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Gwitch’in Tribal Council calls for action in wake of Yukon teen’s death ‘Violence against aboriginal women is a national tragedy … It is time we put an end to this.’

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ames Wilson, president of the Gwich’in Tribal Council, has called on community leaders to start a discussion on how to address violence against women.

He wrote to the presidents of N.W.T.’s four local Gwich’in councils last week, asking them to come prepared to discuss the issue and present possible solutions at the next board meeting.

Brandy Vittrekwa, 17, was found dead on a Whitehorse trail earlier this month. RCMP consider the death a homicide, and have arrested but not charged a young man in connection with the case.

Vittrekwa was Teetl’it Gwitch’in from Fort McPherson, N.W.T., and also lived for periods of time in Inuvik, Old Crow and Whitehorse.

She is remembered by friends as a joyful teen, full of life and affection for her family.

“I did not know Brandy but as a father it breaks my heart to think about what happened to her,” wrote Wilson in the letter.

“As the leader of the Gwich’in, it pains me to think that another one of our young, promising leaders will never get the chance to follow her dreams.

“Violence against aboriginal women is a national tragedy in this country. The Gwitch’in were reminded last week that such violence continues to rear its ugly head from coast, to coast, to coast.

It is time we put an end to this.”

In an interview this week, Wilson said this is the first time to his knowledge that Gwich’in leaders have issued a call to action on violence against women.

“We’ve had these kinds of cases in the past. I just don’t know if anyone has taken the initiative to throw this situation out there.”

He’s no expert, he said, but he hopes that by starting a healthy conversation, solutions may follow.

Already he is getting positive feedback from board members and the community, he said.

“People are saying, it’s about time that leadership start addressing these issues.”

“We should have said something a long time ago. We just can’t let these kinds of thing go by.”

Vittrekwa was found in the Kwanlin Dun First Nation’s McIntyre subdivision on the evening of Dec. 8.

Her death launched the second homicide investigation in that community in just half a year.

In June, 69-year-old Allan Waugh died in a suspicious house fire. That case remains unsolved.

The Kwanlin Dun community, too, has come together in recent weeks to discuss ways to improve neighbourhood safety.

The First Nation hosted a community meeting on Dec. 10, and members filled out Post-it notes with ideas, like adding pay phones, lighting and security patrols.

Vittrekwa’s death coincided with ramped up RCMP presence in the neighbourhood, which was an outcome of discussions at the First Nation’s annual general assembly.

RCMP and Kwanlin Dun have been working to address safety issues for years.

In 2010 a full review of Yukon’s police force was launched in response the 2008 death of First Nation man Raymond Silverfox in RCMP custody.

A Kwanlin Dun report prepared for the investigators revealed the deep-seated mistrust of police that many First Nation members hold.

Some mentioned the 1998 shooting death of Harley Timmers by police.

But if you ask Marian Horne, president of the Yukon Aboriginal Women’s Council, the RCMP has really stepped up to the plate over the past couple years on the subject of violence against First Nation women.

She recently went to a meeting in Saskatchewan with national RCMP to talk about the problem, she told the News last week.

“I was so enthused with their

teamwork. The caring of those commanding officers that were there. It was great.”

Earlier this year, RCMP released a report summarizing what we know about missing and murdered aboriginal women in Canada, and plotting next steps.

The report committed to enhancing efforts on unresolved cases, focusing on prevention efforts, increasing public awareness and strengthening the data.

“I am absolutely thrilled with the RCMP,” said Horne.

Here in the Yukon, RCMP Corp. Calista MacLeod has been involved with some of the efforts to strengthen relations between First Nations and police. That includes the Sisters in Spirit campaign and the Liard Aboriginal Women Council’s Together for Justice initiative.

In 2012 MacLeod received a community safety award for her work on women’s safety in the territory.

Recently she works with Kaushee’s Place in Whitehorse to initiate a third-party reporting program for victims of sexual assault. It means that victims can report anonymously to police through a support worker, and RCMP will have a means to get in touch with the victim without knowing their identity.

Keeping strong lines of communication open is key to these sorts of partnerships, said McLeod.

“It’s just maintaining relationships with people who are doing good work to try to bring awareness to violence against women.

“Often we are the people at the front end, or the front line, that are dealing with people in traumatic circumstances, and part of our role is to make sure that were providing those referrals to other agencies so they get that support and assistance that they need.”

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In Haiti, you don’t need a lot to give a lot for Christmas Kids rescued by Morgan Wienberg’s organization in Haiti are reaching out to help others this season.

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been trying to address for so long, due to children consistently being abandoned in the local organ Wienberg has hospital. Typically these children are handicapped – and are a lot to celebrate this abandoned because the parents Christmas season. have no resources and no support Just a few years ago, network.” the 22-year-old Yukoner Morgan’s team of young leadbegan rescuing Haitian ers will also visit the pediatric wing of the hospital over the children who were living holidays to visit with children in the streets or in abusive and parents, and hand out small orphanages. gifts of food, medicine or supToday, she is watching plies based on the needs of the those children grow into family.

For Wienberg’s team, Christstrong leaders who are mas is a time for giving back but paying it forward to the also for celebration. most vulnerable in their On Sunday the organization community. hosted a party for the AssociaWienberg’s organization, Little tion for Parents of Handicapped Footprints, Big Steps, focuses on Persons. giving children a safe place to “It was an incredible success,” live, reuniting them with family wrote Wienberg. when possible, and giving them Government officials spoke the training and tools to succeed at the event, parents shared their in their lives. stories, and the kids performed This month the group has a skit on the theme of anti-disforged a partnership with the Ascrimination that had the crowd sociation for Parents of Handiin hysterics, she said. capped Persons in Southern The boys living in Wienberg’s Haiti, a self-organized group of safe house were rewarded for Haitians supporting each other to their hard work this week with a raise children with disabilities.

Submitted Photo/Yukon News special treat – dinner at a beachOn Dec. 6, Wienberg took nine Morgan Wienberg with a couple of the boys supported by a charity she co-founded in Haiti side restaurant. boys and one girl from her Haicalled Little Footprints, Big Steps.

And all of the girls left to tian family to a beach day hosted spend the holidays with family in parents/children for people to children. and asking what type of support by the organization. the countryside, wrote Weinberg. dance and sing.

“I cried. I was so moved! they need most. These kids were “I took them along to assist She sent them off with gifts of “One of my former street boys, Ednel, one of the boys for whom my team.” with the event, hoping that it hygiene supplies and other small I am legal guardian, was included Reaching out these parents is a things. would not only help facilitate the 14-year-old Job, danced in front of everyone – with a little girl in those four boys and before big deal, because it could prevent day, but also give my boys some Little Footprints, Big Steps they sang he greeted ‘this special more children from ending up on is always looking for donations confidence and the opportunity/ with Down’s syndrome dancing her heart out beside him! group of parents.’ the street in the future, Wienberg to support education, training, drive to help others. It worked!”

“Then, to my delight and “Afterwards, the older boys wrote. she wrote in an email to supportmedication and housing for surprise, four of my 16-year-old helped carry handicapped infants “I am so thrilled to have ers. children and families in need. boys got up to the ‘stage’ and into the ocean as their parents discovered this association, as I “I am so proud of those boys.

Visit littlefootprintsbigsteps.com sang a song called ‘Children are didn’t want to go in the water. think it’s key to preventing the They really stepped up; the day for more.

Life’ about children’s rights and “I had other boys speak to par- abandonment of handicapped began with everyone in a group, Contact Jacqueline Ronson at the importance of investing in ents, listening to their problems children. “This is an issue I’ve jronson@yukon-news.com and a space in the centre of all News Reporter

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Territory rules out P3 for new continuing care centre supporting public agencies as they develop partnerships with the private sector.” he Yukon government says it But the Department of has no plans to use a publicHighways and Public works says private partnership to build its that’s not what’s happening in the next big continuing care facility, Yukon. set to open in 2018.

“It’s a really important point The territory’s decision to actually, that this isn’t a P3,” said enlist the help of Partnerships Scott Milton, director of realty B.C. for the project caused some – and capital asset planning. including the Official Opposition Earlier this month, the audi– to raise a red flag about such tor general of Ontario slammed partnerships, commonly known the provincial government for as P3s. its poor use of P3s. She said such When the B.C. Crown corpora- projects had cost $8 billion more tion was created in 2002, its man- than they would have with tradidate was to “promote, stimulate tional financing. and help implement P3 projects Milton said the Yukon govern– primarily by working with and ment chose Partnerships B.C. to Ashley Joannou News Reporter

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help with the continuing care facility because of its expertise in managing large, specialized projects, not because this project will be a P3.

For the Yukon project, Partnerships B.C. is being brought on as a “procurement advisor,” he said.

“They’re the ones that can assist us in developing the right documentation to do a request for qualifications. They can assist us in doing the proper documentation and process for a request for proposals. They can assist us in forming the right documentation for a design-build agreement.”

Milton said the government is still in the very early stages of

planning the continuing care facility in the Yukon. It will include 150 beds now, and another 150 beds later.

The project’s next step is to find a “compliance team” of architects and engineers. That team will help make sure whatever builder is chosen follows all the specifications and code requirements.

“From there we start a process of assessing the qualifications of potential design builders,” Milton said. He estimates that process will take us into late spring.

Those design-build teams will be whittled down to a short list.

“We would work through the summer through a proposal

process with them. Probably by sometime next fall we will be a position to choose the winning team, who will then engage in the design and build of that facility,” he said.

Last week Yukon Health Minister Doug Graham announced the new facility will be built in Whistle Bend.

In his announcement, Graham said the second phase will begin as soon as this first phase is completed.

The first phase of the project is expected to cost between $145 and $160 million, including design and engineering.

Contact Ashley Joannou at ashleyj@yukon-news.com

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Skier falls from Mount Sima chairlift Alistair Maitland/Yukon News

The Mount Sima ski patrol brings down a 52-year-old skier who fell from the ski lift yesterday afternoon. He was taken to Whitehorse General Hospital with an injured leg and hip, according to relatives who were with him.

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the chairlift at Mount Sima.

The ski hill had been experiencing brownouts all day, caused by electrical workers clearing frost from the power lines, said Sima’s general manager, Cindy Chandler.

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Around 1:15 p.m. two brownouts happened nearly back-toback, she said.

That made the lift’s computers go on the fritz. For 20 minutes technicians tried to get the lift running, to no avail. So staff started evacuating people.

About 30 minutes into the evacuation, a skier decided to “self-evacuate,” Chandler said.

But, as the man dangled from the chair, the lift started to move again.

When ski staff heard that someone was preparing to jump, they stopped the lift, said Chandler.

Shortly afterwards the man fell

about six metres on to a snowy, rocky area below the lift.

“It was really bizarre to watch that happen,” said the man’s son, who was riding with him in the chair. “Totally powerless, too.

There’s nothing I could have done.

“I held on to his wrists, but I’m not strong enough to hold him.

He weighs 180 pounds. I weigh 150.”

The son said that his father may have been able to land safely if the chair hadn’t moved him to a more steep, rocky spot.

He said he was impressed by the way emergency responders handled the situation.

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Ski patrol was there right away and the injured man was bundled up and taken off the hill.

He was conscious and talking at the time. Chandler said she doesn’t have any details on his injuries.

“It was not a busy day, fortunately, so the chairs were not fully loaded,” Chandler said.

The chairlift restarted and the rest of the lift was emptied. By then it was near the end of the ski day and things were shut down.

“I’m very proud that everybody followed the protocols.

We’ve got the procedures in place and we implemented them very, very well,” Chandler said.

“So everybody responded and pulled together. It was great that way.”

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Yukon offers its spin on Folsom Prison Blues Alistair Maitland News Reporter

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ate last week Steve Slade, a local Whitehorse musician and teacher, gave a group of students their last music lesson before their holiday performance in front of their families.

Unlike most of his classes, he is teaching guitar and harmonica to this group of students at the Whitehorse Correctional Centre.

Slade has been teaching students at the jail since the summer, after the jail used some of its recreation budget to buy six Yamaha guitars. Craig Cameron, the jail’s drum-playing manager of programs, encouraged Slade to make a proposal to provide lessons for the inmates.

“In this session I’ve done everything from Disney to Metallica to Johnny Cash to the theme to the Friendly Giant. But everybody starts with something well known, like “Happy Birthday.” The theme of the Friendly Giant seemed a little out of the ordinary.

“We were working out of the healing room, which has these tiny little castle-like windows that look out, and the one guy says something to the effect of: ‘Man, this like looking out of the Friendly Giant’s window.’ So I went online, found it, listened to it and wrote it out for guitar and harmonica. Brought it in next week.”

The inmate was quite pleased, Slade said with a laugh.

Slade’s students range in age from their early twenties to late fifties. Some have been meaning

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Steve Slade makes his way to the the Whitehorse Correctional Centre last week. He teaches inmates guitar and harmonica.

to learn guitar for years.

“All the guys want to play guitar,” said Slade. “This is part of the rite of passage for the basic, ‘If I play guitar, the chicks will all love me.’”

Slade has been teaching in small communities of northwestern Canada for 20 years now.

“I’m used to working in the rural schools where I’m working with a lot more behavioural problems, which will disrupt your classes a lot more if you don’t find ways to deal with it.”

Such is not case at the jail, where guitar lessons are a privil-

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“The guys that come in appear to have a handle on, ‘OK, this is something I want to learn, I’m getting something out of it, etc.’

As opposed to if you’re nine years old or 12 years old, you don’t have that maturity to look at that. You may be having fun and like it or maybe you’re not having fun and don’t like it and you don’t really know why and you’re just expressing the fact that you don’t like it.”

Unlike the kids he has taught in schools in the past, “The difference is that at WCC the guys who are old enough and mature

enough to realize is this is something they can utilize. They come and ask me for help, making the initiative to take the skills I’m giving them and pursue it on their own.”

Slade uses some of the same tried-and-tested techniques at the WCC for teaching guitar with his students. He restrung all the guitars with neon-coloured strings, making them easier to identify during the class.

In addition to the classes, WCC staff volunteer their time to come in to practise and play with the inmates. Slade also records

songs and put them on a USB stick for the inmates to play back on a computer. Videos are also available for them to practise and learn.

Teaching harmonica is a recent addition to Slade’s music lessons.

“The beauty of a harmonica is in its simplest form it’s just breathing in and out, and as long as you’re breathing in and out in the proper rhythmic fashion, some of the simplest songs are right there. They’re cheap and portable.”

Slade once brought 360 harmonicas to Inuvik and taught the whole elementary school a few songs. After the concert, he said he left town as soon as possible, because they can be “incredibly obnoxious instruments.”

“I got the hell out of town before they tarred and feathered me.”

Valerie Moser, the jail’s deputy superintendent of programs, said the music program’s benefits were clear to those who attended the holiday performance.

“Especially one individual, who’s been practising, who’s never played the guitar in his life, to have his family watch him play and see how proud he was. He’s not just sitting here doing time.

This is a voluntary basis that you can take these music lessons. So to see the pride on his face was amazing. I think he wanted to do more jamming on it, but we stuck to the Christmas celebration stuff.”

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Federal meddling strengthens case for Yukon provincehood crossing it.

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by Kyle legislation in Parliament, OtCarruthers tawa could take back the power it gave us over natural resources in 2003 – “de-devolution” if you will.

Theoretically, the feds could even disband the Yukon legislature and revert to the situation that existed before 1979 where the federally appointed commissioner was in charge of all areas of territorial veryone knows that the Yukon’s status as a territory responsibility.

Of course this would be prehas something to do with posterous. If anything, the trend our sparse population and the large sums of money sent up here has been in the other direction – with the federal government from Ottawa. What’s less often giving us more power and local considered is what we lack compared to the provinces – namely, a autonomy rather than less. Ottawa has shown no inclination final say over our own concerns. to take such drastic, paternalistic If the federal government and undemocratic action and for doesn’t like something that a the most part voluntarily abides province has done, that’s just by a similar line that the provtoo bad. If it tries to interfere it inces have. Moving backwards at will get its hands slapped by the courts. It takes a dreadfully boring this point would prompt outrage.

