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ustin Ferbey has become the first northerner on the board of directors of Tides Canada, a national charity that funds social and environmental initiatives across Canada. The appointment is part of the organization’s move to expand its presence in the North. Tides Canada launched its northern branch in 2013 with the opening of a new office in Yellowknife. Ferbey said his previous work as chief executive officer of the Carcross Tagish Management Corporation has much in common with this new position, in that both appointments are focused on developing sustainable economies. “It seemed to me like a natural fit,� he said. “We’re looking for local solutions to local challenges.� Tides Canada operates by attracting donations from philanthropists in Canada and abroad and funnelling them to specific projects that the donors are interested in supporting. It’s one of the environmental groups targeted by the previous Harper government as a foreign-funded “radical� group opposed to oil sands and pipeline development. The Canada Revenue Agency began auditing Tides Canada in 2011. At the time, questions were raised about how much the organization was spending on political advocacy. According to Revenue Canada, charities can spend no more than 10 per cent of their expendi-
Parking fines fill people’s fridges The City of Whitehorse is continuing its annual food for fines program, which raised more than $7,000 last year in food and cash donations. Now in its 10th year, the program allows parking violators to pay their tickets with the equivalent value in food. This year, the program will run from Dec. 4 to 11. Non-perishable items such as beans, meats, sauces, soups and pasta are accepted and will be donated to the Whitehorse
ern communities. “We really try to honour that and make sure that where we are giving resources they are in line with northern priorities,� he said. “Sometimes it means saying no to donors. It can be a long, patient process.� In the Yukon, Tides Canada has donated $68,000 to the First Joel Krahn/Yukon News Nation of Na-cho Nyak Dun and Justin Ferbey is now a board the Teslin Tlingit Council to supmember for Tides Canada. port the Yukon River Intertribal Watershed Council. It has also tures on political activities. Tides donated $300 to the Gwich’in Canada maintained its political Tribal Council to support youth expenditures were less than one leadership initiatives and $5,000 per cent of its total spending. Steve Ellis, Tides Canada’s pro- to the Vuntut Gwitchin First Nation to support the Gwich’in gram lead for northern Canada, Gathering in Old Crow. said the organization aims to But it has also been heavily spend $1 million or more in the involved with the fight to protect North in 2016, and has likely the Peel watershed. In 2013, the spent close to that much this charity donated $10,000 to the year. Yukon Conservation Society for But he said the organization its Protect the Peel Watershed doesn’t yet have a publicly availand Whitehorse Wildlife camable breakdown of every project paigns. It also gave $49,000 to the that money is supporting. Canadian Parks and Wilderness “We don’t even have an internal breakdown,� he said. “A lot of Society, part of which went to the Yukon chapter’s efforts to protect it’s in my head.� But he said the charity is filling the Peel. Ferbey said he’s most interesta gap across northern Canada. ed in the youth leadership proj“There’s very little philanthropic ects that Tides Canada supports. dollars in the North.� “That for a long time has been Ellis said the large donors to northern initiatives include the J. a focus of mine,� he said. But he W. McConnell Family Foundation also explained that board memand the Walter & Duncan Gordon bers don’t weigh in on specific Foundation in Toronto, as well as projects. the Oak Foundation in SwitzerIn August, Ferbey was also land. named the new president of the He said one of his biggest chal- Yukon Development Corporalenges is making sure that donors tion. want to fund projects that are Contact Maura Forrest at aligned with the needs of northmaura.forrest@yukon-news.com Food Bank, as well as Kaushee’s Place. Last year saw total donations of food and goods worth $2,530 and direct cash donations of $4,730. This year’s cap has been raised to $10,000, according to bylaw manager Dave Pruden. An average of 540 parking tickets are issued that week, he said. Depending on whether people pay the $10 or $25 fine, Pruden estimates the total amount raised will be between $5,400 and $13,500. The program is in place for
parking metre offences only and does not include offences such as parking in a handicap spot, for example. Former bylaw manager John Taylor started the program in 2005. (Myles Dolphin)
Correction Friday’s editorial misidentified the Supreme Court judge who ruled on the Peel case: it was Ron Veale, not Leigh Gower. We’re sorry for the mix-up.
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Yukon makes progress on transgender rights after undergoing sex reassignment surgery. After LaDue complained publicly, he was quietly issued a he Yukon government is new Yukon driver’s licence that taking steps to remove a listed him as male. But that didn’t barrier for transgender stop him from pursuing the huYukoners whose identification man rights complaint on behalf doesn’t match their gender. of others who might run into the The territory’s Motor Vehicles Branch will be changing its policy same problem. “This is for the trans Yukonso that transgender people don’t ers who want to get their driver’s have to undergo sex reassignlicence with their preferred genment surgery to change the der,” he explained. gender on their driver’s licence. Dan Cable, a spokesperson The policy will be updated by the for the Department of Justice, end of April 2016. said the new policy will likely The change was prompted follow B.C.’s model. If so, people by a human rights complaint recently filed by Shaun LaDue, who who want to have their gender was born with a female body but changed would simply need to identifies as male. LaDue moved provide an affidavit from a doctor or a psychologist. to the Yukon from Vancouver in “Society’s understanding of August. His B.C. driver’s licence gender is changing, so that is listed him as male, because having an effect in the legal and B.C. has updated its legislation policy world,” he said. “This is to allow transgender people to where government catches up change their gender on official documents simply by providing a with society.” Julie Jai, acting director of the letter from their doctor. Yukon Human Rights CommisBut in the Yukon, LaDue was sion, said she’s pleased that the told the gender on his driver’s government has agreed to a “syslicence had to match the gentemic change” that will recognize der on his birth certificate. And the rights of transgender people. according to the territory’s Vital “I see this as an issue where Statistics Act, he can only change the gender on his birth certificate people are more and more aware Maura Forrest News Reporter
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Shaun LaDue’s human rights complaint sparked a change in policy by the Yukon’s motor vehicles branch. and they’re taking steps to make the change,” she said. But she also pointed out that the territory has yet to agree to a legislative change. The Vital Statistics Act still requires that people undergo surgery to change the gender on their birth certificate. Jai called the policy change “a very clever way of getting around
the fact that the legislation still requires gender reassignment surgery.” But she does believe that legislative change is coming. “I see this as a positive first step,” she said. Cable said the government is reviewing its legislation with transgender rights in mind, but cautioned that it’s much harder
to change legislation than to tweak a policy. “There are a lot of departments at play here, so a fairly significant amount of policy work has to be done,” he said. Still, Yukon is now one of a minority of Canadian jurisdictions that have not removed or promised to remove the requirement for surgery to change gender on a birth certificate. Jai said that B.C., Alberta, Manitoba and Ontario no longer require surgery, and the change will soon be in effect in Quebec, Nova Scotia and Newfoundland and Labrador. She also said the legislation in New Brunswick and Nunavut never required sex reassignment surgery in the first place. “This is a very live topic and it is being discussed by all of the jurisdictions,” she explained. For his part, LaDue plans to keep raising awareness about this issue until the legislation is changed here at home. “Part of it is education,” he said. “We need to make policies that are more inclusive in every organization in the Yukon.” Contact Maura Forrest at maura.forrest@yukon-news.com
First Nation final agreements spur mining development, study finds by 41 per cent more than that of non-treaty First Nation citizens News Reporter in the same field. Much of that income boost is odern treaties signed the result of more mining agreebetween 1991 and ments being signed by First 2006 have increased Nations with treaties, the report incomes in First Nation comfound. In 2012, treaty First Namunities and benefited mining tions had one mining agreement development, according to a on average, while non-treaty new report. First Nations had an average of The study, published last just 0.2 agreements. The nummonth by the C. D. Howe ber of mining contracts has also Institute, analyzed the 11 final agreements in the Yukon, as well increased more quickly for First Nations with final agreements. as a handful of treaties in B.C. Ben Dachis, a senior policy and the Northwest Territories. analyst with the C. D. Howe It compared those First Nation Institute, said treaties provide communities with others that clarity around property rights, have not yet signed final agreewhich enables more resource ments. development. The results show that real “The key point is that clariaverage annual income has fication of property rights,” he increased by 17 per cent more since 1991 for members of treaty said. “What these treaties do is they make it so much easier for First Nations than for members resource companies to come in of non-treaty First Nations. And the income of treaty First to these communities.” The report suggests that Nation citizens working in extractive industries has increased mining contracts have ripple Maura Forrest
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Yukon spent $3 million on French school court fight The Yukon government has spent more than $3 million to fund its legal battle against the territory’s French school board. That’s according to documents tabled by Education Minister Doug Graham in the legislative assembly last week. Opposition NDP leader Liz Hanson asked Graham whether he believed the government
could have accomplished more with the funds. “Yukoners know that this money could have been spent in better ways,” she said. Graham said he tabled the expenses in the name of transparency, and that new attempts have been made to resolve the differences with the school board rather than going back to court. “We believe that the best possible way of settling these differ-
effects throughout the community. That would explain the observed 21 per cent income increase for people working in manufacturing and the 18 per cent income increase for trade workers in First Nations with final agreements. Ken Coates, a professor of public policy at the University of Saskatchewan, said the results show that “the aspirations that a lot of northerners had (for the final agreements)... actually bore fruit.” “One of the reasons for signing a treaty is to have greater economic opportunities,” he said. But Coates cautioned that the positive results might be due in part to the recent resource boom that ended after 2011. “In my experience, what happens is that aboriginal rights are not a barrier if the price is right and the demand is high,” he said. But he explained that when commodity prices are
low, as they are today, resource companies are less likely to offer deals that First Nations find acceptable. If the resource sector had been in a slump since the 1990s, the economic benefits of treaties would probably be less clear. “We have to be careful about attributing everything to a treaty when there’s other factors going on,” Coates said. This latest report stands in contrast with one released by the Fraser Institute in September, which was much more critical of the economic effects of modern treaties. That study blamed recent court decisions about First Nations land claims in the Yukon for creating uncertainty and hurting investor confidence in the territory’s mining industry. It listed several recent court cases, including the Peel watershed case, as examples of disputes that could have stayed out of the courts if First Nations
and the government had stuck more closely to the terms laid out in final agreements. But Coates said the two reports are not incompatible. He pointed out that the C. D. Howe study focused on the years up to 2012, while the Fraser Institute report focused on the last few years, after commodity prices started to slump. “When the margins have all shrunk, then it’s much harder to reach a good deal with First Nations,” he said. Still, he said, even while mineral prices rise and fall, this latest report shows that the treaties provide economic benefits. It can just take time for those effects to be measured. “A lot of people expect when these things are done... that the results are going to be really fast,” he said. “That’s not how life works.”
ences in our opinion is through negotiations and through settlement of these issues,” he said. The school board and Yukon government have been mired in a court battle over the plans for a new school since 2009. In early May, the government announced the school board had picked the Riverdale skate park as a potential site for a new French high school. At the time, Graham said no work would
happen on the site until the skate park had been relocated elsewhere in Whitehorse. Last week, Liberal Leader Sandy Silver asked Graham for details about potential sites. Silver also requested to see conceptual drawings produced for the school. But since it was the end of the day, the House was adjourned before Graham could answer. A department official de-
clined to comment on the matter. In August, a settlement committee was created to deal with issues the French school board has been fighting in court for the past six years. A construction committee, also created in August, has indicated that it would like to see the new school completed by the fall of 2018. (Myles Dolphin)
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or the third year in a row, the United States House of Representatives hasn’t earmarked any more cash for the Shakwak portion of the Alaska Highway. A transportation bill, passed last week, made no mention of the project to improve Yukon highways that connect mainland Alaska to the panhandle. The Shakwak Agreement was signed by the governments of Canada and United States in 1977. It lays out responsibilities for 523 kilometres of road – the Canadian portion of the Haines Road from Haines, Alaska, to Haines Junction and the northern portion of the Alaska Highway from Haines Junction to the Alaska Border. U.S. cash came in every year until 2012, when the American government pulled the project’s inclusion from the federal Highways Act funding.
College’s leaky roof to be fixed next summer Design work has been completed for repairs to the Yukon College’s leaky roof and construction is planned for the summer of 2016. In January 2014 mould was discovered inside a staff lounge when college maintenance staff were
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For the third year in a row, no U.S. funding will be coming in for construction and maintenance on the Alaska Highway, seen above, and the Haines Road. In the Yukon legislative assembly on Monday, NDP MLA Lois Moorcroft asked what the Yukon government was doing
to try and get the money flowing again. “Previous years’ budgets were $19.7 million and $26.7
million for Shakwak. This year’s budget allocated $9.9 million for road improvements through Shakwak, mainly to deal with
cleaning up damage from water that had leaked into the 25-yearold building. The Yukon’s Department of Highways and Public Works hired a mould cleanup specialist and the worker’s compensation health and safety board ordered the wall resealed and the room closed. By May 2014 the mould was
cleaned up. In the legislative assembly on Monday, Highways and Public Works Minister Scott Kent said the roof will be fixed this summer. In the meantime, the department “has contracted for snow removal to ensure that snow and ice does not build up on the facility’s roof to reduce the potential for water infiltration until the repairs can be completed,” he said.
ers should still be diligent when it comes to controlling attractants on their property, the department says. On Friday, a grizzly bear was spotted frequenting homes near Lake Laberge. The bear was attracted to meat stored on a property at Horse Creek. Residents are also reminded to be alert to the presence of bears while skiing, hiking, or trail running, and to carry bear spray. Call the TIPP line at 1-800-6610525 at any hour to report environmental violations or wildlife conflict issues or report online at www.env.gov.yk.ca/tipp. Bear HO/RCMP safety information is available at www.env.gov.yk.ca/bears. Two suspects of an attempted
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permafrost degradation,” she said. “However, without Shakwak funding in place, Alaska Highway paving efforts between Haines Junction and Beaver Creek have been put on hold.” Highways Minister Scott Kent said the Yukon government will continue to lobby the Americans for Shakwak funding, as it has done since the money was halted. He mentioned 85 to 90 per cent of travellers on that section of highway are Americans, either travelling from southeast Alaska into the interior or from the Lower 48 states to visit Alaska. Kent said he has plans to speak with the new federal Minister of Transport, Marc Garneau, about Shakwak during an upcoming phone call. Premier Darrell Pasloski said he will also be raising the issue with the minister of foreign affairs, Stephane Dion, and the prime minister.
