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A new federal formula means Yukon could get less than expected in transfer payments next year.
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A shot at greatness Biathlete Nadia Moser has been chosen to represent Canada at the upcoming youth world championships.
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Whitehorse resident has been convicted of violating the Wildlife Act when he shot and killed two wolves near his home in the Mount Sima subdivision in 2013. Clayton Thomas was found guilty of hunting wolves without permission, inappropriate use of a firearm and trafficking in wildlife. Seven other charges were stayed. Territorial court judge Donald Luther found that Thomas’s status as a member of the Tahltan First Nation in British Columbia did not give him aboriginal rights to hunt and trade wolves in the Whitehorse area. Thomas has always acknowledged that he shot the wolves in April 2013. But he has claimed that he acted to protect his neighbourhood, and that the wolves had been killing dogs in the area. “I did this for a reason,� he told the News in 2013. “I knew that I was going to get caught. I knew what I was doing was right. And I knew that I was breaking the law.� The Yukon Wildlife Act states that animals can only be killed by residents in such situations if they pose an immediate threat of “grievous bodily harm� or of “irrecoverable and substantial damage to property.� According to an agreed statement of facts, the wolves did not pose that kind of threat when Thomas shot them. Ultimately, Thomas’s claim that he was defending his neighbours did not form the basis of his defence. Instead, he was represented by his uncle, Kusta, who attempted to show through oral history that the Tahltan people have the right to hunt around Whitehorse. He argued that it was common for young men to travel and hunt outside the Tahltan territory in northwestern British Columbia as a rite of passage. But Luther was not convinced. “There is not a general aboriginal right to hunt anywhere,� he said in his decision. “It is sitespecific. The defense has failed
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Yukon facing major federal funding shortfall Premier and Finance Minister Darrell Pasloski said the Yukon will receive $23 million less than it should in the 2016-17 fiscal year. Maura Forrest News Reporter
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he Yukon is going to receive substantially less than expected in territorial transfer payments next year. The shortfall was caused by a change in the way the federal government calculates payments to all three territories. Premier and Finance Minister Darrell Pasloski said the Yukon will receive $23 million less than it should in the 2016-17 fiscal year. He said the change came as a surprise when his government learned about it earlier this month. “Two of the foundational principles of the TFF (the formula used to calculate transfer payments) are predictability and stability,” he said. “This notice this late in the year violates those principles.” Pasloski said he raised the issue with federal Finance Minister Bill Morneau at the finance ministers’ meeting in Ottawa this week. “I’m hopeful that he’s going to try to find a way to restore the funding. However, he made no commitment to do so.” For now, Pasloski said, the government will have to tighten its belt as it prepares next year’s budget. “That’s 23 million less dollars that we have for health care, for education, for tourism and job creation.” To be clear, Yukon’s transfer payment is still increasing, from
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Yukon Premier Darrell Pasloski said a lower-than-expected transfer payment would affect the territory’s 2016-17 budget. $923 million this year to $930 million in 2016-17, including the Canada health and social
transfers. That’s not the case in the Northwest Territories, where the transfer payment will actually
decrease for the first time since 2008. And at first glance, it’s unclear how the government calculated a shortfall of $23 million. In the Yukon’s spring budget projections, the government was expecting a payment of $943 million in 2016-17. Given that the territory will actually be receiving $930 million, a shortfall of $13 million seems more accurate. But Tim Shoniker, director of fiscal relations for the Department of Finance, said Yukon’s estimates have changed since the spring. This year, he said, government tax revenue ended up being less than expected, which should lead to an increase in transfer payments. Because of that, the Yukon’s latest estimate was closer to $953 million, so $930 million is $23 million less than expected. At $930 million, next year’s transfer payment will mark an increase of only about 0.75 per cent - less than the rate of inflation. Shoniker said this is the first time that’s happened in at least 15 years. Still, the rate of increase in transfer payments has slowed over the last several years. Shoniker said that’s partly because spending by provincial and local governments across Canada has dropped, and those changes factor into the territorial transfer payments. “We don’t need to spend as much to keep up,” he explained. That decline will likely continue in the coming years as transfer payments factor in the
recent drop in oil prices. But Shoniker said the Yukon government can predict those changes. “We’re able to forecast the declines that are coming. But this was totally unexpected.” That’s because Statistics Canada has changed the way it measures spending, and the federal government calculates transfer payments based on those data. The territorial funding formula is typically revised every five years. But Pasloski said this is year two of the latest five-year agreement. He said methodological changes should be discussed at the end of the five years, not in the middle. Morneau recently wrote a letter to Pasloski announcing next year’s transfer payment. “I understand that you have concerns regarding recent changes made by Statistics Canada affecting the calculation of your Territorial Formula Financing amounts,” he wrote. “I have asked my officials to discuss with yours possible options to address this situation going forward.” This isn’t the only financial shortfall the Yukon government will be facing as it prepares its next budget. Based on this fall’s supplementary budget, finance officials are expecting $15 million less in personal and corporate income tax this fiscal year than they did when the spring budget was tabled. Contact Maura Forrest at maura.forrest@yukon-news.com
Miles Canyon bridge unsafe until repaired: report Myles Dolphin News Reporter
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he Miles Canyon suspension bridge needs immediate repair before it can be re-opened to the public, according to a report by an engineering firm. The Yukon government closed the popular tourist attraction back in October following a safety inspection on Oct. 20. An engineer with Wood Research and Development Inc., Dan Tingley, carried out a more detailed inspection from Oct. 28-31. According to Tingley’s final report, the bridge’s towers and suspension cables are in good condition but parts of the main wood structures have deteriorated. Of the 21 crossbeams on the bridge, 11 have significant decay. The use of heavy solids in the paint that was applied to the beams has accelerated the decay because it traps moisture inside the wood, preventing evaporation, explained Paul Murchison with the Department of Highways and Public Works. The stringers, which run underneath the bridge and connect to the deck, are also in various stages of decay. Pictures in the report showed beams that had partially rotted. Some were
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The Miles Canyon suspension bridge will remain closed until needed repairs are done. cracked and had large pieces that had broken off. “It is recommended that the bridge remain closed until the above repairs are completed,” Tingley wrote in
his report’s conclusion. “Immediate works to prevent snow build up induced failure or failure under a trespass load might be considered.”
The Yukon government has hired Stantec Inc. to provide the design work for the repairs. Once that is completed, estimates on the cost can be developed and a tender will be issued for the work. Right now, there isn’t a timeline as to when the repairs will be completed, according to Jennifer Macgillivray with the Department of Community Services. “Bridge repairs like this don’t take a long time,” she said. “Once we tender the work it’ll be completed fairly quickly. We want to come up with a new way to hold the crossbeams in place. “Right now they have a screw in them and that allows water to get in there.” Work on the bridge was last done in 2010-11, when the timber towers were refurbished and replaced. New concrete footings were also installed under the towers. Built in 1922 by the federal Department of Public Works and the City of Whitehorse, the bridge was named the Robert Lowe Bridge in honour of the first speaker of the first fully elected Yukon Territorial Council. Contact Myles Dolphin at myles@yukon-news.com
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team of five athletes will represent Yukon at the 2016 Special Olympics Canada Winter Games, Special Olympics Yukon announced Monday. Some have competed at a previous national winter Games, others have not. Three have even competed at international Games. All of them are very dedicated athletes, said Yukon Chef de Mission Brettanie Deal-Porter. “This team has been incredibly dedicated to their training, the commitment, the boot camps and doing a lot of training on their own on the side,” said DealPorter. “They’ve been incredible, so positive, and they’ve been wonderful to work with. They are all very eager to learn.” Two figure skaters and three cross-country skiers will represent Yukon at the quadrennial Games, which will be held in Corner Brook, N.L. the first week of March. All five qualified for the national Games with performances at the Special Olympics B.C. Winter Games last February in Kamloops. Darby McIntyre, Ernest Chua and Owen Munroe will hit the ski trails in Corner Brook and will be overseen by coach Helen Slama and mission staffer Jerome McIntyre. With a decade of cross-country skiing and numerous Games already under his belt, Munroe is “comfortable” with attending another nationals. “I like doing races, I like new locations, trying new tracks,” he said. “I’m hoping I can win a gold medal again and also make Team Canada again, go to (the world Games in) Austria in Europe in 2017. That would be a dream.” Wednesday, Dec 23 & Thursday, Dec 24
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Yukon’s Michael Sumner performs at the 2015 Canada Winter Games in Prince George, B.C., in February. Not only did the 28-year-old skier win gold at the 2008 nationals and silver at the 2012 nationals, he captured two bronze at the 2009 Special Olympics World Winter Games in Idaho. In Kamloops he placed fourth in the 7.5-kilometre and fifth in the five-kilometre classic technique races. Corner Brook will be Darby and Chua’s first national winter Games. Darby won two gold and Chua placed fifth in two races in Kamloops. “That was his first competition ever and he did really great because he had to ski it twice and he improved his time … He almost halved his time,” said Slama of Chua. “Ernest can ski, he can swim, but he cannot fly – yet,” added his proud mom Shirley ChuaTan. Though it will be his first national winter Games, Darby isn’t at all new to competition. He
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won gold and bronze in athletics – track running – at the 2015 Special Olympics World Summer Games in Los Angeles, Calif. Yukon’s figure skaters, Mike Sumner and Tijana McCarthy, both qualified for nationals with silver medal performances in Kamloops. McCarthy is the only one of the five Yukoners set to compete at her first national Games. She is “excited” but “nervous,” she said, and her goal is to perform a clean routine in Corner Brook. Sumner, on the other hand, won gold at the 2012 national winter Games and went on to take silver at the 2013 Special Olympics World Winter Games in South Korea. Team Yukon’s four male athletes all won hardware at the 2014 Special Olympics Canada Summer Games in Vancouver. Munroe and Sumner played on Yukon’s first-ever gold winning soccer team at the Games; Chua took silver and bronze in freestyle swimming; and McIntyre captured silver in the shot put and in the 5,000-metre in athletics. “Each of these athletes have successfully adhered to the requirements of Team Yukon 2016 training squad, including staying positive, being a team player, supporting their teammates and trying their best at every practice,” said Deal-Porter. Contact Tom Patrick at tomp@yukon-news.com
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Whitehorse inmates give back with pint-sized stockings and elf hats Maura Forrest News Reporter
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his holiday season, some of Whitehorse’s youngest residents will be swaddled in Christmas stockings or adorned with tiny elf hats, thanks to the handiwork of some of the inmates at the Whitehorse Correctional Centre. This year, the inmates delivered 35 bunting bags in the shape of Christmas stockings to the Whitehorse General Hospital, to be given out to all the new December babies. They also crocheted eight elf hats and five Santa hats for the little ones at the Teen Parent Centre. Shannon Skookum, whose son Colton received one of the elf hats, said she was “very thankful” for the gift. “We don’t have a lot of money, so anything is good for him.” She said Colton, who’s about one and a half, also seems to like the hat. “He wears it,” she said. “He doesn’t wear most other things on his head.” This is the third year that inmates have taken on these Christmas projects, said Valerie Mosser, deputy superintendent of programs at the correctional centre. She said the projects help people to feel that they’re giving back. “At times when you’re here at WCC, it may seem like you’re not a part of the community. This is
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Shannon Skookum holds her son Colton, who received a crocheted elf hat made at the Whitehorse Correctional Centre. like tying back to the community. And there’s a need for it.” Mosser said the inmates make the bunting bags for the hospital every year. This year, one man sewed up the stockings, while four women designed fleece decals - snowmen and candy canes - for decoration. But the little hats were a new idea this winter. “Every year we
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try to add one more contribution to someone,” Mosser explained. She said the inmates get “a great sense of pride” from the projects. Katherine Heinbigner, teacher director at the Teen Parent Centre, said the donations were a “win-win” for everyone. “It’s really very generous and very kind,” she said. “(The
parents) thought they were just great. They were so pleased.” The centre currently has 13 students who are working toward high school graduation. It also offers a daycare for their children, who are all under the age of three. Heinbigner said she plans to send photos of the babies wearing their hats to the correctional
centre, so the artists can see how their work paid off. But the hats and bunting bags aren’t the only contributions the inmates made this holiday season - they’re just the cutest ones. The inmates also decided to donate $500 to buy dog food for the Many Rivers Outreach Van and supplies for the Mae Bachur Animal Shelter. Mosser said the funds came from the money inmates spend at the canteen and the fees they pay to use the jail’s phone system. With the $500, they bought everything on the animal shelter’s wish list, including rawhide, doggie bags, rubber gloves and laundry detergent. They also assembled 400 brown paper bags, each containing two cups of dog food, for the Many Rivers Outreach Van. Outreach Van coordinator Meg Grudeski said the van often gives out pet food, along with snacks and water for its clients. “We have quite a lot of clients who have pets,” she said. “Everybody is going to share their bit of food with their pooch.” In fact, she said, the inmates donated so much pet food that she had to pass on the excess to the animal shelter. But she said all the food will get used, and she appreciated the donation. “We try to partner with them as frequently as we can. They like to be able to give back.” Contact Maura Forrest at maura.forrest@yukon-news.com
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Tail lights are critical this time of year I am writing this to applaud the City of Whitehorse’s light display this year. City Hall and
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all down 2nd Avenue and all the other facilities are really decked out and it’s such a warm and inviting sight all over town. Kudos. Merry Christmas and Happy Rendezvous. Looking forward to seeing them until February. I hope the distraction isn’t too much for all the “racers� on 2nd Avenue. In these dark days
(which start to go the other way on the 21st) it would be appreciated if all Yukoners remembered that when you climb in your car and start it up that your headlights may come on (at a lower than normal illumination) BUT YOUR TAIL LIGHTS DON’T. In the darkness and the blowing snow times you are not being
seen from behind as well as you should be. Rear-enders aren’t always the fault of the one behind. Also please check that all your lights are working; lots of one eyed (front or back) monsters out there. Cheers, Florence Roberts Whitehorse
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Dangerous driving habits put everyone at risk that we have collectively developed over time. One bad habit that has been of annoyance and concern to me lately as I shuttle my toddler and by Kyle newborn around the city is our Carruthers wide scale disregard of the rules regarding the yellow light. To reiterate for those for whom driver’s OINTED IEWS education is a fading memory, the Yukon Motor Vehicles Act hitehorse drivers are the says in part that “[w]hen a yellow worst. Well not really. light is shown…the driver of a Wherever you go in this counvehicle…shall stop...unless such try - be it Vancouver, or Ottawa, a stop cannot be made in safety”. or Saskatoon - you will hear the To say that this rule is widely same refrain. “[Insert community ignored in this community would name here] drivers are the worst”. be an understatement. In fact the Since it’s impossible that all of rule is probably ignored more these cities have the worst drivoften than it is followed. I’m not ers, it is more likely that there are sure if this is a common problem just a lot of bad drivers everyeverywhere but it is certainly where. here. And when I talk about bad There is obviously some grey drivers I’m not just talking about as to whether a stop can or canspeeders. Excessive speed is cernot “be made in safety” and I tainly a danger, but the subject think most of us can admit to of speeding has been beaten to second guessing our split second death in public education camjudgments as we elect to proceed paigns. Those who speed excesthrough an intersection we may sively have no doubt heard that have been able to stop for. But what they are doing is dangerwhat is truly shocking is how ous and either don’t care or for often in these grey situations whatever reason have not fully we look in our rear view mirrors processed the message. to see that the person behind Perhaps we need a quick us - for whom there should have reminder about the danger posed been no doubt about their ability by some of the other bad habits to stop safely in time - has also
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decided to proceed. This practice is particularly dangerous for drivers coming from the opposite direction who are trying to execute left hand turns. Those drivers - who take the yellow light as their cue to clear the intersection and complete their turn - are at risk of being smucked by the offending driver, or (if they are driving defensively and anticipating a fool coming from the other direction) being stuck in the middle of the intersection after the red light has changed. And speaking of drivers turning left, if there is conclusive proof of our blithe disregard for the yellow light rule it is you. If you have taken possession of the intersection and are waiting for an opening obviously you will need to clear out whether the light is yellow or red. But if you have not yet entered the intersection your stop can, by definition “be made in safety” and you should not be entering the intersection after the light has changed to yellow. A yellow light is not an invitation to see how many more cars can squeeze through before vehicles start going perpendicularly start to move. Following closely or “tailgating” is another bad habit we
should shake. The Motor Vehicles Act says in part that “[n]o driver shall follow another vehicle more closely than is reasonable and prudent” but that doesn’t stop us. Having spent some time driving in Ontario, I think Whitehorse drivers deserve some limited praise here: we aren’t as bad as they are. In Ontario, tailgating is the norm. And that is probably because if you leave a car length between yourself and the vehicle in front of you in that province, a car will find a way to fill it. But being better than drivers in Ontario is setting the bar awfully low. We still have room for improvement and there have been two separate occasions in the past week when a vehicle has followed me far too closely for comfort. For a city that is supposed to be on relaxed “Yukon time” we sure seem eager to arrive at our destination milliseconds earlier by making sure there isn’t much room between ourselves and the vehicle in front of us. While it doesn’t feel like it, driving is actually one of the riskier activities we go about in our day-to day-lives giving barely a thought to the fact that we are putting ourselves in danger. According to Transport Canada, in 2013 alone there were 1,923
fatalities, and 165,306 injuries 10,315 of which were serious. We accept the risk of driving because driving is essential in modern society. With big box stores and sprawling suburbs, getting by without the automobile is extremely difficult. Yes we can ride our bikes or catch public transit, but those alternatives put us on the same roads with the same bad drivers. Unless we become hermits and have our groceries delivered to our homes engaging with traffic is an inevitable part of life. Some of our local driving habits here in Whitehorse are kind of funny - like the way traffic queues up in the right lane at the lights at Second and Fourth Avenues all the way back to Tags when the left lane is wide open (we don’t do lane changes here.) Others are mildly irritating but probably harmless - like the way many signal left as they make their way through a traffic circle (thanks for the useless information!) But some of our habits - like disregarding yellow lights and tailgating - are obnoxious and dangerous. We should correct those. Kyle Carruthers is a born-andraised Yukoner who lives and practises law in Whitehorse.
