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Yukon court is expected to hear arguments Nov. 22 on an appeal filed by the territory’s acting chief coroner over a Supreme Court order for an inquest into the death of Cynthia Blackjack, a First Nations woman who died in 2013 as she was being medevaced from Carmacks to Whitehorse.

Yukon Chief Justice Ron Veale ordered a public inquest in March of this year after finding Yukon Chief Coroner Kirsten Macdonald’s investigation into Blackjack’s death did not address allegations of systemic failures by the territory’s health care system against First Nations citizens.

Blackjack died en route from Carmacks to Whitehorse during a medevac, which had happened six hours after it was ordered due to a series of mistakes and problems with equipment. In her 2014 report on the case, Macdonald identified a number of issues and made eight recommendations to the Department of Health and Social Services, but wrote that she found no reason to hold a public inquest.

The decision was challenged by Little Salmon/ Carmacks First Nation and Blackjack’s mother, Theresa.

Macdonald has since gone on extended leave.

Acting chief coroner Heather Jones filed an appeal to Veale’s order in late March, later arguing, that under the Coroners Act, Veale had no jurisdiction to override Macdonald’s decision.

In court documents filed last month, Theresa Blackjack’s lawyer, Vincent Larochelle, wrote that the

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Justice Minister Tracy-Anne McPhee says Yukoners will find out today who will be leading the investigation into the treatment of inmates with mental health concerns at the Whitehorse Correctional Centre as well as the case of Michael Nehass.

McPhee told the legislative assembly yesterday that the paperwork appointing the inspector is on her desk to be signed.

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Cynthia Blackjack, pictured in a 2012 photo, died in 2013 after being medevaced from Carmacks. A Yukon court is expected to hear arguments Nov. 22 on an appeal filed by the territory’s acting chief coroner over a Supreme Court order for an inquest into the death. chief coroner’s refusal to hold an inquest “has poured oil onto the fire of the public’s imagination of the state of health care services in the Yukon’s communities.”

“With all due respect, this case is not about the chief coroner’s office. It is about Cynthia Blackjack….

It is about (her community’s) concern that the death of Ms. Blackjack is an illustration of the systemic discrimination they believe they face on a daily basis in the health care system,” Larochelle wrote.

“If anything has eroded the credibility and effectiveness of the chief coroner’s office, it is the appellant’s obstinate refusal to order an inquest into the serious and persistent concerns raised by these stakeholders.”

Documents filed on behalf of Little Salmon Carmacks First Nation by lawyer Susan Roothman were equally scathing, accusing the coroner’s

office of being “out of step with the law developing in Canada as far as the broad purpose of inquests are concerned.” “(The Coroners Act) does not make the chief coroner untouchable,” Roothman wrote, accusing the coroner’s office of taking advantage of certain parts of the act while ignoring others.

“The Appellant’s intricate foot work in this Court, dancing around sections … of the Act, does not alleviate the bunion of her repetitive section 8-point dance for the respondents and the court below,” Roothman continued.

“The chief coroner’s dealing with the matter of Blackjack’s death, pushing it out of the public eye by relentlessly opposing an inquest by all means possible, does not hold the public imagination in check.”

Both Larochelle and Roothman are asking for the appeal to be dismissed.

Lawyer Richard Buchan, counsel for the coroner’s office, submitted a response refuting their claims.

“In their respective factums, both respondents imply that the appellant’s interpretation of the Act is intended to deprive bereaved families and the public of an inquest, regardless of a coroner’s view of the criteria appropriate for holding an inquest.

Framing the point in this way has no place in properly interpreting a statute,” Buchan wrote.

“The appellant’s position is that the criteria informing her decision whether to hold an inquest must be derived from the legislation, not from generalized views about what the purpose of inquests should be, nor based upon sentimental appeals not supported by the legislation, as suggested by the respondents.”

ised to make the terms of reference for the inspector public. McPhee said he or she will have access “to anything they require” with the exception of the personal medical records of inmates.

“Other than that, the terms of reference comply with the piece of legislation being used, and as a result, the access will be unhindered,” she told the legislative assembly.

McPhee has previously said the inspection will look at the jail’s past and current processes for assisting inmates with mental health issues and

how can those can be improved.

It will look at both the Michael Nehass case and more general issues, she said in September.

Nehass spent six years in the Yukon justice system. His case raised concerns about the treatment of WCC inmates with mental health issues and First Nations inmates as well as the use of solitary confinement.

The Crown entered a Crown stay on Nehass’s charges earlier this year, effectively stopping all legal proceedings related to his case.

Less than three weeks after his release from a psychiatric hospital in Kamloops, B.C. Nehass was arrested again in British Columbia when the Crown applied for a peace bond application against him.

He was released Nov. 3.

A hearing date for the application hasn’t been set.

A peace bond is essentially a promise for someone believed to be at risk of committing a crime to follow a set of rules given by the court. Nehass is not facing any criminal charges.

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Contact Jackie Hong at jackie.hong@yukon-news.com

Wednesday, November 22, 2017

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Yukon government outlines proposed pot rules Ashley Joannou News Reporter

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hoppers will have to be at least 19 years old to buy cannabis in the territory when the drug is legalized across Canada in July.

Yukon officials announced the basics of their plans Nov. 20.

At least one government-owned retail location in Whitehorse will open in time for nationwide legalization and there will be an online retail store for Yukoners in the communities.

For now, the Yukon government is planning to have the sole authority to import, warehouse, transport and distribute recreational cannabis within the territory.

The government will be the only one selling cannabis for now, Justice Minister Tracy-Anne McPhee said. Licensed private retailers will come later.

“Our approach acknowledges the need for additional time to develop regulations including a licencing system for private retail that will reflect Yukon’s interests and values,” she said.

The Yukon government will need to pass its own cannabis bill, presumably during the March sitting of the legislative assembly, to get things in line in time for July.

The government plans to set the minimum age at 19 for possession, consumption and cultivation of cannabis. That’s one year older than the federal minimum of 18 and the same as the Yukon’s rules around alcohol. The proposed Yukon legislation would allow adults to possess 30 grams of cannabis, and grow up to four plants

for personal use.

Consumption would only be allowed in privately-owned residences and on adjoining property where permitted by the owner.

In the legislative assembly Nov. 20, NDP Leader Liz Hanson pointed out that this could be a problem for renters and people who use medical marijuana.

“People who use cannabis for medical reasons also need to be considered in this process. We would not want to see a situation where patients are not allowed to take medication they need because they live in a rental unit,” she said.

Deputy justice minister Lesley McCullough said the government is still looking at options to balance the rights of property owners with the rights of Yukoners who rent.

Pot shops Cannabis will not be for sale inside the territory’s liquor stores. Under the proposed new law cannabis couldn’t be sold in the same place as liquor.

There has been no final decision whether the store will be managed by a branch of the Yukon Liquor Corporation.

McPhee said the government is working closely with those officials.

“They do have experience with intoxicants and with their import, and regulation, and sale.”

The day after the Yukon government released its plans, the federal government released a draft of proposed new federal rules.

Ottawa says it wants to create a system that enables “a diverse, compet-

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Justice minister Tracy-Anne McPhee speaks at a news conference outlining the future of Yukon’s marijuana legislation on Nov. 20. itive legal industry made up of both large and small companies in regions across the country to produce quality-controlled cannabis,” according to its announcement.

Premier Sandy Silver has previously said he is in favour of a craft cannabis industry in the territory.

“This is the beginning.

We’re under a tight timeline, everybody in Canada is, so we’re doing this in stages,” McPhee said. “It is something that will likely be contemplated in the future and our legislation will permit that so we don’t have to come back and change it.”

Ottawa also says it plans to have rules around the production and sale of edibles and oils within a year of the act coming into force.

McCullough said the Yukon government would be “working on making those products available as they are legitimized or

regulated by the Government of Canada.”

Health and Social Services Minister Pauline Frost said local youth will be consulted to come up with an awareness campaign around the risks of cannabis.

According to the minister Yukon has the highest rate of cannabis use in Canada. Twenty-One per cent of all Yukon adults surveyed have used cannabis in the last year, she said. That’s compared to 14 per cent nationally.

Twenty-two per cent of our youth reported using cannabis within the last 30 days compared to 13 per cent of Canadian students, she said.

“Perhaps they have not had the education that’s needed so we have a lot of work ahead of us,” she said.

Opposition critical The official Opposition has accused the government of being short on

specifics.

Yukon Party MLA Brad Cathers said the government still hasn’t said how it plans to tax products.

“If the goal is to end the black market, will the tax be low enough to compete with prices on the black market, or will it simply make law enforcement’s job harder by making it harder to identify illegal marijuana versus legal marijuana,” he said in the legislative assembly Nov. 20.

Earlier this year Prime Minister Justin Trudeau proposed a $1 per gram excise tax for sales up to $10 and a tax of 10 per cent of the total price for cannabis selling at a higher price point.

At the time Silver said the tax rate “makes sense” to him. But Silver is against the proposal to split the money 50/50 between Ottawa and the jurisdictions.

A decision about how the money will be divided

up hasn’t been made yet.

Cathers also questioned where the government was going to get its supply from and what it was going to do to prevent people under the age of 19 from being exposed to second-hand smoke.

Hanson meanwhile wanted the Yukon government to pressure Ottawa to have robust quality control. “We are all too familiar with the weaknesses of self-regulation with the tobacco industry and we must learn from this,” she said.

Cathers questioned who will be enforcing this new legislation.

“Will it be municipalities? Will it be the RCMP? Or will it be the Government of Yukon by hiring potentially new inspection and enforcement officers?”

None of those details were part of the Yukon government’s announcement.

Assistant deputy minister of justice Al Lucier said that as far as impaired driving is concerned, a new federal bill C-46, is working its way through the House of Commons.

The bill lays out new offences for having specified levels of a drug in the blood within two hours of driving.

The penalties would depend on the amount of drugs in someone’s system and whether it was combined with alcohol, according to the federal government.

Yukoners can find out more about the Yukon’s plans for cannabis legislation at engageyukon.ca.

The government is also accepting public feedback

by Dec. 20 via cannabis@ gov.yk.ca.

Contact Ashley Joannou at ashleyj@yukon-news.com

Broken Porter Creek sewer pipe ‘a bona-fide emergency’: city staff Lori Fox News Reporter

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hitehorse’s city manager has approved $30,000 in emergency funds to pay for the assessment of a broken pipe in Porter Creek, council heard at the Nov. 20 standing committees meeting.

The Porter Creek flush tank system takes in waste water generated by the Porter Creek and Whistle Bend subdivisions and takes it across the Yukon River to the the city’s

sewage lagoon, the Livingstone Trail Environmental Control Facility, via a twin force main.

A leak has been discovered at a valve chamber near where the mains cross the river and the system is now running on only the backup pipe, Geoff Quinsey, the city’s newly-appointed water and waste manager, told council.

There is no alternative means of getting the waste to the sewage lagoon, he said. If the pipe is not repaired, up to 20 per cent of the city’s

waste water would be discharged into the Yukon river, which would be a violation of the territorial Waters Act and fisheries regulations.

Additionally, fresh water to Porter Creek and Whistle Bend would have to be stopped, which could result in frozen pipes and possible replacement of all water mains and services in the area. This is “an unacceptable public risk to health,” Quinsey said.

“The presence of a leak on the (system) constitutes a bona-fide

emergency, because of the risk to public health, city property, private property and the environment,” he said. “For that reason, emergency funding has been approved … to ensure the risk may be addressed as quickly and effectively as possible.”

The $30,000 will go to hiring an engineering consultant to assess the damage and develop a repair plan and cost estimate, he said. The funds will come out of the water and sewer reserve.

A total estimated repair cost will not be available

until this work is completed, but the required repairs are of an “extraordinary nature” because of how deep construction crews will need to dig and the need to stabilize a 12-metre tall concrete valve chamber.

Excavation and backfill costs are expected to be “significant” as a result, Quinsey said.

Additionally, the pipe repair will be complex because the system has to be reinforce to “avoid future failures.”

There will be “significant environmental risk”

to be mitigated, because the river bank will need to be excavated and because how bad the leak is will be unknown until the work begins.

Council unanimously agreed with the decision. Coun. Dan Boyd said there was simply no choice but to do the repairs. He thanked city staff for quickly finding the problem.

“It’s good we found the leak,” he said. “Hopefully the backup pipe doesn’t break.”

Contact Lori Fox at lori.fox@yukon-news.com

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he territory’s electoral boundaries commission is recommending the government create a new riding for Whistle Bend in time for the next election.

Under the new map proposed in the commission’s interim report, the total number of MLAs in the Yukon would stay at 19 but there would be major changes to some ridings, including Pelly-Nisutlin and Porter Creek Centre.

If the Yukon Legislative Assembly approves the plan, Pelly-Nisutlin would be no more.

Chief electoral officer Lori McKee said concerns about the Pelly-Nisutlin had to do in part with its size. The riding currently includes the communities of Teslin, Faro and Ross River.

“It contained a number of very diverse communities, areas that didn’t share a community interest or travel patterns,” McKee said. “And certainly the geography and the distance were raised as issues.”

Similar concerns were raised during the 2007-08 review of electoral districts, she said.

Under the new map, three newly-named ridings would be created.

Carcross-Tagish-Teslin would combine the southern portions of the existing Mount Lorne-Southern Lakes and Pelly-Nisutlin ridings. The new riding would include Carcross, Tagish, Teslin, and Johnson’s Crossing.

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The Mayo-Carmacks-Faro riding would combine the existing electoral district of Mayo-Tatchun with the communities of Faro and Little Salmon.

The proposed riding would include Carmacks, Elsa, Faro, Keno Hill, Little Salmon, Mayo, Pelly Crossing, and Stewart Crossing.

It would become the largest riding in the territory with a geographic area of more than 133,000 square kilometres.

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riding would be combined with the community of Ross River.

The district would also include Rancheria, Swift River and Upper Liard.

The other major proposed change is the suggestion to create a new riding for Whistle Bend.

Under the plan, parts of Whistle Bend will be absorbed into new boundaries for Porter Creek North, while the rest will get a riding of its own.

That’s to accommodate the significant growth that is expected, McKee said.

These changes will be in place for the next two elections. Electoral boundaries must be reviewed after every two elections, which means the new ridings could last until 2026. During that time the population of Whistle Bend is expected to grow, she said.

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population is expected to exceed 2,100. There is just exponential growth planned for Whistle Bend.”

Smaller changes are also being proposed to other ridings.

A full breakdown of all the proposed changes as well as a copy of the commission’s interim report is available online at yukonboundaries. ca The public can comment in writing on the report until March 10, 2018.

Public meetings will take place in February and March.

Anyone who is interested in making a presentation is asked to contact the commission’s office by Jan. 11.

A full schedule of public meetings will be released in the new year based on the level of public interest.

The commission will release its final recommendations to the Yukon Legislative Assembly by April 20.

Commissions are formed after every other election to look at the way ridings are divided up.

This commission is chaired by Chief Justice Ron Veale. Each political party with seats in the legislative assembly appoints one representative. McKee is the fifth member.

Contact Ashley Joannou at ashleyj@yukon-news.com

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Casino aims to start YESAB panel review by April 2018 Lori Fox News Reporter

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asino Mining Corporation hopes to have its proposal resubmitted to the Yukon Socio-Economic Assessment Board (YESAB)

by April 2018, company president Paul West-Sells said at the 2017 Geoscience Forum & Trade Show on Nov.19.

The parent company of the project, Western Copper and Gold, submitted its original proposal in January 2014. After a nearly two-year review, YESAB determined it needed more information to address a series of environmental concerns around the project. It bumped the project up to a panel review — the highest level of environmental assessment in the Yukon — largely over concerns surrounding the tailings pond.

Concerns surrounding the Klaza caribou herd, whose range is included in the proposed project, were also cited.

