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Yukon figure skater Rachel Pettitt performs her free program at the Canada Winter Games in Prince George, B.C., on Thursday. Pettitt won gold with a flawless performance. See story on page 6.
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and Social Services. “So we were looking around, and as I understand it somebody found he Yukon will have a new out that there was a potential 10-bed continuing care opportunity to buy that buildfacility by the end of this ing.” year. The estimated cost for the The territorial government purchase and renovation of the announced this week it purbuilding is $2.86 million. chased the Oblate Centre, lo“There’s going to be some cated on Sixth Avenue in down- significant renovation happentown Whitehorse. The building ing on the interior and likely is a former retirement home the exterior of the building to for priests from the Missionary make it accessible for people,” Oblates of Mary Immaculate. said Nixon. It will serve as a temporary, He added that the departpartial solution until a planned ment won’t find itself in the 150-bed facility opens in same situation it once did with Whistle Bend in 2018 or 2019. the Thomson Centre facility, (That planned centre will later which was closed for several expand to 300 beds.) years following the discovery Continuing care beds are of a mould infestation. That in short supply. There are 183 building required a $2.3 million existing beds in the territory, renovation, and reopened in spread out between the Thom- 2011. son Centre, Macauley Lodge “We’ve built into our estiand Copper Ridge Place in mates any sort of reclamation Whitehorse, and McDonald or mitigation work that’s necesLodge in Dawson City. sary,” Nixon said. “We know it’s Some of the beds at Whitea pretty solid building – the exhorse General Hospital get isting users would, I’m sure, say called into service to handle the the same thing. It’s downtown, overflow – on average, accordit’s accessible to many people, ing to the hospital corporation, so it seemed like a great fit for 15 acute care beds are taken government for this use and up by continuing care patients perhaps for other uses down the each day. That’s 25 per cent to road, whatever they may be.” 30 per cent of the hospital’s There is currently no plan for capacity. the Oblate Centre building after The wait time for a continu- the Whistle Bend continuing ing care bed varies, according to care facility comes online. Pat Living of Health and Social Jan Stick, the NDP OpposiServices, but it averages around tion’s health critic, approved of four months. the move – with some reserva“We knew that we were going tions. to need something to take the “I think they’ve been crepressure off the hospital,” said ative in finding a space to Mike Nixon, Minister of Health move people that are currently News Reporter
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being housed at the hospital in acute care beds even though they’re not sick,” she said. “I think that’s a good thing to free up those beds at the hospital. People don’t belong there. It’s the most expensive form of health care we have.” However, she added that she has concerns about the longterm plan to house continuing care patients in a 300-bed facility. That’s larger than many of the Yukon’s communities, she pointed out. “People don’t want to leave the communities and come to Whitehorse and live in a 300bed institution,” said Stick. “Right now we have either/ or. Either you live at home and you have some home care – and trust me, home care does a great job. Or you live in an institution. We don’t have any in-between, where you might be able to get some nursing care in your home. Why aren’t we putting our money into those programs?” Ideally, Stick said, she’d like to see funding go towards programs that provide support for aging Yukoners in their homes, or in facilities that allow a degree of independence. She cited the apartment-style complexes that exist down south, that offer residents access to shared common areas and medical care but still allow them to live alone. The Vimy Heritage Housing Society has proposed something similar for the Yukon. “People want to age in place,” Stick said. “They want to stay in their homes as long as they can.”
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Leef pulls support for immigrant family Myles Dolphin News Reporter
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ukon MP Ryan Leef has withdrawn his support for an immigrant family that had fought to stay in Whitehorse, in light of new facts. Leef says that he’s since learned that the Rojas family altered a document to exaggerate the needs of their three-year-old son, Jonathan, who was born in the Yukon and requires ongoing treatment for his plagiocephaly, speech therapy and motor development. The family, which has been ordered to leave Canada and is flying to Mexico on March 4, said it was concerned with the lack of proper facilities in that country to address Jonathan’s special needs. Leef took the family’s case all the way to the federal minister of immigration, Chris Alexander. But earlier this week he noticed “serious discrepancies” in a letter from the Child Development Centre that the family had been using as support to stay in the country, he said. The discovery was made after he contacted the organization to clarify some of the facts mentioned in the letter. The director told him that parts of the letter had been altered without their consent, said Leef. Leef requested an original copy of the letter and was able to compare them side by side. That’s when he decided to pull his support for the family. “It became clear to me through the consolidation of the facts that the document had been altered in a manner that was embellishing the needs of their child,” he said. “We were also able to determine that the signatures of at least some of the authors of the letter weren’t theirs.” Myles Dolphin/Yukon News Other facts, which cannot be The Rojas family sought the help of MP Ryan Leef to remain in Canada. But Leef has withdisclosed because of privacy issues, drawn his support, saying they altered a document to exaggerate their son’s special needs.
have emerged and also factored into his decision, Leef said. Leef said he last spoke to Sergio Rojas on Wednesday afternoon, when he told him about the steps needed to complete the “full set of facts.” But alarm bells were generated when Rojas became upset on the phone, Leef said. “He got exceptionally frustrated and told us to no longer assist him and hung up the phone,” Leef said. “It looked to me as though he didn’t want us to know the full set of facts. The Department of Immigration deals with 10,000 files a day, and for me to use public support and ask the minister to look at a file on an expedited basis takes some leveraging. “Any manipulation of that really risks jeopardizing the future consideration by the public to step up and get involved in these things.” The News last spoke to Rojas on Wednesday afternoon, when he said he’d just signed a document to release his lawyer. He explained that it was due to a lack of funds. “I’m too tired to fight,” he said. “We can’t do this anymore. We’re leaving and I think it’s best.” Late on Thursday afternoon Sergio responded to a request for comment by sending a summary of the intervention report from the Child Development Centre. It’s a document outlining Jonathan’s care and development over the past two years. It is signed and dated by the same three therapists whose names are included in the earlier letter, the one alleged to have been altered. “This is the last report – ask him (Leef) if this is also false,” Rojas wrote. The Child Development Centre refused to comment on the matter yesterday. Contact Myles Dolphin at myles@yukon-news.com
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he federal committee saddled with looking at FASD in the justice system may be coming up to Whitehorse next month. The standing committee on justice and human rights is working on a report that needs to be completed by the end of March. The report was ordered after Yukon MP Ryan Leef pulled his private members’ bill that would have recognized fetal alcohol spectrum disorder in the Canadian Criminal Code. At a hearing Wednesday, the committee approved a travel budget to come to the Yukon. The money still needs to be approved by house leaders before more concrete plans can be made. Leef also testified Wednesday. He encouraged the committee to come north to gather testimony
from experts. He pointed to groups like the Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Society of Yukon, and to the prevalence study being done at the Whitehorse Correctional Centre. “One advantage the Yukon has is I think we’ve pushed over that stigma barrier. We’re prepared to talk about it publicly,” Leef told the committee. “I think we’re starting in a larger sense than other regions of the country to brush away the shame that allows us to get down to the issues at hand, have those hard discussions and come up with the solutions.” The March deadline was set to give the report enough time to be approved by the committee and tabled in the house before the end of the session. In theory, if an election were called before anything was tabled, a new committee could quash the report.
Leef ’s original bill would have defined FASD in the legal context. It would have also given judges the ability to order assessments of people who may suffer from the disorder, and permitted the court to consider FASD a mitigating circumstance during sentencing. He introduced the bill last April, but pulled it in November, claiming there wasn’t enough time to make it to law ahead of the election. The bill appeared to have support from all three parties when it was first announced. During his hour-long testimony Wednesday many of the questions from committee members were about why it was dropped in the first place. Liberal John McKay insisted that if Leef had continued to push his bill, it could have become law before the next election. “It’s not as if the Liberals are
giving you a lot of opposition in the Senate,” McKay said. “I didn’t think there were any Liberals in the Senate,” Leef replied. Leef discussed his rationale for pulling the bill several times during his testimony. “As I said earlier, I just wasn’t going to be prepared with a symbolic victory run to the end and to say, ‘Yeah, we got it this far, we can feel relieved,’” he said. “I was going to be satisfied with it passing in absolute terms, or I wanted to leverage up and find a different win.” Since Leef dropped his bill, Liberal MP Sean Casey has introduced a near identical one of his own. Emails to Casey’s office looking for an update on that bill were not returned. NDP justice critic Eve Peclet pointed out that a similar FASD report was done in 2006. But Leef
insisted there have been a lot of changes since then. McKay claimed that the issue has been “studied to death.” Leef disagreed. “I would invite you to ask that very question of every single group and organization that sits before you if they think the issue of FASD in this country has been studied to death. I’ll guarantee that you’re going to get an emphatic no.” Leef insisted groups he’s spoken with are happy with the idea of a study as long as it provides concrete recommendations that are going to be taken seriously. “If you’re going to turn your mind to the topic of FASD and the needs of the people, I think you’ll be pleasantly surprised that the work you can do will be tremendous for this committee.” Contact Ashley Joannou at ashleyj@yukon-news.com
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Bomb scare prompts evacuation of federal building
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The Elijah Smith Building in downtown Whitehorse was evacuated and the surrounding area cordoned off due to a suspicious package inside the building on Wednesday.
building’s parking lot, its lights flashing. It wasn’t until 3 p.m. that hitehorse RCMP two trucks from the Whitehorse evacuated the Elijah Fire Department, as well as Smith Building on two police vehicles, arrived on Wednesday afternoon, following scene and blocked off the streets the report of a suspicious black around the building. briefcase left on the first floor. A police officer on Steele The RCMP’s explosive disStreet waved people away from posal unit was called in around the building. Firemen set up 1:30 p.m. to inspect the packbright orange cones to prevent age. For more than an hour, people from approaching the the large white truck sat in the area.
Several dozen employees from the building were evacuated and many of them walked over to nearby LePage Park. Approximately 30 minutes later, both firemen and police began yelling orders at pedestrians, pushing them back even further and denying access to Third Avenue between Main and Wood streets. They eventually cordoned off the area with police tape. Around 4 p.m. the unit’s
Trades pre-employment programs will see a 13 per cent increase from $2,200 to $2,500 per course. This will bring tuition fees for these programs in line with comparable institutions, the college says. The cost of culinary arts, renewable resource management and practical nurse programs will not
be increased. “Direction from the board of governors is that Yukon College tuition fees not exceed the lowest one-third of comparable colleges in Western Canada, and this continues to be the case,� said registrar Jennifer Moorlag in a statement. “At the same time, however, the fixed costs of providing post-sec-
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College boosts tuition fees Courses at Yukon College will see a tuition bump starting in September. The college’s board of governors has approved a 1.8 per cent increase for credit courses. That means a full semester of courses will go up a maximum of $60.
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bomb disposal robot was seen leaving the building with a small, black briefcase in its claw. It put the package next to the explosives unit vehicle and backed away. A few minutes later, an officer in a bomb disposal suit was seen leaving the building. Employees were soon allowed to return to the building.
“Police must respond to these situations with the highest risk assessment until the package is proven to be non-threatening,� Cpl. Jeff Myke said in a news release yesterday. He wouldn’t reveal what was inside the black briefcase, simply stating that its contents were harmless.
ondary education continue to rise.� Last year the college got rid of a $50 application fee and introduced an online application form. It credits that change with causing an increase in applications by 38 per cent. “The application fee was identified as a barrier for Yukoners. Having eliminated it, we are pleased
to see more students are now accessing post-secondary education and creating new opportunities for themselves,� said Moorlag. Tuition and registration fees made up three per cent, or $1.27 million, of Yukon College’s total revenue for 2013/14 of $42.37 million. (Ashley Joannou)
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PRINCE GEORGE, B.C. achel Pettitt says she was never so nervous to perform as when she was about to step on the ice at the Canada Winter Games on Thursday. She had performed in front of big crowds before, but perhaps not one with so many loud, cheering Yukon fans. Volunteers manning the door began to worry about fire regulations with so many in the building. Yukon’s boys hockey team was in such a rush to come over from a neighbouring stadium to see Pettitt perform following their game, they still had all their gear on, minus the helmets, gloves and skates. The pressure was on, expectations for Pettitt were high, and she would not disappoint. Pettitt gave a flawless performance to win novice female gold in Prince George. “Today, before I skated, I was probably more nervous than I’ve ever been before I’ve gone out,” said Pettitt. “I got out there, heard the crowd, and I thought, ‘Last skate, Rachel, you can do this.’ Then I pretty much let go through my whole program and I had fun.” “My whole program – everything felt so good,” she added, “Every time the crowd cheered it gave me a boost of confidence to keep going and I got more energized, so it’s amazing.” Pettitt capped her competitive season scoring a personal best of 76.98 in her free program, for a personal best combined score of 115.87, more than six points up from the silver medalist. Pettitt, who will move up to the junior level next season, knew it would be the last time she would perform the program and she wanted to make it a good one. “It was really exciting, I had so much fun. This is the last time I skate this program, in this dress, and I’ve had it for two years, so I wanted to finish it off with a bang,” she said. Pettitt went into Thursday’s competition in second place, after finishing behind silver medalist Alison Schumacher of Ontario in the short on Tuesday. She scored a 38.89. “I was happy with it,” said Pettitt. “I didn’t have the best skate, but going into the long you don’t need
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Rachel Pettitt performs her free program at the Canada Winter Games.
a perfect skate going in. It kind of boosted my confidence to say, ‘You can still do this.’” Pettitt has now become a Canada Games champion a little over a month after becoming a national one. The 15-year-old won Yukon’s first-ever gold at the 2015 National Skating Championships in Ontario last month. She won that one with a combined score of 112.87, her previous best up to Thursday.
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“They are both national events, obviously, but this one felt just so much more exciting,” said Pettitt. “I had so many more people watching me, so many Yukon people watching. And the whole week has been so much fun, I got to watch other sports, got to collect pins, got to meet new people. It’s so much fun.” Pettitt qualified for the nationals after winning silver at the Skate Canada Challenge in December, marking the best finish by a
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Yukoner at the event. She made Challenge with a silver at the B.C./ Yukon Section Championships in November, simultaneously winning B.C. Skating’s season-long Pond to Podium Super Series. “It was the end of a phenomenal year; I felt like it couldn’t get any better because she won the Canadian championships,” said Yukon coach Jason Mongrain. “I was wrong about that one, it did get better. This was a little bit better than it was at Canadians, which was basically flawless, but in this one the quality was just a little bit higher.” Mongrain has been working with Pettitt at the Kelowna Skating Club the last three seasons. He was very impressed by how she handled herself, going into Prince George as the favourite. “What made it so sweet is she had a lot more pressure than she did at Canadians,” said Mongrain. “At Canadians she was one of several gold medal threats, but not a clear favourite. Here, she’s coming to this event as the Canadian champion and was the clear favourite here. “There were a lot of expectations of her doing well here and you don’t know how the athlete is going to respond to that situation. She responded with flying colours.” All of Pettitt’s successes this season have been a dozen years in the making. She started skating at just three years old, said coach and mom Trish Pettitt. “I am pretty proud,” said Trish. “I think the main thing is, as a coach and a parent, you just want them to go out there and do what they are capable of doing. At the end of the day, if that results in the marks and the medals, then great. “She does love to perform and I think she is a bit of a perfectionist, so I think that combination is good.” Those back in Whitehorse who want see Yukon’s national and Canada Games champion in action will get their chance next week. Pettitt will perform with fellow members of the Arctic Edge Skating Club at its season ending Ice Show on March 7. Pettitt will be preparing a new routine especially for it, she said. “I’m going to take a break, get some new programs, get some new dresses. I have a show in Whitehorse and I have to choreograph a routine for that.”
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New avalanche forecasting season begins Eva Holland News Reporter
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ow probability, high consequence.” That’s how a public avalanche forecaster describes the current avalanche risk in the White Pass. Revelstoke-based forecaster Grant Helgeson, of Avalanche Canada, built the Yukon Avalanche Association’s first forecast of the season using data from a Yukon-based field crew. “The place has seen a lot of wind, as per usual, and so it’s kind of got the classic cold shallow snowpack with a hard slab,” said Helgeson. “What that means is that it’s kind of hard to trigger that hard slab, it’s probably pretty stubborn, but you do need to keep it in your mind as you travel in the mountains. There’s a decent amount of snow on the ground, upwards of a metre especially in the White Pass – when you have those kind of conditions it’s important to be mindful of thin spot triggering.” Helgeson said that while triggering an avalanche in these conditions is unlikely, if one is triggered it could be very large. “If you’re sticking to the thick parts of the snowpack and trying to find the most well supported and concave terrain that you can, you’re probably going to be alright.”
support,” said Perrin. The 2015 forecast will be managed a little bit differently than in past years. This year’s field team is made up of two avalanche technicians: returning tech Matt Holmes, a junior member of the 2014 team, and lead tech Diana Saly, who is new to the territory but has prior experience elsewhere. Holmes and Saly will work in the field and feed their data and observations to an experienced avalanche forecaster in Revelstoke, like Helgeson, who will build the forecast itself. In 2014, three Yukon-based techs shared the work, and the two senior members of the team were more heavily involved in the production of the forecast. “This year, because Matt is still Tom Patrick/Yukon News fairly new in his role, and Diana A warning sign in the White Pass area, near the Canadian border. The Yukon Avalanche is new to the territory, the foreAssociation will be giving a conditions report every Thursday and a complete forecast casters in Revelstoke will be doing every Monday and Friday, via its website, yukonavalanche.ca. more of the forecasting with the goal of mentoring Diana and But, he added, “people should late. In past years, the forecasts but it ran out last year. Matt as the season goes forward,” Yukon’s Department of Com- said Perrin. be aware that there could be very ran from December to early May. But a funding gap meant that for munity Services announced a large and deep avalanches.” The field techs will often be several months, the viability of a $60,000 contribution in early The Yukon Avalanche Assovisible along the South Klondike 2015 program was in doubt. December, allowing this year’s ciation is one week into its 2015 Highway in the White Pass area. “We had initially started with program to go ahead. avalanche forecast program. “People should feel free to go some funding from … the naHighways and Public Works is over and say hi, talk to them and For the fourth year in a row, the association has put a team of tional search and rescue secretar- also providing in-kind support ask them questions.” iat’s new initiative fund – the key this year. The field team is based avalanche technicians into the The association will issue a words in there being new initiaout of the highway camp at Fraser conditions report every Thursday field to assess conditions, gather tive,” said Alison Perrin, the vice throughout the season, and the data, and build a forecast for and a complete forecast every president of the Yukon Avalanche avalanche association had been Yukoners – with support from Monday and Friday, via its webAssociation. That fund covered paying to use the space. “They Avalanche Canada. site, yukonavalanche.ca This year’s program got started the operation’s first three seasons, waived that, so that’s a significant
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magine if Whitehorse city council condoned a policy that contributed to horrible dental problems suffered by the city’s poorest residents. Actually, there’s no need to imagine, as the city’s standing policy of not adding fluoride to the water supply accomplishes precisely this. It’s true that our current cast of municipal politicians did not actively make this decision. Instead, they inherited a move made by their forebears more than 15 years ago. Predictably enough, dentists soon afterward observed a spike in the number of cases of serious tooth decay following this decision, but any complaints have long since frittered out. So why raise the issue now? Well, because it bears repeating that the city supports a policy that leads to poor kids having their teeth rot and fall out. Maybe our municipal leaders are fine with this. If not, maybe it’s time they did something about it. The reasons for removing fluoride were spurious at the time, and remain so today. A small group of deluded citizens pushed for the change, believing that the city’s water supply was being contaminated by nasty chemicals. This wrongheaded campaign bore many similarities to the opposition to childhood vaccinations that we have heard so much of lately, with growing occurrences of measles outbreaks in places like Toronto. There is a strong scientific consensus that fluoridation of water is a safe way to strengthen tooth enamel. It’s also well understood that this measure largely benefits the poorest in society, who are the least equipped to otherwise adequately care for their teeth.