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Both the occupant of the unit and the neighbour were sprayed Police have made two arrests in with bear spray in the struggle. connection to a robbery at a WhiteTen days later, Janine Firth and horse motel last month. Shannon Stein, both of WhiteOn Oct. 20 at around 5:45 p.m. horse, were arrested by Whitehorse police were called to the Stratsford RCMP for theft and misuse of Motel. credit cards. According to police, a man and Following an investigation, a woman forced their way into a police searched the apartment the room and fought with the occupair share and laid a handful of adpant. Hearing the commotion, a ditional charges. neighbour intervened. Firth, 33, and Stein, 41 are each facing two counts of assault with a weapon, one count of robbery, one count of forcible confinement, one count of possession of a weapon for dangerous purposes and two counts of possession of property obtained by crime. Stein is also facing one count Winter Hours as of of being unlawfully in a dwelling November 1st. and two counts of failing to comply with a court order. Friday: 10 am-5pm
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Liberal party MPs punt vote on Reform Act provisions until after national convention Myles Dolphin News Reporter
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ukon MP Larry Bagnell said there is no rush to vote on the provisions in the Reform Act, a bill that gives MPs a chance to take some of the iron-fisted control away from their party leaders. Under the new law, party caucus members are supposed to decide, at their first meeting following an election, whether they wish to take advantage of the powers in the bill. Those powers include removing the ability of party leaders to block candidates from running for their party and also giving MPs the power to trigger a leadership review vote to remove a party leader. It would also give them the power to select their caucus chairperson. But last week, Liberal MPs unanimously decided to defer the decision until their upcoming national convention in May. Bagnell said it was a good idea, as it allows party members to weigh in on the issue. “Democratically, a huge number of people in the party set the guidelines and it shouldn’t be up to a few MPs to make those decisions in isolation,” he said. The Reform Act, a private member’s bill introduced by Conservative MP Michael
Falcon Ridge condo board gains control The condo board for an embattled development in Falcon Ridge has been granted the right to tear down a half-built apartment and fix the giant hole they say has become an eyesore and a safety hazard. Yukon Supreme Court Justice Ron Veale granted the order Nov. 5. It allows the condo board to step in to fix the problems and place a lien on the land to cover
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Larry Bagnell speaks at a forum in Whitehorse in September. Bagnell says there is no need to rush the vote on provisions in the new Reform Act. Chong in Dec. 2013, passed the Senate in June last year. Chong heavily watered down the act in order to get support from all parties. Bagnell noted parts of the bill don’t affect the party, as Liberal MPs have always elected interim leaders as well
as caucus chairs. But he said he’s always had reservations about the vote that would trigger a leadership review. The bill would allow a caucus to remove its chair or leader – or expel a member – if 20 per cent of the members call for a
review. “In our last caucus eight people could have initiated the process,” Bagnell said. If that threshold is reached, then there is a second vote – and if 50 per cent plus one of all caucus members vote to remove the leader or chair, that’s
the costs. The board’s lawyer, Jim Tucker, called the half-finished mess “an open wound in the condominium development.” The bare piece of property is the last bit owned by developer Brian Little. Little and the board have been in court for nearly three years. That’s when a judge ordered him to halt construction of the apartment. He ruled that Little didn’t have the authority to build it there in the first place.
After a trial, Little was permitted to proceed with smaller buildings. But those plans never happened and the half-built structure remained standing, exposed to the elements. Now the board’s been told Little has lost his financing and won’t be able to do any more work
on the property. He did not show up to court on Thursday and did not file any sort of defence. Tucker said now that the order has been made he’ll be asking Yukon sheriffs to seize anything that can be removed from the property. He said the board will have to
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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. Contact the Employment & Training Office for your funding application. Applications can be sent to Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in C/O The Education Committee Box 599, Dawson City, YT Y0B 1G0 Phone: 867-993-7100 ext. 111 E-mail: melissa.atkinson@trondek.ca
what happens. More than 100,000 party members and supporters cast their vote by phone or online over a week of voting in 2013 to determine the leader. The party said its membership stood at approximately 300,000 people last December. “It’s only democratic to let those people decide what procedures we’ll use.” Based on the size of the current caucus – 184 MPs – 37 would be required to trigger the review. The Liberal Party’s four commissions – aboriginal, youth, senior and women – also have a lot of input when it comes to policies and decisions, added Bagnell. NDP MPs also voted to defer the vote to a future caucus meeting. Conservative MPs were the only ones to vote on the Reform Act. They adopted a provision to elect the caucus chair, who had previously been appointed by the prime minister. But they rejected the rule that would trigger the leadership review, as well as the one which provides for caucus MPs to vote on an interim leader if the position becomes vacant. As it stands, the party’s constitution allows for both MPs and senators to take part in the vote. Contact Myles Dolphin at myles@yukon-news.com
return to court to enforce the lien once a proper accounting has been done of how much everything is going to cost. Veale agreed to sign the order right away. He said he will also be issuing written reasons for his decision later. (Ashley Joannou)
Attention Dempster Highway Caribou Hunters The Government of Yukon has closed caribou hunting in five game management subzones: 2-16, 2-23, 2-27, 2-28 and 2-39 to protect the Hart River caribou herd. The closure will be in effect from November 1, 2015 to July 31, 2016 and includes the Dempster Highway from kilometre 77 (North Fork Pass) to kilometer 195 (Ogilvie River bridge). This winter, most caribou seen along the south end of the Dempster Highway are Hart River caribou. The risk of overhunting the Hart River caribou in this area is very high. This emergency closure applies to Yukon resident and non-resident hunters. For subsistence harvesters, caribou south of km 140 (Windy Pass) are not considered Porcupine caribou. Harvesting rights under the Porcupine Caribou Management Agreement do not extend south of km 140 and do not apply at this time.
Please help conserve the Hart River caribou herd.
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e never hear much about making peace. Seems to always be about war, conflicts and national security. Would it be different if women ruled the world? Perhaps if men carried a growing fetus for nine months they would value life more? Or are we all warriors? Recently I attended a meeting and conference of the National Association of Japanese Canadians and had an opportunity to hear Setsuko Thurlow, a dedicated peace activist, former social worker and Hiroshima survivor. I hope that I’m as feisty and committed to justice and peace as she is at the age of 83. She is a hibakusha – a Hiroshima survivor, pacifist and “memory keeper.� She lives in Canada and continues her work to abolish nuclear weapons. In December 2014 she witnessed the signing by 113 nations of the Austrian Pledge, now renamed the Humanitarian Pledge, which called for all nuclear weapon states and those who support them to begin the process for nuclear disarmament by developing a legally binding framework to ban nuclear weapons. Canada and the U.S. were not signatures to that agreement. (See www. icanw.org/pledge.) When I heard Setsuko Thurlow speak I was reminded of the time that my husband, our 17-year-old son and I were in Nagasaki, Japan with my relatives on the anniversary of the atomic bombing of August 9, 1945. A plaque at ground zero – also known as the hypocenter – gives the following account and statistics of the damage caused that day: “At 11:02 A.M., August 9, 1945 an atomic
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bomb exploded 500 meters above this spot. The black stone monolith marks the hypocenter. The fierce blast wind, heat rays reaching several thousand degrees and deadly radiation generated by the explosion crushed, burned and killed everything in sight and reduced this entire area to a barren field of rubble. About one-third of Nagasaki City was destroyed and 150,000 people killed or injured and it was said at the time that this area would be devoid of vegetation for 75 years. Now, the hypocenter remains as an international peace park and a symbol of the aspiration for world harmony.� We saw a photo in the Nagasaki Museum of the silhouette of a person who was incinerated in front of a wall as they were walking down the street when the bomb went off. That image is imprinted on my mind and soul. As we moved throughout the museum exhibit there was only the shuffling of feet. When my family members and I left the museum, we sat in silence with our own reflections for many minutes before we could speak. There was nothing I needed to say to my son about the need to
be a messenger of peace. There’s an inscription in Hiroshima, at the site of the other atomic bombing in Japan, that roughly translates as: “Rest in peace. Error will not be repeated.� I seem to recall a similar sentiment after World War I. The poppies are a reminder, “Lest We Forget,� to make peace, not war. Unfortunately the seeds of violence continue to be planted, nurtured and grow. Many politicians and media outlets talk about national security, the threat of violence on our home soil, and create fertile ground for an atmosphere of xenophobia – the fear of strangers. Many of these “strangers� are new immigrants and refugees to Canada and are often seen as threats to our security. This year on the 70th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, let us consider ways to root out the weeds of violence and cultivate a culture of peace and respect in Canada. Let us all work to be messengers of peace.
ing all those who have served our great nation and the many who have made the ultimate sacrifice for our freedom. Veterans, RCMP, Legionnaires, Rangers, Cadets and many other organizations and individuals, family and friends will be gathering at 10
a.m. at the Canada Games Centre for the Whitehorse Remembrance Day service. We hope to see you there.
Lillian Nakamura Maguire lives in Whitehorse.
LETTERS Lest we forget The Whitehorse Legion would like to thank the First Nations people of the Yukon for their contributions to Canada’s war efforts. Approximately 12,000 aboriginal people from across Canada served in the First and Second World Wars and Korean War. Many more served during the Cold War and the Afghanistan War and quite a few are still on active duty today. The 8th of November has been set aside as National Aboriginal Veterans Day to pay remembrance to those brave men and women who have served with honour and pride, some paying the ultimate sacrifice. On November 11, join us in remember-
Joseph R. Mewett, CD (Sgt ret’d) President, Royal Canadian Legion Branch 254
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Peel kerfuffle leaves big questions unanswered parties about the role of bodies like land use planning commissions. The more fundamental and substantive question that the Peel litigation didn’t even by Kyle touch on is what the word Carruthers “modify” really means. “Modify” is a word used a number of times at key points OINTED IEWS in the most important statutes and agreements affecting undreds of thousands of development in the Yukon. The dollars in legal fees later final agreements with 11 Yukon and we’re back to where First Nations and the Yukon we were on the Peel in 2011. And Environmental and Socioecoreally we’ve learned very little of nomic Assessment Act each use the word. Each establish a substance from two rounds of process for decision-making – court battles. the final agreements establish We now know that the gova process for the approval of ernment is obliged to follow land use plans like the one in the processes set out in the the Peel and YESAA establishes final agreements and propose a framework for any kind of specific modifications – rather development that goes on in the than generalities – early in the territory. process, not at the last minute. Once those processes are We’ve been reminded that the complete the Yukon government Yukon government owes First has the right to “accept, reject or Nations a duty of consultamodify” the recommendations tion, that it must honour the of those bodies. And while the spirit and intent of its treaties, meanings of “accept” and “reand that it must conduct itself ject” are pretty clear, the word honourably – all things we knew “modify” leaves a hole large before. enough to drive a truck through. It has been an unfortunately When drafting contracts, lawexpensive lesson. yers are often accused by their But after all this there is still clients of being pedantic – too a fundamental lack of clarity focused on small details and on about who gets the final say in imagining far-fetched “what if” land planning and an obvious scenarios. Clients who want to disagreement between various avoid expensive legal fees prefer
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to lay out their arrangement in broad strokes, get the document signed and worry about the details later. But ambiguity in legal drafting is a recipe for lawsuits. If a document is clear when a dispute arises one party gets to claim victory while the other resigns in defeat. Truly frivolous litigation when the law is clearly on one side certainly occurs, but it isn’t as common as one might assume. But insert a little bit of ambiguity into a document and the stakes change dramatically. Suddenly both parties have something to hang their hat on, thus providing them with the incentive to take the matter to court or at least try to leverage some sort of compromise. The word “modify” presents exactly that kind of ambiguity. The Yukon government’s stance seems to be that “modify” means whatever the government says it means. Our ministers have repeatedly stated that “public government” needs to have the final say over land development in the territory. Want to turn a plan that calls for protection of 80 per cent of the Peel into a plan that protects only 29 per cent? Just “modify” it. At the end of the day it is our decision. And while the government was slapped down for not proposing modifications early in the
process, the court did not rule on whether essentially introducing a whole new plan fell within the meaning of “modify.” The position of others seems to be that “modify” must mean something much narrower. In a statement, Yukon Vuntut Gwitchin Chief Roger Kyikavichik says that “this is not finished until we’ve concluded a final land use plan that we can all agree to.” That doesn’t sound like a plan that the government can “modify” to the point that it is unrecognizable to those who participated in developing it. “Modify” – from this perspective – is a word that is limited in scope. In this view, control over development in the Yukon is seen as a true partnership, where decisions are made by consensus, not by one party with the final say. Unfortunately, both are plausible interpretations of the word “modify,” and after all this kerfuffle we don’t have any clearer idea of which is correct. And even when we do, the fun may not end immediately. The difficulty with the narrower interpretation preferred by those who view land management as a true partnership is that it will likely lead to even more litigation. The government’s position has the advantage of clarity. If
modify means anything and everything then there is no room for grey. But if modify means something less than “whatever we say it means” then that means there is a line between a “modification” and something entirely different which will have to be sussed out. It is unfathomable that after all the time, money and effort that went into negotiating final agreements and establishing a framework for development in the territory, we are left with such a fundamental disagreement about what was intended. How did this happen? Was it poor drafting? Did no one point out to the parties that this word could present a problem? Or did the politicians of the day deliberately elect to punt and leave a fundamental question that goes to the heart of development in the territory to another day? Were politicians at the time to eager to have a photo op and say that the job was done while important details were left to a later today? These are questions that will probably go without answers, but the end result is litigation on the taxpayer dime that will continue into the foreseeable future. Kyle Carruthers is a born-andraised Yukoner who lives and practises law in Whitehorse.
