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Having the Internet for breakfast like cereal, diapers and deodorant arrive automatically at your door. I ordered muesli, coffee and – searching for something appropriately “Yukon” to qualify for free shipping – some baked beans. Dorset muesli was $6.49 for 620 grams, about the same as the Alpen brand locally ($6.48 for 650 grams). A pound of fancy Kicking Horse coffee was $11.95, less than the $11.47 I paid for 340 grams of Starbucks at the store. Heinz baked beans from Amazon were more expensive $2.27 per can, while the bricksand-mortar store offered them for 97¢ on sale (regular $1.54). However, when the shipment arrived it turned out that I had mistakenly ordered the British version of Heinz beans. As I learned at Wright’s breakfast bar at the London School of Economics, these are slightly different from the North American version. This might explain part of the cost differential, as well as providing the most carbon-intensive beans on toast breakfast in the history of climate change. It also highlights one nuisance about Amazon – the selection process. You have to pick from a confusing array of products offered by Amazon or its partners. I clicked on chocolate Hobnob biscuits and was shocked to see they cost $96. This was because you have to buy them in packs of 24, like at Costco. That works out to $4 per

pack compared to $2.64 at the store. All in all, my not-particularlyrandom sample showed many products cost about the same, a small number were cheaper and quite a few were significantly more expensive. However, you can order from the convenience of your home at any time of the day or night and delivery is free. The groceries took only five days to arrive, which is actually pretty fast considering that I have sometimes had grocery lists on the fridge for longer. Amazon promised my beans would “ship in Amazon certified Frustration-Free packaging.” My eight-pack of beans was in its own little cardboard box. If you care about minimal packaging, Amazon groceries are not for you. Then there are the carbon emissions. Amazon uses more packaging (bad), but doesn’t have to heat a giant grocery store here at forty below (good). I once spoke to a grocery logistics analyst in Sweden who told me that if you tracked the carbon emissions of shipping a kilo of frozen lamb from New Zealand to a Stockholm kitchen, most of the CO2 was emitted during the Volvo SUV ride from the grocery store to the house. Shipping eight cans of beans up the highway by truck is not an emission-light delivery system. But if my beans were flown here, as they may have been given the shipping time, then they were indeed a climate crime of Brob-

dingnagian proportions. And how did having the Internet for breakfast taste? I tested it on a panel of breakfast experts: i.e., teenage boys. We served muesli, beans on toast and coffee (my plan to spring Internet pickled herring on them having failed, since even Amazon doesn’t sell this tasty and nutritious breakfast treat). They said it was no worse than my usual attempts at making breakfast. They also came up with the idea that Yukoners in remote localities could get around high prices at the local store by ordering from Amazon. A good idea but, unfortunately, Northern News Services reported from Nunavut six months ago that Amazon was cutting free shipping to “remote” communities. I don’t expect Internet grocery delivery will put our local grocery stores out of business any time soon. However, I can see people starting to order specific staples like diapers. But in 10 years, who knows? The Internet is a powerful thing. Who would have guessed 20 years ago that Mountain Equipment Coop would have over 8,000 members in the Yukon, ordering a huge amount of outdoors gear by computer? So what does it mean for the Yukon if the Internet does hollow out the our retail sector, further undermining local shoe and apparel retailers and moving into hitherto untouched

sectors like groceries? Plenty of jobs will be at risk at the cash register and in customer service and warehousing. Owning your own retail business has long been a viable business opportunity in the Yukon, but there may well be fewer locally-owned retail businesses in the future. We may be on the losing side of a trend that sees more high-wage web-developer and logistics-robot-engineer jobs created Outside while some traditional retail jobs in the Yukon disappear. Yukon government personal income tax revenue will also go down, since Amazon workers in Vancouver don’t pay Yukon income tax. Amazon doesn’t pay corporate income tax here either. And we don’t have a sales tax so the Yukon government skims 0 per cent of Internet orders. If fewer retailers means less demand for commercial real estate in Whitehorse, then the city’s property tax revenues will be affected too. Backhoe operators in Fort Nelson sometimes cut us off from the Internet, but relying on them is not a long-term strategy. If you work in retail or own a business in the space, you will want to watch this trend very carefully.

receive make sense. Council may have a vision, but the In order to bring closure to my administration and employees political life, it seems appropri- make this vision a reality. ate to thank my supporters of I have worked with five may32 years. ors and 11 councils and can It’s not possible or wise to credit them all with the positive name specific people who developments that have moved have played a significant role the city forward. It has not over such along period of time. always been a love-in, but for However, l must thank my the vast majority of my time on brother-in-law John Ferbey, council it has been an enjoywho first suggested I should run able experience and lots of fun for city council; Conrad Boyce, and I thank my colleagues for who ran my first campaign; and this time in my life. Lorraine Hoyt, who came up Since the election, I have had with a wonderful idea that got many positive comments from me elected in the first place. people thanking me for my serMany others I worked with vice, and saying they voted for along the way I cannot remem- me. So many, in fact, I was conber, but you will know who you sidering asking for a recount. As are and I thank you. It has been for myself, this will be a time of a privilege to serve the commu- reflection and an opportunity nity and be able to work with so to clean out my basement and many wonderful people. begin to know what real retireCouncil is often credited ment is all about. So far I have with the development of the enjoyed it and look forward to a community, but our role is new episode in my life. I would small compared to the work our like to wish the new council administration and employees well and know they will do their do. Over the years I have been best to improve our quality of continually impressed with the life. calibre of the administration Pundits often say public and employees in carrying out service plays havoc with famcouncil’s wishes. ily life, but for me this has not Sometimes the public says been the case. I have always we merely rubber-stamp been very involved in commuadministrator’s directives, and nity activities as a volunteer, very often this is true because much of the time with my own children. the advice and suggestions we

Having said that, I cannot fail to appreciate the role my wife has played in my political life and community involvement. She has always been very supportive, and in case any of you are wondering how she is handling my being home so much now, all I can do is quote what she said to a friend when asked that very question: “As long as he stays in the basement it’s alright by me.”

for all Yukoners. In seeking project approval, the Selwyn project will go through this rigorous process. YESAB and the Yukon Water Board will consider the environmental and socio-economic effects of our project. First Nations, the general public, interests groups, businesses and others will have meaningful opportunities to participate and voice their interests and concerns. Their feedback and continued analysis during this process will further inform the mine plan so that it will meet all environmental criteria while providing progressive socio-economic benefits to Yukon. Nonetheless, before we even enter this process, we are working diligently toward developing a plan that will be recognized as environmentally responsible and socially accept-

able, we are “the one to watch” for all the right reasons. We may even satisfy those that seem to have to swallow hard when professing that they are not really anti-mining. Our relationship agreement with the Kaska, our $250 million investment to date, and our ongoing developmental work are demonstrations of our commitment to doing it right. Mr. Rifkind states that “all YCS asks is that mining be done right and in socially and environmentally acceptable areas.” All we are asking is that YCS takes a fair and reasoned position rooted in facts, and allow the regulatory process to do what is was designed to do – foster responsible development in Yukon.

by Keith Halliday

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he Klondike Gold Rush would have been a lot more convenient if Amazon had been around. Instead of starving out on the creeks, miners could have just placed an order at www.amazon.com/ bannock. This thought crossed my mind one recent Saturday as I did battle with the Shanghaisubway style crowds at a Whitehorse grocery store. I was talking to a techie friend in the cheese aisle who told me Amazon now delivers groceries to the Yukon. Since retailing was one of the few relatively robust sectors in the Yukon’s recent economic forecast, I thought I would do an experiment and try to figure out what Amazon means for our retail industry. Amazon is clearly making a serious effort to attack the grocery market. They had a wide range of non-perishable items, plus a “subscription” service. This gives you a discount of up to 15 per cent if you sign up to have at least five items delivered on a regular schedule. It’s an attractive idea to have staples

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Dave Stockdale Former Whitehorse city councillor

Selwyn is committed to doing mining right This letter is in response to the Nov. 18 commentary by the Yukon Conservation Society’s mining analyst, Lewis Rifkind, titled “A mine that environmentalists like.” In his commentary, Mr. Rifkind concluded that the Selwyn project is a “complete nonstarter” and an “environmental horror show.” Considering that Mr. Rifkind acknowledges that the mine plans are still in development, his comments are both perplexing and misleading in nature. Yukon has established a regulatory process that is intended to protect the environment while supporting the best social and economic outcomes

Keith Halliday is a Yukon economist and author of the MacBride Museum’s Aurore of the Yukon series of historical children’s adventure novels. He won this year’s Ma Murray award for best columnist. You can follow him on Channel 9’s “Yukonomist” show.

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Businesses and entrepreneurs across Canada stepping in to help Syrian refugees Mainstreet, said his experience immigrating to Canada from Canadian Press war-torn Liberia with his family in the 1970s helped motivate CALGARY him to assist the refugees. usinesses and entrepre“I can relate to what these neurs across the country guys are going through. They’re are stepping in to help going through turmoil, hardsettle the thousands of Syrian ship, a difficult time, and if refugees coming to Canada over we can make their lives easier the next few weeks. on their entry to Canada, why Real estate companies are not?” Dhillon said in an intercontributing apartments, view. airlines are offering seats and “I think how we made this individual business leaders are country so beautiful is to open chipping in cash. our hearts up at times like this.” Calgary-based Mainstreet The company says it hasn’t Equity Corp. offered at least finalized what kind of discount 200 apartments across western will be provided, but said it Canada to house refugees at a could include temporarily discounted rate. waiving the rent or offering the Wednesday’s offer follows a discounted rate for a longer similar one last week by fellow period of time. Calgary-based Boardwalk RentDavid McIlveen, director of al Communities to provide 350 community development at apartments across the Prairies Boardwalk, says his company and in Montreal, and Westbank will be offering discounts of Corp.’s donation of 12 fully fur- $150 a month for the first year, nished and stocked apartments similar to what it offers in its in downtown Vancouver. other affordable housing proBob Dhillon, the CEO of grams. Ian Bickis

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Syrian refugees arrive aboard a dinghy after crossing from Turkey to the island of Lesbos, Greece, on this Sept. 10. “We follow the news like anybody else, and we knew there was a need,” said McIlveen. In Ontario, meantime, a businessman in Guelph has spearheaded the future settlement of 50 Syrian families in his community. Jim Estill, chief executive of Danby appliances and a former Blackberry Ltd. director, says he’s helped organize chari-

ties in Guelph to prepare for the refugees and called on his business associates to help set up accommodation and other necessities. Estill says he’s also agreed to post the cash needed to sponsor refugees, which amounts to an estimated $27,000 for each family of four – but he’s downplaying the commitment. “This isn’t about the money,”

he said in an interview Wednesday. “It’s about landing people properly and integrating them …. I just know what’s going on is horrific and we need to do something, and I didn’t see people doing things,” said Estill. He added that Canada’s business community can help out both financially and by tapping into business networks to provide necessities for the influx of refugees. “I think the best way to help is stand up and say you’re going to do it, and go do it,” he said. Earlier this month, Air Canada offered to help ferry refugees to Canada, and Calgary-based charter airline Enerjet says it will make its fleet of aircraft available to the government to assist with refugee resettlement. Following the government’s revision of its refugee plan Tuesday, Canada is set to resettle 10,000 refugees by the end of the year, with another 15,000 set to arrive by the end of February 2016.

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UN, Canadian agencies retool plans in wake of changes to Syrian refugee program will need help, said Conrad Sauve, the chief executive officer for the Canadian Red Cross. The change in plan isn’t a problem, he said, given the organization’s expertise in quick response to humanitarian emergencies.

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OTTAWA housands of Syrian refugees will learn they may have a chance at a new life in Canada from a beep on their mobile phone. A simple text message from the United Nations asking if they’d be interested in the Liberal government’s resettlement program will start a process of multiple interviews, security screens and health scans. If all is in order, next is a check mark on their file indicating they’ve passed UN muster to be among the 25,000 Syrians set to arrive in Canada by the end of February. But the fact that processing will now be handled entirely overseas and will take longer than expected, are two elements forcing agencies in Canada and abroad to re-examine what’s required of them to support the Liberal commitment. Officials with both the UN’s refugee agency and the Canadian Red Cross were caught somewhat off guard by the news Tuesday that the original year-end deadline for the program had been tossed aside, along with a plan to process cases both in Canada and in the host countries. The scope of the military’s role has been altered as well; Operation Provision is no longer focused on an immediate requirement to arrange housing for thousands of people, potentially for months and instead the Canadian Forces will be called upon only if needed. But despite the seemingly last-minute changes, all say the effort remains essential and just as urgent. “Families I’m meeting at the moment, they are saying that if we don’t get more help, we’ll either transit to Europe illegally or we’ll go back to living in Syria,” Aoife McDonnell, a spokesperson for the UN High Commissioner for Refugees in Jordan, said in an interview. “It’s a pretty tough choice for families to be making.”

