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Footdragging over ood assistance Homeowners are still waiting to hear back from the government about their request for help after the Pelly flooded in 2013.
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Playing with ďŹ re An eco-conscious couple in Atlin is using a wood-fired roaster to run their coffee business.
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Caribou comeback A documentary on the 40 Mile herd’s resurgence is a highlight of this year’s Available Light Film Festival.
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ome Whitehorse dog-mushers are saying an increase in offroad vehicle traffic is damaging trails for other users. They say they’ve seen damage this winter in several areas, including the Livingston Trail near Lake Laberge and the Old Dawson Trail north of the city. Jean-Marc Champagne, owner of the Takhini River Lodge, said he recently came across two off-road vehicles – what looked like a Jeep and a side-by-side ATV – on a trail that connects to the Old Dawson Trail. He said the snow wasn’t very well-packed, so the vehicles were digging ruts in the snow. Champagne approached them to show them the damage, and said they were “very cordial and polite.” “They did not realize they were ruining the trail.” But he said the drivers then continued down the trail, instead of turning back to Whitehorse. The damage was serious enough, Champagne said, that he wouldn’t want to bring tourists down that trail. “It’s not what we want to promote.” The issue came to a head earlier this week when members of the Dog Powered Sports Association of the Yukon realized that a Facebook group called Yukon Jeepers had tentative plans for a trip up the Alligator Lake trail this weekend. The Carbon Hill dog sled race is scheduled for that trail on Jan. 17. Some mushers were concerned the Jeepers would chew up the trail and make it hard to use. Tamra Reynolds said the danger for mushers is that dog sleds can fall into ruts left by the vehicles and tip over. She said the issue is compounded by the lack of snow this year. “The problem is when there’s not a lot of snow, there’s nothing to fill (the ruts) back in again with.” She believes that same lack of snow is attracting more off-road vehicles, because they can get to places they weren’t able to during previous winters. Reynolds reached out to Jordan Rivest, the administrator of Yukon Jeepers. He has agreed to postpone the Alligator Lake trip until after the Carbon Hill race, and said he’d be willing to consider pulling a
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Two wheels of Jordan Rivest’s Jeep broke through ice on the Livingston Trail on Jan. 4. groomer behind the vehicles during future trips. “He seems very reasonable,” Reynolds said. “He seems like a responsible person.” Still, in an interview with the News, Rivest said he does plan to drive the Alligator Lake trail this winter, if he can. But he said the group never goes out with the intention of rutting up a trail. “We try very hard not to get stuck, which means we try very hard not to dig ruts in the snow,” he said. “Our goal isn’t to intentionally screw other people over.” Rivest said Yukon Jeepers has organized two trips this winter, down the Ibex trail in December and down the Livingston Trail on Jan. 4. He doesn’t know anything about off-road vehicles on the Old Dawson Trail this winter. Rivest said his Jeep got stuck briefly on the Livingston Trail, but said it won’t leave lasting damage. He also showed photos of the incident to a musher, and he said she agreed with him. He said driving off-road vehicles is how he likes to explore the Yukon wilderness. “One of my longtime goals is to try and get as far as I can down the Livingston Trail. Not to get stuck but just to see what’s down there,” he said. “I enjoy the view. I enjoy how remote it is. And how beautiful it is.” Rivest and another driver were also out on the Livingston Trail on Oct. 31, and got stuck in mud on one section of the trail. Until recently, his Facebook profile picture
was of a Jeep stuck in mud during that outing. He changed it earlier this week. “I know it doesn’t look good,” he explained. Ned Cathers, co-owner of Cathers Wilderness Adventures, said he’s seen rutting on the Livingston Trail, though more snow “will probably fix it up.” He believes everybody has the right to use the trails. “I would just like to see if people are using a trail… and they realize it’s damaging it for others, that they will back off.” Rivest said he’s willing to discuss the issue with other trail users. But he did remove Tamra Reynolds and another musher from the Yukon Jeepers Facebook group this week. He also changed the group’s status to “secret.” “I’m not opposed to talking to anyone. But I don’t need things taken from that page and posted all over the Yukon.” Recreational activities, including off-roading, typically don’t require permits inside or outside Whitehorse city limits, according to information provided by Johanna Smith, acting director of the land management branch at the Department of Energy, Mines and Resources. However, she also wrote that the department “is presently moving forward with the creation of ORV (off-road vehicle) regulations that will assist in the management of ORV use on lands administered under territorial lands legislation.” Contact Maura Forrest at maura.forrest@yukon-news.com
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wo and a half years after their homes flooded, Yukon residents are still waiting to hear whether they’ll get any financial support from the government. Though Yukon Housing has not given them any information, government records obtained by the News suggest there was supposed to be a plan to help them – but it somehow never came to be. After floods damaged several homes in and around Ross River and Rock Creek in the spring of 2013, Yukon Housing officials visited the properties and estimated the total damage at $900,000 or more. They recommended that the government provide assistance to some homeowners. Briefing notes provided to thenhousing minister Brad Cathers in fall 2013 confirm that “a flood program for the spring 2013 floods is being developed.” But that program never materialized. When the News first reported on this story in August 2015, Yukon Housing’s vice-president of operations, Matt King, said “a decision hasn’t been made that there will be no program,” even though nothing had been put in place to date. He promised the corporation would contact the affected homeowners “as soon as possible this fall.” That has not happened either. Yasmine and Doug Hannah and Murray Reid, who spoke to the News back in August, say they have not heard anything from Yukon Housing since then. Reid’s Ross River home was destroyed during the 2013 flood, along with a rental cabin he owned on the same property. He believes he was hit especially hard because the dike alongside his property was lower than elsewhere. He claims he’d complained about that to the government for years before the flood, but it wasn’t fixed until afterward. After the flood, Reid lived in a trailer on his property until this
Flood waters from the Pelly River past fall, but he’s now applying for a social housing unit. He said he’s currently recovering from a hip replacement, meaning he can’t work or move around much. His rental cabin was supposed to be his retirement plan, but that’s now gone and he’s living on social assistance. Reid hoped he would qualify for a grant or an interest-free loan – something to help him relocate. He’s now in the process of selling his property for less than a quarter of what he paid for it. Financial aid, he said, “would mean life again.” “I’ve been two and a half years without a life at all. It’s been dragging on forever and I just don’t know why they don’t do something.” The News recently obtained government correspondence about the 2013 floods through an accessto-information request, including internal recommendations for the government’s response. In June 2013, Yukon Housing’s Roger Hanberg and Louise Legault as-
email from August 2015, Yukon Housing spokesperson Doug Caldwell said he understood “that our Minister (Stacey) Hassard as MLA for the area (Ross River) indicated to one of the property owners that a program was indeed being developed for them.” The News requested a comment from Hassard, who is now the minister for Yukon Housing. It went unanswered. King, who previously promised the residents would be contacted in the fall, did provide a brief email statement. “We continue to work on this issue in an attempt to find resolution,” he wrote. “I acknowledge that in this case it has taken longer than I said it would to contact homeowners with more information,” he continued. “We will contact homeowners once we have new information to share.” He gave no explanation as to why the process has taken so long, or what the corporation is doing to Submitted Photo/Yukon News “find resolution.” surround Doug and Yasmine Hannah’s home. There is, however, at least one piece of evidence that some action sessed the damaged properties in mation about a possible flood relief was taken in response to the 2013 Rock Creek and Ross River. In an program. floods. In the legislative assembly internal email dated Jul. 10, 2013, “Anything yet? Getting cold in on Nov. 7, 2013, then-Community Hanberg recommended “a buyout trailer,” he wrote in October 2013. Services Minister Brad Cathers and demolition” of Reid’s house In February 2014: “You said the mentioned that his department’s and cabin. last few floods were settled in five fall supplementary budget includHe also recommended that months. We’re now at 10.” ed “$225,000 toward expenditures Yukon Housing do “all possible” to In October 2014: “I really need that deal with the spring and sumhelp Doug and Yasmine Hannah to hear what’s going to happen and mer flooding in Rock Creek and move their home outside Faro to when… please let me know.” Ross River.” higher ground. And in April 2015: “Is there The Department of Community The Hannahs spent a week in anything you can do. I am begging Services was unable to respond to tents when their home flooded for my life.” a request for more information by in 2013. They want to rebuild on In each case, Legault told him press time. higher ground, and asked for a low- she had no information for him. The Yukon government doesn’t interest or interest-free loan to help Still, the 2013 briefing notes have an automatic flood relief prothem get started. state clearly that “Yukon Housing gram. Instead, every flood is dealt But despite Hanberg’s recomCorporation, under advisement with on a case-by-case basis. But mendations, they have heard and collaboration with Protective the government has offered assisnothing. Services, is working on a flood tance to homeowners in the past. “I think that’s the worst part, is program for residents impacted by After record flooding in 2007, that they go through all this, and the spring 2013 floods.” residents of Marsh Lake were then they don’t even get in touch According to the notes, 19 dam- offered grants and interest-free with you,” Doug Hannah said. “It’d aged properties were registered loans of up to $35,000. And Yukon be nice to just have some contact after the floods, with damages Housing offered a $3.5-million aswith them. It’s like they just forget assessed at about $900,000. Other sistance package to 13 homeownabout you and hope you go away.” flood applicants were expected ers in Upper Liard after flooding in In the two years following the to register “if a 2013 flood relief pro- 2012. flood, Reid sent at least a dozen gram is announced.” Contact Maura Forrest at emails to Legault asking for inforFurthermore, in an internal maura.forrest@yukon-news.com
Peel documents filed with the Supreme Court of Canada Ashley Joannou News Reporter
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he environmental groups and First Nations fighting with the Yukon government over the Peel watershed have officially asked the Supreme Court of Canada to hear their case. The Peel case, and the way Yukon’s umbrella final agreement is interpreted, will impact all of Canada’s First Nations that have modern treaties, they argue. “If allowed to stand, the reasoning of the Court of Appeal will inevitably undermine the careful balance between the respective roles in future decision-making of non-Aboriginal governments and Aboriginal peoples that has been so
assiduously negotiated and set out not only in the Yukon modern treaties, but in similar modem treaties across Canada,” the document says. The Supreme Court of Canada judges only hear about 10 per cent of the cases that are sent its way, so lawyers have to prove a case is worth their time. In the Peel case, both the Yukon Supreme Court and the Yukon Court of Appeal agreed that the Yukon broke the rules when it tried to create its own plan for the giant swath of mostly untouched Yukon land. While the Peel land use planning commission had recommended 80 per cent protection, the government’s plan was for 29 per cent. The government’s plan was thrown out by both courts.
To fix the mistake, the Yukon Supreme Court said the government could go back and try again to modify the recommended plan. But the judge said the government couldn’t alter balance between protection and development, or allow building new roads or other surface access into the area. The judge said the government didn’t provide enough detail about the changes it wanted earlier in the process, so those points were off the table. The Court of Appeal arrived at a different conclusion, saying the government could make any changes it wanted so long as it properly consulted with everyone and provided a more detailed explanation of their plans. The Yukon government has
always maintained that it needs to have final say in the management of public lands. But the First Nations and environmental groups say that giving the government this much of a doover is taking things too far. While most of the Peel case centres around treaty interpretation, Thomas Berger, the aboriginal law pioneer going against the Yukon government, touches on the Peel’s environmental value as being nationally significant. “The Peel watershed is a national treasure in the custodianship of the government of Yukon and First Nations. The future of the Peel Watershed is a matter of importance not only to Yukoners but to all Canadians.” The Yukon government will
have 30 days to respond to the application for leave to appeal. After that, the other side gets 10 days to respond to any of the government’s arguments. It will be months before anyone gets a yes or no answer from the Supreme Court of Canada. Meanwhile, more legal wrangling means more costs. The Yukon Department of Justice says it spent $232,496 on Outside lawyers for the Yukon appeal alone. That brings the total spent in the whole thing so far to $285,767. The First Nations and environmental groups have refused to say how much money they’ve spent so far. Contact Ashley Joannou at ashleyj@yukon-news.com
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he family of 10 Syrian refugees that a Whitehorse group is bringing to the Yukon will actually be a family of 11. Kirsten Bradley, acting director of Yukon Cares, said the family welcomed a new baby 16 months ago. The baby wasn’t included in the family’s original refugee paperwork. She suspects that’s why they didn’t arrive in Whitehorse before Christmas. The family now has to complete paperwork for the new baby, and then undergo health and safety checks before travelling to Canada from Beirut, Lebanon. But Bradley said she’s still hopeful the family will be here by the end of January. The nine children range in age from 18 months to 21 years. “We’re really excited. We’re just really excited to welcome them to the community.” Bradley said Yukon Cares is “very close” to meeting its fundraising goal. She said the family requires $97,000 in total for its first year in Canada. Yukon Cares has currently raised $57,000, and the Yukon government has promised to contribute another $18,500. The federal government will also be contributing money, though the exact amount has yet to be determined. Though $97,000 sounds like a lot, Bradley said, that money has to cover all of the family’s expenses, including rent, utilities, transportation and food.
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“All of their living costs come out of that,” she said. “That’s something I think a lot of people don’t realize.” Bradley said the group has a rental house ready for the family, and has received “massive amounts of donations of furniture and clothing.” Meanwhile, a second group planning to sponsor another family has surpassed its fundraising goal. Hillary Gladish, with the Riverdale Baptist Church, said the church plans to privately sponsor a refugee family through a partnership with the Canadian Baptists of Western Canada. She said her group has already been paired with a family of four that includes two young children. “The father is educated and he speaks a bit of English,” she said. Gladish said community members have donated $18,500 to the cause, which the Yukon government has promised to match. Yukon Cares has also provided $15,000 to help get the group started. That adds up to more than $50,000, well above the $30,000 federal requirement to sponsor a small family. “We thought because we live in the North, and that cost of living is a little bit higher, that it would be reasonable for us to aim for about $50,000.” Gladish said the group is currently waiting for the paperwork to be processed by the United Nations refugee agency. The family could be here within the next one to four months, but she said “nothing is definite” at this point. “Our experience so far in the process is that it’s slow. There are a lot of layers that you have to go through. It seems easy, but it’s definitely a lot of hurry up and wait.” Gladish said she’d like to see a second family come to the Yukon so that the families can
support each other and share similar experiences. “I think that resettlement to a new country and creating a new life here, it’s going to be pretty difficult. In Whitehorse, we don’t have a lot of the resources that a larger city centre would have.” She hopes the two families will help each other adapt to the cold weather, the new language, and everyday life in a different culture. For the moment, Gladish’s group is not actively fundraising. Right now, she’s focused on organizing housing and material goods for the family. She said she’s had a couple of people offer apartments or homes for the family. But she’s still looking for several items, including a kitchen table and chairs, dish sets and cutlery, kitchen pots, linens and towels. However, the group has limited storage space at the moment, so she’s asking people just to let the group know what they’re able to donate when the time comes. “We do have some space to be able to store these things, but if people are able to hold onto it... then that’s probably also very helpful.” She said people who want to donate material goods should contact the church administration. Bradley said another group is planning to sponsor a third family through Yukon Cares. Yukon Cares is still fundraising for all three families. She said the multicultural centre is also looking for volunteers to teach English or to participate in casual conversation classes with the families once they arrive. Yukon College also has plans to sponsor a Syrian student refugee to attend the Whitehorse campus.
Robert Service Campground upgrades delayed a year
Linda Rapp, the city’s director of community and recreation services, said the campground will operate in 2016 with no changes. That’s because submissions for this year’s capital budget were not approved, she said. “There is work required to the roof of the office building, and to the washroom and shower facilities,” she said. The City’s five-year lease expired in October 2015 but was extended another year, Rapp said. “In the late spring, early summer we’ll have a better idea of what we’re looking at for the next budget cycle,” Rapp said.
