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he Yukon News has won 13 awards this year from the Canadian Community Newspaper Association, including three first-place prizes. Jesse Winter, who left the News last summer to pursue a masters degree in Ottawa, netted four awards for his writing and photography. Winter won the top prize for business writing for his feature on the Carcross/Tagish First Nation’s efforts to train local tradespeople and build community housing. He also won a first-place prize for best spot news photo, with his shot of concerned onlookers at a car crash.
Winter won second place for best news story on Michael Nehass filing a human rights complaint over his time spent in solitary confinement. And he took third place for best feature story for his piece on Larissa Rueckenbach’s struggles to obtain a pricey drug to treat her rare form of cystic fibrosis. Editor John Thompson’s snarky take on Stephen Harper’s visit to Whitehorse won the top prize for national editorial writing. Jacqueline Ronson won a second-place prize for best environmental writing for her series on Yukon’s debate over hydraulic fracturing.
Tom Patrick took second for best sports photo, with a welltimed photograph of a mountain biker taking a dive off Whitehorse’s clay cliffs. And Alistair Maitland took second for his feature photo of participants in the Ice Bucket Challenge. Wyatt Tremblay received a third-place prize for his cartoon about concerns in Watson Lake about fracking. The newspaper also received a second-place win for best multimedia feature for an online slideshow of baby animals at the Yukon Wildlife Preserve. And the News garnered third-place prizes for best front page, best headline writing and best website design.
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also promised up to $573,000 to support the processors in 2015/2016, two and a half times what was provided in the past year. The City of Whitehorse has also chipped in, providing an additional $57,300 in diversion credits to recyclers this year, beyond its regular $150,000 funding cap for that program. It will also accept stockpiled mixed paper from recyclers and process it at the city’s compost facility into a low-grade compost. The city is also working toward establishing a curbside recycling program. It’s unclear at this point if these changes will be sufficient to get Raven Recycling’s public drop off back open. The recycler could not be reached for comment by press time. (Jacqueline Ronson)
The Yukon government has promised new income tax rates that it says will result in $5.5 million in savings for Yukoners annually. The amendments, effective January 1, 2015, will eliminate the surtax on taxes payable over $6,000, and reduce rates to all income brackets. The Yukon Child Tax Benefit will also get a boost, with the maximum annual amount upped to $820 from $690. Households with incomes of up to $35,000 will now be eligible for the maximum benefit amount. The Yukon Children’s Fitness Tax Credit will change from a non-refundable credit to a refundable credit, meaning that parents will benefit even if their income is too low to pay taxes. The changes will be tabled in a
Government works to clear recycling backlog The Yukon government has promised $68,000 to ship 400 tonnes of stockpiled recyclable plastics out of the territory. Moving product out of the Yukon got harder when commodities prices crashed in 2008. The recycling crunch worsened when Raven Recycling closed its public drop off bins in October 2014 because it could no longer make ends meet. That left only P&M Recycling, the smaller of the two processors, to deal with the bulk of the territory’s plastic, paper, glass and metal. The Yukon government has
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Chiefs stand by promise to sue over S-6 Jacqueline Ronson News Reporter
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ourt action by First Nations is a “virtual absolute certainty� if the federal government pushes ahead with controversial changes to Yukon’s environmental assessment legislation, said Tom Cove, director of lands and resources for the Teslin Tlingit Council. Cove spoke Monday morning at a hearing in Whitehorse of the parliamentary standing committee on aboriginal affairs and northern development. Five law firms have already been hired to start the work to prepare for the potential litigation, he said. The Town Hall Room at the Gold Rush Inn was standing room only, with about 150 people in the public audience. Parliamentarians present said it is one of the best attended committee meetings they have ever seen. Seven MPs travelled to Whitehorse for the hearing to hear input on Bill S-6, which will amend the Yukon Environmental and Socioeconomic Assessment Act. Representatives from eight Yukon First Nations as well as the Council of Yukon First Nations spoke to their shared opposition to four amendments they say were included in the bill at the last minute and without proper consultation. The controversial bits of the proposed legislation would allow a federal minister to give binding policy direction to Yukon Environmental and Socio-Economic Assessment Board and delegate responsibilities to the territorial minister. They would also give the Yukon government new powers to exempt projects from assessment in the event of a licence renewal or amendment, and impose new endto-end timelines for assessments. A theme of the First Nations’ presentations that morning hinged on the fact that Yukon’s assessment legislation was born out of decades of joint negotiations between First Nations, the Yukon and Canada. When First Nations signed land claims agreements, they gave up title to more than 90 per cent of their territory in exchange for promises that they would have active participation in land management decisions on Crown land, the
committee heard. The environmental assessment process as it exists today was born out of that collaborative process, and so were the amendments agreed upon during a mandated five-year review. Any further amendments must also be born out of collaboration with First Nations, and these four amendments were not, the First Nations argued.
assessment timelines did rise in 2011 and 2012, at the height of the quartz mining exploration boom, but have since dropped down. That bump was due in part to the sheer volume of applications being dealt with, and increased concern about cumulative impacts in regions like White Gold and the Rackla Belt, where activity levels were high at the time, said Smith. Those concerns have lessened along with the decrease in activity, and as a result timelines have dropped back down, he said.
‘A little bit late’ to negotiate Premier Darrell Pasloski also addressed the committee that morning, and suggested that First Nations and the Yukon government work together on implementing Bill S-6. “Let’s be leaders in our own house and negotiate a bilateral accord on implementation that resolves those issues,� he said. “That olive branch is a little bit late,� said Steve Smith, chief of the Champagne and Aishihik First Nations. Yukon MP Ryan Leef asked Smith if First Nations would be happier to see Canada at that table, too. Smith replied that the appropriate approach would be to remove the contentious amendments in Bill S-6 first, “then we can talk about a trilateral accord� to address the issues. MP Mark Strahl asked what the point of further consultation would be, since no amount of further consultation would result in the First Nations agreeing to have the controversial amendments included in the bill. And Leef said he didn’t hear an invitation from First Nations to come back to the table on those four specific issues. Those comments were made after the First Nations’ allotted hearing time had passed and no longer had a chance to respond, although the committee indicated that further written comments will be accepted. In an email to the News, Grand Chief Ruth Massie said First Nations remain interested in working towards a resolution on the four contentious issues. “If they are dropped from Bill S-6, then we would certainly offer to enter into trilateral discussions to meet all the parties’ mutual interests,� she said.
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Little Salmon/Carmacks Chief Eric Fairclough speaks at a news conference in Whitehorse on Monday regarding controversial changes to Yukon’s regulatory regime.
Miners divided on issue Representatives from the mining industry were split on whether pushing through the controversial amendments would be helpful or hurtful from their perspective. Allison Rippin Armstrong, vice president of Kaminak Gold Corp., urged the government to hold back the controversial parts of the bill until an agreement with First Nations could be reached. “They welcome the opportunity to come back to the table,� she said, expressing disappointment that First Nations were not given more time that to speak that day. “You missed out on hearing those opportunities this morning.� Ron Light, general manager of Capstone Mining Corp.’s Minto mine, said a lawsuit over Bill S-6 would mean more layoffs and “the end of mining in the Yukon.� The Yukon Chamber of Mines appeared to want to have it both ways, urging the passing of the bill as drafted and an amicable solution. “Industry is between a rock and a hard place,� said chamber executive director Samson Hartland, when pushed on why the organization would ask for a bill to be passed that would be sure to result in more conflict with First Nations. He said the chamber supports the bill on its merits, but couldn’t say what the federal government should do with that information. Liberal MP Yvonne Jones asked if he would recommend further consultation with First Nations
before the bill goes ahead. “That’s not our area of expertise,� said Samson, eliciting boos and groans from the crowd.
Legislation not only route Representatives of the chamber and the Klondike Placer Miners’ Association said that assessments have gotten tougher and tougher over the years. Others, however, disagreed. David Morrison represented only himself but spoke to his experience as former president of Yukon Energy. He said he’d seen improvements to the assessment process over the years. And representatives from the Yukon Environmental and Socioeconomic Assessment Board gave examples of how the board is working with miners and other project proponents on improvements to the process, without the need for legislative intervention. For example, the board has started allowing projects to be assessed for their full project life, rather than for the licence period, so that a licence renewal alone will no longer trigger an assessment, said Tim Smith, executive director of YESAB. “We’re always open to ways and means of improving the YESAA process. It doesn’t always have to be through legislative change,� he said in an interview Tuesday. An interactive feature on the YESAB websites shows how timelines to get through an assessment have changed over the years. It’s clear from the data that
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second administration building, a recreation centre and more housing are among the suggestions from Kwanlin Dun citizens on how to use the First Nation’s settlement lands. The Kwanlin Dun is the biggest landowner in Whitehorse, and it’s in the final stages of public consultations to decide the best use of those lands. The First Nation, which owns 24 square kilometres of land within the city and a total of 1,042 square kilometres throughout its traditional territory, has held meetings and workshops with its citizens since December. The goal is to get feedback on the best uses of that land, whether it’s for wildlife, heritage, traditional activities, residential use or economic
development. The latest meeting was held last Tuesday at the Kwanlin Dun Cultural Centre. Citizens were invited to map specific areas of interest and attach values to them. For example, Michie Creek and Fish Lake were identified as areas with heritage importance, while most lands within the city were identified for economic development and residential purposes. About 10 sites outside the city have also been identified for a new general assembly site. Kwanlin Dun councillor Sean Smith said the intent is part of a bigger picture to establish a vision to guide future work on those lands. “We wanted to identify where opportunities exist today and how we can focus on making sure those opportunities persist,” said John Meikle, senior lands and resources
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he Yukon government has announced $10.2 million toward the construction of a new, larger Salvation Army shelter. The building, to be located at the corner of Fourth Avenue and Black Street, is expected to have 25 emergency beds and 22 transitional housing beds. The current shelter has 14 beds, and often operates at 200 per cent capacity, with additional mats placed on the floor in common areas. Officials from the Yukon government and the Salvation Army announced the construction yesterday. “I think of one man, Keith, who benefited from one of the Salvation Army’s transitional housing programs,” said Jim Champ with the Salvation Army. “After 10 years on the street Keith threw away his drugs, he attended a 12-step program, and he spent 11 months at a Salvation Army transitional housing program. In a safe, clean environment he was able to focus on setting and achieving goals such as paying his rent, planning healthy meals, budgeting for and buying his groceries. “Today, Keith is a successful hairdresser and he lives in his own apartment. It’s our belief that with the building of this new Centre of Hope, that we can help even more people like Keith receive the support they need to rebuild their lives.”
three months to a year, said Goodyear. With transitional housing there is also an expectation that programming will be attended. It’s about giving the necessary support so that a person can learn to live independently, she said. “You can say, well here’s an apartment building, here’s the keys, but they don’t know how to budget, they don’t know how to pay their rent. They may not know how to go grocery shopping and get nutritional food, and how to prepare it, because they haven’t done that, especially if they’ve been living rough for a number of years.” Programming for the Whitehorse shelter has yet to be determined, but would likely include things like addictions counselling and life skills training, said Goodyear. While no drugs or alcohol will be permitted in the shelter, that doesn’t necessarily mean Joel Krahn/Yukon News Jim Champ (right) with the Salvation Army stands in front of the future site of a new, larger that intoxicated clients will be turned away, she said. Those homeless shelter during an announcement yesterday. decisions are typically made “For us it’s been a lot longer based on whether or not someThe news is a long time com- the program, and are often sent one appears to pose a threat to back to communities and situa- because there hasn’t been ing. The Yukon government tions that make it hard to avoid anywhere else for people to go, staff and other clients. announced in early 2013 that The exception might be or a way to develop the skills to alcohol and drugs. it was working with the Salvaif someone is in transitional survive.” There are a few differences tion Army to build transitional housing as part of an addicTypically with emergency between emergency beds and housing. tions recovery program, said shelters, clients are expected to Goodyear. In that case, it’s That sort of service has been transitional beds, explained leave first thing in the morning, likely a zero-tolerance policy Pam Goodyear, spokesperson needed in the territory for a and take any belongings with long time, especially for recov- for the Salvation Army, in an will apply. them. interview yesterday. ering addicts who are leaving The new facility is expected In transitional housing, a Emergency beds are intreatment programs. to open by the fall of 2016, at tended to meet stop-gap needs client will have their own space, which point the existing shelter As it stands, people leaving of up to 30 nights, although in where they can keep their own building will be sold. the government’s month-long in-patient addictions treatment practice here in the Yukon that things. Contact Jacqueline Ronson at Stays typically range from have few supports at the end of hasn’t been the case. jronson@yukon-news.com
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Construction costs are higher in Canada’s North than in most southern jurisdictions. This is especially true in Nunavut. A major reason for this is the cost associated with transporting work crews and supplies to rural communities (i.e. communities located outside of larger regional centres such as Yellowknife and Whitehorse). These costs are highest for communities that lack road access to regional centres. 2. Once housing is built, it deteriorates more quickly in the North than it would in a southern jurisdiction. As Luigi Zanasi notes: “The (northern) climate results in housing deteriorating faster. Large temperature differentials between outside and inside houses in winter lead to large amounts of condensation, resulting in mould and premature rot. Movement due to permafrost freezing and thawing also takes a toll on houses.” 3. Operating costs for housing are usually higher in the North. As Zanasi notes, this is due largely to the need for higher energy consumption in a colder climate and higher energy prices. Zanasi also notes: “In Nunavut and the Northwest Territories, the cost of drinking water and sewage disposal is extremely high as houses depend on trucked water delivery and sewage tank pump-outs.” Another reason for higher operating costs has to do with proximity to larger urban centres – i.e. it’s expensive to transport trades people and supplies to rural areas (especially “fly in” communities). 4. Federal funding for social housing in Canada’s North is declining. As I’ve noted before, federal funding assists each of Canada’s northern territories to operate housing for lowerincome households. The annual
funding from the federal government is declining at an alarming pace. 5. There is very little supportive housing in Canada’s North. Supportive housing is permanent housing for marginalized persons; it typically involves subsidy from government both to make the housing affordable to the low-income tenant and to provide professional support to the tenant household. Historically in Canada, this model of housing has generally been seen as a sensible, cost-effective response to homelessness. What’s more, it has recently been the subject of a very ambitious randomized controlled trial in five Canadian cities. Yet, there is very little supportive housing in Canada’s North. 6. Conditions in homeless shelters in the North leave much to be desired. At Yellowknife’s men’s shelter, men must sleep one foot apart from one another on thin mats. This is the same shelter that experienced a tuberculosis outbreak in 2007-2008. At Whitehorse’s only emergency shelter, women must often sleep in the same common area as men. 7. There is insufficient “harm reduction” programming in Canada’s North. “Harm reduction” refers to a public health response to drug and alcohol use whereby an effort is made to reduce the harm caused to a person (but to not necessarily aim for abstinence). Examples of harm reduction initiatives in other Canadian jurisdictions include managed-alcohol programs and needle-exchange programs. One important example of harm reduction programming in the North is the work of Blood Ties Four Directions Centre (located in Whitehorse). I should also note that emergency shelters in both Yellowknife and Publisher
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the Yellowknife Housing Authority, which prioritizes its bachelor and one-bedroom units for persons who are either over the age of 60 or who have a physical disability. Thus: “No single, unattached person, unless in one of those two categories, has ever or will ever get into a public housing unit administered by the Yellowknife Housing Authority, under the current system.” In Whitehorse, it can take up to nine months for a person to just have their name put on the social housing wait list; and once they’re on the list, they can be removed from it if they do not “check back” with a social waitlist administrator at least once a month. (Needless to say, all of this runs contrary to the “housing first” philosophy discussed above.)