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EDMONTON f Canada is serious about reconciliation with First Nations, a new study suggests that giving them a greater voice in caribou conservation might be a good place to start. The Boreal Leadership Council – made up of First Nations, business leaders and environmental groups – released a study Thursday that concludes having indigenous people on board makes a big difference to conservation programs. And, said report author Valerie Courtois, the cultural value of caribou could make the animals a powerful way to bring indigenous and mainstream society together. “Recognition of the role and responsibility of indigenous people towards caribou is a recognition of culture,� said Courtois. “It’s a much healthier place to start from in seeking reconciliation than one of nonrecognition.� A recent survey of boreal caribou across the country graded efforts to conserve the shrinking herds to be mediocre at best. While a few provinces have made positive moves, the report from the Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society found the amount of protected habitat for the animals increased only one per cent, despite federal requirements. But Courtois’ survey says conservation programs rooted in indigenous communities have big advantages over those that aren’t. Elders or hunters frequently on the land can provide early warnings of changes before they show up in formal surveys. Indigenous-led programs were often more flexible in adjusting to changes, the survey found. First Nations can also provide extra capacity to provincial en-
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A Woodland caribou bull. vironmental agencies that have had budget cuts. And the committment of indigenous people to maintaining caribou – especially if traditional knowledge is incorporated into recovery plans – helps ensure best practices. And First Nations have the benefit of long experience with an animal whose numbers have gone through large swings over the decades. “Wev’e got people who are present and can notice trends and changes over long periods of time.� Some bands, such as the Athabasca Chipewyan in Alberta or B.C.’s West Moberly, are already playing a significant role in caribou conservation, said Courtois. But most such plans are still run by bureaucrats, she said. “The norm for recovery planning is that it is led by provincial recovery teams. Many First Nations have had a dissatisfying experience with that process because it’s been mostly framed around western science.� Courtois said the type of habitat frequented by woodland caribou is also ground zero for large resource developments. That makes caribou recovery a complicated task – but it’s also where different groups in society can meet to work together. “Caribou is one of those things that can really show the impacts of leadership,� Courtois said. “As we started looking across the country, we started noticing that there’s some real innovative stuff coming out of First Nations.�
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B.C. mines inspector makes 19 recommendations over collapse of tailings pond future. We’re going to tighten up our regulations and improve our Canadian Press oversight.� Hoffman’s report into the VICTORIA Mount Polley disaster makes 19 perators and engineers recommendations, including at the Mount Polley mine that all mines with the same storwere over confident in the age facilities employ designated design of a tailings-storage facilmine-safety managers and staff ity that collapsed and created to oversee the management of an environmental disaster, says tailings. British Columbia’s chief inspecThe disaster and the tor of mines. 15-month investigation, the largAl Hoffman also found weak est and most-complex mining water-management standards probe in B.C. history, has taken at the site but said Thursday he its toll on him personally, said couldn’t find enough evidence to Hoffman. pursue charges under the Mines “It’s been the most difficult Act against Imperial Metals Corp. period of my entire career, to be (TSX:III). blunt,� he said. “There were no non-compli“It’s something I never hoped ance (issues) that we could find,� would happen on my watch. Hoffman told reporters. “That Now, I feel very strongly that we doesn’t mean there won’t be in he have the recommendations going Dirk Meissner
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agement risks associated with design, construction ‌ and operation of the tailings storage facility.â€? Mines Minister Bill Bennett said he accepts the report’s recommendations and plans to introduce legislation that cracks down on companies that do not comply with mining regulations. “I hope to be taking legislation forward in the spring that will authorize administrative penalties under the mining legislation so that we can levy penalties easily, quickly when necessary, and that obviously will help us in terms of compliance,â€? he told reporters. Bennett said Hoffman’s investigation confirms that weak practices at a mine site increase the risk of failure and environmental consequences. “This is unacceptable,â€? he said in a statement. Opposition New Democrat
mines critic Norm Macdonald said he’s concerned the report does not include sanctions or charges. He said neither the government nor the company is being held accountable for a disaster with environmental, social and economic impacts. “This is business as usual,� he said. “Nobody’s responsible for what went wrong here.� Last month, the province granted Imperial Metals a shortterm permit to discharge treated water from a Mount Polley storage pit into nearby Hazeltine Creek and through a pipeline into Quesnel Lake. Williams Lake Mayor Walk Cobb said the permit allows 200 people at the mine to continue working and could result in up 170 others being recalled to the site
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A formal announcement is coming “in the near future,� she said. In the summer, the First Nation depends on an aging ferry to get to the mainland, but the vessel failed government inspection this year. Residents use a treacherous ice road in the winter and people have died falling through the ice. Health-care workers and ambulances won’t risk going to the community and children have to leave the reserve to continue their education past Grade 8. A water treatment plant is prohibitively expensive without a road to transport construction equipment. Residents have long talked
about the need for a “Freedom Road,� which would be both a symbolic and concrete beginning to right the wrong done a century ago. The former Conservative government refused to commit to help fund construction of a road, despite commitments from the province of Manitoba and the City of Winnipeg to split the cost three ways. Bennett suggested the road is an important part of reconciliation. “These are examples of the kinds of steps you have to take to right the wrongs.� A design study – paid for by the federal, provincial and municipal governments – is expected
to be completed in January. The reserve is hoping to begin construction shortly thereafter. The road is expected to cost around $30 million. The Manitoba government has already introduced a bill in the legislature that would give it legal authority to help fund construction of a permanent road. Premier Greg Selinger called the road a “key infrastructure project.� “We’ve been talking about it for a long time,� he told a luncheon Tuesday held by the Winnipeg Chamber of Commerce, which has been pushing for the road’s construction. “That will get built now.�
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Brewing up a busy holiday season
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Winterlong Brewery owner Marko Marjanovic says the new bottles have been selling so well, they’ve had to turn down requests from Outside liquor stores in order to keep Yukoners supplied.
Future bottle releases will include a Russian imperial stout, an eight to 10 per cent beer that has to be aged for one to two months. Myles Dolphin News Reporter
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he smell of pungent hops, alcohol and fruit fills the small space where Winterlong Brewery owner Marko Marjanovic and his only employee, Matt Waugh, are preparing for a busy holiday season. “We’re making barley wine,” Marjanovic says, sporting a baseball cap and T-shirt with his company’s vintage logo on it. The small craft brewery, located on Mount Sima Road, opened its doors about six months ago. Since then, it’s been a game of catch-up for the young entrepreneurs. They had to close down for two weeks over the summer because they ran out of beer. Their growler sales were doing so well they ordered more equipment and added two more taps, for a total of six, at the brewery. They mulled over their expansion options: should they have longer store hours, or open a tap room where people can come and drink on site (which, they’ve
since discovered, is illegal in the Yukon)? They concluded that if they could get their beers on the shelves of the Whitehorse Liquor Store, they could satisfy the local bar and restaurant demand, as well as save people the trip to Mount Sima Road. After a “smooth and easy” process with the Yukon Liquor Corporation, that’s what happened on Dec. 4 around lunchtime. Six of the company’s beers – four IPAs, a pale ale and a smoked porter – are now on offer in 650-millilitre bottles. Most breweries would only make one IPA, Marjanovic said, but they went with four to set themselves apart from the competition. Choosing which beers to bottle wasn’t easy. They could have gone with their best-sellers, such as the Oatmeal Stout, but Marjanovic preferred to go with their favourites instead. “It just wasn’t the type of beer we wanted representing Winterlong,” he added.
