WHY MOVE NORTH? to Enjoy Life As It Should Be Lived

ISSUE 1, 2020

WHY MOVE NORTH? To enjoy life as it should be lived. P4

NORTHERN HEALTH CARE It’s mainly free and readily accessible. P7

HOOKED ON THE NORTH They came for a year and stayed a lifetime. P10

NUMBER 1, 2020 MOVEMOVE UP UP 1 ON THE COVER: CATHIE ARCHBOULD; LEFT: MICHAEL DAVIES PANGNIRTUNG, NUNAVUT PANGNIRTUNG, How I became a Northerner I am one of thousands of Canadians who moved North from southern Canada. Like many who make the move, I promised my employer I would stay a year, maybe two. Now, some 40 years later, I’m still here. But why? I left a job in a downtown Toronto office tower to take a position in Yellowknife, a place I knew nothing about. I left my friends behind, sold my trusty Volkswagen convertible and packed my belongings for the movers. I arrived on New Year’s Eve and the temperature was hovering around minus 40 C, far beyond the warming capabilities of my southern duffel coat and leather boots. And it was dark. Sunrise was somewhere around 10 am and by 3:30 pm it was dark again. This was not where I wanted to be. For the first month I vowed to find the fastest route back to Toronto the minute my promised year was completed. And then the change set in. I made new friends. I was promoted by my employer. I tried cross country skiing. Bought a pass for daily swims at the community pool. Started a branch of the professional organization I belonged to in Toronto, and recog- nized people I bumped into when I picked up my mail at the post office. Issue number 1, 2020 By mid-April sunrise was around 5:30 am and sunset was after 10 pm and the Move Up is published bright sunlight and pure air encouraged outdoor activity. That’s when I began my three times per year by love affair with the northern outdoors. Camping, paddling, fishing: all activities that I Up Here Publishing Ltd. dabbled in when living in Ontario. Suite 102, 4510 – 50th Ave. Yellowknife, NT I did stay the prescribed year (16 months to be exact) with my first employer, but X1A IB9, Canada the lure of entrepreneurship was irresistible, so along with a friend from Montreal, we started a company ... firstly an advertising agency, and in 1984 added a pub- Co-publishers: Marion LaVigne lishing company. Our latest publishing venture is Move Up, designed to convince and Ronne Heming you that the far North is one of the best places in Canada to live, work and play. Each issue we'll introduce you to northern living, northern jobs and northern Contacts: services, that are often less expensive and more reliable than those in the south. Advertising: [email protected] Basic health care is free; education includes a forgivable loan program to help Editorial: [email protected] northern kids attend university; and there's no provincial (territorial tax) tax.

Up Here Publishing also It’s a different world. A challenging world sometimes. But as an ex-Torontonian, publishes Up Here and there’s nowhere else I’d rather be. We invite you to read about the North. Up Here Business. Check out hundreds of job openings in the North, and really consider a move. I’m To subscribe visit uphere.ca sure, like me, you’ll never regret it. ON THE COVER: CATHIE ARCHBOULD; LEFT: MICHAEL DAVIES Marion LaVigne Publisher

NUMBER 1, 2020 MOVEMOVE UP UP 3 THE PART OF CANADA WE CALL HOME

VERONICA LOPEZ AZOCAR THREE TERRITORIES:

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QUTTINIRPAAQ NATIONAL The part of Canada we call home PARK Residents of Canada’s far North days of summer. Or the yearning government and support services like to think they’re tougher than for a juicy peach, fulﬁlled when jobs, account for a large percent- Axel their fellow Canadians. Also luck- the next plane or truck delivers age of the territories’ population, Heiberg Ellesmere ier and more resourceful. Yes, produce to the local store. Or the with Whitehorse home to 70% of Island Island there are a few very cold days, complaining about costs, offset Yukon’s population, Yellowknife

but not the bone chilling cold of by northern living tax reductions home to 44% of the NWT popula- Grise Fiord King and Bay, or Portage and and higher wages. tion, and Iqaluit home to 21% of

