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February 15, 2008
- After Sheila Fraser's audit, what's next? DAWSON CITY - "Government of Yukon's investment in two asset-backed commercial paper trusts did not meet Yukon Financial Administration Act requirements for the investment of public money, says Sheila Fraser, the Auditor General of Canada, in her report delivered to the Speaker of the Legislative Assembly today."
February 14, 2008
- Our dollar: going down, down, down There is an old saying that, "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread."
- Climate change: panic in the trenches LONDON - It's an old joke: everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it.
February 13, 2008
- The next logical step: solicit a third opinion (editorial) It is intellectually and morally wrong for Dennis Fentie, the territory's premier and Finance minister, to brusquely brush off federal Auditor General Sheila Fraser's findings on his department's investment strategy, as if they were little more than the annoyance of an errant gnat.
February 6, 2008
- Hell on the hill: the long road back (editorial) At the best of times, a business plan dependent on the mercies of the weather is one that skates on perennially thin ice.
February 5, 2008
- Good companies are customer-friendly Are big Canadian companies good citizens?
February 1, 2008
- Project would literally be something to see When you close your eyes and think of Whitehorse, what image do you see that defines our city's identity?
- A deputy today, a leader tomorrow? The innocent act of injecting sensible continuity into an important job? Or the tacit first step of a long-term strategical change in leadership?