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territory as well as Yukon Employees Union, the Yukon FederaNews Reporter tion of Labour, and the plumbers and pipefitters union. he Yukon’s MLAs have Yukoners already get nine agreed to look into making statutory holidays: five federal National Aboriginal Day a ones, plus four designated by the statutory holiday. territory. The NDP had wanted the govApproximately one in four ernment to agree to make June Yukoners identify as being First 21 a holiday starting in 2016. Nations, Metis or Inuit. Instead, an amended bill was First Nation government empassed unanimously on Wednes- ployees get National Aboriginal day agreeing to consult with Day off, but it is not an official Yukon First Nations, employers, holiday. employees and the public about Northwest Territories is the the possibility of making that only jurisdiction in Canada that happen. recognizes the day as a statutory “We have the opportunity paid holiday, Barr said. here today to make this decision But declaring something a and move forward in that direcholiday is not as easy as making tion, to have National Aboriginal an announcement, according to Day a statutory holiday in the Community Services Minister Yukon,� NDP MLA Kevin Barr Currie Dixon. said, “because it is the next right “First of all, the Employment thing to do and to promote the Standards Act would need to be understanding of the importance amended. That would require of indigenous peoples in our legislative amendments to that society, not only the losses, but act to recognize a new holiday,� what is contributed by the first he said. peoples.� “Though it’s not specifically Barr presented a petition required in the Employment signed by 650 people asking for Standards Act, it is normal practhe change. He said he has suptice to consult with the public port from First Nations across the and interested groups – such Ashley Joannou
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Yukon climate delegation returns from Paris
Catherine McKenna, the federal minister of environment and climate change, made news this Premier Darrell Pasloski has week when she endorsed a goal returned to Whitehorse after a of keeping global warming to 1.5 week of meetings and discusdegrees Celsius above the presions at the climate conference industrial average. In general, in Paris. two degrees of warming has been In an interview with the News accepted as the limit to prevent on Thursday, Pasloski said there dangerous climate change. was a feeling of pressure at the Pasloski wouldn’t say whether conference to come up with an he supports McKenna’s position, international agreement to curb but he did say he doesn’t believe climate change. an international agreement will “But I think there was also be reached with a 1.5-degree a lot of excitement that people target. were going to be able to come up Asked whether it would be with a deal,â€? he said. feasible for Canada to aim for The premier said he spoke at the lower limit, he said that a panel with five other Canadian “Canada’s contribution to global premiers on Wednesday morngreenhouse gas emissions is less ing, and that the experience of than two per cent.â€? However, he climate change in the North also noted that Canada is within “resonates.â€? the top 10 global greenhouse gas “I can stand up and tell people emitters. about‌ the Shakwak Highway Pasloski said one area where and how highways that we have Canada can make a difference is that are built on unstable perma- in exporting clean technology to frost cost us‌ six times more a developing countries. He pointed kilometre than other highways.â€? to carbon capture and storage
as First Nations, the business community, NGOs and labour organizations – in order to get their perspective on the potential implications of any changes to Yukon’s statutory holidays.� Someone would have to make sure the changes didn’t conflict with other laws, he said. According to department officials it would take at least a year to get that done. Adding an extra holiday will have an impact on Yukon businesses, so it is important to talk to those businesses before moving forward, said Dixon. “We enthusiastically recognize and celebrate the unique heritage, diverse cultures and outstanding achievements of aboriginal peoples across Canada and here in Yukon. “We will continue to do so, but before we make a decision like creating a new statutory holiday, more work needs to be done. The amendment to this motion charts out a path forward for us that will allow us to do that work in order to see this conversation continue.� Contact Ashley Joannou at ashleyj@yukon-news.com
technology currently being used in Saskatchewan as one example. But NDP Opposition Leader Liz Hanson, who was also in Paris this week, said people see Canada as having a real ability to mitigate the causes of climate change, since the country has a relatively small population and a fairly pristine environment. She said people can’t just focus on adapting to the effects of climate change after it happens. “There seems to be an emphasis on adaptation to climate change,â€? she said. “The real challenge is how are we going to‌ prevent further erosion of our climate.â€? International negotiators in Paris are now aiming to reach a global agreement on Saturday. Liberal Leader Sandy Silver, Council of Yukon First Nations Grand Chief Ruth Massie, youth delegate Sabrina Clarke and officials from Environment Yukon also attended the talks.
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Barriers to becoming a university can be overcome, says Yukon College president ficials from Universities Canada, said the college is giving itself a News Reporter five-year timeline to get everything right. ukon College President Everyone recognizes that it’ll Karen Barnes says she’s take a lot of work, she added. confident the institution “They told us we’re not atypican transition into a university cal from other colleges when they within the next five years, despite began their journey,” she said. facing some daunting obstacles. “They made it very clear According to Universities they’re not there to be gatekeepCanada, the association that ers, they’re there to help us.” sets the criteria for colleges to Barnes said the college is takbecome universities, the majority ing the next 18 months to two of the college’s programs would years to prepare for a visit from have to be degree-level in order Universities Canada. to gain membership. That includes expanding its As it stands, only five of its 50 resources at the library, writing or so programs qualify. new policy and hiring new staff. Moreover, the college would But she expects the entire acneed to have at least 500 full-time creditation process can take up equivalent students (FTEs) for at to five years. least two years before joining. “What we heard from their A commentary recently pubvice-president is that a number lished by Alex Usher, president of steps are required, internally, of Higher Education Strategy to make us a member after they Associates, noted the college only visit. That can sometimes take a had 253 FTEs in 2013-2014, about while, anywhere up to 2020.” a third of its total 748 students in Barnes pointed to increased credit programming. enrollment at the college since “One would need some really 2008 as an encouraging factor big increases in student numbers towards meeting the association’s to change this,” he wrote. criteria. From 2007-08 to 2014-15, The 200 or so extra students Usher found the college enrollhave all been in degree programs, she said. ment numbers have never gone Ian Stewart/Yukon News “We believe there’s a market above 850. Yukon College President Karen Barnes says the school should be out there and we just haven’t had But Barnes, who was in Otable to transition to a university within five years. the programs to attract them tawa this week to meet with ofMyles Dolphin
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(new students) before.” Another idea raised in Usher’s commentary was to have all three territories join forces to create a “serious University of the North.” That came close to happening, about five years ago. All three presidents from the territorial colleges met in Edmonton to discuss that possibility, Barnes said. They looked at different models and there was some appetite to do it, she added, but the changes in governments caused the idea to disappear. “I think the reality is that the three territories are in different places educationally,” Barnes said. “Nunavut has a greater need for basic adult education. Yellowknife is closer for sure, but Whitehorse is really developed in one area and that’s research. “I think that’ll be the difference that will take us along this road quicker.” But she stopped short of saying a unified university can’t exist in the future. All three presidents are meeting in January to discuss a variety of projects, Barnes said. “Who knows? Down the road, that might be what happens.” Contact Myles Dolphin at myles@yukon-news.com
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he Yukon Housing Corporation is looking for developers interested in building low-income rentals. The government is offering to help pay for the development, as long as the rent stays low for at least 10 years. If you’re experiencing a bit of deja vu, that’s because this was essentially the model for a big affordable housing project that was cancelled, amidst much uproar, last year. With a few new rules and significantly less cash, the corporation has decided to test the waters again. It issued two expression of interest requests this week – one for Whitehorse and one for Dawson. Right now all it wants is for people to put their names on a list if they might be interested in building new units by 2018. Last year the government was planning to subsidize developers up to 50 per cent of their development costs if they built rentals and agreed to keep them at or below 95 per cent of median rates. Seventy five units were scheduled to go up using Northern Housing Trust money.
But Yukon’s landlords and realtors complained. They accused the government of giving certain developers a leg-up and potentially flooding the market with cheap rentals. The projects in Whitehorse were cancelled at the last minute. This new plan has some significant differences to its pricey predecessor, said Mary Cameron, the corporation’s director of community partnering and lending. Last year the government had $13 million to dole out. This time they’ve got $1.2 million. The money’s part of a $16 million deal between the territorial government and the Canadian Mortgage and Housing Corporation that was announced in 2014. “I think that’s probably the biggest difference in this model, compared to that model, was the amount of money available to developers and thereby the size which they could construct,” Cameron said. The original project also faced criticisms for not initially having an income cap for prospective renters, though the government did offer to add a $68,000 cap right before things fell apart. Any project that gets money now will have income rules right from the beginning. And unlike the original plan, which was designed for renters
who didn’t qualify for government help but could not afford to buy, this time is specifically for people who qualify for social housing. Cameron says that’s one of the rules to get the CMHC money. In Dawson City the benchmark for qualifying for social housing is $55,927 a year for one-bedroom units and $62,100 for two bedrooms. In Whitehorse those numbers are $49,500 and $54,000 respectively. It’s too early to say what type of projects could get the funding or how the money will be divided up. Cameron said the corporation just wanted to take the pulse of who might be interested. They are looking for people willing to develop eight or more rentals in Whitehorse and Dawson and keep the rent at or below market rate. Doing something this smallscale is probably a good idea, said Yukon Anti-Poverty Coalition co-chair Bill Thomas, especially if you consider what happened last time. “They’re trying to figure out what kind of response they’re going to get by making the procedure pretty straightforward,” he said. “All they want from potential developers is some contact
information and a commitment to further discussions.” Thomas said a project this size is not going to solve the lack of housing in the territory, but is a good step. Cameron suggested people interested in building could also reach out to other funders for help. Thomas said people in town are particularly interested in the federal Liberal government’s election promise for billions in infrastructure spending over the next 10 years. It’s expected to include cash for affordable housing. “I do know that there are certain groups that are already starting to gear up, tactically and strategically, as to how they can get better access to that infrastructure money.” Val Smith, president of the Yukon Real Estate Association, said she’s sent copies of the expressions of interest to the rest of the association to get a sense of where everyone stands, but hasn’t heard back from many people yet. The association maintains that the government should be letting the private market operate, she said. Smith doesn’t have a problem with issuing an expression of interest.
She said she’s glad it has specific details about the rules right from the beginning. “My perception is that $1.2 million isn’t a whole lot of money and isn’t going to, can’t possibly, make any kind of huge harmful impact.” The committee implementing the territory’s housing action plan, which includes the real estate association, is looking for someone to complete a report on housing needs in the Yukon, so that everyone knows where we stand, she said. Like she did with last year’s project, the NDP’s Kate White is questioning the part of this deal that says rents have to stay low for a minimum of 10 years. Since it’s the government’s money, there’s no reason rents couldn’t be mandated to stay low forever, she said. “There’s nothing in place to say it will be a long-term solution because there’s nothing saying that the person that builds these units, after 10 years, can’t do whatever they choose to do. Which is fair, because it has not been written in.” People who might be interested in the territorial money have until Dec. 31 to put their name on the list for further discussions. Contact Ashley Joannou at ashleyj@yukon-news.com
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ive months after it was accidentally damaged during routine cleaning, Keno City’s well is still unusable and water is still being trucked to the community from Mayo. Dwayne Muckosky, director of community operations with the Department of Community Services, was unable to say if or when the well will be safe to use again. For the moment, he said, the government will continue to pump dirty water out of the well in the hopes that cleaner water will replace it. “We just have to keep pumping water from the well and monitor the quality of the water very closely,� he said. “We remain committed to ensuring the residents of Keno have a safe supply of water.� The problem occurred in July, when Whitehorse-based Midnight Sun Drilling tried to scrape down and clean the column of the well. “The lower portions of the well were thought to be solid bedrock, but it turns out it was a bit softer than we had thought,� Muckosky explained. While the contractor was working, there was a “partial collapse� deep down in the well. That collapse caused a large amount of dirt and rock to fall into the aquifer, which means the water being pumped out contains a high level of sediment, or turbidity. Back in July, Muckosky said the well would “be repaired within the next couple of weeks.� But the water still hasn’t cleared up. The latest water sample, taken on Nov. 25, shows a turbidity level of 35.4. Muckosky said that, according to Canadian drinking water quality guidelines, water with a turbidity level higher than
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well. He said that trucking the water from Mayo “has become necessary because water from the Onek site (a nearby mine site) near Keno may be contaminating the village’s groundwater.� But Muckosky said that’s not the case. “We have absolutely no evidence that there’s any relation to activities surrounding the well in that area.� After the well was damaged, he said, the government pumped large quantities of water out of it, hoping to remove all the sediment. That continued until
mid-October. “We had hoped that purging the well would have corrected this issue, but it hasn’t.� Instead, workers are now pumping the water out more slowly, and are taking samples every two weeks. “Really, all we can do is monitor the quality of the water very closely,� Muckosky said. Still, trucking water from Mayo two or three times a week is expensive. Muckosky said each delivery day costs $1,050, up from $700 when the Keno well was working.
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But he said the department has no plans to drill a new well in Keno at the moment. That’s partly because mineral content in the area is so high that a contractor might drill a new well only to find the water undrinkable. “We’re going to try to improve the existing well to get it up to standard so that it can provide the clean and safe drinking water that those residents need,� Community Services Minister Currie Dixon said in the legislative assembly on Monday. “If it’s determined that, in the long run, that is not going to be possible, then we’ll have to look at other options at that point, but we’re not at that stage yet.� Sonia Hepner, a Keno resident, said the government held a community meeting to discuss the situation in November. She appreciates that the department is trucking water from Mayo at no cost to residents, and is trying to fix the problem. But she’s concerned about how difficult it might be to supply the village’s water needs in the summer, when the population grows and there’s more demand for public laundry and shower facilities. She said she would restrict her water use if it were still being trucked from Mayo. She also voiced concerns about having enough water in the community in case of fire. “It’s great to be independent and have your own water supply and be able to take care of yourselves.� Mike Mancini, president of the Keno Community Club, said the water deliveries from Mayo have been going well so far. But he worries the community won’t have a good water source in the long term. “There’s definitely concern that the well is not going to be usable,� he said. “The fact that it got to this point, it is a concern.� Contact Maura Forrest at maura.forrest@yukon-news.com
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hitehorse’s Sixth Avenue is “crumbling� according to members of the Downtown Residents Association, who say the city has been putting off repairs to the road for years. David MacLellan and Nathan Millar addressed members of city council at Monday evening’s meeting. The delegates talked about four resolutions the association recently passed at its annual general meeting, including one to reconstruct Sixth Avenue in 2016. “For those of us who live downtown we think it’s a high priority,� Millar said. “It’s fair to say it’s crumbling.� Speeding and traffic issues have also been a problem over the years. A traffic circle that was put in at the intersection of Black Street and Sixth Avenue has slowed motorists down, he said, but some still speed along Sixth to avoid traffic on Fourth Avenue. “We feel upgrading the road would help deal with that issue,� he said. “It would also help if pedestrian crossings were upgraded
too by putting bulbs at intersections.� Curb extensions, also known as bulb-outs, are a traffic calming measure that extend the sidewalk and reduce the crossing distance for pedestrians. According to Millar, the City has drafted plans to carry out repairs and renovations to the road over the past few years. But with every new capital budget, the plans get postponed. According to the 2013 capital budget, $200,000 was set aside for “preliminary work� on the reconstruction of the road, and $2.5 million was allocated for
2014. In the 2014 budget, $2.7 million was set aside for 2015. And in the 2015 budget, $3,080,000 was set aside for 2017. But so far, no amount has been allocated in the draft 2016 budget, released at last week’s meeting. “The street is in need of urgent safety and infrastructure upgrades,� Millar told members of council. “We’d like to see it included in next year’s budget.� Mayor Dan Curtis told MacLellan and Millar he felt some frustration from their end. He asked them if they knew
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Whitehorse looks to launch rideshare program The City of Whitehorse is gearing up to launch its new rideshare program. Commuters will soon be able to access a website where they can connect with others based on where they live and want to go. The new initiative is part of Whitehorse’s transportation demand management plan, which the City adopted last year. One of the goals is to reduce the number of people who get to work as drivers from the current 75 per cent to 50 per cent, in the next 25 years.
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program urged commuters to visit carpool.ca to find nearby carpooling matches. The program was soon discontinued because participation rates were low, Clohosey said. The request for proposals closed last week and a “few strong submissions� were received, she added. They will be evaluated and the contract will be awarded next week. Clohosey hopes the program can launch at the end of spring.
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how the city’s infrastructure projects were funded. “Are you aware that what the city does is present for Building Canada (funding) for infrastructure projects?� he said. “It gets vetted through the territory or province and it comes back as to which they’ve seen as a priority, not necessarily what we’ve seen as a priority. So your priorities could very much be in line with this council’s. “It’s not really our prerogative to say where that money (allotted to Whitehorse) goes.� Millar said he was surprised by Curtis’s answer. “It’s the first time I’d heard that,� he said. “It did highlight that maybe there’s a bit more communication around how this process works that could be useful to residents.� A public input session for next year’s capital budget is scheduled for Dec. 14, starting at 5:30 p.m. at city hall as part of the regular council meeting. The public input report will be presented to city council on Jan. 4. Second and third reading of the capital budget bylaw is scheduled for Jan. 11.
