Whitehorse Daily Star: Opinions Archive

Opinions Archive

Let's stage a national summit on pensions ( Comment ) Canada's finance ministers will meet in Whitehorse on Thursday and Friday to talk about pensions.

A Yukoner occupies the Hall of Honour Today in the Hall of Honour in the Centre Block of the House of Commons, there is a piece of high-toned Yukon history.
A Christmas memory from 60 years ago ( Comment ) Two weeks before Christmas 1949, I was shopping in the Northern Commercial Company's store on First Avenue in Whitehorse,
Saving this club requires a unified voice ( Comment ) There is something very wrong with the way the Yukon government,

Copenhagen: as expected, a disappointment ( Comment ) Copenhagen is turning into exactly the sort of shambles everybody feared it would be.
Open house will raise funds for food bank Ed. note: this statement is from the Yukon Employees' Union.
The division of labour is changing dramatically Headlines now proclaim that more women work than men, and too, females make up 70 per cent of part-time workers.

Boundary issue is 184 years old and counting ( Comment ) One of the few actual international border issues between Canada and the U.S. has surfaced yet again.

The proposal for these tailings terrifies me ( Comment ) I am the mayor of the small community of Buchans in central Newfoundland.
Demand real science before signing the cheques ( Musings ) Demand real science before signing the cheques
Long nights and politics: some reflections ( Comment ) It is a Yukon winter morning, and as I begin to write this column, I am in the middle of a blackout.
The mystery of the old riverboat chair ( Comment ) That was a great story in the Star last month on finding the sunken Gold Rush sternwheeler, A.J. Goddard, in Lake Laberge.
It's true: you can go back to yesterday Earlier this year, I went to a "stag” for a lifetime Yukoner who, after 65 years of the single life, was finally getting married.
Weak in numbers, but profound in influence (editorial) For a party with just two MLAs, and having come off an unexciting leadership acclamation, the New Democrats are sure making an issues-oriented impact.

The publication should be made worthwhile Those over 50 years of age, the so-called "zoomers”,

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