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ukon Energy’s liquefied natural gas power plant in Whitehorse is now ready to deliver back-up power to residents. The plant will be used mainly in case of power outages and for heating during the winter months, when hydro power is insufficient to meet demand. Yukon Energy president Andrew Hall said start-up tests of the new LNG generators went smoothly and fed power into the grid. But the facility hasn’t yet been needed to produce power for any sustained period. In April, the corporation announced that the project was expected to cost $42.9 million, up from an original estimate of $34.5 million. Hall now says the bills are still being tallied, but the final cost will likely be at or below $42.9 million. The LNG plant was built to replace two aging diesel generators that were built in 1968 and 1970. The government has said natural gas was chosen because it’s cheaper and cleaner than diesel. Hall said LNG is about 25 per cent cheaper than diesel. But he said it’s difficult to know whether the switch to LNG will lower utility costs for ratepayers. “I can’t really say what that ultimate saving will be,� he said. “Economically, it’s a better choice than going with diesel engines.� Hall also said a study commissioned for the project showed that using natural gas for back-up power would release 25 per cent fewer greenhouse gas emissions over the plant’s lifetime, as compared to diesel. He said pollutants like sulfur oxides and nitrogen oxides would be reduced by 50 to 80 per cent. But not everyone is convinced of the virtues of natural gas. Don Roberts, chair of Yukoners Concerned About Oil & Gas Exploration/Development, said he’s “very disappointed� the government opted to stick with fossil fuel energy. “It’s all wrong-headed,� he said. “We’re going down a path that most countries and most jurisdictions are moving away from.� Roberts disputes the idea that LNG is cleaner than diesel, because of methane emissions that leak into the atmosphere during the production, delivery, and use
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A truck delivers a shipment of liquefied natural gas in May. Yukon Energy says the plant is now ready to deliver back-up power. of natural gas. He believes it would have been better to build new diesel generators, which he said are much more efficient than the old ones. He also suggested the government is paving the way for fracking in the Yukon with the construction of this plant. “Basically what they’re doing is lining up what they’re going to be doing in the territory,� he said. “The government wants to go down the fracking trail.� Roberts said he has collected about 8,000 signatures on a petition that opposes fracking in the Yukon. The natural gas currently stored at the facility comes from the Tilbury LNG plant in Delta, B.C. Hall said it’s difficult to know exactly where that gas was sourced, but it likely comes from northern B.C. and possibly from the U.S. He said purchasing the gas from B.C. is an improvement over earlier plans to buy LNG from Alberta, since the production is powered by hydro rather than coal. Hall said if a new plant is built in northern B.C., the Whitehorse facility would likely use it as a new supply point to cut down on transportation costs. But he said it’s too early to comment on whether the facility would purchase gas produced in the Yukon, since the industry here is still in its infancy. Ultimately, there’s no easy answer about whether LNG is actually cleaner than diesel, according to Matt Horne, associate director of the Pembina Institute. He said new studies come out all the time with conflicting results about life-cycle emissions and methane leaks. He’s skeptical of
the 25 per cent emissions reduction Hall cited. “That number sounds a little high,� he said. “My sense is you’re probably getting a marginal climate benefit. There’s not great data on this stuff.� Horne said he recommends trying to build more renewable energy capacity wherever possible, instead of relying on LNG or diesel. Whitehorse still has a number of functional diesel generators. Before the LNG plant was built, the diesel capacity in Whitehorse was 20 megawatts. Now 8.8 megawatts have been switched to natural gas. Hall said the LNG plant has space for a third engine that will eventually replace a third diesel generator, but there are no immediate plans to replace the others. Yukon Energy is hosting a public open house, including a tour of the facility, on the afternoon of July 23. Anyone wishing to attend must sign up at yukonenergy.ca/ LNGopenhouse. Contact Maura Forrest at maura.forrest@yukon-news.com
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Streicker, Taylor to run for Yukon Liberals Maura Forrest News Reporter
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oliticians should be able to change their minds.” So spoke Rod Taylor after he and city councillor John Streicker announced on Thursday that they are joining the Liberal Party and planning to run in the next territorial election. Taylor and Streicker both have a history in politics, and not with the Liberal Party. Taylor sought the leadership of the Yukon Party in May 2011, but lost to current premier Darrell Pasloski. Streicker was the Green Party candidate in the last two federal elections. He announced in November 2014 that he would not be running in this year’s election. He made the decision in part to avoid accusations of vote-splitting with Liberal candidate Larry Bagnell. Both men spoke about common goals as being more important than party labels. “No party has a monopoly on all of the best ideas,” said Taylor. “What we really want is what’s best for all Yukoners.” Asked whether this move was a step toward the Liberal Party leadership, after his failed bid to lead the Yukon Party, Taylor said he can’t imagine the party having a leader other than Sandy Silver “for a long time.” “There is absolutely no question. I am not here because I think down the road there’s an opportu-
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Sandy Silver, centre, speaks on Thursday at the Watershed Cafe in Whitehorse announcing two new Liberal MLA candidates: John Streicker, right, and Rod Taylor, left. nity,” he said. “Plus I’m too old.” Streicker said the issues he was most concerned with as a Green Party candidate – “sustainability, diversity, grassroots democracy, social justice” – do align with Liberal Party politics. “We should stop this idea about being partisan first,” he said. “It’s at the territorial level where we really need more work done. That’s the place where I
want to really devote my effort and make as big a difference as I can.” He added that he will complete his term as a city councillor, which ends in October, and that he hasn’t yet rescinded his federal Green Party membership. Taylor currently runs an ecotourism company, and he previously headed a waste-to-energy company based in Vancouver. He
was instrumental in reviving the Mount Sima ski hill in 2013. Streicker is a professional engineer specializing in climate change impacts and a lecturer at Yukon College. He has also worked with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Their announcement has come early, as the next territorial election may not be held until October 2016. The Liberals will hold
formal nominations and a policy convention in the fall. But Liberal Leader Sandy Silver said the announcement is being made now because the election could be called “at any time in the next 16 months.” “It also puts an end to the reference of me being the lone Liberal,” he said. “You couldn’t kick the smile off my face.” Silver has been the only Liberal MLA in the territorial government since Darius Elias defected to the Yukon Party in 2012. Taylor and Streicker have yet to decide which ridings they would represent. Silver said he has been approached by about 40 people interested in running for the party, and ridings will be discussed in the fall. Federal Liberal candidate Larry Bagnell was also present at Thursday’s announcement. He said he hopes this is the beginning of a “red wave” in the territory. “These two chaps have so much respect in the Yukon,” he said. “They’re really based on principles. They’re going to have a huge effect on the momentum of the Liberal Party in the Yukon.” He said he thinks Streicker moved from federal to territorial politics as a way to get things done. “He wanted to make sure that he could work on moving things forward as opposed to just this competition between myself and him and other candidates.” Contact Maura Forrest at maura.forrest@yukon-news.com
Yukon’s fibre-optic line unscathed by wildfire Pierre Chauvin News Reporter
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ukon’s only link to the Internet hasn’t been damaged by a fire in British Columbia despite the fire crossing over the line on a 12-kilometre portion of the Alaska Highway. The Beaver Creek fire, which temporarily forced a stretch of the Alaska Highway to be closed on Wednesday, is now on each side of the highway but didn’t damage the fibre-optic line, B.C. fire officials said. “The fire remained quieter yesterday due to cooler conditions,” said Fort Nelson fire information officer Erin Catherall. It’s not the only fire burning near the Yukon fibre line. On Wednesday Northwestel issued a news release warning that the Coal River fire, situated 72 kilometres east of Watson Lake, posed a “potential imminent threat” to the territory’s fibre-optic connection. But a short time later the company scaled back the likelihood of such a disruption to being “unlikely.” While the fibre-optic cable is
Campfires banned in Atlin Attendees of this weekend’s Atlin Arts and Music Festival should be aware that campfires won’t be allowed.
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The Beaver Creek fire in northern B.C. located between Prophet and Fort Nelson led to the temporary closure of the Alaska Highway on Wednesday. Pilot cars are now escorting motorists through the area of the blaze. mostly buried underground, it runs along the surface in areas where workers couldn’t plow
through, for example in rivers and creeks. A damaged fibre-optic line
would result in the loss of Internet and cellular service for the entire territory.
All open burning, including campfires and fireworks, are forbidden in most of the province, including Atlin. “This extraordinary step is
being taken to help prevent human-caused wildfires and protect public safety,” B.C. fire officials announced on July 3. The B.C. Wildfire Service is
dealing with more than 150 active fire in the province. Campfires are still allowed in the area known as the “Fog Zone” along the western coast
On Wednesday a stretch of the Alaska Highway between Fort Nelson and Prophet River was closed. It was re-opened on Thursday. Since then motorists have been escorted by pilot cars. People should expect delays as the pilot cars only drive one direction at a time, fire officials said. Latest wildfire reports show 106 active fires in the Yukon. Wildland firefighters’ top priority fires includes the Coal River fire in northern B.C. Six helicopters and 30 crew members are fighting the blaze. The fire is over 69,000 hectares, and according to the latest report was burning 3.5 kilometres from the Alaska Highway. “Fire danger rating lowered around the territory with the recent precipitation and cooler temperature,” said Sarah Murray, spokesperson for Yukon Wildland Fire Management. Wildland Firefighters are also fighting a 3,000-hectare priority fire near the Fort Selkirk heritage site. Contact Pierre Chauvin at pierre.chauvin@yukon-news.com
of the Vancouver Island. A map of the area covered by the fire ban is available at bcwildfire.ca. (Pierre Chauvin)
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Man gets 30 months for infecting woman with HIV sentence. In Canada, sentences over two years are automatically served in News Reporter federal penitentiaries. The judge noted incarceration udge Michael Cozens sentenced at the Whitehorse jail would allow Napoleon Ngeruka to 30 months Ngeruka to continue counselling, in prison for aggravated sexual deal better with his medical isassault. sues and give better support to his Ngeruka was convicted on June 16 daughter. after pleading guilty. Ngeruka is a Rwandan genocide In 2005 and 2009 Ngeruka had survivor who fled to Canada, the unprotected sex with a Yukon woman judge read from the pre-sentencing without disclosing to her that he was report. HIV positive. Both his parents, grandparents Justice Cozens found that Ngeruka and two of his siblings were killed infected the woman with HIV. during the genocide. The Crown was asking for a His first wife was also murdered 36-month sentence while Ngeruka’s in front of his daughter, who suffers defence lawyer was asking for a from a learning disability as a result, conditional sentence of two years the judge said quoting the report. less a day, which he would have been That report noted Ngeruka’s “disallowed to serve at home. sociative behaviour” and how he was Justice Cozens did, however, take “mentally withdrawn” when his past the unusual step of recommending and his family were mentioned. Ngeruka be sent to the Whitehorse Ngeruka had worked for Yukon Correctional Centre to serve his College as a custodian since 1992. Pierre Chauvin
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From 1994 to 2009 he struggled with alcohol, and would sometimes black out, the judge read. He completed treatment and doesn’t have a problem with alcohol currently. The judge also noted from the sentencing report the long list of medical issues Ngeruka is suffering from. Justice Cozens noted Ngeruka’s “tragic background,” his respect of his bail conditions except for one breach, steady employment, involvement in counselling and remorse expressed for his actions – all factors taken into consideration during the sentencing. Ngeruka was also sentenced to 15 days in prison for breaching his bail conditions on June 8, 2012, a sentence to be served concurrently to the 30-month one. While Ngeruka pleaded guilty, he also did force the woman to testify at length about her sexual history, in order to prove he was the one who
infected her. Cozens said that while Ngeruka was entitled to use that defence, this lessened his guilty plea as a mitigating factor. He also noted Ngeruka’s criminal history, which includes several impaired driving, assault and obstruction of justice convictions. His background is not an excuse for the crime he committed, Cozens said, but it provides context and must be taken into account. But there is only one victim here, he reminded the court. “(She) had a reasonable expectation not to be exposed to a life-threatening virus,” he said. The woman’s name and any detail that could reveal her identify are under a publication ban because of the nature of the crime. Ngeruka showed reckless disregard for his victim’s life, Cozens said. He didn’t disclose his condition to her even after being told by doctors about the dangers of transmitting HIV.
The woman filed a victim impact statement, expressing the significant impact it had on her life. “I was impressed (by her) demeanor when she testified,” the judge said. “She certainly went and is going through a lot of emotions,” he said, adding she seemed to have moved on positively with her life. Improvement in HIV medication means the condition is no longer a virtual death sentence, the judge noted, but the harm caused to the woman is very serious. Even though Ngeruka doesn’t pose a threat to the community, the seriousness of his crime rules out a conditional sentence, the judge ruled. Denunciation and deterrence, two of the main objectives of the justice system, sometimes require incarceration, he said. Contact Pierre Chauvin at pierre.chauvin@yukon-news.com
Dirt biker fined $750 for crashing into cyclist on Riverdale trail safe card. Off-road bikes or dirt bikes are News Reporter considered ATVs under the bylaw. According to officials, on June 23 a Whitehorse man faces $750 cyclist was travelling down the Lower worth of fines for crashing his Roller Coaster Trail in Riverdale and dirt bike into a cyclist on the came across a dirt bike coming up the trails in Riverdale last month. hill towards him. The cyclist pulled The 23-year-old man is not identi- off the trail, but was struck by the dirt fied in the City of Whitehorse news bike. He broke his wrist and hurt his release. He faces three charges under knee. the city’s ATV bylaw – operating in a According to witnesses, the dirt prohibited area, operating without bike driver was operating in a careless due care and attention, and having no manner, said Tom Wyers, the city’s Ashley Joannou
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senior bylaw constable. Wyers wouldn’t go into any more detail about how the dirt bike driver is accused of driving since the case is before the courts. The accused has until July 17 to pay his fines or plead not guilty by this date and submit his plea to the City of Whitehorse. He could also go to Yukon Territorial Court on July 28 to make a plea before a judge or justice of the peace. “This is a reminder that the city takes enforcement on our trails and
protected areas seriously,” Wyers said in a statement. “We want to remind citizens that motorized vehicles are only allowed on designated trails... and dangerous driving will not be tolerated anywhere.” In an interview this week, Wyers said $750 worth of fines is a significant amount to be handed out to one person for bylaw infractions. He said bylaw has received numerous complaints about people driving various types of ATVs on prohibited
trails in the Riverdale area. Some riders, “making their way down through some of these double track trails to Hidden Lakes to go fishing,” may not be aware the trails are off-limits, he said. “They are on prohibited areas and it causes damage to the vegetation and to the landscape, and we want to keep those areas pristine for the hikers and the mountain bikers and people who enjoy the outdoors.” Contact Ashley Joannou at ashleyj@yukon-news.com
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Left: Governor General David Johnston congratulates Yukon scientist Marianne Douglas after presenting her with the Polar Medal. Above: Ten medals were presented during the ceremony, which was held at MacBride Museum in Whitehorse on Wednesday.
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overnor General David Johnston visited Whitehorse this week to award the new Polar Medal to 10 recipients, including two Yukoners. Marianne Douglas, one of Canada’s most experienced Arctic field scientists, and Anne Morgan, executive director of the Recreation and Parks Association of Yukon, both received medals during the ceremony on Wednesday. “For me this medal recognizes all those years of gathering data but it also recognizes all the rest of my fellow colleagues and my students who came to work with me,� Douglas told reporters after
the ceremony. Douglas has spent years studying how climate change is impacting lakes in the Canadian High Arctic, on Ellesmere and Baffin Island. She’s also done work on the retreat of Arctic glaciers. “The value of long term data is really important,� she said. “You need to have natural variability to distinguish from change.� Such research also helps Canadians understand how our own actions impact the environment, said Douglas. “We know the environment is changing, but now people are ready to make changes to their lifestyle,� she said. Douglas moved to the Yukon in 2006, while often going to the University of Alberta for research
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“It didn’t feel like hard work, it was a privilege: it’s such a fabulous place,� she said. When the governor general’s office called to announce to her she had won the medal, Anne Morgan couldn’t believe it. “I think I told them when they called from the governor general’s office, ‘Are you sure?’� she said after the ceremony. “It brings back so many fond memories of all my years in rural communities in recreation, all this little small world,� she said. She’s glad the value of recreation in the North is receiving recognition. “It plants those seeds for what you’ll end up doing for the rest of their lives,� she said. During the ceremony, the governor general described the rationale for creating such an award. “The Polar Medal recognizes those who have brought about a greater understanding of Canada’s
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being taken over, so you see a spike.� There are additional costs to building out further away from town, Albisser said. “You’re pumping the water further out, collecting, and pumping it further back,� he said, “whereas downtown the wells, supply and discharge points are close.� Gau said he believes the amount of funds in the city’s overall reserves have increased over the years despite the deficit. The water and sewer reserve was at $6.3 million by the end of 2014, Albisser said. And overall, the city’s reserves increased by $1.3 million from 2013 to 2014, going from $26.3 million to $27.7 million. “In one area we’re down but in others we’re up,� Gau said. “We’re still in a very good financial position. This is one of the utilities that’s hard to hit dead-on because the variables are high.� Contact Myles Dolphin at myles@yukon-news.com
Territory updates home heating grant It was introduced in 1978 at a rate of $300 a year. Now News Reporter seniors receive about $1,000. It is adjusted every year based ukon’s wealthier seniors will no longer be eligible on inflation. This year, the maximum for government handrate payable within Whiteouts to help pay their winter horse is $1,049. In rural Yukon fuel bills. the maximum rate is $1,132. The Yukon government is The money will be awarded updating its Pioneer Utility Grant so that money is handed based on income. Seniors who make less than $40,000 and out on a sliding scale, rather than simply being guaranteed couples with an income of less than $56,000 will receive the for people 65 or older. entire grant. The new program will Individuals making more also offer some extra money than $117,000 and couples for seniors living outside of with incomes of more than Whitehorse. $165,000 combined will no The grant pays Yukon longer be eligible. seniors to help cover the cost Anyone in the middle will of heating owned or rented receive only part of the money. homes. Social Services Minister Mike Nixon said the changes CHECK OUT THE JOB are not about saving cash. SECTION IN THE Instead it’s about making sure the program remains sustainable. Ashley Joannou
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City defends compost facility, despite lack of certification would let this go, that is it not valuable enough to maintain News Reporter the standards needed for this certification,” she wrote. longtime organic gardener “People want to compost, is concerned the city isn’t and we need the product. You doing enough to maintain know how to do it right, so we high standards at its composting need more than lip service to facility. the most central ingredient if we Shiela Alexandrovich, who are to seriously move towards sits on the Agricultural Indusmore food security for the try Advisory Committee as a North.” representative of the Growers The city took over operaof Organic Food Yukon, teaches tions at the compost facility last local food growing out of her November from Boreal Compost home in Mount Lorne. Enterprise. She used to send her students The company’s owner, Garret to the city’s compost facility, Gillespie, unsuccessfully bid on back when it was organically a public tender to manage the certified by the Centre for Sysfacility. tems Integration, she wrote in a He described the outcome as letter to the editor. a “recipe for disaster,” claiming But she doesn’t anymore, the city didn’t have the resources since the city lost its certified or expertise to see the operation status after its two-year contract succeed, and he predicted the with Boreal Compost Enterprise city would have a tough time expired in October last year. receiving its own certification. The certification follows the David Albisser, the city’s operator, and the city will have waste and water services manto re-apply for it in the future. ager, said attaining organic “I can hardly believe that they certification is a rare feat in the
North, let alone in the country, but that doesn’t mean it can’t be done. “We’ll pursue the certification,” he said at the time. “We have systems in place that Garret set up that will aid us in doing that. I really don’t think there’s any concern about not being able to attain the high standard that Garret set.” Miles Hume, the city’s environmental coordinator, said the lack of certification doesn’t affect the final product. One of the employees at the facility used to work alongside Gillespie, Hume said, and is ensuring that the same high standards are kept. The city needs to manage the compost facility’s operations for a year before it is eligible to be certified, Hume added. “It’s something we need to prove that we’re doing over a period of a year,” he said. “Our product is looking really good and we haven’t had any issues that I know of. We do have the capacity there now.
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ell, as they say, turnaround is fair play. The Liberals, after spending years telling Canadians that the only credible alternative to voting Conservative is to support themselves, now find themselves at the receiving end of this same argument. “There’s only one strategic vote – and that’s the NDP,� declared Melissa Atkinson, the New Democrats’ newly picked candidate for the Yukon, earlier this week. With nearly three months until voters are expected to head to the polls, this assertion may be a bit premature. And if New Democratic public support does slip, you can count on the party falling back on its old arguments in favour of voting your conscience, strategy be damned. But let’s consider the case for making Atkinson, who is, after all, a former Crown lawyer, Yukon’s lead prosecutor of Stephen Harper’s Conservatives this election. Not long ago, it seemed a stretch to imagine the NDP forming a national government. To such doubts, New Democrats now have a one-word response: Alberta. The victory of Rachel Notley’s provincial party makes it that much more difficult to scoff at the idea of a Canada led by the NDP, and Notley’s win may have given her federal counterparts a popularity boost, with the NDP now leading both the Conservatives and Liberals in the polls. Of course, the last federal election did see an “orange wave� of NDP victories across Canadian ridings. Who’s to say it can’t happen again? The NDP also benefit from having a national leader who, while lacking the fabulous hair and dynastic roots of Justin Trudeau, has the credibility of having served as a cabinet minister for the Quebec Liberals. As some wags have noted, recent efforts by the Conservatives to tarnish Tom Mulcair’s reputation by dishing about how he was once in talks with their party to serve as an advisor may actually burnish it. Conservatives say Mulcair walked away over pay, which he has denied. In any event, as the Globe and Mail’s Doug Saunders pithily remarked on Twitter, “It shows normal voters he’s a) badly wanted by Tories b) too good for them c) ideologically flexible d) a real capitalist� – exactly the kind of reassurance that some may be seeking. Atkinson’s own background as a past prosecutor and present legal-aid lawyer could serve her well as an MP. And the fact she’s a First Nation woman helps her stand out against the white men she is competing against, especially with the many hot-button political issues that touch on aboriginal concerns, such as Bill S-6 and calls for an inquiry into missing and murdered aboriginal women. New Democrats may respond to the Liberals’ current rally cry of “real change� with a raised eyebrow, a pregnant pause and, “Really? Real change? Larry Bagnell?� It is, after all, a fairly incongruous slogan for a candidate who previously served as Yukon’s MP for
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Melissa Atkinson speaks in Whitehorse following her nomination on July 7 as the NDP candidate in the upcoming federal election. a decade. The biggest challenge to the NDP’s case probably involves some simple arithmetic. By the time Bagnell received his party’s nomination back in October, his party reported it had more than 2,100 card-carrying members in the Yukon. The NDP, meanwhile, now have about 600 members. This suggests that the Liberals have an enormous base to work from, when you consider that it took fewer than 5,500 votes for Ryan Leef to win in 2011, and their number of secured votes has surely grown since the autumn. This all points toward the Liberals remaining the strategically safe anti-Conservative vote. Of course, New Democrats are likely to interpret these numbers in a more forgiving way, as nothing more than an indication of some already-decided votes. The real action, they would contend, has to do with undecided votes still up for grabs – namely, residents who supported the Green Party last election, but won’t do so again this time, for lack of a high-profile candidate like John Streicker and for fear of vote splitting leading to another Conservative victory. The Greens garnered about 3,000 votes last time, and if a big chunk of these voters defect to either the Liberals or NDP, that could prove decisive.