10. When considering homelessness in Canada’s North, it’s important to understand migration patterns. An evaluation of Yellowknife’s day shelter done in 2011 found that just one-third of the people using it were actually from Yellowknife – almost half were from “other N.W.T. communities” and one-fifth were from “outside of the N.W.T.” Put differently, addressing homelessness in Yellowknife benefits residents from throughout the N.W.T., just as addressing poverty in rural areas of the N.W.T. can help prevent homelessness in Yellowknife. Nick Falvo is a PhD candidate in the school of public policy and administration at Carleton University. This article originally appeared on the website of Northern Public Affairs. You can follow Falvo on Twitter at @nicholas_falvo.
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Be skeptical about your skepticism cuts – while perfectly sensible as general principles – often fail us when we try to apply them to by Kyle Carruthers situations in day to day life. Skepticism of the profit motive is a prime example. Modern skepticism is highly suspicious of the claims of anyone who stands to make money if we accept their claims. And for good reason. Great sins have been committed by those in pursuit of profit. e are being constantly Automobile manufacturers bombarded with meshave been caught red-handed sages from people who withholding information about want to change our minds and potential dangers because a recall companies that want to sell us would be too expensive. Products products. Those delivering these are often rushed to market withmessages have a pretty good unout adequate safety testing only derstanding of human psychology to cause property damage, injury and know which buttons to push and death later on. to make us more receptive to But the fact that someone their pitch. So we are fighting this stands to make a profit on somebattle to apply a healthy amount thing does not necessarily make of skepticism to the many mestheir claims untrue. We live, after sages we receive with one hand all, in a capitalist society where tied behind our back. entrepreneurship and innovation Unfortunately it sometimes are rewarded with that dreaded seems that we humans are not “p” word. Developing a new necessarily wired to be skilled at technology can be expensive and skepticism. We consciously (and risky. If we reject the claims of correctly) realize that we need to anyone who stands to profit from take a skeptical approach to life, an innovation we are rejecting a but our overloaded brains use a substantial part of modernity as variety of mental shortcuts – what well. psychologists call schema and We are also selective about heuristics – that frame our under- whose profit motive we are standing of issues. skeptical of. Many people are Unfortunately these shortextremely skeptical of highly
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regulated “big pharma,” but much less skeptical of the claims of the less-well-regulated, $34-billion alternative medicine “industry” (homeopaths, chiropractors, acupuncturists, etc.). Many of the biggest names in the anti-vaccine movement are selling books and “alternatives” right off their websites, yet the same critical eye that is (rightly) applied to “big pharma” rarely directs its gaze at conventional medicine’s critics. Revenue from natural and organic food retail sales has exploded to $81.3 billion in the U.S. in 2012, but the only profit motive we hear about is Monsanto’s, with its genetically modified foods. This isn’t to say that we should automatically prefer drugs and GMOs to supplements and organic produce – obviously there serious scientific questions at play here (unlike with vaccines, which I’ve opined before are safe and effective, but I digress). But when we are evaluating these competing claims we should recognize that there are vested interests on each side tugging us in their direction. Another trendy and related shortcut that is employed far too often in modern society is this dichotomy of natural and artificial. The superiority of all things natural is as close to a modern orthodoxy as you get these days, and what I am about to say will be
seen by many as a form of heresy. There are times when I feel that I am part of a very small minority when I am not immediately impressed by claims that a particular product is “natural.” Take “natural” stevia and evil laboratory-produced aspartame as an example. Contrary to popular belief, aspartame – which has been on the market for decades – is one of the most carefully studied food products out there. It is compound that is processed by the body in a fairly well understood and (for most of us) harmless manner. There are many anecdotes regarding aspartame’s supposed harmful effects. But anecdotes are not science, and these proposed side-effects are implausible given what we know about the way the body processes moderate doses of aspartame. Furthermore, the more rigorous scientific research has failed to detect such effects. Yet fear of aspartame in recent years has led to a significant decline in the sales of diet pop and calls for its removal. Another sweetener, stevia, on the other hand, despite receiving a rough ride from regulators, is a favourite amongst boosters of all things “natural” and is marketed by at least one company as being preferable to aspartame primarily for that reason (there is that pesky
profit motive again). There is, however, no evidence that stevia is any safer to ingest than aspartame and many of the same anecdotes you hear about aspartame can be found regarding stevia. Yet the public (regulators are a different story) is much more comfortable with it because it is “natural.” This makes very little sense to me. As a society we seem to have lost sight of the fact that throughout human history nature has been trying to kill with bacteria, viruses, poisons, famine, and so on. Life expectancy throughout “natural” human history was pretty grim. Many “artificial” developments have served us very well and it is clearly fallacious to deify all things “natural.” Again, this is not to say that “artificial” is always preferable to “natural.” Sticking with the example of sweeteners, the natural sugars found in fruits are clearly healthier than added refined sugar. But a “nature good, manmade bad” approach is not truly skeptical. The message here is we should be skeptical of our own ability to be skeptical and examine whether or not our biases actually serve us well as we navigate today’s world. Kyle Carruthers is a born and raised Yukoner who lives and practises law in Whitehorse.
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NATIONAL Is Canada willing to wage ‘war’ against ISIL? Kurdish fighters. So, then perhaps the better question is whether Canadians OTTAWA are prepared for what the counhe Islamic State of Iraq and try’s erstwhile allies may have to the Levant has declared “war” do themselves in order to liberate on Canada, the Harper governterritory from the grip of extremment is fond of saying. ists. With Parliament poised to The strategy of keeping a safe embark on a renewed, expanded distance – train local forces to do combat mission, some analysts the fighting, keep western ‘boots’ are wondering whether Canada in the form of conventional army has the stomach for what’s ahead units off the ground, drop bombs – whether it’s a proxy war or not. from 3,000 metres up – clearly “It’s clear, given the limited has domestic political appeal. scope of the military involvement But Saideman and retired in Iraq and Syria, that the answer colonel George Petrolekas wonder is ‘No,”’ said Steve Saideman, the what will happen if and when Paterson Chair in International Kurdish fighters, Iraqi forces and Affairs at Carleton University in the Shiite militias are forced to Ottawa. break the will of extremists in Everyone has noticed how the places like Mosul, which has been government “fudged over the under the boot of the Islamic word ‘combat”’ when it came State since last summer. to the special forces training of In order to avoid a bloodbath Murray Brewster Canadian Press
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for the assaulting forces, the military campaign may require that Iraq’s second-largest city – more than 660,000 people – face a total siege and be starved into submission. That’s what “war” means, they say. “People are going to die, and the whole purpose of it is to make it as short as possible,” said Petrolekas, of the Conference of Defence Associations. A safe, distant strategy will mean a long campaign, he added. “In Iraq, you have a government that’s arming Shiite militias, working with Iranians on the ground, and they are just brutal,” Saideman said. “The questions are more stark in Syria about whether bombing ISIL is going to help (President Bashar) al-Assad, who has killed more people.”
an exercise in “moral clarity” – an easy argument to make, given extremist atrocities and the obvious delight they take in perpetrating them. But Saideman wondered how much “clarity” there will be when the first TV images of apartment buildings being reduced to rubble are splashed across western television screens. The northern Syrian city of Kobani, he said, already “looks like Stalingrad.” “I don’t think we’ve got the stomach for that,” Saideman said. “And then there’s the other side, when you say our local allies are hardly reliable to be discriminate in the use of force.” When the U.S. tried street-tostreet fighting in the first battle of Fallujah, the Bush administration ordered a halt to the assault because it was so bloody, he added. In Afghanistan, both Canada and the U.S. wondered about the quality and reliability of local forces. The questions there were more benign, revolving around power – or whether they were stealing money. Those days, Saideman warned, are going to look rather quaint compared to what may be ahead.
The challenge for the government going forward will be to convince the public at home “that we’re helping in these specific ways and the rest is not our fault,” said Saideman. “That is a very difficult balancing act.” The recent battle for Tikrit, in northern Iraq, has proceeded in fits and starts because Iraqi forces and Iranian-trained Shiite militias, such as Hashid al-Shaabi and the Al Bataar Brigade, have suffered high casualties without air support. The reality of local forces carrying the fight is often messy, slow and potentially treacherous, especially from a human rights perspective. That’s even before sectarian-score settling between Shiite and Sunni factions. Tikrit is just a warm-up for Mosul. Foreign Affairs Minister Rob Nicholson has said freeing the region from the tyranny of ISIL is The Yukon home of
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“Mexico has put on the table a complete failure,” NDP environment critic Megan Leslie shot back. pretty significant target and indi“When will we stop being internacated it is prepared to negotiate” OTTAWA tional laggards on climate change?” further cuts, she said. he Harper government is Liberal critic John McKay acComeau said it’s important to temporarily standing on the cused the government of “sabotage” get those country contributions on sidelines as international negotiaon international climate talks. the table now in order for summit tions ramp up for a United Nations “Why bother with the charade of organizers to analyze the many difclimate conference at the end of this COP21 in Paris?” he asked, using ferent models well before December. year. the acronym for the 21st annual Failing to do so “constrains the The conference scheduled for UN Council of the Parties climate whole negotiation,” she said. Paris in December is supposed to conference. But Comeau agreed Ottawa result in a post-2020 global agreeAs for the U.S.-Mexico climate ultimately will need to know what ment on cutting greenhouse gas deal, Aglukkaq said she is “very additional measures Ontario and emissions – a successor to the Copleased that Mexico and the United Alberta are planning as part of penhagen accord signed in 2009. States are undertaking efforts that Canada’s national contribution. The To help the negotiations, counemulate much of the work that Ontario government has promised Ng Han Guan/AP tries that are ready have been asked Canada has done in partnership to bring in a carbon-pricing scheme A man wears a mask on the streets of Beijing Friday, March with the United States,” drawto submit their emissions targets this year – likely in June – while 20. A U.S. envoy for climate change said Friday that China ing groans from the opposition and climate plans by March 31, Alberta is overdue to renew and and the U.S. are working more closely than ever ahead of a benches. a Tuesday deadline Environment strengthen its carbon tech fund for conference this year in Paris. A U.S.-Mexico joint statement Canada says it won’t meet. large emitters. The United States is expected to posted Friday by the White House Canada will need to cut its emisagreement, between Canada and the Prime Minister Stephen Harper stressed “the importance of jointly announce its post-2020 emissions sions by roughly a third from curU.S. on common regulation of their said in a year-end interview last addressing climate in their intetargets by the end of the day Tuesrent levels by 2025 in order to keep oil and gas sectors. December that Canada can’t reguday, but had already broadly laid out grated economy.” pace with U.S. targets, said Comeau, Louise Comeau, the executive late its oil and gas sector without Canada and the United States its goals in announcing a climate director of Climate Action Network and provincial efforts alone are not co-ordinating with the U.S. and signed off on a so-called “Clean deal with China last November. enough. Canada, said the U.S.-Mexico task Mexico. Energy Dialogue” in 2009, which In the meantime, the U.S. and “To get there, the feds are However, government statements force appears similar to bilateral included working groups on specific Mexico agreed to a joint task force going to have to put something groups set up by the Americans in recent years have not refl ected areas such as automobile fl eets and on climate policy co-operation on on the table.” with China and India. any substantive talks, let alone transmission grids. Friday after Mexico announced its emissions will peak by 2026 and fall 22 per cent below “business as usual” levels by the year 2030. Mexico is the first developing nation to submit its nationally determined contribution to the Paris organizers. The Conservative government, which has repeatedly stressed that Canada’s climate policies must be co-ordinated with our continental Yukon Legislative Assemblée législative trading partners, is not party to the Assembly du Yukon new U.S.-Mexico task force. Nor will it submit its emissions Notice of Sitting Avis des séances targets to the summit organizers this week. Take notice that pursuant to Standing Order 73 of the Yukon Veuillez prendre note que, conformément à l’article 73 du Règlement Under opposition questioning Legislative Assembly and being satisfied pursuant to the said de l’Assemblée législative du Yukon et étant convaincu que, Monday, Environment Minister Standing Order that the public interest requires that the House shall conformément au Règlement, l’intérêt public commande que la Leona Aglukkaq would only commeet, I appoint 1:00 p.m., Thursday, April 2, 2015, as the time for such Chambre se réunisse, je désigne la journée du jeudi 2 avril 2015, mit to submitting Canada’s national meeting in the Yukon Legislative Assembly Chamber, Whitehorse, à 13 h, dans la Chambre de l’Assemblée législative du Yukon, à contribution “well in advance” of Yukon, for the purpose of transacting its business as if it had been Whitehorse, au Yukon, pour la tenue d’une telle réunion, afin que the December summit. duly adjourned to that time. celle-ci poursuive ses travaux comme si elle avait été dûment “Because this is an internaajournée à ce moment. tional contribution, we are seeking information from the provinces and Dated this 5th day of March 2015. Le 05 mars 2015. territories to understand how they intend to meet their targets and how David Laxton, MLA David Laxton, membre de l’Assemblée législative their plans will factor into Canada’s Speaker Président overall commitment,” Aglukkaq told Yukon Legislative Assembly Assemblée législative du Yukon the House of Commons. “The only thing the Conservatives are on target to meet is Canadian Press
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Left: In the John Tizya Centre, Mary Jane Moses checks her Super 8 film after developing it with the caffenol process. Above: Vicky Josie captures her salmon cache, behind the moose antlers, using the Super 8 camera.
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ery few documentaries are processed using a mixture of instant coffee, vitamin C and washing soda. But if you’re in Old Crow, you use what’s available. Back in September a team of filmmakers invited residents to use Super 8 cameras, the ones commonly used to shoot home videos in the 1950s and 60s, to capture an hour of their day.
The 8-millimetre film, which is now widely viewed as obsolete, was then processed using the simple ingredients and projected onto a wall for digitization. That’s how residents created Sound We See: an Old Crow village symphony, a film that chronicles 24 hours in the life of the remote community. Each hour of footage was edited down to one minute, and the result is a 24-minute film that will be screened at the upcoming Dawson City International Short Film
Festival. Lisa Nielsen, a Vancouverbased filmmaker who has been visiting Old Crow since 2008, got the idea for the film from colleagues in Los Angeles who had made similar documentaries in Vietnam, Holland and India. She said she enjoyed seeing people from all ages come together to work on the film. “It was fun to be able to incorporate all ages and all availabilities,” she said. “If people only had an hour, they could still partici-
pate. Six-year-olds can’t make a film but they can grab a camera and have fun shooting.” September, it turns out, is a busy month in Old Crow. The Porcupine caribou herd is passing through on its way to its wintering range, and residents such as Vickie Josie are busy hanging dry meat. Josie captured this with her camera, and also filmed her dogs and her salmon cache. “It really captures the coolness that is Old Crow,” Nielsen said of the grainy footage. Edward Kyikavichik lent a hand at an opportune moment, just as filmmakers were lamenting they couldn’t find any local artists. Kyikavichik ended up documenting his mother’s beadwork and also helped out with the film processing, which took place in a rather improvised dark room. “There we were in the women’s washroom at the John Tizya Centre, sitting in the dark, processing film and sharing stories,” Nielsen said. Lisa Marr, who runs the Echo Park Film Center in Los Angeles, tried an experimental technique of developing film using only cranberries. The fruit is a staple ingredient in Gwich’in kitchen recipes. As long as you have something acidic, you can process film, Nielsen said. Despite a few setbacks, it eventually worked. “The idea is that you can work with the materials you have, wherever you are,” she said. Instead of music for the soundtrack, residents were recorded in their native Gwich’in language.