But there are a few exceptions semester in law school to learn the exact line between federal and to our equality with the provinces. provincial responsibilities, and The federal government still you still come out feeling that the handles the prosecution of crimdistinction is sometimes murky. inal offences in the Yukon, which Usually, a similar line exists is something that the provinces between the Yukon and the usually do. Since the feds decide federal government. But there is no obligation on Ottawa to avoid what the criminal law says, the

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power to handle your own prosecutions isn’t that useful. But the provinces do have some leeway – see for example Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne’s recent musing that her province may refuse to enforce Ottawa’s new prostitution law, or the refusal of several provinces to handle prosecutions of offences pertaining to the now defunct long-gun registry. It may be preferable to have that discretion locally.

There is also the matter of bilingualism. We are accustomed to thinking of Canada as a bilingual country, but the reality is that none of the provinces – with the exception of New Brunswick – are legally compelled to offer services in both languages. The remaining nine provinces are unilingual (in the case of Quebec, unilingual francophone). The Yukon, on the other hand, is compelled to be a bilingual jurisdiction.

These are relatively minor matters, and depending on your perspective (the Yukon is, after all, the third-most bilingual in Canada) may be even for the best.

Since it is so unlikely that Ottawa will do anything drastic, it is not terribly surprising that the idea of the Yukon becoming a prov-

ince has failed to grab the public imagination.

But the proposed changes to the Yukon Environmental and Socio-economic Assessment Act making their way through Parliament may be reason to give the idea a second thought. The fact that YESAA is federal legislation is another “exception” to the rule that the Yukon is treated just like a province. The development of natural resources is provincial jurisdiction, and this “problem” we’ve been having is not one that a province would have. Parliament would not have the jurisdiction to amend, for example, the British Columbia Environmental Assessment Act. If there is anything more galling than the changes themselves, it is certainly the fact that they are being made thousands of kilometres away by politicians with little connection to the territory.

I appreciate that all indications are that our own Yukon Party government played a role in driving these changes and has offered its full-throated support for them.

Perhaps the outcome would be the same if these changes came at the territorial level.

But if that were the case, at

least we would have an opportunity to hold them accountable.

Aside from giving our single Conservative member of Parliament the boot in the next federal election, there is little Yukoners can do democratically to express our displeasure or (better yet) reverse the changes altogether.

Again, this is not a problem that a province would have.

There are obviously very real practical obstacles to the Yukon becoming a province. There are complicated constitutional questions. There is also the issue of money. I’ve opined before that the Yukon’s dependence on large federal transfer payments is unlikely to end anytime soon, and there is a very real and defensible sense that provincehood is a “pay to play” proposition.

But ensuring our continuing autonomy within the federation without interference by Ottawa – through provincehood or otherwise – is something at least worth thinking about.

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

It’s smart to invest in energy-efficient city buildings Dan Curtis

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he City of Whitehorse recently passed the 2015 capital budget and approved funding for a building consolidation project. This is an important step towards a project that will make municipal services more efficient and reduce the cost to operate our buildings. We will do this by replacing old infrastructure with energy-efficient buildings that are well designed for their intended purpose and use.

This project will construct a new services building next to city hall. City services like getting a building permit or a business licence will be offered at this central location. Most city operations like road maintenance will move to a new operations building, near the public safety building, at Range Road and Two Mile Hill. This move will reduce heavy equipment traffic downtown, and free up prime real estate for development.

The total construction cost of the new buildings is $55 million.

This is the cost estimate from the business case and functionality program report. It is a conservative estimate that was prepared by a team of independent experts.

The city is planning to pay for this project using $13 million from federal gas tax funding, $13 million from the city’s capital re-

serves, and $29 million in low-interest financing.

Borrowing costs are not included in this total, but they are accounted for as annual costs, similar to a mortgage on a house. We have been living on reduced capital expenditures for two years, building up reserves, and can continue to do this to cover ongoing yearly financing costs. This is why no new tax increases are needed as a result of this project. Once the buildings are constructed, the ongoing energy and lease costs will be reduced by $500,000 per year, and will be used to lower the financing costs.

The approved capital budget also sets aside an additional $1.4 million for art and furnishings for the newly constructed buildings.

The art budget has been prepared according to a council policy that recognizes the value of placing local art in public buildings.

This is a large and complex project, and some details still have to be confirmed. For example, the cost to demolish the Municipal Services Building and remedi-

and we are doing this in a way that is affordable and costeffective. It would be much more expensive if we decided to not proceed with this project. According to the business case and functionality program report, keeping the old buildings will cost 2.77 times the replacement ate the site is not included in the cost. It is not project cost estimate. Nor is the responsible to continue with the potential revenue from the sale status quo. of this site. We have reviewed The city is investing in the ultimate demolition costs and the building consolidation project preliminary site remediation costs because it is our top infrastrucand we anticipate that revenue ture priority. This is a financially from land sales will cover these responsible choice we are makcosts. ing for our community. This The downtown fire hall is in a project will also create significant 60-year-old building that needs economic opportunities for local to be replaced. Plans for this businesses, tradespeople, conbuilding have been waiting on the tractors and suppliers. fire services strategic plan, which We have shared information is almost complete. That plan with citizens and sought feedback confirms the need for a downas this project was developed. town fire hall for initial response. Last year, the city consulted with Options for incorporating the fire citizens for the business case and hall into the services building will functionality program. Earlier be reviewed by council as part of this year, we presented informathe design process. tion to the city’s advisory finance The city is replacing infrastruc- committee and the chambers ture that is well past its useful life, of commerce, and invited their

feedback as part of the budget process.

Each year, the city asks citizens what they would like to see in the budgets before they are tabled.

That consultation was launched in October. We tried a new survey tool this year called citizen budget. This tool is meant for operating budget expenses, as it gives citizens a chance to see how budget decisions affect tax and utility rates.

Once council decided to bring this project forward as part of the 2015 capital budget, the information was finalized for the budget package and we set up a new page on the city’s website. The project details were tabled with the budget, posted on the website and widely advertised. Given the significance of this project, a public open house was held in November, in addition to the usual public input opportunities for the budget process.

As we move ahead with the building consolidation project, the city will continue to update information on our website at www.whitehorse.ca/buildingconsolidation and we will share regular updates with the community, as suggested by the chambers of commerce at the capital budget public input night. We will keep adding to the information on our website and we will provide updates in the media.

Dan Curtis is mayor of Whitehorse.

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interested in comments and concerns from the people in your constituency, you would have Open letter to MP Ryan Leef: given us more than three square As a friend of yours, I am inches for comments compared to asking you to please stop with your 119 square inches of propathe political propaganda I am ganda and misleading informareceiving in my mailbox. I have tion. Your one question “What do now received from you my third one-page questionnaire asking me you think?� takes up eight square “What do you think?� This one is inches alone.

I think you underestimate the in reference to taxes. sense of reason and level of intelPersonally I feel that your questions are leading, your infor- ligence amongst your constituents, and personally I feel insulted mation misleading, and that you don’t actually care what we think, and somewhat betrayed. I am not partial to any particular political but rather you are using this as party. However, I am sure that a tool to brainwash us with false this time you will not get my vote information to gain votes.

First of all, your information is as a result of this propaganda and the way I feel because of it. misleading in the sense that you As your friend, Ryan, I know state that the average family now you have a higher level of integis saving $3,400 each year and rity than what is associated with Canadians have saved over $30 billion since 2006. These numbers the propaganda being sent in the mail. This is not you. I hope you do not reflect the indexed inflation rate, and if they had then you can make it stop. would know that we are actually Mike Martin receiving less than what we were Whitehorse getting in 2006.

Your government has cut the House of disrepute GST by two per cent, but since 2006 it has increased Canada’s Some Yukon Party government national debt by about $147.7 billion. If we factor in the average MLAs have stooped to a new low!

As a citizen witness to the inflation rate that would be a net legislative process I attend most increase of about $72.45 billion.

That’s about $2,038 more per per- days when the House sits. On Wednesday, Dec. 3, I and two son, or about $8,000 per family, other citizens were the unfortuowing since 2006.

Secondly, your question to me nate witnesses to very disrespectful, disruptive behavior by most and the rest of your constituents was “Do hard working Canadians of the Yukon Party MLAs. The NDP’s Jim Tredger was deserve tax breaks?� and then you presenting his motion to congive us two choices to answer. demn the federal minister of They are as follows: “Yes, we aboriginal affairs for his planned should be able to keep more of our hard earned money,� or “No, amendments to the Yukon EnI’m happy paying more in taxes.� vironmental and Socio-economic Assessment Act that are opposed Are you seriously asking us

by Yukon First Nations. if we are “happy paying more in Only a short time before, we taxes�? If this isn’t a leading question to get the answer, you want I had witnessed a tribute to Alex Van Bibber, who was recognized don’t know what is! as an integral part of the very Thirdly, if you were sincerely

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fabric of the spirit of Yukon.

Now these same MLAs were turning our legislature into a gong show; bullying, turning their backs to Mr. Tredger, huddling at Currie Dixon’s desk to converse, laugh and write notes.

We lost it. We stood and clapped once Mr. Tredger finished speaking, and I then turned and spoke to the MLAs stressing their behaviour was disrespectful and appalling.

Of course neither is this acceptable behaviour. Attendance in the gallery is to be silent and respectful; it was just one too many times school-yard behaviour and the wasteful use of privilege and tax payer’s dollars has prevailed.

Our collective show of disdain had no political overtone but rather one of disgust. We quietly left the gallery.

I have a great deal of respect for some of the MLAs on the governing side of the house. Maybe it is time to redirect tax dollars wasted in this type of behaviour and adopt video streaming for the entire session, to show the public how our tax dollars are working for us.

A further display of the smallmindedness of these errant MLAs and the Speaker of the House was affirmed by the removal of my supports.

For three consecutive sittings I have had the respect and leniency to have a foot stool and bolster with me while I sit in the House.

I have some disability and these tools are a support for my challenges. I have been permitted, up until this moment, to leave my supports when I take a break from sitting in the gallery.

However, this privilege has now been withdrawn. The day after my outburst and our clapping I returned to the gallery to find my supports had been removed. I was advised that in future I would be required to remove these supports every time I leave the gallery.

I can only surmise this is a direct retaliation – a school-yard

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mentality of getting even for chastising these errant MLAs the day before.

How ironic. This is the same group of politicians who stood in the House during this particular week and paid tribute to inclusion of disability. I encourage all citizens to come and witness your representatives hard at work ‌ or not.

Davina Harker Whitehorse

Protect the planet Open letter to Yukon Premier Darrell Pasloski: I know you know me, and I’m a little insignificant figure to you.

But in my humble opinion I’m not insignificant to my grandchildren, and not just too my grandchildren but all grandchildren and their grandchildren on this planet and all the future generations to come, for a long time.

I could not live with myself and look in the mirror if I were not doing whatever I could to be a part of the solution to reverse runaway climate change.

So I urge you to please watch the speech given by U.S. Secretary of State John F. Kerry on climate change and how we may can mitigate it, at the Climate Change Conference in Lima, Peru.

This video gave me the strength to write this letter.

Please stop the construction of Yukon Energy’s ill-fated liquefied natural gas facility at Robert Service Way – the absolutely worst place for LNG tanks.

Please stop Northern Cross Yukon and their foreign shareholders to attempt to destroy an important part of our beautiful Yukon and contribute to the destruction of a livable environment of this earth, the mother of all life on it.

If you don’t stop these projects you are against humanity, you are against the majority of Yukoners and the majority of people on this earth.

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This change is part of ongoing efforts to reduce the size of the Aishihik bison herd and to keep animals in the core range. A map showing the new boundary for the mid-winter closure is available for viewing at Environment Yukon offices and online.

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If you are not with us, you are against us, and I’m sure you know the meaning of this phrase is.

If you can not do this because of your strange beliefs that the Yukon needs these destructive projects, that this earth needs these destructive projects, to have a prosperous economy, then you have one other option: resign, because you and your caucus and the previous premier and caucus have done enough damage too the Yukon economy and Yukon’s finances.

Resign and let people with a conscience for the wellbeing of future generations lead the Yukon.

Werner Rhein Mount Lorne

A Christmas angel I had a horrible experience late last week, but then I was saved by an angel.

I had just left Craft Night at Jack Hulland Elementary School that evening with my three kids (aged eight, four, and seven months) and had pulled onto the Alaska Highway when my van broke down. I managed to pull off to the side of the road and flagged down a woman who went to the Copper King to try to find my husband, who had stopped for gas. Unbeknown to me, she was unable to find him, but she found someone else.

About 10 minutes later a man stopped and came over to us. He called us a tow truck and then drove us home, myself and my three kids. This is no small feat as we live in Wolf Creek.

On the way home this Christmas angel told me he is the Honourable David Laxton, Speaker of the House, and the MLA for Porter Creek South. I wish I lived there because I’d vote for him.

He is an army veteran and also my kids’ hero. We are making him a thank you basket. I hope he is blessed with good karma and the Yukon spirit is definitely alive and well.

Sharon Nehring-Willson Whitehorse

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Frackonomist gets facts wrong about oil production

30 per cent as far as they look, 2035. Shale resources, as the basis of LNG, have been plagued with reserve swindles. Also most of the frack expansion infrastructure Keith Halliday’s Dec. 5 column, which ran with the glib title “Love such as pipelines, LNG terminals and plants were stalled out before it or hate it, fracking is here to stay” starts off with invented data the oil price drop because of investors pulling back. to hype up fracking.

Matthias Bichsel, a former “Since 2010, oil and gas proproject and technology director at duction in the U.S. has gone from Shell, put it this way in 2013: “The a bit over four million barrels a United States oil and gas industry day in oil equivalent to 12 million has ‘overfracked and overdrilled.’” a day as of September. This is acSeasoned oil-and-gas induscording to the Wall Street Journal trialists like Art Berman and and U.S. Energy Information Administration, and is largely due analysts like Deborah Rogers state clearly fracking is more energy to surges in fracked oil and gas waste and investment fraud than production.” resource production.

The EIA in their latest overview report an overall U.S. production rise since 2010 of about daily 20 million barrels of oil equivalent, not Halliday’s fivefold distortion of four million, comprised of 9.7 million barrels oil daily plus 21.3 trillion cubic feet natural gas annually.

The energy in the equivalent of a barrel of oil (crude plus other extracted petroleum liquids), or 42 U.S. gallons, or 35 imperial gallons, or 159 litres, is equal to 1.7 megawatt hours. That’s about one-third of a cord of wood or 6,000 cubic feet of natural gas.

U.S. production of natural gas is equal to about 10 million barrels daily, which together with close to 10 million barrels of oil added up to 20 million barrels in 2011, and to over 24 million barrels daily for 2013.

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or need fracked gas. Yet there it is at the bottom of Robert Service Way, the under-construction LNG (read “fracked”) gas plant, and then just beyond that the offensive sign. Let me repeat that it Peter Becker is not our needs that power what Whitehorse you do. (One wonders whose needs do?)

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of Canada pensions, private pensions, RRSPs and from money when they sell their houses. It is a There seems to be a lot of confu- different mix for everyone.

And what about people who sion about seniors housing, don’t have enough income from affordable housing, extended care facilities, and supportive indepen- these sources? In B.C., the B.C. Housing Corporation has a dent living. As president of the program called Shelter Aid for Vimy Heritage Housing Society, Elderly Renters (SAFER) which I would like to explain what the helps make rents affordable for objectives of VHHS are.

B.C. seniors with low to moderate There is a gap in housing for incomes. If you go to the Yukon seniors living in Yukon. There is Housing website, you will see housing for seniors who live independently in their own homes, that corporation offers a similar program. The B.C. Housing apartments or condos. There Corporation has been working are accommodations for people well with private and non-profit who need medical support and associations to meet the housing they live in residential facilities needs of B.C. residents. like Copper Ridge Place and for, VHHS needs to know if short term, the hospital. There is Yukoners support this concept housing for seniors who need low and how many people would be cost social housing like the new interested in living in this type seniors apartments provided by the Yukon Housing Corporation. of housing if it were to be built.

A final decision has not yet been The gap is that there is no made to build it. The society place for seniors who don’t fit in needs additional information the above categories. Specifically from Yukoners as quickly as posthere is no place for seniors who find it difficult to live in their own sible and has engaged the services of a consulting firm to undertake homes without assistance such a survey. as for making meals, shovelling I would encourage Yukon senthe sidewalk, fixing the roof, etc. iors or families to help with the They don’t fit in subsidized Yukon Housing and they don’t need the survey. You can find the survey medical support in Copper Ridge online at http://vhhs.ca. For a and the hospital, but they are able paper version or questions about to live independently with a bit of the survey or assistance call Norman Eady at 867-332-7444. support.

