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brings it to a total of 21 fires in the past 72 hours. Meanwhile another crew of ixty-four firefighters from firefighters are still working on Ontario are expected to arthe North Klondike Highway fire, rive in Whitehorse on Satur- north of Dawson City. day as Yukon firefighters scramble “They’ve been able to limit its to take on yet another wildfire growth, but it’s still 37.5 hectares,” started by lightning. said Maratos. “Fortunately Ontario has been Firefighters are also monitora little quieter now, so they’ve ing the remains of the four fires been able to answer the request,” caused by reckless burning over said George Maratos, spokesperthe Victoria Day weekend before son for the Yukon Wildland Fire they can be officially declared out. Management. As the conditions worsen, more The latest fire, reported around drastic measures are put in place. 4 p.m. on Wednesday, is burning Burning permits are suspended 19 kilometres southeast of Mayo. across the entire territory, not just It is their top priority at the moin areas with moderate to extreme ment, Maratos said, given the fire- fire danger rating, and Parks friendly conditions in the area and Canada has banned campfire in its proximity to the community. Kluane National Park. An air tanker is dropping retarA Yukon-wide campfire ban is dant around the fire perimeter to being considered, said Maratos. slow down its spread while ground “It is a bit of a logistical process crews are directly attacking it. in term of removing firewood On Friday morning, Yukon from the campground,” he said. “A Wildland Fire Management lot of people still rely on campfires reported that 10 new fires had for the warmth and the cooking, it’s still cool in the morning.” started since Thursday, which News Reporter
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Graham and city councillors clash over skate park site consultations Myles Dolphin News Reporter
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ducation Minister Doug Graham received a tongue lashing from Whitehorse city councillors this week for appearing before them as a delegate – rather than in a formal meeting setting, as they had asked – to talk about the future site of the Second Haven Skatepark. Graham addressed city council during its committee meeting on Tuesday evening, where he talked about the importance of working with the city to find a suitable location for the popular facility. “It’s really important when you’re dealing with these issues to listen to these kids,” he said, talking about representatives from various user groups who were also in attendance and scheduled to address council. Earlier this month, the French school board selected the site of Riverdale’s skate park for a future high school. But both Graham and Minister Scott Kent have said that a new school will not be built until after the skate park has been relocated. Members of the Skate for Life Alliance have expressed a strong desire to see the new park located somewhere downtown, to ensure both accessibility and visibility. They say the current park has outdated equipment, is too small and doesn’t cater to the growing number of scooter users. Councillor Dave Stockdale expressed frustration with the way council was being consulted, and said he wanted to sit down with Graham to ask questions. “This is not the forum in which to ask these,” he said. “Some of the answers that come out aren’t what might come out in a forum like that.” Coun. Mike Gladish told Graham he was pleased that
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The Second Haven skatepark in Riverdale will be relocated if the new francophone high school is built at that site.
the skateboarding community would be consulted on the future skate park, but wondered if the same courtesy would be extended to the general public. “I’m a great believer in consultation when it’s appropriate and necessary,” Graham replied. “As elected officials we’re elected to make some decisions and this is one of them. A short consultation period to get information from residents is a good thing but it’s not always the best thing.” Mayor Dan Curtis said he was still “perplexed” as to whether the future francophone high school would indeed be built at the site of the current skate park. He also wondered about whether the Riverdale Community Association had been consulted, if a traffic impact assessment had been carried out or if an increase in traffic would
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A biker soars off a staircase at the Second Haven Skatepark earlier this month.
necessitate upgrades to the Robert Campbell Bridge. Moreover, council was still waiting for a reply to its request
for an audience with Graham and Kent, one that was made two weeks ago, Curtis added. “Because I’ve been accused of
negotiating with ministers directly I’d like to have our council meet with your administration and yourself, to address these concerns,” he said. “I don’t think it’s appropriate that a minister comes here, showcasing a bunch of kids, saying that we won’t have a public consultation. The right thing, Mr. Graham, is to have a public consultation.” Graham responded by saying he had misunderstood the process, adding that he hadn’t heard a question from Curtis. He said council had given him two potential meeting dates but neither of them were suitable for both parties. “We’re trying to work it out so we can meet with you,” he said. He told council that he was there to speak about moving the skate park, not the construction of the francophone high school. “Focus on that,” he said. “I didn’t realize I was also going to be subject to harangue by yourself, imputing motives to me that I don’t have. You misconstrued my words completely, which I think is very immature. “Use the words that I’m using, or else don’t do it.” Graham is scheduled to meet with city councillors and administrators next Friday, Curtis said today. During question period in the legislature on Wednesday, NDP Leader Liz Hanson accused Graham, and the Yukon Party, of once again choosing confrontation over consultation. “You have to hand it to the premier: his repeated snubs at Whitehorse city council make for a great case study in not to build relationships,” she said. Graham said that users of the current skate park would be “subject to a long list of consultations by legislation” about where to build the new facility and what it would look like. Contact Myles Dolphin at myles@yukon-news.com
Job numbers rose as Yukon economy shrunk Jacqueline Ronson News Reporter
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he Yukon’s economy has shrunk over the past two years, but the number of jobs has continued to grow. Two of Yukon’s producing mines are shut down, while the third’s operations remain in limbo because it does not have permits in place to access new pockets of ore. The territory’s economy shrunk both in 2013 and 2014. The government’s own job
statistics, however, tell a slightly more nuanced picture. On average there were 12,000 private sector jobs (including the self-employed) in the territory in 2014, up from 11,500 in 2013 and 2012. That’s an increase of more than four per cent. The year-to-date numbers for 2015 are higher compared to the same period for 2014. The public sector has grown, too, up to 7,800 jobs in 2014 compared with 7,700 in 2013 and 7,400 in 2012. In the legislature earlier this
month, Liberal Leader Sandy Silver pointed to numbers that appeared to show a shrinking private sector and a ballooning public sector. Comparing the numbers for March 2013 and March 2014, the private sector lost 400 jobs while the public sector gained 500. “Can the minister explain to us why this so-called private sector-friendly government is only growing jobs in the public sector?” he asked on May 5. However, the month-tomonth data tends to fluctuate
fairly widely, and the overall trend for both the private and public sector appears to be job growth. The ever-growing Yukon government capital budget could help explain this fact. As Economic Development Minister Stacey Hassard pointed out in response to Silver, when the government spends big money on big projects, a lot of the jobs that are created get counted within the private sector, because they are contracted out. “I think the member oppo-
site doesn’t seem to realize what this government is trying to do, and I think that you only have to look at the budget that was tabled by the premier just a few short weeks ago,” said Hassard. “It is the largest capital budget in history. Those jobs from those capital projects are going to the private sector.” Whether the upwards job trend signals a quick rebound for the economy overall remains to be seen. Contact Jacqueline Ronson at jronson@yukon-news.com
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She said Reid was genuine and honest. She told the jury Reid had memories of the key elements of the evening. The parts she didn’t remember were reasonable considering everything that was going on, she said. All the key elements of their testimony line up, she said. There’s no reason to disbelieve Bailey because she chose not to tell the police at the time, Kaur said. She made it clear she was concerned for her family. Kaur pointed to testimony of the RCMP officer who took Reid’s statement that day and testified that Reid was agitated and scared. One witness said she came home crying. Another said she had red marks. The other side has suggested those things may have been on a different day. Kaur warned the jury to be wary of the defence’s “red herrings,” things she said were distracting from what the jury should be focused on. That includes the fact that Reid had no serious injuries after the attack, which she said lasted 30 to 45 minutes, except for some red marks. Everyone reacts differently, Kaur said. There is no evidence that Reid was involved in any sort of criminal activities, as the other side has suggested during the trial, she said, and nothing gave Nehass the right to do what he did. The fact that Reid said she originally came to the building because Bailey owed her money, and Bailey denies owing her anything, is another red herring, she said. But Bibhas Vaze, the courtappointed lawyer assigned to help in this case, said differences in the testimony are not red herrings. They’re “fundamentally important” pieces of evidence that are different, he said. The defence in this case has been, from the beginning, that none of this ever happened; that the story the women told on the stand is completely unbelievable. Vaze continued that train of
thought right through his closing. He said it doesn’t make any sense that Reid would be attacked for 30 to 45 minutes and come away with no injuries. “I suppose it doesn’t make any sense because it didn’t happen,” he said. He said it doesn’t make any sense that Reid would not yell or call for help when she was dragged into the apartment. No noise complaints were ever made, the court heard. No photos of the crime scene were taken and no knife was found. Reid told the jury Bailey followed her out of the apartment after Nehass let her go. Bailey made no mention of that in her testimony. Vaze said it was also unbelievable that Reid would wait hours for her son-in-law to come home and take her granddaughter before calling police, even though she believed Nehass was still in the apartment building two minutes away from her home. When it comes to Bailey, Vaze said she is a liar. “We know she’s a liar, like I said, the only question is what is she lying about?” Vaze suggested she was more truthful in the police statement years ago where she denied that anything happened. When you line it all up, there is “significant doubt” about the truthfulness of Reid, Bailey or both, he said. “If you’re lying about one thing, you’re probably lying about all of it, and that’s reasonable doubt,” he said. Since he is representing himself, Nehass also got a chance to address the jury. “I know it looks bad, but I need you to look at the facts,” he said. He told them that he wasn’t a lawyer or a very good public speaker. He went through many of the same points Vaze would later mention. “I need you guys here, I really do. Please, just look at the facts.” Contact Ashley Joannou at ashleyj@yukon-news.com
fence cases, said conservation officer Aaron Koss-Young. While it’s legal to hunt bears with hunting permits, it is illegal under Conservation officers are asking for the Yukon Wildlife Act to abandon help identifying the person who shot the entire carcass. and killed a black bear and aban“If you shoot a bear, you have at doned its carcass on May 17. the very minimum to take the hide, Residents reported hearing a the skull of the bear and the claws gunshot between 1 and 3 p.m. and on the carcass and report that kill to an ATV near the CCC road along the Environment Yukon office,” said the South Klondike Highway, not far Koss-Young. from Kookatsoon Lake. Bears are also sometimes hunted Residents discovered the carcass for their meat. “In this case, everyof a mature, male brown-phased thing was wasted.” black bear. Violations of the Yukon Wildlife The gunshot wound does not Act carry a maximum of $50,000 resemeble what’s found in self-dein fines, one year imprisonment or both. Anyone with information is asked to call the TIPP Line at 1-800-6610525, or conservation officers at Reliable - Experienced - WETT Certified 456-7295 667-8005. www.YukonChimneySweep.com (Pierre Chauvin)
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Yukon produces new batch of certified carpenters covering topics such as framing, renovations, concrete and common occupational skills. he last time Bill Johnstone Johnstone said the hardest sat down in a classroom, it part was the math, and the abunwas the 1980s. dance of required readings. Going back to school was “no “The way the instructor cake walk,� but the Whitehorse structured the course, it’s pretty resident is one of 10 carpenters daunting during the first few who recently obtained their Red weekends because we got a lot of Seal certifications following an readings, it’s heavy on the techniintense six-week program. cal side,� he said. It’s the first time the course “He did that deliberately to was offered in the Yukon. give everyone the full six weeks Carpentry is one of 55 trades to get used to it. I thought, ‘If in the Red Seal program, which it keeps up like this, I’ll be in represents an inter-provincial trouble,’ but it got easier.� standard of excellence in the Carpenters were required to industry. prove they had worked a miniJohnstone, 50, said a lot has mum of 9,600 hours in the trade changed since he first started in order to take the course. working as a carpenter in British Richard Dickenson, from InColumbia. tegrated Carpentry Tutorials, of“For the longest time it really fered the course through Yukon’s wasn’t that big of a deal if you advanced education branch and didn’t have the certification,� he in collaboration with the British said. Columbia Regional Council of “People were more interested Carpenters. in your work experiences. They’d He said the course is as much say ‘OK, what work have you about introducing new skills as it done, show me what you can do.’ is brushing up on old ones. “It’s not as important in the A significant portion of the residential market, but it really is course is also focused on teachfor the big industrial jobs.� ing the students how to take a Johnstone and 12 other caruniversity-level exam, how to penters from around the territory focus on key words and not be took the course on Friday evemisdirected. nings and Saturdays this spring. “By the second module, these The exam covers four years of guys were starting to peer mentor the apprenticeship program. It’s each other,� Dickenson said. “That’s a big deal – you don’t broken down into six modules, Myles Dolphin News Reporter
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really know how much you know about something until you’re asked to teach it. That just reinforces it for everybody.� He estimates that approximately 60 to 70 apprentice carpenters are bottlenecked in the four-year apprenticeship program at Yukon College because there aren’t enough Red Seal
certified carpenters to sign off on their hours, allowing them to move to the next level. “This will go a long way towards correcting that.� Matthew Myres, who does custom home renovations and furniture, wanted to become Red Seal certified so he could take on some of those apprentices in his
Both sides have agreed to have better communication when it comes to pension issues. “The big thing that we were upset about is the changes that they’ve made in the past,� said Yukon Employees Union president Steve Geick. “Although we have two people sitting on a pension committee giving input, it goes to the board and the board
does what it wants, basically, and we’re not given very much notice.� Under the new deal, the corporation is required to give advanced notice of any proposed changes and the union will be able to make a presentation. The final say still belongs to the board, but this way the union will have more of a chance to make its opinions
business. “Up here there aren’t many self-employed Red Seals,� he said. “I haven’t been able to apprentice anyone but doing so will allow me to expand my business.� Jeff Sloychuk, the representative for Local 2499 in Whitehorse, said it’s a program the union had always wanted to offer but never could. “All these carpenters had worked thousands of hours but had never had the opportunity to get apprenticeship, to get the actual schooling part of the trade,� he said. “There was a huge gap in the ‘80s and ‘90s where the apprenticeship program was in a bit of disarray. From the union’s perspective it’s really important that we keep pushing the boundaries of the trade, and ensuring that we’re providing the best quality carpenters to home owners and employers.� Sloychuk estimates there are about 100 working carpenters in the territory. “But we’re looking to double that as we go forward.� Approximately 30 more uncertified carpenters from across the territory have expressed an interest in taking Dickenson’s course, Sloychuk said, so the union will bring him back in February next year to offer it again. Contact Myles Dolphin at myles@yukon-news.com
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Minto mine. The proposed tailings dam is expected to be 286 metres tall and he Casino mine proposal still 2.5 kilometres long, among the very has a long way to go before it tallest dams in the world. will be fit to enter the terriThe Casino tailings facility is tory’s environmental review process, expected to hold back 956 million assessors announced this week. tonnes of tailings and 658 million “The executive committee has tonnes of waste rock after the mine’s determined that the supplemenclosure, and forever into the future. tary information provided by the That dam is a key area of concern proponent is still lacking important for the assessment board. information and that the proposal “One of the most significant remains inadequate for screening,” aspects of the project is the tailings according to a news release from the management facility and dam and Yukon Environmental and Sociothe risks associated with its scale, economic Assessment Board. northern context and its requireThe proposal originally submitment to remain stable in perpetuity,” ted by Casino Mining Corporation according to the release. to the board ran more than 7,000 The board has hired dam expert pages over 13 volumes. It is by far the Norbert Morgenstern, who also leads most significant project ever planned the Mount Polley Review panel, to in the Yukon. help assess the viability of Casino The $2.5 billion open-pit copper Mining’s proposal. gold mine, if built, is expected to It has also hired six other process 120,000 tonnes per day over individuals and consulting firms a 22-year mine life. That’s 30 times with expertise in other parts of the project. the processing rate at Capstone’s Jacqueline Ronson News Reporter
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Yukon Brewing wins coup to ship beer direct to Atlin After many years of pushing, Yukon Brewing will be allowed to send its beer directly to the Atlin music festival this year. In previous years, the Whitehorse brewery has had to ship its beer on a long road trip, all the way to Vancouver and then back up to Atlin. “We put 5,000 km on this beer and a whole bunch of costs on our part and their part, just so the beers can do the two hour trip to Atlin,” said president Bob Baxter. “It’s just so impractical, and impractical stuff drives us crazy.” A special arrangement between Yukon Brewing and the B.C. liquor corporation will allow the company to ship its beer directly to the festival this year. But this is only a one-off arrangement, and Baxter would like to see more permanent changes made. “What we’d really like to do is make it really more practical to sell beers to northern B.C. that doesn’t have to travel to Vancouver first. “What we’ve always advocated for 18 years now, although we don’t make a full time job of it, is that the rules for B.C. brewers apply for B.C. and Yukon brewers.”
It’s even worse for draft beer said Baxter, as B.C. liquor doesn’t even pay for the transportation back from Vancouver to the final destination in British Columbia. “It just doesn’t make sense.” He said Yukon Brewing had to pass on a sponsorship opportunity with the Dawson Creek hockey team because it was too expensive to ship the beer there. However, there are some encouraging signs. Since April 1, due to a regulation change, Yukon Brewing can sell all of its beers in both government-run and private liquor stores in B.C. said Baxter (Pierre Chauvin)
$72M hospital expansion set to start this summer A major expansion of Whitehorse General Hospital will begin later this summer. Yukon Hospital Corporation announced this week it had awarded the construction contract to PCL Constructors Westcoast Inc. and the design contract to CEI Architecture. The expansion will cost $72 million, which includes the cost of the MRI facility that was completed in
Casino’s original proposal was submitted to the board in January, 2014. The assessment was suspended by agreement for about six months after affected First Nations insisted they needed to be further consulted before the review be allowed to proceed. In January of this year the board provided the company with a long list of questions it needed to answer before the proposal would be considered adequate. Casino Mining responded in March, but much of the information was incomplete, according to the board. “The proponent has sufficiently answered about half of the questions presented in our adequacy review report but there is still more work to be done before the screening can begin,” executive committee member Ken McKinnon said in the release. The key areas where more information is needed are the tailings facility and dam, the closure and
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It should allow more students to join the trades programs offered. “We’re pretty much always at capacity for our trade programs,” said Jacqueline Bedard, director of college relations. “We’re setting up more of our trades program, so you can take all of the levels in the Yukon,” she said. The programs offer hands-on training for people interested in employment in the mining industry. The new building will be at the college’s Whitehorse campus, behind the Yukon Arts Centre. It will house three classrooms, workshops to help train students to become skilled tradespeople like millwrights and heavy equipment mechanics, and offices. The college started offering classes through the new mining school two years ago. Contract awarded to build The mining school also has its Mobile Trades Training Trailer new Yukon College building that it uses to deliver trade classes Yukon College’s Centre for Northern throughout the territory. So far, it has delivered programs in Dawson City, Innovation in Mining is one step Pelly Crossing and Ross River. closer to having its own building as The new building’s cost, including the college has awarded TSL Contracdesign, construction, furnishing and tors Ltd. a $4.6 million contract for equipment, is expected to cost over the facility’s construction. $7 million. The new building is expected to (Pierre Chauvin) open by August 2016.
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January this year. A new emergency department will be built, as well as a new second floor space. The information technology system will also be upgraded. The hospital last expanded 20 years ago, said James Low, a spokesperson for the Yukon Hospital Corp. He said the expansion will improve patient comfort, security and the work environment for the staff. Extra space should help with infection control and decontamination. “It’s not only for large-scale infections but also everyday infections like the flu,” said Low. The first phase of expansion is expected to be completed by late fall 2017, and light ground work will be done over the summer to prepare for the bulk of the construction. (Pierre Chauvin)
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he Yukon needs more sunshine. Not the sort that has been blistering necks and shoulders lately, but the type that shines a light on how public money is spent by the territorial government. Hats off to the CBC’s Nancy Thomson for banging away at this perennial issue earlier this week, with a report that highlights the complete lack of interest among our territorial leaders in adopting a law similar to Ontario’s “sunshine list,” which requires the disclosure of government employee salaries above $100,000. It’s telling Thomson was unable to find a single Yukoner in a position of authority who would express much dissatisfaction with the current arrangement. Instead, she had to shoehorn that in with voices from national groups like the Canadian Taxpayers Federation. Elsewhere, political leaders often fear that the actions of government workers will upset the general public. Here in the Yukon, things seem to have gone in reverse: territorial politicians fear the general public will upset government workers, and go to lengths to ensure that doesn’t happen. That’s why one of the more potent insults territorial ministers are able to hurl at the opposition is to accuse them of speaking badly of government workers – as if bureaucrats are somehow protected by the same principle as papal infallibility. The sheer enormity of the government sector in the Yukon helps explain this timidity. When you count territorial, federal, municipal and First Nation government staff, we’re talking about 8,100 workers, according to the latest figures from March. That’s 42.9 per cent of the territory’s total workforce. That’s one hell of a big block of voters to potentially alienate. No wonder Thomson encountered so much squeamishness when she asked our elected representatives if they’d support a sunshine law. Currie Dixon, the minister responsible for the public service commission, says that cabinet’s hands are tied by the Access to Information and Protection of Privacy Act, which presently forbids the disclosure of specific salaries. This overlooks the fact that if our cabinet disagreed with the law,
they could change it. Or the government could adopt its own sunshine legislation – as what’s found in British Columbia, Alberta, Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Ontario – which would supercede the territory’s privacy laws. In short, the only reason why the Yukon doesn’t have a sunshine list is because our leaders don’t want one. Yukon’s opposition leaders are similarly squeamish. The Liberals’ Sandy Silver would only say that he’d consider supporting sunshine legislation, while the NDP hedged their bets by saying they’d start by looking to require disclosure of deputy ministers and the head honchos of Crown corporations. Both stopped short of actually committing to implementing a sunshine law. At this point, some indignant government workers will be huffing about why nosey parkers want to know precisely how much they earn, anyway? The answer, in short, is because they’re paid with our money, and the public should have a right to know how its funds are being spent. This is particularly the case with jobs that involve significant responsibilities in government administration, so as to judge whether we are receiving performance on par with the money being spent. This is the rationale for disclosing the salaries of government ministers. It stands to reason the same standard should be applied to their senior staff, who, after all, make many day-to-day decisions about administering public funds, and probably have a far better idea of what is going on most of the time than their political boss. Our government does disclose the broad salary ranges for its job positions. But this information is awfully imprecise – for seniorranking officials, salary bands may span $60,000. It would probably be telling to know the actual number of government workers paid more than $100,000. It would also be interesting if we had a law on the books that required the disclosure of severance pay, like what Alberta has, given the recent abrupt departures of senior government staff in places like the Department of Education. How much did these shake-ups cost the taxpayer? We don’t know, and the Publisher
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government wants to keep it that way. It’s hard enough being a bureaucrat in this town, one official harrumphed to Thomson – at which point, every resident without a government job who was tuned in to the radio promptly rolled his or her eyes. Disclosing salaries could be a security risk, she was also told – prompting Thomson to acidly note that would be true, if government workers kept their savings stuffed under their mattresses. All this goes to show that the instinct within government tends to be to keep things secret, especially any information that may be deemed, shall we say, uncomfortable. Yukoners who toil away in the private sector are frequently shocked to discover how much their counterparts in government earn, especially considering the leisurely pace at which government workers are known to work and the plum benefits they enjoy. This is the cause of understandable resentment. But if bureaucrats truly believe they’re worth the money they receive, their salaries should be publicly defensible. Refusing to disclose them simply looks like a tacit acknowledgement that isn’t the case. If the public disclosure of salaries rubs some senior government officials the wrong way, maybe they’re in the wrong line of work. What part of “public servant” do people having trouble understanding, anyways? (JT) Reporters
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In praise of two leaders who follow their hearts Whitehorse now has two authentic leaders – Chief Doris Bill and Mayor Dan Curtis – who can lead with their heart. Not only do they bring very strong leadership skills and expertise to their respective positions, but they also season those skills with kindness and a dedication to making a difference in the lives of the citizens. They put a human touch to their mandate – they bring back humanity to the leadership role. I had the honour of attending the one-day gathering for vulnerable people on April 24 and was incredibly impressed by the strength of this team of leaders. I am late in writing this note but “better late than never” – I did not want this to go unrecognized. A community only exists because of the people making it up.
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Ted Harrison and Canada’s artsiest economy The same holds true of Jack London. His writing made him a but he only spent a by Keith millionaire, year or two in the Yukon. Recently I wrote about the Halliday economy of Port Townsend, Washington, which has branded itself as a “Victorian Seaport and Arts Community.” A few readers expressed surprise that arts and culture can be a significant part of the economy, so let’s look more deeply at some of the numbers obert Service helped put and what they mean for the the Yukon on the global Yukon. literary map. The poems Hill Strategies Research, an he wrote in Whitehorse and then Ontario firm, puts out a useful Dawson City made him famous report based on Statistics Canada and, it’s worth pointing out, rich. data. It shows how different the In the days before rock stars Yukon arts community is today and movie icons, a writer like from Service’s time. Today, the Service could make quite literally Yukon’s cultural economy is big a fortune. “The Shooting of Dan and deeply rooted. McGrew” is said to have earned Based on 2011 census data, Service over half a million dollars, there are 970 “cultural workers” a huge sum a hundred years ago. in the Yukon or 4.62 per cent of But Service was like a methe workforce. This definition teor. He flashed brilliantly in the includes people in nine arts ocYukon sky and then was gone. He cupations such as visual artists inspired others, but did not leave or dancers, as well as a broader a group of acolytes in the Yukon set of cultural industries such to develop their own careers. as museum curators or graphic This is too bad from a literary designers. point of view, but also from an Under this definition, the economic one. Service’s impact Yukon has the artsiest economy in on the Yukon economy diminCanada, well above the national ished every year he lived in Britaverage of 3.82 per cent. We don’t have detailed income tany cashing his royalty cheques.
