Whitehorse Daily Star

February 4, 2010

• Be sure to mind the gap, Mr. Blair ( Uffish Thoughts ) Travel in the London Underground, or Tube, system, is certainly a confusing experience for a first-time visitor to that city,
• Old business models need a tune-up It always is a pleasant experience to go into a store that sells expensive goods.

February 3, 2010

• No scrooges in northern small businesses ( Comment ) In his 1843 novel A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens' character Ebenezer Scrooge is a stingy businessman. Mr. Scrooge is grumpy, greedy, and despises everything to do with making others happy.
• Farewell to a lover of her land and her people (editorial) The Whitehorse Star, the Vuntut Gwitchin First Nation, the North and indeed the nation stand as lesser entities today, the day of beloved elder Edith Josie's funeral in Old Crow.

January 29, 2010

• Gold-plated power: a brief review of ‘liquid gold” ( Comment ) Gold-plated power: a brief review of ‘liquid gold”
• What Haitians need to survive the calamity We are all only too familiar with the photos coming out of earthquake-stricken Haiti and the efforts mounted by various organizations,
• Amid calamity, are we creating our own reality? "I have come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element.
• Give Yukoners time to weigh IPPs ( Comment ) Maybe all this talk about discussions between Premier Dennis Fentie and ATCO wasn't at all about privatizing Yukon Energy assets.

January 28, 2010

• Obama embarked on a foredoomed enterprise ( Comment ) LONDON – Barack Obama had worse failures to address in his State of the Union message on Wednesday night.
• Our nation can become lucky too Australia often has been dubbed "Lucky Australia”.

January 27, 2010

• The real disgrace: 18 MLAs can't make a decision ( Comment ) The territory has some serious addictions issues – drugs, alcohol and a hardcore dependency on consultation.

January 22, 2010

• A newsman's tale from decades gone by By the time I arrived at CBC Whitehorse in February, 1978, I had been sued (or threatened with suits) so many times it was almost boring.
• Ukraine: two cheers for democracy! ( Comment ) Tymoshenko, Yushchenko, and Yanukovych were once called the "eternal triangle” of Ukrainian politics,
• Don't obscure the road's inevitability (editorial) The City of Whitehorse has devised an admirable array of opportunities for the public to shape their local government's decisions, and regularly encourages residents to ue them.