West-Sells referred to the tailings pond as the “elephant in the room” for the project. At its original proposed dimensions — a 2.5-kilometre wide, 286-metre tall wall containing 11 square kilometres of tailings — that might be an apt

Phase 5 of Whistle Bend a go Whitehorse city council voted Nov. 14 to approve the rezoning of a 20-hectare

metaphor.

At the 2016 geoscience forum, West-Sells said that a revamped version of the tailings pond would use 80 per cent less water. This redesign is supposed to keep more dangerous, acid-generating material at the back of the pond, where it would be less likely to spill out if the dam breaks.

West-Sells said a lot of the concerns surrounding the tailings pond stem from the August 2014 Mount Polley disaster in B.C., when a tailings pond burst, releasing 10 million cubic metres of contaminated water into the Quesnel Lake water system.

If the dam failed at the proposed Casino Mine, it could release tailings into the Donjek, White and Yukon rivers.

This is the first panel review the Yukon has ever undertaken, making Casino the first Yukon-based mining project in the territory to undergo such a review process.

However, West-Sells said similar reviews have been conducted on other Outside projects, particularly in B.C. “This is a process.… We’re not the first (mine) to go through this,” he said, noting that those reviews “ended up being very successful for those mines.”

Casino is currently parcel of land in Whistle Bend subdivision so work on Phase 5 can begin.

Once built, the new development will be home to 310 units, housing approximately

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Paul West-Sells, president and CEO of the Western Copper and Gold Corporation, talked during the 2017 geoscience forum about the proposed Casino Mine’s tailings pond and the process they are undertaking to get it approved. working with environmental assessment officers, First Nations and communities to address the concerns raised by the YESAB process, working from a “blank sheet of paper,” he said.

“You just sort of work through, considering different trade-offs, different ideas,” he said.

West-Sells said Casino is committed to “getting it right” when it comes to the design of the tailings pond.

Despite that pronouncement, Lewis Rifkind,

mining analyst for the Yukon Conservation Society, said regardless of how Casino reworks its proposal, he isn’t sure “it can satisfy the environmental community.” The tailings pond, he said, is simply too big. Even if built to the updated specifications, it would still be 18 times the size of the pond that burst at Mount Polley and “the tallest structure west of Toronto.”

“It’s a huge project and I just don’t think the Yukon environment can take it,” Rifkind said.

Even if the tailings pond could be built in a way that could be deemed to be safe, he said, how long the site will remain there and who will be responsible for its care in the long-term has yet to be determined.

“Who looks after this site 100 years from now?” he said. “How long (is the tailings pond) meant to last?

Nothing lasts forever.”

“It’s all very depressing.”

Rifkind also said he has concerns for the Klaza caribou herd, and that the

745 people. This includes 104 single-family and duplex lots, 66 townhouses, two multiple-family lots, one park and one lot zoned for institutional or recreational use.

Phase 4 of the development was approved in August 2016.

Exactly when the lots will be available for purchase has not yet been determined.

Council also recently approved a budget increase for the planning of Phase 8 of the project, to account for two additional parcels of land that were added to

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“You can basically kiss that herd goodbye,” he said.

The proposed mine is predicted to produce 8.9 million ounces of gold and 4.5 billion pounds of copper over a projected 22-year mine life.

West-Sells said that a mine of this size is what the industry wants and needs in the Yukon, pointing to the Resource Gateway Project, which will see $360 million in federal and territorial money to upgrade 650 km of access roads by 2025. This would benefit not only the proposed Casino mine, but the proposed Coffee and Selwyn mines as well.

There is a projected deficit in copper production versus demand in the next 10 years, he said.

“We need mines much bigger than Casino to make up that deficit in the next decade,” he said.

Once Casino has submitted its update proposal, YESAB has up to 15 months to complete the panel review.

If Casino makes its self-imposed April deadline, that would mean a decision by July 2019.

Contact Lori Fox at lori.fox@yukon-news.com

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he Edmonton Eskimos had a big football game Sunday and thousands of people in my hometown who hoped their team would make it to the Grey Cup were ultimately disappointed.

But when I think of my city’s Canadian Football League team, I have a different hope — that it will soon stop using the word “Eskimos.”

The use of the Eskimos name has been a recurring issue for the past few years, especially since Natan Obed, national Inuit leader for Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami, called for the elimination of the name as part of his organization’s ongoing fight against colonization in the name of reconciliation.

“The colonial legacy of naming is about power and control,” said Obed. “The issue of Inuit being used as a sports team mascot matters, because this is the way this legacy continues to play out in popular culture.”

As an Inuit scholar and writer, I have also spoken on this topic several times, both with the media and within my own work.

The Edmonton Eskimos are an institution and, like most institutions, want to appear as though they are helping and respecting the less fortunate or the underdogs of society. The Edmonton football team has said they use their name with pride. In fact, they are disrespecting and suppressing Inuit peoples.

By using the word Eskimos, they are perpetuating the ideas that go along with the word. Firstly, the word Eskimo word is not used by my peoples, and secondly, they are perpetuating the concept that Inuit do not have the abilities required for present-day modern living.

I live in Edmonton — a city that presents itself as being progressive and modern. So why continue to use a term circulated by anthropologists hundreds of years ago?

More importantly, why continue to make use of a word that is considered to be — by the people most affected — a racial slur?

In my creative work, when I make use of the word Eskimo it is to bring attention to the ongoing colonization of Inuit peoples in Canada. Sadly, most of the Canadian population has been indoctrinated into the grand narrative of our country’s history in which Aboriginal Canadians are absent.

Therefore, the general population is led to believe the word Eskimo is harmless.

This is rhetoric, constantly generated by media, to an audience that is uninformed or misinformed about the truth of Inuit existence in Canada.

Economic disparity The issue is not only about the use of a word, it is also about the disparity that Inuit Canadians live within on a daily basis. It is about Inuit as the smallest group of Aboriginal Canadians, holding the rank of first place in all the statistics that point

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to poverty, food scarcity and high attrition rates in high school.

Painful and abusive rhetoric has both emotional and financial costs. From where I stand, “The Edmonton Eskimos” have done very well financially off of the word Eskimo. However, I do not see where the team or the CFL has given back to Inuit Canadians as a whole.

Inuit are contributing citizens of Canada. We have always paid full taxes. We do not receive any form of individual payment for the resources that are harvested within the northern areas of Canada.

Any profits received from the resources that Canada or a foreign industry pay for the right to harvest, is placed into a heritage trust account, ensuring that Inuit history and language is sustained into future generations.

The public may think that a land claims agreement represents a huge payout to Inuit in the north, but it does not. It represents an agreement that places the federal government into a position of fulfilling a fiduciary obligation towards the people whose land and resources they wanted.

True ways to reconciliation My opposition of the use of the word Eskimo by a major football team is not just about cultural appropriation.

Eliminating the use of the word Eskimo is about the empowerment and respect required and demanded by Inuit Canadians.

I heard on CBC Calgary that a small social media survey was taken within the northern areas of Canada where the response was in favour of the word, Eskimo.

I also believe that if one Inuit person says,

“I don’t mind it. That’s what we are!” the media and the institutions that hold power will feel justified in how they use the word.

Last week, Global News reported on a national survey which found only 21 per cent of Canadians believed the Eskimos team name to be unacceptable. In Alberta, that number was just 12 per cent. But this was a poll of only 1,005 people. Clearly, media can present information that leaves out important facts, and does not give a true representation of an issue. Perhaps this can be interpreted as yet another way an institution protects itself.

Another issue is some non-Inuit may feel that by supporting a football team named the Eskimos, they have somehow engaged with Inuit culture or are supporting an Aboriginal group. But Inuit never invented or played football traditionally.

Inuit traditional sport is more complex, requiring an intersection of finesse and skill.

Perhaps becoming involved in the Arctic Games, or informing oneself on what Inuit culture is, could be a form of personal reconciliation that mainstream society could take up.

I speak from what I know. What I know is the name of a football team generates a great deal of passion and energy. I would like to see that passion and energy from the fans and general public put into the social justice issues that the Inuit represent.

If that happened, what a beautiful world we would live in.

Inuttigut. We the Inuit: We are here.

Norma Dunning is a PhD candidate at the Department of Educational Policy Studies at the University of Alberta.

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ustin Trudeau once infamously remarked that the “budget will balance itself.”

His statement was met with guffaws and consternation that such a ludicrous statement had been made by a man who was within striking distance of the Prime Minister’s Office.

Balanced budgets don’t magically occur. They are created by the active efforts of policymakers who bring expenditures into line with revenues.

A charitable interpretation is that Trudeau was alluding to was the fact that drastic measures like painful service cuts or tax increases are not always necessary to correct certain kinds of budget deficits.

If spending growth is kept in check and the economy keeps chugging along, rising revenues and the passage of time will

eventually eliminate a deficit. Conservatives laughed at Trudeau, but this is how Stephen Harper’s government eliminated Canada’s deficit in the years following the financial crunch of 2008.

This is the good news part of the Yukon’s own Financial Advisory Panel final report released last week: “draconian cuts to spending or dramatic increases in tax rates are not necessary to put the territory’s finances back on a sustainable footing…. All that would be required is a slower rate of growth in nominal spending to more closely match the rates of increase in prices and population.”

The panel projects if a two per cent growth rate is “maintained beyond 2020, then the territory is on track to balance by 2022/23.” In other words, the budget will balance itself. Kind of.

Well that is all good news. What is the bad news?

The bad news is that 2022/23 is a few years off and in the meantime we have a slight problem — federal law limits the amount we are legally allowed to borrow. And as

the panel noted “absent … a large positive development [in mining] … the debt limit of $400 million … will likely be reached soon (perhaps by 2020).”

So unless we see some substantial economic growth or convince Ottawa to increase our borrowing limit “a balanced budget for the 2021/22 fiscal year, and potentially earlier, becomes a … binding target.”

That’s a problem.

So where do we go from here? The problem is that the government has already written of some ideas including some proposed by its own panel.

Cuts to the civil service?

Out. A territorial sales tax? Nope not doing that.

Increasing placer royalties?

How about no? And while they haven’t explicitly ruled it out if I were a betting money I’d predict that the proposal to eliminate the Homeowners Grant — that $450-$550 credit you get against your property taxes each year — will never see the light of day.

There are understandable political reasons why the government might want to avoid these moves.

Higher placer royalties would disproportionately

hit Premier Sandy Silver’s own Klondike riding. And while economists seem to love them, sales taxes are a very visible and politically unpopular form of taxation. We prefer if government takes our money in ways that are less obvious.

I was most disappointed that the government chose to completely write off cuts to the public service as a means of hastening the return to balance. I say that not because I want to see across-the-board service cuts. But because there is quite clearly fat to trim on the Yukon government payroll, with an abundance of make-work type positions and overall compensation in various pay classifications that has risen far beyond what the market for those positions could justify.

I appreciate that this must be a frustrating position for the government to be in. Surely it came to office wanting to put its own stamp on the territory, but its term will now instead be spent addressing our fiscal challenges.

It must be particularly galling for the government to be so restrained when the remnants of previous

Yukon Party government — which got to engage in a 14-year spending spree thanks to rapidly increasing transfer payments — has been so lacking in self-reflection about its own role in all this.

It has also shown a willingness to engage in halftruths to pin all of this on the Liberals, hiding behind accounting technicalities to imply that everything was just peachy when it was in charge. When the Yukon Party left office the amount of cash leaving the government’s coffers each year already exceeded the amount coming in by tens of millions of dollars. Had it been re-elected in late 2015 it would be dealing with the same challenges the Liberals are today. This train was set in motion years ago.

But as unfair as it might feel, it is also true that where we go from here is entirely up to the current government. I am afraid that by limiting options which might inflict political pain upon itself that the Liberals have painted us into a corner. The options to reduce the deficit are not limitless.

At this point incurring

some amount of debt is probably unavoidable without painful spending cuts or tax hikes. But how deep we go is a choice. Asking Ottawa to increase the debt limit is an option the panel suggests. It argues that it isn’t quite as bad, economically speaking, as it might sound. But I’m not sure it is the responsible choice, particularly in a territory with little natural economy of its own.

My fear is that this government will take the politically easy way out and ignore the other options before it. Given the choice between raising taxes, cutting spending and running deficits, politicians seem to prefer deficits.

The Financial Advisory panel “applaud[ed] the government for responding quickly to a recent deterioration in the territory’s finances.” But appointing a panel to study the issue was easy. The legacy of this government will be determined by the more difficult choices it make, or refuses to make, in the months and years to come.

Kyle Carruthers is a born-and-raised Yukoner who lives and practises law in Whitehorse.

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Morneau’s tax proposals still need work despite changes, critics insist Andy Blatchford Canadian Press

OTTAWA coalition of industry associations says Bill Morneau must make more changes to the controversial tax proposals he first unveiled last summer to ensure he addresses deep, persistent concerns in the small-business community.

The group, which came together in recent months as a vocal opponent of the finance minister’s tax-reform plan, is urging him to go further — beyond the adjustments he made to calm an uproar that dogged him for months.

The message was delivered to Morneau on Monday as part of the coalition’s first official response since the government announced several amendments last month.

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“While we thank you for making progress … we remain very concerned by the remaining proposals that appear to be moving ahead,” said a letter sent to Morneau’s office from the Coalition for Small Business Tax Fairness, which represents about 80 associations.

The changes to Morneau’s plan followed an onslaught of complaints from doctors, lawyers, accountants, shop owners, farmers, premiers and even some Liberal backbenchers. They denounced the proposals, contending they would hurt the very middle class the Trudeau government claimed to be trying to help.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Morneau argued the reforms were designed to ensure they targeted wealthy individuals who have used the incorporation of small businesses to gain what

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the government maintained was an unfair tax advantage.

But following a consultation period, Morneau took steps last month to quiet the backlash by tweaking two of the three proposals and abandoning the third one altogether.

Amid the outrage, the government also announced it would resurrect a 2015 campaign promise to cut taxes for small businesses. Trudeau promised to gradually trim the small-business tax rate to nine per cent by 2019, down from its current level of 10.5 per cent.

The coalition acknowledged the progress but, after digesting and assessing the adjustments, it insisted the government has yet to go far enough.

“I’d say the level of alarm is still very high with respect to the package of changes as a whole,” said Dan Kelly, a coalition member and president of the Canadian Federation of Independent Business.

Morneau ditched

one of the proposals last month related to converting income into capital gains. The change, he said at the time, came in response to concerns the measure could have negative tax implications for small businesses following a death and create challenges for owners who hoped to pass their family businesses to the next generation.

The government also announced it would move ahead with its proposal to limit the ability of owners of private corporations from unfairly lowering their personal income taxes by sprinkling their earnings to family members who do not contribute to their companies.

However, the Liberals vowed to simplify the proposal, which is set to come into effect Jan. 1, in response to concerns about its complexity. It also removed an element that would have limited access to the lifetime capital gains exemption as a way to avoid negative impacts on the intergenerational transfer of family businesses, like farms.

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Morneau also scaled back what some believe is the most-contentious piece of the tax-reform plan — its proposal on passive-investment income. The change, the government says, will create a threshold of $50,000 on passive income per year to ensure only three per cent of the most wealthy private corporations will have to pay higher taxes.

The coalition’s letter urges Morneau to postpone the income-sprinkling proposal until Jan. 1, 2019, provide more clarity on how it will work and, at minimum, consider making spouses exempt.

Members are concerned that the change is supposed to come into effect at the beginning of January 2018, which is only weeks away, Kelly said.

He added that the coalition also wants the government to abandon the passive-income proposal.

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The government plans to release draft legislation on the passive-income change in the lead up to next year’s budget.

Daniel Lauzon, a spokesman for Morneau, wrote in an email that the public and parliamentarians will still get an opportunity to comment on detailed proposals before they are legislated, even though the formal consultation period has ended.

He said the government has already acted on some of the recommendations.

“From the beginning we said we would listen in order to get this right,” Lauzon wrote in response to questions about the coalition’s letter.

