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he Ta’an Kwach’an Council is reporting that nine chinook salmon have returned to spawning grounds in Fox Creek this summer. The creek is a tributary of Lake Laberge, about 50 kilometres north of Whitehorse. It used to have a healthy salmon run, but salmon stopped coming back to spawn in the 1950s, for reasons that remain unclear. Since 2007, the First Nation has been releasing juvenile chinook salmon into the creek as part of a restoration program undertaken in partnership with Yukon College and Fisheries and Oceans Canada. Each year, between 26,000 and 50,000 salmon fry have been released into the creek from eggs collected at the Whitehorse fish ladder. This year, about 38,000 fish were released. The first of the stocked salmon returned to Fox Creek in 2013 – two males and a female that successfully laid eggs in the creek. This year, that number has grown to nine. “I’m delighted to announce that our program has shown success again and that TKC is contributing to not only preserving an important part of our heritage but the protection and enhancement of the chinook salmon,� said Ta’an Kwach’an Council Chief Kristina Kane in a news release. Paul Sparling, a local fisheries technician, said the results from Fox Creek are exciting. He said the actual number of returning fish is less important than the impact of this success story on public morale. “It’s not necessarily going to produce a major impact on everything, but it’s something for people to look at,� he said. “The more people talking about it and looking at it,
Yukon government hires new deputy finance minister The Yukon government has announced that Katherine White will take over as deputy minister for the Department of Finance on Sept. 8. White will replace acting deputy minister Mark Tubman. “Ms. White brings a wealth of advanced strategic leadership skills in the public sector to her
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The Ta’an Kwach’an Council has reported that nine chinook salmon have returned to Fox Creek this summer. the better.� Sparling said it’s always a good idea to try and reestablish fish populations, but cautioned that creek conditions can sometimes change naturally over time, which can make recovery efforts more challenging. For instance, if water flow declines in a creek, beavers are more likely to move in and build dams, which can be a major barrier to migrating salmon. In fact, beavers have been listed as a possible contributor to the decline of spawning salmon in Fox Creek. Sparling added that forest fires can cause the level of water tables to decline, which is also bad for spawning salmon. But he said the most impor-
tant consideration for the Ta’an Kwach’an Council now is whether to keep stocking the creek or to wait and see if the returning fish can establish a natural population on their own. He said stocked salmon tend to outcompete wild counterparts in the same watercourse. “I’m just suggesting that stocking is a contentious issue sometimes,� he said. “I like the idea of not stocking it again.� This year’s chinook salmon run has met escapement goals, with more than 58,000 salmon crossing the Yukon border. But the total is still much lower than historic runs, which numbered around 150,000 fish.
new position with the Yukon government,� Premier Darrell Pasloski said in a news release. White has previously served as the assistant deputy minister, chief economist, and executive director of the Alberta Treasury Board and Department of Finance. She has also served as the president and vice-president of the Economics Society of Northern Alberta. She holds a master of arts in Economics from the University of Calgary.
This is the second time this year the position of deputy finance minister has changed hands. Tubman has held the position since Stephen LeClair left it in February 2015 to take up new responsibilities as Ontario’s first financial accountability officer. LeClair had been deputy minister since August 2014, when he replaced David Hrycan, who’d held the position since 2007.
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Peel case hits Court of Appeal this week Ashley Joannou News Reporter
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he two sides of the Peel watershed debate are gearing up for the next round in court over land management in the Yukon. The Yukon government’s appeal of last year’s Peel decision will be heard by a panel of judges in Whitehorse on Thursday and Friday. It’s already shaping up to be a similarly high-profile event to the four-day trial that came before it. Last December, Yukon Supreme Court Justice Ron Veale struck down the Yukon government’s land use plan for the Peel, a 68,000 square-kilometre swath of northeast Yukon. The government had overstepped, he ruled, when it came up with its own plan for the area too different from the recommendations from a planning commission process. The commission recommended protecting 80 per cent of the watershed from development. But after years of planning talks, the government’s plan protected only 29 per cent from new mineral staking. That chasm was enough for the First Nations of Nacho Nyak Dun and Tr’ondek Hwech’in as well as Yukon Conservation Society and the Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society Yukon to take the government to court. The Vuntut Gwitchin have since been added on as a respondent in the appeal. The Gwich’in Tribal Council will also be there as an intervener. The Yukon government has always insisted it followed the letter of the law, laid out in the Umbrella Final Agreement, that allows it to approve, reject or modify any recommended plan.
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Hikers rest at Mount MacDonald, near the Snake River in the Peel watershed in 2013. But Veale ruled that’s not enough, especially when agreements involve aboriginal rights. “The plain reading interpretation endorsed by the government does not enhance the goal of reconciliation and is inconsistent with the honour and integrity of the Crown,” he wrote. The judge threw out the government’s plan and ordered they consult Yukoners and First Nations again on the commission’s final recommended plan. But Veale didn’t send everything back to square one. After consulting, he said, the government can only make modifications that were proposed in detail at an earlier stage in the process, not vague ones that were referenced later. The judge specifically excludes the possibility that the
government revisit the questions of balance between protection and development, and options for building new roads or other surface access into the area. Those were topics that were never discussed in detail ahead of time, he said. He ruled the government can’t reject the whole thing at the end of the process. Less than a month after Veale’s decision being released, the government said it planned to appeal. At first, then-Resources Minister Scott Kent said the appeal would only focus on the remedy Veale had suggested to fix the government’s muck-up. “We can accept the court’s interpretation that the process should have worked differently,” he said in January. “The appeal
won’t challenge that. It’s focused on the remedy that’s set out in the decision.” But after getting new lawyers in March, the government decided to appeal the whole thing. It was too important to get clarity around the Umbrella Final Agreement and “that the democratically elected government retains the authority to make final decisions on public lands,” Premier Darrell Pasloski said at the time. Meanwhile, the other side of the table continues to be represented by famed aboriginal rights lawyer Thomas Berger. Documents suggest that in the appeal government lawyers will argue Veale made a handful of errors in his original decision. Like in the original trial, they continue to insist that the plan the government came up with
for the Peel is simply a “modification” of the commission’s recommended plan, not a new plan all together. They say the judge made a mistake when he concluded that the government’s plan did not flow from early stages in the process. They say he was wrong to suggest that the Umbrella Final Agreement required Yukon to do more to fulfill its consultation obligations. Even after Veale concluded that the government did not follow the correct process, he made a mistake with the solution he suggested, the lawyers say. He should not have held the parties at a late stage in the planning process where the Yukon could no longer propose or consult on the modifications it wanted, they say. Just like they did the first time around, Yukon court officials are preparing for a crowd. A video feed will be set up again to broadcast the goingson in the main courtroom into a second room for anyone who can’t get a seat. Events are also being planned for outside the courtroom on day one of the appeal. On the Thursday a water ceremony starts at noon on the courthouse steps. Throughout the summer people have been encouraging people to go to their favourite Yukon body of water and fill two-ounce vials, explained CPAWS’s Amber Church. Elders will collect the water at noon, and at the end of the day – during a free barbecue at the Kwanlin Dun Cultural Centre – the water will poured in the Yukon River. The barbecue runs from 5 to 8 p.m. Contact Ashley Joannou at ashleyj@yukon-news.com
Kluane First Nation crafting new home ownership program Myles Dolphin News Reporter
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he Kluane First Nation is revising its rental policy to be able to one day introduce a brand new home ownership program to Burwash Landing residents. Chief Math’ieya Alatini said community members are slowly warming up to the idea of having to pay for their homes. As it stands, Kluane First Nation citizens don’t pay rent for the houses they live in. The First Nation covers the cost of the mortgage, as well as maintenance to the homes. “It’s a bit of an anomaly,” Alatini said. “And it’s definitely not real life. To even start implementing the idea of rent is a huge step. “People want home owner-
ship, but with that comes a lot of responsibility and costs.” This week, the First Nation Market Housing Trust Board is having its annual general meeting in Burwash Landing. The board oversees a national fund, created in 2007 to help First Nations across Canada develop and implement home ownership programs in their communities. The Kluane First Nation has been working with the board for almost two years now to develop a new home ownership program, Alatini said. Reaching an agreement would mean the First Nation could subsidize a homeowner’s rent up to 80 per cent. “We could take those extra funds that we’re not putting into housing and put it into other programming,” Alatini said. “And people would be able to say, ‘This is my house.’”
The agreement was supposed to be completed last November, but they’ve hit a few snags along the way, she said. The First Nation has worked with seven others on developing its own land titles act and land registry, but the act has been stalled, Alatini said, because of a legal review that has to ensure the legislation works with all other Yukon legislations. “The current land titles act references like five other legislations, so we have to make sure those references are actually applicable, and that’s just taking more time,” she said. That means the First Nation currently cannot access the registry of properties, or actually register sales and leases, she added. The First Nation’s current agreement with the board runs out at the end of October.
“We’re kind of on our own after that,” Alatini said. The issue of home ownership in Burwash Landing was front and centre during a recent court case. Both Derek Johnson and Wilfred Sheldon, former residents of the community, disputed an eviction notice they received from the First Nation in February. The brothers argued the evictions were driven by a political vendetta. They are both barred by a court order from living in the community after they were convicted of forcibly confining Colin Johnson in 2013, who later committed suicide. At the end of the case, Justice Peter Chisholm concluded the residency dispute boiled down to whether the brothers were tenants or owners of their homes, and whether the First Nation had
grounds to terminate the tenancies. Since the brothers failed to make any payments or pursue the completion of a sales agreement, Chisholm concluded either party could terminate the tenancy. The brothers’ tenancies were terminated on June 1. Moving forward, Alatini said the First Nation still has to build up its financial system so it can handle rent collection, and train residents to get ready for home ownership. “We still want to make it cost effective for people to live in the community,” she said. “The idea of rent isn’t palatable, people are asking why they should have to pay it. Others are realizing the free ride can’t go on forever.” Contact Myles Dolphin at myles@yukon-news.com
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Mae Bachur sacks animal shelter manager Myles Dolphin News Reporter
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etty Irwin has been fired from her position as manager at the Mae Bachur animal shelter, after a little more than a year on the job. Brent Slobodin, board president of the Humane Society Yukon, dismissed the long-time city councillor last Thursday morning. He said that although he couldn’t discuss the details of Irwin’s settlement or package, it was time for a fresh start. “The board decided the new direction that we want to take didn’t have the right person in the job that we thought we needed,” he said yesterday. “It was time to part ways with Betty. She did a good job for us but in terms of where we want to go, we felt it was time to move on.” The board, which currently has seven members, is looking to put a new model in place this fall, he added. That means reviewing the job description for the shelter manager position, as well as the current policies and practices in place. “Because we’re all relatively new and there have been so many changes to the board the last few years, we feel we need to get back on track with strategic planning, fundraising and particularly look at corporate sponsorships.” Irwin was hired for the position
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After just over a year on the job, Betty Irwin was fired last Thursday from her position of manager at the Mae Bachur animal shelter. in July 2014, after volunteering at the shelter for many years. At the time she said she was hoping to expand the facility within the next five years. She also spoke about issues with the building’s foundation and drainage.