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Distracted drivers need to smarten up I ride a motorcycle to get around, and I have had several close calls with accidents because of people talking on their cell phones and texting while driving. This is a dangerous practice and those who do this need to stop! The RCMP needs to crack down and issue more fines to people who talk on their phones while driving. Maybe people should lose their licence if they don’t stop. I’m writing this letter because I don’t want to get hurt. Thank you. Aaron William Whitehorse
Animal cruelty cases say something about our city A dog is found dead with broken bones, a leg sawed-off, shot through the head and dumped in a garbage bin on Copper Road (Dead, badly beaten dog spurs investigation, the News, March 23). I witnessed this poor girl (the dog) being removed from the black trash bag she was placed in. The person(s) responsible for doing this has yet to be caught and held to account. I asked the bylaw officer at the scene: What is the difference between placing this dog in the bin and what bylaw services does with the corpse of the dogs
they have killed? He said: “They (dogs) have a special place at the dump.” Hmm... a “special” mass grave site? Dogs in Porter Creek have been poisoned; two died from ingesting tainted meat. Another dog fortunately survived the ordeal (Strychnine killed two Porter Creek dogs; third recovering from apparent poisoning, the News, April 2). Truly pathetic that someone would do such a thing! The investigation continues. A beaver is found dead by the Millennium Trail in Whitehorse, bludgeoned to death. (Beaver beaten to death in Riverdale, the News, May 11). Appalling! The coward(s) who did this have yet to be held accountable. COs have killed beavers, too... Isn’t Whitehorse grand? The dog-loving “Wilderness City”? As Mahatma Gandhi said, “The greatness of a society and its moral progress can be judged by the way it treats its animals.” Mike Grieco Whitehorse
Thanks for helping the cancer care fund When someone is diagnosed with cancer it has an immediate effect on them. It also has a massive impact on their family, their friends and even their community. In short, cancer affects all of us.
numbers for Yukon cultural workers, but at a national level they earned $42,100 on average in 2010. This is 12 per cent below the overall labour force average. Within the cultural worker category, there were wide variations. Dancers earned the lowest, at $17,893 each on average, with musicians coming in at $22,770 and visual artists at $24,672. Meanwhile writers, producers, directors and choreographers earned above the average. Unlike in Robert Service’s day, government has developed a wide range of programs to support the arts for their own sake and also because of their broader role in economic development. Hill reports that culture spending by all levels of government in the Yukon was $1,194 per person in 2009-10, triple the national average. The territorial government spent $628 per Yukoner, quadruple the level of the highest-spending province. This was partly cancelled out by Yukon municipalities, which only spent $13 per person versus a level of $87 on average in the provinces. If you put together the Yukon’s talented “installed base” of cultural workers and add this level of government support, you get several benefits. First, culture workers earn income, often as ex-
ports since they sell to non-Yukon clients. They also buy supplies from local businesses and pay taxes. There is also an indirect benefit in that they make a community more attractive to live in, which can attract other workers and families to the Yukon. Life is not all about economics of course, and the Yukon’s artists do more than merely contribute to gross domestic product. They also add something special to life, helping build the vibrant community that long-time Yukoners and newcomers all enjoy. I think Robert Service would be surprised if he came to next week’s fundraiser for the Ted Harrison Artist Retreat Society and caught a glimpse of the arts community of today. Not only is Ted Harrison one of the artists who put the Yukon on the visual-arts map, he also endowed the retreat to nurture the next generation. An example of this is up-andcoming Yukon artist Emma Barr. She was a young artist-in-residence at the Ted Harrison retreat (as well as being supported early in her career by the Yukon Foundation, another of our community-building organizations). She will be telling her story at the fundraising event, including her time at the Ted Harrison retreat, and donating a piece of her own
sought-after work. In addition to a Ted Harrison original being auctioned off, the fundraiser will also feature art from many other Yukon artists, including Jim Robb and Halin de Repentigny. The size of the crowd will be clear evidence of how deeply rooted the cultural industry is in the Yukon today. We’ve come a long way from the days when the Yukon’s cultural industry could book himself a one-way ticket to Brittany and disappear. For readers who would like to attend the Ted Harrison Artist Retreat Society art show and fundraiser on Friday, May 29 from 6:30-930 p.m. at the MacBride Museum, phone 668-4405 or email sfairman@lawyukon. com. The event is open to the public and free of charge. The Harrison family is also hosting a celebration of Ted Harrison’s life at 1:30 p.m. on Saturday, May 30 at the Kwanlin Dun Cultural Centre. Keith Halliday is a Yukon economist and author of the MacBride Museum’s Aurore of the Yukon series of historical children’s adventure novels. He won this year’s Ma Murray award for best columnist. You can follow him on Channel 9’s Yukonomist show or Twitter @hallidaykeith
vatives’ omnibus budget laws. Remember how those omnibus acts led to the Idle No More movement and protests across The Yukoners Cancer Care Myra Iles, KFN, Lee Pugh, May Gudmunson, Meadow Lakes Golf Canada? Fund provides financial support Well, one hopes the Yukon Course, Metro Chrysler, Midnight to Yukoners fighting cancer and government has read that court Sun Coffee Roasters, Murdoch’s their families that are caring for ruling, so that taxpayers can Gem Shop, Northend Gallery them. avoid losing a legal battle which & Rambles: Kitchen, Home & The Speaker’s Reception was will bring more uncertainty to created in 2012 to raise awareness Gifts, Northwestel, Office Supinvestors. ply Centre, Plantation Flowers of this fund and the incredibly Yukon First Nation chiefs important need for this program. & Gifts, Sandor’s Clothing Ltd, Second Show Kids Consignment, have promised to sue over Bill On April 30 I was very pleased S-6, the federal bill that would to host the 3rd annual reception. Speaker of Saskatchewan – Dan overhaul our environmental This year’s event was a great suc- D’Autremont, Stacey’s Butcher Block, Territorial Auto Parts, The laws and enable Yukon Premier cess. Electrical Shop, The Frame Shop, Darrell Pasloski and his Ottawa During the Speaker’s Recepfriends to change the negotiThe Honourable Speaker David tion, the Yukon Hospital Founated environmental assessment Laxton, Tony’s Pizza, Total Fire dation reported that in spite of regime established under the Protection limited funds, they have assisted Yukon final agreements. S-6 Village of Mayo, Westmark 22 families in the communities was introduced by the unelectWhitehorse, Why Knot Massage, and Whitehorse. ed Senator Daniel Lang and Yukon Brewing, Yukon College, The Yukoners Cancer Care is now before a parliamentary Yukon Honda, Yukon Meat & Fund and the Speaker’s Recepcommittee. Sausage, Yukon Yamaha. tion are about “Friends Helping The law is that any governI would like to thank everyone Friends.” Well friends, this year’s ment has to consult affected event raised in excess of $19,000. that came out and generously First Nations before introdudonated and bid on the various Well done and thank you. auction items. Your financial cing any legislative changes. I want to express my personal appreciation for those individuals support is only surpassed by your We have heard repeatedly that generosity of heart. Yukoners and First Nations and companies that provided were not consulted on the items for the live and silent aucDavid Laxton, CD major changes asked for by the tions: Allison Eby Briden, Alpine Speaker, Pas! Bra Boutique/MediChair, Amy’s Yukon Legislative Assembly Another legal challenge Tea House, Angellina’s Toy Bouand untold costs! Welcome tique, Armour Lawncare & LandAnother legal battle with to enriching more Vancouver scape Design, Bailey’s Pub & Grill, Blackbird Bakery, Canadream, First Nations in the making lawyers! Meanwhile, we cannot afford to maintain a Revenue Casa Loma Motel, CBC A New Canada office in Whitehorse or Day, Clean Choices Carpet Clean- Back in December the federal to keep Dredge No. 4 open to ing & Rentals, Dall Contracting court ruled that Ottawa should tourists. Ltd., Earls, Faye & Jack Cable, have consulted an Alberta First It make me fume! Geraldine & Pat Van Bibber, Gold Originals by Charlotte, G-P Nation over the gutting of environmental safeguards, stuffed Stella Mcpherson Distributing, Hair 4 You, Hank Karr, Independent Grocers, Joe & into one of the federal Conser- Whitehorse
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expected, but is still not enough to win plaudits in foreign capitals. OTTAWA The target may be an indicarime Minister Stephen tion that Canada is sensitive to Harper’s new greenhouse some of the past international gas emissions targets criticism it has faced because may not win him any raves at it was higher than expected, he next month’s G7 summit, but it said. could help him stave off a bit of “This is not trivial,� he said. criticism. “It’s more than we might have Harper is expected to attend anticipated, but I don’t know the June leaders’ summit where it’s going to leave jaws agape in his German hosts will focus on Washington or anywhere else.� climate change as their neighNeither the French nor Gerbour and fellow G7 member, man governments have made France, prepares to host a major any public comment on the environmental summit in DeCanadian announcement of cember. Canada has faced widespread what is called its Intended Nainternational criticism for being tionally Determined Contributions or INDC. a climate- change laggard, but A U.S. government official, last week the Harper governwho commented on the condiment announced it would aim to reduce greenhouse gas emis- tion of anonymity, offered only sions by 30 per cent below 2005 the faintest praise in response to Friday’s announcement by levels by 2030. Environment Minister Leona France and Germany are holding their cards tight on that Aglukkaq, who characterized the target as fair and ambitious. announcement. “We welcome the news of For now, the United States is Canada’s submission of its says it wants see more before it INDC along with other counpasses judgment. tries’ submissions to date, and Barry Rabe, a climate policy we look forward to reviewing its expert at the University of contents,� said the U.S. official. Michigan, says Canada’s target The U.S. has committed to an appears more ambitious than Canadian Press
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Navy techs scour eBay for parts to keep 1970s vintage supply ships running Murray Brewster Canadian Press
OTTAWA ewly released government records show that navy mechanics in Halifax had to scour the Internet and use eBay to find parts for one of its two supply ships. But the briefing notes obtained by The Canadian Press, prepared for navy commander Vice-Admiral Mark Norman, show the technicians were fighting a losing battle to keep HMCS Preserver on duty. The documents show many of the parts on the 45-year-old ship were “beyond acceptable limits” because corrosion issues had begun to compromise the vessel’s structural integrity. National Defence said last year that both Preserver and its sister ship HMCS Protecteur – gutted by a dangerous at-sea fire – would be retired before replacement ships arrived. “It will be very difficult to continue to confidently operate her at sea until her planned divestment date in 18 months,” said the May 9, 2014 briefing note, which was also copied to the head of military procurement. The navy had planned to replace both ships, but the Conservative government pulled the plug in August 2008 because industry proposals were proving too costly. The new program is still up to eight years way from delivering new ships. It’s long been known that the ships were in precarious shape and getting worse, but the briefing said it “was no longer viable to expend limited resources” to keep them going. The notes make evident the
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watch the military did receive new LAV III armoured vehicles, M-777 artillery, CH-149 Cormorant helicopters, coastal defence vessels and the oft-maligned
Victoria-class submarines. Garneau said the absence of supply ships means Canadian warships will have to operate individually; they cannot form
task forces of their own, and must rely on other nations for replenishment. Armstrong responded by saying construction of the first replacement for the supply ships is expected to begin in 2017, and the government is also studying plans for an interim capability. Without air defence destroyers, Canadian frigates will have to seek protection from longrange threats under the umbrella of U.S. combat vessels, said Garneau. He said the Conservatives played politics with the navy by cancelling new supply ships on the eve of the 2008 election, and forced the military to accept Arctic patrol ships ahead of new destroyers. “Mr. Harper decided he wanted to be known from a legacy point of view as big on the Arctic and has gone up every year for that photo-op,” Garneau said. “That’s all driven by politics.”
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Allegations of RCMP wrongdoing on gun registry data destruction handed to OPP Bruce Cheadle
the offence from the books, Justice Minister Peter MacKay’s office has confirmed that it OTTAWA sent Legault’s findings to the llegations of RCMP Public Prosecution Service of wrongdoing related to Canada last week, which in the illegal destruction of long turn handed the file over to an run registry records are under investigative agency. investigation by the Ontario “It will be looked at by a Provincial Police. senior investigator,� Sgt. Peter It’s the latest twist in an Leon of the OPP said late Tuesunprecedented battle between day, confirming an investigathe Conservative government tion will take place. and an independent officer That doesn’t mean charges of parliament whose job is to will necessarily be laid. safeguard Canadians’ access to “The Attorney General of government records. Canada is not responsible Information commissioner for laying charges,� MacKay’s Suzanne Legault issued a spespokeswoman Clarissa Lamb cial report last week revealing said in an email Tuesday. she’d recommended in March The public prosecutor’s ofthat charges be laid against the fice would only say that it has RCMP for the destruction of passed on the file. “We don’t long-gun registry records that direct an investigation,� said were part of an active investispokesman Dan Brien. gation. Prime Minister Stephen The Harper government Harper has said the Mounties responded by retroactively were just respecting the will of rewriting the law, backdating Parliament when they dethe changes and burying the stroyed gun records that were amendment in an omnibus subject to an active access-tobudget bill it introduced earlier information request and inthis month. vestigation by the information Legault calls that a “perilous commissioner. precedent� that could be used However the events in by governments to retroactively question took place before a rewrite laws on everything Conservative bill to end the from spending scandals to now-defunct, long-gun registry electoral fraud. had been passed by the House While the Conservatives of Commons in April 2012. press ahead with an omnibus To cover the RCMP’s tracks, bill that will retroactively erase the government’s most recent Canadian Press
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testify. A spokesman for Blaney would not say whether the minister would agree to attend committee hearings on what he called a “technical amendment.� “We firmly reject any claim that the RCMP did anything wrong,� spokesman Jeremy Laurin said in an email. Patricia Davidson, the Conservative vice-chair of the ethics committee, was not immediately available for comment. However Scott Simms, Darryl Dyck/CP the committee’s Liberal viceAn RCMP prepares for a change of command ceremony in chair, said it has just completed Vancouver in February 2011. The Harper government moved a study on identity theft and to retroactively rewrite Canada’s access to information law in has an opening to take on new order to prevent possible criminal charges against the RCMP. business, although time is budget bill exempts all long agency or department that was tight. The Commons is set to rise gun registry records from the involved in illegally shredding for the summer recess by June Access to Information Act, as documents would set a very, 23 and won’t likely return bewell as any investigations, com- very dangerous precedent for fore Canadians go to the polls plaints or judicial proceedings future governments,� New to elect a new government in related to those records – and Democrat Charlie Angus, a October. backdates the changes to Octo- member of the committee on The NDP’s Angus says ber 2011, when the bill to end access to information, privacy what’s at stake is the power of the long gun registry was first and ethics, said in an interview. government to effectively neuintroduced in Parliament. “This is staggering on a ter independent parliamentary That’s cause for a parlianumber of levels.� watchdogs while giving itself mentary investigation, the The NDP motion for the the power to rewrite history to official Opposition NDP said ethics committee requests negate criminal charges. Tuesday and they’re requesting that the Justice Department “This isn’t inside-the-bubble that the Commons ethics com- produce “all of its documents bickering,� said Angus. “These mittee study the matter. relating to this case� and that are the institutions that “It doesn’t matter what MacKay, Public Safety Minisare supposed to have the party you’re in, the issue of be- ter Steven Blaney and RCMP power to ensure that parliaing able to retroactively change Commissioner Bob Paulson, mentarians and government laws to protect a government among others, be called to remain honest.�
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Piggybacking political trips and official business: a favourite political twofer Jennifer Ditchburn
Some of his public events are not Lecce in an email. open to the media. “As the prime minister is He participated in a roundprohibited from flying comOTTAWA table Wednesday night with mercial for security reasons, nnouncement, political rally, business leaders in Windsor, Ont., when the prime minister flies for photo-op, political rally, anfollowed by a reception with the Conservative party business, the nouncement, repeat as needed. newly nominated local Conserva- Conservative party reimburses The prime minister’s travel tive candidate and other support- the government the cost of the agenda these days is a neat pack- ers. Thursday morning there was equivalent commercial flight.� age of taxpayer-paid photo opa Windsor event highlighting the The opposition leaders also portunities paired with Conseryet-to-be-passed budget proposal travel on the public dime and vative rallies – a popular twofer for an accelerated capital cost al- wind up at party events during in Canadian politics. lowance and another to name the their voyages. Tom Mulcair, leader of the planned bridge between the city Mulcair spokesman George official Opposition also travels and Detroit. Smith says the party pays for across the country using his Thursday night, he hit a some, but not all, of the costs of House of Commons budget. Conservative rally in Truro, Nova the leader’s trips. Between AprilFolks around Ottawa will say Scotia. Laureen Harper made December, 2014, the Montrealit’s been ever thus, piggybacking an appearance at a fundraiser in based MP spent $45,520.33 in a political event onto one covered Nova Scotia for MP Scott Armtravel, according to his public by the public purse. Which event strong. Friday morning, Harper disclosures. was planned first is a chickenannounced a new community To date, Liberal Leader Justin and-the-egg type question that is infrastructure program linked Trudeau’s public disclosure shows never quite spelled out. with Canada’s 150th birthday in no travel expenses for last year But these days the matter of 2017. under the Commons budget, what constitutes legitimate of“When the prime minister but some trips have not yet been ficial travel for parliamentarians flies for government business, the logged. is facing scrutiny in an Ottawa costs are paid for by the govern“The Liberal Party of Canada courtroom. ment,� said spokesman Stephen pays for any party-related tours Suspended Sen. Mike Duffy faces several fraud and breach of trust charges related to trips he took that involved political activities. Among his defences is that he did attend public events during those trips to deliver speeches for the local MP – meeting local RESIDENTIAL AND COMMERCIAL CONSTRUCTION mayors or a human rights activVisit us on SERVING THE YUKON FOR 20 YEARS facebook. ist, for example. 1BVM -JMMJBO .BSUJO t t He also argues that partisan paulmartincontracting@hotmail.com activities are a part of a senator’s core functions. Harper’s travel last week included a mix of photo opportunities and political get-togethers. Canadian Press
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‘There’s a pressing need:’ Plans for Inuit university taking shape law. Research would be limited to what Inuit care about. erhaps they’ll call it Inga“One participant noted langaittuqsiurvik – an Inuit that the European tradition of word meaning “standing in an ‘knowledge for knowledge’s sake’ elevated place where you can see does not align with Inuit beliefs far distances.� and values, and as such should That’s one of the names not be promoted or supported suggested for a proposed Inuit by a university in Inuit Nunanuniversity, an old Arctic dream gat,� says the report. that’s getting a renewed push Funding, said Ma, would due to corporate money and come from a mix of private and a recent high-level report that public sources. sketches out what Canada’s “It’s going to take a lot more northernmost academic institu- than $5 million.� tion could look like. Audla said the institution “There’s certainly a lot more would create opportunities for interest in it,� said Peter Ma, Inuit and make university attenNunavut’s deputy education dance easier both culturally and minister. “It’s all across the board geographically. But it would also in the territory and elsewhere.� be a crucial voice for Inuit in Canada is the only Arctic na- Canadian society, he suggested. tion that doesn’t have a univer“It’s based on Inuit becoming sity in its northern regions and more aware of where they stand the idea has been talked about at in society in general. When it least since 2007. Quebec-based comes to the decision-makers, mining company Agnico Eagle, academia has a lot of influence. which operates a gold mine in When you have that, the more Nunavut, recently offered the credence you’re given.� territory $5 million to start one There are some opportunities up. for post-secondary education in “It’s obvious there’s a pressNunavut. Nunavut Arctic Coling need,� said Terry Audla, head lege brokers degrees in education of Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami, the and nursing through southern Canadian branch of the interna- institutions. The University of tional Inuit organization. the Arctic offers distance educaIn April, Ma and Audla took tion through more than 100 part in a conference that brought institutions around the northern together northern educators, world. government and land-claim Neither are the same as havorganizations to lay the ground- ing a local university, said Ma. work for a report released earlier “It’s an inspirational thing. If this month. something is closer to home, I The institution would be think you’re more motivated and located in Iqaluit and would more inspired to achieve.� need to be independent of both Institutions already in the government and Inuit organiza- Arctic, such as the Nunavut tions, the report says. While it Research Centre and the unwould be open to all, it would der-construction High Arctic mostly serve Inuit students from Research Station, could provide across the North some expertise, the report says. Classes in traditional Inuit But Ma acknowledges that any knowledge and language would sod-turning for Inuit U is a long be mandatory for all. Elders way off. could be given the same status – Still, Audla said, momentum and salary – as full professors. is building. An initial course list was “There is the interest and proposed: Inuit studies, fine arts, the potential to get it all tolinguistics, political science and gether. It could be a matter of a indigenous governance, educacouple of years. That’s hopeful, tion, health, natural science and but realistic.� Bob Weber
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Inside one of Canada’s most decrepit prisons: Baffin Correctional in Iqaluit Bob Weber Canadian Press
IQALUIT, NUNAVUT he intake cell at what may be Canada’s most decrepit prison at one time offered all sorts of useful information. Names on the walls would let you know who was inside. Tidbits such as “---- is a rat” might suggest who couldn’t be trusted. And the sentence once carved into the door was probably the most succinct orientation new prisoners ever received to Nunavut’s notorious Baffin Correctional Centre in Iqaluit. “It said, ‘Welcome to hell,”’ recalled guard Susan Idlout. “When that door closes and you see that, you don’t feel so good.” It’s all been removed by a $900,000 renovation that is cleaning up the prison’s pervasive mould, its broken fire sprinklers, its punchedout walls, its uncleanable bathrooms. A new building next door has eased overcrowding and prisoners no longer bunk down in the gym. “It was pretty gross walking in there in the morning,” said director of corrections JP Deroy. “Thirty men and no bathroom.” But a federal auditor general’s report released in March remains harshly critical of corrections in Nunavut. “The Department of Justice has not met its key responsibilities for inmates within the correctional system,” it concludes. That assessment was echoed by an email from a senior Nunavut bureaucrat to Justice Minister Paul Okalik earlier this year. Deputy justice minister Elizabeth Sanderson wrote: “Nunavut is likely in significant breach of constitutional obligations towards remanded accused
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and inmates … and faces a high risk of civil liability towards inmates, staff and members of the public.” A walk with Deroy through the battered building known unaffectionately as BCC reveals why, in 2013, a federal investigator said it was unsafe for inmates and staff. Built for 68 minimum-security prisoners, it has averaged more than 80 and up to 115 at any one time, from all security levels, including remand. That kind of overcrowding, with six prisoners in nine square metres of cell, wears on a building. Vandalized sprinkler heads allowed water to seep into walls. Floors around overused toilets were constantly damp. Mould was everywhere. So was the odour of mildew. Holes in hallway walls attest to too many men in too small a space with too much anger. “The wall is an easy target,” said Deroy. In one still-used cell, heat registers were falling off the wall and ceiling tiles were dropping. A patched hole that had been chipped through the wall once allowed the passage of drugs and money to other cells. Because BCC wasn’t built to maximum-security standards, holes are common. The outside of the building is pocked with metal plates sealing off passageways punched through by prisoners. Deroy tells of one inmate opening a ceiling-light fixture, sneaking through the ducting and breaking into the prison canteen. The toll overcrowding has taken on the building is nothing compared to its toll on inmates. With no space to segregate the dangerous prisoners from the rest, violence has been common. Auditor general Michael Ferguson noted that physical assaults on inmates, staff or visitors more
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The common area of the new wing of the Baffin Correctional Centre in Iqaluit.
than tripled to 185 between 2002 and 2012. A carving program in the prison yard was cancelled years ago because participants were being forced to mule contraband. “Some of the carvers got beat up pretty good,” said Idlout. Space for education is makeshift. With no room to do much other than warehouse inmates, little programming is conducted. The auditor general found that out of 24 inmates surveyed, none had case plans designed to guide their rehabilitation. Only one-third of prisoners needing mental services had access to them. Nor is the overcrowding good for Nunavut communities. Deroy said judges know what BCC is like and, if they can, sentence accordingly. “You often see people on probation that if they were down south, they would be sentenced to custody. “If we had one wish as to what we would need, we’d ask for space. We need space.” Things are improving. New paint and renovations mean the place no longer smells like a damp dishtowel. An adjacent 48-bed, minimumsecurity facility called Makigiarvik
that opened in March is easing some of the overcrowding. So is a new 48-bed minimum- and mediumsecurity prison in Rankin Inlet. Deroy hopes the new facilities will help keep numbers in the old building down to about 60. “We’re able to separate our groups,” he said. “It actually allows us to work more closely with the offenders and do the programming that we want to do.” Makigiarvik, a $16-million bright, fresh place with a proper classroom and high ceilings, gives Deroy a carrot to motivate offenders to good behaviour. And it gives him a little peace of mind.
“When we didn’t have this building, you go to bed at night thinking, ‘Is this the night you’re going to get a call that something major is happening?’ I sleep a little better now.” Still, the auditor general says Nunavut has a way to go. Even with the new facilities, he predicted Nunavut will be short 70 prison beds within the next decade. And there’s still no maximum-security space. “The Department of Justice should acquire sufficient maximumsecurity beds and also ensure that medium-security inmates and those on remand are properly housed,” the report says. The territorial government has provided an official response: “The Corrections Division recognizes the need for maximum-security beds and that currently the territory’s maximum-security needs are not being met. In conjunction with other government departments we are exploring further funding options to address our capacity needs.” A “business case” for a maximum-security facility is being prepared, the response says. Deroy said the offenders under his charge deserve at least that much. “These people that are with us, they come from our families. They come from our communities. “They’re our people.”