The Vimy Heritage Housing Society in Yukon is looking to fill Ranjit Sarin President that gap with an option for senThe Vimy Heritage Housing iors who can live independently Society in a safe, secure and a socially active environment, but need So much for the chamber a bit of assistance. Supportive independent living offers private of sober second thought apartments along with meals in a pleasant dining-room style set- Open letter to Yukon Senator Danting with opportunities to meet iel Lang: easily with friends and engage in I am writing to you to express programs in the building. my profound disappointment What does this cost? VHHS with your choice of vote of supdoes not know yet for sure until port for Bill-525, the Employees all the variables have been pinned Voting Rights Act. down, but it has prepared a busiIt should be noted that this ness plan. If you do an Internet bill was not brought forth by the search on supportive independent minister of labour, but as private facilities down south, you will member’s bill for which employfind that fees range from $2,400 ers and labour groups have stood to $3,500 per month or more. united against. This bill will This covers meals, programs and change certification and decertirent. fication procedures for unionizaPeople pay for this with a mix tion in the Canada Labour Code,

Vimy Heritage Housing Society seeks support

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CLOSED DECEMBER 22-26.

The Emergency Youth Shelter will remain OPEN for youth ages 17-23.

If you or someone you know requires emergency housing over the holidays and is between 17 and 23 years old, please call the youth shelter at 633-7699 or 335-1216.

Have a safe and happy holiday season!

Warm wishes to all!

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 24, 2014 or the house of “sober second thought” has failed Canadians.

the Parliamentary Employment and Staff Relations Act, and the Public Service Labour Relations Acts.

Bill C-525 treads upon the proven democratic process that comes from the balance of employers, labour, and government and the stability of their tripartite consultation. It assumes that there is a need for change within the Canada Labour Code, to which there are already reliable methods to do so.

The Canada Labour Code is a well-respected statute that, as quoted from its own preamble: “Canadian workers, trade unions and employers recognize and support freedom of association and free collective bargaining as the bases of effective industrial relations for the determination of good working conditions and sound labour-management relations.”

A bill such as C-525, which has now completed its journey through the Canadian parliamentary system, is full of errors as brought to light, both in the legislative assembly and the Senate by the many submissions from law firms, employer representatives, and labour organizations.

In a testimony from the Canadian Industrial Relations Board, Chairperson Elizabeth MacPherson insisted that there have been only two complaints against unions in the 4,000 decisions in over 10 years.

The Canadian Labour Congress released in a news release titled: “Senate votes to make it harder for Canadians to join a union,” within which President Hassan Yussuff says: “This legislation is really about denying Canadian workers the right to collective bargaining with their employer. It is an invitation to employers to interfere with workers’ democratic right to choose representation, and it will destabilize federal labour relations.”

As workers, we have the right to believe in the Canada Labour Code – that it will work for all included in the tripartite of employers, labour and government and the changes to it will be done in a consultative and consensus process.

To pass the erroneous Bill C-525 into law, without any amendments, Canada’s Senate

(my first) and Lisa Christensen wrote a great essay.

Finally, I want to celebrate Vikki Quocksister my good friend and collaborator President, Yukon Federation of Zea Morvitz for sharing her time Labour and inspiration with me over the years. There are still copies of Thanks for supporting art Canyon Flow (a book of images from our collaboration on Miles Canyon) available for sale.

I recently opened a solo exhibiThere will be a few events tion at the Yukon Arts Centre, happening in the gallery related entitled “North of Myth” and to my show. Karen Power and would like to extend a heartfelt her husband John will be in thanks to all of the individuals Whitehorse from Dec. 30 until who helped with my project.

Jan. 11 and will be performing in Many people were part of my various brainstorming processes the gallery and the Old Fire Hall.

There will be poetry, a drawing and provided a soundboard as I described my thoughts and ideas session and an artist’s talk in the over the last few years, so thanks new year.

We live in a unique place here to all of you! in the Yukon: it’s geographically Paul Baker, Don Watt, Jill remote, yet a vibrant and thrivPangman and Suzanna Valera ing centre of arts and culture. helped with construction or transportation of the core sample Our location and reputation has made it an important intersecbox and scroll mechanism. tion in the world, a place where Joanna Lilley and Clea Roberts (sometimes unexpectedly), creprovided feedback and muchappreciated encouragement with ative people show up to interact, collaborate, enrich and become my poems.

A fellow tall ship artist, Karen enriched, then go off to spread the word.

Power created a stunning 5.1 It is likely why so many artsoundscape which Steve Philp ists want to come here. We live magically burned to disk.

An Advanced Artist Award in a remarkable landscape but (Lotteries-Yukon government) more importantly, we embody a and a Canada Council Travel remarkable community of people Grant helped me get to Svalbard, who are supportive of the arts Norway to participate in the and its artists. Were it not for Arctic Circle residency last year. this community and its support, Other much appreciated financial many of us would not be able to support was also provided by do what we do.

Integrated Solutions and Gordon In that light, I thank all of you, Davis. my Yukon community, for the Thanks to all of the Yukon continued support over the deArts Centre staff (Jessica, Ann velopment of my artistic career. and Matt) for your help. Also to If you have not already done Mary Bradshaw for curating the so, I invite you to visit the Yukon work and Patrick Matheson for Arts Centre. “North of Myth” and the great help as sound/visual the “Alchemy of Collaboration” is technician. Don Watt was tireless up until Feb 21, 2015. in helping both Zea Morvitz and I install the work. Guin Lalena Joyce Majiski designed a stunning catalogue Whitehorse

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A pickup full of puppies A Watson Lake non-profit has found a home for more of its rescued dogs

Ashley Joannou News Reporter

L

ate last week in Watson Lake, Cheryl McGrath was glued to her computer screen.

On social media, a drama was unfolding which she described as “quite a soap opera.”

The star of the episode was Baxter, a four-year-old shepherdcross that McGrath’s rescue organization, Yukon Animal Rescue Network (YARN), was trying to transport to B.C. While staying overnight in Fort St. John, Baxter gnawed through the side of his plastic kennel under the canopy in the back of the truck and made a run for it.

“He chewed right through the side of the kennel. He’s a big dog, and he chewed a hole big enough to get himself out,” McGrath said.

“It was mere inches for him to squeeze through, but he did.”

For three hours the next morning YARN co-founder Damian Nel, who had been driving the pickup truck, searched for the escape-artist pooch, but with no luck.

Nel eventually decided he had to move on. There were 13 other dogs in the truck that had to make it to their new Outside home.

Back in Watson Lake, McGrath turned to social media and posted an update on the group’s Facebook page.

The small community of Fort St. John took over from there. The message was shared more than 200 times.

“There’s not a lot of stray dogs running around Fort St. John because they do have a very active rescue community. So he was kind of odd,” she said.

McGrath watched on Facebook as people posted about Baxter sightings around town and organized search parties armed with meat to coax the dog to safety.

“I couldn’t do anything but sit on my computer and just watch all these people conversing back and forth,” she said.

Everyone from local residents to RCMP officers helped out with the search.

By 11 p.m., Baxter was cornered underneath a barbecue and rescued.

Submitted Photo/Yukon News

Baxter was one of a group of Yukon pooches being moved from Watson Lake to a rescue shelter on the Sunshine Coast in B.C. In Fort St. John he made his escape. Right: the kennel that Baxter forced his way out of in Fort St. John.

He ended up biting one of the rescuers, but McGarth says that everyone there knew it was only out of fear and not because he was a bad dog.

“Once they caught him he was a teddy bear again. Just like he was with us.”

Baxter was taken in by the local rescue group in Fort St. John, which will start looking for his new home.

Meanwhile, the other dogs from YARN, including eight puppies, successfully made the trip from the rescue in Watson Lake to the SPCA’s Sunshine Coast branch on Monday.

Since they started up in January of last year, McGrath and Nel have been rescuing abandoned dogs and finding them new homes, both in the Yukon and Outside.

That often means going to smaller communities that don’t have easy access to a local humane society.

Baxter came from Carmacks, where he was found wandering the streets. Others on this latest

trip to the Sunshine Coast came from the small community of Iskut in northwestern B.C. YARN has sent dogs down to the Sunshine Coast SPCA in the past.

“They must be doing something right in their area. They seem to have empty kennels,” McGrath said.

“They do put a call out for others. And they did send me a

message this time saying, ‘Hey, we’ve got people wanting them.

You got any?’”

So Nel loaded up the back of the long-box, canopied pickup truck. Each kennel was wrapped in a quilt, with a second quilt inside.

Moving dogs Outside can often give them the best chance of being adopted, McGrath said.

“If there’s places – which amazes us – where they don’t have enough of them, we’re going to do it. It’s a win-win. We’re going to send them out any time we can.”

This latest trip was so successful YARN may do a second trip in February.

In 2014 YARN helped 180 animals – with 148 of those being either adopted or moved on to other rescue groups.

Most of that work is funded through donations or out of McGrath’s own pocket.

While the most recent group of dogs is on its way to new families, McGrath’s house is still home to plenty of pitter-pattering little paws. Right now she has 33 dogs in her house, including 17 puppies.

It will be a while before those dogs move on. McGrath said most people don’t adopt during the Christmas season, so YARN stopped adoptions from Dec. 19 until Jan. 5.

She said it’s important people recognize that dogs are commitments, not gifts to be bought on a whim.

“People get it in their head that it’s a good idea to surprise somebody with an animal. But an animal can be a 15-year commitment and we believe that it’s a commitment that can only be made by the owner themselves,” she said.

Many of those dogs given as gifts just end up back at the shelter.

“A month or two down the road, the person who got the animal didn’t really want it. It has to be your own decision to get an animal. It’s like a family member, you know.”

More information on YARN can be found on its Facebook page.

Contact Ashley Joannou at ashleyj@yukon-news.com

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A look at what went wrong with the Nutrition North food subsidy program Steve Rennie

tious food may be an issue.”

Aboriginal Affairs told Ferguson’s team it has looked at IQALUIT, NUNAVUT expanding the full subsidy to or years, northerners have around 50 fly-in northern comcomplained about Nutrimunities, but doing so would tion North to anyone who increase the cost of the program would listen, grumbling that the by $7 million a year. $60-million annual federal food Nutrition North also lets retailsubsidy was doing little to ease ers choose their own shipping their staggering grocery costs. method. That opened up the door No one, it seemed, took much for retailers to use other airlines, notice. such as Canadian North, to ship That all changed last month, products. when auditor general Michael Canadian North is a subsidiary Ferguson revealed that the proof the holding company Norterra, gram’s overseers are largely in the which is owned by the Inuvidark about whether the subsidy aluit of the Northwest Territories is doing anything for the people through the Inuvialuit Developwho need it the most. ment Corp. The Inuit of Nunavut “The program is not working,” used to own half of Norterra Cathy Towtongie, president of through Nunasi Corp., but earlier this year they sold their 50 per Nunavut Tunngavik Inc., which cent stake in the company. administers the Nunavut land Fred Schell, a former Nunavut claim, said in a recent interview at politician who brought forward her Iqaluit office. a motion in the legislature in “For the large majority of Inuit May 2013 calling on Ferguson to that don’t know how to access it audit Nutrition North, accused … it’s not working. And accountIan Stewart/Yukon News Aglukkaq of pork-barrel politics. ability and the transparency of Workers at the Northern Store in Old Crow in April 2013.

“At that time, I mean it was Canadian taxpayer dollars … the half owned by the Inuit up here, auditor general agreed with us wide food price protests and ployees higher wages. The power time would indicate whether the right?

Whereas the other one that there is no transparency and started the “Feeding My Family” rate costs have gone up several full subsidy is being passed on.

(First Air) was entirely owned no accountability. times in the last few years. So it is Ferguson’s report said such a group on Facebook. there by the Inuit in northern “And we have been saying that expensive to run a business here.” measure would help quell skepti“In upper, High Arctic comQuebec,” Schell said in a telefor a number of years now.”

The federal government cism about whether consumers munities, the subsidy is higher phone interview from Cape One of Ferguson’s observaused to subsidize shipping costs are actually getting the full benefit than the freight cost. So they’re Dorset. tions in particular struck a nerve through the old Food Mail proof the subsidy. making money like that.”

“So that was her way of thinkwith some northerners: that some gram in an effort to make food The department now says that Food has always cost more in ing, well, she’s doing something retailers are cashing in on the more affordable. as of April 1, retailers will have the North, due to the expense of for them up north here.” subsidy.

First Air, an airline owned to provide information on their Aglukkaq spokesman Ted Aboriginal Affairs and North- shipping it in from other parts since 1990 by the Inuit people of current and long-term profit of Canada, the region’s relatively Laking said Nutrition North is ern Development Canada told Quebec through Makivik Corp., margins. small and dispersed population, administered in a way that helps the audit team that the subsidy had a contract with Canada Post Nutrition North gives retailers lower costs by providing competisometimes exceeds the very ship- and the distance from major to deliver groceries to Nunavut a subsidy based on the weight of tion. “That is totally appropriate, transportation hubs. ping costs it is meant to defray communities at set rates. That eligible foods shipped to eligible and is meant to help lower costs “In the south, food is shipped – a revelation that came as no meant under Food Mail, retailers communities. But the auditor to families for food,” Laking wrote by road, and we just do not have surprise to some. had to rely on airlines chosen by general found Aboriginal Affairs in an email. roads into our territory,” former “The stores are making money Canada Post to get the subsidized did not choose eligible communAboriginal Affairs, meanwhile, Iqaluit mayor Madeleine Redfern based on the amount of food freight rate. ities based on need. is tweaking the program in resaid in an interview. they’re bringing in, and in return But in 2011, the Conservatives To highlight the problem, sponse to Ferguson’s report.

“You have the cost of running a they’re supposed to lower their replaced Food Mail with NutriFerguson’s team pointed to two “In the coming months, our retail store – the actual space and food price,” said Leesee Papatsie, tion North, which shifted the sub- remote communities in northern government and the Nutrition who helped organize Nunavutstorage and having to pay emsidy to retailers, who in turn were Ontario, both about the same North Canada Advisory Board expected to pass it on by cutting distance to the nearest town and will continue engaging northernfood costs for consumers. lacking year-round road access.

Yukon Womenʼs Transition Home Society ers, retailers and suppliers on Ron Elliott, who used to One is eligible for a subsidy of would like to ideas to keep the program on a represent a High Arctic riding in $1.60 a kilogram; the other only sustainable path,” Andrea Richer, Nunavut’s legislature, said people five cents a kilogram. a spokeswoman for Aboriginal are skeptical that businesses are The audit found that the Affairs Minister Bernard Valcourt, the Crime Prevention and actually passing on the full subdepartment chose communities said in an email. sidy to customers. based on two factors: whether “This process will help conVictim Services Trust Fund “What you’re doing is you’re they had year-round road access tinue to improve this new and for their generous support in helping us advertise putting the subsidy in the hands and if they had used the old Food growing program. We will also Third Party Reporting. of the businesses,” Elliott said in Mail program. Communities continue working with the Nutria telephone interview from his that made very little use of Food tion North advisory board to Third Party Reporting is an option for victims of sexualized assault who are 19 or older home in Arctic Bay. Mail are only eligible for a partial ensure that northerners maintain and have made the informed decision not to report to RCMP. Third Party Reporting is “If you’re in business to make subsidy of five cents per kilogram, a direct voice in the program.” a way to document information about the crime through a third party. Police can use a profi t, are you going to be that while places that did not use food But Redfern, the former Iqaluit information in the report and take actions that are appropriate. A victim of sexualized willing to have good will?

My mail aren’t eligible. mayor, said the changes may not assault doesnʼt have to be staying at Kausheeʼs Place to access Third Party Reporting, problem is, you can’t really tell a “Consequently, community be enough to fix Nunavut’s much and it is available to both women and men. business what profit they should eligibility is based on past usage larger food security problem. have, right? So if the market can instead of current need,” the “While I understand and Yukon Womenʼs Transition Home Society bear something, usually that’s report says. appreciate the Nutrition North Kausheeʼs Place & Bettyʼs Haven what people charge.”

