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Premier Darrell Pasloski announced The Yukon Legislative Assembly will begin its next session on October 22. construction of new seniors’ residences, and the Whitehorse News Reporter General Hospital’s new MRI. He said the government’s remier Darrell Pasloski focus continues to be on prohas announced that the next session of the Yukon viding jobs, particularly during Legislative Assembly will begin this period of low commodity prices. on Oct. 22.

But Yukon Liberal Leader Pasloski said his party plans Sandy Silver pointed out that to introduce several bills this the Yukon’s economy has been session, including amendments shrinking in recent years. to Yukon’s Municipal Act and “It’s interesting to hear our Land Titles Act. government say that our job is But in an interview with done when we have one of the the News, he focused heavily worst economies in Canada,� on how much his Yukon Party government has achieved in the he said. “I would argue that there’s still plenty of work to be last four years. done.� “Virtually all the commitSilver said he’s interested ments that we made to Yukoners during the last campaign in to see what becomes of the planned 300-bed continuing2011, we’ve either completed care facility in Whistle Bend. them or they’re actively in progress,� he said. “If the Yukon In September, the Yukon NDP hosted a town-hall meeting Party government says that where several members of the we’re going to do something, public spoke out passionately then we get it done.� against the facility’s proposed He referred specifically to size and location. the construction of the new F. “I think we should have a foH. Collins school, which is on track to open in January, the cused approach to our seniors Maura Forrest

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Yukon NDP Opposition Leader Liz Hanson said her party will be asking the government to present its evidence as to why the Whistle Bend location is the right choice before spending the money to build the facility.

She also said she’s interested to see what amendments the government will bring forward for Yukon’s Municipal Act. The current review of the act began in 2012 and resulted in 11 proposed amendments.

Some of them have been controversial, including a proposal to allow citizens to overturn a city council decision with a counter-petition.

Hanson said the act is a “progressive� piece of legislation, and she will be “looking to see if the spirit and intent of the legislation will be maintained.�

The Yukon government must call a territorial election by October 2016.

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Niqab issue is a ‘red herring’ this election, says Green candidate Maura Forrest News Reporter

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he Yukon’s Liberal, NDP, and Green Party candidates spent much of the most recent federal campaign forum agreeing with each other on women’s rights and gender equality.

NDP candidate Melissa Atkinson, Green candidate Frank de Jong and Liberal candidate Larry Bagnell all attended the forum on Thursday evening, which was organized by the Yukon Status of Women Council, the Victoria Faulkner Women’s Centre, les EssentiElles and White Ribbon Yukon.

Conservative incumbent Ryan Leef said he did not attend due to a family matter.

All three candidates promised to launch an inquiry for missing and murdered aboriginal women.

All three also promised to provide more affordable child care – Atkinson through the NDP’s $15-aday national child care program, Bagnell with the Liberal Party’s social infrastructure fund, and de Jong by providing tax breaks to employers and institutions that provide child care themselves.

And all three responded with one voice to a question from former NDP Party Leader Audrey McLaughlin about allowing Muslim women to wear niqabs during citizenship ceremonies. Prime Minister Stephen Harper is against allowing women to wear the niqab, which hides most of a person’s face, during the ceremonies. The issue has rapidly become a central focus of this election campaign.

“It’s a red herring... that Harper is using to throw red meat to his base,” de Jong said. “As soon as we start setting a dress code for Canadians, we’re lost.”

Bagnell’s response: “Ditto.”

Atkinson said the issue resonated with her as the only female candidate in the Yukon. “I dare someone to tell me what to wear.”

The three candidates also agreed to address poverty among seniors, many of whom are women. Bagnell promised funding for affordable seniors’ housing, and to renegotiate the Canada Pen-

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Federal candidates Melissa Atkinson, left; Frank De Jong, centre; and Larry Bagnell participate in a panel on women’s rights and gender equality at the Westmark Hotel in Whitehorse yesterday. sion Plan with the provinces. Both he and Atkinson said their parties would bring the retirement age back down from 67 to 65. Atkinson also promised to increase the guaranteed income supplement.

For his part, de Jong said the Green Party would mandate a guaranteed annual income for all workers, which he said would help reduce poverty at all ages.

“It is government policy to have poverty as part of our society,” he said. “If we decided to have government policy that we wouldn’t have poverty, we wouldn’t have poverty.

It’s that simple.”

If anyone, it was de Jong who stood out most at this forum, largely for his focus on legislation.

Asked about how to achieve pay equity between men and women, de Jong said the solution is to write it into law.

“You don’t wait around and ask

politely to businesses and industry and government to do this. You legislate it,” he said.

He also suggested implementing quotas for women on company boards.

Atkinson pointed out that the NDP currently has 147 female candidates, more than any of the other federal parties.

Another question focused on how to promote opportunities for women with disabilities. Again, de Jong said the answer is legislation.

“Everyone says, ‘Well, we shouldn’t start legislating and getting quotas,’ but that’s the only way to do it,” he argued.

Bagnell took a different approach, saying the Liberal Party would implement the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, and would modify the labour code to allow women with disabilities to

work from home and to work flexible hours.

Overall, though, it was an event largely free of debate or discord.

And perhaps the most a propos question of the evening came from Angela Code, an outreach coordinator with BYTE – Empowering Youth and a member of the Sayisi Dene First Nation in northern Manitoba.

“I don’t want the Conservative government in power,” she told the candidates. “I agree with a lot of what you stand for, but what I’m really afraid of is a split vote. What do you guys feel about that?”

To that, none of the candidates had a clear response. But Bagnell did say the Liberal and NDP leaders are committed to bringing down a Conservative minority government through a non-confidence vote.

Code recently attended the

United Nations Sustainable Development Summit as a youth representative. She told the News that the experience made her believe that Canada needs a change in leadership.

“In the time that the Conservative government has been in power, we’ve been kind of spinning our wheels,” she said.

But she worries that the three alternative parties haven’t differentiated themselves enough.

“I see so many similarities between the NDP, Liberals, and the Greens that I am concerned that it’s going to be so split and the Conservative Party will get in again,” she said. “I just wish that there was one clear answer. Right at this moment, it’s not clear to me.”

Contact Maura Forrest at maura.forrest@yukon-news.com

Community council spots are still empty Ashley Joannou News Reporter

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ukon’s Community Services Minister Currie Dixon is going to have to step in to fill vacancies in some local advisory councils after too few people came forward on their own.

Even after extending the deadline for nominations to Thursday, there are still two vacant spots on the Tagish council and three in the South Klondike area, the department confirmed.

The five-seat councils in unincorporated communities are meant to advise the territorial

government on local concerns.

“You represent the voice of your community,” the department’s community advisor Chris Madden said ahead of the deadline.

“Some of these local advisory areas have populations that are approaching that of some municipalities in the Yukon.”

Councils get together monthly.

In the past 12 months there have been two forums organized to meet with the minister, Madden said.

These councils don’t have the same level of authority as the municipal kind found in bigger populations like Whitehorse.

They can’t, for example, make their own bylaws.

The Department of Community Services bought ads in newspapers, on the radio and online to try to get people interested in running in all the local elections coming up on Oct. 15.

Things were looking a little more dire before the deadline was extended. At that point no one was interested in representing Carcross.

The territory’s Municipal Act gives the minister authority to appoint members to the councils when there are vacancies. But it doesn’t give him a bigger carrot to offer people.

Whoever Dixon appoints still has to meet the same qualifications as someone who could have put their name forward earlier, meaning they have to live in the area.

“We keep talking to the community,” Madden said.

As it stands, advisory councils in Marsh Lake and Mount Lorne have been acclaimed.

Ibex Valley is the only place where there will be an election.

Before the deadline was extended, there were two empty spots on that council. The three people who put their name forward ahead of the first deadline have been acclaimed. Now there are

five people vying to fill the last two spots.

Kevin Barr, the MLA for Southern Lakes and the NDP’s community services critic, said he goes to a lot of the advisory council meetings.

He believes the number of vacancies is a sign that the communities don’t feel like they are being heard by the government.

“There’s also frustration … with being an advisory board, that the government doesn’t take their advice,” he said. “That relationship, I think, is also a factor.”

Contact Ashley Joannou at ashleyj@yukon-news.com

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Boosters of sports complex seek support from candidates Myles Dolphin News Reporter

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he Yukon Outdoor Sports Complex Association is hoping to score a goal with city council candidates at an open house on Tuesday evening.

Earlier this year, the association presented its plans to build a sports complex in the Whistle Bend subdivision to Whitehorse city council.

The Yukon government had committed financially to the first phase of the project, which would have featured two full artificial turf fields, a rubberized track, bleachers and changing rooms.

The facility would have been leased to the association, which would have managed its day-today operations.

They also would have been on the hook for the operations and maintenance costs. According to a proposal submitted by Associated Engineering, the cost to operate two fields and one track was estimated at $50,778 per year.

Members of council raised several concerns with the project from the start. A big one is whether the city could end up on the hook if the newly formed group running the facility wound up in debt. The Yukon government has promised to financially backstop the facility’s operations, but councillors raised doubts about whether that promise would hold under future governments.

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The Yukon Outdoor Sports Complex Association is holding an open house on Tuesday evening to garner support for a new sports facility in Whistle Bend. cerns, the government indicated it was willing to scale down and scrap the second phase of the project, which would have featured a 2,000-square foot multipurpose building and courts for various user groups.

But that wasn’t enough to sway a majority of councillors, who ultimately voted in late April against the zoning amendment that would have given the government permission to build the facility.

Tony Gaw, the association’s president, is organizing the event on Tuesday in an effort to “get the project fired up again.”

This time around, he said the association has a brand new design that is site-specific to Whistle Bend.

He said he’s reached out to all 25 municipal candidates, with several of them indicating they would support a motion to bring the project back before city council.

“I hope someone brings it forward before the New Year,” he said.

“Last time around, the process seemed to keep getting stalled.

I’d expect that if council approved a zoning amendment, we could get started on construction this winter to clear the land.

“Then we’d be ready for construction next summer.”

Gaw said the Yukon government was still on board to cover the cost of the first phase of the project, approximately $5.5 million.

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He has always insisted there would be little maintenance involved for the fields. Requirements include bookings and accounting duties, plus a part-time employee to open and close the facility and clean it up.

He said he wouldn’t do anything differently if he had to pitch the idea to city council a second time.

“We answered every question that came up and we presented our conceptual design to them upwards of a year before our presentation,” he added.

“I hope there would be a better relationship between us, the city and the government this time around.”

Following council’s rejection of the zoning amendment in April, the Yukon Party issued a news release that singled out Mayor Dan Curtis for blocking the project. While the letter accused Curtis of casting the deciding vote on the matter, in fact, the vote ended in a 3-3 tie, and Curtis happened to be the last member of council to cast his vote.

Yukon Premier Darrell Pasloski also took to the airwaves that week to state that if the city wasn’t amenable to the idea of a sports complex, the next council might be.

Curtis defended his decision at the following council meeting in a heated speech that lasted almost 15 minutes.

“There are six of us and each one of our votes is a deciding vote,” Curtis said at the time.

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How to vote in the upcoming federal election another voter’s address, if that person cannot prove his/her own News Reporter residency.

The rules could make voting he 2015 federal election harder for groups that tend to is just over two weeks lack identifi cation or fixed adaway, and voter informadresses, including First Nations, tion cards have been mailed out people in rural communities and across the Yukon. students.

But thanks to a technological Chief Doris Bill of the Kwanlin glitch, some people are in for a Dun First Nation said many of surprise when they see where her nation’s members used to use they’re supposed to vote. vouching and voter information “Some people in Watson cards to vote. She said changes Lake were told to vote in Haines Junction,� said Elections Canada to the law, combined with the fact that some of her people returning officer Sue Edelman. lack transportation, will make it “Some people in Whitehorse were told to vote in Dawson City.� “challenging� to get people to the polls.

Edelman said the mistakes She said the First Nation is were caused by a problem with working to make sure people are how Elections Canada’s system registered, and may hire somereads Yukon postal codes. She one to meet with people and help estimated that about 300 Whitehorse residents and 200 people in them with their identification.

Chief Mathieya Alatini of the the communities were affected.

Kluane First Nation said memEdelman said new voter inforbers of her community used to mation cards are being issued, just show up at the polls and but may not arrive at voters’ vote, but that’s no longer possible homes in time for the advance because of the identification polls, which open on Oct. 9.

She said voters should call the requirement. She said her First Elections Canada office in White- Nation has already hired someone to go door-to-door to make horse at 1-866-564-6480 if they want to vote in the advance polls sure people are registered. “I think it’s extremely imporand aren’t sure where to go, or if tant for our citizens to get out they see other mistakes on their and have their votes count,� she voter information cards.

But a computer glitch isn’t the said.

But registering can also be a only factor that could complicate challenge for voters with post voting in this federal election. office boxes and no street adThe new Fair Elections Act, dresses. Voters have to provide passed in 2014, includes two a document that shows their changes that may affect Yukon physical address – typically a voters. lot number, if there is no street The first is that voters must address. That could be a utility or now prove their residency when mortgage bill, for instance. Edelthey go to the polls. During the last federal election, voters could man said this requirement has not changed from previous elecuse their voter information card tions. But people living in First as a proof of address. That is no Nations-owned housing may not longer allowed. have many of those documents.

The second change is that Instead, First Nations can voters with proper identification provide their members with a cannot vouch for the identity of someone else. However, they can letter confirming their residency. still swear an oath to confirm Alatini said the Kluane First NaMaura Forrest

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Elections Canada returning officer Sue Edelman says anyone with questions regarding voting in the upcoming federal election should contact her office. tion is currently providing those letters to all eligible voters in each of its 65 housing units.

Still, she doesn’t believe the paperwork will dissuade community members from voting.

In fact, she thinks it may have the opposite effect. “I think if anything, the awareness that it is more strict... has incited people’s desire to vote.�

Kara Johancsik, communications coordinator for BYTE, a Yukon youth advocacy organization, said young people with transient lifestyles may also find it difficult to prove their residency. “I think that young people will face challenges if they search for the right ID. That’s the main access barrier,� she said.

But she advised people who are concerned about their ability to vote simply to go to one of the Elections Canada offices in Whitehorse, Dawson City, or Watson Lake. “Bring ID, bring your mail. Get it all together... and go to an Elec-

tions Canada office,� she said. “You have the right to vote. Don’t let the paperwork get in the way.�

Edelman said some of the concerns about changing election rules are the result of misinformation, and not as much has changed as some people might think. In fact, 1,800 of the 25,000 registered voters in the Yukon have already cast their ballots.

She also cautioned that Elections Canada’s online voter registration service does not work for people with post office boxes instead of street addresses. That means some voters may think they’re not registered when they actually are.

Edelman said anyone with questions or concerns about voting should contact Elections Canada. “We’re here to help. We’ve got a great location this year, right by the liquor store (in Whitehorse),� she said. “We’d love to hear from you. We really would.�

Contact Maura Forrest at maura.forrest@yukon-news.com

1 If you’ve received your voter information card, you are registered to vote. To vote, you need ID that proves your identity and address. Your driver’s licence is enough. Otherwise, bring two pieces of ID, one with your address. The address must match the one on your voter information card.

2 If you can’t prove your address, someone from the same polling division as you can swear an oath for you. You still need to have two pieces of ID. 3 If you’re a member of a First Nation, or if you reside in a student residence, seniors’ residence, shelter or long-term care facility, you can get a letter of confirmation of residence.

You still need to have one other piece of ID. 4 If you haven’t yet received your voter information card, you may not be registered to vote. You can register online, in person, or by mail before 6 p.m. on Oct. 13. You can also register at the polls, but it may take more time. If you have a post office box and not a street address, you cannot register online.

5 To register with a post office box, you must provide a document with your physical address (i.e. lot number), like a utility, tax, or mortgage bill.

You can then add your post office box to your file. You will then be allowed to vote with a driver’s licence or other ID that lists your post office box.

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ebt, decreasing job prospects and doobies were on the minds of high school students questioning politicians at Wednesday’s federal election forum.

The loudest reaction from the crowd at F.H. Collins came when one student asked Conservative incumbent Ryan Leef, Liberal candidate Larry Bagnell, NDP candidate Melissa Atkinson and Green candidate Frank de Jong what their positions were on legalizing marijuana.

The biggest surprise of the forum came from Ryan Leef, who appeared, during the 60 seconds he had to answer the question, to support decriminalization.

“I don’t think that Canadians in minor possession of marijuana should be caught up in the criminal justice system, and this is coming from a former police officer,” Leef said. “I don’t think we should be criminalizing Canadians for minor possession, plain and simple.”

As things stand, possession of up to 30 grams of marijuana is treated as a lesser, summary conviction, while possession of larger amounts is treated as a more serious, indictable offence.

But this summary conviction is still dealt with by the courts, and can carry a maximum penalty of a fine of $1,000 and six months in jail.

When the News asked Leef to clarity his comment, he changed his position, essentially saying that he supported the status quo. “I’m in favour of ensuring that minor possession of marijuana is not treated as a criminal indictable offence,” said Leef. “It should be, in my opinion, a summary conviction matter.”

Leef went on to suggest, incorrectly, this would “effectively equate to a ticket.” While this isn’t true, Conservatives have toyed with the idea of allowing police to issue tickets to people caught with small amounts of marijuana. In March, Justice

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Minister Peter MacKay told the National Post the idea was still being considered. The Conservatives don’t appear to have publicly broached the idea since then.

On stage, Leef was quick to pivot to one of his party’s familiar responses to the Liberal’s plan to legalize the drug, saying that pot should not be the focus of this election.

“Our priorities shouldn’t be, for Canadians, legalizing marijuana. Our priorities should be giving you an education, a job, a healthy and active lifestyle,” he said.

Bagnell supported his party’s promise to legalize marijuana.

“There will be great taxes going to the government that we can use for post-secondary education,” Bagnell said. “This way the proceeds from crime will no longer go to the mafia, they’ll go to the government to provide services for you.”

Atkinson drew on her experience as a lawyer to explain her party’s stance to decriminalize the drug.

“I’ve been a lawyer in this town for 15 years and have seen way too many people get caught up in the system for smaller amounts of pot,” she said.

“What that means is you have to look at the overall expenses, about what it means to engage a police officer, Crown prosecutor, defense council, court time, for smaller amounts,” she said.

De Jong said the Green Party has advocated for the decriminalization of marijuana for years.

“So many people were tied up in courts for something that doesn’t kill you. Cigarettes kill 30,000 Canadians every year whereas marijuana doesn’t kill anyone…. It’s backwards.”

Aside from the question about drugs, students asked about the amount of debt they’ll face after leaving a postsecondary education and the kind of housing and job prospects they’ll find after graduating.

“I want to make sure that

when you graduate school, you have a choice,” Leef said.

That means continuing to fund programming at Yukon College and making sure education and training matches the available jobs that are out there, he said.

The Green Party, de Jong pointed out, is the only one that has promised to get rid of college and university tuition completely.

“Yes Mr. Leef, young people have a choice, but only if they’re wealthy enough.”

Bagnell pointed to his party’s pledge to invest in First Nations education and promised other education-related announcements were on the way.

This is far from the last time these four will see each other ahead of the election on Oct. 19.

The next candidates’ forum is on Oct. 6 and is being hosted by the Yukon Conservation Society and the Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society.

Contact Ashley Joannou at ashleyj@yukon-news.com

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eter Jickling wants Whitehorse residents to rely less on their vehicles and more on their legs.

The former editor of What’s Up Yukon is running for a seat on city council.

If elected, one of his priorities would be to help turn Whitehorse into more of a pedestrian city.

“I want to help reduce our car culture, which is quite prevalent,” the 34-year-old said.

One of his ideas would be to look at closing off a section of the downtown core to traffic during the summer months.

Jickling said he isn’t a big fan of the city’s trend of “knocking down trees every 10 years” and building a brand new subdivision. He wants to encourage more growth in the downtown core, and that means more affordable housing and small businesses.

“Maybe we could take advantage of the vacant lots,” he said.

“I think as more housing is built, it’s natural the prices will go down.”

It’s not just a municipal issue, Jickling said, which is why partnerships with the Yukon government are important.

The city could also do a better job of promoting its tax incentives to prospective developers, he said. For example, the city offers

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Peter Jickling, former editor of What’s Up Yukon, is running for a seat on city council. a tax grant of up to $500,000 over 10 years for the development of a downtown building containing at least 25 residential units.

If Jickling wins a seat, he also wants to advocate for people with disabilities.

“I think the city’s done an okay job, and I think the current

council was aware of things that needed to be improved, and took steps to achieve that,” he said. He noted that societies using City of Whitehorse land must now agree to review the accessibility issues of their facilities when their lease agreements come up for renewal.

People working in home care

have also told him that Whitehorse residents could greatly benefit from a second Handy Bus, Jickling said.

As it stands, there is only one in Whitehorse, and it doesn’t run on Sundays.

That makes it complicated for people who need to schedule

same-day appointments, he said.

“That’s not fair, it doesn’t allow people with limited mobility to fully engage with the city,” he added.

Working on climate change issues – despite not being a traditional municipal issue – is also important to him. The city has a responsibility to work towards decreasing its carbon footprint, he said.

According to the city’s website, an estimated 225,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions resulted from on-road transportation in 2011.

Working closer with Cold Climate Innovation at the Yukon Research Centre is an option, Jickling said.

“I’d like to see more of that – I think it would be cool if someone from Whitehorse came up with something that had a big impact in the circumpolar world,” he said.

Born and raised in Whitehorse, Jickling studied philosophy at the University of Lethbridge.

He lived in Edmonton for a while before moving back permanently to Whitehorse in Sept. 2008.

In 2011, his play Syphilis: A Love Story was presented in Whitehorse and also at various fringe festivals around Canada.

Jickling said he’s currently working on a second play.

The municipal election takes place on Oct. 15.

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here are many weighty issues this federal election. Canada’s role in supporting Syrian refugees. Competing schemes to help parents raising young children. The Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s recommendations. Electoral reform. And so on.

So, naturally enough, Yukon’s MP has dedicated a good part of his campaign to huffing away about a piece of legislation that was shot dead and buried more than three years ago, and for which there is remarkable consensus across Canada’s political parties to keep it that way.

We’re talking, of course, about the long-gun registry.

Our Conservative MP, Ryan Leef, seems to have dedicated a good chunk of his campaign war chest to blasting away on the issue. The person in his sights is his Liberal opponent, Larry Bagnell, who, during his own stint as MP, once helped to prop-up the long-gun registry after previously telling voters that he opposed it.

A full-page colour advertisement that Leef’s campaign placed in Wednesday’s newspaper features a large, red-tinged face of Bagnell, with the following words over top: “If Larry Bagnell comes back, the gun registry comes back.� Another caption proclaims, “Only a vote for Ryan Leef will stop a long-gun registry.�

This is misleading. In truth, the Liberals have long ruled out bringing back the gun registry. But you wouldn’t know that from looking at the ad.

Instead, the only context is a Dec. 2012 quotation from Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau: “If we had a vote tomorrow, I would vote once again to keep the long-gun registry.� The ad neglects to include the rest of Trudeau’s quotation from this time, in which he goes on to say that the registry was a “failed policy� because it was “so deeply divisive for far too many people.�

Taken as a whole, Trudeau’s message at this time seemed confusing and self-contradictory, but the Liberals have had nearly three years to clarify it: they haven’t entirely renounced the gun registry, but they have repeatedly promised they won’t bring it back.

The NDP have adopted a similar posture.

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itself on the subject soon afterward.

Of course, politicians have been known to say one thing and do another. But beyond the fevered imaginations of some gun enthusiasts, it’s hard to envision the return of the gun registry, widely derided as a billion-dollar boondoggle that treated law-abiding hunters as criminals. Conservatives are essentially asserting there is a secret scheme to do so, without offering a shred of evidence to support this theory.

This must feel like payback – for years, their party faced similarly paranoid attacks from left-wingers who claimed that Stephen Harper, upon seizing a majority government, would quickly ban abortion and much else that has not come to fruition. Now Conservatives are able to accuse the opposition parties of harbouring their own “secret agenda.�

Bagnell should certainly be judged on his past voting record. But the vote he cast in favour of the gun registry is not the simple morality tale that his detractors make it out to be. Bagnell faced the choice between going against his word and expulsion from his party.

Yes, he could have walked away from the Liberals to sit as an independent. But in doing so, he would have given up the benefits of party membership that helped him lobby in the best interests of his riding. This is a genuinely difficult trade-off.

Of course, this is all old news to anyone fol-

lowing such things. Bagnell cast his controversial vote five long years ago now, and everyone has by now formed their own opinion on it. It was the focus of Leef’s run for office four years ago. Now we’re hearing the same arguments all over again. When will it end?

This all must say something about the gun registry’s symbolic potency. During the longrunning debate over it, partisans on both sides never worried too much about sticking to the facts.

Some of the registry’s more hysterical detractors were sure it was part of a broader government plot to take away everyone’s guns.

The largely urban, liberal-minded Canadians who defended the registry as an important crime-fighting tool never had much in the way of evidence to support their views, either. In truth, gun-related crimes had begun to decline in Canada long before the registry’s introduction, and have continued along this trajectory since the registry was scrapped. And it was often lost in the debate that even after the gun registry’s disappearance, Canada’s gun licensing laws remain on the books.

But the most important thing to remember about the gun registry is that it’s dead, and nobody is campaigning to bring it back. Leef’s eagerness to suggest otherwise simply creates the impression he just doesn’t have that much else to say.

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LETTERS The environment should be a bigger election issue What are the issues that matter most to Canadian voters? Well, at the Speed Dating the Candidates event on Sept. 30, attendees were asked to indicate, by placing dots on a board, what were the three issues most important to them in each of the two upcoming elections.

For the federal election, the environment and climate change was the No. 1 issue. The economy was way down on the list.

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Finally, a poll that is useful Bagnell leading Ryan Leef by 20 points just a week before election day? Leef won.

So, are polls just a socially useless waste of space on the Internet, like Justin Bieber fansites and Youtube’s cat video channel?

Like so much else these days, it depends. There are quality polls and shaky polls. There are even polls that aren’t designed to find out anything, but rather exist to plant messages in people’s heads. You know, the kind of poll where they phone everyone in town and ask questions like, “Would you be more or less likely to support Democratic candidate Joe Blogs if you knew he used to smoke crack with Osama Bin Laden?”

It depends what question you are trying to answer, and on the reliability of the poll. If you are interested in national results, perhaps because you are a campaign manager deciding where to spend the advertising budget, or a big oil company trying to decide to make a billion-dollar investment in Alberta, then you should look at the poll aggregators.

These outfits combine multiple polls using fancy statistical techniques to essentially get a bigger sample size and a more reliable estimate. They also layer in non-polling data such as the past reliability of the polling company, the age of the poll, candidates’ voting records, incumbency status, whether the voter is registered or likely to vote, and so on.

The most famous poll aggregator is Nate Silver in the U.S., who became a minor rock star during the 2012 presidential

campaign. He appeared on Jon Stewart’s Daily Show, and his book The Signal and the Noise was named No. 1 non-fiction book for 2012 by Amazon and sold in huge numbers (although we might want to do a poll to see how many people actually read it). The accuracy of his presidential predictions is almost spooky.