In an email sent to the News this morning, Irwin said she enjoyed her time working at the shelter. “I will miss it and all the beautiful animals that I will not to get to know and fall in love with,” she
said. “As with all NGOs, money is always the issue and it was necessary to cut expenses, staff being the most expendable. I will still continue to volunteer where I can, because I do believe sincerely
that the shelter is necessary to the community.” The financial situation at the animal shelter has been anything but stable over the years. In May 2013, it was reported the society had a shortfall of $90,000, compared to just $8,500 at the end of the 2011-2012 financial year. According to the minutes of an April 23 board meeting, the 2015-2016 budget breakdown anticipated $191,000 in wages, or approximately 50 per cent of the shelter’s total budget. Other expenses included $82,000 in shelter operations and $66,000 in animal expenses. Revenues included $100,000 from grants, $75,000 from bingo fundraisers and $62,500 from adoptions. The latest financial report for the animal shelter isn’t yet available on the society’s website. It was presented at the society’s annual general meeting on July 28. Slobodin said the board is in the midst of a financial review to determine what it can afford to pay a new shelter manager. “It’s not good,” he said of the animal shelter’s current financial situation. “But we all inherited this, so we’re not ascribing any blame to anyone.” Linda Priestley is filling in the role as interim shelter manager for the time being. Contact Myles Dolphin at myles@yukon-news.com
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MinQuest wants to put Yukon Zinc’s Wolverine mine back into production Maura Forrest News Reporter
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ustralian mining company MinQuest says it will try to put the Wolverine mine back into production within six months if it’s given the chance to buy the mine from Yukon Zinc. That means Yukon Zinc’s creditors now have to choose between getting a fraction of the money they’re owed right away, and the possibility of being employed by Wolverine again in the near future. MinQuest went public with its bid to buy Wolverine last month, at the time saying it didn’t have plans for the underground mine itself. Instead, it planned to use the mill and tailings facilities at Wolverine to fast-track the development of its Fyre Lake copper project, located 28 kilometres southwest of the Wolverine mine. But now, managing director Jeremy Read says the company is interested in operating the Wolverine mine for two or three more years – the time it would take to get Fyre Lake into production. “We have a vision and a plan that will hopefully extend over a 10-year period,” he said. MinQuest is in a bit of a tight spot at the moment. It still has to secure financing before it can finalize a purchase agreement with Yukon Zinc – about $20 million upfront and another $6 or $8 million to put the mine back into production, Read said. And it has to do that even though Yukon Zinc sees its bid as a back-up option in case creditors vote down a restructuring plan it proposed last week. Read said he didn’t realize until Yukon Zinc’s court appearance last Friday that MinQuest’s offer was only a back-up. “We were approaching it from the perspective that ours would be presented alongside the Yukon Zinc plan,” he said. “It makes it a little bit more difficult for us to conclude financing.” But he said MinQuest is in “quite advanced discussions” with a number of potential investors. This means Yukon Zinc’s creditors now have an interesting choice to make. Yukon Zinc’s restructuring plan would pay off the full debt to any creditor owed less than $5,000, and either $5,000 or up to 11.5 cents on the dollar to any creditor owed more. If the creditors refuse the plan, Yukon Zinc would likely be forced to sell to MinQuest, and the unsecured creditors would probably get nothing from the sale. So creditors now have to choose – take the deal as it stands and see the mine remain closed at least until metal prices rebound, as Yukon Zinc is proposing, or refuse the deal and take a chance on a junior mining company that says it will try to get the mine running again right away. And whatever they decide, they have to do it quickly. Creditors voting for the plan need to
respond to Yukon Zinc’s offer by Aug. 31 if they want to get the best deal available. The final vote on the plan will take place on Sept. 2. David Green, owner of MacPherson Rentals in Whitehorse, said he’s already decided to take Yukon Zinc’s deal. Yukon Zinc owes his company about $63,000 for equipment rentals, so he plans to take 11.5 cents on the dollar, which would get him about $7,200. Green said he’s had clients go bankrupt before, and this is the first time a client in financial difficulty has been able to pay anything back at all. “The plan’s not unreasonable for what we would expect,” he said. He also said he’s not convinced MinQuest will be able to deliver on its promises. “I think that any development of the MinQuest project would be a number of years away… because of the current commodity cycle. They need to raise a lot of money,” he said. “I think that the probability of getting any money out of the MinQuest proposal in the foreseeable future is way lower than what the plan of arrangement is.” But according to one lawyer involved in the case, Yukon Zinc’s plan is not really what creditor protection is supposed to achieve. Jonathan Williams represents the three prospectors who discovered the Wolverine deposit, and whose royalty payments were recently threatened by Yukon Zinc. The court has now ordered that those payments be maintained if the mine goes back into production. But Williams’ clients are still among the unsecured creditors, for outstanding royalty payments. Williams said an ideal creditor protection scenario is one where a company needs to reduce its debt to keep operating. In that situation, a financier would step in to refinance the operation. Creditors would get a fraction of the amount they’re owed, but that would allow the company to keep them employed. But in this case, he said, all Yukon Zinc is doing is “reducing debt and putting this thing into mothballs.” “[Creditor protection] is legislation that is intended to provide a social benefit to creditors and the community by allowing a company to restructure,” he said. “What bothers me about this socalled restructuring is that it’s not really a restructuring. There’s very little community benefit to what is going on here. That’s what I find somewhat distasteful.” Currently, to file for creditor protection, companies have to have at least $5 million of debt, and they have to show that their liabilities outweigh their assets. But Williams said they should also have to show what benefit creditor protection will provide to the community. For his part, Green believes some money back is better than
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David Green, owner of MacPherson Rentals, has decided to accept Yukon Zinc’s deal for partial repayment. Creditors are expected to vote on the mining company’s plan on Sept. 2. none. But he’s also surprised Yukon Zinc had to file for creditor protection in the first place. He said he’d always believed JDC Canada, Yukon Zinc’s parent company, would support the mining company through financial difficulties. That was part of the reason he kept dealing with Yukon Zinc. “I had made a calculated assumption that they would stand behind the company,” he said. “I’m still surprised that they walked away from that.” JDC Canada didn’t exactly walk away, however. Yukon Zinc owed its parent company over $600 million when it went into creditor protection in March. Now, JDC Canada has agreed to finance Yukon Zinc’s restructuring plan – a plan that will see it pay out roughly $24.5 million less than the total amount owed to unsecured
creditors. Williams said that in creditor protection proceedings involving a wealthy parent company, it’s always difficult to know how far that parent is willing to go. In this case, he said, it’s hard to know whether JDC Canada would have let Yukon Zinc go bankrupt if creditor protection had not been an option. And now, he said, it’s hard to know if this deal is the best the creditors can get from JDC Canada. “I wonder… whether JDC would be willing to put up more money to avoid a bankruptcy,” he said. “But unless the creditors got together and formed a committee and entered into negotiations with these guys, we won’t know that.” Contact Maura Forrest at maura.forrest@yukon-news.com
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hitehorse was always a beautiful city, but it has come a long way in the past decade. Although like all old-timers I’m a bit nostalgic for the “old days� when it felt less urban, I also think recent development projects like the Millennium Trail, Shipyards Park and the Canada Games Centre have been excellent additions. Whitehorse’s slogan is the “The Wilderness City.� We’ve always had a beautiful wilderness, but such projects have gone a long way to upping our merits as a city. And I think we should promote our urban attributes just as we do our natural ones. City council is responsible for our urban development. They recently announced a plan to tackle vacant lots, which I think is a great idea, but instead of one-off plans, I’d like to see council establish a broader vision for Whitehorse, and a strategy for its achievement. Let’s start at the global level. Instead of reinventing the wheel, we have many examples of cities not only in Canada but from all over the world upon which to draw. People who live in Whitehorse are well-travelled and I assume have experienced many cities they would consider great. So what makes a city great? Encouraging creative architecture and expanding designated public green space are general ideas we should incorporate into our municipal vision for the future. One such green space could be a pedestrian zone in downtown Whitehorse. In many ways, architecture sets the tone of a city. Buildings should be inspiring, designed by architects that have a vision and create spaces that are not only functional but also pleasing to look at. I challenge our contractors to try follow Gaudi’s lead – a great Spanish architect around 1900 who designed remarkable buildings. Unfortunately, I find that several of our recently-built downtown buildings are no more than cubic blocks. Next let’s consider our public green spaces. It seems we are doing OK – Whitehorse is quite green and has a lovely waterfront. However, within the inner city core there’s not a lot of green space. We allow condo and office buildings to be built without any set backs and no room for trees. I hope we can change this soon. But there is one specific idea that would remarkably improve the city: the creation of a pedestrian zone. Such zones are great attributes in any city not only because of their convenience but because of the social, interactive culture they promote. I suspect many other Yukoners have
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travelled to Europe and enjoyed strolling these areas filled with shoppers, street cafes , markets and street performers. I have written letters in the past to suggest change; my Porter Creek Secondary School Grade 8 students interviewed people on the streets one year to see if they could envision Main Street becoming a pedestrian zone. Many responded favourably, so I contacted previous mayors to discuss this idea, but there was a general lack of interest. Perhaps at the time – a decade ago – we weren’t quite ready. But I think an outdoor, urban culture has organically grown in the Whitehorse core already. Just about every downtown cafe boasts a patio, and I always see people enjoying the sun at Rotary and Lepage parks at lunch time. Unfortunately we still experience Main Street primarily as a glorified parking lane. People will drive three times around the block until they find a parking spot right in front of the bank or bookstore. I propose that we close Main Street from Fourth Avenue all the way to Front Street, keeping Second Avenue a throughway for traffic. I suggest that we should build a bridge as a walkway across Second Avenue to accommodate pedestrians and also improve the flow of traffic on Second Avenue. Eliminating traffic lights also have another beneficial effect because cars would no longer idle and thus the air quality would improve. Just imagine: a fountain standing in the middle of Main between Front and Second; patios or open seating from surrounding restaurants and cafes would extend further into the street, almost like a mini-piazza, with kids running around; down the street, boutique stores would open their
doors to passers-by, lining racks along the street so you could check out their wares as you went by. Wouldn’t strolling a pedestrian Main Street be a lovely way to spend an afternoon? In conjunction with this – since we’d lose the glorified parking lane – the city could assign one of the many vacant lots to a parkade. It might be especially useful for business people and workers in the city core, as well as for shoppers who need to keep their vehicles warm during the winter months. Not only would investing in Whitehorse’s downtown core make the city more enjoyable for its residents; it would improve our draw to tourists. We call ourselves “The Wilderness City� largely as a tourism gimmick, but in reality, the tourism we are selling lies outside city limits. I’d love to see us introduce tourists to Whitehorse itself: its people, its culture, its recreational facilities, its shops, its restaurants. I’d love to see us surprise some unknowing visitors, showing them that we’re not just base camp for their Teslin canoe trip. We’re a vibrant, modern and liveable city, and they should have a blast exploring for five days. We could develop Whitehorse into an exceptional city. And I think that a great first step towards this goal would be the creation of a pedestrian zone on Main Street and more emphasis on forcing contractors to come up with more creative building designs. I’d like to see a Whitehorse that lures tourists and future residents with its own attributes, not just those in its surrounding. All we need is some vision and some political will. Renate Schmidt has been a Whitehorse resident since 1978.
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Liberals’ family cash a boon, provided you don’t benefit from income splitting by Kyle Carruthers
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his federal election is largely being fought over the support of families with young children. It started last fall, when the NDP and Conservatives each released competing child care plans for Canadians. The Conservatives promised – and subsequently introduced – the “enhanced” Universal Child Care Benefit (UCCB) and income splitting. The NDP, meanwhile promised a universal daycare program which they claim would cost parents just $15 a day. Not to be outdone, the Liberals released a plan for what they call the Canada Child Benefit in the spring. At its core, this is much more like the Conservative plan than the NDP’s. It involves direct cash payments to parents who would continue to purchase child care services privately, and, unlike the NDP, does not establish a large new government program. But that is where the similarities between the Liberal and Conservative plans end. The Canada Child Benefit
purports to provide parents with a tax-free benefit of up to $6,400 for each child under six and $5,400 for each child between the ages of six and 17. Families with household incomes up to $30,000 will receive the full amount of the benefit. If a family’s income is above that, the benefit is gradually clawed back until it is gone completely. After a previous column in which I critiqued the enhanced Universal Child Care Benefit several readers suggested that ignoring the original $100 UCCB in my analysis was misleading. If anything is misleading it is the practice of trumpeting money that was introduced years ago. Parents don’t want to hear about what they are already receiving. They want to hear about what is new. So it is important to note that, much like the changes introduced by the Conservatives this spring, the Liberals are planning to take some things away. To help pay for their plan, the Liberals would eliminate income splitting and the UCCB – not just the $60 enhancement but the entire $160 monthly benefit. And they would not restore the Child Tax Credit that the Conservatives eliminated this past spring. Most importantly, the plan rolls in the existing means-tested Canada Child Tax Benefit and the National Child Benefit Supplement. So ultimately more than half of the total benefit for a low-income fam-
ily is renamed old money. But that doesn’t mean that there aren’t important differences between what the Conservatives have done and what the Liberals propose to do. The way the money is divided up is quite different, and determining which is better for a particular family depends primarily on whether that family benefits from income splitting. Under the Conservatives’ plan, families may save up to $2,000 on their taxes by shifting their incomes between spouses. Income splitting is a boon for single income, two parent households, and two-parent households with wide disparities between spousal income, while providing nothing to single-income households and two-parent families where the parents had similar incomes. Income splitting is defended on the basis that it is not right that we tax single-income, two-parent families more than their two-income counterparts when the household income is the same. To illustrate how important income splitting is, let’s look at a hypothetical family making $95,000 a year (a roughly median family income in the Yukon). Under the Liberal plan, even after factoring in the loss of the existing benefits including the UCCB, but ignoring the effects of income splitting, that family will net somewhere around $1,600 regardless of who earned the income.
But under the Conservative plan, who earned that income makes all the difference. If each parent brought in an equal amount, that family will receive the paltry after-tax benefit of the enhancement to the UCCB – about $158 per year (ignoring changes in territorial credits). A single-parent household does slightly worse, because they would pay more tax on the UCCB. However, if one parent in a two-parent household earned that $95,000 that family would have received about $2,000 off their 2014 taxes because of income splitting and therefore actually stands to lose a few hundred bucks under the Liberal plan compared to last year. The same applies at lower income levels, although the benefits of income splitting decline (not to mention the likelihood that you’ll have the luxury of having one stay at home spouse). In short, the Liberal plan is significantly better for families who don’t benefit from income splitting. It is also noteworthy that the Liberal plan is less generous to high-income families. The proposed Child Care Benefit is clawed back as family income rises. Families with income over $185,000 and one child would receive nothing under the Liberal plan and will lose the full $160 monthly Universal Child Care Benefit – not just the enhancement I panned several week ago. The Liberal plan is also more
generous for larger families, since you get the benefit for each child, while you only get to split your income once. But it is much more expensive, and its critics question whether the Liberals actually have a plan to pay for this new benefit, particularly at a time when our economy seems to be sputtering. Ultimately the benefit of the Liberal plan is spread much more widely among low and middle income families, while the main beneficiaries of the Conservative plan are a much smaller subset of the public – two-parent families with single or widely disparate incomes, regardless of their wealth. For this reason I think the Liberal Child Care Benefit is an improvement on what the Conservatives have done. Spending billions to correct an arguable unfairness in the taxation of single-income families and handing over millions to the wealthy in the process is simply not what Canada needs right now. A means-tested benefit is a more appropriate approach. Of course, supporters of the NDP plan would point out that it is questionable whether throwing more cash into the child care marketplace will actually create new child care spaces, or will simply lead to inflation of prices. But I am out of words for today. Kyle Carruthers is a born-andraised Yukoner who lives and practises law in Whitehorse.
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PMO sought, obtained details on confidential audit: Duffy trial testy exchange with Wright. “You’re trying secretly to interCanadian Press fere with and approach secretly a strictly confidential audit, and OTTAWA you’re doing it with somebody he word ‘confidential’ was who isn’t the client and has no splashed across the work connection to this process.” mandate of the indepenWhy is the Deloitte audit so dent audit into Mike Duffy’s Sensignificant? The trial has heard it ate expenses, with explicit terms was a critical component of the that limited the circle of access. deal struck between the PMO And yet information still found and Duffy to have him admit to its way into Stephen Harper’s the public he had made a mistake office in March 2013, via politiclaiming expenses for his home cal figures who had no role in the in suburban Ottawa. (Another Senate-commissioned audit. part the deal would ensure Duffy Duffy’s fraud, breach of trust never had to be out of pocket for and bribery trial heard Tuesday the repayment.) about how the PMO sought and Wright has said that Sen. obtained details on the firm David Tkachuk, the former head Deloitte’s examination of Duffy’s of the powerful Senate interexpenses. nal economy committee, was Defence lawyer Donald Bayne the first to suggest that if Duffy spent hours on the Deloitte issue repaid his expenses, he could in an aggressive cross-examinabe withdrawn from the Deloitte tion of Harper’s former chief of audit that was underway in Feb. staff, Nigel Wright. 2013. It’s all part of a defence stratEmails filed with the court as egy that seeks to tear down the evidence show Wright and other argument that Duffy was respon- senior aides in the PMO discusssible for a scheme that would see ing how Sen. Irving Gerstein was someone else repay his $90,000 going to speak to a contact at in living and travel expenses. Deloitte about the audit. That “This is conspiratorial colcontact was company partner lective action that your group Michael Runia. is taking, to have Deloitte write The Conservative Party is also a report that says their work is a client of Deloitte. done,” Bayne said during one “I have been on the phone Jennifer Ditchburn
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constantly with Gerstein who has been trying to arrange the necessary commitments from Deloitte…,” parliamentary affairs manager Patrick Rogers wrote. And in another email, Rogers writes. “The Senator will call back once we have Deloitte locked in.” But Wright has disagreed emphatically with the characterization that he meddled or wanted to meddle in Deloitte’s audit of Duffy’s expenses. Wright said he simply wanted the Senate committee to change the terms of the Deloitte audit to remove Duffy, since he says Duffy’s repayment of expenses would render the study moot. He says when he couldn’t ascertain whether Tkachuk was making the plan happen, he dispatched Gerstein to approach his Deloitte contacts to see if the firm and Tkachuk were indeed talking. As Wright put it, he wanted Gerstein to “close the loop between the contractor and the client here.”
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Bayne was having none of this. A subsequent PMO email lists information that Gerstein has apparently gleaned from his contact at Deloitte. “Just heard from Gerstein,” Rogers writes. “Here’s the latest and most useful information yet from Deloitte. Any repayments will not change Deloitte’s conclusions because they were asked to opine on residency. However, they can’t reach a conclusion on residency because Duffy’s lawyer has not provided them anything.” “Sir, your career is in business, there are agreements that are negotiated, contracts that are negotiated,” Bayne put to Wright. “If discussions are strictly confidential, they’re not to be leaked. As a lawyer, you know what strictly confidential means. You know what the words mean.” “I know what their common sense meaning is, yes,” Wright responded. After receiving the information about Deloitte through Gerstein,
Conservative Fund of Canada chairman Sen. Irving Gerstein: What he said: “I made it absolutely clear to Nigel Wright that the Conservative Fund Canada would not pay for Senator Duffy’s disputed expenses and it never did.” (Speech to Conservative convention, Nov.2,2013) What came out later: Nigel Wright has told a courtroom that Gerstein gave the green light to paying both Duffy’s legal fees and his expenses in Feb. 2013, when it was believed the latter totalled $32,000. Wright says Gerstein balked when the total rose to $90,000.
