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hree Yukon First Nations are unhappy with the government’s proposed amendments to the Oil and Gas Act, saying they weren’t properly consulted about changes that ended up in the draft legislation. In the wake of this week’s court decision on the government’s changes to the land-use plan for the Peel watershed, it’s an issue that smacks a little of deja-vu. Earlier this week, the government received a letter from the chiefs of Tr’ondek Hwech’in, Vuntut Gwitchin First Nation and the First Nation of Nacho Nyak Dun – the same three First Nations that are plaintiffs in the Peel watershed case. “We are writing to inform you that we object strongly to Yukon government’s approach,� the chiefs wrote. “The Yukon government is expediting amendments to (the Oil and Gas Act) at the expense of its relationship with Yukon First Nations.� At the heart of the issue is an amendment that would allow the minister of energy, mines and resources to indefinitely extend an oil and gas permit. Under the existing legislation, permits can last a maximum of 10 years. In a discussion document sent out to stakeholders this summer, the government proposed extending that maximum to 12 years. But in the bill tabled in the legislative assembly last week, that was changed to remove any limit on the length of a permit extension. Chief Roberta Joseph of the Tr’ondek Hwech’in said allowing indefinite permit extensions ignores the possibility that environmental conditions can change over time. “For example, there might be changes in the climate, issues with fish and wildlife, those sorts of things,� she said. Joseph said her First Nation received the discussion document and responded in writing to some of the proposed amendments. But she was disappointed that the gov-
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ernment never sent out an actual draft legislation for review. “Basically, we have not been meaningfully consulted,� she said. “We have not had an opportunity to sit down with the Yukon government to discuss in detail our issues in terms of the amendments.� In their letter, Joseph and the other chiefs referred to a 1997 memorandum of agreement in which the Yukon government and First Nations agreed to work together on a government-to-government basis to develop oil and gas legislation. “We expect the opportunity to consult on draft text, not vague concepts outlined in a discussion document,� they wrote. “In this instance, it appears the Yukon government has chosen to ignore its legal obligations.� In the legislative assembly this week, NDP MLA Jim Tredger asked the government about the consultation process. “Yet again, it appears this government decided to derail dialogue rather than cooperate with First Nation governments,� he said. Energy, Mines and Resources Minister Scott Kent defended the government’s process, saying it included government-to-government engagement and meetings of the oil and gas memorandum of understanding working group. But he said he had received the letter from the three First Nations and his deputy minister, Stephen Mills, will “reach out to senior officials in those First Nations and work on a path forward.� Kent said the change to the oil and gas permits was based on feedback from industry during the 60-day consultation period. A “What We Heard� document available on the government’s website does include several suggestions to extend the maximum length of a permit beyond 12 years. But not all of those suggestions recommend indefinite extensions. Instead, one of them suggests a maximum length of 20 years. Another recommends an indefinite extension, but with licence reviews after 12 months if there is no production. David Thompson, CEO of
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veryone involved says it’s too early to know if Wednesday’s decision by the Yukon Court of Appeal will be the last time a judge has to deal with the Peel land use planning process. The Yukon government was lambasted by the court for the way they handled the process and for failing in its responsibility to First Nations. But they get to try again without the limitations originally set by a lower court. That has both sides claiming at least partial success. The court ruled “Yukon undermined reconciliation by failing to honour the letter and spirit of its treaty obligations” when it released its plan that protected 29 per cent of the Peel. That was dramatically different from the 80 per cent protection recommended by the Peel land-use planning commission. “We are pleased this judgment confirms what First Nations have been saying all along – our final agreements matter and must be respected,” Tr’ondek Hwech’in Chief Roberta Joseph said in a statement. “However, it is disappointing that the Yukon government’s failure to appreciate their responsibilities under our UFA (Umbrella Final Agreement) means more money and time will be spent on a planning process that should have been completed years ago and that we still lack clarity for the Peel.” Nacho Nyak Dun Chief Simon Mervyn said the decision supports First Nation rights but does little to ensure the Yukon government respectfully listens in the future. “Our trust has been seriously breached and we had hoped the court would rule more decisively in our favour.” The court rolled the clock back to 2011, when the government commented on the commis-
have a hard road to travel if it tried to implement a plan for the Peel that was too close to the one that led to the lawsuit. “The decision said, if you really read the fine print, they said to the government, you can’t just do anything you want. The honour of the Crown demands that if you’re going to participating in a land claims-based planning process you do have to really work closely with your First Nations partners. Even on government public lands.” The original 80 per cent protection plan received support including from the Council of Yukon First Nations and a huge chunks of the Yukon population, Loeks said. That means the government will have a lot of questions to answer about any changes it suggests. “And they’re going to have to Mike Thomas/Yukon News answer that question knowing Mountains are reflected in the clear waters of Duo Lakes in the Peel watershed. that they have an election coming up in about eight months.” sion’s first recommended plan for ment to effectively implement the nothing that spells out whether a If the first go-around was any the 68,000 square kilometers of Yukon government plan, a plan commission needs to be the same indicator, any new plan for the mostly undisturbed wilderness. which the court has held is a nul- people it was when it started. So Peel will take much longer than The appeal court ruled the lity, by the back door,” he said. far Pindera’s office hasn’t been eight months. government didn’t provide The Yukon government says asked to look into that question, The draft recommendations adequate information explainit’s satisfied with the decision. he said. It’s just too early. were released in December 2009. ing what changes it wanted and It’s possible to avoid going But he thinks there may be The Yukon government’s now de“undermined the dialogue central back to the planning process said precedence allowing a differfunct plan was adopted in 2014. to the plan for reconciliation.” Mark Pindera, assistant deputy ent commission to be pulled The lengthy court battle has The decision allows the minister with the Yukon Departtogether. Years later, people may led to uncertainly in Yukon’s mingovernment to consult and then ment of Justice. have moved or not be available, ing industry, and has brought all provide a more detailed explana“It’s by no means guaranteed he said. There’s also no word on land use planning in the territory tion of the changes it wants to that it would have to go back to what budget a new commission to a halt. “Our concern is how the commission. The commisthe process,” he said. would get. much longer the uncertainty will sion would then issue another “Think of it this way: if the Dave Loeks, the former head surround land use planning in final recommended plan, which government wishes to negotiate of the commission, said he rethe territory,” said Samson Hartthe Yukon government can then with the affected First Nations mains interested in the planning land, executive director of the accept, reject or modify when it and come up with a different process, but it’s too soon to say Yukon Chamber of Mines. comes to the 97 per cent of the approach of some kind, then whether he would return to lead a If things go back to the planPeel that is unsettled land. potentially they will agree not to commission. ning process, Hartland said Lawyer Thomas Berger, who implement a land use plan. They Loeks said he believes 85 per it’s important that everyone represented the First Nations will do something else.” of the benefits from the court of involved, including the First Naand environmental groups, said But if everyone does go back to appeal decision go to the First tions, still believes in the integrity they have to consider how much the table there are lots of unanNation. That’s because of the of the process. power that gives the government swered questions, not the least of judges’ strong rebuke of the govBoth sides have 60 days to in the end. which is who would sit on a new ernment’s behaviour. decide if they want to ask the “We must consider the quesplanning commission. “They basically said to the Supreme Court of Canada to hear tion of whether sending the matThe Umbrella Final Agreement Yukon government, ‘You don’t get the case. to just make it up.’” ter back to an earlier stage in the doesn’t entertain the idea of a Contact Ashley Joannou at ashleyj@yukon-news.com He said the government would process may allow Yukon govern- resurrected commission. There’s
Northern First Nations stand together against fracking tions about fracking for us to support it,” Tr’ondek Hwech’in News Reporter Chief Roberta Joseph said in a news release. “Until such time as hree Yukon First Nations are fracking is proven environmenstanding together to oppose tally sustainable, our citizens behydraulic fracturing, or fracking, lieve it should not be employed on their traditional territories. in our region or the Yukon.” The Tr’ondek Hwech’in, VunRay Sabo, lands and resources tut Gwitchin First Nation and the manager with the First Nation First Nation of Nacho Nyak Dun of Nacho Nyak Dun, said the made the decision at their first announcement was released this joint meeting since the signing week partly to coincide with the of the North Yukon First Nations government’s recent tabling of intergovernmental accord in Sep- amendments to the Oil and Gas tember. Act. That agreement was meant to Those amendments did not protect resources on the tradiinclude any specific reference to tional territories of the three First hydraulic fracturing, but would Nations and ensure sustainable allow the government to extend development. the term of oil and gas permits “There are too many quesbeyond their existing 10-year Maura Forrest
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limit. Sabo also referred to the government’s decision this past spring to allow applications for fracking to take place in the Liard Basin, in the territory’s southeast corner. He said his First Nation is concerned that it may only be a matter of time before that decision extends northward. “The way that we’re headed with regards to oil-and-gas activity in the Yukon, we do have a sense that that will happen fairly soon,” he said. Currently, Northern Cross is the only oil-and-gas company doing significant exploration work in northern Yukon, in the Eagle Plain region. Northern Cross president Richard Wyman said his com-
pany has no current plans to use fracking in the region, but didn’t rule out the possibility down the road. “It’s possible sometime in the future,” he said. Based on language in the news release from the Tr’ondek Hwech’in and Vuntut Gwitchin chiefs that referred to a ban on fracking “until it can be proven safe,” Wyman said he doesn’t feel the First Nations are dead-set against it. “If anything, it tells me that there’s an open mind there to learn more about it and be receptive to new things,” he said. “We’ll just see how things play out when the time comes to even consider hydraulic fracturing in that area.”
But Sabo said the First Nation of Nacho Nyak Dun passed a resolution over a year ago banning fracking outright. He said the general assembly would need to pass a new resolution before that could change. “The government needs to understand we have taken a clear position on our opposition to the use of hydraulic fracturing,” said Chief Simon Mervyn in the news release. “Our citizens passed a general assembly resolution banning hydraulic fracturing in our traditional territory and yet Yukon government continues to proceed in allowing this extractive process to enter the Yukon.” Contact Maura Forrest at maura.forrest@yukon-news.com
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Planned Alaska Highway upgrades get mixed response Maura Forrest News Reporter
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ukoners are ambivalent about the government’s proposed upgrades to the Whitehorse corridor of the Alaska Highway, according to a new report. The report analyzed public feedback on the $200-million plan to improve a 40-kilometre stretch of the highway between the turnoff to Carcross south of Whitehorse and the turnoff to Dawson north of the city. Proposed upgrades include widening the highway to four lanes along some stretches, adding passing lanes and frontage roads, improving intersections and upgrading multi-use trails. Survey results found that 45 per cent of respondents agreed that the proposed plan balances local and regional transportation needs and will benefit Whitehorse and the Yukon, while 39 per cent disagreed. But just 40 per cent of respondents agreed that the plan addresses their safety concerns, while 39 per cent disagreed. Forty per cent of respondents believed the plan addresses their concerns about congestion and travel time, while another 40 per cent disagreed. And 41 per cent of respondents felt the plan fails to bal-
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Morning traffic on the Alaska Highway near Robert Service Way. ance community, environmental and economic concerns, while just 36 per cent felt that the plan is balanced. The report also found that a number of people had questions about “whether the $200 million investment in highway improvements was justified... and whether public investment should be directed elsewhere in the community.� Several people also had questions about cyclist and pedestrian safety and impacts on local businesses.
The document also mentions a petition signed by 93 residents of Takhini, Valleyview and the Prospector Trailer Park that listed concerns about an increase in dangerous pedestrian crossings and air and noise pollution. In the legislative assembly on Monday, NDP MLA Lois Moorcroft asked what the government will do to respond to concerns from the public. “There isn’t a consensus that these changes are necessary
or even balanced, and that’s something that the government should be striving for,� she said. In response, Highways and Public Works Minister Scott Kent said no roadwork will be undertaken “until we have re-prioritized the plan and engaged further with some stakeholders.� He said he will ask the department to identify any specific safety concerns along the Whitehorse corridor before making a longer-term plan.
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But he added that the improvements were never intended to happen all at once. “This was always contemplated to be a very long-term effort – over 35 to 40 years,� he said. The plan, prepared by consultants CH2M Hill, divided the Whitehorse corridor into 10 sections. Three of those sections, between Robert Service Way and Two Mile Hill Road, were slated for immediate upgrades at an estimated cost of $52 million. The consultants recommended completing the other upgrades as population grows, with the section from Two Mile Hill Road to Crestview to be completed before the city hits 35,000 residents. Longerterm improvements, south of Robert Service Way and north of Crestview, were to be completed by the time the city reached 47,000. But the report found that “there is a general feeling that the population projections... are optimistic, and therefore the medium and longer-term improvements may not be needed until much later.� However, one thing most respondents did agree on was that a proposed multi-use trail would benefit commuters and recreational users. The report was based on 488 survey responses. Contact Maura Forrest at maura.forrest@yukon-news.com
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Quote of the Day “Our trust has been seriously breached and we had hoped the court would rule more decisively in our favour.� Na-cho Nyak Dun Chief Simon Mervyn on the Court of Appeal decision on the Peel watershed court battle. Page 3
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ell, it looks like the crystal ball at the Yukon News could use a spit shine. We’ve previously predicted in these pages that the Yukon government would keep on losing in its long-running court battle with First Nations over the fate of the Peel watershed. Instead, the Court of Appeal offered a decision on Wednesday that is probably the best that the government could have hoped for, and should be considered a qualified victory of sorts. That hasn’t stopped many people, including both of Yukon’s opposition parties, from concluding that the Yukon government lost the case. It didn’t exactly inspire confidence to see NDP Leader Liz Hanson share a post by her party that says “We’re brimming with hope: the Yukon Court of Appeal just rejected the Yukon Party government’s appeal in the Peel watershed case,� right underneath a screen grab that shows the decision’s conclusion that the appeal would, in fact, be “allowed in part.� Why the confusion? Well, to nobody’s surprise, the appeals judges found the Yukon government behaved badly during its dealings with First Nations during planning talks, concluding that “Yukon undermined reconciliation by failing to honour the letter and spirit of its treaty obligations.� And the appeals judges agreed with an earlier Supreme Court decision that quashed the plan rammed through by the Yukon government, which nearly inverted the planning commission’s recommendations by opening most of the watershed up for development. Upon hearing this much, it seems some didn’t bother reading any further in the judgment, and ended up missing the real takeaway. The appeals judges ended up rejecting a key contention made by Thomas Berger, the famed aboriginal lawyer who represented the plaintiffs – namely, that the Yukon government should not get a chance at a do-over by going back a few steps in the process and presenting the type of plan it wants to affected First Nations. Berger warned that allowing this would amount to rewarding the government for its dirty deeds. Supreme Court Judge Leigh Gower agreed with this conclusion. But the appeals judges thought differently, saying that allowing a redo at an earlier stage “would not permit Yukon ‘to benefit from its flawed process’; it would allow the process to unfold as it was meant to.� The Yukon won’t be allowed to simply submit its own plan for the watershed at an earlier stage, the judges say. Instead, it must go through another round of consultations with First Nations and the planning commission, providing the sort of details it was supposed to have provided in the first place and giving First Nations and the planning commission a chance to respond. But it looks like the government could jump through these hoops and still lawfully push through a plan that would leave much of the watershed open to development, as Berger now warns.
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Lawyer Thomas Berger speaks after the final day of the Peel watershed appeal in August. In fact, this is an outcome that the Yukon government has always asked for, barring a fantasy ruling that upheld the government’s dumb-as-nails behaviour up until this point. Lest there be any remaining confusion, the Yukon government has issued a statement that says it’s pleased with the outcome. The plaintiffs, meanwhile, are considering taking the case to the Supreme Court of Canada. These would be strange responses if the Yukon government had, in fact, lost. Yet none of this should suggest that the government will actually see its dreams realized of iron ore trucks rumbling along newly-graded roads through what was once near-pristine wilderness in the Peel. Even if the government is able to put in place the plan it wants, and setting aside the questionable economics of building a mine in such a far-flung spot, First Nations opposition to mining projects remains a kiss of death for proponents. And if the Yukon Party has accomplished anything with the great mess it has created in the name of developing the Peel, it has been to galvanize opposition to development in the watershed. The Peel debacle will stand as an enduring example of the Yukon Party’s utter inability to play well with others. Our territorial leaders had many chances, during seven long years of planning talks,
to make an upfront, reasoned pitch that the benefits of new mines in the region would outweigh any loss of natural splendour. Instead they took a route that was cowardly, contemptuous of the public and fundamentally dishonest. Remember, this is a gang that tried to suppress government information that buttressed calls for conservation in the region, and steadfastly refused to give any sense of how much development it wanted for the region up until the planning commission had wrapped up – and, conveniently enough, until after a territorial election. This is a gang that always insisted it would respect Yukon’s treaties with First Nations, particularly at the moment when it was undermining these agreements. This is a gang that made pie-in-the-sky promises that they could deliver a plan that would please all involved, rather than engaging in an adult discussion about necessarily painful trade-offs. Now our leaders hope to somehow patch things up and come to terms with the chiefs they’ve been feuding with all this time. Good luck with that. So far our premier hasn’t even been willing to admit any culpability for the mess he played a large part in creating. To make headway, that would be a good place to start. (JT)
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he Yukon government’s announcement of a backup fibre optic link along the Dempster Highway with NorthwesTel last week reminded me of the term “vapourware.” That’s old Silicon Valley slang for when a tech company hurriedly announces a flashy new software product that, in reality, has yet to be created. As the Yukon News editorial writers pointed out, the announcement was remarkably sparse on detail even by the standards of government press releases. It even took some digging to find out how much the thing would cost. We still don’t know who is going to pay for some chunks of it. Compare that to highway projects. Ministers are usually so proud of how much taxpayer money they are spending that they put up coloured signs with the price tag for us to admire. It is good that we will have a backup fibre link. It is increasingly unacceptable – I would say it became unacceptable about five years ago – for every Internet-enabled device in the Yukon to randomly stop working for hours at a time whenever the backhoe operators of Fort Nelson get frisky. It goes beyond email, cell phones and using your credit card in a store. The Internet is now nearly as essential to doing business as electricity. We are in the age of the “cloud.” Businesses increasingly rely on things like accounting software hosted in California, online ordering applications for their clients and so on. It has even replaced “the dog ate my homework” as an excuse for kids. How can they do their
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Government workers maintain the Dempster Highway. homework if their teacher’s web page is offline and their shared project is trapped on a Google Docs server somewhere? It is also good because having a backup fibre link will allow more and bigger tech businesses to locate here, which they can’t do today since many businesses literally cannot risk being offline for hours regularly or even days in an extreme incident. However, there are still some important things for bureaucrats to work on as they devapour or “de-vape” the backup fibre announcement. The first is that, as our N.W.T. cousins have done with their fibre link, the government needs to leverage its financial contribution to gain some power over pricing. NorthwesTel has the technical capabilities to run the new fibre. But it also has a strong financial incentive to keep prices high to protect its current monopoly position. Think back to 1940 when the White Pass railway was the only way into the Yukon. Would it
have been smart for the government to pay to build the Alaska Highway, then let White Pass operate it and set the tolls? If that had happened, the highway would still be a gravel track and we would still be paying through the nose to rattle to Skagway on an eight-hour train ride. A backup fibre that allows wholesale Internet prices to stay high in the Yukon will fix the problems with your personal email, the kids’ homework and using your credit card at the liquor store. But it will dramatically limit the growth of our tech economy. Given how the mining, oil, gas, forestry and tourism parts of our economy are doing, it would be dumb to needlessly limit the growth of our tech economy. For example, we won’t have a chance of emulating places like Lulea in northern Sweden, which has attracted a Facebook data centre that saves energy by cooling the servers with crisp northern air.
The new scheme should have some cheap wholesale rates, encouraging economic development the way Iceland or Quebec do with cheap hydro electricity. The cost structure of fibre cables supports this idea. Most of the cost is the up-front investment. Once built, you might as well light up all the fibres in the cable and use them. That’s from the point of view of the taxpaying public, of course. The interests of a monopoly fibre cable owner with one large government client would differ. Part two of de-vaping the plan would include figuring out how to attract investment to the Yukon from businesses that will use the new infrastructure. The government should put as much money into luring tech businesses to the Yukon as it does for tourists or mining companies. The targets include data centres, coding outfits, web marketing firms and the whole gamut of independent contractors and start-up artists. We need to figure out what attracts them, fix
any obviously unappetizing policies or practices we have, and sell the idea of locating some of their tech activities here. Next time you run into a politician at the airport going to a mining conference, ask them why you didn’t see them networking at Cloud Com 2015 in Vancouver? (That’s the IEEE’s 7th International Conference on Cloud Computing, in case you’re asking.) The government also loses points for not putting the project out to tender, which might have attracted other viable proposals. That is now water under the bridge, however. The main thing is now to de-vape the pricing and economic development plans in a way the builds our economy in the long term.
He ensured that he always acknowledged councillors if they were in attendance at public Now that the dust has settled gatherings. and a new council embarks on Dan respected the advice a three-year term, I would like given to him by any of the counto express my appreciation for cillors and often met with us in Mayor Dan Curtis. True to form, at the last meet- his office to share information or ask for feedback. ing of the outgoing council, Dan The role of mayor is not highlighted the “team” and gave easy. There is protocol to figure a personal nod to each councillor, thanking us for our particular out and procedures have to be contributions. I realized later that learned. Protocol and procedures are very important for city counnobody properly thanked the cil to work properly, with decomayor. rum and respect. At the start of For me, the one trait that the term, Dan stumbled on some made Dan a true leader and an of the protocol but he looked to exceptional mayor was his lack others for help and accepted it of ego. He would always make council or individual councillors graciously. He was able to make mistakes and keep his sense of the focus of his speech, when talking about accomplishments. humour and dignity.
And then there is public opinion. The mayor tends to take the brunt of negative reaction when a decision is not popular and there is plenty of negative feedback. But Mayor Curtis was always quick to share the credit with council when public reaction was positive. Being mayor means that you have to be informed and make decisions about all aspects of the city governance and operations. It doesn’t mean that you have to be an expert on all things. You have to allow and trust city staff to do their jobs. You have to understand the operations so that you can answer questions or find the answers quickly when citizens are asking. Dan had an amazing grasp of the city’s
day-to-day operations and our relationships with other governments and businesses. The mayor also has to understand strategic planning and be willing to work with a team of six councillors to create a three-year plan for Whitehorse. Mayor Curtis was always one to think about the bottom line and ensured that planning was about affordable, realistic goals. And he wanted to make sure that decisions were made to benefit Whitehorse citizens in the short and long term. Council’s vision has to go beyond the three-year term so consideration was always given to the next five years and even the next 50 years. Finally, being mayor is about being at many events each week.
Mayor Curtis was always available to speak at special events and always represented our city in a heartfelt, down-to-earth style. Dan has been the epitome of a good mayor. His vote was only one vote of seven, and he did not put himself above the rest of council. He treated council like a team and was not threatened by councillors who had more expertise in some areas – in fact, he celebrated that input, showing true leadership. Above all, he loves this city and showed it all the time. Thanks a lot Dan Curtis for your three years as mayor and good luck with the next three.
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.
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the 2011 questionnaire was axed by Stephen Harper’s government, which called it intrusive to threaten people with fines and jail time for not answering personal questions – a nod to the party’s libertarian base. The Conservatives replaced the long-form census with the National Household Survey. The response rate declined from 93.5 per cent in 2006 to 68.6 per cent in 2011. The new Liberal government, however, is giving priority to evidence-based decision-making instead of ideology, said Navdeep Bains, the minister of innovation, science and economic development. “Today, Canadians are reclaiming their right to accurate and more reliable information,” Bains told a news conference. “Communities will once again have access to high-quality data they require to make decisions that will truly reflect the needs of the people, businesses, institutions and organizations.” But neither Bains nor Social Development Minister Jean-Yves Duclos would discuss specific consequences or penalties which might be imposed to ensure the mandatory questionnaire is filled out. Some groups have been shown to be less likely to fill out
the forms, including indigenous Canadians and low-income earners. “The law is the law” and the law has not changed, said Bains. He said the government plans to roll out a “robust communications plan” to ensure people know it’s no longer an option to choose not to fill out the form. The Statistics Act refers to a census of population and to a $500 fine or three-month jail term (or both) if a person refuses to fill in forms they are required to complete. In 2014, Toronto resident Janet Churnin was given a conditional discharge and 50 hours of community service for refusing to fill out the 2011 short form. The decision to do away with the mandatory long-form census met a wave of criticism in 2010, from a wide range of voices. Religious groups, municipal planners, economists, the Federation of Francophone and Acadian Communities and aboriginal organizations were among those who petitioned for its return. “Municipal governments – big and small, urban and rural – rely on the Canadian census and Statistics Canada data to effectively respond to and monitor the changing needs of our cities and communities,” said Raymond Louie, president of the Federa-
tion of Canadian Municipalities. “The loss of the long-form census resulted in the loss of vital data about some of our most vulnerable populations and left significant gaps in access to data for Canada’s rural and remote communities.” Former chief statistician Munir Sheikh resigned over the census debacle, after thenindustry minister Tony Clement publicly suggested that bureaucrats supported the idea of a voluntary survey as an adequate replacement for the mandatory questionnaire. On Thursday, Clement said that in hindsight, a more thorough examination of how to reform the census process might have been prudent. Other countries are looking at data collection on a broader scale – the United Kingdom is currently undertaking a massive analysis of how to do things differently. “Looking back on it, I would say that it would have been better to have a much broader review of data collection in our country and come up with a better system,” Clement said. Such a system, he continued, would look at “how data capture can happen in a seamless way and in a way that protects the privacy and security of people.”