“The more phases we remove in this, the more directly we bring them here to the communities – for people who’ve been running away from war and settling here and there and living in their suitcases, the better it is,” he said.

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Syrian refugee child, Mohammed, centre, sits on his uncle’s shoulder while lining at the port of Mitylene on the northeast Greek island of Lesbos, waiting their turn to get on board a ferry traveling to Athens on Wednesday. In Jordan, the UN began weeks ago to identify 7,000 Syrians so they could be in Canada by the end of the year in line with the original Liberal plan. While 22 staff in Jordan pore over files, about 40 more are interviewing candidates. Working on weekends and evenings, they first alert families by text message that their file has been chosen and follow that with a phone call and then in-person meetings. Many refugees have been in Jordan since 2013 and are being selected for resettlement because they are identified as vulnerable for socio-economic or medical reasons. The UN first chooses the cases, then passes them off to Canadian officials for final review and approval. But the first batch of refugees to be resettled in Canada will largely be those with private sponsors; those the government is taking in through the UN will mostly arrive in 2016. While the Liberals said Tuesday they want to identify all 25,000 people by year end, it wasn’t clear whether that meant the only thing remaining for next year is travel or if processing will still be required. What that all means for UN timelines is unclear; McDonnell said the original plan had been to have all files to the Canadians by Dec. 20. “There’s so much goodwill, from

the Canadian side and from our team here, hopefully everything goes smoothly,” McDonnell said. About 85 per cent of Syrians in Jordan aren’t living in refugee camps but in urban centres, scraping by below the poverty line and resorting to what the UN calls crisis coping strategies – skipping meals, pulling kids out of school, sometimes arranging for child marriages just to provide homes for daughters. And there’s the matter of the coming winter, something the Canadian Red Cross is keenly aware of as well. With the Red Cross active on the ground in Syria and in countries like Jordan, their signs will be a lone familiar sight for many Syrians as they arrive in Canada. Initially, the agency thought they’d be managing the temporary housing strategy, a program they expected to play out across military bases as refugees were to undergo final security screenings here. But that’s been scrapped and the Red Cross is pivoting towards coordinating efforts to welcome the refugees as they land in Montreal and Toronto and spread out from there. That, too, could be an aroundthe-clock task, as flights may take off and land at all hours. It’s still not clear whether some temporary accommodation will be required, nor the extent to which the provinces

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One of the highest risk populations is young people, says Dr. Morton Beiser, a psychiatric epidemiologist based at St. Michaelâ€™s Hospital in Toronto. Beiser says research indicates up to 20 to 50 per cent of refugee children can suffer from PTSD. â€œI donâ€™t think that we are sufficiently equipped yet to deal that,â€? Beiser said. â€œIt is important that we develop resources quickly and effectively â€Ś â€œPost-traumatic stress disorder, for example, is an awful disorder. It is a disorder in which people experience horrible situations that theyâ€™ve been in, theyâ€™re back in the torture cell, theyâ€™re back being raped.â€? The challenge of mental health among Syrian refugees has been on the radar of government officials for several months, according to documents obtained through Access to Information. A Canadian clinical psychologist, Rebecca Dempster, gave a presentation to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees core group on Syrian refugees to teach officials on dealing with trauma victims. â€œThe training offered insight into the impacts that traumatic incidents have on victimsâ€™ memories,â€? a senior policy analyst in the Immigration department

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Paris climate deal wonâ€™t set binding target: emissions plan will be incremental developing countries like China, India and Brazil, which avoided Canadian Press any commitments in the 1997 Kyoto accord. WASHINGTON He said that gradual approach he upcoming Paris climate has already helped elicit commitsummit wonâ€™t result in a ments from 170 countries â€“ combinding target for limiting pared to a few dozen under Kyoto. greenhouse gas emissions below So instead of short-term targets, disaster-averting levels, the White the countries will focus on longHouse said this week. term promises, binding mechaBut it said the talks starting nisms for tracking progress and a next week could still be a historic moment in the global fight against system that can toughen targets over time. climate change, as it described its The new Alberta plan is part objectives in a media briefing. of that global movement, said an The Obama administration American analyst. said the summit will be a success Canada is still far from being if a larger-than-ever number of countries agree to: limit emissions, on-track to meeting the climate targets set by the former Harper report on their progress and set up a system that allows increasing government, and the new Liberal rounds of emissions cuts over time government hasnâ€™t announced a to keep temperature growth to 2C. target yet. But he said the oil-producing â€œThatâ€™s important and unpowerhouse is a key player â€“ and precedented progress,â€? said Paul Bodnar, senior director for climate he called the new provincial plan a turning point. change at the White Houseâ€™s Naâ€œIt is a dramatic turnaround,â€? tional Security Council. said Anthony Swift of the Natural â€œBut (itâ€™s) still above the Resources Defence Council, a big two-degree threshold the scienenvironmental group that clashed tific community acknowledges is necessary to avoid the most severe with the last Alberta government over the Keystone XL pipeline. aspects of climate change.â€? â€œThereâ€™s absolutely no quesThe UN climate panel says tion the province of Alberta made human civilization would suffer catastrophic consequences under a very ambitious climate announcement. That was a major a 4C temperature growth that step forward. Itâ€™s not the end of the would be caused by business as finish line. More will be needed usual by centuryâ€™s end. The panel says it would require over time.â€? The previous Harper governemissions cuts of more than 40 per ment had a relatively similar target cent by mid-century to achieve a to the U.S.â€™s with a 30-per-cent lesser disaster: a 2C temperature increase. That kind of temperature emissions cut by 2030 â€“ although, shift, it says, would still quadruple unlike the U.S., it had no plan for reaching its stated target. the number of people exposed to Canada would need to shave once-in-a-century floods, degrade off almost 250 megatonnes of a third of the worldâ€™s coral reefs greenhouse-gas emissions to and significantly reduce groundachieve that target. Alberta â€“ by far water access. Canadaâ€™s largest emitter â€“ would According to its analysts, the reduce 50 megatonnes under its submissions from countries so new plan. far would see temperatures grow The province produces almost 2.7C. Bodnar said thatâ€™s already two-fifths of Canadaâ€™s emissions; better than the business-as-usual it would chip in less than one-fifth forecast. of the 250 megatonnes in national He said the strategy going into reductions under its new plan and Paris is to bring everyone to the even those cuts would not bring table â€“ including big-emitting Alexander Panetta

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Baloney Meter: Did Liberals inherit a 2015 16 deﬁcit from the Conservatives? mentary budget office projected less than two weeks earlier. On top of that, the update’s year-end fiscal projection means the government bank account will endure a rough six months because the federal balance had a $1.6-billion surplus after the first half of 2015-16, according to monthly tallies. Morneau blamed the downgrade on the further decline in commodity prices, the unexpectedly fragile global economy and the economy’s unanticipated conAndy Blatchford traction over the first two quarters Canadian Press of 2015. But some experts have quesOTTAWA tioned whether those economic “We wanted to show this is the changes are enough to siphon $4.4 situation that we’ve inherited.” billion from the Tories’ April pro– Federal Finance Minister Bill jection, which raises a query: Did Morneau on Nov. 20 after tabling the Liberals inherit the deficit? the new Liberal government’s fisSpoiler alert: The Canadian Press Baloney Meter is a dispascal and economic update. sionate examination of political statements culminating in a he Liberals opened the ranking of accuracy on a scale of federal books last week “no baloney” to “full of baloney.” to reveal that Ottawa was This one earns a rating of “a little headed for a $3-billion deficit in baloney.” Here’s why. this 2015-16 fiscal year. The prediction marked a The facts considerable turnaround from the $1.4-billion surplus forecast Since April, when the former just seven months ago by their Conservative government released Conservatives predecessors. its budget projecting a $1.4-bilMorneau’s fiscal update also lion surplus for 2015-16, there’s no represented a swing away from doubt the already-fragile economthe $1.2-billion surplus the parlia- ic situation has deteriorated.

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The new Liberal government said last week that conditions had worsened to the point that Ottawa was now on track to run a $3-billion shortfall, without factoring in the cost of measures promised in its election platform. The update said it would rack up an additional $2.5 billion in expenses and lose $1.9 billion more in revenue. Among the biggest changes, the updated projection for the category of “other revenues” was now expected to bring in $1.4 billion less cash than the April prediction. That classification, the Finance Department says, includes revenues from sources such as Crown corporations, returns on investments and the government’s foreign-exchange account. The government said the downgraded forecast for the category is primarily due to lower expected revenues from Crown corporations and the drop in interest rates. The extra $2.5 billion in government expenses are primarily tied to an extra $1.5 billion in costs this fiscal year – compared to the April estimate – in Employment Insurance payouts. The government is expected to make more withdrawals from the fund due to the struggling economy. Ottawa also anticipated a $1-billion increase in direct program expenses, mostly related to higher costs for public service pensions and benefits, which are pushed upwards by lower projected long-term interest rates. However, just 10 days before the fiscal update, the parliamentary budget office predicted a $1.2-billion surplus for 2015-16. And up until the end of July – after the first four months of the fiscal year – the Finance Department’s monthly fiscal monitor reported a $5.2-billion budgetary surplus. That year-to-date tally has since deteriorated to a $1.6-billion surplus, for April to September. Morneau and the Liberals, who took power earlier this month, say they inherited the deficit situation.

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The Liberal government made no changes to the methodology, Stephen Gordon, an economthe official said. ics professor, said it’s difficult to Jack Mintz, an economist from determine if the deficit was indeed the University of Calgary, agreed passed down from the previous that economic conditions have government because some of the declined since April. But when key negatives in the fiscal update he looked at the latest number in remain murky. Gordon, of Quebec City’s Laval the fiscal monitor he wondered whether September’s $1.6-billion University, added he was puzzled by the projected, $4.6-billion drop year-to-date surplus could possibly transform into a $3-billion anin the balance over the final six nual shortfall in only six months. months of the fiscal year and the “I’m not sure that’s going to contents of the “other revenues” happen, but we’ll see,” Mintz said. category. But another expert says the He said it’s possible there might numbers appear to make sense be a certain amount of discretion and he expects the government to whether the Finance Departrun a shortfall in 2015-16. ment books some of the revenue Peter DeVries, a former senior decreases this year or in future Finance official, pointed to the budgets. recent deterioration in the fiscal “We still don’t know if it’s the balance due to factors like lowerConservatives or the Liberals, basically, who were padding things than-expected oil prices and an one way or the other – or if it really extended period of zero growth. is all honest and above board,” He also highlighted the negasaid Gordon. tive effects of the weaker exchange “We don’t know and there’s just rate and lower interest rates on not a lot of transparency there for things like the public-service penthat.” sions and benefits. He added it might be in the And when it comes to the deLiberals’ interest to show that cline in recent months in the fiscal things were worse than they had monitor’s budgetary balance, expected as a way to deflect future DeVries noted it happened under fiscal criticism. the watch of Stephen Harper’s “You want to get as much bad Conservatives. news as possible shovelled out the “There definitely is an element door and dumped on the previous of an inherited deficit in it,” said tenant.” DeVries, who helped put together Asked to provide more inforroughly 20 budgets between 1985 mation about the fiscal impact of and 2005. Crown corporations, a Finance Department official emailed that The verdict the biggest decline in expected While it’s true the economy and revenue will come from the Canthe 2015-16 fiscal situation eroded ada Mortgage and Housing Corp. during the Conservatives’ reign, But the department declined to provide more details about CMHC the final few months of the fiscal year will fall under the Liberals’ or other Crown corporations. tenure. The department also said the And the public still needs more 2015-16 projections were updated information on the makeup of to reflect year-to-date revenue and expenditures, the most-recent that deficit to determine whether 2015 economic data, the results of it’s truly one to hang on the Conservatives. the new survey of private sector For that reason, Morneau’s economists and the final 2014-15 fiscal results. statement rates “a little baloney.”

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Turkey releases recording of agitated warnings issued to Russian plane before shooting it down sian pilot.” Zakharova also urged Turkey to speak up about the rebels who killed the pilot. Zakharova said: “Either confirm that these are the people that you defend, then we will finally see what this moderate opposition is.

Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu, right, and army commanders walk to the mausoleum of Turkey’s founder Mustafa Kemal Ataturk before a meeting of High Military Council in Ankara, Turkey on Thursday. Armed Forces. In the recordings, a voice is heard saying in broken English: ANKARA, TURKEY “This is Turkish Air Force speaking on guard. You are approaching urkey has released audio Turkish airspace. Change your recordings of what it says are heading south immediately.” the Turkish military’s repeated Most of the audio is garbled warnings to the pilot of the Russian and barely comprehensible but plane before it was shot down at the tone of the voice gets more the border with Syria – audio that agitated as the warnings appear to grows increasingly more agitated. The recordings, made available go unnoticed. The audio that was released to The Associated Press on Thursonly involved Turkish warnings, day, indicate the plane was warned no replies by a Russian pilot. It was several times Tuesday that it was approaching Turkey’s airspace and not clear if Turkey had received any replies from the Russian pilots asked to change course. but did not release them, or if the Turkey shot down the RusRussian pilots never replied to the sian Su-24 bomber on Tuesday, insisting it had violated its airspace warnings or if the Russians never even heard the warnings. despite repeated warnings. It was One of the Russian pilots was the first time in half a century that killed by militants in Syria after a NATO member had shot down a ejecting from the plane, while his Russian plane. crewmate was rescued by Syrian A surviving Russian pilot has denied that his jet veered into Tur- army commandos. A Russian makey’s airspace and rejected Turkey’s rine was also killed by the militants during the rescue mission. claim that it had issued repeated Speaking in televised comments warnings to the Russian crew. from the Russian military base in The downing prompted duelSyria, the surviving navigator of the ing comments Thursday from downed plane, Capt. Konstantin the two countries’ leaders. While Murakhtin, insisted the plane did Russian President Vladimir Putin not enter Turkish airspace “even complained that Turkey still for a single second.” Turkey insists hadn’t apologized for downing the plane was in its airspace for 17 the plane or given assurances that seconds. “the culprits of this crime” will be In retaliation for the downing, punished, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was in no mood to Russia announced Wednesday it will deploy long-range air defence apologize. missiles to its base in Syria and deErdogan instead lashed out at Russia, accusing it of using its fight stroy any target that may threaten its warplanes. The state-run RIA against the Islamic State group in Novosti news agency reported Syria as a pretext to target opposiThursday that the Russian S-400 tion groups including the Turkair missiles had been delivered in men, in a bid to strengthen Syrian Syria. President Bashar Assad. Speaking at the Kremlin, Erdogan said Turkey had not specifically targeted Russia when it Putin complained that he has not received an apology from Turkey shot down the plane, saying it was nor an offer “to make up for the “an automatic response” in line damages.” He said he regretted the with its rules of engagement. fact that relations between Turkey “Faced with the same violaand Russia have been driven into a tion today, Turkey would give the same response,” Erdogan said. “It’s stalemate. Russian foreign ministry the country that carried out the spokeswoman Maria Zakharova violation which should question itself and take measures to prevent said Moscow believes that the U.S. State Department has information it from happening again, not the about the men who shot the Ruscountry that was subjected to a sian pilot as he parachuted down violation.” The series of 10 audio clips were and was waiting for Washington to share information about “who was released by the prime minister’s office and sourced to the Turkish dancing over the body of the RusSuzan Fraser

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Or say that you don’t have anything to do with it and express your position about their actions.” Erdogan, meanwhile, challenged Russia to prove its accusation that Turkey is buying oil and gas from IS, calling the claims “shameful” and making the coun-

terclaim that IS was selling its oil to Assad. Erdogan also lamented reports that Russia was stopping projects with Turkey, saying political and leaders should talk first. “We are strategic partners” with Russia, he said.

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Black Friday sales expected to boom in Canada planned to shop at U.S. stores â€“ a 37 per cent decline compared to a previous survey. The poll of more than 1,000 Canadians also revealed 68 per cent planned to shop online through Canadian websites on Cyber Monday, while 42 per cent said theyâ€™d do so through U.S. sites â€“ a decrease of 18 per cent. Respondents said they plan on spending, on average, $332 per person on Black Friday, said Loraine Cordery, insights manager at IPG Mediabrands. Clothing and accessories were the top category, followed by technology and home electronics, books, music and DVDs, and computer hardware or software, she added. The polling industryâ€™s professional body, the Marketing Re-

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the U.S. shopping calendar, but have increasingly been adopted by homegrown retailers in a bid to keep consumers from flocking south to spend on deals. â€œWhen the dollar was at par and Canadian retailers were losing sales to the U.S. because of all of this excitement of Black Friday, the two things combined meant Canadian retailers said: â€˜Enough is enough,â€?â€™ said Michael LeBlanc, senior vice-president of marketing and digital at the Retail Council of Canada. â€œRetailers donâ€™t necessarily create demand. They follow it. In other words, they reflect the consumer. And the consumer was clearly interested in Black FridayCyber Monday excitement.â€?

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Return of the caribou A caribou from the Porcupine caribou herd pokes its head out from behind a hill off the Dempster Highway. See slideshow at yukon-news.com. Peter Mather Special to the News

pair of golden caribou antlers poke above the snowy horizon. A group of 20 caribou saunter past with confused yet quizzical looks in my direction. The silence is broken by the whizzing sound of a bullet flying overhead. I hunker down behind the safety of a rock and wait for the shooting to stop. It sounds like the bullets are only feet above me, but I know they’re not. I’ve never been attracted to war photojournalism, but am getting a small taste of what it must be like. I begin calculating the odds of being hit by a stray bullet. Maybe 1 in 100,000, although I recall hearing of a hunter struck by a stray bullet on the Dempster over a decade ago. A snowmobile comes flying up the hill chasing a group of caribou. Two excited youth give me a quick wave and head down the other side. Their enthusiasm is infectious. It has been two long years since the Porcupine caribou herd have visited the part of their traditional wintering grounds that lie along the Dempster Highway. When I heard from friends that the caribou had finally returned, I loaded up my camper and headed straight North. I thought I’d be gone for five days, tops. At least that’s what I told my partner Terri. It would be two weeks before I finally returned home to my girls. After a marathon 17 hour drive I arrive at the YukonN.W.T. border. There are caribou and Gwich’in everywhere and the joy is palpable. I wander over to a group of hunters with a pile of caribou. Peter Tetlichi and Dakota Koe are cleaning animals behind their vehicles. They are two young men, probably still in high school, but missing classes for a more important education. Like most young men from Fort MacPherson, they are hunting for their families and community. They load

up a truck of caribou for their parents, a truck for their grandparents, a truck for their great grandparents, and they have also harvested two caribou for an elder in the pullout who doesn’t have a snowmobile. The 20 caribou they harvested seems like a lot, but it is split between five or six families and will be consumed by spring. The boys are understandably proud. They have spent the last two days on the land, hunting at the same

site their people have hunted for generations. The Gwich’in of Fort McPherson are caribou people. After thousands of years of surviving on caribou, they are caribou. Their stories tell of how every caribou heart is part Gwich’in and every Gwich’in heart is part caribou. After spending the day photographing the harvest, I strap on my skis to shoot a few caribou with my camera. The inclement weather on the Dempster is perfect for photography, and I can’t go 100 metres without tripping over a caribou. Thousands of caribou trails braid across the fresh snow. I spot a wounded caribou limping along a trail, her useless leg dangling by a tendon. Likely injured by a

hunter, she won’t survive long. Injured caribou is an unfortunate reality of the Dempster hunt. In my two weeks following the migration I witnessed two instances where caribou were injured by hunters and managed to escape their prey: once by licensed hunters and once by Gwich’in. In both cases the hunters lost the caribou when it reached the forest. A three-legged caribou can easily outdistance a hunter on foot. A few days later I hit the land with some Gwich’in youth from Fort McPherson. Only in Grade 10, Tony Alexie and Clifton Francis have a wealth of knowledge and experience in hunting, trapping and living on the land. During our hunt we bump into a pair of conservation officers from Dawson who are enforcing good practices along the highway. Clifton informs them of four bull caribou that had been killed near the border and left to rot. Like the vast majority of the people from Fort McPherson, the boys are really upset about the wasting of meat and the disrespect shown to the caribou. After a long day of hunting, Tony and Clifton are cleaning caribou alongside the road. They place the kidneys, liver, hearts and gut sacks in the clean snow beside a can of coke. The contrast of red and white is striking. So is the contrast of old and new. A pair of bull caribou crack antlers in the background. It is easy to picture a pair of young men on dog sleds cleaning caribou beneath the rounded mountains a hundred years earlier. Hunting caribou along the Dempster involves many complex issues and many different perspectives. Too many animals are injured, perhaps too many cows are taken, and the hunting season must to be shortened to ensure the caribou return. However, there is also so much to be celebrated. The return of the caribou to the Dempster is a hugely positive experience leaving all the people along the highway filled with joy and excited to be out on the land filling their freezers, their bellies, and even their memory cards. Peter Mather is a Whitehorse writer and photographer.

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Top, hunters chase after a small herd. Tony and Clarence Alexie butcher caribou at the Yukon/N.W.T. border, middle left, and Liz Vitrekwa has her morning coffee while drying caribou meat in Fort McPherson, N.W.T., left.

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Climate change a major security threat on par with terrorism: European ofďŹ cials leaders and their governments some extra impetus, the ofCanadian Press ficials say, to reach a binding plan to curb global warming OTTAWA when they meet at the internauropean officials are tional climate change summit warning that climate next week in Paris. change is a major threat The connection between to global security on par with climate change and internaterrorism and cyber attacks. tional security was the subject And that should give world Mike Blanchfield

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of a day-long meeting in Ottawa, which assembled diplomats and security experts from Europe, the United States and Canada. The meeting took place as Prime Minister Justin Trudeau prepares to depart for a threecountry trip that will end on Monday at the United Nations climate talks in Paris. Nicolas Regaud, a special adviser on international relations for the French defence ministry, said droughts and famines caused by climate change will force mass migrations of people into already crowded cities â€“ fuelling terrorism and organized crime. The connection is something that French officials are mindful of as they prepare to welcome the world to Paris for the climate summit, known as COP 21. Regaud said that â€œall of Franceâ€™s political energy, to the highest levelâ€? is committed to making COP 21 a success, and â€œthese senior political authorities have repeatedly stressed the close connection between climate change and international security.â€? The disruptive influences of climate change are already affecting poor countries with

weak institutions, particularly along North Africaâ€™s Sahel belt, where encroaching deserts are destroying farmland, and access to food and water, he said. â€œHow can we ignore the fact that climate change will exacerbate economic, social and political tensions in countries where weaknesses are already blatantly obvious?â€? asked Regaud. Climate change will force rural dwellers into already teeming cities â€œwhile poverty creates fertile ground for organized crime, violence and sometimes terrorism,â€? he said. Gen. Finn Hannestad, the Norwegian defence attache in Washington, said the melting of Arctic ice is â€œamplifying and acceleratingâ€? climate change across the planet â€“ creating serious foreign policy questions for trade, mass migration, humanitarian assistance, conflict prevention and security. â€œWe must deal with it for what it is â€“ a major global security threat,â€? Hannestad said. â€œClimate change belongs to the same category as violent extremism, cyber attacks, organized crime and pandemics. Itâ€™s no less serious than armed conflict.â€? He said the extreme weather

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Alberta’s climate policy development ‘just a matter of talking’ Bob Weber Canadian Press

EDMONTON lberta’s new climate change policy is partly rooted in a series of low-profile dinner meetings that took place well before the election of Premier Rachel Notley and her fellow New Democrats. In 2014, the province’s environmental reputation was creating increasing resistance to its energy products and the Progressive Conservative government of the day, led by Jim Prentice, had made it clear that something had to happen, said Chris SeversonBaker of the Pembina Institute. “He actually started talking about climate change in a different way,” said Severson-Baker of the clean energy think-tank. Prentice “opened a space.” “It started to create a sense that maybe we could agree on some things, or at least understand what would work and what would not work.” People on different sides of the fence started getting together for dinner. Environmentalists behind some of the loudest anti-oilsands campaigns met with executives behind some of the largest oilsands expansions, just to talk. “We weren’t even speaking the same language,” recalled Cenovus spokesman Brett Harris. “You’ve got to learn to speak the same language. It’s a matter of moving from that environment of conflict to that of co-operation.” “It was testy,” Severson-Baker said. “There were a lot of things that pushed each others’ buttons … (but) the result of them was that people started to understand each other’s point of view.” The talks got more intense when the New Democrats came to power last spring with a prom-

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Premier Rachel Notley unveils Alberta’s climate strategy in Edmonton, Alberta, on November 22. ise to address climate change. Dinners evolved into meetings between technical experts. Issues were thrashed out. The hardest topic was emission levels. “The whole notion that emissions would rise before they peaked was really hard for (environmental groups),” SeversonBaker said. Industry fought any sort of emissions cap, fearing that would strand projects already under construction. The 100-megatonne limit agreed on was big enough to allow those projects to proceed, but low enough to force future development to find ways to radically reduce emissions. “(Environmentalists) recognized that it’s going to be very, very hard for the government of Alberta to put in place policies that would actually result in projects that are under construction today never going into production,” Severson-Baker said.