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Ocean and Hudson Bay and we every community has an arena never dream about white Christ- for hockey and pleasure skating, mases, because we know they and larger centres have swim- are always white. ming pools, indoor tracks, ﬁeld houses for soccer, badminton, Cottage country, known as cabin school gyms for basketball and country in the North, is usually volleyball and more. within an hour of home, and is accessible by truck, boat, snow- Activities in the North are geared mobile or all-terrain-vehicle ... and to both adults and children. is almost always near a good Northern kids likely see more of ﬁshing lake or river or a prime the world than those from any hunting location. province. Exchanges with southern and international students, In the far North, housing comes school trips to Europe or south- in many shapes and forms. There ern Canada are just some of our are single family homes, condos, student’s contact with the world LALENIA NEUFELD apartments, mobile homes, and in outside our territories. Within Yellowknife, a colourful house- the territories there are also Opportunity is really what the boat community. In the Yukon opportunites to participate in an- North is all about. It’s a place and Northwest Territories you nual sports tournaments, or the where you can start as a junior can drive to most communities, bi-annual Arctic Winter Games, clerk and work your way up but in Nunavut access is strictly hosted across Canada’s North to manager in a few years. It’s by air, which drives up the cost of or in Alaska or Northern Alberta… where you can contribute to our living throughout the territory, but and occasionally in Greenland. society. It’s where you can enjoy is often offset by an employer life as it should be lived. supplied cost of living allowance And then there is work. As the

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6 MOVE UP NUMBER 1, 2020 Health Care in Canada’s Far North The North’s health system has mastered the problem of isolation. When you need medical attention in any of our three territories, there are people and programs to assist. Pregnant, and living in a small community without a hospital or midwife? You’ll be sent to a regional centre well in advance of your due date and will stay in a comfortable boarding home with other people from your region, until it’s time to go to the hospital. Live in Cambridge Bay or Pond Inlet and the nurse or nurse practitioner determines your medical problem is an emergency? >>

A COUPLE OF YEARS AGO we surveyed perceived deterrents to making a move to but no HST), a tax deduction for northern over 1,000 Canadians who showed an the far north: health care; education; cost residency, free health care for most needs; interest in moving North, but didn’t fol- of living; housing; accessibility. We under- post secondary education grants and low through. We wanted to know their stood those concerns, but we want to set much more. In this issue, we’d like to start concerns about living, working and playing the record straight. Yes, the cost of living is by telling you a bit more about our health in the North. From that survey, here are higher, but so are the tax exemptions (GST, care systems. NUMBER 1, 2020 MOVE UP 7 LIVING IN THE NORTH: HEALTH CARE

YELLOWKNIFE'S STANTON REGIONAL HOSPITAL

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You’ll be “medevaced” by air am- all residents, as needed. In the Basic hospital and medical costs bulance to the closest hospital. Northwest Territories there is are covered under the health Need treatment or surgery for also a regional hospital in Inuvik care insurance programs of a specialized condition, and that and smaller community hospitals each territory, as are specialist specialist or service is not avail- in Hay River, Fort Smith and Fort services outside the territories able in the North? You’ll travel to Simpson. Yukon also has two (specialized surgery, diagnoses, a major hospital in Ottawa, Winni- community hospitals (Dawson etc.) Eligibility for health care peg, Edmonton or Vancouver and and Watson Lake) as does Nuna- mainly depends on residency in most costs will be covered by vut with small hospitals in Rankin a territory and proof of residency BILL BRADEN territorial health insurance plans Inlet and Cambridge Bay. in Canada. Northern health care systems do not cover standard The North is prepared to handle Most other communities in all dental procedures, eyeglasses, most emergency or special med- three territories have health etc. But these services are Territorial ex- ical conditions, but it also has a centres with experienced nurses often covered under employer attending to the health and medi- tended benefits system in place to look after the benefit plans. Territorial extended day-to-day health and medical cal needs of populations from 150 benefits programs cover speci- programs cover needs of its residents. Facilities to 1,500 or more. These centres fied costs for seniors and other specified costs range from multi-million-dollar are well equipped, often with identified at-risk groups. for seniors hospitals with hundreds of staff, ultrasound and X-ray equipment, to small community health cen- and most northern health centres Each territory also offers servic- tres operated by two nurses. are connected to larger centres es ranging from long-term care via Telehealth, a video conferenc- to specialist clinics, to mental TALOYOAK HEALTH CENTRE Each northern capital city has a ing program that allows direct health care. territorial hospital which serves consultations with doctors.

