Whitehorse Daily Star: Letters Archive

Letters Archive

Folks: the sky is definitely not falling! What is a “climate emergency” (Star, June 26)?
The power to change: a new deal for climate action Yukoners are worried about climate change.
Save Canada from another term of buffoonery! Roll on, October 21!
Economic model based on growth driven by consumption cannot last Re. city councillor Steve Roddick’s motion to declare a climate change emergency (Star, June 26).
What experience backed this councillor’s remarks? Does the result of last Monday’s mayor and councillors’ meeting (Star, June 26) really show us the capacities of some of our councillors and the mayor regarding how to act in an emergency?
Has this caught Hollywood’s eye? Geneticists have discovered something “mysterious” in the centromere of homonin (human) chromosome 12; gene sequences from relatives unknown to science.
Mayor’s belittling words ‘deeply disappointing’ I had high hopes for the council meeting Monday night (Star, June 26). Our city council was to debate and vote on the motion for Whitehorse to declare a climate emergency.
A price on carbon is undeniably a tax Re. Conservative election candidate Jonas Smith’s letter to the editor, Star, June 20.
You helped me open doors to the world Ed. note: this is a letter to Whitehorse resident Sandra Henderson.

We need action on renewable energy now If you’ve got a moment, go onto the Internet and bring up “Yukon Resource Gateway Project”.
Our treatment has been disrespectful, upsetting I am the owner and operator of the Helping Hands Adult Day Care Program, a family-run business that has an emotional interest in seeing quality care for adults with disabilities.

Come join this sensational event! Sport Yukon and Special Olympics Yukon are pleased to host a pro hockey draft party.
The North knows: the carbon tax is a scam The carbon tax is coming to two out of Canada’s three territories just in time to celebrate Canada Day, and, as the saying goes, “Words matter.”
Question: to be, or not to be, a dictator? As our federal Liberals pay for re-election (money talks in Canada too), the federal Conservatives are, it seems, embracing Republican-style values.
Chief Dine was the leader we were hoping for Ed. note: this letter was sent to Mayor Dan Curtis earlier this month,
Your museum’s appearance astounds me Recently, I saw a photo of the MacBride Museum in Whitehorse.
Why harbour that objective? When the former RCMP commissioner, Robert Paulson, was interviewed prior to his recent retirement, he stated that the job was “soul-destroying.”
‘Genocide’ is the wrong word The language of today is so far removed from what it once was that for someone to use the term “genocide” to refer to what happened to the missing and murdered Indigenous women is not surprising.

A justifiable shifting of the burden I don’t care if it’s an election year teaser; the federal government’s proposal to ban single-use plastics (Star, June 12), late and modest though it is, is still good.
Politics have deteriorated over the years I have been involved in politics, one way or the other, since I was 20 years of age. So that makes 66 years of watching “politics go to hell in a bread basket.”

‘Genocide’ is not the proper term to apply here The recent conclusion to years of study undertaken by a select group is that the deaths and disappearances of many Indigenous women are “genocide”.
Yukoners want some action now! Yukoners Concerned are excited that despite the basketball game on TV,

No thanks to a pipeline prime minister This is an open letter to Yukon MP Larry Bagnell and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
Remember: our culture is Canadian I hadn’t really thought about my cultural background until a family member started digging into it.

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