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Dan Curtis sits safe in Whitehorse mayor’s seat Myles Dolphin News Reporter
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an Curtis was re-elected as mayor of Whitehorse last night in a landslide
victory. The unofficial election results put him more than 3,800 votes ahead of second-place candidate Wilf Carter. “It’s pretty surreal, to be honest,� Curtis told reporters at Whitehorse City Hall shortly after winning. But despite winning by a large margin – he received almost 80 per cent of the mayoral vote – he said it wasn’t an easy campaign. Accusations of being responsible for another person’s death were levelled at him during a mayoral forum last week. He said he received a lot of phone calls and e-mails supporting his decision not to respond to those. “And that’s good because I do have a bit of a temper, but I was able to keep my cool,� he said. “I’m privileged to have the opportunity to work for the citizens of Whitehorse for three more years.� Mayoral candidate Wilf Carter received 835 votes, or just over 14 per cent, while Mandeep Sidhu came in third place with 437 votes or 7.4 per cent. Dave Stockdale, who was seeking a 12th consecutive term on city council, lost his seat by only 46 votes. “I’m not thrilled, but I’m not that disappointed,� he said. “You can’t win everything. I can finally reorganize the files in my basement now.� Stockdale joked he would scare the Yukon Party by reminding them of the territorial election to be held next year. If he did decide to run, he’d do it for the NDP in the Riverdale North district, he added. “But that’s highly unlikely.� He did confirm he wouldn’t run in the 2018 municipal election. Incumbent Jocelyn Curteanu was the most popular coun-
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Voters enter the polling station at the Kwanlin Dun Cultural Centre to cast their ballots in the Whitehorse municipal election on Thursday. cillor among the six voted in, receiving 2,662 votes. She said she was surprised by the result. “I was told to hope for the best and expect the worst,� she said with a laugh. “I just trusted the citizens to make a good decision as to who they feel will best meet their needs. I’m honoured they feel so strongly that I can carry out the work they want the city to do.� Robert Fendrick, the former director of corporate services for the city, finished second with 2,556 votes. Curtis was asked whether he anticipated any challenges, as Fendrick had been fired by the city manager earlier this year. “He’s a consummate professional and council always got along really well with him,� he said. “I don’t think it’ll be a concern at all.� Betty Irwin was elected for a third consecutive term on council with 2,457 votes. Roslyn Woodcock, who lost a recount to Mike Gladish in the last election, came in fourth with 2,156 votes. Former councillor Dan Boyd, who served for two consecutive terms between 1994 and 2000, finished fifth with 2,078 votes. Samson Hartland narrowly beat out Stockdale for the last seat, with 1,959 votes. The pair had been sitting
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together in the front row of the council chambers leading up the final results, following the numbers projected onto the big screen. Hartland, who served on council from 2000 to 2003, said he was excited to work with the new team. “It’s very promising as you have returning experience, continuity from the previous council and new blood,� he said. “What more could you ask for?� The city used electronic voting for the first time this year. Despite a few glitches after the polls closed – the election website didn’t work – the final results came in at 9:18 p.m., by far a new record. In comparison, it took over three hours to recount the votes cast for Gladish and Woodcock in the 2012 election. Returning officer Norma Felker said this year’s electors list had over 18,000 names, compared to just over 11,000 in 2012. She expected the voter turnout to be significantly higher as a result, but didn’t have the final numbers on hand. A meeting has been scheduled for Monday, Oct. 26, in order to swear in the new council. Contact Myles Dolphin at myles@yukon-news.com
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arly last week, Larry Bagnell sat in a back room of his campaign office eating soup and a turkey sandwich. He grabbed a mouthful each time he finished answering a question, with the air of someone used to multitasking. The Yukon’s Liberal candidate had already been to three campaign stops that morning, and had two more to get to before the end of the day. This was his only window for lunch. “People think I’m everywhere, and that takes a lot of hard work,” he explained. Bagnell had visited every Yukon community by the time the writ was dropped in August, and he hasn’t missed a single one of the dozen or so campaign forums in Whitehorse. But he’s been methodical, too, preferring to recite his party’s platform planks over and over than to throw barbs at the other candidates. “I don’t like politics that much, actually. I don’t like the route to get there,” he said. “I don’t like partisan politics and bickering. That’s what you have to go through to be able to get to the position where you can do things for people.” There’s something a little rehearsed about Bagnell now, perhaps because of the decade he spent as the Yukon’s MP before losing to Conservative candidate Ryan Leef in 2011 by 132 votes. He is a fan of lists – when asked about his work as the Yukon director for Industry Canada before he ran for office in 2000, he quickly rattled off “tourism, small business, innovation, industrial development, marketing, trade missions” as some of the portfolios he worked on. And he’s not afraid to tout his own achievements, which include being named Canada’s hardestworking MP more than once. But he maintains that he’s returned to politics to serve people, particularly those who are disadvantaged. “You know, the big things aren’t as important to me as how you can affect someone’s life. When you’re an MP, at least, sometimes you can help people.” During this campaign, though, Bagnell has spent a lot of time focused on the big things. He’s been hammering home the Liberal Party’s $60-billion infrastructure plan, its $500-million commitment for aboriginal education infrastructure and its planned 33 per cent increase to the Northern Residents Deduction. He says each of those commitments will be felt in the Yukon, even if the details haven’t yet been worked out. Still, he’s been forced onto the defensive by persistent attacks from Conservative candidate Ryan Leef on the longgun registry, an issue that has plagued him for years. Bagnell opposed the long-gun registry for many years, but voted with his party to keep it in 2010, claiming he would have been ousted from the Liberal caucus had he stood his ground. Leef maintains the Liberal Party will reinstate some form of registry, and
is simply trying to curry favour with voters by pretending otherwise. The issue has come up on doorsteps, Bagnell said, but he thinks most Yukoners believe him when he says his party won’t reinstate a registry. “They understand and they’ve moved on.” He also said the Liberals will lower the number of “whipped” votes in Parliament, where MPs are forced to vote with their party. By all appearances, Bagnell is the candidate to beat in this election. A recent poll from Environics Research gave him a 10-point lead over NDP candidate Melissa Atkinson, and a 12-point lead over Leef. And late last week, the Council of Yukon First Nations all but endorsed him with a statement urging First Nation citizens to vote strategically. The statement referred citizens to www.strategicvoting.ca, which encourages voters in the Yukon to cast their ballots for the Liberals. Bagnell said he believes Yukoners see him as having the “best chance” to defeat Leef. In 2011, he said, many people didn’t bother voting for him after a poll gave him a 20-point lead shortly before the election. “They were giving moral support to the NDP and the Greens. And they came to me after and said they just did it on the basis that I couldn’t lose.” He said many of those people have told him they will vote for him this time around. But he isn’t taking anything for granted. “I never am confident. I always campaign as if I’m one vote behind right to the eleventh hour. One of my grandmothers said if you’re going to do anything, do it well. And I’ve always tried to remember that.”
“I always campaign as if I’m one vote behind right to the eleventh hour. One of my grandmothers said if you’re going to do anything, do it well. And I’ve always tried to remember that.”
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The scrapper try if elected. Bagnell maintains that won’t happen. “Why would a party who adamantly and passionately defended it through the entire 41st Parliament all of a sudden now abandon the notion of bringing it back?” Leef asked. “That’s not credible. That’s not credible at all.” It was frustration over Bagnell’s backtracking on the long-gun registry that helped push Leef into politics nearly five years ago. In 2010, Bagnell voted with his party to keep the registry, after telling Yukoners he opposed it. Leef, who previously worked as an RCMP officer, a conservation officer, and as deputy superintendent of operations at the Whitehorse Correctional Centre, said he felt betrayed by Bagnell’s decision and that spurred him to get involved in the election campaign. Three months after throwing his hat into the ring for the Conservative Party, Yukoners voted him into office. “It was a whirlwind at the time,” he said. Though he was new to the political arena in 2011, Leef’s four years in office have produced some noteworthy moments. In 2013, he brought forward a private member’s bill that would have allowed judges to consider fetal alcohol spectrum disorder as a mitigating factor in sentencing, though he dropped the bill in 2014. At a forum hosted by the Yukon Chamber Maura Forrest of Commerce this week, he said that bill News Reporter remains the one piece of legislation he yan Leef keeps the skeletons of his would pass if he could. In October 2014, after Michael Zehafdefaced election signs in the back Bibeau fatally shot Cpl. Nathan Cirillo on of his campaign office. He actually prefers “destroyed” to “defaced,” since all Parliament Hill, Leef apparently fashioned a makeshift spear out of a flagpole to help that’s left, really, are blue borders framprotect his colleagues in the barricaded ing gaping holes. caucus room. The signs are a reminder of what And earlier this year, he was the lone has been, for better or worse, the most Conservative MP to vote for an inquiry for memorable moment of the Yukon’s missing and murdered aboriginal women. federal election campaign and the only He’s also quick to point to other instances one to attract national attention. In late when he voted against the Conservatives, August, the Conservative candidate though a political scientist from Universite handcuffed Whitede Montreal recently horse resident Carrie calculated that Bagnell Boles and placed her has voted against his under citizen’s arrest party more frequently after catching her cutthan Leef. ting out his name from Leef has maintained his campaign signs throughout this camlate at night. paign that his party is At the time, to the only one to make promises specific convey that the arrest wasn’t planned, Leef made it sound as if it wasn’t unusual to the Yukon. Certainly, the Conservatives have offered the territory a number for him to carry handcuffs. He clarified of goodies in recent weeks. There’s the that point in a recent interview with the promise of a new Canadian Armed Forces News. reserve unit, a new cadet facility, the pav“Of course I don’t walk around with handcuffs all the time,” he said. “Give me ing of the Dawson City airport runway, and most recently, an expansion of Yukon Cola break.” lege’s Haines Junction campus. These are, Six weeks after the arrest, Leef is in part, the reasons why Premier Darrell standing by his decision that night. “If Pasloski says he formally endorsed Leef’s you break the law in the territory, you campaign this week. need to be held to account,” he said. “If And it’s true that these focused commitI was in the position again… I would do ments have largely not been matched by the exact same thing again.” the other parties, though Liberal candidate He specified, though, that his Larry Bagnell has promised to increase background in law enforcement qualithe Northern Residents Deduction and fied him to make that decision, and he bring back Whitehorse’s Canada Revenue wouldn’t necessarily recommend that others do the same. “I’m a nationally cer- Agency office. There’s an energy and an intensity to tified expert in this. This isn’t an average Leef that seems sincere, if adversarial at citizen going out and making a decision times. Long-gun registry aside, he said he’s to engage in a citizen’s arrest.” running because he wants to keep giving Perhaps unsurprisingly for a former back to his community. mixed-martial-arts fighter, Leef is not “This is my home. This is where I’m goone to back down from a fight, and not ing to live the rest of my life. This is where only when it comes to vandalism. He’s I’m raising my son. made his feud with Liberal candidate “I’ll always choose the Yukon over the Larry Bagnell over the long-gun registry party.” a centrepiece of his election campaign Contact Maura Forrest at and insists, vehemently, that the Liberal maura.forrest@yukon-news.com Party will bring back some form of regis-
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rank de Jong has big shoes to fill. The Yukon’s Green Party candidate had only been living in the territory for a few months when he decided to seek the party’s nomination for this federal election. He’s taken up the torch from John Streicker, who garnered 19 per cent of the Yukon vote in the 2011 election, the secondbest showing in Canada after Party Leader Elizabeth May. After Liberal candidate Larry Bagnell narrowly lost to Conservative Ryan Leef in that election, Streicker was widely accused of having split the vote. In 2014, Streicker announced he wouldn’t run again. “Because of strategic voting primarily, he thought he would be vilified if he ran again,” de Jong said. “But I have no such worry, because it’s up to the voters to make those decisions. And I think it’s important that the Green voice be heard.” By the looks of things, de Jong needn’t worry too much about stealing votes from other parties. A recent poll showed him with only about four per cent support in the territory, and he has a number of factors working against him. He’s now been in the Yukon
for just 14 months, and he lives in Faro, far from the population centre. He’s relatively unknown, and thanks to his teaching position, he wasn’t able to make it to Whitehorse until about three weeks ago. He’s flying to Old Crow for the first time on Saturday. Then, too, there are people’s memories of what happened last time around. “I’ve talked to tons of people who’ve said, ‘Oh, I voted Green last time and I wish I could this time, but I can’t,’” he said. “You can’t say much to them. You have to respect it. And I do respect it.” But, he cautioned, people should recognize that if they cast strategic ballots for the Liberals, they’ll be voting for Bill C-51 and for pipeline development. “They’re going to hate themselves in the morning.” De Jong may be new to the Yukon, but he’s not new to politics. He was the leader of the Ontario Green Party from 1993 until 2008, and he’s run in federal elections in Ontario before, though not since 1997. He said he’s always been fascinated by northern Canada. “I always wanted to teach in northern Canada. That was sort of in the back of my mind for decades, but I never got around to it. And then I finally applied and Faro chose me.” De Jong seems to have run his campaign as a teacher more than
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Green Party candidate Frank de Jong talks at the forum for women’s rights and gender equality in Whitehorse on October 1. a politician. He’s used the many candidates forums in Whitehorse to try and explain his ideas on taxation, affordable housing, and proportional representation – no easy feat when each candidate is given just a minute or two to speak on any given issue. The Green Party favours a carbon tax that would pay monthly dividends to citizens, and promises to eliminate income tax for anyone making less than $20,000 a year. But de Jong takes that several steps further. He’d like to
eliminate all income, sales, and corporate taxes, instead shifting the entire tax burden onto the “use and abuse of nature.” “Right now, our tax structure discourages employment and it encourages wasting resources,” he said. “It doesn’t make sense taxing jobs. Corporate taxes are a dead-weight tax.” As a Green Party candidate, de Jong has the luxury of straying from his party’s platform more or less at will. Though he supports the party’s plan to eliminate
Premier plans community tour
him the chance to hear from Yukoners who don’t often get to speak directly to the government. The premier plans to meet with residents in Whitehorse, Dawson City, Haines Junction and Watson Lake between now and early December, and may visit other communities as well. Topics up for discussion include economic development, sports and recreation, arts, heritage and culture, and innovation and entrepreneurship. However, these “community conversations” will not be public meetings. Instead, a consultant has worked with community leaders to come up with a list of participants to invite, including volunteers, business owners, high school students and seniors. “The intent is for the premier to have intimate, frank and open
post-secondary tuition and establish a universal guaranteed income, he sees himself as more fiscally conservative than many of his party’s candidates. “I think the Green Party should be a centrist party, whereas a lot of Greens are rather left-wing,” he said. “And I don’t agree with that.” He also has the luxury of not really needing to compete. Instead, he treats his fellow candidates with refreshing equanimity. “Ryan Leef’s a nice guy,” he said. “I talk to him a lot. He’s a good man, he’s compassionate, he knows the Yukon really well. “He cares deeply about the Yukon. That’s obvious with every word he says.” And on Larry Bagnell’s decision to backtrack on his opposition of the long-gun registry, which de Jong also opposes: “That must have been hugely frustrating for him. He must have felt terrible about that.” This is not a candidate who is in this election to win it. But de Jong hopes that Green Party candidates will face better odds the next time around, if a new government implements some kind of proportional representation. He insists that he’s always wanted to be elected. “I would have loved to have been,” he said. “And I don’t know if I ever will.” Contact Maura Forrest at maura.forrest@yukon-news.com
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conversations with everyday Yukoners,” government spokesperson Dan Macdonald wrote in an email to the News. “Many of these individuals may not feel as open to share in a public meeting.” Macdonald said those not invited to participate can share their ideas by writing to community.conversations@gov.yk.ca. In a letter, Pasloski wrote that the information gathered during the tour could influence the 2016-17 budget, and encouraged participants to make suggestions about policy, legislation and financial investments. “Listening to input from Yukoners is invaluable as we chart a course for the future together,” he wrote. “While it is likely that we will not be able to implement every idea that is put forward, we will give serious consideration to everything we hear.” The tour will be the first of its kind for Pasloski, but not for the territory or for his party. Former Yukon Party premier Dennis Fentie held six community tours during his nine years in office, and all Yukoners were encouraged to attend. The Yukon’s next territorial election must take place by October 2016. (Maura Forrest)
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elissa Atkinson is orange right down to the tips of her fingers. Literally. The federal NDP candidate has painted her fingernails orange for this election. The political newcomer has worked hard to brand herself during this campaign, bringing up Thomas Mulcair and the need for change whenever possible. “I just thought something has to change,� she said of her reason for seeking the NDP nomination this summer. “The real vision of change in looking to the future would be an NDP vote.� Atkinson is big on catchphrases – she’s been “thrown under the omnibus� countless times, and regularly bemoans the “Un-Fair Elections Act.� Her campaign faces one big challenge in differentiating her party’s platform from that of the Liberals. To that end, she’s spent a lot of time plugging her party’s plan for $15-a-day child care and a $15 minimum wage for federal workers. But on key issues that have come up again and again during campaign debates, she and Liberal candidate Larry Bagnell have said essentially the same thing. They would both repeal the four offending clauses of Bill S-6. They would both launch an inquiry for missing and murdered aboriginal women. Both parties have promised electoral reform and to move the retirement age back from 67 to 65. And when Northwest Territories NDP MP Dennis Bevington released the party’s plan for the North last week, Atkinson did little to promote it. The plan is one of the NDP’s only com-
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Melissa Atkinson speaks on the campaign trail in Whitehorse in August. mitments that is specific to the territories. It promises $200 million for northern roads, bridges and ports, $100 million for renewable energy development in northern and remote communities, and improvements to the Nutrition North food subsidy program. Atkinson has said $54 million is earmarked for infrastructure spending in the Yukon over the first four years of an NDP government, but she hasn’t been very vocal about it. She’s had to come up to speed quickly as a political
contender. Atkinson is the only one of the four candidates with no prior political experience, and she was nominated months after Bagnell and Green candidate Frank de Jong. Even as
approaching her and asking for selfies. During the first campaign debate at Yukon College, Atkinson came out swinging at Conservative candidate Ryan Leef. She maintains that a man in her position would not have been accused of being too angry. “If a man does that, well, he’s the boss, he’s assertive, he’s getting the job done,� she said. Atkinson is no stranger to overcoming hurdles. Born and raised in Whitehorse, she is a member of the Tr’ondek Hwech’in First Nation and be-
“I just thought something has to change. The real vision of change in looking to the future would be an NDP vote.�
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came the Yukon’s first aboriginal Crown prosecutor in 2002. She said she was inspired to pursue law in high school after watching tanks roll on to Mohawk territory during the Oka crisis in Quebec. “I was just flabbergasted when I saw that,� she said. “And I knew the best way to combat that would be education.� She worked as chair of the Yukon Human Rights Commission from 2004 to 2010, when she decided to switch from Crown prosecution to legal aid. That history of representing Yukoners, she said, is what gives her the experience she needs to be an MP. “I never picked who I got to act for.... Knowing what it means to advocate on behalf of a client is a very powerful tool.� Recently, Atkinson’s team has tried to position her as the logical choice for strategic voters. And a recent poll showed her with 29 per cent support, a large increase over her party’s results in 2011. Still, she trailed Bagnell by 10 points in the poll. Strategic voting websites are recommending the Liberal party as the best choice for the Yukon, and the territory’s chiefs are calling for their citizens to vote accordingly to oust the Conservatives. But Atkinson maintains that she’s “in it to win it.� And even if she doesn’t, she said, she’ll consider running again next time around. “What are they going to do with all the signs with my giant head on them?� she joked. “I’m going to be living in the Yukon. I’ll die in the Yukon. I’m not going anywhere.� Contact Maura Forrest at maura.forrest@yukon-news.com
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Seventy amendments were agreed to by the First Nations, the Yukon government and the federal government. But the First Nations are asking for the court to strike them all down, not just the four contentious ones. First Nations have threatened a lawsuit since well before the bill was passed in June. The petition also names the Yukon government as a party to the case because it is a signatory to the Umbrella Final Agreement, as well as individual First Nation final agreements. “We hold both governments responsible for upholding the honour of the Crown and the treaty obligations identified in our constitutionally protected agreements,� said Chief Eric Fairclough of Little Salmon/Carmacks First Nation. The First Nations will be represented by Gregory McDade, a B.C.-based lawyer specializing in aboriginal consultation and major resource projects. A case management conference has been scheduled for Dec. 15.
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That’s notwithstanding a recent whiff of some old-style Liberal scumbaggery, with news of a now-sacked party adviser offering political advice to a big oil company. Locally, we only have one publicly available poll to go off, but it does put the Liberals ahead by a wide margin. New Democrats harrumph that they don’t believe these numbers are accurate. We have no idea if this is true or not, but sometimes perceptions influence reality – and the reality today is that Yukon’s chiefs are urging their citizens to vote strategically to turf the Conservatives by voting Liberal. None of this takes away from the fact that the NDP’s candidate, Melissa Atkinson, is an intelligent First Nation woman with an impressive background as a prosecutor and legal aid lawyer. But she has faced a big uphill battle against a competitor like Bagnell, who has the name recognition that comes with being a tireless constituency MP for a decade, who lost the last election by just 132 votes, and who signed up a big swath of supporters long ago. At the campaign’s onset, this created a strong circumstantial case that Bagnell would be the best strategic candidate, and no unexpected drama has erupted since that time to change things. The Conservatives, of course, show no interest in electoral reform. During a recent candidates forum, Yukon MP Ryan Leef more or less suggested that voters aren’t smart enough to handle anything beyond marking a single “X� on a ballot box, and fretted that changing the system could lead to widespread confusion
and declining turnout. It just so happens that the Conservatives also handily benefit from the current arrangement, in which the left-leaning share of the vote is split. The Liberals have promised to replace our first-past-the-post system with something else within 18 months of forming government. Yes, this commitment is vague and nebulous compared to the NDP’s firm promise to introduce a form of proportional representation. And yes, there is no guarantee the Liberals will prove able or willing to make good on this pledge. But all it would take would be a modest change to, say, an instant-runoff ballot that allows voters to rank their choices in priority to end the sort of vote-splitting that currently leads to so much hand-wringing. That could allow you to pick the Greens as your first choice, followed by the NDP and then Liberals, if you so chose. Votes allotted to low-ranking candidates would be redistributed accordingly to next picks until one candidate received a majority. In short, left-leaning voters would no longer worry about having to pick the lesser of evils to prevent the Conservatives from sneaking up the middle, as happened last time. The catch, of course, is that some voters may need to support the lesser of evils to make this happen. But if you really want to vote with your heart, and at the same time want your vote to count, then perhaps the overwhelming concern this election should be to see that our electoral system is changed to better reflect these desires. (JT)
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his observation is bound to upset some readers, but it’s possible that the best way to advance the interests of the federal New Democrats and Greens this election is for their Yukon supporters to vote Liberal on Monday. That’s because Canada’s existing first-pastthe-post electoral system has tended to punish these parties by awarding them a number of seats in Parliament well below their share of popular support. This election is unique, in that all three opposition parties are promising to replace this system. But the reality is that the Liberals are in the best position to deliver. We know, we know. The Liberals are a feckless bunch who only recently jumped aboard the electoral reform bandwagon, whereas the NDP and Greens have long championed such policies. But it doesn’t matter which party proposed an idea first, the most frequently or loudest. What matters is who is best able to make it happen. With just a few days before voters head to the polls, it looks like the election will be a toss-up between a Liberal or Conservative government. Yes, pollsters have badly miscalled some recent elections. But it’s hard to find many people at this point who seriously believe the NDP will form the next government, and nobody has ever imagined that would be the case with the Greens. New Democrats are putting on a brave face. In the Yukon, they’re buying ads that claim they’re the strategic choice, but if they really believed this, they would probably provide some evidence to support this contention. Instead, the ad touts how they’re the principled choice compared to those unscrupulous, say-onething-and-do-another Liberals. It’s true that the NDP, unlike the Liberals, never went through ridiculous contortions over the controversial Bill C-51 spy bill, by simultaneously denouncing and supporting the legislation. It’s also true that the Liberals have refused to set a clear target to limit carbon emissions, as the NDP have done. And so on. But the fact remains that, in the eyes of most voters without strong partisan leanings, the difference between both party platforms are modest at best. You may also have noticed that the flurry of objections raised by New Democrats over strategic voting serve to shift the subject of debate. It’s important to remember that being principled and being electable are often not the same thing. Nationally, the NDP has taken a long slide in the polls during the campaign, and it’s hard to imagine this trend reversing course during the final stretch – instead, it seems far more likely to become a vicious cycle, as undecided progressive voters coalesce around the Liberals as the most plausible alternative to the Conservatives.