8 MOVE UP NUMBER 1, 2020 LIVING IN THE NORTH: HEALTH CARE

Health Services in Canada's three territories Territorial Hospitals YUKON NORTHWEST TERRITORIES NUNAVUT Whitehorse General Hospital Stanton Territorial Hospital, Yellowknife Qikiqtani General Hospital, Iqaluit Beds: 56 Staff: 540 Beds: 100 Staff: 600 Beds: 35 Staff: 229 50 GPs, 7 specialists 29 GPs, 22 specialists 20 GPs, visiting specialists Primary acute care, emergency care, Surgery, ENT, ophthalmology, obstetrics Emergency cardiology, gynaecology, surgical, cancer, visiting specialists, and gynocology, pediatrics, orthopedic dermatology, rheumatology, occupational and physical therapy surgery, psychiatry, radiology, anesthesia, neurology, orthopedics, ENT, lab services, X-ray, ultrasound, MRI, visiting specialists (CT, ultrasound, dialysis) ophthamology. Additional services CT, mammography provided in Ottawa

Regional or Community Hospitals YUKON NORTHWEST TERRITORIES NUNAVUT Dawson City Community Hospital Inuvik Regional Hospital Regional Health Centre, Cambridge Bay Beds: 6 Staff: 28 Beds: 50 Beds: 8 Staff: 70 3 GPs 9 GPs/locums 1 GP 24/7 emergency care, inpatient and Emergency and minor surgery, Midwife services, ultrasound, ambulatory care, lab and X-ray, Mammograms lab services. ultrasound services. Watson Lake Community Hospital Hay River Health Centre Regional Health Centre, Rankin Inlet Beds: 6 Staff: 26 Beds: 19 Beds: 10 Staff: 79 2 GPs 1 resident GP plus locums 2 GPs $ 24/7 emergency care, inpatient and Fort Smith Health Centre Midwife services, ultrasounds, lab ambulatory care, lab and X-ray, Beds: 5 Staff: 100 services, visiting physicians ultrasound services. 0 Community Health Centres Basic hospital and YUKON NORTHWEST TERRITORIES NUNAVUT medical costs are 12 Health Centres in smaller 27 Health Centres in small communities 30 Health Centres communities Usually 2 or more nurses. in communities covered under the Usually 2 nurses NWT MedResponse Usually 2 or more nurses health care insurance Other Services Toll-free Health line Toll-free help line Toll free mental help line programs of each Telehealth in 14 communities Healthnet services available for diagnostic Telehealth services for both clinical referals territory, as are access to physio, occupational, speech imaging, electronic records and and follow ups, as well as family visits with therapy, emergency radiology Telehealth patient videoconferencing patients specialist services Medical Travel outside the territories. Medically necessary travel to the Travel costs from home community, Medically necessary travel from home nearest centre where services exist. $200 co-payment. co-payment is $250 Eligibility for Health Care Proof of Canadian citizen or permanent Canadian citizen, or resident Permanent residents of Nunavut resident. Yukon resident. Apply in person NWT resident. Mail in forms Coverage For more information Physicians at clinics, hospitals, Basic hospital and medical clinic treatment Basic hospital and medical clinic treatment, ward care in hospital for inpatients and outpatients. Eye exams. eye exams, dental care for children. on health care in each Children's dental care, hearing services Extended benefits for seniors and for Extended care for seniors, territory visit: Extended health care benefits for seniors specified diseases. long term care. Yukon: hss.gov.yk.ca Costs: No charge for covered health care No charge for covered health care, No charge for covered health care, NWT: hss.gov.nt.ca services co-payment for travel. co-payment for travel Nunavut: gov.nu.ca/health

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NUMBER 1, 2020 MOVE UP 9 COURTESY GURDEEP PANDHER

