Whitehorse Daily Star

July 22, 2011

• The Little Shadow we seem to always avoid The Little Shadow we seem to always avoid
• Comments stemming from the housing forum ( Comment ) Ed. note: these are some of the written comments the Yukon NDP caucus received after hosting its housing forum last Monday evening in Whitehorse.
• Be forewarned: the storm is approaching Note: Before you read this, please note that some of this you may have read in my earlier writings.
• Escaping the 1972 mentality on snowmobiles ( Editorial ) Model snowmobilers should have few major quibbles with the set of updated regulatory recommendations which emerged from city hall Wednesday.

July 21, 2011

• What we heard from the housing forum ( Comment ) What we heard from the housing forum
• Strip malls are having a tough road to hoe Ever since the end of the Second World War, strip malls have been the commercial retail centre of suburbia.

July 20, 2011

• The Yukon Party has mismanaged pharmacare A government audit into Yukon's Pharmacare and Extended Health Benefits Program (Star, July 6) describes yet another example of mismanagement when it comes to our health care system.
• As the crisis deepens, the city forges ahead ( Editorial ) One step backward, another step forward.

July 18, 2011

• The hidden dangers of Internet spam ( Uffish Thoughts ) In Robert J. Sawyer's WWW Trilogy, one of the wonderful things he has his emergent World Wide Web based artificial intelligence, Webmind, do is rid the world of Internet spam.
• The end of the American adventure in space ( Comment ) The sun always shines in space, so it was no surprise when Sir Paul McCartney called the crew of Atlantis, the last space shuttle, on Friday and sang Good Day Sunshine to them.
• The view is different from the bottom ( Comment ) Low-income seniors can now expect to have their benefits topped up to $600 for single people with low incomes and $840 for senior couples through the Guaranteed Income Supplement.

July 15, 2011

• Really, just what's going on at city hall? This is an account of our personal experience – and yes, it is personal when your life becomes ensnared in the waste of time which happens when bureaucracy and ego are used to make decisions affecting your daily life.
• Territorial election is becoming a real race The next territorial race is really up for grabs.
• It's you and me who pay for shoplifters ( Musing ) When people other than business owners discuss shoplifting, quite often one hears the opinion that stealing a few small items is not a big deal, and that the theft hardly hurts the business involved, since it only amounts to a loss of a few dollars.

July 14, 2011

• A shocking surge will imperil our exports A recently released document from the United States' Department of Agriculture is sending shocking surges throughout our economy.