That’s why the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in the U.S. considers fluoridation to be one of the 20th century’s most effective public health measures. Similarly, the World Health Organization deems fluoridation to be “the most effective public health measure for the prevention of dental decay.” Health Canada also supports the measure, noting that “the weight of evidence from all currently available studies indicates there is no link between any adverse health effects and exposure to fluoride in drinking water at levels that are below the maximum acceptable concentration.” In short, the science is clear: fluoridation is safe. Yet cities continue to fold under pressure from conspiracy theorists who think we’re poisoning ourselves with it. Calgary decided to remove fluoride from its water supply three years ago. Unsurprisingly, children’s tooth decay is now on the rise there. More recently, in May 2013, Portland, Oregon, also voted to remove fluoride from its water. Opponents of fluoridation describe the substance as a poisonous chemical that does not belong in our drinking water. In fact, Whitehorse’s drinking water already contains some naturally occurring fluoride – just not enough to provide all of the desired protective benefits. Is it dangerous to drink too much fluoride? You bet, and the same holds for consuming pretty much anything else. You can even die from drinking too much water. As doctors like to say, the dose makes the poison. With fluoride, the recommended dose is just one part per million. That’s equal to just one drop in half a bathtub of Publisher
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have to stand in the middle of the street just to get your attention? I can’t believe that people can be so stunned as to not know what is going on and get off the street for just a few minutes. The stalwarts that participate in the parade deserve more respect than you, as drivers, give them. I certainly hope the people who recognize themselves take a second sober look at their driving habits and treat Second Avenue a little more humbly, not just at Rendezvous but all year. It was hoped that the traffic light at Black Street would deter your heavy foot between the lights at Ogilvie and Main Street, but such is not the case. Florence Roberts Whitehorse
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Stealing an idea from Air North by Keith Halliday
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mitation is the sincerest form of flattery. It’s also a highly successful business strategy. Last week I wrote about how successful Air North has been. This week, let’s talk about ideas you can steal from them to build your own business empire. The first lesson of Air North is to look for a product that Yukoners spend millions on every year with an Outside supplier. Back in 2001, before Air North started jet service to Vancouver, the Whitehorse airport saw about 150,000 passengers per year. At, say, $300 or more per head, that works out to a market worth around $50 million a year. This is serious money. Too many new business ideas focus on very small markets where, even if you create a winning product, there just isn’t the scale to build a sustainable business. And while passenger numbers fluctuate somewhat with the economy, it’s not like flying to Vancouver is go-
ing to go out of style. The second lesson is that you have to figure out how to make a good product. Being local isn’t enough. If Air North was more expensive, less reliable, had worse food or surlier service than the mainline airlines, it would already have joined CP Air in Yukoners’ memory banks. The third lesson is to pick a business that doesn’t rely on the government doing something helpful. Air North has to comply with complex federal transportation regulations, which isn’t easy. It also benefits from things like the Yukon small business investment tax credit. But it didn’t have to go through extensive public consultations to get the buy-in of everybody and their dog before starting to fly to Vancouver. Nor did Air North require a specific government decision, such as a promise of free landings at the airport or a guaranteed share of Yukon government’s travel budget. Such government support can be very lucrative if you can get it, but you may also wait a long time for government to act. So what other business opportunities meet these tests? Interestingly, some that do have already been targeted by other Yukon businesses. Take beer for example. Statistics Canada reported in 2013 that Yukon beer sales worked out to
$646.80 for every Yukoner over the age of 15 (yes, that’s how they report the statistic). That’s a revenue opportunity worth well over $15 million a year. Kudos to Yukon Brewing for establishing an Air North-like presence in the Yukon beer market. And, like Air North, their product is better than the generic industrial lagers that dominated the Yukon market before they entered. Local distillery Yukon Shine is trying to do the same thing for hard liquor. Yukoners spend around half as much on spirits as beer, but that’s still millions of dollars a year. Yukon Shine produces excellent gin and vodka, and since those products are easy to ship it is also hoping to target the export market. Potatoes are another example. Yukoners eat truckloads of them. Yukon Grain Farms now has a major business supplying that appetite. Importantly, it’s a business that’s big enough that it can support some significant investments in the agricultural equipment and storage facilities required to produce and store quality potatoes. So what’s left for you? Energy is a big opportunity. Yukoners spend well over $100 million per year on oil and gas, pretty much all of which comes from Outside. This opportunity violates rule number three,
however. Producing energy here requires approval from multiple agencies at multiple levels of government. Non-conventional gas production looks like it is as good as banned in the Yukon, and there’s a moratorium on exploration in the Whitehorse trough. Northern Cross is still working on its properties north of Dawson, which have the potential to produce energy for the local Yukon market. We shall have to see how successful they are in getting that product to market. Renewable energy sources could replace Outside oil for many purposes. It doesn’t have the stigma of fracking, but it still requires extensive environmental approvals plus a deal with electricity distributors to get to Yukon homes. And undercutting fossil fuels on price is not easy. The market opportunity is big, however, if someone can figure out how to get around these problems. Cellular and internet service is another area where Yukoners spend big bucks. However, there remains only one fibre-optic cable going Outside, and companies entering the cellular market in the provinces have had a rough go of it. Yukon Brewing’s success in beer prompts a thought about marijuana. We don’t have good statistics since non-medicinal marijuana remains illegal, but the
Yukon weed market might not be too much smaller than our beer market. Medicinal marijuana is legal, however, and CBC reports that medical-marijuana firm Tilray is looking to hire up to 275 people for its expanding facility in Nanaimo, B.C. Maybe the midnight sun would be a competitive advantage, or you could cut a sweetheart deal with Yukon Energy for their surplus shoulderseason electricity to power your lamps. Banking is another sector where Yukoners spend big dollars, but which doesn’t have a local player. Some Yukoners have been looking at resuscitating the idea of a local credit union. This has various complications around territorial credit union regulation and deposit insurance (see rule number three, once again). But “too big to fail” is probably quite small in the Yukon market, and you could always hope for a bailout if you messed up. Maybe you have an even better idea. If so, you should move fast before another Yukoner drinks your milkshake. Think about that next time you eat potatoes, drink beer or fly to Vancouver. Keith Halliday is a Yukon economist and author of the MacBride Museum’s Aurore of the Yukon series of historical children’s adventure novels. You can follow him on Channel 9’s Yukonomist show or Twitter @hallidaykeith
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Keystone ‘roller coaster’ ride ahead, ambassador Doer says Runs Through Canada.” He said to this pipeline all over it. that pipeline gives the U.S. great “You can’t do it as a deal. It leverage to extract climate comwould be legally challenged.” WASHINGTON mitments from Canada and could The pro-pipeline side made anada’s ambassador to the help the economy while lowering one more effort to weigh in on U.S. predicts a wild ride emissions. the regulatory process Wednesday. ahead in the Keystone XL Doer saluted the idea of a CanIt sent the administration a letter debate, with this week’s presiden- ada-U.S. climate arrangement. He challenging some of Obama’s tial veto of a pro-pipeline bill just said the Canadian government recent talking points on Keystone. one more twist in the journey. has repeatedly offered to regulate The letter from TransCanada “We expect a roller-coaster oil and gas with the U.S. the way Corp. quoted findings from a here and we expect setbacks,” it did with automobile emissions, prominent energy consultant that Gary Doer said in an interview. black carbon and ozone-depleting all crude oil in the pipeline, or He said lawmakers will probpollutants. most of it, would be refined in the ably move on to other issues for But he said that process U.S. In addition, 70 per cent of a while, then return to Keystone. couldn’t be tied to Keystone, Jonathan Hayward/CP the finished product would stay in Congress is in a dispute over imfor legal reasons. He said Keythe U.S., according to the study by Canadian Ambassador to the United States Gary Doer migration rules – which has gotstone would run into new court IHS Energy. predicts a wild ride ahead in the Keystone XL debate. ten so bitter that it’s prompted a challenges should the regulatory Obama has suggested more standoff that could throttle fund- process morph into a round of than once that Keystone would that’s against the national-interest “It’s the national-interest ing after this week to the Depart- Canada-U.S. deal-making. not benefit the U.S. economy determination rules,” Doer said, determination – not the interment of Homeland Security. “On the issue of having a quid- referring to the U.S. regulatory national-interest determination… and would merely help transport Soon, Doer said, there will be pro-quo for Keystone – we think process for pipelines. We would have lawyers opposed Canadian oil overseas. more occasions to discuss the long-delayed Alberta-to-Texas pipeline. He said there’s already talk in Washington of attachAND… SASHIMI • TEMPURA • ROBATA • BBQ • TERIYAKI! ing a pipeline provision to a big infrastructure or budget bill. It PRIVATE ROOM FOR could be a lot more difficult for LARGE GROUPS. YS the president to veto that kind of OPEN 7 DA legislation. ! K E A WE Mon. - Fri. 11:00-3:00, “We believe people are going Sat: 12pm-3pm to work towards getting broader Free Delivery proposals,” Doer said, adding Downtown & Riverdale on food orders $45 or more Mon. Sat. 4:30-10:00 that he didn’t want to wade into a In Porter Creek, Crestview, Granger, KK, Hillcrest, Sun. 4:00-10:30 installed domestic political debate. Takhini on food orders $70 or more. L ECTRICA A first bill to build the pipeS ALL EL G IN INCLUDE T TAKE OUT 10% DISCOUNT S E AND T line landed on President Barack PERMITS on pick-ups $40 and over! Obama’s desk this week and he immediately vetoed it. He said it’s up to him, not Congress, to Connecting A Portable Generator is make decisions on cross-border Now Safe and Easy with GenerLink™ Japanese pipelines. Restaurant Doer also addressed a suggestion laid out in a public letter Wednesday by former New York 404 Wood mayor Michael Bloomberg. PHONE: FAX: 667-2823 FULLY LICENSED Now a United Nations special envoy on climate change, Bloomberg suggested that Canada Kona’s Coalition in partnership with and the U.S. strike a bilateral climate deal in conjunction with Crime Prevention Yukon and the Keystone XL. Victim Services Trust Fund are seeking Bloomberg floated the idea in a piece titled, “Keystone Solution Alexander Panetta Canadian Press
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Reform Act’s passage shows the power of public support: Chong Jennifer Ditchburn
260 to 17 in a third-reading vote Wednesday. The legislation received support from the ConserOTTAWA vative cabinet, opposition party is zigzag journey has lasted leaders Tom Mulcair and Justin more than a year, but Trudeau, and from MPs on both Michael Chong has crossed one sides of the aisle. critical finish line in his bid to Green party Leader Elizabeth rebalance power between MPs and May and fellow MP Bruce Hyer party leaders. voted against it, arguing the bill The Conservative MP’s bill, didn’t go far enough. known as Reform Act 2014, passed The bill has been through Canadian Press
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hours of debate, amendments, and plenty of negotiations behind the scenes – mostly to help secure the support of Chong’s own caucus and government. Now it heads to the Senate for further debate and review. If it ultimately gains royal assent, it would give MPs the power to trigger leadership reviews, suspend and reinstate caucus colleagues, and to select their own
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caucus chairs. Chong credits average Canadians with helping to give the bill the traction it needed – something he says the public has the power to do with any piece of legislation. The bill would also remove the power of a party leader within the Canada Elections Act to approve election candidates. Individual parties would determine how candidates would be approved, with the option of leaving that power with the leader. “Change is never easy, and there is and was great institutional resistance to any change, especially changes of this sort which really strike at the heart of the balance of power in Ottawa,” he said in an interview. “I don’t think this bill would have gotten this far without the support of thousands of Canadians who emailed, who wrote, who called their MPs and encouraged them to support this bill.” While the legislation lays out models for how the new powers would be implemented, Chong
has agreed to amendments that would leave each caucus to choose the system they wanted after each election. A particular caucus could even vote to leave such powers with the leader. “I don’t expect that all the rules will be adopted all at once, but in the long run, party caucuses will democratize themselves and empower themselves,” Chong said. Ever cautious when he talks about his legislative baby, Chong notes that the bill will still need Senate approval before the House rises in June. Chong says he has just started to meet with senators to talk over his legislation. “This bill is a democratic reform bill, it concerns the House of Commons, and its caucuses, and how those caucuses will govern themselves and how the House of Commons will elect its members,” said Chong. “While the Senate needs to review the bill, I also hope they respect the wishes of the House in governing itself and electing its members.”
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Arctic dumps await federal decision on successful car recycling program Bob Weber
Haven. Canadian Press Crews filled and shipped sea cans with 31 tonnes of recyhe metal dump sits outside clable material and hazardous the Nunavut community of waste. That includes more than Arviat, stretching exposed and 1,000 batteries, 2,000 tires and uncovered for almost a kilome- 20 barrels of fluids, all plucked tre over the tundra. off the tundra where they were “Every piece of metal, every sitting in the open – all at no car, every washer, every dryer, charge to the communities. every lawn chair that’s come “This program helped a lot,” into the community has never said Stuckey. “I wish it was left,” said Steve England, the ongoing.” hamlet’s senior administrative Summerhill trained local officer. “It’s still here.” people to do the work. Those Arviat, on the west coast of skills remain behind, said EngHudson Bay, isn’t unique. Alland. though vehicles and appliances “We’re trying to take what are regularly shipped into com- they showed us and take it to the munities across the North, few, next step, which is full remediaif any, have ever been sent back tion of the site and get all this south when their life is over. material out of the community.” Hundreds of tonnes of He said Arviat is already junked schoolbuses, dump using those skills to remove trucks, heavy machinery, pickhazardous materials from old ups, cars, ATVs, snowmobiles vehicles before they’re junked and household appliances clog and parked at the dump. Nunavut landfills. So do their Environment Canada says it’s tires, lead acid batteries, merwaiting for Summerhill to file cury switches and engine fluids. its report from last year’s pro“It is a huge issue in the gram. It says the group remains North because there is no real eligible for funding under the way to recycle or bury the waste EcoAction program. when you’re basically sitting Summerhill says it costs on rock,” said Shawn Stucky, about $120,000 in cash to clean administrator of Gjoa Haven, up one community. The group on King William Island off the can leverage almost three times central Arctic coast. “It’ll have to that in donated services. be managed – and managed in a It’s also hoping to get a propfar better way.” er car crusher and shredding Last summer, a small Ontario machine up in the North. That environmental group, together will allow it get more cars into with 10 business partners and a sea can, making the process local people, pulled off the first more efficient and increasing successful attempt to decomthe program’s revenues from car mission at least some of the recyclers. wrecks and send them south for Even without the governrecycling. ment, Taylor said Summerhill “It’s one of the shining succan at least to publish a manual cess stories,” said England of for northern communities on Summerhill Impact’s Tundra how to properly and safely deTake-Back program. commission a vehicle. But with But the group’s ability to support, it could do a lot more. extend last summer’s pilot All of Nunavut’s communiprogram is in doubt. With just ties need help with vehicles in weeks to go before Summerhill their dumps, and Taylor said the has to start planning, money is problem is wider than that. short. “We’ve been hearing that Environment Canada hasn’t First Nations communities, committed to renewing the especially those tied to ice roads, $100,000 grant that got the ball have dumps that are way worse. rolling last year. The group’s We would love to start in some crowdfunding drive has stalled communities south of 60.” at less than a third of its goal. England said there was so Talks are ongoing with the much interest in Tundra Taketerritorial government and three Back at a recent meeting of federal departments, including Nunavut mayors that Arviat the Arctic economic developmay have to wait in line for ment agency. the program to return. He can “We’re hoping that between hardly wait. those groups we might be able “Every time I look at that to confirm that will be interest metal dump I think, boy, I can’t in seeing this program expand,” wait to get something solid to said Janet Taylor of Summerhill. get it out. To see this is like a scar on the outside of our comLast summer’s pilot project munity.” was limited to Arviat and Gjoa
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Conservatives back off on asking for extended doctor assisted death deadline Joan Bryden Canadian Press
OTTAWA onfusion reigned this week as the Harper government struggled to offer a coherent response to a landmark Supreme Court ruling that struck down the ban on doctorassisted dying. The government sent a series of contradictory signals on two key questions: would it invoke the notwithstanding clause to override the ruling or would it ask for an extension on the court-imposed 12-month deadline for crafting a new law? On Tuesday, Prime Minister Stephen Harper twice dodged when asked to assure Canadians that he won’t use the constitutional override provision to reinstate the ban on medically assisted suicide. “We are taking a look at this
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(court) decision. It is on a matter that is obviously very delicate and very divisive among Canadians,” Harper told the House of Commons. “We will listen to Canadians from all backgrounds and do that before deciding how to respond to the decision.” A prime ministerial spokesperson was later dispatched to clarify that the government does not intend to invoke the notwithstanding clause. Harper’s ambiguity followed mixed messages earlier in the day about the deadline the court has imposed for crafting a new law that recognizes the right of clearly consenting adults who are enduring intolerable physical or mental suffering to seek medical help to end their lives. Bob Dechert, parliamentary secretary to the justice minister, initially told the Commons that 12 months is
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8:00AM – 10:00AM t 8FTUNBSL 8IJUFIPSTF Breaking Down the Barriers to Building SuperGreen Since 2007, Yukon Housing has built approximately 140 super-insulated public housing units. In 2009, the City of Whitehorse implemented minimum thermal efficiency requirements. Many homes in the residential market have been built to exceed the city bylaws and closely mimic the Yukon Housing SuperGreen approach. On behalf of Yukon Housing, Energy Solutions Centre, and Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation, Craig Olsen and Lysann Gründlich contacted and interviewed as many builders as possible of high performance homes. Find out what worked, what some of the downfalls were, and what you can do to make your houses reach the EnerGuide 85 target to access the Energy Solutions Centre 10K incentive to build SuperGreen. Craig Olsen, Certified Energy Instructor/Advisor NRCan (Natural Resources Canada), Certified Ventilation Designer HRAI (Heating, Refrigeration & Air Conditioning Institute of Canada) Craig has been testing for compliance of City air tightness requirements since the bylaw was implemented. Lysann Gründlich, M.Sc. Lysann specialized in Energy Economics and Sustainability Management and completed her thesis, “Smart Home Technologies – Customer Preferences and Willingness to Pay”.
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Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau says he personally believes the Supreme Court of Canada was right to strike down the ban on doctor-assisted death.
not enough time to deal with such a sensitive issue, particularly since an election will shutter Parliament for two or three months in the fall. But he later backtracked, saying the government intends to meet the deadline. The confusion in government ranks was prompted by a Liberal motion calling for creation of a special multi-party committee to consult and report back to Parliament by mid-summer with a proposed framework for a new law. The Conservatives opposed the motion, which was eventually defeated by a vote of 146-132, arguing that broader consultation with Canadians is required. Yet the government offered only a vague idea of its own consultation plans. Dechert said it would entail on-
line submissions and public meetings and would be launched soon, followed by introduction of proposed legislation, which would then be examined through the normal committee process. Kicking off debate on the motion, Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau said parliamentarians have a duty to respond to the court’s ruling and can do so within the 12-month time limit if they get the ball rolling immediately. “There is no advantage to delaying debate,” Trudeau said. However, the governing Conservatives may see an electoral advantage in delaying at least until after the election any action on an explosive issue that is likely to divide its caucus and its support base. A number of Tory backbenchers
have openly railed against what they see as the top court usurping the role of elected legislators and have urged the government to invoke the notwithstanding clause. Several have called for an extension on the courtimposed deadline. NDP justice critic Francoise Boivin speculated that the government wants to avoid taking action before the election so as not to alienate “the religious right” and to allow Tory candidates to stick to their own personal views without contradicting government policy. “It sounds and it smells a lot like again they’re playing politics with that,” she said. During Tuesday’s debate, Dechert’s comments reflected an obvious level of Conservative discomfort with the court ruling. He enumerated what he called the many risks involved in legalizing doctor-assisted dying, including elderly or disabled people being pressured by family or doctors to prematurely end their lives or people opting for doctor-assisted suicide on the basis of faulty diagnoses. Trudeau revealed Tuesday that he personally believes the court was right to strike down the ban on doctor-assisted suicide, based on his own experience when his father, former prime minister Pierre Trudeau, was dying. Trudeau has previously confirmed that his father, who had also been diagnosed with early stage dementia, chose not to receive treatment for advanced prostate cancer.
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Public Forest Planning Workshops Learn about key forest management issues in the Whitehorse and Southern Lakes area, and participate in workshops which will help guide the development of a forest resources management plan for the area. Workshops will include presentations by technical experts and opportunities for public discussion and feedback. Location: The High Country Inn Time: 9:00 am – 3:00 pm (Lunch will be provided) Dates and Topics: March 3: Timber Harvesting and the Timber Economy March 4: )RUHVWU\ 5RDGV DQG &XPXODWLYH (σHFWV March 5: Heritage, Recreation and other Non-Timber Forest Values March 10: Wild Fire Risk and Wild Fire Management March 11: Wildlife Habitat The Whitehorse and Southern Lakes Forest Resources Management Plan is a joint initiative of the Carcross Tagish First Nation, Ta’an Kwäch’än Council, Kwanlin Dün First Nation, and Government of Yukon. ALL INTERESTED MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC ARE ENCOURAGED TO ATTEND For more information, visit the website www.yukonforestplanning.ca or contact: Wesley Barrett - Carcross Tagish First Nation (867) 821-4251 Brian Bell - Ta’an Kwäch’än Council (867) 668-3613 John Meikle - Kwanlin Dün First Nation (867) 633-7859 Bob Kuiper - Energy, Mines and Resources (867) 667-8728 Lisa Walker - Forest Management Branch (867) 393-7406
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Heating up the waterfront Luann and Mel Johnson plan to open a hot glassblowing studio in downtown Whitehorse this autumn Myles Dolphin News Reporter
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anada’s Governor General told Luann Johnson she had to use her talents to make something in her community, so she listened. That was in 2011, when she received an academic award from David Johnston while studying glassblowing and ceramics at the Alberta College of Art and Design. Four years and two fine arts degrees later, Luann and her husband Mel are on the verge of breaking ground for Yukon’s first glassblowing studio. It’s a dream that has been through many conceptual changes but one that always kept the same core elements: community, education and tourism. “Mel and I both grew up here and we’ve moved around a lot but Whitehorse has always been home,” she said. “It’s something we’re totally committed to. We didn’t want to say too much about it before, but now it’s become developed to the point where we’re very confident construction will begin in the spring.” It’s also an idea that came about following the death of their 19-year-old daughter, Rondi, from leukemia in 2006. Luann said the first time she laughed again was during the year she took off following the death. It happened while she was squirting her children with a water gun one day in their Porter Creek backyard. She walked inside and asked Mel how to get that feeling back. He told her she should study at ACAD and follow her passion for the arts. “I went there to paint and draw but you’re taking all these phenomenal courses, and it’s where I actually fell in love with glassblowing and ceramics,” she said. Lumel Studios was originally going to be located at Little Fox Lake, about 85 kilometres north of Whitehorse, where the couple owns cabins. But they quickly realized they needed a central location in the city in order to attract people and get them excited about a hot glass facility. That’s when they purchased a 2,400-square foot lot from the City of Whitehorse, part of its Motorways property development along the waterfront area. Lumel Studios, which the couple hopes will open by October, will be built near the corner of Keish and Front streets, part of a large parcel of land the city
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Luann and Mel Johnson plan on opening Yukon’s first glassblowing studio this year. They hope construction can begin in June.
bought from the White Pass and Yukon Railroad in 1994. “It really fits in with what the city envisioned for that area,” Mel said, “which is a mix of arts, culture, commercial and retail.” Visitors will be able to sit down with an artist and get a sense of what it takes to handle hot glass, shape it into something and let it cool down. Glasses, bowls and beer mugs are only a few examples of items they’ll be able to produce. It’ll be a year-round facility with a furnace capable of holding 225 pounds of molten glass, three benches to work on, outdoor kilns, a glory hole,
dozens of blowpipes and other equipment. The couple already has between $50,000 and $60,000 worth of equipment in their garage and sheds. But that’s not all they hope to accomplish. Phase two of the plan will include an adjacent building with a large multimedia studio, a small coffee shop and six upper-floor apartments for visiting artists. Glassblowing artists from New York and as far away as Australia, whom Luann met at art school, have already expressed an interest in visiting the studio, she said. “We’ll have these master glass
blowers that want to come here,” she said. “And among the six artists I convinced to come up and live here in 2013, all of them have stayed.” Those artists will help teach workshops of various lengths at the studio, ranging from one hour to two weeks. In the summer time, garage doors will open up to expose the studio and entice pedestrians on the waterfront to stop by. The couple’s life savings are invested in the project and they say their children are fine with the idea, and excited about its potential.
Mel, who stopped working two years ago, came out of retirement to fund the project. “This was our retirement plan and we wanted a way to give back to the community,” he said. “Even before Rondi died we were community-focused, raising money for various initiatives.” Luann said the project reminds her of her parents, who had dreams of their own, but not the means to achieve them. “We aren’t millionaires but we do have some of the means, and we’re willing to make sacrifices.” Contact Myles Dolphin at myles@yukon-news.com
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Feds urged to act to save monarchs with milkweed planting program Colin Perkel Canadian Press TORONTO
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to Minnesota. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Canada, so far, remains quiet; it just needs to show the monarchs some love and start putting some resources towards habitat restoration,â&#x20AC;? Plotkin said.