He called all 50 states correctly in 2012.

In Canada, Eric Grenier’s Threehundredeight.com tries to do the same thing. Thanks in part to Nate Silver’s success, Threehundredeight has attracted a lot of attention in Canada during this election. If you read his methodology, it is clear a huge amount of thought and expertise went into crafting the model and the assumptions behind it.

Its current output suggests the three big parties are roughly tied in national support, with this translating regionally into the Conservatives winning the most seats.

However, there is a serious issue with Threehundredeight, and it has nothing to do with Eric Grenier or his methodology.

It is instead the relatively small number of polls his model has to aggregate, and their record of accurate predictions. Grenier’s model bombed the 2013 B.C. election. But that’s no surprise, since as mentioned above the polls he was plugging into it were all horribly wrong. Furthermore, we have fewer polls covering fewer elections in Canada for him to fine-tune his model. Nate Silver, on the other hand, has literally thousands of polls covering hundreds of presidential, Senate,

governor and other elections to work with.

I watch Threehundredeight’s output closely. It is the best we have in Canada. But I wouldn’t bet my claim on it. In particular, as some pundits have speculated, it is quite possible that Conservative support is systematically under-reported (as occurred in some of the polling disasters mentioned above). This could be because of differences between who is polled and who votes. Or because people are reluctant, for one reason or another, to tell pollsters they plan to vote Conservative. My bet is that Conservative results on election day will be a few points better than the pre-election polls.

Fortunately, I’m not a national campaign manager or oil company executive with a decision to make. I just have to decide how to vote in the Yukon.

This is where an actually useful poll makes its appearance.

Leadnow.ca, a campaign that encourages strategic voting to oust Conservative MPs, hired Environics Research to do polls in 31 ridings where the Conservative MP is considered vulnerable.

Their Yukon sample size is a respectable 497 and their poll was taken September 19-21. It was a robo-poll, using what the industry calls Interactive Voice Response technology. It targeted directory-listed phone numbers with postal codes attached to find Yukon voters, but did not include cellphone numbers. The latter is something that Nate Silver thinks is very important to do given the growing number of people without landlines. The

poll also, as far as I can tell, didn’t separate likely voters from the general population.

The poll results were that Larry Bagnell of the Liberals led with 39 per cent of decided voters, while the NDP’s Melissa Atkinson had 29 per cent. Conservative Ryan Leef had 27 per cent and the Green Party’s Frank de Jong had four per cent.

The poll had a theoretical margin of error of 4.4 points, within a 95 per cent confidence interval (which is what is often called “19 times out of 20” in the papers). Looking at the math, Atkinson’s lead on Leef is two points, which is within the 4.4 point margin of error. This means it is likely she is ahead of Leef, but the word “likely” means a less than 95 per cent chance.

Meanwhile, Bagnell’s lead of 10 points over Atkinson is more than double the margin of error.

This means that the chance of Atkinson being ahead of Bagnell is unlikely, with “unlikely” meaning a less than five per cent chance.

These are the polls. Take them for what they are worth with all their caveats and questions.

Nonetheless, the LeadNow poll is the most reliable and most recent poll we have. For those interested in strategic voting to get rid of Ryan Leef, the data suggests Bagnell is the best vote.

Disclosure: I am a friend and supporter of Larry Bagnell.

ance on where the city’s administration sees the city’s financial balances trending in the next Thank you to all those who five to 10 years. To compound decided to run in the municithe matter, nearly a year after it pal election. Could you please was announced it appears to be consider the municipal taxpayer a year behind schedule. over the next few weeks when From 2005 to 2014, Whitesoliciting votes from the citizens horse’s population increased by of Whitehorse?

23 per cent, the city collected As I write, the city has not more 75 per cent more in propbeen able to provide the public with is annual report for 2014. It erty taxes and it now spends 93 has belatedly, on Sept. 17, placed per cent more its staff; allowing for inflation of 20 per cent over its 2014 financial statements on this period it is apparent that its website, but the lack of the the taxpayer should asking more accompanying statistical sumquestions on why the city needs mary and discussion make it a $32.4 million payroll expense difficult for non-accountants to in 2014 that was only $16.8 milunderstand. lion in 2005.

It has stated that it should be When our city talks about posted “sometime in September,” which at the time of writing new records for transit usage, visits to Canada Games Centre could be more accurately described as “late September.” This and has staff inspecting our garshould be inexcusable during an bage, we should also be told the net cost to the city for providing election period. these. There is no chapter in the There is a pressing need for city’s sustainability plan that an informed discussion on the city’s finances. It has committed describes the impact of the plan itself to a building consolidation on the taxpayer. It might be an “unsustainable” sustainability project with a 20-year life cycle plan, as I don’t think the taxthat will require investment of payer will be as accommodating a majority its reserves, triple its as the plan hopes. debt and take two years of gas I do not oppose tax increases tax funding.

Yet there is no public guidthat are necessary and ex-

plained. I believe the city has a role in providing some of its existing services, and I do not oppose the building consolidation project on the premise it will lead to net cost savings over time. When provided, I have found the city’s financial information to be both comprehensive and informative. I do take exception, however, to continued tax increases and spending being undertaken with a lack of both transparency and accountability.

Until this situation changes, I think it is more than fair for our new mayor and council to say “No.” “No” to a tax increase in 2016, “no” to accepting that it takes nine months to present an annual report to citizens, and a big “no” to assuming any longterm financial commitments without a comprehensive plan.

Failing that, can I pay my 2016 taxes “sometime in July?” If you agree, please make sure your voice is heard in this election.

dollars to mental health initiatives across Canada by 2020. It’s a significant commitment to a project that has had a measurable impact in our Yukon communities.

The desire to communicate is a fundamental part of being human. Talking about how we feel helps us to define who we are – our values, beliefs and relationships take shape through how we express ourselves to others. Through the course of a life there are those difficult times when we feel like we have no one to turn to and say, “This is me… this is how I feel… this is who I am… I’m important.”

Sometimes loneliness and isolation limits who we can reach out to. Sometimes there’s no one we feel we can trust with the “big problems,” and sometimes the feelings are just so heavy that we think nobody out there will understand.

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have taken over 170 calls from Yukoners who needed to talk about things like grief, sadness, life events and sometimes even suicide. We are open to anyone who needs us, from anywhere in the Yukon.

The Yukon Distress and Support Line operates almost entirely through the dedication of trained volunteers who want to “be there” for their communities. It is through the hard work of these volunteers that our service can continue.

In November 2014, Northwestel and the Bell Let’s Talk Community Fund made a commitment to the creation and ongoing operations of the support line. This partnership allows us to maintain a confidential, anonymous and safe space for anyone in need of assistance.

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he polling industry has produced some epic fails over the years.

Most recently, pollsters predicted that the U.K. election would be neck-and-neck between the Tories and Labour.

The Conservatives won a historic majority.

I saw a similar incident back in 1992 during that British election. I was doing some beer-assisted psephological research in the pub at the famously left-wing London School of Economics on election night. The polls had been predicting a hung parliament, with the Tories taking a beating after a decade of Thatcherism. When the BBC announced a Tory majority late in the evening, the pub went silent and all you could hear was people dropping their pint glasses in stunned amazement.

Eric Grenier, who runs a prominent Canadian poll aggregator website, points out that not a single poll in the 2013 B.C. election showed the Liberals in the lead, even though they ended up with a majority government.

The 2012 Alberta election was another polling fiasco.

And here in the Yukon, who can forget the 2011 poll by local firm Datapath that showed Larry

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East vs. West: Canadian regional differences on display at TPP trade talks tions in the world that don’t assist their agriculture sector – because Canadian Press the first responsibility of a government is to feed its population,” ATLANTA Daoust said in an interview. rom the Liberal governments “To say, ‘No, we’re feeding our of eastern Canada, it’s conpeople from another jurisdiction’ – sternation. From a western that would be a little surprising.”

Conservative premier, however, the Ontario’s Liberal government prospect of Canada reaching a hishas been more vocal against the toric trade deal elicits celebration. federal Tories in the campaign. It’s A political and regional split now released a letter where two of over the Trans-Pacific Partnership its ministers expressed alarm over appeared Thursday at the Atlanta the potential impact of TPP. Brad conference centre that’s hosting Duguid and Jeff Leal said the provthe 12-country negotiations. ince was “extremely concerned” by There were duelling letters signals being sent about the auto released: one from Saskatchewan industry.

Premier Brad Wall that was very Across the continent and on the supportive of the TPP, and one other end of the political specfrom the Ontario government trum, Saskatchewan Premier Brad sounding the alarm bell.

Wall released an enthusiastic note Cabinet ministers from Liberal about the potential deal. governments in Ontario, Quebec, “Saskatchewan strongly supNova Scotia and New Brunswick ports Canada’s participation,” Wall were in Atlanta to press federal newrote in a Facebook post. gotiators against opening the dairy “The proposed TPP represents sector to foreign competition. unprecedented market access The Harper government will for our exports in a region that have to manage the political reacholds current and great potential tion in some of those places should demand for products that Sasit reach a deal less than three katchewan offers at a world leading weeks before election day, during a scale.” hard-fought campaign.

Among the biggest winners of Quebec’s economic developthe deal would be the cattle and ment minister says it’s not his govcanola industries, which stand to ernment’s style to tell people how make big gains in exports should they should vote federally, and he the anticipated reduction in can’t see it interfering in the federal Japanese tariffs materialize. election as a result of TPP. The federal government has But Jacques Daoust is among also pointed to the potential posithose eastern-province ministers tives in other parts of the country in Atlanta pushing against any – such as robotics, aeronautics and relaxation of dairy protections. a pork industry that touts 92,000 “I don’t know too many jurisdicAlexander Panetta

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But the politicians in that region are talking about dairy farmers and auto workers.

Dairy’s supply-managed system is heavily shielded from foreign competition. The system provides stability for Canadian farmers, but reduces selection and raises prices at the grocery store.

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Sources say the U.S. pushed for 10 per cent additional access, which the Canadian government refused.

The dairy advocates’ position is that no new products be allowed in. It’s New Brunswick’s position too, although that province’s agriculture minister predicted that won’t happen.

“I think what’s going to happen is they intend to make some sort of concessions,” Rick Doucet said.

“That’s up to them.”

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Even that compensation suggestion prompted provincial angst.

Daoust said compensation would be an admission of failure at the negotiating table. “I don’t want compensation – I want protection,” he said. Doucet put it another way: “Farmers want to work. They want to make a living. They don’t want to receive a welfare check.”

The lead Canadian minister at the negotiations has met with the provincial ministers. They described a polite tone in their chats with International Trade Minister Ed Fast. They said he solicited their recommendations.

“They’re supportive,” Doucet said of the federal side.

But said the provinces left without hard insights into bargaining developments. The talks have been extended another day into Friday, with some countries predicting a deal could get done in Atlanta.

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French debate gives leaders last major stage from which to sway Quebecers Sherbrooke, Calgary Conservative Jason Kenney came bearing Canadian Press his party’s message on religious face-coverings as he camOTTAWA paigned with local candidates. n Ascot Corner, Que., popuAnd in Quebec City, the Nalation 2,000, 50 farmers and tional Assembly voted Thursa few tractors showed up day to condemn acts of hate this week to protest outside an and violence against Muslim all-candidates meeting. citizens.

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in Quebec, with a few particularly provocative topics with the potential to shake up the vote. The final French-language debate on Friday, hosted by the TVA network, has become a high-stakes event for the leaders tussling over the province’s 78 seats.

In recent weeks, the NDP’s polling numbers in the prov-

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ince have softened, opening up the possibility of unexpected gains for their rivals.

For example, Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau is hoping to win back seats his party formerly held in Montreal. He was in the city’s suburbs Thursday, promoting more transit infrastructure to alleviate the city’s notorious gridlock The emotional issue of religious accommodation and specifically the wearing of face coverings during citizenship ceremonies, has become one of the most contentious issues.

There is wide support in the province for the Conservative and Bloc Quebecois position that women wearing the niqab be forced to remove it when swearing the oath.

But the niqab issue also appears to have spurred more that just anti-Islamic rhetoric in the province. A pair of teens tore the headscarf from a pregnant woman in Montreal earlier in the week, causing her to fall on the ground.

On Thursday, the National Assembly passed a unanimous motion saying that “Muslim Quebecers are full citizens and this legislature condemns without reservations hate speech and violence against all citizens of Quebec.”

Also Thursday Alberta NDP Premier Rachel Notley said she was troubled by how minority rights are being debated in the election campaign. She said it’s not helpful that minority rights issues are becoming political footballs, but did not elaborate.

NDP leader Tom Mulcair has criticized Harper and Duceppe for using the divisive issue to score political points, while acknowledging that many people feel strongly about it.

“The person who has the most to lose is Mr. Mulcair, because it’s his support base which is the most divided on the niqab issue,” said Louis

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Massicotte, a political science professor at Laval University.

“He counts on the support of Quebec nationalists and they’re quite sensitive in general to questions of integration.”

Despite the attention to the niqab, pollster Christian Bourque said many Quebecers watching the debate will be trying to decide whether Tom Mulcair or Justin Trudeau has the best chance of beating Conservative Leader Stephen Harper.

“If they feel Justin has the wind in his sails, some will go in his direction because he’s got that potential to beat Mr. Harper,” said Bourque, executive vice-president of Leger.

“If they still believe that the NDP is the only force that can beat the Conservatives, a lot of people will remain with the NDP and they may get some of that (lost) support back when everybody gets over this niqab thing.”

The Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal is likely to be a major topic of discussion during the debate, with negotiations coming to a head potentially a few hours before the broadcast.

The Quebec dairy industry worries that deal will weaken the supply management system of tariffs and production quotas and Harper will try to allay those fears.

“It’s really been an issue throughout, from the every beginnings of the campaign,” said Gordon Lambie, a reporter with the Sherbrooke Record in Quebec’s Eastern Townships region. “ Mulcair has been saying this week that Harper doesn’t have the mandate to negotiate any sort of final deal during an election campaign.

“The NDP will never accept a deal that compromises the supply management system that has provided honest work for thousands of families across Canada,” Mulcair told supporters in Montreal on Thursday.

Mulcair also focused on the party’s stance on the environment, another issue with resonance in the province. The Energy East oil pipeline project has met significant opposition and Bloc Quebecois Leader Gilles Duceppe deliberately raised it during the first Frenchlanguage debate.

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Only four Sea Kings due to retire in near future despite retirement party 26 Sea Kings still operating.

Defence sources say the first Canadian Press two that were written off were already out of service after beOTTAWA ing damaged. National Defence nly four of the air force’s would not confirm that, saying venerable CH-124 Sea only that “to date, four aircraft King helicopters are due have indeed been removed to be written off between now from flying status but have yet and the end of next March, deto be formally disposed of.� spite last June’s splashy retireAlthough exceptionally wellment party for the five decademaintained, technology aboard old workhorses. the Sea Kings is vintage, and in National Defence is also order to smooth the transition spending more than $500,000 the air force quietly approved on a program to ensure the a program in 2013 to enhance transition to the new CH-148 the old helicopters with modCyclones is not a total culture ern data links, sophisticated shock for pilots and aircrew. infrared and electronic optic The Conservative governsystems and digital sonar proment, which has struggled to cessors. deliver replacement maritime “We can’t go cold turkey helicopters, went to great from the Sea King to the Cylengths last spring – before the clone,� Kenney said in a recent election call – to demonstrate interview. “There’s going to the Sea Kings could begin retir- have to be a phase-in transiing in 2015 as promised. tion, and that’s why some of It held a media event at the these life extensions have to military air base in Shearwahappen.� ter, N.S., that included Diane The kits not only make movFinley – public works minister ing to the Cyclone a less jarring at the time – declaring she experience, but also enhance was “delighted to begin putthe capability of the Sea Kings, ting these workhorses out to originally built in the 1960s. pasture.�

A defence source with knowlIn a recent opinion piece edge of the file said the kits for the Ottawa-based politiwill prove useful to keep the cal publication The Hill Times, old birds flying, especially if Defence Minister Jason Kenney Sikorsky is unable to deliver complained that the introducfully capable Cyclone helicoption of the Cyclones was being ters between 2018 and 2021 as overlooked as a Conservative promised. procurement success story.

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The Harper government looked at other aircraft in the fall of 2013 before deciding to stick with the original deal under re-negotiated terms, which when announced by Public Works in January 2014 promised the Cyclones would be “fully operational� by 2018.

After months of negotiations with Sikorsky, those terms became having all helicopters delivered by 2018, but not all of them will have fully operational combat software until 2021. “Under the revised delivery plan implemented with the amendments to the Maritime Helicopter Acquisition contract in June 2014, the helicopters

will undergo continuous capability upgrades, with technical upgrades happening annually,� said Tessier.

The Cyclones, in their delivered state, will be restricted to aircrew training, search and rescue and ground surveillance missions, according to defence documents. The software upgrades envisioned after 2018 will allow for operations in all weather at sea, including combat and anti-submarine warfare.

It will be next year sometime before the Cyclones are allowed to even participate in training exercises and the restricted operations mean the air force will be limited – even after 2018 – on the number of helicopters it can deploy.

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Audience there but not money: CBC CEO disputes Harper comment over funding annual general meeting in Winnipeg on Tuesday. “It’s about Canadian Press a broken finance model that WINNIPEG doesn’t work, that used to be he head of the CBC is hit- built on advertising revenues ting back at Conservative supporting a drop in parliamentary appropriations. In this Leader Stephen Harper environment, it doesn’t work over comments the national anymore.� broadcaster is floundering beThe 2012 federal budget cut cause of low ratings rather than CBC’s funding by $115 mila lack of funding.

CEO Hubert Lacroix says the lion over three years. Last year, the broadcaster said it faced a CBC has healthy ratings, but is $130-million shortfall – comcrippled by a broken funding pounded by the loss of broadmodel. “It’s not about a lack of audi- cast rights to NHL games – and was cutting 657 jobs ence,� he said after the CBC’s Chinta Puxley

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Harper told a private radio station in Quebec that the CBC’s budget crunch isn’t due to government cuts, but because of its low ratings. “The reason for the difficulties aren’t the cuts,� Harper said in an interview broadcast Monday. “There aren’t cuts. The reason is the loss of (CBC’s) audience. It’s a problem for the CBC to fix.�

There is a limit to state subsidies, he added.

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Canada must look to other European countries for ideas on how to fund public broadcasting, Lacroix suggested.

France and Spain collect revenue from Internet service providers, while the United Kingdom uses a licensing system based on the purchase of a television to raise cash.

Germany has a household fee, which others are interested in adopting as people increasingly turn to digital platforms, Lacroix said. “People are no longer buying television sets. We should have a conversation about what’s the best funding model for us. We can’t continue in this environment.�

The Liberals and the NDP are promising to restore funding to the CBC. But even with a cash injection, Lacroix said, the broadcaster would not change its strategic plan.

The CBC plans to focus on its digital platform and has a goal of doubling its users to 18 million a month by 2020, he told the meeting.

It is also paring down its supper-hour television newscasts to between 30 and 60 minutes and is adding local TV news inserts throughout the evening.

Lacroix said that contrary to claims by the union for CBC employees, the broadcaster is not planning a “fire sale� of its

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Hubert Lacroix, President and CEO of CBC/Radio Canada, speaks at their annual public meeting at the University of Winnipeg on Tuesday. property, but will consolidate where it makes sense.

Carmel Smyth, president of the Canadian Media Guild, said Lacroix is not underlining how pivotal the Oct. 19 election is for those who value the CBC. “For 80 years, the government has funded the CBC. It has given it a set mandate that the CBC has to comply,� she said. “For Mr. Harper to suddenly say the problems are not a result of his funding cuts boggles the mind. “The CBC is in a funding crisis. It has all these programming responsibilities and it just can’t keep doing them with the funding at the level that it’s at.�

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Retroactive change of law prompts OPP to drop probe of RCMP gun data destruction ter MacKay referred the matter to the public prosecutors’ office on Canadian Press May 6, but the following day the OTTAWA government tabled an omnibus bill that retroactively wiped the he Ontario Provincial Police have dropped an in- offences from the legal code.

The government also backvestigation into the RCMP’s dated the changes to when destruction of gun registry data, the original bill to kill the gun saying the alleged offences no registry was tabled in Parliament, longer exist under a back-dated, months before it actually passed retroactive Conservative law into law, wiping out “any request, passed last spring. complaint, investigation, appliDocuments filed in court by the federal information commis- cation, judicial review appeal or other proceeding” related to the sioner’s office include a letter final six months of the registry’s from the OPP that lays out four legal existence. potential offences by the RCMP The OPP letter states that it when the national police force was looking into three possible destroyed long gun registry reoffences under the Access to Incords in 2012.

The OPP letter, dated Sept. 22, formation Act and one criminal offence, mischief to computer details at length how Conservadata. tive changes buried in a highly Word of the dropped police controversial omnibus budget investigation came Tuesday as a bill last spring close off every large group of Canadian academavenue for investigation of the alleged RCMP offences. ics published an open letter to “After giving the provisions Prime Minister Stephen Harper described above detailed consid- saying the retroactive legal eration, I am of the view that the change “will be judged in the retrospective aspect of the Bill court of public opinion: citizens C-59 amendments completely will be justifiably alarmed that remove any criminal liability in their government has taken acrelation to deletion of long-gun tions that have profound, negaregistry data by the RCMP,” writes OPP Det. Supt. Dave Truax.

The bill was passed just prior to the House of Commons rising for the summer.

Parliament was subsequently dissolved in early August when Prime Minister Stephen Harper triggered the current election campaign.

Information commissioner Suzanne Legault has launched a Environmental constitutional challenge of the government’s retroactive changes Grant Deadline to the legislation, called the EndOctober 15, 2015 ing the Long-gun Registry Act, or ELRA. Applications are accepted Legault issued a special report from community groups and to Parliament last spring laying businesses for environmental out how the RCMP knowingly deprojects. stroyed registry files, even though it knew those records were part $21,000 available at this of an active investigation under application intake. the Access to Information Act, For eligibility and criteria, and even though the federal pubcall 668-8652 or visit lic safety minister had assured Legault’s office that the Mounties whitehorse.ca/envirogrant would abide by the access law and preserve the data.

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The letter, signed by some 80 academics, states that “a government should not decriminalize its own actions if they were illegal at the time they were committed.

This requirement precludes laws that are retroactive as they would re-write history.”

Legault has said the backdated legal changes – coming in the face of an active investigation and a finding of wrongdoing by her office – set a “perilous precedent” that could allow future governments to retroactively rewrite laws on everything from spending scandals to electoral fraud.

NDP Leader Tom Mulcair at the time called the changes “banana-republic behaviour” but parliamentary procedure experts said the retroactive law, while un-

orthodox, could not be stopped, and it received royal assent on June 23.

Expert affidavits filed in Ontario Superior Court by Legault’s office question Parliament’s power to enact laws that retrospectively infringe on Canadians’ quasi-constitutional right to government information.

“Virtually all formulations of the rule of law principle – in Canada and elsewhere in peer common law jurisdictions – include the idea that laws should be prospective rather than retrospective or retroactive,” says the 87-page affidavit by law professor Lorne Sossin of York University’s Osgoode Hall.

“The reasons for this are obvious. Imagine if a government that had acted corruptly could simply have legislation passed retrospectively altering the

consequences of rules by which it operated so as to make illegitimate actions legitimate.”

The Supreme Court of Canada has ruled that criminal punishments cannot be changed retroactively, but hasn’t looked at the notion of retroactively absolving an act that was criminal at the time of the offence.

Law professor Jamie Cameron of the University of Toronto notes in his affidavit that the Supreme Court made access to government information a quasi-constitutional right in 2010.

“In doing so, the Court stated its commitment to ‘open government,’ declaring that ‘access to information in the hands of public institutions can increase transparency in government, contribute to an informed public, and enhance an open and democratic society.”’

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Nunavut coroner agrees with inquest that suicide a public health crisis total number of deaths reached 45 – a number that included an Canadian Press 11-year-old child – and brought the territory’s suicide rate to 13 IQALUIT, Nunavut 1/2 times the national average. unavut’s chief coroner Few in the territory are unafsupports the verdict of a fected. fatality inquest jury that Almost everyone knows found suicide should be declared someone who has committed a public health emergency in the suicide. The territory is replete territory. with tragedy, including one case An official acknowledgment in which a grandmother who was that Nunavut’s suicide rate is a distraught over the suicide of her crisis might be the way to break a granddaughter killed herself. logjam in the territory’s ability to Late Friday, the jury returned implement major parts of its sui- a verdict re-emphazing 41 of the cide prevention strategy, Padma 42 recommendations in NuSuramala said Monday. navut’s 2010 suicide prevention “We came to know through plan. It added another 10 recomthe inquest there was an issue mendations from the territorial to implement the suicide action government that were made plan,” she said. “They were lackduring the inquest. ing only in funding.”

But none of them will prevent The jury also said Nunavut a single death unless they are should create a ministry excluput into play – and that takes sively devoted to suicide preven- resources, said Suramala. tion.

“A considerable amount of The territory’s health minister effort has been put in to develop refused to say how the governNunavut’s suicide prevention ment will respond. strategy,” she said. “We know it “I have to work with my cabiwas lacking in the implementanet colleagues,” said Paul Okalik. tion.”

“I will be taking all the recomDeclaring a public health mendations to cabinet.” emergency might qualify the terSuramala called the inquest in ritory for federal programs, she early 2014 after a record number said. of people in Nunavut had killed Jack Hicks, a researcher who themselves the previous year. The has done important studies on Bob Weber

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“There’s an accepted basket of things you’re supposed to do,” said Hicks, who pointed to jurisdictions such as Quebec where teen suicide has been cut in half over a decade.

“Nunavut has not done the usual stuff. Suicide alertness and intervention training is barely alive in Nunavut.”

Hicks noted that a recent letter from Nunavut Premier Peter Taptuna spelling out the territory’s election priorities contained no mention of mental-health issues.

But Okalik said progress has been made.

All Nunavut communities now have mental health nurses, he said, and new mental-health facilities have opened with more to follow.

“We are providing resources and attending to this matter as a government,” Okalik said. “We view these as improvements, but as the inquiry stated, there needs to be more work done.”

The territory has resisted calls for an emergency declaration before. Suramala wrote thenhealth minister Keith Peterson in the spring of 2013 to request the move, but nothing happened.

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Here’s a look at why the announcement matters to the future of Native Hawaiians and the history that led up to it.

What is the interior department proposing?

It is giving Native Hawaiians an option to have a governmentto-government relationship with the United States. It would be up to Native Hawaiians to “determine whether and how to reorganize its government,” according to the proposed rule, which the public will have 90 days to weigh in on.

The plan would extend to Native Hawaiians recognition similar to what many Native Americans tribes have had for generations. However, the department stresses that the Native Hawaiian government won’t automatically be eligible for federal Indian programs, services and benefits unless Congress allows it.

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Native Hawaiians are members of an ethnic group indigenous to the Hawaiian Islands.