Meanwhile, an expert panel was appointed last spring by the NDP. Led by energy economist Andrew Leach, it began holding public consultations and doing its own research. Leach acknowledged that the informal discussions between industry and environmentalists fed into the report he and his colleagues delivered on Sunday. “The opportunity to bring these parties together in agreement around the majority of what the climate panel recommended, as well as a few additional policy changes, was an opportunity that you have to take,” he said. “The fact that there was a new government and the sense that there was going to be action – and probably some of this carries from Prentice as well – there was a different level of conversation. Just the simple fact that we had Greenpeace representatives in our oil and gas technical sessions, that’s probably a change.”

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Experts amped up about better battery tech helping to limit global warming house, a city, a state â€“ you canâ€™t do it without (energy) storage,â€? Associated Press which usually means batteries, said Carnegie Mellon University WASHINGTON battery expert and inventor Jay ne of the key techWhitacre. nologies that could help Former Vice-President Al wean the globe off fossil Gore, former U.S. Geologifuel is probably at your fingercal Survey chief (and current tips or in your pocket right now: editor-in-chief of the journal the battery. Science) Marcia McNutt and If batteries can get better, others point to better batteries cheaper and store more power as one of the bright spots in the safely, then electric cars and fight against climate change. solar- or wind- powered homes While batteries have been become more viable â€“ even on around for more than 200 years, cloudy days or when the wind this year the technology has isnâ€™t blowing. These types of amped up. technological solutions will be In October, an international one of the more hopeful aspects team of scientists announced of United Nations climate talks a breakthrough in overcoming that begin next week in Paris. major obstacles in next generaâ€œIf you are serious about tion energy storage and createliminating combustion of fosing a battery that has five to 10 times the energy density of the sil fuels to power anything â€“ a Seth Borenstein

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â€œI believe in the next year there will be a breakthrough,â€? he said. â€œIâ€™m hopeful, but weâ€™re not there yet.â€? Glenn Amatucci, director of the energy storage research group at Rutgers University, called it â€œa race against time. Every day and every hour is critical in terms of getting an advance.â€? But Goodenough is in a special hurry, working more than eight hours a day on his battery: Heâ€™s 93. There are many teams around the world working on breakthrough batteries of different types. One of the most promising materials is lithium oxygen, which theoretically could store five to 10 times the energy of a lithium ion battery, but there have been all sorts of roadblocks that made it very inefficient. Then, last month a team led by Clare Grey at the University of Cambridge announced in the journal Science that they had, on a small scale, overcome one obstacle so that its efficiency could compete with lithium ion batteries. The potential gains in this technology are high, but it is still at least seven to 10 years from commercial availability, Grey said. At Carnegie Mellon and Aquion Energy, Whitacre is honing a water-oriented battery with sodium and carbon. Others are looking at magnesium. Teslaâ€™s Straubel sees all sorts of different battery possibilities. â€œItâ€™s an ongoing revolution,â€? Straubel said. â€œItâ€™s a critical piece in the whole puzzle in how we stop burning fossil fuels completely.â€?

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Royal Society report urges more research into oil spillsâ€™ impact on water than lighter types of oil. But the panel cautions the Canadian Press chemical makeup of the crude CALGARY is only one variable. Weather conditions and response time report by the Royal Sociare big factors in how environety of Canada says there mentally damaging a spill ends are major research gaps up being. when it comes to understandThe roughly 400-page ing the environmental impacts report was commissioned by of oil spills in water. the Canadian Association of The expert panel is calling Petroleum Producers and the for a nationally co-ordinated Canadian Energy Pipeline Asresearch program involving sociation. But those industry academia, government and industry that includes studying groups did not have a say in controlled oil spills in the field. who sat on the panel or the The reportâ€™s release comes as content of the final report. Industry groups and governCanadaâ€™s oil producers clamment bodies often enlist the our for ways to get their oil to Royal Society â€“ an association market and industry critics that includes some of Canadaâ€™s sound alarms over the safety top scientists and scholars â€“ of moving crude via pipelines, to conduct research on their train and tanker. behalf. The panel says the heavy Kenneth Lee, who chaired oilsands-derived crude that would move through proposed Advertising pipelines like Energy East and Itâ€™s good for you. the Trans Mountain Expansion has components that are less likely to break down in water Lauren Krugel

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the seven-member panel, said CAPP and CEPA only saw the report 24 hours before its release. He said one of the big takeaways is that itâ€™s not necessarily the case that diluted bitumen from the oilsands â€“ often referred as dilbit â€“ is more damaging if spilled into water than other types of crude, given the myriad other factors at play. â€œItâ€™s much more than â€˜Gee â€“ dilbitâ€™s really bad and light oil evaporates,â€?â€™ said Lee, director of oceans and atmosphere at Australiaâ€™s Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization. â€œThere are so many factors that you have to understand and whereâ€™s the data for those areas of risk?â€? The National Energy Board is

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weighing two major oil pipeline proposals â€“ the Trans Mountain Expansion to the Vancouver area and the Energy East pipeline to New Brunswick. The process has been criticized by environmental and First Nations groups and the new Liberal government has signalled changes are coming. Lee said itâ€™s not for him to say what the NEB or the federal Natural Resources department ought to do with the reportâ€™s findings. â€œThere are knowledge gaps, but how much risk theyâ€™re willing to accept is up to them. Thatâ€™s something that the regulator does. Weâ€™re scientists that provide the facts to them to make those decisions.â€? The panel identified seven â€œhigh priority research needs,â€?

which are: â€˘ The impact of oil spills in high-risk and poorly understood areas, such as the Arctic. â€˘ The effects on aquatic wildlife. â€˘ A national baseline research and monitoring program for areas that may be affected by a spill in the future â€˘ Controlled field research to understand how a spectrum of crude types behave in different ecosystems and conditions â€˘ Investigating the efficacy of spill response and being able to learn from spills soon after they occur. â€˘ Improved spill prevention â€˘ Improved risk assessment protocols for oil spills.

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RCMP boss wants warrantless access to online subscriber information dent scrutiny. Paulson said after his speech Canadian Press that he advocates giving police ready access to basic subscriber OTTAWA information while respecting the olice need warrantless acCharter of Rights and Freedoms. cess to Internet subscriber “I think we’ve been consisinformation to keep pace tent in recognizing that we are with child predators and other very respectful of the charter online criminals, says RCMP and people’s charter rights and Commissioner Bob Paulson. nobody is recommending that The top Mountie said this we go any further,” he said. “But week that a Supreme Court of there needs to be some sort of Canada ruling curtailing the flow administrative access to basic of basic data about customers – subscriber information.” such as name and address – has The Canadian Association “put a chill on our ability to initi- of Chiefs of Police revealed in ate investigations.” August that government of“I’m all for warrantless access ficials were mulling just such a to subscriber info,” Paulson told scheme – though it’s not clear a security conference, comparing exactly how it would square with the process to his beat-cop days the court ruling. The chiefs said of entering licence-plate data a discussion paper spearheaded into a computer and coming up by the Department of Justice was with a vehicle owner’s name. presented to the federal, provin“If I had to get a judge on the cial and territorial cybercrime phone every time I wanted to working group of senior officials. run a licence plate when I was The paper outlined three doing my policing, there wouldn’t legislative options for allowing have been much policing getting access to basic subscriber infordone.” mation: In June last year, the Supreme • An administrative scheme Court of Canada ruled police that would not involve court apmust have a judge’s authorization proval; to obtain customer data linked to • A new judicial order process online activities. or a tweak to the existing regime; The high court rejected the • A judicial order process for notion the federal privacy law subscriber information with a governing companies allowed greater expectation of privacy them to hand over subscriber and an administrative, nonidentities voluntarily. judicial one for less sensitive Police say telecommunicasubscriber data. tions companies and other Paulson said while the service providers – such as banks Internet is a marvellous boon and rental companies – now to communication, education demand court approval for and commerce, it is also a place nearly all types of requests from where a vast array of crime takes authorities for basic identifying place – including rampant sexual information. abuse of youngsters. The Supreme Court judgment Children are “being hurt at came amid mounting public a pace and a frequency that is concern about authorities quietly alarming,” the commissioner gaining access to customer data said. “Technology is fuelling that. with little oversight or indepenJim Bronskill

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Coffee brewer Keurig hangs growth on its new cold drink machine in Canada tion of thermoelectric conductors and a small propeller draw Canadian Press water from a reservoir up into TORONTO the machine and help cool it ou might be hard-pressed to about four degrees Celsius, to remember the last time meaning ice is unnecessary. Then the machine fires the you cracked open a can of liquid into a larger version of soda and thought to yourself: the K-cup, which stores both “There’s gotta be an easier way the flavour syrup and – in the to drink this.” case of some beverages – a new Yet the problem that probcarbonated bead technology ably doesn’t exist is now the project that Keurig is leaning its that adds the fizz. The end result is a tasty and hopes on. sweet treat that for a brief moNearly 18 years after the ment distracts from the realcompany revolutionized how ity that none of this process is coffee drinkers prepare their really needed for a glass of soda morning cup of joe, Keurig is or flavoured water. searching for its next stage of Keurig built its reputagrowth amid dwindling sales of tion as a symbol of speed and the Keurig brewer. convenience with machines That’s where Keurig Kold that tucked into the corner of comes in. The cheekily misspelled cold kitchen counters and eliminatdrink machine, which launched ed the need to brew an entire pot of coffee just for one or two in Canada on Tuesday, promgood cups. ises to serve up “fresh” glasses The new machine is almost of popular soft drinks and flavoured waters using a variation an antithesis to the company’s early appeal. Aside from its of the same K-cup technology large size, the Keurig Kold takes from its coffee machines. 90 seconds to make a beverBut there are several other age, which is a lot longer than it distinct differences with the new cold drink-maker – in par- takes to pry open a can of Coke. Keurig Kold is a direct play ticular its lack of convenience at a corner of the drinks market and the price. At a hulking 23.7 pounds, the dominated by Sodastream, which uses CO2 cannisters to Keurig Kold machine weighs carbonate water and create almost as much as a small flavoured sodas. microwave oven and sells at Sodastream does not have more than twice the cost. Its suggested retail price is $399.99 partnerships with the world’s major soft drink makers, but in Canada. Keurig counts Coca-Cola as its Each K-cup makes 8 ounces biggest outside partner, which of the beverage, a convenient means Coke, Coke Zero, Diet serving, but that amounts to Coke and Sprite are among its about $1.30 to $1.50 per glass. 13 flavours in Canada. Simple math says that’s more Keurig Kold launched in expensive than a 12-ounce can the U.S. earlier this fall, but in of soda. Canada it will only be available “It’s for the one that really online through the Keurig webwants to have a premium exsite and a couple other retailers perience,” said Keurig Canada during the crucial holiday seapresident Stephane Glorieux son. The company said it plans when asked about the hefty to be in Canadian retail stores costs that come with buying a Keurig Kold. “Although it seems next year. The approach suggests that very simple, there’s a ton of even Keurig executives aren’t technology behind this.” entirely convinced the machine The Keurig Kold is more is going to be a hot seller. complex than its predecessor, “It’s going to be a very strucwhich boils up some water and tured approach to make sure shoots it through a plastic pod that we build the install base,” and into a cup. Glorieux said as he described Inside the Kold machine, an the rollout. “This is not going to “aerospace-inspired” contrapDavid Friend

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THE ARTS Crafty types take trash, create treasures ‘We’ve got so many materials here that are useful and we just throw them away.’