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Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a robotâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s world: Canadian firm Clearpath looks to automated future David Friend Canadian Press
KITCHENER, ONT. nside the headquarters of Clearpath Robotics, a robot revolution is underway. Where a receptionist would have once welcomed your arrival, thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s now a little robot named â&#x20AC;&#x153;Gladosâ&#x20AC;? hanging from the ceiling above a vacant table. It scans the waiting room to detect movement and offer its greeting. On a shelf amongst an assortment of engineering awards, sits How to Survive a Robot Uprising, a tongue-in-cheek survival guide for newcomers. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a glimpse of how cofounder and chief executive Matt Rendall envisions the future, as robots change the way people live and work. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Before the home, our vision is a robot in every company and every job site,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;There are still so many jobs that humans are not well suited to do.â&#x20AC;? A recent study from the Boston Consulting Group shows that in-
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equipped to travel across the ground, while others are made for aerial and aquatic operations. Basic models start at $10,000 before modifications â&#x20AC;&#x201C; like mechanical arm extensions, cameras and lasers â&#x20AC;&#x201C; bulk up the price. Larger models are closer to $125,000. Its flagship Husky model is standing in for the Mars rover in a space simulation project run by the University of Toronto and the Canadian Space Agency. Using a remote, the operator can drive the model over rough terrain using cameras installed on the machine. The Kingfisher aquatic model uses two ski-like hulls for balance to navigate across shallow pond surfaces or fast-flowing water. Clearpath says municipalities could use the robot and sonar technology to monitor sludge buildup in the ponds used to collect storm water. The company has also developed software and hardware for mining companies to replace workers in hazardous conditions. The operator, who would have
once worked deep below the earthâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s surface where humidity levels are high and oxygen levels are low, can now control the machinery from a safer location, Rendall said. The idea for Clearpath was born six years ago from the disillusionment of four University of Waterloo students who found their 9-to-5 internships lacked creativity and freedom. When 5 oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;clock rolled around, they regularly convened at the university to design their own robot from scratch. Those meetings often stretched way past midnight, fuelled on coffee and energy drinks, Rendall remembers. While their prototype didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t win a robotics competition that could have placed them on the radar of international organizations, their idea set the wheels in motion for Clearpath. Rendall, who admits his strength was not in the actual construction of the robots, was appointed the companyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ambassador to raise money and build a relationship with other Canadian universities. Within a year and a half, Clearpath had crossed into profitability, helped by a team of
engineers who shared the foundersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; obsession with robots. The company now has 75 employees at its assembly and design offices in Kitchener and plans to nearly double that number within two years. Rapid growth of the robotics industry has raised a number of ethical issues, such as concerns the military could use industrial robots for lethal purposes. Clearpath was the first robotics company to voice its support for the Campaign to Stop Killer Robots, a coalition of non-government organizations pushing for an international treaty that bans the use of robots as autonomous weapons. Unions and other interest groups have also expressed their concern that robots will replace employees in the workforce. But Redall said he believes Clearpath shouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be distracted by how technology could displace existing jobs because the robotics industry is also creating new positions. â&#x20AC;&#x153;My view is that itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s going to happen, and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a question of what country do you want it to happen in?â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d much rather the technology be developed, and the economy stimulated, in Canada.â&#x20AC;?
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Baloney Meter: Has budget for Parks Canada gone up, as Aglukkaq claims? tive director of the Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society, said the group has seen a gradual reduction in how much the agency spends on environmental monitoring as it juggles its budget. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It was a world-leading system up until recently, and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been really scaled back significantly,â&#x20AC;? Hebert-Daly said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The preventative care for parks is going to be significantly reduced if your monitoring capabilities are not as strong.â&#x20AC;?
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to spend in a given fiscal year. Put another way, how much did Parliament approve for the agency to spend? OTTAWA In the main budgetary estimates ith park operating seasons released this week, the government curtailed and bands of said it intends to spend $737 million volunteers clearing trails on on Parks Canada this year, the increase their own in the winter, the Conserva- mainly due to money earmarked for tive government has faced questions fixing highways and bridges. about its commitment to the national How much the agency will actually parks system. spend wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be known until next year. In 2012, the government declared Every year, going back a decade, that it would cut the agencyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s $631-million amount has turned out to be less than budget by $29.2 million over three the amount available. years. Parks Canada responded by The budget the agency was apsaying it would â&#x20AC;&#x153;align its season, hours proved to spend in 2014-15 was $800 of operation, and services to better million. Compared to the amount reflect patterns of visitation.â&#x20AC;? Most promised this year, that would indiparks went to a three-season model. cate a decrease this year of approxiLast week, however, Environment mately 7.8 per cent. Minister Leona Aglukkaq told the If however, we compared the Commons that the â&#x20AC;&#x153;overall budget amount the agency actually spent last has increased by 26 per cent.â&#x20AC;? She said year ($671,387,496) with what the that was in addition to $391 million government is proposing, there would in funds for park roads announced in be an increase of 9.8 per cent. This the 2014 budget. comparison is problematic â&#x20AC;&#x201C; it does Is Aglukkaq correct â&#x20AC;&#x201C; the agencyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not allow for inflation, and again lacks budget has gone up, despite the cuts? the critical element of what the agency Spoiler alert: The Canadian Press will actually spend. Baloney Meter is a dispassionate What about the governmentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s examination of political statements overall budgetary record and Parks culminating in a ranking of accuracy Canada? on a scale of â&#x20AC;&#x153;no baloneyâ&#x20AC;? to â&#x20AC;&#x153;full of The year before the government baloney.â&#x20AC;? took power â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 2005-06 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Parks Canada This one earns a rating of â&#x20AC;&#x153;some spent $535 million of its approved baloney.â&#x20AC;? Hereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s why. budget. In the 2014-15 fiscal year, Parks Canada reports spending of The facts There are different ways of looking $671 million. In straight dollars, thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a 25.4 per cent increase â&#x20AC;&#x201C; essentially at a departmentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s budget. what Aglukkaq claimed. The first is to consider how much money was available for Parks Canada Taking inflation into account with Canadian Press
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Fears arise among Russian conscripts over being sent to fight across the border in Ukraine Laura Mills Associated Press
MOSCOW hen Alexander was due to finish his year of mandatory military service in October, his commander told him he had no choice: He had to sign a contract to extend his stay in the army and head to southern Russia for troop exercises. The 20-year-old knew that meant he might end up fighting alongside pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine. Other soldiers he talked to had been sent there. His commanders “didn’t talk about it, but other soldiers told us about it, primarily paratroopers who had been there,” Alexander said in an interview with The Associated Press, which is not using his surname for his safety. The former private first class ended his military service earlier this month. He avoided being sent to Ukraine – although not without first being threatened with prison for desertion. Human rights groups have received dozens of complaints in the past month alone from Russian conscripts like Alexander who say they have been strong-armed or duped into signing contracts with the military to become professional soldiers, after which they were sent to participate in drills in the southern Rostov region. “We receive messages from all over in which (soldiers) say that they’re being sent again to Rostov for military exercises,” said Valentina Melnikova,
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So far, the Russian government has been able to keep a tight lid on information about any soldiers in eastern Ukraine through a shroud of official denials, harassment of independent reporters who cover the deaths, and carrot-and-stick pressure on the families of those killed. But rising concerns among families with young sons could pose a risk for President Vladimir Putin. Russia’s secrecy about the soldiers’ deaths has an important precedent: During the Soviet intervention in
Afghanistan in the 1980s, the government released little information about those killed in the conflict. When the true numbers of casualties became known, the intervention turned unpopular. More than 5,600 people have been killed since April in the fighting between Ukrainian troops and the rebels. It is unclear how many Russian soldiers have died in the conflict, as the Defence Ministry has rejected rights groups’ requests on the number of soldiers killed on duty in 2014. But the rising casualty count among Russian soldiers specifically could prove decisive in Putin’s thinking as he comes under pressure to prevent an expansion of the conflict that might put more Russians in the line of fire. “This is a conflict that reaches pretty deep into the psyche of the Russian people. It’s not a foreign conflict. … It’s something very close to home,” said Dmitri Trenin, an analyst at the Carnegie Endowment in Moscow. “This is something that’s at the back of a lot of people’s minds, and in particular, people with sons of draft age are worried. “Military conquest, in my view, would not be supported by the Russian people, and I think everyone knows it,” he added. In October, Alexander was preparing to return to his hometown of Inta, a city of 30,000 people that skirts the Arctic Circle, when he and a dozen other recruits were told to report immediately to their base outside of Moscow. “They told us: You have to go on a trip,” he said as he wolfed down a full
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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 2015 tray of food at the local McDonaldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s. â&#x20AC;&#x153;At first there wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t any talk about a contract, but later they said that in order to go on the trip we would have to sign a contract, because we canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t go as conscripts.â&#x20AC;? Russia requires almost all young men to serve in the army for one year at age 18, although many find ways to defer or avoid it. Those who want to have careers in the army can become professional soldiers by signing contracts for two or three years. Alexander and his best friend in the unit both have pregnant girlfriends and had no intention of extending their army service. But they were told that they had already agreed to the trip, and that they couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t back out. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We wanted to refuse,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;But they refused our refusal, and we had to go.â&#x20AC;? The commander assured them the contract was a formality and they could quit within a month, when the trip was over. But Alexander had different commanders in Rostov, who told him that he was obliged to carry out his three-year contract. He heard tales of fighting from more experienced soldiers who had already been to Ukraine. Alexander would not repeat those stories, noting that he â&#x20AC;&#x153;did not want to go to jailâ&#x20AC;? for revealing state secrets. The Russian Defence Ministry did not respond to a written request for comment sent Feb. 9 or to follow-up phone calls. Adelya Kamelatdinovaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 19-yearold son was serving as a recruit in the army in July when he sent her a text message saying he was being sent to military exercises in Rostov. Then in August, he disappeared for weeks â&#x20AC;&#x201C; only to resurface in September and
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an auditorium, threatened that they would ruin their reputations, send them crawling through the trenches â&#x20AC;Ś and told them they were traitors of their country,â&#x20AC;? said the mother of one soldier who serves at a military base in Kamenka, about 100 kilometres northwest of St. Petersburg. She asked that neither her name nor that of her son be used for fear of reprisals. â&#x20AC;&#x153;A lot of them gave in, whoeverâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s nerves didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t hold out,â&#x20AC;? said the woman. She added that her son had managed to turn down the contract, but that many of his fellow conscripts hadnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t, and were supposed to leave for Rostov this week. Many conscripts who then try to break the contracts are threatened by commanders with being considered absent without leave, a charge punishable by up to five years in prison. Alexander and his friend ultimately fled Rostov on Dec. 31. They said they were threatened with desertion by their commander in Naro-Fominsk, and it was only after reaching out to NGOs for legal help that they were able to return to Naro-Fominsk to legally quit. But most conscripts are 18 or 19 and have little awareness of their
rights to do so: Alexander says that the 10 other conscripts from his division sent to Rostov with him in October are still there, and that he has heard from other soldiers that 500 new recruits signed contracts in January, and were also headed there. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The phrase â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll put you in military prison if you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t sign the contractâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; explains everything,â&#x20AC;? said Alexander, when asked why he and so many other conscripts collapsed under the pressure. Irina, the mother of a 19-yearold recruit serving in the Nizhny Novgorod region who asked that her last name not be used for fear of reprisal, said her son had recently called to say he had signed a contract and was on his way to Rostov. She didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know whether he had been coerced or not, but said she had never heard him previously mention plans to sign a contract. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I deceive myself and tell myself that itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just the army, that everything has to be this way, that everything is OK,â&#x20AC;? she told the AP. â&#x20AC;&#x153;But theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve sent them for three months to the border with Ukraine. â&#x20AC;Ś Of course Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m scared.â&#x20AC;?
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Grammy nominee and a Canadian country legend will mix with familiar faces at this year’s Atlin Arts and Music Festival. L.A. jazz band California Feetwarmers, which was shortlisted for the music award this year, and Victoria-born country icon Ian Tyson are among the acts coming out this summer. “Atlin’s got a special vibe, I’m sort of biased that way, but it’s got a really relaxed and community vibe to it. So it’s really important that we hire musicians who have a big heart and a good vibe to them,” said producer and artistic director Kim Winnicky. “All of these people on the list are just amazing folks that I’ve talked to. So I’m really excited about just the level of heart that will be playing the festival.” The schedule for the festival – which runs from July 10-12 – was released yesterday. Danny Michel, a headliner when he performed solo at last year’s festival, is returning this time with his trio. Winnicky counts Michel’s after-party performance last year as one of the festival highlights. The Ontario native was on stage improvising, jamming with all the other artists and “being sort of the backbone for everybody,” said Winnicky. “He just raised it to another level. It was so fun. He was like a little boy on stage playing the drum kit. He was having so much fun and it was infectious.” B.C. folk band Good for Grapes was supposed to perform at last year’s festival but had to bow out at the last minute when they were finalists for the Peak Performance Project. It trains upand-coming artists in all sides of the music industry, from marketing to live performance. Groups later compete for prize money. Good for Grapes ended up taking home the top prize of more than $100,000. “They’re young, in their 20s, but their harmonies are really great,” Winnicky said of the sixpiece band. “They’ll be a really good dance band too. We’ll all be dancing.” Winnicky saw the eight-piece dixieland/ragtime jazz band California Feetwarmers at a Folk Alliance conference last year. “They ended up jamming with us at the Yukon Room at Folk Alliance so I went to see them,” she said. They had all the experienced music insiders dancing. “We’re usually a pretty calm bunch, staying in our seats and stuff. We were all dancing within half a song, we all had huge smiles. People were rushing the
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Danny Michel will be performing at this summer’s Atlin Arts and Music Festival.
stage by their second workshop. It was crazy,” Winnicky said. “Right then I’m like, ‘we have to get them.’” Not long after Winnicky booked them to play Atlin, the band was nominated for a Grammy in the Best American Roots category for their work with Keb’ Mo’. “A Grammy nominee is playing Atlin, which is kind of sweet.” Country music fans will get a chance to see Canadian star Ian Tyson. “For me, he’s the icon of Canadian country music,” Winnicky said. “So we’re really thrilled that he’ll be coming up.” On a different end of the musical spectrum is the band Death. Originally made up of three brothers – David, Bobby and Dannis Hackney – the band thought they were headed for success in the ‘70s “playing hard music, like punk music, before there was punk music,” Winnicky said. As the story goes, the brothers had started recording their first album, but music industry folks couldn’t get over the name and the brothers refused to change it. “So the album was never released and they sort of went underground and nobody heard of them,” Winnicky said. “And then in 2008 music historians rediscovered their music and said it was fundamental music and it was punk before there was punk music.”
The album has since been released and a documentary has been made about the band’s journey. “They’ve gained sort of a cult following since then.” David Hackney died of cancer in 2000. The band now plays with guitarist Bobbie Duncan. The plan is to screen the film on Friday complete with a question-and-answer session. Death will close the night on Saturday and do an earlier set on Sunday, she said. The duo Anna and Elizabeth are bringing their music and their huge felt scrolls to the festival. The beautiful artwork depicts the story of the song as it’s cranked through a wooden box frame while they’re singing, Winnicky explained, describing it as a “really simple film.” “It takes you back to a simpler time and a simpler place and I think that really matches the feel of Atlin,” she said. Along with acts from outside the North, this year’s festival will feature familiar northern names. Burwash Landing-born Diyet and local band Soda Pony are on the lineup along with Whitehorse’s Claire Ness. Ness will be singing and also putting on circus workshops for kids and youth, Winnicky said. “I’m going to see if we can do an adult one too,” she said, laughing. “And maybe bring her aerial work down. So that will be really
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Country singer Ian Tyson.
fun.” Yukontickets.com and Dean’s Winnicky said the lineup is Strings. about 95 per cent complete but A schedule is available on the there may be more news to come. festival’s website. Tickets are on sale at the Yukon Contact Ashley Joannou at ashleyj@yukon-news.com Arts Centre, Arts Underground,
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Co-creator speaks on decisions, lessons on using iPhones to shoot Modern Family episode Anick Jesdanun
to get nice-looking images. The challenge comes when you’re dealing with extremes NEW YORK – extreme brightness and darkor this week’s Modern Fam- ness. The cameras we typically ily, producers put down use cost tens of thousands of their expensive professional dollars and use lenses that cost cameras and shot the episode just as much. You’re going to with iPhones and other Apple always get a better quality with devices. Seen through the eyes those. But the phone’s quality of character Claire Dunphy as is quite good. It’s just amazing she uses a Mac laptop, charac- what’s happened to smartters only appear on her comphones in five years. puter’s FaceTime video-calling Q. Could you have achieved app. the same effect with profesThe Associated Press spoke sional cameras? with series co-creator and exA. We wanted it to look as ecutive producer Steve Levitan real as possible, so rather than about the thinking behind shoot it on this incredible shooting with a smartphone camera and then dumb the and lessons learned. The epiimage down a bit so it looks sode, “Connection Lost,” aired like an iPhone, why not just Wednesday and is available shoot it with an iPhone? This online. is certainly good enough for Questions and answers have our purposes, and it made the been edited for clarity and most sense. length. Q. Where do you see this ––– going, not just with iPhones Q. What did you find most but other consumer gadgets surprising? such as GoPro video cameras A. We thought the actors and digital SLRs? would be their own camera A. It opens up filmmaking person originally, but it’s just to people who don’t have the a lot for them to have to get resources for expensive equipeverything framed just right. ment. There’s a movie at the We quickly devised a method Sundance film festival this year where a camera person held that was shot on an iPhone. the phone just in front of You really can, if you wanted them. So that it didn’t look to, shoot a movie on an iPhone like the phone was floating in or a thousand-dollar camera space, we always had an actor and then edit it on your comput their hand on the camera- puter. If you’re clever enough, man’s hand. That made it look it can look like an expensive like they were doing a selfie movie. That said, filmmaking thing. is not just about having the Q. How does the iPhone technology and the camera. It’s compare with traditional also about having a vision and cameras? the story. That’s always going A. When you have a conto rely on good old-fashioned trolled environment, it’s easy human ingenuity. Associated Press
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Director Steven Levitan with an Emmy that his show Modern Family won in September 2012.
Q. How do you avoid making the equipment the centre of the attention? A. The really compelling part here is the story telling, not so much how we did it technologically. At the end of the day, this story needed to be told this way. It’s an emotional story, and it’s a funny story. Ultimately when you have that going for you, it keeps this
from becoming a gimmick. While the iPhone thing is a nice headline, I hope ultimately people remember this as a
compelling episode. Q. There are lots of Android and Windows users out there. Do you worry about criticism that you are focusing too much on Apple? A. This is the way my family communicates. We happen to be an Apple family. This is the technology that I know. If Claire started contacting everybody through Google Hangouts, it would have felt less believable to me because I don’t know anybody who uses it that way. It doesn’t mean people don’t, but I don’t. Samsung makes beautiful TVs. They make beautiful phones. It just so happens that I use Apple, so it’s the way that makes sense for me. (After producers reached out to Apple, the company provided devices, but didn’t pay for their inclusion.) Q. Any tips for budding filmmakers? A. Using this kind of technology is nothing but a means to an end. The more important thing is to spend time on the story and the characters and make sure you have something compelling that’s worth actually using these devices for. If you don’t, it’s very easy to come up with beautiful images and fun camera tricks. The real difficult part is to have something worth filming. That’s where you should put the bulk of your time and energy.
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Peanut consumption in infancy helps prevent peanut allergies in kids at high risk, study finds Associated Press
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own. “Before you even start any kind of introduction these children need to be skin-tested” to prevent life-threatening reactions, said Dr. Rebecca Gruchalla, an allergy specialist at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas. Also, small children can choke on whole peanuts, so smooth peanut butter or other peanut-based foods are safer, said Gruchalla, who wrote a commentary on the study in the journal. The main finding – that early exposure to a problem food may keep it from becoming a long-term problem – should change food guidelines quickly, she predicted. “Isn’t it wild? It’s counter-
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intuitive in certain ways and in other ways it’s not,” she said. Peanut allergies have doubled over the last decade and now affect more than 2 per cent of kids in the United States and growing numbers of them in Africa, Asia and elsewhere. Peanuts are the leading cause of food allergyrelated severe reactions and deaths. Unlike many other allergies, this one is not outgrown with age. Food allergies often are inherited, but research suggests they also can develop after birth and that age of exposure may affect whether they do. Researchers at King’s College London started this study after noticing far higher rates of peanut allergies among Jewish children in London who were not given peanutbased foods in infancy compared to others in Israel who were. The study involved more than 600 children ages 4 months to 11 months old in England. All were thought to be at risk for peanut allergy because they were allergic to eggs or had eczema, a skin condition that’s a frequent allergy symptom. All had been given skinprick tests to make sure they were not already allergic to peanuts. They were put into two groups – 530 who did not show signs of peanut allergy and 98 others with mild-to-moderate reactions, suggesting an allergy might be developing. Half of each group was assigned to avoid peanuts and the other half was told to consume them each week, usually as peanut butter or a snack called Bamba, a peanutflavoured puff. The results at 5 years of age: • Among children with no sign of allergy on the skin test: Only 2 per cent of peanut eaters developed a peanut allergy versus 14 per cent of abstainers. • Among children with
some reaction to peanuts on the skin test: Only 11 per cent of peanut eaters developed an allergy versus 35 per cent of abstainers. Hospitalizations and serious reactions were about the same in all groups. Questions remain: How much peanut protein do infants need to consume, how often and for how long, to avoid allergy? If a child stops eating peanuts for a while, will an allergy develop? Would the same approach work for other foods such as milk, eggs and tree nuts? “These questions must be addressed, but we believe that because the results of this trial are so compelling, and the problem of the increasing prevalence of peanut allergy so alarming, new guidelines should be forthcoming very soon,” Gruchalla and Dr. Hugh Sampson of Mount Sinai Hospital in New York write in the medical journal. American Academy of Pediatrics guidelines used to recommend against giving children foods with peanuts before age 3, but that advice was dropped in 2008 because there was no evidence it was preventing allergies. Now, most parents introduce peanut-based foods as is appropriate for the child’s age, like other solid foods. Gruchalla thinks that babies with some signs of a peanut allergy risk, such as parents who are allergic, should have a skin test between 4 and 8 months of age. If it’s negative, they should be started on peanut products as the babies in this study were. If they show some sensitivity to peanuts, a “food challenge” monitored by a doctor experienced at this should be tried. For children who already have peanut allergies, researchers have been experimenting with small regular amounts of exposure to try to train them to tolerate those foods. But these are still experimental and must be done with the help of a doctor.