For what it’s worth, the Globe recently launched a fancy online federal election forecast, underpinned by the polls conducted to date and some fancy math we won’t pretend to fully understand. You push a button, it runs the numbers and offers up a possible result. Sometimes the NDP narrowly form government, sometimes the Conservatives do. But the Yukon seat remains red every time. Of course, any number of things could happen between now and voting day to give one party a decided advantage in coalescing the anti-Conservative vote. Trudeau could say any number of dumb things that could be held against him – after all, the falling fortunes of the Liberal party during the final days of the last federal election could be another explanation for why Bagnell came up short. Or maybe Notley’s government, which already has the bad fortunes of inheriting a big slump in oil prices, may end up being faulted for economic woes, and this blame may rub off in her federal counterparts. Or perhaps support for the NDP and Liberals ends up being pretty much equal in the territory – which could help ensure that the Conservatives win another term in power. (JT)
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Who should get cheap Yukon power? So you have three main characters: the Yukon, Skagway and the cruise ships. Spicing up the plot is a cunning plan concocted by Skagway. If they can develop the West Creek hydro project near Dyea, which has been languishing on the hard drives of engineers since the 1980s, they could sell power back to the Yukon in the winter when we have a shortage of cheap hydro. Then there’s a subplot involving laying a fibre-optic cable between Whitehorse and Skagway, to connect to Skagway’s new undersea cable to Juneau and Seattle. The Yukon would no longer be a captive customer of the Alaska Highway fibre line, always fretting that the villainous back-hoe operators of Fort Nelson will render our iPhones and credit card machines useless at any second. An early victim in the report is the grandiosely-titled “YukonSoutheast Alaska economic development corridor.” The idea was if you had a power line and a fibre optic cable, the project could be marketed as a “corridor.” Government communications officials love this kind of thing. Unfortunately the report said it was actually cheaper to build the power line and fibre separately. Communications officials will need to hire some marketing consultants to come up with a sexier name for “power line.” Perhaps “Trail of 98 energy corridor” or “Chilkoot gigawatt highway”
would work. I would avoid the “Dead Horse Gulch” brand, despite its historical resonance and nearby location. The report says the power scheme (not counting the West Creek cunning plan) would actually be financially viable and would require zero subsidy, which doesn’t happen very often in economic development reports. The power line would cost somewhere north of $100 million, and be in operation for decades. The cruise ships would pay 27 cents per kilowatt hour, which is cheaper than diesel (depending on your assumptions about how much diesel will cost in a few years, of course). The Yukon would get nine cents for its power. And the 18 cents in between would just barely cover the cost of building and maintaining the new power line. It’s a pretty good idea, in theory. However, the key assumption is that the cruise ships would buy 30 gigs of power. This might not happen if they invested in energy efficiency, went solar, or fossil fuel prices stayed low. And, as a recent Yukon News story reported, not all cruise ships are currently capable of tapping into shoreside power. The West Creek project is an interesting idea, but getting the permits for that project will not be easy. In the longer run, however, the Whitehorse-Skagway power line would enable development of many different small and large hydro projects from
Carcross to Skagway. They would just have to get their power to the line along the highway, which would make them much cheaper to build than as standalone projects. As readers of Sherlock Holmes know, sometimes it is the dog who doesn’t bark that is the most important clue. In the case of this story, that silent dog is the Yukon power consumer. Why, one might ask, do we need to spend $100 million and go to all this trouble to sell cheap power to the cruise ships? Why not sell it to Yukoners, many of whom are burning diesel (which is essentially what home heating oil is) to heat their homes in months like April and October when the Yukon has surplus power. You might think 27 cents is an attractively high price to bring in revenue, but the effective price received by the Yukon is 9 cents since the power line acts as an expensive middleman. Insofar as we have surplus cheap hydro, we should probably be figuring out ways to use it to make the cost of living cheaper for Yukoners and to lure new businesses and jobs here. Going out of our way to help the cruise ship companies seems less important. If the Skagwegians can get West Creek permitted and offer us cheap power in the winter, then that would change the equation. But until then, a power line project for just the cruise ship market seems like a second
best. The problem here is that selling cheap shoulder-season power to Yukoners is a different sort of problem from selling power to cruise ships. The power line project is an engineering challenge, which we are very good at fixing. If you give engineers enough money, they can definitely build a power line to Skagway. The shoulder-season idea is a political and organizational challenge. We all have wires already connected from the Schwatka dam to our houses to use heat pumps or similar gadgets to displace home heating oil. But someone would need to coordinate our two electricity companies, the utilities board and the Department of Energy to offer a scheme of low-price power for home and commercial heating in the shoulder season. Then you would have to get hundreds or thousands of Yukon homeowners to sign up. It would actually create a lot of local jobs, as Yukon contractors did power retrofits to houses. If we proceed with selling cheap hydro to the cruise ships, it will be an admission that we couldn’t organize ourselves to sell cheap Yukon power to Yukoners.
I teach primarily at my homestead, which has a variety of Re: Few federal workers using Air animals to produce top-quality compost. If we are serious about North’s Ottawa flight: Sparling real sustainability, it will not be (the News, July 3) based on imported chemical Whaddya mean our very own fertilizers – they are not progovernment dudes don’t fly on duced here and do not improve our very own regional airline the soil. because they don’t get their very So, when my students remind own Air Miles? Since when do Air me that they will not have 30 Miles vote? animals in their backyards to Not only do I vote, but I supproduce the compost they must port those who support Yukon have, I say, “Go to the city. They first! have a huge feather in their cap in that their municipal compost Alice Cyr is certified for use in organic Whitehorse production. An almost unheard Don’t let the city’s organic of feat for any city’s compost.” But not anymore. I can hardly composting program slide believe that they would let this Open letter to Whitehorse mayor go, that it is not valuable enough and council: to maintain the standards I am a longtime organic garneeded for this certification. The dener in Mount Lorne and have guys on the ground haven’t had been teaching and encouraging a water system in place for good local people to grow and eat compost production for almost local food for many years. I have a year. They lack the most basic also sat on the Yukon governequipment to keep up with the ment’s agricultural industry growing supply of compostables. advisory committee as a repreTheir top-notch soil science sentative of Growers of Organic operator that put the certificaFood Yukon since its beginning. tion in place has left in frustraLast fall, we were given a tion. And all those locals who directive for the committee are very serious for very good to work towards a local food reasons about growing some of strategy, with goals that included their own food? Well, they ask more farmers selling more local me if the compost is trustable food and more private Yukoners from the city now. Is it? How do growing their own food. OK. we know?
Come on, city, put the money where it is needed. People want to compost, and we need the product. You know how to do it right, so we need more than lip service to the most central ingredient if we are to seriously move towards more food security for the North.
wheelchair and was disappointed that the Pepsi complex still does not have a paved path to the concession stand and washroom, an accessible outhouse by the entry gate or any designated handicapped parking. Perhaps the Yukon government could donate an outhouse that is wheelchair accessible and place it by the bleachers. With the increase in national and international tournaments I hope that the management of the Pepsi complex will make a few changes to accommodate and welcome spectators with mobility issues.
10th anniversary of the Rotary Centennial Bridge on Wednesday, July 15. The Rotary Centennial Bridge and Millennium Trail foster many forms of active recreation in a peaceful setting along the Yukon River within the City of Whitehorse. The bridge and trail are well used and cherished by residents and visitors to our city. Active Trails Whitehorse Association would also like to thank mayor and council for maintaining the non-motorized designation of the Rotary Centennial Bridge and Millennium Trail. The bridge and trail are very special to many people and it’s comforting to know that council responded favourably to widespread public support for the continuation of their respective non-motorized status.
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he latest blockbuster has arrived just in time for summer reading season at the cabin: Viability Analysis of Southeast Alaska and Yukon Economic Development Corridor, published by the Alaska Energy Authority and the Yukon Government on June 26. Clocking in at 84 pages plus six appendices, it’s a meaty read that may take you the rest of our brief summer. It’s an intriguing story. The plot goes like this. The Yukon has surplus hydro-electricity in the summer and shoulder seasons. You can see the power of the water spilling through the Schwatka dam when you take your summer visitors to the fish ladder. Skagway, on the other hand, has a power shortage. Almost a million cruise ship passengers visit the town every summer. Each cruise ship is essentially a small city with its own fossilfuel electricity plant. The report says the cruise ships might buy as much as 30 gigawatt-hours of power, almost 10 per cent of total Yukon power production today.
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
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Baseball park not wheelchair friendly On a summer night, watching a ball game is a Canadian tradition. But in Whitehorse, if you have a mobility issue, you need to watch ball on TV because the Pepsi Complex and Robert Service are no place for you. Consider how challenging it is for a person with mobility limitations or in a wheelchair to manoeuvre thick gravel to get to the concession stand or the washroom? Minimum time is one inning (30 minutes) and a lot of sweat equity. How can a public facility operate without consideration of the needs of those with mobility issues? Where is the handicapped parking, reasonable access to the main building and the washroom? I was watching a game the other day with a friend in a
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Senators want no visit list to bar ‘ideological radicals’ from Canada terrorism prosecutions, including for extremist financing. Canadian Press “We cannot try to appease this threat that we face,� Conservative OTTAWA Sen. Daniel Lang, the committee he federal government should chairman, said in an interview. outlaw membership in a The committee’s 25 recomterrorist group, bar radical mendations flow from nine months ideologues from Canada and look of hearings on security threats at forbidding the glorification of facing Canada. The interim report extremists to protect the Canadian examines terrorist recruitment, way of life, says a Senate commitoperations, financing, prosecutee. tions and other aspects of what it The Senate security and defence calls the genuine threat of violent committee also recommends creextremism. ation of a “wanted terrorist� list and Committee members were told urges the government to explore 93 Canadians had sought to join options for training and certificaIslamist extremist groups like the tion of imams in Canada. Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, In addition, it calls on the al-Qaida and Boko Haram. government to work with Muslim Canadians must tackle the issue communities to create “an effective in a thoughtful, balanced way withcounter-narrative� to denounce the out undermining the values “that ideology of Islamist fundamentalmake us great,� the report says. ism. “We must find every resource, In general, the senators express tool and technique available to concern about the small number of Jim Bronskill
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Conservatives on several key issues. Mitchell supports police counselling and liaison to help steer young people away from radical ideas – an approach the report questions. Mitchell said he also wanted to see another $100 million for the RCMP, continuation of a federal research program on the roots of terrorism, and a more balanced approach to the problem of right-wing racist extremism. Police had told the senators that outreach, including counselling and community liaison, were preferred means of dealing with fundamentalist threats. “The effect of these options is unclear and unproven,� the report says. Peace bonds, which can restrict the movement of terror suspects, offer only a “limited solution,� it adds. “Law enforcement and the Public Prosecution Service must work harder to bring cases before the courts so the accused can have a fair hearing and the evidence can
be tested.� The committee says some foreign-trained imams have been spreading extremist religious ideology and messages that are not in keeping with Canadian values, contributing to radicalization. It calls on the government to work with the provinces and Muslim communities to “investigate the options that are available for the training and certification of imams in Canada.� Another recommendation takes aim at groups that invite foreign nationals with extremist views to speak to impressionable youth. It urges the government to establish a publicly accessible list of “ideological radicals� deemed to be a security threat, prohibiting them from visiting Canada. A spokesman for Public Safety Minister Steven Blaney defended the government’s efforts to date, noting the anti-terrorism legislation allows police to take action to prevent radicalization, including removal of Internet material used to influence people.
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China slump not a worry in short term, but concerns grow if woes persist China’s plunging stock markets affecting their retirement portfolio in the short term, but a potential slowdown TORONTO in an economy hungry for xperts say Canadians natural resources could spell don’t need to worry about Peter Henderson Canadian Press
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long-term trouble. While the Greek debt crisis has grabbed many headlines, in the last month the Shanghai Composite Index has lost nearly a third of its value.
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Finance professor Stephen Foerster of Western University’s Ivey School of Business says the sell-off won’t necessarily have a big impact on Canadian investors. Canadians buy more goods from China than vice versa, he said, so even if Chinese consumers have less money to spend because of stock market losses it won’t have a major effect on exports. On Wednesday, the Chinese securities regulator warned of a “panic sentiment” among investors as Beijing scrambled to halt the slide, buying up shares through state-owned companies and promising support for brokerages reeling from the sell-off. Despite the recent losses, the Shanghai index is still up more than 70 per cent from the same time last year. “It shouldn’t be a surprise when markets perhaps tend to get ahead of themselves and there is in retrospect what might have been a bubble,” Foerster said. Despite the importance of China’s economy in the world markets, Foerster said its stock exchanges have relatively minor weight here as many Chinese companies are listed overseas.
What Canadians should fear, Foerster said, is if the Chinese stock market slump marks bigger problems in the economy. “If this is a harbinger of a slowdown in the Chinese economy, which could therefore lead to a decline in commodities, that’s where it could impact on Canada,” he said. Paul Evans, an expert on China at the University of British Columbia, said there is no sign that China’s stock market woes have spilled over into other sectors of the economy. “The sky is not falling,” said Evans, a professor of Asian and trans-Pacific international relations. “While there’s downturn and this is significant, China’s economy is not on the edge of collapse.” Even if China’s overall growth rate declines by as much as a couple of percentage points, he said, it will still be a global economic player. The Vancouver real estate market also shouldn’t worry about Chinese investment drying up any time soon, he added. “The kinds of people who are losing in the stock market right now are not the kinds of people who were moving assets offshore.”
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In a tight election, will Harper rethink approach to the media? approach to managing the media – be the party in minority or Canadian Press majority status. On Monday in Calgary, print OTTAWA reporters were barred – as usual he image of Democratic – from watching a photo opporcandidate Hillary Clinton’s tunity unfold, this time between underlings extending a Harper and Alberta Premier Ralong rope through a 4th of July chel Notley. Questions are always parade to keep reporters away strictly prohibited by Harper’s had the U.S. press corps and conteam at such events. servative pundits squawking. But will the thinking shift in But have they heard the one an election that is perceived to be about the velvet rope on the much closer, a pre-campaign that tundra? is stretching out for months? Last August, the small band Clinton’s campaign, which apof Canadian journalists travelpeared to have adopted a similar ling with Prime Minister Stephen strategy of limited media access, Harper on his annual Arctic tour said this week it would ease up. had the surreal experience of Unfavourable comparisons have standing behind bank-style stanbeen made between her and chions in Baffin Island’s remote more accessible rivals, including York Sound. Democrat Bernie Sanders and Nine years after the ConserRepublican Jeb Bush. vatives took power, not much HO-CTV-Katie Simpson/CP Kory Teneycke, the Conserhas changed in Harper’s general PMO staff are shown setting up portable barriers for the press before a photo opportunity in York Sound, vative campaign spokesman, Jennifer Ditchburn
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did not respond to a request for comment. Yaroslav Baran, a former Conservative campaign communications aide, said the modus operandi all depends on the particular alchemy of a campaign. An underdog might seek out media attention as much as possible to gain more visibility. Frontrunners will traditionally do everything possible to limit the potential for mistakes, to protect their lead. Baran says the trick is avoiding the extremes. “You never want to totally expose your candidate, and the opposite extreme, you don’t want to be so closed as to be hostile. That’s not usually a winning strategy,” said Baran, a principal at Earnscliffe Strategy Group. “Journalists are professionals, yeah, but you’re not doing
yourself any favours if the people writing about you subconsciously think that you hate them.” Harper is hardly alone in giving a great deal of thought to communications, in what has become an era of the “permanent campaign” and the aggressive 24/7 news environment. But where “spin” might have been the operative term for the persuasive tactics favoured by the governments of British Prime Minister Tony Blair, U.S. President Bill Clinton, or Canada’s Jean Chretien, Harper has favoured limiting the information and access of national reporters rather than engaging them. So too did Australia’s John Howard – a prime minister who is said to have influenced Harper. Bruce Anderson, a former political adviser and longtime pollster, said that some might
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conclude that three electoral victories later, the Conservative strategy has worked. Some elements of the Conservative base of support might respond to the often-repeated argument that the party needs to fight against the media’s biased “filter” of their message. Last week, Teneycke told Global News that “we’re better than news, we’re truthful.” But Anderson said that another way to look at the issue is to consider the opportunity cost of not being more open and attracting new support. He said a prime example is Harper’s meeting Monday with Notley, where Anderson said the PM should have taken a few questions. “They can’t only be campaigning on a how-do-we-reducethe-risk-of-things-going-badly proposition right now,’” said Anderson, chairman of Abacus Data. “They need to grow their support, and they need to find a way to get people to pay attention to them with the sense not only that they’re really the only viable alternative, but they’re an attractive alternative.” With the fixed election date and the longer lead-up to the campaign, media management calculations might also change. Anderson predicts the public will be even more engaged in the election. “If that’s the context, then the most reticent players in terms of being available for public commentary are putting themselves arguably at the greatest risk…,” said Anderson. “Everybody’s going to have to approach this campaign as something different, both because there’s a longer time frame to it, and because there’s a kind of completely unusual dynamic where the public is saying, ‘we could look at any one of these parties as forming the government.’”
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Prize-winning reporter accuses Star of suppressing Franklin expedition story to Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s “provide inaccurate information office as well as editors at the Star, about the Star’s role in his deciCanadian Press was the source of those accounts, sion.â€? he alleged. Watson wouldn’t give CanadaTORONTO Watson did not respond imland all the details of what inaculitzer Prize-winning journalmediately to a request for comcuracies his sources were alleging, ist Paul Watson says that he ment. However, he told the website saying he wants to “get this story quit the country’s largest Canadaland that the Star ordered nailed down from all cornersâ€? benewspaper so he could get the truth him six weeks ago to stop reporting fore he offers it to another outlet for out about last year’s successful on the story – which he called a “gag publication. search for Sir John Franklin’s lost order.â€? The veteran reporter said fear ships in the Canadian Arctic. In an internal email to the leads to silence, which in turn In a blog post on Wednesday, paper’s employees Wednesday, Star breeds more fear. Watson said he submitted his publisher John Cruickshank dis“It’s time. No more fear. Stand up resignation at a meeting Tuesday in missed Watson’s allegations that the for the people being silenced and Vancouver with Toronto Star editors Prime Minister’s Office had a hand give them voice,â€? Watson said on his over “the newspaper’s refusal to in persuading the Star to “constrain blog. “That’s the only way we’ll take publish a story of significant public his reporting.â€? our democracy back.â€? interest,â€? an allegation the Star “Let me publicly deny this The Prime Minister’s Office had denied. extremely odd idea,â€? Cruickshank little to say about Watson’s allegaWatson said resigning was the said. “There is no truth whatever to tions, but said in an email that the only way he could resume that the suggestion.â€? government was “proud to join reporting and fulfil his responsibiliHe also said resignations are partners from the scientific, reties as a journalist. regarded as an internal matter, but search and business community, in “My reporting is an attempt to added the Star regrets Watson’s addition to Inuit, to announce the give voice to federal civil servants decision to resign suddenly and to discovery of one of the two ships and others involved in the gruelling, High Arctic search for British Royal Navy explorer Sir John Franklin’s lost ships, HMS Erebus and HMS We offer a great selection of Terror,â€? Watson wrote. gourmet dippers, spreads, olives “For months, these individucafĂŠ & food co. & more! Visit us to make your als have been angry at what they event even that more delicious consider distorted and inaccurate Formerly the Chocolate Claim accounts of last fall’s historic discovery of Erebus in the frigid waters monday - friday 7:30 am - 6:00 pm of eastern Queen Maud Gulf.â€? saturday 9:30 am - 5:00 pm A “peripheralâ€? member of the info@theclaim.ca expedition, who he said has access Colin Perkel
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Canada clashes with UN rights panel over resource company behaviour abroad ty applies to potential human rights violations by Canadian resources companies operating abroad. The sharp difference of opinion OTTAWA was one of several flashpoints behe federal government tween Canada and the UN Human clashed with a United NaRights Committee, which wrapped tions panel this week over whether a major international trea- three days of hearings Wednesday Mike Blanchfield Canadian Press
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operating abroad, some of which face lawsuits alleging abuse. The Canadian delegation, led by a senior Justice Department official, appeared to shock the sensibilities of the 18-member committee when it evoked the principle of “extra-territoriality” for the employees of the 800 Canadian companies operating in Latin America, Africa and Asia. That means that in the government’s view the treaty applies to Canadians in Canada, but not those working in foreign countries. “A country could not just provide corporate identity to a company and then be unperturbed by whatever the company could do around the world,” a panel member told the Canadians, according to a UN document summarizing the proceedings. The Canadian delegation pressed the issue saying, “individuals affected by the operation of Canadian companies abroad were thus not necessarily under Canadian jurisdiction.” But the head of the committee appeared to differ. “The final arbiter for the interpreting the Covenant was the Committee, not individual States,” said committee chair Fabian Omar Salvioli in his closing statement. The Argentine human rights lawyer also noted that “activities of mining companies could affect many rights of local populations” and that “the issue of aboriginal peoples in Canada” was a major topic of inquiry during the hearings. Shelagh Day, of the Canadian Feminist Alliance for International Action, a group that has advocated for aboriginal women, said she was disappointed by the Canadian response to a series of questions on missing and murdered aboriginal women, and other inequities involving First Nations.