Some are fluent while others are first-time speakers. Nielsen said she especially enjoyed watching elders listen to the younger ones speak. The film has already screened at the Tromso International Film Festival in Norway. Nielsen hopes it’ll be picked up by the Montreal First People’s Festival in July and August, too. “I think it captures a quality of Old Crow that feels very authentic,” she said. Running from April 2-5, the 16th Dawson City International Film Festival is screening almost 100 films, most of them Canadian productions. Suzanne Crocker’s awardwinning documentary All The Time in The World, about spending nine months with her family in a remote cabin, is screening tomorrow at 7:30 p.m. and again at 9:30 p.m. Jim Robb’s Yukon, a 10-minute film about one of the territory’s most influential artists, will screen Friday at 7 p.m., part of the Yukon and Beyond series. Aaron Floresco’s Fred Heads, a 15-minute documentary about iconic children’s performer Fred Penner, screens on Saturday at 7 p.m. Sunday features an artistsin-residence screening and Q&A session with filmmakers Kyle Whitehead and Matthew Rankin at 3:30 p.m. The festival closes out with a performance from the Lemon Bucket Orkestra at the Odd Fellows Ballroom at 9:30 p.m. The full schedule for the 2015 DCISFF can be found at www.dawsonfilmfest.com. Contact Myles Dolphin at myles@yukon-news.com
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Iqaluit students learn to remix throat songs in blend of primordial and funky Bob Weber
standing face to face, holdwe practise the two syllables together and how it should ing each other’s elbows in the sound and then we add more traditional way, and working IQALUIT, NUNAVUT out the intricacies of songs their syllables.” ine-year-old Alexis VinEnter Actua, an Ottawagreat-grandmothers sang by the cent-Wolfe learned the based charity that promotes light of seal-oil lamps. ancient Inuit art of throat-singscience and technology educa“I heard it from my friends ing from her grandmother, but tion. Largely funded by Google, and I started practising and there’s no telling what grandma I thought it was super-cool,” Actua has been running workwould make of what Alexis is shops and programs called said Talia Armstrong, 10, who doing now. Codemakers across the North to started at age four. “I never told her yet,” said Ryan, a throat-singer herself, get kids working with computthe student at Iqaluit’s Nakasuk sensed this was something to ers. “What we want to do is give School, adding a mischievous build on. them the skills and exposure to giggle. “I wondered, is there a place Students at Nakasuk’s throat- where these girls can go throat- computer science and them let them be the creators of the final singing club have been working sing together and learn more product,” said Actua head Jenwith southern experts to remix songs and come together and nifer Flanagan. the chants, grunts, hums and practise?” Actua instructors visited breaths of the traditional art Now back at Nakasuk as a the throat-singing club and with the latest technology. The full-time staffer, Ryan started a worked with members and result is a mesmerizing mix of throat-singing club that has up other Nakasuk students to primordial and funky. to 45 members – mostly girls, show them how to use a simple “They’re looping their voices since it’s traditionally a female and they’re learning how to practice, but a few boys as well. computer program to record their songs, chop them up, become artistic and creative in Ryan has figured out a way to recombine them, add bits from a new and interesting way,” said teach the technique. their friends’ songs and blend Nelson Tagoona, 21, from Baker “There aren’t exactly music different elements together. Lake, Nunavut, who combines notes or words so I break (the “The throat-singing activthroat-singing and beat-boxing songs) down into sounds or ity is a perfect example of in his own music and who led syllables. We build up to putwhat we’re trying to do with the Nakasuk sessions. ting two syllables together and “It is so interesting using technology to make little changes to throat songs, loopFor all your Engraving ing throat songs and creating and Recognition needs layers.” The project originated last Fast & Friendly Service year when teacher Elizabeth Ryan was doing her practicum at the school. Walking around Call Del at 668-3447 the playground, she noticed Located at Murdoch’s little girls teaching each other to throat sing. 207 Main Street Girls as young as six were Canadian Press
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Codemakers more broadly, which is getting kids engaged in computer science in a way that’s relevant to them and in a way that’s culturally and community based.” In a territory with Canada’s worst school attendance, it helps to keep kids engaged, too, said Nakasuk principal Tracey MacMillan. “Anything we can do to promote students’ attachment to school is a good thing,” she said. There was plenty of engagement as students remixed their own songs, said Tagoonao. “Their faces, their eyes, just
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Wedding invitation requires some sleuthing if they do a bad job of it – and it for reasons best known to the deis indeed rude to invite only half signers, have no handles. Therefore, tea drinkers held the cups of an established couple – they should not simply be overridden. with as few fingers as possible to minimize scorching, especially But of course Miss Manners of the pinky, which is apt to have will help you do just that. fewer callouses than the others Your fiance should say to his by Judith and thus be more sensitive. childhood friend that he knows Martin Because it was a luxury of the the wedding is small, but wonrich, that gesture came to be asders whether they intended to have room for you. If the answer sociated with them, and not in a nice way. focuses on the wedding size, it As we now have our own means no, and your fiance may or may not want to attend alone. teacups with handles, the onceDEAR MISS MANNERS: My practical gesture is absurd, and However, if it was indeed an fiance just got an invitation in only the association with wealth only his name to the wedding of oversight, this should clear that and, by implication, snobbery, his childhood friend. This couple up. persist. is well aware of our relationship DEAR MISS MANNERS: I status, as they visited our city DEAR MISS MANNERS: I’ve twice in the past year and stayed think it is so ugly to hold up always thought that if a man asks your pinky while drinking tea. in our home. for my phone number in order Do you consider it good or bad I think he should just attend to schedule a romantic date, it is manners? the wedding on his own, since polite for me to give it. GENTLE READER: It has my understanding is that an inviSome of my friends argue that tation covers only the named in- been both in its day, as Miss I should never give my number Manners recalls. dividuals, period. But my fiance to a man with whom I am not When tea was first imported says that a lot of people probably already acquainted, given that he don’t know that “arbitrary rule” to England from China, it was (his words, which are making me wildly expensive and kept locked might be a suspicious character who could misuse the number dread the RSVP process when we up. It was drunk from Chinese to harass me or derive comprosend out invitations for our own cups, which are very thin and, wedding) – and that the right thing to do is double-check with the bride and groom to spare them the embarrassment of accidentally excluding me. Can you please guide us in the correct course of action? GENTLE READER: The prudent course would be to enlighten your fiance before – as you fear – his like-minded friends Ashley Furniture HomeStore begin distributing their own Qwanlin Mall invitations to your wedding. First lesson: Rules that are Contact Carol at arbitrary may be nonetheless 1-866-763-5550 Ext. 801 crucial. Whether we drive on the right or left side of the road is arbitrary, but it is crucial to obey Come see the Tax Lady the prevailing rule. Second lesson: That the hosts, not the guests, do the inviting is not arbitrary. Presumably, they know whom they want and have planned for the number of those who have accepted. Even
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The 2015 Spring Sitting of the Yukon Legislative Assembly will convene at 1:00 p.m. on Thursday, April 2, 2015. The Assembly sits Monday to Thursday 1:00 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. Live and archived audio, and archived video of the legislative proceedings are available through the Legislative Assembly’s website: http://www.legassembly.gov.yk.ca/coverage.html The first hour of the proceedings of the Yukon Legislative Assembly is telecast at 11 a.m. and at 6:00 p.m. on the day following the proceedings, on Northwestel Cable, Channel 9 in Whitehorse. Live radio coverage is available at 93.5 FM. The Order Paper, the Hansard transcript, and audio and video for each sitting day can be accessed through the Calendar at: http://www.legassembly.gov.yk.ca/33_leg.html#cal
mising information from my smartphone. My thinking is that any man, whether I know him or not, could be dangerous and that, rather than withholding my phone number (something I believe to be rude), I should continue communication, but act intelligently with a sharp eye for suspicious behavior. Perhaps Miss Manners can help us understand if and how safety changes the dynamic of the situation. GENTLE READER: And if these gentlemen asked for your wallet, would you feel it only polite to give it to them as well? Miss Manners assures you that
there is no etiquette rule that decrees one must give out personal information to anyone who asks. While it is true that anyone could do anything, regardless of how well you know them, you are not tipping the hand in your favor. Erring on the side of safety – provided that you decline all reasonable requests politely – is always correct. So is giving your work number to a gentleman who interests you. (Please send your questions to Miss Manners at her website, www. missmanners.com; to her email, dearmissmanners@gmail.com; or through postal mail to Miss Manners, Universal Uclick, 1130 Walnut St., Kansas City, MO 64106.)
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La séance avis 2015 de l’Assemblée législative du Yukon est convoquée à 13 h, jeudi 2 avril 2015. L’Assemblée siège du lundi au jeudi de 13 h à 17 h 30. Les archives et la couverture audio en direct, de même que les archives du signal vidéo des travaux législatifs, sont disponibles sur le site web de l’Assemblée législative à : http://www.legassembly.gov.yk.ca/fr/coverage.html La première heure des travaux de l’Assemblée législative du Yukon est télédiffusée à 11 h et 18 h le jour suivant les travaux, sur le service de télévision par câble de Northwestel, chaîne 9, à Whitehorse. Diffusion audio en direct au 93,5 FM. Le feuilleton, la transcription du Hansard et la couverture audio et télévisuelle de chaque jour de séance peuvent être consultés à partir du calendrier à : http://www.legassembly.gov.yk.ca/fr/33_leg.html
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LIFE Carcross elder steps forward to continue language work of mother and sister Patricia Robertson
in the dozen years since then, creating challenges in keepespected Tlingit elder ing YNLC’s catalogue of online Norman James sounds audio materials available. like an old hand when it There’s no easy way, for comes to making recordings of example, to convert the oldest his language. online materials into the latest A fluent speaker of Tlingit formats. from Carcross, James is working “We can use the archived with the Yukon Native Language sound files and transcriptions Centre to produce new audio together with the latest technolfiles for the online language lesogy to make updated versions sons available through YNLC’s of the products, but it’s still a website. daunting amount of work,” says He’s a natural, it turns out, Hitch. according to staff linguist Doug Apart from his recording Hitch, who conducts the recordwork, James spends three hours ings. “He has an FM radio voice a day in the classroom at Carand good microphone sense,” cross school with his niece, nasays Hitch. tive language instructor Marlene “I’ve watched different people Smith. He received his YNLC and when they get the mic too certificate in native language close to the mouth, they don’t teacher training at Yukon Colsound right,” says James. “Even lege in 2013. the bingo announcer!” he adds “We work together,” he with a grin. explains. “Everything I say in James is continuing a longTlingit, Marlene’s got it all writstanding family tradition in ten down. The students too, they helping to preserve the Tlingit write. You give them a sentence language. His late mother, Lucy in English, they write it on the Wren, who taught Tlingit at the board in Tlingit. That’s how Ghuch Tla Community School good they’re getting to be. When in Carcross for over 20 years, they’re stuck on something, I also recorded Tlingit language help them out.” lessons at YNLC. Her cassette And because the students tape and print booklet were one start learning Tlingit in preof YNLC’s earliest language lesschool, they already know a lot son sets. of the language when they reach Today James’s niece, Marlene Grade 1, James adds. Smith, is the third generation of James remembers trapping as the family to teach Tlingit at the a younger man on his trapline in Carcross school. She succeeded B.C., just across the border, and her late mother, Mamie Smith, selling those furs at the Matwho was the daughter of Lucy thew Watson General Store in Wren. Carcross, which operated like a “We’ve known for some time trading post. that we needed to upgrade the “Matthew Watson spoke TlinTlingit language lessons that git as good as anyone else,” says Norman’s mother did,” explains James. “He asked his customers YNLC’s founding director, John Ritter. “It was a very early prodwhat they wanted – tea, sugar, uct, it wasn’t recorded with the coffee – and it was all in Tlingit. advanced technology we have That’s how good he was.” now. James himself grew up speakWayne Towriss/Yukon News “Norman has a strong ing his language with his mother, Tlingit elder Norman James from Carcross graduated in 2013 from Yukon College with baritone voice so I asked him, uncles, and aunts. Too old for a Yukon Native Language Instructor Certificate. ‘Would you be willing to come residential school, he never lost in and work with us?’” his language. “I held onto it, it vital in preserving the language written transcriptions are being git language is spoken mainly Last October, James spent stayed with me.” and recording it for future genin the communities of Carcross checked by renowned linguist three days at YNLC recordAs for his new role recordand Teslin, as well as in the Atlin, erations. “Norman is picking up Dr. Jeff Leer, who has worked ing a full set of language lesing audio lessons, he says, “The where his sister and his mother B.C. area. Like other Yukon with Tlingit speakers in Alaska, sons, working with Hitch, staff Yukon and B.C. for over 50 years. languages, Tlingit has more than left off,” says Ritter. “He’s coming kids in Carcross have heard me linguist Dr. Andre Bourcier, and “We want to make sure that we on the computer. They like it, forward and taking ownership. one dialect. For Tlingit there YNLC’s acting director Roseanna It’s a big step to put yourself out they’re interested in the lanare three: Carcross/Tagish (the present a text that is faithful to Goodman. guage.” He’s surprised, he says, dialect spoken by James), Teslin, as a representative of a speech what Norman is actually proLucy Wren’s own audio lesbut “some of us thought the community.” and Atlin. nouncing,” explains Ritter. sons were played sentence by language would come back some Since the early 1990s YNLC “The written transcriptions Tlingit is distantly related to sentence as they worked, but day if we work at it the right has produced more than 30 verhave to be done very carefully to the Athapaskan language family James didn’t simply mimic his (to which all other Yukon native match the dialect of the language sions of audio lessons for Yukon way.” mother’s pronunciation. “He Now, with the help of the being spoken,” says Ritter. “Each languages. Since 2003 a dozen languages belong). Spoken by brought his own stamp to bear language centre, that hope is bedialect is unique and important.” versions have been made freely the coastal Tlingit people who on it,” says Ritter. “He was very coming reality. “I guess we didn’t accessible online, beginning with Nevertheless, the different controlled trade between Eurocareful about each Tlingit word give up. We never give up.” the Ft. McPherson dialect of dialects are similar enough that peans and Yukon First Nations, and phrase. It was a real collabThis article was provided courtesy Tlingit began spreading into the all speakers of Tlingit can under- Gwich’in that was recorded by orative process.” of the Yukon Native Language the late Mary Jane Kunnizzi. Those lessons are now posted interior from Alaska two to three stand each other. Centre. Information on YNLC’s As Doug Hitch explains, techThe contribution of a fluent on the YNLC website at ynlc.ca/ centuries ago. training programs can be found at http://www.ynlc.ca nology has changed immensely speaker like Norman James is In the Yukon today, the Tlinmaterials/lessons/jamesn. The
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Carson takes 59th at XC worlds in China
Tom Patrick/Yukon News
Whitehorse’s Lindsay Carson races in the Yukon River Trail Marathon last August. Carson placed 59th at the IAAF World Cross Country Championships on Saturday in Guiyang, China.