Native Hawaiians can trace their ancestry to aboriginal people who, prior to 1778, occupied and exercised sovereignty in the area that now constitutes the state of Hawaii, according to the Interior

Department.

Hawaiians to ratify, said Nai Aupuni, the non-profit organization guiding the election, convention and ratification process.

What happened to the hawaiian kingdom?

There has been no formal, organized Native Hawaiian government since 1893, when a group of American businessmen overthrew the Hawaiian Kingdom, with support from U.S. Marines. Until then, the United States recognized the Hawaiian nation’s independence, extended full diplomatic recognition to the Hawaiian government and entered into several treaties with the Hawaiian monarch.

The United States annexed Hawaii five years later. Hawaii became a state in 1959.

Was this been done before?

Many Native Hawaiians have long been clamouring for selfdetermination. Former U.S. Sen. Daniel Akaka spent about a dozen years trying to get a bill passed that would give Native Hawaiians the same rights already extended to many Native Americans and Alaska Natives. Efforts to get the bill to a vote have consistently been blocked. Akaka retired in 2013.

What are the next steps?

A process is under way for Native Hawaiians to elect delegates who will attend a constitutional convention scheduled for next year. The delegates will decide whether to offer a constitution or other governance document for

What would a possible government look like?

It’s unclear, because the options and opinions are numerous. They include complete independence from the U.S., a form of dual citizenship and maintaining the status quo.

What do supporters think?

“For supporters of federal recognition, this is a huge step,” said Michelle Kauhane, president of the Council for Native Hawaiian Advancement, which supports a dual citizenship. “This helps us ensure that this is a possibility.”

What do opponents think?

“This is just part of the grand scheme to make us Indians,” said Walter Ritte, a Native Hawaiian activist from Molokai.

It doesn’t do anything toward correcting the wrongs of the overthrow, said Dennis “Bumpy” Kanahele, a Native Hawaiian sovereignty activist.

“It won’t protect our culture, our traditions,” he said.

What if Native Hawaiians don’t want a relationship?

Then it will not be re-established, the Interior Department said. It says the relationship hinges on “broad-based community support.”

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Marijuana users sniff, score bags of bud as Oregon pot shops launch recreational sales Jonathan J. Cooper & Bob Seavey Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore.

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ager night owls looking to score some of the first recreational pot in Oregon bought up baggies of bud at shops that opened early Thursday, some taking advantage of door-buster deals.

Some of the more than 250 dispensaries that already offer medical marijuana welcomed lines of enthusiasts soon after midnight – just moments after it became legal to sell to anyone who is at least 21.

There were no reports of problems from early sales, although most stores planned to open at a more reasonable hour.

At Portland’s Shango Premium Cannabis, co-founder Shane McKee said the first sale to an excited customer came about a minute after midnight, with many others waiting. He called the moment significant. “I think it’s not only historical for folks in Oregon but nationwide – anytime people start selling that as an alternative to alcohol or tobacco,� he said in a telephone interview shortly after midnight.

The first buyer at McKee’s store, Davia Fleming of Portland, said the atmosphere was upbeat for the launch of the new industry. “It’s the end of a prohibition,� said Fleming, who uses the drug for medicinal purposes.

The store offered its first 25 customers a 35 to 40 per cent discount

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A customer holds a sample bud of marijuana at Amazon Organics, a pot dispensary in Eugene, Ore. on Thursday. and was handing out soda, coffee, juice and other refreshments, McKee said. Many stores in Oregon were trying to lure customers with extended hours, food giveaways and discounted marijuana.

Shoppers have one more incentive to buy early and often: Under Oregon law, pot purchases will be tax-free until January – a savings of up to 20 per cent.

Store owners say they are hopeful they can avoid the shortages and price spikes that followed the start of legal sales last year in Washington and Colorado, the only other states where the drug can now be sold for recreational use. Alaska could begin retail sales next year.

One store offered a goody bag with T-shirts, but no free marijuana. Another will have a live band and 10 per cent discounts. The marijuana review site Leafly will set up with food trucks at a handful of stores, giving away free meals to anyone who promotes the service on social media.

Several stores have erected billboards in Portland. A shop in Merlin is advertising on the radio. “I’m just trying to basically stock up for maybe four or five times what the normal volume would be,� said Chris Byers, owner of River City Dispensary in the southern Oregon town of Merlin.

Customers can buy as much as 7

grams at a time of dried marijuana flower and leaf – the part that’s generally smoked – plus plants and seeds. For the next year or so, pot-infused candy, cookies, oils and lotions will be available only to people with medical marijuana cards as the state works on retail regulations for those products.

Oregon has a robust supply system that has supported medical marijuana users and the black market. Companies have invested

in massive warehouses in Portland to grow the drug indoors, and southern Oregon has some of the nation’s best conditions for outdoor cultivation.

Growers don’t face strict regulations yet, so the supply can more easily flow into retail stores than it did in Washington and Colorado.

Still, there is concern. Summer has historically been a time of marijuana shortages in Oregon, and most of the outdoor crop is not ready to harvest. Indoor growers have had minimal time to ramp up production, because lawmakers only approved the Oct. 1 start date three months ago. “We have kind of a seasonal growing market here in Oregon,� said Jeremy Pratt, owner of Nectar Cannabis, which has four stores in Portland. “We have lots of product in the fall, and then it kind of gets tight this time of year anyway.�

Green Oasis, which has two locations in Portland and more on the way, has prepared by trying to cultivate strong relationships with growers.

It will entice customers Thursday evening with an outdoor band and offer a 10 per cent discount to those who spend at least $40, coowner Matthew Schwimmer said. “We don’t know of anyone else doing a band, and we thought it was a good idea to give back to the community,� Schwimmer said.

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On the edge of the Arctic, Finland is suddenly a top choice for Iraqis seeking asylum seekers, has seen higher numbers of Iraqis, who make up a small Associated Press percentage of the migrants arriving in Europe overall.

HELSINKI Last year, just 790 Iraqis apfter 25 days of winding plied for asylum in Finland and through Europe on buses, only 123 were approved. About trains, cars, a motorcycle 350 were rejected with more and even a horse cart, Firas than 100 deported to Iraq and Afandi reached the end of the the remainder returned to other line: Finland.

EU countries where they first ar“For me, this is where I want rived. Some were given tempoto be,” the 48-year-old Iraqi rary permits to stay on compaselectrical engineer said outside sionate grounds, taking into a reception centre for asylumaccount factors like age, illness or seekers in a plush, leafy quarter pregnancy. of Helsinki, sighing deeply as he Finnish officials say the recalled his exhausting journey. sudden increase seems to be “People here are civilized, calm partly driven by online rumours and it’s quiet.” about quick handling of asylum Finland, a country of 5.5 applications, generous benmillion people on the edge of efits and an abundance of jobs. the Arctic with vast expanses People making their way through of forests and reindeer roamEurope often share information ing the wilds, has suddenly and and tips about their journeys on unexpectedly emerged as a top Facebook and other social media destination for Iraqis who are platforms. crossing the Mediterranean to In reality, Finland’s reception Europe along with hundreds of for asylum-seekers differs little thousands of others fleeing confrom other EU countries, and its flict and poverty in the Middle economy has entered its fourth East and Africa. year of recession.

Some 11,900 Iraqis have ap“We don’t know where these plied for asylum in Finland this ideas came from,” said Hanna year, accounting for 70 per cent Kautto, a spokeswoman for the of all claims. More than 8,600 Finnish Immigration Service. arrived in September alone.

She noted that the average This year only Germany, by far time for handling asylum applithe biggest recipient of asylumcations is more than six months Matti Huuhtanen

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and growing as the number of arrivals increases. In neighbouring Sweden, a popular destination, it’s about eight months.

On Wednesday, Kautto said that officials were temporarily suspending decision-making on Iraqi and Somali asylum claims because of “the ongoing assessment of the security situation in Iraq and Somalia.”

Many Iraqis arriving in the Swedish city of Malmo from Denmark earlier this month told AP journalists they were on their way to Finland. Some said they thought they would get residence permits faster there. Others thought the chances of staying there permanently were greater.

“In Sweden, maybe when your country is OK they will take you back to your country and you will lose your money, your everything,” said 23-year-old Ghanem, who declined to give his full name because he was worried about being identified by European authorities. “But Finland is very good. I will love it. In Iraq, all people talk about Finland.”

His enthusiasm is not shared by everyone making the journey, which typically starts with people taking small boats from Turkey to the Greek islands, then travelling northeast through Europe by foot and on trains and buses. Some who have reached the northern edge of Europe have turned back around, seemingly disappointed with the welcome.

“I urge everyone not to come; it’s terrible here,” a man who identified himself as Ali from Baghdad’s southern Abu Dsher

area said in a popular video clip posted on Facebook. “Yes, it’s safe here, but toilets are dirty, there are no clothes, food is expensive, they offer only small amount of food at the camp, not enough even for a child.”

Others complain they are not treated well by authorities and the benefits given to newcomers are insufficient to survive in expensive and cold Finland, and some complain about small meals at reception centres.

Last week, four busloads of migrants who had travelled through Sweden jumped back on the buses after learning they had crossed the unmarked border with Finland, said Markku Kohonen, chief of the regional border and coast guard district.

“They simply said they didn’t want asylum in Finland,” Kohonen said in a telephone interview.

Immigration officials said an unusual anti-immigrant protest at the border on Sept. 19 might have been one cause. Hundreds of people, some waving whiteand-blue Finnish flags and placards demanding to “Stop Islamic Invasion,” formed a human chain across the road, blocking border traffic between the Swedish city of Haparanda and the Finnish city of Tornio before being moved on by police.

In another protest last week, a bus with asylum-seekers was met by protesters firing fireworks and sounding loud horns. At least one wore a white robe and a pointed hat to resemble those worn by Ku Klux Klan.

Finland’s government strongly condemned what it called “racist protests against asylum seekers.”

Historically, Finland has had lower rates of immigration than other Nordic countries. Only 6 per cent of the population is foreign-born, compared to 16 per cent in Sweden.

Saif Hussein, a 27-year-old boxer from Baghdad who arrived in Helsinki two months ago, said the relatively low number of immigrants is part of the reason he chose to come.

“Finland is beautiful and nice and small,” he said. He didn’t want to stay in Germany or Sweden because “there are too many people there and too many immigrants. There is more room here.”

An all-time daily high of 645 asylum-seekers arrived on Sept.

22, and Prime Minister Juha Sipila, who recently said he’d open his own spare house to refugees, says the influx is a “serious problem and more challenging” than the ailing economy.

Afandi, who left Dujail a month ago, said he didn’t believe rumours he’d heard from other Iraqis about Finland paying 2,000 euros to each asylum-seeker upon arrival, and realized he was in for a long wait. He is Sunni and said he left the Shia town of Dujail to escape persecution and “troubles,” but did not elaborate further.

“I know that it is difficult for people here – there are so many coming – but I have seen many friendly persons and I have been helped,” he said.

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Human Rights Watch says Filipino children risk lives working in small-scale gold mines Teresa Cerojano Associated Press

MANILA, PHILIPPINES housands of Filipino children, some as young as nine years old, risk their lives by working in illegal, small-scale gold mines under terrifying conditions and the government has not done enough to protect them, a human rights group said this week.

A Human Rights Watch report said the children work in unstable 25-metre deep pits or underwater along coastal shores or rivers, processing gold with mercury, a toxic metal that can cause irreversible health damage. Those who dive for gold stay underwater for several hours at a time in 10-metre-deep shafts, receiving air through a tube attached to an air compressor.

The New York-based group says it interviewed 135 people, including 65 child miners from 9 to 17 years of age, in eastern Camarines Norte and Masbate provinces during field research in 2014 and 2015.

The Philippines had nearly 5.5 million working children in 2011, according to government statistics, with 3.2 million of them considered child labourers because they worked long hours or in hazardous environments.

“Filipino children are working in absolutely terrifying conditions in small-scale gold mines,” said Juliane Kippenberg, associate children’s rights director at Human Rights Watch and author

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Juliane Kippenberg associate children’s rights director at Human Rights Watch, talks to reporters in suburban Quezon city, north of Manila, Philippines on Wednesday. of the report. “The Philippine government prohibits dangerous child labour, but has done very little to enforce the law.”

Labour Secretary Rosalinda Baldoz told the Associated Press that the government is working to stamp out child labour at the village level with programs to keep children in school, provide them

with health care, and give livelihoods to poor families, as well as push efforts to rescue child labourers and prosecute those who violate anti-child labour laws.

Mary Grace Riguer, executive director of the government’s Institute for Labor Studies, said the government was trying to provide employment help to parents so

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Several boys quoted in the report described the fear they felt

when went down a dark, deep shaft for the first time. Dennis, now 14, said he was 13 when he first went under water.

“Sometimes, it feels like your eardrum is going to explode. I stay underwater for one to two hours.

(Once) the man above me gave me the warning that something was wrong with the compressor, so I could immediately go up,” the report quoted him as saying.

“Sometimes if the machine leaks, I smell the fumes. Sometimes I feel dizzy because it’s oil.”

“Compressor mining” as it is known locally puts adult and child miners at risk of drowning, decompression sickness and skin infections.

Such small-scale mines can be found more than 30 of the 81 provinces in the Philippines, employing 200,000 to 300,000 from mostly poor, rural communities, the report said. Businessmen finance the operations.

Although the government can designate specific “people’s mining areas,” the majority of the small-scale mines operate without a license.

Human Rights Watch urged the government to enforce an order banning mercury use and compressor mining, and said it needs to develop a strategy to stop the use of children in the gold mining industry.

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Discouraging signals for Canadian Beaufort exploration as Shell abandons Alaska Lauren Krugel Canadian Press

CALGARY oyal Dutch Shell’s decision to scrap plans to explore for oil off Alaska’s coast is sending a discouraging signal to those who want to see Canada’s Arctic offshore resources developed.

Shell drilled a well in the Chukchi Sea this summer that indicated the presence of oil and gas, but said this week the results weren’t good enough to warrant further exploration for the “foreseeable future.� “Shell continues to see important exploration potential in the basin and the area is likely to ultimately be of strategic importance to Alaska and the U.S. However, this is a clearly disappointing exploration outcome for this part of the basin,� said Marvin Odum, who directs Shell’s upstream Americas business.

The company said its decision to walk away from Alaska is based on the disappointing results of the well, along with high costs and a “challenging and unpredictable� U.S. regulatory environment.

In all, Shell has spent upwards US$7 billion on Arctic exploration.

A successful program in the Chukchi Sea would have helped along development of resources in the Beaufort Sea off the coast of the Northwest Territories – an even more challenging operat-

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A flag bearing the company logo of Royal Dutch Shell, an Anglo-Dutch oil and gas company, flies outside the head office in The Hague, Netherlands in 2014. ing environment than Alaska, said energy consultant Doug Matthews. “The loss for Canada is we really could have learned something from the Shell operation about how to better operate in the Arctic waters,� he said.

The National Energy Board, which has authority over the Arctic offshore but next to no experience in that region to draw from, could have learned from

the U.S. regulatory approach. “This would have been a very good laboratory for our purposes and that’s gone,� Matthews said.

The probability that Canadian Beaufort resources will one day be exploited was already looking dicey.

In June, Imperial Oil and its partners deferred exploration in the Beaufort and asked for a seven-year extension to their

licence, which expires in 2020.

Chevron Canada said in December that it had put its plans in the region on ice indefinitely.

Both cited the National Energy Board’s requirement that companies show they can kill a ruptured oil well in the Arctic offshore in the same season it’s drilled – a difficult and costly proposition in a region that’s covered in ice for much of the year.

Shell’s decision is welcome news for environmental groups.

After the U.S. government gave the green light to the company’s exploration plans in May, opponents mounted massive protests aimed at stopping drilling equipment stored in Seattle from moving north.

Shell did not cite the environmental opposition as a factor in its decision, but Greenpeace Arctic campaigner Diego Creimer said it was clear it played a role. “What happened today can be an inspiration,� he said. “People campaigning, people protesting definitely had an effect because they were really undermining (Shell’s) social licence to operate in the Arctic.�

Shell’s Arctic experience is a lesson for companies pursuing expensive and risky projects elsewhere in the world, added Anthony Hobley, CEO of the Carbon Tracker Initiative, a London-based think-tank. “I think they had underestimated the concern and the backlash from civil society about drilling in the Arctic. They clearly had not anticipated the strength of that reaction,� he said. “I think increasingly investors are getting extremely wary of the high-cost projects in a low oil price environment, and particularly if they bring with them considerable reputational issues because of their environmental impact.�

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Decades-old federal effort to clear Alaska islands of invasive foxes closer to completion arctic foxes is a step closer to wrapping up with an eradication Associated Press effort this summer on a large, unANCHORAGE, ALASKA inhabited island that’s also home to hundreds of feral non-native decades-old campaign cattle. to wipe dozens of Alaska islands clean of invasive The just-completed work on Rachel D’Oro

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remote Chirikof Island east of the Aleutian Islands nabbed 236 adult foxes, in addition to six juvenile foxes. That brings to 45 the number of larger Alaska islands where arctic, or red foxes in some cases, have been trapped or shot

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People stand at a campsite involved in removing invasive arctic foxes on Chirikof Island, Alaska on Aug. 30. in an effort to restore the habitat for native species, including migratory birds.

The work was done between May 18 and Sept. 4 by the Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge and the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Wildlife Services.

It involved four trappers camping out on the 45.3-square-mile island. With the bulk of that task done, the refuge is closer to concluding an effort that began in 1949 after research showed that the seabird population was in decline on islands where the foxes had been introduced.

“It’s a big deal,” said Steve Delehanty, manager of the refuge, whose boundaries cover 2,500 islands around Alaska’s coast. “It’s been a marked success.”

Refuge officials said foxes decimate birds, going after everything from eggs to adults, which are particularly vulnerable on the treeless islands. Foxes were blamed, in fact, for the elimination of what was formerly known as the Aleutian Canada goose – now the cackling goose – on islands where the animals had been introduced, according to a 2002 refuge report. Refuge officials say the endangered goose recovered after it was reintroduced to islands following the elimination of foxes there. The goose was delisted in 2000, refuge biologist Steve Ebbert said.

Trappers will return to Chirikof next summer to look for foxes, Ebbert said. Any foxes found would be killed.

Ebbert said three refuge islands with non-native arctic foxes remain in the Aleutians

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None of these islands have been scheduled yet for eradications, Ebbert said.

The foxes are native to other parts of Alaska. They were first released for the fur trade by the Russians in the late 1700s on several islands in the Aleutian chain, where the arctic foxes proved to be better suited than the larger red foxes. Also, the arctic fox was deemed more valuable than red foxes, so ultimately more were introduced.

Different methods have been employed to kill the foxes. The most common method has been shooting and trapping. Poisons have been banned since 1972. In the mid-1980s, the refuge also cleared two islands after stocking them with sterilized red foxes, which hunt and kill arctic foxes.

“They took care of the arctic foxes for us,” Ebbert said. “And then they had the good graces of dying of old age. So now we had two islands that were entirely fox-free.”

The refuge has programs targeting other invasive species, including the hundreds of cattle on Chirikof, about 400 miles southwest of Anchorage.

Eradication plans for the hardy herd have been discussed in the past. But refuge managers are still trying to determine the fate of the animals that are descendants of cattle first introduced in the late 1880s to provide meat for whaling crews and fox traders. An aerial survey last fall counted more than 2,000 cattle, which have long gone without caretakers.

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The survey of 1,800 Albertans ticipated in a new surin late August and early Septemvey supported a carbon ber found 53 per cent support tax and were willing to pay it. for tougher climate change poliThe poll, released Wednescies, even if they increased costs day, found that number held for industry. About the same even if the tax were applied to percentage agreed Alberta’s individuals as well as compatargets should align with those nies. “It doesn’t surprise me,� said required to keep global warming under 2 C. Simon Dyer of the Pembina Two-thirds suggested the Institute, a clean energy thinkgovernment’s priority should tank that commissioned the be on diversifying the economy, poll from Ekos Research. “There’s always a strong con- rather than making business easier for oil and gas compastituency around responsible nies. development and addressing Still, most want the oilsands greenhouse gas pollution and it to survive. Nearly three-quarseems to be getting stronger.� ters said the industry should The survey found support for a carbon tax was about even remain at its current size or grow larger. throughout the province at 52 The survey comes as Alberta’s per cent in Edmonton and 56 per cent in Calgary. Support fell NDP government prepares its to 38 per cent in the rural south. overall plan for climate change.

An expert panel is expected Percentages went even to deliver recommendations higher if the money collected were to go to a specific purpose. in November in advance of a About three-quarters of respon- major international summit in Paris. dents said they would approve Albertans may be slightly less a carbon tax if it were used to supportive of climate change fund technology to help the energy sector reduce emissions. policy than other Canadians, but the Ekos results are broadly Two-thirds said the tax would in line with similar surveys be OK if the money were used done elsewhere, said pollster for public transit and energy-

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They’re not qualitatively different,� he said. “Things like acceptance of climate change, support for carbon pricing, there’s a surprising level of receptivity in Alberta.

But it is lower than in other parts of the country.�

Graves said Saskatchewan tends to show similar results to Alberta.

One response to the survey suggested Albertans don’t believe comments by Prime Minister Stephen Harper that the province’s current economic troubles are the result of its NDP government, said Graves.

Two-thirds of respondents blamed those problems on a long-term failure of economic diversification, rather than on the new government’s policies. “There are not a lot of people buying Mr. Harper’s idea.�

The survey also suggested Albertans were still giving Premier Rachel Notley and her colleagues the benefit of the doubt. Asked if the province was headed in the right direction on climate change, respondents were almost evenly split between yes, no, and don’t know.

Ekos says the survey is considered accurate to within 2.3 percentage points, 19 times out of 20.

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Latest XPrize offers $20 million to find new uses for carbon emissions Calling climate change “one of the biggest challenges facing Canadian Press the planet,” Wicklum said carbon CALGARY emissions are a key contributor to the problem, and oilsands sking the public to “reiproducers are part of that. magine carbon,” a group “We’re part of the global probof oilsands companies is lem, but today is about taking a helping to launch a $20-million leadership role in becoming part XPrize competition to find inof the global solution,” he said. novative ways to address carbon “Today we’re throwing down emissions. the gauntlet, we are lighting a fire Dan Wicklum, chief executive under the brightest minds in the of Canada’s Oil Sands Innovaworld.” tion Alliance, said the goal is to Wicklum said that fossil fuels find practical uses for converted will continue to be a source of carbon emissions, rather than energy for years to come, so rean outright reduction in carbon search needs to be done on both dioxide production. reducing emissions and on better “The competition will promanaging the emissions that are mote and advance the discovery produced. and development of new tech“Under any scenario, petronologies to take carbon emisleum will be a part of our energy sions, which are now seen as a mix in the foreseeable future, so liability, and change them into a resource, a valuable, usable prod- it just makes sense to work on reducing emissions, but also on the uct,” Wicklum said at the public launch Tuesday. game changing technologies too.

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So it’s a balanced approach.”

The competition runs for four and a half years and the winning team will be the one that converts the most CO2 into one or more products with the highest net value and the smallest environmental impact.

Possible solutions listed by the organizers include new ways to make cement and other building materials, chemicals to make industrial and consumer goods, low-carbon transportation fuels, or entirely new products.

Teams will be able to choose between capturing carbon emissions from a coal power plant or a natural gas facility.

Several large-scale carbon

capture projects have been or are being developed, but efforts so far to find uses for the captured carbon have been limited.

Saskatchewan’s governmentowned utility, SaskPower, opened the $1.4-billion Boundary Dam carbon capture project last year, which it bills as the first commercial scale effort of its kind.

Under the project, some of the carbon captured from a coal power plant is sold to the oil companies which pump it into the ground to increase the amount of oil companies can pump out.

Royal Dutch Shell’s Quest carbon capture project, the first for an oilsands project in Canada,

will take carbon emissions from the Scotford Upgrader and pump it into porous rock two kilometres underground.

The Carbon XPrize is being half-funded by U.S.-based NRG Energy, a utility that promotes renewable energy, and half by Canada’s Oil Sands Innovation Alliance, founded by 13 oilsands companies to find ways to reduce the environmental impacts of the industry. Only eight of the 13 COSIA member companies are taking part in this competition.

The non-profit XPrize foundation, known for organizing highprofile research competitions like creating the first private space flight, will run the competition.

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Vancouver Art Gallery unveils new building design to mixed public review Geordon Omand Canadian Press

VANCOUVER f the intention behind unveiling the striking conceptual design for the new Vancouver Art Gallery was to get people talking, then the mission has already been an unbridled success.

Social media was abuzz – with praise, horror and everything in between – after gallery executives revealed the long-awaited design of its new, clearly conspicuous and patently polarizing, 28,800-square-metre facility on Tuesday.

Commentators immediately took to Twitter, tagging #VanArtGallery with comments ranging from “Elegant & love the wood,” “Brilliant” and “Finally a building not made of metal and glass. Very exciting!” to “Repulsive,” “Super ugly” and “It’s a disappointment.”

Facebook was similarly aflutter, with one person likening the controversial edifice to “What I leave out for the garbage man on Boxing Day.” The building’s design resembles a stack of enormous wooden boxes rising 70 metres above street level in Vancouver’s downtown core. The new building would be about six blocks from the gallery’s current location in the early 20th-century neo-classical construct that previously housed the provincial courthouse.

The design has prompted a range of look-alike suggestions, from the block-stacking game Jenga to layered shipping crates or shopping boxes, and even the wooden rendition of an Inukshuk – the iconic human-shaped stone figure traditionally used

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A scale model of the new Vancouver Art Gallery facility is shown with an artist’s concept in the background, on display in the Art Gallery, on Tuesday. as a navigational landmark in Canada’s Arctic.

The proposed wood design is a marked departure from Vancouver’s iconic glass-andmetal aesthetic, which one of the project’s lead architects said pays homage to the area’s natural history.

“When was the last time anyone saw a wooden building

go up in the centre of the City of Vancouver?” asked prominent Vancouver artist Jeff Wall, who spoke at the unveiling of the design.

“This notion of bringing back something that has vanished, bringing back something that is inherent in the nature of this place – the forest – and the wooden construction that originally

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made the City of Vancouver, is already an artistic achievement.”

He described Vancouverites involved in the arts as “desperately optimistic” about the project.

The design came from renowned Swiss-based architecture firm Herzog & de Meuron, which also conceived the Tate Modern art gallery in London and the Beijing’s Olympic “Bird’s Nest” stadium.

Besides exhibition space, the new art gallery will include a 350seat auditorium, workshop areas, a resource centre and library services, as well as an outdoor courtyard and gathering area.

“Looking back at the last several decades there has been a major shift in how art museums define and enact their missions,” said gallery director Kathleen Bartels.

“Today, museums are expected to be places of activity – a gathering place not only for exhibitions and scholarship, but also for socializing, shopping and just hanging out.”

Bartels said she expects construction to begin on the new facility in late 2017, in anticipation of a 2021 opening, despite repeated delays that have plagued the project since its kickoff more than a decade ago.

