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July 11, 2008

  • Al Oster: a Yukon musical legend The man who wrote the songs that define the Yukon's colourful history and lifestyle may well have done the same thing in Saskatchewan or Alberta, except for a fateful day in June 1957.
  • A few feet from the gunnels: a sleeping giant Thirty-five-year Yukoner Dawn Kostelnik and her husband, Rick Cousins, bought the Audrey Eleanor in July 2003 in Prince Rupert, B.C., refitted it and took it to Haines, Alaska in 2004.
  • The premier plays shortstop to dissatisfaction Premier Dennis Fentie has summoned some long relief from the bullpen to bolster the Department of Health and Social Services' performance, essentially jettisoning the incumbent minister to the far end of the dugout bench.

July 10, 2008

  • Official's faux pas will be remembered LONDON - A "faux pas" is not a lie or an error. It is a truthful statement which, for political or social reasons, the speaker should not have made.
  • Now is the worst time to curb advertising Recently, when an automobile company announced that it was cancelling some of its advertising on television, the advertising and media industry experienced earth-quake-like tremors.
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