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Oil and Gas Act amendments passed that we object strongly to Yukon government’s approach,� they wrote. “The Yukon government is expediting amendments to (the mendments to Yukon’s Oil and Gas Act) at the expense of Oil and Gas Act were unanimously passed by the its relationship with Yukon First Nations.� legislative assembly this week, The government has said it but not before the government met twice with First Nations introduced changes to address during the 60-day consultation concerns raised by Yukon First period before the new legislation Nations. was tabled. The amendments allow the But it has met with them government to cancel a well another three times since it relicence if an operator is out of ceived the letter. compliance, and to ensure that And this week, Energy, Mines licence owners are still liable for and Resources Minister Scott a well even after it’s abandoned. Kent introduced two changes That means if environmental to the legislation in response to standards change over time, the those meetings. licence owner will still be on the “I’m happy to report that all hook for bringing the well back matters have been brought to a into compliance. satisfactory conclusion,� he said But another amendment, in the legislature on Monday. “I which allows the minister of very much appreciate this work energy, mines and resources to extend a licence past the 10-year in partnership with our First Nations.� maximum set out in the previThe first change places some ous legislation, was a source of restrictions on licence extencontention with three Yukon First sions. Nations. For instance, permit holders After the legislation was tabled on Oct. 28, the chiefs of Tr’ondek can only apply for extensions beyond 10 years if their work has Hwech’in, Vuntut Gwitchin First been affected by circumstances Nation and the First Nation of that are out of their control and Nacho Nyak Dun sent a letter to that are not “reasonably foreseethe government in protest. They said they hadn’t been adequately able.� They cannot apply for an extension because of a shortage consulted about the changes, of funds or unfavourable market which would have allowed inconditions. definite permit extensions. “We are writing to inform you Jennifer Lee, senior advisor for Maura Forrest News Reporter
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Energy, Mines and Resources Minister Scott Kent said Yukon First Nations are satisfied with changes to the Oil and Gas Act. the oil and gas resources branch of the Department of Energy, Mines and Resources, said bad weather could be one reason for requesting an extension. “It’s got to be something severe,� she said. “Weather that they were not able to overcome.� The minister will decide whether or not to grant extensions. If an extension is granted, it cannot be longer than five years. However, permit holders can ap-
ply for multiple extensions. The second change requires that Yukon First Nations be consulted about any permit extension requests on their traditional territories. “The minister can’t issue an extension beyond 10 years without further consultation,� Lee explained. Lee said the government has received written confirmation from Tr’ondek Hwech’in and Vuntut Gwitchin First Nation that they approve the changes. She said the department has not received a direct response from the First Nation of Nacho Nyak Dun, but it has received approval from the Council of Yukon First Nations. In the legislative assembly on Tuesday, Kent read from a letter sent by a Tr’ondek Hwech’in representative, which said that “TH is content for Bill No. 93 to move ahead.� Tr’ondek Hwech’in Chief Roberta Joseph was unavailable for comment. NDP MLA Jim Tredger, who initially raised concerns about the legislation, supported the changes this week. “I extend my thanks to the Energy, Mines and Resources officials and Yukon First Nations that came together to repair controversial amendments that were originally brought forward with too much haste,� he said in the
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assembly on Wednesday, before the bill was passed. But earlier in the week, Tredger did question whether a lengthy environmental assessment process could be used as reasonable grounds to request an extension. “I have heard from several people concerned that it might – but probably shouldn’t – be used as a valid reason to ask for extensions,� he said. In his response, Kent seemed to suggest that permit holders could ask for extensions if they were required to provide additional information as part of the Yukon Environmental and Socio-economic Assessment Act’s process. “They don’t determine the number of information requests that are made of them and they don’t determine the type of information requests,� he said. “That’s not always within their power to respond to an information request right away.� Northern Cross Yukon, the only oil and gas company doing significant exploration work in the Yukon, has permits that are set to expire in 2017. Kent acknowledged that this was one of the “key timing considerations� around the decision to amend the Oil and Gas Act now. Contact Maura Forrest at maura. forrest@yukon-news.com
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Robin Couch choose to take up the Canadian government’s offer to “repatriate� to Japan like 4,000 others did after 1945? At my parent’s 50th wedding anniversary, my father told the story of why they decided to stay in Canada, and Regina in particular, even though they had experienced discrimination and hardship. He said it was because of the kindness, support and friendship of the family next door and others in the Regina neighbourhood who made a difference to our family. My brother and the neighbour’s son would play and visit at each other’s houses and my mother learned to make apple pie, homemade donuts, pancakes and Ukrainian cabbage rolls from her neighbours. I would not be here today if it were not for the acts of kindness of neighbour to neighbour and employers willing to hire my father. Employers provided opportunities for my father to thrive and support a family of seven children. We are a country that celebrates and recognizes the importance of diversity and equality. The International Day of Human Rights is celebrated on Dec. 10 with this year’s campaign theme of “Our Rights. Our Freedoms. Always.� We must continue to be mindful of the human rights of all people, including that of refugees and immigrants. Let us continue to invest in our refugees and immigrants to ensure opportunity, freedom, equality, security and social cohesion in our community. What investments are we willing to make in these new immigrants and refugees to Canada? What yield will they and other Canadians yield from these investments? I think there is plenty to be gained on both sides. Please join me and others in our community to make the Yukon a welcoming and inclusive place for all. Lillian Nakamura Maguire lives in Whitehorse.
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The $15-million hole in our budget than $200,000. The Yukon Party, on the other hand, cut taxes on the middle class and raised them for people making more than $138,586. In fact, the Yukon Party tax cuts benefited even more people in the lower income brackets than the federal Liberal changes, since they also cut taxes for the lowest three brackets, not just the middle ones. The tax rate for people making less than $44,701 went from 7.04 per cent to 6.40 per cent, for example. Meanwhile, the Yukon Party also introduced a new bracket for people making more than $500,000. Their taxes went up from the former highest rate of 12.76 per cent to 15 per cent. So let’s look at the next suspect. Was it a Tory giveaway to corporations? Again, no. Corporate taxes are still at 15 per cent, where they have been for years. The Yukon’s corporate tax rate is the highest in the country other than P.E.I. and Nova Scotia. Even Alberta’s new NDP government only raised theirs to 12 per cent. The Yukon Party did cut the small business tax rate from four per cent to three per cent. But again, this was already baked into the spring budget numbers. The difference between the corporate tax rate and the small business rate is the subject of an old economist joke: the govern-
ment supports small businesses so much that it wants them to stay small (since if you grow your business from “small” to “medium” your tax rate goes up 12 points). Now that you’ve stopped slapping your knee at that economist humour, let’s move on to the next suspect. If we were playing the board game Clue, this is where you would say, “Was it the Recession in the Resource Sector with the Pipe-Wrench?” Indeed, after three consecutive years of the Yukon economy shrinking we should expect some impact on tax revenues. However, the scale of this year’s revisions is eye-catching. Personal income tax is expected to be down $4.7 million to $64.3 million, a fall of seven per cent. Since the Yukon’s government workers’ wages and taxes are stable, this suggests that private sector workers are taking a beating. Lower tax revenue is consistent with the stories you hear from friends: fewer people working, less overtime, longer time between contracts, and so on. Corporate and small business income is where the biggest hole is. These revenues are down $10.8 million to $15.8 million, a whopping 40 per cent reduction in one year. Yukon companies are making a lot less money. Again, this
is consistent with what we hear about there being fewer projects, less mining activity, minimal oil and gas work and so on. And remember that when struggling Chinese state-owned mining companies don’t pay their bills to Yukon businesses, those businesses have to make write-offs, report lower profits and pay less in tax. We don’t know the exact financial impact of the Wolverine closure, or what Yukon government jobs or programs those revenues would have funded. A $15-million hole appearing in six months is worrying. There are still three months left in the fiscal year, so things could change. There might be an economic revival. Or it could get worse. It will change the tenor of next year’s election campaign. Combined with slowing federal transfers, there will be a lot less money for the three parties to throw around in campaign promises. The numbers aren’t final yet, but it looks like federal transfer payments will go up only around three per cent this year, much lower than the five-to-seven per cent rate we got used to over the last decade. This means there is not much cash left to spend on new things after paying for inflation and the cost-of-living increases of the existing government workforce. If personal
and corporate tax revenues are shrinking too, that exacerbates the problem. If any of the parties want to make big-spending promises, the options are to raise taxes or run deficits. Our taxes are hardly low now, and raising them risks emulating a Nova Scotia-style doom loop of ever-rising taxes on a shrinking tax base. Deficits are possible in the short term, but unless the private sector revives you are basically just stealing transfer payments from future years to spend now. That might be popular, but isn’t good policy. The other option is to keep our taxes where they are, or even a bit lower, and try to attract more investment and people to live here. But that is a long-term strategy, something politicians are not famous for pursuing. A healthy private sector with profitable companies hiring people and paying taxes is part of most people’s vision of the Yukon. One of the ballot questions in next year’s election will be which party has the best approach to help it happen.
Bringing children to take part in Lights of Life can be a wonderHospice Yukon would like to ful way for them to remember a invite all Yukoners to the opening ceremony of the 25th annual loved one who has died. Loss is part of life and we can give chilLights of Life event on Tuesday, dren a lifelong gift by showing Dec. 15. The ceremony begins them positive ways to grieve and at 12:15 p.m. in the foyer of the remember special relationships. Elijah Smith Building. We will be The Lights of Life trees at joined by the Persephone Singers the Elijah Smith Building will and light refreshments will be be available for hanging tags served. after the opening ceremony on Lights of Life provides an opportunity to honour and remem- Tuesday, Dec. 15 until 5 p.m., and weekdays from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. ber a loved one who has died until Dec. 21, and from 8 a.m. with the simple but meaningful to 1 p.m. on Tuesday, Dec. 22. ritual of hanging a memorial tag Hospice volunteers will be there on a Lights of Life tree. to offer support and to provide Christmas can be a difficult information about Hospice Yutime when you are grieving the kon services. loss of a loved one, whether the For those looking for a more loss is new this year or one that quiet and private space they are happened many years ago. Takwelcome to visit the tree at Hosing a few moments to reflect and pice House during office hours, hang a remembrance tag can be 11:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. weekdays a healing ritual during the busy from now until Wednesday Dec. holiday season. You may choose 23. to spend a few moments on Please check our website for a your own, come with a friend or full list of Lights of Life tree locaco-worker, or come as a family. tions. Many Yukon communities Many Yukoners come to Lights of are hosting their own grieving Life as an annual holiday tradiritual with memory trees. Comtion. munities should check their own There are several ways in bulletin boards for more inforwhich to honour a loved one at mation, or the Hospice Yukon Lights of Life. You may hang a website (www.hospiceyukon. net). remembrance tag on a Lights of Lights of Life is made possible Life tree, take one home to hang by the many volunteers and local on your own tree, write in the Memory Book, or just sit for a few businesses who give generously of their time and other contribumoments in quiet contemplations to this meaningful program tion. There are several trees, includ- each year. Thank you all once again. ing a “child tree” to remember children who have died, or for children to remember their loved Stacey Jones ones who have died. There is also Executive Director a pet tree to honour beloved pets. Hospice Yukon Society
Dempster Highway may lose ‘the Magic and the Mystery’
And NCY also states that, if they find oil, every 5,000 barrels will require another 14 trucks per day! That’s a lot of trucks! I have lived and worked on the Dempster Highway for over 40 years and I know that given a couple of days of rain that kind of big truck traffic will make sections of the road impassable without constant maintenance. And then there will be the resulting effect on tourism once the word spreads that the Dempster Highway is no longer what it has become internationally known for – an attractive tourist destination. The “Magic and the Mystery” will disappear and we will be left with “Larger than Life” trucks throwing rocks and mud (or dust, depending on the weather) at our visitors. (2015 was a record year for visitors at the Tombstone Centre: 15,000!) So looking at the economy and the very important contribution from tourism, you might want to consider what taking the Dempster Highway out of the picture as a tourist destination would amount to in terms of
dollars in Yukon’s budget. Rental agencies probably won’t even allow their vehicles to be driven on the Dempster Highway. And then, of course, all these trucks are not going to levitate at the “Dempster Corner” – they will be continuing on down the Klondike Highway and through Whitehorse on the Alaska Highway.
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here is a $15,484,000 hole in the Yukon government budget. When the spring budget was tabled, finance officials expected $95.6 million in corporate and personal income tax revenues this fiscal year. In the recent supplementary estimates, this figure had fallen to $80.1 million. What gives? Is this Tory tax cuts for the rich in action? No, actually. The Yukon Party announced tax cuts in the spring budget, but these revenue reductions were already baked into the $95.6 million number. And anyway, the Yukon tax cuts weren’t for the rich. In fact, although Justin Trudeau somehow forgot to mention it during the election campaign, the federal Liberal tax policy looks weirdly similar to what the Yukon Party did in the spring. The federal Liberals cut taxes on the middle class, and raised them for people making more
Keith Halliday is a Yukon economist and author of the MacBride Museum’s Aurore of the Yukon series of historical children’s adventure novels. He won this year’s Ma Murray award for best columnist. You can follow him on Channel 9’s “Yukonomist” show.
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Open letter to Angus Robertson, deputy minister of the Department of Highways: Congratulations on your recent appointment. I am wondering if, in getting settled in your new position, you have had the time yet to look at just how much the maintenance budget for the Dempster Highway will have to be increased should Northern Cross Yukon (NCY) be permitted to go ahead with its proposed exploration program at Eagle Plains? In reviewing the NCY proposal currently before Yukon Environmental and Socio-economic Assessment Board it is hard to determine just how many semitrucks per day they will require. The “daily traffic” graph in their submission makes no sense. However, in the same document, the “estimated round trip southern traffic per month” indicates that during the peak periods, mid-January to mid-February and mid-July to mid-August, the average number of semi-trucks might be 288 to 376 per month.
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‘Sacred obligation’: Trudeau, Liberals launch new era with aboriginal communities At one point during Trudeau’s appearance, he was wrapped Canadian Press in a ceremonial blanket, to OTTAWA the delight of the crowd. An he leaders of Canada’s First AFN spokesman described the blanket as a gift meant to convey Nations swaddled Justin respect and protect the prime Trudeau in a ceremonial minister from harm. blanket Tuesday as they emFinance Minister Bill braced the newly elected prime Morneau, who has spent the minister’s commitment to what he called a “sacred obligation� to government’s first days in the hot the country’s Aboriginal Peoples. seat during question period, was asked Tuesday how much the Trudeau didn’t show up removal of the cap would cost. empty-handed, either. He would only say that the The Liberal government will details would be in next spring’s lift a long-standing two per cent federal budget. cap on federal funding for First But the most anticipated Nations communities, he told news came later in the day, when the Assembly of First Nations Justice Minister Jody Wilsongathering – that, despite mounting economic and political pres- Raybould, Indigenous Affairs Minister Carolyn Bennett and sure on the federal pocketbook. Status of Women Minister Patty He said the Liberals would Hajdu detailed the first phase also provide additional money of the forthcoming missing and for long-awaited education murdered inquiry. reforms to be led by First NaWilson-Raybould, one of two tions communities themselves, cabinet ministers with indiganother long-standing sticking enous roots, said the governpoint with the previous Conserment will consult the families of vative government. victims over the next two months And he repeated one of the for their input on the inquiry’s most anticipated promises of shape and its goals. the 2015 campaign: to investi“We will listen clearly to their gate the tragedy of missing and voices,� Wilson-Raybould said. murdered indigenous women “No inquiry, as we know, can and girls. Three of his cabinet undo what happened nor can it lieutenants kicked off the first restore what we have lost. But it consultative phase of what will can help us find ways forward be a federal inquiry next year. because we know, as a country, “I promise you that I will we can and must do better.� be your partner in the years to A website will also allow come, and hope that you will be Canadians to provide input mine,� Trudeau said. online and learn more about the The removal of the funding process, helping to determine cap, which was imposed origithe inquiry’s terms of reference, nally to keep transfer payments in line with inflation, has been at Bennett added. She also hinted that the the top of the First Nations wish inquiry could last longer – and list for years. Critics say it has long since fallen out of step with cost more – than the two-year, a growing aboriginal population $40-million envelope that was originally projected. across the country. “We are going to go out and “As you know, that limit has listen to what people say this been in place for nearly 20 needs to look like, and we will years,� Trudeau said of the cap, then have to apply what budget which he said would disappear in the government’s first budget. that will take,� she said. “First the facts, and then we “It hasn’t kept up with the demographic realities of your com- will see.� Some family members said munities, nor the actual costs of they felt compelled to head to program delivery.� Kristy Kirkup
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Parliament Hill to hear firsthand how the initial steps of the inquiry will take shape. Christine Simard-Chicago, who lost a cousin to the hardscrabble street life of Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, said she believes the inquiry will prove to be a “hard road� for many. “There’s a lot of stories that need to be told and the circumstances are unique because they’re from different territories and from different tribes,� said Simard-Chicago. “It is really important that the government hear that.� Perry Bellegarde, national chief of the Assembly of First Nations, told the gathering he’s confident that Trudeau is listening to the different needs of First Nations. “In his mandate letter to each and every cabinet minister, Prime Minister Trudeau wrote it is time for a renewed nation-tonation relationship with indigenous peoples,� Bellegarde said. “Very powerful words.�
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statements culminating in a ranking of accuracy on a scale of “no baloney” to “full of baloney.” This one earns a rating of “a lot of baloney.”