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FRIDAY, MAY 22, 2015
As parched California digs deeper into water cuts, farmers with strongest rights offer deal Fenit Nirappil & Scott Smith
Francisco Bay and is one of the main water sources for farms and Associated Press communities. Meanwhile, a second category SACRAMENTO, CALIF. of senior rights holders are makalifornia farmers who ing a surprise effort to stave off hold rights to water that those kinds of cuts. Farmers who date back as far as the hold longstanding claims to water Gold Rush are bracing for their because their land lies along the first state-ordered conservation waterways of the Sacramentoin decades, as a record drought San Joaquin river delta offered to prompts some of the deepest cuts voluntarily reduce their water use yet in the country’s most produc- by a quarter. tive agricultural state. Officials promised a decision After telling cities and towns to Friday on that offer, which would slash water use by 25 per cent and yield on some of the most ironcutting deliveries to some farmclad water rights in California, as ers and others, state officials said they try to chart a path forward Wednesday that they would start for a state locked in its driest fourmandatory cuts this week to the year period on record. state’s oldest rights holders, who “For me, 25 per cent I can hanare historically spared from water dle,� said Gino Celli, who farms restrictions. 5,000 acres of tomatoes, alfalfa Regulators said the first orders and corn in the delta. “Anything Friday will affect those holdmore than that – man, I’m done.� ing century-old water rights in It is unclear whether the farmthe watershed of the San Joaers’ offer would go far enough to quin River, which runs from the save waterways drying up around Sierra Nevada mountains to San much of the state, following a
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water taken from the land in California. Senior water-rights holders alone consume trillions of gallons of water a year, although the state doesn’t know exactly how much they use because of unreliable data collection. Regulators don’t have widespread remote sensors or meters to make sure water isn’t diverted. The cutback orders instead are enforced by honour system and complaints. Only a fifth of junior water-rights holders already told to stop pumping from the San Joaquin watershed have confirmed they were complying, a water board official said Wednesday. Agriculture experts say they expect only modest immediate effects on food prices from cuts to the senior water-rights holders. Farmers will likely use their limited water to grow valuable crops, such as almonds, while less valuable crops, such as alfalfa, will be grown outside California, said Jay Lund, director of the Center for Watershed Sciences at the University of California, Davis. The mandatory cuts scheduled for Friday would be the first to the state’s senior water-rights holders overall since the 1970s, and first to senior holders along the San Joaquin in memory. “This is challenging. It’s not about making everyone happy,� Felicia Marcus, chairwoman of the state Water Resources Control Board, said at a public hearing Wednesday. “It’s about figuring out how to make terrible choices in the most fair and equitable way possible.� Board Director Tom Howard said that whatever he decides on the farmers’ offer for voluntary cuts will apply beyond the river delta to the entire basin of the Sacramento River, which supplies most of the surface water in the food-producing Central Valley and the drinking water to homeowners as far south as San Diego. That deal would not apply to hundreds of others with claims to
water before 1914, among the few groups spared cutbacks in four years of drought, until now. California’s water rights system is built around the claims staked in the 19th century. Nearly 4,000 companies, farms and individuals are first in line to receive water because they made claims to water before 1914 or have property touching a waterway. The ranks of senior waterrights holders include the cities of San Francisco and Los Angeles and rural irrigation districts that supply thousands of farms. Regulators haven’t ordered them to stop pumping since 1977, during the state’s last major drought. That order applied only to dozens along a stretch of the Sacramento River, and the water board has since gained new power to punish those who illegally take water, including $10,000 daily penalties. Delta farmer Rudy Mussi already has ordered tomato plants and prepared fields and said he needs to know how often, or if, he can water them. “Until the fine print is out, I don’t know,� Mussi said about joining the voluntary cuts. “If I can make it work, hey, I’ll do my darndest.� Brown has come under criticism for sparing farmers with senior water rights from the mandatory cutbacks. Increasing amounts of the state’s irrigation water goes to specialty crops such as almonds, whose growers are expanding production despite the drought. Mandatory orders could put some farmers in the delta east of San Francisco out of business, said John Herrick, manager of the South Delta Water Agency. When the state cutback order comes, the farmers will immediately try to block it in court, he said. “That doesn’t mean we’ll win,� Herrick said. “But that’s what we’ll do.�
FRIDAY, MAY 22, 2015
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YUKON NEWS
Getting to the core of food needs in Haines Junction
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The Little Green Apple opened its doors in Haines Junction in December. For three years, the community didn’t have a grocery store.
The Little Green Apple offers a mix of natural and organic foods to go along with mainstream igh ceilings, track lightgroceries. ing and wooden shelving You can find freshly baked are not what you would croissants, cinnamon buns and expect to see inside a typical breads or pick up a cup of Midhighway stop in the Yukon, let night Sun coffee. alone one that also offers parsnip One traveler even came back chips and organic yogurts. for the brew four times, PawBut the owner of the Little lovich said. Green Apple in Haines Junction “We’re trying to serve a says her store is anything but multitude of tastes out here,” she typical. added. “It’s on the trendy side,” said “As we get to know our cusPaula Pawlovich. tomers better, we’ll fine tune our It’s been six months since the purchasing and the products we experienced entrepreneur opened offer. Rome wasn’t built in a day.” the doors to her new business, It was a hectic opening day, ending a three-year absence of a Pawlovich said, that included the grocery store in the community. untimely crash of her point-ofThe closure of Madley’s sale system. General Store in the fall of 2011 But fortunately, people waiting meant that residents in the area in line were understanding, she had to drive to Whitehorse to get added. their groceries, a 300-kilometre “It’s not like we bought a chain drive round-trip. and it came with an instrucMyles Dolphin News Reporter
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tion manual, we did this from scratch.” These days she’s gearing up for a busy summer season, having worked out most of the kinks that come with running a grocery store. After Pawlovich and her partner bought a gas station a few years ago, the building next to it was “begging to be turned into a little grocery store.” As she began her research into how other stores were set up, she was particularly inspired by the Mountain Market in Haines, Alaska as well as the Riverside Grocery store in Whitehorse, she said. One day, while she was shopping at Choices Markets in Vancouver, she ran into the manager of the store and ended up having lunch with him to learn more about the business side of things. “Food is a fragile business,” she said, “because you’re not just
dealing with buying something, you’re managing best before dates and what people like and don’t like.” “It’s like a giant Tetris puzzle that you’re constantly trying to finish but it never ends. And supplies is a whole other kettle of fish.” But starting a new business is familiar territory for Pawlovich, who has also run a construction company, a hotel, a desktop publishing company and a video production company in the 30 years she’s been in the Yukon. She said there was a moment when she wanted to give it all up, comparing it to when she went into labour with her eldest daughter. “I remember thinking, I don’t want to play this game anymore, it’s too hard,” she said. “But we’re open, the community loves it and we’ll keep getting better.”
Pawlovich is hoping that a low Canadian dollar, coupled with low gas prices, will encourage Alaskans to venture into the Yukon this summer. She’s doing well financially, she said, but would like to be busier. That will depend largely on Haines Junction residents weaning off their dependence on Whitehorse businesses, she added. “If you provide good service, a good product mix at good prices, a place that’s clean and friendly, people will start changing their routines,” she said. The Little Green Apple is open Monday to Saturday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., and from noon to 5 p.m. on Sundays. Starting June 1, it will be open Monday to Saturday from 8:30 a.m. to 7 p.m., and from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Sundays. Contact Myles Dolphin at myles@yukon-news.com
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FRIDAY, MAY 22, 2015
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FRIDAY, MAY 22, 2015
Up to 185,000 jobs could be lost in oil and gas industry this year, study says direct and indirect job losses in Canada this year, according to a new study by an industry group. CALGARY The report, released Tuesday hrinking budgets in the by the labour market division oil and gas industry could of Enform, says the potential lead to as many as 185,000 Ian Bickis
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ies. The job figures include anyone employed by an oil and gas company as well as anyone who sells directly to those in the industry. “It may be the helicopter pilot who’s flying for the industry,� says Howes. “But it might not necessarily be the person who works down the road in a restaurant.� The study was also based on January oil prices, which averaged US$47 a barrel, while oil has recently been trading closer to US$60 a barrel. Jim Fearon, vice-president for Central Canada at recruitment firm Hays, says the bump in the oil price has given companies some breathing room. “It’s given companies time to pause and gather their thoughts and plan, without having to make too many knee-jerk reactions,� he said. “Maybe we’ll see some companies starting to look at where they can spend money, get business-critical projects over the line,� said Fearon. “That could restrict or reduce the number of jobs that get lost.� Last week, drilling firm Trican Well Services announced 2,000 job cuts across North America. The move followed job cuts at many major oil and gas companies in recent months. Alberta’s unemployment rate was 5.5 per cent in April, the highest since mid-2011 but still far lower than the 7.3 per cent unemployment rate in the midst of the recession in late 2009. Oil was trading at around US$57 a barrel this week, a far cry from the over US$100 a barrel it fetched in May of last year.
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Insolvencies rising for the first time since the recession Craig Wong
For example, Trican Well Ser- debt is a key risk to the economy. vice announced last week that it A prolonged period of low would cut 2,000 people from its interest rates has helped boost OTTAWA North American workforce, just household debt to record levels. he number of Canadians the latest firm to make such a Statistics Canada reported who can’t pay their debts decision. earlier this year that households and are being forced into Tal noted the shift to propos- in the fourth-quarter of last year insolvency is on the rise for the als followed changes in 2008 owed about $1.63 in consumer first time since the recession, ac- that increased to $250,000 from credit, mortgage and non-mortcording to a report by CIBC. $75,000 the limit of non-mortgage loans for every dollar of The bank says the cumulative gage debt that can be considered disposable income. under such arrangements, makHowever, data also suggests number of insolvencies rose by ing the option more attractive that while Canadian families 1.2 per cent in the six-month than bankruptcy. are borrowing more, that period ended in February. “The opposing trajectories increase has come against a The overall increase came as backdrop of rising asset values, personal bankruptcies fell by 4.7 of proposals and bankruptcies have led to a situation in which notably real estate worth. per cent. However the number proposals now account for a Tal noted that if interest rates of proposals, where consumers start to increase, the number negotiate to repay only a portion record-high 50 per cent of total insolvencies,” Tal said. of insolvencies could rise even of their debt, rose by no less The Bank of Canada and further. than nine per cent. others have suggested consumer “Given the increased sensitivCIBC economist Benjamin Tal noted the affect of lower oil prices is starting to show. The number of insolvencies in Manitoba and Saskatchewan rose by almost 11 per cent, while Alberta saw an increase of 6.5 per cent. In contrast, the number of insolvencies in Ontario fell by h TRIBAL almost seven per cent. BOUTIQUE h KENSIE “Zooming in on the situation h PAPILLON in Alberta, there are reasons to Check us out on h LOIS JEANS believe that the coming quarters will see continued deteriorah PRETTY WOMAN TUESDAY - FRIDAY 10:30AM-6PM tion,” Tal wrote in the report. SATURDAY 10AM-5:30PM Weak oil prices have prompted some of the industry’s biggest 50% off Fall Fashions! 2ND FLOOR SHOPPERS PLAZA, names to cut capital spending Sizes 2-18 S-XXL (Excludes Jewellery & Accessories) MAIN STREET plans for this year and reduce staff in order to lower costs. Canadian Press
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Date: May 26th Time: 6:00PM Place: Kwanlin Dun Multipurpose Room Autism Yukon is proud to invite together interested organizations, parents and caregivers, media, and the public, to a Round Table Soiree on May 26th. Our facilitated discussion is intended to put together ideas from a variety of people who are all involved in the upbringing and education of children and adults with unique needs. Questions we will be dealing with: “What does your child need to thrive in school” “Are they able to meet their potential” “What needs to be put in place so that children’s transitions from PreSchool to School, Middle School to High School, and High School to Adulthood, goes smoothly.” Please join us in this discussion as we need your ideas and opinions!
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FRIDAY, MAY 22, 2015
Tesla’s home battery has captivated imaginations, but what do you really get for your money? Jonathan Fahey Associated Press
NEW YORK lon Musk, the star CEO of the electric car company Tesla Motors and the rocket company SpaceX, staged an elaborate event last month to unveil a new product. Not a sleek new luxury car. Not a rocket that can ferry people to Mars. A home appliance – a battery that can be mounted on a garage wall and ignored. The reason for all the excitement is because of what batteries like these might someday do. They may make the electric power grid more robust and able to handle increasing amounts of wind and solar power. In conjunction with rooftop solar systems, batteries may help homeowners reduce their electric bills. And some homeowners, like Mike Thielen – who installed a Tesla battery prototype last year in his Redondo Beach, California, home as part of a state home storage testing program – would like to use them to say goodbye to their electric utility forever. “I think it’s brilliant,” Thielen said of Tesla’s home battery. “I would consider upgrading to a more powerful home battery if they could figure out a way to get me totally off the grid.” That future, though, is not close. “Off-grid electricity supply will remain punishingly expensive for the foreseeable future,” wrote Bernstein Research analyst Hugh Wynne in a recent report. For now, and likely for several more years, Tesla’s home battery, called a Powerwall, is a backup power source not much different from the generators for sale at
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owners to get more use out of their batteries. As a back-up power source, a battery is small, unobtrusive, and tucked away on a wall. If paired with a solar system, it doesn’t require any gasoline, diesel or other fuel – which might also run out during an emergency. And it doesn’t produce any exhaust that can be dangerous if not vented properly. In locations with very high power costs, like Hawaii, or very unreliable power, like in some developing countries, solar paired with a battery could be worthwhile right away. Batteries could also help solar customers in the states that don’t allow home-generated solar to offset grid power use get more value out of their panels. With a battery, customers could store the Ringo H.W. Chiu/AP excess power the panels someTesla Motors Inc. CEO Elon Musk unveils the company’s newest product, Powerwall, in times generate for use later. Hawthorne, Calif, on April 15. And in the future, it’s expected that more utilities and any hardware store. It will keep Musk is SolarCity’s chairman ator long ago. regulators will allow power The price to go completely off prices to change throughout the the lights on and the refrigerand largest shareholder. the grid is even higher because ator cold during a blackout, but SolarCity offers a 9-year day based on market conditions. it doesn’t run power-hungry Powerwall lease for $5,000 when that would require a rooftop Such a change would mean the devices like air conditioners or part of a rooftop solar panel in- solar system bigger than what software that controls the solar clothes dryers. stallation and financing contract. is now usually installed, and and battery system could help at least two Powerwall batterAt an installed cost of about To buy and install the battery customers save money by using $7,000, it’s an appliance that outside of financing a solar deal, ies. That kind of system would home-generated power when cost $96,000 without subsidies, makes very little financial sense the price is $7,140. grid prices are high. about 74 years of electric bills for most people. That’s some pricey power, Batteries could really start to Tesla lists the price of the bat- given how infrequently the lights for an average U.S. customer, make financial sense if home calculates Bernstein Research’s tery at $3,500, but that does not go out. The average U.S. home and commercial batteries could Wynne. Even assuming the cost include installation, or an addi- loses power for just under two be turned into so-called virtual of solar and batteries declines tional piece of equipment called hours a year. Over the course of power plants. Companies are by 80 per cent in the coming an inverter that is needed to a nine-year lease that average working on systems that conyears and that it will be subsidconnect the battery to the home. homeowner would pay $277 for ized by clean-energy incentives, trol a large group of batteries To get a sense of the system’s each hour the battery is running. the system would still cost 2.5 together as if it were one large full price look to Tesla’s sister To some, that peace of mind times more than buying electri- power source. Battery owners company SolarCity, a solar panel may be worth it, though many might be able to sell their stored city from the grid, according to installer founded by Musk’s who wanted that peace of mind Wynne. electricity to utilities during cousins Lyndon and Peter Rive. bought a home backup generperiods of high demand on the The Tesla battery still has grid – which would help them appeal, however, and that appay off their otherwise ignored peal could grow with regulatory changes that would enable and expensive appliances faster.
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The St. Elias Lions Club held their ‘Jorg Schneider Memorial’ ATV run on May 9 at Haines Junction and again it was extremely well attended. We would like to thank all of the participants and the following sponsors that support this event:
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Also, “thank you” to everyone that help make the event a success. This includes Shawkwunlee Dunena Sports Society for organizing the refreshments; the R.C.M.P. for their presence; the Village of Haines Junction and Champagne & Aishihik First Nation. From this event, the Club is able to donate to the Haines Junction Library and the Drivers Education Course which is organized every year by the St. Elias Community School.
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LIFE The last ride of the man called Overshoes
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The tombstone of Eddie Overshoes at Hillside Cemetery in Dawson City
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hen your given and legal name is Edward Roy Overton from Laval, Quebec, and you are a former Canadian paratrooper and Korean war veteran who first viewed the Yukon from beneath a silk canopy while drifting above Kluane National Park on pre-deployment airborne maneuvers in the early 1950s, maybe it’s inevitable you would be handed some kind of Yukon nickname, and “Overshoes” was the one that stuck. In subsequent winter training jumps into the Upper Lakes near Lake Bennett, Overton decided he would settle in a Carcross cabin if he survived the war and live out his days with a fishing rod, so impressed was he with the mountains, lakes and scenery. Of course, when that day finally arrived, even idealistic vets need jobs to survive and Dawson City had lots of those with the dredges so Overshoes settled into a 25-year visit to the
Klondike which he always considered temporary. As soon as he made and saved enough money for his dream cabin near Carcross, or Tagish or Atlin, he would live out his fishing fantasy and that would be the last anybody would hear of the old warrior. That day never came. By the time I met him in Dawson in the early 1970s, he was a middle-aged fixture in the heart of the Klondike and one of the most popular and well-liked men in town who may never have had another enemy once he gave up on war. He tried “the company” – Yukon Consolidated Gold Corporation – briefly working on the thawing crews but said it reminded him too much of the military with its hierarchy and no overtime. He next tried working for Parks Canada’s historic sites branch on the restoration crews putting new foundations under the many old buildings in Dawson scheduled for a new lease on life. He found he
was ideally suited for this kind of work because of his height, which he called “five foot, nuttin.’” Short and strong were attributes for working under buildings and Overshoes was both but he found his true calling in life by bartending, notably in Hank DuBois’ Downtown Hotel where he and his buddy Patty Kane entertained customers with their stories and jokes as much as their off-key singing. That was how he met the Clear Sky Boys from central Alaska, a friendship which proved pivotal and, ultimately, fatal.
••• The Clear Sky Boys were cold warriors, highly trained civilian contractors who worked on a mysterious military base located somewhere close to Clear, Alaska just a short distance south of Fairbanks on the road to Denali and Anchorage. Their jobs were “top secret” and they were not allowed to discuss them with anybody. One of them once took me
aside and said: “Look, we all know you are just a nosey young friend of ours from Canada but you’ve got to stop with the questions. Technically, we’re supposed to report anybody who questions what we do to our security people, who you don’t want to meet. Our work is classified intelligence and all you’re doing with your questions is making all of us feel uncomfortable, OK? So clam up.” I suspected “the base” was a Distant Early Warning site and their jobs were to be the first line of defence in the event of a surprise Russian nuclear missile attack at the height of the Cold War. I also surmised it was a suicide job because married men were not allowed to do it. If the Russians ever attacked to start WW III, Washington wanted the first nukes to detonate over central Alaska, not the nation’s capital. And they were all paid ridiculously big money to see that it happened that way. There were seven of them, five
from Washington and Oregon and one each from Idaho and Minnesota. In a nutshell, they all got rich by spending their working careers in a remote Alaskan bunker waiting for the Russians to attack. Off duty, they were all avid hunters, fishermen and party animals, typical Alaskans who sported big, bushy beards. They looked more like hippies than cold warriors, which was part of their cover. It was a ritual every spring as soon as the snow was gone from the Top of the World Highway between Tetlin Junction and Dawson City to head for the Klondike for a weeklong soiree, which is how they got to know Overshoes. The ringleader was a short, stocky airplane enthusiast from Oregon named Bruce Hardin who got married and had to quit his job. So he purchased Clear Sky Lodge which was their off-duty party base. Overshoes introduced me to all of them on one of their spring jaunts and I was immedi-
FRIDAY, MAY 22, 2015 ately accepted because any friend of Overshoes was a friend of theirs, even if he asked too many dumb questions. It also helped that I had served in the U.S. Marine Corp. and was a Vietnam veteran. They respected that. After so many trips to Dawson over the years to party with Overshoes, they were frustrated that they were never able to talk him into coming to Alaska so they could repay the hospitality at Clear. Hardin told me they tried everything to get Overshoes to Alaska, including offering to fly him over in Hardin’s prop, but they couldn’t get him out of Dawson because he was an avid gardener in the summers and liked to hibernate in the winters. Finally, an opportunity presented itself and it was all my doing, something I’ve never been able to forgive myself. If I hadn’t taken Overshoes to Alaska, he might have lived to become an old man instead of dying at the young age of 47.
••• Overshoes loved boxing, a true fight fan and be could talk for hours about it, even though he’d never seen a championship fight in person. His favourite fighter was Joe Louis and his favourite fight was when Louis KO’d Max Schmelling, Hitler’s fighter. That was the fight when Louis said: “He can run but he can’t hide,” which Overshoes quoted frequently. Although I wasn’t a fight nut like Eddie, I was a big Muhammad Ali fan and I knew his upcoming third match with Joe Frazier was going to be a classic. Frazier pounded Ali in the first one, knocking him on his butt in the 14th round, the first loss of his career. Ali won the second with his speed and footwork, which kept him out of range of Frazier’s lethal
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who came out to finally meet this Yukon legend they had been hearing about for years. And he didn’t disappoint. Overshoes knew when it was show time. He must have done his FDR imitation 20 times for different audiences: “We, the people of the United States of America, hate war. I, your president, hate war. My wife, Eleanor, hates war … and I hate my wife, Eleanor.” The Clear Sky Boys wanted Overshoes’ week in their town to be memorable, something they would never forget, so they arranged bands to play in the lodge, and their jobs may have prevented them from having wives but there was no mention in the regulations about girlfriends. They were all over the place and they all wanted to dance with Eddie, who surprised me with his outdated footwork and stamina. Alaskan women are crazy, even the ones who think they aren’t, and Alaskan parties don’t end early. They go on for days. After a dance, one asked me the time, which I told her was five o’clock, and she said: “Morning or evening?” I won’t recap the fight, that’s been done elsewhere many years ago, but Overshoes, the fight expert, agreed with the decision in Ali’s favour even though he was pulling for Smokin’ Joe. He made a comment about Frazier jabbing with his head that summed it all up. Frazier must have thrown 50 big left hooks in that fight which hit nothing but air. Ali was just too quick for him. On the way back down the highway to Whitehorse, Eddie said the whole thing was one of the best experiences of his life and he’d never forget any of it. When we got to Whitehorse, he was aglow telling Patty and Cal some of the stories of what we saw and did in Alaska,
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and I felt good knowing Overshoes had a full magazine of stories to get through the rest of the winter. Within a week, he was dead. The friend who was supposed to look after his place, didn’t. The pipes had burst and his kitchen looked like a glacier. Instead of moving into Hank’s hotel and working on drying his house from a distance, he stayed in it during the cold snap and got pneumonia.
His funeral was the biggest and saddest I ever saw in Dawson. It was like the whole town lost its best friend. He’s buried in the Dome Road cemetery. Doug Sack was the first sports editor of the Yukon News and later a longtime sports editor of the Whistler Question and a columnist and features writer for Ski Canada magazine. He is currently semi-retired in Whitehorse.
ATTENTION: ALL First Nation of Na-cho Nyäk Dun MEETING Citizenship Code Review Committee MAY 26th at 7:00 PM in Mayo at the Mayo Rec Centre MAY 27th at 7:00 PM in Whitehorse at the NNDDC Boardroom Yukon Inn Plaza, Ste. 2, 4230 Fourth Avenue FINAL DRAFT of Amendments to Part V of the NND Constitution.
A PROCLAMATION WHEREAS, Yukon art and craft enrich the artistic and cultural life of Yukon people; and WHEREAS, objects made by Yukon craft artists in glass, wood, ceramics, metal, textiles and more represent tradition, artistry, innovation, identity, and diversity; and WHEREAS, the craft sector makes an important contribution to community life and economic diversity; and WHEREAS, in recognition of national Craft Year, Yukoners join with other provinces and territories to celebrate and appreciate the active craft community in Yukon and the place of craft in Canadian culture; THEREFORE, I, Doug Phillips, Commissioner of Yukon, do hereby proclaim 2015 to be
CRAFT YEAR 2015 in Yukon, and encourage all Yukon people to participate in the activities planned to celebrate Craft Year. GIVEN UNDER my hand and seal at Whitehorse, Yukon on March 27, 2015.
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Give us a break: community-based respite still needed outing. This was the reality of people magine not being able to leave interviewed in 1990 as part of a research project done by the the house to go shopping or Yukon Association for Communon a date with your partner. Imagine always having to leave ity Living. It is still the reality of many parents today. family members at home – one The study, “Helping Yukoners to take care of the other – while support family members with the rest of the family goes on an Jennifer Ellis
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A BIG THANKS TO‌ Front Street Clothing, Coast Mountain Sports and Sports Experts, Seasons Galleria, Board Stiff, The Soccer Shoppe, Sandor’s, The Studio, Unity Clothing, Trilogy Style Loft, Zoomz Women’s Fashions, Sportees Active Wear, Listers Motorsports, Leaping Feats Creative Dance Works, Salon Centre Yukon, Steve Hare, Yukon News, Whitehorse Star, and CBC Radio Our Stylists: Amanda Fuerstner, Jamie Williams, Victoria Williams, Kace Delafoss, and Kaitlin Byers, and our Makeup Artist: Harold Cook.
disabilities: A study of respite care needs and options,� interviewed 39 people around the Yukon who had a family member with a disability living at home. People talked about the time spent providing physical care, getting medical support, monitoring the individual, and advocating for effective services and supports. They spoke about how their work was negatively affected, finances drained, social lives restricted, family relationships impacted and personal health compromised. In earlier years many of family members with disabilities would have been sent to institutions outside of the territory, but the growing recognition of the negative impacts of institutions – and of the rights of all people to live in their homes and communities – meant children with disabilities were increasingly staying in the Yukon in a family setting. At the time, the only way families with children with severe disabilities could get a break was to put their child in respite beds in the hospital. It usually wasn’t a preferred option. One parent quoted in the Yukon News in 1992 said, “We want him at home. We don’t want him in the hospital. I have to push myself to say it’s time to put him in.� In the mid-1990s, plans for a new hospital in Whitehorse did
not include space for respite beds, so a group of parents formed the Evergreen Respite Society and intensively lobbied for a 24-hour residential respite care home for children with severe disabilities. They argued it would be less expensive for government to run and more home-like for their children. But the government said a separate facility wasn’t feasible and chose instead to add respite beds to the Thompson Centre, an extended care facility primarily for the elderly. Disappointed parents raised concerns about safety and about care by staff who were trained to work with the elderly. A few years later, many of the same concerns were raised again with the building of Copper Ridge Place. Although this new facility was to include a separate children’s unit for both chronic and respite care, it was seen as being inadequate and inappropriate. “All the things normal kids experience are not even possible at Copper Ridge,� said a YACL board member, Joanne Stanhope, in 2002. “People can’t walk into the centre and see anything they’d see in a ‘normal’ home.� Government offered some financial support for families wanting respite care in their homes, but families wanting to access respite services had to go
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Canadian researcher’s invention helps fight anemia in the third world Michelle McQuigge
keted towards aid organizations, but Armstrong said he hopes westerners adopting a low-iron lifestyle such as veganism may also find a use for the product.