Prime Minister Stephen Harper: What he said: “Those were his 1/8Nigel Wright’s 3/8 decisions. They were not communicated to me or to members of my office.” (response to question period query, June 5, 2013). What came out later: Duffy’s trial has heard through testimony and emails that several people in Harper’s office and inside the party were aware that
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Duffy is counselled to no longer co-operate with the audit. An auditor from Deloitte who appeared before the internal economy committee in 2013 denied anyone close to the audit divulged any information. “He wanted to know if Sen. Duffy were to repay (his expenses), how much would it amount to,” Gary Timm said of Runia. “I said I couldn’t tell him, I couldn’t disclose any confidential information to him – that was the gist of the conversation.” The Canadian Press asked Gerstein this past June to explain his role in the Deloitte matter, but the senator did not respond to the question. He told the RCMP in 2013 that he had indeed contacted Runia, and that Runia told him that the Duffy audit would continue despite Duffy’s repayment. Runia echoed Gerstein’s version in his own discussion with police. either the party was prepared to repay the senator’s expenses, or that Wright himself had ultimately paid.
Sen. Carolyn Stewart Olsen, former member of Senate’s internal economy committee: What she said: “I didn’t talk about what I was doing on that committee to anyone other than those directly involved, like our Senate leader, who would have to talk to me about what was going on and things like that. I couldn’t even talk to Duffy or any of the people who were involved because that would be not proper I don’t think.” (Interview with The Canadian Press, June 3, 2013.) What came out later: Stewart Olsen was one of the senators taking direct orders from Wright and others in PMO on how to shape the committee’s final report on Duffy to make sure the language was softened. “Hi Nigel, just a quick note to say that I am always ready to do exactly what is asked…,” she wrote in an email on Mar.1, 2013. (Canadian Press)
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R11747 - R11750: UTM 17N 572993.87 7101231.18 (Storefronts) is part of Vancouver artist Kevin Murphy’s show, One Inch More Or Less, which is on display in Dawson’s ODD Gallery until Sept. 18. Ashley Joannou News Reporter
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ixty years ago almost 21 million deeds went out into the world promising wannabe land barons their own piece of the Klondike. A very, very tiny piece. Starting in 1955, each box of Quaker Puffed Rice and Puffed Wheat cereal contained a document purporting to entitle the owner to one square inch of the Yukon Klondike. About half-a-page in size, with a gold border, an official-looking seal, individual tract number, and full of legal jargon, the deeds were enough to capture the imagination of any young person eating their morning cereal. It looks important enough to want to keep safe, and many people did just that, for a very long time. What started out as a gimmick to get kids to ask for Quaker cereal still has life decades later. There are still queries being made to Yukon government offices asking about the tracts of land. The promo has since been called one of the biggest cereal marketing campaigns in history. Most recently, some of the
deeds have been turned into an art exhibit that opened last week in Dawson. ••• In 1955, the Quaker cereal company bought 19.11 acres of Yukon land about 12 miles north of Dawson City along the Yukon River. That’s pretty close to where the golf course sits today. It cost the company about $1,000 and they raised title in the name of the Klondike Big Inch Company. The land was divided up inch by inch and the mock deeds slipped into cereal boxes. The promotion was a tie-in to Quaker’s sponsored television show Sergeant Preston of the Yukon, and meant to capitalize on society’s fascination with the North. By 1965 the cereal had been eaten, the promotion was done. The Klondike Big Inch Company dissolved like a rice puff left at the bottom of a bowl of milk. Eventually the Yukon government took back the land for nonpayment of taxes. Quaker owed $37.20. ••• Sixty years later, the Yukon’s lands titles office still gets the
odd call or letter about the deeds found in the bottom of someone’s drawer or while cleaning out a relative’s house. Registrar Denise Dollin says there are five stacks of file folders in the office dating back to the 1960s full of letters from people inquiring about their piece of the Klondike. There’s one from someone offering to donate three square inches of land to a national park. There’s one from a concerned citizen worried that they haven’t heard from the taxman and wondering how much they owe in back taxes. “We’ve received string and four toothpicks and somebody wanted us to go out and stake their track of land for them,” she said. The Yukon office has a form letter that they’ll send back to anyone who inquires explaining that it was all a gimmick to sell cereal. Not everyone is surprised when they find out it’s a gag, she said. There’s at least one red flag. Each deed has a spot where the owner is supposed to fill in his or her name. Sometimes the name is scribbled in pencil.
••• Vancouver artist Kevin Murphy says it doesn’t matter that the fine print makes it clear the deeds aren’t real. The promotion was all about using kids’ imaginations and building on the fantasy of the Yukon. As part of his artist in residence program at Dawson’s Klondike Institute of Art and Culture, Murphy found a new use for the deeds. “Like all things that have no intrinsic worth, they become collectibles and they go to the land of eBay,” he said. Some of the deeds he snapped up look brand new, while others have names scrawled across the front. He cut up the deeds and made sculptures of “the kinds of things that I imagine these kids might have been imagining” when they pulled the papers out of their cereal. He made models of mine shafts, cabins and storefronts, wall tents and prospectors’ camps. After figuring out the formula Quaker used to divide up the land, Murphy brought the deeds home to their corresponding inch.
Some of the models ended up in the woods, similar to how things would have looked when Quaker first bought the land. One is in a tire rut in the middle of the road and another ended up in a horse corral. Nine photos of the models on the land they represent make up Murphy’s show, One Inch More Or Less, which is on display at Dawson’s ODD Gallery until Sept. 18. The show is part of The Natural & The Manufactured, a project jointly organized by the gallery and the artist in residence program. Quaker never intended for people to own the land, Murphy said. It was real but never really meant to exist anywhere except in people’s imaginations. He said his work looks at the complicated relationship between a physical place and the human baggage or lenses that we see it through. “It was this imaginary place. They bought the land but they didn’t necessarily have any sort of tie to that land. It was more (that) they were selling the idea of the North, and it was all coded in these sort of romantic associations.” Contact Ashley Joannou at ashleyj@yukon-news.com
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Environmental groups say go-ahead for Arctic drilling clashes with Obama’s global warming message more greenhouse gases to build up in the atmosphere. Some groups Associated Press would prefer leaving the oil in the ground and not tempting the harsh WASHINGTON environmental conditions that could he Obama administration’s hinder the response to any potential approval of drilling for oil spill. in the Arctic Ocean clashes “It sends a terrible signal to the with the message President Barack rest of the world for the United Obama will deliver when he visits States to be using public resources Alaska to emphasize the dangers of to promote that development,” climate change, some environmensaid Niel Lawrence of the Natural tal groups say. Resources Defence Council. “We As much as the groups praise have to make clear to the rest of the Obama for his overall body of world that we are all in on a clean work – from stricter fuel-efficiency energy future. And we’ve got to stop standards to regulations aimed at giving the rest of the world license reducing greenhouse gas emissions to go exploring by permitting Shell from power plants – they consider to do it.” the approval of exploratory drilling The administration previously in the Arctic a stain on his environallowed Royal Dutch Shell to begin mental legacy that will send a mixed drilling only the top sections of two message to other countries about wells in the Chukchi Sea because key the seriousness of confronting equipment, called a capping stack, global warming. was stuck on a vessel that needed The burning of fossil fuels causes repair in Portland, Oregon. Now, Kevin Freking
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Shell is free to drill into oil-bearing rock, estimated at 8,000 feet below the ocean floor. The U.S. Geological Survey estimates that U.S. Arctic waters hold 26 billion barrels of recoverable oil. Shell is eager to explore in a basin that company officials say could be a “game changer” for domestic production. Obama, who is scheduled to visit Alaska later this month, says he is mindful of the dangers of offshore drilling, particularly given the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill. “When it can be done safely and appropriately, U.S. production of oil and natural gas is important,” he said at a news conference earlier this year. “I would rather us, with all the safeguards and standards that we have, be producing our oil and gas, rather than importing it, which is bad for our people, but is also potentially purchased from places that have much lower environmental
standards than we do.” When asked whether the administration was sending contradictory messages, White House spokesman Frank Benenati said the administration has invested heavily in renewable energy so that the nation can transition off fossil fuels. “But it’s also true that we cannot make that transition overnight, which is why we have taken steps to ensure safe and responsible development of our domestic energy resources that benefits our economy and enhances global energy security, with safety remaining paramount,” Benenati said. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton made clear on her Twitter account Tuesday that she disagrees with Obama. “The Arctic is a unique treasure. Given what we know, it’s not worth the risk of drilling,” she wrote. The administration’s approval of Shell’s exploration efforts has done
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lthough this is only my second summer of being a retired RV enthusiast, already I’m learning many things that escaped my attention in the long, hard years of a working life spent wandering around north and western Canada trying to get rich quick. For instance: “Snowbird” is not an exclusively Canadian expression, some say born of a long ago Anne Murray song, and there are many other birds in the northern RV sky, so many in fact I feel as if my retirement years have begun with a crash course in bird watching. A snowbird, of course, is any Canadian from any part of this vast and varied country who flies south in a panic every autumn to avoid the painful slow death which comes from touching anything white which falls out of the sky, almost religiously beginning on Halloween. They are often
couples named Bob and Betty from Ontario who spent 25-40 years doing jobs they tolerated and raising children they loved so they could fulfill their long cherished dreams of becoming certified snowbirds and live like their heroes, migrating Canadian geese. The eastern ones go to Florida or Myrtle Beach, the central to Biloxi, New Orleans or Texas and the western to the low desert of Arizona, California or the Mexican Baja which is pronounced “bah hah hah hah,” a combination of sadness about leaving Canada and joy about spending the winter in a place where it doesn’t snow. In my aging naivete, I figured that was about as complex as the RV bird thing got when I joined the flock in the spring of 2014, but, boy, was I wrong. Canadian snowbirds are only half the story... no, make that 10 per cent, like every other Canadian/American statistic. There is a virtual air force of migratory international birds,
mostly American but not exclusively, who reverse the flow every spring and attack B.C., the Yukon and Alaska with their money, minds and mayhem. The first two who alerted me to this invasion were Bob and Betty, from Phoenix via Peoria who called themselves:
Sunbirds I was in Haines Junction hiding from my grandchildren attending the 2015 Kluane Mountain Bluegrass Festival with a major red wine buzz when Bob approached my r-pod and asked if I would like the last of their tomatoes because they were recrossing the Alaska border in the morning and knew they would be confiscated and destroyed. I had just been in Dyea RVing on the tidal flats earlier that week and said, “eggs too” and told him how I had to give up my eggs because of some avian chicken flu down near Vancouver somewhere. So I pre-con-
fiscated most of their perishable groceries and learned they were sunbirds from Phoenix escaping the insufferable heat of the Arizona low desert until “the leaves in Alaska change colours.” That was their annual signal to start drifting south and go home. This was their tenth year of driving around Alaska with no known specific destination, and I was eating Spanish omelettes for a week in their honour after they left. Betty even tried to give me all the leftovers in their fridge, but I had other birds to fry. Such as:
counted 840 swans performing mating rituals in early April while waiting for the snow to melt and lakes and rivers to flow. Accordingly, the first RVs every spring are called swans, although most aren’t tourists at all but Alaskan snowbirds returning home early to prepare their summer tourist businesses, before the arrival of the true touring swans a couple weeks later. And selecting a new mate doesn’t appear to be their primary motivation on their way through the Yukon, but you never know.
Springs swans
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Geese get all the honking ink, but the first birds to show up in the Yukon and Alaska every year, the true romantic harbingers of spring, are the snowy white tundra or trumpeter swans. There is a place just south of Whitehorse on Marsh Lake called Swan Haven where the local schoolchildren
I realize Americans call them Canadian geese, but that’s not fair to Canada because they spend at least half the year eating in America, Mexico and Central America. Their big “V” formations in the spring and their persistent honkings bring joy to the hearts and ears of most Canadians just as their
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RVs at the Pioneer RV Park on the Alaska Highway in Whitehorse. departure in the fall is an omen of cold and dark times to come. Tourists who honk their horns in downtown Whitehorse or complain about anything at all, especially our bearrepellant outhouses, are called geese and most are named Bob and Betty from Kankakee.
Quacking ducks Did you hear about the old drink bartenders are again serving in the Yukon? It’s a glass of Baby Duck with a shot of tequila, called a tight quack. In reality, tourist ducks are noisy visitors who set up right outside the bedroom window where you lay your head to sleep in sweet slumber. Recently at Takhini Hot Pool I suffered the worst kind of quackery while attempting to start this piece, Germans. Yukon beer affected them like laughing gas and I couldn’t understand a word of their hilarity. They were playing picnic table poker using rocks for chips, which appeared to be the most fun they ever had. That morning I lambasted them with my only available editorial diatribe in German: “GUTEN MORGEN! DANKE
UND AUF WIEDERSEHEN!!!” That means, “Good morning. Thank you and goodbye.” Canadians are always polite to visitors even when we don’t want to be. As my hero, Sam Clemens, put it: “It’s awful undermining to the intellect, German is; you want to take it in small doses, or first you know your brains all run together, and you feel them flapping around in your head same as so much drawn butter.” Uh oh. I just noticed they left their chairs, drying towels and poker chips here. There goes the Spell of the Yukon.
Great American bald eagle As an ex-USMC Vietnam veteran (Chu Lai mostly, 196667), I’ve never understood America’s patriotic devotion to this lazy scavenger which is really nothing more than a vulture in dress blues. It was also the predominant symbol of Nazi Germany, the Roman Empire, the Mongols led by Genghis Khan and who knows how many other conquering nations and Chinese warlords. It classifies as a predator, a bird of prey, and is a suitable
symbol for violent empires but it’s mostly fiction because it “preys” on small, injured mammals and helpless fish. The Chilkat River, near Haines, Alaska attracts thousands of them when the salmon are running, but the eagles mostly sit in the trees watching the grizzly bears do all the work, then swoop down for the leftovers. We get lots of eagles coming up the Alaska Highway in the summer. You can tell them by either the olive drab, camo or red, white and blue vehicles, some painted like the American flag with stars and stripes and a sound system playing God Bless America. As a veteran I always salute them, old habits die hard, but most Yukon kids just wave their street hockey sticks at them and carry on with more important matters, like trying to figure out how to beat a goalie with a low wrist shot. It’s their grandparents who sometimes mutter about the construction of the highway by the U.S. Army corps of engineers in 1942. They killed and ate so many moose and caribou while they were here,
it took 10 years after the end of the war for the stocks to recover and feed Yukoners again. And everybody knows there weren’t any mosquitos in the Yukon until the U.S. Army built all those airfields, because there wasn’t anywhere for them to land. But thanks for the road. Couldn’t have built it without you.