Fortunately, they were able to find sources that focus on small breweries. Once the beer hit the shelves, it didn’t take long for word of mouth to spread. “The warehouse is completely out of our beer,” Marjanovic said. “And they’re already out of two of our products.” The next step for the growing company is figuring out how to keep up with demand. Private liquor stores in Saskatchewan, Alberta and British Columbia have caught wind and asked for pallets of the beers too, he said. “It’s been a little frustrating having to say no to people who want to get our beer,” he added. “Our priority is to get the beers in Yukoners’ hands first.” package themselves, he said, The only way to brew more because of how expensive it is. beer is to find a bigger space, To use custom bottle caps, the something they’ll consider in the minimum order was 100,000. New Year. “That was a big thing,” he said. There is no interest in movThey also ended up having to ing, so they’ll likely expand into a buy a shipping container just to space on the same property. store the 27,000 bottles they had Right now the brewery operto order. ates four large vessels, or ferThey also looked at what the liquor store was offering and noticed the IPAs were in short supply. Packaging was also challenging. Most small breweries don’t
menters, where the beer sits for two weeks. Then, it’s transferred to a bright tank for a day or two, where the beer is cleared up and carbonated. Finally, it’s put into kegs or bottled on site. Expanding would require more fermenters, more bright tanks and more glycol chillers, which keep the beer cool, Marjanovic explained. Future bottle releases will include a Russian imperial stout, an eight to 10 per cent beer that has to be aged for one to two months. The limited release – they plan to bottle 300 of it – will only be available on site. The strong, dark beer takes its name from Catherine the Great, who, during the 18th century, had a great fondness for it. Winterlong Brewery will be open during the Christmas holidays, Monday to Thursday from noon to 5 p.m. They will be closed on Dec. 25, 26 and Jan. 1, 2. Contact Myles Dolphin at myles@yukon-news.com
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More precipitation in Arctic may create uncertainty in climate predictions Dan Joling Associated Press
ANCHORAGE he Arctic is seeing more precipitation as sea ice diminishes from climate warming, according to a research paper by U.S. and Canada scientists. The study by three Dartmouth College researchers and one from Carleton University in Ottawa, Ontario, concludes the effects from a changed hydrologic cycle is a potential major component of climate change that could create uncertainty in climate predictions. They also say it’s too soon to tell whether more precipitation will slow warming or add to it. Scientists have generally assumed that less sea ice would mean more evaporation and more precipitation, said Ben Kopec, a Dartmouth earth sciences doctoral student and lead author
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Ice floes in Baffin Bay above the Arctic Circle are seen in 2008 from the Canadian Coast Guard icebreaker Louis S. St-Laurent. of the paper published Monday in the journal, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. “Our goal with this work was
to try to actually use observations of precipitation around the Arctic to get at this question of how much does sea ice influence precipitation, and if we lose sea
ice, how much precipitation do you think will increase?� he said in a phone interview. Arctic precipitation is composed of moisture from local and distance sources, he said. “Most of the world gets its moisture from the warm waters in the subtropics,� Kopec said. As moisture moves north from lower latitudes, including the North Pacific in Alaska’s case, much of it falls before reaching the Arctic. An increase in moisture from local sources, Kopec said, though small in comparison to evaporation in warmer oceans, could disproportionately affect Arctic sites. “In terms of the entire proportion that will reach a site in, say, Alaska, that local moisture becomes more important,� he said. The scientists studied precipitation data collected between 1990 and 2012 at three sites in the Canadian Arctic and three in the Greenland Sea, looking for changes in the source of precipi-
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tation as sea ice has diminished. Moisture from a warm source can be distinguished from a cold source through measurements of isotope compositions, Kopec said. As sea ice diminished over two decades, precipitation at the Arctic sites increased and the percentage from local sources grew. The researchers concluded that when sea ice decreases by 100,000 square kilometres, or 38,610 square miles, the percentage of local-sourced moisture increased by 18.2 per cent in the Canadian Arctic and 10.8 per cent in the Greenland Sea. “We can say that with less sea ice, more of that moisture that fell was sourced from the Arctic,� Kopec said. Julienne Stroeve, senior research scientist at the National Snow and Ice Data Center at the University of Colorado in Boulder, said previous studies have suggested a link between less September sea ice and an increase in snow in the Siberian Arctic. “At least statistically there’s a correlation between less sea ice and more precipitation in certain parts of the Arctic,� she said. Before the ocean can refreeze, she said, it has to release heat it gained in summer. If it’s shown that additional precipitation is from a local source, it would match other studies suggesting additional precipitation from waters formerly covered by ice at that time, Stroeve said. Kopec said if precipitation falls as snow, it could increase the days that land reflects solar energy, providing a cooling effect. If the additional precipitation falls as rain, it could cause earlier spring melt or later onset of autumn snow coverage, contributing to more warming. “It’s important for us in the future to nail down whether this is going to be more snow or more rain,� Kopec said. “But we were able to say, ‘This could have a large impact on the energy balance.�
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When a car driving itself suddenly needs person to take over will the person be ready? automakers are marketing vehicles with limited self-driving Associated Press features that will slow the car if they detect a person has stopped LOS ANGELES paying attention to the road. ew cars that can steer Though research is ongoing, it and brake themselves appears that people need at least risk lulling people in the 5 seconds to take over – if they’re driver’s seat into a false sense of security – and even to sleep. One not totally checked out. Self-driving car experts at way to keep people alert may be Google, which is pursuing the providing distractions that are technology more aggressively now illegal. than any automaker, concluded That was one surprising that involving humans would finding when researchers put make its cars less safe. Google’s Stanford University students in solution is a prototype with no a simulated self-driving car to steering wheel or pedals – human study how they reacted when their robo-chauffer needed help. control would be limited to go and stop buttons. The experiment was one in a Meanwhile, traditional autogrowing number that assesses how cars can safely hand control makers are phasing in the techback to a person when their self- nology. Mercedes and Toyota sell cars that can hit the brakes and driving software and sensors are stay in their lane. By adding new overwhelmed or overmatched. features each year, they might With some models already able to stay in their lane or keep a safe produce a truly self-driving car in about a decade. distance from other traffic, and One potential hazard of this automakers pushing for more gradualist approach became automation, the car-to-driver clear this fall, when Tesla Motors handoff is a big open question. had to explain that its “auto pilot” The elimination of distracted feature did not mean drivers driving is a major selling point could stop paying attention. Sevfor the technology. But in the eral videos posted online showed Stanford experiment, reading or people recording the novelty – watching a movie helped keep then seizing the wheel when the participants awake. car made a startling move. Among the 48 students put Starting late next year, the in the driver’s seat, 13 who were instructed to monitor the car and Cadillac CTS will get a Super road began to nod off. Only three Cruise system, which will allow did so when told to watch a video semi-autonomous highway driving. If the driver’s eyes are off the or read from a tablet. road, and they don’t respond to Alertness mattered when repeated prodding, the car slows. students needed to grab the “We are in no way selling this wheel because a simulated car or as a technology where the driver pedestrian got in the way. can check out,” General Motors There’s no consensus on the spokesman Dan Flores said. “You right car-to-driver handoff apcan relax, glance away, but you proach: the Stanford research still have to be aware because suggests engaging people with you know the technology’s not media could help, while some Justin Pritchard
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foolproof.” One riddle automakers must solve: How to get owners to trust the technology so they’ll use it – but not trust it so much that they’ll be lulled into a false sense of security and therefore slower to react when the car needs them. Trust was on the mind of researchers who in August published an extensive report on self-driving cars funded by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. “Although this trust is essential for widespread adoption, participants were also observed prioritizing non-driving activities over the operation of the vehicle,” the authors wrote. Another wide-open question: How to alert the person in the driver’s seat of the need to take over. It appears that the car should appeal to several senses. Visual warnings alone may not suffice. But combine a light with spoken instructions or physical stimulation such as a vibrating seat, and people react more quickly. “If it is done courteously and subtle and not annoying, it could be missed by someone that is distracted,” said Greg Fitch, a research scientist at the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute. Then again, the way the car interacts with people will be one way automakers differentiate their product – and overbearing warnings may sour potential buyers. Other issues Fitch cites include “mode confusion” (making sure the car clearly informs the person whether or not it is driving itself) and clear explanations to drivers of what the car can – and cannot – handle. Cars with the right sensors are becoming really good at monitoring the outside world and
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have quicker response times than One lesson from the Stanford humans. People are much betstudy may be that master and ter at making decisions during machine are better viewed as coluncertain circumstances. laborators.
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YUKON GOVERNMENT TAKE NOTICE THAT the revised property assessment roll for property outside of incorporated municipalities has been deposited in the Property Assessment office in Whitehorse. Copies of portions of the assessment roll are also available for inspection in the municipal offices of Watson Lake, Haines Junction, Mayo, Teslin, Carmacks, Faro and Dawson City. The assessment roll is open for inspection by any person. IF YOU OWN property in the Yukon and have not received an assessment notice by December 30th, 2015, please advise the assessor’s office. ANY PERSON WHO wants a review of their assessment must file a complaint in writing. Complaints must be mailed to, or left in the office of the assessor within 30 days of this notice.
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IOM says 1 million migrants and refugees have entered Europe in a record breaking year migration experts said Tuesday, a symbolic milestone capping a Associated Press mass movement of people that has challenged the concept of GENEVA European unity. ore than 1 million With just days left in 2015, people driven out the Geneva-based International of their countries Organization for Migration said by war, poverty and 1,005,504 people had entered persecution entered Europe Europe as of Monday, more than in this record-breaking year, four times as many as last year. Jamey Keaten
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Migrants walk past a sign post at the welcoming center in Berlin on Tuesday. Almost all came by sea, while 3,692 others drowned trying to make the crossing. IOM director-general William Lacy Swing urged European governments to make migration safer. “We know migration is inevitable. It’s necessary and it’s desirable,� he said, adding: “Migration must be legal, safe and secure for all – both for the migrants themselves and the countries that will become their new home.� The IOM compiles the numbers from government records in Greece, Italy, Bulgaria, Spain, Malta and Cyprus, spokesman Joel Millman said. He noted that the real number of people entering Europe may be even larger, because authorities are struggling to track all arrivals given the sheer volume. Most people entered Europe via Greece, which took in 820,000 people this year, nearly all of them crossing from Turkey by boat across the Aegean Sea.
Another 150,000 came into Italy across the Mediterranean from north Africa, while smaller numbers crossed from Turkey by land into neighbouring Greece and Bulgaria. Much smaller numbers arrived by boat to other Mediterranean countries. Others – not accounted for in the IOM tally – crossed into Europe across other borders, such as a route from Russia to Norway where a few thousand people have crossed by bicycle. About half of the people entering Europe were Syrians, while 20 per cent were Afghans and 7 per cent Iraqis, IOM said. Many fleeing war and persecution are likely to be granted refugee status. Others who came to find work risk being sent back. Of the deaths, 2,889 were people travelling from north Africa toward Italy, the IOM said, 706 drowned trying to cross the Aegean to Greece and 72 died trying to reach Spain. Some perished anonymously in ship-
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wrecks that killed hundreds. The bodies of others, like 3-year-old Aylan Kurdi, washed up on Greek shores, shocking the world and bringing promises of action from European authorities. Another 11 people, including three children, drowned Tuesday after their boat capsized while crossing the Aegean Sea, according to Turkish media. The war in Syria was particularly key in driving the numbers of people moving into Europe to levels not seen in half a century. European governments have struggled to agree on a response, arguing about how welcoming they should be and how best to manage the flows. Over the summer, some eastern European countries opened and closed their borders, leading to widespread confusion and frustration, before a relatively orderly system emerged in the fall. Hungary, in particular, angered its neighbours by building a fence to keep people out, setting off a chaotic rush to find alternate routes through countries ill-equipped to handle the influx. Germany and Sweden have welcomed the largest numbers of refugees. Germany has seen around 1 million migrants arrive this year, but that figure includes large numbers of people from eastern European countries who could be sent back. With cold weather making journeys more dangerous, arrivals have slowed, but people are still showing up in Greece, and there’s no sign the flow will abate when temperatures start rising again in the spring. IOM said more than 4,100 people arrived on the Greek islands on Monday alone.
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UN: 2 billion people moved out of low human development levels in the last 25 years lion people are now classified as working poor who live less than $2 a day. Over 200 million people, including 74 million youths, are ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA also considered unemployed, he United Nations says while 21 million people are curthat 2 billion people have lifted themselves out of low rently in forced labour. “Human progress will accelerhuman development in the last ate when everyone who wants 25 years. to work has the opportunity The Human Development to do so under decent circumIndex by the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) calls stances. Yet in many countries, for equitable and decent work for people are often excluded from paid work, or are paid less than all. The report was launched on others for doing work of the Monday in the Ethiopian capital same value,”said the report’s lead of Addis Ababa. “Work … is crucial for human author Selim Jahan. Sub- Saharan Africa has been progress,” the report said. “Of the cited as a region where signifiworld’s 7.3 billion people, 3.2 billion are in jobs, and many others cant gains have been made in human development. The report, engage in unpaid care, creative however, cautioned that there is and voluntary work or prepare an urgent need to address wide themselves as future workers. inequalities and gaps in opporFast technological progress, tunities. deepening globalization, aging “The region has experienced societies and environmental the fastest annual growth rates in challenges are rapidly transthe Human Development Index forming what work means today among all regions,” said Jahan, and how it is performed.” adding that twelve African counDecent work contributes to tries are in the high or medium both the richness of economies human development group. and the richness of human lives, “However sub-Saharan Africa said UNDP administrator Helen on average remains in the low Clark. “All countries need to human development category. … respond to the challenges in the But yet, Sub-Saharan Africa has new world of work and seize opbeen particularly innovative in portunities to improve lives and harnessing modern technology livelihoods,” said Clark. According to the UN, 830 mil- for financial activities. Mobile Elias Meseret
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phone and internet-based economic activities are likely to continue expanding.” The report detailed that while women carry out 52 per cent of all global work, glaring inequalities in the distribution of work remain.
The choice to focus on work in this report was made because the subject has changed so much recently, the head of UNDP, Helen Clark, told The Associated Press after the launch of the report in Addis Ababa. “There are so many aspects
to the work issue in the major global agenda now,” Clark said. “Part of this is the migration challenge. Migration is part of the human story. Europe needs migrants and Africa needs remittances. There are natural fits here that all need to understand.”
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NEW YORK f you’re in midtown Manhattan late next month and see women in green makeup or folks strutting around in colonial outfits, fear not. They’re attending the inaugural fan convention for Broadway. The three-day BroadwayCon – sort of like a Comic Con for thespians – promises to connect theatre fans with stage stars, but also wants them to leave with more than an autograph. There will be meet-ups for fans of Andrew Lloyd Webber or Stephen Sondheim and one for theatre fans who have tattoos. There will be panels about sound and costume design. “Cosplay With the Pros” will features tips from Broadway costumers. The casts of “Rent,” ‘’Fun Home“ and ‘’Hamilton“ will talk about their shows. There will be a seminar on producing and plenty of master classes led by veterans. There will be sing-alongs, a game show and a cabaret. The event was conceived by Melissa Anelli and Stephanie Dornhelm, who co-founded and lead GeekyCon, and the original “Rent” star Anthony Rapp. They’ve partnered with Playbill and the convention will be held Jan. 22-24 at the New York Hilton Midtown. Although the Broadway community does have gatherings throughout the year – benefit shows, a flea market and fundraising concerts – it hasn’t had a full-on convention until now. Enter the masterminds of GeekyCon, which grew from a love of Harry Potter to one of the largest and most recognized conventions for fans of fantasy films, television shows and young adult books. “I think and I hope it’s going to help people really understand why fandom and passion is so powerful,” said Anelli. “Passion has been nothing but amazing in our world, so I’m excited for the Broadway world to discover it.” The BroadwayCon lineup is constantly being updated, but some of the stars slated to appear include Lin-Manuel Miranda and the cast of “Hamilton,” Jeremy Jordan, Michael Cerveris, Alice Ripley, James Monroe Iglehart, Billy Porter, Melissa Errico, Gavin Creel, Seth Rudetsky, Kerry Butler and Christian Borle and Brian d’Arcy James from “Something Rotten!” Anelli, who was such a passionate fan of “Rent” that she slept outside its Broadway home at age 16 and eventually befriended Rapp, said BroadwayCon will attract at least two large
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The Palace Theatre marquee and billboards advertising Broadway shows are displayed in Times Square, in New York in 2012. groups of fans. “One is the one who heard the word BroadwayCon and said, ‘Move all of my cast albums out of the way so I can get to my computer to buy a ticket,”’ she said. “And then you have the ‘Next to Normal’ fans, the ‘Rent’ fans, the ‘Wicked’ fans – the ones that were brought in by one very specific fan base.” Tickets start at $50 and go up to a general pass with full access to everything on offer for $250. Ten per cent of all profits go to Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS. Anelli said about half the several thousand expected attendees are under age 30, 80 per cent are from outside the state and 80 per cent are women, reflecting the Broadway audience. Attendees will likely give a boost to Broadway box offices during a traditionally slow month. Organizers balked at some traditional convention staples, particularly the fees charged for autographs and selfies with stars. “All fans do all day is stand in lines. It feels like a waste of their talent and the fans’ energy,” Anelli said. “We wanted to make sure it was content-based.”
At BroadwayCon, there’s no charge for autographs, though fans may have to enter lotteries. Master classes in vocal technique – with performers from “If/ Then,” ‘’Rent“ and ‘’The Book of Mormon“ – are free, but require registration and fill up fast. Rapp, currently touring with “If/Then” and who will be present as “Rent” cast members celebrate the show’s 20th anniversary, praised his fellow organizers for trying to create a grassroots, homegrown feeling to the gathering. “So many things have gotten so focused-grouped and corporatized in our entertainment world, and I promise you this is not going to be that,” said Rapp, who will be hosting his own master class. To that end, organizers encourage fans to show up in costumes of their favourite show. “The idea of being very specifically a fan of one thing is suddenly OK,” Anelli said. “It’s becoming cooler to be a fan, and I think people are more out there about what they love.”