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Artist Leslie Leong shows off a lamp made from repurposed milk jugs and pop bottles at her Whitehorse studio on Monday. going back the other way.” Leong and Holcombe are News Reporter part of a subset of Yukon creators with an eye for what an he latest addition to item could become once it has Whitehorse’s plethora of outlived its original purpose. festive craft sales wants The show’s offerings inYukoners to take items from the clude carvings fashioned from trash pile and put them under old wooden gun stocks, and their Christmas trees. burned-out spark plugs turned The Re:design craft fair this Saturday at the Old Fire Hall will into butterflies. “And why not, instead of feature more than 15 artisans bringing it up the highway?” who use repurposed items to Holcombe asked. create their wares. Using repurposed material It’s not just about creating means gifts can be sustainzero waste, according to orgaable and ethical by preventing nizers Leslie Leong and Darren new material from having to be Holcombe. Products like these actually create “negative waste.” shipped north, Leong said. “We have way too much stuff “Zero waste is when you’re in our society already, so I just not throwing things away,” don’t like seeing us locally here Leong said. making stuff out of new materi“But if you’re actually taking als,” she said. things out of the landfill, that’s actually negative waste, so it’s “We’ve got so many materials Ashley Joannou

here that are useful and we just throw them away.” In her Riverdale studio, Leong spends her time taking old computer bits and turning them into jewellery, or looking at a dented teapot from the thrift store and thinking, “Hey, that might make a good lamp.” She’ll take broken furniture, replace the missing parts with metal pieces, and Frankenstein together “bionic” chairs. “I don’t know why I think these things. When I say it out loud it’s kind of crazy,” she laughed. Holcombe always has an eye out for salvageable wood and metals. “I guess I see potential. I see wasted potential,” he said. Living out near Lake Laberge, Holcombe sees lots of pieces of wood washed up on shore. They’re relics from decades

ago when an old dump used to bump up against McIntrye Creek and unwanted lumber would be discarded into the water, he said. Time in the water means that when he gets his hands on the wood, “it’s sort of like ocean driftwood almost,” he said. He’s used that grayed Lake Laberge wood for bird feeders, he said. Among his other offerings this weekend are birdhouses created from recycled material. The roofs are made from different tin scraps. Some of the perches are doorknobs. He’s even “squirrel-proofed” them by placing a bicycle gear or pieces of tin around the outside of the entrance hole. That keeps the squirrels from chewing on it. “If they don’t have a place

to start, they don’t enlarge the hole,” he said. After five years of organizing the 12 Days of Christmas fair for the Fireweed Community Market Society, Holcombe decided to take a break this year. He hopes this fledgling event will inspire people to look at the potential in the items they are thinking of tossing out. “I would like to have just a good turnout of people to come and see what potential can be realized from materials that are salvaged from your waste stream,” Holcombe said. “Before you throw them out, you could have done something with them, or someone could have done something with them.” Saturday’s sale starts at 11 a.m. and goes until 4 p.m. Contact Ashley Joannou at ashleyj@yukon-news.com

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Family, friends hope death of Ron Hynes draws attention to drug addiction Hynes, an actor and writer himself, wrote that his uncle was destitute when he died, going so far as to sell his treasured ST. JOHN’S, N.L. guitars “for a pittance to feed his he death of one of Newdemons and line the pockets of foundland’s most beloved drug dealers.” musicians should serve as Sandy Morris, a lifelong friend a wake-up call to the worsening and fellow musician, said people scourge of drug addiction in the in St. John’s were heartbroken province, say friends and famas they watched the acclaimed ily members who watched the singer-songwriter “waste away” artist struggle for years with the from drug use over the years. disease. Many tried to help by encourRon Hynes died at age 64 last aging him to go to rehab centres. week in St. John’s, N.L., following But, in the end, Morris said the a return of cancer that was first draw of crack cocaine and codiagnosed in 2012 and which re- caine was too strong for the artist cently spread to his lung and hip. known for his gritty folk songs But his nephew, Joel Hynes, and famous laments about the said in an unflinching 869-word hardships of life in Newfoundpost on his Facebook page that land. while cancer may have caused “We did a fundraiser for him his death, it was a persistent two years ago and we raised a drug addiction that was central pile of money and the emotion to his demise. he got from people who were “He remained a hardcore adrooting for him, knowing he had dict right to his final days. And it cancer and it meant nothing to killed him,” he said in the meshim,” said Morris, who knew Ron sage, intended to be a note of Hynes since they were teens and thanks to his fans and friends. started The Wonderful Grand “He passed the point where Band with him. he was strong enough to save “I mean, I’m sure it meant himself. And he was surrounded something to him somewhere, by so much love, so much worry but the addiction had such conand heartache and concern. … trol over him.” And in the end he choose drugs White, who goes by the single over everything and everyone he name and manages The Wonderful Grand Band, said she tried ever loved.” Alison Auld

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Ron Hynes performs at the dress rehearsal at the East Coast Music Awards on March 1, 2009 in Corner Brook, Newfoundland. dozens of times to get Hynes to seek help but without much success. She said he did get clean for a time and spent weeks in a rehab facility, but started using again after he was diagnosed with throat cancer in 2012. White said the drugs helped him get through cancer treatments that left him fatigued and sick. “People did everything they

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Aboriginals far more likely to die violently than other Canadians still felt in our communities.” However, last year marked Canadian Press the first time StatCan’s homicide survey had complete policeTORONTO reported data on the aboriginal anada’s aboriginals were identity of victims and those far more likely to die accused of homicide. violently than other CaThe data show that aboriginal nadians in 2014, with aboriginal males were seven times more men at greater risk than women, likely to be homicide victims Statistics Canada reported on compared with non-aboriginal this week. males and three times more Aboriginals are also much likely than aboriginal females. more likely to be accused of vioThe rate for aboriginal females lence, according to the agency. was six times higher than for Overall, aboriginals accounted for 23 per cent of all homicide victims last year, even though they made up only five per cent of the population. “Aboriginal people were victims of homicide in 2014 at a rate that was about six times higher than that of non-aboriginal women. non-aboriginal people,” StatisThe data also show police tics Canada said. had a significantly higher sucExperts have long blamed cess rate in solving killings residential schools, poverty and involving aboriginal victims – 85 lack of supports for the disproper cent as opposed to 71 per portionate rates of violence and cent. substance abuse among CanaMost aboriginal victims knew da’s aboriginal communities. their killers, with aboriginal Lisa Monchalin, a crimiwomen much more likely to be nology professor at Kwantlen killed by family members than Polytechnic University, said the their non-aboriginal counterstatistics reflect the sorry history parts but less likely to die at the of how Canada’s aboriginals hands of a current or former have been treated. spouse or acquaintance. “We had seven generations The odds of an aboriginal of our people put through those man being killed by a spouse is residential schools where we nine times higher than for nonexperienced violence,” Moncha- aboriginal males. lin said. There’s little difference be“All of the trauma and the tween First Nations and other impacts resulting from that are Canadians when it comes to Colin Perkel

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harder time physically restraining an active animal. “Sit and stay” will keep dogs from jumping on you or a visitor, from darting out the door and from straying, said Krigel’s trainer, Geralynn Cada. If you drop your medicine, “leave it” or “wait” will stop your dog from taking it. “Off” will warn him off a table, chair or even you. Teach your dog or cat to come immediately if you call, in case you need help or the pet is in danger. Then throw in some fun commands like “shake,” ‘’give me five“ or ‘’roll over,“ Cada said. A well-trained dog should walk on a leash without pulling so he doesn’t jar achy old bones or pull you down on an icy street. A short leash with a fat handle works best, Cada added.

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Itâ€™s good to give, and to receive: treat holiday charity like an investment spouse claim the credit. Kett says Canadians should report their charitable donations every year, but can hold off on claiming for up to five years in order to maximize their returns. You can also use your spouseâ€™s unclaimed charitable donations towards your returns. Sandra Miniutti, chief financial officer of American watchdog group Charity Navigator, says

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TORONTO ore than nine in 10 Canadians follow the example of reformed miser Ebenezer Scrooge and give to charity every year, but experts advise taking a page from his tightwad ways and treat those charitable donations like an investment. Philanthropy professionals and charity watchdogs say that as the holiday season approaches and the airwaves fill with messages of altruism, you should still analyze your chosen charities the same way you would research the purchase of mutual funds or property. Financial adviser Kate Bahen, managing director of watchdog group Charity Intelligence Canada, says key things to look for include whether the charityâ€™s financial statements are audited and up-to-date, if the charity has an independent oversight board, and if it spends more on programs than administration and fundraising. â€œPeople need to look at that giving as an investment,â€? she says. â€œIf they could bring that business brain to the giving table, I think thatâ€™s where we would see such huge change in Canada for the good.â€? Bahen says charities will often play on the heartstrings by telling one story of one client in need, but big businesses donâ€™t ever limit their quarterly reports to talking about just one customer. While Tiny Timâ€™s blessing brought a smile to Scroogeâ€™s face, he would surely also be pleased by the charity tax credits offered by the federal government that can reduce your total income

and therefore, your tax bill. The Canada Revenue Agency gives a tax credit of 15 per cent on the first $200 you donate, rising to 29 per cent for amounts over $200. If you havenâ€™t donated before, you can claim an additional 25 per cent tax credit for any donations made before the end of 2017, up to $1,000. The provinces have their own tax credits. The CRA posts a searchable list of the more than 85,000 registered charities in Canada online and provides a detailed breakdown of their finances. Thirdparty organizations such as Charity Intelligence Canada also provides guidance on giving and ratings on individual charities. Lawyer Mark Blumberg says people are happiest when their tax savings reflect their values. â€œIt would be nice if people would have a sense of how they want to give, so that at the end of the year when you look at all the receipts you have it is a fair reflection of what you want to support,â€? he says. He says Canadians shouldnâ€™t

just rely on the grades given out by third parties to make their decisions. The best way to get to know if a charity is worthy of your support is to volunteer, he adds. Financial planner Cynthia Kett says itâ€™s best to form longterm relationships with charities that share your values, instead of doling out many smaller gifts throughout the year. â€œWe often have a tendency to make donations on the fly, and I think itâ€™s useful to be strategic in your giving,â€? she said. When it comes to taxes, Kett says itâ€™s important to understand the nuances of the charitable giving tax credit. Because the first $200 has a lower credit, married couples can save a little money by combining their donations on one return and having the higher-income

that over the last decade, more and more charities have begun to measure the impact of their work and publicize the results. She says those looking to give should make sure their chosen charity is monitoring the outcome of its work. â€œIf youâ€™re not measuring and tracking your impact, how do you know youâ€™re doing good and not harm?â€?

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Canadaâ€™s oceans matter, at the Paris climate talks and beyond by David Suzuki

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tâ€™s encouraging that our newly elected federal government has agreed to improve efforts to safeguard Canadaâ€™s oceans. Ocean protection here is shamefully deficient, currently at around one per cent. The new government has restated our countryâ€™s commitment to protect 10 per cent of our oceans by 2020, as part of a global agreement Canada

signed in 2010 at the 10th meeting of the Convention on Biological Diversity. Increased ocean protection was one change called for in a recent peer-reviewed paper written by 19 scientists from across the country (including my daughter, Sarika). â€œCanada at a Crossroads: The imperative for realigning ocean policy with ocean scienceâ€? offers recommendations for government to step up its game when it comes to ocean health. The report highlights recent federal conduct that has increased the vulnerability of our coasts, including changes to the Fisheries Act (most notably, decreasing habitat protection), disregard for the Oceans Act (an important framework

that emerged in the late 1990s outlining ocean management and protection) and inaction on species at risk. Weak ocean protection hinders our coastsâ€™ ability to remain resilient in the face of many challenges. A recent report in Science estimated that globally in 2010, five to 13 million tonnes of plastics ended up in the oceans. Plastics often break down into tiny, toxic pieces called â€œnurdlesâ€?, which are turning up in the stomachs of many marine birds, fish and turtles. Agricultural runoff, untreated sewage and coastal development have added to the ocean sludge and created hundreds of wastelands devoid of oxygen, or â€œdead zonesâ€?, which can change

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fishesâ€™ sex organs and leave animals gasping for air. Over the past two years we were also hit by the â€œthe blobâ€?, a large patch of water in the Pacific Northwest that is 3 C warmer than average. Itâ€™s a product of unseasonably hot, dry weather and is the highest water temperature ever recorded in this area. When I heard triggerfish were showing up in the North Pacific, I was shocked. Theyâ€™re tropical fish! The blob brings some warmwater hitchhikers. Carbon dioxide is perhaps the most dangerous human waste found in our oceans. CO2 from the atmosphere is absorbed at the waterâ€™s surface, where it reacts with seawater and turns into carbonic acid before breaking down further into acid and bicarbonate ions. We know changing the pH of seawater is dangerous for marine life. On the West Coast weâ€™ve recently seen scallops struggling to make shells, a chilling portent of what might come as oceans become more acidic. A study published earlier this year in Nature Climate Change found that many shellfish are extremely vulnerable to ocean acidification and that some areas most at risk are also least prepared to respond and adapt to the crisis. Still, there are signs that Canada is ready to take ocean health seriously. â€œCanada at a Crossroadsâ€? ends by offering a constructive to-do list to help this country get back on track, and our newly elected government has made a number of commitments that align with its recommendations. They include reassessing the recent

Fisheries Act amendments, reversing funding cuts to Fisheries and Oceans Canada, increasing marine and coastal protected areas and allowing government scientists to speak freely about their work. The government has also moved to formalize the moratorium on crude oil tankers on B.C.â€™s North Coast, which will help ensure coastal biodiversity is protected from spills. The government should also ensure that oceans are an integral part of the upcoming UN climate summit in Paris November 30 to December 12. Because they absorb carbon dioxide, oceans are critical in the fight against climate change, and they are vulnerable to its effects. I hope Canada plays a constructive role in Paris and at home to ensure that oceans and all the life they support are protected and cared for. Itâ€™s refreshing to see studies with constructive recommendations for these serious issues, and to see the federal government respond positively. Letâ€™s hope weâ€™ve entered a new era in maintaining and enhancing the health of our oceans. Oceans supply half our oxygen, absorb a quarter of our emissions, produce food, regulate climate and weather, give us medicine, culture, renewable energy and jobs, and support a diversity of life. We canâ€™t live without them. David Suzuki is a scientist, broadcaster, author and co-founder of the David Suzuki Foundation. Written with contributions from Sarika Cullis-Suzuki, PhD, marine biologist, visiting scientist at the University of Victoriaâ€™s Ocean Networks Canada and David Suzuki Foundation board member.

