Whitehorse Daily Star: Opinions Archive

Opinions Archive

Gulf disaster will have global implications Oil exploration in the northern frontier areas is very expensive and carries a high degree of environmental risk.

Question: is it tar sands or oil sands? ( Uffish Thoughts ) When we speak of the oil mines near Fort McMurray, do we speak of oil sands or tar sands?
And you wonder why this industry inspires unease? Disclosure: the writer has an outstanding balance owed with RCJ Productions Yukon.
Forfeiting haste for better legislation ( Editorial ) Though it took time to rally to the cause, Yukoners have once again shown that nobody can carelessly fool around with the laws protecting their civil liberties.

Poor Mexico and the wicked Americans The president of Mexico was furious.
Consumers: beware of misleading claims! Almost like the snake oil salesman of yesteryear,

Wolverine mine tragedy reminds us of the risks ( Comment ) Ed. note: Yukon MP Larry Bagnell made the following statement Tuesday in the House of Commons just before question period.
Silverfox death points to society's hidden plague ( Comment ) Raymond Silverfox's death in the cells of the RCMP has brought to the forefront a social problem within the Yukon's society that past and present governments have quietly ignored.

Trading allegations and denials for the facts ( Analysis ) The Yukon's premier and its Opposition leader each blamed each other,

Cycles are a fact, and affect life everywhere Let me "entertain'”you for a bit as I present to you this controversial issue of the cyclic nature of the world we live in,
‘Circulation one thousand, printed every day' When I lived in Whitehorse from 1946 to 1950, one of my best friends was Georgina Murray Keddell,
Techo woes in the Klondike wear on ( Uffish Thoughts ) Hands up, everyone who never uses the Internet in the evening or during the wee hours of the night.
We must end our military mission to Afghanistan ( Musings ) Regular readers will know by now that I was in favour of Canada's military participation in Afghanistan.
The day human decency escaped from the RCMP (Editorial) The inquest into the horrifying death of Raymond Silverfox has been told prisoners in the local RCMP detachment's "drunk tank”

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