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	Fentie, Dennis
		Fentie, Dennis, businessman, premier of YUKON (b at Edmonton, Alta 8 November 1950).
		Fentie was re-elected in his Watson Lake constituency, and the Yukon Party won 12 of 18 ridings, the New Democratic Party won 5 to become the Official Opposition and Pat Duncan remained the sole Yukon Liberal in the Legislature.
		Fentie was sworn in as Yukon's premier on 30 November 2002.
	www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com /index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0009807 (332 words)

	Yukon Legislative Assembly - Hon. Dennis Fentie - Premier
		Dennis Fentie was first elected to represent Watson Lake in the Yukon Legislative Assembly in the general election of September 30, 1996.
		Fentie was first sworn into cabinet on November 30, 2002 and re-appointed to cabinet on October 28, 2006.
		Fentie was born in Edmonton, Alberta on November 8, 1950, and moved to Watson Lake at the age of 12.
	www.legassembly.gov.yk.ca /mlas/fentie.html (204 words)

	Dennis Fentie \| Mapleleafweb.com
		Dennis Fentie was born in Edmonton, Alberta on November 8, 1950, and moved to Watson Lake (Yukon Territory) in 1962, at the age of 12.
		Fentie was first elected as the Member of the Legislative Assembly for the riding of Watson Lake on September 30, 1996.
		Dennis Fentie lives in Watson Lake and is owner and manager of Francis River Construction Ltd. He is the former director of the Watson Lake Chamber of Commerce.
	www.mapleleafweb.com /voter-almanac/dennis-fentie (263 words)

	Dennis Fentie - Definition, explanation
		Dennis Fentie (born November 8, 1950) is a Canadian politician who is the current Premier of Yukon and leader of the conservative Yukon Party.
		Owner and former manager of Francis River Construction Ltd., Fentie had been an MLA for the Yukon New Democratic Party from 1996 until crossing the floor in May 2002 becoming leader of the Yukon Party one month later.
		A year later, Fentie was under attack when it was revealed that he had been convicted and spent time in prison for heroin trafficking in 1974 when he was 24 years old, a fact he had not previously made public since he had received a pardon.
	www.calsky.com /lexikon/en/txt/d/de/dennis_fentie.php (230 words)

	Klondike Sun Page 2 February 27 2004
		Fentie wanted to “be positive and constructive, to look forward” adding that the mistakes of the past were “water under the bridge” and then apologizing for the unintentional pun.
		Fentie also dismissed the concern expressed by town council when he was asked by Aedes Scheer if the building of a huge capital project like the bridge would prevent other needed capital dollars from coming to the town in the near future.
		Throughout the meeting, Fentie was joined at the table by Klondike MLA Peter Jenkins, who left the floor to his boss but contributed the occasional whispered comment to him.
	klondikesun.com /feb_27_04/0227042.html (1289 words)

	Minister - Department of Environment - Government of Yukon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Dennis Fentie was first elected as the MLA for Watson Lake in the general election of September 30, 1996, and was most recently elected as Premier in the general election of November 4, 2002.
		Fentie was born in Edmonton, Alberta and moved to Watson Lake at the age of 12.
		Fentie has been an active participant in baseball and senior hockey, and is a former minor hockey coach.
	www.environmentyukon.gov.yk.ca /562.html (169 words)

	Official Yukon Party Web Site
		Fentie won the Yukon Party leadership and led the Party to a majority government mandate in the November 2002 election.
		Fentie focused his priorities on getting the Yukon's “fiscal house” in order and has succeeded in utilizing Yukon government budgets to inject a further $200 to $300 million in increased targeted funding annually into the economy as a direct stimulus for the private sector.
		Dennis Fentie was born in Edmonton, Alberta in 1950.
	www.yukonparty.ca /html/members/dennis_fentie.html (590 words)