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Harper. After taking the surplus that Martin left him, he ran up a string of deficits. As soon as he got into power, he lowered the GST, dropped taxes for his corporate friends and went on a spending spree. When the financial crisis of 2008 came along, he did a “whoops� and ran up huge deficits. Not learning from that experience, he continued on the same tax-lowering path for his friends and did another “whoops� when oil pric-
es tanked. Then he brings in balanced-budget legislation, a little sleight-of-hand to supposedly ensure that future governments don’t repeat his mistakes. Harper has managed to saddle us with another $120 billion in national debt. Do we really want this guy in charge of the national cash register? Eldon Organ Whitehorse
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Non-issue issues of the 2015 election campaign foreigners while the other side prefers zero. We are lucky that the country is in such good shape that we can afford political leaders who by Keith play small ball. I tried to think of a big issue I Halliday hadn’t seen mentioned once during the campaign. How about innovation and UKONOMIST Canada’s high tech sector? One of the thousand people running t has been a depressing elecfor Parliament probably mention campaign. tioned it at some point during Consider some of the big the 77-day campaign, but I issues that our leaders and the missed it. media have positioned as major Why do we care about high differences between the parties. tech? After all, California and On deficits, two parties promise South Korea seem quite happy to balance the budget and the to keep selling us all the smartthird says it will run a deficit of phones, social media websites less than 0.5 percent of gross and GPS-enabled fitness wristdomestic product (to put that in bands we could ever need. perspective, Europe’s Maastricht The answer comes from a recriteria set 3 per cent as a limit port put out in June, just before and many countries ignored it). the election campaign began in The niqab has rocked the earnest, by the B.C. statistical campaign, despite CBC reporting agency. that only two people have not It turns out that high tech proceeded with their citizenship jobs in B.C. paid an average of ceremony since 2011 because of $1,390 per week in 2013 versus the ban. One party is in favour the provincial average of $870. of having six fighter-bombers The sector employed 4.4 per cent attacking ISIS, while the others of B.C.’s workers, more than the favour zero. On trade, the difmining, oil and gas, and forestry ference is between opening 3.25 sectors combined. Over the previous five years, the sector grew per cent of our dairy market to
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at over double the rate shown by the economy overall. So far, so good. A growing industry with high-paid jobs and a low environmental footprint sounds pretty good. It’s what we need to generate the tax revenues to pay for our health, education and retirement systems over the coming decades. There is a growing list of successful Vancouver technology companies. Investors in eyewear e-tailer Coastal Contacts and dating site Plentyoffish.com successfully exited in multihundred-million dollar deals recently. Their newly-rich investors now have money to invest in the next generation of start-ups. Meanwhile, another wave of companies such as Hootsuite are ready to be the next big thing. It sounds very promising. And it is. But the rub comes when you flip to the page of the report that compares B.C. and Canada to other places. The high tech industry is about seven per cent of the Canadian economy, and slightly less in B.C. That turns out to be lower than places like Minnesota and Pennsylvania. And it is nowhere near the Western states like Colo-
rado, Washington, Oregon or California. All of these are double the Canadian average or more. In fact, 28 states had high tech sectors that were a bigger part of their economy than B.C.’s. And as for that 4.4 per cent of B.C.’s workforce earning high wages in the high tech sector, in neighbouring Washington State the figure is over 10 per cent. Even Oregon is above six per cent. Yukonomist sources in Portland say that clean water is part of the story. Chip fabs, as Portlandians call semiconductor fabrication plants, require large amounts of super-clean water, and it is cheaper to start with clean water than filter the dirty stuff. B.C. has as much water as Oregon, of course. That might be why the industry got started in Oregon, but now there is a cluster of highly skilled workers. The job boards in Oregon are less about lumber and flannel shirts, and more about user-interface engineers and chip prototyping. The Globe and Mail reported a few years ago that around 350,000 Canadians live and work in Silicon Valley and the Bay Area. That’s more than the population of several provincial capital cities. U.S. tech compa-
nies are crawling with Canadian talent. A Canadian networking organization in Silicon Valley, the C100, organizes events and even training courses like “Valley 101” for new arrivals from up north. C100 claims that companies that have gone through its programs have raised over $1 billion in capital since 2009. Canada has great universities, a superb quality of life and even things like government-owned Business Development Bank’s venture capital fund to support early stage ventures. In the Internet age, it’s not geography that’s keeping Vancouver from having as vibrant a tech scene as Seattle. So why is Canada lagging behind? People have lots of theories. But I’d like to hear our leaders share their thoughts and – even more importantly – what they would do about it. Anyway, back to our national debate about keeping foreign milk off our grocery store shelves.
Liberal. And how about Melissa? After all, Mulcair, too, demands his candidates toe the party line. Vote and mark your ballots as you will, but don’t expect pots of gold at the end of the Liberal and NDP rainbows.
tion, other than as a statement of the level of the ethics of the perpetrator. And, even though the falsehood will be refuted by the slandered candidate, the falsehood is simply repeated, over and over. When Ryan Leef was campaigning last election, he adamantly promised that he would always stand with Yukoners, even if that meant going against his party. He gave us his word. And has Ryan lived up to his word, and stood with Yukoners against his party when we have expressed objections? Axing Parks Canada jobs, Bill C-51, Bill S-6, the closure of veterans offices, the closure of the Canada Revenue Agency office, cancellation of the long form census, etc. On all of these issues (and many more), there was clear and vociferous opposition from a great cross-section of Yukoners. And each and every time, Ryan repeated the words of his Ottawa masters. Each and every time, he stood with his party, and not with Yukoners, as he promised. Obviously, the tenure of Ryan
Leef as our MP has been a monumental failure of living up to his election promise. And now, in desperation at the eleventh hour, he is willing to defile our political discourse here at home with this underhanded tactic from the political gong-show of our neighbours to the south. I think the other three candidates have displayed in the past few weeks a sound working concept of fair play that wouldn’t allow the purporting of such a falsehood against their fellow candidates. A vote for any one of them would not only be a vote toward better governance, but also a prescient vote to ensure this egregious style of politics does not become our norm. On Oct. 19, let’s send Ryan Leef and the Conservatives a clear message as to what we think of their political styling. We deserve representation that better reflects the will of the people and an understanding of the concept of fair play.
Keith Halliday is a Yukon economist and author of the MacBride Museum’s Aurore of the Yukon series of historical children’s adventure novels. He won this year’s Ma Murray award for best columnist. You can follow him on Channel 9’s Yukonomist show.
LETTERS Gun registry promises hard to take seriously
not support a reintroduction of the registry, should their parties decide to do so. Do you believe in the Tooth Fairy, Of course, Larry said that Santa, Liberal promises? What once before, then voted to keep about free lunch? Unfortunately, it. OK, that was then, this is now. reality says Justin Trudeau’s Nevertheless, let’s hear a firm promises will actually have to be statement from Larry that he paid. will not support any move by his Liberal history tells us it is party to reintroduce the registry true indeed that “we make it, in any form, even if it means they take it and they spend it.” he risks being kicked out of the How much this time remains Liberal caucus. No weasel words. undetermined, but Justin plans Just a firm statement. Then it will three years of deficits, and we be up to voters to decide if we can kiss goodbye the thousand believe him. dollars per person less in taxes Isn’t it odd that the Liberals that we now pay under Conserand NDP like to paint Prime vative fiscal management – exMinister Stephen Harper as a traordinary performance under dictator, but don’t use the same very tough economic circummeasuring stick for themselves? stances. Which Liberal PM has not been a Under the Liberals, the GST dictator? Last time Larry “had to” and other taxes and fees will vote, as he was told or he would probably go up too. Justin will do what the Tories won’t, alright. have been kicked out of even He will make us poorer and drive the wishy-washy Martin Liberal caucus. So if Justin decides to our nation deeper into debt. reintroduce the registry, is Larry (Like the Tories, the NDP also going to sit as an independent? promise balanced budgets and This election, Trudeau reno increase in personal taxes.) quired all Liberal candidates to The Liberals are saying they will not reintroduce the long gun support abortion. He overrode registry. Dare we bet the farm on his electoral district associations candidate choices and plunked it? Tom Mulcair might require reintroduction of the registry for in his own puppets. He demands his support of a minority govern- absolute adherence to his policies and values. Don’t agree with ment. What would the Liberals legalizing marijuana? Don’t say then? think niqabs should be allowed Right. So, in order to reassure Yukon voters that our MP would at citizenship ceremonies? Too bad. Keep it to yourself or else! not go along with that scenario, Sounds dictatorial, doesn’t it? how about a clear personal Larry will have to do as Justin statement from our Liberal and NDP candidates that they will says if he wants to remain a
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American-style election antics not welcome here Upon opening my recent edition of the News, I was initially surprised to see a full-page ad from our Yukon Conservative Party, stating that if the Liberals are elected, they will bring back the long-gun registry. Did I not read a news release from the Liberal Party, clearly stating they will not be bringing back the gun registry? Did I not hear Larry Bagnell state the same, at the all candidates forums and in the news media? But then, my surprise at this misrepresentation of the Liberal Party platform quickly abated as I contemplated its source. Quite simply, it is an act of desperation by an MP that has not lived up to his election promise. But first, this unscrupulous stunt is a political strategy devised by the Republican Party of our neighbours to the south. The way it works is to state a half-truth, a twist of fact, or an outright lie, that will undermine the campaign of another party or candidate. The fact that it is not true doesn’t enter into the equa-
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LETTERS Protect our democracy “Let’s wait and see,” said townspeople in Ursula Hegi’s magnificent novel Stones from the River, about a fictitious German town before and during the Second World War. Many townspeople saw some immediate benefits of the Nazi regime, and preferred not to look as civil rights were gradually taken from them. “They didn’t know that they were giving their power away, didn’t know that by the time the Nazi regime would become bloated and monstrous with that power, it would be too dangerous for the people to reclaim that power,” writes Hegi. In Canada, we still live in a democracy; together we do have power in this election. So please consider this list of actions by our current Conservative government. They are not Nazis, but these Conservative actions are alarmingly against democracy, against civil rights. The Conservatives, supported by the Liberals, passed Bill C-51, the Anti-Terrorism Act. The bill gives government the power to call a very wide range of activities a security threat. A threat to physical safety is one thing, but C-51 says threats to economic and financial security can be terrorism! Even peaceful protests can be called a security threat. The government can now easily find ways to charge people it
doesn’t agree with. C-51 seriously violates our privacy. All government offices can now share information with any other government offices. For example, Health Canada and Revenue Canada can share your information with the RCMP. CSIS is Canada’s spy agency and not accountable to Parliament. Before, CSIS could only collect information. C-51 lets CSIS arrest and question people, in secret. They didn’t show that C-51 is needed. Terrorism crimes are already included in the criminal code! The Conservatives’ new voter ID rules make it more difficult to vote for tens of thousands of Canadians. Aboriginal people, students, seniors in care homes and homeless people are especially unlikely to be able to vote when they get to the polls. We don’t need these rules; voter fraud is not a problem in Canada. The Conservatives dismissed over 2,000 government scientists in the last five years. Conservatives cut or eliminated hundreds of programs that monitored things like smokestack emissions, food inspections, oil spills, water quality, and climate change. In 2012 the Conservative government used a 443-page budget bill to reduce the public’s ability to take part in environment decisions, weaken rules for projects like pipelines, eliminate protection of fish habitat, weaken the Canada
Labour Code and change many other laws and policies. The Conservatives passed Bill S-6, which gives the minister of aboriginal affairs in Ottawa power to direct the Yukon’s environmental assessment process. Bill S-6 also means changes to existing projects won’t get assessed. But the rules for Yukon environmental assessment are part of the Umbrella Final Agreement signed by Yukon First Nations, Yukon and Canada. Let’s not wait and see where these Conservative actions might be headed. Laws can be repealed, cut funding can be restored. Let’s think and vote! Mary Amerongen Whitehorse
The gun registry is gone, but dangerous laws linger on Each fall, self-serving politicians and activists re-victimize the women who were shot by a deranged man at Ecole Polytechnique in 1989. As we all know, this massacre was used as justification for the imposition of harsh gun control laws over innocent, law-abiding citizens who own guns. In some incredibly twisted Liberal illogic, punishing law-abiding citizens for the actions of a lunatic was thought to be justified. Early in life, most children learn the basic moral truth that “two wrongs do not make a right.”
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Somehow, both Tom Mulcair and Justin Trudeau either missed this lesson, or choose to ignore it. Both of these men stated that they would reinstate the horrendously expensive and completely useless long gun registry, then backpedaled when they realized that there is little support for a rerun of that idiocy. However, they both say they will repeal the recently passed Common Sense Firearms Licensing Act (C-42), which eased one of the harshest consequences of the remaining gun control legislation – the instant criminalization of firearms licence holders due to license renewal delays, a paper processing “crime” that leads to seizure of innocent people’s personal property and results in their having criminal records, way overthe-top harsh punishments for doing absolutely nothing harmful toward anyone. What is it with these guys? Why do they want to perpetuate this immoral injustice toward innocent, law-abiding citizens who happen to own guns? Why do they want to inflict criminal records on law-abiding people who get caught in licence processing delays? Why do they want to infringe on our common law right to peaceful ownership and use of personal property? Their attitudes in this matter are simply evil. The only federal leader who has consistently worked to bring some sanity to gun control legislation is
Prime Minister Steven Harper. Among our local candidates for member of Parliament, the Liberals’ Larry Bagnell, with his betrayal of Yukoners in opposing the removal of the long-gun registry, made it abundantly clear that Yukoners’ interests in this area are to be thrown aside if they conflict with his personal ambitions as a Liberal politician. I’m surprised that Melissa Atkinson, the NDP candidate, with her background in law and human rights advocacy, has ignored this infringement on our fundamental right to personal property ownership, especially considering the large number of First Nations persons who own guns and are subject to the same abusive guncontrol legislation. Ryan Leef, our current member of Parliament, has consistently worked to reform gun control legislation to a sane and reasonable basis. Criminals will do whatever they want to, irrespective of laws. That is why they are criminals. Gun control laws have no effect on criminals illegally acquiring guns, and no effect on criminals using guns when they commit their crimes. Criminals should be vigorously prosecuted for the crimes they commit. Innocent, law-abiding gun owners should be left alone. George Dimsdale Marsh Lake
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LETTERS Vote for healthy hometowns There has been no shortage of issues that have inspired (and inflamed) Canadians during the federal election period – issues that will likely drive voters to the polls in record numbers. When they get there, my hope is healthy hometowns are front of mind when putting a checkmark beside their candidate of choice. Municipal leaders across Canada, from the smallest villages to the largest cities, have engaged local candidates and national parties on the day-to-day issues concerning Canadians. Creating more jobs, making housing affordable, protecting the environment, keeping neighbourhoods safe and addressing infrastructure deficits and decay are several of the themes we’ve asked parties to prioritize. Ensuring our communities are strong is a goal that transcends partisan politics. Canadians understand that; where parties differ is how to achieve that objective. The Federation of Canadian Municipalities (FCM) has made it easy to follow where parties stand on matters important to our hometowns with their online FCM policy tracker (http://hometownproud.fcm. ca/policy–tracker). I encourage everyone to explore each party’s platform and commitments for strengthening our towns. It’s a safe bet most voters can do without a tax credit for their kids’ art camp. But try making do without potable water, driveable roads, emergency services, or a landfill – all areas of municipal responsibility. The federal government has a role in addressing these needs
with long-term, predictable funding. After all, strong communities mean a strong country. Significant, long-term investments in our cities and towns improve our quality of life and ensure a bright future for Canada. Before Oct. 19, take a moment, visit the FCM website, and get informed on how parties will help build vibrant, healthy hometowns. After that, you have just one job: voting. Make sure you do it. Wayne Potoroka President, Association of Yukon Communities
Imagine us shrugging off our addiction to fossil fuels My wife, Sally Wright, and I recently travelled by SmartCar to Fairbanks to attend the Arctic Energy Summit. It was a meeting on energy related to the Arctic and it informs the Arctic Council. The very first morning of the summit, upon hearing the news of Shell pulling out of oil exploration in the Arctic, the chair of the conference called on the attendees to have a moment of silence to “reflect on the complexities of living in the Arctic.” It will be no surprise to anyone that we were silently overjoyed that the Arctic Ocean will be saved from polluting oil exploration for the foreseeable future. We know, however, that there were others who took the news very hard. Such are the challenges we face in the Circumpolar North. The conference was very informative on issues that are facing the Arctic with the push for extracting more polluting
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the media for spreading lies about his substance abuse and claiming he had never smoked crack. The published excerpt is Towhey’s account of a phone call he received early one morning in June 2012. On the other end, the book says, was a raging, agitated mayor who told Towhey he had been having an argument with his wife, whose speech is slurred and who can be heard by turns screaming and pleading with her husband. “Rob sounds like he’s out of control,� Towhey writes in the book, Mayor Rob Ford: Uncontrollable: How I Tried to Help the World’s Most Notorious Mayor� “Both of them spit a string of curses at one another. I can’t hear it all, but it doesn’t sound good.� Some of the language both the mayor and his wife use was deemed inappropriate for Maclean’s, which would not reprint
it. For an hour and 40 minutes as he listens and tries to calm Ford, according to the excerpt, Towhey agonizes over whether to dial 911 and have police intervene. “I swear to God I’m going to kill this woman, brother,� Towhey reports Ford as saying at one point. “She just took my gun upstairs.� At another point, it says their daughter Stephanie is roused by the commotion and Ford sends her back to bed. Renata Ford remained largely invisible throughout Ford’s scandal-plagued tenure, appearing once by his side in November 2013 when he apologized for an earlier rant in which he alluded to their marital sex life. She could not immediately be reached for comment. Towhey referred requests for an interview to his publisher, who said there would be no immediate comment. The book is set for publication Nov. 10.
“Stephen Harper should be embarrassed that he’s having to count on the support of Rob Ford for his re-election.� fuelled rants and a video that showed him smoking what appeared to be crack cocaine. Ford, a father of two young children, and his brother Doug, however, would spend much of the following year in the throes of outward denial, castigating
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Safety expert calls for awareness after Alberta sisters suffocate in grain truck farm after three Alberta sisters suffocated while playing in a Canadian Press truck loaded with canola. Glen Blahey with the CanadiWITHROW, ALTA. an Agricultural Safety Association n agriculture safety expert says it may look like fun to jump is calling for more education about dangers on the in a pile of tiny grains or seeds – Chris Purdy
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but it can be deadly. He wants companies that sell grain bins and farm equipment to talk with customers about the risks of “grain engulfments.” He also wants more farm families to talk about it with their children.
“It’s what we perceive as being hazardous is the challenge,” Blahey says. Catie Bott, 13, and 11-year-old twins Dara and Jana were buried by canola Tuesday on their family’s farm near the hamlet of Withrow in the west-central part of the province. Their parents and neighbours worked to free them from the truck but two of the girls could not be revived. The third was taken by air ambulance to hospital in Edmonton, but she died overnight. Blahey said four other people, including a 14-year-old boy and his grandfather in Saskatchewan, have suffocated in grain so far in 2015. The number of cases has been increasing in recent years, he added. That’s why the agency has a program that funds training volunteer firefighters in rescue techniques, he said. Earlier this year, a crew that received the training helped save a man buried up to his chin in grain on a farm in Nova Scotia. Getting stuck in a loaded truck or grain bin is like sinking in quicksand, Blahey explained. Flowing grain moves like liquid and anything more dense sinks down. And it happens quickly. An average-sized man will be buried up to his chest in 15 seconds, Blahey said. The sur-
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rounding grain exerts pressure on the body, requiring at least 136 kilograms of force to lift him out. Rescues are difficult and complex, he said. “You can’t just reach out and grab him by the hand.” Once a person’s face is submerged, it becomes impossible to breathe. “If you try to draw a breath of air in, your mouth and your nose fill with grain. When you exhale, your chest gets smaller and the grain moves in against your chest. Then you can’t inhale, because now you’ve got all this force against your body, keeping you from filling your lungs.” Canola seeds are also smaller than other crops – tiny enough to drop through the opening of a ballpoint pen, said Blahey. That means the girls would have sunk more quickly and suffocated faster. RCMP haven’t released further details about the accident and are continuing to investigate. Blahey would like to know how long it took before the girls’ parents realized they were trapped. “I don’t mean to criticize the parents of those three children that were lost but, at the same time, as caregivers we’re responsible to protect them. We need to look at them as say, ‘Is this safe to do? What are the hazards?”’ Roger and Bonita Bott released a statement Wednesday saying they don’t regret introducing their daughters to a farm lifestyle. Pat Alexander, reeve of Clearwater County, said the many people in the area know the Bott family and are struggling to comprehend the tragedy. “Its going to take a long time to work our way through this.”
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Veuillez prendre note que, conformément à l’article 73 du Règlement de l’Assemblée législative du Yukon et étant convaincu que, conformément au Règlement, l’intérêt public commande que la Chambre se réunisse, je désigne la journée du jeudi 22 octobre 2015, à 13 h, dans la Chambre de l’Assemblée législative du Yukon, à Whitehorse, au Yukon, pour la tenue d’une telle réunion, afin que celleci poursuive ses travaux comme si elle avait été dûment ajournée à ce moment. Le 1 octobre 2015. David Laxton, membre de l’Assemblée législative Président Assemblée législative du Yukon
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Environment Canada suspends Montreal’s plan to dump raw sewage into St. Lawrence “When spills are inevitable, we must limit the negative impacts,” wrote the five. Concordia University biology professor James Grant says a third such diversion of waste into the river should have all levels of government considering contingency
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Infrastructure Minister Denis Lebel during Question Period in the House of Commons in Ottawa on Feb. 17. quoting his cabinet colleague’s statement. “Section 36 (3) of the FisherCanadian Press ies Act prohibits ‘’the deposit of MONTREAL deleterious substance of any type he federal government is “ir- in water frequented by fish.’ As such it is crucial that I exercise due responsible and negligent” diligence as minister of environto have ordered a halt to the ment to ensure that every possible City of Montreal’s plans to begin action is being undertaken to construction work that would see protect aquatic life within the St. eight billion litres of raw sewage Lawrence.“ dumped into the St. Lawrence Coderre indicated he had no River, says Mayor Denis Coderre. intention of defying the federal Coderre said Ottawa’s decision government on the issue. “makes no sense” and puts the “I am someone who respects city’s water-treatment infrastructhe law,” he said. “Yes of course I ture in jeopardy. will respect it.” “Why is Montreal living this That didn’t stop him, however, injustice?” Coderre asked on from accusing Ottawa of playing Wednesday, and suggested the government’s decision had more to politics “on the backs of Montrealdo with the current federal election ers.” Coderre maintains the federal campaign than with sound science. government knew about dumping Infrastructure Minister Denis plans since 2014 and EnvironLebel made the announcement ment Canada told city officials earlier on Wednesday on behalf several days ago the department of Environment Minister Leona had enough information to decide Aglukkaq, saying she’d issued an whether or not to sign off on the interim order under the Fisherproject. ies Act to put Montreal’s project The mayor said the only reason on hold pending further scientific the federal government decided analysis. to suspend the work is because it “Based on limited data, Environment Canada cannot conclude was worried about the optics of whether or not the untreated waste allowing the city to dump eight water to be released will be acutely billion litres of wastewater into the river during a federal election toxic,” Lebel said. campaign. The City of Montreal wants to “To play politics on the backs of close an interceptor – a large sewer Montrealers and to use this file for used to feed wastewater to treatelectoral ends, is not just irresponment plants – to do maintenance sible, but could bring about certain work and relocate a snow chute risks,” Coderre said.“And it’s there located underneath the Bonaventhat we can say the government is ture Expressway, which the city is irresponsible and negligent.” converting into an urban bouleCoderre and the provincial vard. government have maintained that The city had planned to begin the plan remains the best option dumping the untreated wastewaavailable in terms of time and cost. ter into the river on Sunday and He has said previously it would continue until Oct. 25. City officials cost at least $1 billion to divert the have warned it’s paramount the sewage and has said the same type work be completed by mid-Noof work, and sewage dump, was vember. Quebec’s Environment Depart- done twice in the past dozen years without issue. ment has already signed off, but Five experts at Montreal’s Ecole the federal government became polytechnique engineering school hesitant in giving its approval as the plan became fodder in the cur- published a position paper on the proposed dump last week, rent election campaign. suggesting the city was correct in Lebel said Aglukkaq has decided an independent review is the its assertion there were no other viable options. best way to ensure the waterway They say it is important to isn’t subject to irreparable environweigh the impact of such dismental harm. charges against the dangers of “The St. Lawrence River is one of Canada’s most important water- neglecting maintenance or repair of critical infrastructure. ways, acting as a home to several They noted the repair work, species of whales and fish while once complete, will limit sewage providing millions of Canadians their drinking water,” he said, getting into the river. Sidhartha Banerjee and Giuseppe Valiante
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plans for the future. “Fundamentally, it’s not a great idea, one shouldn’t be dumping raw sewage into any waterway,” Grant said. “I guess nothing dire apparently happened, but maybe that should be the warning that our system
doesn’t have enough backup and we should be looking at the bigger issue – we need better sewage treatment. Period.” On Tuesday night, a citizen petition with 90,000 names opposed to the project was presented to Coderre at a city council meeting.