Whiskey jacks The real Whiskey jacks are actually called western jays or “camp robbers” and make good company around campfires. The tourist whiskey jacks are the same, friendly visitors from around the globe named Bob and Betty who tell funny stories, ask good questions and increase your knowledge with a tidbit or two of intelligence you never knew before. You are always sorry to see them go, until you notice your fresh loaf of rustic French bread is missing.
Ravens The common raven is a sacred bird in the Yukon, the official bird of the territory and is treated with the same
respect bald eagles receive in Alaska. Like eagles, they are also scavengers whose main duty is cleaning up the mess others leave behind. They are Yukon ubiquitous, which means everywhere, much like summer tourists. Visitors should be aware that biggest compliment you may hear is when a Yukoner calls you a raven. It’s no different than being called an eagle in America, so leave your guns and grenades in the truck if somebody calls you one. If they truly wanted to insult you, they would have called you a “yellow-bellied sapsucker.” Them’s fightin’ words, even in Canada, the world’s most peaceful large nation, where the only thing worth fighting for is possession a four-inch hard rubber black disk in the late spring during the annual tribute to Lord Stanley’s drinking mug when bird watching season is in full swing. Doug Sack was the first sports editor of the Yukon News and later a longtime sports editor of the Whistler Question and a columnist and features writer for Ski Canada magazine. He is currently semiretired in Whitehorse.
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DEAR MISS MANNERS: My wife and I have the good fortune to be co-owners of a house near the beach. When we can’t use it, we often offer it to friends for the weekend or the week. This is a community where many of the houses are rented during the summer at rather high rates. I am surprised that while our friends have thanked us (usually
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just an email), there has been no offer of any reciprocity beyond that, and often the thank-you seems rather perfunctory. In particular, one close friend has stayed there five times. After her last stay, I wrote her an email suggesting that she might want to buy a small item that we could use at the house. I never received a response to that email, and I thought that perhaps the email had gone astray (it happens). But the last time I saw her, she mentioned that it was still “at the top of her mind.” Now a half-year later, we had already made that purchase, and I told her so.
I know that she, her husband, children, mother, father and aunt enjoy their time at the beach, and when we can’t use the house it seems silly to have it go unoccupied. But at the same time, I feel like I have been very generous without any sign of reciprocity. Suggestions? Or should one just realize that generosity is its own reward, and if that is not enough, stop offering? GENTLE READER: That generosity should be its own total reward, to the extent that it is defiled by the expectation even of any acknowledgment, is an argument with which Miss Manners
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is only too familiar. But she generally hears it from youngsters who are indignant that their selfish grandmothers expect them to say they received presents she sent. Instead of troubling them, why not just look to see if the checks are being cashed? This is not an argument that charms Miss Manners, even when it is bolstered by recitals of how many other demands there are on teenagers’ valuable time. She does not have far to go to find greater examples of selfishness than that of hoping to hear that one’s attempts to please have been successful. In your case, you can presume that these people like the beach house, because they keep coming back. What is lacking is any sign that they actually like you for providing it. Surely if they did, they would invite you to visit them, or otherwise exhibit gratitude (in more than a five-second email) for this enormous annual favor. Personally, Miss Manners would be thinking warmly about strangers who pay those rather high rents. Call her selfish, but she thinks of it as saving those friends from the selfishness into which they have sunk. DEAR MISS MANNERS: What is the best response to people I know casually and to strangers that tell me to smile? GENTLE READER: “Say something witty that I’ve never heard before.”
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Frotten rockets to second bronze at Parapans
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Whitehorse’s Jessica Frotten, right, leads Mexico’s Evelyn Enciso in the 800-metre race at the Parapan Am Games in Toronto on Thursday. Frotten won two bronze medals at the Games. Tom Patrick News Reporter
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ithin a couple days of winning two medals at the Parapan Am Games in Toronto, Whitehorse’s Jessica Frotten was already back on the track training. Her successes in Toronto could land her a spot on the Canada’s team heading to worlds and she’s not about to slow down. “That team will be named in a couple weeks and I think I have a pretty good shot of being on it,” said Frotten. “So I’m just going back into training … I’d love to have a little bit of time off, but there’s just no time.” The 27-year-old para wheelchair racer isn’t ready to slow down, she’s only getting faster. Frotten captured her second Parapans bronze medal in the 400-metre on Friday, notching a personal best time of 1:01.13 in the final. “I’m totally on a high right now,” said Frotten, who races in the T53 category. “It was an
incredible experience just to go out on the track and have so many people cheering for you – the stands weren’t full by any means, but there were a lot of Canadian fans.” “The 400 was my best race for sure,” she added. “Everything just came together and winning a bronze there was so awesome.” Frotten took first in her 100-metre semi last Wednesday and went on to win
McClammer. “I’ve been chasing (Dupont) around the track all season, so to get her in the 400 was pretty good,” said Frotten. “We were roommates the whole time out there, we spent a lot of time together, so we’re pretty tight.” Frotten has come a long way in a very short amount of time. She pocketed her first track wins in the spring of 2013 at a meet in Victoria,
experience. Toronto did such a great job putting everything on. Everyone was so nice and the whole Team Canada staff was on the ball for everything. “On Friday – it was an hour bus ride between the village and the track – we got a police escort because traffic was so bad. There were three cops on motorcycles ahead of us and three behind us getting traffic out of the way.
Committee Athletics World Championships this October in Doha, Qatar. The worlds would be a major stepping-stone for Frotten to achieve her ultimate goal: a spot on Team Canada at the 2016 Paralympics in Rio. “That’s my goal,” said Frotten. “I’ll see if I can make that happen.” Frotten, who lives in Regina and races with the Saskatoon Cyclones, was selected for the Parapan Am Games following a stellar performance at the 2015 Canadian Track and Field Championships last month, winning two silver and three bronze. She won two national titles at the championships last year. “I was blown away. My phone is blowing up, my Facebook was blowing up, “When I got off the podium there’s just so much support,” there were so many people said Frotten. “To represent who wanted to have their Canada was amazing, but it pictures taken with me. I can’t kind of put Yukon on the map even describe it – I felt like a out there and that was super star for sure.” sweet. In addition to winning two “A big shout out to the medals in three events at the Yukon. You guys all make me Parapans, Frotten has made feel so special.” all her time standards for Contact Tom Patrick at the International Paralympic tomp@yukon-news.com
“When I got off the podium there were so many people who wanted to have their pictures taken with me. I can’t even describe it – I felt like a star for sure.” bronze in the final on Thursday with a time of 19.25. She came in just 0.62 seconds behind silver medalist Ilana Dupont, a Paralympian and world championship medalist from Quebec. Frotten beat Dupont in the 400-metre final that saw a Games record set by goldwinning American Chelsea
B.C., became a Canadian champion in 2014 and has now established herself as one of the top athletes in her sport. Frotten, who also placed fourth in the 800-metre in Toronto on Thursday, was racing on Team Canada for her first time. “It was just such a great
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Yukon squads down N.W.T. to ďŹ nish westerns did (at a tournament last month) in Sweden and use that in the tournaNews Reporter ment at the westerns,â€? said Yukon male team coach Edgar Musonda. hree Yukon teams went out “Playing a very strong team, B.C., with wins at the Western in the first game was kind of good Canada Summer Games Fort because it gave the boys a measureMcMurray, Alta. ment on where they’re at in team Both soccer teams and Yukon’s male volleyball team beat territorial play. Going into the next games they rival N.W.T. to avoid a last-place fin- improved the way they played. “We were playing with 14-yearish over the weekend. olds – the majority was 14 – and I The two soccer squads had mirthink we have a bright future moving ror finishes to the Games, defeating N.W.T. 2-0 on Saturday to place fifth. forward for the next tournament.â€? Yukon’s male volleyball team pro“I think we did what we hoped to duced their second win over N.W.T. do, what we hoped to achieve,â€? said Yukon female team coach Tony Gaw. on Sunday. After dealing N.W.T. a straight-set loss in the round robin, “The kids were pretty excited about they did it again, winning 25-19, how it all ended. 25-23, 25-18. “The Games were excellent. Fort Yukon’s female team took a set off McMurray was a great spot for the N.W.T. in the round robin but lost in Games and no complaints at all – it three sets to N.W.T. on Sunday in the went really well.â€? fifth-sixth place game. Yukon’s female team opened the Cassis Lindsay, 14, and Luke Games with a 7-0 loss to Manitoba Bakica, 15, faced some older combefore a 10-0 loss to Alberta before playing N.W.T. in the fifth-sixth place petition in Fort McMurray. The two Yukon swimmers raced competitors match. three or four years older than them. They topped N.W.T. with goals Still, Lindsay, who was Yukon’s from Dawson City’s Sarah Nyland flag-bearer at the closing ceremony, and Whitehorse’s Jayden Demchuk, made the 100-metre freestyle final, who tapped one in on a rebound placing eighth with a personal best from a shot from Jewel Davies. of 59.94 seconds. Both swimmers set Demchuk and Ava Cairns-Locke multiple personal best times. shared goalkeeper duties in the “It went well,â€? said Yukon swim shutout. coach Malwina Bukszowana. “I Yukon’s male soccer team fell 11-0 to B.C. and 6-0 to Saskatchewan was happy with the personal bests because the swim season was very before the territorial showdown on long, so I thought they’d be too tired Saturday. to swim in the middle of August, but They claimed fifth with goals they swam best times, which is great. from Simon Kishchuk and Skyler “They look better every race. Ever Bryant. Goalkeeper Seth Carey got swim race we go to they are improvthe shutout in net. “It was good to build on what we ing.â€? Tom Patrick
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Yukon’s Luke Bakica races in the 400-metre individual medley on Thursday. just two days into competition. The 14-year-old captured bronze in judo, taking third in the females 57-63 kilogram weight class. “That’s amazing! I didn’t expect that to happen,� said King. “I feel I did pretty good. I worked really hard for it. “It’s been amazing – this is by far my favourite experience with judo,� she added. “I like that it’s a multisport Games, so I don’t only get to see judo, I’ve gotten to see basketball, I’ve gotten to see wrestling, I’ve gotten to see gymnastics.� Whitehorse’s Brody Smith then added a second medal that was monumental beyond the scope of westerns. The 18-year-old won a silver medal in the 5,000-metre
race walk on Aug. 10 to become the first Yukoner ever to win a medal in athletics at a major Games. “I feel really proud,� said Smith. “I just started race walking this summer, so I’ve been training all summer for it. I don’t really have any background in it, this is my first race in race walk.� Whitehorse’s Max Clarke and Benjamin Grundmanis became the first Yukoners ever to compete in beach volleyball at a major Games. The two Yukoners went winless in five round robin matches in the first three days of competition under a blazing sun. They finished with their closest match of all, losing 9-21, 2118, 15-11 to N.W.T. in the fifth/sixth place crossover match, finishing
sixth on Aug. 11. “It’s been an awesome time. There’s so much to learn still. There are some super strong teams to learn from, and they’re all super nice and friendly and they help you out,� said Grundmanis. “The entire experience has been pretty great.� The next Western Canada Summer Games will be hosted by Saskatchewan in 2019. Contact Tom Patrick at tomp@yukon-news.com
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hardware. A silver and a bronze are the first medals for the territory at westerns since the 2007 Games in Strathcona County, Alta. (Yukon was shutout in the medal standings at the 2011 Games in Kamloops, B.C.) Whitehorse’s Hannah King ended Yukon’s eight-year medal drought
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Runners and walkers leave the start line at the fourth annual Run Wild Event at the Yukon Wildlife Preserve on Monday. The event had 36 participants. Tom Patrick News Reporter
Before participants left the start line at the fourth annual Run Wild Event, they got to see an example of what they were running for at the Yukon Wildlife Preserve on Monday. Two orphaned redhead ducklings were released into the preserve’s marsh habitat just
prior to the start of the run. The ducklings were brought to the preserve in July and have spent the last month in the preserve’s rehabilitation centre. “They were very small and would not have been able to take care of themselves and at that point would have been easily preyed upon,” said Lindsay Caskenette, the preserve’s visitor services administrator. “So we’re
just giving them a second chance and giving them some time ... We didn’t have to do any surgery or anything … They were just orphaned.” A total of 36 runners and walkers took part in the event, raising $642 for wildlife rehabilitation. Last year 122 took part, raising $2,288 to help build an enclosure for orphaned baby red fox. “It costs money to run the
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Yukon Wildlife Preserve’s Julianna Campbell gets set to release an orphaned readhead duckling.
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Left: top finisher Jordon Lindoff approaches the halfway point. Right: first place female Lisa Freeman runs by the mule deer habitat. building, it costs money to feed them, and of course it costs money to pay our staff to care for the animals,” said Caskenette. “Fundraising helps keep them, helps feed them and keep that centre open.” One thing that wasn’t preserved was the record for the
five-kilometre and one metre course. Whitehorse’s Jordon Lindoff, 34, shaved almost a minute of last year’s record time, reaching the finish in 20 minutes and nine seconds. “It was awesome. There are animals everywhere, the people
are awesome and it’s just fun,” said Lindoff, who started racing triathlons a few years ago. “Once or twice I visualized a muskoxen chasing me for a little extra boost. They’re terrifying.” Lindoff finished with a lot of breathing room. Andrew Smyth came second at 26:29. Bobby
Prematunga was third for males at 27:18. Whitehorse 10-year-old Lisa Freeman was the top female runner on the day with a time of 26:53. Tara Grandy, who ran pushing a stroller with two small children in it, came in at 27:02. Sue Kem-
mett placed third for females at 27:18. Contact Tom Patrick at tomp@yukon-news.com
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Real Estate 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. NINE ADJOINING lots in downtown Atlin, power to property, well drained, next to park, sold as package, use for home w/large yard/garden, cabins, commercial, offers. Lance @ 250-651-7531
LOT 37 Judas Creek, large level lot with small storage shed, beautiful view, power to pole on property, $75,000. 250-651-7697 DAWSON HERITAGE home, prime location, large lot, rental suite, 2,400 sq ft, 3-bdrm, 2.5 bath, open kitchen/dining/living room, pantry, 2 decks, confluence views, former Ferry Saloon annex. 867-993-3787
Help Wanted FULL-TIME DENTAL ASSISTANT REQUIRED for busy dental practice. Experience an asset (CDA I/II), but would train the right applicant. Please apply with resume to Whitehorse Dental Clinic, 406 Lambert Street (behind Medicine Chest pharmacy), Attn: Dr. Colin Nash. Email questions to whitehorsedental@northwestel.net.
GARDEN SUITE, Hidden Valley subdivision, includes internet, television, washer/dryer, electric, avail September 1 or October 1, $1,250/mon. Contact 456-4291 2-BDRM LOWER suite, Porter Creek, large windows, bright & open, dishwasher, w/d, cable & Internet incl, N/S, N/P, $1,400/mon. 335-3660
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1-BDRM FURNISHED bsmt suite, Riverdale, well kept, sep ent, avail immed, N/S, N/P, includes lights, heat, laundry, responsible tenant. 667-2808 FURNISHED ROOM w/small bathroom, Marsh Lake, scenic waterfront close to community centre, N/S, animals welcome, $480/mon. 660-4321
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We require two individuals for the delivery of Home Heating Fuel in Whitehorse and surrounding area. Miscellaneous duties as required. May be required to work shift work or weekends. The ideal Candidate must possess a Class 1 with Air Endorsement, experience in Petroleum deliveries. Good knowledge of Whitehorse and surrounding areas. WHMIS and Dangerous Goods Certificate would be a definite asset. Wages for this position is according to the collective agreement. We also have an attractive benefit package. Please submit your application by August 21, 2015 to:
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at Nissan Carcare Motors 2 Positions available: Lot and counter attendant. Needed Monday to Friday 8 am to 5 pm, full time. Drop off resume at Carcare. Must be able to to Drive Standard & Automatic Transmission.