the junior men’s team 16th and the junior women’s team 13th. “I’m happy to be Canada’s n her second time racing senior third placer,” said Carson. “This at the world championships, is only my second time competLindsay Carson notched a second ing as a senior at worlds, so it just top-60 finish. makes me hungry for next time. The Whitehorse runner placed My goal is to come in the top half 59th in senior women out of 82 of the field. of the world’s best at the IAAF “I had a strong finish, but it World Cross Country Chamwas really tough at altitude in the pionships in Guiyang, China, on middle sections of the race – to Saturday. get through it. It was more of a “The whole experience was survival race.” awesome,” said Carson. “It was a Guiyang, a city of 4.5 million, very well run and organized meet sits at about 1,400-metres above … It just made our job as athletes sea level. Following an 18th place easier preparing for the race, and being able to have a great time ex- finish at the Pan-American Cross Country Cup in February, Carson periencing all of China’s cultural flew to Kenya to train at high opportunities before the race. altitude for three weeks to prepare “I was on a very supportive for the championships. Canadian team.” “It was just to experience trainThe 25-year-old placed third out of five Canadians in the race, ing with some of the world’s best runners,” said Carson. “I was at helping the team take 10th for altitude, but probably not long Canada’s best team result. The enough to get the benefits of it. So Canadian men’s team took 17th, Tom Patrick News Reporter
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I really went there for the Kenyan experience and to see what it’s like to train in Kenya.” Carson completed the eightkilometre course in 29 minutes and 53 seconds. She was 3:52 behind the winner, Agnes Jebet Tirop of Kenya. In fact, Kenyan and Ethiopian runners claimed all the top-10 spots in the race. Ethiopia took first in the team event, Kenya second and Uganda third. The hosting Chinese team placed fourth ahead of the United States in fifth. “The last lap I lost some ground on other girls pulling up front,” said Carson. “I just tried to race within my abilities. I’ve had it before where I go out too fast, am in among the leaders … but the finish can be horrible. That’s happened to me in the past, so this time I tried to go out more conservatively and just hold my own during the race.” Carson took 60th at her first
senior world championship in 2013. She has competed at numerous worlds at the junior level. Her top finish was 31st in junior women at the 2008 worlds in Edinburgh, Scotland. Carson made the Canadian senior women’s team with an eighth-place finish at the 2014 Canadian Cross Country Championships in Vancouver at the end of November. Athletics Canada offered spots on the worlds team to the top six finishers and Carson was added after two runners ahead of her chose not the go. “We didn’t send our best team; we had two really strong girls who decided not compete in China this year,” said Carson. “But given the members on the Canadian squad, I think we did OK. “All around our team scoring wasn’t the greatest, but it’s kind of a developing program within Canada. So we just have to keep
up the support and eventually we’ll see results. We have placed well in the past. When I was a junior our best placing was fifth as a team and a couple years before the senior girls came third.” Carson took third at the 2014 B.C. Provincial Cross Country Championships in October and has also had fantastic finishes on pavement last year. She was the top female in the eight-kilometre race at the Victoria Marathon in October and took sixth at the 2014 Canadian 10-kilometre Road Race Championships in September. Carson, who moved to Whitehorse from Cambridge, Ontario in 2013, placed second out of 19,377 female runners at the Vancouver Sun Run last spring and took second for open women (first for women 20-24) at the 2014 B.C. 10-Kilometre Championship in July. Contact Tom Patrick at tomp@yukon-news.com
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Ellen Johnson wins Whitehorse International Bonspiel Joel Krahn News Reporter
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t was last-shot drama in both the menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s and womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s divisions at the Whitehorse International Bonspiel this weekend. Ice-maker Ray Mikkelsen topped the menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s tournament while Ellen Johnson, Yukonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s representative at this weekâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Masterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s bonspiel, won the womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s side. Johnson needed an extra end to claim her title Sunday afternoon, besting the team skipped by Leslie Grant by a single point. The two teams traded points throughout the game until the seventh end when Johnson stole a single point, leaving Grant with the hammer in the final frame. Faced with a clogged house, down by two, and with the game on the line, Grant threw a perfect hit and roll to tie things up in what was arguably the shot of the game. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I know Leslie has the ability to make those kind of shots,â&#x20AC;? said Grant second Alex Kopan. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a great curler.â&#x20AC;? Kopan â&#x20AC;&#x201C; who was the youngest on the ice by a number of decades â&#x20AC;&#x201C; came in as a spare for the Grant team, and helped drag Grantâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s key shot past the corner guard. It squeaked past by mere millimetres and rolled perfectly off Johnsonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s red stone to lie two, sending the upstairs audience into cheers audible from ice level, some even banging on the viewing window as if at a hockey game. However, it was the final stone in the extra end that ultimately decided the game. Grant had shot stone half open in the four foot, prompting Johnson to throw the takeout for the win. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I was shaking. And I thought I over-threw it,â&#x20AC;? said Johnson. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I really thought I was going to miss it.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;I would have rather won it in eight than going to the extra end. I was just thinking Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m terrified because I know Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m going to have to play a last shot.â&#x20AC;? But
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Skip Leslie Grant and her rink won second in the tournament.
it was that last shot that proved her coolness under pressure and sealed the teamâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s win. This was Johnsonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s first championship title at the bonspiel. Curling with her were third Nancy Kowalyshen, second Ev Pasichnyk, and lead Elaine Sumner. It wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t just the ladies who provided an exciting match to watch. The menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s game, being played at the same time, was just as close. The rink consisting of skip Ray Mikkelsen, third Doug Hamilton, second Doug Gee, and lead Darrin Fredrickson eked out a win in the eighth over Bill Gryderâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s team from Fairbanks. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It was a tight game I guess,â&#x20AC;?
laughed Mikkelsen, stating the obvious. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Fairbanks team played great. There was good strategy all the way through.â&#x20AC;? Going toe-to-toe throughout the match, Gryder stole a point in the sixth end, leaving his team up heading into the seventh. â&#x20AC;&#x153;That got us to where we needed to be,â&#x20AC;? said Gryder. â&#x20AC;&#x153;But then we let them come back on top in the seventh.â&#x20AC;? Giving up two in the seventh, but securing the hammer, the Fairbanks skip faced a barelyThe Yukon home of
there shot with the final throw of the game. His takeout attempt was a shade wide, leaving Mikkelsenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s rock an inch closer, handing the Whitehorse team the win. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It was an iffy shot,â&#x20AC;? said Gryder. â&#x20AC;&#x153;If we made the double we were going to tie at least. The question was if we were going to stay in the 12-foot and be
second shot.â&#x20AC;? Mikkelsen is no stranger to winning the International Bonspiel. He first won back in 2007 and most recently in 2013. How does he sum up such success? â&#x20AC;&#x153;You never want to curl the icemaker,â&#x20AC;? he says jokingly. Contact Joel Krahn at joel.krahn@yukon-news.com
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Speed skaters set personal bests at championships and Haines Junction’s Michael Ritchie both set personal best times and reached single digits efore the start of the Yuat the Western Canadian Single kon Speed Skating ChamDistance Short Track Championpionships on Sunday, ships at the Richmond Oval in skaters were asked if they were November. going to achieve personal bests at “They got a really good exthe event. perience out of that,” Hoffman A resounding cheer echoed said. around the ATCO ice surface at In December, five skaters from the Canada Games Centre, and the club set a total of 18 personal their performances proved they best times at the Edmonton weren’t kidding. Short Track Ability Meet, which Jacob McPherson, Anders featured over 150 skaters from Petersson, Andy Muir and Western Canada. Caleb McPherson achieved four Ritchie was the only Yukon personal bests each while Emma speed skater at the Canada Hamilton, Caius Taggart-Cox Winter Games in Prince George, and Lucas Taggart-Cox had three B.C., in February. each. As one of only three 14-yearIn total, 22 skaters from olds in the under-20 competiWhitehorse, Haines Junction tion, he’s still eligible for the and Marsh Lake set a record 35 2019 Games. personal bests at the event. Seven members of the club Emma Hamilton was the travelled to Calgary in February Myles Dolphin/Yukon News standout racer, winning all four to take part in the RU Fast races From left, Caleb McPherson, Shea Hoffman, Michel Lefebvre and Michael Ritchie burst from of her distances: the 200 metres, at the Calgary Oval. the start line during the Yukon Speed Skating Championships at the Canada Games Centre 300 metres, 400 metres and But some of the racers came on Sunday evening. 1,000 metres. down with the flu, which limited Andy Muir performed well in the Masters division, beating performances could be due to they want to set a personal best,” their abilities to compete. Hoffman said the club is now Cord Hamilton in three different the fact that racers didn’t get he said. turning its attention to the 2016 races but coming up second to many opportunities to skate this It marked the end of a sucid Arctic X Games, which Whitenumbers Pauline Craig in the 1,500 metre winter. cessful season for the Whitehorse horse will host next year. race. “Especially the younger kids, Rapids Speed Skating Club. Contact Myles Dolphin at 207 Main St. 668-3447 Coach Phil Hoffman said the when they get a chance to race, Whitehorse’s Shea Hoffman myles@yukon-news.com Myles Dolphin News Reporter
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1-BDRM APT, downtown convenience, quiet, secure bldg, intercom, storage, plug-in parking, laundry, heat & hot water inclĘźd, N/S, pets negotiable. 668-2741 FENCED YARD for rent, downtown Whitehorse. Contact Stephan (867) 332-4082 or stephane@asprinting.ca 3-BDRM, 1.5 bath duplex, Takhini, elementary school, Yukon College, near bus, big back yard & deck, $1,700/mn + utils. 335-6886 after 6pm 1-BDRM APT, downtown, $950/mon 1 person, $1,000 2 people, heat, light, cable incl, avail Apr 1, N/P. 668-5558 2-BDRM MOBILE home, 20 mins north of Whitehorse, older but clean & quiet, new laminate flooring/carpet, well water, oil furnace, wood stove, pets ok, horses possible, dd reqĘźd, $1,200/mon. 334-9733 OFFICE SPACE in Pine Medical building, great for health care business, 2 rooms, window, 292 sq ft, $688/mon, heat/hydro included. Contact 667-2144 (work) and 250-538-8158 after work 1 LARGE room, N/S, N/P, avail immed, share bath, laundry, upstairs kitchen & family room, internet extra, cable available in family room, $675/mon, $375 dd. 335-1616 LARGE 3-BDRM 1-bath apt, Porter Creek, private entrance, all inclusive, $2,200/mon. 335-3592 2-BDRM 2-BATH home on acreage, 25 min north of Whitehorse, pets welcome, $1,450/mon + utils. 667-4169 for details ROOM IN large 5-bdrm house, share with 4 adults, fully furnished, all inclusive utilities, cable tv, parking, $650/mon. 334-3456 LOOKING FOR responsible female roommate for downtown house, elec & heat incl, laundry/kitchen facilities, refs reqĘźd. 668-5185 or 667-7840 PRIME DOWNTOWN OFFICE SPACE FOR RENT 2,600 sq ft on 2nd Ave just a block off Main Street. Large open area and 6 offices with 2 baths, kitchen, vault, wheelchair access, alarm, and parking. Great to share space or sublet offices. Additional cold storage available. $5,000/month Phone 334-6676 1-BDRM BSMT suite, Porter Creek, incl lights & heat, avail April 1, no parties, 1 small dog ok, $850/mon. 633-4136
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OFFICE SPACE FOR RENT 1,200 sq. ft. on two levels, 3 upstairs and large open space on main level. Located in the Calcite Center. Terms Negotiable. Call 393-2181. 3-BDRM 1.5 bath house, Hillcrest, open concept kitchen w/wood floors, close to school/bus, on green belt, oil heat + utils extra, $1,600/mon + dd, serious inquiries. 633-6895 CABIN, SMALL & cozy, avail immed, outhouse, water available on site, woodstove, 25 min from town towards Haines junction, $400/mon + power. 668-6885, 1275woodland@gmail.com FURNISHED ROOM with half bath at Marsh Lake, waterfront, N/S, animal welcome, $500/mon. 660-4321 FURNISHED ROOM, includes TV and cable in room, wifi internet, parking, laundry, kitchen facilities, large comfortable home, $650/mon. 333-3457
Wanted to Rent HOUSESITTER AVAILABLE Mature, responsible person Call Suat at 668-6871 WANTED TO RENT: Small garage in downtown near Ogilvie Street to store tools & other items with enough space to set up and use table saw. Does not need to be heated but would prefer electricity. Willing to pay $100/mon. Call 667-2737, leave message YOUNG PROFESSIONAL couple looking to rent a 1-2 bedroom unit, quiet/respectful tenants, long or short term rental beginning June 1, no smoking, no pets, moving from Vancouver. 604-839-9416 HOUSE SITTER available, excellent references, call 334-8669 or email yukon_bound@hotmail.com
Real Estate Condo Studio in Nanaimo, B.C. Quality construction+materials, partially furnished w/kitchen appliances, well organized 300 sq ft space in quiet residential neighbourhood. Transit, park, shopping nearby. Low condo fees+utilities. Asking $85,000. Call 867-660-4516
BURNT CREEK Farm, Davie Hall Lake, BC, 198 acre wilderness retreat, 13 km north of Atlin BC, $775,000. 335-3611 TOWNHOUSE, RIVERDALE, updated 3-bdrm, 1.5 baths, deck, basement, oak & cork floors, oil furnace, carport, storage shed, lg. yard with shrubs, spruce, pines, $279,500. 668-6147 3-BDRM 2-BATH house, office with suite in basement, large corner treed lot, close to bus & schools, will sell furnished or unfurnished, offers, 49 Redwood Street, Porter Creek. 633-6553 2-BDRM 1-BATH condo, 1,221 sq ft, Main St, 2 units per floor, wood, tiles, carpet, humidifier, intercom, deck, bsmt storage, parking, wheelchair access, pets welcome, $316,000 flexible. 250-716-6190, email hanasaly.czca@gmail.com WANTED: COUNTRY residential home within 30 min/easy commute to Whitehorse. Looking for a home needing TLC or renovating for couple just starting out, preferably waterfront or acreage. 705-868-8873 4-BDRM 4-BATH house, Takhini North, 2,310 sq ft, newly built in 2010, R28 walls, R60 attic, fully fenced, abuts green space, close to everything. 456-0004 2 LAKEFRONT lots @ 4th of July Bay, Atlin, 2 lots, 1.38 acres, 2 cabins, shop, shower house, turn key package $180,000. 250-651-2222 or king,jimbeth@gmail.com for details TITLED OFF grid, 0.2734 hectares, at 4th of July Bay, Atlin. Green belt of two sides with view of lake and mountains, $50,000. 250-651-2222 for more details
Help Wanted SKKY HOTEL IS HIRING Hotel Cleaner/Janitorial immediately. Starting wage is $14.13/hr 40 hrs a week. Submit resume to Front Desk or email decristofarop@rogers.com GOLD MINE CAMP COOK May through September Sub-Contractor work Please send resume to: dodgemachining@msn.com or contact: 307-266-1241 for more details. MEDICAL TRANSCRIPTION is an in-demand career in Canada! Employers have work-at-home positions available. Get the online training you need from an employer-trusted program. Visit: CareerStep.ca/MT to start training for your work-at-home career today!