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ccording to Canada’s Department of Veteran Affairs, the following is what you will be solemnly remembering this week during the 11th minute of the 11th hour of the 11th month of 2015:
October 11, 1899 South African War begins
October 30, 1899 First Canadian soldiers leave for South Africa
February 18, 1900 Battle of Paardeberg begins
November 7, 1900 Battle of Leliefontein
March 31, 1902 Battle of Hart’s River
May 31, 1902 South African War ends
August 4, 1914 First World War Begins
April 22, 1915 Canadians see first major action at Ypres
July 1, 1916 1st Newfoundland Regiment goes over the top at Beaumont-Hamel
April 9, 1917 Canadians take Vimy Ridge
November, 1917 Canadians capture Passchendaele in muddy battle
November 11, 1918 Armistice signed ending the war
September 10, 1939 Canada officially enters the Second World War
August 19, 1942 Canadians take part in Raid on Dieppe
July 10, 1943 Canadians come ashore in Sicily
June 6, 1944 Allies come ashore in Normandy on D-Day
May 5, 1945 Canadians complete Liberation of the Netherlands
August 15, 1945 V-J Day: official end of the Second World War
June 25, 1950 Canadians enter Korean War
April 24-25, 1951 Canadians see action in the Battle of Kapyong
October 2, 1952 HMCS Iroquois hit off Korean coast
July 27, 1953 The Korea Armistice Agreement is signed ending three years of fighting
November 24, 1956 First Canadian peacekeepers set foot in Egypt
August 9, 1974 Nine Canadian Forces Peacekeepers die in the Middle East
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paid the ultimate price, the War Museum has not, so here are the World’s UN Peacekeepers names of Canada’s forgotten warawarded Nobel Peace Prize riors, which are chiselled onto August 2, 1990 the Vietnam Veterans’ Memorial Iraq invades Kuwait, setting “North Wall” in Windsor, Ontario. off the Persian Gulf War Please read the list slowly and say their names out loud to hon1992 through 2003 our their lives – lest you forget, Canada participates in several like our government apparently missions to support peace in has: the Balkans region John A. Anderson, Alfonso P. 2001 Bartaloti, Fidel J. Bastaracha, Gaetan J.G. Beaudoin, Alvin Canadian soldiers deploy to K. Bencher, Vincent Benard, Afghanistan Guy A. Blanchette, Daniel A. September 2006 Bolduc, Greogory L. BombCanadians see intense combat erry, Ivan C. Broeffle, Thomas in Afghanistan during OperaE. Brown, Peter N. Bruyere, tion Medusa Gary Butt, Michael F .CampJanuary 2010 bell, Randall K. Campbell, Canadian Forces deploy to Bernard J. Caron, Dave S. earthquake-ravaged Haiti Chamberlain, Larry R. Collins, Mark P. Collins, Andrew March 2014 C. Conrad Jr., Austin M. End of Canada’s mission to Corbiere, Normand A. Corbin, Afghanistan Frank E. Crabbe, Donald P. However, according to the CaDavies, Patrick J. Dearborn, nadian War Museum, this list is Francis J.D. Delmark, Brian J. incomplete. Devaney, Douglas W. Devoe, Although Canada was not Richard P. Dextraze, Guy officially involved in the VietD. Dickie, Michael J. Dunn, nam War, Canadians certainly Gordon P. Eadie, Ronald R. were. As a veteran of that war, Fillmore, John F. Francis, America’s fourth largest in terms Thomas E. Fraser, Joseph O. of casualties, I was amazed at the Frigault, Gerard L.J. Gauthier, number of Canadians I ran into Leslie N. General, Danny E. over there, most of whom acted Goodwin, Gilbert P. Graham, entirely on their own by crossing Larry Green, Randolph E. the border and joining the U.S. Hatton, Wayne L. Hawes, Army, Navy, Air Force or Marines. Robert W. Holditch, Willis Though the Canadian DepartF. House, George V. Jmaeff, ment of Veteran Affairs seems to Andrew J. Jobey, Harry D.C. have overlooked the ones who
Kellar, John W.S.G. Kelly, Bruce T. Kennedy, Robert W. Kenny, Johnathan P. Kmetyk, Adolf J. Kroisenbacher, Paul S. Laverock, Darryl D.S. Lawson, Kevin D. Low, Geoffrey J. Lukey, John W. MacGlashan, David K. Manning, Maurice J. Marier, Joseph H. Marshall III, Alan C. Martin, Michael J. Masterson, Ian McIntosh, Rob G. McSorley, Cyril Mitchell Jr., Regan A. Monette, Donald W. Morin, Calvin I. Nesbitt, James P. Nichoson, Allan W. Persicke, Roger M. Pisacreta, Willian M. Price, John H. Reeves, William R. Robson, John W. Roden, Robert J. Santoro, Charlie F. Sauler, Daniel L.P. Sauve, David B. Savage, Dennis R. Schmidt, Stephen J. Scott, Ronald Scott, Larry S. Semeniuk, Edward G. Sharp, Gary F. Shaw, John C. Sherin III, Eldon W. Smith, Frank J. Somers, Tadeusz Sosniak, Stefan Z. Stalinske, Robert J. Steel, Alan M. Sturdy, Melvin H. Suthons, Vernon J. Thosteinson, Murray D. Vidler, Baxter Warren, Rutherford J. Welsh, Gordon G. White, Thomas M. Williams, Richard C. Williams, Paul H. Wolos, Gerald F. Young Doug Sack was the first sports editor of the Yukon News and later a longtime sports editor of the Whistler Question and a columnist and features writer for Ski Canada magazine. He is currently semi-retired in Whitehorse.
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New environment minister won’t set GHG target but calls Tory targets the ‘floor’ Bruce Cheadle Canadian Press
OTTAWA anada’s national target set by the Conservatives for cutting greenhouse gas emissions should be considered a floor for future action, says federal Environment Minister Catherine McKenna. The new Liberal government has so far refused to set a carbon reduction target in advance of the COP21 international climate conference that begins at the end of the month, citing the need to consult with the provinces before putting in place a credible national plan. But with environmental groups loudly complaining that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will take Stephen Harper’s climate plan to the world, McKenna moved Monday to put some parameters around Canada’s position. McKenna is in Paris attending ministerial meetings in advance of COP21, where the international community hopes to set in place a post-2020 framework for global action on climate change. The Conservatives announced in May that Canada’s contribution to this year’s Paris talks would be a 30 per cent cut in greenhouse gas emissions below 2005 levels by the year 2030. Canada, however, is currently not on track to meet its existing 2020 cuts under the 2009 Copenhagen accord, and the Harper government did not provide any policies to meet the
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Minister of Environment and Climate Change Catherine McKenna, centre, takes part in a Liberal caucus meeting on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on November 5. more ambitious 2030 goal. “Yes, that will be the floor, but certainly we want to try to do better,” McKenna said in a conference call after repeatedly skirting the question of targets. The key, she said, is “to figure out what you can actually do. You can have a target, but you have to be able to meet the target and
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you have to take concrete actions toward those targets.” Canadian governments – Liberal and Conservative alike – have previously agreed to international carbon cuts, but failed to implement the policies needed to make those cuts a reality. The Conservatives famously failed to regulate the oil and gas sector despite promising to do so for the better part of a decade. “That is why it is so important to sit down with the provinces and territories and look at how we can all do our part,” said McKenna. “Much of this is in the jurisdiction of the provinces.” Provincial premiers have been invited to join Trudeau in Paris at the begining of December, but it remains unclear what specifically Canada brings to COP21. McKenna, an international trade lawyer who worked with the United Nations in negotiating a peace agreement in East Timor, said she’s had bilateral meetings with France’s foreign and environment ministers and Mexico’s
environment minister and plans to meet with her U.S. counterpart before returning to Canada on Wednesday. She’s joining climate negotiations that have been years in the making, with several major sticking points still remaining on the eve of the full conference. These include climate finance, mitigation and adaptation funding for developing countries, and getting more countries to the table in Paris. McKenna specifically mentioned Canada’s leadership in la Francophonie, the international club of French-speaking countries that Canada helps heavily subsidize, and the Commonwealth. “In some ways it’s a good time to come in” to the negotiations, she said. “This is what I’ve been told by my colleagues, because we bring new energy.” But energy, goodwill and a readiness to negotiate with Canada’s provinces will only go so far, environmental groups said
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Balsillie fears TPP could cost Canada billions and become worst-ever policy move ‘I’m not a partisan actor, but I actually think this is the worst thing that the Harper government has done for Canada.’ on six months’ notice. The Liberal government has Canadian Press yet to say how it will proceed. International Trade Minister OTTAWA Chrystia Freeland, named to im Balsillie warns that provicabinet a day before the finalized sions tucked into the Transtreaty was made public, reiterPacific Partnership could cost ated that the Liberals believe in Canada hundreds of billions of trade, but she was careful to note dollars – and eventually make the deal was negotiated by the signing it the worst public policy Conservative government. decision in the country’s history. After the text was released, After poring over the treaty’s Freeland told reporters she final text, the businessman who wanted Canadians to send her helped build Research In Motion comments about it. into a $20-billion global player “I’m going to take that serisaid the deal contains “troubling” ously – we’re going to review it,” rules on intellectual property she said Thursday. that threaten to make Canada a The government, she added, “permanent underclass” in the is committed to a full parliameneconomy of selling ideas. tary debate on the deal and a Last month, in the middle vote in the House of Commons, of the election campaign, the though she had yet to set a deadConservative government put line. Canada’s signature on the conShe declined to answer questroversial 12-country pact. The tions whether the Liberals would Pacific Rim agreement, which be prepared to walk away from includes the massive American the deal. and Japanese economies, has Balsillie warned that the Liberbeen described as the world’s als’ plan to run budgetary deficits largest-ever trade zone. But Balsillie said parts of the J.P. Moczulski/CP of up to $10 billion in each of the next three years could pale in deal will harm Canadian innova- Research in Motion CEO Jim Balsillie speaks to the Canadian Press Annual Dinner in comparison to what could be lost tors by forcing them to play by Toronto in 2008. in the country’s ideas economy rules set by the treaty’s mostliterature.” really lament it.” It would require a parliamentary because of the TPP. dominant partner: the United He said the government “It’s such brilliantly systemic vote in Canada. “These provisions are more States. should have dispatched a Alternatively, the treaty can The fallout could prove costly encirclement. I’m just in awe at important by far – times 10 – also take effect if it’s ratified by for Canada because technologies its powerful purity by the Ameri- more-sophisticated negotiating than anything else in the agreeteam. cans… half the countries representing 85 ment,” he said. created by these entrepreneurs Harper had hailed the agree“We’ve been outfoxed.” per cent of the zone’s economy. A have the potential to create “But we’re having no discusment as a means of ensuring And unlike legislation passed huge amounts of wealth for the country can withdraw any time, sion on it.” Canadian access to a market of in Parliament, he noted treaties economy, he says. nearly 800 million people and like this one set rules that must “I’m not a partisan actor, but be followed forever. This deal, he before it was signed, warned I actually think this is the worst Canada couldn’t afford not to added, also features “iron-clad” thing that the Harper governtake part. dispute mechanisms. ment has done for Canada,” the First Nation The deal must be ratified by all “I’m worried and I don’t know former co-chief executive of RIM 12 countries, and then it would how we can get out of this,” said said in an interview after studycome into force six months later. Balsillie, who’s also helping guide ing large sections of the 6,000the creation of a lobby group page document, released to the that would press for the needs of public last week. The Yukon home of Canada’s innovation sector. “I think in 10 years from now, “I think our trade negotiators Administration Building Drop-in Centre we’ll call that the signature worst have profoundly failed Canadithing in policy that Canada’s ever 10:00 am to 5:00 pm ans and our future innovators. I done… Lunch Provided “It’s a treaty that structures If you live in the Atlin area and need a ride to the JCM, everything forever – and we can’t please contact Vickie Cowan, Executive Assistant get out of it.” to the Spokesperson at (250) 651-7904. Balsillie’s concerns about the deal include how it would impose intellectual property standards set by the U.S., the biggest partner in the treaty. Kill reports and compulsory He fears it would give Amerisubmissions for most species are due can firms an edge and cost Cano later than 15 days after the end nadian companies more money because they would have to pay of the month in which you successfully for someone else’s ideas instead hunted. For all Teslin Tlingit Council citizens their own. attending a winter semester On top of that, Balsillie beat a recognized post secondary institution: lieves the structure could prevent If you were successful in October, your Applications for student financial assistance will be accepted Canadian firms from growing deadline is November 15th. up to 5:00 PM on November 15, 2015. Any late applications as it would also limit how much will be deferred to the next intake date in May 2016. money they can make from their own products and services. Please email, mail or fax your application to: Balsillie, who spent much of Attention: Community Skills Development Officer his time building RIM by negoFor more information visit: Box 133, Teslin, Yukon Y0A 1B0 tiating agreements around the www.env.gov.yk.ca Phone: 867-390-2532 ext. 318 | Fax: 867-390-2176 world, called the comprehensive marie.davies@ttc-teslin.com final text a “brilliant piece of Andy Blatchford
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Senators say Trudeau’s decisions on Senate could have far-reaching effects ‘The situation before us here is far more complicated than people understand.’ ate clerk Charles Robert said the opposition is the largest group of senators who aren’t in government. In this case, that would be the Conservatives, so opposition funds, including about $400,000 in funding, would still flow.
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OTTAWA rime Minister Justin Trudeau has yet to reach out to top senators to let them know what’s next for the upper chamber, specifically whether there will a government leader there to oversee the Liberal legislative agenda. That wouldn’t be an issue, except for a decision last year to kick senators out of the Liberal caucus as he tried to sever ties with the scandal-plagued Senate. What Trudeau decides to do now with the upper chamber will have wider implications for the Senate and the Liberal legislative agenda. Here are a few issues hanging on Trudeau’s decision:
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Changing of the Speaker The prime minister has the power to name a Senate Speaker because the Senate Speaker is considered a representative of the government. That person does not answer questions on government policy from senators, but represents the government of the day through hosting foreign dignitaries and taking part in soft diplomacy abroad. Senators widely expect Trudeau to name a new Speaker to replace Conservative Leo Housakos. Leaving Housakos there would mean a Conservative is acting at times on behalf of a Liberal government. Replacing him would mean Trudeau is tying himself back to the upper chamber.
No government leader, no government help As it stands, Senate rules allow any senator to introduce legislation. Those same rules also allow enough leeway for senators to debate bills for months before they come to a final vote. Without a Senate leader, the Liberals would lose access to the levers governments have in the Senate to push through legislation, either by pushing it higher up the list of business or limiting the amount of time bills can be debated. Senate Liberal Jim Munson said the Trudeau government has some allies in the upper chamber that would introduce legislation, but no guarantees it will be approved: “It is an independent instruction and people have the right to say yes or no to legislation.” Passing any bill, then, would require help from Conservative senators.
