Whitehorse Daily Star: Letters Archive

Letters Archive

You should hang your heads in shame! This is an open letter to the mayor, the bylaw department, RCMP and City management.
Living at the end of the line in illness Dear neighbours and Yukon friends: As Canadians, we have ties to England through the Hudson Bay men who lived life on the line in the North and throughout Canada many long years ago.
Fire starters: do you see the danger? We live in the Mary Lake/Cowley Creek area. Over the weekend of July 29-30, there were two fires started within a mile of each other, one in the Fireweed Park and one on Salmon Trail and Dolly Varden (the charred remains are still there).

Cops round them up; courts let them go 'Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.' Edmund Burke
This city has done me proud Ed. note: this is a letter from a co-organizer of last Saturday's anti-drug rally at Rotary Peace Park who wants to remain anonymous for reasons of personal safety.
Maybe we should rethink our laws on marijuana use There have been a couple of articles published in the past couple of months about the negative effects of marijuana use and how it should be banned completely.

Promote your ideas through politics! Re: 'The court's power must be pruned', Whitehorse Star letters, Aug. 2. Good Gawd, Cyril Aucoin!
Don't allow women to keep dying In a recent article, Wendy Cukier claimed the long gun registry reduced domestic violence.
They're fighting for a belief There are many opinions about reasons for the war between the Jews of Israel and the Hezbollah.

Israelis know what is at stake here Gwynne Dyer's column regarding Israel and Hezbollah (Star, Aug. 1) was a rather naive compilation of reports from the various newspapers, such as the New York Times, CBS, NBC, CNN, NBC and perhaps the Globe, all of which seem to think we can fight terror with words.
Hats off to these two city councillors Lori Austin is lucky indeed. We agree with this comment of city councillor Dave Austin, who helped Lori pass first reading on her rezoning application for a day care centre, a business without a residence, in our Old Town residential neighbourhood.
The court's powers must be pruned This letter is overdue.

I was abused, but was never compensated I would really like to know what the Indian people want.

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