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Jefferson’s ground sloth (Megalonyx jeffersonii) lived near what is now Old Crow during a warm spell in the last ice age.
management program, will be sharing sloth science with an audience at the Yukon Beringia hen Greg McDonald Interpretive Centre this Saturembarked on a career day. He is part of the Long Ago in vertebrate paleon- Yukon Skype Speaker series. tology at Idaho State Univer“There are many different sity, the first of a series of fartypes of giant sloths,” says Mcsighted professors helped steer Donald by phone from his US him to giant ground sloths. National Park Service office in It was, however, a lonely spe- Fort Collins, CO. “They range cialty for a sociable young stu- from elephant size down to cat dent. Mammoths, mastodons size and they are well repreand saber-tooth cats were sented in the fossil record.” the celebrities of the PleistoMegalonyx, though about as cene. Less-glamorous ground large as a cow, rather than an sloths, despite their fascinating elephant, is among the stars of histories, didn’t attract much what scientists call the Great attention. American Faunal Interchange. That’s changed over the four During that process, various decades since McDonald, who South American animals, such earned a PhD at the University as porcupines, trekked into of Toronto, set out in pursuit North America. Some northern of sloths. Now when he attends creatures, like llamas, tapirs paleontology conferences, he and peccaries, went south. manages to find other sloth The interchange took place scientists to chat with. He in three stages over eight milenjoys discussing his love for lion years. The early ancestor giant sloths, including the Far of the Megalonyx was part of North’s Megalonyx jeffersonii stage one. McDonald calls him – aka Jefferson’s ground sloth “the sloth that led the charge.” – with specialists and with the For some species the heavrest of us. ily forested region around the McDonald, senior curator of Isthmus of Panama acted like natural history in the U.S. Na- a filter, says McDonald. Food tional Park Service’s museum selection, rainfall or temperErling Friis-Baastad Special to the News
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ature prevented some creatures from completing their journeys north or south. Other species, more comfortable in tropical rainforests, were content to remain in a forest that ended in southern Mexico. “My former professor Dave Webb did a lot of work on this and he noticed animals that were very well-adapted to grassland environments … just were not able to make it through the Isthmus of Panama.” Animals adapted to forests, such as Megalonyx, did much better. These sloths eventually lived near Old Crow in the Yukon, as well as in parts of Alaska and N.W.T., during the Sangamonian interglacial, a warm spell late in the Pleistocene. The interglacial began roughly 135,000 to 140,000 years ago. “One could say that there was about a 100,000-year interval when conditions were right to allow the sloth to live that far north,” says McDonald. As the interglacial ended, the northern landscape became more arid and the northern population of Megalonyx vanished.
Our Yukon sloth may not be the largest sloth overall, but it certainly earned the name Megalonyx, which means “great claw.” Its blades were well designed to allow the animal to pull branches down to its mouth. They would also have been a deterrent to all but the most desperate predators. Sloths were likely solitary, says McDonald. They didn’t travel in herds. A family unit probably consisted of a mother and a couple youngsters. When young, they would have been vulnerable, much as baby elephants are today, but mom’s claws ensured that the price of a meal would be too high for most carnivores. “Sloths probably lived a long, happy life.” McDonald has never been to the old sloth stomping grounds near Old Crow, though he has visited the territory to speak. He has also conducted extensive field work in the U.S., the Caribbean and much of South America. Like many other scientists, he has benefitted from the research and collecting done by northern colleagues like the legendary Dick Harington. McDonald and Harington, along
with G. De Iuliss, co-wrote the “The Ground Sloth Megalonyx from Pleistocene Deposits of Old Crow Basin, Yukon,” which appeared in the September issue of Arctic in 2000. Contemporary paleontologists also owe a debt to the 18th- and 19th-century naturalists who roamed the planet collecting fossils, says McDonald. Their finds are awaiting further study – or rediscovery – in museum drawers in Europe and all over the Americas. “There’s a saying: ‘Some of the best collecting these days is in museum collections,’” he says. “I like to think that there’s a lot of material that I’ve collected over the years that’s gone into museum collections. Though I’ll never benefit from it, I’m very pleased to see people incorporate it into their research.” “I’m sure Charles Darwin didn’t have me in mind when he was putting specimens in the British Museum,” McDonald adds. North to the Yukon (Slowly): the Jefferson Ground Sloth from Old Crow gets underway at the Beringia Interpretive Centre at 1 p.m., Saturday, February 28.
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animals, but it never biodegrades. Those particles, or microplastics, just keep building up. They also absorb and concentrate toxic chemicals, poisoning the animals that consume them. Studies show that 44 per cent of all seabird species have plastic in and around their bodies, and fish, birds, turtles and whales often become fatally entangled in plastic waste. Even the search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, which went down over the South China Sea in March 2014, was confounded when investigators looking for crash evidence kept finding plastic debris. Humans depend on healthy oceans for food, water, air, recreation and transportation. Oceans contain more than 97 per cent of the planet’s water and produce more than half the oxygen we breathe. They also absorb carbon – important to reducing global warming. Half the world’s people live in coastal zones, and oceanbased businesses contribute more than $500 billion a year to the global economy. What we do to the oceans and the life therein, we do to ourselves. So what can we do to keep them – and us – healthy? The report’s authors say reducing “mismanaged” plastic waste, regulating the amount of plastics
that enter the waste stream and improving waste-disposal methods in the top 20 offending countries are all essential. But, Jambeck notes, “It’s not just about improving the infrastructure in other countries. There are things we can do in our daily lives to reduce the amount of waste plastic we all produce.” Canada’s relatively good wastedisposal and recycling systems keep us off the 20 worst offenders list – but we can still do better. Reducing the amount of plastic we use is the first step. For consumers, that means avoiding overpackaged goods and unnecessary plastic items, such as bottled water,
single-serve K-cup coffee pods and disposable products. We must also get better at reusing and recycling. According to a report by the U.S. non-profit As You Sow, plastic is the fastest-growing form of packaging, and only about 14 per cent gets recycled. Oceans and the life they support face numerous threats, from climate change to overfishing. Reducing the amount of plastic we dump into them is a challenge we can meet. Let’s get on it. Written with contributions from David Suzuki Foundation Senior Editor Ian Hanington. Learn more at www.davidsuzuki.org.
Religious Organizations & Services Whitehorse United Church
Yukon Bible Fellowship
601 Main Street 667-2989
FOURSQUARE GOSPEL CHURCH 160 Hillcrest Drive Family Worship: Sunday 10:00am
(Union of Methodist, Presbyterian & Congregational Churches) 10:30 a.m. - Sunday School & Worship Service Rev. Beverly C.S. Brazier
Grace Community Church 8th & Wheeler Street Pastor Dave & Jane Sager 689-4598 10:30 AM FAMILY WORSHIP WEEKLY CARE GROUP STUDIES Because He Cares, We Care.
PASTOR SIMON AYRTON PASTOR RICK TURNER www.yukonbiblefellowship.com
Church Of The Nazarene 2111 Centennial St. (Porter Creek) Sunday School & Morning Worship - 10:45 am Call for Bible Study & Youth Group details
PASTOR NORAYR (Norman) HAJIAN
www.whitehorsenazarene.org 633-4903
Quaker Worship Group RELIGIOUS SOCIETY OF FRIENDS Meets regularly for Silent Worship. For information, call 667-4615 email: whitehorse-contact@quaker.ca
website: quaker.ca
Seventh Day Adventist Church
1607 Birch St. 633-2647
149 Wilson Drive 668-5727 Sunday 10:00am Prayer / Sunday School 11:00 am Worship Wednesday Praise & Celebration 7:30 pm Pastor Roger Yadon
4th Avenue & Steele Street • 667-2437 Masses: Weekdays: 12:10 pm. Saturday 5 pm Sunday: 9 am - English; 10:10 am - French; 11:30 am English
Saturday Evening Mass: 7:00 p.m.
ALL WELCOME
Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church 4th Avenue & Strickland Street
668-4079 tlc@northwestel.net pastor.tlc@northwestel.net
EVERYONE WELCOME!
Riverdale Baptist Church 15 Duke Road, Whse 667-6620 Sunday worship Service: 10:30am REV. GREG ANDERSON
www.rbchurch.ca
Whitehorse
Baptist Church 2060 2ND AVENUE • 667-4889
www.whbc.ca Family Worship & Sunday School
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St. Nikolai Orthodox
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Saturday Vespers 5:00 pm Sunday Liturgy 10:00 am FR. JOHN GRYBA 332-4171 for information www.orthodoxwhitehorse.org
www.vajranorth.org • 667-6951
Christ Church Cathedral ANGLICAN
Box 31419, Whitehorse, YT Y1A 6K8
403 Lowe Street Mondays 5:15 to 6:15 PM
TAGISH Community Church
Sacred Heart Cathedral (Roman Catholic)
Bethany Church Pentecostal Assemblies of Canada Early Morning Service 9:00 - 10:00 am Family Service 10:30 am - Noon Filipino Service 4:00 - 5:00 pm Sunday School Ages 0-12
91806 Alaska Highway Ph: 668-4877
ECKANKAR
Religion of the Light and Sound of God
For more information on monthly activities, call (867) 633-6594 or visit www.eckankar-yt.ca www.eckankar.org ALL ARE WELCOME.
Meditation Drop-in • Everyone Welcome!
OFFICE HOURS: Mon-Fri 9:00 AM to 12 Noon
First Pentecostal Church
Confessions before Mass & by appointment. Monday 7:00 PM Novena Prayers & Adoration Tuesday through Friday: Mass 11:30 a.m.
Vajra North Buddhist Meditation Society
1609 Birch St. (Porter Creek) 633-5385 “We’re Open Saturdays!” Worship Service 11:00 am Wednesday 7:00 pm - Prayer Meeting All are welcome.
Our Lady of Victory (Roman Catholic)
Rigdrol Dechen Ling,
4TH AVENUE & ELLIOTT STREET Services Sunday 8:30 AM & 10:00 AM Thursday Service 12:10 PM (with lunch)
668-5530
Meets 1st & 3rd Sunday each Month Details, map and information at:
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Calvary Baptist 1301 FIR STREET 633-2886 Sunday Morning Worship 10:30 a.m. Sunday Evening Worship 6:00 p.m. Wednesday Bible Study 7:30 p.m. Pastor L.E. Harrison 633-4089
Bahá’Í Faith For information on regular communityactivities in Whitehorse contact: whitehorselsa@gmail.com
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints Meeting Times are 10:00 AM at 108 Wickstrom Road
The Salvation Army 311-B Black Street • 668-2327
Sunday Church Services: 11:00 AM EVERYONE WELCOME!
www.bethanychurch.ca
The Temple of Set The World’s Premier Left Hand Path Religion
A not-for-prophet society. www.xeper.org canadian affiliation information: northstarpylon@gmail.com
Church of the Northern Apostles
An Anglican/Episcopal Church Sunday Worship 10:00 AM Sunday School during Service, Sept to May
THE REV. ROB LANGMAID 45 Boxwood Crescent • Porter Creek 633-4032 • All Are Welcome
Yukon Muslim Association 1154c 1st Ave • Entrance from Strickland
www.yukonmuslims.ca For further information about, and to discover Islam, please contact: Javed Muhammad (867) 332-8116 or Adil Khalik (867) 633-4078 or send an e-mail to info@yukonmuslims.ca
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A yearly flood into the Gulf of Alaska Alaska and the south side of the Alaska Range. The other half comes from the melting of snow and ice by Ned from glaciers. Rozell Anthony Arendt is a glaciologist and an author on a recent paper in which researchers used different pieces of information to determine the fresh water input to the northern Pacific from Alaska and northwest Canada. He works at atellite data has confirmed the Geophysical Institute at UAF that the amount of freshwater and has studied data from a NASA released into the Gulf of Alaska mission that features two satellites from streams and rivers in Alaska orbiting Earth about 300 miles and northern Canada is about 1.5 above our heads. times what the Mississippi River Those instruments measure dumps into the Gulf of Mexico each gravity while racing around the year. planet in formation about 137 That astounding flow of water is miles apart. Arendt and many other from rainfalls that soak Southeast scientists have used this gravity
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information to calculate changes, in his case the loss of ice and snow from glaciers and massive icefields in Alaska and northern Canada. His data confirmed work done since the 1980s based on stream gauges, weather station data and computer models. Some perspective on southern Alaska adding 1.5 times the Mississippi each year to the Pacific Ocean: the Mississippi River drains 31 states and two provinces. Ranked by discharge, it is the 10th largest river on the planet. The Yukon, which we tend to think of as big, is 41st. So, the mountains and rainforests of southern Alaska are dumping a lot of water into the ocean. What does that mean? Fresh water helps power ocean currents that carry
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heat to cooler places. Glaciers gather lots of bits and pieces of life that, once transported by meltwater, feed tiny things in the ocean, which feed salmon and other creatures. Glacial rivers move the stuff of life, carbon, and redeposit it to the sea. Glacial melt increases sea level. And Alaska and northern Canada are moving water like a fire hose that grows in diameter each summer. How does Alaska’s freshwater runoff compare to other icy places? Even though its streams and rivers dump an enormous amount of water into the oceans, Alaska gains a lot of that water back in the next winter’s snows. Alaska contributes about 4 percent of global sea level rise. Greenland releases about one third the amount of water Alaska does, but is responsible for 20 percent of current sea level rise. This is
because much of Greenland’s water is from glacier ice that had been locked away. What happens next? Alaska glaciers will probably shrink by a quarter of their current volume by century’s end. Runoff will be larger at first, followed by a decrease as the glaciers shrink. But the story, as are most of this magnitude, is complicated. “Climate change will likely create greater seasonal extremes, and warming will alter the boundary between rain and snow in the atmosphere,” Arendt said. “With those kinds of changes, we expect the magnitude of the annual water cycling to increase in the future.” Since the late 1970s, the University of Alaska Fairbanks’ Geophysical Institute has provided this column free in cooperation with the UAF research community. Ned Rozell is a science writer for the Geophysical Institute.
Experiential Programs for the 2015/16 School Year Are you interested in learning more about the experiential programming available for Grade 9 – 12 students at Wood Street Centre. If so, we invite your family to attend an information meeting on Tuesday, March 3 at 7 pm at 411 Wood Street. Teachers will be on-hand to answer any questions you may have about the ACES, FACES, CHAOS, ES, MAD, OPES or PASE. Applications will be available at this meeting, at your school or at www.yesnet.yk.ca/woodstreet. Light refreshments will be served. For more information, call 667-8413 APPLICATION DEADLINE: MARCH 31, 2015
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Black pioneer speaks at exhibit launch HISTORY
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n appreciative crowd came out to the Whitehorse Public Library on Tuesday evening to celebrate the diversity of Yukon’s past as part of Black History Month. Sponsored by Hidden Histories Society Yukon, the event featured the launch of two new exhibits. This was followed by a fascinating talk by a guest speaker, the Reverend Joshua Phillpotts, formerly of Watson Lake and Whitehorse. The history of the Yukon has long been written as a WASP text, built upon the foundation works of Pierre and Laura Berton, Martha Black and various gold rush chronicles, but there is more to the story than that. The Hidden History Society came together as an informal group in the early 2000s, gathering information about Asian, black, and other ethno-cultural groups that have been an integral part of the history of the Yukon. Over the years, this group has sponsored a number of special events throughout the Yukon and created several exhibits, some of which can be viewed at the Yukon Department of Tourism and Culture’s website. The first exhibit portrays the Hunter family. Charles and Lucille Hunter came to the Klondike via the Stikine Trail in late 1897. Their daughter Teslin was named after the place along the trail where she was born in December 1897. They staked Bonanza Creek claims in 1898, and operated a Grand Forks restaurant. In the years that followed, the Hunters mined all over the territory. After Charles died, Lucille continued to operate the mines on her own. During the Second World War, she operated a laundry in Whitehorse, aided by her grandson, Buster. Buster relocated to the Queen Charlotte Islands after the war, and even brought his family back to Whitehorse for a brief period of time. Current descendants helped in the design of the family exhibit panel, which proved to be a learning experience for both the family and the Hidden History Society.
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Reverend Joshua Phillpotts captivated the audience with the story of his life in Jamaica and the Yukon at a special event celebrating Black History Month on Monday at the Whitehorse Public Library.
The second exhibit is of the Morgan family. Dudley and Reita Morgan both graduated from Bellevue Hospital School of Nursing in Kingston, Jamaica, after which they moved to Canada, and worked their way west until they reached the Yukon in the late 1970s. They lived an active community life in Whitehorse for nearly three decades, adopting their son Rodney in 1985. Rodney proved to be a gifted performer, “dazzling audiences with his talented singing, dancing and choreography.” Dudley and Reita retired to Calgary in 2006, and Rodney moved to Toronto where he follows a career as a widely recognized performer. While the Morgans were unable to attend the launch of the exhibit, Dudley’s sister Joy was in attendance. The main feature of the event, however, was Reverend Joshua Phillpotts, whose powerful oratory enthralled the audience for close to two hours. Archivist and historian Linda Johnson, who has conducted extensive oral history with Phillpotts, introduced him, making reference to their collaboration. Phillpotts was born in Jamaica 86 years ago of mixed parentage. Tracing
his lineage back to his grandparents, he described himself as one variety short of a Heinz 57 blend. Phillpotts came to Canada in 1965 with his wife Yvonne, whom he married after an old-fashioned courtship, and their three children. He said that each incoming traveller to Canada was allowed to bring two bottles of alcohol. With a family of five, that amounted to 10 large bottles of Jamaica rum. When inspecting their luggage upon their arrival and learning that they were destined for the Yukon, the customs officer commented: “You’re going to need every drop of it!” While Phillpotts had been to northern Canada before and was not surprised by the weather conditions in Watson Lake, his family must have taken some time to adjust to the starkly different climate. But the community of Watson Lake welcomed them with open arms, if not for the authentic Jamaica white rum packed
in their suitcases, then for the skills they brought with them. They were a matched pair. Phillpotts served the spiritual needs of the community, while Yvonne served the medical health needs. Yvonne was both a qualified nurse and mid-wife – skills in demand in the small community. In less than three weeks she had a job at the nursing station. Within a short time of their arrival, Yvonne was advised by a neighbour to keep her children separate from the native children because they had “head vermin.” Yvonne saw it differently: “That’s why I am here, because they have needs. I want to be able to help them because they are God’s children. I am going to care for
them and I want you to see the little northern angels that I turn out when they get rid of their head vermin. ” Phillpotts campaigned to have the First Nation children integrated into the public school at Watson Lake. The conditions that prevailed at the time were tantamount to segregation; the school the native children attended did not offer the kind of education that would provide them with marketable job skills when they graduated. That is how their ministry in the Yukon unfolded. Phillpotts had a large region to serve, from near Fort Nelson in the south, to Rancheria in the west, to Cantung to the east, on the border with the Northwest Territories. When prompted, the Reverend recalled a trip he made one year to Cantung the day after Christmas for a service. His car became stalled on the road at minus 50 degrees, and he had nearly frozen to death when help arrived. He survived, which was a good thing for Cantung. The delayed rescue was the result of a fire in the small mining camp, which left the tiny community without water. For several days, he applied the skills he learned in technical school, before turning to the seminary, to make the repairs required to help get the water running again. The Phillpotts eventually moved to Whitehorse to continue their ministry until they were dispatched to serve northern Alberta after 10 years in the Yukon. As Phillpotts noted himself, this was the first time that he had been back in the Yukon for 40 years. Michael Gates is a Yukon historian and sometimes adventurer based in Whitehorse. His latest book, Dalton’s Gold Rush Trail, is available in Yukon stores. You can contact him at msgates@northwestel.net
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Here’s one family that made christmas fun by Judith Martin
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DEAR MISS MANNERS: We had four children about five years apart, lots of gifts under the tree, and a very calm, enjoyable, fun-filled Christmas morning. It was a family time. Dad gave someone a gift. It was opened, admired by all, thanked, and a hug and a kiss
if it was from one of the family present, and an easy jotting down if there was a need to write a thank-you. Then we’d stop, have breakfast, go to church, have lunch, take a walk, or just break to enjoy what we had received. It was fun to watch that perhaps
Northern Institute of Social Justice Training Programs Trauma Training This 3-day course is for those who provide support services to individuals exposed to trauma material or who work with trauma survivors. The focus is Yukon-specific with an overview of historical traumas within the First Nation communities. For safety reasons, this course is not recommended as a healing workshop as the information can be overwhelming and it is not intended to revictimize survivors of trauma. Instructors: Jackie MacLaren & First Nations Initiatives staff, Yukon College
March 4-6, 2015 9:00am to 4:30pm CRN: 20484 $200 + gst Location: Yukon College Room C1440 (The Glass Class)
Survival Skills for the First Responder Survival Skills for the First Responder is a 1-day awareness program developed and delivered by a former first responder in the Yukon. A set of practical skills has been identified that may contribute to a healthy work/life balance. Awareness of PTSD and maintaining a healthy work/life balance may be keys to thriving as a first responder. This is an interactive program that includes presentation of information and three exercises. The program is intended to raise awareness and provide basic information; it is not intended to provide counselling or treatment. This program may also be of interest to the spouse or partner of a first responder. Instructor: Michael Swainson For questions or more information contact Joanne Lewis, Northern Institute of Social Justice, Yukon College, 867.456.8590.
March 10, 2015 9:00am to 4:00pm CRN: 20842 $50 + gst Location: Yukon College Room T1022
YFN 101: History of Yukon First Nations and Self-Government This 1-day course is intended for anyone interested in learning more about Yukon First Nations and Self-Government. Develop a broader understanding and appreciation for the key events in Yukon First Nations distant and recent past, in a day that includes interactive activities, discussions and presentations by staff from the Yukon First Nations Initiative department at Yukon College. The instructors incorporate historical timelines, facts, personal stories, and activities for an engaging look at history and recent developments. For more information on this course call: First Nations Initiatives @ 867.456.8582
March 13, 2015 9:00am to 4:30pm CRN: 20485 $200 + gst Location: Yukon College Room C1440 (The Glass Class)
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one child (or each in turn) was more excited about giving the gift they had purchased or made to one of the siblings or parents. And that child got to present the gift to the sibling. Some Christmases it took us all day to open the gifts or even into the next day. As the older children began to read and write, they often wanted to be the note keeper. I have always been thankful for the way we handled Christmas morning. Speak of teaching patience! The joy of giving.
(Please send your questions to Miss Manners at her website, www. missmanners.com; to her email, dearmissmanners@gmail.com; or through postal mail to Miss Manners, Universal Uclick, 1130 Walnut St., Kansas City, MO 64106.)
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Concern for others. Sharing. I could go on and on. GENTLE READER: Like a sack of coal, Miss Manners’ annual holiday mailbag is filled with accounts of greed, strife and ingratitude. She is immensely grateful to have found this gem among them.
Saturday, February 28th 10:00 AM to 2:00 PM JACK HULLAND SCHOOL Fir Street in Porter Creek Cash-only Event. To rent a table or rack space, call: 867-334-7028.
