Whitehorse Daily Star

March 7, 2012

• Fighting bigoted behaviour is never too expensive ( Editorial ) The last class of Whitehorse residents requiring encouragement for their deeds is those who spread despicable messages of prejudice and hate.

March 6, 2012

• Sometimes those phone calls are from the Tory party ( Uffish Thoughts ) I had a call from the Conservative Party of Canada last week.

March 5, 2012

• The athletes are here. Let the Games begin! ( Comment ) The sand in the hour-glass has run out and the time is now — the start of the 2012 Arctic Winter Games!

March 2, 2012

• The ideal seat for the world's best light show A number of years ago, the late Ben Sheardown and myself almost had a head-on collision on the Grey Mountain Road.
• The question: Is the Yukon full of gas? ( Comment ) With the recent exploration postings in the Whitehorse Trough, the issue of oil and gas has hit front and centre (Star, March 1).
• The rumours about his death are rampant speculation Ed. note: the first part of this short series was published Feb. 17.
• What the Mayan elders are saying about 2012 Carlos Barrios, a Mayan elder, is a ceremonial priest and spiritual guide of the Eagle clan. What follows are his insights:

March 1, 2012

• Psychological tricks are part of business practices Nowadays, businesses in Canada engage in all kinds of psychological tricks in attempts to get us to buy things that may not even be needed.
• How carbon pricing backfires – in major ways ( Comment ) The basic premise of carbon pricing policies is simple, make fossil fuels more expensive to discourage and reduce their use, and with that, reduce CO2 emissions, pollution and other associated problems.

February 29, 2012

• Let's think carefully about oil and gas development ( Comment ) Recently, the Yukon's Department of Energy, Mines and Resources published a map of oil and gas land dispositions in the Whitehorse area or for the geological formation named the Whitehorse Trough.
• Reconciliation is born with extinguishing ignorance ( Editorial ) A newly-minted education minister has inherited the opportunity to shepherd changes to the school system which would eventually be regarded as watershed reforms of historic importance.