Whitehorse Daily Star

September 21, 2012

• Blackout demonstrated need for AM signal CBC Whitehorse: I wish to send kudos to your Whitehorse staff and for the people who came forward Thursday
• I'll send these clients to your office, Mr. Leef Ed. note: this is a letter to Yukon MP Ryan Leef.
• Kudos to the community's response The Yukon NDP official Opposition acknowledges and celebrates the Yukon community response to the communications blackout that occurred in the early-morning hours of Sept. 20.
• Your letter did not reflect my qualifications Ed. note: this is a letter to Whitehorse resident Conal Slobodin, whose letter was published Sept. 7.

September 19, 2012

• Clients need after-treatment support I am writing to correct some erroneous information printed about me in Monday's issue of the Whitehorse Star.
• Sometimes, laws require some changes I wanted to thank your newspaper for covering the controversy surrounding the recent Brad Pattison event (Star, Sept. 17).

September 18, 2012

• Be very proud for continuing to give Yukoners: what can I say? You've done it again.
• Look where bilingualism has taken this country! Over 40 years ago, the late Pierre Elliott Trudeau, in an attempt to appease voters in Quebec, imposed official bilingualism on Canadians.

September 17, 2012

• We can't base public policy on nonsense Re. "There are too many unknowns to permit fracking” , the Yukon New Democrats' submission to the Yukon Environmental Socio-economic Assessment Board (YESAB), Star, Sept. 11.
• Board has extended the deadline If you haven't heard yet,
• You want sunshine? Take a walk! I'm writing to the Sunshine Chorus about their latest refrain: "You can't build it; it blocks my sun.”
• The focus should be on practising sustainability This letter is in direct response to critics who are opposed to my proposed sustainable town home development on Hillcrest Drive within the steelox section of Hillcrest (Star. Sept. 5, 12, 14).

September 14, 2012

• Our partnership will addresses pet and community safety Our partnership will addresses pet and community safety
• Carriers are delivering a five-star experience I gotta say the young gentlemen (I believe brothers) who deliver the Whitehorse Star daily to our house on Stope Way in Copper Ridge are true professionals.
• Are our groundwater and environment safe? Are our groundwater and environment safe?
• Don't let this board refuse to be accountable to us! My name is Jordi Mikeli-Jones, and I am an animal lover!

September 12, 2012

• How does ‘humane' apply to these training tactics? I agree with Shelley Cuthbert of the Humane Society Yukon that Brad Pattison is indeed very good at what he does; i.e. at the use of extremely aggressive dog training methods that inflict fear and terror in the animals subjected to them.
• Kent, Tories are attacking small business Conservative Environment Minister Peter Kent's claim that businesses near national parks and historic sites are getting a "free ride” is ludicrous.'
• ‘Exempting' us from CRA closures isn't doable There has been a lot of talk regarding the closure of the Canada Revenue Agency's (CRA's) counter service here in Whitehorse (Star, Sept. 7).
• Don't subject your dog to this technique I recently saw some pictures posted on the Humane Society Yukon's Facebook page (Mae Bachur Animal Shelter) of a trainer, Brad Pattison, forcing a dog by its leash to jump over a large wooden parking barrier.
• Politicians are not listening to their constituents First, an introduction.