“The comments of Canada regarding missing and murdered aboriginal women and Canada’s relationship with aboriginal peoples ring hollow,” she said. “Canada is not engaged in a candid dialogue with the UN Human Rights Committee about its human rights performance, but in self-promotion.” The panel also noted that Canada had not “abided by the views of the committee” in deporting a Somali citizen who faced persecution and a Jamaican who was exposed to police brutality after deportation. “Despite recommendations to the contrary, information was allowed to be shared with a foreign country in security matters even if that would lead to torture,” the committee stated in the preamble to one question. The Canadian delegation replied that “the committee’s views were not legally binding, but Canada had accepted its views in a majority of cases.” The government also defended its policy of not providing health care to refugees, saying it believed it was complaint with the Charter of Rights and Freedoms and stood by the new Citizenship Act. The committee asked whether changes in the act that allow for the deportation of dual nationals convicted of terrorism, spying or treason could render someone stateless, but the government said they wouldn’t. The committee also asked for more details about new anti-terrorism legislation because “there were fears that it could lead to very wide surveillance.” The Canadian delegation said it was committed to protecting the rights of Canadians while combating terrorism. The committee will issue a final report in two weeks.
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Data shows Alberta offroad vehicle use unsustainable, environmental group says “There are some areas where there are three or even four trails parallel because all but the most recent are essentially impassable.� EDMONTON Since 2003, the association early a decade’s worth has buried traffic sensors at three of data and observation trailheads connecting about 70 from an environmental kilometres of designated off-highgroup suggests Alberta’s fragile way vehicle trails in the Bighorn backcountry is being damaged region in the Alberta foothills by unsustainable off-highway southwest of Edmonton. The vehicle use. group has also sent teams up the Ruts deep enough to swaltrails to photograph changes. low a man and erosion that has Its numbers show use has relocated streambeds shows that grown significantly. Although some areas can’t handle motortraffic dropped in flood years, the ized traffic even if users do their number of vehicles on those trails best to be responsible, says the grew from 3,226 in 2007 to 5,544 Alberta Wilderness Association. in 2014. “We have photographs of Monitors also used GPS cotrenches that are so bad that a ordinates to document changes HO - Sean Nichols, Alberta Wilderness Association/CP person is standing at the bottom and measure the depth and An Alberta Wilderness Association volunteer researcher walks past of it and it’s over their head,� said length of ruts. They found many trail erosion and damage caused by offroad vehicles in the Alberta Sean Nichols, who runs the assosections where up to 95 metres in foothills southwest of Edmonton in 2013. ciation’s trail-monitoring project. every 100 were carved out at least Bob Weber
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‘Wendiceratops:’ bizarre three-horned dinosaur found in southern Alberta
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A artist’s rendition of Wendiceratops, a new species of dinosaur with a bizarre and elaborate array of horns and shields on its face, is shown in a handout photo. Bob Weber Canadian Press
EDMONTON nother new species of dinosaur with a bizarre and elaborate array of horns and shields on its face has emerged from the hills and hoodoos of southern Alberta. “The rate of horned dinosaur discoveries in the last 10 years has probably gone up faster than any other group of dinosaurs,” said David Evans, a paleontologist with the Royal Ontario Museum who describes the new creature in a paper published Wednesday. “The number of species has about doubled in the last 15 years.” Last month, it was Regaliceratops peterhewsi – otherwise known as Hellboy for the tiny horns over its eyes that resemble those of the eponymous comic book character. Now, it’s Wendiceratops pinhornensis, known to friends as Wendy and named after legendary Alberta fossil hunter Wendy Sloboda, who made the discovery in 2010. Like other ceratopsians, Wendy had a large, six-metre body, three horns on its face and a large, frilled bony shield around it. At 79 million years old, Wendy’s nose horn was surprisingly big for such an early member of the family. But in other ways, Wendy is reinforcing the current understanding of how social behaviour affected the evolution of ceratopsians. “Horned dinosaurs were social animals,” said Evans, pointing out that many of their fossils come from bone beds consisting of large numbers of indi-
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vidual dinosaurs. Wendy, whose skeleton is currently on display at the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto, is actually a composite of 200 different bones from at least four dinosaurs found in one of those beds. Life in a herd means Wendy would have been subject to the social pressures of mating displays and holding off rivals, tasks for which horns are well suited. Evans compares ceratopsians to members of the deer family. “If you look in the deer family or in antelopes and their kin, bodies are pretty (similar) but all of the species differentiation is primarily in the shapes of the horns.” Because the horns aren’t involved in hunting or flight, their shape isn’t limited by function, he said. “If something’s for display, it’s not directly tied to getting food or outrunning predators. These features tend to be more variable and less optimized for their function.” Stay tuned for more, equally strange-looking beasts from the remote past, Evans said. “There are definitely more out there. We are in a golden age of dinosaur discovery here in Canada and we’re not plateauing yet.” The next new species may already be emerging from one of his digs. “We are working on a bone bed that has yet another amazing new horned dinosaur in it,” Evans said. “There’s new dinosaurs in Grande Prairie (Alta.) that have yet to be described. New stuff is coming out of the foothills in Alberta. “It’s absolutely certain we’ll continue to have a high rate of discovery.”
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THE ARTS
Patching together stories
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Textile artist Jessica Vellenga will be toting her sewing kit at the Arts Up Front festival, taking place at Whitehorse’s waterfront wharf from July 15 to 19. Armed with a sewing machine, and a variety of needles and News Reporter threads, Vellenga is offering free mending to people with items he slip is soft, beige and that need TLC. worn by time. Vellenga believes if someone The straps are broken has kept something, even with and a hole has formed near the a hole or a tear, that’s a sign the neck. item has a special signifiBut there are also signs of care cance. and attention. Spots have been “I think when you carefully patched and older tears have something mended, have been stitched closed. you keep it around be“I think somebody really loved cause you like it, there’s it. I don’t know if it was a wedding a story to it. Even if it’s gift or something, I don’t know your favourite camp shirt the actual story behind it, but or a christening pillow, it’s been really well-loved, and any of those kind of really mended, and really taken things,” she said. care of,” says Yukon textile artist “There’s often a lot of stories in the clothing Jessica Vellenga as she lays it out that we wear and I want on the table. to hear those stories.” “I thought it was really interHer project might mean darnesting to see the great pride that somebody had in this piece. They ing a boot lining that has kept feet warm for multiple Yukon really loved it. It meant something to them to keep it alive and winters or mending some heirloom lace tablecloths that belong keep fixing it so often.” to a friend’s mother so that they Vellenga found the slip in a Montreal vintage shop. It became can be used again. She’s spent the last week at the inspiration for her latest projArts in the Park offering sewing ect: Mend and Make Well. Ashley Joannou
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advice and fixing small jobs that came her way. “I’ve been here all week so far, and people have brought in shirts that need mending, bootliners that need darning, socks that needed repairs, buttons (to be) sewn on, that kind of thing.”
Front. The Yukon Art Society’s summer festival is a chance for artists to put their skills on display along Whitehorse’s waterfront wharf. From July 15 to 19 the tents along the wharf will fill with artists ranging from potters to painters to bookmakers. Some will put on demonstrations, while others will offer workshops to help teach anyone interested. About 31 artists are taking part over the five days. Among the workshops on the schedule are silk painting, needle felting, polymer clay, lino-cut printing and “create your own comics.” The workshops come at a cost for materials ranging from $30 to $65. The idea is to showcase artists “so that people have a chance to see what’s going on in our arts scene here,” said Tara Paczkowski, programs director at Arts Underground. A pop-up gallery will give people a chance to browse through
“There’s often a lot of stories in the clothing that we wear and I want to hear those stories.” Vellenga said she’s not sure where the project is going. She takes pictures of everything she mends and is thinking of putting together an exhibition complete with the stories behind the items. But the project is still in the early stages, she said. Next stop for Vellenga and her sewing kit is this year’s Arts Up
completed work. A kids’ tent will also be up and running. Two nights will also feature live outdoor music. Rory McLeod, “a travelling minstrel and storyteller,” will perform his songs and stories on July 15 at 7 p.m. The bagpiping group, On Home Ground, will perform on July 18, also at 7 p.m. Vellenga also took part in the inaugural festival last year where she demonstrated embroidery techniques. She said she enjoys working outside and interacting with the public. “I like it. I like people’s questions. I like when people come up and tell their stories about mending or fibre arts.” If people want to learn, they’re welcome to pull up a chair, she said. More information about the festival and a complete schedule is online at www.artsunderground.ca Contact Ashley Joannou at ashleyj@yukon-news.com
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To some who stood by Bill Cosby, his sedatives before sex admission is a turning point Former suburban Philadelphia prosecutor Bruce Castor, who declined to bring charges when former Temple University basketball team employee Andrea Constand came forward a decade ago, said Tuesday that Cosby’s admissions in the newly unsealed documents didn’t amount to evidence of a sex crime. Castor is running again for his former job, and he said if elected, he’d review the documents to see whether Cosby committed perjury when speaking to investigators. The documents revealed that during 2005 questioning in Constand’s later-settled sexual abuse lawsuit, Cosby acknowledged giving quaaludes to a 19-year-old woman before they had sex in Las Vegas in 1976, and he admitted giving the now-banned sedative to unidentified others. His lawyers intervened before he could answer questions about how many women were given drugs and whether they knew it. His attorneys insisted that two of his accusers knew they were taking quaaludes from him, according to the documents. Still, lawyers for Cosby’s accusers
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s a chorus of sexual assault accusations against Bill Cosby resounded this winter, some fans and famous friends stood by him, calling the allegations unproven attacks on a comedy icon. But for some, the breaking point came this week, when newly unsealed court documents revealed that the comedian has admitted to giving at least one woman quaaludes before sex – the kind of behaviour long suspected by women who have accused him of drugging and abusing them. “Completely disgusted,” tweeted singer Jill Scott, who had vociferously defended her mentor. The Bounce TV and Centric networks stopped rerunning The Cosby Show, apparently booting the 1980s comedy classic completely off TV, and Walt Disney World officials removed a statue of him from the Hollywood Studios theme park. Some fans who went to his recent performances, even as the allegations swirled, said they won’t go again. Wayne Stanfield saw Cosby’s January show in Turlock, California, feeling there wasn’t enough proof to condemn a comic he’d grown up seeing as a good-guy star. But that changed after he learned that Cosby had said, under oath, that he’d given a powerful sedative to women he wanted to bed. “Well, then, shame on him,” Stanfield said Tuesday. To be sure, such prominent figures as Whoopi Goldberg and Cosby Show co-star Raven-Symone say they’re reserving judgment on Cosby, who was “America’s dad” to a generation and later an unabashed voice for his version of personal responsibility. “You are still innocent until proven guilty,” and Cosby hasn’t been, Goldberg said on ABC’s The View. Co-host
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A bust of actor and comedian Bill Cosby on display at Hollywood Studios theme park in Orlando, Fla. earlier this year. Walt Disney World officials removed the bust from the park on July 7. Raven-Symone also called for “proof, and then I’ll be able to give my judgment.” Representatives for fellow Cosby Show stars Lisa Bonet, Malcolm-Jamal Warner and Phylicia Rashad – who has said she felt the allegations were part of a campaign to destroy Cosby’s legacy – didn’t immediately respond to inquiries about the developments. Cosby, 77, hasn’t commented on
the documents. They were kept secret for a decade until Monday, after The Associated Press went to court to get them released. Cosby has never been charged with a crime and has repeatedly denied the allegations. Most of the sexual misconduct accusations that more than a dozen women have made against him happened too long ago for criminal charges.
said his statements could bolster civil claims, and some of the women said they felt vindicated. “It’s turned my life around” to hear doubters say they were wrong, said Joan Tarshis, who has accused Cosby of drugging and attacking her in 1969. The AP generally doesn’t name people who say they have been sexually assaulted unless they come forward publicly, as Constand and Tarshis have done. To be sure, some people have long said they believed the accusations, which already had damaged Cosby’s image and career. But when Ruth Flowers went to Cosby’s Baltimore show in March, she hadn’t made up her mind about whether the allegations were true. She’d wondered whether his accusers were out for money. Now that his quaalude admission is known, she says she feels the women are getting the certainty they deserve. And she won’t be seeing Cosby again. “I would like to know just why,” she said. “You have everything going for you – why?”
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Paying tribute to the Twin Otter The iconic bush plane turns 50 this year
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t can land on mud, water or snow. It can carry 20 people but only needs one-third the distance similar aircraft need to take off and land. The Twin Otter, a bush plane used around the world to access remote and difficult areas, is turning 50 this year. The plane, formally known as the De Havilland DHC-6, is special for a lot of people – especially in Canada’s North. Longtime Yukoners will recognize the emblematic plane – the RCMP operated one and several were used to fly to remote communities. “The Twin Otter is aerodynamically designed to be able to get in and out of shorter strips than most aircraft,” said Gerry Anderson, a retired RCMP pilot who used to fly in the Yukon. Anderson would know: he flew the legendary plane from 1988 to 1998 in the territory, assisting search and rescue missions, transporting prisoners and moving RCMP agents from one community to another. In the early 90s Anderson, who was then a staff sergeant, was tasked with searching for a missing heavy-equipment driver whose machine was found broken down about 115 kilometres west of Carmacks. Cold temperatures prompted concerns about the driver’s wellbeing. Anderson was directed to an abandoned landing strip that hadn’t been used in over 20 years. “You wouldn’t normally land there, but it was a potentially lifethreatening situation,” he said. But the helicopter pilot who had gotten there first signalled the wrong side of the strip to land on, sending Anderson on a muddy soft strip. The plane’s nose wheel got stuck about 30 centimetres deep into the mud, and the crew had to wait for an helicopter to drop a plank in order to get the plane out. “That showed the versatility of the airplane, to be able to turn around, take off on a relatively short area,” said Anderson. His assignments sometimes involved quite unusual people. In 1991 Anderson flew over the Yukon’s Southern Lakes, looking for an American couple who had embarked in a 25-year search to uncover what they thought was the truth behind John F. Kennedy’s murder. “The case involved a secret brown envelope, allegations of a CIA conspiracy, a missing airplane, a dead senator, an abandoned mine shaft, and a double drowning,” said Anderson. Eventually he found items
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“Mike Papa Lima,” a Twin Otter used by the RCMP in the Yukon up until 2014, was known for its ability to land in difficult conditions. from the couple’s canoe, but their bodies never resurfaced. Despite the RCMP not using skis, the Twin Otter could also land on hard-packed snow. On one occasion Anderson flew to Dawson City to deport an American family who had been living in the country illegally. The father, hearing an RCMP plane was on its way, cleared a strip on the Yukon River. “We took off from this makeshift airstrip from the river, in the snow,” recounted Anderson. The plane’s versatility and the lack of airplane traffic in the Yukon made for remarkable experiences, he said. “Flying in the Yukon is second to none in terms of scenery and freedom to go wherever you want without the encumbrance of aircraft regulations,” he said. Anderson remembers how rewarding it was to rescue hunters and tourists. “We had a feeling of satisfaction knowing that people’s lives were safe because we had that capability,” he said. Of all his years flying, Anderson remembers one close call he had in August 1988 landing on the highway north of Carmacks, while responding to a vehicle crash. Twin Otters are equipped with a centering mechanism that keeps the nose wheel straight, so the aircraft doesn’t veer off once it touches down. But that day the mechanism didn’t engage, and of course it happened to be the only time in Anderson’s career that he had to land on a road with no shoulder
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A Twin Otter will be making a 50th anniversary tour across northern Canada, stopping in Whitehorse on Monday. space, and no room for error. “I guess I was fortunate that it had happened 10 years before, when I was a passenger in a Twin Otter,” he said. Realizing things were about to go sideways, Anderson acted quickly, managing to recover the plane using the brakes and engine on the opposite side the plane was headed. It also turned out that an ambulance had gotten there a few minutes before him, so his service weren’t needed anymore. “Flying is 99 per cent boredom and one per cent stark terror,” he said, chuckling. After 42 years of service, Yu-
kon RCMP’s Twin Otter, known as “Mike Papa Lima” after its plane identification, retired in March 2014. Today only one company still operates a Twin Otter in the territory, Alkan Air. But even 50 years after its inaugural flight, the Twin Otter remains unrivaled, said David Reid, a pilot at Viking Air. “When the Twin Otter came along, there was nothing else that could do what it did, and to be honest, that’s still the case,” he said. The plane’s mix between short takeoff and landing capabilities – it can land on less than 30 metres
with strong headwinds – the passenger or cargo capacities, and its ability to also navigate in busy airports, make it unique, he said. Viking Air, which in 2005 bought the manufacturing rights for the Twin Otter and several other De Havilland planes, is organizing a 50th anniversary tour that will see the plane flown through all three territories. It will stop in Whitehorse on Monday, July 13 at 2 p.m. The plane will be on display at the Air North headquarters, and visitors will be able to sign one of the wing ribs of the plane. Contact Pierre Chauvin at pierre.chauvin@yukon-news.com
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The 1990 Oka Crisis: events inspired native movements around the world one to show how we are adapting our institutions with native realities and I think they will bring great benefits in the future,� he said. But while native people have received more respect from nonnative governments since Oka, there are many outstanding land claims across the country, and some Canadians still harbour prejudices against Aboriginal Peoples, Kelley said. Tom Siddon, federal minister of Indian affairs and northern development at the time under Brian Mulroney, said he believes Oka played a key role in improving the thorny issue of land claims. “I think we were able to make some major progress and I do believe that Oka was an important turning point in our natural history,� he said in an interview. The current grand chief in Kanesatake says that while the Mohawk Warriors might have inspired people around the world, the aftermath of the crisis led to the “social
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OKA, QUE. t was a crisis that grabbed international headlines, with armed Mohawks and Canadian soldiers involved in a lengthy standoff that often appeared on the verge of exploding into full-blown combat. Twenty-five years on, the legacy of the Oka Crisis for many of those who experienced the tension west of Montreal is a greater awareness of native issues. Native activists, artists and professors say while it’s difficult to draw direct links, the Oka uprising in 1990 inspired First Nations movements across the country such as the Idle No More protests in 2012 and the ever-increasing calls for a federal inquiry into missing and murdered aboriginal women. University of Ottawa professor Marcelo Saavedra-Vargas, who specializes in the studies of indigenous peoples, called the Oka Crisis “an awakening� heard around the world. “I can tell you – from my own experience – that the indigenous social movements in Bolivia, which ended up bringing an indigenous person to the presidency, were also inspired by the Oka events,� he said in an interview. Saavedra-Vargas added that at powwows and other celebrations around the continent, “you can always meet Mohawk Warriors talking about how they are proud of what happened. They keep the memory alive.� When the town of Oka decided in 1990 it was going to allow the expansion of a golf course on disputed territory – including on a Mohawk burial ground – people living in the neighbouring Mohawk community of Kanesatake rose up in defiance. In response to the council’s decision, Mohawks barricaded a dirt road leading to the golf course. After they refused to obey a court injunction to stand down, a shootout ensued with provincial police officers and resulted in the death of Cpl. Marcel Lemay on July 11. Where the bullet came from remains a mystery. The Quebec government called in the Canadian Forces and roughly 800 members of the Royal 22e Regiment encircled the Mohawks in the pines with barbed wire. “(Premier Robert Bourassa) called us into his office the day after (the shooting) and told us – he made it clear, he didn’t want any more death,� Sam Elkas, who was Quebec public security minister at the time, said in an interview. After 78 days of negotiations, both sides struck a deal: the barricades made of dirt and mangled police vehicles were to come down in return for the cancellation of the golf course expansion. The disputed territory remains an unsettled issue, however, and was never officially ceded by the Mohawks or handed over to the native community by federal or
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A warrior raises his weapon as he stands on an overturned police vehicle blocking a highway at the Kahnesetake reserve near Oka, Quebec on July 11, 1990. provincial governments. “You reach a point after a while where you have to make a stand,� Kanesatake resident Linda Simon, who experienced the violence, said in an interview. “The common lands had slowly been given away and sold and there came a point where people weren’t going to take it anymore.� The 1990 events led to the Royal Commission of Aboriginal Peoples, which helped usher in new agreements between natives and non-natives such as the resourcesharing deal in 2002 called the Paix des Braves (Peace of the Braves) between the Quebec government and the Grand Council of the Crees. Alanis Obomsawin, an awardwinning filmmaker who made a much-praised documentary about the conflict called “Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance,� said the events of 1990 inspired native people across the country and
raised awareness among Canadians regarding land claims. “When I go out West, (aboriginal) people tell me, ‘Alanis, we could never thank the Mohawks enough for what they did.�’ Back home, Quebec Aboriginal Affairs Minister Geoffrey Kelley said provincial and federal governments have appreciated since Oka that First Nations groups need to be consulted when development projects affect their territory. “Back then I think we would have acted more unilaterally,� he said. Kelley mentioned provincial funding for the Kateri Memorial hospital on the Kahnawake reserve south of Montreal – which he said required several bureaucratic hurdles to overcome such as modifications to labour laws – as an example of a change in government attitude toward native people. “It’s a small example but a good
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disintegration of the community.� Serge Simon said it has taken a generation for people to overcome the trauma of the crisis and band council politics have only recently started to calm down after years of tension and sometimes violence between community members. Simon said the 25th anniversary of the crisis has forced difficult memories to the surface including what he called human-rights abuses he alleges his people suffered at the hands of the provincial police. “(The provincial police) took my cousin Angus Jacob and brought him to the back of a barn and handcuffed him to a metal chair,� he said in an interview. “They pulled his pants down and they started electrocuting his testicles to get him to talk.� He said events like Oka can happen again in Canada but it’s critical that natives and non-natives continue to talk to one another. “Oka is what happens when dialogue stops,� he said.