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o Stewart has a slight addiction. But unlike cigarettes or potato chips, her obsession is actually quite healthy. “I knit every spare chance I get,” says Stewart. “I have knitting everywhere. I keep knitting in the bathroom.” Stewart describes the feeling she gets from finding a new yarn or pattern as a tingling in her fingers. Her fellow knitter, Sophie Jessome, says she gets goose bumps. Jessome, owner of the Itsy-Bitsy Yarn Store in Horwood’s Mall, says she also feels that sensation when giving back to the community. Jessome and Stewart help organize Sticks, Strings and Stewardship, a group of like-minded stitchers who have banded together and use their knitting and crocheting expertise to fill needs in the community. Started in 2014 by Stewart after witnessing a similar group in Ontario, Sticks, Strings and Stewardship has had its needles in a number of different projects. Earlier this year, the group scattered hand-made winter wear such as mitts and toques in the downtown core, each bearing a note saying the items were up for grabs for those in need. In May, a silent auction fundraising for a young girl’s medical expenses got a boost when it received beautifully crafted items from the knitters. In mid-December, Sticks, Strings and Stewardship teamed up with the Victoria Faulkner Women’s Centre to provide knitting starter kits filled with needles, patterns and yarn, and will be visiting the centre after the holidays to provide lessons in how to get started in the craft. Now, in keeping with the pattern, Stewart and Jessome have seen another practical need and have stepped up to fill it. Sticks, Strings and Stewardship has been busy in the last few weeks directing its efforts to bestow the finest knit toques and scarves upon the families of Syrian refugees who are slated to move to Whitehorse in the coming weeks. To Stewart and Jessome, giving away their handiwork is just the natural thing to do. For one, Stewart – like many knitters – produces far more than she can use herself, or even gift to relatives. “As a knitter, you can only give your family so much until they’re saturated,” she says. “We actually had to move to a larger house at one point because of my stash.” “If you have a passion for knitting, and you have to knit, then you have to knit for other people.” And beyond it being merely a practical exercise, Jessome says giving away so many projects that each represent hours of work is simply the right thing to do. “If we can take what we really like to do, and our art and our skills, and use that to make some good things and help others, well, why not?”
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Since putting out the call for knit donations, Sticks, Strings and Stewardship has received more items than it can give away to Yukon Cares, the organization that is sponsoring one of the refugee families. Now, there are baskets of overflow in Jessome’s store and Stewart’s house. That’s not a problem in their eyes, however. In a climate like the Yukon has, hats and gloves will never go out of style. “We can never have too much,” Stewart says. “There’s always another community
member that needs something.” While Sticks, Strings and Stewardship has been praised for its efforts in keeping the heads and hands of Whitehorse residents warm, it has also received criticism for its latest project. The claim that donating to the refugee families will stymie the supply of goods to native Yukoners is an assertion that is baseless, says Jessome. “We do a lot for here as well,” she says. For instance, the knitting group plans to again plant some of its stash around town some time this winter, Jessome points out. An important point for Jessome is that it’s an inescapable fact that refugee families will be coming to Whitehorse in the middle of winter. “Regardless of your political opinion, that you agree or not that they come here, they’re going to be here,” she says. “They’re going to need the support.” Seeing the knitting community rally around the cause has been inspirational for Jessome, and she hopes that others can be moved to action as well. “It inspires other people too,” she says, “to really care for a human being that’s in need.” Contact Joel Krahn at joel.krahn@yukon-news.com
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Sophie Jessome, left, and Jo Stewart help run Sticks, Strings and Stewardship, a knitting group that aims to use its craft to benefit the community.
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Missing cheetah in B.C.’s Interior still on the lam, Calgary zoo offers to help Danielle Bell, speaking on behalf of the B.C. Conservation Officer Canadian Press Service. “We’ve gotten some VANCOUVER public tips and are following up on those.” cheetah on the loose in The B.C. government apBritish Columbia’s Interior proached the Calgary Zoo late was still unaccounted last week asking whether the fafor as of Monday after it was cility would be willing to house a last spotted roaming a snowy cheetah, said zoo spokeswoman highway in the Kootenay region Trish Exton-Parder. last week. “We’ve got the expertise to As of Sunday evening, conser- care for them and the veterinary vation officers were still urging care to make sure they’re safe people to phone in any sightings and happy,” said Exton-Parder. of the big cat. Calgary doesn’t have any RCMP notified the public cheetahs of its own, but Extonon Thursday that the feline Parder said such an animal could had been seen wandering near be held comfortably in a temCrawford Bay, about 50 kilomeporary quarantine. Though the tres northeast of Nelson in the public would not be able to view Kootenays. the cat given the lack of an ap“It’s pretty much status quo,” propriate exhibit, she said. said the Environment Ministry’s “We could also offer some asGeordon Omand
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The statement said the ministry had received a permit application to possess a cheetah in the Kootenay region and that application is currently under review. “However, ministry staff advise there is no indication or information as to whether the cheetah on loose is or could be related to the above permit application,” the statement said. Insp. Joe Caravetta of the Conservation Officer Service said last week that the provincial wildlife veterinarian doesn’t believe the missing cheetah poses a
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Can you say ‘hjukrunarfraedingur?’ Learning Icelandic a challenge for travellers Jim Heintz Associated Press
ISAFJORDUR, ICELAND celand’s challenges include boiling hot springs, frigid waters and vast wildernesses where sudden fogs leave you terribly alone. For me, the most daunting challenge was the tungumalanamskeidid – a course in trying to learn the language. On the three-week course, I found Icelandic deserves its nickname “Latin of the North” with a complicated skein of sIx noun classifications, each with up to 16 different suffixes; five families of verbs; an archaic and insular vocabulary and a penchant for serpentine words. Also like Latin, it’s only marginally useful, spoken by just 0.005 per cent of the planet. My aim wasn’t pragmatic. On previous trips, I’d become infatuated with Iceland for its primeval landscapes and enveloping hush. But the scenery wasn’t enough for me. I wanted more. The language course in Isafjordur, a town of 2,700, appealed to my romantic side. Geographically and emotionally distant from spiffy, stylish Reykjavik, Isafjordur crouches on a dogleg spit jutting into a fjord dwarfed by 2,000-foot mountains, with corrugated-iron house facades sprouting long tresses of rust. Though minuscule, it is the largest settlement in the Westfjords, a region more thinly populated than Mongolia that sees relatively few visitors even as Iceland’s tourist traffic soared some 300 per cent over the past decade. It is a fine place to experience what Iceland was like before Bjork and Sigur Ros made the country a paragon of coolness,
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A trawler is seen docked in the harbor of Isafjordur, Iceland on Aug. 6. and also a good place to be studious. There are no distractions aside from the only liquor store within 100 miles and the pristine nature that starts at the town’s edge. The latter gave me my first serious taste of Icelandic’s difficulty. Asked what we’d do on the weekend, I wanted to tell the class I planned to hike to a waterfall-filled valley. In Icelandic, “the waterfalls” is fossarnir, but if you’re going to them it’s fossana, except if you’re going from a long distance, in which case it’s fossanum. If the spray gets you wet, they’re fossanna. The trip began to seem like too much trouble linguistically. But I went, and they were pretty (fallegir, fallega, fallegum, whatever). Keeping track of all this required pages of complicated charts. “If you’re learning Icelandic, you don’t need Sudoku,” said Peter Weiss, a German who’s
learned it well enough to become director of Haskolasetur Vestfjarda (University Center of the Westfjords), where the course was held – a handful of rooms in a building that includes a frozenfish warehouse. Some students delighted in the game aspect, particularly American software designer Jim Brink and his mathematician wife Norah Esty. Their systematic minds pursued the grammar with zest, writing declension charts on a whiteboard for fun. But even they got overwhelmed. A day before exams, a drawnlooking Brink sighed, “Last night, we figured out there’s 144 word endings we need to know … I think.” For all the complexity, Icelandic has spasms of radical simplicity, which can be equally perplexing, as in the sentence “Bondinn a a a a.” That can translate as, “The farmer by the river has a sheep,” but figuring it out
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requires counterfactual thinking: In a country where sheep outnumber humans nearly 3-to-1, it’s hard to imagine a loser farmer who only has one. The grammar’s tough, but the vocabulary could be a joy for its offbeat poetry. Icelanders resist incursions of foreign words, preferring to adapt the lexicon of 9th century settlers for modern developments. Telephone is “simi” from the word for thread, a computer is “tolva”
from number-sorceress, and my personal favourite: Soda to an Icelander is a “gosdrykka” – an eruption-beverage. The course returned all of us nominal adults to a juvenile state, feeling both vulnerable for how little we could actually say and smug about what we could. When I was able to both remember and smoothly pronounce the serpentine word for nurse, hjukrunarfraedingur, I was so proud that I wanted to fake an injury so I could go to a hospital and show off. The town shopkeepers mostly treated us like good children, patient and amused by our eager clumsiness. Though I did get a few doglike looks of incomprehension at my accent, which is tarred by an Ohio upbringing and feathered by 20 years of living in Russia and Sweden. I wasn’t able to lose that accent enough to meet one of my goals: to convincingly pronounce Icelandic’s “-ll,” the phoneme whose mangling by foreign newscasters during the 2010 Eyjafjallajokull eruption gave a laugh to presumably all 320,000 native speakers. There’s a ghostly “t” in there, an appealing sound like a soft pigeon coo, that remains elusive. It’s a reason to go back.
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Answer texts on your own time and let others do the same by Judith Martin
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MANNERS DEAR MISS MANNERS: Having finally become familiar with my mobile phone, I now find I conduct both personal and professional conversations by texting or instant messaging with some frequency. It’s the real-time implications of these conversations that baffle me. I ignore my phone at home
while it charges (still having a landline and desktop computer), and have it set not to ring when out and about. I feel it’s something I may check entirely at my own convenience, though I do try to at least pay daily attention. My question is about responding to text messages. Should I be conscious of being distracting or intrusive when replying, i.e., while that person is working, sleeping or involved in some important life event? Since I feel so empowered to ignore my own phone at will, somehow it doesn’t always occur to me that I might be interrupting someone else if I’m still awake after midnight or unaware of their daily activities. GENTLE READER: Just as
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you have mastered the ability to silence your own cellular telephone, it is reasonable -- if not necessarily accurate -- to assume that your correspondents have done the same. Absent explicit requests, Miss Manners would not expect you to keep track of when others are working, sleeping or involved in important life events. She hopes that technology continues to permit at least a modicum of mystery to remain on the subject. DEAR MISS MANNERS: My grandkids are 12 and 11, and my daughter wants to go on a vacation. She has asked me if I would come and sit at her house for two weeks, except for the one weekend when my son will keep them. I have a husband who is not my child’s father. He feels this is wrong of her to ask me to do this. GENTLE READER: If your husband and you do not wish to baby-sit the grandchildren, you have Miss Manners’ blessing to decline to do so. You do not have her permission to invent rudenesses. There are too many already, without adding requests to watch the grandchildren to the list. DEAR MISS MANNERS: What is the etiquette regarding online gift-giving for the holidays with
respect to wrapping? I have four children and have received numerous gifts for them from relatives that were ordered online where wrapping was an option. Yet several of them chose to call me and ask me to wrap the gifts when they arrive so they could save a few bucks. Now I have to spend the few evenings before the holidays up late wrapping other people’s gifts. GENTLE READER: And what about the relatives who show up for Christmas, but have not been able to wrap their presents (or have had them forcibly unwrapped) because of airport security? Miss Manners may be lulled into an excess of holiday goodwill, but she would suggest keeping an extra roll of wrapping paper on hand to comply with the advantages and disadvantages of modern life. Presumably you should be able to count on others to do the same for you. DEAR MISS MANNERS: My husband and I dine out about once a week. He is fond of “people-watching� and likes to look at other diners while we are eating. I think, however, that he tends to stare at people. He says one cannot have an expectation of privacy in a public restaurant.
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I think it’s rude to stare. Can Miss Manners please explain the difference between staring and people-watching? GENTLE READER? Staring is when you get caught. DEAR MISS MANNERS: My 3-year-old daughter was asked to be a flower girl for the wedding of her father’s cousin. Her father and I are no longer together. While I understand my not being invited to the reception, I feel like I should have been invited to the ceremony to see my daughter as a flower girl (this is her first, and maybe only, time). I know the couple personally, although we are not friends. Space would not be an issue, as the venue is quite large. Am I being unrealistic with this feeling, or is the couple in the wrong? GENTLE READER: While it is understandable that you would want to see your daughter in the “role� of flower girl, this is not a pageant, but a family event -- a family of which you are no longer a part. Miss Manners understands that people confuse weddings with entertainment nowadays, what with wedding parties being chosen for their looks and guests all but charged admission under the guise of “honeymoon funds.� Nevertheless, weddings are not intended to be theatrical events, and stage mothers are not required. So please send your daughter off cheerfully to enjoy herself at the wedding. There will be plenty of her relatives there to look after her. And there will doubtless be pictures, and perhaps videos, that you will be able to see later. DEAR MISS MANNERS: I have golfed for over 30 years and am female! I love the game and the etiquette of the sport, rules, peacefulness, etc. In the past two years, I have experienced folks, male and female, who play music on the course! When asked to shut off the music, some do -- however, most are offended! Please ask new and old golfers to bone up on rules of golf course etiquette! I am tempted to start singing at the top of my voice next time! Trust me, they don’t want to experience that! GENTLE READER: They should try corresponding with you! The experience might be similar! Miss Manners presumes that the music being played is portable and not piped in through speakers on the golf course. You could politely ask management to make and enforce a blanket policy about music so that you are not put in the position of policing and educating your fellow golfers. Miss Manners fears that that is why these players are taking offense, more than at the request itself.
