock climbed by 60 cents â&#x20AC;&#x201C; or 26.4 per cent â&#x20AC;&#x201C; to $2.87.

With U.S.-Cuban relations warming up, Pathe and his family also hope to benefit on the personal side.

Since the 1990s, American legislation has prevented some executives and officers from foreign companies operating in Cuba, as well as their families, from travelling to the U.S. Pathe, a Canadian citizen, is among those who have been barred from entering the U.S. under the Helms-Burton Act. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It is a strange phenomenon,â&#x20AC;? he said of the ban. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Hopefully, today is a positive step in that direction.â&#x20AC;?

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As Pakistan mourns, focus shifts to how country will address Islamic militancy Rebecca Santana

the North Waziristan operation it vowed it would go after all militants. Doubts remain, though, about how aggressively the army has pursued groups like the Afghan Taliban or the Haqqani network, which the U.S. says is responsible for numerous attacks in Afghanistan.

One key challenge, said Pakistani analyst Mahmood Shah, will be addressing the network of seminaries and religious schools that promote religious hate.

“There should be a zero tolerance policy for extremists and terrorism,” he said.

For example, a religious Anjum Naveed/AP Photo school in Islamabad associated Local residents place candles around portraits of the victims with the Lal Masjid mosque killed in Tuesday’s Taliban attack on a military-run school at named a library this year after a ceremony in Islamabad, Pakistan. slain al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden. cause. Others say the militants are said they had wanted to help Outside the mosque on Thursclean up the school but were not taking up arms against Pakistan day, a group of roughly 60 protestallowed in. A woman in the crowd only because it aligned itself with ers rallied against its ideological held a sign that read: “Down with the U.S.-led war in Afghanistan. support for militancy – a rare Taliban. We demand peace and Still more question whether the instance of people publicly quesprosperity for our land.” militants are Pakistanis at all, sug- tioning religious leaders.

Analysts say the Islamabad gesting the attacks are a “foreign Other Pakistani madrassas, government needs strong public plot” – code words often used which operate with little governsupport to continue the fight to suggest Indian or American ment oversight, also preach a against militants in the country’s involvement. hard-line form of Islam and supnorthwest.

Pakistan has long been accused port the fight against the U.S. in But many Pakistanis view the of playing a double game when it Afghanistan. militants sympathetically, seeing comes to dealing with militancy Another challenge for Pakistan them as fighting for an Islamic – fostering some militant groups will be creating a criminal justice that operate in Afghanistan and system that can properly handle India as a way of maintaining the militant networks. Analysts say the system is deeply flawed. influence there, while pursuing There are few convictions in other militants who target the militancy cases, partly because of Pakistani state. a lack of protection for witnesses When the military launched and judges.

Many praised as a hopeful sign The Yukon home of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif ’s decision Wednesday to lift a moratorium on the death penalty in terrorism cases.

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Pakistani analyst whose Pak Institute for Peace Studies tracks militant organizations, called this ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN a “critical juncture” for people any wonder if the attack that in the country who have been killed 148 people at a Pakisympathetic to Taliban militants stani school will be a watershed or called for talks with them. in the country’s long, conflicted Consensus is building for history with Islamic militancy. military or security action against But Pakistan has had many the militants, Rana said. The impotential turning points in the proved relations between neighwar on terror that at the time were bouring Afghanistan and Pakistan, called game changers. who have accused each other of “If you look back I cannot even harbouring militants, could go a remember how many times one long way to improving security on has held one’s head in disgust and the western border, he said. The said, ‘This can’t happen again,”’ day after the school attack, army said Adil Najam, who heads the chief Gen. Raheel Sharif travelled global studies school at Boston to the Afghan capital, where he University. He cited, for example, asked for that country’s help in the suicide bombing that killed going after the militants. at least 54 people and devastated The Pakistani Taliban claimed the Marriott Hotel in Islamabad responsibility for the assault in 2008.

Tuesday during which a small So it’s easy to be skeptical that cadre of suicide bombers stormed authorities will now wage an alla military-run school in the out war on terror. Still, there are northwestern city of Peshawar. some reasons to believe the latest The Taliban said the attack was in attack could be different – and it’s retaliation for an army operation not just that almost all the dead launched in June in the North were children.

Waziristan tribal area.

“I think this has the potential On Thursday, hundreds of to be a historic moment,” Najam Pakistanis went to the school to said. “I think everyone senses show their support for the dead that.” and wounded and condemn the Mohammed Amir Rana, a militants. One student, Bilal Khan, Associated Press

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Pregnancy and parenting: there’s a Yukon app for that

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Shannon Ryan, a genetic counsellor in the Yukon, is part of a team developing an app to help parents in the territory have healthy babies. Yukon Baby will likely be available for download in February.

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hether you have a bun in the oven or you’re chasing after a crawling toddler, you’ll soon be able to download an all-encompassing app designed to help Yukoners have healthy children.

A team of local physicians, programmers and designers has joined up to create Yukon Baby.

The app was conceived during Hacking Health, an event held in May that drew more than 100 innovators from across western Canada.

The goal was to brainstorm ideas to help improve health care in the North.

Health-care providers had one minute to pitch their ideas, while programmers and designers listened closely and picked their favourite projects to work on.

Shannon Ryan, a genetic counsellor in the Yukon, was part of a team of three that pitched the idea of an app for parents and parentsto-be.

The team, also made up of a physician and midwife, paired up with three local programmers and worked on a rudimentary version of the app for 48 hours that weekend.

Several months later, the app is almost finished and will likely be available in February, said Ryan.

She says it’ll be a great tool for Yukoners because it’ll give them a good idea of where all the closest resources are.

“Sometimes it’s hard for healthcare providers to keep up with all the resources that are out there for parents,” she said.

This app, Ryan explains, is designed to offer all the resources an expectant mother would need to keep her baby healthy throughout

pregnancy.

“There is a lot of turnover in the health-care field, too. When you’re a pregnant mother, everything is new.

“With this tool you’ll know where to get your tests, what you can expect during pregnancy, where can you go.”

Ryan became involved in the project because she wanted to find a way to help decrease the number of birth defects in the territory.

Part of her responsibilities as a genetic counsellor includes birth defect surveillance.

According to a 2013 report on congenital anomalies in Canada, the Yukon has the fourth-highest congenital anomaly rate of any jurisdiction in the country. It also has the third-highest congenital heart defect rate.

That same report states that in Canada, approximately one in 25 infants is diagnosed yearly with

one or more congenital anomalies.

The app will prioritize any community-specific resources.

So if you’re expecting a child in Dawson City, the health centre on Church Street will likely pop up first.

Ryan said they’ve also incorporated fun tools to encourage parents to keep using the app, such as a contraction and a kick counter.

There is also a place to input “baby firsts,” whether it’s a tooth, a step or a word.

Financial support for the app is close to being finalized.

“That’ll be extremely helpful so we don’t have to do this on our own time, and we can get paid for the hours that we put into this,” she said.

The first version of the app, available for free, will be for Android devices and then for iPhones.

Down the road it’ll be trans-

lated into French and eventually, turned into a dedicated website.

“Not everyone has a smartphone,” Ryan said.

“We heard from some of the community nurses that they would prefer to have something computer-based with their clients.”

A soft launch is planned in the early New Year so that the bugs can be worked out and feedback can be gathered ahead of an official launch.

“It’s great to see that our team is super motivated and wants to get this out,” Ryan said.

“The support we’ve received so far has been very positive. Community nurses are seeing this as a tool they can use to engage women.

“Most young women have a smartphone and they’re always on it, anyway.”

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Canadian oilsands exporters narrowly survive vote in European Parliament fell short of the 376 votes required for an absolute majority to overturn the proposed deal.

OTTAWA The fuel quality directive, or anadian oilsands exporters FQD, will go to a ratification narrowly survived a vote vote early in 2015. in the European Parliament “We have the new, wateredthis week that could have once down version of the impleagain penalized Alberta bitumenting measure that will now men as dirty oil. go forward,” David Livingston, A proposed fuel quality an associate in the energy and directive for European Union climate program at the Washrefineries has been the subject ington-based Carnegie Endowof a well-funded Canadian lob- ment for International Peace, bying campaign for more than said in an interview. two years.

“That’s a victory for CanaCanadian negotiators da.” thought the matter was settled For information purposes, this fall when the European Canada’s bitumen remains a Commission backed off and high-carbon source in the FQD, decided all European feedstock but the directive will have no crude would be assigned compractical effect. mon carbon intensity values, Canada successfully argued without singling out higher that current measures of GHG intensity sources such as Cana- emissions are discriminatory, dian bitumen. not taking into consideration However, the European Par- things like venting and flaring liament’s environment commit- practices by some producers, tee flatly rejected the proposal for instance. earlier this month, forcing “Any measure that unfairly Wednesday’s vote. targets the Canadian oilsands, More elected parliamentarwhen oil with the same or ians actually voted to reject the higher GHG emissions from new fuel quality directive than other countries gets a free pass, accept it – 337-325 – but with is discriminatory,” Natural Resources Minister Greg Rickford 48 abstentions, their numbers Bruce Cheadle Canadian Press

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said in a release after the vote.

“Our government will continue advocating for Canadian interests and Canadian jobs. We are encouraged the European Parliament relied on science and the facts in making this decision.”

Livingston noted that because there will likely be a twoyear implementation phase-in period for individual EU states, the proposed directive won’t be fully in effect until at least 2017 – and it is unclear what will happen in the post-2020 period.

As more data is collected about the relative greenhouse gas emissions from different sources of conventional and unconventional oil, Livingston said the EU may revisit its rules.

“The big victory here is they have the infrastructure in place to be able to strengthen and refine this regulation over time,” he said.

The EU’s fuel quality directive has been the subject of intense lobbying since early 2012, when it was proposed that Canadian bitumen be rated 22 per cent more carbon-intensive than conventional oil.

Under European emissions

rules, that dirty oil designation would make Canadian oilsands imports problematic for Europe’s refineries.

The Conservative government allocated $30 million last year to pay for two years of international advocacy and advertising on behalf of Canadian oil and gas producers and

mining interests.

This fall, the first shiploads of Canadian bitumen began arriving in Europe – exports the industry and the Canadian government hope to accelerate with Trans-Canada Corp.’s proposed Energy East pipeline from Alberta to the Atlantic coast.

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Arctic report card paints a less than bright outlook, with more heat absorbed, less reflected Seth Borenstein Associated Press

WASHINGTON he Arctic and its future are looking dimmer every year, a new federal report says.

In the spring and summer of 2014, Earth’s icy northern region lost more of its signature whiteness that reflects the sun’s heat.

It was replaced temporarily with dark land and water that absorbs more energy, keeping yet more heat on already warming planet, according to the Arctic report card issued Thursday.

Spring snow cover in Eurasia reached a record low in April.

Arctic summer sea ice, while not setting a new record, continued a long-term, steady decline. And Greenland set a record in August for the least amount of sunlight reflected in that month, said the peer-reviewed report from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and other agencies.

Overall, the report card written by 63 scientists from 13 countries shows few single-year dramatic changes, unlike other years.

“We can’t expect records every year. It need not be spectacular for the Arctic to continue to be changing,” said report lead editor Martin Jeffries, an Arctic scientist

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for the Office of Naval Research, at a San Francisco news conference Wednesday.

The report illustrates instead a relentless decline in cold, snow and ice conditions and how they combine with each other. And several of those have to do with

how the Arctic reflects sun heat The Arctic’s drop in reflectivity is crucial because “it plays a role like a thermostat in regulating global climate,” Jeffries said, in an interview. As the bright areas are replaced, even temporarily, with dark heat-absorbing dark areas,

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“That has global implications.”

The world’s thermostat setting gets nudged up a bit because more heat is being absorbed instead of reflected, he said.

The Arctic has been affected more by man-made warming than the rest of the globe, Jeffries

and the report said. But it comes in spurts, pauses and drops. Not every year will be a record, Jeffries said.

For example, the Arctic sea ice’s lowest point this year wasn’t as small as 2012 and was only the sixth lowest since 1979. But the last eight years have all had the eight lowest amounts of summer sea ice on record, Jeffries said.

While Greenland’s ice sheet lost 474 billion tons of ice in 2012, it only lost 6 billion tons in the past summer, the report said. While the U.S. East Coast shivered during January’s cold snap from a polar vortex that slipped south, parts of Alaska were 10 degrees Celsius warmer than normal.

Polar bear populations in parts of the Alaska region were shrinking but elsewhere they were more or less stable, the report said.

“Eight years ago, 2014 would have been considered an alarming year,” said University of Colorado ice scientist Ted Scambos, who didn’t contribute to the report.

“With 2007 and 2012 behind us, not so much now. The continued summertime darkening of Greenland, particularly in a year when surface melt did not reach record levels, is worrisome, and sets up the potential for record surface melting in future years.”

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BlackBerry recalls its ‘CrackBerry’ days in hopes customers will respond David Friend Canadian Press

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hile BlackBerry’s latest smartphone might look familiar, chief executive John Chen said Wednesday the new Classic model is hardly a “rehash” of old technology.

The head of the Waterloo, Ont.based company stood before an audience in New York on Wednesday and told them he was responding to requests from some of BlackBerry’s most loyal customers, such as the leaders of major U.S. banks.

“A lot of them pulled out their BlackBerry … and told me ‘Don’t mess around with this thing. Don’t mess around with the keyboard, don’t mess around with the track pad,”’ Chen said.

“I took that from them, I listened intensely and tried to figure out how to get back in the minds of our customers.”

Reaching back to the heyday of the “CrackBerry” was a conscious decision

by Chen to drag BlackBerry users, who have clung to their old and worn BlackBerry Bold and Curve models, into the next generation of the device.

It’s a shift “back to the future,” he told the audience of the media, analysts and some customers.

The Classic is designed to look and work like an updated version of the Bold 9900, which became the company’s best-selling device when it was released in 2011. Some of the most familiar features – including the quick key commands – have been restored to the phone after recent BlackBerry models did away with them.

What’s different is the Classic runs on BlackBerry’s most recent operating system and other important functions, such as the speed of web browsing, have vastly improved.

BlackBerry is selling the device for $499, although Canadian wireless

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BlackBerry is reaching back to its “CrackBerry” heyday in hopes of winning back customers who once were among the smartphone company’s most loyal users.

carriers are offering a discounted price with a two-year contract.

Before Chen took the stage, Blackberry executives turned the spotlight to a handful of celebrities who have professed their love for previous incarnations of the smartphone.

A video collection featured past interview footage with reality show star Kim Kardashian boasting about her BlackBerry addiction and a reference to rapper Drake, who says he writes his songs on the smartphone.

But the most unusual moment was pulled from an archival NBC News

report, which featured Hollywood actor Charlton Heston’s National Rifle Association speech where the late actor famously proclaimed “From my cold, dead hands” while raising a rifle over his head.

An oversized BlackBerry was superimposed over the gun by the news network.

Perhaps the linking of guns with BlackBerrys resonates more with an American audience, but pushing the envelope has become one of Chen’s defining characteristics.

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On Friday, BlackBerry will release its third-quarter financial results, offering the latest insight into whether progress is being made at turning around the money-losing operations of the former technology giant.

Shares of BlackBerry were ahead 2.7 per cent, or 30 cents, to $11.34 Wednesday near midday on the Toronto Stock Exchange.

One of Chen’s top priorities has been rescuing BlackBerry’s reputation with business customers and the Classic model was born from the CEO’s determination to resurrect a phone that he said some customers demanded.

Three years ago, betting BlackBerry’s prospects on a keyboard model was practically heresy as company executives were adamant that BlackBerry’s future was in touchscreens. For awhile, they tried to chase the users who were switching to Apple’s iPhone, Samsung’s Galaxy and other devices.

After the launch of BlackBerry’s Z10 and Q10 devices spiraled into a marketing disaster, the company’s leadership returned to the drawing board.

One of them was to restore features that made its older phones a massive success with customers.

Returning to the Classic model are some familiar features of older BlackBerrys including a “belt” of physical keys placed below the screen that included menu buttons and a small track pad.

What’s different from the older phones is a larger screen and improved

battery life.

Convincing smartphone users that the Classic is anything but a has-been concept will be the biggest challenge, said Max Wolff, chief economist at Manhattan Venture Partners.

“There’s no real razzle-dazzle there to say the least,” Wolff said in an interview.

“The problem is they’re fighting a universal market perception that their devices are kind of washed out.”

BlackBerry has raised a few eyebrows for naming its new device the Classic, which might invoke memories of Coca-Cola’s Classic rebranding as it went into damage-control mode after the failed launch of “New Coke” in 1985.

“Calling this Classic definitely is not a mark on our previous products, but it is meant more to strike up imagery with existing BlackBerry users – it’s a bit of throwback for them,” said Michael Clewley, director of handheld software product management in a recent interview.

“With John (Chen) coming in and taking the reins of BlackBerry … I think he personally really liked the name ‘Classic’ because it was something that brings an image in people’s mind when they say it.”

While BlackBerry hasn’t disclosed pre-order numbers for the latest phone, the company has been aggressive in chasing major contracts with corporations and government.

On Tuesday, Export Development Canada announced US$850 million in financial assistance being given to European telecom giant Vodafone, with the majority of the money being allocated to BlackBerry. Under the fiveyear agreement, Vodafone will spend $750 million on BlackBerry’s handsets, software and support services.

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New York moves to ban fracking over health, economic questions; practice’s critics heartened Mary Esch Associated Press

ALBANY, N.Y. ew York plans to prohibit hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, citing unresolved health issues and dubious economic benefits of the widely used gas-drilling technique and delighting opponents who previously managed to win only local bans.

New York, which overlies part of the gas-rich rock formation that has also led to a drilling boom in nearby states, has banned shale gas development since the state began its environmental review in 2008.

Wednesday’s announcement, though not final, means a ban is all but etched in stone.

“Never before has a state with proven gas reserves banned fracking,” said Deborah Goldberg, an attorney with Earthjustice, adding that the decision “will give courage to elected leaders throughout the country and world: fracking is too dangerous and must not continue.”

Industry representatives expressed disappointment but also have downplayed New York’s potential as a major source of natural gas.

“We are very disappointed that it appears the governor is unwilling to be a leader and is going to pass the buck at the expense of New Yorkers,” said Jack Gerard, president of the American Petroleum Institute.

“This technology has been used for over 65 years in the United States. It’s been demonstrated repeatedly after drilling millions of wells that we’re able to do it while protecting the environment and protecting the people.”

Environmental Commissioner Joe Martens said Wednesday that he was recommending a ban, and Gov. Andrew Cuomo, a Democrat, said he would defer to Martens and Acting Health Commissioner Howard Zucker on the decision.

The Department of Environmental Conservation will put out a final environmental impact statement early next year, Martens said, and after that he’ll issue an order prohibiting fracking.

Zucker and Martens on Wednesday summarized environmental and health reviews that concluded fracking carried risks that haven’t been studied enough.

The drilling boom in the Marcellus Shale, a rock formation underlying southern New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia, was made possible by high-volume hydraulic fracturing, which releases gas from rock by injecting wells with chemically treated water

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at high pressure.

The technique has generated tens of billions of dollars in industry profits and landowner royalties, and has reduced energy bills and fuel imports. But it has also brought concerns and sparked protests over air and water pollution, earthquakes, property devaluation, and truck traffic.

Zucker said he had identified “significant public health risks” and “red flag” health issues that require long-term studies before fracking can be called safe. He likened fracking to secondhand smoke, which wasn’t fully understood as a health risk until many years of scientific study were done.

Martens noted the low price of natural gas, the high local cost of industry oversight, and the large areas that would be off limits to shale gas development because of setback requirements, water supply protections and local prohibitions. Those factors, he said, combine to make fracking less economically beneficial than anticipated.

Even if drilling were allowed in New York, it wouldn’t likely take off anytime soon because of the uncertainty around regulations and legal challenges, and the huge amount of promising drilling locations that remain in fracking-friendly neighbour Pennsylvania, said David Spigelmyer, president of the industry group Marcellus Shale Coalition.

The location of the rock entices producers because of its proximity to the major demand centres of New York City and New England, which is paying more for gas because of delivery constraints. But the uncertainty remains too high to commit.

In states where fracking is not yet allowed or is happening but subject to criticism, New York’s move excited some antidrilling activists.

“The more fracking expands, the more opposition grows,” said Sharon Wilson, of the group Earthworks, who has organized anti-fracking activists in Texas, California and Colorado. “Industry is its own worst enemy because they continue to deny the impacts.”

Fracking supporters decried the New York move. Karen Moreau, executive director of New York’s branch of the American Petroleum Institute, said the Cuomo administration is denying landowners the right to develop their mineral resources.

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U.S. EPA administrator and President Obama recognize the benefits of fracking, and yet the Cuomo administration simply did not want to anger their activist base,” Moreau said.

Cuomo said he is anticipating lawsuits being filed “every which way from Sunday.”

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Tranquillizing, handling polar bears doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t hurt them: study Bob Weber Canadian Press

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newly published study says shooting polar bears with tranquillizer darts, handling them and leaving them with radio collars doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t do any lasting harm â&#x20AC;&#x201C; even if a bear is captured as many as 10 times.

Despite long-standing concerns from many Inuit and some scientists about the effect on the bears, the U.S. Geological Survey study concludes the animals are moving normally within five days after being picked up. â&#x20AC;&#x153;These shorter-term, postcapture effects do not appear to have translated into any long-term effects on body condition, reproduction or cub

survival,â&#x20AC;? the study concludes. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Additionally, collaring had no effect on polar bear recovery rates, body condition, reproduction or cub survival.â&#x20AC;?