March 19, 2015 9:00am to 4:00pm CRN: 20841 $80 + gst Location: Yukon College Room T1023
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Pharmacy and Drug Act INVITATION FOR PUBLIC REVIEW AND COMMENT The draft Pharmacy and Drug Act is available for public review. The Act will regulate the operation of pharmacies and rural dispensaries in Yukon. It will promote collaborative health care and enhance pharmacy services in Yukon. The draft Pharmacy and Drug Act is available for review at www.community.gov.yk.ca. To obtain copies of the draft Act, visit the Professional Licensing & Regulatory Affairs branch at 307 Black St., Whitehorse, by email: plra@gov.yk.ca, or call 667-5111 or 1-800-661-0408 ext. 5111. Please email your comments to plra@gov.yk.ca by March 6, 2015.
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Special Olympian Michael Sumner gives it his all Tom Patrick News Reporter
PRINCE GEORGE, B.C. ighteen-year-old Michael Sumner competed hard and had a good time doing it. That’s what matters most to him. “I’m feeling good, no matter if I win or lose,” said Sumner. “It’s just if I have fun and try hard, and if I have fun with what I’m doing.” The Yukon figure skater came away with a third-place finish in the Special Olympics Level 2 solo male division at the Canada Winter Games in Prince George on Wednesday. Sumner took second in the elements program on Monday and third in the free for third overall. He finished one point behind B.C. skaters Matthew Lai and Eric Pahima, who tied for first and both received gold medals. The Games council decided that in an event like this, in which only three athletes compete, medals would only be awarded to the top two finishers. “It felt good to me,” said Sumner of his free program, which had a Robin Hood theme. “I felt like I was stronger. I had my arms up higher and I think the judges enjoyed it.” Sumner was denied a medal in Prince George, but he’s not returning to Whitehorse empty-handed. Tom Patrick/Yukon News Just last week Sumner skated to Yukon figure skater Michael Sumner competes at the Canada Winter Games in Prince silver at the Special Olympics B.C. George, B.C., on Wednesday. Sumner placed third in the Special Olympics Level 2 division.
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Yukon skater finishes with her best at Canada Games “(I finished) with a clean skate – the best skate I’ve ever done since I’ve been training really hard for this.” they judge extremely hard. Last time (at another competition) I fell twice and I got a higher score PRINCE GEORGE, B.C. than this time, and this time I ukon figure skater Mikayla skated the best I could have.” Kramer didn’t finish with Kramer placed 11th in her free a personal best score, but program for 12th overall in prefrom the excitement in her voice, novice ladies on Wednesday in it’s clear that doesn’t matter to Prince George. her. She completed her double Kramer ended the pre-novice salchow-double toe, double-lutzcompetition at the Canada Windouble loop, spiral sequence, ter Games with a performance double lutz and axel all with full she’ll remember for a very long points. She had a small subtractime. tion in her double flip-double toe. “(I finished) with a clean skate “It feels good. It’s a huge – the best skate I’ve ever done motivation,” said Kramer. “Just since I’ve been training really being here is super fun, meeting hard for this,” said Kramer. “My people and stuff like that. If I had score was lower than my personal finished last, it wouldn’t have changed anything.” best, but I think that’s because Tom Patrick News Reporter
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Kramer finished with a clean routine. She also started with one. The 12-year-old took 10th place out of 19 skaters in the short program on Monday, reaching a personal best score of 24.21. “Not that I’ve seen every one of Mikayla’s competitions in the last year, but I’ve seen her at provincial events, and I’d say this was clearly her best two programs – she managed to put them together at the same event,” said Yukon coach Jason Mongrain. “It was nice to see how she responded to a packed house and her first experience at this calibre, so I was very, thoroughly impressed.” Kramer, who is a member of Whitehorse’s Arctic Edge Skating Club, skated to sixth place in Ladies 3 at the 2014 Arctic Winter Games. “I think it was my best program and I think it’s something I can keep improving on,” said Kramer. “There are no regrets or anything.” Contact Tom Patrick at tomp@yukon-news.com Tom Patrick/Yukon News
Yukon figure skater Mikayla Kramer performs her free program at the Canada Winter Games in Prince George, B.C., on Wednesday. Kramer placed 12th in pre-novice ladies.
Winter Games in Kamloops, in what was his first time competing at Level 2. “He had a great skate (in Prince George). I think he had a better skate than at provincials,” said Yukon coach Michelle Semaschuk. “I think everyone stepped up, the other boys had very good skates as well. It was tough competition. “This is his second competition in the last week. It’s been a really busy and tiring week, but he did great and I’m really proud of him. And I know everyone at home is proud of him.” Sumner’s medal from Kamloops won’t be without company at home. He won a gold at the Special Olympics Canada Winter Games in 2012. With that top finish he earned a position on Team Canada for the 2013 Special Olympics World Winter Games in South Korea, where he won silver. He was also on Yukon’s first-ever goldwinning soccer team at the 2014 Special Olympics Canada Summer Games. “It has been simply amazing,” said Sumner. “I cannot be anywhere in Canada except for here because this is an awesome experience. “I’m going to watch (Yukon’s) Rachel Pettitt skate tomorrow and maybe watch hockey or a different sport for the next couple days.” Contact Tom Patrick at tomp@yukon-news.com
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Yukon judoka tossed after two fights in Prince George Tom Patrick News Reporter
PRINCE GEORGE, B.C. f the 19 sports at the Canada Winter Games, judo often has the shortest duration of competition. Judokas can lose a pair of fights in a matter of seconds and theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re out â&#x20AC;&#x201C; thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s all she wrote. That wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t quite the case with Yukonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Jacob Melanson in Prince George, but a couple losses did spell the end of competition for him on Wednesday. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a great experience for me, and I can go back and tell everybody back in Whitehorse what a time I had and what an experience they can get going to these Games, even if you lose,â&#x20AC;? said Melanson. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m sad that I lost, but I feel good I have an experience I can take back.â&#x20AC;? Melanson, who was competing in the up-to-66-kilograms division, lost to Newfoundlandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Dawson Sampson by ippon â&#x20AC;&#x201C; a winning throw â&#x20AC;&#x201C; in the early afternoon. He then had a closer match against Saskatchewanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Matthew Pullar a little over an hour later. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The first fight was over pretty quick: the guy just caught him,â&#x20AC;? said Yukon coach Aaron Jensen. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Then itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a waiting game. A lot of mental anguish takes place between that first fight and the next fight, because if you lost your first one, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve dropped down to the loserâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s pool. â&#x20AC;&#x153;He came out a totally different
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fighter. He did way better in the second fight. He was establishing his own grip, trying some attacks. It was quite even (but) Saskatchewan came out on top.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;I felt I was quicker than the guy,â&#x20AC;? said Melanson. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I could get my grip and had a little more of an advantage when I had my grip â&#x20AC;&#x201C; I got around faster. He kept closing me out, keeping me away. When I tried to go in heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d hit me or throw me.â&#x20AC;? Melanson is a brown belt who trains primarily at Whitehorseâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Shiroumakai Judo Club, of which Jensen is sensei. The 17-year-old has competed at junior national championships. He is the first Yukoner to compete in judo at the Canada Games since the 2007 Games in Whitehorse. â&#x20AC;&#x153;One thing weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve noticed: a lack of training partners really makes a difference,â&#x20AC;? said Jensen. â&#x20AC;&#x153;He doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t really have anybody in his weight category who are out on the mats with him all the time practising â&#x20AC;Ś Here, he didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have a team, he was by himself. So it was really hard to have a training session.â&#x20AC;? Contact Tom Patrick at tomp@yukon-news.com Tom Patrick/Yukon News
Yukonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Jacob Melanson is picked up by Saskatchewanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Matthew Pullar during the judo competition at the Canada Winter Games in Prince George, B.C., on Wednesday.
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Yukon athletes in action Team Yukon competes as the Canada Winter Games wind up in Prince George, B.C.
Clockwise from the top: Team Yukon third Trygg Jensen releases a shot against N.W.T.; Yukon’s Hannah Deuling races the women’s 7.5-kilometre classic; Ontario’s Bradley Langlois attempts to throw Saskatchewan’s Tristin Hoffarth during the judo competition; Yukon forward Lukas Jirousek handles the puck against P.E.I.
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Clockwise from the top: Rachel Pettitt leaps during her short program in novice ladies figure skating; Yukon synchronized swimmer Catherine Seal performs her solo routine; Yukon’s Knute Johnsgaard celebrates his gold medal win following the men’s 10-kilometre classic; Newfoundland’s Sophia Burke performs in front of the judges.
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Carson runs to top-20 at Pan-Ams
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Whitehorse’s Lindsay Carson competes in the 2014 B.C. Provincial Cross Country Championships in Abbotsford in October.
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conservative race plan in order to place for my team and think about finishing … These races can be risky because of the likelit can’t be easy going from frozen Whitehorse to hot and hood of heat exhaustion and just blowing up. humid Colombia to race in “But, yah, I’m happy with just an international event. But Lindsay Carson did it, and a solid performance and to help my (senior women’s) team place she cracked the top 20. The Whitehorse runner placed second overall, which was the main goal there.” 18th out of 51 top international The 25-year-old finished the runners at the Pan-American roughly seven-kilometre course Cross Country Cup in Barranin 22 minutes and 24 seconds, quilla, Colombia, on Sunday. 1:06 behind the winner from “It was a really tough race. The conditions were comparable Peru. Canadian teammate Rachel to running in a sauna,” said Car- Hannah took third with a time son. “So I had to execute a more of 21:34. Temperatures exceeded 30 Celsius, “with probably 100 per The Yukon home of cent humidity,” said Carson. “It was very strange terrain. We were pretty much running in a desert,” she added. “(And) we ran through a forest that looked like they recently macheted So we were running over Looking for NEW short. lots of dust and stumps. It was a Business / Clients? very interesting experience.” The race was Carson’s last event before she represents Advertise in Canada at the IAAF World Cross The Yukon News Classifieds! Country Championships in Guiyang, China, at the end of March. Take Advantage of our Carson made the Canadian 6 month Deal... senior women’s team with an Advertise for 5 Months and eighth-place finish at the 2014 Canadian Cross Country ChamGet 1 MONTH OF at Jericho Beach in FREE ADVERTISING pionships Vancouver, at the end of November. Book Your Ad Today! She spoke to the News from 4 s & Toronto Pearson International E: wordads@yukon-news.com Airport on Tuesday, about to News Reporter
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hop a plane to Kenya where she will train at high altitudes for three weeks in preparation for the worlds, which will be at about 1,000-metres above sea level. “That race will be, not highaltitude, but mid-altitude where people could kind of feel the effects,” said Carson. “I’m just going to train hard in Kenya and hopefully that will bring me added confidence going into China.” Next month will be Carson’s second time competing at the cross-country worlds as a senior competitor. She raced for Canada at the 2013 championships in Poland, placing 60th and helping the Canadian women’s team place eighth out of 15 countries. Carson also took third at the 2014 B.C. Provincial Cross Country Championships in October and has also had fantastic finishes on pavement last year. She was the top female in the eight-kilometre race at the Victoria Marathon in October and took sixth at the 2014 Canadian 10-kilometre Road Race Championships in September. Carson, who moved to Whitehorse last year from Cambridge, Ontario, placed second out of 19,377 female runners at the Vancouver Sun Run last spring and took second for open women (first for women 20-24) at the 2014 B.C. 10-Kilometre Championship in July. Contact Tom Patrick at tomp@yukon-news.com
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Kakuro
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Sudoku Like puzzles? Then you’ll love sudoku. This mind-bending puzzle will have you hooked from the moment you square off, so sharpen your pencil and put your sudoku savvy to the test! Complete the grid so each row, column and 3-by-3 box (in bold borders) contains every digit 1 to 9. For strategies on how to solve Sudoku, visit www.sudoku.org.uk.
FRIDAY CROSSWORD PUZZLE
To solve Kakuro, you must enter a number between 1 and 9 in the empty squares. The clues are the numbers in the white circles that give the sum of the solution numbers: above the line are across clues and below the line are down clues and below the line are down clues. Thus, a clue of 3 will produce a solution of 2 and 1 and a 5 will produce 4 and 1, or 2 and 3, but of course, which squares they go in will depend on the solution of a clue in the other direction. No difit can be repeated in a solution, so a 4 can only produce 1 and 3, never 2 and 2. © 2013 The Mepham Group. Distributed by Tribune Content Agency. All rights reserved.
WORD SCRAMBLE
Rearrange the letters to spell a word Hint: calculated to confuse, entrap, or entangle in argument
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WORD SCRAMBLE
Rearrange the letters to spell a word Hint: one who is excessively fond of eating and drinking
Puzzle B CLUES ACROSS 1. Duck cartoon character 6. Town in Guinea 11. Upright posture 12. Rest on your knees 13. Move upward 15. Disposed to take risks 18. Makes a sweater 19. Grooved surface of a tire 20. Identical in kind 21. Radiotelegraphic signal
24. “Picnic” author William 25. Bashkir Republic capital 26. Male highlanders 30. Doing several things at once 32. Title of respect 33. Old world, new 35. “Sophie’s Choice” actress 43. Encloses completely 44. Decaliter 45. Makes angry
48. Commercial free network 49. Latvian capital 50. Tycho __, Danish astronomer 52. Leave slowly and hesitantly 53. Harm to property 55. Dining, pool and coffee 56. Remove all traces of 58. Yemen capital 59. Passover feast and ceremony 60. Trenches
21. Arrived extinct 22. Belonging to a thing 23. Tounge click 26. Fireman’s signal 27. Connecticut 28. 3rd tone of the scale 29. Language spoken in Russia 31. Split occupancy 34. Diacritics for s’s 36. Mobile camper 37. Affirmative (slang) 38. Bachelor of Laws 39. ___ Angeles 40. State police
41. U.S. gold coin worth 10 dollars 42. Bets on 45. Million barrels per day (abbr.) 46. Macaws 47. Julie Andrews and Judi Dench 49. Capital of Morocco 51. Oh, God! 52. ____ Carvey, comedian 54. Point midway between E and SE 55. Principle of Chinese philoshophy 57. Trauma center 58. Atomic #62
CLUES DOWN 1. Proper fractions 2. Ridgeline 3. Marshland area of E. England 4. Flood Control District 5. Canadian province (abbr.) 6. Project Runway designer judge’s initials 7. Along with 8. Orderly and clean 9. A short-barreled pocket pistol 10. Extraterrestrial being 13. Ancient capital of Ethiopia 14. Goof 16. Annoy constantly 17. Haitian monetary unit (abbr.)
OR ADNMUG
WORD SCRAMBLE Rearrange the letters to spell a word Hint: to make the subject of a satire : ridicule
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3-BDRM HOUSE, Echo Valley Rd, 4 appliances, large deck, $1,200/mon + utils. 780-351-2677
2-BDRM DUPLEX, Hillcrest, wood stove, avail immed, $950/mon + utils. 668-5558 3-BDRM DUPLEX, Granger, bright, spacious, views, lg yard, avail March 1, $1,600/mon incl heat. long-term only. 334-8001
2-BDRM, 1-BATH, full bsmt, small log house on 7.5 acres, 20 mins from downtown Whitehorse, avail April 1, $1,600/mon. Contact: paradisem@northwestel.net
2-BDRM APT, ground floor, downtown, $1,150/mon incl. heat & laundry. 334-6809
3-BDRM GROUND level suite, Crestview, laundry, wood laminate flooring throughout, N/S, no parties, refs reqĘźd, $1,275/mon + utils. 667-4858
SHOP/OFFICE/STUDIO Multi-Use Building with space available to rent Very Competitive rates Various sizes, short & long term Washroom on site Friendly environment whserentals@hotmail.com Phone 667-6805
TITANIUM WAY commercial space for rent/sale. 1,000 feet includes office, boardroom, open work area, kitchen, washroom. Separate storage area. Wired for phone/data, has security system. $1,800/month + electricity. Phone 335-1932.
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2-BDRM LOWER level suite, Copper Ridge, laundry, N/S, no parties, refs reqĘźd, $1,200/mo + utils. 667-4858 1 BEDROOMS + furnishing supplies, TV, kitchen, living room, avail immed, $750/mon. 667-6060
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Providing leadership through our strengths in programming, services and research, Yukon Collegeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s main campus in Whitehorse and 12 community campuses cover the territory. A small college, YC provides a stimulating and collegial environment. We work with Yukon communities, Yukon First Nations, local governments, business and industry, to promote a community of learners within a vibrant organization. Come join us as we continue to enhance the Yukonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s capacity through education and training.
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Job Summary: Reporting to the Executive Director, this position is responsible for the overall management of CYFNâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s obligations under the Umbrella Final Agreement (UFA) and for implementing and managing mandates, agreements, accords, programs, policies and initiatives with a lands, natural resource and environmental focus. The position is responsible for developing, planning, organizing and coordinating negotiation activities. The position is responsible for managing and supervising contractors, consultants, and department employees to ensure established goals, objectives and work plans are met. The position provides direction and recommendations to working groups and other committees and manages the provision of departmental support services. Additional Information: Only those candidates who are selected for an interview will be contacted. For further information and job description, please contact Renie Bruton at 867393-9206 or email at renie.bruton@cyfn.net. Please submit applications and/or resumes to: Name: Renie Bruton Address: Council of Yukon First Nations, 2166 2nd Avenue, Whitehorse, Yukon, Y1A 4P1 Phone: (867)393-9206 Fax: (867)668-6577 E-mail: renie.bruton@cyfn.net
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Centre for Northern Innovation in Mining (CNIM) and Northern Adult Basic Education Initiative (NABE) Ayamdigut (Whitehorse) Campus Permanent Position (75.0 hours bi-weekly) Starting: April 20, 2015 Salary: $68,481 to $85,601 per annum Competition No: 15.26 Initial Review Date: March 9, 2015 About Us: CNIMâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s comprehensive skills and trades training offers students access to training opportunities that are nationally recognized and uniquely customized for the North. In addition to training, the Centre facilitates access to applied research specific to the northern mineral and mining industry. NABE offers students innovative pathways for skills development. Purpose: Reporting to the Executive Director, CNIM, this position is responsible for the review, costing, tracking and monitoring of third party projects (O&M and capital) as they evolve from concept through to project completion. Responsibilities: â&#x20AC;˘ Reviewing and coordinating related financial reporting to third party funders for both CNIM and Northern Adult Basic Education programs. â&#x20AC;˘ Preparing annual budgets (O&M and capital), variance reporting and forecasting. â&#x20AC;˘ Other related duties as required Qualifications: We are looking for an individual who has completed a diploma/ degree in accounting or has completed their third year towards an accounting designation (CMA, CA or CGA), or a Bachelor of Business Administration/Commerce. Extensive work experience preparing, and overseeing budgets, forecasting and preparing financial reports and the analysis of financial results is required. An equivalent combination of education and experience may also be considered. The ideal candidate will have excellent customer service, communication skills as well as strong technical knowledge.
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This position is excluded from the Bargaining Unit. Yukon College offers a comprehensive benefit package including annual travel assistance.
Consideration will be given to those with an appropriate combination of education and experience.