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Kenai bark beetles primed for another run there were in the 1990s. Then, the mature trees had been around since the 1880s, the date of the last big beetle attack on the Kenai and in other areas of southern Alaska. After studying global climate models, Berg is not optimistic about the future of spruce trees â€“ Sitka, white and their hybrid Lutz â€“ in southern Alaska. Models predict summer temperatures on the Kenai will continue to be ideal for beetles. But the forest will adjust as it always seems to, Berg wrote. He expects more hardwoods on the peninsula as beetles and fires do their work, â€œwhich in turn should provide more winter browse for the Giant Kenai Moose, to borrow a term from the 1890s.â€?

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d Berg has spent much of his life observing the natural happenings on a large peninsula (the Kenai) that juts from a larger peninsula (Alaska). The retired ecologist who worked many years for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has been around long enough he might see a second version of the most damaging insect attack in Alaska history. The insect is the spruce bark beetle. About the size of a grain of rice, billions of the black specks attacked spruce trees of the Kenai Peninsula during the 1990s. Their larvae girdled trees, cut off their sugar supply and slowly killed them. Three million acres of spruce trees died, including the ones on Bergâ€™s property in Homer. After he and his wife Sara cleared the trees, their place didnâ€™t feel the same. They moved. Berg needed to know why the beetles attacked with such vigor. He thought about it, studied tree rings and other records of the past and combined that with a few decades of boots-onthe-ground observations. He came up with a formula, a set of circumstances that enabled what some scientists called the worst insect outbreak in North Americaâ€™s history. Berg, 75, wrote a recent piece on the possible return of the beetles for the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge. Here is his lead sentence: â€œIf you lived in the woods on the Kenai Peninsula in the 1990s, you may not want to read this article.â€? Spruce bark beetles did not kill all the spruce trees on the Kenai Peninsula in the 1990s. Due to what Berg termed its â€œpeculiar ecology,â€? the bark beetle kills only the largest, oldest spruce. Trees smaller than six inches in

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Spruce trees mixed with hemlocks on the Kenai Peninsula. Spruce bark beetles killed 95 per cent of mature spruce there in the 1990s. diameter are spared because they produce enough pitch to suffocate mother beetles and their phloem layer is too tight for them. Using a â€œmass-attackâ€? strategy, beetles use sheer numbers to overwhelm old-growth trees like the ones in Bergâ€™s yard. Tree by tree, the Kenai Peninsula became a graveyard of whitish spruce snags, about 30 million of them. But the death of the old released the young spruce, suddenly enriched with more sunshine and water. In the 20 years since the worst of the outbreak, many of the survivors are now larger than six inches in diameter. Tim-

ber of that size is one ingredient in the Bergâ€™s formula for another outbreak of the beetles, which never left the peninsula. Another is a â€œrun of warm summersâ€? that favors beetle survival. Berg defined that as two or more summers in which the average May through August temperatures in Homer are at least 51 degrees F. â€œThe last three summers have been well above this threshold,â€? he wrote. Conditions on the Kenai now seem right for another beetle outbreak. Berg does not expect it to be as large because there are not as many mature spruce as

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New book remembers the squatters of Whitehorse the younger kids. Ellis and friends have captured the memories and the circumstances of life as squatters in vivid and poignant fashion. It’s an interesting read. The first 15 pages provide some background context, using a timeline and maps, followed for the next 38 pages by the squatters’

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own accounts. The final five pages contain photos of former squatters’ homes that have been demolished, followed by images showing what these areas look like today. Michael Gates is a Yukon historian and sometimes adventurer based in Whitehorse. He is currently writing book about the Yukon in World War I. You can contact him at msgates@northwestel.net

new book was launched at the MacBride Museum last evening, which focuses on the history of Whitehorse. Titled The Squatters of Downtown Whitehorse, it was written by Pat Ellis and friends. Squatters have had a long tradition in Whitehorse. They occupied land around the perimeter of the small community of a few hundred that existed before the construction of the Alaska Highway. The residents of these areas included First Nation families. Angela Sidney, later a highly respected elder, lived here intermittently in 1914-1915 when she was a young girl, along with other families accustomed to a mobile seasonal round of activities. The main squatters’ areas included Whiskey Flats (today, Rotary Park and the area where the S.S. Klondike rests beside the Yukon River), the Whitehorse waterfront (including Moccasin Flats and Sleepy Hollow), and areas along the foot of the escarpment below the airport (most notably the “Wye” area at the very south end of downtown, below the Two Mile Hill, and above Sixth and Eighth Avenues in between). Seasonal ship and train workers found inexpensive accommodation here. Some train employees built small shacks on White Pass land, a practice that was tolerated by the company. In the late 1950s and early 1960s, as Whitehorse expanded, these marginal properties became more visible in the community, especially when the Robert Campbell Bridge was built across the Yukon River. Each day, commuters from the new middle class suburb were reminded of the squatters as they drove past them when traveling back and forth across the river. Eventually, the squatters in Whiskey Flats were moved out, with some assistance from the government, and the area became scenic waterfront parkland. Squatters in Sleepy Hollow and Moccasin Flats, who weren’t so visible to the public, remained for two more decades before they scattered to other places. Today, it is remembered in the colourful art of Jim Robb, in the memories of former residents, and in family photo albums. Jim Lotz, a community planning officer in the Department of Northern Affairs and National Resources determined that the squatter community at one time comprised a third of the population of downtown Whitehorse, but his reports do not detail the personal and human elements of squatter life. The squatter communities along the waterfront had an undeserved reputation for bootlegging and partying. However, it is worthy

of note that several members of the legislature, as well as two future mayors, at one time lived in squatters’ areas of Whitehorse. Other former residents remain scattered throughout Whitehorse today. “The Squatters of Downtown Whitehorse” goes a long way to putting a human face on places like Whiskey Flats and Sleepy Hollow. In fact the strands of the squatters’ lives are now woven into the broader fabric of modern day Whitehorse. What Pat Ellis does, with the help of numerous friends, is present the story of the people who lived there in their own words. Former senator Ione Christensen remembers living for a short time in a small one-room cabin in Whiskey Flats; the airplanes were taking off and landing in the river just a few metres from their front door. She also recalls later when her father, a former mounted policeman, while serving as public health inspector, had the painful duty to see that the squatters, many of whom he knew, were relocated. Pat Ellis remembers living in a little cabin rented from old-timer Shorty Roils that she shared with another young girl. The chemical toilet was hidden behind a curtain in the porch. They had a temperamental oil cook stove and a small cupboard, but no refrigerator. Those who did not have outhouses had “honey buckets” within a toilet container that Jimmy Murphy emptied into his hand-made honey wagon once a week. They had running water: you ran down to the river with your bucket and ran back to the house. In the winter, water would be drawn from a hole chopped in the ice. Some remember rooms so cold in the winter that the bedding froze to the walls and meat

didn’t spoil when stored inside as it never thawed. Others talk about the water delivery and being able to dispose of grey water by draining it or simply dumping it into the river. Many of the squatters lived in these areas because it was all that they could afford, but others even paid property tax and had water delivered and garbage removed. Henry “Shorty” Roils lived in North Whiskey Flats, the area now occupied by Rotary Park. A veteran of the First World War, Roils called himself a gardener. He owned a cabin, a garden and a greenhouse. When he wasn’t working on the longshore gang, he raised and sold vegetables. Andy Hooper, renowned for moving houses using his World War II vintage 4X4 truck, lived in Sleepy Hollow, as did iconic Yukon artist Jim Robb, who lived with a pioneer squatter family for several years. Former Sleepy hollow resident Jerry Bruton remembers that his mother, who presided over a family of eight, took in many kids who weren’t hers but raised them as if they were. There was much drinking going on among the adults and they would be left on their own: “…she would say, ‘you stay the night.’ The night would turn into a couple of days, then weeks to months. The house was always full.” These areas were homes for families. Cabinet minister Doug Graham recalls growing up in Sleepy Hollow where the Harley Davidson dealership used to operate. As a child, he remembered it was a safe place for children to play. The older kids watched over

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Little lemon seed creates an etiquette exception by Judith Martin

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MANNERS DEAR MISS MANNERS: When I am drinking lemonade or iced tea in a restaurant, sometimes a small lemon seed gets sucked up through the straw into my mouth. I know that one properly removes unwanted items with the utensil that brought it to the mouth, but how could that apply with a straw? I suppose I could not use the straw, but it seems more sanitary than drinking directly from the glass. So I have been discreetly removing the offending little pip with my fingers, but your image pops up in front of my face, and I get the uneasy feeling itâ€™s a no-no. GENTLE READER: Not as much of a no-no as it would be to shoot the pit out through the straw â€” especially with Miss Mannersâ€™ face right in front of you. Despite that personal danger, she appreciates your question. Others who have tried to alert her to exceptions to rules seem to believe that etiquette is either callous or gullible. For example, they will dispute a directive to shake hands on the grounds that it would be wrong to expect this

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sponse to a social invitation because it implies that one is holding out for a better offer. In your case, however, no one could dispute that the birth of your baby is at least a more urgent one.

DEAR MISS MANNERS: I would appreciate your point of view on when Christmas decorations should begin appearing in residential front yards. I grew up with an unwritten rule that you do not put anything out until the Friday after Thanksgiving. With holiday creep continually pushing retailers to put Halloween out in August, I am appalled that my neighbors begin their Christmas decorating the first weekend of November. I want to give them a friendly note to WAIT until a more appropriate time. At this point, Iâ€™m subjected to three months, versus two, of their DEAR MISS MANNERS: I am display, and it encroaches on my expecting, and my husband and I Thanksgiving. Grrrr! have been invited to the wedding of a GENTLE READER: If you growl at friend that falls three days before my your neighbor, who would be likely to due date. growl back, you will have succeeded Under normal circumstances only in turning the area into a zoo, if I wouldnâ€™t dream of replying with not a jungle. anything other than a yes or no, but in Miss Manners recognizes the this case, would it be appropriate to problem of creeping holidays, but she respond that we would be delighted also recognizes property rights. And to attend so long as our little one property courtesy, even toward those hasnâ€™t made his or her appearance whose tastes you find troublesome. yet? If you can find an inoffensive way GENTLE READER: All right, this is to say, â€œChristmas already! My, how a justified exception, but Miss Mantime flies,â€? Miss Manners would conners cautions you not to make a habit sider it. But frankly, she does not trust of it. She prohibits â€œmaybeâ€? as a reyou not to growl.

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SPORTS AND RECREATION Rapids skaters accelerate into new season

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Rapids Speed Skating Club’s Michael Ritchie, left, gets set at the start line during club races at the Canada Games Centre on Sunday. Rapids skaters set 32 personal best times to start the season. Tom Patrick/Yukon News

Huxley Briggs rounds a turn ahead of Eddie Schneider. Tom Patrick News Reporter

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Shea Hoffman leads a pair of skaters through a turn.

