Whitehorse Daily Star

March 25, 2013

• A compromise should have been sought Re: Rick Tone's letter in the March 22 edition of the Whitehorse Star.
• Children need schools they can be safe in So isn't it great that we are giving the local and national media fodder, and in all of this we are forgetting exactly what we need to focus on?
• Thanks for taking a strong, correct stand Ed. note: this is an open letter to Premier Darrell Pasloski.
• Bishop should visit the principal's office Re. the sexual orientation policy of Vanier Catholic Secondary School.
• The premier has reached the height of hypocrisy The latest Yukon budget is evidence of a tired, old government that is out of ideas.

March 22, 2013

• This must be brought to public attention I read with great interest the article by Dawn Kostelnik, "Make no mistake: the guinea pigs are getting sick” (Star, March 8).
• Silence does not equal public indifference Ed. note: this is an open letter to Premier Darrell Pasloski and Energy, Mines and Resources Minister Brad Cathers.
• The idea is big, but the result tiny I was excited to see the subtitle for the 2013 Northern Housing Conference in Whitehorse as "Housing outside the box”.
• Please do your job, minister Kent! Ed. note: this is a letter to Education Minister Scott Kent.
• Do not become what you profess to hate Re. the Vanier Catholic Secondary School policy.

March 21, 2013

• People are scratching their heads at this bungling Since the first announcement many years ago, the saga of replacing the aging F.H. Collins Secondary School has been characterized by broken promises, delays, confusion, setbacks and flip-flops.
• The negative but truthful facts about fracking Do Yukoners want liquefied natural gas (LNG) and fracking Yukon that goes with it?

March 20, 2013

• Thanks for helping grow girl greatness Each year on Feb. 22, Girl Guides and Girl Scouts around the world celebrate World Thinking Day.
• This is a commonly applied practice As the Librarian and Archivist of Canada, I would like to respond to the letter published Monday in your paper regarding his institution's new Code of Conduct.
• This policy doesn't meet our expectations Ed. note: this is an open letter to the Most Rev. Gary M. Gordon of the Catholic Episcopal Corp. of Whitehorse.
• My long wait drags on .... It's absolutely disgraceful how long it takes to get nowhere when you complain against the RCMP.

March 19, 2013

• The claims' selling price needs closer scrutiny This is a letter in response to the article appearing in Monday's Whitehorse Star reporting on the press release of the Yukon Conservation Society dated March 15, concerning mineral claim valuation in the Peel region.
• I speak out on these issues because I care Ed. note: this is an open letter to Bruce McLennan, the chair of the Yukon Utilities Board, Piers McDonald, the chair of the Yukon Energy Corp., and Premier Darrell Pasloski.
• All the greed is astonishing! This is an open letter to Yukon residents born here and transplants such as me (over 60 years ago).

March 18, 2013

• This muzzling of our professionals is outrageous Ed. note: this is a letter to Yukon MP Ryan Leef.
• Any talk of a ‘great victory' insults us all On May 9, 2012, Yukon MP Ryan Leef proclaimed that the Parks Canada cuts "wouldn't affect the tourism industry,” and that anyone who claimed otherwise was "fear-mongering.”
• Archaic intolerance, discrimination are shameful There is an old proverb that says "All the flowers of all the tomorrows are in the seeds of today.”