The province and the gallery’s board of trustees have so far kicked in $73 million, which is a far cry from reaching the venture’s overall price tag of $350 million.

The City of Vancouver gave a significant portion with the contribution of the large lot for the building site.

Tuesday’s unveiling marks the launch of the public-fundraising portion of the campaign, which board chair Bruce Wright said he hopes will benefit from the recently announced trustee donation.

“It’s very important that the public steps up and supports this project because that’s what our senior levels of government are looking for,” said Wright.

“We remain extraordinarily convinced that when we show them what the public raises for this project that they will be there,” he added.

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THE ARTS

Exploring recovery through art

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Artist Sandra Storey stands with one of her pieces, “First Mother’s Breath.” Storey is curating a show featuring a number of artists who explore mental health issues and healing journeys. been a client of Mental Health Services.

News Reporter This week, she’s putting the fi nishing touches on a dozen clay or days and even weeks at a sculptures she’s worked on for an time during her childhood, exhibit called Just Breathe.

Sandra Storey was cut off The show, which opens next from the outside world, isolated inTuesday, coincides with Mental side an oxygen tent meant to alleviIllness Awareness Week. ate her severe asthma symptoms.

Five local artists, all of whom Cold steam would pump into have experienced mental health her plastic dome, which covered issues at one point in their lives, her from head to waist, preventwill display some of their art at the ing her from seeing or hearing North End Gallery. anything.

“We just wanted to create an “It made for a very rich internal exhibition featuring a number of life and a lot of clever, inventive accomplished artists who identify ways to disassociate, to not be with mental health issues and there,” she said. whose artwork or creative process But as the Whitehorse resident is part of their healing journey,” she began growing out of her asthma said. in her early teens, she realized she Storey, who is curating the show, remained disconnected from her said her artwork and connection physical body. with material clay is what connects Depression and anxiety set in, but the people around her labelled her to health and wellness.

One of her sculptures is of a it as wanting attention, she said. black, dancing bear wearing a “If you suffered from severe colourful red cloak which she’s depression and fear of dying as a named “Dancing in the Dark.” child, as I did, there was a whole She wanted to capture the raw lot of fear that wasn’t recognized,” power that comes with being “in she said. full creative mode and nothing can After living in New Zealand for stop you.”

12 years and suffering through “And what I also wanted to do some of the most severe asthma attacks she’s ever had, she returned with these pieces is express the celebratory aspect of creativity and to the Yukon in 2006.

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or sadness,” she said.

“My process in creating these pieces has been a real confidence builder for me.”

Brianne Bremner is another artist whose art will be featured in the show.

The local photographer has a series that focuses on long distance running.

Called Relentless Forward Motion, it highlights the therapeutic effects of running and how it’s allowed Bremner to gain control over her mind.

“I found a new appreciation for my body and what it can do, and how far I can push it,” she said.

Bremner began long distance running a few years ago, at a time when she felt she “had a good handle” on her mental health issues. She noticed a lot of similarities between mental and physical challenges.

“You get out there feeling alone, beaten down and it comes with a lot of thoughts like ‘What am I doing, I’m not strong enough,’” she said.

“When you let yourself break down and cry, which I’ve literally done on many trails, you have to pick yourself up again. When you push yourself through that, you find out how to control your mind a bit more and you can get to the other side and end up feeling really

strong.

“I think that’s the exact same thing mental health issues do to you, they break you down.”

This past summer, Bremner began training for her first 50-kilometre race, the Squamish 50.

The demanding course, which has an 11-hour cutoff time, features an ascent of 8,500 feet and descent of 9,000 feet.

Bremner completed the race in about eight and a half hours.

“It was insane.”

But it was also one of the most powerful, positive experiences of her life.

“I saw a bunch of ages and different body types, I realized I’d found a community that was super accepting, and very much focused on respecting your body and what it can do,” said Bremner, who has battled body issues and an eating disorder in the past.

At the end of the race her husband Gary was there to greet her, as well as the director, who hugs every participant.

Bremner was badly dehydrated but cried anyway, she said.

“It was my favourite moment yet.”

Cheri Van Delst is a mental health clinician team leader with the Yukon government. She originally came up with the idea of organizing an art exhibit during

Mental Illness Awareness Week, and thought Storey would be the perfect person to curate it.

Van Delst said the event is about reducing stigma around mental health issues, considering so many people battle with them at least once in their lives.

“About 20 per cent of Canadians will experience a diagnosable mental illness at some point in their lives, and that’s a lot,” she said.

“This is also about making mental illness less taboo, and something we can all talk about.”

Storey said she wants people attending the show to come away with a sense of compassion, tolerance and openness.

The stigma around mental illness continues to linger in our society, she said.

“They (the artists) wouldn’t feel nervous about displaying their work if there wasn’t a stigma,” she added.

“I’d like to see people celebrate the creative spirit and be grateful that we’re in a world right now where we can talk about these things.”

Josee Carbonneau, Neil Graham and Emma Barr are the other artists whose work will be displayed at the show, which opens on Oct. 6 and runs until the end of the month.

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Margaret Atwood’s new novel, The Heart Goes Last, had genesis as online serial Sheryl Ubelacker Canadian Press

TORONTO hen Margaret Atwood was growing up in the 1940s and ‘50s, science fiction was all the rage, from Flash Gordon comic books to novels like Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Lost World and George Orwell’s 1984.

A voracious reader, the aspiring writer was so drawn to the genre that she later made it her subject of study in graduate school.

So it’s no surprise that some of her best-known novels – The Handmaid’s Tale and the trilogy Oryx and Crake, The Year of the Flood and MaddAddam – have what some call a sci-fi flavour, though Atwood eschews that label, calling these dystopian works “speculative fiction.”

At first glance, her latest novel The Heart Goes Last might also be classified as equally fantastical and part of a future not yet glimpsed, but the author disagrees.

This one is set “only very slightly” in the future,“ says the First Lady of CanLit. “In fact, it could be today.”

The Heart Goes Last is the story of spouses Stan and Charmaine, who have been living in their beat-up car after losing their jobs and home following an economic and societal meltdown.

Terrified by roving gangs, the couple enrols in the Positron Author Margaret Atwood poses to Project in the locked-down town of Consilience, where they spend one month living in a The Yukon home of comfortable house, working at set jobs, then the next month as inmates of the local prison.

When Charmaine becomes

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promote her novel, The Heart Goes Last in Toronto on June 9. full employment using incarceration really works – putting Stan’s life in jeopardy.

Despite its underlying theme of how the profit motive can bring out the darker side of human nature, Heart is marked

by Atwood’s hilariously wry and wicked sense of humour: the novel features Elvis impersonators in Las Vegas, Marilyn

Monroe robots and a Teddy bear as a love/lust object.

The genesis of the book was a little unusual, though in keeping with Atwood’s comfort with – and some would say mastery of – social media and other forms of electronic communication.

Heart actually began as a serialized story on the website Byliner, with the author publish-

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ing roughly 50-page instalments in the same way Charles Dickens put out weekly or monthly episodes of his major novels in popular magazines more than 100 years ago.

“In order to write the novel you see before you,” Atwood confides in a recent interview, “I had to pull it all apart and put it back together in a different way, and throw out all the repetitions you have to put in when you’re writing in serial form to remind people of what just happened.

“It’s a lot bigger,” with a beginning and ending, she said.

The Byliner version had ended with the fourth instalment, in which – spoiler alert – “Stan was in a box waiting to be shipped to Las Vegas disguised as an Elvis robot.”

Where on Earth does she get this stuff?

“It’s all around us,” she says with a laugh, recalling that in the mid-’50s, when she was about 15, a young, hip-swivelling Elvis Presley made his debut on The Ed Sullivan Show, much to the horror of parents everywhere.

“Elvis really put it out there.

I was also a Marilyn fan. It’s my little homage to the Elvises and the Marilyns,” the Booker Prizewinning author says of her latest offering.

Heart won’t be her last novel – she’s in the midst of reworking The Tempest in prose form, one of several such projects by international authors who were asked to reimagine Shakespeare’s plays for the 400th anniversary of the Bard’s death next year.

And with 50-plus novels, short fiction, poetry and nonfiction works to her credit, there is sure to be more from the literary icon.

Yet nothing Atwood writes from here on in will be the final offering that fans will get to read.

That honour goes to Scribbler Moon, the first of 100 manuscripts by mostly yet-to-bechosen authors, which will be collected annually for 100 years and locked away in the Oslo library until their unveiling in 2114.

But doesn’t it bug Atwood

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that she’ll never know what readers a century from now will think of her book?

“I think it’s hilarious. It’s like a time capsule. So you bury a thing in a cornerstone or whatever and you won’t be there when they open it up,” she says.

“It’s sort of like being a nonexistent fly on the wall.”

When the final author adds his or her manuscript to the Future Library collection in 2114, it will be that writer’s contemporaries reading the work, which the project hopes will be printed on paper made from trees planted around the time Atwood’s book went into the vault.

“In my case, the people who will read it aren’t born yet and their parents aren’t born yet, and most likely their grandparents aren’t born either,” she says.

“So it’s a rollover from generation to generation and a big vote of hope because it says that there will be people that will be in Norway, the trees will grow, the trees will supply the paper … and people will be reading and they will know how to read.

“So it is a big plus-vote for the continuation of the human race.”

Still, Atwood herself will be only a memory.

With her 76th birthday approaching in November, does she think much about death?

Does it scare her?

“Death!” she exclaims with mock horror.

“Dinner table conversation used to be about who loved whom and who was getting divorced, and they were about babies and the kids.”

Now, she says, table talk often focuses on whether one should choose natural burial, cremation or some other form of being laid to rest.

“There’s this other thing called the Urban Death Project where you can get composted … It’s the same technique that farmers are now using to get rid of dead cows, covering them with sawdust and wood chips.

“I quite fancy it,” says the avowed environmentalist.

“And it beats the hell out Nan A. Talese/Doubleday via AP of being injected with a lot of This cover image released by Nan A. Talese/Doubleday shows “The Heart Goes Last,” by Margaret chemicals and laid out in a Atwood. casket.”

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Women’s trades and technology gathering offers expanded options Ashley Joannou News Reporter

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he Young Women Exploring Trades Conference is expanding its audience and taking the show on the road.

For the first time, the conference aimed at getting young women to consider jobs in technology or the trades will be taking students out of the classroom and around Whitehorse to see businesses firsthand.

“It’s hard to be what you can’t see,” said Brenda Barnes, Executive Director of Yukon Women in Trades and Technology, the group running the conference.

“And if you’re never exposed to it and you’re never encouraged, how would you know it’s a possibility?”

This is the 15th annual conference. It used to be held over one day at Yukon College.

There, Grade 8 students would get a chance to try their hand at jobs like carpentry and sheet metal work.

“There were shop classes and stuff, but because it was at the Yukon College it felt like classes,” said Heidi Loos, who completed the program in Grade 8 and is now an organizer with this year’s event.

“This year it’s completely different because we’re partnering with businesses and organizations around Whitehorse.”

Now, girls in both Grade 8 and high school can choose from 14 different businesses to visit over a day and a half from Oct. 15 to 16.

“They’re going to actually meet the owners of these companies and the employees and get information about apprenticeship programs and how they could work for them after they’re done high school,” Loos said.

They’ll get to hear from women who are working in the field and may be able to act as mentors.

According to Barnes, there are about 450 registered apprentices in Yukon now and a little over 50 of them are women.

For women, the two most popular apprenticeships are carpentry and hairdressing, she said.

This year, at ALS Global & Access Consulting, students will learn about environmental testing and get a chance to test their own water from home.

There are multiple carpentry and machining workshops planned, as well as trips to Alkan Air and Elements Esthetics.

Young girls can also take apart computers at the Computers

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Brenda Barnes, right, and Heidi Loos are expanding the annual Young Women Exploring Trades Conference by having conference-goers visit local businesses for hands-on learning. for Schools program at Raven Recycling.

Students can visit Fireweed RV Services to learn how to care for the different propane appliances. Elsewhere, caterer Egle Barnes will discuss the culinary industry.

At Total North Communications students can learn about safety techniques and get a chance to climb eight feet up a telecommunications tower.

They’ll learn about helicopters from Trans North Helicopters, the water system at the pump house and the automotive industry at Whitehorse Motors.

Carpenter Meagan Christie will be leading three carpentry sessions during the conference, all at YuKonstruct. By the end the girls will have worked together to build a board table for the Women in Trades and Technology offices, she said.

Christie started working in carpentry about a year after taking an introductory course put on by the group. She’s been involved in residential construction for about nine years now.

It’s a job she doubts would have been on her radar growing up.

“When I was that age I don’t think I really would have considered that kind of thing for me,” she said.

“But I love it.”

Christie has been involved with the conference for the last three years. She said she loves watching the young girls build self-confidence, even if they never pick up a hammer again.

“I think they all have fun doing it. There’s a lot of pride when you get to build something,” she said.

Both Loos and Barnes say there is still stigma attached to women working in many trades

and tech industries.

“I think there’s still a lot of gender stereotypes and discouragement towards young women in all different aspects – in their schools, in the media, from their families,” Loos said.

“Some of the businesses we approached have even confirmed those stereotypes by saying, you know, I don’t actually think women belong on the job site. We had a guy say that to us talking about carpentry and construction.”

Barnes used to work for the Yukon Women’s Directorate where she would make presentations to high school students about gender stereotypes.

“I would hear about shop teachers telling high school girls that they shouldn’t aspire to be heavy equipment operators, because that wasn’t ladylike, and that’s in the last seven years,” she said.

Conferences like this are about connecting girls with role models to show them what can be done, Loos said.

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Another role for good germs?

Study suggests babies’ gut bacteria affects their risk of asthma Lauran Neergaard Associated Press

WASHINGTON ut checks suggest that not having enough of certain “good” intestinal germs early in life may increase babies’ risk of developing asthma, according to a new study of more than 300 children.

Wait: What could gut bacteria have to do with a lung disease?

We share our bodies with trillions of microbes that play key roles in keeping us healthy – and different combinations of bacteria in the gut are thought to shape the immune system in ways that can affect the risk of a variety of diseases.

Wednesday’s study raises the provocative possibility of one day altering tots’ buildup of protective bugs, maybe through probiotics.

“I want to emphasize that we’re not ready for that yet,” cautioned study co-author Dr. Stuart Turvey, a pediatric immunologist at the University of British Columbia and BC Children’s Hospital. But a “vision for the future would be to prevent this disease.”

Asthma has been on the rise in recent decades, and is estimated to affect 300 million people worldwide and nearly 10 per cent of U.S. children. While medications can help control the wheezing and airway inflammation, asthma is a common reason for childhood hospitalizations and severe attacks can be life-threatening at any age.

Babies begin accumulating their own custom bacterial community, or microbiome, at birth.

Which bugs they acquire is a haphazard process, starting with whether they were born vaginally or by C-section. But previous studies have shown that babies treated with antibiotics before their first birthday were more likely to be diagnosed later with asthma; the drugs can kill good germs as well as harmful ones.

In the new study, the University of British Columbia tracked health records of 319 children from birth to age 3, and analyzed stool samples taken during infancy to check their gut bacteria.

The first clue: There were 22 youngsters deemed very high risk because of early asthma warning signs – and at 3 months of age, all of them harboured much lower levels of four specific gut bacteria than the other babies.

That doesn’t prove the missing bugs are protective. In a first step to tell, the researchers infected germ-free mice with an at-risk tot’s stool sample alone, or with a supplement of the four supposedly “good” bacteria. Restoring the missing bugs markedly reduced airway inflammation in

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“This is a really important study” because of that mouse evidence that altering bacteria affects symptoms, said Dr. Rachel Rosen, a gastroenterology specialist at Boston Children’s Hospital who wasn’t involved with the research. “Just knowing that’s possible opens up a whole field of using bacteria as a therapy for lung disease.”

Researchers don’t know much about how people naturally acquire these four bacteria groups

with tongue-twisting names – Faecalibacterium, Lachnospira, Veillonella and Rothia – that the Canadian team abbreviated the FLVR combination.

But stool samples from 1-yearolds didn’t show much difference between the at-risk group and the rest, suggesting the first three months of life may be a critical time period, the researchers concluded.

“There’s this really early dance in the gut” that influences the immune system, said University of British Columbia microbiology professor B. Brett Finlay, a study

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For now, the consumer message is to stay tuned: Much larger studies are needed to prove the bacterial role, and that timing theory, Rosen cautioned. Plus, gut bacterial checks are part of research, not routine care.

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Still, the study “provides new pieces of the puzzle,” New York University microbiome specialists Martin Blaser and Maria Gloria Dominguez-Bello wrote in an accompanying commentary.

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The colourful units that travel up to about 10 km/h have motors that are propelled by movements detected from sensors near the feet.

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“I think it’s going to change the way we move,” Pereira said in an interview from Toronto.

Two gyroscopes are so sensitive they detect small shifts in balance. Lean forward and the device moves forward. Lean back and it reverses. Move to the right and it turns that way.

The technology – described by some as mini-Segways without the poles – has drawn the ire of the New Hampshire-based company that first introduced its self-balancing personal vehicle in 2001.

The subsidiary of China’s Ninebot technology last week filed suit in Delaware for patent infringement against Inventist Inc., a Washington state company that sells transportation devices, including Hovertrax and Solowheel.

Ninebot said its second-generation units, launched in 2006, included patented LeanStar technology.

Inventist, however, said it has its own patents for “a two-wheel, self-balancing vehicle with independently movable foot placement sections.”

It filed suit against Ninebot in China, and last June against Soibatian Corporation for their product, the IO Hawk. Billionaire Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban then partnered with Inventist’s founder, adding firepower to the effort to go after alleged copycats.

Pereira, however, says the legal battles won’t deter him from pursuing this business opportunity.

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portation,” he said.

Several Chinese factories pump out thousands of units a day under various names including Oxboard, Cyboard, Future Foot, Monorover, Airboard, Freego, Esway and Overoad.

The Uuboard sells for $949 and comes with a one-year warranty, but rival products are available for between about $600 and US$1,800. Huuver’s Chinese supplier, Cube Electronics Tech, said on its website they can be purchased directly for up to US$200.

While the various models look alike and carry similar features, Pereira said they’re not identical.

Some are a little slower, sluggish and less durable, he said.

Pereira said the Uuboard can work up to nine hours on a 135-minute charge. Weighing 22 pounds, it can carry people between 50 and 350 pounds.

The hoverboards can be used on urban bike lanes and sidewalks, but Pereira said he’s been asked to put it away at a Blue Jays game and in some shopping malls.

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Toronto Zoo panda pregnant with two fetuses; births expected within weeks and Cathy Gartley, a veterinarian from the Ontario Veterinary College at the University of Guelph, saw an embryo pop up on the black-and-white screen of the ultrasound.

Then they heard the heartbeat. “It was an incredible moment,� Dutton said, “but we couldn’t scream with joy because we just can’t do that around a panda.�

On Tuesday, the team went back to have another look at the other side of Er Shun’s uterus.

Another embryo and another heartbeat showed up. “I had a few choice words in my excitement – it’s not something I will repeat, but we were really, really happy,� Dutton said.

They remain “cautiously optimistic� about the upcoming births.

Then the pair, if they survive, will live at the zoo for about two years and will likely return to China once they are weaned from Er Shun, Mastromonaco said.

Er Shun and Da Mao arrived from China in 2013 and are slated to move to the Calgary Zoo in 2018.

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Female panda Er Shun eats bamboo at the Panda House at the Chongqing Zoo in Chongqing, China in 2012. done once the cubs are born.

The zoo’s other panda, a male named Da Mao, was given the opportunity for a “natural TORONTO insemination,� Mastromonaco he panda watch is on, said. and the mood is tense at But Da Mao and Er Shun the Toronto Zoo as staff didn’t look like they were going wait – and hope – for successful to play nice, she said, because births of two panda cubs some they were “chuffing� at each time in mid-October. other and showing signs of agEr Shun, one of two giant gression. So zoo keepers didn’t pandas on loan from China, is remove the mesh that sepapregnant with two fetuses, said rated them and pulled Da Mao Gabriela Mastromonaco, the out. zoo’s curator of reproductive Then they anesthetized him programs and research. “There are so few pandas that whenever one is born, the implication is so huge,� Mastromonaco said in an interview.

There are only about 1,800 pandas in the wild, according to Chris Dutton, the zoo’s head of veterinary services. A few hundred live in captivity.

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Dutton said that involved the insertion of a rectal probe to “stimulate the right nerves� and achieve ejaculation.

Staff mixed that sample with frozen sperm from two pandas from China, sedated Er Shun and inseminated her without surgery, Dutton said, in the same manner humans are artificially inseminated.

Then it was a waiting game.

Dutton said they began performing ultrasound examinations at regular intervals. The ultrasound examination itself is a touch precarious as staff had to teach the panda to lie down near the cage and relax as they probed the outside of her abdomen. Apples help Er Shun chill out.

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What it’s like to visit Egypt as a 1st-time tourist as some attacks grab headlines and stir fears There are no safety guarantees in a restive country like Egypt – or anywhere. But with CAIRO a guide by my side, I never felt unsafe. Plus, I was too exhausted hen I told people I from sightseeing to wander planned to visit Egypt, around on my own. family, friends – even The guides manoeuvre you waiters – replied, “Wow!” and through Cairo’s heart-stopping “Amazing!” But their eyes said, traffic – where lanes are merely “Are you insane?”

Egypt’s once-thriving tourism suggestions and tapping the bumpers of merging cars is industry has been plummeting commonplace – and allow you since the 2011 popular uprising to bypass hassles elsewhere. that ousted longtime autocrat For example, my guide took Hosni Mubarak. Recent attacks me straight to the camel-ride have added to the uncertainty: operator he trusts near the the mistaken killings of eight pyramids, avoiding what he said Mexican tourists by government security forces, a bombing would be a raucous, grasping crowd prone to physically pulloutside the Italian Consulate ing the arms of those approachin Cairo, a foiled attack on the ing on their own. famed Karnak Temple.

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Yes, I saw the news, I responded. the reins and we set out into the sun-drenched desert alone.

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Kings in Luxor, Egypt on Tuesday. allow sellers to get overly aggressive with visitors, but vendors were pushy, especially with tourism ebbing so dramatically. You can say, “No, thank you,” ignore them and keep walking, but at the cultural sites, where you have to traverse a gauntlet of shops, there’s no avoiding them.

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peeked over the railing.

It helped that I’d prepared for the worst when it came to street vendors, traffic and even the crushing poverty. Through the window of my Cairo hotel, I saw half-completed apartment buildings, twisting metal on their roofs awaiting new floors.

Trash piled up and spilled into the city’s polluted section of the Nile, left for thin horses and donkeys to nibble.

It also was odd to stand in Tahrir Square across from the Egyptian Museum, ground zero for the revolution, in an area where hotels and businesses still haven’t recovered. The green plot seemed small compared with its significance. An adjacent burned-out building stood slated for demolition four years later.

But for those with a sense of adventure, visiting now has big advantages. Tourists were few enough that I got photos at many temples with no one in the background. There were 40 people on my cruise, a luxurious journey with truly fantastic food and service that normally boasts 140 passengers.

While you can learn about mummies in school and admire photos of the Great Pyramid, that’s nothing like actually clambering up its ancient steps.

Or staring down the dark tomb of Merneptah in Luxor’s Valley of the Kings to see a blanket of etched and painted stars, the blues and yellows as vibrant today as they were 3,000 years ago.

After gazing into the golden eyes of King Tut’s death mask, dipping my hand in the Nile during a sunset boat ride and tracing hieroglyphs on ancient temple walls with my finger, I must say: It’s time to go.

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Beyond the betrayal and legal and financial issues, the effect on global pollution is massive. Volkswagen is the world’s largest automaker by sales, and as many as 11 million of its diesel vehicles are implicated. According to the Guardian, “The rigging of emissions tests may have added nearly a million tonnes of air pollution

by VW cars annually – roughly the same as the UK’s combined emissions for all power stations, vehicles, industry and agriculture.”

Nitrogen oxide pollution creates particulate matter that causes respiratory problems and is linked to millions of premature deaths every year worldwide. It’s also a greenhouse gas more potent than carbon dioxide and so contributes to global warming.

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Cars kill and harm millions of people every year, with accidents, pollution, climate change and other environmental damage. And car-makers have in the past resisted safety improvements such as seatbelts and air bags.

Illegally rigging vehicles to pass emissions tests hurts everyone, but legal loopholes create similar problems. Just look at SUVs. I did a quick count of the many passing my office during the afternoon, and almost all contained a single driver – no passengers or even pets! Under emissions laws in Canada, the U.S., Japan and elsewhere, SUVs are classified as “light-duty trucks” and are subject to less strict emissions standards than cars. Yet, most people treat them the same as cars.

This creates incentives for manufacturers to produce more heavy vehicles or even to design cars as trucks, such as Chrysler’s PT Cruiser. According to the Economist, “As vehicles above 3.8 tonnes were long exempted from the American regulation, manufacturers started producing enormous vehicles such as the Hummer to avoid any fuel-economy rules.”

Even with fuel-efficiency improvements, vehicle emissions have more than doubled since 1970 and will increase as demand rises in countries like China, India and Brazil, according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

Studies show that because fuel efficiency makes it less expensive to drive, people drive more.

Clearly, we need better solutions.

It’s easy to say it starts with individuals. We can all find ways to reduce private automobile use. But individuals

aren’t entirely to blame for our fossil-fuelled lifestyles. Incentives, regulations, policies and infrastructure are needed to create the necessary shift away from reliance on wasteful, inefficient transportation and fuel options.

We’ve seen many positive developments in recent years.

In my hometown, Vancouver, and many other cities, carsharing programs and cycling and pedestrian infrastructure are expanding rapidly. Hybrid and electric vehicle technologies are making great inroads.

Recognition of the need for efficient public transit is also spreading around the world.

And fuel taxes and carbon pricing have been proven effective at reducing reliance on private automobiles.

Taxing fossil fuel consumption may be more efficient than emissions standards because, as the Economist points out, fuel taxes encourage people, especially those who drive a lot, to buy more efficient cars and to drive less. And, “A fuel tax does not rely on dubious testing nor does it create distortive loopholes.” Revenue from taxes can be invested in cleaner transportation alternatives or, as with B.C.’s carbon tax, used to reduce income taxes or provide rebates to people with lower incomes.

It’s outrageous that a car manufacturer like Volkswagen would stoop to devious practices to get around laws designed to benefit all people, but in our car-driven culture, it’s not entirely surprising – just another signal that it’s time to rethink the way we move ourselves around.

Dr. David Suzuki is a scientist, broadcaster, author and co-founder of the David Suzuki Foundation.

Written with contributions from David Suzuki Foundation Senior Editor Ian Hanington. Learn more at www.davidsuzuki.org.

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Arrowheads lost (and found) in time

by Ned Rozell

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ave Klein was 47 when he kicked into a scree slope in Atigun Canyon and saw something unusual in the rocks below. He reached down and picked up a three-inch wedge of bone or antler that had been worked into points on each end. One half of it had notched barbs.