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Conservatives choose Alberta MP Rona Ambrose as new interim leader minister in the last Parliament, had campaigned on a promise to Canadian Press bring a respectful and civil tone to OTTAWA debate in the House of Commons. “I’m excited that we are golberta MP Rona Ambrose ing to be moving forward with stepped into Stephen a strong opposition with confiHarper’s leadership shoes dence and optimism,” she said, Thursday – albeit on an interim flanked by fellow Conservative basis as the Conservatives gathcaucus members chanting her ered for the first time since last name in support. month’s election demoted them “I am extremely proud to be to the official Opposition. Ambrose, who served as health the new leader of the OpposStephanie Levitz
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turn to his hometown of Calgary, Alta., on Thursday night and is expected to largely take a back seat in his caucus going forward. There were eight candidates in total vying to replace him. The job comes with an $80,100 bump in salary, a car and driver and the residence of the official leader of the Opposition – Stornoway. Other contenders included Alberta MP Mike Lake; Diane Finley, Rob Nicholson and Erin O’Toole from Ontario; and Manitoba’s Candice Bergen. Calgary MP Michelle Rempel and Quebec’s Denis Lebel ran on a joint ticket. None spoke to the media after the meeting and while Ambrose was lauded by caucus colleagues for her communication skills, she only took a handful of questions. One personal challenge she faces is her ability to speak French – while she does speak some, she is not fluent. On Thursday, she deferred to caucus colleague Steven Blaney, although she did attempt to answer one question in French. But the major political task ahead of Ambrose will be to
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rebuild the party heading into the eventual formal leadership race, likely still a long way off. The Conservatives saw their support collapse in last month’s election, losing every seat they held in Atlantic Canada, a lone outpost in the north, dozens of ridings in Ontario and even a few in their stronghold of Alberta. They now have 99 members in their House of Commons caucus and 47 in the Senate; members of the upper chamber were given the chance to vote on leadership. Ambrose said she’s confident the party can enter a new era with a new tone and a new attitude, with their sights set on the next election in 2019. “My colleagues chose me and they put their trust in me,” she said. “We feel very optimistic about our chances in the next election.” Ambrose’s cabinet career beginning with a controversial stint in Environment, where she was in charge of overhauling the Conservative government’s approach to that file, starting with an announcement Canada wouldn’t be meeting its emissions reductions targets under the Kyoto Protocol. She also served as minister for the status of women, where she was criticized for voting in a favour of a motion that would have seen the House of Commons study the question of when a fetus becomes a person – a motion interpreted by pro-choice activists as a means for the party to re-open the abortion debate. She has also been active in the promotion of women in leadership positions, and in that portfolio struck a committee to examine how to get more women involved in the highest echelons of the corporate sector.
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OTTAWA tephane Dion may be Canada’s new top diplomat, but the foreign affairs minister will have a formidable partner in Trade Minister Chrystia Freeland – one that could pay dividends in rejuvenating Ottawa’s strained relations with Washington. The appointment of Dion, a former party leader and environment minister, elicited cheers among the spectators gathered on the lawns of Rideau Hall at Wednesday’s cabinet unveiling. Dion faces some daunting international challenges, from battling climate change to navigating Canada’s continuing role in the fight against terrorism, especially ending its participation in the bombing mission in Syria and Iraq. But in the U.S., where there’s been an icy chill in relations over the Obama administration’s lack of approval of the Keystone XL pipeline, Freeland is seen as a familiar and friendly face with a strong voice worth listening to. She’s well-connected to prominent Democrats, and is a friend of Larry Summers, the former U.S. treasury secretary and president of Harvard University. “In the past it’s been the foreign minister is the senior minister and the trade minister is the junior minister,� said Fen Hampson. “In this case, it is going to be more a tag team of equals.� Freeland will help Canada make progress on some thorny issues with the U.S., including countering Buy American provisions that continue to hurt manufacturers in Canada, working on a new softwood lumber
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of fighter jets from the U.S.-led coalition mission that is bombing Islamic militants in Syria and Iraq, said Hampson. But Dion also brings a thoughtful, reflective, cerebral, tone to Canada’s foreign affairs, and will embrace the world’s multilateral institutions, namely the United Nations, more than the Conservatives, said Hampson. Alex Neve, the secretary general of Amnesty International Canada, urged Dion to take strong stands on human rights. He also said Dion could send a strong signal to the world by leading Canada’s ratification of a pair of UN treaties: the Optional Protocol to the Convention Against Torture and the Arms Trade Treaty. “We are looking to the government to embrace an unwavering commitment to the universality of all human rights as a cornerstone to Canadian foreign policy and domestic laws and programs.� Trudeau was asked how he would address human rights violations in China as Canada continues to pursue deeper trade and investment ties with the country. “Canadians expect of their government to engage in protecting Canada’s national interests in a positive and constructive way on the world stage, and yes, that means promoting our values and standing up for human rights,� Trudeau said Wednesday. “It also means ensuring that we can be a productive voice on the world stage to improve relations, to improve economic growth and opportunity for all, but also to have frank and open conversations with our friends and trading partners.�
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Women take on priority portfolios in new Liberal cabinet female cabinet ministers, women are no longer just sprinkled on the Canadian Press front benches. Fifteen women from differOTTAWA ent walks of life took positions isitors in the Commons Wednesday in the first gendergallery couldn’t help balanced cabinet in Canadian hisseeing one woman tory, taking on portfolios that will among so many men,” the late include priority policy files for the cabinet minister Judy LaMarsh new government. The cabinet has lamented in 1969. 31 members, including Trudeau. “But they made no effort to The new prime minister was disguise the fact that they regarded asked why gender parity was such me as a curiosity and stared when- a priority for him. “Because it’s ever I could be seen.” 2015,” he replied, sending up a More than fifty years after cheer from the crowd gathered Progressive Conservative Ellen outside of Rideau Hall. Fairclough and LaMarsh, a Liberal, Jody Wilson-Raybould, a lawyer became Canada’s first and second and former regional chief of the Jennifer Ditchburn
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B.C. Assembly of First Nations, was sworn in as attorney general and justice minister, becoming the first indigenous person to hold the post. She follows in the footsteps of Tory Kim Campbell and Liberal Anne McLellan. Wilson-Raybould will have to tackle the legalization of marijuana, how to approach physician-assisted death, and the retooling of anti-terror legislation introduced by the Conservatives. Ottawa lawyer and NGO director Catherine McKenna takes on the environment and climate change portfolio, just as world leaders prepare to meet in Paris for international climate change talks. McKenna’s win over popular NDP MP Paul Dewar in downtown Ottawa was one of the most stunning local victories of the 2015 election. Former journalist and media manager Chrystia Freeland is the trade minister, the first woman in the job since Pat Carney held the post in Brian Mulroney’s government in the 1980s. Freeland will have the finalization of the TransPacific Partnership on her plate. Other women in cabinet include longtime MP Carolyn Bennett as minister of indigenous and northern affairs and former Manitoba politician and geoscientist MaryAnn Mihychuk as employment, workforce development and
labour minister. Trudeau’s commitment to gender parity sparked a debate on Canadian newspages about whether the move was appropriate – should the goal not be to appoint based on merit? McLellan, who held a number of portfolios in Jean Chretien’s government including justice and public safety, said Trudeau had an “embarassment of riches” when it came to choosing 15 qualified women from the group of 50 MPs elected. “I’m very pleased today to see that Prime Minister Trudeau has put women into some extremely important heavy-duty portfolios, and that is great to see,” McLellan said. “I think it speaks to the normalization of women in public life, coming into politics from every possible background and experience, and they can step up and do any job in government.” Trudeau’s commitment to gender parity appears to have fizzled, however, when it comes to cabinet committees, the bodies that help plan the government’s policy direction. The new “agenda and results” committee, chaired by Trudeau himself, features only four women out of 11 ministers. The Treasury Board committee has only three out of 11.
After former Conservative prime minister Stephen Harper’s 2013 cabinet shuffle, women held 12 of 39 posts, or just under onethird. The overall swearing-in ceremony highlighted the roles of several other key women, including Clerk of the Privy Council Janice Charette, a Harper appointee. Trudeau’s incoming chief of staff, Katie Telford, was cheered by Liberal activists as she walked up the drive to Rideau Hall before the swearing-in. She is only the second woman to hold that job. Former governors general Michaelle Jean and Adrienne Clarkson were given prominent seats at the event. Two young Inuit girls won over the gathering inside Rideau Hall’s main ballroom with a throatsinging performance that ended in joyful giggles. LaMarsh, who held three cabinet posts in the government of Lester Pearson, said that other qualified women at the time weren’t even considered for cabinet because she had taken the spot. “It simply never occurred to Pearson that there could be more than one woman in the cabinet,” she once wrote in a newspaper article. “He looked at the nominee and only secondly at ability.”
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Trudeau signals climate policy green light with new minister, cabinet committee who served on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Canadian Press With less than a month to go before the COP21 United Nations OTTAWA climate conference in Paris, their s signals go, Prime Minister work begins immediately. Justin Trudeau has put a big “Canada is going to be a strong green light on his Liberal and positive actor on the world government’s promised climate stage, including in Paris at COP21,” change agenda. Trudeau said outside Rideau Hall Catherine McKenna, an internafollowing Wednesday’s swearingtional lawyer with an eye-popping in. resume, was named the new min“That’s why we have a very ister of “environment and climate strong minister – not just of the change” Wednesday at Rideau environment, but minister of the Hall as Trudeau installed his new environment and climate change Liberal cabinet. – who will be at the heart of this But the signs of climate policy discussion.” green shoots go well beyond a McKenna, whose background high-profile new MP and the includes practising international semantics of a ministerial name trade law in Indonesia, founding change. Canadian Lawyers Abroad and Former Liberal environment acting as a negotiator for the UN minister and party leadership peacekeeping mission in East climate advocate Stephane Dion Timor, brings more to the table is Canada’s new foreign affairs than simply knocking off NDP minister – a powerful post that will stalwart Paul Dewar, the party’s give him oversight on ensuring cli- high-profile foreign affairs critic, in mate policy is integral to Canada’s a downtown Ottawa riding. foreign policy. “I know Canadians expect us to Dion was also named chairman have a very ambitious plan,” McKof a new cabinet committee on enna, 44, said during a very brief “environment, climate change and media scrum on Parliament Hill energy.” following the first Liberal cabinet That committee will also inmeeting. clude new Science Minister Kirsty “This is the reason I got into Duncan, a former University of politics – to make a difference. I Windsor climatology professor have three children and this is a Bruce Cheadle
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New defence minister, a former commander, used to dealing with tough characters the retired reserve lieutenantcolonel, a veteran of three combat Canadian Press tours in Afghanistan, finds himself running the place. OTTAWA Sajjan was sworn in Wedneshen Harjit Singh Sajjan day as Canada’s new minister went to join the Canadi- of defence, leapfrogging retired an military 26 years ago, lieutenant-general and star he was rejected by the first unit Liberal candidate Andrew Leslie where he applied. – Justin Trudeau’s foreign affairs But he stuck it out – and now and defence adviser before last Murray Brewster
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Minister of Defence Harjit Singh Sajjan speaks to reporters in the foyer on Parliament Hill after being sworn in earlier on Wednesday in Ottawa. and murky choices of Ottawa, it was Kandahar province in 2006, when Sajjan was tasked as the intelligence liaison with notorious governor Asadullah Khalid and Ahmed Wali Karzai, the controversial head of the provincial council. Khalid, who later became the head of Afghan intelligence, had a reputation for ruthlessness and was accused of assassinations, torture and drug-dealing. Karzai, the half-brother of the former president who was later murdered by a bodyguard, was accused of having a hand in the drug trade. “Nobody should under-estimate Harjit,” said retired majorgeneral Dave Fraser, who gave Sajjan the job of dealing with the volatile Afghan power brokers at a time when the Taliban were on the offensive and Canadian casualties were on the rise. “Some people in Ottawa are going to want to pick on him because he’s new, but let me tell you, he is tough and smart, and determined.” Sajjan’s determination to serve in the face of the blatant racism he faced when he first joined speaks volumes about his character, Fraser added. The Afghans had an affinity for Sajjan, a Sikh, because they believed he understood their struggle to be respected in the West, said Fraser, recalling how the pair hit it off over tea at the governor’s palace. In his official biography, the
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Trudeau relaxes Conservative control of diplomats, urges them to engage messages for speeches and public appearances. Trudeau’s letter doesn’t specifically refer to the Conservative mesOTTAWA sage control, but it opens with one rime Minister Justin Trudeau very direct message of its own. has unshackled his top dip“Today begins a new era in Calomats. nadian international engagement,� Trudeau sent a letter Wedneshe writes. day to the ambassadors and high “You are experienced, skilled commissioners of Canada’s foreign professionals, and some of missions telling them he and his Canada’s best assets internationally. cabinet will be relying on their Under my leadership, you will have judgment and insight to advance a government that believes in you Canada’s foreign policy goals. and will support you in your work The letter, a copy of which was around the world.� obtained by The Canadian Press, The message was well received tells them that Wednesday marks by top ranking diplomats around a “new era� for Canada’s international engagement, and they have a the globe. “It’s a breath of fresh air and a critical role to play. completely new style – an inspiring The letter marks a reversal of expression of trust and confidence the strict message control that the in us,� one Canadian ambassador Harper Conservative government told The Canadian Press on the imposed on its most seasoned condition they or their country not diplomats over much of the past be named. decade. Trudeau goes on to say that, That included having speeches as “a Head of Mission, you are on vetted and meetings approved by the front lines of our diplomatic Ottawa, as well as crafting detailed efforts,� and he tells them they talking points for events taking have a “critical role� to play in the place in foreign countries. Senior diplomats, including the advancement of Canadian foreign policy. former High Commissioner to the “I expect that you will be United Kingdom, have been subengaged energetically in public jected to message event proposals diplomacy with other diplomats, by the Conservatives – detailed host government officials, civil soplanning documents created in Ottawa that laid out details and key ciety, and the media – in all manner Mike Blanchfield Canadian Press
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of ways – through direct contact, the media, and social media,� he writes. “My cabinet colleagues and I will be relying on your judgment, insights, discretion, and work ethic in advancing our interests. I have every confidence that your reporting and our interactions when I am abroad will provide a critical, factual basis for our policies.� Trudeau also lays out his immediate and long-term foreign policy goals, and makes it clear he wants the diplomats to help him explain how Canada’s “many strengths� ought to be shared with the world. He says Canada’s international and domestic policies reinforce each other. “International trade and investment promote growth and middle class jobs here in Canada, while environmental sustainability at home and abroad is vital to our economic future and well-being,� the prime minister writes. “Most immediately, I will be engaging with my counterparts in the coming weeks on such critical issues as climate change, international security, and the global economy. As a Canadian Head of Mission, you have a critical role in explaining Canada’s renewed engagement on these issues. “I know this cannot happen overnight.�
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Members of the the PHAW Planning Committee including: Yukon AntiPoverty Coalition, Many Rivers Counselling & Support Services – Outreach Van Coordinator, Yukon Federation of Labour, Yukon Housing Corporation, Whitehorse Food Bank, Yukon Association for Community Living, Yukon College, Victoria Faulkner Women’s Centre, L’Association Franco-Yukonaise
to “sharing a positive Canadian vision� with the world leaders he will meet at these summits and at later international events. He says he will also follow through on his campaign promise to make Canada “an active and constructive member of the United Nations and other multilateral organizations.� The Harper government was openly critical of the UN calling it a forum for dictators, and criticizing it for being inefficient and wasteful. Canada lost a bid for a temporary seat on the UN Security Council in 2010, the first such loss for the country in 70-year history of the organization.
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T H E C E N T R A L T H E M E O F P H AW 2 0 1 5 WA S “ L E A D I N G T O E N D P O V E R T Y � TO FOCUS ON LEADERSHIP AND ACTION ON ENDING POVERTY A N D H O M E L E S S N E S S I N O U R C O M M U N I T Y. Whitehorse Connects aims to foster a broad sense of community and acceptance by encouraging ongoing support for the poor of our city. Once again that support was very much in evidence at our October 14 Whitehorse Connects. Due to the generosity of many, including the local musicians who help create such a great atmosphere, we offered free health and human services, food, clothing and a welcoming environment to over 250 members of our community.
Thanks to the following Baked Boston Pizza Candice Menzies Carrie Boles CBC City of Whitehorse Coast Mountain Sports Dana Jennejohn Dylan Griffiths Erica Dee Mah FH Collins Social Justice Club
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YAPC is also grateful for those who demonstrated leadership by donating time, money or services to other actions this fall! Northern Vision Development, Jim at the Salvation Army, Wykes Independent Grocer, Candy at the Fruit Stand and the anonymous donor of bus tickets.
Please call the Yukon Anti-Poverty Coalition at 334-9317 or email: whitehorseconnects@gmail.com if you would like to volunteer or support Connects.
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Trudeau discusses his priorities for his upcoming international travel, which will include two major trips to four international summits in the coming weeks. Trudeau will make his debut on the international stage in 10 days when he travels to the G20 leaders’ summit in Turkey and goes on to the APEC summit in the Philippines. Later in the month, he will attend the Commonwealth leaders’ summit in Malta and then go on to Paris for what is widely seen as the main event in this opening round of travel: the international climate change conference in Paris. Trudeau says he looks forward
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Prospect of ďŹ xing up or tearing down 24 Sussex captivates renovation expert in-cheek, that the project be made into a reality TV series. For Baeumler, the notion immediately raises questions about OTTAWA historical integrity, security and e it renovated or razed, the red tape. resurrection of 24 Sussex After all, 24 Sussex Drive is Drive should be docueffectively owned by taxpayers, mented as a showcase of Canamanaged by the National Capital dian history and innovation, says Commission, guarded by the an expert in public portrayals of RCMP and holds a historical sigwhat – and what not – to do with nificance that cannot be ignored. older home projects. “I’m not sure what the tangled Ever since Justin Trudeau con- web of restrictions and red tape firmed that he’s giving the prime might be,â€? he said. “There’d be minister’s official residence a quite a quagmire of duelling wide berth, Bryan Baeumler has opinions.â€? received several inquiries about But it’s not the first time whether he’d tackle a reno job at Baeumler has been asked about Canada’s most famous address. the possibility. Baeumler, host of a battery of A couple years ago, he sat HGTV renovation shows – Disas- down to dinner with a friend ter DIY, House of Bryan, Leave it who lived at 24 Sussex in his to Bryan and Canada’s Handyearly years – Ben Mulroney, son man Challenge – and president of of former prime minister Brian Baeumler Quality Construction Mulroney – and tossed around in Oakville, Ont., said he would ideas about creating a TV show jump at the chance to take on around renovations to the drafty the challenge if he worked in the old house, he said. national capital area. Another celebrity home “There’s lots of great, qualirenovator added his voice to the fied local (Ottawa) construction debate Friday. companies that can handle it, Mike Holmes, star of the realbut of course – what a project!â€? ity show Holmes on Homes, told Baeumler said in response to one his Facebook followers he’d be query on his Twitter account. prepared to get involved. There have been a few sug“I’ve read all your posts about gestions, most of them tonguethe problems with 24 Sussex Terry Pedwell Canadian Press
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It would give people in Canada, I think, more of a sense of ownership of the property if they got to see it – and it would certainly keep the process a little more transparent,� Baeumler said. “I think it’d be a great opportunity for Canadian corporations that supply products sourced and manufactured in Canada to showcase them. There’d certainly be sponsorship opportunities.� The NCC said it could not provide any information in response to requests for an interview. A spokesman for Trudeau would only say that the prime
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minister-designate has not decided how to proceed with the property, other than determining that he, his wife Sophie GregoireTrudeau, and their three children won’t move in after Wednesday’s swearing-in ceremony. “Mr. Trudeau will be making decisions once he has been fully briefed by officials,� said press secretary Cameron Ahmad. “Until then, his family will be living at Rideau Cottage� – a residence on the grounds of Rideau Hall, the home of Canada’s Governor General. There’s been no shortage of opinions about what to do with the property. Maureen McTeer, the wife of former prime minister Joe Clark and herself a former 24 Sussex resident, told CBC Radio this week that the home should be torn down and replaced with a new structure. The building is more than just a house, said McTeer – it represents a Canadian idea. Prime Minister Stephen Harper and his family lived at 24 Sussex Drive since 2006, despite an auditor general’s report in 2008 that detailed its state of disrepair. The report highlighted a number of problems, including cracked windows and problems with the plumbing and electrical systems, and estimated the cost of renovating the building at $10 million. That price tag is now likely $15 million or higher, depending on what contractors are liable to find lurking behind the walls, said Baeumler. No matter how the project unfolds, there should be publicity around it to give Canadians more of a reason to see it as an iconic symbol, he added. “I think that would help to elevate the status maybe and make Canadians a little more proud of our democracy and our system and our infrastructure,� he said. “I think it’s an opportunity to really create an incredible symbol and a legacy and set an example for our kids and the rest of the world that you have to take care of your own house, literally and figuratively.�
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Mexico’s Supreme Court takes ďŹ rst step toward legalizing recreational use of marijuana using it in their favour to present a law that will be in agreement Associated Press and will protect people’s rights,â€? MEXICO CITY Schwartzman said. “In Mexico, this is a political theme. But the exico’s Supreme Court has ruled that growing, ruling gives importance to human rights, in this case liberty.â€? possessing and smokPresident Enrique Pena Nieto, ing marijuana for recreation is via his Twitter account, said legal under the right to freedom. he recognizes and will respect The measure was approved the ruling, adding that he has on Wednesday in a 4-1 vote on given his government orders to the five-justice panel, backexplain to Mexicans the scope of ing the argument that smoking the ruling. marijuana is covered under the “This will open up the debate right of “free development of over the best regulation for personality.â€? inhibiting drug consumption, a At this point, the ruling covpublic health issue,â€? he wrote. ers only the plaintiffs in a single “Mexico has promoted in intercase, a group of four people national forums ‌ broadening wanting to form a pot club. the discussion.â€? The ruling did not approve Zaldivar said Wednesday’s the sale or commercial producruling would forbid smoking tion of marijuana nor does it imply a general legalization. But marijuana in front of others without their consent. It is unif the court rules the same way on five similar petitions, it would clear whether public consumption, even by the few people covthen establish the precedent to ered by the case, could still be change the law and allow genregulated under public nuisance eral recreational use. codes as alcohol is. For example, A similar process led to the drinking in the street is forbidcourt’s recent ruling that Mexiden in many parts of Mexico. can laws prohibiting same-sex “We have to see what limits marriage are unconstitutional. will be,â€? said Health Secretary “No one has said at all that Mercedes Juan, referring to marijuana is harmless. It is a maximum allowed quantities drug and, as such, it causes and where or how consumption damage,â€? said Justice Arturo Zaldivar, who wrote the majority would be allowed. Proponents of legalizing opinion. “What is being resolved here is that total prohibition is a marijuana staged a low-key demonstration outside the court disproportionate measure.â€? building, including displaying At the same time, the ruling information on marijuana use will help legalization measures and legalization. Many in the being written in Congress, said crowd celebrated by lighting up, Moy Schwartzman, one of the including Cesar Zanabria, who lawyers for the plaintiffs. “They’re noting this case and puffed on a fat homemade mariKatherine Corcoran
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Mohammed’s Journey: A Syrian’s long odyssey from war, in hopes of sanctuary in Europe Through rain and muddy fields, crowded train stations and long bus rides, lack of sleep, confusion, impatience, exhaustion, fear t the edge of a Balkan vineand anger – the constant barrage yard, Mohammed al-Haj lay of every emotion, except one. down under a tree to collect Never despair, never a moment of his thoughts. Come nightfall, he despair or surrender. and the other Syrians with him Mohammed’s voyage was would make a run for it, past the part of an historic movement of fence of chain-link and barbed humanity as more than 600,000 wire being built along the Hunmigrants this year have crossed garian border to keep them out, land and sea, seeking sanctuary past the armed border guards. in Europe. Countries there have It was a make-or-break been struggling to cope with moment in a journey across a the biggest wave of migration continent. In the last few hours, since World War II. Their shifting he’d cased the border, planning policies and the ensuing chaos how they would make their dash have forced migrants to find new through the fields from Serbia routes to northern Europe, where into Hungary. His mind was raceven the richest nations are now ing. Had he missed anything? signalling they want to deter what His vision drifted up to the late they view as an unwanted overafternoon sky, crisscrossed by flow of migration. the white streams of passenger Like most, Mohammed was jets. He watched one plane go by, desperate to escape war. His then another, then another. Full journey, followed by The Associof normal passengers on normal ated Press, chronicles the deeply voyages. He thought of the life he personal aspirations that drove was certain he would reach, in him and many others. He was Germany. convinced he deserved better “One day soon, I’ll travel by than a life trapped as a refugee in planes like those,� he mused. Turkey, where many of his comThe dream of normalcy after a patriots hang on the hope of one life destroyed by Syria’s civil war day returning home. Pointing to had sustained the 26-year-old the future of Europe as it absorbs throughout his journey. Across the wave of migrants, he wanted the Aegean Sea where others to be a productive part of society. like him had drowned. Through And most of all, he wanted his miles of walking under hot sun. dignity back. “At least in Europe, I Hamza Hendawi Associated Press
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pooled with blood, removed severed limbs, and tried to comfort the maimed and dying. The young man, who had just graduated from high school a few years earlier, was constantly cheerful and energetic. He shared meals of hummus and falafel with the doctors, surgeons and nurses. His family, he called them. At the head of the family was the hospital’s senior doctor, Osman al-Haj Osman – “Dr. Osman,� to his staff. Quiet but authoritative, he was so dedicated he moved his wife and children into the hospital so he wouldn’t have to leave his patients. Then in November 2012, a barSanti Palacios/AP rel bomb hit a building next door Mohammed al-Haj and his friends walk on the railway tracks near housing rebel fighters, heavily the Serbian village of Horgos across the border into Hungary. damaging the hospital. Four were killed. Among them was a young ing and dancing in the streets. It will feel that I have rights.� woman volunteer who only days The light began to fade over was the time of the Arab Spring’s earlier had married a fellow the vineyard. Mohammed readied heady optimism. A dictator in staffer, a romance born in war his companions. A father and Tunisia had fallen, followed by and quickly snuffed out by it. daughter from the Syrian provanother in Egypt. The hospital closed. Its staff ince of Aleppo. Two Syrian docBut by 2012, the uprising had dispersed, most joining the giant tors. A 16-year-old, Abdul-Rahdescended into the hell of civil diaspora of more than 4 milman Babelly, the younger brother war, dragging Mohammed’s home lion people driven into Turkey, of Mohammed’s best friend from city of Aleppo into its crosshairs. Lebanon and other neighbouring Aleppo who’d been entrusted to Syria’s largest city, once the countries. him to take to Europe. jewel of the country’s commerce Mohammed and his family The dusk deepened. Light and culture, was a battleground, went too, fleeing to Turkey in enough to see their path, but dark torn between government- and 2014. enough to slip away unseen, they rebel-held zones. The military’s began to walk. Ahead of them A farewell to Turkey onslaught of bombardment and were the railway tracks, the corn- barrel bombs had reduced neighOn Sept. 2, the day Mohammed fields – and the border guards. bourhoods to rubble. said goodbye to his parents in If they eluded them, the road to Mohammed, a member of the Turkish city of Killis to set off Austria and on to Germany would Syria’s Sunni Muslim majority, on his journey, photos shared be wide open. was a volunteer at a front-line worldwide showed a Syrian boy They walked. And when the hospital, where The Associated face down on the beach, drowned moment came, they ran. Press first met him in October along with most of his family. 2012. For weeks at a time, the faThey’d been trying to go by smugThe beginning: cility was overwhelmed by an un- gler boat from the Turkish coast leaving Aleppo relenting stream of wounded and to a Greek island, just as Mohamdead civilians and rebels. With no med intended to. When the uprising against Presimedical training, Mohammed did dent Bashar Assad first began in “What am I going to do if you whatever was needed. He stitched too drown in the sea?� Mohamearly 2011, Mohammed immedigaping wounds, mopped floors ately joined the protests, singmed’s mother sobbed.