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SPORTS AND RECREATION Yukon biathlete Nadia Moser selected for youth world championship Tom Patrick News Reporter
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ukon’s Nadia Moser has another monumental season in her sights. With three consecutive podium finishes last week, the 18-year-old biathlete has been offered a spot on Team Canada for the IBU Youth/Junior World Championships, Biathlon Canada told the News. It sounds like she will accept the invitation. “I’m pretty excited about it,” said Moser. “I’m really happy about it. Really excited about the experience. I’m looking forward to it.” Moser punched her ticket for the worlds by winning gold, silver and bronze over three races at the Calforex Cup #2/world youth/junior trials races in Canmore, Alta. She kicked off the medal spree with gold in the youth women’s 7.5-kilometre sprint with a time of 24.35.4 – 22.2 second ahead of the silver medalist. In the race, Moser she cleaned house in both trips to the range. Only one of the other 16 racers in her division accomplished that and only five of the 78 racers on the day, across all divisions, cleaned both. The race stands out, “Not because I won but because I cleaned the race,” said Moser. “That’s just how I shot. I didn’t do anything differently.” Moser then picked up a silver in Saturday’s six-kilometre sprint, shooting 80 per cent and taking second by only 11.6 seconds. On Sunday she snagged bronze in the 7.5-kilometre pursuit, pegging 14 out of 20 in four journeys to the range. The bronze actually marked four medals in four races. The previous weekend she won bronze in the youth women sixkilometre sprint at the Calforex Cup #1. Biathlon Canada can send a team of 16 biathletes to the youth/junior worlds that begin at the end of January in Cheile Gradistei, Romania. With her three most recent
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Yukon biathlete Nadia Moser prepares to shoot during the Canada Winter Games in Prince George, B.C., last February. Moser has been selected to compete at the IBU Youth/Junior World Championships next month in Romania, Biathlon Canada has said. results it was all but a certainty she would land one of the four youth female spots. But you never know… A year ago Moser won silver en route to placing fourth overall in the division at last year’s trials. But Biathlon Canada decided to send a larger team of juniors (19and 20-year-olds) and Moser was denied a spot. On the bright side, by not competing at last season’s youth worlds Moser could race for Yukon at the Canada Winter Games and would go on to make history. Moser captured Yukon’s first-
ever medal in biathlon at the 2015 Games in Prince George, B.C., eventually leaving with a silver and two bronze. She was the only Yukon athlete to win three medals at the Games. She pulled off a similar feat the previous year at the 2014 Arctic Winter Games in Fairbanks – coming away as the only Yukoner to capture three gold. Following her performances in Prince George, Moser went on to win two silver at the Canadian Biathlon Championships. She then moved to Canmore in July to train full-time at the
Biathlon Alberta Training Centre. “It’s wonderful to hear that Nadia has been nominated to the Canadian YJWCH team! She is a remarkable athlete,” said Biathlon Yukon coach Laurie Jacobsen. “She has always set challenging goals for herself and then believed she could accomplish them. She is a good example to the younger athletes at Biathlon Yukon; they see that she works hard and loves this sport. She has adapted well to life away from the Yukon and seems to be thriving at the Biathlon Alberta Training Centre. We are all very excited
for her and wish her the best of luck as she takes her first steps into International competition!” Moser will be only the second Yukon biathlete to compete at the youth/junior worlds next month. Whitehorse’s Erin OliverBeebe became the first four years ago in Finland. “Thanks to Biathlon Yukon and everyone who supported me in Atlin,” added Moser, who is originally from the northern B.C. community and moved to Whitehorse at the start of high school. Contact Tom Patrick at tomp@yukon-news.com
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‘91 Grizzlies win first Christmas title after years of trying Tom Patrick News Reporter
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he ‘91 Grizzlies got plenty of goals instead of stockings of coal at the 2015 Christmas Insomnia Tournament at Vanier Catholic Secondary School over the weekend. After eight years of coming up short, the men’s team unwrapped its first men’s title at the 12th annual indoor soccer tournament. The team felt “amazing” with the win, said Grizzlies captain Stephen Dynes. “We’ve been putting our same rep team in since we were 16. It’s been a long time coming,” he said. “It’s nice to finally win it.” The ‘91 Grizzlies – largely made up of players born in 1991 – took the title in a thrilling come-from-behind win, beating the Raw Dogs FC 5-4 in a shootout in the final on Sunday. They didn’t just come back once, they erased Raw Dogs leads three times in the final. Down 2-0 with a minute left in the first half, the Grizzlies got on the board with a goal from Logan Potter on a shot from mid court. Four minutes into the second half Walker Ewing tied it up 2-2, burying a rebound in front. Down again a few minutes later, Potter went end-to-end to find the far corner of the Raw Dogs net to make it 3-3. Trailing again – this is getting repetitive – Grizzlies’ Mike Abbott scored with two minutes left on a pass out the corner from Joel Krahn/Yukon News Jake Hanson. Raw Dogs FC’s Travis Olynyk winds up as ‘91 Grizzlies’ Dillon Vickerman chases during the men’s “The team we played against – we’re all buddies with those guys final of the 2015 Christmas Insomnia Tournament at Vanier Catholic Secondary on Sunday. The ‘91 – it’s so nice to end up playing Grizzlies won 5-4 in a shootout. them in the finals,” said Dynes. “It was a good, well-fought game and it’s nice that it went to PKs. Either team deserved to win tonight.” Following a fruitless five-minute overtime, a hush fell upon the packed stands as the teams decided who would take the shots in the shootout. Potter and teammate Cody Fraser both put ones past Raw Dogs goalkeeper Darren Richards. Then things took another dramatic turn. Grizzlies goalkeeper Tyler Pumphrey suffered an injury making a save, but hobbled back in net to make one last one for the win. “He’s a trooper,” said Dynes. “He has so many so many injuries going on. He just doesn’t stop. He’s definitely our team MVP in my mind.” Scoring for Raw Dogs FC in the final were Travis Olynyk, Kyle Risby and Kurtis Hills with the last two. “We’re pretty happy with ourselves,” said Hills. “We had a couple injuries – we lost about four guys. We were playing with six most of the tournament with one sub against teams with full Tom Patrick/Yukon News benches. So I’m happy with the Wildcats goalkeeper Reena Coyne attempts to stop a goal from Sarah Sweet Six’s Jamie McLeish. guys and I’m sure the guys are
happy too.” The ‘91 Grizzlies, who lost in the tournament’s final two years ago, reached the final with a tight 4-3 win over Chilkoot Chiropractic. Jonathan Hawkins of Chilkoot Chiropractic was named Most Sportsmanlike, Risby Top Scorer and Dynes Tournament MVP. Out of 15 round-robin matches in the men’s and women’s divisions, not one ended in a shutout. But the women’s final did. Sarah’s Sweet Six produced a 2-0 win over the Wildcats to capture the women’s title. “I’m just really proud of them,” said coach and team namesake Sarah Hanson. “I think they played really skillfully and they kept their composure really well and played a possession gave, which we’re really trying to encourage with them. They also competed really well … “They kept their heads in it and stayed really solid.” The Sweet Six scored one in each half. The first came from Malorie Hanson, knocking out of mid air a bouncing pass up court from Aimee Parker. The second came from captain Jamie McLeish on a pass from Christine Moser on a free kick. Sweet Six goalkeeper Isabel Magsucang got the shutout. Notwithstanding their first-place finish, the Sweet Six opened with a less remarkable start to the tournament, losing 8-6 to two-time defending champs Charly’s Angels in the round robin. The Angels went on to lose to the Wildcats in the semifinal. “The core of these girls are the U18 Arctic Winter Games team, with a few additions of other girls they’ve played with over the years,” said Sarah. “When we go to Arctic Winter Games (this March in Greenland) we’ll be playing futsal and that’s what we’ve been training, so that’s partly why we had a little bit of trouble in the first game, because it’s very different. But every game they got a little better and better and they finally got back into the groove of indoor soccer.” The Sweet Six reached the final with a 5-3 win over Victorious Secret in the semifinal, with Parker and Moser notching goals. Malorie and Moser led the team with five goals each in the tournament. “Our scoring was spread out quite widely among the girls, which was nice,” said Sarah. “I was really happy with that.” Emily Hoeff, captain of Victorious Secret, was named Most Sportsmanlike, Charly’s Angels captain Megan Lanigan got the Top Scorer award and Wildcats’ Lara Helene-St. Onge got the MVP nod. Contact Tom Patrick at tomp@yukon-news.com
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Hynes repeats, Abbott regains Sumanik Cup
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Whitehorse’s Colin Abbott speeds around a corner during the Don Sumanik Memorial Races on Sunday at the Whitehorse Cross Country Ski Club. Abbott won the Don Sumanik Trophy in the male category. Tom Patrick News Reporter
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ukon Ski Team’s Natalie Hynes has been cranking out great results so far this season. This past weekend she did it at home for a change. After collecting multiple medals on the Haywood NorAm circuit down south, Hynes won the women’s trophy at the Don Sumanik Memorial Races at the Whitehorse Cross Country Ski Club. That’s now two years in a row she won the Sumanik Cup that goes to the fastest male and female skiers on the long courses over two days of racing. Whitehorse’s Colin Abbott won for the males. It’s neat to have her named engraved on the same trophy as Olympians Emily Nishikawa, Lucy Steele and Becky Scott, said Hynes. “It’s a pretty cool feeling winning a trophy with the names of skiers I really look up to,” said Hynes. “It’s unreal, really.” Hynes, who at 17 is racing in junior girls, was the second fastest female skier Saturday in the five-kilometre classic with a time of 15:21.2. (Open women’s Kendra Murray clocked in at 15:17.7.) Hynes was then fastest in
Sunday’s 6.6-kilometre free at 22:08.4. “I felt pretty strong,” said Hynes. “It’s cold out and it’s a bit of a shock coming back from Silver Star and Canmore where it was warmer. On the lungs it’s kind of tough. But I’m really happy to be back; I love racing in the Yukon.” It had been a while since Abbott raised the Sumanik Cup for males. So long he wasn’t sure if he had before. The 25-year-old produced the fastest times for males both days to earn a second etching of his name on the trophy – the first coming back in 2007. “I’ve been racing this weekend for the last 15 years, almost. It’s been a trials – a selection for the Arctic Winter Games 10 years ago – and it’s still fun to come back every year. It’s become a bit of a December tradition to do this,” said Abbott. “So it feels really good to race well here. It’s a nice confirmation that I’m in shape and ready to race in other places in Canada.” Abbott finished Saturday’s 7.5-kilometre classic in 21:53.6 and Sunday’s 7.5-kilometre free in 19:44.2. “(Saturday) felt pretty exceptional,” said Abbott. “If I asked more from my body it would give me more and that’s always
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Mary Londero goes down in a tough part of the course. a special feeling. Technically it felt really good yesterday, really relaxed. Today was good, but I still have some things to work on in terms of being efficient in skate skiing.” The Don Sumanik races, which saw 90 skiers compete Saturday and 50 on Sunday, were also team trials for Yukon’s ski team for the Arctic Winter Games this March in Greenland. The team won’t be announced to later this week but it’s a safe
bet Hynes will be on the list. In addition to winning four medals in five races so far this season in Haywood NorAms, Haynes was also selected as second alternate for Team Canada at the Youth Olympic Games in Lillehammer, Norway. That’s a team that consists of just one male and one female skier – not a lot of spots, in other words. Her successes so far this season have been a “surprise,” she said.
“At the beginning of the season you don’t know what to expect until you start racing. It’s been really fun. I’ve had a great time traveling with the team this year. “It’s amazing having (coaches like) Alain (Masson) and Amanda (Deuling) there every week. And my parents of course. And just having teammates helping me out.” Contact Tom Patrick at tomp@yukon-news.com
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Yukon Ski Team’s Natalie Hynes starts out in Sunday’s free race.
Saturday’s top three finishers Atom boys (1 km) 1st Nicolas Giangrande – 7:05.8 2nd Christopher McCarron – 7:16.3 3rd Jan Zumer-Brewis – 7:25.6 Atom girls (1 km) 1st Callah MacGillivary – 7:21.2 2nd Phoenix Haughton-Locke – 8:04.6 Peewee boys (2 km) 1st Mettias Schmidt – 10:05.5 2nd Isidore Champagne – 10:05.8 3rd Felix Masson – 10:36.1 Peewee girls (2 km) 1st Constance Lapointe – 10:57.5 2nd Abigail Jirousek – 11:59.9 3rd Ava Irving-Staley – 12:27.1 Midget boys (5 km) 1st Derek Deuling – 17:31.3 2nd Sasha Masson – 17:44.5 3rd Victor-Emile Thibeault – 18:39.4 Midget girls (5 km) 1st Sonjaa Schmidt – 20:02.2 2nd Dahlia Lapointe – 20:52.1 3rd Kate Mason – 23:05.7 Juvenile boys (7.5 km) 1st Liam Mather – 29:13.6 2nd Nichollis Schmidt – 29:49.1 3rd Jamie Phillips-Freedman – 35:26.1 Juvenile girls (5 km) 1st Regan Fuerstner – 17:34.0 2nd Hannah Jirousek – 17:45.5
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Sunday’s top three finishers Midget boys (3.3 km) 1st Derek Deuling – 11:49.0 2nd Sasha Masson – 12:18.1 3rd Curtis Cash – 12:59.2 Midget girls (3.3 km)
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ukon mountain bikers celebrated the winter solstice fat-bike style on Saturday. Fifty-three cyclists broke out their donut-wheeled fat bikes at the fifth annual 5+ Hours of Light bike festival, hosted by the Contagious Mountain Bike Club at the Biathlon Yukon range. “There’s so many more fat bikes and fat bike makers now that my current bike feels so much more like a mountain bike than my old fat bike,” said rider Ian Parker. “The equipment has come so far in the last couple of years. It’s changed the sport completely … “It’s upped the fun factor of riding these bikes. It was already really fun, but now it should almost be illegal.” Parker put more chubby tire tracks in the snow than anyone at the festival held a couple days shy of the official start of winter, the winter solstice. He regained the solo men’s title completing nine laps of the nine-kilometre course in the five hours. For those who flunked grade school math, that’s 81 kilometres. “It was one of those rare days where everything came together. The conditions were amazing … It’s just a really fun event and I seemed to feel better as it went on,” said Parker. “The event is really not about the racing,” he added. “I didn’t have racing in my mind. It’s more, ‘Let’s go out and see how many laps we can do in the time that we have.’ “It was a spectacular day, spectacular trail, spectacular setting. It’s one of those events that
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Whitehorse’s Ian Parker rides in the 5+ Hours of Light mountain bike festival at the Biathlon Yukon range on Saturday. Parker was the top solo male and Virginia Sarrazin the top solo female. makes you feel lucky that we live where we live and we can do the things we do.” Aaron Foos and Rob Horne completed seven laps to place second and third, respectively. Believe it or not, 81 kilometres
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is not the longest Parker has ridden a fat bike in a day. “I thought it was, but I did bike the Dawson trail last year and I think that’s over 100K,” said Parker. “It’s certainly the most I’ve done going around in a circle.” Solo women’s winner Virginia Sarrazin of Ibex Valley has spent considerably less time on a fat bike. It was her first time in the event and just her second time on a fat bike. Still, Sarrazin completed five laps of the course. “The conditions were really good. The trail was really well packed and it was cold – cold enough to make the trail not too slippery,” said Sarrazin. “The weather was beautiful.” Sarrazin is no stranger to racing on snow. She is president of the Dog Powered Sports Association of Yukon and often races – and often wins – skijor events. “I really enjoyed it. I did the (24 Hours of Light Mountain Bike Festival) this summer and it was basically the same idea: people coming and doing as many laps as they want,” said Sarrazin. “We had a place to warm up and the club, CMBC, prepared some really good food and it was a really nice social event.” Nicole Jacques, Stewart Van Bibber and Andrew Reid joined forces to win the team event with seven laps on Saturday. Their team name, The Flat Nolans, comes from a school project for Jacques’ nephew Nolan in Calgary, who was assigned to have cutout of him photographed in various locations. A cutout of Nolan rode the race on Jacques’ helmet.