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With Russia air campaign in Syria in full swing, Putin may already ponder exit strategy Vladimir Isachenkov Associated Press
MOSCOW ith Russia’s air campaign in Syria now in its third week, Vladimir Putin has raised his nation’s global profile and proven its capability to project military power far from its borders. Now the Russian president could already be on the lookout for an exit strategy to prevent his gains from turning into a liability. Putin certainly realizes that some 30 Russian combat jets won’t be able to change the course of the war, and allow Syrian President Bashar Assad’s forces to win. His apparent goals are more modest: to show all players that they will not be able to unseat Assad by force; to help cement the Syrian government’s grip on the territory it controls; and to foster political talks that could allow Moscow to protect its interests in the region. Another key task for Putin is bring Moscow and Washington together in a security dialogue, which he hopes would make Russia appear as an equal and eventually lead to improved ties with the West that were wrecked by the Ukraine crisis. Even though the air campaign in Syria, the first Russian military operation outside the former Soviet Union since the Cold War, hasn’t yet put any significant additional burden on Russia’s crisis-stricken economy, there are strong reasons for the Kremlin to avoid long-term involvement in
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Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a teleconference on Wednesday. the conflict. Putin has said that Russia’s military action, which began on Sept. 30, will last as long as it’s necessary to support the Syrian army’s operations. While Assad’s troops have launched a new offensive in central and northwestern Syria under Russian air cover, their effort is unlikely to significantly change the situation on the ground.
Protracted Russian military action without any visible gains by the Syrian army would quickly erode the propaganda effect Putin has achieved with his bombing blitz. On the other hand, broader military involvement – let alone ground action – would strain Russia’s financial and logistical resources to the limit and could quickly sap domestic support for the Syrian campaign. And while the air raids have
shown Russia’s military muscle, they also have stirred up a hornet’s nest of powerful interests, angering key regional players. The Kremlin may feel strong pressure to map an exit strategy to avoid further straining ties with Saudi Arabia, Turkey and others who have made unseating Assad their top priority. The main challenge for Moscow is a peg to claim victory and get out. A notable Syrian army battle victory or at least a modest sign of
progress in negotiations on settling the conflict could provide a good excuse. Since June, Russia has played with the idea of a political transition that would envisage setting up some sort of interim government, talking to the U.S., Saudi Arabia, the Syrian opposition and others. Moscow’s diplomatic efforts have brought no visible results so far, but Putin has insisted that a political solution for Syria remains his top goal despite the military action. On Sunday, Putin discussed the situation in Syria with Saudi Deputy Crown Prince and Defence Minister Mohammad bin Salman. The unexpected encounter was their second meeting since June, signalling shared interest in a compromise. Putin used the talks to assuage Saudi fears about Moscow teaming up with Tehran. Saudi Foreign Minister Adel Al-Jubeir said after the meeting that Russia assured Saudi Arabia that its action in Syria doesn’t mean an alliance with Iran, the Saudis’ arch-enemy in the region. If the Kremlin can reach agreement with Saudi Arabia, which has pushed strongly for Assad’s ouster since the start of the Syrian conflict in March 2011 – and has been the principal supporter of various opposition groups – it could help jumpstart the stalled peace talks. Parallel to that, Moscow also has sought to alleviate the concerns of Turkey, a major economic partner and the second-biggest importer of Russian natural gas after Germany.
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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan sharply criticized Russia for targeting moderate rebels and warned Moscow that Ankara could turn to other gas suppliers if it doesn’t revise its policy in Syria. On a conciliatory note, Putin said this week that the Kremlin understands Turkish concerns about the Kurds and vowed to take them into account. Syrian Kurdish forces are fighting the Islamic State group, while Turkey’s Kurdish rebels have battled the nation’s security forces. Russia also responded quickly to Turkish protests against violation of its airspace by Syria-based Russian jets, setting up a military co-ordination panel to avoid such incidents in the future. Prior to launching his air campaign, Putin agreed with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to establish a similar co-ordination mechanism between the nations’ militaries. While working to soothe the worries of regional powers, Moscow has energetically pursued its efforts to engage the U.S. in a dialogue on Syria. By launching air strikes, Putin effectively forced the U.S. to start military-to-military talks on avoiding clashes between the two nations’ combat planes over Syria. The Pentagon and the Russian military have had several rounds of discussions on a set of rules to prevent any such incidents. But Putin also kept pushing for broader political and military talks. At last month’s meeting with President Barack Obama on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly, he proposed sending a delegation led by Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev to the U.S. for broader discussions on Syria.
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Warning Afghanistan is still fragile, Obama says he’ll keep 5,500 troops as he leaves office ue to evaluate this going forward, as will the next president,” Obama said, standing alongside ViceAssociated Press President Joe Biden, Defence Secretary Ash Carter and Joint Chiefs WASHINGTON Chairman Gen. Joseph Dunford. resident Barack Obama Until now, Afghanistan has announced plans Thursday barely been a factor in the 2016 to keep nearly 10,000 U.S. presidential campaign. But troops in Afghanistan through Obama’s announcement could most of next year and 5,500 when send candidates in both parties he leaves office in 2017, casting scrambling to outline their own aside his promise to end the war plans for a war they could inherit. on his watch and instead ensurRepublican candidate Jeb ing he hands off the conflict to a Bush said he was glad Obama successor. “dropped his plan to abandon Obama called the new war the region entirely.” But he added plan a “modest but meaningful” that if the president is committed extension of the U.S. military to securing a stable Afghanistan, mission in Afghanistan, which “he shouldn’t shortchange what he originally planned to end next our military commanders have year. He acknowledged America’s said they need to complete the weariness of the lengthy conflict mission.” but said he was “firmly convinced Obama’s plan largely lines up we should make this extra effort.” with what military commandMilitary leaders have argued ers had requested, though some for months that the Afghans proposals have called for higher needed additional assistance and numbers. Key to the commandsupport from the U.S. to beat ers’ requests was a continuation back a resurgent Taliban and hold of the current counterterroronto gains made over the past 14 ism mission, which Obama said years of American bloodshed and would indeed be part of the effort billions of dollars in aid. In his after 2016. remarks from the White House The second part of the U.S. Thursday, Obama said that while mission is training and assisting Afghan forces have made progAfghan security forces, which are ress, the security situation in the now in charge of combat opcountry remains fragile. erations across the country. The After lengthy internal delibera- American forces will be based in tions, Obama settled on a plan Kabul and at Bagram Air Field, to maintain the current force as well as bases in Jalalabad and of 9,800 troops in Afghanistan Kandahar. through most of next year, then Obama now faces the prospect draw down to 5,500 troops in of passing on to his successor ac2017, at a pace still to be detertive U.S. military missions in two mined after consultation with countries he vowed to withdraw commanders. from: Iraq and Afghanistan. It will be up to Obama’s The president did withdraw successor – the third U.S. commost U.S. troops from Iraq in late mander in chief to oversee the 2011, an action he heralded as war – to decide how to proceed a promise kept to a war-weary from there. America. But the rise of the Islamic State drew the U.S. military “I suspect that we will continLolita C. Baldor & Julie Pace
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President Barack Obama, accompanied by Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Joseph Dunford, left, and Defense Secretary Ash Carter, speaks about Afghanistan on Thursday at the White House in Washington. back into Iraq last year to train and assist local security forces and to launch airstrikes, a campaign Obama has said will likely last beyond his term in office. On Thursday, Obama insisted he wasn’t disappointed to not be fulfilling his pledge to withdraw U.S. troops from Afghanistan before he leaves. U.S. officials have hinted at the policy shift for weeks. They have noted that conditions in the country have changed since his initial decision on a sharper troop withdrawal timeline more than two years ago. The White House also has been buoyed by having a more reliable partner in Afghan President Ashraf Ghani, who
succeeded the mercurial Hamid Karzai last year. “We cannot separate the importance of governance from the importance of security,” Obama said. The president’s decision was reinforced when Taliban fighters took control of the key northern city of Kunduz late last month, leading to a protracted battle with Afghan forces supported by U.S. airstrikes. During the fighting, a U.S. air attack hit a hospital, kill-
ing 12 Doctors Without Borders staff and 10 patients. Beyond the recent security troubles in Afghanistan, U.S. commanders have expressed concern about Islamic State fighters moving into the country and gaining recruits from within the Taliban. Officials said discussions on staying in Afghanistan longer began during Ghani’s visit to Washington in March. The top U.S. commander in the country, Gen. John Campbell, recently presented Obama with a range of options calling for keeping more troops there, based on his judgment of what it would take to sustain the Afghan army and minimize the chances of losing more ground. Officials said NATO allies had expressed support for extending the troop presence in Afghanistan, but they did not outline any specific commitments from other nations. Last week, during a meeting of defence ministers, Carter urged allies to remain flexible and consider abandoning their earlier timelines to cut troop levels. NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg and defence ministers were quick to agree, saying the size of the force should be based on security conditions rather than a fixed timeline.
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WORKS FOR ME LARRY WANTS TO MAKE THE TERRITORY BETTER FOR EVERYONE. “I am running because I want to help Yukoners. I spent 10 years working for Yukoners in Parliament. It was very important and rewarding work and, with my experience, I have more to offer the territory. Hundreds of people from all Yukon communities have asked me if I would be willing to run again and this support means a lot to me.” Larry Bagnell
LARRY KNOWS THE YUKON LARRY KNOWS PARLIAMENT • Voted Hardest Working MP and Best Constituency MP by all parties in the House of Commons • Whitehorse Volunteer of the Year • Parliamentary Secretary for Indian and Northern Affairs and also Natural Resources • Parliamentary Committee experience in Transport, Defence, Industry, Veterans Affairs, Justice and Human Rights and Aboriginal Affairs • Co-winner of the Legislator of the Year award for creating and co-chairing Parliament’s large Outdoor Caucus
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• Restore Old Age Security eligibility to 65 years and increase the Guaranteed Income Supplement by 10% • Immediately launch a national public inquiry into missing and murdered Indigenous women. • Remove the four contentious S6 clauses • Liberals will NOT bring back the long gun registry
An historic investment plan to strengthen the middle class, create jobs, and grow our economy. • The largest infrastructure program in Canadian history, creating Yukon jobs • Investing $2.6B in First Nations education • Increase the residency component of the Northern Residents Deduction by 33 percent to a maximum of $22 per day • Invest $6B in affordable housing and seniors facilities, early learning and child care, and cultural or recreational infrastructure • $750M annual increase in skills training programs delivered in partnership with the provinces and territories. • Invest $200 million annually to create sector-specific strategies that support innovation and clean technologies in the forestry, fisheries, mining, energy, and agricultural sectors. • $100 million annually for clean technology producers, so that they can tackle Canada’s most pressing environmental challenges, whether in our air, in our water, or on our land. • Investment $3 billion for home care services, reducing the cost of prescription medications; collaboration on health innovation; and increasing the availability of mental health services. • Invest an additional $100 million per year, in each of the next three years, in the Industrial Research Assistance Program.
• Invest $200 million for three years for innovation, business incubators, accelerators, research facilities, financing, and other support for successful small companies wanting to grow and export. • Bring back the long form Census and make Statistics Canada independent • A more flexible and accessible Employment Insurance Compassionate Care Benefit • $6B in the next 4 years in green infrastructure. This will create greener energy, cleaner land, and more good jobs for Canadians, including 5000 youth jobs • Youth Advisory Committee to the Prime Minister • Invest $150 million in new annual funding for CBC/Radio-Canada and $25M for Telefilm Canada and National Film Board. • Double investment in the Canada Council for the Arts to $360 million per year • Increase funding for the Young Canada Works program to help the heritage sector • Reverse cuts to Parks Canada that slashed over $25 million from programs and services. • Invest $50 million annually to advance the development of Canada’s parks system.
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BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT Kaminak finds a golden glimmer of hope in gloomy times for miners
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Kaminak geologists map out the Coffee Gold project south of Dawson City. Maura Forrest News Reporter
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ll but one of the Yukon’s hard rock mines have shuttered. Annual surveys from the Fraser Institute have shown the territory declining in investment attractiveness. And this week, three Yukon First Nations filed a court challenge over Bill S-6, which threatens to damage the relationship between the government and First Nations over resource development. But amid all the gloomy news, Kaminak Gold Corporation’s Coffee Gold project may be the glimmer of hope the Yukon’s mining industry so desperately needs. Last month, Kaminak announced a new $22.5-million investment that comes in part from a new shareholder, billionaire investor Thomas Kaplan’s Electrum Strategic Opportunities Fund L.P. In a time when investors “are looking for reasons not to invest, not for reasons to invest,” according to Kaminak President and CEO Eira Thomas, the funding is a major vote of confidence for the junior mining company. Thomas said the new funding should see the Coffee project
through its permitting phase, which will begin next year. Kaminak hopes to have all of its permits in place by 2018, and to start production by 2019. The Coffee project’s strength lies partly in the fact that the gold deposit is high grade, lies near the surface and is relatively easy to recover. Kaminak plans to build a heap-leach mine, which involves piling the ore on a pad and irrigating it with a solution to dissolve the gold. The gold then leaches out and is collected and formed into semi-pure bars, which can be flown out and delivered directly to customers. “Coffee is a very straightforward, simple project,” said Thomas. The mine won’t require a mill or a tailings pond, and the gold won’t need further refining once it’s flown off the site. Last year, Kaminak completed a preliminary economic assessment of the project, and found that it was economically viable at a gold price of $1,250 U.S. an ounce. Since then, the price of gold has dropped to below $1,200 U.S. an ounce, but the Canadian dollar has dropped as well, down to less than 80 cents on the American dollar. Because gold sells in U.S. dollars, that means the economics of the Coffee Gold
project are still looking good. Thomas said Coffee will be viable to as low as $1,000 U.S. an ounce. But it’s not just geology and economics that make the Coffee project attractive. Thomas said one of the first things she did when she took over as CEO of Kaminak in 2013 was to formalize the company’s relationship with the Tr’ondek Hwech’in First Nation. “We’ve really enjoyed working with (Tr’ondek Hwech’in),” she said. “They certainly are a First Nation that understands the importance of economic development for their people.” She said that Kaminak has been working on a project with the First Nation government and the Yukon College to provide training to First Nation citizens in environmental monitoring. With the support of the company and the First Nation, the college has offered two courses so far – an introduction to environmental monitoring and a field course on plant restoration that was held partly at the Coffee site. Thomas said Kaminak has hired about six environmental monitors from Tr’ondek Hwech’in who monitor and audit activities on the site, and she wants to help the college offer more courses.
“The idea is that longer-term, these courses will work toward an accreditation which would allow these students to go on and pursue a post-secondary degree,” she explained. Kaminak recently announced plans to build an access road from Dawson City to the mine site, which Tr’ondek Hwech’in Chief Roberta Joseph said would “maximize business opportunities” for First Nation citizens and “provide great benefit for the entire town of Dawson City.” Thomas is not one to bemoan the hurdles for mining companies trying to break ground in the Yukon. She acknowledges what she calls “the headwinds” – the cold winter months when work can grind to a halt, the patchy infrastructure, the oft-fraught relationship between the government and First Nations – but she said the territory has a number of advantages, too. “What impresses me most about this jurisdiction is the will,” she said. “There’s a strong consensus that mining is important, and that’s such an important underlying factor.” And Thomas would know. She’s no rookie to northern mining. In fact, she led the exploration team that discovered the richest kimberlite in the world,
now one of the pipes at the Diavik diamond mine in the Northwest Territories. She said she still wears earrings made of Diavik diamonds nearly every day. She has two pairs, which she plans to pass on to her two daughters. But she came to work in the Yukon for the first time in 2013, after deciding that the Coffee project had the potential to become a “world-class gold mine.” Working here also allows her to take quick flights to and from Vancouver, where her family is based. It’s not an easy lifestyle. “I spend a lot of my life on planes, and that isn’t always desirable,” she said. But the mining bug hasn’t really left her since she picked it up as a child from her father, who worked in exploration himself. “It’s about defying the odds and hopefully using your brain and using the science to make a discovery that could be the one. “It’s something that stays with you for a long time.” For now, though, Thomas is determined to see the Coffee project through. By the looks of things, she may not have to wait much longer. Contact Maura Forrest at maura.forrest@yukon-news.com
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B.C. premier still conďŹ dent in LNG despite energy slump, aboriginal protests does represent a chance to redress historical wrongs, to change the Canadian Press course of post-colonial history VANCOUVER and make sure that First Nations are fully included in economic remier Christy Clark is growth.â€? defending her optimism on Hours after Clark’s speech, the British Columbia’s fledgling Squamish Nation announced it liquefied natural gas industry, had granted its own legally binddespite growing First Nations ing environmental certificate for protests and sinking international the Woodfibre LNG project on demand. Howe Sound, about 60 kilometres Speaking at the third annual north of Vancouver. International LNG in B.C. conferChief Ian Campbell called the ence, the premier maintained agreement “historic,â€? as the band her rosy outlook in a speech to had issued 25 conditions as part hundreds of business, government of a unique independent assessand aboriginal leaders in Vancoument. Woodfibre LNG has agreed ver. to comply with the 13 conditions “If you’re not from British that apply to it, while negotiations Columbia, you won’t know that continue with Fortis B.C. and the I’m always accused by my political province. opponents of being an optimist,â€? Campbell said Clark’s comshe said. ments signal that First Nations are “It’s true. I am an optimist. I’m finally being treated as partners also a hard worker, because I know rather than just stakeholders in that optimism doesn’t get you resource projects. But he added anywhere unless you’re willing to that his nation still doesn’t fully roll up your sleeves and get the support LNG. work done.â€? “We’ve largely been alienated The premier has staked her and marginalized from any meangovernment’s future on the LNG ingful decision-making or ecoindustry, with promises of 100,000 nomic participation, or taking into new jobs and more than $100 bilconsideration our thousands of lion in revenue over 30 years. years of stewardship of our lands There are now 20 LNG proposand resources,â€? he said. als in the province, but they face Several First Nations were to numerous challenges including protest outside the conference on weakened Asian demand, low Wednesday evening, taking aim at energy prices and threats of legal the $36-billion Pacific NorthWest action from First Nations. LNG project near Prince Rupert. But Clark insisted Wednesday Richard Wright, a spokesman that global energy demand would for the Luutkudziiwus – a group continue to grow. She said B.C. within the Gitxsan Nation – said it LNG represents a cleaner alternawas planning to file a court chaltive to coal and oil, as the province lenge against the proposed Prince has set the toughest emission Rupert Gas Transmission pipeline limits in the world. project. She also touted the province’s The pipeline would carry natu61 agreements with 28 First ral gas to the Pacific NorthWest Nations along proposed pipeLNG terminal, crossing 34.5 kiloline routes and investments in metres of territory known as Madii environmental stewardship and Lii, where a protest camp has been job skills programs for aboriginal bands. The Yukon home of “First Nations in this country, as in many others, have been left out of the economic mainstream for way too long,â€? she said. “The LNG opportunity truly Laura Kane
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Alberta climate panel has some reading to do, with hundreds of policy submissions ‘A carbon price is the single most effective way to change the investment and operating decisions that drive real emissions reductions,’ says oilsands firm on climate change included switching all traffic lights to Canadian Press roundabouts to reduce idling, banning motorized lawn mowCALGARY ers and leaf blowers and giving lberta’s climate change nuclear power a chance. advisory panel asked – The most common requests, and energy companies, however, centred around more trade associations, unions, government funding for rethink tanks and every-day Alsearch, a faster phaseout of bertans answered. coal-fired power plants, more The panel received close to renewables and a price on car500 submissions following their bon emissions. request for public comment on “Please, Please, Please find what the government should a way to establish a ‘SIGNIFIconsider when drafting its CANT’ price on fossil carbon climate change policy. Everyone emissions in Alberta!,” sugfrom climate-change skeptics to gested someone named Robert, diehard greens represented. whose full name was blocked Suggestions from those out, as they were on many of in favour of stronger action the submissions. Ian Bickis
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Environmental groups made a variety of suggestions on what that carbon price should be, with the Pembina Institute recommending a $40 per tonne price next year, rising $10 a tonne every year for the first 10 years, while the Suzuki Foundation suggested a more modest $30 price, increasing by $10 a year for five years before a review. Those advocating for a carbon price have allies in some oilsands companies, with Cenovus Energy, Shell, and Suncor among those supporting a widespread tax on carbon. “A carbon price is the single most effective way to change the investment and operating decisions that drive real emissions reductions,” Suncor said in its submission. Other oilsands players like Nexen and Husky Energy instead expressed support for a continuation of the current specified gas emitter regulations, with Husky saying Alberta shouldn’t impose any more penalties until its competitors adopt an equivalent price on carbon.
As to phasing out coal-fired power plants, many environmental groups have called for their total elimination by 2025 or 2030, but power producers have put forth their own, more long-term solutions. Power generators TransAlta, Atco Ltd., and Maxim Power Corp. have recommend that coal emissions be cut by 20 per cent immediately and then their reduction obligations should be considered met. The gap in energy generation would be filled by natural gas, and eventually replaced with renewables with a goal of 15 per cent of electricity from renewables by 2020 and rising from there. Power-distributor Enmax recommends restricting coal power plant production to 25 per cent below capacity starting next year, and then allowing the full phaseout to run its current course of a complete elimination by 2066. Capital Power is calling for a 50 per cent emissions reduction from coal plants by 2030. And while energy companies didn’t go so far as to question the premise of the need to re-
duce emissions, many members of the public did. “Time will come you and your panel of shills shall be exposed. Treachery as this carries massive consequences,” wrote Ian. “There is nothing wrong with a wait-and-see approach to climate change,” wrote Pieter. Chuck said human-caused climate change is a theory with little hard evidence, and the government shouldn’t threaten investment because of it. “Stable policy is essential for sustained capital investment. Don’t screw it up,” said Chuck. Possibly the most common comment, however, amounted to expressions of gratitude for being invited to give input by the province’s first NDP government. John, who wrote in to suggest that people should be able to sell energy from their personal solar panels back to the grid, said he had never given feedback to the government before. “Thank you for the opportunity to provide input. I am 62 and this is the first time I have ever done so.”
