Whitehorse Daily Star: Letters Archive

Letters Archive

Please ponder these queries, Yukon Energy Re: further questions to Yukon Energy.
MLAs' remarks were inaccurate Re: comments by Eric Fairclough and Steve Cardiff in the legislature, Tuesday, Nov. 22 (Star, Nov. 23).
We almost lost our greenbelt Ed. note: this is a letter to Whitehorse city council and the city's planning department.
Smoking is harmful I am going to publish a story about not smoking and how smoking affects people and their lungs.
Do I detect favouritism here? Am I the only one who's noticed the blatant disregard and the 'Let's just sweep them under the carpet' attitude toward The Nest's business owners, not to mention the family who owned the old bottling depot building for a score of decades?
Outburst' does not auger well The president of the Yukon Chamber of Mines hasn't even warmed his new chair before he fires off a taunting and public screed against the Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society (Star letters, Nov. 24).

Writer's vision' would prove ruinous to a jewel I don't offer free holiday trips!
Here's what I will look for This is an open letter to all Yukon political parties.
Highway crew's work was appreciated This is a thank you to the Department of Highways and Public Works during the recent warm spell.
Centre's junk food promotion disgraceful' Re. Star article 'MDs have no appetite for centre's promotion', Nov. 24. The practice of pushing junk food on people, such as the recent chocolate and chips promotion at the Canada Games Centre, is disgraceful.
Forum was excellent Re: kudos for Geoscience Forum, Nov. 20-23 in Whitehorse.
Take their photographs Ed. note: this is an open letter to Opposition Leader Todd Hardy. Re. drugs in our community.

I was ready to throw chairs Subject: ringing cell phones and rustling chip bags mar fine performance. On Thursday night, I was deeply engrossed in the well-staged production of Fen by Moving Parts Theatre when not one, but two cell phones went off during the performance.
A suggested symbol: the chained sled dog Subject: 'The message: treat them like dogs', Star, Nov. 18.

Be forewarned: we won't sit idly by Ed. note: this is an open letter to Mayor Ernie Bourassa and city council. I was reviewing the City website, as, quite frankly, we are never sure of what council and the planning department are up to these days.
Development is very constricted In the last 100 years in the Yukon, the total development of industry, including farming, placer mining, hard rock mining and exploration, logging, and city and town sites, does not exceed 3.5 per cent of the land mass of Yukon.
Don't give our posties a break! We are fortunate in downtown and Riverdale and a few other neighbourhoods to have mail delivered to our home.
Letter provided food for thought In response to John Witham's latest (Star letters, Nov. 21), we offer Margaret Atwood's response to the Yukon's Peel watershed:
This minister should be thrown out Subject: Brison attacks Harper.

The waterfront is in for big changes Re: the arts and heritage village on the waterfront.
Businesses would hail oil, gas development I awoke one morning last week, as I always do, to the CBC program A New Day.
And the alternatives to developing greenbelts? Growth is here. And whether we like it or not, it's already making changes in the face of this city.

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