The City of Whitehorse will not be upgrading its facilities at the Robert Service Campground this year, despite the need for repairs to a few buildings.
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Stephen Coad remembered as kind, generous friend Myles Dolphin News Reporter
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Whitehorse resident who died last week after accidentally falling down a flight of stairs is being remembered as a kind, loving friend who would go out of his way to help others. Stephen ‘Gundy’ Coad, 25, was a Kwanlin Dun First Nation citizen who lived in the basement of his mother’s home on Jeckell Street. At around 9 p.m. on Jan. 1, he was hanging out with friends when he went upstairs to use the bathroom. On his way down he tripped, hitting the back of his head on the concrete floor. Coad did not regain consciousness and his friends decided to put him in bed. They checked on him throughout the night but when Coad didn’t wake up the next morning, they called an ambulance and he was rushed to the Whitehorse General Hospital. It was revealed that Coad had suffered a traumatic head injury as a result of the fall. By the afternoon, his brain had swelled from hemorrhaging. A neurosurgeon declared there was no activity in Coad’s brain. Soon after he was declared dead on the 2nd, his mother Acasia was asked whether she wanted to donate her son’s vital organs. “His mom fought on the decision whether or not to do that, because it had never been discussed with him,� said Coad’s cousin, Doronn Fox. Acasia ultimately agreed and Coad’s body was flown down to
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EDITORIAL
If the gravy train grinds to a halt, then what?
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remier Darrell Pasloski has good reason to be miffed by news that Ottawa’s annual shipment of loot may wind up $23 million less than expected next year. After all, it’s a territorial election year. And a tried-and-true re-election strategy is to rain as much money as possible upon the heads of residents and local contractors not long before the writ drops. This shortfall may mean that backhoes sit idle and potholes remain unfilled while Yukon Party politicians are knocking on doors, trying to tie up votes. The reasons for Ottawa’s big cash shortfall are dreary to explain. Suffice to say that statisticians are involved, who monkeyed around with some data that was fed into a complicated algebraic formula that determines how much treasure is disgorged from Ottawa each year. It seems to be a case of the left hand of government not knowing what the right was doing, as the Finance Department, Statistics Canada and federal cabinet all insist there was no deliberate policy decision to reduce the growth of transfer payments to the territories. Yet while Finance Minister Bill Morneau has promised to review the issue, he has hasn’t yet committed to rolling back the change. His government faces a big cash crunch of its own, after all. Yukon’s Liberal MP, Larry Bagnell, faces the first big challenge of his term in trying to persuade his government to reverse course. Yukon Premier Darrell Pasloski, meanwhile, has lashed out at the federal government, accusing it of violating the principles of the deal that underpins our annual cash transfers – namely, that the payments are predictable and stable. Let’s all hope that it escapes Morneau’s notice that the Yukon has lately received so much federal cash, our leaders sometimes haven’t known what to do with it. To wit: it took eight long years of dithering for the Yukon to finally, in 2015, spend the last of the $17.5 million provided for “immediate action� to help build affordable housing, at a time when the territory’s capital struggled to deal with precisely this problem. Or consider how our same territorial government apparently has enough spare cash on hand to entertain a grandiose scheme to twin the Alaska Highway past Whitehorse, in order to shave a few minutes off residents’
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commute. Contrast this to the infrastructure deficit found in another territorial capital, Iqaluit, where for lack of a port supplies must be unloaded every ice-free summer on the nearby beach. If you were a federal minister, that’s the kind of discrepancy that may catch your attention. Some wags have also noted that onethird of the Yukon’s transfer shortfall should already be covered through the unintended cancellation of the government’s plans to build a spiffy outdoor sports complex, given our government’s inability to sell the merits of the project to Whitehorse City Council, and cabinet’s ongoing refusal to answer sensible questions about it. It’s worth remembering that even if Ottawa skimps on its hand-out to the Yukon, we’d still stand to receive $930 million next year, or $24,333 for every Yukoner. That’s an increase of a mere $7 million from last year, whereas the previous year saw transfers grow by $25 million. But consider how much transfers have grown well above inflation over the past decade: we received $576 million in 2007-8, or $17,728 for every Yukoner. Don’t get us wrong: the year-over-year federally funded windfalls have been nice. But there’s no good reason to think we’ve been entitled to this money, or that it would continue forever. The Yukon Party has always been good at insinuating that the handsome increases to our transfer payments had something to do with their own ingenuity. But, in reality,
transfer growth has largely been driven by the spending of southern provincial governments. Alas, even if Ottawa decides to restore the more generous funding formula, this spending by provincial governments looks set to slow, with the crash in oil prices and predictions of weak economic growth. So, what has our government done during the good times to prepare for the lean ones ahead? The good news is that our government has $146 million cash in the bank. But the Yukon Party has also saddled our Crown corporations with several hundred million in debt to help pay for new hospitals and power-generation facilities. That debt will have to be repaid in the decades to come. And the fact remains that we continue to only raise a small fraction of our government’s revenue locally. This is, admittedly, not an easy problem to solve. The Yukon Party hoped that a flourishing mining industry would lead to greater financial independence, but now metal prices have collapsed and only one hard-rock mine continues to limp along here. Some new ideas would help. But Pasloski has all but admitted he is out of them, with his remarks during the last legislative sitting that not much more needs to be accomplished at this point in his government’s mandate. Whether Yukon’s opposition parties are able to come up with some good ideas of their own during the lead-up to the territorial election is one of the big questions for 2016. (JT)
LETTERS Blue box scheme lacks public buy-in Open letter to Whitehorse city council: Please read the comments on the proposed City of Whitehorse blue box scheme that have been posted beneath online news stories.
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A lump of coal in the Yukon’s transfer payment stocking by Keith Halliday
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ederal grinches put a lump of coal in the Yukon’s transfer payment stocking over the holidays. On Dec. 20, on the eve of the recent meeting of federal, provincial and territorial ministers of finance, the federal government released the transfer payment figures for next year. The figure for the Yukon was $23 million less than expected. That is a major hole. A rough rule of thumb is that each territorial worker costs about $100,000 after you consider salary, government pension, health and drug benefits, and so on. A $23 million cut would equate to funding for around 230 nurses, teachers or other government workers and contractors. While just a rounding error for Ottawa, that’s a lot of jobs in a small place like the Yukon. The cut will reduce the Yukon budget by roughly that amount for future years too, meaning
the funding for those jobs won’t come back. And the timing is especially awful, since it coincides with a sputtering mining economy here. The territorial transfer payment formula is notoriously complicated. To borrow Bismarck’s quip about SchleswigHolstein, only three people have ever understood it. One is dead. The other is insane. And the third works in the Yukon Finance Department and doesn’t give a lot of interviews. It turns out to be a classic bureaucratic scenario, where a complicated process has done something that none of the officials involved intended. Federal ministers did not change the five-year funding agreement with the Yukon. The federal Department of Finance says it didn’t make the cut, since it simply plugs figures from Statistics Canada into the agreed formula. Statistics Canada said, in a statement to the Yukon News, that “Statistics Canada has no role in determining the formula used in these fiscal transfers and does not carry out the calculations of amounts transferred.” So whodunit? It turns out that Statistics Canada changed the methodology it uses for Canada’s System of Macroeconomic Accounts. If you took Economics 101 in
college, you may remember the national accounts, perhaps shortly before you fell asleep in class. Figures from the national accounts, particularly around how much provincial and local governments spend on services for their citizens, are used to calculate our transfer payment. It is normal, even good, that Statistics Canada updates its methodology from time to time. The national accounts are used for many purposes, so it is just an annoying accident that they changed the methodology in the middle of a five-year territorial formula financing agreement. The latest changes, you’ll be pleased to hear, bring Canada closer to international standards used by the International Monetary Fund and United Nations. However, the revised estimates are lower than the old ones, and our transfer payment formula spits out a number $23 million smaller. So the federal Department of Finance is technically correct that it didn’t change anything. However, the whole situation defies common sense. It’s as if, back when we adopted the metric system and changed from miles per hour to kilometres per hour, the highways department simply left the signs up and said, “the speed limit is still 60.”
So, how bad is a $23 million cut? It’s bad, but not huge in the context of our total transfer payment. Under the proposed changes, the Yukon will receive $930 million next year instead of an expected $953 million. That’s a bit more than a two per cent cut. And even $930 million is $7 million higher than we got this year. That’s better than the N.W.T., who will see their transfer actually drop. As an aside, the formula really is a wonderful safety net. I wrote a column in December about the unexpected $15 million shortfall in Yukon personal and corporate income tax due to the shuddering private sector economy. The transfer payment formula has an “automatic stabilizer” that increases federal funding if the territory suffers such problems. Without this, our transfer payment for next year would be even lower. Nonetheless, the formula change is bad news. The Yukon is forecast to have $146 million cash in the bank at the end of the current fiscal year in March 2016. This can tide us over short-term shocks, but can’t replace $23 million a year forever. The government probably won’t lay anyone off with an election coming, but getting new hires or projects approved will be tougher than usual.
In the European Union, where this kind of funding formula is commonly used, they have much more rigorous governance around who can make changes to methodology in the middle of a funding agreement. The common-sense solution is to simply adjust the formulas so that the new Statistics Canada figures produce the same transfer payment we were expecting for next year. Any major changes to the payment that anyone wants to make can be negotiated when the five-year agreement expires in a few years. The good news is that our MP, Larry Bagnell, is already on the case in Ottawa talking to ministers and senior staffers. Premier Pasloski has also already raised the issue with the federal Minister of Finance, Bill Morneau. The latter has already asked his officials to look into the Statistics Canada changes. Hopefully they can get this unintended but serious problem fixed. Otherwise, 230 Yukon families may have a very different Christmas next year.
for decades. The City’s waste management system needs to include recycling. Without it, processors operate in an uncertain climate. We continue to operate day-to-day with limited resources and little ability to improve our infrastructure or plan for the future. How long can we last? Waste management is a complex issue. As has been pointed out, residential recycling is a small portion of the waste stream. Construction and demolition and the ICI sector (Industrial, Commercial and Institutional) do make up most of the volume. Truth is the City has begun to put into place other systems that address those sectors. Increased tipping fees apply to cardboard and wood waste. Effective waste management demands leadership from elected officials and citizens. While our public drop off was closed, we heard loud and clear that people want to recycle. We also heard they expected the City to do something about it. If our community truly wants to recycle and divert waste from the landfill, I believe it is time to put a system in place. The City of Whitehorse’s desire to start a curbside recycling program is a good step.
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and take for granted. Yukoners who fear the newcomers, whether they are As a member of the Yukon immigrants, refugees or secondCares committee working to generation Canadians should bring Syrian refugee families to make an effort to appreciate that Whitehorse, I would like to thank we all share similar stories and Lillian Nakamura-McGuire and we share a very small planet. We Minh Le for sharing their stories. have more to fear in our longThere are other stories that I’ve established families who lack been told by former refugees who education, are hampered by have lived here for 15 to 40 years. poverty or discrimination, or take Most of us, including many for granted our many rights and First Nation Yukoners, would freedoms. have similar stories in our family I know that Whitehorse as a histories. Many like me would community will be welcoming not have such a dramatic or and supportive of the Syrian moving story, but perhaps our families who are about to arrive. parents or grandparents didn’t And there will be some who have know what their ancestors went doubts and fears, but please take through in their home countries some time to learn more and or on their journeys to Canada perhaps some of the fear will be for freedom and better opporalleviated. tunities. Mike Gladish People have migrated around Whitehorse the world since the first humans evolved. The mixing of ideas and Snaring wolves is inhumane learning from each other created technological advancement and Happy Near Year Everyone! Isn’t cultural enrichment. life grand? Wolves, coyotes, fox, Wars and killing each other a multitude of other wildlife and were also part of human hisdogs are in danger of governtory, but so far, it seems to me, ment-set snares in the McIntyre our great achievements surpass Creek and Porter Creek areas. This the ugly side of our developis an expendable attitude towards ment. Our country is enriched life! by people who migrate here and “Quick kill” wire snares are bring their ideas, their culture cruel, barbaric, inhumane devices and their appreciation for freedesigned to strangle to death any dom and safety. It should remind animal unfortunate enough to be us of what we Canadians have caught in these evil devices. Ani-
mals can be alive and suffering for days in these horrific devices. Yukon’s Department of Environment have some questions to answer, and I tried getting those answers by phone. Instead I was forwarded back and forth between people who I’m sure out-number the wolf population in Yukon. On Sunday the department’s answering service hungup the phone on me. Must be something I said. Why wasn’t signage posted by Yukon’s conservation officers indicating that snares have been set-up in a popular hiking area? How about educating the public on the realities of trapping in general? Something to hide, perhaps? Instead of attracting wolves with bait, what deterrents (if any) were put in place? Other than wolves caught and killed, what other wildlife and or dogs have been unfortunate to become victims of snares? Care to share any video footage of exactly what takes place every time snares are used to destroy the lives of non-humans? Were any animals still alive when conservation officers finally checked these snares? Were they then shot to death by conservation officers? Anyone? Whitehorse: “Wilderness-less city.”
Keith Halliday is a Yukon economist and author of the MacBride Museum’s Aurore of the Yukon series of historical children’s adventure novels. He won this year’s Ma Murray award for best columnist. You can follow him on Channel 9’s Yukonomist show.