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ho says fish has to be edible to be a source of iron? Not researchers from the University of Guelph. They say they’ve developed a way to help address iron deficiency in developing countries using a piece of the metal shaped like a sea creature. Researchers say placing the fishshaped block of iron into a cooking pot, adding something acidic like citrus juice and boiling it for 10 minutes greatly increases the iron content of the cooking liquid. Cooks can then remove the fish and continue with their usual preparations secure in the knowledge that they’ve added the equivalent of a chicken breast’s worth of iron to their meal. Researchers say subjects of the study in Cambodia were three times more likely to use the iron fish than to take iron supplements to address their nutritional shortfall. They also found that Cambodian women who used the fish consistently for 12 months were no longer anaemic when the year was up. The research, originated by University of Guelph PhD graduate Chris Charles, has now been parlayed into a business venture by another of the school’s doctoral candidates. Gavin Armstrong, who is building upon Charles’s research as he pursues a PhD in biomedical science, has begun selling the reusable iron fish to aid organizations and individual consumers. In his role as chief executive of Lucky Iron Fish, Armstrong said he hopes to have an impact on a pressing, worldwide public health concern.
Individuals willing to pay the $25 price tag for a single fish are also paying for the company to donate one to a Cambodian family, he said.
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A fish-shaped block of iron is shown in a handout photo. Researchers from the University of Guelph say they’ve developed a way to help address iron deficiency in developing countries using a piece of the metal shaped like a sea creature.
“Iron deficiency is the world’s most common micronutrient issue,� Armstrong said in a telephone interview from Guelph, Ont. “Current treatments are not working. It’s costing us billions of dollars, and yet it’s getting worse.� The World Health Organization describes iron deficiency as “a public health condition of epidemic proportions.� It says that more than two billion people worldwide are known to be anaemic, a condition often caused by dietary iron deficiency. Armstrong said the iron fish, which is 7.6 centimetres long and weighs about 200g, was inspired by cast iron cookware. The pots are known to leach levels of iron into the food prepared in them, but they’re also expensive and impractical for people in Third World countries. Adding iron blocks to cooking liquid seemed to reproduce the effects of cooking in cast iron, but Armstrong said respondents in Cambodia balked at that idea.
Only when researchers adapted the science to fit the local folklore did the idea take off. “There is a symbol of luck in Cambodia with a certain type of fish that, if you have it in your household, it will bring your household luck and prosperity,� he said. “When people started getting healthier, they said: ‘Oh, it’s the luck of the fish. It works.’� Armstrong said the latest data found 92 per cent of the 330 Cambodian women taking part in the study were still using the fish after one year compared to 33 per cent who were consistently taking oral supplements. Armstrong said he’s been refining Charles’ original design and developing a fish that’s available for sale. The current iron fish can safely be used once a day for five years, he said. When the smiley face painted on the front has faded, consumers know it’s time to replace it. The iron fish and accompanying training materials are largely mar-
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Provinces move to fill void on e-cigarette regulation as feds study issue Helen Branswell
afford to sit and wait for the feds to figure out where they’re going to go,” says Dr. Robert Strang, Nova TORONTO Scotia’s chief medical officer of ome May 31, vapers won’t be health. able to use electronic cigaWith a federal election slated for rettes in indoor public spaces in the fall and Parliament’s summer Nova Scotia. break mere weeks away, it seems Nova Scotians under the age of clear the legislation Strang and 19 will be barred from purchasing others are looking for will be a job e-cigarettes. for the next federal government. And the same regulations David Hammond, a public that apply to cigarettes sales – no health professor at the University displays in stores where minors of Waterloo in Waterloo, Ont., says can shop – will also pertain to the e-cigarettes have created a quancigarette substitutes. dary for Health Canada. Nova Scotia will become the “They appear to be frozen,” first province to regulate the says Hammond, whose research burgeoning use of e-cigarettes, but focuses on tobacco control, harm it won’t be alone for long. British reduction and, in recent years, Columbia, Ontario and Quebec e-cigarettes. are in the process of passing legis“I think they’re absolutely lation and several other provinces twisted in knots about this. Most have indicated they plan to as well. regulators are.” A small but growing list of In fact, the products pose a legal municipalities has instituted rules and ethical challenge, not only for limiting e-cigarette use in public Health Canada but all involved spaces (Vancouver) or municipal in the public health movement offices (Toronto). And businesses, that has, over decades, succeeded especially in the transportation in driving down smoking rates sector, have moved to prohibit use by limiting how cigarettes can be of the devices. packaged and sold and where they But as e-cigarettes have gone can be smoked. from niche to mainstream, Health Some anti-tobacco advocates Canada – which many people feel want e-cigarettes to be treated should lead the charge to establish exactly like cigarettes. They argue Canadian rules – has so far been the devices perpetuate nicotine silent. Other levels of government addiction, may entice teens to take have decided they simply cannot up smoking, and could undermine delay any longer. the hard-fought smoking bans. “It would have been, from my “Smoke-free places are a great perspective, more effective if we’d motivator for people to quit. And been able to move forward in a if you were to undermine that, co-ordinated fashion. But we can’t then you undermine the benefits Canadian Press
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Ambrose asked the health committee of the House of Commons to study e-cigarettes. The committee’s report, written after a series of consultations, was issued March 10. It recommends the federal government establish a new legal framework for e-cigarettes, sold with or without nicotine e-juice. It recommends banning sales to minors, prohibiting use in federally regulated public places, restricting advertising of the products, barring the sale of e-juice flavours – such as candy flavourings – aimed at the youth market, and establishing limits on how much Nam Y. Huh/AP nicotine e-juice can contain. “This parliamentary report, I Daryl Cura demonstrates an e-cigarette at Vape store in Chicago. think for the first time, will require them to be explicit, not just about of one of the key tobacco control tions.” strategies,” says Rob Cunningham, The legal status quo in Canada their current position but potentially where they might go. And a senior policy analyst for the is this: e-cigarettes that are sold that, I think, would benefit everyCanadian Cancer Society. with e-juice containing nicotine, body,” Hammond says. But other anti-tobacco propoor which make health claims, fall Under Parliamentary rules, nents see the devices as an oppor- under the Food and Drug Act, Health Canada must respond to tunity to get hardcore smokers to Health Canada says. That law stop consuming nicotine in a way requires Health Canada’s approval the report within 120 days, which means by July 8. If Parliament has that endangers their health and the to import, advertise or sell these already broken for the summer, health of those around them. products. And to date, Health the response must still be tabled “I’m very big on the idea of Canada has not approved a single in July. alternative nicotine and I see e-cigarette. But as one old parliamentary electronic cigarettes … as an So in theory it should be imposindication of where we could go,” sible to buy e-cigarettes with nico- hand notes, some government says David Sweanor, a Univertine-containing e-juice in Canada. responses to reports are more detailed than others. With the legsity of Ottawa law professor who There’s a lot of daylight between islative stasis that accompanies the has worked for years in tobacco theory and reality, however. control. “You can (find them) down any run up to elections, Health Canada The potential promise and Main Street,” says Hammond. “I’ve may not feel compelled to tip its hand at this point. perceived perils of e-cigarettes have got one (store) about 100 metres Strang insists he remains hopedriven a huge wedge through the from my office. They’re selling ful the federal government will anti-tobacco community. nicotine containing e-juice.” “There are bitter divides in Health Canada may be working make its position clear. “From my perspective, we need terms of people’s opinions,” says on new rules for e-cigarettes. (The to be acknowledging the risks and Hammond. Canadian Press asked the depart“They still share the same goal. ment for an interview on the issue, benefits of these products and creating some appropriate regulatory It’s actually just that people think but received written answers to environments. And the sooner we that these products are going to questions instead.) do that, the better.” push the needle in different direcLast fall, Health Minister Rona
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Canadian master interviewer Nardwuar revisits his most memorable celebrity chats Nick Patch Canadian Press
TORONTO very year at South by Southwest – a packed desert playground for the famous, the hip and the corporate – a minor stir rises up around a middle-aged Canadian man with a nasally voice, a tartan tam and a microphone. Nardwuar the Human Serviette has become an Austin attraction because the Vancouver native has a gift: when it comes to conducting celebrity interviews, he simply stands a pom pom above the rest. He’s elicited off-kilter candour from the diverse likes of Iggy Pop, Katy Perry, Geddy Lee and former U.S. president Gerald Ford. He’s recently shown particular aptitude for sparking fascinating discussions with hip-hop stars, including Drake, Lil Wayne, Jay Z and Pharrell Williams, who marvelled: “This is one of the most impressive interviews I’ve ever experienced in my life.� In every case, Nardwuar bombards his subjects with meticulously researched gifts, nonsequitur queries and references to obscure pieces of personal trivia. Some respond with wonder, some with bemusement, and a dishonourable few with quick-boil irritation. Regardless, Nardwuar always keeps cheerfully singing his tune. His interviews have lived on MuchMusic, on VHS tapes shared by fans, and on the albums recorded by his band, the Evaporators. He’s now found a hugely enthusiastic audience on YouTube, where he has more than 300,000 followers. At South by Southwest – a fertile ground for his artist encounters – he’s flocked by selfie-seeking fans and increasingly in-the-know musicians. It’s beginning to seem like everyone’s a believer – except, perhaps, Nardwuar himself. “For me, I never feel good about an interview,� he says. “So many people, they don’t care about what they’re doing because they think they know what they’re doing. “I’m nervous and I’m always thinking it didn’t turn out well, so I’m always striving to do better.� The 46-year-old guards his secrets carefully, only conceding that he maintains files on potential interview subjects, and that the vinyl he wields comes from his personal library and that of the CiTR campus radio station where he’s worked since October 1987. Still, Nardwuar graciously took The Canadian Press behind the scenes of some of his most memorable celebrity encounters:
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Jean Chretien So this one was different from Nardwuar’s usual, unusual formula. In 1997, he attended a press conference during the APEC summit in Vancouver, where another reporter sized him up and scoffed: “You’re just going to ask some stupid question.â€? Humiliated and motivated in equal measure, Nardwuar went home, shaved his head down to the moss, knotted a tie around his neck and returned the next day prepared with a tough question for then-Canadian prime minister Jean Chretien. First, Nardwuar asked about student protests against APEC. “Do you think, Mr. Chretien, if you were say, 40 years younger, that you too would be writing punk songs and protesting against APEC?â€? he asked. Chretien replied that “in a democracy, people protest.â€? He did the same when he was a student, he said. William R. 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SNL/22 Minutes sketch debate highlights issue inherent in comedy world Victoria Ahearn Canadian Press
TORONTO ave you heard the one about the standup comic who ripped off another comedian’s material? Many have, and it’s no laughing matter. The issue of joke theft made headlines last week after viewers compared a recent sketch that aired on Saturday Night Live to a strikingly similar bit on the Canadian series This Hour Has 22 Minutes from January. While accusations of stealing material are rare in the world of TV comedy, they’ve been happening in the standup community since the vaudeville days. Bob Hope, for example, once accused Milton Berle of stealing his material. In the 2008 book Comedy at the Edge, the late David Brenner claimed Robin Williams did the same. And in a 2008 appearance on The Opie and Anthony Show, Louis C.K. accused Denis Leary of ripping off one of his routines. “I’ve seen comics do other comics’ material … where they changed one word and made it their own,” says Mr. D star and creator Gerry Dee. “There are comics that don’t care if you accuse them of stealing and they don’t care that they steal.” In the case of SNL and 22 Minutes, both sketches feature a game show in which a reluctant contestant is asked to draw the Prophet Muhammad. Also in both sketches the prize is $1 million, and while the contestants refuse to do the drawing, someone ends up guessing what the challenge was anyway. SNL told The Canadian Press that it is not commenting on the parallels. 22 Minutes hasn’t taken any action or issued a statement, but it did post a winking comment on its Facebook page: “In regards to the SNL sketch debate, we’re waiting for SNL to say something and then we’ll say the same thing later – just
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“I’ve seen comics do other comics’ material ... where they changed one word and made it their own,” says Mr. D star and creator Gerry Dee.
shorter.” 22 Minutes star Shaun Majumder also tweeted: “Wow if only we could steal some of their budget” and “You’ve got to admit it’s (a) little too close for comfort.” “It’s certainly considered within the Toronto comedy community (to be) plagiarism and people are pretty upset about it,” says Chris MacLean, a Toronto standup comedian and author. “I’m seeing lots of stuff on Facebook where people are tagging the (22 Minutes) writer, Jeremy Woodcock, and saying, ‘Hey, that’s your sketch. I didn’t realize you were writing for SNL now.”’ But writer Andrew Clark, director of Humber College’s Comedy Writing and Performance Program, believes it could also be a case of parallel thinking. “It happens, not just in comedy,” he says. “You’ll have journalists, freelancers, pitching the same story. It just gets in the zeitgeist,” Clark said. “When you’re talking about the Charlie Hebdo drawings and not being able to draw Muhammad, well, a game show, Pictionary, these things would come to mind.” SNL is also known for doing game show parodies, he adds. “It’s not uncommon for two co-
medians or three to have a similar take on a joke or on, particularly, a news item.” Parallel thinking is common in the standup world because many comics mine material from their own lives, which leads to similar themes being explored onstage. “Everyone is going to do jokes about their mothers, everyone is going to do jokes about their children, and sometimes there is going to be some overlap,” says Clark. The same thing can happen in the TV comedy world. “There are only so many subjects you can think of,” says Dee. “When we’re in the writers’ room for Mr. D, it seems like every time we think of something it’s like, Seinfeld did that, Seinfeld did that, Seinfeld did that, Seinfeld did that.”’ The unwritten rule seems to be that the path to a joke can be the same but the specifics, the angle and the punchline of it have to be different. In the standup world, some performers act as “comic police” and will let others know if their act seems too similar to someone else’s, says MacLean. “If you’re a performer and you perform onstage and you say a joke that is too much like someone else’s or particularly too much like a famous person’s, you’re probably going to hear about it right away,” she says. “It can happen very unintentionally and usually the thing to do is just not perform that joke; it’s not original enough to be performed.” Dee takes the same stance. “I used to do a bit that was like a finger puppet, those finger puppet bits years ago, and Dane Cook does it and I’m like, ‘Well then, how creative is it if we both thought of it? How good is it?”’ he says. “So I kind of have that approach, that if someone does it, then what’s the point of doing it? I just cut it out.”
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Seventeen trillion wingbeats over Alaska
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of spiders, but not by much. Sikes ran the numbers for Alaska spiders, and discovered this: Alaska spiders likely catch and eat more pounds of insect each year than the combined weight of all Alaskans. He calculated that during our summer population boom we humans press down on the state with 442 million pounds. Spiders eat as much as 6.79 billion pounds of insects each year in Alaska. The next time someone shrieks at you to kill a spider
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The Mayo B rearing channel: ‘thinking fish first’ through the Green Infrastructure Fund. Thus recharged, Yukon Energy engineers, EDI Environmental Dynamics Inc. biologists, territorial and federal fisheries experts, and the First Nation of Na-cho Nyak Dun Erling Friis-Baastad combined their visions and their expertise to undertake a fish habitatn 1952 the Mayo hydro power enhancement initiative unprecedproject began supplying electric- ented in the Yukon. ity to Elsa, Keno City, the United “As part of the Mayo B project, Keno Hill mine and the community we understood that we were going of Mayo. to be making slight changes to the The dam and power house on flow patterns of the lower Mayo the Mayo River were sufficient for River,” recalls Ritchie. “We saw an the needs of the day … and for years opportunity to both address the after. However, engineers knew that potential effects of the project but the territory would inevitably realso an opportunity to enhance the quire more power to meet residenecological values of the river.” tial and business demands. Adding to infrastructure in place What experts of the 1950s might since 1952, Yukon Energy designed not have foreseen was just how great and built a one-kilometre juvenile an impact juvenile chinook salmon chinook salmon-rearing channel would have on that future project, parallel to the Mayo River. the one we call Mayo B. “Beyond being just necessary, “Mayo B was always an option, it this was a unique opportunity to do was first discussed back in the 1950s, something that hadn’t been done in but the need for the power wasn’t the Yukon before, in terms of fish there yet,” says Travis Ritchie, staff habitat,” says EDI fisheries biolobiologist and manager of environgist Ben Snow. “Basically what we ment, assessment and licensing for had with the Mayo B project was an Yukon Energy. And 21st-century opportunity to try out a number of needs did catch up with Mayo fish-habitat enhancement meashydro. “In 2008 we started planning ures.” Mayo B; we began the process of Enhancement efforts were given assessment and permitting,” says a welcome boost by a pre-existing Ritchie. But Mayo B might have strip of local geography, says Snow. remained on the shelf for many The new rearing channel followed more years had the federal governthe path of an abandoned side chanment not covered most of the cost, nel of the Mayo River.
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ing in 2012, is monitored during the summer and winter to ensure the tiny chinook are thriving, and that their habitat remains clean and healthy. Minnow traps allow biologists to take a closer look at the young fish. “Think of it as a kindergarten for juvenile chinook,” says Snow. In this class, rather than adults of the species doing the rearing, the entire habitat takes charge. Chinook spawn along the Mayo River in late summer. The eggs hatch in late winter. The juveniles move up into the channel for the following spring. After spending a few months to a year in the channel, they head back down the channel to the Mayo River, down the Mayo River to the Jake Duncan/EDI Environmental Dynamics Stewart – about eight kilometres away – and then down into the Biologist Lee Hawkings weighs and measures junvenile Yukon River and on to the sea. chinook salmon in the Mayo B tailrace rearing channel Though the biologists had exlast summer. pected a longer wait before juvenile “It was part of the ancient flood carefully placed through the channel salmon took to the channel, the earliest fish showed up during the plain reclaimed by the land,” recalls to attract nutrients and create hidRitchie. ing places for juvenile chinook from first autumn, says Ritchie. Snow adds that they have been The remnant of that natural pike, burbot, kingfishers and other present ever since, and it appears channel “basically didn’t look like predators. from population numbers and fish much of anything,” says Snow. There The channel bed is made of the size that they are thriving as well was a slight depression covered by same material found in the natural as – and sometimes better than – poplar and shrubs. side channel of the Mayo River: chinook elsewhere. The first step in construction cobbles, boulders, sand and gravel. “This is really a prime example was to flag the path of the channel. EDI biologists, including Snow, of thinking fish first,” says Snow. Biologists walked its length keeping had previously spent years studyBut, he adds, there is another very their eyes open for other creatures ing the environment around Mayo. human component to the rearingthat could be displaced or harmed They learned from nature’s own by construction work. designs for streams, and speculated channel initiative. The public is encouraged to visit, walk the adjacent A Mayo-based contractor, “an on how best to connect these with interpretive trail, and observe how artist with an excavator” as Ritchie manmade technology. young chinook behave and how the and Snow describe him, then cleared Flow from Mayo B can be the brush and cut the fresh channel. controlled with a valve at the top of new channel functions. The Mayo B habitat-enhancement project Then the task was to make the chan- channel; this ensures the channel provides exciting educational opnel as fish-friendly as possible. This has a constant, but adjustable flow portunities. meant creating sections of shallow, of water. “And we’d love to build more of fast water interrupted by calmer, Fish are, of course, cold-blooded them,” says Snow. deeper pool sections. The channel animals; their metabolisms benefit This column is co-ordinated by the also follows a winding course, just when water has been warmed on its Yukon Research Centre at Yukon like a natural stream, allowing for passage through the powerhouse. College with major financial support cut banks and other hiding, resting The channel is further warmed from Environment Yukon and Yukon and feeding spots for juvenile fish. by groundwater seeping up from College. The articles are archived at http://www.yukoncollege.yk.ca/ Branches, root masses, logs and beneath the bed. research/publications/your–yukon other pieces of forest debris were The channel, which began flow-
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When the Yukon battled for the Stanley Cup HISTORY
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t’s playoff time and nothing seems to embody the Canadian identity more than ice hockey. It has been this way for a century or more. To battle for hockey supremacy and the ultimate prize – the Stanley Cup – is a dream-come-true. Well it happened to a team of hockey players from Dawson City more than a century ago. Under the leadership of mining king “Klondike” Joe Boyle, a Dawson City team named the Nuggets challenged the illustrious Ottawa “Silver Seven,” the reigning champions, for possession of the Stanley Cup in 1905. Back then, the Stanley was a challenge cup, with the defending champion accepting challenges from the likes of Montreal, Toronto, Winnipeg, and yes, Dawson City. Dawson City had attracted some amazing hockey talent. Many had played in eastern Canada before stampeding to the Klondike. Now the Dawson teams were being stacked with the best in the territory. An exceptional player, Randy McLennan, was transferred to the Dawson mining recorder’s office from Stewart. Archie Martin was given a job working for Boyle’s dredging company, the Canadian Klondike Mining Company. J. K. Johnstone and Norman Watt worked in the Dawson post office. Lorne Hannay, who had recently moved back to Manitoba, would join the team when they passed through Winnipeg. The youngest member on the team, nineteen year-old Albert Forrest from Quebec, would protect the goal during the Ottawa series. Manitoban George “Sure-Shot” Kennedy and centre Hector Smith, a miner, were added to the roster. Legendary Weldy Young, a former Ottawa player who had once battled for the cup himself, was the natural choice for team captain, but he would be delayed from travelling with the others and would join the team late. What followed was an epic journey and one of the legendary battles for the cup. After the Dawson team was selected, they had a little over three weeks to travel to Ottawa for the first game, which was scheduled for Friday, January 13, 1905. Some of the team departed on foot on the 512-kilometre journey to Whitehorse, on December 18, 1904, while the remainder, riding bicycles, followed a day later. For seven days, the athletes trod over a rough winter trail, sleeping outside when required, as they made their way south to the tiny town of Whitehorse From Whitehorse they took the train to Skagway, but delayed by heavy snow, they didn’t arrive in time to catch the scheduled boat to Vancouver. Instead, they had to wait for three days to catch a later ship sailing to Seattle. With the original schedule, the players would have had nearly a week in Ottawa to prepare for the
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Joe Boyle (seated, centre) and the Dawson Nuggets in Ottawa before one of the most memorable Stanley Cup series in history. Norman Watt (standing, far right) would be elected to the territorial Assembly, and later commissioned as a lieutenant in the First World War.
big games. Days behind schedule, the team now had to double back to Vancouver once they disembarked in Seattle. From there, they had to take a five-day train journey to Ottawa. They arrived in Ottawa, having completed a journey of 6,400 kilometres, in time for the scheduled match, but out of condition and with no time to practice. The best-of-three game series was won decisively and not surprisingly, by the defending champions. Before a home crowd of 3,000 in Dey’s arena, the Silver Seven took the first game 9-2 after the Dawson team started to flag half way through the first period. The second match was even more decisive. One-eyed Frank McGee, who had not performed well in the first game, made up for it by scoring seven goals in eight minutes, and a total of 14 for the game, a Stanley Cup record which is not likely ever to be broken. The final score, 23-2, is also the biggest defeat in Cup history. Of the first game, everyone agreed that the single referee for the game had missed as many as six off-side Ottawa goals. For a period of time, Dawson played short-handed, at one point being two men short. The rules were different back then. First of all, there were seven players on each team, and they stayed on the ice for the full duration of the two thirty-minute halves. There was no forward pass. They wore no helmets or the standard protective gear common in today’s game, though the goalies had shin pads. Referees used their own discretion in assigning the duration of penalty minutes for any infraction. Goalies had to remain on their feet; no graceful and athletic flopping or sprawling on the ice was allowed to block shots.