Klein was 88 when he was hiking near Atigun Canyon with students on a field trip through the Brooks Range in June 2015. As he scanned the ground beneath his feet, the UAF emeritus professor of biology and wildlife again saw something foreign. This time it was an arrow with a carbon-fiber shaft and a metal broadhead sporting three blades sharp as a razor.

Picking up the arrow, Klein thought back 41 years, to 1974.

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Ecologist Dave Klein with a piece of petrified wood he found on St. Matthew Island in 2012. try preferred by Dall sheep. Bob Summerfield, a graduate student advised by Klein, was studying the sheep before the construction to see what a road and pipeline might affect. (The pipeline was routed out of Atigun Canyon just before Summerfield’s thesis was printed.)

Klein enjoyed getting outside with his graduate students (he advised 66 during his long UAF career). He is also a good observer. When in 1974 he saw what he thought was a weapon point, he picked it up and put it in his backpack. He donated it to the University of Alaska museum when he returned to Fairbanks. It is still there, in a drawer.

The specimen is probably the tip of an arrow, said Josh Reuther, archaeology curator at the museum. Natives in the area used bow and arrow technology since at least 3,500 years ago. Because the upper canyon is somewhat

dry, the arrow tip Klein picked up in 1974 could have been exposed for a few thousand years, Reuther said.

Reuther thinks the arrow tip was probably secured to a wooden arrow shaft by a socket also made of wood. Those parts, along with feather fletching and the bow and bowstring, probably decomposed long ago.

But the arrow tip endured, as did the metal broadhead tip and the carbon-fiber shaft Klein picked up in 2015.

At his home near the university, which is museum-like for the petrified wood, feathers, bones and other keepsakes from a life in Alaska, Klein likes to hold the modern arrowheads and think who might have lost them. He thinks the person was hunting caribou or maybe sheep at the base of a steep slope not far from a mineral lick Summerfield noted in the 1970s. The modern hunter,

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he says, was in a way similar to the ancient one. “They were all using the best technology available,� he said, noting that the hunter using carbon-fiber arrow shafts could not use a rifle in Atigun valley because hunters are restricted to bowhunting within five miles of the highway.

Possibly separated by thousands of years in time, the hunters chose the same spot. “If there is a good view and access to resources, we see prehistoric artifacts and early historic and modern artifacts just like what Dave found at Atigun,�

Reuther said. “We have areas in Alaska where the same bluffs or hills have been used time and time again over 10,000 years.�

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The story of the notorious Vaglio murders

by Michael Gates

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ass murder isn’t new, even in the Yukon.

The morning calm of July 4, 1912 was disturbed at 9:05 a.m. by what at first sounded like firecrackers, coming from the second floor of the Central Hotel in Dawson City. Within moments of silence having fallen after the last shot rang out, several men on the premises cautiously went to investigate. They found a grisly scene.

Mrs. Camille Vaglio, the wife of the proprietor of the Central, was found first, fully dressed, lying face down in her bedroom.

A bullet wound and stab wounds to the chest revealed the nature of her demise.

Next, the horrified investigators found 55 year-old John Vaglio, the husband, lying in bed with the covers thrown back. The appearance suggested that he had been awakened by the initial ruckus, and was starting to get out of bed when he met his end. He lay lifelessly in a dark red pool of blood with six bullet holes, one in the groin, one in the chest, and four in the head.

They moved on to find the older daughter, Rosena, or Rosa, who was still lying in bed. Four bullet wounds in both arms suggest that she tried to protect herself. A mortal fifth bullet had penetrated her 16-year-old heart. She too had received multiple stab wounds.

The second Vaglio daughter, Christina, and the youngest victim at nine years of age lay on the floor at the foot of her bed with a bullet wound in the hip and another in the forehead above her right eye. She had also received a single superficial knife wound to the scalp.

At the foot of the girls’ bed lay Eugene Vaglio, Camille’s brother, on his back, wearing a dark suit and a bow tie. Eugene exhibited several shallow stab wounds to the chest and throat, and a bullet hole that had penetrated his brain through his lower jaw. Near his body were three handguns, including a Colt automatic and a bloody knife.

The Mounted Police were immediately summoned, and after an initial inspection of the scene, “Captain” Horrigan set up a coroner’s inquiry. After the victims were examined by Doctor Culbertson and Dr. W.E. Thompson, they were declared dead, and

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The funeral procession for the four coffins of the Vaglio family was escorted by the Fraternal Order of Eagles down Front Street in Dawson City and up the hill to the Catholic cemetery. Eugene Vaglio, their killer, could not be buried in consecrated ground. the scene of the crime then lay undisturbed so that it could be examined by the police.

Two hours later, at two o’clock in the afternoon, with a speed that would be unthinkable in today’s court system, a coroner’s inquest was called to order, and the testimony of several witnesses was pieced together. The bodies remained in place until members of the coroner’s juries, one for the Vaglio family, the other for the deceased brother Eugene, could examine the remains.

What emerged was an account of a quadruple murder and a suicide. John Vaglio had been in the Yukon since the gold rush.

Camille and Rosa soon joined him, followed by Christina, who was born in Dawson City. After starting in mining, John had, for a number of years, been the proprietor of the Central Hotel, and had done well with the business.

Two years earlier, Camille’s brother, Eugene joined the family from his home in Italy. It didn’t take long for bad relations to develop between them. Rosa, almost a third the age of her 45 year-old uncle, had received unwelcome

advances from him, and therein may have been planted the seeds of disharmony.

More than a year earlier, John and Eugene had quarreled, and since that time, Eugene had been on bad terms with the entire family. Camille and Rosa feared for their well-being. Eugene had been heard by a number of acquaintances to have made menacing statements about the family. From these remarks, it was evident he held a grudge for his relatives.

Though no suicide note was later found, the circumstances were pieced together from the evidence and eye-witness testimony. Eugene had been seen earlier, pacing restlessly, in the alley behind the hotel. Some shots were fired, and Eugene was then observed pursuing his sister into the building.

More shots rang out, and before anyone could intervene, the whole family lay dead. Three days later, a sombre procession escorted four coffins down Front Street and then up the hill to the Catholic cemetery. Eugene Vaglio had already been buried without ceremony or mourners in the

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The sad lesson of this Klondike tragedy was a short-lived one.

Less than a year later, the proprietor of the roadhouse on Black Hills Creek shot his hired hand

and his wife before turning the gun on himself. He had suspected an affair between his wife and the hand.

In later years, a man staying in the Yukon Hotel on Dawson City’s Front Street, blew the head off a teamster in front of the building, then turned the weapon on himself and clumsily attempted to blow his own brains out. He succeeded only in removing his lower jaw. The town doctor attempted to save his life by transfusion.

When he asked for blood donors, one constable asked, “Why the hell save him now, just to hang him later?”

A miner named James Croteau was killed in a shoot-out with the Mounties on Jensen Creek in 1939. According to Pierre Berton, who was working nearby, “Most men who lived alone, summer and winter, were at the very least slightly daft. It was true not only of solitary miners but also of some partnerships … No winter in my childhood seemed to pass that Sergeant Cronkhite of the Mounted Police didn’t come into town with a miner in a straitjacket on his sled.”

Whether obsession, or madness, the outcome was the same.

Michael Gates is a Yukon historian and sometimes adventurer based in Whitehorse. This column originally ran in July 2012.

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by Judith unsavory, grooming in a moving vehicle is not necessarily a Martin breach of etiquette. There is an illusion of privacy when one is ISS behind closed doors, even if there ANNERS are glass windows that shatter it.

DEAR MISS MANNERS: People After all, inadvisable as it may be, people do personal things in their pressed for time in the morning homes behind open shades all do all manner of things in their cars on the way to work: They eat the time.

Walking down the street, howbreakfast, pluck their eyebrows, ever, is completely public, and floss and apply makeup. While shaving is therefore not permitvisible to their fellow commuters, ted there. Further, having been they seem to think themselves in in the path of many a pedestrian an isolation field. distracted by a cellular device, I, on the other hand, walk to Miss Manners shudders at the work, and not unlike the comconsequences of being in that of muters above, I like to make pro- an oncoming shaver. ductive use of the 15 minutes by shaving with an electric razor as I DEAR MISS MANNERS: I am go. My wife tells me this is totally throwing a camping party for socially unacceptable. It seems, up to 18 of my close friends (all oddly, to be an issue one does not between 20-30 years old) packed find addressed in etiquette refer- into three campsites. When a ences. Whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the buzz? friend who has a 2-year-old acGENTLE READER: Other cepted my invitation, I told her than the one coming from your Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d be happy to get an additional electric razor? (Miss Manners campsite for her family, as the feels sure that you intended to larger rowdy group wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be set her up for this punch line and very kid-friendly. I anticipate a is ashamed of herself for taking lot of late nights and sleeping in the bait. She is further under the until way past sunrise. impression that you are being She got so mad at me sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not

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even coming anymore!

I really thought I was trying my best to accommodate a baby at an event that is certainly not kidfriendly. Was there another way I should have handled it? Or is it OK to hold my ground and not force my other friends to share a site with only three or four tents, packed in with a cranky toddler?

GENTLE READER: Are you absolutely certain that your friend intended to bring the presumably cranky toddler? Or was her acceptance of your invitation immediately met with your offer to banish her to another campsite, away from all social activity?

Even if it was clear that the whole family planned to attend, Miss Manners suspects that it was the implication that no one would want to be within three camps of her that offended your friend.

Perhaps two years of dirty looks and assumptions of noise and bad behavior as she has attempted to go about her life with the socially inconvenient addition of a toddler triggered her reaction. You could have discussed the problem from the angle of not wanting a boisterous crowd to upset an innocent child who would not be able to get much sleep.

DEAR MISS MANNERS: Now that same-sex marriage has been declared legal in my state, my son and his fiance are planning their wedding. They have chosen black and white as their colors.

Is it appropriate to request that their guests also dress in black and white?

GENTLE READER: It has always been appropriate for gentlemen, whether bridegrooms or guests, to wear black and white at a wedding. Miss Manners reminds you, however, that it has never been appropriate to attempt dictating color schemes to the ladies.

board the elevator before all of us. No words, nothing. He was so brazen!

He was given multiple nasty looks, but did not seem fazed, and I really wanted to say something but was not sure what to say.

Several people who had been waiting in line did not make it into this trip on the elevator because of his line jumping. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the men in this age group who hog the seats while the elderly and pregnant stand, push old ladies out of the way, etc., and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the men in their 60s who get up.

What should I have done?

GENTLE READER: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Excuse me, but there is a line for this elevator.â&#x20AC;?

Your goal is properly to change the young manâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s behavior, not to express your outrage, always a risky and scene-provoking move.

Miss Manners recommends that you accompany it with a neutral air, as if the transgression was from absent-mindedness rather than an indictment of his age, compassion and intelligence.

DEAR MISS MANNERS: I work as a teacher in a non-public high school. Three or four times each semester, during the regular work week, we are required to attend in-services that occupy the whole day (the students have a holiday).

On these occasions, we are given breakfast and lunch at the schoolâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s expense. This is not, I assume, an obligation on the schoolâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s part, since providing oneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s own meals is usually an employeeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s responsibility.

How often should I properly acknowledge my employerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s generosity? Should I write a note of thanks for each one, at the end of each semester or at the end of the academic year?

In addition, we have several prayer breakfasts during the school year at which attendance is expected â&#x20AC;&#x201C; during regular DEAR MISS MANNERS: As a school hours one morning a regular subway rider, I usually week when we are expected to be take the elevator rather than the on campus and working. Does escalators, as it is closer to where required attendance in this case I need to be. I always let disabled also mandate an expression of people, elderly people and people thanks?

GENTLE READER: One propwith small children board before erly expresses thanks for a presme if they wish, but most of the ent, raising the question of which time they decline. work amenities rise to that level.

The other night I had a situWhile Miss Manners may be ation that enraged me. We were grateful for free food, she does all waiting in line for the elevanot consider such offerings a gift tor, about 10 people deep, when when given in recognition that a 20-something man came to an employee is working through the front of the line, stood in what would otherwise be a meal. front of me, and proceeded to

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The same exemption applies to food supplied to ease the burden of long hours or late nights in the office.

But if there is no positive requirement that thanks be offered in such cases, an occasional expression of appreciation â&#x20AC;&#x201C; for the policy, not for each meal â&#x20AC;&#x201C; is gracious and may be useful if the school board suggests abandoning it.

DEAR MISS MANNERS: When two dear friends of mine were married, I did not receive an invitation. I assumed (correctly) that they were having a small, intimate wedding. I was in no way offended; quite the contrary, I was very happy for them.

After their ceremony, they posted photos on Facebook to share their good tidings. It was clear that the wedding party was very small, the only others present besides the couple being their pastor; the judge, who is also a friend of theirs; the wedding singer, also an old friend; and three relatives who were the adult children of each of them, and one offspringâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s spouse.

I was therefore appalled that on one of the photos, not one but two people had remarked, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Gee, I didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t get an invitation.â&#x20AC;?

Really? The couple gracefully apologized to these rude individuals and explained kindly the makeup of the wedding party and their reasons, even though they did not have to.

I could not imagine that anyone would have the gall to complain, or to make any comment whatsoever on being invited or not to a wedding! And on Facebook, broadcasting oneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s rudeness to all â&#x20AC;&#x201C; how tacky.

Am I being overly sensitive to this? Could the individuals have been joking? I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know them, so perhaps they were just trying to be funny.

GENTLE READER: If everyone would just cease broadcasting their business full stop, Miss Manners would have a lot more time to enjoy her tea with actual friends instead of hearing about the rest of the worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s virtual ones.

While it was gracious of you not to be offended, there is a rule against discussing parties with people who are or were not invited.

If the wedding couple had merely supplemented their announcement with a wedding portrait, those comments would be unwarranted (and unfunny).

They are still rude even if written in reaction to festive pictures of the occasion, but the couple in some part brought it on themselves.

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SPORTS AND RECREATION Carson, Eikelboom run to open titles at XC championships Tom Patrick News Reporter

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efore Sunday, Whitehorse’s Lindsay Carson had never raced in the Athletics Yukon Cross Country Championships.

The fact she won the open women’s division couldn’t have been any less surprising.

The 25-year-old placed third in last year’s B.C. XC championships, eighth in last year’s national championships, and went on to represent Canada at the world championships earlier this year.

She’s one of the best XC runners in the country, but her work and race schedules have kept her out of the Yukon championships since she moved to Whitehorse in 2013.

“I was actually planning to be in the field (for work) this weekend. That got delayed, so I’m home, I might as well do it,” said Carson.

“It didn’t work with my work schedule (the past couple years) and I have a competition schedule down in Vancouver. I try not to over-race.”

Carson, who placed 59th at the worlds in China this past March, completed the eightkilometre course in 31 minutes and 53 seconds at Sunday’s territorial championship at the Mount McIntyre ski trails.

Maura Sullivan placed second at 36:01 and Amelia Fraser third at 38:38.

“The course was very challenging. Two monstrous hills right at the beginning – and it’s a loop course,” said Carson.

“You call it a cross-country race, but I prefer to call it a hill workout.

“I actually got lost on the course and that probably added a good 30 seconds, maybe a minute ... I took the wrong turn so I had to catch up.”

Whitehorse’s David Eikelboom regained the open men’s title on Sunday after also having scheduling conflicts the last couple years. The 28-year-old won the title shortly after he first moved to Whitehorse in 2012, but hadn’t run it since.

“The last two years I was out of town doing course stuff, so I had to miss it both times,” said Eikelboom, president of Athletics Yukon. “Fortunately this year, being on the board, I was able to strategically locate this on a weekend I knew was going to be in town.”

Is that true? “No, not really.

We had the Terry Fox Run the weekend before and that’s an event we absolutely don’t want to be competing with.”

Eikelboom, who is a past winner of the Yukon River Trail

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Open men’s winner David Eikelboom, right, leads the field into a tunnel during the Athletics Yukon Cross Country Championships on Sunday at Mount McIntyre. Thirty runners took part in the championship.

Marathon, completed the 10-kilometre race in 36:44. Jordan Lindoff placed second with a time of 47:12.

“We used this course a few years ago and I think I was 39 high in that race, so I was definitely a lot faster,” said Eikelboom, who has won the Mount Lorne Mis-Adventure Trail Race the last three years. “I went out a bit quick today. My first lap, I went out probably 10 seconds faster than I should have and I paid for it in my third and fourth lap. But in my fifth lap I was able to bring it back down again, so I was happy for that.”

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Results Boys age 4 (1 km) 1st Theo Yu Shott – 6:52

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Races take off in the one-kilometre youth race.

Boys age 5 (1 km) 1st Marc-Andre Gillis – 8:02

Boys age 9 (1 km) 1st Felix Maisson – 4:15 2nd Simon Connell – 4:15 3rd Louis Mouchet – 4:17

Boys ages 13-15 (4 km) 1st Darby McIntyre – 25:04

Boys age 6 (1 km) 1st Gregory Freeman – 6:41

Boys ages 11-12 (2 km) 1st Noah Connell – 10:27

Girls age 6 (1 km) 1st Callie Yu Shott – 7:08

Girls ages 11-12 (2 km) 1st Kate Mason – 10:14 2nd Bella Mouchet – 10:32 3rd Lisa Freeman – 13:21 4th Emma Hamilton – 13:34

Open men (10 km) 1st David Eikelboom – 36:44 2nd Jordan Lindoff – 47:12

Boys age 7 (1 km) 1st Nicholas Connell – 5:15

Girls ages 13-15 (4 km) 1st Sonjaa Schmidt – 25:04

Open women (8 km) 1st Lindsey Carson – 31:53 2nd Maura Sullivan – 36:01 3rd Amelia Fraser – 38:38

4th Jody Eikelboom – 38:52 Masters men (8 km) 1st Scott Williams – 32:53 2nd Jerome McIntyre – 36:23 3rd Tom Ullyett – 36:34 4th Ben Yu Shott – 39:46 5th Don White – 41:24 6th James Paterson – 43:27 7th Keith Lay – 47:14 Masters women (6 km) 1st Cynthia Freeman – 32:56 2nd Deb Kiemele – 37:57

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Partipants walk along the Yukon River at the start of the Children’s Wish Wishmaker Walk in Whitehorse on Saturday. Seventeen people took part in the fourth annual event, raising $1,700 for the foundation.

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Mountain View club pro Jeff Wiggins watches his drive during the Skookum Asphalt Charity Pro-Am Golf Tournament in July. Wiggins tied for fifth at the PGA of B.C. Club Professional Championship in Richmond this week. with a 74 on Monday and a 73 on Tuesday, finishing three over. The News Reporter 37-year-old was seven strokes off the winner, Victoria’s Lindsay ast week Whitehorse’s Jeff Bernakevitch, and only three Wiggins flew to Vancouver strokes from second place. with a set of goals in mind.

“It was my first PGA of B.C. With two strong rounds of golf, event this season and there was he accomplished them all. a lot on the line. It’s a difficult Wiggins, who is director of event, we contest the provincial golf at Mountain View Golf Club, event over a two-day, 36-hole tied for fifth at the PGA of B.C. championship so you have to Club Professional Championship play clean golf. Any big mistake at the Richmond Country Club will cost a player severely,” said on Tuesday. With the finish WigWiggins. gins earned a spot at the club pro “The Richmond Country Club nationals next month in Arizona. was in excellent condition, it “A top five finish and qualifyis a very tight golf course, well ing for the 2015 Canadian PGA bunkered, and has small greens Club Professional Championship that are extremely fast and unin November were the immedulated.” diate performance goals this Fifth isn’t Wiggins’ best finish week,” said Wiggins. “Personal at the event. He placed third in goals this week were to maintain 2013 before dropping down to my reputation within the PGA 19th last year. of B.C. as a top player and move With the Yukon golf season up in the Canadian PGA player all but wrapped up, Wiggins can rankings. Now that those goals focus on the national club pro are accomplished I can shift the championship that will be held focus on preparing for nationat the Verrado Golf Club in Buckals.” eye in the middle of November.

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Yukon at the event, Wiggins finished tied for 20th in his best finish to date.

Hopefully the Mountain View course doesn’t disappear too quickly under a blanket of snow.

“I hit some really good golf shots this week and worked the ball off the tee well. I stayed aggressive and made putts coming down the stretch. I haven’t played enough golf this year to be in a ‘champions’ mindset, but I did expect a solid performance,” said Wiggins.

“I owe a lot to our own Mountain View Golf Club team. Our championship golf course here in Whitehorse has the foundation to be a spectacular training facility for competition development amongst all golf athletes.

I would hope that in the near future we can build on that foundation and attract more athletes to the game and provide them with an even better facility to work and train for competitions that will inevitably lead to better results in provincial and national championships.”

Contact Tom Patrick at tomp@yukon-news.com

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Whitehorse pistol shooter John Simmons notched two first place finishes in IPSC B.C. qualifying events over the weekend in Pitt Meadows.

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hitehorseâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s John Simmons has capped the year with a pair of wins.

The pistol shooter won the open division in a pair of International Practical Shooting Confederation B.C. qualifier events over the weekend in Pitt Meadows. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I wanted to slow down and relax a bit, let my body and wrists recover â&#x20AC;&#x201C; and my bank account,â&#x20AC;? said Simmons. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Two first-place finishes to end the season is awesome. I canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t ask for a better finish. I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know what was in me, but I was really pushing.â&#x20AC;?

Simmons didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t just win, he dominated. The master-level shooter placed first in 11 out of the 12 stages over the two days. His one slip-up was an eighth in Stage 2 on Sunday. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I just made some mistakes and got misses,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I was going too fast.â&#x20AC;?

Simmons was 13 per cent more accurate than the second-place finisher on Saturday and eight per cent more on Sunday at the IPSC competitions, in which speed and accuracy are measured as shooters move through an obstacle course.

The wins are his fourth and fifth qualifier wins in 2015, though the points will go towards next season. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I needed those points â&#x20AC;&#x201C; they all count for 2016, so I start 2016 out with two first place finishes,â&#x20AC;? said Simmons. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I just felt really good, really calm, just really focused.â&#x20AC;?

All in all, Simmons had a pretty successful year. After pocketing qualifier wins to start the season, Simmons won the USPSA Sectional Alaska State Championship â&#x20AC;&#x201C; using the U.S.â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s version of IPSC â&#x20AC;&#x201C; outside of Fairbanks in July.

Last month he placed third in the open division at the 2015 IPSC B.C. Provincial Championships in Nanaimo, up from his previous best of fourth last year.

Simmonsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; 2015 season had just one bump in the road: the Canadian championships. At nationals an early error proved costly. Simmons failed to engage two targets in the first stage â&#x20AC;&#x201C; just went by without even shooting at them â&#x20AC;&#x201C; and was playing catch-up for the rest of the championship. He ended up placing 21st in open, down from fifth last year. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I had a little stumble at nationals, but itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not big deal. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m still ranked high enough I still have a spot at World Shoot in France for 2017,â&#x20AC;? said Simmons, who is ranked third in B.C. and 13th in Canada.

The six-time Yukon steelshooting champion competed at his first world championship last October. At the triennial IPSC World Shoot Simmons placed 162nd out of 367 shooters in the open division and sixth out of 25 Canadians.

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pecial Olympics Yukon is looking for people to “change lives through sport.”

The organization is looking for volunteers to work with athletes this fall and winter in track and field, soccer, bowling and rhythmic gymnastics. SOY hopes to recruit one of two volunteers for each sport and specifically a head coach for rhythmic gymnastics.

“Being a Special Olympics Yukon coach has been a very rewarding experience for me.

The athletes are an exceptional group, always caring and willing to help,” said Whitehorse’s Ken Binns, who has been volunteering for six years, coaching soccer and floor hockey.

“I have become a better person since coaching for Special Olympics Yukon. The athletes have taught me patience, tolerance, love for the game, to never give up, and no matter what, have fun.”

Head coaches can expect to donate two to three hours of their Submitted/Special Olympics Yukon time a week and sport volunteers Coach Hans Oettli gives pointers to Caron Ross during Special Olympics Yukon’s Development Games in Haines Junction in August. one to two, depending on the Special Olympics Yukon is hoping to recruit coaches and sports volunteers. sport. Some sports run twice a ney with Special Olympics as a olympicsyukon.ca. training is provided. over 90 athletes with intellectual week and others only once.

“Coaching athletes with an disabilities in multiple summer volunteer coach. I saw how much No experience is required and SOY administers activities for intellectual disability is a very re- fun the athletes were having and and winter sports year-round.

For more information, contact warding experience,” said Special the personal joy I felt in helping Olympics Yukon executive direc- them reach their sport goals.”

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Blue Jays rout Orioles to clinch first American League East title since 1993 Stephen Whyno Canadian Press

BALTIMORE uckets of champagne were ready, just sitting in the visiting clubhouse at Camden Yards. The Toronto Blue Jays celebrated clinching the American League East on the field but had to wait to complete a doubleheader before popping bottles.

The franchise waited 22 years for this. What were another few hours?

Two months of spectacular baseball culminated in a 15-2 rout of the Baltimore Orioles on Wednesday afternoon, ending decades of frustration for fans and rewarding the Blue Jays’ organization for a remarkable turnaround.

“I wake up every day with a huge grin on my face. I wake up every day and it doesn’t feel real,” pitcher Marcus Stroman said.

“Taking the field every day with Josh Donaldson, Troy Tulowitzki, David Price, Mark Buehrle, it’s nuts to me.”

The Blue Jays were nuts to watch for much of the season but more specifically since July 29, when Tulowitzki joined the lineup amid a flurry of bountiful deadline trades. They’re 42-15 since, surging past the New York Yankees before finally wrapping up the division in the first game of a doubleheader against the Orioles.

“It’s the ultimate right now,” manager John Gibbons said. “It was a big hurdle to get over. It had been so damn long.”

The pennant is Toronto’s first since 1993, when it won its second of back-to-back World Series titles. It assures the Blue Jays a spot in the five-game AL Division Series rather than the uncertainty of a one-game wild-card playoff, which they had already clinched last weekend.

“I feel like I can really share with the fans how it feels,” Montreal native Russell Martin said.

“I remember ‘92, ‘93 and if we can just bring that back, that’d be awesome. That would be a dream come true for me.”

In late July, any kind of postseason appearance would have been welcomed, before general manager Alex Anthopoulos went all-in, trading for an ace in Price, an all-star shortstop in Tulowitzki, a speedy outfielder in Ben Revere and bullpen help in relievers LaTroy Hawkins and Mark Lowe at the deadline.

“We didn’t even look that far.

We just said, ‘Look, we’re a game or two out of a wild-card spot, we feel like we have a really good team that’s underachieved to this point,”’ Anthopoulos said. “We thought we had a shot, no doubt about it.”

Those moves worked like a charm, making the Blue Jays’ 50-51 record in late July feel like a distant memory. Pitcher R.A. Dickey, covered in champagne and beer, said the deadline was the turning point.

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Toronto Blue Jays pitcher David Price celebrates with teammates after the second baseball game of a doubleheader against the Baltimore Orioles on Wednesday in Baltimore.

