Whitehorse Daily Star

November 20, 2009

• The unfolding of the final Mayan Calendar Ed. note: Part 1 of this three-part series was published last Friday. Part 3 will be published next Friday.
• Ending the ‘none of the above' anti-vote ( Comment ) Is consensus government a dream that Yukoners can achieve?
• Obama's soaring rhetoric won't carry the day It has been nearly a year now since Barack Obama was sworn in as the 44th President of the United States of America.
• Here's who spent your $819,580 on flyers ( Comment ) If other Yukoners like me are receiving print-out flyers from members of Parliament from outside of the Yukon, do not, for one minute, think this is all for free.

November 19, 2009

• Poverty statistics: a misleading portrait Shocking headlines tell us that the incomes of the poorest families are down by a double-digit amount in the past few years,
• Obama, China and the climate change file ( Comment ) U.S. President Barack Obama's current Asian trip has been on the political calendar for many months.

November 13, 2009

• Coal offers more than a four-letter word ( Comment ) Cook Inlet Regional Inc. (CIRI) is the first nations corporation established by ANCILA, the federal act that settled land claims in Alaska.
• The final Mayan Calendar steps to 2012 Sweden's Dr. John Calleman is the world's leading authority on the much discussed but largely misunderstood Mayan Calendar.
• Yukoners hold their souls near and dear Whitehorse residents continued their support of Remembrance Day by filling the Canada Games Centre to capacity Wednesday.

November 12, 2009

• What prompted the murderous major's slaughter? Earlier this year, the Pentagon committed $50 million US to a study investigating why the suicide rate in the military is rising:
• A definite shift in shoppers' psychology "Gimme:" is a common plea of youngsters, particularly when they are on a shopping expedition.

November 10, 2009

• On this special day, teach your children well As a dinner, it is a simple affair, though the lack of young faces is telling.

November 9, 2009

• Students brought honour to Canada Ed. note: Yukon Senator Dan Lang made the following statement in the Senate recently in recognition of Canadian students who competed in a Solar Decathlon in Washington, D.C.
• Torch has reinforced unity across a vast land The Olympic Torch, and its zig-zagging odyssey across the top of the world, has done more to unite Canada's North and South than all of Ottawa's recent efforts to re-assert sovereignty over its sprawling northland.