But one thing that hasn’t changed is the physical nature of the sport. In the first half of the first game, Dawson left-winger Norman Watt and Ottawa right winger Alf Smith got into a fist fight. In the second half, Watt tripped an Ottawa player named Moore, who retaliated with a cross-check to Watt’s face, putting him down on the ice. Watt responded by breaking a stick over Moore’s head, knocking him out for 10 minutes. Both men were penalized 15 minutes. Then Dawson point man Johnson and goalie Forrest were sent off, dur-
ing which time, Ottawa scored two more goals. After the Ottawa challenge, followed by one of the roughest games ever played in Montreal, the Dawson team toured the Maritimes, improving their play and winning more matches as their conditioning got better. In early March, they played a Pittsburgh team winning two of three matches by a total goal score of 17 goals to 10. They travelled west, concluding with games in Winnipeg and Brandon, losing the first, but winning the second, before warm weather caught
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up with them. Ninety two years later, in a fantasy-come-true story, a Dawson old-timers hockey team fulfilled every red-blooded Canadian’s dream by re-enacting the journey and playing the Ottawa Senators alumni in a charity fund-raiser at the Corel Centre in the national capital. This team, which included the likes of Pat Hogan, Kevin Anderson, Joe Mason, Bruce Duffee, Chester Kelly, Dale Kulych, and Gerard Parsons, departed Dawson City, travelling overland to Whitehorse, much like their predecessors did. This party though had snowmobiles and dog teams to transport them through the -40 weather. From Whitehorse, they traveled to Skagway and took the ferry to Seattle, thence north to Vancouver and east to the nation’s capital. Though this team suffered a fate similar to their predecessors, losing by the score of 18-0 in front of 6,000 fans, it was all in good fun, and they played a hockey match they will relive for the rest of their lives. Perhaps it was a good thing that Dawson did not win the cup. After all, in the challenge format of the time, wouldn’t any contenders have been forced to travel all the way to Dawson to win it back? I can imagine the cup relegated to a trophy case in the old Dawson Amateur Athletic Association building at Third Avenue and Queen Street, never to be won back by an Outside team. Perhaps it would have had an anonymous existence, instead of its glorious tradition. After all, who would be crazy enough in those days to travel 6,400 kilometres each way, by boat, by train, and on foot, just to win a silver cup? Michael Gates is a Yukon historian and sometimes adventurer based in Whitehorse. His three books on Yukon history are available in Yukon stores. A version of this article originally ran in 2010. You can contact him at msgates@northwestel.net
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ON NOW AT YOUR BC GMC DEALERS. BCGMCDealers.ca 1-800-GM-DRIVE. GMC is a brand of General Motors of Canada. Offers apply to the purchase or lease of a new or demonstrator 2015 GMC Sierra 1500 Double Cab (1SA)/Sierra 1500 Crew Cab (1SA), or purchase of a new or demonstrator 2015 GMC Sierra Kodiak Edition and GMC Terrain FWD (3SA). Freight ($1,695/$1,650) and PDI included. License, insurance, registration, PPSA and dealer administration fees and taxes not included. Dealers are free to set individual prices. Offers apply to qualified retail customers in the BC GMC Dealer Marketing Association area only. Dealer order or trade may be required. *$10,000 is a combined total credit on 2015 Sierra Kodiak addition consisting of a $4,500 manufacturer to dealer delivery credit (tax exclusive), $1,000 Loyalty Cash (tax inclusive), a $2,155 manufacturer to dealer Option ‘Kodiak Edition’ Package Discount Credit (tax exclusive), $250 Kodiak Double Cab 2WD cash credit, and $2,095 manufacturer to dealer cash credit (tax exclusive), which is available for cash purchases only and cannot be combined with special lease and finance rates. By selecting lease or finance offers, consumers are foregoing this $250 and $2,095 credit which will result in higher effective interest rates. Discounts vary by model. ‥Lease based on a purchase price of $31,741/$34,726, (includes $4,500/$3,500 manufacturer to dealer delivery credit, a $1000 manufacturer to dealer Option Package Discount Credit and a $893 Loyalty Cash) for Sierra 1500 Double Cab 4WD (1SA/G80/B30)/ Sierra 1500 Crew Cab 4WD (1SA/G80/B30). Bi-weekly payment is $145/$155 for 24 months at 0.0% APR, on approved credit to qualified retail customers by GM Financial. Annual kilometer limit of 20,000 km, $0.16 per excess kilometer. $2,000 down payment is required. Payment may vary depending on down payment trade. Total obligation is $9,530/$10,055, plus applicable taxes. Option to purchase at lease end is $22,211/$24,671. Price and total obligation exclude license, insurance, registration, taxes, dealer fees and optional equipment. Other lease options are available. Dealers are free to set individual prices. Limited time offer which may not be combined with other offers. See your dealer for conditions and details. General Motors of Canada Limited reserves the right to amend or terminate this offer, in whole or in part, at any time without prior notice. †Purchase price includes $670 Loyalty Cash and a cash credit of $4,200 and applies to new 2015 GMC Terrain SLE-1 FWD models at participating dealers in Canada. Purchase price of $24,995 excludes license, insurance, registration, dealer fees and taxes. Dealer may sell for less. Offer may not be combined with certain other consumer incentives. GMCL may modify, extend or terminate this offer, in whole or in part, at any time without notice. See dealer for details. ÂĽ Offer applies to eligible current owners or lessees of any model year 1999 or newer car that has been registered and insured in Canada in the customer’s name for the previous consecutive six (6) months. Credit valid towards the retail purchase or lease of one eligible 2015 model year GMC SUV, crossover and pickups models delivered in Canada between May 1st, 2015 through June 1st, 2015. Credit is a manufacturer to consumer incentive (tax inclusive) and credit value depends on model purchased: $750 credit available on eligible GMC vehicles (except Canyon 2SA, Sierra Light Duty and Heavy Duty); $1,000 credit available on all GMC Sierras. Offer applies to eligible current owners or lessees of any Pontiac/Saturn/SAAB/Hummer/Oldsmobile model year 1999 or newer car or Chevrolet Cobalt or HHR, Avalanche, Aveo, Orlando, Optra, Tracker, Uplander, Venture, Astro, Blazer, Trailblazer, GMC Safari, Jimmy, Envoy , Buick Rendezvous and Terraza that has been registered and insured in Canada in the customer’s name for the previous consecutive six (6) months. Credit valid towards the retail purchase or lease of one eligible 2015 model year GMC SUV, crossover and pickups models delivered in Canada between May 1st, 2015 through June 1st, 2015. Credit is a manufacturer to consumer incentive (tax inclusive): $1,500 credit available on eligible GMC vehicles (except Canyon 2SA). Offer is transferable to a family member living within the same household (proof of address required). As part of the transaction, dealer may request documentation and contact General Motors of Canada Limited (GMCL) to verify eligibility. This offer may not be redeemed for cash and may not be combined with certain other consumer incentives. Certain limitations or conditions apply. Void where prohibited. See your GMCL dealer for details. GMCL reserves the right to amend or terminate offers for any reason in whole or in part at any time without prior notice. **Trade In, Trade Up Bonus is available towards the purchase/ finance/ lease of a 2015MY Sierra LD ($1,000) or HD ($1,500)and is tax inclusive. To be eligible, a 2008 MY or older vehicle must be traded in to the selling dealer. The maximum available credit of $2,500 applies to 2015 Sierra HD and consists of $1,000 conquest/loyalty credit and $1,500 Trade In, Trade Up Bonus. Offer valid until June 1, 2015. <>The 2014 GMC Terrain received the lowest number of problems per 100 vehicles among compact SUVs in the proprietary J.D. Power 2014 Initial Quality StudySM. 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Friend does a slow burn from thank-you after fire another example of “Shouldn’t manners make sense instead of being a stupid formality?� When the table is set with a salad plate, why is that plate placed on the left of the main plate? Reaching over the main plate may cause your sleeve to be soiled. It is true that left-handed people would have no difficulty. GENTLE READER: And they get few such breaks. Miss Manners rejects the notion that all manners must make sense, which would eliminate most traditions and ceremonies. However, if you insist, she can supply a reason for those salad plates being on the left for right-handed people. The glasses are on the right, and drink is more frequently reached for than salad.
FRIDAY, MAY 22, 2015
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Whitehorse rockers flex their muscles in Fort St. John Tom Patrick News Reporter
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peed Control must be the fittest band in the territory. Guitarist and vocalist Graeme Peters describes the trio as rockers by night, bodybuilders by day. “When we started to tour, we noticed it’s kind of hard to stay in shape as a rock ‘n’ roll band if you’re on the road all the time,” said Peters. “So we started working out in gyms and started to get more buff and as a joke we were like, ‘We should enter a bodybuilding competition.’” What started as a joke, eventually became reality. The Whitehorse band, which includes Jody Peters on bass and vocals and Ian March on drums, entered the British Columbia Amateur Bodybuilding Association’s Northern Classic in Fort St. John on Saturday. “That was an experience, that’s for sure,” said Jody. “About a year ago we made the decision, let’s be in a bodybuilding show, and about three months ago the reality set in – holy cow, we only have three months! About five weeks out we really started our super-serious prep. “It’s a whole different world because everyone is so focused on bringing their best muscle to the show and here comes this rock ‘n’ roll band that’s used to running around on stage. Like, let’s lose some weight, get spray-tanned and run around in a Speedo. “It was a little crazy but it was a ton of fun and we learned a heck of a lot.” “We’ve all been super into fitness for the last three or four years, we just decided, why not,” said March. “It was a good experience. If I had to do it again, I totally would, and I learned a lot about fitness and bodybuilding.” The muscled musicians were represented in two divisions at the Northern Classic. Graeme placed sixth and brother Jody seventh out of seven competitors in the men’s middleweight division. “We were definitely not as big as the people who were in it,” said Graeme. “It was our first time … But the other people in that class have been doing this for five or six years and they were all impressed by us in our first year of participating.” Towering at six-foot five, March would be at a disadvantage in a bodybuilding competition that splits divisions by weight. So he went in a physique category for men above 5’10” and took sixth place out of seven.
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Left: Whitehorse’s Jody Peters, of the band Speed Control, strikes a pose at the Northern Classic bodybuilding competition in Fort St. John on Saturday. Right: guitarist Graeme Peters flexes for the judges.
“I’m happy with it,” said March. “It’s our first competition, so I didn’t really go into it with any expectations of winning or anything. “In physique, you kind of just stand there and try to look as good as possible,” he said with a chuckle. Graeme put his rock ‘n’ roll stage presence to good use. The 32-year-old managed to pull off a second place finish for Best Posing, a segment of the competition done to music. “I went out and basically did a rock star (routine) with flying Vs and lunging and stuff like that,” said Graeme. From the sounds of it, Graeme had the most dramatic about-face to get to where he is. Three years ago he was more of a Keith Richards than an Arnold Schwarzenegger. “For the first couple tours, if we had a day off, I was very content to get a 12-pack of beer, sit around a campfire, play guitar and smoke,” said Graeme. “When Ian and Jody joined the band they had this intervention with me. “Jody and Ian are fitness guys and I was going to drop them
off at the gym. ‘I’ll drop you off, go have a beer and will come back and get you.’ They basically ripped me out of the van and said, ‘You’re going to learn how to work out.’ That was about three years ago.” A year later things got knocked up a notch thanks to a late-night infomercial. Jody’s wife, Bethany, bought the P90X – or “Power 90 Extreme” – work out videos, which sparked an interest in bodybuilding. Then a year ago the band did some research to find where the closest competition would be and, bingo, there was one a short 16-hour drive away in Fort St. John. “We were all joking we were going to register and then we did it,” said Graeme. “We paid the money and then looked at each other and went, ‘Uh oh, now we have to do it.’ “So for the last six weeks we’ve been shredding our bodies and eating healthy. We got down to minimal body-fat percentages, put on our Speedos, got spray tanned and went into the Fort St. John bodybuilding competition. It was awesome.” The rockers didn’t have a
coach or nutritionist while they trained, but they did get some help from the territory. They bagged a bison while hunting, “so we had really good protein,” and Riverdale gym Peak Fitness gave them free memberships. “Peak Fitness is an amazing gym. They actually gave us free memberships there because they know, as aspiring musicians, money is always tight,” said Graeme. “A free membership at a local gym is a big help and they are very supportive of us.” As if being musicians and bodybuilders was not enough, they are also educators. In addition to touring seven months a year, Speed Control performs history of rock ‘n’ roll shows called “Rags to RAWK” at schools during the winter. They also host rock ‘n’ roll kids camps, which they will be doing across the country this summer, including one in Whitehorse next month. “It’s kind of a triple threat thing,” said Graeme. “We’re educators, rock stars and now we’re bodybuilders, I guess.” The band, whose sound has been compared to Nirvana and early The Police, are currently
finishing up their third album that they plan to release this fall. If you would like to hear Speed Control flex some musical muscle, they have some upcoming Yukon dates. They are playing Arts in the Park in Whitehorse’s Lepage Park the evening of June 3, and The Pit in Dawson City June 5 and 6. More information can be found on their website at speedcontrol.ca. “We were competitive; we had nothing to be ashamed of,” said Graeme. “We were right there in the running. I think that speaks for our work ethic. “We know more about it now so we’re in it to win it now. We’re doing this again. I’ve already been to the gym a couple times this week trying new workouts and pushing my body to the extreme.” “Everyone was super nice,” added Jody. “I find people doing bodybuilding have the reputation of being a mean meathead in the corner grunting, but everyone was really nice, really welcoming.” Contact Tom Patrick at tomp@yukon-news.com
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FRIDAY, MAY 22, 2015
Dawson Diggers bring silver to the Klondike
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Left: Dawson Diggers player Connor Fellers dives for the ball during play at the 2015 Volleyball Canada Championships this week in Calgary. The Diggers won a silver medal. Right: Diggers’ Lulu Bartholomeus jumps up for a kill in U15 girls play.
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atching Team Canada thump Cuba in FIVB Volleyball World League play on Monday
in Calgary inspired the Dawson Diggers to put an end to a string of losses, says the team’s coach. “That was inspirational and I think that helped open the boys’ eyes to the way volleyball can be
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well, but on Day 3 the energy was there and they really came together. Everyone improved their game and strung together a couple wins at the right time.� The Diggers team has been together since elementary school. Playing as the Dawson City’s Robert Service School Knights, they won the junior boys division at the Yukon Volleyball Championships at the end of November. The same squad won gold in the Grade 8 division – with an all Grade 7 team – at the 2011 Yukon championships. They had a couple new additions for the trip to Calgary, but “the core was basically the same,� said Laszlo. The Diggers reached the final
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with a 25-21, 25-23 win over the Alberta, Pakland Vipers in the Tier 4 semifinal. They advanced to the semi in close 25-23, 6-25, 15-13 win over the Saskatchewan Rustlers from Lloydminster in the quarterfinal. “We won our first set of the whole tournament, so we were all hooting and hollering, then in the second set we lost 25-6,� said Laszlo. “During the break we had a little chuckle in the huddle. ‘All right, OK, back to volleyball.’ And they were able to pull out that third set. “They all showed some character in that moment, to wipe it off their shoulders and get back to playing.� The U16 Diggers were one of three Yukon teams at the nationals this week, along with the Diggers U15 girls and Whitehorse’s Subzero U16 girls. The U15 Diggers went winless in seven matches but had some close battles along the way. Five of their seven matches went to three sets. They finished with a 25-15, 25-19 loss to Saskatoon’s JCVC Dynamite in the round of 16 to place ninth in Tier 4 of Division 3. The Subzero squad tied for third in Tier 4 of Division 4. They lost their first five matches before beating Kelowna, B.C.’s The Pack 26-24, 25-18 and then Calgary’s Canada West team 25-15, 25-19 in the Tier 4 quarterfinal. Subzero ended with a 15-25, 25-11, 15-11 loss to Alberta’s 3 Seas Kraken in the semi. “Lack of game experience once again showed against a few of those teams that we were a good match to beat, but the girls did a lot of good things out there and they should be proud of themselves,� said coach Jennifer Pope in an email to the News. Contact Tom Patrick at tomp@yukon-news.com
FRIDAY, MAY 22, 2015
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Stars come out to wrap up Pinoy basketball season
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Skills Challenge Champion Ian New dribbles through the pylons at the Yukon Pinoy Basketball League’s All-Star celebration on Saturday at F.H. Collins Secondary.
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he eighth season of the Yukon Pinoy Basketball League came to a close with a display of skills and a friendly game between new and old. The league decided to finish the season with its first Skills Challenge followed by an All-Star game featuring the best players from the league’s seven teams on Saturday at F.H. Collins Secondary School. “This is the first season we’ve done Skills Challenge,� said league board member
Luke Mahilum. “We decided to make it more interesting ‌ This time we’re doing the Veterans against the Rookies.â€? It was a good day for the up-and-comer squad as the Rookies produced a 95-91 win over the Veterans to become the All-Star champs. The Rookies were led by game MVP Kenneth Valdez with 14 points, Ian New with 12 and R.J. Siosan with 10. Veterans’ Rommel Lumanog led the game with 22 points while teammates Emman New and Noel Pagobo put 14 and 11, respectively, on the board.
Team Usana’s Ian New took first in the Skills Challenge while Josh Tobias won the three-point contest. KFC’s John Apostol was named the season MVP and teammate Aaron Diaz was named the season finals MVP. Players Brian Hermosa and Emman Aguinaldo received sportsmanship awards for the season. Team KFC captured their third title in four years in a thrilling 91-86 win over Usana on May 3. I.T. Care finished the season in third place. Contact Tom Patrick at tomp@yukon-news.com
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Yukoners top four of five Tour de Skagway divisions Tom Patrick News Reporter
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f not for three Alaskan cyclists, Yukoners would have swept the board at the second annual Tour de Skagway over the weekend. Yukon cyclists came up short in the expert men’s division in the two-day, three-stage event hosted by the U Kon Echelon cycling club. Juneau’s Casey Colten took the win, ahead of Juneau’s Will Coleman in second and Skagway’s Spenser Morgan in third. Whitehorse’s Shea Hoffman put the territory on the board with a fourth-place finish for expert men. “It was fantastic. You guys provided us with wonderful weather,� said Colten. “It’s hard to pick a favourite (stage). The scenery was spectacular for every single event.� Colten placed first in the 20-kilometre time trial, second in the 84-kilometre road race and third in the 19-kilometre hill climb. Whitehorse’s David Gonda placed first in the road race and hill climb but didn’t race the time trial and was therefore ineligible for the overall tour title. “I’m back from a long break,� said Colten. “I raced as a much younger man and now I’m in my early 50s and am getting back into the sport.� “(Colten) has been super sup-
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Whitehorse’s Sara Burke-Forsyth races in the Tour de Skagway near the U.S.-Canada border over the weekend. Burke-Forsyth won the women’s division in the stage race.
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road race frame. So I was really happy to see him there and get to know him better.� U Kon Echelon club riders cleaned up in the other divisions. Whitehorse’s Ava Irving-Staley claimed first place in under-13 girls in the tour. Marsh Lake’s Cauis TaggartCox rode to first for under-13 boys, outpacing his brother Lucas in second. Whitehorse’s David Jackson cycled to first in the sport men division with Malcolm Taggart in second. Whitehorse’s Sara Burke-Forsyth won all three stages to top the sport women division. “It was really hot and I got really sunburnt,� said the 19-year-old. Sunday’s 19-kilometre hill climb in which cyclists ride from the Dyea Road intersection in Skagway to the White Pass Summit, climbing roughly 1,000-metres in altitude, is the stage that stands out for BurkeForsyth – but not in a good way. “The hill climb – it was so hot and hard and straight uphill,� said Burke-Forsyth. “It’s not fun. It’s exhausting. “Since I used to be in running and (Athletics Yukon coach Don White) is really into pacing, I do know how to pace myself and that’s probably why I did well.� “Climbing that hill is brutal – there are no ifs, ands or buts Brian Forsyth/Yukon News about it,� said Irving, who placed Elijah Buffalo leads a pair of cyclists in Sunday’s hill climb in second for women in the tour. “It’s probably the hardest ride in the Tour of Skagway.
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3rd Malcolm Taggart – 45:08 4th Andy Muir – 48:59 Sport women (20 km) 1st Sara Burke-Forsyth – 43:13 2nd Alison Morham – 44:21 3rd Trena Irving – 44:54 4th Jody Cox – 46:40
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Sara Burke-Forsyth leads a group.
the Yukon-Alaska area.” The second annual tour saw a bit of growth from the inaugural event. The time trial went from 13 up to 17, the road race went from 20 down to 18, but the hill climb jumped from 15 to 27. There was also a good turnout of spectators, if you count bears. Saturday afternoon’s road race was viewed by a momma black bear and her three cubs. “The interesting part about that loop was there was a sow with three cubs,” said Irving. “So at one part one of the moms was on her bike going along and she said, ‘You guys better stick together because that sow kind of came out after me a little bit.’ People kept stopping and taking pictures and the sow was getting growly and put her cubs up a tree.” Contact Tom Patrick at tomp@yukon-news.com
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Results Time Trial Youth (10 km) 1st Lucas Taggart-Cox (U13 boys) – 25:65 2nd Cauis Taggart-Cox (U13 boys) – 26:03 3rd Oscar Settington (U13 boys) – 28:13 1st Ava Irving-Staley (U13 girls) – 32:55 1st Tristan Muir (U15 boys/20 km) – 45:03 Expert men (20 km) 1st Casey Colten – 30:37 2nd Will Coleman – 34:31 3rd Spenser Morgan – 34:20 4th Shea Hoffman – 36:24
Youth (24 km) 1st Cauis Taggart-Cox (U13 boys) – 55:32 2nd Lucas Taggart-Cox (U13 boys) – 1:03:22 1st Ava Irving-Staley (U13 girls) – 1:12:49 2nd Isla Hupe (U13 girls) – 1:19:48 Expert men (84 km) 1st David Gonda – 2:29:18 2nd Casey Colten – 2:34:29 3rd Spenser Morgan – 2:36:09 4th Will Coleman – 2:45:42 5th John Thompson – 3:03:01 6th Shea Hoffman – 3:03:32 7th Bill Parry – 3:04:01
4th Simi Morrison – 2:44:33 Sport men (60 km) 1st Malcolm Taggart – 2:27:59 2nd Andy Muir – 2:31:41 3rd David Jackson – 2:35:30
Hill climb Youth (19 km) 1st Cauis Taggart-Cox (U13 boys) – 1:22:28 2nd Lucas Taggart-Cox (U13 boys) – 1:42:33 3rd Oscar Settington (U13 boys) – 1:42:38 1st Micah Taggart-Cox (U15 boys) – 1:31:38 Tristan Muir (U15 boys) – DNF 1st Ava Irving-Staley (U13 girls/16 km) – 1:11:09 Expert men (19 km) 1st David Gonda – 52:42
2nd Elijah Buffalo – 54:25 3rd Casey Colten – 58:24 4th Spenser Morgan – 1:00:27 5th Marcus Watereus – 1:01:18 6th Derrick Hynes – 1:02:24 7th Preston Blackie – 1:02:51 8th Will Coleman – 1:04:37 9th Bill Slater – 1:05:30 10th Shea Hoffman – 1:07:39 11th Rod Savoie – 1:09:51 12th Phil Hoffman – 1:19:38 Sport men (19 km) 1st David Jackson – 1:24:23 2nd Mike Settington – 1:27:07 3rd Malcolm Taggart – 1:34:46 Sport women (19 km) 1st Sara Burke Forsyth – 1:23:25 2nd Alison Morham – 1:31:36 3rd Simi Morrison – 1:35:38 4th Sandy Birrell – 1:35:38:01 5th Trena Irving – 1:42:16 6th Jody Cox – 1:49:24
Dr. Pete Vaden, an EQUINE specialist, will be available for appointments
June 5 & 6
Sport women (60 km) 1st Sara Burke Forsyth – 2:26:10 2nd Trena Irving – 2:29:04 3rd Jody Cox – 2:36:40
Dr. Vaden has over 35 years experience working with all aspects of equine medicine. To book an appointment please call Alpine Veterinary Medical Centre Ltd.
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Sport men (20 km) 1st Dave Jackson – 42:34 2nd Mike Settington – 42:58
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Yukon Bible Fellowship
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(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 Jim Joe 668-2003
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
Quaker Worship Group RELIGIOUS SOCIETY OF FRIENDS Meets regularly for Silent Worship. For information, call 667-4615 email: whitehorse-contact@quaker.ca
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First Pentecostal Church
1607 Birch St. 633-2647
149 Wilson Drive 668-5727
Sacred Heart Cathedral
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. Confessions before Mass & by appointment. Monday 7:00 PM Novena Prayers & Adoration Tuesday through Friday: Mass 11:30 a.m.
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Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church 4th Avenue & Strickland Street
668-4079 tlc@northwestel.net pastor.tlc@northwestel.net
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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
at 10:30 AM
St. Nikolai Orthodox
Christian Mission
Saturday Vespers 5:00 pm Sunday Liturgy 10:00 am FR. JOHN GRYBA 332-4171 for information www.orthodoxwhitehorse.org
403 Lowe Street Mondays 5:15 to 6:15 PM
www.vajranorth.org • 667-6951
Christ Church Cathedral Anglican Dean Sean Murphy, Rector
TAGISH Community Church
Our Lady of Victory (Roman Catholic)
Meditation Drop-in • Everyone Welcome!
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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.
10:30 AM FAMILY WORSHIP WEEKLY CARE GROUP STUDIES Because He Cares, We Care.
www.whitehorsenazarene.org
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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
4TH AVENUE & ELLIOTT STREET Sunday Communion Services 8:30 & 10:00 AM Thursday Service 12:10 PM (Bag Lunch)
668-5530
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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
ECKANKAR
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Bahá’Í Faith Box 31419, Whitehorse, YT Y1A 6K8
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!
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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
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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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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.
Puzzle A
Puzzle B CLUES ACROSS 1. Irish mother of gods 5. Provides weapons 10. Hyperbolic cosecant 14. Kilt nationality 15. Mexican artist Rivera 16. Circle of light around the sun 17. What a clock tells 18. To condescend to give 19. Chocolate cookie with white cream filling 20. Harry Potter star 23. Without (French) 24. A dissolute man
25. Resecure a book 28. Blanketlike shawl 32. Opaque gem 33. Biblical name for Syria 34. Mail call box abbreviation 35. Mined metal-bearing mineral 36. Mild yellow Dutch cheese 38. After a prayer 39. Baseball’s world championship 42. Knights’ tunic 44. Small pigeon shelter 46. Meredith, Johnson & Shula
47. 20th U.S. President 53. Pitcher Hershiser 54. Sans _____: typeface 55. High water tide 57. Sew up a falcon’s eyelids 58. Mexican plant fiber 59. Taxis 60. Fermented rice beverage 61. A mode of living 62. Formerly (archaic)
13. Horse foot sheath 21. 007’s Flemming 22. A billiards stick 25. Catches with a lasso 26. 3rd part of a Greek ode 27. Elephant’s name 29. Distinctive odor that is pleasant 30. A small sharp fruit knife 31. Improve by critical ediiting 37. Droplet in a colloidal system 38. Failure to be present 40. Winged goddess of the dawn
41. Static balance between opposing forces 42. Treacle candy 43. Black tropical American cuckoo 45. Discharge from the body 46. Training by multiple repetitions 47. A Chinese image in a shrine 48. Length X width 49. Mild and submissive 50. Affectedly artistic 51. Tragic Shakespeare king 52. Taps gently 56. Time in far western states
CLUES DOWN 1. Fall back time 2. Has a sour taste 3. Gangrenous inflammation 4. Spoon or fork 5. What is added to the augend 6. Cambodian monetary units 7. Golda __, Israeli P. M. 8. “Walk Don’t Run” actress Samantha 9. Often the last movements of a sonata 10. Contaminated water disease 11. Indian dress 12. Musical pitch symbol
Puzzle C
LOOK ON PAGE 59, FOR THE ANSWERS
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Student and Infrastructure Support Ayamdigut (Whitehorse) Campus Term Position to June 30th, 2016 Salary: $29.43 to $35.04 per hour Based on 75.0 hours bi-weekly Competition No.: 15.59 Initial Review Date: May 26, 2015
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Selwyn Chihong Mining Limited, is now accepting applications for an experienced Operations Supervisor at the project site, a remote y in / y out site located at Howard’s Pass in the southeast Yukon. This is a seasonal position. The ideal candidate will have a minimum of 8 years of experience within the road construction and mining exploration industry. A Class 1 Drivers License c/w air brake endorsement or equivalent, knowledge of road construction methods and materials and ability to operate heavy equipment is required. A High School Diploma or G.E.D. is preferred. Wages are industry competitive and will be dependent on experience. The Selwyn Project is a DRY camp and has zero tolerance for drugs, alcohol or prescription drug misuse or abuse. Please submit a current resume with “Operations Supervisorâ€? in the subject line to info@chihongmining.com CLOSING DATE: Friday May 29, 2015 at 4:00 pm
As a Campus Housing Mentor you will be an integral part of a larger Campus Housing Team responsible for creating and implementing activities designed to foster a sense of community among occupants and families. Working with a diverse and wide range of occupants and families you will provide a healthy, respectful, safe and supportive learning environment for students living at Yukon College. The ideal candidate will have the skills to develop a strong community, form therapeutic relationships with individual students, guide campus housing student leaders, encourage dialogue about diversity, provide support and/or referral to appropriate academic and personal support services and collaborate with other College departments. 7KH &DPSXV +RXVLQJ 0HQWRU LV D SRVLWLRQ ZLWK VLJQLĂ€FDQW responsibilities. You must have the ability to maintain FRQĂ€GHQWLDOLW\ DQG WR UHVSRQG WR FRQFHUQV DQG VLWXDWLRQV LQ D professional and diplomatic manner. Responsibilities include but are not limited to: programming, responding to critical incidents, writing a variety of reports, working within assigned budgets, assisting with disciplinary processes and conduct issues, mediating FRQĂ LFW DQG HQVXULQJ SROLFLHV DQG SURFHGXUHV DUH IROORZHG The successful candidate will have relevant post-secondary education, excellent communication skills and experience designing and delivering events, programs and workshops. Applicants must demonstrate their experience providing OHDGHUVKLS UHVROYLQJ FRQĂ LFW DQG SUREOHP VROYLQJ Experience with post-secondary educational institutions, and similar programs would be considered an asset. A security clearance is required. Important note: Hours of work are Evenings and Weekends Go to: http://yukoncollege.yk.ca/about/employment for more information on all job competitions. Quoting the competition number, please submit your resume and cover letter to: Yukon College, Human Resources Services, Box 2799, 500 College Drive, Whitehorse, Yukon, Y1A 5K4 Fax: 867-668-8896 Email: hr@yukoncollege.yk.ca
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Kluane First Nation JOB OPPORTUNITY DIRECTOR OF FINANCE SALARY RANGE: Starting at $81,517. OVERVIEW: Kluane First Nation is one of the Yukon self-governing First Nations. We are searching for a Director of Finance who will be located in Burwash Landing or Whitehorse to manage our Finance Department. Burwash Landing is 285 km. North of Whitehorse on the Alaska Highway situated on the shores of Kluane Lake.