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It wasn’t an idle fear. At that time, at least 85 others trying to cross the Aegean this year had met the same fate. In mid-October, that number stood at 264 – and those are the ones authorities know about. But every week, tens of thousands more were reaching Europe safely. Mohammed was determined to be one of them. Still, he prepared for the worst. He left his parents 3,000 euros ($3,400) he’d saved up. He left another 8,000 euros with a friend in Killis. The friend was to wire Mohammed money if he needed it along the route. But Mohammed also gave him alternative instructions: If he died on his journey, give the money to his mother. Mohammed had a decentpaying job with a British NGO in Killis. But a small border town has no future for a young man who, back in Syria, had intended to study Arabic literature at university, until the war wrecked that dream. The hope of eventual return to his homeland was over. He was convinced the destruction would only get worse and that, in the end, Syria was doomed to break apart. “Syria is finished for me,� said Mohammed, whose leg is scarred by shrapnel he suffered from a barrel bomb in Aleppo. When Germany rejected his application for a student visa in late August, his mind was made up. In a few weeks, the season would change, the seas would get rougher, and the boat trip would become even more dangerous. The time to go was now.
Across the Aegean sea It was the obsession that would push Mohammed at every step: Move, don’t hesitate. Any open door, get through fast because it may shut and block your way forever. “Khalas!� he declared. Enough already. “I’m left with no choice. Just this.� It was Sept. 4 and he was on a bus travelling north from the Turkish city of Izmir. He was heading to the planned departure point for the smugglers’ boat on Turkey’s Aegean coast. From there, the Greek island of Lesbos was a tantalizingly close 10 miles across the water. In that narrow strait, the Greek coast guard had found six bodies floating a week earlier. Mohammed and the six Syrians he was travelling with paid 2,000 euros ($2,200) each to a Turkish smuggler. That was more than the going rate of around $1,200, but it meant a sturdier wooden boat, presumably safer than the inflatable dingies that smugglers cram most migrants on, and they’d have it for themselves. They set off just after dawn. Through two hours of high waves, they loudly recited verses from the Qur’an, “Say, he is Allah, who is One, Allah the Eternal,� hoping for God’s protection. Early on Sept. 5, Mohammed and his comrades came ashore near the Lesbos village of Agios Giorgios. They cheered, hugged each other and fished out their mobile phones to take celebra-
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Lesbos: a long wait As a boy in Aleppo, Mohammed was so shy he would burst into tears if an adult so much as gave him a harsh look. It was his father, a longtime military officer, who drew him out. He made it a point to bring Mohammed to family gatherings and weddings and make him socialize to overcome his fear. It worked. Today Mohammed brims with confidence. Street savvy, he’s convinced he can talk his way through anything. His boldness served him well in surviving Aleppo. He would need it on Lesbos. Days after the thrill of landing there, Mohammed was impatient, frustrated – and sweltering. He was trapped. He and some 20,000 others who had flooded onto the tourist island. The crowds of Syrians, Iraqis and Afghans languished around Lesbos’ capital Mytilene, sleeping on sidewalks and in parks, some in tents, some on cardboard. They milled around the seafront promenade of cafes and restaurants. They formed long lines to change money or buy mobile phone cards. With no shelter, they broiled under a relentless sun and withering humidity. The reason: Every refugee and migrant had to register and receive a document. Without it, they couldn’t buy a ticket on a ferry to mainland Greece to continue their voyage. They couldn’t
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Mohammed, a 26-year-old from Aleppo, was one of more than 600,000 migrants and refugees who have fled to Europe this year. even rent a hotel room or take a taxi. But the massive influx had overwhelmed local authorities, who were eking out one or two hundred registrations a day. Tired of waiting, the crowds grew restive. Fights broke out among migrants, broken up by riot police who waded in shouting, shoving and swinging batons. Some young men talked of lashing out by smashing the ritzy cafes along Mytilene’s seafront. The sense of helplessness was killing Mohammed, with his motto to never stop moving. Desperate, he briefly considered trying to forge the document on a laptop but quickly dropped the idea. “All I want is to leave this country and they aren’t giving me the document. Why?� he asked, chain-smoking furiously. The morning of Sept. 7, he
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false, but Mohammed grabbed his bag and hustled 45 minutes on foot to the stadium. It was true. Greek authorities had brought in extra personnel to speed up registration. Unfortunately, a giant crowd was ahead of him. For hours, he manoeuvred until he reached a police barricade letting people in one by one. Mohammed saw his chance when a woman passed through. “That’s my mother!� he shouted to the police, and he slipped through with her. He was one step closer. After hours more sweating in line, Mohammed saw another opportunity: A man up ahead passed out from the heat. Mohammed rushed forward, shouting that he was offering first aid. He loosened the man’s clothes and helped him until U.N. workers arrived. Mohammed then convinced everyone nearby that since he helped the man, he deserved his place in line. At 3:30 a.m., eight hours after arriving at the stadium, Mohammed had his document. His comrades finally got theirs several hours later, and they bought the first available ferry ticket: 8 p.m. on Sept. 9.
By ferry, bus and train: crossing Greece “There’s no room!� the ferry staffer shouted. Migrants were trying to get into the lounges on the lower decks of the ferry to the port of Piraeus outside Athens. Inside the
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half-empty lounges, Greeks and Western tourists stretched out across the seats to sleep or sat on sofas watching television. The hundreds of migrants were told to cram onto the eighth level, a bare room with plastic chairs. But the smell there became too much. So Mohammed and others took the other option: The open-air upper deck, exposed to the cold night breeze and rain. Mohammed lay under a sheet to sleep for at least part of the 10-hour voyage. He already felt a cold coming on. “Of course, this is a kind of racism. They look at us Syrians as animals,� he said. “I so much regret that this is happening to me in a European country.� The next day, on the bus from Athens to the Macedonian border, Mohammed began to relax. The trip was back on track. With the new Greek SIM card he’d bought for his smartphone, he had access to a world of other Syrians through WhatsApp, constantly exchanging information about the journey ahead.
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He had been toying with going all the way to Britain. His English was enough to get by. But that meant somehow getting through the Channel tunnel. So Germany was the future. He didn’t speak German, but he knew dozens of Syrians there, including Dr. Osman, from the Aleppo hospital, who had been living in the state of Saarland for a year. He knew he would have to prove himself. “Syrians work really hard,� he said. “They’ll crush rocks for a living.� He pictured eventually marrying a Syrian girl who has been living in Germany. She could be liberal. He wouldn’t care if she did not wear the Muslim headscarf. “As a Syrian, she will know the boundaries of propriety,� he said. After seven hours, the bus reached the Macedonian border. It was nightfall, and pouring rain, the heaviest Mohammed had ever seen. He and his comrades trudged into the darkness to slip through the fields across the border.
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Mohammed al-Haj sits in a lot in the city as refugee children play around him and other families settle in. There they got a taste of the kindness that some Europeans show amid the chaos: Volunteers gave the migrants sandwiches as they entered Macedonia. A quick meal, and they were on a train, heading to Serbia. At the Serbian border, the rain was still coming down. AbdulRahman, the teenager who kept close to Mohammed, looked like he was about to burst into tears,
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Bottleneck in Serbia Mohammed and his companions then hit another bottleneckturned-madhouse. The Serbian town of Presevo, about 10 miles in from the Macedonian border, teemed with migrants and refugees trying to get a Serbian registration document,
required before they could move on to the Hungarian border. Only two days after the broiling heat of Lesbos, families huddled for warmth around fires in barrels in the streets. Everything was coated in mud from the rains. Sitting among suitcases and plastic bags full of clothes, children trembled in their parents’ arms. In a grimy hole-in-the-wall restaurant run by ethnic Albanians, the kids behind the counter smoked cigarettes as they cooked up burgers. At one table, an Albanian negotiated with a Syrian family, offering to sell them the documents. “I’m Muslim, just like you,� he told them. One hundred euros each – about $110. Locals had a roaring trade selling the documents, obtained from friends in the police. Street peddlers were making a killing, too, selling clothes and blankets to the bedraggled travellers. Mohammed bought a water-proof blue jacket for five euros. For 10 hours, Mohammed and his companions stood in line at the local hospital serving as the
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registration point, as arguments broke out between migrants and police. But then, Mohammed’s good luck struck again. He got into a conversation with a policeman. They hit it off. The policeman called his brother, who was also a policeman. The brother came out of the hospital and started asking Mohammed about the Islamic State group and the situation in Aleppo. Then he asked Mohammed if he knew of any Islamic militants among the migrants. It was clear he was trying to recruit him as an informant. Mohammed gave the policeman his email, and the policeman asked him to stay in touch. With that, Mohammed and his comrades had their documents. “God always does what He does for me,� Mohammed said, now on a bus heading toward Hungary. He was riding high, feeling proud of how he’d pushed through the barriers blocking his and his comrades’ path. “My group would not have come this far without me.�
A major obstacle: the Hungarian border These were the stakes at the border into Hungary: On the other side, 500 yards down the railroad tracks, was the office where the Hungarians were registering and fingerprinting migrants. From everything Mohammed had heard, if you registered with the Hungarians, Germany would force you back to Hungary. He was determined not to let that happen. When night fell on Sept. 12 – 10 days and 1,700 miles (2,700 kilometres) by boat, bus, train and foot from Killis, Turkey – Mohammed and his colleagues left the vineyard. They walked down the railroad tracks. Under the eyes of the Hungarian guards, they pretended to be heading toward the registration office. They passed the border fence, then they made their move. They ducked left into a cornfield. On the other side of the field, Mohammed knew from his earlier reconnaissance, was a road and a gas station. If they reached that, they could hide, then find a taxi to take them on
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lived. There was nothing now but Germany. His dreams started to spill out. “I’ll suffer for the first two months until I sort out my affairs, like the asylum hearing and the residency,� he said. But once that was settled, he could visit his family in Turkey, then return to Germany to build his new life. He wanted to go to university, maybe in business administration or meSanti Palacios/AP Photo dia studies. He talked of working Mohammed al-Haj, background, and his friends try to avoid the police in a cornfield in Roszke village, for an NGO – already imagining his salary, like 4,000-5,000 euros southern Hungary. a month. their way. was taken with one of his coming. He ate a chocolate bar and, Still, as the train approached rather than dropping the wrapper the German border, he and The corn was tall. Mohammed panions, Ahmed Naasan, to the led. Silent, he signalled the others Austrian border, and they crossed on the ground as he usually did, Naasan worried. At any station, with hand gestures. Walk. Stop. 30 hours after they’d been caught he looked for a place to throw Austrian police might take them it away. The way they did it in Down. He flattened onto his belly, by the Hungarians. off and put them in a camp. MayGermany. Almost, anyway: He and the others did the same. One Mohammed was bruised, the be they should hide in the toilet of the doctors in their group had cold he’d been suffering since the walked over and hid the wrapper at the next stop? They decided in a bush by the tracks. his smartphone out, looking at Greek ferry was worse, and he against it. “I am already a changed perthe GPS. The doctor signalled was worried about Abdul-Rah“If we get caught, let us be son,� he boasted. everyone that he would explore man. The boy had been released caught with dignity,� Mohammed ahead. He disappeared into the by the Hungarians before him said. German police: corn stalks. and he didn’t know where he was. The train crossed to the Gerpassport search The doctor did not come back. But, he joked, after so long man town of Passau. A half-dozen They could see the road and without a shower – his last one armed German policeman boardMohammed’s obsession – keep the gas station. They made their was in Greece – he was still used. They asked for Mohammed moving, rush through any open run for it. ing deodorant “so at least I don’t and Naasan for their passports door – served him well. “Stop! Stop!� the police absolutely stink.� Two days after he crossed into and, seeing they were Syrians, shouted. They seemed to mateHe was also anxious, fearthey took them away. Hungary, it slammed its border rialize from nowhere. Then came ing registration would wreck his But instead of being detained with Serbia shut, complaining two police dogs. One of the dogs chances of settling in Germany. or thrown back, they received that it must “protect Europe’s jumped on Mohammed, knockSo he turned to the refugee grape- borders� if Greece was not up for a welcome that was everything ing him to the ground. “Please! vine, WhatsApp. A cousin who Mohammed could hope for. At it. With 4,000 asylum-seekers a Please!� Mohammed screamed as had made it to Germany assured a processing centre set up in a day still landing on Greek shores the dog stood on his chest snarlhim the fingerprinting didn’t and making their way through the gymnasium, they were given a ing in his face, the police flashmatter. Balkans, desperate migrants were lunch of rice and chicken with light in his eyes. Squatting on the ground at apples, bananas or ice cream for tossed from country to country, They were caught. the train station in Jennersdorf, dessert. There were washing mafacing only closed doors. Austria, Mohammed was on five chines and Arabic-language signs On the trains across AusThe refugee grapevine different WhatsApp chats with giving directions to sparkling tria, Mohammed was upbeat. clean bathrooms. Soon MohamThe miles were melting away. “The dog really scared me. I don’t other Syrians in Germany, trying to determine which states igmed was on a train heading west Through WhatsApp, he got good like dogs,� Mohammed said. With nored the Hungarian registration news: Abdul-Rahman was safe across Germany. the police light in his eyes, he “That camp confirmed my exand already in Saarland, the Gerhadn’t seen the dog was muzzled. and would grant asylum. Only one country from his man state where Mohammed was pectations of Germany,� he said. Along with Mohammed and goal, his optimism was build“I have finally arrived.� heading and where Dr. Osman his companions, the Hungarian police also detained an AP television reporter, Luca Muzi, and only released him after forcing him to delete footage of the dog attacking Mohammed. The Hungarians fingerprinted and registered Mohammed, but treated him well, he said. The doctor who disappeared in the cornfield, Mohammed found out later, made it to Vienna. After a cold night in a rain-drenched Hungarian camp, Mohammed
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Reunion in the rain Mohammed and Dr. Osman were reunited Sept. 16 in the town of Saarlouis, where the doctor had his German classes in the morning. Dr. Osman appeared at the train station, looking healthier, with a little more weight on him since his days at the Aleppo hospital. The two men hugged, laughing and crying – Dr. Osman in his blue sweater bought in Germany, Mohammed in his 5-euro jacket bought in Presevo. They pulled
back to look at each other, then fell into each other’s arms again. Sharing Dr. Osman’s umbrella, they strolled in the drizzling rain. They quickly turned to practicalities over lunch at a nearby restaurant run by a Syrian Christian woman. Mohammed listened as the doctor gave advice. Quit smoking – cigarettes drain your money. Learn German quickly – “This is the most valuable advice I can give you,” Dr. Osman said. It’ll take a year of lessons, “but it’ll be
much quicker to have a Germanspeaking girlfriend.” And find a job. “Germans will look down at you if they know you live off government handouts.” Mohammed was prepared to face contempt. A man outside his homeland is always seen as a lesser person, he said. But in the future, that would change. “When I complete my education,” he said, “I will regain my self-esteem and those Germans will be proud of me.”
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THE ARTS Deadpanning for comedy gold in the North ‘That’s the whole thing about the importance of clicking on the article and knowing the source.’
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Alex Huntley, the Whitehorse editor of the Canadian satirical news publication The Beaverton, holds up a copy at Baked Cafe in Whitehorse. Ashley Joannou News Reporter
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he day after Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield landed back on the planet in 2013, Canadian earthlings celebrated. But in one corner of the Internet, rage was growing. “Hadfield comes home to $1.37-million Rogers phone bill,” the headline shouted. And the Internet folks, as Internet folks are prone to do, lost their marbles. The story got half a million hits and Canadians went after the telecommunications company for saddling a national hero with such a crushing burden. It’s unlikely anyone in the angry virtual mob actually clicked on the article. If they had, they would have noticed a few, let’s say, red flags. Hadfield racked up the bill, according to the article, by watching Youtube videos of goats that sound like humans. He’s quoted worrying about what his parents will think, suggesting he doesn’t pay his own
phone bill. The story was the handiwork of Alex Huntley, an editor with the satirical publication The Beaverton. Canada’s answer to The Onion, The Beaverton tweaks Canadian news in the name of comedy. Huntley moved to Whitehorse in April. Since then he’s started the website’s new North section and has been mining the territories for comedy. The Hadfield article was his first to get major online attention since he started working there in 2012. As funny as the reaction was, there’s a lesson there, he says. “That’s the whole thing about the importance of clicking on the article and knowing the source. I never had the intention of spoofing people into believing that Chris Hadfield had a $1.37 million phone bill.” The Beaverton has been around since 2010. In five years the website is up to a million hits a month. They have a TV deal and editors working out of Montreal, Toronto, Ottawa, and now
Whitehorse. “Because, you know, Vancouver wasn’t the next logical step, we’re going to Whitehorse here,” Huntley said. The whole thing is run by volunteers, people who are passionate about comedy and the news. “It’s something that I think is necessary, as someone who believes in critical thinking and making people laugh.” Since arriving in Whitehorse, Huntley has gathered a small group of satire writers to work with. Their inaugural story, on Whitehorse changing its name to Yellowknife to avoid confusion, got 16,000 hits. Not exactly astronaut-level success, but pretty good considering our size, Huntley says. “It got about 16,000 hits, which, for a northern community is maybe half your population. Which is great.” The Yukon so far has been a great source of comedy. Some headlines include: “Elections Canada announces new Yukon voting station teetering on Mount Logan’s Summit.” “Yellowknife’s closed KFC to become
National Historic Site.” And, of course: “Actual news story about Conservative MP Ryan Leef campaign signs baffles satirists.” “To be honest, we were all baffled,” Huntley said of the news that former MP Ryan Leef placed a Yukon woman under citizen’s arrest for vandalizing his signs. It’s tough to make funny fake news when the truth is so funny on its own. In the end that became the joke. “With the inability to compete with non-fake news organizations, the online satirical publication immediately shut down,” the article said. But when it comes to satire, not everything works. Early this year the publication apologized and pulled down a piece it published after Ashley Callingbull, a Cree woman, won Mrs. Universe. The article was headlined “Mrs. First Cree Woman To Gain National Coverage If She Disappears.” The story was meant to criticize the media for their failure to properly cover missing and murdered aboriginal women, but many readers took offense to making light of such a critical
issue. “Our intent was to say let’s talk more about this issue because it’s really important,” Huntley said. “But at the same time you have to be clear with your communication with the joke and that’s what makes it (satire) so nuanced. It’s tough.” Huntley said The Beaverton is a progressive publication and an ally to many social causes. “We always punch up with our humour, we never punch down.” There’s plenty of targets left for comedy in Yukon. Huntley notes this is a region prone to power outages with plans for a second fibre-optic Internet line. “That’s great, we’ve got Internet. We can’t turn on the modem because it requires electricity, but damn it we have two lines.” Jokes in the North section of the website are meant to connect with readers across the country, he said. Of course, they’ll have to have Internet. Contact Ashley Joannou at ashleyj@yukon-news.com
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about how phishers lure phools, the appeal of one-armed banAssociated Press dits and the media’s misleading NEW YORK fascination with splashy stories. The interview has been edited for t’s no secret we do things we know we shouldn’t. We overeat, length and clarity. Q: What prompted you to write gamble away our savings and this book? live like tomorrow will never come. A: I often tend to think that One reason, two Nobel laureates things are not what they seem. argue, is that there are plenty of Q: Your focus isn’t on malevobusinesses happy to lead us astray. lent fraudsters but people just doRobert Shiller, an economist at ing their job? Yale University, used his underA: We agreed that we shouldn’t standing of how human behaviour portray these people as evil. This is can affect markets to predict the just what you get with free mardot-com crash of the early 2000s kets, depending on how free you and the housing collapse of 2007. let them be. My previous books He won the Nobel Prize for Ecowere all about the positive aspects nomics in 2013 for his work showing that stock and bond prices can to markets. But markets are often presented too positively, with a move out of step with economic certain reverence. Life is more fundamentals even over the long complicated than that. run. Q: Could you explain why you In his new book with George chose the word, phish? Akerlof, another Nobel-prize winA: We use it as a metaphor bening economist, Shiller examines cause people are aware of computthe many ways credit-card comer phishing. You can so easily be panies, financial firms and other businesses lure people into buying fooled by them because you don’t see all the work that went into things that might harm them. The luring you in. Things look perfectly authors call that phishing, adoptplain and simple but in fact it’s ing the word for a common email all artifice. There are a lot of these scam to a broad array of cynical phishers, some of them are savvy business practices. They call the person who takes the bait a phool. operators, and they’re experimenting. They find a ploy and, man, it Their book is called Phishing for Phools: The Economics of Manipu- works. Q: This isn’t a new trend but it’s lation and Deception. Their big point: It’s not that bad getting worse? A: Yes. Take the slot machine. actors are gaming the free market, In the 19th Century, it dispensed it’s that hucksters and dishonest sweets and toys. It was the first marketing are part of the freevending machine. Now, it’s optimarket game. mized for gambling. Companies In a recent interview with The experiment with different things. Associated Press, Shiller talked Matthew Craft
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There’s the jingling and bright lights, all part of a mesmerizing effect. They like to give you the sense that you’ve almost won, with three cherries, for instance. You can program it so that two cherries come up, and you can see the third cherry stopping just one off. You think, “I almost won!” I don’t actually play these machines, mind you. Q: The gist is that businesses keep casting new lures into the water until they get a bite? A: It’s the same thing with Cinnabon. They don’t publicize the experimentation they do. Manufacturers of food try to get the optimal ratio to tap into your impulsivity. They don’t care about your health. Cinnabon boasts about their genuine Makara cinnamon from Indonesia. They can boast about that sort of thing. They can’t say, “Boy, we really cranked up the fat and sugar.” They place them carefully indoors, in train stations and airports, where you’ll smell it. You’re frustrated, your flight was delayed, and you’re in a bad mood. They catch you right there. The mind tends to have a conversation, producing an excuse to eat it alongside a memory of your resolve not to eat it. They try to help one side of this conversation with the slogan, “Life needs frosting.” It’s a beautiful slogan, a great justification for giving in. It works, I bet. Q: You say the news media is guilty of phishing, too. How so? A: They often focus on things that aren’t important because they know what kind of story sells. In March of last year, this Malaysia Airlines plane went down mysteriously. The logical thing is to think somebody made a mistake. However, the news media latched onto a mystery story for days and days. It’s just a waste of time to think about. In terms of human welfare, it would be much better if the cable stations put up the periodic table of the elements to remind everybody. That would be useful information compared to the Malaysian airlines story. I was on Neil Cavuto’s Fox Business TV show. He asked me what I thought about the Federal Reserve raising interest rates. I said I don’t think it really matters whether the Fed raises rates this meeting or next meeting. He said, “Look we’re doing a whole show about this.” There’s too much attention to these little stories. Q: Do you see any speculative bubbles out there now? A: There was a stock market bubble from 2009 to 2014. It might have ended last year. People have been worried about valuations in the market recently. The problem is there’s no exact science. We don’t know the probabilities of future events. Still, you have to take action and so you do it on gut feeling. That’s the world we live in. There’s so much disagreement about investing, and it’s because nobody really knows.
