Whitehorse Daily Star: Opinions Archive

Opinions Archive

Germs from down on the industrial farm DAWSON CITY - Shortly after the swine flu panic began, our local newspaper started receiving e-mails which claimed that the latest epidemic had begun because of animal husbandry practices at a piggery in Mexico.
Farewell to the Yukon's top conservation officer After 35 years in one of the most interesting vocations one could embark on, conservation officer Tony Grabowski will put on his uniform one last time.
No one else will live your life for you Recently, a young 17-year-old "old" friend of mine living in Tasmania asked me what profession she should follow after she gets out of school.
The NDP: it's not 1985, but it's not Armageddon Few more than hardcore party partisans and long-memoried political junkies may have noticed it, but a watershed anniversary passed this month.

Downsizing is a long overdue trend Downsizing has become the newest trend in the business world.
Help us plan the future of Kusawa Park The Kusawa Park Steering Committee invites Yukoners to help them move forward on a comprehensive and co-operative management plan for one of the Yukon's favourite and most accessible wilderness recreation areas.

Stop burning garbage immediately! Ed. note: this submission is from the Yukon Rural Solid Waste Awareness Society.
My introduction to the city was not good When I flew into Whitehorse in a CPA Dakota aircraft at the end of November 1946, I arrived at 6:00 in the morning.

The real story behind pandemics and pork LONDON - We seem to have gotten away with it this time.

'A message for the coming time' As was the mysterious Le Compte de St. Germaine in the latter part of the 17th and 18th centuries,
'You are kind of blocking the harbour' It spent two years there, and is now in Pender Harbor, on B.C.'s Sunshine Coast. The couple's next plan is to find moorage in Prince Rupert.
Farewell, Poncho ... we hardly knew ye Take it from me, struggling automakers. Revenues may have plunged like the reputation of the fireballing Ford Pinto, but you'd never want me as a prospective customer, no matter how hard the times.
River's shear power leaves a huge mess While we were waiting for the Yukon River Quest paddlers to arrive last summer,
This whole affair is truly bizarre In late March, the world was treated to a video showing a Canadian "journalist" begging for her life.

I hate to say I told you so, but ... LONDON - It is not nice to say "I told you so," but this time has to be an exception.
Exploring the real cost of our food One of the biggest problems of our age is the real cost of food.

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