The facts The Canadian government is currently taking part in negotiations at the COP21 climate talks in Paris, where Canada has submitted a pledge to cut emissions 30 per cent below 2005 levels by 2030. The commitment was announced last May by the previous Conservative government, which had been heavily criticized for failing to put the country
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on a path to meeting its previous 2020 emissions target. The Conservatives did not announce new policy measures when they put forward the 2030 target, sparking widespread criticism that the government had no plan to achieve the new 30 per cent emissions reduction. The Trudeau Liberals, who were sworn into office Nov. 4, have promised to confer with the provinces within 90 days of this week’s Paris conference to establish a national plan for combating climate change and curbing emissions. In the meantime, the new government has promised $2.65 billion over five years for international mitigation and adaptation measures. It has also promoted increased global ambition this week by telling the Paris climate conference that Canada supports aiming to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, not the 2 C threshold that has been more commonly used to establish emissions targets. On the home front, the most recent national emissions inventory from Environment Canada, released last April, reported the country’s overall greenhouse gas output climbed 1.5 per cent between 2012 and 2013, continuing a steady upward trajectory since the global recession of 2009. The government’s emissions trends report from last December found the country on track to come in 1.2 per cent below 2005 levels by 2020, not the 17 per cent promised by Canada when it signed the Copenhagen accord in 2009. In fact, emissions will actually increase between 2005 and 2020 but the Conservative government informed the United Nations that it would count a 19-million-tonne carbon sink contribution from Canada’s boreal forest against its GHG total. Emissions have been trending up since a sharp two-year decline in 2009-10 that coincided with the global economic crisis, the collapse of manufacturing in Ontario, and the Ontario government’s move to close the province’s coal-fired electricity generation. Last month, Alberta’s government added a significant new element to the national suite of climate policies, introducing a carbon tax and promising to cap emissions from the oil and gas sector. However the province, whose emissions in 2013 were more than those of Ontario and Quebec combined, will still be producing three million tonnes more emissions in 2030 than it is today, according to the Alberta plan. “Many will look at these emissions reductions and claim that our policies will not place Alberta on a trajectory consistent with global 2 C goals, and in some sense this is true – the policies proposed for Alberta in this document would not, if applied in all jurisdictions in the world, lead to global goals being accomplished,� states the Alberta government report. “As a panel, we have looked at this challenge and concluded that while we do not have an ar-
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chitecture that, in the short term, will be consistent with meeting global goals, the approach we are proposing will position Alberta to make a meaningful contribution in the longer term.� The UN-sponsored Sustainable Development Solutions Network put it another way in its September report looking at Canada’s overall emissions: “Aligning emission reductions with the 2 degrees C pathway while achieving Canada’s 2030 target would require a significant strengthening of current federal and provincial policies.� A spokeswoman for Environment Minister Catherine McKenna cited a lengthy list of international climate commitments made by the new government since taking office. “Our plan at home starts with rebuilding relationships with the provinces,� Caitlin Workman said in an email. “The prime minister has met with the premiers twice. In partnership with our provincial friends we will work to achieve a lasting solution to the greatest challenge of our generation.�
What the experts say “The quick answer is the Trudeau government hasn’t announced a plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and Alberta’s plan will stabilize the mountain they need to climb, but it won’t reduce it,� said Mike Hudema of Greenpeace Canada. “It’s very difficult to see how the Trudeau government will meet even the Harper government target – which they said was a floor and they hoped to improve – without further reductions from Alberta. So if they have a plan, they haven’t told anyone about it.� If McKenna and the Liberals are serious about holding global temperature increases to within 1.5 C, added Hudema, “It means all provinces, and especially Alberta, are going to need to do more to get us to that target.� His comments came as
Alberta Environment Minister Shannon Phillips, also in Paris, told The Canadian Press that her province has now done enough to fight climate change: “We have taken our share of the responsibilities.� Mark Jaccard, director of the energy and materials research group at Simon Fraser University, said it’s too early to call out Trudeau for claiming to have a plan that he is clearly in the midst of developing. “If you’re asking to interview me to fact-check Justin Trudeau’s plan, I know there’s lots of stuff going on like crazy, and I can’t tell you exactly what that plan is,� said Jaccard. If Trudeau released a plan today on reducing domestic emissions, said Jaccard, he’d be pilloried for failing to properly consult the provinces, industry and consumers. “You would hope that they’re working out a plan, but you know that plan is going to take a year. He’s hoping within 90 days to have something, but that something will have people trying to work towards how they can get coherence and cohesion� in Canadian climate policy. As for Trudeau’s claim the Conservatives failed to reduce emissions, it’s both right and wrong, said Jaccard. Emissions did fall under the Conservative government, “but they implemented zero policies to do that.�
The verdict Canada’s emissions fell in 2009 under the Conservative government due to a massive economic downturn and Ontario power policy, but have been on an upward trend ever since and the Liberal government has yet to present a policy plan for changing that upward trajectory. For that reason, Trudeau’s claim contains “a lot of baloney.�
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Liberal tax changes to take $1.2B more out of federal coffers, Morneau concedes income taxes for middle earners by raising the rate on the richest Canadian Press Canadians – cuts that the government admits won’t be revenueOTTAWA neutral. he Liberal government is Finance Minister Bill Morneau poised to make good on is conceding for the first time its promise to cut federal that the changes are going to cost Andy Blatchford
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Finance Minister Bill Morneau holds a media availability to discuss various government issues in Ottawa on Wednesday. Morneau says the government is being forthright with Canadians about the total cost of the tax changes. Those changes also include cancelling a Conservative plan to increase limits on tax-free savings accounts from $5,500 to $10,000. “We are starting today with middle-class tax breaks, a key part of our initiative,” Finance Morneau told the House of Commons this week. “Today is the day where we have said we are going to reduce middle-class taxes by asking those Canadians who are doing very well to pay a little bit more. This is an important first part in our tax program.” But some say the tax changes, a central pledge in the campaign platform that helped propel the Liberals to victory in October, are likely to cost public coffers more than the government expected and could provide more benefit to richer Canadians. For example, a study released Monday by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives found that higher-income earners – those who make more than $124,000 – would benefit most from the middle-class rate cut as long as they did not earn enough to land in the new upper bracket above $200,000. Those making more than $90,563 are taxed at three different rates: one rate on the first segment of income up to $45,282, the second, newly reduced rate on the next segment of income, up to $90,563; and a third rate beyond that, up to $200,000. As a result, they will realize a greater total benefit from the middle-bracket cut than will an income earner whose annual salary lands within that bracket, the
expected. In its platform, the Liberals estimated the tax increase on the top earners would fall a little short of covering the full costs of the tax cut. It projected the reduction to cost close to $3 billion annually over its four-year mandate. Combined with the sting of the struggling economy, the new Liberal government is facing increasing pressure to meet its election vows to cap annual deficits at $10 billion over the next two years and to balance the federal books in the fourth year of its mandate. Morneau has said the Liberals are facing a slower economy and a worse-than-expected fiscal environment handed over from the former Conservative government. “We have inherited a situation that is more challenging than what was foreseen in the budget,” he said. Last month, Morneau announced a $3-billion deficit forecast for the current fiscal year. In April, the Tories projected a $2.4-billion surplus for 2015-16 – including the $1 billion set aside for contingencies. The proposed changes to the tax brackets will help boost the economy, the Liberals say. Last week, however, Morneau backed away from the Liberal vow to keep annual shortfalls under $10 billion in 2016-17 and 2017-18. He said the government would focus on its pledges to invest in infrastructure, lower the federal debt-to-GDP ratio and balance the books before the next election, but dodged when asked directly about the party’s promise to keep annual shortfalls under the $10-billion ceiling.
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Alaska governor proposes ďŹ rst income tax in 35 years amid chronically low oil prices The governor warned that if the state stays on its current track, drawing down on savings, the dividend is in danger of ending in 2020. • Changes to the oil tax credit system, a big budget item. Associated Press • Hikes to industry taxes including mining, fishing and oil. JUNEAU The administration says the laska Gov. Bill Walker has goal was to spread the burden as proposed instituting a widely as possible and that even personal income tax for the with the proposed increases, the first time in 35 years as the oiltax burden on individual Alasdependent state looks to plug a kans would be among the lowest multibillion-dollar budget deficit nationally. amid chronically low prices. Alaska has been using savIn laying out his budget ings to balance its budget but is plan Wednesday, Walker also blowing through its reserves at proposed using the fund that an estimated rate of $10 million provides annual checks to most a day. The state has been warned Alaskans to generate a stream of its bond rating could be lowered cash to help finance state govern- if it doesn’t do more to address ment. The plan would change the deficit. A hit to the credit rathow dividends are calculated ing could increase the state’s cost and mean lower checks, at least of borrowing and make it harder initially – 2016 payouts would be to finance a major gas project about $1,000 less than this year’s. that Walker sees as critical to the The governor warned that state’s financial future. if the state stays on its current Alaska has long relied heavily track, drawing down on savings, on oil revenue. In recent years, it the dividend is in danger of end- provided about 90 per cent of the ing in 2020. money available for lawmakers Alaska isn’t alone among oilto spend. That’s down to about producing states to experience 75 per cent, the state Revenue hard times as oil prices stay low. department says. But unlike states like Texas or Oil flow through the transLouisiana, Alaska has few other Alaska pipeline peaked at about industries to make up the differ2 million barrels a day in the late ence. 1980s but is averaging close to Walker’s proposal also in505,000 barrels per day this year. cludes: Alaska is one of seven states • Increases in alcohol and without an individual income cigarette taxes. tax, and it’s the only state to have • Additional budget cuts. repealed an existing income tax, Becky Bohrer
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Students from Golden Horn Elementary School perform “O Holy Night” at the Yukon Legislative Building on Wednesday. Musical performances from a variety of bands were held each noon hour this week for the Yukon government’s Celebration of Music.
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NATO wants volunteers for Iraq training as Trudeau hammered for CF 18 withdrawal Murray Brewster Canadian Press
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weeks, not months,� but first details of a beefed up training mission will have to be negotiated with allies. “We want to do it at the same when we come (forward) with a new plan,� Dion said. “To do it before we have the new plan you would have a kind of vacuum that we want to avoid. Our allies understand that.� He said the government wants to consult with allies about where the contribution would be helpful. Last week, the Italians expressed interest in partnering with Canada to conduct police training in northern Iraq. Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan was more circumspect on the details, saying they are “considering all options right now in terms of our contribution to the fight against ISIL.� He underlined there are a number of different ways a military contribution could unfold and pointed specifically to intelligence gathering, which is something the air force’s CP-140 Aurora surveillance planes have been doing in Iraq. The newly refurbished planes have been helping spot ISIL targets on the ground and doing damage assessments for coalition commanders once the bombs have fallen. Opposition Conservatives used Justin Trudeau’s first question period as prime minister to hammer his plan to withdraw Canada’s CF-18s. Interim Conservative leader Rona Ambrose said the extremists who have overrun vast swaths of Syria and Iraq are part of a death cult that sells women and children into sexual slavery and murders religious minorities. “And yet the prime minister says he’s going to take our CF-18s out of the fight; just how bad does it have to be in Iraq and Syria for him to leave our CF-18s there?� said Ambrose, who pointed out that other allies – notably Britain and France – were stepping up their bombing missions. Canadians spoke during the election campaign and they want to see the mission refocused towards more long-lasting results, such as training security forces, Trudeau responded. “There is not a Canadian in this country who does not think that ISIS is a group of terrible terrorists who should be stopped,� he said. “The question has always been how best to engage, and how can Canada use its strengths and the extraordinary strengths of men and women in the Canadian Forces to support in the fight against ISIS? Ongoing right now, there continue to be airstrikes. We have committed to end those airstrikes and to transform our engagement in a different way, equally militarily, to ensure that Canada continues to be a strong member of the coalition fighting against ISIS.�
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Behind the scenes: How delegates think green, eat green, dream green at Paris climate talks Sylvie Corbet Associated Press
PARIS t’s a challenge few people could take on: making it possible for some 40,000 world leaders, indignant environmental activists and others to coexist for two weeks in a logistical and negotiating ballet aimed at reaching an unprecedented global climate accord. Here’s a glimpse behind the scenes at the Paris climate talks:
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On the land at Coffee Creek grounded. “We are a part of the ecosystem. We’re News Reporter not above or below it. We all rely on each other.” ngie Joseph-Rear has known about Joseph works as an environmental plants all her life. monitor in Tombstone Territorial Park. Growing up in the small village She’s also completing a degree in anthroof Moosehide, outside Dawson City, the pology from the University of Victoria. She Tr’ondek Hwech’in elder spent a lot of said she wants to work for her First Natime on the land. tion, but she’s also interested in working She used to like sucking up the sap for Kaminak. from peeled willow bark, and she knows “There’s a lot of open doors and open how to fry up lamb’s quarter plants in avenues with this kind of knowledge.” butter. She also likes the idea that Tr’ondek She also knows which plants have Hwech’in citizens could start up their own medical uses. As a child, she learned to put chewed-up willow leaves on bee stings native seed bank and sell seeds to companies for reclamation down the road. to reduce the swelling and take away the Shelagh Rowles, executive director of pain. Her mother taught her how to cover the Centre for Northern Innovation in wounds in her mouth with a piece of Mining at Yukon College, said scientists spruce gum.
exposed to knowledge and different career opportunities that go way beyond this specific project,” she explained. Beyond environmental monitoring skills, she said, the students learned other things that could help them with work at the mine – like how to live away from home for several days at a time. “That can be really, really hard. That’s something you learn how to do.” Rowles said the college is in preliminary discussions with other First Nations, including Selkirk, Nacho Nyak Dun, and Little Salmon Carmacks, about offering similar courses elsewhere. She said other mining companies are interested as well, including Selwyn Chihong, Alexco, Capstone, Western Copper and Gold and Golden Predator. Of course, using native plants for rec-
“I remember my mom used to wash the area, and she’d take the softer part of the gum,” she said. “And she swabbed some on there and put it over the open wound and it healed quickly.” Joseph-Rear said she was lucky to have grown up in a small village, where she was able to learn so much about her natural environment. And now, thanks to a new course offered by Yukon College, Tr’ondek Hwech’in and Kaminak Gold Corporation, she’s been able to pass on some of her knowledge to other members of her First Nation. This past summer, about a dozen students took part in a northern terrestrial restoration course offered to Tr’ondek Hwech’in citizens. The course was a chance for them to gain the skills they need to work as environmental monitors. It was also an opportunity to start gathering seeds for a native seed bank that could be used to reclaim disturbed land in the future. And it was a chance for elders like Joseph-Rear to share their knowledge and make sure that future environmental monitors keep traditional land use in mind. “I think it’s really important,” she said. “I think stories are very important to pass on, because some of us as we grew up, we never had that opportunity to know these things.” The course was divided into two sections. The first was a 10-day field class during the spring, part of which was spent at Tr’ondek Hwech’in’s Nankak Cheolay culture campsite. There, the students learned to map sites using GPS technology, take soil and water samples, and identify plants. Then in July, the students went out to Coffee Creek, the site of Kaminak’s proposed Coffee Gold mine. They learned about the native plants there from botanists and from Joseph-Rear and her sister, Elder Julia Morberg. They also collected native plant seeds and helped build a map of local species. “It was amazing,” said Kim Joseph, one of the students. “Our whole traditional territory, there’s so many unique things in there. They opened our eyes to what we took for granted.” Joseph is Joseph-Rear’s daughter, and she’d already learned about some local plants from her mother. She had a kidney stone a while back, for instance, and she said drinking tea made with dandelion leaves helped it pass. But she said the course taught her some basic reclamation techniques, and the traditional knowledge kept her
lamation doesn’t mean that mines won’t have any lasting impact. “We’re never going to create what was there before,” Beaumont said. “That’s impossible.” She said mining projects on traditional territories are never black and white. But she said First Nation citizens, including elders like Joseph-Rear, have to think about the future when they consider developments like Coffee Gold. “Their number one concern is always the land,” she said. “It’s their responsibility to keep all of that intact and healthy. But it’s also their responsibility to provide a future for the grandkids.” And Beaumont is impressed with how Kaminak seems to be planning its cleanup even before the mine is built. She says the company is working hard to build a positive relationship with the First Nation. “For too long, the North was treated almost like a resource bank,” she said. “And it’s not. It’s actually a homeland. And long after the companies are here, the people will still be here.” Contact Maura Forrest at maura.forrest@yukon-news.com
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and industry are starting to recognize the importance of native plants in reclamation. “There’s a growing understanding of the importance of using native plant species and understanding which plants grow together and are cooperative with each other.” A local seed bank would be useful, she said, because it’s difficult to find native seeds currently. “Often you might get something that’s similar but just not quite the same.” Rowles explained that native plants are important to local animal populations. If you change those species too much, she said, you risk affecting the wildlife in the area – for instance, you might attract moose but drive away caribou. Still, this course wasn’t just about identifying plants. Jody Beaumont, a traditional knowledge specialist with Tr’ondek Hwech’in, said one of the main goals of the course was to show students the kinds of jobs that a project like Coffee Gold might offer, beyond positions as camp attendants or equipment operators. “People are being trained and being
“I think it’s really important,” she said. “I think stories are very important to pass on, because some of us as we grew up, we never had that opportunity to know these things.”
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Chinese main buyers of polar bear fur, but trade no threat to animals: study Bob Weber Canadian Press
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new analysis shows Chinese consumers with an appetite for luxury have taken over from American sport hunters as the main buyers of Canadian polar bear fur. But the study to be presented
this week at a conference in Vancouver concludes there’s no reason to believe that the sale of bear hides or other parts threatens the animal’s future. “This increasing Chinese market may have stimulated some increased hunting, but really what it did is stimulate increased exporting,” said Ernest Cooper, a consultant who is to present his
findings Wednesday at ArcticNet, which brings together Arctic researchers from all fields. Canada is the only country in the world that allows commercial trade in polar bears. Cooper, whose work has been sent to all governments that manage polar bears, found the number of hides exported by Canada has been gradually rising
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to 400 in 2013 from 266 in 2005 – although 2014 saw a sharp drop. The main market for the hides used to be American sport hunters returning home with their trophies. But after the United States made importing the hides illegal, the trade shifted to China. The Asian country bought 12 hides in 2005, but accounted for 42 per cent of all hides exported from Canada between 2010 and 2014. “The market for polar bear hides in China reflects an increasing market for all furs going to China,” said Cooper. Chinese buyers have been paying between $5,000 and $6,000 for an average hide. Topquality examples have fetched as much as $20,000 at auction. Still, Cooper said his study offers no evidence that exporting hides leads to more hunting or threatens the population of the bears. Countries such as the United States have argued that all international trade in polar bear parts should be banned, just as is the trade in elephant ivory. Canada, together with Inuit groups which co-manage the bears, has always
argued that the real threat to polar bears is declining sea ice caused by climate change Cooper found that the increase in hide exports was largely due to hunters taking advantage of high prices and selling hides that they’d harvested in previous years. The number of bears hunted in Canada has remained stable at about 600 a year. “It’s clear to me that the polar bear does not meet the criteria for (increased protection).” The bears are hunted for a variety of reasons, including for food, to ensure safety and for cultural affirmation. Cooper suggested that banning all trade in the mighty Arctic predator might actually make conservation harder. “It would potentially hurt the conservation of polar bears by taking away the value of polar bears. One of the incentives for a hunter to register his kill is the fact he could potentially sell his hide. “You take away that incentive, you open the door to hunting not being reported and the potential of more bears being hunted.”