“As a result, there may be other program attempts to assist by (867) 633-7729 Aboriginal Affairs has not isolated northern communities, subsidizing healthy food, clearly required merchants to report not benefi ting from the subsidy, people don’t have enough money http://yukontransitionhome.ca/ their profit margins, which over where access to affordable, nutri- to be able to feed themselves.”

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Vanishing sea ice creates whole new Arctic for both people and places Bob Weber Canadian Press

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rank Pokiak remembers long days on the land, camped at traditional hunting grounds under June’s 24-hour sun, secure in the knowledge that sea ice would provide a safe highway back to his Tuktoyaktuk home.

Those days are gone. “We used to stay out quite a while, eh,� recalls Pokiak, a longtime Inuvialuit hunter. “We go hunting geese and ducks along the coast and after the snow melts on the ground we still have access via the ocean. “We don’t really do that any more. You can’t stay out on the land as long. The ice is melting quicker.�

Last month, Arctic sea ice covered 630,000 square kilometres less ocean than the 30-year average. Sea ice extent is shrinking about five per cent a decade.

And the frozen ocean is not only smaller, it’s thinner. David Barber, who holds the Canada Research Chair in Arctic System Science at the University of Manitoba, says sea ice has lost, on average, about 40 per cent of its total volume. “We discovered this rotten ice in the summer of 2009,� said Barber, who made the finding while on an icebreaker in the Beaufort Sea. “It was multi-year sea ice that had deteriorated so much that the meltponds had gone through and connected with the oceans. “The ice had broken up into tiny pieces about the size of a Volkswagen and these bits and pieces had congealed with new ice that was forming, only a couple centimetres thick. The satellites thought they were looking at multi-year sea ice, but when we were driving a ship through it, it was this heavily rotted stuff that didn’t slow us down at all.�

What’s coming? Hard to say.

Sea ice has always been highly variable. Barber said that variability is growing and makes predictions difficult. Dates for an Arctic free of summer ice vary from 2020 to 2080 and scientists can’t really say how that’s going to play out in different regions. “When you look at what’s happening over the whole Northern Hemisphere, the models are pretty good at that. What they’re not good at is the small-scale stuff, particularly storms and the role that storms play in how the ice behaves. “Most of the contemporary research is looking at these small-scale phenomena to try and understand them so we can encapsulate the physics of them better in the models.�

But the effects are already distorting fragile Arctic food webs.

Almost all Arctic life, from birds to bowheads, begins with algae that starts blooming beneath the ice every March, said

NASA

As sea ice retreats in summer more sunlight reaches the upper layers of the sea, triggering increased blooms of phytoplankton in the Bering Sea.

University of Manitoba biologist CJ Mundy. “When you take an ice core, the bottom of the ice core is brown,� he said. “That’s all algae.�

The bloom is the first in a series of pulses that run from algae, to plankton, to tiny animals called copepods, to fish, to seals and on up. “That bloom really kickstarts the whole system,� Mundy said.

Arctic plants and organisms have evolved to take advantage of resources exactly when they become available. “It’s the timing,� said Mundy. “The whole idea behind the Arctic is that they have certain pulses of primary production and then organisms have to survive the rest of the season without having access to that food any more. “If you melt the sea ice, you’re going to decrease the length of the ice algae bloom.�

Life will adapt, he said. It just won’t be the kind of unique and beautiful life evolved for the Arctic. “If we start changing the timing, we’re going to allow the more southerly ecosystems to march northward. It might produce more energy, it might open new fisheries, but it would likely be a different ecosystem that is there right now.�

Weather systems may be changing, too – and not just in the North. Jennifer Francis at Rutgers University caused a stir last year with her paper suggesting that disappearing sea ice exerts an indirect but powerful influence on what kind of day southerners experience when they walk out the door. “It’s really kind of set off a whole new line of research,� said Francis.

The average temperature difference between the Arctic and mid-latitudes is shrinking because the North is warming faster than anywhere in the planet, partly because melting sea ice allows oceans to absorb more heat.

That difference is what drives the jet stream. The narrower the difference, the slower and more erratic it is.

Francis said the stream is about 14 per cent slower than it was in the ‘90s. That allows the current

to “wobble� north-south instead of flowing evenly east-west. That blocks weather patterns in place that would normally move along.

Scientists have suggested the phenomenon is at least partly behind events such as Alberta’s disastrous 2013 flooding and droughts in California. Not all agree. Francis said the skeptics just don’t think the effect is pronounced enough yet to be detectable. “There’s been a lot of evidence supporting that it actually is occurring, but the atmosphere is so chaotic that it’s difficult to detect these signals with a lot of confidence,� she said. “The controversy isn’t from people saying, ‘No, this is wrong;’ it’s more they’re saying, ‘No, we can’t see it yet.�’ Much has been made of a potential economic boom from Arctic resources made accessible by opening seas. Not so fast, said Tom Paddon, CEO of Baffinland Iron Mines Corp. and chairman of the Arctic Economic Council, recently created by the group of eight nations that ring the North Pole. “The changes in sea coverage affords some development advantages and some other disadvantages,� he said.

Cruise ship tourism has increased. And although exploratory fisheries have failed to find commercial resources and the government has since banned such attempts pending more research, studies have found more than 800 commercial fish species are moving poleward at up to 26 kilometres a year.

Two commercial transits of the Northwest Passage have already occurred and Paddon said the route is likely to be a handy way to get Arctic minerals to market.

Scandinavia has a long history of northern industry and Russia is busy building Arctic ports. “But this is not the resource development bonanza that to some degree it’s been portrayed,� he said. “The facts are much different.�

Canada has little to none of the infrastructure that makes development possible. New construction will have to confront issues such as melting permafrost, which destabilizes the ground

that airports, mines and ports are built on.

There are major doubts around energy development – over the impact of activities such as seismic testing on marine animals and the ability of industry to clean up spills in ice-choked, stormy waters. “The Arctic remains an expensive business that requires significant investment. It’s going to take time and it’s going to take the appropriate level of oversight,� said Paddon.

Meanwhile, vanishing sea ice is already changing the lives of those who live alongside it, said Chris Furgal of Trent University. “The ice is not only forming later, it’s also taking longer to form,� he said. “The period during which you can get out onto the water freely in a boat, or the period during which you can get out with confidence on a stable ice pack, is changing.�

It’s the same in spring. “It’s not as though, ‘Hey, we can get out in our boats earlier.’ It’s that we’ve got these mushy, bad ice conditions for a longer period of time earlier in the year.�

That’s already causing food security problems for some Labrador communities, said Furgal.

He’s hearing reports that communities are having to organize more rescues as travel becomes less predictable. It’s also causing financial woes, because bad ice forces longer trips and takes a higher toll on gear.

There are social losses, too. “A lot of people still go out on to the ice during the winter for what we would think of in the south as a picnic. Along the Labrador coast, people talk about going out for a ‘boil-up.�’ People fish, drink tea and eat traditional foods. Grandparents tell stories. Families and communities bond. People break free from the confines of tiny Arctic hamlets into the vast wilderness that is their true home. “A lot of people talked about the importance of that, of going out on the ice, as being really important from a social, cultural and mental perspective,� said Furgal.

Still, northerners learned long ago to roll with the punches, said Pokiak. “We live with these changes.

Inuvialuit people have been living with changes all their lives. People adapt.�

Less caribou around? Eat more moose. Can’t get to the goosehunting ground? Fish the Mackenzie River instead.

One thing, however, is unlikely to change. “I don’t think we’re going to disappear. We’ll always be here.�

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The top films of 2014, as chosen by Canadian Press Canadian Press TORONTO remarkable look at the growth of a young boy, a gripping portrait of a maniacal jazz instructor and a quirky summer blockbuster are among the cinematic stories that captured the imaginations of the reporters and editors at The Canadian Press this year. In alphabetical order, our top films of 2014 are: A Most Violent Year – Cinephiles who compile annual “bestof � lists have been largely confounded by a year in which there were precious few critical slamdunks. Thank goodness, then, for J.C. Chandor’s smart, stylish crime drama starring Oscar Isaac, Jessica Chastain and an unrecognizable Albert Brooks. Set for a late January release in Canada, it’ll be a most welcome way to start the movie-viewing year, with assured, absorbing perfomances that are bound to be rewarded come Academy Award time.

Birdman – Michael Keaton, that erstwhile Batman and Mr. Mom, was back with a vengeance as washed-up star Riggan Thomson in this eye-popping metameditation on fame and aging.

Director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu has been deservedly lavished with praise for the film’s magical camera work, while Emma Stone shows new acting chops as Riggan’s tough-talking but troubled daughter.

Boyhood – Richard Linklater delivered a cinematic mind-bender with this groundbreaking look

those who fought alongside King makes for a gripping and moving portrait of issues that still resonate today. British actor David Oyelowo portrays King in a way that’s believable, measured and doesn’t distract from the overall story.

The Grand Budapest Hotel – Wes Anderson at his most meticulous, peculiar, idiosyncratic – and somehow, his most accessible.

Set in a semi-fictional Europe ornately framed by nostalgia and imagination, Grand Budapest is a madcap caper revolving around a stolen painting. It’s brisk, mischievous and tinged with melancholy, and the constellation of assembled stars – including Ralph Fiennes, Willem Dafoe, Adrien Brody, Jude Law, Harvey Keitel, Jeff Goldblum, Bill Murray, Tilda Fox Searchlight/Yukon News Swinton and Edward Norton – A scene from The Grand Budapest Hotel. Set in a semi-fictional Europe ornately framed by seem to be having a ball popunostalgia and imagination, Grand Budapest is a madcap caper revolving around a stolen painting. lating Anderson’s snowglobe.

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Federal polls show race is tightening, but can’t explain why Bruce Cheadle

prime minister spent much of the Pacetti and Scott Andrews. fall political season playing the The narrative offers a neat game his way, on familiar home story that fits many observable OTTAWA soil. realities and biases alike, but findspate of public opin“Mr. Harper has his mojo ing corroboration in the polling back,” National Post columnist results is elusive. ion surveys this au“The poll information that we tumn has prompted John Ivison wrote on Dec. 3.

The corollary is that Truhave in the public domain does the usual end-of-year deau’s Liberals finally started to not speak to that level of granuparsing of political forcome down off their extended larity,” said Adams. tunes and chin-stroking sugar high, a result of the contrast “The pollsters who weave these prognostications about a between Harper’s international grand narratives – it’s Trudeau’s federal election that may statesmanship and Trudeau’s mishandling of the sexual assault inability to articulate a clear argu- or it’s ISIS or whatever – in most still be 10 months in the ment on military involvement in cases the pollsters themselves future. the Middle East. don’t have granular enough Stephen Harper’s ConservaBoth the Liberals and the NDP, soundings of public opinion to be tives are up. Justin Trudeau’s making those judgments.”

Liberals are down. Tom Mulcair’s meanwhile, were sideswiped by bombshell allegations of serious Tom Flanagan, the UniverNew Democrats are out of it. personal misconduct from two sity of Calgary political science Reader beware.

NDP members that led to the sus- professor and former right-hand In fact, a look at months of results from six different pollpension of Liberal MPs Massimo man to Prime Minister Stephen sters suggests Trudeau’s Liberals remain imperviously buoyant, Harper’s Tories have seen only marginal gains despite a number of issues breaking their way, and NDP fortunes are stalled, notwithstanding Mulcair’s widely lauded parliamentary performance.

In the past week alone, national polls from recognized opinion surveyors have placed Liberal support as high as 41 per cent (Forum Research) and as low as 32 per cent (EKOS), Conservative support from 33 to 31 per cent and NDP support at 19 (Leger), 20 (Forum) and 17 per cent (EKOS).

Back in September, before an event-packed fall that supposedly th th th moved the public opinion dial, Liberals polled as high as 38 per cent (Abacus and Ipsos Reid), Conservatives were between 30 and 31 per cent and New Democrats between 21 and 23.

ThreeHundredEight.com, which aggregates political polling, says the average of all public polls put Liberal support last week at 36 per cent, Conservatives at 32 and the NDP at 20. In September, those averages were 38-30-22.

“It’s important not to make too much of relatively small movements in the polls,” says Paul Adams, a former parliamentary reporter and pollster who now teaches journalism at Carleton University in Ottawa.

Nonetheless, Adams says by looking across the various polls conducted since the summer, “the race looks significantly tighter than it has.”

It’s always easy to construct a narrative around why that might be, he added – but pundits and pollsters should be careful with such storylines.

The narrative building in Ottawa is that the Conservatives pulled out of a long malaise in October, spurred by Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s tough words for Russia’s Vladimir Putin *Excluding Go Pro’s in Ukraine, his decision to send fighter jets to Iraq and the shocking terror attacks on Canadian soil.

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“The parties won’t have any polls showing anything different,” he said in an interview. “I never saw any internal polls that had any magical insight.”

Canadian political parties, said Flanagan, simply don’t have the resources to conduct routinely the kind of massive surveys – samples of 10,000-plus respondents – that can pinpoint specific, numbermoving issues and their demographics.

That will change in the immediate run-up to an election, when parties will poll heavily in order to lay out an advertising strategy and finalize their platforms.

“But in general, people in the parties have the same kind of information you have as an outsider,” said the former Conservative insider.

“You can take the obvious from the trend in the polls. I think it’s valid – for the time being – that the Conservatives have rebounded somewhat. They haven’t caught up to the Liberals, but they’ve narrowed the gap.”

Adams, the former journalist and pollster, and Flanagan, the former political operative, agree on another point about this year’s polling.

“It’s a reminder that a minority (government) is the likeliest case out of the next election, rather than a majority,” said Adams.

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LIFE Meet one of Canada’s pioneering plane-crash mechanics Roxanne Livingstone Special for the News

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aureen Routledge is matter-of-fact about her groundbreaking career as the first Canadian woman to become a licensed aircraft engineer. She’s also a bit cryptic about her personal life.

Yet her work and life in the North sparkle with the adventure and romance fit for the big screen.

In the small Ontario town of Carp in the 1950s, while ponytailed teenage girls danced at sock-hops, Routledge wore a ball cap as she greased the bearings and wheels of aircraft.

“I had nothing else to do, so I started tinkering with airplanes at age 16,” recalls Routledge, now 73.

In particular she was interested in the elegant, late-1940s executive Stinson airplane her older friend Harold flew. Harold invited her into the passenger seat and into the skies.

Up there she found what she wanted for the rest of her life – aircraft, and Harold.

“At Bradley Air Service they got planes ready to go back to the Arctic in spring. I helped out, I guess, taking the cowlings off and looking around for what was bent or deteriorating. I’d wash down the engine with Varsol and a spray can if it had a leak. That sort of thing,” Routledge says dismissively.

At age 17 she married Harold, who was 14 years her senior. While he flew she played housewife for a while, but it didn’t take.

“I’m not the domestic type” she says flatly. “I kept myself busy working on airplanes for Bradley Air. Harold was sent to the Arctic for two summers in the late 1960s. In the spring of 1969 my boss said, ‘I suppose you’d like to go North?’ My tongue was just about hanging out, I wanted it so badly.”

So in the summer of 1969, while hippies, riots and Woodstock made headlines, 27-year-old Routledge toiled with joy in a cold airplane hangar in Resolute Bay. She and Harold slept in the tool shed.

“That’s my best memory of my life.

Very few women went up there at that time. Men figured it was too much trouble to make facilities for women. I pumped gas, worked on flame heaters for the aircraft, or wiped down the exhaust stains on the Otter. I liked the country. I didn’t have to do dishes or cook. Harold and I would walk wherever we wanted when not working on the airplanes.”

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Whitehorse’s Maureen Routledge, 73, now lives at Macaulay Lodge. She was the first Canadian woman to become licensed as an aircraft maintenance engineer. Below, Routledge poses in front of a plane. She was 16 at the time.

The next spring she returned to the Arctic on the notoriously loud, jarring and slow De Havilland Otter. Travelling at a miserable 115 miles per hour (185 km/hr) it took two days to reach Tuktoyuktuk, N.W.T. The couple went with scientists to see the last known campsite of the Franklin Expedition on Beechey Island. Routledge recalls seeing a cross made out of food cans over a grave.

Then, after years of working with her husband as a mechanic, she decided to get her official aircraft maintenance engineer licence. The Department of Transport was not open to the idea.

“I decided I might as well knock off one of those exams. You had to apprentice three years under a licensed engineer before getting permission to

write the exam. The Department of Transport tried to say my work didn’t add up to three years. I sent a snappy letter back saying I beg to differ! Then I wrote my first exam in the morning.

