Opinions Archive
Popular discussions
June 10, 2010
- We need a greater use of good judgment Long ago, bands of English artisans, Luddites, rioted against mechanization and destroyed machinery.
- How to break the Gaza blockade ( Comment ) United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has called for an end to the Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip.
June 4, 2010
- It's all about science, not sexism! It's that planting time of the year again. When we put fledgling flowers into pots and planters and set them out on the deck.
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Standing together: grandmothers meet in Swaziland ( Comment ) From May 6-8, 42 Canadian representatives of the Canadian Grandmothers to Grandmothers groups, Stephen Lewis Foundation, met 2,000 African grandmothers from 13 sub-Saharan African countries in Manzini, Swaziland.
- Yukon First Nations: getting back together ( Comment ) Two years ago, on June 11, 2008, the prime minister stood up in Parliament and apologized to the survivors and victims of residential schools.
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This ruling could return to haunt us ( Musings ) It has long been customary for members of the press to protect their sources.
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The perils of challenging the party in power ( Uffish Thoughts ) After the political events of last week, it would appear that NDP Leader Elizabeth Hanson should take note
June 3, 2010
- Consumer loyalty can be a fleeting phenomenon Consumer loyalty is at best "a sometime thing”. There are all kinds of evidence to substantiate that.
- Israel's action was worse than a crime ( Comment ) The remark was originally made about Napoleon's decision to kidnap the Duc d'Enghien and have him judicially murdered more than two centuries ago: "It was worse than a crime; it was a blunder.”
June 2, 2010
- Greenland is rolling the drilling disaster dice ( Comment ) The U.S. government has suspended Shell Oil's drill permits for the drilling on the Sivullig and Torpedo targets off the north Alaskan coast.
June 1, 2010
- What would a full-scale Korean war involve? ( Comment ) Start with the worst-case scenario.
May 28, 2010
- For the record: debating drilling risks ( Comment ) This is an exchange that took place Tuesday in the House of Commons between Yukon MP Larry Bagnell and Natural Resources Minister Christian Paradis:
- Is the premier entering a Waterloo weekend? ( Editorial ) If the Yukon Party was the old federal Progressive Conservative party circa 1983,