	Yukon Primier 'Embarrassed' by Edmonton Heroin Conviction (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Fentie said during the territorial election campaign in 2002 that he was arrested in Edmonton in 1975 for drug trafficking.
		Fentie was 24 when he was arrested along with seven others.
		Fentie's admission in October 2002 about the conviction was the first time he spoke publicly about it although he had been an MLA for six years at that point.
	news.arcticnews.net /archive/aa_anc031201/anc4.htm (306 words)

	Northern Pipeline Projects
		DENNIS FENTIE was elected to the Yukon's legislative assembly in 1996 as a member of the NDP.
		But with the territory's economy stagnating, Fentie, who owned his own construction company, decided to capitalize on the growing unpopularity of the ruling NDP and defected to the pro-development Yukon Party in May 2002.
		Fentie, 52, who moved from Edmonton to the Yukon with his mother when he was 12, spoke with Maclean's National Business Correspondent Katherine Macklem about the personal problems he has overcome and his plans to revitalize the Yukon's economy.
	www.northernpipelineprojects.com /news-2003-09-27-mac.html (560 words)

	Fentie promises action on controversial lodge
		Yukon Premier Dennis Fentie is defending his government's approach to a lodge built in the backcountry over the summer.
		Fentie told the legislature Thursday the government is waiting for the owners to provide documents proving they had the right to build the lodge on the banks of the Bonnet Plume River in central Yukon.
		Fentie did not say when the government expects to hear from the outfitting company or whether it has been given a deadline.
	www.cbc.ca /canada/north/story/2006/12/01/lodge-debate.html (1424 words)

	Leave Now, Premier Tells Pushers
		Fentie, meawhile, said he'd prefer to see Whitehorse residents voice their concerns to the proper authorities, such as the RCMP, and take advantage of the new safer communities legislation.
		Fentie said the voices of the people taking action in the community have been heard by the premier's office and that government is taking the problem very seriously.
		We're going to continue to work on this approach together." Fentie's comments come on the back of action taken by an unnamed, and loosely organized, group of people who targeted city drug dealers last week, kicking them out of bars and telling them to leave Whitehorse.
	www.mapinc.org /drugnews/v06/n969/a03.html?397 (790 words)

	Klondike Sun Page 2 February 27 2004
		Fentie wanted to “be positive and constructive, to look forward” adding that the mistakes of the past were “water under the bridge” and then apologizing for the unintentional pun.
		Fentie said the problem was solved and that unpaid loans would be turned over to a collection agency.
		Fentie also dismissed the concern expressed by town council when he was asked by Aedes Scheer if the building of a huge capital project like the bridge would prevent other needed capital dollars from coming to the town in the near future.
	www.klondikesun.com /feb_27_04/0227042.html (1289 words)

	Whitehorse Star Online
		Fentie says although that kind of voter turnout is low and rather disappointing, it could be good news for the Yukon Party.
		Fentie says the numbers in the latest polls aren’t that different from what they were showing leading into the November 2002 election.
		Always the politician, Fentie says his biggest disappointment of 2005 isn’t that the Dawson City bridge didn’t get built or that the party lost the byelection or that initiatives such as the Children’s Act review or the WCB regulations review are behind schedule.
	www.whitehorsestar.com /auth.php?r=40795 (1839 words)

	Dawson City Citizen's Forum - Fentie loses his cool (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Fentie's interview on CBC today should contact CBC Whitehorse and put in a complaint or call Talk Back line which excepts collect calls 24/7' at 1-867-668-8460.
		Fentie - problem with this interview is that he did not disclose the type of drug he was trafficking that cause him to spend time in the Pen!
		Fentie was defending his doctor friend, not his riding or the First Nation that lives there.
	www.cityofdawson.com /forum/board_entry.php?id=853 (2738 words)

	2. Fentie watching for NWT resource deal
		Fentie joined all of Canada’s premiers in Ottawa over the weekend to meet with Harper.
		Fentie said he also made sure the prime minister is aware of how important land claims are in the Yukon and the need to advance them, address “unfinished business” and conclude the nine-year review.
		Fentie said the conversation with Harper was very candid, though informal.
	www.permafrostmedia.ca /?q=node/285/print (806 words)