Capture studies have long been controversial in the North.

Some earlier research has suggested using such techniques to study the bears harms them. Inuit hunters say the approach injures the bears, leaves them with chemical residues and shows disrespect to a culturally important animal. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This intrusive method is not acceptable to the Inuit,â&#x20AC;? said James Eetoolook of Nunavut Tunngavik Inc., which monitors the Nunavut land claim.

The question has grown

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A polar bear looks towards Hudson Bay near Churchill, Man. in 2007.

in urgency as climate change increases pressure to understand whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s happening to bear populations.

The new study uses data collected from the South Beaufort Sea population, which Canada shares with the United States.

It drew its conclusions from the results of 3,800 captures between 1970 and 2013. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We had a great opportunity to look at the long term to see if any animals are being negatively affected, and we are very pleased to report we couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t find any evidence like that,â&#x20AC;? said Steve Amstrup, the studyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s lead author.

Researchers found 90 per cent of the bears reached their previous level of movement and activity within five days of being captured.

Body mass didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t seem to be different between bears that had been captured before and those that were being tranquillized for the first time. That held for bears that had been

darted and studied repeatedly, up to 10 times.

Litter size didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t seem to be affected if the mother had been previously captured. Cubs born to previously captured sows were the same size as those born to non-captured moms.

Nor was the mama bearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ability to look after her young affected by wearing a radio collar.

As well, attaching radio collars didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t seem to have any different impact than ear tags or glue-on transmitters.

Eetoolook finds the conclusions â&#x20AC;&#x153;hard to believe.â&#x20AC;?

Collars, he said, inhibit the bearsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; movement and make it harder for them to hunt seals through the ice or in open water. Hunters have found dead bears wearing collars, he said.

Scientists should find a more modern way to study the animals and lean more about Inuit traditional knowledge, Eetoolook suggested. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Inuit respect wildlife,

so therefore they donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t handle wild animals. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not going to agree to anything that affects the lives of polar bears.â&#x20AC;?

Steve Pinksen of Nunavutâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Environment Department said the territory has been moving toward less handling of bears during its research.

Amstrup said aerial surveys only provide a snapshot of bear numbers and donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t give any information on the condition of the animals. Genetic analysis of hair samples can yield valuable data â&#x20AC;&#x201C; as long as the samples are uncontaminated, from single individuals and collected over a long enough period. â&#x20AC;&#x153;By capturing animals, over time, you get an opportunity to learn the details of the sex and age composition, the health of the animals, the changes in the animalâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s growth over time, whether or not they reproduce and how many times,â&#x20AC;? Amstrup said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;All those things you simply canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t get by any other method.â&#x20AC;?

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First Nations angry: NAFTA environmental body won’t probe Canadian salmon farms Bob Weber

had voted against looking into accusations that Canada violated its own laws by allowing fish MONTREAL farms to harm wild salmon stocks onservationists and First Na- through the spread of parasites. tions are angry that NAFTA’s Canada and Mexico voted environmental watchdog has against the investigation, while rejected a recommendation to the United States wanted to investigate Canada’s handling of pursue it. salmon farms along the British Canada argued that there Columbia coast. is already a lawsuit before the “I am deeply disappointed courts in B.C. The commission’s in Canada continuing to put rules don’t allow investigations wild salmon at risk,” said Chief into matters that are already the Bob Chamberlin of the Kwiksubject of legal proceedings. wasutinuxw Haxwa’mis First The commission’s staff had Nation. “This process may have already concluded there was ended, but our struggle to safeguard wild salmon will not falter for a moment.”

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enough evidence against Canada to merit a deeper examination.

They argued that the B.C. lawsuit is substantially different than what they were looking into.

But Canada said staff had no right to consider for themselves whether the legal issues were the same. They should only take direction from a member country, it argued.

The vote, which was taken five months after it was supposed to have been, ends the joint complaint from the First Nation, the Center for Biological Diversity, the Pacific Coast Wild Salmon

Society and the Pacific Coast Federation of Fishermen’s Associations.

Canada is facing another vote on an investigation into its environmental practices. Environmental groups and individuals say Canada is breaking the Fisheries Act by allowing an unknown amount of tailings from the oilsands to seep into groundwater.

The deadline for that vote was supposed to have been Oct. 27.

The commission was created in 1995 to win environmental support for the North American

Free Trade Agreement by ensuring the deal wouldn’t boost commerce at the expense of clean air, water or land. Commission staff investigate public complaints that Canada, the U.S. or Mexico aren’t living up to their laws and they can recommend an investigation called a “factual record” if they find enough grounds.

The investigation only proceeds if a majority of member nations approve it.

The commission has little or no enforcement power even if it does conclude a nation isn’t living up to its environmental laws.

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Hockey dynamics cramped benches, young players, shared water ideal for mumps regimen was adopted in Canada around 1997, Henry said.

Even at two doses, the mumps TORONTO vaccine is not the most effective fficials of the National vaccine on the market. During a Hockey League and the 2011 outbreak in British Columgeneral public may find it unexbia, about five per cent of the pected to see chipmunk-cheeked 132 cases were people who had hockey stars who have conreceived two doses of vaccine. tracted mumps. But to public â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not a perfect vaccine. health experts, an outbreak in And there are some people who this setting is not surprising, will have two doses and will still given the ages of the athletes get sick with it. If theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been and the conditions under which exposed and theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve had a high they play. level of exposure, then they may At least five NHL teams have not have enough antibody to reported 15 players who have protect them,â&#x20AC;? Henry said. contracted the mumps virus.

Wallace said two doses of The most high profile is Pittsmumps vaccine protect about burgh Penguins captain Sidney 88 per cent of people from the Crosby, captured in photographs mumps virus. â&#x20AC;&#x153;So itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s easy to with one swollen cheek. Late imagine if youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve got 100 playTuesday, the Penguins confirmed ers and staff who are basically forward Beau Bennett is also constantly together during the infected. season, that if theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re all exposed Teams have been scrambling you could potentially see 10, 12, to get their players revaccinated 15 getting it.â&#x20AC;? against the virus. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a smart But keep in mind todayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Darren Calabrese/The Canadian Press move; mumps outbreaks can last hockey players are from the coPittsburgh Penguinsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Sidney Crosby lines up for a face off during NHL hockey action against for months if the virus gets into hort that typically received only the Toronto Maple Leafs in Toronto in November. a group of susceptible people. one vaccination. At one dose, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Given that theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going the vaccine is thought to protect inflammation in the salivary body response, and the vaccine mumps virus. to continue to be exposed to glands found in the cheek, There are the cramped quar- between 60 and 90 per cent of doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t protect in 100 per cent each other with their very busy people, Henry said. under the tongue or under the ters on the bench and in the of cases. schedule, this could fester for Containing a mumps outjawbone, leading to the characlocker-room. The shared water As well, the incubation period a while,â&#x20AC;? Dr. Greg Wallace, a break can be tough. Wallace said teristic facial swelling. Both sides bottles. Players coughing or of the disease is long â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 12 to 25 mumps expert from the U.S. an infected person is contagious of the face can be affected, but it gasping to recover their breath Centers for Disease Control, said days. So there could be playa day or two before he or she isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t uncommon to see only one after the exertion of a breakaway ers now who are infected but Tuesday of the NHL outbreak. shows symptoms of being ill. side puff up. or a busy shift.

The nose-to-nose unaware of that fact, meaning Vaccinating NHL teams That means you can isolate a The once common viral jostling that can be the foreplay more players could be sidelined should help to shorten the hockey player once you know he disease infected most people in of a fi ght. with mumps over the next three length of this outbreak. But it has mumps. But by then he may childhood before a mumps vacâ&#x20AC;&#x153;Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve got this group of weeks. takes several weeks for the vachave already spread the virus to cine was introduced in the early people who are relatively susThe mumps virus can cause cine to generate a good anti1970s. ceptible given their age and then a teammate or an opponent.

Also, the severity of sympThe use of vaccine has reyou introduce a virus into that toms varies, with some people duced the number of mumps population,â&#x20AC;? said Deeks, who MEET THE showing few or barely any cases in Canada by about 99 per is the Ontario agencyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s medical symptoms. Wallace said it is not cent, said Dr. Gaston De Serres, director for immunization and known if people with very mild an infectious diseases expert vaccine preventable disease. mumps are as contagious as with Quebecâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s provincial public But why are the NHLers people with more severe symphealth agency. relatively susceptible? After all, BOOK+CD SIGNING AT MACâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S FIREWEED toms.

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by Roy Ness or both testicles â&#x20AC;&#x201C; happens in them in Nova Scotia. not mumps. about one-third of mumps cases Contemporary outbreaks Anyone born before 1970 is in adult males, he said. often happen in groups of assumed to have had mumps Many people believe mumps people who have close interin childhood because the virus that involve orchitis can lead to actions. University campuses circulated routinely then. And infertility. But that is rarely true. have been the site or source of even those born between 1970 â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s something that people talk many outbreaks in recent years, and 1980 are thought to have about, but its impact on fertility, said Dr. Bonnie Henry, British pretty good protection. They itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not big,â&#x20AC;? said Wallace.

Columbiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s deputy provincial would have received a dose of In some cases, mumps can health officer. vaccine, but they may too have lead to permanent deafness â&#x20AC;&#x201C; The virus is spread through gotten the mumps â&#x20AC;&#x201C; the virus $%T saliva droplets, so activities like still circulated during that time. generally in one ear, on the side Jackfish Girl and where swelling occurred. It can kissing or sharing a cigarette or After 1980, though, mumps Hopeless Romantic also trigger meningitis â&#x20AC;&#x201C; inflammarijuana joint can propel the became rarer as the effect of

by Claire Ness virus through groups of stuvaccination programs took hold, mation of the membranes of the brain and spinal cord â&#x20AC;&#x201C; and dents, she said.

Deeks explained. on rare occasions, encephalitis, Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s easy to see the opportuniBut in the early days of which is inflammation of the ties for spread among hockey mumps vaccination, it was brain. players. In fact, Dr. Shelley thought one dose would suf0/ ."*/ 453&&5 t 01&/ %":4 " 8&&, 6/5*- 1.

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Japan McDonald’s limits orders of fries as US labour strife leads to shortfall of spuds McDonald’s outlet on Wednesday.

“The kids like the bigger sizes, like M and L, so it’s a shame,” said busiTOKYO nessman Kenichi Kuniki, 45. nly small fries with that? McJapan’s locally grown potatoes are Donald’s in Japan is limiting the mostly eaten fresh, rather than as fries, serving size of fries as stocks run short and production has been declining for due to labour disruptions on the U.S. years. But Japan enforces strict limits West Coast on where and how fresh potatoes are McDonald’s began rationing its imported. fries Wednesday morning. It said proThe powerful dockworkers union longed labour negotiations with port and multinational shipping lines have workers on the West Coast have made been negotiating a new contract for it difficult to meet demand despite an about 20,000 West Coast workers. In emergency airlift of 1,000 tons of pro- the meantime, labour disruptions have cessed spuds and an extra shipment slowed shipments and driven costs from the U.S. East Coast by sea. higher.

Frozen french fries – ready for the Japanese are also facing a shortage deep-fryer – are a leading U.S. export.

The spuds are partially cooked and cut before shipping.

Japanese consume more than 300,000 tons of french fries a year, mostly at fast-food restaurants, and largely sourced from imports of frozen, processed potatoes from America, according to U.S. figures. Shipments in December are expected to be just over half the normal level, Japanese newspapers reported.

But demand is rising as convenience stores are increasingly also selling fries.

McDonald’s has 3,100 outlets in Japan. It cut prices for set meals to compensate for including only small fries.

Customers expressed disappointment as they left a downtown Tokyo Elaine Kurtenbach Associated Press

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of butter that has prompted grocery stores to limit shoppers to one or two packages apiece. That shortage stems from declining domestic production plus trade barriers and other restrictions that limit imports.

The restrictions are meant to ensure that local farmers who face high costs here are protected from foreign competition, to ensure Japan maintains some self-sufficiency in its food supply, but supply doesn’t always meet demand.

“It’s a bit sad,” said Hiroko Inomata, 34, clutching the bag of small fries and a teriyaki burger she bought for lunch. “But it is so that everyone can have some.”

Eugene Hoshiko/AP Photo

A small fries is seen at a McDonald’s restaurant in Tokyo.

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Impose health regulations on prostitutes, run industry like a business: report Mike Blanchfield Canadian Press

OTTAWA he Canadian Public Health Association is calling on the government to regulate the sex industry as a business with rules to protect the safety of prostitutes.

In a position paper released last week, the association says the world’s so-called oldest profession should be regulated under existing occupational health and safety regulations.

It says that would help deal with some of the root causes of prostitution, such as poverty and homelessness.

“There are indications that a public health approach based on harm reduction and addressing the social determinants of health may provide the tools needed to address the underlying factors that result in participation in the sex trade, and vulnerability to human trafficking and violence,” says the report.

The report comes after Canada’s controversial new prostitution law went into effect last week after the Supreme Court ruled that the old law violated the safety rights of prostitutes.

More than 60 groups across the country have called for a repeal of the law, which criminalizes the purchase of sex, along with advertising and some forms of communication.

The government’s new prostitution law has ignited a sweeping debate in the country over whether the sex trade should be legalized.

The House of Commons and the Senate held public hearings on the proposed new bill this year, and heard often emotional testimony from a wide range of witnesses, more than 100 in all.

The testimony laid bare a bitter divide, often among sex workers themselves, over whether prostitutes are victims or whether they are making a free and valid career choice.

The government considers prostitution a crime against women, and has said its ultimate goal is to see it stamped out entirely.

The government also an-

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nounced $20 million over five years to help prostitutes leave the trade. Friday’s report called for “meaningful, appropriately resourced programs” towards exit strategies, to help prostitutes get out of the business.

Numerous witnesses, including Manitoba’s attorney general, told the Commons and Senate hearings that the current level of government funding was essentially a drop in the bucket.

Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne added her voice to the debate this week, saying she has grave concern about the new law.

The health association’s new report on Friday says “the current approaches to managing sex work by criminalizing either the purchase or sale of sex do not address the root causes for entry into or the results of sex work.”

The report says sex workers have a higher incidence of HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases. Researchers in Toronto, Barrie, and Oshawa found that many sex workers didn’t tell health professionals how they earn a living because of a fear of discrimination “and believing that it was not relevant to their visit.”

The report called for a “public health approach to sex work in Canada based on the principles of social justice, attention to human rights and equity, evidenceinformed policy and practice, and addressing the underlying determinants of health.”

It said such an approach would “place health promotion, health protection, population health surveillance, and the prevention of death, disease, injury and disability as the central tenet of all related initiatives.”

It also pointed out – as have many – that aboriginal women

are over-represented in the sex trade, and recommended special attention be paid to dealing with issues specific to them.

“The intergenerational trauma among First Nations and Inuit people resulting from residential schools has led to the destruction of social supports and family structures,” the report said.

“This intergenerational trauma and the resultant poverty have been identified as a root cause for sex work and the disproportionately high number of First Nations, Inuit and Metis sex workers.”

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New medical pot regime sees quick growth, but beset by complaints

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a dozen or more Tylenol 3 pills a day, but they caused unpleasant side effects and werenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t completely effective.

About two and a half years ago, he received a prescription for medical marijuana, which he ordered from Health Canada. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t feel like Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m drugged out or stoned (like I did with) the Tylenol 3; Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m actually more active and social,â&#x20AC;? says Simpson, 34, who works as a photographer in the Maritimes. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s really changed my life as far as day-to-day routine goes.â&#x20AC;?

Simpson is among tens of thousands of Canadians who have used medical marijuana legally since 2001, and, like many of those patients, he was forced earlier this year to adjust to a massive overhaul of the system.

The federal government implemented new rules prohibiting patients from growing their own pot and instead restricting production and sale to a new collection of

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But the system has been beset by complaints of low supply and high prices. Some commercial producers have long waiting lists and are plagued by frequent sellouts, and approvals for new operations to fill the gap have been slow.

Simpson initially signed up for Toronto-based Mettrum, but he said the company was often sold out of the strain he needed. He is now on the waiting list for OrganiGram, based in Moncton, N.B., and in the meantime he’s been using grey-market marijuana dispensaries.

Ottawa introduced the previous medical marijuana regime following a court decision in 2000 that ordered it to provide access to the drug.

About 38,000 patients received authorizations under that system, most of whom either chose to grow at home or asked someone else to grow it for them. Several thousand bought directly from Health Canada, which sold a single strain for $5 a gram.

The previous regime was repealed on March 31 of this year, leaving fledging commercial producers the only official option. However, a Federal Court judge issued an injunction that has allowed many patients to continue growing their own until a trial examining the updated rules in the new year.

There are currently 15 companies licensed to produce and sell medical marijuana; eight others are licensed to produce the drug but not to sell it.

Prospective suppliers must meet a list of strict conditions, including rigorous security requirements and measures to control odours.

Denis Arsenault, CEO of OrganiGram, says the regula-

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“It’s been a very good experience; when they come in to do their inspections, it’s very clear they want us to succeed,” says Arsenault.

“Everybody is better off if a patient has access to their medicine, if there is a steady, regulated supply.”

OrganiGram has a wait list for new patients, but Arsenault says the company hopes to eliminate that soon.

Health Canada says about 13,700 patients were registered under the new system as of Oct. 31. That’s an increase from about 5,100 in April and almost 8,000 in June.

Patients with a doctor’s prescription place their orders directly with the licensed producer of their choice. The program is limited to dried marijuana; producers cannot sell other forms of pot, such as edible products or oils.

Costs range from as low as $2.50 per gram to as high as $15, depending on the producer and the strain, but most are between $8 and $10.

Those grams have added up: Health Canada says 1,400 kilograms – or 1.4 million grams - were sold by licensed producers between Jan. 1 and Oct. 31.

There have only been three new licenses to sell marijuana issued since the summer, the most recent being MariCann, located in southern Ontario, which was added in early December.

As of Nov. 24, there were 301 applications still being assessed by Health Canada. Of those, 13 were awaiting a prelicense inspection – the final step before being approved.

Sundial Growers, which wants to produce medical marijuana near Airdrie, Alta., just north of Calgary, is in the

queue.

Company president Stan Swiatek says he asked Health Canada for a final inspection in May. He has received a few requests for more information, but so far no one from the department has shown up and he has no idea when they will.

“It’s just sort of random – they arbitrarily decide which (application) to deal with,” says Swiatek, a former cucumber grower. “The reality is, we just have to sit and wait.”

In Nanaimo, B.C., Tilray says it’s currently operating at 20 per cent capacity because Health Canada hasn’t approved it to use all of its available space. A spokesman says the company has repeatedly asked Health Canada to inspect and approve the added production space, but there has been no response.

Health Canada says it does not track waiting lists at individual producers, though the department says there is adequate supply across the entire system. In October, for example, commercial growers produced 450 kilograms of marijuana, while only 240 kilograms were sold, the department says.

The federal government’s comments on the issue have largely been limited to pointing out marijuana is not an approved medical treatment.

The government discourages anyone from consuming marijuana and points out it only allows medical cannabis because it was forced to by the courts.

Health Minister Rona Ambrose did not make herself available for an interview, but her office issued a written statement that repeated the government’s previous statements.

Neil Closner, CEO of MedReLeaf, based in Markham, Ont., says the government’s

talking points appear to ignore the reality of patients, who say marijuana helps with a list of ailments.

“It certainly doesn’t help when messages are coming out from the government that it is not an approved drug and that it’s bad for you,” said Closner.

“There is mounting evidence – and it will only continue to grow – that this product is beneficial for many people.”

Producers are prohibited from making medical claims to patients. Last month, Health Canada sent most licensed growers letters ordering them to remove content from their websites beyond product names, price and cannabinoid content.

Closner says prohibiting producers from guiding consumers to particular strains based on their medical needs will only hurt patients.

“It’s our belief that patients need that information in order to make informed choices

about which products to use,” he says.

Canada’s shift to a commercial market comes as federal politicians debate the larger issue of prohibition.

Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau has been pilloried by the Conservatives for supporting legalization.

It also comes as several American jurisdictions establish recreational pot industries.

Voters in Alaska, Oregon and the District of Columbia approved ballot initiatives to legalize marijuana possession earlier this year, while Colorado and Washington state have already legalized the drug. Another 18 states have decriminalized possession of small amounts.

In addition, medical marijuana is available in 23 states.

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Very personalized medicine: Some cancer patients are using mouse â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;avatarsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; to test drugs

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Most mice are white-haired females with beady red eyes, but others are hairless. Some live alone while others climb over one another and sleep in small piles.

All have easy access to food and water, and many bear signs of the tumour graft â&#x20AC;&#x201C; a shaved portion

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Patients have a tumour sample sent to Champions, which charges $1,500 to bank it, plus $2,500 for each drug tested in groups of mice implanted with bits of the tumour. Most patients try three to five drugs and spend $10,000 to $12,000, said Championsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; chief medical officer, Dr. Angela Davies.

Youtie spent $30,000 â&#x20AC;&#x153;because I want them to test all the possible drugs,â&#x20AC;? even some for other types of cancer.

That approach helped Yaron Panov, a 59-year-old Toronto man diagnosed four years ago with liposarcoma, a soft-tissue cancer. No specific drugs were recommended, and â&#x20AC;&#x153;I was given six months to live,â&#x20AC;? he said.