Gurdeep Pandher the wee hours of the morning. WHITEHORSE, YUKON Pandher was struck by every- CAME CAME FOR: 1 WEEK one’s friendliness. The rest of his STAYED FOR: 8 YEARS+ trip was more of the same. The woman whose room he was rent- FOR A YEAR, When Gurdeep Pandher became ing through Kijiji offered to drive a Canadian citizen in 2006, he him around and show him the local decided to explore his new coun- sights. Others he met at a concert STAYED try, travelling around many of invited him to a house party. the provinces and the Northwest Territories. In 2011, he ﬂ ew to “People weren’t like, ‘This guy is a FOR A LIFETIME Whitehorse for a week-long visit. stranger, let’s exclude him.’ People On his ﬁ rst day in town, Pandher were really inclusive,” he says. It re- They arrive with a short-term contract, expectations of a struck up a conversation with a minded Pandher of the small village casual adventure, and no real plans to stay. Life, and the North, man on a downtown street, and in Punjab, India, where he was born. have other intentions. For anyone thinking of dipping their this new friend brought him to There, everyone knew each other. toes into northern living, be forewarned. Once you’re here, Robert Service Campground later The Yukon had a similar feel, he that night for a party. thought. He also loved the scenery, you’ll never want to leave. BY RHIANNON RUSSELL the wildlife, and the arts scene. Travellers sat in a circle, singing songs, dancing, playing instru- By the end of the week, Pand- ments, and telling stories until her had resolved to come back

10 MOVE UP NUMBER 1, 2020 CAME FOR A YEAR: STAYED A LIFETIME for good. The following year, he gas pipeline. In 1977, once the peoples have with the land and packed up his life in Lloydminster, pipeline plan was shelved, the how that infl uences every aspect on the Alberta-Saskatchewan Dene Nation closed its Ottawa of culture—I was so privileged to border, and drove up the Alaska offi ce, but offered DeLancey experience that,” she says. Highway. a job in Yellowknife. She was thrilled. The couple had two sons, and The Yukon turned out to be when they reached school age, everything he hoped it would be. “The long days, the sunshine, DeLancey moved with them to The Gold Rush may be history but, the blue skies, the sun sparkling Yellowknife. In 1987, she took a job “this is a place where the gold is in off the pristine snow,” she says. with the Northwest Territories gov- the heart of the people,” he says. “I mean, there’s so many other ernment, but was skeptical that wonderful things about living in she’d be able to infl uence policy. Today, Pandher works for the the North but immediately, I felt Yukon government as an IT my spirits lift and I thought, ‘Wow, consultant, but he’s best-known who wouldn’t want to live here?’” “Working anywhere else just looked for his dancing. boring after the challenges that we’re Over the coming years, she Shortly after moving north, he travelled to Dene communities used to dealing with on a daily basis began teaching bhangra classes. across the Northwest Territories in the North.” – Debbie DeLancy In 2016, he went national after and also completed a one- posting a video online of him year contract with Inuit Tapiriit and a partner performing the Kanatami (then called the Inuit “When I was interviewed and traditional Indian dance at White- Tapirisat of Canada) during which asked how long did I think I might horse’s Canada Day festivities. time she was based in Baker stick with government, I respond- Both CBC and CTV interviewed Lake and Iqaluit. ed that I expected it to be really him about the dance, and his boring and couldn’t see staying in experience living in the Yukon. In 1981, DeLancey moved to that job for more than two years,” Fort Good Hope, the home of she says now, with a laugh. In the years since, Pandher has her then-husband. There, she fi lmed several other viral bhangra helped establish a band-owned But she was pleasantly sur- videos. One in 2017 showed him consulting fi rm that focused prised. She continued on in gov- and Whitehorse Mayor Dan Curtis on traditional knowledge and ernment, climbing up the ranks to dancing inside City Hall, and was community-based research. deputy minister positions in the featured on the BBC’s website. departments of Municipal and “Being immersed in a different “When you're in a remote place, Community Affairs and Human culture, living close to the land, Resources. you connect more,” Pandher starting to understand the deep says of his northern home. “You connection that Indigenous CONTINUED ... feel that bonding more with other people… The dancing allowed me COURTESY DEBBIE DELANCY to spread a message about unity and diversity; the message of to- getherness and connectedness.” A message of inclusion, brought to you by the North.

