Whitehorse Daily Star: Letters Archive

Letters Archive

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.

Yukoners may have to give up their guns! Yukoners use their guns to gather food and to protect themselves, because we live in a wild, untamed part of Canada and need our weapons.
The MP hasn’t answered my question Further to Murray Martin’s letter that was published in Friday’s Star, “asking candidates: do you support a hand gun ban?”
A vital ingredient was missing I attended the June 6 “D” Day memorial at the Whitehorse Cenotaph last Thursday (Star, June 7).
The summit should proudly display our Canadian flag! I just came off the Chilkoot Trail late last week, having started on Saturday, June 1.
The paved runway will help industries take off The Dawson City Chamber of Commerce would like to congratulate the Yukon government (YG) for delivering on its promise to pave the Dawson City runway (Star, May 24, 27, 31).

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