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the restricted airspace. Not having the proper training Canadian Press and permits can cause big probVANCOUVER lems, Atwood said. “When you have people who rones flying above wildtake what is essentially a tool and fires in British Columbia fl y it without regard for human last summer hampered life and property, it can not only aerial efforts to control the be damaging to those trying to blazes. But around the same time, the province was also using fight the wildfire, but incredibly damaging to a program that’s the unmanned aerial vehicles trying to take on new technology to determine if drones could be as well.� used to help fight wildfires. An unauthorized drone flyThe B.C. Wildfire Service coning near the Testalindin Creek tracted two commercial drone fire near Oliver, B.C., in August companies in July and August to soar above the Boulder Creek and grounded eight helicopters and five planes for more than three Elaho fires near Pemberton and hours. the Rock Creek fire just north of It was the most serious incithe Canada-U.S. border. dent involving drones around “It was very much kind of a wildfires this summer, but it small-scale trial to see how they wasn’t the only time the macould integrate, what kind of products they could generate for chines threatened firefighting us,� explained chief fire informa- efforts. “Obviously, that’s a pretty big tion officer Kevin Skrepnek. safety concern to us. If it were to The drones flew in areas come into contact with our airwhere flames had already been craft, that could have potentially doused, mapping fires and usdangerous results,� Skrepnek ing thermal imaging to look for said. hotspots that could flare again. It’s unclear what the unauTypically, finding hotspots thorized drones were doing in is done with helicopters using the restricted airspace and no a thermal scanning device or one was ever caught. people searching the forest floor During the test project, the on their hands and knees, Skrepdrones were communicating and nek said. Robert Atwood, co-founder of co-ordinating with fire crews, Skrepnek said. Hummingbird Drones in Kam“It is two very different isloops, B.C., said his experience fighting wildfires during summer sues involving the same type of aircraft. But it is, I think, just an breaks from university helped tailor services specifically to sup- opportunity to remind people again that unsanctioned use in port fire suppression efforts. and around fires is illegal,� Skrep“What we’re trying to accomnek said. plish is making the process of No decision has been made putting (fires) out more efficient,� on whether drones will become he explained. a regular part of the province’s Three of the company’s machines were used in the test, each firefighting arsenal, but Skrepnek equipped with infrared scanning said the experience was positive. Other firefighting forces are technology. They flew mostly at testing drones, too, Skrepnek night, at times soaring almost said, including Alaska and the 500 metres in the air. The team would then compile U.S. forest services. Cost of the trial hasn’t been the data and get it to fire crews by tallied. the next morning to help them “But certainly, if you do look focus fire-fighting efforts. at using this product compared In order to fly over the blazes, to the hourly cost of flying a Atwood and his team needed helicopter, it would certainly be to get a special flight-operation a fraction of the cost,� Skrepnek certificate from Transportation said. Canada that allowed them into Gemma Karstens-Smith
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he sun had just emerged over the horizon on the morning when Wayne Merry, Warren Harding and George Whitmore stood on top of the world’s most iconic cliff face. It was Nov. 12, 1958 and the trio had powered through the night to complete the first ascent of El Capitan’s Nose route, the 3,000-foot (915-metre) granite monolith in Yosemite National Park. Until then, the colossal rock face was thought to be unclimbable because of its steep, flat surfaces. A support party greeted them at the top with champagne and long-stem glasses, two of which had broken along the way. Merry took his in a small aluminum cup. “It was quite a feeling to get that over with,” said the 84-yearold Merry, who has spent the past 40 years living in Atlin, B.C. It’s considered one of the greatest climbing achievements in history, and a reason why Merry has earned his spot among rock-climbing royalty. Next week, on the 57th anniversary of the climb, he’ll be at Baked Cafe giving a slideshow presentation on the experience. Originally from Napa Valley, California, Merry met the enigmatic Harding at a beach picnic in San Francisco in 1956. The pair hit it off, Merry said, and they began climbing ocean cliffs together in the area. “We decided we had a lot of determination between the two of us, so we started doing things in Yosemite,” he said. The following year Harding learned that his former climbing partner, Royal Robbins, had beat him in becoming the first to climb the Northwest Face of Half Dome. By then, all of the major rock walls in Yosemite Valley had been climbed with the exception of the Northwest Face of Half Dome and El Capitan. Many of the best climbers at the time believed El Capitan couldn’t be ascended, Merry said, but Harding was committed to doing it – and one-upping Robbins. Harding put together a team in July 1957 and started on the epic quest. The group managed to make it about one-third of the way up over two summers, leaving fixed ropes along the way. Merry wasn’t on the original team because he was working at the park as a seasonal naturalist. But in 1958 when a few members of Harding’s team dropped out, Merry was asked if he wanted to join. “You bet,” Merry said. “I’ve always been one to try new things and that fit into the category.” Their training regimen wasn’t
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Climber Warren Harding, one of the trio that pioneered a route up Yosemite’s El Capitan, hauls a load up the side of a cliff. nearly as intense as it would be for today’s rock climbers. Harding worked full-time and took care of his mother, while Merry went to college and lived off a $100 monthly stipend provided for military veterans. As a result, the pair could only get away on weekends. They would go up the cliff face on fixed ropes, a bit higher each time, and leave more ropes. “We trained on red wine, if anything,” Merry said. In early November, they decided to make a final push for the summit. Two friends who would act as their support team, Whitmore and Rich Calderwood, joined them. Using a climbing method called prusiking – where loops of rope are tied to another rope, allowing one to climb – they made their way up to within 300 feet (90 metres) of the summit over several days. Their equipment was “primitive,” Merry said. It consisted mostly of metal spikes called pitons, rock drills, bolts, wood hammers and yachting rope. Merry wore marine corps com-
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Warren Harding, left, Wayne Merry, centre, and George Whitmore after their final ascent of the Nose route in 1958.
bat boots with modified Vibram soles and had a few polyester sweaters. They went up without any rain gear or down parkas, which would have been welcomed on the two nights it snowed, Merry said. “We certainly didn’t have the fleece or Gore-Tex jackets you have today,” he added. But fortunately Merry had a rubberized nylon tarp that sheltered them from the snow. They would communicate with friends and girlfriends down below by writing short letters and putting them in empty soup cans, which they hurled off the cliff. “She (his wife Cindy) still has all of them,” Merry said. Their diet consisted of candy bars, kipper snacks, jerky, trail mix and water. By the end of the climb they were only drinking a quart per day – about four cups – which wasn’t nearly enough, he said. In an interview a few years ago, Merry said he’d lost 15 pounds by the time he reached the summit due to dehydration. The only close call came when Merry was hauling a 50-pound (22.5 kilogram) bag of supplies up the cliff, and it almost fell off a ledge where it was sitting. “If I’d pulled it off the ledge I would have been toast,” he said. It wasn’t exactly the safest climb in the world. According to the 2015 edition of Accidents in North American Mountaineering, which has a special section on El Capitan, there were more than 100 incidents on the monolith between 1974 and 2014 – 41 of which were on the Nose route. Their accomplishment was recognized by the Yosemite Climbing Association in 2008 with a three-day celebration. Merry signed autographs for three hours, he said. The U.S. House of Representatives also unanimously passed a resolution honoring the achievement. Nowadays, El Capitan remains one of the great challenges for rock climbers, although Merry’s feat has been repeated many times by now. In September, American rock climber Hans Florine completed his 100th ascent of El Capitan’s Nose route. There are plenty of climbs that are harder and longer, Merry said. But few climbs have such a perfect route to the top. “It remains iconic because it has the most perfect line on the biggest and most impressive piece of rock in the United States,” he said. “The rock itself is just magnificent, too. The feel of it is remarkable.” Merry will speak about the climb at Baked Cafe on Nov. 12 from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. There is no cost to attend, but donations would be appreciated. Contact Myles Dolphin at myles@yukon-news.com
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Poppy important marketing and remembrance symbol for Royal Canadian Legion of the organization. A poppy logo is now part of Canadian Press the Legion’s public face and HALIFAX poppy-themed products ranging from throw blankets to candles here was a time when a and mittens can be bought poppy adorning an umbrella just didn’t cut it with online. Maxwell said the idea was to members of a Royal Canadian update the image of the legion Legion committee. as more than a place to socialize, Now, such an item is sold given that it runs a number of through its online store. assistance programs for veterans “At one time it was not and youth. deemed to be appropriate,� Bill “We didn’t have a consistent Maxwell, secretary of the poppy branding that was contemand remembrance committee at Dominion Command in Ottawa, porary,� he said, adding that his committee evaluates every said in an interview Tuesday. proposed use of the poppy image “Time passes and approaches for marketing with an eye on change and now we do have, I respectful uses of the well-known think, a very nice poppy umflower as a symbol of remembrella.� A symbol honouring Canada’s brance. The money raised by the onwar dead since 1921, the poppy line store helps fund the operahas been reimagined in the last tions of legion branches and is two years on clothing, as jewelry and even on tote bags and head- separate from the annual poppy appeal campaign that runs stones as an important marketthrough the remembrance period ing tool for the Legion. between Oct. 30 and Nov. 11. The red flower immortalized “We’ve always had some popin this country by war poet John py-related products and that will McCrae’s In Flanders Fields is continue to expand,� Maxwell trademarked in Canada by the said. “It’s a very popular item and Legion, which in 2013 included the poppy as part of a rebranding it has an appeal to Canadians.� Keith Doucette
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Though it is ever-evolving – as demonstrated by the umbrella decision – Maxwell said the Canadian store’s use of the poppy is modest when compared to what’s offered by the Royal British Legion, which he described as a “major marketing machine.� “We certainly haven’t made the decision as the Royal British Legion has to commercialize with a whole range of products,� said Maxwell. “We are trying to keep them to a level where they are attached to commemoration and remembrance.� The traditional poppy campaign has also expanded over time to include poppy stickers
and a more permanent pin that can be worn at any time of the year for commemorative events. Maxwell said the popularity of the poppy saw the campaign take in $16.5 million last year. He said those funds are kept in trust and used for a wide range of support programs, from funding housing and care facilities for veterans to purchasing medical equipment and maintaining memorials. “The main concern is that the poppy is used respectfully and as a symbol of remembrance,� said Maxwell. That’s a sentiment that’s important to 85-year-old Peter Melkert of Halifax, a legion mem-
ber who has been selling poppies for 33 years, including the last 18 at the same grocery store in the city’s south end. Melkert is a Dutch immigrant, who at 16 was saved from starvation when Canadian soldiers liberated his home city of Rotterdam. He said he met a Canadian soldier who thrust some raisins into his hand – a memory he will never forget. “I look forward to it every year to be here for a week putting poppies on,� said Melkert. “It’s a small price to pay for what they (Canadians) did to liberate my country.�
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The First Nations Programs and Partnerships Unit of the Department of Education wishes to thank everyone who contributed to the successful in-service of the new curriculum unit on Indian residential schools to be taught in Social Studies 10 classes throughout Yukon this school year.
La section des Programmes et des partenariats avec les Premières nations du ministère de l’Éducation désire remercier toutes les personnes qui ont contribué à mise au point de la nouvelle unité d’apprentissage sur les pensionnats indiens. Grâce à leurs efforts, cette nouvelle ressource a pu être intégrée cette année au cours de Sciences humaines 10 offert dans toutes les écoles du Yukon.
Thank you to: • First Nations Elders who shared their wisdom and provided opening and closing blessings • Indian residential school students and intergenerational survivors who courageously shared their stories and experiences • In-service presenters and facilitators • Resolution Health Support Workers and Community Support persons • Teachers and counsellors • Committee on Abuse in Indian Residential Schools (CAIRS) • Council of Yukon First Nations • Health Canada • Yukon First Nations for supporting the development of these resources
Nous remercions : • Les Aînés des Premières nations, qui nous ont fait profiter de leur sagesse et qui ont prononcé les bénédictions traditionnelles lors des rencontres • Les élèves des pensionnats indiens et leurs descendants, qui nous ont courageusement raconté leurs histoires et fait part de leurs expériences • Les présentateurs et les animateurs invités • Les travailleurs de soutien en santé communautaire pour la résolution des questions des pensionnats indiens et les travailleurs des services de soutien communautaires • Les enseignants et les conseillers • Les membres du Committee on Abuse in Indian Residential Schools (CAIRS) • Le Conseil des Premières nations du Yukon • Santé Canada • Les Premières nations du Yukon, qui ont appuyé l’élaboration de cette nouvelle ressource éducative
Special thanks to these individuals / Nous tenons à remercier particulièrement : Adeline Webber Agnes Chief Alice Donnessey Alma Wrixon Andy Nieman Ann Maje Raider Annie Bernard Bessie Chasse Bob Charlie Carol Shorty
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From Bautista’s bat flip to embarrassing bands, the perils of timely tattoos opinion on, somebody else might ideas, especially those under the disagree. So where do you really required age of 18, even if they’re draw the line?” with their consenting parents. McLaine thinks the trend is Baxter once turned away a TORONTO partly a result of tattoos becoming 17-year-old girl who went in with ust hours after slugger Jose so ubiquitous, resulting in a menher mother asking for lyrics from Bautista made an indelible tality of “everybody has a tattoo, so a Nine Inch Nails song to be tatmark in Toronto Blue Jays hiswhy shouldn’t I get one?” he says. tooed from her wrist to her armpit. tory with his now-famous bat flip, “The second part, a disturbHe takes body placement seriByran Bevins sought to make the ing trend is this undercurrent ously. moment even more permanent. “If someone comes in and they of … ‘Well why shouldn’t I get a The factory worker from Ostattoo, because I can always get it hawa, Ont., got a tattoo of Bautista say ‘Go Jays go’ and they want to doing his celebratory bat toss in removed.’ While that’s true, it’s a put it on their forehead, well I’m Game 5 of the series versus the time-consuming, painful, expenprobably going to tell them it’s a Texas Rangers – less than 24 hours real bad idea and we don’t really sive process.” after it happened. The cost of full tattoo removal want to have anything to do with Baseball hysteria in Toronto at his clinic depends on the size of it,” says Baxter. would ultimately last just a little the work. McLaine says at the low But if they’re persistent about over a week longer before the Jays it, he won’t refuse. end, it’s about $1,700. were eliminated by the Kansas And clients need about four to “I’d rather make sure that perCity Royals. son gets it done somewhere that’s eight treatments to get one fully But Bevins has no regrets about really safe and clean and I know removed, depending on the depth his inked image, which is on his of the ink (faded ink is easier to we’re notable for that, so why upper-left thigh and took more remove). not?” he says. than six hours to create. McLaine estimates a work like “It’s a form of expression. “Well, maybe when I’m older the Bautista tattoo would cost Something that I might have an and it starts to fade and kind of looks dumb,” says Bevins, who has six other tattoos. “But that would be only because of looks, not because of what it is.” Bevins got the tattoo after FY Ink in Toronto took to social media to recruit one Jays “superfan” Kill reports and compulsory to get the bat-flip image inked on submissions for most species are due their body for free. no later than 15 days after the end It was a gimmick, but it points to a growing trend that’s been of the month in which you successfully noticed by Mike McLaine, owner hunted. of Precision Laser Tattoo Removal in Toronto. “It seems to be a trend that If you were successful in October, your now you get some kind of event, deadline is November 15th. something going on in the news, and invariably somebody decides to go out there and mark the occasion irreversibly with a tattoo,” says McLaine. For more information visit: FY Ink made headlines for a www.env.gov.yk.ca similar campaign two years ago, when one of its apprentices got a tattoo of then-mayor Rob Ford smoking a crack pipe. “He thought it was cool until ANNUAL GENERAL the second day when all the comments (on the story) were pretty MEETING friggin’ harsh,” says FY Ink owner Lee Baxter. “He was just like, ‘Man, my parents are … pissed off at me,”’ 40782 Yukon Inc. he added, using an unprintable (VGLP) expletive. A love of certain musicians or bands seems to drive many impulis holding their sive tattoo requests. A client at FY Annual General Meeting Ink, for example, got one of Chris November 17 2015. Brown’s face. Baxter says many clients want to ink musical artists’ In the Community Hall autographs, while McLaine has Old Crow, Yukon had several clients ask to remove those types of tattoos. All Vuntut Gwitchin Citizen’s invited! “We’ve actually removed the Bring your own dishes and cutlery name of a boy band off someplease! body,” he says. While some tattoo parlours Bring your questions, and appetites! Open have their own code of ethics, Baxhouse at 3pm, Dinner at 5pm, public meeting to ter’s isn’t as strict. He calls himself follow. For more information call our office. “more of a businessman” who believes that a parlour “should Contact Guy Chan at: offer from A to Z tattooing” while 1-867-456-8350 focusing on hygiene and quality or email: gchan@vuntut.com work. But he takes a harder line with younger clients who have lofty Victoria Ahearn Canadian Press
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about $3,000 and take a few treatments to get rid of. Of course, Bevins isn’t concerned with that right now. After all, Bautista praised it on his Instagram account and met with Bevins in the team’s locker room. “I started showing Bautista the tattoo and (the other Jays) all just kind of kept calling each other over until pretty much the whole
team was surrounding me,” recalls Bevins. “I was just standing there in my underwear showing them my tattoo.” While the Blue Jays buzz was worn off, Bevins is still proud of the piece. “They still did really well in my eyes. They really pulled together and still made things happen, made for a good season.”
Champagne Aishihik Trust Board Champagne and Aishihik First Nations (CAFN) is seeking Citizens to sit on the Champagne Aishihik Trust (CA Trust) for a term of three years. The CA Trust is established by the Trust Deed of Settlement to oversee CAFN’s compensation and investment funds, including the business investments of Dakwakada Capital Investments. The Trust meets a minimum of four times a year (quarterly) and additionally as required. DEADLINE TO APPLY: 4:30 p.m., Wednesday, November 18, 2015 For more information and the CAFN Boards and Committees application visit: http://cafn.ca/government/board-committee/ Please submit your application and resumé to: Angie Wabisca (867) 456-6881 Fax (867) 667-6202 awabisca@cafn.ca
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Members of the Yukon Human Rights Commission would like to extend a sincere thank you to our staff. We are very fortunate to have such dedicated and hardworking individuals to carry out the important work of upholding the rights of all Yukoners. We look forward to supporting you in the work you will be undertaking over the next year, and to advancing the goals, vision and mission of the Commission. Read more about our work on our website at www.yhrc.yk.ca and in our 2014 - 2015 Annual Report. Al Hubley, Chair, Yukon Human Rights Commission
Yukon Soccer Association will be holding ID camps for the 2016 Arctic Winter Games Futsal teams in the following age categories: Intermediate Female: born in 1998 or later December 12th 9:00-10:30 am December 13th 10:45-12:15 pm Junior Male: born in 2000 or later December 12th 12:30-2:00 pm December 13th 9:00-10:30 am Junior Female: born in 2000 or later December 12th 2:15-3:45 pm December 13th 12:30-2:00 pm Juvenile Male: born in 2002 or later December 12th 10:45-12:15 pm December 12th 4:00-5:15 pm Juvenile Female: born in 2002 or later November 28th 12:00-1:30 pm November 29th 12:00-1:30 pm The trials will be held at Vanier Secondary School Gym, in Whitehorse. An information sheet is available at Sport Yukon and on the YSA website (www.yukonsoccer.yk.ca) with the schedule for each division. Juvenile Female participants are asked to register no later than 5:00pm on November 25th, 2015, and all others by December 9th at Sport Yukon. Participants must be members in good standing with Yukon Soccer Association (registered and currently playing indoor soccer). For more information please contact Yukon Soccer Association at 633-4625. Note: to be considered, players MUST attend trials unless you receive an exemption from Sport Yukon by November 25th, 2015.
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B.C. man survives hours adrift in ocean by holding on to jerry cans, crab float Geordon Omand Canadian Press
VANCOUVER evin Strain is having difficult deciding where he’ll hang the crab float he credits with saving his life. But he’s not about to get rid of the small, luminous buoy that helped him survive more than two hours adrift after the boat he was travelling on struck a rock off Vancouver Island and tossed him overboard last week. “Either over the bar or in the kitchen, or maybe over the galley table,” said Strain about possible locations, speaking by phone from his home on Malcolm Island, off the northern tip of Vancouver Island. “I was thinking of Tom Hanks from (the 2000 Hollywood movie) Cast Away,” he added, laughing. “This is my Wilson.” Strain left Malcolm Island last Tuesday aboard the 20-metre, 50-tonne Oliver Clark II, which he was helping a friend shuttle to Vancouver. It was about 2 a.m. the next day and the boat had just entered the opening of the Yucataw Rapids – a nasty water feature sandwiched between Sonora and Stuart islands – when it hit a rock that lifted the boat’s stern into the air and rolled it violently onto the left side. “It felt like the bow dropped into a hole,” said Strain. “That’s when I got ejected out of the wheelhouse. I was standing just to the left of the captain, who was at the wheel, and I went right through the wheelhouse door on the port side and right over the rail. “I was standing there one minute, I felt the impact and the next minute I’m in the water,” he said. “I don’t even remember going through the doorway.” Strain, who wasn’t wearing a life jacket, quickly managed to grab
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Kevin Strain survived more than two hours adrift after the boat he was travelling on struck a rock off Vancouver Island and tossed him overboard last week. on to a pair of empty 20-litre jerry cans that had also been tossed into the water. The buoyant, bright-red containers helped him stay afloat as he was repeatedly dragged below the surface in a series of whirlpools. “I was sucked under and spit back out and sucked under and spit back out,” said Strain. “I closed my eyes because I was getting dizzy from going around.” Within a few minutes he was out of the rapids, being swept away in a strong current that prevented him from swimming back to the boat. Using the jerry cans and a crab float he spotted under the light of the full moon, Strain recalled propping his upper body out of the water and kicking for shore, buoyed by thoughts of his wife and three young children. “First of all it was, ‘I’m going to die.’ Then it was, ‘Holy crap, I made it.’ Then it was, ‘If I don’t make it out of this I’m never going to see my family again.”’ More than two hours later, Strain managed to grab on to a rocky outcropping and pull himself
ashore to escape the current. After wringing out his waterlogged hoodie, he watched from afar while coast guard boats and a rescue helicopter scoured the channel looking for him. Eventually, around 6 a.m., his yelling caught the attention of rescuers on board a civilian boat helping with the search. Despite spending hours in the water, which he said coast guard officials estimated to be around 10 degrees Celsius, Strain was remarkably unscathed, escaping with little more than bruising along his left side where he slammed into the wheelhouse door on his way overboard. “I never stopped kicking. I think just working, keeping the blood flowing, was helping me out a bit. I think if I’d just drifted I would have frozen pretty quick,” he said. “Everybody says, ‘You’re tough,’ or whatever, but I think it’s more stubbornness than anything,” he added, laughing. “Just not giving up – not giving up.”