It didn’t seem too bad. The same day I wrote my second exam and in the afternoon wrote the third one.”

On March 11, 1971 Routledge became the first Canadian woman to become an aircraft maintenance engineer.

In 1973 the couple modified a two-seater with a bigger engine and pontoons and spent two weeks flying to Dawson Creek. They went in business together because Maureen’s licence qualified her to re-certify previously-crashed planes to fly again, while Harold had the licence to do major repairs.

In 1977 they moved to Atlin, B.C. and for the next two decades the couple repaired and re-certified bush planes that had crashed in the North, like the one that floated through Miles Canyon after an engine failure and got banged up on the rocks, or the one that landed on thin ice on Atlin Lake and sank. They also worked on the bush plane from the movie Never Cry Wolf.

“It was very satisfying to haul in a wreck and turn it out looking like a new airplane. Not everyone can do it.

As for the fabric, you could turn out a horrible looking mess and it would still be airworthy or you could turn out a good looking job. That was part of our reputation – a good looking job.”

Atlin life suited Routledge’s outdoorsy nature too. In summertime she fished and one of her largest trout (24 pounds, or 11 kilograms) is in the Atlin museum. In the dark winter nights Routledge whittled diamond willows into walking sticks as her husband wrote poetry and made violins.

The couple gave up their aircraft maintenance licences in 1995 when Maureen got Parkinson’s disease. They moved to Whitehorse in 2009 and Harold passed away in 2013.

Underneath her no-fuss attitude Routledge still wears a determination of steel. When this reporter investigated her record, Transport Canada insisted she was not the first woman in Canada to get her licence. Like she did 43 years ago when they told her she didn’t have enough hours to qualify to write the exam, Routledge held her ground. So another access-toinformation request was made.

Then we waited. And waited.

In early December a priority post letter arrived at McCauley Lodge where Routledge lives. From her wheelchair, she opened the letter with shaking hands.

Victory at last: Transport Canada now confirms Routledge was the first Canadian woman to have received her aircraft maintenance engineer licence.

Roxanne Livingstone is a freelance writer in Whitehorse.

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TORONTO moke it, toke it, vape it, eat it – marijuana, it seems, is going mainstream.

Once widely reviled by society at large as the demon weed, medical-grade cannabis is now available through federally licensed growers with a doctor’s prescription and even some highly respected health organizations are calling for the herb to be legalized and sold as a taxable commodity like alcohol, in government-regulated outlets.

At the same time, Canadians also appear to be softening their attitudes towards the drug.

“They see it as more normal,” says Lorne Bozinoff, president and CEO of Forum Research, which found in an August poll that 66 per cent of almost 1,800 respondents across the country supported either complete legalization or decriminalization for possession of small amounts.

Just 16 per cent wanted the laws left unchanged, while 14 per cent champion the notion of stiffer penalties.

“We don’t get numbers like that in polling, where two-thirds of Canadians agree on the same thing,” says Bozinoff.

“In any event, a huge, huge majority of people – excluding the prime minister – are OK with either the legalization with taxation or decriminalization of marijuana,” he says, referring to the Harper government’s toughon-drugs stance.

“So that’s where the country’s moved to, and this is a good social barometer of where the country’s at.”

Some health groups have also shifted their attitude towards cannabis, although there reasons are more about protecting Canadians’ health.

Early this year, the chief medical officers of health for B.C., Saskatchewan and Nova Scotia called on Ottawa to rethink its marijuana control strategy, including considering regulation and taxation.

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While the New Democrats want to see decriminalization, Justice Minister Peter MacKay has said his Conservative government is considering stricter enforcement of marijuana laws, including possibly making possession of small quantities of dope a ticketing offence.

The pollster Bozinoff believes the Tories are out of step on the issue.

“I think they thought they had caught Justin Trudeau in a gotcha Justin Tang/The Canadian Press moment.

They made a big deal A man is shown smoking a joint at the Fill the Hill marijuana rally on Parliament Hill in over the whole marijuana thing, Ottawa on April 20. and no one cared, as the numbers showed.” war on drugs has not achieved its D.C., recently followed suit.) jurisdictions like Washington Indeed, the government’s stated objectives of reducing rates In Colorado, for instance, pot State or Colorado or even Alaska change in medical marijuana of drug use or drug availability,” is sold in stores with few restricand Oregon,” he says. regulations, which designates said B.C.’s Dr. Perry Kendall. tions and even advertised on TV, “The reason I say that is licensed producers to supply the “There are alternative approaches said Rehm, likening the state’s because we have very little crime drug via a doctor’s prescription, that have proved more effective in wide-open legalization to the related to marijuana use, and has also bolstered the argument protecting public heath while not Wild West. yet we have over 60 dispensaries for legalization because proponenriching organized crime and CAMH wants to see only a few now selling marijuana and most ents can point to a specific exdriving gang violence.” varieties sold in regulated outlets, of them sell 10 to 20 different ample of Canadians who’ve been The Canadian Public Health and only those that contain varieties, and it’s priced cheaper Association echoed that sentimoderate levels of THC, the main in Vancouver than any other place given legal access, he says.

“When something is allowed ment in its own policy statement, psychoactive substance in grass, in the western hemisphere.” for one small group, the taboo is saying “Canada needs a public said Rehm, noting that the drug In Vancouver, a gram of weed health approach to managing ilcarries a number of dangers, sells for $5 on average; next-door broken. It’s allowed and it’s no big legal psychoactive substances that including fatalities when stoned in Washington state, the same deal. The world didn’t end.” de-emphasizes criminalization drivers get behind the wheel and quantity goes for $28 in governRehm also believes the change and stigma in favour of evidence- the risk of developing dependment licensed stores, says Emery, in how medicinal pot is supplied based strategies to reduce harm.” ence. whose Cannabis Culture store has opened a “sort of side door” In October, the Centre for “Let’s do it correct from the peddles pot and related products. to legalization, which he predicts Addiction and Mental Health beginning. Let’s not say this is a While marijuana remains ilcould occur as early as next year if (CAMH) threw its support harmless drug, nothing will ever legal, he says there seems to be a the Liberals win the federal elecbehind legalization, saying a few happen. No, it is a drug, it has detente with Vancouver police, tion slated for October. select strains of marijuana should consequences. They may be less who tend to look the other way “If you legalize it or you don’t be sold like beer, wine and spirits than with alcohol, but it’s still a when it comes to simple posseslegalize it, it will be even wider in outlets like the Liquor Control pretty severe consequence.” sion. used,” he says. “Right now, we Board of Ontario, with strict age Marc Emery, the self-styled “The results are in – there’s limits to prevent its purchase by “Prince of Pot” who returned to very little social negative byprod- already have 42 per cent of all Ontarians below 30 using it. If minors.

Canada in August after more than uct as a rule of this proliferating you look at lifetime prevalence, “We are actually not favourable four years serving a U.S. prison marijuana market. It attracts it’s in the 70s (per cent). to what has been happening in sentence for selling cannabis seeds nice tourists, it attracts people “This is a normalized behavColorado and Washington,” said to Americans, says the city he calls from the rest of the province, iour.

It may be officially proJurgen Rehm, director of social home offers a good model for the it provides a lot of cash to the and epidemiological research rest of the country. neighbourhoods and everybody’s hibited, but it is what most young at CAMH, referring to the first “Vancouver right now is closest very well-behaved because no one people at some point in their lives have experienced and this is to two U.S. states to legalize weed to how legalization would look in wants to rock that boat.”

(Alaska, Oregon and Washington, many ways than any of the legal Politically, the normalizasome point irreversible.”

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Good manners don’t require catering to prejudices of others people whose views he does not yet know.

I have responded that it is indeed personal, since it is happening to me, and that the potential prejudices of strangers are not to

by Judith be catered to; if they are offended, Martin they can excuse themselves and find other people with whom to chat.

GENTLE READER: Struggles for civil rights focus their energy first on achieving equality before DEAR MISS MANNERS: My the law. But as you have discovspouse and I married out of state ered, that does not mean the etiin 2010, after several happy years quette will automatically follow. together, because our home state Good manners do not always does not recognize same-sex mar- require that you make those riage. around you comfortable by caterHe works in the arts; I am a ing to their possible prejudices. lawyer. We attend many social and Of course spouses should be artistic events and have a wide introduced as such. Miss Mancircle of accepting friends. ners hopes that the worst thing However (ironically, I think, your spouse is seeking to avoid by given our respective careers), I his behavior is a polite but cold response. am much more apt to introduce him as my spouse with new DEAR MISS MANNERS: As acquaintances. He either haltingly introduces me as his “partner,” or I’m sure you know, Southerners like myself address everyone worse yet, ignores me altogether, we meet that we are not on a even when I am standing right first-name basis with as “Sir” or next to him.

“Ma’am.” I travel to the North on He has attempted to excuse business quite a bit and am octhis by explaining that it is “not casionally joshed about that with personal” and that he does not good humor and occasionally wish to render uncomfortable

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not-so-good humor. How should I respond to such attempts at correction, or should I respond at all?

GENTLE READER: “Oh, sorry.

It’s a term of respect, but if you tell me it’s not warranted in your case, of course I’ll stop.”

DEAR MISS MANNERS: I am a woman who has never married and there is no likelihood of my doing so in the future. I’ve begun declining wedding invitations, sending a lovely gift, and enjoying not being there.

The weddings I attended in the past were not enjoyable and made me feel distinctly inferior to the couples surrounding me.

They have all been focused on the married couples present and their children, and made me want to hide.

I put on a happy face and participated, but in almost all cases, it was clear that my attendance did not add to the couples’ joy in the day, and my other relatives did not seem to even realize I was present.

My nieces will be marrying in the next few years. I would much prefer to send a gift and good wishes rather than end up going home feeling like a failure. Would this be a breach of manners?

baby on Facebook, a request that we have respected. Neither my son nor my daughter-in-law has a Facebook account.

My problem is, I see that my son’s mother-in-law and sisterin-law post pictures of the baby all the time. They even call her by name.

DEAR MISS MANNERS: In recent months it seems that more So, do I tell them about the and more men are growing facial postings, or mind my own busihair in a variety of styles. ness, even knowing how this will I first noticed this when my upset them when they find out? parish priest returned from a And they will find out. sabbatical with a somewhat GENTLE READER: If they will unflattering growth of beard. find out anyway, why invite them Many professional athletes have to kill the messenger? beards and long hair. Television If your son and daughter-inads depict men of all ages wearing law ask if you have seen these beards. Even TV anchormen and postings, you may say that you their guests have beards. didn’t want to get involved, Do you have any thoughts which, whether true or not, is about what is behind this craze? hardly blameworthy. You have GENTLE READER? Well, it been handed a rare case in which could be aesthetics, admiration the problem will solve itself withfor historical figures, a need for out your intervention. Miss Mandisguise, a yearning for variety, or any number of things that also ners encourages you to take it.

Please send your questions motivate ladies to change the way to Miss Manners at her website, they look. Or inertia -- a powerful www.missmanners.com; to her force that makes for interesting email, dearmissmanners@gmail. trends. com; or through postal mail to Miss Manners, Universal Uclick, DEAR MISS MANNERS: My 1130 Walnut St., Kansas City, MO son has asked that we not post 64106. pictures of our treasured grandGENTLE READER: Certainly you may decline these invitations politely. But Miss Manners hardly knows which is sadder: your relatives’ wedding behavior, or your inability to forget yourself and be happy for others.

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Whitehorse skiers selected for junior/U23 world championships “It’s a nice Christmas gift to be pre-qualified like this.”

Also vying for a spot at the U23 worlds was Whitehorse’s Knute Johnsgaard. However, the ahria Beatty and Annah Yukon Elite Squad skier placed Hanthorn can spend more 13th in the senior men 1.4-kilotime worrying about findmetre classic and ninth in the ing the perfect gifts and less time senior men 30-kilometre free, about making the world champicoming second in pre-selection. onships this holiday season.

Johnsgaard will now attempt to With strong performances the make the team in Duntroon. last two weekends at the Haywood “I know what an amazing skier NorAm world trials, the two he is and I’m confident he’ll have Whitehorse skiers have been prea very good chance at qualifying selected to represent Canada at in January,” said Beatty. “Hopefulthe FIS Nordic Junior/U23 World ly all three of us will be heading Ski Championships this February over there at the end of January.” in Almaty, Kazakhstan.

Other top Whitehorse results “I’m really excited about that,” from the weekend include Marcus said Beatty. “I was hoping to get Deuling and Caelan McLean this pre-selection spot in Decemplacing fifth and 12th, respectber so I wouldn’t have that stress ively, in Saturday’s junior male going into January.”

10-kilometre free; Kendra Murray “It’s a nice Christmas gift to taking 11th in the senior women be pre-qualified like this,” said 15-kilometre free and 12th in the Hanthorn. sprint; Colin Abbott placing 17th Kazakhstan will be a first for in the senior men 1.4-kilometre both skiers with Beatty, 20, comclassic. peting in her first U23 worlds and Whitehorse’s Graham NishikHanthorn, 19, skiing in her first awa, who competed at the world junior worlds. championships two years ago but Both Yukon skiers were the is now a full-time student at the only females selected followUniversity of Alberta, placed fifth ing this past weekend’s NorAm in senior men both days. in Vernon, B.C. The other three At the end of last week, Cross positions on each squad – junCountry Yukon’s High Performior and U23, male and female ance Committee also announced – will be decided in another set the team that will compete for of trials early in the New Year in Yukon at the Canada Winter Duntroon, Ont. Games this February in Prince “I’m so excited. Completely George, B.C. shocked,” said Hanthorn. “MakOn the women’s team are ing the junior worlds team was Beatty, Murray, Hanthorn, Natalie one of my goals for this year. I am Hynes and Hannah Deuling. For so excited that I was pre-selected. the men it’s Johnsgaard, Marcus “The last two races were exDeuling, McLean, Simon Cash cruciatingly hard, so it was really and Mac Prawdzik. exciting to be named to the team.

“This season is still very up in I’m very honoured.” the air and it’s possible, deHanthorn, who is a mempending on how I ski at the U23 ber of the junior national team, world championships, it is poswon silver in the junior women sible I will remain in Europe after 1.2-kilometre classic sprint Friday that,” said Beatty. “At the moment, and bronze in the junior female Canada Games is in my sights and five-kilometre free Saturday in I’d love to represent Yukon.

Vernon. She won two gold in “Having Annah and Kendra, Kendra Murray/Yukon News the NorAm trials the previous and two really fast young girls …

Whitehorse’s Dahria Beatty, centre, celebrates her gold with Alberta World Cup Academy weekend.

I think it’s a really strong women’s teammates Brittany Webster, left, and Heidi Widmer at the Haywood NorAm world trials in “I’m not an avid sprinter; it team and we could have a great Vernon, B.C., on Saturday. Beatty was selected to represent Canada at the U23 World isn’t what I mostly enjoy. I’m relay team.”

Championships this February in Kazakhstan. more the distance type,” said On the other side of the Hanthorn. “So to be able to get pond, Whitehorse Olympian “I knew to get this spot I had to in U23, but for the whole domes- Beatty. “I will have two more years into the A final and get second, Emily Nishikawa took 49th in a tic North American circuit.” of eligibility after this. that was definitely super exciting. win the U23 and it was a 15-kilo10-kilometre skate race at a FIS Though Kazakhstan will be “I have some goals. Ideally, I’d “And especially for a skate race metre skate race – something World Cup on Saturday in Davos, Beatty’s first under-23 worlds, like to put in a top 12 result …

I’ve never raced as an individual too. It was my top placing for a Switzerland. it won’t be her fi rst time repreBut I’m just going to go there and before,” said Beatty.

“So I went skate race (in the NorAms).”

The previous Saturday Emily into it with a lot of open-minded senting Canada. Beatty has race as hard as I can and learn as This past weekend Beatty, a raced to a career-best 29th at a strategy because it was something competed at three junior chammuch as I can from racing against World Cup race in Davos. member of the national senior pionships, most recently in Val new.

I focused on thinking about an international field so that in a development team, took sixth in Emily has made the qualifying di Fiemme, Italy, early this year. my technique and executing my couple years time, when I’m once time for the FIS World Ski Chamthe senior women 1.2-kilometre race plan and it worked out really In her very last individual race in again the oldest in my age group, pionships, but the selection of the Friday. three junior worlds, Beatty finI can hopefully be comfortable She then set a career best with well for me.

