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he Yukon government has released its long-awaited independent power production policy, designed to help communities, First Nations and small businesses generate electricity from clean sources that they can sell into the grid. According to the policy, 10 per cent of the territory’s new electrical demand is to be met by independent power production (IPP), and half of all IPP projects must be at least partly owned by Yukon First Nations. The policy, released late last month, is an updated version of a draft published in May 2014. That draft was met with criticism for including natural gas as a form of clean energy. But in the new policy, little has changed. Natural gas will still be eligible for larger IPP projects. Anne Middler, an energy analyst at the Yukon Conservation Society, said the decision to keep natural gas in the policy is “disappointing.� “Natural gas is not a clean energy source by any stretch of the imagination,� she said. “We need to acknowledge that methane, which is natural gas, has a huge global warming potential.� The government recently published a “What We Heard� document based on a 100-day review period of the draft policy that ended in August 2014. According to that report, “there was a very strong... preference for renewable sources to be the only eligible energy sources.� A large number of responses were uncertain about or opposed to including natural gas in the policy. “If non-renewable energy sources were eligible, then YG would need to account for the social and environmental costs of the resulting greenhouse gases,� one respondent wrote. Shane Andre, the director of the energy branch with the Department of Energy, Mines and Resources, said natural gas was included as “a source of energy that could produce lower local emissions and greenhouse gas
emissions than diesel fuel.� He added the government doesn’t currently have any natural gas projects in mind. “I think that it would be rare that a natural gas proposal would be considered,� he said. Energy Minister Scott Kent has previously suggested that mines choosing to fuel their operations with liquefied natural gas could sell excess electricity into the grid through the IPP policy. Still, it’s unclear whether there are mining companies in the Yukon with plans to do that. Western Copper and Gold has plans to power its massive Casino project, northwest of Carmacks, with natural gas. Selwyn Chihong, a mining company in eastern Yukon, has also recently said it wants to build a natural gas facility to power its operations. But Andre said if mines choose to build transmission lines to connect to the grid, it’s generally cheaper just to buy electricity from the grid rather than to generate electricity independently and then sell excess into the grid. The new IPP policy includes three separate programs. The first is a standing offer program, which would apply to projects between 30 and 1,000 kilowatts. To put that in perspective, Andre said the smaller of the two wind turbines on Haeckel Hill has a capacity of 150 kilowatts. He said the standing offer program is ideal for small businesses or communities that want to generate some of their own electricity. The program is capped at a maximum of 10,000 megawatthours per year for the Yukon’s main grid, and 2,100 megawatthours per year in Watson Lake. However, the territory’s isolated communities – Old Crow, Destruction Bay/Burwash Landing and Beaver Creek – are not eligible for the program. Andre said that’s because too much independent power production could overwhelm such small grids. “If you have a very small grid system, you could only allow so much of that power in that form,� he explained. And
because producers under the standing offer program will be guaranteed rates for their electricity, it would be very difficult to control how much they produce and when. Instead, those communities and any larger producers can submit unsolicited proposals that will then be negotiated. The policy also includes a third program that will allow the Yukon Energy Corporation to request proposals for large-scale IPP projects. Andre said there are no such requests currently planned. Natural gas is eligible for the two latter programs – the unsolicited proposals and the calls for power – but not for the standing offer program. The rates offered to independent producers have yet to be determined. In the draft policy released last year, rates varied from 21 cents per kilowatt-hour for producers in areas where hydro power is available to 64 cents per kilowatt-hour in Old Crow. Andre said rates will be determined in the next year, but said they won’t be allowed to drive up costs for ratepayers. “We’re not going to allow the IPP standing offer program in any way to adversely affect rates,� he said. “The other two (programs) will be evaluated to ensure that they’re in the best interest of the ratepayer.� He also said producers in the standing offer program will be offered higher rates in the winter than in the summer. That will be an incentive for them “to invest in technologies that would produce more in the winter,� when the territory experiences a shortfall in hydro power. Middler said the new policy does hold “some promise.� But she said the government needs to develop policies to encourage more electricity generation for the heating sector, which is currently dominated by oil. She also worries that the government’s planned next generation hydro project could flood the market and eliminate any real need for new power production. Contact Maura Forrest at maura.forrest@yukon-news.com
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Affordable housing units planned for Whistle Bend Myles Dolphin News Reporter
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he Ta’an Kwach’an Council and its business arm are partnering with the Yukon government to build affordable housing units in the Whistle Bend subdivision. The Da Daghay Development Corporation is planning the construction of a 42-unit complex that will feature one- to three-bedroom apartments built to Super Green standards. Ta’an citizens, as well as Yukon Housing Corporation clients, will live in the building, although it remains unknown how the tenant selection process will unfold. Chief Kristina Kane said the project was a long time coming. “The First Nation just had its general assembly over the weekend and that was one of the biggest priorities and concerns for our citizens,” she said at an announcement Thursday. “It’s the first step in providing housing to all of our citizens.” Stacey Hassard, the minister responsible for the Yukon Housing Corporation, said the project would improve the living conditions for a number of low-income Yukoners seeking affordable housing. It will also create new employment and training opportunities for Ta’an citizens, he added. Some of the units will be available to Yukon Housing clients who qualify for its rent supplement program. To qualify, a family’s total household income must fall under $48,500 in Whitehorse. Under the program, clients pay 25 per cent of their monthly income to the housing corporation, with the corporation topping up that amount to ensure the landlord receives the median rental rate – currently $950. The program helps about 40 households a year in Whitehorse. But it remains unclear how much Ta’an citizens, who will
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Ta’an Kwach’an Council Chief Christina Kane announces a new 42-unit housing complex in the Whistle Bend subdivision of Whitehorse on Thursday. make up most of the residents in the complex, will pay to live there. The total cost of the project is also unknown at this time, as well as who will foot the bill. Ben Asquith, CEO of the development corporation, said the first step is to put out a request for proposals for the design of the building. “We’re working out the details with Yukon Housing but they will contribute some funds towards the project,” he said. Mary Cameron, acting vicepresident of Yukon Housing, said project costs can’t be determined
unless total square footage is known. “Obviously with 42 units they have some idea,” she said, “but once they’ve narrowed down the exact design they can articulate costing better.” NDP Opposition Leader Liz Hanson said she’s always in support of initiatives that will provide more affordable housing in the territory. But her issue lies with the lack of available financial information. “That is sort of what we’ve been seeing as a constant theme with the Yukon Party over the last few
months,” she said. “There’s an announcement a week about more expenditures but it’s usually not defined, whether it’s the fibre-optic line (up the Dempster Highway) or the continuing care facility in Whistle Bend. “I’m not quite sure what the purpose of that is – we call it the squirrel factor: it keeps the distraction going from what’s going on on the ground.” The development corporation plans on applying for a tax break from the City of Whitehorse. The City’s development incen-
tive policy offers a maximum of $500,000 in tax incentives over 10 years if a building has at least 25 rental units. If the proponent qualifies, it’s also eligible to receive a one-time capital grant up to $500,000 from the Yukon government under its Municipal Matching Rental Construction Program. The Ta’an Kwach’an Council is the second-largest landowner in Whitehorse, behind the Kwanlin Dun First Nation. Construction of the complex is set to begin next spring. Contact Myles Dolphin at myles@yukon-news.com
Yukon, federal governments differ on mining estimates Maura Forrest News Reporter
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he Yukon government is predicting an increase in mineral exploration spending this year, despite recent numbers from the federal government that suggest exploration is down. Last week, Natural Resources Canada released revised 2015 spending intentions from exploration companies in the Yukon, totalling $104.8 million. That’s a significant drop from a February estimate that predict-
ed over $126 million in spending this year. It’s also a decline from 2014 spending, which weighed in at $107.1 million. But Yukon’s Department of Energy, Mines and Resources still estimates that exploration spending will increase this year, regardless of the federal numbers. The department’s numbers are typically lower than the federal figures, because Natural Resources Canada includes spending on road development and environmental baseline work. The territorial numbers only include pure exploration work.
This year, the Mines Department is predicting that exploration spending will rise to $100 million, up from $80 million in 2014. A large part of that total is related to exploration expenditures at the Selwyn project in eastern Yukon, which are expected to rise to $40 million this year from $32 million in 2014. Jesse Devost, a spokesperson for the department, said a new player, BMC, also spent $15 million at Kudz Ze Kayah, “which wasn’t on the books last year.” He said there were 85 mineral exploration projects in the Yukon this year, up from 64 in 2014.
Devost couldn’t provide an explanation as to why Natural Resources Canada’s numbers have dropped while his department’s estimate remains unchanged. But he said he believes the department’s figures are accurate because it has “an open communication with all the companies that are doing work in the Yukon.” “Our staff are in constant contact with the companies,” he explained. Mineral exploration peaked in the Yukon in 2011 and 2012. Natural Resources Canada’s numbers peg spending at $331.7
million and $233.2 million in those two years, respectively. That dropped off to $100.6 million in 2013. The Yukon’s recent economic outlook predicted that spending on mining development would drop to $40 million this year from $50 million in 2014. It also found that the value of mineral production would be cut in half this year to about $200 million, in large part due to the closure of the Wolverine mine and the continued suspension of production at the Bellekeno mine. Contact Maura Forrest at maura.forrest@yukon-news.com
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Nehass case creeps forward new lawyer also plans to make an application that his Charter News Reporter rights have been violated during his time behind bars. ichael Nehass still That hasn’t been scheduled hasn’t been sentenced for a crime that landed yet and could take more than him in jail nearly four years ago. two weeks to argue, the court heard. Lawyers have begun the Nehass was convicted by a early stages of arguing what jury in May of forcible confinethat sentence should be. But ment, aggravated assault and any conclusion still seems a breaching his probation after long way off. attacking a woman in Watson Thursday was day one of a Lake in December 2011. He two-day hearing into whether the court should order a psychi- plans to appeal. He represented himself duratric assessment of the 31-yearing the trial. But earlier this year old. That’s to see if he could be he applied to have the governlabelled either a dangerous ofment cover the costs for his fender or a long-term offender. lawyer during this part of the Both of those designations case. would impact Nehass’s senB.C. lawyer Sarah Rauch tence. A long-term offender said she needs more time and can get up to 10 years probamore information to wrap her tion after he or she is released. head around everything that A dangerous offender could be has happened over the last four locked up indefinitely. years. But this week’s arguments She also suggested that aren’t even about whether the Charter application over Nehass deserves either of Nehass’s treatment should be those labels. They’re just about whether the assessment should heard before any assessment is done. be ordered. She is expected to make most If Supreme Court Justice of her arguments against the asScott Brooker does what the Crown wants and orders Nehass sessment today. Nehass made headlines assessed, it will take three around the country in 2014 months to be completed, the court heard. Then, if the Crown when he was ordered to a video court appearance. Guards decides to go forward with a brought him in shackled and dangerous or long-term offender application, there will be naked. His father has also filed a more arguments. Some time between now and human rights complaint on his behalf over the length of time the final sentence, Nehass’s he has spent in some form of Friday, Nov 13 thru segregation. Thursday, Nov 19 Earlier this year Nehass was sentenced for crimes he comWhitehorse Yukon Cinema Whi8thorse mitted while in custody at the 304 Wood Street Ph: 668-6644 Whitehorse jail. That includes assaulting a corrections officer by spitting on him, attempting to break out of the segregation unit and (PG) Coarse Language, Violence doing more than $35,000 worth Nightly 6:30 & 9:45 PM of damage. Ashley Joannou
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Assuming the situation has not changed since then, Nehass has not been part of the jail’s general population since May 2013. According to prosecutor Eric Marcoux, arguing over whether or not Nehass should be assessed is not necessary. In Canada, if someone has already been convicted twice of a serious crime that landed them in prison for two years or more, they are presumed to get assessed when they’re convicted a third time. This latest sentence would be Nehass’s third to qualify under the rule, Marcoux said. He’s been convicted of aggravated assault twice before now: once in 2003 when he was sentenced to 33 months and once in 2010 when, Marcoux says, he was sentenced to three years. But the two sides can’t even agree on Nehass’s record. The printout of Nehass’s criminal record originally said the 2010 sentence was only two years less a day. Marcoux says that was a mistake. Nehass was originally sentenced to three years but was given a year’s worth of credit for time served. The record was amended to say three years. Rauch said changes like that mean she has concerns about the accuracy of the document. That will likely be argued in court today. So will the issue of who gets to do the assessment if it is ordered. At one point it seemed like a solution had been found. Rauch told the court Nehass was willing to get the assessment done if a B.C. psychologist he chose was the one who did it. Marcoux said he couldn’t agree to that particular psychologist. The hearing continues this morning. Contact Ashley Joannou at ashleyj@yukon-news.com
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New details disclosed for Dempster ďŹ bre line Maura Forrest News Reporter
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ew details have emerged about the Yukon government’s planned fibre-optic line up the Dempster Highway that would provide Internet security to 10 Yukon communities, including Whitehorse. The government has been slow to provide information about the project, which was announced last month. At the time, it revealed that the total cost of the construction is estimated at $32 million, of which Northwestel would contribute up to $10 million. But officials refused to answer questions about exactly how much the territorial government will pay and who will own the line. Since then, Northwestel has clarified that the $32 million price tag refers specifically to the portion of the line along the Dempster Highway, from Dawson City to Inuvik. The telecommunications company says it will assume the full cost of construction of the line to Dawson City from where it currently ends at Stewart Crossing. It estimates that cost at $5 million, which would be on top of the possible $10 million it will contribute to the Dempster Highway extension. Northwestel will also cover all ongoing maintenance and operations costs after the construction is complete. Spokesperson Andrew Anderson said those costs will be significant. “The total ownership cost of the fibre is more than double the total building cost,� he explained. Despite his use of the word “ownership,� neither Northwestel nor the government has absolutely confirmed that Northwestel will own the line. However, Anderson said that is what his company has in mind.
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Crews work on the construction of the Mackenzie Valley fibre link in the Northwest Territories. “That’s the proposal that we put forward to the government.� Cabinet spokesperson Dan Macdonald refused to confirm that Northwestel will be the owner, but he has said the Yukon government will not own the line. That means this project will be structured quite differently from the Mackenzie Valley Fibre Link in the Northwest Territories, which is currently being built from Fort Simpson to Inuvik. Together, the two projects will create a fibre loop that will prevent cuts to Yukon’s fibreoptic line south of Whitehorse from wiping out Internet access across the territory. Unlike the proposed Dempster Highway line, the Mackenzie Valley project is owned by the N.W.T. government as part of a
public-private partnership. The line is being built by Northern Lights, a joint venture between Northwestel and Ledcor, a construction company. Sean Craig, a public-private partnership analyst with the N.W.T. government, explained that Northern Lights will pay the up-front costs of construction, maintenance and operation of the line. The government will then make monthly payments to Northern Lights based on its performance. He said the net cost of the project is about $234 million, and the average payment to Northern Lights will be $7 million a year over the 20-year term of the partnership. But he said part of those payments could be docked if Northern Lights doesn’t live up
to its obligations – for instance, if it doesn’t repair breaks in the line quickly enough. “If they don’t meet certain monthly targets, then we reduce that monthly availability payment,� he explained. “It’s performance-based and it drives a level of service.� Craig said another reason the government decided to own the line was to keep rates down and to promote competition between service providers. As it stands, local providers in N.W.T. and the Yukon have to negotiate with Northwestel to access its network. “At this point in time, Northwestel can charge... generally almost what they want,� he said. “With us as the (government), we’re obviously a not-for-profit. So that would mean obviously
that the number would be less.� He said the government will charge the same rates to all providers, including Northwestel. When asked if the Yukon government would have any say in determining rates after the Dempster Highway extension is built, Macdonald simply responded that “rates are determined and set through the CRTC� – the federal telecommunications regulator. Macdonald said the Yukon government chose not to own the Dempster Highway extension because it “didn’t want Yukon taxpayers having to pay operations and maintenance for the line afterwards.� However, it’s still unclear how much taxpayers will pay for this project, or how the $32 million estimate was calculated. The current construction cost of the Mackenzie Valley line is about $82 million, more than double the Dempster Highway estimate for a line that is less than twice as long. Peter Clarkson, the N.W.T. government’s regional director for the Beaufort Delta, said it makes sense that the Mackenzie Valley project would cost more, because there’s no road along much of the route. That means all the work needs to happen during the winter, which is much more expensive. But he also cautioned that the Dempster Highway project could lead to higher rates in the Yukon, because Northwestel isn’t accessing many new customers – it’s largely providing additional security to customers it already has. “It would be possible that the rates for everybody could go up,� he said. “There’s additional cost, but at least you know you’re going to have backup when you need it.� Contact Maura Forrest at maura.forrest@yukon-news.com
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Quote of the Day “We call it the squirrel factor: it keeps the distraction going from what’s going on on the ground.� NDP Leader Liz Hanson on the lack of financial details available on the government’s new affordable housing plans. Page 3
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COMMENTARY Why getting the u shot is still the right thing to do
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ust as in baseball, every year, the flu season comes with a new twist. Two years ago we had a bad H1N1 season where many younger, otherwise healthy adults were taken by surprise with some bad cases of influenza. A year ago – in November – we had an early season start with an intense H3N2 (followed by influenza B) season, affecting more individuals with chronic medical conditions and sending several people to hospital, including some individuals to intensive care. Our chief defense against influenza remains the flu shot that is offered at this time every year. Since it is our biggest weapon, you might expect something slick, fast, and efficient. Unfortunately though, like an overhyped hitter, we have to face up to the flu shot’s imperfections. There has been much talk about the disappointing performance of last year’s vaccine, so let’s explore what happened. The Influenza vaccine is almost exclusively grown in chicken eggs, a process which takes from four to six months to prepare. Because of the lead time necessary to produce vaccines in time for the flu season, the flu scientists have to predict what influenza strains will circulate months ahead. It’s always a best guess based on what viruses are circulating at the time, and sometimes the guess isn’t right on. Strike one. The other reason is that the influenza virus has a tendency to produce minor genetic variations, known as genetic drift. There was more drift than usual last year. Strike two. In addition, it appears that mutations occurred in the actual virus strain growing in the egg which may have caused the vaccine strain to differ even further from the circulating strain. Strike three. In short, vaccine and virus did not line up, and as a result the vaccine for influenza A was more or less a strike out – although we did have better results for influenza B.
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Operations Manager So where does that leave us? Do we abandon the team in a bad year? I say no. Despite variation in match, it’s always going to be worth getting the flu shot. We don’t know until well after the season how good the match will be. Most of the time we can estimate around 50 per cent effectiveness, sometimes higher, and – as last year – sometimes lower. Although not even in the same ballpark of effectiveness as most of our other vaccines, which are consistently over 90 per cent effective – vaccines like MMR, varicella, pertussis, HPV, and tetanus – 50 per cent is still not bad. For a few minutes of your time, and at no cost, you can cut your chances of getting influenza in half. In turn, you will protect those people at risk of complications from getting influenza, and that will help to limit the circulation of influenza in the community. So let’s not focus too closely on match results, like some annual baseball score. The real question is whether it is worth your effort to protect yourself and others. Clearly the evidence is yes – its benefits are well worthwhile, and yes, it’s definitely worth the risk. That’s why I’ve had mine and my family will get theirs. This year we are introducing an exciting new player: the expanded quadrivalent vaccine. This new flu vaccine protects against two A strains and two (instead of a single) B
strains, as previously introduced in the children’s FluMist vaccine. This gives it a better punch against whatever of the two more common B strains may hit us in a given year. That is one small step on the way to a better vaccine. Immunization research still has progress to make, but better products are on the horizon, and hopefully in time we will have a better, more effective, more durable vaccine that should even our odds and eliminate the need for the annual flu vaccine update. Seasonal influenza vaccine clinics started this year the week of Oct. 26. As a reminder, I recommend flu vaccine to anyone over the age of six months, but particularly those who are at higher risk of influenza related complications, those who work in health, and those who live with any of the above. The influenza vaccine is far from perfect, but it is very safe and might be the best thing you can take to protect those around you – whether elders, pregnant women, young children, or those with underlying medical conditions – from what can be a very serious disease. Do your part for yourself and your team – step up to the plate and get your flu shot this season, and every season to come. Dr. Brendan Hanley is Yukon’s chief medical officer of health.