WANTED: VISITOR SERVICE ATTENDANT Full Time Summer Position @ $16.00 per hr. available at the George Johnston Museum in Teslin. Applicants should have at least one year post-secondary education and plan to return to school in the fall. Candidates should have some basic computer skills, customer service skills and be able to work independently. Please contact manager.teslinhms@gmail.com LOOKING FOR EXPERIENCED Heavy Equipment Operators and Finish Grader Operators. Send resumes to: teichroebc@gmail.com
FRIDAY, MAY 22, 2015 CLIPPERS BARBERSHOP is looking for a part-time or on-call barber with a minimum of 3 years experience. Call Natalya @ 867-667-6605
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Under the direction of Council and working with the Management Committee, the Finance Director will play a critical role in developing and implementing the ďŹ nancial strategy of Kluane First Nation. They provide direction and management to the ďŹ nance team. We require a dynamic individual who is committed and disciplined in the professional designation of Finance.
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JOIN US FOR A TRULY NORTHERN EXPERIENCE The Village of Teslin is the gateway to the Southern Lakes and is strategically located where the Nisutlin River ows into Teslin Lake. It is a scenic community rich with cultural history. Teslin is a unique rural community that serves a population of 450 people of which roughly 2/3 are of Inland Tlingit First Nations ancestry. The area boasts great hunting and ďŹ shing and the community has fantastic infrastructure which includes a recreation complex that has an exercise facility, arena and curling rink with artiďŹ cial ice, public dock and marina, and playgrounds; and an exciting future. Mayor and Council of the Village of Teslin invite applications for:
RECREATION PROGRAMMER The Recreation Programmer reports to the Chief Administrative OfďŹ cer and is responsible for the planning, delivery and administration of recreation programming for the community of Teslin for all age groups, tots to seniors. A key responsibility of the position is to determine the recreation, creative and sporting activities needs of the community. Developing a budget and tracking and monitoring costs are part of the job. The successful candidate will be expected to work irregular hours in order to coordinate activity on weekends, general holidays and in the evenings. He or she will be highly organized, energetic and motivated in the area of recreation. Be a positive role model through a fun approach to active living. The successful candidate will have a degree or diploma in recreation planning and delivery or in a related ďŹ eld and a minimum of one year related experience or an equivalent combination of education and experience. Experience instructing various programs such as ďŹ tness, cultural, sports, and preschool will be an asset. Knowledge of the local and northern cultural and political environment is important to establish context for many activities. This is a full time permanent position, however to assist us with our summer programming we would consider a shorter term.
A complete job description is available by calling 867-390-2530 or email shelley.hassard@teslin.ca Please submit your application by email to the above address or fax 867 390-2104 by 4:30 p.m. on Friday, May 29, 2015.
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Closing Date: June 12, 2015 Location: Whitehorse, YT Salary: $65,000.00 to $77,000.00 (Comprehensive beneďŹ ts package) SUMMARY: Reporting to the Executive Director, the incumbent is responsible for managing and administering the NSNY COR Programs. The successful candidate will evaluate safety management systems, health and safety audits, training programs, procedures and techniques to ensure they meet NSNY standards, and provide consulting assistance and strategies to reduce workplace incidents. SKILLS AND REQUIREMENTS: t Post-secondary education in Administration, Occupational Health and Safety (OHS), or CertiďŹ cation as a Canadian Registered Safety Professional (CSRSP) combined with related experience or an equivalent combination of education and experience. t Knowledge of communication theories, methods and practices; t Thorough knowledge of OHS legislation and regulations in the Yukon and safe work practices; t Ability to effectively communicate OHS prevention methods and inuence employers; t Analysis, evaluation and decision-making skills; t High degree of self-motivation and attention to detail; t Ability to accomplish goals and tasks in an independent manner t Experience in program administration; t Computer and Writing skills/ability to write reports; t Strong interpersonal skills – aptitude for tact and diplomacy; t Penchant to a team environment; t Vigorous customer service skills; t The incumbent must possess a valid Yukon Driver’s Licence and be willing to travel; * Term position Submit your cover letter and resume to: Sheila Sergy, Executive Director Northern Safety Network Yukon, 478 Range Road, Whitehorse, Yukon, Y1A 3A2 or email: sheila@yukonsafety.com / Fax: 867-633-6391
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, chainsaws, camping & outdoor gear, hunting & fishing supplies, rifles & ammo. G&R New & Used 1612-D Centennial St. 393-2274 BUY • SELL MYSTERIES, VARIOUS authors. 41 paperbacks, $25. Ross 633-3154 CFL FOOTBALL cards, 17 different complete sets of cards, including early OPC. Almost 2,600 cards. $1,400. Ross 633-3154 WORLD HOCKEY Association, 5 complete hockey card sets from the 1970s. Exc cond. $750. Ross 633-3154 MCDONALDS H O C K E Y cards from 1991-92 to 2009/10, almost every card issued incl. 27 unopened paks from each year, over 1,200 cards, $1,000 firm. Ross 633-3154 WORLD HOCKEY Association, remember it? Two rare books, (history, statistics, photos). Exc. shape, $50. 633-3154 TRADING CARDS, binder full of non-sport trading cards (James Bond, X-men, Desert Storm, Enduring Freedom). About 500 cards. $50. Ross 633-3154 THREE COMPLETE OPC hockey card sets (1999-00 to 2001-02 period) plus some short prints. Over 900 cards. $150. Ross 633-3154 WIDE WHEELCHAIR, blue, good cond, $160; walker for $25. Del @ 334-8318 TOYO 56 stove, new, $1,900. 335-3431 LOTS OF COMMERCIAL STORE SHELVING that came from Canadian Tire/Superstore. Some new, one sided or double sided, pallet racking. Enough to do warehouse. Phone 333-0717 RV PORTABLE HD Bell satellite dish, $50 firm. 334-4299 SNOW BLOWER, Husqvarna 24" 291cc, exc cond, $750. 335-1290
EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY
(1) Journeyman Carpenter, (1) Carpenters Apprentice, (1) Pre- Apprentice Labourer (2) Summer Student Labourers’ June – Aug. 2015, term- full time
Little Salmon Carmacks First Nation is undertaking an Administration Building RetroďŹ t to renovate the building’s mechanical, electrical and entrance and to meet health and safety standards. This provides a unique community training, employment, and community development opportunity – by providing basic pre-apprenticeship upgrading and on the job training, in this LSCFN Employment Skills & Training Project. Yukon College is in partnership with LSCFN to create long term training & Employment Opportunities. 1 - Journeyman Carpenter: Must have papers. The term could be extended, depending upon work. 1 - Carpenters Apprentice: A training opportunity that could lead to long term employment, 1 - Pre- Apprentice Labourer: A summer student position for those interested in pursuing further training in College. 2 – Summer Student Laborers’: Summer student position for those interested in pursuing further training in carpentry. (Other summer jobs are available as well – please inquire.) If you are interested, please submit your expression of interest along with your resume by 4:30P.May 29/15 to: Doris Caouette, Human Resource OfďŹ cer PO Box 135, Carmacks Y.T. Y0B 1C0 Phone: (867)863-5576 ext 280Fax: (867)863-5710 Email: resume@lscfn.ca
FRIDAY, MAY 22, 2015 CHICKEN PLUCKER, $200 obo; gas powered snow blower, $250; above-ground pool, 12ĘźWX36ĘźLX5ĘźH. 667-6770
MATCHING REFRIGERATOR & electric range, frost free, 15 cu ft, working fine, $100 for both. 633-2837
BREADMAKER, 633-5470
FREE, HOT Point super capacity electric dryer, good condition, white. 456-2885
NEVER used, $50.
SMALL RECTANGULAR air tight stove with smoke pipe lightly used, $35; 3 steel camp beds, $35 ea; 2 spring frames, $10 ea. 334-7545 ONE DIRECTION concert tickets (2) for July 17th show in Vancouver, great seats, 5th row in section 239, $500 for 2 tickets. 633-2091 2 SOLAR panels 240 W + transfer & cable kit , new, never used, $1,200. 250-401-7947 MENĘźS VASQUE hiking boots, sz 10 or 10.5, button Levis, 36X30, craft supplies, ribbons, lace. Glass/metal door and used oak moulding. 667-7144 IRIDIUM SATELLITE phone, used once, original box, fully loaded, $900 obo. 335-9934. SOFTUB HOT tub, older model, 6-person, functioning, $500. 334-7545 TWO 25-LITRE glass carbodies for making wine, $15 ea; 7 cases of clear & green, clean & lableless wine bodies for making wine, 75 cents ea or $6 per case. 334-7545 2 WALL tents, 14'X16' with 5' walls, Pioneer 12 oz, $850; 8'x10' with 3' walls, Pioneer 12 oz, $350. 334-7545 125' X 1" ABS water pipe, $60 obo. 334-7545
G.E. ENERGY Star Profile washer & dryer set, top loading washer, metallic carbon stainless steel, both in mint condition. less than 3 yrs old, $500. 667-6562 to view
TVs & Stereos
BOX FREEZER, $50. 333-9604 15 CU ft fridge, frost-free, & elec range, full size, $100 for both. 633-2837
27� SAMSUNG flat screen TV, $150. 633-4707
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STORAGE BENCH on casters, $30; vintage chairs, $30 ea; stools. 311B Hanson St, eves
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DIAMOND METAL Corp refrigerated ss restaurant display case w/storage base, 48WX40DX72H, mirrored back, 4-shelf bottom section, 2 shelves & 2 doors. 456-4010
CLOSING DATE: MONDAY, MAY 25, 2015
5Ęź HEALTHY ficus (rubber) plant, $35. 311B Hanson St, eves TO GIVE away: 3 orange trees & 1 grapefruit tree. 668-2007 PEUGEOT 10-SPD road bike, exc cond, ykstuff@yahoo.ca
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STEEL CULVERT, Stelco, new, 200mm X 4m, Marsh Lake area, $250. ykstuff@yahoo.ca
YUKON WILDLIFE Conservation stamps, rare and unique collection of 13 stamps, from 1996-2008, beautiful artwork depicting Yukon birds and wildlife, $150. 633-3154
WANTED: FINE bone china set, 8-12 place settings in good condition. 393-3777 8 BAGS of red bark for landscaping, each bag is 3 cu ft, $30 for all 8. 633-3666 before 9pm PROPANE FURNACE, good for mobile home, $100. 633-4375 1942 81MM mortar shell, chromed exterior, disarmed, $50. 334-9120 PROPANE STOCKPOT cooker, good condition, $30. 633-4375 WOODS 84-42� down sleeping bag, exc cond, $80; Honeywell oil-filled heater, exc cond, $40. 334-8318 SET OF fishing poles, gently used and stocked tackle box, $100. 668-2486 WANTED: DAMAGGED plastic water tub for horses you may not want anymore. 333-0744 ROLL-AWAY DISHWASHER, real plywood bookcases w/adjustable shelving, electric snowblower, 11-piece patio furniture set, teak desk & chair, reel to reel tape player. 393-2663 before 9pm 2013 SPACEKAP Diablo for a 6' box, c/w custom shelves & desk, roof vent, lights, & jacks. www.spacekap.com 332-6334 MOSQUITO CATCHER, electrical, new $210, asking $110 obo. 660-4321 12V LAWNMOWER, new in box; 10� band saw. 867-689-4882 2014 HUSQVARNA lawnmower tractor, new $2,700, asking $1,700. 335-3431 POWER JUICER, Jack Lalanne, new, $145, asking $55; new P.C. 1.4L ice cream/dessert maker, $20. 660-4321
Electrical Appliances DANBY COMPACT fridge, still under warranty, paid $165, asking $75. 334-4299 EXPRESSO MACHINE, professional grade Italian-made Rancillio Miss Silvia, c/w accessories, new, never used, $800 new, asking $350. 633-4239 NEWER ELECTRIC white side-by-side fridge/freezer, stove, 18� dishwasher, hood fan. All in good working condition. Energy efficient. 335-3385 or 633-2135
FLAT SCREEN TV, 42�, 336-2866, lv msg
Computers & Accessories FREE, HEWLETT Packard scanner model ScanJet 3400C w/software, works fine, I upgraded. 633-3154 COMPUTER HUTCH, $50. 633-3053
DELL DESKTOP computer with monitor, Windows HP, $80; Dell laptop, works, $60; Apple desktop, works, $80. 633-5470 IPHONE 4S, perfect shape, free of contract, Bell or Virgin Mobility, $160. 334-6087 OKIDATA 390 Plus Microline 24 pin printer, tractor feed paper, up to 4-ply invoices, $20. 668-6079
YUKON FIRST NATION CHAMBER OF COMMERCE (YFNCC)
Project & Membership Coordinator JOB SUMMARY: Reporting to the Board of Directors, the Project and Membership Coordinator is the primary administrative support and first-line engagement for the public and Chamber members. The position requires the incumbent to be self-motivated and able to work in a demanding fast-paced environment with a wide range of people. This position is responsible for providing a full range of administrative support services, as well as assistance on various events and projects as directed. STATUS: 1 year part-time contract SALARY: Compensation based on experience The following qualifications will be given priority consideration: • Knowledge of the Yukon, Yukon First Nation development corporations and aboriginal businesses; • Experience working with boards, non-profits and membership organizations; • Experience in event coordination; Applicants able to demonstrate an equivalent combination of education & experience may be considered. Preference may be given to qualified Yukon First Nation candidates. CLOSING DATE: 4:00PM MAY 25TH, 2015 Covers Letters and Resumes are to be submitted by e-mail no later than 4pm on Monday, May 25th, 2015 E-mail: info@yfncc.ca
Kluane First Nation JOB OPPORTUNITY
1965-66 TOPPS Hockey Cards, complete set, great shape, $1,500. Ross @ 633-3154
SUNBLASTER 4Ęź fluorescent grow lights w/reflector, $30 ea; selection of clay & plastic planter pots. 332-1300
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EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR LT1 TERM, FULL-TIME Be part of one of Canada’s most dynamic environmental and socio-economic assessment processes and work with an energe c, progressive organiza on. We are commi ed to the well-being of our employees and encourage their personal and professional development. We are an impar al, eec ve and eďŹƒcient organiza on that provides assistance to all involved in the assessment process.
POLICY OFFICER (x 2) Head OďŹƒce, Whitehorse One-year term posiĆ&#x;ons
The Policy OďŹƒcer is responsible for researching and developing YESAB guideline documents, policies, systems, standards, procedures and processes and ensuring eec ve First Na on, stakeholder and public input to the development of YESAB’s policies, processes and procedures. This posi on is responsible for designing and implemen ng programs and processes to ensure consistency of evalua ons and screenings. Policy and communica ons experience combined with a good understanding of impact assessment systems and frameworks are desirable assets for this posi on. The annual salary range for this posi on is $77,709 - $89,780 based on 75 hours biweekly. If you feel you have the qualifica ons and desire to meet the challenges of this posi on please forward a cover le er and resume outlining how your experience and qualifica ons relate directly to the posi on. A job descrip on is available at the YESAB Head OďŹƒce, Suite 200 – 309 Strickland Street, Whitehorse or on our website at www.yesab.ca.
Burwash Landing, Yukon Territory SALARY: Starting $84,542. Based on experience (70 hours biweekly)
APPLICATION DEADLINE: Open until ďŹ lled. Kluane First Nation is a self-governing First Nation located at Burwash Landing on the shores of Kluane Lake, 285 km. from Whitehorse, Yukon. OVERVIEW: This position is under the direction of Kluane First Nation (KFN) Council and will be responsible for the day-to-day operations of the Kluane First Nation Government. It provides the invaluable link between Council, the political body and the Administration. To ensure that the KFN’s short and long term goals and objectives are achieved in an effective and efďŹ cient manner the Executive Director will chair the Management Team. The Management Team consists of Directors. The incumbent may be the primary contact for KFN Government for a variety of organizations and agencies
QUALIFICATIONS: The successful candidate will possess a degree in Public or Business Administration. Consideration may be given for at least ďŹ ve years of experience as an Executive Director or in a related ďŹ eld. This position should also have Human Resources and Financial experience while working with governments at a senior level. Experience working with First Nations or in a First Nation environment would be an asset.
OTHER SKILLS AND ABILITIES: s !BILITY TO LEAD DIRECT AND MANAGE PROGRAM DELIVERY AND POLICY DEVELOPMENT s 3TRONG DECISION MAKING AND PROBLEM SOLVING SKILLS s %XCELLENT ORGANIZATIONAL SKILLS AND TIME MANAGEMENT WHILE PRIORITIZING AND ranking issues in relation to the overall goals of KFN s %XCELLENT ABILITY TO HANDLE CONmICT USING SOUND JUDGEMENT AND DIPLOMACY s !BILITY TO LEAD MOTIVATE AND DELEGATE STAFF THROUGH EMPOWERMENT
CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT: Valid Class 5 Yukon Driver`s license, Criminal Records Check
Please submit applica ons to: Finance and Administra on Manager, YESAB Suite 200 – 309 Strickland Street, Whitehorse, YT Y1A 2J9 Ph: 867.668.6420 Fax: 867.668.6425 or email to yesab@yesab.ca Toll free: 1.866.322.4040
Please submit your rĂŠsumĂŠ and cover letter to: Careers@kfn.ca or Kluane First Nation ATTN: Human Resources Manager P.O. Box 20, Burwash Landing, Yukon Territory, Y0B 1V0 Ph. (867) 841-4274 x.230 Fax: (867) 841-5900
Resumes must be received by May 31, 2015.
Thank you in advance for your application. Only qualiďŹ ed candidates will be contacted.
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WII MACHINE, board, games & controllers, barely used, $100. 633-4707
Musical Instruments PIANO TUNING & REPAIR by certified piano technician Call Barry Kitchen @ 633-5191 email:bfkitchen@hotmail.com YAMAHA CLAVINOVA piano model CVP509, check wonderful features on Internet, perfect for beginners or advanced players, over $9,000 in stores, asking $6,000. Serge 667-2196 after 5pm MARSHALL AMP TSS 122. 867-689-4882
Firewood
HURLBURT ENTERPRISES INC. Store (867) 633-3276 Dev (867) 335-5192 Carl (867) 334-3782
✔ Beetle-killed spruce from Haines Junction, quality guaranteed ✔ Everything over 8" split ✔ $250 per cord (6 cords or more) ✔ Single and emergency half cord deliveries ✔ Scheduled or next day delivery
Guns & Bows LICENSED TO BUY, SELL & CONSIGN rifles & ammo at G&R New & Used 1612-D Centennial St. 393-2274 BUY • SELL SMITH & Wesson 629 .44 mag, stainless steel, 6� barrel, c/w holster, $600 firm. 333-0564 16 GAUGE Dominion Arms Backpacker shotgun, new in box, 30� barrel, hardwood stock, $150. 633-2443 BROWNING A-BOLT Gold Medallion 338 win mag, night train scope, excellent gun, $900. 333-0564 MARLIN 917V in 17 hmr. with extra clips, heavy barrel model, excellent shooter, $260. 335-7314
Wanted WANTED: VOLUNTEER to teach beginner English to an adult. 393-2275 WANTED: CLEAN fill for my yard without debris, Gentian Lane in Golden Horn, to be delivered. Call for details. 668-7295 WANTED: PORTABLE garage for my motorhome, must accommodate 24' L x 8.5' W x10'3" H vehicle with access room, must be in fairly good shape. Deb @ 633-4326
2006 Mitsubishi Lancer Ralliart 2.4L Mivec 5 speed manual transmission. Power everything, A/C, aftermarket stereo & headlights, front strut tower bar, tinted windows, carbon fiber spoiler. Comes with winter tires on aluminum rims. Very clean. NEW... brakes, timing belt, all pulleys, water pump & coolant. Transmission serviced, oil & filter changed. 154,000k No leaks anywhere. Bright yellow! $11,500 obo.
