Whitehorse Daily Star

October 23, 2015

• The policies are at odds with Yukoners’ preferences This session, the Yukon NDP caucus is focused on echoing the vision for a fairer, more sustainable Yukon shared by people across the territory.
• Building our brand, creating jobs, growing capacity ( Comment ) On Wednesday evening, I was honoured to join the cast, crew and many Yukon stakeholders in the unveiling of five new Yukon tourism television commercials (Star, Oct. 22).
• A fresh political battle will soon be underway ( Comment ) For most, we are glad this long federal election is finally over.
• Russia’s president has only one purpose in mind ( Musings ) Did any of you watch the interview of Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin, president of Russia, on American TV at the end of September?
• This gross disregard and disrespect is upsetting ( Comment ) In response to reports of Porcupine caribou being harvested and abandoned (Star, Oct. 21),
• The Leef wafts into the fury of an avalanche ( Editorial ) After the stilling of the last snow grain from “Landslide” Larry Bagnell’s dumbfounding electoral avalanche on Monday, only the truth was able to wriggle out from beneath the deluge.

October 22, 2015

• Many objections to income disparity are bogus A widespread criticism of current economic trends is the growing disparity between those earning huge incomes and bonuses, compared to the average workers.
• What are the opportunities in Canada’s North? ( Comment ) From Oct. 26 through Oct. 29, the Yukon Chamber of Commerce is once again working with our sister chambers in Edmonton and the Northwest Territories to host a delegation of business leaders for discussions about business in Canada’s North.

October 21, 2015

• The ‘Leefs’ and the Tories have fallen to the ground The people wanted change, and “change they did get!”

October 16, 2015

• We welcome new and returning elected local officials Yesterday marked a day of elections in Yukon for our local governments.
• Dirty attack politics plague the Yukon ( Comment ) Municipal politics in general are the most down-to-Earth, honest level of politics, but not here in the Yukon.

October 15, 2015

• If you treat them badly, expect poor productivity It should be obvious that a company’s relationship with its employees must be a vital concern.

October 14, 2015

• Loyalty and resistance beat strategic voting ( Comment ) Those families who resisted and hid children from being kidnapped into residential schools across North America have survived better against cultural genocide.