Whitehorse Daily Star

May 27, 2016

• Don’t worry: the fiscal sky isn’t falling in on us You have a non-governing party claiming last month that the Yukon Party government has overspent by a collective $675 million since the early 2000s.
• Prospectors: where is all the easy gold in Yukon? You’re a big fan of Gold Rush Alaska or Yukon Gold on TV, so you’re off to the gold show in Dawson City.
• Lifting selfishness and cruelty to a new level Re: “Grolar or pizzly? Experts say rare grizzly-polar bear hybrid shot in Nunavut.” – CBC news, May 18.
• Driving the final nail into our economic coffin I congratulate Darcy Grossinger for his letter to the editor in the May 16 edition.

May 26, 2016

• There’s a hole in the YESAB, dear premier Sung to the tune of There’s a hole in the bucket, everybody sing along:

May 24, 2016

• No one seems to be responding to this crisis I read an article about the Ross River situation that resonated very deeply with me.
• Here are ways to have your items reused Since the City of Whitehorse closed its free store in April,
• I ask, where have all our leaders gone? Sung to the Peter, Paul and Mary tune of Where have all the flowers gone?

May 20, 2016

• We need a public meeting on this whopping project The City of Whitehorse infrastructure planning is changing every day.
• All tanning bed salons should be taxed Melanoma is a skin cancer that is growing at an epidemic rate, faster than any other cancer.
• Showing our destructive streak yet again You know, it’s just sickening.

May 19, 2016

• No kidding – gold mining is always risky Where did the Judas Creek placer mining proposal go wrong with First Nations, the Yukon Environmental and Socio-economic Assessment Board, YTG and the water board (Yukon’s anti-mining people)?

May 18, 2016

• This government spending is outrageous! The Yukon government is continuing to plan ways to develop the oil and gas resources in the territory.
• We couldn’t have done it without your help Subject: Yukoners’ Cancer Care Fund – Speaker’s Reception.
• Ridiculous Red Chamber brings us another joke Re: the story “Senate committee can’t study Senate ethics because it can’t legally pick any members for committee”, by Marie-Danielle Smith, May 17, in several Canadian newspapers.
• Front yard storage bylaw is utterly dysfunctional I have written municipal bylaw officials on many different types of needs. This bylaw is dysfunctional!