“We are always open to input and ideas, and I think we’ve shown our willingness to listen carefully, and to act on what we hear. What we won’t do is move away from our core objective of ensuring the middle class is treated fairly.”

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OTTAWA ome taxpayers may be filing tax returns using erroneous information supplied by the Canada Revenue Agency, the federal auditor general warned Tuesday after tabling an audit that found just getting through to the department’s helplines is an even greater challenge than the government lets on.

Michael Ferguson’s latest report to Parliament said callers all too often get a busy signal or a message to hang up and try back later when they try to contact the taxman by telephone — and when they do get through, they’re not guaranteed of getting the right answers to their questions.

“When we called the call centres of the Canada Revenue Agency and we posed our questions, about 30 per cent of the responses that we got back were not right,” Ferguson told a news conference — a “very concerning” finding that could be causing problems for Canadians who file their own returns.

“We just have to assume that if people are getting

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wrong answers, then sometimes they are filling out the tax return based on those wrong answers.”

Ferguson couldn’t say how many people might be affected — only that some surely have been.

“It’s very much reasonable to extrapolate that that is going to have an impact on people,” he said.

“If people aren’t told the right date for when interest will be charged on how much they owe, they may make a payment later than they should and they might get charged interest that they weren’t expecting.”

Ferguson’s auditors also found that more than half of the 53.5 million calls that came in to the call centre during the audit period had to be blocked, since the system lacked the capacity to handle them. That meant callers either heard a busy signal or a message asking that they try back later.

Actual agents answered only 36 per cent of all incoming calls — the rest of those that weren’t blocked were directed to an automated self-serve system — and provided incorrect information to auditors about 30 per cent of the time.

Those numbers fly in

the face of the agency’s own claims that 90 per cent of callers are able to connect when they reach out for service either through the self-service centre or by speaking to an agent.

But that doesn’t take into account the fact that, on average, a taxpayer has to call about four times in a week just to get through to the agency, or the fact that more than half of the calls are blocked outright due to volume, the report said.

“We found that the agency’s numbers didn’t account for the 29 million calls it blocked in a year — more than half of its total call volume,” Ferguson said. “Those calls either get a busy signal, a message to visit the agency’s website, or a message to call back later.”

In its written response to the report, the government said it agrees there’s a need to improve the accuracy of information provided to taxpayers.

To that end, the CRA said it will launch a new system early next year for training its call centre agents.

It also acknowledged that its current call centre technology is “outdated” and said an upgrade will be forthcoming.

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Opponents seek to prolong conflict of interest allegations directed at Morneau Andy Blatchford Canadian Press

OTTAWA pposition parties took turns criticizing Bill Morneau on Monday as they tried to drag out a stinging ethics controversy that has swarmed the finance minister for weeks.

Back in the House of Commons after a week away in their ridings, opposition MPs zeroed in on Morneau over his involvement in a pension-reform bill that they allege put him in a conflict of interest.

Ethics commissioner Mary Dawson has launched a formal examination of Morneau’s work to introduce Bill C-27, which critics insist will benefit his former company in which he owned about $21 million worth of shares.

After the ethics controversy erupted, he sold off his holdings in Morneau Shepell, a human-resources company he built with his father, and vowed to place his other considerable assets in a blind trust.

Morneau announced Monday that he fulfilled another promise to donate the difference between what the shares were worth at the time of the sale and their value in 2015 when he was first elected — an amount estimated at about $5 million. His office said he gave the money to the Toronto Foundation, where the funds will support charities for homeless youth, AIDS awareness, book banks for kids and after-school programs.

That announcement, however, didn’t stop political foes Monday from taking their first crack at questioning Morneau on Dawson’s decision to take a closer look at whether the finance minister was in a conflict of interest.

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“The minister just said that now that he has sold all of his shares in Morneau Shepell he can now work on behalf of Canadians,” said Conservative MP Pierre Poilievre, who accused Morneau of hiding behind Dawson.

“What does that say about the last two years while he held those shares?

During that time, he introduced a bill creating the very targeted-benefit pension plans that his company designs and profits from.”

New Democrat MP Nathan Cullen said the Liberal government’s pension bill is not only an attack on workers’ pensions, it’s a “massive” conflict of interest involving Morneau.

“It seems this prime minister will walk across broken glass to defend his ethically embattled finance minister, but won’t lift a finger to help out Canadian pensioners,” Cullen said.

In defending Morneau, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau accused opponents of trying to undermine the integrity of the federal ethics watchdog.

Trudeau called their criticisms as nothing but “cheap shots” and “mud-slinging.”

Morneau’s opponents also had fresh fuel for Monday’s attacks.

The Canada Post Pension Advisory Council revealed it had alerted Dawson in a letter on Sept.

18 that Morneau could be in a conflict of interest over the pension bill and its potential benefits for Morneau Shepell.

Dawson, however, only opened an examination earlier this month after media reports shed light on the issue.

Peter Whitaker, an elected official on the council, said Monday that Dawson’s office only responded

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“It’s frustrating,” said the retired postal worker, who would like to see Bill C-27 abandoned.

Whitaker’s letter also noted that Morneau was executive chair of Morneau Shepell in 2012 when the company acquired the pension administration arm of Mercer Canada Inc., which is the chief actuary for Canada Post. He alleged Morneau Shepell could get an inside track on administrative business related to Bill C-27.

He added that Mor-

neau’s decision to sell his shares was “too little, too late” and insisted the bill is now tainted.

Whitaker also shared an email response he received from Dawson’s office.

It said that while it considers information from the public, the public doesn’t have standing under the Conflict of Interest Act. Her office added that the act does not apply to private companies, therefore it wouldn’t apply to Whitaker’s concerns about Mercer Canada.

On Monday, Dawson’s office issued a public statement: “There is no requirement to follow up on a

complaint from a member of the public. However, the commissioner has the discretion to self-initiate an examination, if she has reasonable grounds to believe that the act has been contravened.”

Bill C-27 would amend the Pension Benefits Standards Act so that federally regulated companies and Crown corporations would have the option of setting up target benefit plans for their employees, instead of defined benefit plans.

Morneau introduced it in October 2016, but it has languished on the order paper since then.

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“I will continue to work with the ethics commissioner to make sure that her examination is completed,” Morneau said Monday in the House

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Michael Ferguson’s review of the disastrous Phoenix pay system reveals just how many and how often public servants are either being overpaid and underpaid, how little headway federal officials have made to correct the mistakes, and how the government under-reported the number of outstanding pay problems even as issues continued to grow.

In all, there were 150,000 employees with pay problems that needed correcting at the start of summer, and a value of over $520 million worth of mistakes — almost as much as the government initially believed it would cost to fix Phoenix.

And that number — $540 million — is likely well below what it will ultimately cost, Ferguson concludes.

The Liberal government can’t assure Canadians about when the pay problems will end or how much it will ultimately cost to get a system that “comes close to its original goal,” said Ferguson, who makes a point of citing a similar problem in Australia that took seven years and $1.2 billion to resolve.

Canada, he warns, is in the same ballpark.

And while he doesn’t say what the government should ultimately do, his auditors recommend the government look at all options, including whether it might be better for the Liberals to ditch the system entirely.

The government has agreed to provide Parliament with a full and detailed cost estimate, but not until next May, with plans to finalize by next month a preliminary roadmap of dozens of projects aimed at fixing Phoenix.

Phoenix was not the only issue Ferguson identified in his latest tranche of audits: — Callers to the Canada Revenue Agency got the wrong answer to their questions 30 per cent of the time, well above the 6.5

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— Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada didn’t monitor whether Syrian refugees were being properly integrated into Canadian society, including basic information such as how many children were enrolled in schools.

— Health Canada couldn’t say whether its oral health program for First Nations and Inuit children helped in any way.

— Female offenders weren’t getting the rehabilitation they needed, especially those with mental illnesses; some prisoners with severe impairments or at risk of suicide continue to be held for observation in segregation cells, against the advice of experts.

— Cadets at the Royal Military College were being academically challenged, but the school didn’t ensure they learned proper military conduct, ethics or adequate leadership skills.

Combined, the audits amount to what Ferguson describes as a bureaucratic focus inward, rather than thinking about the people they are there to serve. It’s a message that Ferguson has delivered before, but that the government has yet to hear, he said.

“When I look at these audits together, I find that once again, I’m struck by the fact that departments don’t consider the results of their programs and services from the point of view of the citizens they serve,” he said in a statement.

That message appeared to ring loudest in Ferguson’s review of Phoenix, which the Liberals themselves requested last year. The IBM-designed Phoenix system, a project originally embarked upon by the government’s Conservative predecessors, was supposed to save $70 million a year by modernizing, consolidating and centralizing pay processing.

Instead, the government has had to hire hundred of experts to deal with a relentless barrage of pay problems that don’t seem to be getting fixed.

The Senate has decided to

pull out of Phoenix, and departments and agencies have had to implement workarounds to make sure employees get paid.

Statistics Canada, for instance, kept its old pay system in place for the army of temporary workers hired for the 2016 census.

The Liberals expect to spend $540 million to fix the system that cost $310 million, but Ferguson warned that figure is likely to climb even higher, going so far as to warn about similar problems in Australia that have ended up costing the government $1.2 billion over seven years.

Ferguson only looked at what happened since the Liberals took office.

An audit about what went wrong in the lead-up will be released in May. The Liberals green-lighted the new system shortly after coming to office, despite concerns from officials that it wasn’t ready to handle the 80,000 different rules overseeing issues like parental leave or compensating those in temporary supervising roles, known as acting pay.

Acting pay makes up one-quarter of all outstanding pay issues — a queue that as of the end of June sat at 494,500, the report says, or about five times what it was when Phoenix launched in early 2016. About 49,000 employees have waited more than a year to have their pay issues resolved.

In the last fiscal year that ended in March, some 62 per cent of employees sampled were paid incorrectly at least once, the report found.

The causes of pay problems were myriad, including pay experts who couldn’t enter data into the system half the time to fix errors because doing so would cause further mistakes.

Even as the backlog of cases grew, the report says that the government under-reported the numbers by about 30 per cent because it excluded requests that didn’t have a dollar value, or that it didn’t believe would take a lot of time to process.

The report says that the government has set aside a lot of time, money and bodies to deal with Phoenix, but it hasn’t addressed any of the underlying causes or developed a long-term sustainable solution.

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Services provided, but outcomes not tracked for Syrians: auditor general Stephanie Levitz Canadian Press

OTTAWA he Liberal government is struggling to track the impact of its historic effort to resettle upwards of 40,000 Syrian refugees, the federal auditor general concluded Tuesday in his fall report.

Markers like how many kids are in school or how many Syrians are on income assistance weren’t being measured between fall 2015 and the spring of this year, the period examined by the federal watchdog, raising questions about what happened to the population once they began to settle in Canada.

“We were concerned about the department’s inability to track whether the Syrian refugees had access to basic provincial services, such as health care and education — especially considering that part of the department’s objective was to help Syr-

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ian refugees benefit from Canada’s social, medical, and economic systems,” the auditor general’s report said.

While a rapid impact evaluation the population was conducted by the government for the first wave of arrivals, the auditor general went digging over the longer term, looking to see whether Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada was both providing the services newcomers needed and tracking what happened next.

“This audit is important because the Syrian refugee initiative will succeed in the long term only if the people it brought to Canada integrate into Canadian society,” the report said.

While the federal government did have a plan to track outcomes, it either didn’t collect all the required data outright, or had trouble getting from the provinces and settlement organizations, the report said.

So what happened, for example, was that Syrians in some parts of the country faced lengthy wait times for language classes because the government wasn’t keeping an eye on those wait lists and in turn ensuring funds were being allocated where they were needed most.

Still, by March 2017, the auditor general concluded that more than 80 per cent of the new arrivals had their needs assessed, and 75 per cent of those who received language assessments did attend language classes.

Then, some of those services were cut when the government delayed getting the necessary funds to the settlement organizations providing the programs.

The department asked the organizations to keep going with the programs with the promise the money would come later, but 16 groups weren’t prepared to take that risk, the report said, and in turn cut programs for three

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Auditor General Michael Ferguson holds a press conference at the National Press Theatre in Ottawa on Nov. 21, regarding his 2017 Fall Report. months earlier this year.

It’s been almost exactly two years since the Liberals launched the program they’d promised during the 2015 campaign — bring 25,000 Syrians to Canada by the end of that year, for a cost of $250 million.

The deadline was later bumped back and the budget exponentially bumped up — just over

$950 million has been set aside. One major increase came in settlement funding. Originally, $141 million over four years was set aside, but that budget was boosted to $257 million over five years when it became clear the Syrians were arriving with higher-than-expected needs.

While the resettlement program has been lauded

the world over, one of the main criticisms was that the Liberals rolled out it without enough advance planning for what would happen once the Syrians actually arrived on Canadian soil.

At one point, the pace of new arrivals was so fast, settlement organizations asked for a pause, while early issues with access to housing saw some refugees spending weeks or months living in hotels, unable to get their kids in school or start language classes.

The auditor general made four recommendations in the report, encouraging the Immigration Department to improve its systems for getting money out the door and tracking outcomes, while also ensuring service providers understand what’s expected of them.

In its formal response, the Immigration Department said it agrees with the suggestions and work is underway.

New housing strategy could cut into child poverty rates, groups say Jordan Press Canadian Press

OTTAWA bout 450,000 children are in families that depend on social assistance to pay the bills and the vast majority live below the poverty line, says a new report that hopes to prod the federal government to take additional steps to alleviate child poverty.

The report from an anti-poverty coalition released Tuesday marks one of the first estimates of children living on government benefits.

The figure plays a key role in Campaign 2000’s annual report on child and family poverty, which suggests that increased, targeted federal spending on child care and housing could help lift hundreds of thousands of children out of poverty.

The federal government has allocated about $39.3 billion, plus about $17.5 billion more in tax breaks, on helping low-income Canadians in the current fiscal year. Absent that spending, millions more Canadians could fall below

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the poverty line, the parliamentary budget office says in a new report of its own.

A new federal housing strategy is expected to meet most of what Campaign 2000 asks for in its annual report: a portable housing benefit paid directly to tenants to provide more housing options; an Indigenous housing strategy; and a program to build new affordable housing and repair existing units, all of it aligned with an anti-poverty strategy to be released next year.

The Liberals are set to release their housing strategy on Wednesday and it will set what the government believes are deep targets to cut homelessness and help families living in homes, apartments and condos they can barely afford.

Meeting any of these goals will require the plan to focus on those families that are most likely to be spending too much of their income on housing, including low-income families, single mothers and Indigenous Peoples, said Anita Khanna, national co-ordinator of Campaign

2000.

The plight of children in the country is under a week-long focus on Parliament Hill as groups look to pressure the Liberals to not rest on their efforts to date.

Help on the housing file is expected to be part of a road map laid out by the charity Children First Canada, said founder Sara Austen.

Newly released census data show 1.7 million households were in “core housing need” in 2016, meaning they spent more than one-third of their before-tax income on housing that may be substandard or doesn’t meet their needs.

The government hopes to cut those numbers by 500,000 households through its strategy, with billions in new spending to help with affordable housing and with wider affordability in the housing market as well.

Austen said the Liberals have moved the dial on issues like child poverty through things like the Canada child benefit, but the pace of change is too slow.

“We need to create a

greater sense of urgency that we need to make rapid, evidence-based investments into the lives of children,” she said.

The latest data from Statistics Canada found there were 1.2 million children living below the poverty line in Canada in 2015, about one-quarter of the country’s low-income

population.

The Liberals have looked to reduce those numbers through their $23-billion a year, income-tested child benefit, although the results of that spending won’t be known until 2019 when income data becomes available.

The Liberals decided to adjust the value of the child

benefit starting next year, tying those increases to the rate of inflation.

The parliamentary budget office projects that making sure the benefit keeps up with the cost of living will cost the government $800 million more over five years than the Liberals projected in their fall economic update.