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Pushed by climate change: Lake in Northwest Territories falls off cliff equivalent of a dozen Olympicsized swimming pools – gushed YELLOWKNIFE over the edge in a waterfall up to five storeys high. n a dramatic example of how Mud and debris filled more climate change is altering than a kilometre of the valley the Arctic landscape, a small below and flowed for two days at northern lake has fallen off a the rate of 50 metres an hour. cliff after bursting through the “It was one of those things melting earthen rampart that that you can get out of the way of restrained it. but you can’t stop,� said Kokelj. A video released WednesSuch slumps have been getday by the government of the Northwest Territories shows how ting bigger as rainfall increases and temperatures warm. The the lake, undermined by meltsummers of 2010 and 2012 were ing permafrost, collapsed into a the wettest on record and avervalley below and created a large age temperatures have increased temporary waterfall and an oozseveral degrees since the 1970s. ing tongue of mud and debris. Government of Northwest Territories/CP There are slumps in the N.W.T. A small northern lake near Fort McPherson, N.W.T., has fallen off a cliff after bursting through the “It drained quickly,� said Steve more than a kilometre long and Kokelj of the N.W.T. Geological melting earthen rampart that restrained it. as large as 40 hectares that have Survey. washed loose millions of cubic The lake, which has no name metres of rubble. Kokelj estiand sits in the territory’s northmates that the amount of land ern corner near the community affected has more than doubled of Fort McPherson, is a victim since the late 1980s. of the region’s geology and The slump that sent the lake changing climate. plummeting valleyward had been Permafrost in this part of the at work for most of a decade. N.W.T. contains a high percentNot all the water drained. age of ice in headwalls, which Kokelj said unfrozen sediments can be up to 30 metres thick. That ice has been there since the underneath the lake blocked further erosion and stabilized last ice age. the banks. The territorial governTrouble starts when the ment is advising people to stay headwall tops are exposed by wind or rain. The ice melts, caus- away from the area, however, because the rest of the lake might ing the soil and rock on top to still collapse. collapse. That exposes more ice, The melting will continue which then melts and extends the collapse, and the cycle keeps around the lake, which will ultimately leave it isolated and repeating. elevated on a small plateau, On July 15, the narrow rib of Kokelji said. land that had kept the 1.5-hecSimilar landforms, with hilltop tare lake from plummeting into lake sediments, are found in Wisthe valley below gave way. consin. The difference is those Within two hours, 30,000 features formed 13,000 years ago. cubic metres of water – the Canadian Press
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Inspired by vintage vaudeville acts, Furlesque offers an adult twist on variety shows. The show will run Dec. 17 through 19. Myles Dolphin News Reporter
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belly dancer appears on stage, performs her routine, and in the blink of an eye the lights turn to a bunch of actors already in a fairytale segment about gender politics. It’s all part of a fast-paced spectacle called Furlesque – part burlesque, part variety show – which models itself after the once-popular vaudeville shows of the early 20th century. Grant Simpson, who coproduces the show with Shauna Jones, is relying on his experience with the Frantic Follies and as an accomplished musician to make it memorable. It also helps that he’s a huge vaudeville fan, with Jack Benny and Bob Hope among his favourite entertainers. Because it’s mostly artist-driven, he said, his responsibility lies with making sure all the different
performances tie in nicely together. “I described it to a friend as someone giving me 100 new colours to my crayons,” he said. “Straight vaudeville is familyoriented, not unlike the Follies. But in a show like this, there are a lot more options because we’re entertaining adults so the palette changes. “We’re using a similar formula (to the Follies) where it’s fastpaced, and you never have a split second between the acts.” The name of the game is variety, Simpsons said, so the audience can also expect a gymnastics show, burlesque numbers and comedy skits. Who said winter in the Yukon was boring? George Maratos and Jenny Hamilton will provide comic relief on different nights, and
Yukon balladeer Hank Karr will also feature as a special guest on one of the nights. As if that wasn’t enough variety, local artist Misha Donohoe will be on site, painting a scene from that evening’s performance. It might end up as a painting that’s for sale after the show, Simpson said, but they don’t know yet. Jones, who performs a few singing and dancing acts of her own in Furlesque, said one of the goals is to recreate the feeling of old-timey radio shows. “What I like about those shows is the camaraderie between the actors, and how realistic it feels,” she said. “It sounds like they’re just having a really funny conversation.” The producers also want to turn the location – the old Trappers Lounge behind the Days Inn, as it was once known – into more of a performance area than a bar.
“Use the back entrance,” states the poster for the event, giving it a clandestine allure that pleases both Simpson and Jones. As it stands, actors are rehearsing their numbers individually. In Lethbridge, Alta., two dancers are currently preparing their number, which they plan on teaching to a third dancer in Whitehorse – via Skype. When all three meet up next Wednesday, only 24 hours before opening night, they’ll practice the routine together. Simpson said he’s entirely confident they can pull it off. “I’ve seen them work so many times, they’re wonderful dancers,” he said. “They learn so quickly.” Simpson said he’s hoping to run the show during the Yukon Sourdough Rendezvous Festival, and perhaps a few more times next year, using topical themes. Don’t expect Donald Trump, the controversial American poli-
tician and businessman, to make an appearance any time soon, Simpson said. “I can’t give that guy any more attention than he already gets,” he said. “But there’s never a shortage of material out there. It writes itself.” And if you have a hidden talent, such as snake charming or creating magic, don’t hesitate to get in touch with the duo through the Furlesque Facebook page. “Please approach us because we’d love to consider it for our shows moving forward,” Simpson said. Furlesque will run from Dec. 17 through Dec. 19. Doors open at 8:00 p.m. and showtime is at 9:00 p.m. Tickets are on sale at Dean’s Strings and Music Supplies, at the front desk of the Days Inn, or online at www.brownpapertickets.com/event/2465614. Contact Myles Dolphin at myles@yukon-news.com
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Why death is so common in children’s animated movies and how parents can help kids understand Sandy Cohen Associated Press
LOS ANGELES n the latest Pixar release, The Good Dinosaur, little Arlo’s dad is dramatically washed away by a raging river. And Arlo isn’t the only animated hero to lose a family member in the film’s first act. The protagonist in last year’s Big Hero 6 loses his brother in an explosion. Then, there’s Nemo, whose mom is eaten by a barracuda in the opening minutes of Finding Nemo. In Frozen, Anna and Elsa’s parents are lost at sea. And, who can forget the heartbreak of Bambi, when a shotgun blast kills the little deer’s mother. There’s a lot of death in animated movies for kids. In fact, research has found that main characters in these films are more than twice as likely to suffer traumatic death than in dramas aimed at adults. What’s a parent to do? It’s not that cartoons are trying to scare young viewers. Death of a parent is often used as a dramatic device to focus on the young protagonist, says University of Ottawa professor Ian Colman, who conducted a study on the subject published last year in the British Medical Journal. “Who deals with kids’ problems? Parents do,� Colman said. “If you want to make it a really compelling story, you’ve got to get the parents out of the picture so kids can go through this process themselves. One way to do that is to kill them off.� But when parents or older siblings die onscreen, younger viewers fare best when real grown-ups are there to talk about it. Children generally don’t understand the permanence and inevitability of death until they reach elementary-school age, said youth bereavement expert Dr. David Schonfeld, and popular movies often do little to depict
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his 4-year-old daughter. “The mother of the main character gets really brutally attacked and killed by a T-Rex in the first five minutes of the film,� he said. “My daughter was hysterical and begging me to stop the film.� Coleman and his research team compared the top-grossing animated films from 1937’s Snow White to 2013’s Frozen with top live-action dramas from the same years and found that murder or death of important characters happened sooner and more often in the animated movies. “It’s a good opportunity to talk about death and have a difficult conversation,� Colman said. “Sometimes we do need to be prodded a bit to have hard
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want children’s stories and movies to eliminate themes of death, because then they have very little opportunity to talk about it.â€? The filmmakers behind The Good Dinosaur declined to be interviewed for this story. But the creative director of Pixar’s Cars franchise said his team was forced to confront death onscreen when Paul Newman, who voiced series character Doc Hudson, died. “We’ve never talked about how a car dies or is born,â€? Jay Ward said. “The beauty of Pixar is that we tell different stories different ways, and sometimes loss is an important part of the story‌ For kids, that may be hard for them to grasp. It’s a human emotion. It’s a real thing. It does happen to everybody at some point.â€? Susanna Fogel, writer and producer of the young-adult series Chasing Life, said artists should be bold when it comes to depicting the range of emotions around death and dying. “People avoid it because they worry about what it means politically or is this too depressing,â€? she said. “But there’s something about not getting a straight answer and having euphemisms in place of honesty that is more terrifying. “There’s no avoiding these issues in life,â€? she added, “and the earlier we can address them in a thoughtful, sensitive way in entertainment, the earlier people can have the conversations they need to have with their support system.â€?
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Healing humanity’s grief in the face of climate change Over the past decade alone, millions of people have been displaced by war, famine and drought. The world is shifting rapidly as a result of climate change and there’s little doubt we’ll see increasing humanitarian crises.
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he tragedy we’re witnessing in so many places around the world is heartbreaking. Responses on the ground and in the media to events in Paris, Beirut, Syria and elsewhere have ranged from inspiring to chilling. Too often, people express fear and distress as anger, suspicion and scapegoating. For many reasons and in many ways, people and nature are in distress. Quaker activist and author Parker Palmer implores us to ask, “What shall we do with our suffering?� The way we deal with our pain has critical implications. Whether we project it outward as war or murder or
absorb it as despair and selfdestruction, “Violence is what we get when we do not know what else to do with our suffering.� The interplay of environmental degradation and geopolitics has had alarming repercussions. Over the past decade alone, millions of people have been displaced by war, famine and drought. The world is shifting rapidly as a result of climate change and there’s little doubt we’ll see increasing humanitarian crises. We must face this new reality as a global community. Climate change is one of the most destabilizing forces in human history. We must deal with carbon emissions but we must also deal with human suffering. In Canada, Inuit are feeling the impacts disproportionately. Ice appears much later in the season and melts earlier. Changing wildlife migration patterns disrupt community livelihoods, land-based activities and cultural practices. Cape Breton University Canada research chair Ashlee
Cunsolo Willox is working with Inuit to understand their communities’ climate-related mental and emotional health impacts, documenting anxiety, despair, hopelessness and depression, increased family stress, drug and alcohol use and suicide attempts. People are grieving for a way of life that is changing with the landscape. Together with the Nunatsiavut communities of Labrador, Cunsolo Willox produced a documentary film, Attutauniujuk Nunami/Lament for the Land. Residents describe how ice, when it forms, is often not thick enough to hunt, gather wood or travel by snowmobile. The land is part of who they are, a source of solace, peace, identity, and well-being. Hunting and fishing and spending time on the land help Inuit feel grounded and happy. When residents can’t get out of town, they feel “stuck�, “lost� and “less like people�. Although global warming discourse typically ignores our intense feelings and grief in the
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face of environmental change, Cunsolo Willox argues it can expand our capacity to act. “Re-casting climate change as the work of mourning means that we can share our losses, and encounter them as opportunities for productive and important work,� she says. “It also provides the opportunity to stand up and publicly object to injustice.� Shared experiences of grief can build solidarity, support healing and inspire collective action. With the Paris UN climate talks underway, we have an opportunity to expand the conversation to include environmental grief and loss. Today’s social and environmental leaders need to understand the psychological implications of a world in distress. Geographer and research scientist Susanne Moser predicts future leaders will need more than professional expertise and political savvy. They must be “steward, shepherd, arbiter, crisis manager, grief counselor, future builder.� Instead of knee-jerk reactions that so often accompany fear and emotional pain, what if we summoned the courage to experience our sadness, disorientation and grief in all its fullness? More importantly, what if we did this together? The feelings surround-
ing change and loss highlight our shared vulnerability and expose our connections to one another. We can consciously foster a heightened sense of human and ecological fellowship. The late environmental scientist Donella Meadows believed the process of experiencing feelings is far from trivial. “Feelings, like knowledge, don’t directly change anything. But if we don’t rush past the feelings or stuff them down, if we take time to admit even the most uncomfortable ones, to accept them, share them, and couple them with knowledge of what is wrong and how it might be fixed, then feelings and knowledge together are motors for change.� The suffering we’re witnessing because of loss of land, culture, ways of life and identity may portend what is to come for all of us. Now is the time to come together and decide how we will respond. Let’s make sure it’s the best humanity has to offer. David Suzuki is a scientist, broadcaster, author and co-founder of the David Suzuki Foundation. Written with contributions from David Suzuki Foundation Senior Public Engagement Specialist Aryne Sheppard.
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Mystery of the dancing wires revealed applied at their ends or in the middle. The latter is similar to a finger picking a guitar string. In this case the wind is acting as the finger. As a guest writer of this column in 1978, late butterfly and moth expert Ken Philip described the process: “Air moving past the wire is impeded by the wire; the air closest to the wire moves the slowest. The result is a curling up of the air behind the wire to form vortices – rotating spirals within which the air spins faster the closer it is to the center.” These invisible little curls of air shove the wire as they depart. Sometimes those kicks happen at the sweet frequency of the wire, which responds by moving. For the overly curious who must confirm things, Philip suggested blowing soap bubbles. They will float on a breeze that no cheek or anemometer can detect, allowing you to visualize the air that tickles the wire.