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MARINE ENGINEERING and Deck Officers required for civilian positions with the Department of National Defence Canadian Forces Auxiliary Fleet in Victoria and Nanoose Bay, B.C. Online applications only through the Government of Canada website jobs.gc.ca. Applicants must meet all essential qualifications. HELP WANTED Hotel Front Desk Clerk NOC #6525 Qualifications: Completion of college program in front desk operations or hotel management is required. Applicants with relevant experience preferred: Hours: 40 hours per week Wage: $14/hr Duties: •Register arriving guests and assign rooms •Answer telephone enquiries •Compile and check daily records Contact: HR Manager hr@elitehotel.ca Elite Hotel & Travel Ltd. 206 Jarvis St Whitehorse, Yukon Y1A 2H1
Kausheeʟs Place (Yukon Women’s Transition Home)
Weekend and Casual Workers Duties and Responsibilities: t Provide support in a cross-cultural setting to women and children who have experienced abuse t Maintain the safety and security of the Transition Home t Respond to women in crisis in person and over the telephone t Assist with the efficient operation of a 24 hour facility 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 Wednesday, August 26, 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 Job description available upon request.
HOUSE PARENTS for Children's Residence. Looking to contract a couple to support children in a live-in home setting. Go to www.inclusionpr.ca - careers for more information or 604.485.6411. MEDICAL TRANSCRIPTIONISTS are in huge demand! Train with the leading Medical Transcription school. Learn from home and work from home. Call today. 1.800.466.1535 www.canscribe.com. info@canscribe.com. MEDICAL TRANSCRIPTION! In-demand career! Employers have work-at-home positions available. Get online training you need from an employer-trusted program. Visit: CareerStep.ca/MT or 1-855-768-3362 to start training for your work-at-home career today!
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 USED TIN, beige & white from 60ʟX70ʟ shop 20ʟ wall, wall & roof tin, exc cond, value $18,300 new, asking $7,500. 335-5192 DELUXE HAND-HELD shower massager, new in sealed case, 3 settings $20. 336-4898 GET-A-GRIP ULTRA traction on snow, casual, dress, athletic footwear, Womenʟs SML-MED, 5-9, menʟs 3-7, Euro 36-41, 2 replaceable spikes incl, $10. 336-4898 HANDICAP SHOWER chair, unused, white w/rubber suction cups, clean & exc cond, $85 obo. 336-4898 CANON PRINTER, PIXMA MP560, like new, memory card compatibility, print from camera, $150 obo. 336-4898 50ʟ OF 2� copper pipe, offers. 332-6565 GARRET ELECTRONIC 4-coil metal locater with case, batteries & headphones, exc shape, $600. 332-6565 BRASS WALKER, no wheels, $30; oil-filled heater, $30. 334-8318 FUEL TANKS, 1-200 gal, 1-250 gal, no leaks, both for $225. 633-4656
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The Kluane Dana Shä̀w Corporation (KDSC) is the wealth generating corporation for the Kluane First Nation (KFN). The Board of Directors is responsible for overseeing the creation of new businesses, for investments in sound opportunities and for the growth of current investments for the shareholder, KFN. The Board is also responsible to provide advice, strategic direction, approval of activities, and to monitor and evaluate the corporation’s performance and plans. The KDSC is seeking three (3) individuals to serve on the Board for a three-year term. Interested individuals with at least 5 years of experience and developed skills in any of the following areas of: • Sales, Marketing and Advertising • Finance and Investment • Business Development Officers & Consultants • Banking, Credit and Other Investment Managers • Securities Agents, Investment Dealers and Brokers • Financial Auditors and Accountants • Professional Occupations in Business Services • Diploma, bachelor’s degree, or master’s degree, or equivalent working experience • Experience, history, and understanding of working with First Nations
FXR BRAND fall jacket, MenĘźs 3XL, new, cami & black pattern w/neon green trim, $100 obo. 393-2630 RED OAK hardwood flooring, $5/sq ft, 3/4â€? x 3.5â€?, 2 boxes, 22 sq ft per box, $110 per box. 633-2018 DON'T OVERPAY! rtmihomes.com “Your Smart Housing Solutionâ€? Canada's Largest provider of manufactured housing. Text or call (844-334-2960). In stock 16'/20'/22' Homes on Sale Now! GALVANIZED STEEL trays to capture leaks from fuel oil tanks, 78x15x4 & 64x16x4 inches, $40 ea. 668-2802 GREENHOUSE VENT 10â€? squirrel cage fan w/12x12 self closing vent & small 110V motor, gets rid of damp, cold & super hot air, $40. 668-2802 POTATO FORKS, $8 & $5; CommissionerĘźs Potlach posters, 1998 & 2000, $20 ea; double air mattress with folding stand, $40. 633-5009 INFLATABLE BOAT, good for 2 adults, c/w oars, pump, & patch kit in carrying bag. 334-4299 MARMOT SLEEPING bag, $100. 633-5009
Interested individuals may submit a cover letter along with resume, stating how their abilities match the roles and responsibilities of the Kluane Corporation’s Board of Directors. All completed applications can be sent by regular mail or email to the following: Kluane Corporation Attention: Diyet van Lieshout (Chair) #101 - 1191 Front Street Whitehorse,Yukon Y1A 0K5 Phone: (867) 332-2900 Email: diyet@me.com DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION MUST BE RECEIVED BY 5 PM THURSDAY, AUGUST 21ST, 2015
MOSQUITO MAGNET, propane tank not included, $200. 633-2814 after 6pm DRYWALL LIFT for up to 12ʟ ceilings & walls, used for one job, $325. 335-0806 LARGE ROLLING Buxton suitcase, used once. 668-2253 TRAVELPRO 28� expandable upright suitcase from The Bay, new, still in box, too big for my purposes, reg price $370, sale price $135. 633-2981 CASE MOD desktop tower, see-through side panel, extra fans, and all the guts of an XP system. $30. 393-2929. CEMENT MIXER, electric, $300. 633-2236
Wednesday, August 19, 2015 CAMPING FOOD, dehydrated celery, onion, sweet potato & TVP still in package, perfect for trips, Topo Map 104 N/5 Teresa Island, Atlin lake, good cond, $8. 336-2108 XBOX ACCESSORIES, 2 wired controllers for Xbox 360/original, various cables, remote control, $15; plaster molds to make 4” tiles from clay slip, 6 molds each make 4 tiles, $40; backpack w/wheels, new cond, $15. 393-2929 TINY HOUSE caboose style on tandem axle trailer, completely furnished, extremely well built, $23,000 obo. 336-1412 CENTRO BBQ, patio furniture, leather La-Z-Boy recliner, couch & love seat, oak curio cabinet, table w/4 chairs, oak coffee table & 2 end tables, exc cond. 667-6587
YUKON NEWS CDMA PHONE, new in box, Samsung Ace i325 World Edition, works good in rural settings, c/w all accessories, $90. 334-6087 GARMIN MONTANA 600 waterproof GPS, paid $600, barely used, asking $300. 333-9366 SAMSUNG GALAXY S II Virgin Mobile 4G Smartphone, like new, 16gb, $125. 334-6087
Musical Instruments PIANO TUNING & REPAIR by certified piano technician Call Barry Kitchen @ 633-5191 email:bfkitchen@hotmail.com
MISC PIECES of metal piping, good for welding etc, come and get it. 322-1990
FENDER COMBO amp, Blues Deville 212, 60 watts, tweed, exc, $800. Thomas 660-4826
NESTLER DRAFTING machine to give away. 667-6424
MARSHALL AMP JTM60 combo, 60 watts, exc, $800. 660-4826
PERFUME: NOW allergic-6 full bottles, Guess, Chloe, Magnifique, Coty, Prestige, $7 ea, good deal. 867-456-4109 eves, 204-880-7245 cell
MUSIC MAN 2012 HD, 150 combo amp, like the one Mark Knopfler and Johnny Winter used, serviced, exc, $1,250. 660-4826
TOSHIBA LABEL printer w/tags for pots, trees & shrubs, used one season, $4,000. 633-2119 FEATHER DAWN blankets, twin, $50 ea. 633-2236 3.7 THOUSAND gallon water tanker on trailer bed, $1,500. 633-2119 2 COMMERCIAL/INDUSTRIAL freezer & fridge combination, $4,000 for both. 633-2119 ANTIQUE KODAK Brownie Twin 20 camera, c/w flash, extra bulbs, CL620 film in original box, offers. 332-6565
YAMAHA CLAVINOVA piano CVP509, check wonderful features on Internet, has light system for learning songs, over $9,000 in stores, asking $5,500. Serge @ 667-2196 after 5pm ZILDJIAN 20" K Custom Session Ride cymbal, seldom used, like new condition, $400. 335-2054 TOP END & low end quality electric & acoustic guitars, all come with hard shell cases. 332-1360 PROFESSIONAL GUITAR stand, holds 8 guitars, $250 obo. 667-4892
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BATHTUB GLASS sliding doors with 60”X56” frame, $125. 332-6565
HURLBURT ENTERPRISES INC.
MCPHAR MOD. TV-A1 spectrometer w/case, exc shape, cost over $6,000, offers. 332-6565 KING SIZE metal bed frame with box spring, needs mattress, $100; office desk, good cond, $50; house plants, Easter lily, hibiscus, green & purple shamrock, diefenbaccia, $5-$50. 668-4186 3 OSPREY Packs, for travel or hiking, Atomos 65, $110, Far Point 70, $100, Stratos 36, $90, near new cond. Phone or text 333-9209 CHAIN LINK fence, 150ʼ x 42”. Incls connectors, horizontal poles & 2 gates, exclʼg vertical poles, $150 obo + removal. 668-6771 SUPPORT STUDENTS and schools. Order fresh veggies, $35 for 20 lbs, between August 27 and September 14, 2015. Information: www.yukonfromthegroundup.ca TALL SNAKE plant, $60. 668-4186
Store (867) 633-3276 Dev (867) 335-5192 Carl (867) 334-3782
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UK EMPIRE typewriter, $45 obo. 667-4892 UNIVERSITY TEXTBOOKS, mathematics, probability, physics etc, $20-$25 ea. 667-4892 BLACK & Decker skill saw c/w spare blade, $30 obo. 667-4892 MOVING SALE, indoor & outdoor furniture, household & garage items. 668-3968 or 334-1393 FRENCH 633-2236
LILLY pendant, silver, $99.
2 GREAT tickets to see The Who in Vancouver, floor, Row 33, Tuesday, Sept 29 at 7:30pm, Rogers Arena, $400 for both. 633-2121 SEALY FOAM organic cotton 9” double mattress, $20; Fisher Price Jeep, needs battery, $40; lounger, $30; Futon, steel frame, converts to double bed, $200. 633-4078
Electrical Appliances GE REFRIGERATOR, 16 cu ft, exc cond, super clean/works great, was for extra storage not required anymore, $250. 778-985-6525 or email islandlife50@hotmail.com HOT TOWEL cabi, new, holds 24 facial towels w/built-in UV sanitizer, up to 170F, front loading door, perfect for massage practice or home, $250. 633-6245
TVs & Stereos FREE: 25" Sharp colour TV, old style, not flat screen, works good, you pick up. 633-6310
Computers & Accessories NEW DELL XPS 12 computer, OS Windows 8.1 64-bit, memory, 4GB, HD, 128GB, processor, 4th generation Intel Core, MS Office Home & Business 2013, security, McAfee Livesafe. 336-4898 QUAD CORE i7, 3TB of storage, sporting power 860m gpu, this beautiful laptop will fulfill all your gaming needs on 1080p IPS panel 17" screen, $1,400. 334-4898
EVF FUELWOOD ENT Year Round Delivery • Dry accurate cords • Clean shavings available • VISA/M.C. accepted Member of Yukon Wood Producers Association Costs will rise. ORDER NOW 456-7432 FIREWOOD $175/cord 20-foot lengths, 5-cord loads Small delivery charge 668-6564 Leave message QUALITY BUILT Wood-sided firewood storage sheds. 1 to 3 cord designs. Prices starting at $995.00 plus GST. Call Creekside Wood Supply. 867-332-2151
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CZ 550 in 270 Win, great wood, $900 obo. 334-9551
MOSSBERG 12 gauge Defender. $275. 633-2431 10am-8pm
22 LONG rifle, Savage, PAL reqʼd, $175. 867-660-4826
LEE ENFIELD 303 MK4 : $175. Lee Enfield 303 Jungle Carbine, $175. 633-2431
303 ENFIELD P14 rifle, PAL reqʼd, $300. 867-660-4826
RUGER 10/22. .22 LR Semi-Auto. 22 Calibre rifle. Gd cond, $175 obo. 633-4139
12-GAUGE OVER & under Valmet shotgun, PAL reqʼd, $700. 867-660-4826
MARLIN 980S, 22lr, stainless steel barrel, synthetic stock, open sights, very accurate, great shape, c/w 3 magazines & sling, PAL reqʼd, $220 with Bushnell 4x scope, $180 no scope. 393-4314
264 WIN mag Winchester rifle w/6 power scope, PAL reqʼd, $550. 867-660-4826 8 MM 338 Magnum Mauser rifle w/4 power scope & ammo, PAL reqʼd, $475. 867-660-4826 MARLIN 1895 XLR 45-70 rifle, 24” barrel, laminated hardwood stock, stainless steel, Bushnell Elite 3200 1.5-4.5 scope, 30 rounds shot through, exc cond, $800 w/scope, $700 w/out, PAL reqʼd. 336-4124
Wanted WERE YOU a squatter in Whiskey, Moccasin Flats, Sleepy Hollow or the Wye area? Need your story. Deadline is August 31. squatterstory@gmail.com or Pat 667-4141 WANTED: SOMEONE talented & professional to help me with long, dated resume/cover letter, serious inquiries please, can do trade in exchange. 633-6245 for info WANTED: SUITCASE, extra large size with roller wheels. Call 333-4653
CHIAPPA LITTLE Badger, 22lr, foldable survival rifle w/open sights, single shot, c/w case, barely used, PAL reqʼd, $150. 335-2920
WANTED: SUIT jacket, business suit and casual jacket or sport coat, mens size 40–42L long sleeve. Call 333-4653
CZECH SMALL arms VZ-58 non-restricted rifle, 7.62X39 semi-auto w/original muzzlebrake telestock, PAL reqʼd, $950. 334-1422
WANTED: FOR shop project for school, any old sleds or quads that run or need tlc, willing to spend up to $250, anything at all, contact me at 1-867-634-5292
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Guns & Bows LICENSED TO BUY, SELL & CONSIGN rifles & ammo at G&R New & Used 1612-D Centennial St. 393-2274 BUY • SELL AR-15, DA 556 lower, Norinco 14.5” upper, quad rail, AFG, Vortex Strikefire 2 scope, 4xLAR pistol mags & more, $800. 335-2788
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ALFA PROJ 9mm revolver, 4.5” blued barrel, 2 moon clips, great shooter, shoots same caliber as your semi-auto, $475. 335-2788 9MM CZ 75 SP01 handgun, 3 mags, trigger lock, case, replacement parts, only 200 rounds fired, restricted required, $750. 335-1876 SAVAGE 30-06, stainless w/synthetic stalk, soft Levy case, 3x9 Fulfield scope & extras, mint, PAL required, $800. 393-2828 HUSQVARNA 30-06 Springfield carbine, $700; Remingington 870 12-gauge pump, new in box, $550. 334-5666 30-06 BAIKAL rifle, PAL reqʼd, $250. 867-660-4826
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t 6KM NORTH OF SWIFT RIVER LODGE FEMALE BLACK LAB, 9 months old, her name is Igor. If found please call Caleb @322-0554 t TAY STREET, RIVERDALE AREA, INDOOR-ONLY CAT. She is a very small brown tabby with a white bib and white socks. Her name is Bear and is very shy and skittish. She may be hiding in a shed, garage, or woodpile and will likely not come out if called. If you spot her, please call 250-507-1453! t COPPER RIDGE (FALCON DRIVE). PURE WHITE CAT with yellow eyes, fixed male. Has a tattoo in ear, very noticeable. Answers to “Cobe�. If found, please contact Jean at: 335-701, or 633-3272. t CRESTVIEW, BLACK FEMALE CAT, responds to ‘Kitty’, she’s wearing a yellow collar with a pink tag. please call 867-335-6576 if you know of her whereabouts!
t PORTER CREEK, FEMALE KORAT CAT. Grey with white patch on chest. Name is Nasty. If found or seen, call Vicki at 336-1030.