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LGBTQ advocates want military, RCMP, public service to take part in apology Joanna Smith Canadian Press

OTTAWA rime Minister Justin Trudeau should not be the only one to say sorry for state-sanctioned discrimination against LGBTQ people, say advocates who have long demanded the federal government apologize for years of persecution.

Lynne Gouliquer, a military veteran who has researched the history of how LGBTQ people were hounded out of their jobs in the military and the federal government, said she wants to see the heads of the institutions responsible take part in the Nov. 28 apology in the House of Commons.

That should include Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan, acting RCMP commissioner Daniel Dubeau, the chief of the defence staff and the clerk of the Privy Council, said Gouliquer, because it would render the apology more meaningful to

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those who were directly affected.

“These are all the organizations that perpetrated past discrimination against the LGBTQ community,” said Gouliquer, an assistant professor of sociology at Laurentian University in Sudbury.

“When it comes to giving an apology, while it is going to mean a lot to come from the prime minister, having those people present is going to mean a lot to the people that it was perpetrated against,” she said.

Spokespeople for Gen. Jonathan Vance, the defence chief, and Michael Wernick, clerk of the Privy Council, who is the top federal bureaucrat, said they will both be in the House of Commons for the apology next week. So will Sajjan and Dubeau, their spokespeople confirmed Monday.

The speech from Trudeau will be followed by statements from the opposition parties.

Gary Kinsman, another sociologist at Laurentian who has been pushing for redress for decades, said having the apology go beyond the prime minister could underscore the commitment to prevent something like this from happening again.

“It’s really important for us that it not simply be seen as ‘Oh, Justin Trudeau has apologized,’ or even that the prime minister has apologized,” said Kinsman, who like Gouliquer is a member of the We Demand an Apology Network.

“But the people who are now in positions of leadership in the military and the public service are also committing themselves to this apology and to making sure nothing like this ever happens again.”

Separate from the apology, the Liberal government is planning to introduce legislation by the end of the year to expunge the criminal records of Canadians

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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau marches in the Ottawa Capital Pride parade, Aug. 27. The apology from Trudeau for past state-sanctioned discrimination against LGBTQ people is welcome news for those who have been calling for such an expression of regret, but some think he is not the only one who should be there. previously convicted of consensual sexual activity with same-sex partners.

The latest economic update set aside $4 million over two years to meet this goal.

The apology is not expected to come with

compensation, an issue that is likely to be addressed by Canada-wide class-action lawsuits filed on behalf of LGBTQ people who say they were persecuted and forced out of their jobs in the military and federal government.

Doug Elliott, a Toronto-based lawyer and veteran gay rights activist who is representing the plaintiffs in the class actions, which have yet to be certified in court, expressed cautious optimism earlier this month that a settlement can be reached with the government.

Gouliquer, who recalls living with such fear of sanctions during her 16 years in the military that she kept her living-room curtains closed, said she hopes the apology and surrounding activities will help to raise awareness of how people were treated.

“What are we going to do with this now, not just as a government but as a Canadian society?” she said.

“We don’t want this to happen again. Not just to LGBTQ either — to any marginalized group in our society,” she said.

“We need to have this as a learning lesson and treated as such. That’s my hope.”

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WASHINGTON ederal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai on Tuesday followed through on his pledge to repeal 2015 regulations designed to ensure that internet service providers treat all online content and apps equally, setting up a showdown with consumer groups and internet companies who fear the move will stifle competition and innovation.

The current rules, known as net neutrality, impose utility-style regulation on ISPs such as Comcast, AT&T and Verizon to prevent them from favouring their own digital services over those of their rivals.

Pai said that he believes the net neutrality rules adopted during the Obama administration discourage the ISPs from making investments in their network that would provide even better and faster online access.

“Under my proposal, the federal government will stop micromanaging the internet,” Pai said in a statement.

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native plan to other FCC commissioners Tuesday in preparation for a Dec. 14 vote on the proposal. He promised to release his entire proposal Wednesday.

The attempt to repeal net neutrality has triggered protests from consumer groups and internet companies. More than 22 million comments have been filed with the FCC about whether net neutrality should be rolled back.

The Internet Association, a group whose members include major internet companies such as Google and Amazon, vowed to continue to fight to keep the current net neutrality rules intact.

“Consumers have little choice in their ISP, and service providers should not be allowed to use this gatekeeper position at the point of connection to discriminate against websites and apps,” the group’s CEO Michael Beckerman said in a Tuesday statement.

Consumers Union predicted a repeal of net neutrality would allow ISPs to raise their prices and give preferential treatment to certain sites and apps.

“Strong net neutrality rules are vital to consumers’

everyday lives and essential to preserving the internet as we know it today — an open marketplace where websites large and small compete on equal terms and where information and ideas move freely,” said Jonathan Schwantes, the advocacy group’s senior policy counsel.

Two of the FCC’s five voting commissioners signalled they will oppose Pai’s plan.

Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel derided Pai’s plan as “ridiculous and offensive to the millions of Americans who use the internet every day.”

Commissioner Mignon L. Clyburn skewered Pai’s proposals as “a giveaway to the nation’s largest communications companies, at the expense of consumers and innovation.”

Rosenworcel and Clyburn are the lone Democrats on the FCC. Pai’s proposal on net neutrality comes after the Republican-dominated commission voted 3-2 last week to weaken rules meant to support independent local media, undoing a ban on companies owning newspapers and broadcast stations in a single market.

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Consumers with shared wireless accounts advised to watch out for overage fees David Paddon Canadian Press

TORONTO onsumers are being advised to vigilantly check their wireless data consumption and roaming fees, as it looks increasingly unlikely that Canadian telecoms will implement notification methods required under a new wireless code by the December deadline.

The advice comes after Telus Corp. and Rogers Communications Inc. told the CRTC recently that they won’t be able to implement enhanced overage notifications by Dec. 1, because of the technical complexity.

Vancouver-based Telus asked the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission for permission to extend the deadline for

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updating its billing system to March 31, 2018 – although it anticipates some changes will be completed before that time. Rogers has also told the CRTC that it wants to defer having its billing system in compliance with the wireless code until May 31.

Bell did not respond to requests for comment from The Canadian Press.

The CRTC site did not have a public posting from Bell as of late Monday.

Canada’s wireless carriers were told last June that they had until Dec. 1 to comply with a number of regulations, including how they set caps on wireless data usage and who is authorized to accept extra charges for accounts with more than one device user.

The delays will likely affect only a small category of consumers — such as families with shared data plans or some vacationers

travelling outside Canada, independent telecommunications consultant Mark Goldberg said Monday.

Carriers are already required to send warnings about potential overage fees to individual devices, but not necessarily to the account holder who’s responsible for paying the bills for all the devices, he added.

“The twist that has come in is that the CRTC wants notifications to the account holder, not the wireless handset user when they’re roaming or going over a limit,” Goldberg said in an interview.

“You’ve now, basically, touched the billing and administration system and have it interacting with the switching system in a way that they hadn’t done before.”

Critics of the current system have said account holders can face shocking-

ly high bills if the carrier’s overage warnings are sent to an account’s secondary device — possibly carried by a spouse or child — rather than the primary device.

Goldberg said that the CRTC will likely agree to the delays requested by Rogers and Telus, because they’d said early this year that they may need more than six months to put in place changes that the CRTC announced in midJune.

In the meantime, he said, it’s wise to keep smartphones on “airplane mode” while the device is out of the country — whether travelling by plane, car or cruise ship — unless the data roaming fees are understood and acceptable.

“Because if you think international roaming charges are high, wait until you take a look at what

maritime roaming charges are,” Goldberg said.

Rogers and Telus said in their filings to the CRTC that the customers always have the right to bring billing complaints to the carriers or to the Commission for Complaints for Telecom-Television Services.

However, the Public Interest Advocacy Centre, an Ottawa-based not-forprofit organization that frequently comments on telecommunications policy, said in a filing to the CRTC that the regulator should deny the requested delays.

PIAC’s position is that the CRTC’s instructions in June actually reinforce billing obligations to notify account holders of data overages that have been in place since 2013.

Wireless carriers have been required to apply data caps at the account

level, rather than at the device level, under the original 2013 wireless code, PIAC’s legal counsel Ben Brown wrote in a letter posted on the CRTC website.

“Rather than attempting to micromanage each carrier’s ability to comply with regulatory obligations, the Commission should simply force carriers to bear the consequences of their regulatory non-compliance.”

However, Goldberg said it’s unlikely the CRTC can penalize the carriers for missing the Dec. 1 decline for changing their billing systems, because the regulator was warned of the difficulty before setting the deadline.

Goldberg also noted that the carriers are on track to meet all the other Wireless Code revisions, such as selling new phones in an unlocked condition, by the Dec. 1 deadline.

Bell Media confirms it is laying off local radio and TV employees Dan Healing Canadian Press

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senting on-air and broadcasting technicians at 17 CTV stations, estimates 50 jobs are being eliminated at Bell Media’s TV network alone in the latest round.

It says CFTO sportscasters Joe Tilley and Lance Brown, along with on-air personalities such as BNN host Michael Kane and Ottawa CTV 2 hosts Melissa Lamb are among those affected. Unifor initially included former CTV Morning Live host Lianne Laing on the list but she later clarified that she left voluntarily.

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In an email sent Monday, Bell Media spokesman Matthew Garrow confirmed a union report that a number of employees were told last week their jobs would end due to a reorganization designed in part to address declines in advertising revenue.

“Like other Canadian broadcasters, we are confronting rapid change in the media marketplace including new broadcast technologies and viewing options and fast-growing international competition,” he said.

“As the media marketplace evolves, local radio and TV stations are facing significant declines in advertising, their only source of revenue. We need to reorganize and reduce costs

to manage the impact.”

Garrow said Bell is cutting its local sports presence but will continue to have sports in its local newscasts.

“With respect to sports, I can confirm that we are phasing out specific sportscasts and anchors wholly dedicated to sports as an editorial decision to transition sports coverage in response to evolving viewer behaviour,” he said.

Last January, Bell cited similar factors as it confirmed it was cutting an unspecified number of jobs at 24 of its locations across Canada.

Howard Law, director of Unifor’s media sector, said the Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission, the federal broadcasting regulator, must take partial blame for the cuts because it has been issuing fiveyear broadcast licence renewals without imposing strong conditions to ensure quality local news

continues.

“What the CRTC did not do, despite our urging, was to set regulations that enforced ‘quality’ over quantity, meaning that networks can continue to cut corners on staffing, actual news gathering, and allowing ‘talking heads’ current affairs shows to be called ‘news,’” he said in an email.

Bell Media is a division of BCE Inc., Canada’s largest telecommunications company. It owns 30 local television stations and 105 licensed radio stations.

Many media companies across Canada have been cutting staff to deal with increasing competition in advertising markets.

Early this year, Rogers Media moved to trim its workforce by four per cent or 200 jobs, in a bid to improve efficiency.

Newspaper chain Postmedia laid off 90 employees in January as part of a plan to cut $80 million in costs by mid-2017.

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Competition Bureau drops civil probe into alleged abuse of dominance by Loblaw David Paddon Canadian Press

TORONTO anada’s competition watchdog has closed a 3 1/2-year civil investigation into Loblaw Companies Ltd. related to allegations it abused its dominant position in dealing with its suppliers and determined no further action is warranted.

The Competition Bureau said Tuesday that after analyzing the impact of Loblaw’s (TSX:L) supplier policies on competition, it concluded there wasn’t sufficient evidence to support allegations that Canada’s largest grocer abused its dominant position.

The civil investigation — which is separate from the bureau’s criminal investigation into the grocery industry — centred on whether Loblaw had influenced its suppliers’ dealings with other customers by seeking compensation when other retailers sold their products at lower prices.

The bureau said it began the civil investigation in March 2014, shortly after a review of Loblaw’s acquisition of Shoppers Drug Mart Corp., which was Canada’s largest pharmacy chain at the time.

“The Bureau has gathered the facts and developed a deep understanding of the complex issues in the grocery industry: we have followed through on our commitment to conduct a thorough review,” Commissioner of Competition John Pecman said Tuesday in a statement.

“The line between hard bargaining and anti-competitive conduct is a fine one and firms should be careful not to cross it. The position statement we issued today in connection to this civil investigation provides guidance to the grocery industry on how to stay onside of Canada’s competition law.”

The bureau said that its civil investigation of Loblaw focused on nine policies that were discontinued in January 2016. It added that it could revisit its decision if further information comes to its attention.

Loblaw said the announcement is welcome news.

“We have been an open book and made significant contributions to the bureau’s review. We have used the process to better understand the bureau’s concerns and observations,

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and have simplified the way we conduct our business with suppliers,” said spokesman Kevin Groh. ”We are continuing to introduce industry-leading compliance measures.”

Players in the Canadian grocery industry often charge suppliers various fees. Suppliers may pay listing fees, for example, to

have their product stocked.

Earlier this month, Loblaw announced that its largest suppliers will have to pay a new handling fee.

Suppliers using Loblaw’s distribution centres will pay 0.79 per cent on the cost of goods they sell to the company, while those shipping directly to stores will pay 0.24 per cent.

Previously, Loblaw told suppliers in July 2016 that it would apply an automatic 1.45 per cent price deduction on all shipments. It also said the grocer would reject any future cost increases from suppliers, unless they are related to higher input costs.

Loblaw and other grocers are focused on

cost-cutting as they grapple with rising minimum wage laws in certain provinces, and pressure from discount retailers and Amazon’s acquisition of Whole Foods.

Loblaw announced last week that it is closing 22 unprofitable stores across a range of banners and formats. The move came shortly after the company

announced it would lay off 500 office workers, including various executives.

The bureau is also separately investigating allegations of price fixing in the bread aisles of major grocer’s, including Loblaw, Sobey’s Inc., Metro Inc. and others who have said they are co-operating with the investigation.

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U.S. negotiators squeezed at home, abroad during NAFTA talks Alexander Panetta Canadian Press

MEXICO CITY he United States negotiating team found itself squeezed at home and abroad during NAFTA talks on Monday, with various actors from Canada, Mexico and within the U.S. pressing it to reconsider demands called unworkable and unworthy of serious bargaining.

The Canadian and Mexican governments have refused to produce a counter-proposal at the current round of talks on auto policy and are instead delivering a presentation on the self-inflicted damage they claim it would wreak upon America.

Their case was bolstered within the U.S. Senate.

A major auto association told a hearing that the current proposal could induce companies to leave this continent and simply pay import tariffs.

This was on the same day that 18 U.S. senators sent a letter demanding the administration conduct an economic analysis before making any changes to NAFTA. The U.S. stunned its partners by demanding that car companies quickly transform their supply chains to boost North American content; ensure half of a car’s parts come from the U.S.; use a new, stricter formula for calcu-

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New Ford Edges sit on a production line as Ford Motor Company celebrates the global production start of the 2015 Ford Edge at the Ford Assembly Plant in Oakville, Ont., on Feb. 26, 2015. The Canadian and Mexican governments are pressing the U.S. explain its auto proposal at the current round of NAFTA talks. lating the origins of a car’s components; and do it all within a year. ”No vehicle produced today could meet such an onerous standard,” the Senate hearing was told by the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers. ”This proposal is unprecedented and would

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have significant ramifications on our industry and the U.S. economy, as a whole.”

The U.S. negotiating team is urging people to tone down the rhetoric.

It apparently views such proposals as a starting point. An American source familiar with the talks pointed to evidence of the U.S. willingness to negotiate in good faith: the very broadly phrased list of American objectives published online last week.

In a few cases, that list includes specific numbers — like the demand that Canada relax its duties on online purchases by $780.

In the case of automobiles, though, there are no numbers — just a reference to a desire for U.S. content in cars.

The source said this is normal in negotiating. But what’s less normal, the source said, is the public rhetoric by the Canadian side, with talk of red-lines and non-starters that will make it harder to advance negotiations.

The Canadians adopted a deliberate strategy at this round of proposing nothing on the hardest issues.

