Whitehorse Daily Star

March 17, 2016

• The obsession to blame government achieves nothing Some political leaders’ fault and blame game never ends!
• Assassination needs an independent investigation Berta Caceres of the Lenca people, whose traditional territory is in Honduras, was a visionary indigenous, community and environmental leader, and the 2015 winner of the prestigious international Goldman Environmental Prize.

March 16, 2016

• Questions about the transmission line project This is an open letter to Andrew Hall, president and CEO, Yukon Energy, regarding the proposed Stewart-Keno transmission project.
• Their sense of moral superiority borders on contempt As an avid news watcher,
• Congratulations on the stance you took! Thank you to Martin Lehner of Orange Technology for standing up to Northwestel (Star, March 9).
• Electric vehicle is on the right road Re. Yukon government fighting climate change by funding study on electric cars in the North (Star, March 15).
• The YP supports the southern mining industry In a next-to-last-ditch effort to retain power in the legislature, Premier Darrell Pasloski has asked Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to renew the Canadian Mineral Exploration Tax Credit (Star, March 10).

March 14, 2016

• Drivers need more options to pay Subject: When will the City of Whitehorse create more options to pay for parking time?

March 11, 2016

• Life without winter is unthinkable! Ed. note: this is an open letter to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
• Dog owners have a duty This is for dog walkers.
• Didn’t we learn anything from Faro? I appreciate the Yukon Environmental and Socio-economic Assessment Board (YESAB) sending the Casino mine project back for further review (Star, Feb. 18); at times, I’ve thought YESAB went too easy on assessing projects.
• Our critics offer fear-mongering disguised as policy The Yukon Party has always put jobs and the economy at the front of its agenda – something the opposition has often criticized.

March 10, 2016

• Reviewing four years of political plays, misplays The Yukon’s governing party has had lots of great plays and some misplays.

March 9, 2016

• Pasloski’s ‘job creation’ helps lawyers the most As Yukon lurches into month three of the 2016 territorial election year, a reckoning with Yukon Party policy under the direction of Premier Darrell Pasloski is in order.
• The truth about criminals, compensation and Canada Opening the public purse to compensate First Nations people and their governments is now a proven method of treating their long-festering wounds.