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â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not a lot of scienceâ&#x20AC;? to say how well this works, and it should be considered highly excientists often test drugs in perimental, said Dr. Len Lichtenmice. Now some cancer pafeld, deputy chief medical officer tients are doing the same â&#x20AC;&#x201C; with of the American Cancer Society. the hope of curing their own There are some early encourdisease. aging reports, he said. One study They are paying a private lab of 70 patients found the mice to breed mice that carry bits of generally reflected how well patheir own tumors so treatments tients responded to various drugs. can be tried first on the customBut there is no evidence that ized rodents. The idea is to see using mice is any better than care which drugs might work best on based on medical guidelines or a specific personâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s specific cancer. the gene tests that many patients The mice may help patients get now to help pick drugs. make what can be very hard Mouse testing costs $10,000 choices under difficult circumor more, and insurers donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t stances. Studies can suggest a cover it. It takes several months, certain chemotherapy may help, so patients usually have to start but patients wonder whether it therapy before mouse results are will work for them. Often thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s in. more than one choice, and if â&#x20AC;&#x153;I do see promise, but itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s very the first one fails, a patient may time-consuming, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s very exbe too sick to try another. So pensive. For the average patient, hundreds of people have made standard care is going to be the â&#x20AC;&#x153;mouse avatarsâ&#x20AC;? over the last few way to go,â&#x20AC;? said Alana Welm, a years to test chemotherapies. cancer researcher at the Oklahoâ&#x20AC;&#x153;What Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m doing is personalma Medical Research Foundation. ized cancer treatment. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the She gave a talk on mouse avatars wave of the future,â&#x20AC;? said Eileen recently at the San Antonio Breast Youtie, a Miami woman using Cancer Symposium. It was the mice to guide care for her hardthird major cancer meeting this to-treat form of breast cancer. year to feature work on customâ&#x20AC;&#x153;Part of this is trying to eliminate ized cancer mice. chemos that are not going to Several labs breed these mice work on me. I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want to waste but the main supplier to patients time taking them and poison my has been Champions Oncology, body.â&#x20AC;? a company based in Hackensack, But there are no guarantees the New Jersey, that also operates in London, Tel Aviv and Singapore. mice will help.

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endure side effects, said Panov, whose cancer is in remission.

Reuven Moser, a 71-year-old man from Tel Aviv, Israel, said his avatar mice confirmed that drugs prescribed for colon cancer that had spread to his liver were a good option. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Most of the time the oncologists want to follow a protocol, but they donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know how it will affect the patient,â&#x20AC;? Moser said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It was very reassuringâ&#x20AC;? to see the mice respond, he said. Moserâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s mice were bred in February and he is still undergoing treatment.

Dr. Andrew Gaya of Leaders in Oncology Care, a private clinic in London, helped lead the 70-patient study of avatar mice and gave results at a cancer conference in September. It looked back at how well mice performed in patients whose outcomes from treatment were already known.

About 70 per cent of the time, tests in the mice suggested something that turned out to have helped the patients, he said. And if something had not worked in the mice it almost never worked in a patient.

Mice have some drawbacks, said Dr. Benjamin Neel, director of research at Princess Margaret Cancer Centre in Toronto and a spokesman for the American Association for Cancer Research.

The tumour grafts are under the mouse skin â&#x20AC;&#x201C; not in places where the cancer normally occurs, such as the pancreas or lungs, and therefore donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t reflect the human tumourâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s environment. The mice also have highly impaired immune systems so they can tolerate the human tumors.

That means they donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t reflect how a personâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s immune system would respond to a treatment and

cannot be used to test immunotherapies. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Even if it turns out these have real value,â&#x20AC;? theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re likely to be eclipsed by newer advances, such as ways to grow tumour cells in a lab dish that take only a few weeks, he said.

For now, mice seem the best bet, along with gene testing and her doctorsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; advice, said Youtie, the Miami woman with breast cancer. Her mouse testing suggested that either of two drugs would be effective, so she chose the one thought to have fewer side effects on the heart. She recently finished chemotherapy, is about to finish radiation treatment, and said she does not feel guilty about using the mice. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Animal abuse? I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t look at it that way,â&#x20AC;? she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not testing cosmetics. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s trying to save my life.â&#x20AC;?

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Torontoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Eaton Centre in June Such verdicts were delivered fence,â&#x20AC;? he said. kind of make a mockery of the Both pleaded not guilty and 2012. Deliberations continued, in 268 cases across Canada in Lawyers must also overcome system. In fact, nothing could be however, in the case of Luka Rocco sought to be found not crimin2011-12, the latest data available, further from the truth,â&#x20AC;? said David jurorsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; lack of psychiatric expertise ally responsible by way of mental Magnotta, who is charged with compared with 280 the previous and possible misgivings about the Butt, a Toronto barrister who has first-degree murder and four other disorder. year, the data show. In 2005-06, argued for not-criminally-respon- defence, particularly in cases inâ&#x20AC;&#x153;The widespread perception is offences in the slaying and disthe earliest year studied, there were volving horrific crimes or premedisible verdicts on behalf of several memberment of Chinese engineer- that this is a get-out-of-jail-free 284. tation, Butt said. clients. card that anybody can play and ing student Jun Lin in May 2012.

They represent a small fraction â&#x20AC;&#x153;Whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s really difficult to wrap Unlike a standard defence, of more than 300,000 total crimoneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s head around is the fact that a which only requires undermining inal cases processed by Canadian person can engage in very thoughtthe Crownâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s case to the point of courts each year. Homicides make ful, deliberate, careful conduct reasonable doubt, lawyers pushup roughly one per cent of cases in planning and carrying out a ing for a finding of not criminally resulting in an NCR verdict, while responsible must prove their client killing and still be in a completely major assault accounts for about meets a â&#x20AC;&#x153;very significant psychiat- altered reality,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The lay 20 per cent, the study shows. perception is that if youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re floridly ric threshold,â&#x20AC;? Butt said.

Once someone is found not mentally ill then youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re incapable â&#x20AC;&#x153;The kinds of NCR defences criminally responsible, they are that succeed are when people com- of any thoughtful action.â&#x20AC;? managed by review boards â&#x20AC;&#x201C; inA Supreme Court of Canada mit terrible acts under the honest dependent tribunals made up of at and truly held but completely psy- decision in 2000 found a â&#x20AC;&#x153;real least five people, including at least chotic belief that the person theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re dangerâ&#x20AC;? that juries could be one psychiatrist. â&#x20AC;&#x153;unduly skepticalâ&#x20AC;? of what is often killing is an alien whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s invading Each year people in most NCR perceived as an easily fabricated the Earth and theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re the only cases go before their provinceâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s defence. person who can stop this terrible review board. It can order that But defence lawyers arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t the scourge. So, completely disconthe person remain detained in a nected from reality in a very florid only ones to push for a verdict of hospital, with varying levels of not criminally responsible, espeand pronounced way,â&#x20AC;? he said. privileges, it can release the person â&#x20AC;&#x153;If you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have that and you cially for offences that incur little on a conditional discharge or order jail time, Butt said. donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have a reputable forensic an absolute discharge. â&#x20AC;&#x153;For charges likely to attract psychiatrist who will come to court Absolute discharges are granted only a short sentence, the defence and say that, you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t even have only when the board finds the is naturally disinclined to run the the beginnings of an NCR deperson is not a â&#x20AC;&#x153;significant threatâ&#x20AC;? to public safety.

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Clinic closure in New Brunswick an unlikely catalyst for change on abortion … That leads to complacency.

That leads to a sense that the government can make decision or abortion rights activfor us and not bother asking ists in New Brunswick, what we think.” the announcement in April As the issue gained traction that the Morgentaler Clinic in through the summer, other Fredericton would soon shut abortion rights advocates came down marked a low ebb for the forward to remind Canadians movement. about New Brunswick’s lowHowever, it actually proved key, hardline approach. to be an unlikely catalyst for At one point, the president change. of the U.S.-based National The closure, caused by the Abortion Federation, Vicki province’s steadfast opposition Saporta, said New Brunswick’s to paying for abortions in prirestrictions were tougher than vate clinics, suddenly focused those found in any U.S. state. national attention on New Unmoved, then-premier DaBrunswick’s uniquely restrictive vid Alward said the status quo approach to offering the mediwas fine with him. cal procedure.

Liberal Leader Brian Gallant In the weeks that followed, had been calling for a review younger abortion rights activof the regulation, but in July ists were galvanized into action, he promised that as premier he turning to social media to would move swiftly “to ensure rally support and heading to we are respecting a woman’s the streets to organize protest right to choose.” marches.

Gallant, whose Liberals were elected to govern on Sept.

“It made national headlines 22, stunned the province last … and the fundraising just shot Andrew Vaughan/The Canadian Press month when he announced his up like crazy because suddenly, Brian Gallant, whose New Brunswick Liberals were elected to govern in September, cabinet was amending Regupeople knew about it,” says announced his cabinet was amending Regulation 84-20 so that women would no longer lation 84-20 so that women Joyce Arthur, executive director need the approval of two physicians to have abortions. would no longer need the apof the Abortion Rights Coaliproval of two physicians to have tion of Canada.

Court of Canada ruling that de- ericton, says it’s important to While access to abortion is “I think it really shocked the hardly uniform across Canada, criminalized abortion in 1988, remember that New Brunswick abortions and the procedures would not have to be done by government.” wasn’t the only province to though critics said otherwise. those restrictions have not apspecialists.

Under Regulation 84-20 of Arthur says that even among restrict access to abortions after plied for years in other prov“The (Morgentaler) clinic the province’s Medical Services the Supreme Court decision. inces. P.E.I. is the only province abortion rights activists across was essentially serving as a Payment Act, women seekBut the restrictions in other Canada, New Brunswick’s apthat doesn’t offer abortion crutch for a system that was ing publicly funded abortions proach to abortion had attract- provinces fell after a long series not respecting a women’s right services, preferring instead to have to get written permission of court cases. from two doctors to certify the pay to have the procedure done ed little scrutiny in recent years.

By contrast, New Brunswick to choose,” the premier told a “It was really hard to get in other provinces. news conference Nov. 26. procedure as medically neceslawmakers clung to the status people to understand how seri- quo, fighting in court against Successive governments in “Regardless of our personal sary. As well, abortions can only ous a problem this was,” she New Brunswick – both Liberal views, we need to respect the be performed in one of two abortion rights crusader Dr. says. and Progressive Conservative reproductive rights of women hospitals by obstetricians and Henry Morgentaler even after Joanne Wright, a professor of his death in 2013.

– had long stood firm in their that have been confirmed by gynecologists. the Supreme Court of Canada.” political science at the Universiresolve that their rules were in Those requirements will be “New Brunswick was absoStill, abortion rights advoty of New Brunswick in Fredline with a landmark Supreme eliminated as of Jan. 1. lutely resolute about defending cates say they remain concerned its policy,” says Joanna Erdman, an expert in health law at by Gallant’s decision not to exDalhousie University’s Schulich tend public funding to private clinics.

School of Law in Halifax. “The “Maybe they were being a government was willing to chalbit timid, wanting to take just lenge this to the wall.” one step at a time,” says Arthur.

While it’s clear that religion played a role – the province has “They should be challenged on a large Roman Catholic popula- this.”

Peter Ryan, executive direction – Wright says there were tor of New Brunswick Right to other factors at work.

Until recently, the province’s Life, says he wasn’t surprised We know that this time of year can be difficult for those who have experienced small population did not have a by Gallant’s move, suggesting the loss of loved ones. Although it is a time of celebration and family, it is also the premier is just following critical mass among reproduca time for reflection and memories, and many emotions may be experienced. the platform floated earlier this tive rights advocates, she says. year by federal Liberal Leader “Being a smaller province Let us all take a quiet moment this season to honour the memory of all our that is sometimes characterized Justin Trudeau. loved ones who have died, and to hold in our thoughts those who are grieving.

“One province after the as being more small-c conserother has gone the way of aborvative, I think it makes it more May you experience moments of peace this holiday season. challenging to get those critical tion rights and has gotten into funding abortion on demand,” voices heard,” she says. he says.

As well, she says the prov“There’s been a cultural ince suffers from what she calls shift in Canada and that shift “New Brunswick exceptionalhas come to New Brunswick. ism.” … To us, it seemed like there “There’s a belief that we are was a shame campaign gojust a little province and we can’t expect the same rights and ing on, whereby the message was: ‘What’s wrong with New entitlements here,” she says.

Brunswick? Why are we not “We understand that we falling into line with the rest of have to settle for less because Canada?”’ we can’t afford certain things.

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Yukon artists co-op prepares to move downtown Ashley Joannou News Reporter

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ukon Artists at Work is on the move.

It doesn’t take much to set up an easel, canvas or a pottery wheel. But the co-operative of 30 Yukon artists has learned that where you sell your wares is an important decision.

After a successful online fundraising campaign Yukon Artists at Work is moving from its Industrial Road location to a new spot in downtown Whitehorse.

Harreson Tanner, one of the coop’s original members, said it’s time for a more central spot.

The current Industrial Road location is slated to close on Boxing Day. The new locale, in the old Pot of Gold building on the corner of Wood Street and Fourth Avenue, should open sometime in the new year, hopefully by February.

This isn’t the first time the co-op has changed locations.

When the co-op started in 2003, it comprised of 12 artists selling their work from a double-wide trailer on a property in McCrae.

Within six weeks they moved from the trailer into the main building on the property.

“It was right on a cliff edge, facing down the Yukon River and Grey Mountain and all the other four or five different beautiful mountain ranges you could see from the deck,” Tanner said.

On top of that it had a 14-metre deck across the front. The co-op held art classes and other events outside.

“It was a real destination and it was a funky building and people came and just hung out for hours at a time,” he said.

In the summer of 2010 the landlord wanted to use the building for other things. The co-op had to find a new home.

The Industrial Road location is not exactly the first place Yukoners and tourists would look when hunting for art.

“Our patrons have told us it’s hard to get to, ‘I drive by it all the time’ even though there are five signs on the building,” Tanner said.

“But they see the plumbing and the gymnasium signs and all the other stuff.”

He estimates sales dropped by about one-third in the four years they were there.

“It’s a good, functional, industrial building. Our landlady was awesome and she did everything she could to give it some ‘je ne sais quoi,’ but at the end of the day people who were used to going to our previous site were saying it’s just not the same,” he said.

Artists are now preparing for the move. Members used to paint-

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Harreson Tanner is one of the founding members of Yukon Artists at Work. The group has found a new home in downtown Whitehorse.

brushes and chisels are preparing to help hang new drywall and lights.

As part of their new lease agreement, the co-op agreed to have a new furnace put in.

“The furnace that’s there I think came on the ark,” Tanner joked.

But those kinds of changes do not come cheap.

Before they considered looking for a bank loan, the co-op first decided to give online fundraising a try.

Using Indiegogo, a website that allows people to donate online in exchange for a range of perks, members Leslie Leong and Linda Leon started a campaign.

Donors get half of their money back in the form of a gift certificate they can use after the first year at the new location.

Larger donations mean some people will have gallery rooms named in their honour.

The campaign was put together in less than a week, said Leong. It was a difficult balancing act. On Indiegogo, groups set their own fundraising goals. But if those goals are not met, the website takes a portion of the money that was raised, she said.

In the end it appears the co-op had nothing to worry about. The $11,000 goal was met within days.

With its major goal accomplished, the co-op has decided to see if they can hit $20,000.

As of Thursday afternoon, the

Alistair Maitland/Yukon News

Workers empty the new location, formerly Pot of Gold, of old furniture.

total was sitting at about $15,000.

“It’s been incredibly motivating.

It just made all the members so excited,” Leong said.

“It’s affirming for everybody, going, ‘Wow, they really do love us.’

I don’t think anyone really had that sense before.”

Plans are in the works for a

sculpture garden in the new location’s yard, Tanner said. The co-op also plans to hold public events.

“We’ve worked very hard over the last dozen years making this happen and the history of most of the co-operatives across Canada is very checkered and very short usually,” he said.

“So we feel very proud of the fact that we’re still in existence and still creating a buzz in the community.”

The fundraising campaign can be found at: www.indiegogo.com/ projects/yukon-artists-at-workmoves-downtown Contact Ashley Joannou at ashleyj@yukon-news.com

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Seth Rogen on how Kim Jong Un became the target of The Interview Jake Coyle

moving to distance Sony’s name from the film in promotional materials.

NEW YORK An email from Rogen to Sony few weeks ago, when a freshly Pictures co-chairman Amy Pascal stoned Seth Rogen sat down showed him arguing against too for a lunch interview about much sensitivity: “This is now a The Interview, the likelihood of story of Americans changing their trouble seemed remote. movie to make North Koreans “You’re always hoping nothing happy,” he wrote. horrible is going to happen, obviSoon after the release of the ously,” said Rogen. “If something trailer for The Interview in June, horrible happened and they were the North Korean Foreign Minlike, ‘It’s inappropriate to release istry responded with a statement this movie now,’ we’d ultimately calling the film “an act of war” go, ‘Yeah, we got to make it and and declaring its maker a “ganggot paid in advance.”’ ster filmmaker.” Rogen compared Unfortunately, Rogen’s chuckthe response to the closest a ling hypothetical has come to comedian can come to winning pass. After a devastating hackan Oscar. ing attack on Sony Pictures and “We did a lot of high-fiving,” threats of terrorist attacks when said Rogen, who noted they were The Interview was set to open in quickly pulled into a meeting theatres on Christmas Day, Sony with concerned studio executives. cancelled the release of Rogen’s “When an entire country – a nufilm on Wednesday. The realclear power – condemns you and world geopolitics that initially your movie, it’s really exciting.” served as fodder for parody in As alterations were made to the The Interview have upended one The Interview (emails show backChris Pizzello/Invision of Hollywood’s biggest holiday and-forth through early October Seth Rogen, actor/co-writer and co-director of the film The Interview, poses for a portrait in releases. on the explosion scene), its Oct. The Interview, which depicts a Los Angeles in Oct. 10 release date was pushed to Dehapless assassination attempt on central character. But the two, interview. “It adds a link to the Rodman went over there. Reality cember. Test screening suggested North Korean leader Kim Jong the film was playing well. Little weaned on quasi-real comedies real world, which is exciting.” is matching the craziness of the Un, enraged a country extremely had been heard from North Korea After seeing a Mike Wallace in- script.” sensitive to portrayals of its dicta- like “The Larry Sanders Show” since the summer. and greatly infl uenced by their terview on 60 Minutes, Rogen and With only one box-offi ce slip tor and the film has led to one of “Going into the testing process, Goldberg came up with the idea in Rogen and Goldberg’s history the worst cyber-hacking crimes in spell as writers on Sacha Baron there was an anxiety: What if it is Cohen’s Da Ali Show, wanted to of centring the movie around (2011’s The Green Hornet) and corporate history. just offensive?

What if we’ve done coming off the success of This Is A U.S. official told The Associ- keep the film grounded in reality. an entertainment TV show host something that’s just deemed In their last movie, the apocalypse (James Franco) landing an inter- the End ($101 million domestiated Press on Wednesday that inappropriate?” said Goldberg. comedy hit This Is the End, its view with Kim and being tasked cally), The Interview was finanfederal investigators have now “And every preview went awestars played variations of themby the CIA to kill him. Though cially a good bet for Sony. Costing some.” connected North Korea to the selves. the movie ultimately ends in a a relatively modest $40 million, hacks that have roiled Sony Pic“At its core, it’s just a movie,” “When you’re on that set with fi ery death for the Korean leader, the film was expected to make tures and aired its dirty laundry said Rogen. “And I mean that in James Franco playing James the film equally satirizes Ameriaround $30 million in its opening the very best way.” in huge leaks of private emails.

Franco and Mike Cera playing can culture. Franco’s vapid host weekend.

The still unraveling effects Rogen said they were “90 per Mike Cera, you’re like: ‘Well why and Kim pal around together But the bigger risk for Sony have put an uneasy spotlight on cent, 99 per cent sure” that North a goofy, R-rated comedy, with would we have, like, King Jong through much of the movie. was always inflaming an unpreKorea would only respond with some questioning Sony’s deciJon, a fake dictator of East Korea, “I’m sure back (when they dictable regime. Leaked emails bluster. But some of his comsion to make a film that was sure when we could just do something were writing it) some of the stuff revealed that Kazuo Hirai, chief ments in November now seem to provoke an isolated nation. real?”’ said Goldberg. seemed absurd, like this could executive of Sony in Japan, asked ominous.

The filmmakers – who declined “We were always like, ‘It’s more never happen – a pop culture for the film’s climatic fatal explo“I don’t even know if they’ve requests to add to their earlier, exciting than making a regular figure from America going to sion – including an image of seen it yet,” he said. “We heard pre-hacking comments to the movie,”’ said Rogen, a renowned hang out with the head of North Kim’s face melting – to be toned they might have been able to hack AP – describe striving to push weed advocate who happily Korea,” said Franco by phone. down. Other emails reveal Sony into one of our servers and actuthe limits of what a major studio acknowledged smoking before the “But since we’ve made it, Dennis Pictures chief Michael Lynton ally watch the movie.” would support.

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– announced that they were postponing any showings of The Interview. The comedy, about a TV NEW YORK host (James Franco) and producer nder the threat of terrorist (Rogen) tasked by the CIA to asattacks from hackers and sassinate North Korea’s Kim Jong with the nation’s largest multiplex Un (played by Randall Park), has chains pulling the film from their inflamed North Korea for parodyscreens, Sony Pictures Entertaining its leader. ment took the unprecedented step Regal said in a statement that of cancelling the Dec. 25 release it was delaying The Interview “due of the Seth Rogen comedy The to wavering support of the film Interview. … by Sony Pictures, as well as the The cancellation announced ambiguous nature of any real or Wednesday was a startling blow perceived security threats.“ AMC to the Hollywood studio that has noted ‘’the overall confusion and been shaken by hacker leaks and uncertainty“ surrounding the film. intimidations over the last several Sony had offered theatres the weeks by an anonymous group option of bowing out, and when calling itself Guardians of Peace. so many of them did (other chains A U.S. official said Wednesday to drop it included ArcLight Cinthat federal investigators have emas, Cineplex Entertainment and now connected the Sony hacking Carmike Cinemas), Sony was left to North Korea and may make an with little choice. announcement in the near future.