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Isaac McPherson (61), Lucas Taggart-Cox (66) and Caius Taggart-Cox (1) fight for the lead.

embers of the Whitehorse Rapids Speed Skating Club were increasingly rapid as they kicked off a new season over the weekend. The speedy skaters set a total of 32 personal best times in their first club races of the season at the Canada Games Centre on Sunday. “I know a lot of kids were skating quite well compared to what they were at last year, so I’m not surprised they got that many personal bests,” said Rapids head coach Phil Hoffman. “A lot of the younger kids seem to crank them out quite frequently … They’re growing and getting better at skating, too.” However, personal best times couldn’t be partially attributed to physical growth for all the skaters. Masters (over-30) skater Andy Muir was the only one to set a PB in every event he raced, coming away with four. “Andy is one of our masters skaters and he’s getting better too,” said Hoffman. “He’s been skating for a couple years – he’s one of the parents who got into it because his kid was skating, so he decided to come out and skate too. He’s getting better for sure.” Rapids’ Cord Hamilton, Emma Hamilton, and Marsh Lake brothers Micah, Lucas and Caius Taggart-Cox all posted three PBs Sunday. Isaac McPherson set four PBs in six events, breaking the oneminute mark in the 500-metre event.

“He was in our development group last year and I brought him up into our advanced group this season,” said Hoffman. “So it looks like he’s responding to skating more, getting more training in, more coaching, and he’s speeding up.” Muir also beat one other skater in his division to win all four of his races, as did Joshua Lauer. Emma Hamilton beat two others to win all four of hers. Winners were less consistent among the club’s top young skaters, who took part in fiveperson races. Micah TaggartCox won the 1,000-metre and the 3,000-metre, Shea Hoffman took the 500-metre and Michael Ritchie – who represented Yukon at the Canada Winter Games in February – won the 1,500-metre. “The other kids were kind of using Shea as their rabbit and trying to chase him,” said Hoffman. “It paid off for them a little bit. They were able to take advantage of him pulling them for most of the race and take him at the line.” The three Taggart-Cox brothers, Tristan Muir, Shea Hoffman and Ritchie will represent the Rapids club at a meet in Edmonton this weekend. A total of 17 skaters took part in the season-opening races on Sunday. “A few of those kids it was the first time they were racing because they just started,” said Phil. “So if was nice for them to get to race, see what it’s like.” Contact Tom Patrick at tomp@yukon-news.com

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Lone Yukon Graylings swimmer represents in Vancouver Tom Patrick News Reporter

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he Yukon Graylings Masters Swim Club was represented by one swimmer, in just one event, at the UBC Masters Swim Meet in Vancouver on Sunday. With the one swim the club went undefeated. Graylingsâ€™ Victoria Ryan won the womenâ€™s 35-39 category in the 100-metre individual medley at the short-course meet that saw 159 swimmers from 21 clubs hit the water. â€œI won my age group in the 100 IM but since it was my first meet since having my third child six months ago I participated mainly because I love the sport and the atmosphere at these meets,â€? said Ryan. Ryan, who is president of the Graylings club, took first with a time of one minute, 17.39 seconds â€“ not that sheâ€™s bragging about it. â€œMy time was a little bit embarrassing, to be honest,â€? said Ryan. â€œIt was the first swim meet Iâ€™ve done since I had my third child. He was with me, on the pool deck, together with my oldest child. So I had two children with me at the swim meet this time.â€? The Graylings club, which is in just its second season, has grown to 15 members, up from about seven or eight last season. It also has a pretty big name

on its coaching staff. Whitehorseâ€™s Stephanie Dixon, who is one of the most decorated Paralympians of all time, has been coaching Graylings swimmers this season. Dixon, who was born with one leg, won 19 medals, including seven gold, over three Paralympic Summer Games and was inducted into the Canadian Disability Hall of Fame in 2013. She is the former head coach of the Whitehorse Glacier Bears Swim Club and has coached Yukon swimmers at the Canada Summer Games. â€œWe really want to provide coaching because a lot of swimmers really need that extra direction and help with their swimming,â€? said Ryan. â€œIt seems to attract more swimmers that way. â€œWeâ€™ve really made an effort to always have a coach on deck this year. Last year the club would always provide a workout, but there was no coach on deck. This year we said weâ€™d do our very best to have somebody there at all times.â€? The Graylings club is a registered member of Masters Swimming of B.C. and Masters Swimming of Canada. The club holds practices at the Canada Games Centre on Sundays, but members also get together during public swimming hours. Those interested in learning Harry Kern Photography more can contact the club at Yukon Graylings Masters Swim Clubâ€™s Victoria Ryan, seen graylingsmasters@gmail.com or here in a file photo, competed at the UBC Masters Swim find it on Facebook. Meet in Vancouver on Sunday. Ryan won her category in

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forget. For the first time in his playing career the director of golf at Mountain View Golf Club missed a cut in tournament play, last week at the PGA Club Professional Championship of Canada in Buckeye, Arizona. The 38-year-old hit a 79 in the opening round on Nov. 16. He then carded an 89 following an unfortunate 10 on the par-4 eighth hole at the Verrado Golf Club. Ontario’s Danny King regained the title with an 11 under after three rounds. With the win the 48-year-old became the first player ever to win three PGA of Canada national championships in the same year, having also nabbed the PGA Championship of Canada and the PGA Team Championship of Canada titles. Wiggins earned a spot at the club pro nationals when he tied for fifth at the PGA of B.C. Club Professional Championship at the Richmond Country Club at the end of September. “I owe a lot to our own Mountain View Golf Club team. Our championship golf course here in Whitehorse has the foundation to be a spectacular training facility for competition development

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Sandor@yukon.net or C: 333.9966 FURNISHED BEDROOM in new home, Ingram, responsible tenant, $800/mon + DD, all inclusive. 334-3186 SHOP/OFFICE/STUDIO/STORAGE Multi-Use Building with space available to rent Very Competitive rates Various sizes, short & long term Washroom on site Friendly environment whserentals@hotmail.com ROOM FOR RENT in dorm-style, shared accommodations. Furnished with shared laundry, kitchen and bathroom facilities. $600/month, utilities included. Call Chris @ 668-4729.

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4-BDRM, 2-BATH newer duplex for rent in desirable Takhini North. Available immediately. DD & refs reqĘźd, $1,800/mon exclusive. Email pan.ashley@gmail.com or text 335-7267

3-BDRM, 2-BATH new single level home, walk-in closet, large ensuite, hardwood floors, modern black kitchen, lit interior cabinets, appliances, concrete driveway, 405,000 obo. 334-2802

ROOM FOR rent in nice Copper Ridge house share, Dec. 1st, utilities/internet included, N/P, refs & dd reqĘźd, $700/mon. 335-3935

2-BDRM, 1-BATH log home, Atlin, recently renoĘźd 790 sq ft, kitchen, large living/dining room, full bsmt. Huge wrap around balcony, spectacular view of Atlin Lake & mountain. 867-823-6963

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FOR LEASE: 401 WATERFRONT STATION This exceptional office space is available for long term lease. 2,143 sq ft with balcony overlooking the Yukon River. Currently undeveloped but awaiting your plan for finishing. Contact ceo@selkirkdevcorp.com or at 393-2181 to view and discuss terms and opportunity.

2-BDRM NEWER mobile home, oil heat/water delivery/Satellite dish, washer/dryer, fully furnished, great view, available immediately, $1,100/mon + utils, Ford Rd, Mile 4.8 Hot Springs Rd. Call 633-4342

WANTED: ROOMMATE to share house in Riverdale, clean, friendly, dog and cat in house, no other pet allowed, $700/mon all inclusive, avail Dec.1st or before. E.thibeault.maloney@gmail.com

4-BDRM, 2-BATH older house with big yard, downtown, good location, good condition. In-law suite w/kitchen. Large shed for storage. $439,000. 250-408-4838

FURNISHED ROOM, Marsh Lake, quiet waterfront, close to community centre & ski trails, N/S, animals welcome, $380, share utils. 660-4321

2 ROOMS in furnished house in Riverdale, heat & power included, N/S in house, $650/mon for small room, $750/mon for larger room, avail Dec 1. Call/text 335-4508

SMALLER CABIN with power & phone, 25 mins from town, stove & fridge, wood stove, N/S, refs & dd reqĘźd, $650/mon. 633-2218

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Two Suites available for lease. Suites can be leased separately or combined as one. One suite is 1,248 square feet. The second suite is 1,380 square feet. Located in a professional building downtown Whitehorse, this space is ideal for accounting, legal or other professionals.

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FURNISHED CABIN 25 mins north of Whitehorse available Dec 1. Power & satellite. Must buy own heating oil & propane for stove. Has telephone, no running water, $400/mon. 867-333-0236 2-BDRM, 1.5-BATH, downtown townhouse available immediately. New paint, flooring, lighting, counters. N/S, refs & lease reqĘźd. Pets (dogs only) negotiable. $1,500/mon + utils. 336-3976 2-BDRM TOWNHOUSE, Copper Ridge, includes clubhouse with gym equip, N/S, N/P, no parties, $1,450/mon + utils. 332-5185

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WANTED: Restaurant Manager & Full & Part Time Servers Email Anne at: newannie10@hotmail.com Miscellaneous for Sale WINDOOR RECYCLER We buy & sell: â€˘ Brand new/used double/triple pane vinyl/wood windows. â€˘Brand new steel/vinyl exterior doors with frames. Now selling: â€˘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€˘ SELL TRADING CARDS, binder full of non-sport trading cards (James Bond, X-men, Desert Storm, Enduring Freedom). About 500 cards. $40. Ross 633-3154 CFL FOOTBALL cards, 17 different complete sets of cards, including early OPC. Almost 2,600 cards. $1,400. Ross 633-3154 WORLD HOCKEY Association, 5 complete hockey card sets from the 1970s. Exc cond. $750. Ross 633-3154 MCDONALDS H O C K E Y cards from 1991-92 to 2009/10, almost every card issued incl. 27 unopened paks from each year, over 1,200 cards, $1,000 firm. Ross 633-3154

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OfďŹ ce Manager Regular Full-Time TKC wage scale 9 Reporting to the Executive Director, the OfďŹ ce Manager provides administrative assistance and support to, management and leadership and staff. The OfďŹ ce Manager will supervise and work as part of the administrative team that includes the clerical and administration staff. The OfďŹ ce Manager ensures that the TKC ofďŹ ce is running in an efďŹ cient and effective manner For a complete job description, contact: rkufeldt@taan.ca. As per policy, preference will be given to TKC citizens who self- declare in their cover letter and/or rĂŠsumĂŠ Closing date: Monday, December 7, 2015. Please submit a cover letter and rĂŠsumĂŠ to: Human Resources Department Email: human.resources@taan.ca

HOUSE PLANTS for sale, large Spider plant, Begonias, Umbrella Tree, from $3 to $45. 660-4321 TOILET, 668-2919

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BINDER FULL of baseball cards, $20. 633-3154 WORLD HOCKEY Association, remember it? Two rare books, (history, statistics, photos). Exc. shape, $50. 633-3154 Native Brain-Tanned MOOSE HIDES At Reasonable Prices Tanned beaver & other furs also available. Phone (780) 355-3557 or (780) 461-9677 or write: Lodge Fur & Hides Box 87, Faust, AB. T0G-0X0 SELF PROPELLED SNOW Blower, clears 30" wide path, electric start, 6 forward & two reverse speeds, excellent condition, canopy available extra, $800. 333-9020 HOT WATER system for wood stove, tank, fittings, gauges, $150; 110Ęź free-standing tower with windmill, $5,000. 633-9022 PROFORCE ELECTRIC generator, 2875 max watts/2300 running watts, $175 obo. 334-8030 MASTERCRAFT 14â€? cut-off saw w/laser line, $125; Mastercraft 10â€? heavy duty table saw, $175. 334-8030 GENERAL WOODWORKERS bench vise w/purple heart jaws, $50; Purox oxy/acetelyn gauges c/w cutting & welding torches, $125. 334-8030 HITACHI SLIDING compound mitre saw, 6 mos old, paid $720, asking $400 obo; Deluxe mitre saw stand, $225 obo. 334-8030 WOODEN CIRCULAR staircase. 668-5188

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Be part of one of Canadaâ€™s most dynamic environmental and socio-economic assessment processes and work with an energe c, progressive organiza on. We are commi ed to the well-being of our employees and encourage their personal and professional development.