“I felt like we were just waiting, like all of us were just waiting, the pitching staff was just waiting and when they kind of put the chips all in, it did something to us, and we took off,” Dickey said.

Winning the division seemed inevitable in recent days as the Yankees struggled and the Blue Jays kept rolling.

The final victory of that accomplishment came Wednesday with young stud Marcus Stroman on the mound in just his fourth start of the season following a torn ACL in spring training.

Stroman (4-0) was masterful yet again, striking out eight and allowing just one run on five hits in eight innings.

In typical Blue Jays fashion, the most productive lineup in baseball led the way by tormenting opposing pitching. Jose Bautista, Edwin Encarnacion and Justin Smoak each hit home runs, and every player in the lineup registered a hit, including Ryan Goins, who registered a career-high five.

It was the 41st time in 157 games Toronto scored eight or more runs. Bautista’s blast also got the Blue Jays two hitters with

40-plus home runs (MVP frontrunner Josh Donaldson has 41) for the third time in franchise history and first time since 2000.

This monstrous offensive outburst made the clinching game feel like a coronation, in front of Blue Jays fans who chanted “MVP” for Donaldson’s at-bats and serenaded Anthopoulos with a chorus of “Thank you, Alex.”

After Hawkins got the final out, players celebrated on the same field they watched Baltimore clinch the AL East a year ago.

Their 8-1 loss in the second half of their doubleheader, with no regulars playing, was forgotten almost immediately. The joy in the champagne-soaked clubhouse and on the field was overflowing amid chants of “Bush Party.”

“This is something else,” Dickey said. “I don’t know how other people celebrate, but to celebrate like a family like this is something special.”

This division title also came with the guarantee of home-field advantage in the ALDS. The Blue Jays will either play host to the AL West champions – the Texas

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Rangers, Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim or Houston Astros – or the wild-card team at Rogers Centre for Game 1 on Oct. 8.

Home-field throughout the playoffs is within reach, too. The

Blue Jays’ magic number to earn the top seed in the AL is three – any combination of victories and Kansas City Royals losses.

“I think home field for us with the environment that we have now at that stadium … to have a dome, playing conditions, all that, I think it’s a big advantage,” Anthopoulos said. “We’d love to get it.”

That challenge remains. Looking ahead to Game 1 and not wanting Price to have too long of a layoff, the Blue Jays will push him back and start Drew Hutchison on Thursday in the series finale.

Tulowitzki, who has been out since Sept. 12 with a cracked shoulder blade, could take part in a simulated game Friday and play as soon as Saturday at the Tampa Bay Rays.

All eyes are on the playoffs now, where Gibbons believes there’s more to accomplish. On Wednesday night, the confidence was flowing almost as much as the bubbly.

“This is the best I’ve felt going into the post-season,” Martin said. “We’re dangerous offensively, we’re dangerous on the mound, we play awesome defence. If somebody’s going to beat us, they’re going to have to play tremendously well. And even then I don’t know if it can happen.”

PERMANENT ART COLLECTION is accepting submissions until Friday, November 6, 2015

Listening to Grandfather, Jean Taylor

The TTC Permanent Art Collection belongs to the people of the Teslin Tlingit Council and serves as a reflection and enhancement of our heritage and culture. If you are an artist of Teslin Tlingit ancestry, we are accepting pieces from artists at all levels and in all mediums (ie: carvers, beadworkers, painters, photographers, etc).

Works that are purchased will be displayed in the TTC Heritage Centre, TTC Offices and affiliates in Teslin and Whitehorse. The application process will be administered by committee.

For guidelines on submission please contact Melaina Sheldon at: Melaina.sheldon@ttc-teslin.com or via phone at: (867) 390-2532 ext 333.

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Complete the grid so each row, column and 3-by-3 box (in bold borders) contains every digit 1 to 9. For strategies on how to solve Sudoku, visit www.sudoku.org.uk.

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To solve Kakuro, you must enter a number between 1 and 9 in the empty squares. The clues are the numbers in the white circles that give the sum of the solution numbers: above the line are across clues and below the line are down clues and below the line are down clues.

Thus, a clue of 3 will produce a solution of 2 and 1 and a 5 will produce 4 and 1, or 2 and 3, but of course, which squares they go in will depend on the solution of a clue in the other direction.

No difit can be repeated in a solution, so a 4 can only produce 1 and 3, never 2 and 2. © 2013 The Mepham Group. Distributed by Tribune Content Agency. All rights reserved.

WORD SCRAMBLE Rearrange the letters to spell a word Hint: open to question : debatable.

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WORD SCRAMBLE Rearrange the letters to spell a word Hint: a servile self-seeking flatterer.

CLUES ACROSS 1. Hyrax 4. Considerateness 8. Expressed pleasure 13. 1896 Ethiopian battle 15. Hawaiian dance 16. Khaki colors 17. Southern soldiers 18. Musician Clapton 19. 58703 ND 20. Letterman’s hometown 23. Fr. Riviera resort 24. Wrath 25. Put up with something

27. Divertimento 32. Comportment 33. Toward the mouth 34. Take in marriage 35. Composer of Rule Britania 36. Central parts of fruits 38. Ice hockey goal 39. Lair 40. A citizen of Denmark 41. Algeria’s 2nd largest city 42. Buildings 44. Extensive landed property 46. Bravo! Bravo! Bravo!

47. Cereal grass spikelet bristles 48. Gives you instant long locks 55. Umbrian industrial city 56. Cheremis language 57. Wm. the Conqueror’s burial city 58. Beach (French) 59. 7th Hindu month 60. Tightly curled hairstyle 61. Niches 62. Connects the keel & sternpost 63. Take a seat

CLUES DOWN 1. Persian dialect 2. Yemen port & gulf 3. Switchboard (abbr.)

4. From that place 5. Invisible emanations 6. Shear 7. Mexican tortilla dish 8. Highly regarded 9. Said of a city that “rose up” 10. Turkish district 11. Of a very dark black 12. Fall back time 14. Inanely foolish

21. Furnish with help 22. Former Italian monetary units 25. Made public by radio or television 26. Aka sesame 27. Skin infections 28. Before 29. Being cognizant of 30. Ballet dancer impressionist 31. Eve’s garden 32. Produced 36. Hiding place for storage 37. A single unit 38. Napoleon’s birthplace

40. Daily journals 43. Hanging threads edging 44. A canvas canopy 45. Central nervous system 47. Nest of an eagle 48. Assist 49. Father of Araethyrea 50. Yuletide 51. A piece of work 52. Clods 53. St. Philip, Patron of Rome 54. Arrogant & annoying person 55. Yearly tonnage (abbr.)

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WORD SCRAMBLE Rearrange the letters to spell a word Hint: cruel; also : severe.

Puzzle C

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1 BDRM legal bsmt suite, Riverdale, N/S, N/P, no parties, shared utils, refs reqĘźd, $975/mon, 667-6219 1 BEDROOM in Riverdale house, fully furnished, close to bus, N/P, N/S, avail immed, $450/mon + dd. 334-3280 3-BDRM 2-BATH condo, 402 Baxter St. downtown, newer, 1,780 sq ft, avail Nov. 1, N/S, N/P, dd & refs reqĘźd, $2,000/mon + utils.

334-6685 2-BDRM APTS, Riverdale & downtown, avail immed, secure entry, laundry, clean, quiet, Kontiki Apartments, $1,100/mon incl heat.

334-1458 or kontiki.coconut@gmail.com FURNISHED BACHELOR apt, 15 mins from downtown, above ground w/small deck, responsible tenant, N/S, N/P, avail Oct 15, $1,000/mon incl utils. 322-3116 ROOMMATE WANTED, Marsh Lake, quiet waterfront location close to community centre & ski trails, N/S, animals welcome, $480/mon. 660-4321 2-BDRM APT, Riverdale, with balcony, only 2 yrs old, avail Oct. 15, heat, lights & water incl, laundry, responsible tenant, N/P, no parties, $1,500/mon. 668-5558 3-BDRM, 1.5-BATH house, Logan, avail November 1, N/P, refs required, $1,600/mon + utils. 335-7178 or golusekhon@yahoo.com.

BACHELOR APT, Riverdale, LR, kitchen & sleeping in one area, bathroom separate, no dogs, no parties, $1,000/mon all inclusive, rent negotiable. 667-4626 after 6pm FURNISHED ROOM in large home, incl Wifi internet, TV w/cable, double bed, all bedding, kitchen & laundry facilities avail, parking or on bus route, $650/mon. 334-3456 2-BDRM DUPLEX, Takhini North, 5-year old energy efficient home w/beautiful hardwood floors & finishing, N/S, N/P, avail Nov 1 or possibly sooner, $1,500/mon + utils.

336-4694 2-BDRM NEWLY built basement suite, all appliance included, furnished, N/S, $1,400/mon, half deposit down. 334-4024 3-BDRM SUITE, Crestview, available Oct 1, big kitchen/master bedroom, Arctic entrance, pets negotiable, $1,650/mon utils incl. Craig 335-1515 or kungfoocraig@Gmail.com FURNISHED ROOM, Porter Creek, close to Super A, laundry & cooking privileges, cable & Internet, $500/mon. 633-2837 1-BDRM BASEMENT suite, Copper Ridge, private entrance, $950/mon + elec.

334-9230 3-BDRM DUPLEX, Copper Ridge, garage, avail Oct 1, $1,700/mon + utils. 334-1907 to arrange viewing 3-BDRM HOUSE, Copper Ridge, huge garage, quiet street, avail immed, $1,650/mon + utils. 334-1907 1-ROOM C A B I N , Wolf Creek, full kitchen/bath, is on water delivery, has a high efficiency oil monitor to heat, $950/mon + oil.

334-9230 to view

PROFESSIONAL HOUSESITTER available from December 2015 to May 2016, very reliable, trustworthy woman. Lots of good references, Yukon, BC, Alberta, Hawaii, etc. Call Valerie at 336-2848 or email PellerinMV@gmail.com

2-BDRM 1.5 bath condo, downtown, south facing, open concept, elevator, small deck plus roof deck, great views, covered parking, N/S, refs reqĘźd, avail Nov. 1, $2,000/mon.

332-6738

2-BDRM TOWNHOUSE, Hillcrest, modern, washer/dryer, avail Nov 1, $1,500/mon + elec heat. 633-5868

2-BDRM VIEW apt, downtown, 4030 4th Ave, avail Nov 1, new renos, balcony, private entrance, 5 appliances, off-street parking w/plug in, N/P, $1,300/mon + utils. 668-5919 lv msg

ROOMMATE WANTED, semi-furnished, everything included except for cable, internet & phone, N/P, $900/mon. Text 333-4304 or call 334-0599 OFFICE/WORK STUDIO for rent or lease, downtown, $350/mon all inclusive. 393-3309 SHARE HOUSE in Porter Creek. Why settle for dingy basement room or noisy apartment, N/S, everything incl, $750/mon. Info http://timmit.ca/share, tollfree 1-855-628-7138x99 3-BDRM 2.5 bath executive home, new appliances, garage, laundry, security, large yard/parking, storage, lots of extras, reduced to $2,000/mon. Kevin @ 689-8483 2-BDRM 1-BATH trailer, large yard, wood stove, avail October 1, $1,500/mon + utils.

335-9542 BACHELOR SUITE, Crestview, avail November 1, 1 bedroom, kitchen, full bathroom, own laundry, own entrance, garden use, $750/mon + 1/3 utils. 336-0903 3-BDRM 1-BATH trailer in Lobird, 1500 sq ft, great views, vacant neighboring lot, bus, N/P, N/S, dd & refs reqĘźd, $1,390/mon. + utils. Contact unit29100@gmail.com 3-BDRM 1.5 bath house, Porter Creek, avail now, quiet street near school, refs & dd reqĘźd, $1,600/mon + utils & heat. 335-1145 3-BDRM 1.5-BATH house, Riverdale, 5 appliances, oil heat, N/S, N/P, refs & dd reqĘźd, greenbelt, garden, greenhouse, avail Nov. 1, $1,600/mon + utils. 668-6147 ROOM FOR rent in spacious 3 bedroom home in Riverdale, utils & laundry facilities included, $650/mon. includes utilities and laundry facilities. Call 334-5055 to view 1-BDRM BSMT suite, downtown, 900 sq ft, private deck, yard, parking, 5 appliances, heat, light & utils incl, $1,200/ mon, 1st & last month rent & refs reqĘźd. 456-4719

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FOR LEASE PRIME LOCATION ON 2ND AVE. Suitable for retail, ofďŹ ce or commercial. 1,145sq. ft. or larger if units combined. Handicap accessible.

Lots of parking for customers or clients To view or for more information call

334-5038

3-BDRM 2.5-BATH townhouse, Takhini, single car garage, washer/dryer, low utilities, quiet, N/P, N/S, refs & dd reqĘźd, $1,850/mon + utils. 333-9715 2-BDRM LEGAL suite, Porter Creek, avail Nov 1., refs & dd reqĘźd, view lot, 6 appliances, $1,250/mon. Call 667-7128 for details ROOM IN mobile home, quiet location, 200 meters to large green belt, close to bus route, N/S, N/P, 5 min walk to College. Rent negotiable. 333-0100 1-BDRM APT, Porter Creek, very clean, quiet building, close to bus stop, looking for long term tenants, $975/mon + utils & dd.

334-5491 4-BDRM HOUSE with garage, Granger, $2,200/mon includes utilities, will consider pets. 633-6054

Wanted to Rent HOUSESITTER AVAILABLE Mature, responsible person Call Suat at 668-6871 34 YEARS, Yukon resident, rental property owner looking to housesit for summer 2015, extremely clean, I mow lawns, take care of pets, vacuum, elite references. MarcelGareau@hotmail.com

Real Estate 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. 867-993-3787 INDUSTRIAL PROPERTY for sale or lease, Watson Lake, 8,000 sq ft building on 1.5 HA of land.

David @ 604-897-1396 LOG HOME IN WATSON LAKE for sale.

Situated on two Flat Lots.

Beautiful View.

Contact: Dave @ 604-897-1396 3-BDRM 2-BATH condo, 402 Baxter St, downtown, 1,780 sq ft, avail Nov 1, dd & refs reqĘźd, N/S, N/P, $2,000mon & utils.

334-6685

2,628 SQUARE FEET OF PRIME OFFICE SPACE Available for Lease NOW!

3-BDRM 2-BATH single level home, new, 1500 sq ft, ensuite, walk-in closet, hardwood, modern black kitchen appliances, concrete driveway. 334-2802

Two Suites available for lease. Suites can be leased separately or combined as one.

One suite is 1,248 square feet. The second suite is 1,380 square feet.

Located in a professional building downtown Whitehorse, this space is ideal for accounting, legal or other professionals.

TOWNHOME IN Central Park, Takhini, too many features to list, only 3 years old with many extras, priced to sell at $389,000. Call 335-1410 for details

MOVE-IN READY.

For more information, please contact: 336-0028

OPEN HOUSE Saturday October 3, 11am-3pm, 9 Bluebird Hill, Marsh Lake, 2-bdrm 1-bath, 1,500 sq ft, fully fenced, .7 acre, 1,500 sq ft deck, chicken coop, greenhouse, heated shop, $329,000. 660-5040

Friday, October 2, 2015

YUKON NEWS GOOD SELECTION of carpentry tools, 393-3292

Help Wanted HELP WANTED Housekeeping Room Attendant Qualifications: Relevant hotel certification preferred.

Applicants with relevant experience preferred Hours: 40 hours/week Wage: $14.25/hr Duties: Make beds, change sheets, distribute clean towels & toiletries Dust furniture, vacuum carpeting & area rugs Clean hotel rooms/public areas Attend to guest requests for extra supplies Contact: HR Manager hr@elitehotel.ca Elite Hotel & Travel Ltd. 206 Jarvis St Whitehorse, Yukon Y1A 2H1 THE VALLEY B & B 150 Dawson Drive P.O. Box 306, Faro, Y0B 1K0 Guest Service Agent (3 vacancies, NOC 6435) Job description, call 867-994-2122 Apply by mail or email thevalleybandb@gmail.com

SIMON CHANG brown suede jacket, medium, lined, slash pockets, exc cond, $75 obo. 633-4565, lv msg GARMONT MEGA Star AT boots, new, unisex size 27.0, Dynafit compatible, very warm, comfortable, $175. 335-7330 KNITTED WOOL & cotton cardigans from Iceland, Equador, India, Indonesia, Nepal, etc. Silk jacket/Thailand & denim/India.

667-2583 after 6pm DREMEL 16â&#x20AC;? variable speed scroll saw with extras, model 1680, $150. 333-2729 SET OF party lite wall sconces with candle cup, new, never on the wall, $25 for set.

633-3416 ABOVE FUEL oil steel tank, capacity 1137L, year 1999, $100. Location km 66 Atlin Rd. Ph: 250-483-1276 leave message or email: heidiwirth47@gmail.com COUNTERTOPS, BIKE trailer $20, rain barrel $50, 2 screen doors $35, deck chairs & table $40, Creda dryer $195. 780-278-7899.

KIMCHI YEONGJAE Home made Korean style Kimchi now available at Riverside Grocery (downtown), and Patthara in the Porter Creek Mall.

For information call 867-335-2829

CLASS 1 DRIVER with Truck and Pup experience OR Experienced Excavator Operator.

Call Travis at 333-0972

FALL/SPRING MENĘźS jacket, 3XL, new, FXR Outdoor Gear brand, $100 obo.

393-2630

Are you fun and energetic?

Do you love Yukonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s outdoors? ÂżHablas espaĂąol? You might have what it takes.

We are looking for Spanish-speaking tour guides (part time and full time).

GOOD USED kidsĘź bicycles, $30-50.

393-2313

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WINDOOR RECYCLER We buy & sell: â&#x20AC;˘ Brand new/used double/triple pane vinyl/wood windows. â&#x20AC;˘Brand new steel/vinyl exterior doors with frames.

Now selling: â&#x20AC;˘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 â&#x20AC;˘ SELL

COLEMAN 4 burner BBQ with side burner, used very little, great shape, $300 obo.

333-0380

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HOUSE PLANTS for sale, large Spider plant, Begonia, small Umbrella Tree.

660-4321

SMALL SAMPLE OF AVAILABLE LISTINGS:

4 FOLDING camp cots with metal frames, heavy canvas covers, exc shape, $50 ea.

332-6565 5 FOLDING camp beds, $15 & $20 ea; 6 folding camp chairs, nylon covers, $10 ea.

332-6565 METAL CUT-OFF chop saw, sml table saw, bench drill press, drills, grinders, C-clamps, sml compressor, portable cutting set, many other items. Offers. 334-9757 3â&#x20AC;? HONDA pump, flanged intake, 100Ęź, lay flat; 1 section scaffold wheels & platform; 1-12Ęź-1 1/8â&#x20AC;? choker, 22,000 lb straight, 44,000 lb. basket, never used, c/w tag.

334-9757 2X 90-GAL L-Shape Tidy Tanks for sale w/12v GPI pump & hose, $1,400 ea. 3x Challenger full size truck toolbox, $400 ea.

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MOUNTAIN EQUIPMENT womenĘźs down coat, XS, $65; pile lined womenĘźs jacket, $45; winter jacket, kidĘźs sz 16, $40; Eddie Bauer 3/4 coat, sz L, $30. 311B Hanson St

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Are you looking for casual employment this winter?

Are you available for work on short notice?

If this is you, visit Employment Central for more information.

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Mobile & Modular Homes Serving Yukon, NWT & Alaska

4-DRAWER CEDAR storage cabinet, 32.5â&#x20AC;?Lx11.5â&#x20AC;?Dx93â&#x20AC;?H, $75; beige armless sofa chair, $50; large matching ottoman, $45. 660-4321

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FUEL TANKS, 1-200 gal, 1-250 gal, older home heating tanks, great for extra fuel or oil storage, no leaks, both for $200. 633-4656

Alkan Air Employment

100LB PROPANE bottle, fully certified 06-2015, full, $140. 333-1010

Flight Dispatcher

RUBBER PLANT, 5 1/2Ęź, $50. 311B Hanson St. 500 GAL metal tank, $60. 633-4018

Good Night!

667-7681 or cell 334-4994

Start Date: October 15, 2015 Position is full-time, year-round.

Wind up your day with everything you need.

867-667-6283

23 Lorne Rd. in McCrae

clivemdrummond@gmail.com

EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES Managing Counsel, Litigation Group Department of Justice Salary: $108,868 to $145,626 per annum

Closing Date: October 9, 2015 Requisition: #8675

For viewing all jobs and to apply, please go to

www.employment.gov.yk.ca â&#x20AC;&#x153;Committed to employment equityâ&#x20AC;?

Public Service Commission (867) 667-5834

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TOILET, LOW flush, like new, $60; Yukon Parka, long, size 16, exc cond, $200 obo.

668-2919

Electrical Appliances

RYOBI 10â&#x20AC;? table saw w/stand, $50.

335-8485

PORTABLE DISHWASHER, Maytag heavy duty model, exc cond, barely used, attachments included, $250 obo. 335-1833

BARREL WOOD stove (45 gal), $275 obo.

333-0100 FROM HOME renos, 16 new glass decorator tiles 3â&#x20AC;?X12â&#x20AC;?, sand colour, $80; Jacuzzi tub 70â&#x20AC;?x35â&#x20AC;? with faucets, $240; white vanity with backsplash 68â&#x20AC;?x23â&#x20AC;?. Call 633-5002 WANTED: READERĘźS Digest, small paperbacks. 667-4540

Friday, October 2, 2015

YUKON NEWS APARTMENT SIZE dryer, $50. 333-0916

7.0 CHEST size freezer, $100 obo.

334-2693 CREDA ECO Dry Series dryer, 23.5"W x 33"H x 23"D, $195. 780-278-7899 TO GIVE away, 20-yr-old Frigidaire washer & dryer, needs some service. 660-5325 for more info MONITOR 441 heater, 250 gallon oil tank, all parts included, needs to be moved, $500 obo. Stella 668-4629

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

TVs & Stereos SONY TV, 27â&#x20AC;?, c/w stand, $100 obo.

Computers & Accessories SELFIE STICKS with remote control fits any cell phone, $15. 333-9020

YAMAHA RGX electric guitar & Roland Cube X20 amp, humbucking neck, bridge pickups, amp-clean & overdrive channels, great shape, perfect beginner setup, $400 for both, will sell separately, offers. 334-1718

Musical Instruments

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

SQUIER STRAT guitar, $150; Cort G-Series 250, red & white, $300. 393-8001

MV155 MCMAHON student viola, new, will sell cheap. 335-9998

Stringed instrument repair and fine furniture restoration

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Store (867) 633-3276

JOB OPPORTUNITY Property Manager

REGULAR FULL-TIME SALARY: $72,025 - $84,259 LOCATION: HAINES JUNCTION, YUKON CLOSING DATE: OCTOBER 14, 2015 AT 4:30 PM

We are looking for: Executive Advisor to Chief & Council â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Salary Negotiable â&#x20AC;&#x201C; depending on experience This is the most senior management position in the Selkirk First Nation organization providing strategic advice to leadership as well as full management oversight for the successful delivery of Selkirk First Nation administrative services, operations, programs and services.

Senior Director Operations â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Salary Negotiable â&#x20AC;&#x201C; depending on experience Reporting to the Executive Advisor, this position leads and manages the operations and delivery of programs and services for SFN citizens including executive management of corporate services as well as providing management and supervision to Branch Directors, including Health and Social, Capital Works, Citizen Development (Education), and Lands Resources & Heritage.

Director Governance â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Salary Negotiable â&#x20AC;&#x201C; depending on experience Reporting to the Executive Advisor, this position manages the First Nationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Governance services, including; organizational strategic planning and legislative/policy development; citizenship and enrollment, inter-governmental relations, administration and support for Chief & Council as well as other Councils, Boards and Committees (including elections, referendums and assemblies)Self-Government Agreements implementation; and communications.

For more information including required qualifications and job descriptions, contact Denise L Norman at normand@selkirkfn.com or by calling 867-334-2555.

Please submit all applications via email to Albert Drapeau at drapeaua@selkirkfn.com Be advised that Selkirk First Nation hiring policies will apply.

CLOSING DATE: OCTOBER 13, 2015

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

CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT: Class 5 Drivers Licence with a clean driversâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; abstract will be required; Criminal Records Check required; Ability to travel when required; Valid Standard First Aid/CPR certification will be required CAFN Human Resource Policy will apply. Please contact for further information on this posting and a job description: Champagne & Aishihik First Nations www.cafn.ca Fax (867) 667-6202 Attn: Human Resources sbreithaupt@cafn.ca We thank all those who apply but only those selected for further consideration will be contacted.

EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY

Selkirk First Nation is a culturally oriented traditional community located in Pelly Crossing Yukon. It is a perfect place for someone who enjoys the outdoors whether on the river in the summer or by snowmobile in the winter.

The First Nation is currently looking to fill three key leadership positions that will be responsible for implementing the strategic priorities of Chief and Council and for achieving the goals and objectives of SFN Government. Current key priorities include the development of safe and appropriate housing, protecting and respectfully using Selkirk First Nation lands, supporting healing in the community, and education of community members across all ages.

Dev (867) 335-5192 Carl (867) 334-3782

Champagne and Aishihik First Nations

Do you have a lot to offer? So does Yukon Energy. Situated on the banks of the Yukon River, we are a renewable energy company committed to providing reliable, affordable, and sustainable power. We offer a wide-range of work experiences, a positive and supportive work environment and a well-rounded work/life balance. So take the next step in your career path and join our team of skilled and dedicated employees.

Powerline Technician Mayo, Yukon Permanent, Full Time Position This is an excellent opportunity for a skilled professional to join our Transmission and Distribution team. The primary focus of this position will be in the construction and maintenance of electrical transmission and distribution systems, including substations, and street light systems to maintain continuous and satisfactory service to customers.

Travel throughout the territory and periods of on-call coverage are required.

We are looking for someone with: Journey level Powerline Technician certiďŹ cation and several years of experience with overhead transmission and distribution systems. Rigging and hoisting certiďŹ cation; minimum of two yearsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; experience operating equipment; and a class 3 driverâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s licence are also required.

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EVF FUELWOOD ENT Year Round Delivery â&#x20AC;˘ Dry accurate cords â&#x20AC;˘ Clean shavings available â&#x20AC;˘ VISA/M.C. accepted Member of Yukon Wood Producers Association Costs will rise.

ORDER NOW 456-7432 FIREWOOD $175/cord 20-foot lengths, 5-cord loads Small delivery charge 668-6564 Leave message J.O. FIREWOOD SERVICES â&#x20AC;˘$350 split cord â&#x20AC;˘$220 cord â&#x20AC;˘$110 half-cord $150 log cord Will deliver.

Call for other info Jordan @ 250-719-9070 Josh @ 867-335-7179

Guns & Bows LICENSED TO BUY, SELL & CONSIGN rifles & ammo at G&R New & Used 1612-D Centennial St. 393-2274 BUY â&#x20AC;˘ SELL HUSQVARNA COMMERCIAL M96 bolt action rifle, 8 mm calibre, Norma peep sight, walnut stock, good to vg cond, includes partial box of ammo & reloading dies, $495.

