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January 17, 2024
- Is this a waste of time? (Comment) The two sides have had their day in court – one day each, actually.
January 15, 2024
- 2024: the year it gets (really) hot! (Comment) 2023 was the hottest in the past 10,000 years – but everybody agrees that 2024 will be even hotter.
January 12, 2024
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The seemingly-endless wait for an ice bridge (Uffish Thoughts) We’re having another of those years when it does not look like there will be a normal ice bridge between Dawson and the residents who live in West Dawson and Sunnydale, across the Yukon River.
January 10, 2024
- Shall we get used to mining on the moon? What could be so rare and valuable that it would be worth going all the way to the moon to get some?
January 8, 2024
- Netanyahu is holding Israel and Biden hostage Israel is withdrawing some troops from Gaza, because the reservists who were called up for the fighting amount to 10 to 15 per cent of the country’s workforce – and the economy is showing the strain.
January 5, 2024
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A sobering New Year’s thought for all (Comment) In 2022, my long-time friend and Whitehorse scribe, John Firth, sent me a book entitled War – **How Conflict Shaped Us,** by acclaimed Canadian historian and author Margaret MacMillan.
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Understanding solar in the Yukon (Comment) Starting by stating the obvious, the Yukon Microgeneration Program was foundational to Solvest.