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Grace Community Church 8th & Wheeler Street Pastor Jim Joe 668-2003
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4TH AVENUE & ELLIOTT STREET Sunday Communion Services 8:30 & 10:00 AM Thursday Service 12:10 PM (Bag Lunch)
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Calvary Baptist 1301 FIR STREET 633-2886 Sunday Morning Worship 10:30 a.m. Sunday Evening Worship 6:00 p.m. Wednesday Bible Study 7:30 p.m. Pastor L.E. Harrison 633-4089
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More trouble for Volkswagen: Software in 2016 diesels could help exhaust systems test cleaner cars to replace the ones they can no longer sell because of the worldwide cheating Associated Press scandal already engulfing the world’s largest automaker. And, WASHINGTON depending on what the Envi.S. regulators say they ronmental Protection Agency have a lot more queseventually finds, it raises the tions for Volkswagen, possibility of even more severe triggered by the company’s punishment. recent disclosure of additional Volkswagen confirmed suspect software in 2016 diesel to The Associated Press on models that potentially would Tuesday that the “auxiliary help exhaust systems run emissions control device� at cleaner during government issue operates differently from tests. the “defeat� device software That’s more bad news for included in the company’s 2009 VW dealers looking for new to 2015 models disclosed last Michael Biesecker & Tom Krisher
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generations of its four-cylinder diesel engines. That a separate device was included in the redesigned 2016 cars could suggest a multi-year effort by the company to influence U.S. emissions tests that continued even after regulators began pressing the company last year about irregularities with the emissions produced by the older cars. The software at issue makes a pollution-control catalyst heat up faster, improving performance of the device that separates smog-causing nitrogen oxide into harmless nitrogen and oxygen gases. “This has the function of a warmup strategy which is subject to approval by the agencies,� said Jeannine Ginivan, a VW spokeswoman. “The agencies are currently evaluating this and Volkswagen is submitting additional information.� Automakers routinely place auxiliary emissions control devices on passenger vehicles, though they are required by law to disclose them as part of the process to receive the emissions certifications that are required to sell the cars. EPA’s McCabe wouldn’t say if VW’s failure to disclose the software in its 2016 applications was illegal. “I don’t want to speak to any potential subjects of an enforcement activity,� she said. If VW was cheating a second time, that would probably mean higher fines against the company, said Kelley Blue Book Senior Analyst Karl Brauer. Regulators are “going to be even more angry than they already are,� Brauer said. “The punitive actions from the EPA
are only going to get more aggressive.� The German automaker already faces up to $18 billion in potential fines over the nearly half-million vehicles sold with the initial emissions-rigging software. AP first reported Oct. 7 that the EPA and California Air Resources Board were investigating “the nature and purpose� of additional software on the new VW models, but at the time both the company and regulators declined to provide details about what the device does or how it works. Volkswagen of America CEO Michael Horn said in congressional testimony last week that the German automaker had withdrawn applications seeking certification of its 2016 diesels because of on-board software that hadn’t been disclosed to regulators. However, Horn’s statement left unclear whether the issue with the 2016 models was the same as that in the earlier models, or whether it potentially constituted a new violation. A congressional staffer briefed on the issue told AP that VW probably didn’t need the additional software to meet government emissions standards, but that the device appears intended to ensure the 2016 cars would pass inspection by wider margins. The staffer spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to talk publicly about the ongoing investigation. VW is now working with regulators to continue the certification process needed to sell its 2016 diesel cars.
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A moose calf and its mother are shown in a handout photo. Moose: A Year in the Life of a Twig Eater, aired Thursday on CBC-TV’s The Nature of Things. moose calf hunt is still allowed amid dwindling populations. B.C. is in the middle of a multi-million-dollar, multiTORONTO year study on moose populat’s a towering symbol of tions but “we really need to the Canadian wilderness, have more concerted efforts by depicted on everything scientists to discover why,” said from acclaimed works of art to Ontario’s coat of arms and even Fleming. 2. Less than 50 per cent of beer labels. moose calves survive their first Yet the moose remains a month and only around 30 per mysterious creature whose cent live through their first population is declining across North America “at an alarming year. “Winter is a very tough time rate,” suggests the new docufor moose, it’s not uncommentary Moose: A Year in the Life of a Twig Eater, which aired mon for them to starve,” said Fleming. “They become twig as the season opener of CBCeaters, and twigs have about 25 TV’s The Nature of Things on to 30 per cent of the nutritional Thursday. value of the other forage, so it’s Acclaimed science and a really tough time for them.” nature filmmaker Susan FlemBears are also a “major facing of Uxbridge, Ont., shot the tor,” said Fleming, noting they visually stunning project over a year in Alberta’s Jasper National kill moose calves more than Park with a small crew of just a any other animal. 3. Moose use a huge vocal cameraman and a scientist. repertoire to communicate. To their surprise, they enDuring mating season, “it’s countered not just one but two a symphony out in the woods, moose calves, which are rarely the way they communicate spotted. Here are five facts about the back and forth,” said Fleming. 4. Moose feed on water moose revealed in the doc: plants, which are rich in sodi1. Moose populations are um and other critical nutrients, in decline across Canada right and will dive up to five metres now. to get them. “We’ve really got to jump “They’re super strong swimon the ball and be paying atmers,” said Fleming. tention to this,” said Fleming. 5. Moose only need to load “There are a few places like up on essential nutritional eleNewfoundland where they’re ments once or twice a year. just doing wonderfully, but for “Their bodies have an amazthe most part this is not what’s ing ability to hold and process happening.” nutrients like sodium, which is Fleming said moose numquite enviable,” said Fleming. bers are dropping particularly “They have an incredible in Ontario, British Columbia ability to hold and process and many parts of Manitoba nutrients, which is very lifeand Saskatchewan. saving, because a lot of times, The cause in Canada isn’t where we were in Jasper exactly known but studies in the U.S. have pointed to factors National Park, the glacial lakes take a long time to warm up, including climate change and so they don’t have that long to tick problems, said Fleming, feed on sodium-rich plants.” who also questioned why a
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Gordie Tentrees is touring the territory to perform songs from his new album, Less is More. He plays in Whitehorse on both Friday and Monday, Dawson City on Saturday and Keno City on Sunday. Myles Dolphin News Reporter
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ordie Tentrees decided to try something new ahead of recording his latest album – he learned how to sing. The Whitehorse-based folk musician wanted to work on his shortcomings before the release of Less is More, his sixth album, in April. “I never thought I’d say that after five albums, but it’s been wonderful,” said Tentrees, who has been taking lessons with a close friend in Whitehorse for the past year. “After focusing so much on the music side of things, I figured, ‘OK, I should become a better singer.’ I’ve learned about all the things I can’t do, what my range is, and what I have to work with. “It’s cool to learn something new and to try to develop it.” This week, Tentrees is embarking on a northern tour to promote the album, whose songs haven’t been played live here yet. The album, clocking in at just over 41 minutes, includes the
pick of the litter among the 30 or so tracks he wrote overall, said Tentrees. In fact, there was a point after his last album where he wasn’t sure whether he wanted to continue producing music or not. “I gave myself the option of not making another album, ever, or making one that would go above and beyond my own standards,” he said. “I wanted to wait until I reached that point, whether it was three years or five. I just kept writing and writing, and trying to improve on other things in the meantime.” Some of the more poignant songs on the album include Somebody’s Child, written after Tentrees witnessed the bombings at the Boston Marathon in April 2013 – a race his wife had completed only nine minutes earlier. He was four blocks away when the explosions happened. He first thought he had heard cannons going off in celebration. “For about 20 minutes I didn’t know she was all right, until she found a phone and called me,”
he said. “We stayed in Boston that night and I started thinking about all the things we take for granted, whether it’s our careers or our personal lives. Shit’s real sometimes.” Two months later, while he was on tour and sitting on a friend’s porch in Ontario, he recalled the event and wrote the song on the spot. “A lot of my songs come from conversations or tidbits.” Creating the last two albums has given Tentrees a renewed perspective on the joys of writing, something he hadn’t always appreciated before. One of the harder songs to write was Deadbeat Dad, he said. Tentrees, who has two children from two different relationships, wrote the song on Father’s Day after his nine-year-old son talked about what it was like to have two fathers. It wasn’t easy for Tentrees to talk about the issue until he realized, one day, that he wasn’t alone. “In this day and age, you can leave the person you’re with if
you don’t like them,” he said. “It wasn’t always like that. Times have changed, and you have a lot more modern families now than you used to. Tentrees didn’t think the song would end up on the album until he played it for a few friends, all of whom were affected by the content in the song in one way or another. He witnessed their reactions and began playing it live during his shows. Unexpectedly, it became the song people requested the most. “It’s really grown on me, it’s taken a life of its own.” While some of the songs on the album are meant to tear your heart out, Tentrees said, others contain more uplifting stories about taking the negative parts of your life and making them positive. On Wheel Girl, an ode to Yukon wheelchair athlete Jessica Frotten, he sings about some of the things he believes she’s gone through to get to where she is today. After reading about Frotten’s story two years ago, Tentrees helped organize a fundraiser to
purchase a new wheelchair for the athlete, as well as help her attend her first international racing event in Switzerland. When he found out she was going to attend the benefit concert at the Old Fire Hall, he decided to write a song about it, not knowing it would eventually become a favourite of his. “I think she likes it,” he said. “I feel lucky to have written half the songs on this album. It’s my favourite so far. “I learned a lot by making the previous albums, to bring me to this point.” Tentrees is performing at the Klondike Roots and Blues Festival in Whitehorse tonight, at the Odd Fellows Hall in Dawson City tomorrow evening and at the Keno City Hotel on Sunday. On Monday night, he’s back in Whitehorse for a show at the Yukon Arts Centre scheduled for 8 p.m. Opening for him on this tour is Jaxon Haldane, an American musician from Oklahoma whose band headlined the Dawson City Music Festival in 2010. Contact Myles Dolphin at myles@yukon-news.com
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Deepa Mehta tackles gangster ďŹ lm with Beeba Boys Nep has the world on his shoulders. And how do you bring that into every scene?â€? Ahluwalia says he was attracted to the project by Mehta’s vision. “I’ve had the good fortune to work with some incredible directors but never a female director and never an Indian director,â€? says Ahluwalia, whose credits include Wes Anderson’s The Grand Budapest Hotel, The Darjeeling Limited and The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou. “It’s the first time I’ve been fully immersed within my own culture. It took Deepa to do that. And that was great. But to
tell that story, and to be part of changing that landscape of cinema and culture (was important). Because we’re not all doctors or lawyers. Unfortunately some of us are gangsters, too.� He credits Mehta with charting her own way through a well-tred genre, which included a bold costuming decision to put preening gang members in brightly coloured suits. “She really wanted to own the genre,� he says. “She was like, ‘No, I want to do a gangster film like a Deepa Mehta gangster film.’ She created her own subsection within the genre, the look being a huge part of it.�
Mehta says she also took pains to make sure the saga extends to the women and children in these gangster’s lives – notably Jeet’s wilfully blind mother, played by Balinder Johal; his lonely girlfriend Katya, played by Remedy’s Sarah Allen; and his impressionable son Peter, played by Sami Amarshi. “Maybe that’s why it’s different than other gangster films, is because female characters actually have an arc and have something to say,â€? says the Oscar-nominated director of Water. “I am a feminist ‌ I don’t want to compete with men, why do I have to?â€?
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Film Director Deepa Mehta poses for photographers upon arrival at the premiere of the film Beeba Boys at the London Film Festival on Oct. 8. ing information to a rival crew. They’re clearly seduced by Canadian Press money and power, but are driven to extremes in a bid for attenTORONTO tion and respect by a racist and eepa Mehta tackles a dismissive society, says Mehta. genre usually handled by “You can really feel it as a men with her gangster brown person and as somebody film Beeba Boys, and she’s doing who came to this country as an it her way. immigrant,â€? Mehta says of the The fiercely focused director ways immigrants are marginalacknowledges this violent porized. trait of an Indo-Canadian gang is “We all want to be Canadian a bit of a left turn, but says it’s far and we can’t. We always continue more than just a “men with gunsâ€? to be hyphenated. I’ll always be tale. an Indo-Canadian. Perhaps it’s “Thematically for me, this film not so bad in the States where reflects all my concerns that are there is that melting pot. This is there in all my films,â€? Mehta says ghettoization.â€? in a recent interview at the ToCast members took part in ronto International Film Festival. an intensive 10-day rehearsal “Those are concerns about where Mehta drove home the identity, assimilation, immigrafilm’s emotional beats through an tion. How do we become visible exercise drawn from an ancient in a society that’s relegated us to Indian treatise known as the be invisible?â€? Natya Shastra. The crime story centres on Calling it Mehta’s “secret cocksure gang leader Jeet Johar, sauce,â€? Momen says the process played by Bollywood actor Ranopened his mind while knitting deep Hooda, and his ostentatious the cast of onscreen brothers but loyal crew of drugs-and-arms together. dealers. “I think Deepa is a humanist They include the jokester ‌ she kind of understands the Manny, played by designer/acnuance of just life,â€? Momen says tor Waris Ahluwalia; the muscle of her approach, while calling the Harry, played by Steve Dhillon; shoot the most “amazingâ€? and newcomer “Lovelyâ€? played by “difficultâ€? experience of his life. “Bomb Girlsâ€? actor Gabe Grey; “You realize right away that and the two-faced Nep, played by Nep isn’t just a cookie-cutter Toronto-based theatre actor Ali gangster. That Nep is sad. And Momen, whose character is feed- Nep is perhaps also sensitive and Cassandra Szklarski
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Cabin Porn: Book offers photos of simple but intriguing homes in rustic settings subtitled, “Inspiration for your quiet place somewhere.� Associated Press Ironically, Klein says the title Cabin Porn is “difficult for me to luscious new book of phojustify� because “it was never a tos called Cabin Porn isn’t fantasy. My friends and I were inviting readers to hole up out there doing it.� in the woods to look at naked Cabin Porn isn’t the only sign bodies. that cabins are having a moment. It is inviting them to look at The New York Times’ T magazine photos about holing up in the recently proclaimed in a headline woods. that cabins are the “New AmeriThe book is the brainchild of tech entrepreneur Zach Klein, co- can Dream.� Pinterest is loaded with accounts like “Rustic Cabin founder of Vimeo, who bought Life� and “Cozy Cabins.� Students some land in upstate New York in 2010 with his wife and friends. at Harvard’s Millennial HousThey started collecting photos of ing Lab just launched a project cabins as “inspiration to guide us called Getaway, which offers tiny houses in rural settings for and motivate us� to build their rent by the night for city dwellers own. Eventually, they built some looking for an escape. cabins on the property they call Why cabins? Simplicity and Beaver Brook, and they shared the photo collection in a popular immersion in nature explain much of the appeal. Tumblr blog called Cabin Porn. “There’s something really They also opened a school at satisfying about being reminded Beaver Brook where individuthat life outdoors is really afals can learn to timber-frame a fordable,� Klein said. “You don’t building from scratch in a few need a McMansion to enjoy the days. woods.� All of that led to the Cabin But while cabins might be Porn book, published by Little Brown, edited by Klein and aptly simple structures, the images in Beth J. Harpaz
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A home built at an unusual angle in Oberwiesenthal, Germany is seen in the book Cabin Porn. The book offers images and stories of homes - often simple and rustic dwellings – usually located in rural or remote settings. Cabin Porn are spectacular and compelling, even when the buildings are little more than ramshackle shelters tacked together from scavenged boards. The rustic settings are beautiful, on mountaintops and by the water’s edge, in deserts and the woods. And the dwellings’ designs are intriguing, from converted vehicles and silos to treehouses, pods, sheds and bungalows – along with more conventional woodframe homes with pitched roofs. The term “cabin� has a particular American sensibility, Klein notes, part of the narrative of taming the frontier and cutting down trees to build homes and settlements. Log cabins symbolize “resilience and self-reliance,� he said. But Americana is not really the attraction for him. “What I’m drawn to is creating minimal comfort outdoors so that I can be as close to nature as possible,� he said. He also notes that rustic cottages are part of the culture in many places, especially northern
Europe. The book’s photos range from a shack in a sheep-herding camp in New Zealand to a boathouse on a lake in Germany. Cabin-love is also related to the tiny house movement. “The American dream is exhausting,â€? Klein said. “Having to live up to this model of largeness is really draining. People are drawn to the possibility that we can be happy with a lot less.â€? Sarah Barnard, a Los Angelesbased interior designer who specializes in sustainability and healthy living, has a number of clients who have high-pressure jobs and nice homes in the city, but own cabins for weekend escapes. “In the city, we cannot help but be influenced by fashion and our neighbours and advertising and all these things that impact how we purchase and how we decorate and what our daily lives look like,â€? she said. “Whereas cabin living allows us ‌ a kind of freedom from the confines of those social expectations.â€? Those inspired to pursue their own cabin in the woods might
want to know, however, that reality can be more complicated than the ideal. Klein admits that the cabins he and his friends built at Beaver Brook “ran into problems,� from mice infestations to family members who couldn’t handle the lack of amenities. They’ve since built a building with plumbing and electricity “that’s weather-tight and rodentproof, so we could be there all four seasons,� he said. “Now my mom will come to visit.� Klein’s sojourns in the woods have also left him with Lyme disease, which comes from tick bites and is common in the Northeast and mid-Atlantic. It’s “a reminder,� he said, “that nature isn’t move-in ready. It’s not sterilized. It’s very much a force that has to be reckoned with. It’s humbling.� It’s also a good reason to have plumbing in your cabin. “We needed to make it easier for showers,� Klein said, “to create proper conditions so people could check for ticks and clean things.�
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TORONTO ou must be punctual. You must own your own car. You will be emailing and calling seven days a week at all hours. You must never make spelling mistakes in emails. You should be excited to work in the music industry. The job posting on the Indeed website for an internship with the Epstein Management music agency reads like a union leader’s nightmare, and highlights what the Liberals and the NDP say is a major concern for Canada’s labour market. Manager and promoter Amir Epstein says he’s fielded at least two dozen applications for the position since it was first advertised in August. “The last thing I need is to be paying someone who is completely incapable,” he said in an interview, adding he doesn’t believe his posting violates the law. “The way I see it is the experience is valuable; I want to offer something up to someone who really wants that kind of a job and give them a strong resume.” In Ontario, where Epstein Management is located, unpaid internships are legal only under certain criteria. The placement must be educational, it must benefit the intern, it must not replace someone’s paid job, and the intern must not be promised a job at the end of the training period. Epstein Management is far from the only company looking for unpaid interns despite Ontario’s ongoing crackdown on the practice. More than a dozen ads on the Toronto section of the Kijiji classifieds website seek volunteer labour.
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They include one man seeking marketing interns for a three-month commitment of more than 15 hours a week, while another ad seeks an unpaid employee at the Eurofab fabric store in downtown Toronto who will be required to clean and tidy the store as well as serve customers. With a federal election just days away, the youth unemployment rate sits at 13.1 per cent – almost double the national average – as about 170,000 fewer young people are in the workforce than before the recession. Critics suggest that makes young Canadians vulnerable to exploitation from those seeking free labour. The federal NDP has been particularly critical of unpaid internships in recent years. One of the party’s harshest criticisms is that such internships encourage income inequality because only the children of wealthier families can afford to work for free. On the campaign trail, both the NDP and the Liberals have pledged new spending on youth employment, including new jobs, co-op placements and paid internships, with the only difference being the final figure: the New Democrats say they will spend $100 million per year, while the Liberals promise more than $400 million per year for the first three years. In an email, Conservative spokesman Stephen Lecce pointed to the party’s expansion of the health-and-safety protections for those in internships in federally regulated industries in the 2015 budget. But labour lawyer Andrew Langille says the Harper government’s efforts didn’t go nearly far enough to address the issue of unpaid internships
and didn’t seem to be a serious attempt to help vulnerable young workers. “They took the most tepid approach with the budget, and they really didn’t do anything,” he said. The Liberal and NDP plans each have strengths and weaknesses, Langille said, but both recognize that a tough job market makes young people more susceptible to exploitation. “I firmly believe that they see the problems with unpaid internships and they see the damage that excess unpaid labour does to the labour market,” he said. Langille said there’s nothing wrong with internships that provide education and skills to young people without pay, but that the current lack of protections leaves the system ripe for exploitation. “You could literally have the entire inspection team at the Ministry of Labour focus on unpaid internships, they’re that prevalent,” Langille said. Most internships fall under provincial jurisdiction, yet the federal government has power over certain businesses with national scope including banks, broadcasters and airlines. Epstein defends his internship. He says that unlike other management agencies or record labels that send their interns for coffee and don’t expect much out of them, an intern working for his two-person team will learn everything about what it takes to excel in a demanding field. “I think it’s important that the whole purpose of internship is to be able to provide people with real work experience, develop their resume, and they’re able to actually work in the music industry.”
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Are U.S. gun violence researchers becoming an endangered species? But many young researchers are staying away from the field. Some believe there’s little hope Congress will do anything NEW YORK substantive to reduce gun mid the bloodbaths of violence, regardless of what 21st-century America, scientists find. And the work is you might think that stressful – many who study gun there would be a lot of research violence report receiving angry into the causes of gun violence, emails and death threats from and which policies work best believers in unrestricted gun against it. ownership. You would be wrong. Currently, guns rank among Gun interests, wary of any the top five killers of people possible limits on weaponry, ages 1 to 64, according to the have successfully lobbied for Centers for Disease Control and limitations on government Prevention. research and funding, and Deaths from gunfire have private sources have not filled been holding steady at about the breach. So funding for basic 32,000 a year, with nearly half gun violence research and data of them occurring in the South. collection remains minuscule – But while the rates for gun the annual sum total for all gun murders and unintentional violence research projects apshooting deaths have been fallpears to be well under $5 miling, firearm suicides – which lion. A grant for a single study account for 60 per cent of gun in areas like autism, cancer or deaths – have been rising. And HIV can be more than twice nonfatal shooting injuries have that much. reached their highest level There are public health since 1995. students who want to better U.S. health researchers understand rising gun-related began to take a hard look at gun suicide rates, recent explosions violence about 30 years ago, in firearm murders in many when firearm homicide rates U.S. cities, and mass murders were climbing to what were Rich Pedroncelli/AP like the one this month at an described as epidemic proporOregon community college, Dr. Garen Wintemute poses with a copy of a study he did on gun tions. where a lone gunman killed shows at his offi ce at the University of California Davis Medical “The line is: ‘If it’s not a nine people. Center in Sacramento, Calif on Oct. 6. public health issue, why are Mike Stobbe
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so many people dying?”’ said Philip Cook, a Duke University economist who in the 1970s began studying the impact of guns on society. The CDC, the federal government’s lead agency for the detection and prevention of health threats, took an early leading role in fostering more research into violence. But beginning in the 1980s, the National Rifle Association tried to discredit CDC-funded studies, accusing the agency and the researchers the agency funded of incompetence and falsifying data. NRA officials in Washington did not respond to repeated AP requests for comment for this story. In 1996, lawmakers sympathetic to the NRA took the $2.6 million CDC had budgeted for firearm injury research and earmarked it for traumatic brain injury. Congressional Republicans also included language directing that no CDC injury research funding could go to research that might be used, in whole or in part, to advocate or promote gun control. Exactly what that language meant wasn’t clear. But CDC officials, aware of how vulnerable their injury research centre was becoming, ultimately adopted a conservative interpretation. The agency ceased to be the
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main engine driving gun violence research. With the CDC largely out of the picture, gun violence researchers turned to other sources. But there wasn’t much. The field withered, with limited funding and not much new blood. In the last decade, funding for gun violence grew so tight that Dr. Garen Wintemute, a long-time gun violence researcher at the University of California at Davis, spent more than $1 million of his own money to keep different gun violence research projects going. Much of the research that has been done has had to be relatively simple – based on small surveys or on what limited data has been collected on guns and on gun-related injuries and deaths. As state and federal officials debate gun laws or violence
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prevention programs, it’s often not clear how well they’ll work. To answer such questions, researchers ideally would like to know the exact number, type, and distribution of guns, as well as who owns them and where people got them. They’d like to know how and where they’re stored, and to track use of gun safety courses. That’s all key data for determining actual risk and what actions best reduce risk. Researchers have wondered if there will be a turning point that might cause more people to advocate for research. Then came the December 2012 carnage in Newtown, Connecticut, where a an armed 20-year-old man entered an elementary school and used a semiautomatic rifle to slay 20 first graders and six adult school staff members before killing himself. It was the
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second-deadliest shooting at a school in U.S. history. The White House directed the CDC to research the causes and prevention of gun violence. The actions included a call for Congress to provide $10 million to the CDC for gun violence research. The prestigious Institute of Medicine convened a special committee of experts to develop a research agenda. But Congress did not budget money to the CDC for gun violence research. It didn’t strip away the legislative language that had chilled CDC activity
on guns, either. The research agenda was not formally adopted by anybody. Some young researchers are put off by the frustration of working in a field where their findings would likely be politicized, and have little impact. Worried about ensuring a flow of funding, even those most intrigued by gun violence must spend a lot of time working on other topics. Meanwhile, the longtime leaders in gun violence research aren’t getting any younger; many are in their 60s
and 70s. Some, worried that the field may soon shrink through attrition, are working hard to recruit successors. Dr. Michael Levas, a young researcher in Milwaukee, is drawn to the area of gun violence, and fascinated by its potential, but he won’t commit to it. “If the climate was right and the funding was there, it would make sense to focus on gun violence prevention,” he said. “But right now, it would be a dead end.”