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The Senate chamber is prepared for the resumption of the session in September 2014. ernment leader, however, questions about government operations would dry up because the only person who could answer them is a representative of the government in the Senate. That raises questions about how senators can hold the government to account. “The situation before us here is far more complicated than people understand,” said Sen. Anne Cools, the longesttenured member of the upper chamber.
No government, no money The Senate’s budget for the government leader’s office dries up without a government leader. The people who work in opposi-
Question period in the Senate has been roundly criticized for yielding more talking points than answers. Senators have mused about doing away with the daily question period. Without a gov-
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Federal employees at federal affairs give Trudeau rock star reception building on Sussex Drive. Confused reporters arriving for a media scrum with Global OTTAWA Affairs Minister Stephane Dion were greeted by a massive, undreds of usually buttoned-down federal buzzing throng of federal employees inside the secure zone civil servants gave Jusof the building’s foyer. tin Trudeau and other memThe buzz from the femalebers of his cabinet a rock-star reception Friday at the Lester B. dominated crowd soon made it clear they were on hand for Pearson building in downtown a sighting of the prime minisOttawa. ter, although any recognizable The bizarre spectacle came cabinet member would do. as the Liberals held a cabiWhen Harjit Singh Sajjan, net orientation session at the fortress-like foreign affairs the new defence minister, Bruce Cheadle Canadian Press
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quickly strode through the lobby as one of the first to leave the orientation session upstairs, wild hoots and applause followed him out the door. Dion was applauded when he arrived to speak to the media, and his answers to questions from journalists were uniformly cheered as well. When one reporter asked about five female cabinet members who are listed as lower-level parliamentary secretaries in orders-in-council documents, the watching civil servants
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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau speaks to Department of Foreign Affairs staff who pack the lobby of foreign affairs headquarters in Ottawa on Friday. loudly groaned in dismay – an echo of the kind of partisan excesses towards the media witnessed during the recent election campaign. Trudeau finally arrived following Dion’s press scrum, causing pandemonium. In a routine that’s become familiar in the three weeks since his Liberals won a surprise majority mandate on Oct. 19, Trudeau waded into the crowds wearing a huge grin and clutching hands. After running the gauntlet of hundreds of cheering employees, the prime minister made a short impromptu address in both official languages. “I’m truly touched by the enthusiasm, by the support, because we’re going to have an awful lot of really hard work to do in the coming months, in the coming years, and we’re going to need every single one of you to give us – as you always do – your absolute best,” said Trudeau to more applause. Conservatives have long complained of Liberal sympathies in the federal civil service but the Harper government’s
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Instructor Dan Rosen will be helping run Alkan Air’s new flight school. The program allows Yukoners interested in flying to stay in the territory while learning to fly. Rosen was familiar with the basics of flying by the time he was News Reporter seven or eight years old. He can’t imagine why anyone wouldn’t fter two years without a want to fly. flight school in the terri“To be able to take off, fly tory, Alkan Air has taken around and land by yourself, up the cause to get more Yukonthere’s such a rush. I can’t deers in the sky. scribe it really.” As of this month, the airline He’s worked as an instructor best known for its charter flights in B.C. and Alberta. For the last and running the Yukon’s air amtwo years he’s been first officer bulance is certified to train aspiring pilots behind the controls. on Alkan’s King Airs, the larger planes used by the company for That means Yukoners will medevacs. be able to stay home instead of Newbies will learn behind the having to go Outside to Alberta controls of something smaller, a or B.C. to get their licence, said Cessna 172. flight instructor Dan Rosen. The small single-engine plane “A lot of people have to leave, is slow and ideal to learn in, go to school, get their licence and then come back and that’s a Rosen said. “These things are really forlittle bit harder,” he said. giving. If you land fairly hard on “But hey, if you can live in it, it’ll take care of you.” Whitehorse, live at your parThe plane has a set of conent’s place, and go to school, it’s cheaper, it’s easier and you get to trols and breaks on both sides stay around family and friends.” so the instructor can jump in if things go awry. The grandson of a pilot, Ashley Joannou
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It’s also cheaper to fly. Burning only seven gallons of fuel an hour means that one hour with an instructor will cost you $230. Chartering some of the larger planes in Alkan’s fleet will set you back at least $1,000 an hour. Alkan has three certified flight instructors on staff. Rosen said the demand for pilots is high in the Yukon. “It’s sparse country and it’s beautiful country and a lot of people like to fly over it,” he said. Getting a private pilot’s licence means a minimum of 45 hours flying a plane, usually more, Rosen said, and 40 hours of classroom training. The whole thing will cost a minimum of $14,440 and take around three months to complete depending on weather and the availability of the plane. For those who want to give it a whirl without committing that kind of cash, Alkan is also offering a $99 “discovery flight” with
an instructor. “You get to jump in, you go flying for half an hour, you get to touch the controls,” Rosen said. “Someone said within the first five minutes you’ll realize if it’s something you want to do or not.” A private pilot’s licence is just for personal use. Down the road, Alkan will also be offering commercial pilot’s licence training for those who want to get in the business of flying. After getting a private pilot’s licence, the commercial variety means a minimum of 200 hours of flight time and 80 hours of ground school. The company also has visions of working with Yukon College to develop an aviation diploma, to go along with a licence, Rosen said. Exactly what that would look like hasn’t been decided yet, he said. The plans are still in their infancy. “Outside, around the coun-
try, especially in bigger centres, there are college aviation programs and they work together to produce pilots that have that kind of university or college credits.” Having that college link would be helpful to Yukoners, he said. Right now getting a pilot’s licence here would not be covered by the Department of Education’s grant program for Yukon graduates. “So if we could somehow partner up with Yukon College and turn it into a program that a student could go to college for, there is a chance that students could start using that towards their licence.” For those who like a challenge, looking out on the world from inside a cockpit could be exactly the kind of thing they’re looking for, Rosen said. “What do you see? You see everything.” Contact Ashley Joannou at ashleyj@yukon-news.com
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How Stephen Harper’s old schoolmate helped kill the Keystone XL pipeline Alexander Panetta Canadian Press
WASHINGTON ne of the great ironies of the interminable saga of Keystone XL is that two of its principal antagonists were unaware that they went to grade school together. In the midst of one of the biggest environmental fights in American politics, the bestknown activist on one side learned of his distant connection to the most powerful politician on the other: Stephen Harper. So these old grade-school alumni duked it out from a distance as the pipeline escalated from a regional land dispute to international cause celebre, climate-change battle line, and irritant in Canada-U.S. relations. Bill McKibben is amused to hear pro-pipeline politicians in Canada deride opponents like him as foreign radicals. McKibben quipped in an interview: “I had exactly the same upbringing as Stephen Harper.� The Vermont environmentalist spent his elementary-school years in Toronto, during his father’s posting as a business journalist. He never got to know the future prime minister, who was a year ahead at Northlea Elementary. This is the story of how they became rivals. Like many others in the environmental movement in 2011, McKibben was dejected at the collapse of a cap-and-trade bill in the U.S. Congress and disillusioned with President Barack Obama for failing to make it a priority while his party still had control of Congress. A eureka moment occurred that June. It was triggered by a journal article from climatologist and former NASA scientist James Hansen, titled “Silence is Deadly.� It sounded the alarm on a
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Bill McKibben, an environmental author and professor at Middlebury College, speaks to lawmakers in Montpelier, Vt., Jan. 10, 2007. pipeline that would carry nearly one-quarter of Canada’s oil. “If this project gains approval, it will become exceedingly difficult to control the tar sands monster,� Hansen warned. McKibben was a longstanding Hansen admirer. His Rockefeller-funded climate-change group, 350.org, was even named after Hansen’s work, a reference to the make-or-break level for carbon in the atmosphere at 350 parts per million. He spotted a political opening. The pipeline needed a crossborder permit, which meant
it was a rare issue beyond the control of a hostile U.S. Congress, and could be determined by the one person with the power to approve or reject that international permit: the president. McKibben contacted aboriginal activists in Canada. He’d already heard allies describe oilsands impact on First Nations land. But he’d never made the connection between their issue and climate change – until he saw Hansen’s paper. He called Tom Goldtooth and Clayton Thomas Muller in Canada and asked if they would mind
him taking up the cause. ‘’They graciously did not say anything about our coming late to the battle and instead said, ‘Sure.�’ So McKibben wrote a letter inviting people to come to Washington and engage in civil disobedience. It was signed by a number of activists, including Canadians Naomi Klein and David Suzuki. “Far more people responded than we imagined would.� More than 1,250 people were arrested outside the White House over a two-week period before Labour Day 2011, including McKibben. Celebrities got involved: Leonardo DiCaprio, Daryl Hannah, Mark Ruffalo and Danny Glover. Nobel Peace Prize winners including Desmond Tutu and Jimmy Carter urged their fellow laureate – Obama – to turn
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down the project. As political opposition grew, finger-pointing began. Government types still grumble that the pipeline company had a tin political ear. Calgarybased TransCanada Corp. ignored local concerns in Nebraska, they say, and it took too long to get Montana and North Dakota onside by taking in some U.S. oil. However, people close to the company have blamed the Harper government for antagonizing environmentalists. But the real pressure on Obama was domestic. It came from within his own party, on multiple fronts. AntiKeystone editorials appeared in the New York Times. Young Democrats now frown at mentions of Canada’s “tar sands.� Huge political donations poured in from California environmentalists, including former hedgefund manager Tom Steyer. A symbolic encounter occurred at that first big Washington protest. That’s where McKibben first met Jane Kleeb. If he helped lead the national fight, she’d been its earlier champion in Nebraska. The Democratic party activist had moved to her husband’s home state and started the political group Bold Nebraska. She’d been planning to work on immigration or education reform and initially considered environmentalism too granola of an issue to take up in conservative cowboy country. It’s true that the initial op-
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position had nothing to do with climate change. The project’s first opponents were ranchers and they worried about water contamination. An early press report mentions everything but greenhousegas emissions. The Norfolk Daily News piece in 2009 refers to sensitive species in the area: the piping plover, the river otter, and a list of other creatures. Kleeb was invited to a townhall-type meeting. By the end, she’d decided to promote the ranchers’ cause: “(I) said, ‘We have got to organize on this issue.�’ She prepared colourful protests, arranged national media interviews, and introduced landowners to the lawyers who later delayed the project in state courts. It still faces legal obstacles in Nebraska. Most landowners on the route eventually signed on. But a minority continued to hold out, even as cash offers from TransCanada multiplied five, six, seven times. Amid lawsuits and re-routing, project costs skyrocketed. They increased by almost half to $8 billion – profiting lobbyists, lawyers, ad salesmen, pipe-storage yards, even landowners who got cash upfront but never had to lay a yard of pipe. Obama gradually toughened his tone. He’d actually held a re-election-year event at a TransCanada facility in 2012. But the politics shifted. He hired John Podesta. An anti-pipeline environmentalist who has been a top aide to both Bill and Hillary
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President Barack Obama, accompanied by Vice President Joe Biden and Secretary of State John Kerry, announces he’s rejecting the Keystone XL pipeline at the White House in Washington on Friday. Clinton, Podesta joined the White House to co-ordinate Obama’s climate efforts. Obama became dismissive of the project’s potential benefits for Americans. In doing so, he ignored inconvenient details – like how it would carry 100,000 barrels per day of U.S. oil; pump tax revenues into the counties and towns along the route; and, according to his own govern-
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ment’s analysis, would actually reduce emissions. But does rejecting Keystone help – or harm – the climate? Obama’s own State Department concluded that greenhouse gases would be up to 42 per cent higher if that same oil was shipped by rail. But the politics changed. Oil prices plunged. U.S. production rose. Americans stopped worrying so much about
their energy supply. And the assumptions in that State Department review were derided as out-of-date. But the Keystone fight, McKibben said, is really just a shortterm tactic. The broader goal is to block the construction of oil infrastructure, for a faster transition toward new energy sources. Another other political development occurred Oct. 19.