HELP WANTED Hotel Front Desk Clerk NOC #6525 Qualifications: Completion of college program in front desk operations or hotel management is required. Applicants with relevant experience preferred: Hours: 8 hours per week Wage: $14/hr Duties: â&#x20AC;˘Register arriving guests and assign rooms â&#x20AC;˘Answer telephone enquiries â&#x20AC;˘Compile and check daily records Contact: HR Manager hr@elitehotel.ca Elite Hotel & Travel Ltd. 206 Jarvis St Whitehorse, Yukon Y1A 2H1
Miscellaneous for Sale WINDOOR RECYCLER We buy & sell: â&#x20AC;˘ Brand new/used double/triple pane vinyl/wood windows. â&#x20AC;˘Brand new steel/vinyl exterior doors with frames. Now selling: â&#x20AC;˘Brand new unfinished oak kitchen cabinets. 333-0717 We will pay CASH for anything of value Tools, electronics, gold & jewelry, chainsaws, camping & outdoor gear, hunting & fishing supplies, rifles & ammo. G&R New & Used 1612-D Centennial St. 393-2274 BUY â&#x20AC;˘ SELL PIONEER FEATHER-LITE parka, menĘźs sz med, like new, $150, snowmobile suit, unisex down insulated, $75. 633-3053 PERSIAN CARPET, Habibian Nain, creme/blue, tan, red trim, 600 knots psi, 5'X8', bought mid-east, appraised, documented, offers, great in L/R, dining rm, home, cabin, $2,100. 456-4109. herbeeking@hotmail.com For Sale NATIVE BRAIN-TANNED HIDES and Tanned Beaver Pelts at reasonable prices Phone (780)335-3557 If no one is available please leave msg or call (780)461-9677 1,500 VINYL records, 60s to 90s, all genres, no scratches, $1,200 for all. 334-4568 SAWMILLS FROM only $4,397 - MAKE MONEY & SAVE MONEY with your own bandmill - Cut lumber any dimension. In stock ready to ship. FREE Info & DVD: www.NorwoodSawmills.com/400OT 1-800-566-6899 Ext:400OT.
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VERY LARGE Philodendron, Hoya plant, several porthos plants, 6' silk tree, treadle sewing machine case, porch swing. 393-2663 before 9pm 8Ęź ELECTRIC plow, good shape, mount for Ęť94 4-Runner, $600. 333-0564 2010 WEIL McLain oil boiler, low usage, great shape, $700. 333-0564
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DAYTON EXHAUST fan c/w back draft damper, 1,500 CFM, $150. 667-6752 or 332-8706 2 YORK 3-ton air conditioning units w/horizontal coils. Any 3 phase power, $1,100/ea. 667-6752 or 332-8706 DELHI 10X10 fan, complete with cabinet. Suitable for wood furnace, $150. 667-6752 or 332-8706 MISCELLANEOUS TOOLS, hand, power mechanic, carpenter, view at 49 Redwood Street, Porter Creek. 633-6553 HANDICAP SHOWER chair, unused, white w/rubber suction cups, clean & exc cond, $85 obo. 336-4898 ARM SLING with straps, clean & exc cond, $10. 336-4898
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Reporting to the Capital & Infrastructure Manager, this position assists in managing and coordinating the departments administrative records; forwards records to central ďŹ ling and archiving; provides a wide range of secretarial and administrative support; provides meeting arrangements and secretarial support for meetings, including minute taking and transcribing; and performs other related duties including assisting of the TTC Housing Program and maintaining up to date information on TTC housing units; assisting tenants in understanding TTC housing policies and procedures; and other related duties, including assisting with project cost tracking. EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE: Grade 12 supplemented with a CertiďŹ cate in Administrative Services or a related discipline or an equivalent combination of education and experience. Knowledge of accounting principles and practices and experience using applications including Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook; Accpac and AIS.
BERNINA MODEL 830 sewing machine, has all attachments & manual, $400. 634-2578
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36â&#x20AC;? CHIMNEY length, 6â&#x20AC;? diameter, new cond, insulated stainless, includes 6â&#x20AC;? wall band, $65. 333-0914
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SHARK FLOOR steamer, like new, $60; office chair, like new, $20; Vileda spin-mop & bucket system, $15. 393-4366 DELUXE HAND-HELD shower massager, new in sealed case, 3 settings $20. 336-4898 GET-A-GRIP ULTRA traction on snow, casual, dress, athletic footwear, WomenĘźs SML-MED, 5-9, menĘźs 3-7, Euro 36-41, 2 replaceable spikes incl, $10. 336-4898
8ĘźX10Ęź REVERSIBLE braided rug, beige, smoke & pet-free, stain on one side, overall like new cond, new $1,200, asking $600. 393-8077 1 XL4 16â&#x20AC;? Homelite chainsaw, 1 Supermini 18â&#x20AC;? Homelite chainsaw, new chains, both for $175. 332-6565 CANON PRINTER, PIXMA MP560, like new, memory card compatibility, print from camera, $150 obo. 336-4898 ICE AUGER, 8â&#x20AC;? Viper, $125. 333-0914 OLDER OIL tank , 250 gallons, no leaks, $150. 633-4656 ICE FISHING gear, 10â&#x20AC;? auger, tent, skimmer, fish finder, $1,200 obo. 867-689-4882
For more information, please call 867.390.2532 ext 316. Please quote the job title in the subject line of your email, fax and/or cover letter: Workforce Development TESLIN TLINGIT COUNCIL Box 133, Teslin, Yukon Y0A 1B0 f. 867.390.2176
humanresources@ttc-teslin.com CLOSING DATE: TUESDAY, APRIL 7, 2015 **NO LATER THAN 4:00 PM** TTCâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Hiring Policy will be in effect.
Be a part of one of Canadaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most dynamic environmental and socioeconomic assessment processes; working with an energe c, progressive organiza on. We are commi ed to the well-being of our employees and encourage their personal and professional development. Our commitment is to be an impar al, eďŹ&#x20AC;ec ve and eďŹ&#x192;cient organiza on that provides assistance to all involved in the assessment process.
ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT Mayo Designated OďŹ&#x192;ce Permanent posiĆ&#x;on
Located in Mayo, this posi on reports to the Manager, Designated OďŹ&#x192;ce and is responsible for providing recep on and administra ve support to the staďŹ&#x20AC; of the Designated OďŹ&#x192;ce. Applicants should demonstrate their ability to work independently in a confiden al environment, with frequent interrup ons, and their ability to mul -task and priori ze their workload while maintaining a posi ve a tude with both co-workers and the public. Applicants must have experience with Microso Outlook, Word, Excel and Access. The annual salary range for this posi on is $52,390 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; $60,161 based on 75 hours biweekly. Flexible work arrangements may be considered. If you feel you have the qualifica ons and desire to meet the challenges of this posi on please forward a cover le er and resume outlining how your experience and qualifica ons relate directly to the posi on. A job descrip on is available at the Mayo Designated OďŹ&#x192;ce, 308 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 1st Avenue in Mayo, YESAB Head OďŹ&#x192;ce, Suite 200 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 309 Strickland Street in Whitehorse or on our website at www.yesab.ca. Please submit applica ons to: Finance and Administra on Manager, YESAB Suite 200 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 309 Strickland Street, Whitehorse, YT Y1A 2J9 Ph: 867.668.6420 Fax: 867.668.6425 or email to yesab@yesab.ca Toll free: 1.866.322.4040 Resumes must be received by end of day April 6, 2015.
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YUKON NEWS
CANADIAN TIRE Whitehorse, Yukon We are currently looking for
Parts Back Window Person
2-YR OLD white eco-toilet & white small sink, $100 obo for both, suitable for small bathroom; black long women's dress size L, suitable for wedding/prom, worn once, $40. 668-5185 TIGERLOOP FOR oil furnace or boiler, $100. 667-6752 or 332-8706 RELIO M3 burner for oil furnace or boiler, $175. 667-6752 or 332-8706
Teslin Tlingit Council TTC INVITES APPLICATIONS FOR
B.C. Interests and Land Coordinator THIS IS A FULL-TIME POSITION Reporting to the Director of Lands & Resources, the B.C. Interests Land Coordinator (BCILC) will coordinate and help to optimize TTCâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s rapidly evolving comprehensive and complex land, natural resource, legal and related interests in British Columbia, mindful of and coordinated with TTCâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s logical and associated interests in Yukon. The BCILS will fulďŹ ll their work responsibilities as the team lead or team member on a wide variety of assignments, or work independently, as required by the Director. The BCILC will support the Director by providing highly competent administrative, planning, budgetary, scientiďŹ c, research, technical, Teslin Tlingit cultural, communications, supervisory, and related assistance across the department, as may be required from time to time.
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For more information, please call 867.390.2532 ext 316. To apply, please submit a cover letter and resume to: HR & Staff Development OfďŹ cer Workforce Development TESLIN TLINGIT COUNCIL Box 133, Teslin, Yukon Y0A 1B0 f. 867.390.2176
humanresources@ttc-teslin.com CLOSING DATE: THURSDAY, APRIL 2, 2015 **NO LATER THAN 4:00 PM** TTCâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S Hiring Policy will be in effect.
MOVING SALE, lots of furniture, tools, camping equipment, menĘźs clothing, motorcycle gear, snowblower, lawnmower, and all things in the garage. 667-7467 TOP COAT, London Fog, sz 42R, black; Arctic North Slope parka, by Woods, sz M/M, lt brown; Pioneer jacket, green, sports wear, down filled, sz M/M, all like new. 667-6779
MAYO, YUKON OPERATIONS DIRECTOR
JOB SUMMARY: Reporting to the Executive Director of the First Nation of Na-Cho Nyak Dun (FNNND) this position is responsible for leading, planning, managing and implementing the policies and procedures relating to the administration and operation of FNNND. The incumbent will provide administrative expertise and direction to departmental Managers responsible for program delivery and is responsible for monitoring and ensuring that the programs are run within budget, work plans are implemented and followed and that work is accomplished in a timely fashion. The Director ensures seamless operations of the ofďŹ ce through effective and efďŹ cient administrative activities and understands the impact of this position on all department program functions. QualiďŹ cations s s s
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MEDI-CHAIR, EXC cond, hardly used, blue, remote controls chair to move up & down & lay back, $600 obo. 633-4079 to view DOUBLE WINE kit, c/w 2 kits in 1, makes approx 60 bottles so cost approx .65 cents/bottle, $39. 633-6264 WHITE GOLD diamond ring, emerald & white gold diamond ring, several pieces of very old original paintings, caribou hide, moose hide, original Yukon space heater circa 1904, etc, call to view/price. 332-5181
Electrical Appliances WASHER-DRYER, 334-0254 (cell)
JOB OPPORTUNITY
ALL APPLICATIONS MUST BE RECEIVED BEFORE JUN 30, 2015 TO APPLY FOR THIS JOB Please email your resume with cover letter at hr.452@thetire.ca, fax attn: HR Dept 867-6672904 or you can also drop off resume and ďŹ ll out an application at the customer service desk.
WOMENĘźS SZ 9 1/2 Harley Davidson boots, like new, $50. 667-7057
First Nation of Na-cho Nyäk Dun
DUTIES:
Serve technicians and process their requests for parts; Source products/ parts through authorized suppliers; Follow established procedures regarding the ordering and sale of parts to the service department; Control and maintain inventory; Responsible for working or ensuring adequate coverage on all scheduled shifts; Ability to remain productive with minimal supervision; Assist with parts counter during down times or as time permits; Follow company, store and department policies; Complete other tasks, as required. Demonstrated automotive subject matter interest and knowledge; Ability to work in a team environment to achieve common goals; Ability to maintain composure and work effectively in a fast-paced environment; Experience with use of an automotive parts lookup system; Organizational ability and attention to detail; Punctual and reliable; Effective written and oral communication skills; Basic math skills; Keyboarding skills in a busy service centre, with state-of-the-art equipment and modern technical training, the Service Manager and the technicianâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ability to combine automotive expertise with good customer relations skills contribute to making Canadian Tire the most recognized leader in the automotive service industry.
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 1, 2015
$250. 633-4115 or
16.5 CU ft top-freezer GE refrigerator, stainless steel w/spill-proof glass shelves, gallon door bins, 2 humidity-controlled crispers, exc cond, 28"W x 65"H x 28" deep, $375 obo. 332-1779 KENMORE WASHER & dryer, approx 5 yrs old, vg cond, $250. 633-2837
TVs & Stereos HITACHI 52â&#x20AC;? LCD television w/stand, asking $1,000. Call 667-7467 ENTERTAINMENT STAND w/built-in fireplace, has electric heat, c/w remote control, $300 obo. 633-5130
Computers & Accessories
Completion of a degree in Business Administration, preferred; Diploma in business administration required; Or 4 plus yearsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; experience in multi-discipline program management or equivalent of several yearsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; experience and post-secondary education in administration and operation services; and Minimum qualiďŹ cations include appropriate course work and experience in working within a Government (preferably First Nation) in a management capacity and signiďŹ cant experience.
V-TECH CORDLESS phone system with Blue Tooth wireless technology, asking $100. Call 667-7467 GS I-PHONE, $50; G4 I-Phone, $100, both in good working condition. 668-2919
Musical Instruments PIANO TUNING & REPAIR by certified piano technician Call Barry Kitchen @ 633-5191 email:bfkitchen@hotmail.com
References and Criminal Record Check Required. Successful short-listed applicants will be contacted. Please submit resumes by: April 10, 2015 @ 4:30 p.m. to: Ronalda Moses Manager, Human Resources Tel: (867) 996-2265 ext. 149 Fax: (867) 996-2267 Email: humanresources@nndfn.com
Guitar/Bass and Music Theory Lessons with Jim Holland in the Takhini Hot Springs area. Beginners to intermediate Call for times and prices 867-335-0396 UNIVOX ELECTRIC guitar, $135, Cort M200 electric guitar, $150, Gibson SG Robot electric guitar, self tuning, $1,300. 333-9084
ACTIVE IN YOUR COMMUNITY Are you looking for volunteer opportunities? Please check www.volunteeryukon.ca to find more volunteer opportunities.
GETZEN TRUMPET, $200 obo. 333-5577 ELECTRIC GUITAR & amp, exc cond, comes in hardshell case, Samick guitar & Fender amp, $375 obo. 633-5130
Firewood
Volunteer for â&#x20AC;&#x153;Walking With Our Sistersâ&#x20AC;? Task description: Installation of commemoration (1700 mocassinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s vamps) and displays; Skills needed: a willingness to help with cleaning and preparing room for installation, servers to help with food/ beverages, movers to move the heavier/bulkier items; Responsibilities: being respectful in handling of all items and observing protocols of the process, taking direction from the Elders and Keepers Time commitment: 5 hours commitment (from 8am to 6pm, April 7 - 8 - 9 - 10th 2015);
HURLBURT ENTERPRISES INC. Store (867) 633-3276 Dev (867) 335-5192 Carl (867) 334-3782
â&#x153;&#x201D; Beetle-killed spruce from Haines Junction, quality guaranteed â&#x153;&#x201D; Everything over 8" split â&#x153;&#x201D; $250 per cord (6 cords or more) â&#x153;&#x201D; Single and emergency half cord deliveries â&#x153;&#x201D; Scheduled or next day delivery
MasterCard
Cheque, Cash S.A. vouchers accepted.
Staff position that will supervise the volunteer (who s/he will report to): Volunteer Coordinator Florence Moses & Anne Desk; Event held in Kwanlin DĂźn Cultural Centre, on April 11 through 25, 2015. Incentive for the volunteer (training opportunity, free ticket for event, etc.). Contact information: by e-mail at whse.wwos@gmail.com or the Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/WalkingWithOurS istersWhitehorse?fref=ts
You work for a non-profit organization and you would like to add your volunteer opportunities? Please click on http://www.volunteeryukon.ca/.