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Potlucks are acceptable if agreed-upon by all by Judith Martin
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MANNERS DEAR MISS MANNERS: I have a small group of friends who like to get together regularly to have dinner and socialize, which is fun. Most of the group have limited funds and very small apartments with no dining area, and can’t accommodate our group. I recall that Miss Manners has said proper etiquette dictates the hosts should provide the evening’s dinner and drinks. We have enough space to handle the group, but not the budget to entertain everyone as regularly as we’d all like. Trying to entertain regularly is taking a financial toll. It has been suggested that we switch to hosting potlucks so we can get together as a group more than once or twice a year. What are Miss Manners’ thoughts, and does proper etiquette allow for the potluck? GENTLE READER: Of course it does, presuming that all parties to it are agreeable. What you have mistaken as a total ban is her objection to the bait-and-switch scheme by which
people issue social invitations to those who are subsequently ordered to contribute to the catering. This has become so widespread that many guests feel they cannot show up to social events without bringing food that they expect to be served. And that creates a problem for truly hospitable hosts, whose menus have been sabotaged by unexpected additions. But Miss Manners has no objection whatsoever to a frankly cooperative meal among people who have agreed on this form. She is not quite such a killjoy as you have been led to believe.
these awkward situations. GENTLE READER: These people seem to have a lot of clueless friends. Anyone who is close enough to be invited to the child’s birthday party ought surely to know to whom their friends are married or not married. Less culpable is the person who assumed you were your predecessor, although Miss Manners keeps warning people to stop guessing at relationships, rather than waiting to be told. Mature parents who are assumed to be their children’s grandparents are plagued by this. Nevertheless, you and your friend seem to have handled these DEAR MISS MANNERS: My mistakes gracefully. Whatever friend was approached at his embarrassment these people may daughter’s birthday party by several feel on discovering their mistakes of his ex-wife’s new friends. He was was brought on by themselves, and told how happy they were for them may teach them to be more careful (ex-wife was pregnant with new in the future. husband’s child) and how beautiful they were as a family. He said thank DEAR MISS MANNERS: Most you and left it at that, so as not to of our friends and acquaintances, create an awkward moment. married or not, have now emWhat should he have done in barked on the task of producing this situation? Should he have children. This means I am invited corrected his ex-wife’s friends or to multitudes of baby showers, simply done what he did and say sometimes more than one for each thank you? baby. In another situation, I was inI disapprove of baby showers troduced to someone who did not for two reasons: First, we are in a know my boyfriend’s ex-wife and global resource crisis, and people, said “... and you are (my boyfriend’s especially Americans, should have ex-wife’s name)?” fewer children; and second, showI said, “No, I am ...” and stated ers encourage wasteful consumermy name. What is a girl to do? ism, when the mother can easily Please let us know what to do with obtain hand-me-downs for her
rapidly growing child. I am also alarmed at the shocking number of otherwise intelligent people who, despite this being the First World with various forms of birth control widely available, still have unplanned pregnancies and make no secret of this fact. The majority of my friends’ pregnancies have been associated with shotgun weddings, underwater home mortgages, or conception occurring immediately following the loss of the father’s job. For these reasons and others, I am generally not thrilled when my friends become pregnant. I love my friends, but once they have kids, they fall off the face of the earth. It makes me sad to lose my friends and watch them throw away their promising careers and lives to enter the black hole of babydom (which, despite common arguments to the contrary, almost all do). Given this, it seems inappropriate for me to attend baby showers. My friends are all familiar with my views on reproduction. I am happy to help my friends in other ways – come over and do the household chores for a day, for instance. But is there a polite way to decline to attend a good friend’s shower? GENTLE READER: Yes, certainly. It is: “Thank you so much for the invitation, but I will not be able to attend.” Miss Manners notices that being familiar with your views did
not deter your friends from having children, so you needn’t feel neglectful about refraining from repeating them after the fact. DEAR MISS MANNERS: My sister and brother-in-law are going through a very bitter divorce. We have since found out that he is a liar and a cheat, and a man without honor. There will be times in the future that we are attending the same social function (graduation, wedding, etc.). How do I show my disdain for this man without being considered rude? What if he should approach me to speak? What if he is with someone? What if he is with the woman that has contributed to the breakup of the marriage? GENTLE READER: A divorce, like a funeral, has many mourners but few principals. (Miss Manners has noticed that participants in a divorce sometimes also divest themselves of their principles, but that is a separate topic.) Proper responses can range from a cold aloofness to a deliberate snub, but as your grievance is subsidiary to your sister’s, your behavior should follow her lead, without exceeding it in severity. Even then, it must be done quietly, so that your reaction will not attract the attention of other guests. Please remember that your primary obligation at such events is to avoid spoiling them with the fallout from less happy situations.
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No gunfire, close dancing under Chechen wedding guidelines “spiritual and moral development” of the republic’s young Associated Press people. Although they don’t have GROZNY, RUSSIA the force of law, the recommendations carry significant weight hat makes for a proper as Chechens are increasingly wedding in the eyes pressured to adopt conservative of Chechen authoriand Islamic ways under strongties? No gunfire, keep the men man leader Ramzan Kadyrov. and women at a distance on In recent years, young people the dance floor and don’t let the have become increasingly liberal bride cut the cake. with their behaviour at wedThese are among the recomdings, neglecting more consermendations issued last month by Department of Culture in the vative Chechen traditions, said capital, Grozny, to safeguard the Madina Shagidaeva, a member Elena Fitkulina
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Shooting from any sort of weapon is also now considered undesirable behaviour, according to the codex. Traditionally at Caucasian weddings, members of the wedding party fire guns into the air to celebrate. However, this practice has been met with increasing annoyance in Russia’s capital where an influx of Caucasian immigrants has brought with it an increase in Chechen weddings. Chechen weddings are tradi-
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gressive path we must talk about the real challenges facing our country, including maintaining and strengthening our respect for diversity. This election should also be about our response to the greatest threat humanity faces, climate change, and the many ways we can confront it by moving to a clean-energy future that will benefit our health, wellbeing and economy. We should be talking about the challenges faced by First Nations, Inuit and Metis people, many of whom don’t have access to clean drinking water and who are still overcoming the effects of the systemic racism perpetrated in residential schools. We should be talking about ethics, the Senate, corruption and the ways in which our political leaders communicate – or not – to us. We should be talking about trade deals, endangered species, protecting water resources, our responsibilities to the rest of the world and so much more. Instead, this election has bogged down into “dead cat�
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distractions like niqabs, an issue that affects almost no one! Many people see the niqab as a symbol of women’s oppression, but this isn’t about protecting women’s rights. Whether or not we agree with the custom of wearing niqabs – or burkas or turbans or beards, or the Christian fundamentalist belief that women should submit to their husbands – our Constitution guarantees the right of people to practise their religions as long as doing so doesn’t impinge on the rights of others. Our courts have repeatedly reaffirmed these rights. Very few women have even asked to wear veils at the citizenship ceremony, and those who do must remove the face covering for identification beforehand. For any party to stoop to or fall for this deflection is deplorable and un-Canadian. For voters to allow this small-minded bigotry to distract them from issues that really matter is a step backwards. History has shown where scapegoating minorities can lead. Fortunately, most Canadians share the values of tolerance and acceptance. And most want a government that leads on issues that matter. A recent poll by the Environics Institute for Survey Research and the David Suzuki Foundation found a strong majority of Canadians want the government to take action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and confront climate change. It also showed Canadians have confidence in the renewable energy sector and support carbon pricing through carbon taxes or cap-and-trade. In the final days of this long election, we must demand more from those who hope to govern us. We need to ensure that this election is decided on real issues that affect all Canadians, and not on pointless distractions. Most importantly, we all need to get out and vote! Our country’s future is at stake. Dr. David Suzuki is a scientist, broadcaster, author and cofounder of the David Suzuki Foundation. Written with contributions from David Suzuki Foundation Senior Editor Ian Hanington.
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Pioneer songbird meets an early snowstorm by Ned Rozell
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s piles of wet snow fell, an unexpected guest rapped at the window. My wife, Kristen, heard it bump into the glass. She was soon cupping in her hands a delicate bird she saw perched on the windowsill. “It’s a golden-crowned kinglet!” she said. Kristen is a bird biologist, but I was surprised at her identification. Mighty little ruby-crowned kinglets belt out their big songs in our woods each spring, but goldencrowns do not appear north of the Alaska Range on any maps of where the birds live. Neither of us remember seeing one here before. But the flaming yellow mohawk was a can’t-miss indicator that what Kristen held was indeed a female golden-crowned kinglet. That little refugee was a fun mystery during a storm that deposited more than a foot of wet snow on our patch of boreal forest in less than one day. Kristen mixed some sugar and water in a Nalgene cap and touched a few droplets to the stunned bird’s beak. Soon, she felt movement in her hands. “She’s getting peppy.” Kristen stepped outside and held her palm open. A bird that weighed as much as two pennies stood there in the cold, moist air. After one minute, it fluttered off. First it perched on roof metal. Then it moved to an umbrellalike space beneath snowy spruce branches. A chickadee that flew into the same tree right after the kinglet looked like a giant in comparison. Golden-crowned kinglets are even smaller than ruby-crowned kinglets: about as big as your thumb. What was one the smallest songbirds doing in a far-north forest at the start of winter? That’s a good question. Kristen wonders if she’s heard their highpitched chatter in our neighborhood before, mistaking them for the similar calls of brown creepers. And it’s hard to see those flitting little bodies as they branch-hop through the tips of 100-foot spruces. Maybe they are more common here than we know, and we only find them when something goes wrong. To learn more about the golden-crowned kinglet, I pulled out Bernd Heinrich’s “Winter World.” The golden-crowned kinglet is the star of the biologist’s book. I am “amazed when I step out in the morning after a cold night and I’m greeted by them,” the University of Vermont emeritus professor wrote about golden-crowneds in Maine. “Our fragility in the cold makes the survival of these tiny creatures all the more miraculous.” One would guess that the
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Kristen Rozell holds a golden-crowned kinglet that hit a Fairbanks window during a snowstorm. Fairbanks kinglet was not seeking to winter here, but rather bumped into a window during its migration to somewhere south of the Alaska Range. Most maps of the bird’s range show it to wander as far north as Anchorage during the summer. From his own research and the little he could find from others, Heinrich wrote this of the songbird that inspired his book: Their tiny bodies (it would take 325 kinglets to equal one raven) stay at about 111 degrees Fahrenheit year-round and lose heat 100 times faster than ours. Kinglets need three times their body weight in food to survive a winter day. While roosting, they shiver, or else they would “freeze like a teaspoon of water.” Heinrich and his graduate students clubbed trees with maple staffs to find the frozen caterpillars golden-crown kinglets fed upon most often during a Maine winter. After climbing a pine tree in the dark with a flashlight, he once found four kinglets huddled together on a branch beak-to-beak,
looking like a ball of fluff. As much as I root for the Fairbanks kinglet to flap its way to a milder climate for winter, I realize the bird is maybe too bold a pioneer to pass on its genes. But a good deal of mortality might be a big part of golden-crowned kinglet strategy. The birds lay an unusual amount of eggs in their hammock nests that hang beneath spruce branches. Sometimes a pair will get two nests going at once. All those babies perhaps offset 87 percent of the entire population of golden-crowned kinglets being “weeded out” every year, Heinrich wrote. He compared them to an annual plant, which regenerates each year only by seeds. Heinrich concluded “Winter World” with this salute to the bird that felt a warm hand in the subarctic a few days ago: “I’ve felt an infectious hyperenthusiasm flow from them, and sensed a grand, boundless zest for life,” Heinrich wrote. “They could not survive without that in their harsh world. Like us, they are
programmed for optimism.” Since the late 1970s, the University of Alaska Fairbanks’ Geophysical Institute has provided this column
free in cooperation with the UAF research community. Ned Rozell is a science writer for the Geophysical Institute.
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Robert Service and the crimson harvest by Michael Gates
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wrote recently about how Robert Service tried to scoop the professional journalists during World War I, and how he was nearly shot for being suspected of spying. He was never accepted into the army because of his age and physical condition, but he found another way to serve the Allied cause – as an ambulance driver for the American ambulance corps. While Service did not see action on the front, he came close enough to see the slaughter and gore as he transported the victims of shelling, gassing and machine gun fire to field hospitals behind the line. The details of Service’s time as an ambulance driver are confused by his own writing, as well as the writings of his biographers. In a biography by G. W. Lockhart, Service is on the “Somme Front” in January of 1915, a date which is dismissed by another biographer, James Mackay, as the battle of the Somme did not commence until July of 1916. Further, the volunteer ambulance corps did not proceed to the front until April, 1915. Lockhart derived this idea from a notation in Service’s book of poems titled Ballads of a Bohemian, which was published in 1921 – three years after the conclusion of the war, and six years after Service had been an ambulance driver. While Service excelled at capturing the essence of the events (much as he did with his yarns of the Yukon), he did not devote much attention to the historical accuracy of his details. We are certain, however, that he was an ambulance
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While serving as a wartime volunteer ambulance driver, Robert Service drove a vehicle similar to this one, which he named “Dorothea.” driver and that he saw and transported some badly injured and mutilated patients. Biographer James Mackay, on the other hand, places Service’s enlistment in the ambulance corps as September of 1915. Yet there is an article in the Dawson Daily News dated June 24, 1915, which announces that the “well known Yukon writer” had left for the front to drive a motor car. The News was citing an article from a Toronto newspaper dated June 5. There were several volunteer ambulance corps organized during the war. Always vague on details, Service doesn’t state which one he joined, nor provide dates. I surmise that his stint in the ambulance corps may have lasted until the late
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fall of 1915. By December, he is already publishing articles about his experiences. From his own descriptions, these were harrowing times for the famed poet, times during which he observed the grim reality of the “crimson harvest.” The ambulance corps, by the way, was populated by those who wanted to be involved in the war, though not necessarily as a soldier in the trenches of the Western Front. These volunteer ambulance drivers donned uniforms and served as “gentleman drivers,” in which capacity they were treated as the informal equivalent of officers. Among those who served in this manner were many future beacons of arts and letters, one of whom was later awarded the Nobel Prize for literature. They included the French composer Maurice Ravel, future American filmmaker Walt Disney, and a stellar array of authors, including Ernest Hemingway, E.E. Cummings, John Masefield, W. Somerset Maugham, and Service himself. Most of these authors later incorporated their experiences into their literary works. Service took great advantage of his observations to frame his narratives about the war. In a letter he sent to Dawson City, which was published in the newspaper in March, 1916, he described a trip to pick up casualties where he was caught in an enemy artillery bombardment and was forced to hide under his ambulance. Finally, he arrived near the front, to pick up his passengers and
drove them to the nearest field hospital. One of them died before they reached their destination. A similar description of the bombardment can be found in an article published in the Toronto Star in December of 1915. In Ballads of a Bohemian, he described his passengers in a fashion similar to that in his Dawson article. One is swathed in from hip to heel in bandages, while the second has a “great white turban” on his head, with a spreading patch of red. In another article he describes a poor soldier who had had the top of his skull blown off by a sniper when he risked peering over the top of the trench. The gravely wounded man was directed to the section of the casualty station where the most seriously injured are expected to die. Service used his observations again and again in his writing of the war, each slightly different from the others, and yet all have a sense of immediacy to them. In his letter in the Dawson Daily News, he wrote about the ambulance (he named it Dorothea) which he was assigned for his duty. Dorothea was quite moody and prone to mechanical failure. She had no springs or any means of softening the roughness of the crater-filled roads over which he conveyed his casualties to the nearest field hospital. Go more slowly, his passengers pleaded, but any slower and they would never have reached their destination and the little ambulance would
have become an easy target for the enemy artillery. Dorothea clattered on until one cylinder stopped firing and she stalled. A passing soldier cleaned a clogged spark plug and Dorothea sputtered to life again. Service picked up more passengers and turned away from the front. The first hospital he reached turned them away; it was too full of the wounded and dying already. He was directed to another field station a distance away. With his patients protesting at every bump and jostle, he slowly made his way toward the alternate hospital. Dorothea was only running on two cylinders and struggling over the hilly terrain, until she expired within sight of their destination. Fortunately, a passing truck towed him the final distance and he was able to deliver his passengers into the doctors’ hands. Of one of his desperately wounded passengers, the twenty third he had transported that day, he could not bear to learn the outcome. “I do hope that number twenty three did not die.” He wrote, “I never had the heart to ask.” It is remarkable that Service’s graphic descriptions got past the censor’s pencils, but it is fortunate for us because they provide very disturbing, yet poignant descriptions of the casualties of the war. Michael Gates is a Yukon historian and sometimes adventurer based in Whitehorse. His three books on Yukon history are available in Yukon stores. You can contact him at msgates@northwestel.net
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Gene editing research seeks to balance ethics with potential for fighting disease Lauran Neergaard Associated Press
WASHINGTON he hottest tool in biology has scientists using words like revolutionary as they describe the long-term potential: wiping out certain mosquitoes that carry malaria, treating genetic diseases like sickle cell, preventing babies from inheriting a life-threatening disorder. It may sound like sci-fi, but research into genome editing is booming. So is a debate about its boundaries, what’s safe and what’s ethical to try in the quest to fight disease. Does the promise warrant experimenting with human embryos? Researchers in China already have, and they’re poised to in Britain. Should we change people’s genes in a way that passes traits to future generations? Beyond medicine, what about the environmental effects if, say, altered mosquitoes escape before we know how to use them? “We need to try to get the balance right,” said Jennifer Doudna, a biochemist at the University of California, Berkeley. She helped develop new gene-editing technology and hears from desperate families, but urges caution in how it’s eventually used in people. The U.S. National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine will bring international scientists, ethicists and regulators together in December to start determining that balance. The biggest debate is whether it ever will be appropriate to alter human heredity by editing an embryo’s genes. “This isn’t a conversation on a cloud,” but something that families battling devastating rare diseases may want, Dr. George Daley of Boston Children’s Hospital told specialists meeting this week to plan the ethics summit. “There will be a drive to move this forward.”
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Jennifer Doudna, right, and her lab manager, Kai Hong, work in her laboratory in Berkeley, Calif. in June 2014. Laboratories worldwide are embracing a technology to precisely edit genes inside living cells – turning them off or on, repairing or modifying them – like a biological version of cut-andpaste software. Researchers are building stronger immune cells, fighting muscular dystrophy in mice and growing humanlike organs in pigs for possible transplant. Biotech companies have raised millions to develop therapies for sickle cell disease and other disorders. The technique has a wonky name – CRISPR-Cas9 – and a humble beginning. Doudna was studying how
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bacteria recognize and disable viral invaders, using a protein she calls “a genetic scalpel” to slice DNA. That system turned out to be programmable, she reported in 2012, letting scientists target virtually any gene in many species using a tailored CRISPR recipe. There are older methods to edit genes, including one that led to an experimental treatment for the AIDS virus, but the CRISPR technique is faster and cheaper and allows altering of multiple genes simultaneously. “It’s transforming almost every aspect of biology right now,” said National Institutes of Health genomics specialist Shawn Burgess. CRISPR’s biggest use has nothing to do with human embryos. Scientists are engineering animals with human-like disorders more easily than ever before, to learn to fix genes gone awry and test potential drugs. Engineering rodents to harbour autism-related genes once took a year. It takes weeks with CRISPR, said bioengineer Feng Zhang of the Broad Institute at MIT and Harvard, who also helped develop and patented the CRISPR technique. (Doudna’s university is challenging the patent.) A peek inside an NIH lab shows how it works. Researchers inject a CRISPR-guided molecule into microscopic mouse embryos, to cause a gene mutation that a doctor suspects of causing a patient’s mysterious disorder. The embryos will be implanted into
female mice that wake up from the procedure in warm blankets to a treat of fresh oranges. How the resulting mouse babies fare will help determine the gene defect’s role. Experts predict the first attempt to treat people will be for blood-related diseases such as sickle cell, caused by a single gene defect that’s easy to reach. The idea is to use CRISPR in a way similar to a bone marrow transplant, but to correct someone’s own blood-producing cells rather than implanting donated ones. “It’s like a race. Will the research provide a cure while we’re still alive?” asked Robert Rosen of Chicago, who has one of a group of rare bone marrow abnormalities that can lead to leukemia or other life-threatening conditions. He co-founded the MPN Research Foundation, which has begun funding some CRISPRrelated studies. So why the controversy? CRISPR made headlines last spring when Chinese scientists reported the first-known attempt to edit human embryos, working with unusable fertility clinic leftovers. They aimed to correct a deadly disease-causing gene but it worked in only a few embryos and others developed unintended mutations, raising fears of fixing one disease only to cause another. If ever deemed safe enough to try in pregnancy, that type of gene change could be passed on to later generations. Then there
are questions about designer babies, altered for other reasons than preventing disease. In the U.S., the NIH has said it won’t fund such research in human embryos. In Britain, regulators are considering researchers’ request to gene-edit human embryos – in lab dishes only – for a very different reason, to study early development. Medicine aside, another issue is environmental: altering insects or plants in a way that ensures they pass genetic changes through wild populations as they reproduce. These engineered “gene drives” are in very early stage research, too, but one day might be used to eliminate invasive plants, make it harder for mosquitoes to carry malaria or even spread a defect that gradually kills off the main malariacarrying species, said Kevin Esvelt of Harvard’s Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering. No one knows how that might also affect habitats, Esvelt said. His team is calling for the public to weigh in and for scientists to take special precautions. For example, Esvelt said colleagues are researching a tropical mosquito species unlikely to survive cold Boston even if one escaped locked labs. “There is no societal precedent whatsoever for a widely accessible and inexpensive technology capable of altering the shared environment,” Esvelt told a recent National Academy of Sciences hearing.
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Yukon’s Reid Campbell signs with pro team in South Carolina Tom Patrick News Reporter
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hitehorse’s Reid Campbell didn’t want to let his pro hockey career end with last season. A pair of injuries bumped him off the roster of two pro teams and hanging up his skates at that point would have left a bad taste in his mouth. So he decided to give it one last stab. “I kind of told myself I’d give it one more shot because of the season I had last year, injury wise and stuff like that,” said Campbell. “I told myself, ‘Just give it one more shot and if you make it, good on you. And if you don’t, really start to weigh the option of if I want to keep playing or head back north to work and start a real career.’ But it’s worked out here so far and I’m pretty happy, but the work’s not over.” After a week of tryouts, Campbell signed with the South Carolina Stingrays in the ECHL on Wednesday. The 26-year-old defenceman is pumped about the opportunity, but he knows, even with a contract, he needs to continuously prove himself to stay on the roster. “I showed up for practice this morning and got called in. They took me off the tryout contract I was on and put me on a real one. So it was pretty exciting news,” said Campbell. “Minor pro contracts are weird. They are really just dayto-day, week-to-week. You still have to play well, still have to produce, not make mistakes, otherwise they can be ripped up. “It just means I’m here for now and they liked what they saw at camp.” Following a highly successful NCAA career, Campbell had a very short-lived stay on South Dakota’s Rapid City Rush in the Central Hockey League last season. He suffered a bad concussion in his first exhibition game with the team. Once recovered he played for the Mississippi RiverKings in the Southern Professional Hockey League. He played over 40 games with the RiverKings – registering two goals and nine assists – but broke a finger, which required surgery, and missed the end of the season. Campbell, who was born and raised in Haines Junction and is a Whitehorse Mustangs rep team alumni, worked construction in Dawson City during the summer. To get back in game shape, he spent three weeks in Wiscon-
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Yukon’s Reid Campbell, right, plays for the Mississippi RiverKings last season. Campbell signed with the South Carolina Stingrays in the ECHL this week. sin, where he went to school, training with former teammates and other pro hopefuls. “I was working up in Dawson City all summer, so I wasn’t able to get ice very much. So I decided to head back down to school cause there were nine guys playing pro that I had played with in the past,” said Campbell. “I went down there for three weeks and worked every day and I was feeling pretty good coming into the camp here … I’m glad I did that or else I definitely would have been behind the eight ball right from the start.” Campbell is joining the Stingrays after one of the team’s most successful seasons. Last year’s team reached the final of the Kelly Cup – the league’s championship trophy – before
losing in Game 7. The Stingrays have won the Cup three times with the most recent in 2009. Even with the contract signed, there’s no guarantee Campbell will get to play in the Stingray’s season opener this Saturday against the Reading
week and hopefully you get in.” “I’m definitely excited,” he added. “It’s a cool opportunity, a beautiful place. I mean, it’s 27 degree here right now. You can’t really go wrong there. A bunch of guys are sitting out by the pool right now. It’s pretty nice for sure.” Following his time with the Whitehorse Mustangs, Campbell played four seasons with the Powell River Kings in the BCHL. He then spent four years playing for the St. Norbert College Green Knights in Wisconsin, winning three NCAA Division Royals from Reading, Pa. III championships. “There are eight D-men Campbell’s younger brother here now and usually they only Evan currently plays for the dress six,” said Campbell. “You Whitehorse Huskies senior don’t really now until Friday or men’s AA hockey club. Evan is Saturday, during the pre-game an assistant captain and was skate who’s in the line-up. You one of the team’s top offensive work hard in practice during the players last season.