FOUND t ALASKA HWY NEAR JAKES CORNER, SMALLMEDIUM BLACK AND TAN FEMALE DOG, with BRIGHT BLUE eyes! If missing please call the shelter @633-6019 t 20 MINUTES ON ALASKA HWY TOWARDS HAINES JCT, TWO MALE DOGS. One very large black dog and one young Burmese Mountain Dog cross. Both dogs are very friendly and have collars. If these are your dogs, please call the shelter at: 633-6019. t HILLCREST, MALE CAT, UNNEUTERED, MOSTLY WHITE WITH BLACK PATCHES. Very friendly. No collar or microchip. If this is your cat, call 334-5919 or 667-7387.
WANTED: SOMEONE to bring a canoe to Whitehorse from Canmore, AB. Will contribute to cost of gas. Call 335-5144
1988 TOYOTA Tercel 4X4, good running cond, fair interior, new tires, windshield & rad, $800 obo. 780-690-8770
WANTED: ANY kind of roofing, 11Ęźx9Ęź, cheap or free, will pick up. 633-2236
1976 TRANS Am, black on black, 400 4-spd, good shape, serious enquiries only, $22,000 obo. 334-8560
WANTED: WOOD flooring, any kind, 8Ęźx10Ęź, cheap or free, will pick up. 633-2236
Cars 2012 SUZUKI Impreza hatchback, exc cond, meticulously maintained, great fuel mileage, AWD, roof rack, block heater, oil pan heater, only 20,000kms, no accidents. 335-9785 2010 MUSTANG GT convertible, V8, 5-spd, gold w/black top, heated leather seats, new tires, sequential turn signals, ambient internal lighting, 57,000kms, $25,000 obo. 336-0505 2009 MINI Cooper, loaded with many options, only 48,000 kms, call for more details or to test drive, price reduced to $15,500. 335-1410
2008 CHEVY Aveo, black, 4-dr, great on fuel, wish we could keep it but the family is growing, $4,000 obo. 660-4424 2008 INFINITI G37s 2-dr coupe, 73,000kms, 330hp 3.7l V6 6-sp manual, immaculate cond, red exterior, black leather interior, incl winter floor mats, rims, tires, $21,000. 334-9445 2007 CHEVY Cobalt, 2-dr, grey, rear spoiler, manual, 140,000kms, good on fuel, some cosmetic damage, priced to sell at $4,750. 332-6022 2007 PONTIAC G5 coupe, 80,000km, 2.2L 5-spd, 2 new sets of tires, all recalls done, new battery & thermostat, exc cond, $5,700. 334-8102
If you have lost a pet, remember to check with City Bylaw: 668-8382
2003 GRAND Prix, great cond, c/w 2 sets of tires, winter bought this past year, & summer, new Kenwood stereo, $3,350. 334-9282
AVAILABLE FOR ADOPTION
2 BMWS, 1974, one for parts, antiques, $700 for both. 633-2119 2002 KIA Rio, 94,000kms, runs ok, needs $400 work to run well, minor body damage, extra set of rims with winter tires, $2,800 obo. 334-9566 2001 PT Cruiser, remote, heated leather seats, cruise control, sun roof, a/c, great stereo, new timing belt & front brakes, 2.4L, auto, 214,000 kms, interior/body good cond, $2,900 obo. 332-8522 2000 CHRYSLER Neon, low kms, regular oil changes, no scratches/dents, all season & winter treads, good running order. Greg @ 335-7876 2000 FORD Taurus wagon, V6 auto, 216,000kms, summer & new winter tires, recent safety, good cond, $2,950 obo. 333-0380
Kitty
1998 PORSCHE, exc cond, low mileage, $10,700. 332-6467
And more.... Come for a visit and meet your next furry family member!
If your lost animal has been inadvertently left off the pet report or for more info on any of these animals, call 633-6019 or stop by 126 Tlingit Street.
Pets will be posted on the Pet Report for two weeks. Please let us know after that time if you need them re-posted.
You can also check out our award winning website at:
WWW.HUMANESOCIETYYUKON.CA
We Sell Trucks! 1-866-269-2783 • 9039 Quartz Rd. • Fraserway.com
2013 F-150, Limited Edition 4x4, red, chrome, 21,700 km, sun roof, loaded, leather heated seats, Sat radio, command start, extended warranty, $45,000. 393- 2828 2010 FORD F150 SuperCrew, one owner, 78,000kms, 4x4, 4.6L V8, silver, matching canopy, remote start, winter tires, extended warranty 2017,serious inquires only, $24,600. 332-7540 2008 FORD F350 Lariat 4X4, crew cab w/canopy, heated seats, auto, 140,000kms, $22,000. 335-6560 2008 FORD F350 Lariat, 4X4 crew cab w/canopy, manual, heated seats, 150,000kms, $22,000. 335-6560 2006 FORD F-250 XLT Superduty 4 x 4, Supercab, tow package, box liner, headache rack, 253,000 kms, $6,000. 332-4019 2005 DODGE Cummins Laramie crew cab 2500, Billet auto trans 3000 km ago, rebuilt front steering, 4� turbo back exhaust, 35� tires, 4� lift, remote lock/start, leather, $16,000 obo. 336-1412 2004 F350 Lariat, lifted, diesel 4X4, leather interior, oversized exhaust, front push guard, 4-dr, loaded w/options, nice truck, $14,900. 332-6022 2003 DODGE diesel, 6-spd trans, $800 obo. 633-6502 2000 FORD F150 4x4, 200,000kms, auto, 4L V6, engine & drive train good, cab has damage, good for parts, still runs, $850 obo. 633-2181 for info 1998 DODGE Ram 2500 4x4 longbox truck, 380 K, extended cab, 12 valve cummins diesel, newer turbo, 5-spd trans, power upgrade, good cond. 867-996-2570 1998 FORD Explorer 4X4, 4-dr, 4L, V6 engine, auto, loaded, good all round cond, 213,000kms, $1,450. 333-9899 1994 CHEV Silverado 2500, extʟd cab, 6.5L diesel, 2WD, long box, auto, 282,000km, $2,500. 667-7649 1991 CHEV C1500, extʟd cab, long box, 2WD, 350 V8, auto, interior mint, P/W, P/D, cruise/tilt, boxliner, regular maint, only 2 owners, $2,200 obo. 633-5468 1989 F250 XL Lariat ext cab, trailer pkg, cruise, tilt, P/W, P/L, V8, runs good, matching canopy, $500 obo. 334-5408 1975 GMC Sierra 25 HD, 4WD, PTO winch, 4-spd w-ton range, $800. 633-2119
Come on down & visit with ALL OF US at the shelter.
TRUCK CANOPIES - in stock * new Dodge long/short box * new GM long/short box * new Ford long/short box Hi-Rise & Cab Hi - several in stock View at centennialmotors.com 393-8100 DODGE DAKOTA brake shoe, still in box, $25 obo. 393-2630
METAL SHELVING for service/cargo van, pro grade construction, 2 shelving units & 1 headache rack/divider, $250. 332-7879 CANOPY FOR small truck, Toyota, decent shape, $50. 322-1990 2005 DODGE 4X4 1500 Hemi, front end damage only, almost new tires, $2,000 obo. 335-5192 1998 FORD Winstar van, rebuilt for parts, new engine, transmission & front end, 40,000kms on new engine, $650 obo. 334-6631 VARIETY OF 24.5 truck tires, good runners, recap casings, also 2 new steel Budd rims, 24.5 & 1 new steel uni-mount rim, 24.5�, offers. 867-996-2570 SUBARU IMPREZA, steel rim with AW radial R15 tire, new, $150; 4 AW R16 tires, used, 75% tread. 633-2018
Pets CANINES & COMPANY Dog Obedience School Puppy obedience classes starting August 20 Recall classes, August 20 For full schedule visit caninesandcompany.ca Full service training school, certified trainers 333-0505 SOFT-SIDED PET carrier, never used, for cats & small dogs up to 15 lbs & 7" shoulder height, meets international/domestic in-cabin travel requirements for airlines, shoulder strap/fleece interior, $50. 633-2121 FREE TO good home, 1 purebred registered Siberian Husky, light gold color, 1 Siberian Husky cross, Brown in color, very energetic dogs, 867-537-3891 for more info. 7 YEAR old husky, free to good home, retired sled dog due to wrist injury, neutered, good companion, friendly, good with other dogs. 332-3711 LOST: BLACK short haired female cat in Crestview area, may be wearing yellow collar with pink name tag, answers to 'Kitty'. Call 335-6576, 335-1144 or contact Mae Bachur animal shelter CHESAPEAKE PUPPIES for sale, $600 males, $500 females, good homes only, we own both parents, great hunting, family, bear dogs, very loyal, ready to go mid-Sept. e-mail Sarah skruse23@msn.com/332-8832
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
RONĘźS SMALL ENGINE SERVICES Repairs to Snowmobiles, Chainsaws, Lawnmowers, ATVĘźs, Small industrial equipment. Light welding repairs available 867-332-2333 lv msg
ALSO... If you could bring down some much needed items. It would be greatly appreciated!
Items can be dropped off at the Shelter during operating hours.
Auto Parts & Accessories
TAITĘźS CUSTOM TRAILER SALES 2-3-4- place snowmobile & ATV trailers Drive on Drive off 3500 lb axles by Trailtech - SWS & Featherlight CALL ANYTIME: 334-2194 www/taittrailers.com
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1989 GMC 3/4 ton, 4X4, 5-spd standard, extĘźd cab, good tires, front & back windows like new, box liner, very little rust, 198,000kms on 350 big block, $2,300. 334-2018 after 5pm
TRUCK CANOPY, fits on 8Ęź box, grey in colour, older highrise style, needs back window, $150. 332-6022
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Portraits by Gerry Steers, courtesy of Gerry’s Computer Magic
Portraits by Gerry Steers, courtesy of Gerry’s Computer Magic.
Trucks
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Widow
1991 CHEV Cavalier, exc cond, low mileage, $950. 667-2224 1989 CADILLAC Deville sedan, great car, never smoked in, $6,500. 335-8242
RUNNING AT LARGE...