Community Services
2 CORDS of wood, 18â&#x20AC;? lengths. Must pick up. Quick sale, $400. 633-2293 DUKE'S FIREWOOD Round Firewood Multiples of 2 cords, $250/cord Round 6 cord load, $230/cord Cash sales only 334-8122 ANDYĘźS FIREWOOD SERVICE End of season discounts Quality standing dry Haines Junction Full measured cords, stacked $230/cord Discount for large orders 335-0932, leave message EVF FUELWOOD ENT Year Round Delivery â&#x20AC;˘ Dry accurate cords â&#x20AC;˘ Clean shavings available â&#x20AC;˘ VISA/M.C. accepted Member of Yukon Wood Producers Association Costs will rise. ORDER NOW 456-7432
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 1, 2015 DIMOK TIMBER 6 cord or 22 cord loads of firewood logs You cut firewood @ $115/cord Call 634-2311 or email dimoktimber@gmail.com
Guns & Bows LICENSED TO BUY, SELL & CONSIGN rifles & ammo at G&R New & Used 1612-D Centennial St. 393-2274 BUY â&#x20AC;˘ SELL
DJG CONTRACTING Delivering single/multiple cord orders cut to length 20 cords in tree length Pick up in Whitehorse or Haines Junction Call or text David at 332-8327
MOSSBERG 22 LR semi-auto, camo, 2 25-round clips, like new, $250. 333-0564
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YUKON NEWS LEE ENFIELD No1 Mk III* SMLE, sporterized wood, aftermarket Lyman sight, full length bbl, new camo finish with clearcoat, good cond, $340, PAL req'd. 667-2276
SPANISH 12-GAUGE double barrel sxs shotgun, external hammers, vg to exc cond, mirror bores, $400. 633-2443
WANTED: NEEDED for projects, scrap lumber, old kids toys, freezer burnt meat, soiled clothing. Drop off on front lawn or door @ 145 Falcon Drive.
SMITH & Wesson N29 .44 mag, stainless steel, 6â&#x20AC;? barrel, c/w holster, $650. 333-0564
Wanted
WANTED: OLD style wooden chairs, any condition, cash paid. 334-8444
WANTED: VOLUNTEER to teach beginner English to an adult. 393-2275
Cars
NON-RESTRICTED FIREARMS course presented by Whitehorse Rifle & Pistol Club April 18 & 19. For more info call 334-1688 or 667-6728
RESTRICTED FIREARMS course presented by Whitehorse Rifle & Pistol Club April 26. For more info call 334-1688 or 667-6728
RUGER MINI 14 w/synthetic pistol grip stock + original wood stock, 4x32 scope, 2x5 round mags. $850 obo. Text/vmail @ 335-2788
LEE ENFIELD No4 Mk1, professional conversion to .308 win, new .308 bbl, no finish, new bolt parts, new synthetic stock, scope mount, no sights, no magazine, $500, PAL req'd. 667-2276
HUSQVARNA COMMERCIAL M96 bolt action rifle, 8 mm calibre, Norma peep sight, walnut stock, good to vg cond, includes partial box of ammo & reloading dies, $495. 633-2443
EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES Regional Program Manager, Bridges Department of Highways & Public Works Salary: $91,302 to $105,692 per annum
Closing Date: April 16, 2015 RequisiĆ&#x;on: #7378
For viewing all jobs, please go to
www.employment.gov.yk.ca â&#x20AC;&#x153;CommiĆŠed to employment equityâ&#x20AC;? Public Service Commission (867) 667-5834
LOOKING FOR 1980s Yamaha Enticer 340 snow machine, running or not. Call 335-6025 WANTED: SPRAY foam insulation equipment, cash paid. 334-8444
2013 HYUNDAI Genesis Coupe, 2.0T, fully loaded, 6-spd standard w/cargo tray, winter front mats, new winter tires/rims, oil pan heater, 13,000 kms, $26,500 obo. 334-9039
EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY Yukon Suspension Bridge is currently seeking Employees for the remainder of the 2015 tourist season ending September 30th. Positions available are:
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HEAD CHEF COOK ASSISTANT/DISHWASHER RESTAURANT SERVER CASHIER TOUR GUIDE
Yukon Suspension Bridge is a world class tourist attraction located between Whitehorse, Yukon and Skagway, Alaska along the Klondike Highway. We are looking for energetic and personable individual who can work well in our customer service business. Daily transportation to and from the Bridge is provided. QualiďŹ cations and duties very from each position, should you require more information please contact us. If you feel you have the experience and knowledge to be a part of our team please submit resume. For more information of our business visit us at,
www.yukonsuspensionbridge.com Email: info@yukonsuspensionbridge.com Phone: 604-628-5660 Fax: 250-262-5123
CANADIAN HIGH ARCTIC RESEARCH STATION PRESIDENT AND CHAIRPERSON POSITIONS Are you a skilled, innovative, and visionary leader? Individuals are sought to lead the establishment of the new Canadian High Arctic Research Station, a new federal organization that will be headquartered in Cambridge Bay, Nunavut. The Canadian High Arctic Research Station is being created to deliver a world-class Arctic science and technology program, to operate a cutting-edge research facility, and to strengthen Canadaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s leadership on polar issues. For more information or to apply for these positions, please visit http://ow.ly/KjiDY. The application process closes on April 10, 2015.
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MicMac USED VEHICLE SPECIALS!!
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have your pets SPAYED OR NEUTERED. FOR INFORMATION CALL
633-6019
LOST/FOUND
2014 Nissan PathďŹ nder SL 4x4 #7388A / $41,940 ........... .....SOLD! PROMO $36, 36,900 2011 Chevrolet Colorado #7519B / $26,105.......................PROMO $15 15,295 , 2010 Dodge Ram 1500 Laramie #7514B / $45,195.........SOLD! PROMO $32, 32,795 544 t PROMO 54 t 4&3 4& 4&37 4&3 4& 3$18,975 37 37* 7* 4"-&4 t #0%: 4)01 t 1"354 t 4&37*$& 2008 Jeep Wrangler Sahara #7479A / $34,060................. 2009 Kia Sorento #7527A / $32,745 .....................................PROMO $14,290 2013 Chevrolet Cruze LT Turbo
t Copper Rd Mighty Wash, male, neutered whippet. White with brindle patches, wearing a collar. Found near Copper Road, if he is yours please contact Brooke @333-9861
AVAILABLE FOR ADOPTION
2009 Ford Super Duty F-450 DRW STOCK #7354A
PRICE: $86,192 PROMO:
$
39,895
2011 Kia Sportage AWD LX STOCK #7551A
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17,600
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2014 FORD Mustang GT, fully loaded, Brembo, sunroof, navigation, 10k with full warranty, $20,000 firm. 334-5148 2011 MALIBU LT 6-spd, man shift out, 63,000km, great on gas, $11,000 obo. 633-4946 or 334-5311 2009 HONDA ST 1300, red, all tuned up, new tires, 12,000 mi, $9,950. 667-7223 2009 NISSAN Sentra, 4-cyl engine, 55,789km, silver-grey color, $9,800. 332-7500
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And more.... Come for a visit and meet your next furry family member!
SPECIAL t Homes needed for retired sled dogs. They would make excellent pets. Please contact 668-3647 or kennelmanager@muktuk.com If your lost animal has been inadvertently left off the pet report or for more info on any of these animals, call 633-6019 or stop by 126 Tlingit Street.
Pets will be posted on the Pet Report for two weeks. Please let us know after that time if you need them re-posted.
You can also check out our award winning website at:
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2008 CHEVY Tahoe, trailer hitch, power windows/doors, 2 batteries, running boards, rubber mat flooring, leather back seat, 177,000 kms, $12,900. 333-3457 2007 CHEV 2500HD, crew cab 4X4, great unit, many options, trailer tow, fully serviced, new brakes & battery, $14,900 obo. 633-4311 2007 DIESEL Jeep Grand Cherokee, loaded, leather, heated seats, sunroof, trailer brakes, well maintained, 123,000kms, motivated to sell, $19,000, will consider reasonable offers. 334-1195 2006 F350 Diesel, supercab SB, 300,000km all highway, grey, exc cond, many power options/updates, exc deal @ $11,000. 335-2172 2006 FORD F250, ext cab 4-dr, super duty turbo diesel 4X4, long box, no leaks in seals, new tires all around, all fluids recently changed, 5th wheel bar, $17,000. 334-1374 2006 TOYOTA 4-Runner Limited, 120,000 km, auto, new tires, V6, $13,000. 335-3444
2002 DODGE Dakota SLT 4X4, 4-dr, matching colour cap, 169,000kms, loaded, blk leather interior, gold exterior, with mechanical, $8,900. 336-0995 2000 GMC Sierra, ext cab, 280,000km, exc compression, well maintained, runs on synthetic oil, $4,500. 334-1374
1989 FORD 1-ton dually 4X4 flat deck, good shape, $5,000 obo. 335-4485 1979 FORD 3/4 ton van, 2 minor rust spots, factory rebuilt 351 Windsor, low miles, good glass, electric brake hookup & trailer hitch, $800 obo. 456-4198 1977 CLUBWAGON Chateau Ford passenger van, 50,000 original mi, exc engine, tinted glass, 3/4 ton, $1,800. 668-6805
Auto Parts & Accessories
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2011 DODGE Ram 1500 regular cab, short box, 4x4, 26,000km, well maintained, never driven in cold weather, all season/winter tires, headache rack, red, $21,000. 335-3938
1996 FORD Ranger, 2-wd, 4-cyl, 5-spd, $1,800 obo. 867-689-4882
Arrival: March 7/ 15 Sex: Female Breed: Bear dog x DOB: ~2011
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1999 CHEVROLET Silverado, x-cab 4x4, V8 auto, c/w winch, headache rack & rails, storage bins, $5,950. 336-2029
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Come on down to the shelter and meet me.
We Sell Trucks!
2005 FORD E350 cube van, low mileage, 152,709km, vg cond. James @ 668-2759 for info
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Trucks
2000 FORD Taurus sedan, 4-dr, P/W, P/D, cruise, V6 auto, 4 new snow tires, $1,950. 336-2029
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2005 TOYOTO Echo, 5-dr hatchback, exc cond, 192,000 km, no rust, $5,900 obo. Text/call 250-202-4319
2011 Chevrolet Malibu LT
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1988 LINCOLN Town Car, low mileage, 120,337, good condition, $5,000 obo. 667-7467
2002 JEEP TJ Sport, 5-speed, well maintained, $6,000. 633-6313
13,985
RUNNING AT LARGE...
2006 CHRYSLER Sebring, 107,000 kms, exc cond, well maintained, $5,900 obo. 333-3457
14,495
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If you have lost a pet, remember to check with City Bylaw: 668-8382
1992 NISSAN Sentra, great running car, new tires, battery & head gasket, $1,000 obo. Calvin @ 689-1727
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t Copper Ridge , Golden Retriever neutered male, wearing a black collar with tags, answers to Max. Contact Haylie @ 335-519 t Lost on Aishihik Rd, neutered male Pomeranian, red, no collar, 7 yrs old, answers to Peddles. Contact Rita @ 332-8507 ( 03/19/15)
2008 TAURUS LTD, 138,000kms, transferrable extended warranty, summer/winter tires on rims, blk ext/int, $9,800. 336-0995
PRICE: $22,645
PRICE: $26,345
FOUND
1999 CADILLAC, 2-dr, winter/summer tires on rims, $2,800. 336-2029
2004 CHRYSLER Sebring, 4-dr, auto, air, cruise, tilt, P/L, P/W, remote start, 104,000km, exc cond. Rob @ 334-2333
STOCK #7602A
STOCK #7594A
LOST
2007 TOYOTA Matrix, red, 128,000 km, exc cond, standard, $7,100. 668-4895 to view
DODGE HEAVY-DUTY headache rack for full size truck with 8Ęź box, 64 3/4â&#x20AC;? wide, tapers to 63â&#x20AC;? at back, black, slick, like new, $300 obo. 660-4516 CANOPY OFF 1988 GMĂ&#x2021; pick-up, 8Ęź box, highrise model, tinted windows, good cond, would also make great doghouse, $250. 633-4656
CELEBRATE! Births! Birthdays! Weddings! Graduations! Anniversaries! 1 column x 3 inches ............. Wed - $ s &RI $35.10 2 columns x 2 inches ........... Wed - $ s &RI $46.80 2 columns x 3 inches ........... Wed - $ s &RI $70.20 2 columns x 4 inches ........... Wed - $ s &RI $93.60 211 Wood Street, Whitehorse
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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 1, 2015 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 5 BRAND new Goodyear 245/75-17” 10ply mud/snow tires, $420 cost each, complete set of 5 for $1,350 obo. Call 332-1374 TOYOTA ALLOY wheels, fits Tacoma or Tundra, 16X7, retail $490/ea, asking $125/ea or all for $400. 633-3053 1975 454 Chev engine, running & complete, $500. 333-0564 1980 GMC 1-ton crew cab 4X4 dually for parts, cab & doors in good shape, front diff not available. 333-0564 LOADHANDLER, MANUAL crank slides, mat along box bed for pick-up truck, unload firewood, brick, compost, $75. 633-4656 3X MICHELIN LT265/70 R17, great tread, $300 obo. 633-4311 2 DODGE Sundance parts cars, could be made into running car, $500. 867-689-4882 4 TOYO M/T tires, L/T 265/70/R17, 10-ply, 90%-95% tread, retail $1,860, asking $1,000 obo. 336-4898 THULE CASCADE XT, includes crossbars & locks, $175. 333-0914 TONNEAU COVER, grey, fits 5ʼ8” box, sell for 1/4 original cost, $375. 333-0914
Pets PURE BRED registered black Pomeranians, fully grown should weigh approx 4-7 lbs. Application & home visits may be required. Ready in April. $1,200, serious inquiries only. 333-0933 ST. BERNARD PUPPIES Ready March 20th First shots Both parents are registered purebred Only 1 female & 4 males left 668-7218 • 335-5192 CANARY BIRD cages for sale, XL, $40; L, $30; M, $20; S, $10. Call 667-7467 WANTED: PICK of the litter male kitten, large size, med haired breed of parents, must be free, going to excellent country home. 667-2940 SLEEPYPOD AIR soft dog carrier, suitable for small dog like Yorkie, never used, $80. 668-5537 CANINES & COMPANY New! Puppy Play School Program March & April, Saturdays, 5 sessions 8-16 week old puppies Practical skills, play skills, house-training, socializing, pre-obedience school Hands-on learning. www.caninesandcompany.ca Phone 333-0505 WANTED: SMALL light-weight electric shaver w/variable cutting length attachment. 668-5188
Motorcycles & Snowmobiles MOTORCYCLE GEAR including leather jacket, chaps, heated rain gear, gloves, helmets, saddlebags, etc, will take offers. Call 667-7467
Jean Guy
Carrier
passed away March 12 at Whitehorse Yukon.
Celebration of Life will be at the Legion
Hall April 4 at 2 p.m.
