Whitehorse Daily Star

July 6, 2012

• Don't count out the summer of 2012 just yet I'm already dreaming about January.
• Standing up for the Yukon first, the party second I am the president of the Green Party of Canada.
• The key terms of a balanced Landlord and Tenant Act ( Comment ) Ed. note: this is an excerpt from the Yukon NDP official Opposition's submission to the Landlord and Tenant Act Review.
• A catalyst of, and a witness to, vast transformations ( Editorial ) Like a leader at any political level, Bev Buckway will make her final, symbolic trip down city hall's steps under well-aimed showers of bouquets and brickbats.

July 5, 2012

• The stock market is slowly going out of fashion It appears that many are losing their appetite for investing in the stock market.

July 4, 2012

• Yukoners require input into this crucial issue ( Comment ) The executive committee of Yukoners Concerned About Oil and Gas Development has held two meetings since the minister responsible for the YTG oil and gas branch, Mr. Brad Cathers, announced a four-year moratorium on drilling for gas and oil in the Whitehorse Trough.

June 29, 2012

• The truth about the Commissioner's Ball ( Uffish Thoughts ) The truth about the Commissioner's Ball is that it is a Dawson institution, and no one involved with it has any intentions of relocating it to another town.
• The best soccer features skill, good sportsmanship ( Musings ) If you are a soccer fan or, as the Europeans say, a football fan, you have no doubt been following the European Championship, also known as Euro 2012.
• Urban chickens: good intentions, truly bad idea ( Comment ) Producing local food is good for the environment and creates a less dependence on out-of-territory producers.
• Urban chickens: good intentions, truly bad idea ( Comment ) Producing local food is good for the environment and creates a less dependence on out-of-territory producers.
• I always have and always will be a proud Canadian ( Comment ) I am a Canadian with pride of the present as well as my past.

June 28, 2012

• Mexican election results a foregone conclusion ( Comment ) There's no point in talking about who's going to win the Mexican presidential election on July 1.
• Beware: that lump of labour idea could backfire Despite the fact that it is completely mistaken, many still cling to that "lump of labour” theory – that there is only so much work to go around.

June 26, 2012

• Yukon Party sits idly by amid condo conversions ( Comment ) Amidst new stories of plans to convert Whitehorse rental housing into condominiums (Star, June 15), I am calling on the Yukon government to prevent evictions and the loss of rental housing stock due to condo conversions.