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n this quiet, peaceful time of year, with all the noisy birds flown south and all the scary bears in hillside dens, little things catch our attention. Like wires that move as if by magic. Aurora scientist and interested-in-all-things guy Neal Brown contacted me to see if I had written about why power wires sometimes dance to their own beat when there seems to be no wind or other force pushing them. He notices it seems to happen when the temperature is rising. I pulled out Neil Davis’s Alaska Science Nuggets and found the answer. First, though, a refresher on that book – a compilation of 400 of these columns – and why you are reading this right now. Neil Davis was a do-all scientist at UAF’s Geophysical Institute from the 1960s to the 1980s. He started this column in 1976 at the urging of a newspaper editor. Davis wrote hundreds of the columns, which the Geophysical Institute has distributed free to newspapers. Other writers took over the column from Davis. I am the latest in that line, having started in fall of 1994. The directors of the Geophysical Institute
have supported the column since its beginning. Back to the dancing wires. Each wire out there has a certain tune to which it responds, known as a resonant frequency. It’s what a little girl finds when she twirls a jumprope at just the right speed and gets a perfect loop whistling through the air. Sometimes, even if we can’t feel it, a slight breeze nudges a
power wire. Wires are even more responsive to wind when snow clings to them, as it often does up here in the Interior. “If the wire can be repeatedly tickled ever so slightly at the
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proper frequency, it will build up a major oscillation,” Davis wrote. To move, wires need energy
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Meet the fortunate Bridget Mannion Along the way, though, she couldn’t miss the opportunity to drop in on her former employer. According to Leonard, “a woman of stylish appearance by Michael and haughty demeanor swished past the admiring office boy in Gates Mr. Weare’s office, and extended a primrose-gloved hand to the ISTORY stout man at the desk. Looking UNTER up, he recognized his old cook. ‘I am now on my way to Europe,’ ometimes it can be diffisaid Bridget, ‘and I thought I’d cult to create an historical like to see you as I went through. picture of a person or event, You mind what I told you when because they often become shadI left.’” ed by misinformation or secondEdward died in 1914, but hand accounts, so the evidence Bridget lived until she was 94 has to be carefully sifted to get to years old. She remained in their the facts of story. Take Bridget Mannion, for comfortable Seattle home until example. 1948, when she returned to her According to an article in beloved Ireland. Irish Roots Magazine, written by There is one story about the Veazie Wilson/Michael Gates Collection Caroline McCall in 2009, Bridget fortunate Mrs. Aylward that Fort Cudahy, where Bridget Mannion worked for the Healys when she came to Forty Mile in 1893. Mannion was born in Rosmuc, Bridget had many offers of marriage, but chose successful miner and fellow irishman, Edward Aylward. needs to be sorted out. According County Galway in Ireland to a recent biography by Gordon February 1, 1865. She came to Tolton, titled Healy’s West, Healy the men away with a stick. By Over dinner, Healy pitched Fields of the Klondike, Bridget the United States when she was locked her out for staying out announced to her boss her inten- the time they had traveled 50 the idea of establishing a tradabout 20 years old, and eventutoo late one evening. The miners miles up the Yukon River, she ing post at the tiny mining camp tion to go to Alaska. ally obtained a position as a cook took exception to her being fired, had turned down 125 marriage “You can’t mine,” he said. of Forty Mile, at the confluence for the wealthy Chicago financier, and called a miners’ meeting, proposals. “That’s true,” she replied, “but of the Yukon and Fortymile Portus B. Weare. where they agreed unanimously They completed the voythere’s them that can.” Rivers. His sales pitch worked Sometime in 1892, Weare that was to pay her one year’s age the following year. Across She accompanied Healy and and Portus B. Weare backed the invited John J. Healy to dinner. wages ($600) travel expenses the river from the mining town, his wife Belle to Forty Mile as formation of the North AmeriHealy was a former whiskey back to Chicago. Then, according they established Fort Cudahy, their servant. The trip wasn’t can Transportation and Trading trader in Montana and southern to Tolton, she married a wealthy which consisted of the company (NAT&T) Company. Healy named easy. They arrived at St. Michael Alberta, who had moved North miner. trading post and warehouses; at the mouth of the Yukon late in in 1886 and established a trading one of the company sternwheel I looked into the first-hand this formed a neat quadrangle the summer of 1892 and conpost under the business name of river boats after Weare. accounts of early-day Forty Mile, facing the river. They also built a sequently got frozen in for the According to author John Healy and Wilson at Dyea, near and found a report from Sergeant sawmill, and had a free reading winter at Nulato on their way Leonard, in his book The Gold the head of the Chilkoot Trail. Charles Brown, of the North room, a billiard hall, and a row up river. According to Leonard, West Mounted Police. He was of small log cabins strung out Bridget practically had to beat the only officer stationed at the in a row along the banks of the gold mining camp the winter of mighty Yukon, also facing the 1894-1895. On January 16, 1895, river. MEMORIAL he wrote, the miners indeed held Finally, in 1894, Bridget marPLAQUES a meeting, but it was against ried Edward Aylward, an Irish207 Main St. 668-3447 Charles H. Hamilton; Healy and man who was mining on Nahis wife had gone Outside for the poleon Creek, up the Fortymile River. According to Leonard, winter. Aylward was panning out $50,000 The miners were not favourper month from his claim. That ably disposed to Hamilton and seems to be exaggerated on the the NAT&T Company because positive side; geological reports they didn’t extend the long credit by Josiah Spurr place the amount that competitor Jack McQuesten at a far smaller sum; whatever did. They ruled in favour of the the reality was, he seemed to “servant girl,” who remained be doing well from his claim. unnamed in Brown’s report. The When gold was discovered in the amount of money and goods Klondike, Aylward wasn’t interthat they demanded added up to esting in moving from Napoleon $569.53 and included first-class Creek. “I have all I want and passage to Seattle. Hamilton more,” he wrote in a letter the paid up; he was greatly outnumwinter of 1896. bered, and the miners would In April of 1896, Bridget was have blown up his safe to get the able to travel Outside, taking with money, if he had not complied. her 150 gold nuggets, averagWas this Bridget Mannion? ing one ounce each, that she If the genealogical account is from 10AM-7PM had picked up from their claim. accurate, she and Aylward were THURS. & FRI. 10AM-9PM Around her neck was a nugget already married in 1894, in which HANDCRAFTED ITEMS necklace worth $100. A nugget case, this incident would have CREATED BY bracelet hung from her wrist. occurred after the Irishwoman YUKON ARTISANS According to Anna DeGraf, who was married. Would she have shared a cabin with her, she sufbeen likely to have stayed out late fered terribly from seasickness with an amorous miner after she on the journey across the Bering was married? It seems unlikely Sea and the Pacific en route to to me. Because Sergeant Brown Seattle. does not name the servant girl When she arrived in Seattle, in question, we must continue where she was hailed as “The to sift through evidence until the Queen of Alaska” by the newsmystery of the errant servant girl papers, she traded in her outis clarified – once and for all. dated mining garb for the latest Michael Gates is a Yukon historian PROUDLY BROUGHT TO YOU BY fashions. She stayed in that west and sometimes adventurer based Fireweed Community Market coast seaport visiting friends for in Whitehorse. He is currently We’re about more than good food! a while, and then headed east to writing as book on the Yukon in info@fireweedmarket.ca (867)333-2255 visit in Boston before sailing to www.fireweedmarket.ca World War I. You can contact him Special thanks to Elder Gertie Tom for this photo. Ireland to see her family. at msgates@northwestel.net
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Unseen disability can be explained without anger by Judith Martin
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MANNERS DEAR MISS MANNERS: My 15-year-old son is hearingimpaired and wears hearing aids, which are, by design, hard to see. He is very polite when he asks people to repeat themselves when he cannot hear them, and he explains he is hearingimpaired. A couple of times, people have questioned this. One time he was chastised for “joking,” and I finally had to step in and say, as nicely as possible, that he is, in fact, hearing-impaired and has been since he was 2. Just recently he was getting a haircut and had given his hearing aids to me to hold, and the stylist chastised him when he asked her to repeat herself. She said hearing impairment was not something to joke about -- and I again had to step in. My son is getting older and I am not with him all the time. I am not sure what to tell him to say to people without sounding rude or having to take his hearing aids out to show them as proof, which I do not feel is appropriate
or necessary. Although he finds it annoying, he expects people to react that way sometimes. GENTLE READER: Your son needs to master a two-step response. In step one, he re-explains the situation with convincing seriousness but without rancor. Waving around medical devices of any kind at this stage might be effective, but is certainly not dignified. Mentioning the fact that it has been this way since he was 2 should be convincing. He should then pause while the information sinks in. Only when the listener realizes what she has done is it time for step two: assuring her that he understands her mistake, as the disability is not obvious. Miss Manners is sorry to say that it is likely your son will have many opportunities to practice. DEAR MISS MANNERS: If you have a guest in your home and you overhear a negative comment, how are you to react for the duration of the guest’s stay? GENTLE READER: That will depend upon the nature of the comment. Miss Manners recommends pretending not to hear the ungenerous comment about the salmon, as it was not intended to be overheard. The unmistakably uncivil comment to, or about, the hostess, however, will require a period of frosty politeness of
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length in proportion to the severity of the rudeness. DEAR MISS MANNERS: A friend of mine invited me to a (friendship, not date) social outing. I said I would go, but he didn’t tell me until the last minute that it was also a singles group. I completely disagree with singles groups, but I agreed to go before he told me that. What’s your thought about people not disclosing all the information about a social event when inviting someone, and would it be rude for me to now say I don’t want to go? GENTLE READER: Insistent as is Miss Manners that invitations, once accepted, must be honored, the rule is not absolute. If the bride changes the date -- whether due to uncertainly about the catering or the groom -- guests are also given an opportunity to re-evaluate. Miss Manners extends the same exemption to your situation. MISS MANNERS: What is the best way to respond to a good friend/pal when they ask, “Did you think of me today?” A friend responded on Facebook to one of his friends, “No, I did not,” and the individual was very angry with that response. Is there a better way to respond? GENTLE READER: It seems to Miss Manners that if the friend did not want to receive one of only two possible answers to his question, that he should not have posed it. Not responding at all would have been the more accurate -- and telling -- answer. DEAR MISS MANNERS: I work at the front desk of a prestigious office. Often we get the same visitors and they greet me by name, but usually my only responsibility to them is a friendly greeting as they pass my desk. After a neck injury, I’ve taken to wearing a headset for the tele-
phone, and I haven’t yet figured out the correct way to handle visitors who can’t tell if I am on the phone or not. Should I hang up the telephone or put the caller on hold just to say hello to someone who comes in regularly and is just giving pleasantries? It seems strange to do that just to say hello. It was easy when I had a regular receiver, as those coming in would just wave and I’d wave back. What do you recommend? GENTLE READER: That you continue to wave. But now that you have another hand freed up, Miss Manners suggests you use it to add a gesture -- something that indicates that the headset is replacing the receiver, like pointing to it with an apologetic, almost bewildered smile. DEAR MISS MANNERS: Our son’s girlfriend will be joining us this year for Thanksgiving. She is a lovely person who also has celiac disease. I have modified the menu to avoid gluten (simple enough with a spread of vegetables and turkey -- stuffing has never been a huge seller on our table). The meal will be gluten-free ... with one exception. I want to keep the traditional gravy made with flour. Thanksgiving is the one time of year I eat gravy, and it is my favorite part of the meal. I purchased a gluten-free gravy mix that I plan to prepare and serve with the meal so the young woman may have some of that if she likes. My husband feels this is terribly rude because the alternative gravy will be inferior to the other. He thinks the appropriate thing would be for me to make one gluten-free gravy by modifying my recipe to use a non-gluten thickener (not a simple task). Is my plan rude? GENTLE READER: No. If your son’s girlfriend is as lovely as you say she is, then she will appreci-
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ate the gesture of making her a second gravy -- and not require that it be the only option for everyone. Miss Manners certainly acknowledges real health and moral issues that require guests to have special culinary needs. But she only requires of their hosts that they make a valiant effort to give those guests something to eat, not that they adjust the entire menu to accommodate only them. She further entreats the guests to appreciate those efforts, smile politely and eat what they can. DEAR MISS MANNERS: My former in-laws refuse to call my daughter by the name she chooses -- her middle name, which is a family historical name on my mother’s side. The family knows her preference, but insists that they will continue to call her by her childhood nickname, which ends in “y” and is a nickname for her first name. She is in her 30s and using her middle name in the town where she has relocated. All her friends, colleagues and employers use her middle name. I say, shouldn’t we call a person by the name they choose? This gets no response except, “Other people can call her whatever, but she will always be (....y).” They sound so firm and united that I am bewildered. I’m not going to get into an argument with anyone, but this seems rude and domineering to me. Of course my daughter is disappointed in them. GENTLE READER: While you are correct that it is impolite to address someone by a name they do not use, exceptions are made for family members who remember when, in first grade, your daughter demanded that she henceforth be known as Rapunzel. And for teachers of preschool, where all the girls ask to be called Elsa. If your daughter cannot allow her grandparents this liberty, likely arising from an affectionate association with her childhood nickname, protesting against it should be left to her. DEAR MISS MANNERS: I work for an answering service. Callers don’t realize that when they call in the middle of the night. They think that they are going to speak to someone in the company’s office. Often after I say the company’s greeting, the caller will ask, “Am I speaking to a real/ live person?” They think I am a recording or automated. What is the correct response to that? Should I just say, “I am not a recording”? GENTLE READER: Any day now, the recorded messages will be saying that. Miss Manners understands your frustration, but is even more attuned to that of your callers. You should not take offense at the question, because they genuinely do not know. A greeting as the company’s answering service, not the company itself, should help.
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SPORTS AND RECREATION U16 Mustangs prevent Yellowknife sweep in nail-biter Tom Patrick News Reporter
“Come on, Bryce,” shouted a spectator as Mustangs centre Bryce Anderson tore into the Yellowknife end on a breakaway with Wolfpack defenders in hot pursuit. The three shouted words were doubtlessly running through a lot of people’s minds. They would not be disappointed. Anderson beat the glove of Wolfpack goalie Gavin Dwyer with what would be the game-winning goal as the Yukon U16 Mustangs beat the Yellowknife Wolfpack 2-1 in the midget division final of the Whitehorse International Showdown at Takhini Arena on Sunday. “This was probably their first real hockey game, their first real push, their first real challenge,” said Mustangs head coach Martin Lawrie. “They were a little nervous, tired, but they simplified the game and I think we played a pretty smart second and third period.” With the gold medal win, the U16 Mustangs prevented a sweep for the Wolfpack club, whose teams won the peewee and bantam divisions at the second annual tournament. “It was a good game, nice and close. I think it could have gone either way,” said Wolfpack head coach Mike Aumond. “They got a great goal to go ahead – that’s the way it goes sometimes.” The win was a come-from-behind performance for the home team, who went undefeated in five games over the weekend. The Wolfpack drew first blood with a power play goal from Drake Giroux midway in the second. The Mustangs evened it up late in the period on a goal from forward Mackenzie Benn-Wipp, knocking in a backhand pass through the crease from line-mate Dylan Kindervater. Johnny Elias also picked up an assist on the play. “It feels pretty good,” said Mustangs goalie Ethan Vanderkley. “The last game was a bit of a challenge. “That first goal they got on me I really didn’t like, so it kind of helped me out when we got that first one.” Vanderkley was in net for all five of his team’s wins, posting a 1.5 GAA in the tourney. He was also in net for last year’s bantam final at the Showdown – another game in which the Mustangs defeated the Wolfpack for gold. After the medal ceremony he was named Player of the Game for the final. “Ethan started coming into his own last season with the bantams and he’s the number one goalie, for sure,” said Lawrie. “He’s a big part of the team and he’ll be a big part of any success we have going forward.” The Wolfpack’s midget team won a Tier 2 tourney in Bonnyville, Alta., last month. The U16 Mustangs, on the other hand, were playing their first tournament games at the Showdown. Their success shows that the “elite-15” program, established this year by Hockey Yukon for first-year midget players, is working, said Lawrie. “We had no idea how we were going to do coming into this. But if you look at the kids, where they were in September to where they are right now, I think it’s incredible,” said Lawrie. “Conditioning for sure – there’s no question we were the best conditioned team in this tournament. We were short-benched the entire time.” The Fort St. John Flyers captured the midget division bronze in a 5-4 win over the Grand Prairie Knights. Yukon’s U18 Midget Mustangs won the consolation final with a 4-1 win over the Notre Dame Argos from Wilcox, Sask. The Yukon Mustangs club ended up with one of each medal at the Whitehorse tournament, taking silver in peewee and bronze in bantam. (See coverage on pages 36 and 37.) Contact Tom Patrick at tomp@yukon-news.com
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Yukon Mustangs goalie Ethan Vanderklay gets ready to make a save during the midget gold medal game at the Whitehorse International Showdown on Sunday at Takhini Arena. The Mustangs defeated the Yellowknife Wolfpack 2-1 for gold.
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Centre, Wolfpacks’ James Thomas hits the breaks in the final. Mustangs forward Bryce Anderson rips into the Yellowknife zone, right.
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The Yukon Mustangs celebrate a goal against the Yellowknife Wolfpack during the Whitehorse International Showdown at Takhini Arena on Saturday. Tom Patrick News Reporter
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he Yukon Peewee Mustangs went from squad to team over the weekend. After going winless at a B.C. two weeks prior, the Mustangs pocketed three wins for silver in the peewee division of the Whitehorse International Showdown over the weekend. They won games as a team because they played as a team, said head coach Trevor Matthews. “This weekend seemed to be a turning point for them where they really started to act like a team, on the ice and off the ice,” said Matthews. “Going into the games you could look around the room and see the focus in the players’ eyes. You could see they were thinking about the game finally. And it just came together on the ice. They played really well together. “You could see some good hockey players and good hockey goals, instead of one guy taking it up the ice and scoring a goal. The goals came together from all five guys on the ice.” Not only did the Mustangs win three out of four games for silver in the three-team round robin, they came within a goal of taking gold.
They placed behind goldwinning Yellowknife Wolfpack (3-1) through counting goals for and against. “Had we scored one more goal, or had one less goal scored against us, then we would have taken first,” said Matthews. The Mustangs lost 8-4 to the Wolfpack Friday before beating them 8-5 Saturday. In the first encounter forward Joey Schultz had two goals and an assist and teammates Nolan Matthews and Ashton Underhill also scored. In Saturday’s win forwards Landon Marsh and Ty Beacon both racked up two goals and an assist, Underhill had two
goals and Nolan registered a goal with two assists. The Mustangs had also fallen to the Wolfpack in the tournament in B.C. two weeks earlier. “We competed with them well for the whole game (on Saturday). But for the previous two games there was always a five- or 10-minute part of the game where we … got away from our game plan, and they end up hammering two or three really quick goals,” said Trevor. “For the third game we went into and won, we told them … they have to stay focused for the full 60 minutes of game play. And they did.
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Mustangs’ Joey Schultz puts a shot on net. Left, Mustangs forward Joshua Schenk handles the puck against Yellowknife. “When they keep their head in it, it goes to show what they can do.” The Yukon rep team also defeated the Wasilla-Mat’su Eagles 6-4 on Friday and 13-3 on Saturday, helping deal the Alaska team a third-place finish. Connor Cozens, Sasa Jirousek and Sawyer Adams each had a goal and assist Friday. Underhill had a huge game Saturday with five goals and an assist while
Beacon added two goals and two assists. “When we come away with wins it’s because the whole team is working together,” said Trevor. “We were getting scoring from all three lines, all three lines defensively were strong. It took all 17 guys on our roster to play hard here and that’s exactly what they did.” Contact Tom Patrick at tomp@yukon-news.com
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Mustangs down Pioneers for bantam bronze
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Yukon Mustangs forward Wyatt Peterson, left, tracks the puck after getting tangled up with players from the Palmer Pioneers during the bantam bronze game for the Whitehorse International Showdown at the Canada Games Centre on Sunday. The Mustangs won 9-2. Sheardown-Waugh all knocked in the puck for the Mustangs in the bronze game. The one player to bag two short bench didn’t stop the was Wyatt Peterson, who also Yukon Bantam Mustangs registered three assists. Teamfrom posting a long list of mate Isaac Williamson notched goals on the way to bronze on two assists. Sunday. The Mustangs, who went 2-2 With a roster including just in the Showdown, also beat the seven forwards and four defence, Pioneers 6-2 in the round robin. the Mustangs produced a deciThe home team lost 5-3 to sive 9-2 win over Alaska’s Palmer Alaska’s Wasilla-Mat’su Eagles Pioneers in the bantam division’s and 9-1 to the Yellowknife Wolfthird-place game of the Whitepack in round robin play. horse International Showdown at “The game against Mat’su, we the Canada Games Centre. just didn’t get any puck luck and “We’re down a few players weren’t able to score,” said Kirk. because some of the players play “That’s kind of been our (probon the U16 (Mustangs) and the lem). Even last week in Kelowna bantams, so we had to pick up we were having a tough time out a few players that usually don’t shooting, out working teams and play with us but do practice with just weren’t able to score.” us,” said Mustangs head coach Yellowknife went on to take Kirk Gale. gold with an 8-2 win over the “The kids are in good condiEagles in the final. Wolfpack tion and can handle the pace, so teams also took gold in the they were fine,” he added. peewee division and silver in the The Bantam Mustangs gave up midget division. four players to the U16 Mustangs, “They’re just a good team,” who won gold in the midget said Kirk. “They work hard, they division, and had another on the check hard, and they’re just on disabled list. They also had two you all the time. Our guys had players ejected during the bronze trouble adjusting to that style of game for misconduct. play and we weren’t able to get Still, the Mustangs piled in much offence at all.” the goals during the medal game “It’s petty cool we got bronze. with eight different scorers. It’s not gold, but it’s still someAdam Hennings, Saul Gale, thing,” said Austin, who plays Liam Hudson, Eric Potvin, Kyle forward. “We definitely control most Schwantz, Josh Austin and Wyatt Tom Patrick
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Mustangs defenceman Kyle Schwantz fights for the puck. of our games, we just don’t put points on the board – we don’t score the goals that we need to … One thing we need to work on is the power play – we need to get more pucks in the net.” The Bantam Mustangs went
2-2 at a Tier 3 tournament in Kelowna, B.C. the previous weekend. The rep team also went 2-2 at the South Okanagan Minor Hockey’s Bantam Rep Tournament at the start of the season. “We don’t get many opportu-
nities to play at home, so it was good for their friends and family to come out and watch them play,” added Kirk. Contact Tom Patrick at tomp@yukon-news.com
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son. “I think it’s a great start with lots of great performances. So the athletes are excited and it’s a great way to build self-confidence for the rest of the season.” Not surprisingly, a few of the medals came from Dahria Beatty and Knute Johnsgaard, who are both members of Canada’s development team. Beatty, 21, opened with seventh in the open women’s fivekilometre classic Saturday before snatching gold in the 10-kilometre free Sunday and the 1.5-kilometre classic sprint Tuesday. Johnsgaard, 23, picked up silver in the open men’s 10-kilometre and 16.2-kilometre, and then took sixth in Thursday’s Buff sprint. Junior girls competitor Natalie Hynes was the only Yukon skier to make the podium in every race. Hynes claimed bronze in the five-kilometre classic, silver in the six-kilometre free and gold in Tuesday’s sprint, the last of which was a qualifier race for the quadrennial Youth Olympic Games this February in Lillehammer, Norway. Yukon’s other medal came from junior men’s Caelan McLean in Tuesday’s sprint. “It was a great start for some of our younger juniors. So it’s very exciting to start that way,”
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Yukon Ski Team’s Annah Hanthorn races at the Hoywood NorAm Buff Sprints in Canmore, Alta., on Tuesday. The Yukon team collected eight medals in total over the weekend and on Tuesday.
said Masson. Yukon’s Hannah Deuling was one of the few to place top-10 each race. The junior girls took seventh in Saturday’s five-kilometre, fourth in Sunday’s sixkilometre and ninth in Tuesday’s sprint. Juvenile girl’s Amanda Thomson placed sixth Saturday and Sunday. Simon Cash took seventh Saturday and sixth in the sprint for junior boys. Other top Yukon results include Colon Abbott seventh for open men Saturday; Annah Hanthorn ninth for open women Saturday; Graham Nishikawa sixth for open men Sunday; and Mira Mason ninth in junior girls Sunday. “I think yesterday was the most surprising because usually (sprints) are not our best event and I think yesterday was a really good day overall,” said Masson on Wednesday. “We have greater expectations on distance days than sprint days.” Meanwhile, Whitehorse’s Emily Nishikawa placed 52nd in the women’s 15-kilometre skiathlon at a FIS World Cup on Saturday in Lillehammer, Norway. Canada’s World Cup team will race in Davos, Switzerland this weekend. Contact Tom Patrick at tomp@yukon-news.com
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Goal differential keeps Atom Mustangs from medal round in Salmon Arm third. Tied 7-7, Ethan Candow got the game-winner from the slot on a pass from Gavin McKenna. Whitehorse goalie Fynn Ritchie got the win. Game 2 saw another comeback – a remarkable comeback. The Mustangs rallied from down 4-0 to defeat Penticton 7-4, scoring five unanswered goals in the third period. “This is one of the best games I’ve been a part of,� said Johnstone. “That was something else to be a part of that one. I don’t think I’ve been a part of coaching in which I’ve seen a team down 4-0 and not give up. It was pretty exciting.� Mustangs’ Luke Cozens notched two goals in the game while teammates Jonny Timmons and Jase Johnstone each had a goal and assist. Goalie Ben Power got the win in net. “We had a lot of different scorers in that game, so it was a whole-team effort,� said Johnstone. The Mustangs then fell 9-5 to the hosting Salmon Arm team, who went on to play for bronze.