Instead, they will deliver a presentation and demand details. Along with Mexico, Canada will press the American side

for clarity on how the auto proposal would work, with the subtext of that conversation being their belief that the proposal would not, in fact, work at all.

One stakeholder advising the Canadian government says the proposal was written in vague prose, light on specifics. For example, it never gave any indication of how to do the math on raw materials supposedly being added to the country-of-origin formula.

Flavio Volpe of the Auto Parts Manufacturers’ Association cites the examples of windshields and plastic components, which are made of sand, oil, and — going back further — carbon-based life forms that died millions of years ago.

“So if I’m a glass-maker, my raw material is sand.

How am I going to trace (where) sand (comes from)? … Do you do that on the granule level? Do you do it by bag? Or do you have to send a picture of the beach?” Volpe said.

“So I think it’s important we get some technical advice from the experts at (the U.S. Trade Representative) on how exactly we’re going to do that… A lot of plastics are petroleum-based. So what’s the methodology there — are we tracing back to bitu-

men, are we tracing back to sweet crude?

“When you say you’re going back to the base raw materials that’s what you’re talking about. So when did the dinosaurs die? And where did they die? And can we claim ownership of that?”

Multiple sources say the Canadians want to press the U.S. to refine its own offer on autos, before making a counter-proposal. Canadian officials have noted the internal U.S. opposition to the American proposal, including from six dozen American lawmakers who wrote a letter last week blasting it and the hearing before the Senate on Monday.

The senator who convened the hearing opened it by praising NAFTA. “The positive economic impact of the current agreement is no secret to the people in this room or to the citizens of Texas,” said Sen. John Cornyn.

“The data is staggering and the verdict is clear: NAFTA worked as intended.”

He pressed a U.S. trade official on some of the proposals. That official, Stephen Vaughn, said he understands industries are concerned and that’s why the U.S. wants to wrap up a deal quickly, with a target

date set for spring.

But he insisted other countries will have to make concessions.

“We do not expect these negotiations to be easy,” Vaughn said.

“For a very long time, our NAFTA partners have enjoyed an agreement that is tilted in their favour.

They do not want to give up that advantage and we can understand why they feel that way. But our job … is to represent the people of this country – and they deserve a better deal.”

The Canadian side showed more unity at the talks.

Union leader Jerry Dias; his counterpart representing the companies, Volpe; cabinet ministers from different provinces; and industry representatives consulted with the Canadian government and largely echoed its positions.

“That’s why the Americans find it really tough.

The U.S. administration doesn’t listen to U.S. industry. It’s Trump and the feds versus the states.

While they’re divided, we’re united,” said Quebec Agriculture Minister Laurent Lessard.

“Coast-to-coast.”

Sitting next to him, his Ontario counterpart Jeff Leal echoed that: ”Sea to sea.”

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Canadian documentary series Hip-Hop Evolution among International Emmy winners Frazier Moore Associated Press

NEW YORK Canadian documentary series about the history of hip hop was among the winners at the 2017 International Emmy Awards gala Monday night in New York.

Hip-Hop Evolution, which is hosted by rapper Shad and was broadcast on HBO, won in the arts programming category.

The 11 winning programs and performers spanned eight countries: Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Norway, Turkey, the United Kingdom and the United States.

Kenneth Branagh won the best actor award, while Anna Friel won the best actress trophy.

The awards are presented annually by the International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, which represents more than 60 countries and 500 companies from all sectors of TV, including internet and mobile technology.

The evening was hosted

by Iranian-American comedian-actor Maz Jobrani, who co-stars on the CBS sitcom “Superior Donuts.”

“The International Emmys are like the World Cup of TV,” Jobrani cracked, “and like the World Cup a lot of Americans don’t know it’s happening.

Presenters included Kevin McKidd (“Grey’s Anatomy”), talk-show veteran Larry King, Freddy Rodriguez (“Bull”) and Melissa Villasenor (“Saturday Night Live”).

Branagh won for his role as Swedish detective Kurt Wallander in the popular

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BBC drama series “Wallander,” which has won an American following on public television’s “Masterpiece.” It also streams on Netflix in Canada.

Friel was awarded for her performance as Sgt. Marcella Backland in the British series “Marcella” (which is also available on Netflix).

The other winners include: Comedy: Alan Partridge’s Scissored Isle (United Kingdom).

Documentary: EXODUS: Our Journey to Europe (United Kingdom).

Drama Series: Mammon II (Norway).

Non-English Language U.S. Primetime Program:

Sr. Avila (carried on HBO Latin America).

Non-Scripted Entertainment: Sorry Voor Alles (Sorry About That), (Belgium).

Short-Form Series: The Braun Family (Germany).

Telenovela: Kara Sevda (Endless Love), (Turkey).

TV Movie or Miniseries: Don’t Leave Me (France).

In addition, the Emmy

Directorate Award was presented to Emilio Azcarraga Jean, head of Grupo Televisa, the world’s largest Spanish-language content provider as well as Mexico’s largest broadcaster and pay-TV provider.

Not present was Kevin Spacey, who had been announced as the 2017 recipient of the International

Emmy Founders Award.

His award was rescinded last month after allegations of past sexual misconduct became public.

“The Academy felt that, in light of recent events, we could not present the award to him,” Academy CEO Bruce L. Paisner told the room in his opening remarks.

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Musical artist Rebecca Law poses for a photo in her home studio in Whitehorse on Nov. 20. Law is looking forward to performing at and taking in the annual Yukon African Music Festival.

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inger Rebecca Law has called the Yukon home for 10 years now, and it’s changed her.

Originally from Trinidad and Tobago, Law says that since moving to Whitehorse she’s changed her accent, the way she speaks and the way she dresses, assimilating into the local norms to avoid sticking out.

But there’s at least one time a year where she says she revels in and fully, openly embraces her cultural roots — the annual Yukon African Music Festival, which brings Black musicians from around the territory together for a night of performances, art and celebration.

“I feel the opportunity to be different,” Law said

about the festival. Alongside her husband Brent, she’ll be one of several acts performing at this year’s event on Nov. 25.

“I have to be different and I want to be different, so when I go to the festival, I generally wear (a) traditional African outfit that I have … and if I’m wearing that skirt or that top or that piece of jewelry that really stands out, I feel very beautiful and I feel like I am standing out,” said Law, who will be singing jazz, soul, R&B and Caribbean-influenced original music. “But I also feel like it’s the time for me to stand out, so the festival almost gives me a place and a time to do that, which is nice and great.”

Now in its fifth year, the Yukon African Music Festival gives the territory’s relatively small community of

people of African heritage a chance to celebrate and share with other Yukoners, organizer Leonard Boniface said.

“In Toronto, there’s Caribana, they have African Day in Calgary and there’s festivals in Vancouver too.

We thought it would be good for the Yukon, too, to have a kind of unique taste of (African music) … it’s good to have it every year so people can see, ‘Oh, there’s a lot of things which are available in the Yukon too, not just in big cities,’” Boniface said.

“It’s always good to promote your culture, your heritage, your tradition … a sharing of cultures, you know? Who we are, those things that (define) who we are, like music.”

Attendance at the festival has steadily grown every year, he added.

“It’s caught the interest of people. People are so much interested, in the Yukon, to learn about other cultures, so every time we do this festival, people are curious and want to know more,” Boniface said. “They come and they want to see the music, the drumming, there’s so many things to learn, so people are interested, that’s why we keep doing (the festival) every year.”

Boniface will be performing at the festival too, playing a genre called bongo flava. Like the name suggests, the music is drum-heavy and a hiphop influenced style that originates from Boniface’s homeland, Tanzania.

“It makes you feel like you want to dance,” Boniface said.

Other performers this year include Mali-born

musician Sassi, singer-songwriter Roxx Hunter and Bhangra dancer Gurdeep Pandher “Indian music has something to do with African music … especially on the coast, like Zanzibar, like Madagascar,” Boniface said of Pandher’s performance.

“There’s some things we share, like food, we share cultures too, so yeah, we like having Gurdeep play in our festival.”

There will also be DJ demos, speeches from new immigrants to the Yukon as well as arts and crafts for attendees to peruse.

For Law, she said she hopes to see more members of Whitehorse’s African and Caribbean communities get involved in this year’s celebration and in the years to come.

“The opportunity to say yes to doing the African

Music Festival is always something that I jump on just because I’m a Caribbean woman and want to represent this type of music and this event because it’s for us,” she said.

“We should be comfortable enough to speak the way we want to, dress the way that we want to, perform the way that we want to, and if we have a festival for us, revel in it, be there and enjoy that moment where we’re like, ‘Yes, we’re together, we can do this.’”

The 2017 Yukon African Music Festival will be held at the Jarvis Street Saloon Nov. 25 from 8 p.m. to 1 a.m. Tickets are $10 and are available at the Yukon Arts Centre, Arts Underground, www.yukontickets.com and will also be for sale at the door.

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CBS News fires Charlie Rose following sexual misconduct allegations Associated Press

NEW YORK BS News has fired Charlie Rose following sexual misconduct allegations.

Earlier Tuesday, Rose’s co-hosts on “CBS This Morning” sharply condemned their suspended colleague after the airing of sexual misconduct allegations.

The allegations include groping female staffers and walking around naked in front of them.

The morning show — normally hosted by Rose, Norah O’Donnell and Gayle King — was down to the two women and the accusations against their colleague was their lead story.

CBS suspended Rose following Monday’s Washington Post story about him. PBS also halted distribution of his nightly interview show.

King said she considered Rose a friend and held him in high regard, but was struggling because “what do you say when someone that you deeply care about has done something so horrible?

“How do you wrap your brain around that?” she said. “I’m really grappling with that. That said, Charlie does not get a pass here. He doesn’t get a pass from anyone in this room.”

She said that while the story described a Rose she did not know, “I’m also clearly on the side of the women who have been very hurt and damaged by this.”

A stern O’Donnell didn’t address her relationship with Rose.

“This is a moment that demands a frank and honest assessment about where we stand and more generally the safety of women,” she said. “Let me be very clear. There is no excuse for this alleged behaviour.”

She said women cannot achieve equality in the workplace and society unless there is a

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Several women have accused Rose of touching them on the breasts, buttocks or thigh, emerging naked from a shower when they were working at his residence and, in one case, calling a 21-year-old staffer

to tell his fantasies of seeing her swim in the nude. A former associate producer for Rose’s PBS show, Reah Bravo, told the Washington Post: “He was a sexual predator, and I was his victim.”

Rose, 75, apologized for his behaviour in a statement issued Mon-

day and said he was embarrassed by it. He joins a rapidly growing list of public figures felled by misconduct allegations since the floodgates were opened by The New York Times’ investigation of harassment and assault

by Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein.

The “CBS This Morning” eye-opener segment, a 90-second collection of film clips about the day, also led with the Rose story and quoted two pundits speculating the charges may end his career. “He’s toast,” said one off-screen voice.

Rose has co-hosted

the morning show since 2012, and it has gained in the ratings against its better known ABC and NBC rivals with a newsier approach. Rose’s PBS program, where he interviews newsmakers in the media, politics and entertainment, has been airing since 1991.

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Michael Redhill wins $100K Giller Prize for ‘Bellevue Square’ Victoria Ahearn Canadian Press

TORONTO or more than a decade now, Toronto author Michael Redhill has been publishing mystery novels under the pseudonym Inger Ash Wolfe, but on Monday it was a piece of literary fiction bearing his actual name that won the $100,000 Scotiabank Giller Prize.

The thriller “Bellevue Square” (Doubleday Canada), about a woman on the hunt for her doppelganger in a multicultural neighbourhood of Toronto, was praised by jury members for its “complex literary wonders” as it nabbed the prestigious honour.

Redhill seemed shocked as he accepted the prize and gave a tearful speech thanking his supporters as well as

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the late businessman Jack Rabinovitch, who founded the Giller Prize in 1994 in honour of his late wife, literary journalist Doris Giller.

“I was a little more emotional than I was expecting to be — but life doesn’t prepare you for receiving a $100,000 cheque and then addressing people live across the nation, so I think I will probably have no memory of this evening in about 20 minutes, just to protect myself,” he said with a laugh in an interview after the awards ceremony.

“Living as a writer, you sometimes surf on credit and goodwill, and this will make me a much better risk for the various people who may have to help me in the future,” he said. ”But right now, I can row my own boat.”

Redhill beat out titles

by Eden Robinson, Rachel

Cusk, Ed O’Loughlin and Michelle Winters, who each get $10,000 for being finalists.

He started out as a literary writer, poet and novelist but branched out in the mystery genre in 2006.

“Bellevue Square” was inspired by the things he learned when he was a mystery novelist and centres on a park in Kensington Market that “is a strange kind of clearing house for humanity,” he said.

“It’s been 11 years since I published a book under my own name, so it’s fun to come out again,” said Redhill, who was born in Baltimore, but grew up in Toronto and was a Giller finalist in 2001 for ”Martin Sloane.”

“This is more of a literary novel that explores what is a person, what is consciousness, how do we know we are who we

think we are and all those kinds of things.”

In his acceptance speech, Redhill gave a toast to Rabinovitch, who died in August at age 87.

This year’s gala, the 24th annual one, also commemorated him at the start of the show.

Opera star Measha Brueggergosman gave a powerful performance of Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah” with a choir while photos of Rabinovitch, his family and friends were projected on screens beside the stage.

“Jack would have been thrilled, as he always was, to be here surrounded by friends with whom he had deep, loving relationships, and in the company of authors he greatly admired,” his daughter Elana Rabinovitch, the Giller’s executive director, said before the televised show began.

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night and always seemed unthinkable and feels unbearable.”

She also announced the winner, using her father’s famous Giller line: “For the price of a dinner in this town you can get all five books. So, buy the books and eat at home.”

Comedy star and author Mary Walsh hosted the black-tie gala, which was broadcast on CBCTV from the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Toronto.

Other guests included actor Wendy Crewson, filmmakers Atom Egoyan and Patricia Rozema, Ontario Health Minister Eric Hoskins, and literary stars John Irving and Lawrence Hill.

This year’s jury read 112 books submitted by 73 publisher imprints from across the country.

The jury included Andre Alexis, Anita Rau Badami, Lynn Coady and Richard Beard.

Alexis said the jury spent about three hours deciding on the winner Monday morning and described deliberations as “lovely.”

“I was with four people whose intellect and openness I deeply respected.

It was a difficult choice, but it was a wonderful process.”

Last year’s winner was Madeleine Thien for “Do Not Say We Have Nothing.”

Redhill said “Bellevue Square” is the first in a tryptic of novels and he’s already most of the way through writing the second one.

“I don’t know if there will be any more mystery novels,”he said. “Inger has not left the room yet but for now, I have some books that are part of this grouping of novels that are very alive in me right now and that’s what I want to do.”

Endangered orcas compete with seals, sea lions for salmon Phuong Le Associated Press

SEATTLE arbour seals, sea lions and some fish-eating killer whales have been rebounding along the Northeast Pacific Ocean

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in recent decades. But that boom has come with a trade-off: They’re devouring more of the salmon prized by a unique but fragile population of endangered orcas.

Competition with other marine mammals for the

same food may be a bigger problem than fishing, at least in recent years, for southern resident killer whales that spend time in Washington state’s Puget Sound, a new study suggests.

Researchers used models to estimate that from 1975 to 2015, marine mammals along the U.S. West Coast ate dramatically more chinook salmon - from 6,100 metric tons to 15,200 metric tons, according to a study published Monday in the journal Scientific Reports.

In the same period, salmon caught by commercial and recreational fishing from Northern California to Alaska declined from 16,400 to 9,600 metric tons.

“This really quantifies yet another pressure on recovering the salmon population,” said co-author Isaac Kaplan, a research fishery biologist with the Northwest Fisheries Science Center, part of NOAA Fisheries. Other threats to salmon include habitat damage, dams and pollution.

The emphasis typically has been on managing how fishing affects salmon. But this study brings the rest of the ecosystem,

including predators, into the picture, Kaplan said.