On Tuesday, the hacking group The official spoke on condition of threatened violence at “the very anonymity because the official was times and places” showing The not authorized to openly discuss Interview. The Department of an ongoing criminal case.

Homeland Security said Tuesday Sony said it was cancelling The there was “no credible intelligence Interview release “in light of the to indicate an active plot against decision by the majority of our ex- movie theatres,” but noted it was hibitors not to show the film.” The still analyzing messages from the studio said it respected and shared group. The warning did prompt in the exhibitors’ concerns. law enforcement in New York and “We are deeply saddened at this Los Angeles to address measures to brazen effort to suppress the distri- ramp up security. bution of a movie, and in the proIn Washington, White House cess do damage to our company, spokeswoman Bernadette Meehan our employees, and the American said the U.S. government had no public,” read the statement. “We involvement in Sony’s decision, stand by our filmmakers and their adding that artists and entertainright to free expression and are ers have the right to produce and extremely disappointed by this distribute whatever content they outcome.” want in the U.S. Seemingly putting to rest any “We take very seriously any hope of a delayed theatrical release attempt to threaten or limit artists’ or a video-on-demand release freedom of speech or of expresSony Pictures spokeswoman Jean sion,” Meehan said.

Guerin later added: “Sony Pictures President Barack Obama comhas no further release plans for the mented the hacking Wednesday in film.” an interview with ABC News.

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thing that we think is serious and credible then we’ll alert the public.

But for now, my recommendation would be that people go to the movies.”

With a modest budget of about $40 million, The Interview was predicted to earn around $30 million in its opening weekend before Tuesday’s threats. Sony also stands to lose tens of millions in marketing costs already incurred.

“This attack went to the heart and core of Sony’s business – and succeeded,” said Avivah Litan, a cybersecurity analyst at research firm Gartner. “We haven’t seen any attack like this in the annals of U.S. breach history.”

Sony was also under pressure from other studios. Christmas is one of the most important box-office weekends of the year, and the threats could have scared moviegoers away. Releases include Universal’s Unbroken, Paramount’s The Gambler, and Disney’s Into the Woods. Sony’s musical Annie, also expected to be a big earner, debuts Friday.

Doug Stone, president of film industry newsletter Box Office Analyst, had predicted that The Interview could have made $75 to $100 million. With Sony taking about 55 per cent of domestic revenues, that could mean a $41 to $55 million revenue loss, according to Stone.

Sony’s announcement was met with widespread distress across Hollywood and by others watching the unfolding attack on Sony.

A former senior national security official in the George W. Bush administration said the company made the wrong decision.

“When you are confronted with a bully the idea is not to cave but to punch him in the nose,” Fran Townsend, Bush’s homeland security adviser, said Wednesday during a previously scheduled appearance in Washington. “This is a horrible, I think, horrible precedent.”

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Hit with deaths and scandal, the year 2014 was not a funny one in the comedy world Mark Kennedy Associated Press

NEW YORK or comedians, there was very little to laugh about in 2014.

Three pioneering comic legends died – David Brenner, Joan Rivers and Robin Williams – and Bill Cosby went from America’s dad to an alleged serial sexual predator.

“It’s unfortunate when you lose anybody. To lose three and to have these allegations with Cosby, it’s a tough year,” said Christopher Mazzilli, co-owner of the Gotham Comedy Club.

The year began with exciting late-night transitions for Jimmy Fallon and Seth Meyers, but soon started on a litany of loss, beginning with the death in March of the lanky, toothygrinned Brenner, whose brand of observational comedy paved the way for Jerry Seinfeld and Paul Reiser.

Then Williams, who inspired and supported so many comedians with a legacy that included Mork and Mindy on TV and films like Mrs. Doubtfire and Dead Poets Society, committed suicide in August.

By fall, Rivers, whose brassy style was picked up by Sarah Silverman, Chelsea Handler and Kathy Griffin, had also died. Others lost this year include stand-up comedian John Pinette and SNL veteran Jan Hooks. In New York magazine, Chris Rock called 2014 “a weird year for comedy” and many agree.

“It’s been a brutal year for losing funny people,” said Kelly Carlin, daughter of comedic-

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legend George Carlin and a performer in her own right.

“It feels like comedy is teaching us what it feels like to walk through loss this year.”

Paul Provenza, a veteran stand-up, TV host and director of the film The Aristocrats, said the losses of Brenner, Williams and Rivers hit hard because they each invented unique styles of joke-telling.

“They created new languages in comedy,” he said.

“They basically created these pathways and these styles of comedy and made them the vernacular.”

This year also saw the re-flaring of accusations – and quick denials – of child molestation allegations against Woody Allen. They cast a shadow over his film Magic in the Moonlight and his Broadway musical Bullets Over Broadway.

The world of humour was also knocked off-balance by the renewed allegations against Cosby by more than 15 women claiming decades-old sexual assaults. He has denied some of the allegations, but his career has suffered.

“I feel like we’ve lost Bill Cosby,” said Carlin. “I feel like there’s some sort of erasure happening on the Mount Rushmore of comedy right now, with his face being sandblasted away in some ways.”

Provenza said he’s deeply saddened by the allegations against Cosby and horrified by the accusations, but tells people who ask about it to always trust the art, not the artist.

“I just hope that through all of this – whatever the realities

are and however this plays out – I hope that people still can trust the art because the man was an absolute genius in stand-up,” Provenza said.

Eddie Izzard, the British actor and comedian who is filming Sony PlayStation Network’s original series Powers, said the Cosby allegations reminded him of accusations that have rocked England about TV personalities there linked to abuses against young girls.

Of Cosby, Izzard said: “If it’s true, then, ‘Oh my God.’ And if it’s not true, then, ‘Oh my God.’ I don’t know where you go with either of those,” he said. “There’s negativity happening this year but comedians are going out and doing really interesting stuff all around the world.”

Provenza said the sad news in 2014 from the comedy world is a reminder that while comedians might be funny, they’re also just people, with all the anger, weirdness and sadness that entails.

“It’s all very human. We’re all in the same place, whether you’re a pipefitter or a school teacher or a doctor or a lawyer or a comedian, the human condition is the human condition,” he said. “And nobody escapes that.”

Despite the heavy losses, comedians said there’s still plenty of exciting comedy on TV, online and at stand-up shows, from shows like Inside Amy Schumer to Key & Peele to sketch groups like Friends of the People to websites like Funny or Die and Marc Maron’s podcasts.

Mazzilli, whose club has

helped launch the careers of Dave Chapelle and Colin Quinn, points to the Internet as becoming comedy’s fuel, giving once-unknowns like Jeff Dunham the ability to go viral.

“I thought it was high-tech when we had faxes and I could fax somebody them information,” he said. “Now people can reach – with a couple of words and pushing a button – a million people, two million people. Immediately.”

Thanks to the Internet and social media, Provenza, who has been doing stand-up since

the late 1970s, said he believes we’re now in a new golden age: “In all those decades, I have never seen as exciting a time in comedy as there is now.”

Carlin agreed, and celebrates the return of comedians playing a big role in national conversations. She points to such comics as Stephen Colbert, Jon Stewart, Patton Oswalt, John Oliver, Louis C.K, Chris Rock, Russell Brand, Lewis Black and Doug Stanhope.

“Comedians are once again the leading social commentators,” she said.

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The cult of culture: Merriam Webster names ‘culture’ its 2014 word of the year Leanne Italie Associated Press

NEW YORK nation, a workplace, an ethnicity, a passion, an outsized personality. The people who comprise these things, who fawn or rail against them, are behind Merriam-Webster’s 2014 word of the year: culture.

The word joins Oxford Dictionaries’ “vape,” a darling of the e-cigarette movement, and “exposure,” declared the year’s winner at Dictionary.com during a time of tragedy and fear due to Ebola.

Merriam-Webster based its pick and nine runners-up on significant increases in lookups this year over last on MerriamWebster.com, along with interesting, often culture-driven – if you will – spikes of concentrated interest.

In the No. 2 spot is “nostalgia,” during a year of big 50th anniversaries pegged to 1964: the start of the free speech movement, the passage of the Civil Rights Act, the birth of the Ford Mustang and the British Invasion heralded by the landing of the Beatles on U.S. soil for the first time.

Nostalgia was followed by insidious, legacy, feminism and a rare multiword phrase that can be looked up in total, in a foreign language at that: the French “je ne sais quoi.”

The Springfield, Massachusetts-based dictionary giant filters out perennial favourites when picking word of the year, but does that formula leave them chasing language fads?

“We’re simply using the word culture more frequently,” said Peter Sokolowski, editor at large

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The word “culture” as seen in the Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary.

for Merriam-Webster. “It may be a fad. It may not. It may simply be evolution.”

Sokolowski noted that the reasons words are looked up aren’t just about not knowing what they mean. Sometimes, he said, we seek inspiration or a way to check in on ourselves. Of an estimated 100 million lookups on the website each year and a similar number on the company’s app, culture enjoyed a 15 per cent year-over-year increase.

Percentage-wise, it doesn’t

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sound like much, but the raw number in that stratosphere is large, Sokolowski said. He wouldn’t disclose actual numbers, though, citing the proprietary nature of that data for a company still privately held.

Sokolowski is a lexicographer, not a mind reader, so his observations about why any single word takes off in terms of lookups is well-informed but theoretical.

“The word culture’s got a cultural story. We have noticed for years that culture has a cyclical spike every year at around Labor Day. That is to say back to school time during the month of September, so we’ve been watching this word spike at that time for years,” he said by telephone from Springfield. “In recent years we’ve seen similar spikes at the end of semesters during finals.”

But traffic throughout the year indicates that culture is a “chameleon,” Sokolowski said.

“When you put it next to another word it means something very different. For example, ‘consumer culture’ or ‘rape culture,’ which we’ve been reading about lately.”

There’s the “culture of transparency” in government and business, and “celebrity culture,” and the “culture of winning” in sports, he noted. “It’s a word that can be very specific, like ‘test prep culture,’ or it can be very, very broad, like ‘coffee culture.”’

One standout reference that caught Sokolowski’s eye in The New Yorker’s December issue is from a new book, “How Google Works,” which includes a description of a software fix by a few engineers that made ads more relevant on the search engine: “It wasn’t Google’s culture that turned those five engineers into problem-solving ninjas who changed the course of the company over the weekend,” wrote the authors, former Google CEO Eric Schmidt and former head of product development Jonathan Rosenberg.

“Rather it was the culture that attracted the ninjas to the company in the first place.”

Before the word culture exploded, Sokolowski said, “we used to talk about ‘society’ a lot. Certain groups are taking ‘society’ out of their names now.

It seems to be receding. Part of that seems to be because it’s elitist. We’re using the word culture more frequently in that place.”

Not all lookup spikes are quite that complex. The reason “je ne sais quoi” landed at No. 6, for instance, is “dead simple,” he said.

The fast-food drive-in chain Sonic, known for TV spots featuring two goofy dudes eating in a car, had them munching on boneless chicken wings in September.

“I’ve finally found myself a

wingman,” goofy guy No. 1 says of the wings he hopes will make him a chick magnet.

“Oh right,” sneers goofy guy No. 2, “gonna give you that certain je ne sais quoi.”

Responds No. 1: “Jenna said what?”

They mine the word play a couple more times, but you get the picture.

“Since September when this ad came out this word has been close to the Top 10 or in the Top 10 of our lookups almost every single day,” Sokolowski said.

Fast-food aside, he called this year’s list a relatively sober one.

Insidious, for example, received a bump early in the year when a new trailer was released for “Insidious: Chapter 3,” a prequel in the horror film franchise “Insidious,” out in June. The word surfaced in a big way again, on Oct. 8, when a Texas hospital released a statement on the death of Thomas Eric Duncan, the first confirmed Ebola patient in the United States.

The statement spoke of his courageous battle and the hospital’s profound sadness when he “succumbed to an insidious disease, Ebola.”

Rounding out the Top 10 are innovation, surreptitious, autonomy and morbidity.

“This is a fairly sober list. It was a fairly sober year,” he concluded.

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The Dâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;oh of Homer: Simpsons goes highbrow in US college courses Frank Eltman Associated Press

HEMPSTEAD, N.Y. Bart and Lisa Simpson have been in elementary school for 25 years.

But that hasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t stopped them from showing up on college campuses.

Universities across the country are using satirical references from The Simpsons to grab studentsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; attention and convey lessons in literature and all manner of popular culture. â&#x20AC;&#x153;If the references are important enough to be lampooned by The Simpsons, these works must be important cultural milestones,â&#x20AC;? says Hofstra University adjunct English professor Richard Pioreck, who has been incorporating the denizens of Springfield into his courses for about a decade.

He currently teaches a course about the Broadway theatre and how The Simpsons have embraced various musicals and plays. Next semester, he shifts to an online literature course titled â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Dâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;oh of Homerâ&#x20AC;? that includes readings from Edgar Allan Poeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Ravenâ&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Fall of the House of Usher,â&#x20AC;? and Charles Dickensâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; â&#x20AC;&#x153;A Christmas Carolâ&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x201C; all referenced in The Simpsons episodes. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Teachers need to keep things fresh,â&#x20AC;? says Denise DuVernay, an adjunct English professor at St. Xavier University in Chicago, coauthor of the book â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Simpsons in the Classroom: Embiggening the Learning Experience with the Wisdom of Springfield.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;They need to reach students however they can. And using The Simpsons to grab their attention, I think, is brilliant,â&#x20AC;? she says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Fighting against pop culture isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t going to do anyone any good.â&#x20AC;?

In recent years, other univer-

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sities have had courses focused on the primetime show â&#x20AC;&#x201C; which celebrates its 25th anniversary on Wednesday â&#x20AC;&#x201C; including Oswego State University in New York and San Jose State University in California.

Longtime Simpsons executive producer Al Jean says heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not surprised professors have embraced the program. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Some people may think we are very vulgar, but then they find there is a lot of warmth and emotion and many people are surprised at the intelligence of some of the jokes,â&#x20AC;? he says.

Pioreck says he decided to use the show after a friend of his daughterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s passed an exam on

â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Devil and Daniel Websterâ&#x20AC;? by watching a Simpsons episode that focused on the story.

He found that the sitcom usually aims for more than just the easy punchlines, with writers layering the plotlines with humour that can be appreciated by lowbrow, middlebrow and highbrow audiences alike.

For example, in one episode that parodied â&#x20AC;&#x153;A Streetcar Named Desireâ&#x20AC;? (â&#x20AC;&#x153;A Streetcar Named Margeâ&#x20AC;?), the dynamics of Homer and Marge Simpsonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s marriage are deftly illustrated through a comparison to the relationship of the couple in the play, Stella and Stanley.

â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Simpsons do a great deal of parodying, whether itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a complete script or a number here or there,â&#x20AC;? Pioreck says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Quite often they choose family relationships; what makes a man a success is

one of the things that we pursue.

And you can see what happens to Homer. Even though it looks like heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not a good father, he steps up and he comes through in the end.â&#x20AC;&#x153; Jean acknowledges a theme in many episodes is the comparison of the C. Montgomery Burns character â&#x20AC;&#x201C; the miserly owner of Springfieldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s nuclear power plant â&#x20AC;&#x201C; to the lead character in the movie Citizen Kane, Charles Foster Kane. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Mr. Burns â&#x20AC;Ś he doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have fulfilment in his life even though heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the richest person in town,â&#x20AC;?

Pioreck says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Here are two people who have it all, they have more money than they know what to do with and yet theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not happy.

Homer has no money, but has friends and family.â&#x20AC;?

Almost incredibly, at least one young Hofstra student confesses sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d never seen the sitcom before signing up for the SimpsonsBroadway course.

Elizabeth Sarian, a 21-year-old music performance major from Plainview says she signed up because of her interest in Broadway, not the cartoon.

Still, she says, the connection to The Simpsons is hardly trivial â&#x20AC;&#x153;because it really does teach you a lot from watching it.â&#x20AC;?

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Authorities look for mental health clues in fight to stop ‘lone wolf’ attackers Jill Lawless Associated Press

LONDON radical Muslim killed a soldier outside Canada’s Parliament. A right-wing extremist opened fire on buildings in Texas’ capital and tried to burn down the Mexican Consulate. An Al-Qaida-inspired assailant hacked an off-duty soldier to death in London.

Police said all three were terrorists and motivated by ideology. Authorities and family members said they may have been mentally ill. A growing body of research suggests they might well have been both.

New studies have challenged several decades of thinking that psychological problems are only a minor factor in the making of terrorists. The research has instead found a significant link between mental problems and “lone wolf” terrorism.

Now academics and law enforcement officials are working to turn that research into tools to prevent deadly attacks.

“It’s never an either-or in terms of ideology versus mental illness,” said Ramon Spaaij, a sociologist at Australia’s Victoria University who conducted a major study, funded by the U.S. Justice Department, of lone wolf extremists. “It’s a dangerous cocktail.”

The study preceded Tuesday’s end to a deadly, 16-hour siege involving a gunman who took hostages in a cafe in Sydney. Prime Minister Tony Abbott said the gunman – Iranian-born Man Haron Monis – had “a long history of violent crime, infatuation

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with extremism and mental instability.”

With groups like Islamic State spreading violence in Syria and Iraq – and bloodthirsty rhetoric on the Internet – authorities around the world have issued increasingly insistent warnings about the threat posed by lone wolf attackers.

They can be difficult to stop with a counterterrorism strategy geared toward intercepting communications and disrupting plots.

Solo terrorism “doesn’t take an awful lot of organizing. It doesn’t take too many people to conspire together. There’s no great complexity to it,” London Police Chief Bernard Hogan-Howe told the BBC recently.

“So what that means is that we have a very short time to interdict, to actually intervene and make sure that these people don’t get away with it.”

Police forces and intelligence agencies are examining whether insights from research by Spaaij and others could help.

Spaaij said a number of law enforcement and intelligence agencies have shown interest in his work. In Britain, a police counterterrorism unit is using a major study of lone wolf terrorists to develop risk-assessment analysis.

A British security official who spoke on condition of anonymity because he is not authorized to talk on the record said many attackers display warning signs, but that recognizing them is easier in retrospect.

He said British intelligence officials are studying the link between mental illness and lone-actor terrorism.

Most people with mental health

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This undated file image shows Michael Zehaf-Bibeau, 32, who shot a soldier to death at Canada’s national war memorial day in October.

problems are neither terrorists nor violent, and mental illness alone can’t explain lone wolf attackers.

Some experts dispute whether there is a link at all.

After Michael Zehaf-Bibeau’s deadly attack on a soldier Oct. 22 in Ottawa, Jocelyn Belanger, a psychology professor at the University

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of Quebec at Montreal, told the Canadian Senate’s national security committee that “to believe that radicalized individuals are crazy or not playing with a full deck will be our first mistake in developing effective counterterrorism strategies.”

But the new research suggests that solo terrorists are much more likely to have mental health problems than either members of the general public or participants in group terrorism.

Spaaij and Mark Hamm of Indiana State University studied 98 lone wolf attackers in the U.S. They found that 40 per cent had identifiable mental health problems, compared with 1.5 per cent in the general population.

Their conclusion? Mental illness is not the only factor that drives individuals to commit terrorist acts, but it is one of the factors.

Spaaj said mental illness can play a part “in shaping particular belief systems and in constructing the enemy, externalizing blame for one’s own failure or grievances onto this all-threatening enemy.”

A second study by Paul Gill and Emily Corner of University College London looked at 119 lone wolf attackers and a similar number of members of violent extremist groups in the U.S. and Europe. Almost a third of the lone wolves – nearly 32 per cent – had been diagnosed with a mental illness, while only 3.4 per cent of terrorist group members were mentally ill.

“Group-based terrorists are psychologically quite normal,” the researchers said. They said one reason may be that terrorist recruiters are likely to reject candidates who appear erratic or mentally ill.

Mental illness could make lone

wolf attacks easier to foresee: Gill said 60 per cent of the attackers he studied leaked details of their plans, sometimes telling friends or family.

He and Corner are working with a British counterterrorism unit as police try to develop ways of distinguishing genuine threats from hot-headed talk. The unit declined to discuss the project, but recent cases suggest determining who really is a threat is fraught with difficulty.

More than a year before he hacked a soldier to death in London in 2013, Michael Adebowale’s online extremism drew the attention of Britain’s intelligence services.

Domestic intelligence agency MI5 told a parliamentary inquiry into the murder that it uses a range of factors to assess the threat from potential lone wolves, including an inability to cope with stress and anxiety, social isolation and mental health problems.

MI5 agents suggested that Adebowale – who is now serving a life sentence in a psychiatric hospital – be assessed by the agency’s Behavioral Science Unit, a team of psychologists and social scientists, but the assessment was never done.

The lawmakers’ report called that a missed opportunity, and recommended that “MI5 should ensure that the unit’s advice is integrated more thoroughly into investigations.”

Signals also were misread in the case of Nicky Reilly, a 22-year-old convert to Islam who walked into a restaurant in the English town of Exeter in 2008 with a homemade bomb. The device went off in the restroom, injuring Reilly and no one else.

At his trial, jurors were told that Reilly had learning difficulties and had had many years of contact with mental health services. In 2003, he talked to a psychiatrist about making a bomb. The information was passed on to the police, who judged that Reilly wasn’t a serious threat.