LETTERS Leave Yukon’s oil in the ground The Government of Yukon is in the process of amending its Oil and Gas Act. It asked the public to submit comments, by Sept. 14, by answering a set of questions it set out or by making a written submission. A written document was put out by the government in October following the close of the “consultation� process. In it the following paragraph was included. “Several responses were received presented perspectives on the oil and gas industry that were beyond the scope of the public review and of the proposed legisla-
tive amendments. These are not included in this summary report.� We presume that included our submission, which reads as follows: It is our view that the proposed amendments to Yukon’s oil and gas legislation are not needed. It is an established fact that climate change is happening and that the primary cause is the burning of fossil fuels. Climate change will have far-reaching and unpredictable environmental, social, and economic consequences. Climate change is our biggest threat to humanity. In view of the above it would be negligent for the Yukon government to continue with an oil and gas extraction program
given the need to leave 80 per cent of the known reserves of oil and gas in the ground to avoid a greater than two-degree warming of the planet. As concerned Yukoners we would encourage the Yukon government to stop all oil and gas development in the Yukon. Close down all current oil and gas activities and then repeal the Oil and Gas Act. The Department of Oil and Gas Resources would no longer be needed and the annual average budget of $3 million could then be directed toward the development of renewable energy. Rob and Mary Ann Lewis Whitehorse
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have to admit that, whenever I’m in San Francisco and walk past one of those shared workspace places, I always stop and look in the window. They are full of people working alone with headphones or in small groups clustered around a screen, usually with backpacks, bikes or those weird electric one-wheel skateboard things scattered around in the background. Is she inventing The Next Big Thing on the Internet? Is he writing the next mind-blowing post about blockchain on Ars Technica? Or just taking a break while posting photos of man-buns and plaid shirts on Instagram? There is a dynamism, intensity and collaborative feel that you seldom sense in corporate or government offices. Baked Cafe on Main Street has long been the closest thing we have to these spaces. I find Baked’s cafe atmosphere conducive to conversation and writing. I often overhear people working on interesting
things, although we are in the Yukon so there is a significant risk you might end up sitting beside some sad looking people discussing consultation strategy for Phase 17b of some YESAB process. But a cafe has its drawbacks. The art gets in the way of projecting your new atomicpowered snow-shovelling robot design onto the wall. The only private office if you have to make a sensitive phone call is the bathroom. And the Wi-Fi bandwidth isn’t large enough to use Alteryx or Tableau to make big data dance. And the staff like to go home, so you can’t stage 24-hour hackathons there. We now have a place where you can do all of these things. I am actually writing this column from Whitehorse’s new shared collaboration space, called (co)space, located upstairs at Second and Strickland. Organized by the people behind Yukonstruct, it is a place where entrepreneurs of all kinds can meet to split workspace costs, share ideas and broaden their networks. In the old days most work had to happen at “work.” If you were a factory worker, you needed to be where the big machines lived. If you were a white-collar worker, that usually meant an office where your colleagues, files and typewriters were. Most workplace interactions were with fellow employees of the same company at the
same location. This has now changed radically. Technology has enabled teams to work together virtually. Colleagues can carve up a project into chunks and work on it in different locations, sharing output electronically and meeting by video or not at all. Knowledge workers don’t need giant machines to create valuable output. And this isn’t only the classic garage tech startup. Technology is redefining the company and how business is done in every industry. No longer is the only way of doing business to hire employees to do everything. You can sell via the Internet instead of hiring sales people. A web marketing firm can do your advertising instead of a marketing department. Your accounting system can be located somewhere in the cloud. The result of all this has been an explosion in the number of people working alone or in small startups and in every kind of location imaginable. I sat with a table of young Yukon entrepreneurs at the recent Startup Canada conference in Whitehorse. Asked for one big idea to help entrepreneurs succeed in the Yukon, they focused on the need for mentorship and advice. It is a theme, by the way, also identified by Stefan Voswinkel in his ground-breaking report on Yukon knowledge workers in 2012. He interviewed 62 Yukon
knowledge workers and estimated over 300 were active in the Yukon economy. Over half were “loan eagles” and around a fifth had less the six employees. (co)space is perfectly suited to support these knowledge workers and attract more to the Yukon. In the old days, the model was that young people would work at a company and learn the ropes. Nowadays, they have the ideas, initiative and technical skills to move more quickly to start their own businesses. But in the early stages they still need low-cost workspace and a network to help find advice, capital and business partnership opportunities. (co)space hopes to be the hub where this will happen. It has open office space, meeting rooms, projectors, Wi-Fi and all the Silicon Valley necessities. It will also offer events including technical training, guest speakers and networking events. Perhaps most importantly, it aspires to be the hub around which a growing Yukon entrepreneurial community coalesces. Organizers stress that this is not just for the tech community. Entrepreneurs of all sorts and sizes are welcome, including non-profit or “social entrepreneurs.” Indeed, technology is becoming so embedded in our lives that very few businesses launch today without some kind of technology angle.
Do you have an idea of your own? Or maybe you think you can beat me to market with the robot driveway shoveler? If yes, then stop surfing the Internet and get involved. As a community venture, (co) space organizers are offering cut-rate introductory memberships at $99 per month for the first two months (less for students). Founding members will get a chance to influence how (co)space develops in terms of amenities and programs. According to Dan Gunn, the CEO of the Victoria Innovation, Advanced Technology and Entrepreneurship Council who spoke at Startup Canada’s event in Whitehorse, Victoria now has around 900 technology companies. He pointed out that Whitehorse’s population is about a tenth of Victoria’s, and that we might someday shoot to have 90 tech companies here. (co)space will be an important part of realizing that ambition. I’m looking forward to watching the new businesses that get launched from (co) space’s new Strickland Street pad. Keith Halliday is a Yukon economist and author of the MacBride Museum’s Aurore of the Yukon series of historical children’s adventure novels. He won this year’s Ma Murray award for best columnist. You can follow him on Channel 9’s “Yukonomist” show.
The Yukon Party has lost its way has really done. With record federal support payments and associated budgets the Yukon ecently I read an article onParty has failed to diversify the line reviewing reasons for economy. It has failed to even the federal Conservatives losing present a strategy to create power. The article stressed that sustainability or for Yukoners to the Conservatives lost control actually have a realistic strateof the federal agenda and the conservative movement in Can- gic plan for economic development and growth. ada has basically been driven With First Nations the record into the political wilderness. of positive relations with the For the first time in the living memory of most voters there is Yukon Party has been nothing not a Conservative government but dismal. The relationships are so bad that they have only at the helm of one of the four resulted in the courts now setlarger provinces, and no prosting the framework on how the pect that one will be elected government should live up to anytime soon. Harper’s brand its side of the Umbrella Final of conservatism was massively rejected in Atlantic Canada and Agreement and meanwhile sacrificed the exploration sector rightly so. Harper basically ignored everyone east of Quebec by creating an environment of regulatory uncertainty, confusand only those who were as ing and extended permitting determined as Danny Williams for projects, and continued managed to get listened to in process chaos. Ottawa. Instead of being concerned Ontario and Alberta are and actually doing something homes to conflicted and divided Conservative houses. And about it, the Yukon Party under the leadership of Darrell Pasloas a Newfoundlander, once my fellow newfies go to the polls at ski seem happy to belong to a welfare state where their activithe end of the month there is a ties remain solely dependent strong probability that province’s current Tory government on the results of a bi-annual meeting “at the federal trough” will also be ousted. One has to question what the where the amounts of the fedConservatives have done across eral subsidies are determined. And meanwhile the bureauthis country. Here in Yukon one has to really question what cracy grows, generating enough our “conservative” Yukon Party paper each day to keep a pulp Kevin Brewer
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on the local trough to maintain their revenues. I was once a believer of the Yukon Party. I raised funds for them, went to their events, and tried to work closely with them to better our society. But then I noticed they were just not listening to anything. The arrogance of leadership has gotten worse, and it is now clear that it is time for a change in government within Yukon. Like the rest of the country, most of us have had enough of the Conservatives and locally the Yukon Party. As a result of their practices those of us who challenge them, like me, ultimately get black-listed and are driven out of Yukon to seek employment elsewhere. We are not given full and fair opportunity to compete for positions or contracts. We are not on the sole-sourced contracts list that feed those who kiss the ground Yukon Party officials walk on. And despite our expertise being better than most, we are trampled over by an ongoing parade of work and jobs given to “expert cheechakos” or outside companies, as they obviously are better than us according to the gospel of the Yukon Party. Kevin Brewer is an an unemployed geologist who still resides in Whitehorse.
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Trudeau, ďŹ rst ministers, scientists to gather Nov. 23 to talk climate change monwealth leaders’ meeting before wrapping up with other Bruce Cheadle international leaders at the Paris climate talks. OTTAWA The Liberal plan has always nother piece in Justin been to present a united CanaTrudeau’s pursuit of a dian climate policy to the world, more engaged and aggressomething that has regularly sive Canadian stance on intereluded prime ministers going national climate policy fell into back to Jean Chretien in the place Thursday, but many more 1990s. With provinces holdremain a mystery. ing many of the policy levers The prime minister anon environmental action – and nounced he’s invited provincial having very different agendas and territorial leaders to Ottawa depending on their resource to discuss Canada’s climate base – getting everyone pulling change plans later this month in the same direction has proved before an international climate challenging. conference begins in Paris. “We are having a climate Trudeau had previously inbriefing by top scientists for vited the provincial and territothe first ministers and for my rial leaders to join him at COP21, own cabinet, to be followed the UN-sponsored summit that by a working dinner with the begins Nov. 30 in the French premiers to exactly discuss the capital, where the international kind of strong and cohesive community hopes to complete a message we will be delivering framework for post-2020 climate as Canadians in Paris at the action. very important COP21 conferTrudeau will meet the ence,â€? Trudeau said Thursday premiers Nov. 23, just before at his second briefing of the departing on an extended trip parliamentary media in as many that will take him to London for weeks. an audience with the Queen, The offices of Alberta Premier then on to Malta for a ComRachel Notley, B.C.’s Christie Clark, Ontario’s Kathleen Wynne and Quebec Premier Philippe Couillard immediately confirmed their attendance at the Stand out from Nov. 23 meeting to The Canadian the crowd and be seen! Press. Many, many questions reAdvertise your business in main to be resolved. the Yukon News. • Will the Liberals set a national floor price on carbon and, if so, what will it be and how Phone: 867-667-6283 would it be enforced? Canadian Press
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• Will the Liberals endorse another pipeline project now that their favoured option, the Keystone XL pipeline to the U.S., has been killed by presidential order? • How soon will the Liberals begin to phase out fossil fuel subsidies, as promised in their election platform “over the medium term.â€? • What will be the level of Canada’s collective ambition in cutting future greenhouse gas emissions? Part of the COP21 process includes countries submitting intended targets for emissions cuts, something the Conservatives did last May when they committed Canada to a 30 per cent cut below 2005 levels by 2030. However the Harper government did not provide a policy blueprint, just as it failed to put Canada on track to meet its previous 2020 target set at Copenhagen and just as the Chretien Liberals failed to produce policies that would achieve the 1997 Kyoto protocol targets. Trudeau’s new government has refused to set a target for cutting GHGs in advance of Paris, but Environment Minister Catherine McKenna did say the existing Conservative-set mark should be considered the floor. Environmental groups have also been hounding the Liberals on pipeline policy, asserting any new pipeline capacity will boost Alberta oil sands production and undercut credible Canadian action on emissions.
And a new report Thursday from a Washington-based environmental advocacy group further fanned the policy flames. The study by Oil Change International asserts that global fossil fuel subsidies amount to US $452 billion annually, of which $78 billion comes as direct government spending and tax breaks. Canada’s subsidies, according to the report, averaged $3.6 billion in Canadian dollars over 2013 and 2014, including just over $2 billion a year from the federal government. “It is tantamount to G20 governments allowing fossil fuel producers to undermine national climate commitments, while paying them for the privilege,â€? says the report. Talk about tax treatment of oil and gas development, combined with pipeline policy, makes federal-provincial unanimity on climate policy devilishly difficult. On Thursday it was Treasury Board President Scott Brison who was left trying to thread the needle connecting resource extraction and climate action. “We’re all active as a government, and we will be considering what is the case in terms of what subsidies or approaches ‌â€? said Brison when asked about the fossil fuel subsidy phase-out. “But it’s clear our energy sector is an important sector and developing our energy – getting it to market in a way that is environmentally and economically sustainable – is absolutely key to our government’s agenda.â€?
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Turn Hans Island into a condominium: academics protrudes from the Kennedy Channel between Ellesmere Canadian Press Island and Greenland. Like a residential building rctic experts from Canada where control is shared among and Denmark are prothe people who live there, the posing a novel solution two countries could decide to to who controls an ice-bound co-manage Hans Island. speck of an island midway beThey could hand off day-totween the two countries. Turn Hans Island into a con- day management of the disputed land to Inuit from Nunavut dominium. and Greenland. Or they could “It would resolve a longstanding dispute that, although declare the whole thing a park, based on the model of the insignificant, has some small Waterton-Glacier International potential to cause friction in the future,� said Michael Byers, Peace Park linking Alberta and Montana. a University of British ColumThere are precedents. bia international law professor. France and Spain have On Thursday, Byers and a shared control over an island in Danish colleague are to presthe middle of the Bidasoa River ent a proposal suggesting that since 1659. Pheasant Island is Canada and Denmark share sovereignty over the 1.2-square- managed by municipalities on kilometre pimple of rock that both shores. Bob Weber
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The Liberals say the return of the long form census will save money. Will it? statements culminating in a ranking of accuracy on a scale of “no baloney� to “full of baloney.� This one receives a finding of “a little baloney� – it is largely accurate about the mandatory census costing less than the voluntary survey, but there are details missing that would help determine the actual savings figure.
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costs over a seven-year period that includes time to prepare, collect, analyze and distribute results. The final cost isn’t known until two years after census day when Statistics Canada releases the data for public consumption.
improve the data quality,â€? said Michael Wolfson, a former assistant chief statistician. “That kind of work will be much less necessary now that the long-form (census) is a mandatory part.â€? The questionnaire itself won’t change much: The questions The experts will be the same as those on the The government will save mon- voluntary survey, Norris said. The instructions up front will have ey because the mandatory survey The facts is less costly to administer than the to change to remind people the survey is now mandatory. In 2011, Statistics Canada sent voluntary version, experts say. But Statistics Canada could also out the national household survey “There are at least a couple incur costs to bring in the mandato one in every three homes to get of significant reasons why there tory form about seven months as high a response rate as possible. would be savingsâ€? Fellegi said. before Statistics Canada sends It was a voluntary survey meant to “I mean, not gobs of money, but Jordan Press out census forms on May 2, 2016. savings.â€? replace the mandatory long-form Canadian Press The savings start with the num- Right about now, Fellegi said, the census of the past. In 2006, the agency is ramping up its logistics ber of people hired to help with long-form census went to one in OTTAWA and hiring plans. Changing plans the census. For the 2016 census, five homes, complementing the “The voluntary process actually isn’t an easy task; the census is like Statistics Canada is hiring 1,400 shorter mandatory census that cost an additional $22 million. an ocean liner in that both take people for the data centre that went everywhere. (According to Making it mandatory will actutime to change course. the Huffington Post, the new long- processes responses. ally make it less expensive, (and) Statistics Canada needs all it will be on budget and on time.â€? form census will go to one in four The verdict those bodies to handle answers homes in 2016.) – Economic Development MinisThe return of the mandatory The government added $30 and followup with Canadians who ter Navdeep Bains million to the census budget to don’t fill in the form either because long-form census is likely to cause he Trudeau Liberals, in one some savings over at Statistics they didn’t want to, forgot to, or handle the extra administrative of their first acts in governCanada. Just how much is tough to costs that came with sending out a misplaced it. Doug Norris, who ment, brought back the say. For that reason, the statement spent nearly 30 years at Statistics long-form census. separate questionnaire. Statistics Bains proclaimed the decision of savings has “a little baloneyâ€? – Canada, said the agency will need Canada spent $22 million and wouldn’t cost taxpayers anything the statement is mostly accurate, fewer bodies with a mandatory returned $8 million to the federal more than what is already budget- treasury. That brought the total but more information would be survey going to fewer homes. ed for the 2016 census. Indeed, the cost for the 2011 census to about helpful to determine how much “Followup is extremely expenminister, who oversees Statistics the agency will save. sive,â€? Norris said. $652 million. Canada, said taxpayers are likely to There could also be wider Statistics Canada could also Some of that extra cost was save some cash with the return of economic benefits from the return because the Conservatives decided see some savings on the back end the mandatory, long-form census. so close to census day to go with a with statisticians inside the agency of the long-form census: Better Will Statistics Canada save quality data could reduce costs for having to spend less time supplevoluntary questionnaire. “Everymoney with the return of the man- thing had to be rejigged and so a municipalities and school boards, menting shaky data from the datory questionnaire? for instance, when it comes to good deal of the extra cost was due national household survey with Spoiler alert: The Canadian planning for future growth, said information from other data sets to that,â€? said Ivan Fellegi, who rePress Baloney Meter is a dispasKevin Milligan, an economist at such as income tax returns. That tired as Canada’s chief statistician sionate examination of political the University of British Columbia. quality assurance work is easier in 2008 after 23 years on the job. And Charles Beach, a retired Statistics Canada estimates the with the better response rates that economics professor at Queen’s total budget for the 2016 census come with a mandatory census. University, said that kind of data at about $700 million, but that is “The statisticians inside is worth it even if the 2016 census under the premise the voluntary Statistics Canada‌spend a huge Is your wood stove performing at its best?! ends up costing more than the survey was coming back. amount of time and effort doing 456-7295 www.YukonChimneySweep.com 2011 version. Statistics Canada spreads the their best to figure out ways to
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Bad move for Canada? TPP’s rules on intellectual property pulled into spotlight significant because they would govern the increasingly important innovation share of Canada’s economy. OTTAWA “What we’re fundamentally oncerns voiced by Jim talking about is establishing the Balsillie over the massive rules of the road for virtually all Trans-Pacific Partnership Canadian business, for the Canatreaty have intensified scrutiny dian economy and for much of of the pact’s intellectual-property the global economy for years and provisions – and whether they repdecades to come,� said Geist, who resent a bad deal for Canada. holds the Canada Research Chair The former co-chief executive in Internet and E-commerce Law of Research in Motion fired off at the University of Ottawa. warnings this week about the final “Those who set the rules for text of the 12-country agreement, a those industries put themselves deal reached after years of mostly at a competitive advantage and in secret negotiations. this instance it’s quite clearly the Balsillie’s TPP criticisms zeroed United States.� in on intellectual-property rules With a new federal government that he says would favour the now in charge, Balisllie’s assessmore-dominant United States and ment comes at a critical time for its companies that already own Canada’s future in the TPP, a wideideas. These conditions, he added, ranging pact expected to benefit would harm emerging entrepreother Canadian sectors – from neurs in the business of innovaagriculture to auto parts. tion from smaller countries like The Trudeau government is Canada. reviewing the deal as it determines Over time, he believes the stan- whether to support an agreement dards could cost Canada billions negotiated –and committed to – by of dollars in lost prosperity in the their Conservative predecessors. growing innovation segment of the Copyright expert Ariel Katz said economy – which, he argues, could American influence in the intelmake signing the deal Canada’s lectual property system would give worst-ever policy decision. U.S. companies an edge because Balsillie is not alone in his net exporters of technologies concern. would generate cash from everyA week after the text’s release to one else. the public, more and more experts In addition, Katz said those have pored over its fine print – and costs and the protected ideas some have found problematic themselves would make it more elements rolled into the deal’s difficult for other companies, such chapter on intellectual property. as Canadian firms, to develop their Michael Geist, a law profesown technologies. sor who specializes in intellecKatz, an associate law profestual property, agrees the TPP’s sor, also warned that ratifying the copyright provisions could prove TPP would lock Canada into a deal costly for Canadian companies, that could not be modified, even if particularly when it comes to lost issues surface down the road. opportunities. “Why would anyone in his right Geist called the treaty’s intellec- mind want to do that?� said Katz, tual-property standards a “failure� who holds the Innovation Chair and said their impact could be in Electronic Commerce at the Andy Blatchford Canadian Press
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University of Toronto. On top of that, he said the investor state dispute mechanisms in the TPP would essentially give foreign companies the right to proceed with lawsuits against the federal government in foreign courts, even if the Supreme Court of Canada rules against them. But not everyone agrees that TPP would present significant problems for intellectual property in Canada. “Generally speaking, I don’t think that the TPP requires us to do very much that we’re not already doing,� said Nathaniel Lipkus, an intellectual-property lawyer with Osler in Toronto. “We couldn’t identify anything that was unambiguously good or bad about it.� Lipkus said the pact would level the playing field when it comes to intellectual property, which could encourage foreign companies to do business in Canada, where the rules would become more familiar to them. He said there will be winners and losers, but he believes success will hinge more on how firms run their businesses rather than whether new intellectual-property rules were in their favour. The fingerprints of some madein-Canada policies are also evident in the chapter on intellectual property, Lipkus added. Several of the experts noted that the treaty would continue to allow Canada to keep its policy that permits copyright holders to notify people who infringe on their rights by contacting them through their Internet service provider.