Researchers have known marine mammals gorge on salmon in certain hotspots, including the Columbia River between Oregon and Washington.

But the predators may be eating even more in the ocean than thought.

The authors estimated how much salmon in different life stages four marine mammals ate based on a number of assumptions, including their weight, diet and size. The species included California sea lions, Stellar sea lions, harbour seals and fish-eating killer whales.

The study does a very good job of accounting for who eats chinook salmon during its various life stages, said Andrew Trites, professor and director of the marine mammal research unit at the University of British Columbia.

He was not involved in the study. “They’ve identified some of the major players, but they haven’t identified them all,” such as other fish, marine birds and porpoises, he said.

The study found killer whales, which increased from 292 to 644, ate the most salmon in terms of biomass, or weight, while

harbour seals ate the greatest numbers of salmon, mostly juvenile fish.

Scientists also found certain populations of fish-eating resident killer whales in southeast Alaska and Canada waters ate a lot more salmon. But the orcas that spend time in Puget Sound ate about the same volume they did 40 years ago, mostly because their numbers have been relatively constant.

Puget Sound orcas, also known as southern resident killer whales, face greater challenges than their orca counterparts farther north because they have a narrower menu of fish stocks and fewer available fish compared with what they need, Kaplan said.

These whales have struggled due to lack of food, pollution and impacts from boats since they were listed as endangered in Canada in 2003 and 2005 in the U.S. There are now just 76, down from a high of 140 decades ago.

Marine mammal protection efforts including the Marine Mammal Protection Act in 1972 have meant good news for other populations. Harbor seals, for example, increased 210,000 to 355,000.

Puget Sound orcas consume adult chinook salmon - also called king salmon because they’re the largest - that migrate back to Puget Sound waters.

“Every other one of those predators has a chance to eat that salmon before. They’re the last ones to sit at the table and get a chance to eat,” said Brandon Chasco, lead author of the study and an Oregon State University postdoctoral student.

Meanwhile, harbour seals feast on millions of smaller, juvenile salmon as they migrate to the ocean from local rivers.

“They’re first in line to eat the prey before they become adults,” Chasco said. “The question is whether those fish would have died in the ocean, or if they’re taking prey out of the mouths of predators farther downstream.”

The authors say efforts to restore threatened salmon runs may be masked by the increasing numbers eaten by these marine mammals.

The study was paid for by the Pacific Salmon Commission, which was formed by the governments of Canada and the United States in 1985.

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he chemistry and consistency were there, but that wasn’t quite enough for Team Yukon to win the 2018 Canadian mixed curling championships last week.

“We had better than expected chemistry,” said Robert Smallwood, skip for the team. “As the week went on we got pretty consistent, we just couldn’t line up any wins with our games…. Sometimes you have to have a little bit of luck on your side and unfortunately we didn’t have much of that.”

Smallwood and his teammates, Sarah Koltun (third), Alex Peech (second) and Jody Smallwood (lead), went to Swan River, Man., for the championships, which took place from Nov. 12 to 18.

They played nine games, winning two, against Prince Edward Island and Nunavut, for a 12th place finish overall.

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Though Quebec was favoured to win, southern Ontario came out on top at the end of the week.

Newfoundland and Labrador took third over New Brunswick.

Mark Inglis, a former Curling Canada board member, attended the championships on behalf of the board. He said the Northwest Territories also played impressively. The team had significant buzz around it because two of its curlers (skip Jamie Koe and third Kerry Galusha) are known for having played on men’s and women’s teams, which tend to get more hype and sponsorship than the mixed teams.

“They were a dangerous crew,” he said of the team.

Inglis said Team Yukon

performed well too, despite their 12th place finish.

The team only started playing together last year, when they won the Yukon championships with a flawless 6-0 record. That earned them the opportunity to travel to Manitoba this month.

Koltun said they had hoped to do better.

“I think we played well enough that we could have,” she said.

She said the team was strong when it came to capitalizing on opportunities, and when it came to forcing opposing teams to make harder shots than Team Yukon was making.

“We were in a lot more control,” she said. “We just had trouble closing out the games.”

Smallwood agreed.

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Inglis said Koltun was a stand-out during the championships. When Team Yukon played southern Ontario, he said her play put Ontario in a number of difficult positions.

“She’s a superb thrower,” Inglis said of Whitehorse-based Koltun, who has competed with women’s teams in the Scotties Tournament of Hearts. “I don’t know how to express it in layman’s terms but a perfect game is 100 per cent accuracy for throwing rocks and the best players in the world throw 90 per cent. I would say (Koltun’s) right up there.

She was throwing superbly during the event.”

Overall, he said there were varying degrees of experience on Team Yukon, which may have contributed to the team’s 12th place finish. Koltun

has been to nationals a few times before, while Peech is less experienced, he said. “(Peech) was particularly frustrated in one game against Nova Scotia where Nova Scotia got a four-ender,” he said. “But he came back which was good. Maybe he was able to transform that frustration into focus because they did come back, just not quite enough for the win.”

Koltun agreed spirit was one of the strengths of her team throughout their games.

“We were very resilient,” she said. “We never gave up even when we were down in points.”

Heading into a new season, Smallwood doesn’t know what the team will look like in 2018. Koltun is currently registered to play with a women’s team in the Northwest Territories, which excludes her from Yukon play.

“But hopefully,” he said, “we can connect again.”

Contact the Yukon News at editor@yukon-news.com

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Born in Stonewall, MB, Barbara attended school in Lethbridge AB and Calgary.

Barabara was employed by Marshal Auto Wreckers in Lethbridge, Marshal and Donlevy Printing in Calgary, Philips Cable in Regina, operated Barb’s Bed and Breakfast in Whitehorse where she also sold 5th Avenue Jewellery.

Minnie Clara Netro was born on December 31, 1944 in Old Crow, Yukon to Joseph and Hannah Netro. She was the 3rd of 14 children and was raised surrounded by her grandparents, aunts, uncles and other elders. It was through them that she learned the traditional ways of the Vuntut Gwitchin, People of the Lakes.

Minnie left Old Crow to attend school in Inuvik and Fort McPherson. Her father was a fur trader and owned and operated the only store in Old Crow and when she returned home from school, she worked there as a cashier and did the office work. She later returned to school and completed a secretarial course.

In 1974 Minnie made Smithers her home. She was very intelligent and articulate and had a strong work ethic which carried her through the many years she worked at the Smithers Hospital as an admitting clerk.

Through her kindness and compassion she ensured that each patient was well looked after and through the many years of her career she built many trusting relationships. Minnie was known to be unflappable and displayed grace under pressure in the most challenging of circumstances while performing her duties.

Minnie will be sadly missed by her children, Rick (Tammy Kolida), Ramona (Robert) DenBoer; grandchildren, Jolene, Candice, Brandon, Daniel, Rikki; great granddaughter Aylah; sisters Josephine Fehr, Katherine Nukon, Elsie Hume, Beverley Bingham (Bruce), Gladys Netro, Linda Netro; brother Bobby Netro; many nieces, nephews, cousins and friends.

A Funeral Service was held on November 2nd in St. James Anglican Church, as well as a service in Old Crow in the Yukon. Minnie was laid to rest in the Smithers Cemetery.

Condolences may be offered at www.raschraderfuneralhome.com

GREG

KOMAROMI DECEMBER 25, 1957 - NOVEMBER 2, 2017

The family of Greg Komaromi invites you to a Celebration of Life for Greg at Kwanlin DĂźn Cultural Centre Longhouse, Whitehorse, Yukon Sunday, December 3RD, 2017 Doors open 2:00 pm | Service begins 2:30 pm If you would like to contribute potluck refreshments to enjoy after the service, please email justineusher@hotmail.com.

Greg’s family thanks all those who have offered love, support and encouragement, as we move through this very difďŹ cult time.

Barabara married Blaine McFarlane July 17, 1965 in Calgary. They moved to Whitehorse in 1986 and retired to Tagish YT in 1995. Â Barabara and Blaine travelled south to Arizona as Snowbirds starting in 1996.

Barbara enjoyed cooking, entertaining, loved dancing, doing crafts, attending aquacize classes and teaching life skills to our nephews and nieces. She was a very intelligent, loving lady who will be missed.

She was predeceased by her mother, Barbara Ritchie (Bruce), brother James Bruce Ritchie, niece Brenda Lynne Ritchie, father William Beveridge Ritchie, stepmother May Ritchie (Coleman) and uncle Jock Ritchie.

Survived by husband Blaine McFarlane, brother-in-law Bryant McFarlane (Marion), sister-in-law Susan Crockett, nephews Alan Ritchie (Sharon), David McFarlane, Todd McFarlane (Dana), Gary Hillaby (Ali), Brent Hillaby (Sarah), niece Michelle LaFronce (Sean), 6 grandnephews and nieces Nicole, Scott, Fynn, Ethan, Austin and Adam and 4 great-grandnephews and nieces Triston, Landon, Benjamin and Samantha. In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to the charity of your choice.

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Merchandise for Sale Appliances Maytag washer & dryer, 1 year old, as new, had to move to apt, $1,300 obo. 334-5186 for details

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Wednesday, November 22, 2017

Employment

Employment

Employment

Employment

Help Wanted

Help Wanted

Volunteers

Volunteers

First Nation of Na-cho Nyäk Dun

MAYO, YUKON EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY

Christmas Dinner Coordinator The First Nation of Na-Cho Nyak Dun is seeking an individual to coordinate the Annual Whitehorse Christmas Dinner. The dinner will take place on December 8, 2017.

All interested applicants may submit their resume by email or fax to: First Nation of Na Cho Nyak Dun Attention: Chrystal Lattie Email: chrystal.lattie@nndfn.com Fax: 867-996-2267 Closing date for submissions is November 24 at 4:30PM For more information, please contact Chrystal Lattie at 867-996-2265 ext. 213.

Does being a part of one of Canada’s most dynamic environmental and socio-economic assessment processes interest you?

YESAB is an independent, arms-length body responsible for carrying out the assessment responsibilities under the Yukon Environmental and Socio-economic Assessment Act (YESAA).

Our commitment is to be an impartial, effective and efficient organization that provides assistance to all involved in the assessment process.

ACTIVE IN YOUR COMMUNITY Are you looking for volunteer opportunities?

Please check www.volunteeryukon.ca to find more volunteer opportunities.

MS Society: Committee Member Positions Task description: The MS Society requires the following committee members for its 2018 Walk: Entertainment & Event Coordinator - secure entertainment for event day including stage area, start/finish line, childrens tent as well as oversee these the day of the event. Work with committee to create an event day experience that creates a community atmostpher.

Route Coordinator - reconfirm route, signage and route marshal requirements with committee as well as instructing the route marshalls and rest stop volunteers as to their duties. Ensure signage and rest stops are set up on day of event.

Recruitment & TeamMS Coordinator - work with other committee members to identify prospective team and individual participants for walk. Build relationships with team captains and support them in recruitment of team members.

Create a memorable atmosphere for event day.

Check in & Banking Coordinator - Become familiar with registration procedure. Set up and take down check-in, money counting and tune up areas on event day and Saturday early pledge drop off if applicable. Supervise, support and train event day check-in tent volunteers.

Responsibilities: Responsibilities noted under the task description.

Skills needed: Volunteer recruitment and coordination experience is an asset, strong leadership, communication, organizational and customer service skills, self-motivated and able to fulfill duties on time.

Time commitment: Time commitment would be approximately 1.5 hours a month from December through June and approximately 5 hours on day of event.

Incentive for the volunteer: Opportunity to work with a dedicated team of leadership volunteers creating a meaningful successful event, gain valuable work experience, contribute your time and talents in an impactful way, reference letter, good Karma Luella Cousins | luella.cousins@mssociety.ca | 1-866-991-0577 You work for a non-profit organization and you would like to add your volunteer opportunities? Please click on http://www.volunteeryukon.ca/.

ASSESSMENT OFFICER Watson Lake Designated Office Full-time, permanent Located in Watson Lake, the Assessment Officer reports to the Manager, Designated Office and is responsible for assisting in conducting environmental and socio-economic assessment of projects. This includes identifying project effects and mitigation measures for adverse effects, determining the significance of any residual effects and developing recommendations.

The annual salary range for this position is $69,177.57 - $79,756.68 based on 75 hours biweekly.

Should this exciting opportunity be of interest we’d like to hear from you.

Ensure your submission clearly identifies the position title and office location, includes both a cover letter and résumé and clearly demonstrates how your background and experience make you the ideal candidate for this position.

A comprehensive job description is available at: Watson Lake Designated Office, 820 Adela Trail in Watson Lake, Head Office, Suite 200–309 Strickland Street in Whitehorse or on our website at www.yesab.ca/employment Please submit applications to: Finance and Administration Manager, YESAB Suite 200 – 309 Strickland Street, Whitehorse, YT Y1A 2J9 Ph: 867.668.6420 Fax: 867.668.6425 or email to yesab@yesab.ca Applications must be received by Sunday, November 26, 2017.

Community Services

Merchandise for Sale

Merchandise for Sale

Firearms

Firearms

Kimber 8400 classic select rifle, excellent cond, 300 win mag, 1 “ Leupold rings, $900. cwfaulk@hotmail.com

Sporterized US rifle model 1917, P17, in 30-06, good cond, 6-round mag, PAL req’d, $300 firm. 3332680

Lee Enfield No. 1 Mk III, 303 British, 10-rd mag, sporterized, exc cond, w/budget scope, PAL req’d, $350 firm. 333-2680 Lee Enfield No. 4 converted to .308 win, new barrel in the white, new stock, scope mount, no sights, no mag, PAL req’d, $450 firm. 3332680 LICENSED TO BUY, SELL & CONSIGN rifles & ammo at G&R NEW & USED 1612-D Centennial St. 393-2274 BUY * SELL

Firewood/Fuel

Firearms

EVF FUELWOOD ENT Year Round Delivery * Dry accurate cords *1/2 Cord Orders Accepted *Clean shavings available *VISA/MC accepted Member of Yukon Wood Producers Assoc Costs will rise ORDER NOW 456-7432

Pre 64 Win, model 94, vg cond, $500; Browning BLR, 358 Win, Leupold 2x7 scope, dies, brass & factory ammo, $650. 667-2607

Auctions

30-06 Winchester Model 70 w/walnut stock. post 64, Redfield 3-9-40 scope, in excellent cond, PAL req’d. $800 obo. 335-0277.

BUD HAYNES & WARD’S Firearms Auction. Saturday, December 9 at 10 a.m., 11802 - 145 St., Edmonton, Alberta. Estate of Mike Kryzanowski - Prince Albert, Saskatchewan.

Estate of Guido Van Heeybeek. Over 800 lots - online bidding. To consign call Linda Baggaley 403-597-1095, Brad 780-9408378; www.budhaynesauctions.com; www.wardsauctions.com.

375 HH Browning X bold and 300 win mag Mossberg, FAC required.

333-1234 3 rifle scopes, weaver K4 4x, $50; Tasco 3-9x, $30; Zenicon 4x, $25.

Weaver good for large rifle, others best for 22. 336-8110.

Blackhawk Serpa holster, left hand for model 1911, full size, $25. 6686066

Rhineland Arms R22, elite target/tactical semi-auto .22 lr, minty fresh, PAL req’d, $700. 332-2680 Rifle 243 Ruger M77 w/Ruko scope, 2X-7X32, waterproof, $600 obo.

867-689-6197 Ruger 10-22, synthetic stock, red dot & laser sights, extra mag, only 2 boxes shot through it, $400. 6672607 Savage 17 HMR model 93R17, heavy varmint barrel, stainless, composite stock, Bushnell scope, $450. 336-3383

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Go to our website to donate today.

Wish List Items:

Surgical Vinyl Gloves, Medium and Large Dog toys!!