LETTERS Misinformation underpins some blue bin objections
On Jan. 4, Whitehorse City Council discussed the implementation of a residential recycling curbside collection and processing service. There were a number of concerns raised at the council meeting and reported in the news. Upon reflection, I believe many concerns are based on misinformation. Others concerns can be solved and shouldn’t be used to stop progress or change from happening. The biggest misinformation is that people are wondering why they should pay $15/month when they have been dropping off their recycling to P&M Recycling and Raven for free. Recycling is not free. Recycling costs money. Raven had to close our public drop off in 2014 because we could not continue to pay for Whitehorse citizens to recycle their non-refundable materials. This situation has been temporarily solved through a new diversion credit agreement between the processors and the Yukon government. The agreement is a stop-gap measure until new systems are put in place. Another piece of misinformation is that businesses don’t need to be paid for the services they provide. Both Raven and Joy Snyder P&M have subsidized recycling Executive Director, services to Whitehorse’s citizens Raven Recycling Society
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Site C dam protesters dig in and prepare for arrests at historic site in B.C. Peace River Valley resident interview from Victoria that the Verena Hofmann said earlier lake will fl ood the historic site Canadian Press this week that critics of the dam and other sacred areas. have asked Trudeau to reassess “That whole area was a VANCOUVER the environmental approval culturally signifi cant area for us, irst Nations protesting the that was grated by the former construction of the $9-bil- for hunting, trapping, fishing, federal Conservative governgathering, a lot of history, all of lion Site C dam in northment. our history, so that’s our cultural eastern British Columbia are BC Hydro spokesman Craig institution and it’s being raped, preparing for their own arrests Fitzsimmons has said the and it’s still not enough,â€? he while they implore Prime MinCrown corporation respects the said, adding he hopes Trudeau ister Justin Trudeau intervene to rights of individuals to peacecan get involved. stop the hydroelectric project. fully protest and express their “Well, I don’t know what Helen Knott of the Prophet opinions in a safe and lawful exactly he can do but it’s worth River First Nation said in an manner. He said Hydro hopes a shot, isn’t it?,â€? said Napoleon. interview from the protest site the issue can be resolved and it “I believe we’re after the possithat she and six other demonis in discussions with protesters. bility of ‌ governments taking strators are camped at Rocky The protest camp is in a a more-serious look at some of Mountain Fort, the former site remote area. Knott said once the alternatives that have been of a North West Company furtrading post established in 1794 presented. They look pretty dam protesters leave the main highway, they must drive on rough, viable to me.â€? on the west side of the Moberly secondary roads for 90 minutes He said protesters still think River, near Fort St. John. to two hours, before making smaller dams, and maybe even RCMP said they arrested under water dams with turanother seven-kilometre trip by three protesters on Wednesday bines, are alternatives. foot or snowmobile. who had been blocking an access road needed by BC Hydro crews to begin work in the creation of the dam that will be the third on the Peace River. The in conjunction with Rescue Canada dam will create an 83-kilomeis offering 2 ICE RESCUE COURSES tre-long reservoir and flood the area where the protesters are camping. BC Hydro and Power Authority has issued an eviction These courses meet NFPA, notice, warning protesters that SAR and IRIA Standards. all contents of the camp set up We supply all the equipment for on Dec. 31 will be removed and the course, including dry suits, gloves. delivered to the RCMP. Knott said the protesters are Contact: COURSE DATES: hunkering down and weatherwww.tatshenshiniyukon.com ing snow and temperatures as 1ST Course: January 13 & 14 low as -20 C, awaiting the posor call us, cell: 333 5247 2ND Course: February 22 & 23 sibility of arrest. “It’s not necessarily anybody goes into it with that idea, like ‘yeah, we’re going to be arrested,’ right? It’s that, ‘yeah, we’re committed to saving this tract of land and to, you know, is actively use our treaty rights retiring from Medical Practice at here,â€? she said. Knott said she would rather Whitehorse Medical Services on not be arrested but is willing March 31, 2016. to be at the camp and take a stand on an issue in which she Patients of Dr. Anderson can believes. continue to receive medical care at Several First Nations and local residents have filed legal Whitehorse Medical Services with challenges over the dam, raising Dr. Sarah Biss, who will be taking concerns about flooding and over Dr. Anderson’s practice. the impact the lake will create. Art Napoleon of the Saulteau First Nation said in a phone Keven Drews
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Leandra and Philippe Brient, owners of Atlin Mountain Coffee Roasters, prepare their coffee beans using a wood-fired roaster that was custom-built in Italy. Ashley Joannou News Reporter
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ikers exploring the wilderness outside of Atlin, B.C.: do not be alarmed. Your senses are not deceiving you. That really is coffee you’re smelling. About 12 kilometres outside of town, Leandra Brient and her husband Philippe live off the grid on a four-acre property. There, the eco-conscious owners of Atlin Mountain Coffee Roasters are selling lots of caffeine without much of a mark on the environment. Instead of a conventional roaster, which usually depends on propane or natural gas for heat, the Brients roast their beans burning pine wood fallen around the property. “Apparently you can smell it from up on the road when we’re roasting,” Leandra said. “We’ve had people hiking in the neighbourhood say that they smelled us roasting.”
The couple first opened a cafe in Atlin in 2012 where they sold coffee and roasted their own beans. They once spent three years travelling around the world on bicycles and always enjoyed tasting the different coffees, she said. “We thought the best way to offer fresh-roasted coffee was if we roast it ourselves.” Over time, the demand for the beans grew. They closed the cafe within a year to focus full-time on roasting. Brient says they’re always looking for ways to make less of an impact on the environment. “We didn’t really want to be dependent on propane and trucking it up here. We felt that would be too much of a waste.” So they began looking for a greener roaster. The one they discovered is actually “Ferrari” red. The new roaster the Brients use was custom-built in Italy. It arrived in September. The central contraption has two drums, one inside the
other, with the beans in the middle. The drums spin inside what is essentially a brick oven. A fire underneath heats up the bricks and roasts the beans. It’s the double-drum design that makes the machine extra sustainable, Brient said. Thanks to that layer of extra lining, the smoke from the wood never comes into contact with the beans. That means they don’t have to worry about the smoke affecting the flavour. As far as they can tell, that difference makes their custom contraption the first of its kind in Canada, she said. “There are two other coffee roasters in Canada that use wood heat. But with them the smoke touches the beans and so then you have to use maple, and applewood, and those exotic woods because then the flavour is affected.” Instead the pair are able to use pine from around the property. It takes 15 to 20 minutes to roast one 10-kilogram batch of
coffee. Two kilograms of wood will get them through about half a day, Brient said. Atlin Mountain Coffee Roasters offer what’s called “single-origin coffees,” meaning they don’t sell blends. “This way people can really taste the specific flavours and aromas of the farm where they come from. It’s more of a unique experience.” The company sells 12 different products - four different beans from around the world available in light, medium and dark roasts. The couple weighs the beans, bags them, and sells them at grocery stores in town and to some restaurants and bars. They also have a coffee wagon open in the summer months which they expect to take to this year’s Dawson City Music Festival. In Whitehorse, the beans are sold at Farmer Robert’s. Roasting over a wood fire with a dry heat locks oil into the beans and gives them more flavour, Brient said. “They have
a lightly sweeter taste than conventional coffee.” Using wood is also a more complex experience for the person doing the roasting, she said. A roaster has to know when to add wood and how much more to add, she said. “We can really feel ‘one’ with the beans and really control the roasting process better with our finger tips. We feel more involved, if you want. Rather than turning the gas on and off. It’s a real art.” Like always, the Brients are still looking for ways to make their business more sustainable. They’re considering installing solar panels in the rest of the roastery building, meaning the entire business would be run off of renewable energy. “We’re surrounded by all this natural beauty here. We thought we wanted to roast a bit more in harmony with our surroundings and this would be a great way of doing that.” Contact Ashley Joannou at ashleyj@yukon-news.com
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MONTREAL new airline in Canada is hoping to shake up travel next month by offering rockbottom fares but be prepared to pay for everything from carry-on luggage, onboard drinks and printed boarding passes. NewLeaf Travel, which announced this week it will fly between seven cities in the country starting Feb. 12, is unabashedly courting the budget traveller market. On its website, it says, “Your fare gets you the two essentials: a seat and a seatbelt. The rest is up to you.” The company will initially fly two 156-seat Boeing 737 aircraft leased from Kelowna’s Flair Airlines. It aims to have a fleet of 15 planes including larger models of the popular aircraft in three years if its plans to expand across Canada and into the United States, Mexico and the Caribbean are successful. NewLeaf chief commercial officer Dean Dacko says Canadians have been forced to pay too much for air travel because of a lack of competition. “There’s a huge hole in the market today of Canadians that are just looking for a more cost-effective travel value for their travel dollar and we believe that we can fill that void,” he said in an interview. Initial interest in the airline caused its online booking system to crash – an unfortunate but potentially positive omen, said Dacko. “It’s amazing that we’ve had that much interest that fast.” The company is promoting oneway fares for as low as $89 includ-
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Dean Dacko, Chief Commercial Officer of NewLeaf Travel speaks at a press conference in the arrivals area of the John C. Munro Hamilton International Airport on Wednesday. ing taxes. But passengers will face additional charges ranging from $25 to $150 for a variety of services, including checked-in and carry-on bags, seat selection and printed boarding passes. The carrier will fly into Halifax, Hamilton, Regina, Saskatoon, the B.C. cities of Abbotsford and Kelowna, and Winnipeg, where the carrier is based. About one-third of capacity will be available at the lowest fares with the cheapest fares available for flights between the B.C. and Saskatchewan cities, NewLeaf said. Fares will be slightly higher for longer distances. The longest flights between Hamilton and Kelowna will start at $149. WestJet and Air Canada flights from Toronto’s Pearson International Airport to Kelowna cost at least $340. Airlines around the world, including large carriers like WestJet and Air Canada, have been moving to a similar so-called unbundled model. Dacko said NewLeaf is going to be disruptive to Canada’s two largest airlines, but has deliberately
avoided going head-to-head by using secondary airports where costs are at least half of those at larger facilities. It also won’t offer daily service. WestJet, which said it has been Canada’s low-fare leader since it got off the ground with three planes in 1996, said it will “vigorously defend this position in the market.” “While a new entrant may selectively offer low fares in certain markets, we have the network, schedule and airline partners to provide our guests with so much more,” said spokeswoman Lauren Stewart. Air Canada said it welcomes competition, adding it offers competitive pricing in all markets. Robert Kokonis, president of airline consulting firm AirTrav Inc., said NewLeaf’s launch is good news for passengers who avoid flying because of high costs. “(NewLeaf) is pulling people really out of the cars, off the bus and stimulating travel from people who don’t travel that often, so it’s really good news, at least in the short run,” he said.
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THE ARTS Learning from the memory trap: how the Forty Mile caribou herd bounced back
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Caribou butt heads in a scene from Allan Code’s film Memory Trap: The Herd that Wouldn’t Disappear. The documentary is part of the upcoming Available Light Film Festival. ditional knowledge brought the herd back from near-extinction. The film will screen on Feb. 8 as part of the 14th Available Light llan Code woke up one Film Festival, held at the Yukon morning in the upper Arts Centre and the Kwanlin Dun Blackstone valley of TombCultural Centre. stone Territorial Park to grunts, Code went to great lengths to snorts and the sounds of hooves follow the herd – by plane, heclicking. licopter, car and foot – as it miThousands of caribou from grated from its calving grounds the Forty Mile herd passed by in near the Yukon-Charley Rivers a thick cloud no more than a few National Preserve to its winter hundred metres from his tent. range west of Dawson City. As Code filmed the scene for He’d always been interested in about an hour, he was amazed by caribou and the story of the Forty the fact that they probably hadn’t Mile herd, which once numbered been in that area for more than close to 600,000 in the 1920s. 75 years. But he never expected to find “It was very surreal and just himself making a documentary amazing,” he said. about its precipitous decline and “I heard the caribou had shut eventual comeback. down the road but to see them “There’s a lot of resistance to in such numbers and so close, those ideas, and telling those it was mind-blowing. You could stories,” he said. tell they were different caribou, “I had to find a new way of too, by the way they looked and telling it, of getting everyone acted.” together to tell that story. If you The Whitehorse-based filmpreach to the choir and weep like maker shot the footage as part of Suzuki, you won’t get anywhere. his documentary called Memory “But if hunters look at it and Trap: The Herd that Wouldn’t say ‘Well, that’s not a good idea,’ Disappear, which tells the story then you have some common of how modern science and traground and you get a conversaMyles Dolphin News Reporter
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tion happening.” Code interviewed several biologists, First Nations elders and authors who speak passionately about the animals. Rick Farnell is one of them. A former caribou biologist with Environment Yukon, he was hired in 1978 to research the Porcupine herd and the threats it faced from hunting along the Dempster Highway at the time. Farnell heard stories from locals about a herd that had vanished, and it intrigued him even more than the research he was already doing. “I knew Rick had put a lot into bringing the herd back,” Code said. “His connection with elders is really cool, too. He’s one of the biologists who doesn’t give lip service to that, he pays a lot of attention to what elders have to say.” The herd is a perfect example of a memory trap, Farnell explains, because it shows us how we had forgotten about the caribou’s importance to the Yukon and Alaska landscape. It’s something we have to be careful about in our environ-
mental policies as we move into the future, he says in the film. The herd’s range once stretched from Fairbanks, Alaska to Whitehorse, according to a study done by Environment Yukon. The caribou provided food, clothing and other materials for many First Nations within its range. By the 1940s, the herd numbered in the tens of thousands of animals. Overharvest and wolf predation were thought to have caused the decline. It fell to about 4,000 by the 1970s but rebounded when the attention of hunters and resource managers shifted to the Porcupine caribou herd, according to the study. The documentary screens on Feb. 8 at 6 p.m. at the Yukon Arts Centre. The film festival is also screening Arctic Secrets: The Wild Sea, an episode of a nature documentary Code directed about a bowhead whale sanctuary on the northeast coast of Baffin Island. Code, along with Michael Code and Adam Ravetch, went into “survival mode” towards the
end of filming as strong winds pounded one of their boats against the rocks. They loaded all their supplies into one boat and used a short window of favourable weather to escape the area, Code said. The episode screens on Feb. 7 at 11 a.m. at the Yukon Arts Centre. Two other Yukon films are making their world premiere at the festival. Daniel Janke’s The Grubstake Remix is a hybrid film where actors and musicians perform onstage alongside a 1923 silent film, speaking and thinking in Shakespearean English and French. It screens on Feb. 8 at 8:30 p.m. at the Yukon Arts Centre. Director Lulu Keating and producer Max Fraser will present one episode of the two-part comedy-drama called Broke Down Dawson Town, which looks at a couple’s relationship as they flee a troubled past in Nova Scotia and wind up in the Klondike. It screens on Feb. 8 at noon at the Kwanlin Dun Cultural Centre. Contact Myles Dolphin at myles@yukon-news.com
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Canada has little leverage as North Korea claims H bomb test doubt on. Regardless, the incident was Canadian Press seen as one more wake-up call about the continuing threat posed OTTAWA by the despotic, nuclear-armed eyond a gesture of support Hermit Kingdom and the apparent for China and South Korea powerlessness of Canada and its and perhaps a renewed allies to face it down. international push on the nuclear David Mulroney, former Canaweapons issue, Canada has few dian ambassador to China and a options in the wake of North senior fellow at the University of Korea’s claimed H-bomb test, Toronto’s Munk School of Global analysts say. Affairs, said the simple fact that Like most of the civilized world, “something (is) going off 50 miles Canada has little leverage to from the Chinese borderâ€? shocks, influence North Korea to curb its surprises and scares China – and nuclear ambitions despite the fact that’s bad for Canada. it has real economic and security “I don’t think there’s anything interests in Asia. we can do, but it should remind That view emerged Wednesday us ‌ we do have global interests,â€? from a variety of analysts, activsaid Mulroney. ists and observers as Pyongyang “China is our second-largest announced it had detonated a trading partner and a country hydrogen bomb – a claim that on China’s borders is doing rethe United States eventually cast ally destabilizing and unsettling
things, so we should pay attention to that.� Conservative foreign affairs critic Tony Clement said Trudeau should use the newfound bonhomie he cultivated in his initial meetings last fall with the leaders of China and South Korea to offer support. “It should be part of any discussions Mr. Trudeau has with their leaderships,� Clement said in an interview. But what exactly could Canada or anyone else do? Fen Hampson, director of the Global Security Program at the Centre for International Governance Innovation, said there is little the world community can do “to get the North Korean tiger to change its stripes. Sanctions are unlikely to have much impact on what is already the most sanctioned regime in the world.�
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North Korean leader Kim Jong Un salutes at a parade in Pyongyang, North Korea on Oct. 10. While that may seem bleak, it could offer an opening for Canada. “As Canada looks to warmer relations with China, this is an issue that should be a matter of joint discussion,� said Hampson. “Fresh thinking and new ideas about how to engage North Korea beyond simple carrots and sticks diplomacy are clearly required. There are precious few options on the table.� Activists suggested a very specific role for Canada: lobby hard to push NATO to give up its own reliance on nuclear weapons as a strategic deterrent. “If Canada continues to rely on nuclear weapons for its security, can it really credibly argue that others shouldn’t?� asked Beatrice Fihn of The International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons. “Canada should work together with NATO allies and other nonnuclear weapon states to develop a new legally binding instrument to prohibit nuclear weapons, in order to start reducing the role of these weapons in the world today.�
Cesar Jaramillo, the executive director of Project Ploughshares, said Canada has the credibility to push for abolition because it is an honest broker and a member of NATO. “A concrete measure would be for Canada to advocate within the NATO alliance council for the formulation of security policies that do not rely on nuclear deterrence.� Canada’s formal response Wednesday saw Foreign Affairs Minister Stephane Dion initially taking to Twitter to express outrage about the “reckless behaviour� of North Korea. “We unequivocally condemn the behaviour of North Korea, which today claimed to have detonated a nuclear weapon,� the minister said in a formal statement that followed. “North Korea’s continued violations of its international obligations pose a grave threat to international peace and security, and particularly to the stability of the region,� he added.