For more information call 867-334-3393
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YUKON NEWS Recreational Powersports and Marine (RPM) Repairs Service, repair and installations for snowmobiles, ATVs, motorcycles, chainsaws, marine and more Qualified and experienced mechanic Great rates! Call Patrick at 335-4181 TAITʼS CUSTOM TRAILER SALES 2-3-4- place snowmobile & ATV trailers Drive on Drive off 3500 lb axles by Trailtech - SWS & Featherlight CALL ANYTIME: 334-2194 www/taittrailers.com RONʼS SMALL ENGINE SERVICES Repairs to Snowmobiles, Chainsaws, Lawnmowers, ATVʼs, Small industrial equipment. Light welding repairs available 867-332-2333 lv msg 2013 BEARCAT snow machine. 633-4115 or 334-0254 (cell) POLARIS 2003 RMK 700, new motor, new track, $3,000. 334-0528 or msg at 668-5729 2006 HONDA VTX 1300 w/windshield, saddlebags, back seat rest, new tires, low kms, $8,000 obo. 393-3211
2005 POLARIS RMK 900, 151 track, sell or trade for 4-wheeler or side-by-side, $4,800 obo. 334-8484
2015 SKI-DOO Tundra 550 LT, 154" track, lightly used, less than 200 miles odo, includes new cover & belt, located in Dawson City, $9250 obo. 867-993-3445
1998 YAMAHA Bravo long track, new seat cover & windshield, ready to go, c/w spare parts engine, drive clutch, skis & handle bars, $1,950 obo. 334-4687
WANTED: OLD, broken-down motorcycles. 335-1106
2014 FOLDING canoe Ally DR 16,5, new, never used, incl pack sack, repair kit, some spare parts, weight only 20 kg, $2,000 firm. 660-4723 or 332-5450
2005 ARGO 8X8 avenger, new top, windshield, multi-mount winch, 40 amp alternator kit, dual gun boot mount, 495 hrs, green, exc shape, runs/drives great, $8,000 obo. 332-1645
20 HP Mercury 2 stroke long shaft, guard plate on keel, tank and new spare prop, $750 obo. 633-4508
1997 ARCTIC Cat Bearcat, 550 liquid cooled, wide track, great utility machine, serviced & ready for work, $2,500 obo. 334-4687 1997 POLARIS Indy Trail, 488cc fan cooled, rebuilt engine, serviced & ready to go, c/w storage rack & hitch, $1,800 obo. 334-4687
Marine
ARGO CONQUEST, rebuilt motor, windshield, canopy, $6,700, Argo Conquest, new tires/rims, $5,800, both in great shape, both for $10,000. 867-863-5715
21ʼ CAMPION, walk around with cuddy, marine radio, GPS, depth sounder, 2 downriggers, 2 live wells, 225 hp mercury on transom w/trailer, $6,900. Email ekositsin@hotmail.com
2008 YAMAHA Roadliner, 2,800 mi, red/black/chrome, 1,900 cc, 116ci, belt drive, beautiful, selling for health reasons, $9,300. 336-0995
1980 24ʼ Sea Ray SV270, twin Mercruiser 470s with Alpha legs, $4,000 in recent parts, works great, $4,000. 333-0564
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24ʼ STARCRAFT cabin cruiser, runs well, many extras, $7,000. 668-4593 or 335-1283
2002 YAMAHA Mountain Max, best triple in sleds, freshly rebuilt, new track, new seat cover, broken ski handle but otherwise great. 867-993-6066 SKANDIC WIDE tracks, liquid cooled & fan cooled models, several available starting at $3,750, 2003-2005. 867-821-3003
2009 YAMAHA Venture MP 4-stroke, exc cond, rear seat, cargo box, block heater, extra-wide skis, scratchers, belts, mirrors, Yamaha cover & spare carbide runner, $5,500. 660-4516
2008 YAMAHA VStar 1300cc tourer motorcycle, has highway lights, wind deflectors, waterproof bike cover, 7,800km barely driven, exc cond, $8,800. 333-6069
2006 YAMAHA V-Star 1100 Classic, in good condition, $6,000 obo. 667-7467
1995 YAMAHA 1100 Virago, 26,000kms, $3,800 obo. 335-0894
Mamie Legris [1916 – 2015] Mamie Legris, staff worker of Madonna House, died peacefully on March 27, 2015 in Our Lady of the Visitation – St. Mary’s, Combermere, ON after a long illness. She served 63 years in the Apostolate. Mamie—Mary Theresa Brigid Legris— daughter of Alfred & Anne (Guiney) Legris was born in Dacre, Ontario, on March 31, 1916. She was raised there and helped in her father’s store. She attended high school in Mount St. Patrick and Renfrew. She received her teaching certificate from Ottawa Normal School in 1934 and taught in the area for 17 years, in Mount St. Patrick, Griffiths, Dacre and the Golden Lake Reserve. Mamie first heard Catherine and Eddie Doherty of Madonna House speak at Teachers’ Conventions in Douglas and Pembroke, Ontario. She enjoyed teaching but came to realize God was calling her to another vocation and so decided to try Madonna House. She began her training in 1951, and made her first promises in 1952. In May 1954, Mamie was assigned as Director of Maryhouse in Whitehorse, Yukon, the first mission outreach of Madonna House, where she served for ten years. Later travels took her to East Pakistan, Honduras, Brazil, Russia and the US to open new missions there. Mamie served a number of years at the Training Centre in Combermere and also spent time in the West Indies, St. Joseph’s House in Combermere, Israel and Peru. She served in prayer houses in Aquia, Virginia, Cleveland, OH and Coudert House in the Yukon for another seven years. She served meals in a busy hostel, visited with neighbours in quiet prayer houses, camped on the way to Inuvik in Arctic Canada, made friends in a South American barriada, met survivors of the gulags in Russia, travelled by schooner in the West Indies, shared coffee in the Middle East. She had friends writing to her from those places for years. Mamie loved and was interested in all sorts of people, and in spite of not speaking local languages, had a wonderful capacity to listen and be a friend. In 1997 she moved back to Combermere from her beloved Whitehorse, and since 2006 has lived in Our Lady of the Visitation care facility. She continued to help in the office and kitchen, visit local shut-ins, and keep up a vast correspondence with family and friends throughout the world. She was pre-deceased by her parents, Alfred and Anne Legris, brothers Francis (Hannah), Dan (Justine), Sam (Jennie), Joe (Rose), Bernard and Isaiah, and sisters Bernadette, Stella, Zita (Fred Denton) and Kathleen. She is survived by her brother-in-law, Clifford Bruce, (North Gower), sister-in law Hannah, along with many nieces, nephews and cousins. A wake for Mamie will be held on April 6, 2015 at Madonna House St. Mary’s Chapel from 2-4pm and 7-9pm with a prayer service at 8pm. A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated on April 7 at St. Mary’s Chapel at 11am with interment at Canadian Martyrs cemetery in Combermere. A reception will follow at Madonna House St. Mary’s.
W
ith great sadness we announce the passing of Freda Storey on March 25, 2015 in Whitehorse, Yukon. Born in London, England in 1922, Freda was a Meteorological Officer in the WAAF during WWII, and emigrated to Canada with her family in 1955. She was an active member of the community of Summerland, B.C. for over fifty years. In 2007, she moved to Whitehorse to be near her family, and she happily settled into life in the north. We will miss her great spirit and athleticism, her love of lively music, her very creative imagination, and her readiness to laugh even when life became more difficult for her. er Janet, but She was predeceased by her husband Ken and her daughter en, and seven leaves children David, Gina, and Alan, eleven grandchildren, great grandchildren. A service will be held at the Whitehorse United Church on April 16, 2015 at 1:00pm.
Richard Kerr JUNE 4, 1968 TO MARCH 27, 2013
We miss you! We have you in our heart! We know you’re in good hands! We say a prayer to you! We love you! In the last two years, we think of you each and every minute! Love you to the moon and back! Dad, Mom, Colleen, Brian (Matt,Danika) YOUR BOYS ANDREW & WILLIAM AND YOUR GIRL DINA!
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DIESEL TANK, 5,000L, good cond, no leaks, above ground, $1,800. 867-862-7047
3/4 TON utility trailer, white & blue, excellent for hauling wood, garbage etc, $750 obo. 334-4568
1966 ALLIS Chalmers HD16DP, needs work on steering clutches, not running, c/w spare parts & all manuals, $3,000. 333-0564
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PUBLIC MEETING Hotsprings Road Development Area EMR Land Planning Branch will be holding a public meeting to discuss the following proposed amendments to the Hotsprings Road Area Development Regulations: Amend the CMT Mixed Use/Tourist Accommodation Zone to allow bare land condominiums as a form of property ownership on CMT zoned parcels. When: 7:00 p.m., April 15, 2015 Where: Hootalinqua Fire Hall The amendment will not result in any changes to the types of uses and development currently permitted within the CMT zone or the existing residential capacity of CMT zoned properties. Note that the current zoning already provides for â&#x20AC;&#x153;strataâ&#x20AC;? type condominium development. Written comments can also be submitted until April 27, 2015 Comments can be mailed to Energy, Mines and Resources, Land Planning Branch, K-320LP, Box 2703, Whitehorse, Yukon, Y1A 2C6 or by fax to 867-393-6340. For more information please email Christopher.Belanger@gov.yk.ca or phone 867-667-3734.
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INTĘźL FOLK Fest, 29th annual, Skagway, Friday Apr 17, 7pm AK time, EagleĘźs Hall, Broadway at 6th. Skagwayartscouncil.blogspot.com, RĂŠnĂŠ Koher at Tokyoariel@hotmail.com 212-203-5090. Bring Passport! THE YUKON Trappers Association is holding a Marten Workshop, presented by Robert Sitt, Saturday, April 4th, 10am-4pm, new location, 175 Titanium Way, Whitehorse. All are welcome. Phone 667-7091 SATURDAY SALSA Dancing at the Wheelhouse, 9pm-12:30am, Saturday April 4th, The Wheelhouse Restaurant, 2237 2nd Avenue. salsayukon@gmail.com for info ACTIVE TRAILS Whitehorse Association monthly meeting Tuesday, April 15, 7pm, Sport Yukon Boardroom #1. All welcome YUKON PARTY Whitehorse West EDA AGM Thursday April 16, 6:30pm at Ă&#x2030;cole Ă&#x2030;milie-Tremblay. Info: info@yukonparty.ca DANCE GATHERING April 4 @ Leaping Feats 8-9pm. A place to dance the way you want! Adults, mature teens. Entrance by donation. whitehorsedancegathering@gmail.com
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TENNIS YUKON summer kids camps. Sign up now for Tennis & Golf Camp or Tennis & Mountain Biking Camp. More information at www.tennisyukon.com QUEER YUKON: upcoming events for the LGBTQ community and allies, www.queeryukon.com ACTIVE TRAILS Whitehorse Assoc advises the City is considering motorizing Rotary Centennial pedestrian bridge & significant portions of Millennium Trail. Public input session Tuesday, April 7, 5:30pm, City Hall. http://www.activetwa.org/millenniumtrail.html YUKON LEARN Self-Directed Computer Studies (Drop-In) is cancelled for April, May & June. We will open up again in July. YUKON ORIENTEERING Association. Learn To Orienteer Workshop May 2. Pre-register by Wednesday, April 29. Barbara at 668-2306 THE WHITEHORSE Oldtimer Hockey League Annual General Meeting will be held on Thursday, April 23, 7pm, Tetra Tech EBA Boardroom, 61 Wasson Place THE WHITEHORSE Photography Club's Tuesday April 7 meeting features Yukon photographer Christian Kuntz. 7:00pm Whitehorse Public Library. Info at whitehorsephotoclub.ca HOSPICE WORKSHOP: LIVING with Loss Thursday April 9 6:30-8:30pm at WPL for anyone living with grief or supporting others who are grieving. To register: 667-7429
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BUSY BEAVERS Pruning, Hauling, Chainsaw Work, Snow Shovelling and General Labour Call Francois & Katherine 456-4755 ELECTRICIAN â&#x20AC;˘Licensed â&#x20AC;˘GST free for the month of April â&#x20AC;˘Residential & Commercial â&#x20AC;˘All jobs, large or small â&#x20AC;˘Free Estimates â&#x20AC;˘10% SeniorĘźs Discount 332-7879 SUBARU GURU Fixâ&#x20AC;˘Buyâ&#x20AC;˘Sell Used Subarus 30 year Journeyman Mechanic Towing available Mario 333-4585 THOMAS FINE CARPENTRY â&#x20AC;˘ Construction â&#x20AC;˘ Renovation â&#x20AC;˘ Finishing â&#x20AC;˘ Cabinets â&#x20AC;˘ Tiling â&#x20AC;˘ Flooring â&#x20AC;˘ Repairs â&#x20AC;˘ Specialty woodwork â&#x20AC;˘ Custom kitchens 867-633-3878 or cell 867-332-5531 thomasfinecarpentry@northwestel.net 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 FINISHING CARPENTRY & RENOVATIONS For Clean, Meticulous & Tasteful Quality Work INTERIOR â&#x20AC;˘Kitchen & Bathrooms, Flooring, â&#x20AC;˘Design & organization of walk-in closets, laundry & storage room, garage â&#x20AC;˘Wood & Laminate, Stairs. EXTERIOR â&#x20AC;˘Decks, Fences, Insulation, Siding, Storage Shed DIDIER MOGGIA 633-2156 or cell 334-2156
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LOG CABINS: Professional Scribe Fit log buildings at affordable rates. Contact: PF Watson, Box 40187, Whitehorse, YT, Y1A 6M9 668-3632 PASCAL PAINTING CONTRACTOR PASCAL AND REGINE Residential - Commercial Ceilings, Walls Textures, Floors Spray work Small drywall repair Excellent quality workmanship Free estimates pascalreginepainting@northwestel.net 633-6368
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SNOW CLEARING/REMOVAL Sidewalks, Driveways, Parking lots, Compounds Private and Commercial Properties Fast and reliable service Aurora Toolcat Services 867-334-7635 IBEX BOBCAT SERVICES â&#x20AC;&#x153;Country Residential Snow Plowingâ&#x20AC;? All Subdivisions & acreages off Mayo Rd, MacPherson, Hidden Valley, Pilot Mountain & Hot Springs Rd. Honest & Prompt Service Amy Iles Call 667-4981 or 334-6369 JUDEĘźS PAINTING & HOME RENOVATIONS â&#x20AC;˘Kitchen/bathroom renovations â&#x20AC;˘Hardwood & Laminate flooring â&#x20AC;˘Tile â&#x20AC;˘Window & door installation Additions, sheds & water rooms â&#x20AC;˘Interior painting New Customers 10% off Call 867-689-1458 Email judewaldman@gmail.com
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PUBLIC TENDER HEATING SYSTEM SERVICES YUKON HOUSING CORPORATION CARCROSS AND TESLIN, YUKON Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title. The closing date for submissions is April 8, 2015. Please refer to the procurement documents for the closing time and location. If documents are available they may be obtained from Yukon Housing Corporation, 410 Jarvis Street, Whitehorse, Yukon. Technical questions may be directed to Carmon Whynot at 867-667-5718. The highest ranked or lowest priced submission may not necessarily be accepted. All tenders and proposals are subject to a Compliance Review performed by the Procurement Support Centre. The information displayed is as of date and time of opening and is not modified based on the results of the Compliance Review. View or download documents at: www.gov.yk.ca/tenders/tms.html
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REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL LEASE SPACE FOR GOVERNMENT OF YUKON DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION, INDIVIDUAL LEARNING CENTRE AND AURORA VIRTUAL SCHOOL WHITEHORSE, YUKON Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title. The closing date for submissions is April 22, 2015. Please refer to the procurement documents for the closing time and location. Documents may be obtained from the Procurement Support Centre, Department of Highways and Public Works, Suite 101 - 104 Elliott Street, Whitehorse, Yukon (867) 667-5385. Technical questions may be directed to Marion Morrison at (867) 6675972. The highest ranked or lowest priced submission may not necessarily be accepted. All tenders and proposals are subject to a Compliance Review performed by the Procurement Support Centre. The information displayed is as of date and time of opening and is not modified based on the results of the Compliance Review. View or download documents at: www.gov.yk.ca/tenders/tms.html
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Lost & Found LOST: SMALL Pomeranian dog on the Aishihik Road evening of March 16, 2015. Looks like a fox. 332-8507 LOST: LEFT hat at Nisling Bison Corral cabin on March 22. Reward for return. 668-2802 FOUND: GOLD ring on Lewes Blvd. Call to identify. 667-6996 LOST: GREEN beaded necklace on Thursday, March 19th, somewhere on Main Street. Call 334-2854 FOUND: LED light for bicycle, 4th & Strickland. If you're the red-jacketed cyclist who lost your LED light around 1:30 on March 27, call to identify/claim. Darcy 660-5166