Canadian team won’t take until ished with her best, placing 15th “That was my first NorAm racing at that level. a gold in the senior women’s Feb. 9, Cross Country Canada podium ever and my first NorAm in a five-kilometre classic.

15-kilometre free skate, beat“My ultimate goal is in a told the News yesterday.

“It’s a new category, so I’m Contact Tom Patrick at victory. So I’m really excited to be ing two-time Olympian Brittany couple of years to be fighting for a tomp@yukon-news.com at the bottom of it again,” said on top of the podium – not just Webster by 22.6 seconds. podium spot.”

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Yukon gets new junior girls curling champs Tom Patrick News Reporter

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fter eight years of Team Koltun domination, Yukon has new junior girls curling champions.

Whitehorse’s Team Horte won a best-of-three contest to take the title at the Yukon Junior Curling Championships on Saturday at the Whitehorse Curling Club.

With the title, the Horte team earns their first trip to the Canadian Junior Curling Championships next month in Corner Brook, N.L. “It was really exciting and we’re all really excited to go to nationals this year,� said skip Bailey Horte. “We’re really hopeful and excited. It’ll be a new experience for our team that we’ve been looking forward to for quite a few years.

Hopefully it all goes well.�

Team Koltun, skipped by Whitehorse’s Sarah Koltun, aged out of junior last year after winning the Yukon junior title eight consecutive times going back to 2006, defeating Team Horte in the final the last two years.

Team Horte claimed this year’s title with two wins over Team Meger, winning 9-3 and 13-4 on Saturday.

It was a real family affair.

Including coaches, there were Hortes, Scoffins and Megers on both teams.

Joining skip Horte is third Kelsey Meger, second Kelly Mahoney, lead Sian Molloy and coach Wade Scoffin.

On the Meger rink is skip Alyssa Meger, third Bayly Scoffin, second Peyton L’Henaff, lead Karen Smallwood and coach Rhonda Horte. “We definitely had a lot of fun out there,� said Bailey, 18.

Bailey, Mahoney, and both Megers played together at the 2014 Arctic Winter Games, placing fourth. Bailey, Mahoney, Kelsey and Molloy played together at the 2012 Arctic Winter Games, winning silver. “A lot of it has to do with the age,� said Bailey. “At the recent Arctics, the reason why Sian didn’t play with us was she was too old, so that’s why we picked up Alyssa and it worked out pretty good. We played well.� “It was pretty weird because last year I went to Arctics with my sister and I just played against her for nationals,� said Alyssa. “So it was a little bit weird.�

Team Meger missed out on the spot at the junior nationals, but the rink will still get to represent Yukon on the national stage. The Meger team will curl for the territory at the Canada Winter Games this February in Prince George. “It’s pretty exciting,� said Alyssa, 14. “I’m looking forward to experiencing it and just having The Yukon home of

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Horte third Kelsey Meger, right, and second Kelly Mahoney sweep at the final game during the Yukon Junior Curling Championships at the Whitehorse Curling Club on Saturday.

a good time doing it.�

Yukon’s junior boys championship was decided without a single throw of a stone.

Whitehorse’s Team Wallingham won by default as the only boys team entered. It’s anticlimactic, but a trip to the nationals is a trip to the nationals. “It would be good to get some games under our belt, but that’s all right,� said skip Joe Wallingham. “Our goal is to get to nationals and I guess we did it.�

On board with Wallingham are third Brayden Klassen, second Trygg Jensen and lead Spencer Wallace.

Corner Brook will be Wallingham and Wallace’s third nationals and the second for Jensen and Klassen.

“We’re feeling good, we’re starting to curl well as a team, starting to get more comfortable with each other’s game,� said Wallingham. “We’re just getting excited to go to nationals.�

Team Wallingham placed ninth at the 2014 Canadian Junior Curling Championships last January.

The team, who at the time included Jensen, Klassen and younger brother Will Klassen, then won gold in junior men’s Tom Patrick/Yukon News curling at the Arctic Winter Team Horte skip Bailey Horte delivers a shot.

Team Horte won Games in Fairbanks, Alaska. their fi rst Yukon title and a trip to junior nationals next month.

Wallingham has aged out of eligibility for the Games in Prince George, B.C., but a team of Jensen, both Klassens and Bailey Muir-Cressman are set to represent Yukon at the quadrennial Games.

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Top-seed Bears win men’s basketball title Tom Patrick News Reporter

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he Bears clawed their way to a first-place finish on Sunday.

After finishing the regular season in first place, the Bears took the Yukon Men’s Basketball League title with a 75-58 win over the second place Huskies on Sunday at Porter Creek Secondary.

“We had a good all-around dynamic,” said Bears captain Colin LaForme. “We’re a big team, big post players, and we had a couple hustle guards that made our team both fast and big. And we just worked together well; we have good ball movement, no one was selfish, no one was greedy. We just moved the ball and played basketball.”

The Bears finished the regular season in first place with a 6-2 record and beat the Eagles 76-72 in Thursday’s semi to reach the final.

They are the first team to raise the trophy in six or seven years.

The league, which had six teams this season, was started up in October after years of drop-in nights with no formal league in place.

Three trophies from the old league were all attached together into one big, impressive championship cup for this season.

“We had a good turnout all season and I think the guys are happy,” said LaForme, the league organizer. “It’s fun: once it got to a playoff, you saw the level of intensity go up. Which is what you want in a league: a fun league and then at playoff time you take it to the next level.

“It’s always nice winning the championship.”

After trailing early in the game, the Bears took the lead on an offensive rebound from LaForme, who then widened the gap to 18-10 on the first of three three-pointers from the captain.

The Bears finished the first half up 39-25.

The Huskies just didn’t have the energy to match the Bears, said captain Will Chetcuti.

“We were a little bit drained, I’d say. They had a lot of threepointers in the first half,” he said.

“This was kind of done by the first half. We couldn’t get back from 15 points.”

The Huskies opened the season with three straight losses before finding their groove. They won their final six games leading up to the final, finishing the regular season in second. They also beat the Bears 55-47 in their previous encounter.

“We’re stronger defensively, we have a zone we play,” said Chetcuti. “We know each other, we know where we play, where to pass, who’s going to be where.”

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Eagles captain Sean McCarron looks to get past Timberwolves’ Joaquin McWatters in the third place game of the Yukon Men’s Basketball League. The Eagles won 87-54. Right, Timberwolves’ Nate Thompson, right, thwarts an Eagles player and Bears captain Colin LaForme goes up for two in the final, opposite page.

LaForme led the game in scor- grows,” said McCarron. “And they were missing a few of their big ing, putting 29 points onto the board, while teammate Aaron guys. We had an advantage with Hutchison contributed 22. three or four of our big guys who Chetcuti topped the Huskies can rebound. And when you get with 22 points and teammate Ben out to a bit of a lead you don’t Yu Schott posted 12. have to take as many chances, the The Eagles took third with an other team has to take chances 87-54 over the Timberwolves in that could work out and today it the bronze game. worked out for us.”

“We’re frustrated because we McCarron led his team with probably played our best all24-points, hitting the mark on around game tonight,” said Eagles four three-point attempts. Teamcaptain Sean McCarron. “We’ve mates Dave Thomson and Dave shown flashes in the previous Outerbridge added 17 and 12 nine games. We’d play one strong points, respectively. game and then a not-so-strong Timberwolves’ Dave Stehelin game and then another strong racked up 15 points, and teamgame, but we’re happy to have mates Nate Thomson and Sean played well because we didn’t play Schmidt each scored 10. so strong last game. It was good to “We’re going to start the league end on a positive note.” back up again in January, after The Eagles, who finished the the exams are done … and we’ll regular season at 5-3 for fourth, try to get more guys out to the twice lost to the Timberwolves league, make it a bigger league,” this season. said LaForme. “We’re looking for But the Eagles came out hot, sponsors too.” taking a 13-0 lead on a pair of For more information, visit the baskets from Jon Buckle, finishing league’s website at yukonmensbthe first half up 44-20. ball.wix.com/yukon.

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Bikes and skis share the trails at 5+ Hours of Light fest

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Bikers leave the start line at the fourth annual 5+ Hours of Light mountain bike festival on Saturday at the Biathlon Yukon range.

About 60 bikers and skiers took part.

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t was fat-tire heaven Saturday on Grey Mountain.

Droves of bikers broke out their winter rides at the fourth annual 5+ Hours of Light mountain bike festival, hosted by the Contagious Mountain Bike Club at the Biathlon Yukon range.

For the first time the event offered a ski division. About 60 participants took part, including 48 bikers, five skiers and seven who skied and biked.

The lap race ran from 10:09 a.m. to 3:47 p.m., one day shy of the shortest day of the year.

Bikers rode a 10-kilometre single-track loop while skiers faced a grueling five-kilometre ski loop that featured a climb up “Puke Hill” and a downhill section called “Mega Death.”

In the end, a skier racked up the most laps. Sandro Holzinger skied nine laps, spanning 45 kilometres, to top the count of the day.

Josh DeCloet was the top male

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Above, Carrie Burbidge enjoys the groomed trails on Grey Mountain. Right, Paul Gowdie of Whitehorse sports an impressive frosty beard.

biker with seven laps, just ahead of Matt Schenk who also notched seven.

Jenn Roberts and Meagan Wilson both rode five laps, but Roberts did it a little faster to claim the top female spot.

Michelle Eshpeter split the few

daylight hours between bike and ski, finishing with four laps.

The Contagious club also hosted their annual 24 Hours of Light festival at the Biathlon Yukon range in June to mark the summer solstice.

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World junior teams get major boost with addition of NHL players, prospects Jose Sharks defenceman Mirco Mueller, who leads all rookies in blocked shots and will become TORONTO a go-to guy in Group B play in hile Canada is set with Toronto. the recent addition “As an important young player of Curtis Lazar, other to our franchise for now and the teams are still getting stronger future, we think this experience ahead of the world junior hockey will provide a positive impact championship. on his career moving forward,” Sharks general manager Doug Switzerland will have San Stephen Whyno Canadian Press

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The Dallas Stars will let defenceman Julius Honka play for defending champion Finland, as long as they don’t sustain any injuries in the next two games.

Honka has spent the season with the AHL’s Texas Stars.

Sweden and the Czech Republic are getting boosts as well.

Philadelphia Flyers defensive

prospect Robert Hagg will play for the Swedes, and Boston Bruins forward prospect David Pastrnak will return to play for the Czechs.

Hagg and Pastrnak, like Honka, have been in the AHL. A handful of teams have been stingy with their junior eligible players. In some cases, like the Florida Panthers with blossoming No. 1 pick Aaron Ekblad, it has

happened without much protest.

The Vancouver Canucks did not loan Bo Horvat to the Canadian team, which will instead have Lazar from the Ottawa Senators and Anthony Duclair from the New York Rangers in its lineup. The Senators announced Thursday that Lazar, who was their fourth-line centre, would be allowed to go.

Hockey Canada and the Senators had lengthy discussions about Lazar’s role at the world juniors. Some of the Senators’ questions are the same ones other clubs have about sending players to this tournament.

“With all the teams, there are a lot of questions they want to understand,” said Scott Salmond, Hockey Canada’s vice-president of hockey operations. “At the end of the day, it is their player, as much as I think they want to help us, they want to make sure they are getting a better player back.

They understand what kind of role he is going to play, on and off the ice, when we would need him, all sorts of things.

“To make their decision, they need to have the information in regard to where we see him, how much we see him and what kind of role he is going to play.”

The Edmonton Oilers decided to keep centre Leon Draisaitl rather than let him play for Germany. Draisaitl, the No. 3 pick in the 2014 draft, has averaged 12:42 of ice time as a rookie.

On Friday, the Washington Capitals sent 19-year-old forward Andre Burakovsky to the AHL’s Hershey Bears after playing in 26 NHL games and putting up 13 points. Burakovsky was a point-agame player at last year’s tournament in his hometown of Malmo, Sweden.

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122 Like oysters as an appetizer, often 124 ‘‘That’s completely wrong, you idiot!’’

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FOR RENT Prime Retail Store/Office/Clinic/Cafe Corner of 4th Avenue & Ogilvie Street â&#x20AC;˘1,900 sq ft â&#x20AC;˘Ceramic tile & carpet â&#x20AC;˘Infloor heating, parking, â&#x20AC;˘Bay windows, 867-399-3671 or sangerer@hotmail.com Midnight Sun Executive & Vacation suites â&#x20AC;˘Located downtown, weekly or monthly â&#x20AC;˘3-bedroom furnished suites â&#x20AC;˘Well equipped kitchen â&#x20AC;˘Linen & towels provided â&#x20AC;˘Includes cable, Internet & telephone â&#x20AC;˘Perfect for relocation, corporate & vacation rentals â&#x20AC;˘No smoking, no pets â&#x20AC;˘Weekly housekeeping available Home away from home. www.midnightsunvr.com Phone 667-2255 ROOM IN 1st level apt, Riverdale, male, everything included, $600/mon. 668-2998 or 336-0125 LOFT, SUIT 1-2 people, 25 mins from downtown, heat/power incl, shared washroom in main house, rent negotiable for work around ranch or $600/mon. 667-7844 2-BED 750 ft suite, 2nd floor, avail Jan. 1, newly built, pets possible, well water, power, bath, gas & electric heat, no laundry, refs reqĘźd, $1,100/mon incl utils. 335-1509 OFFICE SPACE, new 600 sq ft office suitable for non-profit organization. Gord 667-4263 1-BDRM APT, Porter Creek, power & heat incl, own parking, fenced yard, pets welcome, N/S, refs reqĘźd, $1,100/mon + dd.

333-9120 3-BDRM HOUSE on acreage, 1,000 sq ft, carport, newer appliances, 2 big decks, fire pit, pets ok, free driveway plowing, 12 mins from town, $1,400/mon + 1 mon dd.

335-3253 OFFICE SPACE, 1550 sq ft, 2nd flr, Main St. 668-6818 to inquire 1-BDRM SUITE, newly renoĘźd, avail Jan. 1, living area, full kitchen, newer appliances, w/d, private deck, sep entrance, parking, $1,400/mon. 334-1974 3-BDRM, 3-BATH house, #58 Falcon Ridge condo complex, N/S, N/P, full kitchen, electric heat. 660-5020 for more info

2-BDRM ABOVE-GROUND suite, Porter Creek, backs onto greenbelt/trails, plenty of natural light, shared laundry/yard, dedicated parking w/power, $1,300/mon all-incl.

334-9968.

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

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

Certified Green.

Show Home Open Daily 1-85 Aksala Dr. Visit www.homesbyevergreen.ca for more details or call Maggie 335-7029 Condo Suite in Nanaimo, B.C. Quality construction+materials, partially furnished w/kitchen appliances, small but well organized 300 sq ft space in quiet residential neighbourhood.

Transit, park, shopping nearby.

Low condo fees+utilities.

Asking $85,000.

Call 867-660-4516 YUKON RANCH, 160 acres, 4-bdrm log house, rentable loft, income year round with hay, horse boarding, beef sales, $1,490,000.

667-7844 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 MEDICAL TRANSCRIPTION is an in-demand career in Canada! Employers have work-at-home positions available. Get the online training you need from an employer-trusted program.

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

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 STEEL BUILDINGS/METAL BUILDINGS 60% OFF! 20x28, 30x40, 40x62, 45x90, 50x120, 60x150, 80x100 sell for balance owed! Call 1-800-457-2206 www.crownsteelbuildings.ca COLLECTION OF 1,000 + vinyl records from 70s, 80s & 90s, rock, country & blues.

334-4568

Native Brain-Tanned

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

Ph (780) 355-3557 or (780) 461-9677 or write Lodge Fur and Hides, Box 87, Faust AB, T0G 0X0 We will pay CASH for anything of value Tools, electronics, gold & jewelry, cameras, furniture, antiques, artwork, chainsaws, camping & outdoor gear, hunting & fishing supplies, rifles & ammo.

G&R New & Used 1612-D Centennial St. 393-2274 BUY â&#x20AC;˘ SELL GOLD NUGGET watch, brand new, double ram set, paid $4,200, asking $3,000 firm.

393-4796 or cell 336-2146 2 PS2, $90 ea, PS1 portable, $75, 2 Game Boy colours, $45 & $50, Wii controller $10.

