Whitehorse Daily Star

October 9, 2009

• Iran: the tense showdown is inevitable LONDON – The Iranians have been watching too many James Bond movies.
• Disaster struck 52 years ago this month Last summer, I drove across the Peace River Suspension bridge on the Alaska Highway between Dawson Creek and Fort St. John – and I remembered another time, another suspension bridge in that exact location, and a disaster.
• How will they defend their flawed data? The efforts to fight global warming and climate change continue and grow in momentum, governments the world over are trying to figure out how to combat the problem, and hordes of believers are putting more and more pressure on industry and the rest of the population to heed their dire warnings.
• Boycotting the ballot won't effect change (editorial) As might have been predicted, the 21st century has ushered in a new impediment to the practice of democracy: the reluctance to surrender privacy.

October 8, 2009

• Economy has huge hurdles to surmount Inasmuch as history books are full of examples of rapid and sharp recoveries following steep declines in the economy and in financial markets, many observers currently are predicting a repetition of a similar upturn.
• How to get out of Afghanistan LONDON – U.S. President Barack Obama has just promised not to cut the number of U.S. troops in Afghanistan or pull them out entirely as part of the current review of U.S. strategy there, but he has not promised to increase them.

October 7, 2009

• Citizens: never surrender your right to know (editorial) In the days leading up to Right to Know Week, we harboured energetic hopes that certain segments of our society would honour the spirit of the occasion and provide responsible answers to important public questions.

October 2, 2009

• Are we getting our hydro bang for the buck? ( Comment ) The prime minister's northern sovereignty mantra is "use it or lose it”,
• We have the know-how, but should we do it? ( Comment ) Which came first? The chicken that looks like a Tyrannosaurus Rex or the egg that produces it?

October 1, 2009

• Gold: under-appreciated, under-valued, under-owned For a number of years, this column has been predicting that the price of gold would move higher.
• If we don't make this target, we're doomed LONDON – My youngest daughter is 17, so she will have lived most of her life before the worst of the warming hits.

September 29, 2009

• Will our kids' kids understand our course? ( Comment ) On Sept.14, the Yukon government oil and gas division closed comment on proposed amendments to the 2002 Yukon Oil and Gas Act.