633-2443 LEE ENFIELD No4 Mk1*, professional conversion to .308 win, new .308 bbl, no finish, new bolt parts & synthetic stock, scope mount, no sights, no magazine, $450 firm, PAL req'd. 667-2276 DOMINION ARMS 16-gauge single shot shotgun, new in box, unfired, blued, hardwood stock, $150. 633-2443 WINCHESTER MODEL 37 16-gauge single shot shotgun, vg cond, $275. 633-2443 VORTEX NOMAD 20-60 X 60 spotting scope, c/w lightweight tripod, used once, over $400 new, asking $275 obo. 333-0380 REMINGTON SEMI-AUTO 30-06 with scope, $450. 335-7021 RUGER INTERNATIONAL, full length stock, bolt action, .358 Win, meets bison cartridge standards, Burris Fullview, 2-5 power scope, exc cond, $850. 667-2607 REMINGTON WOODSMASTER 742, 30-06, exc cond, with scope and box of cartridges, PAL reqĘźd, $515. 334-4704

To apply, submit a covering letter and resume by 5:00 pm October 7, 2015 to Human Resources at hr@yec.yk.ca.

NEED TO try your clip in my Remington model 788, caliber .308. Mine is not feeding properly. 668-2802

We appreciate all responses; only short-listed candidates will be contacted.

REMINGTON 11/87 shotgun, 18â&#x20AC;? rifled barrel, black synthetic, red dot lazer sight, less than 100 rounds through it, mint condition, $600. 335-3865 WANTED: RELOADING dies & brass for .338 H&H Magnum. 334-7717

Friday, October 2, 2015

Guns & Bows 303 BRITISH, Lee Enfield No4, sporterized with Monte Carlo stock, scope mounts, no sights, 10 rd mag, vg overall, $300 firm.

667-2276 16 BOXES of various factory 9mm ammunition, original cost was $18-$30 per box, selling all boxes for $12 ea, must sell all at once, valid PAL reqĘźd. 336-4124

Wanted HOUSESITTER REQUIRED from January 1, 2016 to May 1, 2016. Must have references, no smoking, no pets. Reply to the following email address; tamarac@northwestel.net WANTED: OLD broken axes, debarking spuds, peavey or cant hooks, multiple sheave blocks, old RSF-type wood stove, door must be operational. Call/text 334-2861 WANTED: 35' + pine or spruce, must be > 10" diameter at small end, to be used for building logs. Call/text 334-2861 WANTED: FIRE rated bricks & clay chimney flu to build my own masonry wood stove, just experimental project, nothing too pricey.

Call/text 334-2861 WANTED: OLD 1/2" rebar, anything larger than 18" in length, I will pick up, you can avoid tipping fees at dump. Call/text 334-2861 WANTED: ATV log arch skidder, looking to buy or build one. Call/text 334-2861 WANTED: 633-3664

MONITOR or Toyo stove.

WANTED: COLOUR photocopier. Donna @ 393-8024 GERMAN SPEAKING teacher wanted for a family of 4 young children, in our home twice a week, after school, 1.5 hours each session. Call 393-2110 WANTED: PIECES of "Blue Heron" metal roofing for a shed. 667-2467 or 332-1065 WANTED: 25KVA Gen Set in good working order, low hrs preferred, diesel. Call 667-4821

YUKON NEWS 2008 M A Z D A 3 Sport hatchback, 132,000kms, manual, fully loaded w/auto start, second owner, regular maintenance done, c/w winter tires, $8,300. Call/text 335-3412 2007 CADILLAC CTS Sport, fully loaded leather interior, heated seats, Bose sound system, 6-spd manual, 115,000kms, very clean, good cond, reduced to $10,000.

333-9100 2006 NISSAN X-Trail AWD, 5MT, white, 138,000kms, summer & winter tires both on rims, new muffler this summer, new clutch plates @ 100,000kms, $11,000 obo.

332-4499

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2013 Toyota Sienna CE 7 Passenger g #1516 .................... $26,499 SOLD! 2014 Toyota Matrix #7567AA......................... ............................................... $17,999 2008 Toyota Avalon XLS #7720A 720A .......................................$15,495 2010 Nissan Altima 3.5 SR 6 spd #7724A ........................ $17,995 2015 Mazda Cx-5 GT #7763A ........................................... $29,995 !

2012 Kia l Pending Sportage EX Dea Luxury

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23,995

2011 Kia Sorento LX V6 STOCK #7596A

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20,695

2012 Dodge Journey R/T AWD STOCK #7622A

PRICE:

1993 NISSAN Sentra XE, 4-dr sedan, runs well, good condition, good on gas, $1,000.

667-7239 1986 OLDS Ciera, 4 door sedan, vg shape, 77,000 kms, new battery, remote start, safety, $2,000. Call 633-4311

Trucks

2006 SUBARU Outback, blue, AWD, remote start, good summer & winter tires, exc cond in & out, $7,500. 667-7386 2003 HONDA Element, AWD, 217,000kms, $5,500 obo. 633-8470 2002 CHEVY Cavalier Coupe, 2-dr, 1 owner, c/w 4 winter tires on rims, 185,000 kms, clean car, tilt steering, cruise control, Sept.

23 new brakes, $2,700. Weekdays only, 334-9102

2009 Ford F350 XLT Crew Cab Long Box 6.4L V8 Diesel Engine, 86,000kmâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, Tidy Tank, Truck Toolbox. $28,000 obo

Cell 867-689-6289

2001 HONDA Civic LX, 4-door, manual, green, 168000 km, well maintained, fuel efficient, no accidents, includes 4 winter tires & rims, $3,900. 633-5193 2000 CHEVROLET Cavalier, good shape, runs well, c/w full set of winter tires on rims, $3,500. 456-7207

2011 Ford F350 XLT Crew Cab Long box.

2000 FORD Taurus wagon, V6, auto, P/W, P/D, 216,000kms, seats 8, recent safety, summer & new winter tires, good cond, $2,700 obo. 333-0380

6.2L V8 Gas Engine, 85,000kms $22,000.

1999 TOYOTA Sienna, well maintained, new windshield, front brakes, CV boots & summer tires, $3500 obo. 633-5943 1996 PLYMOUTH Breeze, auto, 2 sets tires, exc glass, very fuel efficient, 190,000km, $1,600. 333-9020

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Cell 867-689-6289 2007 DODGE Quad Cab 4X4 SLT Limited Edition, loaded, custom tires & wheels, tool boxes, cargo racks, perfect for winter, solid truck, mint cond, $15,500 obo. c.mitch@live.ca

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2013 HONDA Civic, LX model, 25,000kms, loaded, P/W, P/D, still under warranty, $15,000. 867-335-9295 2013 NISSAN Murano, fully loaded, like new, $29,500. 334-6799 2012 BUICK Lacrosse, original owner, 21,000kms, loaded, mint condition, $18,000 firm. 393-2274 2011 GMC Terrain, AWD, black, 48,000kms, sunroof, heated leather seats, vg condition, $22,000. 335-8772 2008 KIA Sportage, auto, 2 sets of tires, one set studded, $4,800. 332-4303 2006 CHEV Cobalt LE, PS/PB, AM/FM/CD, remote battery blanket, 2 sets of tires on rims, 90,000kms, $2,000. 667-2046

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2003 CHEV Silverado LT ext cab 4x4, great condition, heated leather seats, Bose speakers, flat box cover, only 160,000kms, $9,500. 336-0879

2014 CHEVY Silverado work site edition, 27,000 kms, fully loaded, excellent condition, $37,000 or take over payments. 334-5731 2011 FORD Ranger extĘźd cab, 4X4, auto, like new cond, canopy, 33,000 kms, $20,000. 332-1544

2008 SILVERADO extended cab 4x4, clean, runs & handles like new, $12,000 obo.

633-5236 or 333-0437 2007 MAZDA B4000 pick-up, 4.0L V6, 4x4.

Manual transmission with auto locks/windows, aftermarket sound system, Duratrac tires, Lightforce lights, and more, great condition. 334-2374

2003 DODGE Caravan Sport, 3.3L, 5-dr, all power, overhead console, good glass & tires, runs well, $2,000. 334-5408 2001 FORD F250 Super Duty XL diesel, 295,395kms, 4-dr, 7.3L, V8, 444CI. ODO 298,472, serviced 09/18/2015, copy available. 667-7239 1998 FORD F-150 pickup, extended cab, 3-dr, long box w/canopy, 233,000kms, $3,900. 335-8242 1998 NISSAN Frontier 4X4, 233,000kms, matching canopy, $4,500. 332-4303 1995 FORD F150 ext cab pick-up, V8, auto, radio, canopy, new tires, $1,600. 336-2029 1994 TOYOTA p/u, 4WD, 4-cyl, canopy, roof rack, bed liner, 181,000kms, $7,000.

335-1993

2006 F150 4X4, 4.6L V8, auto, custom regular cab w/matching canopy, 6-CD player, 32,000 miles, $9,800. 633-2580

1993 CHEV Silverado 3500 1-ton dually, club cab, 6.5l turbo diesel, 134,000 kms, new rubber, c/w $2,000 5th wheel hitch, never winter driven, $7,000. 633-2188

2005 FORD F150 4X4, 4-dr, short box, 121,259kms, $10,000. Steve @ 335-0797

1990 FORD F150 crew cab, new rubber, $1,000. 660-5545

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2004 CADILLAC Escalade, very nice condition, winter ready, loaded, 4 heated seats, well maintained, 190,000 kms, $12,200 or might consider interesting trade. 336-0995

2010 JEEP Compass 4x2, auto, 2.4L dual VVT, great cond, fully maintained, under 51,000 kms, remote start, separate mint winters on rims, $10,500, 667-2276

2006 NISSAN Xterra off-road 4WD, includes winter tires on rims, Thule case & light bar, 139,000kms, dark grey, good cond, $13,000.

780-805-0226

WANTED: L O O K I N G to purchase small, older Scamp travel trailer with single axle. 334-6087

Cars

1994 VW Jetta, 241,930 kms, manual, gas, great reliable winter vehicle, $1,450.

334-8806

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YUKON NEWS 1984 CHEV Silverado C10, new brakes, rotor, radiator & Edelbrock carb, $1,000 obo.

667-7239 1984 DODGE Ram Charger, 360 V8 auto, 4X4, 120,000 miles, good engine & drive trail, SUV 5-seater, $1,500. 333-4653

633-6019

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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 2

2015

have your pets SPAYED OR NEUTERED. FOR INFORMATION CALL

633-6019

DID YOU KNOW?????

1984 FORD Ranger, 4-cyl, 4-spd, standard, runs good, needs battery, $1,600. 333-4653 JAPANESE 4X4 Mini Truck, can register for road, right hand drive, 5-spd w/extra low gear for snow plowing, fold down box, 2 sets tires, frt hitch, cd/radio, heater, $7,900 obo.

334-7098 WANTED: USED Honda Element in good condition. 393-3578

Auto Parts & Accessories

...that you can donate credit at The Feed Store for us so we can purchase food and other items for the animals?

...that we have accounts with both P&M Recycling and Raven Recycling? You can drop off your recycling with them, tell them that itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a donation for us and theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll add your recycling to our account!

LOST/FOUND

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

t LOBIRD. MALE CAT, HIMALAYAN SIAMESE CROSS. His name is Hemi. He is a neutered male who gets frightened outside. Large white triangle covering most of his face, large white paws, blue eyes, long hair and no collar. If found, please call: 867-335-5626 or 867-334-0141. t MALE ORANGE & WHITE TABBY CAT, 10 years old, very large and round. Has tattoo in ear. If found please call Amber @335-7381. Reward $100 .

FOUND t GRANGER, GREY LONG HAIRED FEMALE CAT. If this is your cat please call Michelle at 335-4307.

RUNNING AT LARGE...

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

AVAILABLE FOR ADOPTION

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

HEAVY-DUTY HEADACHE rack for Dodge pick-up, like new, black, real Skookum, $300 obo. 660-4516 TRUCK CANOPY, fibreglass, 70â&#x20AC;?x100", side windows, sliding front window, medium duty roof rack installed, easily hauls 14Ęź boat on rack, older but solid, $300. 667-2276 WARN ZEON 8,000 lb winch for SUVs, Jeeps, bought late in 2014, never used, $1,100 new, make an offer. Call/text 333-0100 WARN WINCH carrier, fits in receiver for winches up to & incl 10,000 lbs, new, never used, worth $425, make an offer. Call/text 333-0100 WINTER TIRES on rims, 195/65/R15 Wanli Winter Challenger, awesome traction, studded, 70% tread, rims fit 2001 Jetta, $350, spare included. 689-5866

HANKOOK WINTER truck tires, LT265 70R17, used 2 winters, lots of tread left, great shape, $400. 456-7026

Duffy

Katie

2 WINTER tires on 4 bolt chrome rims, used 1 winter, $60 obo. 668-3968 1979 FORD F250 cab rear window w/rubber liner & chrome trim, good cond. 668-3153 4 TOYO tires, 205/75 R15, driven 2 winters, 75% tread, $100 ea. 660-4321 WINCH BUMPER, ShrockWorks brand, 3 yrs old, fits 1996-2002 Toyota 4-Runner, $1,900 new, make an offer. 333-0100

Rooster

Athena

Macey

Diamond

Tianna

Nico

IN-HOUSE FINANCING AVAILABLE!

2010 Ford Ranger Extracab Sport Auto, 4.0 Litre, Black

$

13,900

2015 Wildwood RV Trailer 23RBS Double Slide, Island Kitchen, Power Jacks, Power LED Awning, Power Hitch

REG: $34,900

25,995

1992 FORD Festiva, 4-cyl, auto, complete for parts, $500. 333-4653

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4"-&4 t #0%: 4)01 t 1"354 t 4&37*$& 2007 Dodge Calibre - ORANGE ........................................................................ $6,495 2007 Ford Focus Sedan - GREEN................................................................. $6,995 $ 0cc ATV ............

2012 Yamaha Grizzly 700cc .............................................................. 8,995 $ 2011 Chev Equinox LT AWDD ............................. ............................................................................

18,995 SOLD! $ 2015 20â&#x20AC;&#x2122; Car Hauler - NEW!!

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4,495 2006 Nissan Titan SEV6..................................................................................$13,995

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DODGE DAKOTA brake shoe, new, still in box, $25 obo. 393-2630

LOST

LOST: LARGE, white, female dog, Mt. Sima area, purple collar, no tags. "Luna" is a Komondor with closely clipped white coat. Missing since September 18. Please call if you think you might have seen her. 332-1160

2014 Dodge Ram 1500 Crewcab 4x4 SLT

31,995

2015 Chev Silverado 1500 Crew 4x4 LT 5.3 Litre, 1,100 Kms, Loaded!! Red

$

33,995

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For Quick Approval call: 668-5559 #4 Fraser Road, McCrae, Whitehorse, YT Y1A 5S8 EMAIL: woloshyn@northwestel.net

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Pets Has your fur buddy slowed down?

Return 'spring' to your dogĘźs step.

Older or injured dogs benefit from Glucosamine and MSM. Tasty pharmaceutical grade powder.

Dosage based on weight.

332-7828 CANINES & COMPANY Dog Obedience School Puppy obedience classes starting October 20 Puller training starting October 21 For full schedule visit caninesandcompany.ca Full service training school, certified trainers 333-0505

Come for a visit and meet your next furry family member!

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If your lost animal has been inadvertently left off the pet report or for more info on any of these animals, call 633-6019 or stop by 126 Tlingit Street.

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:

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2009 YAMAHA V Star 1300 touring cruiser, new tires, leather saddlebags, recent tune-up/oil change, windshield, passenger back rest, $5,200. 333-9020

ATV & UTV Rentals Our Honda ATVs & Side by Sides are available at any time

For more information call: (867) 393-2111 info@yukonwide.com

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7 YEAR old husky, free to good home, retired sled dog due to wrist injury, neutered, good companion, friendly, good with other dogs, needs lots of space. 332-3711

2-PLACE SNOWMOBILE/ATV trailer tilt deck, rock guard, 2 new tires & 2 spares, good condition, $1,200. 633-5881 2005 570 Panther Arctic Cat with 2-up seat, $2,500. 334-6799

NORTHERN CATTITUDE GIFTS The local online store for cats and cat lovers.

All about cats - from cat trees to cat themed umbrellas! www.northerncattitude.ca Phone: (867) 333-0558

JO'S SMALL ENGINE REPAIR â&#x20AC;˘Repairs to snowmobiles, snowblowers , chainsaws, outboards, lawnmowers and more. â&#x20AC;˘Shop rate $70 per hour, â&#x20AC;˘Lawnmowers and chainsaws $60 per hour.

Call Steve @ 633-6314 or 334-1628

1986 PLYMOUTH Reliant, 2.2L, new plugs, wires & fuel filter, runs, fix or for parts, $500.

334-5408

NEW PET Mate 'Navigator' Dog kennel, suitable for a 30-50 lb dog, used only once, high end model, dimensions 32X21X23, new $200, asking $100 firm. 667-4463

WANTED: TRACK for older long-track Tundra snowmobile. 334-7717

HAYNES REPAIR manual, Dodge Colt & Plymouth Champ FWD, 1978-1987, $15.

335-8485

PET MATE dog kennel, good cond, suitable for a 20-50 lb dog, dimensions are L28XW20XH21, $60. 667-4463

TOYOTA 4-RUNNER lift gate, new, never installed, fits 1996-2002, make an offer.

333-0100

MOOSE MEAT for sled dogs to give away, some meat ruined by bullet, looking to give scraps away. 456-7490

TOYOTA 4-RUNNER shop manual set, like new, over $300 invested, 1994 edition, covers 1990 +, body, electrical, power train, diagnostic & fault finding, $100. 333-0100

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Our Big Item Wish List!

Items can be dropped off at the Shelter during operating hours.

2009 HONDA 500 quad, loaded, power steering, windshield w/storage, heated handgrips, newer mudbug tires, electronic shift, winch, trailer hitch, cold weather start, skid protection, great condition, $6,000 firm.

633-5495

Marine PROFESSIONAL BOAT REPAIR Fiberglass Supplies Marine Accessories FAR NORTH FIBERGLASS 49D MacDonald Rd Whitehorse, Yukon 393-2467

2009 16Ęź Alumacraft tunnel welded hull with 40/30 hp Yamaha Jet, in Watson Lake, was not purchased until 2011, good cond, $9,800. 780-805-0226

Puppy and Kitten Formula Surgical Vinyl &/or Rubber Gloves (Med & Lg) Pure $BOOFE 1VNQLJO t 4MPX 'FFE %PH %JTIFT #MFBDI t %PH #FET t $BU -JUUFS )FBWZ %VUZ BOE &YUSB -BSHF (BSCBHF #BHT -BVOESZ %FUFSHFOU t 1PPQ #BHT t 5PXFMT *OTVMBUFE %PH )PVTFT t .PQ )FBET 5PJMFU 1BQFS t 4UBNQT t 8IJUF 3BXIJEFT 1SP 1FU "EVMU %PH 'PPE t 4VNNJU 1VQQZ 'PPE " 8BTIJOH .BDIJOF t " 4BOJUJ[JOH %JTIXBTIFS " NJDSPXBWF

1986 YAMAHA FJ1200, good cond, runs great, needs rear tire, everything else in good working order, $1,400 obo. 335-1106

NOVA CRAFT Prospector 17Ęź, good cond, paddles well, tough boat, very stable, great boat for all round paddling, wilderness river trips, hunting, $950. Text 604-862-4671

633-6019 126 Tlingit Street

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Mingus

2009 YAMAHA Venture MP 4-stroke, exc cond, rear seat, cargo box, block heater, extra-wide skis, scratchers, belts, mirrors, Yamaha cover & spare carbide runner, reduced to $5,500. 660-4516

Trailer Rentals Delivery Service

Come on down & visit with ALL OF US at the shelter.

And more....

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

2011 POLARIS Pro RMK 800 long track, 2 1/2â&#x20AC;? track, mint, 750kms, always stored inside, $7,200 obo. 335-1106

Pet of the Week!

Diga

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

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Motorcycles & Snowmobiles

14Ęź ALUMINUM boat on trailer, 9.8 gas motor & electric motor with battery, rod holders, seat and life jackets, $3,000 obo. 335-3865

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

Friday, October 2, 2015 2009 BOBCAT CT 440, 44hp tractor w/backhoe & many other attachments. 335-5192 CATERPILLAR 955 track loader, older model, runs great, converted to electric start, lots of new parts, $7,000 obo. Darryl @ 867-634-2321 evenings 2012 BOBCAT S-205, 190 hrs, dual controls, fully loaded w/heated cab & AC, 2 buckets, amber strobe light, sound dampening kit, deluxe key pad, $38,000 obo.

335-1106 2003 JOHN Deere 270C LC excavator.

633-5833 KOMATSU DOZER D85E, 18 Sr. #25000, good cond, solid unit, angle blade/ripper, Cummins 220, recent overhaul, must sell, reduced to $25,000 obo. 867-993-3038 SHAKER SLUICE box on skids, moves 4-5 yards per hour, 5HP Hona motor, fits on 1/2 ton truck, needs 3” pump, $6,400 obo.

633-5362 TRACTOR TRAILER unit looking for backhauls, Whitehorse to Edmonton or Whitehorse to Vancouver. 333-0834

Aircraft CESSNA 150/150, low hours, LR fuel, tail dragger. 332-8393

Campers & Trailers 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 5TH WHEEL trailer hitch for pick-up truck, made by DSP, exc cond, $500. 633-4656 1977 12ʼ foot travel trailer, upgraded wheels, tires & axle 1 yr ago, bed, table, sink, 2-burner stove, propane heater, water tank w/hand pump, everything works well, $3,000 obo. 333-0380 STORAGE FOR VEHICLES AND RVS over the winter starting October 1, 2015.

Hi Country RV Park, $45 per month.

Phone 867-334-4994 or email reservations@hicountryrv.com 1988 TRAVEL Mate, fits on imports, 3-way fridge, forced air furnace, 3-burner stove, $3,000. 332-4303 2008 PALOMINO Popup truck camper, fits 6.5ʼ box & most 1/2 tons, exc cond, hot water tank, fridge, 3-burner stove, heater, awning, 25-gal water tank, $8,500.

Richard 456-7758 after 5pm 1991 FORD F350 crew cab truck & camper.

667-2046 31ʼ 5TH wheel, new under carriage, 1 slide, upgraded to bigger unit, will consider any reasonable offer. 867-994-3322 for further info 2005 TRAILTECH 30ʼ gooseneck trailer, triple axle with ramps & sides, $7,800.

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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 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

YUKON NEWS THE ALZHEIMER/DEMENTIA Family Caregiver Support Group meets monthly. Group for family/friends caring for someone with Dementia. Info call Joanne 668-7713 WHITEHORSE SCOTTISH Country Dance Club wants you to kick up your heels Tuesday nights, Jack Hulland small gym, 7pm-9:30pm. Come solo or bring friends. https://www.facebook.com/ScottishCountryDancingWhitehorse YUKON LEARN Society is offering free computer courses, Introduction to Computers, Internet & Email, Word & Excel. Instructor on site. Call 668-6280 xt 223 for details HOSPICE YUKON: Free, confidential services offering compassionate support to all those facing advanced illness, death and bereavement. Visit our lending library @ 409 Jarvis, M-F 11:30-3PM. 667-7429, www.hospiceyukon.net QUEER YUKON, upcoming social events and news for the LGBTQ community and allies. www.queeryukon.com 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 WHITEHORSE CROSS Country Ski Club will host Annual AGM on October 7, 2015, 7pm in wax room. All public are welcome to attend YUKON MULTIPLE Sclerosis Assoc. AGM will be Oct 6, 2015 7pm. Whitehorse Public Library. All are welcome. Interested in a position on the board, Email: jiroberts@gmail.com for an application

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CNIB NIGHT Steps, join us Saturday October 3rd, 4pm, Rotary Park, Whitehorse for a fun, 5km walk under the stars to support services for blind/partially sighted community members. Register today: cnib.ca/NightStepsYukon THE MULTICULTURAL Centre of Yukon is holding an Information Session on October 15 from 6:30-8:00pm for its free Career Pathing for Healthcare Professionals Program. For more information, please contact 667-6205 OCTOBER 23, Hank Karr, Red Lewis, Ray Park, Ed Isaak, Wayne Smyth play the Freeze-up dance at the Ice Palace, Yukon Transportation Museum, 8-11 pm. $25 Tickets soon. www.facebook.com/booksandbasics THE KLONDIKE Highland Dancers are taking registration for the 2015-2016 year. If interested, check out our site klondikehighlanddancers.weebly.com for more information.

HOOTALINQUA FIRE Hall AGM, Tuesday October 6, 6pm, Hootalinqua Volunteer Fire Hall on Mayo Rd, free chili & silent auction.

Come & support our community volunteers YUKON COUNCIL on Aging, semi-annual general meeting is on October 16 at 9:30am, Golden Age Society. There will be a presentation by Paramedic Council of Yukon.

GWAANDAK THEATRE AGM, October 21, Whitehorse Public Library Meeting Room, 5:15pm, all invited. 393-2676, info@gwaandaktheatre.com YUKON K-9 AGM October 22, Public Library Meeting Room, 7pm to 8:30 pm. 633-4952 F.H. COLLINS School Council regular meeting is being held at 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday, October 14th, 2015 in the School. Everyone welcome.

JACK HULLAND School Council is holding it's regular council meeting on October 7, 2015, at 7pm in the school library. Everyone is welcome.

ELIJAH SMITH School Council is holding it's regular council meeting on October 6, 2015, at 6:30pm in the school library. Everyone is welcome JAZZ ON the Wing. The Cookers Quintet.

October 18 cabaret, Yukon Arts Centre, 7:30pm. Tickets @ yukontickets.com or 667-8574. Info: jazzyukon.ca PROFESSIONAL DROP-IN Counselling Clinic at Many Rivers. Counsellors are available for confidential, one-time sessions on Wednesdays from 10am-4pm, 4071-4th Avenue.

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SEED SAVING basics for northern backyard gardens at LMCC, October 3, 12noon-3pm.

Building seed screens & workshop with Sage North seeds folks, cost $20. Register 667-7083,lmca@northwestel.net HARVEST PRESERVATION and cooking classes at LMCC foodie club, fermenting with Kim, September 23, 7pm, pressure canning with Shiela, October 7th, 7pm, cost $ 20. Register at lmca@northwestel.net or 667-7083 AUSTRALIAN FOLKSINGER Andy Gordon at LMCC, October 2, 7pm, tickets $22 at door, house concert style info 667-7083, www.mountlorne.yk.net

THE VIEW from Here, paintings by Erin Dixon, opens with reception, 5pm-8pm, October 2nd at Yukon Artists @ Work Gallery, 4129-4th Ave. Show runs until Oct 25th.

MT MUSIC artist development day at LMCC, Sunday October 4, 5-8pm with Nicole Edwards, for all new & experienced musicians.

