Whitehorse Daily Star

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June 23, 2006

June 22, 2006

June 21, 2006

June 20, 2006

  • Why must greed and avarice rule? From my perspective, Carole Bookless is a brave lady.
  • Bet you didn't know! So you think you are one of those intellectual types and know everything there is to know?
  • These single parents didn't deserve this Your article of June 16, 2006, titled 'Lot bought for $48,819 is going for $84,900' is unbelievably unfair to two working single parents in Whitehorse.
  • Residents have roused a sleeping giant In my entire 40-year career in business and watching politics all over the world, I have never seen the likes of the recent letter from city council about voting on the referendum on Bylaw 2006-11.
  • Gesture was much appreciated I would like to thank Geraldine Kotchea and her staff at the Liard Hot Springs Lodge (which is operated by the first nations) for their kindness in returning my purse to me at Contact Creek.
  • Every lot was once green space While the green space bylaw debate intensifies, polarity more than clarity seems to be the result.

June 19, 2006

  • Information letter is an absolute joke' I believe all of us, including the press, have missed the main point of the petition for the referendum.
  • We support the green space bylaw A vivid example of why it has become necessary to legislate protection of green space in the city is the proposal to move a concrete plant from its current location at Ear Lake to McLean Lake, and the location of zoning for gravel quarries on t

June 16, 2006

  • How long will you wait? In 2003, Steven Spielberg told the story of an eastern European man who planned a trip to New York.
  • The gift of closure has come home My gratitude cannot be expressed enough for that Earth angel jogger who found my husband, David, floating in Schwatka Lake the other evening.
  • You'd think a demolition derby was planned! Ed. note: this is an open letter to Mayor Ernie Bourassa and city council. I was quite pleased to receive an e-mail from a resident thanking me for my advocacy on the debacle at Second and Fourth Avenue and advising me that the City is finally doing something about it.
  • Who received this choice rural lot? The Yukon government 'For sale by lottery 19 rural residential lots, Hot Springs/Mayo Road, makes me sick.
  • These gun control advocates are shooting at shadows' Subject: Just the facts, please. I wish the truth would be important enough to be reported by all the media. Instead of running to the beck and call of the gun control crowd, do some investigative journalism.
  • No longer silent and no longer invisible On behalf of the Yukon Women's Transition Home (Kaushee's Place), I wish to commend the Yukon government for its ground-breaking work towards the protection of older persons through the territorial Adult Protection and Decision Making Act.
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