Whitehorse Daily Star

January 11, 2012

• The impact of assigning a human face to tragedy ( Editorial ) The Yukon Workers' Compensation Health and Safety Board offers a variety of instructive programs and workshops designed to reduce the territory's distressingly high workplace injuries and fatalities rates.

January 10, 2012

• Mr. President: great powers don't fight one another ( Comment ) If you're not allowed to enslave people any more, or even loot their resources, then what is the point of being a traditional great power?

January 6, 2012

• Remember: the mind is only a tool "When humanity can let go of being controlled through fear and resist judging others,
• Medicare has no friends in politics ( Comment ) Since its establishment by Tommy Douglas and Lester B. Pearson and earlier, medicare continues to be consistently supported by 80 to 90 per cent of Canadians.
• The White Girl Series: light after dark Happy New Year's starts off with a bang, followed by a succession of sharp cracks as the clip in the rifle is emptied.
• What happens in the Arctic doesn't stay in the Arctic Year-end is always a time for reflection. As a northern scientist, the sleeper story of 2011 for me was the melt of summer sea ice.
• Don't despair! The days are lengthening! ( Comment ) I see the light!
• Playing Russian roulette with death and carnage ( Editorial ) "You'd be surprised how many people thank us.”

January 5, 2012

• Aunt Gwynne passes judgment on woman's woes ( Comment ) It's getting harder for freelance journalists to make a decent living, so recently I've had to branch out into the advice column business.
• The era of the reckless consumer is ending During the so-called Gilded Age in the United States in the later part of the 19th century, a writer recounted that there were parties at which guests wrapped cigarettes

January 4, 2012

• Dawson City bracing for a busy 2012 ( Uffish Thought ) As the Christmas-New Year's break comes to an end and various projects begin to rev up for 2012,

December 30, 2011

• Athletes must stop being egocentric-regressed twits ( Musings ) Another year has gone by, and it seems that time passes faster the older I get.
• I create awareness, love, and give it freely ( Comment ) Every night, before I go to sleep, I self-reflect about my evolution as a human being because, the next morning, when I arise, I try very hard to align my thoughts with my spirit – to see past the illusion of behaviour and attitude and see the Creator's illumination in all life.
• Over the decades, how the world has changed! My daughter asked me to write about the changes I have seen in my lifetime, and there were so many I don't know where to start.
• Old debates are bumped into a new year ( Editorial ) Not to slip a capsule of cod liver oil into one's New Year's Eve libations, but 2012's ability to cool some of the rancour behind certain hot-button issues is questionable at best.