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But Geist added that many intellectual-property policy decisions made in Canada, following agonizing years of public processes, would be changed by ratifying TPP. “When you agree to rules that haven’t been rules that reflected your own domestic debate and policy development, often times you put yourself at a disadvantage,â€? Geist said. “I think it represents a real failure ‌ It’s a failure for the future.â€? The new Liberal government has yet to say whether it will support TPP in its current form or whether it’s prepared to walk away from it. International Trade Minister
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B.C. documents on Highway of Tears open wounds as missing women inquiry looms Highways 97 and 5 since the 1970s. Most cases remain Canadian Press unsolved, though investigators don’t believe a single killer is VICTORIA responsible. he small British Columbia The sorrow deepened recently Cheslatta Carrier Nation has with a damning report over a decades-long anguished reladeleted Transportation Ministry tionship with Highway 16, or the emails about the highway and its so-called Highway of Tears. missing. Five people from the commuTransportation Minister Todd nity of less than 350 near Burns Stone has insisted that locals Lake in central B.C. have disapdon’t want a bus service, but peared along the route, includrecently released documents ing an entire family of four, says highlight the concerns of loChief Corrina Leween. cal officials and contradict the At least 18 women went minister. missing or were murdered along The controversy could be swept up in a call by the fedHighway 16 and the adjacent Dirk Meissner
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eral Liberal government for an inquiry into Canada’s murdered and missing women. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau promised the inquiry during the election campaign. “I would expect that because a number of women have gone missing, and or have been known to have been murdered along Highway 16, that Highway 16 will figure in the national inquiry,� said Stone. “Our government has been on the record for quite some time in supporting a national inquiry.� B.C.’s Attorney General Suzanne Anton said she also expects an inquiry would focus
on the highway. “I’m not trying to secondguess the federal inquiry, but there probably will be an aspect about the north all across the country,� she said. An RCMP report last year stated nearly 1,200 aboriginal women were murdered or went missing between 1980 and 2012. Highway 16 stretches more than 700 kilometres between Prince George and Prince Rupert. It follows rivers and mountains and connects remote communities. Its route is dark, lonely and blood stained. “Within (our) community, we have had an entire family that went missing, the Jack family,� said Leween. “One of our elders is missing.� Casimel Jack, 70, was last seen a decade ago, walking along a road that connects to Highway 16 south of Burns Lake. He was hunting and carrying a rifle when he disappeared Sept. 18, 2005. Ronald Jack, his wife, Doreen, and their two sons, Russell, 9, and Ryan, 4, vanished Aug. 1, 1989. The last anybody heard from the family was when Ronald called a family member from a Prince George pub to say he and his wife found jobs. “They just simply disappeared. Mom, dad and the two boys,� Leween said. She said successive B.C. governments have refused to move on First Nations’ requests to provide a regional transportation network. Leween described government consultations attempts as sophisticated stalling tactics. “I, as a leader, don’t feel the government is doing enough to addresses the issue,� she said. Leween rejected Stone’s claim that leaders across the north agree a large-scale transit service won’t work.
“It’s absolutely untrue,� she said. “The bus is desperately needed in our area. I go to Prince George quite often to meetings and I see the young women hitchhiking on that highway. It’s needed.� Stone said the government is looking to develop shorter transportation connections between communities, but a region-wide transportation service is not workable. “It’s difficult for many folks to comprehend, myself included, how a scheduled shuttle bus service across an 800 kilometre stretch of highway that’s very sparsely populated would meet the needs of people who live along the highway.� Stone said his ministry is holding a transportation symposium in Smithers Nov. 24 to discuss practical, affordable and sustainable solutions for communities along Highway 16. Opposition New Democrat Jennifer Rice, whose North Coast riding includes a section of Highway 16, said she has not been invited to the symposium but plans to attend. “I’ve been here (in Victoria) two years, and I’ve been asking this question numerous times around improving the transportation and safety along Highway 16, and I’ve been shrugged off and told basically to move on and get a new idea,� she said. Rice said two years ago when she accidentally locked herself out of her car on a stretch of the highway she felt the chill of being alone in the middle of nowhere. “I was in a pull out, and I had no cell service and I was the only one there,� she said. “I had just come back from Victoria and I had been asking questions about the Highway of Tears. Then this happened to me. I felt extremely vulnerable.�
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As Liberals decide how to bring 25,000 Syrians to Canada, the choice is also who where the cases are processed individually, this program will likely Canadian Press involving the batching together of groups and the simplification of OTTAWA paperwork. For example, the Caomewhere right now, in a nadian government could accept refugee camp in Amman that no one under 18 is likely a or a rental apartment in major security risk and lessen the Beirut or on a street in Istanbul, requirement to conduct detailed sits a Syrian hoping to be among reviews of those files. the 25,000 people resettled to The focus is on choosing refuCanada, possibly by the end of gees from Jordan, Lebanon and the year. Turkey. United Nations staff working In Jordan, there are 629,152 with the Canadian government registered Syrians, the majority to figure out who will be on the of whom do not live in refugee planes or ships dispatched to the camps. The population is roughly region in the coming weeks say split 50-50 between male and they are trying to keep expectafemale and more than half are tions realistic. under the age of 18. About 30 per “Rumours are already going cent of the population is identiin the refugee populations that fied as having a specific need that there’s a large program, that Cawould make them eligible for nadians are coming,� said Furio resettlement. De Angelis, the Canadian repreIn Lebanon, there are around sentative of the UN High Com1.1 million registered Syrians missioner for Refugees. and though the government “We have to explain, present it has no official camps for them, as it is, an extraordinary effort but some have crowded into camps not everyone is eligible.� originally set up for Palestinians. The UN refugee agency, tasked There are at least 1,500 children, with overseeing what’s been nearly three-quarters of them Syrcalled the greatest refugee crisis ian, begging or working as street since the Second World War – is vendors, according to the UN. actually very specific when it In Turkey, there are 2.1 million comes to selecting people for registered Syrians, again split resettlement. roughly 50-50 between male Their cases are assessed and female and about a third against a number of categories, are children. Two-thirds of the including whether they’re in imyoungsters aren’t in school, acmediate physical danger, are surcording to one recent study by vivors of violence or torture, have Human Rights Watch. Alan Kurdi, medical needs or are a woman, the child whose family had conchild or adolescent at risk. sidered trying to reach Canada as Those categories are applied they fled from Syria, died instead against a person’s current situatrying to reach Turkey. tion, not the one they left. So, for Altogether, there are 4.2 milexample, a female refugee from lion people registered as refugees Syrian being detained in Lebanon from the Syrian conflict, and the and who is therefore at risk of beUnited Nations wants to resettle ing deported, could be a case that about a third. lands on a Canadian visa officer’s While the Liberal plan is desk. focused on the logistics of how to But unlike usual procedures, Stephanie Levitz
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With Keystone snub, Obama aims to lockdown climate legacy, up leverage in global climate talks Josh Lederman Associated Press
WASHINGTON or years, President Barack Obama chided Republicans and Democrats alike for treating the Keystone XL pipeline as a signal of whether the U.S. would seriously fight global warming. Now that he’s killed the project, Obama is holding it up as Exhibit A as he works to lock in his environmental legacy with a powerful international climate accord. Rejecting Keystone, the proposed 1,179-mile crude oil pipeline from Canada to the U.S., was the latest in a long and growing list of steps Obama has taken to try to show that the U.S. is leading the effort against global warming. Even while Republicans have fought Obama tooth-and-nail at home, he’s sought to use those steps to pressure other countries into taking similar action – especially poorer, developing countries that for years have argued that climate change is not their problem. At the centre of Obama’s efforts are landmark carbon dioxide emissions limits on U.S. power plants that have been cheered by environmentalists
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but derided by most energy advocates. Although the rules are proceeding for the time being, they face an uncertain future. Half of the states in the U.S. are suing to try to block them. “There has been a steady drumbeat of steps the president has taken that are more impactful for climate change, factually, than Keystone,” said White House communications director Jen Psaki. “Our view is that we need to continue to lead by example. Is that difficult? Yes, of course it is.” If the power plant rules falter, Obama would be hardpressed to secure the 26 per cent to 28 per cent cut in U.S. emissions that he’s pledged as America’s commitment to the climate treaty. If the U.S. comes up short, analysts predict, other countries like China will start backing out. Obama is counting on the climate treaty, to be finalized early next month in Paris, to vault him into a category of his own: the first president to treat climate change as a top-tier issue, and the first to secure the type of commitments from other countries needed to address the problem significantly. To that end, Obama’s many executive steps to reduce
greenhouse gases have been designed in part to maximize his leverage when he negotiates overseas. Aside from the power plant rules, Obama has ramped up fuel efficiency standards for cars and trucks, taking aim at one of the biggest sources of greenhouse gases. His administration has also moved to curb emissions from methane, hydrofluorocarbons and other pollutants while providing more federal dollars for renewable energy sources like wind, hydro and solar. And in the run-up to Paris, Obama struck major climate deals with China, hoping that a commitment by the world’s largest polluter to cut emissions would make it impossible for other developing nations like India and Brazil to beg off from making commitments of their own. China, which is still building coal plants to fuel growing power consumption, plans to max out its carbon emissions around 2030, if not sooner. “To fight climate change effectively, we will need to make thousands of changes across our economy,” Michael Brune, the head of the Sierra Club, said in an interview. “We have gone through a period of increased climate denial, but now we’re in a place of dramatically in-
creased acceptance of the need to act on climate.” World leaders have been working for years to hash out what they hope will be the most sweeping and powerful pact ever reached on global warming. Although the initial deal will include pledges by countries that extend through 2030, negotiators are wrangling over mechanisms to ensure countries revisit and ramp up their commitments for the rest of the century. Yet while prospects for finishing a deal in Paris are high, already there are growing doubts about whether the pact will go far enough to avert the worst effects of climate change, and concerns about its durability. Facing bleak prospects for getting a Republican-controlled Congress to ratify a climate treaty, Obama is pursuing a deal that won’t require formal congressional sign-off, a strategy that reflects the challenges many other world leaders face in securing domestic support for tough action on climate. In rejecting TransCanada’s application for Keystone, Obama set aside the litmus test he established in 2013 when he unveiled his second-term climate change agenda with plenty of pomp. Wiping sweat from his brow under the sum-
mer sun at Georgetown University, Obama said he’d block the pipeline if it would “significantly exacerbate the problem of carbon pollution.” It wouldn’t, Obama’s administration concluded, but he nixed it anyway. Casting forward to global climate talks, Obama suggested he’d have less credibility if he approved Keystone – not because it would hasten climate change, but because that’s what people think. In documents, his administration cited the “broad perception” that Keystone would carry “dirty” oil. “America is now a global leader when it comes to taking serious action to fight climate change,” Obama said in the Roosevelt Room. “And frankly, approving this project would have undercut that global leadership.” Yet Obama’s ambitious steps to curb U.S. emissions have been tempered by other moves aimed at bolstering U.S. energy production – to the dismay of environmentalists who believe the U.S. must move quicker to phase out fossil fuels entirely. In addition to loosening the U.S. ban on crude oil exports, Obama has opened up new areas to oil drilling and declined to ban the use of “fracking” to drill for natural gas.
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Shell’s embrace of carbon capture reects need to remain competitive: CEO McCuaig-Boyd was another VIP CO2 rather than emit.â€? turning the yellow wheel at the He isn’t banking on the Paris Canadian Press Quest opening. She spoke posidiscussions resulting in a global FORT SASKATCHEWAN, ALTA. carbon price that high right off the tively about the technology after the event, but said government bat, but he hopes it’s something en van Beurden would be support for future projects is not that can be built up to eventually. the first to admit carbon in the cards for now. Quest is among the 15 carbon capture and storage is not “I think right now we have capture and storage projects the most alluring technology to other challenges with our budget operating worldwide. Two are look at. to get back on track and I think in Canada: Quest and one at the But the CEO of European it’s prudent to wait for the climate Boundary Dam power plant in energy giant Royal Dutch Shell wants CCS – unsexy though may change plan before we make Saskatchewan, which has had a be in the public’s eye –to come commitments,â€? she said, referrocky startup. as readily to mind when thinking As part of its government fund- ring to the expert panel weighing about combating climate change ing agreements, Shell is sharing its Alberta’s overall climate strategy. as windmills would. The Quest deal was made by know-how from Quest publicly in Van Beurden was among the Alberta’s previous Progressive the hopes similar projects get off dignitaries to crank a big yelConservative government. The the ground. low valve at Shell’s oil processing NDP is honouring that contract, Alberta Energy Minister Marg complex in Fort Saskatchewan northeast of Edmonton last week, officially opening its $1.35-billion Quest project – helped by $745 million from the Alberta government and $120 million from Ottawa. Quest – a dizzying labyrinth For all Teslin Tlingit Council citizens of tubes and pipes – is attached attending a winter semester to the Shell’s Scotford upgrader, at a recognized post secondary institution: where oilsands bitumen from its Applications for student ďŹ nancial assistance will be accepted mine some 500 kilometres north up to 5:00 PM on November 15, 2015. Any late applications is transformed into refinery-ready will be deferred to the next intake date in May 2016. crude. Please email, mail or fax your application to: The aim of the project is to capAttention: Community Skills Development OfďŹ cer ture more than a million tonnes Box 133, Teslin, Yukon Y0A 1B0 of carbon dioxide annually that would otherwise escape into the Phone: 867-390-2532 ext. 318 | Fax: 867-390-2176 atmosphere – about a third of the marie.davies@ttc-teslin.com upgrader’s total emissions – and store it more than two kilometres underground. “It’s not a very visually stimulating technology,â€? van Beurden said. “Everyone can sort of look at a windmill or solar panel and immediately associate that with nature providing us with energy.â€? But as Shell sees it, CCS is Developing Cultural Tourism in First Nations Communities crucial in ensuring the oilsands remain competitive in an increasingly climate-conscious world. ! &$ !# ! # !# & $ )" # Van Beurden said renewables have their place, but given the globe’s population growth trajectory in the coming decades, phasing out fossil fuels entirely is not realistic. That’s where CCS comes in, he said. “We know that oilsands are more carbon intensive than Friday, November 20th your average oil project in North America and that gap that exists 6:30 PM is going to be significantly closed Kwanlin DĂźn by a project like Quest,â€? said van Cultural Centre Beurden, adding various efficiency measures will also do much of $75 the heavy lifting. Though projects like Quest have their societal benefits, they aren’t necessarily commercially Menu created by celebrity Gwitch’in chef, Rich Francis viable without some sort of out " !# " # ! # & "! side incentive, said van Beurden. Straight-up government funding, %&# ( " # $ & ! like what Quest received, is one
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Regulate prying eyes in sky, privacy czar tells federal drone panel has launched 50 investigations, the notice adds. Canadian Press The privacy commissioner expressed concern two years ago OTTAWA that drones – some as small as birds he federal government or insects – could evade Canadian should consider restricting privacy law as people begin using the use of small camerathe increasingly affordable aircraft equipped drones near “sensitive to spy on others. and protected” areas such as resiDrones can be outfitted with dential neighbourhoods, schoolhigh-powered zoom lenses, nightyards and prisons, says the federal vision or infrared-imaging sysprivacy czar. tems, and video software that can In a submission to Transport recognize specific people, events Canada, the office of privacy commissioner Daniel Therrien also calls or objects and flag movements or changes in routine. for some means to “readily idenThese features demand an tify” operators of the flying devices, emphasis on personal protection in given their powerful surveillance regulations and licensing stancapabilities. Next year the government plans dards, the commissioner’s office says in its submission to the advito introduce regulatory requiresory council. “We believe strong ments for small drones – weighing technical safeguards and operating 25 kilograms or less – operated procedures need to acknowledge within visual line of sight. privacy risks quite plainly.” A notice published by the fedUnmanned aerial vehicles are eral Canadian Aviation Regulations used for a wide range of governAdvisory Council says the coming regulations will build on the regime ment-related and commercial applications including agricultural already in place for larger drones, surveys, cinematography, police or unmanned aerial vehicles investigations, meteorology, and (UAVs). search and rescue. A growing number of people The privacy commissioner says are flying aircraft that have no pilot and can be controlled using a while federal officials have already flagged difficulties with flying too smartphone or tablet – a “new and rapidly evolving industry” that cre- close to airports for safety reasons, ates regulatory challenges for safety advisory council members should also give thought to privacy conand privacy, the notice points out. There have been several reports cerns. “Residential areas, schoolyards of reckless and negligent drone use and, since 2010, Transport Canada and shelters, hospitals and prisons, Jim Bronskill
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Federal security officials eye ‘big data analytics’ in a bid to pinpoint threats information – to glean insights Jim Bronskill that can’t be detected through Canadian Press standard methods. Given the pace of technologiOTTAWA cal advancement and the expoederal security agencies nential increase in the amount risk being overwhelmed of data produced worldwide, by threats – or failing to there may be opportunities to even foresee them – unless they do things more efficiently and embrace the digital-age pheidentify patterns through innovanomenon of big-data crunching, tive techniques, the presentation warns an internal Public Safety says. Canada presentation. “In other words, once we have With billions of people using the information, how can we mobile phones and surfing the ensure that we are in a position Internet, security officials are to use it effectively?” preoccupied with getting timely The May 2015 presentation, access to valuable information. Big Data Analytics in the World of But the recent past is littered with Safety and Security, was prechallenges related to information pared for Public Safety Canada’s sharing and privacy – including internal policy committee. controversy over the ConservaThe Canadian Press obtained a tive omnibus bill known as C-51, declassified version of the secret the presentation notes. draft presentation under the Officials acknowledge the Access to Information Act. Small public might not trust governportions were withheld due to ment to respect privacy in the their sensitivity. process, pointing to revelations The presenters cite examples by former U.S. spy contractor Ed- of using big data analysis to creward Snowden about widespread ate efficiencies, find a needle in surveillance of communications. a haystack and fill data gaps. For “Canadians are increasingly instance: concerned about issues of crime – Philadelphia police mined and terrorism, but in the postdata to predict a parolee’s risk Snowden era, public concerns of reoffending to determine the about government data use may necessary level of supervision; stand as a barrier to the effective – U.S. researchers found that a use of innovative data analytics genetic variant related to schizoby law enforcement and security phrenia was not detectable when organizations,” the presentation reviewing 3,500 cases but were says. able to pinpoint a trend by lookBig data analytics generally ing at 35,000 cases; refers to the process of gather– In Guatemala, a pilot project ing and systematically sifting revealed how mobile phone through millions or even billions movement patterns could be of pieces of data – numbers, used to predict socioeconomic status. text, graphics, videos and sensor
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THE ARTS Yukon artist brings stained glass to life with new exhibit ‘There are subtleties, shadows and translucencies. It could be the clouds or the evening light at 5 p.m., or walking in a forest with a white background and the dark trees against a glowing sky.’