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Oregon sheriff draws cheers as he tells armed group to ‘go home’ Service. at Wednesday’s meeting. The Bundy family is among “They are waking people up,� many people in the West who said 80-year-old Merlin Rupp, a Associated Press contend local officials could do long-time local resident. “They a better job of managing public are just making a statement for BURNS, ORE. lands than the federal governus, to wake us up.� heers erupted at a packed ment. Earlier Wednesday the leader community meeting The argument is rejected by of an American Indian tribe that in rural Oregon when regards the preserve as sacred is- those who say the U.S. governa sheriff said it was time for a sued a rebuke to Ammon’s group, ment is better equipped to mansmall, armed group occupying a age public lands for all those who saying they are not welcome at national wildlife refuge to “pick want to make use of them. the snowy bird sanctuary and up and go home� Among those groups are Namust leave. The group objecting to federal tive Americans. “The protesters have no right land policy seized buildings at The Burns Paiute tribe has to this land. It belongs to the nathe Malheur National Wildlife tive people who live here,� Burns guaranteed access to the refuge Refuge on Saturday. Authorities for activities that are important Paiute Tribal leader Charlotte have not yet moved to remove to their culture, including gathRodrique said. the group of roughly two dozen ering a plant used for making Bundy is demanding that the people, some from as far away traditional baskets and seeds refuge be handed over to locals. as Arizona and Michigan. The that are used for making bread. Rodrique said she “had to group also objects to a lengthy The tribe also hunts and fishes laugh� at the demand, because prison sentence for two local there. she knew Bundy was not talking ranchers convicted of arson. Rodrique said the armed ocabout giving the land to the tribe. “I’m here today to ask those cupiers are “desecrating one of The standoff in rural Oregon folks to go home and let us our sacred sites� with their presis a continuation of a long-runget back to our lives,� Harney ning dispute over federal policies ence at refuge. County Sheriff David Ward said Bundy’s group, calling itself covering the use of public lands, Wednesday evening. Citizens for constitutional Freeincluding grazing. The federal Schools were closed following dom, says it wants an inquiry government controls about half the seizure of the refuge because into whether the government is of all land in the West. For exof safety concerns in this small ample, it owns 53 per cent of Or- forcing ranchers off their land town in eastern Oregon’s high after Dwight Hammond and his egon, 85 per cent of Nevada and desert country and tensions son, Steven, reported back to 66 per cent of Utah, according have risen. Ward told the hunprison Monday. to the Congressional Research dreds gathered at the meeting he hoped the community would put up a “united front� to peacefully Your Community Connection resolve the conflict. Group leader Ammon Bundy has told reporters they will leave when there’s a plan in place to turn over federal lands to locals. Several people spoke in support of Bundy and his followers Terrence Petty & Manuel Valdes
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The Hammonds are longtime local residents who have distanced themselves from the group Bundy’s group. They were convicted of arson three years ago and served no more than a year. A judge later ruled that the terms fell short of minimum sentences requiring them to serve about four more years. At the emotional community
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TransCanada launches double barrelled legal salvo over Keystone XL rejection a signatory to NAFTA, the U.S. government failed in its commitCanadian Press ment to protect Canadian invesCALGARY tors and ensure the company was treated in accordance with ransCanada launched a international law. double-barrelled legal salIn its notice of intent to initivo Wednesday against the ate the NAFTA claim, TransCanU.S. government over its rejecada said that the U.S. governtion of the company’s proposed ment concluded five times that Keystone XL pipeline. the pipeline would not have a The company said it intends significant impact on greenhouse to file a claim under Chapter 11 of the North American Free Trade gas production, but still rejected the pipeline to appear strong on Agreement in response to the decision, which it called arbitrary climate change. “Stated simply, the delay and and unjustified. the ultimate decision to deny the The Calgary-based firm said it permit were politically-driven, will be looking to recover US$15 billion in costs and damages as a directly contrary to the findings of the administration’s own result of what it says is a breach studies, and not based on the of NAFTA obligations. merits of Keystone’s application,� TransCanada alleges that, as TransCanada says in its notice of intent. The Yukon home of “The politically-driven denial of Keystone’s application was contrary to all precedent; inconsistent with any reasonable and expected application of the relevant rules and regulations; and arbitrary, discriminatory, and expropriatory. “In short, the decision elevated perceptions over reality, which is the hallmark of a deci* HiVg GZhiVjgVci sion tainted by politics.� 8]Zo CddYaZ TransCanada said it has also Open 7 Days a Week filed a lawsuit in the U.S. FedK^ZicVbZhZ 8j^h^cZ eral Court in Texas asserting =ZVai] 8dchX^djh 8]d^XZ that President Barack Obama’s decision in November to deny IjZhYVn HeZX^Vah construction of Keystone XL exNTED A^XZchZY A W , lper HELP en He , ceeded his power under the U.S. Kitch er, Cooks 6^g"8dcY^i^dcZY v s r Se . Cook Prep Constitution. Ian Bickis
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Our voices and actions bring hope for the year ahead continued reliance on climatealtering coal, oil and gas. The fossil fuel industry and its supporters continued to sow doubt and confusion about by David the overwhelming evidence for human-caused climate change Suzuki and to rail against solutions, but many more people marched, CIENCE signed petitions, sent letters, ATTERS talked to friends and family, demanded action from political, ike any year, 2015 had its religious and business leaders, share of good and bad, and got on with innovating and tragedy and beauty, hope implementing solutions. and despair. It’s difficult not to The public appetite for a get discouraged by events like constructive approach to global the Syrian war and refugee crisis, warming led Canada to shift violent outbreaks in Beirut, Paris, course in 2015, taking global Burundi, the U.S. and so many warming seriously enough to other places, and the ongoing make positive contributions at climate catastrophe. But responses to these traged- the Paris climate conference in December. The resulting agreeies and disasters offer hope. It ment won’t lower emissions became clear during 2015 that enough to prevent catastrophic when those who believe in prowarming, but it’s a significant tecting people and the planet, leap from previous attempts, treating each other with fairness, and it includes commitments to respect and kindness and seeking improve targets. solutions stand up, speak out and If we want to heal this world act for what is right and just, we we have so badly damaged, we will be heard. must do all we can. Although As Syria descended deeper many necessary and profound into chaos during 2015, people changes must come from governin many wealthy nations called ments, industry and other instifor blocking refugees. But many tutions, we can all do our part. more opened their hearts, homes For the climate, we can conserve and wallets and showed compas- energy, eat less meat, drive less, sion. Governments responded improve energy efficiency in our by opening doors to people who homes and businesses and conhave lost everything, including tinue to stand up and speak out. family and friends, to flee death Those who fear and reject and destruction. change have always been and Shootings and the inevitable always will be with us. They’ve absurd arguments against gun argued ending slavery would control continued south of the destroy the economy; they’ve border, but many people, includ- claimed putting people on the ing the president, rallied for an moon would be impossible; end to the insanity. And while the they’ve rejected ending South U.S. presidential race remains Africa’s apartheid system; they’ve mired in bigotry, ignorance and said the Berlin wall wouldn’t a dumbfounding rejection of cli- come down. mate science, many U.S. citizens, With today’s technological including political candidates, and communications advanare speaking out for a positive ces, everyone with access to the approach more aligned with Internet can be heard. That’s America’s professed values. And good, but people who fear they in 2015, voters here and elsehave something to lose often where rejected fear-based elecspeak loudest, and in the greattion campaigns that promoted est numbers. I tell people at the
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BMC Minerals is conducƟng community engagement regarding the proposed Kudz Ze Kayah Mine Project. As part of this engagement, BMC Minerals will present informaƟon about the company, the history of the project, exploraƟon work conducted in 2015 and our plans for 2016. The Kudz Ze Kayah Project is located approximately 110 km southeast of Ross River and 24 km south west of the Robert Campbell Highway near Finlayson Lake, Yukon. An IniƟal Environmental EvaluaƟon was undertaken for the project in the 1990’s and a Type A Water License was subsequently issued. The proposed KZK mine, although designed with leading edge science and technology of the day, was nevertheless assessed and permiƩed under an earlier regulatory regime. BMC intends to improve the design, miƟgaƟon and management strategies for the project as we prepare to enter YESAA in 2016. Input from the community will inform these designs and strategies. You can provide feedback and learn more about the project by: o AƩending a community meeƟng (see schedule below) o Calling: 778-233-7058 o Providing a wriƩen submission through: Fax: 778-379-9263 Email: kellib@bmcminerals.com Mail: 530 - 1130 West Pender St. Vancouver, BC V6E 4A4 Community Engagement Schedule: Date Monday, Jan. 11 Tuesday, Jan 12
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Impressions of a place far from everywhere manager of the Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge, pointed out that more people climb Mount Everest each year than walk on St. Matthew. There is one by Ned main reason. “It’s hard to get to,� he said. Rozell Sheer distance has saved this place from fur trapping, minLASKA ing, oil drilling, airstrip building CIENCE and other endeavors that leave ST. MATTHEW a mark. A moist climate good for ISLAND, ALASKA decomposition is also allowing St. Matthew to outlast an occupa’m resting on a mattress of tion by the U.S. military in World tundra plants that are growWar II. ing more than 200 miles Thanks to the attention given from the nearest Alaska village. to the island during the HarriWhile I have snuck away here to man Expedition in 1899, Teddy my own private ridgetop, eight Roosevelt included St. Matthew other people, all scientists, are in a group of islands designated somewhere on this 30-mile-long as America’s first wildlife refwedge of tundra, rocky beaches, uges in 1909. Biologists from lakes and bird cliffs in the central the Alaska Maritime National Bering Sea. We nine make up the Wildlife Refuge, also responsible entire human population of the for the protection of the Aleuisland. tians and other coastal islands off On our 25-hour boat ride here Alaska, try to reach St. Matthew from St. Paul Island aboard the every five years to see what has 120-foot Tiglax, Steve Delehanty, changed.
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Bull Seal Point, on St. Matthew Island. Compared to other protected wilderness areas of Alaska, St. Matthew is of the gentle variety, at least in summer. The carpet of flowering tundra plants is alive in purples and pinks and blues, enhanced by fog-filtered sunlight. The hip-high tangles of Aleutian grasses are not here, nor are the tussocks of the North Slope; St. Matthew is a nice place to walk. Here, you walk alone, but that wasn’t always the case. An 1874 map of St. Matthew includes this note: “Large numbers of polar bears infest this island.� The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service crew has included in its gear a shotgun, because you never know, but we have seen neither track nor skull of polar bear. And we’ve seen only a few bleached antlers of reindeer. A few decades ago, the animals roamed the island at an unsustainable 66 animals per square mile. There are none left. Arctic foxes seem to be missing, too, perhaps pushed off the island by red foxes that wandered here over a few hundred miles of sea ice. If you don’t count the invasive two-legged species visiting the island for a week, red foxes are the largest mammals on St. Matthew. A few days ago, trip volunteer Rich Kleinleder pointed out eight tiny orange heads peeking at us from a den in
The Alaska Science Forum has been provided as a public service by the Geophysical Institute, University of Alaska Fairbanks, in cooperation with the UAF research community since the late 1970s. Ned Rozell is a science writer at the institute. He wrote this column in August, 2012.
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the grass. Tunnels burned into lichen mats, along with a plaintive cry heard when hiking the tundra, show that the singing vole is in great supply. The cute mice-like creatures known only to St. Matthew peer out from holes that honeycomb the island. The cheery calls of Lapland longspurs lift the mood of the cool misty days, while sleek long-tailed jaegers hover above the moist tundra with grace and deadly precision. But the most striking inland bird is the snowwhite McKay’s bunting, like the vole also endemic to the island. In their beaks, the buntings carry winged insects for their nestlings. In one of St. Matthew’s most delightful features, none of these captured bugs are mosquitoes; they and other biting flies have not made it to the island. The knee-deep creeks of St. Matthew, most of them spanned with a long stride, are clear and clean. Some cut through beach cliffs, tumbling down to salt water with a soothing roar. When I need a drink, I dunk my water bottle in a creek and sip; if I’m not safe from giardia here, I don’t know where else to try. The black sand and gravel beaches of St. Matthew hold driftwood, kelp, pink float balls
and plastic bottles with Russian and Japanese lettering on their caps. A shipwreck from 1989 rusts in three immense hunks just feet offshore of Glory of Russia Cape. Overlooking the orange hull are hundreds of birds on cliffs that prompted Roosevelt’s decision to protect this nesting site of murres, kittiwakes, cormorants and other seabirds. The birds renew life on St. Matthew for a few months and spend the rest of their year at sea. From my tundra perch, the roar of a jet engine overhead is so unusual that I look up, wondering if the people above know they have just crossed the international date line. As the noise fades, the bird songs return, carried on the wind with the minty scent of wormwood leaves. Right now, the most remote spot in Alaska feels that way. But it will be even lonelier in a few months, when the stained white cliffs hold no seabirds and the crazy giant bees no longer buzz through the cool breeze. Snow will come. Shortly after, a skim of ice will creep down from the northern ocean and grow thicker by the day. Big winds will bite deeper and the lovely creeks will freeze to the bottom. A platform of sea ice will surround the island, allowing foxes to venture to distant lands if they have the luck to navigate hundreds of miles along a moving white jigsaw puzzle. With no trees to stop the wind, in winter this calm place will sometimes match the wind-chill brutality of Mount Everest, which makes me glad I am visiting now, in the time of light bband life.