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The many marvels of the mysterious mushroom by David Suzuki
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ntil 1969, biologists thought mushrooms and other fungi were plants. They’re actually more closely related to animals, but with enough differences that they inhabit their own distinct classification. This and more recent findings about these mysterious organisms illustrate how much we have yet to learn about the complexities of the natural world. New research reveals mushrooms can even help plants communicate, share nutrients and defend themselves against disease and pests. There’s far more to mushrooms than the stems and caps that poke above ground. Most of the organism is a mass of thin underground threads called mycelia. These filaments form networks that help plants, including trees, connect to each other, through structures called mycorrhizae. Scientists believe about 90 per cent of land-based plants are involved in this mutually beneficial relationship with fungi. Plants deliver food to the mushroom, created by photosynthesis, and the filaments, in turn, assist the plants to absorb water and minerals and to produce chemicals that help them resist disease and other threats. And, of course, a myriad of other life forms benefit from the healthy plants. The structure and function of the mycelial networks and their ability to facilitate communication between physically separated plants led mycologist Paul Stamets to call them “Earth’s natural Internet.� He’s also noted their similarity to brain cell networks. According to a Discover article, “Brains and mycelia grow new connections, or prune existing ones, in response to environmental stimuli. Both use an array of chemical messengers to transmit signals throughout a cellular web.� Research by Suzanne Simard at the University of British Columbia found that Douglas fir and paper birch trees transfer carbon back and forth through the mycelia, and other research shows they can also transfer nitrogen and phosphorous. Simard believes older, larger trees help younger trees through this process. She found that the smaller trees’ survival often depends on large “mother trees� and that cutting down these tree elders leaves seedlings and smaller trees more vulnerable. Researchers in China found
trees attacked by harmful fungi are able to warn other trees through the mycelia networks, and University of Aberdeen biologists found they can also warn other plants of aphid attacks. It all adds to our growing understanding of how interconnected everything on our planet is, and how our actions – such as cutting down large “mother� trees – can have unintended negative consequences that cascade through ecosystems. Scientists are also finding that fungi can be useful to humans beyond providing food and helping us make cheese, bread, beer and wine. Stamets believes mushrooms can be employed to clean up oil spills, defend against weaponized smallpox, break down toxic chemicals like PCBs and decontaminate areas exposed to radiation. He credits his interest in fungi to another fascinating aspect of many mushrooms around the world: their hallucinogenic properties. During college, Stamets spent a lot of time in the Ohio woods, where he first tried psilocybin mushrooms. They had a profound effect on him, and after his first experience, his persistent stutter went away. He later quit a logging job, because the work was destroying mushroom habitat, and began studying fungi at Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington. Since then, his research has led to fascinating discoveries of multiple possible purposes for fungi, including nuclear decontamination, water filtration, biofuels, increasing agricultural yields, pest control and medicines. Research is also shedding light on potential benefits of the psychotropic properties of mushrooms, such as the 144 species that contain psilocybin. Indigenous people have long used hallucinogenic mushrooms for ceremonial, spiritual and psychological purposes – and with good reason, it turns out. Psilocybin has been shown to improve the brain’s connectivity. Researchers are finding the chemical can help combat depression, anxiety, fear and other disorders, and increase creativity
and openness to new experience. This makes them potentially beneficial for post-traumatic stress, addiction and palliative care treatments. We humans have made a lot of technological and scientific advances, and this sometimes gives us the sense that we’re above or outside of nature, that we can do things better. Sometimes it takes a fascinating lifeform like a mushroom to shake us from our hubris and show us how much we have yet to learn about the world and our place in it. Dr. David Suzuki is a scientist, broadcaster, author and co-founder of the David Suzuki Foundation. Written with contributions from David Suzuki Foundation Senior Editor Ian Hanington.
Transit will also be providing a shuttle bus service from 8 am to 1 pm, between Takhini Arena and the Canada Games Centre, for the Remembrance Day Ceremony. The Ceremony will begin promptly at 10 am at the Canada Games Centre. The Canada Games Centre will be open special hours from 1 pm to 8 pm. Normal hours will resume on Thursday, November 12.
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Human-powered torpedo on an Alaska island by Ned Rozell
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Kiska last year, has imagined the plight of elite Japanese seamen assigned to operate the subs. Two men squeezed into the ship, which historians compared to torpedoes that could fire smaller torpedoes at ships from point-blank range. “I don’t know if you’re claustrophobic, but I couldn’t imagine a worse job,” Corbett said. Corbett and graduate student Richard Galloway have highlighted the Kiska midget sub on their blog for the Aleutian Island Research Group, a collection of scientist who share ideas about a unique place on Earth. Corbett, now operating a consulting business, retired in 2013 from her position as archaeologist with the Alaska Maritime
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National Wildlife Refuge, the keepers of the Aleutians based in Homer. While looking for prehistoric sites on Kiska, of which there are many, archaeologists bump into reminders of the Japanese presence on Kiska during World War II. The 78-foot submarine lies in the long grass off Kiska Harbor. It rests at the site of a base complete with rails to move the subs into and out of the ocean and a few sheds to shelter them. The sub is like an unprotected museum piece into which infrequent visitors can wedge themselves into its shards of rusted metal. They can imagine what it must have been like to be the pilot or navigator, only one of whom was able to stand in the sub at any moment. “This was not the suicide sub, but it was not known for a high survivability for the occupants, either,” Galloway said. “The Japanese were more willing to give their life for the sake of the Emperor than most U.S. troops were. This tiny sub is a good symbol of that.” Kiska seems an odd place to deploy the subs, which ran on battery power. Their range was 90 miles at six knots, and the subs could dive to 100 feet. The crew could not recharge the batteries at sea and depended on being recovered by another ship. The Japanese used several of the midget subs during the attack on Pearl Harbor. Japanese leaders wanted to deploy six of them at Midway Atoll, but after defeat there they diverted the subs to Kiska in July 1942. Though the Japanese were only at Kiska 14 months before evacuating under cover of fog, the presence of the sub base, an underground hospital and big hillside guns show their long-
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Biologist Jeff Williams near a midget submarine on Kiska Island in the far west Aleutians in 2004. term plans. “Most people think Japanese occupation of the Aleutians was ephemeral,” Corbett said. “But their defenses on Kiska were pretty formidable. They had anti-aircraft guns up and down the valleys. They had six Shinto shrines and a float-plane base. They had pretty much dug in there for the long haul.” The World War II Japanese attacks and occupations in Alaska involved three places. The Japanese bombed Dutch Harbor on June 4, 1942. They landed and set up bases on Attu and Kiska two days later. American troops recaptured Attu in a bloody battle in May 1943. American and Canadian forces then landed on Kiska in August 1943. Expecting heavy resistance, they found the Japanese had escaped the island before the invasion. Before they left under cover of thick Aleutian weather, Japanese troops disabled the midget submarines with explosives. Americans who then occupied Kiska cut up one of the subs for scrap metal. A few are
perhaps at the bottom of Kiska harbor. Part of another lies belly-up on a Kiska beach. The recognizable one remains in the grass of the old sub base on the unoccupied island, as far from northern Japan as it is from Anchorage. Few people have seen the brown-orange reminder of when war came to Alaska. A deadline for that experience is approaching. “Although the metal items on Kiska are surviving far better than the same items in the South Pacific, (the sub) will likely rust into oblivion,” Galloway wrote. photos: 1. Biologist Jeff Williams near a midget submarine on Kiska Island in the far west Aleutians in 2004. 2. One of six Shinto shrines on Kiska Island, a remnant of 14 months of Japanese occupation of the island in World War II. Ned Rozell photos. 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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Remembering the wounded, the brave and the dead of World War I by Michael Gates
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he was involved in a trench raid at Birkin Crater. During the attack, someone dislodged a bomb. According to the Dawson Daily News: “With quick presence of mind, he threw a big German on top of it, at the same time holding him down. The German was blown to hell and killed. Stangroom was blown some himself, but the worst he got was a leg full of bomb shrapnel.� James Murdoch Christie was another Yukoner who was promoted through the ranks to become a legend as a scout and sniper for the Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry. On October 30, 1917, during the battle of Passchendaele, his unit had to capture a number of German pillboxes in order to take their objective. The communication lines were broken, and his unit was under heavy fire. Lieutenant Christie passed through the enemy barrage several times to deliver vital information to the command. His party took brutally heavy losses until they reached a seemingly unassailable pill-box, with machine guns firing in every direction. Most of the officers had been wounded or killed. So Christie and two other Patricias, 26 year-old American-born Sergeant George Henry Mullin, and Lieutenant Hugh MacKenzie, of the 7th Machine Gun Company, took the initiative. Christie provided covering fire while Mullin and MacKenzie captured a seemingly impregnable pill box. Both Mullin and Mackenzie were awarded the Victoria Cross; Christie was awarded the Military Cross and survived the war by 20 years. Not all heroes were so lucky. Sergeant-major Anthony Blaikie joined The Boyle Machine Gun Battery in September of 1914. Nearly four years later, the recipient of both the Military Medal and the Distinguished Conduct Medal, he was accompanying Lieutenant Lyman Black in a defensive manoeuvre against a German offensive that had caught the Allies off-guard. During a pitched battle
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A young Lieutenant Lyman Black (on motorcycle) enters Mons, Belgium, in a victory parade November 11, 1918. Black saw heavy fighting, was awarded the Military Cross and survived the war, but he watched many of his Yukon comrades killed in action in what was later called The Great War. with the enemy, Blaikie took a bullet and was killed instantly. Lieutenant Lyman Black, who was with Blaikie when he was killed said this about him: “Cool and resourceful, he made an admirable NCO; his decorations were a witness to his great personal courage, which was never more in evidence than on this occasion: as a man he was marked by an unusual honesty and integrity of character. He had a ‘hunch’ before going into this fight that it would be his last.� Harold A.E. Newton, of Whitehorse, who listed himself as a fur trader, enlisted in Vancouver, November 11, 1914. He was last seen on the morning of April 6, 1916, in a terrific bombardment near St. Eloi, Belgium, during a German counter attack. His remains were never found, but his name is found on the Menin Gate memorial. Located in Ypres, Belgium, this memorial was built in 1927 to remember the 55,000 soldiers who died at Ypres whose remains were never found. Except for a break during the Second World War, a ceremony has been held at the Menin Gate
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for Yukon men; October 30, 1917 was the bloodiest day. While James Christie was earning his Military Cross, seven others lost their lives. One of them was another member of Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry. Private Peter Allan was last seen about 6 a.m., just as his company jumped off in the attack on Passchendaele Ridge. His remains were never found. His name, too, is memorialized at the Menin Gate. The other Yukoners killed that day were: George W Cassidy, Frank De Sales, Fred La Blanche, George Eric Otis, Francois Pregent and Joseph Tilton. All of these Yukon men and many more – a hundred - gave their lives for our country. We owe it to them on November 11, to remember them and the sacrifices they made. Michael Gates is a Yukon historian and sometimes adventurer based in Whitehorse. He is currently writing book about the involvement of the Yukon in World War I. You can contact him at msgates@ northwestel.net
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Mercury and the North’s lake-bottom line by Erling Friis-Baastad
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the University of Waterloo in Ontario. “Northerners have to deal with these influxes even though they are producing next to none of them,� says Zabel, who spent last spring and summer exploring mercury contamination and other fisheries-related issues at Kluane Lake. First Nation governments and others concerned with northern watersheds and ecosystems are understandably troubled by the potential effects of that global distillation process, Zabel says. His thesis work, Mercury Dynamics and Paleolimnology of Kluane Lake, is part of a yet larger project initiated and supported by the Kluane First Nation. Paleolimnology is the study of a lake’s history. By analyzing core sediment samples from present to over 1,000 years ago, and fish tissues of today, scientists hope to determine how severely these fish, and other creatures in
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Kluane Lake and its neighbouring environments, have been affected. They want to know how rapidly the atmospheric toxin-transportation process is working. “We look at things like the amount of plant matter and algae that have been preserved in the sediment,� says Zabel. Different algae thrive under different lake conditions, whether colder or warmer, more acidic or more saline, for example. Scientists use the traces of various communities of algae over time to reconstruct the history of the lake. Mercury and photosynthesis have a strong relationship – understanding algae can help understand how mercury behaves in Kluane Lake. They also analyze the sediments for metals, such as titanium, as well as mercury. The analysis allows researchers to determine how much mercury is part of the natural backdrop of the lake and how much has been added to the water from elsewhere and more recently. Zabel first arrived in the Yukon late last March. “It’s a lot easier to take sediment cores from a frozen lake than it is from a moving boat, especially with the winds you get on Kluane,� he says. “We collected our cores during the day and took them back to the Kluane Lake Research Station,� he recalls. “They opened a bit early in the year for us, so we were able to stay there and have their support while we were doing the coring – which was fantastic.� The cores are columns of lake sediment collected in acrylic tubes. At the Kluane station the cores were divided into slices of one centimetre and one-halfcm thick. These were labeled by depth and core number and kept in a black plastic bag. Zabel flew the cores home to his lab in mid April, making sure his samples remained cold and didn’t get lost in transit. He then had two months to undertake preliminary tests on the cores before he was scheduled to return to Kluane. Among the tests was a series of high-temperature treatments called “loss on ignition� – LOI, for short. Tiny sediment samples, weighing about half of a gram, are heated in a muffle furnace, first at 90 degrees Celsius, then
550 degrees and then 1,000. “LOI allows us to determine water content, organic content, carbonate content, and mineral content of the lake sediments,� says Zabel. “The sequential heating first evaporates the water, then burns off the organic matter, then burns off the carbonates.� At the end of June, Zabel flew back to the Yukon, just days before the Kluane Lake Trout Derby was set to begin on Canada Day. “We weren’t fishing in the derby but we partnered with the Kluane Lake Athletic Association of the Kluane First Nation to be part of their derby,� says Zabel. He and his colleagues introduced themselves to derby anglers and explained that they were working with the Kluane First Nation on possible contaminants and nutritional values of the fish – lake trout, of course, as well as burbot and whitefish. “These three species employ different feeding strategies, and live typically in different parts of the lake,� he says. The researchers asked anglers for the otoliths (a fish’s ear bones) and a small sample of fish flesh from each catch. “The sampling we did was pretty low impact,� says Zabel. “And we wouldn’t have been able to catch all those fish on our own. We ended up with about 115 samples in three days.� In exchange for the samples, anglers would have their catch cleaned for free and offered a chance to enter a draw for a Go Pro camera. Not all the research and results were a direct part of his master’s thesis work, says Zabel, but they were a component of the overall project KFN is doing. Previous lake research undertaken in the Northwest Territories and Nunavut has revealed that variations in mercury concentrations are exceptionally high, says Zabel. “You can have lakes within a couple of kilometres from each other, where the fish in one may be unsafe and the fish in the other may be totally fine to eat.� That variation from water body to water body makes it difficult, at least for now, for scientists to draw all-encompassing conclusions about the North. However, the potential for toxic effects is certainly there, scattered among water bodies,
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Mason Elwood shows off a lake trout he caught this summer. for those who rely on local fish for food. “We as humans, being large organisms, can accumulate a relatively high amount of mercury before it starts to affect us,� he says. Mercury accumulates in protein-rich tissues, like muscle, says Zabel. Symptoms include loss of muscle control, memory impairment and loss of co-ordination. On the other hand, fish is an incredibly healthy food source, rich in protective nutrients, such as selenium and omega-3 fatty acids. These can help protect the body against the harmful effects of mercury, and provide numerous other health benefits. Fish from Kluane Lake will also be analyzed for nutritional value, to help better understand the risks and benefits of these fish. “Like mercury, nutrients can vary greatly from species to species, and lake to lake. We’re trying to understand both the benefits and the possible negatives of fish in Kluane,� Zabel explains. Zabel’s undergraduate degree is in physical geography. He is especially enthusiastic about how ecology and biology have interfaced with his original field to provide a study that is immediately essential from a human perspective. “It is so realistic; it’s a project I can really get behind,� he says. So can a lot of other folks, including those at the Arctic Institute for Community-based Research, who are facilitating this research, and his faculty advisors, biologists Heidi Swanson and Roland Hall. So what’s the next step in the project? Zabel says, and laments, that 2015’s data collecting was so successful he won’t be called back to the beautiful wilds of Kluane anytime soon. “It’s lab work from here on in,� he says. This column is co-ordinated by the Yukon Research Centre at Yukon College with major financial support from Environment Yukon and Yukon College. The articles are archived at www.yukoncollege.yk.ca/ research/publications/your-yukon
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Attention Post-Secondary Tr’ondÍk HwÍch’in Students
FUNDING DEADLINES If you are a new student interested in attending school in January at your post-secondary institution, your deadline for winter semester funding applications is: November 16, 2015. Applications received after the November 16 deadline will be deferred to the April 1st deadline.
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SPORTS AND RECREATION Warriors win all but one title at Dawson invitational Tom Patrick News Reporter
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he Warriors went on the warpath at the Dawson Invitational Volleyball Tournament over the weekend. The F.H. Collins Warriors made all four finals and won three out of four titles at the 37th annual tournament in Dawson City. The senior girls title was the one that got away. The Vanier Crusaders prevented the Warriors sweep, defeating the Warriors in two sets in the final. Of the three Warrior wins, the one in senior boys is perhaps the most surprising. The Warriors placed third behind Vanier and Porter Creek in boys Super Volley – the Whitehorse high school league – a couple weeks ago. The team was then split in two for Dawson. There was the White Team and the Black Team – or the A Team and B Team, depending on who you ask. The White Team (a.k.a. B Team) won the title. “They refer to themselves as the B Team,” said Warriors head coach Nathan Bingham. “I guess for a while they considered themselves to be the underdogs. “The Black Team had some of the stronger players in the pool play. The starters on the Black Team really dominated each of their sets in the tournament. The White Team, their sets were a lot closer.” The White Team squeezed into the playoffs in fourth place after the round robin while the Black squad cruised in in first place. White then beat the Black Team in the semi and the Porter Creek Rams in the final – both ended in straight sets. “I think the guys on the White Team were more hungry for it. They had something to prove and they battled harder for it and they got it,” said Bingham. “Sam Finton and James Russell were blocking really well,” he added of the final. “They did a great job at shutting down PC’s middles. Their captain for the team, Logan Harris, was really consistent putting away the high-ball sets for the team. Porter Creek had a hard time stopping him because he’s agile in the air.” The F.H. Collins junior girls sent the Rams packing twice in a row. The Warriors beat a Porter Creek team in the semifinal and then downed another in the final in two sets. The F.H. crew had to string together three straight wins for the title. It wasn’t easy and by the time the team reached the final, they were “battle hardened,” said Warriors head coach Peter Grundmanis. “I think one of the reasons why we were able to play well in the final is that we had two really
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F.H. Collins Warriors player Logan Harris bumps the ball during Super Volley play this season. Harris was on one of three winning Warriors teams at the Dawson Invitational Volleyball Tournament over the weekend. intense matches before that that we had to win just to get into the
playoffs. All the teams were so evenly matched they were split-
ting with each other. With one match to go we had to win just to
get into the playoffs.” The hosting Dawson team, the Robert Service School Knights, had a good run. They placed first after the round robin, but lost to Porter Creek in the semifinal. “Emily Muir was a real clutch hitter for us in the final,” added Grundmanis. “She just didn’t make any mistakes.” When all the chips were on the table, F.H. Collins’ junior boys got the job done. The Warrior weren’t turning heads in the round robin, finishing third, but in the playoffs they won four straight sets for the title. They downed the Rams in two in the semi and the Crusaders in two in the final. “Porter Creek beat us in two sets early on and Vanier beat us in one set early on, but we went through both those guys in the elimination games,” said Warriors head coach Andrew Craigen. “My guys focused hard and got better throughout the tournament and played well when it counted. It was exciting. Dawson is always a fun environment.” Despite his team’s smooth run in the playoffs in Dawson, the Yukon championships is still anyone’s to win, said Craigen. “I’d say it’s pretty wide open heading into the Yukon championships,” he said. “PC played the best they’ve played all year up in Dawson and they’ll be hungry to go. Vanier always has a good chance with their school spirit and their coaching staff over there, so it’s definitely going to be a good tournament over there next weekend.” Vanier didn’t win a single division at last year’s Dawson tournament, but the Crusaders senior girls got one this year and prevented a Warriors sweep. The Crusaders, who won the Super Volley title the previous week, will now attempt the Triple Crown win a third title at the Yukon Volleyball Championships in a week. “Because they won Super Volley they were hunted right away. Everyone wants to beat them now,” said Vanier coach Dwayne Stoker, who was filling in for head coach Amanda Bartle. “But they held their composure and they played well, played smart ball.” Vanier’s senior girls finished first in the round robin, defeated the Dawson Knights in the semifinal and then the Warriors in straight sets in the final. It was the first time the Crusaders won the division since 2011. “It was a fun weekend, I think everyone enjoyed it,” said Stoker. “All the teams had a lot of fun and everyone is looking forward to the championships coming up in two weeks.” Contact Tom Patrick at tomp@yukon-news.com
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ike most weekday evenings at the Canada Games Centre, the fieldhouse and flexi-hall were awash with young soccer stars on Wednesday. The Whitehorse Minor Soccer Association hosts indoor minor soccer matches Monday to
Thursday at the Games Centre and Yukon College as well as some Fridays at Selkirk Elementary. This season 34 teams are playing in divisions from underseven to under-16. (Tom Patrick)
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Players from Alpine Aviation and Kareway Homes fight for possession along the boards in the flexi-hall in U13.
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Yukon Yamaha’s Gavin McKenna cuts left in a match against Coldwell Banker in Whitehorse Minor Soccer U9 action at the Canada Games Centre on Wednesday. Yukon Yamaha won 8-1.
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Haines Packing Co.’s Baily Scoffin brings the ball into the Yukon Pump Sharp Shooters’s end as Barrett Furchner tries to defend. Yukon Pump won 4-2.
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Yukon Pump Sharp Shooters goalkeeper Sullivan Bond watches a shot fly wide during U13 play.
A Haines Packing Co. player controls the ball.
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Canada turns back to Mike Babcock as coach for World Cup of Hockey staff in Sochi, while Quenneville, Trotz and Peters are newcomers. Quenneville will run Canada’s defence, Trotz and Julien will focus on special teams and Peters will be in charge of pre-scouting like Ralph Krueger was at the Olympics. “We’re going to have a great staff, there’s no question about it, but so will the other teams,” Babcock said. “They’re all going to have great players. I think as we
put on the uniform in Canada that we’re going to win. It doesn’t work like that. The preparation has to be equal to the opportunity.” Babcock’s ability to prepare players for a short tournament gave him the edge. Armstrong said he talked to several players from the Olympic teams and they raved about the Saskatoon native’s smart game plan and ability to implement it quickly.
The World Cup of Hockey takes place Sept. 17-Oct. 1 at Air Canada Centre in Toronto and includes Canada, the United States, Sweden, Finland, Russia, the Czech Republic, Team Europe and the 23-andunder Team North America. Each team must name a 16man roster by March 1 and then the rest by June 1. Training camps are expected to take place in early September.