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Ornaments, dubbed “Mini Light and Line” by Baker, hang in the gallery.
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Jeanine Baker holds one of her pieces that will be displayed in her newest show, Light and Line, at the Yukon Artists at Work gallery. The show opens this evening and runs until Nov. 25. Myles Dolphin News Reporter
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he German city of Mainz was a target of multiple Allied bombings during the Second World War, when over 30 air raids destroyed more than 80 per cent of the city’s centre. What followed after the war was a collective effort to restore many of the churches and cathedrals that had been damaged
around the city. Johannes Schreiter, a famous German architectural glass artist, was among those who took part in restoring the windows to those historic buildings, including the 1,000-year-old Roman Catholic cathedral in Mainz. Yukon artist Jeanine Baker’s new show, Light and Line, was inspired in large part by Schreiter’s work. The show will feature close to
20 pieces of fused and stained glass, as well as several felted wool works. Baker said she’s admired Schreiter’s work for years. “After the Second World War the Germans developed a very modern approach to stained glass art to rebuild church windows,” she said. “They created beautiful, abstract windows that are pretty fantastic. I haven’t been to Ger-
many yet, but when I get there I’ll visit those historic buildings.” She will also have a book about Schreiter’s work on display at the show so visitors can see the inspiration she drew from him, she said. Baker works out of her studio near Mount Sima, where she takes regular walks along the TransCanada Trail to soak in the territory’s colours throughout the seasons. One of her favourite thinking spots is a bench by a little lake that is right across the road. “There are subtleties, shadows and translucencies,” she said. “It could be the clouds or the evening light at 5 p.m., or walking in a forest with a white background and the dark trees against a glowing sky.” One piece of fused glass, called Dawn, features bright yellow, dark blue and red with copper inclusions. Before creating new artwork Baker first determines the size and shape of each piece of glass. Then, she creates a drawing and cuts the glass to fit the shapes using a cutter, running pliers and a diamond router. She lightly glues them to a base sheet of clear glass, which goes into a kiln at 1,480 degrees Fahrenheit for 10 minutes. That fuses the glass together, creating a flat, smooth surface on which Baker can paint before a second fusing takes place. For this show she’s using a display method called stand-off, which uses brackets and fasteners along with a strong adhesive to display the art about an inch away from the wall. The wool felts were created outdoors in the company of a
friend. They made a campfire, boiled some water and started the process. Applying warm, soapy water to layers of wool, coupled with repeated agitation, causes the fibres to form into a single piece of fabric. Instead of making the canvas out of glass this time, she wet felted the base out of wool. After the pieces were all dry, she went back in with dry needle felting and completed the line work on them. The lines found in her artwork represent a place of refuge, she said. “Once you set your course, you’re spending time seeing where the patterns take you. You can start with a sweeping line and make it thicker or thinner, it’s almost like music.” She said she’s excited about the opening of Lumel Studios, the Yukon’s first glassblowing studio, later this year. Luann and Mel Johnson are working on the construction of the building, which is located near the Kwanlin Dun Cultural Centre. Although Baker doesn’t work with hot glass – she works with warm and cold – she said she’s become good friends with Luann since the beginning of the project. “She accuses me of getting her a little bit excited about fused glass,” Baker said with a laugh. Baker’s show opens with a reception this evening from 5 to 8 p.m. at the Yukon Artists @ Work Gallery and runs until Nov. 25. Contact Myles Dolphin at myles@yukon-news.com
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Old Faithful: book turns loving lens on elderly pooches Thorne packed up his gear and hit the road to photograph older Canadian Press pooches in Vancouver, Winnipeg, Halifax, Ottawa and Montreal, as TORONTO well as dogs and their owners who fter photographing his came to Canada from Seattle and grandmother for her 100th Maine for shoots. birthday, Pete Thorne was The book features 75 portraits inspired to explore the idea of of dogs from a variety of breeds, aging by turning the lens on other backgrounds and ages, encomsenior subjects – albeit of the fourpassing everything from diminulegged variety. tive miniature pinschers to a fawn The Toronto-based photogGreat Dane. rapher started putting up postThorne wanted to illustrate ers around the city, in veterinary telltale signs of dogs growing clinics and pet stores to find elderly older – white eyebrows, chipped dogs and their owners. and missing teeth and foggy eyes Thorne says he was “blown – which he says, in a way, mirrors awayâ€? by the number of responses the aging process experienced by he received, and what was intendhumans. ed as a visual project took on even Adding to the emotional heft of greater significance. the images are the loving anec“People started sending me indotes shared by owners. credible testimonials when they’d Lisa Evans shares the story of contact me trying to convince me Sam, her 17-year-old chihuahua, to photograph their dog,â€? says who was rescued from a puppy Thorne, a native of The Pas, Man. mill and had been in poor health. “I really didn’t need all that Expected to live for just three much more encouragement. ‌ months, Evans still took the dog But when I read these testimonials, deemed “unadoptableâ€? into her I realized that photographing the home, and he has far exceeded his dogs was one thing, but these stolife expectancy. ries were incredible, and I needed a “It’ve been five years now, and way to put the two together.â€? he is the most lovable old man Thorne created a Facebook imaginable,â€? she writes. “A mothpage as a way for individuals to see er’s love can heal all, but I think images of and read stories about Sam did some healing on me.â€? the dogs. The project has since While owners recount tales of evolved from digital to print with pet illness and death, the unyieldthe release of his new book Old ing affection they have for their Faithful. furry friends reverberates throughLauren La Rose
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Manitoba graphic novel to raise proďŹ le of missing, murdered indigenous women of The Pas, Man., in November 1971. Later that night, she was stabbed to death with a screwWINNIPEG driver dozens of times. It would take 15 years before ore than four decades before 15-year-old Tina murder charges were laid. An inquiry determined that racism, Fontaine’s body was pulled from Winnipeg’s Red River sexism and indifference in the community marred the police wrapped in a bag, the country investigation from the beginning. was shocked by the death of Her brutal murder 44 years another aboriginal teenager in ago, and the long road to justice, Manitoba. are the subject of The Life of Her name was Helen Betty Helen Betty Osborne – a recent Osborne. The 19-year-old was abducted graphic novel aimed at educatas she walked down the streets ing the next generation about Chinta Puxley Canadian Press
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tics on the file begin in 1980. Although indigenous women make up 4.3 per cent of the Canadian population, RCMP say they account for 16 per cent of female homicides and 11.3 per cent of missing women. Writing one woman’s story in a graphic novel was a way to bring the issue to a broader – and younger – audience, Robertson said. “Through her story, we can learn about the residential school system,� said Robertson, whose father was from Osborne’s reserve. “We can learn about missing and murdered indigenous women. We can learn about racism, segregation, the justice system’s treatment of aboriginal people.� Osborne was from Norway House First Nation but had to leave her community to attend school if she wanted to continue her education. She struggled with school in The Pas, but was determined to become a teacher so other children would not have to leave the reserve, Robertson said. Osborne spent the night of Nov. 13, 1971, with friends and was walking home alone when she was accosted by four white men who had been drinking. “There was a practice around that time where young men would cruise around looking for indigenous women, because of the preconception of them being easy and that they liked to drink and party,� Robertson said. When Osborne said no, she was forced into a car. She was
driven to a cabin where her screams were heard by neighbours. The men took her to a remote pumphouse where she was stripped, beaten and stabbed. Her body was found the next day by a boy following rabbit tracks in the snow. Police were unable to gather sufficient evidence against the four men and the case stalled. It was picked up again in 1983 by a constable and one of the four men, Dwayne Archie Johnston, was eventually convicted of murder. The book has drawn praise from Canadian author Joseph Boyden, who writes about First Nations heritage and culture. He called it “one of the most powerful graphic novels I’ve ever read.� Justice Murray Sinclair, who co-led an aboriginal justice inquiry in Manitoba after Osborne’s death, is also impressed. “It’s a story of racism and it’s a story of community coverup,� Sinclair said. “It’s also a story about how the community in the North has come to terms with its own history around this.� Writing the novel, which is plotted out much like a screenplay, was emotional but vital to help raise awareness, Robertson said. “I hope that people who read it are as affected, as I was, writing it. “In the indigenous culture, women are so important and revered. When we lose one, we lose generations. The loss is profound. The movement for change needs to be equally profound.�
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Judicial council reviews Alberta judge after comments in sexual assault case to fight off her attacker sounded won’t hear any cases involving like “a very ineffectual attempt.â€? sexual conduct during the invesCanadian Press He suggested “sex and pain tigation. sometimes go together – that’s not Camp is also taking gender OTTAWA necessarily a bad thingâ€? although sensitivity training on his own Federal Court justice who he later conceded her pain was time and at his own expense and once asked a sexual assault not enjoyable. has released a statement, apolovictim why she couldn’t He referred to the woman as gizing both to the victim and to all keep her knees together is under “the accusedâ€? throughout the women who might hesitate before review by the Canadian Judicial trial. reporting a sexual assault. Council. Woolley said a complaint to the “To the extent that what I have The council announced on council was necessary because of said discourages any person from Monday it will review a 2014 decithe discretion the Canadian legal reporting abuse, or from testifying sion made by Robin Camp when system allows its judges. about it, I am truly sorry,â€? he said. he was a provincial court judge in “There’s a relationship of trust “I will do all in my power to learn Alberta. between Canadian society and the from this and to never repeat “I’m very pleased that the judiciary,â€? she said. “We depend those mistakes.â€? judicial council is looking at it,â€? on them to take that indepenWoolley suggests Camp still said Alice Woolley, a University of dence and use it wisely and well. doesn’t get it. Calgary law professor and one of “But sometimes a judge does “Given one of the issues here is three legal academics who filed something that violates the public his unwillingness to apply the law, the complaint. trust ‌ and this is that kind of I am concerned about the extent “I hope that they will look at all case.â€? to which the statement frames of the issues raised by his deciThe complaint asks the council this as an issue of gender sensitivsion – not only his treatment of to consider removing Camp from ity. the complainant, which was truly the bench. “His apology is directed toward appalling, but also his disregard A statement from Federal women, but the fair administrafor the law.â€? Court, to which Camp was aption of justice is a concern for In June 2014, Camp acquitted a pointed last June, says the judge every Canadian.â€? man of sexual assault of a 19-yearold woman after deciding that the accused man’s version of the events was more credible. Camp’s verdict was overturned on appeal and a new trial ordered. But Woolley and her colleagues, Elaine Craig and Jocelyn Downie from Dalhousie University, accuse Camp of relying on “mythsâ€? long discarded in Canadian law, among which is that a woman cannot be raped against her will. “Why couldn’t you just keep your knees togetherâ€?? Camp is quoted as saying in the court TO BOOK YOUR DATE! transcript. WE’RE AT 211 HANSON STREET He questioned the woman’s morals and called her “unsavoury.â€? He suggested her attempts Bob Weber
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THE THEMES: . Governance — the planning context . Planning for Change and Sustainability — how do we conserve what we value in a time of change? . The Future of Northern Planning — new plans for the “New North� . Planning Methods in the North — planning approaches and techniques for northern plans KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Professor Laurence C. Smith, author of The New North: The World in 2050 will be addressing delegates at the conference speaking to some of the 'megatrends' coming to the North. CALL FOR PAPERS: We are accepting 250 word abstracts for conference presentations responding to themes of the conference until November 15th. We will also be accepting posters.
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Additional oversight needed for aboriginal corrections: Howard Sapers ing recommendations from his office, including a call to create Canadian Press a deputy commissioner of abOTTAWA original corrections. Howard Sapers, the correche country’s prison watchtional investigator, says outdog wants the new Liberal government to act on outstand- comes for indigenous inmates – Kristy Kirkup
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who represent 24 per cent of the prison population – continue to be far worse than for other offenders. Sapers says issues facing aboriginal inmates, including more time spent in custody and
segregation cells, are urgent enough that they require standalone leadership within the Correctional Service of Canada. “On just about every measure we look at, there are huge gaps and we believe it’s time that somebody was accountable to address those gaps,” Sapers said. “We think that leadership needs to be put in place.” He also said the government should address aboriginalspecific provisions in the Corrections and Conditional Release Act designed to enhance community involvement in corrections and address the overrepresentation of aboriginals behind bars. “We reported that the will of Parliament has not been fully reflected in how the Correctional Service of Canada has conducted itself over the last 20 years,” he said. “In fact, not enough attention has been paid to implementing those sections.” The watchdog says, for example, there are no healing lodges operated by aboriginal communities in the North or in Ontario and British Columbia, where there are high concentrations of offenders. Among the 94 recommendations in the final report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission was a call for the creation of additional healing lodge spaces across the country. “We know that the platform of the Liberal party prior to the election included a full and robust response to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission,” he said. “That’s something we will
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be looking for.” Sapers noted his findings were not addressed by action from the former Conservative government. He recalled that his office released a 2013 report examining whether the correctional service was doing everything it should be doing, according to the law, to deal with ballooning rates of aboriginal incarceration. “It was tabled as a special report in Parliament, one of only two special reports my office has ever issued in its more than 40-year history,” Sapers said. “That, itself, is a signal that this was a very urgent and important matter. “It was tabled in Parliament by the minister of public safety as a special report calling for urgent action and really, it received anything but.” The report noted that close to one-in-four inmates in federal penitentiaries were of aboriginal ancestry, yet specific legislative provisions were chronically under-funded, under-utilized and unevenly applied by the correctional service. Sapers said the government’s overall response was business as usual, which was very disappointing and not at all responsive to the recommendations. The watchdog said he is hopeful other recommendations issued by his office on aboriginal incarceration, including calls for culturally appropriate programming and staff training, will be addressed as a complete package by the new government. Sapers said one of the difficulties has been a “lack of a coherent response.” “We don’t need any more piecemeal reform,” Sapers said. “We need to re-introduce some coherence into the system.”
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s the Last Post rang through the halls of the Canada Games Centre on Wednesday, heads bowed in silence for those who paid the ultimate sacrifice for their country. It was a solemn day of remembrance as around 2,000 filled the flexi-hall to witness veterans, cadets, rangers and Mounties participate in a ceremony to honour those who served. Dozens of wreaths circling the cenotaph served as a stark reminder of the cost of freedom. (Joel Krahn)
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with blankets, were painfully thin this year during the annual march past the soaring National War Memorial. The parade was filled out by slightly younger and slightly less grey peacekeeping veterans of the 1960s and 1970s in blue berets. It’s been like that for the last few years but was far more pronounced this chilly November morning. Many of the men who fought Hitler’s armies are in their mid90s. Ceremonies were also held in Montreal and Quebec City, where Premier Philippe Couillard said it might be difficult for younger generations to appreciate the importance of paying tribute to those who sacrificed their lives during the First and Second World Wars. Couillard, whose son is Canadian Forces soldier, drew a parallel between fighting Nazism and the current fight with Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant as a way of teaching a lesson to today’s youth about defending democratic values. “It’s known that humanity, sometimes, must acknowledge and respond to these threats, which are threats against democracy and our freedoms,” Couillard told reporters before a traditional ceremony at the Cross of Sacrifice, between the national assembly and the Plains of Abraham. The premier, who has openly supported Canada’s military involvement against ISIL, said this was central in the struggle against Nazism’s “absolutist regime” and “organized racism” aimed at destroying an entire community. The changing face of Remembrance Day and the shrinking personal connection doesn’t make it any less powerful, said many who attended Wednesday’s national ceremony.
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Ottawa resident Frank Organ and his daughter Emily joined a procession of thousands who left their poppies on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. War and sacrifice mean something different to the emerging generation and the threat of terrorism, like the Oct. 22, 2014 shooting death of Cpl. Nathan Cirillo at the memorial, give the day a fresh urgency, he suggested. “With everything that happened last year with the Cirillo thing, we thought it would be honourable to come up here and lay a wreath at the grave of the unknown soldier,” said Organ. He said he doesn’t believe people are losing their connection to Remembrance Day, in part, “because of Afghanistan and everything that’s been going on over there.” As the great bell in the nearby Peace Tower tolled 11, a solemn, two-minute silence enveloped the crowd around the memorial and the was only broken by the skirl of a piper and the crash of an artillery battery, which belted out a 21-gun salute. The first guns startled a toddler in the crowd to tears, but the thundering noise stopped moments later and she stared, wide-eyed as a pair of CF-18 jets snarled overhead in a flypast.
A chaplain recited a long list of battles, from Vimy Ridge to Afghanistan, saying the names of the dead must never be forgotten. Gov. Gen. David Johnston wore a naval officer’s uniform as he placed a wreath at the memorial. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau also laid a tribute. Johnston said he is deeply grateful for the sacrifices made by veterans. “These women and men risk their lives every day for ideals that we sometimes take for granted,” he said in a statement. “But some things are worth the risk. Our freedoms are worth struggling for. Peace is worth striving for. Family and community are worth sacrificing for.” In Vancouver, soldiers who committed suicide after facing the ravages of war were not forgotten. In reading the prayer of remembrance, Rev. Jim Short recalled those who died at home and abroad, but also singled out those who came home injured. “May we faithfully embrace the sacred task of care for those who have been wounded in war, in mind, body or spirit. And to especially embrace the loved ones of those who have taken their own lives in or after their military service.” It was the first Remembrance
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We’d also like to see government move ahead with commitments to low-carbon infrastructure, including investment in public transportation, renewable energy and climate adaptation, as well as employing natural systems to reduce impacts. Energy-efficiency standards for vehicles and buildings are also essential, as is a commitment to support the UN Green Climate Fund for developing nations. We and other organizations will offer suggestions on a range of issues. For us, these include species at risk and habitat protection, marine protected areas, environmental rights, natural capital evaluation and improved relations with indigenous peoples. We realize the new government faces numerous challenges and must deal with competing interests around falling oil prices, pipeline projects, missing and murdered aboriginal women, national security, international commitments regarding terrorism and more. It won’t be easy and they’ll have to hit the ground running. As leaders from Canada and the U.S. head to Paris with real commitments to address climate change, there’s hope for progress. This government seems open to engaging in conversations with Canadians from all walks of life and all parts of the country, and to accepting our global responsibilities. I wish them the best. Dr. David Suzuki is a scientist, broadcaster, author and co-founder of the David Suzuki Foundation. Written with contributions from David Suzuki Foundation Senior Editor Ian Hanington.
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Face of northern Alaska pitted by tundra fire Champagne Aishihik Trust Board Champagne and Aishihik First Nations (CAFN) is seeking Citizens to sit on the Champagne Aishihik Trust (CA Trust) for a term of three years.
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COMMON RADON ENTRY POINTS 1 Soil 2 Cracks in the floor and walls ls connected with the soil 3 Gaps around pipe fittings and support posts in the foundation 4 Floor drains & sump pits
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ight summers ago, a bolt of lightning struck a dry tundra hillside in northern Alaska. Fanned by a warm wind that curled over the Brooks Range, the Anaktuvuk River fire burned for three months, leaving a scar visible from the International Space Station. The charred area was larger than Cape Cod. While northern Alaska’s treeless terrain has not seen a repeat of the largest tundra fire in modern times, researchers have kept their eyes on the Anaktuvuk River site. They watched green plants return in great number. Zooming out a bit, they watched the smooth face of the landscape become pocked with thaw-pits. The development of what scientists call thermokarst happens often in the northern boreal forest after a fire vaporizes moss and other ground cover. In a new study, Ben Jones of the USGS Alaska Science Center looked at what happens when a big fire happens north of the tree line. He and his coauthors, including pilot and glaciologist Chris Larsen of the Geophysical Institute, compared LIDAR images to see how the roughness of the landscape increased since the fire. LIDAR is a laser system flown on a plane at about 3,000 feet elevation. The aircraft shoots laser light from its belly. A computer calculates the time it takes for the beam to return. With that information, people can draw a super accurate topo map. The scientists were intrigued by
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Tundra differences due to thawing in the Anaktuvuk River burn area, photos taken four years apart.