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he Tier 3 Atom Jr. Mustangs took on Tier 2 teams over the weekend. Mathematics kept them out of the medal round. The Whitehorse rep team won two of their first three games but were squeezed out of the playoffs through goal differential at the Salmon Arm Atom Development Tournament in B.C. “We showed pretty well. We didn’t know what we were getting into, going down to an atom development tournament where all the teams are classified as Tier 2,� said Mustangs head coach Derek Johnstone. “But we do have a strong group of players and I think they showed it last weekend.� The Mustangs opened their first tournament of the season with two come-from-behind wins. They began with an 8-7 win over Semiahmoo, coming back from down 6-5 going into the
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Whitehorse was down 4-3 by the end of the first and couldn’t catch up in the remaining periods. “We started to run into some penalties in that game and played shorthanded from the halfway point on,â€? said Derek. “That had a little bit of an effect on us.â€? McKenna scored the first two Mustangs goals of the game. Taylor Bierlmeier got a goal and assist while Jacob Nickel and Cozens each popped in a goal at the end. The loss to Salmon Arm put the Mustangs in a three-way tie for second and were edged from the playoffs through goals for and against calculations. The Whitehorse squad went on to lose 3-2 to Trail, B.C., in the consolation final. McKenna and Cozens put the Mustangs on the board with goals. “I think it started from the goalies who played well ‌ We never quit in any game,â€? added Derek.
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f the Glacier Bears wanted medals, personal bests, qualifying times and club records for Christmas – they got them. All of those were crossed off the list as 18 swimmers of the Whitehorse club competed at the 2015 Christmas Cracker in Victoria, B.C., over the weekend. “For WGB having such a big team on the island, with every athlete racing in nine events, it was still a busy weekend for Glacier Bears,� said Glacier Bears
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showed her fighting spirit this weekend,â€? said Bukszowana. “Liam Diamond ‌ made more times than we expected and now he is eligible to be a part of our big team.â€? A pair of Glacier Bears also penciled in new times to the club’s record book. “Alex Petriw was a shining star this weekend, crashing his best times, racing in the finals every night, and breaking the club records in 200 free (2:25.68) and 400 free (5:15.93),â€? said Bukszowana. Petriw placed third in the 100 free, sixth in the 1,500 free and also made B finals in the 200 individual medley, 200 free, 50 free and 100 back. Teammate Thomas Bakica set a club record in the 50-metre butterfly at 35.09, taking sixth, and also won bronze in the 50 free. Whitehorse’s Cassis Lindsay made three A finals in Victoria, placing fourth in the 50 free, sixth in the 50 back and eighth in the 100 free. Little sister Rennes Lindsay took sixth in the 400 IM – finishing the prelim in 5:18.53 and the final in 5:20.26 – setting a qualifying time for the National Age Group Championships next summer. She also claimed eighth in the 800 free and sliced a huge 24 seconds off her time in the 1,500 free, taking eighth. “This is a big improvement at her level of swimming, her times are getting fast and it is becoming harder to break them, but Rennes keeps going,â€? said Bukszowana. “She has her goals and she pushes herself very hard to achieve them. After winning a medal at the Open Water BC Championships last summer, Rennes wants to represent Yukon in Open Water and National Age Group Championships in July, so she needs to be much faster in long freestyle events.â€? Contact Tom Patrick at tomp@yukon-news.com
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To solve Kakuro, you must enter a number between 1 and 9 in the empty squares. The clues are the numbers in the white circles that give the sum of the solution numbers: above the line are across clues and below the line are down clues and below the line are down clues. Thus, a clue of 3 will produce a solution of 2 and 1 and a 5 will produce 4 and 1, or 2 and 3, but of course, which squares they go in will depend on the solution of a clue in the other direction. No difit can be repeated in a solution, so a 4 can only produce 1 and 3, never 2 and 2. © 2013 The Mepham Group. Distributed by Tribune Content Agency. All rights reserved.
WORD SCRAMBLE Rearrange the letters to spell a word Hint: a formal retraction
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CLUES ACROSS 1. Plural of ascus 5. Repents 11. British School 12. Adhesive to catch birds 15. Male children 16. Oil company 17. Intestinal 19. Money slogan 24. 2nd tone 25. In actual truth 26. Belgian-French River 27. Rural Free Delivery
28. Point midway between S and SE 29. Texas armadillo 30. 2nd largest Hawaiian island 31. Pile up 33. Changes liquid to vapor 34. Yemen capital 37. Byways 38. V-shaped cut 39. Painting on dry plaster 42. Daminozide 43. Papa’s partner 44. __ -fi: fiction/movie genre
47. 1st Soviet space station 48. Latvian capital 49. Come into view 52. Blue Hen school 53. Maine water company 55. Picture & word puzzle 57. Atomic #18 58. Xiamen dialect 59. Being overzealous 62. One who did it (slang) 63. Night breathing noises 64. A minute amount (Scott)
22. Jests at 23. America 27. Surprise attack 29. Daddy 30. Extinct flightless bird of New Zealand 31. Express pleasure 32. Cellist Yo-Yo 33. Bronx cheer 34. A more firm substance 35. Essential oil obtained from flowers 36. Company that rings receipts 37. Largest church in Christianity 38. Capital of Wallonia 39. Heroic tale 40. Send forth
41. The Golden State 43. 1/1000 of an inch 44. Angel of the 1st order 45. Ukrainian peninsula 46. Disregard 48. Colophony 49. Spanish be 50. Military policeman 51. Cleopatra’s country 53. Br. drinking establishments 54. Removes moisture 56. Liberal Arts degree 60. Execute or perform 61. Atomic #77
CLUES DOWN 1. Race of Norse gods 2. Large pebbles 3. Latin line dances 4. The inner sole of a shoe 5. A French abbot 6. Moves stealthily 7. An alternative 8. 39th state 9. Lotus sports car model 10. River fill 13. Of I 14. Many noises 18. Ghana monetary units 20. Actor Hughley 21. The Cowboy State
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WORLD HOCKEY Association, 5 complete hockey card sets from the 1970s. Exc cond. $750. Ross 633-3154 WORLD HOCKEY Association, remember it? Two rare books, (history, statistics, photos). Exc. shape, $50. 633-3154
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6 Chalet Crescent Whitehorse 867-334-7623 Help Wanted HELP WANTED Hotel Front Desk Clerk NOC #6525 Qualifications: Completion of college program in front desk operations or hotel management required. Applicants with relevant experience preferred Hours: 40 hours per week Wage: $15/hr Duties: •Register arriving guests, assign rooms •Answer telephone enquiries •Compile and check daily records Contact: HR Manager hr@elitehotel.ca Elite Hotel & Travel Ltd. 206 Jarvis St Whitehorse, Yukon Y1A-2H1 SIRIUS SECURITY NOC 6551 Upcoming positions available: •Onsite, foot patrols, static watch, mobile patrols. •Experienced applicants preferred, but willing to train. Applicants must: *Be 19 years of age or older. *Pass vulnerable sector check prior to applying. *Have clean Class 5 drivers licence. *Have cell phone. *Have own vehicle. *Be physically fit, able to be on your feet up to 12 hours. Contact 867-334-5973 Schwalm.sirius@gmail.com NAZARENE DAYCARE is seeking to hire a supported childcare worker full-time. Must have all government requirements. Call Clayton @ 633-5520 or apply online @ www.nazarenedaycare.org.
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Execu ve Administrator Job Summary: Repor ng to the Da Daghay Development Corpora on (DDDC) Chief Execu ve OďŹƒcer (CEO) this posi on is responsible for providing a broad range of analy cal and administra ve support to the (CEO). This posi on shall be responsible for the supervision of general accoun ng, accounts receivable, collec on and payroll of DDDC. The Administra ve OďŹƒce will also ensure the legal and regulatory compliance for all DDDC accoun ng and financial repor ng func ons. As well this posi on will assist in fostering good public rela ons with ci zens, sta and other governments, industries and organiza ons with whom DDDC conducts business. Main Du es: • Maintain OďŹƒce clerical, filing and record keeping systems • Assist CEO, as directed, with background research and dra ing of funding proposals • Prepara on of yearend audit • Bill payments and/or invoicing to associated companies • Conduct seasonal/term recruitments on behalf of DDDC • Make logis cal arrangements for Board mee ngs including the prepara on and distribu on of agendas, related reference materials and preparing mee ng minutes set for approval • Prepara on of a wide range of reports, correspondence, discussion papers, wri en recommenda ons and other relevant documenta on pertaining to Board ac vi es • Maintain filing systems (hard copy and electronic) ensuring all records and documenta on is fully accessible and properly stored • Prepara on and publica on of DDDC material • Other related du es as reasonably required Educa on and Experience: Educa on and experience with accoun ng systems, budgets, internal controls, business planning and asset management. Minimum of three years’ experience with a medium to large organiza on. Remunera on: Salary range $50,000-$60,000, including benefits. Will entertain 3/4 me applicants. For complete job descrip on please contact: Ben Asquith @dadaghay@northwestel.net ***TKC Ci zens are encouraged to apply***
Be part of one of Canada’s most dynamic environmental and socio-economic assessment processes and work with an energe c, progressive organiza on. We are commi ed to the well-being of our employees and encourage their personal and professional development. We are an impar al, eec ve and eďŹƒcient organiza on that provides assistance to all involved in the assessment process.
MANAGER, DESIGNATED OFFICE Whitehorse Designated OďŹƒce Full-Ć&#x;me permanent posiĆ&#x;on
Located in Whitehorse, this posi on reports to the Execu ve Director and is responsible for managing the daily opera ons of the designated oďŹƒce. This posi on conducts and leads environmental and socioeconomic assessment of projects within the designated area to iden fy environmental and socio-economic impacts while incorpora ng tradi onal knowledge of First Na ons and local knowledge into assessments. This includes iden fying project eects and mi ga on measures for adverse eects, determining the significance of any residual eects and developing recommenda ons. The annual salary range for this posi on is $83,503 – $96,537 based on 75 hours biweekly. If you feel you have the qualifica ons and desire to meet the challenges of this posi on please forward a cover le er and resume outlining how your experience and qualifica ons relate directly to the posi on. A job descrip on is available at the YESAB Head OďŹƒce, Suite 200 – 309 Strickland Street, Whitehorse, or on our website at www.yesab.ca. Please submit applica ons to: Finance and Administra on Manager, YESAB Suite 200 – 309 Strickland Street, Whitehorse, YT Y1A 2J9 Ph: 867.668.6420 Fax: 867.668.6425 or email to yesab@yesab.ca Toll free: 1.866.322.4040 Resumes must be received by December 20, 2015.
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MCDONALDS H O C K E Y cards from 1991-92 to 2009/10, almost every card issued incl. 27 unopened paks from each year, over 1,200 cards, $1,000 firm. Ross 633-3154 THREE COMPLETE OPC hockey card sets (1999-00 to 2001-02 period) plus some short prints. Over 900 cards. $150. Ross 633-3154 YUKON WILDLIFE Conservation stamps, rare and unique collection of 13 stamps, from 1996-2008, beautiful artwork depicting Yukon birds and wildlife, $150. 633-3154 BRASS WALKER, used very little, no wheels, good cond, $30; Honeywell oil-filled heater, good cond, $25. 334-8318 BOX OF Nevil Shute paperbacks, 38, some duplication, $25. 633-3154 LOOP CARPET, new, wall-to-wall conventional carpet from Canada Flooring, beige/light brown, 5.6ĘźX11.10Ęź, new $93, asking $45. 660-4321 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 SELF PROPELLED SNOW Blower, clears 30" wide path, electric start, 6 forward & two reverse speeds, excellent condition, canopy available extra, $800. 333-9020 FLAVOUR WAVE oven, $45; Jack Lalanne power juicer, $55; ice cream/dessert maker, new, mint, $18. 660-4321 TRACTOR WITH snow blower attachment, electric start, tire chains & weights, exc cond, $1,800.00. 333-9020
Friday, December 11, 2015
YUKON NEWS CANADA GOOSE Chilliwack bomber jacket, exc cond, rarely worn, menĘźs XL, $370. 668-2579 PROJECTION SCREEN for home theatre. New, 8Ęź remote control projection screen. Still in the box, all accessories. $850 obo. 335-6095 DOWN COAT, Lands End, full length wms sz 10-12, Berry, $150; fleece-lined wms jacket, Lands End, sz Med, $25. 311B Hanson St SPIRIT KNIVES YUKON will be selling one-of-a-kind Damascus steel knives Folding, lock blades, hunting knives & kitchen sets December 5 & 6, 12 & 13, 19 & 20 Noon-5pm 1601 Dogwood Street 334-7693
SELECTIVE PLATING equipment. Includes power pack, turning lathe, and all equipment and supplies required to repair worn shafts, bores & flat surfaces. $6,000 obo. 633-5274 ATV TIRES on rims, 2 25-8-12 Maxis front tires on black painted rims, 2 25-10-12 Maxis rear tires on black painted rims, low mileage, 75% tread, exc cond, $400. 867-993-3762 CEDAR SIDING/1X8 bevelled rough one side. 2 lifts avail. 1 St lift 1200 sq ft random lengths from 16'-12', $1800. 2nd lift 1350 sqft, $2000. 335-1088 800 GALLON water holding tank, $800. Marsh Lake area. 335-1088
HAND-KNIT GREEN men's sweater, sz L, $55 obo. 668-5185 days/667-7840 eves
Electrical Appliances
PROPANE CLOTHES dryer, Frigidaire make, heavy duty, new, $1,000. 334-8335 SEARS 10 cu ft freezer, apartment size, new, still in box, moving, must sell, paid $293, offers. 322-2505 COIN OPERATED washers & dryers for sale, 6 of each. 335-4769 WHIRLPOOL TOP freezer refrigerator, cash & carry, 30"W, 66"H, 33"D, well maintained, exc cond, clean, Porter Creek, $100. 393-2588
WOMENĘźS WINTER jacket, purple/white, very clean, medium loose-fit, $25. 668-5185 days/667-7840 evenings
DEHUMIDIFIER, SIMPLICITY brand, 20 pint. Like new. Paid $250, asking $100. 335-6163
COAST MOUNTAIN shoes, new, sz 7.5, $75 obo. 668-5185 days/667-7840 eves
KENMORE 1.3 cu ft microwave oven, $25 obo. 668-3968
WOMEN'S MEDIUM Snowboard jacket, grey stripe, $100. Unisex medium Columbia snowboard pants, red, $100. New with original tags, purchased from Coast Mtn. 334-6197
BLOOD PRESSURE monitor: Brand New, given to us as gift, $10. Text/call 204-880-7245
Computers & Accessories
MEN'S LARGE Red Dragon sleeveless muscle shirt w/Red Dragon ball cap, sz 7-1/4, $50. New with original tags, purchased from Coast Mtn. 334-6197
BISSELL PROHEAT carpet cleaner, $50 obo. 668-3968
CDMA PHONE, new in box, Samsung Ace i325 World Edition, works good in rural settings, c/w all accessories, $60. 334-6087
MASSAGE TABLE. New 31" adjustable height Catalina Salon LX Lift-Back Portable w/accessories came from Amazon. Pd $599 + $100 shipping. Asking $500. 335-6163
OLD STYLE computer, fits on 33�X16�X30� cabinet, offers. 322-2505
POP-UP ISLAND fan, new in box, call for dimensions, $600 obo. 334-6799 3ĘźX4Ęź OVAL kitchen table, $40 obo; 4 Starbucks coffee tumblers, $73 obo. 322-2505 OIL STOVE, new, 56,000 BTU, very efficient, gravity fed, Geostove, $800. 334-8335
WOMENĘźS WINTER coat, brown, sz small, $35 obo. 668-5185 days/667-7840 eves
Store (867) 633-3276 Dev (867) 335-5192 Carl (867) 334-3782
WESTINGHOUSE DRYER, HD, good working order, $75. 633-2837
SUPER BACKPACKER camera bag, LowePro Super TrekkerAW2, new, never used, excellent for very large lenses & everything you need for expedition style shooting. 334-4701, haywire6@icloud.com
HELLY HANSEN Team Yukon jackets. Men's Black XL, $70. Women's Purple XL, $70. Team Yukon toque w/neck buff, $30. All items new with original tags, purchased from Sport Yukon. 334-6197
HURLBURT ENTERPRISES INC. ✔ 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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Musical Instruments
NEW GOLF bag, $100. 25 piece socket set, still in original pkg, $40. Floor lamps, great cond, $100/ea. Wireless mouse & keyboard, $25. IBM laptop, $80. 668-4186
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PIANO TUNING & REPAIR by certified piano technician Call Barry Kitchen @ 633-5191 email:bfkitchen@hotmail.com
Cheque, Cash S.A. vouchers accepted.
