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May 30, 2014
- I have finally resolved this issue! I once saw a TV show about hunters in Africa.
- Clara has left, but let's continue the conversation I would like to take this opportunity to thank the people of Dawson City and Whitehorse for making Clara Hughes feel so welcome when she and the Clara's Big Ride team visited the territory.
- What of the hiking, granola-munching transients? Is Trails Only Yukon Association (TOYA) promoting a new YTG department?
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Remembering my friend, Teresa (Pearson) Schunert Teresa was wild and woolly, bubbling with mischief and always prepared to do something fun on a moment's notice.
- What will be the conversation's start? Re. ATV management.
- Bike to work – missed connections Thank you to the father and daughter cyclists, riding to work and school one morning this week.
- Roadside hunting is a prehistoric cop-out Re: "At my age, hunting along a road appeals to me” (Star letters, May 6).
- ‘Residents be damned' is the ignorant attitude at city hall Hello, Mayor Dan Curtis and city councillors.
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Physician modelled respect and dignity for victims Re: Dr. Anne Williams (Star, May 23).
May 29, 2014
- Direct current solar panels give 100 per cent This is in rebuttal to commentator CabComms' comment of May 7 wherein you stated:
May 28, 2014
- YTG bureaucrats aren't listening Ed. note: this is a letter to Brad Cathers, the minister responsible for the Yukon Housing Corp.
- A healthy attitude starts when you're young Dear Whitehorse Boys and Girls Club:
- Yukon Energy board needs to heed Dr. Jaccard's wisdom I and many other Yukoners were in the legislature all yesterday morning listening to Dr. Mark Jaccard testify before the fracking committee.
- What is the Trails Only Yukon Association's agenda? ( Comment ) TOYA released its 10 Common Beliefs document at a press conference last Wednesday (Star, May 22).
May 27, 2014
- Improvements to Tagish are appreciated Ed. note: this is a letter to Community Services Minister Brad Cathers.
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Thanks for a great year at Swan Haven All good things must come to an end.
- PM's inquiry opposition is ill-considered, short-sighted Indigenous women and girls are dramatically more likely to be victims of homicides and to go missing in Canada.
- These doctors are taking a political position Frackfree Yukon has deep concerns about the doctors and presenters invited for the public hearings being held today and Wednesday in the legislative assembly.
May 26, 2014
- Airport parking lot rules need to be changed There is a lot of discussion over how the airport parking works.
- Police and people need more time together RCMP members who (might) carry personal cameras in an effort to establish accountability will become footage only the police view, and not available to "involved” persons.
- Minister should not be taking the credit Re: the "Eighty thousand kilometres of land protected” column in the May 23 edition of the Star by Environment Minister Currie Dixon.
May 23, 2014
- Hansard wrongly reported the word ‘by' Ed. note: Yukon MP Ryan Leef made these remarks recently in the House of Commons.
- It makes no sense to me either! So. We have our fresh-painted, exciting new liquefied gas generator and the approval of the governing bodies (Star, May 15). Done deal.
- ‘Fracking go, but go slow' presentations anticipated "Go slow”, following the "social licence”, has become the latest buzzword of tricky attempts to introduce hydraulic fracturing to Yukon and other parts of Canada.
- Others share my concerns, shock and disbelief Ed. note: this is a letter to Premier Darrell Pasloski.
- Yukoners should be grateful for their nurses! I had an experience I'd like to share with my fellow Yukoners.
- Can they pull another rabbit out of the hat? Will Greg Komaromi use his new appointment (Star, May 20) to help develop the Peel?