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Yes Virginia, there is a Klondike Kate cast that was published in the newspaper. A check of the census records for 1901 also revealed that she wasn’t the best-paid performer by Michael in the troupe. The most ink I found regarding her theatre Gates credits praise her for directing theatrical tableaux. A tableau is ISTORY a representation of a painting, UNTER statue or scene by a silent and motionless person or persons hen Ellis Lucia’s book Klondike Kate: The Leg- on a stage. Yes, she performed the serend of Kitty Rockwell, pentine dance on stage, trailing the Queen of the Yukon was published in 1962, one review in “yards and yards” of silk, but at the Bend, Oregon Bulletin asked a fund-raiser in the Auditorium Theatre for a local baseball the question that many locals team, where soprano Beatrice had posed: “Did Kate Matson really win her fame as Klondike Lorne, the “Klondike Nightingale,” topped the bill. Kate in the Dawson dance hall No one questions the asseror did she build up the Klondike tion that she met, and fell in Kate persona in later years?” love with, even shacked up with Good question. Historians Alexander Pantages. By ChristI have talked to over the years mas of 1900, only a few months have expressed a similar sort after arriving in Dawson City, of skepticism about the claims Rockwell is already on the bill made in the Lucia biography, at the Orpheum Theatre, which and the many interviews she so was managed by the Greek gladly allowed in her later years. impresario. Were they just the imaginings The Lucia book states that of an older lady well past her they left the Yukon together in prime? 1902, after which she toured According to the biograabout, raising money to help phy, Kate Rockwell, the stephim get started. The records daughter of a Spokane judge, suggest that he left Dawson got into show business and in for Seattle in 1902, while she 1899, joined the crowd going remained till September 1904, north during the gold rush. She then left, accompanied by one probably stopped in Skagway Lotus Rockwell. to work, and stopped again in Who Lotus Rockwell is Bennett for a two month run in remains a mystery, but in the a “dimly lit saloon with a small biography by Lucia, he refers low stage at one end and only to an orphaned infant boy that a piano player for accompaniRockwell took care of, then ment,” before moving along the passed to foster parents back Klondike trail. in the United States, and whom She allegedly defied the she later supported through Mounted Police (there was a university. Could this have in $100 fine for doing so) and, dis- fact have been her own child? guising herself in men’s clothMuch in the Lucia book consists ing, rode a scow through Miles of half-truths designed to create Canyon and Whitehorse Rapid. the legend rather than reveal Did she fabricate this defiant the person. gesture, or did it really happen? Will unearthing the facts of She stopped to dance in one of the matter tarnish the popular the places in the new town of image held of Kate Rockwell? Whitehorse, again to earn some There is more to this story hidmore money, but turned back den in old records from the gold to Victoria, where she joined rush, just waiting to be uncova theatre troupe. The followered. ing spring, the troupe was on Not long after leaving the its way to Dawson to perform Klondike, Kate discovered in the newly renamed Savoy that Pantages had married a Theatre. 17-year-old violinist named According to the Lucia biogLois Mendenhall, so she sued raphy, she became “undisputed Pantages for breach of promise, queen of the dance-hall girls, claiming she supported him sought after and popular,” and in Dawson, and later helped “one of the city’s top female finance the start of his theatrientertainers and dance-hall cal empire. hustlers, bringing in thousands I scanned the newspapers of dollars a month.” and googled the Internet to see I sought out her tracks in when the term Klondike Kate the historical record and found first appears. The first time she that much of what is said in is linked with that label appears the book is based upon facts, to be in October of 1929, when if not rendered factually. Yes, Kate appeared in Los Angeles she arrived in Dawson in 1900, to attend the highly publicized though in August, and not on rape trial of her one-time lover. the first boat of the season, as Mobbed by the press outside suggested by Lucia. Yes, she the court, a photo subsequently performed in the Savoy Theatre appeared in newspapers, (we know it today as the Palace showing her dabbing her dry Grand) and later, the Orpheum, eye with her handkerchief. The though not as a headliner. Her appellation of Klondike Kate name appears in the credits, stuck, and she started a personbut in the middle of the list of al campaign of self-promotion
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as the belle of the Klondike. Nostalgic sourdoughs and the press leaped at the notion. She attended sourdough reunions and other events, introducing herself as Klondike Kate. The newspapers loved to write about the Queen of the Klondike, and she never discouraged them. Separating the fact from the legend is a formidable challenge. Clearly, some of her claims about being the premier attraction of the theatre circuit in Dawson City appear overstated, but she was there, and she did participate in the hard life of the theatre and dance halls. She undoubtedly had a relationship with one of America’s future theatre legends. In fact, she was close enough to the epicentre to be considered the real thing. In later years, that was enough to earn her the title of Queen of the Klondike. After her death, one newspaper commented: “Klondike Kate dead? No, not as long as history and the poems of Robert Service, depicting Alaska at the turn of the century, survive.” “Klondike Kate is a legend,” it goes on, “and legends, unlike old soldiers, neither die nor fade away. They grow in colour with time, and thus will be the fate of the memory of the fabulous Kate.” “Klondike Kate will never die.” So to paraphrase the timeless editorial from the New York Sun, Yes, Virginia, there is a Klondike Kate, and she will still occupy the hearts and minds of generations to come.
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Kate Rockwell, or Klondike Kate, as she was known in later years. Was she the queen of the Klondike theatre scene, or just a nostalgic fabrication long after the gold rush subsided?
Michael Gates is a Yukon historian and sometimes adventurer based in Whitehorse. This column originally ran in Aug. 2013. You can contact him at msgates@northwestel.net
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after midnight or unaware of their daily activities. GENTLE READER: Just as 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.
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 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 (Please send your questions to Miss Manners at her website, www. to decline to do so. You do not missmanners.com; to her email, have her permission to invent dearmissmanners@gmail.com; or rudenesses. There are too many already, without adding requests through postal mail to Miss Manners, Universal Uclick, 1130 Walnut to watch the grandchildren to St., Kansas City, MO 64106.)
Religious Organizations & Services Whitehorse United Church
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FOURSQUARE GOSPEL CHURCH 160 Hillcrest Drive Family Worship: Sunday 10:00am
(Union of Methodist, Presbyterian & Congregational Churches) 10:30 a.m. - Sunday School & Worship Service Rev. Beverly C.S. Brazier
Grace Community Church 8th & Wheeler Street Pastor Jim Joe 668-2003
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Church Of The Nazarene 2111 Centennial St. (Porter Creek) Sunday School & Morning Worship - 10:45 am Call for Bible Study & Youth Group details
Quaker Worship Group RELIGIOUS SOCIETY OF FRIENDS Meets regularly for Silent Worship. For information, call 667-4615 email: whitehorse-contact@quaker.ca
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Sacred Heart Cathedral
Sunday 10:00am Prayer / Sunday School 11:00 am Worship Wednesday Praise & Celebration 7:30 pm Pastor Roger Yadon
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Riverdale Baptist Church 15 Duke Road, Whse 667-6620 Sunday Worship Service: 10:30am Pastors: REV. GREG ANDERSON MICHELLE DREWITZ
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403 Lowe Street Mondays 5:15 to 6:15 PM
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Christ Church Cathedral Anglican Dean Sean Murphy, Rector
TAGISH Community Church
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Meditation Drop-in • Everyone Welcome!
OFFICE HOURS: Mon-Fri 9:00 AM to 12 Noon
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Vajra North Buddhist Meditation Society
1609 Birch St. (Porter Creek) 633-5385 “We’re Open Saturdays!” Worship Service 11:00 am Wednesday 7:00 pm - Prayer Meeting All are welcome.
10:30 AM FAMILY WORSHIP WEEKLY CARE GROUP STUDIES Because He Cares, We Care.
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Bethany Church
Early Morning Service 9:00 - 10:00 am Family Service 10:30 am - Noon Filipino Service 4:00 - 5:00 pm Sunday School Ages 0-12 STARTING DEC 6, Services @ 8:30 AM,10:00 AM & 11:30 AM
91806 Alaska Highway Ph: 668-4877
4TH AVENUE & ELLIOTT STREET Sunday Communion Services 8:30 & 10:00 AM Thursday Service 12:10 PM (Bag Lunch)
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Meets 1st & 3rd Sunday each Month Details, map and information at:
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Calvary Baptist 1301 FIR STREET 633-2886 Sunday Morning Worship 10:30 a.m. Sunday Evening Worship 6:00 p.m. Wednesday Bible Study 7:30 p.m. Pastor L.E. Harrison 633-4089
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For more information on monthly activities, call (867) 633-6594 or visit www.eckankar-yt.ca www.eckankar.org ALL ARE WELCOME.
Bahá’Í Faith Box 31419, Whitehorse, YT Y1A 6K8
For information on regular communityactivities in Whitehorse contact: whitehorselsa@gmail.com
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints Meeting Times are 10:00 AM at 108 Wickstrom Road
The Salvation Army 311-B Black Street • 668-2327
Sunday Church Services: 11:00 AM EVERYONE WELCOME!
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The Temple of Set The World’s Premier Left Hand Path Religion
A not-for-prophet society. www.xeper.org canadian affiliation information: northstarpylon@gmail.com
Church of the Northern Apostles
An Anglican/Episcopal Church Sunday Worship 10:00 AM Sunday School during Service, Sept to May
THE REV. ROB LANGMAID 45 Boxwood Crescent • Porter Creek 633-4032 • All Are Welcome
Yukon Muslim Association 1154c 1st Ave • Entrance from Strickland
www.yukonmuslims.ca For further information about, and to discover Islam, please contact: Javed Muhammad (867) 332-8116 or Adil Khalik (867) 633-4078 or send an e-mail to info@yukonmuslims.ca
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Young Yukon Strikers grind out gold in North Vancouver
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hen Yukon Junior Strikers coach Grant Zazula proposed taking a team of mostly seven-year-olds to a tournament in North Vancouver, he was met with skepticism. “I approached the Yukon Soccer Association and said, ‘There’s a tournament in North Vancouver in the winter and I’d really like to take a group of seven-year-olds,’ and they sort of looked at me like I had two heads,” said Zazula. Turns out, it wasn’t such a crazy idea. The Strikers went undefeated to win gold in the U8 division at the 29th annual Indoor Soccer Tournament, hosted by the North Shore Youth Soccer Association, over the weekend. “We really didn’t have any expectations going down,” said Zazula. “You give them the pep talk and say you’ll be proud of them regardless if they win or not. And you come out and kind of dominate the tournament, you leave pretty excited – surprised, actually. It was a pretty fantastic tournament for the kids.” The U8 Strikers team, which has one six-year-old, Kara McLean, and one eight-year-old, Zaphaniah Giam, were playing in their first tournament together and was the only co-ed squad in the division. Not only did the undefeated streak show it was worth the trip, it validated the Strikers program for kids so young, said Zazula, who is president of Whitehorse Minor Soccer. “These are all kids from the Junior Strikers program we started, I think, in the summer of 2014,” said Zazula. “It’s the first time Yukon Soccer provided a program for kids that age. It recognizes that it’s good to start them off at that age, get them into proper training.
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Yukon Junior Strikers’ Zephaniah Giam brings the ball upcourt during play at the North Shore Youth Soccer Association’s Indoor Soccer Tournament in North Vancouver over the weekend. The Strikers went undefeated for gold. Obviously it’s paid off.” “This is a group of kids I’m certain will go far in soccer,” he added. “If you can get them playing in this kind level and this kind of competition early on, it gets
them in that mindset that they can build on something.” The Strikers clinched gold with a hard-fought 1-0 win over the North Shore Rangers, who also arrived in the final undefeated. Strik-
ers’ Cameron Bringsli scored the match’s one goal in the first half before the team battened down the hatches in defensive play. “At this age kids just want to go forward and score goals like crazy
and we really tried to play team defence and coverage,” said Zazula. “So once we scored our goal we made sure the kids were focused on covering the opposition and defence. It’s pretty awesome for kids that age to be disciplined in order to play proper defence.” The Strikers opened the tournament with an 8-0 win over North Shore Real Madrid and went on to beat the North Shore Barcelona 3-1, North Shore Hull City 3-0, Coquitlam Metro-Ford SC Timbers 1-0 before a 1-1 tie with North Shore L.A. Galaxy. Bringsli led the team in scoring with seven goals while teammates Giam, Leah McLean, Roman Zazula, Samuel Watson and Andrzej Benson also scored. “Cameron is technically one of the best players around and he probably scored more goals in the tournament than any other kid on all the teams,” said Zazula. “He can kick the ball as hard as an adult and he just blew it straight past the goalkeeper (in the final).” In additition to scoring goals, Benson and Watson prevented a bunch, often diving into harm’s way as goalkeepers. “They rotated halfs and they’re both great players to have,” said Zazula. “I was so impressed by how they were willing to throw themselves in front of the ball. They did an exceptional job. “The thing I noticed most in the tournament is they played with such intensity and I had never seen that before with these kids.” Brody Nash, Malcolm Murchison and Lachlan Wood provided the Strikers with “hard-nosed defence,” added Zazula. The U8s were one of three Junior Strikers teams at the tournament. The U9 Strikers were held to one win and the U11s came away winless. Contact Tom Patrick at tomp@yukon-news.com
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Dawsonites half of Yukon’s table tennis team for Arctics
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Dawson’s Sam Crocker keeps his eye on the ball.
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Dawson City’s Emily Gaw serves during a tryout for Yukon’s Arctic Winter Games team last month. Half of the team, which was announced this week, is made up of players from Dawson.
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teammates this March in Greenland. Players from Dawson City make up half the table tennis team that will represent the territory at the 2016 Arctic
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Winter Games, Table Tennis Yukon announced this week. “The kids did a lot of work and deserve every spot they earned on the team,� said Yukon head coach Kevin Murphy. “I’m quite proud of the diversity on the team. It’s going to be great. “Half from Dawson, half from Whitehorse – that’s real great representation.� Dawson’s Emily Gaw and Kate Crocker have been se-
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lected to represent Yukon in juvenile girls and their older brothers Ethan Gaw and Sam Crocker will compete in junior boys. At the 2014 Arctic Games in Fairbanks, Alaska, all eight Yukon players were from Whitehorse. “It helps when you have a couple of families who seem to be involved in the sport. So you have sisters and brothers who are playing, and the parents are involved, and they are eager to see the sport do well,� said Murphy. “There are some pretty simple factors there that allow it to be a success and thrive.� Filling out the rest of the squad are Whitehorse players Arcel Siosan and Zachary Zimmerman in juvenile boys and
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Ashley Harris and Grace Anne Janssen in junior girls. Dawson’s presence also extends into the team’s staff. While Murphy is from Whitehorse, coach/chaperone Carmen Dubois is from Dawson, as is mission staffer Irwin Gaw. With increased participation by Dawson players at Table Tennis Yukon events – helping the territory win the Yukon-Alaska Challenge in June, for example – the organization even held one of the team tryouts in Dawson early December. “I kind of wish Dawson was closer to Whitehorse and we could go up there more often, or bring them down here a little more often,� said Murphy. Even the team’s alternates include a Dawsonite with Kacie Hastings for juvenile girls. Other alternates include Whitehorse’s Jake Charlton for juvenile boys, Whitehorse’s Thomas Brenner for junior boys and Whitehorse’s Kelcy Armstrong for junior girls. Siosan, Janssen and Harris all played for Yukon at the 2014 Games in Fairbanks. Siosan, Brenner and Armstrong also played at the 2015 Canada Winter Games in Prince George, B.C., just under a year ago. Armstrong and Siosan both won junior singles titles at the 2015 Yukon Table Tennis Championship last April. The 2016 Arctic Winter Games will take place March 6-11 in Nuuk, Greenland. To help prepare the team, Table Tennis Yukon hopes to bring the team to an Outside tournament before the start of the Games. “We’re seeing if we can get out to another tournament, either in B.C. or Alberta,� said Murphy. “We’re checking the calendar of events right now and we’ll see if there’s a good tournament to get out to and test the kids out and get them involved in a good level of play.� Contact Tom Patrick at tomp@yukon-news.com
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Ball Hawks Albert Spycher, left, and Paul Payne attempt to block GB’s D’Arcy Hill during the final of the Pepsi’s Volleyball Yukon Frostbite Tournament on Sunday at Porter Creek Secondary. The Ball Hawks won in three sets. MVP. “He’s a pretty dominate player,” News Reporter said Taylor. “In that game he basically took over defensively with lots rand prizes at most Yukon of blocks. I don’t think I’ve ever seen volleyball tournaments are a player get that many blocks in one medals and bragging rights. game. He probably averaged three Pepsi’s Volleyball Yukon Frostbite or four pretty solid blocks per set. Tournament offered a more func“He was also really aggressive tional prize – a cool $1,000. Four men’s teams fought for the dough at the new tournament on Sunday at Porter Creek Secondary. “It was awesome. It was nice to have four teams. Obviously we’d like to have more, but I thought it was good to have a tournament where you could put a competitive team together and compete for cash prizes,” said Ball Hawks captain Matt Taylor. “They organized it really well and we all had a blast, even though we were all pretty tired and sore by the end of the day. It was definitely worth it.” The Ball Hawks pocketed the cash with a win over “GB” in the final. The Hawks lost to GB in round robin play but tightened up their game in the last game. “They actually beat us pretty good and that was good motivation for us to come out solid when we played them again in the final,” said Taylor. “We were making less errors as a team, so we weren’t giving them any free points. So we were basically forcing them to earn points from us … They had to fight for every point that they got.” The Ball Hawks, a team assembled for the tournament, included Michael Hunter, Nathan Thompson, Shaun McLoughlin, Robin Smith, Zach Moses, Albert Spycher and Paul Payne from Yellowknife, many of who have played for Yukon at Arctic Winter Games and Canada Summer Games in the past. Spycher was named his team’s Tom Patrick
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and consistent on his attacks.” The Ball Hawks advanced to the final with a straight set win over Team Malcolm and Yukon’s Arctic Winter Games team lost in the other semifinal. Setter Scott Cavasin was named MVP for GB, Jordan Runions for the Arctics team and Ben Grundmanis
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GB’s Scott Cavasin reaches for a one-handed bump during the final. for Team Malcolm. Volleyball Yukon hopes to make the tournament an annual event
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ukon musher Ed Hopkins will set out on his eighth Yukon Quest next month, but just his second from Fairbanks to Whitehorse. Only back in 1994 did he race the 1,000-mile Quest in an evennumbered year, in which the race runs eastwardly. “It’s just the way it worked out,” said Hopkins. “But I guess I like leaving from Whitehorse – I like waking up in my own bed the morning before the start of the race.” Hopkins, who lives in 10 Mile outside of Tagish, is one of five Yukon mushers registered for the 33rd annual race that begins on Feb. 6. With a third place finish last year – his best to date – the 51-year-old veteran is arguably Yukon’s top contender in the field of 25 teams. “I’m looking forward to it. I’m pretty excited for it,” said Hopkins. “I’m hoping it’ll be a pretty nice run. “I think it’s just the dogs that kind of clicked,” he added of last year’s race. “I was just hanging on. That’s all I was doing. They seemed to know what they were doing.” Hopkins, whose previous best finish was eighth in 2005 and in 1994, plans to use the same team as last year. At the front will be
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Yukon’s Ed Hopkins answers reporters’ questions at a checkpoint during last year’s Yukon Quest international dog seld race. Hopkins, who placed third last year, is one of five Yukon mushers in next month’s race. brother-sister duo of Mai Tai and Caesar. He plans to put his team through the paces this weekend at the Copper Basin 300, his first big race of the season. “I’m going to the Copper Basin this weekend and I’ll be taking most of the dogs there and seeing how they do,” said Hopkins. “I’ll be using the same two leaders. They did pretty well at last year’s Quest and they finished the Iditarod too … They are pretty well seasoned.” Yukon will also be represented by Whitehorse’s Rob Cooke, 49, racing his third Quest. He placed 16th last year, 18th in 2013 and
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Sass, a 36-year-old of Eureka, Alaska, doesn’t mind having the defending-champ target on his back. “I just think people now see me as a real contender, which gives me more confidence,” said Sass in a recent email to the News. “I’m more excited, confident and fired up for my 10th Quest, the way I was for any of the nine before! It’s going to be an exciting race!” Two Rivers, Alaska’s Allen Moore is registered for the race a sixth year in a row. The 58-yearold won in 2013 and 2014 and placed second behind Sass last year. 2012 champ Hugh Neff of Tok, Alaska, is returning for his 16th Yukon Quest. The 48-year-old placed second behind Moore in 2013 and 2014, and fifth last year.