Canadian voters silenced the pipeline’s loudest advocate. And McKibben wasn’t showing much school spirit. “I understand Canadian politics just enough to know that petrocrat Stephen Harper is out of a job,� McKibben tweeted as the federal election results rolled in. “No one could deserve it more.�
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he sound is optimistic and uplifting. African melodies are infused with western hip-hop beats to create a modern sound while still being rooted in tradition. Simple and catchy, the songs get feet shuffling and hips moving. This is bongo flava at its finest. Originating on the streets of Dar Es Salaam in Tanzania, the infectious music will land in Whitehorse this Saturday featuring in the Yukon African Music Festival. Held at the Kwanlin Dun Cultural Centre, the one-day event will feature musicians from east and west Africa, as well as the Caribbean. Now in its third year, the festival is the initiative of Leonard Boniface, a native Tanzanian who moved to Canada a decade ago and made his way north in 2010. Holding the festival is a great way to bring cultures together, Boniface says. “One of the powerful tools in life is just sharing what you have to others,” he says, “because we learn from each
other.” Forging understanding between cultures is important, says Boniface. By meeting together, sharing food, music, and culture, new connections are made and gaps between groups grow smaller. “We all need to understand so many cultures as people,” he says. These lofty goals stem from Boniface’s previous experience at the Oxfam International Youth Parliament in 2004, a cohort of 300 young people from around the globe who were actively working for positive social change in their countries. Part of the Tanzanian delegation, Boniface travelled to Australia to meet and share ideas with other like-minded youth from all corners of the map. When he arrived in Whitehorse five years ago, he founded Teenage Life & Young Adults International, a group that encourages young people’s leadership skills. While officially organized by TELIYA, the music festival isn’t a fundraiser or awareness night – it’s just part of Boniface’s natural enthusiasm for getting different
cultures into the community spotlight. The festival’s headliner this year is Ghanaian Brian Quaye, a talented musician and producer, adept with any instrument put before him. Currently residing in Calgary, Quaye plays traditional Ghanaian music with a modern flair. Trinidadian-born Becky Law brings her smooth, soulful voice to the stage along with her husband Brent’s talent on guitar and keys. With music resting somewhere on the spectrum between smooth jazz and soulful gospel, the duo performs with an understated strength that is typical of traditional African spirituals. Local singer/songwriter Roxx Hunter will join the group, adding his wide range of musical talents to the mix. In addition to organizing the event, Boniface is also performing in it alongside his occasional musical partner Ssasi Traore, who is originally from Mali. The two will team up to get the crowd moving to the sounds of bongo flava. With the music sung mostly in Swahili,
the artists will be sharing the messages of the songs. “There is a lot of meaning with our music. You may not understand the language… but we explain.” Bongo flava, which has often been compared to American R&B or hip hop, has both meaning and rhythm. “You can feel the beats,” says Boniface. “It’s easy to dance, easy to follow the music.” And while music is front and centre, food will play a big part at the festival, with African dinner being served for an extra five dollars. Cuisines from across Africa as well as the Caribbean will feature in the feast. One dish, pilau, a fragrant rice casserole that appears on Kenyan and Tanzanian tables whenever a celebration comes around, is an East African favourite. Boniface points out that a meal like this one only comes to the Yukon every so often, so rather than taking in a meal at a typical Whitehorse establishment, he recommends trying out something new. “We’re going to make food which has a really fresh taste,”
Boniface says. “It’s different than the food that people eat every day.” Hoping to boost numbers from the previous events, Boniface decided to move the venue to the Kwanlin Dun Cultural Centre from the 2-0-2 Motor Inn. Not only does the cultural centre have a larger area (more room to shimmy!), but it’s also more family-friendly which is a key switch, says Boniface. The bigger hall will also hold a craft market with beadwork, ethnic jewelry, and other curios imported from Africa. The cost of renting a flashier venue and flying in musicians takes its financial toll, but Boniface managed to secure government funding for the event from the City of Whitehorse and the Yukon Arts Fund. Boniface thinks the cost will be worth it, and hopes to build on the moderate success of previous years. “Always people enjoy the food, the music, the connection. That’s why we keep doing it.” Contact Joel Krahn at joel.krahn@yukon-news.com
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Retired NBA star Steve Nash developing basketball drama with CBC TV Cassandra Szklarski Canadian Press
TORONTO etired NBA star Steve Nash is teaming up with the CBC to develop a one-hour drama set at an elite basketball academy. The B.C.-bred athlete says the proposed series would revolve around the teens, parents, coaches and administrators at a Toronto-area school, and the unique trials young athletes face as they seek superstardom. “It’s a really incredible backdrop to create characters and create storylines that are really relevant, authentic and I think exciting for audiences,” said Nash in a recent call from Los Angeles. It’s tentatively titled Hardwood, with Nash working behind-the-scenes as an executive producer. The former point guard said he doesn’t expect to appear on camera, but he saw lots of opportunity to invite NBA pals to make cameos. “I think it’d be great – we have so many Canadian NBA players now that it’d be a lot of fun to have them get involved, so that’ll be something that we definitely would be excited to do.” Nash said the project is still in a very early stage of development with scripts currently being written. Hardwood is being executive produced by Insight Production’s John Brunton and Barbara Bowlby, the Toronto-based team behind The Amazing Race Canada and Big Brother Canada. Nash said he envisions stories could delve into the intense pressures young players face and the “shady” dealmaking that can emerge around them – something he has firsthand knowledge of. Since leaving the game earlier this year, Nash has indulged his passion for film and television through his company, Meathawk Productions. He said his interest began 20 years ago when he became “a bit of a cinephile.” “And then initially I made a short for Nike and I was kind of hooked,” said Nash, who codirected a documentary about Terry Fox for the ESPN series 30 for 30 in 2010. “Eventually (I) made a bunch of digital content for brands, did a 30 for 30 for ESPN, another doc for ESPN, and actually also was involved in a couple of … web series, so it was a fairly natural
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Woman abandoned by date can make it home on her own by Judith Martin
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MANNERS DEAR MISS MANNERS: A fraternity formal dance that I attended ended with me cabbing home, alone, and without warning. After a young man asked me to the dance, I was so looking forward to having a fun time with him and my three best friends, who were also attending with dates. At the dance, my date became so drunk that he retreated to the men’s bathroom with my friend’s date. After he left to recover in the bathroom, I was still hoping to salvage part of the night with my three best friends. However, all they did was complain about the missing young man who was attending to my date in the bathroom. It was spoiling the night and making me even more uncomfortable, so I proceeded to just stand outside the men’s bathroom and demand that my date call a cab back to his apartment where he could be properly watched over by his friends. After the missing young man returned to my friends, the crew, instead of showing compassion by including me in the conversation, ignored me and abruptly walked off to dance without me, leaving me sitting at our dinner table alone. I figured that my presence was unimportant to them, and called a cab for myself. They didn’t realize I was gone for a half hour, and when we spoke briefly the next morning, they casually said that they would have accompanied me home had they known I was leaving. Even though my date had the good sense to apologize profusely and take me on another date to make up for the lost time, my “best friends” didn’t have the courtesy to apologize for excluding me. Was I expecting too much? Was I in the wrong to assume that people have a responsibility to include and be compassionate toward an abandoned date? Was I wrong to leave without warning? Miss Manners, I was so hurt by their actions that I have been giving them the cold shoulder ever since. Please tell me if I was wrong in any way. GENTLE READER: That you easily forgave the person who got drunk and abandoned you, but hold a grudge against those who did not drop what was left of their evening’s enjoyment to attend to you, worries Miss Manners. It smacks of the common attitude that females are responsible for poor behavior on the part of males — for example, when a lady forgives her husband for breaking his marriage vows while vilifying his partner, who was under no such obligation to her.
Your friends did recognize that your date was in possible danger from his drunkenness and took care of him. You were upset, but capable of taking care of yourself, as in fact you did. Miss Manners agrees that it would have been nice of them to express sympathy. But she hardly thinks that they were obligated to give up their evening to see you home, when you were able to do that on your own. Please save your indignation for the person who actually did ruin your date.
You may certainly have a party to celebrate both occasions, but if you are not fishing for presents (and let us assume in good faith that you are not), do not advertise it as such. Simply have a party. Presumably, your friends will know that this is a new house if they have not visited you in it before — and can bring presents if they like. And if you like, you may modestly toast your husband’s birthday at the party. But please do not solicit gifts for either occasion, let alone both.
DEAR MISS MANNERS: An employee my office just hired was nice enough to start with, but very quickly I began to notice that she was oversharing personal information about herself and her family. I would just brush it off and change the subject, but then she began to include me in her problems. If she complained about her weight, she’d say I must feel the same way about myself. If she complained about her age, she’d say I must feel the same way, too. If she wants to degrade herself, that’s her problem, but I do not want to be included. I’ve tried being cordial and keeping my distance, but today I found out that she’s complaining to others in the office that I’m not friendly to her. They tell me she’s been asking them what my problem is! Help! I wouldn’t want my problems blabbed all over the workplace, but I don’t want her complaining about me, either. My life isn’t perfect, but I don’t put myself down. How can I get her to stop? GENTLE READER: The way to prevent her from telling others about your problems is, as you correctly surmised, not to tell them to her. Perhaps looking sympathetic and saying, “No, not really,” when she turns to you, would help. This unsatisfactory but polite response should solve the problem of her oversharing. That leaves only one problem for Miss Manners to solve: how to get her to stop complaining about you. The next time someone passes on one of her complaints, explain that she seems nice, but you hardly know her and don’t feel that you can deal adequately with her neediness.
DEAR MISS MANNERS: What is the proper response to someone who says, “It’s about time!” when told that a family member is expecting a baby? GENTLE READER: “Why? What time is it?!”
DEAR MISS MANNERS: Is it tacky to have a combo themed party? My husband is turning 40, and we just bought our first house together last month. We would like to “kill two birds with one stone” if it’s proper etiquette. If it is allowable, which of the two is more important as far as the invitation is concerned? GENTLE READER: Well, which one will get you more presents? Forgive Miss Manners’ cynicism, but she has unfortunately grown accustomed to this subtext. And she would otherwise not understand why grown-ups feel the need to have a themed party at all — much less a “combo theme” — when that is really best left to the preschool set.
tion. Was it in poor taste, however jocular the intention, for your correspondents to complain about the stamps? For goodness’ sake, do they know how often people do not receive any thanks at all for their presents? That some people enjoy coordinating stamps with occasions, Miss Manners knows. Evidently you did so last winter. But this should not obscure the fact that stamps are the currency by which postage is paid. Do these people object if they are given bills on Presidents’ Day that picture the wrong president?
DEAR MISS MANNERS: I have a running disagreement with my wife. Is it OK to use the side of your fork as a knife to cut food from time to time? Must one always use a knife to cut? GENTLE READER: When DEAR MISS MANNERS: I have spouses disagree, Miss Manners grown increasingly frustrated with always hopes to find a solution that the need to decipher the time of gives each some claim to being social invitations. There was a party right. It is her little contribution to announced with an 8:00 start time. saving marriages. Knowing the host and the guests, However, you alone are right. I arrived at 9:30, and still I was the For mysterious reasons having to first to arrive by a long margin. do with the history of flatware, the Sometimes these parties hapfork, although adopted centuries pen in certain minority communi- after the knife, is considered the ties, and this behavior is excused preferable instrument to use when with some self-effacing joke, claim- possible. The most she can do for ing, “It’s just how we are — we alyour wife is to say that if cutting ways show up late.” If I am looking with a fork is so ineffective as to forward to the event, I find it very frustrating to sit at home, waiting for the right time to leave so that I’ll arrive at the expected lateness. Is there an acceptable way to ask a host to be frank about the hour they expect guests to arrive? Is there an acceptable way for a host to say that we would like to start the celebration at a particular time, with all guests present if at all possible? GENTLE READER: You may jokingly ask your hosts, “So what does that really mean?” but Miss Manners would caution you to leave out the minority part. They can say it; you can’t. You may be able to extract a prediction of when they will sit down to dinner, and time your arrival accordingly. As a host, you could emphasize your schedule by saying, for example, “We’ll have drinks at 7, and dinner will be served at 7:30.” Then, if you are cleaning up and going to bed when your guests arrive, they will have only themselves to blame. DEAR MISS MANNERS: After my summer birthday, I mailed my thank-you notes for all the gifts I received. And because I had purchased too many stamps for last year’s holiday cards, I have been using the surplus postage for the past few months so as to not be wasteful. Imagine my chagrin when a few thank-you note recipients gently chided me for using poinsettia stamps in the summertime. Miss Manners, was it in poor taste for me to use “seasonally inappropriate” stamps for my personal correspondence? GENTLE READER: Wrong ques-
splash the resisting food about, the knife should be used. DEAR MISS MANNERS: My same-sex partner and I have been together for 25 years and have gotten accustomed to having an “outlaw” relationship, so we’ve never felt the need to get married. However, now that marriage benefits are being extended to same-sex couples, we’ve decided to get married. It will be totally low-key — we’ll take two witnesses with us, drive over, get married, go out to lunch and drive back. Then we’ll mail announcements to our friends and family. We have two questions. First, if our situation calls for language in the announcement other than the traditional, what do you recommend? Second, since we’re retired and have everything we need, we simply want to announce our marriage and not generate a stream of unneeded gifts. Would it be appropriate to include a short note with the announcements stating this preference? If so, do you have any language to recommend? GENTLE READER: As you are willing to write short notes, Miss Manners recommends doing that in place of a formal announcement.
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SPORTS AND RECREATION Warriors, Crusaders take all the hardware at volleyball championships
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Warriors’ Austin Shaw backhands the ball over the net in the boys final.
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F.H. Collins Warriors’ Aidan Falkenberg bumps the ball during the YSAA Grade 8 Volleyball Championships at Porter Creek Secondary on Saturday. The Warriors defeated a Vanier team for gold. Tom Patrick News Reporter
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wo schools gobbled up all the medals at the Yukon Schools Athletics Association’s Grade 8 Volleyball Championships at Porter Creek Secondary on Saturday. The F.H. Collins Warriors and the Vanier Crusaders – which were each split into two teams in both the boys and girls divisions – played each other in the two gold medal matches and bronze medal matches. The Warriors “black team”
defeated the Crusaders “blue team” 25-15, 25-18 in the girls final for gold. “They were really focused. They really pulled it together,” said Warriors head coach Barbara Hinton. “Every single thing we practiced, they did in the clutch moments.” “The girls worked really hard to be together as a team,” she added. “We focused on positive attitude and leadership. It’s not just about volleyball, it’s about supporting each other and I think they came a long way doing that. Even in the hallways they’re friends and support
each other.” The Warriors jumped out to an early 5-1 lead in the final with Zoe Sage logging three kills in the opening points. They eventually reached set point on a crafty tip from Kiarra Fitzsimmons and took the set on an unreturned serve from Emily Nunez. The Warriors had a tougher time pulling away from the Crusaders in the second but eventually established a sevenpoint lead at 19-12 on an ace from Sage. F.H. Collins arrived at match point on a kill from Paige
Poleman, who then fired in the game-winning serve for the title. Poleman went on to be named tournament MVP, which she really wasn’t expecting. “I didn’t know there was such a thing as an MVP award,” she said. “It was surprising for me. “It was a fun time. I can’t wait for next year.” “We were looking at playing ability as well as leadership and through the tournament she had a really positive attitude as well as playing strong,” said Hinton. “The other coaches noticed it as well. There were a lot of strong players, so it was a tough decision.” The Warriors black team almost went undefeated at the championships. Their only loss came against Vanier’s blue team on Friday. “Yesterday we had a lot of games, I think we had four be-
fore, and we were really tired by the end,” said Poleman. “And I don’t think we were that positive yesterday. We were kind of feeling down. We brought up the energy today.” The Warriors gold team took bronze with a 25-20, 15-25, 15-9 win over the Vanier white team. “We had 30 girls come out to tryouts and we ended up with about 26 core girls,” said Hinton. “Halfway through the season we switched it, so they’ve been playing as a team for the second half the season.” In the same match up in the boys final, things went the other way. The Vanier blue team nabbed gold with a 26-24, 25-9 win over the Warriors white team. “They lost two matches in the tournament, but that was at the beginning and they built on that and every game they
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The Warriors celebrate their win. played they were stronger and stronger,” said Crusaders head coach Paula Stoker. After a nail-biter first set that went into extra points, the Crusaders stormed away with the match in the second. Vanier’s blue squad won 10 straight points to go from 3-3 to 13-3 on a winning serve from Adam Hennings. They reached match point at 24-6 on a first-hit kill from Chris Farkas. A few points later Andrew Reid put an ace down the line to seal the deal. Reid was named tournament MVP by his teammates. “I was asked to give one and I said every player was an MVP
to me because they all contributed through the whole tournament,” said Stoker. “I had a hard time picking an MVP so the team came together and chose one of our newest players. At the beginning of the season he couldn’t serve, he had a hard time passing, and he was the one who serve the final ace to win the gold medal match. “So the team picked him as the MVP and I couldn’t be more proud. They’re amazing.” Vanier attained set point in the first on a kill from Thomas Janzen, but the Warriors caught up at 24-24 on a shrewd tip from Austin Shaw. The Crusaders earned another set point on
a serve from Farkas before the Warriors missed on an attack to end the first set. “The boys put a lot of pressure on themselves and they lose focus of what’s important in the game,” said Warriors head coach Mattaeus Geisler. “They seem to turn a switch and are dwelling on what’s going wrong instead of focusing on moving forward and what they need to do. That was the big difference between the first set and the second set.” F.H. Collins’ black team beat the Vanier white squad 25-16, 24-26, 15-8 for bronze. Contact Tom Patrick at tomp@yukon-news.com
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Vanier Crusaders’ Rylan Stoker goes up for a block. The Crusaders took gold.