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Black-and-white landscapes made from LIDAR data that show the new texture of the Anaktuvuk River burn site due to thawing after the 2007 fire. These images show the contrast to an adjacent area that did not burn. The first image is from 2009, the second from 2014. such a map created for the Alaska Department of Transportation in 2009. Engineers wanted information before a possible road-building project from the Dalton Highway to Umiat. The scientists sponsored another LIDAR flight in 2014 and compared the results. With the two datasets, they saw how the face of the tundra changed after the fire. Thirty-four percent of the burned area they studied had sunk in some fashion. The Anaktuvuk River fire happened in a zone of continuous permafrost, country where you hit frozen ground wherever you sink a shovel. Permafrost is ground that has remained frozen for more than
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WHAT IS IT? Radon is a naturally occurring radioactive gas that comes from the ground and can collect in houses. WHAT’S WRONG WITH IT? Radon gas can break down into radioactive particles that can be inhaled and increase your risk of lung cancer. Your risk of cancer depends on several factors: the level of radon in your home, how long you are exposed and whether you smoke (exposure to radon and tobacco use together can significantly increase your risk of lung cancer). WHAT CAN I DO ABOUT RADON? 1. Inform yourself by visiting www.takeactiononradon.ca 2. Test your home 3. Contact a certified radon professional at www.c-nrpp.ca/find-a-professional
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two summers. Much of it is the legacy of a time when air temperatures were cooler than today and relentless cold soaked deep into the ground. Much of northern Alaska has a foundation of frozen ground hundreds of feet deep. The warm air of summer thaws the top foot of soil each year. Moss, grass and other ground cover keeps the heat from reaching deeper. But much of that insulation disappeared during the Anaktuvuk River fire, leaving frozen ground exposed to the air of short arctic summers. The landscape has reacted with yawning pits and webs of cracks across the tundra. Underground chunks of ice that were thousands of years old are now melting, and the Anaktuvuk River hills are rougher than they were before the fire. Why should anyone care? A road from the Dalton Highway to Umiat would cross the Anaktuvuk River fire swath. Gullies are appearing along the route as underground ice wedges as large as houses melt. The 2007 fire itself released half as much carbon in smoke as all other arctic plants worldwide sucked in that year. More carbon is being freed as permafrost thaws and ancient plants decompose after thousands of years frozen in time. Most of the dramatic landscape changes happened by 2011, four years after the fire. That’s when permafrost rich with ice began to thaw. Jones hopes to sponsor another LIDAR flight in 2017 to continue tracking changes caused by one lightning strike during a very dry northern summer. Since the late 1970s, the University of Alaska Fairbanks’ Geophysical Institute has provided this column free in cooperation with the UAF research community. Ned Rozell is a science writer for the Geophysical Institute.
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efore the discovery of the Klondike, the prospectors who wandered the hills and valleys of the Yukon River lived in a political vacuum. There were no police; the formal hand of the law had yet to reach this borderless country which had been inhabited by First Nations for millennia before the arrival of Europeans. There was no formal constitution, nor was there any formal body there to enforce one. Implementing the rules established in the camps of previous gold rushes, they managed their affairs under an anarchistic democracy familiarly called the “miners’ committee.� This method of governing was an informal method of establishing rules of conduct and resolving issues of conflict. At various times, it dealt with civil and criminal matters, and established mining procedures for each vicinity according to need. The first meeting of such a body occurred in the winter of 1882-83, at Fort Reliance, an early trading post 15 kilometres below the mouth of the Klondike River. There, rules governing the size of placer claims and water rights were established in case any discoveries were made, and Jack McQuesten, the trader who ran the post, was appointed recorder of claims. These meetings were egalitarian in nature. Every member who participated had a vote. If a man had a grievance, a meeting was convened to resolve it. A moderator was chosen to conduct the meeting. Both prosecutor and defence were chosen: each side had an opportunity to question and cross-examine the witnesses, and in the end, summations were given. A motion was put before the meeting, and it was passed or defeated. The sentence was carried out immediately. In serious cases, such as theft, the guilty party was banished immediately from the Yukon, which, meant serious hardship if the penalty was imposed during the winter months. The miners’ committee was widely respected – for a while. Even Judge Wickersham, the first judge on the American side of the boundary, commented on the speed and efficiency with which justice was dispensed. One decision of a miners’ committee, a case of self defence in Circle City, Alaska, where the accused was found not guilty, was even referred to Washington, and the decision was confirmed. This system of self-administered justice worked because of the small population it affected, and the homogeneity of the community. The miners were well
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The early Yukon prospectors lived in a political vacuum. They established thier own rules and resolved disputes in miners’ meetings. acquainted with each other, and the meetings stuck pretty much to business. In the winter of 1886-87, a miners’ committee found itself faced with the disposition of a serious crime, that of attempted murder. Jack Leslie was taken prisoner for attempting to kill the other members of his prospecting party, who brought him before a miners’ meeting at Arthur Harper’s tiny trading post at the mouth of the Stewart River. Leslie pleaded his case, claiming that his welfare was in jeopardy because threats of violence had been uttered against him. The majority of the committee tended to agree that his actions were justified, but, nevertheless decided that he should be banished from the community. Leslie was furnished a sled and a supply of provisions, and ordered to move up-river at least 250 kilometres, or risk being shot on sight. In later years, as the number of prospectors in the Yukon increased, miners’ meetings were often held in the local drinking establishment, and the justice administered gained a bad reputation. Take the case of French Joe. On a trip to Forty Mile, Joe was asked to deliver a small poke of gold for a miner of Fortymile Creek. He did so, but the recipient complained that he was owed an additional ounce, and demanded that French Joe produce it. Joe refused, of course, having delivered all that he was given, so a miners’ meeting was called in Bob English’s saloon. Eighty six men listened to the case, and then voted six to five in favor of French Joe supplying the additional ounce of gold. The remainder of the miners abstained from voting. In addition to paying the ounce of gold, Joe was charged 20 dollars for the use of the saloon, and had to buy drinks for everyone. The total amounted to over $100, a large penalty to pay for doing a favor for a stranger. As the century slipped away, a few white women trickled into the region. Joe Ladue, one of the original sourdoughs in the Yukon, asserted that “Nobody can get justice from a miners’ committee
when women were on one side.� Sergeant Brown of the North West Mounted Police witnessed such a meeting at Forty Mile in January of 1895. A meeting was called by a servant girl working for the manager of the North American Trading and Transportation Company that winter. The manager had contracted the woman to work for him for a period of one year. After a while, she began to take off in the evenings to meet her boyfriend. Her employer warned her to stop, and then fired her. At the meeting, it was resolved that the manager should pay her a full year’s wages, her boat fare back to the coast, and enough food to carry her over till her departure in the spring. The crowd was so worked up that the committee openly discussed blowing up the company safe in order to obtain the necessary funds. Sergeant Brown, the lone Mounted Policeman stationed there, counselled the manager to comply. The boyfriend benefited from the young servant’s windfall, which amounted to less than $600. Afterward, some of the older and more seasoned sourdoughs were embarrassed or even ashamed of their participation in the affair, and the abuse of the system. The trading company was not popular among some of the miners, but that did not justify the harsh and violent actions threatened by the miners. A full detachment of North West Mounted Police arrived in the summer of 1895, and a year later, overruled a miners’ meeting that was called on Glacier Creek, thereby establishing British law as the firm authority in the Yukon. But the miners had one last meeting that later became quite significant. On August 22, 1896, 25 of them met on a hillside overlooking Rabbit Creek, one and a half miles below George Carmack’s discovery claims. At that meeting, they renamed Rabbit Creek “Bonanza,� and the rest is history. Michael Gates is a Yukon historian and sometimes adventurer based in Whitehorse. He is currently writing book about the Yukon in World War I. You can contact him at msgates@northwestel.net
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DEAR MISS MANNERS: I am currently working at a job I hate. I finally decided to begin searching for more fulfilling employment. How do I answer the question, “Why are you leaving a good, steady job after 13 years?� I want to be honest with potential employers, but saying, “I hate my current job and it is slowly destroying my soul� is just not the right way to go. YUKON NEWS
What would be the best way to answer this without lying or sounding quite so bitter? GENTLE READER: If you were divorced, would you approach a romantic prospect by talking about how much you hate your former spouse? Although come to think of it, lots of people think this is a charming way of becoming acquainted. In both cases, Miss Manners would consider it more effective to express your admiration for the new. To tell a potential employer that you find the possibility of change, and in particular of working there, exciting is not a lie. After all, you likely are excited about leaving a job you hate.
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DEAR MISS MANNERS: My daughter is 48 years old and getting married for the second time. She will have a veil that is shoulder length. Should she have the veil over her face at the altar or not? GENTLE READER: As she likes. Miss Manners may not be conspicuous for countenancing mangled
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Look forward, not back, when searching for new job traditions, but she is amazingly tolerant about bridal attire. That is because she remembers something more disturbing: sneering wedding guests. When dear Queen Victoria wore a white wedding dress, she probably did not intend to launch it as a uniform for young, inexperienced brides. (She had been under heavy maternal supervision.) But so it became, encouraging mean-spirited people to snicker at brides they considered too old or “experienced� (whether or not from a previous marriage) to wear white, and related regalia, such as veils. That this nasty custom has been wiped away by the ubiquitous use of the bridal costume strikes Miss Manners as a good trade-off.
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SPORTS AND RECREATION Yukon skaters at their best at section championship
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Yukon’s Mikayla Kramer performs her long program en route to a fourth place finish in pre-novice ladies.
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Arctic Edge skater Rachel Pettitt performs her short program at the B.C./Yukon Section Championships over the weekend in Coquitlam, B.C. Pettitt won silver in junior ladies. Tom Patrick News Reporter
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wo Yukon skaters produced their best performances at the biggest competition so far this season over the weekend. Arctic Edge skaters Rachel Pettitt and Mikayla Kramer posted personal best scores to finish in the top four at the B.C./
Yukon Section Championships in Coquitlam, B.C. By finishing in the top four, both have earned spots at the Skate Canada Challenge competition – the final stepping-stone en route to the national championships – early December in Edmonton. “I’m really excited. I feel very ready to go to another one,” said Pettitt. “I’ve been training hard
for this leading up to sections and I have three more weeks of training before we leave. “I’m really excited and I just need to focus on myself during that week and not worry about other skaters, just worry about what I’m there to do and have fun. “I feel a little bit of pressure, winning novice last year, but it’s good pressure.”
“I’m just really excited to be going,” said Kramer. “I never thought this would be possible. It was my biggest goal of the season.” For the second year in a row Pettitt punched her ticket for Challenge with a silver-medal performance, in junior women at the championship. The 16-year-old placed third in the short program before taking second in the free with a personal best score of 90.57. She finished with a combined score of 139.15 – another personal best. “I feel really good about how everything went,” said Pettitt. “I didn’t have my best short but everything went well and I got a very good score for how I skated and it put me in a really good position for my long program. My long wasn’t the best, but I performed everything to the best of my abilities.” With her second-place finish, Pettitt placed third in B.C. Skating’s season-long Pond to Podium Super Series. She also nabbed the artistic award for her category. Pettitt, who trains at the Kelowna Skating Club in B.C., became the first Yukoner to win gold at the National Skating Championships last January. She capped her final season in novice ladies by winning gold at the Canada Winter Games in February – another first for Yukon. Next month’s Challenge will be Kramer’s first. The 13-yearold took the final spot by placing fourth out of 40 skaters in pre-novice women. “I was very happy. I had a personal best by like 15 points. I was just very happy
and shocked a little bit,” said Kramer. “I had two clean programs; I landed everything in my programs.” Kramer, who also took the artistic award for her category, notched personal bests all around. She placed fourth in the short at 32.12, tied for third in the free at 59.3, for a combined PB of 91.49. “I landed my four double axels – there’s two in my short and two in my long. That would be the hardest jump I’m working on and I landed all of them. I was really happy and excited about that,” said Kramer. “I really improved my linking footwork, which is everything between my jumps and my spins. I went out and skated from my heart.” Kramer also skated for Yukon at the 2015 Canada Games, placing 12th in pre-novice ladies. Though only two competed in Coquitlam, three Yukon skaters will compete at Skate Canada Challenge. Whitehorse’s Bryn Hoffman, who trains in Calgary, will also lace up for the event Dec. 3-7. While she will compete in junior singles and in pairs, the latter has been her main focus the last couple of seasons. She and Albertan skating partner Bryce Chudak have placed fourth in two International Skating Union events so far this season. They took fourth in an ISU Junior Grand Prix in Colorado Springs, Colo, and then fourth in Grand Prix in Torun, Poland, both in September. They placed seventh at the 2015 National Skating Championships in January. Contact Tom Patrick at tomp@yukon-news.com
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wim season has only just begun and the Glacier Bears are breaking records and setting qualifying times. Members of the Whitehorse swim club did a lot of both at the season-opening Ryan Downing Memorial Swim Meet on Friday and Saturday at the Canada Games Centre. A total of 15 meet records – oddly, the same amount as last year – and three club records were set at the meet that saw 105 swimmers take part, including eight from N.W.T.’s Inuvik Muskrats and 19 from Alaska’s Haines. “Generally the WGB club is doing very well so far this season,� said Glacier Bears head coach Malwina Bukszowana. “We have a lot of AA B.C. Provincial Championships qualifiers already, and still a few swim meets that opens us more chances to improve.� The Lindsay sisters, who seem to set records every time Tom Patrick/Yukon News they enter the water, each Glacier Bears swimmer Lydia Brown races freestyle at the Ryan Downing Memorial Swim Meet on Saturday at the Canada Games set two meet records. Cassis Centre. A total of 105 swimmers took part in the meet including eight from N.W.T.’s Inuvik Muskrats and 19 from Alaska’s Haines Lindsay swam the 50-metre backstroke at 32.35 seconds for Dolphins.
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a girls 15-18 record. She then did the 200-metre individual medley in 2:30.41 for a meet record and then broke it in the final with 2:30.28. Younger sister Rennes set a meet record in the 200 IM at 2:31.49 and the 400 free at 4:48.64, for girls 13-14. “From older girls, as usual Lindsay sisters are the best in Yukon so far,� said Bukszowana. “Rennes had an amazing 1500 free, she likes the long distance. Rennes has already six qualifying times for Age Group Nationals for the coming summer. Her older sister Cassis improved her best time in 50
free again.� Up-and-comer Thomas Gishler, swimming in boys 10-and-under, made the most amendments to the records book. The Glacier Bear set a meet record in the 200 backstroke at 3:18.78, another in the 400 free at 6:32.66, and another in the 50 butterfly at 41.11, which was also a club record. “Thomas Gishler from Polar Bears is doing well, breaking the records of swimmers from older squads and making his first qualifying times for provincial championships,� said Bukszowana. Hot off of setting two club
records at a time trial the previous week, Whitehorse’s Thomas Bakica set two meet records in one race for boys 11-12. He swam the 50 fly in 36.20, in a split from the 200 IM, and finished the race in a record 2:46.76. In the same division Glacier Bears teammate Alex Petriw set a meet record of 5:20.07 in the 400 free. He also posted a time of 2:26.34 in the 200 free to set a meet and club record in the event. “Alex already qualified for AA championships, so now with no pressure he can focus on improving his skills,� said
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Bukszowana. Glacier Bears’ Adrian Robinson made a triumphant return to the pool. The 15-year-old set a meet record in the 100 breaststroke at 1:14.88 and then a meet/club record in the 100 IM at 1:04.85, for boys 15-18. “Adrian Robinson is back on track after his break and the recovery from an injury,” said Bukszowana. “He slowly began to improve his endurance, speed and his best times are new club and meet records. All Glacier Bears kids like to have him back, he is polite, funny and likes to work, special during our sprint sets.” Other meet records include Mael Pronovost swimming the 50 fly in 30.01 in boys 13-14 and Luke Bakica posting a time of 2:47.77 in the 200 breast from boys 15-18. As usual, Bukszowana had good things to say about all her swimmers. “We have some new and young stars growing in the club,” she said. “Eight-year-old Simon Connell is a great listener and thinker in practice … Misa Svoboda is a very keen to work hard – this boy just wants to race every time in practice ... “Eleven-year-old Cooper Muir is also improving a lot … His breaststroke is looking very good … “Brynna Lalonde won in almost all her events in 9-10 years old age group category … “Boyd Emma is improving her technique and her times, she was at the top of her 11-12 years old age group last week-
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Glacier Bears’ Amelia Ford races breaststroke.
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Glacier Bears’ Rennes Lindsay, who set two meet records, does the breaststroke. end … Amelia Ford is showing her sprinting potential … Kassua Dryer is also working well and we can see her improvement. “Hannah Kingscote … has high goals this season and she
is not afraid to push herself in practice. “We had a nice surprise in 400 IM when Brook Massie swam her best time and Meghan Pennington, who was afraid to swim it for the first
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he Yellowknife Wolfpack had more hockey experience, more players, a home-ice advantage and the score reflected it. The Yukon Female Mustangs went winless against their territorial rivals at the Arctic Female Challenge in Yellowknife, N.W.T., over the weekend. “We got our butts kicked on the scoreboard, but the girls played pretty decent actually,� said Mustangs coach John Grant. “We were missing a few players, we took 13 over, and they had a good weekend.� “Northwest Territories basically have the same team that they did last year, they haven’t lost any players really, so they’re pretty strong,� he added. The series opened with a 9-2 loss for the Mustangs. Forward Maddie Nicholson scored both for Yukon, assisted by Cayman Oestreich on the first one and Haley McConnell and Destiny Taylor on the second. Game 2 ended 9-1 for the Wolfpack. Nicholson sniped another, assisted by Oestreich and Ecko Kirk. After a 10-0 loss in Game 3,
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Mustangs goalie Ashton Clooten makes a save.
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Yukon Mustangs Emma Morin drops Yellowknife Wolfpack pursuers as she brings the puck down ice during the Arctic Female Challenge in Yellowknife over the weekend. The Mustangs went winless against their N.W.T. rivals.