Debbie DeLancey YELLOWKNIFE, NWT CAME FOR: 6 WEEKS STAYED FOR: 33 YEARS+

Debbie DeLancey arrived in Yel- lowknife in March 1976 and was, as she puts it, “swept away.” It was a business trip. At the time, she was working for the Dene Nation in Ottawa as the organization advanced its land claims process for First Nations in the Mackenzie Valley opposing the

NUMBER 1, 2020 MOVE UP 11 “Then I very quickly realized that even a year was probably not going to be enough,” she says. “That it really does take time to get to know a community and build up the trust and build up the relationships.” She stayed in that role for five years. “I liked the quiet,” she says. “I loved the people. It’s a pretty special place… The natural athleticism [of the youth] is off the hook and it just needs to be channeled. I really believe that sport and recreation can change lives and that experience up there solidified that in my mind even further.” While born and raised in Calgary, Johnston knew even before she moved to the Yukon that she liked smaller towns. Part of what led her to apply for the job in Old Crow was a desire to change things up in her life. Her father had died around that time, and she felt “That it really she was losing drive to run her does take business, which involved hosting groups and providing transporta- time to get tion services in a resort area. The to know a recession had had an effect, too. community She wanted to find work in line with her education: a business and build up and entrepreneurship degree with the trust and a major in sport and recreation. build up the A friend suggested Johnston relationships.” teach recreation on oil rigs, but – Lindsay Johnston she wasn’t keen on having a COURTESY LINDSAY JOHNSTON job just for the paycheque—she wanted to feel fulfilled. During a search, she found a post- In 2009, DeLancey retired and Lindsay Johnston ing for the position with Vuntut Gwitchin. It connected with her moved to Victoria—but hated it. TESLIN, YUKON as not just a job, but “a real neat “I missed the cultural richness CAME FOR: 1 YEAR experience and something that [of the North],” she says. “I also STAYED FOR: 5 YEARS+ really seemed to resonate with realized what a fascinating and In 2014, Lindsay Johnston me. So I decided to give it a whirl.” complex environment we live applied for a position as recre- in. Working anywhere else just Last October, Johnston took a ation coordinator for the Vuntut looked boring after the challeng- one-year leave of absence from Gwitchin First Nation. There es that we’re used to dealing with VGFN and moved slightly south, was a one-year commitment on a daily basis in the North.” to Teslin, where she now works as attached, but she was living in that village’s recreation manager. Invermere, British Columbia at After two years in Victoria, she “It’s nice to be connected to roads the time—where she owns a moved back to Yellowknife, again,” she says with a laugh. accepting a position as deputy house and a small business—so minister of Health and Social she tried to negotiate down to Over the last five years, whenever Services. DeLancey retired again six months. The First Nation held friends asked her when she was in 2017. This time, she stayed in firm, though. Johnston accepted coming back home, she says she Yellowknife. the job, anyway. felt that the Yukon was home now.