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Report clears U of T course that teaches anti-vaccination materials Press in an interview. “As a public health physician Canadian Press I am firmly convinced of the benefits of immunization. As an TORONTO academic, I am committed to University of Toronto ensuring that students learn in investigation into a course an environment that prepares that taught anti-vaccinathem to think critically and tion materials concluded the evaluate controversial issues in instructor’s approach did not an appropriate way.� warrant concern and the course Goel’s three-page report is was not “unbalanced.� dated March 17, but it was only And the author of the report, released publicly on Monday. a former president and CEO of It looked into a course Public Health Ontario, said he entitled Alternative Health: would have come to a different Practice and Theory, taught in conclusion if his investigation the health studies program of had convinced him students in the department of anthropology the course were being instructed at the university’s Scarborough to embrace the views of the anticampus. It was an elective class vaccination movement. for fourth-year students. “If I had any sense that is It was taught by homeopath what the outcome had been I Beth Landau-Halpern, who would have expressed concern,� was featured in a CBC MarketDr. Vivek Goel, the university’s place investigation where she vice president for research and promoted nosodes – so-called innovation, told The Canadian homeopathic vaccines – to a young mother. Although nosodes are liThe Yukon home of censed for use in Canada – a fact which confounds advocates of science-based medicine – they are not vaccines and cannot be prescribed to prevent disease. Yukon Housing Landau-Halpern did not Corporation’s Rent Supplement Program respond to requests for an interis now available in the view. Goel would not comment rural communities. on her, other than to say the way Visit www.housing.yk.ca to learn more. she is being characterized in soHelen Branswell
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cial media “doesn’t really reflect reality.â€? The university asked Goel to look into the course after some of its professors and a number of external experts complained about it. “Students taking (the course) ‌ are in their final year of study and are expected to approach controversial topics with a critical lens,â€? he wrote, adding there were no complaints from students about the course. Goel noted, though, that the course would have been stronger had it relied more on the scientific literature. And he suggested if it is taught in future students should be given a better understanding of the “context for their assigned readings,â€? which include videos of and articles published by prominent figures in the anti-vaccination movement. As well, he said the course would benefit from having its curriculum developed in consultation with experts in the university’s health sciences faculties. “While I do not find that the course is unbalanced, in the sense of the term used above, I do believe it could be strengthened by greater engagement of academic colleagues through such a review process,â€? Goel said.
A U.S.-based physician who blogs about evidence-based medicine found the findings of the report difficult to grasp. “I’m really speechless,â€? said Dr. Jen Gunter, a Canadian obstetrician and gynecologist who practices in the San Francisco area. “To say that ‘Oh, in other areas of their education they learned other things’ ‌ that’s just a cop out. I’m really at a loss. They have to explain this further.â€? The course description, still available online, says one of the focuses of the course would be “the explosive issue around vaccine safety.â€? It also suggests students will be taught about quantum mechanics and the role it plays in health – a claim which inspired some scientists at the university to write a separate complaint to president Meric Gertler, saying the course readings “promote a completely unscientific view of quantum mechanics, in the form of quantum mysticism and quantum healing.â€? Goel said when he was asked to investigate the course earlier this year, the curriculum had already been changed. Some of the materials that drew criticism were taught in 2014 – the first year the course was offered – but
not this year, Goel said. Althea Blackburn-Evans, the university’s director of media relations, said the course will not be taught in summer school this year or in the coming academic year. Goel noted students who take the health sciences program may go on to study to be health-care providers and if they do, they will have to deal with vaccine skeptic and vaccine hesitant parents. Those parents will come armed with materials they have found on the Internet and these future health-care providers need to understand what they will face, he said. Earlier this year, Queens University experienced a similar controversy when complaints about a course taught by instructor Melody Torcolacci raised concerns about the university’s kinesiology department. Queens investigated and determined that Torcolacci would no longer teach Health 102. Gunter said the two situations are similar – and disturbing. “Many of us worry that these types of things represent an overall erosion of academia,� said Gunter. “This sort of erosion of letting things creep in that don’t have any proof, it starts to contaminate the scientific process.�
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Millions leave poverty, but not for the middle class; ‘uneven geography’ of prosperity: report 700 million people has been a step forward from the desperate Associated Press existence of $2 or less a day into a low-income world of living on NEW YORK $2 to $10 daily, the Pew Research he dramatic lurch of hunCenter says. dreds of millions of people Its report, released Wednesday, from poverty since the mil- looks at changes in income for lennium began has not resulted more than 110 countries between in a truly global middle class, a 2001 and 2011, the latest that data new report says. for such a large range of countries Instead, the improvement was available. For years, reaching middle in living conditions for almost Cara Anna
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class has been held out as a goal for people in a growing number of countries. China’s rise in particular, with 203 million people there moving into a middle-income life over the decade starting in 2001, has resulted in what the report calls a “pivot to the east.� More than half of the world’s middle-class population was living in the Asia and South Pacific region by 2011. That’s a jump from 31 per cent to 51 per cent in a decade. Largely because of Asia, the report says the world’s middle-income population nearly doubled over that time, from 399 million to 784 million. But the gains are hardly seen everywhere. The report shows that while commodity-rich South America and a strengthening Eastern Europe, including Russia, also made strides into the middle class, Africa, India and many parts of Asia have yet to do the
same. The Pew report calls its overall findings “the uneven geography of the emerging middle class.� The poverty rate for India, Asia’s other population giant, fell from 35 per cent to 20 per cent over the report’s period, but its middle class only grew from 1 per cent to 3 per cent. The report notes that India’s economic reforms began in 1991, 13 years after China, though the scope and pace of the countries’ reforms have varied. The report comes just two days after the United Nations announced success in key development goals adopted by world leaders at the start of the millennium, including the lifting of more than one billion people out of extreme poverty. Also worth noting: Europe and North America’s global share of the upper-middle income
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Grace Community Church 8th & Wheeler Street Pastor Jim Joe 668-2003
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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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Sunday 10:00am Prayer / Sunday School 11:00 am Worship Wednesday Praise & Celebration 7:30 pm Pastor Roger Yadon
4th Avenue & Steele Street • 667-2437 Masses: Weekdays: 12:10 pm. Saturday 5 pm Sunday: 9 am - English; 10:10 am - French; 11:30 am English
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y hometown, Vancouver, is in a rainforest, so we celebrate sunny days. People I talk to are enjoying the recent warm, dry weather, but they invariably add, “This isn’t normal” – especially with all the smoke from nearby forest fires. With no mountain snowpack and almost no spring rain, rivers, creeks and reservoirs are at levels typically not seen until fall. Parks are brown. Blueberries, strawberries and other crops have arrived weeks earlier than usual. Wildfires are burning here and throughout Western Canada. Meanwhile, normally dry Kamloops has had record flooding, as has Toronto. Manitoba has been hit with several tornadoes and golf-ball-sized hail. Unusual weather is everywhere. California is in its fourth year of severe drought. Temperatures in Spain, Portugal, India and Pakistan have reached record levels, sparking wildfires and causing thousands of deaths and heat-related ailments. Heavy rains, flooding and an unusually high number of tornadoes have caused extensive damage and loss of life in Texas, Oklahoma and Mexico. The likely causes are complex: a stuck jet stream, the Pacific El Niño, natural variation and climate change. Even though it’s difficult to link all events directly to global warming, climate scientists have warned for years that we can expect these kinds of extremes to continue and worsen as the world warms. Some hypothesize that the strange behaviours of this year’s jet stream
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and El Niño are related to climate change, with shrinking Arctic sea ice affecting the former. Several recent studies indicate a clear connection between increasing extreme weather and climate change. One, by climatologists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado, looked at rising global atmospheric and sea-surface temperatures, which have increased water vapour in the atmosphere by about five per cent since the 1950s. According to the paper, published in Nature Climate Change, “This has fuelled larger storms, and in the case of hurricanes and typhoons, ones that ride atop oceans that are 19 centimetres higher than they were in the early 1900s. That sealevel rise increases the height of waves and tidal surges as storms make landfall.” A Stanford University study found, “accumulation of heat in the atmosphere can account for much of the increase in extreme high temperatures, as well as an average decrease in cold extremes, across parts of North America, Europe and Asia,” but also concluded the influence of human activity on atmospheric circulation, another factor in climate change, is not well understood. Earth is clearly experiencing more frequent extreme weather than in the past, and we can expect it to get worse as we burn more coal, oil and gas and pump more carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. This can have profound and costly impacts on everything from agriculture to infrastructure, not to mention human health and life. As Pope Francis pointed out, climate change and social justice
are intricately connected: “The human environment and the natural environment deteriorate together; we cannot adequately combat environmental degradation unless we attend to causes related to human and social degradation.” That’s why so many people from Canada and around the world are calling for action as government leaders prepare for December’s UN climate summit in Paris: religious leaders including Pope Francis and the Dalai Lama; global organizations like the World Bank, International Monetary Fund, International Energy Agency and World Health Organization; businesses from Microsoft to Ikea to General Motors; and millions of people like those who marched for “Jobs, Justice and the Climate” in Toronto on July 5. All know the future of humanity depends on rapidly shifting the way we obtain and use energy. Even though many world leaders recognize the problem, the recent G-7 agreement to decarbonize our energy by the end of the century is a horrifying joke. None of today’s politicians making the commitment will be alive to bear the responsibility for achieving the target, and the time frame doesn’t address the urgent need to begin huge reductions in fossil fuel use immediately. Governments at the provincial, state and municipal levels have led the way in finding solutions. Now it’s time for national leaders to finally demonstrate real courage and foresight as they gear up for the Paris summit later this year. Written with contributions from David Suzuki Foundation Senior Editor Ian Hanington. Learn more at www.davidsuzuki.org.
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ore than 100 people, including six former commissioners, attended the ceremony this past Monday, dedicating the Taylor House to its new role as office of the commissioner of the Yukon. The featured guest was His Excellency, Governor-General David Johnston, who is in town for a conference of provincial and territorial vice-regal representatives. Johnston was joined on the dais by Commissioner Doug Phillips and Yukon Premier Darrell Pasloski. For those unfamiliar with the Taylor House, it is the imposing two-storey log building enclosed by a fence and lawn across from the Gold Rush Inn, at the corner of Fifth Avenue and Main Street. Taylor House was constructed in 1937 by Bill and Aline Taylor when Whitehorse was a sleepy little town of only a few hundred, and Fifth Avenue was at the outer limits of the community. Bill Taylor was the son of Isaac Taylor, a founding partner of the mercantile business known as Taylor and Drury, or T&D. The
logs were procured locally and the inspiration for the design and the distinctive gambrel roof selected by Mrs. Taylor came from illustrations in magazines. Fixtures, materials and furnishings were all purchased from the family business. Daughter Marilyn Taylor and son Vincent, who both attended the dedication ceremony, grew up in this house just as the community was transforming. By 1968, the home had been engulfed by the hustle and bustle of an expanding downtown core, so Bill and Aline Taylor relocated to Riverdale. Their new home never seemed the same as the “old house” on Main Street. The building was purchased by the Yukon Chamber of Mines, which operated from there for nearly 30 years. According to Brent Slobodin, a former president of the Yukon Historical and Museums Association (YHMA), the chamber decided to sell the building in the late 1990s. YHMA was concerned that the building, one of the rapidly vanishing assemblage of structures that predate the Second World War, would be demolished. The association became involved in a campaign to save it. Many officials in the community saw it as a waste of effort to save such a building, said Slobodin. Having failed through other avenues, YHMA eventually approached Dave Keenan, then minister of tourism, who saw
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On Monday, Whitehorse’s Taylor House was officially inaugurated as as the office of Yukon’s commissioner. its potential. Dave Sloan, then minister of government services, had the building examined for structural soundness – and it passed the test. The purchase of the building raised the hackles of the opposition, who expressed concern that the purchase had set a bad precedent. How, the government was asked, would they be able to say no to anyone else who comes forward with very similar heritage houses for sale? Also, they asked, what use would be found for this building? They found a use – and a tenant – for the building, which was occupied for 14 years by the Yukon Heritage Resources Board, until the board was evicted last year. In his speech, Phillips told the audience that when he was appointed by Prime Minister Stephen Harper, he was asked by Harper where his office was located. Phillips explained that
it was rented corner office space in a senior citizens complex, with street parking. The prime minister seemed puzzled by this. That got Phillips thinking, and he started looking around for more suitable accommodation for the territory’s vice-regal representative. He zeroed in on the Taylor House. Renovations occurred during the past winter, and the commissioner recently moved in. In his address to the attending crowd, Governor-General Johnston described the building as one of a kind. Just as his official residences in Ottawa and Quebec say “Canada” (a quick investigation revealed that Rideau Hall is nearly seven times the size of the prime minister’s residence), said Johnston, the Taylor House says “Yukon.” Phillips noted that a member of the Taylor family has purchased the former commission-
Parks Day Celebrate Canada’s Parks Day in Yukon! THURSDAY, JULY 16 Parks Day Booth at the Fireweed Market, Shipyards Park, Whitehorse Drop by between 3 p.m. and 8 p.m. to learn about Yukon parks and conservation and win prizes! SATURDAY JULY 18 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. Free Guided Hikes to Canyon City, Chadburn Lake Park, Whitehorse Meet at the Miles Canyon suspension bridge (rain or shine) for a two-hour interpretive hike. 10 a.m. Guided Hike then 7 p.m. BBQ and Music at the Tombstone Interpretive Centre, Tombstone Territorial Park (Kilometer 71.5 on the Dempster Highway) 4 p.m. Family Fun Day at Kathleen Lake, Kluane National Park & Reserve 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Join Selkirk First Nation and Yukon Historic Sites on a free boat trip from Pelly Farm to historic Fort Selkirk Performances by Selkirk Spirit Dancers and Yukon musicians. Call 6675386 to reserve your spot. Or create your own adventure! Learn more about Parks Day or Yukon events by visiting:
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AƩenƟon: ALL YUKON BUSINESSES CAFN is introducing the Business Employment Enhancement Fund (BEEF)
What is BEEF? CAFN has invested $100,000 in a Business Employment Enhancement Fund to enhance employment opportuniƟes for CAFN CiƟzens through the provision of a non-repayable employment subsidy to a maximum of $10,000 for each approved CAFN CiƟzen employee. What project is eligible? Projects will be reviewed for alignment with increasing CAFN CiƟzen employment opportuniƟes within the Yukon with a primary focus on new employment opportuniƟes within the CAFN TradiƟonal Territory. Who may propose a project? CAFN CiƟzen entrepreneurs Dakwakada Development CorporaƟon Champagne Aishihik Development CorporaƟon CAFN Joint Ventures Any business within the Yukon with a primary focus on opportuniƟes within the TradiƟonal Territory What do you need to provide? You will need to describe how your project meets the eligibility criteria above and a job descripƟon along with the name of the proposed CAFN CiƟzen employee. To apply, please contact: Fran Asp, Finance and Policy Analyst, (867) 456-6880 or fasp@cafn.ca
er’s residence in Riverdale, while the commissioner now occupies the former Taylor family home on Main Street. After the speeches were complete, Johnston, Phillips and Pasloski moved to the front entrance of the building for a ribbon cutting ceremony, a first for Phillips since being appointed to his office. After the official functions were completed, the building was opened to the public for tours. According to Marilyn Taylor, the building looks on the outside much as it did when she lived there, but the interior has been modified beyond recognition. She has fond memories of living here; her parents were very family oriented. Taylor and her brother Vincent, accompanied by various family members, inspected the building from bottom to top. For them, the house was filled with memories. The basement, they remembered, was set aside as a special place for them to play as children. A large fireplace (there was another on the main floor) added warmth to the space. It is still there today, though no longer functional. When the Taylors lived here, there was a ping pong table and a record player in the basement. Vince remembers shooting hockey pucks at the subterranean cement wall. One year, their mother even arranged for ballroom and square dancing lessons. And friends were always welcome. Marilyn Taylor remembers that when they weren’t inside, they were over at a rink in the mounted police parade square that was kept snow-free in the winter, scaling the clay cliffs to visit the airport, or skiing across the river to take advantage of “bowls” in the sand hills behind where the hospital stands today. Brother Vincent was involved in hockey. Mostly, they created their own entertainment. Upstairs, things have changed dramatically. Brother and sister were able to identify where their respective bedrooms were located by the position of the windows. Marilyn pointed to where her desk once stood. Vincent, the younger of the two, remembers how his older sister would frighten him by telling scary stories, or turning off the lights when he was coming up the stairs. Talking of his dreams for the new building, Phillips revealed plans for numerous events to take place in and around Taylor House. He added that it was great that the building has been preserved as it is and where it is. Moving into this restored historic building is the best thing that has happened to the office of the commissioner since it was relocated from Dawson City, he said. I think that the community will agree that preserving this old building was the right thing to do. Michael Gates is a Yukon historian and sometimes adventurer based in Whitehorse. His three books on Yukon history are available in Yukon stores. You can contact him at msgates@northwestel.net
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Whitehorse’s Jessica Frotten gets set to race at the Canadian Track and Field Championships in Edmonton over the weekend. Frotten captured five medals at the championships. Tom Patrick News Reporter
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hitehorse’s Jessica Frotten had a hugely productive weekend. She raced the best in Canada and has now been selected to represent Canada. Frotten sped to five medals at the 2015 Canadian Track and Field Championships in Edmonton over the weekend. With her hardware-laden results, the para wheelchair racer has been selected for Team Canada for the Parapan American Games in Toronto, Saskatoon’s Star Phoenix reports. “It was a painfully slow track, just really soft, but I’m happy with all my results,” said Frotten. “Coming off the fastest track in the world in Switzerland to this track, it was almost like pushing
through sand,” she added. “But I’m happy with where I placed in all the races and my times weren’t far off the leaders.” Frotten won silver in the 100-metre, finishing just 0.53 seconds behind Quebec’s Ilana Dupont, a Paralympian medalist. The 27-year-old then claimed silver in the 1,500-metre, beating Dupont with a time of 4:12.26. Frotten also won bronze in the 400-, 800- and 200-metre races. In the 200 she placed fourth overall behind a racer from Bermuda who was ineligible for a national medal. “I felt the 200 was a really good race for me – and the 1,500, I had a really good finish in that one for second place,” said Frotten. “I kind of got in a bad spot in the 800 and couldn’t make a move I wanted to when I needed to.” It should also be noted Frotten, a T53 racer, was competing
in a joint T34-51-53-54 division in Edmonton. “A lot of my family came out to watch me and once again they are the loudest ones in the stands,” said Frotten, who races for the Saskatoon Cyclones track team. “It makes my heart so full.” The Parapan Am Games, which will take place August 7-15, won’t be Frotten’s first taste of international competition this season. She competed at three back-toback international competitions in Switzerland last month, posting personal best times in all her events. With those times Frotten is currently ranked sixth in the world for the 100-metre in the International Paralympic Committee’s world rankings for T53. Her other rankings include eighth in the 200, 13th in the 400, 15th in the 800 and 10th in the 1,500.
Frotten won two gold and a silver at last year’s track nationals and captured three bronze at the 2013 Canada Summer Games. Frotten wasn’t the only athlete doing the territory proud in Edmonton. Whitehorse’s Lindsay Carson battled sweltering heat and the best runners in Canada to take fourth in the elite women’s 5,000-metre on July 2. “It was a strategic race, a sitand-kick race,” said Carson. “No one was out there a fast time, they were all just there for placing.” The 25-year-old qualified for nationals at the Portland Track Festival in mid-June. She took fourth out of 12 with a time of 16:46.23 in Edmonton. “It was blisteringly hot. My race was at 7:30 at night and it was still above 30 degrees,” said Carson. “With about four laps to go,
that’s when a significant move was made. I tried to hold on as long as I could, but unfortunately the three girls who placed ahead of me ... broke away, and at that point I just tried to maintain my position.” “I would have liked a podium finish, but the girls ahead of me are equally deserving,” she added. “It’s a good competition this year in the 5K, so I’m just happy I was in amongst the ranks.” Carson placed 10th at the Canadian 10-Kilometre Road Race Championships in Ottawa at the end of May, a couple months after taking 59th at the IAAF World Cross Country Championships in China. “Track is more my background. I’ve been doing more road races now that I’m out of university. It’s harder to find track races postcollegiately,” said Carson. Contact Tom Patrick at tomp@yukon-news.com
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Roots blasts into the record book at 5K championships
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Whitehorse’s Logan Roots, left, and Ryan Leef lead the pack at the start of the Yukon Five-Kilometre Championships in Riverdale on Tuesday. Roots took first with a record time of 15:56. Tom Patrick News Reporter
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thletics Yukon’s five-kilometre course has seen its first sub-16-minute time. Despite temperatures reaching into the high 20s, Whitehorse’s Logan Roots set the course record at the Yukon Five-Kilometre Championships on Tuesday in Riverdale. The 22-year-old completed the certified five-kilometre course, first used at the championship in 2008, in 15 minutes and 56 seconds. It was hot out, but “there’s no smoke in the air, so no complaints,â€? said Roots. “Anywhere else it would be worse ‌ There was a bit of a breeze coming off the water. I didn’t feel the heat too much.â€? But Roots doesn’t limit himself to just five-kilometre runs. He recently competed at the Canadian Half Marathon Championships in Calgary, placing third for his age division and 19th overall. The two-time Yukon River Trail Marathon winner is also getting set to compete at the B.C. 10-Kilometre Championships. “I’m doing a 10K in B.C. in 12 days, so this is just a hard stimulus to get the legs moving and the heart pumping before that race there,â€? he said. Yukon MP Ryan Leef was once again playing second fiddle to a young buck on Tuesday. After placing second in the race last year to 18-year-old Kieran Halliday, he was again in second behind Roots. He crossed the finish line at 17:35 – the exact same time as in last year’s championships. Whitehorse’s Darby McIntyre placed third at 19:25. The 15-yearold is preparing to represent Canada in track and field at the
2015 Special Olympics World Summer Games in Los Angeles, Calif., at the end of the month. Whitehorse’s Cynthia Freeman would have preferred to be a couple minutes faster, but she’s happy to take the women’s title. Freeman finished the course, starting and ending at F.H. Collins Secondary, in 24:16. “Not my best – it was very hot,� said Freeman. “It was a little slower than what I wanted to do, but that’s OK. It was fun. “I’m just getting over an injury, so this year is my building year. I’m just getting back into shape.� Laura Salmon came in second at 25:13 and Sonia Seeber in third at 25:30. “I just love the Tuesday and Thursday runs because it’s the only time I get to run on pavement,� added Freeman. “I usually run at home, which is out of town, so I love coming in a seeing everybody. I get to chat, meet some new people, catch up with old friends and go for a run.�
Open male (20-34) 1st Logan Roots – 15:56 2nd John Gushie – 25:09
Contact Tom Patrick at tomp@yukon-news.com
Masters V female (55-59) 1st Brenda Dion – 25:49
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Masters I male (35-39) 1st Warren Maroun – 30:50 Masters I female (35-39) 1st Christie Harper – 26:34 2nd Beth Chisholm – 28:19 Masters II male (40-44) 1st Ryan Leef – 17:35 Masters II female (40-44) 1st Cynthia Freeman – 24:16 2nd Sonia Seeber – 25:30 3rd Kelli Taylor – 27:27
Masters III male (45-49) 1st Jeff Larsen – 18:33 2nd Robin Anderson – 21:31
Masters III female (45-49) 1st Laura Salmon – 25:13 Masters IV male (50-54) 1st Jerome McIntyre – 20:24 Masters IV female (50-54) 1st Jennifer Whipple – 28:16 Masters V male (55-59) 1st Brendan Hanley – 22:45
Masters VI female (60-64) 1st Christine Paradis – 29:01
11-year-old male 1st Isaac O’Brien – 23:57
Masters VII male (65-69) 1st Don White – 21:42
11-year-old female 1st Lisa Freeman – 31:52
Masters male IX 1st Dave Kalles – 30:45
12-year-old male 1st Naoise Dempsey – 20:05
Walkers male 1st John Storms – 32:20
Midget male (14-15) 1st Darby McIntyre – 19:25
Walkers female 1st Bonnie Love – 34:30
Youth male (16-17) 1st Jared Leary – 21:12 Youth female (16-17) 1st Sigourny Whipple -Grantham – 28:06
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Tuesday, July 21, 7-8 pm Geology of Miles Canyon: discover how the canyon was formed and what it is made of Where: Miles Canyon Bridge Parking Lot Difficulty level: EASY, some roots and rocks on trail
Tuesday, August 4, 6-8:30 pm Glacial History of Fish Lake Where: Fish Lake trail head, end of Fish Lake Road Difficulty level: MODERATE, uphill hiking to ridge top
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Mike Smith tends net for the Arizona Coyotes against the New Jersey Devils in March. Smith is one of five current and former NHLers who will visit Watson Lake next month. Tom Patrick News Reporter
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layers and coaches with the Watson Lake Minor Hockey Association are about to host some very special guests. In the final stop in the National Hockey League Players’ Association’s Goals and Dreams multi-city tour, five past and present NHL players will be making a two-day visit to the Yukon community early next month. They will take part in a free hockey camp, bring a bunch of equipment and no doubt share some interesting stories about life in the NHL.