Rubber Gloves, Medium and Large Large/medium kennels (plastic or metal) Hand sanitizer Bleach Dog Beds Cat Litter Dish Soap Heavy Duty and Extra Large Garbage Bags

Laundry Detergent Poop Bags Insulated Dog Houses Mop Heads Towels Stamps Paper towels White Rawhides Canadian Natural Adult Dog Food Summit Puppy Food

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DIMOK TIMBER U-Cut firewood $125 per cord Call 867-634-2311

HURLBURT ENTERPRISES INC.

Restricted firearms safety course, Whitehorse Rifle & Pistol Club November 26. For more info call 6676728 or 334-1688

Merchandise for Sale

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Wednesday, November 22, 2017

YUKON NEWS

Employment

Employment

Merchandise for Sale

Help Wanted

Help Wanted

Misc. for Sale

Yukon Women s Transition Home is seeking

Weekend Staff Wage: $25.03 per hour plus shift premium and generous benefit package as per the Collective Agreement. Opportunity to pick up extra shifts and apply for other positions.

As a member of the Transition Home staff, weekend workers will engage with women and their children who are accessing our services. We work from a feminist philosophy grounded in human rights. We work for social change to end all forms of violence.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: • Provide support, referral, advocacy and accompaniment to women and their children accessing our services • Support women in crisis in-person and by telephone • Maintain the safety and security of the people accessing our services and our property • Assist with the efficient operation of a 24-hour facility QUALIFICATIONS: • Combination of experience and post-secondary education in a related field • Knowledge of violence against women and issues facing women who have experienced violence and/or abuse • Knowledge of resources available to women • Experience working in a cross-cultural setting and knowledge/sensitivity to the needs of First Nations women and their children • Proven ability to respond to crisis and support others in a professional manner • Satisfactory current criminal record check • Knowledge of Response Based Practice an asset Interested persons may contact the Executive Director by email or call 633-7722 for more information and a copy of the job description.

Closing Date: open Submit resumes to: Barbara Mcinerney, Executive Director, Yukon Women’s Transition Home Society by email: edywth@northwestel.net

RON’S SMALL ENGINE SERVICES Repairs to Snowmobiles, Chainsaws, Lawnmowers, ATV’s, Small industrial equipment.

Light automotive & welding repairs available 867-332-2333 lv msg SAWMILLS from only $4,397 MAKE MONEY & SAVE MONEY with your own bandmill - Cut lumber any dimension. In stock ready to ship. FREE Info & DVD: www.NorwoodSawmills.com/400OT 1-800566-6899 Ext:400OT. Steel tank cradle, holds up to 250 gal, 4’ high, steel construction, like new, $200. 633-4656 Tempo Treadmill, from Canadian Tire 2 years ago, good condition, $300. 668-3358 Women’s medium Wind River 2-1 coat, $90. Women’s medium Denver H down coat, black, exc cond, $40.

Spider & ivy plants, $15 for both.

311B Hanson St. Women’s medium Wind River 2-1 coat, $90. Women’s medium Denver H down coat, black, exc cond, $40.

Spider & ivy plants, $15 for both.

311B Hanson St. Yukon women’s parka, maroon with appliques, sz 14, full length, maroon, seldom worn, needs fur on hood, $200. 821-3821

Misc. Wanted Wanted: Cotton fabric, rolls of canvas would be ideal, all forms of cotton will do. 668-4186 Wanted: used sheet metal roofing for large shed. 334-6087

Musical Instruments Firewood/Fuel • •

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Fox Lake Fire-Killed Wood for sale $190/cord for 8 cords delivered tree length $250/cord for 2.5 cords delivered at 16” length Or You Come and Get It from our yard in Whitehorse $185/cord cut your own from the pile $190/cord you pick up 8’ lengths $220/cord you pick up 16” stove lengths 333-5174 or 633-3493

Furniture Queen size mattress and box spring, clean and slightly lumpy, $30. 633-6603 Sloan chair, beige with large ottoman, $45 ea. 660-4321 Wanted: Sturdy double bed for large, disabled man. Dwayne @ 334-8150

Heavy Duty Machinery 2005 Clark C25 Forklift, 4,500 lb capacity, 15’ lift, propane, side shift, exc cond, $18,000 obo. 667-7646 Magnum chain rack, holds 1 set of triple tire chains or 4 single chains, new, $200. 633-4656

Misc. for Sale 220 CD’s, wide selection, $40 obo.

393-2780 2 lateral filing cabinets, $50 ea; drafting table 4’x6’, adjustable, $200 obo. 668-2007 3/4 length, navy blue winter coat.

Brand new, size 3x, down fill, $80/obo. 393-2780 3” electric water pump, $1,500; new 3-yd tooth bucket, loader; standing custom wood coat rack, nice, $150; Norge NSF wood stove, $200. 6674821 3 large Native moose skin drums, $250 ea; Grizzly bear rug, full head mount w/claws, silver tip hair, for floor or wall, $2,000. 867-689-6197 Acupuncture kits texts, sealed needle packs, $25/ea. 334-1875 Birdcage, 18.5”Wx41.5”Hx18.5”L, $45; Aquarium 12.5”Wx18”Hx30”L, $45; also kennels. 660-4321 Books on DVD, straight trade, 1 for 1, call to check titles. No kid stuff or x-rated. 667-2607 Burnham oil-fired boiler, great condition for home or shop. 867-399-3063 Canvas wall tent, 14’x16’x5’ with aluminum frame, $2,000. 333-3154 Husqvarna 357 chainsaw, $357.

633-6603

Misc. for Sale Canvas Tents & Wood Stoves Lowest Prices in Canada Tents will ship by Greyhound from Castlegar, BC Canvas Tent Shop www.canvastentshop.ca 1-800-234-1150 Call for Prices COLORADO BLUE SPRUCE: $0.99/each for a box of 180 ($178.20). Also full range of tree, shrub, and berry seedlings. Free shipping most of Canada. Growth guarantee. 1-866-873-3846 or TreeTime.ca.

Cranberries & blueberries; Cdn Tire soft spa; large stuffed white tiger; small pet carrier, $20; bird cage with toys, $25. 393-1992 DISCOUNT SENIORS MEDICAL ALARM - Monitored 24 hours, Free Equipment. Just pay for the monitoring. Less Than $1.00 per day. Call Toll Free for more Information 1888-865-5130 or www.LifeAssure.com Houseplants, Dracaena Tree, Palm Tree, Umbrella Tree, large Spider plant, long ivy, Kalanchoe, Begonia, $5 to $35. 660-4321 Hydraulic tank, $100; steel fuel tanks, all sizes; masonry saw, $50; 30kw gen set; Cummins engine for parts; 4’ culvert, 2 pieces, 60’; 4” onda gas water pump, $1,500. 6674821 iPhone 5S 32 GB Bell/Virgin, good cond, c/w charge cord, $160. 3346087 Kitchen table, $100; Small Sony TV w/Blueray Nexflix, $150; Twin bed, line new, $200; Acer laptop, $150; newer futon bed, $75. 332-1560 Mattress pads, wool in brocade, cuddle ewes, 2 sin + 1 dbl, $150$200. 334-1875 Mink fur jacket, size med, waist length, lined. New over $2500, asking $500 obo. 867-689-5907 Motorized Scooter, Invacare Comet, only used one year, $2,500. 6333240 Moving sale: pool table, $275 obo; ProForm folding treadmill, $500 obo; Jobmate 6 cu.ft wheelbarrow, $40 obo; Workbench, $175 obo; household appliances, all new cond.

Phone/text 867-689-1947 Oil-filled electric heater, radiator type, free standing, $30 obo. 3344110 Ornate balinese chess set in case.

Pieces gods, $50. 334-1875 Potter’s clay, 6 lbs, $10. Felt hats, cowboy, Smithbilt, like new, $25-35.

Early’s Witney, r 4-point caped blanket coat, Voyageur, 1970, $200.

334-1875

7-piece Pearl drum set, good condition, barely used, $6000 obo. 6677455 Violin Nishakawa 1950s, sweet & clear, case canvas, $120. 334-1875

Sporting Goods Magellan Meridian XL Navigator, 6 pcs, in case, manual, $25. 334-1875

Stereo / DVD / TV TV Cable Box Digital Video Recorder (DVR), Motorola DCT3412, record up to 70 hrs. of digital TV or 15 hrs. of HD, $100 obo. 633-6961.

Transportation Auto Accessories/Parts 2005 F-150 1/2 ton motor, tranny & diff; 2005 F-150 17” factory aluminum rim & tire; 4 Cavalier rims & tires, 15”; 300 Ford 6-cyl EFI & C4 auto. 667-4821 4 Goodyear Duratrac studded winter tires, 100% tread (used 3 month sold truck). Size: 265/70/17, $400 for all. 633-4234 5th wheel hitch, $1000. 334-5186 Nokian studded snow tires, hardly used, size 2015 65R 15, $400 for set. 668-1040 TRUCK CANOPIES in stock *New Dodge long/short box *New GM long/short box *New Ford long/short box Hi-Rise & Cab Hi several in stock View at centennialmotors.com 393-8100

Cars - Domestic 1978 Camaro with 350 4 bolt mains 350 transmission, just put in, needs assembly, underneath is very tight, would pass inspection,$1200. 6333819 2003 Kia Sedona Van, doesn’t run, needs new water pump & battery, remote starter, roof racks, P/L, P/W, $900. Text/call 867-335-3377 2003 Subaru Forester, regularly serviced, heated seats, P/W, P/D, P/mirrors, stereo, good cond, $5,500 obo. 393-2275 2006 Toyota Corolla, 190,000kms, white, serviced regularly, second set of tires w/rims included, great cond, $5,450. 393-2275 2006 Toyota Matrix, manual, FWD, well maintained, remote start, winter/summer tires on rims, ski rack, just serviced, has check engine light on for oxygen sensor, 108,000kms, $4,500. 334-1703

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Transportation Cars - Domestic 2007 Ford Escape, $4,500 obo. 334-7305

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2009 Hyundai Elantra, 5-spd trans, reliable, clean, all season tires good shape, moving & need to sell, $3,900. 335-1088 2009 VW Jetta, 110,000kms, sedan, remote entry, P/W, P/L, cruise, heated seats & outside mirrors, aux/USB ports, c/w 4 winter tires on rims, very dependable/gas efficient, $7,500.

633-3867 2012 Chevrolet Cruze LT, automatic, only 56,000 kms, beautiful condition, ready to go, recently serviced, extra set of all season tires, $9,950.

333-9020 2012 Dodge Gran Caravan, 187,000Km, loaded, excellent condition, winterized, extra set of new winter tires, $10,500 obo. 322-2404 2015 Dodge Journey SXT V6, 15,000kms, loaded, 5-dr, 7 seat, exc cond, new Nokian tires, $21,000 obo. 456-3373

Motorcycles 2010 2-passenger automatic scooter, 250cc, new cover, windshield, 400kms, new condition, $2,500.

333-9020 2010 2-passenger automatic scooter, 250cc, new cover, windshield, 400kms, new condition, $2,500.

333-9020

Recreational/Sale 2013 26’ Everlight trailer, leather seats and chesterfield upholstery, lightweight, easy to haul, large fridge, stove, oven, TV, multiple storage areas, A/C, pics available, $27,000. 633-3113

Snowmobiles 2006 Arctic Cat M-7 black w/orange decals, 162” trac, 2 and 1/2” paddles, upgraded exhaust, boss seat, also c/w originals, scratchers, tow hitch & cover, exc cond, must see.

335-0277 2006 Bombardier Skandic snowmobile, widetrack, 800 cc, new battery, great condition, runs great, $4,500.

334-3456

Sport Utility Vehicle 2002 Nissan Xterra SUV, super charged 3.3L engine, 4x4, standard, new timing belt, command Start, sunroof, extra tires on rims, vehicle service history, $5,500. 333-9020 2002 Nissan Xterra suv Super charged 3.3L engine, 4x4, standard, new timing belt, command start, extra tires on rims, service history, exc cond, $5,500. 333-9020 2008 Ford Escape AWD, 134,000kms, heated leather seats, command start, snow tires, always dealer serviced, $9,900. 633-4607

Trucks & Vans 1955 Ford pick-up, good body panels, some new parts, restoration job.

332-3928

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1967 Ford Mercury F100, 54,751 original miles, overload springs, good rubber, new fuel pump, needs work & has rust, engine runs well, $2,200 obo. 399-3920 eves 1992 Toyota Xtra cab, p/u 4x4, needs engine, good tires, new clutch, have new parts. 332-3928 evenings 2001 Dodge Montana mini-van, new windshield, good condition, c/w mechanical safety. 867-689-9011 2001 Ford Windstar 7 passenger, new tires, V/6, auto, P/S, P/W, radio, tape, low kms, $4,200. 667-7777 2007 F350 quad cab, short box, 4x4 Triton V10, 212,000 kms, fully loaded, clean, $16,500 obo. 633-2218 2008 F150 4x4 crewcab, rack with flashing light, exc cond, $8500 obo.

334-7305 2009 Chev Ex-cab 4X4, long box, V/8 auto, P/S, P/W, A/C radio, tape, new rubber two spares, $8,400.

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2010 Ranger XLT, 4x4 Super Cab, 5-spd manual, matching canopy, newer tires, 15K & 2 full-size spares, well maintained, 94,500kms, $14,700. 332-4890 2011 BMW X5 turbocharged Diesel AWD SUV, full options incl. command start, 360d camera, panoramic sunroof, navigation, dual dvd players, too much to list, $28,400.

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Transportation

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Utility Trailers

Painting & Decorating

Coming Events

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TAIT’S 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

Boats PROFESSIONAL BOAT REPAIR Fiberglass Supplies Marine Accessories FAR NORTH FIBERGLASS 49 MacDonald Rd Whitehorse, Yukon 393-2467

Services

Carpentry/ Woodwork MC RENOVATION Construction & Renovations Laminated floor, siding, decks, tiles.

Kitchen, bathroom, doors, cabinets, windows, framing, board, painting.

Drop ceiling, fences No job too small Free estimates Michael 336-0468 yt.mcr@hotmail.com

PASCAL REGINE PAINTING PASCAL AND REGINE Residential - Commercial Interior - Exterior Ceilings, Walls Textures, Floors Spray work Small drywall repair Excellent quality workmanship Free estimates pascalreginepainting@northwestel.net

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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 lbs 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 pork - $5/lb Domestic wild boar - $6/lb Order now for guaranteed spring or fall delivery.

Whole, half or custom order.

Samples available 668-7218 * 335-5192

Announcements Coming Events

HANDYMAN SERVICES 24-7 *Renovations * Repairs

ANDREA’S CLOTHING, CRAFTS & MORE SALE Saturday November 25, Day’s Inn, 10am to 3pm New and used clothing, children’s 5X, Avon, Steeped Tea, Candles, Crafts and more!

*Furniture Repair *Small Appliance Repair *Interior/Exterior Painting *Gutter Cleaning *Pressure Washing *Window Washing

393-2275

Misc Services BUSY BEAVERS Hauling, Pruning, Painting Snow Shoveling General Labour Call Francois and Katherine 456-4755 LOG CABINS: Professional Scribe Fit log buildings at affordable rates.

Contact: PF Watson, Box 40187 Whitehorse, YT Y1A 6M9 668-3632 PIANO TUNING & REPAIR by certified piano technician Call Barry Kitchen @ 633-5191 Email: bfkitchen@hotmail.com SPEEDY SPARKLE Professional Snow-Clearing Company Specializing in downtown sidewalks and home driveways Fully insured Call Francis 668-6481 or 334-8480

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Home Repairs *Restorations * Maintenance

Drop in Mental Health Association, Yukon’s Holiday Open House. Mingle and enjoy some refreshments on Thursday, December 7th, 5-7pm upstairs, Horwood’s Mall #1.

Coffee House Saturday December 2, featuring Tania Gosselin & the Open Stage. Help set up at 6pm, open stage sign-up, 7:30pm show, basement United Church, 6th & Main. 633-4255 Come celebrate the Weekend Soup Kitchen. All current and former volunteers potluck dinner on Friday, November 24, 5:30pm, at CYO Hall.