FRANKʟS FIREWOOD •Top quality, stacked cords for best value •8 foot & stove length •1/2 cord, single cord & multiple cords Phone 334-8960 STANDING DEAD PINE FIREWOOD Smaller diameter. Cut to length, split and delivered. $250/cord 393-2728 FIRE-KILLED SPRUCE Firewood Very dry, clean burning $250/cord 16�x3-cord load Larger loads available $190/cord if you cut & haul from my yard in town 333-5174 DJG CONTRACTING •Delivering logging truck loads •Single/multiple cord loads Call David at 867-332-8327
BACH trumpet, used 1 season. Purchased new, $675. Asking $500 firm. 332-7797
Guns & Bows
BACH TRUMPET, used one season in HS, band, new $675, asking $500 firm. 332-7797 7-PIECE CB Drumkit, barely used, excellent condition, $450. 332-7797
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WANTED: MARLIN .444, 45-70 lever action rifle. Also lokng for a good used 3 x 9 scope. 335-8413
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
ENFIELD PATTERN 1914 sporter in 303 British, completely refinished, vg, D&T for scope, PAL req'd, $300 firm. 667-2276
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WHITEHORSE RIFLE & Pistol Club is having a restricted firearm safety course on Saturday, Dec 12. Be there at 8:30 am. Call 633-2488 or 333-5640 LEE ENFIELD No4 Mk1*, 10 rd mag, sporterized with monte carlo stock, scope mount, no sights, VG, $300 firm, PAL req'd. 667-2276 NEW 180 grain 303 British cartridges. Federal, Remington & Winchester brands. 70 cartridges (3-1/2 boxes), $50. Less than 1/2 price. 633-3810
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Friday, December 11, 2015 H&R HANDI-RIFLE in .243. Great little single shot rifle. Less than 100 rounds through it, $270 obo. 332-3726 ASSORTED 30 cal & 7 mm bullets, Barnes & Nosler, assorted 3006 brass, new & used. 689-6169
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2007 TOYOTA Matrix, 250k, std, replacement engine w/140k on it. 2 sets rims, 1 yr on both sets tires. Blue, good shape, $4,900. 633-4315
1999 F 150 XLT, 5.4L engine, many new parts, transmission, rear seals and rear breaks, new starter, c/w matching canopy, $4,800. 336-3023
2006 C H R Y S L E R Sebring, power windows/locks, great cond, 173,000kms, $3,900 obo. 334-3456
1998 FORD Explorer, 4x4, in gd shape, runs good, spare tire, $2200. 334-2906
2003 HONDA Civic coupe, 2-dr, 4-cyl, remote start, good running order, $800 obo. 633-2837
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2003 PONTIAC Sunfire, good condition, leather bra, rain guards etc, recent oil change, new tires, $2,800. 335-9223
1993 E150 cargo van with contractor shelving, needs to have water pump installed, rebuilt pump comes with van, $1,200 obo. 334-0974
2003 SUZUKI Vitara 4x4 convertible, 4 winter tires, 100,000 kms, great deal, $4,900. Dominique @ 1-514-941-3347
Auto Parts & Accessories
WANTED: WINTER tires 185/65/14 or 175/65/14. Call 667-7684 WANTED: 35 mm film, Kodak or Fugi 200. 332-6565 WANTED: AM/FM short wave radio with external antenna hook-up. 867-863-5565 WANTED: SKI-DOO Elan track in gd cond. 335-0573 WANTED: TWO pairs of figure skates, size 2, need to be Jacksons or Reivell. 335-8833 WANTED: WOOL finger puppets sold last year at Coast Mountain. 668-5188
1997 TOYOTA Camry V6 5-spd, might need some transmission or clutch work, $500. 335-1088 1994 CADILLAC Concourse, 4-dr, new tires, stereo, every option, near mint, $3,500. 333-9899 1993 CHRYSLER Concord 4-dr sedan, 6-cyl, 34 mpg, good body & glass, 211,000kms, set of winter & summer tires, $1,200 obo. 334-2365
Trucks
WANTED: SPANISH tutor to teach conversation classes for two people in the new year. 335-6426
Cars
MicMac USED VEHICLE SPECIALS!! 2008 Volkswagen Rabbit Trendline # 7693B ....................... $9,895 2007 Toyota Tacoma X-Runner # 1505A ............................$15,995 2011 Kia Sorento LX V6 # 7596A....................................... $20,695 2012 Dodge Journey R/T AWD # 7622A............................ $22,995 2014 Ford Fiesta Titanium # 7710B................................... $16,895 2010 Nissan Altima 3.5 SR 6 spd # 7724A ........................ $17,995 2013 Ford Escape SE 1.6L ECO # 7745A ........................... $22,900
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2014 CHEVROLET Cruze LT, loaded, 1.4 ltr turbo auto, white/blk interior, 10,623km, shows like new, $12,000. 668-7455 2013 NISSAN Murano, fully loaded, leather, heated seats, AWD, exc cond, $26,000. 334-6799 2008 TOYOTA Corolla, manual, all season and winter studded tires, 184,000km, great condition, good on fuel, $7,000. 333-4014 2007 PONTIAC G5, 80,400kms, 2-dr, 5-spd, 4cyl, new battery & thermostat, 2 new sets of tires, great cond, $5,500 obo. 334-8102
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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 4 STEEL rims, fits 2006 VW Passat, 5-bolt, $120. 334-1846 LEER TRUCK cap. Fits midsize 4dr pickups (Canyon/ Tacoma or similar) with 5.1Ęź bed. Exc cond, rear gate locks, factory installed roof rack rails, $1000 obo. Must sell. Call/text 332-2352 bet 6-9pm JERRY CANS, $12 obo. 668-5085
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2010 SUBURBAN, black on black, heated leather, Bose sound, sunroof, air, power everything, trailer pkg, additional 20" custom rims, mint condition, reduced to $16,500. 334-2289 2009 GMC 3500 HD, 4x4, extĘźd cab, gas engine. Lots of extras, inclĘźg bed liner, running boards, Onstar, power everything, 72,000 kms, exc cond, $24,900. 334-1859 2008 DODGE Nitro SUV, 4x4, 73,000kms, command start, power pkg, a/c, black with slate grey int, am/ fm/ cd/ Sirius radio, cloth seats, backup camera, vg cond, $11,900 obo. 668-3197
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 BLUE HEELER X Border Collie X Terrier pups, ready late December, both parents good farm dogs, $75. Shiela 668-5964
2007.5 NEW body style 1500 5.3 Silverado 4X4, 6" BDS lift on 35" nitto tires, command start, bullydog chip, AFE cold air intake, magnaflow exhaust, sound system, $18,000 obo. 334-2347 2006 FORD F350 4-dr super duty 4X4, ARP head, 300,000 kms, MBRP exhaust, lots of extras, $8,800. 334-6857 2005 F350 Turbo diesel 1-ton, 4x4, white, crew cab, 420,000 kms, runs good, new batteries & alternator. Tires 80% winters, great work truck, $6,900 obo. 335-1088
LIKE NEW: Rear seat, cargo box, block heater, extra-wide skis, spare carbide runners, scratchers, belts, mirrors, Yamaha cover, $5,500.
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SALVAGE SALE The following insurance salvage is up for bids. Salvage vehicles may have signiďŹ cant collision damages. Listed salvage is currently located at Irving Collision Repairs. GST will be added to all bids. It is offered on an “as is, where isâ€? basis. The highest or any bid not necessarily accepted. Bids close at 6:00 p.m. Monday, December 21, 2015. Contact Irving Collision Repairs (867-667-6315) for viewing appointment & information. YEAR 2013 2000 2009 2009 2008 2008 1997
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2008 JEEP Compass North 4wd, 2.4 ltr auto sunroof, heatted seats, 83,000km, very clean, reduced to $9,000. 668-7455 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
2009 Yamaha Venture MP 4-stroke
1996 PLYMOUTH Voyager van, vg condition, clean and smooth, 280,000km, tinted windows, $2,600 obo. 322-1476
L/E NO4, professional conversion to .308 win, new bbl/bolt parts/syn stock, scope base, no sights, no mag, PAL req'd, $450 firm. 667-2276
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2003 GMC Sierra 4X4, burgundy, 4 door, running boards, tunnel cover, great truck for winter, $8,000 obo. 335-7799 2002 GMC 1500 4x4, 152,000km, auto V8, ext cab, 6'5" box, in great shape, $7,500 obo. 332-3726 2001 FORD Expedition, runs awesome, needs tires, has two fixable dents, $1,200. 335-1088 2001 TOYOTA Tundra, 214,000 kms, good condition, $9000. 334-2150
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have your pets SPAYED OR NEUTERED. FOR INFORMATION CALL
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Spay or Neuter Your Dog You may qualify to have one family dog spayed or neutered for FREE or at a reduced amount if you fall into one of the following categories:
1. You live in an outlying Yukon community 2. You qualify as having a low income (Whitehorse included) 3. Your local First Nation, town or village council has agreed to cost share with Humane Society Yukon For more information contact Linda Priestley at 1-867-633-6019 or email linda.priestly@humanesocietyyukon.ca RUNNING AT LARGE...
If you have lost a pet, remember to check with City Bylaw: 668-8382
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
CANINES & COMPANY Dog Obedience School Puppy training classes January 19 Basic obedience class January 19 Private Lessons Dog Puller Coacing www.caninesandcompany.ca 333-0505
2002 RMK 700 Polaris, ready for winter, new motor & track, $3,000 obo. 668-5729
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
2009 GRIZZLY ATV w/tracks, $7,500. 335-4237
ADVANCED K9 TRAINING AND SERVICES K9 Narcotics Scent Detection w/Legal Pseudo Scent January 11th Intro to Family Protection Dog Training February 1st Private lessons available 668-6118 www.advancedk9.com
8 WHEEL Argo, 450 hrs, $8000. 2001 Honda 350 quad, $2000. 334-2150
Motorcycles & Snowmobiles TAITĘźS CUSTOM TRAILER SALES 2-3-4- place snowmobile & ATV trailers Drive on Drive off 3500 lb axles by Trailtech - SWS & Featherlight CALL ANYTIME: 334-2194 www/taittrailers.com RONĘźS SMALL ENGINE SERVICES Repairs to Snowmobiles, Chainsaws, Lawnmowers, ATVĘźs, Small industrial equipment. Light welding repairs available 867-332-2333 lv msg
AVAILABLE FOR ADOPTION
2005 570 Panther Arctic Cat snow machine with skimmer, elec start & reverse, exc cond, $2,500. 334-6799
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Bridget
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2013 ARCTIC Cat M 1100 4-stroke, 1,450km excellent condition, skid plate, front bumper, cover, mirror, hitch, high windshield, google bag, 153x15x2.25 track, good reliable machine. 668-7275
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2009 POLARIS assault slp stage 3 pipe intake reeds, Koso gauge power commander with LCD display, tunnel bag, low miles, $6,500 obo. 668-3118
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1987 385 Peterbilt tandem hwy tractor, 370 M11 Cummins, 10 spd, 12/40 axles, 165� wheel base, air ride, 690,000kms, c/w 17,000lb SKB folding crane. Invested $19,500 obo. 633-5274
2 TWIN tracks Ski-doo for sale, 1 long track, 1 short track, more info call 867-993-6765 2002 TUNDRA R, good condition, $3,500 obo. 399-3571 WANTED: 2001 6x6 Polaris Sportsmen 500 for parts. 332-7797 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 2013 POLARIS 900 XP, sxs, c/w windshield, roof & back window, $14,000. 335-4237 2006 SUMMIT 800, mint, well maintained, Ski-doo brand cover, cargo bag, Jerry can w/mount incl, $4,100 obo. 334-3416
Bears
And more... Jessy
Woody
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.
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Come on down & visit with ALL OF US at the shelter.
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LEES-URE LITE tent trailer for motorcycle or small car, includes spare tire, mattress & awning, $4,750. 821-3369 2007 TRAILTEC dump trailer, 2-7000lb axles, exc cond, $8,500. 334-2150
Coming Events ATLIN - GLACIER VIEW CABINS “your quiet get away� Cozy self contained log cabins canoes, kayaks for rent Fax/Phone 250-651-7691 e-mail glacierviewcabins@gmail.com www.glacierviewcabins.ca
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, 10am-11am. Call Renate 334-6948 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 FALUN GONG, an advanced practice of Buddha school self-cultivation. Meeting weekly, no charge. For more information please call 667-6336
'HOMES-FOR-CHRISTMAS'. JOIN Habitat Yukon at the duplex on Eldorado Drive in Whistle Bend, every Tuesday to Saturday, from 10am-3pm. info@habitatyukon.org or www.habitatyukon.org or call 456-4349
Our Wish List...
Our Big Item Wish List!
TAITĘźS TRAILERS www.taittrailers.com taits@northwestel.net Quality new and used Horse * Cargo * Equipment trailers For sale or rent Call Anytime 334-2194 Southern prices delivered to the Yukon
FEAR OF Public Speaking? Try Grace Toastmasters. Thursdays @ noon hour. In Sport Yukon Bldg. 4061-4th Ave. Guests always welcome, no obligation. Just show up. Contact Glenn 204-880-7245
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2000 ARCTIC Cat 600 EFI powder special, only 1,545 miles, good condition, $2,100 obo. Call 667-7102 or 334-7831
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1984 ZETA 24' Hard Top, 350/260 leg, 15hp kicker, dingy, barbecue, galley, head, canvas enclosure, GPS chart plotter fishfinder, radio, sleeps 5, tandem trailer, rough water boat, bottom paint, many extras, reasonable offers. 332-1374
Heavy Equipment
Pet of the Week! Zoie
PROFESSIONAL BOAT REPAIR Fiberglass Supplies Marine Accessories FAR NORTH FIBERGLASS 49D MacDonald Rd Whitehorse, Yukon 393-2467
2012 ARCTIC Cat HCR 800, 153", good running condition, 3,600km, aftermarket skis, running boards & can, $5,500 obo. 332-0665
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LADIES CHRISTMAS Tea Benefit, Kwanlin Dun Cultural Centre, Friday, December 11th, 7:30-10pm. Contact Sandi for tickets, $5, 667-2671. Hosted by Whitehorse Baptist Church
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www.humanesocietyyukon.ca
YUKON WOMEN in Music presents Baker's Dozen Christmas Concert. Saturday, December 12, 2015, 8:00p.m., upper level United Church. Tickets $15 at the door. Silent auction, baked goods. CHRISTMAS WORKSHOPS at Santa's Studio, Yukon Artists at Work. Jeanine Baker will be hosting a mosaic workshop from 1-3, Saturday, December 12, $10 per person, 10 maximum. 4129-4th Avenue
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CHRISTMAS WORKSHOPS at Santa's Studio, Yukon Artists at Work. Nicole Bauberger will be hosting a stab-bound notebook making workshop from 1-3, Saturday, December 19, $7 per person, 8 maximum. 4129-4th Avenue
KLUANE MOUNTAIN Bluegrass Festival 2016. Tickets on sale starting Dec. 8th at Dean's Strings (Whitehorse), Kluane Machine (Haines Junction), and online: www.yukonbluegrass.com. Go to website for 2016 lineup.
SANTA'S STUDIO at Yukon Artists @ Work Nov. 27-Dec. 24 for a wide variety of small art works, holiday baking, preserves by Rock Island Bakery & natural body products by Berry Bluetoes. 4129 4th Avenue
WHITEHORSE SCOTTISH Country Dance classes for ALL levels of experience is every Tuesday in the Small Gym at Jack Hulland, 7pm-9pm. Come one, come all for fun and exercise.