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also 50th in last year’s Iditarod. Mendenhall’s Luc Tweddell, 40, is registered for his second Quest, following a 14th place finish in 2009. Whitehorse’s Yuka Honda, 43, is also set for her second outing. She placed 15th in 2012. Mendenhall’s Gaetan Pierrard is the only rookie of the Yukoners. The 39-year-old placed fourth in last season’s Percy DeWolfe Memorial Mail Race in Dawson City and was named Rookie of the Year in the event. Hank DeBruin of Haliburton, Ont. is the only other Canadian registered besides the Yukoners. The 53-year-old has raced the Quest once before, taking eighth in 2014. Three past champions, including last year’s winner Brent Sass, are set to hit the 1,600-kilometre trail.
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Sass, along with his lead dog Basin, finished the 2015 Quest in nine days, 12 hours and 49 minutes last February. Moore reached the finish line about an hour and 14 minutes later. “Basin is still very strong but I will have 10 dogs I consider leaders in the team,” said Sass. “Won’t know until the race is over who will shine the brightest this year. And that’s exciting! I describe all my dogs as special! “(I am) confident! I have better base, more quality time on the trail then ever before! It’s a great mix of seasoned veterans with some very, very talented two to three-year-olds fighting for a spot. At least 10 of them will be back from last year’s team.” Twenty-five teams are also signed up for the Yukon Quest 300 – the 300-mile race – from Fairbanks to Circle, Alaska. Among them is 2014 champ Aliy Zirkle of Two Rivers. The 46-yearold is the only woman to win the Yukon Quest 1,000, which she did in 2000. She also placed second in the Iditarod three years in a row between 2012 and 2014. Just two Yukoners are entered in the 300. Fox Lake’s Fabian Schmitz and Mendenhall’s Olaf Thurau have each done the race once before, but both years in which the race began in Whitehorse, not Fairbanks. “I think it’s going to be fun. I wanted to see the trail on the Alaska side,” said Schmitz. “That’s what really appealed to me: seeing something else, see a different part of that 1,000-mile trail.” Schmitz placed 15th in 2011 and Thurau fourth in the 2013. Last year’s winner, Tagish’s Michelle Phillips, is not entered but is third down on the waiting list. Phillips, who is Hopkins’ wife, is registered for the Iditarod. “My wife is doing a very good job at training me too,” said Hopkins. “She’s keeping me on a pretty good schedule, making sure I’m out there training when I should.” Contact Tom Patrick at tomp@yukon-news.com
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The First Nation is currently looking to fill three key positions:
YUKON-BASED EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY Position: Chief Executive Officer – Chu Niikwan Limited Partnership Term: 6# /0 9 Salary: Commensurate with training and experience Closing Date: Monday, February 1, 2016 at 4:30 pm
The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) is responsible for leading a high performing, dedicated and passionate team at the Chu Niikwan Development Corporation. The CEO is responsible for overseeing a diverse group of companies and constructing a strong, sustainable and forward-thinking development corporation. Key deliverables include developing and implementing a strategic vision and business plan that builds financial sustainability rooted in the culture of the Kwanlin DĂźn First Nation (KDFN). Reporting to the Board of Directors, the CEO is an advocate for the Kwanlin DĂźn First Nation, and is responsible for helping build strong community awareness and sustainable business operations.
We are seeking an individual who is a leader with strong communication skills, business acumen, cultural awareness and passion. You must have significant business management experience in a corporate structure; a proven track record of successfully leading and managing complex, multi-faceted projects, preferably in a First Nation environment; knowledge of KDFN Final and Self-government Agreements and a business degree from a recognized university. An equivalent combination of education, training and business experience working in economic development, marketing, economics and/or community development may be considered.
Senior Director Operations – Salary Negotiable – depending on experience Reporting to the Executive Advisor, this position leads and manages the operations and delivery of programs and services for SFN citizens including executive management of corporate services, and provides management and supervision to Branch Directors, including Health and Social, Capital Works, Citizen Development (Education), and Lands Resources & Heritage.
Communications Officer - Level 5, $25.80 - $30.98 per hour ($46,603 - $55,593 per annum) Reporting to the Director Governance, this position is responsible for providing communication services, advice and support to Selkirk First Nation Government and administration; planning, developing and implementing a comprehensive integrated Communications Strategy that reflects the Selkirk First Nation’s strategic direction, priorities, policies, programs and initiatives; researching, preparing, and publishing original content on behalf of Selkirk First Nation, including Selkirk First Nation newsletter and updating the SFN website; providing all administrative functions within the communications area and coordinating or assisting in the coordination of community meetings, and special events.
Director Human Resources - Level 9, $37.85 - $47.34 per hour ($68,371 - $85,500 per annum) Reporting to the Senior Director Operations, this position is responsible for the management and administration of the HR department, and for providing senior level human resource service and advice. Activities include development and implementation of policies, procedures, tools and processes, organizational design reviews, staff relations, salary and benefits administration, recruitment and retention, position creation, review and classification, occupational health and safety, and staff training. For more information including required qualifications and job descriptions, contact Denise L Norman at normand@selkirkfn.com or by calling 867-334-2555. Please submit all applications via email to the same address. Selkirk First Nation hiring policies will apply.
CLOSING DATE: JANUARY 11, 2016 Please submit your resume and cover letter to:
Human Resources, at the KDFN Administration Building (35 McIntyre Drive, Whitehorse, Yukon, Y1A 5A5) via fax (867-668-5057), or via email to resume@kdfn.net For more information and full job description, please visit
www.kwanlindun.com/employment
Please be advised that the primary method of communications with applicants will be by email, and only those who are being considered will be contacted.
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Providing leadership through our strengths in programming, services and research, Yukon College’s main campus in Whitehorse and 12 community campuses cover the territory. A small college, YC provides a stimulating and collegial environment. We work with Yukon communities, Yukon First Nations, local governments, business and industry, to promote a community of learners within a vibrant organization. Come join us as we continue to enhance the Yukon’s capacity through education and training.
Expression of Interest Casual, Part-time Interviewers/Writers Ayamdigut (Whitehorse) Campus College Relations Competition #: 15.139 Initial Review Date: January 15, 2016 For additional information, please contact: Jacqueline Bedard, Director, College Relations jbedard@yukoncollege.yk.ca (867) 668-8806 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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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. Closing Date: January 14, 2016 at 4:00pm
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Real Estate FOR LEASE: 401 WATERFRONT STATION This exceptional office space is available for long term lease. 2,143 sq ft with balcony overlooking the Yukon River. Currently undeveloped but awaiting your plan for finishing. Contact ceo@selkirkdevcorp.com or at 393-2181 to view and discuss terms and opportunity.
Help Wanted HELP WANTED NOC 6731 Housekeeping Room Attendant Qualifications: Relevant hotel certification preferred. Applicants with relevant experience preferred Hours: 40 hours/week Wage: $15.50/hr Duties: Make beds, change sheets, distribute clean towels & toiletries Dust furniture, vacuum carpets. Clean hotel rooms/public areas Attend to guest requests for extra supplies hr@elitehotel.ca Elite Hotel & Travel Ltd. 206 Jarvis St Whitehorse, Yukon Y1A 2H1 TRI OMNI PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Requires Light Duty Cleaner NOC #6661 Minimum 6 months experience Own transportation required Contact: Dean Philpott Box 31386, Whitehorse, YT Y1A-6K8 email: admin@triomni.ca 867-668-6900 Fax: 867-456-4847 SIRIUS SECURITY NOC 6551 Upcoming positions available: •Onsite, foot patrols, static watch, mobile patrols. •Experienced applicants preferred, but willing to train. Applicants must: *Be 19 years of age or older. *Pass vulnerable sector check prior to applying. *Have clean Class 5 drivers licence. *Have cell phone. *Have own vehicle. *Be physically fit, able to be on your feet up to 12 hours. Contact 867-334-5973 Schwalm.sirius@gmail.com 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
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Miscellaneous for Sale 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 THREE COMPLETE OPC hockey card sets (1999-00 to 2001-02 period) plus some short prints. Over 900 cards. $150. Ross 633-3154 YUKON WILDLIFE Conservation stamps, rare and unique collection of 13 stamps, from 1996-2008, beautiful artwork depicting Yukon birds and wildlife, $150. 633-3154 TRADING CARDS, binder full of non-sport trading cards (James Bond, X-men, Desert Storm, Enduring Freedom). About 500 cards. $40. Ross 633-3154 BINDER FULL of baseball cards, $20. 633-3154 WORLD HOCKEY Association, remember it? Two rare books, (history, statistics, photos). Exc. shape, $50. 633-3154
Friday, January 8, 2016 Native Brain-Tanned MOOSE HIDES At Reasonable Prices Tanned beaver & other furs also available. Phone (780) 355-3557 or (780) 461-9677 or write: Lodge Fur & Hides Box 87, Faust, AB. T0G-0X0 SELF PROPELLED SNOW Blower, clears 30" wide path, electric start, 6 forward & two reverse speeds, excellent condition, canopy available extra, $650. 333-9020 TRACTOR WITH 42� snow blower attachment, electric start, tire chains & weights, exc cond, $1,650 or trades considered. 333-9020 YUKON GEM AZURITE Rare * Exotic * Beautiful Pendants, earrings, gems, polished specimens, tumbled stones, museum quality. 867-336-3425 GUESS MEN'S cologne, paid $60, asking $19, great gift. 204-880-7245 TELESCOPE WITH motorized base, 4'' Meade 2045D, $250. 336-4887 CAMERA AND lens bag, LowePro Trekker 600 for large telephoto, $90. 336-4887 OIL DRIP stove, 13,000 btu, $500; plywood truck box for full size truck, $100; occidental leather beltless carpenters apron, $100; Dometic fridge/freezer, propane, ac/dc, fits camper/RV, $300. Daniel @ 668-4104
YUKON NEWS MR. HEATER Contractor heater, 175K BTU good for 4200sqft, in extreme cold, for construction, kerosene or diesel fuel, used for few hours, new $525, asking $350. Call 335-6886 after 6pm
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
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, $900. Ross 633-3154
DJG CONTRACTING •Delivering logging truck loads •Single/multiple cord loads Call David at 867-332-8327
CFL FOOTBALL cards, 17 different complete sets of cards, including early OPC. Almost 2,600 cards. $1,400. 633-3154
WESTINGHOUSE DRYER, HD, good working order, $70. 633-2837 6-QT AROMA rice cooker. No scratches, c/w steamer basket & measuring cup, $25. 335-6403 YOLIFE YOGURT maker. Exc cond, c/w seven 6-oz glass jars. Can also be used with your own containers, $25. 335-6403
USED 20Ęź C-Can. Some surface rust but otherwise in great condition. Has shelving down one side for storage, $2,800 obo. 660-5040
Computers & Accessories
35000 BTU propane monitor. New, wall vent, $750. 821-2938
TWO 3G Blackberry Curve 9300 unlocked cell phones. Will sell together or separately, $60 ea. 334-6087
BEATS SOLO2 headphones. Black. New in box, $150. 335-6403
Firewood
BRUCE HARDWOOD floor, approximately 200sqft, very fine finish, paid $6/sqft, asking $350. Call 335-6886 after 6pm
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✔ Beetle-killed spruce from Haines Junction, quality guaranteed ✔ Everything over 8" split ✔ Prices as low as $245 per cord ✔ Single and emergency half cord deliveries ✔ Scheduled or next day delivery
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 DONʟS 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 CRL FIREWOOD/WHITEʟS WOOD Standing dry spruce from Haines Junction. Stove length 16�-22�- $240 + gst 12 foot lengths - $200 + gst U-Cut Serving Whitehorse since 2007 Cutters wanted. Contact Joel 335-1934
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Births! Birthdays! Weddings! Graduations! Anniversaries! 1 column x 3 inches ............. Wed - $ s &RI $35.10 2 columns x 2 inches ........... Wed - $ s &RI $46.80 2 columns x 3 inches ........... Wed - $ s &RI $70.20 2 columns x 4 inches ........... Wed - $ s &RI $93.60
Musical Instruments PIANO TUNING & REPAIR by certified piano technician Call Barry Kitchen @ 633-5191 email:bfkitchen@hotmail.com
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FREE, HEWLETT Packard scanner model ScanJet 3400C w/software, works fine, I upgraded. 633-3154
HON. 4-DRAWER metal file cabinet, exc shape, $325. 332-6565
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IPHONE 4S Bell/Virgin 16GB, good condition, $140 firm. 334-6087
EMTEK 27� WX 12ʟ long aluminum loading ramp, as new, limit 1,500 lbs, $450. 332-6565
HURLBURT ENTERPRISES INC.