More info, Philip at 667-4743 Dealing With the Whole Child Society will be holding its AGM on November 29 at 6:00 pm at Whitehorse Elementary School. For information, call Cathy at 334-1384 Do you have a hard time at Christmas? Whitehorse United Church, corner of 6th and Main, is having a Blue Christmas Service on December 3, 7pm. This is a service of understanding and quiet hope. All are welcome.

Jazz on the Wing. Nov 26. 7:30 pm.

Trumpeter Jeremy Pelt Quintet from New York City. Yukon Arts Centre cabaret.

MONDAY: 12 noon Joy of Living (OM) 305 Wood Street (back entrance) 8:00 pm New Beginnings Group (OM) 6210 - 6th Avenue (Downtown) TUESDAY: 12 noon Joy of Living (OM) 305 Wood Street (back entrance) 7:00 pm Juste Pour Aujourd’hui (CM) 4141B - 4th Avenue & Jarvis 8:00 pm Ugly Duckling Group (CM) 6210 - 6th Avenue (Downtown) WEDNESDAY: 12 noon Joy of Living (OM) 305 Wood Street (back entrance) 8:00 pm No Puffin Group (CM) 6210 - 6th Avenue (Downtown) 8:00 pm Porter Creek Step Meeting (CM) 1607 Birch Street THURSDAY: 12 noon Joy of Living (OM) 305 Wood Street (back entrance) 7:30 pm Polar Group (OM) 6210 - 6th Avenue (Downtown) FRIDAY: 12 noon Joy of Living (OM) 305 Wood Street (back entrance) 1:30 pm Yukon Unity Group (OM) #4 Hospital Rd. (Resource Room) 8:00 pm Whitehorse Group (OM) 305 Wood Street (back entrance) SATURDAY: 1:00 pm Detox Meeting (OM) Sarah Steele Building, 609 Steele Street, Main Entrance 2:30 pm Women’s Meeting (OM) Whitehorse General Hospital #5 Hospital Road (Board Room) 7:00 pm Hospital Meeting (OM) Whitehorse General Hospital #5 Hospital Road, boardroom SUNDAY: 1:00 pm Detox Meeting (OM) Sarah Steele Building, 609 Steele Street, Main Entrance 7:00 pm Hospital Meeting (OM) Whitehorse General Hospital #5 Hospital Road, boardroom OM - open mixed, includes anyone CM - closed mixed, includes anyone with a desire to stop drinking

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4071 4th Avenue

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BEAVER CREEK, YT FRIDAY

1:30PM Yukon Unity Group (Open) Health Centre

CARCROSS, YT FRIDAY

1:30PM Yukon Unity Group (Open) Health Centre

CARMACKS, YT FRIDAY

1:30PM Yukon Unity Group (Open) Health Centre

DAWSON CITY, YT THURSDAY 6:00PM Dawson City Hospital Room 2160 1:30PM Yukon Unity Group (Open) FRIDAY Dawson City Hospital Room 2160 SATURDAY 7:00PM North Star Group (Open) Community Support Centre 1233-2nd Ave. (1st Floor) 1-867-993-3734 or 993-5095

DESTRUCTION BAY, YT Friday

1:30PM Yukon Unity Group (Open) Health Centre

FRIDAY

1:30PM Yukon Unity Group (Open) Health Centre

HAINES JUNCTION, YT FRIDAY

1:30PM Yukon Unity Group (Open) Health Centre

MAYO, YT FRIDAY

1:30PM Yukon Unity Group (Open) Health Centre

OLD CROW, YT

oayukon@gmail.com www.oa.org

FRIDAY

AL-ANON MEETINGS contact 667-7142

Has your life been affected by someone’s drinking???

WEDNESDAY

12:00 Noon Sarah Steel Building on 609 Steel Street, Main Entrance

8:00 PM Lutheran Church Basment Regular Mtg (4th & Strickland) A T L A S E S

THURSDAY 7:30PM 5 Mile Group (OM) Tlingit Cultural Centre 1-250-651-7799

No meetings on st th 1 Dec. 25 & Jan.

7:00 PM Lutheran Church Basement Beginners Mtg (4th & Strickland)

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FRIDAY

1:30PM Yukon Unity Group (Open) Health Centre

PELLY CROSSING, YT 1:30PM Yukon Unity Group (Open) Health Centre

ROSS RIVER, YT FRIDAY

1:30PM Yukon Unity Group (Open) Health Centre

TESLIN, YT WEDNESDAY 7:00PM Soaring Eagles Group (Closed) G Bldg, #4 McLeary Street 1:30PM Yukon Unity Group (Open) FRIDAY Health Centre

WATSON LAKE, YT FRIDAY

1:30PM Yukon Unity Group (Open) Health Centre (Downstairs)

Coming Events EVENT CANCELLATION: Please be advised that the November 25th, 2017 African Music Festival at Jarvis Street Saloon, has been postponed until further notice. TELIYA Golden Age Society: We have one 6’ table left for our Christmas Craft Sale on Saturday, December 2.

Cost $25 to book. For more info call Deborah 668-5538 Hospice Workshop: Living with Loss Wed Nov 22, 6:30-8:30pm at Whitehorse Public Library for anyone living with grief or supporting others who are grieving. To register: 6677429 Hospice Yukon: Free, confidential services offering compassionate support to all those facing advanced illness, death and bereavement.

Visit our lending library @ 409 Jarvis, M-F, 11:30-3.

667-7429, www.hospiceyukon.net Many Rivers is hosting a 6-session healthy boundaries group from 11:30am-1pm at 4071 4th Ave starting January 16. Call Kim Rogers at 667-2970 to set up your intake meeting.

Music for a Winter’s Eve. Yukon Arts Centre December 11 & 12, 7pm both nights, featuring All-City Jazz Band, Vanier Junior Jazz Combo etc. Adults $12, students/seniors $10, children $7. Tickets @ Yukon Arts box office, Arts Underground, www.yukontickets.com November is Diabetes month. Join Diabetes educators to explore technology to support optimal management for people of all ages with Type 1 Diabetes, Whitehorse Hospital Cafeteria, Thursday November 23, 5-7pm

Pine Ridge Neighbourhood Assoc AGM Thursday November 23rd, 6pm, 34 Harvey. Come on out Pine Ridgers!

PLEASE JOIN US for an INTERFAITH POTLUCK DINNER Thursday, November 23, 5:30pm to 9:00pm, Lewis Hall (Whitehorse United Church) 6th & Main street, downtown.

Elevator access.

PLEASE do not include alcohol, pork or beef in your dish.

ALL ARE WELCOME. https://www.facebook.com/whitehorseinterfaith/ Queer Yukon: upcoming social events for the LGBTQ + allies community. www.queeryukon.com.

Legal Tenders

PUBLIC TENDER CITY OF DAWSON FRONT STREET INFRASTRUCTURE UPGRADES Project Description: City of Dawson, Front Street infrastructure upgrades including approximately 230 meters of 200 diameter gravity sewer main replacement, 288 meters of 200 diameter watermain replacement, 30 meters of 600 diameter storm main replacement, 4 sanitary sewer manholes,1 storm sewer manhole, 9 water service manholes, water and sewer services replacement to property line, 330 meters of 200 diameter twin (double pipe) raw watermain installation, 440 lineal meters of road and alley reconstruction, groundwater management, and all restoration including road signs replacement, boardwalk reconstruction and landscaping.

Provisional items include a zero dust policy, a contingency allowance, and 150 cubic meters of over excavation and import backÀll.

Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title. The closing date for submissions is December 12, 2017. Please refer to the procurement documents for the closing time and location.

Documents may be obtained from the Procurement Support Centre, Department of Highways and Public Works, Suite 101 104 Elliott Street, Whitehorse, Yukon (867) 667-5385. Technical questions may be directed to Rick Kent at rick.kent@gov.yk.ca.

This project is funded through the Canada - Yukon Clean Water and Wastewater Fund.

All tenders and proposals are subject to a Compliance Review performed by the Procurement Support Centre.

The highest ranked or lowest priced submission may not necessarily be accepted.

This tender is subject to Chapter Five of the Canadian Free Trade Agreement.

The Yukon Business Incentive Policy may apply to this project.

Bidders and/or Proponents are advised to review documents to determine CertiÀcate of Recognition (COR) requirements for this project.

View or download documents at: www.hpw.gov.yk.ca/tenders/

Community Services

Wednesday, November 22, 2017

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NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND OTHERS

Coming Events

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Information

Personals

Lost & Found

Polarettes Gymnastics Club AGM is on November 30, 2017 at 6:00 PM in the gym upstairs. Everyone is welcome.

NOTICE is hereby given that Creditors and others having claims against THE ESTATE OF

Saturday Salsa at Social House, Intro Bachata and Salsa lessons at 7pm. Dance to the latest Salsa, Bachata, and Kizomba music! Saturday November 25, 7:00pm to 10:00pm. 102 Wood street

THERESE LEONA COMEAU,

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of Whitehorse, Yukon, who died on October 5, 2017, are hereby required to send them to the undersigned Executor at the address shown below, before the 30th day of November, 2017, after which date the Executor will distribute the Estate among the parties entitled thereto, having regard to the claims of which they have notice.

AND FURTHER, all persons who are indebted to the Estate are required to make payment to the Estate at the address below.

Support Meeting Thursday, November 23, 6:30pm, at FASSY office.

Come and learn what’s happening for people with FASD in Yukon. 3934948

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The Pioneer Women of the Yukon, Whitehorse Lodge No. 2 will be meeting on Friday, November 24, 2017 at 12:00 noon at the Whitehorse Public Library.

U Kon Echelon Bike Club’s AGM is Sunday, November 26th at 7:00 pm at Porter Creek Secondary School.

Open to public. Contact trenairving@gmail.com for info.

Whitehorse Community Choir presents Sassy Brassy Christmas, 8 pm, December 1st and 2nd, Yukon Arts Centre. Tickets at Arts Underground and Yukon Arts Centre.

Whitehorse Photography Club presents Don Komarechka for photography workshop weekend November 24-26. Info and tickets at www.whitehorsephotoclub.ca

Personals

HIP OR KNEE REPLACEMENT? Arthritic Conditions/COPD? Restrictions in Walking/Dressing? Disability Tax Credit $2,000 Tax Credit $20,000 Refund. Apply Today For Assistance: 1-844-453-5372.

Legal Notices

Legal Notices

Legal notice The Natcan Trust Company’s designated office for service of notices of execution has moved to the following address: 4 Place Laval Suite 600 Laval, QC H7N 5Y3 This notice is hereby given in accordance with the Support Orders and Support Provisions (Trust and Loan Companies) Regulations.

PUBLIC TENDER

TO ESTABLISH STANDING OFFER AGREEMENTS (SOAS) FOR THIRD PARTY EQUIPMENT RENTALS FOR VARIOUS GOVERNMENT OF YUKON DEPARTMENTS 2018

PURCHASE OF VARIOUS WATER TREATMENT PLANT PARTS

Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title. The closing date for submissions is December 4, 2017. Please refer to the procurement documents for the closing time and location.

Documents may be obtained from the Procurement Support Centre, Department of Highways and Public Works, Suite 101 104 Elliott Street, Whitehorse, Yukon (867) 667-5385. Technical questions may be directed to Jenny Richards at jenny.richards@gov.yk.ca.

Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title. The closing date for submissions is December 11, 2017. Please refer to the procurement documents for the closing time and location.

Documents may be obtained from the Procurement Support Centre, Department of Highways and Public Works, Suite 101 104 Elliott Street, Whitehorse, Yukon (867) 667-5385. Technical questions may be directed to Jo-Anne Tingley at joanne.tingley@gov.yk.ca.

All tenders and proposals are subject to a Compliance Review performed by the Procurement Support Centre.

The highest ranked or lowest priced submission may not necessarily be accepted.

This tender is subject to Chapter Five of the Canadian Free Trade Agreement.

View or download documents at: www.hpw.gov.yk.ca/tenders/

All tenders and proposals are subject to a Compliance Review performed by the Procurement Support Centre.

The highest ranked or lowest priced submission may not necessarily be accepted.

This tender is subject to Chapter Five of the Canadian Free Trade Agreement.

View or download documents at: www.hpw.gov.yk.ca/tenders/

Highways and Public Works

Highways and Public Works

Yukon Water Board – Application Notice

Yukon Water Board – Application Notice Officedes deseaux eaux Yukon – Avis de demande Office du du Yukon – Avis de demande Applicant/Licensee Demandeur/Titulaire

PM07-585-2 Cancellation of PM07-585

Reno Contracting Ltd

PM17-073

Reno Contracting Ltd

Water Source Location Point d’eau/Lieu

Seattle Creek & unnamed tributary of Seattle Creek Tributary of McQuesten River Seattle Creek & UNLLT & UNRLT to Seattle Creek Tributaries of Seattle Creek & McQuesten River

Any person may submit comments or recommendations, in writing, by the deadline for notice.

Applications are available for viewing on the Yukon Water Board’s online registry, WATERLINE at http://www.yukonwaterboard.ca or in person at the Yukon Water Board office. For more information, contact the Yukon Water Board Secretariat at 867-456-3980.

Type of Undertaking Type d’entreprise

Deadline for Comments 4:00pm Date limite pour commentaires, avant 1 6 h

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Yukon East Coast Cultural Association AGM is Tuesday, December 5, 6:30pm, at the Whitehorse Legion.

Joint the Board or just vote. More info yukon.east@gmail.com

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Purchase Power Agreement On November 11, 2017, Yukon Energy Corporation (YEC) filed an application seeking approval from the Yukon Utilities Board (Board) of a Purchase Power Agreement between YEC and Victoria Gold Corp. and StrataGold Corp. (Victoria Gold Corp. and StrataGold Corp., collectively known as “VGC Group”) (Application).

Summary of Application VGC Group has successfully completed environmental and Yukon Water Board reviews and permitting for the Eagle Gold Project to be located on the Dublin Gulch property approximately 40 kilometres north from Mayo. The PPA provides for the sale by YEC to the VGC Group of grid electricity required to operate the mine, with commencement of the delivery of grid electricity to VGC Group estimated to begin in March 2019. The PPA includes provisions whereby VGC Group will develop and own a 69-kV transmission line from the McQuesten substation to the mine. The McQuesten substation will be jointly developed by VGC Group and YEC but will be owned and operated by YEC. VGC Group, except as specified in the PPA, is responsible for all capital costs related to the McQuesten substation development.

Schedule of Proceeding Seeing the limited scope of the Application, the Board is considering the Application in a written proceeding. Pending approval of the Minister, the Board has established a schedule for this proceeding. Due to the compressed timelines, unless the Board receives an objection to the participation of an intervener, the Board grants intervener status to any person wishing to participate in this proceeding. The schedule for this proceeding is as follows: Action

Date

Information Requests to YEC

November 28, 2017

Information Responses from YEC

December 11, 2017

Argument

December 22, 2017

Reply

January 5, 2018

Public Inspection of the Application The Application and supporting documents are available on YEC’s website: www.yukonenergy.ca The Application and supporting documents are also available on the Board’s website: www.yukonutilitiesboard.yk.ca

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Toute personne peut soumettre ses commentaires ou ses recommandations à l’Office avant la date limite indiquée sur le présent avis.

Pour voir les demandes, consultez le registre en ligne WATERLINE au http://www.yukonwaterboard.ca ou rendez-vous au bureau de l’Office des eaux du Yukon. Pour de plus amples renseignements, veuillez communiquer avec le secrétariat de l’Office au 867-456-3980.

Clarification Persons intending to participate, and who are uncertain as to the manner in which to proceed, may contact Ms. Deana Lemke, Executive Secretary of the Yukon Utilities Board, by telephone at 867-667-5058, in writing to Box 31728, Whitehorse Yukon, Y1A 6L3, by email to yub@utilitiesboard.yk.ca or by fax at 867-667-5059.

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