YUKON WILDLIFE Conservation stamps, rare and unique collection of 13 stamps, from 1996-2008, beautiful artwork depicting Yukon birds and wildlife, $150. 633-3154

BOX OF Nevil Shute paperbacks, 38, some duplication, $25. 633-3154

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THREE COMPLETE OPC hockey card sets (1999-00 to 2001-02 period) plus some short prints. Over 900 cards. $150. Ross 633-3154

BRASS WALKER, no wheels, good cond, $30; Honeywell oil-filled heater, used very little, $25. 334-8318

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is inviting applications for

Administrative Assistant

We are an impar al, eďŹ€ec ve and eďŹƒcient organiza on that provides assistance to all involved in the assessment process.

Lands & Resources Department This is a 9 month Term Position

MANAGER, DESIGNATED OFFICE In pursuit of our Vision, the Teslin Tlingit Council is mandated to cooperatively continue to preserve and develop social, economic, political and cultural wellbeing of the Teslin Tlingit First Nation, to maintain our pride and independence based on trust and to conserve the wildlife, fish, their habitat and our traditional territory for the well-being of future generations. Under the direction of the Lands and Resources Director, this position manages and coordinates the departmentâ€™s administrative records; provides a wide range of secretarial and administrative support; provides meeting arrangements and secretarial support for meetings, including minute taking and transcribing The successful candidate shall have Grade 12 supplemented with a certificate in Administrative Services or equivalent in training or experience. The successful candidate shall have knowledge in the TTC Final Agreement, Self-Government Agreement and Implementation Plan. The successful candidate shall have excellent oral and written communication skills, be able to work independently and as team player. We encourage those who are interested to call for more information and a full job description. For a job description please call 867.390.2532 ext 317 To apply, please submit a cover letter and resume HR & Staff Development Officer Workforce Development Teslin Tlingit Council Box 133 Teslin, Yukon Y0A 1B0 f. 867.390.2176 humanresources@ttc-teslin.com

Closing Date: Wednesday, Dec. 2, 2015 **no later than 4pm**

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Whitehorse Designated OďŹƒce Full-Ć&#x;me permanent posiĆ&#x;on

Located in Whitehorse, this posi on reports to the Execu ve Director and is responsible for managing the daily opera ons of the designated oďŹƒce. This posi on conducts and leads environmental and socioeconomic assessment of projects within the designated area to iden fy environmental and socio-economic impacts while incorpora ng tradi onal knowledge of First Na ons and local knowledge into assessments. This includes iden fying project eďŹ€ects and mi ga on measures for adverse eďŹ€ects, determining the significance of any residual eďŹ€ects and developing recommenda ons. The annual salary range for this posi on is $83,503 â€“ $96,537 based on 75 hours biweekly. If you feel you have the qualifica ons and desire to meet the challenges of this posi on please forward a cover le er and resume outlining how your experience and qualifica ons relate directly to the posi on. A job descrip on is available at the YESAB Head OďŹƒce, Suite 200 â€“ 309 Strickland Street, Whitehorse, or on our website at www.yesab.ca. Please submit applica ons to: Finance and Administra on Manager, YESAB Suite 200 â€“ 309 Strickland Street, Whitehorse, YT Y1A 2J9 Ph: 867.668.6420 Fax: 867.668.6425 or email to yesab@yesab.ca Toll free: 1.866.322.4040 Resumes must be received by December 20, 2015.

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Friday, November 27, 2015

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Northwestel ➥ DIRECTOR ➥ CUSTOMER SERVICE Gwaandak Theatre ➥ PROJECT COORDINATOR Capstone Mining ➥ MINE ENGINEER IN TRAINING (EIT) Icy Waters ➥ MAINTENANCE SUPERVISOR Medicine Chest Pharmacy ➥ PHARMACY ASSISTANT

HAND CROCHETED kitty & small dog blankets, pretty colours, buy 4, get one free, $10 ea. 456-4554 IN-HOME XMAS shopping experience, large selection of Xmas decor items & great gift ideas, all items are new from high-end stores, selling at 50% off retail. 667-7467 to shop WOMENʼS SHOES & boots, size 10, purchased from Shoes R Us, all new, never worn, selling at 50% off retail prices. 667-7467 to shop VICTORIAN-STYLE TABLE lamps w/matching floor lamp, custom made shades in patterned cream fabric make these an elegant addition to any room, paid $950, asking $350. 667-7467 to view LARGE SELECTION of crystal, pinwheel & Princess House (German company), all at reasonable prices, great for holiday gifts or personal collection. 667-7467 to shop SILVER PENDANT with French lily, $100; Book, Part of the Land, Part of the Water, $100; Yukon Sourdough Rendezvous, 1988, signed by Cris Caldwell, #3 of 500, $100. 633-2236

WOMENʼS 14+ fashions, (14, 16, 18, XL), large selection including business attire, casual wear, outerwear, lingerie, formal gowns, dress pants, tops perfect for the upcoming Xmas & New Yearʼs parties. 667-7467 to shop

TRACTOR WITH snow blower attachment, electric start, tire chains & weights, exc cond, $1,800.00. 333-9020

NIKON D3100 DSLR camera, body only, c/w Vello battery grip & 2 EN-EL14 rechargeable batteries, battery charger, accessories, mint, $400. 668-4732

DIESEL GEN set, also used for welding, 180 amp, $750 obo. 633-2760

2 BI-FOLD doors, solid, new in box, 2-6 doors x 6-8, $40/ea. A 4-0 door x 6-8, $60. 2 interior doors, solid, 36”, $60/ea obo. 335-0806

PHANTOM BEAVER fur coat, sheared, fits plus size 3-4X, knee length, worn only about 5 times, $,3500 firm. 633-3416 or 334-2041

RANCILLO SILVIA espresso machine, exc cond, $100. Text 334-2693 8 BOXES of vinyl records, approx 1050 albums, exc shape, take all for $1,000. Text 334-2693 RIELLO BURNER for an oil furnace, $100. Text 334-2693 DUAL STAGE Sears Snowblower, 8HP, 24”, runs but needs a starter motor, $300. 668-2919

MENʼS WINTER North Face coat, XL, red & black, exc cond, $250. 689-2191

SIZE 10 Aircast, used 4 weeks, always wore a sock & indoors only, $200. 335-3331

ERZGEBIRGE SPIELUHR, new, in box & papers, worth $200, asking $100. 633-2236 INSULATED STAINLESS steel stovepipe, 7", w/2" insulated walls (Canadian Tire style). 2 pieces 36" long, one piece 24", rain cap, & 2 pieces of 36" single wall pipe, $120. 668-5511 WOODTURNING LATHE, Nova DVR 3000. professional quality, no vibration, lightly used, exc cond, Cole jaw for bowls, 4 jaw chuck or centers, several turning tools, $2,500 firm. Andy @ 668-5871 26" CRAFTSMAN snowblower, self propelled, electric start. Works great, $ 675. 867-333-0916 HOUSE P L A N T S , $15, $20, $40; spider/split-leaf Phila, 6ʼ rubber plant. 311B Hanson St after 6pm

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MOUNTAIN EQUIPMENT down vest, wms sm, $50; MEC pile lined jct, wms lg, $40; wms size 6 mid-calf winter boots, $25. 311B Hanson St after 6pm SKI SHOES, Salomon SR511, blue, size 47. 660-4321 SCHACHT LOW Castle Loom, maple, 8 harness, 48”, bench & bags, warping mill, boats, shuttles, lamp, weaving books/magazines, weaving supplies, excellent condition, $3000. 668-4976

is currently recruiting for the following positions:

WOMEN'S SHOES, size 7.5 $80 obo; brown women's coat size S $45 obo; women's winter jacket, purple/white, clean, size M $30; men's XL hand-knit green sweater, new, $55 obo. 667-7840

Mine Manager Mine Site Superintendent Mine site health and safety Mine site environmental lead Mine site planning and controls lead Heavy equipment operators Water treatment plant operators Mine site Security

RIELLO OIL burner, serviced last fall with only 4 months use, recent fan motor, reliable unit, $225. 668-7228 NEW WOMENʼS mink & silver fox fur jacket, size small, $2,000 obo. 667-7057 NEW COMPOST toilet, call for details. 633-6502 CERTIFIED ORGANIC red Russian garlic from the Okanagan, $16/lb. 332-0417

Please send resumes by fax to: 867-873-9620 or Email to: jobs@nahannincl.com

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Employment Opportunities

Providing leadership through our strengths in programming, services and research, Yukon College’s main campus in Whitehorse and 12 community campuses cover the territory. A small college, YC provides a stimulating and collegial environment. We work with Yukon communities, Yukon First Nations, local governments, business and industry, to promote a community of learners within a vibrant organization. Come join us as we continue to enhance the Yukon’s capacity through education and training.

Expression of Interest for: Sessional Instructor, Math 101

Applied Science & Management Ayamdigut Campus (Whitehorse) Duration: Winter Term (January to April, 2016) Competition#: 15.129 Initial Review Date: December 2nd, 2015

Casual, Temporary Position Multimedia Technician Northern Adult Basic Education (NABE)

School of Academic and Skill Development Ayamdigut (Whitehorse) Campus From December 14, 2015 to March 31, 2016 Hourly rate: $30.09 (Anticipated up to 75 hours bi-weekly) Competition #: 15.130 Initial review date: December 7, 2015 Go to: http://yukoncollege.yk.ca/about/employment for more information on all job competitions. Quoting the competition number, please submit your resume and cover letter to: Yukon College, Human Resources Services, Email: hr@yukoncollege.yk.ca

Electrical Appliances KENMORE WASHER & dryer, matching set, 5 yrs old, great cond, $250 for pair. 633-2837

Nuna Group of Companies is committed to providing dependable and comprehensive construction, logistics, contract mining, and support services to the mining industry in northern Canada. www.nunalogistics.com Join our team and become a member of a premier northern provider of value added mining and construction services. Nuna is an Inuit Owned Aboriginal Company with a track record of over 20 years of safe, successful major project delivery. In conjunction with the upcoming proposed Care and Maintenance work at the Faro Mine site, Nuna Logistics Limited is currently accepting resumes for the following positions: Health and Safety Lead: 5+years’ experience developing & implementing H&S programs, NCSO or CRSP certification, knowledge of Yukon’s Occupational Health and Safety Act (YOHSA) and COR. Planning and Control Lead: 5+ years of work experience in executing cost control function, including invoicing, financial reporting, financial projections and change control programs and strategies, excellent reporting skills, Accounting designation preferred. Environmental Lead: 5+ years of work experience in water sampling (including surface water, effluent, groundwater), Experience with environmental data management & running a chemical analysis laboratory that included meeting CALA proficient requirements Site Superintendent: 10+ years’ experience managing operations/maintenance in cold climate remote locations. Knowledge of heavy equipment, site water management, electrical generation and transmission infrastructures. Site Manager: 5+ years’ experience with large mining remediation projects, knowledge of earthworks, erosion, sediment control and environment reclamation (Brownfield projects)

GE CONVECTION stove, 1-yr old, stainless steel, exc cond, ceramic top, came with new house, must sell, $350. 689-2327 GE PROFILE top load washer & dryer, 4 yrs old. Good cond, $450 obo. 335-2282 2013 MAYTAG Bravos X top load water, low water wash, uses 70% less water/energy, 2014 7.0 cu ft capacity Whirlpool dryer w/AccuDry Sensor system, great cond, $1,000 for both. 332-2566

TVs & Stereos SONY TV, 27”, c/w stand, $100 obo. 668-2919 LG SURROUND sound system, 4 tower speakers, 1 center, 1 base, receiver with dvd player, $300 obo. 335-3331 26 PS3 various games, retail over $1000, take all for $400 or $20 each. 331-3331

Computers & Accessories FREE, HEWLETT Packard scanner model ScanJet 3400C w/software, works fine, I upgraded. 633-3154 IPHONE 4S Bell/Virgin, black gd cond, c/w charge cord, $150. 334-6087 MAC MINI Apple Computer, adaptable & linked to TV screens via HDMI or Thunder Bolt Cable, works with computer screens, usb or blue tooth keyboards & mice, $510 obo. 335-5911 COMPLETE WII system with 8 games incl balance board, 2 Wii fit and instruction manuals, $400 obo. 335-3331 COMPUTER CHAIR, good condition, $10. 667-7840

Musical Instruments INTERESTED CANDIDATES ARE ASKED TO APPLY ONLINE BY VISITING OUR CAREER PAGE AT www.nunalogistics.com or via fax at 780-434-7758.

PIANO TUNING & REPAIR by certified piano technician Call Barry Kitchen @ 633-5191 email:bfkitchen@hotmail.com