Viktor
1997 CHRYSLER Intrepid, 211,000kms, 6-cyl, 4-dr, great on gas, some body damage, cruise control, A/C, P/W, $2,600 obo. 332-7879
WANTED: RIDE to Edmonton September 1st. Will share expenses. 456-7675
2009 TOYOTA Camry Hybrid, great car, amazing fuel efficiency, sunroof, bluetooth, well-maintained, c/w extra set of tires, $15,900. 334-2360
LOST/FOUND
LOST
COPPER RIDGE Place is looking for volunteers to assist with bus outings or to run the store once a week for 2 hours. Contact Catherine at 393-7508
1997 CHEVY Lumina, 220,000kms, auto, remote start, good cond, $2,650. 668-3887
SUZUKI BOULEVARDS (2), 800cc, 2005 & 2009. Both with low mileage, great cond, saddle bags, windshields. $5,000 & $7,500. 393-2926 2005 HONDA Shadow, 1,100 cc. 667-2976 or 333-0901 2009 YAMAHA quad, all the bells & whistles, spent $15,000, selling for $7,900; set of tracks used 500km in winter, paid $4,200, sell for $2,500, pkg deal, $9,800 for all. 333-0717
Wednesday, August 19, 2015
Marine PROFESSIONAL BOAT REPAIR Fiberglass Supplies Marine Accessories FAR NORTH FIBERGLASS 49D MacDonald Rd Whitehorse, Yukon 393-2467 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 OLDER 20ʼ Reinell, bed, hull & leg in gd cond, w/trailer, downrigg, motor seized, project boat. Trade for Enduro 250cc up or ATV or $3,000. 689-6194 9.9 HP marine outboard motor. 667-2976 or 333-0901
YUKON NEWS 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 2004 PIONEER travel trailer, 23T6 model, large bath, queen size bed, large awning, great condition, $9,000. 633-2580 2011 STARCRAFT 1019 tent trailer, sleeps 7, like new, 2 dining tables, fridge, stove, propane furnace, hot/cold running water, indoor/outdoor stereo system, barbecue, ceiling fans, awning, $7,800 obo. 633-2121 2008 EAGLECAP camper, exc cond, fiberglass body, electric jacks, fastgun tie-downs w/locks, new batteries, 2 propane tanks, maxi-vent covers, LED lights, heated basement, $18,000 obo. 333-9460
14ʼ FIBREGLASS boat, 6ʼ wide, Roadrunner trailer, new paint, 15hp 4-stroke Honda outboard motor, all for $3,700. 333-0717
12ʼ ENCLOSED Cargo Mate tandem axle trailer. 667-2976 or 333-0901
WANTED: 7.5HP to 9.9hp short shaft, 2 stroke outboard, good to excellent condition. Call 668-7082
1991 CHEVY camper van, 126,000pm, propane stove, fridge, forced heat, vg cond, runs good, new stereo w/remote, no rust, $9,000 obo. 689-0805 or 633-4227
KAYAK RIVER 10ʼ Prijon Hurricane, flotation bladder, snap dragon spray skirt, Stohlquist dry jacket, Cascade helmet, Brooks booties, Lightning carbon fibre paddle, exc cond, pkg $500. 668-4976 14ʼ TOPIK inflatable boat, wooden floor, folds up like Zodiak, $2,200; 2000 15hp short shaft Johnson motor, low hrs, $2,200 or both together for $3,900. 333-0717 SMOKER CRAFT 175 Ultima aluminum fishing boat, 90hp Mercury 4-stroke, OB, walk through windshield, live wells, fish finder, stereo, very economical. 668-4963 lv msg 30HP TOHATSU, short shaft, 4 stroke, electric tilt, start, as new, c/w remote controls inclʼg steering, tank, hose & extra prop, $4,200. 633-2118 2025 KINGFISHER HHT 2013, c/w trailer, 150hp Yamaha (60h), 2 downriggers, depthfinder. $45,900. 867-993-3519
Heavy Equipment WATER TRUCK, 1984 W900 and 4000 gal tank Bowie pump, fire hose manifold, new tires, certified, $27,500. 335-5192 SKIDDER 550 Timberjack, fresh motor, has 4000L water tank, large winch, full blade, $20,000. 335-5192 2009 BOBCAT CT 440, 44hp tractor w/backhoe & many other attachments. 335-5192 •2008 CAT 740 Rock Truck SN CAT00740PB1P03886 •2010 Bucyrus R30C Hydra-Trac Rock Drill SN TRX33H30DNAE0030 •1989 Cat D10N Crawler Tractor SN2YD01092 •2008 Volvo EC460CL Hyd Exc SNVCEC460CL00110148 All Excellent Condition Ready to work Located in Watson Lake Call for Pricing: 604-541-1362 ext 102 WANTED: AUTO transport to ship car to Vancouver area anytime before October 1st. Is restored hot rod, has to go in enclosed trailer or truck, want reasonable deal. 667-4463 966C FAIR Cond, spade nose bucket, spare tire & rim, many extras $20,000 obo. Atlin 250-651-7542 1997 385 Peterbilt M11 Cummins, 370hp, 10-spd, 690,000km, air, tilt, cruise, runs exc, no issues, c/w SKB folding crane, 17,000lb capacity, also set up for RV, $28,000 obo. 633-5274 2000 LITRE fuel tank on steel cradle for lift & transport, c/w 20 gpm Fillright pump, goldenrod filter assy, and 15' arctic hose, previously used for diesel, $2,000 obo. 867-996-2570 SLUICE BOX, moves 4-5 yards per hr, has new 5hp Honda motor, fits in back of 1/2 ton pick-up, $6,400. 633-5362
Aircraft 1957 CESSNA 172, Bush STOL, 4900 TT, 500 SMOH, Continental O-300, King VHF, ADF, 4 place I/C, Mogas STC, Cleveland brakes, great performer, economical trainer, well maintained, $32,000 obo. 633-5495 1969 182M LRFuel, full IFR, Garmin 430W/510, A/P, 9/10 in&out, TT2248, SMOH1581, STOH1072, many extras, flown regularly, $70,000 US. Atlin 250-651-7542
Campers & Trailers 2009 WILDWOOD travel trailer, lg slide, queen walk-around bed, maple cabinets, outside shower, dining table & chairs, equalizer hitch, smoke-free, exc cond, new $34,000, asking $18,900. 334-6652 eves 1991 22ʼ 5th wheel, excellent condition, view any time. 667-7413
1997 FRONTIER 9ʼ camper, good cond, toilet, shower, hot water, stove, 3-way fridge & heater, $5,900. 335-3620 2011 JAYCO Eagle Superlite 26' fifth wheel, slide-out, low miles, almost new condition. To view contact 668-7595 5TH WHEEL trailer hitch for pick-up truck, made by DSP, exc cond, $500. 633-4656 UTILITY TRAILER, HD suspension, canoe rack, extʼd tongue, rustic camper, $300. 668-4976 8ʼX12ʼ DUAL axle utility trailer, 2” ball, new LED lights, deck, sides & tail gate, bearings, heavy duty tongue, 16” tires c/w spare, $1,500. 867-634-2135 btwn 5:00 & 9:00
AGM WHITEHORSE Huskies Senior "AA" Hockey, September 8, 2015, 12-1pm, Boardroom # 2 at Sport Yukon YUKON LEARN Society is offering free computer courses: Introduction to Computers, Internet & Email, Word and Excel. Instructor on site. Call 668-6280 xt 223 for details WHITEHORSE CONCERTS' AGM will be held at The Pioneer Heritage Room at City Hall on Wednesday, September 2 at 7 pm. For more information contact: steve@whitehorseconcerts.com YCKC WHITEWATER rodeo and barbecue , Wednesday August 19, registration @ 5:30. Boogie Boarding, Slalom, Freestyle, Downriver Race & Raft Race @ Millennium walking bridge F.H. Collins School Council ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING Wed., September 2 @ 6:30 pm School Library Everyone Welcome! DON'T MISS the next Klondike Cruisers Solo Sport Autocross event Sunday, September 13 Takhini Arena. $20 event fee. Must be a member to participate. To register, join or info info@klondikecruisers.ca CORN ROAST in a festive atmosphere, enjoy corn on the cob & hamburgers. Family activities & music. August 28, 5 pm, MacBride Museum. epis.afy.yk.ca SEED-SAVING WORKSHOP: Wed, Aug 26, 5:30 Whitehorse Public Library meeting room. Learn how to harvest, store and share seeds with your fellow gardeners. Info: 667-5239 YUKON REGISTERED Music Teachers Association AGM will be held on Sunday September 13, 6:30pm in the meeting room at 106 Strickland Street. All are welcome.
OLDER 8' camper fitting small trucks, ice box fridge, stove works, sink drain leaks, roof waterproofed 2 years ago, $600 obo. Text 867-334-7391
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL Writing Circle meeting Tuesday, September 22 from 7pm-9pm at Whitehorse United Church (upstairs). Writing letters to support human rights worldwide. www.amnesty.org
2010 JAYCO 29' BHS trailer, sleeps up to 9, CD/DVD/I POD JK.SND.SYS., electric patio awning, microwave, outside BBQ, new condition, gently used, $25,500, view at 38 Stope Way. 393-3123
GRANNY POWER, film documentary about fun loving group of activists, Monday August 31, 6:45pm, Whitehorse Public Library. Vancouver Raging Granny, Robyn Smith will be there for Q&A
8' HOME-BUILT camper, plywood & polystyrene construction, very solid, $1,500. 668-4104
PORTER CREEK Community Block Party at Whitehorse Church of the Nazarene, Saturday August 22, 11:30am-1:30pm, 2111 Centennial Street. Meet folks in your neighborhood, food, playground, fun, free
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 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 5 À 7 All In Music one Thursday a month, French-speaking musicians perform at Baked Cafe. August 20th: Nicholas Mah, classical guitar. zik-o-baked.afy.yk.ca 2015 SOUTHERN Lakes Harvest Dinner & Dance, Saturday September 5th, 6pm, Tagish Community Centre, Chef, Michele Genest, music, Miles Canyon Band, featuring Kevin Barr, $35/person. 399-3407 for tickets AYFC AGM August 21, 1pm, Whitehorse Public Safety Building PREDATORS DOG Puller Sport Athletic League is holding Canadaʼs first dog puller championship in Whitehorse, August 29, 9am, Ecole Emilie Tremblay soccer field. Info @ caninesyukon@hotmail.com. All spectators welcome. FREE BASIC introductory computer courses beginning August 25 at Yukon Learn Society, 2158-2nd Ave. Call 668-6280 to register SPORT YUKON Annual General Meeting, September 2, 2015, 6pm, Sport Yukon Boardroom POPUP LIBRARY August 21-23, Whitehorse Public Library at YukomiCon. Get a library card, check out books, ask questions, discover your next read. Comics, graphic novels, sci-fi, prizes and more YUKON LEARN Society free computer drop-in lab every Monday excluding holidays from 10am–2pm. Self-Directed computer studies, instructor on site, 2158-2nd Ave THE ALZHEIMER/DEMENTIA Family Caregiver Support Group meets monthly. Group for family/friends caring for someone with Dementia. Info call Joanne 668-7713 GEORGE JOHNSTON Museum, Teslin, is proud to announce the unveiling of Traditional Tlingit House front painted by Keith Wolfe Smarch on August 26. Free barbecue at noon, all welcome
VACATION BIBLE School, August 24-28, 6:15pm-8:30pm, ages 5-12, Whitehorse Church of the Nazarene, 2111 Centennial St, free. Register at whitehorsenazarene.org/vbs or call us at 633-4903 PORTER CREEK Community Association meeting Monday, September 14, 5:15 pm at the Guild Hall. All Welcome. Come show your support. Info 633-4829
Services BACKHAULS, WHITEHORSE to Alberta. Vehicles, Furniture, Personal effects etc. Daily departures, safe secure dependable transportation at affordable rates. Please call Pacific Northwest Freight Systems @ 667-2050 BUSY BEAVERS Pruning, Hauling, Chainsaw Work, and General Labour Call Francois & Katherine 456-4755 KUMON MATH AND READING CENTRE Individual programs for all grades Enrol early for the 2015/2016 school year Affordable Free diagnostic check Above Starbucks on Main 393-3151 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 KLONDIKE WOODWORK Finishing Carpentry & Renovations For Clean, Meticulous & Tasteful Quality Work INTERIOR •Kitchen & Bathrooms, Flooring, •Design & organization of walk-in closets, laundry & storage room, garage •Wood & Laminate, Stairs. EXTERIOR •Decks, Fences, Insulation, Siding, Storage Shed 633-2156 or cell 334-2156
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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.
ELECTRICIAN •Licensed •General Handyman Services •Light Carpentry, Drywall, etc •Free Estimates •10% Seniorʼs Discount 332-7879 PAINTING Williamson Yukon Services offers int/exterior, redo decks, fences, sheds etc. Reputable, reliable, reasonable. 18 years in Yukon Ph. 333-0403 GET RESULTS! Post a classified in 117 newspapers in just a few clicks. Reach more than 2 million people for only $395 a week for 25-word text ad or $995 for small display ad. Choose your province or all across Canada. Best value. Save over 85% compared to booking individually. www.communityclassifieds.ca or 1-866-669-9222. LOG CABINS: Professional Scribe Fit log buildings at affordable rates. Contact: PF Watson, Box 40187, Whitehorse, YT, Y1A 6M9 668-3632
JOURNEYMAN CARPENTER/PAINTER 30 years experience Commercial-Residential •Renovations •Repairs •Kitchens •Bathrooms •Drywall Tiles •Decks •Fine Finishing and Painting No job too small Local references available Phone 335-8924 bradmre@gmail.com 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
The Moses family would like to
thank all family and friends who attended the funeral service and potlatch of our father/grandfather/elder
Tommy Moses of Mayo, Yukon
A big appreciation of gratitude to the head cook, Rosemary Mervyn and the First Nation of Na-Cho Nyak Dun staff and volunteers for their support and hard work in making the service a true success. We are very blessed to have such good people in our community. Mussi Cho.
Headstone Potlatch for the he Late Respected Elder
Roddy Blackjack
August 22, 2015 3:00 p.m. Where: Carmacks Rec Center Crow Give Away. Headstone Viewing @ 1pm. When: Time:
All are Welcome. This is a Sober Celebration! For more info Contact: Leta Blackjack @ 335-2785; Bernice Blattmann @ 332-1883; Russell Blackjack @ 863-5789; Andrea Laughlin @ 863-6996 or Roderick Blackjack @ 863-5001.
In loving memory of
Monty Alford SEPT 6, 1923 - AUG 19, 2014
One year later, we remain so very thankful for the life we all shared with such a wonderful, giving, and inspiring husband, dad, granddad and greatgranddad! Love him forever, the Alford family. ‘I am the resurrection and the life’ John 11:25
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668-2963 Bobcat Services Now Available &YDBWBUJOH t 5SVDLJOH 4FQUJD 4ZTUFN t %SJWFXBZT SCHEDULE “E� NOTICE TO AFFECTED CREDITORS No. S152166, Vancouver Registry IN THE SUPREME COURT OF BRITISH COLUMBIA IN THE MATTER OF THE COMPANIES’ CREDITORS ARRANGEMENT ACT R.S.C. 1985, c. C-36, AS AMENDED AND IN THE MATTER OF THE BUSINESS CORPORATIONS ACT, S.B.C. 2002, c. 57 AND IN THE MATTER OF YUKON ZINC CORPORATION PETITIONER
NOTICE TO AFFECTED CREDITORS NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Yukon Zinc Corporation (“Yukon Zinc�) has filed with the Supreme Court of British Columbia (the “Court�) a plan of compromise and arrangement dated August 11, 2015 (as may be amended from time to time, the “Plan�) pursuant to the Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act (the “CCAA�). Capitalized terms not otherwise defined herein shall have the meanings ascribed to them in the Plan. The Plan contemplates the compromise of rights and claims of certain of Yukon Zinc’s creditors (as defined in the Plan, the “Affected Creditors�). There is one class of creditors under the Plan (the “Affected Creditors Class�), consisting of the Affected Creditors. NOTICE IS ALSO HEREBY GIVEN that a meeting of the Affected Creditors Class (the “Meeting�) will be held at the office of Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP at 2900 - 550 Burrard Street, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, on September 2, 2015 beginning at 10:00 a.m. (Vancouver time), for the purpose of considering and, if thought advisable by Affected Creditors, voting in favour of a resolution to approve the Plan and to transact such other business as may properly come before the Meeting or any adjournment thereof. The Meeting is being held pursuant to an Order of the Court made on August 14, 2015 (the “Meeting Order�). The quorum for the Meeting has been set by the Meeting Order as the presence, in person or by proxy, at the Meeting of one Affected Creditor. To be effective, the Plan must be approved by a majority in number of Affected Creditors who represent at least two-thirds in value of the Affected Claims (as defined in the Plan) of the Affected Creditors who vote (or who are deemed to have voted) on the resolution approving the Plan at the Meeting. Affected Creditors may vote in person or by proxy. The Plan must also be sanctioned by a final order of the Court under the CCAA. The Monitor’s Report to the Court reporting on the results of the vote on the Plan at the Meeting will be posted on the Monitor’s Website (www.pwc.com/ca/en/car/yukonzinc) on or before September 10, 2015. NOTICE IS ALSO HEREBY GIVEN that the application for a Court order to approve and sanction the Plan will be brought by Yukon Zinc on Wednesday, September 23, 2015, or such later date as may be determined (the “Sanction Application�). At the same time, Yukon Zinc will also seek certain other relief specified in the Plan. Subject to the satisfaction of the conditions necessary to implement the Plan, all Affected Claims will be dealt with in accordance with the terms of the Plan. Any Affected Creditor who is entitled to vote at the Meeting but is unable to attend the Meeting is required to date, sign and return the enclosed proxy by mail, courier, e-mail or fax. In order to be valid and voted at the Meeting, a proxy must be either (i) received by the Monitor by 5:00 p.m. (Vancouver time) on August 31, 2015; or (ii) deposited with the chair of the Meeting (or any adjournment, postponement or other rescheduling thereof) before the beginning of the Meeting. The Monitor’s address for the purpose of filing forms of proxy and for obtaining any additional information or materials related to the Meeting is: PricewaterhouseCoopers Inc. Court-appointed Monitor of Yukon Zinc Corporation 250 Howe Street, Suite 700 Vancouver, BC V6C 3S7 Attention: Patricia Marshall Fax: 604.806.7806 Email: yzc.claims@ca.pwc.com IT IS IMPORTANT THAT AFFECTED CREDITORS NOTE THE FOLLOWING: Only those Affected Creditors that are on the Service List will be provided with further notice of the Sanction Application, the materials filed in support of the Sanction Application (including the Monitor’s Report to Court reporting on the results of vote of the Meeting) and any adjournment of the Sanction Application or the Meeting. These materials, and any notice of adjournment of the Meeting and the Sanction Application will be posted on the Monitor’s Website at: www. pwc.com/ca/en/car/yukonzinc, which is updated regularly. All Affected Creditors seeking updated information on the Plan, the Meeting, the Sanction Application and these proceedings are directed to the Monitor’s Website. This notice is given by Yukon Zinc pursuant to the Meeting Order and is dated this 17th day of August, 2015.