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the Mustangs got back on the board with an 11-2 loss in Game 4. Forward Joy Morin scored for Yukon, assisted by Oestreich and Nicholson, who scored the second one unassisted. It was quite a learning experience for Mustangs goalie Ashton Clooten, who has only been playing the position for about a month, said Grant. “We have a brand new goalie and she had quite and education,â€? he said. “She had some good moments and some notgood moments, but it’s part of the learning process – it’s not an easy position to learn ‌ It’s one of the toughest positions in sport to learn. You can see potential there. I always look for potential.â€? In addition to losing a number of top players from last season, from players aging out or going to school, the Mustangs’ roster was whittled down further by various circumstances – a wedding, a birthday party, a knee surgery. “We had some young players that we picked up this year and
this was basically their first time traveling and they actually did pretty decent,� said Grant. “You could see the improvements. I was pretty happy with the effort.� “We were real short on veterans but they’ll be back ready for the next one,� said Grant. For the final game of the weekend, the Mustangs and Wolfpack mixed the teams up for a friendly game. It ended with a tight 9-8 score. “The girls had a blast,� said Grant. “You couldn’t find better hosts. They were absolutely magnificent there. The other coaches treated us first-class. The girls had a great time – they did a lot of other activities besides hockey.� As is often the case, the midget-age Mustangs squad contains good representation from Yukon communities. The roster includes three from Haines Junction, one from Dawson City, one from Burwash Landing, two from Teslin and, for the first time since 2007, a player from Watson Lake with winger Anna Lund. Contact Tom Patrick at tomp@yukon-news.com
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Team Canada’s Hubert Buydens, centre, competes at the Rugby World Cup in England in September. Buydens will be in Whitehorse this weekend to help host rugby clinics. Tom Patrick News Reporter
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ukon Rugby is about to get a boost from one of Canada’s star players. Canadian Rugby World Cup player Hubert Buydens is coming to Whitehorse to host clinics this weekend at the Canada Games Centre. The event, which is presented by Rugby Canada, will also see rugby educator and former national women’s coach John Long perform a Level 1 coaching course. “It’s a huge opportunity for us to take advantage of their knowledge and their abilities,� said Yukon Rugby president Darrin Sinclair. “It is something that has been offered to us by Rugby Canada and we definitely jumped on top of it as quickly as we could.� Buydens, who has played prop for Canada at the last two Rugby World Cups, will host a development clinic beginning Friday at 6 p.m. at the CGC’s field house. The clinic will include non-contact drills for anyone 16 and over with no cost. “I’m really excited to be heading to Yukon to help grow our sport,� said Buydens in a news release. “Development clinics are an integral part of getting players hooked
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on rugby while also allowing them to have fun with their friends. It’s a perfect way to introduce young children to the sport.� Long will then host a day-long coaching course on Saturday beginning at 9 a.m. It will focus on Rugby Canada’s participation initiative, Rookie Rugby, a noncontact introduction for youth. Members of Yukon Rugby have signed up for the clinic and will be certified to introduce the Rookie Rugby program to schools and into the communities. “Hopefully that will self-perpetuate and we’ll have to start a feeder
system so in five to 10 years there’ll still be rugby here,� said Sinclair. The weekend’s activities will conclude with a Rookie Rugby clinic with Buydens from 9 to 11 a.m. Sunday morning at the field house. The clinic, which is for kids ages 6-14, will also be a chance for getting Buyden’s autograph. “While this development weekend in Whitehorse gives an opportunity for young children to become involved in the game through Rookie Rugby and our development clinics, it also gives us a chance to grow our coaching outreach,� said Dustin Hopkins,
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Rugby Canada’s manager of national development, in the release. “Growing our sport, whether it be through players, coaching, refereeing or any other avenue, is critical to the continued development of rugby in Canada. “This weekend in Yukon will allow us to continue that trend but more importantly push rugby into new geographical areas.� Rugby Yukon, which was founded a couple summers ago, reintroduced the sport to the territory after an absence of more than two
decades. The governing body entered a team, the Gold Diggers, in the Midnight Suns Sevens tournament in Anchorage this past June. Rugby Yukon hosts weekly drop-in games of touch rugby at the CGC on Tuesday evenings. Rugby sevens, a modified version of the sport, will be played at the Rio Olympics next summer. For more information contact Yukon Rugby’s Mike Fancie at 6894866 or mfancie@gmail.com. Contact Tom Patrick at tomp@yukon-news.com
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he University of British Columbia’s Thunderbirds, along with Whitehorse’s Kieran Halliday, were soaring high on Saturday. The UBC cross-country team dominated at the Association of Independent Institutions Cross Country Championships in Aurora, Colorado, just outside of Denver. “It’s great to be part of the team,” said Halliday. “For every one of these trips you realize how awesome it is being able to do this sort of thing, being able to represent your school, being able to represent your teammates and represent yourself. It’s just something I’m thankful for and I look forward to doing it
every single time.” The Thunderbirds won the team titles and the individual titles for both male and female at the event. Halliday, who was in his first championship race representing UBC, placed 16th, completing the eight-kilometre course in just over 29 minutes. “I was pretty happy with the whole thing, it was a great experience,” said Halliday. “The course was super fun. It was really spectator friendly, so you could see the whole course from the start line, so that made it really easy for the coaches. “It was an eight-kilometre course at altitude – Denver is ‘The Mile High City’ – so it was really hard,” he added. “The times were pretty slow because of how hard it was to breathe up there.
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Werner and Dianne Fischer are delighted to announce the accomplishments of their daughter, Ashley, being granted a Doctorate of Philosophy from Simon Fraser University this October. Dr Fischer has accepted a position as a Psychologist working out of the Foothills Hospital in Calgary. Congratulations Ashley, we are so proud of you! Love, Mom & Dad
ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING 40782 Yukon Inc. (VGLP) is holding their Annual General Meeting November 17 2015. In the Community Hall Old Crow, Yukon All Vuntut Gwitchin Citizen’s invited! Bring your own dishes and cutlery please! Bring your questions, and appetites! Open house at 3pm, Dinner at 5pm, public meeting to follow. For more information call our office. Contact Guy Chan at: 1-867-456-8350 or email: gchan@vuntut.com
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Whitehorse’s Kieran Halliday runs the the Yukon 10-Kilometre Championships last summer. Halliday was on the winning team at the A.I.I. Cross Country Championships in Colorado on Saturday. “I think I was 29:01. Just to put it in perspective, that’s like two and a half minutes slower than my PB (personal best).” Halliday, who is in his second year at UBC, placed ninth for his team. By not making top-seven, he will not go on to represent his school at the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics championships later this month in Charlotte, N.C.
“I didn’t make the national team this year … but I’m looking forward to making the national team for track in the spring,” said Halliday. “It was a great experience, I’m happy the team did super well and I’m looking forward to keep on representing UBC.” Halliday placed 57th overall and 22nd for junior male at the 2015 B.C. Provincial Cross Country Championships last month in
Nanaimo. The 19-year-old has represented Yukon in athletics and tennis at the Canada Summer Games and Western Canada Summer Games, and in snowshoe and snowshoe-biathlon at the Arctic Winter Games, winning multiple gold medals in the latter. Contact Tom Patrick at tomp@yukon-news.com
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21. Hawaiian dance 22. 4th planet from the sun 27. C6H12N3OP insect sterilant 28. Pickerel genus 29. Georgian monetary unit 30. Urban gym 31. Large muscles of the chest 32. Indian wet nurse 33. 1/60 of an ancient talent 34. Ship’s bow 39. Went into 40. Scorch the surface 41. The academic world
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Rearrange the letters to spell a word Hint: bad-tempered or irritable as a result of hunger.
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RIVERDALE 2-BDRM house + den & mud room. RenoĘźd & sunny. Deck, backyard, greenhouse. Quiet location, close to trails, transport. Avail Nov 15, $1,300/mon + own heat & shared elect. 334-4965
DOWNTOWN OFFICE behind Yukon Inn, approx 650 sq ft, main floor, $1,100/mon, incls heat & lights. 250-215-7943
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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
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YUKON NEWS 3-BDRM, 2-BATH new single level home, walk-in closet, large ensuite, hardwood floors, modern black kitchen, lit interior cabinets, appliances, concrete driveway, 405,000 obo. 334-2802
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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
EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES 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.
We are currently recruiting for the following positions:
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
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
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
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
RIDE ON tractor, no mowing deck, w/snow blower attachment, electric start, tire chains, weights, excellent condition, $1,800. 333-9020
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
Resume that clearly demonstrates 15 years of cumulative experience managing the year round maintenance and operation in cold climates and remote locations of: UĂŠ Electrical generation and transmission infrastructures UĂŠ Pumping and piping systems UĂŠ Overall site water management UĂŠ Overall water management systems including 4000gpm plus lime based water treatment plants UĂŠ Fleet of at least 10 pieces of heavy equipment
ENVIRONMENTAL LEAD (2) (Reference #11.04.15) Resume that clearly demonstrates: UĂŠ At least 5 years’ experience in water sampling (including surface water, efuent, groundwater), processing and reporting; UĂŠ At least 5 years’ experience in leading and directing the delivery of a site wide environmental monitoring program greater than $500,000/year; UĂŠ Experience with environmental data management and reporting best practices and related software systems; UĂŠ Experience running a chemical analysis laboratory that included meeting CALA proďŹ ciency requirements; and UĂŠ Appropriate degree or certiďŹ cation.
PORTABLE TESTING sluice, new Honda 3� pump with hoses & ventury suction, all new, view 49 Redwood Street, Porter Creek. 633-6553
5 ROLLS of vinyl backed R20 insulation 48" wide, approximately 500 sq ft, $500 obo. 633-6134
Resume that clearly demonstrates:
SITE SUPERINTENDENT (2) (Reference #11.03.15)
2 ENGINE stand, 3 white bar stools, 2 office chairs, 1 teal & 1 brown, long Yukon parka, pink, no shell. 633-3116
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
MINE/REMEDIATION SITE MANAGER (2) 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
LARGE PLASTIC containers with lids, $5 each, good for storage or moving. 668-7639
COMMERCIAL CHAINSAW, vg cond, Husqvarna 3120 XP, x-large bar, regails $2,200, asking $1,200. 668-6805
Miscellaneous for Sale
BRASS WALKER, no wheels, good cond, $30; Honeywell oil-filled heater, $25. 334-8318
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Native Brain-Tanned MOOSE HIDES At Reasonable Prices Tanned beaver & other furs also available. Phone (780) 355-3557 or (780) 461-9677 or write: Lodge Fur & Hides Box 87, Faust, AB. T0G-0X0
OIL FURNACE, used 2.5 3 yrs, serviced professionally, like new, Olsen BML80B, 59000-97000 BTU/hr, Energuide 83, $500 obo. 335-8153 COLEMAN 4 burner BBQ with side burner, used very little, great shape, $300 obo. 333-0380 HOUSE PLANTS for sale, large Spider plant, Begonias, Umbrella Tree, from $3 to $45. 660-4321 LOOP CARPET, new, wall-to-wall conventional carpet from Canada Flooring, beige/light brown, 5.6ĘźX11.10Ęź, $45. 660-4321 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
DOG BARRIER for back of vehicle, excellent shape, $30. 633-5085 NIKON ZOOM lens, 24 120 mm 1:3.5 5.6 D, made in Japan, vg cond, $225. 667-4955 BEAVER TABLE saw 1HP motor, cast table 26" x 18" with 8" extension on mobile base, $50. 633-6134 SNOW BLOWER, Craftsman, 8hp, 27" wide, electric start, $600. Phone 633-5576 SELF PROPELLED SNOW Blower, clears 30" wide path, electric start, 6 forward & two reverse speeds, excellent condition, canopy available extra, $750. 333-9020
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Resume that clearly demonstrates at least ďŹ ve years of experience in EACH of the following areas: a. Executing cost control functions, including invoicing, ďŹ nancial reporting, ďŹ nancial 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 certiďŹ cation.
To apply, please submit your cover letter and resume, clearly indicating the position title/reference # of the position to which you are applying, to:
QUEEN SIZE white goose feather hypoallergenic duvet, new, beautiful, light, very cozy, 100% cotton covering, 240 thread count, 600 fill power, $150. 668-5298 FLAVOUR WAVE oven, $45; Jack Lalanne power juicer, $55; ice cream/dessert maker, new, mint, $18. 660-4321 SMALL SPACE saver white GE microwave, vg condition, easy to operate, $25. 668-5298 LARGE BUXTON suitcase, used once. 668-2253 22� YARDWORKS snowblower, only 10 hrs of use, bought in April on sale for $750, asking $500. 332-0501 GERMAN TRADITIONAL-MADE leather pants. Never worn. Women sz 8, inseam 32:, $150. 334-6948 4 WOOD window blinds, 22 3/4� x 59� and 22� x 30�. Hardware inclʟd, $10/ea. 335-4768 PORTABLE 02 Concentrator, 110 & 12 volt w/car lighter plug in, 2 chargeable batteries, on wheels w/extendable handle, great for travel. Paid $3860 US, asking $2,500 CDN. 336-4747
Electrical Appliances COMMERCIAL COIN operated washer & dryer. $400 for the set. 633-4375 KENMOREWASHER & dryer, matching set, lgood cond, $200 for pair. 633-2837 MINI-BAR FRIDGE, good condition, $30. 333-0402 WASHER & dryer, Master Chef, good cond, $150, sell as set only. 633-5774 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 HD MAYTAG washer in good condition, $200. 667-4789
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WANTED: LOOKING for one-gallon or two-gallon glass jars, lids are optional. 667-4915
TV ARMOIRE, Broyhill, solid wood, new, $2,000, asking $450. 250-215-7943
STAINLESS STEEL commercial kitchen sink, 50" x 25" x15" deep, $250. Call 633-4375
Computers & Accessories
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
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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
Resume that clearly demonstrates
PLANNING AND CONTROL MANAGER (2)
PROPANE STOCK pot cooker, $50. Call 633-4375
ANTIQUE AIRLINE dishes, 54 Canadian Air and Ward Air, all Royal Doulton. Offers. Call 332-6565
HEALTH AND SAFETY LEAD (2) (Reference #11.05.15) UĂŠ At least 5 years’ experience in developing, implementing and evaluating health and safety programs and strategies; UĂŠ Knowledge of the requirements of the YWCHSB, the Yukon’s Occupational Health and Safety Act (YOHSA) and COR certiďŹ cation requirements; and UĂŠ Appropriate degree or certiďŹ cation.
KITCHEN L shape, includes dishwasher, sink, pantry, 2 vanities 88" x 97", $450. Call 633-4375
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7-PIECE CB drum kit, 7 years old, barely used, just sitting, $400. 332-7797 GIBSON SG electric guitar made in USA, Fender tube amp, Cry Baby wah pedal, package deal, $1,500. 334-0368 2014 BACH trumpet, used 1 season, $500. 332-7797
THE GUILD SOCIETY is seeking applications for the position of
ARTISTIC DIRECTOR for the 2016/2017 Seasons
Sarah Hunt, HR Manager Email: shunt@tlichoic.com Fax: 867-920-7328
The Guild Society in a non-profit charitable society, which has been producing community theatre productions in Whitehorse for over 30 years. Our mandate is to produce three to four plays a season between September and May. The Guild’s focus is to produce high-quality community theatre, involving local amateur actors and crew.
Applications will be accepted up to 5:00 p.m. PST on November 20, 2015.
For more information and a detailed job description, please email guildhall@northwestel.net.
We thank all those who apply however will be contacting only those selected for interviews.
Please submit your resume and cover letter with a sample season of 3 or 4 shows and three professional references, before end of Friday, December 18, 2015. Please submit by email to guildhall@northwestel.net with ‘Artistic Director Application’ in the subject line. No phone calls please. We thank all applicants, but advise that only those considered for an interview will be contacted.
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Firewood
HURLBURT ENTERPRISES INC. Store (867) 633-3276 Dev (867) 335-5192 Carl (867) 334-3782
✔ Beetle-killed spruce from Haines Junction, quality guaranteed ✔ Everything over 8" split ✔ Prices as low as $245 per cord ✔ Single and emergency half cord deliveries ✔ Scheduled or next day delivery
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FIREWOOD $175/cord 20-foot lengths, 5-cord loads Small delivery charge 668-6564 Leave message 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 DONʟS FIREWOOD Forestry Permit #XY06 •Spruce/Pine mix •Stockpiled locally for quick delivery •Kwanlin Dun & Social Services Phone 393-4397 CJʟS FIREWOOD Cut to length. $240 per cord. Phone 867-335-4065 CRL FIREWOOD/WHITEʟS WOOD Standing dry spruce from Haines Junction. Stove length 16�-22�- $240 + gst 12 foot lengths - $200 + gst U-Cut Serving Whitehorse since 2007 Cutters wanted. Contact Joel 335-1934 STANDING DEAD PINE FIREWOOD Smaller diameter. Cut to length, split and delivered. $250/cord 393-2728
Guns & Bows LICENSED TO BUY, SELL & CONSIGN rifles & ammo at G&R New & Used 1612-D Centennial St. 393-2274 BUY • SELL NORINCO M14 carbine, syn stock + Choate folding stock + 7 mags, $1,000. Valid PAL reqʟd. 334-8604 BINOCULARS, MEOPTA B1, 842, $800. 334-9551 CZ 550 American 270 Win, very nice wood, $900. 334-9551 44 REM Mag. 1 box, 25 rounds, $20. 668-5511 P17 300 Win Mag neew scope w/Leupold lever, lock rings & bases, $425. 336-2789 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 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 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 PARKER HALE 30-06, awsome shooting rifle, iron sights, $500. 336-3922 FIREARM COLLECTION for sale, restricted and nonrestricted, all in very good to new condition, must have PAL/RPAL. Call for specifics 867-536-2374
YUKON NEWS RUGER MINI-THIRTY 7.62x39, ATI Strikeforce stock, 5rnd magazine X4, 5/30rnd magazine & ammo, $1,200 obo. 335-1467 BENELLI MR-1 .223 Remington carbine/w 3.9x40 Redfeild scope, 4 magazines, extra ammo, $1,700 obo. 335-1467 RUGER M77 (tang safety) Varmint. Heavy BBL, .308, exc cond, c/w two sets of rings, (1 in/30mm), $800 obo. Work shift work so pls text 332-2352
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.
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WANTED: EARLY 90s Nissan Sport Wagon, model EX1SS. 633-2837
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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
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Nugget City in Watson Lake ➼ FINISH CARPENTER Northern Vision Development ➼ BANQUET SERVER Air North ➼ CARGO AGENT Austring, Fendrick & Fairman ➼ LEGAL ASSISTANT Fireweed Community Market ➼ 12 DAY CASHIER
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Duties and Responsibilities: t Provide support in a cross-cultural setting to women and children who have experienced abuse t Maintain the safety and security of the Transition Home t Respond to women in crisis in person and over the telephone t Assist with the efficient operation of a 24 hour facility Qualifications: t Combination of experience and post secondary education in a related field t Knowledge of violence against women and issues facing women who have experienced abuse t Knowledge of issues facing and resources available to women (including those specific to First Nations women) t Experience working in a cross-cultural setting and a knowledge/sensitivity to the needs of Aboriginal women and their children t Satisfactory current criminal record check t Experience with Respond-Based Practice an asset. Submit resume’s by November 23, 2015 Submit resumes to: Barbara McInerney Executive Director, Kaushee’s Place Box 31392, Whitehorse, YT Y1A 6K8 Fax: (867) 668-2374 Email: edywth@northwestel.net Job description available upon request.
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EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY
GENERAL MANAGER
Manager, Lands, Resources and Heritage Manager of Lands, Resources and Heritage is responsible for achieving goals as identiďŹ ed in the TKC Strategic Plan, and outlined in the TKC Constitution. In particular, the main focus for all department activities, programs & services shall be “to exercise our inherent right to manage and control our natural resourcesâ€? and to “implement and exercise the Land Claims, Self-Government and other agreements entered into by the TKCâ€?.
Two Oral History Researchers – working with the Implementation OfďŹ cer to compile existing information pertaining to customary laws and dispute resolution as well as conduct a series of Oral History interviews with the Elders.
Community Justice Coordinator – Coordinating and attending AJA caucus meetings and workshops as required. Researching material and background information for the Implementation OfďŹ cer As per policy, preference will be given to TKC Citizens who self-declare in their cover letter and/or rĂŠsumĂŠ. All competitions close Monday, November 23, 2015. human.resources@taan.ca 117 Industrial Rd., Whitehorse, YT Y1A 2T8
SUMMARY: Directs and oversees all operational and administrative activities of the North 60â ° Petro Plant in a safe, eďŹƒcient and productive manner. Direct Supervision of all North 60â ° Petro Management Employees. Indirect supervision of all other North 60â ° Petro Employees. SALARY: DOE DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES INCLUDE: Business management, operations, maintenance, inspections, marketing, inventory, personnel, customer service, safety, environmental and other duties. QUALIFICATIONS This position requires a minimum of 5 years previous similar experience, including a good working knowledge of the petroleum distribution or related industry. Must have a high school diploma or GED. Valid Canadian Driver’s License required. Must be able to work directly with petroleum products. For further information on this position please see our posting at: www.yuwin.ca Submit resumes by November 16 to: Josie Hickel – CA0, Petro 49, Inc. Email: josieh@petro49.Com Fax: 907-273-8242
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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: FIREWOOD, up to 10 cords firewood cut 16", delivered to Porter Creek. 633-6771 WANTED: CANOPY for 2005 Silverado truck with 8Ęź box. 668-5644
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YUKON NEWS 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: 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
POWER GENERATION TECHNICIAN Whitehorse, Yukon ATCO Structures & Logistics is a North American leader in technical services and facilities management for the telecommunications, resource, transportation, utility and defense sectors. Our Joint Venture with the Northern Aboriginal Services Company has an immediate requirement for a full time Power Generation Technician, in connection with our contracts with NorthwesTel, to maintain diesel power generation systems at telecom sites in the Yukon & Northern BC. The Power Generation Technician will provide scheduled preventive maintenance on diesel generators at sites located in the Yukon & Northern BC; unscheduled repairs and emergency response to correct diesel generator failures and other related problems, as well as periodic installations of generators and related equipment. Inspections of fuel systems, fuel tank dips and reporting as well as associated fuel related problems that may arise.