Regular Council Meeting July 13 At 5:30 pm in City Hall Council Chambers: Public Hearing – Bylaw 2015-16 Zoning Amendment (102-104 Lambert Street); Council Remuneration; Amend City Manager Bylaw; Rogers Hometown Hockey Letter Agreement; Tank Farm Subdivision Appeal Various Bylaw Readings. For more details, visit: whitehorse.ca/agendas
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Headlining the visit is Arizona Coyotes goaltender Mike Smith, who won gold with Team Canada at the 2014 Olympics. Also on the roster is Coyotes teammate and winger B.J. Crombeen, who has also played for the Dallas Stars, St. Louis Blues and the Tampa Bay Lightning; Crombeen’s father, Mike, who played for the St. Louis Blues and Hartford Whalers before retiring from the NHL following the 1984/85 season; Toronto Maple Leafs forward David Booth, who has played with the Florida Panthers and the Vancouver Canucks; and Saskatchewan born Brent Gilchrist, who won a Stanley Cup with the Detroit Red Wings in 1998. “NHLPA Goals & Dreams has helped deserving children play hockey for the past 15 years, and I am proud to be a part of this upcoming event in August,� said Smith in a news release. “Our whole group is excited to head north – myself, along with B.J. and Mike Crombeen, David Booth and Brent Gilchrist – to help the children of Watson Lake
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by providing some new equipment and on-ice instruction.� In addition to a wealth of expertise to be shared, Watson Lake will receive $20,000 in hockey equipment from the Goals and Dreams program. Over the past 15 years the program has donated more than $22 million to grassroots hockey programs, benefitting over 70,000 children in 33 countries. “The NHLPA Goals & Dreams tour stop is a one-of-a-kind opportunity for the community of Watson Lake, as well as for Yukon youth,� said WLMHA president Denina Paquette in the release. “It’s important for us to involve as many youth as possible by eliminating financial barriers. We are working with the Yukon Amateur Hockey Association (YAHA), as well as recreational staff in the communities and rural RCMP detachments, to identify participants.� The free camp, which will take place August 1-2, features a jam-packed schedule. It includes on-ice clinics, talks by the players, a fishing derby and a potlatch. The NHLers will also coach in a community hockey game and will give instruction to Yukon hockey coaches. “My experience is that anytime you get to be on the ice with other coaches, as well as professional hockey players, it’s a huge learning opportunity,� said Team Yukon and Whitehorse Mustangs coach Martin Lawrie, who will run on-ice drills during the camp. “From YAHA’s perspective, we’re hoping to see a bump in minor hockey registration and a bump in interest.� For more information contact the Watson Lake Minor Hockey Association at wlminorhockey@ gmail.com. Contact Tom Patrick at tomp@yukon-news.com
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wo Whitehorse Glacier Bears swimmers captured two very different bronze medals over the weekend. One came in a sprint in a pool, the other in a long-distance race in a lake. Whitehorse’s Cassis Lindsay won the former and little sister Rennes the latter. Cassis took bronze in the 50-metre freestyle at the SwimBC Long Course AAA Championships in Victoria over the weekend. Her time of 27.99 was also a club record. “I was trying to push off at the back of my stroke and it worked out well,� she said in a news release. Cassis also claimed fifth in the 100 free at 1:00.68 to be the fastest 14-year-old in the 14-15 category. Rennes picked up her bronze in the 1,000-metre at the B.C. Open Water Championships on Monday in Victoria’s Thetis Lake. “She had a great start, she held her course perfectly aiming on the buoy, she had a tight turns and swam in a lead pack from the beginning,� said Glacier Bears head coach Malwina Bukszowana in the release. “Finishing her first of two laps, Rennes was on the third position with another two girls just right behind her. Our 12-years-old Glacier Bears swimmer swam in perfect line after her last turn and she had a great finish touch and won bronze just by milliseconds.� Rennes also took eighth in the 400-metre individual medley in the girls 12-13 category at the AAAs over the weekend, leaving a club record in her wake. She also placed 10th in the 800 free – notching another qualifying time for the age group nationals next month in Quebec City – and in the 200-metre butterfly. The Lindsay sisters were joined by teammate Hannah Kingscote in Victoria. Kingscote, 13, finished eighth in the 50-metre backstroke and 15th in the 100 back. “She has very good fly kicks under the water, so she can go far and fast just kicking, when other girls are swimming already,� said Bukszowana. Contact Tom Patrick at tomp@yukon-news.com
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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.
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TWO-BEDROOM PORTER CREEK APARTMENT available immediately. •Well maintained, secure, attractive unit. •On bus route and close to shops. •Additional garage parking optional. •No smoking, no pet building. •Reasonable utilities. •Asking $1,300/mon. For viewings email karla@coldwellbanker.ca or call 334-4588 THE NEW RENTAL HOUSING ALLOWANCE PROGRAM is designed to help young families to rent the market housing they need. Visit www.housing.yk.ca to learn more. 1-BDRM BACHELOR suite, Riverdale, avail Aug 1, shared laundry, nice decor, N/S, N/P, no parties, refs reqʟd, $975/mon & shared elec. 668-6911 1-BDRM BSMT suite, avail Aug 1, fully furnished, utils included, shared laundry, kitchen & bathroom, Army Beach, $500/mon. 660-5020 3-BDRM CONDO, Porter Creek, avail August 1, garage, 5 appliances, electric forced air heat, refs & dd reqʟd, pets negotiable, $1,690. 334-5045 ROOM IN Porter Creek bi-level home, large, bright, close to bus, schools, walking trails, newly renovated kitchen & bathroom, wood heat & electric back-up, $650/mon + utils & dd. 668-3493 2-BDRM CONDO, Porter Creek, avail immed, insulated garage, 5 appliances, electric forced air furnace, dd & refs reqʟd, pets negotiable, $1,590/mon. 667-7128 2-BDRM DUPLEX, Hillcrest, washer/dryer, oil heat, available immed, N/S, N/P, $1,000/mon. 667-6113 2-BDRM LEGAL bsmt suite, Riverdale, open concept, N/S, N/P, laundry facility, shed, $1,060/mon + utils + $1,060 dd, close to schools & hospital, photo: madidi-amazon.com/38_suiteb_photo.htm 1-BDRM BSMT suite, Copper Ridge, avail Sept 1, responsible tenants, N/P, $950/mon + 1/3 utils. 336-0903 3-BDRM 2-BATH condo, Porter Creek, available September 1, dd & refs reqʟd, 1-yr lease preferred, $1,700/mon + utils. 689-8769
Expression of Interest to Lease “Carcross Corner Services� Location For possible gas station / off sales / restaurant / store / cabin / RV Park, etc. For information call Ron Burdahl at 867-668-4963 - serious inquiries only please.
1-BDRM EXECUTIVE country cottage, wood/oil heat, all amenities, spectacular river/mountain view. 1/2 hr north of D/T, available Aug 1, $1,000/mon + utils. 393-2684 4-BDRM HOUSE, Hot Springs Rd, oil, wood or elec heat, $1,200/mon + elec. 668-2842 or 668-6552 2-BDRM DUPLEX, Porter Creek, 800 sq ft, washer/dryer, storage, wood stove & elec, avail Aug 1, $900/mon + utils & dd. 633-2837 1-BDRM FURNISHED bsmt suite, PC, avail Sept 1, oil, hot water, laundry incl, $1,200/mon. 335-5352 2-BDRM LOWER level suite, Copper Ridge, parking, laundry, dishwasher, oil heat, N/S, no dogs, dd&refs reqĘźd, $1,200/mon + utils. 667-4858 2-BDRM NEWER mobile home, very clean, open concept kitchen, dining, living, large yard, deck, shed, close to downtown, good bus service, $1,200/mon + utils. morrishome@klondiker.com, 668-2912 3-BDRM UPPER level suite, Crestview, beautiful view, laundry, parking, oil heat, avail Aug 1, dd&refs reqĘźd, N/S, no dogs, $1,600/mon + utils. 667-4858
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$ 990.00/month PH. 667-4759 3-BDRM DUPLEX in Granger available August 1. Bright, spacious, fenced, near schools, bus routes, & shopping. 5 appliances, N/S, N/P. Refs reqĘźd, $1,600/mon + utils. 334-5632 2 LARGE bdrm house close to Hotsprings Rd, 20 minutes to downtown. Pets okay. Available Aug 3, $1,270/mon + utils. Text/call 867-335-0206 TINY HOUSE available August 1. Great, quiet downtown location. Looking for responsible tenant. 667-6089 1-BDRM APT, Riverdale, bright, clean, spacious, partially furnished, incl elec, oil & Internet, avail mid-August, N/s, N/P, refs & dd reqĘźd, $1,000/mon single, $1,100/mon couple. 332-0568
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2.5 ACRE lot near Carcross, $126,000 incl GST. 333-1010 for more details 2-BDRM CONDO, quiet, end of Main & 6th, quality construction, 2 units per floor, infloor heating, intercom, humidifier, wheelchair access, hood fan, bsmt storage, parking, $314,000 obo. 250-716-6190 or hanasaly.czca@gmail.com
(Yukon Women’s Transition Home)
Qualifications: t Combination of experience and post secondary education in a related field t Knowledge of violence against women and issues facing women who have experienced abuse t Knowledge of issues facing and resources available to women (including those specific to First Nations women) t Experience working in a cross-cultural setting and a knowledge/sensitivity to the needs of Aboriginal women and their children t Satisfactory current criminal record check t Experience with Respond Based Practice an asset. Closing Date: 4:00 PM Monday, Monday, July 13, 2015 Submit resumes to: Barbara McInerney Executive Director, Kaushee’s Place Box 31392, Whitehorse, YT Y1A 6K8 Fax: (867) 668-2374 Email: edywth@northwestel.net
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Providing leadership through our strengths in programming, services and research, Yukon College’s main campus in Whitehorse and 12 community campuses cover the territory. A small college, YC provides a stimulating and collegial environment. We work with Yukon communities, Yukon First Nations, local governments, business and industry, to promote a community of learners within a vibrant organization. Come join us as we continue to enhance the Yukon’s capacity through education and training.
Expression of Interest - Casual Hire Instructor, English as a Second Language (ESL) 2IĂ€FH RI WKH 5HJLVWUDU From September 1, 2015 to December 30, 2015 (Estimated 40 hours bi-weekly) Salary: $33.52 to $37.71 per hour Competition#: 15.82 ,QLWLDO 5HYLHZ 'DWH -XO\ Yukon College will be offering a short-term ESL program to University students from Asia, September 1, 2015 to December 30, 2015. If you are interested in teaching ESL and have the IROORZLQJ TXDOLĂ€FDWLRQV SOHDVH VXEPLW \RXU UHVXPH outlining your education and teaching experience: - An undergraduate degree - TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of other /DQJXDJHV FHUWLĂ€FDWLRQ RU HTXLYDOHQF\ - Experience teaching ESL - Experience teaching ESL to university level students would be considered an asset For more information regarding this position(s) please contact: Bunne Palamar, International Education Coordinator Email: bpalamar@yukoncollege.yk.ca Phone: (867) 668-8897 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
3-BDRM 2.5-BATH condo, Takhini, over 1,600 sq ft, energy efficient, located in Central Park, many upgrades, single car garage, $419,500. 393-3993
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Who we are Dawson City, Yukon, is home of the Klondike Gold Rush and the heart of Tr’ondĂŤk HwĂŤch’in Traditional Territory; we’re proud of our mining heritage and First Nations roots that run millennia deep. We’re a thriving cultural community—with a post-secondary arts school, several world-renowned events and festivals, and burgeoning TV and ďŹ lm industry—that borders an outdoor playground sprawling hundreds of kilometres in either direction. We’re a vibrant historic community — with many remaining buildings and landscape features that supported the Gold Rush, and a town site that boasts national historic designation. Mining, tourism, culture, and our people are the foundation on which our town stands, and we respect personal freedoms and diversity of all deďŹ nitions. We’re a welcoming town and a great place to make a life and raise a family. Our community has a new hospital, excellent access to health care, and programming and activities that promote healthy lifestyles. We have a Recreation Centre, Curling Club, Swimming Pool, Fitness Centre, 9-hole Golf Course, Off-Leash Dog Park, and a ski hill. We enjoy an abundance of green spaces, as well as parks, playgrounds, and hiking, biking, and cross-country ski trails-all the amenities for an active life. We also have a K-12 school, Yukon College campus, healthy business community, and numerous community groups and organizations in which to get involved. Through solid planning and focused effort, our town has tackled municipal challenges, developed our municipal infrastructure, and grown our community. We’re looking for the right person to lead us in the next steps of advancing our town.
Who you are You are a strong leader with the academic and experiential backgrounds that will help you manage the overall operation of the municipality, including ďŹ nancial and human resources, strategic planning, project management, and policy and bylaw development. You can establish clear goals for senior staff and help them work towards meeting their objectives. Your background is preferably in municipal administration. As Mayor and Council’s only employee, you appreciate and understand governance practices and procedural rules. Under Council’s strategic direction, you will develop and implement policies and programs that meet the needs of residents, including public works, protective services, recreation, community and economic development, and a municipally operated cable television system. You are conďŹ dent in leading a team of 25 employees, in a unionized environment, to meet the goals of the municipality and expectations of municipal service. You possess excellent interpersonal and communication skills, and are comfortable working with the public in a high-proďŹ le position. If this position interests you, please submit your resume and covering letter clearly demonstrating the qualiďŹ cations outlined below, as selection for further consideration will be based solely on the information you provide. t A post-secondary degree, preferably in Public or Business Administration; t Five years senior management experience overseeing a department or organization; t Developing and implementing policies and programs; t Experience in managing, building, leading, and motivating a team in a unionized environment; t An understanding of the principles of project management and business plan development; t Experience managing ďŹ nancial resources, including development of operating and capital budgets; t Experience working with First Nations Governments; t Experience working with the public, boards, and elected ofďŹ cials; t Ability to interpret and apply Federal, Provincial/Territorial and Municipal statutes, regulations, and programs. t Discretion, tact, compassion, and good judgment; t Excellent communication skills, both oral and written t
Applicants able to demonstrate an equivalent combination of education and experience may be considered. Closing Date: A current resume including three references and covering letter must be received at the City of Dawson Administration Building by 4:00 pm on July 13, 2015. Applications to this position may be submitted by mail, email, or fax to the following:
CAO Selection Committee Attn: Dennis Shewfelt, Interim CAO PO Box 308 Dawson City, Yukon Y0B 1G0 cao@cityofdawson.ca Phone: (867)335-9149 Fax: (867) 993-7434 Further information on this position can be found at:
www.cityofdawson.ca/municipal-info/general-information/career-opportunities To learn more about our community and what we have to offer we encourage you to visit the following websites:
Klondike Visitors Association website at www.dawsoncity.ca/ Parks Canada website at www.pc.gc.ca/eng/lhn-nhs/yt/klondike/natcul/dawson.aspx Yukon Community ProďŹ les website at www.yukoncommunities.yk.ca/dawson-city Klondike Institute of Art and Culture website at www.kiac.ca/
CONDO STUDIO in Nanaimo, B.C. Quality construction+materials, partially furnished w/kitchen appliances Well organized 300 sqft space in quiet residential neighbourhood. Perfect for student or for downsizing. Low condo fees+utilities. Reduced to $82,000. 867-660-4516. PROPERTY & cottage for sale by owner, 37 acres, partially cleared, zoned agricultural, near Little Atlin Lake, near power lines, exc soil, good well. Mrs. Johnson @ 867-333-0227 WATERFRONT, TAGISH Lake, 1,230 sq ft 2-bdrm 1-bath home, 1.01 acre, septic, water tank, large decks, garage, shed, lots of upgrades, very peaceful, $275,000. Call or text 1-250-218-8090 HOUSE, KENO City, Yukon, lot size 800m2, power and water, phone, Internet available, propane stove, sold w/appliances, $55,000. Daniel @ d.schuenemann@gmx.com or 867-995-2490 3-BDRM 2-BATH Tagish waterfront home, 1,400 sq ft ranch style, use full time or weekends, kitchen, living/dining room, 20X24 garage, dock, boathouse, oil heat, Property Guys #153589, $339,000. 867-399-3710 FOR LEASE: 401 WATERFRONT STATION This exceptional office space is available for long term lease. 2,143 sq ft with balcony overlooking the Yukon River. Currently undeveloped but awaiting your plan for finishing. Contact ceo@selkirkdevcorp.com or at 393-2181 to view and discuss terms and opportunity. 3 + 2-bdrm, 2-bath, Riverdale, newly painted, 5 appliances, fully developed, suite potential, fenced, landscaped, $382,000 incl roof allowance. 336-4082 15 ACRES over looking Lake Laberge, driveway, house pad already completed, $190,000. Call for details 335-2611 3-BDRM 2-BATH home, Arkell, well kept, corner lot, $250,000. Email nmunro@northwestel.net or phone 335-9100 2-BDRM 2-BATH home, new, ensuite, walk-in closet, large kitchen open to dining & living room, walnut flooring, tile entrance, 6 appliances, concrete driveway, electric heat, double attached garage. 334-2802 OPEN HOUSE, Sunday July 19, 10am-5pm, 106 Judas Creek, Marsh Lake Waterfront, 2 homes, 2 outbuildings, quality & finished. 660-4106 OPEN HOUSE, Takhini North July 15th from 5-7pm, Unit 23-35 Normandy Rd. Energy efficient condo, 3 bdrms, 2.5 baths, many upgrades $419,500.
Help Wanted HELP WANTED Housekeeping Room Attendant Qualifications: Relevant hotel certification preferred. Applicants with relevant experience preferred Hours: 40 hours/week Wage: $14.25/hr Duties: Make beds, change sheets, distribute clean towels & toiletries Dust furniture, vacuum carpeting & area rugs Clean hotel rooms/public areas Attend to guest requests for extra supplies Contact: HR Manager hr@elitehotel.ca Elite Hotel & Travel Ltd. 206 Jarvis St Whitehorse, Yukon Y1A 2H1 ORTHODONTICS CLINIC in WHITEHORSE has an immediate opening for an energetic person to do front desk & treatment coordination position on a part-time basis. Compensation depends on background, experience & performance. Experience with general computer use, Microsoft Word & Excel required. Hours are flexible and a commitment of 1 Saturday per month is required. Please send resume to: frontdesk@sphinxorthodontics.com THE MAINTENANCE Team Leader performs and oversees a team of Technicians in the delivery of preventative and corrective maintenance for assigned facilities. Brookfield Global Integrated Solutions is a leading provider of integrated real estate management services, including facilities management, project management, energy & sustainability services, real estate services and capital planning. Please apply to file # 151179 at https://www.brookfieldgis.com/
Friday, July 10, 2015 TRI OMNI PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Requires Light Duty Cleaner NOC #6661 Minimum 6 months experience Own transportation required Contact: Dean Philpott Box 31386, Whitehorse, YT Y1A-6K8 email: admin@triomni.ca 867-668-6900 Fax: 867-456-4847 LOOKING FOR an in-home caregiver Permanent, full time (40hrs/week), In Whitehorse. Job details: Child care, meal preparation, kidsĘź laundry, housekeeping. Wage $10.86/hr. Apply through: guanzhu.w@gmail.com.
Miscellaneous for Sale WINDOOR RECYCLER We buy & sell: • Brand new/used double/triple pane vinyl/wood windows. •Brand new steel/vinyl exterior doors with frames. Now selling: •Brand new unfinished oak kitchen cabinets. 333-0717 We will pay CASH for anything of value Tools, electronics, gold & jewelry, chainsaws, camping & outdoor gear, hunting & fishing supplies, rifles & ammo. G&R New & Used 1612-D Centennial St. 393-2274 BUY • SELL MANʟS 10K gold ring with 3 diamonds, appraised at $875, replacement cost at $1,400, offers. 332-6565 INVERT RAC, as new, good to relieve headaches & realign spine, adjustable height, new $300, asking $250. 250-566-1346 AURIGA MOBILITY Scooter, 4-wheel version, exc cond, burgundy, side mirrors, front & rear baskets, $2,200. 393-2341
YUKON NEWS SMALL CABIN, Lake Laberge, canoe & kayak for free use in exchange for help in gardening or painting. 633-2236 WALL CARIBOU head, Permit 5936, without antlers, $200. 633-2236
YUKON HOUSING CORPORATIONĘźS Rent Supplement Program is now available in the rural communities. Visit www.housing.yk.ca to learn more. MIG WELDER, Solar 2150 wire feed welder, incl. 2 masks & accessories, used only twice, $450. 668-6808 TABLESAW ON 43" x 53" table, 53" height, 10" blade, Delta 10, $180. 668-6808 3 CORRUGATED brown tin sheets, 18Ęźlong, 33" wide, 26 gauge, for roof or siding, plus assorted profiles & other tin pieces, all for $110. 668-6808 UGG SHOES, sz 7, tan in colour, never worn, were too small, paid $120 US, asking $100 Cdn. 867-993-6347 WRINGER 335-3431
WASHER, exc cond, $170.