AL-ANON MEETINGS contact 667-7142
Has your life been affected by someone’s drinking???
WEDNESDAY
12:00 Noon Anglican Church on 4th & Elliott, Back Door Entrance
FRIDAY
7:00 PM Lutheran Church Basement Beginners Mtg (4th & Strickland) 8:00 PM Lutheran Church Basment Regular Mtg (4th & Strickland)
DRUG PROBLEM?
Call 633-6019 today to find out how you can become involved!
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS MEETINGS in Whitehorse
MONDAY: 12 noon Joy of Living (OM, NS) Maryhouse, 504 Cook St. 8:00 pm New Beginnings Group (OM,NS) Maryhouse, 504 Cook St. TUESDAY: 12 noon Joy of Living (OM, NS) Maryhouse, 504 Cook St. 7:00 pm Juste Pour Aujourd’hui 4141B - 4th Avenue. 8:00 pm Ugly Duckling Group (CM, NS) Maryhouse, 504 Cook St. WEDNESDAY: 12 noon Joy of Living (OM, NS) Maryhouse, 504 Cook St.. 8:00 pm Porter Crk Step Meeting (CM) Our Lady of Victory, 1607 Birch St. 8:00 pm No PufďŹ n (CM,NS) Big Book Study Maryhouse, 504 Cook St. THURSDAY: 12 noon Joy of Living (OM, NS) Grapevine Discussion Maryhouse, 504 Cook St. 7:30 pm Polar Group (OM) Seventh Day Adventist Church 1609 Birch Street (Porter Creek) FRIDAY: 12 noon Joy of Living (OM, NS) Big Book Discussion Maryhouse, 504 Cook St. 1:30 pm #4 Hospital Rd. (Resource Room) 8:00 pm Whitehorse Group (OM, NS) Maryhouse, 504 Cook St. SATURDAY: 1:00 pm Sunshine Group (OM, NS) DETOX Building, 6118-6th Ave. 2:30 pm Women’s Meeting Whitehorse General Hospital (Board Room) 7:00 pm Hospital Boardroom (OM, NS) SUNDAY: 1:00 pm Sunshine Group (OM, NS) DETOX Building, 6118-6th Ave. 7:00 pm Hospital Meeting Boardroom (OM, NS) NS - No Smoking OM - open mixed, includes anyone CM - closed mixed, includes anyone with a desire to stop drinking
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7:00PM North Star Group Comm. Support Ctr. 1233-2nd Ave.
Destruction Bay, YT Friday
1:30PM Health Centre
Faro, YT Friday
1:30PM Health Centre
Haines Junction, YT Friday
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Mayo, YT Friday
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Lost & Found
1:30PM Health Centre
1:30PM Health Centre
LOST: FITBIT downtown Tuesday afternoon, was at Post Office, Walmart, Shoppers Drug Mart in the mall, Sequels, North 60 Petro, small reward for return. 633-3842 LOST: BLACK short haired female cat in Crestview area, may be wearing yellow collar with pink name tag, answers to 'Kitty'. Call 335-6576, 335-1144 or contact Mae Bachur animal shelter LOST: LADIES 'Traveler' bicycle, white, 21 speed, new cond, no crossbar, wide seat (black). Missing from my yard on Boxwood Crescent. 334-7970
Business Opportunities HIP OR KNEE REPLACEMENT? Arthritic Conditions/COPD? Restrictions in Walking/Dressing? Disability Tax Credit $2,000 Tax Credit $20,000 Refund. Apply Today For Assistance: 1-844-453-5372
Pelly Crossing, YT Friday
Ross River, YT Friday
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Telegraph Creek, BC Tuesday
8:00PM Soaring Eagles Sewing Centre
Teslin, YT Wednesday 7:00PM Wellness Centre #4 McLeary Friday 1:30PM Health Centre
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Sports Equipment
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EXCELLENT STARTER board, mid-range quality, adj bindings, 54" long, excellent edges/bottom, top like new with stomping pad (req no finishing), appraised at $250, asking $150. 336-4898 TRAMPOLINE, $400 firm. 668-4186 FULL PAINTBALL head shield & goggles. 668-2253 MADSHUS ULTRASONIC X-country skis, 195 cm w/Rossignol racing bindings & Rossignol thermo adjustable boots sz 9, incl Lazl tour pack, waxes/applicator, exc cond, paid over $500, asking $250. 778-985-6525
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
Deadline for Comments 4:00pm Date limite pour commentaires, avant 16 h
QZ10-042-3
Selwyn Chihong Mining Ltd.
Don Creek and Groundwater, Tributary of Pelly River
Quartz
August 31, 2015
Any person may submit comments or recommendations, in writing, by the deadline for notice. Applications are available for viewing on the Yukon Water Board’s online registry, WATERLINE at http://www.yukonwaterboard.ca or in person at the Yukon Water Board office. For more information, contact the Yukon Water Board Secretariat at 867-456-3980.
Toute personne peut soumettre ses commentaires ou ses recommandations à l’Office avant la date limite 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.
Wednesday, August 19, 2015
YUKON NEWS
BROOMBALL GEAR, shoes sz. men's 7, shinpads, stick & helmet, $125 for all. 336-2108
SMALL RECTANGULAR honey-colored solid oak dining table with 4 matching upholstered chairs, vg cond, $300. 333-1254
CAMPING TENT, Explore Solo made by Go Camping New Zealand, lightweight, fits one person, good for hiking/cycling, $60. 336-2108
ANTIQUE HUTCH w/glass front, 67”H, 33”W, 12”D, $500. 633-2119
KAYAK PADDLE, AquaBound whitewater, 192cm, carbon shaft, great paddle. 336-2108 WOMEN'S SIZE 8 Zamberlan hiking boots, new/exc cond, only worn in house, medium brown suede w/Vibram soles, paid $320.00 at M.E.C., asking $175. 778-985-6525 or email islandlife50@hotmail.com 17ʼ DELTA Exp. Kayak w/spray skirt, cockpit cover, paddle, pump, paddle float, throw bag, Kokatat dry suit, menʼs large. 668-7705 CANMORE/BANFF, WHITEHORSE roadtrip, willing to bring a canoe back? Will contribute to gas. Call 335-5144
Livestock QUALITY YUKON MEAT No hormones, steroids or additives Grass raised grain finished. Hereford beef - $5.50/lb Domestic wild boar - $7/lb Order now for guaranteed spring or fall delivery. Whole, half or custom order. Samples available 668-7218 • 335-5192 HORSE 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 HORSE MANURE available for pickup 10 min. south of Whitehorse, bring your trailer and I'll help you load with small tractor, we're moving, everything must go, quantity is limited. 334-3428 TEN BRONZE Turkeys, well cared for. Range from 18 - 21 lbs, $5.25/pound. Ready to go for mid Sept. Will deliver to Whse. 399-3051
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
ANTIQUE TABLE, 62”X36”, comes with 7 chairs & 2 leaves, $1,800. 633-2119 ANTIQUE HUTCH, 72”X42”X14”D, $900. 633-2119
SOLID WOOD table & 4 chairs, $1000 obo. 5-pce bdrm suite, sleigh bed, $1500 obo. China cabinet, $500 obo. Misc furniture also. 633-4139 ARMLESS CHAIR, beige, black wooden frame, $50; matching large ottoman, $45; 2 brown faux leather chairs, $12 ea. 660-4321 DARK RED love seat from The Country House, folds out to a bed, like new cond, $450. 667-2677
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OAK OFFICE desk w/5 drawers, $400. 633-2119 HAND CRAFTED log picnic table made from locally milled poplar, treated with linseed oil, looks fantastic, can e-mail photo, $400, one of a kind. 399-3904
DRUG PROBLEM? Narcotics Anonymous meetings Wed. 7pm-8pm #2 - 407 Ogilvie St. BYTE Office
SERTA MATTRESS Comfort Collection Gaetana Elite, full size, vg quality, like new, non-smoking house, $175 firm. 667-7618
FRI. 7pm-8:30pm 4071 - 4th Ave Many Rivers Office
The work involves supply and install of new electrical, instrumentation and controls in three (3) new lift station buildings and wet wells. Contract Documents may be examined at the offices of Associated Engineering. Contract Documents will be available for pickup by interested General and Subcontractors and suppliers at the offices of Associated Engineering, Suite 301 – 4109, 4th Avenue, Whitehorse, YT, Y1A 1H6 on or after August 18, 2015. Technical inquiries by bidders are to be directed to Virginia Sarrazin, P.Eng. at (867) 456-2711 or sarrazinv@ae.ca. The lowest or any bid will not necessarily be accepted. Virginia Sarrazin, P.Eng. Associated Engineering Suite 301 – 4109, 4th Avenue Whitehorse, YT Y1A 1H6 Office: (867) 456-2711 Email: sarrazinv@ae.ca Mr. Adam Grinde Village of Teslin Cell: (867) 333-9268 Email: adam.grinde@ttc-teslin.com
REQUEST FOR QUOTATIONS
COMPLETE SET of McDonalds Happy Meal 101 Dalmations w/carrying case, $100; large plastic container of mini Legos, offers. 633-2408
#2015 042 L355 Transmission Line Brushing #2015 043 L170 Transmission Line Brushing
SCHWINN DELUXE child carrier w/welded steel functional cargo rack, removable head rest, adjustable foot wells, air cushioned seat pad, quick release 3-point harness, comfort padded crossbar for safety, $60. 667-7618 IKEA TWIN-SIZE kids pine frame bed, natural color, vg cond, could be adapted for a shorter bed, w/Sultan Lade slatted bed system, wood, hardware included, $150 firm. 667-7618 POLISPORT BABY bike seat model Wallaroo, excellent & reliable, frame mounting system, fits bicycles with & without carrier, easy mounting, tools, exc cond, $80. 667-7618
Childcare KOSS FAMILY DAY HOME is looking for a full time childcare worker, Level 1, beginning September 1. Call 667-6790
Furniture LEATHER BURGUNDY swivel chair, good cond, $25. 334-8318 UPSCALE OFFICE furniture for sale. Francine 334-2747 for info/pics, or francinethivierge1@gmail.com METAL CORNER shelving w/wood shelving in middle, standing shelving w/wood in middle, attractive set, $100/both. 633-2837
CANADA BENEFIT GROUP - Do you or someone you know suffer from a disability? Get up to $40,000 from the Canadian Government. Toll-free 1-888-511-2250 or www.canadabenefit.ca/free-assessment
Motorcycles & Snowmobiles 2004 HONDA, bogged out, burnt orange, 19,000 kms. $5,700. 335-0806 2001 YAMAHA Kodiak quad 4-wheel drive, winch, auto, runs good, $3,700; 2001 Arctic Cat 500, 4-wheel drive, winch, runs good, $3,750. 333-0717
REQUEST FOR QUOTE
STOKKE C O N V E R T I B L E baby bassinet/crib/bed, solid beechwood, c/w all parts, mattresses, mattress protectors, 2 fitted sheets for each of 3 sizes, ages 0-10 years old, perfect condition, $1,000. 633-2121
ASSORTED BARELY used baby items, bassinet, jolly jumper, swing, small play mat etc. Greg @ 335-7876
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
1980S VINTAGE Arctic Cat Lynx & trailer, both need work. 668-2853
Sealed bids marked “Bid for Village of Teslin Sewage Collection System Upgrades Electrical, Instrumentation and Controls” will be received at the offices of Associated Engineering, Suite 301 – 4109, 4th Avenue, Whitehorse, YT, Y1A 1H6, up to 4:00 p.m., local time, September 1, 2015.
2016 BRUSHING REQUIREMENTS
Yukon Energy is inviting quotations from qualified contractors for 2016 brushing requirements per the following vegetation brushing: ? RFQ 2015-042: approximately 30.3 kilometres of transmission line between Otter Falls turnoff and Haines Junction ? RFQ 2015-043: approximately 89 kilometres of transmission line between Little Fox Lake and Carmacks This work would be scheduled for the 2016 summer work season and would be completed by October 31, 2016. The successful proponent will be responsible for supplying all supervision, labour, tools, equipment, materials, mobilization and demobilization of personnel, transportation, and meals and lodging, as required. COR certification (or equivalent) will be required for this project. Sealed quotations clearly marked with the RFQ number and description will be received up to 4:00:00 p.m. Yukon time, October 16, 2015, at Yukon Energy’s corporate offices, #2 Miles Canyon Road, Box 5920, Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada Y1A 6S7 or via e-mail. Request for Quotation packages will be available on Wednesday August 19th, 2015. To obtain a Request for Quotation package contact Matthew Sills at 867-393-5335 or at matthew.sills@yec.yk.
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PUBLIC TENDER CRAWLSPACE INSULATION AND DRYWALL INSTALLATION 351 TURNER DAWSON CITY, YUKON Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title. The closing date for submissions is August 26, 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 Lester Balsillie at 867-667-5082. Site Visit: August 19, 2015 at 10:00 a.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/
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REQUEST FOR QUOTE Sealed bids marked “Bid for Village of Teslin Sewage Collection System Upgrades Building and Process Mechanical” will be received at the offices of Associated Engineering, Suite 301 – 4109, 4th Avenue, Whitehorse, YT, Y1A 1H6, up to 4:00 p.m., local time, September 1, 2015. The work involves supply and install of new Building and Process Mechanical in three (3) new lift station buildings and wet wells. Contract Documents may be examined at the offices of Associated Engineering. Contract Documents will be available for pickup by interested General and Subcontractors and suppliers at the offices of Associated Engineering, Suite 301 – 4109, 4th Avenue, Whitehorse, YT, Y1A 1H6 on or after August 18, 2015. Technical inquiries by bidders are to be directed to Virginia Sarrazin, P.Eng. at (867) 456-2711 or sarrazinv@ae.ca. The lowest or any bid will not necessarily be accepted. Virginia Sarrazin, P.Eng. Associated Engineering Suite 301 – 4109, 4th Avenue Whitehorse, YT Y1A 1H6 Office: (867) 456-2711 Email: sarrazinv@ae.ca Mr. Adam Grinde Village of Teslin Cell: (867) 333-9268 Email: adam.grinde@ttc-teslin.com
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