American authorities, in contrast, have been accused of being too aggressive in pursuit of lone attackers.

The FBI has foiled several alleged attacks through sting operations in which agents posed as terror supporters, supplying advice and equipment. Critics say the strategy can amount to entrapment of mentally vulnerable people who wouldn’t have the wherewithal to act alone.

Meanwhile, the fundamental question of whether there is a link between mental health problems and terrorism remains controversial.

The most lethal lone-wolf attacker in recent years was anti-Muslim extremist Anders Behring Breivik, who killed 77 people in a bombing and gun rampage in Norway in 2011. Breivik was unrepentant. One psychiatric report found him to be insane, while a second concluded that he was sane – and judges agreed, sending him to prison indefinitely.

The killer was happy with the outcome. For Breivik, it was recognition that his views were legitimate and not those of a madman.

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Wind offers a healthy way to generate power

by DAVID SUZUKI

SCIENCE

MATTERS

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here’s no free ride when it comes to generating energy.

Even the cleanest sources have environmental consequences.

Materials for all power-generating facilities have to be obtained and transported, and infrastructure must be built, maintained and eventually decommissioned.

Wind turbines take up space and can harm wildlife. Hydro floods agricultural land and alters water cycles.

That’s why conservation is the best way to reduce energyconsumption impacts. Reductions in energy use and investment in energy-efficiency technologies are so significant that the International Energy Agency refers to conservation as the “first fuel”.

No matter how good we get at conserving, though, we’ll always need energy, so we must find ways to employ the least damaging technologies and reduce negative effects. We know the world’s preferred, and currently cheapest, method to generate power – burning fossil fuels like coal, oil and gas – is the most destructive, causing pollution, global warming and massive environmental damage during extraction, transport, refining and use. And supplies are becoming more difficult to obtain and will eventually run out.

In contrast, wind power doesn’t create pollution or global warming emissions, is affordable and will never run out. Improvements to power-generation capacity, efficiency and affordability will continue to boost its importance in the energy mix. But we must ensure turbines are installed in locations and using methods that reduce negative impacts on humans and wildlife.

Thanks to ongoing research and testing, wind power has come a long way in a relatively short time.

Wildlife behaviour studies, along with technological improvements, have significantly reduced harm to birds and bats, and better siting has reduced impacts on other wildlife and habitat. Wind power generation is far safer for birds, bats and other animals than burning fossil fuels.

But what about wind power’s effects on humans, a key argument used by opponents? Turbines, especially older ones, can be noisy, and some people find them unsightly – although I prefer the sight of wind farms to smokestacks and smog. Many problems can be addressed by locating quieter turbines far enough from human habitation to reduce impacts.

As for health effects, a recent comprehensive Health Canada study confirms previous research: Although people report being annoyed by wind turbines, there’s no measurable association between wind turbine noise and sleep disturbance and disorders, illnesses and chronic health conditions, or stress and quality-of-life issues. A 2013 Australian report concluded people living near wind installations where anti-wind campaigns were active were more likely to

report health problems, suggesting some issues may be psychological.

Health Canada says more research may be needed and we shouldn’t downplay the annoyance factor. Again, improvements in technology and proper siting will help overcome many problems.

And there’s no doubt that fossil fuel development and use – from bitumen mining, deep-sea drilling, mountaintop removal and fracking to wasteful burning in single-user vehicles – are far more annoying and damaging to human health than wind power and other renewable-energy technologies.

Wind energy is also becoming more affordable and reliable.

Denmark gets 34 per cent of its electricity from wind and Spain 21 per cent, making wind their largest electricity source. Portugal gets more than 20 per cent, Ireland 16 and Germany nine per cent.

All have much higher population densities than Canada. Overall, wind power contributes about four per cent to worldwide electricity generation.

Improvements in grid and storage technologies also mean wind and other renewable technologies are increasingly feasible and desirable, especially as costs continue to drop. Investing in wind and other renewable energy is also good for jobs and the economy and can create greater stability in energy pricing than relying on volatile fossil fuel markets.

Total global investment in wind energy in 2012 was more than $80 billion, creating 670,000 jobs. According to a Blue Green Canada report, investing the $1.3 billion the oil industry gets in annual federal taxpayer subsidies in renewable energy and conserva-

tion could create 18,000 to 20,000 jobs, compared to fewer than 3,000 in oil and gas. And we can’t ignore the many related cost impacts of fossil fuel development, from health-care to infrastructure.

To reduce global greenhouse gas emissions at a pace and scale that

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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 19, 2014

Alaska blackfish in a world of its own

Ned Rozell/Yukon News

An Alaska blackfish in an aquarium at the office of the Alaska Department of Fish and Game in Fairbanks.

by Ned Rozell

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magine a shallow lake north of Hughes, in the cold heart of Alaska. In frigid, sluggish water, dim blue light penetrates a halfmetre of ice. The ice has a quarter-size hole, maintained by a stream of methane bubbles. Every few minutes, a brutish little fish swims up, sips air, and peels back to the

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The Alaska blackfish is an evolutionary loner that fins through lakes and tundra ponds across much of the state. It exists nowhere else, except just across Bering Strait in Siberia. Not much larger than a banana, the fish is different from others in the state because in addition to gathering oxygen through its gills, it can pull it from free air.

Though many fish have the ability to breathe air, most of them live in the tropics. The Alaska blackfish’s ability to gulp the same air as you and me has allowed it to occupy stagnant northern pools that kill other fish. When ice seals off small lakes and the stocked rainbow trout goes belly up, the blackfish guts it out.

Just how tough is the blackfish? An enduring rural legend is of a blackfish being chipped from a frozen mass of its brethren and fed to a sled dog. The fish thaws and revives in the dog’s stomach, where its wriggling causes the dog to vomit. There on the snow, a live fish writhes, resurrected. This story has persisted at least since Lucien Turner, writing about Alaska

natural history in 1886, first documented it.

Per Scholander was skeptical about Turner’s “colourful” report. Scholander was a physiologist interested in how creatures and plants survive extreme cold. Along with Laurence Irving, who later founded UAF’s Institute of Arctic Biology, Scholander traveled to Barrow in 1948 to study plants and animals. In their journal writeup of that work, they devoted the final chapter to “Experiments on Freezing the Blackfish.”

From Barrow lakes, the scientists captured eight blackfish and froze them into a block of ice. When they thawed the fish, none were alive.

“However,” Scholander wrote, “the blackfish, like man and other animals, can survive being partially frozen.”

To see how much blackfish could take, the men subjected them to more tests. They conducted these experiments by dipping parts of the fish in Prestone antifreeze chilled to subzero. Two fish frozen from their tails to pectoral fins thawed and survived for five days before they died. The researchers noted the fish swam

using only fins that had not been dipped and that blood circulation never resumed in the frozen parts.

They then dunked the heads of five fish. The men were impressed with the result after thawing: “The fish swam around the next day, in spite of a circulationless dead head.” But all died within three days.

The physiologists concluded that the blackfish, though quite impressive, does not recover from the freezing of its tissues and cannot survive becoming a fish-sicle.

“Our observations have in no sense defamed the blackfish,” Scholander concluded more than 60 years ago.

“Every winter they are still being thrown hard frozen to the ravenous dogs of the Yukon and Kuskokwim valleys . . .

Indeed a fortunate observer may still see the dogs throw up the fish alive, provided only that the fish were not too hard frozen.”

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Gifts still keep pouring in at mom’s third baby shower dressed. (Within reason, of course.

Miss Manners would draw the line at “Your Exalted Excellency.”)

In this case, you also have a point to make: that you do not consider him a contemporary who

by Judith might – – if also unattached and Martin subtle – – be entitled to flirt with you. Therefore, she suggests that you reply to his request with, “Yes, sir, John,” and insert the word “sir” thereafter.

MISS

MANNERS DEAR MISS MANNERS: My friend and I were pregnant with our first children at the same time.

We both had baby showers.

I was raised to believe you got only one baby shower, ever, to help set you up. When she was pregnant with her second child, she had another shower even though she was having another girl. The girls would only be two years apart, and my friend had everything she needed for the second one already.

Now she is pregnant a third time, with another girl, and she’s having another shower! Her children are the only grandchildren on either side of her family, so she gets tons of stuff.

I understand celebrating every new life, but I feel she’s taking advantage. She’s getting rid of items to make room for new stuff.

Am I wrong to feel irked? If she were in need, I would understand, but the overall vibe I get is that she’s being greedy and will return items to buy personal things.

When will it stop? At her fifth or 10th? What is my obligation?

She is a good friend, but this is just one situation I feel very strongly about, and she doesn’t see a problem. I love her kids, but I don’t want to help furnish her wardrobe or home from my returned, unneeded baby gift.

GENTLE READER: You have no obligation, whatsoever.

You do not need to attend any more showers. Simply tell your friend that you’re unavailable ... to furnish her children’s future (but we’ll keep that part between ourselves).

You won’t be able to convince her politely that these showers are excessive, especially if others are so willing to oblige. Rest assured, however, that Miss Manners will continue the battle on your behalf.

DEAR MISS MANNERS: The morning after my husband’s death, I awoke to discover that “friends” had posted on his Facebook wall a photo of my husband and an obituary they had written themselves.

This was done without my permission, and in fact, we had told these people not to post on Facebook a poem my husband wrote a few weeks before he died.

During the seven years of his illness, we never posted about it on Facebook.

In the brief time the post was up, considerable damage was done: I was inundated with emails from people he barely knew, and longtime friends I had not yet contacted learned about his death from Facebook.

It caused me tremendous pain and embarrassment. This has also just happened to a friend of a friend whose husband died recently. I am hoping you will address this incredible invasion of privacy.

GENTLE READER: Unfortunately, it has become an added task for the bereaved to take down the deceased’s Facebook page quickly after the death. Its existence simply causes too much confusion and distress.

Miss Manners is not happy with memorial pages being erected in their stead, finding them equally impersonal and somewhat upsetting. However, she leaves this to the discretion of the immediate family – – but only the immediate family.

to talk about an expensive gift.

While the photo-posters may have the best intentions, I cannot help but feel that they are bragging about their ability to take such trips and should consider the feelings of those less fortunate.

GENTLE READER: Well, of course they are bragging. What do you think is the purpose of social media?

However, that need not be the only motivation for posting vacation pictures. People have always thought that others would be as interested in their travels as they are. They are wrong, of course.

Miss Manners considers the new method to be vastly superior to the previous one, in which the travelers would issue an apparently innocent social invitation and then bring out their home movies.

The saving grace of social media is that one is not trapped with the perpetrators of boredom, but may safely skip exposure.

DEAR MISS MANNERS: A “friend” of 25 years informed me over lunch in a restaurant that my husband of 39 years has been having a long-term affair with his assistant. When I politely told her that this was laughable, she really persisted, smirked, shook her head and called me naive.

There is absolutely no truth to what she said.

Do friends say things like this to friends? She says she was only trying to protect me. Do you believe this, and should I believe it?

Her husband of 30 years asked for a divorce four years ago, and since then she has been very bitter.

She’s lucky to have some friends who took her under their wings and made excuses for her irrational behavior, but she doesn’t seem to be moving on, and the friends are starting to worry about her.

GENTLE READER: If you are asking whether it is an act of friendship to attempt poisoning a friend’s marriage, the answer is no. Not even if the would-be poisoner is miserable and wants company.

DEAR MISS MANNERS: I But Miss Manners gathers think it is lovely that people can that you are not giving up on go on vacations to wonderful and exotic places, but is it appropriate the friendship, tedious as it has for them to share photos on social apparently been for the last four years. You only want to squelch media of their luxurious trips? the accusation.

One or two is fine, but when I In that case, you should not be see photo after photo of a vacaarguing.

As you have already disDEAR MISS MANNERS: A tion, I start to get uncomfortable. covered, that sets you up for the good friend’s father-in-law insists I was taught that it is not polite to trap of being “in denial.” Either that I call him “John” when I share vacation photos in this way, prefer to call him “Mr. Baylor.” His in the same way that it is improper way, you lose. flirtatiousness makes me uncomDaily Lunch fortable, and calling him “Mr. SPECIALS! Baylor” asserts a distance that I wish to express to him.

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buying her lunch and handed the representative $20. The woman next to me, whom I don’t know well, immediately reached into her purse and pulled out $20. She turned expectantly to me.

DEAR MISS MANNERS: I told her, truthfully, that I had Do you think it’s tacky to have only $3. She laughed, pulled out magazines in the guest bathroom? a $10, and gave the rep $30. I said These would be decorator magathank you. zines.

Of course I’ll pay her back, but GENTLE READER: The was this correct behavior? No one subject of the magazine is hardly else from our table gave the rep the point – – although that is not any money, and a friend of mine to suggest that context does not at another table said no one at her make some print offerings more table gave anything. Were we obalarming than others. Miss Manligated to offer to pay? Should the ners is thinking of a friend who rep have accepted the money? included her pre-med anatomy GENTLE READER: As it is the text on her shelf of cookbooks to business of charities to collect see if anyone was paying attention. donations, Miss Manners unBeyond that, she has no objec- derstands why the representative tion to bathroom reading matefailed to decline the contribution. rial, even though she is too polite to inquire about anything that goes on behind the bathroom door. If pressed, she will admit only to a lack of sufficient space to shelve all her reading material in the library.

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As soon as the representative for my table sat down, one of the other women announced that the charity shouldn’t spend money

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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 19, 2014

Meet the Yukon Ski Team’s wax wizard Pavlina Sudrich Special for the News

ROSSLAND, B.C. orty-eight hours before the first Haywood NorAm cross-country races of the season, Alain Masson, head coach of the Yukon Ski Team, was sure the event would be cancelled.

Conditions in Rossland, B.C., where the qualifying races for World Juniors were scheduled to take place, showed no signs of cooperating.

“It was plus six with 60 km/h chinook winds and rain bouncing off the pavement,” Masson recounts.

The next day Masson and his assistant coach Amanda Dueling were out on the course, shovels in hand. “We went to shovel twice during the day and within half an hour were soaking wet. We didn’t think we were going to race.”

Masson was partly correct. The classic sprint race scheduled for the morning of Saturday, Dec. 13 was cancelled, but this was just one of many last-minute changes and challenges throughout the weekend.

Despite the odds, several Yukon athletes posted their highest Canadian rankings to date, and in the end the event was one of the best overall performances in Team Yukon’s already successful history.

The sport of cross-country skiing is fickle. Races are a harsh battle of physical exertion interspersed with changing variables. Wax, ski selection, and weather can all derail an athlete’s race and undermine months of training.

The role of a coach in the 48 hours leading up to a race is a critical juggling act between team manager, sports psychologist and wax technician. Luckily for Team Yukon, Alain Masson is one of the best.

Masson’s resume encompasses seven Olympics. He competed in three as an athlete and has worked on the past four Olympics as the one of Canada’s head wax technicians. His reputation within the cross-country ski world borders on hallowed. As National Training Centre coach Chris Jeffries puts it, “Alain is the gold standard.”

On Friday afternoon, after race officials had told Masson that Saturday’s event had been cancelled, the team arrived on site for a simple training ski. “We showed up, we didn’t have anything,” Masson says.

“We were just there to ski, then at 1 p.m. we found out

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Yukon Ski Team head coach Alain Masson, seen here last year, faced some challenging waxing conditions at a Haywood NorAm event over the weekend in Rossland, B.C.

the race was on.”

But the format had changed. Masson had 34 hours to prepare his athletes and their skis for a completely different race.

That’s when Masson, with 21 years of international waxing experience, and Deuling, the highly trained assistant coach of the Yukon Ski Team, kicked into high gear.

“I told the athletes we just have to focus on getting ready and staying positive, to focus on the process not what they no control over,” Masson says.

Then he and Dueling hit the wax room.

“We based our selection on

what we know from previous experience with wet, transformed snow. Klisters, the usual suspects.” Masson says this in the calm, matter-offact way he is known for, but Masson’s success has not been earned through nonchalance.

Throughout the night he and Dueling worked on the 24 pairs of skis that comprise the Yukon Ski Team’s fleet. Before kick wax can be applied, a series of meticulous treatments go into each pair of skis.

First, a layer of base wax is ironed into each ski, then cooled and scraped. Next, a powder comprised of a high fluorinated compound is

sealed into the base. From there skis are rigorously hand brushed, the kick zone is sanded, and a base binder of sticky hard wax is added to the kick zone.

The ski, now optimized for speed and durability, is then ready for the morning’s tests.

On Saturday morning in the pitch dark, Masson and Dueling arrived at the race site carrying their equipment, a waxing table, blowtorches and wax boxes. As Masson puts it, “We won the competition to the race site that morning.”

On the side of a ski trail, with the light of their head-

lamps twinkling with the stars, Masson and Dueling began the methodical routine of applying kick wax and skiing on the result to test its grip and durability.

“We tested probably six or seven different combinations of klister,” Masson says. Klister is a form of wax specifically for warm or icy conditions. It comes in tubes like toothpaste and has the texture of Super Glue mixed with melted Saran Wrap. “It’s sticky,” Masson concedes. “I am still sticky from using it this morning, but it’s quick and efficient because when you have the right combo it works better than anything else.”

What Masson doesn’t mention is that when it comes to klister, getting the right combination is notoriously difficult. Different klisters are for different temperatures, snow types, and humidity levels. They can be mixed, but each has a different consistency and melting point which makes application a nightmare.

Couple that with application outside in the dark with no power, and you’ll find most coaches crying and wishing they’d pursued a different occupation.

For three and a half hours Masson and Dueling applied, tested and stripped wax, weeding out combinations that were too slippery, too tacky, or just too slow. Then, as Masson describes, it was time to make the call.

“Sometimes you have to stop testing and make a decisions. The athletes arrived at 9:30 a.m. so we made sure their skis were ready. We just made adjustments from that.”

For athletes, the routine is straightforward once they arrive on site. Marcus Dueling, who was the fourth fastest junior of the day, explains, “I took my skis out and tested them. I just had one pair that Alain and Amanda had pre-selected for me. They felt good, so I skied the race course.”

By the end of Saturday’s event the Yukon Ski Team had produced some astounding results. Out of the 13 Yukon athletes at the competition, eight had finished in the top 15.

“Many of the athletes posted the best (Canadian ranking) of their lives,” Masson says calmly. “It exceeded my expectations. It was a good day.”

Pavlina Sudrich is a writer and the former Ontario Ski Team head coach.

She always questions her life choices when handling klister.

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Hanthorn gives â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;breakthroughâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; performance at NorAm Tom Patrick News Reporter

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ukon Ski Teamâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Annah Hanthorn competed in two races at the Haywood NorAm in Rossland, B.C. over the weekend.

She ended up climbing the podium four times.

The 19-year-old was so quick on the trails, not only did she win the junior womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s races, she made the podium in the senior womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s division as well. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We were cheering on the boys and one of the girls was like, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Have you seen your result, you want to look at it? â&#x20AC;Ś Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re third.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; I was like, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Third junior?â&#x20AC;&#x2122; â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;No, third overall,â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;? said Hanthorn. â&#x20AC;&#x153;So we all screamed and had a moment there, hugged each other. So I was definitely surprised.â&#x20AC;?

Hanthorn, who is a member of the junior national team, began the weekend with first for juniors in the open womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 7.5-kilometre classic.

She was also third overall behind two senior competitors, and just 13.8 seconds behind the gold medal winner.

Fellow Whitehorse skier Dahria Beatty was a spot behind Hanthorn, picking up a bronze as the third-place senior. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It was surprising but very exciting at the same time,â&#x20AC;? said Hanthorn. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Overall, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m very excited and happy with my results. Coming into it, I just wanted to make sure I was relaxed, ready, excited and happy to go. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The first race, I finished and I wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t completely happy with my race because I thought my first lap had gone a bit slow and I felt like I had to go faster in the second lap to make up some time. But I was definitely OK with the race.â&#x20AC;?

Hanthorn kept up the pace on Sunday, capturing junior women gold in the 11-kilometre classic. She was just 21 seconds from the top time on the day, putting her second overall with senior women.

Beatty, who is a member of the national development team, placed seventh for senior women. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It was totally a breakthrough weekend for Annah Hanthorn,â&#x20AC;? said Yukon Ski Team head coach Alain Masson. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It was a really good weekend for Annah. She was the best junior and under-23 skier as well.â&#x20AC;?

Hanthorn and Beatty werenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t the only Yukon skiers cracking the top 10 in Rossland.

Yukonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Hannah Deuling, Natalie Hynes and Adrienne

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Yukon Ski Teamâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Annah Hanthorn cmompetes in Whitehorse at the end of November. Hanthorn won two gold medals at a Haywood NorAm over the weekend in Rossland, B.C.

Hynes placed top 10 both days for junior women.

Deuling placed sixth Saturday (18th overall) and fifth Sunday (16th overall). Natalie, who just won her first Don Sumanik Cup in Whitehorse two weeks ago, came eighth Saturday and seventh Sunday.

Sister Adrienne came ninth Saturday and 10th Sunday.

Yukonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Marcus Deuling and Caelan McLean also reached single digits in Saturdayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 11-kilometre classic, placing fourth and ninth, respectively, in junior men.

Marcus and McLean took 12th and 15th in Sundayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 15-kilometre classic.

Other Yukon results include Alexis Gee placing 14th Saturday and 20th Sunday, Hannah Shier 15th and 19th, and Mira Mason 16th and 14th, all in junior women.

On the junior boys side, Simon Cash notched 12th and 13th, Mac Prawdzik 14th and 21st, and Hudson Lucier 21st and 26th.