ULTIMATE SPIN Mop floor cleaner, includes new replacement mop head, $25. 393-4366 MEAT SLICER, used once, manual commercial grade by Globe, model C12, original box & paperwork, $850. Steve @ 334-4232 after 11am LARGE BARBEQUE with propane tank, free; small bistro table, granite top, solid cast aluminum, $125. 633-4139 CONTAX 645AF medium format camera w/2 lens, exc cond, used very little, $5,500. Steve @ 334-4232 FUJI GW690 III, professional camera w/manual, equipped w/90 mm lens, $875. Steve @ 334-4232 after 11am GLASS PANE, security glass w/embedded steel mesh, 37.4�X51�X1�, $55. Steve @ 334-4232 after 11am CAMPING FOOD, dehydrated celery, onion, sweet potato & TVP still in package, perfect for trips. 336-2108 5,000 GAL white plastic water tank, $3,500; 3,700 gal water tanker on wheel beds, needs lic plate, $2,500; 2 industrial/commercial freezer/fridge combination, never used, $4,200. 633-2119 ROCKER-RECLINER, EXC cond; bar fridge, perfect cond. 667-7152 STEEL PIPES, 12ʟ lengths, 4� diameter, about 100 for sale, ideal for fencing. 633-4342 100LB PROPANE bottle, fully certified 06-2015. 333-1010
WATER TANK, 240 gal, like new, clean, was over $1,000, asking $600. 633-2236 2-PERSON INDOOR infrared sauna, new, 110 volt, soft touch controls, 36"X40"X75", easy to assemble, portable, paid $787, asking $425. 667-4409
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TO APPLY FOR THIS JOB: Apply with cover letter, resume, references and a driver’s abstract: By Fax: (867) 633-6492 By Email: lwilliams@kluanefreight.ca By Appointment: (867) 667-7447
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EDUCATION DEPARTMENT MANAGER (Term position) THE JOB Reporting to the Executive Director, this position manages the Education department team in delivering programs and support services to VGFN citizens enrolled in Kindergarten to Grade 12. These programs include the cultural education programs; homework tutor program; Elder in school program; student allowances programs; student incentive programs; school hot lunch program among other programs. The Manager also represents VGFN in education related business with governments, partners and professionals and assists with developing and implementing strategic goals and work plans. This position also supervises the Sports & Recreation Program. QUALIFICATIONS The ideal candidate will have a diploma in an academic ďŹ eld or the equivalent in experience and relevant training; Broad knowledge of government legislation regarding education; Knowledge of Yukon Education system, programs and services; Knowledge of educational issues affecting First Nation peoples both locally and nationally. The ideal candidate will need to be creative and innovative; culturally sensitive and possess management experience that includes ďŹ nancial and supervisory skills. Experience working in a First Nation community is an asset. PAY RANGE: $72,491 to $94,238 per annum plus an excellent beneďŹ t package This is a full-time term position based on 32.5 hours per week. (6.5-hour workday 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. & 1:00 to 4:30 p.m) A detailed job description is available at: http://www.vgfn.ca/employment CLOSING DATE: July 24, 2015 @ 4PM For further information about this position, please contact: Brenda Frost hrd@ vgfn.net or by calling 867-966-3261 Ext 256. Please submit resumes that include job experience related to position to: Brenda Frost Human Resources Manager Vuntut Gwitchin First Nation Box 94, Old Crow, YT Y0B 1N0 Phone: (867)966-3261, ext. 256 Fax: (867)966-3008 Email: hrd@vgfn.net While qualiďŹ ed VGFN citizens will be give preference, all interested and qualiďŹ ed individuals are encouraged to apply.
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Selkirk Development Corporation is seeking interested individuals with experience that relates to business development, investments, financing and planning to join its for-profit board of directors. The Selkirk Development Corporation Office is based in Whitehorse and is the business development arm of Selkirk First Nation, located in Pelly Crossing, YT.
Selkirk First Nation Citizens without the minimum qualifications but have a keen interest in business, willingness to learn and participate, are also encouraged to submit their resume with a letter of interest.
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FXR BRAND fall jacket, Menʼs 3XL, new, $100 obo. 393-2630 2 ʻGARAGE in a Boxʼ, both 16ʼ long, $200 obo ea, must sell by July 15. 667-6770 112 LB anvil, $500; one-burner propane forge, $500. 335-4512 MOVING OUT sale, everything must go. Contact 333-2844 WII, C/W 3 controllers, 2 battery packs & charger, 6 games, Wii Fit Plus, Your Shape, My Sims Party, Wii Deca Sports 2, Mario Party 8, Wii Play, $100. 334-6753 ONE TICKET to Atlin Music Festival, call/leave message @ 867-322-3116 SUN MAR Compostable Toilet, new, for cabin, no power needed, odorless operation, easy installation, more than $1,250 online, asking $600 obo, free delivery in & around Whitehorse. 689-2150
Minimum Qualifications; • Business experience, preferably supplemented with knowledge of real estate and/or mineral exploration and development, commercial retail operations, and/or, • Post-secondary education and experience in a relevant field, • Ready and able to contribute your time and skills to our organization. Board members must be at least 19 years of age and must provide a current criminal record check prior to appointment to the Board.
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Managing the development, approval, dissemination, and evaluation of all policies within th TTC; Identifying and managing ad hoc projects that were not anticipated in the formulation of annual work plans, ensuring that the projects are organized to flow efficiently and to completion; Assisting in the coordination, completion and implementation of matters related to governance that flow through the Executive Office. For detailed job description call 867.390.2532 ext 316 Please quote the job title in the subject line of your email, fax and/or cover letter:
HR & STAFF DEVELOPMENT OFFICER Teslin Tlingit Council Box 133 Teslin, Yukon Y0A 1B0 f. 867.390.2176 humanresources@ttc-teslin.com Closing Date: Monday, July 20, 2015 TTC’s hiring policy will be in effect. AN EQUIVALENT COMBINATION OF EDUCATION, TRAINING AND EXPERIENCE MAY BE CONSIDERED.
REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL
Kluane Lake Wind-Diesel Project Business Plan
Kluane Community Development Corporation (KCDC) is inviting proposals for a comprehensive business plan for the Wind-Diesel Project. The primary intent of a business plan is to investigate and address any aspect of the proposed endeavour that will concern an investor, including the owner/proprietor, lenders, or government funding program. Such aspects include an adequate description of the proposed business, any identified risks, and how those risks will be managed. KCDC need not accept the lowest priced, the highest ranked, or any proposal, and reserves the right to reject or accept a proposal without further explanation. Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title and must be submitted in a sealed envelope(s). Submissions will be received until 4:00 pm local time, August 6, 2015: Mailed to: Kluane Community Development Corporation PO Box 61, Burwash Landing, Yukon Y0B 1V0 Or Hand Delivered to: Kluane Community Development Corporation Suite 201A – 1191 Front Street, Whitehorse, Yukon Y1A 0K5 Documents may be obtained from the Kluane Community Development Corporation office in the community of Burwash Landing, by telephone: (867)-841-4274 ext. 251 or by Email: gm@kluanecorp.ca Additional documentation containing information supporting development of a Wind-Diesel Project business plan will be made available to interested parties upon their signage of a confidentiality agreement.
Friday, July 10, 2015
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Electrical Appliances
Musical Instruments
FRIGIDAIRE HEAVY duty propane dryer, new, $1,100. 334-8335
PIANO TUNING & REPAIR by certified piano technician Call Barry Kitchen @ 633-5191 email:bfkitchen@hotmail.com
WHITE GE Profile 22 cu ft refrigerator w/pull out bottom freezer, runs great, very good condition, am renovating, $150. Deb @ 633-4326 SLIDE-IN RANGE, electrical, GE 30� white, self-cleaning, 4.1 cu ft oven, never used, black glass cooktop with bridge & warming elements, mint cond, $900 obo. 660-4321 FULL SZ 15 cu ft fridge & elec rrange, almond colour, $100 for both. 633-2837 STOVE & full-size fridge, almond, good working order, $100 for both; Kenmore automatic washer, has small leak, free. 633-2837
TVs & Stereos 2 14� Toshiba old style TVs, exc picture, $45 ea w/remotes & original boxes. Steve @ 334-4232 after 11am SONY DVD/VCR combo, new in box, SLV-D360P, $100 obo. 393-3753 SONY HOME theater system, new in box, HT-SS 370, 1,000 W, $150 obo. 393-3753
Computers & Accessories SELFIE STICKS with remote control fits any cell phone, $20. 333-9020 SAMSUNG GALAXY S3 16GB Bell Smartphone, in new condition, Bell or Virgin mobility, free of contract, $140. 334-6087
YAMAHA SILENT guitar w/case & charger, originally $700, asking $450. 633-6543 eves YAMAHA MINI-DISK recorder, 4-track, originally $1,000, asking $175 obo. 633-6543 SELMER BUNDY II Alto Saxophone with hard case, exc cond, $800. 334-6753
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
TRAYNOR YGM3 Reissue Amp Handwired 20w tube amp, exc cond, spare tubes, fitted cover, & upgraded Eminence EJ1250 alnico speaker, $800. Call 867-993-5683
Firewood ANDYĘźS FIREWOOD SERVICE Summer discount Limited time offer Quality standing dry Haines Junction Full measured cords, stacked $230/cord - 6-7 cord load $240/cord - small orders 335-0932, leave message
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APPROX 5 to 6 cords of firewood, $1,000 obo, you pick up, must be gone by July 15. 667-6770
Guns & Bows
FIREWOOD $175/cord 20-foot lengths, 5-cord loads Small delivery charge 668-6564 Leave message
LICENSED TO BUY, SELL & CONSIGN rifles & ammo at G&R New & Used 1612-D Centennial St. 393-2274 BUY • SELL
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A Northern Celebration of Life on Sunday, July 12th, 2015 10:00 AM at Yukon Bible Fellowship
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With heartfelt sadness we announce the unexpected passing of our beloved mother, grandmother, great-grandmother; Emma Olive MacKinnon, on Wednesday, July 8, 2015 in Grande Prairie, Alberta at the age of 81 years. She was born on April 12, 1934 on the Tangen family homestead near Hythe, Alberta. She is survived by her loving children: Brad (Cathy), Roberta (Gord) Allison, Ernie (Kim), Bonnie Johnson, and Celia (Rick) Hanvold; and dear sisters Ruth (Henry) Langerud and Margaret Solheim. She was predeceased by her husband Robert MacKinnon in 1993, her parents Olaf and Olga Tangen, brothers John and Bjarne, sister Helen Langerud, brothers in-law: George Langerud and Henrick Solheim, sisters in-law: Verona and Mary, and son in-law Ken Johnson. She cherished her thirteen grandchildren: Nathan, Neal, Alida (Lee), Miranda (Nick), Tara (Neil), Cameron (Dana), Emily (David), Owen, Ryan, Laura, Tyler, Sydney, and Brendon; and her six greatgrandchildren: Colton, Abigail, Barrett, Ever, Julia, and Madilyn. In respect of Emma’s wishes, the family will have a service at a later date. Memorial Donations may be made to the Golden Age Center, 10222-101 Avenue, Grande Prairie, AB, T8V 0Y5. Condolences may be sent by visiting: www.oliversfuneralhome.com
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YUKON NEWS HUSQVARNA COMMERCIAL M96 bolt action rifle, 8 mm calibre, Norma peep sight, walnut stock, good to vg cond, includes partial box of ammo & reloading dies, $495. 633-2443
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Help control the pet overpopulation problem
FRIDAY, JULY 10
have your pets SPAYED OR NEUTERED.
2015
FOR INFORMATION CALL
633-6019
We are currently doing a deep cleaning at the shelter due to a Parvovirus outbreak. The dog kennels are presently closed to the public for two weeks. THE CAT ROOM AND OFFICE ARE OPEN. Please ask at the office if you would like to visit or walk one of the dogs.
YARD SALE
450 MARLIN ammo, 20 rds Hornady 325 gr Evolution $40, 20 rds 350 gr FP Interlock, $40. 668-6808 RUGER MINI 14, .223, stainless, black synthetic stock, Leupold scope VX-II 3-9x50, 3 mags,100 rds ammo, $920. 668-6808
July 18 & 19 r 9:00AM-3:00PM @ the Mae Bachur Animal Shelter parking lot
Any items you wish to donate can be dropped off at the animal shelter during regular hours. Come by and shop for an assortment of household goods and animal equipment. All proceeds go towards the care of our homeless Yukon animals.
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REMINGTON M700 CDL stainless fluted in 7 Rem mag, beautiful gun, as new, c/w 1-piece rings/bases, no scope, immaculate, hardly fired, $850 obo. Mark 334-7335
WINCHESTER MODEL 70 lightweight in .270 cal w/Leupold 3X9 compact scope w/Leupold base mounts, stock is green & brown laminate, $650 obo. 633-5437 DOMINION ARMS 16-gauge single shot shotgun, new in box, unfired, blued, hardwood stock, $150. 633-2443 WINCHESTER MODEL 1000 pellet rifle rated 1000fps .177 good shape, $150, with Hawke 2-7x32 airgun scope, $250. PAL required. 333-0181
Wanted
Dance Party Fundraiser Annual General Meeting July 17TH t PM @ Lizards Night Club
July 21ST t PM @ the Whitehorse Public Library
Put your dancing shoes on and head down to Lizards Night Club on July 17th! All proceeds of cover charge will go to the Mae Bachur Animal Shelter. If you ever needed an excuse to let loose and get down this is it! See you on the dance floor Whitehorse!
All members welcome and encouraged to attend. Anyone interested in becoming a member or has any questions contact the Mae Bachur Animal Shelter 633-6019. Current and proposed constitutions and bylaws are available online or upon request.
LOST/FOUND
t LOBIRD, FEMALE TABBY CAT. If she’s yours please call 393-3578! See photo on FB. t ALASKA HIGHWAY. FEMALE, HUSKY, BEAR DOG CROSS. Black and white. Very friendly. Call 633-6019 or Bylaw at 667-2111. t FOUND MALE COLLIE AT EAR LAKE ROAD, wearing a blue collar, white and tan, with a little black. Very long nose. If he’s yours please contact the shelter! 633-6019
WANTED: COLLECTOR wants badges & patches from law enforcement, fire department, conservation officers, aircraft & firefighters etc throughout the Yukon. Contact 927 Atlantic Ave, Winnipeg Man, R2X 1L5
VOLUNTEERS NEEDED for Arts Up Front July 15-19, various positions, min 4 hours, incentives included. Please contact Sahana: coordinator@artsunderground.ca WANTED: USED plexiglass to build school bus shelter for kindergarten students. Any size or condition. Builder deaf so please e-mail: bvj003@gmail.com WANTED: ANY leftover wild meat or fish in your freezer, I will take it off your hands. Leave voice mail at 335-2300
RUNNING AT LARGE...
WANTED: WINCH mast & winch for boat trailer to use for winching boat on to trailer. 668-5207
If you have lost a pet, remember to check with City Bylaw: 668-8382
WANTED: SOMEONE to help cut wood in Fox Lake area. 633-2236
AVAILABLE FOR ADOPTION
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WERE YOU a squatter in Whiskey, Moccasin Flats, Sleepy Hollow or the Wye area? Need your story. squatterstory@gmail.com or Pat 667-4141
WANTED: CHEST freezer in working condition. 335-9934
LOST t ARKELL AREA, MISSING LONG HAIR MALE BLACK CAT with bits of brown in his fur. No collar, has his microchip. 2 years old. If found please call Leslie @332-6514 t RIVERDALE, LARGE, BLACK, MALE CAT, not wearing a collar, name is Onyx. Neutered, de-clawed, 10 years old. If found please contact Shawna Lee @333-0222 t FEMALE COLLIE. If found please call the Dawson Humane Society @993-6900 FOUND t SMALL BLACK AND BROWN OLDER MALE DOG IN KLUANE INDUSTRIAL AREA. Found in Kluane Industrial area. Since Sunday July 5. If yours or know who’s dog he is please call Stacy 334-4568
Checkers
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WANTED: BLAZE King Princess. 335-9934
Athena
Smokey
And more.... Come for a visit and meet your next furry family member!
Cars
2005 KIA Spectra, 2.2L, runs good, original owner, 250,000km all highway, could use new tires & TLC, $2,000. 393-2234
MicMac USED VEHICLE SPECIALS!! SOLD! 2014 Dodge Journey R/T # 7696AA.......................... .................................... $29,299 2014 Toyota Tundra Platinum #7366 66 ............................... $44,290 SOLD! 2012 Toyota Venza # 1504 .......................... ................................................. $27,290 2007 Toyota Tacoma X-Runner nnerr #1505AA ......................... ........................... $17,295 SOLD! 2012 Toyota Prius c Technology #7129........................... ............................. $17,995
2012 Toyota Camry Hybrid LE STOCK #7007
21,290
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2011 Toyota Corolla Sport
Pets will be posted on the Pet Report for two weeks. Please let us know after that time if you need them re-posted.
2003 VW Jetta TDI. Well maintained & fully loaded. Exc fuel mileage, $7,800. 335-8450 2002 35TH Anniversary Camaro Z28, only 6,200kms, pristine condition, $15,000 firm. 335-4769 2002 JEEP TJ, black, 108,500km, vg cond, 31�X10.5� summer tires, studded winter tires on rims, not used off-road, $9,500 obo. 867-660-4711
2000 FORD Taurus wagon, V6 auto, 216,000kms, summer & new winter tires, seats 8, recent safety, $3,000 obo. 333-0380
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2000 MAZDA Protege, reliable economical car, excellent winter tires, $1,600. 633-2224
2012 Nissan Altima 2.5 S
1999 FORD Taurus, 4-dr, V6, auto, P/W, P/D, cruise, a/c, new tires, $1,850. 336-2029
PRICE: $
21,290
1999 TOYOTA Tercel, good condition, runs well, no rust, standard transmission, new battery, 300,000 kms, $2,000. 334-6885
2010 Toyota Tundra SR5
1996 CHRYSLER Intrepid, only 139,000 kms, clean & reliable, V6 3.5L, 4-dr, $2,400. 335-1317
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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, $22,500 obo. 334-9039 2010 MINI Cooper Clubman, 6-spd man, pwr win/locks, ac, tilt, heated seat, Bluetooth, sun roof, run-flat tires, 4 studded tires on rims, Bi xenon headlights, 51,561kms. $19,000. 633-4417 2009 MINI Cooper, loaded, 6-spd, power everything, sun roof, heated seats, Bluetooth, 47,800 kms, like new. $17,000. 335-1410 2009 NISSAN Rogue SL, 3-spd auto, new tires, 131,000km, great gas mileage, $12,750 obo. 633-5155
WANTED: PINE fire wood, looking to buy 5 cords, 335-1230
2009 TOYOTA Corolla CE, 4-dr, automatic, 127,000 kms, grey, remote start, winter tires 1 year old, great on gas. 689-1252
STUDENT LOOKING for summer work, fence/deck painting, yard work, plant care and/or taking in mail while away, dog walking, etc. Call 336-4484 or e-mail lflarose@northwestel.net.
2009 TOYOTA Yaris RS, 2-dr hatchback, 5-spd manual, 140,000kms, P/W, P/L, heated leather seats, tinted windows, good tires, exc cond, well maintained, great on gas, $7,000 obo. 335-1106
WANTED: WINDOW that opens, double pane if possible, 21.5�x31� or slightly smaller. 633-3086
2009 TOYOTA Yaris, 4-dr sedan, large trunk, 100,764kms, regularly serviced, runs well, $6,500 obo. 633-5411
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1996 PLYMOUTH Breeze, auto, 2 sets tires, exc glass, very fuel efficient, 190,000km, $1,600. 333-9020 1993 HONDA Civic, white, runs good, excellent gas mileage, radio/CD, good shape, $1,000 obo. 399-3226 1989 CHRYSLER New Yorker, 4-dr sedan, V6, 3L, good on gas, view at 511 Strickland St, $1,500 obo. Leon @ 633-3011 1968 CORVETTE coupe, 427 auto, red on red leather, numbers match, appraised at $50,000, asking $29,900. 336-0946
Trucks
We Sell Trucks! 1-866-269-2783 • 9039 Quartz Rd. • Fraserway.com
2009 FORD F-150 4x4 S XLT, 5.4L V8, great cond, transmission overhauled in 2013, brakes done 2014, just over 300,000km, $9,500. Shannon @ (403)835-7255 2008 NISSAN S model Pathfinder, 150,000km, US model, good cond, $11,000 obo. 336-0946 2007 CHEV 2500HD crew cab 4X4, great unit, many options, trailer tow, fully serviced, new brakes & battery. 633-4311 2007 F250 4X4 crew cab diesel pickup, new shocks, windshield, batteries, oil change, uninstalled new brakes, u joint & serpentine belt comes with, $11,000. Christina/Tom for details 633-6060 2007 FORD Explorer XLT SUV, 218,000 km, needs bearings and brakes, $6,000 obo. 334-8413 2006 CHEVY 3500 Silverado, flat deck, gas, only 30,000km on new engine & transfer case, 232,000km on truck, $9,800 obo. 335-6966 2006 TOYOTA Tacoma 4x4 double cab TRD sport. 144,000 kms, p/everything, matching range rider canopy, reg servicing, AC, 6 CD, tow pkg, new $1500 tires, remote start, $19,500 obo. 334-8637 2005 DODGE Ram diesel, 3500, single wheel, 239,000 km, new, upgraded, tranny, drive shaft, well maintained, lots of upgrades, $19,500. 335-1317
Waiting to meet you soon!
Portraits by Gerry Steers, courtesy of Gerry’s Computer Magic.
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.
