Whitehorse Daily Star: Letters Archive

Letters Archive

Downplaying the increase is an insult to taxpayers Ed. note: this is an open letter to Mayor Dan Curtis and city council.

Don’t board the city’s bus ride to failure The city manager wants to purchase two new buses for over a million dollars.
Well done, Sophie Grégoire-Trudeau! Kudos to Sophie Grégoire-Trudeau, for being such a positive role model for Canadian women, and not because of what she was wearing on the Trudeaus’ trip to Washington!
Let’s safeguard our water We are so fortunate here in the Yukon to have what seems to be an endless supply of cool, clean water.
I was not at the meeting May I, through your letters pages, respond personally to the attacks made upon my reputation by a Mr. Jon Rudolph in a paid advertisement attributed to him which appeared in the Whitehorse Star of Friday, March 18?
The lonely voice of dissension All of the legitimate mining properties of merit in Yukon are closed, about to close, scaled-back, or in limbo with perpetual permitting and extortion.
Leave the basin’s ‘bounty’ in the ground, Mr. Kent I read with interest the articles on the Liard Basin’s so-called bounty of natural gas (Star, March 16, 18).

Ill-conceived projects will destroy the Yukon The recent criticism of the Yukon Environmental and Socio-economic Assessment Board (YESAB) by Northern Cross, the Yukon Chamber of Commerce, the Yukon Chamber of Mines and Economic Development Minister Stacey Hassard demands a response.
Esteemed thanks for all the so-called ‘savings’ The CBC program The Consumer used to begin with Stomping Tom Connors belting out his song of the same name, one line of which went, “We”ll save a lot of money spending money we don’t got.”
The new gag economy is falling into place “Gag” is not a word, according to my computer.
What tax bracket was this measure intended for? Ed. note: this is an open letter to Yukon MP Larry Bagnell.

Drilling for the truth in the YP’s Beaufort priorities Ed. note: the Yukon NDP official Opposition released this statement Monday.
We have to strike the right balance here “Mining sustains us.”
On waste diversion, the Yukon Party has failed badly As Environment critic for the Yukon NDP official Opposition,

We’re witnessing a political brain freeze! The other day,
Our children’s children deserve clean water Living in the Yukon has been blessing, considering we have clean drinking water.
Something to ponder on World Water Day It is World Water Day on March 22.

YESAB casts its spotlight on all Yukon placer mines In the Slinky mine fracas between Mr. Rodney Adams of Whitehorse and Mr. Darryl Carey of Dawson City,
Major energy efficiency retrofit is creating jobs As many of you will have noticed, the Government of Yukon’s main administration building on Second Avenue in Whitehorse is looking more like something out of a sci-fi movie these days than the home of offices and Yukon’s Legislative Assembly.
Intriguing political times are straddling the border This is the most interesting U.S. election in recent memory, even more so than the election of Obama as America’s first black president.
Know the laws on snowmobiling in these areas A new law in British Columbia, the BC ORV Act and Regulations, became effective on Nov. 1, 2015.
Canada needs U.S.-style term limits Canada should change its election laws to disallow a prime minister from staying in office more than 10 years.
The YESAB review: who wasted whose time? We are reacting to the flurry of criticisms of the Yukon Economic and Socio-economic Assessment Board’s (YESAB’s) work on two major resource development projects:

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