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Sky Hodgson rides a section of Boogaloo trail during the fifth annual event.
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Wallingham rink defends senior men’s title
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Team Stuart third Herb Balsam shows some enthusiasm. Tom Patrick News Reporter
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Skip Walter Wallingham guides a teammate during the Yukon Senior Men’s Curling Championship at the Whitehorse Curling Club on Saturday. Team Wallingham won the championship. Below, skip Ray Mikkelsen expresses his dislike of a shot.
ollowing a few close battles early on, Team Wallingham cruised to victory at the Yukon Senior Men’s Curling Championship over the weekend at the Whitehorse Curling Club. The Whitehorse rink won its second title in a row and will represent Yukon at the senior nationals. “We had a pretty good weekend,” said skip Walter Wallingham. “I feel real good. The team curled really well, made my shots a lot easier and we’re all excited about going down there to represent the Yukon at the curling nationals.” This time Wallingham was part of the Wallingham rink. Last year his rink won without him, though the team still bore his name. Wallingham missed last year’s championship to spectate at the Junior Canadian Curling Championships in Newfoundland where his son Joe was skip of the Yukon men’s team. He had Ray Mikkelsen fill in for him. As it happens, Mikkelsen gave Wallingham the most trouble this past weekend. Team Wallingham, which includes third Gordon Zealand, second Ed Kormendy and lead Don Duncan, produced a 5-1 record at the championship with a 5-4 loss to Team Mikkelsen on Saturday. “We had our chances against Ray in the one we lost there,” said Wallingham. “We had a couple nice houses set up for big ends but unfortunately made a tick and miss and ended up giving them one and a steal. We were able to come back and make it
close.” Team Wallingham opened the 50-and-over championship with a 7-6 extra-end win over George Hilderman’s rink and then topped Darol Stuart’s rink 7-5. Following the loss to Mikkelsen, Wallingham defeated Hilderman 7-4, Stuart 5-2 and Mikkelsen 9-3 to clinch it. “Every game we just started curling a little bit better and the last game was our best game of all,” said Wallingham. Hilderman, a five-time Yukon senior champ, placed second with a 4-2 record. Mikkelsen finished even at 3-3 and Stuart went winless at 0-6. Team Wallingham will now represent the territory at the 2016 Canadian Senior Curling Championships, beginning late March in Digby, N.S. At last year’s senior nationals in Edmonton, Team Wallingham went 1-8 with an 8-3 win over Team Saskatchewan. “We’re looking forward to improving our record from last year,” said Wallingham. “We had a few really close games last year and should have won more than one game… “I have some relatives in Nova Scotia, so I’ll let them know and hopefully they’ll show up and watch us curl,” he added. Only one team registered for the senior women’s championship and have therefore been acclaimed Yukon’s representative for the nationals. Team Grant, which includes skip Leslie Grant, Corinne Delaire, Joan Hyvre and Laura Wilson, will curl for Yukon in the women’s side of the championship in Nova Scotia. Contact Tom Patrick at tomp@yukon-news.com
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JOB SUMMARY: Reporting to the Operations Director the Manager, Capital and Housing is responsible for the overall administrative administration, management and delivery of all capital and housing programs, services and properties of the FNNND Capital and Housing Department. The Manager is responsible for the provision of all property and housing units (i.e. Housing Policy and Tenant Agreement) and is responsible for researching, planning, executing, and delivering development of a capital and housing plan ensuring projects are on time, within budget, and in accordance with specifications, and upward reporting to Council on critical tasks that must be performed throughout each project’s lifecycle and is expected to do appropriate proposal writing to ensure that funding is available for planning purposes.
Salary Range: $34.88 to 42.32 per hour (75 hours bi-weekly); plus benefits.
ExecuƟve Administrator Job Summary: Repor ng to the Da Daghay Development Corpora on (DDDC) Chief Execu ve Officer (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 Office 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, staff and other governments, industries and organiza ons with whom DDDC conducts business. Main DuƟes: • Maintain Office 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 EducaƟon 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. RemuneraƟon: Salary range $50,000-$60,000, including benefits. Will entertain 3/4 me applicants. For complete job descripƟon please contact: Ben Asquith @dadaghay@northwestel.net ***TKC CiƟzens are encouraged to apply***
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Please submit resumes by: January 4, 2015 @ 4:30 p.m. to: Ronalda Moses Manager, Human Resources Tel: (867) 996-2265 ext. 138 Fax: (867) 996-2267 Email: humanresources@nndfn.com
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We will pay CASH for anything of value Tools, electronics, gold & jewelry, chainsaws, camping & outdoor gear, hunting & fishing supplies, rifles & ammo. G&R New & Used 1612-D Centennial St. 393-2274 BUY • SELL PERSIAN NAIN carpet, beige with blue trim, bought in Middle East, $1,700, appraised much higher. 204-880-7245 herbeeking@hotmail.com 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
CFL FOOTBALL cards, 17 different complete sets of cards, including early OPC. Almost 2,600 cards. $1,400. Ross 633-3154 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 THREE COMPLETE OPC hockey card sets (1999-00 to 2001-02 period) plus some short prints. Over 900 cards. $150. Ross 633-3154 2-TANK PORTABLE compressor, like new, $125 new, asking $75. 867-399-3004 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, $25; Honeywell oil-filled heater, good cond, $30. 334-8318 BOX OF Nevil Shute paperbacks, 38, some duplication, $25. 633-3154 BINDER FULL of baseball cards, $20. 633-3154
Employment Employment Opportunity Opportunity
Providing leadership through our strengths in programming, services and research, Yukon College’s main campus in Whitehorse and 12 community campuses cover the territory. A small college, YC provides a stimulating and collegial environment. We work with Yukon communities, Yukon First Nations, local governments, business and industry, to promote a community of learners within a vibrant organization. Come join us as we continue to enhance the Yukon’s capacity through education and training.
Instructor, Heavy Equipment Technician Centre for Northern Innovation in Mining (CNIM) School of Trades & Technology & Mining Mayo Community Campus Term position to June 10, 2016 $38.53 to $45.87 per hour based on 37.5 hours bi-weekly Competition #: 15.140 Initial Review Date: January 7, 2016 Go to: http://yukoncollege.yk.ca/about/employment for more information on all job competitions. Quoting the competition number, please submit your resume and cover letter to: Yukon College, Human Resources Services, Email: hr@yukoncollege.yk.ca
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Miscellaneous for Sale
TRADING CARDS, binder full of non-sport trading cards (James Bond, X-men, Desert Storm, Enduring Freedom). About 500 cards. $40. Ross 633-3154
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433-108 Elliot Street, Whitehorse YT Y1A 6C4 TEL. 867-667-6609 / EMAIL dadaghay@northwestel.net
LIVE-IN CAREGIVER required to provide personal care, home support, and companionship to Elderly woman in Pelly Crossing. Home care certificate or equivalent experience. Remuneration negotiable. Marilyn: 250-228-0420 Email resume: mvanbibber@shaw.ca
SELF PROPELLED SNOW Blower, clears 30" wide path, electric start, 6 forward & two reverse speeds, excellent condition, canopy available extra, $650. 333-9020 TRACTOR WITH snow blower attachment, electric start, tire chains & weights, exc cond, $1,800 or trades considered. 333-9020 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 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 BLOOD PRESSURE monitor: Brand New, given to us as gift, $10. Text/call 204-880-7245 BISSELL PROHEAT carpet cleaner, $50 obo. 668-3968 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 HAND-KNIT GREEN men's sweater, sz L, $55 obo. 668-5185 days/667-7840 eves WOMENʼS WINTER jacket, purple/white, very clean, medium loose-fit, $25. 668-5185 days/667-7840 evenings WOMENʼS WINTER coat, brown, sz small, $35 obo. 668-5185 days/667-7840 eves COAST MOUNTAIN shoes, new, sz 7.5, $75 obo. 668-5185 days/667-7840 eves 6ʼ CHRISTMAS tree, 300 multi-coloured pre-strung lights, $45; 5ʼ inflatable Santa, indoor/outdoor use, not used, $25; we moved, no room. 334-3698 lv msg GUESS MEN'S cologne, paid $60, asking $19, great gift. 204-880-7245
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Wednesday, December 23, 2015
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LARGE BULL musk ox head/hide rug, inclʼg feet, exc cond. Wildlife permit 6045, $2,000. 633-4135 WINDOOR RECYCLER We buy & sell: • Brand new/used double/triple pane vinyl/wood windows. •Brand new steel/vinyl exterior doors with frames. Now selling: •Brand new unfinished oak kitchen cabinets. 333-0717 YUKON GEM AZURITE Rare * Exotic * Beautiful Pendants, earrings, gems, polished specimens, tumbled stones, museum quality. 867-336-3425 GRANNYʼS BOOTIES, 602 Kathleen Road, Crestview. Sat, Dec 19 to Sat Dec 26. Special orders. 633-3555 SAWMILLS FROM only $4,397 - MAKE MONEY & SAVE MONEY with your own bandmill - Cut lumber any dimension. In stock ready to ship. FREE Info & DVD: www.NorwoodSawmills.com/400OT 1-800-566-6899 Ext:400OT. GOPRO HERO 3+ Black Edition camera, original packaging, mint, 12MP sensor, 4K digital video at 15fps, 1080p up to 60fps, WiFi remote, includes 2 spare batteries, $295. 667-6472 2 BUNK bed frames, 1 for twin beds, 1 for twin upper & full lower, exc shape, incl hardware & accessories, call for details/pricing. 456-7030 BOVANO ROLLING suitcase, new, large, black & green, $45. 399-3004 TELESCOPE WITH motorized base, 4'' Meade 2045D, $250. 336-4887 CAMERA AND lens bag, LowePro Trekker 600 for large telephoto, $90. 336-4887
Electrical Appliances KENMORE COIL-TOP stove with self clean oven, exc operating cond, white, $300. 456-7030 MAYTAG PORTABLE dishwasher, white, very clean, exc operating cond, $150. 456-7030 for more details WESTINGHOUSE DRYER, HD, good working order, $70. 633-2837 KENMORE 1.3 cu ft microwave oven, $25 obo. 668-3968 DEHUMIDIFIER, SIMPLICITY brand, 20 pint. Like new. Paid $250, asking $100. 335-6163 STOVE, DISHWASHER, over-range microwave, all vg cond, $100/ea. 633-3114 lv msg FREE WORKING Maytag washer & dryer. 335-0573 CONSUL PROPANE fridge, 5ʼ tall, works, like new, white, $1,000 obo; propane stove, good shape, 30”, white, $250. 334-5199 KENMORE FRIDGE/FREEZER, 18 cu ft, white, clean, lots of shelving, $300. 456-7030
HURLBURT ENTERPRISES INC. Store (867) 633-3276 Dev (867) 335-5192 Carl (867) 334-3782
✔ Beetle-killed spruce from Haines Junction, quality guaranteed ✔ Everything over 8" split ✔ Prices as low as $245 per cord ✔ Single and emergency half cord deliveries ✔ Scheduled or next day delivery
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FRANKʼS FIREWOOD •Top quality, stacked cords for best value •8 foot & stove length •1/2 cord, single cord & multiple cords Phone 334-8960
2003 VW Jetta TDI, new turbo, rebuilt engine, new clutch, upgraded injectors, low profile wheels. $6500 invested, asking $7,000 obo. 334-5297
We Sell Trucks!