	Medbroadcast Home : News
		Fentie will also push Martin on the need for federal investment in northern economic development, which he said will reduce the North's long-running dependence on the southern taxpayer.
		Fentie said he expects Martin to solicit his views on issues such as Canadian sovereignty in the Arctic and responsible economic development.
		Fentie said his government is encouraging more front-end aboriginal involvement in the projects.
	www.medbroadcast.com /health_news_details.asp?news_channel_id=1000&news_id=4556 (545 words)

	Canadian prime minister leaning toward northern railway study [Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Fentie talked to Martin about Canada responding to appeals by the United States to work together on a feasibility study to look at building the rail line.
		At the Juneau conference, Fentie and other supporters of the railway, like Alaska Gov. Frank Murkowski, said the next step would be to get Ottawa to agree to take part in the study.
		Fentie said there seems to be a change in Ottawa's position.
	www.ble.org /pr/news/pf_headline.asp?id=9379 (373 words)

	Alaska Journal of Commerce: Yukon premier stresses common links in Anchorage visit 03/22/04
		A trade mission of high-ranking Canadian government officials and Native business leaders is ready to rock and roll after a visit to Anchorage this month - as in hard rock mining, rolling a natural gas pipeline and a lot more tourists going up and down the Alaska Highway.
		The group was led by Dennis Fentie, premier of the Yukon Territory, who gave the keynote speech at a World Trade Center Alaska luncheon March 11 at the Anchorage Hilton Hotel.
		Fentie said his administration also wholeheartedly supports doing feasibility studies to examine the possibility of a railroad link from Alaska to Canada.
	www.alaskajournal.com /stories/032204/loc_20040322014.shtml (682 words)

	CBC.ca \| Yukon Votes 2006 \| Parties and Leaders \| Dennis Fentie
		Fentie was first elected as the MLA for his hometown riding of Watson Lake in 1996 under the NDP banner.
		When Fentie took power in 2002, his message and his mission seemed clear: "The Number One issue we heard on the doorsteps was to fix the economy," he said on his first day in office.
		Dennis Fentie hopes voters will give his party credit for the booming economy.
	www.cbc.ca /yukonvotes2006/parties/fentie.html (697 words)

	Dennis Fentie News for October 2007 - Topix
		The Yukon government was quizzed on everything from trade agreements to social issues Tuesday night as Premier Dennis Fentie wrapped up his final community tour in the territory's capital.
		A letter from Tourism and Culture Minister Elaine Taylor, on behalf of Premier Dennis Fentie, was sent to the Legislative Assembly Office this...
		Yukon Premier Dennis Fentie and three First Nations leaders agreed to work together on a new plan for the Porcupine caribou herd on Tuesday, easing a dispute over recently changed hunting rules along the...
	www.topix.net /ca/dennis-fentie/2007/10 (1037 words)

	Yukon Registered Nurses Association.
		Premier Fentie replied on January 17th, 2006 with the letter which can be viewed here.
		The following letter was sent to Premier Dennis Fentie in response to a statement attributed to him in the November 23, 2005 Yukon News article entitled Doctors Grill Fentie.
		Fentie is quoted as saying: “The problem is especially evident in remote communities, where the state of health care is ’deplorable‘ for First Nation Yukoners, said Fentie.”
	www.yrna.ca /issues/issues.html (2198 words)

	Dennis Fentie - 2003 Western Premiers' Conference
		He was sworn into Cabinet on November 30, 2002.
		Fentie won the Yukon Party leadership in June 2002.
		Fentie has served as a member of the Standing Committee on Rules, Elections and Privileges, as Government House Leader, and Official Opposition House Leader.
	www.protocol.gov.bc.ca /wpc2003/DFentie.htm (212 words)

