Whitehorse Daily Star: Letters Archive

Letters Archive

Now is the time to bring down our rates! Ed. note: this is a letter to Andrew Hall, the president and CEO of Yukon Energy.
We can do mining in a more efficient way For several weeks, we’ve been reading about the Yukon government’s (YG’s) effort to force Yukon Zinc, the owner of the Wolverine Mine, into receivership.
Updating famous words Here’s a 2019 version of Pierre Trudeau’s Aesopian analogy for the Canada-U.S. relationship in his speech to the Washington Press Club in 1969:

You provided a voice for the people I would like to thank the good folks at the Star for publishing, on July 26,
There’s a lot happening in Elsa these days! I’ve been wondering why recent media coverage of the Elsa /Keno fire blindly describes Elsa as “... largely a historic site with few buildings left.”
The fundamental question .
Promise-breaking is dishonest Who said, “To write is human, to edit is divine”?
Will YG ignore the wishes of 8,000-plus Yukoners? The effects of climate change are becoming more and more evident, especially in our North.
MP, minister are focusing on dubious priorities Last week, Larry Bagnell, with Highways and Public Works Minister Richard Mostyn, announced $157 million in new funding for the North Klondike Highway (Star, July 26).

What’s Scheer’s ‘mission control’ plan? What’s Scheer’s ‘mission control’ plan?
Fiscal calamity looms, my friends! Yukoners: do you want debt finance spending in the Yukon?

We aim to maintain the North’s lowest rates Ed. note: this is a letter to Roger Rondeau of the Yukon Utilities Consumers’ Group.
YG must make major renewable projects a priority I was encouraged by the standing-room-only attendance at June’s Climate Action Now public meeting organized by the group Yukoners Concerned.

Reflect well, and offer a prayer In 1920, the American writer Herman Louis (H.L.) Mencken wrote:
Our party’s box is quite full, actually In Murray Martin’s letter in the July 19th Star, he reminded Yukoners of the oncoming shower of political advertising.
Listen to and value those who came before us Bill Weigand just came to my door and handed me a note: “Hi, Alice, we are waiting for your next letter to the editor – Gordon Ryder.”
Thank you to courageous firefighters! Early in July, we were told that a forest fire threatened our trapline home along the Stewart River.
Give your head a shake and review the four years! With not even three months to go before the federal election, perhaps some of us ought to be looking at why we vote in the first place!

Banks in Canada are changing for the better Have you noticed how the following in the Canadian banking industry is changing?
MP’s cheerleading shows he works for Ottawa This week, the federal Liberal Party welcomed Justin Trudeau’s former principal secretary, Gerald Butts – one of the key players in the SNC-Lavalin scandal – back into the fold and onto their campaign team.

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