Yukon Elite Squadâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Knute Johnsgaard, skiing in open men, came 11th overall on Saturday and 22nd overall Sunday.

â&#x20AC;&#x153;On Sunday, Simon Cash definitely had his best race in his young career,â&#x20AC;? said Masson. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Marcus Deuling was the fourth junior (on Saturday) and was his best race ever.

Hannah Deuling on Sunday was sixth in open junior â&#x20AC;&#x201C; sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s still a juvenile this year.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Some of the athletes made huge progress. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re a lot fitter and are skiing a lot faster than in previous years.â&#x20AC;?

The Rossland NorAm was the third and final event used

by Cross Country Yukon to determine Yukonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ski team for the Canada Winter Games this February in Prince George, B.C. The roster was not released by press time, but Hanthorn, Beatty, Johnsgaard and Whitehorseâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Kendra Murray have been pre-selected to represent Yukon at the Games.

All four skiers, and plenty of other Yukoners, will be back in action for another NorAm this weekend at Silver Star in Vernon, B.C. The event is also the trials for the FIS Nordic Junior/U23 World Ski Championships.

This past weekendâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s NorAm was originally supposed

to feature a free technique sprint Saturday followed by a distance classic Sunday.

However, because of warm temperatures and a lack of snow, officials made a lastminute decision to make both races distance classics, which worked out fine for Hanthorn. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s what I would prefer

and is definitely my strength,â&#x20AC;? said Hanthorn. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Last weekend was a strength and something I enjoy â&#x20AC;&#x201C; I like distance classic. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This week itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be exciting to work on some of my weaknesses like skating technique and sprinting as well.â&#x20AC;?

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Bantam Mustangs send Tier 1 teams reeling on road trip

Tom Patrick News Reporter

T

he Whitehorse Bantam Mustangs is a Tier 3 hockey team, by name only.

At least, that’s the way it seems.

The bantam rep team continued their on-ice dominance last week on Vancouver Island, this time against Tier 1 squads in a five-game road trip.

The Mustangs, who have already won Tier 2 and Tier 3 tournaments this season, went 4-1 against four Tier 1 teams in exhibition games.

Mustangs head coach Martin Lawrie was “very happy” with his team’s performance.

“We weren’t too sure what to expect,” said Lawrie. “We were moving up in calibre for sure. Coming off with four wins against Tier 1 teams is pretty impressive.”

“It was a little surprising,” he added. “We knew we’d be in some pretty good hockey games down there and we lucky enough to come out on top in most of them.”

On the roadtrip that began last Thursday and finished Sunday, the Mustangs went 3-1 over the Juan de Fuca Grizzlies, 4-3 over the Shawnigan Stag, 9-4 over the Comox Valley Chiefs and 5-2 over the Stag in a second meeting.

The one blemish to Whitehorse’s record was a 3-0 loss to the Nanaimo Clippers on Friday. However, the Mustangs defeated the Clippers’ Tier 2 team at the start of the season in Richmond.

The wins might be the Whitehorse club’s first wins over Tier 1 teams since the Midget Mustangs beat Tier 1

Susan Anderson/Yukon News

Mustangs forward Dylan Cozens scores through the five-hole during a game against Shawnigan Stag on Sunday on Vancouver Island. The Mustangs came home with a 4-1 record.

teams leading up to the 2007 Canada Winter Games, one source told the News.

“Based on what I’ve seen out there and the results that the other Tier 3 organizations are having, I think we’re definitely going to be one of the teams to pay attention to come provincials,” said Lawrie.

The Mustangs downed the Grizzlies with goals from forwards Bryce Anderson, Isaac Williamson and Lochlan Fraser, while captain Joe Stokes helped with two assists.

Whitehorse defeated the Shawnigan Stag – a private school team from Shawnigan Lakes School – with a third-period game-winner from forward Dylan Cozens.

Anderson had two assists and one goal and Stokes reversed that with two goals and one assist. Kailem Letto, Niall Lawrie and Wyatt Peterson had assists in the close game.

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In the 9-4 thumping of the Chiefs, Cozens led the way with four goals while Stokes had four assists. Anderson racked up four points with two goals. Forward Johnny Elias had two assists while teammates Payton Fobe, Fraser and Dylan Kindervater contributed individual goals.

Cozens was again a sharpshooter in the second win over the Stag, with two goals and an assist. Stokes also put in two and Peterson one.

Anderson, Fraser and

Mackenzie Benn-Wipp logged assists.

“We had the usual suspects with Anderson, Cozens and Stokes playing strong for us,” said Martin. “Mackenzie Benn-Whipp, this was his first experience at this level and he played well for us. And Ethan Vanderkley in net, was really strong.”

The Bantam Mustangs went undefeated to capture gold at the 12th annual Seafair International Ice Breaker Rep Tournament – a Tier 2

tournament – in October.

They then won five straight for gold at the Whitehorse Minor Hockey Association’s International Fall Showdown – a Tier 3 tournament – in November.

“I was really happy with how the guys performed and happy about the results,” said Martin. “I continue to be quite encouraged, looking down the road to provincials.”

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Rapids hit new speeds in Edmonton

Phil Hoffman/Yukon News

Whitehorse Rapids speed skater Michael Ritchie competes in Richmond last month. Ritchie was one of five Yukon skaters to compete in Edmonton this past weekend.

in the A final of the 400-metre and sixth in the A final of the 1,500-metre. ive skaters from the White“Caius generally prefers horse Rapids Speed Skating the longer distances but this Club were as rapid as ever over weekend he did very well in the weekend. the 200-metre sprint, getting Not only did they produce through to the A final and some top finishes, they set a finishing fourth overall,” said total of 18 personal best times Taggart. “His younger brother at the Edmonton Short Track Lucas tends to like the shorter Ability Meet in Alberta, which sprints but had his best races featured over 150 skaters from in the 400-metre distance, throughout Western Canada. posting a personal best in They all achieved personal placing third in the 400-metre best times, despite competing A final.” on a narrower rink than what Haines Junction’s Michael they are used to.

Ritchie, Marsh Lake’s Micah “The hosts had been hoping Taggart-Cox and Whitehorse’s that they would have the wider Tristan Muir were shaving times in the competitive T2T Olympic-sized ice ready for division over the weekend. the short-track speed skating Ritchie twice cut into his competition but had to use a significantly narrower rink that personal best time in the posed a considerable challenge to skaters, like those from the Yukon, who train and compete on a bigger surface,” said Rapids coach Malcolm Taggart in a news release.

Marsh Lake brothers Caius and Lucas Taggart-Cox were burning it up in the younger 504 Main Street L2T division 2, placing fifth and sixth overall, respectively.

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400-metre, eventually placing second out of 16 racers in Tier 2. He also claimed fifth in the 200-metre, fifth in the 3,000-metre, in his respective divisions, and 21st out of 32 skaters in the Super Final of the 1,500-metre.

Micah made the Tier 2 final in three distances, taking fourth in the 3,000-metre, and sixth in the 400- and 200-metre events. He also topped his team with 10th in the 1,500-metre Super Final, in which skaters are placed into divisions based on their results in the 3,000-metre and 400-metre events.

“The 3,000-metre was a points race, so every seven laps they ring the bell and you skate as fast as you can and whoever crosses the line first

gets the most points,” said Micah. “It was really interesting that there were three kids who sprinted off the line – it’s a really long race, so you don’t see that quite often. So three kids sprinted off the line and I tried to follow them, but they worked as a pack and conserved their energy by taking turns leading. So they lapped everybody, which was interesting. I had never experienced that before.”

Muir twice reached podium positions in races. He took second in the Tier 3 final of the

200-metre and third in the Tier 4 3,000-metre final. He also took eighth in the 400-metre for Tier 2 and placed 24th in the open 1,500-metre.

Ritchie is in the running to make Yukon’s team for the Canada Winter Games this February in Prince George, B.C. Ritchie claimed three silver and a bronze in the juvenile male division at the Arctic Winter Games this past March in Fairbanks.

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Kakuro

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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: a person of great wealth or importance.

Puzzle A

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

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17. Simple word forms 18. Paddles 19. Roman garment 21. Meat skewers 23. Ethiopia (abbr.)

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CLUES DOWN 1. Schenectady County Airport 2. Small water craft 3. Opposite of ecto 4. The woman 5. Skeletal muscle 6. Devoid of warmth and cordiality 7. Decameter 8. Italian goodbye 9. Mediation council 10. Impudence 12. A desert in S Israel 14. Japanese seaport 15. Nob or goblin 20. Ingested

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2 PS2, $90 ea, PS1 portable, $75, 2 Game Boy colours, $45 & $50, Wii controller $10.

334-8873

WW II German submarine leathercoat, needs some needlework, $195 obo.

399-3920

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

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

PIONEER FEATHER-LITE parka, menʼs sz med, like new, $175, snowmobile suit, unisex down insulated, $75. 633-3053

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

HAINES JUNCTION, 3.9 acres w/mobile home, service ready. Lot 1026, Nygren subdivision, motivated to sell, price reduced to $65,000. 867-334-6065

Help Wanted SCHOOL BUS DRIVERS WANTED Training Provided Apply in person to: TAKHINI TRANSPORT #9 Lindeman Road, Whitehorse, Yukon 867-456-2745 WANTED: LICENSED HAIRSTYLIST for new beauty shop in Porter Creek Mall Patʼs Hairstyling & Barber Shop 633-5395 332-0784 CANADIAN LYNDEN TRANSPORT Looking for Class 1 Drivers With Super B experience E-mail resume to: abjork@lynden.com or Fax 867-668-3196 Call 867-668-3198

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

Specializing in estate clean-up & buy-outs.

The best way to deal with your concerns.

Free, no obligation consultation.

333-0717

ORGANIC GARLIC •Eight varieties •Smooth to bold, not bitter •Large Cloves •$14/pound I grew & harvested this garlic in B.C. in summer of 2014 before moving to the Yukon 867-332-0417

TRADING CARDS, binder full of non-sport trading cards (James Bond, X-men, Desert Storm, Enduring Freedom). About 500 cards. $50. 633-3154 WORLD HOCKEY Association, 5 complete hockey card sets from the 1970s. Exc cond. $750. 633-3154 WORLD HOCKEY Association, remember it? Two rare books, (history, statistics, photos). Exc. shape, $50. 633-3154 MCDONALDS H O C K E Y cards from 1991-92 to 2009/10, almost every card issued incl. 27 unopened paks from each year, over 1,200 cards, $1,000 firm. 633-3154.

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

633-3154 THREE COMPLETE OPC hockey card sets (1999-00 to 2001-02 period) plus some short prints. Over 900 cards. $150. 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 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 • SELL 36 PAPERBACK mysteries, various authors, $25. 633-3154 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, Landʼs End fleece-lined hooded jacket, wms L, $30. 311B Hanson St.

CANON EOS 5D Mark III DSLR Camera, full-frame 22.3MP, 6 fps, low-light sensitivity, full HD video 1080p/30p, battery, charger, strap, cap, interface cable, box/manual, exc cond, $2,700. 667-6472 STERLING SILVER spoon collection in display cases, spoons from different parts of the world, open to trade/offers. 333-9020 WOODWORKING TOOLS, Porter Cable 890Z combi router, accessories & bits $295, Dewalt laminate trimmer, $70, Makita power planer, $90, Veritas hand planes/scrapers, 2 for $120. 668-7361 CRAFT, HOBBY, ribbon supplies, dinosaur diarama, resist step exerciser, pocket charts, 36X30 Levi jeans, new & used, HO starter set tracks. 667-7144

LINOLEUM, 9.5'X12' piece, new, off-white colour, tile pattern, $65. 456-7880 eves

FALL/WINTER CANADIAN Tire black varsity jacket, new, lg 40-42 size, Melton cloth w/leather elbows, awarded to 3-yr CT employees, retail $350, asking $285 firm.

334-7977

ARTWORK BY Halin de Repentigny, Bombay Peggyʼs building in Dawson City, framed, 20x24”, $2,100. 668-7355

DISABLED ELECTRIC wheelchair, completely redone, new tires as well as spares, $2,500 obo. 334-6043

HPI MICRO RSY Mustang, like “Bullit”, drift or on road tires, has no charger, good cond, $200 obo. 334-6519 TABLE SETTINGS, cards w/or without stamps, lots more, new & like new, gift wrapping, tea will be served. 633-2037 BEAVER MITTENS, all hand-crafted, warm, $500 obo. 334-6043 GENERATORS, VARIOUS, prices negotiable, compressor, $200 obo. 334-6043 5-DRAWER PLASTIC tower on wheels, $12, Brita water filter pitchers, 2 & 4 L, $12 & $7, 18” men's silver necklace, 3-chain braided design in box, $80. 334-3698

TVs & Stereos OLA, SMALL Dora TV, cw/remote & hand-held joystick, Dora game, $75 obo.

334-0423 BLU-RAY DISC/DVD Sony Home Theatre System, less then 1 yr, $850 obo. 332-6678 BLU RAY movies, $5 ea, XBox, older model, hardly used, $200 obo. 334-6043

NORTH FACE Codura menʼs rain jacket, size XL, new cond, $50. 660-5101

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

DOG SLED suitable for one or more dogs, made with birch, weighs approximately 25lbs, interchangeable runner inserts, never used, offers.

668-4876

OUTDOOR CHRISTMAS decorations, spiral trees, lights, huge wreath, wrapping paper.

332-4455

FULL TIME EMPLOYEES

YUKON PARKA, full-length, original design, blue duffle, Kelly green shell, white fur, sm/med, sz 8-10, $250. 668-4949 eves

Counter Attendants & Kitchen Helpers

GAS POWERED 225 amp Hobart arc welder, 17hp Kohler engine, mounted on 4-wheeled wagon, $1,200 obo. 633-6502 PC INDOOR cooking grill, $40; oval mirrors, 24”X31”, rectangular, 31”X43”, momʼs ruby ring, amber earrings & pendants. 311B Hanson St. OVAL OIL/FUEL tank with stand, $400 obo.

633-6502 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

IBEX VALLEY GREENHOUSE AND GIFTS 800 thread count Egyptian cotton sheet sets King, Queen, Double, Twin, 12 colours Purses and Fairy Garden Decor Free delivery to Whitehorse 335-2210 or 633-4415 TIDY TANK 600 litre, baffled, 12v pump w/filter, long Arctic grade hose & auto shut-off swivel nozzle, $750. 333-0117

Quiznos is looking for

Wages start 15 dollars.

Apply in Person with resume: 210B Ogilivie St NO PHONE CALLS PLEASE

IPHONE 4S, good condition, Bell or Virgin mobile free of contract, $225. 334-6087

VUNTUT GWITCHIN LIMITED PARTNERSHIP #201A-1191 FRONT STREET, WHITEHORSE, YUKON, CANADA Y1A 0K5

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

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TEL: 867-633-8972 FAX: 867-456-7139 EMAIL: INFO@VUNTUT.COM

Be a part of one of Canada’s most dynamic environmental and socio-economic assessment processes; working with an energe c, progressive organiza on. We are commi ed to the well-being of our employees and encourage their personal and professional development.

Our commitment is to be an impar al, effec ve and efficient organiza on that provides assistance to all involved in the assessment process.

ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT Whitehorse Designated Office Full-Ɵme, permanent

The salary range for this posi on is $51,489 - $59,126 per annum.

Repor ng to the Manager, Designated Office, the Administra ve Assistant is responsible for providing recep on and administra ve support to the staff of the Designated Office. 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 Office, Suite 200 – 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 – 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.

Executive Administrator JOB SUMMARY: Reporting to the Vuntut Gwitchin Limited Partnership (VGLP) CEO, this position is responsible for providing a broad range of analytical and administrative support to the Chief Executive Officer and the Property Manager positions. This position shall be responsible for the supervision of general accounting, accounts receivable, collection and payroll of VGLP. The Administrative Officer will also ensure the legal and regulatory compliance for all VGLP accounting and financial reporting functions. As well this position will assist in fostering good public relations with citizens, staff and other governments, industries and organizations with whom VGLP conducts business.

MAIN DUTIES: s Maintain office clerical, filing and record keeping systems s Assist the CEO, as directed, with the background research and drafting of funding proposals s Preparation for yearend audit s Bill payments and/or invoicing to associated companies s Conduct seasonal/term recruitments on behalf of VGLP s Makes logistical arrangements for Board meetings including the preparation and distribution of agendas, related reference materials and meeting minutes set for approval s Preparation of a wide range of reports, correspondence, discussion papers, written recommendations and other relevant documentation pertaining to Board Activities. s Maintain filing systems (hard copy and electronic) ensuring all records and documentation is fully accessible and properly stored. s Preparation and publication of VGLP communications s Other related duties as reasonably required EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE: BA or equivalent undergraduate degree in field related to Finance, Public Administration and Business or equivalent experience with accounting systems, budgets, internal controls, business planning, and asset management. Minimum of 3 years’ experience within a medium to large organization at a senior level.

FOR A COMPLETE JOB DESCRIPTION & PAYSCALE PLEASE CONTACT: BRENDA BINGHAM, at info@vuntut.com CLOSES JANUARY 15, 2015

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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 19, 2014 ARTICULATING TV wall mount rack, 180â&#x20AC;?, & 50â&#x20AC;? Toshiba LED TV, less then 1 yr, like new, $850 obo. 332-6678 LG 42" plasma TV, $25. 668-5882

Teslin Tlingit Council

is inviting applications for

Chair for Off Settlement Land Working Group Reporting to the Executive Council, the Chair for this committee will guide discussions around this issue but remain neutral in their position at all times. The working group is comprised of two General Council members, TTC Finance director, TTC Implementation and Negotiations Director, TTC Legal Counsel and a member of the Executive Council.

The chair will have excellent mediation skills, analytical reasoning ability, and writing skills. At the outset, the Chair is tasked with assisting the working group in drafting terms of reference and a work plan for approval by Executive Council. The Chair will report to Executive Council quarterly to provide an update on the progress of the working group as identified in the work plan. The availability of the working group and the work plan will dictate the tenure of the working group. The presentation to General Council on their findings may also result in additional discussion and reporting.

In order to ensure neutrality, the Chair will not be a TTC citizen, the spouse of a TTC citizen, or TTC staff.

For further information call 867.390.2532 ext. 304 Please quote the job title in the subject line of your email, fax and/or cover letter: HR & Staff Development Officer Teslin Tlingit Council Box 133 Teslin, Yukon Y0A 1B0 f. 867.390.2176 humanresources@ttc-teslin.com

INVITES APPLICATIONS FOR

Aboriginal Rights & Title Researcher THIS IS A 12-MONTH TERM POSITION The Aboriginal Rights & Title Researcher will report directly to the Implementation & Negotiations Director, and work closely with TTCâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s legal advisers, Executive Director, Dakhlâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;awèdi Executive Councillor, Lands & Resources Department and the Heritage Department as well as with TTC Elders and Citizens.

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Closing Date: Monday, January 5, 2015

To apply, please submit a cover letter and resume to: HR & Staff Development OfďŹ cer Workforce Development Teslin Tlingit Council Box 133, Teslin, Yukon Y0A 1B0 f. 867.390.2176 humanresources@ttc-teslin.com Closing Date: Wednesday, January 7, 2015 **NO LATER THAN 4:00PM**

EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY www.ttc-teslin.com

The Yukon Council on Aging requires a

TTC HIRING POLICY WILL BE IN EFFECT.

PERMANENT PART-TIME

HZc^dg >c[dgbVi^dc 8ZcigZ 8ddgY^cVidg OFFICE HOURS: MONDAY TO FRIDAY 9:00 AM TO 1:00 PM

This position provides assistance to Yukon Seniors relative to government pensions, benefits, and various Seniorsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Grant programs. The Centre Coordinator also provides administrative assistance to the Yukon Council on Aging Board of Directors.

The successful candidate will have knowledge of Simply Accounting, possess strong computer skills, have an ability to relate and be sensitive to seniors and their requirements, and ability to maintain confidentiality.

Knowledge of Senior Pension and Benefits an asset.

The position requires a Notary Public Certificate or ability to obtain certification within 6 months.

Salary $23.50 per hour DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS: JANUARY 12, 2015 Please forward resume clearly marked: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Senior Information Centre Coordinatorâ&#x20AC;? to: Hiring Committee Yukon Council on Aging 4061B-4th Avenue Whitehorse, Yukon Y1A-1H1

NEW 55" smart TV, few weeks old, LG model 55LB5800, new price $895, asking $775. Call/txt Matt at 332-1281

Musical Instruments PIANO TUNING & REPAIR by certified piano technician Call Barry Kitchen @ 633-5191 email:bfkitchen@hotmail.com YAMAHA CLAVINOVA piano model CVP509, check wonderful features on Internet, perfect for beginners or advanced players, over $9,000 in stores, asking $6,200.

Serge 667-2196 after 5pm 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 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 SMALL VIOLIN, like new, barely played, child's size, $100. Rae 334-0423 YAMAHA DTX500 drums, electronic drum set pre assembled rack system, purchased late 2011, used very little, $750. 668-2659 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 YAMAHA FLUTE 581, made in Japan, exc cond. 336-1978 CLARINET, $300. 334-8873 FENDER SQUIRE, amp & guitar, new strings, good cond, $350 obo. 334-6519

Firewood

HURLBURT ENTERPRISES INC.

Journeyman Heavy Duty Mechanic

Store (867) 633-3276

Key Responsibilities:

This position is responsible for safely completing 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 position will also entail completion of work orders, oďŹ&#x20AC;ering direction and assistance to apprentice mechanics, and any other duties applicable to the job.

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

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

Wage:

Starting at $40.00/hr and up, based on experience along with medical and insurance benefits.