2004 OLDSMOBILE Alero, red, 150,000 kms, runs great, automatic, cheap on gas, minor bumper damage, $3,250. 335-9931
2001 LEXUS LS 430, pearl white, auto, 4-dr, heated cream leather seats, sunroof, 76,000 miles, exc cond, clean, hidden headlights, new battery. 334-4048
PRICE:
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You can also check out our award winning website at:
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Portraits by Gerry Steers, courtesy of Gerry’s Computer Magic
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2008 TOYOTA Prius hatchback, smart key, fully loaded, grey, non-smoking vehicle, clean, 139,684kms, $12,000. 668-7418 or 334-8280 2008 YARIS, exc mechanical cond, 117,000kms, snow tires on rims, view on Rosewood, $6,200 obo. 332-0067
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2008 SUZUKI SX4 JL AWD hatchback w/selectable 2WD & locking 4x4, well maintained & reliable, auto, power doors, windows, keyless entry, cd, a/c, c/w good set of winter tires, $9500. 336-2272
WANTED: FOOT pedal for sewing machine, 3 prongs, 7A 125V. 335-9934
2014 XPEDITION Xplorer compound bow, specialized short hight/light weight for mountain hunts, 70# draw, 340FPS, adjst draw 27-30�, sights & release incl, like new cond, $850 obo. Mark 334-7335
WANTED: USED shotgun for upland birds, over-under or side by side preferable, 16, 20 or 28 gauge. 336-3474
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WANTED: RAW moose hides for clothing and crafts, don't leave in the bush to waste, I will make use of them. Call 335 8710 or e-mail tundra_tramp@hotmail.com.
ORIGINAL STOCK, Tikka T3 unused, new synthetic black stock, $180. 668-6808
SAVAGE 12-GAUGE semi-auto model 720, date made 1934, Winchester 12-gauge pump model 1912, date made 1914, $500 for pair. 335-3868
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DONATIONS FOR the Mae Bachur Animal Shelter Yard sale on July 18 &19. Drop-off at 126 Tlingit between 9am-5pm. No clothing or electronics please
2004 GMC 2500 HD 4x4 X-cab, long box, great unit, remote start; trailer tow; checker plate liner & toolbox, fully serviced, new battery & tires. 633-4311 2002 CHEV 2500 4X4 Single cab, gas, auto, 220,000km Excellent tires, complete service box Recently painted, ready to go to work for mining, contractor, etc, $8,900. 333-0717 2002 TOYOTA Tundra 4X4, big tire kit, undercoating, canopy, cold air intake, well maintained, 240,000km, $10,000. 335-0038
Friday, July 10, 2015 2002 C H E V Y express cargo van, 223,000km, great service van with built-in shelving, aftermarket stereo with Bluetooth, $6,500.00 obo. Steve @ 332-2929 2002 FORD Explorer SUV, 4x4, road ready, vg cond, road worthy inpection completed last week, $2,000. To view or drive 660-5400 or 335-5646 2001 FORD F150 4X4, never been off road, hi-rise canopy, offers. Lloyd @ 456-7243 1999 CHEVY Blazer, 2-dr, 2R2 pkg, 5-spd, 8” lift, 35” BFG mud terrain, new, runs good, could use TLC, $3,500. 393-2234 for more info
YUKON NEWS TAITʼS CUSTOM TRAILER SALES 2-3-4- place snowmobile & ATV trailers Drive on Drive off 3500 lb axles by Trailtech - SWS & Featherlight CALL ANYTIME: 334-2194 www/taittrailers.com RONʼS SMALL ENGINE SERVICES Repairs to Snowmobiles, Chainsaws, Lawnmowers, ATVʼs, Small industrial equipment. Light welding repairs available 867-332-2333 lv msg
1999 SIVERADO, exc cond, little rust over wheel wells, high mileage, does not burn oil, includes box cover, $4,500 obo. 336-2182
2009 YAMAHA V Star 1300 touring cruiser, new tires, leather saddlebags, recent tune-up/oil change, windshield, passenger back rest, $5,900. 333-9020
1997 CHEV Astro AWD van, semi-camperized, screened windows, 8-passenger seating, 255,000km, 6-ply summer tires, studded winter tires, well maintained, $1,800 obo. 867-660-4711
2004 ARCTIC Cat quad, 4,200 mi, in top condition, ride trouble free, located in Haines Junction, text for pics. 250-566-1346
1997 DODGE Ram V6 Magnum, new trans, body in good shape, $2,500. 633-2119 1995 GMC 1500 reg cab 2WD long box pickup, V6 auto, blue, 102,000kms , vg cond, $2,850. 335-5428 1992 CHEVY Astro van, many various new parts, blue in color, slight body damage, $1,000 obo. Call or text 332-6769 LAND ROVER, 2002 Freelander, V-6 auto AWD, runs excellent. sunroof doesn't open, otherwise flawless, recent dealer checkup, leather, pwr windows, air, cruise, heated seats/mirrors, $6,200. 456-9498
Auto Parts & Accessories TRUCK CANOPIES - in stock * new Dodge long/short box * new GM long/short box * new Ford long/short box
REMOTE CONTROL for winch for ATV, new in box w/wiring instructions, $100 obo. 250-566-1346 SUZUKI DL1000, dual sport, only 11,000 km, crash bar,cruise control, cover, adjustable windshield, exc shape, pleasure to ride, too many bikes in shop, $5,900. 633-4729 1986 HONDA Four Trax 350, 4X4, for parts or fix, needs a lot of work, really good ITP mud lite tires, $300. 393-2234
115-HORSE JOHNSON, 125 Merc w/jet leg, 85 Merc, Seagull, 460 Mercruiser 4-cyl drop in OMC Sterndriver V6 w/leg & controls, misc older outboards & parts. 250-651-7773 17' TANDEM, Day Tripper kayak, c/w spray skirts, 2 paddles, pump, located at Marsh Lake, $2,500 obo. 660-5693 12ʼ ALUMINUM boat, 9.9 Evinrude motor, trailer, runs good, $1,675; 14ʼ very wide fibreglass boat, trailer, 15hp 4-stroke Honda, $3,900; two 30hp Johnson, $795; one 20hp Johnson, $675. 333-0717
Heavy Equipment 2012 BOBCAT S-205, only 200 hrs, fully loaded w/heated cab, a/c, amber strobe light, sound dampening kit, deluxe key pad, 2 buckets, $38,000 obo. 335-1106 8V71 DETROIT engines w/clutches, pump drives & hydraulic pumps, parting out Terex 7G track loader & Terex rock truck, assorted highway truck tires & rims. 250-651-7773 5-COMPARTMENT 2,100 fuel tank w/pump, hose & reel, $2,500; 29.5x29 tires, 40% & 80%, 14:00x24 tires on Cat 14 rims, 18:00x25 tires on Terex rims. 250-651-7773
Aircraft TOPO MAP 104 N/5 Teresa Island, Atlin Lake, good cond, $8. 336-2108
2006 LTZ400 Suzuki Sport racing quad, 4-stroke, 2-wheel chain driven, yellow/black in colour, $2,500 obo. 456-4766
Campers & Trailers
2006 SUZUKI DRZ400 dual sport, good condition, 11,000 km, $3,000. 334-7664
TAITʼS TRAILERS www.taittrailers.com taits@northwestel.net Quality new and used Horse * Cargo * Equipment trailers For sale or rent Call Anytime 334-2194 Southern prices delivered to the Yukon
2003 HARLEY Davidson Electra Glide, ultra classic, very good condition, lots of extras, $16,000. 668-1315 2011 POLARIS Pro RMK 800, 163 track, mint, 750kms, 2.5” track, stored indoors always, $7,000 obo. 335-1106 2013 HONDA CRF 450, mint, low hours, new tires, clean & well maintained, $6,700 obo. 335-1106
2012 DOUBLE A tandem axle trailer, 18ʼ w/2ʼ dovetail & vertical ramps, low mileage, exc cond, good tires, elec brakes, 7,000lb axles, $5,000. 335-1106
DODGE HEAVY-DUTY headache rack for full size truck with 8ʼ box, 64 3/4” wide, tapers to 63” at back, black, slick, like new, $300 obo. 660-4516
2013 PITSTER small side by side ATV, 3 hrs running time, new condition, $2,500. 456-2130
2004 PIONEER travel trailer, 23T6 model, large bath, queen size bed, large awning, great condition, $9,800 firm. 633-2580
BUCKET SEAT for car, never used, black in colour, $75. 867-993-6347
ATV TIRES w/rims, Mud Bugs, 2 front 26x10x12, 2 rear 26x12x12, new, $750. 668-6808
2008 ARCTIC Fox 25P travel trailer, 4-season unit, slide, full bathroom, sleeps 6, end bedroom, solar panel, thermopane windows, heated tanks, many extras, stored inside in winter, $21,500 obo. 633-5804
Hi-Rise & Cab Hi - several in stock View at centennialmotors.com 393-8100
3 TIRES, Michelin LT265/70 R17, good tread, $250 obo. 633-4311 HAYNES MANUAL for VW Golf, GTI & Jetta 1999 thru 2005, all 4-cylinder gas, TDI diesel 1999 thru 2004, $10. 336-2108 PICK-UP CANOPY, blue, c/w top boat rollers, no leaks. 668-2332 4 TOYO Observe GSi winter tires on 18" Mustang 5-bolt rims w/2007+ TPMS, $750; 4 Pirelli P-Zero Nero all season tires on 18" Mustang 5-bolt rims w/2007+ TPMS, $650. Call/text 335-1333 WHEEL SIMULATORS, fits GMC trucks 16" wheels (2 front and 1 rear), clip-on style, $50. 334-8847 4 LT 265/70 R17 on rims, Nokian tires, studded, 90 to 95% tread, 8-bolt pattern, from a Dodge. 336-1701 4 NEAR new winter studded tires, Hakkapeliitta, M&S 205/55R 16, 94T radials, $200. 335-5310
Pets MALE BLUE Heeler, 6 weeks old, $150. Email raley@telusmail.net Swift River LAB HUSKY x, 6 month old female, fixed, shots up to date. 335-3190 Has your fur buddy slowed down? Return 'spring' to your dogʼs step. Older or injured dogs benefit from Glucosamine and MSM. Tasty pharmaceutical grade powder. Dosage based on weight. 332-7828 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
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 2004 QUAD 90 GC Bombardier, $1,400 obo. 334-4804 or 667-4829
MUD LITE tires on rims for Yamaha ATV, $500. 335-4237
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WELDED STEEL 8ʼX8ʼ flat deck, ramps, headache rack, must be moved, best offer. 393-2714
PROFESSIONAL BOAT REPAIR Fiberglass Supplies Marine Accessories FAR NORTH FIBERGLASS 49D MacDonald Rd Whitehorse, Yukon 393-2467
1989 FORD Travelaire 24ʼ Class C motorhome, 7.5L engine, 124,000kms, full bath, fridge/freezer, a/c, stove, exc cond, $13,900 or reasonable offers. 633-2836
BRAND NEW salmon & halibut rods/reels, used shrimp pots & gear, Garmin 4208 GPS Chart Plotter, Data Card with Alaska Maps, hand held GPS, VHF marine radio, Scotty Electric downriggers and more. 332-1374
21ʼ GOOSENECK holiday trailer, tandem axle, 18ʼ inboard 110 hp boat. 668-2332
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, reasonable offers. 332-1374
1971 9.5ʼ camper, 4 hydraulic jacks, fridge, stove, furnace, port-a-potty, 30 gal water tank, $1,000 firm. 633-3923
2 X OMC portable fuel gas tanks, 22.7 ltrs, 1 x Quicksilver portable fuel gas tank, 25 ltrs, each $20. 668-6808 CANOE, SOLO Prospector, 15ʼ, Western Canoeing, green, Marsh Lake, $550. 668-1959 SMOKER CRAFT 175 Ultima aluminum fishing machine, 90hp 4-stroke Mercury outboard, stereo, fish finder, etc. 668-7898 lv msg OLDER 18HP Evinrude, short shaft, rebuilt engine & carburetor, 50 hrs use, $550 obo. 689-6194 6HP YAMAHA outboard motor, never used, $2,000 new, asking $1,550. 335-3431 CRESTLINER 2010, 1750 Sport Angler, 90 HP Mercury outboard, 8HP trolling motor, electric downriggers, depth sounder, trailer, travel cover, lots of extras, $22,000. 335-1656 14ʼ, ALUMINUM boat, older 4hp Johnson 2-stroke outboard, solid boat, engine runs well, c/w paddle, life jackets, anchor, great package, no trailer, slides into truck/rack easily, $1350. 334-8637 1998 BAYLINER 2452, 305 cu in with Alfa 1 leg, many extras, exc cond, perfect running order, $20,000 obo. 633-2675 19' GLASTRON V195XL bow rider boat, powered by Mercruiser 260 stern drive, incl trailer with hydraulic brakes, exc cond, runs great, a must-see, $4,800. 335-3747 21ʼ CAMPION cabin cruiser, 350 Chev engine w/Volvo legs, fridge, stove, sink, toilet, 15hp Yamaha kicker, must see at 7220-7th Ave. 667-2344
2008 JAYCO travel trailer, 26', sleeps up to 9 comfortably, exc cond, $20,000 obo. 335-4547
BUILDING, 10ʼWX10ʼHX50ʼL, steel skids for loading. 668-2332
yukon-news.com 2006 ADVENTURER 76R camper, exc cond, fits import or small domestic truck, 3-way fridge, 3-burner stove, furnace, roof racks, sleeps 4, great little camper, $11,000. 633-4256 2007 ADVENTURER 76R camper, fits import trucks, exc condition, 3-way fridge, stove, roof racks, sleeps 4, $11,000. 633-4256 30ʼ SALEM 5th wheel, very clean, well maintained, fully equipped incl. bath tube, n/s queen bed, a/c, micro, laminate flooring, $13,000. Call Philmar RV (867) 668-6129, trailer is parked there 2008 28ʼ travel trailer, bunks & queen bed, table & couch, sleeps 7, 1/2 ton towable, awning, all pumps/tanks in good shape, new pilot/tires, works great, $10,900. Call/text 519-854-1300 UTILITY TRAILER made from back half of Ford truck, good axle but no deck, $200 obo. 335-1106 ATV TRAILER, 3ʼWx7ʼL, steel frame, plywood sides, needs new wheels, $150. 335-1106 9ʼ VANGUARD camper, approx 1976, good cond, stove, fridge, furnace, water tank pump all work, $2,000 obo. 633-3357 1984 OKANAGAN Dodge camperized van, bed over driver, stove, furnace, ice box, toilet, running water, 60,000kms, exc cond, $7,700. 667-6426 2011 F350 Lariat, diesel, loaded, crew cab, 4x4, only 76,000kms & 2012 Jayco Eagle 26ʼ 5th wheel immaculate, package @ 78k, obo or trailer separate. 668-7595
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 HISTORICAL EVENING prayer services held in the Old Log Church, 3rd & Elliot, 7pm, Wednesdays & Sundays, June 17 to August 30. 668-5530 for info
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AL-ANON MEETINGS, 667-7142. Has your life been affected by someoneʼs drinking? Wednesday 12Noon @ Anglican Church, 4th & Elliott, back door, Friday 7pm Lutheran Church, 4th & Strickland, beginnerʼs meeting, Friday 8pm Lutheran Church regular meeting HOSPICE YUKON: Free, confidential services offering compassionate support to all those facing advanced illness, death and bereavement. Visit our lending library @ 409 Jarvis, M-F 11:30-3PM. 667-7429, www.hospiceyukon.net TUESDAY BARBEQUES in Stringer Park, 11:30am-1:30pm, in support of Whitehorse Food Bank & Nepal restoration. Hamburgers & hot dogs, $5.00. 668-5530 for info REGISTER FOR Night Steps, a family friendly fundraising night walk on Saturday October 3, 2015 at Rotary Park to help provide services for people who are blind or partially blind. For info: www.cnibnightsteps.ca THE ALZHEIMER/DEMENTIA Family Caregiver Support Group meets monthly. A group for family/friends caring for someone with Dementia. Info and register call Cathy 334-1548 or Joanne 668-7713 ATLIN MINI Marathon Saturday July 11, 10am, 24k, 12k, 6k or 1.6k, Tarahne Park, registration 9:30. Runs end at Warm Springs with hot dog picnic. Free. Michèle 633-6081 HSYʼS ANNUAL yard sale July 18 & 19th. Please drop off your donations at Mae Bachur Animal Shelter between 9am-5pm, Monday to Saturday. No clothing or electronics. Thanks for your support FELTING WORKSHOPS with Shiela Alexandrovich. Come meet the sheep, have a delicious local lunch and make felt art. Flatwork, July 11 Hats, August 8 Small groups 668-5964 for info WEED-PULL WITH Yukon Invasive Species Council & Friends of McIntyre Creek July 18. Come out to pull Sweetclover. Meet at 10am at turn-off to Fish Lake Road. Barbeque starting at noon. www.yukoninvasives.com
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YUKON NEWS BLESSING OF the Animals, Sunday July 19, 10:30am, Whitehorse United Church, 6th & Main downtown, elevator, all pets on leads or in carriers. Photos & stuffies too! All welcome.
5 À 7 All In Music one Thursday a month, French-speaking musicians perform at Baked Cafe. July 16th: Mireille LabbÊ, voice and guitar. zik-o-baked.afy.yk.ca OLD TIME Photo Parlour, Tuesday to Friday 11am-3pm & Saturday 10am-5pm, $10 per person. Days Inn, Whitehorse. Stop by or call 867-689-6229 to book an appointment. Fundraiser for Yukon Literacy Coalition
MISADVENTURE TRAIL Race, Sunday July 19. Registration 9am, races 10am. 21 km Trail Race, 5 km Walk/Run. Start/finish at Mt. Lorne Fire Hall. Registration fees $25/$13/$8 (+$2 non-Athletics Yukon). 668-6613
ESCARPMENT PARKS Society AGM, July 16, 5:30pm, Cook Street Park, BBQ after record breaking fast meeting, all welcome. Info 393-2977
YRTA (YUKON Retired Teachers) Breakfast Tuesday July 14, 9:30am, 506 Main St. Grill. Guests welcome. Info: 667-2644
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS Meetings, Dawson City, Thursday New Beginings Group 6-7pm, Rm 2160, hospital, Friday Telehealth Unity Group 1:30-2:30pm, Rm 2160, hospital, Saturday North Star Group 7-8pm, 1233-2nd Ave
WHITEHORSE G E N E R A L Hospital Women's Auxiliary monthly meeting Monday July 13, 7:30pm at WGH. New members welcome. Info: 667-2087
Yukon Water Board – Application Notice Office des eaux du Yukon – Avis de demande Application Number NumÊro de la demande
Applicant/Licensee Demandeur/Titulaire
Water Source Location Point d’eau/Lieu
Type of Undertaking Type d’entreprise
MS15-035
GY – Lands Management Branch
Dredge Pond Adjacent to Klondike River
Miscellaneous
Any person may submit comments or recommendations, in writing, by the deadline for notice. Applications are available for viewing on the Yukon Water Board’s online registry, WATERLINE at http://www.yukonwaterboard.ca or in person at the Yukon Water Board office. For more information, contact the Yukon Water Board Secretariat at 867-456-3980.
Deadline for Comments 4:00pm Date limite pour commentaires, avant 16 h
July 20, 2015
Toute personne peut soumettre ses commentaires ou ses recommandations à l’Office avant la date limite indiquÊe sur le prÊsent 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 secrÊtariat de l’Office au 867-456-3980.
Request for Proposal Pool Mechanical Upgrade City of Dawson Pool Mechanical Upgrade Dawson City, YT Closing Date: 4:00 PM, July 17th, 2015 The City of Dawson is soliciting proposals for the provision of Architecture and Engineering Services for schematic design, detailed design, tendering & construction administration services.
Proposal Packages
Proposal packages are available at the City of Dawson Administration Office, located at 1336 Front Street, Dawson City, YT from 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM. Packages can be obtained electronically by e-mailing marta.selassie@cityofdawson.ca.
Questions
Questions on the request for proposals can be addressed to: Marta Selassie, Recreation Manager (867) 993-7400 ext. 204 marta.selassie@cityofdawson.ca
LOG CABINS: Professional Scribe Fit log buildings at affordable rates. Contact: PF Watson, Box 40187, Whitehorse, YT, Y1A 6M9 668-3632 ELECTRICIAN •Licensed •General Handyman Services •Light Carpentry, Drywall, etc •Free Estimates •10% Seniorʟs Discount 332-7879
REMINDER OF cancellation of Slo Pitch Dance at Yukon Convention Centre, Saturday, July 11. For ticket reimbursement e-mail whitepromotions@northwestel.net. PADI INTERNATIONAL WomenĘźs Dive Day, July 18 6-8pm. Drop-in at CGC pool. Gear & tanks supplied, snacks, draw prizes. Info 332-0351 or Yukonscuba.com.
Services SUBARU GURU Fix•Buy•Sell Used Subarus 30 year Journeyman Mechanic Towing available Mario 333-4585
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 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
TITAN DRYWALL Taping & Textured Ceilings 27 years experience Residential or Commercial No job too small Call Dave 336-3865
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FOR SALE Camp K-9 Pet Daycare $ 50,000 Camp K-9 Pet Daycare #100-116 Galena Road Whitehorse, YT. 867-393-3488 t 17 years in operation. t Only dog daycare in Whitehorse. t Turn-key business in leased space. t Currently houses retail (dog treats, apparel, grooming needs, leashes, collars, harnesses), grooming area with raised tub with stairs, large 25’x40’ playroom, and ofďŹ ce space. t Large covered outdoor kennels. Price includes retail and Daycares’ physical inventory. Current owner ready to stay and assist start-up
Teslin Tlingit Council Teslin Tli Tlingit it LLands d and dR Resources D Department t REQUEST FOR EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST 5IF 5FTMJO 5MJOHJU $PVODJM 55$ JT MPPLJOH UP mOBMJ[F UIFJS NJOVUF )B ,VT 5FZFB TBMNPO WJEFP UP CF B DPNQMFNFOUBSZ QBSU PG PUIFS TBMNPO SFMBUFE FEVDBUJPOBM NBUFSJBMT CFJOH QSPEVDFE CZ 55$ 5IF GPDVT PG UIF WJEFP JT PO UIF FGGFDUT PG UIF $IJOPPL TBMNPO EFDMJOFT BMPOH UIF FOUJSF :VLPO 3JWFS ESBJOBHF PO UIF DVMUVSF BOE DPNNVOJUZ PG UIF 5FTMJO 5MJOHJU PROJECT SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS: Individuals responding to this expression of interest must submit the following information. (a) Letter of Interest: (maximum two pages) Submit a letter of interest outlining your background, qualiďŹ cations and relevant past experience, plus your current contact information. Please include a project overview, along with timelines for the entire project and project budget. (b) Portfolio examples: Provide examples of work that you feel represent your ability to meet the needs of this project. (c) QualiďŹ cations: t 1SFWJPVT FYQFSJFODF DPOEVDUJOH JOUFSWJFXT WJEFP SFDPSEJOH JO mFME CBTFE MPDBUJPOT BOE WJEFP FEJUJOH t .VTU QSPWJEF PXO WJEFP BVEJP SFDPSEJOH BOE FEJUJOH FRVJQNFOU BOE QSPHSBNT t .VTU CF XJMMJOH UP NFOUPS POF MPDBM 55$ $JUJ[FO JO WJEFPHSBQIZ JOUFSWJFXJOH BOE WJEFP FEJUJOH (d) Eligibility: 5IJT QSPKFDU JT PQFO UP FWFSZPOF (e) References: Provide references of two or more recent clients including: Name, address, email address and telephone.