Call or Text 867-335-7997 2000 T O Y O T A Echo 4-dr sedan, 192,400kms, 5-spd manual, good cond, summer & winter tires on rims, all service records, over 50 mpg on highway, $3,000. 667-4788 1997 CHRYSLER Cirrus LX(I), auto, good running condition, 2 studded winter tires on rims, 4 summer tires on rims, clean leather interior, new alternator, 205,000km, $1,900 obo. 660-4646
WANTED: FIBERGLASS canoe, used, 17'. 250-401-7947 WANTED: WOODEN stools & chairs, variety of sizes, solid light wood, well kept, reasonable. 668-6871
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WANTED: LIFT gate for gold-coloured 2007 Grand Caravan and an installer. 668-6481
EVF FUELWOOD ENT Year Round Delivery • Dry accurate cords • Clean shavings available • VISA/M.C. accepted Member of Yukon Wood Producers Association Costs will rise. ORDER NOW 456-7432 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 DONʟS FIREWOOD Junction beetle kill spruce Cut to your desired length Kwanlin Dun & Social Services accepted Firewood available for summer delivery Phone 393-4397 CAMPFIRE FIREWOOD Processed & ready for pick-up Carcross Corner area Buy what you need 393-4397 HUSQVARNA 395 XPG chainsaw, 28� bar, used one season, $1,300. David @ 332-1300
WANTED: COLLECTOR wants badges & patches from law enforcement, fire department, conservation officers, etc throughout the Yukon. Please call 204-582-5255 WANTED: FOR art project, vintage refrigerator door, 60Ęźs or 70Ęźs, & vintage bed sheet with flower print. 821-3492
MicMac USED VEHICLE SPECIALS!! 2014 Dodge Journey R/T # 7696A / $38,610....PROMO $29,299 2008 Toyota RAV4 Limited # 7680A / $36,515.. PROMO $18,790 2012 Toyota Venza # 1504 / $35,527 ................ PROMO $27,290 2010 Toyota Tundra SR5 #7467A / $42,766PROMO ....... $29,800 2011 Nissan PathďŹ nder LE #7513A / $47,748 . PROMO $30,400 2012 Toyota Prius C Tech
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WANTED: WOODEN picnic table. 633-2117 CLEAN FILL WANTED in Wolf Creek. Call or text 334-4066. WANTED: CAR parts, want to purchase an engine in running condition for a 1999 Buick Century. Robin @ 633-4391
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2012 Toyota Camry Hybrid LE STOCK #7007
PRICE: $30,797
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2007 TOYOTA Avalon, fully loaded, black w/grey leather interior; navigation, premium stereo, dual automatic temperature controls, command start, new tires, luxury car, exc cond, $9,500. 867-660-4311
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2012 KIA Rio LX hatchback, 64,000km, manual trans, spacious, dependable, great shape, $11,500 obo. 335-4017
2009 TERYX 750 EFI side by side, good condition, c/w new battery, belt & clutch kit, 4,000lb winch, $7,000. 334-2627
2011 NISSAN Sentra 2.0, grey, 52000km, clean, excellent condition, c/w set of winter tires on rims, $8,900. 668-7001
2008 FORD Escape, Limited Edition, 48,000km, AWD, heated leather seats, moon roof, command start, navigation, $14,500 obo. 332-2093
2011 NISSAN Versa 1.8 L SL, 4-dr, 6-spd standard, nav system, very clean, great mileage, 119,000km, $7,500 obo. 334-1935 2011 T O Y O T A Matrix hatchback, 68,000kms, command start, summer & winter tires, $13,500 obo. Gary or Falina, 633-3370 2010 MUSTANG GT convertible, V8, 5-spd, gold w/black top, heated leather seats, new tires, sequential turn signals, ambient internal lighting, 57,000kms. 336-0505 2007 CHEVROLET Cobalt, air, tilt, manual, rear spoiler, CD, DVD player, runs & drives great, 2-dr, sporty, 140,000km, $4,950. 332-6022 2007 DODGE Caliber sxt hatchback, new tires on alloy rims, interior immaculate condition, power windows, sunroof, black, $12,800 obo. 334-7256 2007 FORD Focus, rose colour, 79,500 “in town� kms, always serviced at dealership, command start, $8,500 obo. 667-4523 2005 PONTIAC Sunfire, air, tilt, cruise, P/W, P/L, auto, good tires & windshield, excellent on fuel, only 150,000kms, $2,950. 332-6022 2004 PONTIAC Grand Am 4-dr, V6 auto, air, tilt, cruise p/w, nice car to drive, $3,800. 335-1681
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2007 CHEV 2500HD crew cab 4X4, great unit, many options, trailer tow, fully serviced, new brakes & battery, $14,700 obo. 633-4311 2007 DODGE Laramie diesel, 94,000km, ext cab, leather interior, sunroof, clearance lights, extra set of winter tires & much more, $27,900 obo. Ken @ 336-1701 2007 JEEP Grand Cherokee, diesel, fully loaded, leather, heated seats, sunroof, command start. 11.9L/100km, 127,000km, dealer maintained, $17,000. 334-1195 2006 FORD F250 crew cab 4X4, new tires, 5.4L, 3,000lb winch, new front brakes, $11,000 obo. 633-2567 eves 2005 CHEVY Duramax diesel 4x4, 280,774km, $11,000 obo, 1305 Fir St. Call 333-9919 or 633-6678 2004 CHEVROLET Avalanche 4X4, air, tilt, cruise, power seats, auto, CD player, rear box cover, trailer tow pkg, 250,000km, nice truck, $8,500. 332-6022 2004 FORD F350 Lariat, 4X4 diesel, air, tilt, cruise, heated power seats, leather, runs & drives excellent, trailer tow pkg, front push bar, 250,000 km, $15,900. 332-6022
2003 VW Jetta TDI, fully loaded, $11,000 obo. 633-4723
2003 F-250 XLT, 7.3 Diesel, 4x4, SuperCab, auto, 8Ęź box, towing package, perfect Yukon pickup truck, great cond, 292,000kms, $7,500. 668-7295
2002 JEEP TJ, black, 108,500km, vg cond, 31�X10.5� summer tires, studded winter tires on rims, not used off-road, $10,000 obo. 867-660-4711
2002 CADILLAC Escalade, 184,000kms, after market rims, heated leather front & second seats, removable third row seating, loaded, $9,000 obo. 335-1459
1999 FORD Taurus, 4-dr, full power, V6 auto, new tires, $1,790. 336-2029
2002 CHEV SINGLE CAB 2500 4X4, V-8, auto, 226,000km, ex-Yukon Energy, good tires, new paint, complete service box, $8,900; 2002 Dodge crew cab 1500, 4X4, 5-spd, 139,000km, $5,900 obo. Phone 333-0717
1987 JAGUAR, new Michelin tires, new windshield, tune-up, $5,000. 335-3431 1978 MERCURY Grande Marquis, low kms, body in great shape, runs & drives great, a classic. 668-3229 SUZUKI SIDEKICK 4X4, 4-dr, 339,000kms, runs good, well maintained, some new parts, cheap on gas, located on Fish Lake Rd 10 kms from Whitehorse, $1,800 obo. 250-401-7947
2010 Toyota Tundra TRD PRICE: $45,178
2013 HYUNDAI Genesis Coupe, 2.0T, fully loaded, 6-spd standard w/cargo tray, winter front mats, new winter tires/rims, oil pan heater, 14,000 kms, $24,500 obo. 334-9039
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2012 F150 4X4 Platinum Ecoboost Supercrew, Oxford white tonneau cover, new tires, brown heated leather, undercoat, navigation back-up camera, sunroof, power floorboards, extended warranty, 80,000kms, $40,000. (250) 651-2222 2009 DODGE Ram SLT 3500 Cummins diesel, S axle, flat deck, tow package, power group, rmt start, rear sliding window, built to work & haul, 82,000km, $26,900 obo. email cgr-37@hotmail.com
2002 W I N D S T A R LX van, loaded, 124,000km, one owner, exc cond, $4,200. 335-1987 2000 FORD Explorer XLT 4X4, new engine & tires, leather seats, p/seats & windows, keyless entry, exc cond, $4,500 obo. 633-2567 1999 CHEVROLET Silverado, x-cab 4x4, V8 auto, low kms, c/w winch, headache rack & rails, storage bins, $5,950. 336-2029 1997 CHEV Astro AWD van, semi-camperized, screened windows, 8-passenger seating, 255,000km, 6-ply summer tires, studded winter tires, well maintained, $2,500 obo. 867-660-4711 1992 12 valve Cummins Dodge dually, great shape, 1948 Ford F47 pick-up with many goodies for making a hot rod, serious inquiries only. 668-3229 1992 FORD Explorer 4x4, V6, 5-spd standard, new clutch kit, runs and drives, still needs some work, red exterior/interior, $700 obo. 780-843-6483 MODEL #200 Dodge Mud Bogger, ready to go. 668-2332
Auto Parts & Accessories TRUCK CANOPIES - in stock * new Dodge long/short box * new GM long/short box * new Ford long/short box Hi-Rise & Cab Hi - several in stock View at centennialmotors.com 393-8100 TOYOTA ALLOY wheels, fits Tacoma or Tundra, 16X7, $200 for 4 wheels. 633-3053 CHEV LONG-BOX pick-up canopy, $600. 667-7144 TIRES, SUMMER, on 2001 VW rims, Continental ContiProContact 205/65R15, lightly used, $300. 336-2108 TIRES, WINTER, studded, on 2001 VW rims, Wanli Winter Challenger 195/65R15, work great, lightly used, $350. 336-2108 SPARE TIRE for 2001 VW, $100. 336-2108 CANOPY FOR smaller pickup trucks, bottom of canopy measures 60''X88'', c/w stainless steel rack on top, please measure before viewing, $190 obo. 668-7295 4 NEW vehicle rims, 5 bolt pattern, from 2014 Jeep Patriot, $200. 335-1290 GREY TOPPER for full-size truck, 8Ęź, exc cond, $500 obo. 633-6244
2009 NISSAN Rogue, 2WD, 133,000kms, auto, new tires, Kelly bluebook price $13,000, Nissan roofrack pkg, $14,000. 633-5155
SQUARE STEEL tube homemade P/U racks with back window & roof protection, 5'2" X 7'11" X31" high, $100. 633-3819.
2003 DODGE Dakota Sport, 184,000kms, great cond, $7,500. 334-9028
4-CYL DIESEL Nissan Turbo, c/w 5-spd trans, good rubber & radiator, etc. 668-2332
FRIDAY, MAY 22, 2015 4 GOOD Year 225/65R17 all-season tires in brand new condition, $200 obo. 332-0289 THULE ROOF rack parts, set of 4 feet to fit most factory installed roof racks, $75; set of 4 towers & gutters for rack mounted on truck canopy, $75. 633-2348 GOOD RUNNING Dodge 318 + 4-spd transmission, $450 obo. 335-1486 4 TOYOTA 14 rim & tires, $80 obo. 393-4344 TRUCK CANOPY, Forest Green, 6Ęź, fits F150 or equivalent, sliding windows, $275. 335-0629 BRIDGESTONE BLIZZAK A.S. tires x 4, P215/75 R15, on rims, 5-bolt, lots of tread, $200. 335-0629
Pets 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 2 ADULT dogs to give away to good home, 1 male, 3-yrs old, white colour, 1 4-yr-old male Siberian Husky. Call/text 332-8945 CANINES & COMPANY Dog Obedience School Puppy obedience classes starting July 9 Reactive dogs, July 8 For full schedule visit caninesandcompany.ca Full service training school, certified trainers 333-0505 4-YR-OLD FEMALE Shepherd, 3-yr-old male Lab cross to give away, both fixed, good watch dogs & good with kids. 456-6571
Motorcycles & Snowmobiles 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 RONĘźS SMALL ENGINE SERVICES Repairs to Snowmobiles, Chainsaws, Lawnmowers, ATVĘźs, Small industrial equipment. Light welding repairs available 867-332-2333 lv msg 2005 SUZUKI Boulevard, blue, exc cond, easy to maintain, shaft drive, electronic fuel Injection, 800 cc, low mileage, $4,200. 335-4486 1995 YAMAHA 1100 Virago, new tires & ignition switch, very low miles, c/w helmet & cover, reduced to $3,300. 335-0894
2009 HONDA ST 1300, 125hp, red, 10,000 mi, extra power for street, built for touring, $9,200. 667-7223 1998 CLASSIC Virago 1100, exc cond, 35,000km, exc maintenance. 667-7223 2010 WR 450 Rekluse clutch, handle bar riser & hand guards, 1,580 km, $4,200. 332-7174 REMOTE CONTROL for winch for ATV, new in box w/wiring instructions, best offer. 250-566-1346 2004 ARCTIC Cat Model 400, exc cond, have 2014 receipts for work, also machine for parts, located in Haines Junction, $4,200. 250-566-1346 2006 SUZUKI DRZ 400 dual sport bike, 11,000km, skid plate,engine case guards, rad guards, bark busters, aftermarket rear fender/taillight assembly, overall good condition, $4,000 obo. 334-7664 PAIR OF black, hard fibreglass saddle bags with mounting brackets, $50. 668-2486 HONDA METROPOLITAN scooter, mint cond, $2,000. 633-6548 2006 HARLEY-DAVIDSON Road King, engine upgrade to 103cc, 5-spd, detachable tour pack, many chrome extras, full set of tour pack/saddlebag removable liners & travel mug, $18,000. 393-2663 before 9pm SNOW BLADE for ATV, complete w/base plate, quick attach, 4 1/2 ft wide, 5-way position, $250. 633-4302
Marine STERLING 14Ęź utility open boat model, c/w 20hp Evinrude outboard on EZ Load trailer, $2,875. 334-4687 SEA ARK 16Ęź Jon boat river/Jet boat model, c/w 50hp Mercury Jet outboard, on trailer, $6,750. 334-4687 THULE FOOTPACK, converts factory roof rack on SUV or crossover to Thule system, set of 4, $100. 633-4239 1985 SHORT shaft, 20hp Evinrude, $800 obo. 867-689-6194 THULE KAYAK carriers, 2 sets of Glide and Set 884 kayak carriers, roof top, new $279 each, asking 2 sets for $300. 633-4239 THULE FOOTPACK, will convert factory roof rack to Thule system, works on most SUV factory racks, $100. 633-4239 KAYAK LOCKING cable system, Lasso from MEC, secures kayaks to roof rack, $40 ea or 2 sets for $70. 633-4239 MANUAL POWER-LIFT transom jack plates, CMC, model ML-65, aluminum alloy, 5 1/2" set backs, 5" vertical adjustment, rated for up to V6 outboards, max 300hp, $160. 456-7295 7 ALUMINUM boats, 12Ęź - 18Ęź, could trade a boat for 8-wheel Argo or sxs in exc cond, mile 5.5 Carcross road, 1st right off CCC Road BAYLINER 17Ęź Capri model, c/w 90hp Suzuki 4-stroke outboard, sleeps 3-4 people, seats 6, on galvanized trailer, good family lake boat, $8,500. 334-4687 LOWE 16Ęź 1648 Jon boat, flat bottom model, c/w 55hp Johnson commercial jet outboard, on heavy duty trailer, $6,850. 334-4687
WANTED: 400-500 cc ATV in good working condition under $4,000, prefer Honda or older Suzuki, would also purchase a trailer. 334-8096 or alaenawarner@gmail.com
1978 SHORT shaft hors-bord, 18hp Evinrude, rebuilt engine, 50 hrs +, $800 obo. 689-6194
1997 ASPENCADE 1520 Goldwing, good rubber, lots of extras. 668-3229
24Ęź SEA Ray cabin boat, model SV260, twin Mercruiser 470s, 340 hp, works well, lots invested, $5,000. 333-0564
2009 KAWASAKI KLX 250-S, green, 1,600kms, great shape, street legal, off and on road tires, large bike rack, $4,750 obo. 335-0396 2008 HARLEY Davidson Softail Custom, one of a kind, too many extras to list, like new, 6,000 kms, $20,000 obo. 668-5882 2012 SUZUKI V-Strom DL 1000 w/Hepco Becker luggage bags, back rest, engine guards, exc cond, 24,000km, $8,900. Mike @ 335-1290
PROFESSIONAL BOAT REPAIR Fiberglass Supplies Marine Accessories FAR NORTH FIBERGLASS 49D MacDonald Rd Whitehorse, Yukon 393-2467 18Ęź BOAT & trailer, 120hp in-board engine, ready to use. 668-2332 2006 F250TXR Yamaha outboard 250 horse, approximately 800 hours, for sale or trade, $7,600, looking for jon boat. 633-3659 14Ęź KC Thermoglass with 60hp Johnson outboard, travel cover, fish finder with trailer & 2 spare tires, good cond, $2,700. 867-399-3443
2005 SUZUKI, BOULEVARD
Blue excellent condition, easy to maintain, shaft dive, electronic fuel injection, 800 CC, low mileage 18,000 KM well maintained.
$4,200.00 335-4486 MENĘźS LEATHER motorcycle jacket, sz 44, black & yellow, Joe Rocket, perfect cond, $200. 334-9120 2008 BAJA 250 Wilderness ATV, like new, low miles, new battery. 633-4656
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1984 ZETA 24' Hard Top, 350/260 leg, 15hp kicker, dingy, barbecue, galley, head, canvas enclosure, fishfinder, radio, sleeps 5, tandem trailer, rough water boat, bottom paint, many extras, $17,950 obo. 332-1374 BRAND NEW salmon & halibut rods/reels, Garmin 4208 GPS Chart Plotter, Data Card with Alaska Maps, hand held GPS, VHF marine radio, Scotty Electric downriggers and more. 332-1374 23Ęź GLASPLY, 350 Chev marine & Volvo 270 leg, engine requires bolting in & hoses connected, 15 hp Johnson, new canvass, fuel tank, anchor windlass, trailer, $2,500, worth more for parts. 668-4423
2007 HARBERCRAFT model 2175 XS jet boat, silver, 200hp, 190 hrs, 21' long x 93" beam, Karavan custom welded trailer console w/2 bench seats, in Faro YT, $30,000 obo. 867-994-2049
2008 SPORTSMEN 24' travel trailer, dual axle, full kitchen/bathroom, queen bed c/w curtains, lots of cupboards, stereo, satellite antenna for TV, sleeps 4, AC/furnace & awning, $12,000 obo. 667-2040, Email: gisaac@klondiker.com
1991 28Ęź Gulfstream Ultra motorhome, E350 Ford chassis, 460 power, vg tires, tilt steering, cruise control, 4-kw Onan genset, 3-way fridge/freezer, 4-burner stove/oven, 96,779kms, A/C, air conditioner, $9,000 obo. 334-3717
Heavy Equipment
1992 30Ęź Winnebago Chieftain, interior in beautiful cond, new batteries, 454 Chevy engine, 95,000 miles, $14,500 obo. 335-0177
22Ęź DUTCHMAN Lite 5th wheel, exc cond, 1/2 ton towable. 668-6297 after 5pm
UTILITY TRAILER, good repair, new wiring, 4ĘźXĘź8 bed, $800. 633-4018
2012 IGO-LITE by Evergreen, 26'L, 7'7�W, high quality, exc cond, sleeps 6, 145 watt solar panel, centre line weight distribution hitch incl, $24 000. 334-6415
HEAVY EQUIPMENT SALE, ATLIN, BC Excavator - JD330CLC, 2004, 6400 hours, 2 buckets, thumb, quick change. Excavator - JD992DLC, 1995, 2 buckets, thumb. Bulldozer - Cat D7-17A turbo. White/GMC 10 ton Hiab, 1990, 16Ęź tandem flat deck. Western Star Tractor, 1995, low bed and tri-axle high boy. 65' Diesel Drag Line, 2 buckets. Car Hauler Trailers. Fuel Tanks. Offers, Lance 250-651-7531 BRENTĘźS HYDRAULICS Specialize on-site bore welding and line boring. We can repair any size cylinder, torque nuts up to 8 1/2 inches. Full machine shop. Call 334-3027 2 INTERNATIONAL TD9 dozers, one runs, the other has good carriage & a winch, lots of work needed, $2,500. 333-0564
1999 KUSTOM Koach 30Ęź travel trailer, excellent condition all around, all amenities & all working, no leaks ever, $11,900 obo. 333-9990 2002 10.6 Big Foot camper, 2 new interstate batteries, stove, oven, fridge, freezer, showers, microwave, large slide-out kitchen & table, used twice, not by choice, health problems, $18,000 obo. 633-5132
2009 WILDWOOD travel trailer, lg slide, queen walk-around bed, maple cabinets, outside shower, dining table & chairs, equalizer hitch, smoke-free, exc cond, new $34,000, asking $22,000. 334-6652 eves
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
1988 FORD E-350 diesel motorhome, automatic, sleeps 4, A-1 condition. 668-2332 1995 SPORTSMAN 5th wheel travel trailer, 26.5Ęź, all amenities, microwave, am/fm cd player, new spare tire, battery, all clean & working, just serviced, includes 5th wheel hitch, $8,000. 633-4656 2011 STARCRAFT tent trailer, sleeps 8, furnace, fridge, hot water, stove, 2 dinettes, stereo, awning, outdoor shower, pristine condition, selling as we bought a cabin. 633-2121
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
864 TRACK Bobcat, low hrs on rebuilt engine, lots of new parts, needs some TLC, comes with toothed bucket & new forks, $11,000 or $10,000 without forks. 867-335-0894 40HP ELECTRIC self-contained hydraulic power unit, $2,500 obo. 335-1486 9000 LITER enviro tank, used with diesel fuel, top or bottom draw, on skids, I have pics, $5,000 obo. 334-3881, has message CLEAN FILL WANTED in Wolf Creek. Call or text 334-4066.
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1948 SUPER Stinson 230 hp 0-470R 900 SMOH, Prop 30 SMOH, factory metal cover, bubble windows, VG's, floats, wheels, Garmin 196 GPS, great float plane, $57,000 obo. 867-994-2262 CESSNA 182G Float Plane Wing-X, Horton STOL, bubble windows, leather, float hatches, 90gal fuel, 1,000lbs useful on floats, in Whitehorse, $105,000 Cdn. 250-885-6917
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t HILLCREST, Seal Point Siamese Kitten. 6 month old kitten, female. If found please call Ally @689-2490 t MARY LAKE, 7 year old black and white Husky male. Has been missing since May 8th, wearing a blue collar and responds to Finnegan. Please contact the shelter if found or seen! 633-6019 t MALE BORDER COLLIE CROSS. Name is Axel, if you see a stray Border Collie, please call the shelter 633-6019!
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t STERNWHEELER ,PERSIAN FELINE, orange and white male large Persian feline. Has microchip and has been neutered. Missing from Sternwheeler, off of Lewes Blvd. If found please call Lisa @456-7548 t TAGISH, MISSING BEAGLE X. Medium sized beagle, black hair on back, white hair on chest and tan legs. He has very large eyeballs. Wearing a red collar with tags. If you see this little guy, his name is Kujo, please call Satana @334-7925! t NORTH ALASKA HWY, Border Collie, medium sized, black and white female. Not wearing a collar, and responds to Della. If found please call Dwayne @334-4269
FOUND t None at this time.
RUNNING AT LARGE...If you have lost a pet, remember to check with City Bylaw: 668-8382
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2004 PIONEER travel trailer, 23T6 model, large bath, queen size bed, large awning, great condition, $9,800 firm. 633-2580 25Ęź 2014 FOREST RIVER FR3 CLASS A MOTORHOME located in Whitehorse, Yukon. Comes with King bed slide-out and full dinette slide-out, full bathroom, TVs, DVD, air conditioning, electric awning, and 4KW Omar gas generator. This unit is basically brand new and ready to use. $79,900, serious inquiries only. Phone 668-4328 or 332-9099 2001 9.5Ęź Frontier camper, exc cond, hot/cold water, 3-burner stove, oven, double sink, north/south queen bed, large fridge, $8,850 obo. 333-9976 2006, 21Ęź Pioneer travel trailer, Insulated underbody, roomy, slide out, double sink, 3-burner stove, fridge/freezer, stereo/CD, wired for TV, smoke free. Text/call 335-0004 for more info UTILITY TRAILER, excellent for 4-wheeler, with ramp gate, 8ĘźX5Ęź, exc cond. Call Marcel @ 334-2905 2012 18Ęź travel trailer. For more info call Marcel @ 867-334-2905
And more.... Come for a visit and meet your next furry family member! 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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AL-ANON MEETINGS, 667-7142. Has your life been affected by someoneĘźs drinking? Wednesday 12Noon @ Anglican Church, 4th & Elliott, back door, Friday 7pm Lutheran Church, 4th & Strickland, beginnerĘźs meeting, Friday 8pm Lutheran Church regular meeting 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 TAGISH NATION Dancers AGM on Sunday, May 31, 3pm, Lot 1015, Evans Road, Carcross. Info at 821-4040 or 689-9760 QUEER YUKON: upcoming events for the LGBTQ community and allies. www.queeryukon.com
FRIDAY, MAY 22, 2015
VOLUNTEERS NEEDED for The Peter Gzowski Invitational Golf Tournament for Literacy, coordination and game day, June 27th. Call Yukon Learn for more info 668-6280 ext 223
HOSPICE WALKING Group. Mondays June 1-29 6:30-8pm. Walk the Millennium trail with others on their grieving journey. To register call: 667-7429 or administrator@hospiceyukon.net
ĘťAWAKEĘź, LIFE of Yogananda coming soon to the Firehall. A film about Paramahansa Yogananda who brought yoga to the West and wrote “Autobiography of a Yogiâ€?. For info email: yoganandayukon@hotmail.com
RPAY IS hosting Mountain Adventures, learn to nordic walk program for people 55+ who want be more physically active & discover Whitehorse's trails. Thursdays May 21-July 9. Register at Sport Yukon
AGA DE la Fondation borĂŠale. DĂŠcidez avec nous!, 27 mai, 17 h 15, salle communautaire du Centre de la francophonie. Rens. (867) 668-2663, poste 500, fondation@fondationboreale.ca
RPAY IS hosting Trail Trekkers. Learn to nordic walk program for people 55+ to start becoming physically active & discover Whitehorse's trails, Tuesdays May 19-July 7. Register at Sport Yukon
FRIDAY SALSA Dancing at the Wheelhouse 9pm-12:30am, Friday May 29, The Wheelhouse Restaurant, 2237 2nd Avenue. salsayukon@gmail.com for info
YUKON BIRD Club trip May 24, McIntyre Creek Birdsong Workshop with Pam Sinclair, meet at the Porter Creek Super A 7:30am, 3 hrs. THE WRESTLING Association of Yukon will be holding its Annual General Meeting on Tuesday May 26th, 4pm at Holy Family in the Library. 667-3500
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YUKON BIRDATHON! May 29-30, 5 p.m. to 5 p.m., please contact Jim Hawkings 668-2639 email:yukonbirdclub@gmail.com FALUN GONG, an advanced practice of Buddha school self-cultivation. Introduction Mondays at Wood Street School from 6pm, no charge. Call 633-6157 for more information YUKON BIRD Club trip Friday May 22, trip May 23 Under 30s youth bird walk to McIntyre Creek, meet at Porter Creek Super A at 6:30pm, 2 hrs FRIDAY, MAY 29, 2015, 6:30-9:30pm, fundraiser for the Ted Harrison Artist Retreat at Crag Lake. MacBride Museum of Yukon History. thars.ca WRITERSĘź ROUNDTABLE with the WritersĘź Union of Canada, Monday, May 25, 7pm, Whitehorse Public Library, free. Info call 667-5239
Dr. Anne Williams
CLASS OF Sass 4th annual FADS fashion show, June 3rd at 7:00pm in the Porter Creek Secondary gymnasium. Admission: $10 for adult, youth $5. Yukon student designs GOLDEN AGE Society seniors BBQ Monday June 1st, 11am-1pm
r. Anne Williams, previously a service provider in Whitehorse, Yukon, passed away May 20, 2014. Her absence marks her loved ones deeply, but also her community. Anne’s contribution to the Yukon was marked through her placement on multiple medical committees, her personal workplace contributions as a practitioner of family medicine in multiple communities throughout the Yukon, and her tireless eorts to improve the provision of health-care within her home community.
Those interested in applying for or donating to the scholarship can ďŹ nd more information at: http://yukonfoundation.com
WATER & Flame, Authors Carellin Brooks & Jamella Hagen in conversation, Tuesday May 26, 7pm, Whitehorse Public Library, free. Info call 667-5239 GOLDEN AGE Society potluck supper 55+, Monday May 25th, doors open at 5pm. Bring a dish to share LINE OF Life Association Yukon AGM is Wednesday, June 10, 2015 at 11am, Greenwood Place, 3090 3rd Ave. Join us. Call 867-667-6945 for info HAMLET OF Mount Lorne Local Advisory Council monthly meeting to be held June 1, 2015, at the Lorne Mountain community Association at 7pm. Agenda on website YUKON FOOD for Learning Association AGM Wednesday, June 10, 2015 at noon at the YTA Offices, 2064 2nd Avenue, Whitehorse. Everyone welcome. 633-5352 or ykfoodforlearning@gmail for more info PORTER CREEK Community Association meeting Monday, June 1st, 5:15pm at the Guild Hall. All Welcome. Come show your support. Info 633-4829 REGISTER YOUR kids for Camp Yukon today! Kids Camps June 28-July 4/July 5-11 and Teen Camp July 12-18. Call 668-4817 or register online at www.bethanychurch.ca FASSY PARENT/CAREGIVER Support Group Meeting Thursday May 28, 6:30pm-9pm at FASSY Office, 4141 4th Avenue, Whitehorse. Come and share your experiences, wisdom and knowledge. Info 867-821-3431. 2015 WDGA Trilogy Challenge, try Disc Golf on June 6. Get everything you need to play for $35, $70 value. Facebook: Whitehorse Disc Golf Association F.H. COLLINS School Council regular meeting at 6:30pm on Wednesday, June 3rd in the School Library. Everyone welcome. ENCAUSTIC OPEN Studio with Marlene Collins June 1, 7-9pm at Arts Underground. $7.50/hr all supplies included. Ring door buzzer for entrance
KLUANE MTN Bluegrass Festival warm-up party May 30th, 37 Boreal Rd, featuring The Bennett Sun, Blue Creek, Second Cousins, Finch Collective, tickets $25 at Dean's Strings or call 332-1663. BBQ, $15 NON-RESTRICTED PAL Canadian Firearms Safety Course, Whitehorse Rifle & Pistol Club, Grey Mountain Road, Saturday & Sunday June 20 & 21, 8:30am, $120 cash or cheque, 633-6202 to register MASK, PAINTINGS by Suzanne Paleczny, runs June 5-28 at Yukon Artists @ Work Gallery, 4129-4th Ave, hours Monday-Saturday 11am-6pm, Sunday 11am-4pm SPRING TEA for YRTA (Yukon Retired Teachers) and guests Wednesday May 27, F.H. Collins at 3pm. Catered to by the foods classes at FHCSS. Info: 667-2644 YUKON ORIENTEERING Association Yukon Championships June 3, sprint on Hillcrest map, start at Elijah Smith School. For info Barbara 668-2306. June 10, mid-distance on Lewes Lake map. For info Brent 335-9070 ART AT the Dump, presented by Yukon Educational Theatre, Haines Junction from May 27-30. Drop in art activities May 27-29, 1:30-5:30pm, free BBQ May 30, 3-5pm YUKON QUEER Film Alliance AGM Thursday June 4, 6pm at 40 Dieppe Dr. All members welcome. Food & 2 short films after business is done DANCE AT The Big Band's Silver Anniversary celebration, Mt Mac, May 23rd @7:30pm. Three sets of dance music including special guests Bartha Stehelin & Rebekah Bell. bigband.ca NEPAL EARTHQUAKE Fundraiser Music Night Thursday, May 28, 7pm, the Gr8ful Spud. Organizer: Gaetan 335-3674, Support of: Hands of Hope www.facebook.com/booksandbasics
Services 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
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In honouring Anne’s personal contribution to the Yukon, as well as her basic belief in each individual’s ability to improve their own home communities, a scholarship has been established through the Yukon Foundation to give ďŹ nancial opportunity to individuals who will be furthering Anne’s legacy. This scholarship is built on the donations of those who knew Anne, as well as those wishing to encourage individuals to pursue medical education and/or careers, and as such beneďŹ ts from any further contributions. The scholarship will be available in the year 2016 and thereafter to individuals pursuing studies and/or careers in family medicine in reection of Anne’s starting point within the ďŹ eld of medicine and the Yukon.
