Whitehorse Daily Star

February 12, 2014

• Air North shines at supporting cross country skiing! On behalf of the Whitehorse Cross Country Ski Club and Cross Country Yukon (CCY), we would like to congratulate Air North, Yukon's Airline, for its support of cross-country skiing in the Yukon.
• Your kind encouragement was greatly appreciated Ed. note: this is a letter to Premier Darrell Pasloski.
• Are fossil fuels part of Flaherty's family? Re. the federal budget, 2014.
• Show courage and dignity yourself, Mr. Premier Ed. note: this is an open letter to Premier Darrell Pasloski.

February 11, 2014

• Priest has had an impact on many Yukoners Mon ami is leaving!

February 10, 2014

• YP has shown stunning disrespect for the electorate Recently, I've been contemplating the potential danger of the Yukon Party's imposition of their own plan for the Peel over the democratically consulted final recommended plan of the commission, to undermine and weaken civil society.

February 7, 2014

• Clarification Whitehorse resident Brenda Weaver advises that her Feb. 4 letter, which criticized the city bylaw department's surveillance of downtown parking habits,
• Land-based memories of the Peel River area Land-based living memories collect along the Peel River as do the wild waters of the Snake, Bonnet Plume, Wind, Hart, Blackstone, Ogilvie and Rat Rivers and stir stories in Tetlit Gwitchin fish camps.
• All the bloodshed has been heartbreaking To be frank, the taking of land from the Arabs in 1947/48 and creating a separate Jewish state was a major mistake in the first place.
• You aren't listening to your constituents Ed. note: this is a letter to Premier Darrell Pasloski and Community Services Minister Brad Cathers.
• It's time to clear the air about the state of the air Firemen/women in Whitehorse could be more useful in wintertime offering a lifesaving service to homeowners and businesses.
• We couldn't trust mining; we can't trust fracking CBC radio 6:00 news on Feb. 3 headlines: "Researchers from University of Toronto are reporting that emissions from the oil sands in Alberta are dangerously underestimated in the soil and water.
• Regulators are in a pathetic state of catch-up This is an open letter to Stephen Mills of the Yukon Environmental and Socio-economic Assessment Board (YESAB) and Piers McDonald, Yukon Energy's (YEC's) board chair.
• It's high time these flights took off Re: Air North Yellowknife/Ottawa service (Star, Feb. 6, 7).
• This flawed plan has been correctly rejected As a long-time Yukon prospector/geologist, I was very pleased to see the Yukon government reject the unbalanced Recommended Peel Watershed Regional Land Use Plan.

February 6, 2014

• Let's start really banking on the poor Bank loans are often a necessary evil for anyone climbing the ladder to success.
• Malaria suckered by sucking in the suckers Around the world, mosquitoes threaten life with encephalitis, malaria, West Nile disease and other deadly pathogens.
• Such a stance is about as selfish as it can get Many Yukoners I know or know of, the kind who migrated here, of course, will tell you that they came here because of the pristine wilderness they had heard of and which they expected to encounter and enjoy here.

February 5, 2014

• You have indeed shown your attitude toward veterans Ed. note: this is an open letter to Yukon MP Ryan Leef.
• New Peel plan ‘highly irresponsible, short-sighted' Ed. note: this is a letter to Premier Darrell Pasloski.
• Does YTG's left hand know what the right is doing? The Yukon Party may just abandon the mining industries as untenable for now, but how about that fracking? It could be a good thing after all.