	CBC reports, editorializes and defends itself all in the same story. - cbcwatch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Dennis Fentie made the comments about Nancy Thomson, the noon show host in the territory, two days after storming out of an interview with her.
		Fentie had come to CBC studios Tuesday to be interviewed on his reaction to Paul Martin's comments from Brazil on the territories eventually becoming promises.
		At the end of an interview on that subject, Thomson began to ask Fentie questions about the problem of drug use in Watson Lake, a community of 1,700 southeast of Whitehorse, and the premier's home riding.
	www.cbcwatch.ca /?q=node/view/725 (676 words)

	TrendLines, the web's first graph blog (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		One for Evalina, fired from the Yukon Education Dept 'cuz this Blog is syndicated to one of her websites, www.theYukon.tv and of course we are all awaiting the disposition of SignGate, the alleged Complaint and Grievance by both co-workers and a Cabinet Office administrator involving alleged inappropriate sexual activity by the Premier.
		That situation is also said to have precipitated Dennis Fentie's early Election call in September after indicating to Todd Hardy that the Election call would accommodate his emergency medivac and cancer treatment in Vancouver.
		In short, an endorsement of Fentie and the YP would indicate that many Yukoners have sold their soul as far as ethics and morals in exchange for the prospect of an unbroken continuity of paycheques and contracts.
	theyukon.tv /free/trendlines/index.htm (10595 words)

	SitNews - Murkowski, Fentie Agree to MOU to Initiate Rail Study
		SitNews - Murkowski, Fentie Agree to MOU to Initiate Rail Study
		Murkowski, Fentie Agree to MOU to Initiate Rail Study
		Juneau, Alaska - Governor Frank H. Murkowski today signed a memorandum of understanding with Yukon Premier Dennis Fentie to begin a feasibility study on a proposed Alaska-Canada Rail corridor connection.
	www.sitnews.us /0405news/042505/042505_rail_study.html (282 words)

	The Voice Magazine - an Athabasca University Student Publication
		On that day, they re-elected Dennis Fentie, leader of the Yukon Party.
		Dennis Fentie has outlined four basic areas that his party has committed to in the official policy.
		Fentie hopes that, by adhering to these principles, Yukon will stay strong and independent, with citizens able to find jobs, homes and family support without leaving the area.
	www.voicemagazine.org /articles/eventdisplay.php?ART=5027 (489 words)

	[No title]
		Le Yukon Party, mené par le chef Dennis Fentie, a été reporté au pouvoir pour un deuxième mandat mardi.
		Dennis Fentie et ses troupes ont remporté 40 % des votes, comparativement à 35 % pour les libéraux et 23 % pour les néo-démocrates.
		Le premier ministre Dennis Fentie a remercié les Yukonnais d'avoir réélu le Yukon Party comme gouvernement majoritaire.
	www.radio-canada.ca /nouvelles/regional/modele.asp?page=/regions/colombie-britannique/2006/10/10/004-yukon_elec_jour_vote.shtml (733 words)

	Yukoners decided not time for change: Fentie
		Yukon Party Leader Dennis Fentie said it was a difficult race but voters heard his party's message to stay the course.
		"I think it's because we were bucking what's been a long-standing trend in the Yukon where Yukoners have exercised their view on government by consistently voting governments out," Fentie said Tuesday night.
		Since Fentie's government came to power in 2002, the territory's economy has taken off in part because of money from Ottawa and rising commodity prices.
	www.cbc.ca /canada/yukonvotes2006/story/2006/10/11/yv-majority.html (1301 words)

	Houstonvoice.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The government will not appeal a court ruling that allows gay couples to marry, Yukon Territory Premier Dennis Fentie said last week.
		In the three provinces where gay marriage is permitted — British Columbia, Ontario and Quebec — Canada’s federal government has decided not to appeal the decisions.
		Fentie said Ottawa should address the gay marriage issue.
	www.houstonvoice.com /2004/7-23/news/worldnews/wibs.cfm (960 words)

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