CHILKOOT TRAIL/LOG Cabin: Non-motorized weekend: Dec 18-20. Other weekends & weekdays: Multi-Use. For info: 867-667-3910
MASSIVE PAINT-IN, Saturday Dec.12, at #13 Eldorado, WhistleBend. Habitat for Humanity needs your help to get 2 families home for Christmas. 456-4349
HORAIRE PISTE Chilkoot/Log Cabin: Multi-usage sauf du 18 au 20 decembre: activities non motorisees. 867-667-3910
Services
MUSIC FOR a Winter's Eve December 14 & 15, 7pm, Yukon Arts Centre. Tickets $7 C/S, $10 Senior, $12 Adult. allcityband.com WHITEHORSE G E N E R A L Hospital Women's Auxiliary monthly meeting & Christmas party, Mon. Dec. 14th, 7:30 p.m. at WGH. New members & friends welcome! Info: 667-2087 CLIMB YUKON will host its AGM on December the 17th at 6pm at Sport Yukon, 4061-4th Avenue. FREE ADMISSION, free skate rentals! A fun family afternoon Saturday December 12, 12:30-2pm, CGC. All kids must be with an adult. Gratefully accepting donations to Whitehorse Food Bank. Everyone welcome. Sponsored by YEU/PSAC CANDLE LIGHT service at Trinity Lutheran Church, Strickland Street, Christmas Day service at 10am. All are welcome. FREE BOARD Game Drop-In @ Whitehorse Public Library Meeting Room, Saturday December 19th, 12-4pm. Games provided, all are welcome. Hosted by the Yukon Comic Culture Society. More info: info@yukomicon.com 5 À 7 All in Music, one Thursday a month, French-speaking musicians perform at Baked Cafe. December 17th: Nadine Landry and Sammy Lind, Country and Cajun. zik-o-baked.afy.yk.ca COME TO Well Read Books Sunday, December 13th, 1:00 - 3:00 for the Christmas "Connecting Through Stories" free event. Christmas tales read by CBC "A New Day" announcers. Refreshments served. YUKON SCHUTZHUND Association AGM Saturday, February 6, 2016, 4pm-6pm, Whitehorse Public Library meeting room. Dog enthusiasts welcome. LIVING LIFE to the Full. Learn to manage low moods, depression, anxiety, 8-week educational course, beginning first week in January, Mondays or Wednesdays from 12-1:30, Thursdays 5:15-6:45pm, $200. 668-6429 or mhayukon2015@gmail.com NEW YEARS Mardi Gras Party, Yukon Convention Centre with Soul Migration. Doors open 8pm. Tickets $25. Discount room rates with ticket purchase. Tix at YukonTickets.com, Arts Underground, Arts Centre box office PADDLERS ABREAST Open House & AGM/regular meeting January 14th 2016, 5:30-7:30, CGC board room. Everyone welcome. Potluck appies. New members (survivors/supporters) welcome. YRQ/recreational paddlers: pool training starts January 16 COFFEE HOUSE! Sat. Jan. 2. Featuring: Liz Pilon + the Open Stage. Help set up 6PM + open stage sign-up, 730PM show. $5 bsmt United Church, 6th+Main, 633-4255 YUKON SCIENCE Institute presents Emerging Trends at Yukon Bird Observatories with Ben Schonewille and Ted Murphy-Kelly, Sunday, December 13, 7:30pm, Beringia Centre, Whitehorse. Free.
The Handy Woman HOME REPAIRS & RENOVATIONS %3:8"-- t 8&"5)&3453*11*/( $"31&/53: t #"5)300.4 $ $"3 "3 Affordable, A Af fffo Prompt Service vicee SPECIALIZING IN SMALL JOBS MARILYN ASTON 867 . 333 . 57 5786 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
BACKHAULS, WHITEHORSE to Alberta. Vehicles, Furniture, Personal effects etc. Daily departures, safe secure dependable transportation at affordable rates. Please call Pacific Northwest Freight Systems @ 667-2050 MC RENOVATION Construction & Renovations Laminated floor, siding, decks, tiles Kitchen, Bathroom, Doors, Cabinets, Windows, Framing, Board, Painting Drop Ceiling, Fences No job too small Free estimates Michael 336-0468 yt.mcr@hotmail.com
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
BUSY BEAVERS Pruning, Hauling, and General Labour Call Francois & Katherine 456-4755 PASCAL REGINE PAINTING PASCAL AND REGINE Residential - Commercial Interior-Exterior Ceilings, Walls Textures, Floors Spray work Small drywall repair Excellent quality workmanship Free estimates pascalreginepainting@northwestel.net 633-6368
CREEKSIDE WOOD SUPPLY is now available for Bobcat snow clearing. Residential & Commercial. Fully insured, reasonable rates. Servicing Whitehorse South. Contact Doug at 867 332-2151 or creekside@northwestel.net
ELECTRICIAN •Licensed •General Handyman Services •Light Carpentry, Drywall, etc •Free Estimates •10% Seniorʟs Discount 10% off all jobs booked through October 334-0974
SNOW CLEARING Driveways • Sidewalks Reasonable Rates 333-9084 LUIS RENOVATIONS Over 20 yearsʟ experience. Specializing in home renovation. Drywall, painting, ceilings, counter tops, flooring, decks, patios. 335-1269
LOG CABINS: Professional Scribe Fit log buildings at affordable rates. Contact: PF Watson, Box 40187, Whitehorse, YT, Y1A 6M9 668-3632
MOLLOY OCTOBER 28, 1973 - DECEMBER 15, 2014
A loving son, so gentle and kind; What a wonderful memory he left behind. Long days, long nights, he bore his pain, To wait for a cure, but all in vain. Till God Himself knew what was best, He took him home and gave him rest. Loving missed by your sisters, brothers, nieces, nephews, great nieces and nephews and from mom and dad
OPEN-THE DOOR. Habitat Yukon needs your help to get two Yukon families home for Christmas. Join us at #13 Eldorado, Whistle Bend subdivision, Monday to Saturday, 10am-4pm. Call 456-4349.
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LOST: DECEMBER 10th small black terrier from 6th and Black, wearing black collar. Please call or text 204-782-2337 or 204-805-1331 with any information. Thank you. LOST: PAIR of sealskin mitts with beaver trim, reward. 334-8335
LOST: RED wallet in parking lot in front of Subway by the Liquor Store. 633-4379
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September 30, 1947 - December 2, 2015 Born in Toronto, Ontario
Biologist, Facilitator, Illustrator, Cartoonist, Nature Lover, Traveller, Adventurer.
Doug died suddenly of heart failure in Tucson, Arizona leaving his wife Judi, son Robin (Fiona) and daughter Kaitlyn. He is remembered with great love by his family and many friends. He will be cremated and his ashes scattered in the places he loved. There will be no memorial service. Please remember and celebrate Douglas’ life in your own way.
Always interested, always learning, always sharing his discoveries.
December 4, 1927 - December 4, 2015 Dave was born in Fernie BC, and grew up on a farm in the Doe River area. A prankster from birth: riding his horse into the school (when it was his turn to light the wood stove for the day), throwing a chicken under the blankets of his sister and her husband’s bed (she never forgave him for that), stopping in at friend’s homes for bacon and eggs in the very early hours of the morning. All the shoutin’ and commotion led to a lot of laughing and just good fun. In the early days of the Alaska Highway Dave found work on the bridge crews. In 1946 Dave married Lois Anderson in Dawson Creek. They moved to the Yukon in 1951 with children Bob, Gerald and Donna in tow. Dave settled into a career as a fireman with DPW. Dianne and Caren came along, filling up the house.
Celebrate the Life, Cherish the Memories
Dave loved the Yukon. The freedom, open space and never ending summer sun. He spent many enjoyable trips with his buddies and family hunting, camping and always exploring a new dusty trail to see where it lead.
Forever in our hearts Daughter of Annie Smith Wife of Edward Smarch Mother of Travis & Roshanna Smith Grandmother of Joshua, Jacelyn & Tayla
Dave and Lois transferred to Fort Nelson in 1972. Retiring at 54 Dave felt it was the time to do what he wanted. So they spent the next several years travelling throughout the Yukon and Northern BC with Dave trapping, gold mining and truck driving. They wintered in Arizona before retiring for good in 1990 at Lumby, BC.
Memorial Service
Everyone Welcome!
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY YUKON RAFFLE
David Robert Mitchell
Patrick John
Saturday, December 12 at 1pm Nakwata’ku (Potlatch House) Gravesite Marsh Lake Potlatch to Follow Nakwata’ku (Potlatch House)
EXPERT CARPENTRY •All types of projects •Commercial & residential •New construction & renovations •Interior & exterior •Fine finishing 334-5231
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
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
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Dave got a kick out of everyone’s kids and their growing pains. He will be remembered by everyone as being quite a character, and will be greatly missed by all. There will be an informal Celebration of Life at the Lumby Senior’s Center Saturday, December 12, 2:00pm - 4:00pm.
Samantha (Betsy) Iris Smith December 28, 1957—December 6, 2015
In lieu of flowers donations may be made in Dave’s memory to the Vernon Jubilee Hospital Foundation, 2102, 32nd Street, Vernon, BC V1T 9Z9.
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REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL #2015-062
It’s good for you.
Mayo A Hydro Assessment
Yukon Energy Corporation is seeking proposals from qualified consultants to conduct a condition assessment on the Mayo A hydro facility and subsequently develop scopes of work, cost estimates, economic assessments and recommendations based upon four options that the Corporation is considering for this facility. It is anticipated that this work will be performed in the first quarter of 2016, with a final report delivered by April 30th, 2016. Sealed bids, clearly marked “RFP #2015-062: Mayo A Hydro Assessment” will be received up to 4:00:00 p.m. Yukon time Friday January 15th, 2016, at the Corporation’s main office building, #2 Miles Canyon Road, Whitehorse, Yukon. To obtain a Request for Proposal package contact Matthew Sills at 867-393-5335 or at matthew.sills@yec.yk.ca.
REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL #2015-061
As and When Required Transmission and Distribution Construction Crew Yukon Energy Corporation is seeking proposals from qualified contractors for the performance of as and when required transmission and distribution line construction and maintenance during the 2016 construction season. Sealed bids, clearly marked “RFP 2015-061: As and When Required Transmission and Distribution Construction Crew” will be received up to 4:00:00 p.m. Yukon time Friday January 15th, 2016, at the Corporation’s main office building, #2 Miles Canyon Road, Whitehorse, Yukon. To obtain a Request for Proposal package contact Matthew Sills at 867-393-5335 or at matthew.sills@yec.yk.ca.
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Skookum Jim Friendship Centre REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL
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REQUEST FOR TENDER 2015 SCADA SYSTEM
The Skookum Jim Friendship Centre invites qualified business to submit proposals for the purpose of an evaluation plan. The plan will be focused solely on the Skookum Jim Friendship Centre’s Youth Employment Centre. The plan is not an evaluation, but provides the necessary backdrop in which an evaluation can later occur. The evaluation plan must be completed in full by March 31, 2016.
RFT 2015-ENG0012
Request for Proposal containing detailed deliverables and terms and conditions must be obtained no later than December 10, 2015. Sealed proposals in accordance with procedure spelled out in the Request for Proposal must be submitted no later than 5:00pm, December 15, 2015, to:
Available after 12:00:00 pm local time on Monday, December 7, 2015.
Skookum Jim Friendship Centre 3159 3rd Avenue, Whitehorse, Yukon Y1A 1G1 Questions regarding this notice should be directed to Marney Paradis, Executive Director at sjfcexecutive@northwestel.net Please submit questions in writing via email.
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Closing Thursday December 17, 2015 at 4:00:00 pm local time. For more information visit whitehorse.ca/procurement
Yukon Water Board – Application Notice Office des eaux du Yukon – Avis de demande
P R O M OT I O N A L V I D E O
DEADLINE FOR PROPOSALS: FRIDAY, DECEMBER 18 AT 4:00 PM
Porter Creek Reservoir RTU Replacement.
www.whitehorse.ca
REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS TheProject Project Management Committee for the Tr’ondëk-Klondike World Heritage World Site The Management Committee for the Tr’ondëk-Klondike Nomination is requesting proposals for producing a promotional video, to be included Heritage Site Nomination is requesting proposals for producing a as a visual supplement for the written Nomination Proposal submitted to UNESCO. The promotional video, to be included as a visual supplement for the video will also be used as a communication tool for community presentations, and written Nomination Proposal submitted to UNESCO. The video will online via web and social media to spread awareness of the Tr’ondëk-Klondike project. also be DEADLINE used as aFOR communication toolDECEMBER for community presentations, PROPOSALS: FRIDAY, 18 AT 4:00 PM. and online via web and social media to spread awareness of the Tr’ondëk-Klondike project.
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Water Source Location Point d’eau/Lieu
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Deadline for Comments 4:00pm Date limite pour commentaires, avant 16 h
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Vencan Resources
Browns Creek, Tributary of Forty Mile River
Placer
January 11, 2015
PM15-067
Fine Gold Resources Ltd
RF Eureka Creek & Eureka Creek, Tributary of Eureka Creek and Indian River
Placer
January 11, 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.
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Toute personne peut soumettre ses commentaires ou ses recommandations à l’Office avant la date limite indiquée sur le présent avis. Pour voir les demandes, consultez le registre en ligne WATERLINE au http://www.yukonwaterboard.ca ou rendez-vous au bureau de l’Office des eaux du Yukon. Pour de plus amples renseignements, veuillez communiquer avec le secrétariat de l’Office au 867-456-3980.
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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
TREADMILL, BRAND new, $550. 667-6604 CROSS COUNTRY ski package, Fischer SportGlass 197 skis, Fischer Classic RC3 boots size EU45, Classic bindings, hardly used, excellent condition, $300 for the package. 333-4478
Livestock HORSE HAVEN HAY RANCH Irrigated Timothy/Brome mix No weeds or sticks Small squares 60 lbs plus 4 ft x 5 ft rounds 800 lb Free delivery for larger orders Straw square bales available 335-5192 • 668-7218 HAY FOR SALE •Dry bales kept under a shelter •Great quality hay 60-70 lb bales, $10 633-4496 or mikeandastra@me.com YUKON HORSE Enthusiasts: Check out www.horsinaroundyukon.com. This is a community site for all those living, working, playing or competing with horses in the Yukon. List your horse related activities here.
Baby & Child Items CHILDRENʼS CLOTHING in excellent condition, given freely the first & third Saturday monthly at the Church of the Nazarene, 2111 Centennial. 633-4903
Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title. The closing date for submissions is January 25, 2016. 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 Jessica Ruffen at jessica.ruffen@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/
Tourism and Culture
Furniture 2-PC CHERRYWOOD finish china cabinet, new cond, $550. 667-6604 for enquiries SOLID PINE 3-drawer chest, 31”H, 17”W, $50; wicker chest, 31”L, 16”W, 15”H, $25. 311B Hanson St.
Childcare 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.
3 PIECE cabinet, adjustable shelves up & down, center piece has 5 opening drawers & shelf, lights up top & bottom, all wood, call for dimensions, $800 obo. 660-5942 BLUE/BLACK COMPUTER chair, gd cond, $10. 667-7840 2 PIECE display case 70x20x20, 70x50x12, $50. 668-3968
CHILD CARE SERVICES in downtown home Up to 3 children Includes evenings & weekends 332-1721
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DUCT CLEANING & EFFICIENCY STUDY DEL VAN GORDER SCHOOL - BLDG #6700 FARO, YUKON - 2015/2016
REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL GENERAL SALES AGENT FOR AUSTRALIA
WANTED: LIVE-IN CAREGIVER for toddler, to supervise, care for, prepare meals & bathe. 40-hr work week (full time). Salary, $13/hr. Reside in private Whitehorse residence. Completion of Secondary school and minimum of 1 year full time caregiving work experience required. First Aid/CPR training and criminal record check is required. Apply by phone: (867) 334-1765, or email arlene_deleon2001@yahoo.com
TRANSPORTATION FOR PROCESSING OF SCRAP TIRES (WHITEHORSE ONLY) Project Description: Scrap tires are to be loaded and transported from the Whitehorse Landfill to a registered tire processor for recycling Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title. The closing date for submissions is January 6, 2016. Please refer to the procurement documents for the closing time and location. Documents may be obtained from the Procurement Support Centre, Department of Highways and Public Works, Suite 101 - 104 Elliott Street, Whitehorse, Yukon (867) 667-5385. Technical questions may be directed to Darrin Fredrickson at darrin.fredrickson@gov.yk. All tenders and proposals are subject to a Compliance Review performed by the Procurement Support Centre. The information displayed is the date and time of opening and is not modified based on the results of the Compliance Review. The highest ranked or lowest priced submission may not necessarily be accepted. View or download documents at: www.hpw.gov.yk.ca/tenders/
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Project Description: Cleaning interior of all ductwork, air handling units and associated equipment. Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title. The closing date for submissions is January 5, 2016. 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 Barry Drury at barry.drury@gov.yk.ca. Site visit & time: December 22nd, 2015 @ 2:00 pm 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. Bidders and/or Proponents are advised to review documents to determine Certificate of Recognition (COR) requirements for this project. View or download documents at: www.hpw.gov.yk.ca/tenders/
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yukon-news.com LARGE 68X19X30” dresser & 2 night tables, $75 obo. 668-3968
Personals CITIZENS ON PATROL. Do you have concerns in your neighborhood & community? Be part of the solution! Volunteer valuable time to the C.O.P.S. program. With your eyes & ears we can help stomp out crime. Info: RCMP 867-667-5555 DRUG PROBLEM? Narcotics Anonymous meetings Wed. 7pm-8pm #2 - 407 Ogilvie St. BYTE Office
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FRI. 7pm-8:30pm 4071 - 4th Ave Many Rivers Office WHITEHORSE DUPLICATE BRIDGE CLUB December 8, 2015 1st - Chic Callas & Bill Curtis 2nd - Mark Davey & Chris Bookless 3rd - Jan Ogilvy & Darwin Wreggitt We play every Tuesday at 7:00 pm at the Golden Age Society. New players are welcome. For more information call 633-5352 or email nmcgowan@klondiker.co
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EXPRESSION OF INTEREST PROCUREMENT ADVISORY PANEL CONSULTATION
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The Department of Highways and Public Works is requesting information for The Yukon Government has established a Procurement Advisory Panel to review the current procurement model and address concerns raised by the local business community. The Panel is seeking input from the local business community relating to procurement practices across all of YG. 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 Kathy Randall, procurementpanel@gov.yk.ca, (867) 667-5385. Hard copies may be delivered or mailed/ couriered to, Highways and Public Works, Procurement Support Centre Suite 101-104 Elliott Street, Whitehorse Yukon Y1A 0M2 The closing date for submissions is before 4:00 PM on December 23, 2015. Technical questions may be directed to Kathy Randall at (867) 667-5385. 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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49 MACDONALD RD, Porter Creek. Saturday, Dec 12th, 9am-noon. Indoor garage sale. Tools, shop supplies, sporting goods, housewares, Christmas decorations, artwork, hockey memorabilia, eavestrough pieces.
Fireweed Community Market Society 12 Days of Christmas Market Opening Day Friday, December 11, 12noon-9pm. Friday, December 11 - Tuesday, December 22 Daily 10am-7pm. Thursday & Friday to 10am-9pm. Kwanlin Dun Cultural Centre.
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LONG TIME operating Day Care Business in Whitehorse for sale. Owner is retiring. Call 335-8640 for details
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First Nations Christmas Craft Fair Saturday, December 12th, 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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