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January 9, 2004

  • Early winds are blowing in MP's favour EDITORIAL In 2000, the re-election of Jean Chretien's Liberals was a foregone conclusion. The Grits' Larry Bagnell, however, won the Yukon seat by a mere 70 votes.
  • Are you happy the wolves died? Re: eight wolves snared by the former Department of Renewable Resources, Star, Jan. 7.
  • City: vapourize this issue Ed. note: this is a letter to Mayor Ernie Bourassa and city council. I am reading with astonishment the call for a proposal for an 'idling bylaw'.
  • I seem to be subsidizing everyone else's water Mayor Ernie Bourassa stated in a recent interview (Star, Jan. 7) that the water system in Whitehorse is paid 100 per cent by its users.
  • Issues won't vanish How come the do-gooders treat the smokers like we're at the bottom of the food chain?
  • Let's ban idiocy How about, at the next city council meeting, we introduce a bylaw that prohibits idiotic suggestions about bylaws, such as the idling bylaw?
  • And now, a few words from Flo... One of the memorable highlights of the holiday season was the solo performance of Sonja Anderson, whose portrayal of Santa Lucia completed the Christmas gathering of Deep Creek residents at the Yukon Baha'i Institute.
  • We are destroying our food sources A recent newscast concerning the effects of mad cow disease (also known as BSE, or Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy) showed a picture of the only living human victim connected to that disease in the United States.
  • Conditions for our people are still bleak On CHON-FM on Jan. 2, Ed Schultz, grand chief of the Council of Yukon First Nations, once again showed an uncanny ability to pretend he has a true mandate from Yukon aboriginal people.
  • I applaud mayor, manager I have been following the press releases and issues with respect to the Town of Dawson City.
  • Rendezvous generates almost $2 million We read your article of Jan. 6 with great interest. The City of Whitehorse and our local businesses, both large and small, have shown us extraordinary support over the 40 years of the Yukon Sourdough Rendezvous festival.
  • Martin is only doing his job Re: Paul Martin's senior cabinet ministers' pay hike. Our prime minister is only exercising the duties he is allowed to perform when he gave his senior cabinet members a raise of $35,000.

January 8, 2004

  • Microcredit: an amazing entity! The annual Microcredit Summit report, released in November, outlines how these small loans of $20 to $400 have transformed the lives of so many of the poorest on our planet.

January 7, 2004

  • Help the children! One of the more disturbing consequences of the AIDS pandemic, as highlighted in World AIDS Day reports last month, is the orphaning of children, 11 million of them in Africa alone.
  • Comments on second-hand smoke absurd' One of your readers recently quoted a study in the May 2003 issue of the British Medical Journal as proof that second-hand smoke does not cause any negative health effects ('Second-hand smoke: report both sides', Star letters, Jan. 5 ).
  • He went out of his way twice It's nice to see a youth go the extra mile. Last Saturday afternoon at around 5 p.m., I stopped to get air in the tire of my car.
  • Excessive idling damages your engine I would like to respond to comments made by Curtis White, a partsman at the Performance Centre, to your reporter, Stephanie Waddell, in the article 'City needs idling bylaw, resident says', (Star, Jan. 6).
  • Let us not repeat history The summit in Mexico could be the beginning of cozy relations with the Americans, reminiscent of the Mulroney era.

January 6, 2004

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