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Scoffin rink makes world tour final
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Whitehorse’s Thomas Scoffin, centre, sends a shot down ice in the final of the Original 16 World Curling Tour in Calgary on Sunday. Team Scoffin won five straight games to reach the final. Tom Patrick News Reporter
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or the third time in as many seasons, Whitehorse curler
Thomas Scoffin has led his team all the way to the final of a World Curling Tour event. Team Scoffin reached the final game of WCT’s Original 16 at the Calgary Curling Club on Sunday
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in Alberta. It was the rink’s fourth WTC event of the season, but the first in which they rink advanced past the round robin. “We finally broke through this year,” said Scoffin, 21, the team’s skip. “We’ve struggled a little bit and we’ve obviously played against a lot of really high caliber teams. So this weekend we finally figured it out, got on a roll and it kind of worked out for us.” Team Scoffin was denied their first WCT title with a 6-2 loss to Calgary’s Team Thomas, led by two-time junior world champion skip Charley Thomas. Team Thomas scored three in the fourth and two in the fifth to secure the win in six ends. “They played a really good game,” said Scoffin. “We played well as well, we just didn’t get our rocks in the right spots sometimes and they really capitalized on our mistakes. Charley, their skip, made an amazing shot for three in the fourth end that we didn’t even think was there.” Team Scoffin, which includes third Evan Asmussen, second Jason Ginter and lead Andrew O’Dell, produced five straight wins to reach the final. A couple were lopsided – 8-1 over Korea’s Team Kim to start and
7-1 over Alberta’s Team Lizmore in the semifinal – and two were close – 8-7 over Alberta’s Team MacAlpine in the round robin and 4-3 over Alberta’s Team Park in the quarterfinal. Scoffin also defeated Team Konschuh of Alberta 5-2 to finish the round robin. “We did a good job at controlling the scoreboard and putting ourselves in a good position to win,” said Scoffin of the one-point
Ont., beginning Wednesday. “It’s obviously good to perform well right before a big event,” said Scoffin. “I’m feeling good about how I’m throwing so hopefully I can carry that momentum through to this week.” The Edmonton-based Bottcher rink is currently ranked eighth in the world. Skip Brendan Bottcher won the junior nationals and junior worlds in 2012. Scoffin will fill in for Bottcher second Bradley Thiessen who has committed to playing in a different event. Two years ago Scoffin played as alternate for Bottcher at the CIS championships. Scoffn and the rest of Team Bottcher will begin the Grand Slam (which has a $100,000 purse) against Switzerland’s Team Michel on Nov. 11, Alberta’s Team Simmons and Ontario’s Team Jacobs on Nov. 12, and Sweden’s Team Edin on Nov. 13. The bonspiel will be broadcast on Rogers Sportsnet. Scoffin is currently in his fourth year at University of Alberta where he curls for the school’s Golden Bears team. Last March Scoffin and the Golden Bears claimed the Canadian Interuniversity Sport men’s curling title.
“I’m feeling good about how I’m throwing so hopefully I can carry that momentum through to this week.” wins. “All I had to do was draw to the four-foot for the win in both. Whenever I’m looking at an open draw to the four-foot I’m pretty happy.” His performance over the weekend is no doubt a good confidence builder as Scoffin prepares to hit the sheets in the biggest event of his career this week. Scoffin will play the second position for Alberta’s Team Bottcher at the Grand Slam of Curling event, The National, in Oshawa,
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hough the last three games were much closer than the first three, the Yukon Mustangs were largely in control of things over the weekend in Whitehorse. The Yukon rep hockey club went undefeated in a six-game series against Juneau Douglas High School’s Crimson Bears, outscoring the Alaskans 45-4 with shutouts in three games. Still the Crimson Bears, who brought their varsity and junior varsity teams, were glad for the competition, said head coach Luke Adams. “These are our first games for the kids because we don’t have any other competition in our town,” said Adams. “We’re really thankful because in the early part of our season we don’t know what we have because we don’t have anybody to test against. So some of the results were a little lopsided, but that’s good for us because now we know what we have and what we need to work on going forward before we start our in-state Alaska competition … This is nothing but positive for our kids.” Three Mustangs teams hit the ice for the friendly series – one more than expected. After three one-sided games, organizers shuffled up the teams to try and find balanced match-ups, bringing in the U15 Bantam Mustangs for a game Saturday. There was also some movement of players between the Mustangs teams. The U16 Mustangs beat the junior varsity team 17-0 and the U18 Midget Mustangs beat the varsity team 8-1 on Friday. The U16 Mustangs then went 7-0 junior varsity team Saturday morning. The Midget Mustangs then downed the varsity squad 4-2 in the closest of the six games. “That one had some intensity to it, which was nice,” said Mustangs program head coach Derek Klassen. “All the hockey I watched this weekend we were
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Yukon Mustangs goalie Ethan Vanderkley keeps his eye on the puck during a game against the Juneau Douglas High School varsity team at the Canada Games Centre on Saturday. Three Mustangs team went undefeated in six games against the Juneau high school teams. doing something good and there’s obviously lots of stuff we can work on … All the games we can get, the better.” The series ended with the U15 Bantam Mustangs beating the junior varsity squad 4-1 and the U16 Mustangs going 5-0 over the varsity team. All games were two 22-minute stop-time periods. “It’s always good to have those guys in and create those relationships,” said Klassen. “It’s a matter of finding the match-ups, what works, going forward if we want to have a home series here and home series there. It makes sense
for both teams to be around the same caliber for both teams to get what they’re looking for. “But it was a good weekend. It’s always fun for the team to play at home, at Takhini Arena and Canada Games Centre. It was certainly a bonus weekend for us with Juneau calling us up and asking us if they can come play.” U16 Mustangs forward Mackenzie Benn-Wipp led his team in scoring in their three games with four goals and six assists. Teammates Anthony Louie, Brett Walchuk and Dion Fowler all had three goals and five assists. Kyron Crosby stacked up four goals and
two assists. Johnny Elias notched one goal and five assists. Caleb Marsh, Nick Dobush and Ryan Troke each produced three goals and two assists in the Midget Mustangs’ two games.
Josh Austin, Wyatt Peterson, Oscar Sawicki and Lailem Letto each scored in the Bantam Mustangs’ 4-1 win. Kaelen Troke helped with three assists. Contact Tom Patrick at tomp@yukon-news.com
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2-BDRM LEGAL bsmt suite, Riverdale, own laundry, driveway, refs & dd reqĘźd, avail immed, $1,250/mon incl elec, heat & TV cable. 334-9087 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 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-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 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 HOUSESITTER NEEDED for January to April, 2016, Marsh Lake, reliable person or couple with references, animals welcome, N/S. 660-4321
1 OR 2 bdrm bsmt suite, Copper Ridge, furnished, incl TV, cable, shared laundry, N/S, N/P, dd & refs reqĘźd, responsible tenants, $1,250/mon including utils. 334-7872
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
3-BDRM DUPLEX in Hillcrest, wood/oil heat, w/d, avail immed, responsible tenant, $1,150/mon + utils. 668-5558
1-BDRM BSMT suite, Copper Ridge, very nice, private, secure, N/S, N/P, responsible tenants, avail Nov. 1, $900/mon + utils. 456-7397
ROOM FOR RENT in dorm-style, shared accommodations. Furnished with shared laundry, kitchen and bathroom facilities. $600/month, utilities included. Call Chris @ 668-4729. CHILDCARE SPACE FOR RENT 3,000 sq ft in Rendezvous Plaza, Riverdale, Lewes Blvd entrance Lots of parking Also available 1,100 sq ft space (Flower Shop Studio) Call 667-7370 or 1-778-228-8679 2-BDRM LEGAL bsmt suite, Riverdale, open concept, N/S, N/P, laundry facility, shed, $1,100/mon + utils + dd, close to schools & h o s p i t a l , p h o t o : madidi-amazon.com/38_suiteb_photo.htm. 322-1476 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 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 2nd floor of building on Gold Road in Marwell Sizes 180 sqft & 340 sqft Quiet spaces with reasonable rent 667-2917 or 334-7000 3-BDRM TRAILER, Takhini Trailer Court, $1,200/mon + utils. 335-8572
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 2-BDRM HOUSE, Golden horn Subdivision, quiet location, electric/wood heat, N/S, $1,400/mon. 335-0043 WALKOUT BASEMENT, Whistle Bend area, $1,000/mon includes heat & hydro. Contact 689-4564 2-BDRM MOBILE home, 20 min north of Whse on Mayo Rd, clean/quiet, laminate flooring, oil & wood stove, w/d, well, pets ok, refs reqĘźd, $1,100/mon + utils. 334-9733 LARGE BACHELOR suite, quiet neighborhood, private parking, separate entrance, laundry, responsible tenant, dd & refs reqĘźd. 335-4712 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 ZEN CABIN, quiet & contemplative, 30 kms west Whitehorse, watch sunset on Takhini river, chop wood, carry water, refs reqĘźd. 668-1045 ROOM, DOWNTOWN, includes bed, bedding, furniture, kitchen supplies, cable TV, wifi, prices range from $700 - $950/mon, dd reqĘźd. 334-9531
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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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
PROFESSIONAL OR commercial office space on Main Street, available January 1, 2016. 667-2138 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 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) DOWNTOWN OFFICE behind Yukon Inn, approx 650 sq ft, main floor, $1,100/mon, incls heat & lights. 250-215-7943 FURNISHED ROOM, Marsh Lake, quiet waterfront, close to community centre & ski trails, N/S, animals welcome, $380, share utils. 660-4321 2.5-3 ACRES yard space for rent, Kulan Industrial Subdivision, with 40 x 70 steel building, yard well graveled, no power. 877-449-7700 2-BDRM LEGAL bsmt suite, Riverdale, own laundry & parking, avail immed, dd & refs reqĘźd, $1,250/mon incl heat, electricity & TV cable. To view call or text 335-6930 2-BDRM NEWER mobile home, oil heat/water delivery/Satellite dish, washer/dryer, fully furnished, great view, available Dec. 1, $1,100/mon + utils, Ford Rd, Mile 4.8 Hot Springs Rd. Call 633-4342 2-BDRM + den, top floor of triplex, Porter Creek, energy efficient, attached garage, deck, w/d & dw, avail Dec 1, N/P, N/S, dd & refs reqĘźd, $1,400/mon. 333-0866
Wanted to Rent HOUSESITTER AVAILABLE Mature, responsible person Call Suat at 668-6871 34 YEARS, Yukon resident, rental property owner looking to housesit for summer 2015, extremely clean, I mow lawns, take care of pets, vacuum, elite references. MarcelGareau@hotmail.com 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
Real Estate 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 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
SMALL OFFICE or shop available to rent in Family Hotel, available immediately, $900/mon incl utils. 668-5558
I OWN 1.5 acres beautiful Nova Scotia land and want to move back to the Yukon. Looking for someone interested subdividing section of large property & trade for my parcel. Email mailto:ahnkarolev@yahoo.com
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
3-BDRM RIVERDALE family home, well maintained, family room, detached garage, many upgrades. Call 456-2162
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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 MEDICAL TRANSCRIPTION! In-demand career! Employers have work-at-home positions available. Get online training you need from an employer-trusted program. Visit: CareerStep.ca/MT or 1-855-768-3362 to start training for your work-at-home career today! HUGE DEMAND for Medical Transcriptionists! CanScribe is Canada's top Medical Transcription training school. Learn from home and work from home. Call today! 1.800.466.1535. www.canscribe.com info@canscribe.com
The 12 Days of Christmas is an amazing Shop-Local event that helps support the community during the busy Christmas season. The Fireweed Community Market is looking for
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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 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
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
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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
YUKON NEWS BEAVER TABLE saw 1HP motor, cast table 26" x 18" with 8" extension on mobile base, $50. 633-6134
WANTED: LOOKING for one-gallon or two-gallon glass jars, lids are optional. 667-4915
SELF PROPELLED SNOW Blower, clears 30" wide path, electric start, 6 forward & two reverse speeds, excellent condition, canopy available extra, $750. 333-9020
STAINLESS STEEL commercial kitchen sink, 50" x 25" x15" deep, $250. Call 633-4375
ANTIQUE AIRLINE dishes, 54 Canadian Air and Ward Air, all Royal Doulton. Offers. Call 332-6565
KITCHEN L shape, includes dishwasher, sink, pantry, 2 vanities 88" x 97", $450. Call 633-4375
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
RESTLESS LEG Syndrome & Leg Cramps? Fast Relief In One Hour. Sleep At Night. Proven For Over 32 Years. www.allcalm.com Mon-Fri 8-4 EST, 1-800-765-8660
PROPANE STOCK pot cooker, $50. Call 633-4375
LARGE BUXTON suitcase, used once. 668-2253
yukon-news.com FLAVOUR WAVE oven, $45; Jack Lalanne power juicer, $55; ice cream/dessert maker, new, mint, $18. 660-4321
FREEZER, 667-2791
22” YARDWORKS snowblower, only 10 hrs of use, bought in April on sale for $750, asking $500. 332-0501
MINI-BAR FRIDGE, good condition, $30. 333-0402
SMALL SPACE saver white GE microwave, vg condition, easy to operate, $25. 668-5298 QUEEN SIZE white goose feather hypoallergenic duvet, new, beautiful, light, very cozy, 100% cotton covering, 240 thread count, 600 fill power, $150. 668-5298
FREE STOVE, older Sears Kenmore Ultra electric stove, works OK, missing one knob, will deliver if needed as long as you help with loading & unloading. 633-4133
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COMMERCIAL COIN operated washer & dryer. $400 for the set. 633-4375
TV ARMOIRE, Broyhill, solid wood, new, $2,000, asking $450. 250-215-7943
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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
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.