334-8873 PIONEER FEATHER-LITE parka, menĘźs sz med, like new, $175, snowmobile suit, unisex down insulated, $75. 633-3053 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

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WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 24, 2014 PERSIAN CARPET, Habibian Nain, creme/blue, tan, red trim, 600 knots psi, 5'X8', bought mid-east, appraised, documented, offers, great in L/R, dining rm, home, cabin, 867-456-4109. herbeeking@hotmail.com YUKON PARKA, full-length, original design, blue duffle, Kelly green shell, white fur, sm/med, sz 8-10, $250. 668-4949 eves LINOLEUM, 9.5'X12' piece, new, off-white colour, tile pattern, $65. 456-7880 eves OUTDOOR CHRISTMAS decorations, spiral trees, lights, huge wreath, wrapping paper.

332-4455 ARTWORK BY Halin de Repentigny, Bombay Peggyʼs building in Dawson City, framed, 20x24”, $2,100. 668-7355 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 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 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 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 IPHONE 4S, good condition, Bell or Virgin mobile free of contract, $225. 334-6087

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WHITE IPAD Mini 2 Retina 16GB 3G + WiFi, new in box, unused, selling for $75 cheaper than AppleStore, c/w aluminum bumper case worth $50. 336-4168

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

ACOUSTIC GUITAR, $200, electric guitar, $200, both like new, $300 for both. 667-2940 CLARINET, $300. 334-8873 YAMAHA FLUTE 581, made in Japan, exc cond. 336-1978 FENDER SQUIRE, amp & guitar, new strings, good cond, $350 obo. 334-6519

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 SMALL VIOLIN, like new, barely played, child's size, $100. Rae 334-0423 YAMAHA ACOUSTIC electric guitar, built in electric tuner, model APX500II, cut away, black, c/w soft shell case, guitar strap, new strings, sounds good, $250. 333-9084 YAMAHA DTX500 drums, electronic drum set pre assembled rack system, purchased late 2011, used very little, $750. 668-2659

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

ORDER NOW 456-7432 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)

Seasons Is Hiring!

Love Fashion & Shoes?

We are looking for a permanent, full-time, outgoing SALES

ASSOCIATE

Apply in person, with resumé to Seasons

301 Main St., ATTN: Sheila

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

Closing Date: Monday, January 5, 2015

EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY www.ttc-teslin.com

CRAFT, HOBBY, ribbon supplies, dinosaur diarama, resist step exerciser, pocket charts, 36X30 Levi jeans, new & used, HO starter set tracks. 667-7144 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 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 HPI MICRO RSY Mustang, like “Bullit”, drift or on road tires, has no charger, good cond, $200 obo. 334-6519 DISABLED ELECTRIC wheelchair, completely redone, new tires as well as spares, $2,500 obo. 334-6043 BEAVER MITTENS, all hand-crafted, warm, $500 obo. 334-6043 TABLE SETTINGS, cards w/or without stamps, lots more, new & like new, gift wrapping, tea will be served. 633-2037 SINGER PROFINISH serger, perfect for finishing and hemming your sewing projects, $400 obo. 633-6085 16 X 24 steel garage, Future Building, in Whitehorse, new, still in box, $11,000.

333-5247 AIR NORTH plane tickets for last-minute travelers, $500 return + airport improvement fees. For details 668-6257 or janjes@northwestel.net HAND-CRAFTED LOG bed, new, can be seen in Tagish, $350. 867-399-3904 aft 6pm

TVs & Stereos ARTICULATING TV wall mount rack, 180”, & 50” Toshiba LED TV, less then 1 yr, like new, $850 obo. 332-6678 BLU-RAY DISC/DVD Sony Home Theatre System, less then 1 yr, $850 obo. 332-6678 OLA, SMALL Dora TV, cw/remote & hand-held joystick, Dora game, $75 obo.

334-0423 NEW 55" smart TV, few weeks old, LG model 55LB5800, new price $895, asking $775. Call/txt Matt at 332-1281 LG 42" plasma TV, $25. 668-5882 BLU RAY movies, $5 ea, XBox, older model, hardly used, $200 obo. 334-6043

Computers & Accessories EPSON POWERLITE HomeCinema 720p projector + 120" screen, new lamp, 10,000:1 contrast ratio for great colours, exc cond, $795 obo. 336-4168

VUNTUT GWITCHIN LIMITED PARTNERSHIP #201A-1191 FRONT STREET, WHITEHORSE, YUKON, CANADA Y1A 0K5 TEL: 867-633-8972 FAX: 867-456-7139 EMAIL: INFO@VUNTUT.COM

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

The Yukon Council on Aging requires a

PERMANENT PART-TIME

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This position provides assistance to Yukon Seniors relative to government pensions, benefits, and various Seniors’ 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: “Senior Information Centre Coordinator” to: Hiring Committee Yukon Council on Aging 4061B-4th Avenue Whitehorse, Yukon Y1A-1H1

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HURLBURT ENTERPRISES INC. Store (867) 633-3276 Dev (867) 335-5192 Carl (867) 334-3782

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

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Cheque, Cash S.A. vouchers accepted.

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

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

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

QUALITY DRY FIREWOOD $250 per cord Leave message for David 332-1300

Guns & Bows

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

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

CB FIREWOOD $250/cord $240/cord for multiple cords of 4 or more 335-4065 or 633-3086

WANTED: SINGLE shot .22 long rifle, preferably bolt action, also Savage model over/under .22 long rifle/20 gauge. Sofia at 867-689-6888

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NORINCO .22 semi-auto (Browning clone) take-down rifle, new in box, unfired, $175.

633-2443

ACTIVE IN YOUR COMMUNITY

AYA (SPANISH) 12-gauge boxlock sxs shotgun, vg to exc cond, trade for good quality 16-gauge sxs or sell for $475. 633-2443

Are you looking for volunteer opportunities?

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

DOMINION ARMS 16-gauge single shot shotgun, new in box, unfired, $150.

633-2443

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 24, 2014 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

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

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: FRENCH speaker to practice with for 2-3 hours between Jan 1-6, 2015. I will buy the coffee, pay $25-50 (DOE) for the lessons. I am an absolute beginner. Email katherine.annelise@gmail.com.

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 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 COMPOUND BOW, hardly used, need to sell, $350 obo. 334-6043

Wanted FIREARMS. ALL types wanted, estates, collections, single items, military. We handle all paperwork and transportation. Licensed Dealer.1.866.960.0045, www.dollars4guns.com WANTED: BOAT trailer suitable for 18-25Ęź boat, fixer-upper ok, must have brakes, no rollers or boat perch is ok. 668-5207 CANDLE-MAKER 633-2037

FOR candle scraps.

Cars 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 2011 C H E V R O L E T Aveo LT, 5-dr, 14,500km, 4-spd auto, P/W, P/L, A/C, 4 stud tires installed, 4 season tires, remote keyless entry w/alarm, still under warranty, $9,500.

332-9457 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 2004 CHRYSLER Sebring for sale or trade for any goods or services, $500 obo.

336-1141

Community Kitchen Volunteer Task Description: Working with the Community Kitchen Coordinator, volunteers will help with the preparation of a weekly meal provided for free or by donation to an average of 35 women per week, ranging from 40 -60 women plus kids. The Volunteer will help with food prep, set up, and clean up.

Responsibilities include: assisting with food preparation of weekly nutritious meal; assisting with set-up of chairs, tables, and creation of a welcoming atmosphere; assisting with clean-up, dishes, compost, and garbage removal; collect donations; creating a welcoming, friendly atmosphere.

Requirements: ability to respect confidentiality; willingness to work with women of all ages and from all backgrounds; willingness to work independently and take initiative; ability to work in fast-paced environment.

Time Commitment: minimum of 4 hours per week, Tuesday evening and/or Wednesday daytime Incentive for the Volunteer: helping out women in need; reference letter from VFWC; delicious meal.

Supervisor: the volunteer will be supported by the Community Kitchen Coordinator at VFWC

Community Volunteer Income Tax Clinic Program Task Description: The Victoria Faulkner Womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Centre runs an annual volunteer income tax clinic from February to April, to offer free basic tax filing services to low-income women. The clinic is staffed by volunteers and takes place in the Womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Centre.

Responsibilities include: Greeting and welcoming women from a diversity of backgrounds; Preparation of basic income tax; Online filing of basic income tax returns; Requesting information from Canada Revenue Agency, if necessary.

Requirements: basic knowledge of income tax preparation; ability to respect confidentiality; willingness to work with women of all ages and from all backgrounds; willingness to work independently and take initiative; organization and time management; experience with online income tax filing program.

Time Commitment: minimum of 4 hours per week, February until April; training webinar and orientation of 3-4 hours.

Incentive for the Volunteer: helping out women in need; reference letter from VFWC. Supervisor: the volunteer will be supported by the Program Coordinator at VFWC; CRA staff in Surrey will be available for technical questions.

For more information, contact Hillary Aitken, Program Coordinator or Diane Petrin, 503 Hanson Street, Whitehorse, E mail: vfwc@northwestel.net, Phone: (867) 667-2693.

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

Community Services

Teslin Tlingit Council 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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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** TTC HIRING POLICY WILL BE IN EFFECT.

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NORTHERN LITE truck camper to fit Nissan short box, will consider other campers to fit same. 633-2272 eves

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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

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WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 24, 2014 1997 CHRYSLER Cirrus LX(I), auto, good running cond, 2 studded winter tires/4 summer tires on rims, clean leather interior, new alternator, 205,000km, $1,900 obo.

660-4646

TRUCK CANOPIES - in stock * new Dodge long/short box * new GM long/short box * new Ford long/short box

1993 DODGE Neon, 4-cyl, auto, runs but needs fuel filter, $500. 335-9796

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

1993 SUNBIRD, 4-cyl, auto, runs but needs coil, $250. 335-9796 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 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

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 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

Pets WANTED: LARGE dog kennel for medium to large dog. 334-6197

CHECK OUT THE JOB SECTION IN THE

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

Motorcycles & Snowmobiles

2009 POLARIS Razr 800 atv with V-plow, lots of accessories, trades considered.

333-9020 2005 WT Skandic 550 Fan, engine & suspension rebuilt, $4,600. 633-4643

YEAR 2008 2006 2006

MAKE Mazda Toyota Chev

MODEL B300 Tundra Silverado

FILE NUMBER 841704 824934 795296

BRANDING Salvage Salvage Salvage

GENTLY USED

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 2010 NISSAN X-trail, black, 67,000 km, vg shape, call or text 867-689-1279 2009 CHEV Colorado 4X4, ext cab, auto, V6, P/W, P/D, cruise, radio/CD, reduced to $5,995. 336-2029 2008 TOYOTA Tundra SR5, incredible upgrades, new lift kit, includes Iron Cross bumper, new tires, new sound system, $22,900 obo. 335-5882 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 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 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 1985 FORD truck, dually in rear, new tires, manual, ideal wood truck, $6,000. 333-5247

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

633-6019

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have your pets SPAYED OR NEUTERED. FOR INFORMATION CALL

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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.

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Call Patrick at 335-4181

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SNOWMOBILES 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 $

LOST/FOUND LOST

FOUND

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 Alaska HWY, 7 yrs old, female spayed, Karelian beardogX, black and white, wearing a blue collar no tags, answers to Tawnie, Contact Dayle @ 332-0997 ( 19/12/14)

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)

AVAILABLE FOR ADOPTION

!

DUCED 2012 Yamaha Phazer Gt 121â&#x20AC;?RE..............$5,999.00 ..............$

2012 Yamaha Nytro Xtx 144â&#x20AC;?

4â&#x20AC;?............... ...............$7,999.00 SOLD!

IN FOSTER HOMES

2013 Yamaha Nytro Xtx 144â&#x20AC;?

4â&#x20AC;? ..............

Supercharged ................................... $ SOLD! $12,999.00

DOGS

YUKON

YAMAHA

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

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

Pet of the Week!

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NNIE

Hi, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m Annie. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m a very sweet old girl looking for my forever home. I do love to go on walks.

So come on down and meet me today.

I am currently in 633-6019 foster, contact the shelter for info on 126 Tlingit Street how to meet me. www.humanesocietyyukon.ca

RUNNING AT LARGE...

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

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,DSH, male neutered, 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)

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.

You can also check out our award winning website at:

WWW.HUMANESOCIETYYUKON.CA

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With our extensive, organized listings, readers will find your ad easily, so you won’t be climbing the walls looking for buyers.

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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

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

TAITʼS CUSTOM TRAILER SALES 2-3-4- place snowmobile & ATV trailers Drive on Drive off 3500 lb axles

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1995 ARCTIC Cat, 580 EXT, 136” track, fuel injection, reverse, new battery, 970 mi, like new cond, $2,800 obo. John 399-3911 1999 ARCTIC Cat Powder Special, 2,500kms, 136X2” paddle track, exc mechanical condition, recently serviced, $2,500 obo. 336-3874 2010 POLARIS RMK 800, 155" track, all stock, very low hrs, good suspension, c/w cover and dollies, $6,000 obo. 334-5182

RONʼS SMALL ENGINE SERVICES Repairs to Snowmobiles, Chainsaws, Lawnmowers, ATVʼs, Small industrial equipment.

Light welding repairs available 867-332-2333 lv msg

1991 POLARIS Indy Lite 500, liquid cooled, 133” track w/cleats, runs good, $1,600 obo.

John 399-3911

2003 ARCTIC Cat 900 Mountain Cat snow machine, powerful & fast, 151” track, 450 kms, exc cond, reduced to $3,500. 333-9020 2005 POLARIS 800 RMK, 159” track, rebuilt engine & clutch, has reverse, $4,600.

633-4643 POLARIS 500 Ranger 4X4 tilt box, new bearing & seals, new brakes, winch, $5,500.

633-4643

2009 MODEL 125 cc Yamaha Grizzly ATV, well maintained, regular oil change, handle bar & thumb warmers, cargo box, always stored indoors, exc cond, $2,500 obo.

456-7758 2006 POLARIS Ranger 6x6 sxs, full can, heater, gun scabbard, new winch, tires, fuel tank, pump, front end, runs well, $8,700 obo, will consider trade for street bike/quad.

334-6494

YAMAHA SRV 500 snowmobile & trailer, $1,500. 633-3086

Marine

2008 YAMAHA MP 4-stroke, 144” track, good fuel economy, $4,000. John 399-3911

12' 6" Quick Silver inflatable c/w wood floor, exc cond. 336-8850l for details

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Dancing In The Sky What does it look like in heaven?

Is it peaceful? Is it free like they say?

Does the sun shine bright forever?

Have your fears and your pain gone away?

‘Cause here on Earth, it feels like everything good is missing since you left.

And here on Earth everything’s different; There’s an emptiness.

Oh-oh, I, I hope you’re dancing in the sky i And I hope you’re singing in the angels’ choir I hope the angels know what they have I bet it’s so nice up in heaven since you’ve arrived.

Now tell me, what do you do up in heaven?

Are your days ϔilled with love and light?

Is there music? Is there art and invention?

Tell me, are you happy? Are you more alive?

‘Cause here on Earth, it feels like everything good is missing since you left.

And here on Earth everything’s different; There’s an emptiness.

Oh-oh, I, I hope you’re dancing in the sky And I hope you’re singing in the angels’ choir I hope the angels know what they have I bet it’s so nice up in heaven since you’ve arrived, since you’ve arrived.

Missed by all of us and forever in our hearts, Rick, Ryan, Chris, Chantelle, Braydon, Lara, Josh, Jim, Mike and Dwayne.

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Heavy Equipment 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 LT 40 Woodmizer band saw, just over 300 hrs, includes 4 boxes blades, auto sharpener, setter, new 24' extension , cuts 45' log, located in Telegraph Cr, $22,000. Wes 250-235-3333

Campers & Trailers HEAVY DUTY 3/4 ton utility truck box trailer made from Chevy truck box, blue & white, no rust, 16” wheels, $750 obo. 334-4568

We sell used Class C RV’s!

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NĔěĊĒćĊė 9, 1964 – DĊĈĊĒćĊė 24, 2013

ETHAN ALLE

2003 26' Silver Streak welded alum ocean cruiser, fully loaded for cruising & fishing, $115,000 obo. 667-7844

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WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 24, 2014

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

TANDEM AXLE flat bed trailer, 16ʼ w/beaver tail, home made, used for hauling TD-6 bulldozer, suitable for Bobcat etc, lights work, hitch needs some work, $600. 336-1876 12 X 14 wall tent, 2 windows, c/w fly and frame, $800. 333-5247

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 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 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 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.