Go to: http://yukoncollege.yk.ca/about/employment for more information on all job competitions. Quoting the competition number, please submit your resume and cover letter to: Yukon College, Human Resources Services, Box 2799, 500 College Drive, Whitehorse, Yukon, Y1A 5K4 Fax: 867-668-8896 Email: hr@yukoncollege.yk.ca
Go to: http://yukoncollege.yk.ca/about/employment for more information on all job competitions. Quoting the competition number, please submit your resume and cover letter to: Yukon College, Human Resources Services, Box 2799, 500 College Drive, Whitehorse, Yukon, Y1A 5K4 Fax: 867-668-8896 Email: hr@yukoncollege.yk.ca
ROOMMATE WANTED to share scenic, quiet waterfront home at Marsh Lake, N/S, animals welcome, $500/mon. 660-4321 CABIN AT Marsh Lake, avail Mar. 1, fully furnished, no running water, pets welcome, sleeps 2, utils incl, $500/mon. 660-5020 MOBILE HOME, Ibex Valley, 25km from Whitehorse, water, oil heat, electricity incl, pets welcome, avail Mar 1, $1,695/mon. 668-2215 after 7pm COMFORTABLE HOME in Copper Ridge on 2 bus routes. Large fenced private back yard. New propane furnace. Large deck, 2-car garage. Available April 1st, furnished. Long-term lease available. N/P. 633-4278 LARGE OFFICE space in the Marwell Industrial Area downtown. Approx 754 sq ft. Will build to suit. $1,700/mon + triple net. 633-6585 2-BDRM HOUSE w/den downtown. Available Immediately. 5 appliances, fully fenced. N/S. Pets negotiable. Refs reqĘźd. $1,500/mon + utils. !st, last + damage. Call/txt 333-9900 2 ROOMS in Porter Creek, $625 & $575/mon, all inclusive, responsible tenants. 335-8915 FURNISHED BACHELOR apt, above ground w/small patio on bus route, 15 mins from downtown. Available May 1, N/S, N/P, $1,000/mon all inclusive. 322-3116
Wanted to Rent HOUSESITTER AVAILABLE Mature, responsible person Call Suat at 668-6871 SMALL CABIN for mature woman with female, spayed, well-trained German Shepherd dog, needed by the end of February, not fussy. I'm a smoker. Call 689-0420. HOUSE-SITTER CURRENTLY house-sitting, will be available April 1, have criminal record check & references. 1-902-439-1036 or email Kandas448@gmail.com PROFESSIONAL HOUSESITTER, female, available now until Sept 2015, very reliable, trustworthy person, good references, Yukon, Hawaii, California, Montreal, Spain, etc. 336-2848 or email valerie.mototrek@hotmail.com
Real Estate 3-BDRM 2-BATH home, fully furnished, well maintained, landscaped, paved driveway, Propertyguys ID 703425. Call 334-5876 for info/viewing 2012 3-BDRM, 2 full bath trailer located below old McKenzie trailer park, can rent Ęťtil sold, avail April 1, $258,000. 336-2205 10 ACRES in Atlin, 2-bdrm log house, 1,900 sq ft unfinished shop, various outbuildings with/without business & machinery. 250-651-7773 BEAUTIFUL 309 acres, 6-bdrm 4,5 bath ranch, 1.6km Skeena River frontage, just minutes from Hazelton, BC, $730,000, motivated to sell. 250-842-5400, www.trakehnerhof.ca ALASKA HIGHWAY property, beautiful place all year round, huge commercial potential on 5 acres, to visit/info call 867-862-7047 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
Help Wanted LOOKING FOR a generous volunteer driving instructor. Gas and vehicle provided. Please call 867-335-3289 TAKHINI TRANSPORT is seeking a Truck Bus Journeyman Mechanic Apply in person to: Takhini Transport #9 Lindeman Rd, Whitehorse, YT 867-456-2745 MACHINIST (NOC7231) Brent's Hydraulics $20.00/hr 3yrs experience needed Permanent Contact: 867-456-2071 Email: dbrentschultz@hotmail.com
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 2015 Help Wanted SKKY HOTEL IS HIRING Hotel Cleaner/Janitorial immediately. Starting wage is $14.13/hr 40 hrs a week. Submit resume to Front Desk or email decristofarop@rogers.com
GREENLEE HYDRAULIC power pump model #960, 115 volts, & 2 small jacks with extension rods, works great, $800 obo. 633-3392
A C E R N O T E B O O K computer, $50. 335-4237
Musical Instruments Computers & Accessories IPOD TOUCH 3rd gen 32Gb, includes protective skin and earphones, $100. 668-4613
PIANO TUNING & REPAIR by certified piano technician Call Barry Kitchen @ 633-5191 email:bfkitchen@hotmail.com
Miscellaneous for Sale WINDOOR RECYCLER We buy & sell: • Brand new/used double/triple pane vinyl/wood windows. •Brand new steel/vinyl exterior doors with frames. Now selling: •Brand new unfinished oak kitchen cabinets. 333-0717 We will pay CASH for anything of value Tools, electronics, gold & jewelry, cameras, furniture, antiques, artwork, chainsaws, camping & outdoor gear, hunting & fishing supplies, rifles & ammo. G&R New & Used 1612-D Centennial St. 393-2274 BUY • SELL
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For Sale NATIVE BRAIN-TANNED HIDES and Tanned Beaver Pelts at reasonable prices Phone (780)335-3557 If no one is available please leave msg or call (780)461-9677 LADIES WEDDING ring, size 7, gold, fused engagement ring, diamond, size 7, $300 obo. 633-2837 9ʼ SHUFFLEBOARD, complete, $200 obo. 668-3968 ELECTRIC 668-3968
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3 ELECTRIC coil top stoves, 1 Frigidaire, 1 GE, new, 1 Westinghouse, 1 Roper electric drive, 1 dishwasher. 668-5559 DALL SHEEP cape, have permit, offers. 334-7387 ARCTERYX BETA AR menʼs pant, Gore-Tex Pro, sz large/regular, never worn, still tagged, $350. 456-7758 after 5pm 2 LYNX skins, $200 ea, bear rug, $800. 336-2333 CLARE OIL burner furnace, practically new, c/w plenum & ducting, $500. Call 633-6585 for info SIERRA D womenʼs lycra jacket, sz M, $60; MEC hiking pants, wms sz 8 & 10, $30 pr. 311B Hanson St, pms. MOVING/PACKING SUPPLIES, lightly used, from N/S home, incl over 60 flattened boxes, 3/4/5 cu ft, misc. sizes, wardrobe/dish pack boxes, lots of packing paper, $300. 336-3397 LOW LYING fog machine, timer & 1 gal fog solution, perfect for parties or Halloween, new in original box, $50. 667-4409 MOUNTAIN EQUIP waterproof/breathable jacket, underarm zips, wms sz S, $150; MEC lined jacket, wms sz L, $60. 311B Hanson St, pms ANTIQUE ORIGINAL reference manual for a Chevrolet six, printed in 1929, collectors item, $40 obo. 633-3392 FRESH WATER tank, clean, 224 gallon, was $1,000, asking $600. 633-2236 MUSKOX RUG w/head, horns & hooves, exc cond, Permit #5798, $3,000. 336-4135 DXG CAMCORDER, $50, 5 Esso gas cards, call for details. 335-4237 100 DVDS, $50 takes all. 334-5199 CANNING JARS, $4 per dozen, all sizes. 667-2601 YAMAHA SNOWMOBILE, SXV Viper 700, $3,000 obo. 335-4237 WINE RACKS - one holds 30 bottles. New $45, asking $20. Second rack constructed of American Redwood, size 32” W, 48”H. Holds approx. 132 bottles. New $175, asking $75. 668-3594
Electrical Appliances HOT POINT stove, working order, must pick up on Feb. 27, $75. 668-2807 FILTER QUEEN vacuum, c/w power head & all attachments, runs good, $100 obo. 334-5199
Nakwaye Ku Child Care at Yukon College
Early Childhood Educator PERMANENT FULL-TIME POSITION Closing date: Wednesday, March 4, 2015. NAKWAYE KU CHILD CARE Box 2799,Whitehorse, YT Y1A 5K4 E-mail: nakwayeku@yukoncollege.yk.ca | Fax: 668-8890 (Attn: Daycare)
is seeking the following: t BAR MANAGER (Towne Club) t Part-Time MAINTENANCE PERSON t Weekday DOOR PERSONNEL (Lizards) PLEASE APPLY TO KAYLE WITH RÉSUMÉ AND REFERENCES At 401 Main Street kayle@townmountain.com
PIONEER FEATHER-LITE parka, menʼs sz med, like new, $150, snowmobile suit, unisex down insulated, $75. 633-3053 OVER 1,000 vinyl records, 70s, 80s & 90s, rock, country, pop, $1,000 obo. 334-4568
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CARCROSS TAGISH E MPLOYMENT FIRST NATION O PPORTUNITY Building Maintenance Supervisor CLOSING DATE: March 5 2015 Infrastructure STATUS: Full Time Permanent SALARY: CTFN Wage Scale Levels 5 - 9 JOB SUMMARY As a member of our Infrastructure team, the successful candidate will be working under the supervision of the Senior Manager of Infrastructure and is responsible for ensuring the improvement and maintenance of all GC/ TFN owned and operated government facilities, Elders maintenance program and for integrating the four elements of the Values and Virtues of Life (mental, emotional, spiritual and physical) into the work. The supervisor will ensure that, where possible, projects delivered reflect life’s four stages - child, youth, adult and Elder. The successful candidate must be willing to change with the ongoing evolution of CTFN circle governance. Job Descriptions are available, please contact Tanya James at (867) 821-4251 Ext 8216 or E-mail tanya.james@ ctfn.ca
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CLOSING DATE: March 6 th, 2015 Department: Health and Wellness STATUS: Full Time-Term 2 Years with the possibility of extension SALARY: Levels 12-14, commensurate with education and experience JOB SUMMARY As a member of our Health & Wellness team, the successful candidate is responsible, under the direct supervision of the Director of Health & Wellness, to provide direct clinical counselling services involving consultation, assessments and treatment using individual, family and group modalities, often with survivors/victims of physical, sexual and other types of abuse. Assessing urgency and risk of harm to self and/ or others involved with the client and developing a holistic treatment or management plan. The candidate will use the Values and Virtues of Life(mental, emotional, spiritual, and physical) as the basis of their duties. Job Description are available, please contact Tanya James at (867) 821-4251 ext 8269 or E-mail tanya.james@ctfn.ca
Are you looking for an exciting and rewarding career with one of the top Aboriginal employers in the North? If you are driven by results and love to contribute to organizational success, The Tlicho Investment Corporation (TIC) would like to hear from you! TIC is an established company that has a solid reputation of creating and purchasing competitive businesses aimed at contributing to the northern economy, our Tlicho citizens, and our Tlicho communities. The range of business that we operate in includes mining, remediation, transportation, construction, real estate, hospitality, retail, business services, and power generation. TIC is rapidly growing, and we are looking for some dedicated and talented professionals to join the TIC family, and grow with us. We are currently recruiting candidates for the following positions in our Finance team.
Project Accountant (Reference #02.01.15) The Project Accountant is responsible for providing financial and cost control support to TIC and its subsidiaries on a variety of established and new projects; to ensure that every project transaction is properly supported and accurately accounted for. The incumbent is responsible for establishing project controls, reporting on the progress of projects, assisting in the planning process, investigating variances, and ensuring that billings are issued to customers and payments are collected on a timely basis. Requirements: s Bachelor’s degree in finance/accounting, or related field. s Enrolment in or completion of an Accounting designation (CPA, CGA, CMA, and CA). s 3-5 years of progressive experience in accounting/cost accounting. s Equivalent work experience/education considered. Financial Planning and Analysis Accountant (Reference #02.02.15) The Financial Planning and Analysis Accountant is responsible for providing a range of strategic financial planning and analysis to support TIC’s operational growth objectives. The incumbent provides recommendations on current financial processes to ensure increased efficiency and profitability, financial planning, forecasting, cash flow, and provides services to maintain accurate and up-to-date finances. Requirements: s Bachelor’s degree in finance/accounting, or related field. s Enrolment in or completion of an Accounting designation (CPA, CGA, CMA, and CA). s 3-5 years of progressive experience in accounting/finance. s Equivalent work experience/education considered.
Contracts Administrator (Reference #02.03.15) The Contracts Administrator is responsible for maintaining an accurate database, preparing, examining, analyzing, and revising contracts held by TIC and its subsidiaries throughout a range of industries in which TIC operates; while participating in the contract negotiation process and providing recommendations to the Senior Management. The incumbent will prepare contract summary analysis reports, and work closely with Senior Management to ensure that contract deliverables are met and contract performance is successful. Requirements: s Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Commerce, Law, Finance/Accounting, or related field. s Enrolment in or completion of an Accounting designation (CPA, CGA, CMA, and CA). s 3-5 years of experience with a solid background in contract administration and negotiation in a project management environment. s Equivalent work experience/education considered.
Purchasing and Procurement Officer (Reference #02.04.15) The Purchasing and Procurement Officer is responsible for compliance with company policies and procedures, the timely procurement of goods and services for TIC and its subsidiaries, and ensuring cost effectiveness commensurate with quality. The incumbent will process purchasing transactions for equipment, materials, supplies, capital assets, and services; maintaining a high level of communication and liaison with the external supply community and internal business units. Requirements: s Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Law, Finance/Accounting, Economics, Operations Management or related field. s 3-5 years of experience in procurement including supply-chain knowledge and experience. s Member of the Purchasing Management Association of Canada is considered an asset. s Equivalent work experience/education considered. TIC offers a competitive remuneration package including comprehensive benefits. If you have these qualifications, and are looking to work with a motivated and talented team, please forward your resume and salary expectations no later than February 28, 2015 by 5:00 pm to Sarah Hunt, Human Resources Manager at shunt@tlichoic.com or fax to 867-920-7328, indicating the Job Title/Reference Number of the position to which you are applying for, in the subject line. Please note that only qualified candidates are being considered and 3rd party submissions will be treated as if supplied by the candidate.
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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 2015 PEAVY STUDIO Pro 40 watt electric guitar amp, good sound, plenty loud, $165 obo. 333-9084
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Chief Executive OfďŹ cer (CEO) SELKIRK DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION Location: Whitehorse, Y.T. Status: Full-time, Permanent Wage: Dependent on experience Closing Date: Until position ďŹ lled The Selkirk Development Corporation (SDC) is a progressive organization, owned by the citizens of Selkirk First Nation. With interests in mining, real estate, and tourism, we are a growing dynamic organization, if you are seeking a challenging, rewarding position in a team environment, we have the opportunity for you. Job Summary: Reporting to the Board of Directors of the Selkirk Group of Companies, the Chief Executive OfďŹ cer (CEO) is responsible for the achievement of corporate goals and objectives within the established authority delegated by the Board. The CEO will direct the daily operational activities of the companyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s corporate ofďŹ ce and business units. The CEO will provide ďŹ nancial leadership by identifying and evaluating investment opportunities, managing budgets and monitoring long-term strategic ďŹ scal plans, including the achievement of revenue and proďŹ tability goals.
For additional information, please contact the OfďŹ ce Manager at (867) 393-2181. Submit resume with cover letter to: Selkirk Development Corporation Suite 201-166 Titanium Way Whitehorse, Y.T. Y1A 0G1 Fax: (867) 393-2182 Or email: broberts@selkirkdevcorp.com
THE JOB: Reporting to the Director of Health, Social, this position is responsible for providing personal and family counseling, and delivering the National Native Alcohol & Drug Addiction Program (NNADAP). This position is responsible for supervising Family Support Worker and the Justice Coordinator/ Native Court Worker. This position also coordinates all Therapists coming into the community through the use of Client Case Conferencing. THE CANDIDATE: The ideal candidate will hold a degree or diploma in social work, psychology, psychotherapy, or a related ďŹ eld, or the equivalent in training and experience. The candidate must have at least 2 years direct and successful counseling experience; knowledge of social issues affecting First Nation peoples both locally and nationally; knowledge; of public and private agencies associated with alcohol and drug abuse programs; knowledge of a variety of treatment programs and therapeutic approaches. The ability to resolve conďŹ&#x201A;icts and to problem solve; ability to analyze community and client needs and develop policies and procedures to meet those needs; and ability to organize and facilitate workshops and presentations. The ability to communicate effectively and diplomatically, both verbally and in writing, with clients, co-workers, community members, and with outside agencies, partners and business associates is essential. Experience working with a First Nations community is an asset. Successful candidate will require a mandatory criminal record check and maintain a substance-free lifestyle. PAY RANGE: $45.44/hour to start, plus an excellent beneďŹ ts package. This is a fulltime term position based on 65 bi-weekly (6.5 hour workdays â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. & 1:00 to 4:30 p.m. A minimum one-year commitment is required. A DETAILED JOB DESCRIPTION IS AVAILABLE AT: www.vgfn.ca/employment CLOSING DATE: March 10, 2015 @ 4:00 p.m. We thank all applicants but only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. Please submit resume that includes job experience related to position to: Brenda Frost, Manager, Human Resources Vuntut Gwitchin Government, Box 94, Old Crow, Y.T. Y0B 1N0 0HONE EXT s &AX s %MAIL HRD VGFN NET
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LEARN HOW TO MAKE MUSIC! 6 week course - "Makin Music" At Green Needle Records recording studio. Starts in April 2015 More info at http://greenneedlerecords.com Or call 867 335 0396
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CORT G 290 electric guitar, Strat styled body, 5 position switch, soft case & strap, check Internet for details, nice quality guitar, $365. obo. 333-9084 SPECIAL EDITION custom built acoustic Larrivee guitar, only 50 in world, #24 out of 50, all authentic paperwork included, $3,000. 332-1360
We thank those who apply and advise that only those selected for an interview will be contacted. Preferential hire for qualiďŹ ed Selkirk First Nation citizens is in effect.
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GIBSON SG Robot self-tuning electric guitar, purple, mint cond, $3,999 new, asking $1,500 obo, c/w hard shell case. 333-9084
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OFFICE MANAGER The Wilderness Tourism Association of the Yukon (WTAY) is seeking a energetic, capable and responsible person to join our team in developing and strengthening the exciting and growing industry of wilderness tourism. Our Association is made up of adventure travel operators and other businesses, organizations and individuals involved in wilderness tourism. A volunteer Board of Directors oversees its operations. The OfďŹ ce Manager is responsible for running the day-to-day affairs of the Association. The successful candidate must be familiar with ofďŹ ce procedures, the components of MS OfďŹ ce, can liaison well with various government departments and stakeholders, has basic bookkeeping skills and strong communication and organizational skills. DUTIES AND SPECIFICATIONS: s 2ECEPTION n GREETING PUBLIC IN PERSON ON TELEPHONE AND BY EMAIL RELAYING MESSAGES AND PROVIDING requested information s 2ECEIVE AND PROCESS ALL WRITTEN CORRESPONDENCE AND REPLY IF NECESSARY OR FORWARD TO APPROPRIATE BOARD member to respond s 2ESPOND TO MEMBER "OARD VOLUNTEER AND PUBLIC REQUESTS s -ANAGE AND MAINTAIN lLING SYSTEM n ENSURE lLING IS DONE CORRECTLY KEPT UP TO DATE AND ELECTRONIC lLES are backed up regularly s 2EVIEW DEVELOP AND UPDATE ADMINISTRATIVE POLICIES AS REQUIRED s -ANAGE ORGANIZATION MEMBERSHIP FUNCTION PROCESS APPLICATIONS AND RENEWALS TRACK MEMBERSHIP status, send out information as required s 0ROVIDE DIRECT SUPPORT TO THE "OARD OF $IRECTORS s $EVELOP BOARD MEETING AGENDA IN CONSULTATION WITH THE 0RESIDENT OR OTHER DESIGNATED OFlCER OF the Board s -ANAGE ORGANIZATION MEMBERSHIP FUNCTION PROCESS APPLICATIONS AND RENEWALS TRACK MEMBERSHIP status, send out information as required s 2EPRESENT 74!9 ON SELECT INDUSTRY COMMITTEES AND OR BOARDS AS REQUIRED s ,IAISE WITH INDUSTRY ASSOCIATES AND FUNDERS EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATIONS & EXPERIENCE: s 0OST SECONDARY EDUCATION OR DIPLOMA IN OFlCE ADMINISTRATION OR EQUIVALENT COMBINATION OF EDUCATION and experience s ! MINIMUM OF YEARS EXPERIENCE IN ADMINISTRATION OR MANAGING AN OFlCE PREFERABLY IN THE NOT FOR proďŹ t industry s %XPERIENCE IN GENERAL OFlCE WORK s "ASIC BOOKKEEPING SKILLS s 3UPERIOR ADMINISTRATIVE AND ORGANIZATIONAL SKILLS s !BILITY TO MULTI TASK AND PRIORITIZE s 3TRONG WRITTEN AND VERBAL COMMUNICATION SKILLS s 3ELF MOTIVATED s !BILITY TO WORK AS A TEAM MEMBER WITH VOLUNTEERS CONTRACTORS "OARD AND COMMITTEES s %XCELLENT INTERPERSONAL SKILLS s !BILITY TO WORK INDEPENDENTLY AND AUTONOMOUSLY WITH LITTLE SUPERVISION s 0ROlCIENCY IN THE USE OF -3 /FlCE n /UTLOOK %XCEL 7ORD 0OWER0OINT s &LUENCY IN %NGLISH WITH COMPETENCY IN &RENCH OR 'ERMAN CONSIDERED AN ASSET If you have the required skills and would like to work for a dynamic organization, please send your rĂŠsumĂŠ TO 7ILDERNESS 4OURISM !SSOCIATION OF THE 9UKON s &AX s %MAIL JOBS WTAY COM (OURS OF WORK HOURS WEEK The successful candidate must be able to accommodate ďŹ&#x201A;ex hours. 3ALARY TO PER ANNUM 0ERMANENT 0OSITION !PPLICATION $EADLINE -ONDAY -ARCH TH PM &OR FULL JOB DESCRIPTION VISIT WWW WTAY COM OFlCE MANAGER
DRY SPRUCE FIREWOOD Cut to length 16â&#x20AC;? and up From Haines Junction Local delivery $250 per cord 456-2035 DUKE'S FIREWOOD Round Firewood Multiples of 2 cords, $250/cord Round 6 cord load, $230/cord Cash sales only 334-8122 FRANKĘźS FIREWOOD Standing dead spruce cordwood â&#x20AC;˘$230/cord for stove length delivered in town â&#x20AC;˘$90/cord u-cut on the landing â&#x20AC;˘1/2 cord orders welcomed â&#x20AC;˘Special rates for cordwood resellers Phone 334-8960 ANDYĘźS FIREWOOD SERVICE Quality standing dry Haines Junction Full measured cords, stacked $240/cord Discount for large orders 335-0932, leave message DONĘźS FIREWOOD â&#x20AC;˘Daily deliveries â&#x20AC;˘Junction beetle-kill Spruce â&#x20AC;˘Kwanlin Dun & Social Services accepted â&#x20AC;˘$245/cord until seasonĘźs end Phone 393-4397 DONĘźS FIREWOOD SERVICE â&#x20AC;˘Single cord specialist â&#x20AC;˘Wood stockpiled in Whitehorse for quick daily deliveries â&#x20AC;˘Social Services accepted 393-4397 DJG CONTRACTING Delivering single/multiple cord orders cut to length 20 cords in tree length Pick up in Whitehorse or Haines Junction Call or text David at 332-8327 EVF FUELWOOD ENT Year Round Delivery â&#x20AC;˘ Dry accurate cords â&#x20AC;˘ Clean shavings available â&#x20AC;˘ VISA/M.C. accepted Member of Yukon Wood Producers Association Costs will rise. ORDER NOW 456-7432
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Guns & Bows WINCHESTER 94 Top Eject 30/30, vg cond, must have valid PAL, $450. 334-8604 REMINGTON 700 stainless 375 H&H, open sights + 1.5-4.5 scope, synthetic stock, exc cond, must have valid PAL, $850. 334-8604 REMINGTON MODEL 700 in 7mm mag c/w vortex 4x12 scope, lots of ammo, $700. Doug @ 867-689-6169 REMINGTON MODEL 750 semi-auto 30 06 c/w Leupold 4x scope, lots of ammo, $600. Doug @ 867-689-6169 CIL MODEL 9500 bolt action 270 clipped c/w Bushnell DOA 600 3x9x40, exc cond, lots of ammo, $600. Doug @ 867-689-6169 9.3X57 BOLT action Mauser, open sights, c/w bullets, brass & dies, $400. Doug @ 867-689-6169 7.62X54 RUSSIAN carbine open sights, lots of hard/soft point factory ammo included, $450. Doug @867-689-6169
WANTED: LEE Enfield No4MK1 Longbranch rifles also any sniper versions or any info leading to a sniper for sale. Am Ranger collector of Enfields, reply to thirtypound@hotmail.com
WINCHESTER MODEL 70xtr, 300 Win Mag, with Burris 3X9 scope, vg cond, incl box of ammo, PAL reqʼd, $650. 456-4395
Cars
LICENSED TO BUY, SELL & CONSIGN rifles & ammo at G&R New & Used 1612-D Centennial St. 393-2274 BUY • SELL
2000 SUBARU Impreza Sport AWD, 265,000 kms, 5-spd, 35 mpg, new front cv axles, struts & mounts, rear wheel bearings, 4 Nokian AW tires, $1,750. 393-2509, clarinch@bellaliant.net/mailto:clarinch@bellaliant.net msgs
MOSSBERG 12-GAUGE pump, c/w 2 barrels, never been fired, lots of ammo available, $400. Doug @ 867-689-6169 MOSSBERG CAMO AR 22 LR, 2 clips, works great, $200. 333-0564
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SMITH & Wesson Model 629 .44 mag, 6” barrel, stainless steel, Hoge grip, holster, $700. 333-0564 MOSSBERG 500 12-gauge, side folding stock, pistol grip forestock & sling, $250. 333-0564 CANADIAN FIREARMS Safety Course Non-restricted PAL. Whitehorse Rifle & Pistol Club March 21 & 22, 2015. Cost $120.00. Contact 633-2488 for information or to register ANNUAL GENERAL Meeting, Whitehorse Rifle & Pistol Club, Sunday March 15, 2015. Doors open at noon, meeting starts at 2pm.