“I showed up for practice this morning and got called in. They took me off the tryout contract I was on and put me on a real one.”
Reid is not the only Yukon hockey player at the pro level this season. Whitehorse goalie Ian Perrier signed with the Amals Sportklubb in Sweden this past August. “This is certainly a dream come true, but it is only the first step,” said Perrier in a recent email to the News. “My contract is only for one year, and the reason for that is our coach, Ken Eddy, wants to give players the opportunity to climb the professional ladder into higher divisions. His mentality is one that will give his players the best chance to improve and further their careers in hockey.” Whitehorse’s Jordan Lane, who played some pro hockey the last five years, has decided to take a year or so off to go to school, his father has told the News. Contact Tom Patrick at tomp@yukon-news.com
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Retreaded Mustangs set for 2015/16 season
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Peewee Mustangs forward Errol Ekholm has his shot deflected during the final of the 2015 Yukon Bantam Hockey Championships. Hockey Yukon has taken over the Mustangs rep hockey program. olds, the Mustangs club still has five teams going this season. News Reporter The minor midget team was created during the offseason to lot happened with the prevent the exodus of top young Mustangs during the offhockey players the territory sees season. each season. Last season a dozen Long before a single jersey was midget-age players left Yukon donned in a game, the Whiteto play on Tier 1 and 2 teams or horse rep hockey club changed hockey academies down south hands, a new team was created instead of playing for the Tier 3 and another dropped. Mustangs. Hockey Yukon took stewardThe new elite team is being ship the Mustangs organization worked like dogs. They have from the Whitehorse Minor Hockey Association, during the offseason. “We agreed to that because everything was on Whitehorse Minor’s plate in years gone by, so they did house league as well as Mustangs and basically everything,” said Hockey Yukon president Russ Smoler. “Being a sport governing body, we felt it was best that any of the teams representing Yukon would come under Hockey Yukon.” As a result, the Atom Jr. Mustangs program has been dropped since the team does not represent Yukon at the B.C. Hockey practice every weekday morning, Provincials, which do not offer an three sessions of dry-land trainatom division. ing a week, a Sunday systems “It’s not going to be a Muspractice and Monday evening tangs team per se because exhibition games. (Hockey Yukon) only does the “It’s an effort to give the kids teams that go to provincials and an experience similar to what there’s no atom provincials,” said they would receive at one of the Smoler. prep schools,” said head coach With the creation of a U-16 Martin Lawrie. “We’re not in it Mustangs team for elite 15-yearTom Patrick
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to make money like the prep schools. It’s a cost-recovery things, so it’s significantly more affordable than having your kid at Pursuit of Excellence or Okanagan Hockey Academy.” The team was opened to elite players from Canada’s three territories, northern B.C. and Alaska, and Hockey Yukon has gotten a few bites so far. Three B.C. players have moved to Whitehorse for the team with forwards Dion Fowler and Anthony Louie from
come back. We have kids ranging from Quesnel to Vanderhoof to Prince George who have expressed interest in our program … Another five or six families have been in touch with me and haven’t ruled this out by any means.”
Female Mustangs building a goalie The Female Mustangs will have a new goalie in net this season – a new new goalie.
“It’s an effort to give the kids an experience similar to what they would receive at one of the prep schools. We’re not in it to make money like the prep schools. It’s a costrecovery things, so it’s significantly more affordable than having your kid at Pursuit of Excellence or Okanagan Hockey Academy.” Smithers and Goalie Tyler Lindstrom from Prince George. The team currently has eight forwards, four defence and two goalies. “I’d probably like to grab one more D and one more forward,” said Lawrie. “We’ve got to January, ultimately. We’ve got some local kids out of town that may
The Female Mustangs’ two goalies from last year have moved on, and the team, which has just eight returning players,
is developing a new player for between the pipes. “We’re starting anew, meaning that we’ve lost a lot of our older players,” said head coach Louis Bouchard. “And we have no goalie, so we’re building a goalie this year … We’re working with Ashton Clooten, who is originally from Haines Junction. And actually this week a player came forward and said she was hoping to try – Georgia Musil from Whitehorse.” As is often the case, the midget squad contains good representation from Yukon communities. The roster includes three from Haines Junction, one from Dawson City, one from Burwash Landing, two from Teslin and, for the first time since 2007, a player from Watson Lake with winger Anna Lund.
Burgeoning bantams ready to roll The Bantam Mustangs will have youth on their side this season. “We’re younger this year for sure,” said head coach Kirk Gale. “Our goalie is Dawson Smith and … continued on page 49
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‌ continued from page 47 he’s actually a peewee ‌ And four of our defence are all firstyears and we have four forwards who are first-years. So we have eight first-years and one peewee.â€? The U-16 team is not playing in the Whitehorse rec league this year, but the bantam team doesn’t have a blank schedule. The squad has more tournaments scheduled than any of the other Mustang teams. They will play a tourney in Osoyoos, B.C. at the end of the month and Kelowna, B.C. the end of November. The Bantam Mustangs will then be hometown favourites at the Whitehorse Minor Hockey Association’s third annual International Showdown at the start of December. “The team is selected for the most part,â€? said Gale, who coached the Peewee Mustangs last year. “There are some kids who will be on the Bantam Mustangs team that are playing on the (elite) U-16 team they’ve made. I think there are four of them who are not playing with us at present, but will be whether we go to the Arctic (Winter Games) or the provincial (championships in March).â€?
Midget Mustangs back from the dead With a dozen midget-age Whitehorse players leaving the territory for other teams last year, there was no Midget Mustangs team last season. As a result, Whitehorse was forced to forfeit hosting duties of the B.C. Tier 3
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midget hockey championships. But not only was there a good turnout for September’s tryouts, head coach Kerry Pettitt is pleased with the talent the group showed. “We had a pretty good turnout. I think we had close to 30 guys, actually,� said Pettitt. “It’s kind of interesting walking into the group. I think it’s a fairly deep, talented team and probably one of the better teams I’ve coached with respect to depth.� While the Midget Mustangs are back on the ice after missing a season, the head coach is back after missing two. Pettitt last coached with the Mustangs organization in the 2012/13 season – also with the midgets.
Peewees with wins already The Peewee Mustangs already have tournament wins under their belt. The Tier 3 rep hockey team opened the season playing Tier 2 in the 13th annual Seafair International Ice Breaker Rep Tournament in Richmond, B.C., over the weekend. The Mustangs produced a pair of wins to place fourth out of eight teams. “Being Tier 3 going into a Tier 2 tournament, you’re not sure what to expect,� said head coach Trevor Matthews. “You know you’re going to meet some really, really strong teams. But we were going with the expectation that we could compete with them and we definitely did.�
Rosters Peewee Mustangs Sawyer Adams (F) Ty Beacon (F) Hugo Burgess (F) Connor Cooper (D) Cole Cowan (D) Connor Cozens (D) Orion Cruikshank (F) Mason Driscoll (G) Errol Eckholm (F) Quinn Howard (G) Sasha Jirousek (D) Nolan Matthews (D) Landon Marsh (F) Joshua Schenk (F) Joey Schultz (F) Ryder Twardochleb (D) Ashton Underhill (F) Joshua Wallness (G)
Bantam Mustangs Bryce Anderson (F) Josh Austin (F) Aimery Barrault (D) Oscar Burgess (D) Kyron Crosby (F) Saul Gale (F) Marco Harwood (D) Liam Hudson (D)
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U16 Mustangs Mackenzie Benn-Wipp (F) Oscar Burgess (F) Kyron Crosby (F) Johnny Elias (F) Dion Fowler (F) Cameron Gingell (D) Dylan Kindervater (F) Niall Lawrie (D) Kailem Letto (D) Tyler Lindstrom (G) Anthony Louie (F) Ethan Vanderkley (G) Brett Walchuk (D)
Female Mustangs Ashton Clooten (G) Gracie Ekholm (F) Kathleen Fordham (F) Emily Grantham (F) Shania Hogan (D) Monica Johnson (D)
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Midget Mustangs Jack Blisner (D) Matthew Braga (F) Matthew Butler (F) Mathew Cooper (F) Nick Dobush (F) Ryan Edwards (D) Tynan Hope (F) Haiden Kremer (D) Spencer Lessard (F) Sam Logan (D) Ryan MacDonald (D) Caleb Marsh (F) Mark McGrath (D) Jarrett Peterson (F) Roy Sinclair-Eckert (G) Devon Troke (G) Ryan Troke (F)
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Blue Jays ride baseball karma in wild win over Texas Rangers, advance to ALCS now face the Royals in Kansas City in Game 1 of the ALCS on Canadian Press Friday night. It was Toronto’s first home playoff win since Joe TORONTO Carter’s home run secured the hen it was all over, Jose 1993 World Series. Bautista stood on a And baseball had a playoff table, grabbed a bottle game that will long be talked of champagne and poured it over about, for the good and bad. his head. “It’s very rewarding for this It was only fitting. The group,” said Gibbons. “We 34-year-old Blue Jays slugger, thought we were too good to bow who has waited so long to see his out in the first round. But they team prosper in the post-season, (the Rangers) were just as good had delivered a wild ending to an over there. even wilder game. A stiff drink “It’s special really for everywas warranted – and needed. body around here because it’s “Bautista, he’s got the flair for been so long,” he added. “You the dramatic, you know,” Toronto can have a great year and if you manager John Gibbons said bow out in that first round, it’s fondly. “On the national stage, it still a good accomplishment really showed off.” but it just doesn’t seem right. So Capping a deciding game we’re moving on and hopefully filled with controversy, bad play well this next series.” blood and just plain craziness, The Jays rushed the mound Bautista’s three-run seventhto celebrate when it was over, inning homer propelled the followed by police to monitor Jays into the American League the at-times unruly crowd. In Championship Series as basethe locker-room, there was yet ball karma delivered Toronto an another wild, wet party. unforgettable 6-3 win over the “I don’t drink but I feel Texas Rangers on Wednesday. drunk,” said pitcher R.A. Dickey. Game 5 of the AL Division SeLater, wearing their ALDS ries was filled with drama – and championship T-shirts, players almost as much talk as play on came out to high-five fans and the field before a riled-up sellout celebrate on the mound. crowd of 49,742 under the Rogers Tied 2-2, the contest was Centre roof. turned on its head in the top of The game lasted an intense the seventh. three hours 37 minutes and With Rougned Odor on third seemed longer. The decisive and Shin Soo-Choo at the plate seventh inning alone lasted 53 with two outs, Toronto catcher minutes. Russell Martin’s return throw When the dust settled, the back to the mound hit Choo’s bat Jays had rallied from a 2-0 hole in the box and flew off into the distance. to win three straight and will Neil Davidson
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Toronto Blue Jays’ Jose Bautista, right, flips his bat in the air while celebrating a three-run home run during game five of the American League Division Series baseball action in Toronto on Wednesday. Odor raced home while the Jays players held their arms up in disbelief. Home plate umpire Dale Scott, who had called time, then awarded Odor the base – and the run – after a confab. As beer and garbage flew out of the stands, there was more talk and a review. The ruling was the play stood – that Choo had not intentionally interfered so the ball was alive and in play. Martin was given a throwing error and the irate Jays, now trailing 3-2, filed a protest. “That umpiring crew did a great job,” Gibbons said. “Those kinds of plays are never easy … it’s a crazy play. I’ve never seen it before like that. But it ended up turning out all right.” Scott said later his mistake
was in calling time. But the eventual ruling was right. “Even if I had not called timeout, he was on his way, so we scored the run,” the umpire said later. By chance, Martin was up to open the bottom of the seventh. And karma kicked in with three straight Texas errors – one by first baseman Mitch Moreland and two by shortstop Elvis Andrus – allowing Martin, Kevin Pillar and Ryan Goins to load the bases with none out. “The baseball gods don’t lie,” said Jays pitcher David Price. “I don’t know who the baseball gods are, where they’re from, what country they’re from – they don’t lie.” The Rangers got pinch-runner
Dalton Pompey out at home with the Rangers upset at the takeno-prisoners slide that took out catcher Chris Gimenez. Reliever Sam Dyson took over for Rangers ace Cole Hamels. Josh Donaldson drove in Pillar on a field’s choice floater that just went over Odor’s glove to tied it at 3-3. Bautista then slammed a three-run homer to settle the score, pausing dramatically to savour his handiwork before flipping the bat and trotting round the bases. “I can’t really remember what was going through my mind, to be quite honest with you,” said Bautista. “After I made contact … I just enjoyed the moment, rounded the bases, got to the dugout.
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Toronto Blue Jays Ezequiel Carrera, left, douses Jose Bautista with champagne after eliminating the Texas Rangers. And after all the guys stopped punching me and hitting me is when I kind of started realizing what had happened. I knew I did something great for the team at the moment of impact because I knew I hit that ball pretty good, and I gave us the lead in a crucial moment so I was happy to do that.� Dyson took umbrage at Bautista’s actions, jawing at Edwin Encarnacion, who was next up. The benches and bullpen emptied, although nothing came of it. The benches emptied again after the inning finally ended. Jays pitcher Mark Buehrle, who was in uniform but not on the playoff roster, was the only player ejected after the scuffles. Texas put two men on in the eighth but closer Roberto Osuna ended the threat before wrapping up the ninth. Osuna pointed and looked high at the sky – well the roof – after the final out. Rookie Rangers manager Jeff Banister, whose team had risen from last in the AL last season to AL West champions, spoke proudly of his team in a losing cause. “Look, one inning won’t define who this ball club is and who they’ve been all year long,� he said. The Jays are the 15th team in MLB history to force a Game 5 in a best-of-five series when down 0-2 and only the third to win after losing the first two games at home (the Yankees in 2001 and San Francisco Giants in 2012 also did it). The tension had already been
palpable from the get-go with the rally towel-waving crowd up and down like kids on a sugar high. On the field, anything debatable was reviewed, argued or at least discussed. It was more like “The View� than Wednesday late afternoon baseball. Choo homered for the Rangers, who also picked up single runs in the first and third. Encarnacion hit a solo shot for the Jays, who answered with runs in the third and sixth The game was a rematch of Game 2 with 24-year-old Marcus Stroman going up against Hamels, the World Series MVP in 2008 with the Phillies. Neither figured in the decision that day, with the Rangers winning 6-4 in 14 innings. As in the first meeting, both pitchers weathered some challenging innings and kept damage to a minimum before settling down. A standing ovation preceded Stroman’s first pitch, a 93 m.p.h. strike. But DeShields hammered a double to left field, advanced on Choo’s groundout and beat the throw to score on Prince Fielder’s fielder’s choice for an early 1-0 lead. It was Fielder’s first RBI since Game 1 of the 2012 AL Championship Series. He had gone 84 consecutive at-bats without driving in a run in the playoffs. Only Bill Mueller (98 at-bats without an RBI from 1997-2004) had a longer playoff drought. Aaron Sanchez came in for Stroman to start the seventh. Stroman gave up two runs on six hits with one walk and four
strikeouts. He threw 98 pitches, 68 for strikes. Hamels exited with one out in the seventh, He gave up five runs – only two earned – on four hits with eight strikeouts and
one walk. He threw 111 pitches, 72 for strikes. Toronto fell into a hole, losing the first two games at home 5-3 and 6-4 in extra innings before rallying for 5-1 and 8-4 victories
in Texas. Wednesday’s game was played nearly 30 years to the day that the Jays played their last suddendeath game (Oct 16th, 1985, a loss to Kansas City).
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Mascouche mascot mania: Quebecer loves his super-furry animals, but who doesn’t?
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Jean-Claude Tremblay, left, president of Creations JCT, and his son Dominic, vice-president, hold one of their creations at their plant on September 30 in Mascouche, Que. many people, for the president of Creations JCT Inc., it’s been the Canadian Press stuff of his dreams since the ‘80s. “Some people just can’t be in a MONTREAL costume – they’ll suffocate,” says ean-Claude Tremblay’s eyes Tremblay, sitting in front of a wall open wide and his hands plastered with cartoon sketches become animated as he talks in the lunch room of his mascot about his mascots, many of factory. “In my case, I can live which can be recognized by milinside there. I feel like I’m home.” lions of people. A largely self-taught mascot While the thought of spending animator, Tremblay evolved over time inside an oversized animal the years from wearing the coscostume made of thick, plush tumes to making them. fabric might be a nightmare for Giuseppe Valiante
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“You don’t improvise when you’re a mascot,” he says. “You either have it or you don’t.” Tremblay’s 930-square-metre factory northeast of Montreal is as colourful as the furry beasts it produces and while it’s located in a non-descript industrial park in Mascouche, its creations are known to millions. Foam heads, long rolls of fabric and spools of yarn are neatly organized on shelves along the walls – yet there is a sense of a playful silliness that pervades the factory. A bright-green frog head sits on a shelf to dry, its bulging plastic eyes looking at a rack of larger-than-life vests, T-shirts and parachute pants. Jean-Claude, 68, and his son, Dominic, 42, create between 150 and 200 mascots a year and sell them primarily to sports teams in North America, but also in Europe. The Indianapolis Colts, Tampa Bay Rays, Houston Astros and the Ottawa Senators market their teams with Jean-Claude’s creations, as do hundreds of smaller corporate businesses around the continent. “The Colts won the Super Bowl with our costume!,” Jean-Claude exclaimed, adding “there are no words” to describe how he felt seeing the odd-looking, cow-like animal on TV at one of the big-
gest sports games in the world. But that game was bittersweet for Jean-Claude because it makes him think of the time his championship slipped away. In 1994 he was animating Youppi!, the ginger-faced, lumberjack-looking mascot for the now-defunct Montreal Expos. The team was the best in baseball that year and many expected a World Series run before players went on strike, cancelling the rest of the season. “When we went on strike I looked down at my hand and said, ‘I just lost my ring’.” Jean-Claude and Youppi! go back a long way. They met shortly after JeanClaude was laid off from teaching art to inmates at a maximumsecurity prison north of Montreal in the late ‘70s. Jean-Claude’s brother, who was working for the Expos’ season opener, landed him a job repairing the original Youppi!, who was created by the famed Harrison/Erickson company, the people behind some of the Muppet characters. The Expos bought Youppi! at the time for $35,000, Jean-Claude said, but the costume quickly began to fall apart and the team asked him to fix it and to build a second, cheaper version. “So I started my business in my basement, 30 years ago, with-
out even knowing it,” he said. It took him a year to get the supplies and to create a new Youppi!, and when the Expos management saw how good he was at animating the mascot for a local radio station they hired him full time. Over the last 30 years JeanClaude and Dominic have perfected the art of the mascot. “Nothing is impossible,” said Dominic. “It all depends on cost.” The Ottawa Senators’ Spartacat, for example, has “really expensive hair,” Dominic said, with the fire-orange-coloured mane alone costing the NHL team about $1,000. Most of their creations cost, on average, between $4,000 and $5,000. They’ll store the mascot for companies, wash it, and even provide the human to animate it during corporate and other events, Dominic said. Jean-Claude and his son have about 30 people they have trained and can call to animate any of their creations. The animators go through a three-hour tutorial where they learn to never take their head off in front of children or to talk while in costume. “If a kid gets scared, you shouldn’t tower over them but get down on one knee and look them in the eye,” Dominic says.
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Sudoku Like puzzles? Then you’ll love sudoku. This mind-bending puzzle will have you hooked from the moment you square off, so sharpen your pencil and put your sudoku savvy to the test! Complete the grid so each row, column and 3-by-3 box (in bold borders) contains every digit 1 to 9. For strategies on how to solve Sudoku, visit www.sudoku.org.uk.
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To solve Kakuro, you must enter a number between 1 and 9 in the empty squares. The clues are the numbers in the white circles that give the sum of the solution numbers: above the line are across clues and below the line are down clues and below the line are down clues. Thus, a clue of 3 will produce a solution of 2 and 1 and a 5 will produce 4 and 1, or 2 and 3, but of course, which squares they go in will depend on the solution of a clue in the other direction. No difit can be repeated in a solution, so a 4 can only produce 1 and 3, never 2 and 2. © 2013 The Mepham Group. Distributed by Tribune Content Agency. All rights reserved.
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2-BDRM 1.5 bath condo, downtown, south facing, open concept, elevator, small deck plus roof deck, great views, covered parking, N/S, refs reqʼd, avail Nov. 1, $2,000/mon. 332-6738 3-BDRM 2.5-BATH townhouse, Takhini, energy efficient, laundry, HRV, fireplace, single car garage, available Nov, dd & refs reqʼd, $850 bi-weekly + utils. 333.9715 CONDO PENTHOUSE, 602 Main, 1,290 sq ft, private deck, parking, storage locker, custom hardwood, marble, kitchen, cabinets, lighting, responsible tenants, all electric, 6 appliances, minimal expenses, avail now, $2,000/mon. 660-4106 3-BDRM SUITE, Porter Creek, $1,200/mon + first monthʼs rent. 334-9469 ROOM IN 4-bdrm house, Porter Creek, avail immed, $450/mon + utils. 333-0052
COZY COUNTRY cabin, avail October 31, electricity, outhouse, phone/internet, wood heat and Toyo stove, responsible tenant. 668-1045 2-BDRM 1.5 bath home, Marsh Lake, rec room, propane heat, nicely decorated with laminate & European tile floors, deck, lake view, N/S, $1,500/mon. 660-4022 1-BDRM CONDO, downtown, bright, modern, conveniently located, powered parking, extra storage, N/S, N/P, $1,450/mon incl. heat & electricity. Call/text 334-3428 for more info 1-BDRM BSMT suite, Riverdale, convenient location, close to bus, N/P, N/S, avail Nov. 1, $1,100/mon incl heat & elec. 456-7397 1-BDRM 1-BATH legal bsmt suite, Crestview, new, powered parking stall, private laundry, dd & refs reqʼd, $1,000/mon + elec. 334-5266 or email jeclark.25@gmail.com for viewing COSY CABIN on beautiful property 25 minutes south of Whitehorse, Carcross Road, fully furnished, electricity, woodstove, access to main house for shower/laundry, $600/mon. 667-8889
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
ROOMS, COPPER Ridge, available immediately, responsible non-cooking tenants in vegetarian household, dd & refs reqʼd, N/S, N/P, $550/mon incl. utils. 335-8640
ROOM FOR RENT in dorm-style, shared accommodations. Semi-furnished with shared laundry, kitchen and bathroom facilities. $575/month, utilities included. Call Chris @ 668-4729.