BACH TRUMPET, used one season in HS, band. Paid $675, asking $500 firm. 332-7797
MID-WHEEL P O W E R wheelchair, Shoprider, 14� mid-motor, 2x1.34hp, full suspension, back seat 20"x20", weight cap 350 lbs, tire size frt 6", middle 14", rear 5", 6mph, distance 21mi, $3,300 obo. 393-8639
COUNTRY LIVING Grain Grinder with accessories, $500. Daniel @ 668-4104
DEER SKINS, bundle of ten. Suede side lovely colour, but some holes & small hides good for moccasins, mittens or small projects. Will sell only as a bundle, $400. 660-4206
7-PIECE CB Drumkit, barely used, excellent condition, some music books inclĘźd, $450. 332-7797
WORLD HOCKEY Association, 5 complete hockey card sets from the 1970s. Exc cond. $750. Ross 633-3154
SHOWER GLASS door, 28"Wx72"H with frames, new, surplus material. Call 335-6886 after 6pm
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Guns & Bows BROWNING “TROMBONE� .22 pump action in good to very good condition, $700. 633-2443 WANTED: LEE Enfield No4MK1. Serious collector in the Yukon looking for unsporterized Longbranch Enfields especially any original snipers or their whereabouts. Reply tothirtypound@hotmail.com
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 .357 MAGNUM Ruger Security 6, 4� stainless barrel, Hogue rubber grips, $400. 633-2488 or 333-5640 (cell). PRE-64 MODEL 70 Winchester in 270 cal, great shape, $750 obo. 332-3726
RUGER MODEL 77, 270 Winchester cal, as new, only fired 10 rounds, green/brown laminated stock, c/w Ruger scope rings, $900 obo. 335-4749 or 668-4726 RUGER NO. 1 338 win mag. Nikon Omega 1.65-5x36 scope, $1,100; Savage Light Weight Hunter Leupold VX-3 2.5-8x36 scope, $1,200. Daniel @ 668-4104 VANGUARD ENDEAVOR ed 8x42 binoculars, camo, like new, $300; Nikon Monarch 2-8x32 scope, BDC reticle, $200; Husqvarna 6.5x55 model 1896 sporterized, Scout config. 2-7x32 scope, accurate, c/wdies, ammo, $500. 668-4104 GEVARM CARABINE Automatique .22 lr open bolt semi-auto in good condition, $375. 633-2443 MOSSBERG 12-GAUGE shotgun, 20� barrel, Pachmaier pistol grip and forend grip, $200 obo. 335-4749 or 668-4726 WEATHERBY 20 gauge semi auto, uplander, c/w full case of ammo, choke tubes, must have FAC, $700. 333-0866 LICENSED TO BUY, SELL & CONSIGN rifles & ammo at G&R New & Used 1612-D Centennial St. 393-2274 BUY • SELL
Wanted WANTED: 2000 or newer GMC/Chev 2500. Long box ext cab 4x4 with the gas engine. 332-3726
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2015 TOYOTA RAV4 LE AWD blue. Won in Habitat for Humanity raffle Dec 31. Vehicle in showroom condition & parked indoors. Has not been plated yet, $25,000. 335-6995 2008 JEEP Compass North 4wd, 2.4 ltr auto sunroof, heatted seats, 83,000km, very clean, reduced to $9,000. 668-7455 2007 BUICK Rendezvous. Like new winter tires. Very nice family SUV. V-6 automatic transmission, 4 door. Front wheel drive. 2,750 obo. 333-9084
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2003 KIA Rio. Studded winter tires. Runs and looks good. 5 speed manual transmission. 234,000 kms. Asking $2,000 obo. 334-8205
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2012 Toyota Camry Hybrid LE # 7007 ............................. $21,290 2013 Toyota Tundra Double Cab Limited # 7226.............$40,995 2012 Ford Transit Connect Wagon XLT # 7791A ............. $19,435 2013 Toyota Highlander Hybrid Limited # 7795A ........... $44,199 2013 Ford Escape SE 1.6L ECO # 7745A .........................$22,900
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2006 CHRYSLER Sebring touring 4 Dr sedan, 173,000 kms. Power windows & door locks, a/c, maintained with regular oil changes, $3,900 obo. jenskel@hotmail.com of 333-3457
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
2014 Ford Fiesta Titanium
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2004 DODGE Dakota ext cab, 3.7L V6, 5-spd, 278,000kms, exc cond, good glass, body, rubber, new studded rear tires, exc gas mileage, uses no oil, $2,800 obo. 333-9831 or 633-4102
$16,895 2012 Dodge Journey R/T AWD
2003 GMC Sierra 4X4, burgundy, 4 door, running boards, tunnel cover, great truck for winter, $7,000 obo. 335-7799
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2000 TOYOTA Tundra pickup, runs great, no issues, new sprayed in bedliner, recent repair to transfer case, 268,000 kms, $5,900 firm. 689-2474
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2014 CHEVROLET Cruze LT, loaded, 1.4 ltr turbo auto, white/blk interior, 10,623km, shows like new, $12,000. 668-7455 2012 HONDA Civic, great shape, less than 60,000km, new studded winter & factory all season tires & rims, block heater, 7-yr/130,000km warranty. 689-5750
1996 PLYMOUTH Voyager van, vg condition, clean and smooth, 280,000km, tinted windows, $2,600 obo. 322-1476 1995 FORD F250, 5 spd, 6-cyl, plywood boxes on bedrails, plywood sliding bed cover, good work truck, $1,500. Daniel @ 668-4104 1993 CHEVY Silverado 4X4 half-ton, needs some work such as new transmission, about 300,000kms, good for rebuild or for parts, $1,500 obo. 393-2630
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2008 TOYOTA Corolla, manual, all season and winter studded tires, 184,000km, great condition, good on fuel, $7,000. 333-4014
TRUCK CANOPIES - in stock * new Dodge long/short box * new GM long/short box * new Ford long/short box
2007 VW Passat 2L Turbo Wagon. 156,000km, pwr, leather, full service, recent engine work, runs great, $8,000. 334-5297
Hi-Rise & Cab Hi - several in stock View at centennialmotors.com 393-8100
2003 MITSUBISHI Lancer. Looks and runs good, $2,599. Al 333-1482
ALCOA FORGED rims, R24.5x8, new, $350 obo. 689-5234
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WHEELCHAIR ELECTRIC lift for mini van or full size van, worth $10,000, asking $5,000 obo. 333-2857
HOME BUILT camper, plywood construction, polystyrene insulation, peaked metal roof, lots of headroom, solid design & construction, fits full size truck, $1,500. Daniel @ 668-4104
4 LT 265-70-17 Firestone Enforcers, approx 80% tread left, new price $275, asking $95 ea. 333-0717 2004 SUBARU STI, 100,000 km, $12,000 obo. 668-5085
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1994 TOYOTA 4Runner for parts. Blown engine, good transmission, standard 4x4, good diffs, $1,000. 334-5297
SYNTHETIC 5W40 oil, 5 gallon, $120 obo. 668-5085 2 TIRES, Uniroyal Laredo P245/70R16. 70%, $60. Daniel @ 668-4104 SET OF 31x10.5 R15 Nokian Natiiva mud + snow tires on 6-bolt Toyota rims, c/w a spare, $350. Brandon 334-6705 DODGE DAKOTA brake shoe, new, still in box, $25 obo. 393-2630 HOLSET BD diesel upgraded turbo for 5.9 Common rail Dodge Cummins diesel. Low hrs/miles. 40 plus PSI supports stock & over 450 HP applications. 633-6502 1991 FORD 1/2 ton 4X4, air bag suspension front & back, still runs, needs motor, $500 obo. 335-0164
Pets 2 BEAUTIFUL Love Birds need new home. Cage, toys, food inclĘźd, $200 obo. 393-3300 lv msg Has your fur buddy slowed down? Return 'spring' to your dogĘźs step. Older or injured dogs benefit from Glucosamine and MSM. Tasty pharmaceutical grade powder. Dosage based on weight. 332-7828 CANINES & COMPANY Dog Obedience School Puppy training classes January 19 Basic obedience class January 19 Private Lessons Dog Puller Coacing www.caninesandcompany.ca 333-0505 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 ADVANCED K9 TRAINING AND SERVICES K9 Narcotics Scent Detection w/Legal Pseudo Scent January 11th Intro to Family Protection Dog Training February 1st Private lessons available 668-6118 www.advancedk9.com
Motorcycles & Snowmobiles TAITʟS CUSTOM TRAILER SALES 2-3-4- place snowmobile & ATV trailers Drive on Drive off 3500 lb axles by Trailtech - SWS & Featherlight CALL ANYTIME: 334-2194 www/taittrailers.com RONʟS SMALL ENGINE SERVICES Repairs to Snowmobiles, Chainsaws, Lawnmowers, ATVʟs, Small industrial equipment. Light welding repairs available 867-332-2333 lv msg JO'S SMALL ENGINE REPAIR •Repairs to snowmobiles, snowblowers , chainsaws, outboards, lawnmowers and more. •Shop rate $70 per hour, •Lawnmowers and chainsaws $60 per hour. Call Steve @ 633-6314 or 334-1628 2009 GRIZZLY ATV, c/w spare tires, rims & tracks, $8,000. 335-4237 RECREATIONAL POWERSPORTS AND MARINE (RPM) REPAIRS Service, repair and installations for snowmobiles, ATVs, motorcycles, chainsaws, marine and more Qualified and experienced mechanic Great rates! Call Patrick at 335-4181 2013 SKANDIC Wide-track 600 E-TEC, full under-body skid plate, front bush bumper & rear HD bumper, good cold-weather start, exc cond, $11,500. Frank 390-2075
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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
4 P235-65-17 Fulda tires, German made, 90% tread left, new price $250 ea, less than 2,000kms, asking $95 ea. 333-0717
1994 BMW 325i for parts. Body & interior in perfect shape, blown engine, $1,000. 334-5297
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2 TWIN track Ski-doos, 1 long track, 1 short track. 867-993-6765 M1000, 2009 Arctic Cat, Sno Pro, 162 track, 2000 miles, lots of extras, $4,400. 334-3500 1996 600 Ski-doo F3, low kms, exc cond, inch and a half long track, matching leather suit, $3,900 obo. 335-5192
Marine PROFESSIONAL BOAT REPAIR Fiberglass Supplies Marine Accessories FAR NORTH FIBERGLASS 49D MacDonald Rd Whitehorse, Yukon 393-2467 1984 ZETA 24' Hard Top, 350/260 leg, 15hp kicker, dingy, barbecue, galley, head, canvas enclosure, GPS chart plotter fishfinder, radio, sleeps 5, tandem trailer, rough water boat, bottom paint, many extras, reasonable offers. 332-1374 1976 50HP Mercury, complete with controls. Runs great, $500. 821-2938
Heavy Equipment WANTED: CATERPILLAR 769C or later or 773B or later rock truck. Will consider any location or cond. jonathanganter@hotmail.com 780-289-4989. CATERPILLAR 1997 model 980G loader in good operating condition. Tires at 85%. New bucket. Fob Dawson City, $95,000. jonathanganter@hotmail.com 780-289-4989 SKIDDER 550 Timberjack, fresh motor, has 4000L water tank, large winch, full blade, $20,000. Can be leased. 335-5192 WATER TRUCK, 1984 W900 and 4000 gal tank Bowie pump, fire hose manifold, new tires, certified, $22,200. Can be leased. 335-5192 2009 BOBCAT CT 440, 44hp tractor w/backhoe & many other attachments, $25,000. Can be leased. 335-5192
Aircraft TENT HANGAR at YXY, price reduced to $20,000 obo. Bruce @ 334-3153
Campers & Trailers 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
ATLIN - GLACIER VIEW CABINS “your quiet get awayâ€? 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 AL-ANON MEETINGS, 667-7142. Has your life been affected by someoneĘźs drinking? Wednesday 12Noon @ Anglican Church, 4th & Elliott, back door, Friday 7pm Lutheran Church, 4th & Strickland, beginnerĘźs meeting, Friday 8pm Lutheran Church regular meeting 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
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have your pets SPAYED OR NEUTERED. FOR INFORMATION CALL
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Spay or Neuter Your Dog You may qualify to have one family dog spayed or neutered for FREE or at a reduced amount if you fall into one of the following categories:
1. You live in an outlying Yukon community 2. You qualify as having a low income (Whitehorse included) 3. Your local First Nation, town or village council has agreed to cost share with Humane Society Yukon For more information contact Linda Priestley at 1-867-633-6019 or email linda.priestly@humanesocietyyukon.ca RUNNING AT LARGE...
If you have lost a pet, remember to check with City Bylaw: 668-8382
KIDS KREATE, free family art class at the Yukon Arts Centre, January 24 from 1–4pm, watercolour painting, registration not required. Call 393-7109 for more information
AVAILABLE FOR ADOPTION
CHILKOOT TRAIL/LOG Cabin: Non-motorized weekend: Jan 8-10 & 29-31. Other weekends & weekdays: Multi-Use. For info: 867-667-3910 HORAIRE PISTE Chilkoot/Log Cabin: Multi-usage sauf du 8 au 10 et du 29 au 31 janvier. activities non motorisees. 867-667-3910 YUKON SCHUTZHUND Association AGM Saturday, February 6, 2016, 4pm-6pm, Whitehorse Public Library meeting room. Dog enthusiasts welcome.
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Sweet Pea
Shylo
Diamond
Diga
Pandin
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Dakota
Buddy
Zoie
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Rosie
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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 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. U14 STRIKERS soccer team bottle drive fundraiser Sunday, January 10, 10am-2pm in Porter Creek to lessen cost of travel to Calgary & ultimately Greenland. 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 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. PORTER CREEK Community Association meeting Monday, January 11th, 5:15 pm at the Guild Hall. All Welcome. Come show your support. Info 633-4829
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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.
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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HOOTENANNY & Dance, Hank Karr & Friends, January 22, 2016, 7 - 10 pm, Elks Hall, Tickets @ 3Beans, $25. Support Yukoners Cancer Care Fund SHARE THE LOVE Feb 13. Gala event supporting Little Footprints Big Steps work in Haiti. Morgan Wienberg will be sharing, youth musicians, silent auction. Tickets Deans Music & Strings or 334-3928. DANCE G A T H E R I N G , a monthly let-loose-shake-it-move-stretch-sweat-smile evening. Mix of world beat, rock, blues, electronica. Entrance by donation. Jan 9 @ 302 Strickland, 8-930pm. whitehorsedancegathering@gmail.com
ACTIVE TRAILS Whitehorse Association monthly meeting Tuesday, Jan 12 7 pm at Sport Yukon Boardroom #1. All welcome. Visit www.activetwa.org.
NON-RESTRICTED FIREARM safety course presented by Whitehorse Rifle & Pistol Club January 23 & 24. For more info please call 334-1688
CARBON HILL Race Day, Sunday, January 17th, Mt Lorne Community Hall. 35 miles, 10 miles dog sled & skijor, 6 mile recreation class, 100 yards kids dash. Info: https://dpsay.wordpress.com or facebook
FREE EVENT "Connecting Through Stories" Sunday, January 10 at Well Read Books, 1pm. Patrick Colfer and Ellen Davignon share stories to warm the heart and lift the spirit. Refreshments served.