2002 VW Golf 4 door, 2L gas, pwr, heated seats, automatic. Fully serviced & tuned, new transmission, new winter tires, new muffler. Inspection inclʼd, $5,000. 334-5297 2001 CHRYSLER Neon Mechanic's Special or for parts, blew a timing belt, good 195/65R15 snow tires, first $200 takes it away. 633-3126 or 667-6677
1997 FORD Escort, 235,000kms, great cond, fully winterized, studded & summer tires. Leaving Yukon, $1,500 obo. 514-971-2566
1996 GMC Serria 2wd, 8' box c/w 2 sets of tires and rims, s&w, 305 Vortec, 300,000kms, runs great, some electricql work needed, $1,500 obo. 334-5768
Auto Parts & Accessories
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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 2008 JEEP Patriot Sport, 4X4, green, manual, 1 owner, no accidents, very clean, 174,500 km, everything is in order, $7,700. obo. Contact Nicolas at 418.955.6017 or lemieuxcreative@gmail.com 1998 FORD Explorer, 4x4, in gd shape, runs good, spare tire, $2200. 334-2906
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 JERRY CANS, $12 obo. 668-5085 REAL STEEL tire chains, fit 15”, $50 obo. 399-3004 2004 SUBARU STI, 100,000 km, $12,000 obo. 668-5085
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Guns & Bows LICENSED TO BUY, SELL & CONSIGN rifles & ammo at G&R New & Used 1612-D Centennial St. 393-2274 BUY • SELL DOMINION ARMS 16-gauge single shot shotgun, new in box, unfired, blued, hardwood stock, $150. 633-2443 WINCHESTER MODEL 37 16-gauge single shot shotgun, vg cond, $275. 633-2443
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.357 MAGNUM Ruger Security 6, 4” stainless barrel, Hogue rubber grips, $400. 633-2488 or 333-5640 (cell). ENFIELD PATTERN 1914 sporter in 303 British, completely refinished, vg, D&T for scope, PAL req'd, $300 firm. 667-2276 LEE ENFIELD No4 Mk1*, 10 rd mag, sporterized with monte carlo stock, scope mount, no sights, VG, $300 firm, PAL req'd. 667-2276
ASSORTED 30 cal & 7 mm bullets, Barnes & Nosler, assorted 3006 brass, new & used. 689-6169
IPHONE 4S Bell/Virgin 16GB, good condition, $140. 334-6087
OLDER RANGER double-barrel shotgun, 12-gauge, $75; Burris scope, 3X9 power, as new, $260 obo. 335-4749 or 668-4726
Musical Instruments
COOEY MODEL 39, Winchester Western, exc cond in original box, $195. 633-2443
PIANO TUNING & REPAIR by certified piano technician Call Barry Kitchen @ 633-5191 email:bfkitchen@hotmail.com
RUGER MODEL 77, 270 Winchester cal, as new, only fired 10 rounds, green/brown laminated stock, c/w Ruger scope rings, $1,000 obo. 335-4749 or 668-4726
GUITARS FOR sale, with cases, all like new. 332-1360
OLDER WINCHESTER 30-30, lever action, vg cond, all machined parts, $450 obo. 335-4749 or 668-4726
DONʼS FIREWOOD Open During the Holidays! Forestry Permit #2015 FWL 027-01 •Junction Beetle Kill •Stockpiled in Whitehorse •Daily Deliveries Social Services/Kwanlin Dun •$240/Cord City Limits Phone 393-4397
Trucks
ANDYʼS FIREWOOD SERVICE Quality standing dry Haines Junction Full measured cords Stacked & delivered Serving Yukoners for over 15 years $250/cord 335-0932, leave message
TWO 3G Blackberry Curve 9300 unlocked cell phones, will work with all mobility companies, Bell Virgin, Telus, will sell together or separately, $80 ea. 334-6087
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
2003 PONTIAC Sunfire, good condition, leather bra, rain guards etc, recent oil change, new tires, $2,800. 335-9223
2007 CHEVROLET Express 3500 15 passenger bus, white, winter tires, automatic, electric side door, runs great, new battery, well maintained, $10,000 obo. 336-1502
DJG CONTRACTING •Delivering logging truck loads •Single/multiple cord loads Call David at 867-332-8327
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
Firewood
1994 CADILLAC Concourse, 4-dr, new tires, stereo, every option, near mint, $3,500. 333-9899
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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
Computers & Accessories
SAMICK GUITAR with hard cover case, excellent gift idea, $125. 393-2926
2006 C H R Y S L E R Sebring, power windows/locks, great cond, 173,000kms, $3,900 obo. 334-3456
2000 VW Jetta 2.0 L gas, std trans, new timing belt, clutch & brakes. Tuned, serviced & ready for winter, $3,200 obo. 334-5297
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PRE-64 MODEL 70 Winchester in 270 cal, great shape, $750 obo. 332-3726
Wanted WANTED: 1990ʼS Subaru Justy for parts. 633-4666 WANTED: ATV/QUAD trailer or utility trailer. Must hold two quads. Needs to be in good shape. Not wanting 2-place tilt deck. 334-7669 WANTED: 1983 to 1990 Toyota p/u 4x4 long box, 4 cyl for parts. 633-4666 WANTED: 2000 or newer GMC/Chev 2500. Long box ext cab 4x4 with the gas engine. 332-3726
Cars 2007 VW Passat 2L Turbo Wagon. 156,000km, pwr, leather, full service, recent engine work, runs great, $8,000. 334-5297
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4 LT 265-70-17 Firestone Enforcers, approx 80% tread left, new price $275, asking $95 ea. 333-0717
1994 TOYOTA 4Runner for parts. Blown engine, good transmission, standard 4x4, good diffs, $1,000. 334-5297
Come on down & visit with ALL OF US at the shelter.
ALCOA FORGED rims, R24.5x8, new, $350 obo. 689-5234
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1994 BMW 325i for parts. Body & interior in perfect shape, blown engine, $1,000. 334-5297
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SYNTHETIC 5W40 oil, 5 gallon, $120 obo. 668-5085
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633-6019 2015 December 22 - January 1 Merry OpenHOURS: Tuesday – Saturday 12 - 4 Closed Sunday & Monday ! s a m t s i r h C New winter hours will begin January 2 have your pets SPAYED OR NEUTERED. FOR INFORMATION CALL
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4 P235-65-17 Fulda tires, German made, 90% tread left, new price $250 ea, less than 2,000kms, asking $95 ea. 333-0717
WHEELCHAIR ELECTRIC lift for mini van or full size van, worth $10,000, asking $5,000 obo. 333-2857
Items can be dropped off at the Shelter during operating hours.
Wednesday, December 23, 2015
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JO'S SMALL ENGINE REPAIR •Repairs to snowmobiles, snowblowers , chainsaws, outboards, lawnmowers and more. •Shop rate $70 per hour, •Lawnmowers and chainsaws $60 per hour. Call Steve @ 633-6314 or 334-1628 2001 SKANDIC wide track, 2,500 original kms, 300km on new pistons, rings & head gasket, $5,900. 689-5288 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 2006 SUMMIT 800, mint, well maintained, Ski-doo brand cover, cargo bag, Jerry can w/mount incl, $4,100 obo. 334-3416 WANTED: 2 person seat for a Ski-Doo Tundra. Or trade for a new 2016 single seat. Rev -XU platform. 334-7669 2005 KNIT 900, 162 rip saw track, needs bearings changed, have parts but no time, $3,000. 336-3922 15X144X2 TRACK, $600, 2 sets of rail extensions for Polaris, $50 ea. 334-7131
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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
PROFESSIONAL BOAT REPAIR Fiberglass Supplies Marine Accessories FAR NORTH FIBERGLASS 49D MacDonald Rd Whitehorse, Yukon 393-2467
BLUE-NOSED PIT bull puppies, 1st shots, dewormed, $1,000. 633-4590
20 HP Johnson with electric start & 14Ęź aluminum lake boat, needs seat work but floats good, $1,200. 336-3922
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
2 SCOTTY full size downriggers, clamp on, pop-up style, c/w cable & ball, $100 ea. 399-3004
Heavy Equipment D6C TILT Blade & winch $19,800. Will include brush rake for $3,500. 689-5288
Campers & Trailers
1997 POLARIS RMK Indy Trail 500 & 1994 Arctic Cat Cheetah, 340 long track with rack, on tilting 2-place Caravan trailer, $2,900 for all. Matt @ 332-1281
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
2013 POLARIS 900 XP, sxs, c/w windshield, roof & back window, $14,000. 335-4237
WANTED: USED one or two place snow machine trailer. 334-7669
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1987 FORD Econo Van camper, fridge, stove, washroom, cabinets, furnace, everything works, 351 V8, 80,000 kms, $7,000 obo. 334-5199 FLAT BED 2-place tilt deck, new 1" PT decking, new rubber/spare, 9 welded anchors, ski-bars, new jack, stone guard, moving, must sell, $1,650 obo, can accept credit cards. 519-854-1300
Coming Events ATLIN - GLACIER VIEW CABINS “your quiet get away� Cozy self contained log cabins canoes, kayaks for rent Fax/Phone 250-651-7691 e-mail glacierviewcabins@gmail.com www.glacierviewcabins.ca THE ALZHEIMER/DEMENTIA Family Caregiver Support Group meets monthly. Group for family/friends caring for someone with Dementia. Info call Joanne 668-7713 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 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 HORAIRE PISTE Chilkoot/Log Cabin: Multi-usage sauf du 18 au 20 decembre: activities non motorisees. 867-667-3910 CHILKOOT TRAIL/LOG Cabin: Non-motorized weekend: Dec 18-20. Other weekends & weekdays: Multi-Use. For info: 867-667-3910 CANDLE LIGHT service at Trinity Lutheran Church, Strickland Street, Christmas Day service at 10am. All are welcome. 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 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 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 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. 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. SALSA YUKON'S Latin Dance Classes, Beginner & Intermediate Salsa, Bachata & Rueda de Casino. Starts January 7th. Info: salsayukon@gmail.com U14 STRIKERS soccer team bottle drive fundraiser Sunday, January 10, 10am-2pm in Porter Creek to lessen cost of travel to Calgary & ultimately Greenland.
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LAST CHANCE, Toyota RAV4 Raffle Tickets, only available at Integra Tire and Mic Mac Motors. Less than 100 tickets left. Support Habitat for Humanity Yukon. Draw December 31st.
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AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL Writing Circle meeting Tuesday, January 26 from 7:00pm 9:00pm at Whitehorse United Church, upstairs. Writing letters to support human rights worldwide. www.amnesty.org
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MEETING TO Re-Instate the St. Elias Chamber of Commerce Thursday, January 7, 2016, 6:00 pm Village of HJ Council C h a m b e r s . C o n t a c t paulapawlovich@gmail.com
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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.
Mingus
COME SING with the Whitehorse Community Choir. African music will be featured this term. Register at Whitehorse United Church, Monday Jan 11& 18th, 7:00 pm, Whitehorse United Church.
Come for a visit and meet your next furry family member!
Pets will be posted on the Pet Report for two weeks. Please let us know after that time if you need them re-posted.
You can also check out our award winning website at:
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Happy 30th Wedding Anniversary
Lorna & Gordie
F.H. COLLINS School Council regular meeting is being held at 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday, January 6, 2016 in the new school. Everyone welcome PORTER CREEK Community Association meeting Monday, January 11th, 5:15 pm at the Guild Hall. All Welcome. Come show your support. Info 633-4829
Wednesday, December 23, 2015
Services BACKHAULS, WHITEHORSE to Alberta. Vehicles, Furniture, Personal effects etc. Daily departures, safe secure dependable transportation at affordable rates. Please call Pacific Northwest Freight Systems @ 667-2050 BUSY BEAVERS Pruning, Hauling, and General Labour Call Francois & Katherine 456-4755
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RAV4 RAFFLE tickets still available at Mic Mac Motors and Integra Tire! Draw is December 31, 2015. Support Habitat for Humanity Yukon and Happy New Year! www.habitatyukon.org 456-4349
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MARDI GRAS NEW YEARS dance with Soul Migration at the Yukon Convention Centre Doors open 8 pm Tickets $25 yukontickets.com, Arts Underground and Yukon Arts Centre box office
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Missed by Rick, Ryan, Chris, Brayden, Josh, Jim, Mike and Dwayne
“Sissy’s g Song� Why did she have to go So you young I just don’t know why Thin Things happen half the time Wi Without reason without rhyme Lo Lovely, sweet young woman Daughter, D wife and mother Makes no sense to me I just have to believe She flew up to Heaven on the wings of angels By the clouds and stars and passed where no one sees And she walks with Jesus and her loved ones waiting And I know she’s smiling saying D Don’t worry ‘bout me Loved Lo ones she left behind Just trying to survive And understand u the why Feeling so lost inside Anger sho shot straight at God Then asking for His love Empty with disbelief disb JJust h hoping i that h maybe b She flew up to Heaven on the wings of angels By the clouds and stars and passed where no one sees And she walks with Jesus and her loved ones waiting And I know she’s smiling saying, Don’t worry ‘bout me
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MC RENOVATION Construction & Renovations Laminated floor, siding, decks, tiles Kitchen, Bathroom, Doors, Cabinets, Windows, Framing, Board, Painting Drop Ceiling, Fences No job too small Free estimates Michael 336-0468 yt.mcr@hotmail.com PASCAL REGINE PAINTING PASCAL AND REGINE Residential - Commercial Interior-Exterior Ceilings, Walls Textures, Floors Spray work Small drywall repair Excellent quality workmanship Free estimates pascalreginepainting@northwestel.net 633-6368 IBEX BOBCAT SERVICES “Country Residential Snow Plowingâ€? All Subdivisions & acreages off Mayo Rd, MacPherson, Hidden Valley, Pilot Mountain & Hot Springs Rd. Honest & Prompt Service Call 667-4981 or 334-6369 ELECTRICIAN •Licensed •General Handyman Services •Light Carpentry, Drywall, etc •Free Estimates •10% SeniorĘźs Discount 10% off all jobs booked through October 334-0974
AL-ANON MEETINGS contact 667-7142
Has your life been affected by someone’s drinking???
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
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS MEETINGS Yukon Communities & Atlin, B.C.
ATLIN, B.C. Thursday
BEAVER CREEK, YT Friday
FRIDAY
7:00 PM Lutheran Church Basement Beginners Mtg (4th & Strickland) 8:00 PM Lutheran Church Basment Regular Mtg (4th & Strickland)
DO YOU HAVE A PROBLEM WITH FOOD?