All submission packages must be received by 4:30pm on Tuesday, July 14th, 2015. 1MFBTF EFMJWFS TVCNJTTJPOT UP UIF 5FTMJO 5MJOHJU $PVODJM BENJOJTUSBUJPO CVJMEJOH SFDFQUJPOJTU or mail submissions to, and clearly mark your proposal as: Teslin Tlingit Salmon Video, Attention: Gillian Rourke, Renewable Resources Coordinator Box 133, Teslin Tlingit Council, Teslin, Y.T. YOA IBO For any inquiries, please call Gillian Rourke by phone at (867) 390-2532 (376) or fax at (867) 390-2116.
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PAINTING Williamson Yukon Services offers int/exterior, redo decks, fences, sheds etc. Reputable, reliable, reasonable. 18 years in Yukon Ph. 333-0403
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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
BUSY BEAVERS Pruning, Hauling, Chainsaw Work, and General Labour Call Francois & Katherine 456-4755 BACKHAULS, WHITEHORSE to Alberta. Vehicles, Furniture, Personal effects etc. Daily departures, safe secure dependable transportation at affordable rates. Please call Pacific Northwest Freight Systems @ 667-2050
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COUNCIL OF YUKON FIRST NATIONS 2166-2ND AVENUE, WHITEHORSE, YUKON Y1A 4P1 TEL: (867) 393-9200 FAX: (867) 668-6577
REQUEST FOR BOARD MEMBERS The Council of Yukon First Nations is requesting applications from Yukon First Nation Citizens for nominations on the following Boards and Committees:
r Yukon Municipal Board (1 seat) (1 alternate) r Yukon Legal Services Society Board of Directors Justice (1 seat) r Education Appeal Tribunal (1 seat) r Yukon College Board of Governors (1 seat)
DEADLINE for applications is July 31, 2015 at 4:30 PM For application forms and/or for more information, please visit our website at www.cyfn.ca or contact Wendy Risby at (867) 393-9204 or by e-mail at boardsandcommittees@cyfn.net
PUBLIC TENDER
REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL EVALUATION OF THE REFERRED CARE CLINIC AND METHADONE PROGRAM IN YUKON Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title. The closing date for submissions is August 5, 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 Shauna Demers at (867) 6675202. 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.hpw.gov.yk.ca/tenders/
Tahltan Nation Development Corporation (TNDC) Addition & Renovation Tender Package TP-02 (Exterior Cladding & Interior Finishing) TNDC is inviting contractors to submit stipulated prices for the supply of all labour and materials for two separate tender packages for the addition and renovation to an existing TNDC-owned garage and administrative building in Dease Lake, BC. The project includes renovation of 6,215 square feet of existing wood frame construction and the addition of 7,100 square feet of new wood frame construction. This is the ďŹ nal tender of four tender packages.
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Sealed tenders, completed in conformance with the contract documents provided, will be received up to 4:00 pm local time July 23, 2015 at the ofďŹ ces of: Carlyle Shepherd & Co. 2nd Floor, 4544 Lakelse Avenue Terrace, BC V8G 1P8 Tahltan Nation Development Corporation (TNDC) Block D, 6504 Highway 37 Dease Lake, BC V0C 1L0 866-827-8632 (toll-free) 250-771-5482 Kobayashi + Zedda Architects Ltd. Suite 26, 1114 Front Street Whitehorse, Yukon Y1A 1A3 Contract documents will be made available at the same addresses above. Technical questions will be received by email only and may be directed to Kelly Edzerza-Bapty, Kobayashi + Zedda Architects Ltd (kelly@kza.yk.ca). Electronic drawings for TP-02 may be requested at the email address above. Architectural,structural, mechanical and electrical drawings (TP-01, TP-03 and TP-04) are also available electronically. It is the Tenderer’s responsibility to familiarize themselves with all available information. TNDC is also offering a Tahltan Participation Incentive Program, to entice prospective bidders to incorporate Tahltan participation in the labour component of their bid through an owner sponsored program.
REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL
PUBLIC TENDER NORTHERN REGION FUEL TANK REPLACEMENTS, DAWSON CITY, YUKON 2015/2016 Project Description: Removal of the existing underground storage tanks and replacement with aboveground storage tanks. Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title. The closing date for submissions is July 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 Tim Ekholm at (867) 456-6816.
FOR THE PROVISION OF BRIDGE ENGINEERING SERVICES OF YUKON RIVER BRIDGE KM 357.1, KLONDIKE HIGHWAY #2, FOX CREEK BRIDGE KM 228.3, KLONDIKE HIGHWAY #2,NARES RIVER BRIDGE KM 105.2, KLONDIKE HIGHWAY #2
The highest ranked or lowest priced submission may not necessarily be accepted. All tenders and proposals are subject to a Compliance Review performed by the Procurement Support Centre. The information displayed is as of date and time of opening and is not modified based on the results of the Compliance Review. The Yukon Business Incentive Policy will apply to this project. Bidders are advised to review documents to determine Certificate of Recognition (COR) requirements for this project. View or download documents at: www.hpw.gov.yk.ca/tenders/
Project Description: Proposals are invited for the provision of Bridge Engineering Services for Yukon River Bridge, Fox Creek Bridge and Nares River Bridge. Specific details are described in this request for proposals. Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title. The closing date for submissions is August 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 Amin Abdullah at (867) 6337942. 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.hpw.gov.yk.ca/tenders/
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Site Visit July 21, 2015 at 1:00 p.m. at Dawson Visitors Information Centre. Bidders to call project manager to confirm attendance.
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TP-02 Exterior Cladding & Interior Finishing: Includes, but is not limited to the following: Exterior cladding, exterior doors, overhead doors, windows, rigid & batt Insulation, sbs-rooďŹ ng membrane, sheet metal ashing & trim, acid-etch concrete ďŹ nishing, interior wall framing, vapour barrier, interior doors and hardwear, gypsum board, suspended acoustic ceiling, mudding, taping and painting, vinyl ooring, carpet tile, custom millwork, countertops, coordination with other contractors on site, including mechanical and electrical.
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PURCHASE VEHICLES Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title. The closing date for submissions is July 30, 2015. Please refer to the procurement documents for the closing time and location. Documents may be obtained from the Procurement Support Centre, Department of Highways and Public Works, Suite 101 - 104 Elliott Street, Whitehorse, Yukon (867) 667-5385. Technical questions may be directed to Wayne Beauchemin at (867) 667-8039. The highest ranked or lowest priced submission may not necessarily be accepted. 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.hpw.gov.yk.ca/tenders/
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CAPABLE, ENERGETIC COUPLE looking for trapping assistant opportunity. Equipped with new sleds and gear, completed trapper course, keen, willing to learn and help out. Available December to March. Please contact 334-7423
PUBLIC TENDER BOILER AND FUEL TANK REPLACEMENT YUKON HOUSING UNIT #886201 – 611A LIARD AVENUE WATSON LAKE, YUKON Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title. The closing date for submissions is July 30, 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 Laura Vanderkley at 867-667-8114. Site Visit: July 21, 2015 at 1:30 p.m. 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.hpw.gov.yk.ca/tenders/
REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL ATTENDANT SERVICES DESTRUCTION BAY SOLID WASTE DISPOSAL FACILITY
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WEDDING, EVENT & PORTRAIT PHOTOGRAPHER Grantdouglasphotography is pleased to announce last minute specials available for your wedding photography needs this summer. Call 867-332-2151 for details. Check out my images at www.grantdouglasphotography.smugmug.com THE COUNTRY HOUSE Interior Decorating and Design Services Space planning Kitchen and bathroom design Colour consulting New homes and renovations Call: 667-2642 Email: countryhouseyukon@northwestel.net FREELANCE CATSKINNER/WRITER 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. As for writing, will tackle any writing job except love letters and love stories. 50 cents per word. Firm. 50+ years exp. 867-689-1998
All persons indebted to the Estate are requested to make immediate payment to: AUSTRING, FENDRICK & FAIRMAN Attention: Anna J. Pugh Barristers and Solicitors 3081 Third Avenue Whitehorse, Yukon Y1A 4Z7
PUBLIC TENDER CONSTRUCTION OF SLUDGE DRYING BEDS FOR THE BURWASH LANDING SEWAGE TREATMENT AND DISPOSAL FACILITY BURWASH LANDING, YUKON
LOST: RED paddling life jacket, left at Minto Landing beside outhouse during River Quest Weekend on June 25. Reward offered. 334-3937
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May 30, 2015. All persons having claims against the above-mentioned Estate are requested to file a claim, supported by Statutory Declaration, with Anna J. Pugh, on or before July 17, 2015, after which date the Estate will be distributed having reference only to claims which have been so filed.
BOBCAT SERVICE with high-sided dump trailer available for Whitehorse South. Driveways, tree & brush removal, debris clean-up. Call Doug at 332-2151 for information.
Lost & Found Land Act: Notice of Intention to Apply for a Disposition of Crown Land Take notice that Dennis & Theresa Beaudoin from Whitehorse, YT, have applied to the Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations (MFLNRO), Smithers, for a Residential Licence of Occupation situated on Provincial Crown land located near 4 of July Bay Road near Atlin, BC on BLOCK B DISTRICT LOT 1602, CASSIAR DISTRICT. The Lands File for this application is 6403502. Written comments concerning this application should be directed to the Skeena Stikine Land Officer MFLNRO, at Bag 6000-3333 Tallow Road Smithers, BC V0J 2N0. Comments will be received by MFLNRO up to July 31, 2015. MFLNRO may not be able to consider comments received after this date. Please visit the website at http:www.arid.gov.bc.ca/ApplicationPosting/ index.jsp for more information. Be advised that any response to this advertisment will be considered part of the public record. For information, contact the Freedom of Information Advisor at Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations’ Office in Smithers.
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Project Description: To provide attendant services at the Destruction Bay Solid Waste Disposal Facility. This includes having an attendant on site during all hours of operation, promoting waste diversion, and other activities as described herein. Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title. The closing date for submissions is July 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.hpw.gov.yk.ca/tenders/
Project Description: Construction of two (2) sludge drying beds for the Burwash Landing Sewage Treatment and Disposal Facility Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title. The closing date for submissions is July 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 Elise Bingeman at (867) 3936417. The highest ranked or lowest priced submission may not necessarily be accepted. All tenders and proposals are subject to a Compliance Review performed by the Procurement Support Centre. The information displayed is as of date and time of opening and is not modified based on the results of the Compliance Review. The Yukon Business Incentive Policy will apply to this project. Bidders are advised to review documents to determine Certificate of Recognition (COR) requirements for this project. View or download documents at: www.hpw.gov.yk.ca/tenders/
Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title. The closing date for submissions is July 31, 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 Jeffrey Marynowski at (867) 667-5967. The highest ranked or lowest priced submission may not necessarily be accepted. All tenders and proposals are subject to a Compliance Review performed by the Procurement Support Centre. The information displayed is as of date and time of opening and is not modified based on the results of the Compliance Review. The Yukon Business Incentive Policy will apply to this project. View or download documents at: www.hpw.gov.yk.ca/tenders/
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LOST: ON gravel beach across from Ten Mile Resort on Tagish, grey day pack with kite & camera, $100 reward for return. 633-6404 or bdobrowo@gmail.com LOST: IPHONE 4 at or near Boston Pizza on June 26 or 27, irreplaceable pictures, if found, please call/text 334-9080. Thank you. LOST: KEYS on July 4, First Nation beading attached to 3 keys, possibly lost downtown. 334-6156 FOUND: ON Canada Day, car key, glasses, childʼs pink hoodie, pair of shoes. Pick up at Frank Slim building at Shipyards Park, 11am-4pm daily
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COLLECTORS BIKE, rare, 1990 Honda Pacific Coast Touring 800, mechanically excellent, new tires, 22km, $2,500. 333-9020 BROOMBALL GEAR, shoes sz men's 7, shinpads, stick, helmet. $125 for all; camping tent Explore Solo, by Go Camping New Zealand, lightweight, fits one person, good for hiking/cycling, $60. 336-2108 2 IGLOO tents, Big Pack, sleeps 3, new, $200 ea. Marsh Lake 668-1959 HORIZON FITNESS treadmill, works awesome, in great shape, barely used, $300 obo. 334-8637 HANG UP Teeter exercise equipment, good for the back, $60. 668-7418 or 334-8280
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REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL #2015-035 LNG Site Revegetation
Yukon Energy Corporation is seeking proposals from qualified contractors to do revegetation around the Liquid Natural Gas facility in Whitehorse, Yukon. It is proposed that the work be completed as soon as possible, but no later than August 15, 2015. Sealed bids, clearly marked “LNG Site Revegetation” will be received up to 4:00:00 p.m. July 20, 2015 Yukon time at the Corporation’s main office building, #2 Miles Canyon Road, Whitehorse, Yukon, or via email. To obtain a Proposal Package please contact Matthew Sills at (867) 393-5335, or matthew.sills@yec.yk.ca.
REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL #2015-034 System Simulation and Resource Optimization Model
Yukon Energy Corporation is seeking proposals from qualified consulting firms for the construction of a new simulation and resource optimization model to support decisions for operations and planning purposes. It is proposed that the model be completed by December 15, 2015. Sealed bids, clearly marked “System Simulation and Resource Optimization Model” will be received up to 4:00:00 p.m. July 24, 2015 Yukon time at the Corporation’s main office building, #2 Miles Canyon Road, Whitehorse, Yukon, or via email. To obtain a Proposal Package please contact Matthew Sills at (867) 393-5335, or matthew.sills@yec.yk.ca.
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Livestock PONY GELDING, WELSH/ARAB. 12 yrs, 12.2h, palomino, great for small adult or confident child rider. Please call for more info. 867-334-4066 16” BANZET roping saddle, very good cond. 689-5288 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 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 & 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 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
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STROLLERS, CHICO pram/stroller & Wrangler Jeep, both for $50. 334-8847
COUCH, EXCELLENT condition, $290. 393-4366
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2 QUEEN size beds, sectional sofa, dressers, TV stand, computer desk & chair, kitchen table w/5chairs, coffee & end tables, must sell by July 15. 667-6770
WANTED: LIVE-IN CAREGIVER for toddler, to supervise, care for, prepare meals & bathe. 40-hr work week (full time). Salary, $11/hr. Reside in private Whitehorse residence. Completion of Secondary school and minimum of 1 year full time caregiving work experience required. First Aid/CPR training and criminal record check is required. Apply by phone: (867) 334-5351, (867) 456-2081, or email karen.minguito@yahoo.ca
LOVESEAT & couch set, new condition, originally $1,480, make an offer. 393-2630
VINTAGE CHEST trunk, early 1900s, beautiful condition, $260. 668-6808
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Furniture LEATHER BURGUNDY swivel chair, good cond, $30. 334-8318
Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title. The closing date for submissions is July 21, 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 Carmon Whynot at 867-667-5718. Site Visit: July 14, 2015 at 1:00 p.m. meeting on site Contractors to confirm attendance with project manager and phone 667-5718 before July 10, 2015 at 2:00 p.m. 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.
Project Description: The purpose of this work is to develop bear population estimates and accompanying report on the methodology and results. The contractor is expected to use spatialcapture recapture methods as per Royle et al. (2014) and/or Borchers and Efford (2008). The contractor will use DNA based mark-recapture data from hair trapping grids. Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title. The closing date for submissions is August 4, 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 Ramona Maraj at (867) 3937423. 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.hpw.gov.yk.ca/tenders/
Energy, Mines and Resources, Land Management Branch is holding a lottery for 6 remote recreational lots in the Carcross area. 4 lots are located on Bennett Lake and 2 are on Tagish Lake. Information packages and application forms are available from: Land Management Branch 3rd Floor, Room 320 Elijah Smith Building 300 Main Street, Whitehorse, Yukon Or online at: www.emr.gov.yk.ca/lands/upcoming_lotteries_tender.html Deadline: Lottery applications must be received before 4:30 p.m., August 11, 2015. Lottery Draws: The lottery will take place in Whitehorse at 1:00 p.m., August 12, 2015 in Room 1A, Elijah Smith Building, 300 Main Street. Applicants and the general public are welcome to attend the draw. All successful applicants will be noti¿ed the next day. For more information contact Land Management Branch at (867) 667-5215 or Toll-free 1-800-661-0408 local 5215 or visit online at: www.emr.gov.yk.ca/lands.
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35 TAKHINI AVE, Riverdale, Saturday July 11, 8:30am-12:30pm, moving out sale, larger items available if interested, plus kids stuff/toys, sports, clothes etc M 154 ALSEK RD, Riverdale, Saturday July 11, 9am-1pm, mainly catering & kitchen items, cancelled if raining M 2 VANGORDA PLACE, Riverdale, Saturday July 11, 9am-2pm, indoor/outdoor plants, desks, other items M 3 VANGORDA PLACE, Riverdale, Saturday July 11, 9am-12noon, patio/outdoor furniture, crafts/fabrics/household items, free items, no early birds TAKHINI - NORTHLAND MHP M 12 NORTHLANDS TRAILER PARK, 986 Range Rd, Saturday July 11, 9am-12noon, clothing, toys, household items M
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ARKELL M 28 GROUSE CRES, Arkell. Friday, July 10 and Saturday, July 11, 9am-3pm. Furniture, kitchen appliances, female bike, $100, male bike, $200, bedding.
SATURDAY, JULY 11TH ARKELL M 28 GROUSE CRES, Arkell. Friday, July 10 and Saturday, July 11, 9am-3pm. Furniture, kitchen appliances, female bike, $100, male bike, $200, bedding. COPPER RIDGE M 119 NORTH STAR DR, Copper Ridge, Saturday & Sunday, July 11 & 12, 9am-1pm, no pets please M 155 FALCON DR, Copper Ridge. Saturday, July 11, 8:30-11:30 am. Moving sale, books, baby/ toddler clothes, tools, futon, snowmobile, bikes. M 19 LAZULITE, Copper Ridge, Saturday July 11, 9am-12noon, household items, some furniture & clothing, cancelled if raining M 12A GARNET CRES, Copper Ridge, Saturday July 11, 10am-2pm, household items, children’s clothing, toys COWLEY CREEK M 75 DOLLY VARDEN DR, Cowley Creek, Saturday & Sunday, July 11 & 12, 11am-4pm, moving out sale, all inside contents for sale, queen beds, dressers, TV stand, desks, porta sheds, etc
GarageSALES DOWNTOWN M 503B LAMBERT ST, Downtown, Saturday July 11, 10am-2pm, multi-family yard sale GRANGER M 53 WILSON DR, Granger. Saturday, July 11, 9am-1pm JUDAS CREEK M LOT 49, JUDAS CREEK, Saturday July 11, 11am-3pm, multi-family yard sale, house plants, chairs, table tennis, park bench, bistro set, dresser M DIGGERS DRIVE, Judas Creek Subdivision, Saturday July 11, 11am-6pm, so long as no serious rain, just follow the balloon signs and Yukon flag, wide variety including art and jewelry KULAN M 24 LABERGE RD, Kulan, Saturday & Sunday, July 11 & 12, 10am-2pm, ongoing Estate sale, bikes, boats, motors, lots of tools, water pumps, new tires, 5 Estates worth LOGAN M 88 FINCH CRES, Logan, Saturday July 11, 9am-12noon, something for everyone, early birds welcome
MCPHERSON M 15 MACPHERSON RD, MacPherson, Saturday & Sunday, July 11 & 12, 10am-4pm PORTER CREEK M 16 BEECH ST, Porter Creek, Saturday July 11, 10am-1pm, multi-family, furniture, kitchen items, hot Bannock M 1601B DOGWOOD ST, Porter Creek, Saturday July 11, 10am-2pm, CCA Yukon Support Group fundraiser garage sale by donation, household and GF baked goods M 52 TAMARACK DR, Porter Creek, Saturday & Sunday, July 11 & 12, 10am-4pm, downsizing moving out sale, everything must go M 43 TAMARACK DR, Porter Creek, Saturday July 11, 9am-12noon, Grey Mt. Lion’s Club garage sale, contact 633-6887 for more details M 206 BENCHMARK TRAILER PARK, Porter Creek, Saturday July 11, 12noon-4pm RIVERDALE M 177 ALSEK RD, Riverdale, Saturday July 11, 10am-2pm, furniture, Christmas items, cancelled if raining
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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
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VINTAGE SOLID cherry wood bedroom set, 3/4 size mattress 48"x75", frame w/headboard & footboard, night table, dresser, exc cond. 633-3266
Baby & Child Items CHILDRENʼS CLOTHING in excellent condition, given freely the first & third Saturday monthly at the Church of the Nazarene, 2111 Centennial. 633-4903
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SUNDAY, JULY 12TH COPPER RIDGE M 119 NORTH STAR DR, Copper Ridge, Saturday & Sunday, July 11 & 12, 9am-1pm, no pets please M 164 FALCON DR, Copper Ridge. Sunday July 12, 9am-noon. Lots of toys & some other junk. COWLEY CREEK M 75 DOLLY VARDEN DR, Cowley Creek, Saturday & Sunday, July 11 & 12, 11am-4pm, moving out sale, all inside contents for sale, queen beds, dressers, TV stand, desks, porta sheds, etc
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