RESTRICTED FIREARM safety course presented by Whitehorse Rifle & Pistol Club Saturday, January 16. For more info call 334-1688 or 667-6728
BARN DANCE, Old Fire Hall, Saturday January 16, 7:30pm, featuring Bob Kuiperʼs Barn Dance Band & the Fiddleheads. Adults $10, youth $5, families $25, at the door
VOCAL JAZZ extraordinaire. Karin Plato, Steve Maddock, Old Fire Hall, Friday, January 15, 7:30pm. Sponsored by Jazz Yukon
WHITEHORSE G E N E R A L Hospital Women's Auxiliary monthly meeting Monday January 11th, 7:30pm, at WGH. New members welcome. Info: 667-2087
TOGETHER TODAY… FOR OUR CHILDREN TOMORROW
COUNCIL OF YUKON FIRST NATIONS 2166-2ND AVENUE, WHITEHORSE, YUKON Y1A 4P1 TEL: (867) 393-9200 FAX: (867) 668-6577
REQUEST FOR BOARD MEMBERS The Council of Yukon First Nations is requesting applications from Yukon First Nation Citizens for nominations on the following Boards and Committees:
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Yukon Environmental and Socioeconomic Assessment Board (YESAB) (1 seat) Yukon Land Use Planning Council (YLUPC) (1 seat)
For application forms and/or for more information, please visit our website at www.cyfn.ca or contact Wendy Risby at (867) 393-9204 or by e-mail at boardsandcommittees@cyfn.net .
DEADLINE for applications is Jan. 13, 2016, at 4:30 PM
Firearms For Sale #1
Remington 700 – 22-250 rifle with Redfield 20X scope
#2
Remington 700 – 300 Winchester Magnum with Bushnel 3X – 9X scope
#3
Winchester Model 94 – 30-30 rifle
#4
Whitworth 30-06 rifle
#5
Sturm, Ruger 300 Winchester Magnum with Tasco 4 X 32 scope
#6
Remington 700 – 7mm Remington Magnum with Leupold 2X – 7X scope
#7
Lakefield–Mossberg, Model 385KB, 20 g bolt - holds 2¾” and 3” shells
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Remington 22 Long rifle repeater
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Marlin Model 444S – 444 Marlin
#10
CIL – M171 - .22 Long rifle
#11
Savage Arms, Combination rifle, .22 Long rifle/.410 g
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Savage Arms, Combination rifle, 30-30/20 g
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Lee Enfield Sporter, No. 4 MKI, no bolt or magazine
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CIL Single Barrel, Model 402, 410g, 3” full choke
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Old Pellet gun, made in Germany, single shot
SEALED bids plainly marked “Item #_____” will be received up until 3:00 pm on Wednesday, January 27th, 2016. Highest, or any bid, not necessarily accepted. Sold as-is-where-is. Bids, along with a copy of a valid Possession and Acquisition Licence (PAL), can be placed at: Office of the Public Guarding and Trustee, 3rd Floor Andrew Philipsen Law Centre, Whitehorse, Yukon or mailed to Office of Public Guarding and Trustee, P.O. Box 2703, J-2B, Whitehorse, Yukon Y1A 2C6. For more information contact 667-5114 or toll free at 1-800-661-0408 (extension 5114)
YRTA (YUKON Retired Teachers) Breakfast on Tuesday January 12th, 9:30am, at Main St. Grill. Guests welcome. Info: 667-2644 WHITEHORSE CONCERTS presents: Acclarion: clarinet and accordion duo at The Yukon Arts Centre on Saturday, January 16th. Concert begins at 8 pm. Contact: steve@whitehorseconcerts.com
KLUANE MOUNTAIN June 10-12. Weekend Super Passes ($350) Strings, Whitehorse, Haines Junction yukonbluegrass.com
Bluegrass Festival, Passes ($140) and on sale at Dean's Kluane Machine, and online:
LOOKING FOR a fun volunteer opportunity for 2016? How about Motherʼs Against Drunk Driving (MADD)? Please call 867-333-6322 or email maddwhitehorse@gmail.com for more information. Next meeting January 12, 2016. TRUTHFULNESS, COMPASSION and forbearance in todayʼs world. Nine day lecture series on cultivating oneself through Falun Gong. For more information kindly call 667-6336 LIVING ON the edge, Neanderthals and their relatives in Siberia, Long Ago Yukon SKYPE lecture with Dr. Bence Viola, Beringia Centre, Saturday, January 16, 1p.m. 633-6579, www.facebook.com/LongAgoYukon HIDDEN VALLEY School Council regular council meeting is Tuesday, January 12, 2016, 6:00pm in the school library. Everyone is welcome
COFFEE HOUSE Sat. Feb 6. Featuring: Yk Women in Music + the Open Stage. Help set up 6pm + open stage sign-up, 7:30pm show. $5 bsmt United Church, 6th+ Main. 633-4255
PORTER CREEK Secondary School Council regular council meeting is Wednesday, January 13, 2016, 6:30pm in the school library. Everyone is welcome
PARENTING OR caring for a child, youth or adult with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder? Share your experiences, wisdom & knowledge Thursday, Jan 28, at the FASSY office 4041B 4th Ave, 6:30pm.
YUKON BIRD Club potluck and slideshow January 21, Hellaby Hall, 6-9pm. Bring 10 best/favourite bird pictures on memory stick
DOWNTOWN URBAN Gardenerʼs Potluck & Social at 6 pm on Thursday, January 21st, AGM at 7-8:30 pm. Upstairs room at Maryhouse at 504 Cook. Info: Randy 633-4379 YUKON ORIENTEERING Association AGM 7pm Wednesday, January 20 in Boardroom #2 at Sport Yukon. All members are welcome to attend. COFFEE HOUSE Folk Night Fundraiser: Jan 23, 7 pm @ Whitehorse United Church. Support local musicians and the Girl Guides of Canada at this relaxed acoustic music night. Tickets $5 at door.
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VOLUNTEERING WITH Yukon Distress & Support Line @ Many Rivers. Interested in supporting the community through confidential telephone counselling? If so, email at ydsl@manyrivers.yk.ca to find out more. YUKON S C I E N C E Institute presents Pharma-ecology: from our bathrooms to the Whitehorse sewage lagoon with Devon Yacura, Sunday, January 10, 7:30pm, Beringia Centre, Whitehorse and Monday, January 11, 7:30pm, Yukon College, Haines Junction. Free. TAI CHI Yukon is starting its winter session including a new beginnerʼs class. For more info contact: www.taichi-yukon.ca, info@taichi-yukon.ca or Helene at 668-3814. YUKON FILM Society Special General Meeting (By-law Review), Thursday, January 21 @ 5:15pm, 212 Lambert Street, 2nd Flr. Info: 867-393-3456
Services BUSY BEAVERS Pruning, Hauling, and General Labour Call Francois & Katherine 456-4755 IBEX BOBCAT SERVICES “Country Residential Snow Plowing” All Subdivisions & acreages off Mayo Rd, MacPherson, Hidden Valley, Pilot Mountain & Hot Springs Rd. Honest & Prompt Service Call 667-4981 or 334-6369 EXPERT CARPENTRY •All types of projects •Commercial & residential •New construction & renovations •Interior & exterior •Fine finishing 334-5231
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 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 LOG CABINS: Professional Scribe Fit log buildings at affordable rates. Contact: PF Watson, Box 40187, Whitehorse, YT, Y1A 6M9 668-3632 LITTLE DUTCH CLEANING LADY •Retired Nurse •Light duty nursing •Household cleaning •Assist with shopping Contact Ineke.p@hotmail.com Phone 867-334-3043 Also on Facebook TLC Continuing Care & Homecare Services Certified, licensed, bondable, safe, reliable Works with all ages Certified nursing home attendant Also available for escort services to appointments and shopping 334-7405 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 DOKIC INC. •30 years experience •Commercial & Residential Renovations & Repairs •Flooring•Hardwood•Laminate •Tiles•Stonework •Fine Finishing •Reliable & High Standard of Craftsmanship •Free Estimates 335-8984 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
REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS:
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ADMINISTRATION FACILITY
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Kwanlin Dün First Nation (KDFN) is seeking qualified consultants to conduct preliminary planning work on a new administration facility. The work is intended to identify the future office space requirements of a new building, develop a viable functional program for the facility and assess potential building locations. The complete Request for Proposal (RFP) package may be obtained from the KDFN Economic Development Department at the Kwanlin Dün main administration building. Sealed proposals may be mailed or delivered to: Kwanlin Dün First Nation, ATTENTION: Les Wilson 35 McIntyre Drive, Whitehorse Yukon, Y1A 5A5
Proposals, completed in accordance with the instructions in the RFP Package, must be received by 4 p.m. PST on January 22, 2016. Questions relating to this RFP may be directed to Les Wilson at tel: (867) 633-7813, or by email at Les.Wilson@kdfn.net The lowest bid will not necessarily be accepted.
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Sports Equipment RALEIGH SERENGETI mountain bike, 20" frame, $100. Daniel @ 668-4104 CROSS C O U N T R Y skis, Rossignol non-wax, sz 7 ski boots, easy toe binding, $200 firm. 334-7405 INVERTRAC, A light-weight, quality inversion table used for back pain & headache relief, $100. 821-3369
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Livestock HORSE HAVEN HAY RANCH Irrigated Timothy/Brome mix No weeds or sticks Small squares 60 lbs plus 4 ft x 5 ft rounds 800 lb Free delivery for larger orders Straw square bales available 335-5192 • 668-7218 QUALITY YUKON MEAT No hormones, steroids or additives Grass raised grain finished. Hereford beef - $5.50/lb Domestic wild boar - $7/lb Order now for guaranteed spring or fall delivery. Whole, half or custom order. Samples available 668-7218 • 335-5192 HAY FOR SALE •Dry bales kept under a shelter •Great quality hay 60-70 lb bales, $10 633-4496 or mikeandastra@me.com 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
YUKON NEWS HAY FOR SALE Small square brome bales, $12. Call 668-2407
Baby & Child Items CHILDRENʼS CLOTHING in excellent condition, given freely the first & third Saturday monthly at the Church of the Nazarene, 2111 Centennial. 633-4903
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LAND LOTTERY Dawson City and Haines Junction
1-PC BOYʼS snowsuit, size 3T, Molehill brand, used twice, paid $120, asking $60. 393-2630
Energy, Mines and Resources, Land Management Branch is holding a land lottery for:
CAR (TODDLER) bed, exc condition, $60 obo. 393-2630
• One country residential and five residential lots in Dawson City • One residential lot in Haines Junction Information packages and application forms are available at the EMR District offices in Dawson City and Haines Junction; from the Land Management Branch, 3rd Floor, Room 320 Elijah Smith Building, 300 Main Street, Whitehorse, Yukon; or online at: www.emr.gov.yk.ca/lands
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 CLASSIC SOLID wood bedroom dresser and drawers, 69” long w/large mirror. 9 drawers. Will forward picture, $375. 633-3113 BONDED LEATHER theatre style 3 seat reclining couch with storage arms & cup holders. Colour black, $200. 667-6562
REQUEST FOR BIDS Mixed-Use Commercial Development Lot 704 Main Street, Whitehorse Yukon RFB 2015-PLA0001 Documents available from procurement@whitehorse.ca Closing Friday January 22, 2016 at 2 pm PST. For more information visit whitehorse.ca/mainstreet
www.whitehorse.ca
Deadline is before 4:30 p.m., Thursday, February 25, 2016. Lottery Applications for the Haines Junction lot must be received in Whitehorse before the deadline. Applications for the Dawson lots must be received in Whitehorse or Dawson City before the deadline. Lottery Draw: All applications will be drawn in the Dawson City Council Chambers at 12:00 p.m., Tuesday, March 1, 2016. Applicants and the general public are welcome to attend the draw. All successful applicants will be notified the next day. For more information contact the Land Management Branch at (867) 667-5215 or Toll-free 1-800-661-0408 local 5215
EXPRESSION OF INTEREST
Personals CITIZENS ON PATROL. Do you have concerns in your neighborhood & community? Be part of the solution! Volunteer valuable time to the C.O.P.S. program. With your eyes & ears we can help stomp out crime. Info: RCMP 867-667-5555 DRUG PROBLEM? Narcotics Anonymous meetings Wed. 7pm-8pm #2 - 407 Ogilvie St. BYTE Office FRI. 7pm-8:30pm 4071 - 4th Ave Many Rivers Office
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GRAVEL SOURCES WITHIN THE DAWSON CITY AREA The Department of Highways and Public Works is requesting information for granular sources within the Dawson City area. Third parties are asked to contribute to the ongoing gravel strategy. HPW is considering sourcing granular material from private developers for future projects and would like to invite external input. This EOI is not a tender and will not be used to evaluate, select, or pre-qualify vendors for a future competitive procurement process, if any. Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title and will be received at: Electronic copies may be sent by e-mail to David Lorenzi, David.Lorenzi@gov.yk.ca, (867) 332-4471. Hard copies may be delivered or mailed/ couriered to, Highways and Public Works, Procurement Support Centre, Department of Highways and Public Works, Suite 101-104 Elliott Street, Whitehorse, Yukon (867) 667-5385. The closing date for submissions is before 4:00 PM on March 31, 2016. Technical questions may be directed to David Lorenzi at (867) 332-4471.
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Interested parties may obtain information from www.hpw.gov.yk.ca/tenders/tms.html Interested parties may obtain the information package from www.hpw.gov.yk.ca/tenders/ or by contacting the Procurement Support Centre.
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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.
WHITEHORSE DUPLICATE BRIDGE CLUB January 5, 2016 1st - Mark Davey & Chris Bookless 2nd - Nick Smart & Andrzej Jablonski 3rd - Bob Walsh & Bill Grandy We play every Tuesday at 7:00 pm at the Golden Age Society. New players are welcome. For more information call 633-5352 or email nmcgowan@klondiker.co
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2016-2017 Call for Proposals The Yukon Fish and Wildlife Enhancement Trust is a public registered charity with the objective to: “restore, enhance and protect fish and wildlife populations and their habitat in the Yukon, so as to achieve the objectives of Chapter 16 (Fish and Wildlife) of the Umbrella Final Agreement including initiating, sponsoring, funding, directing and carrying out measures to achieve those objectives”. The Trust is accepting project proposal submissions that meet the Trust’s objective and are prepared according to the Trust Proposal Guidelines, which may be obtained at http://yfwet.ca/. Requests up to a maximum of $15,000 are encouraged, however, any amount may be considered.
DEADLINE: Proposals submitted electronically by 4:00 p.m. March 1st, 2016. For more information or to submit a proposal - email: info@yfwet.ca Trust’s Mailing Address: P.O. Box 31022, Whitehorse, Yukon, Y1A 5P7 Physical Address: 409 Black Street, Whitehorse, YT. Phone: Dennis Zimmermann, Trust Manager at (867) 335-9422 ___________________________________________________________________________________ The Trust is looking for Lake Trout projects! The Trust anticipates focusing some of the funding for 2016-17 on projects that assist in rebuilding Yukon’s Lake Trout stocks. __________________________________________________________________________________ As a registered charity we welcome all donations. The Trust shall provide donors with a charitable tax receipt, recognition on our website and on our widely distributed free calendar. 100% of donation dollars are spent directly on fish and wildlife projects.
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