Whitehorse Daily Star

March 11, 2005

• Your apology is appreciated I would like to thank the Shoppers Plaza merchants and management for their apology in the Whitehorse Star on March 8 about the terrible behaviour of the security guard.
• This letter is for all those who helped This letter is to thank all those wonderful Yukoners who so generously donated art and school supplies for Ethiopian children.
• We need action on child care! For decades, those of us who have called on the federal government to solve the child care crisis have been told that Canada can't afford to put in place a national child care system.
• Atheists are tolerant people I am definitely not an atheist and do not relate to the atheistic way of believing, but from listening to those who are atheists, I relate to their concerns.

March 9, 2005

• Hats off to the Legion's farsightedness It is welcome news that the Royal Canadian Legion is building a seniors' supportive housing complex. It is something that is needed in our community.
• The manager is willing to help Re: Rae Wigen's letter in Tuesday's edition of the Whitehorse Star. The phone number for customer service at the Superstore is 867-456-6618.
• We're asking for fairness, Mr. Jenkins Ed. note: this is a letter to Environment Minister Peter Jenkins.

March 8, 2005

• Enshrine the grant in legislation! This letter is to try to explain why there is controversy surrounding the individual contribution agreements that the Yukon government is trying to enforce on child care operators.
• Why keep blaming the tools? There has been a lot written recently on the need for stricter 'gun-control'. These writers have missed the point completely.
• I rarely go near the store Re: the Real Canadian Superstore.

March 7, 2005

• We are sorry you were badly treated This is an open letter to Kerri Scholz (Star letters, March 1) and other patrons of Shoppers Plaza.
• Don't chain this tragedy to gun control measures Subject: Re: Rochfort Bridge, Alta. RCMP shootings.
• We all appreciate the RCMP To the Yukon members of the RCMP: I would like to express my personal condolences to each and every one of you on the slayings of the four RCMP officers in Alberta last week.
• The Yukon tradition lives on Having recently returned from the Sourdough Rendezvous and what an enjoyable weekend it was tribute must be paid to all those involved in the planning, organization and carrying out of this winter celebration.

March 4, 2005

• Save our officers! As a medical marijuana user and drug law reform advocte, I would like to offer my sincere and heartfelt condolences to the families, loved ones, and co-workers of the RCMP officers brutally gunned down in Alberta Thursday.
• Meat, missiles and marijuana Canada has refused to participate in the United States' unnecessary and malfunctioning missile defence shield, so the U.S. is punishing us by refusing to open the border to Canadian beef.
• This was hardly junk science, Sir Ed. note: this is an open letter to British Columbia MLA Dennis McKay.
• Chew on this, Dr. Rice! Besides a few among us who should actually move to their holy land of the U.S.A., does anyone really care that Condoleezza Rice snubbed us over this impotent missile defence system?
• A word of thanks to you Ed. note: this is a letter to Mayor Ernie Bourassa and city council.
• Sue Edelman Let's be life-long learners The workplace today reflects changes in the world and the Canadian economy, with many new sources of workers.

March 3, 2005

• Prohibition helps the narcotics trade Re. 'Drug houses' presence irks residents' (Star, Feb. 23).
• Kindergarten plan prompts many questions Jillian Rogers' Yukon News article on full-day kindergarten dated Feb. 19 leaves so many unanswered questions regarding the government's plans, it's hard to know where to start.