WANTED: LOCAL frozen black currant berries. 668-6871 WANTED: VOLUNTEER to teach beginner English to an adult. 393-2275 WANTED: HOOD and left headlight for 1999 Toyota Corolla. 334-7387 WANTED: RIDE to Smithers, BC, in March. Can help with gas & driving. Retired long-haul truck driver, knows Hwy 37 well. Trapp @ 668-7651
SAVAGE MODEL ll .243 c/w Simmons 3x9 scope stock cut for smaller person, extra new full size stock, lots of ammo, $300. Doug @ 867-689-6169 CZ BRNO .458 Winchester magnum big game hunting rifle, vg shape with little use, $975 obo. PAL reqʼd. 333-9601 .376 STEYER synthetic stock with or without 4x Leupold scope, exc cond, lots of ammo & reloading equip, $600. Doug @ 867-689-6169 CONDOR OVER-UNDER 12-gauge c/w interchangeable 20Ga barrel, $600, top line Leupold scope Model VX3, 2.5 -8, $400, all exc cond, FAC reqʼd. 668-5268
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2009 DIESEL TDI Volkswagon Jetta Wagon, exc cond, 110,500 kms, leather seats, 1-yr old Noikan studded tires/rims, all weather tires/rims, moon roof, reduced to $17,500 obo. Shelagh at 393-2962 2013 HYUNDAI Genesis Coupe, 2.0T, fully loaded, 6-spd standard w/cargo tray, winter front mats, new winter tires/rims, oil pan heater, 13,000 kms, $26,500 obo. 334-9039
Request for Proposal
MEETING FACILITATOR
Yukon First Nations Enrollment Forum MARCH 24 AND 25 Required to facilitate 2 full days of meetings with 30-40 participants; knowledge of Yukon First Nation Self Government, preferably enrollment administration and challenges. The proposal should include a current resume; summary of related work or initiatives you have conducted or participated in; and expected wages. Yukon First Nation citizens will be given preference. Submit proposal no later than MARCH 9, 2015 AT 4:00PM to NATALIE LECLERC at natalie.leclerc@cyfn.net, Council of Yukon First Nations 2216-2nd Avenue, Whitehorse YT, Y1A 1C3 (867) 393-9242.
CANADIAN FIREARMS Safety Course Restricted PAL. Whitehorse Rifle & Pistol Club Sunday March 29, 2015, cost $120. Contact 633-6202 for information or to register.
EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES Manager, Highway and Airport Design and ConstrucƟon Department of Highways & Public Works Salary: $92,441 to $126,953 per annum
Closing Date: March 16, 2015 RequisiƟon: #7137
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Capital Director Permanent full-time
QUALIFICATIONS: University degree in the area of Commerce or Engineering, OR several years experience in this field, either paid or volunteer service, OR an equivalent combination of education, training, and work experience, and experience working with First Nations. Ability to plan, direct, set goals, objectives/priorities of office functioning; Ability to provide work plans; Ability to manage financial and material resources; Ability to provide yearly department budgets; Ability to organize and prioritise tasks and deadlines. Valid Yukon Drivers License, class 5, must provide driver’s abstract. DUTIES: Under the direction of the Executive Director, includes preparing budget for Capital Department s Insure budget reflect 5 year capital plan, s Prepare 5-year plan as needed, s Responsible for all staff working within Capital Department, s The incumbent would be responsible for monitoring and maintaining approved Capital budget, s Seek funding for capital projects from other government agencies, s Negotiate services with other governments that pertain to Capital Department, s Purchasing and or replacing vehicles and equipment, s Insure invoices and progress reports are issued as appropriate to meet requirements of a funding agency, s Arrange for architectural designs for capital projects, s Maintain appropriate insurance for LSCFN buildings and vehicles, s Complete personnel evaluations, s Attend directors meetings and work in unison with other directors, s Other duties as provided by Executive Director. LSCFN preferential hire will apply.
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If you are interested, please submit your expression of interest along with your resume by 4:30 P.M. Monday, March 2, 2015 to: Attention: Doris Caouette, Human Resource Officer Little Salmon Carmacks First Nation PO Box 135, Carmacks Y.T. Y0B 1C0 Phone: (867)863-5576 ext 280 Fax: (867)863-5710 Email: resume@lscfn.ca If you require a job description, please feel free to contact us.
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1984 FORD Escort, 325,000km, 4-dr, $500. 336-8044
SUBARU 2004 STI, 100,000kms, damaged body, everything mechanical in working order, $8,000 obo. 336-2333
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2009 VW Jetta diesel, great shape, mostly highway driven, just over 120K, 6-spd standard, excellent fuel economy. c/w winter tires, $12,000 obo. 336-4687
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2007 DODGE 2500 HD SLT, full crew cab, short box, 139,000kms, 5.7 Hemi, most options, immaculate, new Michelins, N/S vehicle, trailer pkg, $14,500. Don at 393-4397
DODGE HEAVY-DUTY headache rack for full-size truck w/8Ęź box, 64 3/4â&#x20AC;? wide, tapers to 63â&#x20AC;? at back, like new, black, $300 obo. 660-4516
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2007 GMC 1500 4X4, 5.3L engine, 240,000kms, long box, ext cab, classic body style, $6,000. 333-0564
2002 FORD Escape 4X4, 5-spd standard, 2L engine, runs & drives good, parts only, $500. 333-0564
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2003 GMC 7 passenger Safari van, 4X4, blue, 172,000km, $4,650 obo. 334-5491 for more info
4 TIRES & rims, Motomaster, 185/70 R14 875, 75% good, $180. 867-862-7047
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5 BRAND new Goodyear 245/75-17â&#x20AC;? 10ply mud/snow tires, $420 cost each, complete set of 5 for $1,350 obo, will not fit my truck. Call 332-1374
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BETTER BID NORTH AUCTION has been commissioned by YTG Dept of Motor Vehicles to sell by sealed bids 2002 Dodge Ram 1500 4x4, Bidding from Jan 30 to Feb 14. Contact Paul Heynen @ 333-0717. Bids close Saturday, February 14, 2015 at 6:00pm 2013 SILVERADO 1500 Cheyenne edition, ext cab, 4x4, box liner, lots of features, great shape, 19,500 kms, must be seen, $31,500. 334-9415
2001 TOYOTA 4-Runner SR5 4x4, summer/winter tires on rims, timing belt replaced, remote start, 334-8729 after 5:30pm, lv msg 2000 GMC 1/2 ton, ext cab, 3 doors, uses synthetic oil, exc compression, mechanically sound, well maintained, $5,500. 334-1374 1999 CHEVROLET Silverado, x-cab 4x4, V8 auto, c/w winch, headache rack & rails, storage bins, $5,950. 336-2029 1987 FORD Ranger XLT, c/w V6 auto, new tires & battery, $1,950. 334-4687
2012 DODGE Ram 1500, 83500km, full warranty to 100,000km, new tires, box liner, protection package, will consider part trade of older pickup, $30,000. 334-6709
1983 FORD F150, 2WD standard cab, runs well, $1,750 obo, better deal if you buy it with my sled. 332-6670
2009 CHEV Colorado 4X4, ext cab, auto, V6, P/W, P/D, cruise, radio/CD, $5,950. 336-2029
DODGE RAM 3500, crew cab, Cummins diesel, dually auto tran, mechanicĘźs deck c/w 1-ton crane, reduced to $15,000. 336-2029
2009 DODGE Grand Caravan, silver, exc cond, stow & go seating, high-end audio/video system, back-up camera, command start, new snow tires, clean windshield, 93,000 km, $12,000. 633-6720 2007 CHEV Avalanche, 11,200km, interior in mint condition, new brakes, tires, Nav entertainment center, brake box, only 1 driver, $14,000 obo. 335-2180 for more info
4 TIRES, Nokian, like new, 195/65/R15, 95 RXL, $180. 867-862-7047 TOYOTA ALLOY wheels, fits Tacoma or Tundra, 16X7, retail $490/ea, asking $125/ea or all for $400. 633-3053
4"-&4 t #0%: 4)01 t 1"354 t 4&37*$& 2007 Ford Focus, 4 DOOR, SES, GREEN......................................................... $6,995 2003 Pontiac Montana Ext, 2-TONE GREEN........................................... $5,595 2005 Ford F350 Crewcab, 4X4, DIESEL ................................................. $11,995 1997 Dodge Quad Cab SLT.............................................................................. $2,995 1994 Ford Explorer, NEW TIRES ....................................................................... $1,995 2011 Polaris Rush 800, MINT!! ....................................................................... $8,595 IN-HOUSE FINANCING AVAILABLE!
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WANTED: PICK of the litter male kitten, large size, med haired breed of parents, must be free, going to excellent country home. 667-2940 Has your fur buddy slowed down? Return 'spring' to your dogĘźs step. Older or injured dogs benefit from Glucosamine and MSM. Tasty pharmaceutical grade powder. Dosage based on weight. 332-7828
LOST/FOUND LOST t If you have lost a pet, remember to check with City Bylaw: 668-8382 or 667-2111. t McCrae, Black/Brindle, medium sized, spayed, female dog lost Saturday, Feb. 14. Wearing a red collar. Owner is Michelle Kemble: 633-4309. t Granger, neutered male, DMH, brown tabby with white patch under chin, no collar, answers to Moo, Contact Kim @ 336-1416
t Tagish, 1 year old, great Pyrenees, female, white with grey on the face, no collar, answers to Sadie, Contact Shelley @ 332-4558 ( 10/01/15)
FOUND t Porter Creek, female, collie X, no collar, black and white answers to Abby, Contact Pam @ 667-4787. t Azure, male, bear dogx, white and tan, wearing a brown and blue and white collar with no tags, Contact Jessica @ 587-343-2418 ( 16/01/15)
RUNNING AT LARGE... If you have lost a pet, remember to check with City Bylaw: 668-8382
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t 11 yr. old,DSH, male neutered, black (Mingus) t 1 yr. old, DLH, female, black, ( Luna)
AT THE SHELTER DOGS t 4 yr. old, neutered male, beagleX, brown and black and white ( Dexter) t 2 yr. old, female, labx , black and white, ( Prancer) t 6 year old. female, husky X, white and black, ( Shylo) t 6 months old, male, husky x, black and brown, ( Max) t 14 weeks old, female, shepherd x collie, black and white, ( Astrid)
t 14 weeks old, female, shepherd x collie, brindle grey, ( Rosie)
CATS t 8 yr. old, female spayed, DSH, black, ( Forest) t 2 yr. old, female, DMH,black and white, ( Mika) t 6 yr. old, DMH, female spayed, brown tabby, ( Judy ) t 5 yr. old, DSH, female, black, ( Juanita)
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SET OF 265/65/r18 Goodyear tires on alloy rims c/w air pressure indicator valves & balanced. 95% tread. Off a 2014 Chev True North 1500. Upgraded wheels, $600 obo. 336-1196
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4 MOTOMASTER all season tires, 205/55 R16, bought in fall 2013, used only for 2013-14 winter season, $1,000 new, asking $500 for all 4. 334-9295
Auto Parts & Accessories
TRUCK CANOPIES - in stock * new Dodge long/short box * new GM long/short box * new Ford long/short box
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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.
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Motorcycles & Snowmobiles
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 2015
2012 ARCTIC Cat 4-wheeler, limited edition, 550 engine, many options, only 13 hours, $6,500 obo. 332-1360 for details
RONĘźS SMALL ENGINE SERVICES Repairs to Snowmobiles, Chainsaws, Lawnmowers, ATVĘźs, Small industrial equipment. Light welding repairs available 867-332-2333 lv msg
2009 YAMAHA Venture MP 4-stroke, exc cond, rear seat, cargo box, block heater, extra-wide skis, spare carbide runners, scratchers, belts, mirrors, Yamaha cover, $5,500. Mike 333-6392
Recreational Powersports and Marine (RPM) Repairs Service, repair and installations for snowmobiles, ATVs, motorcycles, chainsaws, marine and more Qualified and experienced mechanic Great rates! Call Patrick at 335-4181
TAITĘźS CUSTOM TRAILER SALES 2-3-4- place snowmobile & ATV trailers Drive on Drive off 3500 lb axles by Trailtech - SWS & Featherlight CALL ANYTIME: 334-2194 www/taittrailers.com
1987 ARCTIC Cat Bearcat 550 wide track, $3,200. 334-4687 2005 SUZUKI Boulevard, blue, exc cond, easy to maintain, shaft drive, electronic fuel Injection, 800 cc, $4,200. 335-4486
2007 ARCTIC Cat 650 H1 4-wheeler w/snow blade, new tires, new battery, low kms, $5,500 obo. 689-9715
Jin Zao Xie 1932-2015 February 21 On Saturday February 21st 2015 surrounded by her son, and daughter in-law she passed away peacefully at the Whitehorse General Hospital. Jin came to Canada in 1996 from China. She was a housewife. She was always taking good care of her family, son daughter and grandchild. The family would like to thank the wonderful caring staff at the Whitehorse General Hospital. We have lost, but heaven has gained one of the worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s best. A wonderful joyful wife, mother, mother-in-law, Grandmother, and Friend.
A service will be held at the Whitehorse Funeral Home at 12:30- 2:00 p.m. on Saturday, February 28th 2015
DIESEL TANK, 5,000L, good cond, no leaks, $1,800. 867-862-7047
1997 POLARIS Indy trail sled, $1,500 obo, better deal if you buy it with my truck. 332-6670
1966 ALLIS Chalmers HD16 w/ripper, transmission recently replaced, needs steering clutches replaced, I already have new ones, $3,500. 333-0564
2008 YAMAHA Nytro. 144 x 1.75" track, 1049 cc 4-stroke, excellent shape, upgraded fox float shocks, Simmons wide skis, cover incl, 2,900 km, $4,700. 335-1932. 1998 YAMAHA Bravo long track, new windshield, seat cover, ignition components, c/w spare engine & primary clutch, great light duty trapper sled/kids machine, $2,150 obo. 334-4687
125 CC Grizzly ATV, well maintained, regular oil changes, cargo box, $2,400. 456-7758 after 5pm
1993 YAMAHA Exciter 2 snow machine, 570 cc, u-track, $950. 335-1993
1994 SKI-DOO Tundra LT, engine strong, runs well, starts easily, new windshield, gas tank, seat, no rev or e-start, delivery possible w/fee, $2,500 obo. 456-2060
2009 SKI-DOO Summit 800 xp 154" track, 1800 miles, runs great, ceramic coated can, blue C&A pro skies, carbon fibre wind screen, new blue side panels, matching cover, $5,250. 333-0484
2001 RMK 600, 3,000kms, runs good, $2,000. 336-3922
2007 DIESEL 700cc Arctic Cat Quad. 250 miles, too much to list. 668 7651
1989 POLARIS Indry Trail 488, c/w rear rack, ski skins, studded track, $1,950. 334-4687
POLARIS GRAPHITE snow machine slides, new, black, for all edge/gen II chassis models, 97-08, 7M/10M profile, fit RMK 2000 to 2010. Royal Distributing part # 04-184. $30/pair obo. 336-1196
KING CAT 900 1M, few cracks in plastic, low kms 1400, $3,000 obo, will also consider trades. 336-3922
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LATE '80'S Massey Ferguson industrial loader, 1 yd bucket, c/w 3 pt hitch, pto, ext hyds, good shape, 3,400 hrs $15,000 obo. 332-0343 1990 WESTERN Star s/a dump deck, c/w fold-down/removable tail gate and sides, needs some tires and minor work to pass PMVI, $8,500 obo. 332-0343 CAT 226B skid steer, 650 hrs, c/w with 14Ęź Trail Tech dump trailer, sold as pair only, $35,000. 633-6878 MODEL 1080 American excavator serial #H10810167, $6,500; IHC 3400 Series A tractor backhoe, $3,500; Allis Chalmers 7G track loader, serial #HD7G23442, $2,000. 250-651-7773 2012 BOBCAT S-205, fully loaded, hand/foot controls, exc cond, like new, 175 hrs, 2 buckets, will deliver in Yukon, $38,000 obo. 335-1106 ROOM, INSULATED, Atco, on skid, 8ĘźX8Ęź, $2,000. 867-862-7047
Campers & Trailers
2002 POLARIS RMK 800, c/w 144â&#x20AC;? track & 2â&#x20AC;? paddles, twin TP pipes, runs perfectly, lots of power, $2,300. 335-7912
3/4 TON utility trailer, white & blue, $750 obo. 334-4568
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1982 22Ęź Vanguard motorhome, sleeps 6, bathroom, 4-burner stove, oven, Ford chassis, 80% tires, great shape. 334-4210
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Heavy Equipment
2012 YAMAHA Grizzly 600cc, 2,000kms, new ITP mud tires, new exhaust, $6,000 obo. 336-2333
700 RMK Polaris, great condition, low miles, lots of extras, $3,300 obo. 250-651-7569
2013 BEARCAT snowmobile long track, low mileage, $6,200 obo. 633-4115 or 334-0254 (cell)
1981 14Ęź fibreglass boat, seats 4, newer seats, 35hp Evinrude, runs well, c/w good trailer, $900. 333-0564
PROFESSIONAL BOAT REPAIR Fiberglass Supplies Marine Accessories FAR NORTH FIBERGLASS 49D MacDonald Rd Whitehorse, Yukon 393-2467 BIG PROJECT boat w/4 axle trailer, over 70k invested, $10,000, more at whiskeypapamike. 907-980-2373. 1979 24Ęź Searay, twin 470 Mercruiser engines, runs well, only 1,300 hrs, boat hull in great shape, $4,500. 333-0564
2009 32Ęź Jayco J-Flite G-2 holiday trailer, model BHDS, c/w 2 slides, like new, barely used, sleeps 9+, 2â&#x20AC;? ball hitch & equalizer bars, winter pkg, $18,000. 633-5155 TAITĘźS TRAILERS www.taittrailers.com taits@northwestel.net Quality new and used Horse * Cargo * Equipment trailers For sale or rent Call Anytime 334-2194 Southern prices delivered to the Yukon
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It is with deep sadness that the Patrick and Boyd families announce the passing of their father, grandfather, brother, uncle and friend. Gabe was predeceased by his beloved partner Vimy Cooper and his daughter Carmen Gray. The families wish to express their thanks and gratitude to Dr. Davis, Dr. Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Hearn, Haley Henderson and the wonderful nurses on the Medical Ward at Whitehorse General Hospital for their compassionate care. Gabe was a gentle soul and will be greatly missed.
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x-rentals Check out: klondikerv.com (867) 456 2729 2014 BIG Tex 16ʼ car hauler/flat deck trailer, 3,500 lb tandem axles, c/w 2x12 side planks, small front storage box, extra spare tire, parts/lights incl. 6,000lb GVWR, $3,000 obo. 456-2060 2013 20' LoadTrail equipment trailer, only 1 trip up from Vancouver, $5,500. 336-1884 2006 ARGO Bigfoot 6x6, 18hp v twin, green, full roll cage, c/w new winch, great for hunting, $5,500. 336-1884 2008 H&H enclosed cargo trailer/car hauler, 22ʼX8.5ʼ, rear ramp, custom HD axles/springs, reinforced suspension, Line-X frame/front, wired for 110V, great cond, 9900lb GVWR, $10,000 obo. 456-2060 2012 TANDEM axle, beaver tail, flat deck, 18', 7000lb axles, very little use, good condition, $5,000 obo. 332-0343.
Coming Events 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 AL-ANON MEETINGS, 667-7142. Has your life been affected by someoneʼs drinking? Wednesday 12Noon @ Anglican Church, 4th & Elliott, back door, Friday 7pm Lutheran Church, 4th & Strickland, beginnerʼs meeting, Friday 8pm Lutheran Church regular meeting 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 DUNGEONS & Dragons: Role-play & craft a fantasy adventure! Feb 19, Mar 19, Apr 16 & May 14, 3:30 – 5 p.m, Whitehorse Public Library. Free, drop in. FIREWEED COMMUNITY Market AGM, everyone welcome, Library meeting room March 5th, 2015, 6pm-9pm. More Info: fireweedmarket@yahoo.ca ANY REGISTERED LPN who is interested in creating or learning more about the LPN Association, call Tara. 334-5189 COMICS: LEARN the art of storytelling & make your own comics! Feb 5, Mar 5, Apr 2 & May 7, 3:30 – 5 p.m. Whitehorse Public Library. Free, drop in. GALA GARAGE Sale April 11 at Whitehorse Elementary gym. Fundraiser for Little Footprints Big Steps work in Haiti. Donate/Help? 456-4434 SCOTTISH COUNTRY Dance classes, weekly, Tuesdays 7:15pm at Ecole Emilie-Tremblay gym. Come alone or bring some friends. All welcome. No experience necessary. Info: Patricia 668-4976 or scdwhitehorse@gmail.com
COFFEE HOUSE Saturday March 7, 2015. Featuring Barbara Chamberlin + the Open Stage. Help set up 6pm + open stage sign-up, 7:30PM show, $5, United Church Bsmt, 6th+Main, 633-4255 NORTH TO the Yukon Slowly, Jefferson Ground Sloth from Old Crow. Long Ago Yukon SKYPE lecture, Beringia Centre Saturday, Feb. 28, 1pm, Dr. Greg McDonald, Senior Curator, Natural History. Info 633-6579 F.H. COLLINS parent/teacher/student conference Thursday, Mar. 5, 5pm-7pm & Friday, Mar. 6, 10am-1pm. There will be no classes on Friday, Mar. 6 for students, but they may attend either conference without appointment. SNOWSHOE FEST, join LDAY and Sunlife Financial for Snowshoe Fest, Sunday, March 1st at NOLS behind the Takhini Hot Pools 10am-2pm. Loppets, games, lunch, silent auction. Details at www.ldayukon.com or 668-5167 DUNGEONS & Dragons, Hey teens, role-play & craft fantasy adventure with dungeon master Colin Prentice, Thurs Feb 19, Mar 19, Apr 16, May 14, 3:30– 5pm, Whitehorse Library. Info 667-5239 WHITEHORSE DUPLICATE Bridge Club is holding advanced bridge lessons starting Mar 14. Noreen at 633-5352 or email nmcgowan@klondiker.com for more info LEGAL EDUCATION Session on Arrest and Incarceration, lawyers to answer questions about your rights, March 3, Whitehorse Library, 6:30–8:30 pm. Call 667-2037 YUKON WHOLISTIC Health Network Annual General Meeting, 7:30pm, March 10, at the Whitehorse Public Library. Everyone welcome. 667-6030 for more info SATURDAY SALSA Dancing at the Wheelhouse, Latin music will play all night long, 9pm-12:30am, Saturday February 28 at The Wheelhouse Restaurant, 2237-2nd Avenue GRAND NEW Beginning, Yukon Artists @ Work is opening their new gallery at 4129 4th Avenue, a block off Main Street. Reception between 5pm-8pm, Friday February 27th CAMINO DE Santiago info evening, learn more about hiking the old pilgrimage route across Spain. Hidden Valley School, Thursday March 5, 6:30pm-8:30pm. Dianne @ 335-4512 for info
WHITEHORSE CROSS Country Ski Club, EDI Hut to Hut on February 28, from 11am-4pm. This is a social, family oriented event for skiers of all ages/ability, 3 huts to visit F.H. COLLINS School Council regular meeting at 6:30 pm on Wednesday, March 4th, 2015 in the Fine Dining Room at the school. Everyone welcome. JACK HULLAND School Council is holding it's Regular Council meeting on March 4, 2015 in the School Library at 7pm. Everyone is welcome FÉMINISME(S), MULTI-MEDIA group show exploring the different facets of feminism. Art opening: March 6th, 6 pm, Old Fire Hall. lesessentielles.ca FALUN GONG, an advanced practice of Buddha school self-cultivation. Meeting Mondays and Wednesdays at Wood Street School. No charge. Call for an introduction to the practice. 667-6336. THE MOUNT Lorne Local Advisory Council monthly meeting will be held Tuesday, March 3, 2015, at the Mount Lorne Community Centre, at 7pm. PORTER CREEK Community Association meeting Monday, March 2nd, 5:15 pm at the Guild Hall. More information 633-4829. All Welcome. Come show your support.
