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July 17, 2019
- Why have you reduced the bid transparency? Ed. note: this is a letter to Premier Sandy Silver.
- The Liberal catastrophe of Canada In May,
- A very enlightening start! Our federal election in the fall is going to be very interesting: LIEberals versus CONservatives.
July 12, 2019
- Again, Air North saved the day! We recently travelled to Alberta.
- ‘Drug with a plug’ is terrible! It seems quite a while since I’ve written to the Star.
- Pipeline makes utterly no sense to our nation I am so dismayed that Prime Minister Trudeau claims that earnings from Trans Mountain will be spent on clean energy.
- Act to end conversion therapy in the Yukon Ed. note: this is a letter to Health and Social Services Minister Pauline Frost and Justice Minister Tracy-Anne McPhee.
- We’re in an over-inflated housing market Whitehorse is faced with an over-inflated housing market which is going to implode because prices can go only so high before the market fails like Vancouver.
- Enough of the smoke and mirrors! Yukon Energy’s proposed 20-megawatt thermal plant will bind Yukon to a fossil fuel future, defying science, its own financial situation and common sense.
July 8, 2019
- Fort Selkirk is looking sensational! My family and I boated down to visit Fort Selkirk over the weekend, and were very pleasantly surprised.
July 5, 2019
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Manage wildlife by science, not politics With respect to legal actions concerning hunting and permit rights,
- Most people can’t afford to buy a home Canadian housing costs used to consume 30 per cent of your income.
- Kudos for trail-blazing educator were welcome What a welcome and unexpected surprise to see Russell Meier’s letter to Sandra Henderson in your newspaper on June 28.
- It’s high time we insisted on more Thank you to Jacqueline Mills
- As the world goes mad, what, me worry? Liberals are building emotional “Bailey bridges” between our various cultures.
- Closed-door meetings and no accountability Re: closing Council and Senior Management (CASM) meetings.
July 2, 2019
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I saw confusion and an ill-prepared council Ed. note: this is an open letter to Mayor Dan Curtis and city council.
June 28, 2019
- 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.