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Mike Babcock speaks during a press conference after being named as the head coach of Team Canada at the 2016 World Cup of Hockey in Toronto on Thursday, November 5 2015. and 2014 Olympics. The current Toronto Maple Leafs coach won Canadian Press the Stanley Cup with the Detroit TORONTO Red Wings in 2008. But Joel Quenneville of the Chior all the coaching choices cago Blackhawks, with three Cups Canadian general manager in six years on his resume, also Doug Armstrong had, he went back to the man with the two garnered significant consideration. Quenneville will be an assistant on Olympic gold medals. Babcock’s staff but could’ve easily Mike Babcock was the “logical choice” to be Canada’s coach at the been the head coach. “It was a two-horse race for return of the World Cup in 2016 me,” Armstrong said. “I wasn’t torn because of his success in Vancouon the final decision, but I thought ver and Sochi. we had to give Joel Quenneville the “Mike has the ability to be able opportunity for us to discuss him. to bring a group together quickly. He’s done it obviously at the world You just can’t get past three Stanley Cups in six years.” championships, he’s done it at Knowing Babcock wouldn’t the Olympics,” Armstrong said work as well as Quenneville’s asThursday at a news conference sistant, Armstrong was glad to have announcing the coaching staff. “I those coaches working together think his record obviously speaks along with Claude Julien of the for itself.” Boston Bruins, Barry Trotz of the Babcock led Canada to gold Washington Capitals and Bill Pemedals at the 1997 world junior ters of the Carolina Hurricanes. championships, 2004 world Julien returns from Babcock’s championships and then the 2010 Stephen Whyno
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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.
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. Š 2013 The Mepham Group. Distributed by Tribune Content Agency. All rights reserved.
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BRIGHT OFFICE/STUDIO Space Available Up to 2000 sq. ft. 129 Copper Road. Space includes Kitchen area with stove & fridge. 667-2614 Ask for Brenda or Michelle totalfire@northwestel.net OFFICE SPACE FOR RENT 4 connected offices (approx 940 sq ft) Partially furnished Central downtown location All operational costs included (tax, heat, air conditioning, power, & janitorial). $24 per sq ft. 668-4479 OFFICE SPACE FOR RENT 2nd floor of building on Gold Road in Marwell Sizes 180 sqft & 340 sqft Quiet spaces with reasonable rent 667-2917 or 334-7000 ROOM AVAILABLE for responsible tenant, N/S, N/P, $750/mon all inclusive. 393-2275 3-BDRM 2-BATH condo, 402 Baxter St. downtown, newer, 1,780 sq ft, low heat/elec, N/S, N/P, dd & refs reqĘźd, $1,750/mon + utils. 334-6685 SHARE HOUSE in Porter Creek. Why settle for dingy basement room or noisy apartment, N/S, everything incl, $750/mon. Info http://timmit.ca/share, tollfree 1-855-628-7138x99 2-BDRM TOWNHOUSE, Hillcrest, modern, 3 years old, all appliances, very energy efficient, $1,500/mon + electricity. 633-5868 2-BDRM + family room 1.5 bath home, beautiful, 45 mins from Whitehorse, lake view, washer/dryer in entrance way, refs reqĘźd, 1st/last months rent, $1,500/mon + utils. 660-4022 3-BDRM 2-BATH house, 49 Redwood St, Porter Creek, completely furnished, has basement suite, large corner lot, bus stop right outside, close to schools. 633-6553
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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INDUSTRIAL SHOP FOR RENT Kulan Industrial District •40ʟX60ʟX16ʟ •Office & Mezzanine •Three phase power •Large yard •Long term lease •Available November 1, 2015 $2,000 per month Call Mike at 335-2406 PROFESSIONAL OR COMMERCIAL Office Space for Rent. Now available on Industrial Road. 2,500 sq ft of prime office space including kitchen & staff room, utilities & dedicated paved parking. Located next to The Brick. Please call 867-335-5898
2 BEDROOMS in 3-bdrm 2-bath condo, 2nd floor, Mountainview, close to college/bus/downtown, N/S, N/P, no parties, responsible tenants, $600/mon for small, $700/mon for large, $1,200/mon for both, dd & refs. 336-4387 2-BDRM TRAILER, Ibex Valley, $900/mon + utils; small cabin, $800/mon + utils. 335-8572 WALKOUT BASEMENT, Whistle Bend area, $1,000/mon includes heat & hydro. Contact 689-4564 LOOKING FOR roommate for young with special needs to share 2 bed 2 home in Arkell. Single man or couple ferred. Available December 15. 668-6514 evenings only.
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LOOKING FOR small office space in the Ogilvie Street area to rent on an hourly basis in the evenings for professional practitioner who sees clients by appointment only. Office must have wifi, bathroom access, desk and comfortable seating for clients. careerpointnorth@gmail.com DOWNTOWN OFFICE behind Yukon Inn, approx 650 sq ft, main floor, $1,100/mon, incls heat & lights. 250-215-7943 2-BDRM 1.5 bath townhouse, Porter Creek, avail immed, 5 appliances, curtains, 2 parking stalls, storage, close to schools & bus, 1-yr lease, refs & dd, N/S, N/P, $1,500/mon + utils. 633-5129
SMALL OFFICE or shop available to rent in Family Hotel, available immediately, $900/mon incl utils. 668-5558
OFFICE SPACE AVAILABLE in Pine Medical building, great for health care business, 500 sq ft, $947/mon + GST, 3 rooms, windows, heat, hydro & air conditioning included. Contact 667-2144 (work)
HELLABY HALL, downtown Whitehorse, the perfect venue with a kitchen for your next event. Call 867-668-5530 for pricing & availability
ROOM, DOWNTOWN, includes bed, bedding, furniture, kitchen supplies, cable TV, wifi, prices range from $700 - $950/mon, dd reqĘźd. 334-9531
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NEWER 3-BDRM 2-bath condo, Porter Creek, small pets negotiable, 1 year rental agreement, $1,600/mon + utils. E-mail sharony@ualberta.ca.
1-BDRM + den apt, 1,200 sq ft, wheelchair access, many features, close to CGC, fantastic view, refs reqĘźd, N/S, N/P, $1,500/mon incl heat. 667-6579
1-BDRM BSMT suite, downtown, excellent light, very convenient location, N/S, N/P, refs reqĘźd, avail November 1, $1,000/mon incl utils. 667-7778
PROFESSIONAL OR commercial office space on Main Street, available January 1, 2016. 667-2138
ROOMMATE WANTED for condo in Riverdale, furnished room, dd & refs reqĘźd, avail November 1, $550/mon. 333-9492
2-BDRM 1-BATH home, Shallow Bay area, oil monitor & wood stove, well, hardwood flooring/tiles, hardwood countertops, propane stovetop, washer/dryer, $1,600/mon + utils & dd. 633-5202 1-BDRM LEGAL bsmt suite, Granger, bright & spacious, own parking, no laundry, N/S, N/P, no parties, refs & dd reqĘźd, avail November 15, $980/mon incl heat & hydro. 335-5890 1-BDRM BSMT suite, Porter Creek, separate entrance, washer/dryer, N/S, N/P, no parties, dd reqĘźd, available Nov 1, $1,100/mon incl heat & power. Stephanie @ 335-2090 HOUSESITTER NEEDED for January to April, 2016, Marsh Lake, reliable person or couple with references, animals welcome, N/S. 660-4321 1-BDRM BSMT suite, Copper Ridge, very nice, private, secure, N/S, N/P, responsible tenants, avail Nov. 1, $900/mon + utils. 456-7397 3-BDRM 2-BATH duplex with garage, Copper Ridge, lots of storage, great views, avail Dec 1, N/P, $1,700/mon + utils. 334-1907 for viewing 2-BDRM, CARCROSS Rd, avail Dec 1, 15 min f/town, pellet stove, elec heat, 1-2 pets considered, refs & dd required, $850/mon + utils/water. Kim @ 668-2706 or text 335-0519
HOUSESITTER AVAILABLE Mature, responsible person Call Suat at 668-6871 WANTED: DOWNTOWN house-sit from February to April 2016, during tax season. We are 64 years old and can help with utilities costs. 335-0107
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Real Estate DOWNTOWN NEWER 1,780 sq ft condo, 3-bdrms, 2-bath, high-end appliances, humidified, HRV, super insulated w/parking & deck. Property Guys #143541, #101 is $379,000 + GST, 202 is $379,000 incl GST. 334-6685
MOBILE HOME, Benchmark, rent to own, $3,000 deposit goes toward downpayment, pre-approval for mortgage required, available immediately, $139,000. Zara @ 335-3667 INDUSTRIAL PROPERTY for sale or lease, Watson Lake, 8,000 sq ft building on 1.5 HA of land. David @ 604-897-1396
3-BDRM 2-BATH house, Porter Creek, 49 Redwood, has basement suite, office, large corner well treed lot, will sell furnished or unfurnished. 633-6553 3-BDRM RIVERDALE family home, well maintained, family room, detached garage, many upgrades. Call 456-2162
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2-BDRM 1-BATH condo, 1,021 sq ft, built 2010, no shared walls, 2 units per floor, w/d, bsmt storage, elec water heating, wheelchair access, pets welcome, $306,000. 250-716-6190 or hanasaly.czca@gmail.com
LOG HOME IN WATSON LAKE for sale. Situated on two Flat Lots. Beautiful View. Contact: Dave @ 604-897-1396
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3+2 BDRM 2-bath home, Riverdale, newly painted, fenced, landscaped, developed basement, refs & dd reqĘźd, N/P, responsible tenants, $1,800/mon + utils. 336-4082
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3-BDRM 2-BATH one level home, new, 1500 sq ft, ensuite, walk-in closet, hardwood, modern black kitchen appliances, concrete driveway, well insulated, $405,000. 334-2802
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Employment Employment Opportunities Opportunities
Providing leadership through our strengths in programming, services and research, Yukon College’s main campus in Whitehorse and 12 community campuses cover the territory. A small college, YC provides a stimulating and collegial environment. We work with Yukon communities, Yukon First Nations, local governments, business and industry, to promote a community of learners within a vibrant organization. Come join us as we continue to enhance the Yukon’s capacity through education and training.
Expression of Interest - Sessional Instructor(s) Upcoming Winter Semester – January to April 2016 School of Liberal Arts Hourly Rate: $33.52 to $37.71 Competition#: 15.122 Initial Review Date: November 23, 2015
Manager, First Nation Initiatives (FNI) Ayamdigut (Whitehorse) Campus Term Position to: November 1, 2016 (75 hours bi-weekly) Salary: $35.10 to $41.78 hourly Initial Review Date: November 18, 2015 Competition No.: 15.90b
Go to: http://yukoncollege.yk.ca/about/employment for more information on all job competitions.
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Quoting the competition number, please submit your resume and cover letter to: Yukon College, Human Resources Services, Email: hr@yukoncollege.yk.ca
Yukon Employees’ Union (YEU)
Shop Steward Co-ordinator Full time, 2-year term
Reporting to the Executive Director, you will work closely with YEU elected leadership, Local executives and chief shop stewards to identify training needs and lead the creation and delivery of a training plan. Your significant knowledge of labour relations issues, principles of administrative law and natural justice as well as your familiarity with grievance processes will enable you to motivate and support new and existing shop stewards in their role. You have a thorough understanding of the role of shop stewards in the workplace and in the union. The ideal candidate for this position takes initiative and possesses superior communication and conflict resolution skills. You’re experienced at identifying and solving problems in a pragmatic and collaborative manner and are comfortable engaging members from varied backgrounds to deliver information in an educational setting. Strong writing skills and computer literacy are required for this position. SALARY: $67,379 to 78,824/year - 37.5 hours/week Application deadline: November 13, 2015 Required: Class 5 driver’s licence Send Resume to: Laura Hureau, Executive Director Yukon Employees Union 201-2285 Second Avenue Whitehorse, YT, Y1A 1C9 lhureau@yeu.ca Please note: We welcome applicants from all equity groups.
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Providing leadership through our strengths in programming, services and research, Yukon College’s main campus in Whitehorse and 12 community campuses cover the territory. A small college, YC provides a stimulating and collegial environment. We work with Yukon communities, Yukon First Nations, local governments, business and industry, to promote a community of learners within a vibrant organization. Come join us as we continue to enhance the Yukon’s capacity through education and training.
Instructor, Political Science School of Liberal Arts
Ayamdigut (Whitehorse) Campus Permanent Position from: December 1, 2015 Salary: $75,388 to $89,749 per annum (Market supplement may be applied) (Based on 75 hours bi-weekly) Competition #: 15.91b Initial Review Date: November 16, 2015
Youth Intern, Technology Support Whitehorse Correctional Centre (WCC) Campus School of Community, Education & Development (SCED) Casual hire from: November 16, 2015 to March 31, 2016 Hourly Rate: $24.40 Competition #: 15.121 Initial Review Date: November 16, 2015
Go to: http://yukoncollege.yk.ca/about/employment for more information on all employment opportunities.
Quoting the competition number, please submit your resume and cover letter to: Email: hr@yukoncollege.yk.ca
Help Wanted HELP WANTED Housekeeping Room Attendant Qualifications: Relevant hotel certification preferred. Applicants with relevant experience preferred Hours: 40 hours/week Wage: $14.25/hr Duties: Make beds, change sheets, distribute clean towels & toiletries Dust furniture, vacuum carpeting & area rugs Clean hotel rooms/public areas Attend to guest requests for extra supplies Contact: HR Manager hr@elitehotel.ca Elite Hotel & Travel Ltd. 206 Jarvis St Whitehorse, Yukon Y1A 2H1
Miscellaneous for Sale WINDOOR RECYCLER We buy & sell: • Brand new/used double/triple pane vinyl/wood windows. •Brand new steel/vinyl exterior doors with frames. Now selling: •Brand new unfinished oak kitchen cabinets. 333-0717 We will pay CASH for anything of value Tools, electronics, gold & jewelry, chainsaws, camping & outdoor gear, hunting & fishing supplies, rifles & ammo. G&R New & Used 1612-D Centennial St. 393-2274 BUY • SELL BRASS WALKER, no wheels, good cond, $30; Honeywell oil-filled heater, $25. 334-8318 ART PRINTS, Robert Bateman, End of Season Grizzly, Jim Robb, Caribou Crossing, Full Moon In The Klondike, all signed by artists w/glass & frames, 49 Redwood St, Porter Creek. 633-6553 OIL FURNACE, used 2.5 3 yrs, serviced professionally, like new, Olsen BML80B, 59000-97000 BTU/hr, Energuide 83, $500 obo. 335-8153 FALL/SPRING MENʟS jacket, 3XL, new, FXR Outdoor Gear brand, $100 obo. 393-2630 HOUSE PLANTS for sale, large Spider plant, Begonias, Umbrella Tree, from $3 to $45. 660-4321 LOOP CARPET, new, wall-to-wall conventional carpet from Canada Flooring, beige/light brown, 5.6ʟX11.10ʟ, $45. 660-4321 3-PERSON CORNER infrared sauna, red cedar option, aroma therapy, radio, speakers, int/ext lights, like new, retails $5,200 US + shipping, asking $2,500, can deliver for $50 in Whitehorse. 333-0524 VORTEX DIAMONDBACK binoculars, new, still in packaging, 10x42 size, fogproof, waterproof, c/w lifetime warranty against damage or defects, $250 firm. 668-5507 Native Brain-Tanned MOOSE HIDES At Reasonable Prices Tanned beaver & other furs also available. Phone (780) 355-3557 or (780) 461-9677 or write: Lodge Fur & Hides Box 87, Faust, AB. T0G-0X0 COMPLETELY REFURBISHED Kirby vacuum, new parts & accessories, c/w extra parts, bags, floor polisher, sander, was over $2,000 new, asking $550 obo, will consider wood working tools on trade. 667-2461 7.5ʟ 500 LED quick set up Blue Spruce Christmas Tree, new in box, has the factory straps holding the box closed, too big for our spot, $275. 667-2461 WILLIAMS 30,000 BTU propane space heater, vg condition, no electricity needed for operation, heats up to 1500 sq ft, paid $950, asking $550. 335-1230 MAPLE BATHROOM vanity, 48�X21�, never used, bought at Home Hardware, listed at $429, asking $150 firm. 668-2387 NEW PUMP, factory fabricated, on wheels/dolly, suitable for firefighting, prospecting or other high pressure uses, c/w new fire hose, suction hose & hardware, $650. 867-993-3525
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OUTDOOR GEAR, men's XL, rain gear, bib pants, fleece pants, ladies bib rain pants, size medium, North Face cordura men's rain jacket, size XL, new cond, $50. 660-5101
CDMA PHONE, new in box, Samsung Ace i325 World Edition, works good in rural settings, c/w all accessories, $80. 334-6087
CENTREX NEC office phone system, 4 phones, Meridian phone system, multiple phones, all free for the taking. 660-5101
Musical Instruments
SAMSONITE CARRY-ON luggage on wheels, soft sided, new, $25. 660-5101
GIBSON SG electric guitar made in USA, Fender tube amp, Cry Baby wah pedal, package deal, $1,500. 334-0368
BAFFIN SNOPACKS boots, size 12, Arctic type, new, $90. 660-5101 NIKON 401X autofocus camera for slides, prints, 90 mm lens with Nikon adaptors, large Lowepro camera bag $30; Slik tripod, $30. 660-5101 HOUSEPLANTS, $15, $25, $40. 311B Hanson St eves STEEL STUDS with accessories. 633-2814 or 334-3778 LARGE PLASTIC containers with lids, $5 each, good for storage or moving. 668-7639 2 ENGINE stand, 3 white bar stools, 2 office chairs, 1 teal & 1 brown, long Yukon parka, pink, no shell. 633-3116 NIKON D800 camera body, incl battery, strap, extra monitor cover, 64GB compact FlashCard, cables, original box & Nikon manual, 2 additional books, vg cond, full frame, 36 MP, $1,800. 667-4955 INSULATED STOVE pipe, stainless steel, 6" with 2" insulated walls, Canadian Tire style, vg cond, 2X36", 1X 24", rain cap & floor pad 43"x32", $150. 668-5511 NIKON ZOOM lens AF-S 12-24mm f/4.0 G IF-ED DX Wide angle, vg cond, wide angle zoom lens for Nikon DX format digital cameras, $990. 667-4955 PORTABLE TESTING sluice, new Honda 3” pump with hoses & ventury suction, all new, view 49 Redwood Street, Porter Creek. 633-6553 DOG BARRIER for back of vehicle, excellent shape, $30. 633-5085 5 ROLLS of vinyl backed R20 insulation 48" wide, approximately 500 sq ft, $500 obo. 633-6134 BEAVER TABLE saw 1HP motor, cast table 26" x 18" with 8" extension on mobile base, $50. 633-6134 RIDE ON tractor, no mowing deck, w/snow blower attachment, electric start, tire chains, weights, excellent condition, $1,800. 333-9020 COMMERCIAL CHAINSAW, vg cond, Husqvarna 3120 XP, x-large bar, regails $2,200, asking $1,200. 668-6805 NIKON ZOOM lens, 24 120 mm 1:3.5 5.6 D, made in Japan, vg cond, $225. 667-4955 SNOW BLOWER, Craftsman, 8hp, 27" wide, electric start, $600. Phone 633-5576 SELF PROPELLED SNOW Blower, clears 30" wide path, electric start, 6 forward & two reverse speeds, excellent condition, canopy available extra, $750. 333-9020 ANTIQUE AIRLINE dishes, 54 Canadian Air and Ward Air, all Royal Doulton. Offers. Call 332-6565 ENVIRO EVOLUTION pellet stove, 45,000 Btu/Hr, 85 lb large capacity hopper, automatic ignition system, includes vent piping, meticulously maintained in excellent condition, $1,500. 667-4574 PROPANE STOCK pot cooker, $50. Call 633-4375 STAINLESS STEEL commercial kitchen sink, 50" x 25" x15" deep, $250. Call 633-4375 KITCHEN L shape, includes dishwasher, sink, pantry, 2 vanities 88" x 97", $450. Call 633-4375 WANTED: LOOKING for one-gallon or two-gallon glass jars, lids are optional. 667-4915
Electrical Appliances COMMERCIAL COIN operated washer & dryer. $400 for the set. 633-4375 FREEZER, 667-2791
50”X22”X36” deep, $175.
MINI-BAR FRIDGE, good condition, $30. 333-0402 WASHER & dryer, Master Chef, good cond, $150, sell as set only. 633-5774
TVs & Stereos TV ARMOIRE, Broyhill, solid wood, new, $2,000, asking $450. 250-215-7943
Computers & Accessories APPLE LAPTOP MacBook Pro 13” 2.4GHz Processor, 250 GB Storage, Intel Core 2 Duo, 4GB memory CD/DVD drive, upgradeable to SSD drive/additional memory, OSX El Capitan, vg cond, $575. 667-4955
YAMAHA CLAVINOVA piano CVP509, check wonderful features on Internet, has light system for learning songs, over $9,000 in stores, asking $4,800. Serge @ 667-2196 after 5pm PIANO TUNING & REPAIR by certified piano technician Call Barry Kitchen @ 633-5191 email:bfkitchen@hotmail.com
EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNIT Y YOUTH OUTREACH & WELLNESS COUNSELLOR Position Type: Full-time, Term (3 years) Department: Justice, Jackson Lake Wellness Unit Closing: Fri., Nov. 13, 2015 at 4:30p.m. Annual Salary: $66,107 - 79,328 per annum (level 6) plus benefits Complete position details and job description online at: www.kwanlindun.com/employment
Aroma Borealis is HIRING!!! Part-time and Full-time Sales Associates
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interested in helping in this fast paced Christmas sale. Cashiers will be expected to provide approximately 40 hours over a 12 day span, shifts are no longer that 5 hrs.Training in advance will be provided. Wage is 16.90/hr Please Email fireweedmarket@yahoo.ca with your resume to apply.
EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNIT Y SECURITY COORDINATOR Position Type: Full-time, Term (1 year) Department: Justice Closing: Fri., Nov. 13, 2015 at 4:30p.m. Annual Salary: $59,344 - 71,213 per annum (level 5) plus benefits Complete position details and job description online at: www.kwanlindun.com/employment
The ideal candidate will have: ❀ Retail Sales Experience ❀ Excellent customer care ❀ A working knowledge of supplements, aromatherapy and herbs ❀ Be self-motivated and reliable ❀ Have strong communication skills ❀ Be computer literate Please deliver resumes with a cover letter to Aroma Borealis @ 504 B Main Street or by email to bev@aromaborealis.com by November 16th. Please indicate if you are applying for full or part time job position.
Aroma Borealis is HIRING!!! Part-time Production Person
This position is working with our production department. The ideal candidate will... ❀ Be experienced working in a kitchen ❀ Be responsible for making products, ordering and receiving the necessary materials for product making ❀ Pay close attention to details ❀ Possess a working knowledge of herbs & essential oils ❀ Be self-motivated and reliable ❀ Have strong communication skills ❀ Be computer literate Please deliver resumes with a cover letter to Aroma Borealis @ 504 B Main Street or by email to bev@aromaborealis.com by November 16th. Position could lead to full time.
Kausheeʼs Place Yukon Women’s Transition Home Society Proudly operating Kaushee’s Place and Betty’s Haven
Weekend and Casual Workers Duties and Responsibilities: t Provide support in a cross-cultural setting to women and children who have experienced abuse t Maintain the safety and security of the Transition Home t Respond to women in crisis in person and over the telephone t Assist with the efficient operation of a 24 hour facility Qualifications: t Combination of experience and post secondary education in a related field t Knowledge of violence against women and issues facing women who have experienced abuse t Knowledge of issues facing and resources available to women (including those specific to First Nations women) t Experience working in a cross-cultural setting and a knowledge/sensitivity to the needs of Aboriginal women and their children t Satisfactory current criminal record check t Experience with Respond-Based Practice an asset. Submit resume’s by November 23, 2015 Submit resumes to: Barbara McInerney Executive Director, Kaushee’s Place Box 31392, Whitehorse, YT Y1A 6K8 Fax: (867) 668-2374 Email: edywth@northwestel.net Job description available upon request.