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NUMBERNUMBER MARCH 1, 1, 2020 2020 2018 MOVEUP HER UPE 13 Bert Rose (then called Broughton Island). Up until his semi-retirement in IQALUIT, NUNAVUT Rose worked as a teacher, while 1999, Rose was a dean at Arctic CAME FOR: 6 MONTHS Joanne did various jobs around College and worked for the Nuna- STAYED FOR: 55 YEARS+ town, like administering surveys vut Implementation Commission. with the assistance of a local He also organized the inaugural Bert Rose was 20 years old who could translate. The couple celebration for the creation of the when he ﬁ rst went north. From even once walked from Qik to new territory, on April 1, 1999. Regina, he took a six-month Pangnirtung—a distance of about teaching gig covering a mater- 177 kilometres. Today, he and Joanne still live in nity leave in Fort Smith. When it Iqaluit, where they don’t see any was over, he wanted to go as far “Once in a while, we were allowed advantage to moving south. north as he possibly could. to go up to the DEW Line site and we could use the DEW Line cir- “It was the wisest decision we’ve In 1965, that destination was a ever made because in Nunavut, seven-room school in Aklavik, NT. cuits so we could phone through and get a commercial operator in when you’re in a taxation-based When Rose returned to Regina municipality and you’re over 65, at year’s end, he and girlfriend, Hay River and we would be able to phone south,” he recalls. you don’t pay any taxes on your Joanne, got engaged. house,” Rose says. They had a son in 1972, and the “When I proposed to her, she When he thinks back to what made me walk around the block growing family moved around the North as Rose took various edu- drew his twenty-something self and promise to bring her North,” to the North, he doesn’t hesitate Rose says. “That was ﬁ ne by me cation jobs: a teaching position in Whale Cove, a principalship in to answer. “It was such a frontier.

because I’d had a year and half COURTESY BERT ROSE Délįne (then called Fort Franklin), No airplanes, no telephones, no of great adventures, and I was television. And it was exciting. certainly willing to go on with it.” and in 1981, a job in Iqaluit (then Frobisher Bay) as the supervisor There were exciting things hap- On with it they went. The couple of schools for North Bafﬁ n. In pening educationally for me in spent nine years in Qikiqtarjuaq 1982, they had a daughter. the classroom.” WE'RE HIRING! STAY IN TOUCH WITH THE FAR NORTH EVERY WEEK Sign up for Up Here’s FREE weekly newsletter RELOCATETONORTHERNCANADAFOR All the North delivered directly to your inbox every Friday. AMAZINGCAREEROPPORTUNITIES! Subscribe online at uphere.ca/newsletter

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THE VOICE OF CANADA’S FAR NORTH