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
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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 BMW 325i, heated seats & mirrors, p/seats, xenon headlights, rain sensing wipers, sunroof, winter & summer tires. Very fun to drive. Lots of recent work, $7,950 obo, 334-5315
Employment Employment Opportunities Opportunities
Providing leadership through our strengths in programming, services and research, Yukon College’s main campus in Whitehorse and 12 community campuses cover the territory. A small college, YC provides a stimulating and collegial environment. We work with Yukon communities, Yukon First Nations, local governments, business and industry, to promote a community of learners within a vibrant organization. Come join us as we continue to enhance the Yukon’s capacity through education and training.
Expression of Interest - Sessional Instructor(s) Upcoming Winter Semester – January to April 2016 School of Liberal Arts Hourly Rate: $33.52 to $37.71 Competition#: 15.122 Initial Review Date: November 23, 2015
ATCO Structures offers a competitive pay and benefits package. Qualified individuals are invited to apply on or before November 27th, 2015 to: Administration Coordinator ATCO Structures & Logistics. #210-1100 Front St., Whitehorse, Yukon Y1A 6K6 Fax: (867) 667-4820 or e-mail alberta.weber@atcosl.com
Manager, First Nation Initiatives (FNI) Ayamdigut (Whitehorse) Campus Term Position to: November 1, 2016 (75 hours bi-weekly) Salary: $35.10 to $41.78 hourly Initial Review Date: November 18, 2015 Competition No.: 15.90b
Go to: http://yukoncollege.yk.ca/about/employment for more information on all job competitions. Quoting the competition number, please submit your resume and cover letter to: Yukon College, Human Resources Services, Email: hr@yukoncollege.yk.ca
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Employment Employment Opportunities Opportunity
Providing leadership through our strengths in programming, services and research, Yukon College’s main campus in Whitehorse and 12 community campuses cover the territory. A small college, YC provides a stimulating and collegial environment. We work with Yukon communities, Yukon First Nations, local governments, business and industry, to promote a community of learners within a vibrant organization. Come join us as we continue to enhance the Yukon’s capacity through education and training.
Instructor, Political Science School of Liberal Arts
Ayamdigut (Whitehorse) Campus Permanent Position from: December 1, 2015 Salary: $75,388 to $89,749 per annum (Market supplement may be applied) (Based on 75 hours bi-weekly) Competition #: 15.91b Initial Review Date: November 16, 2015
Youth Intern, Technology Support Whitehorse Correctional Centre (WCC) Campus School of Community, Education & Development (SCED) Casual hire from: November 16, 2015 to March 31, 2016 Hourly Rate: $24.40 Competition #: 15.121 Initial Review Date: November 16, 2015
Go to: http://yukoncollege.yk.ca/about/employment for more information on all employment opportunities.
2012 SUBARU Impreza hatchback, auto, 40,770kms, great condition, studded winter tires, command start. under warranty until 2018, $19,000 obo. 334-7655 2009 NISSAN Rogue SL, 3-spd auto, new winter tires, 133,000km, great gas mileage, $12,000 obo, better than Cdn Black Book. 633-5155 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 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 2003 TOYOTA Matrix, standard transmission, vg cond, runs flawlessly, recent valve rebuild. Clean interior. Some paint scratches, 295,000 kms, $3,800. 456-4153 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, $2,700 obo. 332-9975 1997 FORD Contour V6, blue, 150,000 kms, very clean, imitation leather interior, sunroof, new tires, runs great, $2,500. 335-1088 1997 TOYOTA Camry V6 5-spd, might need some transmission or clutch work, $500. 335-1088 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 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! 1-866-269-2783 • 9039 Quartz Rd. • Fraserway.com
Quoting the competition number, please submit your resume and cover letter to: Email: hr@yukoncollege.yk.ca
2009 CHEVROLET 1/2 ton 4X4, ext cab, full power, A/C, cruise, $6,300. 336-2029 2003 DODGE Caravan, 119,000 kms, good mechanical shape, $3,800. 334-7658
Friday, November 13, 2015 2009 CHEVROLET LTZ 2500, loaded, every option available, new winter tires, $21,000. 393-3891 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 2005 F350 Turbo diesel 1-ton, 4x4, white, crew cab, 420,000 kms, runs good, new batteries & alternator. Tires 80% winters, great work truck. 335-1088 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 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 2004 TOYOTA Sienna LE, 7 passenger, 5-spd automatic, V-6 180,853 kms. Sliding door, new tires, bucket seats, 3rd row folding seat, a/c & more, $10,000. 334-2771 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
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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 DODGE Ram 1500, 2.5L, new windshield, tires & wheel bearings, 223,000kms, matching canopy, box liner, tow pkg, no rust, 1 owner, $4,800. 667-4930 1998 DODGE RAM 1500, black, 81,000km, 5.2L V8 318 gas engine, excellent condition, 4x4, towing package, $6,000. 334-2602 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 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
Auto Parts & Accessories TRUCK CANOPIES - in stock * new Dodge long/short box * new GM long/short box * new Ford long/short box Hi-Rise & Cab Hi - several in stock View at centennialmotors.com 393-8100 FULL BOX aluminum canopy w/4 side cabinets & lift hatchback. 332-7797 4 TOYO tires, 205/75 R15, driven 2 winters, 75% tread, $95 ea. 660-4321 2 WINTER tires, Nokian, studded, 205/50 R17, 70% tread left, $50. 668-5511 2 NEW inside door panels for older model Fiat Spider. 668-2253 GOODYEAR NORDIC tires, set of 4, 205/55/R16, used sparingly for 2 weeks, regular $140, selling for $90 obo. 633-2192 7 NEW recap gripper tires 11 by 24.5, $2,100. 2 steering tires, 70% on rims, 11 by 24.5, $700. 3 new recap gripper tires 245 70R 19.5, $750. 333-1482
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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
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to book your sitting. Walk-Ins Welcome PROCEEDS GO TO THE MAE BACHUR ANIMAL SHELTER.
Taku River Tlingit
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 2001 FORD Expedition, runs awesome, needs tires, has two fixable dents, $1,200. 335-1088
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First Nation EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY
LOST/FOUND
Senior Financial Officer
LOST
SUPERVISOR: WAGE:
FOUND
Finance Department
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.
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 t NEAR ARMY BEACH, ALL BLACK, POSSIBLY MALE CAT, not wearing a collar, hanging around for a couple of weeks. If yours please call Gale @336-4245 t ALSEK ROAD. YOUNG GREY-TAN TORTOISESHELL FEMALE CAT. 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
AVAILABLE FOR ADOPTION
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.
Shylo
Ryder
Robin
Katie
Diga
Diamond
Bodhi
Baxter
Annie
• 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.
And more...
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.
Rosie
Mingus
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.
Come for a visit and meet your next furry family member! 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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2010 Ford Ranger Extracab Sport Auto, 4.0 Litre, Black
$
13,900
2015 Ram ProMaster City SLT Cargo Van Backup Camera, Bulkhead, White
$
28,995
32,000 Kms, White
$
31,995
2015 Chev Silverado 1500 Crew 4x4 LT 5.3 Litre, 1,100 Kms, Loaded!! Red
$
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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.
1 FEMALE mini-Shepherd, fixed, 1 male Lab X, fixed, free to good home, need lots of space to run. 456-6571 STANDARD POODLES puppies ready to go November 12th. 4 male (1 white, 3 apricot) and 1 female (brown). One male has bright blue eyes, $900. 867-993-3633
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Motorcycles & Snowmobiles
For Quick Approval call: 668-5559 #4 Fraser Road, McCrae, Whitehorse, YT Y1A 5S8 EMAIL: woloshyn@northwestel.net
Pets Has your fur buddy slowed down? Return 'spring' to your dogĘźs step. Older or injured dogs benefit from Glucosamine and MSM. Tasty pharmaceutical grade powder. Dosage based on weight. 332-7828
TAITĘźS CUSTOM TRAILER SALES 2-3-4- place snowmobile & ATV trailers Drive on Drive off 3500 lb axles by Trailtech - SWS & Featherlight CALL ANYTIME: 334-2194 www/taittrailers.com
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
PETMATE NAVIGATOR dog kennel suitable for 30-50 lb dog, high end model, used only once, 32X21X23, new $200, asking $100. 667-4463
2014 Dodge Ram 1500 Crewcab 4x4 SLT
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Recreational Powersports and Marine (RPM) Repairs Service, repair and installations for snowmobiles, ATVs, motorcycles, chainsaws, marine and more Qualified and experienced mechanic Great rates! Call Patrick at 335-4181 RONĘźS SMALL ENGINE SERVICES Repairs to Snowmobiles, Chainsaws, Lawnmowers, ATVĘźs, Small industrial equipment. Light welding repairs available 867-332-2333 lv msg
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 2009 HONDA 500 quad, loaded, power steering, windshield w/storage, heated handgrips, newer mudbug tires, electronic shift, winch, trailer hitch, cold weather start, skid protection, great condition, $5,700 firm. 633-5495
DRIVE PARTS for 2001 Sportsman 6x6 or complete unit if ĘťdeadĘź. 332-7797
Marine PROFESSIONAL BOAT REPAIR Fiberglass Supplies Marine Accessories FAR NORTH FIBERGLASS 49D MacDonald Rd Whitehorse, Yukon 393-2467 1984 ZETA 24' Hard Top, 350/260 leg, 15hp kicker, dingy, barbecue, galley, head, canvas enclosure, fishfinder, radio, sleeps 5, tandem trailer, rough water boat, bottom paint, many extras, reasonable offers. 332-1374
Heavy Equipment SKIDDER 550 Timberjack, fresh motor, has 4000L water tank, large winch, full blade, $20,000. Can be leased. 335-5192 WATER TRUCK, 1984 W900 and 4000 gal tank Bowie pump, fire hose manifold, new tires, certified, $22,200. Can be leased. 335-5192
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
2009 BOBCAT CT 440, 44hp tractor w/backhoe & many other attachments, $25000. Can be leased. 335-5192
2001 SKANDIC wide track, 2,500 original kms, 300km on new pistons, rings & head gasket, $5,900. 689-5288
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
2005 POLARIS SwitchBack 600 very good condition, looks & rides like new, $3,200 obo. 399-3904 SKI-DOO, DOUBLE track, c/w tow behind Ski-boose on skis. 668-2332 SKI-DOO MODEL 3500, seats 2, + hitch. 668-2332 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 POLARIS RAZOR side by side, for sale or trade for Skandic Skidoo of equal value, $7,500. 336-3922
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CHEQUE CASHING
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
Aircraft TENT HANGAR at YXY, $25,000 obo. Bruce 334-3153
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 2 PLACE tilt-deck snowmobile or quad trailer. 8'X10' w/security bars for sleds, well built. 7 pin plug, good lights & tires w/spare. Could use a new deck, $900 obo. 633-5495
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THE ALZHEIMER/DEMENTIA Family Caregiver Support Group meets monthly. Group for family/friends caring for someone with Dementia. Info call Joanne 668-7713 YUKON LEARN Society is offering free computer courses, Introduction to Computers, Internet & Email, Word & Excel. Instructor on site. Call 668-6280 xt 223 for details HOSPICE YUKON: Free, confidential services offering compassionate support to all those facing advanced illness, death and bereavement. Visit our lending library @ 409 Jarvis, M-F 11:30-3PM. 667-7429, www.hospiceyukon.net AL-ANON MEETINGS, 667-7142. Has your life been affected by someoneʟs drinking? Wednesday 12Noon @ Anglican Church, 4th & Elliott, back door, Friday 7pm Lutheran Church, 4th & Strickland, beginnerʟs meeting, Friday 8pm Lutheran Church regular meeting FREE DIGITAL Skills for the Work World program November 23 to December 4. Learn computer/workplace skills for finding and keeping employment. 2 week program. Call Julie Anne Ames, Yukon Learn 668-6280 MENTAL HEALTH Caregiver Support Group for those caring or supporting a friend or family member with mental illness, third Thursday each month. 7-9pm, #4 Hospital Road, 1st floor. Call 667-8346 LEARN GERMAN over a cup of coffee at the Birch & Bear Cafe (Waterfront Station) Saturdays, 2pm-3pm. Call Renate 334-6948 VFWC GIRLS & Trans Club! Thursdays at 3:30, meet for fun, bonding food and feminism for free! Victoria Faulkner Womenʟs 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 YUKON LEARN Society free Computer Drop-in Lab every Monday, excluding holidays, from 10 am – 2 pm. Self-Directed Computer studies; Instructor on site. Visit 2158 2nd Ave or call 668-6280 WHOLE CHILD Program AGM. November 16, 6pm-7:30pm, Whitehorse Elementary School, downstairs, Room 10. Contact Cathy Robertson for information, 334-1384 ELIZABETH FRY AGM, November 17 at 5pm, Unit 23, Horwoods Mall 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. 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. 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
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Friday, November 13, 2015 YUKON RIVER Trail Marathon (BARA) AGM Wednesday November 18th, 5pm, #203-1191 Front Street. Info: yukonmarathon@gmail.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 THE ALL-CITY Band Society AGM is Thursday, November 19th, 2015, 8:30 pm, Porter Creek Secondary School CHRISTMAS CRAFT Fair, basement of 600 College Drive Senior Residence, Saturday November 28, 9am to 2pm. Crafts, baking and much more. 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 GET YOUR entry form for Humane Society Yukon's first non-competitive Talent/No Talent Show at Bailey's Pub & Grill November 14, 2015 at Plantation Flowers and Gifts, the Mae Bachur Animal Shelter or Baileys. Entry fee $5. SUPPORT THE Humane Society Yukon at Bailey's Pub & Grill for the first Talent/No Talent Show on November 14, 2015. Showtimes 6pm-8pm for 18 & under, 9pm-12pm for 19 years & over. Admission $5, entry fee $5. FIDDLEHEADS AGM, November 30, 2015, 6pm, at Selkirk Elementary School. For more information, please call Gisela at 821-4344 or email giginiedermeyer@gmail.com. HEART OF Riverdale Community Centre AGM 7PM Sunday, November 29th @ 38A Lewes BLVD upstairs. All welcome. Info@theheartofriverdale.com. 667-6700 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 HEART OF Riverdale Kids TV club ages 9-14, Nov4-Dec16 @ 38 Lewes Blvd. Info@theheartofriverdale or call at 667-6700. Free Program. 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
YUKON NEWS DANCE GATHERING Nov 14 @ LʼAFY, 302 Strickland 8-930pm. Join us for a monthly let-loose shake-it move-stretch sweat-smile evening. Adults, mature teens. Entrance by donation. whitehorsedancegathering@gmail.com FASSY PARENT/CAREGIVER Support Meeting, Thursday November 26 at 6:30pm, 4141B 4th Ave. Come and share your experiences, wisdom and knowledge. 393-4948
JOIN U S at the Second Annual Share-The-Spirit Pancake Breakfast, Porter Creek Secondary School, Thursday, December 3rd, 7am–10:00am, $5.00/plate. All proceeds go to Share-The-Spirit Campaign to provide Christmas gifts/hampers to needy families.
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December 15, 1928 – October 29, 2015 Pelly Crossing, YT Bob passed away peacefully at his home in Pelly Crossing with his wife Linch (Van Bibber) Curry by his side. He was predeceased by their two sons, David and Wayne. Bob is survived by brother, Don (Cecile) and sisters, Irene; Laurene; Doreen (Wally); and Opal. He also leaves behind many relatives and old friends throughout the Yukon and Western Canada and his “adopted” son Jake. Bob was born in Claresholm, Alberta and arrived in the Yukon in 1948. He was a first rate truck driver, driving ore trucks for Keno Hill, Cassiar and Clinton Creek. After Clinton Creek mine closed, he worked for Yukon Government highways department before retiring to Pelly Crossing. Bob was inducted into the Yukon Transportation Hall of Fame in 1997. Bob was also a great outdoorsman. He and Linch traveled up and down the Pelly and Yukon Rivers hunting and just enjoying the bush life. Bob loved all animals, it didn’t matter if they were wild or tame. He always had several dogs, usually rescued. Bob had pet ravens and he fed flocks of seagulls, birds, foxes and even the odd squirrel. Despite his failing health, he remained fiercely independent. Bob is remembered for his wry sense of humour and fondness for teasing, his legendary stubborn nature and great generosity. He will be deeply missed by all of his family, friends and dogs (Ralph, Angel, Ginger and Bubbles) but, especially by Linch. Notice of Celebration of life will be announced.
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. 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 QUEER YUKON: upcoming social events for the LGBTQ community and allies. www.queeryukon.com THE ANNUAL Food Bank AGM is on December 2nd, 6pm, at the Food Bank. It is open to the public. If you have any questions or concerns, please contact us at 393-2265. TALES FROM the Trails, A Moving Storytelling Experience by Gwaandak Theatre, November 19, Yukon Transportation Museum, appetizers, door prizes, silent auction, cash bar. $30, tickets at the door. Info: 393-2676 JAZZ ON the Wing. Clarinetist James Danderfer Trio. New Orleanʼs jazz at its best. Arts Centre, November 22, 7:30pm. Tickets: yukontickets.com or 667-8574. Info: jazzyukon.ca COFFEE HOUSE Saturday December 5, 2015. Featuring Lianne Cranfield + the Open Stage. Help set up 6pm + open stage sign-up, 7:30pm show, $5, bsmt United Church, 6th + Main. 633-4255 KIDS KREATE, free family art class at the Yukon Arts Centre, December 13, from 1–4pm, Holiday Crafts. Call 393-7109 for more information HOSPICE WORKSHOP: LIVING with Loss, Thursday November 19, 6:30-8:30pm at WPL for anyone living with grief or supporting others who are grieving. To register: 667-7429 DANCE IMPROV workshop: The Space Wants You with local artist Aimee Dawn Robinson. Part of Gwaandak Theatreʼs Ensemble Theatre Training Series. All levels welcome. Nov. 16, 6-8:30pm, YAC Studio. Register at 393-2676 KIDS KREATE, free family art class at the Yukon Arts Centre, November 22 from 1–4pm. Crafting lanterns for the Winterval Parade. Call 393-7109 for more information
Gloria Adamson Nänshiá April 12, 1960 to December 23, 2013
JANUARY 17, 1931 TO NOVEMBER 6, 2015
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Frances Joe was born on January 17, 1931 at Hutshi Village, Yukon. She was the second eldest in a family of eight children born to Harry Joe and Jessie Hume. Frances lived her whole life, 84-plus years in the Yukon. Frances lived a subsistence lifestyle with her parents and other siblings at traplines at Braeburn, Yukon and Dezadeash Lake, Yukon. She also harvested salmon at Klukshu Village with her family in summer months. Frances was taught to sew and decorate moccasins and make her own traditional dolls with her sister Kathy and other family members. Frances enjoyed living on the land, including picking berries and snaring small game. She also enjoyed sewing, all craft work, canning and preparing traditional foods, walking, skidooing, travelling to foreign countries, reading, telling stories (she was a great story teller), and Frances loved to shop for her many nephews and nieces. Frances attended the Choutla Residential School in Carcross, Yukon with her other siblings and also later attended the Whitehorse Indian Mission School in Whitehorse, Yukon. Frances also received a Diploma in Practical Nursing from the Yukon Vocation School in the early 1960s, and worked at Whitehorse General Hospital for 35 years. Frances never married, however she did adopt two boys as her sons, Kevin and Mike, and they lived happy and productive lives. Frances loved the subsistence lifestyle and all that it entailed, including the annual Christmas family dinners and the annual Easter activities at Dezadeash Lake. Frances enjoyed the Bible stories, and the traditional stories and legends of her Champagne and Aishihik First Nations’ ancestors; as well she loved to tell of her youthful adventures to her nieces and nephews. A Funeral Service will be held on Friday, November 13th at the Da Ku Cultural Center in Haines Junction at 1:00 pm.
