Whitehorse Daily Star: Opinions Archive

Opinions Archive

Does the hoosegow have nice chesterfields and serviettes? Do you own a chesterfield?
Trades training trailer will help rural Yukoners ( Comment ) This week, the Government of Yukon joined Yukon College to officially launch a new and innovative $1.8-million mobile trades training lab and supply trailer.
Let ‘Africa for the Africans' become reality ( Musings ) While most of the world has turned its attention to South Africa due to the passing of Nelson Mandela, the rest of the African continent is largely ignored for now.
Our premier must advocate for the CPP's expansion ( Comment ) The Yukon NDP is calling on the Yukon premier to join premiers from Ontario, P.E.I., Manitoba and Newfoundland and Labrador to push for an expansion of the Canada Pension Plan (CPP)

Thailand: waging the war on democracy ( Comment ) It has gone quiet in Bangkok, as the people who have been trying to overthrow the government tidy up the debris that litters the city after the last three weeks of demonstrations.
This trend has led many people to run amok Whizzing around companies' electronic mail system is increasing to an almost unmanageable extent; users have become fascinated with their keyboards.

High ideals of leadership can work here too ( Editorial ) "Nelson Mandela inspired people around the world by setting an example of how to lead through a period of tremendous change.

Government's mishandling of Ross River case continues ( Comment ) Concerns raised by Yukon First Nations on the government's handling of amendments to mining legislation confirm worries I have raised with the controversial Bill 66.

Our government is tossing our vets into the gutter Recently, we learned four of Canada's front-line soldiers who served in the Afghanistan mission committed suicide at their respective military bases here in Canada.
Nature provides the Yukon's future energy template ( Comment ) For a territory so widely perceived as founded and grounded in the most traditional of extractive industries, the average Yukon city resident does not have to travel far to encounter some truly non-traditional and highly innovative thinking.
New Emergency Response Centre improves services ( Comment ) The Government of Yukon recently opened a new Emergency Response Centre to better serve residents of Whitehorse and surrounding areas.
Contemplate daily life under our ‘alternate history' I knew if I kept reading that I would stumble across something interesting about the Yukon.
My beloved friend never became her pain I would like to write this column about my friend Nicole Wynnyk.
Stop lambasting the messenger and solve the problems ( Editorial ) The more some of our esteemed representatives of the territorial government and Yukon Hospital Corp. address certain issues of public tension, the better the Yukon's chief coroner looks.

The real story behind today's Chinese demographics ( Comment ) The big news of the month is that China's one-child policy is being relaxed.
Existing teaching methods are becoming obsolete Faith in so many of our major institutions has been shaken tremendously over the past two decades.

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