3-BDRM HOUSE, Copper Ridge, energy efficient, garage, green belt, fenced, quiet street, avail Nov 1, $1,650/mon + utils. 334-1907
INDUSTRIAL SHOP FOR RENT Kulan Industrial District •40ʼX60ʼX16ʼ •Office & Mezzanine •Three phase power •Large yard •Long term lease •Available November 1, 2015 $2,000 per month Call Mike at 335-2406
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2,628 SQUARE FEET OF PRIME OFFICE SPACE Available for Lease NOW! 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.
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4-BDRM 2-BATH house, Annie Lake Rd, beautiful woodwork, amazing view, $1,800/mon + heat & elec. 335-0191 1-BDRM SUITE, excellent downtown location, avail November 1, bright, spacious, close to bus, shopping, trails, no parties, responsible tenant. 336-0444 1-BDRM SUITE, new construction, between Lake Laberge & Fox Lake, $750/mon all inclusive. Call 667-2390, leave message
1-BDRM UPSTAIRS suite, Granger, furnished, sunny, private entrance, avail Nov. 1, N/P, N/S, dd & refs required, $850/mon + utils. 668-4205 1-BDRM APT, Porter Creek, close to bus & shopping, N/S, N/P, refs & dd required, $900/mon + utils. 393-3492 3-BDRM HOUSE, Porter Creek, close to schools, bus, stores, wood/electric heat, large fenced yard, furnished, child/pet friendly, avail Nov 1, $1,800/mon. 668-3493 2-BDRM HOUSE, downtown, fully fenced, 5 appliances, N/S, last monthʼs rent, dd & refs required, $1,650/mon + oil & utilities. 334-1471
2-BDRM LEGAL bsmt suite, Riverdale, own laundry, driveway, refs & dd reqʼd, N/P, N/S, avail Nov. 1, $1,200/mon & elec. 334-9087
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
PROFESSIONAL HOUSESITTER available from December to June, very reliable, trustworthy woman. Lots of good references, Yukon, BC, Alberta, Hawaii, etc. Call Valerie at 336-2848 or email PellerinMV@gmail.com
3-BDRM 1-BATH duplex, Takhini, bright, large yard, pets welcome, available immediately. 335-0804
DRY CABIN for rent, and also horse boarding. 633-2885
ROOM IN Copper Ridge, everything included except food, refs reqʼd, pet friendly, available immed, $700/mon. 334-4134
SHOP/OFFICE/STUDIO/STORAGE Multi-Use Building with space available to rent Very Competitive rates Various sizes, short & long term Washroom on site Friendly environment whserentals@hotmail.com
BACHELOR SUITE, Crestview, avail November 1, 1 bedroom, kitchen, full bathroom, own laundry, own entrance, garden use, $750/mon + 1/3 utils. 336-0903
2-BDRM APARTMENT-STYLE condo, downtown, recently renovated, lower level, N/P, N/S, no parties, $1,450/mon + utils & dd. 335-8888
1,100 SQ ft off-grid cabin, no running water, available November 1, dd & refs reqʼd, $800/mon + utils. 334-7296 for more info 2-BDRM CONDO, downtown, available December 1, $1,500/mon. 334-5231 OLDER MOBILE home for rent to handyman, needs some minor renovations, available now, $850/mon. 332-9975 3-BDRM 2.5-BATH executive home, Copper Ridge, close to schools, quiet cul de sac, new appliances, lots of extras, partly furnished, $1,850/mon negotiable with term of lease. kbrewer80@hotmail 2-BDRM 1-BATH duplex, 1,000 sq ft, lots of parking, storage, avail Oct. 15, refs reqʼd, N/P, N/S, $1,425/mon + electricity. 456-4926
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Providing leadership through our strengths in programming, services and research, Yukon College’s main campus in Whitehorse and 12 community campuses cover the territory. Yukon College provides a stimulating and collegial environment. We work with Yukon communities, Yukon First Nations, local governments, business and industry to promote a community of learners within a vibrant organization. Come join us as we continue to enhance the Yukon and Canada’s northern capacity through education and training.
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Instructor/Coordinator, Drop-In Centre School of Academic and Skill Development (ASD) Ayamdigut (Whitehorse) Campus Term Position to December 6, 2016 Salary: $38.53 to $45.87 hourly (Based on 75 hours bi-weekly) Competition #: 15.107 Initial review date: October 19, 2015
Reporting to the Chair, School of Academic and Skill Development, this position will be responsible for planning, organizing, coordinating and conducting lessons in various adult basic education subjects with a strong focus on English, Communications, and ESL. Duties will include developing, assigning and reviewing work of students and maintaining accurate records. This position also includes coordination, administration and marking of Yukon College assessments and following up with prospective students. In addition, this position is responsible for a substantial amount of student advising and the coordination of staff schedules, self-study course materials, and general communications (handouts, website updates, brochures, etc.). We are looking for applicants who enjoy working in a studentcentered, multi-tasking environment as well as being part of a dynamic team. The ideal candidate will have a Bachelor degree in a UHODWHG ÀHOG L H (GXFDWLRQ &RPPXQLFDWLRQV (6/ DQG H[SHULHQFH teaching in an adult basic learning environment, with a strong emphasis on Adult Basic Education (ABE), program development, coordination and administration in teaching in a post-secondary environment, administering and analyzing College assessments, and advising students on academic requirements. A Master’s degree in (GXFWLRQ RU D UHODWHG ÀHOG ZRXOG EH FRQVLGHUHG DQ DVVHW Candidates with an acceptable combination of education, training and H[SHULHQFH PD\ DOVR EH FRQVLGHUHG Go to: http://yukoncollege.yk.ca/about/employment for more information on all job competitions. Quoting the competition number, please submit your resume and cover letter to: Yukon College, Human Resources Services, Box 2799, 500 College Drive, Whitehorse, Yukon, Y1A 5K4 Fax: 867-668-8896 Email: hr@yukoncollege.yk.ca
CABIN FOR SALE
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Miscellaneous for Sale 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
Friday, October 16, 2015 WINDOOR RECYCLER We buy & sell: • Brand new/used double/triple pane vinyl/wood windows. •Brand new steel/vinyl exterior doors with frames. Now selling: •Brand new unfinished oak kitchen cabinets. 333-0717 We will pay CASH for anything of value Tools, electronics, gold & jewelry, chainsaws, camping & outdoor gear, hunting & fishing supplies, rifles & ammo. G&R New & Used 1612-D Centennial St. 393-2274 BUY • SELL MCDONALDS H O C K E Y cards from 1991-92 to 2009/10, almost every card issued incl. 27 unopened paks from each year, over 1,200 cards, $1,000 firm. Ross 633-3154 WORLD HOCKEY Association, 5 complete hockey card sets from the 1970s. Exc cond. $750. Ross 633-3154 CFL FOOTBALL cards, 17 different complete sets of cards, including early OPC. Almost 2,600 cards. $1,400. Ross 633-3154 THREE COMPLETE OPC hockey card sets (1999-00 to 2001-02 period) plus some short prints. Over 900 cards. $150. Ross 633-3154 YUKON WILDLIFE Conservation stamps, rare and unique collection of 13 stamps, from 1996-2008, beautiful artwork depicting Yukon birds and wildlife, $150. 633-3154 OIL FURNACE, used less than 3 yrs, serviced professionally, like new, Olsen BML80B, 59000-97000 BTU/hr, Energuide 83, $500 obo. 335-8153 BOX OF Nevil Shute paperbacks, 38, some duplication, $25. 633-3154 10-HOLE DOG box, offset construction, can accommodate 15 dogs, very good condition, $450. 633-3608 VERMONT CASTINGS Resolute wood stove, glass doors, good condition, $600. Mark @ 334-3539 DRILL PRESS, Samona, 16.5� with 3/4�chuck, exc cond, $650; radial arm saw, Craftsman, 10� cabinet makerʟs model, $350. 668-4976 HORIZONTAL EDGE belt sander, General, 6� x 89�, 220 volt, $800; bandsaw, Delta, 14�, c/w guide upgrade kit, exc cond, $700. 668-4976
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6 MEMORY Foam pillows, new, $15 ea. 633-4827 BURLAP FOR sale to wrap up your outdoor plants, various lengths. 660-4321 BOAT PLANS, 518 illustrated DIY boat plans, master boat builder with 31 years of experience releases archive of 518 illustrated, step-by-step boat plans. Visit http://www.Myboatplans.up.to CLARE OIL furnace, runs well, replacing with different system, $300. 333-0394 OLD YUKON books/mining reports, Keele River 1910, Mt. Freegold 1937, Jack London Smoke Bellow 1916, $25 ea; Robert Service 5-volume set, $125. 336-3425 BRADFORD WHITE 40-gal propane water heater, Consul propane fridge w/small freezer, little used cond, $1,000 ea or $1,800 for both, in Carmacks, can deliver to Whitehorse for right buyer. 456-2633 GYM LOCKERS, 6 high, $250; 2 commercial prep tables. 335-8582 for more info COLLECTION OF antique typewriters. Anyone interested? 456-2633 HUNDREDS OF Rock & Gem, Rocks & Minerals & Lapidary journal magazines, 1960s to 2000Ęźs, $2.50 ea or 5 for $10. 336-3425 COLLECTION OF antique Yukon/Alaska maps, framed, ready to hang, vintage 1890s to 1900s, Yukon/Alaska, Yukon, Klondike, Keno Hill, Whitehorse Copper, $75 to $150 ea. 336-3425 PLANTS, RUBBER plant, split-leaf philly, spider plant, $15, $25, $50. 311B Hanson St. CHESS BOOKS; craft/hobby supplies; menĘźs button Levis, 36X30. 667-7144 TWO MEDIUM-SIZED healthy spider plants, $10 ea. 633-5009
FIRST NATION EDUCATION COMMISSION TECHNICIAN YUKON FIRST NATIONS PREFERENTIAL HIRING POLICY IS APPLICABLE AND MUST BE CLEARLY IDENTIFIED ON APPLICATION.
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EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST Yukon First Nations preferential hiring policy is applicable and must be clearly identified on application.
LOCATION : WHITEHORSE
YFN EDUCATION CULTURAL INCLUSION STANDARDS Under the supervision of the CYFN Education Director, with direction from the First Nation Education Commission and in partnership with Yukon Education, the YFN EDUCATION CULTURAL INCLUSION STANDARDS CONTRACTOR will develop a general template for cultural standards and an evaluation framework determining depth, breadth and level of cultural inclusion in Yukon public schools as well as a minimum standard that must be met by all schools.
YFN EDUCATION ENGAGEMENT PROTOCOL FRAMEWORK DEVELOPER Under the supervision of the CYFN Education Director, with direction from the First Nation Education Commission and in partnership with Yukon Education, the YFN EDUCATION ENGAGEMENT AND PROTOCOL DEVELOPER will develop a protocol framework that details expectations, processes and procedures for Yukon Government engagement with Yukon First Nations as pertains to education matters. Additional Information: For information on project deliverables, please contact Jennifer Wykes at 867-393-9239 or email at jennifer.wykes@cyfn.net. Expressions of Interest can be made to: Jennifer Wykes, Council of Yukon First Nations, 2166 2nd Avenue, Whitehorse, Yukon, Y1A 4P1 Phone: (867)393-9239 | Fax: (867)668-6577 E-mail: jennifer.wykes@cyfn.net
LOCATION: Whitehorse SALARY: Level 7
Job Summary: Under the general direction of the First Nation Education Commission (FNEC) and reporting to the Education Director of CYFN, this position is responsible to work with the FNEC, Education Director and Education Coordinator with regards to achieving the mandate of the FNEC. The position will be the primary position responsible for meeting the needs to the FNEC. This position will complete background research and formulate briefing notes for the FNEC, as well as coordinate projects under the FNEC. Additional Information: Only those candidates who are selected for an interview will be contacted. For further information and job description, please contact Renie Bruton at 867-393-9206 or email at renie.bruton@cyfn.net. Please submit applications and/or resumes to: Renie Bruton, Council of Yukon First Nations, 2166 2nd Avenue, Whitehorse, Yukon, Y1A 4P1 Phone: (867)393-9206 | Fax: (867)668-6577 E-mail: renie.bruton@cyfn.net
CARCROSS TAGISH E MPLOYMENT FIRST NATION O PPORTUNITY Human Resources Manager DEPARTMENT: STATUS: SALARY:
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Finance Closing Date: Permanent Full-time October 21th , 2015 CTFN’s Wage Scale Level 12-15
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1964 HOMELITE XL 12 and Homelite C-51 chainsaws, they need nothing, are rare to find, $200 for both obo. 867-634-5292 after 3pm MOUNTAIN EQUIPMENT pile-lined jacket, womenĘźs LG, $45; MEC kidĘźs winter jacket, sz 16, $30. 311B Hanson St. 2014 TRI-AXLE Heavy Hauler utility trailer, 21,000lbs, $13,500. 867-334-2150 ALMOST FULL roll of barb wire fence, $35. 335-0399
AUTUMN PLATTER & jug, $20 ea; ceramic pumpkin, $40; Party-Lite pumpkin candle, $50; silk flower table centrepiece, $15. 667-7467 2 NEW Woods Arctic 5-star sleeping bags, never used, rated to -50 below, paid $850 new, $650 each or $1,200 for both. 668-6805 6 BELL satellite receivers, 1 Star Choice receiver, all in good working condition, $15 ea. 668-3968
TRADING CARDS, binder full of non-sport trading cards (James Bond, X-men, Desert Storm, Enduring Freedom). About 500 cards. $50. Ross 633-3154 WORLD HOCKEY Association, remember it? Two rare books, (history, statistics, photos). Exc. shape, $50. 633-3154 BINDER FULL of baseball cards, $20. 633-3154 BATHTUB, GOOD condition, lh drain, no slip base, 5' almond enamel, free. 334-6087
WOOD LATHE, General Maxi-Lathe 10 x 15 with extension, exc cond, $550. 668-4976
Electrical Appliances GE WASHING machine, still runs, offers. 667-6649 KENMORE AUTOMATIC washer & dryer, matching set, late model, good cond, $200 for pair. 633-2837
Pelly Construction Ltd is seeking an experienced
OPERATIONS MANAGER – TRAINEE North 60 Petro Ltd. is seeking an Opera ons Manager Trainee to assist the GM Opera ons in all opera onal ac vi es of the company, including supervising employees. Candidate must have a minimum of 2 years of experience in fuel opera ons or educa on, knowledge of transporta on and/or petroleum industry, and industrial safety and safety program implementa ons. Candidate must have a High School diploma/GED, and valid Yukon driver’s license. Must be able to work directly with petroleum products, and must be willing to be “On Callâ€? on a rota onal basis. We oer compe ve pay and excellent benefits. Please see full job descrip on at YUWIN.com. Submit resumes by October 31, 2015 to: Frank Taylor GM Opera ons North 60 Petro 153 Industrial Road Whitehorse, Y.T. Y1A 2V3 By email: highways@north60petro.com By fax: 867-633-8855
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to complete a full service on our heavy construction equipment which includes (but is not limited to) Caterpillar, Komtasu and Hitachi equipment. The right candidate will be able to show they have had relevant ďŹ eld experience with similar equipment. We are currently operating at the Minto Mine site, which is located near Carmacks, Yukon in a camp setting. Successful candidates will complete a pre-employment ďŹ t for duty test and work on a rotational schedule of 14 days on with 14 days off. Daily working hours range from 11 – 12+. Pelly Construction pays a competitive Yukon wage with an overtime rate after 8 hours daily and 40 hours weekly. We offer a generous beneďŹ ts package with coverage for your family as well as a matching RRSP program to help save for your retirement!
FREE, HEWLETT Packard scanner model ScanJet 3400C w/software, works fine, I upgraded. 633-3154 SAMSUNG TELUS Galaxy Ace ll X Smartphone, black, good condition, $90. 334-6087 CELL PHONE BlackBerry Curve 9320 Virgin Mobile, $80. 334-6087
Musical Instruments PIANO TUNING & REPAIR by certified piano technician Call Barry Kitchen @ 633-5191 email:bfkitchen@hotmail.com PIANO, HOWARD upright 1920, new adjustable bench, music books, great condition, needs tuning & playing, exc soundboard, appraised $1n200 in 2009, Marsh Lake. 334-2755 VIOLIN, PETROV small 1/2, exc condition, beautiful tone, c/w hard case & shoulder rest, no bow, valued at $1,000, asking $800 obo. 334-2755 BOSS RC-3 Looping Station, $175; Zoomz R16 Recorder/Interface/Controller w/Cubase LE6, $375, both units never used, still in box. 336-0083
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HURLBURT ENTERPRISES INC. Store (867) 633-3276 Dev (867) 335-5192 Carl (867) 334-3782
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Expression of Interest - Casual Hire Researcher, Northern Adult Basic Education (NABE) Community Program School of Academic and Skill Development Ayamdigut (Whitehorse) Campus Hourly rate: $30.09 Competition #: 15.116 Initial review date: October 19, 2015
The ideal candidate will have relevant post-secondary education (i.e., B. Ed), a strong knowledge of Yukon First Nations and experience working with First Nations’ organizations and agencies and facilitating First Nations’ workshops and learning opportunities.
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Providing leadership through our strengths in programming, services and research, Yukon College’s main campus in Whitehorse and 12 community campuses cover the territory. Yukon College provides a stimulating and collegial environment. We work with Yukon communities, Yukon First Nations, local governments, business and industry to promote a community of learners within a vibrant organization. Come join us as we continue to enhance the Yukon and Canada’s northern capacity through education and training.
First Nations Initiatives (FNI) Ayamdigut (Whitehorse) Campus Term Position to June 30, 2016 Salary: $29.95 to $35.65 hourly (Based on 52.5 hours bi-weekly) Competition #: 15.115 Initial review date: October 20, 2015 Reporting to the Manager, First Nation Initiatives, and with a functional liaison relationship to the VP Research/Director Research Services, Yukon Research Centre (YRC) this position provides support, knowledge and protocols regarding First Nation partnerships, engagement and expectations related to YRC projects and activities. Duties also include advising staff and participants in regards to strategies to assist in working and partnering with First Nations on projects as well as time in their Traditional Territories.
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Go to: http://yukoncollege.yk.ca/about/employment for more information on all job competitions. Quoting the competition number, please submit your resume and cover letter to: Yukon College, Human Resources Services, Box 2799, 500 College Drive, Whitehorse, Yukon, Y1A 5K4 Fax: 867-668-8896 Email: hr@yukoncollege.yk.ca
Go to: http://yukoncollege.yk.ca/about/employment for more information on all job competitions. Quoting the competition number, please submit your resume and cover letter to: Yukon College, Human Resources Services, Box 2799, 500 College Drive, Whitehorse, Yukon, Y1A 5K4 Fax: 867-668-8896 Email: hr@yukoncollege.yk.ca
✔ Beetle-killed spruce from Haines Junction, quality guaranteed ✔ Everything over 8" split ✔ $250 per cord (6 cords or more) ✔ Single and emergency half cord deliveries ✔ Scheduled or next day delivery
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FIREWOOD $175/cord 20-foot lengths, 5-cord loads Small delivery charge 668-6564 Leave message CJʟS FIREWOOD Cut to length. $240 per cord. Phone 867-335-4065 J.O. FIREWOOD SERVICES •$350 split cord •$220 cord •$110 half-cord $150 log cord Will deliver. Call for other info Jordan @ 250-719-9070 Josh @ 867-335-7179 EVF FUELWOOD ENT Year Round Delivery • Dry accurate cords • Clean shavings available • VISA/M.C. accepted Member of Yukon Wood Producers Association Costs will rise. ORDER NOW 456-7432
Guns & Bows LICENSED TO BUY, SELL & CONSIGN rifles & ammo at G&R New & Used 1612-D Centennial St. 393-2274 BUY • SELL 8 MM 338 Magnum Mauser Bison rifle w/4 power scope & ammo, PAL reqʟd, $475. 867-660-4826 303 ENFIELD P14 rifle, PAL reqʟd, $300. 867-660-4826 264 WIN mag Winchester rifle w/6 power scope, PAL reqʟd, $550. 867-660-4826 RUGER 350 Mag Simmons scope, nice rifle, shoots awesome, $1,000 obo. 336-3922 HANDGUN RELOADERS, 1000 9mm 124gr Berry's Bullets, new $107, asking $75; 1250 .38 158 gr LSWC bullets, new $140, asking $100. 867-993-3041
Friday, October 16, 2015 .357 MAGNUM Ruger Security 6, 4� stainless barrel, rubber grips, $475; Ruger .22 6� target barrel, c/w Hoge rubber grips, blue, $300, both in vg shape, on sale by consignment. 633-2488 or 333-5640 (cell).
Wanted WANTED: 5-GALLON aquarium, no accessories. 334-7405 WANTED: BEGINNER economics teacher, price negotiable. 667-2882 eves WANTED: 4-CYLINDER vehicle, late 80s or 90s. 633-2837 WANTED: ULTRA Sonic barking deterrent (not collar). 668-6481 WANTED: SEEKING photos of the famous Flying Fathers hockey club playing in Whitehorse during a winter in the mid-1970s. The News would like to scan photos for a retrospective story. Have any? Call editor John Thompson at 667-6285 x 245 or email at editor@yukon-news.com. ARE YOU looking for a rewarding volunteer position? Join MADD Whitehorse and use your time and talents to help save lives and support victims in our community. Learn more at maddwhitehorse@gmail.com. KLONDIKE TRAPPERS TV SERIES CASTING CALL Klondike Trappers seeks trappers to join cast. The History Channel show follows trappers as they pursue an ancient and dangerous way of life in the frozen wilderness that borders Alaska and the Yukon. Are you a full-time Trapper? Do you want to promote Trapping? Let us tell your story. Email us at trappers@papernyentertainment.com
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MicMac USED VEHICLE SPECIALS!! 2013 Toyota Sienna CE 7 Passenger g #1516 .................... $26,499 SOLD! .... 2014 Toyota Matrix #7567AA .................... ............................................... $17,999 SOLD! 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 Sportage EX Luxury
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YUKON NEWS 2006 CHEVY Monte Carlo, 2-door, low kms @ 107,000, new tires @ less than 50km, new windshield, recently serviced, $6,000 obo. 335-1984 2006 NISSAN Sentra, 79,131 kms, manual, winter tires, 6CD disc changer, CD/Radio, sunroof, $5,500. 332-0273
2006 F350 diesel 6.0L Lariat Fx4, ARP head studs, positive air shutoff, new batteries, all available options, crew cab, long box, two-tone brown, chrome trim, service records, 218,000km, $15,500 obo. 334-1942 5-TON 1970 GMC truck with HIAB, 16Ęź deck, good tires all around, $2,000. 633-3608
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Saturday, October 24, 2015 from 1:00-4:00 PM @ Closeleigh Manor’s Common Room. 100 Lambert Street
2006 NISSAN Xterra off road edition 4WD, 139,000km, auto, c/w winter tires on rims, Thule box, light bar & 2 LightForce lights, not installed. Call/text 780-805-0226 for inquiries
2005 TACOMA, 151,000kms, 4L V6, 4X4, standard, 6-spd, $11,800. 667-6315
2005 FORD Taurus SE, 4-door, good condition, $5,500. 668-2216 or 689-1999 (cell)
2003 FORD Ranger 4X2 pick-up, Supercab, 1 cylinder cracked, good winter tires incl, $1,250. 334-6092
2005 VW Jetta, exc, cond, black, lumbar seats set of winter tires w/rims, all mechanical/service records, gas engine, 98,000km, $8,500 obo. 336-4896
2002 CADILLAC Escalade, leather, sunroof, heated seats throughout, black, command start, low kms, $9,750. 334-6413
2002 SUBARU Impreza , great winter car, AWD, 252t-km, newly replaced windshield & rear wheel bearing in July, good winter tires, new summer tires, $4,800 obo. 634-2085
2002 GMC Envoy SUV, burgundy, auto, 174,150 km, remote start, seat warmers, c/w 2 sets of tires, good & reliable, $3,500.. 334-9469
2001 CHEV Cavalier, vg cond, 152,700kms, command start, c/w winter tires on rims, one driver, serviced twice yearly, $3,000. 667-7153
1998 DODGE RAM 1500, black, 81,000km, 5.2L V8 gas engine, excellent condition, 4x4, towing package, $7,500. 334-2602
2000 CHEVROLET Cavalier, good shape, runs well, c/w full set of winter tires on rims, $2,500. 456-7207
1998 FORD F-150 pickup, extended cab, 3-dr, long box w/canopy, 233,000kms, $3,900. 335-8242
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1996 PLYMOUTH Voyager van, vg condition, clean and smooth, 278,000km, $2,800. Marcel @ 322-1476
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2000 FORD Focus, $1,600. 334-3243 1999 FORD Escort, auto, sedan, 170,000 km, new timing belt, tie rods, front pads, thermostat, just aligned, runs well, dent on front driver fender, $2,700 obo. 334-7373 1997 CHRYSLER Intrepid, 6-cylinder, auto, 143,000kms, runs well, good tires, offers. 667-6649 AMERICAN MOTORS Safari, AWD, 1996, clean, good running condition, must be seen, $1,000. Paul @ 780-690-8770
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2011 F150 SC 4X4, long box, new tires, $22,500 obo. 335-3243 2009 GM 3500 diesel, long box crew cab. 335-0879 2009 GMC 3500 HD LE, 1-ton, low kms @ 68,500, tow kit, running board, bed liner, lots of extras, gas engine, great condition, great price, $26,500. 334-1859 2009 TOYOTA Tacoma, 143,000 kms, 4-dr, 4X4, TRD Sport, black, $20,000. 334-2558
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1994 4-RUNNER, great mechanical cond & tires, body not in good shape, $500 firm. 334-7405
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1993 DODGE D250 Club Cab, Cummins diesel, 5-spd standard, 4X2, bumper pull & gooseneck trailer hitches, box liner, well maintained, good condition, 425k. 334-3775
Saturday, October 17 1:30 - 4:30pm
1971 3500 V8 1-ton pick-up with the rear 9' wooden bed camper special, good for farming or mining, can haul big load, new windshield still in box, $6,500 obo.