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TOONIE TABLE Tennis Tournament Saturday, November 21, Whitehorse Elementary, for boys & girls born in 2001 or later. Registration at 10am. Info at 668-3358 YAC TALKS at the Old Fire Hall: Yukon's Maker Spaces Splintered Craft & YuKonstruct. Free, all welcome. Thursday November 19 from 5:30-6:30. Call for more information 393-7109
EXPRESSION OF INTEREST PROVISION OF CALL CENTRE AND EMERGENCY NOTIFICATION SERVICES The Department of Community Services is requesting information for future procurement planning purposes from interested parties for the provision of after-hours Call-centre services and Emergency Notification services for the Yukon Emergency Measures Organization This EOI is not a tender and will not be used to evaluate, select, or pre-qualify vendors for a future competitive procurement process, if any. Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title and will be received at: Electronic copies may be sent by e-mail to Michael Templeton, Michael.Templeton@gov.yk.ca, (867) 667-5220. Hard copies may be delivered or mailed/ couriered to, Community Services, (Courier/Hand Deliver Only) 60 Norseman Road Whitehorse, Yukon Y1A 636 Canada Post PO Box 2703 Mail Code EMO Whitehorse, Yukon Y1A 2C6 The closing date for submissions is before 4:00 PM on December 9, 2015. Technical questions may be directed to Michael Templeton at (867) 667-5220. Interested parties may obtain information from www.hpw.gov. yk.ca/tenders/tms.html Interested parties may obtain the information package from www.hpw. gov.yk.ca/tenders/ or by contacting the Procurement Support Centre.
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Friday, November 13, 2015
YUKON NEWS YUKON CARES - Community potluck Tuesday, November 17th 6 to 7:30 pm CYO Hall 4th and Steele. All welcome. Learn of efforts to bring a Syrian refugee family here. Email: yukon.cares@gmail.com
FREE BOARD Game Drop-In @ Whitehorse Public Library Meeting Room, Sun. Nov. 22nd, 12-4pm. Games provided, all are welcome! Hosted by the Yukon Comic Culture Society. More info: info@yukomicon.com
STARLITE NORTH ARTWORKS presents Poinsettias Under the Midnight Sun. Beginners acrylic painting class December 9th, 6 to 9 p.m. $75.00/ supplies provided, snacks and coffee. Instructor Wendy Thompson 456-2140
HEART OF Riverdale Flea Market and Open House Sunday December 6th, 1-5pm. $20/space or $30/space & table. Email: info@theheartofriverdale.com or (867)-667-6700
YUKON BIRD Club trip, Nov. 18. Yukon River at the Rotary Centennial foot-bridge. Meet at Fish Ladder 12 p.m. Dress warm! (1 hr)
PUBLIC TENDER STANDING OFFER AGREEMENT FOR THE SUPPLY AND DELIVERY OF CALCIUM CHLORIDE TO VARIOUS LOCATIONS IN YUKON 2016 IN BAG FORMAT Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title. The closing date for submissions is December 7, 2015. Please refer to the procurement documents for the closing time and location. Documents may be obtained from the Procurement Support Centre, Department of Highways and Public Works, Suite 101 - 104 Elliott Street, Whitehorse, Yukon (867) 667-5385. Technical questions may be directed to Jenny Richards at jenny.richards@gov.yk.ca. All tenders and proposals are subject to a Compliance Review performed by the Procurement Support Centre. The information displayed is the date and time of opening and is not modified based on the results of the Compliance Review. The highest ranked or lowest priced submission may not necessarily be accepted. This tender is subject to Chapter Five of the Agreement on Internal Trade. View or download documents at: www.hpw.gov.yk.ca/tenders/
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Box 308 Dawson City, YT Y0B 1G0 PH: 867-993-7400 FAX: 867-993-7434 www.cityofdawson.ca
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2016 YUKON Grad Extravaganza and Autumn Moon Festival Dancers and Models. Sun Matinee, 2 pm Nov 29th. Grad Musicians in the Lobby at 1pm, Yukon Arts Centre, $17.
LOG CABINS: Professional Scribe Fit log buildings at affordable rates. Contact: PF Watson, Box 40187, Whitehorse, YT, Y1A 6M9 668-3632 BACKHAULS, WHITEHORSE to Alberta. Vehicles, Furniture, Personal effects etc. Daily departures, safe secure dependable transportation at affordable rates. Please call Pacific Northwest Freight Systems @ 667-2050
SUNDAY BRUNCH at the Marsh Lake Community Centre on Sunday, November 29th at 10am. Southwestern style menu with Christmas flair. Adults $15, kids $5. To reserve, call 660-4999 SNOWBALL CHRISTMAS Dinner and Dance at Marsh Lake Community Centre on Saturday, December 5th. Great meal, live music with Soul Migration. Tickets $25. 660-4999
Services ELECTRICIAN •Licensed •General Handyman Services •Light Carpentry, Drywall, etc •Free Estimates •10% Seniorʼs Discount September Sale 10% off all jobs booked through October 334-0974
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JOURNEYMAN CARPENTER/PAINTER 30 years experience Commercial-Residential •Renovations •Repairs •Kitchens •Bathrooms •Drywall Tiles •Decks •Fine Finishing and Painting No job too small Local references available Phone 335-8924 bradmre@gmail.com PASCAL REGINE PAINTING PASCAL AND REGINE Residential - Commercial Interior-Exterior Ceilings, Walls Textures, Floors Spray work Small drywall repair Excellent quality workmanship Free estimates pascalreginepainting@northwestel.net 633-6368 IBEX BOBCAT SERVICES “Country Residential Snow Plowing” All Subdivisions & acreages off Mayo Rd, MacPherson, Hidden Valley, Pilot Mountain & Hot Springs Rd. Honest & Prompt Service Call 667-4981 or 334-6369
MARSH LAKE SOLID WASTE FACILITY MAINTENANCE Project Description: Provide ongoing site maintenance at the Marsh Lake Solid Waste Facility. Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title. The closing date for submissions is December 3, 2015. Please refer to the procurement documents for the closing time and location. Documents may be obtained from the Procurement Support Centre, Department of Highways and Public Works, Suite 101 - 104 Elliott Street, Whitehorse, Yukon (867) 667-5385. Technical questions may be directed to Tony Radford at anthony.radford@gov.yk.ca. All tenders and proposals are subject to a Compliance Review performed by the Procurement Support Centre. The information displayed is the date and time of opening and is not modified based on the results of the Compliance Review. The highest ranked or lowest priced submission may not necessarily be accepted. View or download documents at: www.hpw.gov.yk.ca/tenders/
Acquisition and Operation of Dawson City Cable System City of Dawson, YK | Closing Date: November 30, 2015
The City of Dawson calls for Letters of Interest to negotiate with the City to purchase the cable system, upgrade the system and continue to operate it. For an information package, please contact Joanne Van Nostrand, Director of Finance and Administration, City of Dawson at jvannostrand@cityofdawson.ca Conditions of Call for LOI’s: 1. This request for Letters of Interest is not a bid solicitation. By responding to this request, the respondent acknowledges that neither it nor the City intends to create any legal obligations with each other. 2. If there is only one respondent, the City may at its option, choose to negotiate sale of the cable system to that respondent without a further Request of Proposals (“RFP”) process or it may choose to invite RFP’s. Therefore, any party that may be interested in purchasing the cable system should respond to this Call for LOI’s in order to participate in any further sale processes. 3. By responding to this request, respondents agree that any information submitted to the City of Dawson may be used by the City in the development of a subsequent competitive RFP. 4. The City is not required to accept any Expression of Interest or to consider it further in any associated documents such as a RFP. 5. The issuance of this request for Letters of Interest does not create an obligation for the City to issue a subsequent RFP, and does not bind or require the City legally or otherwise, to enter into any agreement or to accept any suggestions from any respondent.
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MC RENOVATION Construction & Renovations Laminated floor, siding, decks, tiles Kitchen, Bathroom, Doors, Cabinets, Windows, Framing, Board, Painting Drop Ceiling, Fences No job too small Free estimates Michael 336-0468 yt.mcr@hotmail.com
BUSY BEAVERS Pruning, Hauling, and General Labour Call Francois & Katherine 456-4755 TLC Continuing Care & Homecare Services Certified, licensed, bondable, safe, reliable Works with all ages Certified nursing home attendant Also available for escort services to appointments and shopping 334-7405 PROFESSIONAL BUTCHER •35 years experience •Will come to your home and cut your Bison meat to your preference for $350 Wrapping extra - $150 Ken (Buck) @ 336-1701 with voice mail KLONDIKE WOODWORK Finishing Carpentry & Renovations For Clean, Meticulous & Tasteful Quality Work INTERIOR •Kitchen & Bathrooms, Flooring, •Design & organization of walk-in closets, laundry & storage room, garage •Wood & Laminate, Stairs. EXTERIOR •Decks, Fences, Insulation, Siding, Storage Shed 633-2156 or cell 334-2156
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Liquor Corporation
LIQUOR ACT ✓New Licence ❑ Existing Licence ❑ TAKE NOTICE THAT, Asahi Ya Japanese Restaurant Inc., of 23 Black Bear Lane, Whitehorse, Yukon Y1A 6J4, is making application for a Food Primary - All liquor licence(s), in respect of the premises known as Asahi Ya Japanese Restaurant situated at 309 Jarvis Street in Whitehorse, Yukon. Any person who wishes to object to the granting of this application should file their objection in writing (with reasons) to: President, Yukon Liquor Corporation 9031 Quartz Road Whitehorse, Yukon Y1A 4P9 no later than 5:00pm on the 2nd day of December, 2015 and also serve a copy of the objection by registered mail upon the applicant. The first time of publication of notice is November 13, 2015. The second time of publication of notice is November 20, 2015. The third time of publication of notice is November 27, 2015. Any questions concerning this specific notice are to be directed to Licensing & Inspections, Yukon Liquor Corporation 867-667-5245 or toll-free 1-800-661-0408, x 5245.
PROJECT DIRECTOR SERVICES The Government of Yukon is pleased to invite proposals from qualified and experienced individuals who can provide Project Director Services in connection with the development of the Whistle Bend Continuing Care Project. This procurement is being managed by Partnerships British Columbia. For more information visit bcbid.gov.bc.ca and search for tender 7265. Please direct all inquiries about this RFP to dawn.hart@partnershipsbc.ca
Government
Yukon Water Board – Application Notice Office des eaux du Yukon – Avis de demande Application Number Numéro de la demande
Applicant/Licensee Demandeur/Titulaire
Water Source Location Point d’eau/Lieu
Type of Undertaking Type d’entreprise
Deadline for Comments 4:00pm Date limite pour commentaires, avant 16 h
AG15-040 (Renewal of AG95-001)
LaPrairie Bison Ranch
Stony Creek, Tributary of Takhini River
Agriculture
November 23, 2015
Any person may submit comments or recommendations, in writing, by the deadline for notice. Applications are available for viewing on the Yukon Water Board’s online registry, WATERLINE at http://www.yukonwaterboard.ca or in person at the Yukon Water Board office. For more information, contact the Yukon Water Board Secretariat at 867-456-3980.
Toute personne peut soumettre ses commentaires ou ses recommandations à l’Office avant la date limite indiquée sur le présent avis. Pour voir les demandes, consultez le registre en ligne WATERLINE au http://www.yukonwaterboard.ca ou rendez-vous au bureau de l’Office des eaux du Yukon. Pour de plus amples renseignements, veuillez communiquer avec le secrétariat de l’Office au 867-456-3980.
Friday, November 13, 2015
DOKIC INC. •30 years experience •Commercial & Residential Renovations & Repairs •Flooring•Hardwood•Laminate •Tiles•Stonework •Fine Finishing •Reliable & High Standard of Craftsmanship •Free Estimates 335-8984
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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
ONE-PIECE BOYʼS 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
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NEW LICENSED DAY HOME open in Mary Lake. Level 3 care provider with extensive experience. Spaces available during the day and after school. Please contact Jonelle for further information at 456-2870.
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Furniture
Book Your Ad Today! 4 s & E: wordads@yukon-news.com LONG TIME operating Day Care Business in Whitehorse for sale. Owner is retiring. Call 335-8640 for details
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 COUCH/HIDE-A-BED, SIMMONS, pink/grn floral, folds out to double bed, exc cond, $350. 633-5774 KITCHEN TABLE, 6 chairs, 1 leaf, good cond, $200. 633-5774
Sports Equipment
HOUSEHOLD BELONGINGS, all in great condition, everything must go. Call or email for viewing: hea1lth@yahoo.ca. 334-0248
STEP BENCH, c/w 6 risers, excellent condition, $40; dumbbell set for women 10, 8 & 5 lbs, $20. 633-5085
CHOCOLATE BROWN wooden dresser, 3 drawers, 33.5”Hx16”Wx15.5”L, $35; heavy duty metal office self-adjustable shelves, 76”Hx38”Wx15”D, $80. 660-4321
TOYO SKI wax iron, T8 800 watt, new in box, $60. 660-5545
CEDAR STORAGE cabinet, 4 doors, 32.5”Lx11.5”Dx92”H, $75; beige sofa-slipper chair, $50; matching large ottoman, $45;. 660-4321
BUXTON SNOWBOARD helmet, sz medium. 668-2253
Livestock QUALITY YUKON MEAT No hormones, steroids or additives Grass raised grain finished. Hereford beef - $5.50/lb Domestic wild boar - $7/lb Order now for guaranteed spring or fall delivery. Whole, half or custom order. Samples available 668-7218 • 335-5192 HORSE HAVEN HAY RANCH Irrigated Timothy/Brome mix No weeds or sticks Small squares 60 lbs plus 4 ft x 5 ft rounds 800 lb Free delivery for larger orders Straw square bales available 335-5192 • 668-7218
NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND CLAIMANTS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF
MICHAEL ANDREW GLADISH Deceased, of Whitehorse, Yukon Territory who died on
June 29, 2015. All persons having claims against the above-mentioned Estate are requested to file a claim, supported by Statutory Declaration, with Bhreagh D. Dabbs, on or before December 4, 2015, after which date the Estate will be distributed having reference only to claims which have been so filed. All persons indebted to the Estate are requested to make immediate payment to: AUSTRING, FENDRICK & FAIRMAN Attention: Bhreagh D. Dabbs Barristers and Solicitors 3081 Third Avenue Whitehorse, Yukon Y1A 4Z7
CITIZENS ON PATROL. Do you have concerns in your neighborhood & community? Be part of the solution! Volunteer valuable time to the C.O.P.S. program. With your eyes & ears we can help stomp out crime. Info: RCMP 867-667-5555 DRUG PROBLEM? Narcotics Anonymous meetings Wed. 7pm-8pm #2 - 407 Ogilvie St. BYTE Office
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“Atlin In The City” Christmas Arts & Crafts Sale
Sunday, November 22, 11am to 3pm. In the Atrium at Northern Vision Place (the old Canadian Tire Store). 25+ Atlin artisans.
FRI. 7pm-8:30pm 4071 - 4th Ave Many Rivers Office
CHILDRENʼS CLOTHING in excellent condition, given freely the first & third Saturday monthly at the Church of the Nazarene, 2111 Centennial. 633-4903
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Saturday, November 28th, The Old Fire Hall, 11 am – 4 pm. A collection of artisans embracing creative reuse. Call Darren at 667-6116 for more info.
GOLDEN AGE Society, 4061-4th Ave, downtown, Saturday November 14, 9am-1pm, Christmas decorations sale for Swaziland Educational Trust Society UNIT #348H Keep It Storage, Kulan Subdivision. Friday to Sunday, November 13, 14, 15. Storage Unit Sale. Everything must go. Call for viewing or drop by. 334-0248 602 KATHLEEN Rd, Crestview. Saturday & Sunday, Nov 14 & 15. 10am-3pm. Booties, handcrafted by Granny in the Yukon. 633-3555
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Saturday November 28th, 16 Thompson Road, Granger, 10 am - 3 pm Basket Bonanza, Fireweed Stamping, Cathy’s Creations, Tupperware. One stop shopping for Christmas.
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17th Annual Littlest Art & Craft Fair
Saturday, December 5th, 56 Carpiquet, Takhini North, 10 am – 4 pm. A celebration of Yukon Made, Fine Craft.
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CKES Christmas Craft Fair Saturday, November 14th, 10am-3pm, Christ The King Elementary School, 20 Nisutlin Drive, Riverdale. Call Paula at 633-2724 to book a table or for more information. Tagish Christmas Craft Fair & Pancake Breakfast Sunday, November 15th, 9:30am-12noon, Tagish Community Hall. $20 full table or $10 for half a table. 399-3407.
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Christmas Bazaar Bake Table & Tea, Saturday, November 21st, 11am-2pm, Hellaby Hall, Christ Church Cathedral, 4th & Elliot. Hosted by Anglican Church Women.
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Global Village Craft Fair Saturday, November 21st, 11am-3pm, The Old Fire Hall. Hosted by YDEC. Fair Trade Crafts from 10,000 Villages, India, Ethiopia, Nepal, Mongolia, Haiti, Ghana
CLASSIC 30 year old, solid wood dresser and drawer cabinet, 63” long, large attached mirror, great shape, $375. 633-3113
Christmas Spruce Bog Craft & Gift Sale, Saturday. November 21st, 11am-5pm, Canada Games Centre. Hosted By Yukon Crafts Society. Opens at 10:15am for seniors (60+) & persons with mobility difficulties.
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Cranberry Fair Sunday, November 22nd, 11am-4pm, Kwanlin Dun Cultural Centre. Hosted by Northern Fibres Guild. Opens at 10:30am for persons with mobility issues. Info/Applications 335-0461, cranberryfair@ live.com. Supported by Arts Operating Fund
Kakuro:
Tagish Christmas Craft Fairs, Wednesdays, November 25th, December 2nd, 9th, 16th, 2pm-4pm, Tagish Community Hall. $5 for a table. 399-3407.
Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title. The closing date for submissions is December 3, 2015. Please refer to the procurement documents for the closing time and location. If documents are available they may be obtained from Yukon Housing Corporation, 410 Jarvis Street, Whitehorse, Yukon. Technical questions may be directed to Robert Kostelnik at Robert.Kostelnik@gov.yk.ca.
Christmas Craft Fair Saturday, November 28th, 2015, 11am-3pm, Atlin Recreation Centre. Contact Lynn Turnbull to book a table, 250-651-7663 Christmas Craft Fair & Open House Saturday, November 28th, 10am-4pm. Crafts, snacks, Santa! Find out more on our webpage. Hosted by Kwanlin Dun Cultural Centre & Whitehorse Public Library.
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Craft Fair at the Marsh Lake Community Centre Sunday, November 29th, 11am-3pm. Vendor tables $15. To reserve, call 660-4999.
Site visit November 18, 2015 11:00 am at 3090-3rd Ave.
Christmas Craft Fair in support of The Child Development Centre.
All tenders and proposals are subject to a Compliance Review performed by the Procurement Support Centre. The information displayed is the date and time of opening and is not modified based on the results of the Compliance Review.
Christmas Craft Fair Sunday, December 6th, noon-4pm, Lorne Mountain Community Centre. Tables $10. Reserve lmca@northwestel.net or 667-7083
The highest ranked or lowest priced submission may not necessarily be accepted. View or download documents at: www.hpw.gov.yk.ca/tenders/
December 5th, 10am-3pm at The Child Development Centre. Have your picture taken with Santa 11-12 & 1-2. For tables contact Rhonda 456-8182.
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First Nations Christmas Craft Fair, Saturday, December 12th, 11.13.2015
OFFICE PROFESSIONAL •28 Years Experience •Set up Balance Ledger/Spreadsheet •Bookkeeping, Accounting, Payroll •Tax preparation/Filing/Notice of Assessment •Consultant/Research •Willing to travel Issues large or small welcome. Phone 334-5499
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10am-4pm, Elijah Smith Elementary School, 1399 Hamilton Blvd. Table bookings by donation, Melanie @ 667-5992 or melanie.bennett@gov.yk.ca
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