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Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title. The closing date for submissions is April 28, 2015. Please refer to the procurement documents for the closing time and location. Documents may be obtained from the Procurement Support Centre, Department of Highways and Public Works, Suite 101 - 104 Elliott Street, Whitehorse, Yukon (867) 667-5385. Technical questions may be directed to Mike Otto at (867) 667-3004. The highest ranked or lowest priced submission may not necessarily be accepted. All tenders and proposals are subject to a Compliance Review performed by the Procurement Support Centre. The information displayed is as of date and time of opening and is not modified based on the results of the Compliance Review. The Yukon Business Incentive Policy will apply to this project. Bidders are advised to review documents to determine Certificate of Recognition (COR) requirements for this project. View or download documents at: www.gov.yk.ca/tenders/tms.html
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Livestock HORSE HAVEN HAY RANCH Irrigated Timothy/Brome mix No weeds or sticks Small squares 60 lbs plus 4 ft x 5 ft rounds 800 lb Free delivery for larger orders Straw square bales available 335-5192 • 668-7218 QUALITY YUKON MEAT No hormones, steroids or additives Grass raised grain finished. Hereford beef - $5/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 TIMOTHY/BROME HAY •No rain and in hayshed •Quality horse and livestock mix •Square and round bales •Delivery available For more information call 668-6742 or 334-4589 FARM TRACTOR, Case 1290 front end loader with 3 point hitch, excellent condition, runs well, Bill @ 668-1045 HORSE MANURE available, 10 minutes south of Whitehorse, horses' diet is almost exclusively Yukon hay. Bring your trailer and we'll help load it with small tractor. 667-7717
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Project Description: The Yukon Government is seeking a provider of alcohol and drug counselling services for offenders at Whitehorse Correctional Centre and on community supervision. Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title. The closing date for submissions is April 23, 2015. Please refer to the procurement documents for the closing time and location. Documents may be obtained from the Procurement Support Centre, Department of Highways and Public Works, Suite 101 - 104 Elliott Street, Whitehorse, Yukon (867) 667-5385. Technical questions may be directed to Leah White at (867) 667-5483. The highest ranked or lowest priced submission may not necessarily be accepted. All tenders and proposals are subject to a Compliance Review performed by the Procurement Support Centre. The information displayed is as of date and time of opening and is not modified based on the results of the Compliance Review. View or download documents at: www.gov.yk.ca/tenders/tms.html
PURCHASE OF HORIZONTAL SCALDING & DEHAIRING MACHINE FOR GOVERNMENT OF YUKON
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Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title. The closing date for submissions is April 22, 2015. Please refer to the procurement documents for the closing time and location. Documents may be obtained from the Procurement Support Centre, Department of Highways and Public Works, Suite 101 - 104 Elliott Street, Whitehorse, Yukon (867) 667-5385. Technical questions may be directed to Jenny Richards at (867) 3936387. The highest ranked or lowest priced submission may not necessarily be accepted. All tenders and proposals are subject to a Compliance Review performed by the Procurement Support Centre. The information displayed is as of date and time of opening and is not modified based on the results of the Compliance Review. This tender is subject to Chapter Five of the Agreement on Internal Trade. View or download documents at: www.gov.yk.ca/tenders/tms.html
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Yukon Water Board – Application Notice Office des eaux du Yukon – Avis de demande Application Number Numéro de la demande
Applicant/Licensee Demandeur/Titulaire
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John Alton
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Any person may submit comments or recommendations, in writing, by the deadline for notice.
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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 1, 2015
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.
Deadline for Comments 4:00pm Date limite pour commentaires, avant 16 h
April 27, 2015
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.
ROSIEʼS DAY HOME Opening May 1, 2015 We will have openings for children 18 months and older Owner has been running the day home for over 15 years Call 668-3448 FAMILY DAY HOME IN GRANGER has a F/T space for a child 18 mo. and up. I also have space for a school age child after school and during summer break. Government licensed and insured. Please call 335-4520 for more info.
REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL DESIGN, SUPPLY AND INSTALL VARIOUS FURNITURE FOR FH COLLINS SECONDARY SCHOOL Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title. The closing date for submissions is April 30, 2015. Please refer to the procurement documents for the closing time and location. Documents may be obtained from the Procurement Support Centre, Department of Highways and Public Works, Suite 101 - 104 Elliott Street, Whitehorse, Yukon (867) 667-5385. Technical questions may be directed to Shannon Trott at (867) 667-3483. The highest ranked or lowest priced submission may not necessarily be accepted. All tenders and proposals are subject to a Compliance Review performed by the Procurement Support Centre. The information displayed is as of date and time of opening and is not modified based on the results of the Compliance Review. View or download documents at: www.gov.yk.ca/tenders/tms.html
Education
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 1, 2015 WANTED: LIVE-IN CAREGIVER for toddler, to supervise, care for, prepare meals & bathe. 40-hr work week (full time). Salary, $11/hr. Reside in private Whitehorse residence. Completion of Secondary school and minimum of 1 year full time caregiving work experience required. First Aid/CPR training and criminal record check is required. Apply by phone: (867) 334-5351, (867) 456-2081, or email karen.minguito@yahoo.ca
Furniture 2 LARGE metal filing cabinets, one drawer type, one with doors & shelves, 49 Redwood Street, Porter Creek. 633-6553 LARGE 6 drawer wood desk with matching 6 drawers, 2 door credenza & 2 large metal filing cabinets, view at 49 Redwood St, Porter Creek. 633-6553
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FRI. 7pm-8:30pm 4071 - 4th Ave Many Rivers Office CITIZENS ON PATROL. Do you have concerns in your neighborhood & community? Be part of the solution! Volunteer valuable time to the C.O.P.S. program. With your eyes & ears we can help stomp out crime. Info: RCMP 867-667-5555 HIP OR KNEE Replacement? Problems Walking or Getting Dressed? The Disability Tax Credit $1,500 Yearly Tax Credit. $15,000 Lump Sum Refund (on avg). For assistance Call: 1-844-453-5372
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SOLID OAK coat rack, 3ʼ wide, 2ʼ long, with shelf on top, asking $75. Call 667-7467 BEAUTIFUL CRYSTAL chandelier, 19" diameter, silver with many small crystals, $300. 633-4139 to view
2 L A - Z - B O Y chairs, overall size 39”Hx49”Wx39”D, brown sugar color, smoke & pet free, exc cond, $550 ea or both for $1,000 firm. 393-8077 MINI-FRIDGE, LIKE new, exc cond, $60 obo. 633-5130 TWO TWIN bed frames, $50 takes both. 633-5130 SLIDE MOTION solid oak rocker, $100 obo; blue futon w/frame, $125 obo. 332-0067 2 QUEEN size box springs & matresses, $100 ea. 668-3968
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PUBLIC TENDER MAINTENANCE & EMERGENCY REPAIRS YUKON HOUSING UNITS MAYO, YUKON Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title. The closing date for submissions is April 8, 2015. Please refer to the procurement documents for the closing time and location. If documents are available they may be obtained from Yukon Housing Corporation, 410 Jarvis Street, Whitehorse, Yukon. Technical questions may be directed to Wendy Andre at 867-996-2358.
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CONDO SOFA, like new, priced to sell, $300. 393-4366
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DRUG PROBLEM? Narcotics Anonymous meetings Wed. 7pm-8pm #2 - 407 Ogilvie St. BYTE Office
COFFEE TABLE rectangular with glass top 58L x 29W x 15H, side table to match, 27L x 22W x 19H, $100. 633-3332
LARGE VINTAGE mirrors, 30”X42”, $30; oval 25”X36”, $40. 311B Hanson St, eves
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All tenders and proposals are subject to a Compliance Review performed by the Procurement Support Centre. The information displayed is as of date and time of opening and is not modified based on the results of the Compliance Review. View or download documents at: www.gov.yk.ca/tenders/tms.html
REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL GEOPHYSICAL INVESTIGATION, VARIOUS LOCATIONS, CAMPBELL HIGHWAY #4 AND DEMPSTER HIGHWAY #5, YUKON 2015-2016
PUBLIC TENDER HEATING SYSTEM SERVICES YUKON HOUSING CORPORATION HAINES JUNCTION, YUKON Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title. The closing date for submissions is April 8, 2015. Please refer to the procurement documents for the closing time and location. If documents are available they may be obtained from Yukon Housing Corporation, 410 Jarvis Street, Whitehorse, Yukon. Technical questions may be directed to Carmon Whynot at 867-667-5718. The highest ranked or lowest priced submission may not necessarily be accepted. All tenders and proposals are subject to a Compliance Review performed by the Procurement Support Centre. The information displayed is as of date and time of opening and is not modified based on the results of the Compliance Review.
MUSIC THERAPY SERVICES Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title. The closing date for submissions is April 15, 2015. Please refer to the procurement documents for the closing time and location. Documents may be obtained from the Procurement Support Centre, Department of Highways and Public Works, Suite 101 - 104 Elliott Street, Whitehorse, Yukon (867) 667-5385. Technical questions may be directed to Trish Smillie at (867) 667-5986. The highest ranked or lowest priced submission may not necessarily be accepted. All tenders and proposals are subject to a Compliance Review performed by the Procurement Support Centre. The information displayed is as of date and time of opening and is not modified based on the results of the Compliance Review. View or download documents at: www.gov.yk.ca/tenders/tms.html
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REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL GEOHAZARD INVESTIGATION, DEMPSTER HIGHWAY #5, YUKON, 2015-2016
PUBLIC TENDER SUPPLY OF PRECAST CONCRETE BRIDGE GIRDERS AND ASSOCIATED BRIDGE COMPONENTS, KM 24.9 AND KM 29.7 ATLIN ROAD #7, YUKON 2015-2016
Project Description: Government of Yukon is seeking Proposals for Material Testing, Quality Assurance and Geotechnical Investigation Services as part of a Standing Offer Basis. Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title. The closing date for submissions is April 23, 2015. Please refer to the procurement documents for the closing time and location. Documents may be obtained from the Procurement Support Centre, Department of Highways and Public Works, Suite 101 - 104 Elliott Street, Whitehorse, Yukon (867) 667-5385. Technical questions may be directed to Nick Rodger at (867) 667-5194. The highest ranked or lowest priced submission may not necessarily be accepted. All tenders and proposals are subject to a Compliance Review performed by the Procurement Support Centre. The information displayed is as of date and time of opening and is not modified based on the results of the Compliance Review. View or download documents at: www.gov.yk.ca/tenders/tms.html
Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title. The closing date for submissions is April 22, 2015. Please refer to the procurement documents for the closing time and location. Documents may be obtained from the Procurement Support Centre, Department of Highways and Public Works, Suite 101 - 104 Elliott Street, Whitehorse, Yukon (867) 667-5385. Technical questions may be directed to Mike Otto at (867) 667-3004. All questions must be submitted to the Project Manager FIVE days prior to tender close. The highest ranked or lowest priced submission may not necessarily be accepted. All tenders and proposals are subject to a Compliance Review performed by the Procurement Support Centre. The information displayed is as of date and time of opening and is not modified based on the results of the Compliance Review. The Yukon Business Incentive Policy will apply to this project. Bidders are advised to review documents to determine Certificate of Recognition (COR) requirements for this project. View or download documents at: www.gov.yk.ca/tenders/tms.html
Project Description: Proposals are requested for geophysical investigation services to determine the distribution and extent of permafrost related embankment deficiencies on the Campbell and Dempster Highways. Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title. The closing date for submissions is April 22, 2015. Please refer to the procurement documents for the closing time and location. Documents may be obtained from the Procurement Support Centre, Department of Highways and Public Works, Suite 101 - 104 Elliott Street, Whitehorse, Yukon (867) 667-5385. Technical questions may be directed to Lekan Mitchell at (867) 3324427. Phone calls regarding technical questions about this RFP must be arranged by email at Lekan. Mitchell@gov.yk.ca. The highest ranked or lowest priced submission may not necessarily be accepted. All tenders and proposals are subject to a Compliance Review performed by the Procurement Support Centre. The information displayed is as of date and time of opening and is not modified based on the results of the Compliance Review. View or download documents at: www.gov.yk.ca/tenders/tms.html
Project Description: Proposals are requested for the completion of a desktop and field reconnaissance investigation for the purposes of identifying sections of the Dempster Highway corridor that are susceptible to soil mass movement events that may impact the stability of the roadway. Specific details are described in these terms of reference. Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title. The closing date for submissions is April 22, 2015. Please refer to the procurement documents for the closing time and location. Documents may be obtained from the Procurement Support Centre, Department of Highways and Public Works, Suite 101 - 104 Elliott Street, Whitehorse, Yukon (867) 667-5385. Technical questions may be directed to Lekan Mitchell at (867) 3324427. Phone calls regarding technical questions about this RFP must be arranged by email at Lekan. Mitchell@gov.yk.ca. The highest ranked or lowest priced submission may not necessarily be accepted. All tenders and proposals are subject to a Compliance Review performed by the Procurement Support Centre. The information displayed is as of date and time of opening and is not modified based on the results of the Compliance Review. View or download documents at: www.gov.yk.ca/tenders/tms.html
Project Description: The project includes fabrication, transportation, unloading, and onsite blocking of precast concrete bridge girders and associated bridge components for the KM 24.9 Snafu Creek and KM 29.7 Tarfu Creek bridges, Atlin Road #7, Yukon Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title. The closing date for submissions is April 23, 2015. Please refer to the procurement documents for the closing time and location. Documents may be obtained from the Procurement Support Centre, Department of Highways and Public Works, Suite 101 - 104 Elliott Street, Whitehorse, Yukon (867) 667-5385. Technical questions may be directed to Kirn Dhillon at (867) 633-7945. The highest ranked or lowest priced submission may not necessarily be accepted. All tenders and proposals are subject to a Compliance Review performed by the Procurement Support Centre. The information displayed is as of date and time of opening and is not modified based on the results of the Compliance Review. This tender is subject to Chapter Five of the Agreement on Internal Trade. The Yukon Business Incentive Policy will apply to this project. View or download documents at: www.gov.yk.ca/tenders/tms.html
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DESIGN BUILD REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS PLAYGROUND REPLACEMENTS VARIOUS LOCATIONS, YUKON
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