Whitehorse Daily Star

February 9, 2016

• Dissidents’ unhappiness should be noted As reported in last Thursday’s Star, many Kaska members are curious to know why Premier Darrell Pasloski is paying the Kaska more than $3 million without having the membership vote on such an agreement and without having any commitments from their negotiator that any agreement would be finalized.

February 8, 2016

• LNG blowout ‘double-nukes’ Aliso Canyon Just when you thought it was safe to go outside in Whitehorse, Yukon …
• ‘Why do the bad men hate us, Daddy?’ Gwynne Dyer is right about terrorism in the 21st century.

February 5, 2016

• Yukon Party has done nothing about drug prices When Canada’s health ministers met in Vancouver last month, they all agreed that there is work to do to make prescription drugs more affordable.
• Can we improve on the department’s name? Canada’s Syrian refugee plan has raised concerns of “shortcuts”, a U.S. Senate homeland security committee heard this week.
• Don’t buy into the Quest’s propaganda mush! The annual exploitation of dogs used in the Yukon Quest is on the run.
• YP opens the cookie jar before the Bahamas cruise YP opens the cookie jar before the Bahamas cruise

February 4, 2016

• How to make the North much more sustainable Canada funds a system to facilitate co-ordination in infrastructure development:

February 3, 2016

• Hearing stands as a testament beacon of hope Here is the final argument of the review of Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain pipeline plan to ship tarsands bitumen to Vancouver to load onto ocean-going oil sludge (bitumen) tankers for refinement somewhere else.
• Global tax changes are badly needed! At the recent World Economic Forum, Oxfam revealed that the concentration of wealth is such that the world’s 62 richest people own as much as the poorest half of humanity.
• Times are changing in the provinces The province of Nova Scotia brought down its budget Tuesday and will be reducing its management staff by 30 per cent to get its operations in line with reality and better service – value for money to taxpayers, as it is defined.

February 2, 2016

• Landmark deal is excellent news Re: landmark deal protects huge swath of central B.C. coast from logging.
• Post-Tories, we can finally make progress Under the last 10 years of Conservative rule, Canada’s share of global aid became the lowest of all industrialized nations.
• How will you rebuild confidence in the system? This is an open letter to Premier Darrell Pasloski in regards to his column in last Friday’s Whitehorse Star, “Planning for the future, taking action now”.