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Nunavut qiniqhimaaqtun Nunavut ilihaiyukharnik aulayukharnik Niqiliqivik 2020mi! Allamik aulatitiumavit Nunavunmi nunalaani? Nunavut Kavamangit qiniqhimaaqtun ilihaiyiikharnik talvuuna ilihaiyukharnik ubluq tamaat, akunigaaluk havaktukharnik kiklivikhaqaqtunik havaanganik. Nunavut ilihaqtun piumayut havadjagiktunik, quviahuktunik, iqiahungituniklu ilihaiyiinik. Ilihaiyiit Nunavunmi tunihimaaqtun pidjutikharnik quvianaqtumik tautuktitiyaanganik ilihaiqtunik, talvuuna iliharvingmi ilihaiyunik ilihagungnaigaangamik iliharvingmi hulilukaaktukharnik. Tamangnik iliharviit Nunavunmi avaliqangitun allatqiinguyutlu, taima ilihaiyiit akhurnaqtu- mik ilaqaqtukharnik nunalaamingni. community? in a Nunavut to make a difference Do you want for full- is looking for educators of Nunavut The Government positions. and term time, indeterminate, need dedicated, passionate and bold Nunavut students in Nunavut provides opportunities to teachers. Teaching it is through classroom instruction inspire students, whether Each school in Nunavut is unique or after-school activities. teachers an integral part of their and diverse, making community. Nunavut is seeking is seeking Nunavut starting teachers 2020! August gov.nu.ca/education 2020! Sachez que les élèves nunavois ont besoin d’enseignantes et d’enseignants dévoués, passionnés et ambitieux! Ensei- gner au Nunavut, c’est l’occasion d’inspirer ses élèves tant en classe que lors d’activités parascolaires. Chaque école nunavoise est unique et diversifiée, ce qui permet à tous les enseignantes et les enseignants de faire partie intégrante de la collectivité. Vous souhaitez faire une différence dans une collectivité du Nunavut? Le gouvernement du Nunavut souhaite embaucher des éducatrices et des éducateurs pour pourvoir des postes permanents à temps plein, ainsi que des contrats de dif- férentes durées. Le Nunavut est à la recherche est Nunavut Le d’enseignants et d’enseignantes pour août 2020! ᓄᓇᕗᒻᒥᒃ ᐃᓕᓐᓂᐊᖅᑏᑦ ᐃᓕᓴᐃᔨᑦᑎᐊᕙᖃᕆᐊᖃᖅᐳᑦ. ᐃᓕᓴᐃᔨᑦᑎᐊᕙᖃᕆᐊᖃᖅᐳᑦ. ᓄᓇᕗᒻᒥᒃ ᐃᓕᓐᓂᐊᖅᑏᑦ ᐱᕕᔅᓴᖃᖅᑎᑦᑎᔪᖅ ᐃᓕᓐᓂᐊᑎᑦᑎᓂᖅ ᓄᓇᕗᒻᒥ ᐃᓪᓗᕈᓯᕐᒥᐅᒐᓗᐊᖅᑲᑦ ᑲᔪᖏᖅᓴᖅᑕᐅᓗᑎ ᐃᓕᓐᓂᐊᖅᑏᑦ, ᐃᓕᓐᓂᐊᕐᓇᐅᔭᕇᖅᑎᓪᓗᒍ ᐃᓕᓐᓂᐊᕕᒻᒥ ᐅᕝᕙᓘᓐᓃᑦ ᓄᓇᕗᒻᒥ ᐊᔾᔨᐅᖏᑦᑐᑦ ᐊᒻᒪ ᐊᑐᓂ ᐃᓕᓐᓂᐊᕐᕖᑦ ᖃᓄᐃᓘᖅᑕᐅᔪᓂᑦ. ᓄᓇᓕᖏᓐᓂᑦ. ᐃᓕᓴᐃᔨᓂᑦ ᐃᓚᒋᔭᐅᓪᓗᐊᑎᑦᑎᔪᑦ ᐊᔾᔨᒌᖏᑦᑐᑦ, ᐊᓯᔾᔩᓂᖃᕈᒪᕖᑦ ᓄᓇᕗᒻᒥ ᓄᓇᓕᒻᒥᑦ? ᓄᓇᕗᑦ ᒐᕙᒪᒃᑯᑦ ᓄᓇᕗᑦ ᒐᕙᒪᒃᑯᑦ ᓄᓇᕗᒻᒥ ᓄᓇᓕᒻᒥᑦ? ᐊᓯᔾᔩᓂᖃᕈᒪᕖᑦ ᐃᓕᓐᓂᐊᑎᑦᑎᔨᓂᑦ ᐃᖅᑲᓇᐃᔭᐃᓇᓂᐊᖅᑐᓂᑦ, ᕿᓂᖅᑐᑦ ᐃᖅᑲᓇᐃᔭᑲᐃᓐᓇᓂᐊᖅᑐᓄᑦ ᐊᒻᒪ ᓇᓗᓇᐃᖅᓯᒪᓪᓚᕆᖏᑦᑐᓂᑦ ᐃᖅᑲᓇᐃᔮᓂᑦ. ᓄᓇᕗᑦ ᕿᓂᖅᑐᑦ ᕿᓂᖅᑐᑦ ᓄᓇᕗᑦ ᐱᒋᐊᕐᓂᖃᕐᓗᓂ ᐃᓕᓴᐃᔨᓂᑦ ᐋᒡᒌᓯ

COURTESY BERT ROSE Let your career take ﬂight

“I enjoy the experiences I’ve gained and the friends I’ve made. I’ve seen co-workers from several departments work their way up from entry-level to director-level, and it’s not often you ﬁnd a job with these kinds of opportunities. Being at Air North, Yukon’s Airline has provided me with many.”

Casey Parker Apprentice Aircraft Maintenance Engineer Former Ramp Agent

From our base in Whitehorse, we’ve ﬂown the northern skies for over 43 years. Our success is thanks to the dedication and eﬀorts of our team—now consisting of more than 300 talented people in the Yukon.

We oﬀer an enjoyable place to work with opportunities to learn and grow—as well as competitive salaries, extended health and dental beneﬁts, group RRSP plans, and extensive travel perks with various carriers.

Visit ﬂyairnorth.com to see the latest career opportunities across all departments. We hope to welcome you aboard as a member of our team.

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