Auto Parts & Accessories TRUCK CANOPIES - in stock * new Dodge long/short box * new GM long/short box * new Ford long/short box Hi-Rise & Cab Hi - several in stock View at centennialmotors.com 393-8100 BRIDGESTONE BLIZZAK LT265/65/R17 truck tires , 75% tread depth remaining, great for Jeep Wrangler, $400 for set. 334-2602
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2007 FORD F150 4X4, 4-dr, short box, King Ranch, leather, sunroof, new tires, every option, 163,000kms, runs, looks & drives great, $13,500. 333-9899
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2014 FORD Focus SE hatchback, navigation, Sony sound system, heated leather seats, moonroof, tinted windows, new winter tires, 5-spd manual, 29,000 kms, $16,900 obo. 867-689–5980 2012 NISSAN Murano, platinum edition, fully loaded, new tires/new winter tires on rims, heated front/back leather seats, AWD, extended warranty, $34,000 obo. 393-4694 2010 MUSTANG GT convertible, leather interior, deluxe sound system, mint condition, extended warranty, 17,000kms, $29,000. 393-4694 2008 JEEP Patriot, 105,000, manual & standard option, great on gas, $7,500. 334-4272 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, $8,000. Call/text 335-3412 2007 KIA Sportage, 114,145 kms, 4WD, winter tires, leather, heated front seats, roof rack with cross pieces, USB CD player & sunroof, $6,500. 332-0273 2007 TOYOTA Corolla, very clean, well maintained, highway driven, standard transmission, moon roof, extra snow tires on rims, command start and more, 245,000km, $6,500 obo. 660-4103
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Friday, October 16, 2015 Recreational Powersports and Marine (RPM) Repairs Service, repair and installations for snowmobiles, ATVs, motorcycles, chainsaws, marine and more Qualified and experienced mechanic Great rates! Call Patrick at 335-4181 TAITĘźS CUSTOM TRAILER SALES 2-3-4- place snowmobile & ATV trailers Drive on Drive off 3500 lb axles by Trailtech - SWS & Featherlight CALL ANYTIME: 334-2194 www/taittrailers.com RONĘźS SMALL ENGINE SERVICES Repairs to Snowmobiles, Chainsaws, Lawnmowers, ATVĘźs, Small industrial equipment. Light welding repairs available 867-332-2333 lv msg
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JO'S SMALL ENGINE REPAIR •Repairs to snowmobiles, snowblowers , chainsaws, outboards, lawnmowers and more. •Shop rate $70 per hour, •Lawnmowers and chainsaws $60 per hour. Call Steve @ 633-6314 or 334-1628 SET OF 18" rubber Argo tracks with spacers, fits Argo 750 HDI, vg cond, can send pics, $2,650 obo. Call/text 867-334-3881 2005 POLARIS 550 Trail RMK, $3,500. 668-2407 2007 YAMAHA Raptor 700R, lots of new parts, runs good, $3,200 obo. More info @ 334-6776 2004 XS Viper snowmobile, good shape, $2,500 obo. 335-4237 2004 YAMAHA VK540III snowmobile, 630km, excellent condition, $4,000. 867-996-2113 MOTORCYCLE MAGAZINES, 35 years worth, Cycle, Cycle Guide, Cycle World, Motorcyclist and Cycle Canada, 1978 to 2015, $20 per year or negotiate for all. 667-4563 1977 HONDA CB400F, pretty classic motorcycle, winter price $3,000; 2001 Honda VLX600 Shadow, black, 7,600kms, $2,750. 667-4563 ARGO AVENGER tire chains, $100. 399-3171 2014 4-WHEELER TRX 420 ATV, not using it, like new. 399-3171 FIELDSHEER TEXTILE riding jacket, lined, padded, black w/orange piping, almost new, sz small, $200. 667-4563 SADDLEBAGS, ROLL bar, backrest, probably for 750 Shadow, $250; Switchblade windshield, no hardware, offers; 4 helmets, 2 swingjaw, 1 open face, 1 beanie, all black, offers. 667-4563 MINT 2012 Switchback Assault, 6 hrs. running time, $9,000 obo; 2006 Skidoo Renegade, new track, low hours, excellent condition, $4,500 obo. Andy @ 335-0844
Marine PROFESSIONAL BOAT REPAIR Fiberglass Supplies Marine Accessories FAR NORTH FIBERGLASS 49D MacDonald Rd Whitehorse, Yukon 393-2467 1984 ZETA 24' Hard Top, 350/260 leg, 15hp kicker, dingy, barbecue, galley, head, canvas enclosure, fishfinder, radio, sleeps 5, tandem trailer, rough water boat, bottom paint, many extras, reasonable offers. 332-1374 2008 20Ęź Ripple Runner jet boat, canopy, 2 swivel seats & rear bench seat, c/w 200 Mercury motor & EZ loader trailer, low hrs, $30,000. 333-3790 10' PELICAN kayak with paddle, like new, $350. 867-996-2113
YUKON NEWS HEAVY DUTY 3-axle trailer, $4,000. 456-2633 1983(?) 975 Bobcat w/backhoe, snow blower, 2 buckets, forks & blade, $18,000. 456-2633 1997 FORD F700 single axel dump truck, vg cond, 5.9 Cummins diesel, lightly used, passed safety 2 years ago, no miles since, c/w chains, canvas dumpbox cover, $18,000. 332-1544 3-POINT HITCH tram MB165 roto-tiller, $1,500. 399-7033 440 JOHN Deere line skidder, works great, great firewood machine, $6,000 obo. 250-651-7639
Campers & Trailers TAITĘźS TRAILERS www.taittrailers.com taits@northwestel.net Quality new and used Horse * Cargo * Equipment trailers For sale or rent Call Anytime 334-2194 Southern prices delivered to the Yukon 2004 PIONEER travel trailer, 23T6 model, large bath, queen size bed, large awning, great condition, $9,000. 633-2580 KOMFORT MOTOR home, reduced price, first offer above $12,000 takes it. Larry @ 633-4796 for details 1991 FORD F350 crew cab truck & camper. 667-2046 2006 HAULMARK enclosed 4ĘźX6Ęź trailer, 2 new tires & rims, $1,400. 867-996-2111 2014 DOUBLE A snowmobile/atv trailer, drive on/off, 18Ęź deck, ramp, spare tire, electric brakes, tandem axle, used once, $3,500. 660-4000 18Ęź HEAVY duty car hauler, used once, like new, ramps, spare tire carrier, removable fenders, $3,250. 867-996-2113. 1984 NOMAD 22' travel trailer, $2,500. 336-0083 2006 SPRINGDALE 24Ęź 5th wheel, 1 slide, new floors, battery, lots of storage, hitch included if wanted, nice shape, fall price before put away, $12,500 obo. 334-1012 1999 30' Class A motorhome, V-10 Ford, 98,000kms, gd cond, roof/dash air, TV, DVD, 5.5kw generator, awning, bsmt storage, walk around queen, $19,900 firm. 333-9993
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 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 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 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.
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 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 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. 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 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
yukon-news.com 5 À 7 All in Music One Thursday a month, French-speaking musicians perform at Baked Cafe, October 22nd: Danielle Bonneau and Renald Jauvin, Jazz. zik-o-baked.afy.yk.ca YUKON LIBRARIES Week Literacy Crawl October 16-23. Visit 4 libraries, you could win a Kobo GLO eReader. Yukon Public Law Library, EMR Library, Family Literacy Coalition, and Whitehorse Public Library.
LEARN GERMAN over a cup of coffee at the Birch & Bear Cafe starting Saturday, November 7, 2pm-3pm. Call Renate at 334-6948 for more info WITH HEARTFELT gratitude, preliminary updates for those who supported Compassion in Action Nepal Earthquake Relief are available at www.facebook.com.KhentrulLodroThayeRinpoche. Additional details to follow.
HALLOWEEN AT LMCC, km 1Annie Lake Road Oct 31st, 6pm, games and kids party, 7pm bonfire, just drop in, more www.mountlorne.yk.net
CREATIVE VOCAL Workshop with Yukon artist Scott Maynard. Part of Gwaandak TheatreĘźs Ensemble Theatre Training Series. All levels welcome. October 28, 6-9pm, YAC Studio. Register at 393-2676, ensemble.gwaandaktheatre.ca
MT LORNE Seniors meeting November 4th, 7pm, at LMCC. Discussion on options and possibilities for seniors to enjoy and stay in our community. Drop in or more info @ 667-7083
AGM FOR Pan-Territorial Air Cadet Committee, Air Cadet League of Canada will be on Saturday, November 7, 10am, 309 Lambert Street. All are welcome. Ken @ 456-7297 for info
CALL FOR vendors, Christmas Craft Fair Lorne Mountain Community Centre, December 6th Sunday, noon-4pm, tables $10. Reserve lmca@northwestel.net or 667-7083
VFWC GIRLS & Trans Club! Thursdays at 3:30, meet for fun, bonding food and feminism for free! Victoria Faulkner WomenĘźs Centre, 503 Hanson. Info: vfwcgirlsclub@northwestel.net or 667-2693
SWAZILAND EDUCATIONAL Trust Society Chili Fundraiser Dinner scheduled for October 17th, 5pm, at Hellaby Hall, HAS BEEN CANCELLED. WHITEHORSE CONCERTS presents CanadaĘźs premier classical piano quintet, Ensemble Vivant on Saturday, October 17 at The Yukon Arts Centre. Concert begins at 8pm. For more information please contact: steve@whitehorseconcerts.com YUKON EAST Coast Cultural Association (YECCA) AGM & Potluck 7pm, Friday, November 13, at the Royal Canadian Legion, 503 Steele Street. All East Coasters and friends welcome KLUANE QUILTERS Guild will be having their AGM on Monday, November 9, 2015 @ 5pm at the Whitehorse Public Library boardroom F.H. COLLINS School Parent-Teacher-Student conference Thursday, Oct 22, 5pm-7pm & Friday, Oct 23, 10am-1pm. No classes on Friday Oct. 23 for students, but they may attend either conference. No appointment necessary COFFEE HOUSE November 7, Featuring: Keitha Clarke, BJ MacLean + the Open Stage. Help set up 6pm, open stage sign-up, 7:30pm show. $5 bsmt United Church, 6th +Main, 633-4255 STORYTELLING & Talk with author Reneltta Arluk, Oct 17, Tagish Library, 2pm. All ages welcome. Free PINE TREE Quilters Annual quilt show & tea October 16, 7pm-9pm. Enjoy beautiful handmade quilts. Refreshments will be provided. Door Prizes. YUKON ROLLER Girls AGM, White Pass Building Board Room, 1109 Front St, Thursday November 5th @ 6pm
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SEPTEMBER 1, 1951 - OCTOBER 13, 2015
It is with deep sadness that we announce the sudden passing of Rick. Though his passing leaves behind an immeasurable amount of emptiness in our hearts, it was his strength, courage and love that shines through us during this time. Survived by his soul mate Diana, his brother John, nephew Jason and niece Cheryl. The family would like to thank everyone for their well wishes and condolences. As Rick did not wish to have a service, a celebration of life will be held at a later date.
STORYTELLING & Talk with author Reneltta Arluk, Oct 18, Whitehorse Public Library, 3pm. All ages welcome. Free
In loving memory of
Kalseylee Rose Mazur-Columberg May 18 1994-Oct 10 2015
POLARETTES & Polar Tumblers Gymnastics Club AGM, Thursday October 22, 6pm, at the gymnastics gym in Riverdale 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 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 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
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LAKE LABERGE Lions Christmas cakes & cookies are in. Leave a message to order, 668-7979
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YUKON INDIAN Hockey Association Annual AGM is Wednesday, November 4, 2015, 6pm-8pm, Canada Games Centre boardroom. 456-7294 KWANLIN DUN Cultural Centre is currently looking for vendors for our annual Christmas Craft Fair. Tables are $30. Call 456-5322 if you're interested in becoming a vendor. Deadline is November 20th.
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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 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
HALLOWEEN SALSA Party at the Wheelhouse, 9:15pm to 12:30am, Saturday October 31st, The Wheelhouse Restaurant, 2237 2nd Avenue, salsayukon@gmail.com for info YUKON MIXED Market Sunday October 18th at Kwanlin Dun Cultural Center from 11am-5pm. Bring a Food Bank donation for a chance to win a prize. THE YUKON Astronomical Society, a newly formed non-profit organization, is hosting a free Open House event @ Yukon College, Rm ACAD A2402, Monday November 2nd, 9th, 16th, 23rd & 30th, 7pm-9pm WANTED: SEEKING photos of the famous Flying Fathers hockey club playing in Whitehorse during a winter in the mid-1970s. The News would like to scan photos for a retrospective story. Have any? Call editor John Thompson at 667-6285 x 245 or email at editor@yukon-news.com. FASSY PARENT/CAREGIVER Support Group meets Thursday October 22 at 6:30pm at FASSY, 4141B 4th Ave. Come, share your experiences, wisdom and knowledge. We can all learn from one another. 393-4948.
BUSY BEAVERS Pruning, Hauling, Chainsaw Work, and General Labour Call Francois & Katherine 456-4755 PASCAL REGINE PAINTING 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
ANGLICAN CHURCH women are having a winter clothing sale on Saturday, November 24, 9:30am-12noon, at Christ Church Cathedral, 4th & Elliott St.
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
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 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. "If you want it to flow, hire a pro." 50 years experience. 50 cents per word. 867-689-1998 (Talk or Text) dougsack@outlook.com
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Lost & Found LOST: CHROME & silver cane with ice pick missing from Raven Recycling Free Store on Saturday October 3rd. I need my cane! Please call 668-7865 FOUND: AT Six Mile River resort bundle of jewelry, along with 2 other items. Call 399-4121 or 333-4121 to identify and claim LOST: 10 x 12 wall tent poles in black bag, with blue bungee strap on highway between Teslin and Watson Lake. Please call 334-1034
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QUALIFIED INTERIOR Painting Contractor Licensed and insured. Reliable, friendly service. Call Megan 336-4271 or email klondikegoldbrush@gmail.com
REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL ASSISTANCE WITH YUKON WATER STRATEGY ACTION PLAN DELIVERABLES Project Description: This RFP is intended to establish standing offer agreements for assistance with deliverables identified in the Yukon Water Strategy Action Plan and for assistance with obligations under various water licences and solid waste permits. Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title. The closing date for submissions is November 4, 2015. Please refer to the procurement documents for the closing time and location. Documents may be obtained from the Procurement Support Centre, Department of Highways and Public Works, Suite 101 - 104 Elliott Street, Whitehorse, Yukon (867) 667-5385. Technical questions may be directed to Chris Evans at chris.evans@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/
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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 QH GELDINGS, 6 yr. Palomino 15.2, broke 1.5K, 4 yr. Dunn 15.2, not started 1K, priced to sell. 333-6376 SEVERAL HARDY roosters for sale, range of sizes/colours, all under 6 months, $15 each, born on-farm locally, treated with love. 335-4323 CATS AND kittens available. Call 667-2390, leave message HORSE BOARDING Call 633-2885
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JAMES VERNON PARKINSON deceased, late of Whitehorse, Yukon Territory, who died May 13, 2015, in Whitehorse, Yukon Territory. All persons having claims against the above-mentioned Estate are requested to file the same, supported by Statutory Declaration, with the undersigned on or before November 15, 2015, after which date the said Estate will be distributed having reference only to claims which have ben so filed. All persons indebted to the Estate are requested to make immediate payment to the Estate in care of the undersigned: Meagan Hannam Lamarche & Lang Barristers & Solicitors 505 Lambert Street Whitehorse, Yukon Y1A 1Z8
Friday, October 16, 2015
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DINING SET, 1930's antique, dark hardwood rect. table w/built in leaf, 6 chairs, side buffet 3dr/2 drawer, china cabinet w/glass door/1 drawer, good cond, $800 for all. 334-2755
CHILDRENʼS CLOTHING in excellent condition, given freely the first & third Saturday monthly at the Church of the Nazarene, 2111 Centennial. 633-4903
SINGLE-SIZE LOFT bed, solid wood, $350; large wooden desk, $150. 335-8582
Furniture COMPUTER DESK, Whittier solid Alder wood, 26” x 60”, clear finish, double pedestal, 2 file drawers, pullout keyboard tray, exc cond, $450. 668-4976 ROLL-TOP DESK, Pine, 41” x 19” x 43.5”, clear finish, 4 drawers in base, cubbies in top, exc cond, $300. 668-4976 DRESSER, WHITTIER solid Alder wood, 6 drawers, 60” x 17” x 30 1/4 “, clear finish, good cond, $400. 668-4976
STORAGE CABINET, cedar, 32.5”L x 11.5”D x 92”H, $75; beige armless sofa chair, $50; large ottoman, $45. 660-4321 SHINTO STOOL, $30; bevelled mirror, 22”X28”, $15; storage bench, $30. 311B Hanson St. 2 WOODEN single beds c/w bedding, no mattresses, good shape, $130 obo. 660-5478 SOLID OAK dining & coffee tables, excellent condition, paid $900, asking $350. 667-7467
CHINA/CURIO CABINET, 60”Wx76”Hx15”D, exc cond, $175. 399-3710, Tagish
SEALY FOAM 9” double mattress, $200. 633-4078 FREE TO give away, queen-size mattress, boxspring & frame, recliner love seat & 2 side tables. 334-3886
PATIO SET, rectangular glass top table, 4 chairs, umbrella, exc cond, $150. 399-3710, Tagish
2 BOOKCASES, 6ʼx28"x12", $30 ea; 1 smaller bookcase, 50"x21"x16", good cond, $20. 668-3968
BUTLERʼS PANTRY, Whittier solid Alder wood, 72”x 13.5 x 21, clear finish, adjustable shelves, deep pullout drawer, exc cond, $400. 668-4976
DRUG PROBLEM? Narcotics Anonymous meetings Wed. 7pm-8pm #2 - 407 Ogilvie St. BYTE Office
Personals
FRI. 7pm-8:30pm 4071 - 4th Ave Many Rivers Office
CITIZENS ON PATROL. Do you have concerns in your neighborhood & community? Be part of the solution! Volunteer valuable time to the C.O.P.S. program. With your eyes & ears we can help stomp out crime. Info: RCMP 867-667-5555 WHITEHORSE DUPLICATE BRIDGE CLUB October 13, 2015 1st - Lynn Daffe & Ken Schick 2nd - Mark Davey & Chris Bookless 3rd - Diane Emond & Don Emond 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
BETTER BID NORTH AUCTIONS/APPRAISALS
PUBLIC TENDER
HUGE GARAGE SALE
FOREST RESOURCE ROAD RIGHT-OF-WAY CLEARING IN THE MACKINTOSH EAST TIMBER HARVEST PLAN
Saturday, October 17th & Sunday, October 18thh 12:00PM-5:00PM
Inside & Out!
Liquidating Goods/Materials from 6 Estates! Ett ! Lots of FREE stuff! Make an offer! Everything showing going cheap! More stuff next week!
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#ONTACT 0AUL (EYNEN !UCTIONEER FOR MORE DETAILS s NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND CLAIMANTS
NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND CLAIMANTS
IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF
IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF
Montague Ewart Alford, also known as Monty Alford
PAULA MARIE SAUVÉ Deceased, of Whitehorse, in the Yukon Territory who died on
Deceased of Whitehorse, Yukon Territory who died on August 19, 2014.
September 16, 2015. All persons having claims against the above-mentioned Estate are requested to file a claim, supported by Statutory Declaration, with Anna J. Pugh, on or before October 30, 2015, after which date the Estate will be distributed having reference only to claims which have been so filed.
All persons having claims against the above-mentioned Estate are requested to file a claim, supported by Statutory Declaration, with Gregory A. Fekete, on or before October 30, 2015, after which date the Estate will be distributed having reference only to claims which have been so filed.
All persons indebted to the Estate are requested to make immediate payment to:
All persons indebted to the Estate are requested to make immediate payment to: AUSTRING, FENDRICK & FAIRMAN Attention: Gregory A. Fekete Barristers and Solicitors 3081 Third Avenue Whitehorse, Yukon Y1A 4Z7
AUSTRING, FENDRICK & FAIRMAN Attention: Anna J. Pugh Barristers and Solicitors 3081 Third Avenue Whitehorse, Yukon Y1A 4Z7
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REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL FARO MINE COMPLEX CARE AND MAINTENANCE SERVICES FOR 2016-2020 Project Description: Government of Yukon is soliciting proposals from companies interested in providing care and maintenance services at the Faro Mine Complex, including Operations, Maintenance and Monitoring of the site, for the period of 2016 to 2020. Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title. The closing date for submissions is December 8, 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 Carenn Kormos at carenn.kormos@gov.yk.ca.
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PUBLIC TENDER TO ESTABLISH STANDING OFFER AGREEMENTS FOR THIRD PARTY EQUIPMENT RENTALS FOR VARIOUS GOVERNMENT OF YUKON DEPARTMENTS 2016 Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title. The closing date for submissions is November 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 Jenny Richards at jenny.richards@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/
A Site Visit and Information Meeting is scheduled for October 27 and October 28, respectively. 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. 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/
Packages can be picked up and dropped off at the following locations: Procurement Support Centre Suite 101-104 Elliott Street Whitehorse, Yukon Phone: (867) 667-5385 Regional Services Northern Region Headquarters 396 – 5th Avenue Dawson City, Yukon Phone: (867) 993-5499 Regional Services Western Region Headquarters 112 Haines Road Haines Junction, Yukon Phone: (867) 634-7500 Regional Services Eastern Region Headquarters 108– 10th Street South Watson Lake, Yukon Phone : (867) 536-7405 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/
Energy, Mines and Resources
Energy, Mines and Resources
Highways and Public Works
Project Description: The Forest Management branch (FMB) of the Government of Yukon wishes to hire a contractor to clear 7.4km of road right-of-way and 17 landings in the Mackintosh East Timber Harvest Plan (THP) near Haines Junction. 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 David Swinson at david.swinson@gov.yk.ca.
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CKES CHRISTMAS Craft Fair Saturday, November 14th, 10:00am-3:00pm, Christ The King Elementary School, 20 Nisutlin Drive, Riverdale. Call Paula at 633-2724 to book a table or for more information.
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Word Scramble A: Delve B: Affluent C: Askew
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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 17TH KULAN INDUSTRIAL M LOW COST MINI STORAGE, Kulan district, Saturday October 17, 10am-2pm, yard sale, Bennett Rd, first left after Trails North, restaurant equip & dishes
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