COLEMAN 4 burner BBQ with side burner, used very little, great shape, $300 obo. 333-0380
SALARY: DOE DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES INCLUDE: Business management, operations, maintenance, inspections, marketing, inventory, personnel, customer service, safety, environmental and other duties.
HOUSE PLANTS for sale, large Spider plant, Begonias, Umbrella Tree, from $3 to $45. 660-4321 SAWMILLS FROM only $4,397 - MAKE MONEY & SAVE MONEY with your own bandmill - Cut lumber any dimension. In stock ready to ship. FREE Info & DVD: www.NorwoodSawmills.com/400OT 1-800-566-6899 Ext:400OT.
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.
LOOP CARPET, new, wall-to-wall conventional carpet from Canada Flooring, beige/light brown, 5.6ʼX11.10ʼ, $45. 660-4321
For further information on this position please see our posting at: www.yuwin.ca
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
Submit resumes by November 16 to: Josie Hickel – CA0, Petro 49, Inc. Email: josieh@petro49.Com Fax: 907-273-8242
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 BAFFIN SNOPACKS boots, size 12, Arctic type, new, $90. 660-5101 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 SAMSONITE CARRY-ON luggage on wheels, soft sided, new, $25. 660-5101 CENTREX NEC office phone system, 4 phones, Meridian phone system, multiple phones, all free for the taking. 660-5101 2 ENGINE stand, 3 white bar stools, 2 office chairs, 1 teal & 1 brown, long Yukon parka, pink, no shell. 633-3116 LARGE PLASTIC containers with lids, $5 each, good for storage or moving. 668-7639 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 COMMERCIAL CHAINSAW, vg cond, Husqvarna 3120 XP, x-large bar, regails $2,200, asking $1,200. 668-6805 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 NIKON ZOOM lens, 24 120 mm 1:3.5 5.6 D, made in Japan, vg cond, $225. 667-4955 5 ROLLS of vinyl backed R20 insulation 48" wide, approximately 500 sq ft, $500 obo. 633-6134 RIDE ON tractor, no mowing deck, w/snow blower attachment, electric start, tire chains, weights, excellent condition, $1,800. 333-9020
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ACTIVE IN YOUR COMMUNITY Are you looking for volunteer opportunities? Please check www.volunteeryukon.ca to find more volunteer opportunities.
Yukon African Music Festival
Volunteers needed for the Yukon African Music Festival on Saturday, November 14th, 2015 at Kwanlin Dun Cultural Centre, Whitehorse, from 3 pm to 9 pm TELIYA International Society is looking for the following volunteers: • General helpers • Front Desk • Safety and Security persons • MCs • Light and Sound Technician /a DJ • Booth Services/Selling tickets Contact: Leonard @ 335 8510 or Leonard@theteliya.org
Big Brothers Big Sisters is looking for a Website Developer
Task description: • Big Brothers Big Sisters is looking for someone to maintain their website on a volunteer basis. The website is hosted by OneWeb and is pre-designed. • We are looking for someone who is able to do 2-4 small updates a month (calendars, events, contact info, updating sponsors, etc.)
Responsibilities: Updating the Big Brothers Big Sisters website once or twice a month. Executive Director will advise on needed updates and write the content. Time commitment: 4 or 5 hours a month - less if you are better at computers than we are! Skills needed: Experience with website hosting programs Staff position that will supervise the volunteer: Executive Director Shelby Maunder, bbbsyukon@gmail.com, http://www.bbbsofyukon.ca/, 867.668.7911
You work for a non-profit organization and you would like to add your volunteer opportunities? Please click on http://www.volunteeryukon.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.
DOG BARRIER for back of vehicle, excellent shape, $30. 633-5085 SNOW BLOWER, Craftsman, 8hp, 27" wide, electric start, $600. Phone 633-5576
50”X22”X36” deep, $175.
WASHER & dryer, Master Chef, good cond, $150, sell as set only. 633-5774
BRASS WALKER, no wheels, good cond, $30; Honeywell oil-filled heater, $25. 334-8318
STEEL STUDS with accessories. 633-2814 or 334-3778
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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 CDMA PHONE, new in box, Samsung Ace i325 World Edition, works good in rural settings, c/w all accessories, $80. 334-6087
Musical Instruments PIANO TUNING & REPAIR by certified piano technician Call Barry Kitchen @ 633-5191 email:bfkitchen@hotmail.com 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
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YUKON NEWS GIBSON SG electric guitar made in USA, Fender tube amp, Cry Baby wah pedal, package deal, $1,500. 334-0368
HURLBURT ENTERPRISES INC. Store (867) 633-3276
Firewood DONʼS FIREWOOD Forestry Permit #XY06 •Spruce/Pine mix •Stockpiled locally for quick delivery •Kwanlin Dun & Social Services Phone 393-4397 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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✔ 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
Tlicho Engineering & Environmental Services Ltd. is the current Care and Maintenance contractor at the Faro Mine Complex in Faro, Yukon. The Yukon Government has requested proposals to deliver an enhanced suite of Care and Maintenance services at the site. Submitting a resume in response to this advertisement also constitutes understanding and acceptance that the submitted resume may be used as part of our proposal package.
(Reference #11.02.15)
Resume that clearly demonstrates: UÊ At least 5 years of experience as overall site authority for a mining or remediation project costing at least $10 million/year, including project wide responsibility for health & and safety and environmental compliance UÊ At least 5 years’ experience leading and directing mining or remediation projects of at least $10 million/year, in cold climates and remote locations involving at least two (2) of the following areas: UÊ Overall site wide contaminated water management UÊ Lime based water treatment UÊ Earthworks, erosion and sediment control
SITE SUPERINTENDENT (2) (Reference #11.03.15) Resume that clearly demonstrates 15 years of cumulative experience managing the year round maintenance and operation in cold climates and remote locations of: UÊ Electrical generation and transmission infrastructures UÊ Pumping and piping systems UÊ Overall site water management UÊ Overall water management systems including 4000gpm plus lime based water treatment plants UÊ Fleet of at least 10 pieces of heavy equipment
ENVIRONMENTAL LEAD (2) (Reference #11.04.15) Resume that clearly demonstrates: UÊ At least 5 years’ experience in water sampling (including surface water, effluent, groundwater), processing and reporting; UÊ At least 5 years’ experience in leading and directing the delivery of a site wide environmental monitoring program greater than $500,000/year; UÊ Experience with environmental data management and reporting best practices and related software systems; UÊ Experience running a chemical analysis laboratory that included meeting CALA proficiency requirements; and UÊ Appropriate degree or certification.
HEALTH AND SAFETY LEAD (2) (Reference #11.05.15) Resume that clearly demonstrates UÊ At least 5 years’ experience in developing, implementing and evaluating health and safety programs and strategies; UÊ Knowledge of the requirements of the YWCHSB, the Yukon’s Occupational Health and Safety Act (YOHSA) and COR certification requirements; and UÊ Appropriate degree or certification.
PLANNING AND CONTROL MANAGER (2) (Reference #11.06.15)
Resume that clearly demonstrates at least five years of experience in EACH of the following areas: a. Executing cost control functions, including invoicing, financial reporting, financial projections and change control; b. Drafting and updating site operations and maintenance manuals; c. Providing comprehensive management reporting to external client; d. Managing records and documents in an auditable form in accordance with Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP), organized by task, with breakdowns of labour hours, materials used and equipment use; and e. Appropriate degree or certification.
To apply, please submit your cover letter and resume, clearly indicating the position title/reference # of the position to which you are applying, to: Sarah Hunt, HR Manager Email: shunt@tlichoic.com Fax: 867-920-7328 Applications will be accepted up to 5:00 p.m. PST on November 20, 2015. We thank all those who apply however will be contacting only those selected for interviews.
NORINCO M14 carbine, syn stock + Choate folding stock + 7 mags, $1,000. Valid PAL reqʼd. 334-8604 CZ 550 American 270 Win, very nice wood, $900. 334-9551
P17 300 Win Mag neew scope w/Leupold lever, lock rings & bases, $425. 336-2789
MasterCard
Cheque, Cash S.A. vouchers accepted.
FIREWOOD $175/cord 20-foot lengths, 5-cord loads Small delivery charge 668-6564 Leave message CJʼS FIREWOOD Cut to length. $240 per cord. Phone 867-335-4065
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 44 REM Mag. 1 box, 25 rounds, $20. 668-5511 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
Taku River Tlingit
We are currently recruiting for the following positions:
MINE/REMEDIATION SITE MANAGER (2)
LICENSED TO BUY, SELL & CONSIGN rifles & ammo at G&R New & Used 1612-D Centennial St. 393-2274 BUY • SELL
BINOCULARS, MEOPTA B1, 842, $800. 334-9551
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EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES
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First Nation EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY
Senior Financial Officer Finance Department SUPERVISOR: WAGE:
Chief Administration Officer/Clan Directors Council $70,000 to 80,000 year, dependent upon experience, knowledge and suitability STATUS: Permanent Full-Time Position in Atlin, British Columbia CLOSING DATE: November 27, 2015 4:00 pm (Position Start Date January 4, 2016)
JOB SUMMARY:
Reporting to the Spokesperson, the Senior Financial Officer is responsible for tracking the Taku River Tlingit First Nation’s financial resources. Responsible for implementing and monitoring financial control systems in accordance with the Financial Administration Law, co-ordinating annual audit requirements, budget preparation and forecasting, providing financial expertise to the Clan Directors and Spokesperson through the Finance and Audit Committee. Keeping the Finance and Audit Committee and Clan Directors informed on any budget variances that occur. MAIN DUTIES: • Preparing budget allocations, financial reports and financial proposals for Government departments. • Reporting variances and making recommendations for adjustments and advising on corrective measures. Preparing monthly financial statements for Leadership decision making purposes. Preparing quarterly financial reports to Leadership, providing up to date program’s financial status and making recommendations to Leadership, Administration on existing systems to ensure that the services meets the needs of the programs. • Implementing sound financial control systems for accounts payable, accounts receivable, payroll and the General Ledger. Delegating and assisting when required the completion of cheque requisitions, payroll deductions, remittances are forwarded to WCB, Great West Life and Standard Life and Revenue Canada. Supervising payroll data entry and reconciliations. Monitoring finance clerks accuracy in maintaining and updating financial control systems. • Approving cash flow requests from managers by examining all pertinent data to ensure the requests are accurate and justified. Checking that proper procedures are followed in purchase order usage, monitoring travel claims and advances, providing monthly income and revenue statements. Interacting and liaising with banks and other financial agencies by reviewing bank statements, applying for a line of credit when required. • Co-ordinating the year end audit with the independent auditor and TRTFN Administrator. Ensuring that all ledgers, files and any other financial records are in order, following up on recommendations from the auditor, by reviewing, analysing and evaluating the process and reporting any discrepancies, making recommendations to improve efficiency of the system. • Reviewing and administering salary increases for employees, recommended and implemented by Managers, ensuring that increases are within budget and are realistic. • With TRTFN Administrator, reviewing all supervised employees performance appraisals to ensure that the assessment and performance criteria are met, identifying career paths and work related training needs are developed and implementing career plans and training programs to develop employees skills and promotional opportunities. To be responsible for developing own skills and professional expertise for the position. Making recommendations for staff training to TRTFN Administration. EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE: Successful completion of two years of an acceptable post-secondary program in accounting, or finance, or business administration, or commerce or some other specialty relevant to the position. Experience working with First Nations. CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT: • Class-5 Drivers Licence • Criminal Record Check • Willingness to travel • Willingness to undertake ongoing training • Willingness to work overtime when work requirements dictate APPLICATION PROCESS: To obtain a more detailed job description or to submit a resume contact: Vickie Cowan, Executive Assistant to the Spokesperson at (250) 651-7904 Fax: (250) 651-7908 Email: spoke.assist@gov.trtfn.com or mail to TRTFN, Box 132, Atlin, B.C. V0W 1A0. We thank all those who apply but only those who are being considered will be contacted.
WEATHERBY VANGUARD, in the caliber of 26 Nosler, 25” barrel & muzzle break, without scope $1,000, or $1,600 obo with scope. 335-1106 NON-RESTRICTED FIREARM course presented by Whitehorse Rifle & Pistol club November 21 & 22. For more info please call 334-1688 or 667-6728 FIREARM COLLECTION for sale, restricted and nonrestricted, all in very good to new condition, must have PAL/RPAL. Call for specifics 867-536-2374 PARKER HALE 30-06, awsome shooting rifle, iron sights, $500. 336-3922
Wanted 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. WANTED: SKI boots, ladies cross country 3-pin toe, size 8. 660-5101 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. WANTED: EARLY 90s Nissan Sport Wagon, model EX1SS. 633-2837 WANTED: SERGER sewing machine. Lv msg @ 660-4516. WANTED: FIREWOOD, up to 10 cords firewood cut 16", delivered to Porter Creek. 633-6771 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 WANTED: CANOPY for 2005 Silverado truck with 8ʼ box. 668-5644 WANTED: TIM Hortons hockey cards to complete collection, will buy or trade. 334-1564 WANTED: CHEAP or free wooden art easels & paint, brushes, water colour paint, pastels or charcoal. 334-4568
Cars 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 2007 TOYOTA Matrix, 140k on replacement engine, blue w/new tires, extra rims for summer-winter, roof rack, very good condition, $5,500. 633-4315 2006 CHEVY Cobalt SS 2-dr auto, under 70,000 kms, one non-smoking driver, no accidents, power everything, 7-speaker Bose sound system, mech inspection done, needs brakes replaced, $8,000 obo. 334-4124 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 FORD Taurus, 4-dr, V6 auto, P/W & doors, cruise control, A/C, 140,000kms, new tires, $3,300. 336-2029 2001 TOYOTA Sienna minivan, 274,000 kms, good condition, reliable, well-maintained, summer & winter tires on rims, $3,500 obo. 633-5090 2000 FORD Taurus wagon, V6, auto, P/W, P/D, 216,000kms, seats 8, recent safety, summer & new winter tires, good cond, $2,700 obo. 333-0380 2000 PONTIAC Grand Am, 260,000kms, runs great, needs some body work, reasonable offer. 587-334-8604 1999 CADILLAC 2-dr hard top, P/W, P/D, power seats, A/C, cruise, 8 tires & rims mounted, summer & winter, $2,395. 336-2029 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
Wednesday, November 11, 2015 1986 OLDS Ciera, 4 door sedan, vg shape, 77,000 kms, new battery, remote start, safety, $2,000. Call 633-4311
Trucks
We Sell Trucks!