LDAY AGM is Wednesday, May 27, 7pm at the Whitehorse United Church, lower level. Join us for refreshments, awards and guest speaker, Olympian Jeane Lassen
Kimberly Frances Williams-Patchett July 19, 1971 - May 26, 2002
We are sad within our memory. Lonely are our hearts today; for the one we loved so dearly has forever been called away.
No one knows how much we miss you; no one knows the bitter pain we have suffered since we lost you life has never been the same.
We think of her in silence. No eye may see us weep; but many silent tears are shed when others are asleep.
In our hearts your memory lingers, sweetly tender, fond and true. There is not a day dear Mother, that we do not think of you.
Mom, Dad, Sister, Brother & Sisters-in-law
Nikki-Lee, Bobbie Rae Patchett
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FRIDAY, MAY 22, 2015 BUSY BEAVERS Pruning, Hauling, Chainsaw Work, and General Labour Call Francois & Katherine 456-4755 LOG CABINS: Professional Scribe Fit log buildings at affordable rates. Contact: PF Watson, Box 40187, Whitehorse, YT, Y1A 6M9 668-3632 ELECTRICIAN •Licensed •GST free for the month of May •Residential & Commercial •All jobs, large or small •Free Estimates •10% Seniorʼs Discount 332-7879 PASCAL PAINTING CONTRACTOR PASCAL AND REGINE Residential - Commercial Interior-Exterior Ceilings, Walls Textures, Floors Spray work Small drywall repair Excellent quality workmanship Free estimates pascalreginepainting@northwestel.net 633-6368 SUBARU GURU Fix•Buy•Sell Used Subarus 30 year Journeyman Mechanic Towing available Mario 333-4585 TITAN DRYWALL Taping & Textured Ceilings 27 years experience Residential or Commercial No job too small Call Dave 336-3865 NEED CUSTOM APPAREL for sports teams, business, events? Screen printed on American Apparel. Best prices guaranteed. Don't have a design? No problem, consultation with artist is available. Contact: StevenQ95@gmail.com. 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 FINISHING CARPENTRY & RENOVATIONS For Clean, Meticulous & Tasteful Quality Work INTERIOR •Kitchen & Bathrooms, Flooring, •Design & organization of walk-in closets, laundry & storage room, garage •Wood & Laminate, Stairs. EXTERIOR •Decks, Fences, Insulation, Siding, Storage Shed DIDIER MOGGIA 633-2156 or cell 334-2156
CLEANING SERVICES 23 yrs experience. Reliable, honest, professional attitude, Car detailing, organizing, my own supplies or yours, . Reasonable rates, references. Commercial, industrial, apartment buildings & residential. Cheryl 667-2882 PAINTING Williamson Yukon Services offers int/exterior, redo decks, fences, sheds etc. Reputable, reliable, reasonable. 18 years in Yukon Ph. 333-0403 EMERGENCY REPAIRS Carpentry, plumbing, electrical, yard & garden maintenance, lamp reno & repair, painting, window washing, gutter cleaning, small furniture repair, all other household maintenance or repairs. Phone 393-2275 JACK OF ALL TRADES Concrete work: •Concrete repairs, pressure wash and reseal of exposed driveways •Light duty welding •Loads to the dump •Yard clean-up and more Phone 333-9084 JOSEF GRAF PAINTING Certified Journeyman for 20 seasons Residential & Commercial Free estimates and consultations 335-2300 Master quality in the Yukon JUDEʼS PAINTING & HOME RENOVATIONS •Interior & Exterior painting •Kitchen/bathroom renovations •Hardwood & Laminate flooring •Tile •Window & door installation Additions, sheds & water rooms Call 334-6175 judewaldman@gmail.com FROGGY SERVICES PEST CONTROL For all kinds of work around the house Windows & Wall Cleaning & Painting Clean Eavestroughs Carpentry Yard Work etc. References available 867-335-9272 FREELANCE CATSKINNER Retired too early. Looking for Dozer to run this season. Any size, location or type of work. Good at finish work on small ones or ripping and bulking on big ones. 40+ years of experience. Will consider supervisory work or training young ones but prefer just moving dirt, lots of dirt w/ no wear & tear. 867-689-1998 dougsack@outlook.com
Lost & Found FOUND: IPHONE belonging to Catherine. Identify to claim. 334-6087
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LOST: TRAILER ramp at the poker run in Haines Junction Saturday afternoon between Pine Lake & the Forestry. Call Liz at 668-6733 & leave a message.
Sports Equipment
MISSING: PORTABLE folding solar panel, $75 reward, no questions. 633-2200
FAT BIKE, Salsa Mukluk, aluminum frame, size small, well maintained, great year-round bike, $950. 633-6244
FOUND: BICYCLE, downtown, provide serial number to claim. 667-4586 FOUND: PAIR of prescription glasses in Qwanlin Mall parking lot on Tuesday. 322-2505 LOST: SINGLE side of trailer ramp lost between Whitehorse & Atlin on Thursday, May 7. 334-9436 or 332-0836
INVERT RAC, as new, good to relieve headaches, located in Haines Junction, $250. 250-566-1346
CANNONDALE R600CAAD5, aluminum frame, carbon fibre fork, Shimano 105 components, well maintained, $700 obo. 633-6244
MEN'S RIGHT hand Wilson golf clubs w/nearly new carry/stand bag, Dunlop 460cc driver, 3W, 4,5,7,9, putter, & 2 wedges. Carlos @ 334-1013
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RALEIGH SERENGETI, gently used, fits 5'6 to 6', $75; Raleigh Rocky, Blue, fits 5'6 - 6', $35. 668-2486
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Business Opportunities Specialty Italian Ice-Cream/Gelato business for sale. Located in Carcross, a popular summer destination for hikers, bikers, day-trippers and tourists. With an average of over 100,000 visitors during the summer, being your own boss is attainable! Great name, turn-key equipment, shippers, and contacts are set up with room to expand if you have the vision and drive. Call (867) 335-1937 WHITEHORSE DOWNTOWN Hotel for Sale email: contact@uciilink.net 604-285-1111
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The Tagish Planning Committee is inviting Tagish residents, property owners and Carcross/Tagish First Nation citizens to two public meetings to launch the Tagish local area planning process and to introduce everyone to the members of the Planning Committee. Light lunch will be provided. When: 11:30 a.m., Saturday, May 30, 2015 Where: Tagish Community Hall and When: 11:30 a.m., Wednesday, June 3, 2015 Where: Main Boardroom, Carcross/Tagish JRYHUQPHQW RI¿FHV For more information please contact Tomoko Hagio at the EMR Land Planning Branch at 667-3179, or call toll free at 1-800-661-0408 ext. 3179, or tomoko.hagio@gov.yk.ca, or Doris Dreyer at Government of Carcross/Tagish First Nation at 393-2331 ext. 104 or doris.dreyer@ctfn.ca
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Yukon Water Board – Application Notice Office des eaux du Yukon – Avis de demande Application Number Numéro de la demande
Applicant/Licensee Demandeur/Titulaire
Water Source Location Point d’eau/Lieu
Type of Undertaking Type d’entreprise
Deadline for Comments 4:00pm Date limite pour commentaires, avant 16 h
PM15-005
George Wilson
Sonora Gulch, Tributary of Hayes Creek
Placer
June 16, 2015
PM15-014
Devin Gold Exploration
Foster Gulch, Tributary of Klondike River
Placer
June 16, 2015
PM15-022
Randy Carey
Wounded Moose Creek, Tributary of Dominion Creek and Indian River
Placer
June 16, 2015
PM15-025
Morris and Lorraine George
Hunker Creek, right fork & unnamed Tributary – common name 36 pup
Placer
June 16, 2015
PM15-026
Adrian Hollis
Dominion Creek, Dominion Miner’s Ditch
Placer
June 16, 2015
PM15-027
Niels Sprokkreeff dba Tunica Placers
Tributary of Dominion Creek
Placer
June 16, 2015
Wounded Moose Creek
Placer
June 1, 2015
Takhini River
Agriculture
June 1, 2015
PM07-556-1 (Assignment of PM07-556) AG98-012-2 (Assignment of AG98-012)
Assignment from John Erikson to Corrie Loewen Assignment from Dave Andrew to Deveron and Louise Hurlburt
Any person may submit comments or recommendations, in writing, by the deadline for notice. Applications are available for viewing on the Yukon Water Board’s online registry, WATERLINE at http://www.yukonwaterboard.ca or in person at the Yukon Water Board office. For more information, contact the Yukon Water Board Secretariat at 867-456-3980.
Toute personne peut soumettre ses commentaires ou ses recommandations à l’Office avant la date limite indiquée sur le présent avis. Pour voir les demandes, consultez le registre en ligne WATERLINE au http://www.yukonwaterboard.ca ou rendez-vous au bureau de l’Office des eaux du Yukon. Pour de plus amples renseignements, veuillez communiquer avec le secrétariat de l’Office au 867-456-3980.
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DOUBLE KAYAK, Pelican, new, $500; single kayak, Pelican, with pedals, $500. 335-3431
Livestock LOOKING FOR a good home for my 3 female small standard donkeys, registered, mother and 2 daughters, very cute, friendly and calm. 393-3477 QUALITY YUKON MEAT No hormones, steroids or additives Grass raised grain finished. Hereford beef - $5.50/lb Domestic wild boar - $7/lb Order now for guaranteed spring or fall delivery. Whole, half or custom order. Samples available 668-7218 • 335-5192
HORSE & PONY FOR SALE. Appendix QH gelding, 15.3hh, 20yrs. Welsh/Arab pony gelding, 12.2hh, 12yrs. Both ridable and sound. Please call for more info about these two horses. 867-334-4066. HORSE HAVEN HAY RANCH Irrigated Timothy/Brome mix No weeds or sticks Small squares 60 lbs plus 4 ft x 5 ft rounds 800 lb Free delivery for larger orders Straw square bales available 335-5192 • 668-7218 HAY FOR SALE •Dry bales kept under a shelter •Great quality hay 60-70 lb bales, $10 35-40 lb bales, $8 633-4496 or mikeandastra@me.com
7-YEAR-OLD RED Dun quarterhorse, gelding. 867-536-2633 for more info HORSE RIDING equipment, 2 saddles, 1 Western, 1 English, includes tack, $500 ea. 633-2031 HAY & STRAW FOR SALE Excellent quality hay •Timothy/grass mix, 60 lb $14.50 •Timothy/Brome hay, 60 lb $14.50 •Straw bales (baled in spring) $5 Nielsen Farms Maureen 333-0615 or yukonfarm@gmail.com HAY FOR SALE 830 lb Brome round bales, $80 each OR 10 or more bales, $65 each Phone 867-668-2407
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REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL
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FOREST HEALTH MONITORING AND REPORTING
INSPECTION SERVICES - STANDING OFFER AGREEMENT
Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title. The closing date for submissions is June 11, 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 Rob Legare at (867) 456-3811. 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 June 16, 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 Nick Rodger at (867) 667-5194. 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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CHILDRENĘźS CLOTHING in excellent condition, given freely the first & third Saturday monthly at the Church of the Nazarene, 2111 Centennial. 633-4903 TODDLER BED, will deliver, $75. 393-2926 CHILDĘźS CAR seat, gently used, $25. 633-5009 SMALL TOTĘźS fold up playpen for travel, used once, $30. 334-7545
Childcare ROSIEĘźS 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
PUBLIC TENDER WARM MIX ASPHALT OVERLAY, APRON I AND TAXIWAY A, WATSON LAKE AIRPORT, KM 10 ROBERT CAMPBELL HIGHWAY, YUKON, 2015-2016 Project Description: The project includes supply and production of warm mix asphalt, including production of aggregates, supply and application of tack and prime coats, application of warm mix asphalt pavement overlay, line layout and painting, environmental compliance, and traffic control. Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title. The closing date for submissions is June 11, 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 Fred Jay at (867) 332-4480. 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
FRIDAY, MAY 22, 2015 BUSY BEE DAYHOME, RIVERDALE has openings, 18 months-5 years Hot lunch, snacks provided. Learning through play, planned activities, caring environment. 21 years experience. References available. Kim @ 633-2177 kmbryer@gmail.com LOOKING FOR LIVE-IN NANNY for 4 children. High energy, responsible person needed to help care for our 4 kids. Room and board provided. Wage negotiable depending on experience, 20-40 hours/week. Must be willing to work irregular schedule. Light house cleaning duties. Start date: ASAP. Call 633-4577 or emai jamesminifie@gmail.com
Furniture 2 LA-Z-BOY recliner chairs, exc cond, regular leather care, blueberry-colour, wall-away, great for small apt/cabin, $700 ea. Call/lve msg 334-1013 before 8pm 2 FOREST green recliners, good shape, $100 firm, one large, approx 44" across arms, other typical La-Z-Boy size. 633-3666 before 9pm FUTON BED complete with metal frame, folds down to double bed, paid $270 in November, 2014, asking $150 obo. 334-6197
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QUEEN-SIZED MATTRESS, 8 yrs old, good condition, $95. 633-5470 KING SIZE bed w/box spring, like new, $600. 335-5352 PALLISER 633-3053
BRAND dresser, 3-pc set.
CREAM-COLOURED MICROFIBRE couch, great shape, clean & comfortable, $200. 633-4707 WOOD RECTANGULAR table with extra glass topper & 6 chairs, $60. 667-2232 8-PLACE DINING room table & chairs, solid mahogany, 54X36X36 without leaf, 54X54X36 with leaf in, offers. 633-5155 IMPERIAL LOYALIST solid cherry bedroom furniture set, 5-drawer dresser w/mirror, 2 drawer desk w/chair, night stand w/drawer, queen size bedframe, mattress & boxspring incl, $1,000 obo. 633-3266 LEATHER BURGUNDY office chair, $40. 334-8318
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 DRUG PROBLEM? Narcotics Anonymous meetings Wed. 7pm-8pm #2 - 407 Ogilvie St. BYTE Office FRI. 7pm-8:30pm 4071 - 4th Ave Many Rivers Office
ATTENDANT AND MAINTENANCE SERVICES FOR THE DEEP CREEK SOLID WASTE DISPOSAL FACILITY
PUBLIC TENDER
Project Description: To provide attendant and maintenance services at the Deep Creek Solid Waste Disposal Facility. This includes keeping the site accessible, ensuring waste is properly segregated and stored, and consolidating the scrap metals and bulky material piles, and other activities as described herein. Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title. The closing date for submissions is May 28, 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 Darrin Fredrickson at (867) 667-5195. 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 June 11, 2015. Please refer to the procurement documents for the closing time and location. Documents may be obtained from the Procurement Support Centre, Department of Highways and Public Works, Suite 101 - 104 Elliott Street, Whitehorse, Yukon (867) 667-5385. Technical questions may be directed to Jenny Richards at (867) 3936387. The highest ranked or lowest priced submission may not necessarily be accepted. 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
Community Services
Highways and Public Works
STANDING OFFER AGREEMENT (SOA) FOR THE SUPPLY OF DENTAL HEALTH MEDICAMENTS AND SUPPLIES
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FRIDAY, MAY 22, 2015
WHITEHORSE DUPLICATE BRIDGE CLUB May 19, 2015 1st - Chic Callas & Bill Curtis 2nd - Diane Emond & Don Emond 3rd - Darwin Wreggitt & Jan Ogilvy 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.com
LIQUOR ACT
PUBLIC TENDER
Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title. The closing date for submissions is June 18, 2015. Please refer to the procurement documents for the closing time and location.
✓New Licence ❑ Existing Licence ❑ TAKE NOTICE THAT, Gwen McIntyre, of 1914 Centennial Street, Whitehorse, Yukon Y1A 3Z5, is making application for Liquor Primary-All and Off Premises Liquor licenses, in respect of the premises known as Drunken Duck Pub situated at Days Inn, 2288-2nd Avenue 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 5:00 pm on the 3rd day of June, 2015 and also serve a copy of the objection by registered mail upon the applicant. The first time of publication of notice is May 15, 2015. The second time of publication of notice is May 22, 2015. The third time of publication of notice is May 29, 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.
If documents are available they may be obtained from Yukon Housing Corporation, 410 Jarvis Street, Whitehorse, Yukon. Technical questions may be directed to Laura Vanderkley at 867-667-8114. Site Visit: June 8, 2015 at 1:00 p.m. Joint Tender with Watson Lake 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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FRIDAY, MAY 22ND PORTER CREEK M 15-11TH AVE, Porter Creek, Friday May 22, 4pm-7pm, Saturday May 23, 9am-1pm, outdoor furniture, garden ornaments, lawn mowers, wine fridge, wedding supplies, boxing gear, Ikea furniture, small furniture etc
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SATURDAY, MAY 23RD ARKELL M 28 GROUSE CRES, Arkell, Saturday May 23, 9am-3pm, kitchen ware, furniture, camping gear, BBQ, bedding, jackets and more M 84 SANDPIPER DR, Arkell, Saturday May 23, 9am-1pm, multi-family garage sale, mostly household items COPPER RIDGE M 52 TIGEREYE CRES, Copper Ridge, Saturday May 23, 9am-1pm, household items, garden items, records, movies, clothing, shoes, misc items
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M 42 VALERIE CRES, Copper Ridge, Saturday May 23, 8am-1pm, multi-family M 76 TIGEREYE CRES, Copper Ridge, Saturday May 23, 8:30am start, multi-family, no early birds please, lots of stuff M 48 LAZULITE DR, Copper Ridge, Saturday May 23, 9am-noon, recliner, double oven stove, car M 14 VALERIE CRES, Copper Ridge, Saturday May 23, 9am-1pm, children’s clothing, brand names, Halloween costumes, fancy dresses, sports equipment, toys, games, books
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05.22.2015
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PUBLIC TENDER
REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL
SHINGLE ROOF REPLACEMENT VARIOUS YUKON HOUSING UNITS WATSON LAKE, YUKON
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M 9 OLIVINE PLACE, Copper Ridge, Saturday May 23, 8:30am-12noon M TIGEREYE CRESCENT / RUBY LANE, Copper Ridge, Saturday May 23, 9am-1pm, neighbourhood garage sale M 131 NORTH STAR DR, Copper Ridge, Saturday May 23, 8am-11am, bikes, furniture, household, artwork, women’s/men’s clothes, toys, wagon, stroller, playpen, cloth diapers etc M 43 VALERIE CRES, Copper Ridge, Saturday May 23, 8am-1pm, Juvenile Diabetes fundraising sale, multifamily, new donations, something for everyone, proceeds going to JDRF M 94 NORTH STAR DR, Copper Ridge, Saturday May 23, 8am-1pm, furniture, kitchen items, lamps, kids & adult clothes, winter tires on rims, etc M 16 LAZULITE DR, Copper Ridge, Saturday May 23, 9am-12pm, no early birds, household, kids toys/clothes, various
EVALUATION OF THE APPRENTICESHIP AND TRADESPERSON QUALIFICATION PROGRAM Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title. The closing date for submissions is June 9, 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 Shannon Trott at (867) 667-3483. 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
Education
PUBLIC TENDER SENIOR’S BUILDING LANDSCAPING, FARO, YUKON Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title. The closing date for submissions is June 4, 2015. Please refer to the procurement documents for the closing time and location. If documents are available they may be obtained from Yukon Housing Corporation, 410 Jarvis Street, Whitehorse, Yukon. Technical questions may be directed to Robert Kostelnik at 867-667-5795. Site Visit May 21, 2015 at 12:00 PM at 101 Rose Cresent Contact Robert Kostelnik 867-6675795 to confirm attendence. 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
Garage CRESTVIEW M 302 AZURE RD, Benchmark Trailer Park, Crestview, Saturday May 23, 9am-2pm, movies, DVDs, baby items, clothes & misc M 166 RAINBOW RD, Crestview, Saturday May 23, small appliances, books, DVDs DOWNTOWN M 4TH AVE & STEELE ST, Downtown, Saturday May 23, 8am-noon, Knights of Columbus annual yard sale M HELLABY HALL, Downtown across from RCMP, Saturday May 23, 9am-1pm. SETS ANNUAL GARAGE SALE, donations are being accepted. Call 334-4473. All proceeds go towards providing education to children in Africa M 49 WATERFRONT PLACE, Downtown, Saturday May 23, 9am-2pm, Re/Max Action Realty hosting Yard Sale for a CURE TO BENEFIT BREAST CANCER M 609 DRURY STREET, Downtown, Saturday May 23, 9am-3pm, tools, antiques, furniture, some clothes etc M 704 OGILVIE ST, Downtown, Saturday May 23, 9:30am-12noon, no early birds, small inflatable boat, cooler, queen size down comforter, women’s clothes etc & some free stuff, cancelled if raining GRANGER M 33 TURNER CRES, Granger, Saturday May 23, 9am-2pm LOGAN M 61 FINCH CRES, Logan, Saturday May 23, 8am12noon, household & miscellaneous items M 36 FINCH CRES, Logan, Saturday, May 23, 9am-12noon, household items, various board games M 92 FINCH CRES, Logan, Saturday May 23, 10am-2pm, a little bit of everything LOBIRD M 101 LOBIRD TRAILER PARK, Saturday May 23, 10am-2pm, yard sale MARY LAKE M 5 SAGE PLACE, Mary Lake, Saturday May 23, 9am-1pm, garage cabinets, books, collectibles,
SALES
Native art, furniture, tools, snowshoes, gas cans, bear spray etc
SUPPLY OF ROUGH CUT SPRUCE Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title. The closing date for submissions is June 11, 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
M 3 LIARD RD, Riverdale, Saturday May 23, 9am-1pm, lots of toys, books, household, boys clothes 4-5, girls clothes 10-12, everything priced low M 14 TAGISH RD, Riverdale, Saturday May 23, 9:30am-12:30pm, no early birds please M 15 TAY ST, Riverdale, Saturday May 23, 9am12noon M 15 BELL CRES, Riverdale, Saturday May 23, 9am-1pm, lots of baby/twin clothes
MCINTYRE M 23 O’BRIEN RD, McIntyre, Saturday May 23, 9am-1pm, toys, adult & children’s clothing, wagon, crib, misc
TAKHINI HOT SPRINGS RD M KM 10, TAKHINI HOT SPRINGS RD, Saturday May 23, 9am-2pm, the Hot Springs is cleaning out the barn, camping gear, household items, lawn furniture, etc
MACPHERSON M 15 MACPHERSON RD, MacPherson, Saturday & Sunday, May 23 & 24, 10am-4pm
M KM 9.5, TAKHINI HOTSPRINGS RD, Saturday May 23, 9am-2pm, moving sale, furniture, books, household items, freezer, diverse, rain or shine, no early birds, please
PILOT MTN M LOT 18, PILOT MTN, Pilot Mtn, Hot Springs Rd, Saturday May 23, 9am-2pm, yard sale, rain or shine, something for everyone
TAKHINI NORTH M 43 RHINE WAY, Takhini North, Saturday May 23, 9am-12noon, moving, lots of good stuff, plants, change table, shelves, etc
PORTER CREEK M 14 WILLOW CRES, Porter Creek. Saturday May 23, 8:30am-2pm. Fundraiser for Legion. Chairs, kitchen appliances, hh items.
TAKHINI SOUTH M 4 VIMY PLACE, Takhini, Saturday May 23, 9am-12noon, no early birds, tons of good quality clean household items
M 92 & 95 WALNUT CR., Porter Creek, Saturday May 23, 9am–12 noon, multi-family sale, housewares, collectables, garden tools, lots of books, clothing, ladies’ accessories, small furniture items
M 13 ARLEUX PLACE, Takhini East, Saturday May 23, 9am
M 21-10TH AVE, Porter Creek, Saturday May 23, 10am-2pm, no early birds, large furniture, arm chairs, book shelves, table, filing cabinet, small items etc
SUNDAY, MAY 24TH
M 77 TAMARACK DR, Porter Creek, Saturday May 23, 9am-4pm, beds, tools, kitchen & household items, 2 mountain bikes M 15-11TH AVE, Porter Creek, Friday May 22, 4pm-7pm, Saturday May 23, 9am-1pm, outdoor furniture, garden ornaments, lawn mowers, wine fridge, wedding supplies, boxing gear, Ikea furniture, small furniture etc RIVERDALE M TUTSHI RD & DONJEK RD, Riverdale, Saturday May 23, 9am-12noon, multi-family garage sales on both roads, lots of great stuff M 95 TESLIN RD, Riverdale, Saturday May 23, 9am-1pm, multi-family, huge variety of things M 4 TATCHUN RD, Riverdale, Saturday May 23, 10am-2pm, kitchen items, women’s shoes sz 10-11, power tools
M 123 SEINE SQUARE, Takhini West, Saturday May 23, 10am-2pm
MACPHERSON M 15 MACPHERSON RD, MacPherson, Saturday & Sunday, May 23 & 24, 10am-4pm TAKHINI - NORTHLAND MHP M 152 NORTHLANDS TRAILER PARK, 986 Range Rd, Sunday May 24, 9am-1pm, household items, tools, fish tanks
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