Schedule:

This position has a Monday through Friday work week, with shifts from 8:00am â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 5:00pm and overtime and weekends as needed.

Qualifications 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 aptitude 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, ambitious and enthusiastic 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 application is to email resumes to: sheldon@pnwgroup.ca We would like to thank all candidates in advance for their interest in this position, however only those being considered will be contacted.

Applications are being accepted until December 19th 2014.

MasterCard

Cheque, Cash S.A. vouchers accepted.

CB FIREWOOD $250/cord $240/cord for multiple cords of 4 or more 335-4065 or 633-3086 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 EVF FUELWOOD ENT Year Round Delivery â&#x20AC;˘ Dry accurate cords â&#x20AC;˘ Clean shavings available â&#x20AC;˘ VISA/M.C. accepted Member of Yukon Wood Producers Association Costs will rise.

ORDER NOW 456-7432 FIREWOOD 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)

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 19, 2014 DONĘźS FIREWOOD SERVICE â&#x20AC;˘Single cord specialist â&#x20AC;˘Wood stockpiled in Whitehorse for quick daily deliveries â&#x20AC;˘Social Services accepted 393-4397 DJG CONTRACTING Delivering single/multiple cord orders cut to length 20 cords in tree length Pick up in Whitehorse or Haines Junction Call or text David at 332-8327 DRY SPRUCE FIREWOOD Cut to length 16â&#x20AC;? and up From Haines Junction Local delivery $250 per cord 456-2035 QUALITY DRY FIREWOOD $250 per cord Leave message for David 332-1300

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 NORINCO .22 semi-auto (Browning clone) take-down rifle, new in box, unfired, $175.

633-2443

HUSQVARNA RIFLE, 1980 Carl Gustaf 270 Winchester Nitro w/Leupold M8-4X scope, Monte Carlo oiled walnut stock w/shoulder strap, exc cond, $1,195 obo. 334-2418 LEE ENFIELD No1 Mk III* SMLE, sporterized wood, aftermarket Lyman sight, full length bbl, new camo finish with clearcoat, good cond, $340, PAL req'd. 667-2276 LEE ENFIELD No4 Mk1, professional conversion to .308 win, new .308 bbl, no finish, new bolt parts, new synthetic stock, scope mount, no sights, no magazine, $500, PAL req'd. 667-2276

Wanted

WANTED: LADIES cross-country ski boots, 3-pin toe, size 8. 660-5101 WANTED: WOMENĘźS Yukon parka in good condition, size 14 or 16. 668-7903 WANTED: ROCKBAND for Wii guitar and drum set, must be in workable condition.

633-4807 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 CANDLE-MAKER 633-2037

FOR candle scraps.

WANTED: BOTTLES and Cans. Twas the weeks around Christmas, and a reminder though short, as you empty those bottles, bring them to Raven and help support

Cars

DOMINION ARMS 16-gauge single shot shotgun, new in box, unfired, $150.

633-2443 AYA (SPANISH) 12-gauge boxlock sxs shotgun, vg to exc cond, trade for good quality 16-gauge sxs or sell for $475. 633-2443

2013 HYUNDAI Genesis Coupe, 2.0T, fully loaded, 6-spd standard w/cargo tray, winter front mats, new winter tires/rims, oil pan heater, 12,000 kms, $27,500 obo. 334-9039 1993 DODGE Neon, 4-cyl, auto, runs but needs fuel filter, $500. 335-9796

USED VEHICLE SPECIALS!!

4"-&4 t #0%: 4)01 t 1"354 t 4&37*$&

2012 Toyota Corolla #1408 / $18,257 ......PROMO: $15,170 2013 Chev Cruze LT Turbo #7602A / $22,645 .....PROMO: $15,495 2011 Chevrolet Malibu LT #7594A / $26,345 ..... PROMO: $14,985 2009 Ford Super Duty F-450 DRW Harley #7354A / $86,192 ......................................................PROMO:

2011 Kia Sportage AWD LX #7551A

/ $26,795.. PROMO:

41,895 18,600

$

$

2008 Toyota FJ Cruiser STOCK # 1411 PRICE: $41,065 PROMO:

23,790

2012 Toyota Yaris

STOCK #1409 PRICE: $19,507 PROMO:

13,995

$

2011 Toyota Tundra SR5 STOCK # 1410 PRICE: $39,199 PROMO:

28,695

$

2012 Toyota Corolla

STOCK #7569A PRICE: $19,797 PROMO:

1 column x 3 inches Wed - $ s &RI $35.10

2 columns x 2 inches 7ED s &RI

2 columns x 3 inches 7ED s &RI

2 columns x 4 inches 7ED s &RI

Phone: 867-667-6285 211 Wood Street, Whitehorse

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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 2004 CHRYSLER Sebring for sale or trade for any goods or services, $500 obo.

336-1141 2003 CHEV Cavalier, 4-cyl, 5-spd standard, exc running cond, $800 obo. Wayne @ 456-7707 2002 KIA Rio, hatchback, auto, 4-cyl, 137,000 kms, very nice car, $2,600.

456-4422 2001 FORD Taurus 4-dr, 114,500kms, cruise, P/W, P/L, V6 auto, 4 winter tires, reduced to $2,300. 336-2029 2000 CHRYSLER Intrepid, 4-dr, 6-cyl, auto, 196,000 kms, (needs engine), $600.

336-2029 1993 SUNBIRD, 4-cyl, auto, runs but needs coil, $250. 335-9796 2000 MAZDA Protege, drives excellent, economical, new winter tires & brakes, 258,000 km, $1,900. 633-2224 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

If you recognize

this guy,

wish him happy

40th!

Clue: he has a keen eye and still loves hockey.

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2008 VW Jetta, reliable, fuel efficient, low km, well maintained w/synthetic oil, fully loaded, cold weather equipped, clean inside/out, $8,800. 334-3049 2007 KIA Spectra 5, 5-spd manual, fully maintained highway commuter, loaded, extra studded tires on rims, 153,000 km, $5,000.

667-2276 2007 SUBARU WRX, immaculate, 73,000 km, 5-spd, sunroof, CD, winter/summer tires, black, 5-dr, performance enhancements, maintenance records, $16,000. 668-3416

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2009 NISSAN Maxima, low kms, fully loaded, many options, must sell, 668-5869 evenings

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COMPOUND BOW, hardly used, need to sell, $350 obo. 334-6043

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

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

UTAS UTS-15, 12-gauge tactical shotgun, pump action bullpup, two 7-round magazine tubes, 28.3â&#x20AC;? overall length with a 18.5â&#x20AC;? barrel, chambered for 2 3/4" and 3". 334-5200

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Ayamdigut(Whitehorse) Campus Permanent Position Based on75 hours bi-weekly Salary: $62,200 to $74,057 per annum Initial Review Date: January 6, 2015 Competition No.: 14.137

As the Integrated Business Manager you will be a key member of the Student & Infrastructure Support (SIS) Departmental OHDGHUVKLS WHDP <RX ZLOO VXSSRUW WKH HIĂ&#x20AC;FLHQW DQG VPRRWK delivery of all SIS services by providing a wide range of senior OHYHO DGPLQLVWUDWLYH Ă&#x20AC;QDQFLDO DQG VWXGHQW VXSSRUW IRU WKH department, and by providing leadership and supervision to the Welcome Centre and Telecom services.

We are seeking a self-motivated individual with strong customer service, problem solving and business management skills.

The successful candidate will have a relevant bachelorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s GHJUHH LQ D UHODWHG Ă&#x20AC;HOG FRPELQHG ZLWK FRPSOHWLRQ RI administrative post secondary coursework. Previous experience supervising staff and providing senior level DGPLQLVWUDWLYH DQG Ă&#x20AC;QDQFLDO VXSSRUW LV UHTXLUHG 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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1993 VOLVO 750, 4-cyl, auto, runs good, $1,200. 335-9796 1990 TOYOTA Camry, 5-spd standard, c/w winter & summer tires. 668-2253

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have your pets SPAYED OR NEUTERED. FOR INFORMATION CALL

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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 1987 JEEP Cherokee, 4 litre, auto, runs well but trans slips occasionally, $500 as is.

867-634-2122.

1980 CORVETTE, manual, P/S, P/B, leather interior, rebuilt from frame up. 336-8850 for details

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t Mayo and Burma rd, male, pomeranian x, light brown, wearing a brown leather collar no tags, answers to Keech, Contact Deb @ 333-0744 (19/11/14) t Granger, neutered male, DMH, brown tabby with white patch under chin, no collar, answers to Moo, Contact Kim @ 336-1416 t Alsek, Riverdale area, female siamese, very petite, answers to Rachel. Black paw, black face. Very skittish. Please contact Richard @689-2535 (16/12/14)

t Cowley Creek, 1 yrs old, male, shepherd X husky, wearing a black collar no tags on it, Contact Cheryl @ 456-2332 ( 06/12/14)

RUNNING AT LARGE...

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

IN FOSTER HOMES DOGS t 3 yr old, neutered male, GSD/Rottie, black and brown (Tristan) t 7 yr old, female spayed, rottie X, brindle (Daphne) t 5 yr old, female, border collie, brown, ( Annie) t 4 yr old, neutered male, coonhound, reddish, ( Watson)

t 4 yr old, neutered male, Pit bull terrier X, brindle ( Tux)

CATS

t 11 yr old, male neutered, DSH, black (Mingus) t 11 yr old, DLH female spayed, yellow and grey ( Kizzie) t 6 yr old, DMH, female spayed, brown tabby, ( Judy)

AT THE SHELTER DOGS t 4 yr old, neutered male, beagleX, brown and black and white ( Dexter) t 9 weeks old, female, husky X, brown, ( Abby) t 9 weeks old, female, husky X, black and tan, (Tori) t 4 month old, female, border collie X, black and tan (Lily) t 4 yr old, neutered male, huskyX, white, ( Marcus)

Trucks

t 3 yr old, neutered male, boxer X, white, ( Kale)

CATS

t 8 yr old, female spayed, DSH, black, ( Forest) t 2 yr old, female, DMH,black and white, ( Mika) t 10 yr old, female spayed, siamese, white ( Peppermint)

SPECIAL t Homes needed for retired sled dogs. They would make excellent pets. Please contact 668-3647 or kennelmanager@muktuk.com If your lost animal has been inadvertently left off the pet report or for more info on any of these animals, call 633-6019 or stop by 126 Tlingit Street.

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

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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

WARN M8000 (8,000lb) winch & accessories, never used commercially, 1 yr warranty, $425 obo. Call/text 333-0100

2007 GMC Sierra 2500HD Classic V-8, 6L gas, crew cab, 8Ęź box, recent frontend overhaul, new rubber, 161,000 kms, $14,000.

John 633-5665 after Noon

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

2003 FORD F350, crew cab, 4X4, long box, 200,000kms, very clean inside & out, lots of options, priced to sell. 334-3876 (cell)

We Sell Trucks!

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2010 FORD F250 XLT, 6.4L diesel, ext cab, 6Ęź9â&#x20AC;? box, great condition, clean, regular oil changes, reliable truck, never used for work, $20,500 obo. 333-9367 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

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

2000 CHEV Suburban 4X4, loaded, new windshield, extra rear seat, auto, P/S, P/W/B, a/c, good tires, $3,800. 334-4210 1999 CHEVROLET 1/2 ton 4X4, ext cab, c/w winch, head rack & rails, storage bins, reduced to $5,950. 336-2029 1999 GMC Safari Van, fully equipped for camping, bed, propane stoves, cooler, winter tires, tire chains, new alternator, battery, 198,000km, $3,500 obo. 335-8444, Whitehorse or Dawson 1997 FORD F-350, 4x4, DRW, auto, diesel 7.3L, regular cab flat deck w/jockey box, flip up hitch for goose neck, low miles, clean good work truck, $7,500 obo. 334-5182 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 TOYOTA Hiace, 8-passenger, camping or handicap minivan, 4X4 auto, 4-cyl diesel, auto, 133,000 kms, will consider 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

2010 D O D G E Laramie 1500, fully loaded,108000 kms, ridged light bar, power sun roof, soft box cover, DVD/MP3 CD player, back up camera, $29,999. Jim or Jill 867-634-2318

AVAILABLE FOR ADOPTION

15â&#x20AC;? RIMS with 5x108 bolt pattern, came off Ford Focus, used 1 winter, $100 obo.

335-2092

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

LOST/FOUND

2007 CHEV 2500HD, Crew Cab 4X4, great unit, many options, trailer tow, fully serviced, new brakes/battery, $15,000 obo. 633-4311

Auto Parts & Accessories TRUCK CANOPIES - in stock * new Dodge long/short box * new GM long/short box * new Ford long/short box Hi-Rise & Cab Hi - several in stock View at centennialmotors.com 393-8100 TOYOTA ALLOY wheels, fits Tacoma or Tundra, 16X7, retail $490 ea, asking $125 ea or all for $400. 633-3053 5 BRAND new Goodyear 245/75-17â&#x20AC;? 10ply mud/snow tires, $420 cost each, will sell for $325/ea obo, only sold as a complete set, will not fit my truck. Call 332-1374 SNAP-ON RED brick hand-held automomtive code reader & diagnostic trouble shooter, 1984 & up, foreign & domestic, w/case & manuals, $500 obo. 333-0100 1997 TOYOTA 4-Runner, 2.7L, 5-spd, power train, axles, body parts & electrical items.

333-0100 VARIOUS ENGINE parts for Ęť03 5.9 Cummins engine, turbo charger, intercooler, air intake, power chip, various prices. 633-6502

Pets 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 WANTED: LARGE dog kennel for medium to large dog. 334-6197

Motorcycles & Snowmobiles RONĘźS SMALL ENGINE SERVICES Repairs to Snowmobiles, Chainsaws, Lawnmowers, ATVĘźs, Small industrial equipment.

Light welding repairs available 867-332-2333 lv msg 1982 YAMAHA XJC650J street bike, needs work & parts, $600 obo. 633-5155

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2006 P

olaris RMK 166x2.5â&#x20AC;? tra 900 ck, 2500km , 107hr. Sled near mint sh is in ape. All upda done. Has te s have been lots of power .

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Phone: 867 867-667-6285 667 6285

633-6019 126 Tlingit Street

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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 19, 2014 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, lots of accessories, trades considered.

333-9020 2005 KINGCAT 900 1M, low kms, riser bars, race can, fast, loud, ready to rock, $3,500. 390-2313 2009 POLARIS IQ touring 2-person snow machine, 4-stroke, reverse, elec start, block heater, hand/thumb warmers for driver/passenger, 500 mi, $6,750, trades considered.

333-9020 TAITĘźS CUSTOM TRAILER SALES 2-3-4- place snowmobile & ATV trailers Drive on Drive off 3500 lb axles

by Trailtech - SWS & Featherlight CALL ANYTIME: 334-2194 www/taittrailers.com 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 1995 SKIDOO Skandic 380 for parts or repair, $500. 867-634-2631 HJ 2004 SKIDOO Skandic SWT 550F, 740 km on top end rebuild, new 24" wide track, trans rebuilt Ęť06, includes shop manual, receipts for work, good cond, $4,500. 867-634-2631 HJ 1981 SKIDOO Skandic, 377, 15" track, vintage sled, well maintained, vg cond, $800 obo. 867-634-2631 HJ 2013 EXPEDITION 550F, new sliders, winshield, c/w plugs, belt, helmet, $6,000 obo.

335-0164 2003 ARCTIC Cat 900 Mountain Cat snow machine, powerful & fast, 151â&#x20AC;? track, 450 kms, exc cond, reduced to $3,500. 333-9020 1973 ALPINE double track, reverse & manual start, c/w spare engine & some parts, $1,450 obo. 399-3920 2 HARLEY Davidson skidoos, 1973/74, one running, one good for parts, $950 obo.

399-3920

Marine

Heavy Equipment

2003 26' Silver Streak welded alum ocean cruiser, fully loaded for cruising & fishing, $115,000 obo. 667-7844 12' 6" Quick Silver inflatable c/w wood floor, exc cond. 336-8850l for details

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

PROFESSIONAL BOAT REPAIR Fiberglass Supplies Marine Accessories FAR NORTH FIBERGLASS 49D MacDonald Rd Whitehorse, Yukon 393-2467 HONDA 10HP outboard motor, 4-stroke short shaft, starts easily, idles nicely, runs smoothly, 1980s vintage, c/w tank, hose, new extra prop, $750. 668-2802

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

The following insurance salvage is up for bids. Salvage vehicles may have signiďŹ cant collision damages. Listed salvage is currently located at Irving Collision Repairs. GST will be added to all bids. It is offered on an â&#x20AC;&#x153;as is, where isâ&#x20AC;? basis. The highest or any bid not necessarily accepted.

Bids close at 6:00 p.m. Monday, December 29, 2014. Contact Irving Collision Repairs (867-667-6315) for viewing appointment & information.

YEAR 2008 2006 2006

MAKE Mazda Toyota Chev

MODEL B300 Tundra Silverado

FILE NUMBER 841704 824934 795296

BRANDING Salvage Salvage Salvage

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SNOWMOBILES

x-rentals Check out: klondikerv.com (867) 456 2729 DOUBLE SNOWMOBILE trailer, drive on back, drive off front, new 12ĘźX8Ęź deck, V front, undercoated, mint cond, $2,500.

335-3570 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

2014 TILT deck trailer, tandem 3,500 lb axles, 19Ęź deck, electric brakes, manually operated tilt deck, located in Whitehorse, $4,950.

334-0578 TANDEM AXLE flat bed trailer, 16Ęź w/beaver tail, home made, used for hauling TD-6 bulldozer, suitable for Bobcat etc, lights work, hitch needs some work, $600. 336-1876

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In loving memory of

Michel David deVilliers (Mike) â&#x20AC;&#x153;That love is all there is, Is all we know of love.â&#x20AC;?

-Emily Dickinson We are forever your family.

2008 Yamaha Phazer Mtx 144â&#x20AC;? ...........$5,499.00 2011 Yamaha Phazer Mtx 144â&#x20AC;? ...........$6,499.00 2011 Yamaha Phazer Rtx 121â&#x20AC;? ............$6,499.00 $ !

DUCED 2012 Yamaha Phazer Gt 121â&#x20AC;?RE..............$5,999.00 ..............$

2005 POLARIS 800 RMK, 159â&#x20AC;? track, rebuilt engine & clutch, has reverse, $4,600.

633-4643

2013 Yamaha Nytro Xtx 144â&#x20AC;?

4â&#x20AC;? ..............

Supercharged ................................... $ SOLD! $12,999.00

1998 POLARIS Indy 488 trail, c/w rear rack/cover, $2,450; 1995 Polaris Indy 340 Lite deluxe, c/w electric start/cover, $1,850; Snowmobile trailer, 1,500lb axle, $850; package deal $4,950. 334-4687 lv msg

Is SELLING OFF their

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

February 16, 1970 - December 18, 2004

2012 Yamaha Nytro Xtx 144â&#x20AC;?

4â&#x20AC;? ...............$7,999.00 SOLD! ....

2005 WT Skandic 550 Fan, engine & suspension rebuilt, $4,600. 633-4643

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

SALVAGE SALE

2011 SKANDIC WT 600 ACE, 8,500 kms, $8,000. 633-5955

POLARIS 500 Ranger 4X4 tilt box, new bearing & seals, new brakes, winch, $5,500.

633-4643

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YUKON

YAMAHA

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

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

In Loving Honour of our Mother and Grandmother:

Elizabeth

Lacey JANUARY 29, 1924 TO DECEMBER 14, 2014

Our beloved Mother, Grandmother & Friend, Elizabeth (â&#x20AC;&#x153;Bessieâ&#x20AC;?) Drumgold Lacey (nĂŠe McGinty) passed away peacefully at Copper Ridge Place in the arms of her loving daughter on December 14, 2014 at 3:00 am in Whitehorse, Yukon Territory. Bessie Lacey lived 91 full and vibrant years.

Bessie was born on January 29, 1924 in Paisley, Scotland to her parents, Tammy and Mary McGinty. Bessie came from humble beginnings and had true inner strength that guided her through poverty, the Great Depression and World War II (first aid attendant).

Bessie married Robert Lacey on August 28, 1946 in Glasgow, Scotland and had three children: Sandra, Robert and Elizabeth. Bessie always put her family first and worked so hard to provide for her children while her husband was at sea with the Royal Navy. In 1967, Bessie and her family immigrated to Canada, over 47 years ago. Bessie was a true and passionate Canadian citizen.

YAMAHA SRV 500 snowmobile & trailer, $1,500. 633-3086 1991 POLARIS Indy Lite 500, liquid cooled, 133â&#x20AC;? track w/cleats, runs good, $1,600 obo.

John 399-3911 2010 POLARIS RMK 800, 155" track, all stock, very low hrs, good suspension, c/w cover and dollies, $6,000 obo. 334-5182 1999 ARCTIC Cat Powder Special, 2,500kms, 136X2â&#x20AC;? paddle track, exc mechanical condition, recently serviced, $2,500 obo. 336-3874 2008 YAMAHA MP 4-stroke, 144â&#x20AC;? track, good fuel economy, $4,000. John 399-3911 1995 ARCTIC Cat, 580 EXT, 136â&#x20AC;? track, fuel injection, reverse, new battery, 970 mi, like new cond, $2,800 obo. John 399-3911

Your Community Connection

Bessie was a strong, positive, caring and beautiful person who touched the lives of everyone she met. She was a spiritual believer in the power of the mind; she was known for her vibrant, spiritual readings, her love for dance, animals and her endless rhymes, songs, jokes and poems. Bessie had overwhelming love for her family and would do anything to ensure their happiness. Her quick wit and boundless sense of humour made every day exciting and entertaining.