Interested in joining us for free afternoon jam/workshop call 667-7083

THE COMMON Cup Company Workshop, Saturday October 3, 2015, 12noon-5pm, Whitehorse United Church, 601 Main St. Fee: $5, includes music & snacks. Elevator access. Please RSVP 667-2989

WOMENʼS AUXILIARY to Whitehorse General Hospital will change the regular meeting day to Monday October 5, 7:30pm, at WGH. Regular monthly meeting is therefore cancelled. Barb @ 667-2087

CALL FOR Applications: Yukon Voices Rising Fall 2015. Mentored group for Indigenous and northern artists who are passionate about writing for performance. To apply: voicesrising.gwaandaktheatre.ca or call 393-2676.

POLARETTES & Polar Tumblers Gymnastics Club AGM, Thursday October 22, 6pm, at the gymnastics gym in Riverdale

BABY STORY Time Mondays, September 28–November 30, 10:30–11:30am, Whitehorse Public Library, ages 6-24 months and caregiver(s), free, drop in. 667-5239 LINE DANCING at the Golden Age Centre, 1:30pm to 3:30pm, every Wednesday starting September 30.

TODDLER STORY Wednesdays, September 30–December 2, 10:30 -11:30 am, Whitehorse Public Library, ages 2-4 and caregiver(s) free, drop in. 667-5239 YUKON CURLING Association AGM. All are welcome to attend on October 6, 2015, 7pm, at the Whitehorse Curling Club JOIN US at the ski hill for Friends of Mt Sima Society's AGM, Wednesday October 14, 7pm. Hear about all the great happenings.

Lounge will be open for refreshments OPEN HOUSE at Habitat Yukonʼs ʻSuperGreen Buildʼ on World Habitat Day, Monday, October 5, from 10am-3pm, at #13 Eldorado Drive in Whistle Bend. Phone 456-4349 or email info@habitatyukon.org

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FREE DIGITAL Skills for the Work World program November 23 to December 4. Learn computer/workplace skills for finding and keeping employment. 2 week program. Call Yukon Learn 668-6280 TOURING WORKSHOP with internationally acclaimed Theatre Replacement. Presented

by Gwaandak Theatre. Geared to performing artists & companies October 3, 6-9 pm, Old Fire Hall. To register: 393-2676 SALSA DANCING at the Wheelhouse, Saturday October 3, 9:15pm-12:30am, The Wheelhouse Restaurant, 2237-2nd Ave, salsayukon@gmail.com for info

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of Haines Junction, YT passed peacefully at her home September 23rd, 2015 after a nasty battle with stomach cancer.

Mabel was born in Lacombe, AB to Martin and Gunvor Hedemark on August 17th 1935. She was raised on the family farm west of Blackfalds with her two sisters.

Following high school Mabel worked in Pincher Creek as a bank teller and then moved on to more suitable work on the Q Ranch. In the Banff area Mabel met and married Arthur Brewster in 1957. Two years later they came north to Haines Junction to help Bill Brewster in his OutďŹ tting Area. They moved permanently to the Yukon. She worked in family businesses in Haines Junction and started her own trail riding business in the late â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;60â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s. She worked hard operating Yukon Trail Riding until her retirement in 2004. During that time she also worked 22 years maintaining Pine Lake Campground.

Britney and Annika and great grandchildren: Ashia, Jordan and Ryan. She is survived by her sister Evelyn Taylor (Calgary) and sister in law Sylvia Lefferson (Ft. St. John) and many nieces and nephews.

Mabel was predeceased by her parents, husband and sister (Carol MacEachern).

The family would like to thank all of Mabelâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s friends who helped her through this difďŹ cult time and especially Catherine Allaway from Yukon Homecare for all of her care, dedication and kindness throughout the last six months.

Mabel requested there be no funeral.

In the summer of 2016 family and friends will take Mabel for her last ride to the feed lot â&#x20AC;&#x153;up topâ&#x20AC;? where she requested her ashes be â&#x20AC;&#x153;scattered out in the horse shit!â&#x20AC;? We will have a wiener roast / picnic at that time.

Happy Trails

Mabel was an incredibly hard working, independent, tough lady whose life-long passion was horses. She rode and broke trails into a lot of wonderful country in her years of adventuring in the Junction area. The last couple of summers were very difďŹ cult for Mabel as she was unable to ride as she used to and was no longer able to do everything herself as she had always done.

She was a tower of strength to her family and will be sorely missed by her children: Sid, Dale and Marilyn Brewster, grandchildren: Nicole, Warren, Shauna, Terrence, Raven, Melanie,

The family of Harry Dickson Regret to announce the passing of Harry.

Service will be held at Christ Church Cathedral October 9,2015 at 2:00 pm.

Interment at Grey Mountain Cemetery.

Refreshments at Hellaby Hall at 4pm The family would like to thank the nurses on surgical ward, Dr. Jake Morash and Dr. Danusia Kanachowski (Pallitive Care Physician) for their special care during her time at the hospital.

BIG thanks also to Homecare/Palliative care team for their care and support to Patricia during her battle with cancer. Thanks to Jennifer for her healing touch.

Dr. James V Clark September 27/1994

The Hardest Thing The hardest thing to do Is to sit and think back on our time together And how much I miss it to this day.

No more early morning drives everywhere, No more listening to your stories with wide eyes, No more absorbing your history to pass on.

The hardest thing to do Is to try and explain to your Grandchildren What kind of a grandpa you would have been to them.

Every night they hear stories of my hero.

Hearing about the impact you made on our lives And how much you really meant to people.

The hardest thing to do Is to come home for a visit And stop by to see you in the summer.

Listening to the warm wind blow through the trees And catching you up on life during those sunny days While tears of love fall on your headstone.

The hardest thing to do Is to write a poem about how you are gone.

Because I do not want to accept that you are no longer here with us.

But I take comfort knowing that Through the stories, the poems, and the memories You will live within us forever.

Forever Loved Linda, Tristan, Beth and the rest of the family

In the Yukon, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the For More information contact Denise Beattie: 334-3943

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NEED TO talk? The Yukon Distress and Support Line is here. Confidential and Anonymous Support. 7pm-12am, 365 days a year. Toll-Free 1-844-533-3030 BRAEBURN LAKE Christian Camp Annual General Meeting October 20, 7pm, basement of United Church. We want to see new people interested in making the camp experience great. Stella 668-4629 ARCTIC INSTITUTE of Community-Based Research AGM will be held on Wednesday October 21, 12:00-1:00pm at 308 Hanson Street. Looking for a treasurer, e-mail katelyn@aicbr.ca for details THE YUKON Literacy Coalition invites you to attend their Annual General Meeting on Saturday, October 17th, at 12:00pm, Suite 207 in the Horwoods Mall. Contact 668-6535.

THE-MEANING-OF-HOME, A national writing contest for grades 4, 5, & 6 students.

Great prizes while supporting Habitat for Humanity. Starts on October 1st. Learn more at: www.meaningofhome.ca 3 DAYS only, Halin de Repentigny show & sale, Old Fire Hall, Whitehorse, Friday October 16 5-9pm, Saturday October 17 11am-4pm, Sunday October 18 Noon-4pm MENTAL HEALTH Caregiver Support Group for those caring or supporting a friend or family member with mental illness, third Thursday each month. 7-9pm, #4 Hospital Road, 1st floor. Call 667-8346 FASSY PARENT/CAREGIVER Support Meeting, October 8, 6:30pm-9pm at FASSY Office. Come and share your experiences, wisdom and knowledge. We can all learn from one another.

LAKE LABERGE Lions Christmas cakes & cookies are in. Leave a message to order, 668-7979 AWG TABLE tennis 2016, squad identification, Saturday October 10, Whitehorse Elementary School, registration 9:30 am, cost $10. B/G born 1998, B/G born 2001. Info Dave Stockdale, 668-3358, stockdale@yknet.ca â&#x20AC;&#x153;CONNECTING THROUGH Storiesâ&#x20AC;? at Well Read Books 1pm, Sunday Oct. 11. Yukon writers Michael Gates and Roy Ness will read from their own books. Free event. Refreshments served.

YUKON BIRD Club trip Oct. 10. Loon migration, Marsh Lake with Jim Hawkings. Meet SS Klondike 10 a.m. Dress warmly and bring a lunch, 4 hrs DANCE GATHERING October 3 @ LĘźAFY, 302 Strickland, 8-9pm. Adults & mature teens. Entrance by donation. A place to be yourself, connect with community and dance the way you want. whitehorsedancegathering@gmail.com YUKON OUTDOOR Sports Complex Association open house on October 6, 2015, 5:30pm to 8:00pm, Sport Yukon Foyer. All public and interested parties welcome. Call Tony Gaw @ 336-2075 for more info

CANUCKS DANCE Yukon Transportation Museum. October 23. Doors open 7pm, music 8pm. Tickets Dean's Strings or the door, $25. Hands of Hope 10th anniversary for details: www.facebook.com/booksandbasics

DANCE MOVEMENT Workshop with Yukon artist Andra Hunter. Part of Gwaandak TheatreĘźs Ensemble Theatre Training Series. All levels welcome. October 8, 6-7:30pm, YAC Studio.

Register at 393-2676, ensemble.gwaandaktheatre.ca

MOVING SALE, too much to list, #201, 100 Lambert St, ongoing, buzz between 9am & 4pm, downtown across from VisitorĘźs Centre.

Seriously interested only.

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 ELECTRICIAN â&#x20AC;˘Licensed â&#x20AC;˘General Handyman Services â&#x20AC;˘Light Carpentry, Drywall, etc â&#x20AC;˘Free Estimates â&#x20AC;˘10% SeniorĘźs Discount September Sale 10% off all jobs booked through October 332-7879

REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS

Evaluation Plan â&#x20AC;&#x201C; House of Learning: Education and Employment Training Program Kwanlin DĂźn First Nation

The Kwanlin DĂźn First Nation is seeking proposals from qualified consultants to develop an evaluation plan for its Education and Employment Training Program.

Your qualifications should include, but not be limited to, â&#x20AC;˘ Experience and expertise in developing evaluation plans for the public sector, preferably in the areas of education and employment training â&#x20AC;˘ Experience with First Nation engagement The services to be performed shall include, but not be limited to, â&#x20AC;˘ Develop an evaluation plan for the House of Learning: Education and Employment Training Program â&#x20AC;˘ Consult with members of Kwanlin DĂźnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s House of Learning Program Evaluation Steering Committee â&#x20AC;˘ Revise and draft as necessary and prepare final Evaluation Plan The Evaluation Plan is being developed to guide the subsequent, separately contracted, evaluation.

Proposals are due Friday, October 30 by 4:30 p.m. PST. To receive the Request for Proposal package please email therese.lindsay@kdfn.net or stop in to the House of Learning at #5 Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Brien Place in the McIntyre Subdivision in Whitehorse or call (867) 633-8422.

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MC RENOVATION Construction & Renovations Laminated floor, siding, decks, tiles Kitchen, Bathroom, Doors, Cabinets, Windows, Framing, Board, Painting Drop Ceiling, Fences No job too small Free estimates Michael 336-0468 yt.mcr@hotmail.com

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Call for Proposals: 2016-17 Focus Gallery Program of Exhibitions The Yukon Art Society invites visual artists to apply for our 2016-17 program of exhibitions in the Focus Gallery at Arts Underground, 15-305 Main Street, Whitehorse.

Details & Application Package: Visit artsunderground.ca (scroll down to â&#x20AC;&#x153;Calls for Artistsâ&#x20AC;?or use the QR code below) or drop by Arts Underground Deadline: Monday, October 19, 2015 More Information: Lianne Maitland, Executive Director / Curator, 867-667-4080 ext. 23 or admin@artsunderground.ca

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PUBLIC TENDER MAINTENANCE - PELLY CROSSING SOLID WASTE FACILITY Project Description: To provide ongoing maintenance services at the Pelly Crossing Solid Waste Facility.

Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title.

The closing date for submissions is October 13, 2015. Please refer to the procurement documents for the closing time and location.

Documents may be obtained from the Procurement Support Centre, Department of Highways and Public Works, Suite 101 - 104 Elliott Street, Whitehorse, Yukon (867) 667-5385.

Technical questions may be directed to Rob Anderson at rob.anderson@gov.yk.ca.

All tenders and proposals are subject to a Compliance Review performed by the Procurement Support Centre. The information displayed is the date and time of opening and is not modified based on the results of the Compliance Review.

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

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

PUBLIC TENDER PURCHASE OF AN ARTICULATED TRAILER MOUNTED BOOM LIFT Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title.

The closing date for submissions is October 26, 2015. Please refer to the procurement documents for the closing time and location.

Documents may be obtained from the Procurement Support Centre, Department of Highways and Public Works, Suite 101 - 104 Elliott Street, Whitehorse, Yukon (867) 667-5385.

Technical questions may be directed to Bill Stonehouse at bill.stonehouse@gov.yk.ca.

All tenders and proposals are subject to a Compliance Review performed by the Procurement Support Centre. The information displayed is the date and time of opening and is not modified based on the results of the Compliance Review.

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

This tender is subject to Chapter Five of the Agreement on Internal Trade.

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

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PUBLIC TENDER TECH ED WING UPGRADE F.H. COLLINS SCHOOL - BLDG. #1221 WHITEHORSE, YUKON 2015/2016 Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title.

The closing date for submissions is October 21, 2015. Please refer to the procurement documents for the closing time and location.

Documents may be obtained from the Procurement Support Centre, Department of Highways and Public Works, Suite 101 - 104 Elliott Street, Whitehorse, Yukon (867) 6675385. Technical questions may be directed to Muhammad Shanjer at muhammad.shanjer@gov.yk.ca.

Site Visit Scheduled for October 7th, 2015 at 10:30 AM All tenders and proposals are subject to a Compliance Review performed by the Procurement Support Centre. The information displayed is the date and time of opening and is not modified based on the results of the Compliance Review.

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

The Yukon Business Incentive Policy will apply to this project.

Bidders and/or Proponents are advised to review documents to determine Certificate of Recognition (COR) requirements for this project.

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

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PUBLIC TENDER S2015/07 GOVERNMENT SURPLUS VEHICLES, TRAILERS, BOATS, SNOWMOBILES & MISC. Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title. The closing date for submissions is October 13, 2015. Please refer to the procurement documents for the closing time and location.

Documents may be obtained from the Procurement Support Centre, Department of Highways and Public Works, Suite 101 - 104 Elliott Street, Whitehorse, Yukon (867) 667-5385.

Technical questions may be directed to Stan Dorosz atstan.dorosz@gov.yk.ca.

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

All tenders and proposals are subject to a Compliance Review performed by the Procurement Support Centre. The information displayed is the date and time of opening and is not modified based on the results of the Compliance Review.

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

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

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REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL 5TH & ROGERS, BLOCK 338 MASTER PLANNING EXERCISE Project Description: Land Management Branch, Department of Energy, Mines and Resources, is seeking professional planning services to develop a planning brief for a large, strategically located land parcel in downtown Whitehorse.

The work will involve collecting information about the site, evaluating different interests in it, and detailing the planning and preliminary engineering work to assist the Government of Yukon and the City of Whitehorse in the future development of these lands.

Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title.

The closing date for submissions is October 27, 2015. Please refer to the procurement documents for the closing time and location.

Documents may be obtained from the Procurement Support Centre, Department of Highways and Public Works, Suite 101 - 104 Elliott Street, Whitehorse, Yukon (867) 667-5385.

Technical questions may be directed to Kevin Fisher at kevin.fisher@gov.yk.ca.

All tenders and proposals are subject to a Compliance Review performed by the Procurement Support Centre. The information displayed is the date and time of opening and is not modified based on the results of the Compliance Review.

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

This tender is subject to Chapter Five of the Agreement on Internal Trade.

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

FREELANCE WRITER & EDITOR No writing or editing job too big or too small: Business proposals, Bids, Advertising, Journalism, Resumes, Queries, Musical Reviews, Rewrites, Court Pleas, Ghost Biographies, Songs, Poems, Histories, Love Letters, Absentee Excuses, Geological Summaries, etc.

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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 LOG CABINS: Professional Scribe Fit log buildings at affordable rates.

Contact: PF Watson, Box 40187, Whitehorse, YT, Y1A 6M9 668-3632 PROFESSIONAL BUTCHER •Will cut your wild meat to your preference •Will come to your home •35 years experience •$300 Moose and $125 Caribou Ken (Buck) @ 336-1701 with voice mail PATTHARA HAIR STYLING Haircuts, Thai massage, manicure, pedicure 29 Wann Road, Porter Creek Mall Over 30 years experience For information call 867-332-0784

REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL

Lost & Found REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS BUILDING CONDITION ASSESSMENTS - BLOCK III VARIOUS YUKON GOVERNMENT BUILDINGS WHITEHORSE, YUKON 2015/2016 Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title.

The closing date for submissions is October 22, 2015. Please refer to the procurement documents for the closing time and location.

Documents may be obtained from the Procurement Support Centre, Department of Highways and Public Works, Suite 101 - 104 Elliott Street, Whitehorse, Yukon (867) 667-5385.

Technical questions may be directed to Alex Jobin at alex.jobin@gov.yk.ca.

All tenders and proposals are subject to a Compliance Review performed by the Procurement Support Centre. The information displayed is the date and time of opening and is not modified based on the results of the Compliance Review.

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

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

LOST: SET of keys Sept 10 or 11, connected to a blue climbing carabiner, $50 reward. 668-2979 LOST: SEPTEMBER 19, South Canol Rd, ATV/snowmobile ramp/rack. Call 633-5881 FOUND: DR. James Gordon McLeod circa: 1938 Kit bag. Contains license #5512, Resident Vancouver General Hospital 1938.

332-1040 LOST: FAVOURITE scarf, one side is green & black plaid, other side is soft blue denim, reward for return. 633-4772

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COLLECTORS BIKE, rare, 1990 Honda Pacific Coast Touring 800, mechanically excellent, new tires, 22km, $1,900. 333-9020 EX-59 HORIZON Elliptical, $375. 333-0916

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

Viewing Location: 9029 quartz Road-Asset Compound Viewing Dates: October 01, 2015, 12:00pm - 2:00pm, October 08, 2015, 12:00pm - 2:00pm & October 13, 2015, 12:00pm - 2:00pm

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Application Number Numéro de la demande

Applicant/Licensee Demandeur/Titulaire

Water Source Location Point d’eau/Lieu

Type of Undertaking Type d’entreprise

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

HY14-014

David Petkovich

Unnamed Creek (Lucky Lady Creek), Tributary of Takhini River

Hydro

October 13, 2015

PM11-060

Assignment from Dietmar Gritzka to Eric Blattler

Right fork of Hunker Creek

Placer

October 13, 2015

PM15-056

535785 Yukon Inc.

Davidson Creek, Tributary of Mayo River

Placer

October 28, 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 indiquée sur le présent avis.

Pour voir les demandes, consultez le registre en ligne WATERLINE au http://www.yukonwaterboard.ca ou rendez-vous au bureau de l’Office des eaux du Yukon. Pour de plus amples renseignements, veuillez communiquer avec le secrétariat de l’Office au 867-456-3980.

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BROOMBALL GEAR, shoes menʼs sz 7, stick, helmet, shin pads, elbow pads, $125 for all. 689-5866

MF FOUR furrow, 3 pt hitch plough, 14" boards, good straight plough, $700. Call 332-0343

OUTBOUND 3-PERSON tent, rarely used, $30. 311B Hanson St.

Baby & Child Items

BOWFLEX EXERCISER, like new, $1,800 new, asking $700 obo. 633-6718

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

LADIES GOLF clubs, $50; Stepper, 43” long, $30. 667-4090 SALOMON ESCAPE XC boots, sz 10.5; Fischer XC sport boots, EU 43; Salomon Slam 5 TR SC boots, sz 6, $40/pr. 311B Hanson St.

LARGE BIN of Duplo, $15; large bin of Bratz dolls & accessories, $30. 667-4090

WHITEHORSE DUPLICATE BRIDGE CLUB September 29, 2015 1st - Mark Davey & Chris Bookless 2nd - Nick Smart & Andrzej Jablonski 3rd - Ruth Whitney & Cheryl Smith We play every Tuesday at 7:00 pm at the Golden Age Society.

New players are welcome.

For more information call 633-5352 or email nmcgowan@klondiker.co

Puzzle Page Answer Guide

EXERCISE bike, $50.

Furniture

Livestock

KITCHEN TABLE with 4 chairs, exc cond, $200. 399-3710, Tagish

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 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 BROME-GRASS HAY for sale $11.00 per bale Call 668-6564 HAY FOR SALE •Dry bales kept under a shelter •Great quality hay 60-70 lb bales, $10 633-4496 or mikeandastra@me.com SET OF two leather draft horse harnesses complete with collars, bridles & lines. Will fit 1,200 to 1,400 lb horses, $750 for all.

633-2443 PORK FOR SALE Grass/grain fed, sold in the half $5.00 lbs, delivered to Whitehorse Call 867-537-3458 or email hjkplusappaloosa_fun@msn.com HAY FOR SALE •Oat Bundles, $1.25 each •1,100 plus round bales, no rain Brome mix, some weed, $50 •Timothy Brome mix, $75 Phone 633-6188 10-40' 2” aluminum irrigation pipes with sprinklers, 2-20' 2” pipe with sprinklers, 2-boxes sprinklers and connectors.

333-0916 AG. GRADE prilled sulphur, almost 1000kg, all offers entertained. Call 332-0343 SINGLE ROW, 3 pt hitch mount, multi purpose transplanter, will transplant cell plugs, soil blocks & canes, $500. Call 332-0343

CHINA/CURIO CABINET, 60”Wx76”Hx15”D, exc cond, $175. 399-3710, Tagish

DINING TABLE, 6-10 persons, hardwood Maple with built-in leaf extensions, rustic antique, light colour, no chairs, $1,400.

333-4653 QUEEN-SIZE MATTRESS & boxspring bed, good shape, wrapped in plastic, $250, Marsh Lake. 333-4653

Kakuro:

PINE 4-DRAWER desk, 43”X21”, $100; assortment of unique table lamps, all under $20; several small shelving units. 667-4090 COUCH & loveseat, $250; recliner, $100; coffee table & 2 end tables, oak, $200.

633-5569 WOODEN DRESSER, 3-drawer, chocolate brown, 33.5”Hx16”Wx15.5”L, $35; 2 chocolate brown faux leather dining chairs, $12 ea.

660-4321 OAK DINING table & four oak & cloth chairs, $300. 333-0916 ANTIQUE FOLK Art buffet with hutch, $550.

668-5882

The Champagne and Aishihik First Nations reserves the right to accept or reject any or all Tenders, or to accept the Tender which the CAFN deems to be in its own best interest.

Tenders submitted by fax will not be accepted nor considered.

Crossword:

Personals CITIZENS ON PATROL. Do you have concerns in your neighborhood & community?

Be part of the solution! Volunteer valuable time to the C.O.P.S. program. With your eyes & ears we can help stomp out crime.

Info: RCMP 867-667-5555 DRUG PROBLEM? Narcotics Anonymous meetings Wed. 7pm-8pm #2 - 407 Ogilvie St. BYTE Office FRI. 7pm-8:30pm 4071 - 4th Ave Many Rivers Office •TAROT/TEACUPS •INTUITIVE READINGS Over 35 Years Experience Please email for appointment dawnrenem@gmail.com or phone 689-9885

Word Scramble A: Moot B: Sycophant C: Draconian

REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS

TENDERS are available at CAFN offices in Haines Junction and Whitehorse (304 Jarvis St., Yukon) Tender Closing: 4:00 PM LOCAL TIME ON WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 7, 2015 Download RFP: www.cafn.ca Click on: Doing Business >Bids-Tenders Tenders must be submitted accordance with the instructions within the tender documents.

PATIO SET, rectangular glass top table, 4 chairs, umbrella, exc cond, $150. 399-3710, Tagish

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1st Tender – 6 Oil Burning Appliance Replacement 2nd Tender – Servicing & Repairs to Oil/Wood Burning Appliances

Sudoku:

10.02.2015

ADVANTAGE 668-2919

1-PC BOYʼS snowsuit, size 3T, Molehill brand, used twice, paid $120, asking $60.

393-2630

yukon-news.com

All enquiries to: Joan Graham Champagne and Aishihik First Nations A\Property Manager (867)634-4220 jgrahm@cafn.ca

Supply of 2015/2016 Skid Steer Loader RFT #2015-OPS0004 The City of Whitehorse is inviting bids in writing from bonD ¿de bidders for the supply and delivery of one (1), new, 2015/2016 Skid Steer Loader.

Tender documents with complete speci¿cations may be obtained from the 2f¿ce of the Manager of Financial Services at City Hall, 2121 Second Avenue, Whitehorse, Yukon.

Interested bidders must submit tenders in writing as speci¿ed in the invitation to tender documents. Bids will be received at City Hall, 2121 Second Avenue, Whitehorse, Yukon, Y1A 1C2, before 3:00.00 p.m. PST, Tuesday, October 27, 2015.

Tender documents may be obtained by emailing procurement@whitehorse. ca or picked up at City Hall on or after 12:00 PM PST on Monday, September 28, 2015.

Tenders will be EVALUATED IN THE BEST INTEREST OF THE CITY OF WHITEHORSE. Tenders submitted by facsimile will not be accepted or considered.

All enquiries to procurement@whitehorse. ca

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Garage AUCTIONS SALES BETTER BID NORTH AUCTIONS/APPRAISALS

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 2ND

Saturday, October 3rd & Saturday, October 10th 1:00PM-4:00PM

Crappy Weather or Not!

Sale Inside Heated Warehouse & Outside in yard

LOCATION: #24 LABERGE ROAD, KULAN INDUSTRIAL PARK

Liquidating Goods/Materials from 6 Estates!

Viewings will be Saturday from 10-12pm Registration 12-1pm

We will try our best to makee thee Goods have sales FAST & FUN! Gotta Go! Like the good old days!

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COPPER RIDGE M #201, 35 GRIZZLY CIRCLE, Copper Ridge, Saturday October 3, 10am-1pm, household items, furniture, TV new in box DOWNTOWN M 7170 - 7TH AVE, downtown, Saturday & Sunday, October 3 & 4, 9am-11am, moving sale, tables & chairs, book shelf, mattress, women’s & children’s clothing, kid’s toys. Call 332-1112 PORTER CREEK M 1107 SPRUCE ST, Porter Creek, Saturday October 3, 9am-1pm, children’s clothes incl winter wear, baby items, toys, household items, women’s clothes M 19 WANN Porter Creek, Rd, Crocus Glen, house number 13, back left corner, Saturday October 3, 9am-11am M 56 TAMARACK DR, Porter Creek, Saturday October 3, 9am-1pm, 2 family garage sale, baby boy clothes, household items

M 68 TAMARACK DR, Porter Creek, Saturday October 3, 9am-12noon, household items, cancelled if raining

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 3RD DOWNTOWN M 7170 - 7th Ave, downtown, Saturday & Sunday, October 3 & 4, 9am-11am, moving sale, tables & chairs, book shelf, mattress, women’s & children’s clothing, kid’s toys. Call 332-1112

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