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 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.

2014 TILT deck trailer, tandem 3,500 lb axles, 19ʼ deck, electric brakes, manually operated tilt deck, located in Whitehorse, $4,950.

334-0578

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

1982 22ʼ Vanguard motorhome, sleeps 6, bathroom, 4-burner stove, oven, good tires, great shape, $5,500. 334-4210

FINE FREE! Yukon Public Libraries will waive fines in exchange for overdue library materials returned Dec 4 - 24. Info 667-5239

Jim Fowler Beloved husband of Jacqueline, loving father of Kyle and Jamie and adored grandfather of Riley, Gage, Grace and Abigail, passed away Sunday evening, November 16, 2014, after 50 years in the Yukon.

He died doing what he loved; skating and being in the outdoors.

He will be unbelievably missed and will continue to inspire and lead through the memories and morals he instilled within us all.

It is hard to put into words what he has meant to us all: honour, respect, humour and ingenuity .

At 73 he was in the shape of a younger man; biking, hiking, paddling and skating... he had so much energy!

A great man, a loving man, a humble man, a re lective man, a gentleman.

We love you and will miss you dearly, Dad. The family would like to thank all who have shared their kind words and support and especially the Marsh Lake community.

COFFEE HOUSE Sat. Jan. 3, 2015, featuring Because IĘźm A Girl + the Open Stage, help set up 6pm + open stage sign-up, 7:30pm show, $5, United Church Bsmt, 6th+Main, 633-4255

WHITEHORSE COMMUNITY Choir and Neptunes registration, Jan 12th and 19th, beginning at 6:00 pm, Whitehorse United Church. Persephone and Chamber Choir registration, Jan 14th and 21st, Whitehorse Baptist Church

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

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL Writing Circle meeting Tuesday, January 27 from 7:00pm 9:00pm at Whitehorse United Church (upstairs). Writing letters to support human rights worldwide. www.amnesty.org

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

PORTER CREEK Community Association meeting Monday, January 12th, 5:15 pm, Guild Hall, all welcome, come show your support. 633-4829 for info

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

THE MEANING of Life, Documentary on alternative prison system in BC, Whitehorse Library, Tuesday Jan. 13, 6:30pm-8:45 pm.

Introduction by Marian Horne. Sponsored by SOS and YCLC. Information call 667-2037

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

SECOND OPINION Society General Membership Meeting, Jan. 10, 1pm-4pm, Many Rivers Boardroom, Hawkins & 4th, to review, evaluate and revise the Mission, Vision, Values Statement. Information call 667-2037

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

MOUNT LORNE Local Advisory Council monthly meeting will be held Tuesday, January 6, 2015, at the Mount Lorne Community Centre at 7pm

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

Services

OLD FIRE Hall, January 7, 2015, 7-9pm, evening of experimental music in conjunction with Joyce MajiskiĘźs exhibition North of Myth, featuring John Godfrey, Daniel Janke, Karen Power, Gordie Walker. Admission by donation 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 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 YUKON ORIENTEERING Association Annual General Meeting at 7:00 pm on January 28, 2015 at Sport Yukon building. AGM is open to all members CHRISTMAS EVE Service of Holy Eucharist, 10:30pm, Christmas Day Service of Holy Eucharist, 10am, New YearĘźs Eve Eucharist, 11pm, Christ Church Cathedral, 4th & Elliott

Energy North Construction Inc. (1994) for all your insulation & coating needs Cellulose & polyurethane spray foam Free estimate: 667-7414 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 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 THOMAS FINE CARPENTRY â&#x20AC;˘ Construction â&#x20AC;˘ Renovation â&#x20AC;˘ Finishing â&#x20AC;˘ Cabinets â&#x20AC;˘ Tiling â&#x20AC;˘ Flooring â&#x20AC;˘ Repairs â&#x20AC;˘ Specialty woodwork â&#x20AC;˘ Custom kitchens 867-633-3878 or cell 867-332-5531 thomasfinecarpentry@northwestel.net

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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

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MONDAY: 12 noon Joy of Living (OM, NS) Maryhouse, 504 Cook St. 8:00 pm New Beginnings Group (OM,NS) Maryhouse, 504 Cook St. TUESDAY: 12 noon Joy of Living (OM, NS) Maryhouse, 504 Cook St. 7:00 pm Juste Pour Aujourdâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;hui 4141B - 4th Avenue.

8:00 pm Ugly Duckling Group (CM, NS) Maryhouse, 504 Cook St. WEDNESDAY: 12 noon Joy of Living (OM, NS) Maryhouse, 504 Cook St..

8:00 pm Porter Crk Step Meeting (CM) Our Lady of Victory, 1607 Birch St. 8:00 pm No PufďŹ n (CM,NS) Big Book Study Maryhouse, 504 Cook St. THURSDAY: 12 noon Joy of Living (OM, NS) Grapevine Discussion Maryhouse, 504 Cook St. 7:30 pm Polar Group (OM) Seventh Day Adventist Church 1609 Birch Street (Porter Creek) FRIDAY: 12 noon Joy of Living (OM, NS) Big Book Discussion Maryhouse, 504 Cook St. 1:30 pm #4 Hospital Rd. (Resource Room) 8:00 pm Whitehorse Group (OM, NS) Maryhouse, 504 Cook St. SATURDAY: 1:00 pm Sunshine Group (OM, NS) DETOX Building, 6118-6th Ave. 2:30 pm Womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Meeting Whitehorse General Hospital (Board Room) 7:00 pm Hospital Boardroom (OM, NS) SUNDAY: 1:00 pm Sunshine Group (OM, NS) DETOX Building, 6118-6th Ave. 7:00 pm Hospital Meeting Boardroom (OM, NS) NS - No Smoking OM - open mixed, includes anyone CM - closed mixed, includes anyone with a desire to stop drinking

www.aa.org bcyukonaa.org AA 867-668-5878 24 HRS A DAY

Friday - 1:30 p.m.

Health Centre

Dawson City Y.T.

BUSY BEAVERS Painting, Pruning Hauling, Chainsaw Work, Snow Shovelling and General Labour Call Francois & Katherine 456-4755 GET RESULTS! Post a classified in 125 newspapers in just a few clicks. Reach more than 2 million people for only $395 a week for 25-word text ad or $995 for small display ad. Choose your province or all across Canada. Best value. Save over 85% compared to booking individually. www.communityclassifieds.ca or 1-866-669-9222.

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 IBEX BOBCAT SERVICES â&#x20AC;&#x153;Country Residential Snow Plowingâ&#x20AC;?

All Subdivisions & acreages off Mayo Rd, MacPherson, Hidden Valley, Pilot Mountain & Hot Springs Rd. Honest & Prompt Service Amy Iles Call 667-4981 or 334-6369 SNOW CLEARING/REMOVAL Sidewalks, Driveways, Parking lots, Compounds Private and Commercial Properties Fast and reliable service Aurora Toolcat Services 867-334-8447 SNOWPLOWING SERVICES â&#x20AC;˘Commercial â&#x20AC;˘Residential â&#x20AC;˘Anywhere, anytime Phone 867-633-2885

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

COMPUTER NERDS 4 HIRE for Seniors We do house calls.

668-2230

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

NEED MATH HELP? Math tutoring, homework help, exam prep for grades 6 - 12.

Contact Kathleen at 336-2071.

Rate is negotiable.

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

HOUSE CLEANING SERVICE â&#x20AC;˘Low rates. â&#x20AC;˘Great service. â&#x20AC;˘Honest and trustworthy. â&#x20AC;˘Six years experience.

Phone (867) 332-8996

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 FOUND: REMOTE control key in Riverdale.

667-7253 to claim LOST: WALLET, green with bright trim, on December 15. 633-6313

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THE DISABILITY TAX Credit. $1,500 Yearly Tax Credit. $15,000 Lump Sum Refund (on avg). Covers: Hip/Knee Replacements, Arthritic Joints, COPD. For Help Applying 1-844-453-5372.

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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

REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS

SNOWBOARD/SKI HELMET, size medium, 668-2253 SNOWBOARD, GNV Park Pickle, 147 width, 2 sets of bindings, $350 obo. 334-6519 SKI BOOTS, Salomon SNS Profil 511, blue, size 47, $45. 660-4321 CCM GIRLS figure skate, size 6, $20, Graf hockey skates, size 2.5, $15, CCM Vector hockey helmet/cage, size small, $15.

456-7758 TEETER BRAND inversion table/vibration cushion, great for chronic back pain, relieves pressure by gently stretching spine, $325.

336-4168 TITANIUM BIKE w/Race Face cranks, meticulously maintained, many new parts including headset, drive train (SRAM X.7Shifters PG970Cassette PC951 Chain), cables & housing, captain tires, front/back brake pads.

336-4168

The Yukon Outfitters Association is accepting proposals to develop a

STRATEGIC MARKETING AND PROMOTION PLAN FOR MEMBERSHIP COMMUNICATION, PUBLIC AWARENESS AND EDUCATION. Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title. The closing date for submissions is January 30th, 2015.

Please refer to the complete document package for closing time and location.

Complete document package may be obtained by contacting the Yukon Outfitters Association, Executive Director, Darren Parsons, by phone (867) 6684118 or email info@yukonoutfitters.net.

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

Livestock HORSE HAVEN HAY RANCH Dev & Louise Hurlburt Irrigated Timothy/Brome mix Small square & round bales Discounts for field pick up or delivery Straw bales also for sale 335-5192 • 668-7218 HAY FOR SALE Dry bales kept under a shelter Great quality, $12/bale.

633-4496 or astra@northwestel.net

PUBLIC TENDER SUPPLY OF MEDICAL EQUIPMENT LAERDAL SUCTION UNITS WITH MOUNTING BRACKET 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 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

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 24, 2014 14” SEAT, round skirt Western saddle package, includes 3 shaped saddle pads, headstall with reins & breast collar, $450.

456-2249

Childcare

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

BUSY BEE DAYHOME, Riverdale, has openings.

18 months - 5 years.

Hot lunch, snacks provided.

Learning through play, planned activities, caring environment.

20 yearsʼ experience.

References available. Kim 633-2177 kmbryer@gmail.com

Baby & Child Items

Furniture

CHILDRENʼS CLOTHING in excellent condition, given freely the first & third Saturday monthly at the Church of the Nazarene, 2111 Centennial. 633-4903

BLACK CREDENZA, 66"Wx24"Dx30"H, great shape, glass top, clean, sturdy, $100 obo. 334-0423

PUBLIC TENDER

REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL

SUPPLY OF 2 BRIDGES 1 SPAN RANGE 19.5’ - 20.5’ 1 SPAN RANGE 29.5’ - 30.5’ 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 Bill Stonehouse at (867) 667-8281.

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

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

Highways and Public Works

Highways and Public Works

Highways and Public Works

YUKON GAZETTE PRINTED BY THE AUTHORITY OF THE QUEEN’S PRINTER, YUKON

NOTICE he following Orders-in-Council were issued during the period December 1 to 15, 2014: Order #

Name of Regulation

Act

2014/208

Appoints and revokes director and assistant directors of family and children’s services

Child and Family Services Act

2014/209

Appoints and revokes a member of the Health and Social Services Council

Health Act

2014/210

Appoints and revokes a member of the mediation board

Mediation Board Act

2014/211

Revokes a member of the Judicial Council of the Territorial Court

Territorial Court Act

2014/212

Appoints and revokes director of juvenile justice

Young Persons Offences Act

2014/213

Establishes the method of sale of certain lots

Lands Act

2014/214

Appoints an acting Child and Youth Advocate

Child and Youth Advocate Act

2014/215

Appoints and revokes members of the board of governors

Yukon College Act

2014/216

Revokes a member of the board of directors

Yukon Development Corporation Act

2014/217

Establishes the Fees and Conditions Transitional Regulation

Financial Administration Act

REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL

REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL

REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL

FLIC ADMINISTRATIVE RECALCULATION APPLICATION

ADVERTISING PLACEMENT SERVICES ENQ 7574

Project Description: The Government of Yukon Department of Justice seeks software development services to undertake the design, development, and implementation of application software to support the administrative recalculation requirements of the Family Law and Information Centre (FLIC).

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 Peter Deer at (867) 334-2924.

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

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

Project Description: Governments of Yukon Standing Offer Agreements (SOAs) for placement services are used from time to time throughout the year for newspapers, periodicals and other media. These SOAs are for services to Yukon government departments and some Crown corporations.

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.

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

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

Justice

Highways and Public Works

Health and Social Services

DAY CARE PROGRAM FOR ADULTS WITH DEVELOPMENTAL/ COGNITIVE DISABILITIES

Dated at Whitehorse, Yukon, December 15, 2014.

Government

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 24, 2014 2 LARGE, sturdy wood & canvas chairs w/leather cushions, suitable for office, den, rec room. 668-2253 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

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

ARE YOU MÉTIS? Are you registered?

Would you like to be involved?

There is a Yukon Metis Nation that needs your support Contact 668-6845

LARGE FUTON couch, makes into bed, wooden, exc cond, $200. 334-6043 ANTIQUE SINGER sewing table, metal pedestal base, good shape, 4 side drawers, 1 horizontal front drawer, $300. 633-3709 4 SOLID wood dining room chairs, darker stain, $125. 336-4168 WOODEN SINGLE bed frame with mattress, $40. 456-7758

Personals DRUG PROBLEM? Narcotics Anonymous meetings Wed. 7pm-8pm #2 - 407 Ogilvie St. BYTE Office FRI. 7pm-8:30pm 4071 - 4th Ave Many Rivers Office

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House Hunters

issues Advertise your Home in(3 3consecutive weeks)

for only $60+GST PHONE: 867-667-6283

NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND CLAIMANTS

NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND CLAIMANTS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF

IN THE MATTER of the Estate of DAVID ALEXANDER LOGOZAR, deceased, late of Whitehorse, Yukon Territory, who died May 11, 2014, in Whitehorse, Yukon Territory.

All persons having claims against the above-mentioned estate are requested to file the same, supported

by Statutory Declaration, with the undersigned on or before January 1, 2015, after which date the said estate will be distributed having reference only to claims which have been so filed.

All persons indebted to the said estate are requested to make immediate payment to the Estate in care of the undersigned.

Susan Kutz 5008-47st Baumont, Alberta T4X 1J2

Bright Wishes & Warm Regards

Micheal Scott Nichols Deceased, of Whitehorse, Yukon Territory who died on

November 1, 2014.

All persons having claims against the above-mentioned Estate are requested to file a claim, supported by Statutory Declaration, with Bhreagh D. Dabbs, on or before January 2, 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: Bhreagh D. Dabbs AUSTRING, FENDRICK & FAIRMAN Barristers and Solicitors 3081 Third Avenue Whitehorse, Yukon Y1A 4Z7

At Christmas time we’re all aglow, When we think of the good folks that we know So before the candles all burn out, We’d like to say without a doubt -That for your goodwill and friendship too, We’re really thankful for each one of you!

Yukon Water Board – Application Notice Office des eaux du Yukon – Avis de demande Application Number Numéro de la demande

Applicant/Licensee Demandeur/Titulaire

Water Source Location Point d’eau/Lieu

Type of Undertaking Type d’entreprise

PM14-044 (Renewal of PM05-467)

David Kosuta

Clear Creek, side hill Groundwater

Placer Mining

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.

Deadline for Comments 4:00pm Date limite pour commentaires, avant 16 h

January 21, 2015

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 867-456-3980.

Champagne and Aishihik First Nations

ATTENTION BISON HUNTERS Notice of Area Closure for CAFN land parcels R-26B, R44-B and R45-B Effective January 1, 2015 The Champagne and Aishihik First Nations is issuing an area closure for CAFN Settlement Land parcels R-26B, R-44B and R-45B, situated within the western portion of Game Management Subzone 5-38, these parcels are located south of the Alaska Highway between Kluane Hills and Kluane Lake, within CAFN Traditional Territory.

This closure means that no new Yukon Resident Access Permits will be issued for the closed areas and that all previous access permits that were issued to hunters are no longer in effect as of January 1 in the closed areas.

This closure does not apply to CAFN citizens.

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