Whitehorse Daily Star

March 6, 2015

• If you want to become Canadian, give up your old citizenship ( Musings ) For some time now, there have been news items about Canadians who have gotten themselves into trouble while visiting other countries, only to find out they have little protection from the Canadian embassy.
• Scoundrel cemented his place in mining fraud history ( Comment ) Ed. note: this is the first of three instalments to be published on consecutive Fridays.
• Leef was right to withdraw his FASD bill ( Comment ) There is no doubt that Yukon MP Ryan Leef’s private member’s bill, C-583 on Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD),

March 5, 2015

• Corporate discrimination against women must end Prejudices slowly are disappearing in Canada.
• Netanyahu’s danger isn’t a bomb, but defeat ( Comment ) Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has finally given his much ballyhooed speech to the U.S. Congress, and the heavens haven’t fallen.

March 4, 2015

• Remembering a bomb scare in the Tower of London ( Uffish Thoughts ) So far, our one experience with a building evacuation due to an unidentified bag (Star, Feb. 26, recounting the previous day’s downtown Whitehorse event) was sort of comical.

March 2, 2015

• Murder in Moscow: don’t finger Putin ( Comment ) “Every time I call (my mother),”

February 27, 2015

• Celebrating the Yukon’s proud Year of Sport Earlier this year, Governor-General David Johnston proclaimed 2015 the Year of Sport.
• Several anchors plague the opposition parties ( Comment ) It would seem the biggest anchor to the federal Liberals’ Ship Trudeau is former Conservative Eve Adams.

February 26, 2015

• This is a prolonged problem we can’t ignore Economists remain puzzled because the sluggish economy has not recovered more.
• Greece loses the fiscal struggle; the EU wins The first round of the battle for the euro is over, and Germany has won.