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December 18, 2018
- No-plastics challenge was educational Members of the Whitehorse United Church took on a four-week challenge to eliminate single-use plastics from mid-October to mid-November.
December 17, 2018
- Very much ado about very little ( Uffish Thoughts ) When the fuss about “Baby, It’s Cold Outside” first broke a couple of weeks ago, my first thought was, “Why?”
December 14, 2018
- Laying the red carpet for Pat Duncan (Act II) ( Editorial ) Some two decades ago, Joe Clark, whose Conservative government famously fell 39 years ago Thursday in a House of Commons budget vote, visited Whitehorse.
- Electoral reform: resisting the darkness ( Comment ) The Yukon government is forming a non-partisan commission to study electoral reform in the Yukon.
December 13, 2018
- Saudi Arabia as the Game of Thrones ( Comment ) Now is the moment of maximum danger for Saudi Arabia’s de facto ruler, Crown Prince Muhammad bin Salman (MbS).
December 10, 2018
- Distortion, disrespect won’t generate solutions ( Comment ) **Ed. note: this submission was prepared by the Champagne and Aishihik First Nations.**
December 7, 2018
- Shelve the Valium. Aishihik isn’t going anywhere ( Editorial ) To what extent, if any, should society be prepared to accept environmental consequences to keeping the lights ablaze and the furnaces humming?