YUKON NEWS 4 TOYO tires, 205/75 R15, driven 2 winters, 75% tread, $95 ea. 660-4321 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 185/65R 14 winter studded tires, 500kms, exc cond, $400. 633-9022 2 WINTER tires, Nokian, studded, 205/50 R17, 70% tread left, $50. 668-5511
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2 NEW inside door panels for older model Fiat Spider. 668-2253
2009 CHEVROLET 1/2 ton 4X4, ext cab, full power, A/C, cruise, $6,300. 336-2029
Pets
2009 CHEVROLET LTZ 2500, loaded, every option available, new winter tires, $21,000. 393-3891 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 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 2007 CHEV 2500HD crew cab 4X4, great unit, many options, trailer tow, fully serviced, new brakes & battery. 633-4311 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 2004 GMC 2500 HD 4x4 X-cab, long box, great unit, remote start; trailer tow; checker plate liner & toolbox, fully serviced, new battery & tires. 633-4311 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 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 2000 GMC Jimmy SUV 4X4, roof rack, V6, low km 87,000, great all round condition, excellent winter tires, white, no body damage. 335-3992 1998 FORD F-150 pickup, extended cab, 3-dr, long box w/canopy, 233,000kms, $3,900. 335-8242 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 1996 PLYMOUTH Voyager van, vg condition, clean and smooth, 278,000km, $2,600. Marcel @ 322-1476 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 1995 GMC 2500 ext cab, short box, 2wd, 188,000 kms, excellent shape, runs great, $2,500 obo. 334-1343 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 1987 GMC Rally Van, 1-ton, Handicap Vehicle, hand controls, wheelchair lift, 149,000 kms. If anyone could use this vehicle contact George, 336-0995
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 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. 10 LB bag of cat food, DM Management, for diabetic cat, $40. 456-4459 PETMATE NAVIGATOR dog kennel suitable for 30-50 lb dog, high end model, used only once, 32X21X23, new $200, asking $100. 667-4463 1 FEMALE mini-Shepherd, fixed, 1 male Lab X, fixed, free to good home, need lots of space to run. 456-6571
Motorcycles & Snowmobiles Recreational Powersports and Marine (RPM) Repairs Service, repair and installations for snowmobiles, ATVs, motorcycles, chainsaws, marine and more Qualified and experienced mechanic Great rates! Call Patrick at 335-4181 TAITʟS 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 RONʟS SMALL ENGINE SERVICES Repairs to Snowmobiles, Chainsaws, Lawnmowers, ATVʟs, Small industrial equipment. Light welding repairs available 867-332-2333 lv msg 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 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 2004 XS Viper snowmobile, good shape, $2,500 obo. 335-4237 2014 HONDA TRX420ATV, not using it, like new, 2 & 4 wheel drive, windshield, rack on front & back, used 3 hrs. 399-3171 Tagish 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 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 2001 SKANDIC wide track, 2,500 original kms, 300km on new pistons, rings & head gasket, $5,900. 689-5288
Auto Parts & Accessories
2005 POLARIS SwitchBack 600 very good condition, looks & rides like new, $3,200 obo. 399-3904
TRUCK CANOPIES - in stock * new Dodge long/short box * new GM long/short box * new Ford long/short box
SKI-DOO MODEL 3500, seats 2, + hitch. 668-2332
Hi-Rise & Cab Hi - several in stock View at centennialmotors.com 393-8100
SKI-DOO, DOUBLE track, c/w tow behind Ski-boose on skis. 668-2332 POLARIS RAZOR side by side, for sale or trade for Skandic Skidoo of equal value, $7,500. 336-3922
M1000, 163 needs work on track, need to change out bearings, I have parts, no time to fix, low kms, runs awesome, $2,500. 336-3922
Marine PROFESSIONAL BOAT REPAIR Fiberglass Supplies Marine Accessories FAR NORTH FIBERGLASS 49D MacDonald Rd Whitehorse, Yukon 393-2467
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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
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17Ęź GRUMMAN canoe, older but in great condition, solid aluminum, c/w new paddles, $1,200. 867-993-3525
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Heavy Equipment WATER TRUCK, 1984 W900 and 4000 gal tank Bowie pump, fire hose manifold, new tires, certified, $22,200. Can be leased. 335-5192 SKIDDER 550 Timberjack, fresh motor, has 4000L water tank, large winch, full blade, $20,000. Can be leased. 335-5192
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2009 BOBCAT CT 440, 44hp tractor w/backhoe & many other attachments, $25000. Can be leased. 335-5192 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 1992 KENWORTH T600, N14 Cummins, 18-spd, 46000 diffs on Neway Air, only 965,000 original kms. Call 867-334-2697 D6C CAT w/angle blade & winch, $19,800, will include brush rake for additional $3,500. 689-5288 LOG GRAPPLE for 966 loader, $2,500 obo. 250-651-7531 SNOW BLOWER SB200, 72�, mounts on Bobcat, new, $4,500 obo. 250-651-7531
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
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Help control the pet overpopulation problem
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 11
2015
have your pets SPAYED OR NEUTERED. FOR INFORMATION CALL
Pet Photos with Santa 2015
November 21 & 22 11am-4pm at the Mae Bachur Animal Shelter
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 Please call
633-6019
to book your sitting. Walk-Ins Welcome PROCEEDS GO TO THE MAE BACHUR ANIMAL SHELTER.
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
Coming Events ATLIN - GLACIER VIEW CABINS “your quiet get away� Cozy self contained log cabins canoes, kayaks for rent Fax/Phone 250-651-7691 e-mail glacierviewcabins@gmail.com www.glacierviewcabins.ca THE ALZHEIMER/DEMENTIA Family Caregiver Support Group meets monthly. Group for family/friends caring for someone with Dementia. Info call Joanne 668-7713
633-6019
LOST/FOUND LOST t HIDDEN VALLEY / MCPHERSON AREA. 8 MONTH OLD MALE BLACK LAB/BORDER COLLIEX, wearing bark collar. Name is Tuko, very skittish. If found please call Tyler @333-3851 FOUND t ALSEK ROAD. YOUNG GREY-TAN TORTOISESHELL FEMALE CAT. Is micro chipped, but microchip not registered. If yours please call the shelter asap @633-6019!
RUNNING AT LARGE...
If you have lost a pet, remember to check with City Bylaw: 668-8382
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
AVAILABLE FOR ADOPTION
HOSPICE YUKON: Free, confidential services offering compassionate support to all those facing advanced illness, death and bereavement. Visit our lending library @ 409 Jarvis, M-F 11:30-3PM. 667-7429, www.hospiceyukon.net FREE DIGITAL Skills for the Work World program November 23 to December 4. Learn computer/workplace skills for finding and keeping employment. 2 week program. Call Yukon Learn 668-6280 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. CALL FOR vendors, Christmas Craft Fair Lorne Mountain Community Centre, December 6th Sunday, noon-4pm, tables $10. Reserve lmca@northwestel.net or 667-7083 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
Sam
Rosie
Hope
Shylo
Sam
And more... Come for a visit and meet your next furry family member!
Diga
Zeus
Katie
If your lost animal has been inadvertently left off the pet report or for more info on any of these animals, call 633-6019 or stop by 126 Tlingit Street.
Pets will be posted on the Pet Report for two weeks. Please let us know after that time if you need them re-posted.
You can also check out our award winning website at:
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VFWC GIRLS & Trans Club! Thursdays at 3:30, meet for fun, bonding food and feminism for free! Victoria Faulkner Womenʼs 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 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 YUKON RIVER Trail Marathon (BARA) AGM Wednesday November 18th, 5pm, #203-1191 Front Street. Info: yukonmarathon@gmail.com
Wednesday, November 11, 2015
YUKON NEWS 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 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
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
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
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
CHRISTMAS CRAFT Fair, basement of 600 College Drive Senior Residence, Saturday November 28, 9am to 2pm. Crafts, baking and much more.
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.
YUKON GUILD of Needlearts meets November 12 @ Whse Public Library, 7pm. Social evening with friends learning hand embroidery. Info 633-4026
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
HEART OF Riverdale Community Centre AGM 7PM Sunday, November 29th @ 38A Lewes BLVD upstairs. All welcome. Info@theheartofriverdale.com. 667-6700
THE ALL-CITY Band Society AGM is Thursday, November 19th, 2015, 8:30 pm, Porter Creek Secondary School
HEART OF Riverdale Kids TV club ages 9-14, Nov4-Dec16 @ 38 Lewes Blvd. Info@theheartofriverdale or call at 667-6700. Free Program.
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.
FIDDLEHEADS AGM, November 30, 2015, 6pm, at Selkirk Elementary School. For more information, please call Gisela at 821-4344 or email giginiedermeyer@gmail.com.
QUEER YUKON: upcoming social events for the LGBTQ community and allies. www.queeryukon.com
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
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 ONDE DE choc Friday, November 13th, 7:30pm, Yukon Arts Centre. Third annual innovative and multidisciplinary French-speaking artistic gathering. choc.afy.yk.ca
Gloria Adamson
Gloria Adamson, Nänshįá
Nänshiá 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!
Headstone Memorial Potlach November 14th | 5:30 Nàkwät’à Ku Potlach House 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.
~ Henry Scott Holland
Dinner at 5:30pm followed by a potlatch give-away.
Great-Granddaughter, Granddaughter, Daughter, Sister, Auntie, Mother, Grandmother and Friend, beyond time. Always in our hearts, Daniel, Delilah, Ranj, Taylor and Calum
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CITIZENS ON PATROL. Do you have concerns in your neighborhood & community? Be part of the solution! Volunteer valuable time to the C.O.P.S. program. With your eyes & ears we can help stomp out crime. Info: RCMP 867-667-5555 CANADA BENEFIT GROUP - Do you or someone you know suffer from a disability? Get up to $40,000 from the Canadian Government. Toll-free 1-888-511-2250 or www.canadabenefit.ca/free-assessment
BUXTON SNOWBOARD helmet, sz medium. 668-2253 TOYO SKI wax iron, T8 800 watt, new in box, $60. 660-5545
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 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
Baby & Child Items CHILDRENĘźS CLOTHING in excellent condition, given freely the first & third Saturday monthly at the Church of the Nazarene, 2111 Centennial. 633-4903 ONE-PIECE BOYĘźS snowsuit, new, Molehill brand, size 3-T, $60 obo. 393-2630
Childcare 30-YEAR YUKON RESIDENT Mature Babysitter available Monday to Friday days at your home. Call 335-0009
Craft Fairs CHRISTMAS CRAFT Fair Lorne Mountain Community Centre, December 6th Sunday, noon-4pm, tables $10. Reserve lmca@northwestel.net or 667-7083 CKES CHRISTMAS Craft Fair Saturday, November 14th, 10:00am-3:00pm, Christ The King Elementary School, 20 Nisutlin Drive, Riverdale. Call Paula at 633-2724 to book a table or for more information. NORTHERN FIBRES Guild, Cranberry Fair, Sunday, November 22, Kwanlin Dun Cultural Centre, 11am-4pm. Opens at 10:30 for persons with mobility issues. Info/Applications 335-0461, cranberryfair@live.com. Supported by Arts Operating Fund GLOBAL VILLAGE Craft Fair hosted by YDEC Saturday November 21, 11am-3pm, The Old Fire Hall Fair Trade Crafts from 10,000 Villages, India, Ethiopia, Nepal, Mongolia, Haiti, Ghana CHRISTMAS CRAFT Fair Saturday, November 28th 2015, Atlin Recreation Centre, 11am-3pm. Contact Lynn Turnbull to book a table, 250-651-7663 YUKON CRAFTS Society Christmas Spruce Bog Craft & Gift Sale, Saturday November 21, 11am-5pm, Canada Games Centre. Open at 10:15 for seniors (60+) & persons with mobility difficulties CHRISTMAS BAZAAR Bake Table & Tea, Saturday November 21, 11am-2pm, Hellaby Hall, Christ Church Cathedral, 4th & Elliot. Held by Anglican Church Women. 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 KWANLIN DUN Cultural Centre & Whitehorse Public Library invite you to our Christmas Craft Fair & Open House on Saturday, November 28th, 10am-4pm. Crafts, snacks, Santa! Find out more on our webpage. TAGISH CHRISTMAS Craft Fair and Pancake Breakfast, November 15th, 9:30am-12noon, $20 full table or $10 for half a table. 399-3407 TAGISH CHRISTMAS Craft Fairs, Wednesday November 25, December 2, 9, 16 , 2pm-4pm, $5 for a table. 399-3407
Furniture 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 KITCHEN TABLE, 6 chairs, 1 leaf, good cond, $200. 633-5774 COUCH/HIDE-A-BED, SIMMONS, pink/grn floral, folds out to double bed, exc cond, $350. 633-5774
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CEDAR STORAGE cabinet, 4 doors, 32.5�Lx11.5�Dx92�H, $75; beige sofa-slipper chair, $50; matching large ottoman, $45;. 660-4321
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HOUSEHOLD BELONGINGS, all in great condition, everything must go. Call or email for viewing: hea1lth@yahoo.ca. 334-0248
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CLASSIC 30 year old, solid wood dresser and drawer cabinet, 63� long, large attached mirror, great shape, $375. 633-3113
BUSINESS FOR Sale, Operational Beef Ranch with meat processing facility north of Kamloops BC for sale or joint venture, river frontage. 250-674-1514.
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