Bessie is survived by her daughters, Elizabeth and Sandra, her son, Robert, 6 grandchildren and 6 great-grandchildren. She is preceded in death by her Mother and Father, her husband, Robert, and her sisters, Esther, Maisie, Winnie, Veronica, Lily and brothers, Tom and John.

A Celebration of Life will take place on Monday, December 22, 2014 at Heritage North Funeral Home, 412 Cook Street, in Whitehorse, Yukon from 4:00pm to 6:00pm. In lieu of flowers, please kindly make a donation to the Mae Bachur Animal Shelter on behalf of Bessie Lacey and her love for animals.

The family of Bessie would like to thank all staff at both Macaulay Lodge and Copper Ridge for their kindness, help and support. A special thank you to Dr. Lisoway for her support, kindness and medical care of Bessie.

Bessie was a light for so many of us and we are certain that her light will shine at its brightest wherever she may be. She was truly beautiful inside and out.

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1982 22ʼ Vanguard motorhome, sleeps 6, bathroom, 4-burner stove, oven, good tires, great shape, $5,500. 334-4210

Coming Events ATLIN GUEST HOUSE Deluxe Lakeview Suites Sauna, Hot Tub, BBQ, Internet, Satellite TV Kayak Rentals In House Art Gallery 1-800-651-8882 Email: atlinart@yahoo.ca www.atlinguesthouse.com 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

REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL

ATLIN - GLACIER VIEW CABINS “your quiet get away” Cozy self contained log cabins canoes, kayaks for rent Fax/Phone 250-651-7691 e-mail sidkatours@ atlin.net www.glacierviewcabins.ca YUKON LEARN Society, free drop-in computer lab for your self-directed computer studies Mondays 10am–2pm. Tutor/instructor on site to assist you. Yukon Learn Society, 2158-2nd Ave 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 AGM/YUKON SCHUTZHUND Association, Sunday, January 25, 2015, 10am-12Noon, Whitehorse Public Library. Dog enthusiasts welcome.

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 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!

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.

LIKE BIRDS? Join the Christmas bird count in Caribou Crossing on Saturday December 20. Call Dan Kemble at 867-821-3461 for details.

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 19, 2014 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 YUKON SCIENCE Institute AGM Monday, December 22 at 5pm in the Whitehorse Public Library meeting room FINE FREE! Yukon Public Libraries will waive fines in exchange for overdue library materials returned Dec 4 - 24. Info 667-5239 AL-ANON MEETINGS, 667-7142. Has your life been affected by someoneʼs drinking?

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

YUKON ARTISTS @ Work Co-op Gallery's Christmas show running until Boxing Day, 120 Industrial Road. Watch for our re-opening date in our new gallery in 2015 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 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 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

REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL

REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL

WHITEHORSE & SOUTHERN LAKES REPORT ON TIMBER ECONOMY Project Description: The Forest Management branch requires a qualified consultant to prepare a report on the timber economy in Whitehorse.

Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title.

The closing date for submissions is January 13, 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 Lisa Walker at (867) 393-7406.

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

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

CONSULTANT SERVICES FOR FH COLLINS SCHOOL - TECHNICAL EDUCATION WING (TEW) UPGRADE WHITEHORSE, YUKON 2014/2015 Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title.

The closing date for submissions is January 14, 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 Muhammad Shanjer at (867) 456-6811.

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

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

ADVERTISING DESIGN AND PRODUCTION SERVICES ENQ 7575

SUPPLY OF SOPHOS ANTI-VIRUS SOFTWARE

SUPPLY OF 80’ BRIDGE

Project Description: Advertising production services for print media such as newspapers and periodicals, the development of collateral including advertising, images and photography, print and digital tools Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title.

The closing date for submissions is January 14, 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 Pascale Black at (867) 667-3585.

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

Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title.

The closing date for submissions is January 15, 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 Wayne Beauchemin at (867) 667-8039.

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

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

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

Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title.

The closing date for submissions is January 14, 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 Bill Stonehouse at (867) 6678281.

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

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

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

Energy, Mines and Resources

Highways and Public Works

Highways and Public Works

Highways and Public Works

Highways and Public Works

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

PUBLIC TENDER

PUBLIC TENDER

Yukon College Tender

Yukon College Tender

Yukon College Tender

yukoncollege.yk.ca

yukoncollege.yk.ca

yukoncollege.yk.ca

RFP2014459 Design Build – Lower residence renovation – north side – Yukon College Closes: NOON PST, January 19, 2015 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).

The College will be closed December 24th (noon) reopening on January 2, 2015.

RFP2014454 Evaluation Plan – Northern Institute of Social Justice (NISJ) – 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.

RFP2014460 Evaluation Plan – Yukon Research Centre (YRC) – 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.

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.

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 19, 2014 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 YUKON ORIENTEERING Association Annual General Meeting at 7:00 pm on January 28, 2015 at Sport Yukon building. AGM is open to all members

REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL WHITEHORSE AND SOUTHERN LAKES FRMP JOINT PLANNING COMMITTEE FACILITATION Project Description: The Whitehorse and Southern Lakes Forest Resources Management Plan (FRMP) Joint Planning Committee (JPC) requires a facilitator to guide and move the planning process for the FRMP. Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title.

The closing date for submissions is January 13, 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 Lisa Walker at (867) 393-7406.

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

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

YUKON LEARN is hosting a Christmas Open House December 19th, 12:00 3:00pm. Please join us for Christmas snacks and cheer.

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

REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL ENGINEERING CONSULTING SERVICES FOR MENDENHALL WATER TREATMENT PLANT Project Description: To provide engineering consulting services for the preliminary design, detailed design, tendering, and construction administration services for a new water treatment plant in Mendenhall, YT. Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title.

The closing date for submissions is January 22, 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 Elise Bingeman at (867) 3936417.

This project is funded under the Building Canada Fund Initiative.

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

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

YUKON LIBERAL Party AGM, January 10, 2015, MacBride Museum, 10:00am. This is formal notice of the meeting and that there will be constitutional motions. Visit ylp.ca for more info

REQUEST FOR INFORMATION FLEET INFORMATION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM Interested parties are invited to submit information relating to a Request for Information regarding Yukon Governmentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Fleet Information Management System.

Information gathered will be used to assist in the preparation of a potential Request for Proposal in future.

Details of the RFI can be found at www.gov.yk.ca/tenders Written submissions clearly marked with the above project title, will be received up to January 6, 2015, at Procurement Support Centre, Department of Highways and Public Works, Suite 101 - 104 Elliott Street, Whitehorse, Yukon Y1A 0M2.

Technical questions may be directed to Nathalie Gionet at (867) 6678280.

The responses will not be ranked or used to pre-qualify or assess the respondentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ability to provide goods or services.

Interested parties may obtain the information package from www.gov.yk.ca/tenders/tms.html or by contacting the Procurement Support Centre.

Highways and Public Works

Highways and Public Works Energy, Mines and Resources

REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL DAY CARE PROGRAM FOR ADULTS WITH DEVELOPMENTAL/ COGNITIVE DISABILITIES Project Description: The Department of Health and Social Services is accepting proposals for a program design narrative for the operation of a day care program for clients with developmental/cognitive disabilities.

Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title.

The closing date for submissions is January 15, 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 Lise May at (867) 667-3626.

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

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

Health and Social Services

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REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL EVALUATION OF THE LOTTERIES YUKON FUNDING PROGRAMS Project Description: To prepare an evaluation framework and undertake an evaluation of the Lotteries Yukon suite of funding programs to provide the Commission with information on the performance, effectiveness, results achieved, and determine whether intended outcomes are being met.

Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title.

The closing date for submissions is January 29, 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 Colleen Parker at (867) 6337899.

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

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

Yukon Lottery Commission Lotteries Yukon

REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL OCCUPATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT SERVICES Project Description: The Public Service Commission is accepting proposals for a Yukon Government wide Standing Offer Agreement to provide Occupational Environmental Assessment Services, including but not limited to Independent Air Quality testing, Hazard Building Materials, Employee Health Monitoring and other Occupational Hygienic Services of work sites for a wide variety of substances and conditions on an as needed basis.

Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title.

The closing date for submissions is January 15, 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 Ken Schamber at (867) 456-5560.

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

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

Public Service Commission

YUKON ARTS Centre, January 29, 2015, 7-9pm, North of Myth Poetry Night featuring Erling Friis-Baastad, Joanna Lilley, Michael Eden Reynolds and Clea Roberts with host Ellen Bielawski. Free

FREE DROP-IN computer lab, self-directed computer studies, Mondays from 12pm-2pm, tutor/instructor on site to assist, Yukon Learn Society 2158 - 2nd Ave. Suite B

Call for Proposals-2 Year Projects Homelessness Partnering Strategy: Designated, Aboriginal and Rural and Remote funding streams April 1, 2015 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; March 31, 2017 Closing Date: February 13, 2015â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 4:00 pm

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.

1. Designated Funding Stream (Whitehorse only): Designated funds are targeted to local priorities identi ied in the 2014-2019 Community Plan, and must be cost-matched (directly or in-kind) by other funding partners.

Proposals will be assessed according to whether the projects are meeting or working towards the HPS Community Plan priorities, which are as follows: 1. To reduce homelessness through a Housing First approach.

2. To improve the self-suf iciency of homeless individuals/families and those at imminent risk of homelessness through individualized services.

3. To preserve/increase the capacity of facilities used to address the needs of people who are homeless or at imminent risk of homelessness.

2. Aboriginal Funding Stream (Whitehorse only): This stream funds projects delivered primarily by Aboriginal service providers and is also guided by the 2014-2019 Community Plan priorities outlined above. It includes activities that promote inclusion within the Aboriginal community and that are congruent with Aboriginal identity and practices to ensure services are integrated and culturally-appropriate.

3. Rural and Remote Funding Stream (Rural communities only): Projects that address prevention and reduction of homelessness in communities outside of Whitehorse are eligible for funding. This funding stream does not require funding from other sources, although partnerships are strongly encouraged.

In order to receive an application package including the Proposal Guide please contact: Candice Menzi, Homelessness Partnering Strategy Coordinator Council of Yukon First Nations â&#x20AC;&#x201C; HPS Community Entity 2166-2nd Avenue, Whitehorse, Yukon, Y1A 4P1 Phone: (867) 393-9222 E-mail: Candice.Menzi@cyfn.net

LAND LOTTERY Whitehorse Copper Subdivision Whitehorse Energy, Mines and Resources, Land Management Branch is holding a land lottery for 4 country residential lots in the Whitehorse Copper subdivision in the City of Whitehorse.

The lots being offered are Lot 30 on LTO Plan number 2008-0094 and Lots 61-1, 61-2 and 61-3 on LTO Plan number 2014-0014.

Information packages and application forms will be available after 2:00 p.m. local time, on December 17, 2014.

Land Management Branch 3rd Floor, Suite 320 Elijah Smith Building 300 Main Street Whitehorse, Yukon Or online at: www.emr.gov.yk.ca/lands/upcoming lotteries tender.html Lottery Deadline: Lottery applications must be received before 4:30 p.m. local time, Monday, January 19, 2015.

Lottery Draw: The lottery will take place in Whitehorse at 1:00 p.m. local time, Wednesday, January 21, 2015 in room 1A, 0DLQ Ă&#x20AC;RRU (OLMDK 6PLWK %XLOGLQJ 0DLQ 6WUHHW Applicants and the general public are welcome to attend the draw. $OO VXFFHVVIXO DSSOLFDQWV ZLOO EH QRWLÂżHG WKH QH[W GD\ For more information contact the Land Management Branch at (867) 667-5215 or Toll-free 1-800-661-0408 local 5215, or visit online at: www.emr.gov.yk.ca/lands

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TRADITIONAL UKRANIAN Christmas Eve Dinner, Sviata Vecheria, Marsh Lake Community Centre, January 6, 2015, 5:00pm, $25 per person. Call 660-5152 or 660-4999.

Proceeds go towards new stove at Community Centre kitchen

OLD FIRE Hall, January 7, 2015, 7-9pm, evening of experimental music in conjunction with Joyce Majiskiʼs exhibition North of Myth, featuring John Godfrey, Daniel Janke, Karen Power, Gordie Walker. Admission by donation

LOW COST MINI STORAGE Now 2 locations: Porter Creek & Kulan.

Onsite & offsite steel containers available for rent or sale.

We now offer 8'x10' units. 8'x20’ units also available.

Phone 633-2594 Fax 633-3915

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

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

Health Centre

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

Health Centre

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

Health Centre

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

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

Health Centre

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

Health Centre

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

Health Centre

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

Health Centre

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

Health Centre

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

Health Centre

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

Health Centre

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

Soaring Eagles Sewing Centre

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

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

Health Centre

OFFICE LOCATED BESIDE KLONDIKE WELDING, 15 MacDONALD RD., PORTER CREEK, info@lowcostministorage.ca

DRUG PROBLEM?

■ ■ ■

Narcotics

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

ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS MEETINGS in Whitehorse

MONDAY: 12 noon Joy of Living (OM, NS) Maryhouse, 504 Cook St. 8:00 pm New Beginnings Group (OM,NS) Maryhouse, 504 Cook St. TUESDAY: 12 noon Joy of Living (OM, NS) Maryhouse, 504 Cook St. 7:00 pm Juste Pour 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

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 19, 2014

YUKON ARTS Centre Public Art Gallery, January 10, 2015, 1-3pm, North of Myth Artist Talk featuring Joyce Majiski & Karen Power, presentation on Arctic Circle artist residency and a walkthrough. Free

NEED MATH HELP? Math tutoring, homework help, exam prep for grades 6 - 12.

Contact Kathleen at 336-2071.

Rate is negotiable.

Services

BUSY BEAVERS Painting, Pruning Hauling, Chainsaw Work, Snow Shovelling and General Labour Call Francois & Katherine 456-4755

BACKHAULS, WHITEHORSE to Alberta.

Vehicles, Furniture, Personal effects etc.

Daily departures, safe secure dependable transportation at affordable rates. Please call Pacific Northwest Freight Systems @ 667-2050 THOMAS FINE CARPENTRY • Construction • Renovation • Finishing • Cabinets • Tiling • Flooring • Repairs • Specialty woodwork • Custom kitchens 867-633-3878 or cell 867-332-5531 thomasfinecarpentry@northwestel.net MC RENOVATION Construction & Renovations Laminated floor, siding, decks, tiles Kitchen, Bathroom, Doors, Windows Framing, Board, Drywall, Painting Drop Ceiling, Fences No job too small Free estimates Michael 336-0468 yt.mcr@hotmail.com - INSULATION Upgrade your insulation & reduce your heating bills Energy North Construction Inc. (1994) for all your insulation & coating needs Cellulose & polyurethane spray foam Free estimate: 667-7414

PUBLIC TENDER SUPPLY OF CLOTHING Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title.

The closing date for submissions is January 13, 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 David Knight at (867) 667-3114.

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

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

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

Highways and Public Works

HOUSE CLEANING SERVICE •Low rates.

•Great service.

•Honest and trustworthy.

•Six years experience.

Phone (867) 332-8996

LOG CABINS: Professional Scribe Fit log buildings at affordable rates.

Contact: PF Watson, Box 40187, Whitehorse, YT, Y1A 6M9 668-3632 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

For All Your SNOW Clearing & SNOW Removal Needs!

Competitive Rates! Fast, Friendly & Reliable Service!

Repeat Customer & Senior DISCOUNTS

Call or text anytime (867) 335-2628

Find us at /dirtydeedsyukon

Lost & Found LOST: DECEMBER 9 either on Main St or Superstore between 9am & 2pm, keys, command start & Betty Boop keychain. If found please call 633-2122

SNOWPLOWING SERVICES •Commercial •Residential •Anywhere, anytime Phone 867-633-2885

FOUND: REMOTE control key in Riverdale.

667-7253 to claim

SNOW CLEARING/REMOVAL Sidewalks, Driveways, Parking lots, Compounds Private and Commercial Properties Fast and reliable service Aurora Toolcat Services 867-334-8447

Looking for NEW Business / Clients?

Business Opportunities

IBEX BOBCAT SERVICES “Country Residential Snow Plowing” All Subdivisions & acreages off Mayo Rd, MacPherson, Hidden Valley, Pilot Mountain & Hot Springs Rd. Honest & Prompt Service Amy Iles Call 667-4981 or 334-6369

NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND CLAIMANTS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF Karl Josef Gruber Deceased of Whitehorse, Yukon Territory who died on November 27, 2014.

All persons having claims against the above-mentioned Estate are requested to file a claim, supported by Statutory Declaration, with Gregory A. Fekete, on or before January 9, 2015, after which date the 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: Gregory A. Fekete AUSTRING, FENDRICK & FAIRMAN Barristers and Solicitors 3081 Third Avenue Whitehorse, Yukon Y1A 4Z7

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Advertise for 5 Months and

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4 s & E: wordads@yukon-news.com TURNKEY BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY & Separate Residence in one building!

•Located in Faro, Yukon •Currently operating as 'The Valley Bed & Breakfast' •Totally renovated •Quiet, comfortable, amazing views •Established clientele with great yearly income •8 bedrooms, 4 bathrooms •All furniture included $259,000 obo For more information: www.thevalleybandb.ca or call 867-994-2122 Have your own private residence and a great income too

Sports Equipment 2 PAIRS of menʼs Salomon alpine ski boots, sizes 30 & 26. 668-2253 SNOWBOARD/SKI HELMET, size medium, 668-2253 SNOWBOARD, GNV Park Pickle, 147 width, 2 sets of bindings, $350 obo. 334-6519

Yukon Water Board – Application Notice Office des eaux du Yukon – Avis de demande Application Number Numéro de la demande

Applicant/Licensee Demandeur/Titulaire

QZ07-078-2 (Cancellation)

Alexco Keno Hill Mining Corp.

PM09-653-1 (Cancellation)

George Abermeth George Abermeth Wounded Moose Mining Co. Ltd

PM14-035 PM14-036

Type of Undertaking Type d’entreprise

Deadline for Comments 4:00pm Date limite pour commentaires, avant 16 h

Quartz Mining

January 6, 2015

Placer Mining

January 16, 2015

Australia Creek

Placer Mining

January 16, 2015

Wounded Moose Creek

Placer Mining

January 16, 2015

Water Source Location Point d’eau/Lieu

Thunder Gulch, Lightning Creek, Flat Creek, Ground water Australia Creek and Wounded Moose Creek

Any person may submit comments or recommendations, in writing, by the deadline for notice.

Applications are available for viewing on the Yukon Water Board’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.

Toute personne peut soumettre ses commentaires ou ses recommandations à l’Office avant la date limite indiquée sur le présent avis.

Pour voir les demandes, consultez le registre en ligne WATERLINE au http://www.yukonwaterboard.ca ou rendez-vous au bureau de l’Office des eaux du Yukon. Pour de plus amples renseignements, veuillez communiquer avec le secrétariat de l’Office au 867-4563980.

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 19, 2014 Livestock

14â&#x20AC;? SEAT, round skirt Western saddle package, includes 3 shaped saddle pads, headstall with reins & breast collar, $450.

456-2249

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

633-4496 or astra@northwestel.net 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

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BROME HAY BALES 55 lb bales No rain, no weeds Nice leafy hay $12.00 each 456-2035

Baby & Child Items CHILDRENĘźS CLOTHING in excellent condition, given freely the first & third Saturday monthly at the Church of the Nazarene, 2111 Centennial. 633-4903

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

Good Night!

Childcare BUSY BEE DAYHOME, Riverdale, has openings.

18 months - 5 years.

Hot lunch, snacks provided.

Learning through play, planned activities, caring environment.

20 yearsĘź experience.

References available. Kim 633-2177 kmbryer@gmail.com

Furniture THE PERFECT Chair 300, high quality forest green leather, zero gravity, raises legs above your heart, restful for the back, retail $1,999, asking $1,000. 633-3709

BLACK CREDENZA, 66"Wx24"Dx30"H, great shape, glass top, clean, sturdy, $100 obo. 334-0423 2 LARGE, sturdy wood & canvas chairs w/leather cushions, suitable for office, den, rec room. 668-2253

Personals CITIZENS ON PATROL. Do you have concerns in your neighborhood & community?

Be part of the solution! Volunteer valuable time to the C.O.P.S. program. With your eyes & ears we can help stomp out crime.

Info: RCMP 867-667-5555

ANTIQUE SINGER sewing table, metal pedestal base, good shape, 4 side drawers, 1 horizontal front drawer, $300. 633-3709

ARE YOU MĂ&#x2030;TIS? Are you registered?

Would you like to be involved?

There is a Yukon Metis Nation that needs your support Contact 668-6845

12-Days Of Christmas Market Presented by the Fireweed Community Market Society.

Runs until December 22nd at the Old Fire Hall.

Open daily 10am-7pm, Thurs-Fri 10am-9pm.

INVITATION TO TENDER

FRI. 7pm-8:30pm 4071 - 4th Ave Many Rivers Office

LARGE FUTON couch, makes into bed, wooden, exc cond, $200. 334-6043

Wind up your day with everything you need.

867-667-6283

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

INVITATION TO TENDER

PUBLIC TENDER SUPPLY OF HAZMAT/FUEL STORAGE BUILDING Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title.

The closing date for submissions is January 13, 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 Bill Stonehouse at (867) 6678281.

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

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

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

Highways and Public Works

2015 - 2020 WASTE MANAGEMENT FACILITY GATEKEEPING OPERATIONS

2015 - 2020 WASTE MANAGEMENT FACILITY TRANSFER STATION OPERATIONS

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