Friday
1:30PM Yukon Unity Group (Open) Health Centre
CARMACKS, YT Friday
1:30PM Yukon Unity Group (Open) Health Centre
DAWSON CITY, YT Thursday Friday Saturday
6:00PM Dawson City Hospital Room 2160 1:30PM Yukon Unity Group (Open) Dawson City Hospital Room 2160 7:00PM North Star Group (Open) Community Support Centre 1233-2nd Ave. (1st Floor) 1 -867-993-3734 or 993-5095
DESTRUCTION BAY, YT Friday
1:30PM Yukon Unity Group (Open) Health Centre
FARO, YT Friday
1:30PM Yukon Unity Group (Open) Health Centre
HAINES JUNCTION, YT Friday
1:30PM Yukon Unity Group (Open) Health Centre
MAYO, YT Friday
1:30PM Yukon Unity Group (Open) Health Centre
OLD CROW, YT Friday
1:30PM Yukon Unity Group (Open) Health Centre
PELLY CROSSING, YT Friday
It’s hard to say goodbye Her picture in my mind Will always be of times I’ll cherish And I won’t cry ‘cause
1:30PM Yukon Unity Group (Open) Health Centre
CARCROSS, YT
WEDNESDAY
12:00 Noon Anglican Church on 4th & Elliott, Back Door Entrance
7:30PM 5 Mile Group (OM) Tlingit Cultural Centre 1-250-651-7799
1:30PM Yukon Unity Group (Open) Health Centre
ROSS RIVER, YT Friday
Meetings
She flew up to Heaven on the wings of angels By the clouds and stars and passed where no one sees And she walks with jesus and her loved ones waiting And I know she’s smiling saying Don’t worry ‘bout me
Mondays 7:30 p.m. 4071 4th Avenue
Don’t worry ‘bout me, don’t worry about me -Alan Jackson
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1:30PM Yukon Unity Group (Open) Health Centre
TESLIN, YT Wednesday 7:00PM Soaring Eagles Group (Open) G Bldg, #4 McLeary Street 1-867-390-2065 Friday 1:30PM Yukon Unity Group (Open) Health Centre
WATSON LAKE, YT Friday
1:30PM Yukon Unity Group (Open) Health Centre (Downstairs)
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ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS MEETINGS in Whitehorse
MONDAY: 12 noon Joy of Living (OM) Maryhouse, 504 Cook St. 8:00 pm New Beginnings Group (OM) Maryhouse, 504 Cook St. TUESDAY: 12 noon Joy of Living (OM) Maryhouse, 504 Cook St. 7:00 pm Juste Pour Aujourd’hui (CM) 4141B - 4th Avenue & Jarvis 8:00 pm Ugly Duckling Group (CM) Maryhouse, 504 Cook St. WEDNESDAY: 12 noon Joy of Living (OM) Maryhouse, 504 Cook St. 8:00 pm No PufďŹ n Group (CM) Maryhouse, 504 Cook St. 8:00 pm Porter Creek Step Meeting (CM) 1607 Birch Street THURSDAY: 12 noon Joy of Living (OM) Maryhouse, 504 Cook St. 7:30 pm Polar Group (OM) (Porter Creek) Seventh Day Adventist Church 1609 Birch Street, downstairs FRIDAY: 12 noon Joy of Living (OM) Maryhouse, 504 Cook St. 1:30 pm Yukon Unity Group (OM) #4 Hospital Rd. (Resource Room) 8:00 pm Whitehorse Group (OM) Maryhouse, 504 Cook St. SATURDAY: 1:00 pm Detox Meeting (OM) Sarah Steele Bldg, 6118-6th Ave. (left side door) 2:30 pm Women’s Meeting (OM) Whitehorse General Hospital #5 Hospital Road (Board Room) 7:00 pm Hospital Meeting (OM) Whitehorse General Hospital #5 Hospital Road, boardroom SUNDAY: 1:00 pm Detox Meeting (OM) Sarah Steele Bldg, 6118-6th Ave. (left side door) 7:00 pm Hospital Meeting (OM) Whitehorse General Hospital #5 Hospital Road, boardroom OM - open mixed, includes anyone CM - closed mixed, includes anyone with a desire to stop drinking
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LOG CABINS: Professional Scribe Fit log buildings at affordable rates. Contact: PF Watson, Box 40187, Whitehorse, YT, Y1A 6M9 668-3632 LUIS RENOVATIONS Over 20 yearsʼ experience. Specializing in home renovation. Drywall, painting, ceilings, counter tops, flooring, decks, patios. 335-1269
Liquor Corporation
LIQUOR ACT ✓New Licence ❑ Existing Licence ❑ TAKE NOTICE THAT, 535992 Yukon Inc., Box 2051 Haines Junction, Yukon Y0B 1L0, is making application for or change(s) to Liquor Primary - All & Off Premises liquor licence(s), in respect of the premises known as Alcan Motor Inn (Restaurant name yet to be determined) situated at 152 Haines Highway in Haines Junction, Yukon. Any person who wishes to object to the granting of this application should file their objection in writing (with reasons) to: President, Yukon Liquor Corporation 9031 Quartz Road Whitehorse, Yukon Y1A 4P9 no later than 5:00 pm on the 13th day of January, 2016 and also serve a copy of the objection by registered mail upon the applicant. The first time of publication of notice is December 18th, 2015. The second time of publication of notice is December 23rd, 2015. The third time of publication of notice is January 8th 2016. Any questions concerning this specific notice are to be directed to Licensing & Inspections, Yukon Liquor Corporation 867-667-5245 or toll-free 1-800-661-0408, x 5245.
Wednesday, December 23, 2015
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REQUEST FOR QUOTATION Supply and Delivery of 2 Playground Structures RFQ 2015-PKT0003 Retrieve the RFQ package on biddingo. Closing at 4:00:00pm PST, Thursday January 14, 2016. For more information visit whitehorse.ca/rfq
DRUG PROBLEM?
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Anonymous MEETINGS: Wednesdays 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm #2 - 407 Ogilvie St. <BYTE> Fridays 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm 4071 - 4th Ave. <Many Rivers> Lost & Found
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FNNND is inviting proposal submissions from qualified professionals to draft Lands & Resources Legislation that protects our rights & interests as identified in our Final Agreement. The deadline for submission is Dec. 28th, 2015. Please contact landsmanager@nndfn.com for detailed info.
INVITATION TO TENDER FOR A PUBLIC RELATIONS CONTRACT.
The Yukon Outfitters Association (YOA) is issuing a request for proposals from interested and qualified persons and/or companies to provide a tender for a contract to design and carry out a public relations campaign for Yukon outfitters. The proposal should prioritize the benefits, both social and economic, that the outfitters provide for the management of wildlife, the communities, Yukon businesses and the people of Yukon.
For a copy of the tender, please call: 867-668-4118 or email info@yukonoutfitters.net
HIP OR KNEE REPLACEMENT? Arthritic Conditions/COPD? Restrictions in Walking/Dressing? Disability Tax Credit $2,000 Tax Credit $20,000 Refund. Apply Today For Assistance: 1-844-453-5372 HAVE YOU been denied Canada Pension Plan disability benefits? The Disability Claims Advocacy Clinic can help you appeal. Call 1-877-793-3222 www.dcac.ca info@dcac.ca
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Sports Equipment
LOST: RED wallet in parking lot in front of Subway by the Liquor Store. 633-4379 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.
REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL (RFP) FIRST NATION OF NA-CHO NYÄK DUN
Business Opportunities
PACEMASTER GOLD treadmill, long track, incline capable, speed to 12 km/hr, $480 obo. 456-7030 for details
FISCHER CLASSIC skis, waxable, 180cm, older model, great shape, c/w Salomon binding, size 8, European 40 shoes, $75. 333-9604
Livestock QUALITY YUKON MEAT No hormones, steroids or additives Grass raised grain finished. Hereford beef - $5.50/lb Domestic wild boar - $7/lb Order now for guaranteed spring or fall delivery. Whole, half or custom order. Samples available 668-7218 • 335-5192 HORSE HAVEN HAY RANCH Irrigated Timothy/Brome mix No weeds or sticks Small squares 60 lbs plus 4 ft x 5 ft rounds 800 lb Free delivery for larger orders Straw square bales available 335-5192 • 668-7218 HAY FOR SALE •Dry bales kept under a shelter •Great quality hay 60-70 lb bales, $10 633-4496 or mikeandastra@me.com BOXED PORK FOR SALE •Free range •No hormones, steroids or additives •Cut and wrapped •Hams and bacon have been cured •40 to 50 pounds per box $6.50/pound 867-537-3458
Baby & Child Items
SKI BOOTS, sz 10, lightly used, high end Italian Lange, paid $400, asking $65. 399-3004
CHILDRENʼS CLOTHING in excellent condition, given freely the first & third Saturday monthly at the Church of the Nazarene, 2111 Centennial. 633-4903
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PURCHASE OF HOLMATRO EQUIPMENT
SUPPLY MULTIFUNCTION PLOW
Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title. The closing date for submissions is January 19, 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 Bill Stonehouse at bill.stonehouse@gov.yk.ca.
Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title. The closing date for submissions is January 18, 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 David Knight at david.knight@gov.yk.ca.
STANDING OFFER AGREEMENT (SOA) FOR THE SUPPLY OF HEAVY DUTY FILTERS AND RELATED PRODUCTS
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/
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/
Highways and Public Works
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Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title. The closing date for submissions is January 13, 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 Jenny Richards at jenny.richards@gov.yk.ca. All tenders and proposals are subject to a Compliance Review performed by the Procurement Support Centre. The information displayed is the date and time of opening and is not modified based on the results of the Compliance Review. The highest ranked or lowest priced submission may not necessarily be accepted. View or download documents at: www.hpw.gov.yk.ca/tenders/
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TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN
TAKE NOTICE: Were you involved in, or did you witness a female pedestrian get hit on Second Avenue, north, in front of the Time Hortons on August 27, 2015 at approximately 3:30 PM? The vehicle is described as a green SUV, possibly a Nissan X-Terra or Ford Escape exiting the drive-through exit when the vehicle collided with a female, knocking her into the street. The driver is described as an older male with white hair and glasses. If you are this driver or have any information regarding this matter, please contact Anna Starks-Jacob at 1-867-668-4405.
Wednesday, December 23, 2015 SECRETS OF the Baby Whisperer for Toddlers, $12. What to Expect the First Year, $10. Parenting: Guide to Your Baby's First Year, $10. The toddler's Busy Book, $4. All obo. 334-3698
Childcare 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) 334-5351, (867) 456-2081, or email karen.minguito@yahoo.ca 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
Furniture 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 2 PIECE display case 70x20x20, 70x50x12, $50. 668-3968 LARGE 68X19X30” dresser & 2 night tables, $75 obo. 668-3968 BLUE/BLACK COMPUTER chair, gd cond, $10. 667-7840 WOOD STORAGE chest, 45”L, 23ʼW, 18”H, $50. 311B Hanson St. LATE 1800ʼS Mission style quarter oak desk, exc cond, $800. 633-4135
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FRI. 7pm-8:30pm 4071 - 4th Ave Many Rivers Office CANADA BENEFIT GROUP - Do you or someone you know suffer from a disability? Get up to $40,000 from the Canadian Government. Toll-free 1-888-511-2250 or www.canadabenefit.ca/free-assessment WHITEHORSE CURLING Club cash calendar winners for December: $1,500, Judi Adilman; $100, Ralph Charlton; $50, Christine Mahar, Jenna Duncan, Rob Allen; $25, Elmy Harris, Lillian Brose, Doug Cook, Cory Lenko, Hailey Sherman, Deb Enoch, Grant Hill, Patsy Cashin, Clarence Jack, Carol & Gus Gudmundson, Myles Kowalyshen, Nathanial McMillan, Ashley Turner, Lisa van Doornick, Anne-Marie DaSilva, Fern Johnstone, Gary Burgess, Mike Smith, Cathy Dugas, Melanie Peters, Melinda Vargas, Margret Lawrence, Lori Austin, Amy Mallatratt, Dillys Ranson, James Low
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NOTICE is hereby given that Creditors and others having claims against the Estate of
Susan May SKAALID, of Whitehorse, Yukon, Deceased, who died on September 15, 2015, are hereby required to send them to the undersigned Executor at the address shown below, before the 15th day of January, 2016, after which date the Executor will distribute the Estate among the parties entitled thereto, having regard to the claims of which they have notice. AND FURTHER, all persons who are indebted to the Estate are required to make payment to the Estate at the address below. BY: Virginia Skaalid and Darrell Moore c/o Lackowicz & Hoffman Suite 300, 204 Black Street Whitehorse, YT Y1A 2M9 Tel: (867) 668-5252 Fax: (867) 668-5251
Phone: 867-667-6283
PUBLIC TENDER STANDING OFFER AGREEMENT (SOA) FOR THE SUPPLY ZERO CLIENT HARDWARE Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title. The closing date for submissions is January 13, 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 Jenny Richards at jenny.richards@gov.yk.ca. All tenders and proposals are subject to a Compliance Review performed by the Procurement Support Centre. The information displayed is the date and time of opening and is not modified based on the results of the Compliance Review. The highest ranked or lowest priced submission may not necessarily be accepted. This tender is subject to Chapter Five of the Agreement on Internal Trade. View or download documents at: www.hpw.gov.yk.ca/tenders/
Highways and Public Works
PUBLIC TENDER PURCHASE OF NINE- 40 YARD ROLL OFF CONTAINERS
DRUG PROBLEM? Narcotics Anonymous meetings Wed. 7pm-8pm #2 - 407 Ogilvie St. BYTE Office
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MODEST AFFORDABLE RENTAL HOUSING PROJECT WHITEHORSE, YUKON IN PARTNERSHIP WITH YUKON HOUSING CORPORATION
MODEST AFFORDABLE RENTAL HOUSING PROJECT DAWSON CITY, YUKON IN PARTNERSHIP WITH YUKON HOUSING CORPORATION
Yukon Housing Corporation is requesting information for affordable rental housing units in Whitehorse, Yukon.
Yukon Housing Corporation is requesting information for affordable rental housing units in Dawson City, Yukon
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.
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:
Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title and will be received at:
Hard copies only may be mailed or hand delivered to Yukon Housing Corporation, (867) 667-5759, 410H Jarvis St. Whitehorse, Yukon Y1A 2H5
Hard copies only may be mailed or hand delivered to Yukon Housing Corporation, (867) 667-5759, 410H Jarvis St. Whitehorse, Yukon Y1A 2H5
The closing date for submissions is before 12:00 PM on December 31, 2015.
The closing date for submissions is before 12:00 PM on December 31, 2015.
Technical questions may be directed to Mary Cameron at (867) 667-3773.
Technical questions may be directed to Mary Cameron at (867) 667-3773.
Interested parties may obtain information from www.hpw.gov.yk.ca/ tenders/tms.html
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.
Interested parties may obtain the information package from www.hpw.gov.yk.ca/tenders/ or by contacting the Procurement Support Centre.
Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title. The closing date for submissions is January 20, 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 Bill Stonehouse at bill.stonehouse@gov.yk.ca. All tenders and proposals are subject to a Compliance Review performed by the Procurement Support Centre. The information displayed is the date and time of opening and is not modified based on the results of the Compliance Review. The highest ranked or lowest priced submission may not necessarily be accepted. This tender is subject to Chapter Five of the Agreement on Internal Trade. View or download documents at: www.hpw.gov.yk.ca/tenders/
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PUBLIC TENDER PURCHASE OF COMPUTER DESKTOPS AND LAPTOPS Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title. The closing date for submissions is January 13, 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 Jenny Richards at jenny.richards@gov.yk.ca. All tenders and proposals are subject to a Compliance Review performed by the Procurement Support Centre. The information displayed is the date and time of opening and is not modified based on the results of the Compliance Review. The highest ranked or lowest priced submission may not necessarily be accepted. This tender is subject to Chapter Five of the Agreement on Internal Trade. View or download documents at: www.hpw.gov.yk.ca/tenders/
Highways and Public Works Highways and Public Works
PUBLIC TENDER SHAKWAK HIGHWAY PROJECT BITUMINOUS SURFACE TREATMENT KM 1790.5 TO KM 1832.2 ALASKA HIGHWAY #1 YUKON 2016-2017 Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title. The closing date for submissions is February 4, 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 Bill Stanley at bill.stanley@gov.yk.ca. Funding for this project is provided by the United States Government as part of the Shakwak Agreement 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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REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL AUDIT OF THE 2012 YUKON FLOODING AND HIGHWAY WASHOUTS DFAA CLAIM Project Description: To provide audit services to the Government of Yukon to validate the final territorial claim to Canada for disaster financial assistance for the 2012 Yukon Flooding and Highway Washouts event as per section 2.7.8 of the Public Safety Canada Guidelines for Disaster Financial Assistance Arrangements (2008). Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title. The closing date for submissions is January 27, 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 Michael Templeton at michael.templeton@gov.yk.ca. All tenders and proposals are subject to a Compliance Review performed by the Procurement Support Centre. The information displayed is the date and time of opening and is not modified based on the results of the Compliance Review. The highest ranked or lowest priced submission may not necessarily be accepted. View or download documents at: www.hpw.gov.yk.ca/tenders/
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