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GENERAL MANAGER SUMMARY: Directs and oversees all operational and administrative activities of the North 60⁰ Petro Plant in a safe, efficient and productive manner. Direct Supervision of all North 60⁰ Petro Management Employees. Indirect supervision of all other North 60⁰ Petro Employees. SALARY: DOE DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES INCLUDE: Business management, operations, maintenance, inspections, marketing, inventory, personnel, customer service, safety, environmental and other duties. QUALIFICATIONS This position requires a minimum of 5 years previous similar experience, including a good working knowledge of the petroleum distribution or related industry. Must have a high school diploma or GED. Valid Canadian Driver’s License required. Must be able to work directly with petroleum products. For further information on this position please see our posting at: www.yuwin.ca Submit resumes by November 16 to: Josie Hickel – CA0, Petro 49, Inc. Email: josieh@petro49.Com Fax: 907-273-8242
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YUKON NEWS FIREWOOD $175/cord 20-foot lengths, 5-cord loads Small delivery charge 668-6564 Leave message
633-6019 FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 6
2015
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have your pets SPAYED OR NEUTERED. FOR INFORMATION CALL
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Stringed instrument repair and fine furniture restoration
Erica Heyligers * luthier 867-668-3408 erica@northwestel.net
Firewood
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with Santa 2015
11am-4pm at the Mae Bachur Animal Shelter
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
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CJĘźS FIREWOOD Cut to length. $240 per cord. Phone 867-335-4065
Please call
633-6019
to book your sitting. Walk-Ins Welcome PROCEEDS GO TO THE MAE BACHUR ANIMAL SHELTER.
S.A. vouchers accepted.
LOST t PORTER CREEK AREA. LARGE WHITE HUSKY/LAB NEUTERED MALE. Wearing a collar with tags. 14 years old and answers to Buddah. If found please call Stephan/Valerie @633-6009 FOUND t None at this time.
DONʟS FIREWOOD Forestry Permit #XY06 •Spruce/Pine mix •Stockpiled locally for quick delivery •Kwanlin Dun & Social Services Phone 393-4397
NORINCO M14 carbine, syn stock + Choate folding stock + 7 mags, $1,000. Valid PAL reqĘźd. 334-8604
WANTED: SERGER sewing machine. Lv msg @ 660-4516.
BINOCULARS, MEOPTA B1, 842, $800. 334-9551
AVAILABLE FOR ADOPTION
Annie
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Cars
REMINGTON 700 SPS Varmint special in 22-250 with Cabelas Pine Ridge scope, barely used, $750; Reminton model 870 compact youth 20ga in synthetic, $300. Phone/text 780-805-0226
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WANTED: FIREWOOD, up to 10 cords firewood cut 16", delivered to Porter Creek. 633-6771
44 REM Mag. 1 box, 25 rounds, $20. 668-5511
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WANTED: EARLY 90s Nissan Sport Wagon, model EX1SS. 633-2837
WANTED: 12" rims for quad, qty 2 @ 12" X 8" wide & qty 2 @ 12" X 10" wide, 110 mm 4 3/8", 4 stud bolt pattern. 334-6087
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WANTED: WITNESSES to accident June 24th at the corner of Burns Rd & Alaska Hwy, black Ford truck rear-ended grey Subaru. Pease call Sylvia at 334-1333.
P17 300 Win Mag neew scope w/Leupold lever, lock rings & bases, $425. 336-2789
RUNNING AT LARGE...
If you have lost a pet, remember to check with City Bylaw: 668-8382
WANTED: CANNING jars & lids, all sizes but especially quart & 2 pint jars, free or cheap, can trade for pickled beets, carrots and/or wild cranorange jam. 633-6060
WANTED: SKI boots, ladies cross country 3-pin toe, size 8. 660-5101
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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.
LICENSED TO BUY, SELL & CONSIGN rifles & ammo at G&R New & Used 1612-D Centennial St. 393-2274 BUY • SELL
CZ 550 American 270 Win, very nice wood, $900. 334-9551 Cheque, Cash
Wanted
WANTED: SOLID wood dining table, must have double pedestal base & removable sections. 334-8197
Dev (867) 335-5192 Carl (867) 334-3782
✔ Beetle-killed spruce from Haines Junction, quality guaranteed ✔ Everything over 8" split ✔ Prices as low as $245 per cord ✔ Single and emergency half cord deliveries ✔ Scheduled or next day delivery
WEATHERBY VANGUARD, in the caliber of 26 Nosler, 25� barrel & muzzle break, without scope $1,000, or $1,600 obo with scope. 335-1106
Guns & Bows
Store (867) 633-3276
Gerry from Gerry’s Computer Magic will be working her magic to capture your pet’s special visit with Santa. Your $25 donation will get you a beautiful 5x7 print. Additional prints can be ordered
BROWNING BAR 300 WSM, Leupold VX7 3.5-14, 5x50mm, 3 boxes ammo, extra clip, soft carrying case, new outfit, only sighted in by gunsmith, new $4,200 selling $2,200. 334-1315
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2014 FORD Focus hatchback, navigation, Sony sound system, heated leather seats, moonroof, tinted windows, new winter tires, 5-spd manual, 30,000kms, balance of factory warranty, $15,900 obo. 867-689–5980 2012 SUBARU Impreza hatchback, auto, 40,770kms, great condition, studded winter tires, command start. under warranty until 2018, $19,000 obo. 334-7655 2011 TOYOTA Corolla, fully loaded, leather interior, sunroof, 2 sets of good tires on rims, Rigid LED light bar, extended warranty, 103,000 kms, $12,500. Call or text 335-3019 2009 NISSAN Rogue SL, 3-spd auto, new winter tires, 133,000km, great gas mileage, $12,000 obo, better than Cdn Black Book. 633-5155 2008 CHEVY Cobalt SS, 5 passenger 2-dr coupe, 52,553kms, front wheel drive, 5-speed manual, turbo charged, inter-cooled DOHC 16-valve inline-4, direct fuel injection, 22mpg city, 30mpg hʟway, $6,500. 334-4608 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 CHEVY Malibu Maxx, loaded, air, tilt, cruise, sunroof, 4-dr auto, CD, P/W, P/D, heated seats, black, exc cond, $4,950. 332-6022 2002 SUBARU Impreza, 256,000kms, 2 sets of very good tires, replaced windshield, well maintained car, $4,800 obo. Call 333-2611 for more details 2001 TOYOTA Sienna minivan, 274,000 kms, good condition, reliable, well-maintained, summer & winter tires on rims, $3,500 obo. 633-5090 2000 PONTIAC Grand Am, 260,000kms, runs great, needs some body work, reasonable offer. 587-334-8604 1999 FORD Mercury Sable, 4-dr sedan, exc cond, well maintained, 185,000 kms, $3,400 obo. 332-9975 1998 TOYOTA Corolla, running cond, $500. 633-9022 1989 PONTIAC Sunbird, high mileage, some rust, drives/runs great, 4 cyl, auto, good winter tires w/front tires studded, sun roof, many miles left, $500. 335-5766
Trucks
We Sell Trucks! 1-866-269-2783 • 9039 Quartz Rd. • Fraserway.com
2009 GMC 3500 HD LE, 1-ton, low kms @ 70,000, tow kit, running board, bed liner, lots of extras, gas engine, great condition, new driveshaft, $26,500. 334-1859 2008 DODGE 1500 Big Horn Edition, 220,000kms, cold air intake & exhaust system, 2-12� subs, after market 18�rims, 20� light bar, $8,500 obo. 390-2325
Friday, November 6, 2015
YUKON NEWS
2008 JEEP Compass SUV 4X4, auto, only 83,000 kms, very clean, new rubber, sunroof, roof rack, loaded with options, priced to sell, $10,0000. 668-7455
TOYO OPEN country winter tires, size 225/75R16, used for 1 return trip to Edmonton, original price $250 per tire, selling for $125 ea. 668-6048
2008 NISSAN X-terra SUV, excellent condition, 82,000kms, rare 6 speed 4wd, navy blue, reduced to $14,999. Ted @ 333-0038
1995 HONDA Civic, new starter, new thermostat, good winter tires, will start, overheating problem, can fix up or good for parts, $600 obo. 667-7057
2006 F150 4X4, 4.6L V8, auto, custom regular cab w/matching canopy, 6-CD player, 52,000 kms, new winter tires, safety, $9,800. 633-2580
2 WINTER tires, Nokian, studded, 205/50 R17, 70% tread left, $50. 668-5511
2006 NISSAN Frontier SE 4x4, 134,000km, loaded, many options including Cargo Master Rack, auto transmission, cruise, air, hitch, P/W, P/L, carefully maintained, $12,700. 667-7719 2005 NISSAN Pathfinder 4X4, loaded, air, tilt, cruise, sunroof, P/W, P/D, blue, $9,800. 332-6022 2004 F350 Lariat, lifted, diesel 4X4, leather interior, oversized exhaust, front push guard, 4-dr, loaded w/options, nice truck, $10,900. 332-6022 2004 FORD F150 XLT Triton, 4.6L Supercab, mint condition, 41,900km, black w/tan interior, loaded, no rust, never off-roaded, never winter driven, c/w set of ATs & winters, $15,500 obo. 336-8737
1996 GMC Serria 2wd, 8' box c/w 2 sets of tires and rims, s&w, 305 Vortec, runs great, $1,500 obo. 334-5768 1995 DODGE Ram 2500 4x4, 5.9 engine, runs great, new clutch, approx 260,000 km on engine, great truck, $6,000 obo. 668-4070 after 5pm 1994 DODGE Dakota 4X4, ext cab, c/w 14ʟ double axle camper & 1,000 watt generator, $2,000 firm for both. 334-8086 1994 FORD F250 4X4, manual, King cab, long box, winter tires & spare set, $4,500. 667-2791 btwn 3 & 6pm 1994 MAZDA 4X4, c/w 6� cable plow. 1st right on Carcross Cutoff Road, 5.5 miles on Carcross Road 1993 CHEVY Silverado 4X4 half-ton, needs some work such as new transmission, about 300,000kms, good for rebuild or for parts, $1,500 obo. 393-2630 1988 CHEV pick-up, good tires, runs very good, $950. 668-2437
2005 POLARIS SwitchBack 600 very good condition, looks & rides like new, $3,200 obo. 399-3904
2002 RMK 700 Polaris, ready for winter, new motor & track, $3,000 obo. 668-5729
Marine
2005 POLARIS Switch Back 4400, looks & rides like new, 120 stock HP, very reliable, has never needed any work, 141 1.5 Camoplast track, $3,200 obo. 399-3904
PROFESSIONAL BOAT REPAIR Fiberglass Supplies Marine Accessories FAR NORTH FIBERGLASS 49D MacDonald Rd Whitehorse, Yukon 393-2467
PETMATE NAVIGATOR dog kennel suitable for 30-50 lb dog, high end model, used only once, 32X21X23, new $200, asking $100. 667-4463
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
SKI-DOO, DOUBLE track, c/w tow behind Ski-boose on skis. 668-2332
2001 SKANDIC wide track, 2,500 original kms, 300km on new pistons, rings & head gasket, $5,900. 689-5288 SKI-DOO MODEL 3500, seats 2, + hitch. 668-2332
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
$
13,900
Backup Camera, Bulkhead, White
$
28,995
RONĘźS SMALL ENGINE SERVICES Repairs to Snowmobiles, Chainsaws, Lawnmowers, ATVĘźs, Small industrial equipment. Light welding repairs available 867-332-2333 lv msg
32,000 Kms, White
$
31,995
2011 POLARIS Pro RMK 800 long track, 2 1/2� paddles, mint, 800kms, always stored inside, c/w tunnel storage bag, ice scratchers, skid plate, 2nd rear bumper etc, $7,250 obo. 335-1106
2015 Chev Silverado 1500 Crew 4x4 LT 5.3 Litre, 1,100 Kms, Loaded!! Red
$
33,995
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For Quick Approval call: 668-5559 #4 Fraser Road, McCrae, Whitehorse, YT Y1A 5S8 EMAIL: woloshyn@northwestel.net
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
Through the grace of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ,
Bruce and Ruby Simons
Celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary at their Carcross home with family & friends on September 18, 2015.
Pets Has your fur buddy slowed down? Return 'spring' to your dogĘźs step. Older or injured dogs benefit from Glucosamine and MSM. Tasty pharmaceutical grade powder. Dosage based on weight. 332-7828 NORTHERN CATTITUDE GIFTS The local online store for cats and cat lovers. All about cats - from cat trees to cat themed umbrellas! www.northerncattitude.ca Phone: (867) 333-0558 PET MATE dog kennel, good cond, suitable for a 20-40 lb dog, dimensions are L28XW20XH21, $60. 667-4463
DODGE DAKOTA brake shoe, new, still in box, $25 obo. 393-2630
WANTED TO buy: Budgie cage, not too small. 335-0645
4 TOYO tires, 205/75 R15, driven 2 winters, 75% tread, $95 ea. 660-4321
CKC REG. Afghan Hound puppies born Aug 25th, available to responsible loving homes, healthy, athletic, happy, enjoy lifetime breeder support. Don't let the long hair scare you, clip as needed. 668-3885
185/65R 14 winter studded tires, 500kms, exc cond, $400. 633-9022
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
Auto, 4.0 Litre, Black
Hi-Rise & Cab Hi - several in stock View at centennialmotors.com 393-8100
TRUCK CANOPIES - in stock * new Dodge long/short box * new GM long/short box * new Ford long/short box
10 LB bag of cat food, DM Management, for diabetic cat, $40. 456-4459
2010 Ford Ranger Extracab Sport
AUSTRALIAN SHEPHERD PUPPIES ASCA/AKC/CKC Born Sept.17, 2015 Tagish, Yukon Ready to go mid-November Males & Females Blue merles, Black Tri's, Red Tri's Make good family pets and dog performance prospects. To view pups & parents & more info. Visit www.ritcheiverkennels.com Bonnitta Ritchie Email: ritcheiverknnls@msn.com.
Auto Parts & Accessories
2014 HONDA TRX420ATV, not using it, like new, 2 & 4 wheel drive, windshield, rack on front & back, used 3 hrs. 399-3171 Tagish
IN-HOUSE FINANCING AVAILABLE!
2014 Dodge Ram 1500 Crewcab 4x4 SLT
1998 FORD F-150 pickup, extended cab, 3-dr, long box w/canopy, 233,000kms, $3,900. 335-8242
PUPPIES FOR sale to good home, adorable short haired 9 week old Terrier X mixed with Chocolate Lab X, $50. 335-1144
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2003 CHEV Silverado 1500LT 4x4, great condition, 165,000 kms, custom options, hard top, Bose speakers, heated leather seats, summer & winter tires, $9,000 obo. 335-5306
2002 CHEV 3/4 ton 4x4, extra cab, 6.0L engine, auto trans, c/w jockey box, driving lights, many years of good service remaining, great shape, $7,500. 335-5766 eves
2004 XS Viper snowmobile, good shape, $2,500 obo. 335-4237
2007 Dodge Calibre - ORANGE ........................................................................ $6,495 2001 Chev Cavalier - 4-DOOR, GREEN ......................................................... $1,595 2012 Yamaha Grizzly 700cc ATV .............................................................. $8,995 2011 Polaris Rush 800 - LIKE NEW!!................................................................$7,995 2015 20’ Car Hauler - NEW!! Tandem Trailer ..................................$4,495 2005 Buick Terraza Mini Van - WHITE.................................................... $5,795
2015 Ram ProMaster City SLT Cargo Van
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2 KITTENS for sale, ready to go, one grey & white, one black & white. 456-6571
Motorcycles & Snowmobiles
2003 ACURA MDX SUV, 200,000 kms, runs good, needs some work, auto, 3.5L V6, $2,500; 2004 Acura MDX SUV, 190,000 kms, runs great, auto, 3.5L V6, $4,500 or $7,000 for both. 633-2181
2003 DODGE Caravan, 119,000 kms, good mechanical shape, $3,800. 334-7658
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1984 ZETA 24' Hard Top, 350/260 leg, 15hp kicker, dingy, barbecue, galley, head, canvas enclosure, fishfinder, radio, sleeps 5, tandem trailer, rough water boat, bottom paint, many extras, reasonable offers. 332-1374
Gloria Adamson Nänshiå April 12, 1960 to December 23, 2013
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eath is nothing at all. It does not count. I have only slipped away into the next room. Nothing has happened. Everything remains exactly as it was. I am I, and you are you, and the old life that we lived so fondly together is untouched, unchanged. Whatever we were to each other, that we are still. Call me by the old familiar name. Speak of me in the easy way which you always used. Put no difference into your tone. Wear no forced air of solemnity or sorrow. Laugh as we always laughed at the little jokes that we enjoyed together. Play, smile, think of me, pray for me. Let my name be ever the household word that it always was. Let it be spoken without an effort, without the ghost of a shadow upon it. Life means all that it ever meant. It is the same as it ever was. There is absolute and unbroken continuity. What is this death but a negligible accident? Why should I be out of mind because I am out of sight? I am but waiting for you, for an interval, somewhere very near, just round the corner. All is well. Nothing is hurt; nothing is lost. One brief moment and all will be as it was before. How we shall laugh at the trouble of parting when we meet again!
17Ęź GRUMMAN canoe, older but in great condition, solid aluminum, c/w new paddles, $1,200. 867-993-3525
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Doug Clark July 9, 1937 - October 30, 2015
Always in our hearts, Daniel, Delilah, Ranj, Taylor and Calum
Doug was born July 9, 1937 in Shoal Lake, Manitoba, son of Frank and Mae Clark. He passed away peacefully on October 30, 2015 in Kelowna, BC. He is survived by his 2 children Lori and Debbi (daughters of Ann), granddaughter Jora, sisters Joan, Betty and Bev and partner and friend of 40 years, Patsy. He is pre-deceased by brother Lorne and sister Jean. Doug attended University in Grand Forks, ND where he earned a journalism degree and subsequently moved to Whitehorse where he lived for over 20 years. His family and many friends will miss the lively conversations composed of equal parts humor and opinion. A celebration of his life will be held at the Ramada Inn (2170 Harvey Ave/Hwy 97, Kelowna) from 2-5 pm on Friday November 13th. All who knew him are welcome, as are your stories of his life.
SĂłgĂĄ SĂŠnlå’ ~ Meduh ~ Shäw NĂthän MĂĄhsin cho ~ GĂšnèlchĂŽsh
Campers & Trailers TAITʟS 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 2008 PJ load trail, gooseneck dump trailer, 14ʟX7ʟ dump box, 16� tires, black, hydraulic lift, new battery, $7,950. 332-6022 2007 PLEASUREWAY Excel TS Campervan, Ford E-350 Superduty, 115,000km, A/C, furnace, genset, stove, 3-way fridge, sink, toilet, TV, electric sofa-bed awning, new tires, well maintained, $55,000. 334-2697
ATLIN - GLACIER VIEW CABINS “your quiet get away� Cozy self contained log cabins canoes, kayaks for rent Fax/Phone 250-651-7691 e-mail glacierviewcabins@gmail.com 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
ANGELA CARLICK
Dinner at 5:30pm followed by a potlatch give-away.
LOG GRAPPLE for 966 loader, $2,500 obo. 250-651-7531
YUKON LEARN Society is offering free computer courses, Introduction to Computers, Internet & Email, Word & Excel. Instructor on site. Call 668-6280 xt 223 for details
FAMILY OF THE LATE
The family of Gloria Adamson asks that you join them on this day as they celebrate the life of Gloria Adamson, and the healing and recognition of those who carried us through this time.
D6C CAT w/angle blade & winch, $19,800, will include brush rake for additional $3,500. 689-5288
THE ALZHEIMER/DEMENTIA Family Caregiver Support Group meets monthly. Group for family/friends caring for someone with Dementia. Info call Joanne 668-7713
of the Agunda, Wolf Clan
November 14th | 5:30 Nà kwät’à Ku Potlach House
1992 KENWORTH T600, N14 Cummins, 18-spd, 46000 diffs on Neway Air, only 965,000 original kms. Call 867-334-2697
Coming Events
Gloria Adamson, Nänshįå
Headstone Memorial Potlach
2012 BOBCAT S-205, 190 hrs, dual controls, fully loaded w/heated cab & AC, 2 buckets, amber strobe light, sound dampening kit, deluxe key pad, $38,000 obo. 335-1106
SNOW BLOWER SB200, 72�, mounts on Bobcat, new, $4,500 obo. 250-651-7531
~ Henry Scott Holland Great-Granddaughter, Granddaughter, Daughter, Sister, Auntie, Mother, Grandmother and Friend, beyond time.
Heavy Equipment
[MAY 10th, 1928 ~ OCTOBER 29th, 2015] OF THE KASKA WOLF CLAN: WOULD LIKE TO GIVE THANKS FOR THE SHARING OF KINDNESS, GENEROSITY AND HELPFULLNESS OF ALL WHO PARTICIPATED AND DONATED THEIR TIME AND RESOURCES TO OUR MOM, GRANDMOTHER AND FRIEND AS SHE MADE HER FINAL JOURNEY. A SINCERE HEARTFELT THANKS TO ALL WOLF AND CROW CROW ELDER: HAMMOND DICK WOLF ELDER HONOURARY: ANDY LOUIE MINISTER ANDY NIEMAN MINISTER FATHER KIERAN KILCOMMONS CROW CO-ORDINATOR: ROBERTA BEHN CROW HELPERS: -EDWARD DENNIS -NORMAN JACK -DWAYNE MACDONALD -ELVIS FJELLNER -THOMAS STEWART -DANIEL BALL -CHARLENE BURNS -PAM MOON -DEANNA DENNIS -SHAWN TIZYA -JERRY MCPHEE -TRAVIS STEWART DEASE RIVER FIRST NATION DAYLU DENA FIRST NATION KWANLIN DUN FIRST NATION LIARD ABORIGINAL WOMEN’S SOCIETY
THOMPSON CENTRE NORMAN D. MACAULAY LODGE LAKES DISTRICT MAINTENANCE LTD. HERITAGE NORTH FUNERAL HOME -SHIRLEY LAVERDURE -ANNE BAYNE -SHEILA STEWART -AL JOHNSON -JOLENE SMARCH -ROCKY JACKSON -GERALD EDZERZA -FRANK DENNIS -KEVIN CARLICK -PENNY LOUIE -FEDDIE LOUIE -RANDALL TETLITCHI -RUBY JOHNNY -IRENE PORTER -CAROL-ANNE JOHNNY
THE FAMILY WOULD LIKE TO SAY A BIG THANK YOU TO DR. KEN QUONG FOR ALL OF HIS SUPPORT AND CARE. FOR THOSE WE MAY HAVE MISSED, WE SINCERLEY THANK YOU ALSO.
