Opinions Archive
Popular discussions
February 25, 2016
- Gold’s weak performance has triggered disappointment For more than two years, it appears at long last that the major “correction” in gold prices is just about over.
- We’re on the verge of committing insecticide ( Comment ) It was a typically anodyne statement by the World Health Organization: “Given the magnitude of the Zika crisis, WHO encourages affected countries and their partners to boost the use of both old and new approaches to mosquito control.”
February 24, 2016
- All Yukoners will suffer from YESAB’s inadequacies ( Comment ) Ed. note: this commentary was submitted by the Yukon Chamber of Mines.
February 22, 2016
- Petulance: the English way, under David Cameron ( Comment ) What would you call a country that called for “a structure under which (Europe) can dwell in peace, in safety and in freedom... a kind of United States of Europe” at the end of the Second World War (Winston Churchill, 1946), but refused to join that structure when its European neighbours actually began building it (European Economic Community, 1957)?
February 19, 2016
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We all have a role in ending the crisis of violence ( Comment ) Last week,
- Fixing Dawson’s sewage plant could cost millions ( Uffish Thoughts ) The City of Dawson, its council, employees and citizens heaved a collective sigh of relief last week when a joint press release was issued in which the Yukon government agreed to “own and operate the new Dawson wastewater treatment plant on an ongoing basis.”
- Did these gentlemen just witness the same event? ( Editorial ) Isn’t the degree of spin and super-cautious fact extraction that can be applied to the same event, an astounding, bemusing phenomenon to behold?
February 18, 2016
- Ignoring precedents could prove very hazardous Medical doctors, lawyers, and yes, even economists, base many of their judgments on precedents.
- The world price of oil will stay depressed “The market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent,” said John Maynard Keynes (or maybe it wasn’t him, but no matter).
February 12, 2016
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Honouring and preserving our heritage and culture ( Comment ) This past week, I was pleased to make two announcements in support of Yukon heritage and culture.
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A rotten pot – from soup to salamanders, or A to Ω Today’s column is a potpourri or pot-pourri of words that interest me, and I hope you.
- It costs a bundle, but Whitehorse Transit is riding high ( Editorial ) Creative thinking and dedicated work have transformed Whitehorse Transit from an object of some frustration and derision into a service many have become glowingly positive about – and dependent on.