Whitehorse Daily Star: Letters Archive

Letters Archive

Utilize your thinking helmet before making this decision I had a pleasant chat with Senator Pat Duncan two weeks ago.
Here’s what it’s like to be COVID-19-tested Ed. note: here, this Whitehorse resident, who has requested anonymity, shares the recent experience of being tested for COVID-19 in Whitehorse.
The testing system weaknesses are alarming Ed. note: this letter to Premier Sandy Silver was received Wednesday.

Your MLAs are taking this issue seriously Ed. note: the official Opposition Yukon Party released this statement prior to the three political parties reaching an agreement to expedite business in the legislature.

Our resource sector, Canadians need each other Canadian resource industries have put a lot of food on my family’s table.
We need a ban on fossil fuel development Yukoners Concerned is calling for a legislated total ban on any fossil fuel development in the territory.
There’s no reason for another destructive mine I have been a Yukoner of 32 years,
We are suspending our strike votes Ed. note: this statement was released this morning.

The Liberals oppose working together on COVID-19 Ed. note: the official Opposition Yukon Party has released this statement.
PST would have been a reasonable compromise Some years ago in a class about workplace safety and health, a student pointed out to the class that one person’s common sense is another person’s nonsense.
Why the world-wide draconian measures? It was not Shakespeare’s “Beware the Ides of March” warning to Julius Caesar, but it might as well have been.

Why don’t we just get normal? Would you have heard the song “Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?” by Chicago?
Second Avenue’s worst problem is its bad drivers In 2019, I visited Whitehorse four times after moving away 30 years ago.
Let’s rise above partisanship and work together Ed. note: the official Opposition Yukon Party released this statement Sunday.

Trudeau may be harbouring some regrets I bet our amazingly naïve and stunningly verbose “sunny ways” prime minister is secretly wishing he still had Jody Wilson-Raybould, Canada’s first Indigenous justice minister, to hide behind.
These are Libertarian propaganda organizations Jack Buckby never finished university.
The Liberals are putting Yukoners’ health at risk I have to say, it’s a pretty sad and disgusting day when it’s your own government that’s harming every single Yukoner’s health and well- being.
Flags should not be flown in a disgraceful way Embroidered in every Canadian flag are the names of the thousands of men and women who signed on the dotted line to:

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