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August 23, 2012
- South Africa: the politics of a blatant massacre ( Comment ) Forty-eight hours after South African police killed 34 striking miners last Thursday,
- Corporate governance changes are being implemented Long overdue, changes in corporate governance are taking place.
August 22, 2012
- For the record: making Canada an economic power ( Comment ) Ed. note: for space reasons, this is a slightly abridged version of Prime Minister Stephen Harper's remarks to an audience Monday in Carcross.
- MPs' golden geese are something to envy ( Comment ) The pension fund for federal members of Parliament has reached $1 billion.
August 21, 2012
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An unintended farewell to the family Kia Watching the winch slowly haul our crumpled 2002 Kia up the side of the bluff on the Dome Road
August 17, 2012
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Seventy-five years later, the mystery endures On July 2, 1937, aviator Amelia Earhart and her navigator, Fred Noonan, disappeared over the Pacific Ocean along with their Lockheed Electra aircraft. Seventy-five years later, the mystery is still unsolved.
- Turning a world at war into a world of peace These are 1919 memories by Major Wellesley Tudor Pole, who I later met, about the Sphinx.
- Don't tar all RCMP officers with the same brush! We now have 200 complaints of sexual harassment within the RCMP.
August 16, 2012
- Food prices: it's going to get very ugly out there ( Comment ) Two months ago, the United States Department of Agriculture forecast the biggest maize (corn) harvest in history: 376 million tonnes.
- Our economy has reached an inflection stage Clearly, the economy now is at a major turning point, what economists say is at "an inflection stage”.
August 15, 2012
- Is the city throwing the dogs out with the bath water? ( Editorial ) Devoted dog fans may disagree, but the City of Whitehorse has shown its bark is worse than its bite in the debate over dogs' presence in the Takhini Arena's mezzanine.