Whitehorse Daily Star: Opinions Archive

Opinions Archive

GWYNNE DYER Will it be home to Chagos at last? LONDON One should never underestimate the cunning and treachery of the British government.

There are a million reasons to keep driving Even after watching news items and documentaries on global warming, then having the City of Whitehorse announce the Wheel 2 Work program, it still came as a shock when my spouse said:
Two lives lost are two too many Over the last 22 years, Yukon legislators have wisely used the levers of power to curb dangerous public behaviour from both those who engaged in it and the innocent potential victims around them.

We're witnessing ecocide in the oceans Gwynne Dyer LONDON When the annual meeting of the International Whaling Commission ( IWC) opened in Alaska this past Monday, Japan declared that it planned to kill 50 humpback whales as well as the usual minke and fin whales next year in its 'scientific' whale-hunt (catch them, count them, and sell them as food).
Bruce Whitestone When in Rome, do as the Romans do For better or worse, Canada has become a multicultural society.

Lagoon debate bogs down in Hansard DAWSON CITY I've been trying to avoid reading Hansard too much lately.
Why I voted for the Dempster over Dawson First, a confession. .. I love Dawson City.
Spring brings out the clowns on wheels After what seems like too long a winter, too much snow, and not enough sunlight, spring has finally arrived.

Can eras' self-destruction teach us something? History can teach by example, to see things in perspective. It should help to make judgments and predictions about the future.

Scotland: the road to nowhere LONDON On May 4, the Scottish National Party, which promises to hold a referendum on independence by 2010, won the largest number of seats in the election for the Scottish Parliament.

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