AL-ANON MEETINGS, 667-7142. Has your life been affected by someoneĘźs drinking? Wednesday 12Noon @ Anglican Church, 4th & Elliott, back door, Friday 7pm Lutheran Church, 4th & Strickland, beginnerĘźs meeting, Friday 8pm Lutheran Church regular meeting 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 CALL FOR vendors, Christmas Craft Fair Lorne Mountain Community Centre, December 6th Sunday, noon-4pm, tables $10. Reserve lmca@northwestel.net or 667-7083 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. 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 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 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 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. THE ALL-CITY Band Society AGM is Thursday, November 19th, 2015, 8:30 pm, Porter Creek Secondary School
Friday, November 6, 2015 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 WHOLE CHILD Program AGM. November 16, 6pm-7:30pm, Whitehorse Elementary School, downstairs, Room 10. Contact Cathy Robertson for information, 334-1384 YUKON LEARN Society free Computer Drop-in Lab every Monday, excluding holidays, from 10 am – 2 pm. Self-Directed Computer studies; Instructor on site. 2158 2nd Ave ELIZABETH FRY AGM, November 17 at 5pm, Unit 23, Horwoods Mall MUSIC YUKON presents a free information session about funding possibilities for Yukon musicians November 12th, 6-8pm, Music Yukon Office, 3128 3rd Ave. RSVP Kate Weekes @ factorrec@musicyukon.com WHITEHORSE STRING Ensemble Society AGM is Thursday, November 12, 7pm-7:30pm, at the beginning of Thursday practice, 600 College Drive. Call Pam at 667-4630 for more information. SECOND OPINION Society special general meeting November 17, 2015 from 5.30-7.30pm at Many Rivers Counselling, 4th Avenue & Hawkins, to discuss and vote on special resolution regarding the future of SOS. THE LIBERAL Party of Canada-Yukon will be holding its AGM on Saturday, November 21st, 2pm-4pm at the Kwanlin Dun Cultural Centre. All are welcome to attend. YUKON RIVER Trail Marathon (BARA) AGM Wednesday November 18th, 5pm, #203-1191 Front Street. Info: yukonmarathon@gmail.com ROCK YOUR Body 90's party, November 20th, Mt. MacIntyre, 10pm-2am, Dash/Mkvltra/Djkj, $15 Byte Suicide Prevention, 19+, 50/50 draw, silent auction, snacks, bar, door/costume prizes OPEN PIT Theatre is hosting a '50s night. Actors to dub over excerpts from 4 films, musicians to play along. Dance tips, photo booth, door prizes, cocktails. Nov 7, 7:30pm. Tickets: Dean's Strings. YUKON LANDLORDS invited to attend Residential Tenancies Director information session on new Residential Landlord Tenant Act requirements Monday November 9, 7pm, Whitehorse Public Library. Hosted by YRLA 336-4082 ACTIVE TRAILS Whitehorse Association monthly meeting Monday, November 9, 7pm, at Sport Yukon Boardroom #1 All welcome. Info: www.activetwa.org YUKON OUTFITTERS Association annual fall round-up, wild game dinner & dance on December 5th with the Lee Dunwoodie Band. Contact us for ticket information 668-4118 or info@yukonoutfitters.net HIDDEN VALLEY School Council is holding it's Regular Council Meeting on November 10, 2015, at 6pm in the school library. Everyone is welcome. FRIENDS OF Yukon Permanent Art Collection AGM Thursday, November 12 from 7:00–8:00pm in the Whitehorse Visitor Information Centre. New and current members welcome. Refreshments provided. Info: 667-5858 BEGINNER SILVERSMITHING workshop at Arts Underground, Yukon Art Society. Make some unique Christmas gifts, November 6-8. To register please contact Arts Underground 667-4080 CHRISTMAS CRAFT Fair, basement of 600 College Drive Senior Residence, Saturday November 28, 9am to 2pm. Crafts, baking and much more. HEART OF Riverdale Community Centre AGM 7PM Sunday, November 29th @ 38A Lewes BLVD upstairs. All welcome. Info@theheartofriverdale.com. 667-6700 HEART OF Riverdale Kids TV club ages 9-14, Nov4-Dec16 @ 38 Lewes Blvd. Info@theheartofriverdale or call at 667-6700. Free Program. YUKON AFRICAN Music Festival, Saturday, November 14, 2015, Kwanlin Dun Cultural Centre, Whitehorse, 3pm-9pm, live music, dance, craft, dinner; entry $15 www.yukontickets.com, Contact:Leonard@theteliya.org HAMLET OF Mount Lorne Local Advisory Council meeting November 9, 2015, Mount Lorne Community Center, 7pm. Agenda on web site FIDDLEHEADS AGM, November 30, 2015, 6pm, at Selkirk Elementary School. For more information, please call Gisela at 821-4344 or email giginiedermeyer@gmail.com. CONNECTING THROUGH Stories at Well Read Books, 1pm, Sunday, November 8. A Kitchen Party of East Coast Story and Song. Free Event. Refreshments served. YRTA (YUKON Retired Teachers) breakfast Tuesday November 10, 9:30am, 506 Main Street Grill, all welcome. Info: 667-2644
YUKON NEWS GET YOUR entry form for Humane Society Yukon's first non-competitive Talent/No Talent Show at Bailey's Pub & Grill November 14, 2015 at Plantation Flowers and Gifts, the Mae Bachur Animal Shelter or Baileys. Entry fee $5. SUPPORT THE Humane Society Yukon at Bailey's Pub & Grill for the first Talent/No Talent Show on November 14, 2015. Showtimes 6pm-8pm for 18 & under, 9pm-12pm for 19 years & over. Admission $5, entry fee $5. WHITEHORSE G E N E R A L Hospital Women's Auxiliary Monday November 9th, 7:30pm, at WGH. New members welcome. Info: 667-2087 WHITEHORSE CONCERTS presents Mercer-Chung Duo, cello and piano at The Yukon Arts Centre on Saturday, November 14th. Concert begins at 8:00 pm. Contact: steve@whitehorseconcerts.com
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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 IBEX BOBCAT SERVICES “Country Residential Snow Plowing” All Subdivisions & acreages off Mayo Rd, MacPherson, Hidden Valley, Pilot Mountain & Hot Springs Rd. Honest & Prompt Service Call 667-4981 or 334-6369
JOURNEYMAN CARPENTER/PAINTER 30 years experience Commercial-Residential •Renovations •Repairs •Kitchens •Bathrooms •Drywall Tiles •Decks •Fine Finishing and Painting No job too small Local references available Phone 335-8924 bradmre@gmail.com
ON NOVEMBER 7th for National Girls Learning Code day, join hundreds join us at YuKonstruct from 10am-4pm. See yukonstruct.com for more info. MEET THE Mormons movie night. Come enjoy feature length movie with popcorn. Free. Friday, November 13, 2015, 7:00 pm, 108 Wickstrom Road. Lee at 393-2200. Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-days. GLASS ART exhibit "Light and Line" by Jeanine Baker opens at Yukon Artists at Work on Friday, November 13th. Reception from 5pm to 8pm. Show runs until November 25th. YUKON GUILD of Needlearts meets November 12 @ Whse Public Library, 7pm. Social evening with friends learning hand embroidery. Info 633-4026 NAUGHTY OR Nice Pajama Salsa Dancing Party, Saturday November 28, 9:15pm to 12:30am, The Wheelhouse Restaurant, 2237-2nd Ave, free dance lessons, salsayukon@gmail.com YDEC SPEAKER Series. Angela Code, Canadian Youth Delegate: United Nations Summit. Speaking on The Global Goals, what they mean for Indigenous youth. Kwanlin Dun Cultural Centre, Thursday November 12 @ 7:00pm. ONDE DE choc Friday, November 13th, 7:30pm, Yukon Arts Centre. Third annual innovative and multidisciplinary French-speaking artistic gathering. choc.afy.yk.ca CHRISTMAS BAZAAR Bake Table & Tea, Saturday November 21, 11am-2pm, Hellaby Hall, Christ Church Cathedral, 4th & Elliot. Held by Anglican Church Women YOUNG LIVING Essential Oils, great Christmas gift, host a party at home or work. Call Julie to book your party November 7-14, 2015. If you donʼt want a party, give me a call. I will come and explain the benefits of Young Living Essential Oils. Julie McGuire, 250-500-4102 IT'S NOT Right! Neighbours, friends and families for older adults. Free talk and discussion about abuse and neglect of older adults. Monday, November 9, 12 noon, United Church, 6th & Main.
Services BACKHAULS, WHITEHORSE to Alberta. Vehicles, Furniture, Personal effects etc. Daily departures, safe secure dependable transportation at affordable rates. Please call Pacific Northwest Freight Systems @ 667-2050 BUSY BEAVERS Pruning, Hauling, and General Labour Call Francois & Katherine 456-4755 JOURNEYMAN CARPENTER For all your finish carpentry. Many years in the trade. Call Don, 334-1693 (cell) or 633-3050 (home) ELECTRICIAN •Licensed •General Handyman Services •Light Carpentry, Drywall, etc •Free Estimates •10% Seniorʼs Discount September Sale 10% off all jobs booked through October 332-7879 PROFESSIONAL BUTCHER •35 years experience •Will come to your home and cut your Bison meat to your preference for $350 Wrapping extra - $150 Ken (Buck) @ 336-1701 with voice mail
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
1N?P? 0;SGIH> !;MB July 17, 1956 - October 30, 2015
He will be dearly missed by his family and friends. Chris, Simon, Savannah and Curtis want to invite everyone to celebrate the life of Steve and his moto “life is too short, eat dessert irst.” Bring your stories and share.
CHRISTMAS GARAGE Sale, Golden Age Society, 4061-4th Avenue, Saturday November 14, 9am-1pm, Christmas decorations for Swaziland Educational Trust Society WHITEHORSE CURLING Club 2016 Cash Calendars, $20 each, a winner every day of the year. To Purchase Call 332-0303 or 667-2875. Licence # 2016-001
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Sharone Maldaver
MARCH 28, 1942 – NOVEMBER 8, 2013
Sunday, Nov. 8, 2pm Mount McIntyre, Grey Mountain Room 1 Sumanik Drive
“Oh My Goddess” It’s been 2 years!
Loved by all, missed by many. Your vibrant spirit will always be with us.
~Amor y Paz~
The Caesar family wishes to extend thanks to the Yukon Search and Rescue, RCMP from Ross River, Faro, and Watson Lake, Conservation Officers, all our relatives and friends, for the safe return of our daughter…
Rose Caesar
Thanks also to Tim Colwell, the Hope Centre and the Catholic Mission and to everyone for all their prayers.
In Loving Memory of
– Soga – ’ L Sín aı Thank You
Doris Maxine Palmer who passed away on November 7th 2008 after a 3-year battle with cancer.
God saw you getting tired and a cure was not to be. So he put his arms around you and whispered “Come to Me”. A golden heart stopped beating, hard working hands now rest. God broke our hearts to prove to us. He only takes the best. Forever remembered by her loving husband, children and grandchildren.
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SOUTHERN LAKES SEPTIC would like to send out a huge THANK YOU to our valued customers in Marsh Lake, Golden Horn, Carcross Road & Tagish! We are now closed for the season and look forward to seeing you all in the Spring. Ross and Cindy Smith
LOG CABINS: Professional Scribe Fit log buildings at affordable rates. Contact: PF Watson, Box 40187, Whitehorse, YT, Y1A 6M9 668-3632
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TAXIWAY A & C LIGHTING, WATSON LAKE AIRPORT, WATSON LAKE, YUKON 2015-16 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 Fred Jay at frederick.jay@gov.yk.ca.
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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. The Yukon Business Incentive Policy may apply to this project. Bidders and/or Proponents are advised to review documents to determine Certificate of Recognition (COR) requirements for this project. View or download documents at: www.hpw.gov.yk.ca/tenders/
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REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL DESIGN OF TRANSPORTATION ASSET MANAGEMENT DECISION MODELS Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title. The closing date for submissions is December 3, 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 Craig Milligan at craig.milligan@fireseedsnorth.ca. All tenders and proposals are subject to a Compliance Review performed by the Procurement Support Centre. The information displayed is the date and time of opening and is not modified based on the results of the Compliance Review. The highest ranked or lowest priced submission may not necessarily be accepted. This tender is subject to Chapter Five of the Agreement on Internal Trade. View or download documents at: www.hpw.gov.yk.ca/tenders/
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Yukon Water Board – Application Notice Office des eaux du Yukon – Avis de demande Application Number Numéro de la demande
Applicant/Licensee Demandeur/Titulaire
Water Source Location Point d’eau/Lieu
Type of Undertaking Type d’entreprise
Deadline for Comments 4:00pm Date limite pour commentaires, avant 16 h
PM05-503-1 (Assignment of PM05-503)
Assignment from 38945 Yukon Inc to 535969 Yukon Inc.
Eldorado and Bonanza Creek, Tributary of Klondike River and Bonanza Creek
Placer
November 17, 2015
Any person may submit comments or recommendations, in writing, by the deadline for notice. Applications are available for viewing on the Yukon Water Board’s online registry, WATERLINE at http://www.yukonwaterboard.ca or in person at the Yukon Water Board office. For more information, contact the Yukon Water Board Secretariat at 867-456-3980.
Toute personne peut soumettre ses commentaires ou ses recommandations à l’Office avant la date limite indiquée sur le présent avis. Pour voir les demandes, consultez le registre en ligne WATERLINE au http://www.yukonwaterboard.ca ou rendez-vous au bureau de l’Office des eaux du Yukon. Pour de plus amples renseignements, veuillez communiquer avec le secrétariat de l’Office au 867-456-3980.
TLC Continuing Care & Homecare Services Certified, licensed, bondable, safe, reliable Works with all ages Certified nursing home attendant Also available for escort services to appointments and shopping 334-7405
Lost & Found LOST: HANDBAG, long strap, looks like moose skin, 3 zippers, 3 beaded blue & white flowers on each side, sentimental value. 867-996-2500 LOST: AT Lepage Park on October 14, purple cloth brief case with long black handle, contains 2 address books, wallet with ID, books & papers. Contact RCMP at 1-867-667-5555
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Sports Equipment HORIZON TREADMILL 2012, low mileage, like new, $300 obo. 335-2898 XC BOOTS, Salomon prof SNS 18 1/2, Fischer SNS Eur 43, Salomon pro SNS sz 6, $30 pr. 311B Hanson St WETSUIT, LADIES full, med-large, warm, exc cond, $100. 660-5101 NORDICTRACK REVITALIZE inversion system, $75. Call 334-2697 STEP BENCH, c/w 6 risers, excellent condition, $40; dumbbell set for women 10, 8 & 5 lbs, $20. 633-5085
Livestock HORSE HAVEN HAY RANCH Irrigated Timothy/Brome mix No weeds or sticks Small squares 60 lbs plus 4 ft x 5 ft rounds 800 lb Free delivery for larger orders Straw square bales available 335-5192 • 668-7218 QUALITY YUKON MEAT No hormones, steroids or additives Grass raised grain finished. Hereford beef - $5.50/lb Domestic wild boar - $7/lb Order now for guaranteed spring or fall delivery. Whole, half or custom order. Samples available 668-7218 • 335-5192 HAY FOR SALE •Dry bales kept under a shelter •Great quality hay 60-70 lb bales, $10 633-4496 or mikeandastra@me.com FLEMISH GIANT rabbits, known for their gentleness, make wonderful pets, can be litter trained, are large rabbits so please research before considering, $75 ea. Call/text 333-0915 lv msg
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YAK MEAT YUKON RAISED. •Tasty lean red meat. •High in protein, minerals and vitamins. •Low in saturated fats and cholesterol. •$5/lb by the side or $12/lb mixed pack cut and wrapped. Call 332-7173 or meggyhanna@yahoo.ca
MOSQUITO CONTROL PROGRAM (2016-2018)
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Project Description: This Request for Proposals is intended to potentially establish a contract to co-ordinate and execute the 2016, 2017 and 2018 Yukon Government Mosquito Control Program. This includes administration, community liaison, pesticide applicator training, field monitoring, pesticide application, record keeping, reporting and other activities as described herein. 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 Darrin Fredrickson at darrin.fredrickson@gov.yk.ca. All tenders and proposals are subject to a Compliance Review performed by the Procurement Support Centre. The information displayed is the date and time of opening and is not modified based on the results of the Compliance Review. The highest ranked or lowest priced submission may not necessarily be accepted. This tender is subject to Chapter Five of the Agreement on Internal Trade. View or download documents at: www.hpw.gov.yk.ca/tenders/
Community Services
CHILDRENʼS CLOTHING in excellent condition, given freely the first & third Saturday monthly at the Church of the Nazarene, 2111 Centennial. 633-4903 ONE-PIECE BOYʼS snowsuit, new, Molehill brand, size 3-T, $60 obo. 393-2630 CAPTAINʼS BED plus head board & very good mattress. 668-2437
Childcare 30-YEAR YUKON RESIDENT Mature Babysitter available Monday to Friday days at your home. Call 335-0009
REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL PROJECT DIRECTOR SERVICES The Government of Yukon is pleased to invite proposals from qualified and experienced individuals who can provide Project Director Services in connection with the development of the Whistle Bend Continuing Care Project. This procurement is being managed by Partnerships British Columbia. For more information visit bcbid.gov.bc.ca and search for tender 7265. Please direct all inquiries about this RFP to dawn.hart@partnershipsbc.ca
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Furniture 6-DRAWER MAPLE dresser, good condition, $50 obo. 633-2307 OFFICE FURNITURE, large wood desk with matching credenza, two large metal filing cabinets, one with drawers the other with shelves, view at 49 Redwood St, Porter Creek. 633-6553 SHINTO STOOL, 24”, $20; bevelled mirror, 22”X28”, $20; storage bench, $30. 311B Hanson St eves HOUSEHOLD BELONGINGS, all in great condition, everything must go. hea1lth@yahoo.ca, Call/text 587-434-9834 COUCH/HIDE-A-BED, SIMMONS, pink/grn floral, folds out to double bed, exc cond, $350. 633-5774 KITCHEN TABLE, 6 chairs, 1 leaf, good cond, $200. 633-5774
Personals CITIZENS ON PATROL. Do you have concerns in your neighborhood & community? Be part of the solution! Volunteer valuable time to the C.O.P.S. program. With your eyes & ears we can help stomp out crime. Info: RCMP 867-667-5555 DRUG PROBLEM? Narcotics Anonymous meetings Wed. 7pm-8pm #2 - 407 Ogilvie St. BYTE Office FRI. 7pm-8:30pm 4071 - 4th Ave Many Rivers Office
YUKON NEWS
NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND CLAIMANTS The Estate of
PETER WOLOSZENIUK, Deceased
All claims against the Estate of PETER WOLOSZENIUK, late of Whitehorse, in the Yukon Territory who died on or about the 16th day of August, 2015 must be made by filing a statutory declaration with the personal representative noted below on or before the 20th day of November, 2015 after which date the Estate will be distributed having regard only to the claims of which the Estate Trustee then shall have notice.
DATED at Whitehorse Yukon, this 26th day of October, 2015.
WHITEHORSE DUPLICATE BRIDGE CLUB November 3, 2015 1st - Mark Davey & Chris Bookless 2nd - Jan Ogilvy & Darwin Wreggitt 3rd - Bruce Beaton & Lynn Daffe 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
Garage Sales 31 TOPAZ Cr, Copper Ridge, Saturday November 7, 10:30am-2pm, indoors
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SHERIFF’S SALE BY VIRTUE of a Writ of Seizure and Sale issued out of the SMALL CLAIMS COURT OF YUKON against the GOODS, LANDS AND CHATTELS of Sid Smarch of Precision Builders. Namely: 2012 Trailtech Dump Trailer, VIN # 2CUB38E98C2031361 Model P2/14KHD, 6,350 KG Capacity. Sealed bids will be received by the Sheriff of the Yukon Territory up to and including the 12th day of November, 2015 at 4:00 P.M. in the afternoon. Bids will be opened at 4:00 P.M. on November 12th, 2015. The sale is, as is, where is, without warranty to title. The highest or any bid not necessarily accepted. Payment by successful bidder will be required within five working days from acceptance of bid.
ROBERTA PRILUSKY c/o 102-205 Hawkins Street Whitehorse, Yukon Y1A 1X3 Attention: Kyle J. Carruthers
Sheriff Law Court Building 2134-2nd Avenue Whitehorse YT Y1A 5H6
Box 308 Dawson City, YT Y0B 1G0 PH: 867-993-7400 FAX: 867-993-7434 www.cityofdawson.ca
Request for Letters of Interest (LOI) Acquisition and Operation of Dawson City Cable System City of Dawson, YK | Closing Date: November 30, 2015
The City of Dawson calls for Letters of Interest to negotiate with the City to purchase the cable system, upgrade the system and continue to operate it. For an information package, please contact Joanne Van Nostrand, Director of Finance and Administration, City of Dawson at jvannostrand@cityofdawson.ca Conditions of Call for LOI’s: 1. This request for Letters of Interest is not a bid solicitation. By responding to this request, the respondent acknowledges that neither it nor the City intends to create any legal obligations with each other. 2. If there is only one respondent, the City may at its option, choose to negotiate sale of the cable system to that respondent without a further Request of Proposals (“RFP”) process or it may choose to invite RFP’s. Therefore, any party that may be interested in purchasing the cable system should respond to this Call for LOI’s in order to participate in any further sale processes. 3. By responding to this request, respondents agree that any information submitted to the City of Dawson may be used by the City in the development of a subsequent competitive RFP. 4. The City is not required to accept any Expression of Interest or to consider it further in any associated documents such as a RFP. 5. The issuance of this request for Letters of Interest does not create an obligation for the City to issue a subsequent RFP, and does not bind or require the City legally or otherwise, to enter into any agreement or to accept any suggestions from any respondent.
Christmas Craft Fair
Saturday November 28, 9am to 2pm. Basement of 600 College Drive Senior Residence.Crafts, baking and much more.
Craft Sale
Saturday November 7, 9am-3pm, Yukon Inn, by Ladies Auxiliary to Legion. Bake tables, native crafts, local crafts.
Bazaar, Tea & Bake Sale
Saturday November 7, 2015, 1pm-3pm, Golden Age Society, 4061A - 4th Ave. License #2015-106 Yukon Order Of Pioneers Ladies Auxiliary.
CKES Christmas Craft Fair
November 14th 10am-3pm, Christ The King Elementary School, 20 Nisutlin Drive, Riverdale. Call Paula at 6332724 to book a table or for more information.
Christmas Bazaar Bake Table & Tea Atlin Christmas Craft Fair Saturday November 21, 11am-2pm, Hellaby Hall, Christ Church Cathedral, 4th & Elliot. Held by Anglican Church Women.
Global Village Craft Fair
Saturday November 21, 11am-3pm, The Old Fire Hall Fair Trade Crafts from 10,000 Villages, India, Ethiopia, Nepal, Mongolia, Haiti, Ghana. Hosted by YDEC.
Cranberry Fair
Sunday, November 22, Kwanlin Dun Cultural Centre, 11am-4pm. Opens Christmas Spruce Bog Craft & Gift Sale at 10:30 for persons with mobility issues. Info/Applications 335-0461, Saturday November 21, 11am-5pm, Canada Games Centre. Open at 10:15 cranberryfair@live.com. Supported by for seniors (60+) & persons with mobility Arts Operating Fund, Northern Fibres Guild. difficulties. Yukon Crafts Society
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Saturday, November 28th 2015, Atlin Recreation Centre, 11am-3pm. Contact Lynn Turnbull to book a table, 250-6517663.
Christmas Craft Fair
December 6th Noon-4pm, Lorne Mountain Community Centre. Tables $10. Reserve lmca@northwestel.net or 667-7083.
First Nations Christmas Craft Fair Saturday, December 12, 10am-4pm, Elijah Smith Elementary School, 1399 Hamilton Blvd. Table bookings by donation, Melanie @ 667-5992 or melanie.bennett@gov.yk.ca
Request for Proposals Researcher and Report Writer – Council of Yukon First Nations; First Nations Regional Education, Employment and Early Childhood Development Survey – November 23, 2015 -March 31 2016 Closing Date: November 20, 4.00 pm Scope of Project: Through the First Nations Regional Education, Employment and Early Childhood Development Survey (REEES) data has been collected in all Yukon First Nation Communities on early childhood development, education and employment. In order to be able to present the data in context the Council of Yukon First Nations is seeking the assistance of a researcher/report writer who can help place the REEES data chosen for dissemination in a relevant context and highlight the issues that currently exist in the above areas. The Council of Yukon First Nations follows a culturally informed analysis process which involves representatives from Yukon First Nations who help qualify the data and raise issues that exist in their communities. The contractor hired for this project will assist with the selection and writing of the context pieces related to the statistics chosen to be presented in the Yukon REEES report. Deliverables include: • To work with the Yukon REEES data analyst and the Yukon Analysis Dissemination Committee in an iterative writing process. • To research key documents and speak with experts in the areas of early childhood development, languages, culture, education, training, employment and volunteering and produce relevant context pieces to accompany the statistics that will be presented. • To create inal versions of the chapters to be featured in the Yukon REEES report Requirements: • Proven ability to produce well written reports • Knowledge of the subject areas indicated above • Knowledge of Yukon First Nations communities and realities • Ability to meet timelines • Knowledge and Respect of the First Nations principles of Ownership, Control, Access and Possession While quali ied Yukon First Nation citizens will be given preference, all interested and quali ied individuals are encouraged to apply. Materials created through this contract will adhere to Ownership Control Access and Possession principles remain property of Council of Yukon First Nations (CYFN) and will require permission to be used otherwise. Proposal Submission The proposal should include the following: • Current resume • Summary of your related work or initiatives you have conducted or participated in • Level of knowledge and expertise of First Nations issues with early childhood development, education and training • Costing of timeline for your hourly work only Please submit proposal no later than November 20, 4.00 pm to: Name: Lori Duncan Title: Director of Health and Social Address: Council of Yukon First Nations, 2166-2nd Avenue, Whitehorse, Yukon, Y1A 4P1 Phone: (867) 393-9230 Fax: (867) 668-6577 E-mail: lori.duncan@cyfn.net
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Saturday, November 7, 10am-4pm. Gold Rush Inn on Main Street. This annual event features many great gift ideas from Yukon crafters/home businesses. Call 667-6772 or 667-7629
Re:Design/The Craft Fair
Saturday, November 28th, The Old Fire Hall, 11 am – 4 pm A collection of artisans embracing creative reuse. Call Darren at 667-6116 for more info.
17th Annual Littlest Art & Craft Fair
Saturday, December 5th, 56 Carpiquet, Takhini North, 10 am – 4 pm. A celebration of Yukon Made, Fine Crafts.
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