VIMY HERITAGE Housing Society AGM Wednesday, March 25, 2015, 7pm, Legion, 503 Steel St. Election of directors, annual reports BLACK HISTORY Month event, Saturday Feb 28th 2015 at MacBride Museum from 5 pm to 9 pm. Free Buffet Dinner. Contact Leonard or Roreigh YACA@YACA.YK.NET FREE SHOWING of Jesus Film. Watch authentic retelling of Jesusʼ life, death and resurrection based on the gospel of Luke, Saturday Feb. 28, Church of the Nazarene, 2111 Centennial St, 7pm. 633-4903 LES ESSENTIELLES presents a bilingual theatrical performance, Je parle francais and I Love in English 2015, March 6th & 7th, 7:30pm, Old Fire Hall
MAE BACHUR Animal Shelter Dog Wash Saturday February 28, 2015, 10am-2pm, The Feed Store/Pet Junction. Your pooch gets nice and clean, and you stay dry! See you there.
HABITAT-FOR-HUMANITY YUKON Annual General Meeting is Saturday, March 28th, from 1 pm to 3 pm at the Whitehorse library. All are welcome. Building Homes and Building Hope since 2004. Info: 456-4349
POETRY READING, PEI poet Richard Lemm and Whitehorse poet Patricia Robertson, March 2, 7pm Whitehorse Public Library, downstairs. Free event. www.facebook.com/kicksledreadings.
ACTIVE TRAILS Whitehorse Association monthly meeting, Tuesday, March 10, 7pm, Sport Yukon Boardroom #1. All welcome. www.activetwa.org for info
POETRY WORKSHOP with UPEI creative writing professor Richard Lemm, March 1, 3:30-5:30pm, Whitehorse Public Library, downstairs. Free event. Limited space. Register by calling 667-5239.
LIFE DRAWING Open Studio, 4th Friday of every month @ Arts Underground (lower level of Hougen Centre). $10/session. Call 667-4080 or visit artsunderground.ca for more details.
Strawberry Fields Forever
TALKING TO Strangers, by Christopher Lockheardt, collection of short plays portraying relationshipsʼ various angles presented by Moving Parts Theatre, Feb. 18-21 & Feb. 24-28, 8pm, Well-Read Books KLUANE MTN Bluegrass Festival, June 12-14, Haines Junction, tickets on sale at Dean's Strings in Whitehorse, Kluane Machine in HJ, and online at: yukonbluegrass.com Buy yours now, don't be disappointed CRESTVIEW CROSS-COUNTRY ski group meets Sundays, 12Noon, 222 Squanga Ave, to ski Pine Forest Loop, 2-3 hours, free. Franz @ 633-2455
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Gordon Charles Wagner (Gordie)
September 19,1972 -February 14, 2015 Gordon Charles Wagner of Grand Prairie, Alta. passed away suddenly on February 14, 2015. Gordie was born in Nanaimo, B.C. Where he was born to Gary and Carla Wagner. Gordie moved to Kamloops in 1979 where he hunted, fished, and attended school where he met many life long friends. At age 18, Gord moved to the Yukon to live out his dream as a hunting guide, where he spent many years making more life long friends. He later moved to Grand Prairie where he became a fully ticketed welder, with the help and encouragement from many people who where like family. Gordies’ greatest love was his daughter Kyra Babin-Wagner, who he lived everyday for. Gord is survived by his parents, Gary Wagner (Joan), Carla Wagner (Dave), his daughter Kyra Babin-Wagner, his sister Tammy Wagner (Chris), his nieces Richelle Wagner-Hopkins, Brooklynn Dunn, Autumn Ramage, and many aunts, uncles, cousins, and his faithful companion Shiner. Gord (the origional mountain man) had the kindest soul and the biggest heart and will be sadly missed. A celebration of life will be held at a later date. In lieu of flowers donations can be made to the heart and stroke foundation.
DAWSON CITY, Gospel Service, Tuesday March 17, Yukon College Open Learning Space, 7-8pm, sharing the story that brings meaning and purpose to life. Jenna LeFlar, Cheryl Lumley, 250-793-7248
FREE DIGITAL Skills for the Work World Program, Mar 9–20th. Learn computer/workplace skills for finding and keeping employment. Yukon Learn, 668-6280.
LPN MEETING, 7pm, March 11, 2nd floor boardroom, Whitehorse General Hospital. 334-5189 for info
WHITEHORSE CONCERTS presents local soloists and ensembles, plus Whitehorse Community Orchestra, Saturday, February 28 at The Yukon Arts Centre at 8pm. For more information contact steve@whitehorseconcerts.com
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Leonard Davidson June 13, 1951 February 8, 2015
Legacy continued by Paul, Jada Davidson and best friends. Join us in Celebrating Len’s Life on Sunday, March 8, 2015 at 42 Ketza at 2 PM and on wards Imagine...
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February, 29, 2004 (RTC) Life is about smiles, tears and memories. Smiles warm our hearts, tears dry, sometimes it only takes one good song on the radio to bring back many good memories. Love you always, mom (Kim), dad (Will), sister (Melissa) and son TJ (Terence)
JOHN MAURICE BONNEFOY In Loving Memory
John Maurice Bonnefoy, peacefully passed away Sunday, February 22, 2015 at his home outside of Whitehorse, Yukon he was seventy seven years of age. John Bonnefoy was born in St. Claude, Manitoba. He moved his family to many places across Canada and finally settled in the Yukon 38 years ago. John loved fishing, hunting and living off the grid. He will be sadly missed by family and friends. Public Viewing: Monday, March 22, 2015 Heritage Funeral Home 412 Cook Street between 4:00 and 6:00pm Funeral Services will be held at Christ Church Cathedral: 4201 4th Ave Whitehorse, Yukon at Tuesday March o3 2015 at 1:00pm. Funeral service to be officiated by Didier Kalambaie of Seattle, Washington. Refreshments to follow internment at Hellaby Hall/ Christ Church Cathedral 4201 4th Ave, Whitehorse, Yukon All are welcome.
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REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL
THE BENNET Sun CD release concert in Haines Junction Saturday March 7th at the St. Elias Convention Centre. $20/adults $10 seniors/students. Licensed event. TICKETS: yukon.acacia@gmail.com, at the door. 250-538-7623
MANAGEMENT, DESIGN, CREATIVE AND PRODUCTION SERVICES 2016-2018 YUKON VACATION PLANNER
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Project Description: Seeking a contractor with qualifications and experience in the management, design, creative and production of print guides or publications for the 2016 Yukon Vacation Planner. The successful contract will provide these services up to the delivery of a digital press ready publication, and will coordinate and manage the printing and delivery of the Planner. Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title. The closing date for submissions is March 25, 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 Frank Wilps at (867) 667-5390. This RFP does not include the cost of printing or delivery of the Planner, but the successful contractor will coordinate the printing, attend press checks, and coordinate delivery of the Planner to Whitehorse and one location in southern Canada. The highest ranked or lowest priced submission may not necessarily be accepted. All tenders and proposals are subject to a Compliance Review performed by the Procurement Support Centre. The information displayed is as of date and time of opening and is not modified based on the results of the Compliance Review. 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
HIGHWAY CONSTRUCTION KM 66.7 TO KM 73.0 CAMPBELL HIGHWAY #4 YUKON 2015-2016 Project Description: The project consists of approximately 40.4 ha grubbing, 173,000 cu.m. roadway excavation, 52,400 cu.m. select granular sub base, 18,000 cu.m. Granular “A”, culvert replacements and other related contract items. Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title. The closing date for submissions is March 19, 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 Dale Enzenauer at (867) 6337940. The highest ranked or lowest priced submission may not necessarily be accepted. All tenders and proposals are subject to a Compliance Review performed by the Procurement Support Centre. The information displayed is as of date and time of opening and is not modified based on the results of the Compliance Review. This tender is subject to Chapter Five of the Agreement on Internal Trade. The Yukon Business Incentive Policy will apply to this project. Bidders are advised to review documents to determine Certificate of Recognition (COR) requirements for this project. View or download documents at: www.gov.yk.ca/tenders/tms.html
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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 2015 OLD CATSKINNER Wants to work in 2015. Full-time, part-time, anytime. Anywhere in YT. 867-689-1998 or dougsack@outlook.com "Retirement sucks."
Services LOG CABINS: Professional Scribe Fit log buildings at affordable rates. Contact: PF Watson, Box 40187, Whitehorse, YT, Y1A 6M9 668-3632 HANDY GAL AVAILABLE! Over 10 yrs experience References and warranty incl. Roofing: Flat roof, shingle & metal Small renovations at affordable rates! Call Irja @ 335-1088 SNOW CLEARING/REMOVAL Sidewalks, Driveways, Parking lots, Compounds Private and Commercial Properties Fast and reliable service Aurora Toolcat Services 867-334-7635
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 ELECTRICIAN •Licensed •Residential & Commercial •All jobs, large or small •Free Estimates •10% Seniorʼs Discount 332-7879
BUSY BEAVERS Pruning, Hauling, Chainsaw Work, Snow Shovelling and General Labour Call Francois & Katherine 456-4755 THOMAS FINE CARPENTRY • Construction • Renovation • Finishing • Cabinets • Tiling • Flooring • Repairs • Specialty woodwork • Custom kitchens 867-633-3878 or cell 867-332-5531 thomasfinecarpentry@northwestel.net
MC RENOVATION Construction & Renovations Laminated floor, siding, decks, tiles Kitchen, Bathroom, Doors, Cabinets, Windows, Framing, Board, Painting Drop Ceiling, Fences No job too small Free estimates Michael 336-0468 yt.mcr@hotmail.com
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BURGESS BUILT CONSTRUCTION Journeyman Carpenter New Construction, Renovations Big or Small Frame to Finish Call Shawn 867-334-5190 shwn.burgess@gmail.com
IBEX BOBCAT SERVICES “Country Residential Snow Plowing” All Subdivisions & acreages off Mayo Rd, MacPherson, Hidden Valley, Pilot Mountain & Hot Springs Rd. Honest & Prompt Service Amy Iles Call 667-4981 or 334-6369
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PROVIDE GOVERNMENT OF YUKON WITH AVIATION FUEL AND DRUM FUEL AT LOCATIONS THROUGHOUT YUKON
BUILDING REPLACEMENT SARAH STEELE BUILDING BLDG. #1450 WHITEHORSE, YUKON 2014/2015 Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title. The closing date for submissions is March 24, 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 Zubair Qureshi at (867) 3937125. The highest ranked or lowest priced submission may not necessarily be accepted. All tenders and proposals are subject to a Compliance Review performed by the Procurement Support Centre. The information displayed is as of date and time of opening and is not modified based on the results of the Compliance Review. The Yukon Business Incentive Policy will apply to this project. Bidders are advised to review documents to determine Certificate of Recognition (COR) requirements for this project. View or download documents at: www.gov.yk.ca/tenders/tms.html
Project Description: The supply and delivery of round or split (spruce or pine) 16" (+/- 1") in length, 4" to 12" in diameter of dry (seasoned minimum 2 yrs.), beetle or fire killed firewood to various campgrounds. Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title. The closing date for submissions is March 18, 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 Barry Troke at (867) 667-5282. The highest ranked or lowest priced submission may not necessarily be accepted. All tenders and proposals are subject to a Compliance Review performed by the Procurement Support Centre. The information displayed is as of date and time of opening and is not modified based on the results of the Compliance Review. View or download documents at: www.gov.yk.ca/tenders/tms.html
Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title. The closing date for submissions is March 19, 2015. Please refer to the procurement documents for the closing time and location. Documents may be obtained from the Procurement Support Centre, Department of Highways and Public Works, Suite 101 - 104 Elliott Street, Whitehorse, Yukon (867) 667-5385. Technical questions may be directed to David Knight at (867) 667-3114. The highest ranked or lowest priced submission may not necessarily be accepted. All tenders and proposals are subject to a Compliance Review performed by the Procurement Support Centre. The information displayed is as of date and time of opening and is not modified based on the results of the Compliance Review. This tender is subject to Chapter Five of the Agreement on Internal Trade. View or download documents at: www.gov.yk.ca/tenders/tms.html
Highways and Public Works
Environment
Highways and Public Works
Teslin Tlingit Council EXPRESSION OF INTEREST REQUEST
Teslin Tlingit Heritage Centre – Reception Counter Unit The Teslin Tlingit Council’s Department of Capital and Infrastructure is seeking Expressions of Interest from qualified Contractors, for the construction and installation of a new Reception Area Counter Unit for the Teslin Tlingit Heritage Centre Facility. Scope of Work for this project will include custom cabinet units, custom laminate counter tops, and custom laminated hardwood upper counters, as integral to a completed and functional Reception Counter Unit. Interested parties are asked to contact Adam Grinde at Teslin Tlingit Council Department of Capital and Infrastructure, Teslin Yukon, prior to 4:00 pm, March 09, 2015, either by calling: (867) 333-9268 or by email: adam.grinde@ttc-teslin.com. Drawings for this project will be available for review upon request.
Yukon Water Board – Application Notice Office des eaux du Yukon – Avis de demande Application Number Numéro de la demande
PM14-068 PM14-073
Applicant/Licensee Demandeur/Titulaire
Water Source Location Point d’eau/Lieu
Martin Knutson And John Alton Caw Mining & Exploration Ltd
Last Chance and Hunker Creeks, and Groundwater Barlow Creek & Groundwater
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.
Type of Undertaking Type d’entreprise
Deadline for Comments 4:00pm Date limite pour commentaires, avant 16 h
Placer
March 24, 2015
Placer
March 24, 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.
SUBARU GURU Fix•Buy•Sell Used Subarus 30 year Journeyman Mechanic Towing available Mario 333-4585 GEORGE SAURE Carpentry •Interior finishing of stairs, wood flooring, kitchen installation •Custom woodwork •New construction •Renovations Call for a Free Estimate 333-9530
Lost & Found LOST: GREEN plastic zippered folder containing receipts, pens & cheque book, reward offered. 667-4858
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 TIMOTHY/BROME HAY •No rain and in hayshed •Quality horse and livestock mix •Square and round bales •Delivery available For more information call 668-6742 or 334-4589 BROME HAY BALES 55 lb bales No rain, no weeds Nice leafy hay $12.00 each $10.00 per bale for orders over 100 bales 456-2035
TAMRON CAMERA lens cap with elastic string string lost Saturday afternoon at Rendezvous after pet contests. Please return, is really needed. Call 668-5233
BROME HAY FOR SALE •Small square bales •Under cover •Delivery to your place Phone 334-8960
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Sports Equipment TREADMILL, HORIZON 1.3T, folds up out of the way when not in use, fantastic condition, paid $1,100 at Waterstone, asking $500. Call or message 336-4710 SNOWBOARD MDP 48”, c/w Size 9 mens Burton boots. $75. 668-3594
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
SHERIFF’S SALE BY VIRTUE of a Writ of Seizure and Sale issued out of the SUPREME COURT OF YUKON against the GOODS, LANDS AND CHATTELS of Angelika Knapp and Eric Dufresne. Namely, the land known as: LOT 1028, QUAD 105 K/03, PLAN # 2007-0016 Sealed bids will be received by the Sheriff of the Yukon Territory up to and including the 18th day of March, 2015 at 4 p.m. in the afternoon. Bids will be opened at 4 p.m. on March 18th, 2015. The sale is, as is, where is, without warranty to title. The highest or any bid not necessarily accepted. Payment by successful bidder will be required within five working days from acceptance of bid. Sheriff Law Court Building 2134-2nd Avenue Whitehorse YT Y1A 5H6
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CHILDRENʼS CLOTHING in excellent condition, given freely the first & third Saturday monthly at the Church of the Nazarene, 2111 Centennial. 633-4903 2-SEATER BIKE trailer, new, $150 obo. 393-2630 ONE-PIECE BOYʼS snowsuit, new, Molehill brand, $60 obo. 393-2630
Childcare ROSIEʼS DAY HOME Opening May 1, 2015 We will have openings for children 18 months and older Owner has been running the day home for over 15 years Call 668-3448
Furniture KITCHEN CART, solid wood w/espresso finish, checkerboard top, towel bar, wheels, one shelf, foldable, like new, N/S home, $150. 336-3397 OTTOMAN, ESPRESSO faux leather, 20"x46"x21", 2 top cushions flip over to trays, storage underneath, good condition, N/S home, $100. 336-3397
Personals CITIZENS ON PATROL. Do you have concerns in your neighborhood & community? Be part of the solution! Volunteer valuable time to the C.O.P.S. program. With your eyes & ears we can help stomp out crime. Info: RCMP 867-667-5555 WHITEHORSE DUPLICATE BRIDGE CLUB February 24, 2015 1st - Noreen McGowan & Lynn Daffe 2nd - Cheryl Ming & Stan Marinoske 3rd - Bill Grandy & Bob Walsh We play every Tuesday at 7:00 pm at the Golden Age Society. New players are welcome. For more information call 633-5352 or email nmcgowan@klondiker.co
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✓ Existing Licence ❑ New Licence ❑ TAKE NOTICE THAT, Friends of Mt. Sima Society, of 770 Mt. Sima Road, Whitehorse, Yukon Y1A 0A8, is making application for or change(s) to Club All liquor licence(s), in respect of the premises known as Mt. Sima Adventure Park situated at 770 Mt. Sima Road in Whitehorse, Yukon. Any person who wishes to object to the granting of this application should file their objection in writing (with reasons) to: President, Yukon Liquor Corporation 9031 Quartz Road Whitehorse, Yukon Y1A 4P9 no later than 5:00pm on the 11th day of March, 2015 and also serve a copy of the objection by registered mail upon the applicant. The first time of publication of notice is 20, February 2015. The second time of publication of notice is 27, February 2015. The third time of publication of notice is 06, March 2015. Any questions concerning this specific notice are to be directed to Licensing & Inspections, Yukon Liquor Corporation 867-667-5245 or toll-free 1-800-661-0408, x 5245.
REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL
SOCIAL MEDIA WORKSHOPS Project Description: Hands on workshops teaching social media to Tourism Businesses. Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title. The closing date for submissions is March 12, 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 Cindy Billingham at (867) 6678723. The highest ranked or lowest priced submission may not necessarily be accepted. All tenders and proposals are subject to a Compliance Review performed by the Procurement Support Centre. The information displayed is as of date and time of opening and is not modified based on the results of the Compliance Review. View or download documents at: www.gov.yk.ca/tenders/tms.html
Project Description: Yukon Department of Education - Labour Market Programs and Services is seeking proposals from nongovernment organizations (private or non-profit) to provide labour market services to job seekers with disabilities, including participant case management and referral and employer information services. Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title. The closing date for submissions is March 27, 2015. Please refer to the proposal documents for the closing time and location. Documents may be obtained from the Department of Education, 1000 Lewes Boulevard, Whitehorse, Yukon. Technical questions may be directed to Heike Fraser at (867) 667-5131. The highest ranked or lowest priced submission may not necessarily be accepted. This project is being funded under the Canada Yukon Labour Market Development Agreement.
Education
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LIQUOR ACT
LABOUR MARKET PARTICIPANT SERVICES FOR PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES
Tourism and Culture
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Liquor Corporation
3-PC CABINET package, 2 curios, 1 TV credenza, espresso finish w/drawers & glass doors, like new, N/S home, $800. 336-3397
REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL
DRUG PROBLEM? Narcotics Anonymous meetings Wed. 7pm-8pm #2 - 407 Ogilvie St. BYTE Office
REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS CONSULTANT SERVICES FOR THE DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION SUPERVISION OF THE CITY OF WHITEHORSE 2015 OPERATIONS BUILDING Sealed proposals, addressed to the City Engineer, in an envelope plainly marked “Proposal for Consultant Services for the Design and Construction Supervision of the City Of Whitehorse 2015 Operations Building Project” will be received at City Hall, 2121 Second Avenue Whitehorse, Yukon, Y1A 1C2, before 4:00:00 p.m. Local Time on Monday 16 March, 2015. Complete terms of reference for the proposed consultant services may be obtained, after 1:00 pm on Monday 9 February 2015, from City Hall, 2121 Second Avenue, Whitehorse, Yukon, Y1A 1C2. The City of Whitehorse invites proposals from consultants to provide the architectural and engineering consulting teams necessary to complete the conceptual, schematic, and detailed designs, and construction administration and supervision for the 2015 Operations Building Project.
Project Description: Timber Supply Analysis for the Dawson and Haines Junction Annual Allowable Cut Regions Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title. The closing date for submissions is March 19, 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 Kirk Price, Forestry Operations Manager at (867) 633-7914. The highest ranked or lowest priced submission may not necessarily be accepted. All tenders and proposals are subject to a Compliance Review performed by the Procurement Support Centre. The information displayed is as of date and time of opening and is not modified based on the results of the Compliance Review. View or download documents at: www.gov.yk.ca/tenders/tms.html
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All proposals shall be “EVALUATED IN THE BEST INTEREST OF THE CITY OF WHITEHORSE”. All enquiries to: Wayne H. Tuck, P. Eng. City Engineer Ph (867) 668-8306 Fax (867) 668-8386 wayne.tuck@whitehorse.ca
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